#history repeats itself chronicles

[that-one-paintbrush]

Paintbrush, don't hurt yourself. Your flame is goddamn BLUE. LITERALLY, BLISTERING BLUE BLAZE!

*Thunder roars outside as Paintbrush lets out a scream of pure rage.*

Are.. are you okie...?

....

Brush, could you let me talk to them for a moment?

Sorry..

Wah!!

..Paintbrush. I-

*The sound of heavy raindrops hitting the roof barely manage to drown out Paintbrush's curses as they storm off with a scowl.*

Wha- err.. whe-- where are you going..?

I don’t know. Away? Away from the anons? Away from the.. torture they've been inflicting upon me?? Away from the kid they brought to life that, mind you, I'm nowhere near prepared to take care of?? Away from whatever you and Backgroundy still haven't worked out?!

Paintbrush... I understand why you're upset. Believe me, I know what it's like to want to distance myself from the stress. I understand-

YOU'D NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS!! All of the bad things that happened to you were your choices!! You made the decisions that led to what your life is now! But me? I haven't done anything!!

I never asked for you, I never asked for Backgroundy, I never asked for Bristles, and I never asked for THIS!!

None of this was from choices I've made! My fate is in the hands of everyone EXCEPT myself!! AND THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT!!

....

I'm getting out of here...

W-wait!! Paintbrush, it's raining-!!

..

....

.....

*Outside, the muffled sound of a fire being extinguished can be heard, shortly followed by Paintbrush collapsing onto the grass.*

PAINTBRUSH!!

[fire-gift]

oh god, i just read that there's gonna be a twilight reboot as a tv show now... What's the point of this reboot if the movies already adapted all of it?????????

[saintarthur01]

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✩About the Author✩

Hello there ! I am Arthur and I am a writer who decided to make a separate blog just for my works and such. My main blog is @saintv0id if you are interested for whatever reason. I go by either Arthur or Void on here whichever is fine. I go by she/her and am also demiromantic

I like anything fantasy and fiction, and other such things like renaissance festivals, the medieval and renaissance periods, I like collecting bugs and bones, and I love musicians like Hozier, Tamino, Florence, and Noah Kahan

✩About this blog✩

• This blogs purpose is for my writings/stories and whatever relates to them, like OC intros, lore revealing, or really whatever takes place in my world

• I am open to any asks, questions, or msgs, or even recommendations if ya wanna know anything or submit something, please do so

• All stories and writings on here are all within the same world/universe that i have built, they are all connected one way or another

✩About how my stories work✩

• Again all of my stories take place in the same world, which I have called Allra, so all of my stories together will be called The Chronicles of Allra

• If you are interested in the basic lore and history behind Allra, I will soon have a post up with all the info, I will add the link here once updated and completed

• Allra is heavily influenced and based around Norse mythology, although all characters and lands are original, they are inspired by the norse mythos and the norse mythos are even implemented into the world’s history somewhat

• Some stories will be multiple parts and others will be just short stories involving random characters within the world and some will have a bigger impact then others

✩About my WIPS✩

Prince Killer:

• Genre: Fantasy & Adventure

• Warnings: Murder, hints of emotionally abusive family (will update if the list expands)

• Tropes: Magic, found family, retelling with a twist, major angst, royalty, fighting against prophecy & destiny, morally grey MC, family rivalry, major symbolism

• Main & Side Characters: Locke Ambrose, Caradoc Ambrose, Kailen Skaesun, Elwin Ambrose, Toke Ambrose (There’s more but those 5 are really the ones that need to be noted)

• Summary: In a world that was reborn after the events of Ragnorak, history seems to repeats itself as the King of Konunheim hears word from one of his trusted prophesiers that his son, Caradoc, will die by another’s hand by a simple arrow made from a harmless plant and if this were to occur the world may break out into another war and destroy itself. Assuming his last born, Locke, may be the killer due to his certain ways and dislike of his brother, he demands for his punishment and a way to keep Caradoc safe. While the other nine courts are splitting apart over the idea of a apocalyptic war, the two brothers now have to find a way for one of them to be pardoned and the other to not die while also preventing a war, and maybe even find out if Locke actually has intentions to kill his brother and follow through with prophecy or keep Caradoc safe…

(other works are in progress, I will update this list as I work on them more)

[idyllcy]

builder becomes the built - lovebrush chronicles

To build a world means to play god.

You scribble down on your pages, manuscript pulled up on your big screen, hands on your tablet as you draw and create worlds. But it is not a tablet, and there is no screen. There is an empty void, and there are no pens to draw with. Everything manifests at the command of your word, your soul commanding something, and then something appearing. You are a god, and you build worlds at the strike of your hand. Your worlds are for you to play with, and the creation of man is nothing more than fickle in the universe. 

But civilizations rise and fall, and history repeats itself until the clock of life eventually shatters, and you have to fix it.

It is boring.

So, you create multiple and watch, eyes keen as they are doomed to live the same lives over and over again. They are boring, you find. There is no difference. Even when you place them in a world of perfection and tell them to do whatever, they repeat their actions from a past of a different civilization, creating wars as they covet things that are meant to be shared. You do not understand them, but perhaps they reflect a deeper and more complex version of you. Man are made in your image, after all. 

