#ALPHA LEGION SANDWICH?

[moodymisty]

I saw your asks are open and SPRINTED over lol

Thoughts on AlphariusOmegon with a gender neutral reader with some semi-public, possessive voice kink? The Legion feels very Voyeur loving tbh which also brings up the thought of blindfolds or threesomes and -continues to talk for ten minutes-

[ 𝕸𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖞𝕸𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖞'𝖘 𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙 | 𝕬𝖔3 ]

Author’s note: I snorted this request like crack thank you for sending

Relationships: AlphariusOmegon/GN!Reader

Warnings: The slight implication of lewdness, Voice kink, Does the implication of getting spit roasted by primarchs need a warning? Probably

You look around, taking a glance at Guilliman, at Sanguinus, before shifting slightly.

They don’t often meet in one place. Particularly more than two at a time. According to Alpharius, it often ends in little more than petty arguments and fuming tempers. When you put a bunch of men with egos and armies to protect in one room, all the sudden said room no matter how massive feels significantly tighter.

Some of them have brought others with them, but most are Astartes of their respective legions, commanders and captains; You feel a bit like the odd one out. Being the only one outside the military structure of the legions- and the only baseline human besides some high lords and members of the Militarium, and the serfs, doesn’t help.

“Nervous?”

You look up at him, eyes wide. It’s Omegon, you can tell. You don’t know how you can tell, but it’s something in him that can tell you the difference. The twins find it interesting, you suppose. They've tried to figure out what it is multiple times, and you assume it's so they can put a halt to it.

Omegon leans down closer to you to talk quietly, but not closer enough yet to be into your personal space. It's a bit difficult given the significant height difference.

“I feel a bit out of place. And lacking in usefulness.” Omegon laughs and shifts in his armor, the ceramite plates clicking against each other.

“If you’re worried about being useful, perhaps you can you speak dog to the Fenrisian?” You glance to Russ from across the massive hall and cough as Omegon cracks a smile; Though it fades as he then glances over to Guilliman and his accompanying Ultramarines.

The two of you stand close to one of the many balconies, just between being inside and out. Omegon ushers you just a bit more to the outside, under the stars, but still watches the primarchs inside. You notice his keen gaze is still on Guilliman, even after more than a few moments pass.

“What?” You ask, hands twisting each other as you watch his eyes glance between Guilliman and his captains.

“They’re talking about you.”

You hold in your surprise, lest you get reprimanded by Omegon for giving anything away. Omegon is either reading their lips or can hear them somehow through the various chatter, and you notice one of his captains glance at you for a moment. You avoid locking eyes with him, and back slightly more onto the balcony and out of sight.

“They’ve never seen you before. They’re suspicious,” Omegon trails off, before continuing. “They’ve agreed you’re too well kempt and demure to be a militarium commissar or commander.” You suppose they aren't wrong, but it still feels a bit stifling to know you're the current topic of conversation for another Primarch.

Stepping closer to you Omegon takes a hand and brushes the side of your cheek, before pulling your chin up slightly to look more upward at him. His touch is gentle even in his armor, and you notice his eyes have softened as he looks down at you.

“I’m sure he’ll be upset he didn’t get to see you dressed like this.”

He’s referring to Alpharius; And to the beautiful teal accented clothing you currently have on. It matches The Twins armor near perfectly, as designed.

As while Omegon is hear playing the front-facing Alpharius, the actual one is off with their legion, working with their legion to establish more pockets of control outside of the knowing of the other primarchs. The twins don't trust any of them, and they want to make sure they have footholds that any of them can't kick out from under the Alpha Legion. You don't entirely blame them for such a mindset, given recent squabblings between multiple of the legions as of late.

Omegon leans closer to you, but given his height he quickly realizes he won't be able to get as close as he wants without kneeling. So instead, he simply picks you up at the waist and sits you on the railing of the golden balcony, just out of view of the other primarchs. Your legs dangle, knees just pressing against Omegon's waist armor. Shortly after he treads well into your personal space, his hands on either side of your hips; One grasping you to make absolutely sure you can't fall.

You watch him lean inward, his eyes gentle and hooded as his breath brushes over your skin, and he kisses your cheekbone. His lips feel surprisingly cool and once he pulls away, you can feel the ghost of the feeling left behind.

“Once he returns, we can both have our way with you.” He feels the way you instantly tense under his hand.

“Omegon…”

You say, reprimanding him in surprise at his sudden change in attitude as your face blooms hotter. His brow furrows in displeasure at you saying his name despite him currently playing as Alpharius, but he doesn't scold you for it.

The various other primarchs are still chatting among themselves, speaking with either each other or militarium commanders and high lords. Meanwhile Omegon and you stay alone. He spoke to Horus shortly a bit ago, Lorgar a bit too, but not much more after that.

His hand moves to your lower back, feeling the way you shiver under the sensitive feeling of him pressing on it. He forces your to lean forward closer to him, back straighter.

“They can look at you all they want, but you’re ours.”

Your lower stomach feels tight, neck hot, as you can swear you feel their hands on your body. It's a ghost of a feeling, an imagining of previous experiences, but it still feels so real. You swear he knows it's happening, that you're mind is half lost in a memory, as Omegon smirks at you knowingly.

"You seem lost in thought, did I remind you of something?"

You wonder how he knows you so well, to catch you like that.

Before he has a chance to take things any further, to seduce you further with implication and the deep, smooth tone of his voice, heavy footsteps approach your private balcony.

"Alpharius?"

Lorgar raises his eyebrows slightly as he takes sight of you both, mostly of you sitting on the balcony railing. Omegon stands close to you, but he pulled back to maintain a somewhat respectable distance before Lorgar caught sight of anything he shouldn't have.

"Ahh, Lorgar," Omegon steps away from you further, and you dangle precariously close to the edge, but Omegon's hand still stays close. "Forgive the unfortunate seeming position, I just find it easier to have a conversation without bending over so harshly to look them in the eye." Lorgar smiles and laughs, waving his hand to usher away any doubt.

"Oh no worries, I understand." His smile stays, as he continues. "But may I borrow you from your companion for a moment? I have something I wish to give you in private." Omegon has no reason to refuse, but raises one hand for a moment.

"Yes, just give me a moment and I'll with meet you shortly. Then I can promise you my full attention." Lorgar nods and walks off, his hands behind his back. Omegon turns back to you, and his gauntlet cups your jaw once more with that same gentle touch.

"I will be back once I finish with him." His large armored thumb brushes across your lips and pulls your bottom lip slightly, barely exposing your waterline.

"And once I am, we will return to the Alpha, and we will have our way with you."

Omegon sees the way your eyes widen and pupils dilate, and smirks before assisting you in putting your feet back on the ground, and then leaving you alone on the balcony.

[egrets-not-regrets]

I think you’re onto something @thevoidscreams. @bleedingichorhearts maybe an idea for a sequel?

𝕾𝖚𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖔

𝕿𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖉/𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖉: @kit-williams, @egrets-not-regrets, @thevoidscreams(Especially you.)

TW // SMUT/NSFW, Language.

Imagine getting lured into a heated session with Solor. His gauntlet wrapping around your neck; applying light pressure to it if you so much as moved from him.

His fast, but deep pace leaving you breathless underneath him. Mewling up at to him as you’re pinned underneath him, stuck to him.

However, you can’t feel how he suddenly shifts around inside of you; how his c*ck becomes different than what Solors would feel like, but you definitely can feel the absolute mind blowing pleasure it gives you. Sending you right over the edge just as he tips your head back. Your dazed, blissed out eyes looking out at the rapidly approaching blue visor glowing outside of the window as the “Solor” above you leans down and rumbles teasingly in your ear. Grinding up into you, taking his sweet time.

You can feel how this “Solor” feels up your womb when your f*cked out brain just barely realizes.

It wasn’t Solor you were making love to, but it someone else.

Suffer with that information, little Anons.

[ms--lobotomy]

WH40K MASTERLIST

PRIMARCH LISTS "Would you still love me if I were a worm," [gn] First Kiss [gn] How many geese do you think I can take in a fight? [gn] Bear Prep Time [gn] Primarchs and Praise Kinks (NSFW) [f] Are y'all down for some heresy? (NSFW) [f] PRIMARCH COCK (NSFW) [gn]

EMPEROR OF MANKIND Perpetuals [f]

MALCADOR THE SIGILITE Girldad (Platonic) [f]

LION EL'JONSON Building a Family (NSFW) [f] He's Old Now, That's Pretty Cool [f]

FULGRIM Insecure [gn] - [x] [x] Daemon (NSFW) [f] How to Handle Someone from the 3rd Millenium? (feat. Guilliman) (NSFW) [f] Fulgrim Fucks You On Both Cocks And Then Takes You To His Place (NSFW) [f]

PERTURABO Caught Princess [f]- [x] [x] Slice of Life [gn] A Gift (NSFW) [f] Legion Mother (NSFW) [f]

JAGHATAI KHAN Riding (NSFW) [f]

LEMAN RUSS The Thing You Told Me Not To [f] Wife Guy Leman Russ (NSFW) [f] Sandwich (ft. Magnus, NSFW) [gn] Sleepy (Drabble) [gn]

ROGAL DORN Falling Asleep [f] Fertile (NSFW) [f]

KONRAD CURZE Follow Me [gn] Y'ALL FUCK (NSFW) [f] Under the Weather [gn] First With a Partner [gn] Finger [gn]

SANGUINIUS "I have done nothing wrong in my life," [gn] Bleed [gn] Egg (NSFW) [f] Get Bent Bald Boy (ft. Horus) [gn]

FERRUS MANUS Nightmares (NSFW) [f] Episode [x] [x] [gn] Eurydice [gn, they pronoun used] Under the Table (NSFW) [f?]

ANGRON You Smoke Angron Out And Then He Eats You Out (And More) (NSFW) [f] First Night (Post Nails) [gn]

ROBOUTE GUILLIMAN Painfully Hard in Public (NSFW) [f] How to Handle Someone from the 3rd Millenium? (feat. Fulgrim) (NSFW) [f]

MORTARION The Merman [gn, afab body]- [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8 (NSFW)] [9 (NSFW)] Aftercare (NSFW) [gn] Meeting (NSFW) [f]

MAGNUS THE RED Sandwich (ft. Leman, NSFW) [gn] Pounding Magnus the Red in the Butt (NSFW) [m] Sick [m]

HORUS LUPERCAL Warmaster (NSFW) [f] Belt Loops [m] Songbird (NSFW) [f] Get Bent Bald Boy (ft. Sanguinius) [gn] Hope You Don't Have Tokophobia For This One [f]

LORGAR AURELIAN Ancient Lullaby [gn]

VULKAN "IMMA BEAT YOUR ASS UP" [f] Sleeping In (NSFW) [m]

CORVUS CORAX

ALPHARIUS

EZEKYLE ABBADON Companion (NSFW) [f]

CALLADAYCE TAUROVALIA KESH Go get Him, Cal! [gn] gay sex (NSFW) [f]

CATO SICARIUS I don't even know. It's smut. Have fun. (NSFW) [f] Peg That Blue Boy (NSFW) [gn]

TYPHUS THE TRAVELER Lab Rat (NSFW) [f]

OCS Hutri (Iron Hands, quasi-husbandry?)- First Minis- [x]

Aion (Alpha Legion)- [x]

...and more to come! remind me to pretty up my list i have no idea how to do that on mobile

[relax-and-read-on]

What would be your take on a sit-down dinner atmosphere for the chapters?

(Hope you feel better soon, sending good vibes your way <3)

Thank you friend!! The painkiller are helping a bit, but now all I can do is wait. Anway, I choose to interpret this as "wich restaurant each legion would enjoy the most", because it's way too much fun to imagine a bunch of giant space marines in power armors all pressing into a tiny dinner boot. I'm also gonna keep to the original 18, because.... If I get into successor, I will still be there next month lmao. If anyone want to see a specific successor chapter, ask me awayyyy

Dark Angels: Bed and breakfast. They just... Adore a good traditional homemade english breakfast. Bonus point if it's in the countryside.

Awkward silence

Emperor's Children: Love novelty places. The kind that you can eat sushi's from someone's body, or where you eat in the dark, or those weird "dinner in the sky" experience. Most likely to invite other legions to come along, and only half to watch them sqwirm.

Iron Warriors: They all argue about wich establishment is clearly superior, and they end up in some kind of weird vegans smoothie and salad place. They all collectively hate it, but they are too prideful to say it.

White Scars: Hot. Pot. Place. That's just evident. If they wanna be frisky, they go for a korean barbecue or suisse fondue. As long as it's a big shared meal, they are happy

Space Wolves: find the weirdest, most shady looking Irish pub. Any normal human would catch salmonella from those horrible half cooked burger, but they love it.

Imperial Fist: They like the cafeteria style place. It maximise your time allowed and you can make the proper choices depending on a limited amount of options.

Night Lords: Not allowed in any restaurant. You can find them in the back alley of a greasy american-chinese spot, eating straight from the garbage can. Think the rats they find there are just bonus protein.

Blood Angels: they like the very fancy italian places. With white table cloth and everything. Never leave a stain anywhere.

Iron Hands: don't like to go out, but would probably enjoy a good panini/sandwich place.

