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jaceastrology · 27 days

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The Sun In Houses

House 1: The Sun's House

-A natural born leader

-Bold Speaker

-Self centered and focused on self improvement

-Fiery temper as the Sun's ruler is Leo

-Proud even at the cost of hurting, or stabbing others to get ahead

-Passionate

-Lazy at the belief that you're so good you don't have to try

House 2: The House of Speaking

-Often people with this have a family member of great power. It is passed down. Family Oriented.

-Light illuminates your voice. Aiding in natural skill in speaking.

-Your words move people and lead them on a path of your making

-Your words can have a warmth and affection that convince those around you that you care for them. Your allies know that you have their back.

-It is easy to pursuade people to do your biding. Whether you mean well can be determined by other aspects/placements.

-The Ego will lead to difficulty seeing others points of view, disrupting your entire family life even in-laws

House 3: The House of Mind

-This person is greatly influenced by their environment. And easily swayed by others opinions.

-Needs to be the focus, or can suffer in a siblings shadow

-Take pride in their intelligence often pursue education a very long time

-Trips to faraway places, interest in the culture/understanding of others

-A desire to understand the way others think

-Often negative and unpredictable

-Trouble understanding others emotions

-Gifted in foreign language, spoke earlier

-Strives to be loved by family and friends

House 4: The House of Home

-These people embody the Cancerian energy

-Crave a domestic life, where they care for the home and have security

-The type of home they want depends on other aspects/placements

-Often traditional and want to carry on the family morals

-Happiness is their ultimate goal and they want comfort, safety

-Like Cancers they often feel insecure and are prone to worry. This is why they seek a safe shell to hide away in.

-Great improvement can be found by trusting in their self

-The love around you determines the faith you have in yourself

-Slow to success, slow to beauty, heart first success later

-Sacrifice for the ones they love

House 5: Creativity and self-expression/House of Pleasure

**Purpose in Life

-Artists often have this house

-People with Uranus influence will be wild and spontaneous, wanting to break free from the reigns of life

-Depending on the sign in this house, the person can have vitality, the ability to be young forever. Both looking young and having energy that lasts many years.

-They have youthful joy and seem to never grow old, a character representing this energy is Loki, the God of mischief. Who no matter how old he grows seems to be full of child-like playfulness.

-Message. Be who you are. Follow your heart. That's your path in life.

-The sign of this placement tells sexuality of the person

-You live life with color and passion, falling in love comes easy

-You want to experience all the beauty in the world

House 6: A Helping Hand

-This person lives a life of service to others

-Loving to be appreciated for who they are and what they do for others

-Cares about their health, often dieting and exercising. Career in wellness.

-Cannot be convinced to do another career, independent and self-assured

-Care to much about what others think of their efforts, easy to feel stressed/bad about themselves when not appreciated

-Position of authority, and careers where creation with their own two hands is needed

-High standards as a boss, perfectionism

-Workaholic

-Want to make the world a better place

-Obsessed with their image, must always appear well-kept

House 7: Commitment, Slow and Steady

-Highly confident

-Great professional partnership

-Ruled by Libra, this person is harmonious

-Feels fulfilled with connections to people and things (career)

-Seeks to bring others together even in times of conflict and darkness. A shining light of hope.

-Can persuade anyone

-House far away from the ascendant. Who you really are and who you appear to be are different. People misunderstand you and don't truly know you until they get close.

-Careers best suited to: Diplomats, Public Figures and Psychologists

-Luck in court if not afflicted. Life is fair to you. Good Karma.

-You tolerate much in the name of peace. Often leading to someone having power over you. The care you put in someone's expectations can make you lose yourself. Be careful of peer pressure.

-Indecisive, you never want to give up on what could've been

-You try to make everyone happy even at the cost of your own sanity. This is not your responsibility, let yourself be free of this burden.

-Choose a partner who empowers you, bcuz how they feel and their opinions sway you easily

House 8: Popularity

-You can make anything popular

-Underdogs do well in this placement, rising up the ranks quickly and unexpectedly

-A transformative placement as it is ruled by Scorpio. You delve deep into your psyche and those of others.

-The house governs shared resources. Your wealth is determined by the partnerships you make.

-Drawn to Scorpion interests such as astrology, tarot and the occult.

-You crave authenticity and deep emotional bonds. You are not satisfied by the superficial, or flings.

-You can read others like an open book

House 9: What Is The Truth?

-Forsee the future

-Life is an adventure and quest

-You search for the truth, by analyzing everything you come across

-It is hard to believe in anything as life is often changing and there are many perspectives. But, this person is not conflicted, just a chameleon of sorts.

-Blind faith is not in this person's house of cards, they must see it, or know it's truth to believe it

-The path to belief in a higher power, God and religion is a very hard one for this sun placement. As no one can see God. But, it's evidence of power is all around us. What is your truth?

-The eternal student

-High levels of education

House 10: The Arena, Public & Professional

-Life is but a series of ways to get ahead

-Drawn to successful people to further your reputation

-You must be efficient and successful at all your goals, while having the best reputation

-This placement may prove stressful, as perfectionism runs rampant

-Depending on the sign this will be a great struggle, or come naturally to you

-Career you are most suited for, and your qualities that people admire in this house

-Responsibility at a young age, or early rise to power

-Accountability for themselves and encourage it in others

House 11: Aquarian Energy, Hopes & Wishes

-A bond of intellect among friends. Your friends help you accomplish your wishes and move steadfast towards hope. Your greatest asset is other people.

-You like to share your knowledge of the world and leave a lasting impact

-Cold and distant from emotions, logic is your preference

-Belief in equality and the need to hear everyone out no matter where they come from

House 12: The Subconscious Pisces

-An invisibility cloak covers your sun sign. You can hide your true self from others and needs. This may lead to your success not being appreciated.

-Distance from others and the need to retreat to your own safe space

-It may be more fullfuling to you, to spend time invested in the things we can't see, than reality

-A daydreamer, you walk between worlds. Seeing what others can't.

-Often a major recluse, who daydreams, spaces out, and always has their mind elsewhere

-Creative pursuits are a great release for all the pent up energy

-You love to be seen and recognized for who you are, but spend your life hiding from the world

-Bad Karma. You misused your power in the past and now must live your life being hard on yourself. In the hopes that you will become a better person than you were before. *Past lives

-You must retreat from the stress of trying to make others understand you. Or, do you even want them to?

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lcdrarry · 4 years

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LCDrarry 2020 Master List

Dear lovely Participants, Creators, Alpha and Beta Readers, Commentors, Cheerleaders, Readers and Fans of our fest,

Our 2nd installment of LCDrarry is coming to an end, and we'd like to thank you all for taking part in our little fest, for creating so many amazing new Drarry works for us all to enjoy, for commenting on your favourite creations, for sharing and recommending the LCDrarry gems with your friends and blog followers, and for making this fest another amazing experience for us mods.

We hope we could bring you some joy and diversion in these trying times and send you lots of love, strength and perseverance wherever you are :*

Under the cut, you can find out who created what ;D The works are listed in the order they posted during the fest.

Happy reading & squeeing & don’t forget to follow your favourite creators!

~Your LCDrarry Mods Tami @celilasart and Suzi @erin-riwen

PS: Reblogs are very much appreciated <3

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Love, Actually, is All Around

Prompt: #180 | "Love, Actually" - 2003 - Richard Curtis Author: punk_rock_yuppie Word Count: 9,975 words Rating: Teen and Up Warnings: Wizarding Politics, Discriminiation, Slight power imbalance

Summary: It's Christmastime, and Harry has just started as the new Minister of Magic. It just so happens that Draco happens to work in his office as well, a holdover from Kingsley's tenure. Naturally, love is in the air.

Read "Love, Actually, is All Around" now on AO3.

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Drarry on Ice

Prompt: #150 | '"Yuuri!!! On Ice" - 2016 - Series Artist: RunningOutsideTheLines Art Medium: Traditional Art Rating: General Warnings: none

Summary: Harry and Draco find love on the ice. I love Yuuri on Ice and Harry and Draco seem like such a perfect fit for Victor and Yuuri. I'll leave it up to your imagination as far as which is which. This image is from the final scene when the two of them do a exhibition skate together.

View "Drarry on Ice" now on AO3.

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Boats, but Not the Ocean

Prompt: #203 | "Groundhog Day" - 1993 - Harold Ramis Author: p1013 Word Count: 15,551 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Very minor mention of suicide, some mild horror

Summary: If Draco ever gets his hands on this Bill Murray character, he's going to kill him.

Read "Boats, but Not the Ocean" now on AO3.

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When I Put My Eyes On You

Prompt: #193 | "The Way He Looks" - 2014 - Daniel Ribeiro Author: Zzzara Word Count: 31,155 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: When a hero defeats a villain, there's supposed to be a happily-ever-after... but when did anything ever happen to Harry Potter the way it was supposed to? Having sacrificed himself to the greater good, Harry is left alone in the darkness, blindly groping for the shreds of the life he knew. When the enemies meet, how is the story supposed to go, once they learn there's more to it than the eye can see? A story of pain, hope and things we discover, once we stop looking for them with our eyes.

Read "When I Put My Eyes On You" now on AO3.

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Spellbound

Prompt: #113 | "Overboard" - 1987 - Garry Marshall Author: mortenavida Word Count: 15,878 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: Amnesiac Draco Malfoy, Widowed Harry Potter, past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Dub-Con due to Amnesia (Only Kissing)

Summary: It’s been years since Harry left with Ginny to get away from the bad memories of war. The small town of Elk Cove, Oregon, had been a perfect place to raise their children. Now widowed, Harry works hard to make sure his children never want for anything. When an old rival steps into his life, everything changes and Harry finds the perfect opportunity to get back at Malfoy for everything the Slytherin did to him -- if he doesn’t regret falling for him first.

Read "Spellbound" now on AO3.

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Of Labcoats and Animagi

Prompt: #97 | "Queer Eye" - 2017 - Series Author: meandminniemcg Word Count: 10,868 words Rating: Mature Warnings: mention of past abuse, panic attack (tw at beginning of chapter, can be skipped)

Summary: Fashion icon Draco? That's long past. After the war, he never bought any new clothes and lives in his labcoats. When he doesn't feel confident enough to meet his pen friend Prongs in real life, Luna decides to stage an intervention with a little help from the Fab Five.

Read "Of Labcoats and Animagi" now on AO3.

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Title of Their Sex Tape

Prompt: #112 | "Brooklyn Nine Nine" - 2013 - Series Author: Cibee Word Count: 12,428 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: None

Summary: What are the Wizarding world's most elite law enforcers doing when they aren't catching criminals? It seems Auror Malfoy is often caught throwing food into Auror Potter's mouth when he's mid-yawn. This story isn't about Draco throwing food at Harry. What it does have is: Undercover! Heists! Draco pining for Harry! Harry being oblivious, but also can't help noticing how good Draco smells! Banters and jokes! That's about it.

Read "Title of Their Sex Tape" now on AO3.

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Harry Potter and the Beast

Prompt: #204 | "Beauty and the Beast" - 1991 - Gary Trousdale Author/Artist: Miakagrewup Word Count/Art Medium: 5,655 words/31 illustrated pages Rating: General Warnings: None

Summary: Arrogant prince Draco is cursed to live as a terrifying beast until he finds true love. This fairy tale consists of 31 fully illustrated pages.

Read "Harry Potter and the Beast" now on AO3.

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So Open Up My Eyes, Tell Me I'm Alive

Prompt: #191 | "Secret Garden" - 1993 - Agnieszka Holland Author: mycucumbereyes Word Count: 12,865 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: trauma, canon typical violence, homophobia, use of f-g/f----t, mention of suicidal thoughts, character with a disability

Summary: When Draco Malfoy comes to live at Godric’s Hollow, he finds it full of secrets. One night he hears the sound of crying…

Read "So Open Up My Eyes, Tell Me I'm Alive" now on AO3.

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i demand to dig my own grave

Prompt: #10 | "Psych" - 2006 - Series Author: M0stlyVoid Word Count: 20,836 words Rating: Mature Warnings: None

Summary: Draco finds himself in hot water with the Aurors, and in a burst of panicked inspiration manages to wiggle out of it by claiming to be a Seer. There's just one little problem– Senior Auror Harry Potter, the Prat Who Lived, who's known him for a decade, knows full well Draco doesn't have a single psychic bone in his body and seems determined to pull him up for it. Now, the Department is demanding he help them solve cases, Potter's looming over his shoulder at every turn, and worst of all, he hasn't had a shag in weeks because of all this bother. What's a pseudo-Seer to do?

Read "i demand to dig my own grave" now on AO3.

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As You Wish

Prompt: #37 | "The Princess Bride" - 1987 - Rob Reiner Author: Pineau_noir Word Count: 21,917 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: Canon-typical (Harry Potter and The Princess Bride) violence, mention of suicide, canon-typical character death

Summary: Draco was raised on a farm in the small country of Witshire; his favourite pastimes were flying on his broom and tormenting the hired farm boy. Though his name was Harry, Draco never called him that. On Harry's forehead there was a scar shaped like a lightning bolt, so Draco called him Scarhead. Nothing gave Draco as much pleasure as ordering Harry around.

Or a story about fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, True Love, and miracles.

Read "As You Wish" now on AO3.

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Queer Eye for the Drarry Guys

Prompt: #97 | "Queer Eye"- 2017 - Series Author: blowfish_diaries Word Count: 18,201 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: none

Summary: Teddy's dads are great! Really! They just need a little push from five *fabulous* gays to get them to see what's right in front of them.

Read "Queer Eye for the Drarry Guys" now on AO3.

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Casecation

Prompt: #112 | "Brooklyn Nine Nine" - 2013 - Series Author: Mfingenius Word Count: 4,293 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: AU, canon-typical discussion of heavy topics, discussion of mpreg

Summary: "Draco Malfoy, I swear to God-” Hermione snaps under her breath, causing Draco to laugh lowly as he ducks under a hanging plant pot. “Draco Potter, ‘Mione,” Harry murmurs with a helpless grin; they’re not really supposed to be speaking – they're walking through the halls of Antonin Dolohov’s beach house, on their way to arrest him – but Harry can’t help marking the difference, even a year after they got married. “Be quiet,” Ginny says, rolling her eyes. “If he hears us and escapes-” Draco signals at them, and they all steel themselves for when he throws the door of the bedroom open. “Shit!”

Read "Casecation" now on AO3.

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Don't Blink!

Prompt: #179 | "Dr Who" - 2007 - Series Author/Artist: Gnarf Art Medium: Digital art Rating: General Warnings: None

Summary: Harry had always had exceptionally bad timing. It's not different this time.

Read "Don't Blink!" now on AO3.

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A Demon and an Angel Visit the Ritz

Prompt: #167 | “Good Omens” - 2019 - Series Artist: ravenclawkward Art Medium: Digital Oil Painting Rating: General Warnings: None

Summary: Harry the demon and Draco the angel just finished saving the world. They've earned their celebration, wouldn't you say?

Read "A Demon and an Angel Visit the Ritz" now on AO3.

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Change on the Horizon

Prompt: #57 | "Shameless (US)" - 2011 - Series Author: static_abyss Word Count: 118,645 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Character with depression, mentions of not wanting to exist and lethargy, though no actual suicide or mentions of suicide. Unhealthy coping mechanisms, specifically not taking prescribed medication for depression. Internalized homophobia, and general homophobia from parental figures, though there is a happy ending. Casual relationships.

Summary: A canon AU drarry fic based on the relationship between Mickey and Ian from Shameless. A story about the aftereffects of the Second Wizarding War and how Draco and Harry come together and break apart over and over. How maybe, somewhere along the way, they find a way to live with themselves.

Read "Change on the Horizon" now on AO3.

