#hourglass motif

[drconstellation]

Memento mori

If you have the Good Omens book, you have probably seen the little winged hourglasses that act as section separators.

Then if you paid attention during S2, you would have noticed at least two visual representations of hourglasses appear: One on Jimbriel's assistant shopkeeper vest and a large one in Hell itself.

(There are actually two time-related symbols on Jim's vest, but I'll start with the hourglass symbol.)

These are collectively known as the Memento mori, which is usually translated from the Latin into "remember that you die." It is a philosophical reminder about the inevitability of death, one of the major themes in GOmens, which is ironic since we are seeing from the viewpoint of immortal entities who don't have to face it themselves.

Artistically you may see this expressed by a skull and bones, or a skeleton, a coffin, or wilting flowers. Another form of it is the popular saying tempus fugit or "time flees" inscribed on sundials.

We can also hear it - the Danse Macabre, the piece of music the Bentley plays for Aziraphale on the way to Edinburgh, is another example of this theme, as it depicts the Grim Reaper carrying off the rich and poor alike.

Hurry up Aziraphale, you don't have all day!

The other time-related symbol on Jimbriel's vest is the ancient Greek meander pattern, named after the Maeander river in modern day Turkey.

This represents a winding river folding back on itself in big looping oxbow bends. Symbolically it represents both unity and infinity - the undulating flow of human life that continues on and on into eternity through reproduction.

Sounds like something we've heard before:

AZIRAPHALE: Ah. The point. Ah, well, you've heard of Earth? CROWLEY: Ehhh… Not as such? AZIRAPHALE: Ah. Blue-green planet. It'll be over there somewhere when they roll out that quadrant. Now that's where the “people” that we're currently designing are going to be. I've seen the plans. We're going to start out with a breeding pair, and then pretty soon there'll be oodles of them! They'll breed like...um...well, they'll breed like people.

OK, then. That kind of sums up the two competing main themes in Good Omens nicely. Everthing Has An End or Eternity.

The problem is, they both sound equally horrific.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens analysis #good omens meta #memento mori #winged hourglass #hourglass motif #remember that you die #time flies #ashes to ashes dust to dust #danse macabre #aziraphale #the sound of music #on endless repeat #god is an eldritch horror

[alecz-obssesionz]

I wanted to post this one properly as I love how shaped their bodies look and how much I improved and changed when drawing them over the past 2 months🫶✨️

#pure vessel #troupe master grimm #grimm #the hollow knight #hollow knight #hk #alecz'makingz #tried to give Hollow a more build up physique with an hourglass-y shape #Grim is less muscular but has wide shoulders #ALSO I LOVE THE DIFFERENT MOTIFS I USED IN THE SHAPES OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL BODIES #specially the legs and arms #they're nakey🤯🤯🤯 #???

[rainbowcaleb]

I love when this happens because it always feels like gentle shaming from tumblr for my sheer quantity of likes

#also i do be an essek girlie who likes a good hourglass motif #5 digits of likes rip me

[waywardsalt]

thinking abt bellum v hard. (fyi there are 1658 words under this cut)

there's not a lot of concrete stuff to think abt but there ideas. he's kind of already won by the time link shows up on the scene. he's not really actively antagonizing the world of the ocean king, he mostly just has the ghost ship to go around collecting prey for him while he has the yook and anouki turned against each other and seems to have infested the different temples and whatever with monsters to delay any opposition. is he the one who destroyed the cobble kingdom? they're meant to be supporters of the ocean king so i think we can guess that bellum is the one who tried to eradicate them.

maybe he was the one who... mind controlled? or otherwise meddled with the yook to keep them from checking out the ice temple and keeping the anouki occupied with dealing with them. (tbh theres some untapped potential in the relationship between the yook and anouki) he doesn't really do anything to the gorons but maybe he doesn't see them as a worthwhile threat since they see the crimsonine as more of an artifact and not something they should really do anything with, and link has to pass a test to even be allowed to go to the temple. the cobble kingdom is already destroyed, and it can be assumed that he mightve mimicked their engineering based on eox being the hostile boss of the last temple and turning into sand, suggesting a relationship to bellum, and maybe that he's trying to hide the fact that he's the one fucking with everyone. i'm not even sure if characters (besides the main group) even know that bellum exists until link's quest is more known.

