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lisafication · 6 months

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This post is uh, extremely normal I swear

So hello yes I am absolutely On My Bullshit regarding my new favourite game.

That’s right, it’s the cannibal incest game, The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. And I’m here to shove five thousand words of pretentious analysis down your throat because, and I do not exaggerate, I think it is one of, if not the best written game I have ever played. And I have played a lot of games, including Baldur’s Gate 3, Final Fantasy XIV and Undertale, to name a few narrative luminaries to come to mind.

That wordcount is not an exaggeration. My brainworms are extremely powerful and now you can share them with me as I walk you through my insane skyscraper of inference-driven analysis.

Or you can click away. I really wouldn’t blame you, it’s quite a lot.

Content Warnings: …Yes?

(To drop the bit for a moment, The Coffin of Andy and Leyley covers extremely disturbing material and challenges you to examine aspects of living in this world that many have taken for granted all their life, it is not a comfortable game, this will cover similar topics and will often echo the game’s unremitting scepticism on basic principles of society and humanity and you should look after yourself first. My Content Warning is framed as a joke, but it’s also quite real in that the game is designed to make you uncomfortable and there’s no shame in that not being for you.)

This was originally posted on and formatted for Sufficient Velocity, and you can probably more easily read and discuss it with me here.

With that said, let’s dig in. I have had to split this into multiple posts because tumblr will only allow so many images. There will be spoilers for all endings.

She’s excited, are you?

It’s All About Ashley

It really is, isn’t it? I mean, for approximately eighty percent of the total game as currently released and the entirety of Episode 1, you’re in control of Ashley, just as she’s in control of her and Andrew’s relationship for 80% of the game, up until the various ending sequences where it begins to slip. The only other characters who really matter at all in and of themselves are Andrew and her mother — and the former is under her thumb, and she eats the latter. It’s all about Ashley. Even her obsession with Andrew is, ultimately, about Ashley.

But who is Ashley? What is Ashley? Why is Ashley, even? Let’s take a look.

Ashley as presented to us in Episode 1 is very straightforward, so let’s list off the traits we’re given — she is malicious, she is fearless, she lacks empathy, she doesn’t have anything resembling a conscience, she demands Andrew belong to her and her alone, she has him at her beck and call.

In Episode 2, we’re ostensibly shown how she has him at her beck and call— she leverages the threat of reporting Nina’s death over him and had him swear to be with her forever. We’re shown that even as a child she was “just, like that” — but as a child, she hadn’t learnt to live with it yet, to laugh at the farce of it all.

Yeah, exactly like that!

And she does this throughout Episode 1 — The Coffin of Andy and Leyley is a remarkably silly game much of the time, finding moments of absurdity and levity against a backdrop blacker than pitch — and most of the time, your internal narration is coming from Ashley and the jokes will not-infrequently come at her own expense.

She will later get negged by her human sacrifice for her poor ritual circle drawing

Her reaction to being told that her soul is as dark and viscous as tar is “You guess you already knew that” — it’s confirmation to her, not new information. Ashley knows who she is. But who taught her this? There’s layers to this, nothing in this game is as simple and straightforward as it appears at first sight, which is why I’ve been obsessing over it for days.

While it’s common in fiction, the truth of the matter is, most ‘bad people’ really do think they’re good people. But Ashley has never once thought of herself as a good person — or perhaps better put as a person worthy of love — as we learn across Episodes 1 & 2, with our flashbacks to Andy and Leyley and the VERY VERY QUIET!!!

I really wish I had space in this essay to talk about this, but I’d like to touch on these being traits usually more easily forgiven in young boys than young girls at some point.

If she removes all other options, only then can she expect him to like her.

This is something that is echoed in the modern day — her seeming self-assurance is easily shaken and she reaches out to the world — usually Andrew — to affirm and validate her, soothing her insecurities, using any tool she deems necessary. Even when her life is on the line when Andrew has her by the throat at the climax of Episode 1, the only ‘compelling reason’ she can give Andrew to not kill her is her ability to soothe his nightmares. When he tells her there are sleeping pills for that…

Most people would have a bit more to argue for their existence.

While she, unlike Andrew, acknowledges having had friends before the quarantine… you know she’s got a point that they didn’t even bother to answer her calls, that was clearly not something the state was interfering with given Andrew’s calls with his mother and his girlfriend, and given her general demeanour it’s not hard to imagine that… they weren’t ever very close. When we see her and Nina talk in the infamous ‘box scene’, it’s clear that Nina doesn’t like her very much, despite Andrew’s assessment of Nina as being one of Ashley’s friends.

We see further support for her general lack of companionship in her dream sequence in the Burial route — Leyley and Leyley Alone. No matter what you do, you can’t place the pink plushy at the family table, the flowers won’t bloom if you give the Julia and Nina plushies her own as a companion instead of Andrew’s — and if you’re bold enough to go for the ‘incest route’, in the ‘Love’ room you see that no one ever looks happy to be with her in the childlike depictions of her history, nor is she happy in turn, save for when she’s with Andrew. In a bit of heavy-handed metaphor, the player then overwrites all of these tense, upset, hard moments with Andrew, having him fill in for everyone else in life — and happy with her.

Once Upon A Lousy Life…

THE END

And that’s why she needs him to affirm her, because no one else ever has and no one else ever will. It’s even included in their comic beats — when the siblings are getting along well, they’ll often play a game where Andrew dramatically overpraises Ashley while she demands more; it’s a comedic bit but I mean — it really does matter to her!

For the record, she opened a door. She gets a little heart in a speech bubble after this exchange.

We have a great example of this dynamic, that of insecurity and affirmation, in Episode 1, after Andrew has killed for her, butchered for her, his girlfriend broke up with her, he’s seemingly thrown his entire life away for her… she’s still insecure over her relationship with him, she’s uncertain of her control and she needs him to reaffirm it for her.

This is her victory, surely?

Andrew affirms her once, with his usual dead-eyed look.

But she's still not so sure.

He actively reaches out to affirm her again with cheer.

Look how happy she is!

While it’s most obvious and clear cut here, it’s hardly the only case. Let’s look back to the aftermath of Andy and Leyley and the VERY VERY QUIET!!! (I’m not using the other name). Leyley is, after similarly extreme acts — he murdered a girl and hid her body for her — convinced Andy doesn’t like her and she needs this leverage to keep him around, to meet her basic needs for survival. Because that’s what this is — she receives no care of affection elsewhere, so she forces it out of the only source she sees available through the means she sees as necessary.

I really hope we see some of their earlier childhood in Episode 3

What exactly made her like this? Was it just neglect, or something more specific…

She needs this to be the case because otherwise she doesn’t believe he’d stay.

This pattern repeats throughout — Ashley’s insecurities are hit on and she reaches out to Andy to affirm that she is not alone, and she will use any and every tool to exploit her ostensible control over him and force him to be what she needs him to be — and as long as she has that, as long as she is everything to him and it’s not possible for him to leave, she’s happy. As long as she thinks he loves her in her very particular, very peculiar view of love, she’s content, come what may. As long as Andy and Leyley are together, they can take on the world.

Let’s talk about that view of love, because there’s always more layers to unpack here I’m only scratching the surface with this essay — Ashley consistently refers to anyone else Andrew may have befriended or spent time with as a whore, a slut, a bitch — highly gendered insults that bring to mind the idea that he’s cheating in some way. But it’s not even about sex — when Andrew mentions that their parents had friends, she accuses them of cheating on each other in the same way!

There’s a lot to unpack about Ashley’s view of femininity and the role the patriarchy plays in their relationship.

Any kind of emotional engagement, any kind of commitment, any kind of life outside of your significant other is, to Ashley, cheating. Because that’s what she needs from Andrew, a seeming complete and total commitment, secure in her place as the only thing in his life, because she cannot understand anyone picking her if they have a choice.

This insecurity she has in her relationship is what drives her to empower the trinket — he can’t leave her as long as she can protect him with prophetic dreams, after all. She needs every kind of leverage she can get because until she succeeds in being everything to him, in devouring him so completely she has him in her thrall mind, body and soul she can’t be sure of herself — hell, her dream sequence in Burial has you placing Andrew’s signature green plushy, ‘the best thing in the world’ in a cage far away from anything else.

Ultimately, it really is all about Ashley — even her seeming obsession with Andrew ultimately comes back to her own insecurities. If she is everything to ‘the best thing in the world’, some of that ‘best’ must surely reflect on her!

But that’s enough about the more normal, straightforward and understandable sibling.

That was not a joke.

Andrew’s Rank 100 Deception

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he did not exist.

Let me explain.

You might have noticed that in the previous section I often use language such as ‘ostensibly’ or ‘seemingly’ to describe Andy and Leyley’s relationship, and there’s a good reason for that. From the beginning of the game through to its end, Andrew is lying to you, the player, without ever falsely representing or misinforming you about events that occurred.

