#samsara's world

[solthemighty]

Sunlight and Fire

Silva was born into a world of colors, shades and hues so numerous he couldn’t count them all, varied and beautiful. But strangely, the color of the sun, of gold and flowers and so many other things, has grown with him. 

His cradle was green leaves and soft grass, new eyes taking in the veins beneath the verdant surfaces. The sky overhead was grey, pale silver light passing through the clouds while crystal rain fell in droplets upon his face. Lightning, yellow and stark against such a uniform background, crackled with energy and set trees alight in orange fire. Silva, newly birthed from the Mother into the storm, watched the lightning and felt fear.

As he grew, tended to and nursed by dryads and river spirits, his forest cradle grew dense and lush in the coming spring. Vernal danced through the spaces between branches, sang songs with the coming of new life, the plants budding and blooming in riotous colors. Pink, purple, white, red, green, blue, all coiled together along vines and branches and stems that bent whenever Silva passed by. The nature spirit coaxed the young god to join in his merriment, and daisies grew around Silva’s feet wherever he tread. 

The god grew older still, the trees swaying to bow as he moved between them. Autumnal cast the leaves in warm hues of red, orange, and yellow, an ombre that reminded Silva so vividly of fire and magma flowing beneath the earth. Lightning struck, storm winds toppled the forests and flooded the rivers as war began. The forest was alight in yellow flames and lightning, and his once lush home became a grey mountain, bubbling and belching molten rock high into the atmosphere with his rage.

When the fighting was over—for now, the promise hissed—there was rebuilding to be done, as the remaining dryads mourned their fallen kin and the river spirits snuffed the last fires. Silva gathered them all, his nature bound brethren, at the foot of that grey mountain, dried black as ash fell like snow around them. The forest he regrew, the grass and trees growing thicker and twining around him, swaying toward their god, was darker than before, evergreen and deadly with roots to trap and vines to ensnare. Solstice swept over the land, and the flowers that bloomed there seemed to glow white while their thorns flashed amber in the dim light, spreading around the base of the mountain like a protective shield. In many ways, it was.

The city Silva built, heeding the pleas of frightened mortals, became golden, as the new residents painted their houses in colors of brown and red and orange and oddly, yellow. Yellow flowers mimicking those at the base of the mountain, and golden murals in the shape of Oro’s horns took shape along walls and roofs, the solstice casting everything in bright sunlight. Silva was almost blinded as he walked through the city, once small and humble, now resplendent and full of life. 

When there was time, in rare stretches of peace, Silva would trace the patterns on Oro’s back, glowing with white-hot gold beneath dark stone skin. His friend would say nothing, would only wait his turn until Silva was finished, and then the vines that made up the god’s hair would be tended to, stone skin on stone skin as they curled together, powerful yet frightened.

Solaris’ hair is as yellow as the sunflowers she creates to adorn the grounds, tending to the flowers that turn their heads toward the sun. Silva changes their colors, from a lemon hue to blue or purple, all for Solaris to throw her head back and laugh, flaxen hair blooming as she lets the world know of her joy. Silva would dance with her in the square to make more flowers bloom, and the daisies from before made a triumphant return.

Ophel’s eyes shine sallow in the low evening light as they sing in the entrance’s antechamber. They sing of victory, of peace, of tales so old Silva remembers them dearly, all reflected in the color of the spirit’s gaze. The spirit sang of betrayal, of heartache, and of a god who saved them, and all Silva could do was beg that the spirit not thank him. He has done many things, impossible things, but he did not wish to be thanked for saving a life. He has taken far too many.

Winter descends on the mountaintop, the snow dusting the tops of trees and casting everything in a somber silver. Secretly, or perhaps only cautiously, Silva finds winter to be his favorite season. With his yearly visitor, Silva may admit that he has a bias. Hiemal does not wear yellow, preferring blues and greys that suit his pale visage more, but his blue mingles so nicely with the colors of Silva’s wardrobe. He dons a golden robe this time, and the god expects the blues and yellows of their clothes to meld into green, to bloom into snowdrops and winterberry and crocus as snow settles on the windowsill. Instead, they tangle but never mix, the gods a bit too in their cups and sprawled over cushions on the floor, laughing and touching and kissing through the haze as the lanterns cast the room in warm light. 

Of all colors that Silva has seen, of all colors his flowers take on and the many shades of gems hidden beneath the rock, he always finds himself partial to the color of sunlight and fire.

