#general information

[insomniacrori]

I've seen spoilers (Which was inevitable for me, I browse the tag a lot). Obviously I will stay silent, but I would also ask people to not discuss them in comments. I will delete if I see them.

[how-to-witchcraft]

General Information - How to Dispose of Offerings

Let me start by saying that there is no one correct way to dispose of offerings. Different people on different paths dispose of them in different ways. A large part of it has to do with accessibility for certain disposal methods.

In the vast majority of cases, it is appropriate and acceptable to dispose of your offering once it has been received. Some practitioners say that they wait for a certain feeling that they get, for some it's an energetic signature, for others it's an emotional feeling, and they will take that feeling as an indication that the energy from the offering has been consumed by the entity they are offering it to. Other practitioners leave it for a certain amount of time, usually an amount of days that corresponds numerologically with the desired outcome, especially if they're offering is one of reciprocity. Still others will leave it for an amount of days that corresponds numerologically with that entity, if there is such a correspondence.

Some practitioners will leave it until it gets old, it starts to shrivel, or mold starts sprouting, at least if it is organic or something that deteriorates. They will consider that to be an indicator that it has been consumed. There are some cases in which an offering will sit on an altar for an extended period of time because it does not shrivel, mold, or decay at a normal rate. Many practitioners who have this happen consider it to be a sign that their entity is enjoying it for a prolonged period of time. I have even seen some practitioners keep things like apples and other food stuff on their altar for months at a time, just waiting for it to show signs of decay. Many of these practitioners consider the extended decay times to correlate with how much the entity likes that offering; the longer it takes to decay, the more they like it.

If the offering is being left out for a short period of time and it is consumable, it is normal for some practitioners to consume it as a form of disposal. Modernly, this is usually part of a waste not mentality. In Kemeticism, modern practitioners mirror what ancient practitioners did, taking the consumable offering after it is believed the essence has been consumed by the entity, and then passing the offering around the priests and temple staff, or simply to the practitioner and maybe their family in modern times, as a blessed and sacred meal. In Hellenic polytheism, it is also common for the practitioner to consume the offerings as a shared meal with the Gods, though not all Hellenists follow this. The Gods were thought to consume the parts people couldn't eat, bones, fat, aroma, etc; and the people ate the rest. In Nordic Polytheism, it was also normal to eat the animal sacrifices after their blood was used to consecrate altars and people, the sacrificial meat would be shared in communal feasts to strengthen the bond between the community members.

All throughout antiquity, people by and large consumed edible offerings after they were offered to their entities. This was normal and expected. Many modern practitioners follow this route and will consume their offerings. For some reason that I haven't quite figured out yet, though, many modern practitioners refuse to consume their edible offerings because they feel it is disrespectful to the entity to 'take what belongs to the entity for themselves'.

Some consumable offerings, and some other offerings that are capable, are burned as a way to release their essence to the entity. Ancient Greece would burn animal sacrifices and some of their offerings, consumables, spells, etc. Ancient Egyptians primarily burned incense, not food. Consumables and other offerings were burned by ancient Nordic cultures, too. Some modern practitioners refuse to consume offerings as they see it as rude, greedy, or gluttonous, or stealing as it is taking what belongs to the entity.

Buried offerings were used frequently for offerings for the dead in ancient Hellenic, Kemetic, and Nordic Polytheism. They were also, less commonly, buried for deities across all three. In modern times, it is considered good form to bury offerings for Hekate and other cthonic deities, specifically at a crossroads.

Modern practitioners toss biodegradable offerings into moving water as a form of disposal. Ancient Greek practitioners would throw offerings in the rivers, the sea, or sacred springs. Ancient Egyptian practitioners disposed of libations sometimes by pouring them into the Nile. Ancient Norse cultures would dispose of some offerings in rivers, lakes, bogs, and other bodies of water.

Some practitioners only follow the consume, bury, burn methods of offering disposal, seeing those as the only respectful methods. Other practitioners, especially those who don't have access to land to bury things on, pits or safe places to burn things, or are offering non consumables, will instead throw the offerings away once they've been energetically spent.

