#UBI Tenders

[wincestreversebang]

2024 Master Post

Title: Soulbound Enchantment Artist: midnightsilver Author: masoena Other Pairing: mention of ofc/omc Rating: Explicit Warnings/Spoilers: Non-consensual groping, explicit canon-typical violence, non-consensual body transformation Summary: Sam and Dean wake up in a lush, green landscape; a world decidedly not where they remember being before. Sam also realizes he is no longer human as they embark on an adventure to figure out where and why they are in this place. The path to solving this case is dotted with tender, angst-filled, violent and scary moments as the Winchesters work together to figure out how to save themselves in more ways than one. Art: Ao3 Story: Ao3

Title: You Circle Me In the Night Artist: morokollisyo Author: theteacupunicorn Rating: Mature Warnings/Spoilers: Canon-typical violence, violence happening to a sixteen-year-old Sam Summary: Dean plopped down next to Sam. “Guess I’ll be taking the cot tonight, huh?”

“You don’t have to,” Sam said at once. “I don’t want you to get kicked out of your bed because I couldn’t dodge some ghost.”

Dean smiled. “Well, can’t say I’m complaining.” He got comfortable in his bed, only a couple inches from Sam, and promptly shoved his pillow in Sam’s face.

“Dean!” Sam sputtered, whacking Dean with the pillow once he could see again.

Dean cackled, but they both froze when John’s stern voice resounded. “Boys, settle down.”

Dean took his pillow back from Sam and tucked it under his head. “Sorry,” he said in a small voice. He looked confused again, like he had in the car when John had told him not to worry about Sam’s injury. Art:Live Journal | Ao3 Story:Ao3

Title: Fixing a Hole Artist: i-already-know-im-going-2-hell Author: amypond45 Rating: R Warnings/Spoilers: Season 2 AU, Wincest (explicit at times) Summary: This story is a retelling of Season 2, starting when Dean reveals what Dad said to him in the hospital at the beginning of “Hunted”. Instead of running off, Sam confesses that he’s had a premonition about this very moment. He already knows what Dean’s about to tell him, as well as their entire, bloody future until the moment Sam jumps into the pit. As he reveals his visions to Dean, it soon becomes clear that they need to find a way to prevent the death and destruction laid out for them in those visions. One thing leads to another, with revelations of feelings long buried deep. Can Sam, with Dean’s help, find a way to avoid the coming apocalypse, just by falling in love? Or are they destined to retravel the road to distrust that leads to their own demise and the end of the world — or the saving of it after years of loss and sacrifice? And if they stop it from happening, what does that say about them as men, as brothers, and as heroes? Art:Ao3 Story:Live Journal | Ao3

Title: Ubi Amor, Ibi Dolor Artist: deeranger Author: hello-starlingfics Other Pairing: past Sam/Lucifer Rating: E Warnings/Spoilers: Rape/Noncon (described and in the past), Violence, Torture, PTSD. Sexual activity between the boys with consent from neither. Summary: While investigating a possible coven, Sam and Dean get a lead: an abandoned factory just outside of town. When they check it out, things go sideways fast. Art:Twitter | Tumblr Story:Ao3

Title: Crafting Happiness Artist: StepicliffeGrey Author: SamandDean76 Rating: Explicit Warnings/Spoilers: Canon-Typical Violence, Non-Graphic Violence, Angst, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Pre-Series, Men of Letters Bunker, Canon Compliant, Story Runs For The Duration Of The Series, Pre-Series Sam, Dean, & John, Hurt Sam Winchester, Protective Dean Winchester, First Time Summary: Nine-year old Sam had fifty cents and a mission. To find a hidden treasure in the thrift store that he could make his own. It would end up taking him his entire life, but what he found at the bottom of that dingy bin became a lifeline that helped to guide him on a journey that few others could even begin to imagine. Through all the ups and downs, and with Dean ever by his side, Sam did his best to craft some happiness for not only himself, but all those he cherished. Art:Ao3 Story:Ao3

Title: I Was Born To Press My Head Between Your Shoulder Blades Artist: MidnightSilver Author: TheyDraggedMeInNowIAintLeaving Rating: Mature Warnings/Spoilers: Canon divergence, soulmate identifying marks, reference canon up til season 5, John Winchester’s A+ parenting, description of canon level violence, djinn, allusions to dying of dehydration, pining, men kissing, sappy ending Summary: In a world where only soulmates can see their soulmarks, Dean has one curving around his finger. His soulmate on the other hand doesn’t have one.

Except maybe he does Art:Ao3 Story:Ao3

Title: Vampire Cotton Candy Artist: Bluefire986 Author: Masoena Rating: NC-17 Warnings/Spoilers: Rape/Non-con (not between Sam/Dean), explicit violence, temporary character death (transformation to creature) Summary: In this story Sam hits a wolf at the outset of season 8 causing him and Amelia to meet under different circumstances as he transforms into a werewolf later on. Dean returns from purgatory and immediately figures out what Sam is, together they try and work out this new normal. Dean being kidnapped by vampires turns their already crazy upside down once more as they are both hurt in the process and must fight to be free once more. Art:Live Journal | Ao3 Story:Ao3

Title: Pain In My Heart Artist: bluefire986​ Author: hello-starlingfics​ Rating: Mature Warnings/Spoilers: Canon-typical torture and violence, non-consensual touching and kissing. One mention of offscreen suicides early in the fic. Summary: Post-4x16 On The Head Of A Pin.

