#very excited about this one

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

2 years later and my man is fucking losing it

[frosteaart]

what could go wrong when a stressed post movie leo gets cursed into the form of a dragon?

...yeah definitely absolutely nothing

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[mamamittens]

Hi I saw your request are open ; I was wondering can I can request the worst isekai au hcs between Luffy and the reader please

if this au is not allowed maybe yandere Luffy hcs of your choosing (platonic, romantic) with a crew mate darling vs enemy darling ^^ love to hear your thoughts (possible female reader if not gn is fine )

if this request makes you uncomfortable you can delete this no worries , hope your doing ok 💗

Ooh, well this is awkward cause if I answer totally honest it'll spoil damn near everything.

And is it really headcanons if it's my au verse lol? Question for the fandom scholars I suppose.

So!

The reader is pretty damn exasperated with Luffy and his crew. Finds them exhausting but secretly charming. Nothing ever goes right around the straw Hats, even with the weird 'normal bubble' around reader.

Luffy finds it weird how he 'doesnt work right' around them but somehow his double jointed flexibility is freakier to the crew than the cartoon logic nonsense he usually engages in. And he can actually get hurt from shit, so that's weird too.

It's a bit odd all around.

He likes how they shake things up just by existing but doesn't like being 'weaker'. It's frustrating.

What's even more frustrating to him is their dream... Something about it bothers him. 'wanting to be normal', bah! Bullshit! He totally calls bullshit, who wants that? He's heard of weird dreams but 'normal'?

Nah, he's going to power through the awkward, uncomfortable reality of being around them because he can see that this 'dream' is a cover for something. Not sure what yet, but it's just like when he met Robin and her defeated attitude. There's a wonderful, amazing dream in them, somewhere.

And he's going to make it come out of their mouth one way or another.

...

The reader feels nostalgic watching Luffy goof around. Watching his crew.

It hurts. In a good way? They can't stay, they left for a reason. But it was nice to be reminded of the good times. The excitement and adventure. Where the world was vast and open before them instead of oppressive.

They can't go back to what they used to be.

And Luffy, somehow, knows that they never were what they thought of themselves. Now he just has to convince them of that.

Gear 5 Luffy sees who they really are.

...

Not so different after all.

Something bigger in the smallest vessel possible.

Tearing at the seams to get out.

[mag200]

work in progress :)

[days-until-d20]

there are 14 days until Mentopolis premieres.

[alobono]

(wip) whose lips? whose ear?

[atinylittlepain]

[thesirensoracle]

☽ The Lunar Path of Emotions and Deception ☾

A short commentary and analysis on the dangers of ignoring our inner world.✧☾゜・。

Yesterday the moon was in Hasta nakshatra, the midpoint of the moon in Vedic Astrology. I decided to prepare before hand and study in depth about this sign as I decided to do a small spell in honor of one of my spirit guides, drenching myself in the lunar energies this nakshatra has to offer. However, in the process of doing so, I found that this opened my eyes to the negative sides the moon can have in our society and on ourselves, specially if we are students of the occult. I’ve noticed that, while this warnings are something every practitioner of magical or divinatory arts have always been taught of, we tend to sometimes forget this teachings the more we grow spiritually, corrupting our practice and leading us to delusion. This post is meant to work as a small commentary and an open discussion of the knowledge I’ve gathered, however, I encourage anyone who would like to give insights on this topic, so we can all protect and grow together.

Many religions and spiritual practices mention the importance of emotions as guides to both our inner and outer world, however, I first came to learn this teaching in a workshop on The Science of Acting, where my teacher through a methodology mixing psychology, Buddhism and theater showed us how, even if you’re not related to the arts, emotions and thoughts are singlehandedly the most important aspects in our experience as human beings. They define how we see the world, how we navigate through it and learn from it.

She also taught us the importance of meditation, for this was one of the most effective ways we are able to gain control over our minds, and therefore, our emotions. Before doing this, she describes we function as a car driving in autopilot, or a videogame character being controlled by someone else. This is because our inner world are our allies and friends, but require strong will and direction to function correctly, so, if they are not directed, they are the ones that take control completely. It’s this same control our emotions and thoughts take of ourselves that leads to a sense of instability, making us believe that certain emotions are bad for not being able to control them, when in reality they are just trying to show us parts of ourselves that need attention (anger being a defensive mechanism, envy showing an insecurity of ourselves we need to overcome, sadness telling us of past wounds we need to heal and let go of, etc.).

