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Happy Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus!!! A sentient cup of tea ~ Secretly Mothman ~ Catholic with ghostly tendancies~ many butterflies in a trenchcoat ~ One of Tolkien's "deplorable cultus" ~ Homeschool theatre kid turned adult Stage Manger of homeschooled theatre kids St. Therese, St. Faustina, St. Agnes, St. Philomena, and St. Joan of Arc are my squad.

[aspiringbabushka]

I spent way too much time on this

feel free to use. idc about credit that much but it would be cool if you did credit

[punkedsolar]

The Mallorn Trees of Lothlórien

"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey." - Legolas, Lord of the Rings

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

@aspiringbabushka and @ecceagnesdarling both tagged me in this a bit ago and i dont wanna do it twice or only reblog it from one of them so NEW POST

hair color: brown.

favorite color: Purple

favorite drink: tea with honey and milk or caramel coffee

one thing you love about yourself: the fact that I am finally figuring myself out and happy where I am

if you could be any animal, what would you be? a very dramatic house cat

dream place to visit: the British isles

one thing you're looking forward to: Designing the set for my theater group's latest play

biggest dream: getting married and having kids. maybe getting chickens and goats

song that's permanently on repeat: The entire Hadestown Soundtrack

[cryotrash]

Did you know that most plot holes can be fixed by making your characters canonically stupid

"This doesn't make any sense, why would he ever-" my man hasn't stumbled onto a thought in years

[rhysintherain]

Fun and easy ways to temporarily make your smart characters stupid:

Sleep deprivation

Drugs

Pretty girl

Pretty not girl

Hungry

Stressed out

Got bored and stopped listening

[brain-deadx0]

Im pretty sure Avatar the Last Airbender did most of these to Sokka

[hdgnj]

Also, someone else lied to our protag.

[ailithnight]

Pain can also temporarily nerf intelligence. : D

[simicseathief]

They’re teens, your honor.

[thelien-art]

The Istari

Radagast is moth inspired, while Pallando is inspired by the Tuareg people. I also made a mood board for each wizard, except Gandalf.

The size of the ball of light is determined by how much power they have, as I HC their staffs as a manifester of their Maiar power, since they are "trapped" in their mortal bodies.

Prints | Commissions | Support me on Ko-Fi; early access drawings + WIP + commission discounts

[thatbutler]

𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐄...! 𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐄, 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋!

[one-apathy-2]

𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒘

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[lillianite]

Amethyst, Epidote – Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico

[overclassy]

[yellow-cat]

the reason that wounds that break the skin hurt is because its always supposed to be dark inside your body and when your blood sees sunlight for the first time it gets scared. and that causes the pain. or maybe it doesnt

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Witch King: *to Gandalf* Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? 

Narrator: The Witch King would be dead in 15 minutes. 

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “The Givens”

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

modern medieval fantasies don't have enough weasel-based necromancy

[maniculum]

Please elaborate on this topic at length

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i think i've made my position clear

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

anyway here are some medieval discussions of weasels and their necromantic abilities:

gerald of wales: The weasel also, when its young are dying from any hurt, recovers and restores them to life by the use of a yellow flower. We are told by persons who have witnessed the fact, having put the whelp to death to make the experiment, that the weasel brought the flower in its mouth, and first applied it to the wound, and then to the mouth, nostrils, and other orifices of the little animal, that it might inhale the odor, by which, through the efficacious touch of the plant, breath was restored, though life seemed extinct, some slight and imperceptible vestiges of it only having remained.

aberdeen bestiary: it is said, also, that they are skilled in healing, so that if by chance their young are killed, and their parents succeed in finding them, they can bring their offspring back to life.

thomas of cantimpré: Accordingly they are said to be expert in all the arts of medicine, so that, if they find their offspring dead, they make them naturally recuperate by means of a herb

also in marie de france's lai eliduc, guildeluec uses a flower she got from a weasel that was resurrecting its weasel friend to resurrect guilliadon

conclusion:

behold, a necromancer

[more about medieval weasel beliefs]