taking a note from the manga, where bellum says something along the lines of feelings of love and friendship creating more worthwhile life force for him, so taking that into account with stuff in the game suggests that he maybe doesnt make his presence well-known to avoid something like a mass panic or a persistent fear in people, which could downplay positive emotions that makes their life forces more worth taking to him along with other worthwhile forces maybe being ones connected to divine power (like his taking of tetra and seeming desperation to keep her specifically, since she's most likely a descendant of hylia's mortal form), so he likely is very hands-off with how he's affected the world in order to preserve the value of his prey, somehow. idk why he turns people into statues maybe its a preservation method. maybe hes saving tetra for some reason or maybe trying to bait link in as well. maybe he wants to grab link, too, but failed to catch him the first time and resorted to allowing him to go down the path of dismantling bellum's work all so that bellum can try and capture him himself.

the spirits he does manage to capture and left alive and instead just sealed away within their temples, which i believe is because spirits and gods and whatever in loz can't really die unless they explicitly permanently become mortal (hylia) and can only really be sealed away temporarily in some form, mostly due to a lot of them being a sort of representation of some part of the world (i like to imagine that demise is the god or whatever who created monsters, he's the father of monsters and opposes hylia due to the way her favored creatures [hylians ig] attack and kill monsters and he wants the world to be habitable and safe only for his creations)

it's probably safe to say that the ghost ship (like. the whole thing) was created by bellum, and in some form is perhaps some kind of living being, hence why bellum is capable of effectively possessing it the way he does, since it's an extension of himself like the boss monsters, it just maybe takes parts from some existing ships, or maybe it's not alive and bellum is capable of creating large structures like that he is compatible with.

bellum himself turns to sand when he is defeated, as well as most of the other boss monsters, but the cubus sisters (who certainly have a relationship with bellum due to having the same eyes and being connected to the ghost ship) do not turn into sand, which makes me think that bellum didn't actually create them; maybe they're corpses or something being remotely puppeted by bellum.

bellum is clearly made up of the sand of hours, a crystallization of life force, and oshus is said to have used those sands to create the phantom hourglass, and the sands are also mentioned to have been created from the force gems connected back to oshus himself, so bellum was probably created from those force gems and therefore those sands of hours at some point somehow (i enjoy the idea that oshus was the one who created bellum; with oshus being our main source of info on bellum, i think it'd be interesting if he was the one who originally made bellum but obscures this fact by just talking about how he 'appeared' and whatnot).

bellum seems to have a weird sort of... inverted? perverted? ability to create life (perhaps a sort of parallel to the one we can assume the ocean king has if we assume that he created the three spirits as well as bellum maybe) but only in a hivemind or derivative sort of way, only able to create things that follow simple commands and when he possesses something else he takes it over. (i like to take him in a more biological or physiological way rather than magical, when he is removed so is the control, but there might be little remnants, but his influence is gone. i take bellumbeck aftereffects to be terrible sickness rather than others going with the idea of taking on some bellum-like traits or residual controls. the things bellum creates can only follow simple rules unless he is directly in control therefore he can use it as he wishes, but if he takes control of something he did not create, it's a bit more of a battle, he has to contend with that other being's subconscious or whatnot and has no effect unless he is physically connected. his control is more limited and ends up incorporating some of the hosts' subconscious desires with some guiding from bellum himself to achieve a favorable outcome.)