#creative writing #fictional gods #samsara's world #just wanted to mention #all characters are queer as hell #queerplatonic relationships

[stanperformanceunit]

Idk what to say besides this drama has so many of my guilty pleasures lol…. Anyways watch The starry love, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

*I meant sister in law, not step sister, thanks for the person who pointed it out!

#Okay so I suck at making summaries oop #it’s good i promise bc i don’t recommend bad stuff heh #ashes of love #drama ppt #mien #love between fairy and devil #lbfad #the starry love #cdrama #immortal samsara #the blue whipser #love and redemption #who rules the world #the untamed #word of honor #my ppt #stanperformanceunit ppt

[agattthaa]

Ram's route is fun because he's like "you are so obsessed with me Devi omg"

And then we get engaged to somebody else and the mf be like

Are you sure that she's the one obsessed??????

#mf got called out by Ratan #ratan!!!!!!!!! #world's biggest simp!!!!!! #flame of samsara #romance club

[indilaras]

flower viewing Honkaitober Day 1: Open World Following this prompt list!

ID: a drawing of Yae Sakura and Kallen Kaslana from Honkai Impact 3rd. They are sitting on a set of stairs, eating onigiri; Sakura is smiling at Kallen, who grins back at her. Behind them is a sakura tree and a building. End ID.

#my art #honkaitober #honkaitober 2023 #honkai impact 3rd #sakukallen #yae sakura #kallen kaslana #hi3rd #honkai impact #artists on tumblr #digital art #image description #my favorite open worlds are sakura samsara and apho 1 but i chose the former so i can contribute to sakukallen sweetness <3

[mumblelard]

what will be whither and this time or tuesday's lemons are full of grace

#the boy with the arrow in his eye #kitchen counters #i saw a broken saw on the sidewalk #four eyes #i heard her singing in the bedroom #lemons #lugnuts #i wondered where i had awoken #lost weekends #lorna doone #i went there anyway #cookie cutters #cassiby #it jus come to me #falling off the edge of the world #papercraft samsara #origami spirits #i remember horses #pandemic era #fifth spring

[mtkanna]

in their own ways, each member of the narzissenkreuz institute became 'immortal,' i think. jakob exists as an abyssal creature lived far beyond his original lifespan, while the eidolon in the real annapausis holds all of mary-ann guillotin's memory and thus acts as a living monument to her. alain guillotin produced so many advancements for fontaine's technology that his name was almost canonised—everyone knows his name, now, and what he did for fontaine, even if they don't know much about him as a person. and rene became part of the primordial sea only to return as narzissenkreuz, thus becoming a being that prophesied its own death and infinite rebirth...

#tower of daffodils #genshin impact #genshin lore #i saw someone on twitter suggest that the meka in the trailer had alain's consciousness #but part of me is fixed on alain's links with tsurumi instead #an island where the ley lines keep everyone perpetually frozen in the moments before their death #and the researcher perpetually trapped by his own grief and unable to move beyond what his sister left for him... #psychic damage. psychic damage!! #also why is the final desert exploration namecard named infinitum. Why. is it because of the samsara? all things repeating? #the chasm 🤝 tsurumi 🤝 enkanomiya 🤝 dragonspine 🤝 hangeh afrasiyab #it was about narzissenkreuz all along! #i actually adore these world quests. they're making me so happy :)

[tablefourtyone]

Here's an interesting FuKi detail regarding names.

In the JP dub, Kiana always addresses Fu Hua respectfully as "委員長" (iinchou), "班長" (bānzhǎng) in the CN dub. Means "class president/prefect".

I've only gotten as far as the Xuanyuan arc after getting through the main storyline, so I can only remember Kiana addressing Fu Hua by her name instead of "class president" while she was going through Senti's memories on her way to becoming Finality, and that was just to emphasize Senti's life and existence being separate from the person named Fu Hua whose identity Senti borrowed for a while.

But in the Xuanyuan arc spec. in the above picture, while praising Fu Hua, Kiana distinctly uses the usual "class president" title, before backpedaling and actually addressing her directly by her name FU HUA instead of "class president".

WITHOUT HONORIFICS!

