#mothers night

[tears-of-amber]

Love these ideas! ❤️🎶🎄

#yule #mothers night #witchblr #witchcraft #pagan #paganism #norse paganism #spirituality #witchy #witch

[pagan-stitches]

A small personal thing.

#mothers night #babji kashy

[briarsandbramble]

Tonight, Yule starts for our family and many others. While we participate in other Winter themed celebrations before tonight, Mothers Night is when Yule really begins for us. Mothers Night is the start of the New Year and is focused on the ancestral mothers and female spirits that are a part of one’s family or community, etc. These are called the Disir and our hope is that they watch over and protect us. Our family celebrated them by baking cookies from places our ancestors hailed, spending time in the snow together and shoveling sidewalks, etc to help our neighbors, finishing crafts before sundown and enjoying a hearty meal together inspired by a favorite meal my Mom (my kids Omi) made growing up.

Do you celebrate Mothers Night? What do you do to participate?

The prayer here was created by “Wyrd Dottir” and this blog has a lot of great information about Mothers Night, etc. I just created this pretty graphic.

Their blog is found here: https://wyrddesigns.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/mothers-night-the-start-of-yule/

#mothers night #inclusive Heathen #inclusive Heathenry #heathen #Heathenry #Yule #Yuletide #winter holidays #pagan #paganism #wyrd Dottir #wyrd designs #magic #disir

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

#mlp #yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia. #yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show #but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!! #i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse #in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character #personal #delete later #unless you like this analysis stuff #i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did #cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her #mother and father as a teenager #i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased #but i'll put some in the tags #involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity #anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention #(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff #long post #regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at #a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton let his FNAF trauma slip again…

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #michael afton #mike schmidt #ballora #fnaf #fnaf movie #sister location #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #I’m so sorry to Michael Afton once again #my boy just misses his mom #TBH he must have mixed feelings on Ballora #similar to with baby Fredbear and spring Bonnie #it just reminds him too much of his mother despite her not being his mom #Ballora is just based off her from what we know #Mike can actually sympathize here though he also misses his mom #Mikes just get mommy issues it comes with the title #Ballora at least is also sympathetic to this #love you dearly Ballora 🩵 really wanted to draw her again

[weltonboys]

mother night, kurt vonnegut

#mine #kurt vonnegut #mother night #literature #dark academia #light academia #dark academic #academia #books #words words words

[sems-diarie]

death is insane. wdym i’ll never see my grandmother again

#she’s in her chair in the den cant nobody tell me nothing ok #death tw #grief #what’s this house without my grandmother in it? (all the people she left behind) #i cried this morning while eating grits she taught my mother how to make. love is so big when i think of it like that #i thought i heard her walker clack in the hallway last night. #she wears glasses & we have to decide where to keep them #grief is so strange #i can’t keep crying by myself (i’ll be crying for the rest of my life) #love is carrying on. i think.

[zekeram]

BEHOLD. I HAVE SOLVED FICTION.

Split version under the cut:

If that's still not enough to make it readable here's a google drive link

#the timeline #mother series #undertale #deltarune #undertale 2 #ut2 #loz #legend of zelda #relics of hyrule #elder scrolls #fallout #starfield #batim #homestuck #persona series #rpgmaker #yume nikki #ib game #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #touhou #yiik #among us #kid icarus #wowza that's a shitton of tags #this will probably be the last major version #the henry stickmin collection

[ryllen]

he still uses 'human' occasionally,

but it is deemed unacceptable on a few occasions

#sebek back then: HUMAN!!!!!! (ANGREY) #sebek now: human (affectionately) #twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst mc #starts imagining sebek whispering to ur ear 'may the blessing of the night be with you' hnggh #starts imagining yuu tear up when she heard that being said by his mother to her

[nickpeppermint]

#Mario #Super Mario #mother #mother series #mother 2 #earthbound #Ness #FNF #Friday night funkin #art #fanart #line art #meme #shitpost #discussion #hat #baseball cap #i know what you are #you ain't foolin nobody

[bbygirl-paul]

thinking about paul saying "we're harkonnens. so this is how we'll survive. by being harkonnens" and about jessica saying "your father didn't believe in revenge" and paul replying "yeah well i do" and how things can die even as they continue to draw breath and how the harkonnens really did kill off all three of the atreides that night not just leto

#dune really explores every possible way someone can die without actually dying #paul's childhood self dying the night his father did #his atreides heritage dying when he seeks revenge #paul himself dying when he drinks the water of life #jessica the wife dying the night leto did #jessica the mother dying when she drinks the water of life #the girl alia could have been dying in the womb #stilgar and the other fremen dying when they become followers #it's all connected y'all #dune #dune part 1 #dune part one #dune 1 #dune 2021 #dune 2024 #dune part 2 #dune part two #dune 2 #dune movie #dune series #paul atreides #paul #jessica atreides #jessica #lady jessica #muad'dib

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #matt smith #karen gillan #i miss them so much... #i'm listening to the latest diary of river song #and there's been a lot of 'asking river about her mother' situations and i'm just like ;____; #the story with river and jackie tyler and the krotons was very fun #anyways i'm very tired... my class went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch today #and it was raining all day #but i think they all had fun #ok bye good night friends

[daxwormzz]

LA DANSE MACABRE!

(Verses from “The Last Steampunk Waltz”, by Ghostfire.)

#Ive been wanting to do this piece for YEARS #surprise Skyrim art lol #Skyrim #cicero skyrim #skyrim fanart #elder scrolls #elder scrolls fanart #manuscript #my art #digital art #cw corpse #??? #I guess #the night mother

[moonsnqil]

tell me i'm not the only one who regularly has this thought

#like yes ik aftg is in 2006 yes ik andrew is 20 years old no i dont understand how that means he was born in 1986 #that makes him 38 years old present day #hes only 11 years younger than my mother #this actually keeps me up at night #im older than book andrew tho and somehow that adds to my late night thoughts #wait i think hes actually 37 present day since hes a november baby #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #andrew minyard

[judyalvqrez]

there was something really jim henson-esque and campy about how some of the non-human races were portrayed in the new dnd movie that i really enjoyed. they could’ve easily gone the shitty cgi route or just not shown those races up close at all, but no, they said you want a bird man? we’re gonna get you a bird man

#i just watched the movie last night! it was great :) #i rate it as FUN and COOL the only ratings that matter <3 #dnd movie #??whats the tag lmao #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dnd movie spoilers #honor among thieves spoilers #i guess jic #when i heard aarakocra i was for sure expecting they would just make it a human with wings maybe #imagine my pleasant surprise when this fraggle rock looking motherfucker showed up #and the dragonborn looked like he came straight out of the dinosaurs tv show which was v cool imo #the tabaxi mother and child were my favorites though they were so cute #shame they didn't put a little bit more of that creativity into doric's design #even just some bigger horns and some cool contact lenses would've been fun #still loved her though :p

[ihaveaboner]

Fav pics of Hayden, she's so gorg

#ethel cain #mother cain #hayden anhedönia #western nights #preachers daughter #southern gothic #mother #not my photo #american teenager #family tree #televangelism #house in nebraska #florida #gibson girl #august underground #ptolemaea #inbred #knuckle velvet #god's country #crush #two headed mother #unpunishable #michelle pfeiffer