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wangxianficrecs · 2 months

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Patriarch by nilavu

Patriarch

by nilavu

G, WIP, 1k, Wangxian

Summary: In Yiling, there is a mountain covered in lush greenery, an area so green that some don't believe it when they first hear of it. The mountain is a tall peak, visible from Yiling town proper, but non-cultivators rarely go there. Of course, some stumble upon it after having lost their way and others willingly go to explore a place so mysterious. And then afterwards, most people speak of the beauty of the mountain, of how the bright green reminds one of emeralds, how the birds sing songs so sweet and mellifluous that you don't feel like leaving and how the green holds even in the midst of Yiling's winters. The name of this strange, magical place is 'The Burial Mounds.' Yiling, the storytellers all say, is where it all began. In which Hanguang-jun sends a letter to the Yiling Patriarch inviting him to Jin Rulan's one-month celebration and receives a surprising letter back. Kay's comments: OK, so I know this is another story that hasn't updated in a hot minute, but I really like the potential of it and the atmosphere and scene-setting it does. In which Wei Wuxian accepts the Jins invetation to Jin Ling's full moon celebration and says that he will attend unarmed and without Wen Ning beside him, but asks Lan Wangji to escort him. Excerpt: Yiling, the storytellers all say, raising a hand and lightly tapping the palm, open and vulnerable, is where it all began. They speak of a child who lost his parents; a gaunt, wretched thing that was all alone in the world; a little boy who had to fight with the street dogs for food. They speak of his absence, long years curled into a fist, fingers and years and months curling around until nails and war and destruction press against the soft flesh of the palm and the boy comes back, a fine young man, and proud too, and grieving. But this child of Yiling, the storytellers say as they pinch their own palms, has known pain, and will continue to know pain. The flesh of the palm is soft as is his heart, and the emptiness within him is more vast than the air through which their fingers slip. And then the child of Yiling is a child no more- in his place stands the Patriarch, he of Yiling who wields a new power and lets it drape over himself like a veil- to distract and hide and to walk a single-plank bridge- all alone and resolute, a strong fist that can break anything.

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thrautistic · 5 months

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I made another chiss character haha….

This is Thmiro and she’s evil but she’s a girlboss. And a lesbian

Featuring a headshot by my friend @mitthurfian on twt and edited slightly to adapt to new design.

I hope. You guys like her

#star wars #chiss #chiss oc #star wars oc #patriarch #oc #oc art

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grumblinggamer · 13 days

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Long time no update. I was busy fighting for Super Earth, however, my work on the Revolution has not stopped.

My Patriarch is almost done save for the base:

Particularly proud of the claws, they blend nicely! Almost done.

Next up: Aberrants.

#painting #warhammer 40k #genestealers #40k #gsc #patriarchy #patriarch

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aroayr-shuk · 11 months

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Vurawn wondered often what his life would have looked like if he had taken the Mitth's proposal to be a merit adoptive all those years ago. At odds with the foul faced Syndic who had come to collect him? Surrounded by different friends than the ones he had now? On course for a successful military career? Certainly not here.

The Kivu were considered an obscure family by the majority of the rest of the Acendancy. As a Lesser Family, they had developed their own customs and traditions. They were more expressive than other Families, they valued art, each Kivu having their own favored medium. They grew up dancing and singing, it was uncommon for a Kivu not to be proficient in some instrument. They were an anomaly. A cultural hub in the midst of Rentor.

But what unsettled the other Families the most about the Kivu was their method for choosing their new Patriarch. While other Families elected their Patriarch democratically or the dying Patriarch chose their successor themselves, the Kivu title was passed down through blood. From Patriarch to their eldest child.

Vurawn had entered the military as a young male and had made it quite far for his time spent there and his Family name. Junior Captain. But he had other duties, and when news of his Patriarch's death reached him, he had to return to Rentor. He left his military career behind him.

And he found himself here. In a world where he was mentored by Thooraki himself, a brotherhood with a young Mitth, blossoming friendship with a sweet Syndic, a rivalry with a Prime. Ten ruling families instead of nine. A golden cape displaying his Family's symbol. And a title:

Patriarch Kivu'raw'nuru.

#alternate universe #if thrawn was politically gifted #half asleep thoughts #star wars #thrawn #thrawn ascendancy #thrawn trilogy #patriarch #chiss #chiss ascendancy #vurawn #kivu'raw'nuru #mitth'raw'nuruodo

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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“Befriending the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Bourgeois broke new ground as an artist, pushing the scale and material of her sculptures and becoming a leading figure in feminist art. It was also around this time that Bourgeois immersed herself in psychoanalysis and the teachings of Freud in an attempt to exorcise traumatic early memories. This exploration of the subconscious became an inseparable component of her work and provided a cathartic form of relief seen in her visceral, flesh-coloured, soft-sculpture Destruction of the Father, in which a family dinner table is overrun by blob-like children consuming their patriarch.”

[Louise Bourgeois: absent mothers, childhood trauma and Freudian philosophy]

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“Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.”

― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

#about art #psychology #Louise Bourgeois #Father #patriarch #dreams #spirit #metaphor #quotes #David Mitchell #Number 9 Dream

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byfaithmedia · 5 months

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Abraham was called out of his hometown, Ur of the Chaldeans & he followed God’s call & founded the nation of Israel giving us the Bible. Always follow God.

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nicklloydnow · 6 months

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The Heavens declared the glory of the Bomb, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.

He descendeth from the outermost part of Heaven and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. There is neither speech, nor language, yet His voice is heard among them.

Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.

“The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has said that his country's nuclear weapons saved the nation.

Kirill, who has justified Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 on spiritual and ideological grounds, made the remarks on October 18 as he presented a Church honor to physicist Radiy Ilkaev, an honorary scientific director of Russia's Federal Nuclear Center in the town of Sarov.