So, after much of your creation dooming itself, you wonder if an outside world dooming it would create any change. A civilization that harvests the very things that make your creation what it is. What is emotion? Why is the lack of it revered in this new world? They call themselves the empire, their thoughts synced with yours, yet desiring the destruction of your other creations to keep their civilization afloat. All they wish for is the very thing you can not have. This civilization is a direct reflection of yourself, you think. 

You watch as they destroy worlds.

Ah, how fun would it be to play the hero that so many worlds so desperately adored?

So, you blink owlishly, eyes wide as you stare up at your caretaker, his hair a waterfall of silver, mind finally remembering.

"你还好吗，小画家?"*

You smile up at him. "我下一个漫画注意有了."**

*"Are you alright, little painter?" **"I got the idea for my next manhua"

[sassyandclassy94]

I used the “Stone in my shoe” line on a guy at church last night (“What?? Why am I a stone in your shoe?!” “Dude, relax! It’s a line from Masters of the Air, I’m being funny!”) and before that I tried to recommend Masters of the Air to ANOTHER guy at church (Isaiah actually… for those of you who used to follow the… chronicles) and he said HE CAN’T TAKE A LOT OF WWII🙄 I should’ve said “Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it” BUUUT, instead I told him he should get over it and watch it cause it’s good. IF you watch it with VidAngel’s filter, like I do. Then he said:

“Filter? You girls are getting a little more liberal in what you watch now aren’t you? With all the swearing and rude remarks.”

Michaiah piped in with: “SAYS THE GUY WHO LAUGHED AT BOBBY’S RUDE REMARK ABOUT THE OARS NKT BEING IN SYNC. Mr. SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER.”

And he could not deny it. He agreed and said that’s fair. And then he talked about how it was the delivery of the line, not the actual line itself. Uh huh. Sure it is.

[autumnbrambleagain]

So IF, say, a Marlfox ended up in Qud, this is why I think it would naturally form an army of snapjaws.

Consider. Marlfox the book literally has a part that goes:

This narrative has been edited by Florian Dugglewoof Wilffachop, Actor Manager Impresario. Who insists that the entire tale is a drama, which he will be later performing as a play, hence the three parts being named as acts rather than books. We crave your indulgence for this deviation.)

Like all Redwall books, they're post-edited propaganda made to make the landlord goodbeasts look good, and the oppressed "vermin hordes" look bad.

No, the marlfoxes weren't there to steal trinkets, they were there for medicine. Their mother was old and sick and dying, and they were sent out to get stuff to keep death away? It's a metaphor. Redwall chroniclers have twisted the truth.

No, the marlfoxes weren't constantly murdering one another. That's propaganda to make the Redwallers clean of conscience. If the books were up-rated in age I'm sure the marlfoxes would be like, committing incest with one another constantly just to hammer in how ~evil~ they are and how they don't have ~morals~ like ~us.~

The water rats celebrating the marlfoxes' deaths and becoming peaceful farmers? Really? In a series where rats are biologically impelled to be evil, selfish, nasty, mean, brutish? Aha. Tell me more about how the native populations celebrated the civilizing light of the British reaching them, Mr. Jacques.

So obviously the Marlfoxes were cool ninjas, yeah, sure, probably did some bad things, yeah! They, like all other "vermin" races, have spent their lives having the arable land owned by selfish, snobbish upper-crust goodbeasts. Of course everyone wants to conquer Redwall--they control all the good land, and refuse to allow the filthy, lower, base vermin races access to them.

Okay! Established. Marlfoxes are awesome, Redwallers are all entrenched oppressors. Let's say one gets sucked into a space-time vortex and ends up in Qud.

So, after some culture shock, there's some things they'll notice. Snapjaws will be nice to them, because the law of mimicry means they'll recognize the snout and the fur and be inclined towards it. The marlfox will see another people desperately scrabbling together a hard-fought life, and, ok, have you seen snapjaws.

They get killed by equimaxes.

They get killed by horned chameleons.

They get killed by salthoppers, dragonflies, and dromads!

Do snapjaws raid peaceful settlements? Sure. They have their forts and their castles, but they're rattle-skattle things shored up poorly against the salt around them. How else can they survive but in raiding? This isn't like the goats, who dominate the land. Snapjaws are forced to the edges, and everything is their match or more.

So I'm thinking a marlfox, being clever and having been in that situation most of their life, will experience a feeling between sympathy and opportunity.

While there are peaceful snapjaw settlements, how much land is there in Qud that can support a village? This is something that's finally going to come up in Proselytize soon enough--one of the big theses of the story! There isn't enough resources for everyone to live in peace. It's just a hardboned fact. The Brambled Fae is gonna have a lot to say about it!

So obviously the marlfox would accumulate snapjaws, build a castle, and history would repeat itself. But there are no Redwallers who own everything. Each village is a small center of power at best. Yd Freehold, Ezra, the Six Day Stilt, even these centers of power don't project force externally much.

And that's why it's ENTIRELY 100% CANON that my Redwall marlfox CoQ crossover OC donut steel is going to build a snapjaw empire, and bring prosperity to snapjaws everywhere. Probably at the expense of, oh, let's say, I don't know. I'll roll dice to determine who to destroy the homes from.

