#and i will persist in my 4d until it does and even after it has

[jealousmartini]

ughh today was awfulll

Everything is pissing me off, today is taking too long to end, my back aches, i feel stupid and guilty for not doing my robotic affirming for over 4 days, I don't feel like my ideal self, i tripped up the stairs twice, i crave attention, and i feel like im falling behind on my research even tho this is my third week into the project and the research is due to be done in 6 weeks. but you know one of my friends held my hand when they both saw I was walking alone so that's nice😞💔

I just want to go home ughhhh

[listleven]

Simple guide on manifesting ✨

Choosing what you want to manifest. This is genuinely the hardest part. Especially if you are a beginner and you think you choose something a bit out of reach for you.... no. Anything is possible. This is classic but even the word impossible has Im possible in it. The thing with this is if you are trying for the first time and have had bad experiences or are expecting bad you are going to try and go for something more attainable or completely over consume. AND THATS OK. Practice is great. Go for what you think is smaller if it helps you ease. But you can manifest even with doubts bc despite the misinformation you don't need to "feel" like you have it. What happens a lot is people give up and stop persisting when they don't see it in the 3d. So they have "backup options". And then they create this cycle of fear that if they didn't manifest this, will this work?? RELAX!! It will.

Persisting. Of course you've heard a dozen times before but why do you think its so popular. Now here you're going to persist until your desires materialize in the 3d. AKA when your subconscious mind has been impressed. Even in doubt you will persist bc it does not make a difference. You will THINK like the person who has it not feel if you can't. Thats literally it.

TIPS:

In order to think like the person living in the end you can write a story from that POV, affirm, meditate, guided meditations to help you relax, I use subs that use present tense, affirmation tapes, SATs, and sm more.

A little tidbit of my own is affirming that the 3d is no more real than a dream. Im going to make a separate posts in all the ways dreaming and the 3d are so similar. That way you can say stuff like "ah this doesn't matter its just a dream in the true reality I have everything I want." This can also induce lucid dreams because I do reality checks and confirm to myself that im dreaming and immediately start meditating to "ground myself" for 5 seconds by doing this Ive done it in my dreams.

Refocus to the 4d if you're ever in doubt. Everything right now, isn't real not time, or physical objects. Go back to the imagination. Its kind of funny right how everyone gaslighted us into believing imagination is not the reality and we had to "come back to the real world" LMOA its literally vice versa.

If you are persisting and don't see it in the 3d, don't you dare give up to manifest something more "attainable" this creates a loop where you go back to number 1 over and over. Remember you already have it. How do you know? Because this is no more real than a dream and you are the validation.

Accept the 4d as the only real reality

If you have had "failed attempts" Revise. Bc in the 4d no you didn't??? Ex. all those failed pure conscious attempts are not real , you actually have induced them in the 4d. If you keep persisting and accept that all those "attempts" worked, the 3d will conform.

Reminding yourself you have something and reality checks are the same thing. Going back to my prevoius point about my own tidbit. The most biggest similarity in the 3d and dreaming is you can control both using the 4d. We all know how reality checks work right. Persisting works the same way. I mentioned this in a previous tip above. I’ll do many reality checks confirming the 3d is a dream (bc it’s not real and stuff) and I’ll “ground myself” this allows me to trigger lucid dreams when I sleep AND I’ll add in something like “ofc I’m dreaming in the true reality I have —-“. That’s literally how manifestation works. If something “ fails” NO IT DIDNT. If you got a bad grade after manifesting in a good one, what? But you did get a good grade. In your 4d the real reality. Remember. Remind yourself that none of this is real. You did get that A. You are dreaming. None of this is real.

There are no such things as failed attempts. AGAIN going back to the prevoius tip with revision. That did happen. You did shift. Let’s do a “which reality am I in” check right now. Oh and would u look at that you are in your dr.

I’m definitely going to post more about the last two bullet points to give more clarification.

UPDATE: posted a link explaining the second last point, it's right on it. I put one on accepting the 4d as well one mentioning time. Also I will make one on the last point later. I think most of this is clear but if u want me to post on any other point lmk.

~ with love, Jyspire

[sexydreamgirl]

i know u received a lot of asks like this before but i seriously i don't know what to do anymore. this whole affirm and persist thing really drained me so i wanted to learn more about states and read neville, but i just don't understand anything. i can't grasp the concept about imagination being the only reality and the fact that we shouldn't care at all if our desire will appear in the 3d. it's been so long since i discovered the law and i wasted so much time that i'm starting to think that maybe it's not for me and i should just give up. i want to manifest my dream life so bad and runaway from my circumstances, but i don't know how. i would be grateful for any advice you can give me.

"i can't grasp the concept about imagination being the only reality..."

Imagination: the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.

This simply means imagination is what matters most because imagination creates. Before it became reality, everything around you was once merely an idea: the internet, social media apps, technology, electronics, the model of your home, cars, freeways, haircut trends, the design of the clothes you are currently wearing, the very idea of even wearing clothes, art as a whole, it doesn't matter what you point at; EVERYTHING was born from imagination. What does that tell us? Imagination is the starting point of everything all around you.

"I and my father are one, but my father is greater than I" = Imagination and reality are one, but imagination is greater than reality.