The common, or obvious ‘initial take’ on Andrew as presented in Episode 1 is fairly straightforward. The game primes you to think this way, it frames things and strings reveals just right so as to make it very easy to overlook the incongruities it introduces in Episode 2. He’s a victim. Plain and simple, Ashley is his abuser and he is her victim and would be fine, a normal albeit kinda depressed guy without her.

It really is not a difficult conclusion to draw

You can go all the way through the game, have him try to accept his mother’s olive branch and enter the Decay route as a method for him to finally actualise his desire to get out from Ashley’s thumb and it makes sense, it’s a reasonable way for the story to go, given his character.

You see him this way because the game primes you in Episode 1 to view their relationship like Andrew does — he’s lying. He’s lying to himself, he’s lying to Ashley and he’s so good at it — Deception Rank 100 — he even lies to you. Without misrepresenting a single event or otherwise misleading you directly, the game gets you to buy into his preferred self-perception. Nina? Ashley. Julia? Ashley. The murders they commit in the course of the game? Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, it’s not his fault he’s not to blame he’s just a doormat at the beck and call of his demonic sister.

But he wants to be there. From the very outset, the very first puzzle, that’s made clear. Does anyone else remember this exchange, from right at the beginning of the game?

Ashley wants to investigate the music!

Andrew disapproves…

…Or does he?!

Like. Listen. Okay. You do not frown when saying ‘Nope’ and then smile when saying that you’ll instead tag along if they do it if your heart is at all in the no. That’s not an objection, that’s using Ashley as his excuse. Especially if you immediately throw her the balcony key that she could not possibly have gotten from you by force (more on Andrew’s ability to use force later).

This is the very first time you control both characters together with Andrew following Ashley instead of off on his own, the first adventure, the first puzzle!

But put a pin in that for now, let’s talk about his initial framing in Episode 2 first. Episode 1 has set us up to, generally speaking, believe the superficial framing of the siblings as portrayed in its promotional art:

The question that we then ask, right at the heart of it is… why is he a doormat? We explore this in his dream sequence in Episode 2, which does make it clear that the boy’s not okay but— it’s real easy, given the priming from Episode 1 to make you think that he’s the one with the originally functional moral compass, to think that that him being fucked up is damage done to him by Nina’s death and being bound to Ashley for his entire life. She corrupted him.

But, well, is that the case?

You're primed to ignore this as manipulation (which it is) but the best manipulation has some truth to it.

Precisely two things spur Andrew to action in the entire game, consistently — they are the fear of consequences and Ashley. And the first incident of that fear, the very first time we’re shown his seeming moral compass as a kid — the first time it’s really hammered home that it’s a fear of consequences rather than any true moral qualms is after Nina’s death. And why does he fear consequences here?

……

The ‘natural’ read that many take away from this sequence, particularly those who have only played Decay, is that Ashley browbeat him into doing this against his will, using emotional blackmail to overwhelm his objections, and then used the event itself to bind him to her forever as her personal doormat.

In a strict sense, this is true. But this doesn’t match up with the details, something the game uses shock to encourage you to overlook. That outburst is before any kind of threat has been made, and absolutely nothing either of them say anything about it being morally bad until Ashley weaponises ‘you’re a bad person’ against Andrew — morality didn’t seem to enter his mind or the equation at all until Ashley brought it up. More than that, his greatest fear and driving motivation even prior to that is, as shown above, being taken away from Ashley.

She, of course, recognises this and uses it against him. But she never needed to, it didn’t change anything about Andrew’s attachment to her, it was there to address her own insecurities.

Just like to touch on how a lot of his affirmations are preceded by him confirming her insecurities.

I adore this phrasing

There’s a second prong to this as well, to the question of ‘who really calls the shots here’ because — Andrew can, at any stage, apply an ‘ultimate veto’ of physical violence. The game is very clear to the player that that is on the table — even when they were children, when Andy swears their blood oath, he briefly considers killing her — and take note of how he ultimately got a ‘winning’ condition out of her by not specifying there wouldn’t be others and she is forced to accept that, there. Even outside of their most serious confrontations, Ashley is portrayed as having to convince, manipulate or otherwise coerce Andrew into going along with her schemes — she really can’t make him do anything, she doesn’t have the supremacy in violence and, to a lesser extent, capability that would allow her to.

Andrew, you are like ten years old.

The truth of the matter is, Ashley can only make Andrew do anything because he lets her. I don’t mean in the sense that I’m saying abuse victims let their abusers emotionally abuse them, I mean in the sense that he is clearly considering his options on the table and choosing to discard those that could stop her, or bring an end to any of this. He needs her.

But it’s true that he hates her, too. He has to hate her, because if he doesn’t hate her, if he isn’t forced to have done this, that means… he’s responsible. And nothing, at the start of the story, is as important to Andrew as avoiding the consequences of his own actions, not even Ashley. By the midpoint, he loves her, he hates her, he can’t live without her, he wants to kill her — by the end… well, that depends if you’re on Decay or Burial, but more on that in a bit.

A great scene to study for this dynamic is the climax of Episode 1, when Andrew grabs Ashley by the throat and considers strangling her to death. She’s pushed him too far with hurtful words and assault, and he’s seemingly had enough.

It’s still framed as a question of risk, of consequences happening to him.

Like, this is not the usual behaviour of someone who’s been pushed past their breaking point.

He tells Ashley that he wants to kill her, because she’s just going to throw another fit and that’s a risk to him. She is… not framed as being able to fight back (she does have a gun here, and more on that in a later essay, maybe). He’s so calculated in how he approaches his use of violence here, which isn’t at all what you’d expect of someone about to commit a crime of passion… but it’s very easy to overlook because of the abuser/victim narrative that the player fits his behaviour into the narrative that the game primes them to accept, brushing incongruities under the carpet.

At the start of Episode 2, we get to control Andrew for the first time, and the first obvious holes in his cover start to show. Some of this is optional — you only learn that he’s been faking having nightmares in order to share a bed with Ashley if you choose to go back into the motel room and check the bed, for example — but not all of it.

----(See reblogs for the second half)

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evangelinesbible · 11 months

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11H AND WHAT TYPE OF FAMOUS SINGER YOU'D BE

If we use the method of derivative astrology then the 11h should be able to tell you what type of famous singer you'd be.

2H = Singing Voice

10H = Fame

10 houses away from the 2H is the 11H.

PSST- you can look at the 11H ruler and what it tightly aspects too. And if you have a planet that has multiple sign rulers you can look at those descriptions too ;)

SUN/LEO

You naturally gain attention as a singer. You have a lot of confidence in yourself as a singer. You might be seen as the type of singer that can’t help but shine when they perform. A singer with a big personality when they sing to others. Some of the attention you get can be overwhelming and you might feel like the spotlight is on you all the time. You’ll be famous for your very bold and creative ideas as a singer. Famous singer who makes an “All eyes on me” statement with their music and is seen as royalty. When it comes to your singing voice you might be known to have a powerful one, like a lions roar. (Moving forward know that other aspects in your chart can possibly effect what your voice is also known for)

MOON/ CANCER

As a singer you’ll be famous for your emotional vulnerability and honesty. You’ll sing about what you truly deeply care about. When it comes to your voice it’s distinctly feminine, soft and also nurturing. Life lessons involving your childhood might been seen a lot in your music. Since cancer/the moon is also a luminary fame and popularity is very natural for you to gain. It may manifest a little differently than Leo but you might also feel like all eyes are on you. You may be known as a singer who uses music to connect to your inner child and use music to heal yourself and others.

MERCURY/GEMINI/VIRGO

You’re the singer who is very critical of how you perform. You might feel like everyone, including yourself is watching your every move and judging you. You might be your worse enemy. Since mercury rules quickness you’ll be famously known for getting tired of what you do/make as a singer very quickly and you’ll be known to go through a lot of phases. You might also be known as a singer who can sing or even rap really fast. You’ll be famous for your well thought out musical eras, clever lyricism and messages involving change.

VENUS/ LIBRA/ TAURUS

Famous singer who’s specifically known for being very artsy and having a beautiful/“pretty voice”. You are a singer who is known for your sensuality and femininity. You will typically be known for singing about love, relationships and how you like to be pleased. Similar to moon there’s a softness to you this people will love, even if you had a bad girl/boy era people will still see you as sweet and soft. You might also sing about material things, wether it’s a commentary on materialism or flaunting it.

MARS/ ARIES

As a famous singer you’d be known to be very sexual and/or aggressive in your music and performances. You are a very passionate performer/singer and you may be very blunt and upfront about what you sing about. You’ll be known to be assertive and very confident in your singing abilities. When it comes to your singing style you’ll be famously known for singing very loud, aggressive, and bold. And even when you’re singing softly there’s still a dominance in your voice that people pick up on.

JUPITER/ SAGITTARIUS

This placement can also indicate gaining popularity very easily as a singer. You’ll be famous for your big personality and it might shine through your music/performances. You’re a singer who gains a lot of money in the industry. You’re a singer who will be famously known to spread messages and personal wisdom through your music. You might use your music to spread awareness about issues you deeply care about, especially about equality and justice.

