#Preternatural

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Preternatural

adjective pray-ter-nat-chur-uhl

exceeding, outside of, or beyond what is natural or ordinary

Merriam-WebsterDictionary.com Latdict (praeter) Latdict (natura)

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i hear u saying my name but ur not here.

[trinityvuissent]

Chapter 2 - The Homeland, Part 6

This gave them a chance to break free of it all and to create a world that they wanted to live in, fresh, new growth from the old. A new chapter and a new future for them all. To become the writers of their own life stories instead of a byline of those that came before. Drawn together because they lived in a world that didn't understand as they seemed so different from the well known archetypes written about the races and didn’t know how to accept them. So they found that understanding within the community they were growing together as a family they never knew they needed.  Eventually the Core pulled siblings and good friends into the group, and little by little the Core became the Crew, who morphed into the Group and now has emerged as The Dynasty. 

The Dynasty of The Immortal Initiative.

At times it was a little touch and go as Trinity, and Vanity did everything they could to keep things running smoothly possible, but for the most part each group within the Dynasty… just.. Fit.  They expanded from the founding house, to four houses in total: The Immortal Initiative - House leader Trinity, Tenebris Stupri - House leader: Trouble, Dark Immortals - House leader Suraya and Deorum Umbrae - House leader Orion.  They stayed in touch and came together for important meetings, the rest were all done online, but for the most part each house was highly independent, one of the things that Trin loved about them. 

It was magic, seeing the land and the surrounding town build and grow.  They kept most of it as it came, overgrown and perfect in its wild abandon of being, and created a compound for the bulk of those within the founding House.   

[critter-eater]

preternatural - beyond nature (and beyond fate)

[karmagicians]

pg 10

establishing shots

[snappingthewalls]

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We already introduced the main villains of the AU. Now allows me to introduce the secondary villain. (No, it’s not our typical antagonists in MLB.)

This is Lee Jones. Our 64 years old elementary teacher that hailed from New Jersey, USA! He worked at the elementary school in New Jersey for few years before he moved to Paris for educational purposes. …or so that’s what Lee claimed.

He is a perfectly normal man that loves to teach children.

But… there’s something unsettling about this man. Like… he is not what he claimed to be.

In fact… Lot of parents back in New Jersey did complain that their children have lot of nightmares about Lee Jones. But he often have bat wings and a long devil-like tail in their nightmares.

Plus there’s couple of reports about missing children. He was one of the suspects. Lot of parents have a feeling that he is the responsible for the missing children but no one can prove that.

Strange…

[apenitentialprayer]

Does Macbeth Suffer from Psychosis?

In Act III, Scene IV, Macbeth is hosting a feast when he has a vision of the ghost of Banquo, whom he had hired people to murder. Seeing the ghost, Macbeth begins to have a mental breakdown - as might be expected of one who sees a ghost. But Macbeth, shouting at the ghost, an empty seat, starts talking about how it cannot prove that he did anything, and that it should stop shaking “gory locks” at him. His guests are understandably confused and are worried that he is not well, at which point Lady Macbeth says something interesting: “My lord is often thus / And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat; / The fit is momentary; upon a thought / he will be well again” (57-60a). She claims that he’s had a condition since he was a child, and that when he slips into these kinds of fits it is best to “regard him not.” And when I read it, I thought that was a clever lie. But then Lady Macbeth says something more interesting in private with her husband: “This [fit] is the very painting of your fear: / This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, / Led you to Duncan. O these flaws and starts [Dover Thrift Gloss: storms of passion]” (64-66). Here she is referencing another vision Macbeth had of a dagger floating in mid-air and dripping with blood, a vision from Act II Scene I. Are these “flaws and starts,” these “storms of passion,” actually something that have been going on since his childhood? Is it possible that the vision of the dagger, that “dagger of the mind” is, in fact, “proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain” (II.I.38-39)? This whole time I had assumed that those lines were an attempt to rationalize what was a real preternatural phenomenon; but what if Shakespeare, living in a time where the Four Humors theory was still prevalent, a theory which posited an excessively “hot” temperament could cause delirium (Holly Kelsey, 2016), really did mean that line to imply that Macbeth has a history of hallucinatory mental illness? I had to look back at the ghost situation after that; Macbeth finds out that Banquo is dead (III.IV.16) more than thirty lines before he sees the ghost (49). Is the ghost real, then? A stronger (but not invincible) argument could have been made that, yes, the ghost was real if Macbeth had seen it before confirmation of Banquo’s death was made. But since Macbeth knows Banquo is dead, it may possibly just be Macbeth’s own mind projecting? I don’t think the reader can doubt that there is a preternatural element going on in the story; the witches have at least one scene in which they don’t interact with any other characters, after all (III.V). But how much of what is going on actually preternatural, and how much of it is the result of an unreliable mind? And is this a question Shakespeare was intending the audience to ask themselves when he wrote it?

[howifeltabouthim]

Surely, he was not quite human.

Tanith Lee, from Red as Blood: Tales of the Sisters Grimmer

[trinityvuissent]

Chapter 2 - The Homeland, Part 5

As she began to read the report her interest was caught and she stood up, the paused excitement getting the better of her. She adjusted the reading glasses perched on the end of her nose, and began to pace, whisper reading as she continued.  “Highly overgrown, nature had repossessed the area decades ago. Should anyone choose this location for residence, they would need to begin anew, as if it had never met the toes of a human upon it’s soil before. There is no plumbing, no electricity, and no internet, therefore the neighboring towns would also need to be run with the lines of modernization.  When I say this property is a long lost land somehow untouched by civilization, I cannot be more pure with the intent of my words. And it is vast, m’Lady.  343 acres that most believe are part of the National Forest Reserve that is back there. We know very little of what you will find if you choose to explore the location. You might find a nuclear fallout range, a rip through realities to other dimensions, or simply tree after tree surrounded by a lively ecosystem.I have included aerial photos, though you cannot see much through the sea of leaves.”  With a rustle of papers she cast the letter, the report, and the photo’s provided onto the coffee table close by and ran to the archives in the basement.  

Hours passed, Trinity ran up the stairs from the basement and burst into the kitchen,  “GUYS!! Randolph found something.” she was literally vibrating with the thrill of possibilities. For the next several hours she rambled like a mad woman showing them everything she had read from the lawyer and discovered from a little bit of her own digging.

That was 5 years ago.  

She began her own research and presented it to Vanity, who called Pita in, who called the others, showing off pictures she had gotten back from investigators. The records of this property was definitely deep down in the family histories, how the lawyer found it was baffling to Trin but she was stoked!  It had everything; fertile land, a huge waterfall, lagoon, hot springs, mountains, forestry, wild animals, a cave system, it was breathtaking.  Once they had gone hiking to explore the land themselves, everyone began to come alive with ideas.  “This over here, that over there”.  “I can have that garden…”  “I can create a system that…” Everyone, they were all a-buzz and it was nice to see that from a few of those faces.  They all needed this blank slate, this promise for a tomorrow that they had a direct hand on creating.  This was where it would truly begin for them. Before this moment each of them had been living in a world that those before had crafted, thick in tradition and expectations, thick with the smell of moldy attics and rules that no longer translated between the generations that passed. Each trying to find a way to carve a life that made sense to THEM.  And though they had been doing their best, if you look back and really look, they were each trying to move forward as the tide kept rising. They were stuck dragging feet that were encased in concrete and chains that layered back through time, bringing with them the weight of generations. 

[captain-bradman1965]

preternaturally turned out

[karmagicians]

pt 9

moment passed

[lelioguigou]

Preternatural.

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[nataliebauthor]

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