#The Witch's Embrace

[tubbytarchia]

@mcyt-yuri-week Day 5, Rose/Thorns I never stop thinking about SL episode 8 never ever

#gempearl #pearlgem #shinyduo #shiny duo #trafficshipping #I tried to word it a few different ways but I feel like its still so easy to interpret this as negative but noo its positive #because the thorns here are referencing the scarlet persona that Pearl's embraced. being left with nothing but it - the thorns #But it's not that Gem likes her just for her scarlet persona. She likes her for her. Pearl's not just thorns #Gem doesnt really care about the “thorns” or the petalless rose stem. she cares about Pearl. She thinks Pearl's cool (thumbs up emoji) #Pearl changes into her scarlet fit like she has many times before with the purpose of scaring people & leaning into her feared witch thing #but Gem's just like “omg slayyy” and its the best. And to Pearl it's like whoag #Gem never saw how she changed. Never saw her be ostracized and the aftermath #But she thought that the Pearl she did see in SL was cool and so easily accepted her when Pearl herself though herself so unacceptable #she got love from the Mounders and BigB and that warms my heart but Gem being a newcomer immediately embracing Pearl is just #it hits different #whoa jimbo way too many tags hghghgh #mcytyuriweekvalentines #at first I thought about smth like “where the others saw thorns you saw a rose” but I thought it was more fitting this way #I guess you guys be the judge of that haha idk what Im saying #tubby art

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

It's witchsona season again so it was time to update mine

#artists on tumblr #art #illustration #original #character design #witch #witchsona #halloween #i have now pink hair and embraced my feminine side

[musubiki]

i think the most powerful final form for mochi timeskip outfit will embrace her witch nature 🖤

#the cat witchs guild #the misc adventures of mochi and lime #tcwg #tmaomal #art #mochi #ocs #original #outfits #beta #sorry lime #i want adult mochi to be a full fledged witch in every aspect and that means black outfit #the comfort and pride i feel from seeing her embrace her heritage #i think this is better. it makes actual thigh scenes tastier cuz theyd actually be rare #once again im taking a step back in thinking about how i would design a potential cat witch if she were a side character #all the witches wear full black except her and thats a no no for me #probably not the final dress design but im still playing around with ideas

[apple-piety]

I’m sick of having to censor my language and beliefs in order to save face in my community. I am polytheistic. I am pagan. I believe in many gods. I worship many gods. I speak to the gods and they speak back. I can hear them. I can see them. I have conversations with them. I believe in faeries. I have faeries that are my friends and live in my house. I give them offerings and they help with the chores. They also take my things and play other practical pranks, just like the old stories said. I know their names. I speak to them and they speak back. I believe in ghosts and spirits. I grew up in a haunted house. I’m psychic. I can speak to the dead. I have spoken to both living and dead animals. I’m superstitious. I find comfort in old wives tales. I am spiritually powerful. I will speak my truth, even if it makes me yet another witch on the outskirts. So be it. That is my destiny.

Khairete.

#pagan #paganism #hellenic deities #hellenic devotion #hellenic pagan #hellenism #hellenic polythiest #hellenic community #hellenic gods #witch #pagan witch #witchblr #witchcraft #faeries #I believe in fairies #fairies #fairy tales #superstitious #superstitious beliefs #embrace superstition #polytheist #hellenic polytheism #polytheism #roman pantheon #roman deities #greek gods #hellenic worship #hellenic paganism #psychic #i am psychic

[thefirstknife]

i unironically hope Eris stays in her Hive form at least physically bc im already loving how both her & Immaru are pointing out Ikora's (and humanity's) inherent dehumanization of the Hive.

Eris being all "If this form does not leave will you still view me as a friend?"

Immaru when asked where the Experiment Subjects come from and responding with "Don't act like you care."

Honestly, it's so good. I really love the Eris stuff and some of these questions being posed. A lot of people react negatively to Eris doing this, forgetting that Eris has already been part-Hive for a long time. She was just hiding it behind the eye cover.

