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i know this might be controversial, but enough is enough.

as someone who grew up in the rigidity—and, at times, oppressive nature—of roman catholicism, i am so tired of the religious!reader trope where they’re portrayed as so innocent they’re practically a child. we were not innocent. we knew the names of our bodies, the weight of shame, and the crushing complexity of guilt. i knew that my vagina was a vagina.

the sheer amount of extremely innocent!religious!reader fics is unsettling. they turn the reader into this caricature—wide-eyed, naive, almost infantilized, complete with pigtails and an oversized cross necklace perfect for a porn video thumbnail.

for me—and for a lot of other lesbians i’ve bonded with over religious trauma—it was never about innocence. it was about guilt. guilt over pleasure, guilt over sin, and all the ways we punished ourselves for being human.

we weren’t these overgrown children teetering around in purity. we were messy, complicated, and burdened by shame in ways that were far more nuanced than these portrayals ever capture. enough, please.

d.e.b.s. (2004) x yellowjackets ✨ cinematic parallels ✨

artist - @ujugn on twt

i don't think you guys understand the levels of lesbianism in this scene

this 90 caliber electric net is caitlyn's E ability......aka, she's the ONLY champion in league of legends that can use this ability.........thus, the writing decision to have vi, a separate, melee league champion, be the only one in the show that EVER also triggers it (someone informed me that cait does use it during Hellfire), with her bare hands (and against another champion, at that), suggests levels of intimacy and trust that i can't even comprehend

additionally, this isn't the first time caitlyn's given up her gun (aka ALL of her special abilities) for vi, either

oh to have a girlfriend

im posting this tomorrow or today idk what your time zone is………. on jan 28th 2025. anyways, if you’d like to be tagged please lmk

BOOMHAHAHAHAHAH

artist - @caitviolence on twt

"catradora walked so Caitvi could fly 🥺"

Who ACTUALLY walked so Caitvi could fly:

melvika x that one leyendecker painting

Is that…? Yes, yes it is.

Found this brightened version of the scene without the music here

Gotta say, it makes things much more... visible <3

forgot to post this here :’)

theres nothing more sinister than my face when i find a new writer i fw

Last post of the year (had to be Sevika)

Erm next smut will be ermmm wtf you fingering sevika at work lol! Stay tuned ig 😣

I need all of them so badly 😩

no lube, no protection, all night, all day, from the kitchen floor to the toilet seat, from the dining table to the bedroom, from the bathroom sink to the shower, from the front porch to the balcony, vertically, horizontally, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, while I gasp for air, scream and see the light, missionary, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, doggy, backwards, sideways, upside down, on the floor, in the bed, on the couch, on a chair, being carried against the wall, outside, in a train, on a plane, in the car, on a motorcycle, the the bed of a truck, on a trampoline, in a bounce house, in the pool, bent over, in the basement, against the window, have the most toe curling, back arching, leg shaking, dick throbbing, fist clenching, ear ringing, mouth drooling, ass clenching, nose sniffling, eye watering, eye rolling, hip thrusting, earthquaking, sheet gripping, knuckles cracking, jaw dropping, hair pulling, teeth jitterbug, mind blogging, soul snatching, overstimulating, vile, sloppy,moan inducing, heart wrenching, spine tingling, back breaking, atrocious,gushy, creamy, beastly, lip biting, gravity defying, nail biting, sweaty, feet kicking, mind blowing, body shivering, orgasmic, bone breaking, world ending, black hole creating, universe destroying, devious, scrumptious, amazing, delightful, delectable, unbelievable, body numbing, bark worthy, can't walk, head nodding, soul evaporating, volcano erupting, sweat rolling, voice cracking, trembling, sheets soaked, hair drenched, flabbergasting, lip locking, skin peeling, eyelash removing, eye widening, pussy popping, nail scratching, back cuts, spectacular, brain cell desolving, hair ripping, show stopping, magnificent, unique, extraordinary, slendid, phenomenal, mouth foaming, heavenly, awakening, devils tango ever bro could cause a nuclear bomb inside me and I'd still ride.

#NEEDTHAT y'all don't understand if they were all reall, I would not be able to contain myself I would have gone Feral!!!!!!😝😝😝😝😝

Okay Fine Let's Talk Timebomb and Season Two.

I do want to talk about this because I have a Lot of thoughts and feelings and it has been building up and building up, not only based on what's happening in other social spaces, but what people keep bringing into mine despite my best efforts to avoid it.