*insert wind noise here*

World Eaters: It has to be a mom n' pop dinner, and they will *force* themself to behave. They especially enjoy sugary breakfast food, like pancakes and waffles.

Ultramarines: will eat at any place, but are always major pain in the ass, as they will ask about the exact nutritional value of each meals and what are every single options that can be changed.

Death Guard: They found their favorite hole in the wall Thai place, and they come back like clockwork. Probably order the same damn soup every time.

Thousand sons: they like to go around and try various restaurant, but they go RABID when they discover molecular cooking, and now hunt for those specific restaurant.

Sons of Horus/Black Legion: All you can eat buffet. The weird ones with too many type of mediocre food. They have a great time anyway.

Word bearers: Lil headcanon, but I imagine them actually having some religious restrictions to their diet. As such, they probably frequent very few restaurant, but are EXTRA grateful when they can find a place to accomodate them. Love Algerian-style food.

Salamander: Barbecue place. And they will actually make a point of honor about trying every single style of grilled meat you can find, like jerk, brazilian, american, korean...

Raven Guard: will 100% be found in a hypster coffee shop, eating all the pastry they have. They bicker on who gets the last chocolate croissant.

Alpha Legion: those mf get galactic uber eat. Straight up mcdonald or Taco bell, delivered to their spaceship door.

[tagedeszorns]

A fortnight ago I lost my geek buddy.

We were on the same wavelength about many things. Could talk forever about history, alternate history, Star Wars, TTRPG or comics. We read the same books (even if we didn't like them equally - which made for even more great conversation), watched the same movies and were equally infatuated with Clone Wars. We could walk for hours through the woods and fields and talk without getting bored.

It was the best "finishing each other's sandwiches" situation.

Also and especially with Warhammer.

They got me into the hobby, showed me how to paint my wolves wonderfully fox-red fur, and even if we didn't always have the same taste when it came to Legions and Primarchs (the Space Wolves/Thousand Sons faultline went right through us), we could easily agree that the Alpha Legion was super cool and Dark Angels were annoying. And we could spend days designing alternative universes.

And now I have no one to text in the middle of the night that I'm just terribly happy about how lovingly ADB describes Lorgar in "Betrayer". That I read that great Lucius short story and laughed so hard. That I have a different opinion about Salamanders.

I miss that. Very much.

I'm still drawing. I still read. I still watch YouTube lore videos.

But ....

[colehasapen]

(ONE SHOT) gar shuk meh kyrayc STAR WARS

(belated)Whumptober no.23 - What's A Whumpee Gotta Do To Get Some Sleep Around Here?

Comfortember no.1 - Rescue

His body feels like one massive bruise. Squinting blearily, Fox tries desperately to push the pain away and keep his attention on the paperwork on his desk. He’s exhausted, and sore, and tired, but he has work to do - he has work that the Chancellor needs done by the end of the day on top of his own paperwork as the Commander of the Coruscant Guard, a Marshal Commander, and the paperwork for the Senate Guard. He has patrols to organize and lead, investigations to take care of, meetings to attend, and Shinies to marshal. He also needs to be available for the most minor of issues the Senators may face.

A clogged toilet? The Coruscant Guard is called.

Mismanaged documents? The Coruscant Guard needs to be mobilized.

An intern gets the wrong kind of meat on a sandwich? This is obviously an issue the Coruscant Guard needs to look at.

Even the most mundane of problems were apparently to be turned over to Fox and his men to deal with, as if they were maintenance droids. To the Senators, and thus in the eyes of the Galaxy, the clones weren’t sentient beings; they were property - less than droids. In their eyes, the Vode shouldn’t need rights or rest or even simple kindness. They were simply things to use, abuse, and discard when they got too broken to continue.

As the Commander of the Coruscant Guard, Fox is the first point of contact of the GAR to the Senators. It’s his duty to always be there, ready and willing to take orders, so that the Vode on the frontlines could continue to get the supplies they need. He’s not the media golden clone like Cody or his pet CT are - the clones serving directly under the Negotiator and the Hero With No Fear are almost always present in Republic footage - but his actions have consequences. One wrong move could have the Chancellor denying a Legion the extra rations they were asking for or the new weapons a Battalion needed just out of spite. He’d done it before, so Fox had no doubt he’d do it again for the sake of making a point to the Coruscant Guard.

One clone out of place, one brother not meeting regulations or following orders to a T, then the Vode neck deep in the War would suffer for it.

Fox has barely slept in the last month, only enough to function in his tasks, and it’s the same for food. He hasn’t had the chance, and any downtime he had had started with him being called to the Chancellor’s office for a quick meeting and losing more time, waking up at the end of his leave without any memory of ever doing so, and feeling more exhausted than ever. It had gotten to the point that Fox had stopped taking leave all together, to hopefully cut down on his episodes, against the advice of Tea Leaf and the other medics under his command.

His batchmates hadn’t been pleased either anytime he had had to turn down sabbac night after sabbac night whenever they were planet-side. Most of his squadmates had stopped inviting him to go drinking with them. Fox doesn’t blame them, none of them know about the episodes, no one does outside of Tea Leaf - they can’t know, because Fox needs to be the perfect Commander or risk them all being on the next casualty report - so to them he’s just been skipping out on them. They were probably grateful that Fox had started turning them down, instead of just never showing up and not being able to explain why.

Prime’s tits - Fox is so tired.

He squints through blurry vision and the stabbing pain behind his eyes. The Marshal Commander lets himself put the datapad down - for only a moment, he tells himself - to rub at his temples and close his eyes to try and fight off the dizzy spell that had come over him. He breathes heavily through his nose, tilting his head back to rest it against his office chair.

Fox would love to do what his body is begging him to. He’d love to toss all the paperwork down a trash shoot and collapse into his cot, to sleep for the rest of his life and never wake up again. He wants what he had on Kamino, to be able to curl up with his brothers in a pile when the Kaminiise weren’t looking, surrounded by the warmth and safety of his batchmates.

But he can’t have that anymore.

The sound of his office door hissing open has Fox flinching as a fresh wave of agony comes over him, and he opens his eyes to glare at whoever had disturbed him. Thorn stands in the doorway, fully kitted out but with his bucket tucked under his arm, and at his shoulder stands a familiar brother in dress greys, a characteristic scar curling around a golden-brown eye.

Cody.

“Told you that he’d be here.” Thorn says cheerfully, stepping into the room, and the door slides shut behind the two Commanders.

“Thorn.” Fox hisses furiously. He had told his men not to bother him unless there was another emergency for him to scream at - bringing his younger brother to witness Fox’s failure was not classified as an emergency. “What do you want?” He purposely doesn’t meet Cody’s eyes - maybe if he ignored him long enough he’d go away to pout at Bly. It had always worked when they were cadets. “You’re supposed to be on leave right now.”

Thorn grins sunnily, flouncing over to Fox’s desk, dark eyes sparkling mischievously in the way that makes Fox leery of whatever he’s ever planned. “And Commander Thorn will be going on leave.”

Fox narrows his eyes suspiciously, and he makes the mistake of letting his eyes drift towards Cody, wondering what Thorn had dragged the other Marshal Commander into, and how he’d convinced Fox’s batchmates not to throttle him on sight. In that moment, as he stares at Cody’s determined expression, Thorn slips past his guard, and Fox yelps when his squadmate shoves his chair away from the desk.

“Thorn!”

His subordinate beams, “We’re rescuing you!” Thorn tells him, stepping back, and Cody takes his place, trapping Fox against his chair. Behind Cody, Thorn starts unclipping his armour, and Fox can only watch in numb confusion.

“What-” Then Cody’s hands are on him, gentle and precise, and a minute flinch racks his frame. His mind and body expect pain to follow, but it doesn’t, instead his little brother works methodically to divest him of his armour.

It should scare him, having his only defense against the outside world stripped away from him, but it doesn’t. The warmth of Cody’s hands sink into his bones, and Fox finds himself going limp and compliant under his brother’s touches.

“You’re working yourself too hard, vod.” Cody is telling him, voice soft, and despite himself, Fox whimpers in response. “You need to take a break.”

“I can’t.” Fox says in defeat, meeting Cody’s worried amber stare. “There’s too much to do.” There’s so much more he should say, to make his brother understand why he can’t let himself relax, but it gets caught in his throat and sticks to his tongue.

It’s a weakness, and Fox can’t let himself be weak.

Cody reaches forward, gently grasping the back of Fox’s neck to tap their foreheads together, “Fox, we’re all worried about you.” His little brother tells him quietly, “Thorn called us and told us what was happening.” Fox flinches again, and Cody rubs his thumb against his pulse to ground him. “You’re working yourself to death, vod. Gar shuk meh kyrayc.”

Fox swallows, his throat feeling tight, “I have to finish this paperwork.”

“And Commander Fox will.” Cody tells him, a small smirk twitching on his lips - it’s the same smirk he had worn the first time he had nearly given Alpha-17 an aneurysm during training, knowing exactly what he was about to do. It spells trouble.

“Cody.” Fox’s chestplate falls away, followed quickly by his kama.

Cody’s smirk widens, “Fox.”

Thorn is back at their side, stripped down to his blacks, and he’s leaning down to start pulling off Fox’s lower armour. Fox’s eyes narrow, his overworked brain trying to mull over what Thorn and Cody are doing. He’s disappointed with himself that it takes until the moment his brothers start replacing Fox’s armour with Thorn’s to figure it out.

Thorn is taking his place.

The two other Commanders have matching mischievous grins on their faces, and Fox doesn’t think he’s ever feared a team-up more. Thorn and Cody are the two most chaotic bastards he knows, and he’d never seen them put their heads together to make a plan without it ending in either explosions or the two of them at each other’s throats. They’d never gotten along, the results of a childish rivalry that Fox will never understand, but it seems that they had put that aside and combined all that chaotic energy to figure out how to make Fox take a break.

He ends up just being swept away in the mess that follows.

 

(When a helmeted Commander Thorn leaves Fox’s office with Commander Cody, heading for the barracks, no one gives them a second glance.)

[ramrodd]

Do Jews understand the connection between Sura The Hidden Mystery 74:30, the Amidah, and Jesus fulfilling the law?

COMMENTARY:

The 19th Benediction has become a prayer to Jesus instead of its original function as a curse. Originally, there were only 18 prayers, but then a 19th prayer was added by synagogue rabbis in order to be able to identify and expell Jesus Followers from their congregations. My guess is that John Mark, the author of the Gospel of Mark had been excommunicated at some pont before he composed his Gospel (a point I acquired from Dr. Abramson).

The trick was that the president of the synagogue would ask the Jesus Follower to conduct the Amidan as it was written in the scrolls, and the 19th Benediction was added with language that denied the Holy Spirit, in effect, and blasphemed Jesus. And if the Jesus Follower refused to recite the prayer, he was voted off the island.

Now, the numerology is very interesting. Without the 19th prayer, the numerolgical pattern 3-13-2 is very unsatisfying. It’s hard to explain why, but it is the signiture of cosmic belly button contemplation, but 3-13-3 is an incredibly dynamic figure. It is a mistake to say that the 19th bendiction fulfills the Trinity in the last figure because the more important figure is the 3-3 sandwich arount the 13 finger of God. 13 is very big medicine and the ideogram made possible by the Arabic numbering: if you see the 3 as the triune crown of Yaweh, Queen of Battle, with the 1 being a lightening bolt, you get the sense of the power of 13 in the Hebrew narrative.

6 is the base number of 33 and 6 in the crocess of creation, is the dynamical phase that crosses the threshold from the critical mass to the transformation of quantity into quality. 6 is associated with harmony as in the figure of the Star of David, connecting heaven and earth, It is also associated with gambling, the 33 in particular associated with the die that was thrown to determine onwnership of The Rome of Jesus at the cross. The Zen of gambling occurs between the time the die is cast and the time the die comes to rest: in that instant, the flutter as the Brits call it, all the forces of the cosmos afre engaged,

So, the numerolgical narrative of the 3-13-3 figure of the Amidah is the dice is in motion during the timelessness of the entire prayer.

It was Jesus that completes the figure of the Amidah and fulfills the Law.

And above it is 19. Sura 74:30: The Hidden Mystery, The Quran,

The Amidah was written in the Mishnaic period. Jesus was already dead.

Well, I’m sure you know your own history, but I have to depend upon the scholarship if Henry Abramson, who has a little different take on the 19 benedictions, beginning at TimeStamp 22:40 to 25:07

Who is Saul of Tarsus?  Dr. Henry Abramson

Now, I am a heretic Christian and my ontology diverges from the Angican doctrinc of N. T. Wright in that the evidence is throughout the Biblical narrative that there are 7 aspects of The One and not just the Trinity, but I mention that merely as a means of full disclosure, Well, also, my intrpretation of the Gospel of Mark is that it was written by Cornelius around 40 CE as a further military intelligence report to the Praetorian Guard in Rome, and is based on Q, which was a routine suveillance file begun on Jesus when He was baptized by His cousin John and, consequently, popped up overr the Roman military horizon as a potential insurgent at least two years before His execution. As Dr, Abramson points out there were 7 or 8 messiah’s contemporary to Jesus with comparable credentials except for that Resurrection thing which caught the imagination of the Roman garrison and, before the Jesus Followers encountered the Roman label “Christian” in Antioch in 48 or so, all of the soldiers in the 30 legions around the empire had heard of the legend of the Resurrection, which is why it seemingly exploded at the Milvian Bridge in the 4th century.