SATURN/ CAPRICORN

The singer with a very long lasting impact/career. The singer who might set a certain standard in your work. When your famous you’ll naturally gain a lot of respect in the industry. When it comes to your voice people might perceive it as perfect, well crafted and again the standard because of your consistency. (Even if you are not a perfect singer or technical vocalist) You might gain more praise or notoriety as you age and mature. You’ll be famously known for making a lot of achievements as well as going through extremely challenging situations that you may involve with your music. You may be known for your perfectionism because you might doubt the way you perform as a singer.

URANUS/ AQUARIUS

You’d be famous for challenging the norm and staying fiercely independent. A singer who’s famous for being a trend setter and bumps the curve. As a famous singer every one expects you to do something unique, technologically advanced, something completely new and never seen before. In your field you will be seen as one of a kind because it’s very hard to replicate who you are. You might have copy cats but they’ll never reach the level you will reach because your uniqueness as a singer is authentic. When it comes to your voice you might be known to do a specific thing with it that you’re known for that nobody else can replicate.

NEPTUNE/ PISCES

You’ll be a famous singer known for singing about your self destructive problems, addictions and/or delusions. You might involve themes of spirituality as well. When your famous you’ll be glamorized, including what you sing about (which can be good or bad). You as a singer can be confusing or aloof which gives you some mystery. People might find you very confusing because you might contradict yourself through music. When if comes to voice you might be famous for your dreamy and/or almost drunk like cadence and tone. You may be known for your creative melodies and musical production

PLUTO/ SCORPIO

You’d be famous for the power you have being a singer. Wether if that’s with your voice, your lyrics, or just with your presence. And you also gain power through singing. When you’re famous you might transform into a completely different person, maybe even multiple times. You might potentially transform something in your industry. You’ll be seen as extremely magnetic so people might naturally be obsessed with you and copy what you do. Of course you might be a very sexual singer as well and you might constantly talk about themes of sex and intimacy. When it comes to your singing voice you might be known for a sultry tone and a powerful one as well. It might also be known for its deepness.

What’s your 11H? Mine is Cancer Saturn with 11H ruler being Sagittarius Moon 💋

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starsworldd · 1 year

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➴ astro observations pt 4 ➶

reminder to go listen to domino 1 by iamsagsssssss out on all platforms now <3 (i know the artist very well i promise it’s good ⭐️

remember to please take the following with a grain of salt ⭐️

⥺ mars conjunct mc people are very hard workers but are often met with conflicts with people at work also. could be business entrepreneurs

⥺ people who have moon sextile venus are very kind and endearing <3

⥺ scorpio mercuries often hide weird stuff (doesn’t have to be innapropiate but it’s just weird and odd) on their phones and more than other people don’t show people their photos, social media, texts, etc…

⥺ mercury conjunct uranus people are some smart people let me tell you. i find that they’re often pretty witty and good with defending themselves in arguments too!

⥺ sun in 6th house people get burnt out really easily but moon in 6th house people seem to be working 24/7 and seem unbothered by it?? maybe they just hide it better. moon in 6th house people are also really smart. i want to look more into that though, because moon and sun are both luminaries so you’d think they’d both get pretty burnt out being in the 6th house of daily work and service…

⥺ the 8th-9th-10th houses i think explain how one finds their purpose in life and their calling. of course all the houses are involved in this because a chart works as a whole story, but i want to focus specifically on these 3 houses: we start at the 8th house of trauma and transformation. 8th house transits usually signify a new beginning (though it usually doesn’t come without trouble and hardship) and it is in the 9th house that we find what we can do to help ourselves out of hardship. what do we believe in? what do i learn out of this difficult time? what experiences can i engage with that help me be a better me? pluto (ruling the 8th house) is the ruler of the underworld and from there we literally go to the king of the heavens (jupiter, ruler of 9th house) to one’s calling in life, signified by the 10th house. it is through one’s hardships and main battles (8th house) that can show us how we can put our best selves out into the world (10th house). sorry to rant, i just think this is so cool to point out! if you guys want i can make a post for the rising signs on this topic ⭐️

⥺ pisces venus people are obsessive over their crushes

⥺ venus conjunct saturn natives may not be that interested or rushed into getting into serious partnerships, in fact they seem to not prefer it, usually due to a past experience unfortunately :(

⥺ does anyone else get their period when the moon crosses their ascendant? just me? okay☺️

⥺ aries sun people are so attractive

⥺ people usually say that musicians with the same moon sign as you resonate with you more, but, this is kind of an iffy observation BUT, artists with their moon in your fourth house may also seem to make music you really like as well or you may just like them in general

⥺ cancer risings having an aries midheaven meaning that their life’s ambition is about defining themselves and being themselves unapologetically <3

⥺ people with venus in a detriment sign are often really attractive (aries, scorpio)

⥺ cancer and leo risings have a natural almost child-like glow to them. also really attractive placement in my opinion

⥺ scorpio risings and mars are often perceived as mean and intimidating. same for moons (unless if there’s aspects to venus i’ve noticed)

⥺ mars in gemini 🤝 over-competitive in games (especially games to do with the hands like spit, word hunt, certain sports, etc..)

⥺ moon conjunct jupiter people are so wholesome. they have very good morals and care deeply for the well-being of others. such a lovely placement <3

⥺ bucket-shaped chart is giving “you have all this pizazz and potential but…(insert planet here) is giving you some obstacles”

⥺ moon square neptune could be an indicator of a parent who struggles with alcoholic or drug addiction

⥺ chart ruler square neptune can give poor perception as to how you’re perceived by others or anxieties about it

thank you for reading! hope you’re well ! ⭐️

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daportalpractitioner · 2 months

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astrocartography: the moon line

to get your astrocartography chart, go to astro.com > free horoscopes > locational astrology > astroclick travel

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do you happen to live on your moon line? are you thinking about visiting your moving to your moon line?

the moon is one of the two luminaries in our solar system + is one of the most important aspects in the realm of astrology. with the moon being the closest planetary body to earth, she has a direct influence on our physical bodies, our minds, the weather, and our emotions to name a few by being the puppet master of our subconscious.

why one would want to be on their moon line:

establish nu roots

buy real estate

start a family

develop a community

get to know self on a more deeper and intimate level

divine feminine innerG activations

healing mother wound

womb healing

rest + rejuvenation

physical + spiritual healing

moon/asc: you're likely to feel very sensitive + in tune with your inner and outer world. be mindful on how you're spending your energy because you may not have the energetic capacity to do a variety of different things. honor your feminine flow + need to rest. this is the place to get in tune with your moon cycle. honor what each phase is requiring from you. you're very attractive on this line + other people feel very comfortable when in your presence. your goals are likely to be more internal + personal based rather than focusing on your greater impact on the world.

moon/ic: there is a tendency to want to nest + be cooped in the house when you're on this line. family matters most + if you're not in close proximity to your family, you will be craving the need for family. focus on cultivating your safe spaces, whether that be with others or within yourself. familiarize yourself with your close surroundings + the neighborhood that you live in for you'd be surprised by how many sweet individuals want to pour into you. this is great place to successfully conceive a child, do some family planning, and raise a family period. invest in interior design that reflects who you are in order for your living space to uplift your vibration. you'll be feeling the presence on your ancestors with you even more — open yourself up to their guidance for they're here to elevate you into higher timelines.

moon/dsc: on this line, you attract a lot of people that make you feel safe or the other side of the spectrum, trigger you in order to make you feel more secure within yourself. you crave connection + tend to make connections very easily. it's easy to date on this line, but longevity in those connections is not always promised. beware of energy leeches. people notice that your energy is of value before you do, so just don't get blindsided. if you have a business, this is a great line to build your clientele as people find you very trustworthy, making it easier to develop your business + cultivate secure connections with those that choose to invest in you. traveling here with your partner makes a great retreat to focus on healing + cultivating deeper connection with your partner.

moon/mc: you exhibit muva/queen/matriarch vibes to the world. people tend to respect you more on this line, like people respect their mother. if your line of work deals with catering to the needs of others, nurturing, or any type of healing, this is a place that will help you excel in that lane because people will gravitate towards you for those type of needs. beware of workaholism — your energy is really demanding by others here, so make sure that you have strong boundaries + make lots of time to rest + recharge. on this line, you're likely to think about your legacy, your (future) descendants, and long-term goals. whatever you do here on this line must be meaningful + build your reputation.

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wip wednesday because i hate myself

"So, this is...what, again?" Sam asked, looking at the massive wooden box Pandora had presented with suspicion and wariness. It wasn't exactly Pandora's box, as in the artifact, but nothing good ever came from involving the words 'Pandora' and 'box' in a single sentence.

"Shoes!" Pandora said brightly, opening the top with a bit of flair. Inside, nestled between sheep's wool, was the biggest fucking pair of sandals Sam had ever seen. They were old, she could tell. The leather was worn so badly she could see individual toe prints. They also reeked to high heaven.