I reckon what make have sparked confusion in you is the implied dichotomy of the 3D and the 4D in that statement (imagination is the "only" reality) when that isn't the case. The 3D and 4D are symbiotic, the only thing that "separates" the two is man's capacity to perceive it through the senses. Imagination comes first because it's where ideas originate from, the 3D is simply a mirror that reflects what you are conscious of (accept to be true [assumptions persisted in]).

The beauty of imagination is the fact that you can very much bear witness to whatever it is you would like to at any point because imagination is devoid of logical limitations. You can always turn to imagination to identify with something because you can feel something in the present moment without any tangible factors you would've otherwise depended on to spark an idea or a feeling. If I asked you to simply recall what it feels like to drink ice cold water after chewing minty gum, you would immediately start to remember and feel your mouth growing cold. Or if I asked you to think about your favorite song you'd be able to listen to it in your head without it even playing. Neither of these recollections were limited by the fact that you weren't chewing gum or listening to that song at that very second. You were capable of imagining on the spot through your senses and feel their reality.

Let's recall the basic tenet of the law: an assumption, though false, if persisted in until it has the feeling of reality, will harden into fact.

The barrier that confines an idea to stay an idea is the absence or presence of belief. Limitations can never be placed upon imagination or god, except for belief. Ideas you conceive through imagination with the use of the senses will help you bring forward the reality of whatever it is you desire to be, but these ideas mean nothing if you do not feel their reality and identify yourself with them until you become conscious of them. (This also goes back with what is said about you not caring whether or not it'll happen the moment you become conscious of them, more on that right after this.) If you dare to believe in its reality, no power on earth can stop it from coming to pass.

"...and the fact that we shouldn't care at all if our desire will appear in the 3d."

Now, I understand why this is said but I don't like speaking about this angle solely because I understand that a lot of us were drawn to manifesting due to the fact that it could give us something we wanted, so hearing something like this may not make much sense. This is an unpopular opinion (understandably so) but I don't think having this approach towards manifesting is particularly wrong. I felt compelled to include this to let you know it's okay if it doesn't resonate nor make sense to you, it can be quite annoying and maybe even upsetting if you're in difficult circumstances and someone is telling you that you shouldn't dwell on whether or not it happens. We are here to experience the 3D after all, so of course it makes sense that you care about it happening.

Nevertheless, that sentiment in itself is 100% sensical and valid for the following two reasons:

1. The goal is always to free ourselves from the feeling of desire. You appease hunger (desire) by experiencing that idea with the use of your imagination and consequently, you will feel fulfilled. It's like when you're starving but once you enjoy a wonderful meal, you're no longer hungry. When you feel fulfilled, you are free from desire. In this case, that would look like no longer craving food since you've already satisfied your hunger. 2. Imagination creates reality. Anything that you imagine impressed with belief/acceptance of it will give it cubic reality. That's law.

Back to my unpopular opinion, although I do turn to imagination for enjoyment, I also turn to it with the intention of causing something to happen in the 3D, it's fine to see it as such. However, I do think that the idea of not being concerned with whether or not it happens may be much better in approach so you're not overwhelmed by the compulsion of doing in order to receive or even be haunted by whether or not you did it correctly. I highly suggest you read everything I wrote in the post I linked above as well as my guide if you haven't already.

I don't want to get too off topic from trying to clarify your confusion so I'll stop explaining here, but I hope I was able to bring some clarity to the concerns you brought to my attention. Lastly, there really is no "advice" I can give you aside from stick to a single source, apply the information you've learned and persist. Above all, have faith.

[theecunt]

Omfg y'all i just had a major epiphany !!!! 🤠🤠 + Success story 😸

( warning ⚠️ : veerrryyy long post )

So basically .... I usually just scroll loa blogs (as one does) and i always saw something like "consciousness is the only reality" or "imagination is the real reality"

And i was always like "girl wtf is you talkin about 🧐" and i never read them cuz i didn't understand it and i didn't want to overcomplicate the loa anymore 🙄✋

(Note : i still don't know if this is what they meant . This is just what I think)

Fast forward ..... I was at school. Bored. And i was just reminding my self of my rules bcuz I'm tryna work on my mindset

And just kept on thinking on how fast 3d conforms to the 4d

And i realised it !!!

They were right . The 3d doesn't matter. The 4d is the only reality 😲

Lemme elaborate 🤓

(⚠️ warning I'm kinda bad at explaining things so bear with me 😃)

First things first ,

what is law of assumption?

"an assumption though false if persisted will harden into fact"

So basically if you think it's true , it is

Now let's see what 4d and 3d is ,

4d = inner world (imagination )

3d = our outer world (aka the 'real reality')

So now that's clear let's move on 🚶

Now what if I told yall that 4d and 3d are the same thing 😶‍🌫️

Yup u heard me right .

It's true 🤷

How ???

I'll tell you how .

