#just isn't mystical to me

[djcarnationsblog]

AHA!! BUT YOU SEE, FOR I AM NOT FUCKIN' FINISHED BC I HAVE MOOORE FANART-

BUT THIS TIME FOR THE FANTASTIC FUCKIN' AU TMNT: MYSTIC FOREST, MADE BY THE ABSOLUTELY GODSEND MINDS @amevello-blue / @bluepeachstudios AND @wondrous-art WHO ARE WAY TOO FUCKIN' GOOD AT WORLD BUILDING AND STORY TELLING THROUGH ART AND JUST, HOLY SHIT-

and y'all gotta know, I am a fucking SUCKER for Leosagi it's actually terrible-

#djc art #tmnt fanart #mystic forest au fanart #Leosagi #Leonardo Hamato #Usagi Miyamoto #I know damn well that Leo isn't yet at the stage where he can just #Snatch Usagi's face like that #BUT THE VISUAL WAS TOO TEMPTING I HAVE NO REGRETS #On another note #Love how naturally Leo's crush developed #It was so smooth and effortless and natural #bro it just- #it hit me in the feels #It started so subtle #UNTIL IT BECOMES THE MOST OBVIOUS FUCKING THING TO POSSIBLY ANYONE BUT LEO AND MAYBE USAGI #Raph I saw you in that one chapter #You ain't foolin' me buddy #lols- #you ain't foolin' anyone we all know what you's was thinkin' #(Not like really actually) #(but you get what I mean-) #(you know what I mean?) #Shit XD

[rfaromance]

"Doesn't that one look like a pineapple, Ranran?"

"... Not really. And my name is Saeran."

"Ehhh? What do you see, then, Saeranie?"

"... On second thought, go back to the other one."

She's annoying, but Ariella brings a unique sunshine that forcibly dissipates the fog in his life. He'll never say that, though; he'll just sip his cocoa and mumble about clouds that are shaped like cats.

Thank you @sensetenou (aka @dailysaeran) for more bonding with the brother-in-law!

#saeran choi #se saeran #mystic messenger #mysmes #mysme #mm #cmc #ariella #mod commissions their blorbos #yes she bought them the matching sweaters #he can't complain when she's getting him something that isn't just a hand-me-down from his annoying twin

[x-i-l-verify]

Illustration for a personal headcanon I have for post-movie Raph, Mikey, and Donnie, i.e. that all three of them have matching scars on their arms (Mikey on both, Raph on his left, Donnie on his right) from where they opened the portal to rescue Leo from the prison dimension.

Bonus post-movie Leo below the cut:

#Rise of the TMNT #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rise of the tmnt fanart #rottmnt raph #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #save rottmnt #rottmnt headcanons #xi arts #And don't worry Raph isn't missing an eye #it's just recovering from being krangified #he'll be able to ditch the eyepatch in a couple months though he'll always have those scars over his right eye #this instantly became my headcanon once i watched the movie and I'm kinda surprised that it's not more widespread #what with how this fandom loves to whump the characters #like sure i see mikey with scars all the time but not Raph and Don which is just odd to me #since they also helped open the portal and Mikey would have literally died had they not lent their power to his #so i headcanon they have those mystic scars too #they're faint and they'll get fainter with time on all 3 until they're barely noticeable but I think they'll always be there

[torgawl]

if you call himmel pathetic i'm throwing hands at you. himmel showed the purest form of love for frieren and you guys think that's pathetic? what's pathetic is not respect other people's feelings or boundaries and acting like people owe you anything just because you like them. himmel was happy to have a friendship with frieren within her own conditions just because he genuinely enjoyed her as part of his life. he was happy to wait for her for his entire life is he had to but he also never stopped living for himself. that's fucking beautiful. loving someone so much you are able to let them go, not wanting to change who they are or impose anything on them? unconditionally, nonetheless? that's the point of life.

