#Also Ashes’s Underworld Blues???

[shatteredzydrateteacup]

Sooo… I did edit a version of the live recording of UDAD together with the higher-quality audio from the Dropbox. Enjoy!

#Honestly I was surprised no one had already done this! #eat well Mechs fans #also if u watch this PLEASE come scream with me about it #I’m OBSESSED with this version of Riddle of the Sphinx #Dont b mad but I do think it’s better than the DTTM version #Tim’s voice… please I’m weak #Also Ashes’s Underworld Blues??? #SIRENS??? #Jonny and Marius’ voices in Favored Son?? #Kofi seeming a bit nervous and coming in early on some lines but also having the best improv? #Jonny’s joy during drunk space pirate?? #anyway #I love it #the mechanisms #ulysses dies at dawn #Youtube #the mechs #jonny d'ville #nastya rasputina #ashes o’reilly #marius von raum #ivy alexandria #gunpowder tim #drumbot brian #toy soldier #raphaella la cognizi #Also if it’s not perfect please b kind. I’ve never done video editing before aside from some school projects

[looking-to-rattle-the-stars]

i didn’t know jonathan sims related content has so much fucking crack in it

#just stayed up to properly listen through 2 1/2 mechs albums #probably gonna wake up and finish tales to be told #then listen to MAG 63 #every day i listen to jonathan sims voice 😭 major part of my routine rn #no but seriously #he was cooking with jonny dville #still a big tim stoker fan too #istg if this man gets me to start reading again just so i can read his published works #i need to listen to more TMA i wanna cook up some angst stories #OH MY GOD #also a big gunpowder tim fan #oh my god and ashes in underground blues #i’m gonna have to relisten to the albums another time to properly grasp their stories but #god ulysses dies at dawn was a fucking banger #need to keep listened to TMA though i wanna finish season two before the end of the month #also dying to meet nikola in season 3 #and i want the distortions to come back #andy rants #FUCK MY ASS IS SO TIRED I MEANT UNDERWORLD BLUES NOT UNDERGROUND

[allthedoorsareopennow]

fucking LOVE how in dttm for the lively song underworld blues jonny doesn't have anything to do for most of it so he just vaguely conducts and dances and plays air guitar and pretends to play piano when raph has a little piano bit making intense eye contact with her he's so silly

screenshots of some of my favourite moments below the cut!

jonny air guitar evidence

sidenote marius' hand gestures in their bit are great also

jonny pretending to play trumpet in ivy's bit lmao

jonny being like. hey the hell are you doing. when orpheus is giving this emotional performance about their lost love and ashes is picking at their teeth lmao

jonny playing piano lmao

#jonny d’ville #underworld blues #original post #the mechanisms #dttm #photos #mechs live #marius von raum

[greenwitchcrafts]

May 2024 witch guide

Full moon: May 23rd

New moon: May 7th

Sabbats: Beltane-May1st

May Flower Moon

Known as: Bright Moon, Budding Moon, Dyad Moon, Egg Laying Moon, Frog Moon, Hare Moon, Leaf Budding Moon, Merry Moon, Moon of the Shedding Ponies, Planting Moon, Sproutkale, Thrimilcmonath & Winnemanoth

Element: Fire

Zodiac: Taurus & Gemini

Nature spirits: Elves & Faeries

Deities: Aphrodite, Artemis, Bast, Cernunnos, Diana, Frigga, Flora, Horned God, Kali, Maia, Pan, Priapus & Venus

Animals: Cat, leopard & lynx

Birds: Dove, Swallow & Swan

Trees: Hawthorne & rowan

Herbs: Cinnamon, dittany of Crete, Elder, mint, mugwort & thyme

Flowers: Foxglove, lily of the valley & rose

Scents: Rose & sandalwood

Stones: Amber, Apache tear, carnelian, emerald, garnet, malachite, rose quartz, ruby, tourmaline & tsavorite

Colors: Brown, green, orange, pink & yellow

Energy:  Abundance, creative energy, faerie & spirit contact, fertility, intuition, love, marriage, material gains, money, propagation, prosperity, real-estate dealings, relationships & tenacity

May’s Flower Moon name should be no surprise; flowers spring forth across North America in abundance this month!

• “Flower Moon” has been attributed to Algonquin peoples, as confirmed by Christina Ruddy of The Algonquin Way Cultural Centre in Pikwakanagan, Ontario.

May’s Moon was also referred to as the “Month of Flowers” by Jonathan Carver in his 1798 publication, Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America: 1766, 1767, 1768 (pp. 250-252), as a likely Dakota name. Carver stayed with the Naudowessie (Dakota) over a period of time; his expedition covered the Great Lakes region, including the Wisconsin and Minnesota areas.