Now, for me, the operation of the Holy Ghost is evident in the connection between the 19th benediction of the Amidah and The Hidden Mystery Sura 74:30 of the Quran. This sura is the clearest portrait of the mind of the One in any literature and establishes the divine origin of the suras in the Quran before Yusuf Sura 12 and abrogates the 200 abrogations of Mohammad after he moves to Medina and commences a career as a false prophet.

Philo of Alexandria’s formulation that “In the Beginning was the Word (logos)” is correct as, as far as it goes, but before the Word was, Number IS the first principle and topology the mathematics of the mind of The One, as well as the mathmatics of the individual unconscious. 19 is, literally, the Alpha and the Omega of the mind of the One.

And, as I say, the action of the Holy Spirit in compelling the 1st Century synagogue rabbis of the Mishnaic period to ratify the significance of Resurrection of Jesus with the 19th benediction transforms the numerological figure into an elegant expression of the creative and sustaining power of the Standing Prayer.

But, then, I’m not a Jewish scholar, It seems you may have a bone to pick with Dr. Abramson.

[greenmagic-oilspill]

Fragments, Pt. 2

Rhalgr's Reach…

As much as Edge, Ashe, and the rest of the Riskbreakers decided to trust the Ala Mhigan Resistance, Edge found himself surveying everyone's comings and goings in and out of the Reach. Not only was it easy to get a griffin-eye view from above due to the rocky outcroppings, but the same outcroppings made it easy for him to pass unseen, especially with the hustle and bustle down below.

Everything was always in constant movement. The Riskbreakers included.

High above, he watched supply trains go in and out of the Fringes. He watched trainees practicing their drills, Resistance and Alliance members planning skirmishes. He watched as Meffrid, one of Commander Kemp's direct subordinates, led his wife away for a mission of their own. He watched the Ananta. He watched the infirmary. He watched the messengers going back and forth, not for any wrongdoing, but to make sure no one erred and was followed. He even watched his friends among the Riskbreakers, if only to ensure their safety.

Near Starfall, he spotted Crimson Bull hefting his axe, and Edge contented himself with watching the Hellsguard for a while. His friend swung through the motions, practicing the feel of the heavy weapon in his hand. Despite being primarily suited to hand-to-hand combat, Edge thought Bull took to the weapon remarkably well, especially since he found it scarcely two days before.

Edge had gone with him into the Peaks when Bull departed from the Reach for personal reasons. Ashe's orders were that none were to venture far alone, so Edge was chosen to go with him - and he was glad he did, since he had gotten to know his long-time comrade and friend better than he ever did before. Bull's mother was from the area, he'd learned, so the two set out to find her home and learn what they could about her. There, he'd found his mother's axe, left for him to wield.

He watched as the sun began to set, bathing all of the Reach in deep crimson, and he breathed in deep of Gyr Abania's air. He was so close to home.

---

The Sandsea…

Granny found herself wandering into the Enclave, the Cluster's main hub, more often than not these days. With her entire team except for Azionne gone, either on journeys to distant lands or short trips for training, she found herself quite bored and lonely. She had also felt dizzy for the past few hours, and she was not sure why, especially since she'd done little except knit in front of her fireplace for most of the day. She supposed a short walk would do her good, and perhaps she could do some cleaning in the Enclave while the others were away…

The only other member of the Cluster who had not gone away was Azionne, who she was surprised to see sitting on their couch.

"Oh, Azionne," she said, quite startled. "I did not expect to see you here." Indeed, the Elezen often spent time secluded in her own private chambers.

Azionne lounged on the couch, her legs draped over numerous pillows and a glass of wine in her hand. "Oh, Moss, whatever could you be doing? Would you be a dear - oh, dear, I sound like you saying that, don't I? - and fetch me something to eat?"

Granny put her hands on her hips, a smile forming. Judging from the pink tinge to her cheeks, she judged the Duskwight to be quite drunk. And she had never seen Azionne drunk before.

Well, that explained the dizziness.

"I am not Yue, but I will fetch you something just this once," she replied, going to the counter. The Cluster's paltry food stores had just enough for her to whip Azionne up a couple of sandwiches. "You are the one who sent Yue off to Doma, are you not? Are you regretting this decision?"

Azionne let out a most unladylike hiccup. "Absolutely not… It needed to happen. Yue had to learn the truth of who she is. Ugh… she's not going to like it, not going to… This won't go well for the Cluster. We'll all feel it, methinks." She lets her head fall back with a heavy sigh.

Granny brings the food over and sits down on the couch next to her. "What do you mean? What will Yue learn?"

Granny listened as Azionne proceeded to tell her everything.

---

Azys Lla…

The skirmish with the Vith Legion remnants broke out when one of the adventurer units ventured too close to the Gamma Quadrant, yelling obscenities at the Garlean researchers and their own protectors.

And Lini found herself drawn into the middle of it all.

"Fighters, with me!" she shouted, finding herself taking command of the ragtag group. "Cover the retreat! We can't take them all!" There were barely two dozen adventurers there, not enough for them to fight off the imperial remnant. She beat back a hoplomachus, cutting through the Garlean's armor, but before he collapsed to the ground her Ayvuir Blue already glowed with magic.

"Mog Lance!" Lini shouted, as Pikna Popp finished the spell. A surge of silver light erupted from her sword, striking another soldier square in the chest and launching him backwards.

Even as they tried to escape back to their airships, back to the Alpha Quadrant where they would be left alone, more Garlean reinforcements came to cut off their route.

"Kupo! This doesn't look good, Lini!" said Pikna Popp, using her magic to defend as many people as she could. The moogle tired out quickly, her breaths short and fast. "Wait a minute, kupo! Is that Gogo coming?"

Lini looked up, spotting an airship soaring toward them and manned by a multitude of Ironworks engineers from the Alpha Quadrant. Gogo was indeed there, leaning over the side and aiming his gun down at the soldiers below, firing off shots into the Garlean crowd.

Lini grinned, but was forced to pull up her shield to block a sudden attack from a long, thin, but heavy greatsword wielded by an Elezen man much bigger than her. For a moment, she thought he was one of the adventurers turning on her, but then she saw his armor and a Garlean insignia.

She couldn't dwell on it long, however, being forced to step to the side to avoid the crash of an axe into the earth, wielded by a Xaelan man. Even after that attack, she just barely managed to lift up her shield to block a fireball that had been launched at her, and she finally was able to look up and see Invidia mal Deimos.

"What a pleasant surprise," said Invidia, hefting her spearcannon for another strike. "Out of all outcomes, you coming right to me was the one I least expected."

[crtranscript]

Talks Machina: After Dark - March 14, 2017

Transcribed by Critter Ryan McClure, @IHaveThatPower and edited by @CRTranscript!

BRIAN: Welcome back. To Talks Machine in the Dark.

TRAVIS: Talks Machine!

BRIAN: Roses are red.

TRAVIS: Yep.

LAURA: Sorry we took a long time, we were eating. 

BRIAN: That’s okay how was your dinner?

LAURA: Oh my god, it was so good.

BRIAN: Really?

TRAVIS: It was good. I had a steak sandwich 

LAURA: Oh, it was good.

TRAVIS: Parts of it 

BRIAN: What’d you have, Liam?

LIAM: I had a tuna melt and a big wad of French fries in a hurry that gave me hiccups on the way back.

BRIAN: Laura, what’d you have?

LAURA: I had a kale salad.

BRIAN: Well, that’s--

LAURA: And ACTUALLY IT WAS REALLY GOOD!

BRIAN: It was?

LAURA: Yeah. It had chicken in it.

BRIAN: That’s all the time we have for tonight folks. Thank you to Ryan Green for dinner and giving us something to talk about.

TRAVIS: Yeah, Ryan Green! Thank you!

BRIAN: So, I got about 600 pictures of Orcus tweeted to me that I checked during the break.

TRAVIS: Uh-huh. 

BRIAN: Matt, if you’re watching--does Matt have Alpha?--Matt, if you’re watching, please introduce that character at once.

TRAVIS: Jesus.

BRIAN: I’m so scared.

LAURA: I’m terrified. If he does, we’re all dead. We can’t fight a god.

TRAVIS: Yeah, if you ever watched like the early, like, WWF days or the WCW, the Legion of Doom, the guys that wore the shoulder pads with the spikes coming out of them? That’s what he looks like. It’s awful.

BRIAN: Yeah.

LIAM: He’s like the, what, like the bass player for Gwar?

BRIAN: Uh, yeah, I would say more the keyboardist, but yeah.

LIAM: Oh, okay.

BRIAN: Uh, his name’s Tommy Bouche. Question for the cast from the Alpha Critter’s chat room.

TRAVIS: Sup, guys?

LIAM: Yeah!

BRIAN: In honor of pi day, we’re gonna start off very controversial--

LAURA: Oh, that’s why there’s a bunch of pies here. 

TRAVIS: Oh jesus.

BRIAN: In honor of pie day, is a cheesecake a pie? Like a pizza is a pie?

TRAVIS: No.

LAURA: No.

LIAM: No.

TRAVIS: No, not even a question.

BRIAN: If cheesecake is a cake…

TRAVIS: That’s offensive.

LAURA: Yep.

TRAVIS: Yep.

BRIAN: Is cheese steak--

TRAVIS: It’s an aberration. It’s like--

BRIAN: --a steak?

TRAVIS: --it can’t decide what it is.

BRIAN: Is a cheesesteak a steak?

TRAVIS: Nope.

LAURA: No.

BRIAN: Then how is a cheesecake a cake?

LAURA: Exactly.

TRAVIS: Yep. It’s not a cake, either. 

BRIAN: Moving on. Laura.

LAURA: It’s not really a cake.

TRAVIS: It’s a hybrid.

LAURA: What? 

LIAM: What are we doing?

BRIAN: Would you give up--

TRAVIS: Answering important questions, Liam, shut up.

[laughing] 

BRIAN: What are you looking at?

LAURA: The barrel. The initials on the barrel say KY.

BRIAN: Well, that’s what was inside of it.

LAURA: [giggling]

TRAVIS: Oh jesus.

LAURA: Oh my god, what if it was?

TRAVIS: Wine barrel of--

LIAM: When you buy it at Costco-- 

TRAVIS: --personal lubricant.

LIAM: --it comes in a very large drum.

BRIAN: No, Taliesin got it for me at Ren Faire.

LAURA: No, we bought it at the flea market, y’all.

TRAVIS: Taliesin got it for me, it should say KY. 

BRIAN: I said, I said, “Taliesin...in the back-back, where no one’s allowed at Ren Faire, do they happen to have any of those cool-looking medieval barrels full of lube?”

[laughing]

BRIAN: And he said...

TRAVIS: “How many do you want?”

BRIAN: He said “how many do you want,” yeah. Laura, would you give up the broom to save Trinket?

LAURA: Yes.

BRIAN: Would you give up Trinket to save the broom?

LAURA: No.

BRIAN: Would you give up either to save Grog?

LAURA: Yes.

TRAVIS: Oh, which one?

BRIAN: [singing] She’s got a soft side, people.

TRAVIS: Wow.

BRIAN: Which one? The broom or the bear?

LAURA: She would give up the broom to save Grog.

BRIAN: And then she would stop there.

LAURA: She would give up the broom to save Grog. I don’t think she would give up Trinket to save Grog.

LIAM: That’s her bebe [sic].

LAURA: Yeah, that’s my bebe [sic].

BRIAN: It’s your bebe [sic].

TRAVIS: But I’m your bay-bay.

BRIAN: Oh my god.

[laughing]

BRIAN: Oh my god. Great moments we’ll never live down in Talks Machina history.

[Nonsense noises]

LAURA: Don’t ever do that again ever. 

BRIAN: Dude. Liam.

LIAM: Yes.

BRIAN: Let’s quickly get the attention onto you at once.

[laughing]

BRIAN: Were there any goalposts you had set for the resurrection? Any missteps that would have had him not return if the roll passed?

TRAVIS: Hmmm.

LIAM: Um…

LAURA: Ohhh.

LIAM: Uh...I don’t--I’m sorry guys, I don’t want to answer questions about Vax and death.

BRIAN: I get it.

LIAM: Sorry.

TRAVIS: I like it.

BRIAN: I like that a lot.

LAURA: [gasping] SO YOU DID! YOU TALKED TO MATT! DID YOU HAVE THINGS?!

BRIAN: Don’t guess.

LAURA: [screaming]

BRIAN: Stop guessing.

LAURA: Okay.

BRIAN: Maybe tell, maybe tell me later if she was right.

LIAM: Sure.

BRIAN: Travis, does Grog secretly wish for love or to start a family of his own?

TRAVIS: Nope.

BRIAN: He seems to ask-- Liam--

[laughing]

BRIAN: --after hearing Laura’s bargain, how do you feel about going after--uh, no. To everybody--we kind of already answered that one--what was the most odd/weird place you’ve ever been recognized? [long pause] In a barrel full of KY lube.