This isn't any kind of hatepost, I don't think I could hate Ekko or the ship if I tried, I just want to explain my very mixed feelings about the whole thing.

My likely-to-be-very unpopular take on Season Two's Timebomb romance is that it left me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable.

Not with what was in the show itself, I feel like that was perfect. Powder and Ekko sold me completely. They made me feel things. I even liked how Ekko and Jinx's story ended. I think it was beautiful, poignant, perfect...

...until.

'The Discourse' since, the way the fan culture has exploded around it, and particularly some of the creators' commentary on it, has made me sour on the whole thing.

It feels like I'm suddenly part of an increasingly small subset of people who saw what they did with S2 Timebomb and applied our media literacy to what was on our screens and got something very different to what the fandom consensus seems to be.

For context, I semi-shipped TB before this. Though I've always been Team Lightcannon, I had a lot of respect for timebomb, I understood it, I had read a few very good fics, I was just in the space of "Jinx has hurt Ekko too much for him to ever fully forgive her for murdering his friends, they might come to an understanding, and there will always be a silent undercurrent of love beneath the hurt, they may fight together on the same side again someday, but whatever bond they had as kids is broken and they can't go back, and both know it."

I respected, and still do, people who shipped them romantically, but I've always seen them as a broken childhood friendship being a much more interesting dynamic, and being hot for each other lessening that to an extent and not really adding anything to it.

All of his interactions with Jinx in season one are violent; she murders five Firelights point-blank in front of him in her intro scene, and Ekko reacts particularly upset to the pink-haired girl, Eve or Eva, whom Jinx shoots in the back. It's clear this isn't even the first time she's fought them. We don't know how many of Ekko's found family she's put on the Memorial Wall or how close he was with any of them.

Ekko is clearly convinced that "Powder" is gone, and the person who replaced her is a cold-blooded killer who can't be reasoned with. Leading to the Bridge confrontation, and this:

This is the first time Ekko catches a glimpse of "Powder", yes, but more importantly, this is the first moment he recognizes Jinx's humanity. He's hurting her, killing her, and he can't do it.

....and she knows he can't do it.

So, to save him the weight, she pulls a grenade, with the intent to kill them both, foreshadowing quite neatly where Ekko/Jinx (but not Ekko/Powder) is going to go in S2.

Fast forwarding from Season One here, Ekko disappears for 2/3rds of the second season, completely offscreen.

When we catch up with him he's woken up in the S2E7 AU; the Powder Timeline.

Here's where I start to get a little confused by the fandom take. Because, you know, I've seen enough Star Trek and Stargate and Supernatural and Batman the Animated Series and Quantum Leap to know exactly what this is.

This is the 'bottle episode', this is the 'Perfect World' trope, where the protagonists find themselves in an alternate universe - or trapped in a dream - or they've died or think they've died and this is their 'heaven' - where they have everything they ever wanted.

This is familiar storytelling and E2 follows a familiar pattern, the protagonist struggles to adapt to the surreal new circumstances, they are seduced by the illusion, particularly falling in love with someone in the Perfect World, but eventually, they start noticing something incongruous - something isn't quite right - (In this case, it's Vi's death, and Powder holding back her genius and hiding her grief to be support girl for others) - that reveals the Perfect World to be not as perfect as it seems.

And the hero has to choose to go home, because he realizes that this isn't real, it doesn't belong to him, he doesn't belong here.

Which is exactly what happens with Ekko in E7.

Which brings is to AU!Powder and Jinx.

And here's where I really start to struggle with the seeming consensus that the romance between Ekko/Powder automatically leads to Ekko/Jinx, like you can just transfer the one to the other.

I'm sorry, fam, I thought my basic media literacy was telling me that this girl:

Is not the same person as this girl:

....and I am not getting into any debate about "Jinx" vs "Powder" as identities within our current Jinx. I'm talking about Powder in the E7 AU.

AU!Powder is literally a different human being.

She may have been the same person up until the explosion in Jayce's laboratory, but from that fork in the timeline, she becomes a FUNDAMENTALLY different person to Jinx, shaped by different experiences, different relationships, different life events.

Powder's physicality with Ekko, as you can see in those GIFs, the casual intimacy, the clear affection, the way she touches him, looks at him, her awareness of him in her space, is so utterly opposite to the way Jinx interacts with him that if anything, it nailed home to me how savagely absent this kind of feeling is from his relationship with Jinx.

