長月 (Nagatsuki) "September" (archaic)

長月 (Nagatsuki) "September" (archaic)

長月 (Nagatsuki) "September" (archaic)

Like many countries, Japan uses a 12-month calendar. The names are very simple. January is literally "Month one", February is "Month two", etc:

一月 = January

二月 = February

However, before the Meiji Restoration (mid-1800s) it was common to use an older 12-month system. These months’ names referenced the weather and the seasons (similar to the French Revolutionary calendar).

This old system is based on a lunar calendar with exactly 28 days in each month, beginning and ending on the new moon. 

September is 長月:

長 = long

月 = month

So literally, "the long month".

In September the nights get longer, and we can enjoy the beautiful harvest moon. The September full moon sees the arrival of the Moon Viewing Festival, celebrated in many East Asian countries including Japan, in which it is traditional to enjoy the beautiful moon whilst eating white mochi (rice cakes). 🎑

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An illustration of one of my favorite moments from my fic How to Rest! I love the wizards and I love when they are soft!!!


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1 year ago

jesus christ could you get any gayer

hannibal and will staring at each other whilst pulling the others tie. wills wears a red shirt with a black waistcoat, hannibal wears a black shirt with a red waistcoat. both have white ties, antlers, and blood around their mouths. a string of bloody saliva connects their lips.

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11 months ago
traditional drawing of Ludinus and Essek. Ludinus is consentrating on a spell, arms outstretched. Essek is floating behind.

Essek's internal monologue:
fuck! now is the time! say something cool!

Essek: uhm... hi? it's been a while?

Essek's internal monologue: No!

This just in: the boi is Having A Time

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a small doodle of essek looking nervous. 

a small doodle of essek casting a lightning bolt. 

a small doodle of essek realizing demons have resistance to elemental damage, saying: Fuck!


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10 months ago
rhythmiccicada - just a lil cicada on a tree somewhere
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1 year ago

Just remembered that Will Graham was canonically a professor and-

What was that even LIKE???

Picture the scene: youre a bright-eyed prospective FBI agent who needs to take this class for a credit and you roll up to see a man who looks like he slept in a dumpster teaching your class.

Ok fine you can deal with that.

Next thing you learn is that he has the social skills of a ground-nesting chipmunk and the class has realized he tolerates you all only because you sit fifty feet away from him.

Fine. Cool. Sure.

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Government Officials (Derogatory), Dogs, Knives, Dogs, Guns, Dogs, Kraft Mac and Cheese, Silly String (Derogatory)…

They get him a murder mystery book for his birthday and he spends the next class period talking about why it was wrong and who REALLY did it.

The class does some research, apparently he’s wired up in a weirder way than the class thought. That’s fine, you all like him in a “teacher who hates everyone kind of way”

Then he starts rambling about murders as if he WAS THERE AND DID IT, zones out, regularly gets interrupted by random people and then vanishes off the face of the earth only to reappear as a “murder husband” a few months later.

Good for him, you all knew only a bisexual could be that much of a flaming wreak.

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Because goddamnit he’s their WEIRDO and good fucking batshit crazy teachers are SO hard to find


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1 year ago

Hannibal def uses he/they pronouns since he probably has at least one to two people in his digestive system at any given point


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