That’s the whole question really. I’m new to the area and was interested in work by a particular artist there but have had some…strange encounters with folks in the tattooing world previously. Just want to see if people can speak to their experiences there.
She went from looking very healthy to taking a turn for the worse when I repotted and moved her. I’m trying to face her towards that window wall she’s next to for her sun since someone turned her away from it and I think parts of the plant suffered + some of the leaves distended unnaturally and rotated themselves backwards for more sun access.
I also did have a single stake that it was tied to at the spine but it seems to have wriggled itself out and away from it and there’s nothing really supporting it, holding it up, helping it climb, etc.
What can I do to keep more of the leaves from getting discolored/browning at the tips, growing in unnatural directions, helping her to thrive a bit more? No offense to dear Orlando but she kinda got ugly as she grew.
I don’t know if she could use a bigger pot entirely, but at the very least I was thinking of repotting her back into her current pot but adding a lattice or moss poles (I don’t know the fist thing about how to properly do either of those, especially for her current state.
This is a broader question than Elden Ring (hence the last photo) but I think it’s relevant here and want to raise the question.
I was discussing the symbolism behind Radagon being forged into a literal weapon by the Greater Will. Obviously he lived as a weapon of the Greater Will, acting as its “sword” and as a tool to its ends and was unflinchingly loyal. So he was also in death. Also the obvious point that no amount of service or loyalty or good intentions could keep him from being seen as anything beyond a weapon, and so he became in death.
But to the larger point.
The forging of a weapon from the body of a being/the transformation of a being into a weapon/the trapping of a living spirit into weaponry is a motif that I feel like I’ve seen other places before. The only one that comes to mind is The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword, both with Fi being forged willingly into the Master Sword and with Ghirahim being unwillingly shaped into Demise’s sword.
The two places I can think of the Zelda actively gets a lot of the basis for their lore and philosophy from are Irish/Welsh mythology and Shintō. I feel like the same could be said for a lot of Elden Ring’s lore and philosophy.
Does anyone have an idea of the real world basis for this theme appearing? It could be completely disconnected and simply a theme that emerged in modern storytelling, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a deeper mythological basis for such things.