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

regarding felipe vi el kioskero, there's now an origin story for the name btw

english transcript: 'on june 19th of this year felipe vi, popularly known as the kiosk man, celebrated 10 years in the throne of spain. these days on tiktok his nickname is going viral, but well, as the good historian i am, don't worry, i will explain you where does [this nickname] come from. the truth is, although surprising, that at the beginning felipe vi didn't want to be king. when he was a kid he had no motivation to become a king, but he was the only son that his father, king juan carlos i the humble [additional text says 'also known as "the ivory searcher"], had. a real pity, as his sisters, the infantas cristina and elena, would have loved to be queens, especially cristina, who we all know is as humble as her father juan carlos [additional text says 'cristina de borbón sat on the throne of spain']. one of the main values that juan carlos taught to his son was humility, [and so] one of felipe's favourite activities was to escape from zarzuela palace on sundays to go to majadahonda, and his favourite thing to do, as it was for every kid, was to go to a kiosk to buy some football stickers / cards (no idea how to translate cromos honestly). felipe liked so much to go to a kiosk to buy his football stickers [additional text says 'felipe vi when he was 10 in a kiosk (1978)'] and the lemon flavoured calippo that a desire arose within him, that of opening his own kiosk. of course, you could imagine the scandal that that supposed for the royal family. according to the chronicles, the historical sources like the tabloids, this became so big that it became an issue of the state. it's even said that he was threatened to fulfill his role as the prince of asturias. he was forced to choose between the destruction of the sticker of maradona from '82, or the throne of spain. imagine how much he loved and how hard he had worked for that sticker, and still he accepted the throne, giving up on his dream to become a kiosker (is this a word?). however, according to popular rumours, on the first sunday of each month you can find him in majadahonda. however, they say he's always in incognito mode, but well, if you're lucky, you might find him at a kiosk. and, as always, history repeats itself, and the same struggles he made his father go through, now his daughter is doing with him. the thing is, according to some rumours, leonor doesn't want to ascend to the throne, and instead wants to be a tiktoker. it's become so serious that she's already been referred to as leonor i of spain "the tiktoker". whatever, that's why spain is doing like this (i had no better way to translate 'así va españa' sorry)'.

[sapphyreopal5]

Sapphyreopal5 Index 5

This Index page is dedicated to my anti Gen and anti Jarevieve posts. I'm anti Genevieve for multiple reasons, which has nothing to do with jealousy or some other silly emotional reason like this.

She is extremely inconsistent in what she stands for. Are you an environmentally friendly homestead mom, wife and actress (definitely is one but not as much on TV anymore), or are you an influencer who encourages people to buy "environmentally friendly" brands to line your pocket?

I am 100% certain she's into witchcraft and has conjured for Jared and to have his children from the beginning, please see the posts I've linked to of mine below explaining why this is. I don't think witchcraft is evil so to speak but if you ask me, when you start conjuring to gain a specific person as your spouse, that's black magic territory.

There's no way I can take her seriously as a so called influencer. She tries to make herself out to be quite relatable as a busy mom... but in multiple ads and posts you can see a nanny showing up. Don't sit there and tell me Gen does all that laundry herself or cleans that giant house herself, because I can guarantee you she barely lifts a finger to keep that house clean.

I also can't take her seriously as an influencer because she has no sense of brand loyalty. She makes her ads making you all believe she actually uses these products on the regular. All you gotta do is go look on her Instagram and go look at her Wellness and Beauty Instastories she archived on her page. You will see the lack of brand loyalty she has. Sorry honey, you can't convince me you use any of those products on the regular. You rotate what ones you do and don't use on the regular. Show me some brand loyalty and prove you look great without filters, then I'll be more convinced the products you use actually work.

I think she overshares things with her kids. I don't care about an occasional school first day picture or whatever. I do care when kids get involved/exploited for any influencer's ads or shares photos/videos when they are at a low moment or feeling vulnerable. I have a lot less respect for most of these mommy blogger types who have nothing else to talk about (and spend most of their day on social media). Don't make being a mom your entire personality for God's sake, have other interests besides your children!

She comes across as fake nice to me. I don't believe she cares for Jared at all based on analyzing body language between them in panels, interviews, etc. (especially clear on her part). Listen, I wish I could believe they're happy. I wish I could believe everyone was happily married, I REALLY DO! But, I don't for good reasons.

I will say this. If you don't like my stuff or even me, that's totally cool! We can't all like each other or even agree with each other. I do ask if you are going to debate my stuff, stick to the point. No need to be an asshole and turn mean about it. I've been blocked by some people for calling them out and I'm fine with this. I don't really attack people, I attack their arguments. Have fun reading!

Anti Jarevieve

She likes to be married for the perks, that's it guys!

And it's for their status

Warning Gen & Jared Tarot Reading

Jared Gen Questions (Warning Tarot Reading Pt 2)

Apple Podcast Bathroom Chronicles- Thoughts

No longer soulmates

I've Never Said This Before Tommy DiDario Podcast Episode 48

Jared thinks he doesn't deserve real love?

