#ex nihilo

[exnihilo-comic]

leap day

#ex nihilo #webcomic #comic #artists on tumblr #zero #leap day #february 29

[bebemoon]

look for the name: DAPHNE

knwls asymmetrical "spira" mini dress in acid pink

miu miu dyed stole w/ grosgrain tie closure

gucci acrylic and crystal shell headpiece

ex nihilo "vesper glitz" eau de parfum

prada x james jean "fairy" wedge sandals, c. 2oo8

#daphne #name #request #outfit #hope you like ! #gold #brown #pink #footwear #vintage #headpiece #shell #prada #miu miu #gucci #tw: fur #edp #perfume #ex nihilo #james jean #00s #knwls #queue

[the-helixverse]

ART DUMP

//Hey everyone! Sorry it's been a while, but here's some art I've made. Some of it is recent, some is from a few months ago and I don't think I ever shared it here

//Hope you enjoy!

#mod talks #the-helixverse #the helixverse #art dump #art #helix earth #ekpyrosis #gene warriors #ironstar #Ex Nihilo #my art

[ragewrites]

my younger sister died by suicide the week before her fifteenth birthday. as a twenty-five year old, your poem (fifteen speaks to twenty five) resonnated with me deeply. i've been re-reading it in the hours since i came across it, and i guess i just wanted to say thank you for writing it <3 it's a really beautiful piece and it feels very stark and powerful.

(also - and this is absolutely not a condemnation of you in any way - but my family try to say 'died by suicide' rather than 'committed suicide', as the only other time you would use the word 'committed' is in the context of a crime, which implies the person in question is a criminal rather than someone who was hurting.)

Firstly—all my love to your little sister. Whether it was peace or oblivion she sought, I hope she has found it.

Secondly: I will try to be as clear as possible with my words, so by the end this post might be rather lengthy. Apologies. Know that none of it is a rebuke, only a response to the latter half of your message.

Using the word ‘committed’ was a deliberate, conscious choice. Not because I was trying to apply, or rather imply, any kind of moral connotation to the act of suicide, but because I wanted to provide you—General ‘You’, Reader-You—with the context in which the poem was written. This context being, as I was celebrating my twenty-fifth birthday, my thoughts kept returning to a decade ago, when I nearly killed myself not even halfway through October.

I believed this information essential; as it is both sensitive and extremely private, however, I wanted to be succinct when providing it.

You, general, reader ‘you’, needed to know that the poem is a conversation between myself at fifteen and myself at twenty-five: you also needed to know that I almost killed myself before I could grow to be either of them. You needed to know these two things, no less, no more.

I chose the word “committed” because it was, to me, a diplomatic enough compromise between the blunt impact of I nearly killed myself and a phrase I personally loathe, I nearly took my own life. A diplomatic enough compromise which nonetheless preserved some of that sense of violence the word ‘kill’ has.

Because it is a violent act: the word itself is a Modern Latin construct meaning self-murder, one which the poem tells you (general, reader ‘you’) I am incredibly glad I did not go through with. Frankly it never occurred to me that someone would assume I might be moralizing the act.

Granted, how an individual understands and uses language is deeply personal; you yourself are likely aware of this fact, given your conscious, careful phrasing of the subject. And I recognize the kindness behind your intention in sending this ask, recognize that you likely only meant I could / should be a little more careful with my phrasing in the interest of exercising compassion.

But that’s precisely the crux of what frustrates me.

“[...] the only other time you would use the word 'committed' is in the context of a crime, which implies the person in question is a criminal rather than someone who was hurting.”

This is a statement of generalization. One you are making to the very person who was discussing, however briefly, however veiled by the medium of poetry, her own history with suicidality.

You did not verbally condemn me for my phrasing, yes. Nonetheless, consciously or unconsciously, you did assume something about my stance on the morality of the matter. Not that almost dying myself of suicide, as you put it, precludes by default the belief that suicide is a ‘sin’ or otherwise somehow immoral, of course—and that’s the point.

You do not know me. I am a stranger whose poem you read and rather liked, and that poem, in isolation nothing more than a bizarre fragment of conversation, is all the information you have about me. You can infer from the text that I likely believe in God and that this God of mine probably roots in some flavour of Christianity, but that’s about it. Keeping the caption so short, I thought at most people would believe me pretentious. But moralizing?

Frankly speaking, the biases you assume implicit to the word are in this instance yours and yours alone. Not only because committed is perhaps more often used adjectivally, in its sense of “devoted to”, but because I was speaking strictly about myself, about my own acts and my own person. Even if I had been moralizing the act—isn’t this a little too presumptuous of you?