Technically, nothing inherently changed about Eris; she just embraced that part of her. And that's super important for her arc I think because she's been on a journey of accepting her trauma and her losses for a very long time. We helped her face her fears and traumas in Shadowkeep and she came out of it victorious. And the story never treated it as her traumas being gone; she still has them, but she has the means to tackle them and handle them and live with them. Since we helped her, she became more open and more involved with what we do to save our home, even if it meant tackling dangerous things.

And the thing is, now that her traumas cannot be exploited by Darkness anymore, she's capable of involving herself in these things, knowing that she has friends to fall back to and a support system and better mental fortitude. We've seen it through her endurance beneath the Pyramid on Io, and her grasp of stasis, and her dealing with the Crown of Sorrow and egregore and the Lunar Pyramid nightmares. And now with her embracing her Hive self. It doesn't change anything about her, but people prefer when she hides it so they don't have to see it. And she knows it (Sororicide lore book, page 1):

It's a perfect example of how we inherently view the Hive as untrustworthy. Obviously, there are good reasons for it! The Hive have caused immense pain and trauma to pretty much everyone in the universe, Eris included. It must take an incredible strength of character to embrace the fact that you're physically half-Hive, creatures that traumatised you in the first place. No one else has dealt with anything similar so naturally they're afraid for Eris. But I believe in her strength. And so does Drifter and Drifter is never wrong:

He'd read the reports. He saw the theories on VanNet. He didn't trust them. He trusted her.

There's a cutscene that people skip and can cause people not to see it, I recommend replaying the thing on a different character or seeing it online, but it shows Eris taking off her bandage in front of us:

It's such a powerful image to me. A symbol of her taking off her mask. Not pretending to be the same as us anymore. Because she isn't! The Hive are a part of her and have been for centuries. And she's always been in control. Our mistrust has always hurt her, but before this, we could act with pity towards her. Now that she's fully in Hive form, people's perception of her changed, for really no good reason other than prejudice. She is still Eris.

I definitely think that eventually we will have to reconcile with the idea of the Hive not being inherently evil in totality as a whole group of people. Obviously this is going to be difficult, especially when their leaders act the way they do, but eventually I do believe we will have to accept some of them, even if it's only Eris for a start.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #season of the witch #season of the witch spoilers #eris #immaru #hive #ask #long post #there's just something about like. eris embracing her full self that's so incredibly powerful to me #and that the way we tolerated her before was steeped in the whole. 'as long as you're sufficiently similar to us you're fine' vibe #but she isn't. fundamentally she has been changed to her core and she kept it hidden #we could only see the light of her third eye and even that made people suspicious of her just based on her physical appearance #but beneath that bandage has always been Hive eyes #the hive killed her and the hive saved her. i can't even begin to imagine what kind of complex emotions that would bring her

[ripplerain]

these feelings aren’t gone

#this takes place after nika had already told chuchu about turning herself in #they start with a slow yet passionate kiss #chuchu brings nika down to her pillow hands now on her shoulders #as it goes on tears begin streaming down their faces #chuchu starts shaking holding back sobs and just buries her face into nika’s chest #nika holds chuchu and chuchu hugs back #they stay like that for awhile crying before falling asleep in each other’s embrace #i love them somuch fuk #nikachu #chunika #nika nanaura #chuatury panlunch #nika nee #chuchu #gundam witch from mercury #g witch #my art

[hitoshura]

variety pack of icon commissions from twitter! owners in captions, please do not use 

currently accepting commissions ^^

#identity v #idv #emma woods #qi shiyi #victor grantz #andrew kreiss #frederick kreiburg #joseph desaulnier #cosmic witch #the embrace #train conductor #sheriff #dragon hunters #moonlight gentleman

[spacefairynayu]

I can’t stop thinking about how Zorian is of mixed ethnicity and how that adds so many unexplored layers to his befriending of the indigenous minorities within Eldemar(ie. a morlock, shapeshifters, the aranea) AND layers to his mother’s rejection of her heritage.

Especially to his mother’s rejection of her heritage.