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The Thrill of the Chase Moves in Mysterious Ways

Prompt: #192 | "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" - 2012 - Series Author: VeelaWings Word Count: 32,569 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Heavy Drinking, Smoking Cigars, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Implied/Referenced Kidnapping, Non-Graphic Violence, Gun Violence, Poisoning

Summary:

“Do you have a personal interest in this case, Malfoy?” Harry asked, arms crossed and blocking the view of the body behind him.

“Not at all.” Draco smiled sweetly, cuddled into the side of tonight’s date. “Although I did briefly own that painting until it proved to be stolen.” He helpfully pointed to the Renaissance portrait a few metres to their left.

“Why is it always so complicated with you?”

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Some people might argue that Draco didn’t have very good ideas. That was a lie. Draco had fantastic ideas, however, due to mankind having free will, the planning and execution of those ideas didn’t always pan out in his favor.

(Or — Draco solves crimes that don’t technically belong to him and Harry tries not to fall in love. Co-Starring: Hermione, High Heels, and Hiccups along the way. #dat 1920s lyfe)

Read "The Thrill of the Chase Moves in Mysterious Ways” now on AO3.

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Burn Your Life Down (but look back to me)

Prompt: #202 | Casablanca - 1942 - Michael Curtiz Author: Triggerlil Word Count: 35,910 words Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Warnings: Alternate Universe - World War II, Film Noir, Self-Medication, Alcohol, Infidelity (not between Harry and Draco), Smoking, Mention of Slavery and Human Trafficking

Summary:

It's been years since destiny walked into an apartment on Rue Azais, and Harry is over it. Really, he is. He has Blaise, he has his work, and if necessary, he still has his memories. But with the onset of WWII, the foundations of his life are crumbling, and suddenly a certain blond man is walking back into his life, asking Harry to make important, and dangerous, choices.

Read “Burn Your Life Down (but look back to me)” now on AO3.

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Super Rich Kids

Prompt: #24 | "The Bling Ring" - 2013 - Sofia Coppola Author: Thusspoketrish Word Count: 81,000 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Thriller, Murder, Dark Humour, Angst, Depression, Nihilism, Existenialism, Jealousy, Hurt/Comfort, Gaslighting, Very Brief Instance of Suicidal Ideation, Immorality, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence (not between Harry and Draco), Abusive Drug Use, Manipulative Behaviour, Heterosexual Sex, Threesomes, Candaulism, Possible Infidelity Due to Unclear Relationship Status (please read the tags on AO3 carefully, this list is not exhaustive)

Summary:

Draco Malfoy has become disillusioned by the glitz and glamour of the scandalous lives of the Post-Second Wizarding War Pureblood Elite. Enter: one existential crisis, one group of cynical friends, and several terrible, terrible decisions.

Read “Super Rich Kids” now on AO3.

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We Built This Right

Prompt: #48 | "Yuri on ice" - 2016 - Series Author: remy_writes5 Word Count: 15,344 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Homophobic Language, Anxiety, Strained Relationship with Parents

Summary:

At last year's Grand Prix Final, Harry had an accident that left him with a lightning scar on his forehead, a concussion and a twisted ankle. Now everyone is waiting to see if his career is over - including former rival, Draco Malfoy.

Read "We Built This Right” now on AO3.

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fymagnificentwomcn · 3 years

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Thoughts on kasim? And his relationship with kosem? Also do you think that murad envied him in some ways

I feel like kosem and Kasim’s relationship isn’t appreciated enough at all. I have never seen any edit or anything of them anywhere. What do you guys think of their relationship?

Kasim’s relationship with Kösem and Ibrahim was lovely! Makes you really wish they had succeeded and Kasim had become the sultan instead of Ibrahim... everything could have been so different.

The most problematic thing about Kasim was definitely his attitude to Bayezid because while yes Bayezid backstabbed them, he should have later taken a chill pill ultimately and instead of quarreling with him should have tried to focus on their common threat aka Murad. Yet there was still Gülbahar, who would never be conciliatory and of course Kasim does have his reasons to be scared due to suspicions of her being alive. Maybe if relations between brothers hadn’t been so bad, Bayezid would not have got that close to his mum and at least sent her away to some safe place? We might never know. Ibrahim was mad at Bayezid too intiially, but later let it slide.

Kasim is clearly well aware of Murad’s true nature from the start because he’s scared at the prospect of Murad taking full power already in episode 1 of Season 2 and remarks how Mu/rat will likely lock them all up, which later happens to him in just a few episodes. This, I guess, contrasts a bit with Bayezid’s naivety regarding Murad - he never expected him going as far as locking Kasim up with their mad uncle as punishment. Bayezid is all about obeying the rules, Kasim is more lax at the beginning, as his “love affair” showed, but we know Bayezid will later dare to engage in forbidden love too.

After Kasim is released from kafes, the relationship between all the brothers is never the same and it’s no longer as friendly as we have seen at the beginning when even Bayezid and Kasim were in very good relations.

Kasim has definitely a lovely relationship with Ibrahim - they are clearly very close confidants and he is very protective of his younger sibling throughout, even being there to comfort him when Ibrahim breaks down during Gevherhan’s funeral or afterwards coming to defend him from Murad when Ibrahim faces Mu rat and calls him out on the treatment of their mother and other people. I also loved when he tried to always keep him calm when they were in kafes, e.g. by trying to mention their childhood game.

I think that following Bayezid’s death Kasim matured and while seating in kafes truly wanted to become a merciful padisah and follow more into his father’s footsteps than Murad’s as he himself claimed. He also seemed to understand his mother’s feelings – he stressed he knew what she had been through and had done for them, how she still proceeds slowly even once he and Ibrahim are in cages because her feelings for Murad hinder her from acting decively. You can truly see in his talks with Kösem that he now wants to return to peace their family had had before Murad took the throne and he wants to have a little family with his mum and Ibrahim that could live in peace and without fear.

Was Murad jealous of their closeness?

Murad wanted everyone’s life to revolve around HIM. And again he only wanted his mother to focus on HIM. He never took into account she also cared about whole dynasty, including her other kids. She was forbidden in his mind to take any actions with thought about times when he would be gone.

This is why he got soo mad about her going with princes to the janissary barracks. He didn’t pay attention that Kösem had received reliable news from Kemankeş about janissaries being already on verge of revolt, Murad’s sons were told to be dead of plague, and that nobody saw the princes since they had been locked up by Murad like two years ago. Again it was widely known by then that the plague hit the palace and even Murad contracted it from his sons. Nobody knew whether Murad’s brothers were still alive, didn’t catch the plague as well and whether they were surely still alive or in sound mental and physical condition. And since they were only heirs end of dynasty could thus be near and for Ottomans no padişah meant no law, so riots etc. were allowed. It was also customary for palace factions to hide padisah’s demise or truth about his condition due to them fighting for their personal interests (and even in this case Yusuf managed to hide Murad’s later, correct diagnosis from even the Valide Sultan herself). Murad HAD to remember when the mob almost attacked to palace when they wanted to see the princes in ep. 31. Kösem was doing her duty and you can bet that if they had attacked the palace with him in it, he would have then accused Kösem of inciting them or not stopping them from rebelling. Similar case was when Ahizade vouched for him back in episode 31 that the princes were alive and well and Murad got mad because of course he is the Padişah, fate of princes and dynasty is all him, nobody will vouch for him even if this helps HIM (I just cannot even comprehend his sick logic). Again, she was at his sick bed, she left to take care of matters connected with state and her other children, and would have surely returned to his side after they returned from barracks if he had not stormed in. But he’s of course bitter she didn’t just sit at his sick bed crying all the time or better decided her life was over because he was going to die.Kosem’s whole life was balancing so many of her responsibilites.

When Kösem tells him that if he wants to punish anyone, it should be her, not her other children, of course he decides to ask for fetva anyway (and again he KNOWS he’s fatally ill and that would mean end of dynasty and does not inform the müfiti about it). It’s quite repeated pattern – he uses Kösem’s kids to demand obedience from her, just as he blackmailed her about locking Kasim and Ibrahim up if she did not leave palace. He knows she that’s the best way to make her obedient.

Murad in general wants desperately to turn the clock back, but things in the Ottoman Empire already changed and Padisah was no longer such “God” as before:

If it came to deposition, the queen mother’s acquiescence in the removal of her son preserved the bond between ruler and ruled in a reassuring way that all the niceties of Islamic law could not match. At such times the continuity of the dynasty could be maintained only by means of a living link between generations, and in the postexpansionist empire, it was the sultan’s mother who was that link. (...) Interregnums were periods of social disruption. Because of the personal nature of the bond between sultan and subjects, oaths of loyalty were considered to have lapsed at the death of a sultan. This led to the practice of looting and general insubordination until the next sultan had been enthroned and could demand the obedience of his subjects. At these times of potential disruption, royal women played a vital role in preserving dynastic continuity: by hiding the death of the old sultan and thus preventing social disruption, by protecting the interests of the new sultan, and by preserving the traditions of the dynasty. (...)

It is in this changing political environment that the significance of the valide sultan's role in depositions can best be understood. The mother of the deposed sultan performed the function of providing sanction for the rejection of the individual sultan, thus allowing dynastic legitimacy to be preserved. The mothers of three of the five seventeenth-century sultans who were deposed—Mustafa, İbrahim, and Mustafa II (r. 1695-1703)—were alive at the time of their sons’ depositions. There is evidence to suggest that each of these women was formally petitioned by the highest officers of state—the grand vezir and the müfti—not only to approve but also to assist in the transfer of authority. (...) The valide sultan’s role in these dramatic events was to some degree a formality: she was asked to ratify a decision that had already been made by leading politicians and religious dignitaries. Yet her sanction of the forcible transfer of power from one sultan to another was necessary because it symbolically prevented the rupturing of dynastic continuity. Despite the fact that Islamic legal tradition allowed rebellion against a sovereign who prevented the pursuit of the proper Muslim life (it was precisely this kind of argument that had been put forth to justify İbrahim’s deposition), the devotion of Ottomans to their dynasty was so great that the rebellion of the sultan’s servants against their master appeared to violate their oath of loyalty to their sovereign and to return ingratitude for the bounty he had bestowed on them (it was principally with this argument that Kösem Sultan countered the religio-legal argument). In being called upon to legitimate the subjects’ withdrawal of their loyalty, the valide sultan, as the senior member of the royal family, was endowed with the responsibility of representing the welfare of the dynasty as a whole, even if this meant sacrificing the interest of a particular sultan. (...) The valide sultan, as head of the imperial harem, was the one individual who could sanction the crossing of its boundary if necessary. In the absence of the sultan, she was the one individual who could exercise authority in both the outer and inner worlds of government.

Taken from: Leslie Peirce, The Imperial Harem - Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

As such, Yahya Efendi telling him that even a Padişah cannot make such a decision like end of dynasty (and thus whole state) in bolum 56 is very poignant.

Murad generally wants to bring back old times of when dynasty centered around one person aka the current padişah and when loyalty was only to him, not whole dynasty. He wants to be the most important and this also comes out in relation with his own mother. He also misses how in past mothers usually had only one son, so obviously they focused solely on him, and their lives were supposed to be over once their son died, all they were supposed to do was to be custodians of their tombs and memory. He obviously would love such old times to come back.

I think people are more fascinated by relationship between Kösem and Murad, and while it is interesting, at the same time they miss they could never be a working “power duo” - they might have the same spirit aka forceful,charismatic and domineering personality, but ultimately it was reflected differently as they used completely different ruling methods and adhered to a different vision of ruling and sultanate. /And of course there’s issue of Murad’s attitude towards his mother and him accepting NO ONE’s support and influence, he was never one for sharing his power even a little. Valide ruling only harem was an outdated concept by this point, but it was what he wanted to turn the clock back to earlier and outdated concepts of sultanate and sovereignty/

Some cool edits:

https://winterhalters.tumblr.com/post/162640540301/k%C3%B6sem-appreciation-meme-moments-with-children

https://haticesultanas.tumblr.com/post/177842459565/kosem-and-kasim-the-evolution-of-their

https://winterhalters.tumblr.com/post/169304031176/kasim-wearing-his-mommys-colors

- Joanna

#Anonymous #kosem sultan #sehzade kasim #magnificent century kosem #muhteşem yüzyıl kösem #answered #mck #mothers and sons #kösem sultan #mods opinions #murad the reformer #more like in make ottoman empire great again manner #turning clock back and 'past glory'

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gayathreya · 3 years

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leftist suriya characters appreciation post

since soorarai pottru, been thinking more about all the explicit leftist characters suriya has played in his career. and i actually mean explicit - characters that are supported by the narrative framing and structure and not just my own headcanons and stuff or a throwaway generic goody-shoe typical hero line. i have been itching to talk about this cos it’s obviously in my field of interests

suriya has played 4 openly various brands of leftist now, and that’s pretty cool! i love that none of them are cookie cutter personalities of each other, they all have their own select trait. this post is a toast to them;

michael vasanth (ayutha ezhuthu, 2004)

vimalan (maattraan, 2012)

iniyan (thaanaa serndha koottam, 2018)

maara (soorarai pottru, 2020)

[small write up on each character with pics behind the cut]

*****

1. michael vasanth (ayutha ezhuthu, 2004)

so michael was his first, said to be inspired by an actual university popular marxist student leader, george reddy. michael is very obviously somewhere along these lines - he himself is within the film known as the leftist student leader on campus with a huge following, much to the chagrin of his professors who want to stamp that out of him. he’s openly engaged in campus politics as well as politics outside, and he’s most definitely no weak willed liberal because he has no problems with violence or direct action, which he organises. he organises villagers to stand against others on their own feet, never once preaches about lying down and taking it easy or playing polite. which was nice to see lol i hate liberals who have morals about property damage but in ayutha ezhuthu, michael clearly doesn’t give a fuck. he and his group break things and smash cars and lorries on their way and threaten physical violence on their opponents too which is the way it should be because to him human lives are worth more than any property or vehicular damage. he never shies away from that. hell yes to violence and structural damage!

probably the most definite trait of michael compared to other suriya leftist characters is that michael still believes in the establishment and electoral politics, which u don’t particularly see his other leftist ones talk about. but here, michael works within the system, and trusts it to bring change if u put in the effort into that. though, it’s not as frustrating as it sounds cos michael’s work is not geared towards other liberals, but in villages and rural districts where he goes to spread word, and makes them choose their own leadership to represent. it’s way more marxist aligned and ~rise of the proletariat~ here instead cos he bypasses liberal bougie nonsense and never once is his voice used for that, but used towards and for the working class directly to both take up arms and resist violently themselves + hold ranks for themselves and choose their own leaders to influence their local politics/protect their environment.

michael is fundamentally very marxist, with a dose of direct action plus violent resistance if need be, and supports organised proletariat uprising within an established political system playing towards electoral politics

(of course, a point to note in why this isn’t as frustrating as it sounds as mentioned above is cos this film was released in 2004. would michael still believe in the establishment and electoral politics now? things in 2020 are very different with all of us more aware of things around us and globally, it’s definitely a debate to be held. i doubt he will, since he’s not a pacifist or liberal. he’d say fuck electoral politics, all my homies hate electoral politics)

2. vimalan (maattraan, 2012)

second very openly communist character he played. prob gone a bit forgotten for others since he does die halfway through the film (which itself isn’t a favourite of anyone either, fans or neutrals) rip but can’t go by without mentioning cos i remember liking this character a lot and i teared up in the cinema first watch when he died. i was mad they killed the suriya i loved instead of the other one whom i found annoying lmao

vimal supports workers’ strikes and unions against bosses, even when that boss is their own shitty father. this automatically makes him stand out instantly considering he is sympathetic to the working class despite at the cost of his father’s annoyance with him. he’s also the first character suriya plays who’s explicitly anti-capitalist with line(s) about it, since michael had no canon lines regarding capitalism from what i recall. vimal outright does.

the leftist imagery tied to vimal the most is che, which is a nice touch. his room has at least one poster of him, and his phone’s wallpaper is also him. u can also see bhagat singh and ho chi minh books on his shelf. so.. safe to claim where vimal’s political ideologies are. it’s both tied in pictures and him siding with workers for their rights against corporations, since he obviously likes revolutionaries. vimalan was a class traitor and a supporter of the working class poor bb tragically gone too soon. ilu u didn’t deserve your terrible fate, sweet commie good boi :(

3. iniyan (thaanaa serndha koottam, 2018)

iniyannnnnn i love him and i think it’s a suriya char with one of the best character arcs in his whole career. mostly cos he had a very distinct ‘’yes i want to work for the government and change things from within’’ phase which gets squashed over the course of the film. we see him start off obviously in a very blatantly communist neighbourhood in a song that is also very specifically anti-establishment/politicians with a lot of hard resistance vibes. the entirety of sodakku is a very good introduction to him and what he stands for - in general the film promises upon wealth disparity, useless bougie politicians, and the rest of us being crushed under them.

what happens to him at the end of the movie is FANTASTIC because he no longer gels with what he wanted at the start of the movie. iniyan’s key leftist trait to me is that he’s the most anarchist of suriya characters, varying from other leftist suriya characters. he refuses to work with government powers and authorities, he looks down on their entire establishment and institutions (he does not at the start of the film, which is vital cos again, he wanted to work alongside them at first), and depends more on the good will of individual people over job titles, while clearly engaging in mutual aid and distributing wealth. these are very distinct anarchist ideals. i’d still peg him as anarcho-communist but would say he leans more towards anarchy and progressing on mutual aid over official state resources or state people for any kind of positive change since his faith in them has pretty much diminished by the climax. he does not give a shit about politicians, cops, or any kind of authorities at all, leaving them in the dust to raise his black flag and do his own anarchist hot shit.

iniyan is a good example of an anarchist arc for me in tamil cinema in simple commercial terms without heading too deep into actual words and phrases in a big hero movie, cos it’s also very easy to explain to anyone the shift in his ideas and his eroding faith in institutions with power. good for him!