#either platonically or romantically having people genuinely appreciate you and having genuine connections with people is what makes life #worth living #frieren is a beautiful show about loss grief and how people change you just by being present in your life how they add to your life how #your true friends inspire you and how we keep each other's memories alive how love is timeless despite the finality of our human condition #and you tell me himmel is pathetic? #what a joke #i'm biting himmel haters like an enraged chihuahua #infection you with the power of love so you understand that loving makes the world more beautiful #besides frieren not understanding her own feelings at the time she always cared for himmel and the others as well #she just took more time to learn how to reciprocate and demonstrate the importance they had for her #because she isn't humans which is normal #a big part of life for everyone is having regrets and wishing it wasn't too late #frieren explores that perfectly #the friendships in that story are so pure and well nurtured #it's a shame internet culture rotted your brains so much that you think there's something inherently wrong with having unrequited feelings #and being okay with it #it's a shame you reduce such a genuinely good character who proved his will was above anything mystical to a 'simp' #anyways. himmel stays winning. #he put a ring on it too like imagine thinking he's losing when frieren is having dead wife flashbacks of him the entire show

[katanashipping]

@love-killed-the-superstar Following our recent discussions, I just need to point out again that Shredder burned down April's whole ass shop in the first season of 2k3, and after she rebuilt it identically, brick by brick, he is STILL like Hm. I wonder where I may be able to find my enemies now. Such a mystery. Alas.

Meanwhile, Karai is like "I need to deliver a threat to Leonardo. I'll just leave it with April" and breezes into the shop pretty as you please.

#the foot mystics were apparently under Shredder's control for literal CENTURIES #he just never did anything with them except guard his private elevator i guess #meanwhile Karai is in charge of their amulet for all of three episodes before she is like yo. #How about you psychically flush out the turtles and also tell me where they live. #AND THEY DO. #This isn't even me going into Shredder sending STOCKMAN IN A WHEELCHAIR to check out the burnt down shop like #there was POLICE OUTSIDE when it blew up. If they had found seven burnt corpses in the wreckage don't you think it'd have made the paper. #but noooo. send your henchman in a wheelchair accompanied by ILLEGAL BANK ROBBERY ROBOTS to check out the rubble instead. #the shredder is so comically incompetent. #my wife and I often joke how freaking efficient the foot in Japan must be in comparison. #Foot Clan Japan: A legion of hyper skilled warriors operating in the shadows led by a mega competent operative with larger picture thinking #Foot Clan New York: We put our symbol on a skyscraper. Also if you're good enough at stealing car radios we will promote you to ninja. #Still 99% convinced the reason Karai doesn't get anything impressive done until the Shredder is gone is because she is too busy #cleaning up all his PR nightmares while he's still alive

[sergle]

i’m sorry but this tag on the vampire weekend post KILLLLLED me i’m crying... did you know you can google a band name

#I CAN DELETE THIS LATER I JUST. it made me laugh #'god forbid someone doesn't know everything' BABYGIRL. the replies aren't even directed at you... #sergle.txt #IT ISN'T FUNNY BC OP DIDN'T KNOW THE BAND... it's funny bc they talked abt it in a mystical way on tumblr before googling their name #or searching it on spotify... and seeing that they're very listened to #and it's funny that they called it a 1D ripoff WHAT IS THERE TO BE PISSED AT

[valeriefauxnom]

Euden's Surprising Spread of Spidey Senses

So this is another of the 'things I noticed a while ago but am now properly committing to text so I don't forget everything'. Anyways, I found it funny the more I looked that Euden seemed to have a wing of general senses/ability to discern things/feelings or reactions that nobody else had, and sometimes he thought he was completely normal when they really weren't.

The earliest example I can think of offhand is chapter 13, wherein he feels drawn to the whatever ominous mana stuff that gives Ranzal the heeby jeebies.

Yes Euden I wonder why you're attracted to artificial mana that may be corrupted by black mana

As my friend joked in this scene, he's the one kid in a tv show that has to be stopped from licking whatever clearly bad object everyone else has the good sense to not touch (even if in this case, he'd be perfectly fine if the main reason it is 'dangerous' is because of black mana, being immune. Not that they knew that because since everyone hightails it as soon as it starts getting too thick so they have no idea he's not susceptible, but I digress).

