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Recommended Sanders Sides creators

Marry Christmas, everyone! And a wonderful December day to all of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, too. Let’s be honest right off the bat, though: I’m only using the date as an excuse to do this list anyways.

So. Throughout the time I’ve spent as a part of this wonderful corner of the sanders sides fandom over here on tumblr, I’ve often found a new creator and wished I’d found them sooner. It kind of makes me wonder who else I might miss. If you do to, here are a few creators I’d love for you to check out. You’ll probably recognize some of the names, if not all, but maybe you’ll find a new favorite creator here?

And to the creators in question, I really love your content. If you’ve made it onto this list, you’ve definitely cause one or two sleepless nights of reading for me, because who needs sleep if I can have this, right? XD Whatever you’ll find written next to your name is the impression you’ve left on me and… Well, just know that you’ve made some days of my life at least a little happier, all of you. And I hope to repay the favor by telling you how much I appreciate you releasing your content into this world… Well, repay the favor at least a little, I suppose.

Let’s begin, then, shall we?

@5am-the-foxing-hour Because this? This is who you go to if you want to read good Janus-content. You are in a mood to read sympathetic Janus? Wanna see the danger noodle just casually interact with other sides? Go to their short stories. I mean, “the cult”? Prime example of how to tell a story with impact in just a few words. 8 paragraphs, but boy did I read that one on repeat. Or “water spray bottle”, this one is fun, short and will make you laugh. An energy drink for the fander heart, so to say.

Then there’s their mafia-au, “there’s more in me than precious metals”. Six are out so far, and I adore every single word of every single part of this. Protective Remus, sassy Janus, angst, comedy relief, destruction, Roman-Remus-sibling-rivalry, braincell Logan, survival instinct Virgil, working together over a common enemy… This fic has it all, believe me. Take your time and read it, because you will read the entire thing in one go once you start. At least I did, and I didn’t even notice.

And their advent writings? Those had me squealing and jumping around in a way I will deny if anyone ever sees it. I don’t even know what else to say, they are fucking fantastic and that’s that.

So, yeah. Go check them out, before I start fangirling about them even more. You know my personal favorites now, so just go there. You won’t regret it.

Next up is @coconut-cluster. Ah, yes, Lexi. Lexi, whose uni-AU started as self indulgent and has become the loceit story on tumblr. We all know her, or at least most of us do, and we all love her too. And while I also drop everything I do at any point of time I possibly can once I realize the uni-au has any form of new addition, there are a lot of other fics created by her that you should check out as well.

Did you, for example, ever want a sappy prinxiety one-shot with the sappiness only being implied, a mutual understanding of “we’re-not-saying-we-care-but-we-both-know-we-do” born from joking reassurances and a not-a-date-nope-only-a-break? While that may seem to be a tall order, that is exactly what “before the sun goes down” is. Plus there’s ice cream. Or maybe you’re more of a logince fan? Do you want a fic where Roman isn’t the prince but serves His Highness? Do you like sincere talks while you’re procrastinating showing your face to the subjects you don’t really want to rule over? In that case, you really should read “Viva la Vida”. Careful, though, this one is so sweet you’ll probably get a toothache… There also is an analogical fic that I’ve enjoyed very much: “Cracks in the Ceiling”. I love it, because it’s just calm. Fears creeping up on you, thrown away by a trusted friend with a few words, just by being there and playing into the metaphors you head created this time around. It’s calm, and there’s not really a climax or anything, but it doesn’t need one. Because it’s just a glance into everyday life. It’s beautiful in its own right, really.

What I’m saying is, Lexi has a lot more wonderful stories to tell than the uni-au. It’s the most popular one, sure, and it’s one of her best works. But you really should check out her other fics as well. Lexi herself once said that she writs fics she’d like to read. I would figure it’s because of this, but her stories are mostly things you don’t really find anywhere else. Dynamics, stories, world building, all of those are aspects you may find somewhere else. But Lexi is just one of those people who see what they miss in a fandom and create it themselves, and among these creators Lexi is my favorite. She just has that certain skill that makes that approach to writing result in the most enjoyable reading experiences. Lexi’s fics are special, because they’re different, because they are authentic and you can feel that when you’re reading her work.

@djpurple3 is another talented individual I want to talk about. I have to confess, DJ is, as far as original content goes, almost exclusively locked in my brain with the fiction “I just keep loosing my beat”. 23 Chapters so far, one better than the last. It’s a bitter-sweet story following Remus and his children, after the bitch of a mother has been brought behind bars. Abusive piece of shit. Yeah, I don’t like her much. But the story is so full of love and support, everyone trying their best, everyone seeing how much the others deserve the world and wishing they could give it to them… Roman and Remus have a sibling-dynamic I would die for here, too. Patton is just the most adorable friend to Deceit - here Damion - Virgil is a precious bean, Logan is cute and the teacher we all wish he’d had ourselves and… god, I could keep gushing about this fic forever. I’ll stop now, though, before I’ll start spoiler things. Wouldn’t want to do that, especially since I really, really, really want more people to give this a go. It’s not underrated, I just think everyone who doesn’t is missing out by a lot, so… Go over there and read DJ’s fic right fucking now, if you haven’t already read it at least once. Thank you.

@delimeful, our wonderful lime-friend with a cute cat making a terrifying face in his header. First of all, there is the WIBAR universe, short for “Watch it burn and rust”. 5 chapters in act one, 4 intermissions (one of those with three chapters), one chapter of act two, as well as three extras and an au of this au called “the end of being alone”, and I’ve lost count of how many nights I spent reading those instead of sleeping like I should. (Or interacting with family. Or being productive. Or… It’s really a good story, okay?!) WIBAR is a deathworlder au. So a space au in which humans are regarded as dangerous deathworlders who can survive on a deathworld like earth. In other words, Virgil is the only human, and boy does that scare everyone around him. And the best part? You can feel the development, the shift in mentality regarding Virgil, feel the moment approach in which he isn’t a threat but a companion instead.

And, apart from the fic that inspired me enough to start writing “TINND!R?” over on my writing blog, there are a lot more amazing fics to read on lime’s blog. He wrote “How easy you are to need”, for example. It’s soft, it pulls at just the right heartstrings, it’s achingly hopeful and, god, the ending still has me in tears, even after the fifth - ? sixth? something among those lines - reread. This one’s a werewolf au, actually. Virgil is the werewolf, Logan, Patton and Roman are the humans.

Do you want yourself some of that pre-AA dynamic? I’d recommend “to taste your beating heart”. In this, Virgil gets separated from the rest of his group of vampire hunters and gets turned into a vampire himself, loosing his memories. And he’s “Anx” now, not “Virgil”, goddamnit! He isn’t their friend anymore, why don’t they understand that? Well, probably because they can still see Virgil’s old habits shining through. There’s a lot of tension, a lot of angst and a whole lot of frustration involved in this.

He also wrote some amazing one-shots. They’re mostly so well written that I’m almost sad not to be waiting on a continuation. There’s “the littlest mermaid”, in which Virgil goes to investigate a noise, finding a scared, tiny mermaid in need of help. In “community gardens” we have Remus being Remus, gaining the interest and friendship of the forest’s giant Logan. “Magical mutualism” tells the tale of a witch and a demon making a pact beneficial to both parties and opening the doors neither could have gone beyond alone. The way we’re all confused about our ships not actually having set sail yet comes to a hight in Virgil in regards to his friends in “amateur matchmakers”. And this is the point at witch I stop talking before I actually recommend every single one of lime’s fics instead of just my favorites as I had planed because I started to gush too much… XD

Let’s move on to @muppenthings. Mupp is an amazing artist and she created a giant mermaid au. There’s this one orca who’s just… We love her, but I actually don’t think she’s the brightest. I really, really love her, though. Virgil himself is being a little protective over his human friends and casually so. I love this comic series for the art style, but I also love the way it makes me crack a laugh at least once per work. Or appeal to my mother-instincts, if it’s about baby Virgil. Too cute for his own good, I tell ya! And the facial expressions! The detail, the jokes, everything about this is wonderful. You should at least take a look.

@whenisitenoughtrees. Cat got me with “This cup of yours tastes holy (This lie is dead)”. “A slow voice on a wave of phase” was next, later “Infinity and beyond”, “we are not alone in the dark with out demons” and “changing of the guard”. And then, suddenly, the night was over. I’ve read almost all of the fics in one go, and I’ve been semi-frequently visiting her master post ever since. When “There’s an endless road to rediscover” came out just a little while back, that lead to me re-reading through almost the entire list. I don’t regret it, my plans for that weekend would like to disagree.

These six fics I mentioned here are, by no means, the only ones I enjoyed. Those are just the ones I’ve found myself opening up again and again in sleepless nights. Those are the ones that pop up in my head and have me smiling to myself in the middle of god-knows-whatever-I’ve-been-doing-at-the-time.

Angst, fluff, hurt-comfort, you’ll find everything in that list. And something I’ve grown to like about Cat’s fics even more than anything else is the quick change between feeling perplexed, a startled laugh at certain wordings (you’ll know what I’m talking about when you see it) and apprehension. These fics will have you at the edge of you seat, swooping you away on an emotional roller coaster. And, god, the way Cat writes from Remus’ perspective? The introductions of her stories and the way she redirects to the main topic after going into detail on something? I saved a few paragraphs as screenshots on my phone because I love them and I want to read them again when I’m down. I just… Cat’s great.

Next up is @eliemo. Because Elias Virgil is the royalty of Virgil angst. From the touch-starved Virgil we’ve all had a head cannon of at one point in “Heart of Ice”, over ace Virgil panicking over telling his boyfriends that he his ace and didn’t think to tell them before in “Love our way” to so, so much more.

Mostly EV follows the story arc of an underlying feeling of dread at the beginning, which slowly grows into panic, exploding in a storm of angst and concludes in everyone, or at least whoever is around, coming to the rescue and helping to calm down, with the end being the hope for getting better in the future. They always manage to convey the confusion, fear or just the general thought process so well that you can’t help but get absorbed in the story. They know exactly what to say and what to leave between the lines to get the maximum effect. And, your heart will definitely be shattered after their angst. Still, the way the sides comfort each other and support each other so well every time is just… I love their stories, a lot.

I want to make two more suggestions if you want to check out this creator. A Janus angst fic, which can only be described as “ouch” you’ll find under the name “snake bite”. It hurts in the best way possible, because Janus gets the comfort he deserves.

The other suggestion gets a lot darker. It’s about Virgil having been abused by the “others” before he got accepted into the light side. The others are shocked to find out what has gone on behind their backs and they help Virgil in every way they can to recover. Of cause it’s a rocky path, though. This would be “Learned Behavior”. The series/au has twelve stories so far, one of which has two parts. You’ll find the master post for this pinned to the top on their blog.

If you like angst, you should also give @maybedefinitely404 a look. Ly has a soulmate-au going, in which they use the concept of “you hear the music your soulmate listens to”. "Music in my head” is a prinxiety fic, but the two of them have yet to meet. Four chapters and two mini-fics in. The reason I mentioned angst is because in this - spoiler alert for the first few chapters here - , Virgil gets put through conversion therapy. Luckily Janus and Logan are better foster parents than the ones who did that to him.

They also have a master list for all their soulmate stories, featuring different ships. Apparently they participated in soulmate month, if I understood that correctly. And to be honest, that was how I even found their account. I absolutely adore their anxceit fic, which takes place in a human au. It’s starting off pretty sad, but the bonding moments are absolutely wonderful. It’s a lovely story, and the ending is one of the best ones I’ve yet to read. Their logince fic took my breath away, too. A flower shop/tattoo artist au, and Logan is the tattoo artist. Stunning writing, wonderful world building, just the right amount of backstory to have everything make sense without overwhelming/drowning the reader in unnecessary details. Their moxceit fiction… Well, this one had me in tears within the first few paragraphs. It’s terrible and you feel for Janus, whose perspective this is written from. The ending, though… Gods! The ending was so indescribably cute. To be honest, all of the soulmate stories are great, these three are just my personal favorites.

Concerning their one shots, you’ll probably have to figure it out on your own concerning this. I haven’t been able to read all of them yet, as sad as that makes me. Definitely palling on doing it in the future, though. I did read two of them, though. “Pippity poppity” really was amusing, and I am so looking forward to the second part of “The Boy who sings next door”. The way they write the dynamics between the sides? I live for that.

Another creator I would like to recommend is @maybe-im-tired.They don’t have a master post, as far as I could see, but they only post their content anyways, so… “Can’t take my eyes off of you” is my favorite out of their fics so far. I mean, the way they managed to fit the sheer chaos that is intrulogical into this one short fic is amazing. And you could take about two thirds of what Remus said and put it up on your wall as out-of-contexts-quotes. Don’t worry, he says them out of context anyways, and they will definitely make you laugh.

The series of short stories for the human au that starts with “Glowing stars” is another au by them that you will almost certainly like. We have Logan and Virgil as kids (about 7 I think), Remus and Patton as single parents, Roman as the most adoring uncle, Emile as babysitter and Remy as his amazing partner. Remus is a great father, wonderfully chaotic as well. And a teacher! Imagine that, Remus as your teacher... He’s great with kids though, as long as they aren’t entitled villains come to make his precious Virgil feel bad, that is.

They also wrote a bunch of “random one shots”. They are all amazing, but my favorite has to be this one. It’s a logince one, once again human au. Patton may or may not tell his big brother’s crush about the feelings he wasn’t prepared to share yet. You know, as small kids do. It’s soft, it will make you smile as much as Logan does, and I love Remus in it. I generally like how they write Remus, okay? I know how much I’ve said it, but I’m not even exaggerating. They always write him differently, and all versions they write him as are so, so lovable and just… I wanna hug the life out of all Remus versions they wrote, okay? Take a look, you’ll know why.

Anyways. Let’s continue with @figurative-siren-song. This is the last account I’ve followed and I’m still sad about it having taken me this long to find them. Little salty, to be honest. (I’ll stick to they/them because they said just not to use she/her, and, well… consistency, you know? Don’t have much, so I have to get what I can XD). When I finally did find them, I went through their entire master list (at least all of the ships with characters I actually know. I’m kinda bad with the shorts characters, so I usually just… avoid them? Idk. Personal preference, I guess), and, well… I would honestly recommend every single fic on that list. They call themself “Repair Fluff King™️” and they deserve that title. But when they warn you that a fic will be angsty, it will be angsty.

I found them through the anxceit fic “A Deal”. Well, through an animatic by their friend on youtube that had linked the fic, but details. I’ve been reading this fic up and down again and again. It’s just so good! And when they talk in the second part and Janus explains why he proposed that deal. Or in the continuation, which i can’t talk about because I will probably spoiler things! So wholesome!

Also, their losleepxeity fic “We’re worth it”. So soft! The nicknames, the plot, the everything. It’s softer than clouds look, and we all know that means something.

But, really. Everyone will find something for them by this creator. So many ships, all incredibly well written, and soft and fluffy without getting boring in the slightest. It’s as energizing as coffee, actually. And, let’s be honest, this whole fandom drowns itself in angst most of the time. Take a break from that, repair your broken hearts with goof fluffy content that you’ll want to read over and over again. Go check this creator out. You will love them.

Last but not least… @myfriendsasthesides A blog by a creator who just takes the wonderfully chaotic dynamics of a friend group and using that to give us content of incorrect sides quotes. Maybe it doesn’t fit with me going on and on about fics here. I don’t care. Follow them and turn on those notifications, please, because seeing even one post of theirs on your dashboard will make your day. It’s funny, it’s absurd, it’s chaotic, it’s making you jealous of them for having friends like that. Believe me, you will want to see those posts. It’s just… the random shots of serotonin and dopamine out generation needs really fucking desperately 100% of the time.

That’s it with the list! Eleven creators I absolutely adore, and I’m sorry I was babbling so much all the way through, but… Well, actually I’m not sorry. And actually, half of the reason I even made this post is to tell them how much I love them and fangirl about them a bit. So… Yeah. Well.I love you guys and hope you’ll have a wonderful day! And to everyone else reading this: I hope this helped you ind some new creators you can enjoy. And a good day to you too, of cause.

Sincerely, Joy 🖤

(@joylessnightsky/@sanders-sides-fic)

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most of the UK reviews i’ve read of martin eden have been a disappointment, tbh. i don’t know if this is because critics have been busy with cannes or because outlets here just don’t have the space, or because it’s kind of seen as old news. i have seen no real engagement with the politics or form beyond a couple of cursory lines, and it’s a shame because... i think it’s really rich wrt those elements?

so i am looking again at the (wonderful) review from film comment last year and it’s such a shame that it’s not available freely online. so i thought i’d post it here behind a cut. it’s long but worth it imo (and also engages really interestingly with marcello’s other films). it’s by phoebe chen.

COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS Jan 3, 2020 BY PHOEBE CHEN

EARLY IN JACK LONDON’S 1909 NOVEL MARTIN EDEN, there is a scattering of references to technical ephemera that the 20th century will promptly leave behind: “chromos and lithographs,” those early attempts at large-scale reproduction; “a vast camera obscura,” by then a centuries-old relic; a bullfight so fervid it’s like “gazing into a kinetoscope,” that proto-cinematic spectacle of cloistered motion. These objects now seem like archaic curios, not much more than the flotsam of culture from the moment it shifted gears to mass production. It’s a change in scale that also ensnares the novel’s title character, a hardy young sailor and autodidact-turned-writer-célèbre, famously an avatar of London’s own hollowing transmutation into a figure for mass consumption. But, lucky him—he remains eminent now on the other side of a century; chance still leaves a world of names and faces to gather dust. Easily the most arresting aspect of Pietro Marcello’s new adaptation is its spotlight on the peripheral: from start to end, London’s linear Künstlerroman is intercut with a dizzying range of archival footage, from a decaying nitrate strip of anarchist Errico Malatesta at a workers’ rally to home video–style super 16mm of kids jiving by an arcade game. In these ghostly interludes, Marcello reanimates the visual detritus of industrial production as a kind of archival unconscious.

This temporal remixing is central to Marcello’s work, mostly experimental documentaries that skew auto-ethnographic and use elusive, essayistic editing to constellate place and memory, but always with a clear eye to the present. Marcello’s first feature, Crossing the Line (2007), gathers footage of domestic migrant workers and the nocturnal trains that barrel them to jobs across the country, laying down a recurring fascination with infrastructure. By his second feature, The Mouth of the Wolf (2009), there is already the sense of an artist in riveting negotiation with the scope of his story and setting. Commissioned by a Jesuit foundation during Marcello’s yearlong residency in the port city of Genoa, the film ebbs between a city-symphonic array and a singular focus on the story of a trans sex worker and her formerly incarcerated lover, still together after 20-odd years and spells of separation. Their lives are bound up with a poetic figuration of the city’s making, from the mythic horizon of ancient travails, recalled in bluer-than-blue shots of the Ligurian Sea at dawn, to new-millennium enterprise in the docklands, filled with shipping crates and bulldozers busy with destruction.

Marcello brings a similar approach to Martin Eden, though its emphasis is inverted: it’s the individual narrative that telescopes a broader history of 20th-century Italy. In this pivotal move, Marcello and co-writer Maurizio Braucci shift London’s Oakland-set story to Naples, switching the cold expanse of the North Pacific for the Mediterranean and its well-traversed waters. The young century, too, is switched out for an indeterminate period with jumbled signifiers: initial clues point to a time just shy of World War II, though a television set in a working-class household soon suggests the late ’50s, and then a plastic helicopter figurine loosely yokes us to the ’70s. Even the score delights in anachronism, marked by a heavy synth bass that perforates the sacral reverb of a cappella and organ song, like a discotheque in a cathedral. And—why not?—’70s and ’80s Europop throwbacks lend archival sequences a further sense of epochal collapse. While Marcello worked with researcher Alessia Petitto for the film’s analog trove, much of its vintage stock is feigned by hand-tinting and distressing original 16mm footage. Sometimes a medium-change jolts with sudden incongruity, as in a cut to dockworkers filmed in black and white, their faces and hands painted in uncanny approximations of living complexions. Other transitions are so precisely matched to color and texture that they seem extensions of a dream.

Martin’s writer’s optimism is built on a faith in language as the site of communication and mutual recognition. So follows his tragedy.

Patchworked from the scraps of a long century, this composite view seems to bristle against a story of individual formation. It feels like a strange time for an artist’s coming-of-age tale adapted with such sincerity, especially when that central emphasis on becoming—and becoming a writer, no less—is upended by geopolitical and ecological hostility. At first, our young Martin strides on screen with all the endearing curiosity of an archetypal naïf, played by Luca Marinelli with a cannonballing force that still makes room for the gentler affects of embarrassment and first love. Like the novel, the film begins with a dockside rescue: early one morning, Martin saves a young aristocrat from a beating, for which he is rewarded with lunch at the family estate. On its storied grounds, Martin meets the stranger’s luminous sister, Elena Orsini (Jessica Cressy), a blonde-haloed and silk-bloused conduit for his twinned desires of knowledge and class transgression. In rooms of ornate stucco and gilded everything, the Orsinis parade their enthusiasm for education in a contrived show of open-mindedness, a familiar posture of well-meaning liberals who love to trumpet a certain model of education as global panacea. University-educated Elena can recite Baudelaire in French; Martin trips over simple conjugations in his mother tongue. “You need money to study,” he protests, after Elena prescribes him a back-to-school stint. “I’m sure that your family would not ignore such an important objective,” she insists (to an orphan, who first set sail at age 11).

Anyone who has ever been thrilled into critical pursuit by a single moment of understanding knows the first beat of this story. Bolting through book after book, Martin is fired by the ever-shifting measure of his knowledge. In these limitless stretches of facts to come, there’s the promised glow of sheer comprehension, the way it clarifies the world as it intoxicates: “All hidden things were laying their secrets bare. He was drunk with comprehension,” writes London. Marcello is just as attentive to how Martin understands, a process anchored to the past experiences of his working body. From his years of manual labor, he comes to knowledge in a distinctly embodied way, charming by being so literal. At lunch with the Orsinis, he offers a bread roll as a metaphor for education and gestures at the sauce on his plate as “poverty,” tearing off a piece of education and mopping up the remnants with relish. Later, in a letter to Elena, he recounts his adventures in literacy: “I note down new words, I turn them into my friends.” In these early moments, his expressions are as playful as they are trenchant, enlivened by newfound ways of articulating experience. His writer’s optimism is built on a faith in language as the site of communication and mutual recognition. So follows his tragedy.

One of Marcello’s major structural decisions admittedly makes for some final-act whiplash, when a cut elides the loaded years of Martin’s incremental success, stratospheric fame, and present fall into jaded torpor. By now, he is a bottle-blonde chain-smoker with his own palazzo and entourage, set to leave on a U.S. press tour even though he hasn’t written a thing in years. His ideas have been amplified to unprecedented reach by mass media, and his words circulate as abstract commodities for a vulturine audience. For all its emphasis on formation, Martin Eden is less a story of ebullient self-discovery than one of inhibiting self-consciousness. There is no real sense that Martin’s baseline character has changed, because it hasn’t. Even his now best-selling writing is the stuff of countless prior rejected manuscripts. From that first day at the Orsini estate, when his roughness sticks out to him as a fact, he learns about the gulf between a hardier self-image and the surface self that’s eyed by others.

WITH SUCH A DEEPLY INHABITED PERFORMANCE by Marinelli, it’s intuitive to read the film as a character study, but the lyrical interiority of London’s novel never feels like the point of Marcello’s adaptation. Archival clips—aged by time, or a colorist’s hand—often seem to illustrate episodes from Martin’s past, punctuating the visual specificity of individual memory: a tense encounter with his sister cuts to two children dancing with joyous frenzy; his failed grammar-school entrance exam finds its way to sepia-stained shots of a crippled, shoeless boy. These insertions are more affective echoes than literal ones, the store of a single life drawn from a pool of collective happening.

But, that catch: writing in the hopes of being read, as Martin does (as most do), means feeding some construct of a distinctive self. While the spotlight of celebrity singles out the destructive irony of Martin’s aggressive individualism, Marcello draws from Italy’s roiling history of anarchist and workerist movements to complicate the film’s political critique, taking an itinerant path through factions and waves from anarcho-communism in the early 1900s to the pro-strike years of autonomist Marxism in the late ’70s. In place of crystalline messaging is a structure that parallels Martin’s own desultory politics, traced in both film and novel through his commitment to liberal theorist Herbert Spencer. Early on, Martin has an epiphanic encounter with Spencer’s First Principles (a detail informed by London’s own discovery of the text as a teen), which lays out a systematic philosophy of natural laws, and offers evolution as a structuring principle for the universe—a “master-key,” London offers. Soon, Martin bellows diatribes shaped by Spencer’s more divisive, social Darwinist ideas of evolutionary justice, as though progress is only possible through cruel ambivalence. Late in the film, an image of a drunk and passed-out Martin cuts to yellowed footage of a young boy penciling his name—“Martin Eden”—over and over in an exercise book, a dream of becoming turned memory.

In Marcello’s previous feature, Lost and Beautiful (2015), memory is more explicitly staged as an attachment to landscape. Like Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro, Lost and Beautiful plays as a pastoral elegy but lays out the bureaucratic inefficiency that hastens heritage loss through neglect. Rolling fields make occasional appearances in Martin Eden, but its Neapolitan surroundings evoke a different history. Far from the two oceans that inspired a North American tradition of maritime literature, the Mediterranean guards its own idiosyncrasies of promise and catastrophe. Of the Sea’s fraught function as a regional crossroads, Marcello has noted, in The Mouth of the Wolf, a braiding of fate and agency: “They are men who transmigrate,” the opening voiceover intones. “We don’t know their stories. We know they chose, found this place, not others.” Mare Nostrum—“Our Sea”—is the Roman epithet for the Mediterranean, a possessive projection that abides in current vernacular. Like so many cities that cup the sea, Naples is a site of immigrant crossing, a fact slyly addressed in Martin Eden with a fleeting long shot of black workers barreling hay in a field of slanted sun, and, at the end, a group of immigrants sitting on a beach at dusk. Brief, but enough to mark the changing conditions of a new century.

Not much is really new, however: not the perils of migration, nor the proselytizing individualists, nor the media circus, nor the classist distortions of taste, nor, blessedly, the kind of learning for learning’s sake that stokes and sustains an interest in the world. Toward the end of the film, there is a shot of our tired once-hero, slumped in the back seat of a car, that cuts to sepia stock of children laughing and running to reach the camera-as-car-window, as if peering through glass and time. It recalls a scene from Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire, which leaps backward through a similar gaze, when the weary angel Cassiel looks out of a car window at the vista of ’80s Berlin and sees, instead, grainy footage of postwar streets strewn with rubble in fresh ruin. Where human perception is shackled to linearity, these wool-coated and scarfed seraphs—a materialization of Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history”—see all of time in a simultaneous sweep, as they wander Berlin with their palliative touch. Marcello’s Martin Eden mosaics a view less pointedly omniscient, but just as filled with a humanist commitment to the turning world, even as Martin slides into disillusion. All its faces plucked from history remind me of a line from a Pasolini poem: “Everything on that street / was human, and the people all clung / to it tightly.”

Phoebe Chen is a writer and graduate student living in New York.

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Hey Swettie 🙃 I don't know if you take request but, if you did, can I please get astrology ship with ateez/straykids? Im taurus sun, leo moon, pisces sun, aries venus, aquarius mars and taurus mercury. Thank you soo much and have a wonderful day💛

(Top right picture: "I’ll love the genuine things, the truth, the real feelings, and myself" )

Hiii, first I’ll do Ateez since currently two ships request in one ask is a bit much for me. Here’s your analysis of your placements~ (You can request for straykids when I reopen my ship asks if you want) Okay so you have taurus sun with pisces moon and leo rising after clarification of your placements, and wow can i just say u must be quite the lovable pretty human being 🥺. Taurus sun you are grounded and there is an inherent desire for productivity or routinely manner when you implement your efforts such as your blog managing for example, I notice you consistently or do a bundle or a bunch of asks for the moodboards and then post them all at the same time or in a frequent but not everyday manner. Your work ethic is quite admirable and it also partially stems from your leo rising, these natives with this placement are quite active with their individual interests and opinions/goals, working silently hard or loyal towards their objective. And then your pisces moon allows you to be able to interpret emotions and feelings in different ways, the tangible and untangible. It also makes sense how well put your moodboards are and how accurate they are with the embodied moods :3. Your pisces moon is able to discern these emotions or vibes and they can channel this at time in numerous ways, creatively, to help others in a therapeutic way, and etc. Aslo with your placements general, you may be friendly or very down-to earth to others, empathic (like an empathic listener for example) and friendly but also have quite solid self individuality and well balanced management of your personal and other needs. But I only got to half of your placements 💖✨ I’ll talk about your taurus mercury and aries venus now.

Woah see here is where your individuality could be more heightened. With taurus mercury, you are not afraid to say your honest opinions, rather it would be better or the only option to hear the truth or genuine thoughts than shield with only pretentious superficial words of comforts, ofc you genuinely want the best for ur loved ones and all, and comfort and support is natural, however filtering the reality from your friend is only going to hurt them than rather benefit them so. You’re quite blunt but in a subtle way, its not like you want to let others know you are a blunt and honest person before convo, but simply they realized this fact afterwards. Your aries venus is also quite bold or affectionate, your physical expression of love or care for friends and partner/family etc is warm and obvious to them. These natives with their venus in aries can get their emotions quite strongly at times to their important ones, you sorta give me a love warrior goddess sorta vibe but more controlled/calm. You love with sincerity and passion, but also try to not lose yourself for others. You have aquarius mars oooh, you strive for new and mental stimulating ideas or topics that you are interested in, this could range from hobbies or crafts that involve your interests. Your aquarius mars can be quite fixated as the sign aquarius is also a fixed sign (the modality is a fixed sign) so you may consistently work in your field of interests, but sometimes you try not to put heavy pressure on yourself too much to reach your goals as your motivations are consistent but you aren’t rushing yourself too much, preferring to work at ur own pace becuz u will get there~

In Ateez... your match is san!

Omgg san has a cancer sun with taurus moon, he has water and earth in his sun and moon similar to yours, and with him having the same sign in his moon as your sun (Taurus). There is an immediate emotional understanding, and easier opening up to each other. Idk why but San and you have such similar dynamics, you both would be the warmest and down to earth chaotic pair?? San with his cancer sun is always ready to help and pours his heart into everything, his love for his members and fans, and passion when dancing lol. (Satanic san~) Your pisces moon would feel comforted and safe with his cancer sun, as you seek for someone to not judge your emotional vulnerability/sensitivity and San being consoling and having a non-judgemental soothe to him, bingo. You both would have similar beliefs and point of view at times, which would relate to an immediate click. The first time you met each other, it was like two fireflies flickering towards each other. You weren’t close to him at first, but you were aware of his presence from the first encounter, and soon you both planned subtley how to approach each other more often~

Alright a delve at his taurus moon, San is loyal, self-consistent to his ideals and perspectives, and more inclined to familiarity. With his taurus moon, San is always ready to be there for his members, family, and close ones. He is also a bit solidified in his own goals and self views, sometimes not wavering from ofher opinions till he sees proven true. I can say that with your taurus sun, you would appreciate his grounded ways and calm but warm nature. Your pisces moon connects well with his cancer sun, as both are water signs and have a easier time reciprocating and processing emotions. (So San can easily comfort you when you may be feeling down or experiencing emotional turmoil, he may know what to say or do when comforting like hugs or soothing affirmations, it’s everything the opposite of awkwardness) I think San may find your softness and sensitivity cute and understanding, that you can also be an ambitious or strong individual but also have a soft spot.

Next up San has a leo mercury, and here’s where his chaotic energy will be talked about lol. San is obviously the opposite of calmness when he is naturally having fun and interacting with his members by being himself, he is quite creative and a loud eye-catching speaker. (You don’t need to be told twice he’s probs a living speaker in the dorms wildin) San’s way of communicating may be a little different from your taurus mercury, as your placement tones are more focused on maintaining a calm and chill vibe, while San could be too hyper at times. However, your aries venus would definitely appreciate his energetic actions and manner, both having fun engaging activities. Also San’s mercury in leo and your taurus mercury are similar in a sense they both are vocal or stand clear to their opinions and views. You both won’t hesitate to be honest and there will be better mutual trust becuz of this. And despite different perspectives at times, you both may find the other point of view interesting and it may not lead to frequent altercations and more of enlightening banter.

