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#Macrocosm
cuties-in-codices · 8 months
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dreamy man in a cloud looking at the moon looking at an eyeball
in a german astrological manuscript ('tübinger hausbuch'), mid-15th c.
source: Tübingen, Universitätsbibliothek, Md 2, fol. 37v
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aoifeandisolde · 4 months
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🔥commando mode🔥
Kate Mulgrew's script notes from *that* scene in Macrocosm.
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madcat-world · 2 months
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Macrocosm - Calder Moore
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"When he reached a displacement of eight he told us he was dead."
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"He sees the wolves have formed up around him. Eight of them."
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"The greatest gaiaforms of our solar system are eight in number—or, if you prefer, [N]ine—but asteroids and minor planets have them too. And in their sidereal generosity, these gaiaforms will protect us, if we ask them."
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Fist of Eight Moons
"Only in the Ascendant Plane—where a well-defended idea is a reality—do these moons, in this small way, still exist."
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"Eight Barons and an Awoken prince - and only one of you. I so dislike betting on the underdog… But you are resourceful…"
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"The man turned to his left and saw a familiar, weathered face staring up at the eight Barons of the Tangled Shore."
[...]
"’Sundance’ appears to be the victim of a single, catastrophic wound from a Devourer Bullet, modified to fire from a Scorn launcher. Projectile classified as ontological.”
“Define Devourer Bullet.”
“Payload matches the ballistics of a Weapon of Sorrow or a comparable Hive implement.”
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"We are all pinched silhouettes impaled on the twitching of infinitely long spiderlegs."
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"You must reckon with yourself. Can you see the path ahead?
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Do you know the shape of your trial?"
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Auseklis
Ogdoad
Guñelve
Arevakhach
Schläfli
Compass rose
Isotoxal | edge transitive
Eightfold Path
The Star of Lakshmi
The Star of Ishtar
The morning star
First light of the new dawn
Venus
[Consult Cryptarchy's pre-Golden Age stacks for more information]
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"Is it a simple answer? Perhaps none who serve you have the capacity to grasp your vision. And so, rather than waste more of your time and attention on explaining something they will never hold, it is enough that they act as you will. The Witch and her Hive carving single-mindedness out of the cloth of the universe, that whispering Nightmare seeking the fullest gamut of existence, the Upender destroying all differentiation. Shadows on the wall.
In this case, it would be hubris to think I have understood your work, that I alone among your Disciples have grasped what purpose it is we serve. All of us must see darkly reflected.
But there is relief in simplification. There is kindness in winnowing. So then, why is this proliferation permitted?
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The shadows, showing the truth by their casting. [...]
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There: I have resolved the conflict within my thoughts, and I am at peace again. Once more, I am only your violence and nothing more.
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The Final Shape will realize us as we strive."
—Unknown Disciple of the Witness, Inspiral
Who am I?
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Call me Coyote. Call me mantis, serpent, Cagn, Anansi, call me Sri-cleans-his-brother's-stomach. Call me the grandmaster of semiosis, the jeweler's hammer which gilds the signal, a purposeful mob none of whose members know its purpose, the infinite regress of enigmas, a self-questioning answer, the word not spoken, black ice, cataract of mimes, the ache and fever of overthought while bedridden with illness, the intolerable thorn of frustrated inquisition, gray regret at the end of a fruitless day, the thing which is unlike your beloved but arbitrarily recalls your beloved to agonizing effect, architrave of the no-window, needle driven in flush with skin so that desperate fingers cannot pull it out, sweet petal, unmemorable, crystal death, the provably improvable.
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Here at the center, I lie to you the truth. You have everything you need to know it, but I will give you a clue, as the duelist gives warning before she draws. The answer you seek to the Dreaming City is simple, not complex.
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In primordial space, timeless creatures made waves. These waves created us and the others. Waves were the battles, and the battles were waves. Fleeing all W'rkncacnter, Yrro and Pthia settled upon Lh'owon. They brought the S'pht, servants who began to shape the deserts of Lh'owon into marsh and sea, rivers and forests. They made sisters for Lh'owon to protect and maintain the paradise. When the W'rkncacnter came, Pthia was killed, and Yrro in anger, flung the W'rkncacnter into the sun. The sun burned them, but they swam on its surface.
Marathon 2, Six Thousand Feet Under terminal: ax1-40^23<094.95.28.85>
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Oryx went down into his throne world. He went out into the abyss, and with each step he read one of his tablets, so that they became like stones beneath his feet. He went out and he created an altar and he prepared an unborn ogre. He called on the Deep, saying: I can see you in the sky. You are the waves, which are battles, and the battles are the waves. Come into this vessel I have prepared for you. And it arrived, the Deep Itself.
