#subcreation

[exercise-of-trust]

turkish spindle gang make some noise (imagine having to wind your singles off your spindle before you can start plying, couldn't be us)

#miriel therinde #tolkien fanart #silmarillion fanart #massive self-report here this is actually how i spin. distaff arm fully over the head and all. #subcreation #aggressive linguistic prescriptivism #(that's the fiber arts tag þerindë or bust motherfuckers)

[autailome]

Fantasy as subcreation in the Tolkien legendarium

-from Splintered Light by Verlyn Flieger

#tolkien #e #verlyn flieger #splintered light #subcreation #on fairy stories #tolkien studies #j.r.r. tolkien #jrr tolkien #lotr #silm #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #the silmarillion #silmarillion #fantasy

[enceladian]

*points at attolia* perfect. beautiful. queen of my heart. 10/10 would die for in a heartbeat *points at gen* wettest of wet ferrets,

#the queen's thief #attolia irene #eugenides #// #subcreation #stop whining go to bed #tbc. i would Also die for gen in a heartbeat. but he IS an unmitigated menace and i would be much more exasperated about it

[apenitentialprayer]

According to Genesis, marriage is the first product of the mutual creation between God and people, and it grows out of the first negative notion in the Bible. In Genesis 2:18 God observes, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner." [...] The story about the creation of Eve is about families [...] It grows out of the sense that "it is not good to be alone" and moves to the conclusion that life will be better if people are together. That is the basic premise of marriage. People's concepts of what it takes to make life better has changed many times over the years. But the basic point has not. It may seem a little dated or naive to base the principles of a modern relationship on such an ancient story. But the old story is still current. Almost every married couple I know include something like the Genesis story in the account of their own relationship. Someone, at some point, concluded that it was no longer good to be alone and that life would be better if the two were together. That fresh, romantic, exciting idea is essentially a reenactment of the second chapter of Genesis.

Francis Wade (The Art of Being Together: Common Sense for Lifelong Relationships, pages 21, 21-22)

Father in heaven, Creator of all, You ordered the earth to bring forth life and crowned its goodness by creating the family of man. In history's moment, when all was ready, You sent Your Son to dwell in time, obedient to the laws of life in our world. Teach us the sanctity of human love, show us the value of family life, and help us to live in peace with all men, that we may share Your life for ever. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

alternative prayer for the Feast of the Holy Family, as found in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours.

#Christianity #Catholicism #Anglicanism #Adam and Eve #marriage #relationships #family #Holy Family #Terrestrial Trinity #icon #prayers #Jesus Christ #Virgin Mary #Saint Joseph #Sweet Baby Jesus #Genesis #Liturgy of the Hours #subcreation

[platonicallyinlove]

homo ludens.

#peanuts #linus #lucy #homo ludens #subcreation

[iridescentoracle]

THE FRAMES GOT HERE EARLY i’m so jazzed they look so prettyyyyyyyy 💖 @lycheesodas

#lycheesodas #they’re SO LOVELY i can’t get over it #not pictured: #my bed a couple feet lower down so these are right next to/above me any time i’m hanging out in my room now <3 #lotr #the silmarillion #subcreation #character: lúthien tinúviel #character: dior #character: elwing #character: aerin

[thepnictogenwing]

almost done with “Real Myst”!

into the home stretch.

when I played this back in 199x when it was brand new, I loved the game but didn't really pay much heed to the magical aspects of the story. it was just...fantasy argle-bargle, at the time, just vague enough not to impede "suspension of disbelief". I was such a wretched "rationalist" science nerd back in the Caltech years.

now, though, things are very different, we are very different, and we're alive to the possibilities of magic and metaphysics. so "Myst" hits very differently now, and the central conceit of being a subcreator—one so powerful that you can create your own slots in the multiverse, visiting them in physical reality, not just in imagination or in spirit.

when Atrus and the other book-mages of the "Myst" universe write their books, are they getting mystical insight into planes of existence that exist apart from the mages' writing? are they granted the power to modify a world that would otherwise exists without their interference? or are they summoning these worlds into existence by the act of writing?

clearly, though, what they create (or "subcreate") they can also destroy—it seems from hints in the surviving Library books that the mere act of visiting the Ages and interacting with them, even in a limited way, affects their stability. conquering and plundering them clearly does lasting damage. (imagine that!)

~Chara

#myst #real myst #magic #subcreation

[elmendea]

Laitië hantaleyë! Alassëa nostarë!

#Tolkien #J.R.R. Tolkien #JRR Tolkien #Tolkien's birthday #Tolkien's birthday 2024 #The Feast of the Subcreator #Professor Tolkien #Lord of the Rings #LotR

[abadpoetwithdreams]

Suppose: Feanor grows up devoted to mastering his artistry and his craft not just because it’s an inherently Noldorin thing to be an artist/creator but because to him it’s an inherently Miriel thing. The more elevated his craft becomes, the closer he feels he is to his mother. When the Silmarils are stolen, the theft compounds not only the murder of Feanor’s father, but inflicts a second loss of his mother, and the Valar—of course—realize none of this. But Melkor did.