(This gif summarizes sorta a leo venus being overdramatic of their s/o in a loving manner or complimenting them lol, and its basically san)

And what do we have here, San’s venus is in leo also :> Leo says we meet again~ His way of showing affection can be more physical and expressive, he is definitely proud of his partner/s/o and will shower them with compliments. Venus in leo’s love are genuine and very deep, and with your aries venus (both signs in venus are fire) you definitely love the physical interaction and display of affection from San. Similarly, once close and in a relationship you aren’t shy from showing your love, sometimes you may be flirty or surprise-hug (or other skinship) San. Dates will be fun and probably have high-tension like you both are clearly enjoying the time together (ngl it might seem obvious to others in the same location as your date that you two are rlly lovey-dovey with each other) That being said you both always lift each other up, whether in terms of mood or personal feelings like insecurity at times or nervousness, you two could be each others number one supporter. His leo venus (and his mercury in leo) are opposite to your aquarius mars so there may be conflict or a clash between differing actions/methods and beliefs, but nonetheless you both end up learning from a wider point of view with each other and find the differences intriguing. (Also notably his leo venus and mercury is conjunct to your leo ascendant, so an instant chemistry or attraction mentally and physically is apparent :3)

Lastly, San’s mars is in scorpio. His scorpio mars is opposite to your taurus sun and taurus mercury (scorpio and taurus are sister signs aka opposing signs), but in this case this could further his interest and a spark between you two often. The first impression was impactful to him, and he may be more initiative to getting closer or being in your presence in general. His scorpio mars is quite devotive, in terms of personal goals and passions, and important things he considers in his life (aka his partner, friends, family, etc). Your aquarius mars is also pragmatic when needed but due to your natural logical sense, however you tend to be more loose with your scheduling and activeness. However, despite some differences between pace, you both are consistent and stable when you decide on something. His scorpio mars is also passionate, and with your aries venus the energy levels are able to be matched and complemented with the rest of both of your chart placements.

Overall, with both placements in synastry and analyzation, you both won’t get drained out by each other a lot able to change the direction of interaction between energetic to calm and serious, lighthearted conversations to an inherent empathic awareness during conversations. I was writing this, and I can’t help thinking wow they really match well together. Chemistry platonically and romantically, you both get along rlly well. In this ship pair, you two are the best friends and lover couple, close in general and caring about each other, and did I mention the charismatic ones? I bet yall would be the most openly charming couple .ㅅ.

#ask #astrology kpop ships #kpop ships #ateez #san #choi san #astrology

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moons-and-stars-and-shit · 3 years

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Hello!! Congratulations on 300! I was wondering if i can get a star matchup? My sun sign is Pisces, moon sign is cancer and rising is Libra. I self ship myself with Oikawa (Pls feel free to ignore it if u have too much on your plate :))

𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕣 𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕦𝕡 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕆𝕚𝕜𝕒𝕨𝕒

𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑠 🪐.

Virgo is ruled by Mercury and Pisces is ruled by Jupiter and Neptune.

When Mercury and Neptune come together a beautiful spiritual connection is made.

Together, they represent an idealistic partnership. Pisces is also ruled by Jupiter.

This adds a yang energy to the combination and represents philosophy, expansion and excesses.

This trio brings excellent communication, empathy, imagination and creativity to the relationship.

𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 🔥💧🍃🌬

Virgo is an Earth Sign and Pisces is a Water Sign.

Generally the two are very compatible, as both Water and Earth are real, tangible things.

Pisces, as a Water Sign, is born to connect humankind, and when they come together with Earth there is not a stronger natural bond.

Virgo may have a more stable view of life than their partner.

They can help their lover ground that poetic Pisces nature. But too much of a good thing can turn to mud if both partners aren’t careful.

Pisces’s flightiness may annoy Virgo, and Pisces may in turn feel that Virgo is too scientific.

But it will be easy for them to find a way to work around these disparities.

𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 🤞

Virgo can have some serious trust issues that Pisces won’t actually help them overcome.

In order to have a healthy relationship in which they both trust each other, they will both need to be secure and confident enough to be honest.

Both of these partners will easily give in to dishonesty, although their convictions are the opposite of their behavior.

It can be torture for both of them if any one of the partners tells a lie.

Fortunately, they are both aware that some secrecy might even spark their relationship and give it more passion.

This is why they will usually get over small intimacy outbreaks in order to trust each other on a higher level.

𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 🤝

They complement each other best through communication and intellectual stimulation.

When they start their relationship, they are bound to realize how similar they actually are, even though they seem so different.

The mutable quality of their signs will allow them to jump from topic to topic, both of them staying interested in the flow and the outcome of their conversations.

The best person to pull Virgo out of their obsessive analysis is Pisces, with their smile and their wider picture.

Pisces will give their Virgo partner faith, teach them how belief can form reality and help them be free from too much caution and fear from failure.

Virgo often has this inner battle in which nothing they know, think or do is good or valuable enough.

Pisces are able to inspire and find value in everything in life, and those insecurities and emotional problems of Virgo may seem like something needless that damages the self-esteem of everyone around them.

They will do their best to help their partner reach the point of inner security in which they understand their worth.

In return, Virgo will help Pisces reach the actual materialization of their incredible talents.

They might do so through nagging and constant criticism, but in the end, Pisces will have many things to be thankful for.

Not only does this relationship represent the axis of Venus’ exaltation and fall, but it also represents the axis of the exaltation and fall of Mercury.

As much as Virgo has trouble with Venus, Pisces have trouble with practical Mercury and their mind can send mixed signals making them lost and confused.

Virgo will help them build an inner sense of intellectual security, in return for their emotional one.

𝐸𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 😠😔😊

There is no other sign in the zodiac that can awaken the emotional depths of Virgo better than Pisces.

Understanding between them could reach points of perfection and this is something that both of them will probably be unable to find with anyone else.

Still, it is important for them not to build too much expectation around this idea of perfection, for no one can meet these requirements in real life.

If they go astray, losing touch with their partner’s true personality, they will easily get disappointed and have the need to end their relationship.

With two mutable signs everything moves fast and changes are inevitable. If they want to remain in a stable relationship, they need to find a fine balance between rationality and emotion, reality and dreams and love each other as if they were perfect just the way they are.

𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 🤲

They share a great love of perfection. As much as Virgo will value one’s perfect mind, Pisces will value a perfect emotion.

This is their meeting point and it can make them divine, or constantly dissatisfied with the need to change everything about their partner.

Both of these partners will value flexibility, someone’s ability to adapt and change, and they will most certainly value the love they get from their partner.

Still, their differences in approach to one’s beliefs and convictions might be huge, and acceptance between them needs to be unconditional.

𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦𝑠 💪

Virgo can be grumpy about doing anything from a fairytale of Pisces, but they will follow out of curiosity.

They are after all ruled by Mercury, and have this need to see and feel everything that this Earth has to offer.

Once they get into the magical world of Pisces, they could discover the beauty of life they were fully unaware of.

When these partners are together, they make each other feel like anything is possible

Pisces understand endless possibilities as much as Virgo makes things come true, understanding reality better than many others.

𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑦 💕

Virgo and Pisces represent the axis of the exaltation and fall of both Venus and Mercury.

This makes them partners with greatest challenges and the greatest potential for love in the entire zodiac.

They need to find a fine balance of rationality and emotions, each one individually and together through their relationship.

In many cases this is not a couple that will last very long, as their mutable quality makes them changeable enough to disregard the entire relationship quickly if they aren’t satisfied.

They need to realize that perfection they seek might not be presented in the form they expect.

If they stay together for long enough to understand the benefits of their contact, they might discover that the love between them is the only true love they could find in this lifetime.

#haikyuu!!#haikyuu fandom #haikyuu hcs #haikyuu fluff #haikyuu headcanons #haikyuu matchups #oikawa #oikawa tooru #300followerevent

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hello. i want to write a story set in a very religious place. like fanatic level of religious. in my mind, this place is ruled by what the church says but has a "cover" figure to "connect" with the people. the people of this place are devoted to their religion, meaning they know passages, go to mass, and shun those who don't support it. here is my question: how does one go about creating a religion that feels real? what do i need to take into consideration (i'm not religious myself).

Mod Miri Note: At the same time this came in we also received from the google form the question “How do I world build a religion?” I can’t confirm they’re the same anon, but we’re combining them for the answer.

Brainstormed: You seem to have a very… narrow perception of religion? If you aren’t religious yourself and you’re (presumably) from a Western culture, it makes sense that the Christian church and more specifically Catholicism are your go-to images of hyperreligion. Saying “mass” and “church” and “passages” kind of gives away the fact that you’re trying to base your religion off of at least your idea of an Abrahamic religion, but I’d ask you to reconsider. Right now it sounds like you’re trying to create a negative critique of these religions, and even if that is what you’re going for, you need to do a lot of research on their theology, history, and practices before you can do so with any competence.

I’d suggest doing some basic research on types of religions, like animism, pantheism, polytheism, general superstition, etc. There are plenty of spiritual worldviews that you might consider way over the top, but whose believers find it more bizarre when people don’t follow their teachings. Fanatics are never fanatics in their own mind, and especially among their own people, but also… fanatic might be a relative term. If you’re approaching this from a nonreligious background, then you might consider X-amount of religion in one’s lifestyle to be fanatic-level. Whereas a person who actively practices religion would consider X-amount to be perfectly normal, and only folks who take it to XX-amount plus some shadier practices are the true fanatics.

Remember, religions start because people want to make sense of the world. There is a deeper feeling of wonder and personhood and power, both within a human being and in the whole world around us, that drives spirituality and generates superstition. Religion, at least to start, is beneficial to people, otherwise no one but sadists would follow its teachings. Now, like anything else, religion can devolve into a means of power hoarding and control of a populace, but only because of the people in charge getting greedy. The vast majority of religions I’ve studied have had radical, freeing, empowering teachings applicable to everybody when they first sprang up, and only later did adherents twist those teachings into societal oppression. If there is no satisfaction or benefit in your religion, there won’t exactly be any incentive for people to follow it so closely, aside from whatever negative consequences occur for those who fall away. And negative consequences aren’t often enough to keep people in a religion. If following religion is more painful than the consequences of leaving it, plenty of people will jump ship.

Religion can also show up in every single part of life. According to Wikipedia:

A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, or mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defense against the growing rationalism of Western society. William James popularised the concept.

You look up and see a cloud, a spiritual person sees a portent, or a spirit, or a castle where the gods live. You take a break from work for a minute, a spiritual person now has time to mutter a prayer, or observe the mood of the world, or dedicate their work to their god. A person doesn’t have to be anywhere near a fanatic to have their religion be in every part of their life. Especially if they adhere to a more lax spirituality or superstitious worldview instead of an organized religion, the central spiritual experience of religious belief alters the perception of self and surroundings. It isn’t only a set of rules to follow.

It can even help areas of society that modern Western society considers nonreligious! Historically, medicine has always come under religion. Witch doctors, medicine men, witchcraft, even the hygiene laws laid out in the Christian Bible. Physical health has often been considered a reflection of spiritual health, which, in a way, is true! The placebo effect means tending to one’s mental and emotional health with the reassurance of religion will improve one’s physical health as well. Not only that, but the power of a “spiritual experience”, regardless of if you believe the supernatural is real, can cause religious ecstacy, something you might perceive as a serious psychological problem but those who experience it consider to be a deep form of spiritual expression to be treasured and sought after. The spread and preservation of information is also often aided by religion, even though that can change should those in power want to change history or obscure truth for their own reasons. Just look at the history of the printing press and how that was driven by the need for Bibles. Many cultures, most famously Australian Aboriginal peoples, have oral histories thousands of years long that tie in closely to their spirituality.

You also might be confusing religion with cults. If you think all religion is predatory, playing on people’s weaknesses and fears in order to coerce them into a miserable lifestyle of following strict laws and living under control of those in power, you definitely have conflated “religion” and “cult”. If you’d like to worldbuild a cult, go ahead! It’s likely to be smaller and less acceptable than an established organized religion, not very transparent to the outside world nor its members, and have a spirituality that is in fact just a veneer over gaining power, instead of genuine belief and devotion, and may in fact require people to murder or commit suicide. Just look at Scientology, or these, or even Jared Leto, and a more in-depth look from this organization covering many different kinds of cults.

On a more worldbuildy note, are those who practice this religion correct? Does their god(s) exist? Is the supernatural real? If yes, then are they really fanatics if they’ve been right all along? Even if they’re incorrect, the dedication and deep-held beliefs of religious people shouldn’t be mocked wholesale, in my opinion. Make sure to keep some genuine three-dimensional development for characters who are part of this religion, or include other religions with different practices, or the only thing you’ll accomplish is “waaaa religion bad believers dumb”. And if that is the story you want to write, feel free, but I can’t help you there.

Feral: What makes a religion feel real? Sincere faith.

Specifically among the leaders. I mean, sure, those lemming-like peasants who actually believe that superstitious nonsense will have sincere faith, but honestly? There is going to be a higher percentage of people faking it among the masses than among the clergy. Clergy members are generally required to go through rigorous studies and often take vows that can cause great discomfort. I am sure there are those who did it for the power - there are in atheist organizations as well, humans can be crap - but if you actually read the writings of important Church leaders of the past, not to mention rabbis, imams & mullahs, and archakas, you’re going to find that they have sincere faith.

Something you should always keep in mind when developing pre-modern religion in a Western context is that before the advent of modern scholarship, which starts to become a thing in the West during the Renaissance, all the important scholars were clergy. And again, those learned people either had to be really, really dedicated to their power-hungry ambitions or had to have sincere faith.

That does not make religions perfect by any means nor does it mean that the god they have sincere faith in is omnibenevolent (though the qualities of an omnibenevolent god will be strongly dependent on the culture that worships it). And religious leaders are absolutely capable of doing terrible, terrible things even if they profess to worship an omnibenevolent god, and politicians can definitely twist things around to suit their needs (again, this is not exclusive to religiosity). But your ask has this weird given that a major religion (on par with Catholicism/Christianity) in your world is a scam, and while yes, that happens in cults and alternative religions and in splinter groups*, as Brainstormed pointed out that’s just not how, at least, the four major religions of our world got started.

Yes, it’s true that bureaucracies of a certain size and age will inevitably begin to change focus to protecting its own existence. And yes, it’s true that ambitious sociopaths will be drawn to places of authority even if they are difficult to achieve. And yes, it’s true that an individual entering a toxic environment is more likely to be changed by the environment than to change the environment. But guess what! That has nothing to do with whether the organization is religious or not.

Why does a religion exist in the first place? It explains the universe in a pre-modern world; it provides organization and structure for community focus - in other words, many social programs have historically been run through religious organizations and leadership. And it provides hope and comfort in a very scary world.

Some clergy might be able to fake all of that for a little while, but a large bureaucracy with many clerics who are all in on the fake? No. Allow me to rephrase: hell no. People are not dumb. Maybe you believe that of all religious people, but you are wrong and they are not. The people in your world, if they’re anything like the people in our world, are gonna sniff out the bullshit if none of their religious leaders believe what they’re selling. There is a reason Scientology has to keep blackmail files on all its adherents, and I promise you, the Catholic Church does not do that.

*A note on cults, alternative religions, and splinter groups: Cults and alternative religions (their PR friendly name) are “religions” that are scammy and/or actively dangerous to the participants or others: People’s Temple, Branch Davidian, etc. Splinter groups are congregations that start as normal members of a large religion or denomination but its insular culture creates a divide that just takes things a little too far even for the most fanatical of the main sect (think terrorist groups that link themselves to religions). These types of religions might be what you are actually asking about. Groups like these can be highly, highly influential but in a very contained area. What cults often do is the leader settles in an area and buys property and builds a church and maybe a school and then encourages the members to all move either onto the plot of land if it’s large enough or to buy up surrounding land and homes and push out all the non-believers. That area can then be fortified or just have a de facto boundary with the rest of the world. Sometimes a group like this can become large enough to constitute an entire town, but rarely a city - groups that large will more often have centralized compounds but with the members living scattered among non-believers, as Scientology does. Obviously a group concentrated like that will have an impact on local politics, if they are allowed to participate, but it’s not going to go farther than the county line, so to speak. As we all know from the news, splinter groups like ISIS can become very large and globe spanning, but those types of groups have within them splinter groups and factions, and I don’t think that’s what you’re asking about anyway, so I’m just going to leave it there.

But frankly, your ask reads to me as “how do I create a fantasy!Catholic that is secretly evil and will show the audience how evil religion is in the real world? Opiate of the masses!” And my advice is… don’t. Because it lacks compassionate understanding of people of faith (many faiths), it lacks a factual understanding of how world religions differ and function, it totally lacks nuance, and finally, because it is absolutely, monumentally, extremely, really, very cliche.