TRAVIS: I’ve never, I’ve never gotten it.

BRIAN: That’s not true.

TRAVIS: No, for this show?

BRIAN: Oh, for this show, okay. I was gonna say, people recognize you all the time. 

TRAVIS: Aside from something that was like a San Diego Comic Con or something.

LAURA: Right, right, right. I mean, I don’t think any place is like weird. Nobody’s ever, like, followed me into the bathroom or anything. Except at cons.

BRIAN: Yeah, of course.

LAURA: But that doesn’t count I don’t think. There was--when I went to--there’s a Target right by our house, and one of the first times I went there, one of the employees when I walked in, like, smiled at me and I was like--smiled back and he just kept, like, staring at me and smiling as I walked by and I was like, “That is a very friendly employee, it’s a little uncomfortable though.”

BRIAN: Yeah…I hope you did this in the middle of the store, too.

LAURA: And then he was like “Laura!” and I was like “Whoa!” and he was like “I’m a big fan of Critical Role!” And I was like, “What, no way, that’s awesome!” And it was really great.

BRIAN: Oh, that’s cool.

LAURA: Yeah. He actually plays D&D with Eddy.

BRIAN: Oh really?

LAURA: Yeah!

TRAVIS: Oh snap!

BRIAN: Wow.

LAURA: Small world.

BRIAN: Everyone plays D&D with Eddy.

LAURA: I know. 

BRIAN: When we were in New York, lots of people would come up to Ash and talk about Critical Role. It was crazy. We’d be at restaurants and someone’d be like “I’m so sorry to interrupt,” and I’d be like “It’s fine.”

[laughing]

BRIAN: “We’ve only been together 5 years, we don’t really get to do this very often.” 

TRAVIS: Yeah.

BRIAN: But anyway, yeah, that was really cool. And everybody’s always nice.

LAURA: So nice.

BRIAN: Critters are always nice.

LIAM: My favorite--I’ve been noticed a couple times in person, but my favorite was kickstarting something to do with all this world and I got an e-mail back in like 10 minutes going “Is this Vax?”

BRIAN: Oh really?

TRAVIS: Oh, wow.

LIAM: I said, “Yes it is.” “THANKS!” 

TRAVIS: Thanks! Byeee!

BRIAN: That’s amazing.

LIAM: Thanks, byeeeeee.

LAURA: Okee byeeee.

BRIAN: Uh...oh!

TRAVIS: [imitating] Oh!

BRIAN: To all, seeing as you’re likely going to the Nine Hells soon, what would you say is your character’s greatest sin and what ironic punishment would await them in Hell? The answer for Keyleth: Lava.

TRAVIS: Is that what happens in the Nine Hells?

LAURA: No, that’s not--

BRIAN: It would be great, though, if they were like--

TRAVIS: You get punished for your sin?

BRIAN: --ha-ha, Keyleth! You must stay here in hell surrounded by lava--

LAURA: She’d just go fire elemental.

BRIAN: --and also doors--huh?!

TRAVIS: And children that you killed.

LAURA: She’d go fire elemental, she’d be great.

BRIAN: Oh, that’s true. Well, what’s your guys’ greatest sin? Not your characters…yours. 

TRAVIS: I would say, I would say probably just like willy-nilly killing in the early days, right? Pre-Pike finding him and domesticating Grog a little bit.

LAURA: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Other than that I’m fuckin’ perfect. 

BRIAN: So you, serial murder.

TRAVIS: Yep!

BRIAN: You--

TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah, yeah! Serial murder, yep!

BRIAN: [To Laura] Probably theft? A broom?

LAURA: I mean, come on, I don’t think it’s her worst sin.

BRIAN: Well, tell us what those are.

LAURA: Like, it’s a broom. She’s killed people.

BRIAN: It’s not a broom to Chris Hard-week [sic].

TRAVIS: Hard Week?

BRIAN: What? 

TRAVIS: What?

BRIAN: It says...Liam! Question for Vax, if you could summon him please.

LIAM: Yes.

BRIAN: How does it feel to have a voice actor named Liam controlling all of your actions?

LIAM: [as Vax] Oh, well, um, y’know, he’s a bit of a dad, isn’t he? He’s a bit of a doofus, isn’t he?

LAURA: Yep. [laughing] I can’t, this is so uncomfortable!

LIAM: [as Vax] Yeah.

LAURA: This got weird!

BRIAN: Guys, if you could have one item--I stopped that [previous line of questioning] ‘cause she’s going to keep crying--if you could all have one item currently in Vox Machina’s possession for one day in real life--

LIAM: Somebody else’s?

BRIAN: --what would you pick and why?

TRAVIS: Anybody’s.

BRIAN: What if it was for the rest of your life?

TRAVIS: Oh, that’s a good question.

LIAM: One day with any item….

BRIAN: That’s why Courtney picked it, guys.

TRAVIS: I think I’d take...I think I’d take Whisper.

LIAM: Not for ridiculous purposes, for like--

LAURA: Actual use?

LIAM: --to have it, to covet it? You covet it? Let’s say it’s that.

TRAVIS: Well, yeah. To throw it and bamf wherever it lands? That’s pretty fuckin’ sweet!

LAURA: That’s pretty cool.

LIAM: [as Vax] You gotta catch me first.

LAURA: I feel like...well, I can’t decide. I feel like in real life, Raven’s Slumber--the necklace that Trinket goes in--is, I mean, that’s pretty amazing.

BRIAN: Pretty handy.

LAURA: [responding to Travis’s look] It’s a fuckin’ necklace you can put people in. 

TRAVIS: You get it for one day, you gonna, what, like charge people five bucks to go in the necklace?

LAURA: Oh, oh, oh, for a day!

TRAVIS: You gotta think this shit out a little bit.

LAURA: For a day, the broom.

TRAVIS: Dang it.

LAURA: For a day. For life, I’d go with Raven’s Slumber or Boots of Haste, because how friggin’ cool would it be to be able to get a bunch of shit done?

LIAM: It’s pretty cool.

LAURA: And you don’t get tired afterwards. The boots don’t give you fatigue.

LIAM: Yeah.

BRIAN: Can I answer this? I know I’m not part of Vox Machina--

TRAVIS: Yeah, go for it!

BRIAN: --but I am legally bound to you guys now.

[laughing]

BRIAN: If I could take one thing from Vox Machina, it’d be “Dotier” for a day, have him follow Denise to see where she goes at night.

DENISE (off screen): Wow.

BRIAN: Up next--

TRAVIS: Wait wait!

LAURA: Wait wait, Liam didn’t answer.

LIAM: I would either--

BRIAN: Kidding. Go ahead, Liam.

LIAM: I would probably take Taliesin’s d20.

LAURA: Oh, yeah, well.

LIAM: Would be the thing that I would want. Or, y’know, he’s not that strong, I think it would be cool to mess around with Pike’s gloves.

LAURA: Who’s “he”? 

TRAVIS: The Gauntlets of Ogre Strength?

LIAM: Vax.

LAURA: I thought we were talking about ourselves.

BRIAN: It’s in real life.

LAURA: This is real life.

LIAM: Oh, ourself?

TRAVIS: Yeah, ourselves. You in the real world.

BRIAN: Port it from that to the real world-- 

LAURA: What would you want?

BRIAN: --then use it for a day.

LIAM: Oh, then I want that fuckin’ d20, man--

TRAVIS: You go into Whole Foods, you take Whisper and you throw it down the aisle, your like boof and you’re like, everybody picture a guy--

LIAM: I would try the Deathwalker’s Ward, then, ‘cause I’d wanna fuckin’ fly all over the place.

TRAVIS: Yeah! That’s pretty good.

BRIAN: Ahhh.

TRAVIS: Grow wings?

LIAM: Yeah!

LAURA: For only an hour, though.

LIAM: Yeah, but then I’d look like David Bowie the rest of the day.

TRAVIS: That’s true.

LIAM: What’s wrong with that?

LAURA: That’s true.

TRAVIS: But then they would come after you--

LAURA: But you’d smell so bad.

TRAVIS: --and they would put you in some sort of federal prison like Legion.

BRIAN: Hey, no spoilers! I’m saving it for when Ash gets back.

TRAVIS: He’s dead, don’t worry about it.

[fake gasp]

BRIAN: Tonight, a walk-off.

TRAVIS: They’re all dead! [laughing]

BRIAN: If you could have any G&S or Alpha person--beside BWF, he is too busy with his home game--fill-in for playing your character for a one-off, who would you want from the G&S/Alpha crew to do it?

LAURA: To play our character?!

LIAM: Ryan Green.

BRIAN: No, to play--

LIAM: Ryan Green.

LAURA: Yeah!

BRIAN: --yeah.

LIAM: Ryan Green. 

BRIAN: Ryan Green?

LIAM: Yeah.

BRIAN: Okay.

LIAM: Mine.

BRIAN: Travis?

LAURA: What?!

TRAVIS: Oh man. There are just so many people that could play Grog. Denise? Yeah, Denise could be Grog. 

BRIAN: Denise could be Grog.

TRAVIS: Yeah.

BRIAN: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Denise, you wanna be Grog?

DENISE, off screen: Sure.

TRAVIS: SURE?!

BRIAN, imitating: “Suuure?”

TRAVIS: Fuck that, offer rescinded. Bullshit. I need commitment.

BRIAN: [laughing] She says “sure.”

TRAVIS: That’s milquetoast commitment. 

LAURA: She wants a cool character. Denise, how do you feel about Vex?

TRAVIS: Max, you wanna be Grog?

DENISE, off screen: Definitely.

MAX, off scren: Absolutely.

TRAVIS: Fuck, that’s what I’m talking about.

LAURA: I get Denise!

BRIAN: Alright, Denise has Vex for sure, Max for Grog, and Ryan Green for Vax.

TRAVIS: Son of a bitch.

BRIAN: I like those odds, however-- 

DENISE, off screen: Sorry!

TRAVIS: Hey, some of these offers only come once in a lifetime, Denise. It’s alright.

BRIAN: --because of her legal troubles--

TRAVIS: You’ll be thinking about that on a rainy day--

BRIAN: --she’s not allowed to be on camera.

TRAVIS: --crying over a glass of wine.

BRIAN & LIAM: [singing] Coulda been Grog, but it’s all over now...

BRIAN: Hey, how are you guys liking the flashcards? All the flashcard art?

LAURA: There is some graphic flashcard art.

TRAVIS: Is there?

BRIAN: We didn’t get to the flashcards on the Twitch show tonight--

LAURA: Yar.

BRIAN: --but flashcards are... 

TRAVIS: There’s flashcards?

LIAM: They’re--they’re enjoyable. They’re fun.

LAURA: Didn’t you see the one of just like a big ol’ wong of you?

TRAVIS: A big ol’ wong?

LAURA: That’s just like--yeah.

BRIAN: What’s a wong?

LAURA: It’s like a wang--

BRIAN:  To-Wong-Fu, Thanks For Everything?

LAURA: --but it’s like an extra, it’s like a dong. But, like, wang. 

TRAVIS: A dong-wang?

LAURA: A dong-wang. 

BRIAN: You meant to say dong and wang put together?

TRAVIS: I saw one, but it wasn’t very detailed. It just look like a big oval.

LAURA: You can call--

BRIAN: What’d you want to see, a Prince Albert?

LAURA: --you can call a wenis [sic] whatever you want to call it.

TRAVIS: I wanted to see like a veiny, triumphant bastard.

BRIAN: Okaaaay.

TRAVIS: Like, super--

LIAM: My favorite one was where they hid his cock with a cock.

TRAVIS: Oh!

LIAM: They put a chicken right in front of it.

[laughing]

BRIAN: Nice.

LAURA: That’s pretty great.

BRIAN: Did it cover the whole thing?

LIAM: Uh, yeah. It was a big chicken.

BRIAN: Must’ve been a baby. Guys, how much time do we have, Max-ologist?

LAURA: Five minutes?

BRIAN: Laura!

LAURA: What?

BRIAN: What’s the origin of Vex’s blue feathers? During the ritual, you mentioned Vax gave them to Vex during her darkest hours.

LAURA: Not her darkest hours, one of her darkest hours.

BRIAN: I think we’re arguing semantics at this point, but I’d like to hear your answer anyway.

LAURA: She’s had some dark hours in her life. Um, well, honestly, I saw this adorable fanart of him giving ‘em to her when they were kids and I was like, “I liked that. I feel like--”

BRIAN: Oh, give ‘em to her when they were kids?

LAURA: Yeah.

BRIAN: Send that to me! I want to see it!

LAURA: Okay. I don’t know where it is anymore, but--

LIAM: I do.

BRIAN: I don’t care. Spend as much time as you need to find it and send it to me.

TRAVIS: The curator knows.

LAURA: Originally, it was Kit’s, like, concept art that brought the feathers in. I hadn’t, like, said that. Obviously, you had her on the show and I didn’t give her a lot of notes.

BRIAN: “Make her hot.” 

LAURA: [laughing] Yeah. 

BRIAN: “Make me hot.”

LAURA: Basically. I told her dark hair, hazel eyes, and hot. Just make me look like a badass.