Beltane

Known as: Beltaine, May day, Roodmas & Cethsamhain

Season: Spring

Symbols: Eggs, faeries, fire, flowers & maypoles

Colors: Blue, dark yellow, green, light pink, orange, red, white yellow & rainbow spectrum

Oils/Incense: Frankincense, lilac, passion flower, rose, tuberose & vanilla

Animals: Bee, cattle, goat & rabbit

Mythical: Faeries

Stones: Bloodstone, emerald, lapis lazuli, orange carnelian, rose quartz & sapphire

Food: Beltane cakes, cherries, dairy foods, farls, green herbal salads, honey, meade, nuts, oat cakes, oats, strawberries & sweets

Herbs/Plants: Almond, ash tree, birch, bramble, cinquefoil, damiana, frankincense, hawthorn, ivy, meadowsweet, mushroom, rosemary, saffron, satyrion root, St.John's wort & woodruff

Flowers: Angelica, bluebell, daisy, hibiscus, honeysuckle, lilac, marigold, primrose, rose, rose hips & yellow cowslips

Trees: Ash, cedar, elder, fir, hawthorn, juniper, linden, mesquite, oak, pine, poplar, rowan & willow

Goddesses: Aphrodite, Areil, Artemis, Cybele, Danu, Diana, Dôn, Eiru, Elen, Eostre, Fand, Flidais, Flora, Freya, Frigga, Maia, Niwalen, Rhea, Rhiannon, Var, Venus & Xochiquetzal

Gods: Baal, Bacchnalia, Balder, Belanos, Belenus, Beli, Beltene, Cernunnos, Cupid, Faunus, Freyr, Grannus, The Green Man, Lares, Lugh, Manawyddan, Odin, Pan, Puck & Taranis

Issues, Intentions & Powers: Agriculture, creativity, fertility, lust, marriage, the otherworld/Underworld, pleasure, psychic ability, purification, sensuality, sex/uality, visions, warmth & youth

Spellwork: Birth, Earth magick, healing, health & pregnancy

Activities:

• Create a daisy chain or floral decorations

• Decorate & dance around a Maypole

• Set up an outdoor altar & leave offerings to faeries

• Prepare a ritual bath with fresh flowers

• Light a bonfire or candles & dance around them

• Set aside time for self care

• Gather flowers & use them to decorate your home or altar

• Prepare a feast to celebrate with friends/family

• Make flower crowns

• Bake bannocks, oat cakes or cookies

• Hang wreaths decorated with ribbons & flowers

• Plant flowers in your garden

• Start a wish book/box/journal

• Go on a walk & gice thanks to nature⁸

• Cast fertility or a bunch spells

• Fill small baskets of flowers & small goodies, then leave them on your friends/neighbors doorstep as a gesture of goodwill & friendship

Beltane is mentioned in the earliest Irish literature and is associated with important events in Irish mythology. Also known as Cétshamhain ('first of summer'), it marked the beginning of summer & was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect cattle, people & crops, and to encourage growth. (Today, Witches who observe the Wheel of the Year celebrate Beltane as the height of Spring.)

Special bonfires were kindled, whose flames, smoke & ashes were deemed to have protective powers. The people and their cattle would walk around or between bonfires & sometimes leap over the flames or embers. All household fires would be doused & then re-lit from the Beltane bonfire.

These gatherings would be accompanied by a feast, and some of the food and drink would be offered to the aos sí. Doors, windows, byres and livestock would be decorated with yellow May flowers, perhaps because they evoked fire.

In parts of Ireland, people would make a May Bush: typically a thorn bush or branch decorated with flowers, ribbons, bright shells & rushlights. Holy wells were also visited, while Beltane dew was thought to bring beauty & maintain youthfulness.

• The aos sí (often referred to as spirits or fairies) were thought to be especially active at Beltane. Like Samhain, which lies directly opposite from Beltane on the Wheel of the Year, this was seen as a time when the veil between worlds was at its thinnest. At Samhain the veil between the worlds of the living & the dead is thin enough that we can connect & convene with our beloved dead, here at Beltane it’s the veil between the human world, and the world of faeries & nature spirits that has grown thin. Offerings would be left at the ancient faerie forts, the wells and in other sacred places in an effort to appease these nature spirits to ensure a successful growing season.

Some believe this is when The Goddess is now the Mother & the God is seen as the Green Man or the wild stag. It celebrates the symbolic union, mating or marriage of the Goddess & God & heralds in the coming summer months. It represents life rather than Samhain on the opposite side of the Wheel of the Year.

Other Celebrations:

• Rosealia- May 23rd

Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates, primarily in May, but scattered through mid-July. The observance is sometimes called a rosatio ("rose-adornment") or the dies rosationis, "day of rose-adornment," & could be celebrated also with violets. As a commemoration of the dead, the rosatio developed from the custom of placing flowers at burial sites. It was among the extensive private religious practices by means of which the Romans cared for their dead, reflecting the value placed on tradition (mos maiorum, "the way of the ancestors"), family lineage & memorials ranging from simple inscriptions to grand public works. Several dates on the Roman calendar were set aside as public holidays or memorial days devoted to the dead.