In the worst case scenario, this same lack of self-control sometimes leads to false ideas as “right and wrong” and “us against them” mentalities that mark the seed of the most dangerous ideologies the world has given birth to, and in the world of spirituality, to complete madness. Therefore, we must remember that our own senses and emotions work as tools for us to experience this reality and, as any type of tools, if you don’t learn how to utilize them or completely ignore them, they become rusty and difficult to use, sabotaging our progress.

This is especially dangerous in our modern world, when we are constantly stimulated and consumed by technology and social media, to the point in which it has become the norm to drown in them as a way to suppress or completely ignore our feelings. This is why it’s common while scrolling through Instagram or Tik Tok to find the occasional guy joking about “using every type of technology at the same time to impede any type of thought to appear”. As spiritual adepts, this type of numbing of the senses is very dangerous, for our emotions and thoughts serve as our guide while practicing any type of magical or divinatory pursuit, and, if left unchecked, they distort themselves and start showing us lies instead of divine truths. It’s in this way we take the risk of communicating lies while giving someone a tarot reading, perceiving false signs or “hearing” words without meaning in a séance, or believing we are cursed when in reality it’s just our mind making us paranoid at our own inability to accept certain faults in ourselves.

This is also why in the Tarot and in Astrology, The Moon signifies the mind, the unconscious, and our emotions, as well as lies, manipulation and any type of deception. At the same time, The 12th House in astrology, while ruling dreams, the astral, and overall spirituality, also rules energy loss, asylums and entrapment into one’s own distorted mind, correlating on how mental illness and madness are one of the possible outcomes of an individual losing control of its own mind while practicing spirituality. All this correlates to how in psychology, specially in Carl Jung’s theories, the more we don’t acknowledge, integrate and control our own mind, the stronger the hold it has on us, constantly telling us lies about the world and ourselves.

The mind and the unconscious, as the constant changing moon, are very susceptible and malleable to any kind of stimulation. We can specially see this with the discoveries on the placebo effect and, most recently, the rise on affirmations related to the law of attraction, where it’s shown how the mind is especially powerful if influenced by certain thoughts and stimuli long enough to either manifest something to reality or change your worldview, even if the conscious part of the psyche disregards this type of stimulation at first.

So, if our own mind and emotions are very flexible and everchanging in nature, it’s not so crazy to say that with that same lightness and flow it can distort and show us lies if left unchecked. This is why moon ruled nakshatras, while being the most prevalent in the occult world as the most powerful or influential practitioners of magic and divination, are also the main people to be called “charlatans”, for a lot of them choose the path of deception and crime instead of one based on enlightenment. And even then, in actuality most of the revered “masters” of magic and occultism are hated because, while at first actually being able to channel divine truths and communicate said truths to the masses, they ended up corrupting their knowledge and teachings with their ego, destroying their past wisdom by tainting it with falsehoods (which is why most of them have been exposed for being racist, antisemitic and misogynistic).

However, as mentioned before, this type of delusion is not exclusive to the occult practitioner, but also to the everyday man, affecting all areas of expertise. One famous example of this is Tim Burton with Rohini ASC (the birth of the moon among the nakshatras), who at the first years of his career was considered a genius who would revolutionize the film industry, as he channeled a few of his stories truthfully creating beautiful whimsical worlds that embrace emotion by creating scenery with the objective of making them seem like a living dream (his moon rulership). However, as he grew in fame, the public started to slowly realize how his stories started to become corrupt by his closed ideology and lack of control of his inner world, criticizing his films for only creating crazy characters with the sole purpose of being “not like other people”, lacking real substance and clarity.

This creates the question; how do we avoid this? How do we get to receive divine truths and not get deceived by lunar delusion?

The answer is, as said in the beginning, by connecting and acknowledging our own emotions and thoughts; to look them right in the face without judgement, accepting them and, most importantly, allowing ourselves to feel them. The mind, emotions, and unconscious (as our inner moon) need to be grounded first and cleared from darkness to be able to deliver spiritual knowledge or basic clarity. This is why the moon is said to once being one with earth, and now that they are separated, only shines thanks to the rays of the sun: without earthly grounding or solar direction, the moon completely loses herself in illusions. Whether this is done through meditation, therapy or any other type of spiritual practice would depend on the individual, but connection and direction is the key to clarity.

The next time you get to feel jealous of someone else’s success or appearance, ask yourself: why those emotions appear before you? What do they show about your inner world and past wounds? Or the next time someone angers you by showing a complete different political view than the one you possess, ask yourself: why does this anger me? Is it because their views don’t align with my version of right and wrong? Or it’s my ego wanting validation by trying to control someone else’s path?

