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sunsetagain · 4 years ago

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Sunsetagain's Fandom Tags & Fan Comics

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Current obsession(s):

Love and Deepspace: Sylus

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Comics listed in this post were sorted by fandoms.

By time: Latest Updates

By languages: Non-English Comic Side Blog

┏━ Fandoms overview ━┓

▼ Fandoms with comics. Can also check out fan art via these tags here. Scroll down further to view the comics listed in this order.

Game: Love and Deepspace (2 comics)

Game: Baldur’s Gate (5 comics)

Game: Deus Ex (1 comic)

Game: Heavy Rain (1 comic)

Game: Detroit: Become Human (12 comics)

Game: Death Stranding (1 comic)

Movie: Marvel Cinematic Universe (3 comics)

TV series: The Borgias (2 comics)

TV series: Game of Thrones (1 comic)

Game: Assassin's Creed (49 comics)

Game: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands (3 comics)

Movie: Hacksaw Ridge (1 comic)

Original work (11 comics)

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▼ AU / CROSSOVER / PARO / MASHUP:

Love and Deepspace Baldur’s Gate 3 Detroit Become Human

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▼ Fandoms I only made fanart for but no comics yet.

Games:

Dragon Age, Hades, Alan Wake, Lies of P, Red Dead Redemption, Elden Ring, Atomic Heart, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, Steelrising, Disco Elysium, Star Wars, Cyberpunk 2077, Warframe, Resident Evil, Mass Effect.

Movies/animes/TV shows:

Ghost in the Shell, Battlestar Galactica, John Wick, Touken Ranbu, Arcane, Archive, RoboCop, Kingsman, Supernatural, Black Sails, Blade Runner, DC comics, Our Flag Means Death, My Student Spirit, Cold Case, The Musketeers, Tokyo Babylon, Chinese Movies & Dramas.

Actors:

宁宝, Clancy Brown (excluding DBH), Pedro Pascal, Ranveer Singh, Sean Harris, Matthew McConaughey.

Music:

Ghost band, K-pop, Michael Jackson.

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▼ Other:

Annual summary, art tutorials & tips, chat.

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88 comics, 2120 pages in total, by December 2024.

▼ Comics index ▼

LOVE AND DEEPSPACE

► Love Letter (2p)

Noticed the little heart shape on dragon Sylus' wrist so i found him a way to use it.

► Password (4p)

Detroit Become Human xover. Sylus model SL900 the android sent by Onychinus.

BALDUR’S GATE

► Hang the DJ (Black Mirror 404 AU) (27p updating)

Astarion and Karlach on their first date under the Absolute's command.

Modern AU. Main ship is fireblood but it's a multi-ship story as the original TV show is. Ship name will be tagged in every update. Please read with caution.

► I Need Protection (4p)

BG3 x DBH. Astarion Kamski and his android KC100 Karlach. Based on my headcanon back to 2018 about little boy Elijah building prototype Chloe to protect himself. Then it became my first BG3 headcanon right after I bought the game in August 2023 accidentally.

► Tabula Rasa (blank slate/empty sheet) (22p)

Before Withers invites them to the party, Ascendant Astarion tries his best to regain Karlach's love in the Nine Hells.

► My Heart’s an Empty Vase Looking for Roses (20p)

Spawn Astarion and Karlach talking about their plan in Avernus after the game.

► Sunburn (3p)

Spawn Astarion with Volo’s eye.

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DEUS EX

► ELIZA Effect (16p)

DBH & Deus Ex xover.

Description from Deus Ex POV: After Mankind Divided storyline in 2029, Adam returned to Detroit to hide a piece of Eliza in an antique shop, which inspired Kamski's android revolution 2038.

Inspired by the ebook "Synthetic Thought: The Human AI" in Human Revolution, and the side mission "01011000" in Mankind Divided.

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HEAVY RAIN

► Byzantine Generals season 2: Eclipse of Sybil

DBH & Heavy Rain xover. This link redirects you to chapters related to Heavy Rain. If you want to read the whole story, scroll down to Detroit Become Human section.

AI version of Norman helped Hank to save his son Cole from an Origami copycat killer in 2035 but failed. 4 years after that, Connor Army sought for his help once again.

