#the mention that the conception

[reginrokkr]

                                                 To see a World in a Grain of Sand                                                    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,                                                Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand                                                           And Eternity in an hour.

The beginning of the poem, in essence there isn’t much to look into it other than what it’s said. However, it holds a deep meaning if analyzed in depth. In order for the explanation to make more sense than if I were to do otherwise, I’ll start with the last two lines and move from there to the top. We have two strong notions here which are Infinity and Eternity: the former is a measure of space while the latter is a measure of time. The author urges us to have these two abstract notions in a much smaller measure of space and time respectively.

A first direct parallel we can draw from this is the final cutscene of Imperatrix Umbrosa Act II, when we witness Makoto’s last shred of consciousness about to fade away. In actuality, she says an interesting quote verbatim: 

Eternity [limitless, unknown measure of time] stretches time into infinity [limitless, unknown measure of space], dreams illuminate each moment [regardless of their duration, it encompasses all measure of time: every second] within. When both (eternity and dreams, one would encompass the limitless time while the other would encompass that which every ounce of time is filled with) shine in unison, the Sacred Sakura blooms from the darkness. Finally free from the clutches of the Heavenly Principles.

And before this, she says:

The miracle tree that blesses the people, in this moment new to the world and yet to be known. When to plant it, where it shall bloom... She who it into being must let her heart and dreams decide.

Why am I bringing this to your attention, you may ask? It’s because context-wise, we’re standing in a realm of consciousness that timeline wise suggests that the Sacred Sakura wasn’t planted yet even though we know it’s right there in the material world. And even before this, when the Traveler returns to the realm of consciousness before the final showdown between Ei and the Raiden Shogun, the latter both believed that it’s been centuries since they started to fight until the Traveler came back.

This leaves us with the idea that time doesn’t matter. As well as space doesn’t. Ei is coaxed to let her heart and dreams decide before planting the seed, but why her heart and dreams? If we’re to look deeper into it, dreams are an abstract manifestation of one’s wishes, something that can turn from abstraction to tangible reality. Meanwhile the heart represents the willpower to make it happen, to make it become true. In this case, if Ei’s dream consisted of seeing the Sacred Sakura on the top of Mt.Yougou at the Grand Narukami Shrine, her will was the final piece to let it happen.

So returning once again to the concept of time and space in this realm of consciousness: we may refer to eternity to the abstract idea where time measure doesn’t matter— we know that time passes, but how much or how fast it passes isn’t important. In a place where the notion of eternity is literal, regardless of the incoherence that its bloom brings from the perspective of a lineal timeline (the tree was there since hundreds of years, but its seed is planted at a later time), the tree can be brought to life anytime. As for space, we’re starting off from a realm of consciousness, the location of the tree’s birth is an abstract place that it’s being transcended into a more tangible location that is the Grand Narukami Shrine. In view of this event, we can go back to the first four lines of the poetry and take them in order to interpret them as: 

[You can] see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower [IF] [you] hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

The reason you would be able to see such big notions as a world and a heaven in smaller, arguably unimportant solid manifestations like a grain of sand and a wild flower is because you can make it happen via dreams. Just like Ei was able to make the Sacred Sakura bloom when and where she wanted through her dreams, she made it possible through the will of her heart to make it manifest into a tangible reality.

PS: There is an arguably more straightforward and recent incident where time and space don’t matter which is none other than Kazuha’s domain in the GAA event. His domain [a specific location] is a trip down memory lane that potentially encompasses several years of his life even though it takes the group (presumably) less than a day to witness. In such a short timespan, not only they saw an amount of several years worth of memories, but the space around them warped and was given shape and form according to what these memories looked like despite being technically in one same place, a domain.