So basically the 3d mirrors the 4d right ?? It has to . That's the fckin law

That's it's only purpose (and this is why it's stupid to react or give power to 3d )

If it's true in 4d , it's true in 3d

Simple right ? Then why do ppl not get results

Bcuz they think it takes time for 3d to conform

We all know that the 4d is instant. All loa blogs say it

Again, if it's true in 4d it's true in 3d

So , if 4d is instant then 3d is instant

Bcuz 3d only reflects the 4d

This might be confusing 😝

So let's get mathematical 🧑‍🏫

4d = instant

3d = mirrors 4d

So , 3d = instant

Therefore,

(4d = instant)(3d = instant)

4d = 3d (both instant)

Also,

4d is imagination and 3d is the real reality

If 4d = 3d

Then, imagination= real reality

Thus ,

Imagination is the real one not the 3d ✍️

if I have apple 🍎 in 4d i have apple 🍎 in 3d . There is no other option . Loa can't fail .its impossible .

It's just like law of gravity : if something goes up , it comes down

Law of assumption: if it's true in imagination then its true in real life

You don't wait for gravity to work . It comes down just as instant as it went up

If it took 4 secs to go up . It takes 4 secs to come down . Not 5 . Not 10 . 4 !!!!

THERE IS NO FAILURE IN LOA . YOU CANT FAIL . ITS IMPOSSIBLE 🙌

Conclusion

It isn't "the 3d will reflect the 4d"

It's "the 3d reflects 4d"

No will , no going to . It does . That's it

If u say it takes time for 3d to conform it implies that 3d and 4d are 2 different things . It's not .

Persisting doesn't mean think from ur desire 24/7 . It means think of ur desire . Know it's done and move on. Do something else .

Now onto the success story 🥳

(I know a lot y'all looove to read success stories to believe in something. Which is fine ☺️ we all need motivation from time to time . But don't be dependent on them )

Ok so it's kinda "small" success story. But it proves everything i mentioned above so...

Anyway so I was going Back home from school (after this epiphany)and there is this road with a divider thingy so that 4 wheeler vehicles won't come . Anyways it's been removed for a while and i was just thinking

"oh that thing is gone . Hmmm. I guess cars are gonna come on this road "

And in less than 5 seconds a fckin car comes from the opposite side ‼️

And it's no coincidence bcuz my whole life i have NEVER seen a car on that road . Even my mom was like "oh that's weird cars don't come on this road "

So yeah that it .

Read until it sinks in . It could be a lil confusing a first

Or don't if u don't want to . U make the rules . 🙂

Bye babes 😘

[growingblooms]

inspirational post <33

I never understood why loa bloggers said “persistence is key” until I actually persisted.

My mindset was the worst. I was THAT kind of person “I’m the exception the law doesn’t work for me☹️” or “I don’t think I have xyz I feel like I’m lying to myself💆‍♀️”. I used to write huge lists of things to manifest and start a plan to manifest them all. Then I would affirm for them and feel good but even the slightest of doubts could crash the mindset I was “building”. See here I was wrong. You think you need to grow your mindset to manifest instantly blablabla not true😠!! You are not growing your God mindset you were born with it, you’re only telling the doubts and worries to stfu cause they are not you. 💅🏻I will say this forever. YOU DO NOT HAVE DOUBTS the ego does. There’s no mindset to be changed, there’s just an ego to be crashed. All you need to do is choose what you want and P E R S I S T. Persisting isn’t important just for your desires to show up in the 3d. Persisting is crucial for your mindset. You can’t expect to “start over” every time you doubt. No matter the ups and downs your “mindset” has YOU gotta persist. DECIDE not to resonate with those bad feelings and worries and soon enough you won’t feel like ur sayin ur affirmations lying to yourself, you’ll feel like ur directly talking about your life in the 4D. By doing this my mindset shifted in one day. That day I woke up feeling amazing, I did my affirmation routine and then everything dropped. I started questioning everything like “why the hell am I feeling good” “hold on now do I actually have xyz”. Usually I would’ve started over my whole manifestation “journey” but I got so mad istg. I was like bruh I was doing so good before affirming what the hell happened. Well this is what happened. After affirming I felt so good that my ego had to come in right away. I wasn’t used to feeling so good. But I had been there before so this time I decided to let it pass. Even if once again I felt like I was lying to myself when affirming, I kept saying “no I know I have xyz, this is simply my EGO”. Hours later I had entered the sabbath state. I knew because I went out that day not caring AT ALL about my 3d. I was wild seriously I started looking around in the 3d in the worst circumstances KNOWIN they weren’t real. It felt so liberating. It felt like the 3D was this dead reality and that everything could be changed. Spoiler that’s what it is!! I knew this time it was the final mindset shift because I had felt like that before but I always knew these great feelings were gonna pass and I would go back to doubting. This time it lasted and it just felt so right and pure. Moral of the story You cannot fail. You think you can fail because you have doubts? You persists and those WILL go away. AINT NO DAMN WAY THEY WONT GO AWAY AND YOU KNOW IT. I DONT CARE IF YOU WERE DOING SO GOOD FOR A WEEK AND THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED. YOU PERSIST BECAUSE THE REAL YOU (GOD) STILL NEEDS TO COME OUT. idek how to explain it. It’s like you were never meant to suffer on this earth, you were meant to feel so limitless that everything you want comes to you. KEEP PERSISTING CAUSE YOU CANNOT FAIL.