Dean stomped back to their motel room alone. This hunt was a bust and Sam had disappeared as soon as they’d realized that it hadn’t been a pair of witchcraft-related murders, but a suicide pact between two people with a history of mental health issues longer than even Sam’s arm. It had been a depressing and frustrating day, and Sam bailing on him made everything worse. Art:Live Journal | Ao3 Story:Ao3

Title: Hollow Pursuits Artist: MidnightSilver Author: Kestra_Tori Rating: M Warnings/Spoilers: Public Nudity, Weirdcest, Incestuous Thoughts Summary: Odd deaths bring the boys to a placed called the Happy Hippie Hollow. To Dean’s chagrin it’s a nudist colony. Sam rolls with it. Art:Ao3 Story:Tumblr | Ao3

[ao3feed-ateez]

ubi amor ibi dolor

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/6Llfm0N by fixonsOJ (vioverherewriting) ‘Who called you?’ He asks. ‘Hwa hyung,’ Mingi responds, trying to keep himself and his wolf in check, ‘he said you’re refusing everyone’s help, and they’re desperate.’ Yunho huffs, ‘So they sent you?’ ‘They asked me to try.’ ‘Oh, you’ve finally learnt how to do that have you?’ or, mingi and yunho had been best friends, mated and married, until they weren't. all it takes is two sick toddlers, a few missed doses of heat suppressants and an overstimulated yunho to throw a wrench into the new normal they’d been working their way to. Words: 13978, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 1 of not a lot, just forever Fandoms: ATEEZ (Band) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Song Mingi (ATEEZ), Jeong Yunho (ATEEZ), ATEEZ Ensemble, Park Seonghwa, Kim Hongjoong, Kang Yeosang, Choi San (ATEEZ), Jung Wooyoung (ATEEZ), Choi Jongho (ATEEZ) Relationships: Jeong Yunho/Song Mingi (ATEEZ) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alpha Song Mingi (ATEEZ), Omega Jeong Yunho (ATEEZ), Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Omega Verse, Post-Divorce, Family Dynamics, Pack Dynamics, Dysfunctional Relationships, dysfunctional in the complicated way not the toxic way, Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, (both in a pretty broad sense), Angst and Feels, Heavy Angst, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Jeong Yunho is Bad at Feelings (ATEEZ), Jeong Yunho is Whipped (ATEEZ), Song Mingi is Whipped (ATEEZ), POV Song Mingi (ATEEZ), It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, the family's complicated .... they're trynna figure it out, divorced!yungi caring for their sick toddlers while mingi also tries to care for yunho, Slow Burn, in its own way, Aged-Up Character(s), they're in their late twenties, Bittersweet, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, they're still so in love it hurts your honour, Idiots in Love, Mutual Pining, Domestic, did i mention their toddlers are twins??? yeah!, appa yun n dadda min, they just wanna be good parents T-T, they’re both doing their best, Mating Cycles/In Heat, (kind of), Scenting, Explicit Sexual Content, Tender Sex, Emotional Sex, Porn With Plot, (plot that makes the porn hit), Vaginal Fingering, Oral Sex, Cunnilingus, Blow Jobs, Oral Fixation, Riding, Multiple Orgasms, no beta we die like san in the halazia MV read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/6Llfm0N

[steak-n-popotoes]

FFxivWrite ‘22 - 4 (Free Prompt)

[Endwalker spoilers]

“Wait, but... That’s not a name, is it?” asked Chattingway.

“Indeed. By all accounts, beef is the butchered meat of an animal known as an aurochs. Most Lalafell of the Plainsfolk clan bear names with a rhyming pattern of ‘AB-CB’ for males, and ‘ABB-AB’ for females. Generally each syllable is two to four letters long.” Explainingway helpfully explained.

“Actually...” Snoopingway leaned in close to the rest of the little circle of curious Loporrits, “I overheard one of them calling him... U’bifu!”

“Oh, so his name must be something like, ‘Ubi-fu Gana-fu’?” added Ponderingway.

“Well that just isn’t correct,” cut in Correctingway, “Because my understanding is that his name is U’bifu Tia.”

The growing group of Loporrits clamored about and scratched their ears in thought.

“What is that, AB-CD? Is that still a rhyme?” asked Ponderingway.

“I can ask Rhymingway, she would know.” replied Chattingway.

Explainingway raised a finger and began to explain again. “Well, you see, Tia is one of two surnames for males of the Seeker of the Sun Miqo’te clan - the other being Nunh. These surnames are almost like titles, they serve to indicate both leadership and bree-”

“But surely he’s a Lalafell, not a Miqo’te!” exclaimed Shoutingway, “He doesn’t even have a tail!!”

“Well, yes, but-”

“And the one with the nice ears uses a name like that!! But without Tia or Nunh!!!”

“Not to interrupt, but that isn’t quite correct. There are two of them who share our auditory charm points, and while one uses-”

“Fufufu... So not one, but two of them lack a surname...”

“What could this mean?”

“Has Namingway heard about this?”

“But... but wait-”

“Oh don’t involve them in this, we’ll be here for cycles!!!”

“Actually-”

“I thought that families all shared the same surname?”

“No, no, that’s not-”

The chaotic crowd of Loporrits engaged in heated debate over their guests’ nomenclature, but were ultimately unable to understand the many inconsistencies with standard naming conventions of the races of Etheirys.

“Excuse me,” came the voice of one such guest, her voice rising above the din, “is something the matter?”

Immediately the moon’s stewards crowded around Eryna and Beef, fawning over the former out of concern for her recent battle with the elder primal.

“Oh- p-please, one at a time!” Eryna said.

After a few short moments of whispered conference, the Loporrits all took turns nodding at each other and one stepped forward with their question.

“Where do your names come from?” asked Leadingway.

“Well...” Eryna considered the question for a few moments. The bags under her eyes looked more pronounced as she closed them in contemplation.

Beef and the Loporrits looked up at her as she thought.

“I suppose... many people, such as myself, get their names from their parents. And others, such as Beef, grow into a name bestowed upon them by those who care about them. Yet more may inherit the name of another, such as L’kozu.” A shadow of tender sadness passed across her face. “And some few decide to abandon their name altogether.”

The Loporrits murmured in confusion over their incomplete understanding, prompting Eryna to clarify:

“What I mean to say is that a name is made by the individual who wears it. The same is true for you and yours, is it not?”

[the-maverick-deck]

You want to be tender and merciful. that sounds overly valorous. sounds like penance. - Psyche @ Rockwell :3c

Wrapped cozily on a plush couch, several glasses into a 2341 vintage bottle, Charles thought the world felt peaceful. Or at least, he assumed it was a mutual experience. Until Psyche dropped that bitter remark. He pondered for a moment,

"Is it truly a punishment to enjoy a soft moment with one's lover? I think that's the finest of experiences, to be wrapped up in their embrace like nothing else matters."

In vito veritas. No... No, this was ubi amor, ibi dolor. The Latin came out when he was tipsy and feeling bolder than usual.

"....Or does feel like punishment, because it pains you to remember what gentleness feels like?"