#fuki #fu hua x kiana #kiana x fu hua #fukia #kiana x fuka #kiana x hua #fuka x kiana #hua x kiana #nanahua #It's funny how these two seem to be at odds and yet fundamentally get along. ❤️ #This was also the arc when Fu Hua outs Kiana as a very smart but very impatient cookie at school stuff ❤️ #Fu Hua clearly thinks the world of Kiana ❤️ #They're married your honor #Does that mean Kiana just uses “class president” as a sort of pet name after Shattered Samsara? #Yes it can be as endearing as “senpai” #Respectful love and adoration

[boundinparchment]

last morning shitpost: if I ever, and I mean EVER, pursue an Assassin’s Creed AU with Dottore, please know I have lost the last of my sanity and gone too far down a lore rabbit hole.

#It WORKS you know it works!!!!!! #Watched my husband boot up the OG again and I went ‘aw fuck I thought this plot bunny died’ #There’s enough similarities in the scientific technology aspect of Genshin and the world in general that it WORKS when you consider samsara #pay me a million dollars and maybe I’ll talk about it in more detail lmao

[torgawl]

crack theory: what if the abyss twin isn't a descender because they're an ascender?

#you know if the world is like upside down because celestia created gods named after demons... like hell.... #i know this is dumb and that the concept of descender is people who enter the world teyvat is located in right? #but also what if going to the land away from the heavenly principals' eyes and becoming one with the land of the people #counts as not being an outlander #the irminsul is also technically part of the 'light realm' right? #how to make sense of that and the samsara cycles? #supposedly we're living through the fourth cycle (first half) and that cycle is called khraun-arya... similar to khaenri'ah... #the text at the tower of the narzissenkreuz ordo says the human spirit undergoes loss of paradise then defeat of evil dragons then original #sin and baptism and then freedom from the gods #this is massive!!! not only big picture wise but also in the way it perfectly describes the fontaine arc #and khaenri'ah still exists these are very much very similar concepts too #i think the end of our journey might be trying to break the samsara cycles once and for all? as long as they continue then any nation #who disobeys celestia will fall #what does this have to do with my original point? no idea actually agjshs #but what if this isn't like the first time the twins are in teyvat? #also the fact we have a twin and twins is such a common theme in genshin is so!!!! is one of the twins created after the other? #this is too much for my pea brain #please don't take anything of what i said seriously this is just a random post with my thoughts while i was drinking tea #the twins are just so intriguing #it's also curious that there's two shades of phanes we know nothing about #we know of istaroth and the shade of life but there's two left #them there's the weird melusine lines about paimon and the traveller #paimon having a string connecting her beyond the sky wasn't even the most surprising #the melusine saying they see the traveller as a monster that could swallow the world whole in a single bite is so !!!! #i think it's safe to say from the way the twins use the elements that they're above archons in terms of power scaling and hierarchy #whatever that means #paimon being a puppet just wouldn't surprise me but i don't think paimon is fooling us she might just be as clueless as we are tbh #she could even be some sort of being like furina was to egeria as far as we know #okay i'll shut up now because I'm not saying anything that makes sense or actually being productive 😂 #genshin thoughts

[gonguji]

what  is  more  traumatizing  than  finding out   the  doctor  killed  your  lover,  cut  him  up,  tricked  you  into  placing  the  lover's  heart  into  your  chest,  controlled  your  life,  manipulated,  abused  you  &&  the  set  up  for  a  failure?  the  doctor  finding  you  again  in  your  happiest  samsara  &&  revealing  all  of  that  personally . . .  while  blackmailing  you to  go  through  all  of  it  again unless  you  wish  to  see  your  friends  suffer.

#* . ⊹ 𝑇𝐻𝑂𝑈𝐺𝐻𝑇𝑆 𝑂𝐹 𝐿𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇𝑁𝐼𝑁𝐺 › ooc . #masquarade of the guilty but it's kabukimono forced into pain and trauma to save the timeline and everyone he loves #imagine hearing that you were meant to suffer. this is your fate to cause misfortune to ruin clans to doom inazuma. #otherwise the world will continue creating 'scaramouches' to take up his place. but no one can fill those shoes. no one can set the course #of the story like him. thus the circle of misfortune encloses. the key events do not happen and the world is in a stasis almost #...unless he agrees to be ruined again. to unmake his happiness and let the doctor ruin him again #I think this is far more traumatizing and terrifying given kabu has friends he has a happier life #and is forces to cast it all away in order to save everyone from the samsara being erased...

[zmeyel]

Coming from a lifetime of Pokemon, learning that the Digimon in the new switch port have a set lifespan before they die and are reborn has shaken me. Have now resolved to work towards helping my digital companions escape the cycle of samsara.