with the world of the ocean king being a sort of parallel/separate world to link n tetra's great sea, it's interesting that the ghost ship can be physically present outside the world in which it was created. definitely there can be contact between different worlds in loz (like hyrule and the dark world/lorule in alttp/albw and a little bit with termina if you take that as a literal place and a little bit with koholint and then the twili realm and whatever i'm missing) but it's interesting to see bellum as a villain capable of (in some way) contact and interact within other worlds and drag inhabitants of those other worlds into his own (oshus can send people out of his world, so i assume he can also bring them in, maybe that's how link gets in despite falling off of the ghost ship, unless somehow the ghost ship is still within the world of the ocean king but is also present in the great sea but the area around it is a fragment of whatever part of the world of the ocean king its in superimposed over the great sea... idk) so it's interesting that bellum could bc considered a villain able to tamper with or at least interact with world boundaries to let things in and out, maybe it's something that he is only capable of with whatever power he's attained by the start of the game.

whatever relationship he may have to oshus and the other spirits is not at all a part of the game, but at the same time we don't learn a whole lot about them anyways. there's also stuff with the chief of the golden frogs as another ally of oshus, but i imagine bellum didn't bother with him because he has no relation to the spirits' locations and the pure metals, and zuaz was left alone perhaps because his location is secret, while astrid and kayo were maybe found due to living on a more populated island (more prey for bellum to go after, more people to know about astrid and kayo). a lot of the monsters in the dungeons were probably already there, while the bosses were specifically made to protect what was hidden there, or maybe the bosses came first and their presences attracted other monsters.

i think bellum created the two monsters you fight overseas on the spot; they existed specifically to try and kill link because at those two times (link going to get the final spirit and link going to get the first pure metal) bellum suddenly panics and decides to try and eliminate link at the cost of the loss of a possible worthwhile piece of prey. bellum was probably also the one to begin the rumor of the ghost ship; i imagine he can take a sort of human form the same way oshus can, and spent a bit of time after defeating oshus and creating the ghost ship integrating him within some pirate crew and using them to grow and spread the rumor of the ghost ship, eventaully leading them towards it and taking them has his first victims (and along the way taking the time to foster good relationships with them in the hopes that their positive emotions and feelings would make them more worthwhile prey, back to the manga snippet idea of feelings of friendship and love [and probably positive emotions in general] being another form of better life force).

bellum's cool

#bellum is a nothing villain def but there are interesting connections to be made within ph and you can tie back to him #i think he's neat :) #loz #legend of zelda #phantom hourglass #bellum #salty talks #this aint a theory this is autistic rambling with a fade-in of that one image of charlie day's character in whatever the fuck #im not good with themes or motifs or stuff like that but boy can i make material connections. or whatever this is. im connecting the dots #i dont like the ph manga too much but i wont deny it had some banger moments. mostly around bellumbeck #i very much prefer the idea that bellum is like. intelligent and sentient as opposed to some primitive monster sort of thing #and a lot of the post backs that up (its either affirmation bias or just literal bias on my end from the start) #but he can still be a fucking animal as a treat. he can do both. scheming mastermind kinda thing and then rabid squid #i like bellum i think hes interesting i want to dissect him <3 #hes the other end of the ph autism i think. linebeck has the slow burn more quietly intense effect while bellum is just. brief flares #and then bam bellumbeck is just- *frothing at the mouth* #is this. is this an infodump? im not used to talking for a while abt things i like this was written over the course of a few hours #in the middle of this i took my dog on a long walk and was finishing up the whos lila video essay #anyways. bellum thoughts and ideas ive come up with w/ a mixture of game info and personal headcanon #not even touching on possible ways to make him similar or parallel to linebeck or anything that REALLY deals with linebeck #bc that delves a lot more into headcanon and more specfic au and post-ph ideas and scenarios #long post #its funny seeing people talk abt how bellum is a bad villain without any substance or character and yeah thats true but also i wrote this

[last-hourglass]

Just caught up to latest chapter and wow!! I absolutely love the idea of ninpo powers having a little bit of a mind of their own.

I have one question tho (unless this is a spoiler)! If you were to give the other brother’s ninpo an animal to represent them, what would they be?

