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Cultivation

by Dorothea Tanning

Cultivating people can be arduous,

With results as uncertain as weather.

Try oysters, meerkats, turnips, mice.

My mouse field was a triumph of

Cultivation—pink noses poking

Through quilts of loam, scampering

In the furrows—until the falling

Dwarves (it was that time of year)

Began landing on my field. Fear for

Its harvest had me down on hands

And knees muttering, “Not here,”

My nails clawed at tangles of fat

Dwarves crushing mouse families.

Then, unbelievably, it was over.

By morning every dwarf, maddened

By nibbling mice, had fled the field.

Now, as before, each day, dozens

Of perfect mice leave for the city.

There, they have made many friends

Among computers, and with them

Are developing skills inconceivable

To their forebears. Already, these

Cultivated mice and their computers

Penetrate guilty secrets. Soon they will

Prevail over the turmoil that defines

This darkest of ages. And they will

Find me, asleep in my cave.

Cultivation

by Dorothea Tanning

Cultivating people can be arduous,

With results as uncertain as weather.

Try oysters, meerkats, turnips, mice.

My mouse field was a triumph of

Cultivation—pink noses poking

Through quilts of loam, scampering

In the furrows—until the falling

Dwarves (it was that time of year)

Began landing on my field. Fear for

Its harvest had me down on hands

And knees muttering, “Not here,”

My nails clawed at tangles of fat

Dwarves crushing mouse families.

Then, unbelievably, it was over.

By morning every dwarf, maddened

By nibbling mice, had fled the field.

Now, as before, each day, dozens

Of perfect mice leave for the city.

There, they have made many friends

Among computers, and with them

Are developing skills inconceivable

To their forebears. Already, these

Cultivated mice and their computers

Penetrate guilty secrets. Soon they will

Prevail over the turmoil that defines

This darkest of ages. And they will

Find me, asleep in my cave.

the lengths we go to for fic research

(the only things i know about cultivation are what ive absorbed from novels and comics, and one (1) research binge)

after reading this, a friend told me she could thoroughly understand my deep loathing for cultivation as a power system. good.

cultivating a life that feels nourishing 🫀

PHANTASY PHEST 2022

Day 2 : Magical powers Danny

Prompt idea :

Alright. I actually have an idea of arts for this prompt but i have not started anything yet. This au is about Danny having magical powers right? I kind of like the idea of him dealing with the ghost like sort of curse breaker. He have this identity as "Phantom" to hide himself from everyone from knowing his true identity.

I was thinking of like Cardcaptor Sakura fusion. And some Mo Dao Zu Shi elements. I will explain later.

The Fentons believe and Phantom believe are not the same. Fenton deals with this supernatural thing through science while Phantom deals these kind of things with magic. Their belief clashed. The Fenton can handle alchemy because it make sense to them more than the magic.

Alright. Explaining the fusion thing. There are no card here actually. The portal incident happened when Jack and Maddie tried to do the impossible by creating a sort of portal using alchemy. Yes. You heard me. This have Fullmetal Alchemist elements. You read it right. Jack and Maddie seeks knowledge and they had heard of entity that can help them.

They are wary of it. The first time they do their friend was sacrifice in an experimental portal gone wrong. They want to bring back their friend because they know the 'deal'.

Sam heard of their plan and asked Danny to bring her to see it. Tucker disagree but tagged along because he doesn't want to leave Danny alone with her.

Jack and Maddie have a 'deal' with this Entity. It kind of have to do with the ghost. Their job is kind of sketchy. Their time period is around The Fullmetal Alchemist time period.

The Fenton do not work for the government. The government grovel at their feet.

You see, we dive into this Mo Dao Zu Shi elements. Someone who practice cultivation will develop a core made of pure spiritual energy. We go to the core. Those who practice it will develop this pure core slowly. The Fenton trained their children to do it so they can be cleansed from dark energy and magic that might corrupt them when they, the parents, deal with this sort of law breaking things.

Sam dabble with dark magic because of course she would, she wants to keep he aesthetic. She didn't know anything about the dark magic and its consequences. She just thought people are just afraid to use it because well, its dark.

She accidentally killed Danny with it. Uh. Well, she fatally injures Danny and she in panic copy what the Fenton parents do for reviving the death thing and does it on Danny. She forces Tucker to help her because oh my gosh she killed her friend. Danny is dying because of her oh my gosh-

Danny died by the time she finish the circle. She activate it and both her and Tucker was transported to this place where it is white all over and one faceless humanoid thing in front of them. She made a deal with it and so is Tucker. Danny soul have not been taken yet but the deal put him in a state of not being dead but still alive. His soul is tainted with death and his core couldn't use any kind of pure spritual energy. He still can use it but it hurts him. Danny's body is always at aware of demonic and pure spriritual energy. His magic is the same too. His soul have to be bind to his body.

Danny can't really feel anything. If he is away from Sam and Tucker too long he will go numb and be a food to the malice and cruel spiritual and magical beings. Sort of doll state. He can't feel hungry but he needs to eat yet he doesn't. His body process the food slowly and it affects him greatly. He only feels pain if its spiritually or magically.

Sam and Tucker are trying to find away to restore their friend back to his normal state. Danny helps people through being Phantom. Right now the Fenton parents are travelling in order to vanquish ghost and destroy them while seeking knowledge and way to get their friend Vlad, back.

Vlad is not really 'dead'. He is trapped in some kind of 'man' like figure doll. Jack and Maddie knows of this. They bring Vlad with them. No one knows about Vlad especially their children.

While Sam and Tucker busy figuring out how to restore Danny, he made a deal with the Entity that both his friends and parents made deal with. The entity kind of favour him. It says to him that every time he is facing trouble of helping people with magic he will gain a new knowledge of how to deal with it. But something will be taken from him. He collected them all like cards and make a book of it. He calls it Book of Phantom. Somehow this goes into Varitas no Carte elements.

Sam and Tucker have no idea of Danny's deal and his other activity. Danny does it secretly. Everytime he uses demonic cultivation or dark magic, Danny's appearance changes. You know, the white hair, green glowing eyes .

Some of the ghosts are not ghosts, they are living people that dabbled in black/dark magic and demonic cultivation. Some are hunters and other stuff. There are ghosts but not the usual one.

I will add more later..

Ｌｅ Ｖｅｒｃｏｒｓ

𝘐𝘴𝘦̀𝘳𝘦 - 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

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