#anemoi cycle

[moss-petal]

Mothpool + The Oh Hellos let’s goooooo

#something something leafpool is a pawn of starclan mothwing wanted so desperately to just be able to communicate with them #idk #also I changed my Mothwing design againnnn #mothpool #leafpool wc #leafpool #leafpool x mothwing #mothwing wc #mothwing #warrior cats #wc #waca #warrior cats art #wc art #wc fanart #the oh hellos #zephyrus the oh hellos #anemoi cycle

[bismutharts]

i annotated this song a bit! i was originally wanting to do Old Witch Sleep And Good Man Grace by the Amazing Devil but uh. that song is like 8 minutes and hasn't got that much repeat lyrics so i couldn't possibly fit it in a zine while also keeping room to write. so i picked a shorter song i like the meaning of! i love the anemoi cycle by the oh hellos, i relate to it a lot

no image description because i literally don't know how i'd write all the text down linearly? but especially if you struggle with my handwriting, if you ask i'll transcribe particular bits

i may do more of these (so also if someone has thoughts on a good way to image describe these i'm all ears)

if you don't know the song, here's a youtube link

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

#lyrics #the oh hellos #bis arts #zine #handmade zine #my zine #mini zine #1 sheet zine #8 page zine #soap the oh hellos #zephyrus #anemoi cycle #song #song analysis #annotation #undescribed #zinepril #aprine

[wafflesrisa]

Convinced the Oh Hellos’ four Anemoi Cycle albums are best when listened to on loop in one continuous unshuffled cycle, spring-summer-fall-winter, birth to life to dusk to death, the old wheel turning, over and over again, on and on and on

#oh hellos #music #anemoi cycle #this is some of the best music and it lives in my brain constantly #have started measuring time at work by each time I finish an album start to finish

[seasaltmemories]

The Oh Hellos’ music deserves to be appreciated so much more beyond just the soundtrack to your DND animatic please learn to appreciate art beyond a moodboard styled comfort fantasy

#seasalt talks #soldier poet king and to a lesser extent dear wormwood is basically ruined for me with how its been sanitized and sanded down to be more #palpable to mainstream audiences by fan discussion #granted I never loved them or really though they were as strong as the #Anemoi Cycle #part of me wants to shout actually listen to the rest of their catalogue bc their music is more than just an excuse for idle fantasy #the Anemoi Cycle came here to eviscerate you and all the ways you excuse your own petty cruelties and vices #You don't have to engage with the Christian themes (though don't deny them) but please please look at it outside a fandom lens #at least a few times #like I made an Utena amv to 'on the mountain tall' i am not immune #but also if I have to listen to someone say that Passerine is about like a bird shapeshifter I'm gonna scream #learn what a metaphor is! #the oh hellos

[hollowflight-propaganda]

"Cycle of abuse. Cycle of violence." How about the cycle of healing? Why don't we ever talk about the chain reaction that being kind to someone can cause?

#can you tell I've been listening to soap by the oh hellos again #anyway I'm not saying that discussion about the aforementioned cycles aren't important #it's just the best way to combat them I think is to let yourself heal #I was smacked over the head by the anemoi albums again (I say for what's likely to be the 600th time) #phoenix prattles #the oh hellos

[vibing-hard-or-hardly-vibing]

About to enter the Oh Hellos ---> Crane Wives pipeline

#listened to a little bit of foxlore #but also heavy in an anemois (Eurus/Zephyrus mostly) cycle #so I'm missing that energy from the Oh Hellos in it :/ #but foxlore is also sooooo pretty sounding so I'm gonna keep listening #the oh hellos #the crane wives

[mothpawbs]

What records do you have? 👀

thank you for asking! I have:

being funny in a foreign language - the 1975

the nightmare before Christmas soundtrack

fleet foxes - fleet foxes

long lost - lord huron

cleopatra - the lumineers

thriller - michael jackson (this one's probably considered vintage bc it's one my dad got the year it released)

three cheers for sweet revenge - my chemical romance

danger days - my chemical romance

notos/eurus - the oh hellos

boreas/zephyrus - the oh hellos

too weird to live, too rare to die! - panic! at the disco

#not necessarily an accurate view of my fav music btw because it's hard to find stuff i like without ordering online #but i do like all of these! the anemoi cycle and the mcr stuff are my favs #moth mumbles #music #moth answers #chrometheraptor

[skylardoesthings]

Something about Hello My Old Heart man. Its. Such a good song

#Sky rambles #samething with the anemoi cycle #and just all of the oh hellos #every single song. istg. theyre all playing in my head at the same time

[theanalogprotocol16]

Soon.

