#amashelle

[she-is-amused]

Hi! I recently commented on your communion poll that my church uses water, and you asked why. The answer was too big for a comment so I am sending it to you this way.

Full disclosure, I am part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (sometimes derogatorily and inaccurately called the ‘Mormon’ church). We use water for a lot of reasons, but it boils down to a revelation given to Joseph Smith:

‘it mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my glory—remembering unto the Father my body which was laid down for you, and my blood which was shed for the remission of your sins’ (Doctrine and Covenants section 27:2)

Due to the combination of historical circumstances that made it difficult to procure or produce flavoured drinks of any sort and a later revelation advising against drinking alcohol, water became the default sacrament drink.

That being said, I personally like the symbolism of water over grape juice. Christ refers to himself as living water, and the sacrament itself points to the baptismal covenant, which is obviously closely associated with water. And when you really think about it, Christ HAS turned water into wine, so it seems a symbolically appropriate substitute imo!

I hope this was helpful and informative :)

Aaaahhhh. Yeah that explains it well enough, thanks! :)

[xalatath]

Out of curiosity, what race(s) do you use as a base for your domenaars and brokers/ethereals?

I have my domanaar as a haranir shadow priest - the reason being that the shadowform makes it so only his silhouette really matters.

My brokers are lightforged draenei because the bottom of their hooves are metal and they have an option to be hornless.

Neither are accurate to their actual appearance but I was more concerned about them just being recognizable as brokers.

My ethereals are mag'har orcs. If you want a masc body type, void elves/blood elves and haranir work very well.

[silvermoonharry]

So if sin’dorei are sin’dorei

And ‘kaldori’ are forest sin’dorei

And ‘draenei’ are space sin’dorei

And ‘san’layn’ are traitor sin’dorei

What do we call everybody else?

"Lesser races!" - Silvermoon Harry

No okay, OOC answer time.. Ooo Thank you for the ask! Imma put it under a read more for the length and all that!

Starting with a slight correction, “Traitorous Sin’dorei” are ren’dorei/void elves. Since in “Harry’s mind” they had the perfect life. They were blood elves and they threw it all away and betrayed the blood elves in an effort to get more power!! (and if I accidentally labeled a san'layn as a velf..uhhh congrats, assigned new race at reblog!)

Then I have a "___ sin’dorei" or unique tag for anyone with pointy ears. For example,

Shal’dorei/Nightborne = Shiney sin’dorei. For obvious reasons. And keeping a spelling mistake joke running

Orcs = Big Ass Elves. Lol this tag was voted on in a poll I put up a while back.

Dracthyr = Dragon Tag. I haven't come up with anything quirky yet...I probably should ask the community again but then I fear going back in my history to edit all the tags. I hate when my stuff is improperly tagged or not tagged enough so I can find it easily...but I mostly use mobile and tagging is such a pain in the ass for my phone for some reason.

Kael = The Big Belf Himself. It felt fitting to give the most famous belf his own tag, ya know what I mean?

Trolls, I had used like "proto sin'dorei" off of the all elves evolving from trolls a gajillion years ago, but i didn't really care for that tag. and I really haven't come up with anything since. But I don't find myself reblogging trolls to often, so it's not been too much of a problem yet.

Arathi and Half elves used to have their own tag, but I lump them in with "Sin'dorei" now as like, Harry not being able to tell them apart. And inspired by one line in the Arathi area in TWW being like, "Boy, sure are a lotta blood elves around!" and the Arathi is like, "you dumb whore, we're warhammer! Half-elves!"

Then every other race without noticeably pointed ears I label as "Not an elf.." With two periods specifically...why? I really don't know...

[pigspeetsandhooflikefeets]

I would like to know more about your pipe painting project and why your teacher hated it so much.

(You said you’d elaborate if someone asked)

Of course! To set the scene, it's autumn of 2010. I have been diagnosed with depression and every teacher in the school was informed to treat me with child gloves (without my consent) and I have extremely little access to the internet and only used school computers for anything online. Everything else is me reading encyclopedias or edutainment pop culture osmosis. Ok good everyone knows now.

Art is a required class in 6th grade and won't be in 7th grade so I try to enjoy what I can. I didn't have an artistic bone in my body (at the time) so it's mostly trudging through and hoping for the best the entire semester. We're randomly assigned art partners for a project, and we're told with this partner we will have to recreate a painting or similar art piece of our choosing.

