List Of Possible Denizens For Each Aspect

Andarians

Andarians are beings of light and energy, and they live on the planet Andar. The race is mostly made up of females, and their blood can be any color. Their hair and eyes usually match their blood color, but can be different. For example, one could have green eyes, and green blood, but has black hair. Their eyes are the same color as their blood with all of them. They are mostly peaceful, but are a warrior race. They can create armor with their aura. The planet they live on is made with more colors than most, and fireworks are a naturally great occurring phenomenon, which happen every night. They have three transformations. The first one, being their natural form. In their second form, they have fang like incisors, their pupils slit like a cat's, and their nails become slightly sharper. In their third form, their hair becomes short and fluffy, their irises also slit, their nails turn more like claws, and all their teeth sharpen into fangs. Once they reach their early thirties, their bodies stop aging, and they can live for hundreds of years. They are more mature and their minds are more developed when they are born. They can speak any language, but prefer to stick to their own.

Phos and Empathy

This new chapter is interesting for a lot of reasons, not least of which that Ichikawa is no longer dancing around the parallels between Sensei-Antarc and Assmea-Cairn and is instead showing us OUTRIGHT, but today I think I’d like to talk about Phos (and the gems) and empathy.

I see a lot of people say that the gems don’t have empathy, but I don’t think that’s quite true. The gems HAVE empathy. We’ve seen it over and over again, even near the very beginning of the manga. Rutile tells Phos how tragic Cinnabar’s life is, exiled to the edges of gem society due to their toxins. Rutile demonstrates empathy by describing Cinna’s pain from Cinna’s perspective.

Rutile isn’t the only gem we see display empathy! We see plenty of others display empathy, the most notable being Euclase. Phos, meanwhile, struggles pretty severely with empathy. Often it seems like they can only understand the suffering of others through the lens of their own suffering. They could understand Cinna’s feelings because they too felt useless, and they could understand how gems who lost their partners felt after they too lost Antarc. Phos displays sympathy rather than empathy.

The real difference is that Phos is still kind- they have a need to act on their feelings of sympathy. This is what truly separates Phos from the other gems. It’s most obvious in Euclase, since Euclase is incredibly, passively empathetic. When Phos was broken and buried in the ground, Euclase asked Sensei every day to pray- but that’s the most they did. AT the moment, I can’t think of a single time we’ve seen Euclase act on their feelings of empathy in any constructive capacity.

It’s interesting, because I truly think a lot of the series as it stands wouldn’t have happened if Phos had gotten Euc’s head instead of Lapis’. Empathy combined with Phos’ inherent kindness? We may have seen actual, helpful actions on an individual level.

Now, though, Phos is having empathy (the ability to understand another’s experiences) literally and agonizingly injected into their consciousness over and over again. Will Phos come out of this with a capacity for empathy…? I don’t know. But I will say that, while it is heartening to see a gem- any gem- have sympathy for Phos, this doesn’t give me much hope. None of the (former) gems are any kinder than they used to be, and so far Euclase has proven to be all talk and no action, as we’ve always seen.

The real question here is what will Phos gain from Sensei’s memories. I truly hope it’s empathy, if only so that they can understand others enough to help fully understand themself and perhaps no longer feel like they’re flailing in a cruel, unloving world.

Re: Volatile Times

So I’ve gone nuts and made a remake for that crappy old version. I doubt it’s less crappy now (don’t even try to object, I’m very dissatisfied and tired as hell), but at least more detailed and and stuff and oh god it’s almost 4 am here

I can’t say why I wanted this remake so badly, there’s never any logic in my actions :I

Oh and look, I’ve found this version of song

If you need non-text ones, look here

Now all I have to do is to decide should I put mature filter on this for DA heh

I’m in my joan of arc fangirl era again

jane austen was right!!!!! i AM half agony half hope!!!!! if i loved you less i COULD talk about it more!!!!!!!! i WAS in the middle before i knew i had begun!!!!!!!

Joan had transformed herself at their instruction. She had ceased attending the village dances, refused an engagement, pledged her virginity to her mission. She cut her hair short like a man’s, dressed like a knight, learned to ride horseback, to wear armour, to use a sword. Yet despite this she maintained a female identity, renaming herself Jeanne La Pucelle, Joan the Maid. 

Anne Llewellyn Barstow, “Joan of Arc and Female Mysticism” (Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion,  Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall, 1985)

Reminds me of a lot. Sorry if mosts the things I post are music. I just started this ;3

JOAN: Father, as well as shaking me and shouting at me, try to understand what I’m saying. I’m so alone, and they want me to do so much. For three years I’ve been trying not to believe them, but all that time they’ve been saying the same thing. These voices I hear: I can’t go on fighting them all by myself. I’ve got to do what they say.

Jean Anouilh, trans. Christopher Fry, L’Alouette, or The Lark

THAT SWEET BABY ;-; whyyyyyy

But I am not very big yet, God. 

Jean Anouilh, trans. Christopher Fry, L’Alouette, or The Lark

Would you mind doing a sort of.. Masterpost if you will of all the aspects? Like the listings of the classes of each aspects on one big post? It is really hard to sift through all your tags so if you wouldn't mind..?

Yeah no problem lol

Life: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/75520350475

Doom: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/60038012745

Void: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/59321860527

Light: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/58602037584

Space: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/57780866364

Time: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/57746528548

Blood: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/106759222357

Breath: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/106754259377

Mind: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/101397160032

Heart: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/96603638742

Rage: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/88348295767

Hope: http://dahniwitchoflight.tumblr.com/post/84244830302