Witches are explicitly indigenous to Altazia, and yes part of the negative perception of them comes from the fact that many witches have done terrible things, but the villager’s treatment of Cikan and her mother also easily parallels plain racism. Cikan’s reaction to this being to completely abandon her heritage screams of a choice to assimilate into the majority culture to avoid discrimination. Her insistence on raising Kirielle as ‘the perfect lady’ by Eldemar’s standards is an almost obsessive attempt to erase any trace of her ethnic background and present both Kirielle and herself as ‘proper’ Eldemarian/Ikosian women. She says she’s doing it for Kirielle’s sake, and partially it is(albeit while heavily projecting), but it’s mostly to reinforce the family’s image, her image, as 100% Eldemarian/Ikosian.

Not to imply that abandoning one culture to embrace another is inherently a bad thing, Cikan is very clearly happier living as an Ikosian woman than an Altazian one. This probably was the correct decision for her. The problem is that she is taking the choice to embrace or reject their heritage away from her children(as well as doing the exact same thing that she hated her mother for, attempting to force a certain way of living onto them that made them miserable).

And then there’s Zorian. The Kazinski child who resembles a witch the most. He’s anti-social and withdrawn, he fiercely holds on to grudges and memories of every slight(and holds to memories of kindness just as tightly), he parleys with non-humans and ‘undesirables’, and to top it all off he inherited the bloodline ability that his witch ancestors cultivated and passed down to a degree that likely hasn’t been seen in generations.

Zorian embodies everything that Cikan has tried to erase from their family history. He’s a walking symbol of their Altazian ancestry.

All this to say that I feel it was a massive waste for Nobody to not explore Zorian’s heritage, his relation to it, and his family’s relation to it, as well as how that in turn affects his relation to/perception of Eldemar and it’s politics.

#mother of learning #mol #zorian kazinski #cikan kazinski #I normally only lurk but I can’t stop rotating the fact that zorian is of mixed ethnicity in my head #so you all get to be subjected to my brainworms #I can only imagine how much worse cikan and zorian’s relationship is going to be once she realizes #embracing the heritage she rejected and rubbing it in her face #who cares if he’s a boy being a witch is a vibe

[sesamenom]

Ar-Pharazon from the Reverse Gondolin AU and as Witch-King of Numenor - thanks to @who-needs-words for helping develop this idea!

#silm #silmarillion #second age #ar pharazon #reverse gondolin au #(well more like the aftermath of gondolin reversal) #this au has consumed my life #on the plus side inspiration for feanor is finally reemerging from under the metaphorical couch so i might get something finwion-y done soo #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so much to draw so little time #seriously though golden nazgul is such a cool idea #whatever the mordor equivalent for the angband trio is (sauron pharazon and shelob maybe?) is going to look so cool in black and gold #black/gold black hole shelob!! #and prince elrond is super finwiony looking #also he has his wings & glowiness out a lot more so that'll be fun #but yeah basically in the au Prince Elrond realized via foresight what was happening/going to happen in numenor #so he went there and disowned ar pharazon (by extension removing him from the throne) and crowned tar miriel rightful Ruling Queen #then later when sauron showed up he came back kicked sauron out and outlawed the death cult #but between that time sauron secretly recruited ar pharazon by promising him kingship in exchange for his support #and anyways ar pharazon survived all the way to the TA as the Witch King #(mr. angmar here gets to be second in command of the nazgul sorry) #-imagine this guy showing up to be all 'bagginssss' though #the witch king of numenor is somehow even more dramatic #also the whole 'no living man can kill me' is. a bit different coming from a guy who has many enemies in the form of #a) his cousin the Ruling Queen of Numenor #b) his uncle the choice-of-elves-peredhel #c) a bunch of Faithful in the Halls #the dead guys aren't too much of a problem #but i wonder if he heard that prophecy and worried a whole lot more about the Ruling Queens #or Prince Elrond who in the au has very definitely embraced his maia-ness #and then imagine his surprise hearing 'but no living man am i' and it coming from. a random human lady.

[pixelfireplace]

Black.

#Steam games #Pixel Fireplace #indie games #dark art #dark aesthetic #darksynth #goth aesthetic #darkness #black color #void #embrace the darkness #dark #dark goth #witch #dark vibes #black aesthetic #gamedev #indiedev #pixel art #pixel aesthetic

[justpreciousotomebabies]

Me, someone who really wants children at some point in life, any time I play a dating sim with an undead or inhuman love interest: I wonder if this character and my MC can make babies?

