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dwuerch-blog · 2 years

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I’ll Take a Cloud…or Two

I read my “FB Memories” from this day a couple of years ago. Back then I was all caught up in gratitude for the rain, and cooler temperatures and the Fall season that was in the air. This year it seems Summer doesn’t want to give way just yet! I’m in Tulsa right now, and even this seven hours north from Austin, the mornings are cooler, but the daytime, is still very warm. Nature welcomed me as I…

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#blog #christian #clarity #cloud phenomenon #clouds #decision making #Fall #fall season #guidance #guided Israelites #holy cloud #inspiration #israelite wilderness #pray for peace #Psalm 119:105 #unseen God #waiting and seeking #wisdom #Word is a lamp

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blackvelvetcorvid · 24 days

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Starving for an episode, I drew this.

#I picked a random word from the Raven #It was lamp-light #nevermore #nevermore webtoon #annabel lee nevermore #annabel lee whitlock #nevermore webcomic #get annabel lee'd #I drew this in math class 😭#my art #:( I have been deprived of my favorite Sapphics

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completeoveranalysis · 4 months

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NEW FAVOURITE COVER?

NEW FAVOURITE COVER!

Chapitre 201 - The Truth from within the Ruins

Oh this is just beyond gorgeous. Who can stand against the pure concentrated adorable that is Tsubasa Babies Family Photo? Now with all four of them!

I’m in love with all the tiny details that they clearly spent so long on - all the lovely folds of Sakura’s dress, the intricate detailing on Fai’s robe and staff. Lava Lamp is in his ceremonial garb, and tiny Kurogane IN HIS FANCY LITTLE OUTFIT. (AND HIS POSTURE? GET OUT. Incredible)

Kurogane doesn’t have Ginryuu yet (since this is Happy Childhood AU, so his father will still have it. Still has the moon though!) but Lava Lamp has the Syaoran Family Sword all ready to go. His outfit would be incomplete without it - they’re all wearing clothing from their home worlds, or maybe their families? I’m technically not sure which world Lava Lamp comes from, but his outfit is Family Legacy all the way down. I’m dying to know if Fai’s outfit is in the style of Seresu or Valeria - I don’t think they’re all that different, but I think I would put my money on Valeria based on the position of the fur and the curl motif. In which case it’s fun for me that his Happy Family AU is in Valeria instead of with Ashura. (sorry not sorry Ashura get fucked)

I suppose in this version he never had reason to leave Valeria in the first place, so it’s a very nice touch that the outfit doesn’t immediately resemble the clothing he wore in his backstory, since that’s all so closely linked to the death of his twin, who would be alive here. Very nice visual choices all around, especially with each of them in their own unique colour pallette. Oh, and even with the colour differences they all have bits of yellow somewhere on them, showing their connection.

The left/right split between them is really fun too - sword wielders on one side, phenomenally powerful magic users on the other, cats vs dogs, unique child/parent pairings, etc. It’s very funny to me that they found a super fancy chair for Sakura and a cushion for Kurogane, but nothing for the other two. But Fai draping himself over the chair is such an incredible piece of character flair, which I am in love with, but also, the TOUCH? The little touch of tiny hands? Sakura reaching back to put her hand on the back of Fai’s? Tiny Lava Lamp’s little grip on Kurogane’s arm? OH it’s so touching.

And behind them all? THAT WINDOW. Such a clear symbol positioned directly in the centre frame. At first I thought it might be an eye, but this is Happy Family AU so there should be no Evil Wolverine to spy on them. What I’m voting on instead is CLAMP playing with Tarot symbols again and this being the Wheel of Fortune, or a similar idea of a wheel of destiny. They use the latter idea a lot in their earlier works (RG Veda and X/1999 say hi), but I think the tarot symbol in particular really shines through with the ideas they’re playing with in Tsubasa/xxxHolic, and has a very strong parallel to the idea of hitsuzen.