Roses had funerary significance in Greece, but were particularly associated with death & entombment among the Romans. In Greece, roses appear on funerary steles  & in epitaphs most often of girls. Flowers were traditional symbols of rejuvenation, rebirth &memory, with the red & purple of roses & violets felt to evoke the color of blood as a form of propitiation

Sources:

Farmersalmanac .com

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kines

Wikipedia

A Witch's Book of Correspondences by Viktorija Briggs

Encyclopedia britannica

Llewellyn 2024 magical almanac Practical magic for everyday living

#witch guide #may 2024 #flower moon #sabbat #wheel of the year #beltane #beltaine #witchblr #wiccablr #paganblr #witch community #witchcore #witchcraft #witches of tumblr #tumblr witch community #tumblr witches #moon magic #spellbook #grimoire #book of shadows #witch #traditional witchcraft #spellwork #beginner witch #baby witch #witch tips #witch tumblr #baby witch tips #GreenWitchcrafts #witch friends

[alicemain0541]

hello, mechanisms enjoyer. who is your favourite mechanism. what is your favourite album. what is your favourite song. what is your favourite photo. do you have a favourite live recording.

I have already been asked lol but im happy to answer again!

I dont have a favourite mech but here’s some random facts. I was obsessed with ts when I first saw them and I spent like four months drawing nothing but it. I got into the mechs through Tma and jonny and he is such a bastard I love him (looking back on my dash you’ll see the dehumanisation of jonny in art I blog). The only mech ive cosplayed is raph in both her more humanly form and her more birdy form. Again ashes was someone I was already familiar with because of frank being in Tma (same with Jess and Jonny) and id heard about Tim through rqg mentions etc. I wish I had more to say about ivy, nastya, Marius, Brian etc but tbh I just dont. I love them but dont know much about them outside of the mechs and never felt quite so drawn to them.

My favourite album again isnt just one. Id say of the main studio albums its a tossup between tbi and udad. Again I love them all but I listen to those the most. Ttbt 1&2 are also constantly playing (lost in the cosmos was my top song in my wrapped) and I listen to them probably the same amount. Also Frankenstein oml I love you mwah im so normal about it and im totally not an English nerd studying classic literature at college😅😅😅.

I feel like favourite song kinda falls into the same vein as the last question. While i cant actually pick my top 5 (in my wrapped) were lost in the cosmos, Loki, ties that bind, underworld blues and sirens so think of that what you will. I said this last time but I have a chronically short attention span so often ttbt songs are the best way to get my fix without having to listen to a whole album. Im sorry mechs purists but most of the time i dont listen in order cause who can be asked with that.

I dont actually have a favourite photo but I’ll add a bunch of my widgets from my phone because ofc I had to make my Home Screen mech based. (Art by @reegis)

In regards to live performances I guess dttm. Its the first live performance I watched thats actually mechs. I love lashings a “totally normal amount” but considering thats more Carmilla era idk if it counts. Either way its those two and I know some of yall are doing amazing work cleaning up the audio and getting transcripts made so send them my way if you want id love to see them.

#the mechanisms #the mechs #gunpowder tim #ivy alexandria #the toy soldier #baron marius von raum #dr carmilla #drumbot brian #nastya rasputina #ashes o’reilly #jonny dville #raphaella la cognizi #asks #reegis art #the mechanisms band

[coinandcandle]

Hel Deity Guide

Who is Hel?

Often referred to as a “goddess of death”, Hel is actually the ruler who presides over the dead. Her domain is the underworld, also called Hel (or Helheim). She is often described in text as cruel or cold, not uncommon for a deity that deals with death. This may not represent the experience that those who work with Hel have had, please keep in mind that deities are not solely their mythology.

Parents and Siblings

Loki (father)

Angrboda (mother)

Fenrir (brother)

Jörmungand (brother)

Sleipnir (brother)

Lovers or Partners

N/A

Children

N/A

Epithets

While modern pagans may have epithets for her, there is no historical Epithet for Hel that I have found.

Notes

The Aesir were told that Loki’s three children would cause destruction one day. To combat this, Odin threw Hel into Helheim where she crowned herself queen and made it into her realm.

Her appearance is said to be that of a woman who looks half human and half blue like a corpse.

Some think that Helheim, the underworld, came first and Hel as a goddess became a later development or personification of said place.

It’s important to note that Helheim is not a place of punishment or torture—but that doesn’t mean it’s particularly pleasant.

Hel’s most popular story is The Death of Baldr, in which she refuses to allow Baldr to leave Hel unless every last creature on earth weeps for him. Every being except one giantess (who people believe to be Loki in disguise) cried, but since the terms were not fully met, Baldr remained in Hel.

Her name means “hidden”, referencing those who are dead and invisible to the living.

Many scholars believe that the deity Hel is a creation of the Christian mythographer, Snorri Sturluson.

Since she is the daughter of Loki (a half-giant) and Angrboda (a giantess), Hel is also probably a giantess or jötunn.

