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top-the-cat · 2 years

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It’s the one-two mixtape attack from myself and the legendary DJ Food...

Not to be all fanboy about it, but I mean, I’m on the same fucking billing as my DJ hero!

Get on that shit and get some enlightenment, yeah?!

My Mixcloud / Megatrip’s Power Hour

@talestoenlighten / @megatrip

#mixcloud #dj topthecat #dj food #tales to enlighten

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kosmiccarma · 7 months

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I'll add myself to the pool of ppl who (might delusionally) believe gojo ain't dead dead

#karma.talks #jjk manga spoilers #jjk 236 leaks #listen. I was cackling in the work parking lot this morning looking at the server leaks #1. narratively his death would serve nothing for the plot. and the whole fight wouldn't have moved anything forward #2. head ain't cut off. eyes aren't destroyed. shoko and angel literally still on the same continent. body could be healed easy peasy #3. gojo was saying bye to his dead friends instead of them welcoming him? so he could be goin' off to limbo #or have his second enlightenment hit within the next couple chapters to off sukuna once and for all. and get to kenny #and 4. uhh kenny??? he still exists gege. can't have a fight with him paired with anyone else tbh just wouldn't thematically fit #best of both worlds scenario: kids kill sukuna with gojo's resurrection #gojo goes on to fight kenny. kenny dies by the six eyes and/or infinity once and for all and gojo sacrifices the six eyes and/or infinity #so kenny can no longer body swap and will end the tale of his terror. geto comes back into consciousness for a couple more moments #OR his body is at peace once and for all and THEN gojo dies from wounds / overexertion of his cursed energy #OR gojo lives but remains a normal human w/o the six eyes or limitless. and this is bc he cheated death twice and that's the toll #gege make some of this happen or you've given a good side character a nonsensical death (within the scope of the story and character arc)#give it 10 chapters to see where this goes. if he's dead dead that's a fumble of an ending to their fight and a death scene #btw if anyone wants to talk abt this more just DM me I ain't fighting the tag system over more spoilers

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imminent-danger-came · 8 months

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Someone stop me I am this (🤏this) close to making an emo SWK edit

#idk why but this feels like a step. A line that once I cross I will never be able to uncross #Like can I really make an emo edit for the legos. Can I #If you haven't watched the show & opened your 3rd eye it's like. Well why is that person making a sad edit over some legos #And it's like noooooooooooooooooooo hahaha you have to understand #It's a lego tragedy you have to believe me #Once you start seeing lego media as it's own separate medium you truly become enlightened #Legos are one way to tell a story.#A perfect way to tell a familiar tale....to a new audience...#and it's like....we're comforted by those familiar tales of friendship and courage and hope...#Why are you walking away I'm right. I'M RIGHT #imp tag #lmk #lego monkie kid

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toyastales · 10 months

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In society as a whole, people who are artistic and creative tend to be not only undervalued but devalued, and it starts from an early age. During our childhood and formative years we are told to get our heads out of the clouds and to be more practical and to only focus on the logical side. We are indoctrinated to believe that only careers that focus on math and science is valuable to the world. We can be accused of being flighty or kooky when we showcase ourselves and our beautiful creations. We are told that our creativity holds little to no monetary value even though we are the ones who have the vision to create and design the things that people buy and covet. Not only does our work make people think but we also have the power to actually change how people think and view the world. We tap into the emotions that a lot of people are too afraid to face unless forced to, and we help them to understand and to come to terms with those feelings through our creative endeavors. We provide inspiration, innovation, therapy, and understanding. They need us just as much as we need them to survive. Always remember that we provide an essential service and never underestimate your worth and place in society. Because honestly, who wants to live in a world without the arts and creatives? A society without art and culture would lose it's heart.

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lyselkatzfandomluvs · 7 months

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Zhèng YèChéng 鄭業成

Random pictures I like, just because!

Dà-Chéng is such an underrated actor! He's good and his fighting scenes fantastic!