Sam looked up, wrinkling her nose. "Uh, you know I can't wear those, right? Where did you even get these?? Please tell me they aren't yours."

"Oh, of course not!" Pandora laughed. "These are the Talaria of Mercury, also known as Hermes' flying shoes. That old fox is running around the Luminaries like an ox with his head cut off; he didn't notice me at all."

"It's chicken."

"What?"

"Never mind. Won't he be looking for these?"

Pandora shrugged and pulled the sandals out, tossing the box aside and letting it shatter on the ground. Sam flinched as splinters flew through her. Perks of being in the Zone. "I doubt it," the ancient explained. "This is an old pair, and he has dozens more. If anything, I'm doing him a favor."

Sam squinted, but Pandora was telling the truth. It wasn't like the ghost had any reason to lie to her, but still. "Okay, but I still can't wear them. They're too big. Hell, I could probably sleep in them if I wanted to. What's your plan here?"

"Well, it's simple." Pandora tickled the soles of the shoes, and a pair of beautifully white wings sprouted from the outer straps on each side. They were huge, flapping themselves to shake old feathers free, and shimmered oddly under the green and purple skies. Then, she pulled out a delicate golden blade from the folds of her chiton and promptly sliced the wings off at the base, removing them from the sandals altogether and making them go still.

Gasping, Sam had to step forward quickly so the beautiful pair of wings wouldn't hit the ground and get damaged. She caught them, thankfully, but they were light in weight despite their size. They smelled like mothballs.

Pandora slid the knife back into its hiding spot and tossed the shoes aside like she did the box. Her red eyes had a mischievous spark, and the flame from her helm grew larger with excitement. She leaned forward, saying, "You won't wear the shoes, child. You will wear the wings."

@vala-dreams

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ultimate-rider · 2 years

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Riding Promo

*The screen turns on, showing mostly static at the moment. You hear someone talking on the other end.*

???: “......On...........Com..........Da........Come.....on............bla......” *The screen glitches for a bit before it reveals a young man with purple hair, a goatee, and wearing a jacket with what seems to be the galaxy inside it.*

“Finally. Took me forever to get this damn thing to work. Oh well. Let’s get this over with.”

“Greetings, world! My name is Kaito Momota, Luminary of the Stars! I’m an up incoming astronaut and I’m looking forward to head into space. But until that day arrives, I figured it would be a great time to start walking around and making some new friends. I just turned 18 in April, and I got my driver’s license yesterday! So if you guys need anything, just give me a promo and you got it!”

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organicastrologytakes · 9 months

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Astrology Observations 🌙 the moon signs pt. 2

They see me rollin' They hatin'

Honestly, this one is much longer and more structured. What do you think? What is your moon sign? Did you resonate with any of the ideas presented? Should I do sun or rising signs next?

#11 Gemini moons are similar to their counter part air moons and often use their mind and intellect to problem solve and understand emotions. They are also lifetime learners most of the time, they use their action oriented minds to learn about their emotions or inner self. It may bring them comfort to do something new or out of their usual routine. They can thrive often in chaos with their moon, but they can still struggle. You will often see these individuals making trauma related jokes if they had a rough childhood and making light of most situations. Their mother might have been chaotic or may have not been a big influence in their life at all. If you're friends with these spicy individuals they may FaceTime you or talk your ear off in person to get confessions off their chest and to talk about their emotion. They may not always talk about it in detail, but more superficially. To me, what makes these individuals so unique is how open-minded and curious they are, and how they can bring a lot of inner child joy in themselves and others when they lean into this beautiful part of their chart. What these moons need most is people who embrace curiosity and bring out their inner child as well as they bring it out in others; essentially matching their energy. Air moons may feel more connected to their air counterparts in any placements, especially moon and mercury. They also blend really well with fire sign moons such as Leo.

#12 Libra moons are the masculine representation of Venus in a wonderful luminary like the moon. Libra is similar to their counterpart air moons that they use their mind and intellect to understand their emotions better. However, like Gemini and Aquarius moons, they can be very superficial with their emotions and not get to the root cause of an issue. An air sign moon like Libra can be seen or feel out of touch with their emotions on a core level. These individuals are often open minded and super hard to pin down with their mutable influence. They tend to have a lot of energy and can come off as hyper. Growing up they could have been playful, abrasive, and childlike. Their mom might have been a small or insignificant part of their childhood or may have tried to control them and it led to their rebellion. Libra moons can sometimes make excellent friends, they can usually get people to open up about themselves very easily because of their influence. It comes naturally to them to make friends with ease and make others feel connected and open to sharing about themselves. These signs may also have a sense of justice unlike the others, but if they don't lean into this placement well, they can become easily overwhelmed by emotions and lash out at others for not following their protocol. Something that really stands out about this placement is its ability to make others feel very connected, heard, and seen by just expressing their own emotions, thoughts, and connections. What Libra moons need most is a sense of balance, they may be difficult to pin down or to tell what to do, but being there for them when they need you and to show unconditional love can heal their fears and help them empathize with others. As usual, air moons love other air moons. Something particular about this placement is that it can deeply connect with a lot of different signs, but especially a Gemini Rising with fire influence like sagittarius because they rule over their 5th house. Libras can bring Gemini risings the joy, attention, and playfulness they crave. They also provide fire placements with enough space to not feel overwhelmed or bring up any non committal issues. Libra moons tend to be noncommittal themselves so it works out perfect.

#13 Aquarius moons are not quite in detriment like their Capricorn Saturn co-ruler. I honestly believe these moons have a huge influence and often have a great network of people within their inner circle. They use their mind and intellect to understand their emotions and may have a more unique way of expressing it than the other air moon signs. They can be a natural leader in large groups, especially with fire placements. A great public speaker and public connector as a whole, this moon sign is great at giving others the spotlight to showcase their gifts. In the beginning parts of their life they may feel restricted with Saturn influence but as they get older, they have a wise maturity about them. Their mother may have been restrictive or they might have had to raise themselves and be their own restriction and discipline in life, leading them to who they are now. Their friends will have to talk to them about what's going on in their mind, and they can be a bit disconnected in empathizing with others emotions on certain topics. These heavily influential moons are good friends and what stands them out in the crowd is their strength in expressing themselves and influencing others to express themselves authentically. What these moon signs crave most is community and being unique, let these individuals be themselves fully and authentically, embrace every quirk they have and you will have a lifetime friend with connections for every need. Aquarius moons can really connect with air mercuries, especially Aquarius mercury and air moons. They also make connect often with earth moons because of their fixed approach and Saturn influence.

#14 Cancer moons are incredibly hard to pin down, ngl. This sign feels at home in their ruled luminary and follow the push and pull of the moon very well. Water moons often have a sense of maturity to them in their emotional intellect. Cancer moons are especially well versed in handling general conflict and can empathize and try to settle any arguments. The middle child of the water moons without an eviction notice attached to their door. Instead of using their intellect like air moons, they use their intuition more often to guide them in the sea of their emotions. Cancer moons are people to keep close to you when you are in need of a gentle hand or a rough one, they can be both. These moon signs are not afraid to overshare, and in fact, love when you share about your trauma and you let them share yours. They are very emotionally deep and aware people and they're good at helping others through their emotions with their cardinal, leader-like qualities that stand them out from the other water moons. A cancer moon friend will always be there for you to give you what you need to hear at the moment, no matter how harsh or necessary. You think Sagittarius is brutally honest? You haven't met a Cancer. They usually have a deep love for their mother and enjoy spending time with their family in general or may put emphasis on family in their life, despite conflict or any issues. It can be very difficult but sometimes necessary for them to cut family out of their life if need be. Once you've lost this loving luminary, they are usually gone forever thereafter, so appreciate and enjoy this moons' company and don't take them for granted. Also, they are not your mother, stop treating them like a free therapy session lol. What these moons need most is the time and patience from others to fully process their emotions and changes that happen within them frequently, and to approach these with unconditional love or open-mindedness. These Cancer moons can connect deeply with all types of characters because of their luminary qualities, like the sun in Leo. They can bring an empathy and goofy atmosphere to any connection. They may have a love for other water moons but probably ultimately feel more connected to fire or earth moons.