This has actually caused discourse in the wider theistic witchcraft and pagan communities, as some people see throwing away the offerings once done to be highly disrespectful, equating that entity to no better than trash, and citing that ancient people did NOT throw away offerings into the trash due to their sacred, blessed nature.

Others defend the throw away method, saying that times have changed, access to certain methods of disposal simply aren't feasible for many modern, especially urban or city-based practitioners, and that once an offering has been used, if it's not something reusable like jewelry you wear on honor of that entity or to keep that entity close, that offering has no more use to the entity and is free to be disposed of as necessary. They cite that it isn't about respect or disrespect, it's about necessity, efficiency, and functionality. Especially for practitioners who are in the broom closet.

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r. sukuna

nothing | angst

control | angst

y. itadori

mochi & exorcisms | funny

t. fushiguro

tit for tat | angst, toxicity

g. satoru

curtain of grief | angst

g. suguru

dynasty | angst

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k. tetsuro

crimes against chad | crack

a. miya

a bit of a pickle | crack(ish)

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k. bakugo

uncharted territory | angst

uncharted territory pt. 2 | angst

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j. kirstein

waves | angst

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General Information - Slenderman Mansion Residents

All of the information written for each character are merely headcanons from my Creepypasta AU! Characters are not mine to claim and belong to their rightful owners!

Some of these characters may be written differently than how most people write them. But again, all of the characters written here are based on my creepypasta AU. Though I will leave a 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴!!

𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

"The Slenderman | The Operator" (Master of the Mansion) [age unknown] | 8'5" | Male-presenting | Supernatural Entity

creator: Victor Surge

𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧

"Masky" [Timothy Joshua Wright] (Head Proxy | Partnered Proxy with Hoodie) 28 | 5'9" | Male | Enhanced Human

creator: Marble Hornets

𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞

"Hoodie" [Brian Alan Thomas] (2nd Ranked Proxy | Partnered Proxy with Masky) 29 | 5'11 | Male | Enhanced Human

creator: Marble Hornets

𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞

"Kate the Chaser" [Kate Milens] (The Slenderman's Personal "Lapdog" | Lone Proxy) 25 | 5'6" | Female | Enhanced Human

creator: Blue Isle Studios

𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐠

"Ticci Toby" [Tobias Erin Rogers] (Lone Proxy) 24 | 6'0" | Male | Enhanced Human

creator: Kastoway

𝐕𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭

"BEN_Drowned" [Benjamin Lawman] (Slenderman Mansion's Cyber Security Expert | Senior Resident) Physically 15, mentally 21 | 5'5" | Male | Techno-Poltergeist

creator: Jadusable

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜

"Eyeless Jack" [Jackson Nyras] (Slenderman Mansion's Resident Doctor | Senior Resident) 27 | 6'3" | Male | Cannibalistic Half-Demon

creator: Azelf5000

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡

"Jeff the Killer" [Jeffrey Calvin Woods] (Senior Resident) 25 | 5'10" | Male | Human

creator: Sessuer

𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭

"X-Virus" [Cody Rowan Wolfe**] (Slenderman Mansion's unofficial 2nd Doctor | Recent Resident) 21 | 5'8" | Male | Human

creator: MamaPorcupine

𝐓𝐰𝐨-𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

"Kagekao" (Resident) 24 | 5'9" | Male | Japanese Demon

creator: Jinbeizamezama

𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫

"Clockwork" [Natalie James Ouellette] (Resident) 25 | 5'7" | Female | Human

creator: Soffbois

𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡

"Homicidal Liu" [Luis Caden Woods] (Resident) 27 | 6'1" | Male | Human

creator: Vampirenote13

𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬

"Jane the Killer" [Jane Todd Richardson] (Resident) 24 | 5'7" | Female | Human

creator: FearOfTheBackWolf

𝐀𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐞

"The Bloody Painter" [Helen Otis] (Resident) 26 | 5'8" | Male | Human

creator: DeluCat

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥

"Nina the Killer" [Nina Charlotte Hopkins] (Resident) 23 | 5'6" | Female | Human

creator: Alegotic-twevel

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Took me some time to create their titles (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) I'll probably start posting resident headcanons- basically how they act around the mansion and stuff ┐⁠(⁠‘⁠～⁠`⁠;⁠)⁠┌

For the credits for each of the character's creators, I'm not entirely sure that these are the actual creators (especially for Jeff's character) I only based it on Google results and other sources like reddit and Tumblr (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠☆

Anyways, I'll probably be more busy in the next few days- school is coming up soon so there is a chance I might accidentally abandon this acc for some time (⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠´⁠꒳⁠`⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠) hope y'all enjoy this post!