#◟༺✦༻◞ Nexus of infinity; eternity and judgement┊Auguries of Innocence.┊ #the mention that the conception #of the Sacred Sakura is free from #the clutches of the Heavenly Principles #may suggest that dreams > Heavenly Principles #and what's more about this #is that /anyone/ can dream #the gist is whether /everyone/ has the heart #to make them happen or not #a somehow related incident is the 2.6 quest #in the bed of the Chasm with Xiao and company #where their will created the fantastic compass #to get out of there #or where Bosacius himself who even forgot his name #must've wished fervently #to remember not only that but those #his name is associated to #which is the other 4 Yakshas included Xiao #at any rate the end of the GAA #implied that Sumeru is going to hold as a thematic #dreams through its Archon #so I can't wait to see more of that #but after putting this in place #everything has more sense #as to why in the same quest Ei #differentiated clearly ambitions from dreams #I might do a smaller post on that one #but for now have the first thingy #related to the poetry that is kept in mind #for the core of G.enshin's story ♥︎

[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

#humans are good actually #humans are strange #hopecore #honey prose #respectfully do not fill my mentions w Christianity references this is NOT a capital G god friendly post #fuck the concept of original sin and also Thomas Hobbes

[stil-lindigo]

the calamity.

a comic about being seen.

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#cw: blood + eye scarring #oh the inherent intimacy of seeing and being seen #just a comic about how the desire to be seen and shown love and compassion unites us all #also big scary monster lady pretty #girl power! the personification of disaster and strife uses she/her pronouns! #i also feel somewhat obligated to mention here that i dont have anything against christianity as a whole #i just think the concept of God is interesting #i went to a christian school for 12 years im allowed to make this comic #comic art #sapphic #yes. interpret the subtext #stillindigo art #heartearters #thats the name of the anthology this will belong to. whenever i finish it #stillindigo comics

[magentasnail]

drawing is hard so i tried to illustrate my struggles as video game bosses

#art #digital art #artists on tumblr #drawing #artist #my art #digital artist #illustration #illustration art #video game #concept art #struggles #not to mention how my only way to draw succesfully is hyperfixate until im done #I think it's been at least a few hours since i started and now it's past midnight #im sleepy #im going to bed

[theotherhappyplace]

unicorn concept, horns are their own separate species, highly magical, nonsentient, driven by instinct, need to be inside of a living creature to get nutrients, stab into a horse head, make the HORSE sentient and magical by altering its brain.

and the symbiote horn gets nutrients from the horses body.

horse is not in pain.

though becoming suddenly sapient is very upsetting for a lot of them.

#unicorn #monster concept #animal harm mention #sort of? i think the horse is mostly fine other than like being upset about suddenly being sapient #BEFORE ALL I WANTED WAS GRASS AND RUN #NOW I KNOW I EXIST AND WILL SOMEDAY DIE AND I MUST THINK ON THIS #horse farmer pissed as hell

[ryssbelle]

Had a silly dream where JD and Floyd came back to the troll tree before the last trollstice but after singing killed their grandma and decided to doodle and expand upon it a bit

Clay never left the tree but was too scared to return to the families pod since he didn’t want things to go back to how they were before, he did try to find his brothers during the escape but got separated by the cave in.

John Dory was the one to find Clay and see him get caught by the cave in, when he came out of the tunnel without Clay and holding his wristband they all just assumed he was dead. Even so JD still searches for Clay with the hope that he might’ve escaped and is alive out there.

They know Bruce is alive but after JD got the post card he assumed Bruce didn’t want to be found

Some more doodles that kind of show their dynamic

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JD always brings home souvenirs for the brothers both as an apology for being gone for so long and also because of this:

#my art #trolls #trolls 3 #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #trolls branch #trolls john dory #trolls floyd #trolls clay #trolls bruce #theyre mentioned but still #the dream brought the concepts to my brain #and i havent been able to stop thinking about it so i had to draw it #jd and floyd were going camping exposition dumping the lore #it was like i was watching a retellig of the first movie #clay is still alive btw #he doesnt know grandma is dead #JD and Floyd had run into him after coming back and tried to tell him #but they saw how well he was adjusting to his new life they didnt have the heart to do it #then they never got the chance since the second time they saw him it was during the great bergen escape #and they think he got buried alive or worse #floyd and branch were one of the first ones out of the tunnel #jd was one of the last #since after presumably watching his brother die he went on to help others escape #and now he insanely searches for clay and bruce while pretending everything is a okay #floyd has to be the voice of reason while also taking care of branch #and branch is branch completely isolating himself #good times :D #idk if ill do more for this but i wanted to share what i had

