The very excited blonde lady owns the resort where this is taken. She’s super excited because this is the closest they’ve ever come in before. Everyone else is less excited because this was taken crack of dawn; when blonde lady realized how close the whales were coming, she ran around waking everybody up to see it.
casual version of the robes with the hood down
Spelleater Tattoo
sparkle sparkle
hot new digs depicting our party members and adventures
Prisma had an Incident With An Inquisitor where they got super busted and the markings on their face shattered/altered like so
handful of Prisma art from the last several sessions. our party has been through A Lot. we all had some character building trauma, got magical tattoos and Prisma respecced into a Divine Soul Sorcerer. gg
(Prisma is my Aasimar Sorcerer from a 5ed D&D session. they are non-binary and use they/them pronouns.)
ok so has anyone thought about afrofuturist designs for the lion king… in space
pride rock as like, an asteroid mining cooperative. mufasa as the director, scar frustrated and jealous— he wants to turn the venture into a proper corporation, make some money, earn power and fame, control the whole of local space. iron is the lifeblood of a fleet, iron is power, iron is strength. but mufasa only cares for his wives, for his friends, for his gardens. mufasa sits on the bridge of his flagship— the petty manager of an insignificant fleet— and he plays and laughs with his wife and son and he thinks that’s enough.
‘long live the king,’ scar purrs as he cuts loose his brother’s safety lines, kicks him off the rock and away into the endless night. ‘run,’ scar says to his grief-mad nephew, opening the door of a tiny, understocked shuttle. ‘you killed your father, little boy, now run or die.’
and once scar takes over the running of pride rock, the shifts are too long, the quotas too high, the maintenance cycles too infrequent. mistakes mount up, people start to get hurt, to die, pride rock is turning more of a profit than ever but why are things getting rougher and harder for its crew? who are these grinning security contractors, striding through the corridors, snapping at the crew’s heels, reporting to scar— what does everyone need to be protected from?
pride rock has been nala’s entire world but it is dying, rotting from the inside as its crew, as her family starts to cough up grey dust, as they amputate frozen fingertips, as they patch their ragged exosuits and coax just another cycle of work out of rattling deathtrap power tools, as their greenrooms rot for lack of clean air or water, for lack of anyone with the time to care for them.
‘we’ll start over,’ nala says. ‘there’s another field of good rock out there in the dark— somewhere— i’ll find it and claim it and come back. we can be a co-operative again. we can be happy.’
sarabi kisses her forehead, patches her exosuit, collects her the best of every valve and gasket, the sturdiest oxygen tanks, the cleverest HUD interface, the most efficient water reclamators. sarafina adjusts the inventory system, marks one of their skippers down as destroyed, lays her shawl across the pilot’s seat, something of home to carry out into the dark. goes through the search and navigation programs line by line, grooming out every little tangle or bug.
their daughter— their princess, their hope— sets forth, out into the endless darkness between stars. as mufasa did, so many years ago.
hmmmm okay i really want to talk about the session i was at at the conference that discussed how venus fly traps evolved from sundews but im not sure if i remember it correctly. all the data from that symposium + more is published in this new book reviewing all the modern work on carnivorous plants called Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. now on one hand, its incredibly fascinating stuff and id love to have my own copy. on the other hand, its $100 and im poor. on another other hand, my library at school has a copy and i can wait to talk about it. unless i want my own copy to add to my expanding aesthetically pleasing collection of botany books. and ill need to wait a month to talk about it. and it’s a fairly long textbook for the price, some 500 pages, which really isnt bad. and i love them. and i have a job so like i wont die immediately. and i got some money for my birthday. but its still 10 hours worth of work. but maybe its worth it. and its really new research. an
good lord the table of contents alone is 15 pages long
i had to order my textbooks for school anyway so i may or may not have indulged and just lumped it in with all the other expensive books i had to buy……..supplemented with some money i got from work/for my birthday….worth it? we’ll soon find out
when i get it ill use it to verify the stuff i remember from the conference and make a post on how we think venus fly traps evolved
– Language: Knowing Hebrew is required for high level curse breakers. Discovering long forgotten spells in the tanach. Old spells, in a language older than latin have ancient power to them.