[in-silks-and-flesh-and-leather]

Oh my dearest Silky, how I loved ubi amor, ibi dolor! You write Jacques flawlessly and I hang on every word! This is my favorite Jacques piece of yours yet and I love them all! I can’t wait for more! I would give you a real rose if I could 🌹

That is so wonderful to hear 💕💕

I'm so glad you like my take on him, I really like giving him shades and highlights, he's perfect for that real, human combination of strengths and flaws 🥰

The good news, then, is there is another part of this coming and I have another prompt I'm writing that has some of these elements in it too - I'm really excited for that one as well ❤️

Oh, that is such a tender thought - I would cherish that rose with my whole heart 😭😭💕💕

[eivor-basim]

ezio (in all seriousness now. mind your step 🥰🥰🔪🔪)

hey you can put your pixel knives away, i love ezio. and i'm not gonna steal your video game boyfriend i promise <3

first impression

i first played ac2 when i was 13 or so. at the Very First Glance he annoyed me a bit because he reminded me of boys my age who thought they were all that. a pre-fuckboy, if you will. but then he was so soft with his family. i really felt the pain of losing them with him. and he was adorably awkward flirting with cristina and being baffled by leonardo. so i quickly realized that ezio actually deserves so much love. and also a hug... pls allow this man some damn comfort ubi. plus of course, the fancy renaissance assassin robes and being so overpowered in fights just made it so FUN to play as ezio. i appreciated his badassery

impression now

now, playing an ezio game feels like coming home.

no matter what life throws at him, ezio finds a way to move forward and make something of it. always with a joke and a spring in his step. i love that resilience. and i've come to love the charm that annoyed me at first. because it's not putting on a show, that's just How He Is. he's warm and charismatic and funny. and manages to maintain that in spite of everything.

also, his humor isn't a façade veiling a lack of character or wisdom as can sometimes be the case with the fun-loving roguish archetype. over the course of the games, he really grows to be a man of principle and gains truly insightful perspective. these quotes he just drops:

"When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, the twilight of my life, this understanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time: once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward."

"I have lived my life as best I could, not knowing its purpose, but drawn forward like a moth to a distant moon. And here, at last, I discover a strange truth. That I am only a conduit for a message that eludes my understanding. Who are we, who have been so blessed to share our stories like this? To speak across centuries?"

"To say that nothing is true is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile and that we must be the shepherds of our civilization. To say that everything is permitted is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious of tragic."

"My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon."

i cried looking those up and reading them again btw!!

this man goes through so much pain. he builds the brotherhood up from nothing, only to lose it. and then builds it again. he does ALL THAT only to realize his whole life has served to convey a message he will never understand to a person he will never meet. yet even so he still finds contentment. he finds love and happiness. and he does it all with the signature ezio auditore da firenze flair. and looks hot doing it

(i really do need to note, this pixel man is FINE. i have to say his brotherhood look is my favorite but he is consistently hot)

i love him i love him i love him

favorite moment

there are so many??? and tbh i just started my ezio trilogy replay so the details are a little fuzzy, especially on brotherhood and revelations

one moment that always rips my heart out is when he assassinates his first target and yells "the auditore are not dead! i'm still here! me! ezio! ezio auditore!" and you can just hear his voice breaking a little

i love the little conversations between him and leonardo. leo really becomes one of the few constants in ezio's life, which forms such a distinct and powerful bond between them. and leo is just a walking ray of sunshine

ooh i really love the entire venice carnival sequence. also both ezio and claudia's assassin induction ceremonies. when ezio yeets cesare off the roof. and all of the moments with the quotes above

like i said, impossible to choose. and i still feel like this list is incomplete since i'm about to replay and will likely rediscover a bunch of old faves

idea for a story

hmm i don't know. i really feel like ezio's story is well executed and comes full circle in canon tbh. in the past i've enjoyed fics that actually do give ezio a chance to talk to desmond and explore the bleeding effect creating overlap between their lives. if i wrote a story, i might focus on ezio and claudia, because i feel like her character is very underutilized in-game.

unpopular opinion

i suppose a lot of my interpretation of ezio would be unpopular among those who see him as a womanizer and put him on a pedestal for that. other than that, hard to say tbh. i know many people don't like ezio with sofia, and i think they're very cute together. i guess also, i don't think ezio ever fully recognized claudia's ability. i think his perception of her was clouded by the gender roles of the time. in my view, he improved over time but never managed to shake off that bias

favorite relationship

romantically, this is difficult because ezio has great chemistry with lots of people and almost every ship makes me think oh yeah that'd be cute. i don't really have an otp with ezio, you know? i do really like him with leonardo and sofia tho

platonically, claudia. the murder siblings dynamic is everything. also, yusuf. their interactions were always so charming and hilarious, and yusuf's death clearly hit him so hard-- why ubisoft

favorite headcanon

ezio paints portraits of his targets, but i also like the thought of him painting portraits of his loved ones. ones that just feel more tender and personal when you're looking at them. and going out to the countryside to paint landscapes with leonardo-- artist couple!!

this is a communal headcanon at this point lol, but in-game ezio tries coffee and suggests adding sugar and milk. so i like to think he's the inventor of The Most Extra coffee drinks, like a triple caramel cappuccino with extra whipped cream and sprinkles type shit

finally, i think at heart he's very sentimental. he probably holds on to all sorts of knick knacks that remind him of the people in his life and the places he's been. he catches a whiff of, idk, a certain type of flower and is instantly transported to picking those flowers for a crush as a boy. gets all misty-eyed thinking about it. ezio is soft!!

send me a character!

[gemmathefandomguru]

"I wish to use my last hours of ease and strength in telling the strange story of my experience. I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of my fellow-men. But we have all a chance of meeting with some pity, some tenderness, some charity, when we are dead: it is the living only who cannot be forgiven — the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind. While the heart beats, bruise it — it is your only opportunity; while the eye can still turn towards you with moist, timid entreaty, freeze it with an icy unanswering gaze; while the ear, that delicate messenger to the inmost sanctuary of the soul, can still take in the tones of kindness, put it off with hard civility, or sneering compliment, or envious affectation of indifference; while the creative brain can still throb with the sense of injustice, with the yearning for brotherly recognition — make haste — oppress it with your ill-considered judgements, your trivial comparisons, your careless misrepresentations. The heart will by and by be still — "ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit" the eye will cease to entreat; the ear will be deaf; the brain will have ceased from all wants as well as from all work. Then your charitable speeches may find vent; then you may remember and pity the toil and the struggle and the failure; then you may give due honour to the work achieved; then you may find extenuation for errors, and may consent to bury them."