Modern Deity Work

Since there is no evidence of a pre-Christian Goddess Hel of the dead, there are no true historical offerings or correspondences that I can write here. Everything in the section will be based either on Hel’s myths or resourced from posts about her from her followers and devotees.

Correspondences

Since there is no historical evidence of a cult or worship for Hel, these correspondences come from her myths and from posts from her followers. These are only some possible correspondences, if you feel that there are others then feel free to add them in a comment or reblog!

Rocks/Stone/Crystals

Onyx

Fossils

Jet

Obsidian

Herbs/Plants

Ivy

Juniper

Baby’s Breath or other small white flowers

Blackthorn

Elder

Fungus (though fungi are not plants I'm placing it here)

Animals

Vultures or other scavengers that feed on the dead

Raven

Hellhound

Symbols

Staff

Scepter

Offerings

Bones

Meat charred to ash

Bread

Alcohol

Black tea

Apples

Graveyard dirt (be smart about obtaining it please)

Acts of Devotion

Visit a cemetery

Honor your ancestors

Research her

Go to an apple orchard

Confront any fear of death that you may have (only if you’re in a place to do so) come to terms with it as being a part of life

References and Further Reading

Hel - Norse Mythology

Hel - Skjalden

Hel - World History

Honoring Hel - @theheathenwitch

Hel - @jasper-pagan-witch

#Hel #Norse paganism #Norse deities #deity deep dive #deity guide

[varverine]

Yak Carpgills

A stoat, born in an ordinary family of fisherbeasts, since his cubhood unwilling to change his coat from winter white to summer brown. He angered Firstmarten, he defeated Sunken Dread, he can breathe underwater and was awarded with a constellation of his own - this is all Yak Carpgills - the patron saint of fisher-folk and those mustelids whose life and activities are connected with water.

Do you know why in Bluedawning the dawns are blue?

Like a petal of a forget-me-not flower, falling on an emerald leaf, Vazhyan Lake sparkles in its green framing. At dawn a blue mist rises from azure waters, and the sun rises above this eye of the forest, piercing the clouds of mist with its cool rays. As if shrouded in a blue shawl, the Sun rises higher and higher, and then throws it down onto the green covering.

Few of the beasts now remember that the beautiful blue haze over the lake is the blood of  Sunken Dread, still evaporating from the surface of its waters.

There once lived a saber-tooth with a greedy heart. She fooled and robbed many animals for gold. And in the end, she paid for it. They poisoned her food with sleeping herbs, tied her up and threw her into the Vazhyan Lake.

The saber-toothed cat drowned, but she could not get to the Underworld, as she was supposed to. Her body fell into the thick silt and got stuck in it. Even her soul was held back by this thick underwater tar. Her spirit could not go to the Skynesting, and it remained with her bones.

Thanks to her iron will and the desire to survive at all costs, her soul made the dead body move again, although it took many years to try. In time, the body grew flesh, and Bluedawning gained a  monster named Sunken Dread, devouring anything it could get its fangs on.

Young Yaxi never liked changing his coat from winter to summer, and wanted to be of a shiny white color all his life. It never happened, and he complained and whined to Firstmarten, and scolded her, and destroyed her idols, trying to get her attention. One day, his wish came true. One winter, Yak stood before Firstmarten's idol and gazed at her dangling beady eyes. He always began his desecration with those. Yaxi rushed at the beads, but suddenly a sheaf of ash burst from behind the wooden head and engulfed the stoat's head and neck. "Now you will have the same coat in both summer and winter," a voice rang in his ears. So Yaxi remained ugly - white with a black head and neck. And he never shed his coat again. In summer all prey saw him from a mile away. In winter it was a little easier,  when he could pretend to be a black twig sticking out of snow. But since then, his life has gone awry.

So he decided to make amends to the Skynesting. He went to search for a heroic deed to perform, but he didn't have to go far. There was a monster swimming right in Vazhyan Lake that was hunting the locals. It took a lot of strength, intelligence and time to figure out how to defeat the saber-toothed creature. And he did it. The finally dead Dread sank to the bottom, and now nothing prevented it from going to the afterlife. As a reward, the ermine took away Sunken Dread's eyes, which shrank many times and revealed an amazing magic: the one who carries them can  breathe underwater. It is believed that this is because they retain a part of the iron will of the saber-tooth. Its flesh scattered in myriad pieces, and Vazhyan absorbed its blue color forever.

The fish reappeared in Vazhyan Lake, and the beasts of the water began fishing again. Yaxi, who was named Yak Carpgills after his feat, helped them for the rest of his life and protected the lake. He also invented many different tackles and baits to make fishing easier.

He never changed his coat like an ordinary ermine, but all his life he apologized to the FirstMarten and made idols for her. Because of his coloring, Yak was not good at hunting, and this played a significant role in his choice of fishing as a way of living.