4. maara (soorarai pottru, 2020)

this should be fresh in everyone’s memory, but yes, a character who is obviously in your face about it since he has an actual line - ‘’you’re a socialite, i’m a socialist’’ which caused all of us with good taste to whoop and cheer. plus he was very sexy in this whole scene, so what a bonus. it’s the most explicit thing said by him in the film, but there are also other little things peppered into his speech and background imagery showing u the kind of person maara is.

he gets married to bommi in a self-respect wedding ceremony. no priests or any kind of traditional hindu iyers/chants involved. u see it clearly with a periyar pic hanging behind him explaining who he is. he wears black a lot in the film, which fits him being a periyarist so i’d label him as such and consider it his standout trait from other leftist characters suriya has played previously because this is the only character with explicit periyar symbolism (i kid u not i saw multiple sanghis being very angry suriya dressed in black in this movie and were harassing him on twitter constantly since sp released. die mad, uglies). obviously, this also fuses well with the little things we see of him implying he’s ~lower caste~ like his in-laws being embarrassed about him on behalf of their own caste, and paresh sanitising his hands after shaking hands with maara on the plane, which is not subtle at all and trademark casteist behaviour about touching someone ‘’lesser’’ than you and u view them as ‘’dirty’’ or beneath you. as well as maara’s remark about breaking the class and caste barrier during his radio interview. being a periyarist fits seamlessly.

there’s also a bts vid of suriya on his bike where you can see an ambedkar pic pasted onto the side. i can’t remember any scene in the film where u can see his bike from this angle but it doesn’t matter, cos u can definitely tell the kind of person maara is and how he was envisioned as a character - an explicit socialist and periyarist, with a natural fondness for ambedkar too since ofc they overlap as many do irl as well. it is very in tune with his background in the film and i liked seeing the tiny aspects of these things seeded within the movie throughout from beginning to end. it’s explicit in a way that isn’t jarring or artificial, and a nice layer to him and feel endeared to since maara is a great character. u support him all the way with him being unquestionable in his stance and ideology. the sexiest leftist suriya character, if i say so myself, ahem.

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5. ngk (ngk, 2019)

bonus: THIS IS IT. THE BIGGEST SIKE. THE BIGGEST WHIPLASH. THE BIGGEST BASTARD.

it’s here cos damn, when they released that first look, i completely lost my shit cos that poster was sooo heavily che inspired and very, very obviously marxist. cue me thinking that holy shit suriya is openly playing some kind of marxist guerilla revolutionary in ngk and he’s gonna be some brand of violent radical leftist i’m gonna fall in love with. the beret, the raised fists, the red.. i was ready to be head over heels for this guy.

except of course, none of this was true, cos once the film released, u know that poster was only meant to signify how his village looked up to him before he sold them all out. it’s literally just a mural on the wall where a kid stares up at him in a larger extended poster. he COULD have been that character, but ngk’s character arc was a negative character arc and his moral downfall from the start to the end of the film, sacrificing all he stood for to arrive at his end point which was just dragging his village and all the youngsters who believed in him to the pits before jumping party to the winning group and abandoning all of them after manipulating them to act in his favour to gain sympathy. not to mention, also selling out to corporate tools to harness their power and influence in order to rise to the top himself, something he very openly states at the beginning of the film to his mum and wife that working like that is no way to live. he has a full reverse by this point, compared to how ngk was introduced to us as an audience with that first look of him.

the marxist poster was a complete 180 to how ngk falls on the spectrum at the end, but it was a great ride nevertheless and at least one thing was still true - i still fell in love with him cos he was such an asshole bastard but still so hot i had to give in. biiiicchh. i love u, non-leftist regressive jerk. u may have pulled the biggest sike on me, but.. my heart is yours, slut <3

*****

ok that’s really it and all i wanted to say so hopefully at least a few people read this lmafooo. i do think these characters and time have sort of seeped into suriya over the years as evident by his shifting left in the last couple of years, and openly also saying he has had a lot of perspective changes on things around him. he has been noted in recent interviews saying stuff like how he’s in favour of a cashless society, talking about a whole new level of poverty class being created during this pandemic. his written articles/statements/agaram related speeches takes jibes at india’s education system being brahministic/casteist in nature and how it creates barriers for the lowest strata of society while also being very sensitive about student suicides, showing understanding of it as a systematic failure and not an individual one, courts not functioning for justice, not demonising protests as it’s the only act left for the voiceless, etc. it’s nice. i wouldn’t go as far as to call him a leftist until he proves that to me (suriya is still very much in that liberal zone of appreciating the police and military institutions so i will never consider him one of us until he sheds these allegiances and rethinks his stance on them in society), but i’d say he’s definitely the furthest left of all prominent actors in tamil cinema as no one else really has said or written the things that he has, for which i’m very proud of him.

so keep up the good work and hot shit comments and ballsy articles, suriya, i look forward to u shifting further left and pissing off everyone from right wing patriotic assholes, to centrist bootlickers, and even cowardly liberal pacifists. i believe in u and i hope he crosses that steep liberal curve soon since we were all there at some point as well.

that’s all goodbye i love suriya thanks for reading

#hooo lads finally wrote this like i wanted to! target audience? spare target audience??#suriya #tamil cinema #kollywood #mix #mine*#commentary #politics

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theladyvanya · 4 years

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Mírë’s Character Sheet

Most certainly inspired by @king-feanor-the-noldo to create a character sheet for the OC I am currently working on!

THE BASICS

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Name: Mírë

Nicknames:

Gender: Female

Age: 3,004 years old

Birth Date: Y.T.

Birth Place: Alqualondë

Currently Living In: Tirion

Species: Tolkien Elf

Ethnicity / Race: Telerin

Citizenship: -

Religion / Beliefs: Eru and the Valar

Astrology Sign: —

Chinese Animal / Zodiac Year: —

Blood Type: —

Chinese Element: —

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FAMILY

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Father: Eldasquion q. Elf hair man

Age: 5,341

Relationship: Strained and mentally abusive, it used to be a very strong loving relationship. But post Kinslaying it has been difficult, brutish and unkind. It has stayed that way even well into the Second Age.

Mother: Laureloxeme q. Goldenhaired woman

Age: 5,157

Relationship: Almost nonexistent, they speak but it’s awkward and quiet. Mírë feels as though her mother loves wine and her sister and brother more than her. Laureloxeme interacts as little as possible with Mírë, mostly struggling with intense grief and sorrow with what happened to Elvëion and Mírë.

Sister: Losseien q. Snow white woman

Age: 3,876

Relationship: Abusive, always has been. Losseien cannot stand her youngest sister, she feels as though her sister is spoiled and gets away with everything. Post Kinslaying she takes great delight in the shift of the relationship with their father, and often joins in finding ways to torture Mírë without anyone knowing

Brother: Elvëion q. Starlike man

Age: 3,991

Relationship: The strongest and healthiest relationship that Mírë has with anyone in her family, along with his wife Malinien. Elvëion is oblivious to the abuse that happens as it always happens in private and never in front of him or his wife where he can protect her. Elvëion is very overprotective of her and loves her deeply, always intervening when Losseien is bullying her.

Extended Family Member(s):

-Lírë, her grandmother, is the other family member she has the most consistent and closest relationship with. The two are very close and Lírë always dotes on her granddaughter, she saw to her care after the kinslaying since no one in her immediate family would be there for her through her recovery.

- Mírë gets along with most of her cousins, all of which are ellons, and all of them adore Mírë and Losseien as they are the only elleths born into the extensively male family. Things change drastically though when Mírë is betrothed to Carnistir and all of them begin to view her as traitorous as they are unforgiving to the Fëanorians for what they did to Mírë, Elvëion and Malinien.

Pet(s): --

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PHYSICAL FEATURES:

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Height: 6’0

Weight: 165

Frame / Build: Slender

Hair length: Down to her waist, usually with intricate braids and pearls decorating her hair

Hair color: White

Eye shape: Almond

Eye color: Ice blue

Complexion: pale

Face size: Thin

Voice type: Soft, gentle

Foot size: -

Tattoo(s): -

Scar(s): She has a scar hidden beneath her clothes, it’s on her lower abdomen from where she had been stabbed during the Kinslaying.

Other notable accessories:

Always wearing pearls and gold, and the engagement ring that Fëanor crafted for her.

Any other identifying mark(s):

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SOCIO / ECONOMIC / POLITICAL

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Political Affiliation: Used to be politically involved, limited her involvement post Kinslaying

Economic Class: Wealthy

Social Class (nobility, artisan, merchant, commoner, etc.): Noble

Occupation: Used to assist her father in running Alqualondë

Income: -

Residence: Alqualondë , Tirion

Transportation: Horseback

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INTERESTS

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Favorite Foods: Loves shellfish, petit fours, and spicy soups

Favorite Sports: Fishing, dancing, horseback riding

Favorite Books: Romance novels and romantic poetry

Favorite Shows: -

Favorite Music: She has no preferred style, as she loves all of it.

Favorite Colours: Lavender, soft blues, pastel pinks, eventually deep reds, greens and teals

Clothing Style / Preferences: Flowy and loose gowns, in the Telerin style, prefers to wear shoes unless on the beach.

Hobbies: Embroidery, astronomy, fishing

Role Model(s): Lírë and eventually Nerdanel

Likes: the beach and rivers, horseback riding, fishing, spending time with Carnistir, being outside or in a library.

Dislikes: Interacting with Maitimo or Tyelkormo, being cooped up endlessly inside, being told she has no choice in doing things, being told that she is incapable, bullying, nightmares, having to be politically involved in anything, certain limits.

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PERSONALITY

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Good Qualities / Trait(s): Strong, independent, obedient, compassionate, intelligent, quick learner, adaptable, gentle, thoughtful, kind, good, modest, patient, creative, curious

Vices / Negative Trait(s): easily manipulated, too obedient, stubborn, skeptical, fawner, shuts down easily, bottles emotions, antisocial, insecure, oversensitive, resentful, timid, uncommunicative, overly patient

Strengths: Curiosity, creativity, persistent, able to think things through, is okay with failure, compassionate with other people, able to be alone and think for herself, independent, self disciplined, puts others first.

Weaknesses: People in need, people who hold higher authority, being told what to do by people in need or authoritative people, being shamed, embarrassed easily, easily subjected to being manipulated.

Habits / Idiosyncrasies / Quirks: Fidgety when nervous, always drinks tea right before bed,

Phobia / Fears: being mistreated, afraid of being attacked by the Fëanorians again, falling in love, relying on other people, indulging in hobbies, her father discovering her happiness, being happy for fear of it crumbling down, Tyelkormo, fear of her infertility getting out to Carnistir, Carnistir breaking off their engagement, being alone with her father or sister.

Loves: Carnistir, her brother, embroidery, Nerdanel, reading, water, fish, jewelry

Hates: Tyelkormo, being landlocked for too long, being inside for too long, being told she can’t do her hobbies, being told Tyelkormo is indeed joining them on fishing trips.

Select one personality type below that best describes your character:

PROTECTORS

[] Overseer (ESTJ) – Thrives on facts and details. Has a clear set of standards and beliefs. They are hardworking, responsible, and self-confident. They rely on experiences rather than speculation, and make decisions based on these. Very good at enforcing laws and rules. Loyal and hard-working. Like to be in charge. Very organized, tends to be a stickler for the rules.

[] Supporter (ESFJ) – Popular, and most sociable of all the types. Respects authority and values traditions. Has a strong desire to be liked, and therefore tends to want to serve others’ needs, sometimes at the expense of their own.

[] Examiner (ISTJ) – A very keen sense of what’s right and what’s wrong. Responsible especially in their field of expertise, devoted and punctual. Very thorough, and tends to put duty before pleasure. They are very thorough, honest, and seek to accomplish anything they put their minds to. Follows the rules and does not tend to be adventurous. Likes conformity. Can sometimes have a surprising offbeat sense of humor.

[X] Defender (ISFJ) – Puts the needs of others before themselves, to a point where they tend to give more than they receive. Quiet and conscientious. Modest and tends to be a spectator. They do what is expected of them without attracting attention to themselves. Sensitive to the feelings of others, and has a very good memory, especially when it comes to observing other people. Can be easily hurt. Very painstaking when it comes to detail.

CREATORS

[] Persuader (ESTP) – Realists. Enthusiastic people of action who like to explore and use their senses to explore the world. Likes sports and are risk-takers. They live in the (preferably) fast-paced here and now, and thrive on problems and crises. Often fearless and dominates conversations. Unafraid of criticism. Blunt and very straightforward. Does not necessarily follow the law if it gets in the way of what they want.

[] Entertainer (ESFP) – Lively and cooperative, they like being the center of attention and do not like being alone. They like exciting things and new adventures. Often likes to play the host, and understands how to motivate people to get a job done. They are efficient workers and make good problem solvers, and they generally get along with most people.

[] Crafstman (ISTP) – Independent and adventurous, they like figuring out how things work. Great mechanical and technical skills, they are often the troubleshooters. They are adventurous and like living for the moment. Sometimes unemotional, have simple desires, and prefer intellectual pursuits. Do not often like to follow rules, preferring to do things their way. Quiet and reserved.

[] Artist (ISFP) – Creative, quiet, serious, loyal and sensitive. Do not like conflict. Takes great value in personal freedom. Private and prone to confusion. Gifted at creating and composing. Good appreciation for beauty. Not interested in leading or controlling others. Very original and creative especially in the arts. Can be trendsetters and into latest styles and art / fashion / etc.

INTELLECTUALS

[] Chief (ENTJ) – Natural leaders, strategic and very organized. Outspoken and decisive, and values competency and efficiency. Very resolute and has a knack for arguments / debates. Competitive, assertive and outspoken. Understands difficult problems and create quick and viable solutions for them. Intelligent and well-informed, they do not have much patience with inefficiency. Dominant and assertive, does not like to be bored.