Then, there's his ability as I jokingly refer to as the ability to sample and dissect dragon roars/behavior like fine wine:

Nothing like being able to tell if a dragon is hurting or sane as well as their mood based on their roars. And it's not exactly a set science or habit that can be learned with all the noises the very-varied-in-form Dragalia dragons make. I think he does this at least once or twice more, but I could be wrong.

Regardless, imagine Euden and Bahamut having a conversation where Bahamut does his standard Variations On A Roar performance and Euden's just like, 'hm, interesting. that does sound tasty'. And everyone is very confused how he got that from ROOOOAAAARR.

Then there's his sensitivities regarding other things, like his ability to tell when someone is about to shapeshift.

This is where he also tries to turn to his siblings to go, 'hey this is normal, right guys??' only to be flatly rejected.

Granted, they more suggest experience might be the cause of his talent here, but since it's ultimately speculation and up in the air and explicitly something everyone else finds weird I elected to include it. Regardless if it's natural or supernaturally developed, it's a sense nobody else has.

Even Nedrick realizes quickly that Euden's just Weird and hypersensitive to dragon-mana stuff and decided to formulate a plan around that and extend a bit of trust to his ability. Which, for Nedrick, Mr.Never Trust Anyone Ever To Do What I Need Done, is a testament to just how weird and valuable he finds the skill.

He later goes on to use his understanding of dragons and pacts to split up the power concentrated under Elysium back to their proper owners, the individual Greatwyrms.

Then, of course, is the built-in 'GPS return to sender' he has when it comes to Xenos' location and status. Quite handy he had that, or else we would immediately have gotten Dragalia 2: Electric Boogaloo wherein everyone collectively realizes Xenos isn't dead and has to assemble the gang again x years into the future. (Actually maybe it'd be better if he didn't so we could've gotten another Dragalia-)

Ahem. Anyways, this is getting long, so I'll cut it off there, but the fact that Euden was weird compared even to his family is just a thing that is passively baked into canon. And this isn't even counting his behavioral oddities that constantly leave others going ??? regarding him all the time, just his sensory ones!

And I like those little kinds of oddities very much.

Long story short regarding Euden:

Bonus round on editing:

Oh yeah, he also has a Find a Friend working ability that allowed him to track down and hear his friends across pocket dimensions. Even Mids, who has supernatural senses of his own in being able to derive 'true location', can't hear across worlds. Perhaps it's a good thing Euden didn't make too many otherwordly friends. Imagine constantly hearing friends speaking that aren't even in the same area or time of existence as you are (like Luca did that one time in the comics).

Also, it's a bit funny that even if it's a power innate to him he's still addressing it as if it's completely separate from him and asking 'it' nicely to open up portals. Nothing like Euden being unable to do something himself, but because he's asking 'himself' nicely suddenly finds the willpower to make manifest what he wants.

...Imagine if it applied to food. 'Please mysterious power my friends and I are starving, can we have some food?' and a luxury turkey dinner just pops in front of them, what he was secretly wanting and is like 'wow what a coincidence, exactly what sounded heavenly to me personally. Thanks mysterious power!'

#dragalia lost #dragalia #I know dragalia rapidly went on a crazy train trying to wrap everything up #and mystical senses provide a quick and easy way to provide direction to a group when dealing with matters 0.1 people understand fully #...but I gotta say #the unintentional slow building of Euden as just a Very Weird Person in regards to sensations and powers is funny to me. #Like it's not even the standard protagonist powers of 'I press win/you lose.' OP kind of things. #But the exact blend of 'ignorant to his own weirdness' and the powers themselves they added is just funny. #Dude's a walking friend locator/dragon empath combo. And isn't that the dream?