#15 Scorpio moon are a difficult placement to have for sure. These moons are in their fall with a feminine mars approach. Do not get on these moons' bad sides because these moons are petty and easily turned off from others who may create conflict with their friends or if they just rub them off the wrong way. Their emotions can sometimes be incredibly intense for them and hit them at random moments. They may struggle with a lot of health issues unfortunately if this is in a negative position. Like all water moons, scorpio's use their intuition to guide them through their emotions and have an incredible sense of maturity, based on the chart placement. Scorpio moons in my opinion can be more intense and emotional than cancer placements because of how intensely they feel emotions. Their mother may have had a negative effect on their inner monologue growing up and may have created a negative or intense environment for the scorpio moon child to grow up in. In general Scorpio moons may have a rough family history or just have intense family influences in their life that deeply affected their person and emotional well-being. As friends, these Scorpio moons are fiercely loyal and loving to others. Once they find their people, they will fight for them with deep passion and will take the time to truly get to know their friends. That being said, the mars influence of Scorpio and the 8th house influence may indicate a lot of change, karma, and inner death for this individual whether that be in family affairs, close friends, or themselves. Scorpio and Pisces moons are particularly prone to possible substance abuse because of how intensely they feel everything and may want to escape or make up excuses to avoid reality entirely. I feel these incredible individuals bring out the best in themselves and others by seeing the darkest parts of everyone and learning to love themselves and others fully in their darkness and light. They are deeply empathetic and have a deep connection with a lot of people they come into contact with. What these moon signs need is straight up love and a hug, similar to Capricorn moons, they are in fall and need to be fully understood in their darkness and light. Love these individuals intensely as much as they love others. These individuals tend to love fire moons and Venuses. They also seem to enjoy some water moons, but they have to have fire or air placements to create more balance.

#16 Pisces moons, as a Pisces sun, I definitely do not feel as connected to these individuals. Pisces suns are about failing and trying again, getting lost in life constantly to rediscover something you never could have fathomed as a former version of yourself. Pisces moons feel very intensely like Scorpio moons and can be overwhelmed with these emotions easily. These Pisces take on the feminine representation of Jupiter in this luminary, but they also have a deep connection with Venus, so they tend to have a great connection with the Moon. These individuals might come off as dreamy, open-minded, and extremely empathetic of others. I've noticed this has a lot to do with their chart however, for example, if they have an earth sun they may struggle a lot with a polarity in their chart, especially with Virgo. Pisces moons may struggle a lot with their mutable, Jupiter chaos. It's a different kind of chaos to Mercury, but still chaos nonetheless. They are often introverted and may struggle with a need to escape reality in some context. This can be with substance abuse, obsessive hobbies or addictions like video games. They may struggle with taking care of themselves and may have a lot of depressive episodes, not because pisces are are inherently sad or dreamy and can't cope with reality; it's often because of the intensity of their emotions and handling them effectively and they may never reach their full potential because they may have a deep rooted fear they can't fully understand or don't want to. Pisces moons are often connected to their mother, whether it be a negative relationship or a positive one. They may really appreciate their mothers' inner wisdom and unconditional love they presented to them in childhood. Other times if they are in a 12th or 6th house placement, they may feel very disconnected with their mother. Their family might have an abuse or substance abuse addiction running in the family. Friend wise, these Pisceans are great friends to have on your side, they may be difficult to pin down at times but they are very sweet and present you with unconditional love and deep, empathetic understanding of your emotions. They usually connect with those close to them and keep a small inner circle. The best part of these moon signs is the ability to dream and think for themselves, their complex and deep understanding for others as well. What these moon signs need most is space and time for them to understand themselves and get to know themselves, they may give others too much of their time, attention, and appreciation when they also need it for themselves too. It's okay to take a break from these friendships or family connections often and build yourselves up before returning to each other. Let these placements be themselves, and life them up with kind words often to show them that they are capable of being a good person, they may struggle with this idea from time to time. These signs do best with whichever sign is in their Jupiter or in their 12th house. They also really enjoy other water moon company and air moons.

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nylpad · 1 month

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IN THESE MOMENTS I REALISE

Warnings: Jeong Gu-won's cuteness overload

In the soft morning light filtering through the curtains, Y/N stirred awake to find Jeong Gu-won's gaze fixed on her. His eyes, usually so strong and determined, held a gentle plea that was rare to see. From the moment she opened her eyes, he was there, a persistent shadow fueled by an uncharacteristic need for her attention.

"Please, just stay with me today," he begged, his voice a soft murmur that seemed out of place in the mouth of a man who rarely asked for anything.

Y/N tried to resist, to remind him of the mountain of work awaiting her attention, but Gu-won was relentless. He followed her like a second shadow, his pleas growing more endearing with each passing moment. It was unusual for him to be so vulnerable, so openly in need of her company. After all, he was her husband, the one who had promised to stand by her side, but never to impede her path.

As the hours ticked by, Y/N found her resolve weakening under the weight of his cuteness. Gu-won, the man who had faced down boardrooms and business rivals without a hint of hesitation, was now using every adorable trick in the book to keep her from her work.

Finally, with a laugh and a shake of her head at his antics, Y/N surrendered to his charm. "Alright, you win," she conceded, and Gu-won's face lit up with the victory of a child granted his heart's desire.

They spent the day wrapped up in each other, doing all the little things that couples do when the world outside ceases to exist. They cooked together, the kitchen filled with laughter and the delicious scents of their joint efforts. They walked hand in hand through the park, basking in the simple joy of each other's company. They watched old movies, curled up on the couch under a shared blanket, their laughter mingling with the on-screen dialogue.

And all the while, Mrs. Shin, the ever-reliable annoyed secretary, took care of Y/N's work. She handled the calls, the emails, the paperwork with a practiced hand, ensuring that Y/N's day of indulgence wouldn't result in a disaster tomorrow.

As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting a warm glow over the world, Y/N and Gu-won sat side by side, a pair of contented silhouettes against the fading light. In the quiet of the evening, Y/N leaned her head on Gu-won's shoulder, a silent thank you for a day she hadn't known she needed, a day of love, laughter, and the sweet surrender to her husband's rare and irresistible begging.

#my demon #jeong gu won #my demon x reader #jeong gu-won x reader #yn #x reader #fluff #Spotify #song kang #song kang x reader #viralpost

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eternal-honeyy · 3 months

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Smallest Star; Unknown A Luminary Oneshot

Astarion Ancunin x f!Reader

Synopsis: In his dreams one evening, Astarion meets the most familiar stranger he has ever seen, and learns both of lives not yet lived and of history not yet buried.

Or, alternatively: All of the ways that resemblance can be uncanny, and that forgotten details can be remembered in 3,500 words or less.

Note: Hi there, welcome to my first ever Astarion fic! If you like this one, feel free to check out the others that take place in the Luminary storyline, all of which can be found here <3

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Astarion had experienced many dreams (although, less than half as many as he had sleepless nights), but even so, he'd never experienced one quite like this.

He sits alone in a dark room lit only by candle light and oil lamps, his deft fingers tugging at dainty golden thread and sharpened needle until suddenly, he stops, as if having snapped himself out of a daze.

In a way, he supposes that he has, red eyes flitting from corner to corner of the room that he sits in, seeking out some form of familiarity that he soon finds either does not exist or does not wish to be found.

Noting no immediate threat nor a reason to fear for his safety, the elf looks down to his hands, where he finds that he has been sewing a name into the inside of a small dress, one with embroidery that rather closely resembles that of the shirt he had been wearing the day he'd met you.

Plunging the needle absentmindedly into the felt armrest of the chair he was sitting upon as if it were a pincushion, he reached down to feel the design with his pale fingertips, surprised to note that the stitch pattern was the very same.

Had he made this?

A brow rose as he pondered this question within his mind, and quickly, he moved his gaze up to where his currently uncut thread was still protruding.

'Ottilie A'

It read, the golden wisp of embroidery floss hanging off of the end of the A, which looked to be just a stitch away from finished.

Astarion looked down at this name for a while, a dull yet painful yearning building within his chest the longer he did so.

Questions flooded his mind the more that this feeling tugged at his heart, and soon his thoughts were abuzz with curiosities that gnawed at him almost as ceaselessly as the ache below his breast.

What was this place?

Why was he here?

And most importantly,

Who was Ottilie?

He wondered,

Did this dress belong to her? And if so, why then, did it seem as if he had made it? Why then, was he sitting alone in a dark room sewing her name into it for her?

These questions prattled on and on within the confines of his mind, until finally, the sound of a doorknob rattling loosely upon its hinges snapped him out of his reverie, and he watched with surprised and sharpened eyes as the ornate metal fixed upon the wood that had granted him privacy up until this very moment shifted slowly, moving back and forth as if the person on the other side had very little practice with using a device even as common and mundane as a doorknob.

Still, in spite of their seeming lack of practice, the person on the other end was clearly nothing if not persistent, because the rattling continued on and on until finally, the knob was turned just enough so that the hinge popped loose of its confines, and in came stumbling a little girl, her hand grasping the door for dear life as it swung inward with her in tow, clearly having forgotten to let go prior to placing all of her weight upon the wood to push it open.

Astarion blinked, his eyes widening slightly as he watched the little girl fall forward to her knees with a shriek, the door she still clung to hitting the wall rather noisily before it finally came to a stop, trapped between the child and the very same wall it had just abused so thoroughly.

The elf winced at the sight in spite of himself, his legs itching to move closer and his hands twitching at his sides as if some deep seeded and long buried part of him knew exactly what to do and struggled with being unable to do it.

