// the magpies told me to.

will trade shinies for YA/children's fiction, birbs and mercenary badassery. ☆ graphics mod on @strahdzine ☆ intern mod on @kpdhgoldenzine #draws // #gifs // #helmets // #l&co. zine ⟪ bio ⟫ ⟪ carrd ⟫ ⟪ Ko-fi ⟫ pfp by @stalvdritch

[sempiternalzine]

💎Sempiternal’s Contributor Sign Ups now OPEN💎

We're looking for page artists, spot artists, and writers to help us bring to life our beautiful lich filled tome.

Contributor applications will be open until June 30th

💀FORM💀Sign Ups Here

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The theme of this zine is bejeweled saints, and more information can be found on our Carrd!

Carrd Site/Project Info found here

[frutiger-zine]

PREORDERS UPDATE ⋆.˚💿‧₊˚✩

Hello frutiger enthusiasts! as a litte update on our preorders, we're happy to announce, the PO period will be extended a little, they will be open until June 20th !!

You can check it out here!!

preorder, production and shipping info will be shared on this blog so follow us to stay informed!

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[j-tee]

Mail for Mr Ibis

[pikaole]

Me and mom learned new English word.

[pikaole]

Wow…This is probably the most famous posts on my Tumblr lol. 

This is what I drew after this situation 👇

[possumcollege]

[insanereddragon]

Sooooo I may have spent several hours today pouring over K2 to get as many of the butterfly and moth species that Harry has sketched out across his cell walls. In the end, I deciphered 18, 13 of which are actually moth families. Several of them are actually pretty thoroughly written out, covering five or more panels in various locations in the room and broken down into multiple subfamiles.

In case this information is useful to anyone else, here are the families (with M for moth and B for butterfly):

Pieridae (B)

Noctuidae (M)

Sesiidae (M)

Sphingidae (M)

Hepialidae (M)

Papilionidae (B)

Ctenuchidae (M)

Zygaenidae (M)

Geometridae (M)

Cossidae (M)

Nymphalidae (B)

Lymantriidae (M)

Notodontidae (M)

Hesperiidae (B)

Drepanidae (M)

Saturniidae (M)

Lasiocampidae (M)

Lycaenidae (B)

[hellahartwin]

So I found the exact butterfly that we got a close up of in the teaser trailer. It is called the Purple Emperor and I feel like there are some points that I should lay out there about this butterfly. 

Firstly it is native to temperate areas of Asia as well as, and–most notably–the British Isles. It’s conservation status was threatened for a long period of time due to WWI and WWII as their former habitat was being used in large quantities for timber during the war. 

Furthermore it is fondly nicknamed “His Majesty” and it doesn’t feed off of flowers like many butterflies do. Instead it subsists on honeydew from aphids, oak tree sap, waste, and most interestingly in my opinion, the carcasses of other animals.

Now given the destruction of Kingsman and the use of “My Way” by Sinatra being used in the first trailer, I’m starting to wonder if Kingsman will be essentially dismantled, and this feels like a hint that maybe Harry will be the next Arthur charged with rebuilding it from the ground up. 

This could mean nothing of course, but it should be noted that they took pains to make sure that even the Family and Genus/Subfamily listed above were correct. The depictions of the ovum, larvae, and pupa are also accurate.

Even it’s life cycle table is almost exactly on point if you place ovum on the bottom row and imago up top.

I gotta say, that is a lot of detail to put into something that they aren’t using for some intentional foreshadowing. 

[th3d3m0nl0rdz3r0]

Map of Dante´s Hell

[semi-imaginary-place]

The Seven Treasures of Buddhism: An Update

After the first few inclusions to Phos, fans speculated that he would eventually contain all 7 of the jewels in his body. As the series continued and Phos continued to fight for the Lunarians many including myself speculated that just like the seedless lotus pod, Phos was meant as a deconstruction of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. Ichikawa would set Phos up to obtain all 7 jewels only to fail in doing so. So now that chapter 99 has been published let us review the status of Phos' components.

