Hatred.
It does not exist in the void.
It is surrounded by love and empathy.
And they feed it, fueling it in holy ways.
Emotions so dear become whips, barbed and rusty,
Lashing at those cause their opposite forms of existence
To be born,
The flares of the mind intensify,
Judging right from wrong like a nuke bleaching the ground.
Humans are not inher...
2017-07-12 02:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post Day without night: all
Will burn alive under
Intense, harsh light.
Without bats, the stings
Of a thousand insects will
Pierce your fell skin.
Without insects, you
Will wither as plants crumble;
Fitting a fate.
Cling on to what is
Beautiful, and rightfully
Does Hell wait for you.
Carlos:
Oh vast land beneath the feet
Oh ancient forests and plains
Oh strong winds and mountains
Oceans and swamps, alike in their
Vital force and strength, aid me,
Aid me oh mother goddess, aid
In this fight for survival.
You, whose plot defeated
Ouranos, his genitals on the
Black Sea thrown?
And who conspired against,
Against the titans and led the
Olympians to victory?
A...
2017-07-12 01:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post AN: This story is dedicated to a person whom I once loved. The flames are gone, but its nice reminiscing.
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Once upon a time, there was a crane, stalking the plains.
His wings were open, as if to shield others from the Sun's heat, but nobody was interested in taking the refuge so offered. The crane, while not truly kindhearted, nonetheless felt a duty in his heart to offer shelter, and so kept his wings opened, inviting everyone. ...
2017-07-12 01:11:03 +0000 UTC View Post Dying is the Phoenix in the West,
It's flames touching the sore sea,
Light scorching like boiling blood
As the breath coughs life into dark water.
Oh gaze of the Horai,
Oh sour breeze of Chronos,
Oh judgement so merciless of the Mourai
Why do I see myself in such an hypocritical predicament?
In warm Springs long gone,
In love long forsaken,
&n...
In the West lies the Sun's grave, with poplars crying golden sap;
For as Persephone descends to Hades, so does Helios court the Piercer.
Blessed be the heavenly Scorpion, scourge of his father Ouranos,
Whom he pierced with rusty daggers, allowing dear brother Kronos the blow so final.
In the shadows of the setting lover, Iapetus ponders, weighting so carefully the values of each life;
He is the grandfather of Man, ...
2017-07-12 00:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostSo, been revamping a few things, and I think this fits as a spoiler. Remember, the rest will be revealed once the goal is met.
Aethersworn Universe Timeline:
So, what is a mammal exactly?
You might have heard the old adage: “it’s an animal with fur, warm-blood and milk”. This is extremely fortunate, because every group of non-therian mammal I’m discussing in this series has all three of these things… because they evolved long before mammals did!
Wait, what?
You see, what I described to you is what is often called Linnaean Taxonomy, after Carl Linnaeus. It's the classical “class, order, family...
2017-05-09 16:48:59 +0000 UTC View Post
So, nearly all mammals alive today belong to a group called Theria. Therians first evolved in the Jurassic, and started off as tree-climbing possum-like things.
You know, kind of the Mesozoic mammal stereotype and all. Of course, that didn’t last forever, since we now have everything from kangaroos to me, but the point is that this massive diversity of mammals is actually just a subset in a much larger group.
After all, if Theria is a group within mammals, then lo...
2017-05-09 12:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostPraise be unto the ancient light,
Beams that pass amidst the birch trees,
That bleach the bark and turn sap into gold.
Praise be unto the instigator,
She who instills order into the universe,
And love into mankind's hearts.
Praise be unto the ambivalent,
Light that heals the body and kills shadows,
Light that ages the flesh with each day.
2017-05-06 21:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post T͖̙h͚̲̙͉̣é͓ ̙̳͕̼̹̬l҉̠̜̯̘̜ͅi̠̭̘̰͇̙̦g̼̪͖̜̠̰͓h͖͙͎̝͢t̛̬ ͇͍͜a̜̝̭̤̱̪͢p͇͈̫̫̪͚͕͘p̩̠͔r͙̘̥͎̩͜ͅo̙̳̼̖̦͉͚a̜͙̣̯͞c̹̪̱h̺̱͇͚̬̭e̬̗̤͙s͓̭͇̱͉̲
҉͍̝͎͍̬͇T̫̞̠ͅh̯̻͉̖̜͓e̝ ͝s͙͖̥͎̠u̧͔̣̻n̹͕̦͖͍͡ ̤b́u̥r̥̠̗͚̳͙͡n̡̫͙̮s̷̪̖̯ ̭̙̥̺̣̩̲e̡̯x̡̳ist̖̀e̦̭̣̦͠n̠̜̰c̫͓̱̰e͓͉̬̜
̣̘̣͖͈͡Th͕̺̪͇̠̖͜e̙̭͘ ͈d͚͇͢ạ̰̥̣̝̱̰y̩̟̥̩͝...
I am the war hummingbird, my wings beat fast and my heart races like the wind.
I am the war hummingbird, ferocious but fragile.
I am the war hummingbird, burning my life away.
Through speed, I kill myself, far better than you ever could
2017-04-25 20:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun at dawn wades,
Its head bobbing back and forth,
Piercing the dark as the night fades.
The sun at midday shouts,
Its talons glistening with viscous red,
A crimson light purging away our doubts.
The sun at dusk mourns,
Worn thin by the passing day,
Feathers glinting at the sound of horns.
