#Lucid Memories

[coastxlwaters]

Ayeeee! It’s ReyRey, or Reyn if ur BORING, I mean-

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A mostly sfw blog

Minor (I am not comfortable sharing age), Audhd, severe anxiety, Low empathy, OCD, Agender (They/them), bisexual, aroace (aromantic, partially repulsed asexual)

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-Follower count: 212

-Triggers: Sexual Harassment, sexual things in general

-Phobias: (irl) vengeful spirits, thunderstorms, the unknown, that I am always watched, lullabies, uncanny valley stuff, skinwalkers, abandoned places of worship (unless its ancient), distorted faces or images, being abandoned

-Requests: Open <3

-Art trades: Why not? I would love to!

-Commissions: Not open

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-art tag = Coastal’s art

-reblog tag = Lucid memories

-Ref sheet tag = Coastal’s random shit

-Ask Tag = Lucid does shit

-Just random posts = Coastal’s mumbles

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Main Fandom(s): TSAMS (the sun and moon show), The DCA (The Daycare Attendants)

Others:

Percy Jackson, WoF, Warrior Cats, HermitCraft, Empires smp, Life Series, HTTYD, SCP

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Other blogs:

@luciddoesshit (oc rp blog)

@reynadesilly (oc/sona ask/rp blog)

@coastxl-reblogs (the name explains)

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My AUS:

Cafe and Motorcycles AU (a dca au with fanon eclipse, annular (canon eclipse), moon, and sun! Tag = Cafe and Motorcycle au)

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Random Shit I’m interested in:

Any and all known sea life (mainly whales, orcas, and sharks!), Psychology, Horse riding, animal training, herping (snake hunting), and astronomy and astrology!

DNI:

Pedophiles, aphobes, queerphobes, racists, just dont bitch on my blog or be jackasses pls ty <3

[bodyhate]

Folding laundry

Learning my lines for an audition that I just realized I'm up against (or paired with, not sure) another actor I met at a Buffalo wild wings commercial. A really nice guy.

I'm auditioning for this one because of a project I filmed in Athens a few months back, actually, during Halloween.

I also got another part from the camera guy that filmed that project. The networking and the referrals are starting to work, finally.

[bogpetri]

A Memory

[hiemaldesirae]

you knwo what. you know what. i can never fucking escape the game system trope no matter what fandom it is im just gonna play into it now

so actually the original concept for this was isekai where vox ends up getting booted into hell via a universal mishap but i think its funnier like this: where vox dies and since he did technically die for his friends, he ends up ascending to heaven but is greeted by a different angel instead of the seraphims who asks if he'd like a second chance instead

vox says yes thinking he'll just get sent down again and be back w the vees- this does not happen. instead he ends up back at the very first day he fell into hell with a "system" - one that tells him its a "gift" from heaven, no less, thats supposed to guide him through his time in hell to like . minmax his gains + his losses (emotional and material) if that makes sense . so the system walks him through his time in hell but suddenly there seems to be a problem . turns out an unanticipated side effect of the system is that vox has a similar presence to an archangel (the one who Gave him the damn thing) so a lot of people end up assuming hes some kinda fallen angel which makes it like 100% harder for him to go thru life^3

alastor in PARCTICULAR takes a very odd interest in him, wondering and asking if he has wings or if they were "burnt in your fall" meanwhile vox isnt quite sure whether he wants to take the chance to get close to al this time or just leave since deep down he knows itll end badly for him either way. the system makes the choice for him and starts to steer him away from al who in turn becomes even more intrigued by the fallen angel, who for whatever reason he swears feels familiar

[coastxlwaters]

Would @ Sunny but I think they are sick of me @ing them lol

In the event that you need an emergency moth to improve your week and see you into the weekend... Please enjoy this incredibly fluffy and delightful beast, captured by the late great Andreas Kay in Ecuador

[the-goose-caboose]

Ahaha! I didn’t keep up with TADC since the pilot didn’t really grab me but it looks like they’re doing a more horror focused episode so I might as well check it out!