[] Originator (ENFP) – Inventive and idea people. Love to argue to show off their skills and intelligence. Prefers the startup phase of a project where the risks and problems are greater, than turning over the lead to someone else once these are solved. Enthusiastic, idealistic, and creative. Great people skills. Excited by new ideas, but bored with details. Open-minded and flexible, and able to make others enthusiastic over their ideas and projects.

[] Engineer (INFP) – Quiet, logical, and idealistic. Not interested in calling attention to themselves unless their beliefs / principles are violated, where they will then become outspoken and argumentative. A thinker whose inner private world is governed by a logical structure. Analyze difficult problems and find patterns. Has a system-building approach to problems. Likes solitude and are rule breakers. Unemotional, often acts without consulting others.

[] Strategist (INTJ) – Introspective, analytical, has great leadership ability, independent, original, and determined. Does not mind other people’s leadership as long as they are competent. Can bring ideas from concept to reality. Expects perfection from themselves. Chessboard thinkers with contingency plans. Hard to impress and likes esoteric things. Independent individualists.

VISIONARIES

[] Mentor (ENFJ) – Positive, popular, altruistic, religious and sensitive, with excellent people skills. Can be good salesmen. Concerned for other people’s feelings. Focused on understanding and encouraging others. Does not like impersonal analysis. Can be image conscious. Often has very good charisma, and can easily convince others. Has a very positive personality. Excellent language skills, and would make for natural leaders.

[] Advocate (ENTP) – Often works for causes and can be very expressive regarding their views. They want to call attention to what they stand for. Spontaneous and social but can be disogranized and act without thinking. Excited and passionate about things, and motivate others to feel the same. Always want to make the most out of life. Best of all the personality types at social and emotional coping. Ranked 2nd of all the types in using cognitive resources. Places great importance in friendships, even at the risk of being taken advantage of.

[] Confidant (INFJ) – Intensely private and committed to their beliefs. Highly intuitive, emphatic and dedicated listeners. Quietly forceful and sensitive. The rarest personality type, especially with males. Focused on fantasy more than reality. Fears doing the wrong thing. Tend to work quietly behind the scenes and influence people rather than be leaders. Persevering, especially when it comes to doing the right thing. Very individualistic, rather than leading or following, but can work with groups to accomplish a goal.

[] Dreamer (INTP) – Tend to be very private, and does not let a lot of people get close. They are loners and tend to avoid conflicts. The act of creating can already be an accomplishment of instilling a sense of satisfaction. Constantly search for values in life, and tend to use their intuition to do so. Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Want to be recognized and valued, but without attention. Never lose their sense of wonder.

Define your character’s personality based on the following aspects:

a. Physically (outward interaction with his environment, personal strengths):

Mírë is very gentle and careful with her environment, enjoying its beauty for what it’s worth. She uses her environment to draw on her creativity, and employs her compassionate nature to great care of keeping things orderly and content. In harsher environments, Mírë adapts quickly though grows intensively quieter and more careful to persist and survive.

b. Psychologically (intellect, mental stability, morality):

Mírë is a very logical person as well as uses her past experiences to decide how to reason things when it calls for it. She’s very intelligent and very much an intellectual. Mentally, Mírë, is unstable. Struggling with PTSD, anxiety and depression since the First Kinslaying at her home in Alqualondë. Mírë has a great sense of morality, knowing the distinct difference between right and wrong in her own behavior. Though when it comes to herself and her treatment, her morality is a little skewed as she is used to abusive behavior being the normal for her. She strongly dislikes people who have no value of treating people kindly or people enacting injustices against others for no reason.

c. Spiritually (his faith, convictions):

Mírë used to be a very devout follower of Eru and the Valar, though after the first kinslaying her devotion falters drastically. She still holds a considerable love for them both, but she no longer relies on it, if at all, for anything.

d. Emotionally (willpower, under stressful situations, expressiveness):

Mírë has a decent amount of willpower and all of it is used to survive her abusive relationships at home as opposed to using her willpower to navigate her life how she wants too. Under stressful situations, Mírë is more likely to shut down and try and muddle her way through it, asking no one for help and shouldering everything by herself. Under the impression that no one will help her. Mírë is not very expressive to those she is not comfortable with, preferring to keep a poker face as to not upset anyone. Though the people she is closest with she opens up considerably and allows herself to be emotional before them.

e. Socially (how others view him, how he interacts with people):

People often tend to look at Mírë as very much the ideal Lady and daughter that she is, as she follows rules to a tee and the commands given to her by her father. Though people also tend to look at her as spineless as she really never stands up for herself or never voices her own thoughts. Though other people see her kindness and appreciate how considerate she is to them. Mírë will always be kind and considerate to those around her, even to Tyelkormo who she despises with every fiber in her being. She doesn’t believe in causing conflict, even if it is necessary.

Others things to know:

Mírë tends to handle everything by herself, starkly under the impression that no one will help her deal with anything. Most of this is conditioning after she was left to “recover” mentally from the Kinslaying and dealing with her father and sisters abuse. Even when forced into her engagement with Carnistir, she views him very much as someone who will treat her negatively and like a burden so she just obediently listens to the things he instructs her to do. Mírë stays in a very strict survival mode, trying to navigate her new life with the very people who hurt her and murdered her brother and sister in law. Even with Nerdanel at first, she only does things Mírë believes Nerdanel wants out of her.

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HISTORY

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1. Describe the character’s childhood.

Mírë’s childhood was extremely idyllic, spent with her brother and parents mostly. Losseien refused to have to do much with her care as that resentment was there even at a young age for Mírë. Elvëion would often take her to the beach, and he was the one who taught her both how to fish with a net and a spear. Her mother made sure she was highly educated and her father encouraged her to pursue her interests and when she showed interests in politics, he openly welcomed her to teach her the ropes at a young age. Her childhood was very healthy and happy, save for Losseien. She wanted to be just like Losseien when she was very little and would always chase after her sister despite the constant rejection.

2. Name the good incidents that have happened in the character’s life. How has this shaped his personality?

Her childhood was a direct catalyst for making her such a happy and knowledgeable person especially pre kinslaying. It was what drove her to take interest in caring for her people and family. Even post kinslaying she has a strong drive to make others happy and make sure their needs are met, even if she believes following certain tasks will help.

3. Name bad experiences that have happened in the character’s life. How has this shaped his personality?

The Kinslaying made her very sad and quiet. The loss of her fertility bubbling and building extreme resentment for the Fëanorians. When the abuse began at first she was resistant and constantly fighting against it, but eventually the repeated blows became too much. This is where Mírë developed her incredible need to be obedient to try and make her situation better, as well as bring happiness to anybody.

4. What is the character doing when first introduced? What are his goals at this point?

When first introduced, Mírë is in the middle of having a nightmare to the First Kinslaying and watching her brother and sister in law be killed and then herself being harmed before she awakens. Her goals at this point are currently to just keep surviving and make sure that she keeps her father happy and pleased.

4a. Do these goals change at any point in the story?

Yes, eventually Mírë begins to do things for herself, and her goals change drastically from survival to being about genuine happiness and overcoming her struggles with abuse and from the Kinslaying. She wants to learn to be forgiving where it actually counts, and to condemn those who have abused her as well as learn to defend and love herself.

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STORY DEVELOPMENT:

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CHARACTER ARCHETYPE: (Put an X on all applicable boxes)

[] Addict (Conspicuous Consumer, Glutton, Workaholic–see also Gambler)

[] Advocate (Attorney, Defender, Legislator, Lobbyist, Environmentalist)

[] Alchemist (Wizard, Magician, Scientist, Inventor–see also Visionary)

[] Angel (Fairy Godmother FAIRY SQUADMOTHER/Godfather)

[] Antagonist (Opposing View, not necessarily the Evil Bad — see also Villain)

[] Anti-Hero

[X] Artist (Artisan, Craftsperson, Sculptor, Weaver)

[] Athlete (Olympian)

[] Avenger (Avenging Angel, Savior, Messiah)

[] Beggar (Homeless person/ Indigent)

[] Bully (Coward)

[] Catalyst

[] Child (Orphan, Wounded, Magical/Innocent, Nature, Divine, Puer/Puella Eternis, or Eternal Boy/Girl)

[] Clown (Court Jester, Fool, Dummling)

[] Companion (Friend, Sidekick, Right Arm, Consort)

[X] Damsel (Princess)

[] Destroyer (Attila, Mad Scientist, Serial Killer, Spoiler)

[] Detective (Spy, Double Agent, Sleuth, Snoop, Sherlock Holmes, Private Investigator, Profiler–see also Warrior/Crime Fighter)

[] Dilettante (Amateur)

[] Don Juan (Casanova, Gigolo, Seducer, Sex Addict)

[] Engineer (Architect, Builder, Schemer)

[] Exorcist (Shaman)

[] Father (Patriarch, Progenitor)

[] Femme Fatale (Black Widow, Flirt, Siren, Circe, Seductress, Enchantress)

[] Gambler

[] God (Adonis, see also Hero)

[] Gossip (see also Networker)

[] Guide (Guru, Sage, Crone, Wise Woman, Spiritual Master, Evangelist, Preacher)

[] Healer (Wounded Healer, Intuitive Healer, Caregiver, Nurse, Therapist, Analyst, Counselor)

[] Hedonist (Bon Vivant, Chef, Gourmet, Gourmand, Sybarite–see also Mystic)

[] Hermit (see also Wise old Man)

[] Hero/Heroine (see also Knight, Warrior)

[] Judge (Critic, Examiner, Mediator, Arbitrator)

[] King (Emperor, Ruler, Leader, Chief — see also Politician)

[] Knight in Shining Armor

[] Liberator

[X] Lover

[] Martyr

[X] Mediator (Ambassador, Diplomat, Go-Between)

[] Mentor (Master, Counselor, Tutor)

[] Messiah (Redeemer, Savior)

[] Midas/Miser

[] Monk/Nun (Celibate)

[] Mother (Matriarch, Mother Nature)

[] Mystic (Renunciate, Anchorite, Hermit)

[] Networker (Messenger, Herald, Courier, Journalist, Communicator)

[] Pioneer (Explorer, Settler, Pilgrim, Innovator)

[] Poet

[] Politician (see also King)

[] Priest (Priestess, Minister, Rabbi, Evangelist)

[] Prince

[] Prostitute

[] Queen (Empress)

[] Rebel (Anarchist, Revolutionary, Political Protester, Nonconformist, Pirate)

[] Rescuer

[] Saboteur

[] Samaritan

[] Scribe (Copyist, Secretary, Accountant–see also Journalist)

[] Seeker (Wanderer, Vagabond, Nomad)

[] Servant (Indentured Servant)

[] Shape-shifter (Spell-caster–see also Trickster)

[] Slave

[] Spectre (Ghost / Apparition with Unresolved issues)

[] Storyteller (Minstrel, Narrator)

[] Student / Scholar (Disciple, Devotee, Follower, Apprentice)

[] Teacher (Instructor, see also Mentor)

[] Thief (Swindler, Con Artist, Pickpocket, Burglar, Robin Hood)

[] Threshold Guardian

[] Trickster (Puck, Provocateur)

[] Turncoat

[] Vampire

[X] Victim

[] Villain / Shadow (Big Bad of the story; see also Antagonist)

[] Virgin (see also Celibate)

[] Visionary (Dreamer, Prophet, Seer–see also Guide, Alchemist)

[] Warrior (Soldier, Crime Fighter, Amazon, Mercenary, Soldier of Fortune, Gunslinger, Samurai)

[] Wise old Man (see also Hermit)

1. What are the motivations for the character’s actions?

Mírë’s motivations for her actions are at first about keeping things conflict free and happy for other people, as opposed to keeping things happy for herself. She wants to keep herself out of the line of fire as much as possible. Though eventually this changes to actually wanting to do things for herself, gain confidence to defend herself, and enjoy her life instead of just trying to survive it.

2. What are the character’s goals / ambition / dreams?

Survival at first, though it changes to healing and overcoming the hard obstacles in her life. Her dream is to marry Carnistir and have a happy and content life with him as he views her as equal and nothing less.

3. What external conflicts would you wish for the character to overcome?

Dealing with her abusive family, healing from her trauma, repairing more bridges with the Fëanorians and seeing that they all have changed, even Tyelkormo.

3a. What are the obstacles in the character’s path that might make this difficult?

Her father and sister who interfere and tear her down, her extended family who view her as a traitor, people who will take advantage of her. Tyelkormo and a few of the Fëanorians being really rough around the edges and suspicious of her.

4. What inner conflicts would you wish for the character to overcome?

Trauma, and insecurities

4a. What are the obstacles in the character’s path that might make this difficult?

Her own fears and self flagellation.

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ABILITIES

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Aliases: Mírë Eldasquion

Team affiliations: —

Powers / special abilities: . —

Other skills: Skilled embroider, fisher,

Weaknesses / Kryptonite: her need to make people happy, her over obedience

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AUTHOR’S NOTES / MISCELLANY

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Character theme song: What’s Wrong by PVRIS, Hallucinations by PVRIS

Celebrity / IRL look alike: -

List down any future plot twists / conflicts you are planning for the character here (for series, companion books, etc.):

- Mírë develops, unexpectedly, a very strong bond with Carnistir and with Nerdanel as both are keen and quick to pick up on her survival tactics. Mírë falls for Carnistir just as quickly as the bond develops, and it terrifies her and she keeps this information much to herself.

- Conflict with her father as he comes to visit, and she does her best to downplay the happiness she is feeling while there. Afraid that he will call off the engagement if he feels that she isn’t miserable.

- Her infertility comes to light unexpectedly and not at her own volition as her grandmother openly exposes her to Carnistir and both their families.

- Carnistir learns which of his brothers it was that stabbed her, and gets physically confrontational with her father as he gets to see the abuse for himself finally.

- Both later on make the decision to marry in secret so there is nothing either of their fathers can do to try and squash the engagement.

Rules: Bold those traits and aesthetics that apply to your character.

OC:

what they know how to do:

flaws:

fears:

the dark ⋆ fire ⋆ open water ⋆ deep water ⋆ being alone ⋆ crowded spaces ⋆ confined spaces ⋆ change ⋆ failure ⋆ war ⋆ loss of control ⋆ powerlessness ⋆ prison ⋆ blood ⋆ drowning ⋆ suffocation ⋆ public speaking ⋆ natural animals ⋆ the supernatural ⋆ heights ⋆ death ⋆ dying ⋆ intimacy ⋆ rejection ⋆ abandonment ⋆ loss ⋆ the unknown ⋆ the future ⋆ not being good enough ⋆ scary stories ⋆ speaking to new people ⋆ poverty ⋆ loud noises ⋆ being touched ⋆ forgetting ⋆ being forgotten

#tolkien oc #tolkien #the silm #the silmarillion #fanfic #fanfiction #original character #oc #original characters #carnistir x Mírë

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slightly-radical-universe · 3 years

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Indaba, My Children- Review

Indaba, My Children, is a book that compels you to reimagine Africa ,it’s history and the origins of the black man. No- he is not the missing link between ape and humanity ,as previously suggested by “respectable” men of science. Throughout the book, the author emphasizes that little is known about the Black man’s culture ,customs, traditions and religion. This can be attributed to all the strict laws which govern the accessibility , dissemination and acquisition of knowledge in Africa. Very few wise men and women are chosen as “Custodians of tribal history”. These individuals are then tasked with the grave responsibility of being guardians and repositories of all of Africa’s secrets and wonderful mysteries.