2017-04-09 14:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A polished version of a commission by:
2017-02-02 15:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostBasically to remind myself when I eventually reccord the song
2017-02-02 00:13:24 +0000 UTC View PostAnd with all this said we dive into Balto: Wolf Quest. Or Balto II: Wolf Quest. I guess this is being a sequel is optional. Wise choice.
This was my gateway to the franchise as a whole. Like I said, the original Balto doesn't seem to have gotten any official release in Portugal, so watching this movie back then was a pretty surreal experience. Not as much as Dragon Hill, though. Seriously, what?
As a kid this movie left a mixed impression on me. I remember feeling very confused, yet draw...
2017-01-31 17:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Most modern mammals are either placentals or marsupials. These two lineages (and their extinct relatives) are collectively known as therian mammals, and achieved global dominance during the Cenozoic. Earlier mammal groups (including most therians outside of Placentalia or Marsupialia) became extinct along with the dinosaurs, thus rendering the term “Age of the Mammals” somewhat ironic.
However, some non-therian mammals endured. Monotremes live on in Oceania, in the famil...
2017-01-30 11:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostOf the countless OVAs I grew up with, the single most memorable one was... Dragon Hill. But since no one else knows about it, I'll talk about the Balto sequels instead.
It's one of those cases where I watched the sequels before I knew about the original. Hell, I don't even know if the first Balto had any official release in Portugal, theatrical or otherwise. That tends to happen.
The first movie was released in 1995 by Universal Pictures. It was conceived by Amblimation Studios, which al...
2017-01-27 20:11:53 +0000 UTC View PostKyell Gold,
Kyell Gold,
Kyell Gold
Oh Kyell Gold
You are amazing
In ways I can't
Even dream of,
Oh yes you are!
Oh Kyell Gold,
You are amazing
In ways I can't
Even figure out.
How did you manage
To spend all these years,
Writing more or less
The same character?
And, each time
It's an angel reborn!
Oh, I love
What you've done
To a tiger!
2017-01-27 15:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
You’ve been here for just two years,
I’ve been here ten times as much.
Yet I know you’re older than me,
Feline years tend to go as such.
As your life is spent rolling on the floor,
Oblivious to the coming storm,
My own life is a scorching tempest,
Trying to keep us safe and warm.
Through tyranny, war and worse,
Are you blessed or are you cursed?
Your life is an instinctual cadency,
But you're also without...
2017-01-27 13:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I just posted approximately 30% of what was originally going to be my first published novel. I've been working on this from 2013 onwards, and I'm still writing and re-writing the whole thing.
I have plans for a proper publication, the same formula but with more functional writing. This version is essentially the "sketch", an experiment to guide myself. The rest of the chapters, aside from the very last, will also be hosted here. I also have plans for a script version, though I...
2017-01-26 13:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostEverything went in a blur for Silvia.
Her brother became the Moon, and the sky of their home became half-dark, half-light.
She was caught in the awe of that spectacle, until he left.
She knew why he left, but she couldn't help but formulate a simple accusation, a coward, in her thoughts. Running away from her, from everything. She however didn't blame him, at least not for long.
The world was a mess.
The bird gods had taken her mother to safety, and su...
2017-01-26 11:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Amidst the branches of Yggdrasil, the Moon was a flower.
Manuel learned from his sister, and now could feel it himself. Reality as he knew it wasn't so much peeled as blossomed, an eruption that connected him to nine worlds, strengthening him and in turn nourished by his nectar of dreams and darkness.
And they lapped hungrily, starved as they were for the presence of Máni.
He could see fathomless branches of a bark that wasn't b...
2017-01-26 11:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Manuel breathed in deeply, trying to calm himself.
Again did he try to tap into the power of his true self. As before, his mind felt overwhelmed by his cosmic nature, but with each attempt his emotional strings wove a tapestry. A net of consciousness, encompassing the fibers of his being, strengthening his divine power.
Around him, chaos reigned. The wolf gods had shattered most of his town, hills broken and their soil defaced, flayed under the su...
2017-01-26 11:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostHati and Sköll managed to make most of the way to their intended destination, travelling across the forests and killing wildlife and hikers alike.
They only travelled at night, spending the days in caves, sewers, abandoned buildings, feasting on their catch until not even bones remained.
Now they rested on an abandoned warehouse, just seven kilometers to Máni's house. It was rather empty, its windows on various stages of despair and most of the ...
2017-01-26 11:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Bil climbed higher and higher in the vastness of Yggdrasil and its countless branches and leaves, until she reached the very top, the realm of the Æsir gods.
She soared across a vast, blue, empty sky, until she found what she was looking for: a white plain, floating in the air. It was surrounded by clouds, edging it and trailing it, blown up by gales to form an endless tail.
But, as Bil's bird eyes noticed, the clouds gradually gave in to a more solid mass. It reminded her ...
2017-01-26 11:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post
At the town’s outskirts, on the outer side of a hill, facing the dense forest expanse, was a shack. It was made from black wood, polished so much as to glisten under the midday Sun.
A small house, square-like and with simple triangular roof. Only two windows existed on its sides, made by dark emerald-like glass, and a single, simple door with a simple stave, composed of a cross with trident ends.
To Hjúki, it seemed more like an elaborate doghouse than the hom...
2017-01-26 11:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Midday went on, searing hot and bright.
Sköll almost doze off with the heat and luminosity, feeling his head pulsing viciously. Above him was his millenia old enemy, radiating her light on him.
If only she knew I was right in front of her, he mused, in mockery and in dread.
He almost considered stopping the van to rest, but he could feel his brother’s displeasure, even as he slumbered.
He couldn’t afford to lay down his defenses, n...
2017-01-26 11:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post
