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mashkaroom · 1 year

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Translation thoughts on the greatest poem of our time, “His wife has filled his house with chintz. To keep it real I fuck him on the floor”

It’s actually quite tricky to translate. Because it’s so short, each word and grammatical construction is carrying a lot of weight. It also, as people have noted, plays with registers. “Chintz” is a word with its own set of associations. Chintz is a type of fabric with its origins in India. The disparaging connotation is from chintz’s eventual commonality. Chintz was actually banned from England and France because the local textile mills couldn’t compete.

Keep it real” is tremendously difficult to translate -- it’s a bit difficult to even define. It means to be authentic and genuine, but it also has connotations of staying true to one’s roots. Like many English slang words, it comes first from AAVE. From this article on the phrase:

“[K]eeping it real meant performing an individual’s experience of being Black in the United States. As such, it became a form of resistance. Insisting on a different reality, one that wasn’t recognized by the dominant culture, empowered Black people to ‘forge a parallel system of meaning,’ according to cultural critic Mich Nyawalo...The phrase’s roots in racialized resistance, however, were erased when it was adopted by the mostly-White film world of the 1970s and ’80s....Keeping it real in this context indicated a performance done so well that audiences could forget it was a performance.This version of keeping it real wasn’t about testifying to personal experience; it was about inventing it.”

One has to imagine that jjbang8 did not have the origins of these phrases in mind when composing the poem, but even if by coincidence, the etymological and cultural journeys of these two central lexemes perfectly reflect the themes of the poem. The two words have themselves traveled away from the authenticity they once represented, and, in a new context, have taken on new meanings -- the hero of our poem, the unnamed “him”, is, presumably, in quite a similar situation.

Setting aside the question of register, of the phonology, prosody, and meter of the original, of the information that is transmitted through bits of grammar that don’t necessarily exist in other languages -- a gifted translator might be able to account for all of these -- how do you translate the journey of the words themselves?

In my translations, I decided to go for the most evocative words, even if they don’t evoke the exact same things as in the original. The strength of these two lines is that they imply that there’s more than just what you see, whether that’s the details of the story -- what’s happening in the marriage? how do the narrator and the husband know each other? -- or the cultural background of the very words themselves. I wanted to try and replicate this effect.

Yiddish first:

זייַן ווייַב האָט אָנגעפֿילט זייַן הויז מיט הבלים

צו בלייַבן וויטיש, איך שטוף אים אופֿן דיל. zayn vayb hot ongefilt zayn hoyz mit havolim.

tsu blaybn vitish, ikh shtup im afn dil

This translation is pretty direct. There is a word for chintz in Yiddish -- tsits -- but, as far as I can tell, it refers only to the fabric; it doesn’t have the same derogatory connotation as in English. I chose, instead, havolim, a loshn-koydesh word that means “vanity, nothingness, nonsense, trifles”. In Hebrew, it can also mean breath or vapor. I chose this over the other competitors because it, too, is a word with a journey and with a secondary meaning. Rather than imagining the bright prints of chintz, we might imagine a more olfactory implication -- his wife has filled his house with perfumes or cleaning fluids. It can carry the implication that something is being masked as well as the associations with vanity and gaudiness.

Vitish -- Okay, this is a good one. Keep in mind, of course, that I’ve never heard or seen it used before today, so my understanding of its nuances is very limited, but I’ll explain to you exactly how I am sourcing its meaning. The Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary (CYED) gives this as “gone astray (esp. woman); slang correct, honest”. I used the Yiddish Book Center’s optical character recognition software, which allows you to search for strings in their corpus, to confirm that both usages are, in fact, attested. It’s a pretty rare word in text, though, as the CYED implies, it might have been more common in spoken speech. It appears in a glossary in “Bay unds yuden” (Among Us Jews) as a thieves cant word, where it’s definted as נאַריש, שרעקעוודיק, אונבעהאלפ. אויך נישט גנביש. אין דער דייַטשער גאַונער-שפראַך -- witsch -- נאַריש, or “foolish, terrible, clumsy/pathetic. not of the thieves world. in the German thieves cant witsch means foolish”. A vitishe nekeyve (vitishe woman) is either a slacker or a prostitute. I can’t prove this for sure, but my sense is that it might come from the same root as vitz, joke (it’s used a couple of times in the corpus to mention laughing at a vitish remark -- which makes it seem kind of similar to witty). I assume the German thieve’s cant that’s being referred to is Rotwelsch, which has its own fascinating history and, in fact, incorporates a lot of Yiddish. In fact, for this reason, some of the first Yiddish linguists were actually criminologists! What an excellent set of associations, no? It has the slangy sense of straightforward of honest; it has a sense of sexual non-normativity (we might use it to read into the relationship between the narrator and the husband) -- and a feminized one at that; it was used by an underground subculture, and, again, the meaning there was quite different -- like the “real” in “keeping it real” it was used to indicate whether or not someone was “in” on the life (tho “real” is used to mean that the person is in, while “vitish” is used to mean they’re not). It’s variety of meanings are more ambiguous than “keep it real”, which can pretty much only be read positively, and it also brings in a tinge of criminality. Though it doesn’t have the same exact connotations as “keep it real”, I think it’s about as ideal of a fit as we’ll get because it’s equally evocative of more below the surface. I also chose “tsu blaybn vitish”, which is “to stay vitish”, as opposed to something like “to make it vitish” to keep the slight ambiguity of time that “keep it real” has -- keeping it real does< I think, imply that there is a pre-existing “real” to which one can adhere, so I wanted to imply the same.

The rest is straight-forward. “Shtup” is one of a few words the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (CEYD) gives for “fuck”, and I think it has a nice sound.

