#all of you strategist!dream experts have literally all of my respect and love

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this is checkmate.

aka: dr3 tries their hand at the strategist c!dream interpretation. do they succeed? who knows. please be nice i dont have a single idea how chess works ;-; 

tws: blood, violence mentions, implied torture, abuse, unhealthy mindsets, mentioned manipulation, dehumanization, suicide, exile arc, prison arc, c!dream critical ? (not really? but he’s like. kinda absolutely an asshole a la strategist!dream (or any c!dream)), dark content, dark imagery

this is checkmate.

he is not gentle. he is not kind. even when he donned the wool of a sheep's skin, he knows that his teeth flashed wicked and sharp from beneath its corpse - he is no fool, and when he pours poison into his words he knows the taste better than anyone else that may hear it.

to say he meant well is a lie. to say that he was kind is a worse one. and he will not pretend to tell the truth, either, not when he has built this façade brick by careful brick (the same hands that had laid down the stones of a house they laced with trinitrotoluene to destroy)- he is not far gone enough to pretend that the red that bleeds from his sword and eyes and mouth is anything other than blood.

it goes like this: a chessboard is an eight by eight grid with sixty-four squares in total, thirty-two black, thirty-two white. there are sixteen pieces on either side. the objective is to checkmate the opposing team - leave its king under attack, and unable to escape.

there is much to say about cruelty. about mercy. when he takes the time to think about it, in hours that blend into seconds or maybe blend into days (it's not like he has a clock that will tell him which) he thinks they look much like the same thing.

was it cruelty or mercy that led to a death trap, blood on blackstone brick, button still stained with the fingerprints of the one that pressed it last? was it cruelty or mercy that led to bows drawn over an oak wood path, half a heart beating to the rhythm of a war's end? was it cruelty or mercy that led to a deal for so-called independence that only shackled them all to a nation that saw too much death in its creation and too much gunpowder in its end? cruelty or mercy, when it was by his hands that it died and brought everything it took with it? was it cruelty or mercy, when he chipped and broke and shattered items and homes and shard by battered shard of a child's trust and love and hope, pulled him by his throat to death's edge and then held him back with the same hand? cruelty or mercy, when he did not let him die?

(he laughs through a mouthful of blood and salt and rotten potatoes, unable to hold himself up and unwilling to try. the pain doesn't dull. he learned that long ago, but it surprises him all the same. he knows the answer to that last question. sometimes, it's better not to.)

chess, more than anything, is a game of strategy. 

and he is self-aware, despite it all. he knows that he has no tongue of silver, no heart of gold. there is nothing kind in the curve of the smile on his mask and nothing beautiful in the face it hides underneath - but he has pored over battle plans, knows the art of the fight and the grace of teeth against knuckles and the allure of the scrape of a blade against another just as well as he knows the pulse of his own (still-beating) heart. 

charm is not the only way to get what you want.

it does not take fake smiles to lay the foundations of his victory, does not take any softened words to get the information he needs. it takes nothing at all to make them all hate him, because they always would and they always will. it does not sting, because he cannot let it. 

he has no part to play but that of the monster he is and he will not pretend that he cannot stop, because he can. he will not act like he is not in control of every step he takes, not when he wears his armor so much he half-thinks it must be stitched to his skin. he does not sleep, because he has no appearances to fake. logstedshire is gone, but there is a prison growing on the horizon and a vault beyond the mountains. his words taste bitter in his own mouth, and it's fine. he no longer needs them to seem sweet.

because - in the end, the point they all forgot and what will always have him moving forward and always leave them wanting - any chessmaster knows that to learn to win, you must first learn to sacrifice.

even a fool knows the necessity of losing a few pawns. a better player may tell you that there is no piece not worth losing, if you know what you're doing.

and dream?

the SMP is a far cry from a chessboard, nowhere near as neat, littered with the scars of fights long past and burdened with history too heavy for it to bear. the sides are not simple, and nothing resembling even. paint it black and white, and it becomes unrecognizable.

still, the principles remain, and dream plays the game that he knows no one else is willing to, takes the mantle of villain left for him and goes where no one else will. 