#the analog protocol #gem saga #arbiter-persists #the anemoi cycle

[soapcan18]

EVERYONE I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING REALLY COOL

So these are the Anemoi album covers, right? Do you notice a similarity between all of them?

Yes, they all have animals surrounded by a gold ring on them. Obviously there is a lot of symbolism involved with these specific animals and their respective albums, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Right now I want to point out the gold ring— more importantly, how is it changing as the albums progress?

In Notos, the thicker portion of the ring is in the bottom right corner.

In Eurus, that portion is in the top right corner.

In Boreas, it’s in the top left corner.

And in Zephyrus, it’s in the bottom left corner.

THE RING IS GOING IN A CIRCUIT!!!

The thick portion of the ring is moving counterclockwise with each album! And if you go back to Notos after Zephyrus, it’ll be right back at where it started!

This is yet another symbol of the Anemoi albums’ themes of change, cycles, etc. AND IT’S HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT!

How COOL is that??? I just noticed!!

This is even crazier when you add on the fact that the final song you listen to, after going through all the albums, is Rounds.

And what is the ring doing? MAKING ROUNDS!! Going around and around as you keep replaying the albums, repeating the cycle of summer to fall to winter to spring to summer over and over again just as The Oh Hellos intended to convey :)

#I LOVE THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL HERE CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS #so much care is put into their music ugh I love them #you could also interpret the ring moving counterclockwise as the nonlinear path of change! bc it’s not going in the traditional direction! #the oh hellos #oh hellos #ttddv #through the deep dark valley #dear wormwood #the oh hellos ep #the oh hellos lyrics #the oh hellos are amazing #notos #eurus #boreas #zephyrus #anemoi albums #four winds albums #folk music #indie music #indie folk #folk rock #music stuff #music to listen to #songs to listen to #song recs

[melodicbreeze]

What's your favorite Venti lore/references?

For me it's him guiding souls after death and being connected to istaroth. Also the whole prodigal son thing, What do you think it means for him? (Hope you don't mind getting asks like this, i couldn't help but be curious)

CRACKS MY KNUCKLES. ALRIGHT FOLKS, BUCKLE UP.

DEATH

First off, I absolutely love his ties to death! Usually in media, when gods deal in the realm of death, they're all dark and dreary and either sad or evil. Venti, on the other hand, embodies more of the aspects of comfort. A final rest after a life well lived. Barbatos is said to guide the souls of the deceased to the afterlife on a wind, yes, but he also lets them live on through song! There is a belief that someone isn't truly dead until their name has been spoken for the last time, and Venti places importance of using names in his songs, as seen in the manga when he asks Venessa if he can use her name in a song.

There's also how heavily anemo ties into the concept of loss (gestures at the dead friend gives you an anemo vision joke), and the anemoi wind spirits from myths were also once a guide of souls to the afterlife.

There's also the post I made last night- "Not death, but his brother, sleep" (shout out to The Ra.ven Cycle book series). In Greek mythologies, which Venti does have a few ties to, Death and Sleep are brothers- and we all know of Venti's ties to sleep. Aside from his times of sleep, he was also seen singing the guards to sleep when going to free Venessa.

ANYWAY all this to say I think along with the wind, freedom, and hope, death is one domain that Venti falls into. (Which just makes him and Hu Tao even better buddies).

ISTAROTH

This is where I can more theory crafting rather than reflective. We've learned the the Thousand Winds were the Thousand Winds of Time. Now, I do not think that Venti is a son in the traditional sense- rather, I think that the Thousand Winds of Time form one being- Istaroth.