#witches x warlocks #Absolute Alchemical Potion #monster prom #Blood Code #And if the answer is no I wonder if this character would want to adopt a baby? #Crimson Spires #red embrace hollywood #Red Embrace #huniepop #Gods Of Love #ikemen vampire #Love Bites #Lovingly Evil #seduce me the otome #Yes I am tagging multiple things where the answer is canonically confirmed to one or both questions #Miraclr #magical diary #sucker for love #obey me #Look if a game gives me the potential to have a baby with literal Satan you bet your biscuits I'm taking it #And can Ite Nightshade adopt a child with her poltergeist husband? #Jinx asking the important questions here

[ferhog]

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury but it’s a rom-com from the 2000s.

#G-Witch #mioletta #sulemio #suletta x miorine #embracing my inner cringe

[torchwood-99]

Eowyn really hit the jackpot. Her first battle, and she did something so badass that she will never have to buy her own drinks for the rest of her life. She'll be dining out on that story for as long as she lives. While I suspect she still picked up her sword in times of great needs and wouldn't say no to a spot of adventure, it makes sense that her thirst for glory has been quenched.

"I killed the Witch King and cut the head off it's Fell Beast? Well, literally nothing is going to top that! Guess I can put my feet up a bit now."

#it's not that Eowyn “learned her place as a woman and embraced her feminine role (ugh)” #or that she “grew out” of her desire for glory #it's that she hit the bullseye on her first throw and can now hang around doing whatever she wants #she's the wraithsbane now and nothing will change that #lotr #Lord of the Rings #Eowyn #Witch King of Angmar

[katyspersonal]

Their virgin "wahh I should block every person the Cool Kids claimed a looser and align with my audience's demands to not lose my platform as a creator :'((((" vs my chad "I will deliberately say or reblog something controvercial once in a while as a preventive measure to ward off the people that only like me when I am pure"

#personal #too many people are scared to be claimed 'bad' these days #seriously guys just embrace being bad as a natural human experience like I did #if everyone is bad then no one is bad this philosophy shit is easy #I am just sooooo mad at conformist people that really are okay with audience that keeps them restricted #like guys. guys guys guys. you will be happier with like 5 genuine fans that accept you for who you are #than with 5000 'fans' that will burn the witch as soon as you fail their expectations #so many people are scared of being CLAIMED bad that they forget to fear BEING bad #ohhhh damn that's deep I should write a book

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

I actually hope hunter doesnt find out about calebs heel turn towards befriending witches. Or at least, he doesnt find out about that until he accepts that its okay if hes a clone of a witch hunter.

I want hunters realization that hes a Good Person, Actually to come from understanding that sharing genes with someone doesnt mean you inherit their bad qualities. And that he's free to choose whether or not to be like his predecessors. I dont want it to come from him learning that caleb is Good, Actually, and have that mean hes automatically destined to be good like caleb

#the owl house #shut up pandora #toh #hunter toh #caleb wittebane #i know ppl think caleb was always a good person at heart and belos was always evil #but i think thered be more nuance if they started out the same #and caleb got better by embracing the boiling isles and questioning his upbringing #while belos dug his heels in and got worse #similarly a lot of ppl assume all grimwalkers have similar personalities and are destined to be good ppl #but i dont think thats something youre born with thats something you choose to be #and hunters plot relevant choices recently have not necessarily all been his choice #but in situations where it IS his choice he has usually chosen to be bad bc of upbringing but then changed his mind and chose to be good #he should keep it up #until some point in the story where being kind and helping his friends against all odds is no longer a difficult choice #also uh we barely know anything about caleb #and i dont think toh would cut out all nuance and make him unambiguously good if we learn about him later #remember the belos memories of the brothers going on witch hunts as a kid #hunter is right caleb WAS a witch hunter with belos he just stopped doing it

[veronicaleafless]

~ I found incredible vintage thread spools, in the previous post you can see the embroidery with them ~

#cottagecore #vintage #green gables fables #cottage moodboard #flowers #100 likes #cottage academia #garden #green witch #embroidery #embrace #dark academia #dark moodboard #darcy reid #darcy olsson