[checkadii]

It froze csp once and crashed csp right when I’m finished so I had to redo some things I. I couldn’t figure out what to draw for his outfit, bro was swag and gender but I was ready to eat my screen from frustration when I read the wiki (trying to avoid possible spoilers as much as I could) and saw that it had SHOULDER LENGTH HAIR I couldn’t bring myself to erase tho

Anyways I have to sleep with the knowledge that I had to stop literally 1 second into listening to MAG 117. Like. Not even a single word was heard before oh bed time COME ON 116 HAD ME ON MY TOES AND THEN AND AND THEJWHWHEB dissolving into a puddle and seeping thru the earth as we speak??

#the magnus archives #magnus archives #michael distortion #tma michael #the concept of the 14 fears is so fascinating #i literally went WOAAA when Gerard mentioned that the fears aren’t limited to people #checkadii

[canisalbus]

Just wanted to say I really enjoy following you and seeing posts on my feed of your oc's! Here's a quick sketch of Machete I drew as I find his design to be amazing

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#that's so terribly sweet ;_; #thank you for your kind words #I really like your lineart your shapes have such wonderful flow and effortless certainly to them #and I've mentioned how much I love texturous brushwork #really pleasing to the eyes #he looks so charming and personable in your style #maybe this is a weirdly specific thing to say but something about this makes me think of character concept art for an animated film #thank you! #gift art #artnwill #own characters #Machete #*certainty

[chloesimaginationthings]

sorry if you’ve already been asked, but what’s your favorite FNaF game?

I’m a “Pizza Simulator” truther, it’s just the best one, though I’ll be honest “Help wanted 2” has really risen through the ranks for me, its probably my second favourite (that might update if the DLC pops off)

Sister location and FNAF 2 are close behind, they were OG faves

#ask reply #can I hear my pizza sim fans make some noise 🔥🔥🔥 #the first help wanted I already did love #it’s criminally overlooked but help wanted 2 improved on the ‘FNAF IN VR’ concept tenfold #sister location added sm to the series like all the funtimes baby especially and the humor #but it’s also the game that truly introduced ‘Michael Afton’ #so that game is just based for that #as an old fan the hype around fnaf 2 coming out can not be replaced #truly the start of something special fnaf 2 is a certified hood classic #BTW all the games I didnt mention I also love for different reasons #i haven’t finished SB or ruin yet so I can’t comment on how good they are #BUT OBVIOUSLY I love everything SB brings like Monty is my favourite animatronic #I could go on and on what works for each game BUT HERE are just my high faves

[prokopetz]

Fourth-wall-breaking video game setting whose inhabitants are aware that only cutscene death is permanent, and have thus developed an elaborate system of customs and taboos to avoid accidentally triggering cutscenes in their daily lives. People have some intrinsic knowledge of whether the cutscene flag has been set, but they don't necessarily know why, nor are they automatically aware of whether they're one of the focus characters or whether they just happen to be in the vicinity, allowing for a wide variety of murder-mystery bullshit.