~The Lifted Veil, (1859) George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans)

Can someon please explain this quote to me? Like it is so deep and I'm so intrigued by it, but I'm not exactly sure what it's saying. I'm about 30 minutes away from reading The Lifted Veil to see if that helps me understand what it means

[pandaemoniumpancakes]

Even as are the generations of leaves, such are those also of men. As for the leaves, the wind scattereth some upon the earth, but the forest, as it bourgeons, putteth forth others when the season of spring is come; even so of men one generation springeth up and another passeth away.                             ❧ Nor is the mode of grafting and of budding the same. For where the buds push out from amid the bark, and burst their tender sheaths, a narrow slit is made just in the knot; in this from an alien tree they insert a bud, and teach it to grow into the sappy bark. Or, again, knotless boles are cut open, and with wedges a path is cleft deep into the core; then fruitful slips are let in, and in a little while, lo! a mighty tree shoots up skyward with joyous boughs, and marvels at its strange leafage and fruits not its own.                             ❧ From here a road leads to the waters of Tartarean Acheron. Here, thick with mire and of fathomless flood, a whirlpool seethes and belches into Cocytus all its sand. A grim ferryman guards these waters and streams, terrible in his squalor—Charon, on whose chin lies a mass of unkempt, hoary hair; his eyes are staring orbs of flame; his squalid garb hangs by a knot from his shoulders. Unaided, he poles the boat, tends the sails, and in his murky craft convoys the dead—now aged, but a god’s old age is hardy and green. Hither rushed all the throng, streaming to the banks; mothers and men and bodies of high-souled heroes, their life now done, boys and unwedded girls, and sons placed on the pyre before their fathers’ eyes; thick as the leaves of the forest that at autumn’s first frost drop and fall, and thick as the birds that from the seething deep flock shoreward, when the chill of the year drives them overseas and sends them into sunny lands. They stood, pleading to be the first ferried across, and stretched out hands in yearning for the farther shore. But the surly boatman takes now these, now those, while others he thrusts away, back from the brink.                             ❧ It has always been accepted, and always will be, that words stamped with the mint-mark of the day should be brought into currency. As the woods change their foliage with the decline of each year, and the earliest leaves fall, so words die out with old age; and the newly born ones thrive and prosper just like human beings in the vigour of youth. We are all destined to die, we and all our works. Perhaps the land has been dug out and an arm of the sea let in, to give protection to our fleets from the northern gales (and what a royal undertaking this was!); or a marsh, long a barren waste on which oars were plied, has been put under the plough and produces food for the neighbouring towns; or a river has been made to change a course ruinous to the cornfields and turned into a straighter channel: whatever they are, the works of men will pass away. How much less likely are the glory and grace of language to have an enduring life! Many terms that have now dropped out of use will be revived, if usage so requires, and others which are now in repute will die out; for it is usage which regulates the laws and conventions of speech.                             ❧ But those souls, naked and desolate, lost their color. With chattering teeth they heard his brutal words. They blasphemed God, their parents, the human race, the place, the time, the seed of their begetting and their birth. Then, weeping bitterly, they drew together to the accursèd shore that waits for everyone who fears not God. Charon the demon, with eyes of glowing coals, beckons to them, herds them all aboard, striking anyone who slackens with his oar. Just as in autumn the leaves fall away, one, and then another, until the bough sees all its spoil upon the ground, so the wicked seed of Adam fling themselves one by one from shore, at his signal, as does a falcon at its summons. Thus they depart over dark water, and before they have landed on the other side another crowd has gathered on this shore.                            ❧ Before I descended to anguish of Hell,   I was the name on earth of the Sovereign Good, whose joyous rays envelop and surround me. Later El became His name, and that is as it should be, for mortal custom is like a leaf upon a branch, which goes and then another comes.

Homer, from Book VI in The Iliad, trans. A. T. Murray.

Vergil, from Book II in Georgics, trans. H. R. Fairclough and G. P. Goold, lines 80-2:

Vergil, from Book VI in The Aeneid, trans. H. R. Fairclough and G. P. Goold, lines 309-12. 

Horace, from ‘On the Art of Poetry’ in Classical Literary Criticism, trans. T. S. Dorsch, line 60. 

Dante, from Canto III in Inferno, trans. Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander, lines 100-120. 

Dante, from Canto XXVI in Paradiso, trans. Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander, lines 133-38. 

                        ❧

   Vergil, ‘Georgics II’: nec longum tempus, et ingens/ exiit ad caelum ramis felicibus arbos,/ miratastque nouas frondes et non sua poma 

   Vergil, ‘Aeneid VI’: quam multa in siluis autumni frigore primo/ lapsa cadunt folia, aut ad terram gurgite ab alto/ quam multae glomerantur aues, ubi frigidus annus/ trans pontum fugat et terris immittit apricis.

   Horace, ‘Ars Poetica’: ut silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos,/ prima cadunt; ita verborum vetus interit aetas,/ et iuvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.

   Dante, ‘Inferno III’: Come d’autunno si levan *le foglie/ l’una appresso de l’altra, fin che ’l ramo/ vede a la terra tutte le sue spoglie,// similemente il mal seme d’Adamo/ gittansi di quel lito ad una ad una,/ per cenni come augel per suo richiamo.

   Dante, ‘Paradiso XXVI’: e ciò convene,/ ché l’uso d’i mortali è come *fronda/ in ramo, che sen va e altra vene

                        ❧

   Homer, from Book XXI in The Iliad, trans. Robert Fitzgerald: “Ephemeral as the flamelike budding leaves,/ men flourish on the ripe wheat of the grainland,/ then in spiritless age they waste and die.”