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DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN

► DBH PDF pack download (by January.2024)

Contains all the DBH comics below (637 pages), also 118 fanarts, 29 photos of fanmade merch, 878 wip doodles.

┏━ Byzantine Generals ━┓

► Complete comic guide

Check this guide if you want to know more about this series.

► Season 1: Byzantine Generals (full story 155p)

Machine Connor went deviant during Markus' speech, eager to get rid of CyberLife control, but fell into Zlatko's hands.

Multi-language PDFs download

Available languages:

简体中文, English, Español, Deutsch, Français, Indonesian, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Polski, Русский, Português brasileiro.

► Season 2: Eclipse of Sybil (full story 354p)

Connor Army cooperate as nodes in Byzantine Generals network, working under LT. Anderson's lead. CyberLife sends 60 to intervene.

This all in one post (cut from block 9 part 2) is confirmed not editable anymore. Tried to make a new one but failed again. So you can keep reading from block 9 part 3 and follow the story by tapping on the next part link in every post.

Note: This all in one post contains graphical bugs because I can’t edit it anymore. Those bugs won’t affect the story flow. Check the update log in the complete comic guide above or the PDF below to read fixed version. But it’s your call.

Multi-language PDFs download

Available languages:

简体中文, English, Français, Русский, Português brasileiro.

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Short Comics

► Before Meet Kamski (3p)

Nonsense but Kissy HankCon.

► Able was I ere I saw Elba (20p)

Connor-51 gave up suicide and became Jericho leader/CyberLife's puppet in 2038. 4 years later on his birthday, Hank's call and birthday gift inspired Connor to escape from Amanda's control once again.

► ELIZA Effect (16p)

DBH & Deus Ex xover.

Description from DBH POV: Connor unlocked a "cheat" path to accomplish his mission at Crossroads as I had been imagining for quite a while.

Inspired by the ebook "Synthetic Thought: The Human AI" in Human Revolution, and the side mission "01011000" in Mankind Divided.

► Mr. Frisbee Says Hi (17p)

On Connor-51's 3rd birthday 2041, Hank shared his happy memories about Cole and Sumo, and sent Connor a surprising gift.

► Mini comics (4p)

Prototype RK800-00 (alternate Kamski test) inspired by ingame hidden capsules under Kamski's house;

2041: the year they make contact (2001: a space odyssey & 2010: the year we make contact AU) + earlier concept inspired by ingame magzine.

► The Fifth Seal (10p)

Markus executed RK800-51 at Night of the Soul, then got badly damaged by a tank after he deactivated RK800-52 at Hart Plaza. As RK series, their biocomponents are compatible.

► Project Kvasir (15p)

Back to 2021, Elijah suffered from the final stage of cancer. He hoped Chloe could save him. And she did. rA9 theory in this comic is my own opinion. Everything in this story is headcanon, which didn't happen in the game.

► Hero of Two Worlds (8p)

Happy 33rd birthday to Lieutenant Anderson 💙. Concept of quantum hyper-crystal was adapted from photonic hyper-crystal, an artificial optical material demonstrated by Vera N. Smolyaninova, Bradley Yost, David Lahneman, Evgenii E. Narimanov & Igor I. Smolyaninov.

► Century (16p)

Something about backdoor and Hank's shohin. Inspired by the novel Century (highly recommend this book) written by Sarah Singleton; and the last frame of the bonsai in Zen Garden from Connor's decomissioned ending.

► Last Little Piece of Him (13p)

After Connor's suicide ending. Hank found a little secret memory Connor had once kept for him.

► 16% Probability (6p)

After the happy ending. Just something I want Hank and Connor to tell each other.

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DEATH STRANDING

► Triangle (13p)

Deadman met Sam after the ending and told him some new information he found.

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MARVEL

► Rescue (32p)

Captain America & Winter Soldier

During decades of brainwash, Bucky tried to remember everything and rescue Steven from the Arctic.

► Do you (2p)

Captain America & Winter Soldier

Bucky is always worried about Steve's face since he saw Red Skull's face.

► Bucky lent Malik his left arm to punch Altair (1p)

xover with Assassin's Creed

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THE BORGIAS

► My Double In Rome (28p) SLASH!