(people are not chess pieces, but play your cards right and they can become something scarily close.)

so he learns the meaning of sacrifice and then teaches them all in turn, says he does not give a fuck because his greatest crime will always be that he gave too many. the ground under logstedshire is littered with caverns from TNT - it's a lesson, though he is not sure for whom. he takes the crown from george's head and looks down the point of a crossbow bolt aimed at his throat by someone that once might have been a brother, wears the hatred that only grows in others' hearts just as he does the armor that he no longer takes off. punz leaves because he told him to and ranboo does not because the server has yet to know. the community house was laid down brick by brick, but its end is nowhere near as quick and nowhere near as kind.

he is no stranger to sentiment. still, with the frayed strings of fate dangling from his hands, threads cut by his own axe one by one, he can fool them all but he will not deceive himself. he can still care. he did care, once. 

caring will not get him to his goal.

loyalty will not bring the sparks to burn the bridges that let others pull him back, kindness will not let him take the steps that he needs to move him forwards, attachment will leave him a foot short from the goal he has (lost everything) done everything for and let him fail.

it goes like this: to win a game of chess, you must checkmate your opponent's king. it must be under immediate attack with no means of escape. 

so when it all ended and everyone ran through the portal, weapons drawn, to the vault he built? 

dream never made himself a way out.

[enchanted-moura]

How the Muses can manifest

& has manifested throughout popular culture, tropes and media.

I wanted to expand on this because I know the Muse is so broad and confusing, I was contemplating today on how its more commonly portrayed or seen. 

My ideas were:

Popular Cheerleader/Prom queen type

Glamorous student of the arts

Lady in waiting reading her letters from her suitors

Girl who is the dream girl/crush of many guys in her class or office

Artisan whose designs and creations are highly appreciated.

Glamorous Chef who cooks aromatic & delectable recipes

The lover of an artist or musician

Someone dear to you(like your mother, lover, pet can be a personal muse)

An Expert or Teacher who is respected for their craft and is well loved(Miss Honey from Matilda)

Trophy wife or Kept Women of a prominent wealthy man( this type of Muse is very popular these days as an inspiration)

Fabulous Harpist, Pianist, Guitar Player(or any instrument lol) who calms and seduces people with their music. I remember Alicia Keys was a big muse with her piano and many guys I knew obsessed over her.

Beauty Expert in the store advising you on skincare & makeup

In demand Burlesque Dancer or any genre of dance

A passionate curator & collector of an area of their choosing

Fashionista who is alluring and unique with their style

Desirable Popular Exotic Dancer

Popstar & Musicians in general

Courtesan & Geishas

An exotic beauty who uses their beauty to their advantage or to be unique

Glamour Magazine Model who is the object of many desires and fantasies

Models with sex appeal in general(we saw this with Victoria Secret & Playboy). The Muse manifested this way can be short lived since its purely superficial

Literally ANYONE cause there’s no real rhyme or reason as to what people find interesting and appealing.

The Muse doesn’t have to do any of these things, its most important to embody her in essence and spirit. The Muse actually adores worship, adoration and admiration. It is not like other energies who do not care to engage with others. To Channel your Inner Muse, you have to address the part of you who wants recognition and loves to be desired. You have to appreciate that you may want gifts, offerings & celebration of your beauty & allure. To feel ashamed of this is to scare your inner muse.

With that said, a Muse can be a strategist and scholar(Cleopatra), a Muse can be a Warrior(Joan of Arc) and a Princess(Princess Aurora) and a Muse can be a goddess(Hathor). Real archetypical energy isn’t a versus battle but we are ALL and can move as ALL. Never feel confined or limited because its a trap to limit your power.

Have fun, be imaginative and creative. Pretend you just got paid for a sensual magazine cover or you are paid thousands to deliver a talk or you are a beauty strolling through the mall who turns every head, that is how you channel your Muse.

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Is Google’s latest Doodle a jab at President Trump?

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Jan 30, 2017

Google’s Doodle enhancing its research club Mon was suspiciously regular:

Although Mon did tag what might have been the 98th birthday of Fred Korematsu, a municipal rights activist who struggled Japanese Americans’ internment during World War II, Bingis respect to Korematsu likewise arrived merely times after Leader Trump closed an executive purchase on immigration excluding folks from eight mainly Islamic nations from entering the U.S.

The boy of Western immigrants, Korematsu, declined to follow President Franklin N. Rooseveltis government order following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which Period describes “pressured about 115,000 americans of Western ancestry to reside in specified military areas.” Korematsu joined up using the ACLU and appealed the purchase within the Supreme Court event of Korematsu v. Usa. Although the judge decided against him his activism was fundamentally compensated in 1998 when he was granted the Medal of Independence by President Bill Clinton.