   Leopardi, ‘Pensieri XXXIX’: “In The Book of the Courtier, Balthazar Castiglione very aptly explains why old people usually disparage the present while praising the time when they were young: “Thus in my opinion, the cause of this mistaken notion among old people is that the fleeing years steal from them most human comforts; they leaven the blood of most its vital spirits, whereby the constitution is altered and the organs by which the soul exercises its powers frow weak. Hence in our old age the gentle flowers of happiness fall from our hearts as leaves from trees in autumn; and in the place of serence and lucid thoughts there comes but gloomy and cloudy sadness, attended by a thousant ills. So it is that not only the body, but also the mind, grows ever more infirm. Of past pleasures we retain only a lingering memory and the image of that fond time of tender youth in which, even as we look back upon that place once again, heaven and earth and all its creatures seem to be endlessly celebrating, and the sweet springtime of happiness seems to bloom in out thoughts as in a lush and delicte garden. So that when the sun of life enters its wintry season and with its westward descent deprives us of such pleasures, it may perhaps be useful to lose our remembrance of them as well and discover—as Themistocles said—an art that would teach us to forget. For our body’s senses are so misleading that they are often wont to beguile the mind’s judgement as well. Thus is seems to me that the plight of the aged is similar to that of those who, when departing from the harbor, fix their gaze upon the shore and think that their ship does not move, but that it is the shore that is departing. And yet quite the contrary is true: the harbor, and likewise time and its pleasures, remain fixed while we, one after another, flee on the ship of our mortality, voyaging across that stormy sea that devours and consumes all things. Not shall we ever be allowed to touch land again; rather, our ship, beaten about by opposing winds, shall in the end scuttle us upon some reef. Since a senile and weathered spirit is unsuited or unfit for most pleasures, it obviously cannot enjoy them. And just as to victims of fever whose palates are spoiled by corrupt vapors all wines, however delicate and precious they may be, seem terribly bitter, so to old people, indisposed as they are, pleasures seem cold and insipid, though desire for pleasure still exists. And although the pleasures themselves remain the same, they yet seem quite different from those that old people remember having once enjoyed. Feeling thus deprived of such pleasures, they sink into regret and denounce the present as evil, since they are unable to perceive that the cahnge lies within themselves, not in time. Instead, they call to mind the delights of the past and the times when such pleasures were to be had and they therefore prais the past as good since it seems to convey a fragrance of the delights they once felt when it was present. Since, after all, our souls feel hatred for all things that have companioned our sorrows, and love for the companion of our delights.“ [Castiglione, Book II.1]”

   Isaiah 7:2: “And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.” (KJV)

   Vergil, Aeneid 6.282: “In the midst an elm, shadowy and vast, spreads her boughs and aged arms, the home which, men say, false Dreams hold, clinging under every leaf. And many monstrous forms besides of various beasts are stalled at the doors, Centaurs and double-shaped Scyllas, and the hundredfold Briareus, and the beast of Lerna, hissing horribly, and the Chimaera armed with flame, Gorgons and Harpies, and the shape of the three-bodied shade. Here on a sudden, in trembling terror, Aeneas grasps his sword, and turns the naked edge against their coming; and did not his wise companion warn him that these were but faint, bodiless lives, flitting under a hollow semblance of form, he would rush upon them and vainly cleave shadows with steel.”

   John Milton, from Book I, lines 299-313:

“Nathless he so endur'd, till on the Beach Of that inflamed Sea, he stood and call'd His Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans't Thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scatterd sedge Afloat, when with fierce Winds Orion arm'd Hath vext the Red-Sea Coast, whose waves orethrew Busiris and his Memphian Chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursu'd The Sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore thir floating Carkases And broken Chariot Wheels, so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the Flood, Under amazement of thir hideous change.“

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Book Of Genesis - From The Latin Vulgate (1859 - Haydock Translation of The Roman Catholic Bible) - Chapter 18

INTRODUCTION.

The Hebrews now entitle all the Five Books of Moses, from the initial words, which originally were written like one continued word or verse; but the Sept. have preferred to give the titles the most memorable occurrences of each work. On this occasion, the Creation of all things out of nothing, strikes us with peculiar force. We find a refutation of all the heathenish mythology, and of the world’s eternity, which Aristotle endeavoured to establish. We behold the short reign of innocence, and the origin of sin and misery, the dispersion of nations, and the providence of God watching over his chosen people, till the death of Joseph, about the year 2369 (Usher) 2399 (Sal. and Tirin) B.C. 1631. We shall witness the same care in the other Books of Scripture, and adore his wisdom and goodness in preserving to himself faithful witnesses, and a true Holy Catholic Church, in all ages, even when the greatest corruption seemed to overspread the land. H.

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This Book is so called from its treating of the Generation, that is, of the Creation and the beginning of the world. The Hebrews call it Bereshith, from the word with which it begins. It contains not only the History of the Creation of the World, but also an account of its progress during the space of 2369 years, that is, until the death of Joseph.

The additional Notes in this Edition of the New Testament will be marked with the letter A. Such as are taken from various Interpreters and Commentators, will be marked as in the Old Testament. B. Bristow, C. Calmet, Ch. Challoner, D. Du Hamel, E. Estius, J. Jansenius, M. Menochius, Po. Polus, P. Pastorini, T. Tirinus, V. Bible de Vence, W. Worthington, Wi. Witham. — The names of other authors, who may be occasionally consulted, will be given at full length.

Verses are in English and Latin. HAYDOCK CATHOLIC BIBLE COMMENTARY

This Catholic commentary on the Old Testament, following the Douay-Rheims Bible text, was originally compiled by Catholic priest and biblical scholar Rev. George Leo Haydock (1774-1849). This transcription is based on Haydock’s notes as they appear in the 1859 edition of Haydock’s Catholic Family Bible and Commentary printed by Edward Dunigan and Brother, New York, New York.

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Changes made to the original text for this transcription include the following:

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Footnotes. The original text indicates footnotes with special characters, including the astrisk (*) and printers’ marks, such as the dagger mark, the double dagger mark, the section mark, the parallels mark, and the paragraph mark. In this transcription all these special characters have been replaced by numbers in square brackets, such as [1], [2], [3], etc.

Accent marks. The original text contains some English letters represented with accent marks. In this transcription, those letters have been rendered in this transcription without their accent marks.

Other special characters.

Solid horizontal lines of various lengths that appear in the original text have been represented as a series of consecutive hyphens of approximately the same length, such as .

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Monetary sums in the original text represented with a preceding British pound sterling symbol (a stylized L, transected by a short horizontal line) are represented in this transcription with a following pound symbol, l.

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Unreadable text. Places where the transcriber’s copy of the original text is unreadable have been indicated in this transcription by an empty set of square brackets, [].

Chapter 18

Angels are entertained by Abraham. They foretell the birth of Isaac. Abraham's prayer for the men of Sodom.