Custodians of Tribal History are sown to secrecy through intense rituals and blood oaths. They are never to reveal some of the sacred wisdom which has now been passed down to them- to the average Tom, Dick and Sipho. “Vey little knowledge is passed on to common people and nothing is ever disclosed to strangers” (p.654). The author believes that this impeccable shroud of secrecy surrounding Indigenous African Knowledge is a major contributing factor to inequality and to the racism that has caused much havoc and heartache in the past. He believes that if there were a better understanding between black and white, much bloodshed could’ve been avoided. (He uses Dingana and the death of Piet Retief to illustrate this point). Credo Mutwa, therefore implores the white man to exterminate his ignorance and arrogance and for once learn and understand the black man for what he truly is- How he thinks , the beliefs and philosophies that guide his thinking, his actions and much more. “The African can only be understood in terms of the strange workings of his own mind and those who do not appreciate this may as well refrain from studying the African” (p.655).

Indaba, My Children is thus an attempt to paint a portrait of Africa that the world has never seen before. To demystify the notion that the black man of Africa is a Kaffir- (“ A man without a soul , an unbeliever and a person who can never see the paradise of Allah” - Arab definition as detailed in p.656 ) who has contributed nothing to the advancement and development of humanity at large. This is achieved by taking the reader on a captivating and thrilling adventure through the annals of time. From the very beginning of time when a great nothingness engulfed the earth. To the very first goddess , Ninavanhu-Ma who created the very stars, mountains and oceans and then went on to give birth the human race. We get a glimpse of tribal life in precolonial Africa - the good the great and the not so good.

Women play a very significant role in this great piece of literature. Throughout the story we have many great heroines and rounded female characters. Women can be seen in positions of leadership ,as chieftains and emperors. They are presented as wise , strong and authoritative. There is a synergy and cooperative spirit that governs the men and women. Force and violence against the female body are extremely frowned upon and even punishable by death. Women can therefore practice autonomy over their own bodies and even choose to turn down suitors and marriage proposals.

Tribal law governs the people and absolutely no one is above it. For the preservation of all the laws, customs and traditions of the tribes- everyone must obey all the laws that have been clearly set out. The laws are very strict and they pertain to matters such as- Behavior, rituals , adultery, sex before marriage, theft , murder , abortion ,rape and overall conduct. There are about one hundred such laws and they often contradict those which have been superimposed on Africans by foreigners. When a law is broken a suitable punishment is carried out by the “Tribal avengers”. The punishments are very crude and unforgiving, they are the grimmest part of life pre-colonial life. According to Tribal Law, anyone under 25 years of age is still considered a child and is strictly forbidden to marry or to partake in any form of sexual activities. Failure to adhere to this law is punishable by death.

Polygamy is shown as a normal part of life. Most men take more than two wife's and chiefs really have no limit. The author states that : “ A fallacy dear to many people is that polygamy is practiced as a sign of wealth and prestige” (p. xviii). He cautions that that is very far from the truth. According to the coveted high Tribal Law “ A man must have no relations with his wife during her periods of menstruation or during the entire period while she breastfeeds a baby... Opposition to polygamy encourages extensive immorality and destruction of Bantu family life and traditions. p.633” . It is believed that the males semen poisons the baby's milk. Thus polygamy is crucial in these situations, it ensures that these sacred laws will not be broken. It is also worthy to note that polygamy is not only practiced by males. Yes, a female who goes up the ranks and becomes chieftainess , gets a whopping three husbands all to herself! To top it off , she has to ask for their hand in marriage!

Hair plays a very important symbolism. The “sicolo” hairstyle is worn by married women, usually of royal blood. Different tribes can be identified by their unique hairstyles. “The Strange Ones” are said to have “hair that looks as yellow as corn” and they are identified by their strangely silky , long and shiny hair. The Arabs or “The Feared Ones” are identified as having “fuzzy hair and long beards”.

Slavery , something that was almost alien to Africans , becomes very rampant shortly after the arrival of the first ship. Life as we know it takes a horrid and bitter turn. Suddenly , human beings are sold and traded off like cattle. Fear and terror reign supreme and it seems that the very gods have turned their backs on the black man and woman of Africa. Men and women are made to fight and slaughter each other as a very eccentric and sadistic means of entertainment for the Strange Ones. Human beings are farmed and breed like pigs, to ensure an overflow of good quality slaves. At times, just for fun or experimentation. This dark period in the history of Africa, make the harsh punishments under Tribal Law seem very merciful and humane. The Strange Ones had traditions that were very macabre and blood-chilling. For instance, when their emperors died, he was buried along with his living wife and half of his slaves! There is also mention of traitor tribes, who betrayed the black race by banding together with the Strange Ones as well as the slave-raiding Arabi and sold off millions of African men and women to save their own backs. And also for gaining wealth and favors from the straight-haired foreigners.

Christianity is first introduced by the arrival of the “Potugeesa” in page 521. It is a completely foreign and alien concept and only symbolized by the statuette carried by the foreigners. “ ...ten more of the aliens emerged from the forest led by the one wearing a dark-brown robe reaching to his ankles. He was carrying a staff on the top of which was a bronze statuette of a man of some race, nailed to a cross of wood by his hands and feet ”. Africans lived a life in harmony with nature and were guided by their gods , and various traditions and customs. They could discern right from wrong and governed themselves accordingly.

Vusamazulu Mutwa breaks his sacral oath of silence as a high witchdoctor and chosen custodian as a last and desperate attempt to save the dying knowledge and customs of his people. “Why are we expected to abandon our way of life- our culture and traditions- and suddenly adopt others which are extremely strange to us? p.691 ” . In fear of Africa being turned into “a soul-less carbon copy” of her colonizers, Mutwa bears it all. “Oh! my indolent and gullible Africa- the superior aliens glibly talk of bringing “the light of civilization” to your shores. And yet the only civilization they can bring is one infected with physical, moral and spiritual decay p.691”. Mutwa, believes that by bringing forth Africa's not-yet- forgotten past , we can weave a better understanding and corporation between Black and White, and dispel blatant mistruths and strongly held beliefs such as the one published in the Sunday Times “...The White man is superior to the Black, because apart from a few crude drawings in crude caves, nothing cultural, scientific and social has ever been achieved by a black...” (E. Morris, Johannesburg, on August, 1962 ).

Indaba My Children is truly a work of genius. Its written in a compelling and enchanting style that is on a league of it’s own. The reader is thoroughly entertained and goes through a whirlwind of emotions ranging from amazement , pity , fear and anger to name a few. “A person who is not familiar to Africa and its people might find it difficult to understand this story, let alone read between the lines p.529” It does not follow the “classic”, western three-act structure of story-telling and the perspective of the story-teller jumps back and forth between the main characters, the author and even animals! Parts of the story are told from the point of view of the animals. This draws the reader in the mind of these beasts and it is a powerful way of showing that animals have a mind and consciousness of their own. It also signifies the sacred relationship between the pre-colonial African and the animals in his environment. This story is said to be “...a strange mixture of historical fact and legendary fantasy, a strange mixture of truth and nonsense”. This story is not intended only as a means of entertainment, but is also educational in that it is said to embody tribal history and law. It is written in a way that it can be enjoyed by both old and young.

#indabamychildren #credomutwa #book review

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the-trashy-phoenix · 3 years

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Supernatural season 1 review (part 1, with a little summary)

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As Carly just said, some weeks ago she finished to watch the last season of Supernatural (if you've never seen or heard about this TV series, I'm sorry to inform you that it has 15 seasons, yeah, crazy) and for some reason she wanted to rewatch every single episode from the beginning, with me. I'm not really into TV series and I haven't watched many, but I accepted because I thought I couldn't leave my teen years without making this thrilling experience.

We've just finished the first season (I don't wanna know when we'll finish the whole show, I'll probably spend the next two or three years on this) and I collected some opinions about it.

I was informed about the storyline and the contents, nevertheless the very beginning of the first episode quite shocked me. For those who don't know, the first scene is about the murder of a woman by a supernatural creature, which gives start to the narration because from then on her husband and their two sons, Sam and Dean, dedicate their life to hunting that demon and all kinds of supernatural creatures they find on the way, so that every episode is devoted to a different "hunt", as they call it. The background storyline, in the first half of the season, is the search for Sam and Dean's father, who is somewhere missing hunting that demon that killed his wife, while in the second and final part the family gathers in order to be stronger to eventually fight it.

Of course the supernatural creatures they hunt are different every time, and I appreciated that the authors had a great fantasy to invent or desume them from local traditions and myths: Sam and Dean fight all kinds of demons, ghosts, animals and even people and, being the first season, you learn how to defeat them with the protagonists and feel deeply involved in their job. What they're doing, freeing the world from evil, feels so right that you can even easily understand and excuse their continuous breaking the law and lying, also because every episode has a happy ending and all the people involved end up trusting and thanking them. Moreover, the general skepticism they meet really contributes in making the story realistic and believable, making unbelievable, but still true, everything the brothers find on their way and making us feel like we know something secret to most of other people.

I've just said "job" ... Well, they call it job but in fact they never get paid and I wondered many times how they can live or travel all around the USA on a beatiful car without any money, but, you know, that's just fiction. By the way, they really travel a lot to catch supernatural events, it could probably be interesting to draw a map of their journey...

The only aspect I have to criticize is that the episodes are not so linked by a sort of "fil rouge", but Carly reassured me that the next seasons will be much better also under this point of view.

Talking about her, I highly recommend to watch this show with someone, and better when you're not home alone, if you get frightened easily like me, because some scenes are quite scary.

It's of course a thriller/horror series, and other themes, such as love, are touched, as far as I can say at this point, just to contribute to the characterization of the protagonists. I can never tell what is my "favourite thing" out of a group, so I won't say what's my favourite episode because I couldn't choose, but I'll make an effort and confess my favourite character so far is Sam.

He's the younger brother, and he's always been an outsider in his family: while his father and Dean thought hunting supernatural creatures was their duty and activity for life, he decided to leave them to have a "normal life" studying at University. This dream vanishes when Dean convinces him to come back with the family because their father is missing, but Sam never really quits thinking about studying. Also because the "hunting life" means never settling down, never building strong relationships (while before leaving he had a girlfriend), and Dean, apparently convinced they must dedicate their life to hunting, seems to underestimate the choice he forces Sam into. Of course it's not Dean's fault, but maybe he should've been more comprehensive about what his brother was going through. So, Sam often seems to be more sensitive and wise than his brother, and I say "seems" because I also think Dean hides much more of his personality and feelings which I hope will emerge in the next seasons. I feel like he experienced somehow similar struggles, but he knew how to make hunting fun, and he is able to show Sam that their life could be much better than he expected. Together they make an amazing team, always supporting and taking care of each other, because they are so different that they find help in the other one every time.

Family is certainly the main motive of the first season: Dean gathers Sam and eventually their father together, but it's not that simple as he had imagined. Every family has some hidden issues, and when the Winchesters start hunting together Sam can't stand John's domineering attitude, to which Dean is completely used, because his only desire is to emancipate from him and show him his worth. That's the power of the last episodes: you can fully understand Sam wanting to create his own future but also willing to follow his family and do the job he's destined to. But you can also understand Dean (or maybe you'd want him as a friend since he's so fun!) who loves his brother and father so much he has to be strong to support them. You will even understand some of John's actions, because at the end he made all his choices in the name of the love for Sam and Dean, even if not without mistakes.

So, if you haven't watched Supernatural already, go and do it because you'll grow with these two boys and you will slowly grow fond of them (or at least you'll know how to defeat a demon speaking Latin, which could always come in handy).

Can't wait to see what's happening next…

- Irene 💕

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𝐃𝐈𝐆 𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐑 !

𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 ?

the hierophant. the plan is perfect in every way. everyone where they need to be, at exactly the right moment, with exactly the right smile. you have moved and manipulated the situation, but did you remember to put yourself in the correct position ? you, after all, are still a player in the game — whoever thinks they control the pieces still has to make the next move eventually. whoever is playing the game is playing against an opponent. ensure that they have not played better than you.

the thing that sticks out to me as the hierophant, beyond the way that this is written and the implications of the chess master ( as laz thinks himself to be ), is that it is a card of tradition. rather than continue on with the status quo, lazarus seeks to put himself in establishing a new tradition that he thinks is better for the wizarding community through a near sense of divine providence. his understanding of the world, his desires to see it changed and renewed in his image, is palpable and though he is charismatic, he is also keenly aware of the way he sounds.

toeing the line between extremist and pragmatist, there is a chaos that is nestled in his bones that takes a significant amount of energy to hold back. he wants to be impulsive, craves this need to show the world how he wants to shake things up, but he knows and values the privilege of having supporters to his cause and that is the thing that prevents him from trying to start a revolution on his own. the board has been set, now he waits for his opponents and allies alike to make their moves.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐛𝐭𝐢 ?

the mbti type estj is represented by the executive, a person of great fortitude who emphatically follows their own sensible judgment. they serve as a stabilizing force among others, able to offer solid direction amid adversity. this personality type are representatives of tradition and order, utilizing their understanding of what is right, wrong, and socially acceptable to bring families and communities together. embracing the values of honesty, dedication, and dignity, people with the executive personality type are valued for their clear advice and guidance, and they happily lead the way on difficult paths. taking pride in bringing people together, executives often take on roles as community organizers, working hard to bring everyone together.

at first glance the mention of honesty might seem out of place for lazarus but there is a beauty in being a manipulator: it doesn’t inherently mean you’re always lying. he is very much the type to stick to the letter of the law, whether or not it flies in the face of the spirit of the law. the spirit of the law provides a kind of gray area to be argued for or against an action, to follow the law to its letter is to provide no wiggle room for a case to be made against you.

overall, this is a spot on evaluation of how lazarus is perceived by others and how he hopes to present himself. the mention of traditionalism and order is a solid affirmation of both his dedication and also the pull of the hierophant card for him. the world is on the precipice of change and he intends to ignite the dynamite to shake it up, as well as lead his faction through with the fewest incidents possible. this goal of their’s is not one that is as easy as point a to point b but there is something to be said for the efficiency with which he approaches the task at hand and the plan he has crafted.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 ?

type 8, wing 9 — the diplomat. eights are charismatic and have the physical and psychological capacities to persuade others to follow them into all kinds of endeavors — from starting a company, to rebuilding a city, to waging war. eights have enormous willpower and vitality and they feel most alive when exercising these capacities in the world. they use their abundant energy to effect changes in their environment, to leave their mark on the world, and to keep that environment and other people from hurting them and those they care about. at an early age, eights understand that this strength, will, persistence, and endurance are qualities to develop in themselves and to look for in other people. as well, eights with a wing type nine fear being hurt by others and avoid situations in which they have less control, generally preferring to be in positions of leadership. to guard themselves against threads and to control their own destiny leads to developing a sense of independence at a young age. diplomats defend themselves by building emotional walls and denying vulnerabilities. these people tend to be naturally energetic and confident, see a variety of different perspectives, fear being controlled by others, and tend to be seen as stubborn or rigid.

lazarus avery could not be summed up more perfectly than the description provided by the enneagram test. though it lacks mention of tradition, it highlights his need to lead, his desire to keep his fears hidden and prevent them from being realized, indicates his potential as someone worth following into battle, and his appreciation for those of high wisdom and high intelligence. being classified as a diplomat is a boon to his ego and serves as a reminder for himself that he is in the right place, at the right time and he is doing what is right for the people he cares for most and for a majority of the wizarding community at large. they should, as far as he’s concerned, follow the sentiments that the americans hold and to institute more stringent codes around the international statute of secrecy in britain. removing the muggle influence from the wizarding world is desperately important to the survival of their kind. let it be noted that their kind here means purebloods and not the wizard as they are.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 ?