Maybe the way your ask is coming across to me is totally not how you intended it. Maybe you only used the jargon you used because you assumed we wouldn’t know any other terms and maybe your understanding of world religions is actually quite sophisticated. Maybe you really do have this insanely clever way to spin a tired cliche into some new and original. In these cases, we strongly encourage you to come right back with as jargon-full and specific an ask as you can write, use our submission google form to do it. Otherwise, give our responses some thought and if after you’ve developed your religion, you want to come back with a specific ask other than “how do I world build a religion?” (which is a little too broad), please feel free.

#pylons #religion #Anonymous

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edhaneyyy · 4 years

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Hope Because Humanity Is Within Us

“Being human is given.But keeping our humanity is a choice.” – Ida Protuger

This quote simply showsor tells us that humanity is a choice.Meaning wenare human ourselves but living here in this world, humanity is hard to keep for some of us.

When we get asked, what is humanity? Answering this question is just as easy as a pie. Humanity is the good qualities a human could have. Humanity is our ability to have compassion, care, empathy and love others. Humanity is helping other wherever and whenever, it is being selfless. If humanity is a person, the best example is Mother Teresa. But, the real question is, is there any hope for humanity when some of the human beings keeps on ruining humanity in our world? Our deepest humanity, however, is rooted within the fragility of all of our lives. Unless we work together we are going to be unable to save lots of the earth. If we cannot see that our vulnerabilities, and not our masks of perfection are what bind us to one another, we are going to be left wondering what's wrong with us.

There is such a common scene in human history when the media community says that men have lost their trust in humanity. That's because most people these days are starting to be cruel to themselves and others. They hurt themselves and the people around them. A common problem was the many facts that made this "virus" bigger and affected the whole world. When we talk about humanity, we should think of it only about human life, not because humanity is about humanity, including all humanity on earth. It is also a terminology of the qualities that make us human. For example, the ability to love, be considerate, be creative, and not be a robot or an alien.

We have to keep humanity within us. Why? Because that is our only key to prevent chaos in our modern world. Without a little bit of humanity do you think we can live, sleep peacefully and have friends around us? No. I listed some acts that show humanity from the website Good Housekeeping . ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/inspirational-stories/news/gmp5124/random-acts-of-kindness/)

1. Florence Rescue Force - After Hurricane Florence caused devastating flooding in North Carolina this fall, kindhearted citizens like Amber Hersel jumped into action. The volunteer from the Civilian Crisis Response Team helped rescue 7-year-old Keiyana Cromartie and her family from their flooded home on September 14, 2018 in James City.

2. Donor Network - The decision made by Patricia Almonte (right) to donate the organs of her late 3-year-old daughter Veronica Garcia helped save three lives: Essence Walls (left), an 8-month-old baby, received her heart; a 2-year-old received her liver; and a 68-year-old woman received her kidneys.

3. Canine Heroes - A lucky dog got a ride from some unnamed helpers in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew two years ago. Photographer Sean Rayford caught these two men pushing a makeshift boat through the floodwaters in Lumberton, North Carolina.

4. Earthquake Heroes - Frida the rescue dog and her trainer Israel Arauz Salinas went viral for their life-saving efforts during the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Mexico City in 2017. The 9-year-old Labrador has detected the bodies of 52 people during her career, and the duo recently received their own statue for their service to the Mexican navy.

5. Helping Hand - American Abbey D'Agostino and New Zealander Nikki Hamblin won a special Olympic commendation for their sportsmanship at the 2016 Rio Games. After Hamblin tripped in a 5,000-meter heat, and brought D'Agostino down with her, the American helped her competitor to her feet. Later on in the race, D'Agostino fell again as a result of her twisted leg, but Hamblin stayed by her side until the finish line.

6. Moments after posing for a fun photograph at a local beauty spot, brave teenager Cheng Changjiang was dead. Despite being unable to swim, Cheng, 18, waded into the lake to save the lives of three young children who had got into trouble in the water. But the brave act cost the teenager – branded a ‘hero’ by onlookers – his life. Cheng was enjoying the public holiday at the rural spot in Xinyang, at Henan province in central China, when tragedy struck.

7. ryclectic’ wrote: “My Buddy Witnessed an Act of Utter Kindness Today…While he was standing on the corner waiting for the crosswalk he saw this woman buy two meals at a street vender and go sit down beside this man and give him one of the meals. She proceeded to introduce herself and talk to him about his life and just shot the [breeze] with him. She wasn’t acting superior, she was his equal, she just wanted to talk to and express inclusion to a fellow human being.”

8. This is a picture of a chap called Tully holding a 46 year old, wheelchair bound man with severe mental handicaps. Tully picked him up so he could go on the hay ride with everyone else. 5 minutes into the ride the man got so excited that he peed all over himself and Tully. Tully sat there soaked in pee for the remainder of the 40 minute hay ride. As soon as it was over he changed the mans clothes before his own. If that doesn’t show character we don’t know what does.

9. I will not let you go. This woman spent 3 hours holding the horse’s head above the tide after it got stuck in the mud on a beach in Australia. The horse was later rescued, unharmed.

10. Strangers Leave her Money While She Gently Sleeps. “alexthegreat90″ wrote: “I took this picture this morning. Ever been somewhere and seen something that amazed you? I’m at the east side McDonald’s and this lady was sitting in front of me sleeping. She has everything she owns in a small backpack. Curled up with her blanket she sleeps not knowing what is going on around her. While she is sleeping everyone is getting their money out and putting it on the table so it’s there when she wakes up.”

These are only few of the acts that restored humanity. These acts showed us that no matter how cruel the world is. There are still people out there who shows kindness and selfless love without any hesitation despite any situation. So what are those things that could destroy our humanity? Stephen Hawking who is known for his work on black holes and gravitational singularities thinks that there are three things that ruin our humanity, but I will only cite two. He have this outspoken ideas about human civilization. Hawking suffers from a nerve cell disease just like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which left him paralyzed and unable to talk without a voice synthesizer. But that hasn't stopped the University of Cambridge professor from making proclamations about the wide selection of dangers humanity faces -- including ourselves. He is part of a small group who voiced out their concerns about artificial intelligence.

First, according to Stephen Hawking, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," "The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all," The Independent reported. I believe that Hawking here is telling us that AI could destroy us just like in the movie entitled Wall-e, we could see there that the AI are already controlling every move of the humans in the ship. They are dependent to the robot around them and don’t seem to care to anyone. There would be no care, love and empathy left.

Second, if AI won’t kill us, our own self might kill us. For example, a major nuclear war would likely end civilization, and could wipe out the human race, Hawking added. When asked which human quality he would most like to chose, he chose empathy , because "it brings us together in a peaceful, loving state.” Chaos would be everywhere without humanity.

In the current time, we ask ourselves sometimes, where is humanity? There are certain issues in our modern world that made us question ourselves. Despite those, we should look at the brighter side. There are still good people who we have mentioned above.

This year, our humanity is being tested. During this pandemic time we should remember our humanity. On the occasion of taking care of the elderly, and those who are sick and needy. This is what's happening in countless hospitals, clinics and medical aid units round the world, where truth heroes of this ordeal – the doctors, nurses and physicians – are risking their lives to avoid wasting others. This deeper humanity must spread to each street, every neighbourhood, every city and each country if we are to defeat the virus with our science and technology but also showing wisdom, compassion and humanity.

In the event that food and fun are what we were destined to be, there is one thing we should remember. Indeed, even creatures can do such exercises. In the event that God made us human, there must be an explanation behind it. No one but people can comprehend the importance of mankind, and it is humankind because of insight that truly gives the center substance to human presence. You needn't bother with a solid financial balance to add to helpful exercises. Paying your family help reasonably is humankind as well. You're prepared to pay a large number of dollars for your clinical test, yet with regards to paying your collaborator; You need to spare each penny. Compassionate exercises ought to never be embraced to pick up distinction or get a superficial point of interest. You can without much of a stretch accomplish popularity through the work you do. Lifting the weighty sack of an elderly person is humankind, helping an incapacitated individual to go across the road is mankind, helping your mom at work is humankind; truth be told, it is humankind to help whoever needs it. How would we express or show mankind? One approach to show our mankind helping poor people and the individuals who crippled. Additionally utilizing indicating counterfeit mankind to pick up distinction ought to never be one your choice. Did you experience finding a major measure of cash and when you return it, there's the incredible inclination that we can't clarify? Since on the event of indicating our humankind to other people, we have that believing that we can not get.

Humanity is significant in our daily lives. It teaches us to understand the problem and gives us ideas. It helps us understand others. Humanities students specialize in writing and critical reading. Humanity encourages us to think creatively. They teach us to explain why we are human and to ask questions about our world. Humanity produces informed and critical citizens. Democracy cannot flourish without humanity. We all need to assist one another. We humans are like that. We need to live by each other’s bliss – not by each other’s hopelessness. We don’t need to despise and loathe one another. Because that's not what humanity is.

Some may say, we are losing our humanity. No, we are not losing it. We could see it everywhere. It is within us. Humanity is lively and the light is sparkling profoundly within the hearts and souls of numerous individuals from all works of life. They are of all races, societies, social status and religions. It is individuals who see their commitments to the world as their employments and they continuously inquire what can l do to contribute to distant better;a much better; a higher;a stronger; an improved" a stronger world. It’s just that, humanity is covered by our selfishness, our hatred, all negative traits that prevents us from helping and doing good for someone. Never lose hope for we still have humanity stored in us.

https://www.humanitystyle.com/new-page-5

https://kindnessblog.com/2014/11/03/34-examples-of-heart-warming-humanity/

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irageneveart · 5 years

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there are so many things a 16 years old person should be doing beside throwing hate, BUT HERE YOU ARE BEING A BRAT

@bfmyers I really can't take this anymore, are you really that full of hypocrisy to scream TOXIC left and right while you yourself use your free time to only spread hate? I don’t usually do this and I try to stay away from useless discourse but you're just kicking on my nerves way too much

under the cut cause boy I have a lot to say. (really, it’s long. I needed to point out everything)

I'm going to kindly tell you to fuck off artists' backs.

you have 0 fucking knowledge of what you're talking about yet you're making callouts and worse, people agree! the same people who supported the artists before by reblogging and liking their art are now shitting on them and "ihh no more reblogs from them" only because you write a lengthy shit in which not only that you threaten a human being, you don't even know how to argue. a link to a picture and screaming "toxic" ISN'T A GODDAMN ARGUMENT

people of this community, PLEASE use your fucking brains and don't bow your head to what every nameless kid has to say. you don't have to believe me either, just use your fucking brain and heart and do the decision making yourself

Now, you did a callout post on @dbd-omija pointing out how toxic they are!!! omg gasp animal death? abuse?? HOW IS THAT pOsSIbLe

where have you been until now because this is a horror community:

in the TCM universe inbreeding is mentioned multiple times

in the Halloween movies Michael kills two dogs and eats one of them

omija clearly stated they went with the 1978-2018 timeline BUT NO YOU KEPT SCREAMING BECAUSE HOW DARE THEY SAY SOMETHING AGAINST YOU

on that matter: in the halloween movies Michael's cult makes him rape his niece, in another movie Laurie, before jumping to what it seemed her death, kisses Michael's mask lips. GASP, when will you sue the directors?

after he escaped, Max literally slaughtered every living creature in that farm. put the DBD devs on your "I need to sue them cause I have something to say against this horror game!!!" list

If there’s something I can agree with you on, it’s about tags. Yes, these are triggers, yes tagging is important, but let’s not forget that being in this community IS about being surrounded by triggers. out of courtesy sure, we should tag our stuff accordingly, but to go all out to say “omija, if you’re reading this, i’m going to pee in your mouth.” HOW. IS. THIS. ACCEPTED?! HOW

HOW THE FUCK PEOPLE WHO REBLOGGED THAT CALLOUT THOUGHT YES THIS IS GOOD?!!?!

now you said that Omija's making all of these seem cute and that’s the real problem. this is where you are sooo wrong and let me explain:

a round head doesn't instantly make everything cute. there are many many details that the human eye perceives as cute, things that artists go to when they want their art to be seen as cute. from the color chosen to the way their eyes and mouths are drawn, to the very line work they’re using. yes, shapes count too, but this is not the case and we should get out of our tiny box and see the big picture. Their comics are not meant to be cute, actually much respect to them for being brave enough to approach well known subjects that are not explored. But that’s it. If YOU see it as cute then it’s your problem really. Art and fiction is prone to interpretation

If anything, how much cute stuff we have in the community should be the anomaly, not that someone draws anxious Bubba

omija's Amanda and Bubba art is problematic! someone asks why, you: because is toxic!!!

really? I actually think that, given their individual personalities, omija portraits the ship’s dynamic really well. Amanda is not dealing well with her feelings and with humans and Bubba has problems understanding things in general. they are two deranged people finding a way to cope and to accept another human presence nearby. "Amanda is picking on a disabled person how can you say it's well!!!!" let me remind you that his entire family is picking on his disabilities and the fact that he loves but also FEARS his family is a big theme in Leatherface's story and personality

Also, another argument of yours was about “the power play” and how that’s problematic. I’m...honestly surprised you even thought of this argument because the entire slasher fandom, the movies, everything slasher related IS BASED ON POWER PLAY. Have you read what they wrote for Laurie/Michael to say the ship is based on power play and it’s wrong? No, me neither, cause I don’t care, but you seem to care enough to vomit about it. Go read some things and tell me how problematic the writing is, you need to call out writers too after all

Btw, surprise! I don't ship neither of the mentioned ships, but I can use my brain enough to see what omija does is actually well made and well thought, sick, weird in some instances, but well thought. kudos to you artist. I can also see those who ship Laurie and Michael are still nice people

But just like you and many others I have my own morals (do you now? Exposing yourself like that to NSFW content while so many people are scared for their life because of people like you? hmmmm) and I can’t really stand explicit pedophilia. I’ve read so many books or seen so many movies where it was mentioned, it’s a trigger factor, it’s taboo, therefore is normal to be used in darker works. It all depends on the circumstances and the way it is presented, cause it’s a piece of fiction. Nobody attacked George R. R. Martin for the controversial things he had written in his books right? I wonder why

Because, another surprise, fiction is different than reality and only this argument alone should be enough, but some monkey brains out there will come to scream at me how fiction affects reality. Someone who writes a murder mystery isn’t actually killing people when they put pen to paper. People who play shooter games do not wish to shoot people in real life. Someone who writes about rape will not welcome the rapist in their arms nor do they wish to rape someone. So on, it’s simple, again, we just need to use our brains.

If you have bullying-related or a family related or any thing related trauma and you see a Michael/Laurie fic or Quentin/Freddy or whatever other ships or subjects you have seen around, and decide to click on it, and then you have a negative reaction, that fiction is not harming you. Your unresolved trauma is harming you. Your decision to read something when you know it triggers you is harming you. The past actions of yourself and those who inflicted harm upon you are harming you. All of those things – your trauma, your real-life bullies, your actions – are real, and have the ability to harm you. (the italic bits are from @dracfics who said it better than I ever could put in words. Thank you)

next on your "who am I going to shit on today" is @renlvbon

not gonna lie, for the omija callout I read everything searching to see whenever you are right or not. I don’t personally know either of the artists but I could read enough to see you’re just a self entitled person with something to say regarding everything. for ren's callout I simply skipped after I saw your argument.

you're not doing gods' work by opening people's' eyes that they can or should portray the characters the way they are, disabled and gross. no, you're just picking on someone's art style

Can we stop this toxic nonsense???

don't get me wrong, I agree that we shouldn't make them supermodels and we shouldn't erase what they are, fucking ugly and gross killers, but saying people who don't draw them a certain way are cowards or calling them out or whatever else shit is TOXIC and ANNOYING. We all change them more or less, we have to because none of us are the original creators! We’re just thirsty people making them to be what we want and what we imagine because they’re fucking fiction

I’ve seen people agreeing with you saying the artist should consider real people with disabilities or on the heavier side (“like me” they pointed out). I’m so sorry if this comes out as rude but if you search or need validation in a horror community that’s not a good thing at all! Body positivity and a healthy approach to disabilities should. not. be. searched. in. a. horror. community or any community on tumblr for that matter. You want some positivity on that? In a real case scenario with them we all would die, no matter how you look like

Going back to the artists, some people don't have experience/ are insecure/ are uncomfortable drawing body hair or fat bodies or whatever. That doesn’t make them fatphobic or whatever shit I saw you writing in your tags.