LIAM: The beauty of this game is if you say “Oh, seven years ago I slipped on a banana peel,” then it’s canon and it happened.

LAURA: Right, right! So I loved it. I love that he gave them to her. I love that she was upset and he gave them to her.

BRIAN: Kit, are you there? Just kidding. How great would it be if she just started booming?

TRAVIS: God that’d be amazing.

LAURA: Like in the episode--

LIAM: Three AM, don’t care!

BRIAN: Okay, here we go, lightning round. Laura.

LAURA: What?

BRIAN: You just answered a question, I’m going to Travis.

LAURA: Aw.

BRIAN: I’m sorry, I’ve gotta make it even or the internet gets mad.

TRAVIS: Yep. 

BRIAN: If you had your own “Dotier” following you around, what would Grog want him to do: draw pictures of Grog or write his story? Slash, pictures/pop-up book for Grog.

TRAVIS: That one.

BRIAN: And what would its title be?

TRAVIS: That one.

BRIAN: The pop-up book? 

TRAVIS: Yeah. The pop-up book.

BRIAN: Scratch n’ sniff?

TRAVIS: Yeah. Oh, god, that’s even better.

BRIAN: What would the title of it be? Grog’s memoir that “Dotier” is scribing.

TRAVIS: Grog.

BRIAN: It would just be Grog?

TRAVIS: Yeah.

LAURA: But it would be spelled wrong.

BRIAN: It’d be spelled Gerg?

TRAVIS: Yeah, it’d be G-R.

BRIAN: It’d be Gr.

TRAVIS: Gr.

BRIAN: Liam.

LAURA: Wait wait, what was the thing you wrote on his forehead in the home game? 

TRAVIS: Dork!

LAURA: Dork!

LIAM: And you said, “Why does it say ‘Kord’?”

[continuous laughter throughout this part]

TRAVIS: I was a little drunk and instead of saying ‘Krod’, ‘cause I saw it in reflection, I said ‘Kord’ and I was like, “Dammit, fuck! No! It’s ‘Krod’!”

BRIAN: Kord.

TRAVIS: Shit! And Liam was like, “Life imitates art!”

BRIAN: Kord. Hey guys. Not guys. Liam, where’d you get that wonderful shirt?

LIAM: What, this one right here?

LAURA: Oh, the one you wore--

LIAM: --for our Christmas celebration?

LAURA: --yeah!

LIAM: Yeah. It says Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies, and we all do. And I’m not talking about the game.

LAURA: Aww.

LIAM: I got it at Threadless.com.

TRAVIS: Game of Thrones.

LAURA: Threadless, man!

BRIAN: Threadless.com.

TRAVIS: All men must die.

BRIAN: That’s where you go for great shirts.

LAURA: Valar morghulis.

BRIAN: Here we go.

LAURA & TRAVIS: Valar dohaeris.

BRIAN: Liam, one more. How does Vax feel about the fact that when Keyleth returns to the Air Ashari, she is meant to stay and rule?

LIAM: I mean, he has no idea how to navigate towards this, but I think he sees himself, what he would hope for if he can work things out and make sure that his sister’s happy and everybody gets everything they want, he would be like a Jorah [Mormont] figure standing at her side, and then he would age out and die, and she would go on to another lover or husband or whatever and he would have his time with her and be thankful for it and pass on. He’s gotta get there, though.

BRIAN: What do you do--

LAURA: Why does she get to live an extra-long time? I don’t understand.

LIAM: Because she’s made of trees.

LAURA: Yeah, but she’s made of half-elf, like we are.

LIAM: But she turns into trees.

TRAVIS: Yeah.

LAURA: Like she’ll be living forever as a tree?

BRIAN: But will she float?

LIAM: A thousand years.

TRAVIS: A ‘tow-zend.’

LIAM: ‘Tow-zend.’

LAURA: I know she lives a thousand years, I just didn’t know why she lived a thousand years.

LIAM: Because the Player’s Handbook says she does.

TRAVIS: If you can turn into a fuckin’ tree, you would live a little longer.

LAURA: Yeah, but you’d be stuck in place ‘cause you’re a tree!

TRAVIS: Are they like Treebeard?

LAURA: Why would you want to do that?

TRAVIS: Are they Treebeard trees or are they just--?

[Denise laughs off-camera.]

BRIAN: Of course you caught that, Denise. Sorry. Everything’s fine. Do you know what you should do?

LIAM: What?

BRIAN: Go off with Keyleth and do what people think I do with my life, which is live off the wealth of your betrothed.

[laughing]

LIAM: Keyleth and Vax need to play Call of Duty non-stop!

TRAVIS: Ah, if only that was the truth.

BRIAN: Oh man, it’s been a minute. It’s been a minute. Hey guys. We gotta wrap up here. Do you know why? AXYB is back and they are coming on at 9, but guess what? Gotta go back to Twitch, ‘cause it’s not on Alpha yet. It will be soon--no it won’t. 

LAURA: [laughing] No it won’t!

BRIAN: I get fed a lot of bogus info. You know what I mean?

TRAVIS: Yeah.

BRIAN: People try to trap me and try to get me to say a lot of bogus stuff on the show. 

LAURA: Who knows what--y’know, you just say it, y’know--

BRIAN: I say everything people tell me and then I let the internet sort through what’s true and what’s not.

LAURA: That’s right.

TRAVIS: The Loch Ness monster is real!

LAURA: I think he was just reiterating information that he got, and he believed it was true and he was just--[Travis covers her mouth]

TRAVIS: No more.

BRIAN: It’s a great show, though, you should watch it anyway.

TRAVIS: No more talky.

[Laura laughing]

TRAVIS: No more talky.

BRIAN: Travis, I’m not sure if you’ve been asked this before, but on a game-to-game basis, how often do you have an awesome strategy that you have to scrap because of your dedication to the role of Grog?

LIAM: So unfair.

LAURA: Because you’re such a good player, you’re the best of us.

TRAVIS: I think I have some lint in my belly button.

BRIAN: Denise, can we get tweezers and a close-up?

TRAVIS: Uh, what was the question? 

LIAM: Sometimes he tells me about his time at Rada [sp?] and on the West End--

TRAVIS: Yep.

LIAM: --and it’s just wasted. Wasted. Hidden away.

TRAVIS: All these plans that I had to go study at CERN, they’re just--

BRIAN: Do you ever have to abandon--like, say--I‘m going to try and interpret the question. You’re in the game, rounds are happening, you’re thinking, “Oh I know exactly what to do,” but then you have to abandon the strategy because it’s not something Grog would do because he’s a dumb-dumb.

TRAVIS: Never. No. I love playing a barbarian, because I didn’t know anything about D&D. I read, like, some of the Wizard class, Druids, spells, levels, cantrips, all that shit. Super intimidated me. I thought it would be too much. I only have to think about what I’m gonna hit, with what, where, and how. And that is, it works for me beautifully. I don’t have to get super-creative. Um, like, if I get really out of the box, I pull out the Alchemy Jug and ask for oil, ‘cause I think that’s going to make a kraken lurch. Other than that, it’s just like [rage noises] and that’s it. 

LIAM: We used to be brothers in arms with that, too. Don’t need it, don’t want it, don’t understand it.

TRAVIS: Yeah! 

LIAM: And I’ve only got level 1 spells and I’m like “Owww.”

TRAVIS: “It hurts, it’s taking years off my life!”

LIAM: “I ate too much ice cream!” 

LAURA: “Wait, wait! This is a concentration and this is a concentration--”

TRAVIS: I know, I know.

LAURA: “--shiiiiit!”

TRAVIS: I look every once in awhile to try and dabble and it scares the pee-noss out of me, so.

BRIAN: I--wizards are tough. Wizards are tough.

LAURA: Yeah, dude. 

BRIAN: I’m doing a lot of research, lot of late-night Matt Mercer calls. Lot of Venmo-ing him. He’s very expensive if you’re not in his game.

[laughing]

LAURA: He charges by the hour.

TRAVIS: He doesn’t give you the family--the friends and family, does he?

BRIAN: I asked him him for one and he said if you know any friends or family of mine that want to put--

[laughing]

BRIAN: Well, that’s all the time we have for tonight, folks. I’d like to thank everyone for joining. We should just do this [referring to roses] every week now. That’s it. We’ll see you next week, thank you for submitting questions to the Alpha Chat Room. Thank you Courtney. Thank you Max. Thank you Denise. Thank you everyone.

LAURA: Thank you Danny.

BRIAN: Thank you, Danny. Thank you Eddy. Goodnight moon.

LIAM: Goodnight, Mittens.

BRIAN: Goodnight, Mittens.

TRAVIS: Thanks, Chris! Thanks Ryan!

BRIAN: Thank you Chris, thank you Ryan, thank you Sax, thank you everyone.

DENISE, off screen: Selina.

BRIAN: Thank you Selina.

LAURA: Thank you Selina!

BRIAN: Thank you Amandine. Pre-thank you Amandine! For coming back to us. Legally, this time. I’m kidding.

LIAM: Thank you rose.

BRIAN: Love you guys. Thank you for watching. Thank you rose. 

LAURA: Thank you broom.

BRIAN: Thank you, broom. Goodnight! That’s it, Denise.

DENISE, off screen: Okay, BYYYYE!

[laughing]

[otdderamin]

How the "Wednesday Club" Helped Normalize Autism

Geek & Sundry has a new show called the "Wednesday Club" where Amy Dallen, Taliesin Jaffe, and Matt Key discuss comics to make them accessible. Wednesday at noon PST on Twitch and Alpha (taking questions from Twitch chat). It's a fabulous show. They do a good job of talking about broad topics without getting too into the nitty gritty of a particular story. They're really good about checking themselves when they do get detailed and explaining the specific character, comic, or plot better. It's easy to follow even if you're not already familiar with the comics they're discussing.

This week's episode was talking about "Legion (TV show) and portrayals of mental health in comics." I was really psyched for it. As in--this is not hyperbole--I woke up in the same horrible pain my disability's inflicted for the last few weeks, dragged myself out of bed, forced myself to eat a peanut butter sandwich with an unhealthy amount of ibuprofen, and staggered into my chair to watch this episode. Use that to gage my expectations for how good I was expecting it be. It was mind-blowingly better.

This is just one example of what made this episode incredible: A viewer, who identified themselves as autistic, asked about comic book recommendations for people with autism. Everything about how they took the question, how they answered it, was so spectacular. I was too engrossed and shocked to really process what I'd just seen the first time. Partly because it was so bloody normalized. I went back a few hours later, rewatched this part, and started crying. Half from joy that this happened, and half from sadness that this isn't just normal. They took the time to answer a question to the best of their abilities that almost any other show would pass up as unimportant or inconvenient, especially if it challenged them.

That whole nine and a half minutes was a textbook example of how autistic people constantly ask to be treated, and almost never are. They gave him agency and authority over his life, and respected his perspective as valuable and interesting. They just generally acted like he was any other human being, and greeted him with warmth and enthusiasm. It should be obvious that that's how you treat anyone. I should not be talking about like I just stubbed my toe on the Maltese Falcon half-buried in a sandy beach. But I am because it's that rare in real life. I've never remotely seen it in front of a live camera. I'm writing this, transcribing this, and sharing this because good examples of how to be a decent person are how we educate ourselves out of ignorant bigotry and stigma.

I'm not autistic, but I am neurodivergent in a way that's given me a lot of similar experiences to my friends who are. One of those close friends, who I met through D&D, is a teacher and autism rights activist. I've run most of these thoughts by her to check myself through her perspective. I don't want to speak for her, but I do want to help amplify her voice.

Her research has put her into contact with good examples of the everyday abuses perpetrated against autistic people by mainstream medical professionals, ignorant people, and other bigoted people in power. They show how autistic identity is erased and despised, their personhood stripped. Not in a way that helps any autistic person manage better in the world, but in a way that seeks to hurt them. She frequently shares some of these examples and deconstructs why they're awful. If you're not autistic, it's important to understand the context of what autistic people frequently face because it will help you understand how truly spectacular this response was.

  Neurodiversity

I have personally found the framework of the neurodiversity paradigm to be useful, if squishy. The bounds of 'neurotypical' to 'neurodivergent' are their own debated spectrum. Sadly, simplicity is useful, but untrue; whereas complexity is true, but useless. There's not a lot of debate that autism is neurodivergent. This episode is labeled as discussing "portrayals of mental health in comics." But it is perhaps more accurate to say that it discussed neurodivergence in comics. Autism is not a mental illness, it’s a consequence of how a person is neurologically wired from birth. But there's a reason we tend to talk about managing it and experiencing it similarly to a mental illness, and neurodivergence is that reason. To varying degrees, neurodivergent people mentally function differently than people their society deems 'normal' (neurotypical). I'm not wired like my autistic friends, but because all of us never did and never could pass for normal because of our wiring, we have a set of shared experiences. We understand elements of each other's personalities where our brain wiring creates the same pattern, which may not exist at all in neurotypical people. Same reason I can commiserate with another mentally ill friend about where we overlap, but we have to explain the rest.

  How autistic people are frequently & abusively described

(Collecting these made me want to throw up and cry in disgust.)