Micheletto and Rufio were secret lovers since they were young. When Micheletto disappeared after killing Pascal, Rufio knew that the only way to make him show himself, was treatening Cesare's life.

► Goodbye (32p) SLASH!

Micheletto was stoned to death in the fields. The shards of memory flashed back in his fading consciousness. He remembered his love with Augustino and Pascal, his loyalty to Cesare, his hatred of his father.

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GAME OF THRONES

► Sun Of Dorne (16p)

Oberyn Martell & Tyrion Lannister

Tyrion cut off Gregor Clegane's head and took it on the ship. On his way to Dorne, he met with Oberyn's ghost at night. Done before season 5 came out.

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ASSASSIN'S CREED ROGUE

Shay Cormac (in chronological order)

►Shay's Chronicles in one go

contains comics below

►Canon compliant comics collection PDF

(Google Drive 387p)

contains comics below (comics out of timeline excluded)

► Battle Fire (8p)

In 9th century, Eivor met the son of Patrick the Anvil, a member of the Order of the Ancients he elimated earlier, and returned his Yggdrasil medallion. Eivor tasked this boy to build a sword and a dagger, which were found and reforged by Shay 9 centuries later.

► A Ship without a Rudder (chapter 1) (9p)

► A Ship without a Rudder (chapter 2) (7p)

► A Ship without a Rudder (chapter 3) (10p)

In 1755, Shay tried hard to escape Lisbon after the great earthquake. Discontinued.

► Unspoken Words (8p)

In 1757 Colonel Monro left the letter and the apple to sleeping Shay before he left for Fort William Henry.

►Ship of Theseus (13p)

In 1758, Shay, Haytham and Gist boarded Captain James Cook's HMS Pembroke. By chance Haytham got to know this ship belonged to his father's fleet once, and Shay told Cook he had heard her legend many years ago in Lisbon.

►Pay the Ferryman (12p)

On Dec.4,1758, Haytham's birthday. Shay sent him Adewale's memento, a Doubloon coin. Haytham told him one of his tasks about Doubloon and betrayal.

► I'm Not Part of His Army: Battle of the Plains of Abraham (script only)

On the night of Sept.12, 1759, Shay's birthday, during the siege of Quebec, With Shay's assistance the British army ascended the Plains of Abraham through L'Anse-au-Foulon, then defeated General Montcalm's troops the next morning.

► Equilibrium (11p)

In 1760, during the confrontation between Shay and Liam, Liam knew the ice would lose balance, so he stopped attacking and stepped back, trying to keep the equilibrium.

► Bonfire of the Creed 1763 (8p)

In 1763, Shay and Haytham destroyed Assassin Order and burned their archive, then Shay erased himself from Haytham's journal and left the Templar Order. Done before the game released and based on AC3 database, so the plot is different from the game.

► Gravestone (13p)

In 1775 Connor found Shay's portrait behind Haytham's painting, then asked Achilles about him.

► Great Fire of New York (14p)

On the night of September 21, 1776, a great fire broke out from the Fighting Cocks Tavern and burned down nearly a quarter of New York. Connor saved Cassidy Finnegan from her house. Cassidy mistook him with Shay, then told him the past of Fort Washington, and sent him Shay's tree of life insignia. 6 years later, Connor took over Fort Washington from the British army.

► Come Back To Me (90p)

Full story PDF download

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In the beginning of 1778, Haytham got punched and separated with Connor when they were searching for Church. Shay went back to Boston to meet with Haytham, and told him his story 1760-1776.

► Sail Away (45p)

(Warning: Alternate timeline, main character death) Fiction/script/English beta by Codex. Chinese fanfic links: 1 2 3

During a tough naval battle with a French man o' war, Haytham commanded Shay to abandon the damaged Morrigan, but Shay made his own choice at last.

► Charioteer (10p)

In 1778, when Haytham was chasing Church on Connor's Aquila, he remembered old days on Shay's Morrigan. Done before the game released, so the year was wrong because of gameplay demo.

► Tears of Mary (10p)

In 1781, after Achilles' funeral, Connor found Shay's chest in Davenport mansion, with 366 sorts of flower seed in it. Five years later, a Crown Imperial bloomed on Connor's birthday.

