my love, i would have perhaps lived a lifetime without knowing you // you are a desire melting away // like a blazing ember // to tenderly caress // your wounds // i will be the moonlight // i will be a shadow // till the day i die // dear, i'll watch over you
uyire, minnal murali // destiel
insane amount of thanks to my friend m @iamnotmereally for their help on this ily sm <3333
my biggest canon-compliant desinatural theory is that henna would've stayed on jack's skin, unlike the tattoo ink. so they could've just. like. put a bunch of sigils on him easy. just have to keep redoing them every other week, which is honestly not that much work if you think about it. you can even change where you put them each time like changing the location of an insulin omnipod. plus! great bonding activity!!
spn pongal moodboard for @spnpocdirectory's cultural exchange event day 4: traditions/festivals
explanation of pongal below cut:
Pongal (பொங்கல்), or Thai Pongal (தைப்பொங்கல்), is a Hindu harvest festival celebrated by Indian and Sri Lankan Tamils every year around mid-January (it follows the Tamil solar calendar).
There are officially four days of Pongal but most people only celebrate three or less (personally I only celebrate the second day and a little of the first day because Pongal is not easy to celebrate in urban areas/countries).
The Four Days:
Day 1: Bhogi Pongal (idk what exactly bhogi means I'm sorry)
Bhogi Pongal is about starting anew because it is the last day Marghali month according to the Tamil calendar. People celebrate by wearing new clothes, cleaning their houses, and discarding old possessions. And they discard their old things by gathering around a bonfire and burning everything 👍 (reason for choosing the pic of Sam and Dean standing by a bonfire).
Day 2: Surya Pongal (Surya = Sun)
Surya Pongal is the main day of the festival and the first day of the Thai month. This day is dedicated to the sun god (reason for choosing the pic of Cas looking at the sun). To celebrate this day we make the pongal dish in a decorated pot as seen in the second image. Traditionally, the pongal dish is prepared outdoors and as a group. So the pot is placed over a fire and milk is added in. Once it starts to boil, freshly harvested rice and cane sugar are added. Eventually the pot will start to overflow and when this happens everyone will shout "Pongalo Pongal" which translates to "may this rice boil over. In urban areas its typically just one or a few people making the dish in the kitchen on the stove. We also decorate our doorsteps with kolam (which is depicted in the third image)
Day 3: Mattu Pongal (Mattu = Cow)
Mattu Pongal is a day where we worship the cattle because they are sacred animals in the Hindu religion. The cattle are adorned with flower garlands (as seen in pictures 7 and 8) and their horns are painted. The cows basically get special treatment that day like being fed pongal and other natural sweet treats and are bathed.
Day 4: Kanum Pongal (Kanum = to visit)
Kanum pongal is about reunion and visiting family and friends (which is why I chose the middle picture)
you know that one scene in kuch kuch hota hai where they're playing charades at the summer camp and they tell rahul that "i love you" is a real movie but he can't act it out for the life of him and then the kid comes and does it and anjali guesses it like in one try and rahul bluescreens when he hears those words from her mouth and then she's like "that was so easy!!!" and he's like "sorry i couldn't do it." and she's like "we could've won if you just had!" ??? that's destiel.