"Autistics as Undomesticated Humans" https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201608/autistics-undomesticated-humans

My friend's response: "I don't believe they ask this in the US, but when I was institutionalized in Germany, I was told that I was not worth treating because I would use up resources and kill myself in the end anyway. Eugenics is alive and well and applied to autistics daily." https://twitter.com/Alice__Kirby/status/835209015445553156

This "treatment" gave my friend PTSD. https://twitter.com/tbccautismABA/status/830511026730856449

Philosopher Peter Singer: "For me, the knowledge that my child would not be likely to develop into a person whom I could treat as an equal, in every sense of the word, who would never be able to have children of his or her own, who I could not expect to grow up to be a fully independent adult, and with whom I could expect to have conversations about only a limited range of topics would greatly reduce my joy in raising my child and watching him or her develop." http://www.thismess.net/2017/02/peter-singer-milo-of-philosophers.html

Unpack the very idea that if, very hypothetically, vaccines cause autism (they don't; dear gods how many times does this need to be proved), risking your child dying of a preventable disease is better than risking them developing, living with, autism.

  How autistic people describe themselves

"autism is just the way our brains are wired. we still have unique personalities." http://autpunk.tumblr.com/post/157740045930/oops-i-think-im-autistic

"We are not made wrong, or wired wrong, or something to be fixed, or worse—eradicated. … We are different. Innately born to see the world through an alternate lens. … We understand the torment of living in a world, where you not only feel like you don’t belong, but are told from the authorities that be (parents included) that your condition, your being, your very existence has 'affected' everyone around you." https://everydayaspie.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/affected-by-autism/

  Everything the "Wednesday Club" got right in their response

Saying that it's great that an autistic person is being open about it. That it's not something to hide. (Autistic people as so often punished for that. Even autistic rights activists that identify themselves as autistic can lose standing with professionals who claim to want to help autistic people.)

Showing that a question from an autistic person is worth answering. (This rarely happens.) It's worth answering thoughtfully, seriously, and honestly, equal to any other question. (This practically never happens.)

Casually saying that autistic people and non-autistic people are friends and understand each other. I cannot overstate how normalizing that one sentence was. (Not can be, not should me, not technically capable of being, but are. Far from can't, or doing the autistic person a favor.)

Differing to autistic people as the authority on their experiences, on who they are. Not pretending you know better because you're not autistic. Saying that autistic people are different from each other and don't necessarily have the same experiences. (This barely even happens at autism conferences after autistic people have fought tooth and nail to be heard there for years. A lot of medical professionals claim they know the experience of autism better than the person experiencing it. That the autistic person should have no agency in helping them manage their lives. The worst abuses are derived from that line of thinking.)

Acknowledging that autistic people are a marginalized group who are looking for their own strengths, and need and want their own community of similar people.

Says that getting depictions of autism wrong is harmful. "Because in getting it wrong, you can perpetuate a stereotype into a wrong direction, or you can normalize something that shouldn't be." Saying that depictions of autism, even tacit ones, can be problematic. (Legitimately the first time I've seen "problematic" used anywhere near a discussion of autism as if they were any other marginalized group facing discrimination.)

Saying that there aren't a lot of direct depictions of autism in comics, but there are not‑labeled‑as‑autistic characters who have facets of their personality that autistic people can identify with, and those are still useful. (Autistic people are often maligned by bigots as incapable of understanding other people.)

Saying that not being normal is interesting, that sometimes crazy can be a super power. (For any neurodivergent or mentally ill person that's up there with "bullet proof black man" as an empowering statement of power of character to a marginalized group.)

Saying that the opinions of autistic people are valuable and interesting. Saying that an autistic person's draw to special interests, "wonderful hobbies," is fascinating. Saying, repeatedly, that autism can make someone valuable in ways no one else can be. (Autistic people are often ignored and erased. Their hobbies are often treated as boringly narrow, and derided as a waste of time. The contributions of any neurodivergent person are often treated as inferior to neurotypical people. Or exploited while denying the person respect or accommodations that would help them thrive.)

Acknowledging the feeling many autistic people have of "not being human." Acknowledging that many autistic people feel like they're mimicking and scripting social interactions with neurotypical people. (Because neurotypical society refuses to acknowledge or accommodate how autistic people experience the world.)

Acknowledging, like it's obvious, that autistic people can and do fall in love. That they can and do enjoy conceptually challenging art. (Autistic people are described by bigots as incapable of feeling emotions and lacking 'theory of mind,' the ability to understand that other people have different thoughts. Imagine being told that to your face by people who claim they know you better than you ever could and are thus there to help you. Imagine being told that as a child. Do the math on the psychological abuse.)

Showing an actual desire to give a better, more through answer. Acknowledging that they don't know as much as they could, and should seek more knowledge. That this question is worth researching. Taliesin followed up on Twitter saying, "we're gonna revisit it at some point, once we've dug a bit deeper." (Autistic people are routinely dismissed as unimportant, and inconvenient, their identities erased. A non‑autistic person's life being 'affected' by an autistic person is almost always used with negative connotation. But the Wednesday Club tacitly said, "Thank you affecting us," and that is basically what moved me so strongly.) https://twitter.com/executivegoth/status/837213450778468352

 To Amy Dallen, Taliesin Jaffe, and Matt Key, thank you. THANK YOU. You helped normalize autism. You helped keep someone's identity from getting erased. Your actions told someone they matter who, I suspect, has repeatedly been told and shown that they don't. You have garnered a tremendous amount of respect from me.

I have only one request for Geek & Sundry: make this episode available on YouTube. Help me share the best of what your network stands for with others. If you want people to tune in for this show, let them see this episode.

  Transcript

Times from: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/125658409

 01:10:23 Taliesin: "Somebody, actually, I want to say AutisticCosplay, which is a great handle, was asking, 'I'm not a Marvel or DC person, but people have told me I should look in the X-Men because I have autism.' And I don't know if-- You should read the X-Men because they're fun. But what would be a good comic book-- I'm trying to think of a good comic for someone-- I'm trying to think of my own friends who are on the spectrum and what they read."

1:10:46 Amy: "We'd love recommendations from anyone in the audience who is in this category."

1:10:49 Taliesin: "I'm really digging Shade the Changing Girl in that direction, actually. You read the first issue… So, this is a reboot of a new… It's a little psychedelic, if you're down. It's not a classic superhero, it's kind of a--"

[Amy puts out the comic.]

1:11:02 Taliesin: "This is the original."

1:11:03 Amy: "Got the classic here."

1:11:04 Taliesin: "Shade the Changing Man."

1:11:05 Amy: "Well, the semi-classic. Once again, like Doom Patrol, this was an older, '60s, character who got revamped under this wonderful Vertigo wave of DC reinvention."

1:11:14 Taliesin: "And crazy is his power."

1:11:16 Amy: "He wears something literally called a 'madness vest.'"

1:11:19 Taliesin: "And he's maybe from another dimension, but he makes people crazy-- So, again, problematic. But the new version is a popular girl, she's kind of a bitchy popular girl at a high school somewhere in the Midwest, who…"

1:11:36 Amy: "Previous to the events of the book, has fallen into a medical coma."

1:11:40 Taliesin: "Yeah, she was, not to give too much away, but she went skinny dipping with her kind of friends, with the kids who hung out with her because they needed to hang out with a popular person. And she hit her head, and they all just disliked her so much that they took a while dealing with it. So they're all [feeling] guilty. And then she woke up weird. And that's because there's a thing living inside of her that is shade."

1:12:04 Amy: "There is an alien creature using the power of the madness vest."

1:12:07 Taliesin: "So, it's not really even human anymore. So, it's this very off-kilter, not normal… thing. And they just think it's trauma, but maybe it's not, and I'm really liking it."

1:12:19 Amy: "I want more good recommendations. So, I'm wondering--"

1:12:22 Matt: "I don't know anything about what you-- I feel like an idiot."

1:12:24 Amy: "It's a really good, a really fun book."

1:12:26 Matt: "Whose is that!? I want to borrow that comic!"

1:12:28 Taliesin: "It's mine."

1:12:29 Matt: "Can I borrow...?"

1:12:29 Taliesin: "Of course you're going to borrow it."

1:12:30 Amy: "But the new one, Shade Changing Girl, which we might have a picture…"

1:12:32 Taliesin: "I have a copy here somewhere. Oh! Did I put a picture of Shade the Changing Girl in the…? I may have brought a digital copy of it, 'cause I don't own a physical copy of it. There should be a Shade in there."

[Comic is brought up on the screen.]

1:12:40 Amy: "The X-Men in general are turned to by people in all sorts of marginalized groups because they're almost always telling stories about people who don't fit in or don't feel normal, and the way that those people can find their own strengths, and find community, and come together. Which means they speak to tons of people in different groups. I'm curious about, specifically, heroes or things for people on the spectrum, and I'm not sure off the top of my head."

1:13:07 Taliesin: "I know; I'm feeling like a mild failure here."

1:13:10 Amy: "It's interesting, because one of those examples I eluded to in the intro was-- it's the dangers of applying labels to comic book characters. And there's a chance that I'm remembering this wrong, but I think it was James Tynion, who has been writing Cassandra Cain, who was talking about the fact that in some versions, Cassandra Cain, who, as a character became Batgirl, and was nonverbal for many years,"

1:13:38 Taliesin: "Completely."

1:13:38 Amy: "that she has been-- in some cases, people identify with her who are on the spectrum or who are borderline non-verbal. But there are other-- I think-- And please-- I'm worried to even say this because I need to fact check it, but I think it was James Tynion who was saying he was reluctant to but that label on it because the Cassandra Cain character has a history of specific traumatic abuse, that he wasn't sure-- that's not exactly fair to say-- that doesn't resemble the typical, if there is such a thing, experiences of a person who is on the spectrum. So, he'd rather treat her without that label then get it wrong. Or imply it where it doesn't belong."

1:12:16 Matt: "Yeah. Because in getting it wrong, you can perpetuate a stereotype into a wrong direction, or you can normalize something that shouldn't be."

1:14:25: Amy: "I should have checked on this before I said it. This is a memory of, probably, a Twitter conversation that I saw months ago. I should really nail down."

1:14:34 Taliesin: "I will saw, one of the great things-- I've been having this quote saved for the correct moment. 'One of the great things about comic books,' and this is paraphrasing Grant Morrison, who said, 'Sometimes superheroes exist to settle complex moral arguments by beating each other into the ground. Don't laugh, that's the way we deal with things in the real world, too.' But the nice thing about super heroes, though, is that they do break down these complex stories into more symbolic and metaphorical struggles. Which is why, sometimes even when they get it wrong, it's still useful. I had a weird thought for our AutisticCosplay friend, The Vision. The Vision book. It's very…"

1:15:10 Matt: "In fact, the Tom King... Oh! The reason why-- Oh my god, that's a good call."

1:15:14 Taliesin: "So, you all know The Vision from The Avengers. Now, it's kind of dark, and if you know The Vision from the Marvel movies, he's an android."

1:15:26 Amy: "A synthesoid."

1:15:27 Taliesin: "Synthesoid. And the book, he has built himself a wife and two children."

1:15:34 Matt: "And a dog."

[They discuss when in the story the dog was built.]

1:15:56 Taliesin: "And I would be curious-- Actually this is not a recommendation. AutisticCosplay, I actually would love for you to pick up a couple issues of this and tell us what you think. 'Cause I would be genuinely fascinated by your opinion of it, of how you feel. It's not a representation of autism, necessarily, but it's such a spectacularly interesting point of view, and it creates one of my new favorite characters. The Vision's daughter is now a character."

1:16:21 Matt: "Viv."

1:16:22 Taliesin: "Viv, in the Champions. And I cannot wait for the cosplay of this character. She's so cool! And so, I would be really curious to see what you think."

1:16:32 Matt: "I'm going to…"

1:16:34 Amy: "They're struggling with emotional issues and relating to people."

1:16:37 Taliesin: "Yeah, 'cause they're whole thing is they want to try and pretend to be-- they're like, we're going to try and be human, and we're going to be a human family, but they're not."

1:16:48 Matt: "Yeah. I want to tread carefully in saying this, because I myself am not autistic."

1:16:52 Taliesin: "We are in tread carefully territory."

1:16:53 Matt: "No, I know. But I also want to make sure that I'm respecting those of you who do deal with this. But it does feel like, even though they never label Viv, or Vision, or anyone in the family as having autism, or being on the spectrum in any way, their behavior, and their interaction with the world, does seem to 100% mimic…"

1:17:14 Taliesin: "Fall into that direction."

1:17:15 Matt: "or fall into that category in a way,"

1:17:18 Taliesin: "It's very analytical."

1:17:18 Matt: "that someone with autism might be able to actually really identify with that character, but still see the strengths of being who that person is."

1:17:26 Taliesin: "And then watching these analytical characters fall in love, and experience theater. One of the characters falls in love with Shakespeare and starts really identifying really heavily with Shakespeare. And there's this intense romantic relationship that one of the characters… It's fascinating."

1:17:44 Amy: "There is also-- You get really heartwarming stories like one that went around after Guardians of the Galaxy hit theaters,"

1:17:49 Taliesin: "Draxx."