a lawful evil villain methodically takes what he wants within the limits of his code of conduct without regard for whom it hurts. he cares about tradition, loyalty, and order but not about freedom, dignity, or life. he plays by the rules but without mercy or compassion. he is comfortable in a hierarchy and would like to rule, but is willing to serve. he condemns others not according to their actions but according to race, religion, homeland, or social rank. he is loath to break laws or promises. this reluctance comes partly from his nature and partly because he depends on order to protect himself from those who oppose him on moral grounds. some lawful evil villains have particular taboos, such as not killing in cold blood ( but having underlings do it ) or not letting children come to harm ( if it can be helped ). they imagine that these compunctions put them above unprincipled villains. some lawful evil people and creatures commit themselves to evil with a zeal like that of a crusader committed to good. beyond being willing to hurt others for their own ends, they take pleasure in spreading evil as an end unto itself. they may also see doing evil as part of a duty to an evil deity or master. lawful evil is sometimes called diabolical, because devils are the epitome of lawful evil. lawful evil is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and dedicated self-interest. however, lawful evil can be a dangerous alignment because it represents methodical, intentional, and frequently successful evil.

it’s important to know in the detailed results breakdown that lazarus got a 30 in lawful evil responses and a 28 in lawful good. though he is actively on the wrong side of the argument, he still perceives himself as lawful good for the good he does for the people around him, who are close to him in some way. though the above is a good starting point, it should be noted that there are a pair of corrections that laz would make:

he plays by the rules but without mercy or compassion ( his compassion is selective, only taking special care of those who care for him ).

he is comfortable in a hierarchy and would like to rule, but is willing to serve ( temporarily, so long as it gets him into a position of leadership ).

ultimately, laz being pegged as lawful evil is wildly accurate and though his perception allows him to view himself as lawful good, there’s no doubt that he’s evil and lawful evil at that. as i said in the answer regarding his mbti result, it benefits him to work according to the letter of the law instead of in the moral gray ��area.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 ?

born at 3:33, the height of the witching hour, he is a hurricane of personalities meshing together to form a formidable beast. a scorpio - sagittarius cusp with a capricorn moon and libra ascendant, lazarus is concerned deeply with justice, honor, and revolution. his is a sign determined to do what is right, what is ultimately good, and had he been born to another family perhaps he wouldn’t be a nuclear weapon in the arsenal of the pureblood cause.

as a sun in scorpio and sagittarius, he displays the intensity indicative of both a scorpio and any fire sign. the combination of these signs, who are both attuned to psychic gifts, are blessed with a sixth sense that allows them to get to the heart of the matter which manifests in lazarus’ talent for divination ( though his early readings in third year were not nearly as refined as they are now ). it’s important to acknowledge that scorpios have intense amounts of willpower, incredibly conscious of what they want and knowing when to go for it at the right time. they are powerful strategists and can have incredibly patience, combined with their staying power and refusal to give up. scorpios are not intimidated by anybody or anything and confrontations are not a problem.

his capricorn moon combines very well with his scorpio / sagittarius sun as lunar capricorns tend to keep their emotions in check and do not favor taking unnecessary risks. capricorn moons also tend to have a deep respect for tradition and authority. these natives are more likely to keep their lives structured and well controlled, practically dealt with instead of passionately felt which leads to a selectivity in romantic attachments. though capricorn moons are reserved and cautious, they tend to be deeply attracted to politics, positions of leadership, and not getting carried away by love.

the libra ascendant indicates an active love for creating harmony or upsetting balance, contentious beings who bring a particular change to the pursuit of either war or peace. these people tend to be socially active and find it natural engaging in one on one and group settings alike, similarly they find it easy to make and retain acquaintances but close friends are few and far between. their particular sensitivity for chaos causes them to be selective with their inner circle. libra ascendants tend to quickly hone in on the many sides of an issue, allowing them to weigh their scales in the manner that best suits what they need. combined with the resoluteness of a scorpio sun and capricorn moon, it makes lazarus incredibly decisive about the choices he makes.

#iv. look at you with the light of summer on your face，before you knew the cost of being alive : prologue.#i. ivy is beautiful，yes，but invasive — it will choke the life out of anything，given the chance : about.#this got really long so a ton of things are under the cut #this is 1916 words

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winter’s hearts

TITLE: Winter’s Hearts CHAPTER NO./ONE SHOT: Chapter 43/? AUTHOR: nekoamamori ORIGINAL IMAGINE: Imagine being Loki’s old friend/Lover in Asgard, but you left for Earth a long time ago. For all he knows, you might be dead, but you’re still alive and you’ve been working with SHIELD and/or the Avengers. RATING: T NOTES/WARNINGS: Also on AO3: Click here

“Did you hear what we were discussing, Kyrie?” Thor asked once Loki had composed himself and sat up again. You kept your hand in Loki’s as you turned to give your attention to Thor. You saw Loki’s smile and his hand squeezed yours gently. He appreciated the gesture. He appreciated the small kindness.

You couldn’t touch the mortals without harming them.

You could touch Loki and Thor. And Loki craved physical affection. You knew that. And you knew how hard it was on him not to initiate contact with you when he was obviously so used to doing so.

He was trying so hard not to push himself on you. He knew you didn’t remember him, didn’t remember that he was your husband. He wasn’t forcing you to resume that relationship.

Though it was obviously killing him.

“Eavesdropping is rude,” you informed Thor instead of answering his question. It was easier to lie when you didn’t actually answer the question.

Thor boomed his laughter. “You two have always been too similar for your own good,” he laughed.

“Why is that funny?” you asked him confused. You’d just been avoiding admitting to something that was actually rude.

Loki chuckled. “I am the God of Mischief and Lies, darling. That was an answer I would give if I wished to not divulge some piece of mischief,” he explained. You couldn’t help giggling at that.

“Fine, I may have heard what you were discussing,” you admitted sheepishly. “But I wasn’t trying to,” you added defensively.

Thor laughed. “I’m aware, sister dear,” he teased you and you couldn’t help smiling at him. The boys had told you that you’d grown up alongside them, as Loki’s best friend and Thor’s adopted little sister. You accepted without hesitation that your brother-in-law was allowed to treat you like a little sister. It was different accepting him treating you like a little sister than Loki wanting to treat you like his wife. Sister was a lot easier when you didn’t remember. There were a lot fewer expectations.

“You think we should return to Asgard,” you said to draw the conversation back on topic.

“Would you three please speak English?” Stark growled from across the room. You all turned to stare at him. Apparently none of you had realized you’d slipped into the language of your home. Allspeak was useful, but it wasn’t native, and when it was just the three of you, you all tended to slip into Asgardian. You thought the boys liked the small taste of home. They had to miss Asgard, living so far away. “It’s really hard to eavesdrop when I can’t understand what you’re saying,” Stark grumbled.

You laughed in reply. “That’s kinda the point, Shellhead,” you teased in Allspeak, and therefore in English. The group looked amazed. Apparently this kind of banter was common before you’d lost your memories.

“Whatever you say, Smurfette,” he teased right back and when back to what he was working on on one of the blue Jarvis screens.

You turned your attention back to Thor, the shellhead having been dealt with. “We believe that Mother might be able to help with your memories. She is the strongest healer in the realm and has done mind healing before. I’m also sure your mother would like to see you. She may have suggestions as well,” he explained while Loki held your hand, seeming nervous. You’d heard his reservations. He was afraid your mind would be unable to be healed.

“Are you sure you need to go back to Asgard right now? We could really use your strength here with Red Skull on the loose again. Hydra could strike at any moment,” Cap sounded worried at the prospect of you going back to Asgard. Of losing three warriors when there was a threat.

A threat you’d been forced to unleash.

“I understand your concern, Captain,” Loki replied. Thor let him take the lead on diplomatic answers. Loki’s silvertongue came in handy for such things. The brothers worked well playing off of each other’s skills. They had centuries of experience at it. “However, Kyrie is our best fighter. Even you cannot argue that the warrior bred for battle and trained from birth, who had to go through those awful trials, is our best warrior. If this threat is as dangerous as you say, then we need to be as strong as possible and we cannot do that with my wife unable to remember anything. We need her back at 100% and if my mother can help, then it is worth the trip home,” Loki told Cap firmly.

Cap sighed heavily. “You’re right, of course. I just wish you weren’t out of contact if we need help here,”

Thor nodded. “We will tell Heimdall to listen for you. If you have need of us, call to him and he will get word. It is not the best solution, but we really do need to see if we can get Kyrie’s memories back to her,” he suggested. Heimdall was the gatekeeper. He saw and heard everything. If Thor told him to listen for the mortal’s call, he would. You didn’t know how you knew any of that, but you knew it to be true.

Cap nodded. “Alright then. You’re right that we need everyone at 100%. Be careful, all of you.” You tried not to roll your eyes. Cap was overprotective of the entire team. The entire team was overprotective of you, but Cap tried to protect everyone. Even thousand year old gods.

Thor looked over at you and Loki. “Shall we head out now?”

Loki nodded. “There’s no reason to delay,” he agreed and stood. Your hand was still in his and he turned his hand to offer to help you to your feet. You didn’t need the help, but you kept your hand in his as you stood. Loki’s clothes shimmered to Asgardian, not his battle armor, but a green tunic and soft black pants. Nothing fancy enough for full-court, but still looked fantastic. You summoned a similar outfit, following Loki’s lead. You’d apparently retained your magic skills and knowledge along with your fighting skills. Loki gave you a warm smile and you relaxed, glad you’d chosen right. He loosened his hand in yours, giving you the option to break the contact if you wished. You squeezed his hand and couldn’t help but be pleased at how much his smile grew.

You made your way outside with the boys to a bifrost circle next to the tower. Thor raised Mjolnir to first change into his armor, as that seemed to be what he wore most of the time back home. That done, he called to Heimdall. Loki’s arm went around your shoulders, holding you safely to his side, though you knew instinctively how to brace yourself for the feeling of weightlessness, of floating up into the sky without the power of your wings, of flying through the rainbow lights. You didn’t blame Loki for being protective. It was in his nature after all. And he was your husband, even if you didn’t remember.

You stepped out into a huge golden circular chamber in front of a giant of a man with a huge sword. The man nodded his greeting to you all. “Welcome home, your highnesses,” he bid you kindly. “Your horses are waiting.”

Loki looked relieved that you wouldn’t have to walk, or he wouldn’t have to teleport you. He offered you his arm and you placed your hand on it, automatically. “Come along, darling, let’s get you to Mother,” he told you gently. You nodded and walked with him, but let him take the lead so you weren’t walking exactly side by side. It seemed important somehow. Loki sighed and seemed sad by that. “Tradition be damned. You’re my wife, my equal,” Loki told you and shifted enough so you were walking next to him.

You didn’t know what to make of that statement so you remained quiet, taking in Loki’s statement, his anger at your actions. Or more, at the tradition behind them. Whatever it was. Thor led the way and the three of you left the bifrost chamber. Thor stepped aside to let you get a good look at the rainbow bridge and the city beyond.

The sight of the golden city sparked something inside of you.

Home.

You were home.

#Loki #Lover #Submitted fic #submission #winter's hearts #chapter 43 #nekoamamori

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WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S ZODIAC?

Leo Facts

THE LION | JUL 23 - AUG 22 PROUD, BOLD, AMBITIOUS

Element: Fire Polarity: Positive Quality: Fixed Ruling Planet: Sun Ruling House: Fifth Spirit Color: Gold Lucky Gem: Carnelian Flower: Sunflower & marigold Top Love Matches: Libra

Bold, intelligent, warm, and courageous, fire sign Leo is a natural leader of the Zodiac, ready to blaze a trail, vanquish injustice, and make a name for themselves along the way. Blessed with high self-esteem, Lions know that they possess enviable traits—and they're proud of them. They don't believe in false modesty and will be the first to praise themselves for a job well done. But Leo isn't self-aggrandizing or unwilling to roll up those sleeves and do the work: this sign knows that in order to be respected and admired, he or she needs to put in the effort worthy of a leader.

But it's not all hard work for Lions. Intense and energetic, Leos thrive on social interactions and have no problem making friends—although pinning them down to spend time with you is another story. Leos put themselves first, and will turn down a plan that doesn't fit with their agenda or idea of fun. This trait has gained them an unfair reputation for arrogance. But on the flip side, when a Lion chooses to spend time with you, it's genuinely because he or she wants to.

Leos are passionate in all pursuits, including relationships, and take it upon themselves to be the best partner you've ever had. They love grand gestures, and they want to show the world how attentive and caring they can be. They also can't resist flashiness and often buy their partner the biggest and best presents. Leo is an adventurer, seeking to balance an intense life of social obligations and travel with plenty of downtime to relax and luxuriate. Work and outward appearances matter to this sign, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to gain a job title or workplace status, even if it means temporarily sacrificing their precious leisure time.

Benevolent with their time and attention, Leos are never cliquey, always showing friendliness and politeness to everyone. While almost everyone else is entranced by the Leonine personality, Leos are their own harshest critic and consider each day a challenge to be the best, brightest, and boldest Lion they can be.

"If you know the way, go the way and show the way—you're a leader."

Birth Chart Summary - August 1, 2000 born at 12am in Leith, Scotland

Sun in Leo

There's an unmistakably regal air to Solar Leos. These are dignified--even noble--folk. Leos have a reputation for being conceited, but think again. Leos do feel important, but this generally takes the form of wanting to change the world in some way--to make the world a better place. They are generally motivated by affection for people, and often have big dreams and plans to make people happy.

Generally, Leos are hard-working. After all, they are attracted to the good things in life, and they know they have to work to get them. It is sometimes difficult to imagine Leos as go-getters if you happen to catch them in one of their languid moods. These people can sleep in, laze around, and luxuriate for long periods of time. However, when they do get to work, they do it with intensity and determination. In this way, they are not unlike their symbol, the lion. The worst thing you can do to a Leo is accuse them of bad intentions. Displaying behavior that makes them think you don't appreciate them runs a close second. These happy, jovial people become mighty hurt when others don't see them for their noble intentions.

Loyal, and sometimes rather traditional, Leos are, after all, a fixed sign. They'll hold on to situations and people for a very long time before they give up. There is an unmistakable idealism to Leo's view of the world and the people in it. Often, Leos have a very noble inner code that they answer to. Although on the surface, Leos appear rather confident, they can actually be some of the most humble souls around. They are the first to blame themselves when something goes wrong. Once again, it's the Leonine self-importance at work, and this characteristic works in unexpected ways. Instead of being the conceited, self-absorbed show-offs of reputation, they are usually very self-aware, self-conscious, and, yes, even humble.

Moon in Leo Depending on other positions in the chart, Moon in Leo people are not necessarily outgoing. When they feel comfortable, they do like being the center of attention. That is, they like being in the "spotlight" in the comfort of their own homes and with family and friends. They enjoy entertaining others, and often take on the role of comic. Lunar Leos often feel a need to organize, and even control, their families and friends. They have an inner mission to set things right, and generally like to oversee the goings-on in their little circle. This is a rather creative position of the Moon. At the very least, Moon in Leo people want to create and entertain. They can be rather lazy at times, and a little bossy too. Generally, though, they have a deep need to treat others fairly and justly. Lunar Leos require lots and lots of love and care in order to function well in the world. When they feel slighted, these people can be dramatic in their emotional displays. When their pride has been hurt, they are given to big scenes and sulking. This rarely happens in public, however. Lunar Leos are far too concerned about their image to make splashy scenes outside the comfort of their own homes. In public, they prefer to take things in dignified ways. At home, however, they're given to big displays of emotional drama. These scenes generally don't last too long, however. Lunar Leos are often personally popular folk who are valued for their integrity and strong sense of justice. Generally, it is easy to reason with a Lunar Lion. Appealing to their well-developed sense of fairness usually works well.