#zheng yecheng #love o2o #the sleepless princess #love of thousand years #stealth walker #under the full moon #my sassy princess #desire catcher #enlighten your life #an oriental odyssey #let's shake it #an eternal thought #mirror a tale of twin cities #cdrama #chinese actors #random pictures I like just because!

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alonelywaterbottle · 3 months

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Getting stuck in conversations is good for you actually. Did I want to spend 30 minutes on the phone with an IT guy while he had to make sure a program was getting downloaded correctly? No.

But did it kill me? Also no.

I found myself enjoying hearing him talk about other times he has had to deal with crazy ass tech issues with other companies.

Like how once he was in a factory, in the dark, sitting with an electrician who was tasked with hooking up a generator to the wrong type of outlet. Just so they could make sure the companies server didn’t go down and erase all of their information.

Or how once he had to tell a grown man “hey you know that if you upgraded this software that went out of date in the 90s, your machine will shut down less”

Sometimes you gotta be exposed to random ass conversations with people you don’t know or else you get too comfortable in your own box.

#Jesse Admin IT man deserves his favorite dessert for dealing with all my companies shit #tales from work #we did not give him enlightenment notice before going #hey can you upgrade literally everyone software? our renewal date was yesterday and now it doesn’t work #I spent a month reminding my boss it needed upgraded but he waited till it was too late

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bluestone-dragon · 3 months

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MARGARET ROGERSON HAS A TUMBLR??????

#blue dragon personal #this was information i did not know #though i absolutely adore sorcery of thorns #i just finished rereading it today actually #went hunting on ao3 for sot fanfic #saw that someone mentioned a sequel called mysteries of thorn manor #and went feral bc i was completely unaware there WAS a sequel #anyway long story short i have read it and i loved it #as expected #and the fact that it's about fairy tales and i LOVE fairy tales is even better #(seriously i could talk for so long about fairy tales)#ANYWAY this is getting long but uh #i have been enlightened tonight

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kotaerukoto · 9 months

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[chugs five hour energy since I've been awake for over 24 hours] I really do think that G.alahad and how he's (along with A.rtoria, B.uddha, S.olomon, and others) used to talk about saviors is fascinating. So one idea that F.ate is fairly consistent on is the concept that people want and need heroes/saviors/leaders/figures to pin things on (think people vesting their hopes in A.rtoria/the image of the king and pushing all of their evil onto A.ngra, things like that), but to become a hero involves some kind of self-sacrifice. In a lot of cases like A.rtoria (Saber), what the potential hero chooses to sacrifice is their own humanity and/or personal desires. In other words, dehumanization. A.rtoria was seen as inhuman as her reign kept on, S.olomon was seen as inhuman by G.oetia, G.alahad was seen as heartless by M.erlin, and B.uddha was the one who attained enlightenment. The idea of wishes and desires is important, since that's exactly what the earthly Holy Grails (think the F.uyuki Grail and things like it) are meant to grant, with the most extreme example being the Golden Grail that D.raco has. That Grail is explicitly called "an inversion of Christ's words", specifically: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth." (Matthew 6:19-21). Since the earthly Grail here is about the granting of wishes, the treasure of the earth in this context must mean the desires of humanity, and following that Christ's Grail (the true Grail that G.alahad obtained) should not store them. Thus, in order to obtain the Grail and transcend to something higher, the obtainee must be free of personal desire, which is exactly what Fate's G.alahad was: he asked God for nothing, which made even S.olomon feel inferior. The Grail, which was returned to heaven along with Galahad at the end of the Grail Quest, is therefore linked to the Buddhist ideas that appear every now and then in TM. One of the central ideas of Buddhism is the freedom from desire and attachment and the eventual achievement of enlightenment and freedom from suffering, which Nasu has mixed with the meaning of the Grail, which could only be obtained by the purest of people-- in other words, someone without desire. G.alahad didn't have the one wish he had in the source text, where he asks to be with God. He was someone without wishes or personal desires, who is one of the few who completed what he was meant to do in life (G.rand Order) (epic title drop). G.alahad is a little different from, say, A.rtoria, who didn't completely discard her humanity. G.alahad is simply a selfless person, the purest and greatest of knights. But I digress. Inevitably, there probably has to be that kind of transcendent savior: someone who is free from personal desire, who does not pile up the treasures of the earth, in order to save or lead humanity in a time of great need. Or at the very least, people believe there has to be and desire one.