#digimon #digimon world: next order #buddhism #samsara

[thistledots]

My babies are finally happy, it’s all I could ever ask for😭 Youku pulled a fast one on us last week, but it’s ok I forgive you now 🤣🤣🤣🤡 Also imma think twice before watching anything with yangzi and chengyi now. These two are definitely out for blood 🤣

#cdrama #immortalsamsara #immortal samsara #yangzi #chengyi #沉香如屑 #沉香重华 #agarwood like crumbs #yandan #yingyuan #the world is healing

[chalk-homunculus]

I've been once again maining Klee throughout this Veluriyam Mirage questline a nd while exploring the mirage, both because I did get her skin, but also because it cheers me up so much to see her having fun.

#also the oceanid lore is incredible #I was right when I once said to someone that the oceanids are going to play some part in Fontaine #every summer event so far has been a sort of a preview to certain aspects of the next regions mechanics and/or archon quest #Maguu Kenki and Kazuha's involvement as well as the waverider being obvious for Inazuma in the first golden apple archipelago event #in the second one it was the 'dream state' thing which became a whole feature as the samsara in sumeru archon quest and with aranara etc #also some puzzle mechanics from 2.8 were adopted in sumeru though not in the exact same ways #now I'm suspecting it's the carnival & theatre themes and the oceanid lore at the very least- likely other stuff as well #I also am pretty certain about oceanids because the game has been fairly consistent about talking about their migration #I would not be surprised if we got another extra-long world quest series that had to do with them #and actually I do think oceanids WILL play some part in the archon quest as well especially since it's BECAUSE of focalors that they left #and so far practically every archon has had some kind of a personal growth journey during their respective quests #Ei being the most obvious one but I do think every archon quest is a representation of the archons' ideals #and the archons having to come face to face with the world changing and them having to 'adjust' their ideals somewhat because #the traveler's company to them lets them heal and see things from different perspectives #Venti wasn't quite so obvious but I do feel like it's a matter of his return and some aspects of what is and isn't true freedom #Zhongli did most of the introspection himself so that wasn't as obvious either but it's more to do about rule and status and the importance #of roles of deities and so on #while Inazuma is so obvious I don't really need to elaborate. Ei's idea of eternity was idiotic and she came to realize it. thats all #while Nahida... I think she sort of grew emotionally wiser in some ways because of the whole Rukkhadevata thing even though #she herself doesn't remember it at all #that's why I think ultimately archon quests ARE about the archons themselves and not really the traveler #the traveler has their own archon quest series after all #it's sometimes easy to forget the real point of the quests is not the traveler but rather the travel/journey itself #while travelers own archon quests are their & their sibling's own journey in a similar way #anyway. #just some evening thoughts I had #chalk thoughts

[nthngtoseehere-blog]

IDK what to watch next. I'm in the mood for some good action-y whumpy drama. I have a list, but what to piiiiiiiiick *whine*

#midnight museum #lawless lawyer #flower of evil #mirror of the witch #bring it on ghost #immortal samsara #zombie detective #who rules the world #guardian the lonely and great god

[tytangfei]

love it when deities get sent to the mortal realm and get into shenanigans because they were boring AF as immortals and gods

#the mortal world has more fun #immortal samsara #also ancient love poetry i love their mortal world arc more than anything #jina watches cdramas

[clssrep]

tag dump - fu hua

#;maybe the real treasure were the herrschers we made along the way. (ooc) #;IN ORDER TO PROTECT THIS LAND I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY LIFE. (ic - fu hua) #;THIS WORLD IS EVER-CHANGING. I HAVE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO PARTING AND DESPAIR. (visage - fu hua) #;I HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH TIME. I STRUGGLE IN THE SAMSARA ONLY IN THE HOPE OF ACHIEVING... MY MISSION. (aesthetic - fu hua) #;EVEN YOU THINK THAT I AM VERY STIFF. I THOUGHT I SHOWED YOU MY FLEXIBILITY. (desires - fu hua) #;I WON'T LET YOU BECOME ALONE ! (fu hua/kiana) #;SHE TAUGHT ME THE ART OF WAR. (fu hua/himeko) #;WHAT THE BIRB DOING? (crack - fu hua) #;HOW DO YOU PUT OUT A FIRE THAT HAS BURNED FOR 5000 YEARS? (v: genshin impact - fu hua) #;A DREAM AS LONG AS LIFE CAN BE JUST A FEW MOMENTS IN REALITY. (v: marvel - fu hua)