#holisticeating

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

Nu e treaba mea sa dau ordine sau impresia ca manipulez, dar sa nu dea dracu sa votati partidul POT la parlamentare.

1. Sunt sustinatorii lui Calinel

2. Daca Dolores Umbridge era din Romania

3. Practic sunt AUR 2.0

4. Iubire, acceptare, tratamente holistice, dar homofobie, misoginie internalizata la greu si prostie

[lavinialost]

thinking about how rapunzel the corgi functions as a foreshadowing device in s2.

rapunzel was rimmer's dog in s1, and for all intents and purposes, rimmer was the main antagonist of s1 (even though he's kind of garbage at it).

and then in s2 we see her attached to ken. they're being held in the taxi together, friedkin's convinced she's part of ken's supposed holisticism, she gets to go with ken when he's reassigned to his own room after his "promotion", etc.

and then who's set up to be the main antagonist by the end of s2? ken. who still has rapunzel with him somewhere in blackwing.

[lonelygodscompanion]

interpretations of pararibulitis, in particular as it pertains to todd brotzman:

karmic punishment. first things first, get what you deserve. this is how todd sees it, as his just desserts for lying to his family and screwing over everyone in his life for so long. you scam your parents by pretending to have a neurological condition that runs in the family? well here you go, now you have that neurological condition. this is also how dirk sees it, as just another instance of bad things befalling the people who cross his path. dirk involved him in a case, todd chose to help dirk, and in return the universe has punished him for that because everywhere dirk goes disaster follows and people get hurt.

it just is what it is. just because the relationship between cause and effect is often much more subtle than we might first imagine, doesn’t mean nothing has simple direct consequences. in the course of the spring case todd got electrocuted multiple times over a couple of days: it’s possible that this repeated injury is what triggered the condition in todd’s nervous system. sometimes things just happen and we have to live with that. fate and chance don't cancel each other out.

consequence of becoming involved in a holistic case- as well as continuing to choose to be involved in holisticism, unlike perhaps other people in dirk’s previous cases. todd was integrally connected to the spring case, but if he wants to continue being useful during other cases well, he’d better develop some more outright holistic skills! we know pararibulitis has /something/ to do with the universe (the rowdy three can feed off attacks like on holistic people, amanda has visions and access to magic when in a place made by francis) and if the purpose of people like dirk and bart and francis and mona and amanda is to ‘fix a broken universe’ then maybe pararibulitis has something to do with that. maybe without todd experiencing an attack that connected him to his sister in wendimoor, they wouldn’t have found the key piece of information or motivation needed to find her and find wendimoor at the right time. maybe without amanda being able to draw on todd’s pararibulitis attack, there wouldn’t have been enough power for her to keep the portal to blackwing open and allow dirk to find the boy and solve the case. in this way pararibulitis and the people who have it are just another tool of the universe to make sure everything is in the right place and in the right order.

[slutdge]

Tw medical abuse/ptsd: Medical abuse from holistic mothers gang UNITE - mine treated everything with essential oils, chiropractors, and gut healing. I get blindly angry when people bring up swapping basic, well controlled, dosed, medication- with fucking. ACUPUNCTURE ???? Seeing holistic practitioners and herbalists instead of doctors. The diets.

Yesssss omg it makes me so mad too, my mom said recently "if you guys were babies now i wouldnt have gotten you vaccinated", she chose holistic treatment over physical and medicinal treatment for her BPPV, she constantly denies my actual disabilities, she talked my pregnant sister into seeing a chiropractor for her pain instead of a real doctor which is so dangerous to her and her baby, and is adamant that i could just not be mentally ill if i meditated and took vitamins/essential oils. Its so fucked up to be raised like that. and like im speaking as someone who has been through the wringer of medical/psychiatric abuse but still, have some nuance, you can criticize the healthcare system and how its practiced without going full blown "crystals will cure my cancer" mode, and there are also even more infinite aspects to this i cant cover in a single short answer but denying disabled peoples needs in the name of holisticism is shitty and unexcusable for what i had to go through.

