#phenomena & existences

[tosahobi-if]

You want more character asks?? WELL IF YOU INSIST

Considering where the story is going to go: how much do the ROs believe in the supernatural?

they all do! the story itself is explicitly a fantasy, so the supernatural exists alongside the real world. things like fantastical creatures and demonic forces are a reality (the great calamity literally received its name because the dead rose from their graves HAHAHA)

#anon #ro: jinwol #ro: yul #ro: ??? #ro: iseul #i feel like it's difficult to explain concisely #jasfjsjd but it's part of the polythesitic worship #each “unexplainable” phenomena has power behind it #yin and yang are a fundamental aspect of the world #and exist in tangible form #which gives rise to all manners of supernatural #less of a belief and more of a reality? #afhssdjj if that makes sense

[mama-mera]

okay you know what? I think it's time for me to take advantage of the release of the Percy Jackson series to talk a little about the relationship between the Greek and Roman gods, because I have a feeling that we're going to have a new generation of people who are convinced that the Romans "stole" the gods of the Greeks and... um, I feel the need to talk and analyze this thing with you. Because the matter is much more complicated than you think

Like SERIOUSLY, the pjo fandom and Greco-Roman mythology enthusiasts in general need this chat.

First of all it is important to understand how the Italic populations came into contact with Greek culture, and who the first Romans were.

Southern Italy (Sicily, Calabria, Campania and Puglia) was colonized by the Greeks since the 8th century BC.

Like any colonization, the local population had to adapt to the culture, religion and language of the colonizer (in Italy there are still two dialects coming from ancient Greek. Griko in Puglia, and Grecanico in Calabria). Every part of the territory considered Magna Graecia (Megàle Hellàs) presents archaeological finds relating to the Greek colonies, and with them also temples dedicated to the gods. (So much so that in Sicily, at the beginning of spring the Antesphorie (or antephorie) were celebrated in honor of Demeter and Persephone, for example).

The entire Etruscan pantheon was strongly influenced by the Greek one. The indigenous deities were joined by the Hellenic ones, creating a new religion.

But still: who were the Romans? The legend of the foundation of Rome refers to Romulus and Remus, but from an archaeological point of view the Romans were probably the result of a mixture of Latin, Sabine (plus Samnites and Sabelli*) and Etruscan peoples. The latter influenced the initial Roman Pantheon the most. Just think of the similarities between the Etruscan goddess Menrva/Menerva and the Roman goddess Minerva.

The same applies to Maris and Mars, who among other things share holidays in March (a month dedicated to them moreover).

Unfortunately there is not much information on the Sabine and Latin ethnic group, but it is known for certain that Etruscans had contact with Magna Graecia, and the Greeks in general, so their culture was never unknown to the Romans.

So what does this tell us? That the Italic populations knew the Greek Pantheon, because they had been colonized and/or influenced by the Greeks. The first Romans can't exactly steal something that's already part of their culture.

*Samnites, Sabelli and Sabines were part of the same ethnic group, and although all three groups can generally be called "Sabines", I preferred to specify. At the same time it is not known how involved the Picenes and Irpinians were initially with the birth of Rome, so I have not mentioned them.

#it was a very quick and not very in-depth post #but it's late and I just needed to vent about this #if you want to make a joke about the Romans stealing religion from the Greeks that's completely ok #I do it too!! #but I think it is important to understand what really happened in the early period of Roman history #the Romans didn't wake up one morning thinking “you know what I should really do? steal a random religion” #the historical context is much more complex than what one might commonly think #and I understand that in schools outside italy there is no interest in explaining the phenomena that led to the birth of the Roman religion #but in doing so in my opinion it creates a great confusion that could be avoided #did the Romans assimilate numerous religions throughout their history? absolutely #just look at what happened with the Egyptian and Mithras #it wasn't a question of cultural appropriation but more of “I pray to all the gods that exist so no one can get angry with me” #greek myth #greek mythology #roman myth #roman mythology #roman history #greek history #pjo #pjo series #please learn about the Etruscan gods because they are much cooler than the Greek and Roman versions

[rideroftheoctocorn]

