#Dividual

[1000rh]

We are entering control societies that are defined very differently than disciplinary societies. Those who are concerned about our welfare no longer need, or will no longer need, places of confinement. The prisons, schools and hospitals are already places of permanent discussion. Wouldn't it be better to expand home visits by doctors? Yes, that is certainly the future. Workshops and factories are bursting at the seams. Wouldn't it be better to use more sub-contracting and working from home? Aren't there other ways to punish people than prison?

– Gilles Deleuze, “What is the Creative Act?” (1987)

[driftwork]

My data...

My data feeds the databases obediently. amazon, google, youtube, whatsapp, samsung, telegram (twitter, mastodon) know more about me than the state. I want to be put into service. I desire my submission. I comply. I am not a prisoner. I am the data bank.... Dividual data flow in and out of databases, and my voice complies.  Dividual data flows feed voice recognition and machinic voice processing...  I no longer need my hnds to turn on and off or dim the lights or to regulate  the comfort zone temperature, operate the intercom. I speak to the oven...  the dishwasher...the networked blinds... the tv... the alarm system... the surveillance cameras... And Alexi and Siri provide weather information and they tell me jokes. And their greatest asset is that they funnel my data to the clouds and gather it there with other data... (Gerald Raunig)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔅𝔞𝔱𝔰 𝔟𝔶 𝔇𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔡𝔲𝔰

[narutothoughts]

Kakanaru au where kakashi gets hurt on a mission and passes out in the middle of a forest on the way back to Konoha.

When he wakes up he’s neatly laid out in the middle of an old shrine, with fresh bandages wrapped around his stitched up wounds and warm tea at his elbow.

The fact he remained unconscious through someone moving him and closing his wounds was discontenting even if it wasn’t particularly surprising. He did lose a lot of blood and chakra after all.

Now that he’s awake, kakashi knows he should leave. He knows better than to test his luck staying in place for too long anywhere outside of the village.

But…he’s curious. And despite the stitches, he’s still in danger of infection considering Konoha is over a week away in his current state.

So he leverages himself up, and tries to look around as much as he can. But the entire shrine is empty. Not a single sign of the one that helped him.

When he wakes up again a few hours later there’s a pot of warm tea at his side to replace the old cup, a little pile of fruit, and new bandages. The day after that, there’s sake and plum wine added to the mix.

Kakashi doesn’t really know what’s happening but he’s never been one to sit idle nor has he ever been an ungrateful man. So as soon as he’s able to get up without his head spinning he gets to work. he sweeps the floors and dusts the cobwebs. Even polishes a little golden fox statue he finds tucked behind a wooden alter.

It’s the least he could do for his hidden host. The caretaker of this place maybe?

Kakashi’s body and chakra recovers faster than he anticipated. After five days he leaves even as the Hatake part of him that lives in back of his head keens.

Before he goes he pats the golden fox on the head. It was oddly cute compared to the 9 statues of snarling stone foxes surrounding it, though there was undeniable beauty in those too.

A few months later he’s injured again and realizes the shrine is on his way back to Konoha. He stops there to rest for the night and heads out in the morning, only taking the time to drink some of the tea and wipe down the alter, barely noticing how his chakra coils have refilled already.

And it keeps happening whenever he gets injured. He comes, he rests, he cleans, and goes with a pat to the gold statues head.

Until one day he wakes up to a long limbed blond at his side instead of the usual tea and fruits. When the blanket shifts to reveal a bare back and smooth tan skin he thanks every god out there for his mask covering his blush. Sleepy blue eyes blink open at him right on cue and honestly? Kakashi thinks he deserved that for not putting the pieces together earlier.

This is blatantly inspired by @rayshippouuchiha

[progressivemillennial]

[a-lil-strawberry]

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[skalidris]

a text and its relative paratext aren't the same.

[funeral]

It is immediately clear that Sylvia Plath had a 'divided self'. Throughout her work there are images of selves which are petrified, cracked, automaton, patched up, and divided against themselves. Perhaps one of the most characteristic is the double self in In Plaster in which the real body-self inside the plaster cast is the 'tenant', and without whom the outer self would 'perish with emptiness'. [ . . . ] The tenant in her dividual self at times seems only to bloom 'out of her as a rose/Blooms out of a vase of not very valuable porcelain...'—and this theme of inner worthlessness is often struck, as she searches within herself for substantiality, sometimes finding only the vacuum at the heart of a tornado.