► Here's a Health to the Company (22p)

In 1782 Shay paid a visit to Jennifer Scott in London after Haytham's death.

► Once Upon A Time In Italia (8p)

In 1782 Shay paid a visit to Ezio's homeland and returned the box, then founded the Initiates.

► I Now Take Leave Of You (12p)

December 4th 1783, during George Washington's farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern, Connor met Shay. Later that night, Shay brought a birthday gift, which from 50 years ago, to Haytham's grave. From then on until 1863, the whole New York was under Templar's control, due to the Assassin hunter group built by Cormac family.

► Father of Seismology (20p)

In his last years 1811-1826, Shay went back to his homeland Dublin, shared his secret with a curious little boy. Done before Last Descendants being published so it's different from the official timeline.

► Pandora's Box part 1 (19p)

► Pandora's Box part 2 (7p)

► Pandora's Box part 3 (12p)

In 1838, Shay's grandson Cudgel Cormac inherited the Precursor Box and Shay's air rifle. After his father was slain by the Assassins, Cudgel met Shay's ghost released from the box, then got trained as an Assassin hunter.

Comics out of timeline

► Expert (12p)

Comic style illustrations of Shaytham modern AU Expert. Shay is a sniper of the Rooks and an undercover of New Scotland Yard while Haytham is his superior. Liam is a tipster selling information between gangs and police. Hope was Shay's colleague in the Rooks now aiming to assassinate Haytham.

► Piercings (2p)

Little Shay got his ears pierced by Liam.

► Transports Exchange (2p)

Shay and Midas (from Ghost Recon Wildlands) xover

► Assassinate Hitler (1p)

WWII AU

► Shooting Llamas (2p)

Shay and Midas (from Ghost Recon Wildlands) xover

► Irish Gang+BBQ delusion (17p) (AO3) SLASH!

NSFW PORN WITHOUT PLOT with Thomas, William and Haytham

► Hell Welcomes Traitors Like You (5p) (DeviantArt) SLASH!

With Dean Winchester from Supernatural

► Connor played a trick on their ponytails (2p)

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ASSASSIN'S CREED REVELATIONS

Yusuf Tazim

► Yusuf's chronicles: Tazim Rising (232p)

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Yusuf's early life before he met Ezio in 1511. Discontinued.

► But You Didn't (6p)

with Ezio. A poem modified from But You Didn't by Merrill Glass.

► May It Never Change Us (12p)

With the power of apple, Yusuf went back in time, wanting to save his father from Vali cel Tradat and Vlad Tepes in 1476, but he went back to the wrong place at the right time. So he assassinated Rodrigo Borgia and changed Ezio's life. Based on Tazim Rising.

► Different Kisses (4p) (DeviantArt) SLASH!

with Ezio

► Please Stay (1p)

with Ezio and Altair

► Friend Is The One Behind You (3p)

with Ezio

► Turkish Oil Wrestling (5p) (DeviantArt) SLASH!

with Ezio

► Ditto (17p) SLASH!

Yusuf's ghost traveled to Tuscany with Ezio and made friends with Flavia.

► Once More (4p)

with Ezio

► Late For Our Wedding (1p) SLASH!

with Ezio

► Are You Watching Closely? (19p) SLASH!

No one knows Yusuf had a twin brother and he died protecting Sofia.

► Parcae (17p) SLASH!

Yusuf traveled back in time to accompany Ezio since 1476.

► Achilles' Heel (61p) SLASH!

Ezio got badly injured during a mission, Yusuf advised him to search for Ishak Pasha's armor. Before he left for Cappadocia, Ezio left the armor to Yusuf. But the rumors of Ezio's death became Achilles' heel of Yusuf.

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ASSASSIN'S CREED 1

► Bucky lent Malik his left arm to punch Altair (1p)

Altair & Malik

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ASSASSIN'S CREED BROTHERHOOD

► Enemy at the Gates (15p)SLASH!

When Pantasilea was captured by the Baron de Valois, Ezio has his way to win the battle with Bartolomeo.

