#its just plain

[epithmia-moved]

   光を求めた反射  /  光を飲み込んだ反射 ,    ( 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥., 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 / 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 )

𝐈.    kami of wind and light, humanity’s desire for understanding and redemption of / for a higher power, protection and to a lesser extent — change through atonement which may lie as synonymous with the chaotic shift known to take place on the yearly occurrences of the blood moon, able to take the form of a dragon. 

𝐈𝐈.  born from the blood of a god once it spilled into the eye of a dying mortal.

       A.     was only brought into the world once the body of the deceased mortal had been returned to the earth, and thus belongs in origin to both the heavenly and the earthly. came into being as a fully developed child no younger and no older than 6 to 8 years old, covered in sediment and blood and rainwater during the night. 

      B.      sought completion and true autonomy and allowed themselves while newly born to be governed and swayed by more malignant and apathetic actions.  years past their making did they fight and defeat their progenitor god after fourteen days and nights and proceed to devour them to balance their ever further growing omnipotence, and in turn assimilating the previous kami’s responsibilities and domains.

𝐈𝐈𝐈.   similar in fashion to other kami, they eventually become known as an ancestor to the mikazuki clan. the accuracy of this truth lies as them having been more of a patron than an actual relative to the lineage, though those born under the title and name lack this truth over the generations and otherwise claim a familial relation.

      A.     when adopting an identity to co-exist in human society while still a god however, this is the family name and history they will always take.  

𝐈𝐕.     they are a god with no name yet many titles — they were born alone and with no proper name and thus that is how they shall one day face the end.

     A.      instead, they generally just allow other divinities and mortals alike to call them as they please as long as there is no outward or hidden disrespect within the chosen name. when named by a mortal they will use that name for as long as that “lifetime” is perceived, often discard it once all who knew them have passed on and proceeds to begin the cycle anew. 

     B.      purely for worship and general mentions, often are they referenced by the people as 智月 chigetsu or 血月 ketsugetsu.

over time the general beliefs and retelling of their origins will diverge into multiple stories, and while everything shall generally remain the same — to some peoples due to their bloody and violent beginning that led into a far more peaceful and caring deity, they are believed to have been born as two kami instead of one. in which both chigetsu and ketsugetsu are used in worship and one name denotes to the malevolent kami and the other the benevolent¹.  some retellings further list both of those names and qualities but still view the kami as one being, and instead use the names to refer to which form or personality the deity is hence acting in, or the side of the deity they are seeking to curry favor from.

to other countries does their myth stretch, and as such do they carry further titles:  红色 月亮  Hóngsè Yuèliàng ( transl. bright red moon )  /  红月  Hóng Yuè,  붉은 달  bulg-eun dal ( transl. red moon ),  लाल चंद्रमा  laal chandrama ( transl. red moon ).

𝐕.   shrines dedicated to them were most often found in smaller and some well off villages and towns.  the coming of fall — momijigari — is often doubled as a time to enjoy and welcome the season as well as to welcome the kami. noted as their favorite of the seasons, when maple trees displayed foliage of a redder and brighter hue than average, it was said that they must have sat beneath its boughs at some point and conferred to this nature their wishes and knowledge of the coming year.

    A.    the first statues to be built in their likeness by mortal hands were ones that displayed them in their ‘childhood’ and adolescence. somewhere between how they appeared with their first months on the earth up into the defeat of their better. most of these, if any at all, no longer exist. for in their temperamental states when gazing down would seek harsh winds or other slight misfortunes to tear them down.

    B.      more tales surface as the years pass, and so too will descriptions of their appearance now fully grown and godhood completed. and it is these creations of their likeness that would be left alone after a short period of sharing the same fate as the first attempts. many artists and worshippers took the destruction of their effigies as judgment from offending their kami. as per their origins would sculpting their god before their fated battle be bringing light to their inadequacy and hierarchy as less than. and to depict them fresh from victory, to lessen the bitterness that comes with having to consume your forebearer most viscously to achieve one’s own balance.  or simply, to the lesser overthinkers, that they just did not get the correct appearance the first few times. at the end these works stood often to display a figure dressed beautifully, of long hair and always staring with a look between brightened rage and intense apathetic protection, sometimes with chosen sword in hand.

   C.      the eventual desecration of said shrines will take place centuries later. with no clear cause known but many rumors and reasons. yet all the same the fate is immovable. as is their fading into obscurity with nearly all of their followers over time. very little of their shrines are left to remain, a pitiful number, barely reaching that of any double digit number.

