#ancient turned modern

[ratschizowriting]

had a cool dream about an underwater temple

it was from the perspective of swimming down to an underwater ancient ruin, the upper floors hiding everything below with a beautiful light spire formed from the hand-shaped crystal above, where only the upper half of the hand and 4 fingers stretched from the above island. the ruin surrounded by walls akin to mountainous rock and fractured as if some form of unknown event happened in proximity.

within the actual chambers? people who had made the same journey had discovered the place's secrets, and also found out that whatever beings used to live there had also taken the time to create hidden ways to play their own games. Which the people who trekked down had still taken part in. Games akin to chess, trials of combat which would have the loser receive failure trophies like dunce caps. The entire central area was dry, with only the middle section dripping water from the upper floors into a sort of pond that the original owners had created. Now repurposed into the community pool, The water from the pond had a drain to send the water back above, letting it escape from the ruin.

The people who made this place a strange exotic home had taken effort to bring down material to form rooms, places to converse and essentially turned the lowest part of the underwater ruin into a beautiful exotic getaway hidden from the rest of the world, surrounded by historical fractures as mentioned before, as well as the large pillar of light formed by the crystals above.

strange dream but i unironically love the imagery of walls covered with not only ancient texts but stories of the beings who used to be down here and the entities that are now down there for people to find in the future.

imagine writings of an ancient evil rising from the depths combined with the many glyphic of passing travellers who want to leave their mark on the place showing their visit, but always left in the form of markings on the wall that can be compared to that of the old engravings found years ago.

#writing #creating #dream writing #writing inspiration #dream inspiration #ancient ruin #ancient turned modern

[littencloud9]

and id like to give a big shoutout to marina once again for raising me

#shes the reason i turned out [gestures vaguely] like this #i love her. and if u say her recent albums suck ill bite you #ily ancient dreams in a modern land they dont understand you

[loki-ioki]

Melli mlp version: an Ancient Unicorn named "Toxic Camellia"

#very slowly turning all pokemon characters into mlp species for the fuck of it #his name is that because his type specialty/personality and then his actually name is based on camellia flowers #loki's art #mlp au #pokemon #mlp #PLA #pokemon legends arceus #warden melli #melli #my little pony friendship is magic #diamond clan #i didn't wanna draw the uniform but he and all the other wardens for both clans still wear them #ancient unicorns compared to modern unicorns have a lot more long fur/tails. plus the two pronged horn and cloven hoofs #modern unicorns kept the fetlocks and the ear tufts. sometimes the long tail pops up but it depends on how many other species/types are in #their family tree. There are many horn types but that little 2nd prong is rarely ever seen in modern types

[worldruins]

The Spiritual Advisory is tired of your Shit, Wheels. (A slightly younger Wheels here, but he.. never changes.

#mine #rw #ruinart #rain world oc #oc: a mind alight turns seven wheels #rain world #rain world ancients #rain world precursors #uhhh and #alcohol #nudity #juuust in case #the second drawing is very much a joke FHDH i had to give him modern human clothes to telegraph the right Vibe. you understand

[honeybreadbee]

Lmao I adore the beef between the head vamp and Frost

#someone said ancient head vamp vs young modern vamp bitter exes and theyre so right #also Head head vamp telling smaller head vamp to call Frost into the meeting hall and small head vamp turning to an attendant to do it #cringe eww turn to dust #lol don't take me too seriously #blade 1998

[gay-artificer]

Basically everything we see in RW is a direct descendant of heavily modified organisms, with a bit of a split between fully organic genetic modifiers to the introduction of foreign parts. This is undeniable. However I'm begging people to understand that nature routinely produces weird shit on its own and that's so much cooler than just 'anything slightly weird must be the result of modification and meddling in the process'

Please have some whimsy!!! bioluminescence!! Tool use!! Communication via static electricity! Electrical shocks as an attack method!! Beetles that spray caustic acid that can burn skin! Lizards that fire slime out of their tails!! These are all real things that are on this earth just because nature gets weird with it!