After some much safer googling it looks like the “Wheel of Fortune” in Tarot can mean change or cycles or inevitable fate, but on the flipside could also be lacking control. I think the reversed meaning of the card really speaks to me the most about their situation in general, as it describes bad luck and misfortunes thrust upon you from external forces, that you are fighting to take control back from an unwinnable situation. That fighting it is impossible, that continuing to fight it can only bring more suffering, and that the only option is to let it go. To stop blaming yourself for the thing you did wrong, or the thing that you think was your fault. To forgive yourself, to accept it all, to let yourself move on, to accept that change is inevitable, and to finally be able to move forward and just let everything happen.

Because if that’s not exactly the whole situation we are in I don’t know what is. It’s a mirror for the things that Fai and Kurogane have already been through, and for what Lava Lamp Guy is still currently fighting, and CLAMP love to do drop these symbols all the time.

And this is a bit of a tangent but who’s gonna stop me? Clamp LOVE their tragic destiny pairs, especially in their early works - the couples deeply love but also cursed by fate, like Kendappa and Souma, Ashura and Yasha (flavoured differently in RG Veda, but still fitting this cycle again in Tsubasa), Subaru and Seishirou, Sorata and Arashi (unfinished), Kamui and Fuuma, etc. The characters who are so different from each other, so diametrically opposed, but in love still, and it burns so strong that they either have to kill each other or let the world burn around them - or both! They’re always fighting destiny, just like the reversed wheel of fortune, and they fight it to the point of obliteration.

AND THEN we have Tsubasa, and I think it’s so endlessly interesting that they took the same pattern and turned it around. Syaoran and Sakura definitely fit the theme (and wild that they took the Cardcaptor Sakura happy couple deliberately to make the most universe shattering tragedy out of it, but I still haven’t seen how their story ends, whether one will have to tragically die to save everything or whether they’ll get out somehow). But what I mostly want to talk about (surprise surprise) Kurogane and Fai, who fit the pattern exactly. Complete opposites, diametrically opposed, set up as antagonists and destined to kill each other but fall in love instead. That they both fight against the tragic pasts that defined them and eventually change their mind. Eventually, slowly, they accept love again and realise that they can actually live with themselves and each other if they let it all go.

And I think what really gets me is that if this was an earlier Clamp work they absolutely would have tragically died - they would have killed each other in the climax of Seresu and it would have been beautiful and terrible and no-one ever would have ever emotionally recovered from the complete and utter devastation.

BUT THEY DIDN’T.

CLAMP spend all of Tsubasa revisiting all their old works, taking us through a parade of the various tragedies they’ve sung across the years, all leading up to them ultimately breaking their own pattern and letting Fai and Kurogane save each other from the same Clamp fate that claimed every tragic pair before them. They choose each other and get out alive. They stop blaming themselves for the unchangeable parts of destiny and finally forgive themselves. And it’s just very emotional to me that it’s these two that make it, these two that get to recover and choose each other and live their lives inseparable from this point on. The two that had arguably the most tragic backstories also get to face their trauma, survive, and live.

And it’s just so beautiful to see how the CLAMP storytelling method has changed over the years, and to find out that after all these years, the big destiny story they really wanted to tell in their longest and most detailed work was about the two men who fell in love, against all odds and saved each other. Despite absolutely everything saying that it should be impossible, it’s Kurogane and Fai that finally flip the tarot card back around and live.

And I’m extremely interested in what this means for Lava Lamp and Not!Sakura.

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plasmodiumpyrexia · 1 year

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Under the blanket, A curled tighter, shaking like a leaf as another chill rattled their body. B brushed sweat-dampened hair from their brow. "It's getting worse, isn't it?" C whispered. B didn't want to say it out loud - they weren't sure they could - but eventually they gave a small nod to C. A's fever showed no sign of breaking; B didn't know what else to do. A soft whimper escaped their chattering teeth "Shhh..." B kept stroking their hair until their breathing steadied, finally drifting off to sleep...

