#low ritual

[cat-appreciator]

It’s cold and I don’t wanna get out of bed so fuck it, let’s talk about the White Horse of Uffington.

There are a lot of hill figures in the south of England, in places where the topsoil is a thin layer of grass on top of a thick layer of Upper Cretaceous chalk. You just peel back the sod and there it is, ready to be a regimental badge, a horse, or a guy with a giant dong. In the case of the White Horse of Uffington specifically, there’s a bit more soil underneath the sod, so you dig a ditch and fill it with crushed chalk.

Most of these figures aren’t actually all that old, ~500 years old or less, because grass is an incredibly tenacious plant and it grows back over the chalk. If you want to keep a hill figure around it requires regular maintenance. The White Horse has been dated to the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, meaning it could well be three thousand years old (there’s a technique called optically stimulated luminescence where scientists can tell when a thing was last exposed to light; they dug down to the bottom of the chalk filled trench and tested the soil underneath. The Horse dates to between 1300 and 550 BC).

Again - and this is the part where I get emotional and weepy - a hill figure requires regular maintenance. Without it, the White Horse would be invisible in a few decades. So every seven years, the villagers of the surrounding communities get together with their baskets of chalk and hammers (and, in more recent years, knee pads) and pound fresh quartz into the trench to prevent it from being overgrown.

With some interruptions during modern times (the Horse was covered in sod during WW2 so it couldn’t be used by the Luftwaffe for navigation) the scouring of the Horse has taken place every seven years for three thousand years. The original builders spoke a Celtic language, or possibly a lost pre-Indo-European language. They didn’t have the same culture or religion or worldview or anything to the people preserving the Horse today. We don’t know what the Horse meant to them. And yet for three thousand years, every seven years, Roman Britons or Saxons or medieval peasants or Clive from down the way have faithfully got together to scour the Horse, to carry it forward from an unknown past to an unknown future.

It’s a tradition even more remarkable for the fact that there’s no point for the Horse’s existence except the fact of the Horse’s existence. This isn’t some high ritual (like the rebuilding of the Ise shrine in Japan, which is connected to the imperial family) it’s a bunch of farmers crushing up rocks. Empires have fallen, gods have faded out of memory, but the Horse continues.

#White Horse of Uffington #hill figures #low ritual #deep time #chalk #art #landscape #i get emotional about archaeology #horse for the horse and of the horse shall not perish from this rural English hillside

[sleepanonymous]

Legend has it if you listen to this soundcheck on repeat it will clear your skin, water your crops, and cure your depression. I hope this heals all of you like it has healed me.

#sleep token #vessel sleep token #vessel #song take me to church #take me to church #hozier #hozier cover #hozier take me to church #okay the caption is cheeky but this is pretty amazing #i wish the audio was better/longer but this was recorded outside a venue on a cellphone #the mp4 is in my google drive #in the rituals folder #it's literally a 30 second video of a wood door #but you can see the videographer get excited and thats kinda cute #because i'd be the same way fam #i wish i knew who actually recorded this so i could give proper credit #but its one of those things that's been passed around like crazy on the down-low #i know the person who *claims* to have recorded it is from ny or nj #so this might be from september 10th this past na rituals tour #i couldn't find this door on google maps #but i also couldn't get around to the back of the building to be 100% certain #i also tried checking union transfer the palladium and rams head live! but had no luck there either #if anyone has any more info on this soundcheck or the unedited video #(you can see and sort of hear it jump at the first “i'll tell you my sins”) #please please please tell me

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

(loosely) that scene from potc... its so Them i think...

#apologies for the low quality scribbles i simply couldn't be fucked!! <3<3<3 #and they're a lil funky.... i havent drawn em in a while.... #but geez. man. oof. ough #the potential of the pining + Names ouagshashjafkanvfla #THE RITUALS ARE INTRICATE #scribble salad #franklydear #welcome home #ever since finding out how they call each other by last names my brain has been Mush over that #the layers!!! the potential for development!!! #what would the transition to first-name-usage look like #i feel like they're gonna be on first name basis Before they actually refer to each other by their first names #and maybe frank will call him eddie first.... maybe.... #leaving eddie to be the one maintaining a sort of 'professional' distance #but in the process making their interactions Way more intimate and emotionally Charged than they would've been otherwise #its about the suspense... about the 'am i allowed to know what your name feels like'.... #the 'i want nothing more than to know what my name sounds like in your voice' #receiving your mail and waiting for the time he finally allows that little distance to be closed with one simple syllable #or delivering the mail and waiting for him to open both doors w/ hand & name #both an allowance and a confirmation and an answer and a promise wrapped up in one little word #Im Just Speculating & Rambling at this point #OUGH FRANKLYDEAR <3<3<3<3 #i cant wait to watch them really go Through the Horrors while falling in love #bc when nothing is real or certain what else can you cling to but each other #so abnormal about them.... #wh has opened my eyes to the inherent romanticism & pain of mail carriers #they will always come to your door but they will also always leave #and the gifts they give you are always from someone Else #all you can hope for are those Moments where your fingers brush as they hand over letters #where the only true words between you are the ones hidden away in ink and belonging to neither of you

