#artificial desire

[raffaellopalandri]

What I Could Do Less Of: A Philosophical and Sociological Reflection

Daily writing promptWhat could you do less of?View all responses We, unfortunately, live in a society, at least in Western countries, where demands for attention, resources, and energy seem infinite, one of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves is, What could I do less of? Photo by Prateek Katyal on Pexels.com Superficially, this question might evoke trivial answers: fewer…

[notbecauseofvictories]

Last post, I promise, but I do think it’s good and important to see local art (defining that term as broadly as possible) but in my experience you have to put up with the little kick of embarrassment you feel witnessing something too earnest, a little clumsy, not polished within an inch of its life or in step with prevailing trends.

I’m thinking of the dance performances I saw this weekend, but also last week’s street festival, where I watched short films and walked through local art exhibits; I’m thinking about Chicago’s outsider art museum, and even the elaborately decorated (ostensibly tacky) yards I see in rural Illinois, but South Carolina and Tennessee before that, and Michigan before that. Maybe I should cast an even broader net: my aunt’s cross stitch, my grand-aunt’s horrible poetry; the art they display at the nearby retirement community and the halfway house too, which comes from the residents.

If you’re not used to leaving space for that little kick, you might turn away or scoff at all this small, fumbling art. But I think there’s value in forcing yourself to look beyond that initial stab of secondhand embarrassment---to actually appreciate the art in front of you as an expression of something deeply human. You don’t have to think it’s objectively good, or even subjectively good. You don’t have to pretend that a local woman with a talent for oils is the next [INSERT FAMOUS ARTIST HERE]. But I do think you have to appreciate it, because otherwise there is no entrance into making art yourself.

And that, more than anything, is worth preserving.

[ratflame]

Starting a collection of these

[motherstone]

Emily || Trellis

Trellis's version of the Hades x Amulet series crossover!

Edited by @/tacehxilef on instagram. Art and voice work by me. Video credit. I don't own the game (no money, but I've been watching playthroughs) so apologies if it's not too accurate, but we tried our best to follow it as closely as possible!

Trellis portrait below!

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Ok if i'm gonna write an actual fanfic i need to take the timeline seriously. Especially with the three Plantar siblings' ages.

So in canon Anne is 13, Sprig is 10 and Polly is 5. If I want Anne to arrive to Amphibia at 3, Sprig must be a newborn and Polly wouldn't have been born yet. Which means the Plantar parents must still be alive for some 2 more years, and die when Anne is 5, Sprig is 2 and Polly is a newborn AT LEAST.

But I don't want that. I want Hop Pop to find Anne the exact same day the herons killed his child. Make it poetic. That would make Sprig a newborn and Polly an... egg?? Thinking about eggs could help delay some things but I doubt frogs in Amphibia have gestation periods longer than 1 year, so even if they laid Polly's egg like one day before dying, you still need to keep the Plantar parents around for one year. That, or delay Anne's arrival by one year and have her land in Amphibia at age 4, but I also want to push it back as much as possible, to bring her to Amphibia as young as possible. Is 4 really the youngest I can go? The other option is to mess with the ages a little and make Polly a bit older. Or just not think about it this much. I can just say Anne spawned there at age 3 when Sprig was a newborn and Polly an egg. Let's say Polly hatches one year later at the latest. Now Sprig is 1, Anne is 4 and Polly is a newborn. Nope, no no no, Polly needs to be younger. Okay so if I want her to be a recently laid egg when her parents die, Sprig needs to be around 4 at least. And Anne needs to be at least 7.

I hate this. Ugh. But I don't want Anne to meet the Plantar parents! The whole point is that she never had actual parent figures! That Sprig and Polly's bond with their dead parents is something she can't share! Something that sets her apart! Something that will lead her to seek out her birth parents 20 years later when she finds out Hop Pop lied to her and hid the Calamity Box, coincidently at the same time that her marriage with Marcy and Sasha is falling apart! Or should I just kill my darlings and accept Anne will be adopted by the Plantar parents? I don't wannaaaaa 😭 I want them to remain a mystery! I want them to haunt the narrative without ever being present! Having Anne meet them ruins the poetic aspect!

The other option is reducing Anne and Sprig's age gap maybe?? Sprig is 4 when his parents die and Anne could be 5??? Noooo, the big sister - little brother dynamic is ruined if they're so close in age!

If anyone has suggestions pls send them i'm STUCK

[hektor-world]

”أعرف أن الطريق إليكَ صار منقطعًا لكنني أحنّ ، وهذه إحدى هزائمي.“

I know that the path to you is cut off, but I yearn, and this is one of my defeats.”

[windydrawallday]

BADGER! BADGER! BADGER!

I wanted to show off this small set of badger-themed sculptures (in cold porcelain and painted with acrylics) I have been working on during the month ✨ After reading and investigating about servitors/magical self-created companions, I intended to make anchors for the one I'm working with!

And is a badger because I'm following my gut and my brain is very attached to the animal so, why not ride that wave of energy? (The dual bolines/sickles have too both visual and functional symbolism, mostly aligned to cleaning/reaping energies + moon phases).

The first two actually are for the vessels/anchor: the bigger one was the first try and ended just a few millimeters tall to enter properly on the destined tin I'm using to hide it in (I live in a place where's not safe to do my practice publicly so, I need to keep concealed); then I did the second try and ended super chibi for my tastes but x'D there.