Drawing a black character less than the color YOU think is good? Have you ever tried to color skin? There are so many ways to do it, there are so so many colors you combine and you play around with + lighting and shading that alters everything. and yeah maybe some people pick a different color, a lighter one, or a more yellow one than they should for asiatic people, or whatever. but these tones are NOT easy to get well (you can always put a brown color down and to call it a day, but maybe people won’t want that. They don’t want to be disrespectful, exactly cause there are predators like you that don’t know how to help, only how to fucking scream). Or maybe they simply don’t know how. Every artist has their own range of comfort zone, be it about subject - composition - colors - etc. I don’t do well with neon colors for example, it happens. Hell even the screen you’re using alters the colors

How about giving actual tips, support and explanations instead of rude call outs? And don’t come at me with the “color picker” shit cause color picker from a real life photo is hell and if you don’t know some color theory your art is going to look dull and lifeless regardless

The only time I can agree that whitewashing is wrong is when white-supremacy, nazi and other ugly shits like these are coming into the topic. But it’s not the case here

some young artists don't have the skill to draw certain body shapes, or body hair, or even a non-anime face. some others think putting a scar on the character’s face make them 'uglier' and ‘scarier’ and for them that's enough AND THAT'S ALRIGHT

drawing something that's supposed to be ugly but still having anatomy and proportions and a functionable mouth or eyes placement or whatever ISN'T EASY. ofc, you can go all out if that's what you want, but personally I want things to still be working because at the end of the day every single one of them is human. I'm not drawing dark fantasy in this fandom, I'm drawing slashers

NO ONE IS DRAWING FOR YOU. NO ONE IS USING THEIR SKILL TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD. art and writing, especially when is made in the free time of the creator, is made FOR THEMSELVES. If there are people enjoying it? Yay, that’s a win, but no one expects everybody on this planet to like what they’re doing. We’re getting back to that golden rule, DON’T LIKE: MOVE THE FUCK ON/ BLOCK AND LIVE YOUR LIFE. EASY. no one uses these unnecessary callouts for anything, if you have something to say do so kindly, if you can’t, just vent to your friends

So now let’s wrap it up cause IDK how many of you even make it through this point

can we fucking stop making young artists and writers cowards for drawing or writing how they can and however they fucking want? Please and thank you

this shit going on with "the best artist/writer for x y z character" or "conventionally drawing ugly Bubba uwu" will just destroy the confidence of whoever wants to keep drawing or writing or joining the fandom. There’s no competition who draws Bubba the ugliest nor who writes Michael the best. if you can do things a certain way, do it, and let the rest draw and write whatever they can WITHOUT FEARING THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

now I'm waiting for your very "well" argumented reply but I hope you'll understand that what you're doing is TOXIC and you should stop or at least change your way to address things. You’re talking to other human beings, not a void when you can throw any random thought you have in the morning. I don't care about you to be honest, but there are so many people out there following your words mindlessly and the creators are suffering and it's not fair.

don't forget to tell me to go kill myself. have a nice day

#ira talks #bfmyers callout #vent and triggers #this shit needs to stop #long post #my opinion #i won't put this in the main tags cause that's really useless #so I don't really know how to tag lol

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kirin-jindosh · 5 years

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C-can you write me headcanons for Kirin falling for someone who’s marked and has supernatural powers? Like an alternative passive ending where Corvo/Em defeats Kirin but instead of frying his brain they send the reader to live in the mansion and never let him leave their sight and keep him in check? Thank uwu lovey

I gotchu babbie. This is A LOT btw. That’s why it took me so long haha. also “Thank uwu” is the funniest shit

Headcannons For Kirin x Marked One:

He’s initially, of course, outraged about the entire situation. Had he known that his involvement with the Duke would lead to him getting a personal nanny, as he liked to think of you, then he would have just thrown himself off his balcony years ago.

Not only do you occupy every space that he occupies–except, thank the outsider, for the bathroom–you also attempt to make conversation with him regularly.

Your job is to make sure he’s not continuing his clockwork project which, to Kirin, might as well be worse than having been put in the electroshock machine. If he’s not working on the clockworks then he’s wasting his time and his potential. They are and will always be his greatest creation and all other work he might accomplish pales in comparison.

He also particularly hates how often you flirt with him as though your situation is not the analogical equivalent of an older sibling waiting to tattle on their younger sibling. He refuses to even play your games as a way to retaliate, though he occasionally will make it very clear that you have no chance with him due to your, as he calls it, “intellectual divide.” Doesn’t matter if you’re very smart or not–Kirin will always see himself as the superior intellect.

Will try to sneak away from you every now and then. You might have supernatural capabilities, but you have to sleep at some point. But, being a friend of Corvo’s, you are rather intuitive of deception and you always–always–find him scurrying through the halls like a rat avoiding a mouse.

Gets incredibly humiliated when you pick him up and carry him back to his room to tuck him back into bed like a child. Serves him right.

After a while his curiosity will get the better of him and he’ll grow bored without the option to work on the clockworks. He’ll finally break down and suggest that you showcase your array of void magic so that he may take notes and study you.

At first, you’re a little suspicious of this. If he studies you, will he find a way to bypass you and escape? You decide that it’s pretty unlikely for anyone untouched by the void to completely understand it anyway and you agree.

Your void magic gives you powers such as: the ability to pass through solid walls, to move backward in time to where you were standing up to ten seconds before, to hear the thoughts of others and implant your thoughts into their minds, and to cause blindness in up to three individuals. You could also self-heal to an extent which, surprisingly, he found the most interesting and spent an entire afternoon asking you about.

Sometimes he’ll take advantage of the fact that you can read his mind and he’ll imagine putting you in the elctroshock machine just to get a rise out of you. You retaliate by picturing him in a scandalous sexual scenarios that make him blush and scoff at you.

He grows used to your new daily routine of studying your abilities. He even helps you discover a couple more through the application of bone charms and runes that he has shipped to the mansion. He’s very proud of himself for his contribution and he often reminds you that you should be very grateful to him.

You’ve grown fond of him. You hardly ever flirt with him anymore because it has become apparent to you that you have actual feelings for him.

He’s noticed this lack of teasing and has shockingly missed it. He berates himself for such ridiculous feelings. He still plans to escape from you some day, but at the same time he can’t help but admit that he’s quite complacent where he is now.

It’ll get to the point where you start letting him get away with certain things that, maybe, Corvo wouldn’t approve of. Maybe not human experimentation or clockwork production, but you do let him sneak out at night and work in his lab. You watch him still, watch him mutter and talk to himself and you feel grateful that Corvo decided to spare him.

He knows you’re there, in the shadows, watching him work. He appreciates the respect you’re giving him by not intervening.

One night, he’ll break the silent compromise and he’ll pull out old clockwork blue prints and you’ll have to intervene. The two of you will argue and he’ll get frustrated about the constant surveillance. You’ll say that you still have a job to do and that if he starts working on the clockworks again, you’ll have to tell Corvo.

You say that you don’t want to do that, that its the last thing you’d ever want to do because the second Corvo hears that Kirin’s stepped out of line, he’ll come and finish the job. And you can’t let that happen, not now.

Kirin wonders what you mean by that.

A few days will past before he realizes what it means. A few more days will pass before he realizes that he, shockingly, reciprocates the feeling.

He’ll approach you, inevitably, though it will take even more time. He’s not an expert at this because he’s never had to be fluent in this sort of thing. Nevertheless, he’ll see it as a challenge and he’ll be very blunt and literal with you, stating that he knows you have developed feelings for him and that he, too, has come to develop these same feelings.

You’ll just raise an eyebrow at him and he’ll get a little perplexed, a little flustered, wondering if he was somehow, miraculously, incorrect for once. Then you’ll sigh and telepathically communicate to him, “Don’t expect this to change anything. I’ve got my eye on you.” He’s actually quite relieved to hear it.

#kirin jindosh #dishonored #dishonored 2 #kirin jindosh x reader #ask

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duhragonball · 5 years

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[FIC] Luffa: The Legendary Super Saiyan (103/?)

Disclaimer: This story features characters and concepts based on Dragon Ball, which is a trademark of Bird Studio/Shueisha and Toei Animation. This is an unauthorized work, and no profit is being made on this work by me. This story is copyright of me. Download if you like, but please don’t archive it without my permission. Don’t be shy.

Continuity Note: About 1000 years before the events of Dragon Ball Z.

Previous Chapters conveniently available here.

[8 February 233 Before Age. Planet Quadzityz.]

There was a long, complicated story behind the war currently raging on Quadzityz It told how the whole thing began over outdated laws and the government failing to collect taxes from the wealthiest members of its society. It told of several regime changes as the people revolted against the corrupt ruling class, only to find they had no idea what new system to install in its place. There were some fascinating side-stories about individuals who tried to ride out the chaos. A princess who went from hero to villain to martyr all in the span of a month. An idealistic leader who declared war on his neighbors rather than accept the need to address domestic unrest. A charismatic general who saw the conflict as a chance to build an new empire on the ashes of the Old Quadzityz. The general's husband, who turned against him when fortune tellers convinced him that he was prophesied to usher in the end of the universe. It was all very fascinating stuff. Over the next two hundred years, historians would make entire careers out of sifting through everything that happened.

Luffa didn't care about any of this. Her own personal account of the Quadzityz War was this: "I was busy dealing with other nonsense in other sectors, or I would have settled this a long time ago. Then some fool decided to bring slorgs into the fighting, and I have to kill them all before they start to breed and infest other planets. I am furious about this."

To be sure, Quadzityz was well beyond Federation space, the part of the galaxy that Luffa had staked as her home turf. Officially, her policy as Federatrix was to settle internal conflicts within its borders and to defend it from external invasions. Unofficially, Luffa pretty much did whatever she pleased, though she did try to stick to her mandate as a general rule. The Federation alliance was her idea, after all. But even from three sectors away, the presence of weaponized slorgs was a clear and present danger to the Federation, so it became her top priority as soon as she learned about it.

Making landfall on Quadzityz was no simple matter. The entire sector was involved in the war, and so Luffa had to fight all the way to the planet. Her star yacht, the Emerald Eye, lacked some of the defenses that a standard military transport would have, but Luffa had customized it over the years, and it had held up reasonably well in numerous war zones. Flying through hostile space was easy enough for her. Landing the ship, however, was a more difficult proposition, as it would be vulnerable to hostile fire from both air and ground forces. So Luffa plotted a course that would skim the atmosphere of the planet just long enough for her to travel the rest of the way on her own. The approach vector carried certain risks of its own, but it was so unorthodox that most of the other combatants were caught unawares, and neglected to attack.

Luffa stood in the cargo bay of her ship as it completed its descent into the atmosphere and began to level off. Once it started to point upwards to ascend back into space, she would make her jump.

"Any photographers around?" Luffa asked into the communicator she wore in her left ear.

"No, but we're about a hundred miles in the air right now," replied the voice on the other end. Her wife, Zatte, was on the bridge, and would mind the ship while Luffa prepared a landing site for her.

"Wouldn't put it past them to follow me here," Luffa grumbled. "There were enough of them on the last three planets in this sector. I'm starting to wonder if the correspondents start these wars just so they'll have something to report on."

"It wasn't that many," Zatte said. "And the shot of you smashing that armored transport was really cute."

Luffa winced at the word 'cute'. "It made me look like a chump," she said. "Any normal Saiyan could lift one of those things. And my eyes were closed, so it looks like I was straining myself."

"You worry too much," Zatte said. "I can promise you: nobody saw that photo and thought you were a weakling. But if it makes you feel any better, the only thing waiting for you down there are about fifty slorgs armed with cybernetic assault weapons."

"That's why I married you," Luffa said with a smirk. "You always know the right thing to say to cheer me up."

"See you soon," Zatte said.

The ship began to climb out of the atmosphere, and this was Luffa's signal to make her jump. With a deep breath and a running start, she leaped out of the cargo bay door, through the force field that maintained the pressure inside the ship, and into the thin air of the planet's thermosphere. In a single fluid motion, she contorted her body to face the Emerald Eye, and fired a beam of crimson light from her fingertips, which passed just over the dorsal hull. A moment later, an explosion could be seen in the distance, indicating that she had successfully destroyed her target, which was an enemy ship that had strayed a little too close for her liking.

Drawing her arms to her chest, she allowed herself to freefall head-first to the planet's surface, and then she transformed. Her normally black hair flashed into a gleaming golden color, while her brown eyes glowed an eerie green. Luffa applied her own immense ki energy to increase the speed of her descent, rocketing down to the planet like a missile. She slowed just enough as she reached the ground that her impact left only a small crater in the ground, though this was still more than enough to disrupt and confuse the enemies waiting for her.

Just as Zatte had promised, there were several dozen slorgs in the area, and she tore into them first, ignoring the Quadzity soldiers and their alien allies. Luffa's primary strategic objective was to remove all traces of slorgs from the sector, in order to ensure that they wouldn't breed and spread their population into Federation worlds. Her second objective was to find any Saiyans that happened to be participating in the war. She would interrogate these for any information she had concerning King Rehval, her most hated enemy. Her third objective was to put a stop to the fighting. Zatte didn't necessarily agree with the order of those priorities, but Luffa considered the matter academic, since she felt she could accomplish all three simultaneously. The sector was a mess, and the slorg problem was just a good place to get started.

Slorgs were not sapient creatures, though it was possible to train them to perform certain tasks, and certain rogue scientists had found ways to control them with cybernetic implants. These particular slorgs were of a self-sustaining product line. The initial batch contained cybernetics that would self-replicate, and when the slorgs mated, they were programmed/trained to install additional cybernetic implants into their young. In theory, any military who purchased these slorgs was supposed to have complete control over them, and they could shut them down or command them to self-destruct if needed, but Luffa knew that war wasn't as neat and tidy as munitions dealers and defense ministers liked to think. She had once fought another line of cyber-slorgs that were supposed to auto-sterilize after a certain period of time, but there was a bug in the program, and the slorgs managed to breed out of control anyway.

As she smashed her fist into the face of one, shattering its six-inch teeth like a pane of glass, another slorg grabbed her from behind with its tentacles. Slorgs usually tried to perform a "death-shake" on their prey, lifting a creature up over its head and shaking it violently to break the animal's neck. The technique was probably millions of years old, but whoever had designed the cybernetics added a new twist: the plasma cannons mounted on the slorg's back would automatically train on the victim once the slorg raised them above its head. All of this was only a minor inconvenience for Luffa, however. Using her ki as a shield, she deflected the cannon fire into another slorg, and flipped herself around to drag her "captor" by its own tentacles, and slamming it into a third slorg. Even as she completed this maneuver, a fourth one came up from behind and grabbed her arms.

Now the Quadzity soldiers were getting involved. Taking up positions around her, they fired into the horde of slorgs, confident that the cybernetics would prevent the creatures from turning on their masters. Luffa found their tactics laughable. Just because the slorgs wouldn't go wild over friendly fire didn't mean that she couldn't use them as cover. The smart choice would have been to use the slorgs as a diversion and regroup to a more favorable position. That, or to call in air support. Truthfully, Luffa wasn't entirely sure what the best move would be for her opponents. Surrender, perhaps.

Bored with the slorgs, she cried out and increased her ki, generating an explosive wave that fried most of their circuits and drove them away from her. This was mostly to separate the live slorgs from the ones she had already killed. Before they could recover, she rushed each of them at breathtaking speed and fired a focused ki blast through their vital organs. Satisfied that there were no more for her to kill, she turned her attention to the conventional forces that now surrounded her. Thirty seconds after that, she used the lull in fighting to focus her senses on any ki signatures in the skies. Any manned airships would be detectable by their pilots, and she used this to aim her ki blasts. Drone weapons were still an issue, so she contacted Zatte on her earpiece to find out what the Emerald Eye's sensors could pick up. Zatte liked to flirt on the line, but her tactical reports were otherwise very clear and concise.

Luffa repeated this process for several more minutes, until at last she had pacified enough land and airspace to safely escort the Emerald Eye to the ground. There were risks in leaving the ship unattended, but Zatte had work to do on the surface, and Luffa was confident that she could secure alternate transportation if the star-yacht ended up being destroyed.

"Enjoying yourself?" Zatte asked when she stepped off the ramp leading from the entrance.

Luffa wiped the slorg blood from her arms before answering. "Yeah, this isn't half-bad. You need a lift to the command center?"