– Bar/Bat Mitzvahs: special dispensation to go home and miss classes. Every second and third year is invited to a party in the great hall for every single one. Tallits with designs that shimmer even in dim light. Performing mitzvahs for baffled but grateful classmates.
– Being Jewish at Hogwarts: Asking questions. So many questions. About everything. Because what are we if we do not question and interpret everything?
– Jewish Wizarding Community: It is small but very old. They refuse to call themselves purebloods. Jewish memory is long, we do not forget. We know what divisions reaps and we know where “purity of society” discourse leads. They square their beliefs with their abilities by acknowledging that we cannot know everything, we can only seek to learn more.
– Shomer: Constant debate over whether or not magic constitutes ‘work’ and if so, all magic? Just automated stuff?
– JEWISH WIZARDING WEDDINGS OK. NEED I EVEN EXPAND ON THIS POINT?
This is a really cool post, to answer the question about magic it’s probably no, because the actual rules of Shabbat say that you can’t create and since magic is transformation and theregore a form of creation I would say no
@deliciouspineapplessister but I think there’s still room for argument! Because in a way magic is a part of them, it’s inside them. It happens in their minds but uses a wand as a conduit.
Can animagi transform on shabbos? I have so many questions about technicalities!
Not really knowing what I’m saying here, but writing is forbidden on Shabbat, and the writing utensil is used as a conduit for the story inside the person to come out. Same thing with musical instruments. So making magic with a wand would be forbidden.
But we’re still allowed to create without instruments-tell stories, dance, sing. So magic without a wand, including anigami, would be allowed.
Also the Leviim were allowed to play musical instruments at the Beit HaMikdash. So imagine the Leviim standing on the steps, playing music, and beautiful magic displays fly above their heads.
That’s an interesting way to think about it, but one could also think about a wand like a fork.
We must eat to survive, therefore we still use utensils.
A wand is a utensil of sorts.
Magic isn’t just a story or a song. It’s a necessity of survival.
Honestly I agree with the first comment on this post and would assume magic is forbidden as one of the halachot of shabbot is that youre not allowed to create or destroy. When summoning ones inner magic for a spell which’s job is inherently creating, or destroying would be against halacha. Moreover, the spells that transfigure things, are in a sense creating something there that wasnt before and again, creating is breaking the rules. However, I feel that there would be a big debate. Orthodox Jews would most likely not use magic on Shabbat at all will maybe Modern Orthodox Jews would use magic, but only in the case that the purpose of the magic cast is not inherently creating or deatroying. Then again this brings up the argument if the magic done always exists and is waiting to be harnessed or does it not exist until the whitch or wizard does a spell. Also, how does non verbal magic come into play? Moreover isnt a spell like a recipe? Puttinf things in a sequrnce to create a whole knew thing? I feel like Rabbi’s would have many different opinions and eventually there would be some halacha but mostly it would just depend on someone minhag, like how certain people wait six hours between eating meat and dairy and some people wait three. So much theory!
among the youngest of her family’s lineage, it’s their tradition to use their lava-based magic for benevolent uses like agriculture rather weaponize it as expected. this girl here specializes in growing tea, and she’s pretty comfortable with her farm girl life, rather than jumping to fight crime or save the world. she doesn’t see how her powers and personal philosophy would fit that lifestyle, but sometimes she’s convinced to lend a hand
One of the prompts I was excited to get my hands on from the jump! Definitely partially inspired by that one scene in The Incredibles where Mirage explains how fertile volcanic soil is and how misunderstood volcanos are. The lighting was tricky but I also really want to draw that lava hair again so I’ll figure it out eventually.
Basically they got three robots, told them that two of them were given “dumbing pills”, and they asked one which pill it was given.
The robot of course wasn’t sure if it had or hadn’t yet and said “I don’t know”, but after it looked at the other silent robots (who were actually unable to speak from the start), it realized that its fully functional, and then was finally able to say “I know now.”
It can assess itself and its behavior in relation to other robots and people. It can make that differentiation between “me” and “I”, and understand that it is an individual.
People are shrugging this off, but this is a similar self-awareness test to how people put mirrors in front of animals to see if it treats the reflection like another animal or treat it like a reflection.
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