Still, he remained rooted to the very spot he had "awoken" in, eyes trained on the little girl sitting several feet in front of him as she let out a quiet "oof!" just after impact, her small hands scrambling for better purchase upon the door before they seemed to give up on the subtly swinging object and instead moved to the far sturdier floor, where they helped her to push herself back up onto her (rather unsteady, at least where Astarion was concerned) feet.

She huffed for a moment, tugging at her dress to straighten out some of the now crumpled fabric, and as she did so, Astarion took a moment to look her over, curious eyes seeking any semblance of familiarity or hint that might tell him who this child was.

She was small, clearly no older than three or four at most, with pale and unruly curls that tumbled down to her shoulders and in front of her eyes no matter how many times she did her best to tuck them behind her pointy little ears.

'An elf'

He thought to himself, scarcely even making note of the fact that his hands had begun their work once more, adding one final stitch to the end of the A before they completed their work with a subtle knot to keep everything from unraveling. Then, as he had done one thousand times before, Astarion raised the extra embroidery floss to his mouth thoughtlessly before using a singular fang to cut it off with ease.

With that done, he slung his work across the arm of the chair and placed the remainder of his thread upon the floor beside the spool he had spotted there earlier.

Still, even as he did all of this, not once did he look away from the child standing in front of him, brows furrowed with confusion and curiosity alike until finally, she seemed satisfied with the status of her dress and turned to face him fully, a gleeful smile so contagious that it made his lips twitch resting upon her cheeks.

"Mama told me you would be all finished with my new dress after I woke up from my nap today."

She said cheerfully, her small bare feet padding on the wooden floor beneath her as she moved closer, clearly eager to see the dress that was now slung across the arm rest beside him.

Astarion, not quite knowing what to say, simply nodded, glancing toward the seemingly finished dress for a moment before the girl managed to capture his attention again as she moved ever closer, seemingly unperturbed by his appearance in the manner he would have expected her to be.

It had been two centuries of looking the way that he did, and one thing that the pale elf understood well was that his appearance deeply unsettled those who were not used to seeing creatures like vampires, and children in particular rather commonly cowered on the off occasion that they had seen him in the evenings, scouring the streets for his next victim.

'And they had every right to be afraid,'

He thought to himself, a frown tugging at the corners of his lips,

'Their untainted souls still knew monster from man.'

But even so, the girl continued her unbothered approach without a care in the world, until finally, she reached the very spot where the vampire's shoes met the floor, her hands finding his knees.

Astarion watched on, awestruck, and entirely unsure of what he was meant to do, as this little girl who he had only first seen moments ago scrambled into his lap, or rather, tried to, her little arms shaking with use as her face screwed up with effort.

It was then, as if spurned on by that same deep seeded and long buried part of him that he had felt before, that the elf reached forward, his hands finding the underside of her arms and his fingers folding gently against the fabric of the dress that she wore so he could lift her up with ease, thus allowing him to place the child upon her desired destination without nearly as much effort on her part.

Even still, the little girl huffed up at him in response to his kindness, her lips pinching into a pout that looked so incredibly familiar that it nearly dizzied the vampire in question, who felt his eyes widen in spite of himself.

He had seen that pout so very often as of late, and yet he could not quite place it, causing the gears within his mind to turn like mad in an effort to reach some sort of conclusion, to provide him with any sensible answer.

Still, even after a few rather long seconds of silent thought, nothing came, and Astarion was forced to give up as the child sitting upon his lap spoke once more.

"You promised you would stop helping me! I'm a big girl now!"

She shouted indignantly, crossing her small arms across her chest with yet another huff, which only served to amuse the man who was acting as audience.

Whoever this child was, she certainly had attitude.

'Oh, I like her.'

He thought with an internal chuckle, though he tried to hide his outward grin to the best of his ability in order to keep his surprise visitor from becoming even further angered by his actions.

"Apologies,"

Astarion spoke smoothly, his hands clasping together almost instinctively behind the small girl to ensure he would catch her if she happened to fall backwards,

"It just looked like you were in need of some... additional support. It was thoughtless of me to act without asking you first."

Upon his apology, the child seemed to calm slightly, though that pout remained even as the subject shifted.

Astarion watched as she reached into the pocket of her dress, which he could see now that she was closer also had markings of his stitching upon it, and pulled out a small wooden hairpin.

She held it out to him in a small yet steady palm, eyes almost entirely hidden behind those pale curls of hers as she spoke up once more,

"Fine, but can you put this back in for me? It came out while I was sleeping and Mama's been too busy to cut my hair."

Astarion chuckled under his breath as he took the clip from her hand and used it to expertly pin the hairs that framed her face to the back of her head with ease, his dexterous hands having long since grown accustomed to the act of pinning his own unruly curls back when he'd been forced to let them grow out for far too long.

He hummed softly as he used his fingers to brush her hair back gently, noting with surprise the similarities that it shared with his own.

"Your hair isn't much different from mine, you know."

He muttered thoughtlessly,

"I bet that I could give you a rather nice haircut if the situation called for it."

Much to his surprise, in response to his words the child sitting upon his lap giggled, the sound briefly causing his heart to swell and his lips to turn upward until her words distracted him from any previous reaction.

"You know that Mama won't let you, not after last time, and especially not before my first day of school."

She said cheerfully, her words cutting through any feigned sense of ease Astarion had managed prior.

Swallowing thickly, he quickly finished pinning her hair in place, speaking up just as he was beginning to pull away and shift his gaze back down toward her face.

"Last ti-"

He froze in the middle of his sentence, eyes widening and hands beginning to shake as he saw the eyes of the child sitting before him up close for the very first time.

And Gods, they were so familiar,

So achingly, painfully, and distantly familiar that it made tears build in the corners of his own eyes, that color a reminder of something, no, of someone, long forgotten but so dearly beloved, of hands so gentle that they hurt to imagine now, and of a voice so endlessly sweet and caring that it made him want to sob out of a loss long unmourned, loss that he had never had the chance to understand nor perceive for fear of losing what little sanity had remained during the harsh beginnings of his time with Cazador.

A loss he was meant to have had centuries before he had to face.

And as he sat there, awestruck by the heart wrenching combination of familiarity, grief, and yearning, the little girl, oblivious to Astarion's reaction to the color of her eyes, reached for the dress slung over the arm rest of the chair they sat upon.

And though he did not think to do so in any meaningful or coherent manner, the elf reached over to stop her, picking up the garment and placing it into her hands to ensure that she could not prick herself upon the needle that remained hidden underneath.

The movement was purely one of instinct, and if someone had asked him of it even mere moments later, he would be entirely unsure of what they were talking about.

He sat there in a daze for a few seconds longer, his eyes unfocused and his hands still shaking even as the little girl spoke up once more, her voice interrupting his rushing thoughts.

"Hey! You didn't finish my last name!"

She began, eyes glaring daggers into the fabric that she held between her fingers, her gaze trained upon the gold embroidery thread that spelled out her name.

Astarion hummed in response, mind still reeling and sight still slightly unfixed as he did his best to reply,

"Did I? And pray tell, little one, what's missing?"

The vampire knew that there was almost no sense in asking, not after he had seen the paleness of her hair, the unruliness of her curls, the sharpness of her ears, and the color of her eyes, but even so, he felt that he had to hear it, had to hear it to believe it, and had to hear it to either shatter or settle his hammering undead heart.

"Well, you only put an A."

The child reasoned,

"So that means you're missing the other six letters."

Astarion sighed shakily, his eyes brimming with unshed tears, though whether they were of yearning for his past or yearning for his future, he did not know.

But he needed to hear her say it.

"What six letters, Darling?"

He urged softly,

In response, the little girl, Ottilie, was very quick, in that very way that all children were when it came to their names, those memorized aspects of themselves that they learned so young and knew so well. She could spell her name with ease, and the speed with which she did so was meant to show it.

"N-C-U-N-I and N."

She said proudly, and Astarion let out a rattling breath of something almost like relief, though from what he did not know.

He deflated slightly against the chair, a short and almost entirely humorless laugh leaving him as he looked into Ottilie's eyes once more, finding someone there that made him wonder if this was what whatever version of himself that got to live this bliss saw when looking at her.

He was not sure if he could live like that, always seeing those eyes and remembering who had once loved him, who had likely ceaselessly mourned him since his untimely departure.

So, for his own sake, he hoped that Ottilie's sweet gaze had long since become her own in the eyes of the Astarion who had known its pull since her birth.

Though, whether that Astarion was some alternate and forever unknown version of himself, perhaps entirely untouched by Cazador and perhaps even death itself, or if this was some future he was mean to hope against hope for, he did not know.

But, he knew when he saw those eyes that this was no ordinary dream, for he had not known that color in so very long that it had left his mind entirely decades prior to him laying down to rest that evening.

No, what he was seeing was by design, that much he could tell, but beyond that he was unsure, mind unable to wrap around the intricacies of what he was seeing.

So, rather than fight it, he leaned into it one final time, just as the edges of his vision began to blur.