What right do you, a stranger, have to advise me? The very fact that you attempt to do so makes me assume that whether or not you are aware of it, you already believe your own moral position to be superior.

Again, I am giving you the benefit of the doubt by also assuming that you came to me in good faith. If true, I appreciate the kindness of your intentions; but you do not know me.

You know nothing of me as a person, of my social and religious background, of the web of circumstances which shaped me and affected me so profoundly so as to put me in that precarious a state of mind at the age of fourteen. You are a stranger, so you also have no way of knowing, for example, that as someone who has struggled with suicidal ideation since childhood, I actually abhor this sort of distant, passive verbiage. No way of knowing that to me all it does is reframe suicide as a sort of tragic accident. What kind of raw nerve that is for me.

And this is not a rebuke; it’s far from any actual anger, really. It’s simply a statement of fact. You do not know any of this and it is only natural that you don’t, because these are interior, intimate details, the sorts of things only my best friends are privy to.

How you and your family, as the bereaved party, choose to approach and discuss suicide is strictly your business. I do not know how long it has been since your sister’s death, but I do know that the loss of a loved one, regardless of the circumstances in which it happened, is something we carry with us our whole life. I wish you all the best in navigating and managing your grief.

But you must understand that I myself represent the party which almost bereaved the person dearest to me, my mother. And it is from this position that I kindly ask you to perhaps think twice when you next find yourself reaching out to a stranger on the internet about such a charged topic.

#ibi apes #ex nihilo #very long and hopefully coherent. hopefully. i have been positively chiseling it because i truly do not think you meant ill #and while this did upset me a lot more than even i thought it would i did not want to make you feel bad about it in light of that thought. #it just. it really is a raw nerve for me.. #i think i'll turn off anon honestly. i should've after the fiasco with the proselytizer. sighs

[doyouknowmarvelcomiccharacter]

#marvel #marvel comics #marvel 616 #ex nihilo #polls #finished: i've never heard of them

[forthegothicheroine]

Perfume mood boards: Viper Green by Ex Nihilo

#gif #perfume #perfume mood boards #ex nihilo

[ashenburst]

heyheyheyyy!! I have no idea if you still answer questions for your book but i loved it!! How did you come up with such a weird/interesting relationship for fyodor and (y/n)?? I also really liked nikolai’s characterization! This may be weird but like, how would it have been if both of them liked the reader??? I was kinda ripped in b/w lmao.

HELLO! I do always answer questions, it's only a matter of time when exactly I'll get to them </3 which now happens to be ages later, and I am sorry for the late reply! Anyway, I won't be stalling any longer, here go the answers!

Back when I was writing Ex Nihilo, I had this basic concept of artificial, forced love, that would encapsulate some of modern ideas and premises of love and relationships (while also maintaining traditional aspects of love, of course) such as hookup culture, rushed dating and extremes in communication. I also believe, having witnessed some toxic relationships myself, those had an influence as they fascinated me. I was a bystander whose view was that the relationships were clearly toxic, and to the partners in the relationship, this was often also clear, but paradoxically, they could not let go of each other. This is a special form of insecurity which I, a surprisingly terribly insecure person at the time, could, in a strange way, relate to. Now that I have a serious relationship, I also recognize that I carried similar insecurities, specifically, the disbelief and disappointment in love itself and therein possibly being an ulterior motive. Thankfully, my boyfriend erased these and all the negative beliefs I held before. I was not even aware I had them! Obviously, Ex Nihilo's twisted story comes from a place far more personal and complex than I once believed.

As for Nikolai the all-beloved, I think Fyodor would, in the end, let Nikolai have (Y/N), because, ultimately, Fyodor would conclude she is expendable and could be replaced; there are so many other people in the world, surely, he could find someone better! After all, he never intended for this to happen - when he finds someone else and finds them with different intentions, that will be his love story, not this (what a fun way to justify getting rid of this annoyance at the fastest rate, Fedya, also a wonderful way to give (Y/N) what she deserves and not the fake prick you are, because you love her and know she deserves Nikolai)! Then, also, I believe Fyodor could be in conflict with his own feelings for (Y/N) and how they develop, thus suffocating them by giving her to Nikolai after he is "done" with (Y/N). Also, personally, I ship (Y/N) and Nikolai much more than I ship Fyodor and (Y/N). Obviously. Did you know I intended to write a huge Nikolai x Reader because I clearly love writing the clown? I have only one chapter written. I'd write more if Med school and some strange life coincidences didn't hold me back.