#mirolapye #mirolapye:YakCarpgills #mirolapye:SunkenDread #mirolapye:Bluedawning #worldbuilding #xenofiction #animal fiction #art #artists on tumblr #writeblr #writers on tumblr #stoat #ermine #Mustela erminea

[bestygogirl]

BEST YGO GIRL: REDEMPTION CUP

Essentially the loser bracket from the Best YGO Girl tournament, these are all the girls who got eliminated in the first round.

They've been seeded based on how many votes they got in the main tournament and I'll post them in small batches to avoid too much spamming.

If I am suspicious of any poll results, I'll pick a winner at my own discretion. I also really don't like anti-propaganda.

Match-ups and links to polls under the cut!

Kisara (Duel Monsters) VS Emma (Duel Links)

Madolche Queen Tiaramisu (TCG) VS Cyber Angel Dakini (TCG)

Tearlaments Kitkallos (TCG) VS Entermate Uni (TCG)

Risa Kageyama (Season 0) VS Junko Makurada/Jasmine (GX)

Kyoko Taki/Clarissa Turner (VRAINS) VS Nini the Mirror Mikanko (TCG)

Queen (VRAINS) VS Melissa Claire (Arc-V)

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (TCG) VS Haru Tsukumo (Zexal)

Noodle Sorako/Celestia Noodlina (SEVENS) VS Cyber Tutu (TCG)

Grace Tyler (Arc-V) VS Hu-Li the Jewel Mikanko (TCG)

Dog-Chan/Pip (Zexal) VS Diabellestarr (TCG)

Gloria Tyler (Arc-V) VS Dinois Velgear (Go Rush!)

Insect Queen (TCG) VS Traptrix Rafflesia (TCG)

Asaka Mutsuba (Go Rush!) VS Entermate Corn (TCG)

Echo (GX) VS Lady Labrynth of the Silver Castle (TCG)

Kitt (Albaz Lore) VS Princess Mary/Adena (Duel Monsters)

Lyna the Light Charmer (TCG) VS Ha-Re the Sword Mikanko (TCG)

Silent Magician (TCG) VS Xiangsheng Magician (TCG)

Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (TCG) VS Emi Ayukawa/Fonda Fontaine (GX)

Blue Eyes Abyss Dragon (TCG) VS Vivian Wong (Duel Monsters)

Kiku Kamishirakawa (VRAINS) VS Barbara (5Ds)

Princess Rose (GX) VS Winda (TCG)

Nanaho Nanahoshi (SEVENS) VS Patty (5Ds)

Rebecca Hopkins/Hawkins (Duel Monsters) VS Pumprincess of Ghosts (TCG)

Baronne de Fleur (TCG) VS Prima Guitarna (TCG)

Yuamu Ohdo (Go Rush!) VS Momoe Hamaguchi/Mindy (GX)

Ranze/Rayne Nanahoshi (SEVENS) VS Sarina/Mizuchi Saiou (GX)

Sevens Road Witch (TCG) VS Blaze Maiden, Rino (Cardfight!)

Umimi Habara/Brooke Walker (Zexal) VS Manya Atachi (Go Rush!)

Aileen Rao (Season 0) VS Tilla Mook (Yu-Gi-Oh! R)

Sushiko Maki (SEVENS) VS Performapal Ladyange (TCG)

Aqua (VRAINS) VS Miss Mystery (Go Rush!)

Dian Keto (TCG) VS Sera/Prana (DSoD)

#mod post

[noirs-pages]

Muzan 1

Summary: Regrets are for lamentable humans who have nothing else to fill up their lives. There is nothing for Muzan to regret. And yet, you, his once doctor, was still here, refusing to impart on him the knowledge needed to make himself perfect.

(I have read the entirety of demon slayer a long while back. I was always interested in having the Reader be Muzan’s doctor. You know, the one that started this whole tragedy.)

Rarely do you ever speak, but even more so does Muzan ever listen. When has your apparition appeared behind him? Was it a year after he deemed your attempts to heal him a failure? Or was it ten or a hundred? The years all start to blend together the farther he goes back in his memory, but your shadow was cast over him for as long as his blood became his weapon as well as his vice.

The existence of ghosts was a laughable concept to him, once upon a time. They weren’t as real as the illness that refused to leave his body be, but Muzan can see your eyes reflecting back at him from the burnt flask of another failed attempt to conquer the sun.

Muzan had a nightmare, once, a few years after the euphoria of his immortality was replaced with fear for the sun.

Where he can finally face the hated sun with his newly crafted self, only for the earth to break apart and swallow him. He clung to the ledge, dug his fingers into the bedrock because he refused to give into the fate the world always tries to press on him. Sharp stone cut into his palm and red spider lilies bloomed forth as though they were seeds. They trailed down, dripped into the cavernous maw with flames and ash waiting at the bottom, and when he looked up, his face was tickled by the elusive blue spider lilies.