Ok, now Russian

женой твой дом наполнен финтифлюшками

чтоб не блудить с пути, ебемся на полу

zhenoy tvoy dom napolnin fintiflyushkami.

shtob ne bludit’ s puti’, yebyomsya na polu

In order to preserve, more or less, the iambic meter, I made a few more changes here -- since Russian, unlike Yiddish, is not a Germanic language, it’s harder to keep the same structure + word order while also maintaining the rhythm. I would translate this back to English as:

“Your house is filled with trifles by your wife. To not stray off the path, we’re fucking on the floor”

So a few notes before we get into the choice of words for “chintz” and “keep it real”. To preserve the iamb, I changed “his” to “your”. This changes the lines from a narration of events to some outside party to a conversation between the two men at the center. Russian also has both formal and informal you (formal you is also the plural form, as is the case in a number of other languages). I went with informal you because I wanted to preserve the fact that his wife has filled his house not their house, as someone pointed out in the original chain (though I don’t think that differentiation is nearly as striking in the 2nd person) and because it’s unlikely you’d be on formal you with someone you’re fucking (unless it’s, like, a kink thing). I honestly didn’t even consider making it formal, but that would actually raise a lot of interesting implications about the relationship between the speaker and the husband, as well as with what that means about the “realness” of the situation. Is, in fact, the narrator only creating a mirage of a more real, more meaningful encounter, while the actual truth -- that there is a woman the husband has made promises to that he’s betraying -- is obscured? that this intimacy is just a facade? Is there perhaps some sort of power differential that the narrator wishes to point out? Or perhaps is the way that the narrator is keeping it real by pointing out the distance between the two of them? there is no pretense of intimacy, the narrator is calling this what it is -- an encounter without deeper significance?

Much to think about, but I actually think the two men do have history -- i think the narrator remembers the house back when it was actually only “his house” and was as yet unfilled with chintz. We also don’t know what they were calling each other prior to this moment. This could be the first time they switched to the informal you.

Ok moving on, I originally translated it as “твой дом наполнен финтифлюшками жены”. Honestly, this sounds more elegant than what I have now, but I ultimately though removing the wife from either a subject or agent position (grammatically, I mean) was too big a betrayal of the original. The original judges the wife. She took an active role in filling the house. If she were made passive, that read is certainly a possible one -- perhaps even the dominant one -- but it could also read more like “we are doing this in a space filled with reminders of his wife and the life they share” -- the action of filling is no longer what’s being focused on. Why do I say the current translation is inelegant? I feel you stumble over it a little, because it’s almost a garden path sentence. This is also an assset though. “Zhenoy tvoy dom napolnen” is a fully grammatical sentence on its own, and it means “Your house is filled by your wife” -- as in English, the primary read is that the wife is what the house is full of. If the sentence makes you stumble, perhaps that’s even good -- we focus, for good reason, on the relationship between the two men, but in a translation, the wife is able to draw more attention to herself.

Ok, chintz: I chose the word “финтифлюшки” (fintiflyushki), meaning trifle/bobble/tchotchke, because it, allegedly, comes from the german phrase finten und flausen, meaning illusions and vanity/nonsense. Once again, I like that the word has a journey, specifically a cross-linguistic one.

Keep it real: this one, frankly, fails to capture the impact of the original, in my opinion, but allow me to explain the reasoning. “Stray off the path” implies, again, that there is some sort of path that both the narrator and the husband were on before the wife and the chintz -- and one they intend to continue taking, one that this act is a maintenance of. It brings in a little irony, since the husband very much is straying from the path of his marriage. “Bludit’“ can also mean to be unfaithful in a marriage (as, in fact, can “stray”). The proto-slavic word it comes from can mean to delude or debauch -- they want to do the latter but not the former.

As for register -- “shtob” is a bit informal. I would write the full version (shto by) in an email, for example. The word for fuck, yebyomsa, is from one of the “mat” words, the extra special top tier of russian swears, definitely not to be said in polite company (and, if you are a man of a certain generation or background, not in front of women; it’s not that the use of mat automatically invokes a male-only environment, but if we’re already thinking that deeply about it. But while we’re on the topic, i will say that in my circles in the US, women use mat much more actively than men (at least in front of me, who was, up until recently, a woman and also a child).)

Ok i think that’s all the comments i have!

#can you imagine if someone called you вы during sex unironically #i'd be like 'ты че? лучше меня тыкай' haha do you guys get it #also if you have not checked out the YBC's OCR software DO IT

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peithoaphro · 8 months

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updated list of names 2023.

name | meaning | origin

#baby name ideas #baby names #baby girl names #babynames #baby boy names #baby #girl names #boy names #unisex names #gender neutral names #peithoaphro

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0mythical-bitch0 · 1 year

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Names that give Valyrian Vibes, Some I’ve made up. please someone use them.

Aedyn- English, Fiery, Little Fire

Aegarax- Valyrian god of all creatures that walk, run, swim or fly, creator of the first dragon

Aeisha- Aisha, Arabic, Alive and Well, Aye-E-Sha

Aelia- Ancient Roman, Sun

Aeliana- Latin, Sun

Aelicia- Spanish and German, Nobel

Aelita- Fictional, Starlight seen for the last time

Aella- Greek, means Whirlwind

Aelora- Elora, Greek, Sun Ray, My god is bright

Aelyx- South African, the Mountain of Strength

Aeolian- Latin or Greek, Of the wind, God of the winds, Lord of the winds, The Rapid, The Changeable, Quickly moving, Changeful, shifting, varied, of or Arising from the wind

Aeolus- Greek, Changeable, Varied

Aerian- of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air, Aerial

Aeris- French, An earth full of flowers

Aerith- Earth, Flower, Flower-Like

Aerol- Greek, One who is of a Golden Heart

Aeruna- Aruna, Sanskrit and Hindu, Crystalline reddish-brown, Tawny, Dawn, Dawn Light or Rising Sun, Aye-rue-nuh

Aerwyna- English, Friend of the sea

Aeryn- Irish and Welsh, Daughter of Eire, Daughter of Ireland, Berry

Aesira- Arabic, Muslim, Islamic, Brave, Powerful, Fighter

Aether- Greek, Brightness, Bright upper sky

Aethel- Old English, Nobel

Aethra- Greek, The Upper pure air, the bright clear serene sky, the air heavens and sky, one of the Oceanids

Aetius- Latin and Greek, Eagle

Aetos- Greek, Eagle

Anaëlle- Hebrew, God answered

Andrea- Greek, Manly, Virile

Astraea- Greek and Latin, Star maiden, Starry night, Greek goddess of Justice, innocence, purity and precision

Aphaea- Goddess of fertility

Astraeus- Greek, Starry, Titan god of Dusk, stars, planets, the art of astronomy and astrology

Azaelea- Azalea, Greek, Dry, Flower

Azrael- Hebrew, Angel of God, Help from God, Helped by God, Help of God, Angel of Death