[layzeal]

one of my favorite headcanons with little to no canon support is that xue yang and mo xuanyu were guidao jin disciples at the same time, and mxy mentioned a few times wanting to ressurect the yiling laozu to kill his mom's evil family, so when xy saw him (or rather his body) entering yi city AS the yllz, he was like "son of a bitch he actually did it"

#mdzs #the window of time for them to have been disciples at the same time is small but IT COULD have happened #and with mxy having had access to the sacrificial ritual (and his lack of progress on “proper” cultivation) #it's perfectly possible he was one of the jins' demonic students #also at yi city xue yang attacks wwx #who asks if he's trying to take advantage of that body's low spiritual energy. #BUT HOW DID HE KNOW BEFOREHAND THAT MXY'S BODY HAD LOW SPIRITUAL ENERGY HUH‼️⁉️‼️⁉️🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 #(please ignore the lack of sword-carrying) #i just want mxy and xy to have been buddies idk #it's very fun to me if xue yang recognizes wwx in his old classmate's body #modao #lace speaks

[elcucurucho]

every slimecicle qsmp stream is on a very strict time limit from the second it starts to when q!slimecicle inevitably does something that embarrasses cc!slimecicle so much he has to end immediately

#qsmp #slimecicle #literally the epic highs and lows of being committed to your roleplay #charlie they’re not mad at you I promise please come back you still need to pick a ritual room

[sarcasticsra]

HE COULDN’T THINK OF ANY FACTS.

Hyperfixation and passion got married and are taking care of all of the interests! Elias’ brain is just absolutely flooded with dopamine right now, it’s the BEST.

“A strong sense of pleasure slightly tempered by conscience sounds pretty fun.” Trapp is always 100% correct. My god this man is so quick and talented. More Trapp on D20 2kforever.

Conscience understanding the place self-loathing can come from and shrinking it back into more helpful “you fucked up but you’re going to fix it” guilt, accountability. Goddamn seriously self-loathing evolving from guilt Brennan you’re a goddamn genius.

Impulse and hyper vigilance have gotten divorced and remarried 17 times at least already, you can’t convince me otherwise.

Way to go, Elias. I knew you could do it, buddy.

#mentopolis #dimension 20 #his passion for ice skating returned #he’s discovering new kinks #he’s a ~dashing hero~ #he’s nurturing long lost interests #his sense of self loathing is the guilt you need to keep you accountable #he’s paying more attention to what really matters #and he’s letting his curiosity figure things out rather than lackeys for ambition #I imagine ambition has been released but is now being heavily monitored #and greed is probably not actually dead but certainly laying low for now #HOW WAS THIS ENTIRE SEASON ABSOLUTELY PERFECT #WHAT DARK RITUAL HATH BEEN PERFORMED #actually wait the man is a whistle blower #hyper vigilance being in an on again off again relationship with impulse makes PERFECT SENSE #EVERYTHING WAS ALREADY PERFECT HOW DID IT GET MORE PERFECT #this season might count as a form of therapy

[whump-captain]

A summoning won't succeed if the vessel is not empty

[ID in alt, click for better quality]

#whump #whump art #whump drawing #oc whump #whumpee #whump blog #whump community #long post #stabbing #ritual sacrifice #supernatural whump #blood #captain's stuff #captain's ocs #ghost ambulance #yall don't wanna know how many layers this is #csp kept yelling at me like 'memory usage high!! stop making new layers the os is gonna get mad' #and i just kept making new layers #but i need them aaaaaaaaall #anyway can u believe this started as a low-effort comfort zone sketch #i barely can

[philtstone]

my google search has proved unfruitful so i have to ask the masses like a clown….. do elves, like, have innate control over when they have children or is there some kind of birth control involved

#conversely if they do have control is there some kind of ritual when they want a child #phil.txt #lord of the rings #dont look at me this is my all time low

[patrocles]

sara snow. daughter of a lord, sister of another. a bastard she-wolf. a keeper of the old faith.