#just thinking about Tolkien’s concepts of subcreation and the relationship between the maker and what is made #and between the artist and their God #and musing about how Feanor the mightiest of the elven craftsmen #might have had very different ideas about the topic #Feanor #silm

[tolkien-feels]

You know what's sad about the Void? (Other than Everything)

If all creation except that which Iluvatar makes is subcreation, then there can be no true creativity in the Void. There's nothing to subcreate from. While of course there's always the internal world of memories and feelings and imagination, there's no external world to ever inspire you in any way. No new events, no interactions, no Primary World. Nothing. Void.

And besides that, everybody I know who creates anything wants to either share their work with others or make it exist in the real world, even if only for themselves. You can't really do either in the Void, if it really is as Void as it's described

For a subcreator I can think of few worse punishments than "You can never ever ever ever share your art with the Primary World, nor can you ever be inspired by something other than yourself" but it's also very much fitting given that possessiveness and self-centeredness tends to be how subcreators fall in Tolkien

It's also, of course, the exact opposite of what happens in Leaf by Niggle. Rather than your imperfect subcreation becoming true and more wonderful than you could imagine, what you have is your subcreation ceasing to have most of the meaning it could have. Creating for the sake of creating is always important, but creating with the certainty these are nothing but thoughts that can never be shared or take any form in any way is just sad

#the 'been rotating curufin' to 'rotating subcreation' pipeline is very short

[exercise-of-trust]

is it still an incorrect quotes if it's by the author? anyway this post has been living rent free in my head for three years and it's high time i exorcised it with a sketchy lil comic.

#the queen's thief #eddis helen #eugenides #attolia irene #subcreation #stop whining : go to bed #my laptop returns from the wars and what's the first thing i do? project with barely any rendering! honestly man why bother

[autailome]

i think subcreation is really the single most important theme in all of tolkien & i wish you didn't need to be neck deep in tolkien scholarship to know that bc i think its so beautiful and should be more widely discussed

#e #subcreation #its literally all. a theological treatise on creativity and creation #tolkien

[enceladian]

it’s a slippery slope from “my TA is interested in learning applied metalwork; he should talk to my husband” to “The Crown Prince Of The Ñoldor Is Marrying My Daughter” 😔

#nerdanel #mahtan #nerdanel's mother #silmarillion fanart #tolkien #// #i do think tuilindo really likes feanáro but i think she has also seen too many of his questionable lab practices for her comfort #technically this is 'headcanon and character construction' but practically it is 'hnnnggg embroidery time' #subcreation #property law

[apenitentialprayer]

"I see a pigeon!" I said. "Of course you see a pigeon," rejoined the raven, "for there is the pigeon! I see a prayer on its way — I wonder now what heart is that dove's mother! Some one may have come awake at my cemetery!" "How can a pigeon be a prayer?" I said. "I understand, of course, how it should be a fit symbol or likeness for one; but a live pigeon, to come out of a heart!" It MUST puzzle you! It cannot fail to do so!" "A prayer is a thought, a thing spiritual!" I pursued. "Very true! But if you understood any world besides your own, you would understand your own much better — When a heart is really alive, it is able to think live things. There is one heart all whose thoughts are strong, happy creatures, and whose very dreams are lives. When some pray, they lift their heavy thoughts from the ground, only to drop them on it again; others send up their prayers in living shapes, this or that, the nearest likeness to each. All live things were thoughts to begin with, and are fit therefore to be used by those that think. When one says to the great Thinker: 'Here is one of thy thoughts: I am thinking it now!' that is a prayer — a word to the big heart from one of its own little hearts."

George MacDonald (Lilith, Chapter V)

#Holy Spirit #prayer #love #Creation #subcreation #George MacDonald #Christianity #spirituality #inspiration #Virgin Mary

[skyeventide]

the reason why I keep coming back to Tolkien is that the religious framework of goodness equalling hope equalling faith is too infuriating for me not to bump around at high speed within the worldbuilding box like a pinball, trying to find a farther limit and break free of the narrative.

#personal #JRR Tolkien #it's also why I grind my teeth so hard about maedhros and the burning silmaril #and keep underlining that the rejection is explicitly linked to varda's blessing #and not to the gem itself #there is a active divine narrative in place #a fate that is *explicitly* working to achieve something #and that is linked to SOME characters' intentions (eru is a character too) #tolkien maps his own subcreation onto creation and therefore to some extent #the internal workings of faith are mapped on the external #but this is a story and eru is a character #and the will of eru is a narrative decision not something that simply... exists on its own

[emeraldsubliminals]

the one thing I hate about being a subliminal creator is making the affirmations cause tell me why I’m spending 3 hours on thinking and wording the affirmations just for it to be like 40 affirmations and end up being a 2 minute long video that barely gets views!! (◞‸◟)

(But it all ends up worth it because of the results!!)

my channel

#affirm #affirmations #audio #law of abundance #loa #mind #mindset #self concept #subliminals #youtube #this is a girlblog #subliminal audio #creator #subcreator #emeraldsubliminals #pink #pink blog #subliminalcreator