𝐕𝐈.   as their double sided constitution for protection and violence pervaded so too did the associated martial prowess depicted within art and poetry. written works tell of various stories in which they use a range of weaponry to enact fury, to answer the prayers of warriors on the battlefield, or to deliver an unlucky mortal from unjust death — holds favor for swordsmanship for how often it seems to appear in these tales. only sometimes rivaled by the artistic renditions that choose instead when not rendering them with sword to do so with the naginata.

    A.    the most popular of their works to exist were silk screen paintings or sumi - e. and unlike the fate inflicted upon various statues built for the shrines, these creations weren’t destroyed nearly as much. and aside from maple trees, other plants such as pampas grass and painted ferns can be present within landscapes associated with them.

𝐕𝐈𝐈.   the one who bore them had been a moon and wisdom deity who had descended centuries prior from takamagahara to live and wander among the earthly, and eventually found themselves embroiled within a conflict that stretched beyond their handling. while of a gentle demeanor with the choice to avoid conflict if given, the previous kami still held a level of undeniable power.

    A.    half of the usurped responsibilities and associations came from this being, as well as the capacity to take on and maintain a steady secondary form.

𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈.   their own relationship with takamagahara and the deities that live there remains grey at best. they are not their predecessor, but hold no personal qualms to any of the others there in which to spur insubordination or animosity. rarely does one permit their presence there — and in steady fashion, continues to wander and live within human society. they hold more responsibility to humanity than any other and will not shirk the duty. all decisions or actions are otherwise made with the consequences to be had upon mortal folk in mind, and they do not take kindly to having it threatened within their presence save for certain exceptions.

#long post / #like no actually i am not fucking kidding this shit is insanely long and so there is absolutely NO format whatsoever #its just plain #but i swear to god dont click that read more unless ur ready to have my shit take up ur dash #this meta is but my first step into the slow transition of making mana fandomless /j #Or Am I #and as with everything if i have something interpreted or written incorrectly in here #or translated poorly #feel free to let me know about it so i can fix it ! #dont wanna have anything in here that isnt portrayed or tweaked at / taken from properly #:drops this shit then runs: #➢ headcanon / meta .

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

#not art #but important #please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads #in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[cartarg]

kitty of some sort

#been doodlin... #oc #original art #cat #illustration #digital art #artists on tumblr #only rly drew these to satiate my desire for a long skirt. one day i will find u #edit: RAGHHHH the last one feels so plain i wanna add more to it... oh well.... just know its not to my Standards >:T #edit edit: WOWIE ty for all the love on this one!!!! and to everyone saying gender in the tags. u get it u get it <3 <3 <3

[inkskinned]

as we enter the start of a semester and the dreaded Hour of Making Friends us upon us... if ur ever at a loss for what to say in one of those weird social situations where you only vaguely-know people, one of my favorite questions to ask is "what is your favorite food crime." a food crime is like the food combination that you love that other people find revolting. press them to take it further than pineapple on pizza, that's rote. food crimes is a good topic that has many benefits as it turns out all people are degenerates and also it will give you some cool ideas to try out later in the privacy of your own degenerate kitchen

the other good thing to ask is "okay but has anyone here ever been someplace haunted" bc it turns out if you ask most people directly they don't believe in ghosts, but many people are like "oh yeah i lived in a haunted house. ghosts aren't real tho"

#my food crime is that i regularly make a “pasta and tuna” situation that has somehow gotten even more evil and degenerate over time. #it is a ''white wine reduction'' (it's just white wine and garlic powder & seasoning) #and tuna from a can. #and plain pasta. #if i have the spoons i will actually chop garlic for it but this tends to be my comfort food for a REALLY bad day #bc its super easy to make: #boil pasta. drain. put into bowl for later. into same pot u used for pasta. #put tuna (with oil/water from can). let fry a little for like 2-3 min. put in whatever amount of wine. season to taste. #the tuna will get a little crisp on it which is nice. important side note: #this began as a Bolognese sauce. #and one day i had to sub for tuna. i know. not ideal. i cried about it too. #somehow over time it is now its own little evil thing. i would never make someone else eat it. it is beautiful. #but yeah i don't even stir the pasta in afterwards i just slap pasta into serving bowl #slap this ''''''sauce'''''''' on top #molto bene #(i really can cook fairly well btw. this is a food crime. not a suggestion of skill or ability) #(i LOVE baking but when i cook for myself. the autism is obvious. bc i just don't understand the point of most of the steps) #(.... i can just eat the deli meat out of the bag. it is protein. i don't even have to like it. i just have to eat enough calories.) #(also i used to cook MUCH more before this apartment which is so small that i can stretch my arms out and overreach the counter length.) #(.... i'm 5.2. so.)

