#non human spirits

[moonyvvamp]

the specific mention of napalm in how it's done makes me think these losers have used firebombs on demons. Like all their lyrics are rooted in reality, why not this?

I'd like to think Mira since she's the one who got the line is a chemistry genius and she spent some time designing chemical weapons against the demons.

She went the long range when she was tired and threw molotov cocktails, homemade bombs and dynamite at demons to KO them, then she did her hot rich girl walk down to them to finish them off.

I also like to think she tried making that device that Honey Lemon uses in Big Hero 6 and halfway succeeded when Zoey helped her. Rumi was their human tester and she nearly got blown up like 5 times before they put an end to it.

Just two mad scientist girlfriends and their reluctant sponsor and field tester girlfriend. Who just screams "The chemicals are having a reaction and it's not the one we want!" Before running for her goddamn life

After that they decide to play a very extensive game of rock paper scissors to decide who will test the product. Think breaking bad but it's them arguing about their hair smelling like fumes and who got to stay in the middle during bedtime cuddle pile and thus should take responsibility for the extra dopamine and body heat they got and go test out the active and very dangerous chemical bombs.

[queenaeducan]

tbh bioware was cooking when they made cad'halash thaig harbour ancient elven refugees and be destroyed by their own people for it. and then 1000s of years later have a scattered remnant of that thaig pick up an anchor forged by elven hands and made of a titan heart, and then befriend the person who tranquilised the titans, and then have them change his heart and realise they were people and they deserved better, and then have them advocate for his redemption even as the world seems set on destroying him. solas and cadash your friendship is connected by strings of fate like no other.

[sttmh]

Reasoning with Age

Dream and Nightmare hadn't paid too close attention to the passage of time until Classic and Neil came along, and when asked, they could only say that they were there before the village itself. Which didn't tell Classic anything about their age, as the village had been established only a few years before Classic met them.

Classic tried to watch how they acted, trying to see if he could spot any of the typical behavior common among those in stripes. There were times Classic felt sure of their age, and others when they acted wiser than Gerson on his best days.

"How do you define age?" Nightmare asked.

"... how old you are?" Classic asked, suddenly doubting himself.

"Yes, but how do you define 'you'?" Nightmare insisted, sighing.

Classic stared, struggling to understand how existentialism could help here. "uh, i'm not sure how to answer that. your- body, i guess?"

"So you are asking when our bodies were created?"

"... yes?"

"Then we are children," Nightmare said definitively, turning back to his book.

"hold on," Classic stammered. "what other way would you define how old you are?"

"You rememeber how Dream and I are spirits, yes? By our coming into existence, we carry a collective experience from our mother. It is how we are able to know about things we have yet to see."

That... made sense. Still confusing, though.

"by that definition, then, how old would you say you are?"

"I would be unable to put an exact number to it."

Classic sat back, thinking it over. Since Classic had met them, years had passed in their world, but the twins remained oddly stagnant. Their personalities lacked the growth most monsters in stripes would experience, yet the two seemed to still be learning how to interact appropriately with others.

[elishaalexzander]

Still the person I was.

Still the person I am.

Still the person I am becoming.

It runs in my blood.

I can change my style, change my hair.

Move away from all I’ve ever known.

I can change my name, change my body.

Escape from all they told me I was.

I can change my understanding, change my … mind.

I can change.

But I’ll still be the person I was.

I’m just being the person I am.

Still becoming the person I’ll be.

To have freedom of self and spirit, you need only to choose it.

What point does one stop trying to run?

Perhaps when they recognize it’s themselves they’re running from.

When I shaved my head I was at this point of my youth where I realized I would never be societies idea of a man nor would I ever be societies idea of a woman without pretending to some extent and I had no interest in pretending for anyone. Learning about the history of the land I call home, the land my spirit is connected to, taught me that the way I feel is exactly as it should be and I should love and live that truth. Embrace being like both men and women and also embrace being nothing like them at all. Do both, all at once and all the time. I practiced that teaching, and now it runs in my blood.

I am still, them. The ancestors of my spirit.

-Elisha Alexzander

[loustica-lucia]

Rook Appreciation Week: Dolores Balazar🧵

Dolores Balazar for Day 1 of @rookappreciationweek (Duty)🧵

Not truly a Rook. She's Dante Balazar's younger sister, who choose to become a clever guildmaster and tailor for the Crows~🧵

Timelapse& Sketch⤵

[cupophrogs]

Oliver just

Gently does this to Drew's leg.