[clockworkcheetah]

heyyyyy ⌛️ 🏆 🤲 l

⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?

ok ignoring timeloop cause shes her own thing. but it kinda depends- i can write a fic quickly if its short and vibe-y. longer fics take well... longer a few weeks if i don't get too distracted

🏆 What’s your most popular fic?

in terms of hits its heat drip (aka lucifer pegging fic), in terms of kudos its something that can be made anew (pokemon submas fic)

my most popuar dghda fic (kudos) is and what we're taught as kids which kinda surprised me asdfghjkl;

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

from timeloop ;3

"Seriously? You tried to impress me with holisticism and like… interconnectedness and me being here. Why are you acting like you're some guy?" "Why are you?" Todd frowns. "I am some guy."

hmmmmmmmmmmm

thanks for the asks!!

fic emoji ask

[psychicfoxpainter]

I wanted so badly to be a therapist so I could Be Better than those shitty therapists that had hurt or ignored me

My whole degree was essentially 'why psychology is either bullshit, oppressive, or not useful against the systems of oppression'

and even after finishing it, still, sometimes, I want to do it, even though I know I couldn't fix a system this fucked even if I wasn't disabled

there ARE good therapists out there, but the system itself corrupts and promotes theories and practices that are ineffective or unethical. and therapy qualifications are especially bad at not promoting the kind of critical thinking needed to unpick all of that

if one is looking for a therapist, I would suggest looking at someone who has humanistic training. It's not a perfect system or worldview by any means, but it's one that actually understands and promotes actual holisticism i.e that a person is a bag of emotions and memories that acts in and is acted upon by society and other people. It's also a viewpoint that centers the person. It's what in the UK is called 'person-centered care'.

However, the danger of course lies in that any practitioner can lie to you and say they practice person-centered care, or whatever buzz word, and they don't.

But the thing about helping professions that people who don't work in them don't always get is this:

most of the people who go into one to abuse power don't know that's why they've done it

most abusive behaviour is done by people who can't acknowledge it

so if you are in a helping profession, dear reader, please acknowledge your own deep reasons for doing so. No-one is ever truly altruistic, but by examining yourself you can see how you might abuse your own power over someone. You don't have to be That Person in your team to be abusive.

going into a helping profession is still the easiest way to gain power as a woman, and the more you see yourself as Nurse, as Therapist, as Doctor, the less you see your patients as people

much like policing, the reasons why people get into therapy and psychiatry are a mixture of wanting to help others, and wanting to abuse power, and much like policing, those that abuse power are going to be far more successful than those that don't

[5brightplanets]

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Ah, of course there’s so much sense in properly looking for a Good Thing and somehow finding it. It’s just that something always happens with Astonishing Rapidity by the way of finding it.

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The Hybridal Rigore Quote Series. A custom blend of rabbital holisticism and breakfastable poohity. Infused by the dialogue of Pooh and Rabbit from Chapter VII In Which Tigger Is Unbounced by A.A. Milne, circa 1928. Found in an August, 1950 edition of The House At Pooh Corner, published by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. and printed in the USA by H. Wolff, New York. The viewable and listenable link is posted by Bad Company; https://youtu.be/14YfPNGSj6Q?si=yxYtVnPDFBPCqnt1 is a seemingly one-time-use, hypochangeable link to Rock ’n' Roll Fantasy (2015 Remaster). Grateful awareness of the many artists, musicians, and technicians who present these sights and sounds. Words and Music composed and performed by Paul Rodgers. -Jivananda (Jim)

[spiritual123]

Rudolf Steiner

Ga-1 – Lucrările științifice ale lui Goethe

Rezumat

17: Goethe împotriva atomismului

Rudolf Steiner abordează critic conceptul de atomism, care domină știința secolului XIX. Steiner susține că ideile fundamentale ale concepției moderne despre natură sunt nesănătoase și inacceptabile, fiind de acord cu chimistul Wilhelm Ostwald. Ostwald, la rândul său, critică concepția mecanicistă a lumii, care reduce toate fenomenele la mișcări ale atomilor și forțelor lor.