Venti also called himself a single breeze/wind, so I believe he was one of the thousand that made up Istaroth, only to rise up above the others in terms of power during the rebellion against Decarabian, and then becoming a god in his own right.

Do I have much evidence for this? Not at all! It's just my thoughts.

(Also, apparently prodigal means wastefully extravagant, which while I admit my first thought is his indulgences in drink and revelry, also make me wonder if it is perhaps that he has made Mondstadt into a home where people can act as such if they please- free to do so.)

OTHER THOUGHTS

One of my favourite bits of lore comes from the Wings of Shimmering Galaxy lore. It's spoken from the perspective of Venti post Archon War! It goes to say,

"For he knew that someone must heal the hurts of the world, and thus someone needed to find a way to communicate with them."

From Zhongli's character stories, we know that Venti went to visit, bringing a gift of wine- and that that led to the 7 all meeting together regularly. He is a bard, and the god of the wind- music and poetry flow like the wind, after all. Of course he would facilitate communication! HOWEVER, this didn't work for a long, long time. In fact, the glider lore continues,

"But the poet knew this would happen. (...) Still, the poet did not give up, though not because he believed or anything. This was just the way he was."

Despite being called the god of Hope by Neuvilette, Venti didn't have any hope. He just... didn't know what else to do.

Anyway, I should end it here, before I ramble on for many more paragraphs about all the things I love about Venti.

#headcanon;; #about;; #anonymous #lost post #MAN I RAMBLED

[deadchovsky]

It's been talked to death I'm sure but GODDDD. The Oh Hellos consistently blow it out of the park when it comes to cohesive storylines across their albums. Everyone and their mother knows about Dear Wormwood's story abuse survival, but there's also an entire storyline through the Anemoi albums about sort of stopping the generational cycle of hurt. And they constantly reflect each other and call back through musical motifs and shit and OUAGHHH. I have so many thoughts and terrible articulation but you get my point.

#the oh hellos #music

[spotsupstuff]

where should i start reading your Rain World stuff about your OCs and such?

i don't really have any order in it so just jumpin into the oc tag n readin thru it would do, i guess?? though yeah,, tumblr isn't nice with the tags i won't lie, so i'mma compile some stuff for ya

there Are something of intro posts for the characters, though they've evolved a lot over time (originally the Anemoi Iterators were just not a thing, the only one i was meant to have was Fish with Zephyr serving only as a little neat backstory for one of the scugs connected to Fish. so Zeph especially has had a lot of evolution done to her character)

here are the posts: • Intro for Fish Inside a Birdcage, the Seafarer, the Tinkerer and the rest of their little family (x) (out of this Fish and Tinktink are most important n developed, with Seafarer bein a char i wanna work on a bit at some point) • Intro for Murder of Crows (she's a bg character for Moon's group, I rarely actually do stuff with her), Abet Zephyr, the Pan Wielder and few of the Scavs living in Fish's facilities (x) (this is also where The Children of Eo group is first mentioned) • Intro for the rest of Anemoi Iterators of The Children of Eo group, voice claims (Zephyr's is outdated) and the first look at world map, which i'm updating for myself as i'm workin on this stuff and will repost at some point so y'all can see the updates too (x) • List of Iterator City names (x) • Voice claim for Three Sparrows and updated one for Zephyr (x) • Spotto™ Ancients design reference post (x) • -sigh- "Who's Beppi?" (x) (here's him as a baby) • quick off the string in Ancient times AU designs for Euros 'n Boreas (x) • Sparrows' quickly put together art ref (proper one pending) (x)

Three Sparrows' lore is scattered basically all over over the place n she doesn't have a proper intro post yet

Some direct links for the convenience: • How the Great Cycle works in the Serotonin Take (a little add-on to it)