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Russia's nuclear weapons were created under "ineffable divine providence," Kirill said.

"Were it not for the work of [Soviet atomic bomb creator Igor] Kurchatov and his colleagues, it is difficult to say if our country would still exist," he said.

Soviet scientists "created weapons under the protection of St. Seraphim of Sarov because, by the ineffable providence of God, these weapons were created in the monastery of St. Seraphim," Kirill said. "Thanks to this power, Russia has remained independent and free, and, of course, we must all cherish this remarkable feat of our scientists, who practically saved the country, in our hearts and memories."

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Kirill has justified Putin's decision to invade Ukraine by saying Russia is a "peace-loving power" that does not engage in "military adventures."

In June 2022, he said that Russia was being attacked all over the world because of feelings of jealousy, envy and indignation, adding that he believed this was happening because Russia is "different."” - Putin's Top Priest Says Nuclear Weapons Are 'Divine Providence'

#russia #russian orthodox #kirill #patriarch #nuclear weapons #atomic bomb #soviet #planet of the apes #beneath the planet of the apes #alpha omega #wwiii #world war 3 #ukraine #russia ukraine war #vladimir putin #putin

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lavalamprat · 1 year

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Wrapped up my patriarch tonight, finally decided on a name for my cult as the Twisted Tide Cult

#miniature #miniature painting #minis #painting #warhammer #hobby #hobbyist #warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #40k #gene stealer #gsc #beachstyle #beachvibes #beach #patriarch #alien oc #xenos #crabcore

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medicinedreamer · 15 days

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#patriarch #kings #miltiary #government #dorothy lathrop

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rose-like-the-phoenix · 1 year

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Finally had inspiration to make a cover for Patriarch

Taglist: @vvkingofgaybisciutsvv @thequeenofthewinter @hecatemoon87

#book cover #forrest bondurant #patriarch

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divinum-pacis · 11 months

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May 10, 2023: Pope Francis, right, starts his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican with the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Tawadros II. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

#religion #christianity #catholicism #orthodoxy #coptic orthodox #christians #clergy #pope francis #patriarch #vatican #divinum-pacis

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thesynaxarium · 2 years

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Today we celebrate the Universal Exaltation of the Holy Cross of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. On this day in the year 326AD, the Holy Patriarch Macarius, along with the Holy Empress Helen the Equal to the Apostles, raised up the newly found Cross of Christ, chanting "Lord, have mercy" while piously venerating the holy wood. May the Cross of Christ save us through its divine power + #cross #crucifixion #jesus #christ #jesuschrist #exalt #exaltation #holycross #holy #exaltationoftheholycross #timiostavro #stavros #patriarch #macarius #eleni #helen #empress #orthodox (at Jerusalem Palestine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CidTdrdr0VS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#cross #crucifixion #jesus #christ #jesuschrist #exalt #exaltation #holycross #holy #exaltationoftheholycross #timiostavro #stavros #patriarch #macarius #eleni #helen #empress #orthodox

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gentlemans-code20 · 6 months

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#OnTheTube - Succession

Succession is an American satirical comedy-drama television series created by Jesse Armstrong that aired on HBO from June 3, 2018, to May 28, 2023. The series centers on the Roy family, the owners of global media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo, and their fight for control of the company amidst uncertainty about the health of the family’s patriarch.

#gentlemans code #finance #film #hollywood #business #actor #new york #commerce #family business #patriarch #media #media company #conglomerate #globalisation #world trade #broadcasting #Jeremy Strong

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grumblinggamer · 10 days

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Done.

Added a freehand on the pipe. Tried to make it look like hastily painted.

Now a thin blackwash with oil wash, and then - it is table ready.

#painting #warhammer 40k #genestealers #40k #gsc #patriarch

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simpleman193 · 2 years

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reverietruecrime · 2 years

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"Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right." — Faye Wattleton

"Women are not an interest group. They are mothers and daughters, and sisters and wives. They are half of this country and they are perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health." — Barack Obama

"No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body." — Margaret Sanger

"As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society." — Anne Lamott

"Defending women’s health means defending access to abortion — not just in theory, but in reality. We know that restricting access doesn’t make women less likely to end a pregnancy. It just makes abortion less safe. And that then threatens women’s lives." — Hillary Clinton

"It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else." — Sarah Weddington

"I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves." — Roxane Gay

“You’re not really mad that I’m not having children.

In fact, I would probably love to one day.

You’re mad that I’m expressing autonomy of choice.

You’re mad that I’m considering other options.

You’re mad that I don’t view that as my ultimate potential.

You’re mad that I dare be selfish enough to make choices based on my best interest, something women are not supposed to do.

You’re mad that I consider it a choice, and that I, a woman, am exercising choice.

You’re not mad that I’m not having babies.

You’re mad because I’m acting like a man.” — Alice Minium

“Worse than aborting is birthing in instability.” — Abhijit Naskar

“Is having a child actually fundamentally bettering the world as a whole in any way? There is no shortage of children. Wouldn’t it be better to let people who want children have them, and leave everyone else alone?” — Alice Minium

“Until the state or the church takes full responsibility for a newborn, no bill or bible is qualified to even offer suggestions on a woman's right to abortion.” — Abhijit Naskar

“Only two things matter in the reproductive health debate: the medical opinions of doctors, and the will of women. Also, feminism is intricately connected with all aspects of our society, including health, but also labor and the economy. A woman can't be an equal player in our society until she has total autonomy, and that includes determining the destiny of her own body.” — Allison Kilkenny

“If the Constitution doesn’t say anything about a woman’s right to abortion, I’m damn sure it doesn’t say anything about the rights of the unborn.” — Israel Morrow

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