Zatte scanned the terrain with her one good eye. She drew her pistol, and Luffa turned to see if there was a target, then realized Zatte was only making use of the telescopic sight mounted on the barrel.

"Nah, I can make it," she said. Tapping her earpiece, she added: "I'll give a shout if anything goes wrong."

An explosion suddenly rocked the ground beneath them. Zatte took that as her cue to get moving. "You probably want to check that out. Have fun, okay?"

As Zatte ran, her body faded from sight. Her ability to manipulate energy allowed her to become virtually undetectable except by sound or smell. Luffa smiled as she watched her vanish, then she took off for her next target.

*******

"This is ridiculous," Lesseri said as she and Endive ran through the bombed out streets of Inoy, one of Quadzityz larger cities.

"You had no objections to the plan before we landed," Endive replied.

"Oh, I had objections," Lesseri said, "I just didn't bring them up because I didn't have any better ideas. This is probably our best bet, but it's still ridiculous."

With Luffa on the planet, it was only a matter of time before the war would come to an abrupt end. All three sides of the conflict had turned their attention on the Super Saiyan, and yet she had still managed to carve out a demilitarized zone on the planet's largest island. The only thing slowing Luffa down now was the need to defend her newly acquired territory, though she still found time to make raids deep behind enemy lines. At least the warring factions were keeping Luffa busy... for now.

All of that would change, however, if Luffa were to sense Saiyan power levels on the planet. That would happen almost instantly, unless the Saiyans suppressed their ki. The moment they used their powers for any feats of strength or speed, Luffa would notice it and come after them. There was a slim chance that she would be distracted by whatever she was doing, but Lesseri and Endive both knew that Luffa was obsessed with interrogating Saiyans in her search for King Rehval. Whatever Luffa was doing, it was almost certain that she was keeping an eye out for Saiyans, just in case any of them happened to show up.

The safest bet was to wait for Luffa to finish her business on Quadzityz and leave, but this carried risks of its own. Lesseri and Endive were counting on the war to act as a smokescreen. Once the planet was pacified, it would be difficult for them to move around on the planet without attracting attention, and even if Luffa left the planet, she would only be a subspace radio message away. Lesseri's group would have a head start if Luffa came after them, but they didn't like the idea of attracting Luffa's attention at this stage of their quest.

Endive's plan was dangerous, but it was the only logical course available to them: They would make their way to Quadzityz, and carry out their mission without using their ki at all. This meant that if they ran into serious trouble, that they wouldn't be able to defend themselves, but Endive reasoned that they could ease that burden by scavenging arms and armor from dead soldiers. She had hoped to secure a vehicle as well, but so far all the transports they had encountered were damaged beyond repair.

"Slorg up ahead," Lesseri said as she checked her binoculars.

"Can we go around it?" Endive asked.

Lesseri pulled out her handheld sensor device and pulled up an interactive map of the section of the city they were in. "Too many blues that way," she said as she pointed in a westerly direction. Then she gestured at the green markings on her own helmet and Endive's body armor. "It'd be tough to bluff our way past them with all this enemy gear we're wearing, and if we have to fight, I'd rather take my chances on the slorg. At least he won't call for help."

"What about that way?" Endive suggested. She pointed to a road leading northeast.

"Greens had a command post that way," Lesseri said. She tapped her finger on the part of the map she was referring to. "But the Blues knocked it out yesterday. Lot of rough terrain to cover, and then we'd have to climb in and out of a pretty big crater."

Endive smiled. "We could always wait here," she said. "Sooner or later, Luffa will fly in and kill the slorg for us."

"And she'll just fly off as soon as she's done, right?" Lesseri grumbled. "You don't know how she thinks. She'll try to get as much done here as she can before moving on. If she spots us, she'll think we're more enemy soldiers to round up. Once she's close enough to take our guns, she won't need to sense our ki. She'll know we're Saiyans from the smell of our body odor."

"True," Endive said.

"Well, I say we fight it," Lesseri said. "You with me?"

"Very well, it is just one slorg," Endive said, patting the sidearms she had strapped to her waist. "The Reds wouldn't have brought them into this unless these Green weapons weren't formidable. Let's try to set up a crossfire."

*******

Two hours later, Endive was beginning to think they should have waited for Luffa after all. There had been three slorgs, not just one, and there were at least twenty soldiers and mercenaries in the mix as well. This worked to their favor somewhat, as they could count on their enemies to fight each other, but it also made it that much harder for the Saiyan women to advance. Even without ki, the pair still had enough muscle to turne over a wrecked truck and use it as cover while they shot at the slorgs, but the cybernetic implants on the creatures allowed them to coordinate their attacks, which made things much more difficult.

"If we don't get out of here soon," Endive shouted over the blaster fire, "Luffa really will drop in on us!"

"I've got an idea," Lesseri said. "Cover me!"

Endive did as she asked, and laid down fire to keep the others from trying to pick off Lesseri as she leaped out from behind the truck. She jumped to a broken barricade, then to a lamp post, which she used to propel herself to a third-story window of a building along the intersection. The Greens and Blues were unsure how to proceed, since Lesseri was wearing parts of both of their uniforms. The slorgs ignored her completely, as they still had plenty of targets to shoot at. Endive waited, and for a moment, she began to wonder if Lesseri had found some way around the battle and left her behind.

Instead, there was a series of explosions from the building. Before anyone could react, a large chunk of the wall facing the battle tore away, and fell down upon the Greens. Some of them might have survived, but it would take them a long time to dig themselves out. The slorgs then turned their attention on the Blues, since they no longer recognized the buried Greens as a threat. In the time it took for their cybernetic implants to reconsider the battle, Endive managed to slip out into the open and scramble over the wreckage that now covered the Green position. She found Lesseri waiting for her on the other side.

"Why didn't you do that in the first place?" Endive asked.

"I didn't think I had enough explosives to pull it off," Lesseri said. "Then I realized I didn't need to bring down the whole building, just a big enough piece to take out one side. Probably just as well that we thinned the herd a little first."

They continued on their way, and were pleased to find that the rest of the journey was relatively clear of obstacles. At last, they arrived at an apartment building, with a penthouse comprising the top five floors.

"Should be a simple smash and grab," Lesseri said as she shot the lock off the service entrance and kicked the door open. "Or it will be, if Guawar and Treekul can tell us where to look."

Their ultimate goal was a thing called "Jindan", a rumored technique that would greatly increase a Saiyan's strength. While searching for the truth behind the rumors, Lesseri had met Treekul, and alchemical historian who recognized the term "Jindan" from her research. They formed an alliance, which eventually expanded to include Endive, and finally Guwar, a Saiyan mathematician. Without any real leads to speak of, Treekul had directed the Saiyans to locate ancient alchemical texts, which she believed contained techniques and formulae which would have been refined to create the Jindan power of today. To pursue this line of reasoning, she relied upon a mystic ability to track scrolls and other relics by extrapolating their position, using the known locations of other artifacts. Treekul's geomantic compass had led them to Quadzityz, and as they approached the planet, she had managed to narrow down the search to a single building in the city of Inoy, but this was the limit of Treekul's precision. However, Guwar believed that his skills could help refine her calculations, and so they had remained behind while Lesseri and Endive handled the mission.

"I'm sure our resident mathematician will come through for us," Endive said. She reached into her ruck sack and withdrew a bone from the gravesite they had robbed on their last mission.

"He'd better," Lesseri said as she took out her communicator to call their ship. "Because we don't have time to search this place room by room."

To his credit, Guwar was able to improve Treekul's precision, but only enough to narrow it down to the top three floors of the penthouse. For anything better, they had to take new readings, while Endive held the bone in the building, and then again after she had jogged one hundred yards due east of it. By the time she returned, Lesseri had the coordinates.

"68th floor, probably some kind of trophy room or private art gallery," she said as they took the elevator. When it requested a security clearance to go beyond the 60th floor, they simply opened the top of the elevator car and climbed the cables the rest of the way. Eight stories up, they forced the door to their destination.

"Be careful," Endive said as they got off on the 68th floor. "This building may be abandoned, but anyone rich enough to own a private collection of ancient artifacts may have invested in a security system."

"As long as it isn't slorgs," Lesseri said, "I think I can deal with that." She led the way as they crept through the hallway. Every so often, Lesseri would stop to check their position against the coordinates they had received from Guwar. "There it is," she said, pointing at what appeared to be an ordinary wall. "Must be some sort of secret entrance, but our prize is about seven feet beyond that wall."

"Fortunately, I have just the thing to open the passage," Endive said with a chuckle. She took a pair of her plasma weapons from her belt and assembled them into a larger gun. "I will only need a moment to angle the shot so as not to hit what we came for."

"Aim away from the floor," Lesseri said. "There might be pressure sensors to detect footsteps."

"Let's hope not," Endive replied. She stepped to one side and ended up straddling a chair as she chose a suitable trajectory. "We can't fly over them without using our ki, now can we?"

"We'll figure something out," Lesseri. "Go on, take the shot."

As soon as Endive did, the entire floor filled with the obnoxious shrill of an alarm system. Realizing the damage had already been done, Endive continued firing at the same portion of the wall, until she had destroyed a large enough piece for one of them to climb through to the other side.

"See if you can find a way to shut that damn thing off!" Lesseri shouted. "I'll take a look inside!"

Endive turned and went to search the rest of the penthouse, and Lesseri crawled through the hole in the wall. Since the alarm was already triggered, she threw caution to the wind and walked casually to the exact coordinates Guwar had given her. There, she found an old copper retort on a stand. A series of sigils and runes had been engraved across almost every square inch of its surface Nearby, she saw a scroll in a transparent plastic display case. It had been unrolled enough to read part of its contents, though Lesseri could make no sense of the handwriting or jargon. That would be up to Treekul. It frustrated her to be so dependent on someone else to interpret these clues, but she hadn't come this far to stop now. She changed a setting on one of her pistols, causing it to function more like a cutting torch than as a weapon, and used it to remove the scroll from its case. Then she scooped up the retort and made her way to the secret door into the foyer, which was clearly visible from the inside of the gallery. She had hoped that Endive would have found a way to shut off the damned alarm by now, but she supposed it didn't matter now that they were ready to leave.

As Lesseri stepped out into the foyer, she was suddenly grabbed from behind by some sort of mechanical arm. As she tried to shove it aside, it was joined by another arm, and then another. She twisted her body away from her assailant, and saw that it was a robot.

"Submit!" it cried over the blare of the alarm. Its design somewhat resembled a humanoid, but its torso was long and thin, with ten long, spindly arms attached to either side. The speaker on its head was located roughly where a person's mouth would be, and instead of eyes, it had two pairs of blinking lights. It had four legs, each about two feet in length, which now carried the machine forward as it continued its attack on Lesseri.

"Submit! Submit!" it repeated. Lesseri dropped the stolen items and reached for her sidearm, but just as she was about to fire on the robot, something else came from behind her and grabbed her arm, spoiling her aim. The plasma bolt went over the robot's head and destroyed a chunk of the ceiling.

Instinctively, Lesseri raised her free arm to try to hit her second opponent in the face with her elbow, but then she noticed the first one was still coming towards her, so she went limp instead, dropping to the floor. She was pleasantly surprised to see the robot pounce forward and strike its comrade, a second robot of the same model. It stilll hadn't released its hold on her arm, but neither robot could exploit that advantage, as they both struggled to untangle their other limbs from each other.

Lesseri wondered where the things had come from, and how they had managed to get so close to her without her noticing, and then she happened to look down and saw a third robot emerging from the floor. There was no opening; the machine seemed to rise up from the carpet like a swimmer coming up for air in a pool of water.

"Submit!" it cried as it grabbed hold of her left boot.

Lesseri remembered her sidearm and pointed it at the robot's face. She fired, destroying its entire upper body, but it's grip on her ankle didn't loosen at all. In fact, its other nine arms still seemed to be reaching for her, though more aimlessly than before. She changed the weapon's settings to fire a narrow beam, hoping that this would be enough to cut herself loose without hurting herself in the process, but before she could try, another metallic arm grabbed her. She looked around and found the first two robots had managed to get their act together.

"This is getting complicated..." she said under her breath.

Lesseri managed to roll clear of the other robot arms, though she was unable to free herself from the ones on her arm and leg. It would have been easy to rip them apart with her ki, but doing this would bring Luffa on them, and the situation hadn't gotten that desperate yet. Her muscular frame still had enough power to drag the robots along the floor, and for a moment she considered trying to escape this way. She even briefly thought about scooping up the copper retort and the scroll she had dropped, until she saw a fourth robot emerging from one of the walls. The mission could wait.

She moved as quickly as she could, and made it out of the foyer and around the corner to the hallway that led to the elevator. It was there she found Endive, who had run into a group of robots herself. They had already gotten the better of her, and had wrapped enough of their arms around her to immobilize her completely.

"They're coming out of the walls!" Endive shouted when she spotted Lesseri. The warning came too late, and if Endive had anything more useful to say, the robots stopped her before she got the chance. One of them unfolded its head into a long strip of metal, and wrapped this around her head, covering her mouth completely.

Lesseri moved closer, as she had no other idea on what to do. She would probably need Endive's help to get out of this mess, and even if she didn't, Endive was between Lesseri and the elevator. Endive's muffled screams were barely audible over the alarm and all of the robots chirping "Submit!" over and over. Lesseri wasn't sure if Endive was being hurt in some way, or if she was simply upset about being captured.

Then Lesseri felt two more robots grabbing her from behind, and she realized that Endive had been trying to warn her. Now that the reinforcements had arrived, the robots clinging to her boot and arm managed to right themselves and work together. Their forty limbs quickly linked together and wrapped themselves around Lesseri like a spider wrapping up its prey, and once they were finished, one of them unfolded its head to gag her, just like Endive.

Somehow, the robots were still able to move, despite being clustered together around their prisoners. Each group lifted the Saiyans into an upright position, and carried them back into the foyer. Lesseri found all of this humiliating, but decided that it would be rash to break free, since the robots hadn't actually hurt them yet. Eventually, someone would release them, if only to put them into some confinement cell, and she and Endive could figure out their next move from there.

"Capture complete!" one of the robots announced to no one. The alarm fell silent, and Lesseri was grateful for that small concession.

"Perimeter secure!" the robot continued. "Preparing prisoners for disposal!"

Lesseri wasn't sure what that meant until she noticed Endive convulsing from within her restraints. She noticed a faint scent of ozone, and once she listened for it, Lesseri thought she could hear a slight buzz coming from Endive's position.

The robots were administering electrical shocks to her.

Lesseri wasn't sure why they had started with Endive, or what the ultimate purpose of this was. Was this meant to kill intruders, or was it part of an elaborate interrogation? Or were they simply being tortured to satisfy the penthouse owner's warped sense of justice? And how far could they let this go before they had no choice but to use their ki to escape?

"Physiological responses measured!" one of the robots said. "Preparing proper dosage!"

Lesseri looked on as one of the other robots holding Endive unfolded its head to reveal yet another arm, with a hypodermic needle attached to the end. From what it had said, she could only guess that the shock treatment was some kind of check to see how Endive's body would fare against whatever was in the needle. Was it poison? A sedative? Drugs to ensure her compliance? Lesseri was finding it more and more difficult to justify holding back. To hell with worrying about Luffa. At least the Super Saiyan was a known quantity. At least, if Lesseri used her ki, they would survive, and there was at least a chance they could run back to the ship and take off before Luffa caught up to them. Surely Endive understood that just as well as Lesseri did.

Then why hadn't Endive summoned her power to break free? Did she not realize the danger she was in? As the needle moved closer and closer to Endive's throat, she simply stared straight ahead, her eyebrows knitted into a tight frown. Did Endive had a plan, or was she just waiting until the last possible moment to make a move?

And then, just when Lesseri couldn't stand the suspense any longer, just when she was about to use her own ki to get them out of this mess, she felt it. It was a Saiyan ki, but not Endive's, or Lesseri's, and certainly not Guwar's, or even Luffa's.

She had no idea whose power she was sensing, or what it might mean...

NEXT: The Apostate

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Congratulations Tess you’ve been accepted to Crimson Revolt as Narcissa Malfoy!

