#theme: naming

[araekniarchive]

A web about how cats are incredible and the best little silly companions

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

Anonymous, Pangur Bán (trans. Seamus Heaney)

Book of Hours, 15th century (link)

Kobayashi Issa, ‘Arise from sleep, old cat’ (trans. Peter Beilenson)

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Emperor Uda of Japan, writing about his new kitten in 889AD

via @eatsleepcrap (cut down to text only)

Found on the walls of a bookstore full of cats (via @tmmyhug)

Mamie Dickens, My Father as I Recall Him

The kitten mascot of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle in the hammock made for her by the ship's sailmaker, c. 1945 (via)

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Jean Cocteau

#webs #web weaving #theme: animals #theme: naming #theme: history #mine #requests #i'm actually hoping to get a pet soon and it'll probably be a cat so this was such a fun web to make #also yes i'm flexing my scrawny bachelors in history for all its worth #terry pratchett #pangur ban #seamus heaney #kobayashi issa #(and he actually has a ton of cat poems!!) #neil gaiman #emperor uda of japan #@eatsleepcrap #@tmmyhug #mamie dickens #charles dickens #l. m. montgomery #jean cocteau

[seasunandstar]

Audacity of the Lower Gods

I know salt marshes that move along like one big trembling wing. I've noticed insects shiny as gold in a blues singer's teeth & more keenly calibrated than a railroad watch, but at heart I'm another breed.

The audacity of the lower gods— whatever we name we own. Diversiloba, we say, unfolding poison oak. Lovers go untouched as we lean from bay windows with telescopes trained on a yellow sky.

I'd rather let the flowers keep doing what they do best. Unblessing each petal, letting go a year's worth of white death notes, busily unnaming themselves.

-- Yusef Komunyakaa

#poetry #yusuf komunyakaa #theme: nature #theme: naming #theme: letting go

[figueroths]

not to be a high elf apologist but ​i have to say it’s actually kinda sweet that old man both expected to see gorgug again and made intentional (albeit goofy) effort to get his name right even if the best that’ll come out of his own mouth is grape nip

#maybe it’s just irl connections too #but this old man who’s so out of touch because gorgug’s whole life will be the blink of an eye for him did actually think about him #and knew gorgug was bothered and truly chose the most dipshitted way to approach it with a yak bak but nonetheless did choose! #also it’s on theme with how many times brennan brought up that names are important #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy spoilers

[dykestache]

new heart bong 🫀

#photo diary #ok2rb #this purchase is essential to my weird freak girl 2024 plans of exploring n enjoying themes/motifs of organs meat consumption blood etc #you know :-) #the Flesh . and how it connects us. rituals . et cetera #this is also a lesbian stoner thirst trap . look at my butch hands 💋 #this is bong numero 5 i think i’ll name her carmilla 🧛🏻‍♀️ #weed #okay ehatever bye i love u #heart shaped

[lucidloving]

Twan Eng Tan, The Gift of Rain // Makoto Shinkai, Your Name // Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star // Pavana // Lang Leav, "Soul Mates" // S.E. Hall, Emerge // Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away // Hafiz

#theme: your heart is familiar #soulmates #for lack of a better word #web weaving #webs #web weave #webweave #studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #spirited away #your name #anime #poetry #aesthetic #prose #prose poetry #art #literature #book quotes #books #novels #novel quotes #quotes #love quotes #compilation #parallels #poem excerpt #poem #poems #writing

[egophiliac]

I saw comments that the new butler from Ridekamens look like Sebek

He...kinda does

I wasn't gonna say it, but. that was kind of my first thought when he was revealed. :') maybe this is what Sebek's older brother is doing these days? he ran off to buttle for secret agents at a superhero cafe? actually wait that would be rad as heck, I'll accept this headcanon

#art #twisted wonderland #ride kamens #i don't know how to tag this in a way that won't annoy literally everyone so uhhhh sorry about that #'but his surname is aijo' it's his SECRET AGENT NAME gosh you wanna blow his cover or what #...okay to be fair they're not really that much alike #beyond being green manservants themed after reptiles and having sorta similar hair and...well their personalities are different anyway #then again we have yet to actually experience leon so who knows #we'll be in the middle of a tense battle of good vs evil and he just appears behind us screaming GOSHUJINSAMA YOUR DRYCLEANING!!! #actually based on his description this seems pretty likely. hm.