Braeden- Irish, Broad, Brave, Wise

Caelestis- Latin, Of the sky, heavenly

Caelius- Latin, Heaven

Caelum- Latin, Heaven, a constellation

Caelus- Roman, Latin, God of the Sky

Caesar- Greek, Head of hair, long hair

Celaeno- Greek, Black, also a Pleiad Nymph

Daedalus- Greek, Craftsman

Daegal- Anglo-Saxon, Dweller by the dark stream, Night dweller

Daelyn- small valley

Daemara- Damara, Greek, gentle, calf

Daemari- Damari, Greek, gentle, fertility goddess, eternal, strength

Daemeter- Demeter, Greek, earth lover, Greek goddess of the harvest

Daemetrius- Demetrius, Greek, follower of Demeter

Daemitri- Dimitri, Greek, earth lover, follower of Demeter

Daemian- Damian, Greek, To tame, Subdue, Day-me-in

Daenali- Denali, Native American, The high one, the great one

Daenyra- Made-up, Great light, the bright one, Dae, Korean, great, big, the great one, shining, Nyra, Arabic, light, light of god, Day-near-uh

Daera- Greek, Gift of God, Sanskrit, Place of Worship

Daere- Welsh, Fiend

Daeriel- Idealism, intuition, romance, generosity, creativity, wisdom and tolerance

Daerius- Darius, Persian, maintains possession well

Daeryn- Made-up, Great ruler, Given ruler, Dae, Latin Give, Korean Greatness, Ryn, Welsh Ruler, Day-rin

Daevina- Davina, Scottish and Hebrew, Beloved, Day-Vee-nuh

Danae- Greek, Hebrew, She who Judges, God is my judge

Elaena- Greek, Shining Light

Esmael- Spanish, God will hear

Feyre- Beautiful, Fairy, Elf, Fair, Fey-ruh

Gaea- Greek, Personification of the Earth

Gaelithox- Valyrian God of fire, stars, moon, sun, and the dawn, rival of meraxes

Haedrian- Made up, leader, sea-lover, wanderlust, Guide of sea-travel, Hae, Chinese, Sea, Drian, Christian, One who takes initiative and loves to travel, H-adrian. Hey-drEE-in.

Hael- Angel of kindness

Haera- Hera, Greek, Goddess of marriage, Air-uh

Helios- Greek, Sun

Hephaestus- Greek, God of Artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes

Heron- Hero

Hyperion- Greek, He that walks high, the god above

Icarus/Ikarus- Greek, Latin, Follower, the one who reaches the sky

Ikaerys- Ikarus, Greek, Latin, the one who reaches the sky, Ick-Kay-Reeze

Jaella- Arabic/Muslim, Hebrew, Prominent, mountain goat

Jaelynn- American, May god protect, Supplanter

Kaeden- American, Fighter

Kaelum- Latin, Chisels the Sky, one who chisels the stars in the heavens

Kaeya- Indian, Monsoon Flower

Laela- Arabic, Dark Beauty

Maegara- Megara, Greek, Grudge, May-Gar-uh

Maëlle- French, Chief, Prince, Ambitious

Maeve- Irish, Intoxicating

Megaera- Greek, The jealous one, one of the furies, deities of vengeance

Mikael- Scandinavian, Who Resembles God

Mikaela- Michaela, Hebrew, Who is Like God

Nevaeh- American, Heaven

Naela- Quranic, Indigenous Australian, Winner, Go getter, Gracious, Charitable, Of Wide Eyes

Phaedra- Greek, Bright

Raphael- Hebrew, God has Healed

Saelena- Salena, Greek, Moon Goddess, Say-Lee-Nuh

Saera- Muslim, A New Star

Salaena- Salena, Greek, Moon Goddess, Suh-Lay-Nuh

Samael- Hebrew, Venom, Poison of God, King of Demons, The Angel of Death

Selaena- Selena, Greek, The Moon, See-Lay-Nuh

Solaena- Solana, Spanish, Sunshine or Eastern Wind, Soul-Lay-Nuh

Vaelencia- Valencia, Latin, Roman, Spanish, Srong, Healthy, Valor, Vay-len-C-uh

Vaella- Old Norse, a lament or cry

Vaellia- Made up, Embrace the unknown, Vael; to dive into the unknown, Lia; relaxed, weary, gentle, Vay-Lee-Uh

Vaelor- Made up, Valor, Brave, Courage, Vay-Lor

Vaelora- made up, Honored one, Victorious Ruler, Vae, Germanic, mighty ruler, Lora, crowned with laurel, honor, victory, Vay-Lore-uh

Vaelyra- made up, Harmonic Ruler, Vae, Germanic, mighty ruler, Lyra, Greek, Lyre, harp, also a Star, Vay-Lie-ruh

Valera- Latin, Valiant

Vallea- Italian, Valley, also a tree in South America

Xaeden- Greek, Flourishing in abundance with god

Xaevion- Xavion, African, Fighter

Zaeden- Arabic, Growth

Zael- Hebrew, house of god, habitation of the lord

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spacelazarwolf · 1 year

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I love the leftist catch 22

Jews: "we literally can't have Jewish spaces without security because no joke terrorists regularly attack and threaten our spaces and if we don't protect them we could be murdered"

Leftist nonsense: "AH HA! got you Jew! ACAB! but you want COPS! so all Jews are COPS! (other than a tiny number who always 100% agree with us) you're going up against the wall when the Revolution comes Cop-Jew!"

of course this works for them in more than one day, if there are no Jewish spaces, no synagogues, Hebrew schools, JCC, etc Jewish-ness will largely die out which would be fine by them who only want Jewish-ness to be a few Yiddish loan words and some half remembered pre-War Bundist heroes

yup pretty much. and like. so many of these idiots don’t understand that we are literally having intracommunity conversations abt this all the time. i don’t feel safe around cops as a trans person, and jews of color sure as hell don’t feel safe around cops, so the struggle is how to keep our synagogues safe but also keep them accessible to people who are often targeted by police. my synagogue has one security guard that works our weekly services who i believe is just a private security guard and not a cop, and who is also black. during bigger services like the high holy days we don’t have much of a choice but to work with local police but they try to keep them on the perimeter and have volunteers be the ones interacting with congregants attending services. and like. this is shit white gentiles do not see and do not care about. all they want is their white knight moment.

#ask avishai

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feydfuckernation · 30 days

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one thing i want to know about you: do you have a favorite book 🫶

also random but do you have any tattoos/any you’d want to get?

two (2) things you want to know about me

favourite book: laugh at me all you want for this but honestly? the revenge of the sith novelization by matthew stover. that book has stayed with me for YEARS because of quotes like these

“A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two. Two is enough. Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right. Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.”