Steiner argumentează că imaginea concret-senzorială a lumii este o continuă metamorfozare a percepțiilor, fără o materie de bază. El respinge teoriile care depășesc sfera lumii perceptibile, susținând că cercetarea științifică ar trebui să se concentreze exclusiv pe lumea senzorială.

Concepția modernă, influențată de Descartes, tratează fenomenele naturale ca mișcări atomice ce pot fi exprimate matematic. Steiner consideră că această abordare transformă lumea într-un exercițiu de aritmetică și neglijează realitățile senzoriale complexe.

Steiner subliniază că toate percepțiile, inclusiv mărimea, forma și forța, sunt de fapt percepții senzoriale și nu ar trebui izolate de restul caracteristicilor senzoriale ale obiectelor. El critică filosofia modernă pentru că urmează orbește știința și pentru că favorizează explicațiile mecaniciste sau energetice simple în detrimentul unei înțelegeri mai profunde a fenomenelor naturale.

Ostwald, deși încearcă să depășească materialismul mecanicist introducând noțiunea de energie, rămâne prizonierul aceleiași tendințe de simplificare excesivă, transformând procesele naturale în manifestări ale energiei. Steiner concluzionează că această înclinație spre comoditate a gândirii nu satisface pe deplin nevoia de a înțelege cauzele reale ale fenomenelor naturale.

Textul discută criticile aduse de autor oamenilor de știință contemporani, în special celor care nu se inspiră din lucrările altor domenii și din gândirea lui Goethe. Autorul argumentează că abordările mecaniciste și energetice nu pot explica complet fenomenele lumii senzoriale. Sarcina științei nu ar trebui să fie "dizolvarea" unei categorii de însușiri în alta, ci identificarea relațiilor necesare între diferite fenomene senzoriale, pe care Goethe le numea "fenomene originare". Acestea sunt relații necesare și fundamentale între fenomene concrete, și nu abstracțiuni ipotetice. Criticile sunt aduse unor figuri precum Helmholtz și Kirchhoff, sugerând că abordările lor reduc realitatea la abstracțiuni mecaniciste, ignorând complexitatea și interdependența fenomenelor senzoriale. Textul subliniază necesitatea unei înțelegeri mai profunde și holistice a naturii, care să integreze mai bine observațiile senzoriale și legile naturale într-un cadru coerent și semnificativ.

Autorul critică viziunea modernă influențată de Descartes, Locke, Kant și fiziologia contemporană, conform căreia senzațiile (lumina, culoarea, sunetul, căldura) sunt considerate stări subiective, separate de o lume obiectivă. El argumentează că aceste senzații sunt inseparabile de realitatea obiectivă și că separarea acestora este o abstracție mentală, nu o realitate.

Legile matematice și mecanice se referă la obiecte și procese abstracte deduse din lumea senzorială și pot fi aplicate doar în această sferă. Autorul susține că fizica modernă a devenit prea matematică și mecanicistă, ignorând fenomenele senzoriale ca atare și concentrându-se doar pe forțe și mișcări. El argumentează că percepțiile senzoriale sunt o unitate cu mișcările mecanice și că nu pot fi deduse una din cealaltă fără a pierde sensul lor concret-senzorial.

Anton Lampa este criticat pentru că susține că metoda matematică poate fi aplicată fără matematică, ceea ce autorul consideră greșit. El subliniază că matematica și mecanica sunt esențiale pentru înțelegerea fenomenelor fizice și că separarea mișcărilor de senzațiile senzoriale nu are sens.

Autorul concluzionează că tendința de a neglija fenomenele senzoriale în favoarea unor procese mecanice abstracte provine din prejudecata că legile matematice și mecanice sunt mai simple și mai ușor de înțeles decât cele senzoriale, dar argumentează că aceasta este o iluzie.