Ascendant In Taurus Slow, steady, and capable are adjectives that we can safely attach to individuals born with a Taurus Ascendant. These natives have tremendous stamina and staying power. They're often quite loyal to those they care about. Although they generally don't come on strong, they have personal presence; and they fairly radiate stability. The sign on the Ascendant generally reveals how people start anything new. Taurus, by nature, is resistant to change. It can be difficult to sway Taurus rising natives--they're often rather stubborn and fixed in their ways. Their first responses are to feel things out, not in the way a Pisces might attune to their environment, but in the realm of the five senses. They have well-developed sense of smell and touch, and respond to the material world. Theirs is a practical approach to life. Security is one of their foremost considerations before undertaking anything new. Taurus rising natives are often quite cautious and careful. With a fixed sign on the Ascendant, they are not known for their flexibility. Rather, they possess determined single-mindedness. More than most, Taurus rising prefers the "good things" in life. Self-indulgence can be a weakness for many with this Ascendant. Often collectors in some way, Taurus rising natives place a lot of value on their material possessions. Taurus rising individuals prefer to dress in quality clothes with a comfortable feel to them. They are rarely ostentatious in their presentation. Many have strong and sturdy physiques. Often rather possessive in partnership, these natives won't easily break up their relationships. Although they are not particularly jealous, they view their partners as their personal property. Intensity and loyalty are especially important to Taurus rising natives. These are highly sensual people who prefer the comforts that a one-to-one, stable partnership offers. Although Taurus rising individuals value harmony and calm, their partnerships may be on the passionate side. Taurus rising natives are often very comforting to be around. They have a stability about them that is soothing, and an inner harmony that is attractive.

WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S MORAL ALIGNMENT?

Lawful Good

While strict in their prosecution of law and order, characters of lawful good alignment follow these precepts to improve the common weal. Certain freedoms must, of course, be sacrificed in order to bring order; but truth is of highest value, and life and beauty of great importance. The benefits of this society are to be brought to all. Creatures of lawful good alignment view the cosmos with varying degrees of lawfulness or desire for good. The are convinced that order and law are absolutely necessary to assure good, and that good is best defined as whatever brings the most benefit to the greater number of decent, thinking creatures and the least woe to the rest.

Characters of this alignment believe that an orderly, strong society with a well-organized government can work to make life better for the majority of the people. To ensure the quality of life, laws must be created and obeyed. When people respect the laws and try to help one another, society as a whole prospers. These characters strive for those things that will bring the greatest benefit to the most people and cause the least harm.

These characters have a strong moral character. Truth, honor, and the welfare of others is all-important. They are convinced that order and laws are absolutely necessary to assure that goodness prevails. Lawful good beings will not want to lie or cheat anyone, good or evil. They will not stand for treachery and will not let obviously dishonorable people use their own honor against them, if they can help it. They will obey the laws and customs of the area that they are in, but will attempt to find legal loopholes to disobey a law which is clearly evil or unjust.

Lawful good characters are group and order oriented, and will cooperate with authority in all cases to promote the common weal. Not all lawful good beings view the cosmos with an equal desire for lawfulness and goodness, so there is no such thing as a perfectly balanced "lawful good" attitude (nor a perfectly balanced attitude for any other alignment, for that matter). In general, however, a lawful good character promotes the ideals and rights of the majority over those of the individual (and this includes himself as well as others) and upholds the rights of the weak and oppressed members of society, who should be allowed to reap society's benefits with equanimity. The lawful good being feels this is the best way that all members of society can enjoy the rights of existence together. Life is important to the lawful good being, but life is not exclusive of order, and vice versa.

When will a lawful good character take a life? A lawful good being kills whenever necessary to promote the greater good, or to protect himself, his companions, or anyone whom he's vowed to defend. In times of war, he strikes down the enemies of his nation. He does not interfere with a legal execution, so long as the punishment fits the crime. Otherwise, a lawful good character avoids killing whenever possible. He does not kill a person who is merely suspected of a crime, nor does this character necessarily kill someone he perceives to be a threat unless he has tangible evidence or certain knowledge of evildoing. He never kills for treasure or personal gain. He never knowingly kills an innocent being.

Here are some possible adjectives describing lawful good characters: friendly, courteous, sensitive to the feelings of others, scrupulous, honorable, trustworthy, reliable, helpful, loyal, and respectful of "life, love, and the pursuit of happiness."

Well known lawful good characters from film or literature include: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars), Mister Spock (Star Trek), Hermione Granger (Harry Potter), and Superman (DC Comics).

WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S ENNEAGRAM?

Type 8 - The Challenger

Taking charge, because they don't want to be controlled

People of this personality type are essentially unwilling to be controlled, either by others or by their circumstances; they fully intend to be masters of their fate. Eights are strong willed, decisive, practical, tough minded and energetic. They also tend to be domineering; their unwillingness to be controlled by others frequently manifests in the need to control others instead. When healthy, this tendency is kept under check, but the tendency is always there, nevertheless, and can assume a central role in the Eight's interpersonal relationships.

Eights generally have powerful instincts and strong physical appetites which they indulge without feelings of shame or guilt. They want a lot out of life and feel fully prepared to go out and get it. They need to be financially independent and often have a hard time working for anyone. This sometimes necessitates that the Eight opt out of the system entirely, assuming something of an outlaw mentality. Most Eights however, find a way to be financially independent while making their peace with society, but they always retain an uneasy association with any hierarchical relationship that sees the Eight in any position other than the top position.

Eights have a hard time lowering their defenses in intimate relationships. Intimacy involves emotional vulnerability and such vulnerability is one of the Eight's deepest fears. Betrayal of any sort is absolutely intolerable and can provoke a powerful response on the part of the violated Eight. Intimate relationships are frequently the arena in which an Eight's control issues are most obviously played out and questions of trust assume a pivotal position. Eights often have a sentimental side that they don't even show to their intimates, such is their fear of vulnerability. But, while trust does not come easily to an Eight, when an Eight does take someone into the inner sanctum, they find a steadfast ally and stalwart friend. The Eight's powerful protective instincts are called into play when it comes to the defense of family and friends, and Eights are frequently generous to a fault in providing for those under their care.

Eights are prone to anger. When severely provoked, or when the personality is unbalanced, bouts of anger can turn into rages. Unhealthy Eights are frankly aggressive and when pushed, can resort to violence. Such Eights enjoy intimidating others whom they see as "weak" and feel little compunction about walking over anyone who stands in their way. They can be crude, brutal and dangerous.

WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S MBTI?

The Protagonist ENFJ-A

Protagonists are natural-born leaders, full of passion and charisma. Forming around two percent of the population, they are oftentimes our politicians, our coaches and our teachers, reaching out and inspiring others to achieve and to do good in the world. With a natural confidence that begets influence, Protagonists take a great deal of pride and joy in guiding others to work together to improve themselves and their community.

Strengths: Tolerant, Reliable, Charismatic, Altruistic, Natural Leaders Weaknesses: Overly Idealistic, Too Selfless, Too Sensitive, Fluctuating Self-Esteem, Struggle to Make Tough Decisions

Romantic Relationships

People who share the Protagonist personality type feel most at home when they are in a relationship, and few types are more eager to establish a loving commitment with their chosen partners. Protagonists take dating and relationships seriously, selecting partners with an eye towards the long haul, rather than the more casual approach that might be expected from some types in the Explorer Role group. There’s really no greater joy for Protagonists than to help along the goals of someone they care about, and the interweaving of lives that a committed relationship represents is the perfect opportunity to do just that.

Friendships

People with the Protagonist personality type take genuine pleasure in getting to know other people, and have no trouble talking with people of all types and modes of thought. Even in disagreement, other perspectives are fascinating to Protagonists – though like most people, they connect best with individuals who share their principles and ideals, and types in Diplomat and Analyst Role groups are best able to explore Protagonists’ viewpoints with them, which are simply too idealistic for most. It is with these closest friends that Protagonists will truly open up, keeping their many other connections in a realm of lighthearted but genuine support and encouragement.

Career Paths

Protagonists take a genuine interest in other people, approaching them with warm sociability and a helpful earnestness that rarely goes unnoticed. Altruistic careers like social and religious work, teaching, counseling, and advising of all sorts are popular avenues, giving people with the Protagonist personality type a chance to help others learn, grow, and become more independent. This attitude, alongside their social skills, emotional intelligence and tendency to be “that person who knows everybody”, can be adapted to quite a range of other careers as well, making Protagonists natural HR administrators, event coordinators, and politicians – anything that helps a community or organization to operate more smoothly.

To top it all off, Protagonists are able to express themselves both creatively and honestly, allowing them to approach positions as sales representatives and advertising consultants from a certain idealistic perspective, intuitively picking up on the needs and wants of their customers, and working to make them happier. However, Protagonists need to make sure they get to focus on people, not systems and spreadsheets, and they are unlikely to have the stomach for making the sort of decisions required in corporate governance positions – they will feel haunted, knowing that their decision cost someone their job, or that their product cost someone their life.

WHAT ARE YOUR CHARACTER’S ARCHETYPES?

44% Creative // 39% Caregiver // 17% Advocate

The Creative appreciates all beautiful things, in art and daily life. The creative act is essential to who they are.

Friendly, sincere, and compassionate, the Caregiver finds their reward in helping others. No one could ask for a better best friend.

The Advocate is the one everyone wants on their side. In the name of justice, they are not afraid to challenge authority or speak up for others.

WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S TEMPERAMENT?

75% Choleric // 25% Sanguine

This is a dynamic temperament combination! You are motivated and determined (choleric) as well as being extraverted and enthusiastic (sanguine). You are goal-oriented and strategic, but also friendly and flexible. If the choleric aspect is dominant, you will be able to pursue your goals and achieve success in whatever projects you undertake, while your sanguine nature allows for excellent people-skills and creativity. You are likely a motivational, and driven leader (choleric) with excellent social skills and interest in other people (sanguine). You value relationships (sanguine) though you still find certain types of people (weak, ineffectual, wishy-washy) annoying and you struggle with being kind and empathic, though you see the importance of that. If you are a choleric-sanguine, you will find that you have a great amount of energy and inspiration for initiating projects and can be highly focused on task completion as well. Although you tend to be very objective, pragmatic, and logical -- and may sometimes find yourself stepping on toes in the process of accomplishing the task at hand -- you will also have the interpersonal skills needed to resolve conflict and to help people work together and get along with one another. The creativity and sensitivity of your sanguine nature will enable you to be flexible when the situation calls for it. You are likely an energetic leader or manager, with superb debating skills: firmly convinced that you are right, you also have the "people-skills" necessary to convince others as well! With your quick insight, leadership and people skills you can be a successful entrepreneur, coach, manager, politician, etc.

Strengths and natural virtues

Active, assertive, bold, brave, capable, compelling, confident, competitive, determined, decisive, driving, dynamic, effective, energetic, enterprising, focused, forceful, goal-oriented, independent, magnanimous, opinionated, passionate, persevering, positive, pragmatic, productive, purposeful, quick, resolute, resourceful, self-motivated, sharp, strong-willed, vigorous, zealous

Weaknesses and natural vices

Aggressive, ambitious, angry, antagonistic, argumentative, bossy, combative, dismissive, domineering, harsh, impatient, intolerant, oppositional, prideful, pushy, relentless, shrewd, stubborn, unapologetic, unempathic, unsympathetic

WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S SOUL TYPE?

Performer

Performers are outgoing, charming people with a strong sense of fun. Because of their desire to communicate, they tend to be more talkative than many other soul types. If you are a Performer type, you’ll tend to be good with words and perhaps even show a dramatic flair when it comes to expressing yourself. You will generally feel comfortable being the focus of attention and may dress or behave in a way that attracts attention to you.

Your passionate nature and tendency to express strong emotions may make you appear a little volatile to more down-to-earth types. A caricature of this type would be an entertainer like Jim Carrey or Joan Rivers—both of whom share the Performer’s love of hamming it up.

More than any other type, the Performer needs the approval of others. You need to be told when you’ve done a good job. Speaking of jobs, you may find it unbearable to spend eight hours a day in a solitary cubicle—your need to connect with others is too strong. You may go out of the way to make your job fun or to entertain those around you just to keep things amusing.

Hunter

As a Hunter, you have both feet firmly planted on the ground. You are goal-oriented and will see a task through to completion, working in an orderly manner. You have a strong practical streak and may sometimes forget to take time to stop and smell the flowers. A Hunter type might drive through an ugly industrial area rather than taking a picturesque country road, just to shave a couple of minutes off the journey. Your pragmatic nature might result in your home being more functional than decorative.

Thousands of years ago, the survival of the tribe would have depended on your ability to stay focused on your mission to track down and catch your prey. This trait remains in Hunter types and is what makes them excellent providers for their families.

Your logical approach to life sometimes makes it hard to access your emotional and intuitive self. Like some Hunter types, you may be suspicious of those who base their decisions on gut feelings or something other than plain facts.

Your loyalty to your family, friends, or co-workers is strong, as is your ability to organize others. You may be drawn to team sports or group activities, though you can work alone equally well. Solitary Hunters occupy offices throughout the corporate world, while small groups of them can be found scaling mountains or otherwise seeking adventure and the chance to prove themselves. If you want to see Hunters in a larger group, simply take a look at a football team or a platoon of soldiers.

#this is long as hell but its here #alternistask002 #cd

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arcticdementor · 6 years

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So I was recently pointed to this article at The Atlantic: “The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy.”

There’s actually some good stuff in there — even if it’s been said before by folks like Toby Young (or, for that matter, Murray’s Coming Apart) — that I wouldn’t expect to see someplace so mainstream. Stewart even mentions assortative mating, which I would expect to be too close to the dreaded, taboo topic of heredity.

But, then, there’s the part where he says this:

From my Brookline home, it’s a pleasant, 10-minute walk to get a haircut. Along the way, you pass immense elm trees and brochure-ready homes beaming in their reclaimed Victorian glory. Apart from a landscaper or two, you are unlikely to spot a human being in this wilderness of oversize closets, wood-paneled living rooms, and Sub-Zero refrigerators. If you do run into a neighbor, you might have a conversation like this: “Our kitchen remodel went way over budget. We had to fight just to get the tile guy to show up!” “I know! We ate Thai takeout for a month because the gas guy’s car kept breaking down!” You arrive at the Supercuts fresh from your stroll, but the nice lady who cuts your hair is looking stressed. You’ll discover that she commutes an hour through jammed highways to work. The gas guy does, too, and the tile guy comes in from another state. None of them can afford to live around here. The rent is too damn high.

There’s a lot of this sort of stuff about how elite and “privileged” the author and his “9.9%” peers are, even as “we’ve convinced ourselves that we don’t have any privilege at all.”

But then, later in the post, he gets to the topic of Trump, and it’s what you’d expect:

The 2016 presidential election marked a decisive moment in the history of resentment in the United States. In the person of Donald Trump, resentment entered the White House. It rode in on the back of an alliance between a tiny subset of super-wealthy 0.1 percenters (not all of them necessarily American) and a large number of 90 percenters who stand for pretty much everything the 9.9 percent are not.

Cue the usual bits about how uneducated Trump voters are, American “anti-intellectualism,” “the poor man’s idea of a rich man,” “belligerent commitment to maintaining his ignorance,” et cetera. And, of course, ignoring that pretty much every “super wealthy 0.1 percenter” in the media or Silicon Valley was for Hillary. And then:

Did I mention that the common man is white? That brings us to the other side of American-style resentment. You kick down, and then you close ranks around an imaginary tribe. The problem, you say, is the moochers, the snakes, the handout queens; the solution is the flag and the religion of your (white) ancestors.

“Sure, the peasants have plenty of resentment, but they're all a bunch of stupid racists who blame the wrong people.” Sorry, but no. The tile guy he mentioned earlier isn’t against illegal immigrants because he’s “racist,” it's because he’s struggling to stay solvent trying to do the right thing while his competition undercuts him by paying illegals sub-minimum wages under the table. And when he complains about the government failing to enforce the democratically-created laws prohibiting these things, he gets lectured about how he’s a racist, “diversity is our strength — just look at all these great Thai restaurants immigration has brought us.” Same with that stressed-out hairdresser who can't afford to live near where she works; she isn’t a moron, and it’s not black people she blames for her commute. People like these are mad at people like Mr. Stewart, and that's why they vote Trump.