“You are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory.”

“This is not just the end of a republic; night is falling on civilization itself.”

“This was not Sith against Jedi. This was not light against dark or good against evil; it had nothing to do with duty or philosophy, religion or morals. It was Anakin against Obi-Wan. Personally. Just the two of them and the damage they had done to each other.”

“The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh. You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down."

“But even in the deepest night, there are some who dream of dawn.”

and many, MANY others that i don't want to spoil in case it's something that you'd be interested in

tattoos: oh my god you don't even know but in the interest of saving time i'll list a few of them:

noctis lucis caelum's engine blade from ffxv

the straw hat pirate flag

adonai in hebrew

a beetlejuice custom tattoo that i designed for me and my best friend that i still need to finalize

tolkein's hobbit hole illustration

the shards of anduril

#SHOUTOUT TO ME FOR ACCIDENTALY POSTING THIS IN TH EMIDDLE OFWRITING IT I'M SOFASLDKJFDSALKFA #ANYWAY #answered #summercohenroberts

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persepor · 8 months

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Let's talk about my favorite villains pt 1

Let's face it, sometimes the villains are better than the heroes or they are just as compelling as the heroes. So I want to go over some of my favorite villains which spans back to my childhood, I'll also put villains in quotation marks because some are framed as villains when they really are not (you'll see why).

So let's get into this!!

Eris

Eris is first on my list and- hoo boy! Do I love her so much. I need to re-watch this movie because the last time I saw this was when I was 8 or 9. First off she's a badass and I mean that, she has a plan and she'll do whatever it takes to make that plan work.

Eris is the goddess of discord, and she strikes a deal with Sinbad for him to get the Book of Peace for her. He backs out of the deal though, so she uses her powers to frame Sinbad for stealing the book. Sinbad must now track down the book and return it.

Eris' design reflects her personality and how she stirs up discord and chaos. She's designed as if she were simply smoke, with her form constantly shifting and being able to change her shape and grow. She can make herself tower over humans or make herself the same height as humans.

I always loved her for how she was simply herself while being an unforgettable villainess, her personality is unmatched and adds to why i love her so much.

Ramesses

If you haven't seen the Prince of Egypt please give it a watch it's really good. As someone who doesn't care about religion I feel DreamWorks struck gold with their adaptation of the story of Moses. They paint Rameses as a complicated villain with conflicting emotions.

Rameses doesn't want to let Moses' people go because he wants to uphold the legacy their family's dynasty has built. But, he wants his brother, Moses, back. This culminates in their sibling relationship shattering.

Rameses is not a black-and-white villain, he is 3 dimensional. But, he is still evil in wanting to keep the Hebrews as slaves. He is the reason all the plagues are set upon Egypt, resulting in his sons death.

Rameses is an interesting villain you'd have to watch the movie to really get what I'm saying about his character.

Ratchet and Madame Gasket

Putting these two together because they are a Mother-Son duo. Ratchet deals with things on the outside while his mother, Madame Gasket, deals with things on the inside with her chop shop. They both want to take over Big Weld Industry and the whole city.

These two are HILARIOUS, Ratchet acts as a sophisticated, well-put together person with a plan, but is actually a scared mama's boy. He has very hilarious scenes and lines, his interactions with his mother are also hilarious. One of my favorite scenes of his is the one where he knocks out Big Weld and says this: "Oh my god I'm as crazy as my mother!!....HYAH"

Madame Gasket used to terrify me as a child, and I can see why. She is ruthless in her approach while also being a doting mother to Ratchet. She collects 'Out modes' with her sweepers to turn them into metal to create new, shiny parts. She even got her husband out of the way so she can focus on her plan of taking over Big Weld Industries. A villain who will get rid of anything in their way is terrifying.

They are both defeated with Ratchet being chained up by his father and Madame Gasket being thrown into one of her machines.

Tatiana

A character that's posed as a villain but is put into that light. Yes she is wrong for Vinyl City's power outages, but she knew what kept the city going. She used to be Kul Fyra, leader of the rock group the Ghoulings.

I won't go much about her her because I want to talk about her in full but she is so well written. Am ex rock star that switched to EDM now has to deal with a musical revolution. She sees B2J's revolution as irrelevant because nothing will come of it.

As she points out they made the same amount of energy as EDM and that they went into this without a plan. They would put people out of jobs and cause a revolution from people who live EDM. She's the common sense B2J needed.

Fairy Godmother

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You should not be surprised she's on here. She is an icon when it comes to DreamWorks villains. When DreamWorks villains are mentioned, she's the first one to be brought up.

She is portrayed as a caring individual but is a selfish person who wants her darling son Prince Charming to be king. She uses the fact Shrek took a potion to make him and Fiona human to her advantage. She makes Charming pretend to be Shrek so he can get closer to Fiona.

She also is a master manipulator, basically threatening the king to do what she wants him to do. She wants Shrek out of the picture because "Ogres don't get happily ever afters." She wants Fiona to have the picture perfect happily ever after married to charming.

Yes her entire scene at the ball is stunning. The red dress is so good and fits her character perfectly. The rendition of Holding Out for a Hero is absolutely a banger and is a go-to song of mine.

Iconic villain and has had a lasting impression on me.

Mother Gothel

I grew up with Morher Gothel as a character. Both her Disney and barbie version, which I'll talk a bit about here and in a dedicated post about early 2000s barbie. I love her character very dearly. We are talking about a gaslighting, manipulative person.

She kidnapped Rapunzel because of her hair, she doesn't love Rapunzel she loves her hair. Meanwhile, in the Barbie version, she's a cold, distant person who kidnapped Rapunzel as revenge. But we're focusing on the Disney version here.

She makes Rapunzel believe she loves her, makes the outside world to be dangerous, and manipulates her into thinking Flynn Rider abandoned her. She was willing to murder to keep Rapunzel's hair to herself. As all she cares about is her beauty and youth.

She is a master manipulator and an amazing villain as well.

Preminger

Ah Preminger one of the best Barbie villains. A villain with a great plan that fails miserably. A villain with hilarious scenes.

Preminger wants the crown to himself amd at first plans to marry Annaliese. But when that goes wrong, he tries to marry the queen. But that also goes wrong.

He has hilarious scenes such as him knocking on the cabin door to see if Annaliese is still locked in there. To the hilarious scene where he almost faints when finding out the princesses wedding will be next weak.