Maybe this is my “I’m from New York so I didn’t choose to live here I was just already here” kicking in but can we actually learn to respect people’s privacy and acknowledge the fact that not everyone who lives in a major city is doing so because they want to be famous or the main character or an influencer or whatnot. I’m so sick of seeing tiktoks go viral that are just plainly stalking or doxxing random people who didn’t ask for attention or fame and are just living their lives. Especially given how many people in NYC are living with a wide variety of mental states, abilities, divergencies, and diversities treating them as a spectacle for your entertainment is deeply dehumanizing. Particularly in the past few years seeing so many content creators move here and gain their fame here it is becoming increasingly frustrating to feel like just existing in my home is not coherent with the burgeoning voyeurism culture that’s growing online. I, nor anyone who lives in a large city, should have to leave their homes every day worrying about the potential of being recorded and ridiculed online for just being a person.

People should be able to live their lives with the right to privacy. This isn’t to say that certain instances of internet activism shouldn’t have happened; for instance the Central Park bird watching incident (google it if you aren’t familiar but a woman was being racist towards a black man bird watching in central Park and his recording on the incident vindicated him). But instances like those are the exception and not the rule and many cases of publishing interpersonal conflicts/interactions is not from good faith activism or even from an activist point at all. Honestly what sparked this for me was that dumb tiktok that blew up of that girl looking for the person who kept writing “monke” on the whiteboard at her gym and the series of videos she made amassed more than 25 million views as she made a very public game out of trying to find the identity of this person. Some of her tactics included staking out at the gym waiting for this person or even asking the employees at the front desk who the person was. Maybe this person didn’t want to be a viral tiktok sensation and just wanted to write something goofy on the whiteboard at their local gym. Instead, this person has millions of strangers online seeking them out using unethical/invasive methods. All over someone who just wanted to write “monke.” Can we not just be a little silly in public without being at risk of it being the next internet sensation? If you live in a busy metropolitan area is it now your responsibility to make yourself as invisible as you can every time you step outside your front door? I genuinely leave for work each day wondering if I’ve maybe picked the wrong outfit, makeup, or maybe there’s an embarrassing stain or issue with my appearance that someone is going to see, record, and share online. I’ve even now seen TikTok’s of people recording through peoples windows commenting on how they’re living in their private lives now as well (the video in question is of a young woman recording a couple dancing through their apartment window). Even the guy who goes around “turning average people into models” initiates these videos by first taking non-consented photos of strangers on the street. Invasion is not flattery as much as people on the internet might like to think it is.

It is deeply unfair to ask human beings to live their lives in an unending panopticon. We should be able to go outside, make a joke, leave a silly note, have a bad day, an embarrassing moment, an emotional outburst, leave the curtains open with the knowledge that these moments belong to ourselves and are not suddenly (and without our consent) just become something for the masses to consume. Small spats that should remain small spats become global debates, a conventionally attractive or unattractive person becomes the internet’s object of desire or disgust. Let people exist. Let them have their dignity.

#I FUCKING HATE TIKTOK CULTURE #This is also hitting a bit close to home for me but I work at a museum and I constantly dress to hide my identity #because of how many cameras are pointed at me all day everyday #and in the year of two thousand and twenty three it’s pretty hard to be a person #so to ask people to be media ready all the time is just impractical and inhumane #we aren’t all public figures but we are now expected to be ready for that level of attention #even certain internet phenomena that came from a good faith place such as recording Karen’s as a way to combat a certain kind of a racism #was co opted by non black people to publicly shame and embarrass any older white woman they don’t like #now the entire concept of a Karen has lost its original meaning while still existing as an open threat to older women who don’t behave #as expected in public #and yes I have seen white teenage boys yelling at women calling them Karen’s for just asking them to stop being rowdy #which is anecdotal evidence so take with a grain of salt #but I am simply EXHAUSTED #apparently I need to live in the mountains if I want to live in peace #also I wrote this in like a 5 minute rage so feel free to DM me or comment if I got something wrong

[captainkirkk]

So I started following you a little while back for your weekly fix roundups for atla and a couple other fandoms, and now I am somehow a batfamily fan? Specifically even a Jason Todd fan??? Despite having never actually consumed any single piece of canon media in which he has been in???????