#wish i could copy and paste the image in my mind because my words aren't doing it right #sickfic whump #illness #fever #caretaker #whump #chills #a has never been this sick and b's starting to get worried #c's always worried #they're anxiously pacing and just about ready to drag a to the hospital (its bad but not hospital bad)#its late afternoon/night there's warm soft light from the lamp on the nightstand by a's quilted bed

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aesthetic--mood · 7 months

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Edmund Pevensie Aesthetic

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treasureplcnet · 5 months

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you think it doesn't mean a lot that episode 5 opens on karl losing blood and limping into the synagogue and breaking rules as a massive fuck you to god. he could have gone anywhere else but he goes to the synagogue. karl weissman who stares down the lamp, a symbol of god's eternal presence, and he lights the last cigar that he stole from a man he killed. you think he's not asking why he's here and god is here but esther isn't? why his mother isn't? you think he stares at that lamp throughout his conversation with rabbi goldstein for no reason?? and karl weissman and how he drags polly back to that same synagogue, and still watches that light before trying to kill her?? the faint light in the background as polly accusses him of nearly killing esther himself? how it's the only warm light, how it is purposely framed so it's seen through the entire confrontation, against the blue tones of the scene? and hayden having the balls to compare elias to god, and it's karl who finally kills the false prophet. it doesn't fix anything but i think he believes his justice and revenge is god given. poetry in motion i think

#back from googling 'what is the lamp in the synagogue called' 'what does the lamp mean' and im actually getting worse #bodies netflix #karl weissman #if anyone is actually jewish and i am deeply wrong about this please let me know. i am just word vomiting how i saw the scene #after getting some more context ...... god. HE MAKES ME ILL!!!!

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michaeljoncarter · 3 months

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Legion of Super-Heroes (2005) concepts by Barry Kitson

#this is the concept art i was talking about in the last post <3 #i love how... textural they are? i guess? for lack of a better word #lava lamp cham is so fun.. dream girl with cloud pants the electricity being channeled down garth's arms like it's just so !#and the idea of tasmia always being in noir lighting is soooo fun too i love it #the 'nope!' by the (presumably?) first invisible boy attempt.. i felt that ngkfjbn #also love him being like 'i changed nothing on jo because he is already perfect :)' 😭#waid/kitson legion had what bendis/sook legion wanted #losh

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itsalwaysforyou · 12 days

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jay not asking coach about letting lonnie onto the team bc he doesn’t want to do anything coach might disagree with…….

#‘coach trusts me…’ like what if i cried #man i wish they made more of a thing of jay being TEAM CAPTAIN #<- i’ve made a post before abt how easily he gives it up & jay not liking positions of power etc etc #but i do think he treats the role like it could be taken away at any moment #coach TRUSTS him. holy shit coach trusts him #the first positive adult figure in his life trusts him to take care of the team #train them and critique them and lead them to victory #and coach probably wouldn’t have cared abt lonnie being on the team #but jay is sooooo hesitant to ask #coming from the ‘if you want it take it and if you can’t take it break it’ guy #like this is the one thing he doesn’t want to risk breaking…….#and then obviously he gives it up!!!!!#he gives up the thing coach TRUSTED HIM WITH bc it was the only way to let lonnie on the team #& mr ‘my only dislike is women being unhappy’ was like I CANNOT REST UNTIL LONNIE IS ON THE TEAM #it’s suchhhhh a sweet gesture not only from a hashtag feminism standpoint #but also character wise for jay #like this precious thing that coach has trusted him with but didn’t really want that much anyway…..#it’s going to mean more to lonnie if she had it. even though it means everything to jay #oh it makes me crazy #damn my mum was right. i think too deeply about things #im like i analyse things a normal amount and then i’m writing essays about 1 line from descendants 2 #I AM UNWELL #anyway. jesus christ #descendants #jay son of jafar #EDIT i’m not finished actually #do you think jay fears the repercussions? what would happen if he went against coach’s word?#bc sure. he knows coach is nice. he knows auradon isn’t like the isle #but. ‘you don’t want to be at my house at dinner time’…….#he is still scared of his dad. you know. he can never get the lamp he can never do anything right

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wulvert · 3 months

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Can vampire use sunscreen or do they just fail to work

nouh, its less abt uv rays and more abt the sunlight as an abstract concept. like how moonlight doesnt kill them even though moonlight is just second hand sunlight.