Preminger is the most loved barbie villain for a reason. He's dramatic, funny, and cunning. His sidekicks are hilarious and give a lot of laughs. His dog is also a great component of his character as he is an extension of Preminger.

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Well that's the end of part 1, I have 4 more I'll discuss in part 2 so keep an eye out for that.

#perse's writing #let's talk about..#sinbad legend of the seven seas #eris sinbad #prince of egypt #ramesses #robots 2005 #madame gasket #phineas t ratchet #nsr #tatiana nsr #shrek 2 #fairy godmother #mother gothel #tangled #barbie preminger #barbie princess and the pauper

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chicagognosis · 9 months

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Nietzsche: On the Three Metamorphoses

(Note: the Old Iranian root of the name Zarathustra comes from: Zarat, "golden" combined with ushtra, "camel." This is significant for understanding this passage. Gnostic exegesis is provided in parentheses.)

Of three metamorphoses of the spirit I tell you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

There is much that is difficult for the spirit, the strong reverent spirit that would bear much (karma through initiation): but the difficult and the most difficult are what his strength demands.

What is difficult? asks the spirit (of the neophyte) that would bear much, and kneels down like a camel (ushtra in Old Iranian, גמל Gamal in Hebrew) wanting to be well loaded (to take upon itself the bitter path of initiation). What is most difficult, O (solar) heroes, asks the spirit that would bear much, that I may take it upon myself and exult in my (sexual) strength (און aun)? Is it not humbling oneself to wound one's haughtiness? Letting one's folly shine to mock one's (false) wisdom?

Or is it this: parting from our cause when it triumphs (Sattvic action mentioned in the Bhagavad-Gita)? Climbing high mountains (of initiation) to tempt the tempter (Christus-Lucifer)?

Or is it this: feeding on the acorns and grass of knowledge (דעת da'ath, gnosis) and, for the sake of the truth, suffering hunger in one's soul (like Tantalus awaiting the solemn banquet of the Pascal Lamb)?

Or is it this: being (psychologically) sick and sending home the comforters (by not seeking spiritual advice from others, but delving into profound meditation in order to receive wisdom within) and making friends with the (spiritually) deaf, who never hear what you want?

Or is it this: stepping into filthy waters (in transmutation) when they are the waters of truth (poisoned by fornication as mentioned in "On the Rabble" in Part Two of Thus Spoke Zarathustra), and not repulsing cold frogs and hot toads? (This signifies not running away from our own internal, psychological ugliness that we begin to perceive when working with the "hot" and "cold" synpathetic cords of our spinal column, the solar and lunar energetic channels known as Ida and Pingala, which come from our waters, wherein reside the frogs and toads, symbolic of the fertility of Yesod).

Or is it this: loving those who despise us and offering a hand to the ghost (our Innermost) that would frighten us? (since our animal mind is terrified before the presence of the divine; in Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Claudius, the ego, has slain the King of Denmark, and now the ghost of the dead king, the Intimate Being, haunts our very souls through intense spiritual inquietudes).

All these most difficult things the spirit (of the neophyte) that would bear much takes upon itself: like the camel (ushtra) that, burdened, speeds into the desert (מִּדְבָּר Hebrew: mid'bar), thus the spirit (of the neophyte) speeds into its desert (for in the מִּדְבָּר wilderness, the desert of life, we work to incarnate and worship the Word, דָּבָר Dabar, the Christ; see Exodus 3:18).

In the loneliest desert, however, the second metamorphosis occurs: here the spirit becomes a lion (from the Tribe of Judaea through the Venustic Initiation) who would conquer his freedom and be master in his own desert (his מִּדְבָּר mid'bar by incarnating דָּבָר Dabar, the Word). Here he seeks out his last master (the black psychological moon, Lilith): he wants to fight him and his last god (the dragon of darkness of our atomic psychological infernos mentioned by Samael Aun Weor in The Three Mountains); for ultimate victory he wants to fight with the great dragon.

Who is the great dragon whom the spirit (of Christ in the Venustic Initiation) will no longer call lord and god? (for "Thou shalt have no other אֱלֹהִים Elohim, gods, before me." -Exodus 20:3). "Thou shalt" is the name of the great dragon (for our own animal ego takes the commandments, the Law of Moshe, and subverts it for itself; it abuses the law and seeks to make us slaves of Egypt, מצרים Mitzraim, Malkuth). But the spirit of the lion (of the Tribe of Judah, the Cosmic Christ) says, "I will" (or we can say, Eheieh Asher Eheieh אהיה אשר אהיה, "I AM THAT I AM," better translated as "HE IS WHAT HE IS"). "Thou shalt" lies in his way, sparkling like gold, an animal covered with scales; and on every scale shines a golden "thou shalt" (resembling the golden calf of Moloch, mentioned in Exodus 32, and his tenebrous agents of darkness who strive to tempt and slay the Superman).

Values, thousands of years old, shine on these scales (with false, diabolic light); and thus speaks the mightiest of all dragons: "All value of all things shines on me. All value has long been created, and I am all created value (through fornication). Verily, there shall be no more 'I will ( אהיה Eheieh, I AM, or better said, HE IS).'" Thus speaks the dragon (of darkness).

My brothers, why is there a need in the spirit for the lion? Why is not the beast of burden (the initiate who has not incarnated the Lion of Christ), which renounces (self-will) and is reverent (to the Law of Moses), enough?

To create new values—that even the lion (the Bodhisattva of the Straight Path) cannot do; but the creation of freedom for oneself for new creation—that is within the power of the lion (for the acquisition of Mastery is one thing, but perfection in it is another; see the Three Wise Men or Magi in The Gnostic Nativity of Christ). The creation of freedom for oneself (through the First Law of the Glorian) and a sacred "No" even to duty (the written commandments or Second Law: Deuteronomy)—for that, my brothers, the lion (the Bodhisattva) is needed (since only Christ incarnated within the initiate can perform the Great Work by transcending the Second Law). To assume the right to new values—that is the most terrifying assumption for a reverent spirit (the neophyte or initiates who have not yet become lions of Judaea). Verily, to him it is preying (immorality, since the neophytes do not comprehend the Path of the Bodhisattva, the Rebel Christ), and a matter for a beast of prey (who renounces and annihilates the morals of the populace). He once loved "thou shalt" as most sacred (because before incarnating the First Law, one must follow the Second Law): now he must find illusion and caprice even in the most sacred (for he once followed the Second Law, but now must incarnate the Revolutionary Christ, Who transcends the Second Law), that freedom from his love (psychological attachments) may become his prey: the lion is needed for such prey (since only Christ, the First Law, can annihilate the entirety of the ego on the Second Mountain).