He didn’t think. He reached out and grabbed, not caring if it sealed his fate into the underworld. But hands grasped his neck in a bruising vice. Nails dug into his skin and a voice, professional and familiar, whispered over the shell of his ear, “You and I will share in failure. I’ll make sure of it.”

He attacked the innkeeper that heard his night struggles. He created his first demon. A demon that did not survive the sun. Long after Muzan hid away from the rays, your figure lingered at the edge of his vision. You did not disappear, even now as he threw away the useless flask into the trash.

“It is a beautiful flower,” you spoke, clear and crisp in his ear as though you were only a few inches away despite you being on the other side of the room, “the blue spider lily. No other flower can ever replace it.”

The beaker in Muzan’s hand shattered, but the glass did nothing to his skin. He was not in a dream.

“Failure after failure, that’s how it will be,” Muzan knows he can’t make you speak, but he also knows he can’t make you shut up. The shards he threw at you simply passed through, “in that search of yours.”

Until the day comes where you finally leave, Muzan knows he won’t escape this prophecy of yours.

#demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #noir's pages #noir's pages exclusive #drabble #muzan #muzan kibutsuji #doctor's ghost au #reader insert

[cypher-antiquity]

I spy with mine eyes a mechs enjoyer.

Fav album, song and mech and why they’re ur fav ?

Oooooohoho, thank you for the question!

Fave album: ahhh it's gotta be High Noon Over Camelot although OUATIS has a very special place in my heart

Song: Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser, Sleeping Beauty, Underworld Blues and Blood and Whiskey

Mech: Jonny D'ville, Gunpowder Tim (I LOVE how unhinged he gets in Gunpowder Tim vs. The Moon Kaiser) and Toy Soldier (I sing a bit like it) although I think Ashes O'Reilly is criminally underrated

I do more mechs posting on my main account @crowscroll and I'm also more likely to answer asks over there!

#cypher says a thing #ask game #ask me things #gunpowder tim #cypher writes #the mechs #the mechanisms

[bloodbot-brian]

11, 12, 16, 19 + 21 for the mechs ask game 🔫

11: my joints! My old mechsona had a mechanised spine and elbows which connected to elbow crutches, which I still think was a genius idea!

12: I really like jonny/Brian and raph/Marius ^_^!! They’re so cutie

16: hmm I like when I hear the ashes’ bass! Heavy music is so <33 so hearing that when it’s deep (like at the drop in underworld blues) is so cool! Also Brian’s drums (especially in no happy ending)

19: jonny… I love her and need to be her actually! Also Marius and Brian (must become bear like them must become)

21: physically disabled mechs! They’re all so disabled coded and eeekkk!!! Them using mobility aids makes me so happy!!!!!

#bear hrowls #the mechs #the mechs ask game #mechs ask game #I can’t remember which tag it is

[prettyravegirlnightcore]

hello, mechanisms enjoyer. who is your favourite mechanism. what is your favourite album. what is your favourite song. what is your favourite photo. do you have a favourite live recording/have you been to a live show.

HIII ^_^

TS is my fav mechanism forever i think its so epic

fav album - ulysses dies at dawn i think......... at least for now

fav song - there are soooo many i love!!! right now its underworld blues cuz ive been listening to UDAD a lot :P

fav photo: I have hundreds of mechs photos saved @__@ heres some favs!

(photo credits: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 - im not sure of the source for the first pic, sorry!!)

I wish i had been to a live show u__u iirc I started listening in late 2020, not long after DTTM

not sure about fav live recording.. I've rewatched lashings a lot (mostly cuz of TS) and also gender rebels, this one, and this one and Also the museum tour

btw I have this playlist of mechs live videos - if anyone has any recordings/compilations/etc that aren't on here plz let me know :o

thx for the ask!!!

[image description: 5 photos from photoshoots of the mechanisms.

1: the toy soldier in a shopping cart, which jonny is pushing towards the camera. the toy soldier is laughing and holding a teapot. marius' hat is also in the shopping cart. marius stands behind jonny, looking at his phone.

2: marius and the toy soldier happily skipping together

3: the toy soldier, smiling with its arms outstretched. it's surrounded by ashes, tim, jonny, brian, marius, and raphaella, who are looking at it with various expressions. jonny is facepalming

4: ivy pointing a euphonium at ashes, nastya, tim, jonny, and the toy soldier, who are all posed as if being pushed/blown backwards

5: all nine of the mechanisms standing next to each other. jonny is in the middle, pointing a gun at the camera

end image description]

#ask #the mechs #the mechanisms #< Sorry maintagging cuz of the playlist thing

[arleniansdoodles]

Here´s a question i been wondering. Does Atreus get to tell Calliope about his mother? And if yes, what does she think about Laufey the Just.

Yes, he does tell Calliope a bit about Laufey! Within the story, Calliope has already formed a sort of bond/attachment with Atreus at this point, so hearing about his mother doesn't feel as conflicting as it might've been if she first heard of Faye upon learning that Kratos had another family away from Greece. Then Faye would probably feel more like a stranger, someone who stole away Calliope's father, y'know?