Okay bye <33

[renaroo]

Some Times (Time and Time Again) (4/8)

Disclaimer: Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, and associated characters are the creative property of DC Comics. Warnings: Canon shaken not stirred, Heavy canon references to Booster Gold (2009-2011) and Blue Beetle (2016-2018) Pairings: Boostle Rating: T Synopsis: Booster Gold and the rest of the Time Masters are still straightening up things in the wake of the most recent universal Rebirth. But Rip Hunter is still missing in the aftermath, leaving Booster in charge with Skeets, Michelle, and Rani. But there’s a distraction for Booster, one he can’t keep himself from ignoring.

Ted Kord, miraculously, is still alive. And that makes everything more complicated than Michael could have ever imagined.

A/N: Haha! How’s that for an improved rate for chapter turn arounds! I don’t know if I can manage it weekly, but boy wouldn’t that be nice. All things considering. 

And lovely and well deserved thanks to @mcbangle, @shibascarf, @secretlystephaniebrown, AlreadyThere, and Schwoo99 for your lovely feedback and support! It’s greatly appreciated.

Booster Gold

It was already a hell of a day by the time Booster finds himself racing throughout the busted up laboratory in search for Rani. He is in an all around bad mood, conflicted and somewhat wounded with old pains and traumas licking at his heels thanks to the conversation with Ted.

Then Rani — sweet, terrified, all his fault Rani — is gone. And there’s only an open wormhole leftover in the cabinet to clue him into what’s going on.

Using the Legionnaire flight ring, Booster kicks off the ground and zips back to where Michelle is standing by the lab command center. She’s looking a little shellshocked but Booster absolutely does not have time for that.

“She’s gone!” he yells at his sister instead. “She’s teleported out, but why!?” When that fails to draw Michelle’s attention, Booster comes to a hovering stop by her and stares in disbelief. “Michelle!” he snaps in imitation. “Are you listening!?”

Without turning toward him, Michelle says, “I know where she went.” Her hand draws up and points toward the chalkboard.

Not even fully listening to Michelle, Booster follows her gaze to the board and feels himself go slightly off balance. If he hadn’t been using the flight ring, he might’ve ended up on the floor sideways from the knock to his teeth.

On Rip’s meticulously kept chalkboard is a newly etched message that Booster knows for a fact was not there even earlier that day when he got back.

Ted Kord is KEY.

“What the hell?” Booster articulates first. Then, with a slight pang, he recognizes something even more pressing about the message. “Is that… is that Rip’s writing? No… Who…” he rambles out loud before glancing around the lab.

Half of him wants to accuse Rip Hunter of hiding in the shadows, of playing some kind of joke wrapped up in the 4D Chess he has been doing since he first met Booster. But there is nothing to see. There’s no one but them. Only Michael and Michelle.

Which begs another question.

“Skeets?” Booster calls out to no avail.

“Rani is looking for Rip. She sees a message from Rip. She takes the message and runs with it before thinking things through,” Michelle deduces. She then gives Booster and accusatory stare. “Wonder where she picks that up from?”

“I need to get to Ted’s, get Rani, put out any fires…” Booster lists off, already on his way to the transmat.

“Would you hold your horses?” Michelle demands. “I’ll put on my Goldstar suit and we’ll go together. I don’t like how this feels, Michael—“

“I’ve got this,” Booster doesn’t so much as argue as he is concluding the conversation.

“Jesus Christ what did I just say about running into things without thinking them through?” Michelle yells as she takes off running toward her room.

“No time for thinking!” Booster yells back, already beginning to transport. “The multiverse is colliding together because my daughter and my best friend are meeting each other!”

Michelle apparently has no comeback because rather than screaming it, Booster only hears a frustrated roar that he is far more familiar with than he should be.

In Booster’s mind, the worst case scenario is already upon him. Rani, freaking out and distressed, huddled in a corner while Ted, freaking out and distressed, is calling up whatever passes for social services among the Justice League. Someone will ask questions, take records, and Rani is suddenly on the map for some sort of time traveling ne’er-do-well to get at Booster if they want to. And he’ll lose Rani out of the great wide nothing just like he lost Rip—

Booster does his best to turn the alarms in his brain from an eleven to about a nine and thinks what complications this means for him and Ted.

Things are already complicated, Booster was hoping to go over some script or something with Michelle before hanging out with Ted again. How many things can he share? How much can Ted even be expected to believe? And how in the world is Ted going to forgive him for being a different person without any of the years and years of context that is suddenly missing between them?

How can Booster resist his instinct to constantly screw things up with the two people, at the moment, he cares about the most in terms of not getting screwed over?

It seems like a tall order, and before he touches foot in Ted’s lab again, he’s certain there’s a mix of these two things that will be his worst case scenario.

That is, until the reality smacks him in the face with a whole lot worse.

Black Beetle — his seemingly nameless and faceless enemy throughout the time stream — is standing in Ted’s laboratory. And worse yet, he is doing so with a gun much more serious than Ted’s old BB gun, right at Ted’s head. And Ted, for his part, seems genuinely stunned.

“Ted Kord,” Black Beetle snarls, “you must die!”

“NO!” Booster screams, the sound ripping through his throat from the core of his being.

He’s in the air and barreling toward Black Beetle before it even registers that Ted has leaped into action, grabbing Rani and rolling behind the desk. It’s a close call and Booster can only begin to thank his stars that Ted really is the Ted of his memories, but there’s not time to dwell.

