beneath the lunar sway

37. i write, i read, i reblog pictures of elves.

[allysdelta]

When the Tumblrites cry "it's that chocolate guy!" that's Amaury

[writingdose]

© _ADWills

[marieyakumo]

i may have gotten a little bit lost

[yuripuppy]

Where are yall writing?

[just-spacetrash]

in my little pony universe youd go to a job interview and theyd be like so how does your cutiemark reflect your dedication to this position. And every time youd have to spew some bullshit about how your cutiemark of two tennis rackets actually means youre a team player and good at multitasking and view the market like a playing field. or whatever. and you wouldnt even get the job

[fvckw4d]

Thanks to Equestria v Sugar Sprinkle, cutie mark interview questions are considered hiring discrimination, so if anypony asks you any cutiemark related questions or even alludes to any questions about your cutiemark such as "In your own words, describe your life purpose" you can and should refuse to answer. Know your rights, ponies.

[centrally-unplanned]

Equestrian case-law on this is pretty spotty though. Most decisions like Equestria vs Sugar Sprinkle, or Belle vs Glimmer, are slapdash additions to the legal code after the Saddle Arabian Oil Crisis ushered in the collapse of the command economy. Constitutional law clearly had no provisions for "cutie mark discrimination" given that the previous economic order was literally propping up empty nightclubs with subsidies just to generate jobs for all the ponies whose "true calling" was being a fucking DJ! And while the "Invisible Hoof" Faction did their best to throw together a series of bills to saddle the rough ride into a free market economy, it was absolutely a "results over proper procedure" affair. And they *certainly* never had the supermajority of the High Council they would have needed to enshrine any of those bills in the constitution!

Now that we are ~30 years out from those heady days, and "maintain the social order at all costs" is no longer the name of the game, do you really wanna be the poster child for the Discord Faction's brand new Celestia's Court petition to overturn precedent? Push this too far and we are gonna be back to the days of firing Earth Ponies from white collar jobs for "lacking cultural fit". Nopony wants that!

Keep it chill out there if it isn't egregious, is all I am saying.

[caz-the-yarncromancer]

I had to do the GTA Girl meme too lol

[caz-the-yarncromancer]

this is now on a friend's wall. perfection

[rozieette]

i usually dont post comms but this one was the most fun ive ever did so im eager to show. customer wanted "something dunmeresque" without specifying, so my mind went straight to a camonna tong lair (with a prominent member of a certaing other tong lurking in the shadows 🕷) TR interiors were a huge inspiration too

close ups:

i am especially enamoured by this bartender guy... something uniquely and unpleasantly charming about him

the gilf ofc... oh he was a delight to do. also that red haired evil lady in the bg i lowkey need her

this guy got on my nerves smmmmm. somebody steal these slave keys from him asap

cmm info

[goodwounded]

have you heard about the

Russian Morrowind Musical?

now you have and now you should watch it. there are subtitles.

here's a link to a reddit post that will show you the way.

please. the implications in this thing. this stageplay can fit so many goddamn interpretations in it i tell you what. you will not regret your time.

[hurricane-eva]

[notbecauseofvictories]

my sewing machine does exactly one thing, and yet every single time I try to sew something with it I feel like I've put my baby in the pelican's mouth. over and over again.

[notbecauseofvictories]

sewing Machine perfec t for sewing straight l/ines! machine very Accurate and Level lines so so straight so easy to use Sewing Machine. Sew Straight Lines with Sewing Machine. no problems ever in macchine because good Shape and Whir noise for fast fast lines. Asewing Machine yes a place for making straight lines sewing lines can trust sewing machina for giveing good love to fabric. friend sewing machine

[unhelpfultarot]

Two of Wands and Eight of Pentacles

The initial impulse is easy and quick, and then it takes a lot of steady work to get things properly made.

[unhelpfultarot]

Eight of Swords and Knight of Swords

Ah. The e-mail has found you.

[meowthiroth]

y'know what fuck it *opens an oblivion gate on your dash*

[emblazonet]

“I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. I am sure it is joy. The first time I felt it, I thought I was going to die. I said to the Red Bull, ‘I must have that. I must have all of it, all there is, for my need is very great.’”

~ The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

[herpsandbirds]

Velvet-purple Coronet (Boissonneaua jardini), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Ecuador

photograph by Brian Zwiebel

[mazurah]

Welcome to Seyda Neen

“Ahh yes, we’ve been expecting you.”

“You’ll have to be recorded before you’re officially released.”

“There are a few ways we can do this, and the choice is yours.”

“Very good. The letter that preceded mentioned you were born under a certain sign. And what would that be?”

“Interesting. Now before I stamp these papers, make sure this information is correct.”

“Show your papers to the Captain when you exit to get your release fee.”

Welcome to Vvardenfell, n’wah.

[askaniritual]

when i wake up remind me to make a post about the lack of blood in utena and what it means to have a world where suffering can only be beautiful or hidden

[askaniritual]

oh i should probably finish this thought lmfao. anyway of course there r the genre limitations of a shojo not being expected to show much blood, and of course the fact that the wounds caused in the duels are largely spiritual rather than physical. but there’s also something about how the entire world theyre inhabiting has a false quality to it: it’s a stage, an endless and eternal play where akio is the director. because the characters operate inside akio’s construction, wounds are only allowed to be as “real” as anything can be in this world. there’s no true bloodshed in a stage play after all; the characters need to be able to get up and perform again the next night.

i also think it signifies akio’s perpetual immaturity in its unwillingness to deal directly with difficult subjects. akio, as much as any of the other characters, is trapped at the school, perpetually unable to “graduate” and thus deal directly with the real world.

instead, bloodshed is transferred to the rose petals. losing your rose in the duel indicates an erosion of self, a loss of innocence, and anthy’s role as the gardener indicates her complicity in the violence of the duel games. is made even clear by the moments of real violence that are obscured by the endless spinning roses and reinforced in adolescence of utena when we see the dueling grounds now covered in a field of red roses, signifying the “bloodshed” that has occurred across countless duels.

[askaniritual]

oh i guess i should also add in contrast to the performative, beautiful violence of watching roses blow away on the breeze is the very real violence hidden at the center of the story: anthy, trapped by hundreds of swords piercing her, rendering her unable to move. violence against anthy is the mechanism that keeps the whole performance spinning, so that duels can be about flowers