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#HI... HELLO... #kissing them + kissing them + kissing them + #bookmarked #i need a new art tag wah

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Necromancy is the art of divination via talking to the dead. Therefore, it can be broken down into two parts: communication, and the dead.

“The Dead” is a pretty broad range of sources, to be honest, but a few examples to get the cerebrospinal fluid flowing are: the chair in my living room, the ghost of my dead great-grandpa who loved that chair, the very mummified c/ntipede underneath the chair that I’m still too scared to clean up and that my vacuum can’t reach.

Communication can be broken down into three interlocking processes: listening (sulfur), understanding (mercury), and responding (salt). Two of these stages are significantly complicated by the fact that the second party is dead, so I might add a 0th stage: contacting the dead (setting up the table).

If you type divination into the Tumblr search bar you’ll get half a dozen tarot advertisements, pendulum readings, runes, and maybe some bone throwing. The core of divination is that element of chance, that crack that lets the light in, the unpredictability that stands in as a red carpet for whatever ghost or beastie to strut down. Since so much of it is fishing with a shotgun, though, it’s heavily reliant on the interpretation part of “up to interpretation”.

That said, I believe there is a secret weapon to all of this.

Critical thinking!

This is also a necessary skill for communication in general. In the hypothetical circumstance that I ring up the pharaoh Tutankhamen to ask him about ducks, several issues immediately present themselves.

One: Is there any way to prove this is Tutankhamen?

No, probably not. I can attempt to increase the likelihood by breaking into the Egyptian Museum and stealing his tongue (do not try this at home), but even then ghosts are great at the fake ID thing.

Two: Are my own biases influencing how I understand the information I get?

Probably, since it’s charades through the lens of my own psyche, culture, experiences, and desires. Mental illness is also necessary to consider and filter for.

Three: If I did successfully get Tutankhamen, do I know enough about him as an individual and a representative of his culture to correctly interpret the information I get?

This depends on how much research I’ve done. If we suppose that shedding the mortal coil sheds the limits of language, and the postmortem concept of a person speaks the language of ideas, then the ideas he would communicate with would be influenced by the world and culture he grew up with. If he dropped the ancient Egyptian equivalent of a Loss meme on me, I might be woefully oblivious to an essential piece of context that colors the rest of the information.

Since the dead can be fickle and tricksy, as is divination in general, the key element of the interaction is your comprehension of the information. If it’s something you could Google, I recommend doing that first, since it’s prepackaged and pre-processed and likely explained empirically in your preferred language. But if you really want to call up that one dead guy, Know Thy Enemy. Sun Tzu did not spend that much ink despairing over the idealistic ambitions of ancient Chinese warlords for you to neglect proper preparations.

Then, and only then, are you ready to steal a mummified tongue and draw an unmute icon on it in crow’s blood.

(no animals were harmed in the making of this post)

(do not steal human body parts you fool, you moron. -Sun Tzu)

#references #i suppose? i dont really have a tag for advice on necromancy #you explain everything really well and thoroughly #and also you're making jokes that go through 15 layers of nerdery and i dont get all of them but i love that for you

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Alphys and Undyne on a Virtual Date 💛💙

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date a forest god who gifts you with an otherworldly pet to frolic and play with in the woods

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Jawbreaker rats with candy necklace tails. Didn’t even occur to me until after I made this that drawing two rats was perfect since they usually need buddies <3

#idk if that's the rigjt url but the heads detached thing reminds me of ur art style

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hey nerd. if ur still in crell then i am poking u with a stick to see what ships and characters u have rotating in ur brain. if ur not in cr mood rn then feel free to save this for later or delete idm

oh im in splatoon hell atm but im down to rotate some cookie blorbs

uhhh currently? cotton ~ sherbet. qpr marriage. they are soooo queerplatonic to me i cant see them as anything else. queerplatonic married.

lychee/licorice is also fun lol, lychee/any cookie of darkness really, but lychee and licorice feel like they'd be HILARIOUS and rule of funny always wins in my book

oh speaking of lychee, i still adore lychee/rambutan. its about the tension and the passion and rambutan's "i hate that i love you" and lychee's "we're on opposite sides, so why do you still care about me?". do u understand my vision

crunchy chip & red velvet as well. i want them to be friends SOOOO bad its not even funny. they need to talk about their dogs. they Have to. they gotta. let red velvet experience the joy of having a dogboy friend. in the same vein, choco werehound & red velvet. throw crunchy chip in there too actually.

