#ursu

[babycharmander]

I managed to get some Dark Crystal trading cards (as well as Return to Oz stickers, which I’ll include on another post). The cards are very cool! I wish I’d gotten a Skeksis card, but I’m still happy I picked these up. One of the cards has urSu!!

Will definitely pick up another pack of these if I ever run across them. They’re so neat!

#jen #kira #fizzgig #urSu #dark crystal #aughra

[ben-the-hyena]

The Plagues from Prince of Egypt in The Dark Crystal between UrSu and SkekSo. The song, but said plagues are the genocides, the Darkening spreading and the essence draining, Moses is UrSu and Rameses SkekSo, UrSu reminding him once he called him his half and begging him to let that planet go, reminding him they are meant to go back to their homeworld anyway, and SkekSo who wants to stay as Thra's ruler insisting he fears death and him dying is he who he called his half wanted, and refusing to give up embracing his heart be "darkened" (I could have let "harden" but that way it implies both that abd himself being corrupted by the Darkening). UrSu unable to do anything because this is not the UrRu way so all he can do as he sees Gelfling and Podling suffer on what was his home is just keep attempting a talk as the centuries pass and as SkekSo keeps going but is also growing older and more violent and paranoid. The iconic shot of Rameses' and Moses' faces' halves joined in one head that ends up splitting and the 2 halves from profile face each other is now SoSu's head splitting into SkekSo's and UrSu's faces from profiles

#crossover #the plagues #song #lyrics #prince of egypt #the dark crystal #sosu #ursu #the master #skekso #the emperor

[gretchensinister]

@synisysm also gave me the word dissimulate.

Dissimulate

UrSol wishes and hopes that his Master is a liar. He knows UrZah is a liar about at least one thing, and since he thinks this opens the door to more lies, he does not spend much time wishing or hoping for more cracks in the edifice that is UrZah. If he needed to break UrZah, he could. He doesn’t want to. It would be cruel. But he can imagine what might make it necessary—not just for UrSol’s own good, but for the good of all mystics, UrZah and UrSu included.

The case is different with UrSu. If UrZah is a building with an obvious space between the door and sill where light and air and dust can pass through, even if in minute amounts, UrSu is like a towering cliff of ice, smooth and shining in the sun, so cold and vast and untouchable that it seems like it could not crack or melt for any catastrophe less than the end of the world. And for UrSu’s sake, UrSol hopes this is a lie.

He hopes that UrSu finds his own strictures just as impossible to follow as the other urRu do, that he has found something in his long trine that has drawn him from his narrow way, or something that has at least tempted him to leave his narrow way.

Ah, no, UrSol admits to himself. Temptation is not enough for his wishes, if UrSu’s wisdom allowed him to successfully resist. UrSol wants—he does not want UrSu to be sullied, that is not it. He wants to see more than a cliff of perfect, blinding ice when he looks on him; he wants proof that UrSu’s chest holds a soft, beating heart of flesh like every other mystic.

In his own soft, beating heart, UrSol cannot help but think that if UrSu is truly what he appears to be, it is a cruel, alien way for a mortal being of flesh to live. UrSol would never ask it of anyone, never think it possible of anyone. Better to be a dissimulator than to be so truly bound.

UrSol hopes beyond hope that he wants a lying UrSu out of kindness and not corruption, that though his heart beats in the darkness of his chest it is not dark itself—that there was not some mistake in that terrible moment of rending that left him with too much that should have gone to his other.

But is there not something? Something he can’t remember—something UrSu can’t remember either, but something that seems to pass between them in a glance in rare and uneasy moments? If UrSu were a liar, perhaps they’d be able to figure out the truth together.

But perhaps UrSu is not a liar and never will be. Such perfection brings no comfort, and if UrSol were to speak all the truth of it—if UrSu is not a liar, then SkekSo has part of what UrSu needs to truly live.

#the dark crystal #mystics #urru #ursol #ursu

[bitterartregret]

Jen and his adopted dad.

#the dark crystal #dark crystal #age of resistance #the dark crytsal: age of resistance #dark crystal: aor #goauchepainting #Jen Dark Crystal #UrSu the Master #ursu #mystic

[tdc-incorrect-quotes]

Jen: My master sent me.

Aughra: Your master? UrSu the mystic is your master?

Jen: Yes?

Aughra: You poor bastard...