So thanks for that I guess! Anyway, having braved the tags now I find myself very confused about something and was wondering if you could offer any insight. Do you know why there is so much crossover with the Danny Phantom fandom? I’ve never consumed any of that canon either, but from what I can tell of the premise there doesn’t seem to be much correlation. Is there something in particular that contributed to its popularity, or is it just one of those weird unexplainable fandom things?

It's a Fandom Thing. Random crossovers will sometimes become incredibly popular, despite the source material having nothing in common. Personally, I think it's because of the size and content within the fandoms.

DC has MANY crossovers, because it's a such big fandom. When you loiter in fandom spaces, you inevitably get sucked into fandoms like that - like you very recently experienced (welcome to the party, by the way!). And because so many people are familiar with these fandoms, they become communal sand pits for everyone to play in.

DP is also one of those fandoms that has lots of crossovers. But I think that has more to do with people enjoying the angsty or crackish aspects of fanon, and wanting to inflict it on other universe . If you haven't noticed, these fics often involve the Justice League of the Batfamily being baffled or horrified by this dead, overpowered 14yo superhero. It's a recipe for success.

#also once an idea gains traction and attention #everyone gets inspired and wants to join the fun #so you get an explosion of content #which leads to a ridiculous content for some crossovers #like dp/dc #dp/bnha #miraculous ladybug/dc #harry potter/fullmetal alchemist #actually................. harry potter/every fandom in existence #i really can't explain that one. the harry potter crossover phenomena has always baffled me #i've been in a lot of fandoms over the years but the harry potter fandom was always unique #and WEIRD #ask #anon #fandom things

[rtnortherly]

what if i said to you: Charybdis but in space?

#having thoughts about mythology of gods and entities that existed when we didn't conceive of outer space the way we do know #and charybdis and scylla have always been a favourite of mine #and like #couldn't they be a black hole and idk some other space phenomena #i know nothing about outer space #but i can't be the only one who has thought of this right #like there's definitely a black hole named after charybdis right? #space people tell me the things #greek mythology #space #also charybdis makes me think of the one florence + the machine song hunger #but that may just be very surface level word association bc i've not actually investigated the notion #been thinking about the concept of hunger so much for how it translates to yearning/ambition/greed/desperation/curiosity/wanting #I love a character and a plot line which is just a bottomless pit seeking life/knowledge/connection/recognition #esp if it balances on the edge of fierce love and or destructive #like #mmm #delicious #it feels human to be hungry for the whole world #but our appetites become monstrous in the eyes of puritanical beliefs #or whatever #so many thoughts y'all i can't be stopped #ramblings

[gaypornluvr420]

and are these child slave quinoa vegans in the room with us right now

#i know some probably exist but most vegans are very conscious abt where they get their food from #i’ve seen vegan recipe website comments sections tear the cook to SHREDS for using hershey or nestle or anything in that vein #and can we stop pretending that non vegans don’t also buy food produced by slavery. #where do you think most of your food and clothes come from?? do you think only vegan products use slavery?? #EVERYONE needs to be more aware of where they’re buying things from because there’s so much more #slavery going on than ppl in developed countries would think #i didn’t know until i started looking into it bc obviously no one wants to talk abt it #and guess what!! vegans are usually the ones raising awareness abt corporations using slavery or treating their workers badly!! #bc the whole point of the lifestyle is compassion!!! so holy shit stop treating us like we’re the bad guys #bc vegans annoyed you once or bc you feel guilty abt eating animal products and are trying to make yourself #feel better by shitting on us #sry i just saw a post i otherwise agreed with but it kept mentioning “child slave quinoa vegans and im so sick of ppl talking abt this #phenomena that doesn’t really exist. #also no i don’t hate non vegans i know it can be more difficult and expensive etc. whatever.

[aro-culture-is]

aro writer culture is getting grumpy when told that having all of your characters lack interest in romance is unrealistic

and then when you say you don't wanna write romance, they say 'well then you must write for middle grade, because it is more realistic for middle schoolers to not like romance! :D'

ew.

