#percolation

[kylacloete]

17 April 2024: Sponge & Mirrors

Along with it’s pretty autumn days and gentle sunshine; its bright surprises of flowers blooming in the garden; its cool evenings and crisp mornings; April has brought a sense of absorption. I am reading and absorbing and listening a lot. To the point that stillness is the only way to assimilate all the new information. As if my entire being is in a state of downloading – perhaps May will be a…

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#absorbtion #April #consciousness #mirrors #percolation #quietness #reflection #soak up #sponge #stillness #transcend

[devonellington]

Thurs. Dec. 14, 2023: Time to Get Cozy

image courtesy of  Jill Wellington via pixabay.com Thursday, December 14, 2023 Waxing Moon Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter, Mercury Retrograde Cloudy and cold 18F this morning. Brrrr. You can read the latest on the garden over at Gratitude and Growth. Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain. Episode 146: Chasing the Portal Jumper Raggedy portals cause as much danger as the person who tore…

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#ANGEL HUNT #Anne Truitt #book reviews #Legerdemain #notes #percolation #posting #Process Muse #tarot circle #tech issues #THE LIGHTHOUSE LADY #YIELD

[huariqueje]

Moka with Tiles - Kenny Harris ,  2023.

American, b. 1974 -

Oil on canvas on panel , 36 x 28 cm.

#Kenny Harris #american artist #coffee percolator #tiles #morning coffee

[andrewx100]

冯奚乔关于弹性逾渗的工作

冯奚乔是谁？网上并不缺少资料。巧合的是，我由于研究方向的缘故，比较了解他的成名工作，即关于弹性逾渗的临界指数问题。 临界现象（critical…

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#gelation #percolation

[reineydraws]

mishanks sketch dump bc ive been doodling them to de-stress or when i need a break from other pieces lately ✨️

#mishanks #akataka #dracule mihawk #shanks #akagami no shanks #red haired shanks #mihawk #one piece #one piece fanart #the two of them in fancy vests are based off the costumes from the production of great comet i saw at the start of the year #am i percolating on some sort of mishanks fic mihawk pov based on 'dust and ashes'? ...maybe. #im scheduling this for when i am on a plane with the hope that by the time i once again have wifi there will be at least one nice tag lol #here's hoping :') #i scheduled this to post at 3:09 lmao #theyre married ur honour

[angel-derangement]

colours

#my art #spn #supernatural #castiel #can you believe this two artworks from me in a year. incredible. #i saw a post about this aaaages ago and knew it would percolate in my brain until it squeezed out #and it has squeezed! #anyway enjoy

[onefootin1941]

Royal Rochester Coffee Percolator 1929.

#art deco #coffee percolator #royal rochester #1929

[firelxdykatara]

sorry not sorry but i'm actually completely fine with getting a version of katara where she wasn't parentified at eight years old (something that was lampshaded but never actually unpacked or presented as something she shouldn't have gone through, it was in fact not part of her arc to work through this in the original show and the proof of that is in the fact that she was shoved into an endgame 'romance' with someone for whom she'd expressed no romantic interest, even when prompted, and whom she spent a large portion of the show mothering). a katara who still had to deal with the trauma of her mother's death, but without having to become her own mother and her brother's mother on top of it in her place. katara whose struggle with waterbending is rooted in trauma, because her power is what her mother was killed for, her mother who died protecting her. katara who struggles to be taken seriously not because she's a silly girl with magic water but because her brother still sees her as his baby sister who needs him to be strong and she desperately wants him to lean on and trust her because that's what she needs to be able to grow.

and i like getting to see sokka actually behaving like a big brother! sokka whose responsibilities to his people and to his sister are treated seriously, rather than as fodder for jokes. sokka who is still a dork and a goofball and a pragmatist but underneath it all is that fear that he isn't actually good enough--that his family and his village don't actually need him, and who is he if his own sister is grown and doesn't need him anymore either? (sokka who is terrified of katara learning to bend not because he doesn't take her power seriously but because that's exactly what got their mother killed, and it's so, so obvious they've had that fight many times before.)

are they the exact same characters we got in the original cartoon? no, but i never expected them to be and frankly i didn't want them to be. something that every fanfic writer doing an AU or canon divergence has to grapple with is how would having these different experiences change the way this character behaves and interacts with and perceives the world. do i think the live action did it perfectly? no, but then the original show was far from perfect to begin with and i never expected perfection in this adaptation.

what i do think, though, is that i can see where certain creative decisions were made and the resulting ripple effect, i can understand the logic behind them--and i can enjoy the end result, because a lot of it is stuff i've rolled around in my brain in the past anyway. and what i really want to see is where things are headed in the future.

#atla #atla la #katara #sokka #im a natla apologist at this point #gonna do a more comprehensive overview of my thoughts later on probably im still letting stuff percolate #but i had a great time and really enjoyed what we were given

[lady-harrowhark]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Gideon’s blood and the Tomb. I’ve got two points here that dovetail somewhat…

Let’s review some key events. I realize these probably seem a bit all over the place, but I do believe they come together. I’ve tried to put these in roughly chronological order.