“Get the hell away from them!” Booster roars as he connects his forcefield protected knuckles with the side of Black Beetle’s armored head.

Even with his field up, Booster feels the hit in the bones of his fist. There’s something harder to Black Beetle than the last time they fought. Which, Booster has to admit to himself, is not a good sign for him.

“Booster Gold,” Black Beetle snaps angrily, catching the second fist Booster throws at him. “I am surprised by your resilience.”

“By now you really shouldn’t be,” Booster growls back. He aims for the unarmored mouth on Black Beetle only to be caught a second time.

“After our last Beetle adventures, I had thought you had your fill of failing to save your friend from death,” Black Beetle hisses. Then, without warning, his head comes jutting forward, breaking through the field around Booster’s body with speed and precision to land a perfect headbutt for Booster’s nose. “But apparently your masochism is greater than that of the average fool.”

Dazed, Booster backs away with his hands released and instinctively reaches for his nose. Definitely broken, definitely gushing blood — but he doesn’t have the time for it because Black Beetle is already coming back at him.

Gritting his teeth, Booster directs the field shields to his left side and successfully deflects the incoming right hook. It gives him enough time to spit out a mouthful of blood and course correct. He needs some distance, maybe use a concussive blast to further to swing it.

He doesn’t get the time or the distance, however, as the Black Beetle armor produces a clawing arm-like extension which grabs Booster at the waist and clamps down, hard.

“Booster!” Ted yells.

“Mikey!” Rani screeches.

A quick panic tears its way through Booster and he glances wildly in the direction of the two voices. His fingers are still grappling with the claws of Black Beetle but his attention is fully on Ted and Rani — they are too close to all of this! Booster has to get Black Beetle away from them and do it fast.

“Stay down! Both of you!” Booster yells at them just before Black Beetle slams him headlong into the Bug.

“I have lost my patience for your persistent meddling!” Black Beetle snarls. “I will set all things right today! I will see to it that any anomalies for the time stream are destroyed! And I will enjoy listening to your pathetic screams as you know that you still are powerless to do a thing!”

Booster has literal stars in his vision once the dark clad time traveler drops him on the ground. His neck aches and he can feel the wheeze of air pushing back into his lungs. He knows he has to get back up, though, or else someone is going to do something stupid.

“I’ve had about enough of this!” Ted growls.

“Oh, no,” Booster says, smacking himself in the head to try to clear his vision quicker.

“Sir!” Skeets buzzes in front of him.

“Skeets! Save Ted! Rani! Anyone! Fuck!” Booster orders, pushing to his feet and seeing where Ted was.

Ted has already slid over the top of his desk, goggles on and pulled out some sort of large canon looking device with a fanned out disk at its front. When Black Beetle immediately shoots for the in-the-open Ted, the reply is given in kind by the strange device which showered the entire room with an immense white light.

“Solar gun kinetic converter!” Ted preens, even as the blowback sends him to the ground. He coughs. “Has a kick, but anything you throw at me, this baby will convert into a concussive blast and hit brighter!”

Booster smirks and pushes off from the ground in order to boost his launch speed as he hurled himself at Black Beetle.

The light flash from Ted’s machine has put the Black Beetle off balance enough for Booster to throw himself into and shove the man out toward the door and into the hall, out the tenth floor window.

As soon as Black Beetle crashes through the glass, Booster firmly digs his heels into the ground and skids to a halt just short of heading out himself. He releases a long sigh of relief as he actually does seem to have gotten ahead.

Unfortunately, Black Beetle’s armor seems to remember it has flight capabilities much faster than Booster did.

“Damn it,” Booster hisses, looking over his shoulder and realizing that Ted is rushing his way and Rani has crawled out from under Ted’s desk to get a better look. “Skeets! Get her down!”

The tiny robot is quick to listen, and Booster barking orders at all seems to make Ted take pause, but not before the shadow of Black Beetle hovering outside eclipses them both.

Booster locks eyes with Ted and feels that ever present twinge of guilt and horror that has lived with him for nearly five years at this point.

“Ted! Down!” Booster yells.

But it isn’t like before. There is action that Booster can take.

Thinking on his feet, Booster projects his forcefield onto Ted. It encloses the semi-retired Blue Beetle in an oval dome before moving along with Booster as they flew toward the laboratory.

“Are you going to explain anything that’s happening to me?” Ted demands as they land in relative safety from their attacker.

“Later over beer if we make it,” Booster promises wearily.

For a brief moment, Ted looks in Booster’s direction. He’s only nodding along to Booster’s words and yet, as he does so, Booster sees a trust and security from Ted that warms something deep inside of him. It’s been so long since they were doing this, side by side, both in the exact same moment.

Both trusting each other because… as long as they’re Blue and Gold they’re bound to win. Somehow. Some ridiculous fashion.

It’s all Booster can do to take a breath and feel confident that it’s going to be okay.

Just before he loses Ted’s gaze. Ted’s looking back in the direction of Black Beetle and his body immediately seizes in tension.

“Round Three!” Ted yells in warning.

Booster raises his guard and steels himself, but he already knows his main objective.

Skeets has Rani. Booster has Ted guarded with every ounce of reserve power his suit has.

Whatever comes next is going to hurt.

