#winnow

[anonbeadraws]

Art Attack Day 12: Winnow for @talasterism! 📚 📚com info in the source!📚

[mammoth-clangen]

I have a pretty good idea what winnowing is but every time I google it I get sorting grain- what is winnowing in this series’ context?

You're on the right track!

I've talked about why Winnowing occurs earlier

<link to that ask here>

Aa for the etymology: The important part of Winnowing and "sorting grain" is the removal of the rough, inedible chaff, leaving only the good quality grains behind...

I'm sure there's a heavy-handed analogy there, throwing cubs into the breeze, hoping the "good ones" come back... hmmmmmm

Winnowing also refers to the movement of wind (sort of a prettier synonym for 'blowing'), and the natural winnowing of wild, wind dispersed seeds! Obviously, Homotherium didn't farm wheat, so this definition is where the word comes from to them!

[spideyns]

divine rivals headers

like if u save/use or credit @pmellarkrs on tt

[ts-aster]

Just finished Divine Rivals. Safe to say this one was⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[honeyalternate]

Happy Egg Today!!! Here is my D&D NPC, Winnow celebrating in the manner all people do.

[sitp-recs]

omg happy birthday!!! I hope it's so swell!!!

How sweet 😍 thank you so much, I’ve had a lovely day! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

[invisibleanonymousmonsters]

Strange question, but how do you imagine the different courts winnowing? Like I feel like they're,, uh,, 'winnow animation' is based off their court power. Like Rhsyand's is the dark night stuff we saw, and I saw in another fic that Eris' and Lucien's would be kind of like going up in flames. Helion's would be a bright light, Tarquin would be kind of like going underwater, Kallias and Viviane would be like a blizzard. Tamlin would be kind of like,, idk wrapped up in a flower or smth. Thesan would be.. idk. Off topic what the FUCK does the dawn court do?? Do they just,,, invent things? Like the friend that made Lucien's eye? What is their power? Day Court is known for spellbreaking and knowledge so ig it wouldn't be too far off for Dawn Court to just be,, inventing things but it feels strange 😭

So I know this is probably a less fun answer, but I always imagined winnowing to be almost completely silent. I know Rhysand's wedding crash was described as super loud, like two boulders colliding, but I think he intentionally did that and he did that for the ✨drama✨.

And I know there's a sound effect for the audiobook, but it is god fucking awful. 🤣

I feel like I kind of imagined it similar to apparating in the Harry Potter universe, but even more subtle and mystical.

I took a few sound design classes so the idea of them creating these magical sound effects for a possible tv show is actually so fascinating to me.

I actually imagined it sound like a soft breeze, but in reverse:

Example A & Example B – but like even more subtle. Like a whisper and with more reverb.

In regards to the look of them, I honestly never pictured them looking different based on their court or powers. But it is super interesting that it's how you imagined it. And you could totally be right and I've been the one picturing it incorrectly.

I thought winnowing would be consistent with all fae that can do it. (Though I imagined Azriel's very different since he's technically not winnowing, but like shadow jumping.)

But I always imagined winnowing as like a tear in the air. And whoever is winnowing being sucked into it like a vacuum almost.

Honestly, I kind imagined it looking like apparating in Harry Potter again. 🤦‍♀️

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And for Dawn Court, I think their specialty is healing and inventing, I guess. I find it interesting that SJM kept that court the most mysterious and gave such little knowledge about it. Maybe it's because it will have a bigger role and will also explain why there is not a Dusk Court...

[wisdomfish]

God’s judgment of His children is not meant to lead to crushing guilt. Godly sorrow is meant to bring repentance. God’s judgment/discipline/winnowing/pruning of His church and his children is for our good and the good of his church: to refine us, to purify us, to mature us, to transform us into the salt and light the world so desperately needs.

Anthony Weber