#personally i subscribe to the idea that the ancients history of genetic tomfoolery made the genetics of the wildlife very volatile #most of the modern organisms we see are basically 100% natural evolution processes at this point but those evolution processes are INSANE #and messy because the chance of genetic mutation is higher than normal and theres also a lot of dormant shit just thrown in there from the #past that sometimes turns back on and introduces something very random #so you get things like white lizards splitting off from their ancestral lizard line and developing great camouflage way way faster than #it took the like. chameleons to do that. #but at this point basically everything has been through the evolution wringer and developed entirely different to any ancestors along with #throwing out several purposed traits in favor of random junk that was bouncing around in their genomes #trying to figure out what anything was purposed for is a lost cause because they have like literally none of that left anymore. #its all been repurposed or thrown out over time #obligatory statement that im not the arbitrator of lore so you can do whatever you want :thumbs up: some people like the other direction #more. i just think its lame to chalk every single interesting thing up to intentional developments when cmon theres ants that are living #refrigerators that the other ants drink goo out of. that just happened.

[girlscience]

Worldbuilding is great because you can reuse ideas all the time to make even better things. I just hoard every idea I've ever used, thought was cool, or wanted to do something with but didn't know what and paste them together later on to make something new and improved.

#I was reading call of duty fanfic (listen idk why either) and thought 'I could do this but better' #and now I am mashing a bunch of worldbuilding ideas together to make a better small hyper-competent military task force #it has my humans but a little to the left. it has ancient magical civilization that turned into modern day civilization. #it has plane walking. it has every single fictional biome I've ever thought of. #it has complex international politics. it has international coallitions of scientists. #it's a little bit fantasy a little bit stargate a little bit house of leaves a little bit CoD a little bit apocalypse horror #it's nice

[hallwyeoo]

Quick apocalypse AU where Sqq takes Lbh (who is immune because protagonist halo) into their group of survivors who have settled in an abandoned town. Sqq has a habit of taking in kids but lbh is by far his favourite. A quick learner, good shot, smart, and an incredible cook, lbh latches onto sqq’s heart without fail. Ofc the abyss scene is lbh getting bitten after a horde attacks and he gets separated from Sqq. After the horde ravages the group and their resources, they have to start moving around, making it harder for lbh to find Sqq. After a few years of hunting them down, he finally finds Sqq (who has no idea how he survived getting bitten, and somehow convinces himself that lbh has a twin who wants revenge for the brother Sqq failed to save). They do their whole murder-chicken song and dance, and then happily settle close to the group (but still far enough that no one is woken up by their…nightly activities.)

#help #tlou has consumed my brain #zombies in general #zombie au #apocalypse au #zombie apocolypse au #lbh is like *heart eyes* ‘Shizun-‘ #Sqq is baffled by the frankly ancient title #turns out one of lbhs old groups played a prank on him and told him that it was the modern term #Sqq finds this TOO endearing! his poor innocent white lotus!! his little sheep!! #in this AU sqq could just be sy who was born in the world or sy who is transmigrated #whatever you like most #also #don’t think about Sqq mourning lbh #being terrified of finding him turned and having to kill him #svsss #luo binghe #mxtx svsss #shen yuan #text post #bingqiu #shen qingqiu #mxtx #bingyuan #scum villain self saving system #scumbag self saving system #fluff #and angst #light angst

[revvywevvy]

looks @ my mutuals

looks @ my modern au

......... one of us! one of us! one of us! one of us!!

#cell screams #//'us' I say as if im not the only person involved in this au rn LOL #//ever since I mentioned the idea of my girlfriend making an insert for the au my brains buzzing bc having my frens there too. #//and their f/os as well would be. so fun #//esp @ my soulca mutuals *staring directly at 2 specific mutuals u know who u are. u & ur f/os would prolly look SOOOO good in a modern au #//just. imagine it at least. esp since one of those said f/os is also in te/kk/en which is. basically just the modern au. #//oh but this is also directed at all my other mutuals too teehee #//slow turn. staring directly @ my other mutual beloveds. pls. #//like ik im tired as hell and was literally doing the nod earlier too and should be asleep but I cant help it!!!!!! #//im imagining my beloved moots and their f/os in the au!!! it'd be so fun having us all there like ooo what would everyones motivations be #//what would they do would they be casual bystanders? would they be in on the hunt for the ancient swords whether for good or evil?? #//would they be somewhere in the middle? or in their own separate area just doing their own thing???? the possibilities r endless #//modern f/os medieval f/os f/os from any time period im imagining it so much #// f/os from any fandom idc!!!!! im imagining my moots and their f/os and wondering what they'd be like in this au so much im gonna. #//explodes #//ive had a very long habit of imagining literally any character and what theyd be like in a fighting game if they arent already in one. #//this au is fueling my bullshit so much LOOL #//i should. probably try and sleep soon since im def nodding off a little. but daydream world has me goin crazy