Is it parenting great though?

Wolves, 3, 4, 11, Walker and The Prophecy

2024 Belgium Trip and Witchcraft: 2015 History Repeating Itself?

Did Gen possibly tell the press over 9 years ago Jared went to the clinic?

Body Language Guys

Pulling away kisses/misses

Who gives the donkeys all this extra attention?

"In this moment, my daughter, Jared's girlfriend, is hugging his wife", Arlo the therapy dog steps in as Jared is clearly uncomfortable after overbearing, creepy mom's comment

What do we have here???

Sandy and Gen My Ride or Die: Copycat?

Nanny speaks out

* fake or "fake" because you don't like it?

Italy 2024 "Family Fun Vacation"- Stuck or What?

Jared in Geneva while Gen in Venice

Met up a day earlier than I expected

Hooters 2021 LOL

Anti Genevieve

Atlanta Comic Con Panel Reading Answer Criticism

Dave Hollis Episode 119 Podcast

Gen profits off of Jared's face (but we already knew that!)

Gen "wants to represent the family well" but "we take on different kids on different schedules"

Just can't with the crunchy mommy blogs exploiting their children

Gen oversharing Shep and Jared moment

was Shep upset here?

Can't handle sister's crisis, so makes pregnancy status her crisis

Does Gen read the blogs (including mine, oh my!)?

Sure seems like she's reading them

Liar Liar, Pants on Fire (Inconsistencies!)

July photoshoot at the ranch ('cause your hair ain't long anymore sweetie)

TOWWN post 9/14/2024 "Don't Buy Shit You Don't Need" No. 4 (Skincare haul, 'cause Gen likes to have a 7 step skincare routine)

But are you actually grain free?

Cancelled Dragon Con 2024

Is she sick?

Working out hard less than a week after announced being sick

No clue how to resolve allergy face my ass! Zyrtec allergy ad from 2018

Mono vs Flu

Gen into witchcraft?

Astrology Chart Partial Analysis (Black Magic)

Nice try, this No Nom ad was shot weeks ago 'cause your hair was just done sweetheart, remember?

Sexual libido supplement showing up yet again (want me to redo your astrology chart Gen?)

Black Magic Confirmed

Seems time is coming up

Fowl Play?

Please do a video on her and Dee doing black magic?

Apophis Asteroid: 4/13/2029 Payment Due Date for Black Magic?

Liar, liar, pants on fire

Why I don't like HER doing witchcraft

[onewomancitadel]

One thing I'll never really understand about fantasy (I think science fiction can be better about this ironically enough) is a refusal to interact with the theological consequences of its fantastical universe. There's this repeating pride at the fact that with supernatural beings and effective manifestations of magic these sceptics still refuse to ponder at the absolutely counterreal origins of said supernatural beings, which is kind of weird, because I don't think to be a sceptic actually means being unwilling to entertain new evidence!

I think some of it is intended to be humourous ("and yet, I'm still an atheist") but I think it is kind of banal and I think it really reveals a discordant understanding of how religious belief manifests. The underlying assumption is that religious belief is anti-curiosity, anti-observation, anti-science, and anti-philosophy (the lattermost of these being ironic given the body of philosophical tradition), so even if a fantasy setting interacts with things which have explanations that must go beyond atheistic knowledge (and maybe that magic is itself an internally coherent system), there's a refusal to confront that. Even so, it is totally believable that there would be religious characters in that setting.

The bit that got me with the Wayhaven Chronicles is that the Echo World (some seeming spiritual world) immediately smacked of the Gnostic conception of the world (the split material/spiritual worlds, the spiritual hidden from those in the material, which must be reached through enlightenment/reveal of God), and it made me laugh so hard because if you got confirmation the Gnostics were right, surely somebody would do something about it??? (This post was inspired by the bit where you can ask about the vampires being sensitive to holy symbols, and then ask if they believe in God, so I'm just going off what the four other characters here say, and my general feelings about fantasy in general).

I'm also a bit saddened at the fact that the only person in recent time to really make supernatural creatures care about God was Stephenie Meyer, and she did it all wrong.

And like, this isn't a defense in the name of theism against atheism; the issue I'm taking is the fact that atheism is taken as the default (and in a way in which I think character gets elided) in a setting where there's actually magic and the supernatural. I would get bugged if all the characters were theistic too, or expressed the same sort of theistic beliefs (similar to the fact that a lot of people assume religious people throughout history all held exactly the same level of belief in God or the gods and the same effectively evangelical and unenlightened behaviour).

[xipiti]

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In her words:

Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.

To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here.

That’s where this newsletter comes in.

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These were the same questions a famous observer asked in a book of letters he published in 1782, the year before the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War.

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Like I say, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure rhymes.