John attempts to consume the soul of the Earth, and then creates a physical body for Alecto: “I ripped half my ribs from my body and made you from the dirt, my blood, my vomit, my bone.”

Ten thousand years later, Gideon and Harrow duke it out. The initial recollection of the fight says that “Harrow had scratched until she’d had half of Gideon’s face beneath her fingernails.” The more candid HtN version has Gideon telling us, “You clawed my face so bad that my blood ran down your hands; my face was under your fucking fingernails.”

Harrow opens the Tomb with Gideon’s (read: John’s) blood on her hands.

Harrow sees Alecto, falls in love with her, and decides to live. 

At some point while in the Tomb, Harrow apparently kisses Alecto: “She hadn’t come on purpose; the scrap of black-eyed meat had asked for it—the chain of a kiss: the ice that burnt the flesh of the mouth that had stuck to the mouth that was frozen.”

At Canaan House, Ianthe ascends and tells the others that step six of the process is to “consume the flesh. Not the whole thing, a drop of blood will do to ground you.”

Harrow’s letter tells her she owes Ianthe “the favour of the chain”, which extends “into the House, but NOT into the Tomb.” The agreement takes precedence over any oaths sworn to others, including John, except for the Holy Corpse.

Harrow kisses Ianthe to inspect her jaw and re-swears the oath.

Harrow’s Nova AU has her retrieving the chain of Samael from the Anastasian. This is considered a sin severe enough that the Reverend Father whips her, but she is allowed to keep the chain. Denied the role of Reverend Daughter, Harrow tells Ortus that she is “the unfulfilled vow and the bloody teeth of the unkissed skull.”

Alecto kisses Harrow, bites her, and recognizes her by her blood - the blood of Anastasia’s line. Alecto tells Harrow that she is very sorry about Samael, and she vows the favour she had promised to Anastasia to Harrow.

We see over and over this theme of consuming another life, whether body or soul: we get two sides of this coin when we compare Gideon’s “All I ever wanted you to do was eat me” to John’s statement that “it’s the human instinct, to take.” Consuming the flesh is, per Ianthe, one of the steps to taking in a cavalier’s soul and becoming a Lyctor, directly paralleling John consuming the Earth, both physically when he eats dirt and spiritually when he takes in her soul. Thus far, though, we don’t know how or if Harrow consumed Gideon’s flesh in the interim between chapters 36 and 37 of GtN. 

But here’s what I’ve been wondering: assuming Ianthe is correct (and telling the truth) about the steps to becoming a Lyctor, to what extent does the order and timing actually matter? I think there’s a distinct possibility that Harrow had consumed Gideon’s flesh years before they even came to Canaan House.

Because Harrow had Gideon’s face under her fingernails. And Harrow bites her nails.

HtN, chapter four:

You held your left hand up before your face, before the light, the even white light with its hot tungsten filaments. The thumbnail was whole and even. Too even? Were you wont to chew your fingernails still, that unattractive tic of your girlhood?

And again in chapter twenty-one:

She took off her gloves, and with the edges of her fingernails - bitten to the quick, and never much help - she started to prise open one wrinkled corner.

If the steps do not have to be completed strictly in order, Harrow may very well have already checked off step six if she were biting her nails with Gideon’s flesh and blood still clinging to them.

The other thing going on here is that we get these repeated connections between chains and favours and kisses. I don’t feel like we have quite all the pieces yet to draw any definitive conclusions, but it seems that the favour of the chain may have something to do with the Reverend Family’s vow to protect the Tomb. Particularly, Harrow describing herself, sans Reverend Daughter title, as “the unfulfilled vow” as she wields the chain of Samael lends itself to this interpretation. I also find it very interesting that this unfulfilled vow is paired with “the bloody teeth of the unkissed skull” given that upon waking, Alecto kisses Harrow, bites her, and draws blood which then allows her to recognize Harrow as one of Anastasia’s descendants.

Before that kiss, though, there was another. Alecto describes being called back by Harrow’s kiss, presumably when she broke into the Tomb as a child. I have to wonder if blood was playing a role here too. Alecto says that Harrow’s flesh stuck on her frozen lips, that the ice burned her. If this kiss also drew blood, it could be that the blood of Anastasia’s line was the key to calling her back. However, there may have been someone else’s blood on Alecto’s lips that day. If Harrow had been biting her nails, which she’d earlier used to claw Gideon’s face, she very well may have had Gideon’s blood in her mouth as well. As John’s daughter, her blood was able to open the Tomb. Was it able to call Alecto as well? Could “the chain of a kiss” be referring to Harrow transferring John’s blood between Gideon and Alecto?