In fact, I think I'll show you the scene from my fic! It's early on in the story, with Atreus and Calliope having escaped the Underworld for the first time. They're now heading to Athens, and Calliope's dealing with some nightmares (she was crying earlier in this scene). She's also in the "Father abandoned and forgot about me" grieving stage of her feels journey ^^;; You can find it below the cut, if you're alright with spoilers! XDD

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“Atreus?” she said after a moment. “D-did he ever tell y-you ab-about me?”

A pause. “No,” Atreus replied. There was something tight in his tone that Calliope didn’t quite like. “He hardly told me about his past. The things he did, and all that. He never told me about you, or your mother.”

“My m-mother is Ly-Lysandra,” Calliope offered.

“Lysandra,” Atreus repeated. He gave her a very gentle squeeze. “I’ll remember that.”

Calliope squeezed him back, as much as her trembling arms were able to manage. “Wh-what is your mother’s name?”

“Laufey.” She heard the smile in his voice. “But you can call her Faye.”

“Does she look like you?”

“She did. She mostly raised me when I was young, since Kratos went hunting a lot. She used to carry around an axe.”

“An axe?” Calliope repeated, startled. “Really?”

“Really. It has ice powers. And if you throw it far, you can call it back, and it’ll come flying back to your hand.”

“A flying axe?” Calliope could hardly believe it. But Atreus had magic arrows that turned different colours when he fired them. And he could turn into animals. What other surprises did he have up his sleeve?

“She also sang to me when I was sick,” Atreus went on. “I’ll sing one of her songs for you, if you want. To help you sleep.”

Calliope sniffled and snuggled closer to his side. “Okay.”

Atreus’ low voice soon filled the room, sweet and melancholic.

(He sings Laufey's song here, from the GoW OST, Ashes)

That night, Calliope dreamed of a tall woman with fair hair and blue eyes. With her mighty axe, the woman chopped up all the bad dreams and tossed them away, then pranced toward the tall mountains in the distance, disappearing into the light.

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(The following day; Calliope looks through Atreus' journal with his travel entries.)

There was another portrait on the next page. Calliope took in the woman’s braided hair and bright eyes, the mischievous touch to her smile. She looked at Atreus, then at the portrait. “Is this Laufey?”

Atreus nodded. “That’s her. From what I could remember, at least.”

“I like her face. She looks like you.”

Atreus ducked his head, but not before Calliope spotted his shy smile. As she turned to the next page, Atreus asked, “Did Lysandra look like you?”

Calliope hesitated. “I think so. That’s what all the women said.” She tried to bring her mother’s face to mind, but her memory was blurred at the edges. Long, dark hair. A blue tainia and peplos. If only Calliope could draw! Putting it down on paper would surely help her memory become clearer.

#asks #anon asks #god of war #god of war ragnarok #au #atreus #calliope #laufey #laufey the just #writing #my writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #lysandra

[nabooro]

Oréndo, or Death on Naboo

A little bit about death and funerary writes on Naboo to uh, celebrate Ahsoka’s being at Padmé’s funeral absolutely destroying me.

Details below the cut for all the talk of death.

Standard funerary practice on Naboo has the dead placed in a myoo so orédsec, a funerary boat, and sent into the nearest ocean (at least in coastal locations, though some will travel for the rites) or river. However, it is not encouraged to actually let the person’s body go down, for one because it won’t go down and stay down without weighting, and because there are underwater cities in some places, and because you don’t actually want your family’s remains to be... fish food.

Different parts of Naboo hold different customs: some believe that people were, in fact, just... sent off to the bottom of the sea. Others hold that they were cremated in their boat through projectile weapons. Yet others say the boat element is a later introduction and historical practice was just scattering ashes of the dead, who were cremated on land, into the sea. Today it’s common practice for myook so orédsec to come equipped with the sort of technology a crematorium would have so there’s no need for weapons of any kind.

The idea of going into the water is a figurative idea just as much as a practical one. For one’s ashes to go into the water makes you a part of Naboo and its ecology, sort of, settling into the ground underwater and also sort of part of the water cycle. At the same time, it links into the idea of Shomshe, or Naboo’s equivalent of an Underworld. It’s not comparable to the idea of either hell or heaven, but simply a place everyone goes upon dying, and is equivalent to both the deep sea, and deep space, which are both one.

Enshadu is the Néboo God that presides over the dead, and she is also seen as the only God who welcomes one and all, regardless of your acts in your life, from the best people to the very worst. However, she is ultimately a metaphor for death: her embrace is always waiting, no matter what you’ve done in life. Theoretically, this bit of myth is supposed to be an encouragement to do good things with the life you have been given in the knowledge that it will someday end, and that death is natural and not to be mourned or feared. In practice... not so much.

Orédsec or funerals are always held at night, and may be delayed by the family if it’s a no-moon night. Stormy or cloudy nights are also considered bad luck, but rain and lightning are good signs.