#a song of ice and fire #asoiafedit #asoiafgif #sara snow #valyrianscrolls #yall im just making stuff up #the important thing to know is that ragga ragnars is 6'2 so sara is ALSO 6'2 #and in my vision she is cregans elder sister because the idea of cregan being someones baby brother is cute to ME #ive been listening to a lot of heilung so i have this whole vision about sara being like an arbiter of the faith #hippy-dippy ritual priestess type #GREENSEER MAYHAPS???? #i love the idea of a bastard woman of winterfell who exists in a very specific social status #than what we know of bastardy in the south #theres so many unknown variables and so much potential to do something interesting #we have so many princesses and ladies but what about the low social class girlies #im asking the real questions

[marvel0us1]

#i saw the video of them yelling at eachother during astp #and i couldn't help but notice the resemblence to a mudskiper fight #it's so funny #i dare you to watch a video of mudskipers fighting and not laugh #jance #the rituals are becoming more and more intricate #joker out #jokerout #nace jordan #jan peteh #low quality memes

[minzart]

Alright I'll bite just bc I found it funny

Anon who I already blocked on sighingt and won't be able to see this(probably)

How does it feel to call someone a ugly lonely bitch when bitch is someone who gets so much pusy society made it a derogatory word? How does it feel to have a voice of a five years old? And call the representation in your mind of me ugly if I tecnicaly don't even exist in your area?

You make one aroace post and the 5years old think they are so smart, you are proving you are more lonely than me sweety💞 I got friends and mutuals to pamper while you are out there trying to be mean and useless💞

#you know your post whent to the wrong crowd when this happens. #lovely how that post was just a reafirmation that i exists and am ABSOLUTELY NOT ALONE DID YOU SAW THE COMENTS ON THERE?! #people had so much stories to share and indignation with the starus quo as I have. there is also so much reĺief to not be the only one #first anon hate i am finaly a tumblr blogger fr. that's also the only reason they get a post btw. it's a passage ritual #if you noticed they didn't even knew me too bc everyone know to 'hurt' and artist is to call their art ugly. that's such a low hanging frui #and they didn't even did it. bet they saw aroace and zomed on tge ask box to feel superior. oh you poor stupid imbecile #i've got bullies worst than you when I was 5 if i'm being honest. gringos n sobreviveriam um dia com o bully brasileiro

[dragonknightofsummerset]

Hm, torn with this confession

#playchoices alpha #channing lowe #channing x mc #on the 1 hand. i love confessions like this #on the other. i do somewhat agree with others that the book tries really hard to make them seem super in love #when theyve mostly been hooking up #with the addition of the soulmate thing. it seems to be the explanation for the intense feelings outside of hooking up #which hm seems like a cop-out but at least the choice to tell channing you love them is optional #& the mc actually tells channing that them going through with the ritual has nothing to do with them so thats a plus #posting in the dead of night. cause choices? idk her

[agent-jaselin]

Also reason why I found my Cazador fight hilarious, I made sure to get those warding bond rings cause I was like "Oh, when characters get captured they tend to be extra flimsy, don't want to game over cause astarion dies!"

Instead my tav immediately took 87 points of damage from Cazador to the back and got body slammed by three werewolves and a bat.

Astarion took the least damage of everyone, my ranger was lucky to have 7 hitpoints at any given round. Cazador was obsessed with just absolutely murdering the pc. Wicked Witch of the West behavior.

#jase live blogs #Calem low key getting held up by Halsin during the entire ritual staff convo. #which when you consider it's apparently harder for a romanced pc to convince astarion #just imagine post a fight were its clear cazador was trying to target you specifically for helping him #and your are mostly a blood pulp leaning against his friends arms #gotta draw both jokes and angst for this one folks

[lambsquatch]

soooo… aries was definitely a robot fucker right

#this sounds so out of left field #but like. #aside from the weird attempt to program mating rituals into an assaultron #he has an old movie poster in his current house about a human and ai falling in love #and in his room at van lowe taxidermy he has a little newspaper clipping #and it talks about a woman who fell in love with her protectron #like it makes sense to me #he is a little weirdo and I love him #fallout 76 #aries fo76 #calvin van lowe

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier | The Ritual (ft. RJC’s amazing knees)

#rob james-collier #robert james-collier #rob james collier #robert james collier #hutch #hutch hutchbert #the ritual #mine #this is the most ridiculous thing i've giffed in a while #but i was watching and damn boy #drop it low and hold the pose #🤡 #thighs #legs #sounds like i'm making an order at KFC #he's on my bucket list

[rydrake6]

Happy ham ritual day. Don't forget to summon your hams.

#shitpost #5 am thoughts #ham #ham ritual #You know what #Fuck you I'm gonna tag this post with all the words that come up that have ham in them #hamilton #lewis hamilton #armie hammer #hamlet #hamburg #kirk hammett #There are a surprisingly low amount of readily available ham tags on this site #Welp #enjoy fuckers #shai labeuof