#jen #aughra #ursu #mother aughra #ursu the master #urru #mystics #tdc incorrect quotes #source: that 70s show #mod quotes #tdc | movie #q

[skeksismars]

My favourite urRu and why:

1- urSol - he is canonically the most active of the original 10 urRu (see the comic when they get yeeted out of the Crystal) and he is so caring with baby Jen! That scene in the novel when he sings with Jen keeping him close to his face in his hand!!! Oh and that business with the Darkheart??? Imo one of the best characterized of the urRu :)

2- urLii - he's just like me fr. Hermit dude that likes collecting useless things and has a petty side? Nothing like me noooo nono

3- urSu - best dad, poor decisional skills; leaving Thra led only to the Skeksis abusing power, not your best decision there urSu! But he was such a good dad to Jen! I loved all their scenes in the novel, I'm soft <3

4- urTih - my poor boy Q_Q he had such a tough life Q_Q. I can only imagine his pain and shock when his eye got eaten out and one day his arm and leg fell off. And how does the business with the vein replacement even work?? Bad, skekTek, BAD!!!! He's this low only because we haven't seen much of him

5- urGoh - look, he IS best boy, inarguably, but I just like other mystics over him, same with urVa. I actually like urGoh mostly because of his interactions with skekGra than he himself sorry :p

#ursol #urlii #ursu #urtih #urgoh #urru #mystics #the dark crystal #the dark crystal age of resistance

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

UrSu thoughts

The reason why I always bring up UrSu not teaching Jen about his quest beforehand is that it was a conscious choice on his part. urSu chose the time of his death, he chose it so the skeksis would be disorganized. But he decided to leave Jen in the dark about it until the very last minute. Of course, there is the opposite of training youth to be nothing but a tool for the quest. We all know a series that did that, several in fact. But the difference is that urSu held all the cards in his hand. He triggered the skeksis succession crisis, thus starting the falling dominos to the Great Conjunction. He knew exactly when to trigger it, too, for maximum effect. So there was nothing stopping him or other urru from giving Jen some useful skills to survive. Or teach him about the prophecy. Instead, urSu put all his faith in Jen magically knowing what to do. UrSu's actions are a perfect example of the way the urru hurt Thra. Inaction and vague riddles do not help in the long term, not on Thra. Yes, urSu destabilized the skeksis for a bit, but Jen was sent with little instructions on how to proceed after getting the shard. In fact, had the garthim not attacked the podling village, Jen would have just sat there happy as a clam while the skeksis would win. (As an aside, we have zero confirmation that would have happened at all. Most likely the Crystal would have just died.)

#ursu #ydc #urru #dark crystal

[snototter]

A pair of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Manitoba, Canada.

by Sean Crane

#polar bear #bears #ursus maritimus #ursus #ursidae #carnivora #mammalia #chordata #wildlife: canada #wildlife: north america

[majestativa]

Their souls pass through walls smiling at the seven deadly sins painted in naive icons.

Liliana Ursu, The Sky Behind the Forest: Selected Poems, for Cella Delavrancea and Gabriela Melinescu

#Romanian #Ursu #Cella Delavrancea #Gabriela Melinescu

[fyanimaldiversity]

Golden moon bear (Ursus thibetanus)

#asian black bear #moon bear #bear #Ursus thibetanus #mammal #color mutation #I have no idea what kind of mutation #oddball #her name is brandy

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Male Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) Chasing A Bearded Seal

By Andreas Weith

#andreas weith #photographer #polar bear #bear #ursus maritimus #bearded seal #animal #mammal #wildlife #nature #wikimedia commons

[fridaybear]

Hey, y'all! It's Friday. The weekend has arrived. You made it another week. As your reward, here's an utter specimen, the absolute embodiment, the outright pinnacle of moon bear. Awe-inspiring.

[Moment of reverent silence.]

Anyway, you make your weekend amazing. Be cool. Be kind. Take care of each other.

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The Himalayan black bear (Ursus thibetanus) is a rare subspecies of the Asiatic black bear. 26" by Shiv's fotografia is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

#bear #friday #fridaybear #nature #cute #wildlife #animals #outdoors #friday bear #moon bear #himalayan black bear #asiatic black bear #Ursus thibetanus #collared bear

[birdblues]

Black Bear

#black bear #bear #Ursus americanus #Carnivora #Ursidae #Ursus #upl

[jbbartram-illu]

My public has asked for MORE BEARS!! and I must oblige! This is a moon bear because why should the North American bears have all the fun?!

#moon bear #Ursus thibetanus #artblog #ceramicsculpture #ceramicart #handbuiltceramics #sculptures #handbuiltsculpture #pottery #clay #stoneware #sculpting #sculpture #process #work in progress

[mammalianmammals]

Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), familu Ursidae, North America

via: Amazing Maps

#bear #grizzly bear #ursus #ursidae #mammal #animals #nature #maps #north america #ecological history

[tdc-incorrect-quotes]

Jen, singing in front of a picture of urSu: 🎵 You are my daaad! 🎵

Jen, still singing while the picture is zoomed in: 🎵 You're my dad! Boogie woogie woogie! 🎵

#jen #ursu #ursu the master #urru #mystics #tdc incorrect quotes #source: vine #mod quotes #holiday quotes #father's day quotes #tdc | movie #q