Powder loves Ekko. She leans on him, snuggles into him, touches his hands, dances with him, kisses him.

Jinx cares so little about him she barely makes eye contact and would casually kill him without blinking.

And I thought that was the point.

I really thought that was the whole point of E7. Being in the perfect world, getting his perfect love story with his perfect Powder, the girl Jinx could have been, but can never be, drove home for Ekko that his feelings for Jinx, both romantic and resentful, were tangled up in his illusions of "Powder", and it took living those illusions as a physical reality for Ekko to see his mistake.

To be true to himself, and true to her, Ekko had to let that go and go home.

To face his world's Jinx, and be there for her in her darkest moment, even if it meant giving up the love he'd found with Powder, a love that belonged to a different Ekko, for someone who could never love him back.

To me that was Ekko's most heroic moment, an act of selfless sacrifice. But that's what it was - a sacrifice.

Meanwhile, Season Two Jinx is not aware of any of this. The last time she saw Ekko was on the bridge where she nearly killed him, and for all we know she might have thought she succeeded.

She never talks about, thinks about, refers to, or even has scribble-nightmares about Ekko, not even once.

Season Two Jinx is, instead, having a love story of her own.

And Isha was and is a PUZZLE to me. Because she's more plot device than character, she isn't necessary except as a way to give Jinx a villain-to-hero arc and a way to reconnect to her humanity.

But she could have been Ekko.

If they really, really wanted us to have Timebomb Canon, instead of confining the entire arc to a bottle episode in an alternate timeline with a literally, physically different girl, they could easily have given all of Isha's considerable screentime to an Ekko and Jinx romance.

I'm sure Amanda Overton would have been on board with that. But that's not what we got. It's almost like reading two different fix-it-fanfics for the same character, put into the same show and running in parallel.

I'm not crazy, this is what's happening for Ekko in s2;

While this is happening for Jinx at the same time.

But Jinx's love story, too, ends with a tragic sacrifice.

And here's where the two stories finally intersect.

When Jinx is in her darkest moment, her absolute rock bottom, Ekko comes back into her life, a miracle, impossible, a Boy Savior.

But she's still ready to kill him.

Because she didn't dance with Ekko. She didn't invent a time machine with him. She didn't sit and watch the city lights with him and share a tender kiss and a heartfelt gift.

That was Powder.

Jinx and Ekko are resuming right where they left off on the bridge, right back to "I pull this pin and we both blow up".

They've both loved and lost, but their stories are absolutely unknown to each other. Ekko Doesn't Know About Isha. Jinx Doesn't Know About Powder.

It's only when Jinx (a genius, a reminder here) sees monkeys of her own design inside the Z-drive - recognizes her own handiwork, but knows SHE didn't make those - that, I think, sheer curiosity stirs her out of her darkness.

She has to know what that was about. She hesitates, just long enough for Ekko to speak. And, though offscreen, he tells her his story, and maybe she tells him hers.

And it's enough, just enough, to set Jinx back on her Redemption Arc, to become the hero Isha always saw in her.

Maybe even the hero Vi and Ekko saw in her, too. Her new costume is full of references to all of the people in her life who never gave up on her.

(side note, the yellow stars and crowns puzzle me, though - they're quite prominent, but who are THEY for? Isha? Maybe? Yellow isn't a color associated with anyone in Jinx's life, but that crown's identical to the one she scribbled on Demacia in Fortiche's map, is... this a very subtle future Lightcannon tease? Nah. I'm not that crazy.)

I mean her costume is also almost literally both a Fishbones and a Fiddlesticks cosplay, with her hair as Fiddle's tongue, so take from that what you will.

It's clear Jinx and Ekko war painted each other for the battle, but the Firelights are also similarly painted up, and (with Linke even confirming this) there really wasn't time to develop anything else, guys.

And I am, honestly, fundamentally angry at anyone who would suggest that, even if she'd been in any space to want it, our boy Ekko, one of the most genuinely good men in recent fiction let alone in Arcane, would take advantage of a girl he just talked out of suicide.

Moving on. During the battle, Ekko is knocked out and lying not far from Jinx. She doesn't even look at him, she leaps up to defend Vi instead.

And that's their final interaction on the show.

Instead of returning to Ekko, Jinx chooses one final act of sacrifice.