#concepts #gaming #video games #tropes #metatextual wankery #violence mention #death mention #swearing

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Words Collide

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jiang fengmian #yu ziyuan #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #Almost axed this comic but then I remembered I cut the previous argument between them and I guess they can have this. #and by 'this' I mean their toxic arranged marriage verbal battles. #As I previously mentioned in a comic I have chosen to see them as mlm and wlw in an unfulfilled relationship. #The yearning is for companionship. I think they do care for each other it's just something deeply complicated. And bitter. #I truly feel for JC and WWX in this scene because while it's implied YZY really pushes the limit...it's apparent this isn't new. #And it's so petty! Anyone who lived through a parent pitting you against a sibling can tell you that this stuff messed them up #regardless of what side you were on (the golden one or the fuck up). #It doesn't matter what is said. It matters that it was said at all. That you can't shake the concept once it was spoken. #The Jiang household is so much more miserable the deeper you examine what's going on and how they cope with it. #Knowing that a parent does not like you is just awful. I wish everyone who's been through it all the best. You didn't deserve that. #Next update is back to the jokes! Remember jokes? It jingled merrily...How I miss the sound of those bells...

[victorzhuzhakin]

Continue to face my chronic, unrelenting pain.

I think Caine is quite short and if he were a human he would be really short (no I'm not trying to make him my representation because I'm a 158cm man /j)

Please, guys, don't say anything about that other chess piece, I'm disgusted by this ship, let me enjoy my shit.

#don't mention that Kinger has a wife THIS IS NOT CANON PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM ME FOR MY COMFORT #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc fanart #tadc caine #tadc pomni #tadc bubble #tadc kinger #tadc kaufmo #caine x kinger #caine x kaufmo #kinger x kaufmo #caine x kinger x kaufmo #i love old men #caine doesn't understand the concept of love but he's having fun with them #royalteeth #kingleader

[hrokkall]

V1 - song 14?

[TRACK 14] - GO GET YOUR GUN /// THE DEAR HUNTER

#ACTUALLY SO HAPPY ABOUT HOW WELL THIS ONE FIT I love the Dear Hunter and think everyone should give them a listen #Anyway V1ish song for sure. It's an upbeat song about war that should by All Means Not be upbeat (as is mentioned in the concept album) #Ultrakill #V1 Ultrakill #Hrokkall sketch #Wrapped 2023

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: trauma / mind control / separation anxiety / autophobia / ]

Something that kills me is that there’s no way in hell that Raph’s debilitating separation anxiety isn’t infinitely worse after the movie. The trauma of being Krangified like that, all alone, would probably regress him so hard.

Not to mention his worries of getting “weird” would likely get mixed up with his experience while Krangified - aka, he loses full awareness, and when he’s brought “back” it’s to the understanding that he attacked his own family (of course not to his own fault at all, but how much of that does he believe?)

The fear of being alone would take on another layer and become a fear of himself.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #rise raph #trauma / #mind control / #separation anxiety / #autophobia / #codependency mention in tags / #after the invasion he checks up on the others multiple times and guiltily hopes one of them asks to stay with him for the night #he’s the big brother so it feels - wrong. to ask them to stay with him. #but his plushies don’t have heartbeats. and neither did the krang #and guiltily - guiltily - Raph is relieved when someones doing bad enough to stay with him each night #he doesn’t know it but the others see he needs it so they offer #man idk I just want Raph to be safe and happy #me having Raph feels at 3 am #I raise you: codependent Raph and Leo post invasion #they both dealt with losing the other #going from fighting and high tensions pre invasion to being scared to leave each others’ side post invasion #god wait this concept is so sad wait #but it works #may address this in a later post/fic ngl

[qevillous]

coroika x pokemon au concept pages...... mind blowing up

#coroika is not even mentioned at all here but listen #its a coroika au. #splatoon #splatoon manga #pokemon #guzzlord #meltan #melmetal #mr grizz #commander tartar #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #au #concept

[dykepaldi]

so twelveclara obviously didnt have sex but i think they probably did some weird shit a few times that was sex without having sex. and they were both like hmmmm lets never speak of this

#ultimate homoerotic girlbestfriendship #idk what exactly probably some alien kink shit that cant be explained in human language #or time lord psychic stuff like i mentioned before i think thats a fun concept #its always so homoerotic #that one fucking tensimm scene the 13 and claire scene #10 and reinette #11 and craig #they were all fucking #twelveclara #mine #dw