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#Anonymous #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod axel #aro writer culture #amatonormativity cw #amatonormativity my beloathed #gotta love how the concern is if it's realistic. has the vibes of every minority ever being told we're unrealistic in every setting because #of some mysteriously specific reason literally every single time #despite the fact that like. it's a story. it's fucking art. when did we start insisting that art must be realistic? #(oh? is it just an excuse to hide the fact that that minority *existing* is what makes that person uncomfortable?) #actually related to that overall topic #cannot recommend enough the youtube series 'the alt-right playbook' by innuendo studios #he released a new episode today that talked about that phenomena of the majority being sensitized to the minority as a topic rather than as #people with their own lives #and also it had a banging last line #a movement cannot be anti-fascist if it isn't anti-racist #also with his vids always check for any comments by him post release #he's pretty good at acknowledging anything he may have fucked up #like today's vid he was like 'hey in this video i switched between talking about Black people / POC in general / and immigrants somewhat #interchangeably due to the threads of white supremacy directed racism i was overall discussing. i should have done a better job with not #equating all racism and particularly done a better job being specific when I meant Black or Latine and not POC' #the vid series is overall dissecting how people get into the alt-right / what the alt-right actually is / and how to counter them

[sophiethewitch1]

no i will NOT acknowledge the early warning signs for schizophrenia warning list what do i look like I'm someone who deals with their problems?? absolutely not

#sophie speaks #tw vent #i exist purely to make my meagre amount of followers worry. hey hope you're scared shitless again /jk #i should make a personal blog to talk about this stuff but i still see this as my personal blog and also it works like #yknow when u shoot a gun to make sure the rent doesn't go up. the idea of having even 3k followers scares me #anyways gang i literally have all of them lmfao #was talking to my mum last night about this really odd phenomena i experience sometimes #where peoples faces just look wrong #uncanny valley?? ugly?? terrifying?? idk i cant explain it they just look so disturbing to me i have to look away and #and i was like 'huh this sounds like schizophrenia' and then i had a valium because the idea scared me #ive got so much wrong with me I'm just so scared for my sense of reality to go wrong too #i just.. i feel like id be in complete free fall if i lost that #i mean technically did hearing voices is just inner hallucinations and i have those... all the time #well. im going back to undertale fanfic writing. healing my inner 15 year old w this one

[penultimate-step]

one problem with discord vent channels, I think, is that it's hard to calibrate for intensity of vent.

If the space is used primarily for very serious vents, such as health risks, mourning the death of friends and family, etc, it becomes difficult to use that channel unless the user deems a suitable threshold of terribleness has been met. However, if the space is used primarily for more petty vents, like terrible haircuts or a coworker being passive aggressive at work, the atmosphere may become unwelcoming to more serious vent topics.

But maintaining a space where people feel equally comfortable complaining about petty things and big things is somewhat difficult to manage, I think. I can't really think of a way to do it.

#I'm hoping that “discord vent channel” is a widespread enough phenomena that people relate to this post #and that its not just something that exists on one small server I'm on and im just complaining about something incomprehensible #discord #step.blogger

[philosophybits]

The influence of phenomena is removed by employing the influence of emptiness, and even that is later eradicated by inculcating the realization, ‘nothing really exists’.

Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:32)

#philosophy #quotes #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra #phenomena #substance #emptiness #existence #metaphysics

[unproduciblesmackdown]

akd in TRIPTYCH dir. joel soren in 2014, specifically SPIDERS ARE REAL! THEY'RE ALIVE AND THEY HATE YOU!! scene 4, 2, 3, & "Song by Michael Gilden"

bonus, also from TRIPTYCH, Phenomena & Existences (#1)

#the other preexisting pic of them in phenomena & existences (given octothorpes & numbers) is also from [1] apparently #also seen the preexisting pics of them perchance as the queen in la mort de tintagiles is; for one thing; confirmedly from that play #pic with glowing orb? from Act One. pic with green light? Act Three #and the SPIDERS ARE REAL! THEY'RE ALIVE AND THEY HATE YOU!! pics all given Scene & Number. all new & all Here #asia kate dillon #triptych #which: yolo: #SPIDERS ARE REAL! THEY'RE ALIVE AND THEY HATE YOU!! #phenomena & existences

[grendelsmilf]

the thing is, star wars IS bad sci fi, but whenever people bring up “parsecs are a measure of distance not a measure of time” as like a pithy little rebuttal im just like. well what do you think time is

#hey everyone take a look at this guy he thinks time is an ontologically discrete phenomena that could exist independent of material space #o