Ekko's final shot of the show is this.

He's sitting, alone, burning a mourning paper, where he sat with AU!Powder - where he and AU!Powder kissed - a place that has no significance to himself and Jinx, whatsoever.

It's little wonder who he's thinking about here, and which name he's burning on that paper. The girl he truly loved and lost.

For all he knows, Jinx is dead. But it's not only her he's mourning.

Or maybe he does know, or suspect, she's alive.

But either way, he's making one final act of sacrifice, too, with that paper burning into the breeze.

He's letting her go.

He's choosing his own story.

He's staying where he belongs.

Jinx may have become a symbol of the revolution, but it's Ekko who is, and always will be, the true hero of Zaun.

And this is Jinx's final shot.

Because let's face it, we all know she's on that airship.

She's "breaking the cycle". She's "walking away". She knows that Jinx has left too many scars on the people she still loves - on Vi, on Ekko, on the cities of Piltover and Zaun - for her to pick up the pieces.

She knows that if she's going to find out what "Jinx" might stand for now, she has to go very far away from everything and everyone. She has to leave it all behind and find something new.

Maybe even someone new?

And ultimately, that's why I feel the Timebomb we got was perfect, they shouldn't touch it, they shouldn't try to force it to be "Endgame", not because it couldn't have worked, but because that's the opposite of the story they told.

For the rest of my analysis, lol, this got a bit long but i have FEELINGS.

Now, I'm not saying I wouldn't buy Jinx and Ekko as a love story if they had actually told that love story. But they didn't. It had no screen time. They have less interactions in S2, maybe even in both seasons added up, than Vi and Loris. Let that sink in a bit.

We know it's Amanda's favorite ship, so she may have intended more, and may even actually give us all more at some point, but please, dear god, let's stop pretending they fucked or kissed or even held hands offscreen.

That's honestly a bit insulting to both of these characters, to insist hell or high water that this very important milestone in their relationship happened, but they just didn't even bother to depict it. That an entire love story (because it would be a whole one, remember, Ekko and Powder had a romance but Jinx did not experience any of that, she and Ekko are back at Square One) would just be cut for time.

They both deserve better than that.

Let's stop pretending there was some grand, horny, Forever Love story with 60 minutes of cut footage, all of it timebomb content, somehow left on the cutting room floor of an animated show where every single frame has to be deliberately hand painted.

Because if in some insane universe they had written, storyboarded, voice acted and animated an entire 60 minute additional timebomb storyline and then cut it from the show, that would itself be a searing indictment of the quality of the storytelling in that imagined arc, but that's not what happened. Anyone who knows how filmmaking works would shoot this one down, and the showrunners already have, so let's leave it behind.

I know Timebomb blew up hard, and I get it, but what we got on the screen is not confirmation that there is any relationship at all between Ekko and Current Timeline Jinx. If anything, Ekko and Powder's beautiful romance only highlighted the tragic 'never to be' of Ekko and Jinx.

And it's absolutely fine to look at the art book, look at the creator comments, and imagine what could have been. Draw the fan art, write the fanfic, imagine the what-ifs and the fix-its, those are all beautiful and valid expressions and deserve their space.

But don't go insisting it's "the canon" and going after the shippers of other ships for these characters as "not canon" or somehow offensive theirs, some ships that, yes, have been around much longer than timebomb, is uncool.

I think this is mostly people who are New From Arcane, it's Baby's First Ship and they don't know how to share space. The timebomb fans I knew pre-season two didn't do this, at least not often enough for me to notice or care.

But I'll just say to them, if a Timebomb follow up happens and they actually tell a good love story for Ekko and Jinx, I will accept it. Grudgingly, because I think Lux/Jinx is an untold, untapped story full of incredible character dynamics that would complete Jinx's story in ways that as much as I love Ekko, he's too tied to her past, he can't.

But I love Ekko, and I love Jinx, and I will accept it.

But I'll also say to them, if the followup doesn't eventuate, if things take a turn you don't expect, if Jinx's airship is heading for Demacia, maybe they'll have to experience just a taste of what it's been like for Lightcannon fans for ten long years.

And maybe that's healthy. Maybe that's okay. Maybe our endgames don't need to be 'canon' to have value and that's a lesson we should learn.

Maybe there's a new Light on her horizon, and that's okay too. Maybe Ekko won't be alone forever. Don't forget - until Arcane - his story had nothing to do with Jinx, and there was a whole lot of it.