David Holbrook, Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence

[1000rh]

Central to the operation of the dialectic of recognition is the transformation of people into subjects. No matter how much philosophers have tried to abstract the term, the meaning of the subject retains its Latin roots—sub-jectus, to be brought under— designating the power afforded to a person by virtue of subordination to another. Its image is a portrait of “the one” who recognizes the superiority of “the other.” As liberalism triumphantly pulls this chain of causation through politics, only two positions become possible for subjects: either as agents enacting their will on the world or as impotent victims of another’s agency. Justice then makes its appearance through the politics of recognition, seeking representation and integration within a political system previously characterized by disregard and exclusion.

– Andrew Culp, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (2022)

[mentaltimetraveller]

June Crespo, Dividual (4), 2022, polyester resin and fiberglass, concrete, textile / 300 x 43 x 45 cm / P420, Bologna, 2022

[dessertgeek]

The Mari Lwyd Twitter saga (2020 - part three)

This is part of my efforts to transcribe @seananmcguire's holiday Mari Lwyd Twitter threads. The hashtag for now is #Mari Lwyd Project, the first post is here, the thread's source is here.

(Many thanks to @dor-min on finding and linking this one!)

There are a couple from this year that are short, and even single replies that Seanan likely didn't have time to reply to. So this is their collection! Authors will be linked in their comments as best I can.

CW for food, just in case.

Lorcan Murphy (Twitter): Alas were I only a mutual, Mari Lwyd I'd offer rhymes crucial. We'd barter o'er offering asked unpredictable Afore presenting a demanded varietal victual The dead from the living must bide dividual But this rhyme for the horse is purely volitional.

Seanan: Your rhyming's exquisite, So clean and refined. I'll grant you a visit, To seek cheese with rind, Or cheese that's been softened, Or processed or plain... When Mari Lwyd's summoned, She sings her refrain.

Cheese or beer! Cheese or beer! I know that you have it here!

Lorcan: Alas all my beer has been spilt in a pan And as unlikely it seems, my cheese melted and ran My flour and yeast in the oven to bake So I'm terrible short of scran you can take Bide if you can, I'll no make it a habit and I'll offer a pretzel and Welsh-German rabbit

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Cassandra Khaw (Carrd / Twitter): A single wedge of manchego I do possess, Not a wedge nor a morsel more than that, If I was someone who had cheese in excess, I'd offer them to you, and have all your desires.

But lo, you bony equine, Such is all I can give: This lonely cheese of mine, I offer in tithe.

Seanan: To give when there's plenty Is glorious kind: But it's kinder by far When you've little but rind.

I am grateful to you, On this shortest of days, For your holiday spirit And generous ways.

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The singles!

(I'm posting peoples' handles as I see them, will do my best here. If someone rhymed or made poetry and I couldn't find a 'do not repost' on their profile, I included it.)

John & Bucky: I’m just here to watch A skeletal horse seeking Cheese and wine through rhyme

Stephanie Annand: Alas! For the lack! Of cheese in my home; Will you accept yogurt As onward you roam?

Eleri: I have some ok parm, and a generic swiss A really good chevre would not go amiss This stupid pandemic has cut into my cheese-buying I'm afraid sharing these cheeses, the dead horse would send me flying.

Paige Wolf: Cheese and spiced wine You’ll definitely find; In my kitchen, I’ll fill up your cup!

Come in please, my friend! Time we will spend, In drinking and singing, Bottoms up!

warcabbit: Wassail, wassail? I give you mulled ale and a nice nutty cheese to boot.

It is the season Be kind without reason And generous with gifts and loot.

Stephanie Caitlyn: I do not have cheese, I only have curry, For when I did leave, It was in quite a hurry.

Into the headlights I peer like a deer, But with you I gladly will share my paneer.

Starry_Marie: I know there are many With rhymes that are better But one thing I do have - A large chunk of cheddar

@Chimaera.bsky.social: Oh Mare, at thy feet I lay Some Caveman Blue and olives today. Cambezola roasted with garlic cloves, Squeezed upon fine grilled bread loaves. A bit of Brie to melt your heart, A nutty Parm to fuel your start, Melted Gruyère to dip things in, & Queso fresco (you're looking thin)

Cake and Arsenic: Oh mari lywd, please don't feel down, With your big boney head, in your white cotton shroud, For you'll find that my larder is stocked full of cheese, And you're welcome to come and eat all that you please.

JLH: (not a mutual, but it seems fun and kinda inspired me) Dread equine I hear your call! And in my larder is a prize, A piece of asiago for your skeletal maw Please accept my gift and silence your cries.

[ranger-rai]

Typhlosion as a service 'mon?