Me 30 minutes later

[camellcat]

just finished crush on my s5 rewatch and oh my god I NEED to know what the general opinion was when that episode first came out. how did y'all og buffy fans react to that??

[intertexts]

oh you wanna think about muse and trickster? yeah? it's been a while since I put a heartbreaking nhw post in your inbox <3 I know u love the prime dehumanization loss of bodily autonomy defenders. << im not even remotely trying to keep the acronym the same anymore. I've lost the plot. ANYWAY

briefly mentioned this before but because I loooove the aesthetic so much I think at least one important muse confrontation should happen in the tricksters city, specifically in the amusement park. make it like a fuckign scooby door episode everything is all abandoned and run down but as the wards are walking down a boardwalk or something all the lights flicker on and some distorted fuckign. carnival music starts playing and they find muse sitting in like. the rebar scaffolding or whatever in the ferris wheel. just like grinning chin in hands kicking his feet watching them. this image is so clear in my mind. some creep shit !!!! also its like when they first go to the spirit world to get tide back from.mal and end up in the amusement park. except ashe isn't with them this time

uhhhhhh also thinking about. downtime. when muse isn't out being destructive and causing chaos for funsies. like... does he have a bedroom????? does he eat does he sleep??? idfk !!!! I would assume he has to or else he'd fucking die but !!!! man the trickster is so far gone I don't think he even realizes his puppets are real people anymore. that's a fun little doll for him to play dressup with. literally never going 2 get the image of him braiding muses hair and like. putting makeup on him and dressing him in fancy little outfits out of my mind. making myself ILL. smile! good evening I'm gently placing the knife box in your in. << as I was going to type inbox I accidentally typed out inventory. yknow what I'm keeping it. knife box directly into your inventory. watch out they're RUSTY

GOD. THANKS FOR THE KNIFE BOX MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! knife box directly in my inventory!!! u know what this means is that now i can use them :3 <- has been drawing wards stuff abt this for the past two hours ^_^

this is so fucking good though yeahhh.... i love creepy carnival shit so much. he trickster probably Knows it's very over the top and horror movie creepy and just a little absurd. he's so fucking fun 2 think abt since he's literally always doing shit simply because it is funny to him. we can swing a trickster justification for anything probably. i bet he fucking saw traps people!! anyway. ashe isn't with them this time. except..... well. he kind of is. :(

I HAVE ALSO BEEN THINKING ABT DOWNTIME. FREQUENTLY. i guess. the answer to this is he lives however the trickster&co does. the image of him coming back in his fancy intricate little outfits to some disgusting nasty bloody industrial warehouse where they're posted up & always being this very jarring contrast to the gore and violence is really good. the image of him having a perfect doll bedroom and going through a fancy little routine half the nights when the trickster is in a good mood or feeling it & just. getting thrown on the bed & the door locked to pass out for a couple hours whenever he forgets or is busy is also really good. literally anything we do to muse makes me feel some kind of way man. i also have had the extremely vivid image of the trickster braiding his hair & chatting about all kinds of horrific things excited sleepover style to muse who is just. Visibly Not There in my head for so long. not even like he has to touch him, he could be making him do all these things for himself! he's literally controlling him! he just does it for fun!!!

anyway i think post-muse ashe should get to freak out very badly in a multitude of ways whenever anybody touches his hair. like i think he's touch-adverse in general (& miserable about it because he's also so touchstarved & his brain simply whites out in distress anytime anyone touches him because. literally the only person doing that was the trickster!!!!) but i think specifically his hair being messed with is a bad trigger for him. makes him freeze up n go nonverbal for hours. dakota knows that he's jumpy about touch but he still wants to do something for him & before the everything he loved them playing with his hair (its so long!! wibby & dakota think its so pretty!! virion's the only one who knows how to braid it because of his mom!! ashe melts into a puddle over it every time because nobody's ever done that for him before!) so he goes to just run fingers through it & ashe just. fullbody locks up and goes weird and still and silent & doesn't protest or fight back when dakota shakes his shoulder or smth and his eyes are distant and sort of dark and empty like virion's were most of the time when they first met him... maybe he wants to cut it a little bit just because he hates that it's been covered in The Ooze and he can't do anything with it without thinking about how the trickster would do the same thing but also he hates the idea of getting rid of the one thing abt himself that he really likes & is a little connection with both of his parents because of the trickster also, when he's already taken so much from him. (it does have to get gross and tangled and matted because he refuses to put it back or do anything to it for a while though. maybe virion helps him sort it out & it's slow and painstaking and miserable for both of them and they both feel better at the end of it.)