[thelibraryiscool]

What is the name of the Greek veiling book you read?

It's called Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece! I'm not a hellenist so you can take my assessment with a grain of salt, but I really enjoyed it - the methodological grounding is compelling and there's some really lovely close readings of the art and texts.

#it basically uses an anthropological approach where instead of turning to modern Greek peasants to think about ancient Greece #it turns to modern veiling societies #i found it persuasive #ask #allie talks

[rmorde]

And JJK S2 wraps up!

Once again, I'm reminded of how annoying it was that Gojo took the high road with the higher ups. Those wrinkly old good for nothing assholes should have been massacred a long long time ago. They do not actually give fucking damn about peace and order. They all just want power and with Gojo gone they were drunk with it. Idiotic selfish self-centered bastards.

I swear Geto should not have helped Gojo grow a moral principle of killing only when there is meaning to it. It made him less inclined to commit homicide no matter how justifiable it already is. Because while I do see his perspective - *that it is meaningless to kill the higher-ups if his goal was to ensure that the youth would have a better life, it would have been so fucking cathartic if Gojo just Hollow Purple'd them all way back when they set up Yuji to die in the Juvenile Detention Center.

*Gojo is right (as much as it pains me to say it). He cannot kill the higher-ups because he would create a vacuum of power that would have resulted to any of the following: REPERCUSSION 1: Other seniors from the powerful clans would power grab leading to a civil war among sorcerers which can lead to many meaningless deaths. Lots of dead sorcerers = Less sorcerers to fight the ever growing number of curses = Gojo fails to ensure that young people enjoy their youth and have allies. ---> Less Sorcerers VS Lots of Curses = More Solo Missions. With the unpredictability of Curses, the new gen may even be forced to fight those above their Grade like Haibara. And, as proven in Hidden Inventory, Gojo maybe The Strongest but he cannot be everywhere and save/protect people all the time. The mortality rate of young sorcerers may raise even further no matter how much Gojo, Nanami, Shoko, Utahime, and Yaga overwork themselves to death to mitigate it. REPERCUSSION 2: Other seniors from powerful clans would fill the vacuum of power and unite to expel Gojo from jujutsu society and label him as a mass killer. Again, this can lead to a civil war among sorcerers: those who side with Gojo and those who do not which can lead to many meaningless deaths.

Lots of dead sorcerers = Less sorcerers to fight the ever growing number of curses = Gojo fails to ensure that young people enjoy their youth and have allies. -> Yeah. Yeah. Gojo is The Strongest. However, people that desire power are not very smart and can do a lot of stupid things (like what the higher-ups did after the Shibuya Incident). They can easily use the mass killing as an excuse to paint Gojo as the new "King of Curses" or something.

It is also highly possible for these power-hungry people to put an exorbitant bounty on Gojo's head that maybe even Mei Mei would be tempted to kill him.

Another likely result is for them to ally with Kenjaku. The Kamo clan did it so easily (if I remember it right). The Zenin clan may even use this as an excuse to also take away Megumi since they can claim that Gojo has gone crazy.

REPERCUSSION 3: Gojo takes all the power for himself and, as I have elaborated from REPERCUSSION 2, he could just be branded as the new "King of Curses" by the others and end up in an unwanted civil war with lots of unnecessary deaths. While he is powerful enough to be feared, envious assholes full of stupidity and hatred towards him can easily override common sense and still pick a bloody fight. Not to mention the ignorant "Yes Men" of the clan heads. So...