Ahhh one of johto's finest!

Typhlosion is a very interesting case as its passions seem to rest in battles.

However, its agile body, ferocious attitude, and powerfully sharp fire leave it with a few options.

Obviously stuff like welding and forging would come naturally to it, but it's actually one of the few pokemon to not need as much oxygen, as it can funnel it's oxygen into more narrow pathways, allowing it to breathe in lower oxygen environments, making it an excellent fire fighter candidate.

On top of that, they are surprisingly spiritual.

While in the past, Hisuian forms were known to be able to use their flames to channel and communicate with spirits, now a days a more docile Typhlosion can use their excellent mastery of their flames, in combination with guidance from a priest, medium or trained spiritual leader, to expel negative emotions and supposedly sprits from the area.

On top of that, this same type of practice can be used in a sort of "heat therapy" to target I dividuals' stress points to allow their muscles and mind to relax.

[professional-demon-master]

Obey me Masterlist

Series

Cutting you off

• Lucifer

• Mammon

• Leviathan

• Satan

• Asmodeus

• Beelzebub

• Belphegor

Heartache

•Lucifer

Individuals

Coming soon…

Head-canons

Coming soon…

[lbulldesigns]

BREAKING NEWS: LUXANNA CROWNSGUARD MISSING!

22-year-old Luxanna Crownsguard, sister of Garen Crownsguard of Demecias Vanguard, and niece of High Marshal Tianna Crownsguard, the hand of the king, and fiancé to King Jarvan IV, has been reported missing as of the 10th of February.

She was last seen by her family, leaving her family home at 17:30 PM Valoran Time.

It is believed that she was abducted whilst on her way to a lecture. She was last seen wearing a white turtleneck sweater, knee-high navy blue skirt, black boots, and a black headband.

Authorities are seeking to question two individuals who may be able to shine light on Miss Crownsguard's whereabouts.

Jarro Lightfeather (left photograph) and Jinx Lightfeather (right photograph) are said to be associates of Luxanna Crownsguard.

However, it has recently come to light that Jarro Lightfeather is an unregistered mage whose full magical extent is unknown. Jinx Lightfeather is also believed to be mentally unstable.

If anyone has any information on any of the I dividuals mentioned in this article.

Then please call or inform your local guard of everything you may know.

False or misleading reports will be met with severe charges.

The Broadsword asks for readers to keep the Crownsguard family in their prayers during these trying times.

And pray for the safe return of our future queen.

I sourced the images from Google Images. The Lux picture is AI generated.

I couldn't find who made the Ezreal picture (I don't know if it's fan made or an official Riot art) if anyone knows can you please leave a comment in the notes so that I can properly credit the artist.

And the Jinx picture is from the artist Nixeu on art station.

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Club 40

20.11.2024

Andrea Castiglioni–Somewhere on Earth Stories from Far Away Places 00:00 4T Thieves–The Long Shadow 03:52 Lo Five–Cosmic Joke 06:40 (exclusive, release date 29 November) Carlisle City Council–The New Library 10:23 (exclusive, release date 13 December) Hanut Munson–Side A – Shape of Story 12:57 ARC–Departed 17:20 uh–attention 25:39 SONICrider–The Reset 32:37 Whatitdo Archive Group–Italian Love Triangle 36:36 The Gaye Device–Dishwasher Disco 38:42 Kutiman–Line 4 43:29 Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek–The Trip 46:15 Goat–Under No Nation – Radio Edit 50:31 Greg Foat–The Rituals of Infinity 53:30 Moon Duo–Planet Caravan 58:26 Yama Warashi–Dividual Individual 1:07:03

[rawwie]

"I like you a lot, as much as I enjoy our time together. In a way, you've made me a better man, but you are surrounded by the ghosts of your past, one in particular, to which you seem attached as if your life depended on it. I can see the pain and anger in your eyes, betraying your poise when you believe no one is watching. I feel your loss as if it were my own, and I wish for your heart to find peace as mine has. I won't push you to tell your story; I just want to let you know I'll be here for you when you are ready, whether as a friend or a lover."

A Small house i did for a dear friend of mine in 2022 He wanted an aesthetic house more than a practical one, in which he could make screenshots with some romantic vibes and a bath You can /doze in front of the sunset and /sit all around the bath

Heavily inspired by • Ashen B. (for the bath) • Bright D. & Noroi (for the marbles aesthetic) • FaeriePeach (for the view) • Dividus (for the roof)

NB: Posting my housing design in a non chronogical order is my mojo and also my curse