#IN THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT

[wendysbooknook]

Quote:

“The light is a funny thing, Grant. We think it shows us what we need to see, but in reality, it blinds us. That’s why I brought you here. I wanted you to see me.” [...] In Morgan’s case, the light had let me see the tics, the muscle spasms, and his strange movements, and I’d been distracted by them. The dark took it all away and left me sitting next to a person, not a behavior, a human being, not perceived defects. Someone insightful, quick- witted, determined, generous, kind, and armed with a wicked sense of humor. [...] ... instead of leaving me to the mercy of the light, Morgan had led me into the darkness, where it had no more power over me. [...] Pale pink and yellow bled into the night from the east. As light returned to the world, so did the trees, the grass, the roads. So did I. And so did Morgan. But I’d been changed by the dark. I promised myself I’d never forget there were things beyond the light, and if I wasn’t careful, they’d be lost. Forever.

Adrienne Wilder, "In the absence of light"

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

picture: Facebook: Fang-tastic Books, 16.12.2020

[rastronomicals]

8:33 AM EDT September 21, 2023:

Behemoth - "In The Absence Of Light" From the album The Satanist (February 3, 2014)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Polish Death Metal

[gbhbl]

Album Review: Grief Symposium - ...In The Absence of Light (Church Road Records)

Grief Symposium deal in darkness and genre-bend heavily, dealing in esoteric soundscapes that blend doom, death, and black metal. Then, cover it with a mind-melting level of gloomy atmosphere.

…In the Absence of Light is the debut album from monolithic dark metal titans, Grief Symposium. Out on the 27th of January 2023 via Church Road Records. A much-anticipated record, thanks to the high-quality singles that have been released so far. Grief Symposium deal in darkness and genre-bend heavily, dealing in esoteric soundscapes that blend doom, death, and black metal. Then, cover it with a…

[izzystizzys]

TW: discussion of something approximating suicidal tendencies but with the usual crack programming of this blog

“Ah, High General Windu”, says Fox, pleasantly. “So we meet again.”

High General Windu raises an unimpressed eyebrow at him, Fox thinks, though it’s getting hard to tell with all the blood rushing to his head. “If I let you go, will you try to throw yourself out of another window?”

Fox makes a vague shrugging motion - or tries to, anyways. It’s hard to tell where any of his limbs are going, hanging upside down in the air as he is. “I am willing to discuss terms.” A bridge will do just fine.

Impossibly, the High General’s eyebrows climb even further up his forehead. “A compromise, then, esteemed Commander.” And so, he righths Fox the head way up in the air, but leaves him floating just above the ground, at which point several painted shells come skidding around the corner followed by billowing robes and screeches.

“WHAT”, says Kote, calmly, “THE BANTHA-KARKED, FORCE-LOVING KRIFF, FOX.”

“You’ll short out your helmet mic”, Fox advises him, sagely. Fondly, he thinks back to decimating his own on only his second time in the newly-christened official Coruscant Guard Scream Closet. He’d just received the comm about the Zillo Beast being transported to 000, and made sure to take his bucket off thereafter to improve the quality of his closet time.

High General Windu’s face does something complicated between sympathy and constipation.

Because the Galaxy doesn’t hate Fox enough already and Cody wasn’t enough on his own, Wolffe elbows his way through their batch to plant himself in front of him, shoulders squared and shaking with repressed rage. “If you try that again, dickhead”, he begins, in a low growl that quite frankly sounds more cringe that intimidating, “I’m going to resurrect you and then kill you again.”

“Ah, Wolffe”, Plo Koon says, in his deep, shivery timbre, “Remember our conversations about effective conflict resolution and communication of needs?”

Wolffe’s eyes narrow at Fox, because all non-Guard are sweet summer children who walk around buckets off on 000 like absolute lunatics. Fox prays they never have to find out why that’s a bad idea. “I feel”, his ori’vod presses out between clenched teeth, “that if you make me watch you throw yourself out of another window, I’m going to jump after you and strangle you on the way down, you little bitch.”

“That’s fair”, says Fox, and watches High General Kenobi bury his face in his hands. Wolffe twitches in place and makes an aborted groaning noise, the hypocrite.

“Excuse me, High Marshall Commander Fox, but I fail to see what’s so dire about this situation that the Jedi High Council and your brothers cannot help you solve”, says Windu, the only sane one left on this Force-forsaken bloated corpse of a planet. Behind the gaggle of Jedi and ori’vode already gathered in front of Fox, the rest of them come veering around the corner in a commotion that’s quite frankly embarrassing. High General Yoda is mounted on Skywalker’s back like he’s a race-Eopie, which is Fox’ only consolation.

He got up this morning at 0300, bleary-eyed and with a pounding headache as always, and all was right in the world. And then Fox got called into the Jedi High Council’s chambers and was ceremoniously informed that in the wake of Chancellor Palpatine’s unfortunate demise (hah), and through the emergency state of the Senate, as well as several invented promotions foisted on Fox to make the delegation of any and all paperwork less shady, he was now next in the chain of command and-

Well, Fox is the acting Chancellor, in short.

