#Quin's Journal

[shining-vulpine]

Hi everyone! I'm looking for some inspiration help in my journal/planner!

I've been using this spread for every week this year and want to try out some new ones before the new year starts. While I don't mind the spacing etc I feel the aesthetic is not great does anyone have an inspiration pictures or advice to make it look better?

[tar-quin]

dreams are weird, fascinating, scary stuff and i'd say it's no wonder why people thought they recieved messages from higher powers through them because how do you explain that you dreamed of seeing a bus flipping over on the highway, sliding towards you and giving you an intense near death experience and later you see people scattered on the side of the road with, alive but gravely injured. the news tell you no one died but you can't shake the haunting image of a man grabbing his severed leg. not in the dream and not after you've woken up either, and the next day in real life you get stuck in a massive traffic jam due to a serious car accident

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved in our archive

By Kevin Kavanagh, MD

(Follow the link to get all the links!)

Over the last month, volumes of impactful scientific research have been published regarding long-term COVID-19. These findings clearly describe our society's precarious state and the desperate need to change course. We must start controlling our impulses to partake in desirable but risky behavior and instead prioritize controlling the spread of COVID-19.

Most concerning was a large survey by Shijie Quin and colleagues involving over 74,000 participants in China that found the incidence of long-term COVID-19 in their country to be between 10% and 30%. The researchers documented recurrent infections and found that although reinfections were associated with milder disease, they were also associated with “a higher incidence and severity of long COVID.” In addition, they reported that vaccinations reduced long-term symptoms by 30% to 70%. Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly noted that the reported symptoms in this study of brain fog and cognitive decline mirrored other studies from across the world. Long COVID is a worldwide problem that does not involve just one nation or society.

The dangers COVID-19 poses to health care workers were underscored by research from the King’s College of London that found a third of health care workers had symptoms of long COVID. And patients are also not spared. NSW Ministry of Health data reported that in Australian hospitals, thousands of patients have caught COVID-19, and hundreds have died. In the US, we are handling this situation by burying our heads in the sand. We are not counting nor reporting health care-associated COVID-19.

Many of us were hoping that children would be less affected. They would become immune early, and the disease would burn out. These hopes were dashed by a recent NIH study (RECOVER-Pediatrics cohort STUDY) covered by Medscape, which reported that “20% of kids (ages 6-11) and 14% of teens met researchers' threshold for long COVID.”

Unfortunately, there is mounting evidence regarding the role that brain injury plays in long-term COVID-19. The finding by Shijie Quin and colleagues that cognitive dysfunction is a major part of long COVID was also substantiated by Catarina Rua and colleagues in the journal Brain, who documented with imaging studies persistent damage in COVID-19 patients’ brainstems (medulla, pons, and midbrain regions) 93 to 548 days after hospital admission.

In a highly controversial challenge study performed in the United Kingdom, 18 of 34 healthy young adults (aged 18 to 30) volunteers developed COVID-19 after exposure to the virus. One had an asymptomatic infection, and the remaining (17) developed a mild one. Comparing pre-and post-test results with follow-up at 30, 90, 180, 270, and 360 days, the research documented deficiencies in memory and executive function tasks.

Executive function relates to judgment, anger control, and managing emotions and actions. There is mounting research finding that executive function is one of the primary cognitive functions degraded in long COVID. Rosalia-Dacosta-Aguayo and colleagues have reported in 53 subjects with mild to moderate long COVID, 59% had deficits in executive function. Using imaging studies, the researchers documented that the cognitive impairment was “linked” to changes in brain structure. Of the 53 participants, 43 had mild to moderate COVID-19, 9 were treated in the hospital, and none were in the ICU.

Degradation of executive function can have a plethora of societal manifestations. For example, auto insurance is the leading sector experiencing the largest inflation in the US, which rose almost 21% in the 12 months ending in February 2024. Increased claims and traffic deaths have driven this increase. I would assert that this phenomenon is a manifestation of post-COVID deficiencies in executive function, which has caused an increase in risky driving behavior. In December 2022, Infection Control Today® discussed an American Journal of Medicine article that observed a significant increase in traffic accidents in vaccine-hesitant individuals. A 2024 study by the American Automobile Association found that risk driving spiked, as did an associated increase in fatal traffic accidents. A study published this month (October 8, 2024) in Neurology reported a correlation between COVID-19 cases and traffic accidents.

It has been shown that patients who experience disturbances in smell have an increased risk of developing “behavioral, functional, and structural brain alterations.” This virus has a propensity to affect the brain, including the prefrontal cortex. One of the first researchers to describe the propensity of this virus to infect the brain was Fernanda Crunfli, PhD, and colleagues, who observed infection of astrocytes. This was a surprising finding since brain cells (astrocytes) do not have ACE2 receptors. Thus, the researchers postulated a second method of cellular entry. This postulate was confirmed by researchers from the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, who observed that while infecting the lungs, the virus can mutate, losing its furan cleavage site, which enhances its ability to infect the central nervous system.

Thus, a picture is starting to form of an insidious, dangerous pathogen that, upon infection, can change the host's behavior to manifest risky behavior, increasing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and repeating the cycle. Acquiring such an ability is an example of evolutionary pressure to enhance the virus's survival.

All the above is depressing but also largely preventable. Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu stated that if you do not change directions, you may end up where you are headed. We must prioritize vaccinations, use N95 masks, and clean indoor air to stop this virus's spread. Only then will we be headed in the correct direction.