• Iterator anatomy lesson (mostly about the puppets) • Iterator anatomy lesson: detailing of the Hivemind that makes them up • Iterator anatomy lesson: personality development • Rambling about worldbuilding, mostly the Folk Gods (quite disorganized, explains The Saint though) • Ancients' hand mutilation in the name of the Global Religion • Ancients' mask culture • Ancients and their feeding face tentacles • Ancients' "hair" • Ancients and water habitats • Ancients, their venom and Also The Cleaning Slugs • Ancients' gills and some stuff with breathing • Three Sparrows character notes • Little drabble thing for Three Sparrows, though some things might not hold up • "Has Sparrows made any connections while in school?" • Three Sparrows and her slugcat reincarnation (lil continuations of it x, x) • "The Eo Iterators get off the string, who dies who thrives?" (not canon, except the Haboob comic at the beginning) • Zephyr and Moon swap as a characterization exercise that got a lil outta hand (not canon, but neat either way) • A continuation of the above, with Looks to the Moon in the Eo group + some talking about Abet Zephyr as a person • Fooling around with the concept of Zephyr knowing Pebbles, but then big explanation of Mission Self-preservation aka the biggest thing happening in the OC lore • "Can Euros run Doom?" • How did Caper of Euros and Three Sparrows get together romantically • Caper of Euros' priorities the lil comic • "What is Euros like during a Hivemind unsync?" + Three Sparrows the treasured component • Euros and Sparrows married?? • Caper of Euros' first case of the Rot • post 1st Rot reconcilation between the lovebirds • "Did Euros' entire Lab have to be rebuilt after the eradication of the 1st Rot?" • Sparrows' deathbed • Sparrows' Memory Crypt beef (x)• "Who's older? Notos or Haboob?" + Euros 'n Haboob's relationship • Gushing about the ending of the playlist for the group (link to the playlist itself here) • some Tinkerer and the Scavs fooling around content • tiny Seafarer post • what happened between Seafarer and Artificer? why were they separated?

(new text block cuz apparently tumblr has a character limit for that) • Iterator anatomy lesson: the antennas • Iterator anatomy lesson: sexuality and desire for pleasure • Ancients' blood • Ancients' skin texture • "How are Ancient's born?" • "Did Ancients' ancestors have even bigger teeth?" • Farmer Ancients weaponry and tools + Sparrows' encounter with a Red Centipede • "How'd Zephyr end up like that?" • "What are some of Zephyr's happiest memories?" • "Did any other continent have a bootleg Iterator situation like Zephyr?" • What was young Boreas like • Boreas, his batflies and what Desaevio was like • "Very beautiful, very powerful." Boreas animatic made by me sister • Angry Boreas? Let's try to fix him with a controlled shock • Filler Iterators stuff, especially introduction of Orion's Pathway • designing filler stuff a lil: NAE, Gem, high circle Sparrows outfit, first look at the Preacher, Expiation and Spore • Orion's helmet and RW constellations • some lore stuff for Orion • Orion's General • more on the Polar War • Fish and Pigeon Drones • Fish Inside a Birdcage Daycare for scav kits • "What is stored on Caper of Euros' puppet chamber pearls?" • How Boreas and Zephyr took Euros' romantic relationship with Sparrows the comic • Sparrows' daily routine • "Has Sparrows ever seen Euros without his faceplate?" • Iterator baby photos and first appearance of Sparrows' mom, Inkling of an Inbound Daybreak • "Does Sparrows hide her tail in her high circle outfit?" • Movement within an Iterator • "How does it feel like to respawn?"/Sparrows' first death described a little • How did that wedding of Euros n Sparrows' looked • "Does the Rot smell bad?" • "How did Boreas bail Sparrows out of getting fired after the 1st Rot case?" • Grandmama Sparrows • some stuff on Euros' 3rd Mechanic • Euros and his relationship to his memories of Sparrows • "Why do Biting Notos' colony worships teeth and the mouth?" • "Did Notos know something was wrong with its puppet?" • "What does Orion think about Notos' puppet design?" • Biting Notos' sins against its own kind • Inhale in Haboob colony (and herself) notes and ideas • some things on the relationship between Euros 'n Haboob • the Anemoi + Fish as slugcats • Fate of Boreas' Blessing in Saint Time • Ascending Biting Notos comic

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #honestly n actually imma use this post as a sort of navigator thingy #this is mostly specifically the oc stuff. things that are mostly or only with the canon iterators i haven't put in here. for that browsing- #-my rain world tag should be more than enough

[violetmoondaughter]