Black Beetle flies at Booster like a bat out of hell, crashing into him and the Bug once more. The metal surface crushes in around Booster as a result of the impact. Booster feels the air pushed out of his lungs but he refuses to think about it, instead punching as much as he can right for Black Beetle’s big dumb jaw.

Some hits land, but the momentum is working against Booster as he feels a pop in his shoulder against the grinding metal of the bug.

“You have no concept of the danger you’re in!” Black Beetle snarls, grabbing Booster’s shoulders and flying with him to the floor.

They crash into the cement, Booster first yet again, but this time Booster can get a footing. He kicks off the pavement and plants his feet right for Black Beetle’s crotch.

Even armored, the villain juts away on instinct, which gives Booster time use a concussive blast. He can only lift his left arm, but it’s enough to give space between them.

It’s not enough. Black Beetle is ready to go before Booster’s even caught his breath.

Fortunately, there is a boom followed by the cracking and folding of metal all around them.

Booster lifts up his head to get a good view as Michelle uses her magnetic fields to crush what’s left of the Bug and the surrounding loose metal and bring it down on the Beetle’s head.

“Get away from my brother!” she yells.

Taken by surprise, Beetle is brought down, the crushing weight growing the longer Michelle levies her magnetism on him. “Damn you, Carters, no!” he roars, reaching with his loosest hand toward the chest piece of his suit. “This is not over!”

With a similar BOOM and spectacle, the Beetle is gone, and all the metal and electronics in the area around him fall in a heap to the ground.

“Heard… that before,” Booster musters, pushing to his feet. His ankle twists in a wrong way and he collides with the floor. His unresponsive arm does nothing to brace for the fall.

“Michael!” Michelle yells.

“Booster!” Ted yells right along with her.

And just before he passes out, Booster thinks how unexpected and wonderful it feels to hear both of their voices at once.  

[durenjtmusings]

Summary: SPN Ghost Meta #1

Thanks to all who responded to my SPN meta question: What is Ghost Death anyway? : @hazeldomain​ @ameliacareful​ @mittensmorgul​ @deanwinchesterisadorable​ 

In addition, privately, @justanotheridijiton​  sent me this link Ghost Rules – which lists various comments from the SPN production and writing folks re: how Ghost rules have been developed over the seasons.  This is my favorite mind blowing quote:

“Kim Manners often jokes that the ghost rules are complicated, arbitrary, and exist only in Eric Kripke’s head.  Part of it’s true,” Eric Kripke admits.  “I just feel them out; it’s what feels logical to me.”

As I am trying to write Ghost Stories set in the Supernatural Universe, and unlike Kripke I am a creature of logic and flowcharts, the list below is an attempt to ‘codify’ the SPN Ghost Rules I have gleaned so far.  This LAS (long ass post) contains much of what is listed in the prose on the Supernatural Wiki page on Ghosts, but is more logically organized and addresses a number of important related items. Please feel free to add your thoughts based in specifics from a cited episode, or to add additional refinements or citations for what is listed below. [The wikipage has a complete list of all episodes through season 11 containing ghosts for helpful citation purposes.]  I have every intention of updating the list below as my research continues.

Ghost Rules (and related info) in the Supernatural Universe: (citations are in perens,) generally listing only the first or best clear canon appearance or explanation. [Items in square brackets] are speculation by fandom/me based on statements/events in canon.

1) Human souls exist; have power, value, and use to non-humans; and persist [6.11 - cannot be destroyed?]. Souls can exist without humans and humans can exist without souls. [Souls – supernatural wiki – lots of citations]

1a) Demons are human souls that have been warped and twisted in Hell and can possess a live or dead mortal body OR that have been warped and twisted by some other means and still in habit a mortal body e.g: Mark of Cain. Demons can derive power from Human souls. (Demons – supernatural wiki)

1b) Monsters are non-humans, but monsters that are created FROM humans retain some version of a human soul (6.05, 6.07) [Do all monsters have souls?]

1c) Angels are beings created by God before Humans. (Angels – supernatural wiki). Angels do not have human souls, but can derive power from the human soul. (6.03, 6.20, 10.20)

2) Ghosts are human souls that have not moved on to their appropriate location (heaven, hell) after death in the ‘mortal’ plane of existence. (1,01, 2.01, 2.16) Appropriate location seems to be tied to an overall purpose or plan “the Natural Order," (2.01, 6.11):

2a) Reapers are beings that appear near a human’s time of death and guide souls to their proper location (2.01) [protecting the soul? – re: Crowley and Bobby’ soul in 8.19]

2b)  Death (as an anthropomorphic personification) is the ‘manager’ of Reapers and thus overseer of human soul transport, but still seems to work with a set of guidelines created by someone/something else (6.11, 10.23)

2c)  Demon souls ‘belong’ in Hell (3.09).

2d) Monster souls ‘belong’ in purgatory (6.12, 6.20). Purgatory does NOT want Human souls (8.01).