Lots of dead sorcerers = Less sorcerers to fight the ever growing number of curses = Gojo fails to ensure that young people enjoy their youth and have allies.

So... as cathartic as it would have been (like Maki's revenge on the Zenin clan), Gojo cannot exactly kill the higher-ups easily - not for the goal that he had in mind. He has to take the high road and play nice with them so he can focus more on helping nurture the next generation of sorcerers towards a better future.

It's sad tho. Regardless of his efforts to avoid bloodshed among sorcerers and protect the youth, Gojo failed anyway. He even blames himself for the entire fiasco after he got out of the Prison Realm. He doesn't fault anyone except himself (just like when Riko died). Gojo's choice to care doomed a lot of people.

Maybe if Kenjaku hadn't meddled through the Shibuya Incident, Gojo would have succeeded with his plan. He'd continue dancing through the finicky political games of the dying elderly jujutsu higher-ups while acting as a buffer for the new gen sorcerers. Eventually, the old clans would lose their influence as the youth grew strong together enough to change their society and render traditions as obsolete.

Sadly, it was not meant to be.

#jjk spoilers #jujutsu kaisen spoilers #tagging as spoilers just in case #these are my just thoughts about gojo's choice to play nice with the higher ups #no matter how much cathartic it would have for them to be uchiha'd so early in the story #i can see his perspective and damn geto for making gojo develop an allergy towards homicide #i swear jjk feels like an analogy for the generational struggles in rl japanese society #i know enough abt how the young gen over there are getting the short end of the stick #gen x are doing their best to bridge the gap between the millennials and boomers (yeah there's still a lot of boomers in their work force) #however boomers are just so damn stubborn and refuses to change no matter what #jp's unique case tho is: unlike in most nations the old gen are BIGGER in number than young gen #so they can easily overpower/overturn whatever changes the young gen + gen x implement and uphold tradition #kinda like what's happening in jjk - gojo's peers (shoko-nanami-utahime) + yaga try to look out for the youth #but the higher ups just keep screwing them over and over again + kenjaku-sukuna (who are both ancient) #then there's culling games which technically is a case of the old (heian sorcerers) stealing from the youth (modern people turn vessels) #not sure if this was intentional on gege's part but it's my personal feelings abt it

[canary-prince]

If you catch me posting Bible memes I'm not turning into a Christian or whatever the fuck I was before my intense spiritual crisis 2 years ago (or was it three)? I went to school for academic theological studies (analysis of religion from an exterior view point) and recent books have me nostalgic and hyperfixating.

#if anything grief turned me back into atheist #ive been a few things #my dad was raised catholic but is a staunch atheist #and mom was sort of Pentecostal and sort of methodist and is a like #soft atheist who definitely believes in ghosts and curses and shit #and i was an atheist for a long time but i felt drawn to Catholicism #it felt like a culture idk #and then it got more and more comforting to non commitally hover at its edges through witchcraft and loose modern spiritual stuff #and perform mental gymnastics about it and mostly believe large swaths of its mythology without thinking about the moral and human side and #also not converting because i couldn’t face my parents if i did and i also was already aware that i couldn’t #but i kept convincing myself that The Church as an institution could somehow be good despite how evil everyone running it is #and then my education finally got the upper hand over my weird desperate longing to fully believe in something beautiful and nearly ancient #and also my father had repeated lies he didn’t know enough to spot #my education finally made me understand that The Church was only >1000 years old #that the gnostics (originally a jewish tradition according to bart d erhman and he referenced this as being commonly accepted) #were the group which the supposed messiah belonged to and the patristic church (catholic church 1.0) had them all killed #unarmed ascetics starving in the desert the people who wrote the earliest gospels and the church killed them all #there is no textual basis for the authority of the pope #the devil was a comprise #the saints were a marketing tactic #correction: the church is sort over a thousand years old but it went through so many iterations and eras before we got here #to be exact #the church FATHERS aka the church that will become the patristic church in the wake of these dudes #and im fuzzy on if the orthodox church is a fully separate iteration or if it and the patristic are used interchangeably #Catholicism as like a term comes out of the scism with Protestantism i think