[coastxlwaters]

I ACCIDENTALLY LIKED-

Trying to prove a point

REBLOG IS YOU THINK AROACE / aro/ ace PEOPLE ARE A VALID PART OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY , LIKE IF YOU DON’T

[circusroyal]

 ❝   I  KNOW  what  the  others  say  about  me  &  𝐈  𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓  𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃  𝐈𝐓  .  If  it  𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃  me  I  would  say  so  …  they  can  think  what  they  like  .❞   Was  it  hurtful  sometimes  ?  YES  .  Since  ‘  CRAZY  ’  &  ‘  𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐄  ’  were  words  spoken  often  to  antagonize  or  often  associated  with  more  𝐍𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐘  than  POSITIVITY  .  He  knows  he  forgets  things  .  He's  more  than  come  to  accept  it  &  it's  out  of  his  control  so  there  was  no  use  worrying  about  it  .

 ❝   Anyway  I  think  I'm  a  little  too  old  to  be  concerned  with  that  sort  of  thing  ----  aren't  I  ?  ❞ 

[thebardostate]

Is Your Mind Real?

Is your mind "real" in the same sense as a table is "real"?

In the philosophy of mind, materialism is the belief that reality consists of nothing more than interactions between material things like atoms. Physical reality is all there is. That goes for the mind as well, which (if it exists at all) is believed to be generated by the brain. (Materialism's main rival, dualism, is the belief that the mind and brain have independent existence. )

Materialism has been around since the scientific revolution began in the 1600s. Classical materialism was based on the ideas of Newtonian physics and envisioned a clockwork "billiard ball" universe in which:

The same physical laws apply at all measurement scales (micro to macro);

Reality is deterministic and predictable;

Reality is objective, in the sense that it exists independently of any observer;

Everything in existence can be reduced to the interactions between atoms; and

Space and time are absolute, linear, and distinctly separate dimensions.

All of these classical premises have been undermined by modern physics, but materialism has been updated to get around these difficulties, as we shall see.

Physicalism

Physicalism is the view that the world consists of the things that physics says it contains (Ney 2008). But which physics are we talking about? If it's our current understanding of physics, then physicalism is plainly wrong since our current physical understanding is likely to be deprecated by new physical theories just as classical materialism was deprecated by relativity and quantum physics.

Maybe we can couple physicalism to some future, final, and completely accurate version of physics. You've probably heard this claim before: We may not know all of the answers yet, but we'll eventually figure them out. (Karl Popper derisively termed this approach "promissory materialism".) The problem here is that we have no idea what a future physics might entail. Maybe physics will discover that the mind isn't generated by the brain, but is instead a nonlocal phenomenon. In that case, it will be dualism rather than materialism that can claim the imprimatur of a future physics.

But setting that objection aside, who gets to decide "what physics says"? Physics is not monolithic and there are many areas where agreement is by no means universal. For example, relativity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a century of efforts to unify them. They each make correct predictions in their own domain, but they don't mesh with each other.

Finally, value-laden concepts like aesthetics and ethics are quite difficult to reduce to the interactions of atoms. That kind of transformation is one-to-many (homomorphic) rather than one-to-one (isomorphic) with important implications:

Under a homomorphism we lose information and cannot preserve the property of whether an underlying system is deterministic or stochastic. This is a major blow to physicalism from the perspective of free will and the philosophy of mind.

