"I've certainly become more persuaded that there is more than just the physical reality. I do think it's quite likely that if we do survive, that there's not just one experience that everyone has; that the afterlife may be as varied as life in this world."
Jim Tucker, psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, and author of "Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children who Remember Past Lives."
"[Miracles are] the extraordinary work of God that involves His immediate and unmistakable intervention in the physical realm in a way that contravenes natural processes."
- Phil Johnson
The Mundane realm, also known as the physical realm, or Lesser Maldera—not to be confused with the collective planar system of Greater Maldera—consists of a single plane within the cosmos, that of physical matter, and all the solar and planetary systems it contains. While current technology allows for knowledge of the existence of other such systems, it is—in its current state—unfit for any form of in depth observation, or exploration of any kind, of even the distant locations of our own system. As such the vast majority of our knowledge of the plane as a whole, comes from information we can gather within the bounds of our own planet—also called Maldera for reasons one can only assume to be a lack of creativity on part of the Scholars of the past—and limited travel to the moons thereof.
Danny is very displeased. He’s going to bite Clockwork and complain his ear off because this is just utter bullshit.
He’s stuck as a baby, which isn’t his fault. Okay so maybe it was a little bit his fault, but no one had told him not to touch the thing! And Clockwork is apparently too busy to fix his situation. Personally Danny is pretty sure he’s just enjoying being able to carry him around, what with the purr-buzzing and all that.
Which okay, it’s kind of nice and is making him kind of sleepy but still! He’s supposed to be angry about this situation and biting at his hands! Which he shall continue to do! … after this nap, it’s been a while since he was able to get some proper sleep.
…
Okay whoever just woke him up is going to have to catch his itty bitty baby hands! At least Clockwork looks just as unimpressed as he is now, and the people around the summoning circle look confused- save for a trenchcoat dude who looks horrified.
"Hurry," I bid him
He embraced me almost convulsively, and shocked me when he kissed my mouth. He spun and ran towards Girl-On-A-Dragon. The girl part of her leaned down, to offer him a hand as she drew him up to sit behind her. The expression on her face never changed. Just another part of the dragon.
"To me!" he cried to the dragons that were already gathering around us. The last look he gave me was a mocking smile.
ROBIN HOBB’S REALM OF THE ELDERLINGS
>> FitzChivalry Farseer
The Farseer Trilogy + The Tawny Man Trilogy + The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy
Do you see how stupid this is? I cannot possibly stand by and watch you die, Fool. I know that and you know that. You'd be asking me to be profoundly different from who I am. You'd be making the change, not me. And didn't you once tell me that precipitating the change was my task, not yours? So don't ask it of me. If fate demands that you be dead, well, then I'll probably be dead too. At that point, I doubt it will matter much to either of us.
Always and forever tweaking my Fitz character design and decided to sit down and visualize how he looks through the ages (at least some of the ages).
Late AA / Early RA - besotted, lovestruck teenager
Mountain Quest - perpetually exhausted & in a Skill-daze
FE / Cabin Era - half-forged but SO happy the Fool is back
Post-Clerres - vengeful & actively dying ),,;
"Universal Reality is a consistent system of Cosmic laws and facts, which is the foundation of all that is there, both at the macro level and at the micro level, physical and transcendent. The starting point is that there is a universal Higher or Divine Intelligence, which is at the heart of everything there is. Everything has also come from this source. Our soul is part of this Source."
You know what is better than "Bruce adopts Danny and/or his sisters after the Fentons mess up" trope? Jack and Maddie adopt the batkids after he messes up.
Listen, I love the "Bad Parents Maddie and Jack" Angst as much as the next phan, but this is way funnier, catarthic and likely to happen.
Just— all the batsiblings having fudge with hot drinks under an improvised blank fort the giant goofy man (their new dad, apparently?) made for them, on-site, and listening silly (real) ghost stories. Meanwhile, the short woman in a cyan hazmat suit is slamming Batman against the floor back and forth, like a kid playing with a doll.
You know what @f4nd0m-fun I literally finished this last night, so here, have the lil baby hydra. From several prompts.
They're still mostly baby colors, which is all monochrome, but are juuust starting to get more colors like their underbellies and their heads are starting to lighten up, but will start shifting color eventually.
Which makes me wonder what kind of thing might happen if someone tries to study the realm hydras....
[ID: tags via @lanixigay that read "#BUGS IN LOVE #THEYRE LOVEBUGS YEW #HOW COULD YEW NOT" /end ID]
dragons in love is winning but Yew puns are my secret weakness. this is too stupid to be an official video so it's literally just for tumblr, enjoy ghskgh