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[cienie-isengardu]

Cienie's take on Mandalorian Culture: Arasuum - stagnation as symbol of death, not sloth

The Funeral Rites of Taungs and later Mandalorian Warriors. <> Kad Ha’rangir and mandalorian traditional weapons (part 1 — part 2 — part 3 – part 4 – part 5)

Mandalorians: People and Culture [Star Wars Insider #86, 2006] introduced Arasuum as the god of Stagnation and Sloth:

“Mandalorians were once intensely religious but disillusionment with the old fanaticism and worship of war itself gave way to a far less supernatural belief system among modern Mandalorians. They now regard creation tales, such as Akaanati’kar’oya (The War of Life and Death) as parables to illustrate a deeper philosophical meaning rather than literal supernaturalism. The stars were mythologized as fallen kings of Mandalore, and there are tales of the mythosaurs, but the pragmatic and skeptical Mandalorians look for allegory in these stories. The manda - best described as a combination of the collective state of being, the essence of being Mandalorian, and an oversoul - is not viewed as a literal heaven. Traditionally, the Mando afterlife is seen as a plane of spiritual energy in constant conflict between stagnation, and the opportunity for change brought about by destruction - a parallel with modern theories of cosmology. In Mandalorian myth, this conflict is symbolized by the eternal war between the sloth-god Arasuum - the personification of idle consumption and stagnation - and the vigorous destroyer god Kad Ha’rangir, who forces change and growth on the universe. Every Mando warrior who dies is said to add to the army of the afterlife, defending wives and children living in its permanent, peaceful homestead - the only place Mandalorians believe they can ever reach a non-transitory state of existence.”

This description of Arasuum was repeated in following tie-in sources:

Excerpted from “Industry. Honor. Savagery: Shaping the Mandalorian Soul” keynote address by Vilnau Teupt, 412th Proceedings of Galactic Anthropology and History, Brentaat Academy, 24 ABY [2012, published in The Essential Guide to Warfare]:

“After being driven from ancient Coruscant, the Taungs relocated to Roon and then wandered the Outer Rim, leaving hints of their passage in various species’ chronicles and histories. But they attracted little notice until they conquered Mandalore around 7000 BBY. At that time Mandalore lay beyond the galactic frontier - but close to the Republic’s outlying trade routes. Soon, rumors reached the Republic of worlds ruled by ferocious warriors. They served the god Kad Ha’rangir, whose tests and trials forced change and growth upon clans he chose to be his people. In opposition to Kad Ha’rangir stood the sloth-god Arasuum, who sought to tempt the clans and drag them down into stagnation and idle consumption. By waging war in Kad Ha’rangir’s name and according to strict religious laws, the Mandalorian Crusaders defied Arasuum and showed themselves worthy of favor.”

and 

Death Watch Manifesto [2013, published as part of The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett]

Our history begins with the Taung, the Shadow Warriors we honor as our Progenitors. They originally dwelled on Coruscant, but their enemies drove them into the Outer Rim. Their clans traveled from planet to planet on orders from their war chief, who interpreted the will of their now-extinct gods: Kad Ha’rangir, the all-seeing creator of test and trials; Hod Ha’ran, the trickster agent of fickle fortune; and Arasuum the god of sloth, an enemy whispering and seducing with promises of peace [...].

“The ancient Mandalorian deities were led by all-seeing Kad Ha’rangir (left), shown here beside the trickster god Hod Ha’ran (central) and the slothful Arasuum (right).

The mentioned above works associate Arasuum with laziness and stagnation, even though those two terms aren’t synonymous, nor even closely tied to each other. Stagnation is, basically speaking, a lack of change that may be conditioned by various factors. Laziness though is a choice a person makes - a choice to not work or use as little effort as possible[1]. 

Arasuum is constantly accused of being sloth. In contrast, Kad Ha’rangir, as Destructor and as god sending trials to test his people plays an active role in mandalorian mythology. However, the same as with Kad Ha’rangir, I think the sources - and with it, in-universe knowledge - may not be accurate. Or more precisely, the modern academics’ conclusions are based on incomplete sources whose true meaning perhaps was lost over the centuries.

For example, Kad Ha’rangir is treated as one of the most important, if not outright the main deity, but as I was proving in previous analysis, sword - in mando’a: kad - did not have any special place in the culture of the original Mandalorians (Taung), as they hold mythosaur axes in high regard. Which puts into doubt the prominent position of god named after a weapon clearly favored by human Mandalorians who replaced the now-extinct Taungs. It does not mean there was never a god-Destructor in original mythology but rather allow us to assume the mandalorian culture has undergone many changes with passing time. If the Kad Ha’rangir himself may be a god reshaped to fit the needs of early human Mandalorians and their descendants, then the same could happen with Arasuum. 

Which is why I decided to analyze Arasuum and his role through the lens of three aspects:

Mandalorian language (Mando’a)

Official tie-in material 

widely understood Mandalorian culture

Let's start with the MANDALORIAN LANGUAGE

For those unfamiliar with Star Wars lore, mando’a is an official mandalorian language. Initially developed by composer Jesse Harlin as part of the soundtrack for the 2005 video game Republic Commando, it was expanded into functional language by Karen Traviss, the author or tie-in Republic Commando book series. The glossary included in her books evolved into a full dictionary and grammatical guide published on Traviss’ official page (archived version can be found here).

In short, Mandalorian language evolved from a few songs into a functional dialect that fans adapted and to this day are still developing for their own use. Understandable, the original mando’a published by Karen Traviss is an artificially created language but because it was made by the same person that at time shaped Mandalorian culture, we have a reason to assume the meaning of deities’ names wasn’t assigned at random.

