Failing upwards to godhood

The blog of four primordial Elementals

[vsingers]

since when did snapple start dabbling in elemental elixirs

[randomitemdrop]

Item: store-bought elemental potions

[manufactoredxbyxdesign]

Trial by combat? Bro is really out here straight up telling us his fantasies today huh

"As if any of you could best me."

[theelementalenclave]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

quite fun to imagine fairy circles less as "trickster gods kidnapping humans from the human realm" and more as "fae scientists capture-tag-and-releasing humans back into the wild, hoping to one day understand the behavior of this bizarre feral gremlin species that keeps getting lost and wandering into the Fae's backyard"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#not unanalogous to raccoons stumbling into human areas and discovering the Trash Cans

[punkitt-is-here]

i am genuinely a little sad that Guts' theme from the 90s Berserk anime is just relegated to "the funny sad meme song" for a lot of folks. I think crafting such a haunting, bizarre sounding but deeply, profoundly melancholic track for your character that looks like this is such an incredible encapsulation of Guts as a character. you'd think he'd have this crazy heart pounding head banging metal theme but instead you get something so...meditative and distinctly tragic.

[thefloatingstone]

[remnantglow]

i love when characters don't get to die

[remnantglow]

this is about villains/antagonists/general horrible people who finally face up to what they've done. especially if they try to pull the good ole "Dramatically Does One Good Thing To Redeem Themselves And Dies," but despite their best efforts they DON'T die. like yes motherfucker there's no easy way out for you, there's only the slow, awkward and painful process of learning to live with yourself. of learning to live with the weight of your mistakes. you get a second chance regardless of if you think you deserve it. you get to try to make amends and do good. you get to live.

[remnantglow]

this is also about every self-sacrificial bastard of a protagonist who puts themselves in harm's way again and again and again to a wildly unhealthy and unnecessary degree. see, there's something so compelling to me in the unspoken suicidality of repeated heroic self-sacrifice, and the thing about implicitly suicidal characters is that i want them to live. and that can be used to make a death so much more tragic and impactful - noble sacrifices and last stands certainly can and have been done beautifully - but there's also something special to me in seeing such a character make it. because you'd die for the people you love, yes, but would you live for them?

[parageist]

when the cop pulls you over and you hit them with the unbridled power of the sun

[homosubtext]

what do they put in large rocks that make u just want to. stand on it.

[homosubtext]

i see a medium sized rock and i’m like “god. i need to go stand on this and be 14 inches higher off the ground right now”

[blinkpen]

this started as a warmup that kinda kept going and its so goofy but i like how the art came out so pls enjoy it anyway

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[tymberwolf02]

Isn't butterfly pea flower amazing? It's almost like a magic potion.

[brightlotusmoon]

We found some at a local market! It's so much fun. And the taste is very unique. It's cooling, but not like menthol. It's soft and sweet and makes me think of a fantasy forest.

My husband likes adding other plants to it, like Moringa.

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[thegreenpea]

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

[rubixpsyche]

Also it’s just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em

[zathechaosgod]

for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we’re making gemstones out of it and suddenly “it doesn’t count” anymore

[girlnephew]

[dominant-dominion]

I love you = I will commit unspeakable acts of violence for you.

[alphacrone]

when you drink all the wine in the house and then you have. :( no wine in the house

[podcastwizard]

me when i excuse myself during a dinner party to sneak outside and milk more cabernet sauvignon from the Creature

[podcastwizard]

had food poisoning when i posted this

[martinkhall]

Well if you'd pasteurized the Cabernet Sauvignon you milked from the creature maybe you wouldn't have gotten food poisoning from it.

[podcastwizard]

oh suddenly everyone's an expert on the Creature i milk

[theelementalenclave]

@ask-the-entity-lovecraften-god

[filibusterfrog]

core classes as undead :)

[ask-the-entity-lovecraften-god]

Tim: Attention everyone, a new meme has been found! It's being nice to each other and having fun everyday! Wine Aunt: I can't shitpost about this!!! @theelementalenclave owner of Tim

[pianoaround]

Does anyone know what this instrument is called? Its like a Marimba but it is very large and made out of huge stones. Listen to that tone! haha Love it!

[adventuresinstringrepair]

It’s a type of Vietnamese lithophone (literally rock sound instrument) called a đàn đá. Some ethnomusicologists think that these are likely the oldest type of man made instrument.

[somos-rosas]

she looks like shes having fun lol this is bringing me joy

[bunjywunjy]

so you’re telling me that rock is actually the oldest genre

[the-haiku-bot]

so you’re telling me

that rock is actually

the oldest genre

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[theelementalenclave]

Tom: "....Tim, I want to try a thing"

Tim: "you are not bonking me with tiny hammers."

Tom: "but you would sound so enchanting!"

[the-unseelie-court-official]

Gets a handjob but parries it flawlessly, shattering their wrist

[electricslug]

[chaxtic-love]

@theelementalenclave