Oh yeah so Raph would be a [REDACTED BUT STRONGLY HINTED AT IN THE FIC] and Mikey would be a [REDACTED BUT I'VE SECRETLY ALREADY SHOWN IT BEFORE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THIS BLOG] and Donnie would be a [ALSO HINTED AT IN PREVIOUSLY SHOWCASED ART IN THE FIC]

hope that helps ;)

#Last Hourglass #answered asks #blueeofsl #i will say this much #the ninpo spirits are not based on Animals precisely #to some extent yes animals but #the core Motif is not animals #you will see ;)

[lazarus---rising]

I am a little girl, a stupid girl, with little problems And I believe the world is caving in and will take me with it And I believe I'll never grow, and never age, and never wilt Will you remember me in years to come? Or am I just a seed, and please be fine Cause I hate this lying all the time

/

And I would kill myself if I thought I'd go somewhere better But this is it We are in hell We are in pain And I will suffer with you

#god DAMN this series and hourglass/time motifs . yells #can anybody fucking hear me is this thing on #my art :p #larry natm #larryposting #song is time by aliceband #natm

[akkivee]

otome has vines with thorns on her speaker

honobono has a vine with thorns earring

will ichijiku and nemu also include that motif?

personally i’d be a little surprised if nemu’s and ichijiku’s did!!!! they are named after flora but definitely not roses lol but if their speakers do contain plant life themes

from the femme fatale mv, they offer up a decent idea of how they could look tbh lol. the rose trellis element on otome’s speakers were also hinted in that mv so otome at least makes sense with foresight!!!!

#vee got an ask #heck their entire aesthetic was thrown into the mv lol the art nouveau/deco (appalling to use them interchangeably like that but well lol) #the hourglasses the skulls the tvs— #ah yeah so about ichijiku!!!! i’ve seen people comment the placement of her bow on the mic is reminiscent of a presenters mic #since she was a reporter i could see those tvs being an element to her speakers!!!!! #and maybe my guess that nemu’s would have an angel motif to hers would be correct since there’s some angel of victory statue in the vid #idk!!!!!!! guess we will slowly find out lol!!!!!! #the roses on otome’s speakers wrapped around the trellis gives me garden vibes where she shared her opinions with mikado for the first time #idk if there’s anything more to it??? crown???? thorns??? hmmm idk if that applies to otome #i’ve seen a take where it symbolises a jukebox and i like that it parallels the stereo dice carries around lol #anyway i can see vines being a thing in nemu and ichijiku’s to loop flowers thru the design but not thorns #c: otome #c: ichijiku #c: nemu

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen/purchase: Hourglass by motifs

#bandcamp #Motifs #Hourglass #Remember A Stranger #dream pop #indie #bedroom indie

[athousandcowboys]

link holding tetra’s statue’s hand an drhe fuckng. zeldas lullaby jingle i can’t handle this

#hy rambles #phantom hourglass #it really is a motif huh #it really is in almost every game

[omegamoo]

NEW LIFE SERIES NEW LIFE SERIES NEW LIFE SERIRES HOLY SHIT

#ramblings #AND THEYRE USING HOURGLASS MOTIF ILL SOB

[inthewindtunnel]

Motifs

Valentine

Hourglass

Dusk

Summersad

Remember A Stranger

Spitzer

Remember A Stranger

-album-

#Motifs #Valentine #Bandcamp #Remember A Stranger #Hourglass #Dusk #Summersad #Spitzer

[copperbadge]

[ID: Three elderly vinyl record covers with library tags; the first is labeled Soviet Army Chorus and Band, featuring a photo of a large military band. The second shows the rolling Welsh countryside and is labeled Traditional Welsh Songs; the third is a blue and red cover with an hourglass motif, and reads The American Jewish Experience in Song.]

The Chicago Public Library system recently weeded nine thousand vinyl records from its collection and announced a three-day sale; all records $1, cash only. I didn't imagine that there'd be a lot of LPs I wanted, but I do have a turntable and a reputation as a hipster to maintain, so today on the first day of the sale I strolled down to the Harold Washington Library to check it out.

It was startlingly popular -- each group of roughly 30 people they let in was limited to 15 minutes, and even with the time limit it took me 40 minutes to get in. Worth it, though; I came away with a dozen records all told, mostly a mixture of British and Jewish folk music, with a few soundtracks and other oddities thrown in.