I turn to my partner (total stranger) and say "let's do the pipe painting!" She doesn't know it, so I explain The Treachery of Images to her and how I saw it in an art book I read at the library. My partner laughs and agrees, since she's not good at painting either. We rush up to the teacher and tell her our plan, expecting her to be impressed I knew such an obscure famous painting (I'm 11)

She immediately scowls and says if I don't know the painting's name I can't possibly like it enough. I tell her it says "this is not a pipe" in French, because it technically isn't A pipe, it's an IMAGE of a pipe. She doesn't care and sends us away in a huff, so I look in an art book in the art room for its name. When we come back with it, she says "it's barely a painting though. it's so easy a child could make it. why can't you do a better painting?" I argue I AM a child, and I think it's a good paining, so she relents and says fine, we can do it.

However, she never actually let it go. As we mix our colours to get the perfect shades, my art teacher loudly compliments girls at our table saying they chose such an INTERESTING painting, which isn't even EASY to replicate. They were painting The Son of Man, which IS an interesting painting, but like. Relax? When we're painting, she keeps saying "I don't think you're painting it big enough" and "your circles are flat" like AGAIN LADY, I'M 11. My art partner is extremely uncomfortable and unsure what's going on and asks if I know the teacher personally enough that she hates me (I don't)

Eventually, we present our painting (a week later I think) to the class at the front where we say the painting's name, the artist, when it was made, what medium, why we like it, etc. As soon as we proudly turn our painting to the class, my teacher immediately calls "well that's a simple painting!" and we just look at her like. Ma'am we haven't even started yet. I firmly state our painting choice WAS approved by the teacher, but she interrupts saying "but it's not a GOOD pick, is it?" One kid who wanted to be my friend SO bad as a kid was like "it looks like the painting!" in attempts to diffuse the situation. It didn't REALLY, but we were able to finish presenting.

I told my therapist about it at our next meeting and she was like "oh ^_^ she probably failed somewhere in her life and she takes it out on people because of a lack of complete control. ^_^ Don't take it personally" so I DIDN'T take it personally, and I didn't let her dislike of my preferences get to me, but what a stupid event to happen. JUST SAY I CAN'T DO THE PAINTING DON'T GET ALL PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE. I AM 11...

[xalatath]

You say brokers are robotgirls, and I hold that ethereals are ghostgirls.

I find this both absurd and beautiful in the very best way.

Both are technically ghostgirls, but brokers are ghostgirls with robotgirl chassis.

[xalatath]

I’ve identified as an elf virtually all my life.

I was born early, putting my birthday before Christmas, and I have very slightly pointed ears so I used to tell people I was born early so I could help Santa with some last minute toy making.

Then I read LotR and discovered the full inheritance of Elvenkind snd never looked back.

Yayyy!! So have I tbh. My dad read LOTR to me when I was a baby and I've identified as an elf for as long as I can remember...

[xalatath]

What’s a good name for a magical moth that acts as a familiar/companion to a priestess of a lepidoptera-themed goddess called Ariestra?

Its wings are about the size of an average female palm, so it’s quite large, and it has a sort of pinkish-grey-brown colouring.

As someone who loves insects, I thought you might have some ideas. I’ve been wracking my brain and nothing seems quite right.

Looking through names of species/genera is always a good bet. I am looking at some Saturniids (which are what most people will picture when thinking of a large moth) and found a few that sound nice. Epiphora, Rohaniella, Eudaemonia, Therinia, Caio, Arias, Hylesia, etc... these are from Wikipedia but bugguide.net can also tell you what the names mean sometimes.

Hopefully this is helpful but tbh i am not great at naming things LOL I usually just take names from somewhere else or do it randomly...(shameful for an elf, i know)

[xalatath]

So how many active (not deleted) wow characters do you have?

(Sometimes I feel like I have too many and I never did have a ‘main’ but hearing you talk about all your characters makes me feel more normal about my collection)

I have a shit ton of alts that I've never played because when I was younger I was a name hoarder. I've reached the character limit multiple times and thats when I go back and delete some of them. The vast majority of them are not OCs though. Out of all I would say I probably have around 15 wow ocs that also exist in game, but the amount i actually rp would be even smaller. Probably like 8-9 of them I rp in varying amounts. But with OCs I develop the character BEFORE making them in game, and I know for a lot of people its the opposite. I just like to have a good idea of their whole deal before I commit to leveling a new character.

Uinen is my main tho and I do mostly everything on her despite IC not really being apart of the story in that way.

But I'd say you can never have too many OCs. Especially in WoW...half the fun is making your own stories in the setting.