#Sword speaks

[festeringmaggot]

they gotta stop drawing ciel holding his hand out in the manga

i have 3 different versions of this fucking image now yana please

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #sword speaks #i see a character holding their hand out and i have to make the ibuprofen meme #ive only made 2 of the ones i have of ciel but christ allmighty

[bywandandsword]

Current brainworm, none of the Celtic cultures' creation myths have survived, even though they almost certainly had one. The closest we have is the Lebor Gabala Erenn from Irish mythology, but it isn't a creation story, it records the various settlements of Ireland, ending in the Gaels. However, it is thought that there are reflections of an earlier creation myth in the LGE and in the Tain, and there are similar themes that validate that the Gaels at least viewed the creation of the landscape in this way from various other stories. Additionally, we can compare other Indo-European creation myths to figure out what elements the Gaelic creation myth almost certainly would have had. These include:

Before creation, there is a void of some kind

In that void, fire interacts with water/ice to create the first life

A primordial bovine, most likely a cow (bulls were more common in IE cultures that emphasized pastoralism over crops. The Romans had a she-wolf, because they had to be edge lords)

One primordial being or possibly a set of twins who are sustained by the milk of the cow

One of the twins/the primordial being is dismembered to create the physical world

So already we have the makings of a general creation story, and if you're familiar with Norse mythologies, you might recognize it. In fact, it's thought that the Norse creation myth has retained the most elements of the original IE myth

However, scholars point out that the primordial being that is killed is called *Yemo, meaning "twin", which means there was likely originally two first beings. In the one sacrificing the other, the act renders the brother doing the sacrificing as the First Priest, who creates the concept of death, but in doing so turns that death into the living world. The sacrificed brother is then typically rendered as the First King and Ruler of the Land of the Dead. By setting up this order for the world, the First Priest establishes that life cannot exist without death (whether it be harvesting crops or butchering livestock), and typically, these myths continue and establish the role of the priests in society, who's job it is to ensure the continuity of the original sacrifice and maintain the living world

Now, here's where we get into my speculation;

I think it's likely that the Irish creation myth involved a set of twins. Off the top of my head, I think that possible reflections of this can be found in the brothers Amergin and Donn and in the Donn Cuailnge and Finnbhennach from the Táin. With Amergin and Donn, Donn insults the goddess of the land and is drowned. In doing so, Donn becomes a god of the dead and all the souls of the dead have to gather at or pass through Tech Duinn. Amergin however, secures the support of these goddesses and is able to go on and give order to the Gaelic rule of Ireland by deciding who will rule what and serves as the Chief Ollam (bard) of Ireland. In the Táin, after the main Plot has gone down, the Donn Cuailnge and Finnbhennach fight and the the Donn Cuailnge ends up killing Finnbhennach. As the Donn Cuailnge passes through the landscape, pieces of Finnbhennach drop off his horns and form/name part of the landscape. I think it's also interesting how in both these stories, one of the duo is explicitly associated with the color white (Amergin is called "white knees") and the other one is dark, but the opposite one dies first in the stories

Also, if we look at myths like the creation of the Shannon and the Boyne rivers, where in the goddesses Sionnan and Boann, respectively, die in the rivers' creations, we further see that the death of one figure to create an element of the landscape is a relatively common one, so a creation story similar to the one I hypothesize the Irish had wouldn't have been outside of pagan Irish belief

Additionally, if we look at the duíle, kind of like the Irish elements/natural features, we see that the nine elements/features are each explicitly associated with body parts. Stone is associated with bones, the sea with blood, the face with the sun, ect. I think this could be a call back to that earlier creation myth

Off the top of my head, that's what I've been mulling over. Idk, I might be completely off the mark, but if anyone wants give their thoughts, I'd love to hear them. I'm certainly not an expert in Irish mythology and there may be some key factor that completely sinks this idea

#Sword speaks #Irish mythology #Irish pagan #Irish polytheist #Celtic pagan #Celtic polytheist #creation myth #idk man my brain has been like a dog with a bone with this for days and I'm curious what others might think

[swordslibrary]

i think the shirt suits him

#yugioh #bakura ryou #sword speaks #im so fucking terrified to post my art oh my god #if you saw the first post of this no you didnt

[chilchucks-timbs]

This isn’t going to get any notes but I think this is funny

My ma brought up that when I change my name I could pick another last name if I wanted to, something professional sounding. Like Dr. Naruto.

#sword speaks #lmao

[hidden-swords]

New Intro

Hello, I’m Swords! You’re more than welcome to use any pronouns you’d like for me. This is merely a neutralship sideblog where I reblog ship related things that my main may get wrongfully attacked for, if I can remember to use it! My askbox is always open for all sorts of questions, but anything harassment related or among those lines will be immediately blocked and ignored. Don’t waste my time.