1:17:50 Amy: "Where someone said, 'My brother,' I think it was they were talking about their brother, they watched the movie and their brother was just incredibly struck by watching Draxx."

1:18:00 Taliesin: "In the movie!"

1:18:00 Amy: "Literally for comedic effect, in the movie, their brother said, 'That's how I see the world!' And so, that's one of those, without intending to necessarily create a representation in an old hero, they did something that reached that viewer in a really special way."

1:18:18 Taliesin: "Please don't read Draxx in the comics, by the way. Nah."

1:18:20 Amy: "Quite different!"

1:18:20 Taliesin: "Not yet, not yet!"

1:18:21 Matt: "Very different. But I think there's something to be said for seeing-- I feel like so many times-- And I know this from my dealing with depression, you can feel-- I'm saying, me dealing with my depression and extrapolating that to someone who's dealing with autism, and that's the best that I can do. But it's good to see people who I know are depressed, who also kind of are able to manage it and see their own value, and continue to push through into the world and do their own thing. And I would imagine that someone with autism, on the spectrum in any capacity, would also enjoy that. And see that Draxx actually has an immense amount of value, and is invaluable to the team."

1:19:09 Amy: "Not related to his ability to pick up social cues."

1:19:09 Matt: "And despite his shortcomings or whatever else, despite all of that…"

1:19:12 Taliesin: "Which actually just makes him adored, and fabulous, and fun, and great. Without that he'd be less of a character."

1:19:18 Matt: "So, there's something to be said for, yes, this is something that you have to manage, and maybe something that you have to deal with, and maybe even something that you get made fun of, but that's also a wonderful part of who you are."

1:19:30 Taliesin: "And we have this-- Thanks to these cameras we have this wonderful community of people who can litmus test some stuff for us and tell us what they think."

1:19:38 Amy: "Are you checking us? Because that's important."

1:19:40 Taliesin: "Please! I'm so excited. I'm so excited to have people read some of these books, and I want to hear what you have to say."

1:19:47

[castellankurze]

Thank You very kindly for answering my earlier hypothetical; may I please expand the question by asking if you have any thoughts on which of these not-Traitor Legions would have accepted the Codex Astartes, which of them would have subverted Codex Principles and which would have rejected it outright? (My guess is that the III, IV and possibly the XVI would have been wholehearted, the XII furious and the others lukewarm - though the XIV would probably have shrugged rather than snarled).

Emperor’s Children would jump on the codex.  They already ahve a very high standard for recruits, owing to the time when they once were reduced to a piddly 200 men and had to build all the way back up.  A comprehensive how-to-Astartes is huge for them, and even more huge is the ‘individual chapters get to use their own heraldry and list of glories’ bit.

Iron Warriors look at it, grunt, and split themselves efficiently, sorting men according to big guns, gearheads, and tread-heads.

Night Lords don’t need an excuse to split themselves up - Konrad’s always been a bit nuts and half the legion’s officers are used to exercising their own initiative.  Divvying up the legion just means most of the infighting stops.

World Eaters argue the living shit out of splitting up, but ultimately they do it.  Unlike most legions they don’t have a strong homeworld tradition and their bonds of brotherhood are mostly at the unit level anyway.

Death Guard just straight up refuse to commit and go on as they’ve always done until they’re forced to break up.  Mortarion was big on a legion as one unit - men unquestioning of their officers who are unquestioning of their leaders, etc.  Breaking up the Legion really harshes that philosophy, and the more diehard primarch-loyalists of the XIV stay bitter about it for a long time.

The Thousand Sons fight hard against any attempt to split them up.  They’re already the smallest legion and their entire force organization and espirit de corps is strongly tied to their homeworld of Prospero.  Any successors they ultimately create are picky as fuck about finding new bases of operation with strong psyker talent.

The Sons of Horus are a tricky one.  Perhaps more than any other legion they identify strongly with their primarch, and while breaking up into individual chapters offers new glories and independence to those with initiative, ultimately they remain strongly tied to Chthonia and Terra and one another.

The Word Bearers latch onto the codex like a hobo on a ham sandwich.  The Big Book of How to Space Marine gives the XVII a huge shot in the arm in terms of individual performance and training, two areas where they’ve routinely lagged behind their brethren.  Having already established traditions and heraldries for their various chapters, breaking into independent units is seen as a way to carry the flame of Colchis and the love of the Emperor all across the galaxy.  Lorgar may secretly accelerate this process on the basis that he’s always felt inadequate as a military leader compared to his brothers, and giving his sons a chance to shine their own talents suits him perfectly.

The Alpha Legion look at the codex and immediately start rewriting everything on the fly.  Within a few years there’s a hundred XX Legion successors notated with various Imperial registrars, some of which might even be real.  All in all the Alpha Legion continues on doing what they’ve always done, they just have even better excuses to operate independently and muck about with their colors and stolen gear now.

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West Week Ever: Pop Culture In Review - 1/27/17

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, Star Trek Discovery is delayed, and will not make the previously-announced May premiere date. Keep in mind that this is actually the second postponement of the show, as it was originally slated to premiere this month. The fact that they were dragging their feet on casting convinced me that it wouldn’t make the May date, mainly because I didn’t think they could get the effects done in that amount of time. After all, they first announced they’d cast their lead exactly a month ago. Plus, it still seems like they’re trying to figure out how lead Sonequa Martin-Green is going to juggle roles on both Discovery and The Walking Dead. All I know is that the CBS All Access streaming service is basically dead on arrival, as it’s going to need more programming than just The Good Wife‘s spinoff, The Good Fight. The only way to really gain some sort of foothold would be if they took back the Trek shows from Netflix and made All Access the exclusive North American home of Star Trek (Discovery will already be exclusive to Netflix outside the US), but I don’t know if that’s something all parties would go for. Meanwhile, James Frain has been cast as Spock’s father, Sarek, for the series. I don’t know – the longer the show is delayed, the less I find I care about it.

Speaking of Netflix, they have ordered a reboot of early ’00s makeover show Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Now, I used to love this show, but I also didn’t know any better. If you never saw the show, 5 gay guys would take some straight schlub and give him a lifestyle makeover to make him a better guy all around. Carson was the fashion guy, and he’d teach you to “zhuzh” your sleeves. Kyan was the hair guy, and he’d teach you how to manage your ‘do. Thom was the decorator, who’d make over your living space. Ted, currently the host of Chopped, was the food and wine guy. And Jai…cute, clueless Jai was the “culture” guy. He’d teach you clever ways to open a CD. No, I’m serious. They never really did find a way to use Jai to his fullest potential. Anyway, the whole show is predicated on the assumption that gays are better than straights in every way. They’re better dressers, eaters, groomers, decorators, and…CD openers. And that’s just a raging ball of stereotypes there. It was an interesting time, as the show kind of helped get gays into households that probably wouldn’t have otherwise accepted them, but there was something minstrelsy about the whole thing. I’d like to think we’ve come a long way since 2003, so the idea of this show being rebooted just sounds like a bad idea to me. Plus, they didn’t contact any of the original guys to come back, so it won’t even have a nostalgia factor to it. So far, everything I’ve read about the reboot seems to agree with me that it’s not a good idea, but what do I know? What do y’all think?

Fox has ordered an X-Men TV pilot, with Burn Notice‘s Matt Nix attached as showrunner. Apparently, it will focus on a family on the run and, based on Nix’s past experience, they’ll probably be assisted by a hot chick who could use a sandwich or three.  My biggest problem with the news, however, is that Bryan Singer will reportedly direct the pilot. Yes, he has experience with the X-Men film franchise, but it’s time for new voices. Plus, he shat the bed so badly with X-Men: Apocalypse that I feel like his mutant card should be revoked for a while. He’s been attached to the X-Men franchise for 17 years, but all of his contributions haven’t been great. I’d be fine with him as a consultant or even a producer, but I don’t think he needs to direct this thing. Then again, it’s just a pilot, so maybe it won’t even make it to series. Right now, critics are raving over FX’s Legion, which is loosely tied to the X-Men franchise, so maybe it’ll take center stage and the Nix show will be passed on.

Speaking of Singer’s X-Men franchise, with its wonky continuity, Hugh Jackman has been saying that Logan won’t be set in the common X-Men film timeline that we’re used to. Now, it’s not quite clear how we should take that, seeing as how the films don’t really adhere to a clear timeline, especially after the events of Days of Future Past. At this point, I hardly care. I just want a good movie. I mean, it’s set in the future, and for it to be “in continuity” would effectively be painting themselves into a corner. That’s why futures in comics are always “possible futures” because A) the future (hopefully) isn’t set in stone and B) it’d be bad for storytelling if they set out to say it was THE future. Anyway, we got the final trailer last week, which gave us a much better look at Laura/X-23. I’m really getting excited for March!

And while we’re talking about March movies, we FINALLY got the full trailer for Power Rangers, and it looked pretty good. To a lot of my friends, I’m “The Power Rangers Guy”, so they’re kinda curious to know what I thought about it. Let’s just say I’m cautiously optimistic. There’s a lot to hate in what we’ve seen, and I hated how most of the reveals we got came from the lackluster toyline than from actual footage. Now that we’ve seen footage, however, I think this could be something good. I still don’t think it’s going to beat Beauty and the Beast or anything, but it could turn out to be a pretty good popcorn movie. I like the design of Cranston as Zordon, I liked Bill Hader as Alpha, and the action looked pretty good. Still not sure about Goldar, and I’m actually kinda worried about Elizabeth Banks as Rita. Every time we’ve seen her, she seems to be chewing the shit out of the scenery, in an almost Divatox kind of way. But I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how it all shakes out.

It’s like they’re trying to completely throw away the West Year Ever honor I gave them, as DC Entertainment made some questionable moves. First up, it’s reported that they’re going back to square one on their Flash adaptation, so look for a delay to be announced any day now. Since losing director Rick Famuyiwa, Warner Bros has decided to take the film in a new direction while star Ezra Miller gets ready to film the sequel to Fantastic Beasts. Meanwhile, they announced that The Rock will star in a Black Adam movie, separate from the planned SHAZAM film, in which he’ll portray the villain. From day one, I’ve said that Johnson was a terrible choice for Black Adam because he’s the villain of the story, and there’s no one in Hollywood at the moment who’s charismatic enough to go toe to toe with him and have the audience root for him. Everyone LOVES The Rock, so who’s going to want to see him lose? If anything, he should’ve been cast as Captain Marvel himself, and then some lesser star could bulk up to play Black Adam. Right now, I feel like this movie is going to sit on a shelf until the fates align and Hollywood’s next It Guy reveals himself. Zac Efron? Could he be Captain Marvel? Could he successfully share the screen with Johnson? We’ll soon find out in Baywatch, but I worry that the film is never going to come together due to imbalanced casting.

Things You Might Have Missed This Week

Scarlett Johansson split from husband of two years, Romain Dauriac. I still haven’t forgiven her for hurting Ryan Reynolds. Then again, I haven’t forgiven him for hurting Alanis Morissette. They all mean so much to me.

Speaking of Alanis, her former manager admitted to stealing close to $5 million from the singer

Former star of Disney Channel’s Jessie, Debby Ryan, is rumored to have been cast as Dagger in Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger series based on the Marvel characters of the same name. Meanwhile, relative unknown Noah Gray-Cabey is rumored to have been cast as Cloak

Miles Morales, and not Peter Parker, will be the focus of the upcoming animated Spider-Man film. Know what would’ve made this news more awesome? If it was live action instead of animated. Oh well…

In a move that I’m sure was surprising even to its cast, ABC renewed The Middle for a 9th season. This is a bold move for a show that really seemed like it was packing up about 3 years ago.

Speculation abounds, as it was revealed that the next installment in the Star Wars film series is subtitled The Last Jedi

Now that SuperMansion is on Adult Swim, nobody is ever watching Crackle again since Jerry Seinfeld just inked a $100 million deal to move his Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee series to Netflix

Breakout new series of the season, This Is Us, scored a 2-season renewal from NBC

Speaking of NBC, after much back and forth, it was finally confirmed that Will & Grace will be returning with a 10-episode order.

This is going to be something of a “drive-by” West Week Ever. You see, I don’t really want to get political on here, as there’s enough of that online. That said, I think it’s going to be pretty hard not to be political in the near future. All I’m going to say is that I think the biggest pop culture “news” story of the week was the Women’s March on Washington. America Ferrera, ScarJo, and others spoke, while Madonna made a few controversial statements of her own. A lot of folks feel like performers should just perform and not have political views, but I think those people are going to be sorely disappointed for the foreseeable future. Personally, the march was good to me as it brought a lot of cool folks to town – many of whom I haven’t seen in quite some time. I’m not going to get into the particulars of it, as there are other places you can go for the full story. What I do know is that it set a record for Metro ridership, and the crowd dwarfed that of the inauguration that took place just a day prior. So, with that in mind, the Women’s March on Washington, as well as the various “sister marches”, had the West Week Ever.

[egrets-not-regrets]

The twins certainly know how to rev someone up.