Air, the breath of life, the wings, the power of movement, freedom, and intellect. It’s the invisible and intangible force that shapes our lives. Air fills lungs, circulates and moves in currents. Air is a carrier, through its movement it brings sounds, allows the flying animals to travel in the sky and transports seeds and leaves fertilizing the soil. Air moves water and clouds and contributes to the water cycle. Air is the energy that allows us to breath and to speak powerful word of wisdom and to communicate with others. It's the energy that set us free through ideas and dreams and that brings new beginnings. Just as the wind flows without boundaries, the air encourages us to embrace change and release attachments. It symbolizes the unrestricted nature of the mind and the limitless potential for growth.

Some of the most common air spiritual correspondences are:

Orientation: East.

Qualities: Communication, Wisdom, Knowledge, Freedom.

Magical Weapon: Wand, Broom, Incense.

Rituals: Cleansing, Banishing, Travel, Knowledge.

Places: Sky, Clouds, Peaks, Towers, Mountaintops.

Natural elements: Wind, Birds, Leaves, Feathers, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Bees, Bugs, Beetles.

Tarot: Wands.

Rune: Raido.

Zodiac Signs: Gemini, Aquarius, Libra.

Spirits: Sidhe, Aurai, Sylph.

Deities: Shu, Aeolus, Odin, Anemoi, Boreas, Eurus, Notus, Zephyrus, Aura, Enlil, Ninlil, Argestes, Caicias, Circios, Euronotus, Lips, Skeiron, Leuconotus, Cardea, Venti, Ani, Tinia, Nuada, Nephele, Caelus, Mercury, Hermes.

#witchcraft #witchblr #babywitch #air element #four elements #magic basics #witches of tumblr #air #air spirits #paganism #air deities #pagan witch #italianwitch #strega #air folklore #wind #sky #clouds

[oncillaphoenix]

shaking crying etc. over "in the end all i hope for is to be a bit of warmth for you when there's not a lot of warmth left to go around" immediately juxtaposed with "in the end i'm feeling more and more there won't be any end." to go from "if i'm kindling for a little while at least i'd feel of use" to "it could feel like rebirth out of some kind of dying to see yourself so glowing." i am so emotional over the oh hellos anemoi cycle and especially the back-to-back sucker punch of boreas and glowing

#these albums are so good uauugh #the oh hellos #music #oncilla speaks

[storyspinner91]

Willow + Lancer + The Oh Hellos = Like Constellations

Ok, a long, long time ago I said I might write up a little explanation post about what Like Constellations, A Million Years Away is. Because if there’s one thing I seem to have a talent for, it’s...getting excited about the intersections of two things that combine to make an extremely obscure niche, lol. So this post is meant to answer: what the heck is this? and why the heck is this? Read on for answers in hopefully not too (buuut probably too) much detail. 

What the Heck is your fic?

Like Constellations, A Million Years Away is a long-form fanfiction that adapts elements of the story of Willow (2022) to the setting (more or less, I’ve taken a few liberties) of the tabletop roleplaying game Lancer, created by Tom Parkinson Morgan and Miguel Lopez. This means that instead of a fantasy world, the characters of Willow are in a far-future science-fiction universe where combat sometimes takes place between pilots of huge, mechanized chassis (think of Gundam or Neon Genesis Evangelion). The fic starts out being a fairly “straightforward” adaptation but is, especially recently, rapidly departing from the narrative of the TV show. Because I’m a huge dork who love structure, it is also structured based on the music of the band The Oh Hellos - specifically, the Anemoi Cycle, 4 EPs titled Notos, Eurus, Boreas, and Zephyrus.

Basically, this means that Willow contributes the characters and certain plot beats; Lancer contributes the setting and influences the tone somewhat; and The Oh Hellos provide the emotional structure and thematic resonances for the piece. I’m being relatively strict with the structure; each chapter is based on a song from the Anemoi Cycle, in order, as indicated by the chapter titles (which are lyrics from the relevant song, or the title in the case of instrumental-only tracks). The one exception to this is chapters 7-8, which both correspond to “New River” from Notos - it just got too unwieldy, and I decided it had to be split up for space. (I suspect the same will happen to chapters 15-16, which may both be “Passerine,” but we’ll see.) And the whole work, which is gonna weigh in around 30 chapters, is divided into 4 books, one for each EP. In Like Constellations, Book 1 focuses on Jade, Book 2 on Kit, Book 3 on Graydon, and Book 4 on Elora.  