churro/millennial tree/wind archer always wins. i simply think they ❤️

fire spirit/sherbet. cmon. i think they definitely have something there. it'd be a SLOW BURN to hell and back but. its got the TENSION. it could be GREAT. i need more of it BADLY. underrated dynamic.

clotted cream/espresso/madeleine. i dont ship espresseleine on its own, but i do if clotted cream is the one who ties them all together. cmon. consider it. t4t4t.

caramel arrow ~ dark choco, specifically qpr. i dunno, they don't have that simple romantic or simple platonic tinge to me. its something on the border there, aka. queerplatonic.

finally i feel contractually obligated to say affogato/caramel arrow, given that im one of the authors of the longest fic on ao3 for them lol. i fucking adore enemies to lovers, ships with that kind of tension are just so interesting and exciting to me. and they're both bisexual!!

#correct on all accounts #BTW I MISS OUR LYCHORICE RP THAT WAS SO FUN #ik we mostly stopped bc i left that server n u got burnout but like. man we should do that again sometime #anyway thanku i am consuming

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what a wonderful time to remind everyone that mspec lesbians and bi lesbians have always existed and always will!

#saw u in my notifs and saw this was ur pinned post n might i just say it is a FANTASTIC post #1000% correct always and forever

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so like. i noticed smth in arena and nearly broke my phone trying to get this screenshot. but.

when red velvet uses his skill.

this little mask appears, and its ONLY when he uses his skill.

well like. hear me out.

what if he was a living weapon. what if he was dark enchantress's staff.

i mean probably not but im headcanoning it anyways because its cool as fuck

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Please no...Lychee is still a child by their own kind along with MANY factors to their design to indicate so and presented as such in their Mangosteen disguise when dealing with cookies. It's at best a familial love since Rambutan practically adopted this totally normal cookie. Of course she loved them. That's her baby so to speak and now she's dealing with a lot of complicated emotions about the latter.

hey, before you read the rest of my answer here, i really want you to know that i didn’t read your ask beyond the first sentence because i don't care what your headcanons are for rambutan and lychee's relationship.

did you think i was shipping lychee as a child with rambutan when lychee is a dragon from far before the age of cookies? i genuinely have to ask what makes you think that a generations-old dragon, that is older than cookies themselves, is a child?

also. what design factors? because lychee is clearly dressed in very revealing clothing? so. im not entirely sure what you're on about there.

anyways, canon is my playground and unless im asking, i don't care about NOR DO I ADHERE TO your headcanons. and like, i don't recall asking, so im unsure as to why you sent me this.

this is MY blog you're coming onto, so you better buckle up and either acquire some understanding that your headcanons about cookie ages and relationships are not universal, or get lost! and if you don't like my headcanons, there's this nifty thing called the block button! it lets you see less of people you don't want to see, it's pretty sweet.

tl;dr, rambutan and lychee are gay and have dramatic hate-love tension, romeo and juliet style. and they kiss about it sometimes. with tongue. and spend hours afterwards thinking about it.

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hold on lmao gimme a minute

its okay! i have a permit that lets me do whatever i want. its called... fiction. shock! gasp!

okay but for real, i don't exactly... care. sorry? lmao.

im intentionally not touching on that because i don't care about mangosteen. could care less, actually. mangosteen wasn't anything more than a mask, and lychee disguising themself as someone who acts childish does not make lychee a child in any way. "anyone who acts like a child is a child" is an extremely ableist mindset, (one that i've personally been victim to because of my mental illnesses, and i havent been a minor for a few years. but this isn't about me and im not going to talk about my mental health).

fandom is for fun. you can have whatever headcanons you want. you can ship whatever you want. its called having fun and letting other people have fun, and you should all try it. because, well, you dont see me going around harassing people who headcanon lychee and rambutan's relationship as familial, because i acknowledge that other people are having fun and they're allowed to have fun even if i have different headcanons. if someone bothers me or has headcanons i dont like or ships something i dont (which isn't likely bc i will ship anything i can get my hands on), i block them and move on with my life.

canon is a playground and we can all do whatever we want. im begging you all to think in more than just 2-D and let other people have different opinions and thoughts than you. the color grey exists for a reason. and if you cannot handle it, just block whoever you want and go spend some time around real people.

this is the last thing i will post about this. anyone else who tries to argue with me about my own headcanons and my own fun on my own blog is getting blocked, no quarter.