“Cherub is a mind boggling balance of incredibly brave, and horrifically stupid. He handles things maturely, especially for one so detached from the suffering of this place, very often to his own detriment. Placing little value on his own state, and thus “risking it for the biscuit” far too much. Still, he is one who loves deeply, fiercely. And to allow such an Angel to damn himself for another, would be a sin most grievous.”

[03-ooz]

its time to take the uchiha clan cat conspiracy one step further

the cellular makeup of the sharingan is different than that of a normal human eye and shares some similarities with cat eyes. feild of vision and distance perception are human standard, but color/light perception improves. so, heres how i see this working

because of their kekkei genkai uchiha are genetically predisposed to have more photoreceptors in the eye compared to other narutoverse humans (particularly rods, we'll circle back to that)

the reaction of the chakra on the optical nerve stimulates the typically dormant rods and cones within the eye and changes the way the sharingan percives light

so the extra photoreceptors in the eye are activated by chakra meaning they are only active when the sharingan is active and plain eyesight is unaffected

sharingan users have an enhanced sensitivity to light which is partially why awakening the eye can be a painful process

this enhanced sensitivity nerfs the sharingan a little bit the eye is still incredibly op during night/lowlight combat but it can be incredibly difficult to navigate use during the day because of the strain the enhanced perception cause on the eye although with proper training you can overcome some of the discomfort

the extra rods in the eye enhance night vision for sharingan users

the extra cones are there cause i think its funny that your faves favorite color is beyond your compression

the red hue in the sharingan is like a chakra activated tapetum lucidum which contributes to the motion sensing feature of the sharingan as well as enhanced night vision (most importantly consider reflecive sharingan make brain go brrrrr)

nekobaa loves the uchiha cause they're big spenders but also cause of the cool cat eyes

kakashi keeps the eye covered to conserve energy but also cause constant exposure to light = constant migraine and the darkness helps mitigate the symptoms

all of this to say

uchiha can see human bioluminescence pass it on

this has been sciencey headcanons with a highschool dropout. tune into the next post to read about how zetsus photosynthesize and obito too maybe!?!!? (i did really enjoy my freshman biology class but that was 8 stoned years ago so bear with me here i sure hope the science side of tumblr never ever sees this)

[galaghiel]

a glimpse into my dark mind (oc i ship w ctommy in my runaway au)

[rokurookajima]

me and kat have been fixating so much on raava’a more un-human animalistic primal traits and uhhhhhh it’s all i can think about

[redtalics]

i dont rly vibe w calling date everything a fake objectum game, i think it counts, it isnt objects enough for me so my disinterest remains but that doesnt mean i gotta say it's bad; if theres anything ive learned from here it's that there's no such thing as being "not objectum enough" in regards to an object-focused media. it's ok if its not enough for You, it's not for me myself either, just be nice?

[wayti-blog]

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"The Advaita Vedanta movement assumes that the human Soul (Atman) is one with the all-encompassing Divine (Brahman). In Sanskrit, the language of the Vedas and other sacred Indian writings, “Advaita” literally means not two-fold or no duality.

De Gayatri mantra is an ancient mantra that invokes the Divine for happiness and enlightenment:

Ohm Bhur Buva Svaha

Tat Savitur Varenyam

Bhargo Devasia Dhimahi

Dyoyo Naha Prachodayat

Translation: Ohm in all worlds: terrestrial, astral, and celestial, we meditate on the splendor of that Divine which illuminates us. May all that golden light nourish our understanding and guide us towards the sacred abode.

Source: Rigveda

Meaning: The mantra gives a powerful purifying energy and prays for peace, happiness and enlightenment for all living beings."

source

[fangthroat]

ughhhhhh grrrr bark bark rant

[ectoman]

one day i will write my thoughts on the nature of Ghosts in Ghostbusters because.., that entire component of the universe is so peculiar and I love it

[qoldenskies]

Guide post?

here!

it has been several months since i rambled about the whole goddess/disciple system and i STILL have not been able to come up with what i want mikey's to be (i could easily say thalia but her associations are so dirty and mikey's a BABY, maybe he's another urania disciple, especially because she's got two "facets". him and donnie match?)...,,,, which is sad because i would LOVE to make an au with this universe. just for fun

[silent-sentinels]

i dont think thats how u answer that question elle hjgkljg

[object-obsession]

Spirited Away > a lantern

Inanimate Object Characters List | Entry: 50

The first anime movie I have seen and the first sentient (or in this case, I reckon it's closer to "magical" rather than "sentient") object character in anime I have seen, too.

The latern appears for less than a minute in the movie's length of more than two hours, but if it counts, it counts.

Character: a lantern

Movie: Spirited Away (2001)