More with the firelights, the lost children of Zaun, his inventions, his parents, all could yet be in his future. Who knows? He might find a way back to AU!Powder - or she might rebuild what they worked on together, and come to him, no matter what butterfly effects that could set in motion...

But if Jinx is heading for a Light on her horizon, maybe Ekko might Explore some of his possibilities. Find a new Spark of connection. Just saying. Jinx isn't his only ship, either 😌

And it is okay for people to move on, and let go. Maybe, for two characters whose themes are letting go of the past, living in the moment, redefining their identities, and moving on, that's what their story should be.

@areyouleadingorami loves count fagula, but don’t we all 😮‍💨

no shade just a joke 💀

artist - @keidehoi on twt

my girlfriend just said “Jinx is like if you put Catra and Entrapta in the same body and told them to fight it out” and goddamn that is the best description of Jinx i have ever heard

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♡┃giving you backshots

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♡┃riding her fingers

♡┃she can't resist your ass

♡┃you take her cock so well

♡┃fucking you with her strap

♡┃you wore that just for her, right?

♡┃making out

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♡┃sucking her strap

♡┃tribbing

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♡┃she can't help but touch herself when she eats you out

she's basically ordering me to get down on my knees and start gagging on her gun— I MEAN

Do you know anything about Romanian witchcraft and folklore? I’m looking to find as many resources on it as I can.

Ok let’s start! 

.:: Romanian Witchcraft and Folklore ::.

In Romania an important character is the zîna (< dziana, plural zîne), meaning “fairy”, which according to Mircea Eliade comes from the Goddess Diana. “It is safer not to pronounce their name. One refers to them as “The Holy Ones”, “The Magnificent Ones”, “The Rosalia”, or simply “They” (iele).”

- Source: Mircea Eliade’s “Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion”

Thereare many names for the fairies in Romania, for example: Iele, Dânse, Dăgaie, Vâlve, Iezme, Izme, Iodiţe (connected to Herodias), Rusalii, Nagode, Vântoase, Doiţe, Măieste, Frumoase, Muşate, Fetele Codrului, Îpăătesele Văzduhului, Zânioare, Sfinte de noapte, Şoiae, Mândre, Fecioare, Albe, Hale, and many others. For proper names of single famous Fairies, instead, there are: Ana, Bugiana, Dumernica, Foiofia, Lacargia, Magdalina, Ruxanda, Tiranda, Trandafira, Rudeana, Ruja, Păscuţa, Orgisceana, Lemnica, Roşia, Todosia, Sandalina, Margalina, Savatina, Rujalina, and manyothers .Thesenames should not be used randomly, they are often in fact the basis ofdangerous spells: it is believed that every witch knows nine of thesepseudonyms, which creates combinations, which are the basis of spells thatlaunches. 

- Source: Vito Keah’s “Dicţionar de mitologie generală"

The offerings made to treat Fairies’ diseasesin countries with an Orthodox majority (Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) areusually carried out at crossroads, under trees, near sources, orin places linked to the Fairies, often in specific moments likemidday, and are composed of bread; milk, bread and salt; or honey, other typesof desserts and milk, while sometimes only bread and water. In Romania the specific offerings to the iele are put on a white tablecloth laid on the ground and they are composed of some white meals (and therefore linked to death): eggs, milk, cheese, a whitehen killed (please don’t kill hens if you want to replicate this ritual, choose non-animal offerings! Thank you!).These offerings were shared with anyone who walked through the surroundings. These white and cleansacrifices (eggs, white hen, flour, salt) can be offered to fairies even at the home of sick people, but in this case they are done on wednesday or friday after sunset by ninewomen, who have to walk nine times around the house and cast a spell nine timeson the patient.

- Source: Éva Pócs’s “Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe”

A female Winter Goddess in the Romania is Brezaia, a femaleChristmas mask, played by a man wearing a long cloak and covered withmulticolored rags, whose head is covered by a zoomorphic mask: goat, wolf,rooster, stork or peacock and whose beak or jaw is moved by a man at the rhythmof a violin.

- Source: Claudia & Luigi Manciocco’s “L'incanto e l'arcano”

InRomania there are women who regularly fall into ecstasy at Pentecost,asserting, once they have resumed, that they have spoken with the saints, thedead and the Christian god, and that sometimes they prescribe medicationswithout being paid. Theseladies are called Rusalii, a name that also indicates the spirits of the deadand some Slavic female deities in the Slavic area, therefore it’s possible that it’s a christianization of a previous pagan character.   