[sagetheunwise-official]

my slugsona, another slug oc i made, and a scavsona i made for my bf :)

#the sibyl isn't as old as she looks actually #shes the same age as the sage #the slugcat equivalent of being in your early 20s #it just has a connective tissue disorder that makes her skin sag and her joints dislocate easily #she lives in moon's partially restored can and keeps out of the sunlight because albinism #moon's religious studies bent rubbed off on her so she's become something of a mystic #crash is a simple man. he just likes explosives. was voted most likely to own joke rifle #and the sage is just me. as evidenced by the blont #rain world #rainworld #rain world game #slugcat oc #scavenger oc #slugcat #drugs cw #art of the sage

[phantastragoria]

Preview for GotG #03...

#guardians of the galaxy #wednesday spoilers #tw animal death #spoilers tag if u care i doubt anyone at this point does but ah. #why are they being turned into the british :( #idc if Djurdjevic had redesigned pete for the modern age to be vaguely british THAT WAS TWO DECADES AGO.. AND IT WAS ALREADY A DUMB STRETCH #anyways this is how i lose. goodbye goodbye to the astrologers of spartax and the mystic angle i guess #not that i don't think spartoi society isn't bigoted. they absolutely are we know this. i'd like an exploration of that issue but UHM #maybe not like this cartoonish thing written by two white men. #doubt she'll actually show up but at least victoria is still queen?? small win?? PLEASE don't fuck her up too #they really perverted peter's gold antlers by giving him a dumb hat with wooden ones... get out of here. i hate u. #also idk if it's just my dumb brain or my attention span problems but every issue of this is so hard to read and comprehend is it JUST me?? #genuine question for anyone who's read this far into the tags legit is anything else by these writers. like this...

[apollo-cackling]

I don't have near enough of the cultural context to make broad comments but. on a completely visceral level white authors taking the cultivation concept/setting and westernising it + filling it with white people + removing it from its cultural context makes me deeply uncomfortable

#saw this one book market itself as 'a greco-roman xianxia adventure' or whatever idk it makes me deeply uncomfortable #I enjoyed reading to flail against infinity but this was always on the back of my mind and to the end whenever I remember it it's. #:/ #plus the making fun of stuffiness right. I would assume it originated as self critique but #in a westernised setting it's hard not to read it as westerners making fun of the orientalist stereotype of a chinese person/society #esp since I mostly see stories like that marketed on reddit and yk. reddit sinophobia #ig it's just like. cultivation isn't just a fantasy setting right it's. not sure the words but genuine taoist beliefs/mysticism #and there isn't a clear cutoff between that and yk just. culture #idk it feels so deeply uncomfortable to me but I can't articulate why #my rambles #books

[anas-tasiaa]

If Cheritz isn't going to make my wish come true by having the DLC of them, I would making it myself. 🤺

Lolololololol I'm having so much fun with this. We don't even have a proper chatroom with both of them in it so I'm being salty. 🙄 Cheritz missing the golden opportunity to make a lot of money with that huhhhhhhhhhh

#mystic messenger #saeyoung choi #saeran choi #707 #saeran SE #I would make more with this sksjhshshd #shut up #let me be happy even though this isn't real #i just want to see them chatting happily in the chatroom #but Cheritz just lolololol no #THEY DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE US THAT 😭 #damn you

[flaskoflethe]

Holy fuck my husband taught himself bookbinding, so now I have softcover hard copies of Helicopter Story T_T

#I sexually identify as an attack helicopter by Isabel Fall #He knows me so well >.> #He even found the cover for an actual manual on the AH-70 Apache Mystic T_T #If you haven't read it before go read it! #It's really short #And absolutely worth the read #“America names it's helicopters for the people it's destroyed.” - Helicopter Story by Isabel Fall #That line isn't even in the top 10 of the story either. It's just so good #Isabel Fall

[your--isgayrights]

It’s orvuto anon again, I stalled on your pinned post again — experimental neuroscience?? :eyes:

Yesss. I'm actually an undergrad neuroscience major... Like writing and art and stuff is just for fun, I wanna be a research neuroscientist one day lol.