As triggering as this acknowledgment may be to some, it’s necessary to be able to reach a higher state of spiritual mastery and overall mental peace, by training the mind to not waste excess energy in draining pursuits and to differentiate between truth and illusion. If you actually practice checking on your mind daily (as difficult as it may be) you’ll start to realize that certain emotions, whether “negative” or “positive”, will come up only at times when they need to show a part of yourself that you need to pay attention to. This level of awareness leads the path of mental clarity and heightened intuition, for if you get to know your own mind and emotions and the way they communicate in your internal world, you’ll get to realize that the practice of magic, divination, and connection with the divine suddenly seems to flow naturally, instead of being clouded by fogs of delusion.

This article compared to the last one was a bit improvised, for it was birthed through late existential talks with my friends and nights of deep thinking after watching videos related to the topic (lol) so I apologize if my point it’s not as clear as I would’ve wanted it to be, but I did my best. However I got to give credit to the articles and videos made by Claire Nakti, her teachings keep enlightening me and inspiring me to pursue knowledge in a whole new way.

To learn more about the moon and it’s effects in our modern world I recommend the next videos and articles, for she expands on this on a more profound way.

Divination & Insanity: The Dangers of an Imbalanced Personal Universe

It is Only a Dream-- or is it? 12th House Contemplations

TOP 3 Most Magical & Mystical Astrology Signs | Psychic Powers | Part 1: Shravana Nakshatra

TOP 3 Most Magical & Mystical Astrology Signs | Cults, Divination, & Occultism | Part 2 (Nakshatras)

Rohini Nakshatra in the Modern World🍭 The Sexual Secret of Creativity

Thanks for reading and I wish you all the best. <3

[bovivinator]

Spiff had been trying to get the lads back under his control from the beginning; he couldn't stand that they'd "stolen" his fusion technology and made it part of their everyday lives. Nevermind that they were trying to let their fusions exist as people instead of turning them into weapons like he'd intended. His latest scheme turns out to be the most successful, but it comes with disastrous unintended consequences for everyone involved, Spiff most of all.

A multi-chapter introduction to Spin, the fusion of Seán and Spiff, and the au’s most most complicated character to date. This fic is a combination of scenes written by @deluxe-distrait and myself of the same event from different perspectives.

[t1meslayer]

Preorders are officially open for Homemade in Hyrule, Vol. 2 - the wonderful Legend of Zelda cookbook zine that I'm part of! Three bundles are available at the Homemade in Hyrule shop (alongside very limited selections of Vol. 1), and they'll be available through February 29.

Trust me, you don't want to miss out! All the work that went into this project is absolutely wonderful, from art to writing to recipes and more~

And if this isn't enough to convince you, I've got a preview right here for my Link's Awakening fic - "Do Chef Bears Dream of Baked Apples" - that can be read in the Kitchen Heroes PDF. Check it:

While you're at it, go follow Homemade in Hyrule on Twitter (X) and Instagram for updates! Both available through the handle @homemadehyrule.

Hoping we hit some of those sweet stretch goals too <.<

[im-still-watching-anime]

apollo’s confidence in court: oh my god i’m the worst lawyer ever my client is going to go to JAIL because i can’t even do my JOB

apollo’s confidence outside of court: i’m the only smart one here, i’m the most normal guy in the world and NO ONE is doing it like i am, investigations are EASY, klavier gavin wants me carnally

[bixels]

Just gonna have to wait and see, right? Just wait and see! Just gotta wait and see! Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see! It's anybody's guess, we'll just have to wait and see! The future is exciting, we just gotta wait and see!

[dirt-ghoul]

nothin else to say

[expelliarmus]

[suiheisen]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

[markscherz]

Bad Newts: Amphibians are in Serious Trouble

My colleagues and I have just had a paper published in Nature, based on our efforts to assess almost all amphibian species for the IUCN Red Lists. The major takeaway messages:

It is a bad time to be an amphibian

Two fifths of all amphibians are threatened with extinction.

Salamanders are the most threatened group; three fifths of all salamanders are threatened with extinction!

Climate change is a major driver of amphibian declines globally

Habitat loss, especially due to agriculture, is a problem for the vast majority of amphibians

Chytrid pandemics have caused and continue to cause catastrophic declines of both salamanders and frogs

Protected areas and careful management are working as strategies! They are actively improving the outlook of some species

As many as 222 amphibian species may have gone extinct in recent times; of those, 185 are suspected extinct but not yet confirmed.

Our paper is Open Access, you can read it here!

Photo of Atelopus hoogmoedi by Jaime Culebras, used with permission