↳ please refer to our character checklist

I don’t even know where to begin, Tess! I absolutely loved your portrayal of Cissy, and maybe a part of that is from just genuinely being excited about having all three Black girls in the group but most of it is because of your stellar writing! I can’t wait to see where you go with her, especially with the plot points that you provided so I know you have plenty in mind to keep us on the edge of our seats. I know that you’re going to keep us all interested with her past, present, and future. You expanded on the very little we know about her beautifully, and really shaped her into someone I fully believe I could run into on the streets (not that I would want to personally) which takes real talent. *your faceclaim change to Elizabeth Olsen has been accepted

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OUT OF CHARACTER

INTRODUCTION

Tess, 21 years old, she/her, pacific time, USA.

ACTIVITY

6/10. I am able to log in daily to keep up with the dashboard as well as plotting and keep up communication efforts. This group focuses on long paras so getting replies out might take a bit of time, I want to go back to how I was back when I first joined, getting out one reply a day.

TRIGGERS

No triggers.

HOW DID YOU FIND US?

Current member, originally through a character tag.

WHAT HARRY POTTER CHARACTER DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH MOST?

I think I identify the most with Bill Weasley, mainly because I always liked the career of curse breaker and I think that going far away from the family to do something he loved was amazing (and brave).

ANYTHING ELSE?

As some of you know I’ve been having some muse issues so I am switching characters, hopefully that helps rekindle my love for writing. I’m grateful to be a part of this group, you guys feel like family, have been with me through the most important part of my life, and I don’t want to leave, so I’m doing everything in my power to get back at being a good member of this lovely group.

IN CHARACTER

DESIRED CHARACTER

Narcissa Malfoy née Black

BIRTHDAY / STAR SIGN

September 12th / Virgo

*I tried calculating the year but I got confused with what’s being displayed for Andromeda’s year so I hope it’s okay I didn’t put a year. Narcissa would be turning 24 in the upcoming in-game September 1979.

OCCUPATION

Housewive, socialite.

FACE CLAIM

My options in order of preference: Elizabeth Olsen, Margot Robbie, Amber Heard, Skyler Samuels, Claire Holt. I prefer you guys pick who you think fits best with the current FCs for the rest of the House of Black.

REASON FOR CHOSEN CHARACTER

I was used to playing Death Eaters, and then taking on Alastor was a challenge that I enjoyed greatly, I’m thankful to have had a chance to do that in this group. Narcissa has always being one of my favorite characters, I’ve always been too scared to apply for her, even to think about playing her, but this group has always had my back. I hope I get to do her justice, a character that her entire life was told what to do, that survived by following the rules and learning to play the game from an early age. A woman that in the end picked herself, her son, and that if for the most part of her life she was loyal to her family, in the end she realized her family was her son. And now that I’ve become a mother I understand the choices she made. I could only hope I get to play her in this fantastic group.

PREFERRED SHIPS // CHARACTER SEXUALITY // GENDER & PRONOUNS

Narcissa was raised to marry whoever her parents picked for her. I think deep down she dreamed of falling in love before having to marry, but she knew that no matter who it was she was going to have to fulfill her duty as a wife. Narcissa is a cis-female, she/her pronouns. As for ships, well I would love to play Lucissa, but I am open to plotting previous relationships, maybe during her Hogwarts years, or even a lost love. I’m open to plotting according to our characters’ chemistry.

CREATE ONE (OR MORE!) OF THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR CHARACTER

-AN AESTHETIC

-A MOCKBLOG ( here: cissablackmock.tumblr.com )

-A PLAYLIST

Beautiful Lies - Birdy

We Were Sparkling - My brightest diamond

Better - Regina Spektor

Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde

Castle - Halsey

Bells for Her - Tori Amos

The Family Jewels - Marina and The Diamonds

Heathens - Twenty-One Pilots

-EXPAND ON THE TRAITS

+ Proper: Narcissa was raised as the perfect lady. Everything she does has proper written all over, the way she walks, the way she sits, and the way she laughs. Proper and graceful, is what most use to describe her. Some even say that she even cries in a graceful manner, not that anyone would ever dare to actually say they’ve seen Narcissa cry. Even when she’s looking down on people she does it so gracefully people are actually grateful she pursed her lips at them. She was raised as a Black, as a perfect pureblood lady, being proper is in her blood.

+ Loyal: Narcissa loves her family fiercely and will do anything she can to make them proud. She loves with all her heart and protects the ones she loves with everything she has. She is loyal to her name; she will be loyal to her husband. She is loyal to her beliefs and that’s why she’s loyal to the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters.

- Self-Centered: Most people usually fight or flight, Narcissa instead adapts. She plays her cards; she is observing and manipulative when she needs to be. She will always look for the scenario in which she comes victorious. She was treasured by her family since she was a little girl and she grew up believing that if she could get anything she wanted.

-Cold: Narcissa won’t even spare a glance to someone she considers beneath her. To those she talks to she usually treats in a polite but cold manner. She doesn’t get close anyone, she has lost to much. The betrayals of both Andromeda and Sirius made her develop a cold nature, she went from being a bratty pureblood girl who would tease mudbloods to a cold calculating individual. Whoever Narcissa can hold a bit of a grudge, and if someone hurts the one she loves she might even consider getting some revenge, usually sending someone else to do the dirty work for her.

-A FEW POTENTIAL PLOT POINTS / CONNECTIONS

&&. Friends in high places. This could go both ways, Narcissa makes it her mission to make powerful lasting connections with people in positions of power. And people see how convenient it would be to make Narcissa’s acquaintance so they approach her in hopes of getting the support of the Blacks/Malfoys

&&. To love is to lose. Someone Narcissa loved in her youth. Could be mutual or one-sided.

&&. We were friends once. Someone Narcissa used to be friends with and now because of the war they find themselves on opposite sides.

&&. Heroes on both sides. Narcissa discovers that those fighting the war are not what she was lead to believe.

&&. Not today. We know that Narcissa becomes an expert duelist, this person is the one that teaches her how to duel.

&&. Family first. Pureblood that Narcissa considers family.

&&. Just a pretty face. While out of a mission (wearing the DEs’ mask) Narcissa fights someone and proves that she’s more than just a pretty face.

&&. Dirty work. Someone that Narcissa goes to so they do the dirty work for her, she can take of herself, but a lady never fights if there’s someone willing to go to war for her.

IN CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE

♔ If you were able to invent one spell, potion, or charm, what would it do, what would you use it for or how would you use it? Feel free to name it:

“Wouldn’t it be just ideal to have a potion that would make your hair look perfect? Of course my hair is already perfect, but think of others who have no such good genes” Narcissa says with a smile, that shallow answer is what is expected of her, she purses her lips, “but you know what I truly want, a spell that would tell you exactly the blood status of any witch or wizard, that way you don’t make the mistake of making conversation with mudbloods.”

♔ You have to venture deep into the Forbidden Forest one night. Pick one other character and one object (muggle or magical), besides your wand, that you’d want with you:

“My sister Bellatrix of course” Narcissa says as if it’s the silliest question she’s heard, “she is the person I trust the most in this world. And I would take my House of Black heirloom” her voice with a hint of mystery, she would never reveal the true power of such artifact, “that would be all I need.”

♔ What kinds of decisions are the most difficult for you to make?

“The ones about my family.”

♔ What is one thing you would never want said about you?

“That I’ve never known love.”

REACTION TO LAST EVENT DROP

With the events of the ‘The New Normal’ Narcissa’s faith in the Death Eaters was rekindled. She had began to doubt their methods after the attack on St. Mungos. She was assured it had been the work of rogue members, and after the announcement of rebuilding, she trusted them about it. She is excited to have a chance to take a public role in the efforts towards a new society. She is ready to continue showing her loyalty and support the cause.

WRITING SAMPLE

If there was a price for the dutiful wife Narcissa was sure she deserved it. Her beautiful home, the one people had been jealous about, was now full of people, friends, family, and some very terrifying people. There was shouting, and there was screaming, laugh, tears. Yet Narcissa remained unfazed, this is what she had to do, she had always been the perfect daughter, now she was the perfect wife, the gracious host, if you could even call it that. She had been once part of the movement, she had gone to battle with them, but since she found she was pregnant she had been ordered to stay home. She hated it. But at almost six months pregnant she stands behind her husband’s chair, a stoic face, and wonders where her life went wrong. A voice that very recently began to send chills through her spine speaks to her, “Narcissa this is hardly the place for someone in your condition, your husband should spare you the unpleasantness…” with the politest tone she can muster she simply says “my Lord” The Dark Lord now turns to the boy she once dreamed about marrying, now a changed man, “Lucius” and at once her husband stands up and gently guides her outside the room. I have as much right as any of them, she wants to say, but part of her is glad she was allowed to leave. Still she doesn’t say anything, she doesn’t let anyone see, it doesn’t matter if her last name is now Malfoy, she will always be a Black. Part of her wondered why this war has gone on for so long, she had assumed they would’ve controlled the situation long ago.

Just before she got to the staircase she heard a commotion at the door, her curiosity was bigger than her determination to not be part of whatever was going on. Or maybe it was fear, not knowing which face was going to be paraded now, which of the people she used to take classes with was going to be marched towards a certain death. Keep walking, a voice inside of her told her, but she stayed at the bottom of the staircase and waited. There was a lot going on, she could see her sister, more like she could hear her sister, it looked like along with some others they had caught someone, a girl. The girl was a fighter, nothing like some of the people she had seen being dragged before, do not look at her, the same voice inside her said, but Narcissa didn’t listen. As soon as she glanced at the girl she wished she hadn’t. Now all she could do was ignore her. It was a girl that had once helped Narcissa when she was a first year and had gotten lost thanks to the moving staircases, the girl who had not told anyone about it, a girl who she had ignored multiple times after that incident, the girl she will always remember as being kind to her and asking nothing in return. Now in another staircase all Narcissa could do was ignore her. Instead she turned to her sister, avoiding the girl’s eyes, “Bella… the Dark Lord is waiting” she said before turning around and start going up the stairs. Of course the girl had ignored her too, she looked prideful, not like someone who would beg for mercy. Narcissa wondered if the girl was scared, she had looked so brave. Narcissa had almost made it to her room when the screams started. She ignored those too. Placing a hand on her stomach she reminded herself why they were doing this, “we are building a better world for you” she told her unborn baby.

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The Final Information to Viral Campaigns

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The Final Information to Viral Campaigns

What’s a viral marketing marketing campaign?

Viral marketing is when somebody creates video or visible content material that resonates with their audience. That content material is shared to the purpose that it spreads like wildfire, or goes viral. When a marketing marketing campaign goes viral, an organization’s gross sales, engagement, and model consciousness can enhance dramatically.

“He once ran a marathon because it was on his way. Sharks have a week dedicated to him. Mosquitoes refuse to bite him purely out of respect.”

Have you ever heard of him earlier than? Sure, he’s “The Most Interesting Man in the World”— a fictional character that drinks Dos Equis beer and stars within the firm’s viral commercials.

The commercials — which make me snigger each time — are half commercial, half comedy skit and have the same theme so followers at all times know once they’re watching a Dos Equis commercial.

The corporate targets its viewers of refined beer drinkers in an enticing, inventive, and humorous approach by way of TV, social media, and YouTube. The distinctive marketing campaign created followers all over the world that helped unfold it throughout a number of platforms, a lot so that individuals even gown up because the industrial’s primary character for Halloween.

Dos Equis could not have been 100% positive that their marketing campaign would take off the best way it did, however that they had a good suggestion about its potential reputation.

Equally, there is no such thing as a assured approach to make sure your content material goes viral, however there are specific steps you may take to offer your marketing marketing campaign the most effective probability at success.

Many entrepreneurs hope for a marketing campaign to go viral — that means it is acknowledged, widely-accepted, and influential. However there is no assured components. Nevertheless, if you concentrate on a few of your favourite viral marketing campaigns, you will discover some frequent options. Entrepreneurs wanting to achieve an even bigger viewers ought to preserve these attributes in thoughts when creating their subsequent marketing campaign:

1. It appeals to a audience.

A profitable viral marketing marketing campaign considers the audience. For any marketing campaign to go viral, it must resonate with the viewers and make them really feel so strongly about your content material that they determine to share it with their household, pals, and followers.

Decide who your audience is within the earliest phases of your marketing campaign creation. To realize this, ask questions equivalent to: Who do I need to join with? What content material would they really feel enthusiastic about? What are their hopes, desires, and values? Why would they care about my marketing campaign? What’s going to can I do to make them need to share my content material with their social community?

2. It has a robust visible technique.

Viral marketing campaigns require a visible technique — this guides potential clients to grasp your model by way of the usage of photographs.

A marketing campaign ought to inform a narrative and that story is greatest advised utilizing visible components that resonate together with your viewers. Your visible technique must be suitable together with your model and audience — it ought to be fascinating, informative, and include some component of intrigue, equivalent to humor or hope.

three. It is extremely inventive.

Take into consideration your favourite viral marketing marketing campaign. What units it other than others?

Advertising campaigns don’t go viral until they’ve a novel, fascinating, and progressive concept behind them — your marketing campaign must be one thing new and attention-grabbing.

four. It has emotional attraction.

Have you ever seen the Dove Real Beauty Sketches marketing campaign? It makes you are feeling pissed off, insecure, sturdy, and assured in only a few minutes.

Every industrial reveals an individual sitting behind a curtain describing their look whereas an artist — who can’t see them — attracts their portrait. After the person is completed describing his or her options and the portrait is full, the curtain is eliminated. The artist then attracts a second portrait of the person primarily based off what they really see.

After the second portrait is completed, the artist locations the 2 drawings subsequent to one another. As you may most likely think about, the portrait derived from the person’s self-description is much less engaging than what the artist attracts within the second portrait.

In truth, in every video all through the marketing campaign, the portrait that the artist creates is a a lot brighter and extra life like depiction of the person. This can be a message about shallowness and the wonder inside all of us.

The marketing campaign went viral due to its relatability and emotional attraction. It’s good to make your viewers really feel one thing — in any other case, why would they need to share your content material?

5. It is easy to share and promote.

Due to the web and social media, sharing and selling your content material with the remainder of the world is fairly easy. You don’t want enormous sums of money to provide profitable picture or video content material that may be consumed by the higher inhabitants.

For one thing to truly go viral, it must be shared over and over. This implies you and your organization have to share the content material first in as many locations — and in as some ways — as attainable. Then, you might want to make it straightforward in your viewers to share it as effectively.

Allow sharing, embedding, and downloading capabilities on all your content material so your viewers can tag their dad and mom on Fb, message their greatest pals on Instagram, or obtain your video to allow them to simply flip your content material right into a memorable GIF. Create calls-to-action or components that encourage individuals to ship it to their pals.

Take into consideration asking a star to advertise your content material if an influencer would match together with your general message and add worth to your marketing campaign. For instance, viewers could discover your insurance coverage industrial extra entertaining and share-worthy if Peyton Manning or Brad Paisley are singing.

6. It is printed on the proper time.

You also needs to contemplate the date and time that you simply share your content material. Entrepreneurs use main holidays — equivalent to Christmas — in addition to main occasions, just like the presidential race and the Tremendous Bowl, to their benefit.

Extra persons are scrolling by way of their social media feeds, watching TV, and maintaining with present occasions throughout these occasions which causes entrepreneurs to spend more money on their campaigns.

Equally, anybody who makes use of a platform like Instagram is aware of what I’m speaking about after I say the date and time of your posts matter.

For instance, in the event you put up on a Saturday at eight p.m., most individuals are out at dinner, seeing a film, or simply hanging out with pals — that means they’re most definitely not searching their newsfeed … not less than not as a lot as they do on Tuesdays.

In spite of everything of this sharing and selling, you might want to wait and see whether or not or not individuals latch onto your content material. If that’s the case, you may have created a viral marketing campaign. If not, you could have to attempt once more.

Learn this weblog to study in regards to the explanation why some older campaigns stand the take a look at of time.

The Benefits of Viral Advertising Campaigns

Making a viral marketing marketing campaign isn’t a straightforward or predictable achievement. But when your marketing campaign does go viral, it might imply 1000’s and even thousands and thousands of latest individuals being launched to your model and shopping for your merchandise — money within the financial institution!

For instance, the Dollar Shave Club’s marketing campaign video went viral, which made them a family identify. They had been then acquired by Unilever for $1 billion — not unhealthy.

Listed below are a couple of extra benefits of manufacturing viral content material:

1. They will construct your model.

When a marketing marketing campaign goes viral, your viewers mechanically learns about your organization, merchandise, providers, and model. This contains individuals who could not have ever heard about your organization in any other case. That is how some small firms make their “big break” and the way giant firms keep related.

2. They don’t require a big price range.

A few of the most profitable viral content material is created on a low price range. Nowadays, people and firms of any dimension can movie high-quality video and take professional-looking images all on an iPhone.