All this hand-wringing about how ‘problematic’ all the privileges and wealth of his class are, followed by turning around and consoling his audience, members of this same class, with affirmations that those victims left behind by their meritocracy and it’s oh-so-enlightened policy choices deserve it because they’re wicked and stupid. They revel in the benefits that illegal migrants bring to their upper class, and then go on to claim to be morally superior for burdening their social inferiors with the externalities of these choices, and get angry at those inferiors when they dare to object. These aristocrats would be a lot less insufferable if they had some scraps of real noblesse oblige and loyalty to their subjects to go with their status.

Similarly, Stewart goes on a bit about the class elements in the decline of marriage, but nothing about how elites like him, to borrow Charles Murray’s term, increasingly failed to “preach what they practice,” and instead pushed “liberation” that removed what for many of the lower classes were guard-rails against failure modes, that, while the elites can avoid or afford, prove too frequent and ruinous to those without upper class advantages.

That said, there’s some definite positive elements here from my particular viewpoint. Because consider the traditional narratives about the “bad” hereditary elites of past generations, and their overthrow. Like the “idleness” of elites; parties at Versailles and all that. Then look at where Stewart describes how his class is discovering “that being an aristocrat is not quite what it is cracked up to be”:

Jay Gatsby might have understood. Life in West Egg is never as serene as it seems. The Princeton man—that idle prince of leisure who coasts from prep school to a life of ease—is an invention of our lowborn ancestors. It’s what they thought they saw when they were looking up. West Eggers understand very well that a bad move or an unlucky break (or three or four) can lead to a steep descent. We know just how expensive it is to live there, yet living off the island is unthinkable.

Or the standard narrative about the French Revolution and similar revolts, about how the common folk were quite naturally and justly resentful of the aristocratic elite and thus spontaneously took action, and it was not at all about a rising rival proto-elite stirring up such resentments in order to use the peasant masses as foot soldiers to help them sieze power. Then contrast, in Stewart’s tirade against Trump and his supporters, where he asserts:

No one is born resentful. As mass phenomena, racism, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, narcissism, irrationalism, and all other variants of resentment are as expensive to produce as they are deadly to democratic politics. Only long hours of television programming, intelligently manipulated social-media feeds, and expensively sustained information bubbles can actualize the unhappy dispositions of humanity to the point where they may be fruitfully manipulated for political gain.

And, of course, he goes on to make deliberate parallels between the present “90%” and their Gilded Age equivalents where “[a]n appreciable number of them could be found at Ku Klux Klan rallies.” But he then goes on to admit that “The best revolutions do not start at the bottom; they are the work of the upper-middle class.”

So we have a fellow admitting that he and his class are an increasingly hereditary, increasingly entitled aristocracy… but that’s okay, because they’re “the people of good family, good health, good schools, good neighborhoods, and good jobs… so far from the not-so-good people on all of these dimensions, we are beginning to resemble a new species.” That one of the big problems for this New American Aristocracy is their refusal to admit they’re an aristocracy. That the peasants can be made to know their place and not resent the wealth and privileges of their betters… by squashing any rivals who try to increase or play upon such resentment as political tools in intra-elite competition, as past aristocracies failed to do strongly enough. Not to mention blame any problems on the real “evil elites,” the Crown “1%.” Otherwise, they’re “next in line for the chopping block.”

Of course, the problem that our elites are still pious, puritanical adherents to — and global missionaries for — an unsustainable, insane non-theistic religion remains. But this is the first real sign I’ve seen of those who are “The Man” being willing to admit it, and defend it.

#longpost is long #aristocracy #meritocracy #the atlantic #matthew stewart #semi-hereditary elites #heredity

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I remember benefiting for years from the articles on DesiringGod.org and John Piper’s YouTube content but I walked away in 2014 after his response to the MV Sewol sinking was to post, ‘It Is Well with My Soul,’ as though to say, ‘Hey Christians even have songs for drowned kids.’ He wrote a beautiful and intense poem called ‘The Children’ that talks about abortion, war, abusive parents, but I just went, ‘This is “Football Christianity” and racist.’ In retrospect there are all kinds of flaws in all kinds of Christians and all kinds of gestures and jokes that they use in their communications to relate to their audience. John MacArthur made this joke about Fresca that made me wonder whether Fresca has some sacred ‘angel-chemical.’

I feel really alienated and more Millennial than ever lately. Stupidly in retrospect I decided that the proper response to the MV Sewol posting was to walk away from DesiringGod and even now I’ve come to have a hair-trigger rebellious rage-reaction to John Piper postings even while believing ‘Coronavirus and Christ’ 100%.

‘You said it’s good to eat dinner with your mom and dad but you also wrote that BIll Cosby’s a great guy just b/c he worked long hours and said “personal responsibility.”

I realize now that the first ‘Christian novel’ I ever tried to write was ‘Flowers on Water’ which was about the Sewol, edubusiness, Korea, America, teenage girls and college-aged young women, our relationships to the past generation, and the ways in which people my age tried to shelter or weather when we seemed to lack either economic franchise or the ‘voice’ through which the communicate to other groups the essence of Millennial identity.

I don’t want to talk about Millennial identity b/c I’m literally hoping to find out my ‘everlasting name’ in the next few days but there was something about us; we might have been disappointments to our parents yet thus far the coming post-constitutional-democracy military dictatorship hasn’t smashed our skulls en masse against the rocks - ‘happy we’ - even while Xi Jinping suddenly switched from talking about how PRC doesn’t want to take over the world (which I believe they can and which Mao their c/Creator said again and again he desired to), to talking about ‘heads bashed bloody.’

I don’t like weaving like this but when I was at Rutgers in 2004 I wrote a love-letter of sorts to a Shanghainese girl who years later I frankly saw on FB doing all these bed-pics then I went to the library, remembered the color of the light in the windows of the houses in her Central Jersey hometown near the vast Chernobyl-sarcophagus-looking Rutgers basketball stadium and I went to H-Mart in Illinois wondering, ‘Where’s Tiffany __ today? I bet she’s Xi Jinping’s government-issued mistress.’

Today Christianity worldwide I observed was torn between apologetics and prophecy and Timothy Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian NYC wrote ‘Hope in Times of Fear’ and is a fantastic reader of Foucault, numerous other authors, and one of the most intellectually responsible Christians who does’t say stuff like, ‘Christians aren’t obligated to be interested in justice in this world b/c the Atonement already satisfied justice’ which is un-biblical. Time was my favorite Keller sermon was about love (romantic love, ‘erotic violence honor-cult affection night and lady mentality’), and my favorite book of his was ‘Counterfeit Gods’ about the Second Commandment proscribing idolatry, and which throughout the years has made me wonder in my own life what’s an idol and what is a tool or coping-mechanism but if I’m being honest something happened around 2014-2015 that made me feel as if I had learned enough about the basics of Christianity and didn’t need to follow any father-figures or teachers anymore. Felt I could learn more from ‘considering the beauty of the lilies’ in the form of a camcorder girl-group travel-show called ‘f(x) Koala’ my favorite reality-show. They walked down the Champs Elysee and in those days Sulli / Choi Jinri reminded me of something or someone from my past but I didn’t realize then the beauty on their love and friendship was arguably not only synthetic and temporary but destined to be violently revoked by someone who decided that they suddenly wanted something else.

I remember reading Allan Bloom’s ‘Love and Friendship’ which was his swan-song in the hospital after the more famous ‘Closing of the American Mind,’ both of which are indictments of culture as well as theories of education via literary criticism and close-reading of one’s students. Bloom said that an occupational hazard of teachers is hanging out with kids all the time and it is not that this ‘infantilizes’ them - though parents also get infantilized by their kids - but the more severe criticism is that the teacher develops ‘mental Grecianness’ or thinks of themselves as God or else of their students as God. Or, they think there is no God and everything is just a ‘classic garden’ in which kids grow up and, to call out myself as well, the teacher maintains his or her nobility and religious simplicity of character vis-a-vis life whilst believing in the soul besides and beyond heart, mind, body, but not connecting their conception of the soul to a Creator or a will or plan or design or desire on the part of this Creator for that soul and its existence in Time in this world.

Anyway I have never planned my novels out as much as I like to think and I got lost in the Millennial ‘authoritative paragraph’ fetish-trap where for a moment I stopped being the problem-child and became older than my parents as regards and eagle-eyed ‘critical appreciation’ of reality and certainty of convictions. My writer friend Miles Klee used to say years ago, of American ochlocracy I guess and our corybantic national non-conversation or fake conversation, ‘Where’s the school principal to lay down the law?’

I for years wanted to be this principal and think now about a girl I went to high school with whose essay I criticized really aggressively but who went on to Harvard GSE and became Ass’t Principal at like 27. I for years was interested in University of Oregon, Vanderbilt, and later came to feel that the best schools for PhiEd are probably a) Korean b) Christian. I admire Sunkyunkwan(sp?) University for being like 900 years old and Bethlehem College and Seminary in Twin Cities. Today the best teacher training institutes I think are almost certainly in East Asia somewhere as these people made a generations long mathematically emplaced-in-history ultra-sacrificial starve-for-nuclear-weapons commitment to protecting their children. I’m not sure how to describe it in my pure style but it is like the scene in ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’ where Lt. Gen. Kuribayashi is growling about how he is going to maim and traumatize US Marines and break their moms’ hearts for as long as possible b/c he knows at the bottom of his soul’ (as Tolstoy would say), that those American moms probably believed the Japanese kids were ‘n----- boys’ and ‘life unworthy of life.’ I was also interested in how one of the best novels of the moment James Salter’s ‘All That Is’ took the destruction of the ‘Superbattleship’ Yamato to be more meaningful than the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanse sailors covered in oil, singing in the sea, till the munitions-magazine in the battleship with ‘shells the size of coffins’ explodes and, although it’s traditional high explosives of some sort and not nuclear warheads, it sends a ‘biblical pillar’ of fire something like a mile in to the sky and the flash of the combustion is visible from Kyushu.

I have no idea what Teachers College, Harvard et al. train their educators to be like except apparently psycholinguistics turned out to be important but I still want to write them off as training kids to be mentally hypercapitalist Chinese these days; and an atheistic philosophy-only with the love skimmed off version of corporatist football Christians.

I’m not against Protestantism at all but still remember reading in National Review of a book called ‘Evangelical Catholicism’ which used the phrase, ‘failure of Protestantism as a global force.’ Not to be glib and Philip Roth-y and I hate that I’m not writing in my pure style right now but, did Protestants cause Covid? I think they were burying non-white kids’ bodies in the school yard, beating orphan juvenile delinquents to death. I for years reflected on a Mormon practice of banishing teen boys at 14-15 (their brain would not be developed adequately to unction as a high-powered fully adjusted adult till about 27), to hoard the teen girls for the older men, which is something that could turn many hearts and minds from Christianity straight to Foucault.

Anyway the ‘crux’ or Joycean ‘epiphany’ moment of ‘Flowers on Water’ was where the protagonist let his live-in-girlfriend (Millennial) go out with her friend for the night and was drowsing over Wikipedia and Google books reading about education and happens upon a poem called ‘Flowers’ from a Christian California Teacher’s Almanac from 1881, in which the teacher was talking about life and death and it amounts in a verse form to the best commencement-address imaginable, because it is saying to these young people, ‘Heaven and Earth, life and death, “fragrance from life to life,” rather than talking about their CV’s or social activism or anything like try windsurfing or public service (Biden) or don’t do everything you can just b/c you can (Merkel).

The protagonist thinks, ‘God is sovereign in all things.’ Saves the poem as ‘Flowers 1881′ on his PC which later breaks Hong Sang Soo style; and also thinks a bit about the fact that this almanac discusses teaching-problems w/r/t assessment that appears to be identical to those 135 years later in America. (I see now, however, that many of these American Indian or Mexican students who might’ve been reading naive and sentimental poems, Alcott, Stowe, Psalms, stories about virtuous Old Testament women with their teachers in 1881 today would be mentally human-trafficked by movies, Marxism, and MS-13).

But I still didn’t know how to end the novel at all. The protagonist wanted to go to Lake Baikal with his girlfriend and Arkangelsk (Archangel City in Irkutsk Russian Federation). I was obsessed with Krystal Jung in those days due to her singular ‘Persian’ eyes, bump-nose, et cetera. I sort of abandoned ‘Flowers on Water’ b/c in autumn ‘14 they made ‘Naegeon neomu sarangseuroun keunyeo’ which has translated in various ways and when I was watching this I stopped thinking about sovereignty and started thinking about ownership itself. ‘Somebody’s Daughter’ and ‘She Is Mine.’

I remember thinking, ‘The musical direction for My Lovely Girl Episode One would be “maestoso morendo.”’ Everyone is traumatized; the jokes are unfunny; Krystal and Rain lost sleep, gained weight, as if their accustomed process of living had failed.

However, the best moment in MLG to me is the final episode in which the male protagonist has given up writing ‘candy-pop’ to compose a dreamy music-vision of something like seeing someone’s face in the sky. Sena realizes Soeun (two of the most beautiful names imaginable) is probably alive on the other side of death in this world. IDK if I ought to add this but I kept getting mad at American-Koreans with their kneejerk opposition to adoption and want to cite a ‘banned’ book Elizabeth Kim’s ‘10,000 Sorrows’ about racial honor-killing and orphan-hate but I gave that up since I believed that making humane orphanages with loving faculty / parents would be a better solution to the consumer model of adoption. However, I have never had the opportunity to study the psychology of orphans and only know that women tend to burn out quickly in care-roles at such places.

The thing about the Sewol Ferry and apologetics in the Covid era is that all this unfair stuff happened and the dead are bound away and Christianity makes people feel really good with its incredibly beautiful heritage and super-massive stockpile of wisdom and lessons - kind of ‘common grace’ - but to say Christianity is interested in better happier kids, a fairer system, a more beautiful existence for humans in this world isn’t really Jesus Christ but Barack Obama, who in retrospect was clearly defending the entitlements of the already extremely powerful whilst p-zzing America’s E. Asia policy. But I don’t really know if I am right or wrong about these things politically; I just felt as if Obama was only ever saying good things about anyone while leaving hundreds of millions of children behind worldwide and worshipping China and failing to understand Korea’s concept of the teacher which is why Race to the Top didn’t satisfy either.

I’ve sometimes felt - ‘if I were God’ - that I would induce people through ‘whisper in the heart’ to vote against HRC in 2016 because of a) abortion and ACB and b) Obama thinking that making a lie of the Syria ‘red line’ policy was sth he had any moral right to do. I actually know a bit about clandestine American ops in Syria but last I checked they didn’t launch an AGM at Assad’s bedroom and I actually think that’s a mistake b/c he has directly ordered mass-murder, child-rape, much else and it’s a clear case of ‘first degree murder conviction in absentia para-judicial execution or capital punishment’ it’s not even war; it’s arbitration. So many Democrats think war is just sad but lawful ‘beareth not the sword in vain’ capital punishment is diabolically evil. It also feeds in to my ‘nuke Babylon Milwaukee’ theory of present history where everyone is lying about everything and have decided that America’s letter-of-the-law institutions were so bad that it’s better to go back to gangsterism.

Then I’m taken to ask for being darkhearted...

The only reason not to is the whole world today’s the Roman Empire and there is some terrible ‘legitimate mandate’ by which Christians and Christian rulers have to respect other rulers no matter what. Constantine spread ‘the ancient faith’ throughout the world; OTOH Nero killed a lot of poor people with mass-arson and it struck me just now many of those people probably a) loved Nero for going to outer space while he killed them using assets their labor had generated and b) didn’t die from burning but from deoxygenation. But the whole crux of Christianity is the Resurrection and Eternity and I am mad at myself because I can’t even concentrate on my ‘little stories.’ I promised ‘sis’ I’d quit K-pop but then everything else fell apart and I wish I could go back to listening to IZ*ONE’s ‘Open Your Eyes’

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