It was impossible to know if this was a reality he could ever truly hope to live in, so in that moment, he instead chose to see how it felt, even if for just the few seconds that time's restless grasp would allow for.

"And when you put it all together, what does that spell?"

He asked, his voice barely above a whisper as he spoke due to his fear that the tears he was scarcely managing to hold at bay might finally fall and interrupt his words.

"Ancunin."

The little girl sitting upon his lap, his daughter, said easily, her eyes alight with the challenge of proving the knowledge she had of her own name, the name that he, with the help of another, had presumably given her long before her birth, and perhaps long before her conception as well.

Back when she had been a mere thought.

Back in the life that he led without her in it.

"Ottilie Ancunin."

Astarion said gently, brushing a few stray hairs that had avoided his careful eye and precise fingers behind one of her pointy ears with a gentleness that he had hardly even known he possessed,

"I do quite like that name,"

He began,

"It reminds me of the one your grandmother planned to use had I been born her daughter..."

He trailed off a bit as he spoke, gaze finding that of his child and holding it as if committing the sight to memory. Perhaps he was though, for he had not seen those eyes in so very long, and dared not consider how long it might be before he saw them again.

He swallowed thickly, now scarcely able to speak around the choked up ball of tears growing deep in his throat,

"You have her eyes, you know,"

He said softly,

"She would be so very proud if only she knew."

And as he watched the newest light in his once so dim life smile at his words, her plump cheeks growing pink at the unexpected compliment, Astarion felt that familiar pull of wakefulness, and, as much as he wanted to fight it, knew from experience just how useless such an act would be, and instead chose to let it drag him up from the depths of slumber and back into the world he knew so well.

"Staaaarr!"

You called from outside of his tent, a level of annoyance to your tone that almost certainly meant that this was far from the first time you'd called for him.

The elf in question heard you sigh before swinging open the flap of his tent, allowing you to stand before him with your arms crossed over your chest as he laid upon his pillows, clearly awake.

"Seriously?"

You asked, scoffing as you took in the sight of him,

"You couldn't have just yelled back or something? You had to make me walk all the way over to find out if you were awake yet?"

The vampire in question shrugged, that familiar smirk finding its way to his lips with perhaps a twinge more effort than usual.

"Apologies, Darling, but how else was I supposed to ensure that I could get an eyeful of you before getting up for the day? It seems such a luxury is in rather short supply as of late."

He teased, watching as your lips formed a pout in response, your eyes rolling in spite of the fact that your warming cheeks betrayed your true feelings about the elf's teasing words.

"Oh come on, Astarion, you cannot be serious."

You started,

"I've only fallen asleep in your tent like four times ever, would you please come off it and stop acting like its the norm to embarrass me?! I apologized ike ten times already!"

And with that, you started your tangent about how annoying it was that your vampire companion seemed to try and humiliate you in front of your other camp mates whenever possible, though Astarion wouldn't really know, because almost no part of his mind was paying any attention to the words coming out of your mouth, nor had it been for quite some time.

Because much to his surprise, he'd just been reminded of where he had seen Ottilie's pout before,

And that fact required a lot of careful consideration, indeed.

#astarion x female reader #astarion x you #astarion scenario #astarion x f!tav #astarion x reader #astarion x tav #astarion x f!reader #astarion x female tav #astarion x mc #dadstarion

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multidimensionalguidance · 1 month

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SR Chart in-depth Analysis Part 2 🔒

Here’s the continuation and final part of my SR chart analysis and predictions, which has been very fun because its the few moments where I can see myself from a different perspective, and just focus on the information I can decode without any room for judgment.

Taurus 8th house: my sense of security will depend a lot on how much I can rely on indulging in delicacies within my own hidden safe space. Finances are merged or shared within close relationships. Partners resources become my own. Inflexible or hard-headed when it comes to the type of comfort or luxury I expect to enjoy. A big focus in other people’s resources becoming my own somehow. The ruler of this house sits in the 12H, which means that the money I receive or try to keep hidden will be used towards spirituality, foreign settlement, expenditure, bed pleasures, self care, health, work clothes, skincare, and extravagant procedures to enhance my natural beauty, which could be to an almost detrimental or excessive level since Venus is debilitated.

Gemini 9th house: communications in general will be towards philosophy, higher knowledge, luck, feeling blessed, traveling, foreigners, teachers, spiritual guides, etc. It is also likely I will be speaking a foreign language quite often. Lots of short distance traveling to foreigners places. These conversations and type of mindset will influence my finances, bet it due to new perspectives or simply luck allowing me monetize those newly acquired learnings and skills. That would particularly be due to 9H ruler sitting in the 2nd house. I’ve read before that Mercury in the 2nd denotes above average intelligence, so perhaps that will also influence on how I’ll be able to increase my resources.

Cancer 10th house: this year people will perceive me as very nurturing, mother-like, soft, intuitive, and like wife material (particularly bc that asteroid Bried is conj the MC). It is likely that I will be receiving lots of attention because that’s what luminaries do, they put a spotlight, which is career/public image for me. My work environment could be spent in a space that IS or feels like home. There could be discomfort from having matters that are private exposed to the public, so I might have to deal with some of that as well. The ruler of this house sits in the 5H, so I might be doing creative work online, related to children, with romantic partner, in a fun way.

Leo 11th house: my social circle will be full of creatives (artists, leaders, performers, teachers, government workers etc), royal-like people or individuals with a certain amount of influence. My goals, social media image, and gains/income will be focused towards notoriety, fame, child-like joy, romance, appearance, etc. On top of that, the ruler of the house sits in the 2H, so those gains/goals/social media image will also influenced my resources and finances.

Virgo 12th house: with Venus sitting there and it being the debilitation, I’m led to thinking that the possible negative significations of this placement will be experienced in isolation, during my daily night routine or in foreign places. The difficulty with Venus in Virgo is how overly critical and judgy it is towards itself and others. There is a difficulty with fully enjoying the experience of love and beauty because you’re too busy thinking of how things can be better or improved. Now, on the other hand, no one does acts of service and has a deeper awareness of health and beauty than this sign. They give and give happily to those they commit to or love in general. I will probably be enjoying a bit of those sides during this year.

Thank you for reading this far! I’m excited to check this during December and doing a sort of checklist of what I predicted accurately + everything else that will definitely happen without my awareness.

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jyeshindra · 4 months

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ALL ABOUT LEO ASCENDANT

Back again folks, this time to discuss the Leo Ascendant!

As always, what is the ascendant? it is our mask. The world sees us as our ascendant while it manifests personally as our overall outlook on life. In addition, it represents our soul's journey/purpose, how we approach new situations, determines our house rulers, and manifests the purest expression of our energy.

Let's start off with our Leo Ascendant chart ruler, the Sun. Like the Cancer, Leo is also ruled by a luminary. Having the Sun as the chart ruler makes these folks very solar in nature. Think about the Sun in our own solar system...it sits in its own radiance, generating heat and light for Earth without having to do much more than rotate. Leo Ascendant's can be like this themselves. They radiate who they are unapologetically, approaching situations with an authenticity and a bravery not many can replicate.

And so these Ascendants are usually easy to spot. They are bubbly, spontaneous, fun, loud, gregarious. They usually have a distinct sense of style, something that can act as a trademark or an identifier. Leos love to be themselves and the ascendants manifest this easily. Perhaps you, Leo Ascendant, possess a glorious mane or bright sparkly eyes. These natives are expressive and jolly, radiating the light of their inner child through their presentation.

Stubbornness is a quality of the Leo Ascendant as well, for this is a fixed sign in fire. Leo Ascendants take the stage and they do so with ease, allowing everyone else to bask in their radiance as they embody who they feel themselves to be. Now not every Leo Ascendant will be outgoing and upbeat, this is ultimately dependent on other aspects in the chart. What you can always guarantee is that they'll stick out from the crowd, someway, somehow (much like their Aquarius opposition!).

The whole stage metaphor is a good way to describe how Leo Ascendants see the world. Where can they express themselves best? With whom? How do they manifest their creative expression? Where do they want to be the authority? Leo certainly doesn't mind being the center of attention, so they'll gravitate towards situations and places that allow them to be.

With a 10th ruled by Taurus, Leo Risings are here to create a long-lasting image, sustained through consistent attention and dedication. Your higher purpose lies in building something beautiful, nourishing, and long-lasting for you and for others. It is you, Leo who becomes gifted at organizing your own power--at managing your own light and presenting yourself in a powerful way. Perhaps you teach others to build a strong foundation for themselves, in affairs of money and land. Perhaps you are known for your more Venusian talents; art, expression, relationships. Whatever it is you do, you will be a professional "Taurus". Pleasure is your principle, Leo! You must define this for yourself without being consumed by it. You tailor your work environment to you, creating the best circumstances for you to shine and create and radiate.