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[cytrusspiritsau]

General information

So I´ve had this idea for a while and I finally making it A Roleswap AU of Mystery Skulls Animated The idea is "what if a generic rolelist were actually good?" so dont expect for anything too crazy with the roles of the AU (Maybe I could make another AU and go crazy with the swaps mayhaps)

Citrus Spirits (Mystery Skulls Roleswap AU) rolelist

Arthur <--> Lewis

Vivi <--> Mystery

Reverb <--> Shiromori

A mix of the cavern and Pepper Paradiso <--> Kingsmen Mechanics

Mystery Skulls songs <--> Lemon Demon songs Japanese folclore <-> myths and legends of latin america

Think about it no one has ever made a Mystery Skulls Animated AU where Lemon Demon songs replace the Mystery Skulls songs! never before (this time fr)

the list of songs and their replacements

(Song -- Replacement)

Ghost -- Your Evil Shadow Has a Cup of Tea

Freaking Out -- Redesign Your Logo

Hellbent -- It's Gonna Get Weird

Enemy -- Spiral Of Ants

The Future -- Ancient Aliens

Also the personalities are intact but changed if it necesary for the character to fit better their new role

Some characters dont swap or remain with a very similar role

Btw Arthur dosent want revenge bc it would be boring if Arthur was just a Lewis 2.0

[omegalegacy]

Asari headcanon series: Language [part 1: general information]

I felt this insanely strong urge to make a headcanon post about asari languages. Here we go. @shepcdr I know you are the biggest alien language nerd so I will tag you.

I'm giving all of my key points titles to keep things organized.

Language diversity among the asari

For starters, I'd like to mention that there is no such thing as "the asari language". I don't think the asari would have one unified language. They are a wise species, they have a population of billions, no doubt did they have myriads of languages before they invented translators, and no doubt would a species as wise and intelligent, as embracing of diversity in life, appreciate the various ways you can express yourself through different languages. Asari are the last species I would expect to force a unified language on people, causing a generational loss of languages. I think throughout history, asari have done more to maintain the perseverance of languages rather than the loss.

To get an idea of how many languages the asari might have, I looked at Earth statistics. It is said that Earth has about 7000ish living languages, with a total number of approximately 30.000 languages having existed in human history.

The asari have a population of 5.5 billion, rather than 8 billion like 21st century humans, but they also possess mind-melding abilities that would make sharing languages easier, so I'm bold enough to claim that that over 10.000 languages are spoken on Thessia despite there being fewer asari than humans. And that's just limited to Thessia. I will get into more detail later.

The thousands of languages, just like human languages, would vary in phonology, structure and grammar to an incredible degree, which is why there is no clear answer to "what do asari languages sound like", just like you can't give a clear answer to the question what the human languages sound like.

The vocabulary is influenced by the environment in which the language evolved, languages native to communities found in coastal areas possess more words to describe tides, sand or water, those who evolved in snowier regions might have more words for different kinds of snow.

Endangered languages specialists

Thinking of how many languages were lost throughout human history made me ponder how many languages asari once had. And that made me come up with the idea that while asari probably lost many languages, they used their mind-melding abilities to keep their languages from going extinct.

Over time, that evolved to asari linguists specializing in the art, training their mind-melding abilities specifically for language acquisition. In the game, we can see that language acquisition is possible through the mind-meld, as Shepard is able to understand the Prothean language. Large amounts of information can be transferred from the mind of one individual to the mind of an asari.

