#the snake motifs THE SNAKE MOTIFS

[alibonbonn]

bad news guys Agamemnon's shield fucks the hardest actually !!!

[hrokkall]

Everybody wants your head on a platter

[ninadove]

By the way anyone who ever said Camila was an abusive mother owes me $1,000

[tapefish]

dont worry about me, got all the luck I need

[raayllum]

You don't control anything. And that terrifies you.

[mazzystar24]

Don’t mind me just thinking about how the snake is a symbol of rebirth (in most cultures due to obvious reasons) but also immortality (Ancient Mesopotamians believed snakes are immortal) and about how Lucy gray sort of adopts snakes as her symbol (her dress, her introduction, her snake jewellery after the games,etc) and how Lucy gray was “reborn” (despite the fact that I don’t believe that she’s dead) in the later years in katniss and peeta and the revolution but also how she is immortal in the sense that you never know what happened to her but also in the sense that she lives on in her music

[tanuki-kimono]

Hello! I love your blog bc it helps me a lot with writing and crafting. Thank you so much for making it!

Are there any patterns that deal with poison? Either in the pattern or in the dyeing process?

Even if there's not I'm glad you and this blog exist 💗

(anon continues) Poison in the dyeing process, like when green dresses were dyed with copper arsenite and it was extremely deadly.

Or a pattern of someone being poisoned, like a historical/folktale.

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Thank you for your kind words <3 I tried to keep things organized but the subject is huge so my of the top of my head answer is going in many directions. I hope you'll still find what you need :3

I'll briefly cover here dyes and (pigments), poison motifs, real life and supernatural poisonings. Buckle up we've got a long post ahead!

____ ABOUT DYE

Tbh I had to think for a moment because I don't recall major "poison" stories linked to dyes in Japan, be it fictionous or real (yet that doesn't mean none ever happened, especially considering Japan's history of industrial poisonings...).

Most gruesome details in the fabric industries I know of are about the horrific life & work conditions of female laborers in spinning mill manufactures (as in many countries, Japan industrialization process was ghastly...).

If potters and dyers had excellent practical knowledge, chemistry as a science officially started kind of late in Japan as it was not a local interest, and as rangaku (study of Western knowledge) often favored other subjects like medicine or warfare.

So, until the introduction of aniline dyes (not textile related, but this article about the use of synthetic dyes in ukiyoe printing is super interesting), Japanese worked with "natural" dyes, like ai (indigo) which was the most used during Edo period.

As with any ingredient, being natural doesn't equal safety. Some mixtures could be quite potent/foul, and process could be dangerous. Plants and minerals base ingredients could be toxic (cinnabar and orpiments were then used as paint pigments, and lead could be found in make up), as were mordants used to set colors.

If you want to easily overview which ingredients were used to create colors, I recommand browsing [Irocore] which presents colors with explanation in English in their database (pick a color then scroll down).

Not related to poison, but ai (indigo) is traditionally prepared in aigame/enormous floor set jars I find utterly terrifying:

I don't know if this tidbit can help you, but some dyes and mordants actually damage the fabric overtime, leaving them brittle (silk desintegrates after a while which is a huge issue in textile conservation).

____ POISON MOTIFS

Concerning "poison" themed patterns, none would be actually used traditionally on a kimono or an obi beside novelty items ^^;

For example, many plants can be toxic, but I don't see them set as pattern for this property - they'd rather refer to a poem, be a symbol of the passing of seasons etc. Fuji (wisteria) can be quite harmful, yet it's a beloved traditional motif in Japan.

You have much more chances to find pattern with kujaku (peacock) which are thought to be impervious to poison in Buddhism, than say venomous mukade (centipede) or the horrific ômukade (a youkai I covered in a folktale).

Snakes like the habu and mamushi are dangerous, but if used as pattern snakes are most often auspicious and linked to rain dragons or goddess Benzaiten.

If you squint hard, toxic fugu could count as poison pattern, but such a seasonal delicacy as a motif would mostly underline wealth (as those fishes are pretty expensive as they are prepared by specialized chefs), a kind of carpe diem spirit, or just a fun pattern because fugu balloon shape is cute ;)

____ POISON MURDERS

Poisoning was certainly a thing is Japan since ancient times (see kodoku sorcery). Poisons were for example used in some fishing techniques.