Bing did not inform you whether its Doodle on Mon was, as Company Expertis David Kobach set it, a “subscription-doodle.” Nevertheless, the organization has indicated worry over the purchase of Trump. Google co founder Sergey Brin delivered a contact to the team of Google Friday, composing that it had been “unpleasant to determine this government purchase on our colleagues’ private price.” The technology giant has additionally produced a $2 thousand disaster account within the aftermath of Trump’s bar.

4:59 a.m. ET

A week ago, Leader Trumpis main strategist and former Breitbart Information chairman Stephen Bannon , and truly all correspondents, the press is “the resistance party” and really should “maintain its mouth closed and simply hear for awhile.” CNNis Jake Tapper possibly had the very best reaction, but Stephen Colbert wins factors for stunning, dried literalism. Colbert isn’t, officially, area of the press — he was more incensed from the area of the meeting wherever Bannon named Trump voters “working-class Hobbits” — but his community utilizes good quality types, and Encounter the Country sponsor John Dickerson and his cell offered us a flavor on Fridayis Delayed Display of what Bannonis dream-world may seem like. It is considerably more funny that you could anticipate, provided the strange, bare risk towards the free push from the White House standard that is leading.

4:21 a.m. ET

“You actually regret happening holiday?” Stephen Colbert requested at the start of his first Delayed Display of the Trump management. “‘Take the week down,’ they stated. ‘ whenever you return America it’s still below,’ they stated. ‘ per week? just how much might he do ” After the inauguration of Leader Trump, everybody stated find out and delay, Colbert mentioned, and we-didn’t need to wait “The point goes truly quickly with this trip. Every single day you begin sickness and simply get straight back about the rollercoaster. You have to provide the guy — he is able to truly obtain a large amount of items undone. Again to 2004, he is currently relocated the nation back from ObamaCare to climatechange to pain. If this retains up, soon I am likely to start The Colbert Report.”

Trump may be government orders’ ” Bold,” Colbert stated, and the purchase slamming the doorway on refugees for atleast 120 times, when you will find more refugees on the planet than anytime since World War II was centered on by him. He stated that there was from Syria with visas a Religious pair delivered residence — “That Is like stating: Welcome to the America of Trump, a glowing town on psych!” — subsequently handled on the 5-year old Iranian child arrested and divided from his mom, “or as Kellyanne Conway calls it, substitute day-care.”

Colbert was nonplussed that Trump political strategist Stephen Bannon was handed a lasting chair about the National Security Council, observing the Whitehouse warranted your decision by observing Bannonis naval encounter. “Excellent, within the Navy — today we simply need to include the Indian key, the guy, and also the building employee and contain the conferences in the YMCA,” Colbert stated. “Mike Pence isn’t likely to like that part.”

“But that’s not the point thatis many individually unsettling in my experience,” Colbert stated, displaying that Bannon lately named Trump voters “the working-class Hobbits.” A known J.R.R, Colbert. Tolkien specialist, was having none of it. “you may be the dim press guru behind the largest electoral annoyed in National background, you may be playing with footsie with Neo Nazis, however now we are speaking Tolkien,” he explained. ” the mouth area, as it pertains to Hobbits you must close and hear for some time.” He finished having a professional for the large Supreme Court statement Tuesday of Trump evening. “just how many careers may David Bannon have?” View below.

3:31 a.m. ET

On Friday, actor Peter Capaldi informed BBC Radio 2 this is his last period enjoying the namesake Period Master about the venerable British sci fi display Doctor Who. He performed with the regeneration of the Physician, and also his alternative has not been called by the BBC. The Holiday occurrence is likely to be his swansong.

Capaldi has performed the Physician and his starting in Dec and the leave of long-time Steven Moffat may correspond. “Among The biggest rights to be Doctor Who’s to determine the planet at its greatest,” Capaldi said. “From innovative team and our amazing team working to discover the best broadcaster in the world, kindness towards the audiences and followers whose limitless imagination points to some better future forward. Everybody ca n’t be thanked by me enough. It has been cosmic.”

3:08 a.m. ET

On Friday, Leader Trump closed an executive order on immigration and refugees “which was not just vicious and needless but additionally evidently really badly considered,” Seth Meyers stated on Wednesdayis Night Time, observing that after Trump closed it, it appeared as if he’dnot actually browse the purchase. Neither had anyone billed with carrying out it, therefore there is large distress at airports round the nation.