[oldtvandcomics]

Catching up on Book Reviews #2: The Witch and the Ostrich by Jordan A. Werner

Quin is a journalist and a powerful witch, followed around by Fergus, an evil necromancer she turned into an ostrich some time ago. When she is sent to report on a gladiator match in a small town, she discovers to her shock that said matches are used to cover up a series of political assassinations. The situation slips away from her, and soon Quin finds herself in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

For such a short book, this really has got EVERYTHING. Witches. Journalism.  Political intrigue. Adult humor. Zombies. A vampire. An evil wizard tyrant turned into an ostrich. The magic in this book feels fresh and inspired. You can like it or not like it, but you must admit that this book is DIFFERENT. And given our current media landscape, we very much need fresh and different stories.

On a personal note, I always like it when a story gets a bit unhinged, and this book does. It was a VERY enjoyable read.

[custardfingers-bah]

Hiii!! We love how your packs r set up hehehe :)

may we request 1 subsystem, level 2 with faceclaims that are based off of these images? We had someone split who is from the same collection as these characters, so we wanted to help her out :)

Thank you!!!

-???

Ann, Scarlet, Cora, Lulu, Jane and Babe

[PT. Ann, Scarlet, Cora, Lulu, Jane and Babe .END PT]

Can't guarantee headmates will turn out exact! Feel free to change anything to suit system :3

Note: hehe thanks :3c (sorry this took so long (┬┬﹏┬┬) got super sick hhh)

• Name(s) - Sloane, Sloth, Hannah

• Pronouns - they/they, fye/fyre, shey/shem, 🪽/🪽s, 💛/💛s, 🤍/🤍s, ❔/❔s

• Age - 200~years

• Gender - fem enby

• Orientation - aro allo

• Terms - any

• Basic traits - aloof, dazed,

• Species/ethnicity/race - deity

• Source - figurine set (?)

• Sign off(s) - 💛🤍, 🪽💛, 🪽🤍, 🪽❔

• Typing Quirk - no caps, does this a lot → ,,,

• Nickname(s) - ann

• Likes - jewellery, relaxation, feathers

• Dislikes - fronting a lot, talking, hot days

• Personality - Ann is a calming presence, they much rather sit back and nap then work. Fyre's non-committal, though a good listener. She approaches situations logically.

• Face claim:

Xxx

• Name(s) - Scarlet

• Pronouns - she/her, they/them, rose/roses, blood/bloods, 🌹/🌹s. 🩸/🩸s, 🍒/🍒s

• Age - late 20s - early 30s

• Gender - fem nonbinary, cherrygender, redgender

• Orientation - lesbian

• Terms - fem

• Basic traits - flirty, extrovert, sassy, pessimist

• Species/ethnicity/race - White/Japanese

• Source - figurine set

• Sign off(s) - 🌹,🌹🩸, 🩸🌹, 🍒🍒, 🍒🌹

• Typing Quirk - red, uses italics a lot , no caps

• Nickname(s) - rose

• Likes - roses, red things, gems cushions, silk

• Dislikes - rough textures, rott, wilting plants

• Personality - Scarlet has an interest in gardening, she loves reading and watching stuff about it. Rose is very social and get along with others well. Bloods interests can also turn morbid, blood loves poisonous and other dangerous plants, especially if their effects are lethal.

• Face claim:

Xxx

• Name(s) - Adara, Blair, Cora, Wix

• Pronouns - it/its, xe/xir, ❔/❔s, 🖤/🖤s, 🐦‍⬛/🐦‍⬛s, 🐈‍⬛/🐈‍⬛s, ✒️/✒️s

• Age - ???

• Gender - gendervoid

• Orientation - aroace

• Terms - neu

• Basic traits - distant, not expressive,

• Species/ethnicity/race - ???

• Source -

• Sign off(s) - 👁️❔, ❔👁️, ⚫, 🖤🐦‍⬛

• Typing Quirk - none

• Nickname(s) - none

• Likes - horror, campy movies, doll makers, goth culture & music

• Dislikes - having a body, milkshakes, puzzles

• Personality - It is friendly, good company. Loves movie night and cinemas. Favorite food is popcorn. Loves classic horror movies. Always up for watching low budget horrors. Picrews, dollmakers, paper dolls etc, are favorite time spender.

• Face claim:

Xxx

•Name(s) - Lulu, Quin

• Pronouns - he/him,one/ones, 💛/💛s, 🤍/🤍s, 🪽/🪽s, ❌/❌s

• Age - ???

• Gender - mirrorgender, yellowgender

• Orientation - omnisexual(masc lean)

• Terms - any

• Basic traits - shy, awkward, creative,

• Species/ethnicity/race - deity

• Source -

• Sign off(s) - 💛🤍, 💙🤍, 🪽

• Typing Quirk - orange

• Nickname(s) - none

• Likes - lofi, bread, coquette, journaling, photography

• Dislikes - disorganisation, mess, coffe

• Personality - Chil, likes lofi. Likes making braceletes together. Falls hard. Falls fast. Believes in true love.

• Face claim:

Xxx

•Name(s) - Jane, Jackie

• Pronouns - she/her, he/him, crow/crows, 🖤/🖤s, 🐦‍⬛/🐦‍⬛s, 👁️/👁️s, 🪽/🪽s, ✒️/✒️s

• Age - 200 yrs

• Gender - blackgender, jewelgender

• Orientation - mirrorsexual

• Terms - fem, masc

• Basic traits - optimistic, kinda touchy, BIRDS, silly

• Species/ethnicity/race - deity

• Source -

• Sign off(s) - 🐦‍⬛, 🖤

• Typing Quirk - italic

• Nickname(s) - Jay/j

• Likes - ravens, crows, rooks, taxidermy, ornithology

• Dislikes - bird haters.