#intro #sword speaks

[strrwbrrryjam]

disclaimer: these are results from google. there were loads so i just picked at random from "most watched anime" lists

please reblog and put your answers in the tags <3

[swordphantom]

Sudden hankering for boiled peanuts: returned

House: lacking in peanuts to boil

Conclusion: be sad about it

#i passed by a bilboard for them while on the way home and promptly remembered I REALLY LIKE BOILED PEANUTS #sword speaks

[the-phantom-peach]

I can’t stop thinking about @ezdotjpg bonus links au

I need to squeeze them in my hand in a way I can’t describe

#if you haven’t seen bonus links yet I implore you to do so #art style; comic layout; and storyline that makes me feral and that’s mildly speaking <3 #i keep scribbling them in my free time #bonus links #tloz au #loz au #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #tloz #loz #bonus loft #bonus slate #bonus botw zelda #skyward sword #breath of the wild #botw #totk #loz ss #link #zelda #art #artists on tumblr #my art

[pikala]

The forest parts and the sword glows. Do you take it or leave it be?

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #fantacy #fantasy swords #fantasy story #sword #forest swords #forest speaks #forest spirit #forest #forest sounds #sword and sorcery #enviroment art #forest aesthetic #forest art #magic #magic sword

[ineffableaddiction]

Where are your loyalties?

Aziraphale easily admits everything to Crowley about the flaming sword:

Note: Yea, Crowley’s in love now 😁

Aziraphale says this to god when asked about the sword:

And when he has the sword back, he’s using it to thwart the will of god (as far as he knows at the time)

So, just who is Aziraphale loyal to?

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #loyalties and all that #actions speak louder than words #is it just me or does aziraphale lie a lot? #flaming sword #it was flaming like anything

[linkvcr]

Also perhaps Link eating a stamina fruit

they are chilling :-]

#link is tired but he likes listening to them speak #had to add the other 2 ughhh i love them all sm #skyward sword #zelda #link #groose #zelink #groozelink #tloz #loz #the legend of zelda #my art

[festeringmaggot]

MY PICKLED EGGS ARE READY I FORGOT!!!!!!

#sword speaks

[bywandandsword]

It's interesting how Jonathan keeps equating himself with women, first with the gothic heroines of books, now "sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter" and feeling the first bit of comfort in a while in what he identifies as a woman's room. I know tumblr keeps identifying Jonathan as the book's Damsel in Distress, but it's interesting that Jonathan is consciously identifying himself that way, rather than identifying with any number of the action heroes in books of the time.

I wonder what men in 1897 thought about it, and I wonder if it was a conscious decision on Bram Stoker's part

#I've also seen posts from women talk about how they relate to Jonathan cause they've been in similar situations #not with vampires (unless?? share with the class plz??) #but with creeps who's violations of your space and boundaries you have to tolerate #out of fear of something worse #it's just interesting through the lenses of gender and class from that time and from today's perspective #anyway #I'll defend my dear friend Jonathan Harker until I die #Sword speaks #Dracula Daily May 15 #Dracula Daily #Jonathan Harker

[swordslibrary]

also while im here, have a lil black butler doodle

i love snake so much so i had to draw him and emily (and of course a little donne)

#i didnt wanna draw his coat sue me #sword speaks #im so fucking terrified to post my art oh my god #black butler #kuroshitsuji #snake black butler

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

best BEAST!!

#fanart #Xuanwu #in case it does not show credits: Thank you to Minilisko #And a huge thank you for letting me post this to The Blog <3 #The best is real! The details and edits are so on point! What a marvelous creature!!! #There is an innocence to the beast...A porcupine dilemma of being unable to be close without hurting others. #The knife is protection and the knife is isolation. Safety over companionship... #It was just sleeping in cave when the cultivator's showed up. It woke up to arrows and swords! #Did it mean to harm anyone or did it just react to the world around it? #(speaking of the actual beast in mdzs now:) There was a tunnel to leave the cave and it stayed. #Do you ever wonder if the beast found it's way inside but grew to big to leave? If it entered to be safe but ended up trapped? #This is all to say: Hey Madam Lan I think I have a new friend for you. She understands your plight. #Forfeit your worries to the turtle. Let the turtle bring you joy

[layzeal]

one of my favorite headcanons with little to no canon support is that xue yang and mo xuanyu were guidao jin disciples at the same time, and mxy mentioned a few times wanting to ressurect the yiling laozu to kill his mom's evil family, so when xy saw him (or rather his body) entering yi city AS the yllz, he was like "son of a bitch he actually did it"

#mdzs #the window of time for them to have been disciples at the same time is small but IT COULD have happened #and with mxy having had access to the sacrificial ritual (and his lack of progress on “proper” cultivation) #it's perfectly possible he was one of the jins' demonic students #also at yi city xue yang attacks wwx #who asks if he's trying to take advantage of that body's low spiritual energy. #BUT HOW DID HE KNOW BEFOREHAND THAT MXY'S BODY HAD LOW SPIRITUAL ENERGY HUH‼️⁉️‼️⁉️🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 #(please ignore the lack of sword-carrying) #i just want mxy and xy to have been buddies idk #it's very fun to me if xue yang recognizes wwx in his old classmate's body #modao #lace speaks