[lesbian-ashe]

it's funny when people make yaoi of the most nothing characters ever just cause they're men and stood next to each other and have mildly interesting designs and appear in one episode and they get obsessed with them and make 1000 fanarts and fics for them. can we have that same energy with women though

#this isn't shade on it really but this phenomena does NOT exist for women #cmon man

[theflyingkipper]

I cant stop thinking about how neil was 4 years old when he transported skarloey on sodor. obviously engines mature differently than humans and this being 1865 there definitely wasn’t time for neil to be a toddler. nor was there a model for how engines are supposed to “grow up” mentally

however, the idea of neil and skarloey being actual babies mentally is hilarious to me

neil: *INCOMPREHENSIBLE SCOTTISH PRESCHOOLER BABBLING*

skarloey: 👶🚂

even if engines can speak and do work at this age (1-2 years about) I don’t think they understand the world around them. Neil would obviously have a much higher vocabulary than 4 year old human children, and he might know about the delicate machine inside him that allows him to go backward and forwards, but does he know why the sky is blue?

#I think about gordon boasting about how hes never gone the wrong way with the express #and making said boast while being TWO YEARS OLD #or thomas in one of jobeys snippets not knowing that rails needed to be laid down and werent some magical already existing phenomena #ttte neil #rws neil #thomas the tank engine #ttte skarloey #the railway series #kips cant shut up

[21stcenturyschizoidfag]

thinking hard about relationships where gender really never factored into the equation at all in its conception but the roles have become something fun to play at fulfilling, or some sort of ritualistic performance done out of devotion and dedication.. "i'll be your man if you'll be my woman"... "i wish you were a girl"... the deep seated craving for a framework that inextricably links you to one another even if and especially if you would be a nontraditional fit.. GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY 😭

#feeling some sort of way and feeling it very intensely... By jove i think im experiencing sort of homo-sexual phenomena #this is about trans relationships by the way. and also bisexual ones.. between men and women but also just between people who #may typically see themselves as existing adjacent to one another.. not polar opposites but two sides of the same coin :) #together. not as a single unit but as a pair. together..... UUUUUAAAHH #you know what actually its about everyone who feels Like that. thank you lesbians and gay people who are Like this.. #you make me feel loved #averyposting

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

The paranormal is super interesting to me. I think a lot of people see the bad side of it because they don’t treat entities with respect and sensationalize them. Rationally, if they are real dead people, then they should be treated as one would any other human; if they are spirits, then they are simply another species as intelligent as ourselves, and should also be treated with the utmost sensitivity, since their culture is likely different than our own due to their lack of physical bodies. Terms like “angel” and “demon” moralize these phenomena, and could possibly be taken as slurs by non-corporeal beings who understand the language these words are spoken in.

I dislike the term “ghost hunting” because the wording is much like the kind you’d use to refer to hunting a species of animal. I also dislike the concept of commercialized haunted locations. Imagine someone — who believes you are a horrifying monster — barging into your home with cameras, hoping to take pictures of you. Imagine someone opening up your house as a tourist attraction — a zoo — for the whole world because they think they can make money off of how creepy you are… Honestly, I don’t think the ghosts are the ones being creepy.

Yeah, I��d be strangling people and throwing shit across the room too if I had to deal with the clout-obsessed, phone-toting paparazzi that are living humans.

#paranormal discourse #is that even a tag #ghost rights #like ok I’m agnostic so I don’t necessarily believe every paranormal story I hear but I am inclined to believe spirits are real #one way or another #because of my own experiences and because so many people have their own experiences that cannot be explained #I believe there is an explanation for everything; and that “magic” is just phenomena unexplainable by *today’s* science #Tomorrow’s science may explain why we see some things; whether “tomorrow” is in five years or five centuries no one can know #We will get there eventually #Or maybe we won’t because human perception is so limited (we can’t see shrimp colors for instance) #But imagine what we could gain if the spiritual and physical worlds formed a bridge to collaborate with their knowledge #IF that spiritual world exists in the way we think it does — and we may be very wrong about that #But yeah… if ghosts are what we think they are… everything about the way we’ve been treating them is ABHORRENT #Putting *people* in *zoos* #nah #nonono #I’m all for communication and cultural exchange; but it should be performed professionally and ceremonially like a diplomatic meeting #My brain goes off the fucking rails at night istg h e l p #I’m right though