- Source: Carlo Ginzburg’s “Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath”

In Romania semi-ecstatic rituals arepracticed (dances, pantomimes, healings, swords and flags parades) by the “căluşari”under the protection of a mythical empress, Doamna Zînelor (“the Queen ofthe Fairies”), also called Irodeasa, Irodiada or Arada, i.e. Herodias. The căluşariare ecstatic dancers specialized in caring for those who have been  “affected”or possessed by the fairies (the “iele”). Differentmelodies are used to diagnose the type of possession, and the victim is healedduring a ritual dance. The patrons of both the ieleand the căluşari are the same, or the aforementioned Arada, Irodeasa and DoamnaZînelor, which are confused with each other.

- Source: Carlo Ginzburg’s “Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath”

Similarly to the Mazzeri of Corsica and other Night Battlers in Europe,but in physical life and not in an altered state of consciousness, if a groupof Căluşari meets another group on the road, they must fight each other.   While, in the world of dreams and not in the physicalrealm, the Strigoi in particular nights (especially those of the feasts of St.George and St. Andrew) astrally ride horses, brooms or barrels to arrive incertain clearings to fight against another group of Strigoi for the fertility.They use for the combat sticks, axes, scythes and other tools: the battles startwhen one of them pronounces a certain formula (such as “red garlic!”)and end when another strigoi shouts another one (“white garlic!”), orwhen the roosters sing at midnight. It is believed that the Strigoirepresent the various villages, and that the victorious group will bringabundance and wellbeing to their village to the detriment of neighboring villages. Accordingto folklore the battles last for the entire night, at the end of which thecombatants reconcile themselves, grieving for having attacked each other. Thislast detail reconnects them again to the Căluşari, since they too, following theclash with their fellow men, restore peace according to the customs.Similarly, still in Romania, some members of the groupof girls who accompany the girl who personifies the Drăgaică (female spiritassociated to Diana and Herodias) in the homonymous ritual performed on the st.John’s day, they collide at the crossroads (even with a certain violence,beating energetically and sometimes injuring the opponents) with other equallyarmed groups coming from neighboring villages. It isbelieved that thanks to such battles, and thanks too tothe dances that precede them, the fruits ripen first and their ripening is freefrom damage. This aspect links the maidensof Drăgaică to the Căluşari, of which they would constitute a female equivalent.  

- Source: Sonia Maura Barillari’s “Acqua, Fuoco, Terra, Sale. Pratiche curative della tradizione romena”

Drăgaică is probably Herodias, who is remained in Romanian folklore also with the name of the Jerodiecele or Iroditele: they are the nine daughters of Herod emperor and Irodeasa empress, who is also called Irodia, Irodita or Irodiada, “the great one”.

- Source: Alessandro Wesselofsky’s “Alichino e Aredodesa”

Romanians also offered corn and oats to sântoaderi, horses or centaurs connected to the procession of unbaptized spirits (i.e. the local version of the Wild Hunt) which have taboos linked to the spinning. They can be considered the male version of the fairies because, according to the Romanian beliefs, on the day of Todorusale, the sântoaderi dance with the zîne.

- Source: Éva Pócs’s “Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe”

InRomanian stories, Ileana Cosânzeana (also called Ileana Sânziana, Ileana Simziana, Chira Chiralina and Inia Dinia) is both a Fairy and the Moon and the sister of the Sun,while Făt-Frumos is the Sun himself, which saves her from the monster Zmeu tolive happily with him. According to Adela Ileana Drăucean, in fact, Făt-Frumos and Ileana Cosânzeana, are “two mythical characters welled from the Romanian people’s conceptions and grafted on the archaic elements of the cult dedicated to the Sun and the Moon”.

- Source: Adela Ileana Drăucean’s “The Names of Romanian Fairy-Tale Characters in the Works of the Junimist Classics"

Sânziana gives her name to the Midsummer Festival, Sânzienelor, where the fairies, the sânzienele, come together to dance in the forest.

A fairy character connected to the World Treein the Romanian beliefs is Zîna Magdalina, who, together with Ileana Cosîzeana - who in the tradition wakes up at night and brings the new day -and at the Fairy of the Dawn, appears once a year in period of the Summer Solstice. The anthropologistHans Peter Duerr associates Zîna Magdalina who sits on the tree with Artemisworshiped in the trees.