[avassharpe]

That Look™ 1.08 | 2.01 | 2.05

#ava silva #sister beatrice #avatrice #warriornunedit #warrior nun #ava x beatrice #* #i really wanted my text in a gradient but i can't for the life of me remember how to do that #so its just plain old regular text #everytime i watch these scenes my brain just goes #WHY YOU LOOK AT HER LIKE THAT #1k

[amphibianaday]

Hello I would like to request your favourite little freak(amphibian) for day 1432

day 1432

#amphibian #frog #toad #european common toad #i had to look up what 1432 means but i think its cute #i interpret this as just my favorite amphibian which is the common toad #i think you can tell from my art that its one of the amphibians i instinctually go for when i have no specific species to draw #i know its a boring answer but its a good frog. plain and simple #and its the one i've actually interracted with the most irl :) #and more specifically we had a toad that lived in the drain in the cellar in a previous house #its where we had all the laundry stuff. so we called him laundry frog. he is like the patron saint of laundry. to me #laundry frog specifically is my favorite little freak #laundry frog #oops i think i forgot to save the alt text #it should be fixed now but i have no idea how that works in relobgs

[springweaver]

People… its time. I finally have a floor loom. It has 4 shafts and 6 treadles and Ive warped it up for the first time today. Look at it!! Im so exited c:

#floor loom #weaving #also it took me hours to get the warp on there #and its really badly trnsioned #but! its on there! and thats all that matters #for now im just gonna do some plain weave #but the scarf after that is gonna have like a heart pattern me thinks

[suntails]

⚔️🍩

#7!! this one is for sleepie specifically. anyone else’s opinion has no meaning to me <3 #as long as sleepie ohsleepie likes this post then my heart will be complete. silver ruggie deserve more content and screen time together #its awful that i go to draw a donut and i Must make it pink frosted sprinkled and i am teleported back to like 2006. iykyk. sighing #silver is just delighted they can get edible food together. also RUGGIE BUCCHI SHAKING HANDS W ME. PLAIN DONUT NATION #MY BELOOOVED #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #ruggie bucchi #suntails

[enfinizatics]

okay i’ve got to vent about the nicki minaj situation bc yeah. i used to be a hardcore barb for almost 10 years (2010-2019). and when i say a HARDCORE stan i truly mean it, i had a twitter account dedicated to nicki, she was even following me and often interacted with my tweets when she was online. i was absolutely in love with her and her work. i met my best friend, who’s like family to me, because of her. the pinkprint helped me survive middle school bullying. i followed her through europe when she went on tours. i supported every project, stayed chronically online for her and engaged in petty arguments with people on stan twitter to defend her. i fell out around late 2019 because i felt like most of her lyrics had sounded the same for a while but mostly because she started seeing her current husband, a confirmed rapist. seeing nicki pick up a beef after beef with every young female rapper gives me a huge ick and internalized misogyny vibes. but the beef with megan? it’s been years since i last followed news on nicki, but now i find myself losing my mind every time i see something on here or tiktok. not to mention her twitter omg. it truly feels like i’m witnessing her downfall caused by no one but nicki herself. she’s literally destroying her legacy, a legacy tied to so many memories i made during those 10 years while being her fan, and it just sucksssss. it feels like she no longer has a pr team capable of damage control or persuading her to take a break from social media. she seems to be spiraling with everything she posts. not to mention that ben shapiro tweet, congratulating a white, homophobic supremacist. and the barbz who let her remain in her perfect little bubble, shielding her from any criticism, constructive or otherwise (perhaps out of intimidation – i know, i've been there) and doxing people in the name of what? a millionaire to whom you’re a literal stranger?