• Personality - loves birds. bouncy, energized. gives pep talks often. loves fanfic. bear hugger.

• Face claim:

Xxx

•Name(s) - Babe/s, Blake

• Pronouns - it/its, thing/things, boy/boys, dog/dogs, pet/pets, paw/paws, growl/growls, 💛/💛s, 🤍/🤍s, 🪽/🪽s, 🐾/🐾s, 💙/💙s

• Age - 20s

• Gender - angelcoric, boything, dogthing, thing

• Orientation - other dogs/pets(therians, transspecies etc), pansexual/romantic

• Terms - any, refer to like a dog

• Basic traits - happy, positive, attached

• Species/ethnicity/race - human

• Source -

• Sign off(s) - 🪽🐾, 💛🐾

• Typing Quirk - :3, >:3, replaces i's with 1's

• Nickname(s) - none

• Likes - chew stims, soft clothes, biscuits, therian masks, parks

• Dislikes - being alone, being ignored, strong smells, shouting

• Personality - Happy and playful. Childish though uplifting, loves to hug,, cuddle. Likes playing games. Likes drawing. Very talkative.

• Face claim:

zander + oakley

[varlaisvea]

OC posting some more

OC: Araszha-dar (ESO)

(nicknamed Ara, later Arch-Mage Araszha-ko)

Appearance: Cathay-raht, dark silver fur with pale, "roguishly unruly" silver hair. Gold eyes. One of those people who is objectively attractive and knows it; so handsome, so punchable.

(Sorry, I have no real visual references for him. All I’ve drawn is this ~spicy art, which isn’t a great reference. But, as one of my ESO characters provided the body model for that drawing, I've included a few screenshots of him in this post.)

Araszha-dar (as portrayed by my Nightblade healer, Bree'zango) in his hometown, Riverhold. His family's house is in the back center. Breezy here has the 'subtle serval' skin markings—Ara doesn't, but i forgot to turn them off for this pic. whoops. I don't really have a 'default' outfit for him, but when he’s not wearing formal mages’ robes, he typically wears utilitarian clothes that are suitable for stealth and easy to move around in. But also, obviously, anything he wears must be stylish—for him, that usually means tight/form-fitting and a lil foppy.

Personality: Ara has the sort of personality you'd expect from someone with a -dar at the end of their name: clever, charming, inscrutable, almost certainly lying to you. He’s the sort of person who is irritatingly naturally good at anything they care enough to be good at, but doesn't care about that many things. He's well-read, having spent his youth with not much to do but read, fight in the resistance, and help take care of his siblings (+ eat hot chip and lie). Since he was a toddler, his family has said about him, you cannot spell 'drama' without 'ara'. He loves Khajiiti history and knows a ton about the aqueducts of Northern Elsweyr.

He uses he/him pronouns and (usually) the masculine form of his name. (Dar'araszha, the gender-neutral form, feels sludgy in the mouth, he says.) Otherwise, he almost never refers to himself using gendered terms, eg he and his loved ones use child, sibling, and spouse rather than son, brother, and husband when speaking about him. He occasionally uses 'Araszha-daro' (she/her) to refer to aspects of his personality, and as Arch-Mage, he uses the feminine -ko for his formal title.

“You do seem like more of an Araszha-ko.”  “I thought so too,” he said. “All of this one’s best teachers of magic either go by -ko, or would if they were Khajiit. We all like to pay homage to our heroes, yes?” He gestured to me to sit on the bench next to his desk, which he had just cleared of books. “However, Araszha’s name-title of choice will always be -dar. Especially here in Winterhold.” -Prashal, Khajiit adept, College of Winterhold, from a journal entry

Ara is very proud of his heritage and proud of Khajiiti history. He's from Riverhold, so speaks a more northern dialect of Ta'agra-flavored Tamrielic, most notably meaning that he often (though not always) refers to himself as 'this one' and very occasionally uses his name + third person. (See my unnecessarily detailed post about 'this one'—tl;dr, a northern accent for Khajiit is sort of like a southern accent in the US—unfairly associated with ignorance and lack of sophistication due to racism, classism, etc.) He is typically unwilling to drop his northern dialect to speak more "proper" Tamrielic, although he's perfectly capable of doing so. He makes a point to use Ta'agra terms for proper nouns whenever applicable (ie, Ne Quin-al, Pa'alatiin, Boethra, S'rendarr, Molagh, Nirni, etc.).

He's more culturally religious than spiritually so. He references the Moons a normal amount (ie a lot) and takes the 'little bit of everything' approach to deities that most Khajiit do, sometimes referencing the post-Riddle'thar pantheon (the Khajiiti versions of the Aedra) and frequently referring to the 'good Daedra', especially Mafala. Because he's got a soft spot for Mafala, he's also a Vivec fan, but probably not in a way Vekh would appreciate... more in the way one is a fan of deliciously gay and awful villains. (He thinks Vivec is 'more catlike than many Khajiiti gods'.)