[aquacomet]

Week 7 @daycarefriendpickup magma art! 🐸🌧

Decided this week to doodle up some art of @crabsnpersimmons raincoat Sun and Moon designs from their Rain or shine AU! The designs are super cute so I just had to doodle something up for them!

I wonder if they would make some little froggy friends while splashing in puddles, I can sure imagine they'd have fun hopping along with them!

Live Aqua reaction during breaks:

#aquadoodles #magma/aggie doodles #fnaf #fnaf au #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #frogs #I love when characters are given raincoats aaa #That first one took a while but was so much fun that I made two more doodles asjkf #would the lucky frog have a name? #hmm.. raindrop is the first thing that comes to mind following the drop theme #anyways - handing you a lucky frog

[ocean-returns]

You couldn't do a straightforward Human Nature plot set in the 12th Doctor era bc if 12 got fobwatched Clara would immediately steal his identity. Missy would also steal his identity. Absolutely insane Doctorfication possibilities.

Also, 12's forgotten memories canonically manifest as songs AND he's faceblind, so he wouldn't even have a dramatic dream journal full of half-remembered portraits, he'd just be hanging out in his university office shredding guitar solos while Bill (who he just met) is like "Wow, sick riff Professor Smith!" and he's like "Thanks, it's called I Dreamt I Rode a Dinosaur."

#doctor who #twelfth doctor #clara oswald #''Clara acquires the human Doctor as companion while publicly using his name'' is the obvious option but not the only one... #(The dramatic irony of John Smith not even considering he could be the Doctor bc She's Right There What Do You Mean?) #but honestly either Clara or Missy might fobwatch him against his will if they deemed it Necessary #and there'd probably be some kind of episode theme about The Importance Of Memories TM #I'm rambling now

[sofiaruelle]

Local Chicken man gets a warm greeting after a long day at work.

#Stardew valley #Stardew valley shane #sdv shane #stardew valley jas #sdv jas #the void chicken was raised by jas all by herself (with supervision ofc) and named him Belinda #Shane drinking from one of his chicken themed mug gifted to him by jas

[astearisms]

Huntress’s Moon 🌕

#did you know one of the many names of October’s moon is the Hunter’s Moon #I wanted to do this last month but didn’t have time until now #anyhow I thought it would be cool this year to do a Huntress version and I was also inspired by seeing a deeply golden yellow moon twice #in that month #it was lovely #last year my Hunter’s Moon themed art was with Hunter (haha) from TOH #my art #adventure time #huntress wizard #adventure time fanart #AT #also I really wanted to use fall colors in this piece and I’m pretty happy with it

[atu433b]

#tommy shelby #peaky blinders #wish i remembered in what context i saved these screenshots #other than sequentially naming each as 'poor thomas' #and i'm sure i'm missing a quite decent one or two in this theme. anyways. i love going through media a decade after release. also: #[christianizes him]

[palindrome-mystery]

Mizu's wave patterned belt is something she has had her whole life

It was the blanket she and her "mom" had been playing under

And it was also the blanket that lined her crib

#blue eye samurai #mizu #water is her name and also a common theme throughout the show #bes

[araekniarchive]

she's leaving home (bye, bye)

Sandra Cisneros, House on Mungo Street // Kevin Lucbert, Homes // The Chicks, Wide Open Spaces // Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

#webs #web weaving #theme: home #theme: absence #theme: growing up #theme: dependence #theme: letting go #theme: this i choose to do #mine #sandra cisneros #kevin lucbert #the chicks #rainbow rowell #requests #for the anon that asked for something about moving out :) #and @adalimones who requested something for leaving home #thanks to @juliaflame for correcting me on the name of sandra cisneros' book <3