[1] And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day. Apparuit autem ei Dominus in convalle Mambre sedenti in ostio tabernaculi sui in ipso fervore diei.

[2] And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near him: and as soon as he saw them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground. Cumque elevasset oculos, apparuerunt ei tres viri stantes prope eum : quos cum vidisset, cucurrit in occursum eorum de ostio tabernaculi, et adoravit in terram.

[3] And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant: Et dixit : Domine, si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, ne transeas servum tuum :

[4] But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree. sed afferam pauxillum aquae, et lavate pedes vestros, et requiescite sub arbore.

[5] And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken. Ponamque buccellam panis, et confortate cor vestrum : postea transibitis : idcirco enim declinastis ad servum vestrum. Qui dixerunt : Fac ut locutus es.

[6] Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth. Festinavit Abraham in tabernaculum ad Saram, dixitque ei : Accelera, tria sata similae commisce, et fac subcinericios panes.

[7] And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man: who made haste and boiled it. Ipse vero ad armentum cucurrit, et tulit inde vitulum tenerrimum et optimum, deditque puero : qui festinavit et coxit illum.

[8] He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree. Tulit quoque butyrum et lac, et vitulum quem coxerat, et posuit coram eis : ipse vero stabat juxta eos sub arbore.

[9] And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo, she is in the tent. Cumque comedissent, dixerunt ad eum : Ubi est Sara uxor tua? Ille respondit : Ecce in tabernaculo est.

[10] And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying and Sara thy wife shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. Cui dixit : Revertens veniam ad te tempore isto, vita comite, et habebit filium Sara uxor tua. Quo audito, Sara risit post ostium tabernaculi.

[11] Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women. Erant autem ambo senes, provectaeque aetatis, et desierant Sarae fieri muliebria.

[12] And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure? Quae risit occulte dicens : Postquam consenui, et dominus meus vetulus est, voluptati operam dabo?

[13] And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I who am an old woman bear a child indeed? Dixit autem Dominus ad Abraham : Quare risit Sara, dicens : Num vere paritura sum anus?

[14] Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son. Numquid Deo quidquam est difficile? juxta condictum revertar ad te hoc eodem tempore, vita comite, et habebit Sara filium.

[15] Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the Lord said, Nay: but thou didst laugh: Negabit Sara, dicens : Non risi, timore perterrita. Dominus autem : Non est, inquit, ita : sed risisti.

[16] And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way. Cum ergo surrexissent inde viri, direxerunt oculos contra Sodomam : et Abraham simul gradiebatur, deducens eos.

[17] And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do: Dixitque Dominus : Num celare potero Abraham quae gesturus sum :

[18] Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed? cum futurus sit in gentem magnam, ac robustissimam, et benedicendae sint in illo omnes nationes terrae?

[19] For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him. Scio enim quod praecepturus sit filiis suis, et domui suae post se ut custodiant viam Domini, et faciant judicium et justitiam : ut adducat Dominus propter Abraham omnia quae locutus est ad eum.

[20] And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. Dixit itaque Dominus : Clamor Sodomorum et Gomorrhae multiplicatus est, et peccatum eorum aggravatum est nimis.

[21] I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me: or whether it be not so, that I may know. Descendam, et videbo utrum clamorem qui venit ad me, opere compleverint; an non est ita, ut sciam.

[22] And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord. Converteruntque se inde, et abierunt Sodomam : Abraham vero adhuc stabat coram Domino.

[23] And drawing nigh he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked? Et appropinquans ait : Numquid perdes justum cum impio?

[24] If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein? si fuerint quinquaginta justi in civitate, peribunt simul? et non parces loco illi propter quinquaginta justos, si fuerint in eo?

[25] Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment. Absit a te ut rem hanc facias, et occidas justum cum impio, fiatque justus sicut impius, non est hoc tuum : qui judicas omnem terram, nequaquam facies judicium hoc.

[26] And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake. Dixitque Dominus ad eum : Si invenero Sodomis quinquaginta justos in medio civitatis, dimittam omni loco propter eos.

[27] And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes. Respondensque Abraham, ait : Quia semel coepi, loquar ad Dominum meum, cum sim pulvis et cinis.

[28] What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty. Quid si minus quinquaginta justis quinque fuerint? delebis, propter quadraginta quinque, universam urbem? Et ait : Non delebo, si invenero ibi quadraginta quinque.

[29] And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty. Rursumque locutus est ad eum : Sin autem quadraginta ibi inventi fuerint, quid facies? Ait : Non percutiam propter quadraginta.

[30] Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I find thirty there. Ne quaeso, inquit, indigneris, Domine, si loquar : quid si ibi inventi fuerint triginta? Respondit : Non faciam, si invenero ibi triginta.

[31] Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty. Quia semel, ait, coepi loquar ad Dominum meum : quid si ibi inventi fuerint viginti? Ait : Non interficiam propter viginti.

[32] I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten should be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten. Obsecro, inquit, ne irascaris, Domine, si loquar adhuc semel : quid si inventi fuerint ibi decem? Et dixit : Non delebo propter decem.

[33] And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place. Abiitque Dominus, postquam cessavit loqui ad Abraham : et ille reversus est in locum suum.

Commentary:

Ver. 1. Sitting, &c. that he might lose no opportunity of exercising hospitality.

Ver. 2. Men in outward appearance, but angels indeed. Heb. xiii. 2. S. Aug. de C. D. xvi. c. 29. Some have supposed, that one of them was the Son of God, whom Abraham adored, and who bears throughout the chief authority. Tres vidit et unum adoravit. He saw three and adored one, as we read in the Church office. In the former supposition, which is generally adopted, this adoration was only a civil ceremony, if Abraham considered them as mere men; or it might be mixed with a degree of religious, though inferior veneration, if he imagined they were angels; or in fine, he adored God in his representatives. H.

Ver. 4. Wash ye, or let your feet be washed by me, or by my servants, laventur. M.

Ver. 5. Therefore, Providence has directed you hither. Abraham promises but little, and gives much, in the true spirit of generous hospitality. C.

Ver. 6. Measures, or one epha; that is, three pecks and three pints, English corn measure. --- Flour, of the finest quality, similæ. --- Hearth, as being soonest ready.

Ver. 7. Himself. These rich and truly noble people, do not esteem it beneath themto wait on strangers. They provide abundance, but no dainties. H.