#ex barb #no because i’m just so fucking upset #i know what a beef is #its just that #her comebacks used to be so much better: both the old ones like 5 star bitch ir monster but also older ones like no freuds or make love #or plain jane or motorsport #but god #this is a mess #it’s not even a beef anymore it’s a literal rap icon throwing all that legacy through the window #i still like to listen to her sometimes #and acknowledge how she paved the way for female rappers #but i also have common sense and touch grass #nicki minaj #megan thee stallion #hiss #big foot #personal #moira speaks

[yardsards]

"just put it in the same place every time and you won't lose it" 🤝 "just clean everything up immediately after you use it and you'll never have mess pile up": advice that is functionally useless to me as a person with adhd

#eliot posts #adhd #actually adhd #maybe this advice works for some people but it absolutely does not help me one bit #it is advice that is impossible for me to follow on its own #like i don't notice half the time where i put shit down it's just in my hand one minute and the next minute it's not #and by the time i accomplish a task i often don't have energy left to clean. or i just plain get distracted before i can finish cleaning

[satans-knitwear]

Yes, i can shapeshift into magical creatures.

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me (check out the full unsensored set on my OF!)

#I even found a fluffy cardigan to wear with this bc its actually horrible weather today and I'm v cold just like this #I am so pleased with how this look came together though!!! #This dress was £8 second hand!!! I am obsessed with the colour and the pwetty pattern!!! Very glad I managed a whole look inspired by it!! #satans knitwear #alt pinup #pinup girl #pretty lingerie #Plain top stockings #Vintage vibes #Vintage inspired #This look is waaaaay too springy for the current season but I guess I shall just play pretend and light the fire to feel that warmth #bi girl #cheeky #uk girl #wlw

[mysticarcanum]

the issue with the current fallen london event is that it lets you choose the difficulty (or rather, the quantity of explosives you are willing to pack onto your ship) and that's very hard for me, because even though it would likely be much more profitable overall to go on any difficulty but the hardest (which is comically, punishingly difficult) i am incapable of such WEAKNESS. what am i, a COWARD??? pack every last inch of this zubmarine with explosives, lads!!! we sail into the mouth of hell!! DEATH OR GLORY!!!!!!!

#ehhhh its fine what did i spend all that time getting my cider for if not to EXPLODE MORE TIMES #i will EXPLODE WITH GREATER FREQUENCY than you CIDERLESS FOOLS #fallen london #(also wait ive just realized that in a universe where hell is a place you can go and that i built a railroad to get to #saying youre sailing into the mouth of hell is no longer hyperbolic but just plain inaccurate #like. what do you mean we're sailing into the mouth of hell? we're sailing northeast! hell is west! should we turn around??)

[lemongogo]

does anyone have a front & unobscured panel of this suit q.mark

ok edit sry i found it but i want 2 keep this post up 4 ref. THANKIESS

#like its probably just a plain chestplate with the high collar+cape but anywayz. #millions knives #trigun #trigun maximum

[hingefreelester]

No but in the wedding wows it was silly and referential until ”you are the prince of my heart” like what possessed him to say that

#its still silly but refers to nothing i can remember #its just plain romantic #also not to be demony but theres a jumpcut immediately after #<- me losing my mind #phan #dan and phil #gamingmas 2023 #dnp #hingefreelester

[sorchasolas]

Rereading Oathbringer and i never realized

Kaladin you don’t realize how correct you are

#cosmere #stormlight archive #kaladin stormblessed #the stormlight archive #brandon sanderson #its so funny to me that Kaladin just Says Stuff #and half of the time hes right #like that time he was like ‘the shattered plains were artificially shattered’ AND HE WAS RIGHT #its kaladin

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Sunny my life my love my deranged little puppet from my brain

#she is so.... Transedgendered in her own special way #i realized her stitches look like top surgery stitches #however she never had a top to surgery #but somehow it still fits??? it makes Sense considering her background and personal lore #puppets are just so genderfucked <3 #scribble salad #forced idiots <3 #oc #original character #i didnt expect to get so attached to her!!! #i thought i was gonna discard her honestly! i thought she wouldnt Last in my brain! #but now she's irreversibly woven into the narrative #she's Important #also i just plain love her! #she's a huge opportunity to fuck with perception/flexibility of gender & sex & humanity & uhhhh whats the word??? life role??? #your place in life??? what you Do???? you know what i mean??? #its the making peace with yourself! accepting your role!! #she's making me unwell! #also she has retractable teeth <3 #was actually the second thing i thought of for her #literally the Exact Reason was because i imagined one of her fellow companions smacking her upside the head #and a full set of chompers Extended. they got knocked right out of her! chonk canines and everything!! #and then i figured out it ties into her journey and 'corruption' and oauasgasfja sundown summer you are my everything