Background: Ara’s parents never married, but by all accounts were very in love, and had seven children together—Ara’s the middle child, with three older brothers and three younger sisters. His father (Dohalim), who was born Baandari, was killed when Ara was young, in the Imperial occupation of Riverhold that occurred during the Knahaten flu. A few years after Dohalim's death, Ara's mother (Zhanna) married a friend from her youth (Issi-ko), who became a second mother to Ara and his siblings.

Finally when Hali was old enough to start learning magic, I got up the nerve to ask Mother why Araszha could not. I was barely a teenager; I remember bursting into tears when I finally put it into words. I had harbored this wish for years—I felt so much shame, having gleaned that I was not supposed to know clan-magic, but never knowing why. Mother was perplexed, but she understood that something deeper than feeling left-out was happening to her Araszha. She hugged me and apologized—she said that the clan-magic is typically passed down mother-to-daughter, so she had not thought to teach me, but she also had not known I’d wanted to learn. Ask for what you want, Ara-ja, Mother said, make someone tell you no. I will never forget it—that much-needed lesson shifted something in my mind. The very next day, Halima and I had our first magic lesson along with Palya and Erisi. - Araszha-dar, memoirs about his life as a mage

Ara actually wasn't great at the clan-magic, but discovered during that study that he was a very powerful siphoning mage. His mother did not know much about siphoning, but she helped him learn to control it, and told him he'd need formal study—maybe the College of Winterhold. Ara's stepmother Issi-ko is a curator at the House of Histories in Riverhold, and after the flu (during which pre-teen Ara was hustling to help send supplies to the south), Ara took an interest in stolen Khajiiti antiquities. He began researching them at the libraries in the House of Histories and the Temple of the Purifying Moons, and then he and his brothers (oldest to youngest: Doshan, Elia, and Mika) would try to find and liberate them.

In Ara's twenties, Riverhold was once again occupied by Imperial sellswords. When that conflict began brewing, Ara began learning the claw dance Ziz Kurah in order to contribute to the 'rain of sand' defense of his hometown. He joined an elite assassins' guild, the Ziz Zhan, from which he had a lot of trouble extracting himself after the occupation ended in 2E 582. By his early 30s, he was still kind of on the run from the Zhan and had been vaguely planning to take his own life, but instead he impulsively enrolled at Winterhold College, having been convinced to do so by a couple of mer he was traveling with, including his future spouse/co-conspirator, Eymei.

They are helping him create his own course of study! Winterhold rarely rejects anyone, so long as they can demonstrate basic mystic competency, but to hear him tell the tale, Araszha-dar sleekly charmed the wizards of Winterhold into accepting such a blatantly unserious scoundrel. Of course, he glossed over the part where the faculty panel delayed their decision because they could not even find record of a siphoner as powerful as he is(!). They told him just what I told him shortly after meeting him, which is the same thing Hlanna and Vihk and Seeks and everyone else told him too: he must receive instruction for his own safety. I cannot imagine there was ever any real danger of Ara being turned away, but it sounds like a couple of the archmagi were still a bit apprehensive about admitting someone with skill they have very little experience with. “So, this one says, perhaps the school’s records would benefit from studying what Araszha can do?” He simply suggested to some of the most respected and learned mages in Tamriel that they all learn about siphoning magic along with him—and they agreed! Ah, it is nothing to one so sleek, yes? - Eymei Gwylanwe, agent of the Thalmor, journal entry during a brief visit to Winterhold College

A bunch of stuff happens that is currently up in the air, but a couple years later, Ara and Eymei sort-of-impulsively get married during a visit to the ruins of her family's home in Sunhold. This relationship, by the rules of Altmeri Praxes, is illegal, immoral, and repulsive, so they have to keep it a secret, although their families are lovingly supportive.

As he married into a psijic Elf family, he receives a varla pearl like Eymei's (see more about this on Eymei's post). The wedding coincidentally happened during a time of high mystic potency—a bloom of bioluminescent algae and plankton that happens mostly-anually around Sunhold. The Ayleids called the phenomenon Varlaisvea, and it was traditionally the time that psijic Elves would harvest their varla pearls, making Ara and Eymei's pearls even more powerful as they are bound to each other. The varla pearl becomes very important in Ara's magic, allowing him to become a highly skilled healer as a siphoning mage, when siphoning is typically primarily used as harmful magic. In the picture I drew, he wears his pearl in a necklace, but I've since changed that detail—now, he has the pearl set into a piece he found on one of the many delves he undertook in his youth: a strange intricate bracelet...

Later on, he becomes the first Khajiit Arch-Mage of Winterhold. At this time in history, Winterhold College is relatively newly-established, and has a reputation for being a place where experimentation, creativity, and independence are championed, in contrast to (for example) the Mages Guild and Shad Astula. Ara revives an old lapsed policy of teaching every student the basics of Restoration and Destruction magic regardless of their area of focus. Under his leadership, a clinic is opened up on the grounds of the College so that the people of Winterhold may have access to the College's skilled healers. Also, the College begins a program where student and faculty volunteers teach the basics of Restoration magic to anyone who wishes to learn, free of charge. These changes are popular with students, residents of Winterhold, and most of the faculty, but there is a small but vocal group of faculty who fear it will make the College less appealing to elite families (many of these same folks opposed the idea of a Khajiit Arch-Mage, too...). Still, under Ara's leadership, the College slowly begins to build the reputation it will have for well over a millennium—pride of the City of Winterhold, best place in Tamriel to learn Restoration magic, and staunchly committed to independent study of magic.

Arch-Mage Araszha-ko in his quarters at the College of Winterhold. This is the costume I used as the base for his outfit in the ~spicy art I linked to above.