Ver. 9. Eaten apparently. Tob. xii. 19. or perhaps they consumed the food, as fire may be said to eat. S. Justin's Dial.

Ver. 10. Time, or season of the year ensuing, if I be alive; which he says after the manner of men, as he had assumed also the human form. H.

Ver. 12. Laughed, as if the promise were incredible. --- My lord, or husband, which title of respect, S. Peter i. C. iii. 6, commends. D.

Ver. 13. Indeed. This was the import of Sara's words. By thus revealing what was secretly done in the tent, he shewed himself to be more than man.

Ver. 14. Hard. So Gabriel says to the blessed Virgin: there is nothing impossible to God.

Ver. 15. Afraid; which does not entirely clear her of sin: for though she might innocently laugh, if she thought the person who spoke was only a man, yet she ought not to have told an untruth; and if she reflected, that he had disclosed what she supposed no one knew, and thereby manifested his superiority over man, her denial was still more inexcusable. But she was taken, as it were, by surprise; and therefore the Lord reproves her very gently. H.

Ver. 21. I will go down, &c. The Lord here accommodates his discourse to the way of speaking and acting amongst men: for he knoweth all things, and needeth not to go any where for information. --- Note here, that two of the three angels went away immediately for Sodom; whilst the third, who represented the Lord, remained with Abraham.

Ver. 25. With the wicked. God frequently suffers the just to be here the most afflicted; designing to reward them abundantly hereafter. But this was not so common in the days of Abraham and Job. C.

Ver. 32. Ten. Abraham's chief solicitude was for Lot; though, out of modesty, he does not mention him; trusting, however, in the divine goodness the he would be preserved, unless he had forfeited his justice, he proceeds no farther. God thus challenges Jerusalem to produce one virtuous man, and the city shall be saved for his sake. Jer. v. 1. H.

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End of Year 2018: Best Things I Read

Magazines and articles:

The Atlantic: When the Presses Stop — an article about Bernie Krisher, the man who started The Cambodia Daily, a newspaper in, well, Cambodia. But it’s about a lot more than that — Cambodian history, the struggle of democracy, free press and the government that wants to shut it down.

National Geographic: Epic Journeys of Migratory Birds — National Geographic did a “Year of birds” theme in the magazines, and hooly shit, this article did not disappoint with descriptions of birds that fly 7000+ miles in eight days. How birds can manage this every year is still a wondrous and tender mystery, especially now that they are specifically vulnerable to climate change. I read it for the reporting as much as for the photography.

Wired: It’s Going to Be a While Till We Find the Next Steve Jobs

Esquire: The Butterfly Killer — I devour stories like this one about people obsessed with collecting natural specimens, like butterflies. They will stop at nothing to get what they need for their collection. Part science, part psycho-thriller. Except these are real people.

National Review: Standing Tall for China — China suppresses a lot of press and information about the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Even in countries with free press, I find every June there’s little reporting. Glad to have stumbled onto this article about a survivor who remembers first hand the events that happened.

The New Yorker: Take the Money and Run — Universal Basic Income! I am no economist, but I really believe UBI is a valuable idea that should get some traction.

Wired: How a Bunch of Lava Lamps Protect Us from Hackers — Not so much an article; more of a blurb. But the idea here is really neat. And mesmerizing to watch as an organic, non-robotic being.

The New Yorker: How E-Commerce is Transforming Rural China — I finally developed the patience to read (some) New Yorker articles, and the reporting in this one left no stone unturned across this expansive topic. Everything you ever wanted to know about how people use technology outside of the West, how people build and disseminate tech, and what it might mean for rural China.

National Geographic: Lost at Sea: Why the Birds You Don’t See Are Fading Away

GQ: The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage

GQ: The Great Chinese Art Heist — This one checks a lot of boxes: art theft, government conspiracy, Chinese history, coincidences. It was a starting point for a major rabbit hole for me. I had no idea that there was a mind-blowingly ginormous park with priceless sculptures and ingenius clockwork/fountain in Beijing — and that it was burned to the ground by British and French.

The New Yorker: The Return of the Native — The thoughts of an immigrant, albeit a British one, resonate from the practical (it is more expensive to live in America?) to sentimental (is the home country still home?).

The New Yorker: Maltese for Beginners — I’ve heard that if you learn multiple languages, after your sixth or seventh, your brain has understood the linguistic mechanisms of language enough that you’ll be able to pick up another half dozen with ease. This article explores this topic in more detail.

National Geographic: Inside the Murky World of Butterfly Catchers

National Geographic: The World Has Left Yemen to Die

History: The Painted Mummies of Al Fayyum — Images of these portraits of the dead stopped me in my tracks. The expressions are so real and dimensional. And this is around First Century B.C., centuries before people figured out (again) how to create dimension and depth in art. Mind blown.

Books:

Smaller is Better by Lee O. Young

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

Through the Hidden Door by Rosemary Wells

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by pure coincidence the Metamorphoses' saddest gay death is in pride month :( :(

RIP Athis and Lycabas

Erat Indus Athis, quem flumine Gange edita Limnaee vitreis peperisse sub undis creditur, egregius forma, quam divite cultu augebat, bis adhuc octonis integer annis,               50 indutus chlamydem Tyriam, quam limbus obibat aureus; ornabant aurata monilia collum et madidos murra curvum crinale capillos; ille quidem iaculo quamvis distantia misso figere doctus erat, sed tendere doctior arcus.               55 tum quoque lenta manu flectentem cornua Perseus stipite, qui media positus fumabat in ara, perculit et fractis confudit in ossibus ora.      Hunc ubi laudatos iactantem in sanguine vultus Assyrius vidit Lycabas, iunctissimus illi               60 et comes et veri non dissimulator amoris, postquam exhalantem sub acerbo vulnere vitam deploravit Athin, quos ille tetenderat arcus arripit et 'mecum tibi sint certamina!' dixit; 'nec longum pueri fato laetabere, quo plus               65 invidiae quam laudis habes.' haec omnia nondum dixerat: emicuit nervo penetrabile telum vitatumque tamen sinuosa veste pependit. vertit in hunc harpen spectatam caede Medusae Acrisioniades adigitque in pectus; at ille               70 iam moriens oculis sub nocte natantibus atra circumspexit Athin seque adclinavit ad illum et tulit ad manes iunctae solacia mortis.