But the piece de resistance, the prize find, was Rome With Love by Jo Basile and his orchestra: an album of accordion covers of Italian folk songs from 1957.

I hope it's half as good as the album cover suggests.

[ID: A fourth album cover reading "Rome with Love" and below that "Roma con Amore", labeled "The Italian Accordion of Jo Basile and his orchestra". The cover features a man and a woman on a scooter with Roma plates, dressed in the height of fifties beach fashion.]

#chicago #chicago public library #music #folk music #studying for conversion

[youremyheaven]

Astrology Masterpost

Tropical Astrology

tropical astro observations

tropical astro observations pt 2

another mini observation post

yet another trop post

here's another one

woop another tropical post

another one baby

astro notes where i talk about 8h lives

me spitting factzz <3

damn another one

i had no idea i made these many posts

for real

wouldnt be an astro observation post without me talking about pisces/12th house thingz 😎🥰

voice, 12th house, synastry

sex, romance and freaky behaviour 💀🥵🔥😩

sex astrology

the astrology of voice 🎶🎧

relationship astrology

Random Astrology Observations

Vedic Astrology

my first vedic post :-)

mongoose yoni, hasta girlies and retro vibes 🐀💃🏼👯‍♀️

bimbos, venusians and mermaids 🧜🏼‍♀️👭

blackpink vedic analysis

a cool vedic post about symbols and motifs

snakes, scorpios and sex workers 🐍🦂

serpents, trophy wives and nose jobs 🐍🤰🏼👃🏼

angel imagery in vedic astro 👼🏼🧚🏼‍♀️

Jupiter & Notoriety 💀

simple observations

vedic analysis of singers, fairies and cougars 👀 🎶🧚🏼‍♀️

BTS rising sign speculation

BTS & their celeb crushes

butterfly motif and vedic astrology 🦋

the astrology of big boobs and mistresses 🌕🌕

courtesans and great actors🥵🎭

actors, desirable women and muscle daddies 🎭💃🏼💪🏼

why are cancer girlies so in demand 🦀♋

muscle men and ingenues 🤪🧚🏼‍♀️😩

the spectrum of femininity seen through cancer rashi

beauty & the beast: the path of venus 😍🔥

nice guys, loners, unhappy childhoods 🤓🥰

Rosalia's Mrigashira influence 🐍

Abstract Art & Artists 🎨✨

Jupiter Influence on Korean Actors 🌟🧚🏼‍♀️🦋

The Astrology of Appearance

The Astrology of Appearance pt 2

The Astrology of Appearance pt 3

Decoding Venus

Beginner's Guide To Vedic Astrology

Pisces Influence on Kpop

Ashlesha: The Villain Nakshatra

The Cinderella Story

Mars & Sex

Hourglasses: The Astrology of Body Types ⏳🥵💃🏼

Astrology of Appearance: Yoni Animal Edition

Astrology of Muses

Cancer Girls & Baby Voice

Doll Beauty in Astrology

Jupiter vs Moon

Revati's Magic

Moon conjunct Ketu relationship dynamics

Nodal synastry moodboard

The Dark Side of Jupiter

Tomie Kawakami is a Punarvasu

Wealth giving naks & Revati's kinky side

Appetite in Astrology

Mars, Sex & Celibacy

Why Venus exalts in 12h

The Absorbent Nature of Venus

The Ugliness of Venus

Houses in Astrology

The 12h & Its Vibes: A Detailed Analysis 🦋🧚🏼‍♀️

The 8h Saga 🌹✨🦇🌌

#astrology notes #vedic astro notes #astrology observations #astro notes #astro observations #sidereal astrology #astrology #astroblr #kpop astrology #vedic astrology #astro community #nakshatras #spirituality

[kaguyass-houraisan]

PART 2 OF THIS POST: (still open to ideas and suggestions !!) https://www.tumblr.com/kaguyass-houraisan/748807356547268608/tom?source=share

Aiden:

Kristal literally called him boring and Aiden is literally Normal like he's surrounded by crazy ass mfs so naturally I gave him a normal type. He deserves and gets one Pokémon that he showers w affection and that's a Pidove. Like his shirt reminds me of a bird so... also it's half flying type and let's not forget the end of season 2 now 😹😹 and I wanted him to give protag vibes and like he's just fooling around Unova all the time... i was told in a greeting he said he got James into Pokémon BW and idk if this is true but Aiden is a unovan... i believe it so hard... he's here to vibe not a single thought in those glass eyes... he's a grown man ready to explore !!