But say, my brothers, what can the child (of the Resurrection) do that even the lion (Bodhisattva of compassion) could not do? Why must the preying lion (the warrior of the Straight Path) still become a child? The child (of the Resurrection) is innocence and forgetting (through purification and the waters of Lethe; see also Matthew 18:3), a new beginning, a game, a self-propelled wheel (Sanskrit: chakra, which now turns through the bhava, the becoming, of אהיה אשר אהיה Eheieh Asher Eheieh, "I AM HE WHO BECOMES," "I AM HE WHO INITIATES," see the Bhavachakra course), a first movement, a sacred "Yes." (As Samael Aun Weor stated in Igneous Rose, "Our Innermost is Yes, Yes, Yes. The wisdom of our Innermost is Yes, Yes, Yes. The love of our Innermost is Yes, Yes, Yes.") For the game of creation (as a Cosmocreator), my brothers, a sacred "Yes" is needed (we need our Innermost to be realized within ourselves through Resurrection): the spirit (Kether, upon Resurrection) now wills his own will (for תפארת Tiphereth is united with the will of the Father, for אהיה אשר אהיה "HE IS WHO HE IS"), and he who had been lost to the world (through initiation) now conquers his own world (through Resurrection).

Of the three metamorphoses of the spirit (through initiation) I have told you: how the spirit became a camel (a neophyte on the path of renunciation); and the camel, a lion (of Judah, a Bodhisattva of Compassion); and the lion, finally, a (golden) child (of Alchemy and the Resurrection—golden in Old Iranian is Zarat, which when combined with ushtra, the camel of the renunciate, is Zarathustra).

Thus spoke Zarathustra (the golden camel who traverses the wilderness in order to become a Superman). And at that time he sojourned in the town that is called The Motley Cow (the sacred Hindustani symbol of the Divine Mother Kundalini).

From Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, translated by Walter Kaufmann.

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I was speaking to someone the other day who said that Kitty was the most boring member of the X-Men, and was in their words "useless" with no skills (like what???)

Anyways just as a reminder, outside of her mutant ability...

Kitty is expert ninja (sure due to a possession by a demon ninja but 1. she survived possession and 2. she still trains)

Kitty being an expert in anything with a sharp or bladed edge. Really good with swords and katanas and knives

Kitty being a computer science genius to the point she was as good and sometimes seen as better with computers than the mutant who could talk to machines

Kitty taking being a genius and taking college classes when she was twelve

Kitty being able to speak Japanese, Russian and the languages of Shi'iar fluently, as well as conversationally in Gaelic, Hebrew, and German

Kitty being a skilled pilot in various aircraft and spacecraft (though okay, never let her behind the wheel of a car)

Kitty being Headmistress of the school! Kitty being leader of the X-Men!

Kitty being the heart of the X-Men. Being an arrogant brat that learns to be better, being a point of human contact between mutants and human

Kitty going back to university to learn and humans trying to kill her for being mutant but she saves those humans.

Kitty being a big reason Magneto started to do good? Kitty being a positive influence there? Helping him out and forgiving him after him almost killing her which was the turning point?

Big bullet going to destroy the earth? Literally no other hero stopping it? Phased the whole thing and sacrificed herself? never talked about again?

She phased the Earth in a way to allow the earths core to destroy a threat in a way that Tony Stark said was impossible

Kitty being able to control the Black Vortex and having god-like powers? She voluntarily gave up that up rather than being possessed?

Kitty having killed the likes of Hulk and Emma Frost in various realities.

Anyways Kitty is a brat and arrogant and sometimes stupid, she can be childish and her love life is a mess. But useless???? No skills???

#i was stunned and anways i could go on more but here is just a mini rant #to be deleted later #useless? that made me sad #theres plenty who love kitt

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beckleshebrewfamily · 1 year

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BLESSINGS TO BISHOP AZARIYAH HIS BEAUTIFUL WIVES AND HIS CHILDREN: HEBREW ISRAELITES!!!!!!

ALL PRAISES TO THE LORD YAHAWAH BAHASHAM YAHAWASHI WA RAWCHAA QADASH BLESSINGS TO BISHOP AZARIYAH AND HIS FAMILY !!!!

FAMOUS ISRAELITE HERO AND BOOK AUTHOR BISHOP AZARIYAH

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BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE ISRAELITES!! www.beckles.com [email protected] SERVANTSForYAHAWASHI.tumblr.com BLESSINGS TO BISHOP AZARIYAH AND HIS FAMILY!!! #beckleshebrewbibleacademy #bishopazariyah #hebrewnationbuilding #hebrewstonegroes #kyrieirving #qamyasharala #servantsforyahawashi

IUIC ARE ACTIVISTS...HYPOCRITES.. NOT TRUE PROPHETS! THE REAL HEROES ARE THE SERVANTS FOR YAHAWASHI: BISHOP AZARIYAH AND HIS SON #iuic

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bandagedknight · 1 year

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► GENERAL INFORMATION

FULL NAME & ALIAS: marc spector/steven grant/jake lockley/moon knight/mr. knight CURRENT TEAM(S): none PREVIOUS ALIASES: none AGE: 38 MULTIVERSAL ORIGIN: earth-199999

GENDER IDENTITY: male (he/they) SEXUALITY: heterosexual NATIONALITY: american ETHNICITY: cuban / guatemalan / jewish

► APPEARANCE

FACE CLAIM: oscar isaac SPECIAL / RECOGNIZABLE FEATURES: scar above his right eyebrow and various scars along his back from before he was working for khonshu HAIR COLOR: black EYE COLOR: brown/hazel ACCENT: chicagoan (marc), british (steven), slightly hispanic (jake) CURRENT COSTUME: pictured here from moon knight (2022)

► BACKGROUND

CURRENT HOME: an apartment in brooklyn with his wife, layla el-faouly PAST OCCUPATION: mercenary, gift shop clerk CURRENT OCCUPATION: fist of khonshu SNAP STATUS: survived the snap

► RELATIONS

SIBLING(S): randall spector (deceased) PARTNER(S): layla el-faouly (wife) CHILDREN: none PARENT(S): wendy spector & elias spector

► HEADCANONS/FUN FACTS

marc is a very clean and neat person, but unfortunately steven is the exact opposite. it’s definitely a point of contention between them.

now that marc and steven are coexisting at the same time, it’s been hard for marc to adjust to fronting an actual life again as opposed to just using his hours to carry out khonshu’s orders.

steven is a vegan, marc is not. but he’s been trying to adjust his diet because he knows it’s important to steven.

jake is very capable of imitating both marc and steven’s accents

he used this skill to try and get steven a date since he seemed lonely, but marc unknowingly blew it

the apartment that steven was staying at has been there for awhile, hence why it’s so lived in

their body needs glasses, but marc’s too stubborn so he just suffers with not being able to see because he thinks steven’s glasses are lame

steven still practices judaism, but marc wants nothing to do with it

jake’s name is actually derived from marc’s hebrew name

► WANTED CONNECTIONS

some more supernatural heroes and members from the midnight suns!