Enshadu’s colours are common to wear: black, silvers, purples, deep blues, or extremely pale blues, and the other colours of the sea and the moon upon the sea. Red, orange, gold, or materials that emit warm light (like plasma stones) are super inappropriate, as they are considered to cancel the moon’s cold light. Materials that reflect light are considered appropriate, whereas materials that do not, like velvets and matte metals are considered highly inappropriate.

Music is deeply inappropriate, with the exception of mourning songs, hosse. Water is never offered, though in some regions food is.

Depending on the season, insârék (moonflowers), torârék (frostflowers), tave cooreebek (white sweetbriar), reesek so Nirerd (Nirerd snows), tave sérârék (white wreathblooms), tave simbavek (white silkpetals), gasoonek (littleswords), achidsek (waterbowls) or ritajek (snowdrops), among some other white or silver flowers are placed around to absorb the blessing light of the moon and take those blessings with them into the darkness of Shomshe.

Some relevant vocabulary:

talit: to die

ondorét: to pass away, or a common euphemism for death that’s become part of regular speech now

oréndo: death

orédsec: funeral

myoo so orédsec: funeral boat

hosoot: to mourn

cindeek so hosoochis: mourning beads, as worn by Queen Apaillana at Padmé’s funeral

mogek: ashes

Shomshe: the Underworld, the Deep, the place people go after they die

Insân: the path the dead follow to Shomshe, typically equated with the light of the moon on the water, also called Yan so Enshadu, or Enshadu’s Path

#star wars #sw #naboo culture #naboo #nabooro #.culture #.vocabulary

[rigormortisriot]

hello, mechanisms enjoyer. who is your favourite mechanism. what is your favourite album. what is your favourite song. what is your favourite photo. do you have a favourite live recording.

Hello!! I'm so excited for an ask! My apologies for how long it took to answer, I was a bit under the weather.

My favorite mechanism (its very difficult to choose just one) is Jonny! I also have a deep love of them all, but a few more that catch my eye tend to be Gunpowder Tim, Ashes, and Ivy!

So far my favorite album has been The Bifrost Incident (with Once Upon A Time In Space following closely behind!)

I will be completely honest, my favourite song changes purely on which mechanism/oc of mine is currently my favourite, or my mood. At the moment, my favourite ones are 'Loki', 'Frankenstein', 'Peacemaker' and 'Rose Red', with 'Gunpowder Tim vs the Moon Kaiser'/'Underworld Blues'/'Riddle of the Sphinx' as my very clear followups, but I adore all their songs pretty much equally!

I don't believe I have a current favourite photo since I don't tend to look into the live performances or images on the sites! I tend to enjoy looking at fanart of the characters and reading fics/the official lore on the site rather than seeing the characters live/dressed up. Just the way I've always been, I tend to not like watching movies/shows/music that is liveaction, just not a fan I suppose.

As answered before, I don't tend to listen to the live performances or shows, I just am not a fan of broken emergence and the audience laughing or responding breaks it. It quite annoys me, honestly, and I prefer the pre-recorded banter and such. But I do really like one of the epilogue pieces for Once Upon A Time In Space of leading Briar Rose to Cinders, and Jonny shooting Tim for annoying him haha! It's quite funny to me. I also love the bit in the song of Dr.Pichard about Mariqus being upset that the Doctor thinks he's trying to trick him.

Thank you yet again for the ask! I quite enjoy receiving them!

#the mechanisms #atreus's ramblings #i do infact speak #answered asks

[smallhurts]

hello, mechanisms enjoyer. who is your favourite mechanism. what is your favourite album. what is your favourite song. what is your favourite photo. do you have a favourite live recording.

hiii :3

for favorite mechanism HONESTLY it's most accurate to say it's a tie between ashes and nastya and marius, but if i had to choose just one it would be nastya! she is just so cool !!

my favorite album has changed a lot, at first it was OUATIS, then after i listened for a while it was HNOC, now after i took a break for a while and started listening to them a lot again it's TBI. the premise and themes of that one are definitely my favorite overall and i am an unapologetic lyfrassir enjoyer. (sorry UDAD at least 2 of your songs are in my top 5...)

my favorite song is actually pretty easy! it's sleeping beauty and it's been my favorite basically since i first listened to the mechanisms. i absolutely love it when the mechanisms themselves are present in the story they're telling (underworld blues and the hanged man rusts are also pretty up there for me for this reason) but my favorite from each of the other main albums are elysian fields, blood and whiskey, and sigyn

my favorite photo is literally anything from this post but especially the shopping cart one, the skipping one, and the swing one. i love toy soldier shenanigans

i don't have a favorite live recording actually i haven't seen many of them :< i would like to see more but i do not use youtube/watch videos often so i haven't gotten around to watching a lot

thank u for the ask :D

#the mechanisms #sol meowz #sorry it took me so long to answer this ask ^_^ my job is swamped from holidays and i have been. rather inactive online for a bit