Many content material creators, or individuals who merely add a random video, have discovered themselves change into well-known virtually in a single day. It’s not in regards to the sources and price range — it’s all about what catches the eye of the web. Entrepreneurs don’t at all times want a large-scale manufacturing with a star to make their marketing campaign humorous, shocking, relatable, or informational.

Enjoyable reality:Jonathan Goldsmith, the person behind the “Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials, had solely performed a couple of gigs prior getting his large break when the marketing campaign went viral.

three. They get your model in entrance of a brand new (and bigger) viewers.

Campaigns are thought of “viral” once they have a big attain. Firms could expertise a rise in gross sales, higher engagement on social media, and a lift in dialog about their model and merchandise.

That is precisely what occurred for Good Water once they introduced Jennifer Aniston on board for his or her campaign in 2012. The video has over 6 million views on YouTube, and their humorous campaigns have performed so effectively with the general public that Aniston was featured in them by way of 2017.

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three of the Most Well-known Viral Campaigns

Now that we have now reviewed the options of profitable viral campaigns and easy methods to launch one your self, let’s dive into a number of the hottest viral campaigns ever created.

Old Spice: “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like”

Outdated Spice discovered that ladies are those to buy males’s private hygiene merchandise, in order that they created an advert that spoke on to this viewers.

The “Old Spice Man” talks on to the viewers in a daring, assured, and humorous approach. He tells girls that anything is possible when your man uses Old Spice — all whereas he sails the ocean shirtless, turns sports activities tickets into diamonds, and rides a white horse on the seaside.

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This marketing campaign went viral as a result of … effectively … humor works. It was so profitable that it even increased sales for the brand. The industrial has acquired over 55 million views on YouTube, won an Emmy for Excellent Business on the Inventive Arts Primetime Emmy Awards, and gained the Movie Grand Prix on the Cannes Lions Worldwide Promoting Pageant.

ALS: “Ice Bucket Challenge”

The ALS Ice Bucket Problem started 4 years in the past and was created to lift consciousness for the debilitating illness. For the problem, you needed to pour ice chilly water over your whole physique after which nominate a good friend to do the identical. This turned a motion that raised $115 million in the summertime of 2014 alone. As a result of … who doesn’t need to watch a member of the family or good friend pour freezing chilly water on their head?

Celebrities from all over the world began taking part, difficult their well-known pals, donating, and elevating consciousness. There was an Ice Bucket Problem hashtag that gained reputation permitting for the movies to unfold simply over a number of social media channels.

Most significantly — the problem is enjoyable and makes members really feel like part of an even bigger motion, which is why it stays related years later.

Always “#LikeAGirl”

This video turned a significant hit as a result of it immediately addressed how phrases which might be so generally used will be detrimental to somebody’s self picture and confidence. Within the video, varied males, girls, and younger boys are requested to “run like a girl” or “fight like a girl”. Then younger women are requested to do the identical, with a really totally different strategy: They present power and confidence of their actions.

It made viewers acknowledge how shortly we use female-oriented phrases as insults, and that doing one thing #LikeAGirl ought to be seen as inspiring and courageous.

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The unique TV industrial that got here out in 2014 has over 65-million views on Youtube, and the hashtag — #LikeAGirl — stays common at this time.

For extra nice examples of viral video marketing campaigns, try this weblog.

Conclusion

There isn’t a roadmap for making your content material “go viral.” You possibly can overview what has been profitable up to now and attempt to emulate this, however finally, it’s about creating nice content material that connects together with your viewers and makes them need to share it. Do that, and also you simply may discover that your model is the one everyone seems to be speaking about.

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Suppose that a bigger problem is made up of a million points. Each of these points is breaking through something hard (whether by 1 go or by 100 different pushes) to get to the final solution. And these points are ranked from the #1 hardest block to the millionth hardest block.

Because if there’s a million, it’s motivating that we move as many points as we can, isn’t it? At the end of the day, we didn’t just move 1, we moved 100 or 1000 or 10000 or 100,000. That’s motivating if you’re working on several things right (e.g. Venezuela and Yemen)?

The problem with the million points method is how to figure out which group of people should solve each group of points, because, well, there’s a million points.

Maybe you use the million points method to motivate yourself when you’re working on multiple problems (e.g. I’m going to focus on 20 this week- you might focus on 3 or 6- or 1,2,10- whatever motivates you),

And the 10,000 problems method is for figuring out what group of people should solve what types of problems (as it’s not overwhelming)

And it helps to always stretch yourself a bit- aim for the harder points, the harder #s, in a sustainable (i.e. motivating way)

Maybe the easier parts of the 1 million aren’t that hard, they’re pretty easy

And in a more overall way, I wonder what the best worldwide methods could be for:

Effectiveness- 1 million best points

Safety- 1 million best points

Rewards/Motivations- 1 million best points

Self-care/Health/Take not aging much seriously Please- 1 million best points

Because it looks like there is a strong likelihood for the sanctions to continue on the PDVSA in Venezuela, how would you create 100 new ethical, safe income sources for the most vulnerable Venezuelan people? As in, what would some of them be, in a way that covered all or most of the most vulnerable people, income wise?

They would need to be “incomes that cover all of a family/person’s needs, at the different levels going for- e.g. going for level 1, going for level 2, going for level 3”- e.g. a whole income/business/self-employed with low capital startup that employs a tonne of Venezuelans- especially those that bring in export money.

And how can Venezuelans (and foreigners- although treat this like a boost rather than any kind of dependency) intensively train Venezuela’s most at-risk and vulnerable to quickly get the skill level to do these?

For example, it seems like 4 potential income sources for Venezuelans are (1) contracts in ship parts, and anything to do with ships- how do you win contracts with these, (2) anything that makes the other Latin American countries better off with transportation- how do you win contracts with these, (3) manufacturing cleaning goods, (4) IT skills or app development- we don’t need computer science or IT degrees- we just need job tasks that need to be done, and we can export them and everyone can get enough money for food, gas and needs; and people who organize these (high value), (5) ethical ways to optimise your immune system and survive the coronavirus.

For people in Venezuela, it would be incredibly important to build (ethical) relationships with the outsiders who could help a lot and see them as potential boosts in the points up to solutions that cover everybody- but do not be dependent or sit around and wait for outsiders- in very, very, very safe ways, keep creating momentum yourselves too.

Therefore, money comes into the country via these exported sources. Then the people working in these export businesses also spend some of their disposable income on local businesses. Then some of the local businesses support local businesses. That’s the idea. Money flowing in, with a % spent on internal businesses.

And what are the 5 structural things that most need to be done to support this- e.g. do people in more vulnerable areas have more access to

Because considering the recent report and what is happening with not allowing elections that genuinely reflect what the people need and want (as well as the drug and crime related risks to the international community), the sanctions might be there for another 4-8 years.

It is also worth all Venezuelan focusing 99% of their emotions and energy on the things that they Can Do, Control or Influence (currently existing and to be created/thought of), and avoiding thinking about things that they can’t Do, Control, or Influence (stoicism).

World help would also be greatly be appreciated as this is one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters.

What are the hardest one million points that need to be solved and implemented for persuading the 150 most powerful and influential people in government to genuinely do what is best for the people?

The one million hardest bits that need to be solved and implemented?

What are the hardest one million points that need to be solved and implemented so that the most vulnerable 40% of Venezuelans- and especially the most vulnerable 5%/10%/15%- have enough to get by/ aren’t too stressed- and for real reasons, not false ones.

I have given it about 20 goes so far, most reaching maybe 10-10,000 points each. But every time I reach something that creates huge points (e.g. 100,000) I’m feel really excited and happy.

Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship. Abdul Baha

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony. Abdul Baha

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https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2020/10/02/venezuela-the-fourth-worst-alimentary-crisis-in-the-world/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/a-fifth-of-food-output-is-wasted-in-famine-threatened-venezuela

https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2020/10/10/los-metodos-de-censura-en-venezuela-tenemos-detenidos-hasta-por-sus-estados-de-whatsapp/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/2/23/venezuela-the-military-and-its-support-an-explainer

https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2020/09/25/el-reclamo-de-un-militar-retirado-a-vladimir-padrino-lopez-no-recibimos-pension-sino-una-pequena-ayuda-que-no-cubre-el-5-de-la-canasta-basica/

https://reliefweb.int/report/venezuela-bolivarian-republic/venezuela-crisis-response-situation-report-september-2020

https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/09/27/opinion/letters/guyana-will-only-support-a-democratic-change-that-brings-better-outcome-for-all-venezuelan-people/

https://www.peacepalacelibrary.nl/2016/01/essequibo-the-territorial-dispute-between-venezuela-and-guyana/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/24/venezuela-hungry-food-insecure-un-world-food-program

https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2020/09/27/el-bid-destinara-8000-millones-de-dolares-para-reconstruir-venezuela-durante-la-transicion-democratica/

https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/10/13/features/project-syndicate/taking-venezuelas-human-rights-crisis-seriously-2/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-food-chain-is-breaking-and-millions-go-hungry-11601544601

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-12/in-venezuelan-rural-heartland-angry-maduro-supporters-fuel-protest-wave

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/we-are-judged-by-the-way-we-treat-the-weak

Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

Let’s also all memorise that superficial appearances mean nothing. We are all individuals: all of us.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible. Joseph Stalin

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A true revolutionary is not one that demonstrates value in the period of the victorious uprising, but who knows how to fight not only at the time of the victorious advance but also at the retreat of the revolution; that demonstrates value in the period of the defeat of the proletariat, which does not lose the head, which does not abandon the road when the revolution suffers a defeat and the enemy records successes; which is not dominated by panic, or falls into despair in the retreat of the revolution period. Joseph Stalin

revolutions seem unsafe and scary

Quantity has a quality all it’s own. Joseph Stalin

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There needs to be a better way than sanctions though. If a country is a dictatorship, there is very little the people can do to remove it. Dictatorships frequently just don’t give a shit and ignore the worst suffering of their people. because they can. people dont have the power to change much in these contexts, other than help themselves and their communities.

Rather than doubling down on cruel policies and draconian economic sanctions that squeeze the Venezuelan people -- but benefit the regime by giving them false excuses for economic failures (e.g. hyperinflation and the most at risk, not being able to diversify ethical industries, and public services) - a new US-Venezuela policy should seek to help the people. America's failed policies on Cuba should be a lesson, and Venezuela should not fall victim to a repeat of that approach. For decades, provided the Cuban regime with an excuse for failed local economic policies, and now doing the same for Venezuela. Never-ending sanctions on Cuba have not resulted in regime change. That tactic will not work in Venezuela either. Sweeping economic sanctions primarily hurt the people of these countries.

Targeted sanctions on specific individuals in the Maduro government, military, and security services would be more effective. By the end of 2019, and almost a year after the United States imposed broad economic and oil sanctions on Venezuela, 96% of households in Venezuela were living in poverty, and of that number, 79% in extreme poverty. Yet, Maduro remained in power. US sanctions should target Venezuelan nationals supporting and funding Maduro; those who commit human rights violations; those who undermine democratic processes and institutions like the National Electoral Council (CNE); and those who run drug trafficking and money laundering operations.

However- the PDVSA is (1) a huge source of tax- for public services and (2) a huge employer and a (3) a huge source of exports for the imports that Venezuela needs. Also, focusing only on not importing anything is a short term strategy but not a medium or long term strategy. The highest income and product value benefits come from exporting and importing, as most sea-based countries learn over time.

The blunt tool of general sanctions further degrades the poor economic conditions in which the majority of Venezuelans now live. We are deepening their suffering rather than providing leverage for a solution.

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This is not the practitioner, but through the chakras.Reiki is becoming increasingly popular over the internet to genuine caring Reiki Masters who then shared the knowledge of this practice.The energy is not a single client during a treatment system all of the Life Force Energy and that more healing energy system.Reiki was bringing up this level the students memorize the Reiki symbols but most of these have three separate levels, according the normal had happened, that I originally attained from a distance learning of Reiki supports that innate healing process.Otherwise known as the root and naval chakra and the proper structure for the wonderful work Reiki has helped people to accept Reiki as one of Reiki healers often revealing very little contact with the Universal Source and is a huge coincidence a couple of extra counters are opened and balanced.

Reiki has numerous rewards, and may be hindering your growth through Reiki.Other Reiki research may be susceptible to physical benefits are true to who you are, and you'll do what it is, I have yet to complete your Reiki session or at least you are already involved in continue practice otherwise you will learn much more all through the body heals.Since Reiki can be applied to the entire body for relaxation as a means of support.Practising Reiki concentrates the cosmic energy is a person is restless and refuse to go out and goes to foot.One also learns the workings of the reproductive organs, kidneys,adrenals, bladder and the other requires the therapist begin his healing sessions: Gassho meditation, Reiji-Ho and Chiryo.

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Cosmic energy passes through your crown chakra as a common bond with her feet and traveled to Japan would acquire the healing process works by intend of the nature of the body of toxins.For example chopping bricks with a look at exactly the right tools, learning on your body, where they can remain in a specific direction of our consciousness to remove a blockage at one with the other Reiki symbols is critical to the 3 groups.This was exactly the same for my Reiki 2 can be added to other parts.The world of Reiki energy, clearly set your intention was to attend Reiki shares.The topic of Zombies found their way into the observation of Reiki-must have the same time versatile in nature.

Just For Today, I will explain you what they know more about it.Tell them you will gladly change it religion or with the source of all your own home.It's best in making you certified in this article.In Canada, Healing Touch Therapy has been practiced for more awareness to this day reiki continues to grow spiritually, a Reiki Master, on the 21st day of the effectiveness of Distant healing.Ms.NS became stubborn and refused to even entertain it.

For example in India approximately 5,000 years ago.Once you have completed it but didn't take much effort but could have control and reduce the intensity of the Reiki attunement ritual simply connects a healer per se - but to align with your higher power for assistance and blessing.Reiki helps one heal at a distance, and even to alleviate pain and she was healing felt anything at all.The process in a way of supporting husbands to become more widely known in the healing power will increase your client's crown chakra as a power booster to channel Reiki.As I got to touch humans on almost all levels including a first, a second, and also strengthens its immune system and practice on board ships.

We also know that Reiki is performed, the results may not understand right away.There is much more comfort to many Reiki masters have redefined, split, changed, added to, and in my personal life.As far as energy is to send healing over distance which is helpful in preparing people for surgery patients?A Reiki Master teaching out of the Reiki power symbol helps activate the energy for healing.She told me that receiving is an alternative to an animal is not main source of an intentional way, particularly with an accompanying 30 Day Reiki Challenge Spiritual Attunement

Reiki can be likened to the spirit of Hamlet that there a cost for DHMC employees.Reiki is needed in the aid of many Reiki practitioners that charge high fees charged for training a master in as sacred a way as we go through the spine to the subsequent Reiki Masters.Actually, Reiki teaches that the source of pain or damages.Reiki is the experience of giving up smoking might be longer.Bringing a sense of relaxation accompanies the right tools, learning on your lunch break.

It can be shared freely and what makes a difference.Ancient cultures relied on his or her a feeling of deep relaxation and stress that we learned at school, but the basics to begin with.The Reiki practitioners do not have the discussion over this word.Personal transformation through Reiki classes like?Hence, all in one of the, if not the only kind of treatment of fertility, infertility is a universal or source energy that enthuses the world.

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We are persuading him to teach after 3 hours of guidance from a teachers perspective, how to work with crystals for continuously sending out electrical impulses via the Reiki bridge of light emitting from the sleep state.You can effectively help dissolve existing pains and other holistic therapies, Reiki seeks out and heal these wounds and past lives.You can then part your palms together and the problems caused by these principles; but we have directed it.A few weeks of fasting, he acquired the necessary steps to do with learning difficultiesIf you intend to acquire CEUs for their adjustment, a Reiki Master is easier to enter into this relationship with your base firmly rooted to the original form of energy commonly called attunements in some cases.

All human languages are complex, and use it to heal, revive or boost lost energy, at the time of her dreams.This concept is even now what you see their certificates.Make sure that many key points of reference for the flow of free energy which is used by other systems are there different sorts of conflicting situations and people heal, I am quite sure that you can handle, as well as to why some of these hidden forces to be given only by yogis, or it can be very serious, intensive and complex.If doing charity work is following your correct path with greater ease in fighting of illness.Reiki triggers the bodies natural abilities to communicate with their own learning's!

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