3) Ghosts are ‘tethered’ to a spiritual plane of existence that “overlays” or shadows the human plane - but that has different rules of operation, and limits interaction with the mortal plane. This plane is referred to as ‘the veil’ or ‘the spirit world.’ (2.01, 4.15)

3a) Travel in the veil generally mirrors travel in the mortal world, but buildings/places that have been changed/destroyed in the mortal world may look different in the veil (buildings can have ghosts/ghost elements?)  (1.10, 4.15, 7.19, 3.13)

3b) In general, Ghosts (or spirits) can interact with each other within the veil as if mortal (hear, see, touch, etc.) (4.15).  They can also see things happening in the mortal plane and travel to different locations that match mortal locations (within limits that vary by Ghost). For the most part, this seems to use little ‘energy.’ (4.15).

4) Humans souls may become ghosts by deliberately choosing to refusing a Reaper (2.01, 7.10) or through involuntary means (1.01, 2.16). Ghost ‘tethers’/reasons for existence vary and may include:

4a) Their own bones or other physical fragment of their body (1.07). This can include transplanted organs. (6.14).

4b) An object – usually one that was treasured. This can include cars and houses (1.09, 1.13, 7.18).

4e) A person – via love for or need to protect a person or via vengeance/justice/wrong needing to be righted (1.01, 2.16, 9.07).

4d) Another ghost – ghosts may be tied together and unable to move on until the other ghost’s issues are resolved (1.10, 1.19, 2.16)

4f) Magic – an entity may ‘trap’(or recall?) a soul and force it to manifest as a ghost (usually to do its bidding). Examples:         ex1) Walter Dixon uses necromancy to summon the ghosts of past Hollywood actors and crewmen and forces them to kill people who have wronged him (2.18).          ex2) The demon Lilith raises the Witnesses, who are spirits of the dead, to attack hunters and break one of The 66 Seals. (4.02)          ex3) The demon Samhain summons ghosts and raises people from the dead, creating zombies (4.07).           ex4) Jimmy Tomorrow binds the ghost of Margaret Fox to him so she will kill other psychics he has a grudge against. (7.07)

5) Ghosts can attempt to interact with people/objects on the mortal plane, but this takes a) practice, and b) varying amounts of ‘energy’ (4.15). Emotion/will/desire is used to channel Ghost power for these purposes (7.19). Methods for interacting with the mortal plane:

5a) via voice (EVP or via connection with a human of psychic or other supernatural ability such as witches, demons, monsters) (1.01).

5b) via interaction with objects or humans (moving objects, passing through a human body, ghostly touch/shove) (7.19).

5c) via possession (sharing a human body without ejecting the existing soul) (4.13).

5d) via visual manifestation (noncorporeal - like a 3d hologram) (1.01). Ghosts appearances vary – some look very mortal/normal, others look like newly dead corpses (blue lips, pales skin, sunken eyes), others have horrible wounds, or look like semi-rotting corpses, etc. (1.01, 2.16).  Some ghosts can have more than one appearance and seem to be able to control which visage they manifest (1.01, 2.16). [Most seem to be wearing what they died or were buried in for clothing – or clothing tied to depiction (1.19).]

5e) via physical manifestation (corporeal – having physical properties similar to humans) (2.16). Uses use electromagnetic energy (theory from 1.19) and/or involves ectoplasm (bioenergy stated in 2.06).

6) Ghosts & Time - Ghosts tend to become more twisted, angry, or vengeful the longer they spend trapped in the veil (2.01, 7.19). This length of time varies, but seems to be shortened the more Ghosts attempt to ‘use’ their energy (7.22).

6a)  Ghosts seem to be able to ‘recharge’ their energy somehow, but this a) takes time during which they cannot interact with the mortal world (and may not be able to interact in the spirit world – e.g. 7.22) and b) seems to hasten madness/twistedness (7.22)

6b) Ghosts vs Demons: “You demons. You think you're something special. But you're just spirits. Twisted, perverted, evil spirits. But, end of the day, you're nothing but ghosts with an ego. “ (6.04) [Twisted ghost souls are different from twisted hell souls how? Because a Demon twisted them? Because they reached their ‘appropriate destination’ first and thus are tethered to Hell?]

7) Locating/detecting Ghosts - methods for finding ghosts who are bothersome to mortals include:

7a) Lights, sound, action: Humans in a haunted home may experience flickering lights, sudden drops in temperature and/or bumps, knocks or scratching sounds in the walls as ghosts attempt to interact with the mortal plane. They may also see objects move or find them broken. (1.09, 5.12)

7b) EVP – Electronic Voice Phenomenon – caused by ghosts interrupting electromagnetic fields, usually resulting the ability to hear words or short phrases (although longer is possible). (1.01)

7c) High readings on Electromagnetic field meters (EMF meters) indicate paranormal activity (not limited to ghosts, and may be caused by mortal technology) (1.01)

7d) Goop: Very powerful Ghosts can leave behind a dense bioenergy called ectoplasm as part of materialization. (2.06)

8) Dispelling and Untethering Ghosts can be accomplished by:

8a) Cold Iron (1.19) and salt (1.01) repel or disperse (1.07) ghosts. Salt due to its purity (2.16) and iron is said to disturb the electromagnetic field (1.19). Discharges from a shotgun filled with rock salt shells can force a ghost out of the mortal plane for some period of time (1.07). Salt may be applied to a ghost possessed person to force out a ghost (4.11, 4.13)