And so we have a role of Destructor assigned to Kad Ha’rangir - in which kad is a word for sword/saber

while ha’rangir is derived from ha’ran or rangir, two words related to ash/destruction & hell. 

With publication of Bounty Hunter Code and The Essential Guide to Warfare comes Hod Ha’ran, another deity whose name and role correlate with similar meaning in mando’a:

The name of Arasuum brings an important detail - mandalorian language distinguishes between stagnation

and laziness.

As can be seen, there is no common element between those two words, as in: one word is not derived from the other, the way logically some meanings are connected.

If two names have direct correlation to gods’ mythological roles, why Arasuum wouldn’t be perceived by original Mandalorians the same as Kad Ha’rangir and Hod Ha’ran? And this is our first clue to understand Arasuum’s original role in mythology.

Arasuum, as his name suggests, remains the same. Is stagnant. In contrast Kad Ha’rangir is associated with vigor, the growth that happens to Mandalorian people. All three presented above source material associate Kad Ha’rangir with life (active energy), what from biological and symbolic perspectives is a constant change. Since both deities are part of the same myth titles as The War between Life and Death, logically thinking Arasuum, the unchanging god, should represent death as opposition to growth.

If we go with that logic, then facing and overcoming Kad Ha’rangir’s trials may mean surviving the hardship like fight (war). Each victory over death (stagnation) gives a warrior an unique experience that change them, though if the change is for better or worse may be secondary concern. Alive Mandalorian can’t stay the same, because those unable to grow will fail to survive another god’s trial and then will be lost to Arasuum. 

And this is the base ground for my theory that stagnation from mythological point is symbolic metaphor for death and with that, Arasuum is the god of death, not laziness.

The next part will explore the tie-in source material, with special focus on Death Watch Manifesto and political symbolism of Arasuum.

SIDE NOTES:

[1] Just to be clear here: no, needing to rest after hard work is not laziness, the same as lack of will to take action due to depression or other psychological or physical illness. 

[that-one-paintbrush]

Ah! My guy is so baby

Bristles, how is ur day going?

Great!! I exist now!

[rose-of-pollux]

49) sweet (for Vincent Van Ghoul)

Thanks!

More Young!Vincent chronicles--

The entire staff of the Saronic Academy of the Magic Arts—known among its students as “Terror Tech”—had been nervous upon the arrival of the Van Ghoul heir as one of the members of Advanced Class 36.  There was more than enough reason to be concerned—the boy was a direct descendant of the feared Asmodeus, the Demon King, formerly known as Asamad Van Ghoul.  And unlike the entire bloodline since Asamad, who had suppressed their magic in fear and shame of what Asmodeus had become, the boy, Vincent, had not only embraced and sought to refine his powers, but was quickly proving himself to be even more powerful than Asmodeus had ever been.

Fearing that history would repeat itself, most of the staff refused to even consider teaching Advanced Class 36—only Instructor Endora had the nerve to do so.  Subsequently, the administrators of the school found themselves heavily involved in the goings on of Advanced Class 36—particularly Associate Dean Leonidas, whose only son was also in the class.  Having remembered Asmodeus all too well, Leonidas kept a close watch on young Vincent.

And Vincent tended to be a magnet for trouble, much to the Associate Dean’s ire, always ending up in places he shouldn’t be, and often dragging his gang of friends with him (though, Leonidas noted, Asamad had been a loner—perhaps it was significant that Vincent was not the same).

On one such occasion, after having to corral the meddling kids and ushering them back to their dormitories, the Associate Dean noticed that Vincent was not among them.  Getting a tip from Bryon Befuddle that Vincent had wandered off to the back gardens, Leonidas headed that way, pausing as he arrived and saw an odd sight.

Vincent was using his powers of levitation near a beehive, drawing out a small amount of honey from the hive, which he let fall on a plate of plakous bread, that had been topped with nuts and fruits, as well.

Leonidas cleared his throat, startling Vincent.

“It’s after hours,” he reminded the boy.

“Yes, Sir, I know—I just had to have some honey for my plakous—it’s so much sweeter that way,” Vincent replied.

Leonidas glanced at the beehive; the bees hadn’t even noticed Vincent’s intrusion.

“That kind of levitation takes quite a bit of finesse,” he noted.  “I think even some of our senior students would be inclined to just break into the hive for that honey.”

“Well, I only needed a little bit, and I didn’t want to hurt or bother them,” Vincent said.  “Well, goodnight, Sir!”

Taking his honey-laden plakous, Vincent headed off back towards the dormitory—no doubt trying to get out of earshot before Leonidas considered any punishment.

But Leonidas was still staring at the undisturbed beehive.  The boy had so much power—and so much pride regarding his power—and yet, he had done his best to be gentle with common garden insects?

This boy is quite different from his ancestor, Leonidas realized.  He has a genuinely kind heart.

And that would be the one factor that could make all the difference.