Autorul critică poziția fizicienilor contemporani și a lui Wundt, care consideră că noțiunile și ideile sunt simple produse ale creierului și nu fac parte din realitate. Ostwald propune înlocuirea materiei în mișcare cu energia în mișcare oscilatorie, dar Wundt susține că mișcarea trebuie să aibă un substrat real. Autorul argumentează că noțiunea de energie a lui Ostwald este mai apropiată de realitate și că energia este o manifestare a forței. Critică ideea că materia ar avea însușiri independente de percepțiile senzoriale.

Dezvoltarea științei moderne a eliminat ideea că noțiunile și ideile fac parte din realitate, spre deosebire de scolastici care credeau că acestea au legătură cu lucrurile în sine. Autorul laudă scolastica pentru intuirea că noțiunile și ideile sunt realități, dar critică amestecul acestei intuiții cu credințele creștine în transcendență. El susține că o gândire sănătoasă spiritualizează lumea și vede noțiunile și ideile ca fiind parte din realitate, asemenea lucrurilor perceptibile. Filosofia greacă este considerată exemplul unei gândiri sănătoase, în contrast cu scolastica care tinde să găsească originea lumii în Dumnezeu, în afara acestei lumi.

De-a lungul secolelor, influența concepțiilor creștine a crescut, în detrimentul sentimentelor obscure moștenite de la antichitatea greacă. Astfel, s-a pierdut capacitatea de a percepe realitatea noțională și a ideilor, ceea ce a dus la pierderea credinței în spirit. Aceasta a marcat începutul erei lui Newton și a științei, unde accentul a fost pus pe materialism și pluralitatea naturii, în detrimentul unității fundamentale. Newton a fost indus în eroare de aceste concepții, văzând lumina ca pe ceva compus, nu ca pe o unitate originară. Goethe, în „Materiale pentru o istorie a teoriei culorilor”, descrie evoluția concepțiilor științifice și critică știința modernă pentru pierderea înțelegerii asupra naturii luminii și a culorii. Astfel, știința modernă nu mai înțelege cum apare culoarea și rolul luminii în acest proces.

#Goethe #Steiner #Antroposofia #Антропософия #Anthroposophy #Anthroposophie

[nicolae]

eMarketing și Marketing

eMarketing se referă în mod specific la marketing prin utilizarea internetului, dar strategiile holistice permit companiilor să profite la maximum de bugetul lor prin integrarea activităților online și offline. eMarketingul nu ar trebui să fie privit ca separat sau ca urmare a unei strategii de marketing. În schimb, companiile ar trebui să se concentreze asupra clienților lor și să folosească…

[aks-of-the-weak]

Incipit: I'm sick. Not actually sick, not covid sick, just the little kind of sick where the nose runs a bit and the throat is a bit sore and the brain heats a bit too much to be doing arcane mathematics for Godot shaders. so here i come instead. Writing Homestuck OCs. My beloved.

Aquassa, Sign of the Stylist: This one's pretty abstract looking.

Constellation: Turns out a Stylist is a pretty vague job, right? Most commonly it's a hairdresser, but anyone who arranges things to be stylish is a stylist. Let's start by going down the Hair path. Hair has some association with magic in popular culture, but i'm not so sure what it is or where it comes from. Aquacin, the Knotted Wand was alledgedly a "mystical" constellation as well, so maybe a magic theme can be a unifying trait amongst Violet constellations. Ok, future Aks here. I didn't find shit. Mostly it's vague witchcraft shenanigans about connecting a non-descript spell with yourself. There's always the myth of Samson, but i'm not a big fan of the Bible.