During their time in Winterhold, Ara and Eymei learn about some threats to the College—to the reputation of the institution, the building itself, the city surrounding it, and to the independent study of magic in general. They soon learn that the threat goes far deeper than just Winterhold, and that they are hopelessly outgunned. They spend their tenure there gathering information, learning as much as they can, and plotting to outmaneuver an adversary with unlimited time and resources.

This part might change completely, but currently: over the course of their life together, Ara and Eymei learn ways to combine their magic. Ara becomes a legendary siphoner; the combination of their power gives him extraordinary ability to control and balance healing and withering magic. For Eymei, the combination of their power makes her an extremely powerful conduit for life-energy, and she is able to bring suffering people safely and peacefully to their rest through her connection to the Ehlnofey. Typically this is dangerous to do with mages and people otherwise imbued with mystic power, but Eymei is able to withstand the massive energy fluctuations that come with such an endeavor. At the end of Ara’s life, he asks Eymei to do him this mercy.

Uh, he's way more of a dick and a mess than this makes him seem. I guess you'll just have to read what i post about him!

I’ll probably change this post as things change? I must grudgingly admit, this was a useful exercise.

[beekindac]

I thought it would be fun to use limited color palettes based on the big Daniel Smith dot cards. These were the more pinkish quin colors and quin. gold. I can't remember where this idea came from, but it was fun to see how Daniel Smith paints turned out in my art journal.

[quinloki]

Hi Quin! How you doing? What's NaNo? Please excuse the ignorance, oh! Also will you do a vikingMarco shot? Another idea that got rent free in this brain and i blame you! hehehe (just kidding lots of hugs and good things for you)

I might have to do a Viking mini-story or something at some point. Or a re-write of 13th Warriors with a One Piece cast cause I love both so much.

Ah, NaNo is NaNoWriMo - which is National Novel Writing Month, and it's a challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I forget when it got started, but I did it last year and the year before.

The best part is that you can write 50,000 words of whatever, a single story, short stories, poetry, journaling, etc. the point is to write 50k words, nothing more, nothing less.

I want to write 100k this coming November, I tried for it last November, but work was unexpectedly busy and honestly November in to December was completely awful for me, so I needed to cut myself a break.

Still, I think I can do it.

And the idea isn't to write 50,000 perfect words, the idea is to just bang out a draft and move on. It's good to prep a bit before the month starts. =3

[pillowxtalk]

"you're the prettiest thing i've ever seen." { quin to Joshua }

Send "you're the prettiest thing i've ever seen." to see my muse's reaction.

Joshua had asked Quin to come pick him up after the filming of the newest episode of "Dream journal" a series they posted on his group's YouTube channel. They had been filming the Chuseok for this year in which they acted like a family again. It was always improvised acting and the last two times it had ended in pure chaos, which they fans came to love. For the filming of the day the idol had gotten the role of the youngest family member, the daughter of Hansol and his 'wife' Zen.

Quin arrived as they had just finished filming and so he was still in his costume. He decided to surprise the other because he hadn't told him what they were doing and so he decided to stay in his role for a bit longer. Once he spotted his guest he got up and pretty much waddled over to him before sitting down in a chair next to Quin. And as they made eye contact he started, using the voice he had used before. "Hi my name is..." He paused like he had to think. "...Yongbok.", he added, having used his Korean name.

Then he used his fingers to start counting before looking back up at Quin. "And I'm three." Joshua said in an excited tone before playfully sulking as Quin started to laugh after he had looked confused for a moment. He then stopped and reached over to brush a strand of hair out of the idol's eyes. "You're the prettiest thing I've ever seen." Quin then whispered, looking at him in a way that made it clear he meant his words. Which resulted in Joshua's cheeks getting more color and he looked down for a moment. His lips were curled up in a smile but he also felt shy.

[shining-vulpine]

I would love to digitally journal. Being able to put any picture I want into a journal would be incredible! However the vibe and ease of a paper notebook will never compare.

Unless they make a device specifically for Journaling or something...

[le-journal-catalan]

Méga rifle de Noël de Palau XIII Broncos à Palau del Vidre

Dimanche 22 Décembre 2024 à partir de 15h, au foyer François Tané à Palau del Vidre on rifle. Méga rifle de Noël de Palau XIII Broncos. Quines, tombola, Méga boom. (Le Journal Catalan.com). Rifle Palau del Vidre.jpg

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Youths Captured After Exciting Motor Car Chase," Ottawa Journal. October 3, 1932. Page 15. --- Police "Prowler" Car and Pursued Machine Make Some Thrilling Turns on Lindenlea Streets. --- Chased through the winding streets of Lindenlea and New Edinburgh by a police prowler car, four youths accused of stealing the automobile in which they tried to elude their pursuers were captured at 2.30 o'clock. Sunday morning and arrested on a charge of theft.

The prisoners were: Arthur Seguin, 17, of 45 Springfield road; Fernand Villeneuve, 17, of 90 Catherine street, Eastview: Gerard Cardinal, 16, of 30 Douglas avenue, and Royal Legault, 17, of 25 Durocher street.

Arraigned in Police Court this morning the quartet was remanded until tomorrow without pleading.

While patrolling the eastern sector of the city and rambling around New Edinburgh, Constables Leopold Goyette and John Cavan noticed an automobile cross Beechwood avenue. the boundary between Ottawa and Eastview, at Putman avenue, at high speed.