From scouring the internet there's a few different lists of which 7 jewels are counted but here's a summary of what I have found.

gold

silver

tridacna/fossilized shell

agate

lapis lazuli(1)

pearl(1)

a red/pink jewel (carnelian, coral, etc)

(1) glass sometimes replaces either pearl or lapis lazuli

So what has Phos gotten:

gold: on the beach of beginnings Phos takes on a gold and platinum alloy to replace his missing arms.

silver: Phos' new arms contain platinum, and after Phos' final fight against Cinnabar, he takes on some of Cinnabar's mercury giving himself a skin. Both platinum and mercury are silvery metals.

shell: Phos' new legs are made of Aculeatus' shell which has a core of agate and an outer layer of shell. An agatized fossil shell.

agate: Phos' new legs include agate

lapis lazuli: Phos' head is replaced with the head of Lapis Lazuli by Cairngorm.

pearl: Aechemea implants an artificial pearl eye into Phos.

adamant: Phos receives Adamant's eye. Kongo (金剛) can be translated a number of ways. It refers to vajra or a ritual weapon of absolute hardness/strength and power, diamond, adamantine a mythological unbreakable material.

I remember there was some speculation way back when that the carnelian/red-pink gem would be from Padparadscha since the word means lotus (pink) colored, but it seems Ichikawa has chosen another path. Just from reading the English articles one might think that kongo in the sense of diamond would be the crystal or glass mentioned below because all are clear and colorless, but I doubt this. The term both the Japanese and Chinese Wikipedia articles use is "玻璃" which is glass while crystal at least in the modern language would be "水晶", however only the Japanese article links to the page for quartz (石英). Kongo (金剛) however is a completely different concept referring to the mythological weapon/material.

What to make of this? I don't know I feel like I need an advanced degree on the history of Buddhism in Asia, a Buddhist theology/philosophy degree, and fluency in like 4 languages (Japanese, Chinese, Pali, Sanskrit). Perhaps much like Phos has broken from the path of the 7 Gems of Buddhism, lifeforms on the planet have too broken away from humanity. Maybe Japanese Pure Land Buddhism is a broken philosophy and we should all ditch it.

sources:

Wikitionary: gold, silver, crystal, tridacna (clam shell), agate, amber, coral

Chinese Wikipedia page on the 7 Treasures:

"Buddha Says Amitabha Sutra": gold, silver, agate, clam shell, lapis lazuli (2), glass, carnelian.

"Infinite Life Sutra": gold, silver, agate, clam shell, lapis lazuli(2), glass, coral.

"Lotus Sutra": gold, silver, agate, clam shell, lapis lazuli(2), pearl, rose colored stone.

The Japanese Wikepedia page on the 7 treasures:

"Infinite Life Sutra": Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, glass, clam shell, coral, agate.

"The Lotus Sutra": gold, silver, agate, lapis lazuli, clam shell, pearl, rose colored stone

Chinese Buddhism Encyclopedia: gold, silver, lapis lazuli, seashell, agate, pearl, and carnelian.

Nichiren Buddhism Library: gold, silver, lapis lazuli, seashell, agate, pearl, and carnelian

(2):琉璃 translated by google as "colored glaze" refers historically (and religiously) to a blue jewel like lapis lazuli imported from the cultures west of China, it is a Pali loan word from the Sanskrit word vaiḍūrya (which actually refers to cat's eye stones). It was later sometimes replaced with a blue man-made object with a glassy surface such as colored glass, ceramic, or cobalt glass. The modern term refers to colored glass sculptures as compared to 玻璃 which is the general term for glass, like a car window.

[semi-imaginary-place]

final update. In the end Phos with all these added parts died with the planet Earth, sending a memoryless fragment into the future. This new Phosphophyllite is only one mineral, with none of the gold and silver, shell and agate, lapis lazuli, pearl, (maybe mercury) or adamant the old Phos carried to their end.

Ch 107 blends the literal and the symbolic as Phos is consumed by the dying sun, perhaps their layers are literally melting away, perhaps they are remembering, or perhaps this is for the audience to reflect on Phos' and their own journeys. Phos' liquid metal skin burns away, then the left side of their face with the pearl eye, eventually leaving the memory of when they were only composed of phosphophyllite. Ch 107 is the final story chapter with 108 acting as the series epilogue. In the years leading up to this there was mass speculation whether hnk would end with 108 chapters, a number highly significant in Buddhism, or if in line with hnk's frequent subversions, deconstructions, and criticisms of Japanese Pureland Buddhism, the series would end one chapter off like 107 or 109. I still need to think more on this but in the end like much of hnk there is no black and white good and bad. Hmk seems to be a nuanced take on Buddhism (like over my head I need 4 PhD's to passe) that can't be easily simplifies to approval or disapproval of Buddhism.