Hmmm. Let's take this from another perspective. I know i want this troll to be a parallel to Maipur because of their opposing aspects, sways and hemospectral status. Maipur is a Landscaper, at least in name, and by the "anyone who makes things stylish" definition a Landscaper is a kind of stylist. If the metaphor of Artist's constellation was "Skill honed through trained repetition", then Aquassa should be a denial of that. Not "Skill from inborn talent", that's too boring. Maybe Holisticism? "Things will always end up fitting together by themselves". Characterizing a character by "Skill honed through trained repetition" means characterizing them not just by "trained repetition", but before that by their need to be skilled in the first place. So the opposite of that is a character characterized by not needing to be skilled. But i'm not diving into the character yet. Constellation, constellation! While i was spitballing about hair i had the idea of a "hair-cutting constellation". The circle on the right would be the head, the bar on the left the cut-off hair and the bar separating the two would be the scissors.  But with the new thematic this doesn't really work anymore. So, what object is Holistic? What object will function by itself? After some thinking i've settled on a Fruit Tree. A Fruit Tree is a lot more independent than a crop, i think. You don't have to replant it after every harvest and they're more resilient to changes of weather and temperatures. Official constellations don't have any plants, so some might say a fruit tree isn't appropriate for a constellation, but to me that just means it's new grounds to explore.

Physicality: First thing, as a carry-over from the Hair-based brainstorming this troll will have long straight hair. Genuinely long, going down to his ankles. And mimicking that hair, his horns are also long, thin and pointy, starting from his forehead, curving over the top of his head and ending up behind his nape, meaning if he tries to look upwards he risks stabbing himself in the neck. He's supposed to be a parallel to Maipur, so an Idea would be his strifekind would be a mundane object like how Maipur fights with a Paintbrush. Scissors is the obvious answer, but i'm trying to move away from the hair thematic, so i'll go with Shears instead. Clothing-wise, he's a proper noble in fancy clothing. He wears a long cape on his back colored dark-violet on the inside which gives him a sort of Dracula-type look. As for Psionic powers... 

Lore: « Throughout history it has been the common understanding that sea dwellers  cannot manifest psionic abilities. From this assumption, many theses have sprouted throughout academic circles. Sometimes, the naturally strong and psychically resistant constitutions of violetbloods hinder the mitosis of echocerebral cells during the larval and prelarval stages of development. Sometimes it's the process of anti-senescent regeneration which consumes psioactive agents in the blood. These are interesting theories worthy of a profound examination, but in this text, i would like to linger upon the possibility that the assumption itself is flawed. If, hypothetically, violetbloods could manifest psionic phenomenons, what sort of properties could we observe in them? Well, for one, by looking at the concentration of vascular molybdenum [...]

In conclusion, if Violet Psionic Manifestations were possible, they would be on the extremely trained end of the spectrum, further even than Chucklevoodoo and Catharametry. Perhaps completely opposite from Indigo's wholly innate "Mutations". They would have to be Fast in activation, almost as much as Burgundy Psionics, but also Short-reached in effect, somewhere just below Teal Manifestations. Most importantly, we must not forget the Sociological aspect of it. If it is a power that has remained undocumented, it is likely that it is one that can be fully or greatly utilized while remaining undetected. » - George Wiccus, 956, Encyclopedic Catalogue of Psionic Manifestations in Trollkind and Related Faunas, Volume 6, p.4-13, Never published.

Short Story:

You stand before a large orchard. Behind you is an ornate gate of black metal. Forward, on the other side of the orchard, looms a dark, dark mansion. So dark it could disappear with just the gloom of the dusk. As soon as you passed through the gate, this one Sea Dweller came out of the mansion and started walking towards you. You thought you'd wait around, you know how much these jackasses care about manners and whatnot, but the little shit sure is taking his sweet time. You've been here about 15 minutes and he's barely gotten closer. You're pretty sure he stopped to prune one of his trees at some point. So, what the hell, you lean back against a tree and take out your machete. He sends you a death glare like he thinks you're gonna start hacking at his trees or something. If bitch had objections, bitch shouldn't have been 300 meters away. The base of the blade is made of flint, so you knock a piece of steel on it and use the spark to light your cigarette. That's all you need it for, man. You put it back and he mellows out. Good to know you exist, at least.