I saw your asks are open and SPRINTED over lol

Thoughts on AlphariusOmegon with a gender neutral reader with some semi-public, possessive voice kink? The Legion feels very Voyeur loving tbh which also brings up the thought of blindfolds or threesomes and -continues to talk for ten minutes-

[ 𝕸𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖞𝕸𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖞'𝖘 𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙 | 𝕬𝖔3 ]

Author’s note: I snorted this request like crack thank you for sending

Relationships: AlphariusOmegon/GN!Reader

Warnings: The slight implication of lewdness, Voice kink, Does the implication of getting spit roasted by primarchs need a warning? Probably

You look around, taking a glance at Guilliman, at Sanguinus, before shifting slightly.

They don’t often meet in one place. Particularly more than two at a time. According to Alpharius, it often ends in little more than petty arguments and fuming tempers. When you put a bunch of men with egos and armies to protect in one room, all the sudden said room no matter how massive feels significantly tighter.

Some of them have brought others with them, but most are Astartes of their respective legions, commanders and captains; You feel a bit like the odd one out. Being the only one outside the military structure of the legions- and the only baseline human besides some high lords and members of the Militarium, and the serfs, doesn’t help.

“Nervous?”

You look up at him, eyes wide. It’s Omegon, you can tell. You don’t know how you can tell, but it’s something in him that can tell you the difference. The twins find it interesting, you suppose. They've tried to figure out what it is multiple times, and you assume it's so they can put a halt to it.

Omegon leans down closer to you to talk quietly, but not closer enough yet to be into your personal space. It's a bit difficult given the significant height difference.

“I feel a bit out of place. And lacking in usefulness.” Omegon laughs and shifts in his armor, the ceramite plates clicking against each other.

“If you’re worried about being useful, perhaps you can you speak dog to the Fenrisian?” You glance to Russ from across the massive hall and cough as Omegon cracks a smile; Though it fades as he then glances over to Guilliman and his accompanying Ultramarines.

The two of you stand close to one of the many balconies, just between being inside and out. Omegon ushers you just a bit more to the outside, under the stars, but still watches the primarchs inside. You notice his keen gaze is still on Guilliman, even after more than a few moments pass.

“What?” You ask, hands twisting each other as you watch his eyes glance between Guilliman and his captains.

“They’re talking about you.”

You hold in your surprise, lest you get reprimanded by Omegon for giving anything away. Omegon is either reading their lips or can hear them somehow through the various chatter, and you notice one of his captains glance at you for a moment. You avoid locking eyes with him, and back slightly more onto the balcony and out of sight.

“They’ve never seen you before. They’re suspicious,” Omegon trails off, before continuing. “They’ve agreed you’re too well kempt and demure to be a militarium commissar or commander.” You suppose they aren't wrong, but it still feels a bit stifling to know you're the current topic of conversation for another Primarch.

Stepping closer to you Omegon takes a hand and brushes the side of your cheek, before pulling your chin up slightly to look more upward at him. His touch is gentle even in his armor, and you notice his eyes have softened as he looks down at you.

“I’m sure he’ll be upset he didn’t get to see you dressed like this.”

He’s referring to Alpharius; And to the beautiful teal accented clothing you currently have on. It matches The Twins armor near perfectly, as designed.

As while Omegon is hear playing the front-facing Alpharius, the actual one is off with their legion, working with their legion to establish more pockets of control outside of the knowing of the other primarchs. The twins don't trust any of them, and they want to make sure they have footholds that any of them can't kick out from under the Alpha Legion. You don't entirely blame them for such a mindset, given recent squabblings between multiple of the legions as of late.

Omegon leans closer to you, but given his height he quickly realizes he won't be able to get as close as he wants without kneeling. So instead, he simply picks you up at the waist and sits you on the railing of the golden balcony, just out of view of the other primarchs. Your legs dangle, knees just pressing against Omegon's waist armor. Shortly after he treads well into your personal space, his hands on either side of your hips; One grasping you to make absolutely sure you can't fall.

You watch him lean inward, his eyes gentle and hooded as his breath brushes over your skin, and he kisses your cheekbone. His lips feel surprisingly cool and once he pulls away, you can feel the ghost of the feeling left behind.

“Once he returns, we can both have our way with you.” He feels the way you instantly tense under his hand.

“Omegon…”

You say, reprimanding him in surprise at his sudden change in attitude as your face blooms hotter. His brow furrows in displeasure at you saying his name despite him currently playing as Alpharius, but he doesn't scold you for it.

The various other primarchs are still chatting among themselves, speaking with either each other or militarium commanders and high lords. Meanwhile Omegon and you stay alone. He spoke to Horus shortly a bit ago, Lorgar a bit too, but not much more after that.

His hand moves to your lower back, feeling the way you shiver under the sensitive feeling of him pressing on it. He forces your to lean forward closer to him, back straighter.

“They can look at you all they want, but you’re ours.”

Your lower stomach feels tight, neck hot, as you can swear you feel their hands on your body. It's a ghost of a feeling, an imagining of previous experiences, but it still feels so real. You swear he knows it's happening, that you're mind is half lost in a memory, as Omegon smirks at you knowingly.

"You seem lost in thought, did I remind you of something?"

You wonder how he knows you so well, to catch you like that.

Before he has a chance to take things any further, to seduce you further with implication and the deep, smooth tone of his voice, heavy footsteps approach your private balcony.

"Alpharius?"

Lorgar raises his eyebrows slightly as he takes sight of you both, mostly of you sitting on the balcony railing. Omegon stands close to you, but he pulled back to maintain a somewhat respectable distance before Lorgar caught sight of anything he shouldn't have.

"Ahh, Lorgar," Omegon steps away from you further, and you dangle precariously close to the edge, but Omegon's hand still stays close. "Forgive the unfortunate seeming position, I just find it easier to have a conversation without bending over so harshly to look them in the eye." Lorgar smiles and laughs, waving his hand to usher away any doubt.

"Oh no worries, I understand." His smile stays, as he continues. "But may I borrow you from your companion for a moment? I have something I wish to give you in private." Omegon has no reason to refuse, but raises one hand for a moment.

"Yes, just give me a moment and I'll with meet you shortly. Then I can promise you my full attention." Lorgar nods and walks off, his hands behind his back. Omegon turns back to you, and his gauntlet cups your jaw once more with that same gentle touch.

"I will be back once I finish with him." His large armored thumb brushes across your lips and pulls your bottom lip slightly, barely exposing your waterline.

"And once I am, we will return to the Alpha, and we will have our way with you."

Omegon sees the way your eyes widen and pupils dilate, and smirks before assisting you in putting your feet back on the ground, and then leaving you alone on the balcony.

[ramrodd]

The Amidah and Shema of Acts 2:1 - Known as "The Prayer" in Judaism - Pa...

COMMENTARY:

The 19th Benediction has become a prayer to Jesus. Originally, there were only 18 prayers, but then a 19th prayer was added by  Jerusalem Jews to be able to identify and expell Jesus Followers from their congregations. My guess is that John Mark, the author of the Gospel of Mark had been excommunicated at some pont before he composed his Gospel.

The trick was that the president of the synagogue would ask the Jesus Follower to conduct the Amidan as it was written in the scrolls, and the 19th Benediction was added with language that denied the Holy Spirit, in effect, and blasphemed Jesus. And if the Jesus Follower refused to recite the prayer, he was voted off the island.

Now, the numerology is very interesting. Without the 19th prayer, the numerolgical pattern 3-13-2 is very unsatisfying. It's hard to explain why, but it is the signiture of cosmic belly button contemplation, but 3-13-3 is an incredibly dynamic figure.  It is a mistake to say that the 19th bendiction  fulfills the Trinity in the last figure because the more important figure is the 3-3 sandwich arount the 13 finger of God. 13 is very big medicine and the ideogram made possible by the Arabic numbering: if you see the 3 as the triune crown of Yaweh, Queen of Battle, with the 1 being a lightening bolt, you get the sense of the power of 13 in the Hebrew narrative.

6 is the base number of 33 and 6 in the crocess of creation, is the dynamical phase that crosses the threshold from the critical mass to the transformation of quantity into quality. 6 is associated with harmony as in the figure of the Star of David, connecting heaven and earth,  It is also associated with gambling, the 33 in particular associated with the die that was thrown to determine onwnership of The Rome of Jesus at the cross. The Zen of gambling occurs between the time the die is cast and the time the die comes to rest: in that instant, the flutter as the Brits call it, all the forces of the cosmos afre engaged,

So, the numerolgical narrative of the 3-13-3 figure of the Amidah is the dice is in motion during the timelessness of the entire prayer.

It was Jesus that completes the figure of the Amidah and fulfills the Law.

And above it is 19. Sura 74:30: The Hidden Mystery, The Quran,

The Amidah was written in the Mishnaic period. Jesus was already dead.

Well, I’m sure you know your own history, but I have to depend upon the scholarship if Henry Abramson, who has a little different take on the 19 benedictions, beginning at TimeStamp 22:40 to 25:07

Who is Saul of Tarsus?  Dr. Henry Abramson

Now, I am a heretic Christian and my ontology diverges from the Angican doctrinc of N. T. Wright in that the evidence is throughout the Biblical narrative that there are 7 aspects of The One and not just the Trinity, but I mention that merely as a means of full disclosure, Well, also, my intrpretation of the Gospel of Mark is that it was written by Cornelius around 40 CE as a further military intelligence report to the Praetorian Guard in Rome, and is based on Q, which was a routine suveillance file begun on Jesus when He was baptized by His cousin John and, consequently, popped up overr the Roman military horizon as a potential insurgent at least two years before His execution. As Dr, Abramson points out there were 7 or 8 messiah’s contemporary to Jesus with comparable credentials except for that Resurrection thing which caught the imagination of the Roman garrison and, before the Jesus Followers encountered the Roman label “Christian” in Antioch in 48 or so, all of the soldiers in the 30 legions around the empire had heard of the legend of the Resurrection, which is why it seemingly exploded at the Milvian Bridge in the 4th century.

Now, for me, the operation of the Holy Ghost is evident in the connection between the 19th benediction of the Amidah and The Hidden Mystery Sura 74:30 of the Quran. This sura is the clearest portrait of the mind of the One in any literature and establishes the divine origin of the suras in the Quran before Yusuf Sura 12 and abrogates the 200 abrogations of Mohammad after he moves to Medina and commences a career as a false prophet.

Philo of Alexandria’s formulation that “In the Beginning was the Word (logos)” is correct as, as far as it goes, but before the Word was, Number IS the first principle and topology the mathematics of the mind of The One, as well as the mathmatics of the individual unconscious. 19 is, literally, the Alpha and the Omega of the mind of the One.

And, as I say, the action of the Holy Spirit in compelling the 1st Century synagogue rabbis of the Mishnaic period to ratify the significance of Resurrection of Jesus with the 19th benediction transforms the numerological figure into an elegant expression of the creative and sustaining power of the Standing Prayer.

But, then, I’m not a Jewish scholar, It seems you may have a bone to pick with Dr. Abramson.

The Amidah was written in the Mishnaic period. Jesus was already dead.

Well, I’m sure you know your own history, but I have to depend upon the scholarship if Henry Abramson, who has a little different take on the 19 benedictions, beginning at TimeStamp 22:40 to 25:07

Who is Saul of Tarsus?  Dr. Henry Abramson

Now, I am a heretic Christian and my ontology diverges from the Angican doctrinc of N. T. Wright in that the evidence is throughout the Biblical narrative that there are 7 aspects of The One and not just the Trinity, but I mention that merely as a means of full disclosure, Well, also, my intrpretation of the Gospel of Mark is that it was written by Cornelius around 40 CE as a further military intelligence report to the Praetorian Guard in Rome, and is based on Q, which was a routine suveillance file begun on Jesus when He was baptized by His cousin John and, consequently, popped up overr the Roman military horizon as a potential insurgent at least two years before His execution. As Dr, Abramson points out there were 7 or 8 messiah’s contemporary to Jesus with comparable credentials except for that Resurrection thing which caught the imagination of the Roman garrison and, before the Jesus Followers encountered the Roman label “Christian” in Antioch in 48 or so, all of the soldiers in the 30 legions around the empire had heard of the legend of the Resurrection, which is why it seemingly exploded at the Milvian Bridge in the 4th century.

Now, for me, the operation of the Holy Ghost is evident in the connection between the 19th benediction of the Amidah and The Hidden Mystery Sura 74:30 of the Quran. This sura is the clearest portrait of the mind of the One in any literature and establishes the divine origin of the suras in the Quran before Yusuf Sura 12 and abrogates the 200 abrogations of Mohammad after he moves to Medina and commences a career as a false prophet.

Philo of Alexandria’s formulation that “In the Beginning was the Word (logos)” is correct as, as far as it goes, but before the Word was, Number IS the first principle and topology the mathematics of the mind of The One, as well as the mathmatics of the individual unconscious. 19 is, literally, the Alpha and the Omega of the mind of the One.

And, as I say, the action of the Holy Spirit in compelling the 1st Century synagogue rabbis of the Mishnaic period to ratify the significance of Resurrection of Jesus with the 19th benediction transforms the numerological figure into an elegant expression of the creative and sustaining power of the Standing Prayer.

But, then, I’m not a Jewish scholar, It seems you may have a bone to pick with Dr. Abramson.