#mvprompts

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wadelljones · 1 year

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THE HISTORY OF THE BRILLIANT MOORISH MUSLIMS.

RULED EUROPE FOR 711 YEARS. BLACK MUSLIM MOORS.

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#A writer opinion #be a winner #believing in the promise of God.#Biblical History #biblical insight.#Biblical principles #Black Hebrew Hero.#coming back to the voice of God.#honesty #Publisher #Youtube

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buddromadon · 11 months

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Minecraft Legends update 1.07

Crashes

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the game

Fixed a crash that could occur after defeating the final boss in campaign

Fixed a crash when disconnecting from the internet while in the campaign lobby

Gameplay

Made improvements to rubberbanding that could occur during gameplay

Fixed player animations becoming glitchy in certain positions near water while riding the Real Tiger

Fixed Nether Spreaders and Arrow Towers not visually reflecting their buffed states

Fixed issues with the player’s attack animation occasionally freezing

Fixed the top of the Gather Iron upgrade structure appearing incorrectly

Fixed wood golem footsteps being louder while being lured

Tweaked the Mythic and Legendary difficulties to make it easier to survive a village attack when the player is not present

Campaign

Players are now given 150 iron to build the Wellhouse in the first act of campaign

Reduced the amount of dialogue of the Hosts telling players to “hurry” during the first act of campaign

Fixed mob allegiance structures occasionally not spawning after clearing a homestead occupation

Versus Mode

Improved player melee attacks to prevent players from being hit by other players that are visually too far away

Fixed an issue with players getting assigned to the wrong team in the Versus Training lobby and not appearing in the lobby if leaving and rejoining

Fixed issues with players getting disconnected from the lobby while downloading packs

Lost Legends

Made several improvements to the Lost Legends lobby screen to show rewards and objectives

Fixed the Objectives section of the pause menu sometimes getting cutoff when playing Lost Legends

User Interface

Fixed resource counts missing from the HUD when standing next to a structure

Fixed issues with being unable to link Microsoft Accounts on Steam

Fixed strange player leg movements in the Hero Select menu

Fixed hotkeys for Direct and Lure not immediately appearing on-screen when swapping between gamepad and keyboard controls

Fixed players getting stuck on a black screen when skipping the opening cutscene at the very end

The Hero Select screen now previews the selected skin correctly

Fixed error messaging not referring to specific content if the game is unable to download the content

Improved screen narration in several sections of the game

Improved focus handling and navigation while using the keyboard in several areas of the UI

Fixed the focus indicator becoming invisible when switching mount skins

Fixed the focus indicator going off screen after a player left the campaign lobby

Fixed hotbars and their contents not being properly narrated with text-to-speech

Fixed screen narration not reading the button required to place a marker on the map

Improved messaging when downloading free content from Marketplace

Fixed the post-match screen appearing broken after reconnecting a disconnected controller

Fixed “CANNOT_FIND_ICON” text appearing when spawning Warrior

Fixed “CANNOT_FIND_ICON” text appearing when pinging the Flames of Creation improvement

Improved visuals for the mob type-select interface including

Hotkeys for mob type-select are always on screen, making them easier to see which mobs are available

Lured mob UI element has been updated to make it easier to see which mobs are being currently lured

Localization

Fixed several translation issues with Ukranian localization

Additional improvements to Hebrew localization

Fixed debug text appearing in some areas of the game when playing in Chinese or Japanese

Fixed the names of autosave files appearing truncated

Fixed Friend’s Offline status in Friends tab not being localized

Fixed overlapping text for messages on the Versus post-match screen in several languages

#minecraftlegends #Mojang

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servantsforyahawashi2024 · 1 year

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BEWARE OF MODERN WOMEN: THEY ARE ALL DEMONIC LYING BASTARDS, WITCHES, DUSTY BITCHES, SKANKS, AND WHORES FOR THE DEVIL 👿

ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE: WOMEN WAS ONLY CREATED FOR SEX WITH A BLACK MAN AND HAVING HIS BABIES!!!!!!!

GENESIS CHAPTERS 2-24 SEX IS MARRIAGE!!!!!

ISAIAH 4:1

beckleshebrewbibleacademy #bishopazariyah #servantsforyahawashi #servantsofyahawashi #wakeup

THE BATTLE AGAINST EVIL WOMEN CONTINUES!!! EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6 WICKED WOMEN ARE ALL LIARS!!! PROVERBS 9:13

THE HEBREW ISRAELITE AWAKENING IS WORLDWIDE! ISRAELITE MEN ARE PROFILED AS THE REAL HEROES!

REVELATION 11:8-12

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nightsidewrestling · 1 year

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D.U.D.E Bios: Benjamin Nye

The Second Son of Pride Benjamin Nye (2020)

Damian's grandson and Viola's second eldest son, Benjamin's an energetic teenager trying to find his way in life.

"Hey Mum, have you met Thunder Rosa yet?"

Name

Full Legal Name: Benjamin Jaya Nye

First Name: Benjamin

Meaning: From the Hebrew name 'Binyamin' meaning 'son of the south' or 'son of the right hand', from the roots 'ben' meaning 'son' and 'yamin' meaning 'right hand, south'

Pronunciation: BEHN-ja-min

Origin: English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Biblical

Middle Name: Jaya

Meaning: Derived from Sanskrit 'jaya' meaning 'victory'.