Anyway, that should be it, I believe! Thank you for the ask and have a wonderful day ahead! <3

#ex nihilo #bsd fyodor dostoyevsky #bsd fyodor #bsd nikolai #bsd #bungou stray dogs #anon #ask

[the-fae-folk]

The Beauty of Nothing

Sometimes I dream of Nothing. Not dark, not light. Not empty sky, not drowning dark sea beds. No void, no abyss. I dream of...Nothing. That stuff which we cannot truly picture in our minds. Out of space, out of time. It has no form, it has no boundary. It is endless, it is over before it began. Let us say I were to open a door upon Nothing, and I were to allow you to gaze through the door and look upon Nothing. What would you see there, upon the other side of the door? Nothing, of course. But to be clearer, you wouldn’t see past or behind or above or below it, nor to either side. It is not space, empty or filled with invisible gasses, you cannot see through Nothing, because there isn’t anything for your eyes to perceive there. My best guess, is that your mortal brain would simply cease working, incapable as it is of handling Nothing. It cannot be Nothing, you might think, surely it has to be something, or it cannot be there! But it is there. I assure you, Nothing is there. Nothing is always there. The nature of Nothing? Well, some believe that everything came from Nothing. While others deny the existence of Nothing entirely. But of course, both seem foolish to my thinking. Perhaps I am the fool, yet I would say that you cannot deny the existence of nonexistence, for the very act of denying it the right to be, confirms that it is already and always was. And further than this, Nothing cannot give birth to things from itself, for Nothing is not composed of things which can create, it is immaterial, abstract, an idea of what it might be to have something that is the antithesis to all things that are. Yet, if it is not form, not existence, perhaps Nothing is that which can be molded into Something? Ex Nihilo shall our pattern be formed, and it is shaped until it is Nothing no more, but Something. A thought, an idea. A universe, shaped from Nothing. Who can say what truth such musings hold? Yet even if conjectures such as these prove false, it matters little to me, for my dreams have been ever richer for having dreamed them.

#prose poetry #philosophic musings #Nothing #metaphysics #nonexistence #ex nihilo

[vazaha-tya]

For those who read Ex Nihilo on ao3

So i started writing Harry's family tree for ex nihilo, mostly so I can remember who did what when I mention them and i thought i'd share it here. I'll probably expand upon it at some point but this is what i have so far:

The Potter Family Tree

Eloise Potter nee Peverell and Graham Potter. They adopted Eloise’s younger cousins so the Peverell name would die out and spread rumours saying that the cloak was lost. Eloise was a Slytherin and Graham a Gryffindor. Eloise was a wardmistress. Graham was a halfblood, born from a muggleborn father and an Indian pureblood witch. 11th century

Laurence Potter, one of the adopted Peverell cousins of Eloise Potter. He was the first man cursed with untamable hair of the Potter line. Slytherin, 11th century.

Peregrine Potter, invented among other things a cure for the Carmine Plague that killed thousands in the goblin nation. It gave the Potter the title of goblin friends. He also invented several healing charms and the Blood-Replenishing Potion. Ravenclaw. 16th century

Roman and Lillian Potter (nee Prewett), respectively professors of History of Magic and Charms. Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. 18th century.

Beatrice Potter, wrote the treaty that ended the last goblin-wizard war. Slytherin. She was argentum regina during her tenure at Hogwarts. 19th century. She went on become the head of the International Magical Cooperation department and argued the Goblin Liaison Bureau should be placed under her tenure. She succeeded but it went back to the department of Control and Regulation of Magical Creatures two decades after she died. Likely Fleamont and Charlus Potter's grandmother.

Fleamont Potter. Invented the Sleekeazy Hair Potion and other cosmetic charms. Gryffindor. 20th century

Euphemia Potter nee Fawley. Gryffindor. 20th Century. She used to be an unspeakable.

Charlus Potter. Ravenclaw. 20th century. Also a professional duellist.

Dorea Potter nee Black. Slytherin 20th century. She was the rex’s lieutenant during her tenure at Hogwarts. The rex was a Selwyn. She used to be a professional duellist.

Marius Potter. Ravenclaw 20th century. Charlus and Dorea's son, died from an illness before he could complete his studies. Named after Marius Black, Dorea's squib brother.

James Potter. Gryffindor. 20th century. Wanted to be a cursebreaker but enrolled into the auror trainee program because of the war.

Lily Potter. Gryffindor. 20th century. She was studying to be a wardmistress and potionsmistress.