[lanternbats]

I've been thinking about how much I actually dislike Damian becoming Batman as an adult and how I think it would be way more impactful for his character if he broke away from both of his parents and formed his own identity, which led me to "Well, who should become Batman then?" and well. What if nobody becomes Batman after Bruce steps down. The family carry on his mission, his message, but not his title, because Bruce helped them become something else, helped them become better than him. The goal was never to become the next Batman, it was for them to grow and learn and become their own people. Batman never dies, he is an eternal symbol, but one that they all wear instead of physically inhabit. I think as Bruce ages he should realise that Gotham doesn't need Batman, because now it has so much more than just Batman.

#bruce wayne #damian wayne #kit.posts #like at first gotham just has batman but now? it has batwomen batgirl nightwing red hood red robin spoiler oracle signal- #TO ONLY NAME. A FEW. #and then whatever damian wants to be #i know batman is a mantle they hand around but like the theme of identity and becoming who YOU'RE meant to be is one i really like #and i think it's more meaningful for batman to be retired because he's not needed now he has a family now gotham has protectors now #this is not a new thought but ya know i'm just thinking about it to distract from whatever the fuck the comics are doing right now

[dittydipity]

going INSANE. what is he thinking. why did he say this. why does he do all of this. i am thinking so hard.

we know he's seeking arceus to recreate the world bc in his eyes the world is cruel and unjust and it needs to be destroyed and remade. he's set himself on a mission to create the better reality he's envisioned for his whole life.

but everything else he does. the way he spends his time on pasio making people smile with togepi. even if he justifies it as something purely transactional to get more customers, we know he doesn't really take his merchant job seriously. the way he loves his pokemon so much that they will pop out of their pokeball to excitedly tell whoever will listen how much they love volo back. him trying to capture these moments of happiness tangibly because they never last long and can be wiped away any second.

he still hangs onto hope so much despite what's implied to have happened to him. in spite of all the anger and bitterness that's festered in him, he doesn't really want to destroy everything as he says.

it all started with a wish for the world to be a better place, for the good in the world to outweigh all the cruelty. he's still trying to spread what happiness he can.

but at the same time his past drags behind him and reminds him that he can't afford to trust in the goodness of the world.

that self-assigned mission to usurp arceus's power and rewrite everything.. to him, it's his duty now. he has to do it for himself and, as he rationalizes to himself, for the world.

so he ignores the flaws and holes he finds in his own reasoning. he can't help but seek out the brightness and happiness and goodness that does exist in the world, yet he has to dismiss it to justify his goals.

... all this to try and explain to myself why volo's asking all these questions and making all these comments that seem to go against what we'd expect given his ulterior motive and plans. and it's like he's asking the few friends he has to remember him as the one who seeks joy, even when he does the worst to fulfill his dreams

#am i coherent #can anyone hear me #does anyone else see my vision #does- [i am dragged outside and thrown into the trenches] #pla volo #pla #pokemon #pokemas #.d #realized 10 min later that i used the word “wish” and am once again getting hit by the celestic-lake guardian trio naming themes so hard #i feel nauseous #volo meaning “wish/want” and being a twisted version of azelf's motif of willpower #next to cogita and cynthia's respective roles for uxie and mesprit #never getting over this!!! #i'm crazy i'm CRAZZY #realization even later: can't believe i almost quoted kyubey madoka magica #when the Character makes you go #*kyubey voice* #“Even though you shouldn't have wanted to know the truth you can't help but chase after it. Human curiosity is really illogical.”

[sadbeautifulttragic]

the eras tour + karma jackets (x)

#Taylor swift #taylorswift #tswift #tswiftedit #my edits #networkthirteen #the eras tour #eras tour #karma #palette #these names are not as strong as the past few #but wanted to keep it karma themed #1k