“within an particularly vicious perspective, the bar led to the detention of an Iraqi who’d worked to get a decade being a interpreters for that U.S. army in Iraq,” Meyers stated, displaying a of Hameed Darweesh, after he was ultimately let-through traditions. “consider that — he was arrested for 18 hrs at JFK, and America is still loved by him. If you’re able to save money than 2 hours without dropping your Sht, you need to get citizenship that is intelligent.” He also-ran including a-75-year old grandmother having a green-card, through various other people swept up within the mayhem.

“It Is just been per week, however the Trump managementis currently unveiled itself to be always a government of inexperienced authoritarians with only disregard for all of the fundamental constitutional concepts this nationis valued since its beginning,” Meyers determined, hrs before Trump dismissed his working attorney-general for decreasing to protect the purchase in courtroom — probably the topic of Wednesdayis “deeper look.” Having a Samuel M, he finished on Friday. Jackson laugh. View below.

2:25 a.m. ET

Going back 11 decades, the neighbors in Co of Paul Goldan, have not needed to proceed significantly their day paper to obtain.

Every single day, Goldan and his gold retriever Quincy create the area models, with Quincy heading from house-to-house, getting the paper at the conclusion of the garage and jogging it-up towards the front-porch, therefore the recipient does not have to stroll too much. Goldan informed KUSA his spouse created the concept, working that Quincy “may pursue a basketball, why don’t you venture out and obtain the document?” They are doing regardless of the current weather, this every single day — actually, Quincy enjoys searching for papers hidden within the snowfall.

Quincy may be the next Goldan dog and having a handle, he is compensated after each effective shipping. When he is ill and not able to consider Quincy on his path Goldan stated, the neighbors contact to check and make certain Quincy — not — is ok. Goldan stated he does not mind enjoying second-fiddle to his puppy, even though it was enjoyable to coach Quincy, “more essential for me, it is simply good to provide for your neighbors.”

2:23 a.m. ET

Jimmy Kimmel handled the large information of as soon as on Fridayis Kimmel Live, observing that Leader Trumpis government purchase atleast temporarily barring all refugees and guests from eight bulk-Islamic nations was rolled-out chaotically within the weekend and fulfilled with protests in only about every important town. ” That Is whenever you understand they visit the airport: It Is Sunday, they’ve no journey ideas, plus individuals are angry,” he explained. The type of swept up within the clutter was an arrested 5-year old child whose Iranian-created mom waited for him in the entrance. ” the Whitehouse press-secretary, Lucky Spicer, had the work nowadays of attempting to clarify how detaining a-5-year old keeps the nation secure,” Kimmel stated, enjoying the cut. He was not pleased with Spicer’s protection. View below.

1:53 a.m. ET

On Wednesday night, performing Attorney-General Sally Yates advised Justice Department attorneys that so long as she went the DOJ, its attorneys “may not provide justifications in protection of the government purchase” Leader Trump released on immigration from eight Islamic countries since she is not “persuaded the government order is authorized.” Leader Trump quickly dismissed her, stating Yates “has betrayed the Division of Justice by declining to impose a lawful purchase.”

Yates have been likely to depart the division a couple of days following the Senate verified Trumpis nominee, Sen. Jeff Periods (R-Ala.), and she apparently understood her notice can lead to her early termination. But occasionally “the attorney-general includes an obligation if he requests something whichis incorrect to express number towards the leader.” That last estimate is from Jeff Periods — whose protégés apparently published Trumpis government purchase — speaking with Yates at her deputy attorney-general Senate confirmation reading in March 2015. “When The sights a leader really wants to perform are illegal, if deputy attorney-general or the attorney-general state zero?” Classes requested. “Senator, in my opinion that even the deputy attorney-general or the attorney-general comes with an accountability to check out the Structure and also regulations,” Yates responded.

Periods continued to evaluate the leader to some company government. “Occasionally, the attorneys need to inform Mr. boss, the entrepreneurs, do not do this, we will get us charged,” he explained. “It Is likely to maintain breach of regulations. You will regret it. Please. Regardless of how headstrong they could be, do just like this is the responsibility of the attorney-general’s workplace you feel?” Yates said yes.

Before overall, Periods wandered along memory lane: “I recall John Ashcroft, attorney-general for Bush, he is been recognized, when he was within the clinic, they attempted to obtain him to signal a doc that handled terrorism that he believed went too much, he declined to do this. Therefore, I really hope that you simply feel liberated to state number, within others who stated no to Nixon on particular problems yet the personality of Ashcroft.” Ashcroft was contacted within the clinic, Periods didn’t note, since the working attorney-general Comey, who’s today mind of the FBI first rejected Bush. You are able to view the whole Periods-Yates trade at CSPAN.

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