Under a homomorphism we cannot conclude anything about what another observer would see when they view "the same" system. In other words, the sort of reductionism that physicalism demands makes objective reality impossible even in principle.

So physicalism is a slippery and difficult form of materialism to defend. It doesn't explain the mind, it simply explains it away.

Scientific Naturalism

Well, if tight coupling to physics didn't work, maybe we should loosen that coupling and try it again. Perhaps reality arises from natural material phenomena in a holistic way, with physics lurking around somewhere at the bottom of it. This scientific naturalism: nothing mental can happen without a corresponding change in a physical object. The philosophical term for this is supervenience, as in "all mental processes supervene on purely physical processes in the brain."

Of course, 'natural' is the biggest weasel word in philosophy, and has been ever since Rousseau. Here it is used to gatekeep the supernatural, which is the entire point of materialism anyway. But how do we know that the phenomena currently termed as supernatural (e.g., near-death experiences, terminal lucidity, children's memories of past lives) aren't precisely the kinds of discrepant edge cases that lead to new theories and scientific revolutions? This is the "future physics" problem all over again. Indeed, one prominent philosopher of mind, David Chalmers, is confident enough in such a possibility that he describes himself as both a naturalist and a dualist - thereby severing the link between scientific naturalism and materialism.

So once again, materialism fails.

Plato's Cave

From a systems philosophy perspective, let us postulate that the physical universe is an operationally closed system, by which I mean all of its causal processes are endogenous to that system (they are self-contained within the physical universe) and it contains no exogenous variables (i.e., no Platonic 'givens' that originate from outside the physical universe.) This is materialism at its most abstract, the metaphysical equivalent to 'what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.'

The biological sciences are closed because they depend on the physical sciences. The physical sciences are closed because they depend on mathematics.

But mathematics is not operationally closed.

As Tarski's Undefinability Theorem has shown, arithmetical truth cannot be defined in arithmetic; and (more generally) for any sufficiently strong formal system, truth cannot be defined within that system.

Therefore, truth is an exogenous variable.

Therefore, the physical universe cannot be operationally closed.

Therefore, materialism fails.

Materialism fails because truth cannot be reduced to interactions between atoms. Since truth is a value, it also follows that at least some values are exogenous to the physical universe.

This difficulty cannot be removed by appealing to a multiverse like the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics, since the system boundary can be drawn arbitrarily large without invalidating the syllogism.

So Plato has the last laugh.

In Conclusion

"The intuitive and common-sense feel of materialism seems to last only as long as as one keeps one's statement of it vague."

Edward Feser, Philosophy of Mind: A Short Introduction, pg. 45

Materialism needs science. Science does not need materialism. In fact, to the extent that materialists remain temperamentally opposed to accepting the validity of so-called "supernatural" phenomena like near-death experiences, terminal lucidity, and children's memories of past lives they are actively blocking scientific progress.

Materialism is a "theory of everything" and as such it is brittle to any evidence that the mind is nonlocal to the brain. But there is empirical evidence that the mind can exist independent of the brain, and even survive the death of its host before being reborn in a new host. Over the next few days I will be posting empirical evidence in support of that hypothesis before concluding this series with a grounded dualist theory of the mind.

[coastxlwaters]

Was writing stuff abt my pirate au-

Oh god.

You get isekai'ed into the last fanfiction you WROTE

Reblog for sample size or perish

[yunoftheclouds]

Y2K inspired thingy

[lesbiangiratina]

Thinking abt testament being such a special little gear able to retain their memories. But they didnt like it. I think its important to keep in mind that they did not like it. So fun

[starlightseraph]

i just woke up with an overwhelming, all-consuming need to get the answer to this question.

idk what i dreamt about to prompt this, but into the rabbit hole i go, i guess.

[coastxlwaters]

ME ^^^

As an Aromantic, Asexual and Agender person i have made only one decision in my entire life and that decision was

✨ NO ✨