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read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/i5vBoaG by Nurisiliel History repeats itself, they say. When Circle members are on the march again, terrorizing New York's Downworld in the worst possible way, Magnus Bane is willing to agree with this wisdom. But after one fateful night, he also knows that not all Nephilim in his territory have a corrupted black soul...   This work was created for By the Angel Bingo: Presented by the Malec Discord Server Words: 3726, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: M/M Characters: Magnus Bane, Catarina Loss, Madzie (Shadowhunters TV), Alec Lightwood, Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago, Maia Roberts, Circle Members (Shadowhunter Chronicles), Iris Rouse Relationships: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Magnus Bane & Catarina Loss, Alec Lightwood & Maia Roberts, Alec Lightwood & Madzie Additional Tags: Pandemonium Club (Shadowhunter Chronicles), Magic, BAMF Alec Lightwood, Protective Alec Lightwood, Alec Lightwood Deserves Nice Things, Magnus Bane Is a Nice Thing, Magnus Bane Is Quite Magical, Magnus Bane Loves Alec Lightwood, Alec Lightwood Loves Magnus Bane, Angst and Fluff and Smut read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/i5vBoaG

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At the end of the everlasting night, the world will once again regain its shine. There is something we must pass down To you, who will be born tomorrow…

"Let's have a long talk tonight. About the world you'll be born into…"

History repeats itself. Don't ever forget that. History repeats itself. You can't ever forget that…

"Your eyes will reflect… All that is beautiful, and all that is ugly…"

We never gave up… And finally, we found it: Written in black ink on the black back cover The first and the last story…

"You will come to know… All that is loved, and all that is hated…."

The Black Chronicle unraveled. Thousands of stories paint history. For example…

The story of us, never to give up even after knowing the End…

The story of the poet expressing his true thoughts and feelings in the poems he composed…

The story of the warrior who risked his life for those he needed to protect…

The story of the boy who became king of the snow monsters after his mother gave her life…

The story of the girl with endless potential who longed for the blue sea…

The story of the hero who saved the world once more with his remaining left arm…

The story of the girl whose memories are sealed away in a doll that foretells the future…

…And The story of you, of all who listen to this song, embraced by the Mother Sea.

"You will live through… All the happy times, and all the sad times…."

Forgive all. Accept all. To the children of the new world, and you, who will be born tomorrow, We pass down this message:

"Eventually, the End will dawn upon your world as well. But even so… please don't give up… I love you…"

. . .

Memories pass down repeatedly through song. The story continues towards the next horizon…

~ Back Cover 『The World You'll Be Born Into』

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Black Twitter will not save us for what’s to come. As the days towards the 2024 presidential election draw near and the rage-filled screams of college students fill the halls of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, the United States finds itself at a crossroads. Will the most powerful country in the world revert back to when Donald Trump won the White House, or will we vote for Joe Biden to maintain his stronghold? This is the question that every American must answer before and on November 5.

If the everyday American (specifically the everyday Black American) was undecided about which candidate to vote for, it only takes one watch of Black Twitter: A People’s History, a three part docuseries based on journalist Jason Parham’s 2021 WIRED article “A People’s History of Black Twitter,” to understand that we must vote for Biden.

The series attempts to archive, document, and chronicle the force that is known as Black Twitter, two words that have been used to characterize Black digital life on the social media platform. It’s a platform that the series will remind you was not created by Black people, but brought into prominence by the attitudes, mannerisms, and behaviors of Black users on Twitter. But despite incessant commentary about how Black people are not a monolith, the docuseries—in its attempt to associate the Black Twitter community with an era that supposedly no longer exists—ultimately treats Black Twitter as such.

Creation is at the core of the series’ story. The words of Amiri Baraka’s "Technology & Ethos" essay are repeated and paraphrased throughout the three-part series in a fashion similar to a mother reading her child’s favorite tall tale before tucking them into bed. The essay opens with the following: “Machines (as Norbert Weiner said) are an extension of their inventor-creators. That is not simple once you think. Machines, the entire technology of the West, is just that, the technology of the West.” Baraka continues: “Nothing has to look or function the way it does. The West man’s freedom, unscientifically got at the expense of the rest of the world’s people, has allowed him to xpand his mind–spread his sensibility wherever it cdgo, & so shaped the world, & its powerful artifact-engines.”

The next line is where Black Twitter, or more broadly the relationship between Black people and technology, come into play. “Political power is also the power to create—not only what you will—but to be freed to go where ever you can go—(mentally physically as well). Black creation—creation powered by the Black ethos brings very special results.”

In the case of both Twitter the platform and also Twitter the company—where Black people acquired leadership positions at one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world, used their presence online to enact change in the areas of racial justice and police reform, and increased diversity and representation from Hollywood to Silicon Valley and everywhere in between—what did those very special results bring? That answer is complicated, and one that the docuseries tries to grapple with but falls short.

As seen in the series, #OscarsSoWhite corrected a decades long practice of exclusion by the Academy and created opportunities for actors of color to receive membership into the voting body that decides the Oscars. In the nine years since the hashtag’s creation, gradual efforts were made towards greater representation on screen. Yet, the subsequent mass exodus of women of color in Hollywood leadership positions and the low number of films directed by women and people of color seems to contradict the docuseries’ overarching narrative of a hashtag's singular impact. Yes, the hashtag narrative as an idiom to bring forth change is powerful, but the counter response to them is just as telling.