Haha, he had said, and been meet with several seconds of silence, until it got both awkward and exceedingly painful. Wait, he’d said. You’re kriffing serious.

Kriffing serious, we are, had said High General Yoda, and thus Fox launched himself out the first best window with a maniacal cackle of, you’ll have to catch me first!

And catch him, High General Windu sure did.

“The will of the Force this is”, Yoda interrupts Fox’ train of thought. He scans him thoughtfully from beneath his wizened brow, and hems to himself. “Shake things up, this will. Determine the fate of the Galaxy, this shall. A feeling, I have, that a good Chancellor you will make. A better one, hmmm.”

“That’d be high praise, if not for the fact that a dead lemming would make for a better Chancellor than the last one”, says Fox, drawing and indignant gasp from Skywalker. He doesn’t bother with either that or the green goblin’s cackle, lost in the deep sense of resignation that settles over his shoulders like a suffocating blanket.

“Alright, then, get me Thorn on the comm. As my first act in office, I’m firing all the Jedi. No offense, but you’re kind of a disaster. Then, someone get me to the Chancellor’s office, I’m calling Dooku to let him know the war’s off. And please get me Judicial, they’ll be up all night working on my datafolders - I’m having the Senate arrested.”

“Who - is - arresting - “, Bly pants, hands on his knees from where he’s just come sprinting around the corner with his Jedi.

Underneath his bucket, Fox smiles a smile that’s all teeth. “The Senate”, he says, sweetly, wondering if he’s just imagined the shiver that’s gone through the room. “I’m suing the Senate, and taking them all into temporary custody for abuse of sentient rights.”

[t0rschlusspan1k]

Obsequiae | Aria of Vernal Tombs (2015) | In the Absence of Light

[wedarkacademia]

“I used to invent love when necessary. When I walked alone on the riverbank. Or whenever the level of salt would rise in my body, I would invent the river.”

― Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

[kattliet]

whimsical lawlight wedding save me....

[arylleth]

julieta / 2016

[p4nishers]

no because loki LOVED to talk and now their silence is fucking deafening. we’re left with mobius and silence and a tangible absence that could almost be someone’s presence if you miss them hard enough, and mobius misses loki like a vital organ. eating the drywall.

oh you wanna get fucked up YOU WANNA GET FUCKED UP

[reality-detective]

This 👇 is probably the best answer I've ever heard to the question, "Why did God create evil?"

A professor at the university asked his students the following question:

“Everything that exists was created by God?”

One student bravely answered:

“Yes, it was created by God.”

The professor asked :

“If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.”

The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said:

“Can I ask you a question, professor?”

"Of course," replied the professor.

“Professor, is cold a thing?”

“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?”

Students laughed at the young man's question.

The young man answered:

“Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.

Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.”

The student continued:

“Professor, does darkness exist?”

“Of course it exists.” said the professor.

“You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.”

In the end, the young man asked the professor:

“Sir, does evil exist?”

This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:

“Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.”

To this, the student answered:

“Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It’s the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there’s no light.” 🤔

[wendysbooknook]

Quote:

“I let him go and stood there with no answer. No way to put into words how he made me feel. How touching him connected me to the world. How tasting him breathed life into my lungs. How I hadn’t been alive until the moment I saw him and even then I’d resisted, afraid of what I’d felt, fighting what I feared. How I thought I knew what love was only to realize, standing in front of him, I knew nothing.” - Adrienne Wilder, "In the abscence of light"

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[ne0nthc]

[kadextra]

Idc who you main the POV of, I’m so serious that anybody who likes watching qsmp, likes the eggs, needs to watch the Funeral Preparations Badboyhalo stream. see all of the recent ones starting with Sweet Despair too if you can!!! and catch the next one live!!

These are never-before-seen amazing QSMP lore experiences. with beautiful heartbreaking acting and EGG POVS, where the eggs are the sole protagonists of a whole stream outside of their parents- it’s an idea that used to only exist in our distant wishes before. He is literally doing it right now while his character is gone, doing rp as his own ghostly canonical chat. Funeral Preparations spotlighted 9 eggs for a whole day :D

Idk if I can put into words how much I adore these past few streams omg, so if you haven’t yet please watch. You really don’t want to miss out on this, it’s something incredible here

To those of you who are watching! Be sure to share them! Talk about them as much as possible. We need to praise the acting, camerawork, creativity of bbh, and of course cheer the egg admins for their amazing performances <3

[breadandblankets]

something I think u have to do if you make everyone else in the batfam a meta/magic user/bender/special abilities haver of some variation is make Duke the inverse

listen he's the only meta right? the only one with powers? if you make everyone Else have powers than what's his schtick??

(I mean other than being a genius teen activist and hero well in his own rights before Batman even sneezed in his direction but you and I both know no one cares about that -_-)

its about the Contrast okay

[lechiien]

Ocs art Yippeee I miss drawing them so much

[bones-ivy-breath]

In Her Absence I Created Her Image by Mahmoud Darwish (tr. Fady Joudah), from The Butterfly’s Burden