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[red-hot-temper]

Callisto Regulus' puppy face♥️

That's the post✨

[eckharts]

If the second prince's name was Franz then Callisto could name his second daughter Frances which is just distinct enough to be its own name but at the same time is clearly a reference and he could do it to represent the sibling relationship he and the second prince could have had through Judith and the second daughter

[tourdion]

classic post rant quora phrase

[syneilesis]

[drabble] 013. Guess

013. Guess

The Fantasie of a Stepmother | Shuri Von Neuschwanstein x Nora Von Nuremberg | G | 502 words

It was a good day for a picnic, and Leon and Rachel had been vibrating with excitement since morning. Elias tried to look cool and unconcerned, but Shuri caught him glancing towards the woods every ten seconds or so. The crossbow was obvious on his person, too. Jeremy began keeping them in line once the kids started to neglect the food, half-eaten in favor of playing openly in the field.

Nora was there, like an honorary family member, always a steady figure amidst the chaos of the children. A sketchpad and pencil on his hands, he cut a sharp figure in the landscape. Shuri found her sight drifting over his direction, but whenever he looked up from his drawing her head would whirl away, inexplicably anxious about the idea of getting caught.

But later, her concerns proved to be futile because Shuri had to approach Nora anyway, once Jeremy chased after Elias, who was chasing after Leon and Rachel, who made a game out of something Shuri didn't hear.

“Lady Shu.” Nora put aside the sketchpad and smiled up at her. “Do you need me to get them?”

Nora always knew what she felt somehow. As though he could read her mind, and oftentimes he had an answer ready before she could even ask him something.

Struck by a whim, Shuri replied instead: “Nora, you seemed so serious with your drawing. May I ask what it is?”

Slowly, Nora’s cheeks darkened, but he deftly ignored his own reaction. Another smile, and “Would you like to guess, Lady Shu?”

Off-center, Shuri stared at him. An answer itched its way across her tongue, but she bit the response back before she could utter it.

Nora took the sketchpad back and turned the pages. Shyly he presented the drawing.

“Oh.” Heat crawled under her skin, from the base of her neck and up, up, up to her face.

It was a sketch of her, watching her children, soft warmth in her expression. Each stroke belied an aching tenderness that only someone in love could create. Shuri wanted to trace the lines that shaped her profile on the paper, wanted to feel the care Nora made in hatching the shadows on the skin, clothes, hair.

Nora was now rubbing the back of his neck as the prolonged silence grew to be awkward for him. Shuri hastened to salvage the moment.

“It's beautiful,” she hurried to say. Then, with mustered courage, added, “You always see me as someone more than what I usually feel.”

Nora started at her reply. “Of course, Lady Shu,” he said, full of conviction, full of meaning. “To me, you've always been someone who's –”

He paused, suddenly flustered. Then he shot up and stumbled in the direction of the children.

“I’ll get the kids now, Lady Shu. I'll be back!”

Shuri watched Nora jogged over to Jeremy, her heart beating out of her chest. Next to her the sketchpad laid open, her own face looking back at her, bright under the afternoon sun.

[eckharts]

the shock of seeing a mutual from this blog reblogging my other blog's posts

[eckharts]

My personal silly little theory is that the Laila and Ancient Mages were actually one group at some point looong ago, and the Laila just chose to pursue using others' life forces (and slowly became less human due to that) while the Ancient Mages used their own.

To make this work, I'm (dubiously) interpreting Winter sensing something similar to the Laila's demonic energy when Penelope casts spells as the Ancient Mages using their life force rather than mana. Winter's explanation on mages being mana users while the Laila are life force users could very well be wrong with respect to the Ancient Mages since they're all dead. It could be that it's easy for modern mages to assume Ancient Mages were more similar to them (good) than the Laila (evil). The Ancient Mages also never corroborate his story + there's the case of Penelope never using mana.

[eckharts]

#See I’ve always been curious if winter saying he felt “demonic energy” from Penelope was an accurate translation#or if that’s just how it was translated to make winter’s suspicions about penny seem more reasonable#I don’t know Korean so I can’t say if there might be a less loaded (for lack of a better word) term than demonic

-- @kibo-ichiro

Right!! Both Tapas and IZE Press use demonic but that could be IZE Press referencing Tapas when translating. But if we assume it is the best translation choice, then it really does imply that a) modern Eorkans are unaware of how the Ancient Mages' magic felt like, and b) it seems closer to the Laila's magic (which they would naturally classify as demonic).

As another, unrelated, point: the followers of Laila create monsters and (iirc), we don't see anyone except the Ancient Mages also do that (for more innocuous reasons lol).

[eckharts]

My personal silly little theory is that the Laila and Ancient Mages were actually one group at some point looong ago, and the Laila just chose to pursue using others' life forces (and slowly became less human due to that) while the Ancient Mages used their own.

To make this work, I'm (dubiously) interpreting Winter sensing something similar to the Laila's demonic energy when Penelope casts spells as the Ancient Mages using their life force rather than mana. Winter's explanation on mages being mana users while the Laila are life force users could very well be wrong with respect to the Ancient Mages since they're all dead. It could be that it's easy for modern mages to assume Ancient Mages were more similar to them (good) than the Laila (evil). The Ancient Mages also never corroborate his story + there's the case of Penelope never using mana.

[probuccalfat]

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

[probuccalfat]

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

[colddraftt]

India is being left to die in the heat

Modi denied climate change for years. Now, as heat deaths mount, his government offers branding instead of protection.

[cactusringed]

But seriously though. Learning to draw fat people will make you a much better artist. Understanding how skin and fat behaves and folds in certain poses, and being able to adapt complex poses to fit a fat body (as usually references are with thin models) will help you TREMENDOUSLY. Drawing fat being properly affected by gravity will aid you in ALL figure drawing in the future. Like if you have any sort of interest in drawing humanoid figures (AND furries) you really ought to learn how to draw fat of all kind.

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

you make one fucking post where the point is “women are encouraged to develop disordered eating from a very young age and that impacts how we view the ‘natural’ size and shape of women” and too many reblogs later i am being accused of saying short people wouldn’t exist if they ate better growing up. i’m sorry but if you genuinely think i was saying that you are just a buffoon. i cannot and will not sanction your buffoonery.

[crxno0]

NOSHU!!!

[birdplushie]

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

[warcrimesimulator]

[penelope-eckhart-my-beloved]

Penelope Eckhart in episode 214 🌹♥️

[eckharts]

I do NOT play about Nora von Nuremberg

[eckharts]

JerShu's can leave a dozen comments per hour about how Shuri would definitely pick Jeremy if he wasn't her stepson but you make one saying that she chose Nora because he's the one person she can rely on & be understood by since day 1 and they'll complain about how unfair it is for NorShu fans to make exaggerated claims.

[eckharts]

I do NOT play about Nora von Nuremberg

[the-mad-dog-of-eckhart]

SOUL's message regarding the completion of the main story of the webtoon VADTD with episode 214!

Congratulations to SUOL-nim for all her effort and work these past 6 years!