► MIO PRINCIPE (11p)

After Bartolomeo's death, Ezio came to Venice to attend his funeral and meet with Pantasilea and her daughters.

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ASSASSIN'S CREED REVELATIONS

► End of an Era (1p) (DeviantArt)

Ezio & Altair

► Tug of Check (11p)SLASH!

Shaun got in the Animus, tried to awake Desmond through synchronizing their special memory.

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ASSASSIN'S CREED EMBERS

►Merry Lantern Festival (1p) (DeviantArt)

Ezio & Shao Jun

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ASSASSIN'S CREED 4 BLACK FLAG

► Do You Remember (28p) SLASH!

Ah Tabai found a new observatory that could recall memory from one's blood, Edward had kept Calico Jack's blood vial all along, so he came back to Bahamas with it.

► Edward's Bloodhound THATCH (4p)

Edward & Thatch

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TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON: WILDLANDS

► Transports Exchange (2p)

Midas and Shay (from Assassin’s Creed Rogue) xover

► Shooting Llamas (2p)

Midas and Shay (from Assassin’s Creed Rogue) xover

► Holt's scarf (9p)

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HACKSAW RIDGE

► Secret in Bible (p1 in this post) (1p)

Desmond Doss & Smitty Ryker

Smitty hid something in Desmond's Holy Bible, along side with Dorothy's photo.

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ORIGINAL COMICS

►Cain's Red Sea (DeviantArt) (125p)

Inspired by Assassin's Creed. Made in 2009. Discontinued.

From 1856 Tianjing Incident of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to the Second Italian War of Independence, ends up in 1860 the Second Opium War. An incident survivor returned to his China hometown after spending years in Italy.

►Other original comics (DeviantArt) (278p)

All Chinese…too old (1997-2004) to have English ver.

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sensitivefern · 8 years ago

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A NOTE TO AUTHORS

THE AIM OF THE Smart Set, in general, is to interest and amuse the more civilized and sophisticated sort of reader – the man or woman who has lived in large cities, and read good books, and seen good plays, and heard good music, and is tired of politicians, reformers and the newspapers. [...] Poetry? We print twenty to thirty poems every month, and a good many of them get into the anthologies. But don’t send us sentimental things of the Poet’s Corner variety; we are tired of odes to the meadow thrush, and war-songs arguing that the death of a soldier is a grief to his mother, and clumsy attempts at vers libre, and lyrics of amour in which ‘heart’ rhymes with ‘part’. [...] To Your Interest and for Our Convenience

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The people therefore demanded something new in Israel – a king. [...] In spite of the Lord’s assertion that Saul was perfect and would deliver Israel from the Philistines, he became insane and was killed by these Philistines. Such is the fate of every god when his work is done, including Saul. Because of a slight transgression ‘the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel’ (15: 35), and an ‘evil spirit from God’ came upon him. These words are a sore perplexity to our deluded clergy. They cannot deny them, neither can they explain them away. That is because they are students of Divinity instead of Reality. The result is that ‘an evil spirit from God’ is upon them also; its name is priestly theology. Even after reading five books about an evil God, they cannot attribute evil to him. Well, Isaiah did, and reported this God as saying, ‘I create evil’. He is the involutionary evil for which Evolution must atone, and His work, Creation, the ‘sin’ for which man must suffer. concealing this fact from man is the priestly sin of the rest of the Bible.

[Deceptions and Myths of the Bible]

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Not only can geophytes be propagated simply by dividing a crowded cluster of bulbs or corms, but more arcane, yet simple, methods also work. A single scale broken off a lily bulb has the potential to produce a whole new bulb. Slice and dice a daffodil from top to bottom, and as long as each fragment includes a bit of the basal plant and a smidgen of two scales, each piece can regenerate into a new bulb.

The easiest way to multiply geophytes is by division. Dig up an overgrown clump of daffodils or snowdrops, separate them one by one, and as many as 50 separate plants may result. Dig and divide after flowering while the leaves are yet green. Brent Heath of Brent and Becky’s Bulbs prefers to wait until the leaves begin to fade to yellow. (after all, he points out, you wouldn’t like it if someone took you dinner plate away). Remember that it is the foliage growth that nourished the geophyte for the following year’s performance.