Pronunciation: JUH-ya

Origin: Hinduism, Tamil, Indian, Telgu, Hindi, Marathi

Surname: Nye

Meaning: Originally indicated a person who lived near a river, from Middle English 'Atten eye’ meaning 'At the river’

Pronunciation: NIE

Origin: English

Alias: N/A

Reason: N/A

Nicknames: Ben, Benj, Benji, Benjy, Bennie, Benny

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 15

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: British

Ethnicity: Mixed White-Asian (English & Indian)

Birth Date: June 11th 2005

Symbols: N/A

Sexuality: N/A

Religion: Christian

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English

Relationship Status: N/A

Astrological Sign: Gemini

Theme Song (Ringtone on Damian & Vi's Phones): Damian: 'Lose Yourself' - Eminem | Vi: 'Hero' - Chad Kroeger ft. Josey Scott

Voice Actor: N/A

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Brigg, Lancashire, England

Current Location: Brigg, Lancashire, England

Hometown: Brigg, Lancashire, England

Appearance

Height: N/A (Hasn't finished growing)

Weight: N/A (Hasn't finished growing)

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Black

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: N/A

Piercings: None

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: N/A

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: Vegetarian

Relationships

Allies: N/A

Enemies: N/A

Friends: Neil Pritchard, Uaithne Grriffiths, Zane O'Sullivan, Yorick O'Hannigan, Napoleon Rhydderch, Baggi Mulrennan, Ogden Rhydderch, York Rhydderch, Nash McDermott, Paden McConnell, Oscar Grady-Sullivan

Colleagues: N/A

Rivals: N/A

Closest Confidant: Viola Nye

Mentor: Quentin Nye

Significant Other: N/A

Previous Partners: N/A

Parents: Quentin Nye (42, Father), Viola Nye (41, Mother, Née Lum)

Parents-In-Law: N/A

Siblings: Adam Nye (21, Brother), Paulette Nye (18, Sister), Olivia Nye (12, Sister), Charles Nye (9, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: None

Nieces & Nephews: None

Children: N/A

Children-In-Law: N/A

Grandkids: N/A

Great Grandkids: N/A

Wrestling

Billed From: N/A

Trainer: N/A

Managers: N/A

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Backstory: Benjamin is the third child of Quentin and Viola Nye, which makes him the grandson of Damian Lum. Benjamin currently attends secondary school in Lancashire.

Trivia: Nothing of note so far

#D.U.D.E #original character #Nye #Family. Not a Wrestler

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zapolinien · 1 year

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Symbolism in Kingdom's music videos. Issue #11

RAVEN, crow — have similar symbols. In Europe, vulture crows have long been associated with war, death, desolation, evil and misfortune - a symbolism that is also common in India. Because of their blackness, they are considered symbols of chaos and darkness that preceded the light of creation.

In European folklore, there is a raven king who lives on top of an inaccessible mountain. Ancient (there is a belief that crows live up to 300 years) and wise, he represents justice. In addition, the raven has a connection with the world of the dead, he can get living and dead water.

In the Christian tradition, the raven serves as a harbinger of misfortune, symbolizes Satan and sin — because of its color, and also because, according to superstition, it pecks out the eyes of the dead. Along with this, a raven with a leaf in its beak or on a broken cup is an attribute of Benedict, the patron saint of Europe; a raven bringing food is a symbol of Paul the hermit. The Prophet Elijah is sometimes depicted as a raven who, by order of God, brought food to Christ in the desert.

In Europe, the symbolism of the raven was influenced by the Celts with their goddesses of war (Badb, Morrigan, Nemain) in the form of ravens, as well as the Vikings: their god of war Odin was always accompanied by two ravens — Hugin and Munin. These crows not only reported on events in the mortal world, but also symbolized such constructive concepts as reason and memory. Dedicated to Odin, the raven became the main emblem on the standards of the Danes (the Danes believed that a standing crow with folded wings portends victory, if it spreads its wings — defeat).

Among the Paleoasiatic peoples, the raven was the creator of the world.

The symbolism of the raven in Judaism is also twofold: as a carrion eater, he is considered an unclean bird, but at the same time symbolizes insight. According to an ancient Hebrew legend, the raven was originally white; when Noah sent him to see if the waters began to subside, and the raven returned without good news, his plumage turned black.

It is widely believed that the raven is a travel assistant and a fortune teller (since it can reproduce human speech), as, for example, in Ancient Greece, where it was considered a sacred messenger of the god Apollo and the goddess Athena.

The raven brings messages from the spirit world. The raven is also associated with the solar cult of Mithras. In general, the raven is a symbol of the Sun, since it was believed that its shiny black plumage makes it possible to survive in close contact with the Sun.

In ancient Rome, where the cry of a raven resembled the Latin word "krasus" ("tomorrow"), it was associated with hope.

The ancient Chinese claimed that the raven (crow) symbolizes the isolation of a person living in higher spheres. In China, the three—legged raven is the emblem of the Shu dynasty, it symbolizes the sunrise, zenith and sunset (on which this legendary raven was believed to live). In both China and Japan, the raven is an emblem of family love. Shintoism ascribes to the raven the role of the messenger of the gods. In Japanese mythology, a raven and a kite descend to earth at the behest of God to guide Jimma through the mountains to the lands of the Yamato tribal union, where Jimmu founded the first imperial dynasty.

In Africa and some other places, the raven is considered a guide warning of danger.

The hero of many tales of the Indians of North America, the raven is reputed to be a cunning and deceiver. But at the same time, the crow is endowed with mystical powers and is considered the creator of the visible universe. Similar properties were attributed to her by the Celts, Scandinavians and the peoples of Siberia.

For the Canadian Eskimos, the raven is the Father of the people, God is the creator; killing a raven can ruin the weather. The American variety of ravens, living in flocks and feeding mainly on grain and insects, has a positive and even heroic reputation. So, in the myths of the Tlingat Indians, the raven is considered a sunny, creative, educated bird; in the legends of the Navajo Indians, the raven is a Black God, a participant in all events in the animal world. Both American and Australian myths explain the black color of raven feathers by chance and do not see any bad sign in this.

In the Western European tradition, the symbolism of the raven also extends to its close relative, the crow. There is a belief that when crows begin to leave their nests, it portends hunger or some other misfortune.

In alchemy, the crow is a symbol of the original state of matter, black color and decay. But no matter how black and stinking the rotting primordial matter was, in potency it represented the future Philosopher's Stone. A woman holding a raven in her hands is a symbol of the fermentation process (Putreaction), the canonical seal of alchemical Doing.

The raven on the shield is a symbol of purification. In heraldry, the raven is a symbol of foresight and longevity; it is drawn in black.

#raven #kingdom #kingdom kpop #kpop #symbolism #ivan

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