#{Musings}

[metamorphesque]

Isn't it interesting how Time doesn't really "pass"? Time simply is. It sits there, unmoving yet unyielding — like a landscape — while we stroll, sprint, and stumble through the vastness of it.

We often imagine Time as something that flows, something that slips through our fingers, but perhaps it's more like terrain: endless, constant, neutral and indifferent.

We chart our lives across it, measure change against it, and yet it remains untouched. We grow older, we move on, we leave things behind — but Time stays. It doesn't rush to outrun us or linger to comfort us.

And maybe that’s why it feels so elusive — because we expect it to move with us, and yet, it's motionless. Time doesn’t pass. We do.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I...might have found a way to do a relevant online masters degree while I wait for the waters to settle enough for me to do the Emergency Management PhD I want to actually do. 👀

Still researching though. Trying not to get too hopeful yet.

[scriptastra]

[sourdoughservitor]

The world is greater than the structure we've forced it into

Stuff like guerilla gardening, stickering, wheatpasting, lifting, graffiti, pothole-filling and other minor illegal acts aren’t only important for their primary effects, but because disobeying your capitalist programming helps break down the internalized worldview that comes with it

You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be ignored, reshaped, or abolished. You see your environment as something that you’re free to improve and beautify. You see items on shelves as common property which is unjustly hoarded and guarded. You see cops as violent oppressors upholding the unfair demands of the ruling class - but you also see them as human, able to be avoided, fooled, and fought

Practice illegalism daily to see past the smoke and mirrors that make it look like the way things are is the way they must be. A better world is possible

[milkfordragons]

Will: empathetic or not?

Will does not possess a conventional form of empathy. His relationship to killers is not rooted in emotional resonance or moral concern, but in psychic permeability: a structural openness that allows external identities to inhabit him. However, this permeability is not universal; it is specific. He does not absorb just any identity, he absorbs those that reflect a latent structure within himself. In this sense, his ability is not methodical nor voluntary. It is not emotional empathy, nor is it rational profiling. It is an involuntary resonance...a deep, structural identification with acts of violence that mirror something pre-existing in his psyche.

This is why Will only "empathizes" with killers. The violent act serves as a key that unlocks his inner architecture. He does not become possessed by killers in the supernatural sense, but rather, he temporarily dissolves the boundary between himself and the killer, allowing their psychology to animate his own body. The result is not compassion, it is identification. He does not simulate their actions analytically; he experiences their intentions as if they were his own. He embodies the logic of the crime because its logic echoes something in him that was already unspoken.

When he occasionally empathizes with victims, it is never spontaneous, it only happens when the victim reflects an identity Will already contains: isolation, fragility, misunderstood innocence. But his natural point of entry is not vulnerability...it is violence. This doesn't make him violent, necessarily (but it can) but it does mean that violence has a language that his psyche understands.

In this light, his permeability is not passive openness, it is selective attunement. The killers don't impose themselves on him; they are invited in by the haunted architecture of his own self. He doesn't "catch" their consciousness like a virus. He reflects it, because it was already latent.

Thus, Will Graham is not empathic: he is a mirror. But only to the shadow.

[bertoltblecht]

I think 100% of the dynamic with Walsh and Abbot is that they’re both vets but they’re different branches. He’s like an army medic and she’s like a navy surgeon.

They have built-in respect but also pre-existing beef and completely different approaches to medicine.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

me, constantly, especially on Bookstagram.

I love all books but sometimes you read a book and you’re like so were all 21 thousand of you blindfolded and at gun point when you rated it 5 stars

[inkpressedpetals]

[cardassian-artistry]

That is quite literally the name of the ideology, are you people fucking stupid or something?

[kyliafanfiction]

Man, I hate to side with someone like Ridtom, but yeah, that bitch needs to either shut up or read Worm. Doesn't need to read Ward, because Ward is bad and actually supports her arguments about Wildbow better than Worm does (not by much, but still) but hooo boy, she's just diving headfast into stupid.

[nessieac]

i hope i don't have to mention that this doesn't guarantee you a wife. which is the whole point by the way. to die alone lol. if you want to be good. but please learn not to tolerate abuse, that's embarrassing. it makes you complicit in the production of waste and various other evils

[johannestevans]

I have manually cross-posted the bulk of my works to my site, and only have a little under 150 still to post across!

Once they're all done, I will then start going through and putting in my tags. In the meantime, you can search for kinks in the description!

Some short stories to start with:

A Fish Riding a Bicycle - Romance short. 4k. A repressed wizard is at odds with the Dean of Magical Arts’ new secretary.

Like A Thief and an Assassin - Rated M, 6,7k, M/M. A kooky thief at a for-hire intelligence agency starts to romance his handler. Banter and some back-and-forth, mounting sexual tension, age difference. Tone is playful and restrainedly horny.

Archival Management - Erotic short, 10k, cis M/M. Magical archivists in Camelot with the most mundane of delicious emotional and sexual issues. Featuring age difference, orgasm denial, oral, desperation, crying, a bit of mild humour and nastiness, delicious emotional manipulation, and a heavy dose of mind-reading.

Warden Gordon and the Angel in the Woods - Fantasy short. Working in a magical national park, Gryff Gordon has a contentious relationship with a local angel.Fantasy short. Working in a magical national park, Gryff Gordon has a contentious relationship with a local angel.

Gellert's New Job - Gellert has worked as a business manager for the King family for nearly a decade when an error in judgement brings his employment to an abrupt end. Lucien Pike, a rival kingpin, employs his services instead. Fantasy, crime, and a good bit of dark humour. 21k. Rated M. Transgender, autistic man’s POV; both protagonists are autistic.

Daddy's Boy - In the magical smuggling town of Lashton, the youngest son of the Laithes, a prominent crime family, struggles to make himself heard and accepted by his family, especially his father. At the age of 17, he undergoes a metamorphosis. 23k, rated E for violence, featuring Dai Laithe, Oidhche Laithe, and the rest of the Laithe family, with some appearances from Gellert Osgodby and to a lesser extent, Lucien Pike.

Divine Bodies - Erotic Short. The god Freyr expects good work from his priests, but gives good rewards. Featuring transness, divinity, magical HRT, size differences, come inflation, consensual nonconsent, somnophilia, gangbangs, stomach bulges, come inflation, public humiliation, power dynamics, nature imagery, gender expression and embrace of gender identity as faith and worship!

[kilonovai]

—- good evening black hole breathlessness, heaven’s gated grin, love’s lonely depictions, this collective, frozen lung & its unified distractions. (the perfume veil is thick). tonight you sound so far away, only a distant memory left to medicate this. all of these word-weft scarves and soliloquies for mittens.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Another thing I love about ambulance shows is watching all the reactions people have to anesthesia and pain meds. Today there was one dude who just started wildly rapping, and a lady who found out her EMT was pretty new so she kept offering him her gas & air in case he was nervous.

[le0nxrd0perez]

@Natalie-Makan