“What Is It That The Child Has To Teach?

I imagine Sansfoy to be the short-tempered older brother who says rude things like “I wish I disowned you as my brothers” but never means it and always has to apologize even though he’s still pissed at his brothers

Still reading the Odyssey. How have I never seen anyone bring up a headcanon that Odysseus becomes scared shitless of the ocean after finally coming home to Ithaca? I'm talking mental-breakdown inducing phobia.

The man has spent TEN YEARS lost at sea. Each time he reached land, Poseidon was here to try to drown him. His twelve ships with six hundred men sunk. And later on, when Alcinoos' men sailed him back to Ithaca, Poseidon sunk that ship too. It just never ends. Odysseus has seen hundreds of men, friends, die at sea, he's been whipped by waves, choked by salt, he faced Charybdis on his own, nearly drowned more times than he can count, all of this to finally reach home knowing his journey has drowned hundreds of innocent people.

I'm telling you he'd never heal from that shit. After he finally reclaims the throne of Ithaca, maybe Telemachus mentions that some of his father's old friends are still waiting for news of him, that Nestor has no idea he managed to go home and that Menelaus weeps whenever he thinks of him.

So Odysseus agrees to follow his son to Pylos and Sparta, having to sail across the sea once again, and although the trip goes smoothly it's a living nightmare for Odysseus. The moment the ship departs, he prays Poseidon with all his might, begging him to spare his son. He can't stop puking and crying, choking on his own erratic breath, hallucinating and going paranoid. For a few days Telemachus really thinks he's fallen ill. The trip back is just as terrible and Telemachus has no idea how to comfort his father or to make him understand that the seas are safe for him now, as well as for all the people who travel with him.

Yet another reason why Odysseus needs to spend the rest of his life in a Penelope/Diomedes sandwich hug, I rest my case.

you gotta be able to say "die"

you gotta be able to say "suicide"

you gotta be able to talk about "sex"

they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE

because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.

even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"

like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.

There is something bright, something soft, something warm about your very name; as if only uttering it makes the sun shine through. There is certainty in your wake, your gentle presence, your loving touch. You are molten gold and sunlit dripping honey; you are sweetness of oranges and steady smoke flow of burning cedarwood. You are encompassing, and all-embracing, and you are in all around for your music is heard in everything; and there is joy of your dance in each blow of warmth-filled wind. You are the sun, and there is nothing but love in your golden gaze. Shine on, o’ most beloved.

GUYS, HEAR ME OUT

So, everyone here is familiar with 4nemo, or 5wirl, whatever. Right?

So I thought a bit and, LISTEN.

HYDRO GIRLS.

I made a few names but I'm not sure if it's good, but here

HY8RO

VAP8RIZE

H8DRO

And it would consist of

Furina, Kokomi, Nilou, Mona, Yelan, Candace, Mualani and Barbara

If we're going to take the band(group?) Context, I'll say which instrument I think each of them would have

Furina and Barbara would mainly sing for me, so I can't think of any instrument rn

Kokomi gives off keyboard vibes.

Yelan probably uses the electric guitar

Candace uses the drums

Mualani would use either Maracas or something like a triangle.

I'm not sure about Mona

BUT, I do think they would be more like, in a kpop group vibe? 😭

But yeah, I had this idea and needed to share before I forgot 🙏

(Also, maybe Focalor could be an ex member that left and let furina take her place without anyone noticing the difference until she said it to the public)

Basic Cognitive Functions Guide

As an MBTI enthusiast, I like making little guides and notes to help me visualize and process information, so here ya go!

Two Attitudes

Extroverted (E): Functions oriented towards the real world—views things as is without personal alignment and filtering. "Breadth."

Introverted (I): Functions oriented towards the subject's world—views things through personal alignment and filtering. "Depth."

Two Categories

*Judging

Judging Function (Jx): Reason—a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event—used to judge and decide.

Extraverted Judging (Je): Reasoning based on external effects. Looks at what should be.

Introverted Judging (Ji): Reasoning based on internal alignment. Looks at personalized principles.

*Perceiving

Perceiving Function (Px): Processes used in gathering or filtering information.

Extraverted Perceiving (Pe): Perceiving based on external exploration. Unfiltered gathering of information.

Introverted Perceiving (Pi): Perceiving based on internal narrowing down. Filtering information. 

Four Aspects

*Inter/personal ("emotional"): Human-based matters. *Impersonal ("logical"): Nonhuman-based matters.

Feeling Functions (Fx): Judgment metrics oriented towards people and inter/personal matters. Emotional reasoning.

Thinking Functions (Tx): Judgment metrics oriented towards things and impersonal matters. Logical reasoning.

Intuition Functions (Nx): Perceiving processes oriented towards intangible information. Abstract perception.

Sensing Functions (Sx): Perceiving processes oriented towards tangible information. Concrete perception.

Eight Cognitive Functions (putting it all together)

*Judging Functions:

Extraverted Feeling (Fe): Reasoning based on external inter/personal effects—emotional consequences. "What should be valued."

Extraverted Thinking (Te): Reasoning based on external impersonal effects—logical consequences. "What should work."

Introverted Feeling (Fi): Reasoning based on internal inter/personal alignment—emotional particularities. "What feels right to me."

Introverted Thinking (Ti): Reasoning based on internal impersonal alignment—logical particularities. "What makes sense to me."

*Perceiving Functions

Extraverted Sensing (Se): Perceiving based on external concrete exploration—unfiltered gathering of tangible information. "What is."

Extraverted Intuition (Ne): Perceiving based on external abstract exploration—unfiltered gathering of intangible information. "What if."

Introverted Sensing (Si): Perceiving based on internal concrete narrowing down—filtering tangible information. "What has been."

Introverted Intuition (Ni): Perceiving based on internal abstract narrowing down—filtering intangible information. "What will be."

I made this based on my understanding of Psychological Types by Carl Jung. Click here if you'd like to view the guide in a different format and see the direct quotes i used from Jung's book.

I headcanon that Furina’s pigtails in her pneuma mode are hair extensions as an attempt to look more like Focalors to further convince people that she is Focalors. Furina seems to naturally have short hair (as shown in her ousia form and that is her real self), and Focalors naturally has very long hair that’s split, kinda like pigtails. So to make herself look more like her, she put on extensions kind of like Focalors’ hair and therefore look more like Focalors.

Straightway, great Phoebus, the goddesses washed you purely and cleanly with sweet water, and swathed you in a white garment of fine texture, new-woven, and fastened a golden band about you. - Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo

Is there any lore behind Furina’s ousia and pneuma outfits? I genuinely can’t find anything and am wondering if I’m missing something obvious

✧✦ Sparkle / Hanabi &&. Furina Discord Layouts. req by anon.