Okay which one of you is going to write the Ineffable Husbands college professor AU with the extremely sweet and over-sharing professor fawning over their spouse and the standoff-ish secretive professor who reveals absolutely nothing about their private life who turned out to be married?
Sunflowers painted with Dr Ph Martin’s Hydrus Liquid watercolours, on Bamboo mixed media paper. Special thanks to Cee-Roo for letting me use his track “I’m So Happy” :)
I don't know what the better crossover is:
Crowley and Aziraphale being each other's assigned soulmates in The Good Place, and Crowley is of course, a mess,
or...
Eleanor the demon and Chidi the angel lose the Antichrist and run around screaming and trying to prevent Armageddon.
Something amazing will happen to you in May 2019.
Aziraphale: doesn’t remember which side was responsible for a historical period 🤔 🤔
also Aziraphale: remembers exactly what food they were eating three centuries ago on his lunch date with Crowley 😍 😇 😈🥞
Baahubali-Lion King parallels
@teambaahubali
(And yes, this probably fits better as a meta but I assume the cross over universe thing works too?)
5 HCs AU: When Sita tries to call upon Bhumi Devi to swallow her up, nothing happens.
1. It is–not quite nothing, a rumble from the earth whispering Not yet, my daughter; but it is not the rest that Sita has wanted for so long.
Around her, courtiers and commoners whisper alike of Maithali’s failure with as much surprise as satisfaction: now, at least, they can silence the lingering guilt at their part in their queen’s exile. Certainly she was to blame all along, and their King’s decision above reproach.
Sita does not speak again, but turns to leave, head held high.
2. She goes back to her cottage in Valmiki’s hermitage, the only place–other than an abandoned hut in Panchavati–that feels like home.
Some, Sita knows, might urge her on to giving up her life: but fire had let her pass unscathed, the son of wind spoken in her favor, and earth her mother forsaken her. Why ought she to imagine the waters might be any different?
In the back of her mind, faint but fixed, is the throb of anger; her husband’s wrath might threaten to destroy the world, but Sita’s is a thousand times more destructive. Lanka learned that lesson all too well; Sita closes her eyes and prays for peace.
3. Kush might be the elder, but Luv the bolder, and Luv the one who asks her at last one night.
“Would you have left us?”
A mother’s instinct almost brings No, of course not to her lips; but Janaka’s daughter does not lie, no more than she hides from hard truths.
“Yes,” she says.
“With a father we scarcely know?”
“Your teacher’s stories–”
Luv scowls. “Are just that.” His mouth curls up, just as it did when he was five years old and refusing to eat his dinner. “You would have left us.”
Sita sighs, and holds out her arms to him. “And I never will again.”
4. “You might have been princes,” she reminds Kush, who should have been heir to Ayodhya. “You might have taken your rightful places.”
He only snorts. “And rule the same louts who scorned our mother? Never.”
She does not dare admit that she is proud of him, but her smile betrays her nonetheless.
5. Sita is tending to her garden when she hears footsteps approaching, coaxing weeds to take life elsewhere; she looks up to find her husband peering down at her, clearly awkward and somehow not yet out of place. His clothes are stark; his head is bare, devoid of the crown. She wonders if Bharata was convinced to take it at last, or if Lakshmana obliged instead.
(She knows too, enough of the ways of ruling to know that a king does not simply wake one morning and renounce his throne. He must have been planning this, moving the pieces into the motion, since the day she and the boys had departed Ayodhya forever.)
“Forgive me,” he says, and Sita, who had half-feared she would never be able to do so, feels her rage ebb at last.
Beneath her bare feet, the earth hums her contentment.
Abhimanyu;
❝Once, a star was left to burn itself to ash. Once, a star was trapped in a bottle and set aflame.❞
from [xxx] by muskurahat.
Symbols of Lord Shiva & Their Meanings
Lord Shiva, one of the most complex gods of India, embodies seemingly contradictory qualities – He is the destroyer and the restorer; the great ascetic as well as the symbol of sensuality; the benevolent herdsman of souls and also the wrathful avenger.
Matted Hair: The matted hair represents Lord Shiva’s connection with the wind and Brahma’s “breathe of life”.
Unclad Body and Ash: The unclad body symbolizes the transcendental aspect of Lord Shiva. The ash smeared on Lord Shiva’s body signifies that He transcends physical phenomena and is not affected by it.
Third Eye: Lord Shiva is also known as Tryambaka Deva, which literally means ‘three-eyed Lord,’ and is often depicted as having three eyes. His right and left eyes are the sun and moon respectively, while His third eye is the eye of wisdom.
Ganga: The river Ganges, is the most sacred river in India and represents the causal waters from which the earth arises. By holding the Ganges in his matted hair, Lord Shiva allowed the holy river to traverse the earth and bring its purifying water to humans.
Crescent Moon: Often depicted on Lord Shiva’s head is a crescent moon, representing the cyclical nature of the universe.
Snake: Lord Shiva is often shown with a snake curled three times around His neck. The three coils of the snake represent the cycle of time – the past, present and future. The snake around Lord Shiva’s neck symbolizes his transcendence over the cycles of creation and time.
Trident: The three-pronged trident known as the Trishul shown with Lord Shiva symbolizes His three fundamental powers, or shakti, of iccha, kriya, and jnana (will, action and knowledge). The trident also represents Lord Shiva’s power to destroy evil and ignorance.
Tiger Skin: Lord Shiva is shown sitting on a tiger or wearing a tiger skin. The tiger is the vehicle of Shakti, the Goddess of power and force. The tiger skin that Lord Shiva wears symbolizes His victory over every force.
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Urmila was her parents’ only biological child, yet she never begrudged Sita the position of eldest daughter. She was overjoyed when she learned that her sister’s husband had a brother whom she could also marry so they could go to Ayodhya together. On what should have been her sister’s coronation day, her sister and her husband were both exiled to the forest. She was willing to accompany them as well and only stayed behind to take care of her parents-in-laws. She was the only child of Ayodhya present at Dasharath’s deathbed, since Bharat and Shatrughan were in Kekaya on state business. Urmila gave up 14 years of her life to sleep so that her husband might protect her sister and her husband. She finally woke up to see her sister return from exile, see her sister crowned, see her sister excited to welcome her first child... only to see her sent back into exile, never to return.
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