[sn0wbat]

so this is tiberius. ancient greek-roman vampire who once drowned in a river. he has hibernated for more than a thousand slutty, slutty years

#just realized i never posted this idiot to tumblr #low stakes 🦇 #one day he gets discovered #and starts flirting with the scientists in casually incomprehensible classic latin #before chomping down on their necks because damn. he hungry #also yeah. yeah tiberius went to sleep before einarr was even born. he's that ancient #he bit the dude who bit einarr. so vampirically he is his grandpa. grand-sire? idk #but he is certainly responsible for a whole lot of more vampires down the line #and he has no idea #because he's an irresponsible little shit who still thinks he's 17-20ish #just bites random people. if they turn then that's their problem #he is not up to date on modern languages AT ALL and at this point he needs a damn interpreter just so people get what exactly he's saying #anyway while i was thinking about ace vampires my horniest vampire came to mind #he is unlabeled and doesn't really care but i'm pretty sure he mostly leans towards men

[achilleslyre]

it floors me anytime someone is dumbfounded when the source material of ancient poems and epics is brought into a conversation about ancient myths. you’re going to look at me and seriously tell me that you think a 2000s adaption into a childrens series is going to be more accurate than the actual ancient poets that recorded the stories? you’re going to question me straight faced on how there can be a “real” or “accurate” way of telling a story when 3 different ancient poets wrote it the same way? i’m pulling all of my hair out of my head you have to watch me strand by strand.

#‘well theyre old so anyone can change it’ OKAY SURE BUT THEN ITS NOT THE MYTH #AND IM RIGHT TO CALL IT INACCURATE #WHY ARE U SO MAD ABOUT THAT #and YES several stories have small or large variations between poets. but ALL of those are accurate and ur little modern story teller didnt #choose any. so it is by default INACCURATE. there’s no way around it #if they chose one-even the least popular version. then it would be accurate. but they rarely do or only nitpick at what accuracies to put it #in it* #this is the biggest reason that i hate how mythologies have turned into a fandom because of books like pj* and tso* #and games like h*des and musicals like h*dest*wn #ect ect ect #*some* of them are enjoyable.. when recognized theyre not the myth and are inaccurate… #but most of the ppl that are fans of those things swear by it #and wont listen that *they always change the myth* #and that to go on telling ppl the myth if xyz based on your knowledge of…….. historical fiction #KEYWORD FICTION #is a fucked up thing to do #stopppp spreading shit about myths you rlly don’t know anything about #read the ancient poems and epics or at least an actual legit summary/breakdown of them #and then we’ll talk #that post i saw ages ago that like ‘i hate how ppl treat ancient myths like fandoms’ BECAUSE I DOOO I SO I FUCKING DO #I HATEEEEEE YOU GUYS #srry for rant im always so pissed about this whenever i try to look at content for my soecial interest #like cant i just view normal things fir the il*ad *once* #without ppl treating is like some silly little fandom #classics

[blind-alchemists]

the important question is, in a modern!Thedas, do Magisters need a magister degree to be considered for the position? and are they allowed to take lectures on magic for their major/minor or do they need to take history, art, politics, science, philosophy, and languages instead?

#dragon age meta #tevinter #modern thedas #i'm serious about this one #a magister degree is based on something from ancient rome #and so is Tevinter. apparently. #turns out magister degrees are.... an European thing. #And a shit ton of work (9 semesters) #why am I not surprised? #they've mostly been ambolished anyway (in favor of the international master's and bachelor's) #they actually kinda sound like fun because you can basically do whatever lecture you want to

[maranull]

Kinda funny going into the Hidden City in Rise of the Tomb Raider and hearing straight up modern Greek.

Also props for not having them talk gibberish. They are hyping themselves up about their prophet and planning how to fight the helicopters...

Nice.

#rise of the tomb raider #i also like how it's not exactly anachronistic since the turn from ancient to modern greek seems to be around the byzantine era #from which the immortals are #it's just nice be able to understand what the enemies are saying