[Bulbs for Garden Habitats]

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striped cream violet | Viola striata Zone: 4 to 7... Easily grown in average, medium to wet, well-drained soils in part shade. Prefers moist, humusy soils. Does not spread by runners, but freely self-seeds... No serious insect or disease problems. Profuse self-seeding borders on being weedy in more formalized plantings... Mass in shaded areas of woodland gardens, wildflower gardens or native plant gardens... Viola labradorica × Viola striata → Viola ×‌eclipes H.E. Ballard is a very rare violet hybrid known from MA, RI. It is identified by its very pale blue corolla with a large white center and sparsely ciliate sepals (both character states are intermediate between the parents). It is further distinguished by its heavily fringed stipules, long sepal auricles, and abruptly acuminate leaf blades (in these traits the hybrid is more like V. striata).

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➤Saw first ringnecked pheasant for x-number of years; south field; cat.

❚50 years ago, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to enter the Boston Marathon. Today, she'll run it again.

Sylvia Moy, Motown pioneer who co-wrote numerous Stevie Wonder hits, has died at 78

North Korea Successfully Detonates Nuclear Scientist

Girls Lena Dunham show leaves as it arrived: with bravery, honesty and nudity The HBO sitcom has bowed out after six controversial, but undeniably influential, seasons. We look back on some of the highlights

HOW OXYGEN TRAVELS THROUGH YOUR SHITTY BODY

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consciousowl · 7 years ago

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Bright Future… Are You Kidding?

Have you ever placed bets on a future outcome, whether a horserace or your favorite hometown team? If so, did you bet on a negative or positive outcome? If you’re like most of us, it is more fun to bet on a result that truly excites you, one that would make a difference in your life. However, when it comes to the future of the world, in the face of a constant barrage of horrific headlines from the digital media, including superstorms, massive floods and droughts, political upheavals and saber-rattling from the nuclear superpowers, it takes an act of faith to believe that we will all be here the day after tomorrow. Did The Apocalypse have it right? Or is there something going on contrary to appearances that deserves our careful scrutiny?

The Nightmare Scenario of the Future

Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to the original Blade Runner, was recently released to intense critical acclaim. I went to the theatre and found that it was, indeed, a masterpiece, with an epic sweep, and a visual intensity, as gothic as it was, that quite simply defies comparison. This breathtaking sequel makes a truly dismal scenario strangely beautiful, even though it portrays an overcrowded world where human life is empty and meaningless. No one knows what it is to be human, or even if they are human. A whole new generation of replicants has multiplied. Even worse, you can no longer quite be sure if anything is real. William Gibson, the great cyberpunk novelist, reminded us that science fiction is about the present. In the Trump era, you can never be sure who is telling the biggest lie, and you can never fully trust the established media. We are most certainly moving toward robotics, advanced A.I., drones and autonomous vehicles and virtual reality. You can now date in virtual space, while never being sure your companion is whom you imagine him or her to be.

The Dream Scenario of the Future

By contrast, we have Barbara Marx Hubbard, who at 15 years of age, confronted President Eisenhower as the U.S. tested its first hydrogen bomb. Barbara asked Ike if there might be a good in our military-industrial complex as great as the evil then exhibited. Barbara pioneered conscious evolution, having befriended the great Jesuit paleontologist, Teilhard de Chardin. This evolutionist introduced the Noosphere, as a shell of conscious intelligence around our planet. He also predicted the Omega Point, when our Planet would become conscious of itself and humanity would finally unleash the overwhelming power of divine love. As Chardin put it, we would “invent fire for the second time.” Barbara made this vision her lifelong mission. In her 80’s, she reinterpreted the foreboding year, 2012, mistaken for the end of the world, as per one of the Mayan calendars. Barbara saw, instead, that this would mark the birth of a new humanity, what she calls Homo universalis, a whole new species. Barbara thought through the implications of our awakening to the universe. We are moving beyond tribe, sect, race, company and nation to embrace a greater whole. We are all citizens of the planet; our birthright is to speak up on Her behalf.