#That's why I practically haven't posted the past few weeks cuz I'm back in school #I'm also in a lot of east asian history classes because I'm minoring in east asian language and lit for fun #and I've been running into this barrier recently where I feel like its hard to explain to people the overlap that exists between hard #science and the needs of the individuals that science is supposed to help you know #like for me the reason being a research neuroscientist is so appealing is because if you're going to pick a job where you mostly do busy #work all day then being in a research field just means you know that whatever pointless thing you're doing or failed experiment you perform #everything you do is a piece of data that's going to contribute to this greater process that really has tangible eeffects in helping real #people who suffer from neurological disease. which I think is comforting in a world where doing a little never feels like enough #What I've been thinking about lately though is that I have an inherent belief in that system because I really believe in the ability of #people to do good in it because I'm coming from the same frame of rationalist mindset that a lot of research is based in but that in #clinical applications there are a lot of inherent biases that prevent people from knowing what illnesses they have and how to receive #treatment for them... because in my east asian history classes we've been talking about different belief systems and ways of thought #that sometimes have to do with medicine or psychology. and I always think that it's interesting to analyze practices that are mysticized in #modernity through that lense. but it's become apparent to me that it's hard to express that interest as genuine to religious people without #them feeling as though I'm dismissing their beliefs rather than trying to analyze how they interact with the physical reality that I know. #and it made me realize that the dismissiveness of western science towards religion combined with ableism in society makes it hard for peop #le who have the symptoms of things like psychosis or mood disorders that might have an associated role in a religion to feel like #psychiatric diagnosis or treatment isn't a complete insult to who they are as a person and I think that's the fault of a lack of compassion #and respect for others in clinical practice... its just like a social norm that i really wish would change. because i don't think physical #reality has to be dismissive of spiritual beliefs when acknowledged but because of some of the habits of western scientists and #certain subsects of christianity people don't think about it enough to have that conversation sometimes... #that's just what i've been thinking about lately lol. #personal #ask #anonymous

[the-suns-beloved]

welcome to jumbled wonderland, the game where despite having never played twisted wonderland in my entire life i completely botch its context to make a haunted mansion fandorm. stay tuned for more fun funky fantimanse dorm content & characters

#jumbled wonderland #<-feel free to use this tag for ur exploits luna lol #this isn't done i just wanted to crank something out before my weekend was over OUGH #anyway ask me about my haunted mansion twst ocs they're each named after at least 3 people and i yassified the monkey from mystic manor #my phantom manor brainrot is SO BAD RN

[deliciousmicroplastics]

nice paying job you don't understand i need to donate to gofundmes you gotta let me work

#waxing philosophical #today is the earliest day i can expect to hear back on my drug test #im not optimistic but there's a glimmer of hope #if i failed idk what im gonna do #go back to the admin assistant training? become a mystic? #like i would actually accept money for tarot readings again if i got in my stride and tapped into my intuition #but that still isn't a simple or easy solution #reminds me i wanna offer another reading to new acquaintance maybe friend #since she's just got back in town and out of quarantine

[prokopetz]

I think the biggest thing that's helped me to stop being annoyed by odd charactersation in fandom media is realising that much of it isn't really about its ostensible source material. It's basically a bunch of nerds re-inventing the commedia dell'arte from first principles. You've got roughly a dozen broadly sketched archetypes with pre-defined roles, and while they may appear in guises taken from popular media, it's really always the same "characters" in a variety of masks. Sometimes the Grumpy DILF wears a Bruce Wayne mask and hangs out in the Batcave; sometimes the Grumpy DILF wears a Luke Skywalker mask and has telekinesis; it doesn't terribly matter what Bruce Wayne or Luke Skywalker are "really" like in in their respective source material, because the persona is just a framing device – this week the Grumpy DILF is a superhero, next week he's a space mystic, and so forth. What will the Grumpy DILF be next?

#media #fandom #fanfic #characterisation #archetypes #tropes