But at the same time, it has to be said that this isn't a refutation of the more concrete motivations of normal people who are NOT those kinds of messiahs or saying that they're in any way lesser: the protagonists often have or develop these more grounded wishes, and one of the ones that keeps showing up is the desire to live. Think S.hirou crying to I.llya that he wants to live at the end of HF (HF is the thematic conclusion to S.hirou's character), S.ieg dragging himself out of his test tube because he doesn't want to die, H.akuno refusing to roll over and die in the prelims because they wanted so badly to live and fight on their own terms, G.uda pushing forward and never giving up even in the face of the impossible not because they wanted to save the world but because they wanted to live-- This attachment to life and existence is, funnily enough, one of the opposites of Buddhism, which is about freeing yourself from attachment and desire. Even outside of just Fate, there's S.hiki in T.sukihime, who just wants to live the best he can for however long he's going to stay around on this earth before he dies. And for most people, that's fine. Most people are not heroes nor will they become one. Everyone is just trying to do their best. All humans are trying to do their best. It has to be said that, in Fate stories, these more mundane wishes end up pushing past more glorious ones too.

P.S. I couldn't find a way to elegantly fit this into the main text but the image of G.alahad set against N.ero fits pretty perfectly with how she's related to the earthly Grail. At first glance she seems larger than G.alahad, but his silhouette eclipses the statue.

#ooc ramblings.#long post //#B.eyond the Tale is everything to me it has SO MUCH #N.asu links G.alahad to ideas of Buddhist enlightenment and I think it's so interesting #who would have thought that buddhism and the Grail Quest go hand in hand?#I think that N.asu has done an excellent job of building up G.alahad so far #It's in stuff like this that you can really see his background in philosophy and human study

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talestoenlighten · 8 months

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pinup art from @theambermccall from our original TALES TO ENLIGHTEN! You know, Maggie (the cyborg nun-with-a-gun) getting battle ready! Be sure and follow AMBER and check out our Etsy store… volumes 1 and 2, various zines and other merch!

https://kingmegatrip.etsy.com "Deep philosophical concepts reduced to idiocy"

#demon #devil #occult #horror #indie comics #satan #monster #comics #skull #skeleton #cult #graphic novel #Tales To Enlighten #nun

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top-the-cat · 2 years

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His holiness, Cardinal Top The Cat, will help guide all sinners to spiritual and musical enlightenment presently... in whatever form that takes

www.mixcloud.com/top_the_cat/

@talestoenlighten @megatrip

#tales to enlighten #coming soon

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dndtreasury · 1 year

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Pendant of Enlightenment

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rapha-reads · 10 months

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Master thesis progress : I currently have 67 pages (37k words) of quotes of various articles and books, but still *checks* one (1) page of only abstract, for a thesis that should be between 45 and 80 pages, due in September, but I have to send an introduction and a couple of chapters to my thesis director before the end of the month preferably.

Going swimmingly. Research is great. Writing? That's going to be hell.

Anyway, the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales is the most fascinating non-fiction book I've ever read and my dream of doing a PhD in Folklore studies is taking on a new, more realistic shape.

#rapha talks #academia #adventures in academia #master thesis #cultural studies #folklore studies #the greenwood encyclopedia of folktales and fairy tales #lost in the research #maybe i shouldn't be wasting so much time on the encyclopedia when i still have other papers on the other themes of the thesis to read #but it is truly fascinating and enlightening and anyway i've always been deeply invested in the research part of academia #more than in the actual redacting and argumenting part

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rawralittlerawr · 2 years

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