If that seems obsessive or red-string-cork-boardy, it probably is. But the plus side is that I feel like I have a really strong sense of where I’m going, at least in broad strokes and thematic terms. I know what the beginning and end of each book are, and many of the key moments in between. So I am very confident that this will be finished.

How and Why did this Nonsense Happen?

First off: I love adaptation and find it fascinating. The shift from one setting to another or (even cooler) one medium to another? A delight. My brain thinks laterally, and it likes to make connections. 

But this was really all a sort of accident. I’d seen a lot of memes when Willow was airing (or just “viewable,” RIP) that compared the group to a D&D party, and I was a little salty because they are clearly playing a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

(That’s not a joke, it’s a game and a great one that would legitimately give you Willow vibes in play, you should go buy it.)

ANYWAY! I was taking a look at Lancer, which is a game where (in the mech tradition) mechs are very personal and can be customized, and I got to thinking, “I wonder whether you could make a mech for each of the Willow characters?” I was just idly scrolling through them when I suddenly saw a mech and thought, “Oh hell yes, that’s Kit’s mech.” 

Here’s where I have to give credit to Parkinson-Morgan and Lopez, because the synergy of illustration and game design in Lancer is astounding. You look at the Metalmark and you (at least I) think, “Yeah, that looks like a great fighter who prioritizes speed and really wants to look cool while doing it,” and that’s exactly what it is in terms of game mechanics. So that was fun to create, and I think Kit would be happy with the mech I built her.

But I still thought, “Well, that’s fun but there’s no way you could really pull off the story of Willow in Lancer’s setting...I mean the whole arranged-marriage aspect alone doesn’t really fit the science-ficti--”

In all [worlds controlled by SSC, the corporation that produces Kit’s mech], their populations are tightly controlled through deep cultural manipulation to generate biome-specific lines of colony seed materiel. The people of these worlds are aware of SSC’s mission; they are freely associated members of the corpro-state, most of whom are as invested in its mission – literally – and are generally unconcerned with SSC’s human experimentation projects. Save for regular, culturally-appropriate samplings of genetic material (a few hairs, a drop of blood, a swab from inside the mouth) and an expectation of arranged coupling, life on Constellar Worlds is unremarkable and quiet.

--Lancer core rulebook, p. 399-400

And at that point, the fic just sort of started to fall into my head. Kit could be the child of a major SSC investor, maybe the head of a subsidiary company. A valuable part of SSC’s horrible eugenics-”light” project (no such thing as light eugenics, kids) trapped not by monarchy but by corporate contracts that predate her birth. Jade could be a ward of the “state” (that here being a corporation). Boorman a former space pirate. Graydon a valuable new gene sample. Elora a totally normal girl but with some unusual computer capabilities. Willow a “paracausal” scientist (”paracausality” is Lancer’s in-world term for totally-not-magic). 

I was listening to the Anemoi Cycle at the time suddenly thought, “Wait, this sort of works, too.” Because the Anemoi Cycle is about having a crisis of belief and questioning the community (particularly, the problematic community) you were raised in. It’s about the need for constant growth, compassion, human connection, and an awareness of the value of material human existence. All of these are themes I think are there in Willow too. So I started outlining and writing and...wrote really fast when I started and have since slowed down, lol. Life has gotten busier in the last several weeks, and now that I’m moving beyond Willow’s plot beats I have to tread more carefully to avoid trapping myself or espousing things I want to avoid. 

But I am very excited to keep working on this story, and I can’t wait to look back on it when it’s finished. If you made it to the end of this long, rambly tumblr post - thank you, please get yourself a cookie for me as thanks for listening to my far-too-verbose thoughts.

#willow 2022 #lancer ttrpg #the oh hellos #fanfic #tanthamore fanfiction #willow #thinking in public #far too many words