Ovid, Metamorphoses V.47-73

"There was an Indian youth, Athis by name, whom Limnaee, a nymph of Ganges' stream, is said to have brought forth beneath her crystal waters. He was of surpassing beauty, which his rich robes enhanced, a sturdy boy of sixteen years, clad in a purple mantle fringed with gold; a golden chain adorned his neck, and a golden circlet held his locks in place, perfumed with myrrh. He was well skilled to hurl the javelin at the most distant mark, but with more skill could bend the bow, When now he was in the very act of bending his stout bow, Perseus snatched up a brand which lay smouldering on the altar and smote the youth, crushing his face to splintered bones. When Assyrian Lycabas beheld him, his lovely features defiled with blood—Lycabas, his closest comrade and his declared true lover—he wept aloud for Athis, who lay gasping out his life beneath that bitter wound; then he caught up the bow which Athis had bent, and cried: "Now you have me to fight, and not long shall you plume yourself on a boy's death, which brings you more contempt than glory." Before he had finished speaking the keen arrow fleshed from the bowstring; but it missed its mark and stuck harmless in a fold of Perseus' robe. Acrisius' grandson quickly turned on him that hook which had been fleshed in Medusa's death, and drove it into his breast. But he, even in death, with his eyes swimming in the black darkness, looked round for Athis, fell down by his side, and bore to the shadows this comfort, that in death they were not divided." (Transl. Miller 1915)

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THE MECCA OF GAMING

With E3 last month, the game industry is abuzz following all the showcases, gameplay and announcements. And why wouldn’t it be? This is looking to be another excellent year in gaming.

E3 is a platform for the industry to talk to the world, an opportunity to showcase our innovation and art that will define the next year of interactive entertainment. It provides a light for where gaming innovation is taking us, not just for gamers, but industry professionals as well. It’s an opportunity for professionals to see what other companies are doing and how they are leading the charge into the future of gaming.

For many professionals in the industry, E3 is a time of elation mixed with exhaustion as teams prepare for the largest gaming event of the year. It’s an opportunity for publishers, developers and retailers to meet, and it has traditionally been a place where deals and connections are made behind closed doors. As a gamer though, I still view it as the industry’s annual Mecca, where everyone in the industry comes together for one purpose: to showcase their love of games.

There was a lot of exciting coverage this year with many great titles on the horizon, but as a single-player gamer at heart, there were a couple titles that I completely fan-girled over.

LARA CROFT BECOMES THE TOMB RAIDER

Crystal Dynamics has slowly been building Lara Croft’s character to become the Lara we know from PlayStation 1--- and I gotta say, I think we’re here. The first installment of Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider trilogy focused on a young, naïve Lara being hunted and forced to learn how to survive. The second title embodied Lara’s independence and need to set out on her own. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is all about mastery. As seen in the gameplay footage, Lara is no longer the prey. She has become the predator and she is not trapped in the jungle with Trinity. They are trapped in the jungle with her.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is set in a fictional lost civilization in Latin America that blends Incan, Mayan and Aztec influences. Tombs and puzzles will be more prevalent and deadlier than ever before. This makes me happy to hear, since I miss the longer, intricate puzzles that dominated the original PS1 Tomb Raider.  Also, instead of the quick ‘fetch quests’ that we saw in Rise of the Tomb Raider, side quests will be multi-step stories, where you can learn more about the community, and the history behind this world.

As Crystal Dynamics has taken their time layering the scars upon the mercurial adventurer, I look forward to seeing Lara Croft take the final steps to becoming the Tomb Raider she’s destined to be.

THROUGH THE VALLEY: TLOU 2

Five years later, and The Last of Us is still one of the greatest games in video game history. It’s ability to evoke strong human emotions such as compassion and tenderness makes it a unicorn in this industry.

E3 showcased the first gameplay trailer of The Last of Us Part II and if there is one lingering impression from it, it’s the starkness and grimness of the violence. Which Naughty Dog VP, Neil Druckmann, says is the point. The game is designed to make you feel uncomfortable. 

If the first game’s over-arching theme was the primal idea of love and the unconditional love of a parent for a child, then the second game’s primal theme is hate. Something we’ve all experienced when we see injustice being committed and something that’s easy to lose control of. Druckmann’s aim in TLOU 2 is to make the player feel that and to reflect and show the consequences of violent actions.

Unlike other games, where violent action is not intended to be meditated on, here it is different. It’s gristly and slow, with all the messy intangibles of real violence to make you reflect on. It’s not supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to be engaging—to make you feel these moments, which can be hard to watch as it should be with human suffering and cruelty.

These are the concepts that no other studio has been able to master in a game quite like Naughty Dog. For me, The Last of Us Part II is undoubtedly my most anticipated game to come out of E3. Taking place four years after the first game, I’m ready to walk in the shoes of Ellie and see how the world has turned her into resilient, survivor she’s become today.

GAME ON

While Shadow of the Tomb Raider and TLOU2 may be at the top of my most anticipated games to come out of E3, there were still several other notable titles worthy of the hype.

·CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is a FPS with heavy RPG-elements whose gameplay trailer left the audience in awe. It’s an ambitious crawl through a seedy city’s underbelly in a grimy, dystopian future. From the creators of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this expansive story-driven, open world RPG is certainly one to watch out for.

·Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed: Odyssey was announced and the trailer looked breathtaking. Set in Ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War, for the first time you get to choose a male or female protagonist. Ubi’s also hitting hard on the RPG-elements with individual pieces of armor, dialogue trees and romance options for your character. Interestingly though, it’s set several hundred years before the creation of the Assassins (AC: Origins). While only a theory, since we saw the birth of the Assassins in the last game, I wonder if we will see the birth of the Templar in this one.

·Beyond Good and Evil 2 was announced last year at E3 as a prequel to the 2003 game, Beyond Good and Evil, and this year Ubisoft showed off a new trailer that wowed long-time fans of the game. It’s confirmed that both Jade and Pey’j will be in the second game, but Jade isn’t the girl we thought we knew. It seems that she was once deemed a ‘nemisis’ and the trailer ends with Jade rushing toward Pey’j wielding a katana with rage in her eyes. Intrigued, I can’t wait to learn the origins of one of my favorite space operas.

Stay tuned each month as I use this platform to discuss, ponder, and illustrate the complexities within the game community and industry. If there are any topics you’d be interested in reading about or seeing discussed, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

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