Asari linguistics specialized in language acquisition via melding will seek out members and communities speaking endangered languages, form bonds with members and learn their languages through various sessions of mind-melds. Obviously, this is a demanding job requiring great sensitivity, charisma, empathy and patience, as the recipient of the meld should be ready and feel comfortable and interested in sharing their language and culture. By learning the endangered language, the asari can use her specialized knowledge of linguistics to analyze the language and record its features in the Codex of Galactic Languages.

There is no doubt that some romantic relationships have formed through these agreements, with asari children being born and growing up as native speakers of the endangered languages.. Sometimes it's a topic found in novels. An asari growing up in a small isolated alien community due to her mother having been a scientist researching the language.

Mind-melding to learn a language

Mind melding is said to be mentally exhausting for an asari if large amounts of knowledge are transferred. Liara feels light-headed after melding with Shepard in Mass Effect 1.

Asari do not learn a whole language in a single melding session, rather, it takes a series of sessions. Asari who are more experienced with melding have an easier time with it, those specialized in language acquisition via melding even more so.

The melding process does not grant the asari spoken fluency. The asari gains passive language skills, she is able to understand the language, but for as long as she has not practiced speaking the language to a sufficient degree, she won't be able to speak it anywhere near fluently. Their speaking abilities are comparable to human children who have responded to their parents in another language their whole life or for most of their life (this is very much a real thing, passive bilingualism). They struggle to retrieve words, build sentences, and use proper grammar, overall possessing little to no conversational skills despite understanding the language at a high level.

Fluency can be gained relatively quickly once a high level of understanding has been reached, within months of being intensely surrounded with the language every day conversational fluency is usually reached, since there is a sort of a subconscious baseline understanding of how the language works that sets the framework.

Asari multilingualism

Despite the existence of universal translators, the asari are a species who highly embrace multilingualism and recognize its benefits. The universal translators are never used to translate all languages into a single language, rather they enable the asari to learn all the languages of the people involved in raising her.

Many asari grow up multilingual. Asari have been known to grow up to understand or even speak the languages of various species natively: krogan, turians, drell, quarians, batarians, salarians, humans (humans have been around for a little less than 30 years, meaning some of the earliest born children to human-asari couples are now adolescents), volus, vorcha.

Obviously there is some limit to what sounds an asari can make due to their physiology, asari who find they cannot replicate the sounds will typically remain passive users of the languages, whereas those who possess the anatomy to produce the sounds either speak with accents due to some minor physical limitations remaining or are capable of speaking the language exactly like their alien parent. Since phonetics vary greatly between languages, it is very possible that, for example, one krogan language could be perfectly pronounced by an asari, but another may not.

An example of a multilingual asari upbringing:

An asari grows up on Omega in a community consisting mainly of other asari and batarians. Her father is a salarian. Through her salarian father, the asari learns to speak the salarian language Girmu. She is close to the mother's ex-partner, a batarian, and his two sons. During her formative years, she interacts with them enough to at learn their language Armeldan, which is also spoken by many other batarians in the community. She also speaks her mother's language Ioleta. Her translator is set to translate different languages not native to her (not spoken by her closest community/caretakers) into her native languages. Other batarian languages might be translated into Armeldan, other asari languages into Ioleta. Adjustments can be made to ensure an even distribution, for instance, if the asari finds her vocabulary limited due to only speaking Girmu with her father, other languages can be translated into Girmu for a broader exposure of vocabulary.

Translators, therefore, aid the asari in learning the multiple languages of her community, as well as allowing communication between the asari and those speaking languages foreign to her.

Dialects

In the past millennia, the asari have developed thousands of colonies in space, some of which are multispecies colonies. Asari growing up speaking alien languages natively, or acquiring them fluently as second languages have shaped the asari languages, creating new asari dialects influenced by alien languages.

Most asari languages come in a vast amount of different dialects due to these circumstances. Additionally, over time some changes have been so drastic that eventually a language split into different, new languages. Over time, various aspects have changed: Pronunciation, melody, grammar, idioms, vocabulary.

The way a single asari language is spoken on Omega differs from the way the same language is spoken on Thessia or on Illium. Furthermore, with the strong social class division and presence of gangs on Omega, there is an even stronger presence of regional accents and dialects on the station.