Wild Cards

If you were to judge strictly by appearances, we would appear to be doomed. If you took all the current demographic trends and extrapolated them in a straight line, we would have no room to even breathe. Experts rarely notice that life doesn’t work that way. Expect the unexpected. If you don’t believe in God, make One up, as the Universe appears infinitely intelligent. The New Paradigm Einstein’s Relativity and Heisenberg’s Quantum Mechanics have redefined reality from the inside out. This is a far greater shift than from the sun orbiting the earth to the earth orbiting the sun. Through extensive, rigorous experiments over decades, it is ever more clear that there is nothing really out there. Whatever we observe, we create. We participate in whatever we encounter. Separation no longer holds water as a concept. Appearances are just that, appearances. They are no longer a reliable measure of what is true. Integration of Eastern Mysticism With the emergence of China and India as technological superpowers, their ancient traditions are being revived and reinvented. It began all the way back in the 19th Century with revolutionaries like Mahatma Gandhi. Indians began to recognize they had the world’s oldest continuing spiritual tradition with infinite subtleties. After the Maoists had their day, China awoke to the beauty of its own Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist traditions. What had become taboo is now again celebrated. With deep globalization, Asians are impacting how people all over the world experience life. Our Global Brain In the 1990’s, the commercialization of the Internet unleashed a dramatic expansion of the world’s communication infrastructure. Fiber-optic cables were laid out across the oceans, and whole continents lit up. In the early 2000’s, we discovered that we had overbuilt. Prices plunged, and the emerging world joined the technological revolution via mobile and social. Facebook now has billions of participants, and Apple and Google are welcome in almost every country. With knowledge doubling every year or two, we can now invent new possibilities, not in generations, but in seconds, minutes, hours and days.

Bet on the Nightmare? No Thanks!

It is clear that our Mother, Gaia, is very upset with us, and in terms of international human relations, we are in very serious trouble. ISIS has demonstrated just how readily people will through their lives into suicidal missions. A human life has become very cheap. So many of our world leaders have become clueless. In response, we note that both France and Canada have risked very young Presidents: Emmanuel Macron at 39 years old, and Justin Trudeau at 45 years old. Clearly, these nations are ready for a change. Notwithstanding all this, there are too many wildcards to bet on a dystopia, such as Blade Runner 2049. It is noteworthy that this masterful movie was attended more by baby boomers than millennials, who couldn’t resonate with the message. Many people have observed that the millennials have the social-mindedness and openness to take humanity to a very different place than the aging leaders of the Superpowers. Most importantly, spirituality, as opposed to organized religion, is on a dramatic upsurge. The greens and pluralists have begotten a new generation comfortable going within to discover and invent new possibilities. Breakthrough religious leaders, such as Pope France I, have broken many of the arcane rules that made the Catholic Church next in line for the mothballs. We witness, as with the Dalai Lama, a dramatic return to the power of divine love.

How to Smile at the Future

We are discovering that it truly is all within. This is not wishful, fairy godmother thinking. It is quite simply the way things are. Rational empiricism as a viable belief system was snuffed out in the laboratory. It no longer makes sense in our extremely complex, interlinked world. We are all one, scientifically, as well as religiously. We need not panic, as did many Americans in the recent Presidential election, over the loss of smoke stack industries. Nor do we need to bemoan our moribund public school system. We need to mobilize what we already have at our disposal. Think Elon Musk with Space X, and his commitment to initiate viable colonization of Mars. With anyone else, this might be a joke. But Elon has actually succeeded in launching a rocket into near space, and then have it return and land face up on an aircraft carrier. People like Elon, are able to create whole new industries, just like Steve Jobs before us. In fact, Steve Jobs, himself, lives on through Apple. He practically gave back to education many times over in the form of the iPad. Now you can sit under a tree and learn on your own with Google, Facebook and Wiki. You can receive formal instruction via Udemy, Coursera and The Great Courses. You can even enjoy classes at the great universities, such as Cal, Harvard and MIT, for free, via MOOC’s. There is no reason to hold onto the past. Focus on how you can contribute and become useful in the future. It will pay off in spades.

There is no reason to hold onto the past. Focus on how you can contribute and become useful in the future. It will pay off in spades!

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You can smile at the future with the realization that you are unalterably divine. No one and nothing can ever change that. Be happy that the world is finally catching up with you!

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