Put On Speed. Deciding to get close enough to take the license number, the police headed their car towards the direction the others had taken and turned into Putman avenue in pursuit. When they realized they were being followed and overtaken, the occupants of the car ahead increased the speed and darted into the labyrinth of streets in Lindenlea.

Hot in pursuit, the police saw the lights of their quarry's machine go out and realized they could not slacken their pace an instant if they were to catch up.

Around sharp bends, hair-pin twists and right angle corners, the two automobiles roared. the police car steadily gaining. After 10 minutes of dodging, swerving and mad racing. Constable Goyette guided the prowler car past and ahead of the other automobile and forced its passengers to stop at Rideau Terrace and Noel street.

Inspector of Detectives Mortimer Culver said the four boys had a number of articles in the car which they will be asked to explain. They include a loaded black-jack, nine flashlights, a wrench, two pairs of pliers. a tennis racket, a gallon jar and a length of rubber tubing smelling strongly of gasoline, and several bottles of soft drink.

Car Was Stolen. The automobile they were driving, the police said, belonged to Peter Bance, 37 Daly avenue, and was stolen from Nelson street between 9 and 10 p.m., Saturday. It was not damaged in the chase and subsequent capture.

Both Inspector Culver and Chief Inspector George McLeod were warm in their praise of the work which resulted in the arrest of the quin- tet and the recovery of the stolen car. They reiterated their belief that the prowler car system put into operation in recent months had more than justified its existence and was one of the best and most efficient means of crime prevention and detection in use. Lucien Barnabe, 642 St. Patrick street, was among the youths held last night but he was not charged, as he entered the car after it had been stolen.

[fra-1010-exercice-4]

Les réseaux sociaux

entre émerveillement et terreur

La technologie, et son développement rapide, suscite de grandes émotions, allant de l’émerveillement à la terreur. La prise de parole sur les réseaux sociaux participe de ce débat entre la fascination d’une parole libre et la peur du pouvoir destructeur de l’extrême polarisation. Entre les deux, des voix s’élèvent, soit pour remettre en perspective l’impact réel des réseaux sociaux sur nos sociétés, soit pour réclamer des lois et autres mesures pour mieux les encadrer.

Les controverses et les échanges polarisants foisonnent sur les médias sociaux qui les amplifient à la manière d’un porte-voix. Or, des études statistiques démontrent que ces opinions partagées sur les réseaux sociaux ne sont le fait que d’une petite minorité qui forme, certes, « une voix de l’opinion publique dont nous devons tenir compte, leur " micro "étant particulièrement audible. Mais ils ne sont pas l’opinion publique » (Giguère, 2019). Ces données tendent à dédramatiser les angoisses que la parole déchaînée sur Internet engendre. Pourtant, nombre d’événements sociaux et politiques survenus à l’internationale ces dernières années ravivent ces angoisses. Par exemple :

[En] France, l’assassinat en octobre 2020 du professeur d’histoire Samuel Paty après une violente campagne de haine en ligne, et aux États-Unis l’assaut de manifestants pro-Trump sur le Capitole en janvier 2021, en partie planifié via Facebook et Twitter (Nocetti, 2022).

La prise de parole polarisante sur les réseaux sociaux ne serait ainsi le fait que de quelques individus au profil psychologique bien défini : des individus ayant de grands besoins de reconnaissance, de stimulation, d’expression de leur individualité, de connexion avec autrui et de sentir qu’ils ont le pouvoir d’influer sur le monde (Giguère, 2019). La majorité des gens se contenteraient plutôt de consulter le contenu disponible sur ces plateformes sans y contribuer eux-mêmes. Il est néanmoins possible d’inférer que ces contenus peuvent avoir un effet d’influence sur ceux qui les consultent. Le rôle politique des médias sociaux n’est plus à prouver. Ils facilitent le regroupement de personnes autour de sujets divers et leur mobilisation autour de revendications. Apparaît ici une première face d’Internet, positive, « voire prométhéenne, censée favoriser ou du moins fluidifier la démocratie » (Nocetti, 2022), la faisant passer de représentative à participative et collaborative. Mais cette démocratie se heurte à une deuxième face d’Internet, « plus récente, vectrice de désordre et, plus largement, d’aliénation de nos sociétés au discours acéphale que génèrent les réseaux sociaux » (Nocetti, 2022) alors que leur structure algorithmique favorise la diffusion de fausses nouvelles à une vitesse fulgurante au détriment des informations vraies, soit six fois plus vite (Nocetti, 2022).

Il convient donc d’accorder le juste niveau d’attention à cette parole polarisante qui hurle sur les réseaux sociaux en reconnaissant qu’elle n’est représentative que d’une frange de la société, mais il faut aussi savoir reconnaître le pouvoir de déstabilisation que ces réseaux font peser sur la vulnérabilité de nos démocraties.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE

NOCETTI Julien, « Internet contre la démocratie ? », Questions internationales, 2022/3-4 (n°113-114), p. 122-128. DOI : 10.3917/quin.113.0122. URL : https://www-cairn-info.acces.bibl.ulaval.ca/magazine-questions-internationales-2022-3-page-122.htm

GIGUÈRE, Alain (2019, 26 fév.). « Non, les médias sociaux ne sont pas le reflet de la société ». L’actualité [journal], sur le site lactualite.com. Consulté le 14 avr. 2024. https://lactualite.com/societe/non-les-medias-sociaux-ne-sont-pas-le-reflet-des-opinions-de-la-societe/

[objecteiespai]

Ma – a estética do “entre” Ma (間) es un término japonés que podría traducirse como pausa, espacio, abertura o intervalo. No es simplemente un vacío o la ausencia de contenido sino que se trata de un espacio consciente, una respiración que permite poner en valor las otras partes de la obra o incluso crear nuevos significados. Según la filosofía japonesa, ese espacio estaría lleno de energía, y podría inducir un estado contemplativo en el cual es posible apreciar la expansión del espacio y del tiempo. 