James:

THE ELEGANT ELECTRONIC ELECTRIC TYPE GYM LEADER !! Definitely gave Elesa Raihan and Iono a run for their money, he's a star BITCH. He's vlogging and doing tiktoks during battle and posing for every picture ever. He's electrifying and dazzling and I imagine his partner is an oricorio or like. Something similar. I was fond of him having a chatot but idk... I like to think he's from Alola originally bc Paldea doesn't count for Brazil seeing as Pokémon like quaxly are foreign to there... so I think originally from Alola works ! He might also have steel types or mixes between the types... idk really I'm still working... but as you can see he was inspired by oricorio in his design and the hourglass motif in his og design... I wanted him in heels..

I llike the idea of him being the Nimbasa gym leader, but that's if I don't create a fan region like the Tipiskaw Region... in that case he's the 8th gym leader or 7th, bc I believe Miriam would have been the fairy type gym leader prior to Jake so we will see. I also hc Riya as a gym leader too but we will see what I shit out...

#cereza made art #my art #disventure camp #campamento desventura #disventure camp james #disventure camp aiden #dc aiden #dc james #jaiden #dc jaiden #I love jaiden #i love tjem so much #i love James so much too wtf #james stan forever omg #Pokémon #pokemon au #aiden sends pidove to send james messages like romance is ALIVE #dc pokemon au

[theminecraftbee]

of course we’ll know for sure probably tomorrow but it IS suspicious that they’re all using 24-hour clocks when they’re showing a clock, given that it pretty definitively can’t drop 24 hours from like four different times. I wonder if that’s relevant somehow, or if it really is just to say “it’s tomorrow”. martyn’s thing with the hourglass is DEFINITELY a gimmick/lore teaser though, and the fact EVERYONE is mentioning time suggests to me that there definitely IS a time motif. but what?

#I am seeing so many good theories as to what this could mean #and I’m chewing on all of them #and we’re all gonna be wrong

[1percentcharge]

Okay I’ve got a bunch of random spider facts for u (I am a humble collector of random spider facts). Idk how many of these u know already but hopefully u find some inspiration/spider motifs in them:

Some species of tarantulas keep frogs as pets.

Yellow garden spiders weave zig zags into their webs.

Of course there’s the red hourglass of the black widow (though some specimens have been shown to have the pattern repeated around the abdomen longitudinally (I know because my dad has one))

There’s also the violin shape of the brown recluse

Gladiator spiders weave webs into nets to throw at prey (they also have one massive pair of eyes surrounded by three smaller pairs and I think they look so cute)

Crab spiders (not to be confused with spider crabs) can look like various flowers like larkspur

Mirror spiders look like little disco balls

Diving bell/water spiders build nests, well, underwater using air bubbles

Jumping spiders have been known to wear water droplets on their heads (as well as just being the spiders imo)

Textile crafts are commonly associated with spiders due both to visual similarity and also Arachne

Like how human eyes glow red or cats eyes glow green when light is shone in them, spider eyes glow turquoise (very good thing to know when ur out camping in the woods)

Spider blood is also turquoise (for most species idk for all)

Jorōgumo is a spider yokai that can turn into a beautiful woman to lure men to their deaths and eat them (as well as being a real species of golden orb weaver spider)

Like scorpions, spiders glow under black light

Uhhhhh there are some species of fungi that can possess and kill spiders (like cordyceps) (tho idk if cordyceps is one of them). My favorite one is purpureocillium atypicola which turns its victims white and fuzzy-looking (if you ever saw those zombie spider clickbait photos from years ago)

Spiders georg

Wow, thanks so much for this list! I'll definitely use some of these hehe

#asks