Overall, it seems like we’re circling something akin to a blood oath or living blood ward. The thalergetic nature of blood certainly aligns with the symbolism of life and light that we see connected to the Earth and Alecto, in contrast to the thanergy that John cultivates. Alecto’s physical form is derived from John’s blood, and his power is derived from her soul. If indeed a kiss and a few drops of John’s blood, shepherded into the Tomb by Gideon and Harrow, are enough to call Alecto, I cannot even imagine the pyrotechnics show that we’re in for now that he’s had a run-in with the business end of her sword.

#i've had the nail biting = step six thing percolating since pre-nona days #but the chain of a kiss part didn't hit me until the other day #at which point i quite literally froze in my tracks to process #i can't really blame harrow though. breaking into an apocalypse-initiating tomb would be a real nail-biter #(sorry i just think puns are funny automatically) #i do think there's a good chance they were already partway to lyctorhood by the time they got to the First #pre-lyctors. if you will. #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #gideon nav #alecto #alecto the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta

[baphometsgirlcock]

re: that last post. there are people with penises who never want to penetrate, same as there are people with vaginas who never want to be penetrated. and for tme trans people, please make sure you’re doing your part to listen and validate your tma partners and friends. respect and love your local transfem who uses a strap on cause can’t they get hard enough for long enough to do penetrative sex, and/or has bottom dysphoria. respect and love your local transfems who have or want bottom surgery. respect and love your local intersex transfems. respect and love your transfems with physical disabilities.

just generally like. stop treating us as tops by default or assuming that we want or are able to penetrate you with our default equipment. like im a stone top because i CHOSE to be, because i enjoy topping, not because i’m predisposed to it. plus, im not going to enjoy penetrative sex without using a strap-on, and i hate that there’s not more love for transfems with straps. that there’s not more love for transfem bottoms. that there’s not more love for post-op and intersex transfems. it drives me fucking insane.

tme people reblog this but spare me your hot takes

#anyway sorry this has been percolating for a while #shoutout to g-dlikedyke #for inspiring me to go off

[muffinlance]

Progress report:

Scaled Over (the Dragon Zuko fic): 30% done, I am tentatively aiming to finish the final chapter this weekend so I can add that sweet sweet "complete" to the work

Blindsiding Badgermoles and Towards the Sun: outlining next chapters, BB especially still needs a little think time to get the scenes in order

Fox's Tongue: next chapter totally written, saving editing for Monday night or if my brain is too bleh for real writing

#Cheating at Pai Sho: outlining/thinking #Overall needs more sex workers so I'll let it keep percolating #so close to Toph #and then I'll have TWO active stories with Toph being a gremlin #DELIGHTFUL #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko #Toph #fox's tongue and kirin's bone

[oliveroctavius]

I'm realizing it's popularly accepted that ATSV Hobie is a gadgeteer genius who made those replacement portal-watches himself, but I've been running on comicsverse lore...

...and assumed that Riri of his home dimension did the actual building from the materials he's been swiping, and the "do you think that did anything important?" line was not, in fact, a joke on his part

#I actually have a convoluted idea in my head of these two working together even pre-movie on stuff stolen from nueva york... #but hopefully that's saved for a short fic I'm percolating #spider punk #hobie brown #atsv spoilers #spiderverse

[huariqueje]

Hello Bread  -  Kayla Martel , 2022.

Irish, b. 1980s

Oil, 55 x 45 cm.

#Kayla Martel #irish artist #still life #breakfast still life #breakfast breed #jam #percolator

[ariadne-mouse]

Scavengers Reign creatures are like

silly little guy

silly little guy

silly little guy that has teeth and turns inside out

tiny whimsical idiot

big weirdo

bigger weirdo

colossal weirdo

the tragedy and ecstasy of existence but as a flower

silly little guy

your actual worst nightmare

no really what the fuck what is that oh my god RUN

silly little guy

silly little guy

si-

#scavengers reign #op #look after bingewatching the series my brain is percolating shitposts and you're just gonna have to see them

[otrtbs]

womp womp

it's not about the paintings! it's not about the paintings!

#nobody question the things that r brewing in my cauldron brain #the ideas that r percolating in my coffee pot head

[cerayanay]

Wash and Carolina are sooo funny imagine that guy from your first job that was kinda lame and bad at his job and everyone kinda treated like the little brother. The cashier that was bad with customers and forgot how to use the register. The busboy at a 3 star restaurant that broke glasses every night. The fresh graduate at your office job who lied about using excel and is honestly just a personality hire.

Then some drama happens and everyone quits and you kinda forgot about him in all the chaos. 10 years later you find out he was there til the company went under it traumatically changed him. Like you don’t see the light in his eyes. The shit he went through doesn’t even look good on his resume. They didn’t even pay overtime.

You find this out because he started hanging out with your little brother and his friends. They think he’s cool. But you remember when he asked if a 401k is $400,000 saved for retirement

#rvb #the fic is percolating #red va blue