Bibliografia

Michiko Okano

Arata Isozaki 

(arquitecte) Exposition MA Espace-Temps au Japon

 Tadao Ando (arquitecte) 

https://www.tadao-ando.com/exhibition2017/contents/

 Ma o El sentido japonés del lugar 

http://acordesarquitectonicos.com/ma-o-el-sentido-japones-del-lugar/

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(espacio_negativo) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(esth%C3%A9tique) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space) 

 Yasujiro Ozu Director de cinema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu 

Saló 17 Hibrides: l’espai entremig

“Le navire, c'est l'hétérotopie par excellence. Dans les civilisations sans bateaux les rêves se tarissent, l'espionnage y remplace l'aventure, et la police, les corsaires”.

Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias MICHEL FOUCAULT

Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias.

This text, entitled "Des Espace Autres," and published by the French journal Architecture /Mouvement/ Continuité in October, 1984, was the b

MICHEL FOUCAULT, INFO.

en relació

APERTUS 01. IN-BETWEEN/ENTREMIG NARRATIVES I IMAGINARIS DEL LLOC

1–8.7.16

Artista convidat Arash Nassiri

The ass between two chairs és el títol del taller proposat per l’artista Arash Nassiri, que expressa la incòmode sensació d’estar entre dues coses, dos estats. Justament és l’estat en què l’Escola Massana es troba actualment, en el trànsit de l’an1.tic edifici a un de nova planta. Quins contextos de sentit ens aporta la noció “entremig” (in-between)? En arquitectura es parla d’espais “entremig” com aquells espais articuladors, connectors i comunicadors entre el dins i l’afora, però també d’espais habitats temporalment. Al seu torn, el camp del pensament ens parla d’un estar en suspens, inacabat o en trànsit permanent. Què identifica doncs els sabers i els espais “entremig”? A que fa referència el treball artístic quan se situa “entremig”? Aquest seminari s’adreça a teixir perspectives sobre el valor de “l’entremig” des de la filosofia, la geografia, l’arquitectura, l’art i l’antropologia, que ens ajudin a indagar nous espais de creació i de visió crítica sobre el nostre context immediat.

Publicació:

WWW.ESCOLAMASSANA.CAT

Apertus 01. In-Between/Entremig narratives i imaginaris del lloc | Escola Massana. Centre d’Art i Disseny.

Escola d'Art i Disseny a Barcelona: arts visuals, arts aplicades i disseny. Batxillerat Artístic, Cicles Formatius de Grau Superior, Graduat Universitari en Arts i Disseny i Formació no reglada.

www.escolamassana.cat

in between inauguració

16

 en relació: 

XI Treinta radios convergen en el centro de una rueda, pero es su vacío lo que hace útil al carro. Se moldea la arcilla para hacer la vasija, pero de su vacío depende el uso de la vasija. Se abren puertas y ventanas en los muros de una casa, y es el vacío lo que permite habitaría. En el ser centramos nuestro interés, pero del no-ser depende la utilidad. Tao Te Ching Lao Tse 

[belindathemarimba]

“Stay with Me (The Journal Song)”:

Adding Vocals & Writing as a Team✒️

Lyrics

I wrote the lyrics as shifting POVs between each verse and the best thing was that quin and sha were able to recognise the narrative I was trying to make. This song’s concept began with ‘what if I had ‘stay with me’ as a hook and each verse was a journal entry, and after every entry the meaning of ‘stay with me’ implies something different. So I’ll break down some thoughts along the lyrics below!

V1

(Guy’s POV)

First page,

I’m reading histories, stories and truths

I know I’ll love you, upon the stars

I’m charting the courses around each pool

Pre 1

Cause one too many times,

We’ll get lost into our own

Wonderlands, take my hand, we’ll

make all the clocks skip time

Ohhh that’s enough for today,

I’ll write back singing

Hook 1 (Lovey dovey ‘Stay with me🩵’ )

Stay with me

Oh won’t you stay with me

Stay with me

Oh won’t you

Verse 2

(Girl’s POV)

Never thought I’d be loved like this

Till my fingers tangle in my guitar strings

(I was inspired by a line in a book called ‘The Song of Achilles!)

No I don’t know

How you plucked all my heart strings

Detuned goes my thinking

(I love these little nods to my alternate tunings😭)

Pre 2

Cause one too many times

We got lost into our own

Wonderlands, took my hand

We made all the clocks skip

Timeeeeee

The minute hand fights off the engine

For all that its worth so you’ll

Hook 2

(Girl’s POV: is now invested, now her turn to say ‘Stay with me🩵)

Stay with me

Oh won’t you

Stay with me

So darling just stay with me

Oh won’t stay

Oh won’t stay

Great Wall of Thailand (Bridge) (EVERYTHING GOES WRONG)

(Guy’s POV)

Page by page

I’m running it all in my head

I’m losing all of my feelings

Again, again,

Over and over again

(Girl’s POV)

Hypnotised, I

Can’t quite keep up

I can’t lie

I’ve thrown my cards down

All in, praying you’re playing

Pretend

I’m leaving the pen in your hands

Last verse (Quin)

(Guy’s POV: reading the girl’s ‘last journal entry’)

It’s my last page

I’m almost done

I can’t bear to watch

You like this

Your last words

Read like an incantation

Sore replacement

The same words traversing the page

In mindless direction

I see you giving chase

Is that love on your face?