Books of Sorrow
XXXI: battle made waves
Verse 4:1 — battle made waves
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thresholdbb · 6 months
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Help I have a post that’s going viral
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zinda-his-eyes-red · 4 months
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Seeing Janeway strip down to her tank and grab a huge gun in s3 ep12 Macrocosm, I suddenly understand all the gay awakenings she sparked
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angrywarrior69 · 4 months
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I’m a sucker for Macrocosm
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rosalie-starfall · 2 years
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Capt. Kathryn Janeway - Macrocosm
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wayti-blog · 10 months
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If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge.
ancient egyptian proverb
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knightscendant · 1 year
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The Witness' 2 ft swimming pool
made with @mywitness in mind
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usstrekart · 2 years
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“Macrocosm” (S03E12, Stardate 50425.1) is a fun episode, with bits of continuity, character growth (for The Doctor), and action hero Janeway - complete with quips. There are some glaring issues in logic that require brushing past but the end result is enjoyable.
Janeway became Sarah Conner in this episode, so it only makes sense for the episode poster to mimic that same franchise, right?
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thirdity · 1 year
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There is a way to Reality in and through the soul, and there is a way to Reality in and through the world. Whether the ultimate goal can be reached by following either of these ways to the exclusion of the other is to be doubted. The third, best and hardest way is that which leads to the divine Ground simultaneously in the perceiver and in that which is perceived.
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
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middlenamesage · 2 months
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I think peoples’ failure to make sense of how astrology could have valid connections to our lives, especially when they’re having trouble wrapping their head around how ALL the planets and everything out there could play in, is that they’re looking at it from the angle of “how could all this different stuff AFFECT us?” That’s not the right angle to be looking at it from. We are part of a web which interconnects everything in existence, so what is out there in the cosmos MIRRORS us, it doesn’t “affect” us.
Science currently operates from a very human/ego centric view that doesn’t recognize the interconnection of everything though, so don’t expect it to even realize how distorted the lens has been anytime soon. We aren’t the fully self-standing beings we think we are, but this misconception is what makes us inclined to ask “how could *other source* be having an effect on me?” It’s not having an effect on you; it is you! (in a sense!) Man is a microcosm within the macrocosm. The dynamics above mirror the dynamics below, which trickles all the way down to microcosms as “micro” as an individual life.
We all are reflections of the divine energetic order in the UNIverse, where all parts form a single whole. But we each reflect this order from a unique vantage point. 💖
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spockvarietyhour · 1 year
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Forsaken Lightfall
Dread not naught. Be brave.
Look around the sky.
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Behold the great | divide, the battle | lines of the cosmic war.
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Fikrul is a Fanatic.
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Scorned and abandoned.
"This is as far as you go."
"Please. For you, I go… instead. All know… darkness lives here. Death. You are not of Ether. Can't bring… you back."
"All the same."
"Yes, Father. We ever serve and await return."
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Fikrul is all who strive to regain strength of self and purpose. He is a survivor. He is the outcast priest of the broken plains, and his sermon is death and all the glory that follows.
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"Go. Inspire. And avenge your murdered friends."
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The why of what we're doing is as important as the what.
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To that end, the Shadow of Earth extended a hand, and into it flew the Shadow's companion-soul, who had spoken not a word for many ages.
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The Shadow bade the companion-soul to speak, and the companion-soul obliged:
I looked at the Gardener.
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I looked at my hands.
"I love you"
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With that, the Shadow's fist closed, and the companion-soul was no more.
I discovered the first knife.
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And then there were two.
You've no idea how fortunate you are to be my chosen. You hold the flesh of a god in your hands. You are mere steps away from our salvation. Only Light|Dark, to|get|her, can unlock my way back into your world.
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That's it, keep going. FREE ME.
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Please, brother. Will you walk through hell for me, one last time?
"Yes."
Good. Then let us finish this.
"Everything I did, I did for her."
You brave,
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devoted,
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pathetic
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fool.
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Thank you.
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Even paradise is a prison....
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when you can't leave.
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"The line between Light | Dark is so very thin.
Do you know which side you're on?"
RECORD 0-CHASM-31
Rajesh. When he reached a displacement of eight he told us he was dead. I believed him. He was dead. He spoke to us. It was true. Whatever he saw, it was his own future.
He’s fine, afterwards. When I look into his eyes I wonder what came back wearing his skin. But that thought is unscientific.
We speak of nothing but the device. We talk about it like a demigod. When I get out of here I know the whole world will look like a fraying veil.
I think it’s clear that part of the problem is substrate. We need more than flesh and drug to survive this.
This one's for the minds behind the Deep Stone Crypt. You think just because you made me you can unmake me? Hey, I understand. I were you I wouldn't want people knowing what I did either. Guess you better hope I didn't tell anyone about the crypt. Or about the, uh, what was it? Oh yeah...
Long
Slow
Whisper
Cause if I did, that would be real bad for you, huh?
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I may be dead, but I guarantee you ain't heard the last of me.
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baylardian-1 · 2 years
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Thank you guys again for all the support and content made for our silly little AU, it’s super gratifying and yeah! The responses I’ve received from both our art and rambles if you’ve managed to find them have been so sweet and inspiring. And the gift art + fics have all been amazing as well, we always flip out whenever we receive anything. :D
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