[dont4getmylove]

FRAGILE EGO for Carcy Magazine, F/W 2024

[bycmykae]

Year of The Sheep 🐑 a mobile wallpaper project

Content Restrictions and Requirements Rating: SFW, PG Theme: Sleep + Day & Night. Requirements: 2 wallpapers. Sheep. Theme. #6f9cc5

🐑 Schedule

Interest Check : Jul 15 - Aug 09

Sign Ups: Aug 12 - Aug 25, 9PM CT

check in 1: Sep 30

check in 2: Oct 30

final submissions: Nov 30, 9PM CT

🐑 Who can participate?

Anyone who applies during the application period. No previous experience. No portfolio necessary.

🐑 What types of mediums are allowed?

Traditional art is allowed as long as you can scan, clean, and crop your art accordingly. Photography (photos that you have taken) is okay as long as you are able to incorporate the project color into your final piece.

🐑 Contributor Expectations:

English speaking: mandatory.

Discord attendance: mandatory.

Check-ins: optional.

Let a mod know you need to drop: required.

Final deadline: non-negotiable.

🐑 How will this project work?

Artists will just have to provide the art that fits the template.

Theme: The theme is Sleep (inspired by counting sheep) + Day and Night. We're asking artists for daytime and nighttime versions of their wallpapers. Compositions can be the same but just colored differently (examples can be provided in the server) Sleep does NOT have to be represented in both wallpapers, just in the set.

Project color: like always theres one SPECIFIC shade that everyone must use in all their wallpapers. How you use it is up to you.

Mod Lucy will ensure uniformity by adding credit names and exporting wallpapers to be the same size.

All the PNGs will be zipped and the wallpapers will be downloadable through itch.io

IMPORTANT: For this project you are required to draw sheep. Rams will also be allowed. For this project only animal sheep will count as sheep. Biped/animal crossing styled sheep will count as sheep. Humans with sheep features will not count.

🐑 Additional Questions?

Feel free to reach out through tumblr ask or email ([email protected]) Bycmykae's extensive FAQ: https://bit.ly/bycmykaefaq

[tangentburd]

🌱 Original Poetry: feather・fall〈落・羽〉 🌱

↓ down from the skies silky spider threads skitter across flowerbeds pitter-patter, hua-la-la~ our crops are watered!

A short, directional poem on spring, rains and harvest, written for Guyu: Harvest Rain zine hosted by @ensquare-events.

Read the full poem on AO3, or see below the cut for a simplified text version.

🌧 [ Download the zine for free via itch.io ] 🌧

feather・fall〈落・羽〉

↓ down from the skies silky spider threads skitter across flowerbeds pitter-patter, hua-la-la~ our crops are watered! smell: (the after) petrichor galore rice, steeping in reservoirs so grow! from your fresh root spas see you in a few when your fields are full grains, all ripe that fall just right → ~~~ up ↑ at the skies baby moth armies dream a dream of mulberry mogu-mogu, om-nom-nom~ our homies are fed! hear: (a vagrant?) whiffs of cinnamon hoopoes, along foliaged roofs so bold! with your crests and calls don’t stop where you are fly on till there is not even a feather ← left

[ensquare-events]

Guyu: Harvest Rain is now available to read for free!

🌦️ download here

☔ multifandom/original zine featuring 60 pages of art and writing about growth and the rainy spring

🌸 front cover art (original) by @mnemonicmask | background/back cover art (chiikawa) by buttermilkbear

[kpdhgoldenzine]

🌟 PREORDERS CLOSED 🌟

Preorders for our zine are now closed! Thanks to everyone's support, we've gotten a total of 395 orders!! As we enter the production phase of our project, keep an eye on our socials so you don't miss any updates!

[kpdhgoldenzine]

🌟 POs CLOSE TOMORROW! 🌟

Today is your last day to hit the checkout with your bundles before we close out preorders! Don't miss out on the chance to get quality art, stories and merch all about HUNTR/X!

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[kpdhgoldenzine]

💫 SECRET STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED! 💫

Our Hunters get it done! Thanks to everyone's relentless support, we've unlocked our secret goal, and now all physical zines will enjoy a hardcover upgrade! 12 hours remain until POs close, so head to our shop now!

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