Ripped your paper heart to pieces

Still all that you say to me is

Hook (Haunting Vibe)

“Stay with me

Oh won’t you

Stay with me ?

Why aren’t you staying with me?

Darling just stay

I need you to

Just stay”

[varlaisvea]

Journal entry from a Riften bunkhouse

~850 words Rated G

Here’s a little snippet from a BIG WIP— i’ve been working on it for almost a year, and this is the FIRST thing I’ve published! 😬 Some of it (like this part) is in the form of journal entries. The whole story spans both Second Era and Fourth Era timelines, and features both the Dragonborn and the Vestige of Coldharbour.

This, though, is neither of them—it’s one of the main characters (OC), a Khajiit from the Second Era (less than a decade after the epic year of 2E 582). He’s in his 30s and from Riverhold, which means he’s lived through the Knahaten flu and two Imperial occupations of his home city. He will someday become the first Khajiiti Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold, and this is an excerpt from his journal as he makes his way to Winterhold for the first time, to enroll in the College.

Please enjoy, feedback welcome! I could use the encouragement!

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Tonight, we are staying at a dingy bunkhouse in Riften. I was, quite unexpectedly, unsuccessful in my attempt at seduction a few days ago, but Vihk was still kind enough to invite me to the tavern with him and some of the others from the caravan. I think he was only being polite, and anyway I was feeling quite restless, so I spent the evening wandering the docks and streets in thought. I had heard the guard here harasses wanderers, especially at night, but correctly guessed that account was from someone who is not of my stature or impressively sleek clawfulness. The worst I got was one “keep moving, cat.”

I do not know how long it has been since I have felt motivated, curious, and excited to learn, but today, when I talked to those mages in the caravan, I remembered: this one is also a mage, and has been ever since he asked his mother if he could learn the clan-magic along with his little sisters. Is this not something Araszha once loved about himself—his intellectual curiosity? To feel it again only made me despair for how long it had been gone, and how little I had even noticed its absence. But to catch a glimmer of it… I wanted to cling to it and chase after it. Not in the joyful way, though, in the urgent and desperate way; clawing at strings. A motivation so flimsy it almost feels shameful.

Still… perhaps it is preferable to my prior plans.

A few days ago in Ska’vyn, I noticed a very handsome, very snobbish-looking Dunmer who was traveling with a caravan to Winterhold, and I saw that Riften was one of the stops the caravan would make. Although I had been idly considering traveling to Riften for a while, I only knew two things about the city: it has a reputation for looking the other way on many unsavory activities, and it is very far away from Riverhold in Ne Quin-al. An ideal destination, yes? I told the caravan driver I was going to Winterhold, and paid for passage, planning to charm my way into a lovely evening (or a few) with a deliciously condescending Dunmeri dandy. 

Perhaps in Riften Araszha-dar would be too drunk to wake up in time for the departure to Winterhold, and be left behind—the caravan driver would already have been paid; no skin off his frozen nose. The only people who might notice a missing cat would be aforementioned Dunmer snob (who would doubtless be glad not to have to avoid eye contact with his most recent less-than-wise decision), and other members of the caravan. All of whom would be unsurprised that the slick and shifty Liar-dar they had met was as unreliable as he was insufferable, and perhaps be mildly relieved to be free of such a cat, if they felt anything at all.

Riften’s seedy reputation seems well-earned—one could easily get oneself into misfortune here. It would be easy for someone—perhaps even someone taller and more furry than most Nords—to go missing, especially at night. In fact, I feel one could easily go missing in such a way that, for example, anyone who might be trailing or threatening them would be delayed for days or weeks, trying to get any sort of definitive answer as to their whereabouts or condition. Otherwise, no one would notice or care, especially if one’s very appearance suggested a lecherous thief to most of the city’s inhabitants—a dozen other identical criminal pests come through here every week, probably. I imagine Riften is more accustomed than most cities to seeing occasional bodies fished out of the water, or removed from a dimly-lit alley, or a cheap inn bed. Likewise, the people of Riften are probably more accustomed than most to avoiding the everyday undead—hollow-eyed skooma eaters, beggars, gamblers, drunks. Which is to say: it seems easy to become a ghost here, and whether one becomes a literal or figurative ghost matters to no one, ghost included. 

Even if, say, one’s family worried for them, even if one’s lovingly tenacious family tracked down their last known location, Riften would shrug with bleak disinterest—why would it matter if a given degenerate ends up face-down in a grimy skooma den, in chains en route to a Morrowind plantation, or at the bottom of the lake? In any case, they are gone. And for the sort of people whose lives end here, one way or another, that is a blessing to them and everyone else—even the people who fish bodies out of lakes and skooma dens get some work out of the deal. My wandering tonight confirmed: Riften seems to be exactly what I was looking for, when I decided a few days ago that it was finally time to make my way here.

I am back in my bunk, but of course I cannot sleep. Isn’t it strange, to think that Mother first told me about the College of Winterhold over twenty years ago? It is stranger still to know that tomorrow, I will be able tell her I have finally arrived!