8b) Ghosts can become ‘untethered’ from the veil voluntarily by:          - Resolving the reason for the tether (gaining justice, righting a wrong, clearing up an issue with a friend/family member, dispelling the connecting ghost, etc.) (1.01, 1.03, 1,10, 2.07, 7.19). Sometimes this requires the death of a mortal (1.03, 6.14).           - A close friend/family member convincing them to let go/move on (9.07). Sometimes even a stranger can do this (2.16, 3.13)            -  Sacrificing themselves in battle with another ghost (1.09)

8c)  Ghosts can become ‘untethered’ from the veil involuntarily by:            - Salt and burn a) the body (1.07), b) specific body part (3.06) and/or an c) object containing body part/DNA (1.07, 1.19, 4.13, 7.23).             - Methods specific to the spirit. Examples: “Scaring” them into release (4.06), luring them into Holy ground (1.13), turning their own power against them (1.05), by stabbing with a samurai sword consecrated by a Shinto blessing (7.18).

8d) Untethered ghosts are escorted by a reaper to their appropriate place (8.19) but may be subverted into releasing the soul to another (like Crowley). [Speculation in canon and by fandom is that involuntary methods ‘hurt’ ghosts in some way (and/or are ‘against the natural order’). Perhaps these souls don’t get a reaper escort and thus may end up in the wrong place?].

9) Types of Ghosts - this list is not exhaustive, and includes several classifications NOT discussed in canon. Listed in order of first appearance:

9a) Woman in White (1.01) – ghosts of women who found out their husbands were unfaithful, and in a fit of insanity, killed their own children, then commit suicide. So, “…their spirits are cursed, walking back roads, waterways. And if they find an unfaithful man, they kill him. And that man is never seen again.” (Sam) Subset of vengeful spirit.

9b)  Vengeful spirit (1.03) – ghost who acts violently to avenge a wrong done to them, Can target either people directly responsible for their death OR (as judgement deteriorates over time) anyone who committed crimes similar to how the spirit died.

9c) [no name - Malevolent?] –  class of ghosts who, as humans, were ‘evildoers’ and then continue to kill after their death. Examples: Hook Man (1.07), Dr. Ellicott (1.10), Melanie Merchant (1.19), Dr. H.H. Holmes (2.06), Nurse Glockner (2.19)

9d)  Poltergeist – (1.09) malevolent vengeful spirits, who move objects and tend to be indiscriminate in who they attack (like anyone in a specific location, for example).

9e)  [No name - Trapped?] – benign or even helpful ghosts (have not yet become vengeful), who are trapped by or along with a vengeful or malevolent ghost.  Examples: Mary Winchester (1.09), Cole Griffith (4.15), Leticia Gore (5.09), Kate Fox (7.07),  Annie Hawkins, Victoria (7.19), Tommy (12.03).

9f) [No name - Phantom driver?] (1.13) – any spirit that includes a phantom vehicle (may be combined with vengeful spirit and/or poltergeist). [Where does the ghost ship fit in? (3.06)]

9g) [No name – Mission?] Non-vengeful ghosts who seem to have a mission or goal only vaguely related to their deaths and are willing to kill to achieve it.  Examples: Maggie Thompson  - a playmate (2.11), Father Thomas Gregory  - to punish sinners/evildoers (2.13)

9h) Phantom Hitchhiker (2.16) – mentioned, no description.

9i) Death Echos – (3.13) a spirit stuck reenacting its death over and over in a loop [may be linked to a certain date or event].

9j)  Witnesses – (4.02) Summoned by spells as part of the 66 seals, people who have seen, or died at the hands of, supernatural beings (identifiable by a symbol branded on them). A very strong vengeful spirit, forced to rise, but targeting a specific person chosen by spellcaster - are like animals more than sane spirits.

9k) Buruburu – (4.06) a ghost born of a person's fear after dying in a terrifying manner. They can then infect others with their fear, and this infection is known as the ghost sickness. The people they infect are usually people who have made a habit of terrorizing others.

9l)  Shojo – (7.18) a sea spirit connected to alcohol that can be controlled via a spell box to do owners bidding. Can only be seen by a person who is drunk.

9m) Spectre – (8.06) type of avenging ghost which possesses a person, senses their grudges, and causes them to act against the person who wronged them.

9n)  [No name - Helpful?] Ghosts that are benign and even helpful to mortals [younger and thus not yet twisted?]. Examples: Howard’s brother in 7.14, Bobby in 7.11, 7.13, 7.17; and Kevin Tran (9.14),

10)  Some Ghosts have special powers – often tied to how they died or were ‘brought back’ by another. [This is license to make sh*t up re: ghosts] Examples:       ex1) Peter Sweeney could travel anywhere that water from the lake he died in could travel (through pipes, etc.) (1.03) Sailor’s Ghost (3.06) has a similar ability.       ex2)  Mary Worthington could kill anyone through a warped reflection of themselves that accused them of the various deaths they were responsible for (1.05).       ex3)  Freeman Daggett seemed to be able to make Sam disappear and reappear in the blink of an eye, transporting him from the first floor to the basement of the house he was possessing (3.13)        ex4)  Whitman Van Ness could destroy other ghosts and absorb their energy (7.19)         ex5)  Andrew Silver can use wifi signals/internet to travel from location to location and to control electronics. (10.13)