- Source: Hans Peter Duerr’s “Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary between Wilderness and Civilization”

Baba Dochia is a famous character from an old pagan myth (probably an old Goddess of spring) related to the arrival of spring and the end of winter. She is honored during a celebration called “martisor” on March 1. 

- Source: Sonia Maura Barillari’s “Acqua, Fuoco, Terra, Sale. Pratiche curative della tradizione romena”

In Romania the belief in the Moirai hassurvived in the characters of Ursitoare, Ursitele, Ursoiare or Ursaie. They are known as determining real characters in the life of the newborn, whose favorable decisions can be obtained throughofferings. Theyalso play a role in marriages, and the third of the Moirai is often seen as the guideof souls or the angel of death. In many places they areidentified with the fairies, given their resemblance to them in featuresand in bringing blessings or diseases to people.

- Source: Gábor Klaniczay & Éva Pócs’s “Demons, Spirits, Witches: Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology”

The Slavic Goddess Mokosh remained in Romanian folklore under the names of Marţi Seară (literally, Tuesday Evening) and of VineriNoapte (literally, Friday Night). Manytimes there were offerings of flour products in honor of these Entities.

- Sources: Éva Pócs’ “Between the Living and the Dead. A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age” & “Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe”

A remnant of the cult of the pre-Christian fire Goddess inRomania, Oparlia, is held in the celebration of the feast of San Foca, which has increasingly assimilated her attributes, beingassociated with fires. It isthought that those who do not celebrate his festival, July 23, are punished withbodily burns, fires, scorching heat or hail. This character has returned in being female joining with the character of Saint Anna,celebrated on July 25th, being called “Ana-Foca”, whose feast fallson the first of July.

- Source: Sonia Maura Barillari’s “Acqua, Fuoco, Terra, Sale. Pratiche curative della tradizione romena”

Let’s talk now about the Plant Familiar: the “Dictamnus albus” (or “frăsinel”), inRomania assumes the role of a Familiar Spirit, since in the popular traditionit is invoked to oppose the evil spirits and in Oltenia, during s. George’s evefestival, the sick people make offerings of bread, salt (although it should beavoided, in the resumption of this custom, since the salt is herbicide), aplate of vegetables and a bowl full of water to obtain the healing. Anotherritual involves preparing a table with offerings - donuts, liqueurs, clay pots,incense - and with it the healer invokes the “frăsinel” to ask him tochange the fate of the patient decided by his fairy godmother at the time ofbirth. Similarly, the Romaniantradition also applies to other plants, considering them as individuals: forexample, before collecting the “tătăneasa” or “Tatin’sgrass” (ie the “Symphytum officinale”), whose research must happenin Tuesday in spite of the eradication - to be performed with empty stomach andin body and soul purity - on Friday, you have to do 15 reverences in front ofthe plant, and say: “Lady, Tatin’s herb, I do not collect you to throw youaway, but to treat the meat with the meat and the bone with the bone, and tofix them”. In the Romanian tradition, infact, before taking a plant out of the ground, it is necessary to inform themof what you want to do, the uses to which they is destined and the reason why theymust be eradicated. The “Valerianaofficinalis”, called in Romanian “odolean”, was in the pastinvoked almost as a deity, and received the prayers of unmarried girls whowished to meet their future fiancé and of married women  who wished luck and domestic prosperity.

- Source: Sonia Maura Barillari’s “Acqua, Fuoco, Terra, Sale. Pratiche curative della tradizione romena”

I agree w everything this person is saying in this post.

Timebomb is literally canon

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ok so while we’re here responding to this person, I thought I might as well go ahead and explain why I don’t like timebomb, so everyone doesn’t just think I’m only hating because I headcanon jinx as a lesbian (even though I lowkey am) AND PLEASEE keep in mind that I don't hate ekko at awwllll I love him truly I just don't like time bomb

SO FIRSTLY, in response to this person, just because something is canon doesn’t mean I have to like it, now if you’re saying jinx can’t be a lesbian BECAUSE timebomb is “canon”, there’s something called “Comphet” look it up please!!! and just to be clear me making a HEADcanon that jinx is a lesbian is just my opinion so put y’all pitchforks down please

and  to elaborate on timebomb being “canon” it technically isn’t, that was in the ALTNERATE REALITY, and JINX and ekko weren’t canon POWDER and ekko were, and after ekko went back home nothing was made official, you think just because he saved her that she was just like “omg you my man lets makeout :3” no she wasn’t the only thing that was confirmed was that after he saved her she went with him to the firelights. and also, while I’m sure he did tell her about Vi I don’t think he would’ve told her that they were in a relationship in the AU