A 7H Aquarius creates a need for partners and relationships that teach Leo how to belong. Often the Leo Rising individuates themselves and doesn't know how to follow the crowd. It's good to be you, but Aquarius has the natural ability to be different and belong at the same time. They are conscious of their influence within the group and use it for higher purposes. Leo can learn the ways in which they are the same as others in relationships and in turn, put their ego aside. Through your relationships you learn humility, sacrifice, service, and detachment.

In addition, a 7H Aquarius can also indicate attracting friends and partners who are different and unique in some way. Leo is looking for someone not to outshine them, but for someone who they can shine with. Leo will likely admire those individuals who refuse to conform and embody their individuality in new and exciting ways. They may be picky about the people they choose to surround themselves with.

And the 4H in Scorpio? Leo Risings often keep a part of themselves private. The world is their stage, yes, but do we see you when the sun sets Leo? Do we get a peek into your private, innermost world? Leo may need their homes to be a place where they recharge and introspect. Where they get to process their experiences and shed skin that does not serve them.

Their homes may also be places where they turn into control freaks! Scorpio is an obsessive energy and these natives can be meticulous both in the world and in the home as well. Things must be done a certain way...or else. Your family may be some of the most loyal people you know, and you like to return that same sense of devotion.

It also may be that your family was manipulative, toxic, and controlling. This fosters in the Leo Rising a deep need to liberate themselves and find a sense of freedom and levity in life. The home environment might have suppressed aspects of the Leo that shone too brightly.

Leo, truly you want to invest deeply into others and give yourself emotionally to the people you love. You shine in the hopes of helping others grow and you give to stoke the flames of others. You are a benefactor and a leader. The one to take the throne and express both ego and soul. Own yourself, Leo and let yourself shine!

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ad-hawkeye · 3 months

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y'all got me thinking about eden alkaid... cruelty... i genuinely adore his character and now i'm EMOTIONAL again.

one thing i really like is how the game goes out of its way to note that alkaid is simultaneously both childish AND hardened. it feels like such a refreshingly realistic outcome for someone with his backstory.

he's basically been alone since he was a child (not including lars, who he kept at arms length out of guilt, and the prefect luminary, who was manipulative and acted as a corruptive force in his subconscious) so his social skills are that of a child's, with any additional 'skills' coming from the books he read on the harmonious period.

but he's also been forced to do terrible things to survive, and has grown despondent over "becoming someone he's not" and losing himself due to the prefect's influence. he sees it as his price to pay for keeping his world alive.

alkaid's motivation for the countdown is to find a replacement who can make the decision of whether or not to continue destroying planets - in this case, earth. he feels dying will be the way to finally ease this and all of his pain.

and then he meets mc.

he's terrified that his feelings for mc truly are just possessive. that he's a danger. because for the last decade, he's been told he paid the ultimate price and that he shouldn't trust anyone, and that no one should trust him. that this is his fate.

and yet. there's still this part of him who's hopelessly and idealistically attached to the concept of good, and of true love. and for the first time, he hopes that it could overcome all.

there is a sort of realism to his actions. alkaid freely cries, he gets angry, he gets despondent. the underlying theme of his route is one of trust. and once he sees that his trust in mc was not betrayed (for the first time in YEARS), she offers her trust in him. and with this support, he manages to forcefully remove the prefect's influence in his mind. as mc says, his pain will end, but not in death. they're in this together.

and even after this, alkaid still gets scared; he is pointedly terrified of not only losing his emotions, but of losing the one person he was finally able to trust and have that feeling of "true love" towards. and mc gets one last chance to lose her trust in him... to be asked: what if he really was just that possessive and a danger, even without the prefect's control? or if not, would he falter? let his doubts and fears result in him falling back under his control? but mc immediately brushes this notion off, and for good reason: alkaid powers through with the plan regardless of his fears. he does nothing to hurt her and does nothing to stop her from leaving. he just wants a few last moments of comfort before he loses his emotions, because god knows he hasn't had any semblance of that in so many years.

anyways. eden alkaid. you agree.

#lovebrush chronicles #alkaid mcgrath #lbc spoilers #meta #tch... sorry that one line mc says about his pain ending but not in death got to me #lovebrush will occasionally drop the most banger lines out of no where and then pretend it never happened #long post

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idyllcy · 1 month

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clipped wings - prefect luminary analysis

It starts quiet, simple as losing focus.

Humming as the Luminary blinks out of focus at a meeting, eyes focused on the reports from the men under him. He notices it but refuses to let his mask slip, going on his day as the back of his neck grows sicker and sicker, something akin to disgust drowning in his throat as he finishes the documents, ignoring his workers as he finishes for the night, robots taking everything from him as he changes into resting clothes, bile creeping up the back of his throat as he stares at himself in the mirror.

It's disgusting.

He's disgusting.

He stares, neck craned to the side as his eyes dig into his own, sick, sick, disgusted, nauseous. The disgust crawls up his back and snakes around his throat, forcing him to stare at himself further as he stares at what he is. He lives to serve — lives to please. He is nothing without the people around him, and he is simply a walking reflection of all those around him. He cannot interact with the anomaly out of a fear he will become one — then, then, he will become repulsive not just to himself, but to everyone else.

Then, oh then, he will become his worst nightmare.

Then, he will be bound to the chains of his role in a world he does not wish to reflect, become the ideal person in a society that he lives to please, and then, then, he will no longer know who he is.

Perhaps that is for the better.

That way, he will not need to worry over who he is.

Yet, yet, yet, that darling painter. That young girl who had stared him in the eye so valiantly. Those bright, clean wings. Those white wings that could help her fly wherever she wished whenever she willed. That girl who was so unapologetically herself — an object without reflections of others, an object that reflected only those she loved and let in to her life. It makes him nauseous. She is what he wants to be — to be free without chains, to reflect nothing but the parts of others he wants to reflect.

He is sick.

Yet, the day ends and a new one starts, and he stuck in the same place as before, pulling himself up from his mirror, staring at his reflection, at the reflection of those around him as he stares through himself, and he closes his eyes.

He does not have the luxury of such simple things. He is not a child anymore.

He swallows the disgust in his throat, and he is back to the beginning.

It ends quiet, complex as his role in the narrative.

#☾.blurbs #Prefect luminary #lovebrush chronicles #not rlly an x reader huh... cute ok anyways happy saturday

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lunarlianna · 1 year

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Asteroid Urania

As a bonus, I'll post asteroid Urania as well since I noticed a lot of people wanted it. If you reblog this post please tag me in it. :)

Urania is the muse of astronomy, astrology and cosmology. She is usually prominent in the charts of great astrologers (making a conjunction with the luminaries or important points).

Urania in the 1st house: Could indicate that you get to know yourself better with the help of astrology and find a purpose in it. As well as having a curiosity and a passion for cosmos. A lot of astrologers tend to have this asteroid conjunct their asc.

Urania in the 2nd house: It is a good indicator that the asteroid helps you connect universal love with personal experience. It’s also a good indicator that you may like to have a telescope or a map with your birth chart.

Urania in the 3th house: You may want to learn a lot about astrology or astrophysics, you may have a lot of books or take classes in this matter. Could indicate giving lectures about this subjects or having a talent in explaining them very easily.

Urania in the 4th house: You may like decorating you house with celestial symbols, if conjunct the IC you may come from an astrologer’s lineage. You may tend to be a bit shyer when it comes to sharing the knowledge that you have and preferer to share it with your family.

Urania in the 5th house: The main theme of your art creation could be the cosmos, planets and stars. You may like to paint the solar system and have always been attracted to this kind of idea. You can nurture the inner child through this kind of artistic endeavors and feel at peace.

Urania in the 6th house: Your everyday life is influence by the cosmos, you like to analyze and investigate constellations. You may have a routine in going every week to the planetarium or check your daily transits. You may want to help others by using astrology or astronomy.

Urania in the 7th house: Your personal style could be interpreted as being out of this world. You may embody celestial aspects in your jewelries and clothes. You may also meet romantic or business partners that are into astrology or into the knowledge of cosmos.

Urania in the 8th house: You may have an obsession with black hole and dark matter, you may be interested in analyzing them and understand them. You could be interested in the dark side of astrology and be able to interpret the charts of people from a deeper psychological point of view.

Urania in the 9th house: You may be interested in astrocartography and the ancient ways people use astrology. You may want to teach this knowledge once you get older and share it to the world. The history of the cosmos may interest you a lot as well.

Urania in the 10th house: You may choose a career that is related to astrology or astronomy, a lot of astrologers have this asteroid in the 10th house or conjunct their MC. You may also get a lot or recognition in this field of work.

Urania in the 11th house: You may feel alienated from the community also you may have an interested in other earthly forms of life. You may want to research asteroids rocks. You could be introduced into astrology by friends and be able to share this knowledge easily.

Urania in the 12th house: You may be attracted in listening high vibration music or meditation music. You may want to write some yourself. It could also symbolize the in a past life your work was related with the cosmos investigation like being an astronomer or astrologer (especially if you have NS in conjunction here).

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