I try to apply some level of physical like """"realism""""" to them like their fangs/esophagus being connected to their veins & thats how the blood gets in there & try to take some basic rules to their most extreme implications but it is still a curse thats got random bullshit thats really hard to draw hard lines around :') the getting into a house thing isnt even on the law its abt who feels most at home in a space bc i dont think laws existed when the first vampire got vampired.

(only reason avery cant get in her own home without asking her landlord is bc avery is cringe and mopey and doesnt decorate & a random guy who doesnt even live there feels more ownership over her space than she does)

#i do think the idea of them being obliterated by lizard uv lamps is funny but itd be really annoying to deal with in the story long term #is funny the right word idk. cute i think a lot of things r cute not funny. what does that mean. when i read something and dont think its t-#hat funny but im still endeared by a moment ill go okay thats cute but like what does that mean

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askblueandviolet · 3 months

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I hope y'all are holding up good! I'd like to give Hershey a funny desk lamp, like the one from the P.I.X.A.R. logo but red. Don't worry about the label that says "Ray" on it :)

#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lmk #lmk fanart #blue and violet #she does not understand what it is other than dubbing it as a 'light maker'#she is very keen to investigate its purpose #in other words she likes the gift #I had initially thought that the P.I.X.A.R lamp was an ordinary desl lamp #but when I googled it I realised that it is in fact not very ordinary #so in other to save my sanity I tried to make a watered down simplified version of it lol #still looks a little funky but I mean hey a lamp is a lamp

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bagofbonesmp3 · 2 years

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turning my paintings into mitski song covers, part ?, 7?

#mitski #remember my name #last words of a shooting star #i want you #that's our lamp #traditional art #my stuff.#acrilic on cardboard #music

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wiirocku · 6 months

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Psalm 119:105 (KJV) - Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

#Psalm 119:105 #Thy #word #lamp #unto #my feet #light #my path

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ne0nwithazero · 5 months

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romance is dead, let's raise worms together instead 💚

#My Art #Kliegkaard #Rouxls #Klieg #I already loved this ship but making them both aromantic immediately improved them even more for me gnjfkdng #feelings are incomprehensible words are hard #raising moths that torment your bf because you forgot he's a living lamp but he still wants to be there to support you like you support him #idk i'm feeling emotional about this goofy thing #i may be non-partnering but i want what they have ngjkfdng

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completeoveranalysis · 1 month

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Me still just crying over Syaoran: SURE OK THERE ARE STILL MORE PAGES I GUESS THERE ARE OTHER THINGS TO READ

I GUESS MORE THINGS MIGHT AS WELL HAPPEN

SO WHAT IS NEXT

We have! The last remains of the family (except Mokona, who is still safely off screen) stand together to face whatever happens next once the wind fades away

ALL of their eyes shadowed over in the grief of everything they're still coming to grips with

AND HONESTLY SAME

BUT LAVA LAMP PULLS HIMSELF TOGETHER AND I GUESS THAT MEANS THAT MORE STORY WILL HAVE TO HAPPEN

LAVA LAMP IS STRONGER THAN ME HOW DOES HE DO IT

BUT SURE OK LET'S JUST TURN THE PAGE AND STOP CRYING EVENTUALLY

KUROGANE PASSING SYAORAN’S SWORD ON TO LAVA LAMP HELP

Lava Lamp in Syaoran's same clothes and his literal sword as they head to face off against Evil Wolverine

Lava Lamp carrying Syaoran's mission as well as his own now

How they don't have Syaoran anymore but they can use his sword to help finish it all

Meanwhile Fai has mercy on me and explains what the magic is doing - it’s connecting them to Evil Wolverine’s realm, so they can presumably just go right through and chase him down

How they're holding Syaoran's last possession, and the last spell he cast is what will take them through to the end

How I'm still crying over every little detail Clamp how dare you