The most blatant example of this is the #BlackLivesMatter portion of the docuseries. The docuseries chronicles the pivotal role Twitter played in the rise of citizen journalism, particularly during the murders of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. It also looks at the creation of #SayHerName, a social media response to the erasure of Black women, such as Sandra Bland, and Black trans women, like Mya Hall, who lost their lives to police violence, but were often overlooked by the male-centered BLM movement.

This is where Baraka is felt the most: Black creators have harnessed the power of technology, in order to counteract the West’s political power, which puts them in danger of losing their lives. Minute after minute, frame after frame, the docuseries asks the viewer to bear witness to the ways in which Black Twitter, through the creation and utilization of hashtags, on-the-ground reporting, and 24/7 news coverage, has long been victimized by police violence.

But like Baraka said, the machine is an extension of its inventor-creator, and the creator, or in this case the executive producers of the docuseries, have a hand in its invention. It's a creation that feels foreign to those who birthed and have maintained Black Twitter as a living and breathing cultural archive of Black digital life. A life that has no singular partisan belief or political agenda. A life that, in many ways, bites the hand of the docuseries creators. It’s a hand that delicately weaves the ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency with the birth and rise of Black Twitter. The two are in a covenant of holy matrimony.

Just ask Brad Jenkins, former associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, who frequently appears throughout the docuseries. Or Carri Twigg, the former Associate Director of Public Engagement of the White House, who serves as one of the series’ executive producers. There is no direct mention that the Black Lives Matter movement started under the Obama administration—or acknowledgment of the overwhelming collective action by Black students at the University of Missouri during that time, as well as the solidarity actions that occurred across college campuses in the U.S.

The series goes on to connect the rise of misinformation, the proliferation of Russian bots, and the 2016 election of Donald Trump as a reaction to the Obama presidency and Black Twitter. In fact, the series’ somber moments—where anti-Black sentiment is seen in reports of algorithms being altered to increase traffic towards users that display racist and misogynistic behaviors online, and clips of white women calling the police to inflict harm and violence on Black people for simply living—are linked to the Trump portion of the series. But that is ahistorical in and of itself because Black women have been calling attention to the ways in which they are subjected to anti-Black violence and harassment online since the 1990s. BBQ Becky is just Carolyn Bryant by another name.

Read More: Twitter Offers More Transparency on Racist Abuse by Its Users, but Few Solutions

If the Obama years of Black Twitter were fun, the docuseries posits, the Trump years of Black Twitter were hell. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the global uprisings over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the year 2020 within the docuseries is marked by culture shifts towards violence, including the misogynoir Megan Thee Stallion experienced online after she came forward about being physically assaulted by Tory Lanez. The year is also peppered with glimmers of a Black Twitter of yesteryear: a communal moment of gathering to live tweet “Verzuz” challenges or to watch The Last Dance as a family. Communal moments that are thought to be associated with the Obama administration.

And just like that, the docuseries pivots to showcase the Black voters in South Carolina, who are thanked for their votes for Biden in the 2020 election. Biden is even described as Obama’s right hand man. It is in this moment that the series wants the audience to remember the joy of the Obama years, the hope of the Obama years, and most importantly, the impact of Black voters in the Obama years.

I do not mean to spoil the climax of the 2020 section of the docuseries, but Biden won and Elon Musk replaced Trump as the villain of the series. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, now known as X, is met with despair, exodus, and rage. Efforts to humble and humiliate Musk are flashed across the screen as former Black employees at Twitter in one-on-one interviews discuss the destruction of their years of labor and hard work to diversify the platform. Black academics, celebrities, and personalities lament as they say a goodbye to the good days of Twitter. Mastodon, BlueSky, Spill, LinkedIn, and of course TikTok are depicted as places of solace for Black users who feel unwelcome on X. (X has since eliminated any protections for marginalized and disenfranchised users on the platforms.)

Four years after the election of Biden to the presidency and with the forthcoming election looming, the series bids Black Twitter adieu with the foresight that Black people will always continue to innovate, despite not being given the tools or resources to create. This is exemplified by a reference to soul food, and a call to action to create our own archives—the thesis of Black Twitter: A People’s History.

But what Black Twitter fails to realize—and simply can’t capture—is that we are not in 2008 anymore. Or 2012. Or 2020. The Obama coalition is dead. The Biden coalition is falling apart by the day and culturally resonant programming falls flat compared to the citizen-led reporting that is coming to life in front of our very eyes. Just look at the actions of the student journalists at WKCR, the Columbia University radio station that covered the raid of Hamilton Hall by the New York Police Department. Or the wave of anti-war protests by Black students at HBCUs. Guess where these students learned how to organize from? Black Twitter. They’re not just archiving their own stories—they’re creating them.

But that’s the flaw of content like this. It doesn’t have the capacity to capture the legacy of a movement because it’s a movement that isn't over. It is still unfurling—still morphing and coming to life in front of our very eyes. These are children who came of age on Black Twitter. They’re still using those tools to make us laugh, to inspire change, to create community.

If there is anyone who will save us (and in turn, if there’s anything worth saving), it's them. Not Black Twitter.