#ex nihilo #hp #harry potter #ao3 #ex nihilo hp #the potter family #potter family tree #ex nihilo au #I made an edit on Eloise Graham and Laurence #putting them in the 11th century instead of the 15th because it made more sense #and if anyone's wondering the Peverell brothers were wizards in the 9th century in this AU

[comicchannel]

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#marvel #marvel legends #hasbro #action figures #comics #build a figure #Guardians of the Galaxy #guardioes da galaxia #ex nihilo #nihilo #cosmic protectors

[exnihilo-comic]

parallel lines

#ex nihilo #webcomic #mathematics #math #comic #artists on tumblr #linear algebra #comics

[disredspectful]

I was aware that the same perfume smelled different on different people, but it's absolutely wild to be trying out scent samples side by side with my partner and they smell like tropical freshness and I smell like grandmas :/

#we're doing like a perfume advent calendar #that I organised myself #it's pretty rad #ex nihilo #this one was viper green #green mandarin top note #not for me it aint #my real life

[aliencrypt-x]

Ambigram Latin OMNIA (everything) and NIHILO (nothing)

Ex nihilo in abyssum existentiae; per obscuritatem ad illuminationem; per destructionem nihilo ad creationem omnis; creatio diversitatis vitae per re-unitatem fractionis conformitatis

In the beginning there was light - annihilation; simultaneity of dual states; inner polarity: the conform grey has smashed its wholeness, its entirety into fragments of itself, to re-arrange, re-order: chaos as the most beautiful non-linear chain reaction towards equilibrium: Imperfection and break of symmetry: the reason why anything could even emerge to exist. A break in the conformity of homogeneity...

Hyperdeterminism: Free will and karma: butterfly effect: non-linear causal networks; Navier stokes and the re-distribution of information, quantum gravity.

#ambigram #ambigrams #nothing #everything #nihilo #ex nihilo #omnia #latin #word art #thought brabble

[ragewrites]

hello💗 love your writing and your blog, you’re so so talented

AND I just wanted to ask if you have any good court drama recs lmao

💕

Thank you! And oh yes 👀

At the time of those tags I was knee-deep in the waters of Chinese web novels (recs from that journey are The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort, Eight Treasures Trousseau, Like Pearl and Jade; Your Mileage May Vary, however, since I like slow-paced things) but I also have some drama-proper recs, namely:

Magnificent Century (Turkish production, follows the ascent of Suleyman the Magnificent’s wife in the harem; liberties are taken, but it’s actually not that unfaithful to the truth, and Meryem Uzerli is...honestly a revelation)

Nirvana in Fire. Honestly I cannot recommend this one enough. It’s just so—so!!

Bossam: Steal the Fate is partly this. Other Korean recs include The Crowned Clown and Mr. Queen, and I heartily recommend watching them in that order, actually, because you will need the levity Mr. Queen has, particularly early on, to cope.

From the web novels (additional rec: The Remarried Empress. This is a Korean work, and is currently being serialized as a webtoon, also, with very pretty art) I went on to reading Katie Quinn’s series of books set in Rome, which were...sadly only decent, so not a particularly strong rec, just a mention. Instead I’ll rec Megan Whalen Turner’s sequels to The Thief, which turn into this: they are The Queen of Attolia; The King of Attolia; A Conspiracy of Kings & Thick as Thieves.

Also, last year Jacqueline Carey utterly rewired my brain, particularly with Phedre’s trilogy (Kushiel’s Dart, Kushiel’s Chosen, Kushiel’s Avatar) but while court drama features in these, it’s not the point, exactly.

Hopefully this is a wide enough net of things for you to find something you enjoy within it ^^

#ibi apes #ex nihilo

[parfumery-wiki]

Sweet Morphine (eau de parfum) Les Interdites Ex Nihilo Nose: Natalie Cetto

Soft floral                                                                     

The embodiment of a self assumed but ambivalent femininity, at once delicate yet lascivious.

Its floral bloom melts on the skin with a dark and addictive woody Vanilla background.

A subtle bouquet tenderly perverted by a very captivating carnal lightness.

Top notes: Lilac, Bergamot Heart notes: Iris, Mimosa Base notes: Vetiver, Patchouli, Bourbon vanilla

#ex nihilo #ex nihilo Les Interdites #eau de parfum #natalie cetto #soft floral #lilac #bergamot #iris #mimosa #vetiver #patchouli #bourbon vanilla

[abitcoquettish]

Plissé, Please

Wearing: Ludovic de Saint Sernin plisse maxi dress (sold out) + Bottega Veneta Teen Intrecciato Pouch in Chalk + vintage bronze Manolo Blahnik sandals Finally had an occasion to wear this incredible Ludovic de Saint Sernin dress, a plissé maxi in muted sage that skims every curve just so. (Something I never would’ve worn without shapewear a few years ago, but now embrace in L.A. of all places.…

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#Bottega Veneta #Ex Nihilo #Ludovic de Saint Sernin #Manolo Blahnik