WHICH LEADS ME TO WHY I ACTUALLY DON’T LIKE TIMEBOMB

so when it comes to timebomb they give me “sandbox love” or like “childhood sweethearts” because when they were younger they hung out together and spent a lot of time together, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were tinkering and building, and simply bonding over the fact that they were both the youngest in the group, because when you’re the youngest surrounded by older peers it’s nice to have someone close in age by your side, I believe that they had little crushes on each other as kids but THAT’S ALL

as jinx grew up with silco she changed, and she probably stayed away from ekko and turned him away so silco wouldn’t hurt him because she cared about him, but one thing that ekko and even vi had a hard time grasping was the fact that she had changed, like be real its been 6-7 years, she’s been living with the guilt of killing her family and carrying that burden alone for YEARS, OFC SHES CHANGED WTH??? so the whole “she isn’t powder, she’s changed, she isn’t worth it” is so bs like all that changed was her name and a gain of a few mental illnesses, but that’s the same person AND SHE’S ALLOWED TO RESONATE WITH BOTH, LIKE SHE GREW UP IN A TOXIC ENVIORNMENT YOU THINK SHES GONNA BE NORMAL. 

so the point I’m leading up to with this is that I feel like ekko loves POWDER, yes he cares for jinx but he LOVES powder, and people were trying to argue and say “ ohhhh but if he only loved powder he wouldn’t have come back if he didn’t love jinx” EKKO DID NOT COME BACK BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR JINX BE SO FUCKING FOR REAL, HE CAME BACK BECAUSE HE HAD A JOB TO DO, now I will say he went to jinx for help of course and after seeing powder he may have realized the importance of rekindling their friendship, but he didn’t decide to save the world cause of jinx he was doing it because ekko is a noble person. 

but back to the main point he’s convinced himself so much that jinx and powder aren’t the same person or that she’s “gone” to the point where he probably is hoping that he’ll see powder again, which is not fair, if you truly love someone no matter how they’ve changed, you don’t cancel out that change because you can’t handle it, you EMBRACE it, and him holding onto powder hoping she comes back, means that he doesn’t see jinx (in my interpretation) 

basically for me timebomb is as I stated before “sandbox love” there may have been cute little childhood crush feelings (which is also when she was powder) , but as they’ve grown up I don’t see anything romantic being there without it being forced. POWDER and ekko being together in the AU made sense because that’s who he fell in love with, but with arcane’s actual timeline it doesn’t seem right for them to be together

anytime I see jinx's eyes in this episode I feel like shit, she looks so numb it brings me back to my worst times and I can't

lottie's masterlist

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introduction/about the owner

rules/request info

jinx;

✧.* general relationship (headcanons)

✧.* kissing (headcanons)

✧.* comforting s/o (scenarios)

✧.* jinx receiving a confession similar to the one mark received in greys anatomy (scenario)

✧.* s/o watching jinx with isha (scenario)

vi;

✧.* general relationship (headcanons)

✧.* kissing (headcanons)

✧.* comforting s/o (scenarios)

mel;

✧.* general relationship (headcanons)

✧.* kissing (headcanons)

✧.* comforting s/o (scenarios)

sevika;

✧.* general relationship (headcanons)

✧.* kissing (headcanons)

✧.* comforting s/o (scenarios)

caitlyn;

✧.* kissing (headcanons)

✧.* comforting s/o (scenarios)

lest;

✧.* kissing (headcanons)

maddie;

✧.*general relationship (headcanons)

Jayce and Vi not getting anything right when they're working together while Mel and Cait are the duo that gets everything done being basically canon takes me out lmao. Those two locked the fuck when they were teaming up.

“But you were never broken, Viktor. There is beauty in imperfections. They made you who you are.”

fellas is it gay to interrupt your mortal enemy’s evil monologue to tell them they were beautiful

People can rant about the pacing of season 2 all they want, but the fact that they managed to fit a climax this epic and cathartic and painful this seamlessly in a single episode is nothing short of genius.

Like... y'all they really had it all