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poison mushroom cookie is actually the most powerful cookie of darkness because, among consideration of other things, the deadliest mushroom in the world (destroying angel) resembles the most commonly eaten mushroom (button mushroom) in the world. the only reason poison mushroom isn't more dangerous than they are is because they're always eating liberty caps. in this essay i will

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AHHH but you don't UNDERSTAND your honor, the cookies of darkness losing one of their members and almost immediately having him replaced with a guy who actually wants to be there makes their found family dynamic so much better

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i am electing to ignore canon and i am going to continue shipping the dragons with each other because canon is my playground and if people want to continue having fun with shipping the dragons, i suggest they start learning to do the same.

you can and should ignore canon if you want to. that's the point of fandom, the point of headcanons, the point of having fun. if you like something better than what canon decrees, you're allowed to just... ignore canon.

you can headcanon the dragons as unrelated, ESPECIALLY with devsis releasing this information so late.

i really hope people will start choosing to have fun over sticking by canon because "canon is law". canon is not law. canon is a playground. and even if it was law, who cares. break the law. there are no consequences for having your own headcanons for something, especially if you like it better that way. have fun.

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the affocara tag on every website is DESOLATE and i am desperate for content. yes, "make it yourself", but they dont tell u that "make it yourself" ONLY MAKES THE SHIP CRAVINGS WORSE!!!

i want to see these two in Every Situation. ive never shipped something so badly before.

theres also the fact that affocara is inherently queer flavored bc they BOTH individually turn cishetallo gender roles on their heads. and thats the definition of queer! she dresses and acts masculine, and he dresses and acts feminine. killing gender roles aside, together, they are also bisexuals-

anyways it boggles me that the affocara ship is a little dinghy. not just on tumblr, but twitter and ao3 too. they're the enemies to lovers trope!! even without the "to lovers" bit, they have the TENSION that enemies do. they put passion into HATING each other.

((this does, of course, lead to them both getting some wires crossed when caramel arrow eventually gets fed up enough with his smug face and fancy twisted words and pins him to a wall somewhere

and then of course hes gonna keep opening his mouth and saying things, because hes affogato and he can't push her off because he has absolutely no body strength at all, at least in comparison to her, and his words are all he has. so he just keeps talking and all she wants him to do is shut up!! however, both her hands are occupied pinning his hands. solution: kiss him violently. make out a little, even.))

they both put so much PASSION into hating each other, the way EVERY set of enemies does, and its such a delicious dynamic to figure out. rough hate kisses because they already put passion into continuing this hatred relationship between them, might as well be a hatemance, yk?

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favorite thing to do is headcanon the cookies as half cookies or just straight up creatures. doughshifters (sorbet, kumiho, crowberry, werewolf, vampire, ect) have my whole heart, so why not inflict the headcanon on other cookies

licorice is a sea monster from the licorice sea taken cookie form, and he hides his fins and fish tail under his hood and robes. strawberry crepe is a cyborg that was put into cryostasis during the dark flour war over 1000 years ago and uses technology to disguise their robotic parts. caramel arrow is a kirin taken cookie form and manages to hide her tail and horns by making them part of her outfit. possibilities are endless.

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ohhhh my god okay so i read this cookie run fic that was posted last night ok. it was a oneshot around 9,000 words, i think almost 10,000.

and i forgot to bookmark it so i just checked the tag and its GONE and im DEVASTATED because some of the headcanons this author had were SO YUMMY

this was a licorice/strawberry fic, it was the ONLY work in the tag and it was just 10,000 straight words of this author having the MOST FUN ive ever seen anyone have with a fic and it was fantastic. i adored it. ive never seen anyone else write fics like that except for me and it was beautiful.

and their headcanons were GREAT too. their strawberry was super strong. their licorice had black blood (why? WHY NOT, ITS COOL). they were both college aged. their strawberry had no blood and was vaguely vampire adjacent. their licorice was partially undead and HE HAD A TAIL (like from his ovenbreak costume, which. YES.).

their characterization of licorice was a socially awkward dummy who didn't know how to stop talking but he was patient with strawberry because he knew she was shy and had trouble sorting her thoughts out into words. even as her ENEMY on the other side of the war, he was just genuinely very encouraging towards her and this fic has FUNDAMENTALLY changed the way i characterize strawberry myself.

idk, i ADORED this fic and im kinda sad to see its gone. i dont even remember who the author was so i cant go support their other fics or other works anywhere else and id LIKE to because my god. that fic left such an impression on me like no fic has done in a LONG time. idk, if anyone knows what fic im talking about or what author im talking abt PLEASE let me know because ohhh my god. Yes.

#bookmarked #bookmark #i forgot my tag lmao