The third is simply just a recreation of the animal because I want to pet the critter without the need of retrieving the vessels at all times.

The last one is my fav of the bunch: a tiny, super chonky badger bead!!! I want to do more in the future and put all of them on a string with other tiny trinkets for good luck and protection.

I have time without sculpting something so, these were a great starting point and I hope to do more themed around other animals I feel they align to my energy and spiritual needs!

[citrine-elephant]

ok so the fun thing about that mind control au idea is it is not only traumatizing for leon. but chris, too!

leon gets to remember what it's like to be controlled by a parasite and chris gets to remember what it's like to have a good friend try to murder him. and also try to remove the thing that's making him bloodthirsty :3c

[kalgalen]

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[opal-kitty333]

Reader getting attached to Sans despite their best attempts. Wanting to give Sans the ability to be his own person as best they can because they don't want to control or hold power over him. Desperately trying to remove all of their influence from his existence and ready to alter and change anything he wants even on the smallest whim. Vs. Sans' need to feel that his existence is important and that he is wanted. Clinging to everything that was given to him because no matter how big or small, no matter the reason. Never wanting to change a thing about himself because they gave him this voice because they liked the sound and body because they thought it was silly and cute. I hope that if any parts of him lose luster that they'll poor as much care into him again to make him shiny and new all over again

[cadmar]

Insights of the 4D Mind

Every living organism has energy that resists the environment's pressures; can distinguish inputs from other inputs; has a means to interact with the inputs; can assign a goal for its action; its actions can become inputs for future actions; and has a threshold to stop an action and goal it is pursuing. All this is automatic that under the same initial situations, will have the same outcomes!

Every living organism becomes the background and can not escape its role! There is no ability to being "outside" to this evolutionary process. The living organism is born into a role, maintains that role, and dies within that role. The role never changes. Evolution changes the role for the next living organism to be born to another role, in which that new role is maintained, and then dies with that new role. Repeats and repeats creating the evolutionary ladder and tree of life!

We, on the other hand, can step outside of this evolutionary ladder. Reasoning is insight. Perspective is insight. Logic is insight. Reasoning, perspective, and logic are all from someone having insight and this insight was handed down to others! An accumulation of insights! An insight is scratching an universal source of all patterns and knowledge!

How did I get the insight about the process of the brain and its neural tree-like patterns? From reading a book, "Fractals in Nature", that showed that water from a river overflowing onto its sandy bank can create a variety of patterns 10 to the 60 power all because of these variables: the amount of force, the amount of water, and the texture of the sandy river's bank.

My insight was taking this unrelated concept and connecting it to the brain's neural process: the sensory signals have different amount of force from different sensory sources; the amount of the chemical-electrical signals; and the neurons' previous connections (the more a connection is used, the stronger it gets). From this insight, I was able to teach others more effectively as this is the process the brain absorbs and maintains knowledge and memories! The students are better learners with higher academic grades!

My insight is taking two unrelated ideas and combining them! I was not thinking on how the brain works! I was curious about fractals in nature. It was only at the end of the book when I came upon this overflowing of the river did I make the connection to the brain! This is insight. How many other people read this book and never made this connection? The author certainly did not!

This is insight. It just comes out of nowhere! Suddenly, like a lightbulb turned on! This is the same when you notice the cause for one of your desires, anger, greed, addiction, and alcoholism! Happens on its own and one must prepare oneself for the unknown to happen! Welcome your insights! The more insights we all have, the more our civilization prospers and develops!

[nathanwinter]

this is a totally mandatory question and it must be answered; how long is... viktor's *looks around while clutching a notepad* shaft?

finally some real journalism happening on this website

genuinely never decided on an exact number so i get to write a riddle in that the real answer is "too long to completely fit inside your average person, but not quite so big that it is defying physics just to get past the front door."

[angeliicsgrace]

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[nacrelysis]

on the importance (and lack) of fontainian memory

"people don't realize how much they rely on their eyes to tell them the truth. but what you see is not real. it's all a show.

"and every part of the show is carefully controlled."

"controlled how?"

"by choosing the right place, the right time...and the right people. whoever controls these three, controls everything."

- lyney, the final feast

lyney is talking about magic, but with the implication of an epidemic of memory loss in fontaine, this might have another meaning.

what happens when people can no longer rely on their minds, their recollections, their past to make decisions? what else is left, then, if not the present moment - if not what they can only see with their own eyes.

if you don't remember the functions that create the show, then you become part of it. without that recollection, you can only see to believe.

people who've lost their ideals. their values. their principles. people who can only rely on what is being shown. people who can no longer make proper judgements and, thus, depend on intelligent machinery to give the final ruling in any serious matter.

and what happens when the show is altered? the machinery tampered with?

and wouldn't that, then, be so easy a way to corrupt a nation?

if the important people do not remember why they are important, then they are just actors.

if they are being controlled or influenced by someone else, then they are puppets. false images of what they represent. props meant to instill artificial hope and security in the populace.

but, they can't help it. everything they ever know is only in the now. anything else, whether by human dependence or divine interference, has long been forgotten.

in fontaine, seeing is believing.

but when the only things people see may not even be real (the lyney & lynette props)...how can they not believe a lie?

[sprytesukii]

RAH i need to start treating my tumblr like my twitter where i yap with no repercussions or a deeply innate desire for validation !!!!

[hektor-world]

عذبة انتِ كالطفولة كالاحلام كالالحان كالصباح الجديد اشتاق اليكي