I am pretty sure some kuge and buke were disposed of this way - even thought poison was seen as a coward weapon (hence why its supposed to be only used by shinobi/ninja - even if this "fact" is opened to a lot of discussions!).

During Edo period, such murders made up the news and penny dreadful-like illustrated books favored by city dwellers in need of a fright. But those stories didn't pass to posterity beside cheap ukiyoe plates, and were never as popular as some shinjû (double suicides) or ghost revenges like poor poisoned and murdered Oiwa's:

____ SUPERNATURAL POISONINGS

If your poison is both physical and metaphorical illbeing, mushi could be your guys ^^ This term actually covers everything small and crawling, from real worms and insects, to anything inside one's body causing distress - be it a parasite, an unknown illness, an overboard emotion, a curse etc. If you've read/seen Mushishi you've got what I mean:

In fact any illness-causing being could count as poison-bringer. Hôsôkami (smallpox demon) was truly feared by all before vaccination was introduced in Japan.

Finally, continuing the supernatural poisoning trail, best girl is probably legendary fox witch Tamamo no Mae who among other terrible deeds made emperor Konoe fall sick with poisonous miasma (some version of the story attributes the disease to another monster, the nue). I covered a similar murderous kitsune folktale here.

[soullessjack]

6am exhaustion posting but it’s very funny to me that jack is compared to so many serpents, the biblical serpent in the garden. the ouroboros. the black snake. and then he loves fantasy movies with heroes that crush villains. he reads fairy tales like sleeping beauty, fairy tales that predominantly have knights in shining armor slaying the dragon or the serpent. obviously with him wanting to be a hero he’d follow the KISH archetype, but also look. serpents are medievally satanic symbols. fairy tales are majority stemmed in European Christianity. He’s literally a dragon that wants to be a knight . A satanic if not Thee Satanic Serpent wanting to be a hero and a Knight In Shining Armor and actively partaking in slaying other beasts for acceptance. this vision came to me with caffeine and zero sleep but do you see it .do you see how this is insane and also funny. Do you understand it …..

[elegantstreetout-hideout]

AKI's mission.

[therosebanshee]

Lucifer Chibis

[thebramblewood]

📩 Simblr question of the day: It's time to appreciate the small things! What's a small detail from one of your posts that you love? Could be a small tattoo on a sim, specific clutter in a sims' room, a little detail in a render or screenshot, whatever is applicable to you (p.s. I've been scouring simblr, and I've noticed people don't like how picky SQOTD feels, so please! Share around SQOTD asks, anon or not, I'm only one person and can't find and ask every person on simblr ~ 💛)

Oh, I'm a big fan of adding little touches of personalization to heighten immersion! As soon as I learned how to do simple object recolors, I felt unstoppable. Here are a few favorites.

The Vatores have several paintings they've had commissioned over the decades hanging on their walls. They might tell you it's to mark the passage of time, but it probably has more to do with their vanity. Less noticeable are the little boudoir shots of Morgyn that sit on Caleb's organ! A couple other examples: I recolored a lanyard for a filler post about Helena working in the library even though it's barely visible, lol. I also recolored an envelope to look like it had a wax seal because Caleb's just that extra!

Up until Helena's transformation, I also had fun playing with death/vampire-related background imagery. (Ulrike's entire band was an extremely obvious one to me that I'm surprised no one ever called out! They're literally called The Reapers, and all their outfits incorporated skull motifs).

[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

Can you please elaborate more in Henry as God I want to know more

There’s that one line in the Silver Eyes talking about Bill’s borderline worship of him but also, like God, Henry makes life. Like moulding Adam out of clay he draws being from metal. His hands are, to an extent, divine.

The inherent divinity of the machine, also. Masses of wire, metal and complex code are angels actually.

It’s also very fun that in FNaF not everything can be possessed. As far as I’m aware it is only metal. Which is cooool.

I also think Henry is Old Man Consequences who is basically just God already. I think it fits. Henry does cleanse the world of evil in one big fire, after all.

[shiftwux]

hey? did you know kaz canonically has a daughter and she lived with him during zanzibar and she was probably like 12-14 when he died? did you know?

[cuties-in-codices]

adam and eve

in the "codex granatensis", latin/german manuscript, ca. 1440

source: Granada, Biblioteca UGR, Cod. C-67, fol. 99r

[raayllum]

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

[roman-roy-apologist]

i love you animal symbolism