Another 30 minutes pass where you're just chillin. You've been hopping planet to planet throughout the outskirts of the empire trying all the different cigarettes you could get your mitts on, and you gotta say, these ones are preeetty good. The way the smoke kinda grips at your throat, then lets go, like scratching an itch your hands could never reach. What was it, Xoribon-, Xorabok-, Xoripokics? You can't read the shit that's on the box. Anyways, Solid A-Tier to whatever it's name was. Not quite on the level of the Artisanal Cadaczan Ballots in S-tier, now there's the ultimate form of tobacco. As for Troll Cigs, of course, most of them belong in the F tier. They take a larva, dig a hole in it, stuff it with random chemical products and call it a day. They don't even wrap it or anything, pretty sure one of them you tried had plastic glitter in it. Absolute disgrace. The olives got some good shit, but half the time it's laced with some crazy bullshit that'll send you to death's door. That's how it is with your species, they've got no vision, no artistry, and when they ever do it's a shallow attempt at upping numbers on a—

"I trust you are Maipur Lenote."

You turn your head towards towards the haughty aristocrat who finally finished his mosey. What, is this bitch being impatient now?

"That's me"

"Your earlier taunt was in quite bad taste. Do not do it again."

You pull out the machete and turn the flat of the blade towards him so that he can clearly see where the metal turns to rock.

"It was no taunt, sir. This is all i've got on me to light a cig. I don't carry lighters, y'see, makes it too easy for some psions out there."

Lies. You doubt he'll buy it, but set a trap and you might catch a prey, set a hundred and you surely will. The aristocrat frowns.

"Irrelevant. Walk with me."

Damn, this guy's bossy. You put out your cigarette on your fireproof jacket and stuff it in your pocket. You might be a killer, but you're no litterer. The violetblood begins to walk and you follow.

"I've heard formidable stories about you. Taking on entire groups at once, taking on highbloods, taking on powerful psions and weaponmasters alike."

They always start with that. You don't know why they think you'd be flattered to hear that. You don't know why they think you're proud of killing hundreds.

"I've also heard you're an aficionado of the arts, a master of painting, gardening, scenic landscaping. Remarkable."

Ok, well, now you're blushing a little. He gestures to the fruit trees all around.

"As you see, I am something of botanist myself. My collection collection contains specimens from all over the galaxy, and beyond. I hear this one is even from another universe altogether."

He stops and points to a tree filled with red berries.

"I do know the claim sounds far fetched, but i do not believe it is not unfounded as i obtained the saplings from one man of great wisdom and class. Not the kind to spout petty lies. Have you met him, perchance?"

Bro bought some random tree marked up from a scammer in fancy clothes. You swear, violets are so easy to trick. You just shrug as an answer and he seems content with it.

He reaches his arm into his long cape and draws out a pair of pruning shears. A classic trick, hiding one's hands to pretend you're getting an item from physical storage when really you're just pulling it out of your strife deck or sylladex. If anything it gives you more information than he gains. Bad move, bitch. He uses the shears to prune a branch filled with berries and hands it to you.

"It's unfortunate, had you arrived half a season earlier you could've seen it in its flowering state. It blooms with bright pink petals that fall with the sway of the winds. Quite the regal sight. Care for a sample?"

Bitch. You just like calling this guy a bitch.  In your mind. He has a really callable-a-bitch face. But anyways, you accept and captachalogue the branch. Then you reply:

"To be honest, i didn't think you called me here to talk about this type of work."

"Ah, yes. I suppose it is for 'work' that i have let you enter the premises. So tragic how rarely 'work' aligns with 'interest'."

You both resume walking. You thought he was going to continue with something, but he just keeps walking in silence and looking at his trees. Now piping back in is awkward, but you do it anyway.

"You want me to kill someone."

"Hmm, no, not exactly. There is a group. More a ragtag posse of societal rejects than any sort of real organization. Their leader stole one of my ships and now they are traversing the cosmos, tracking an item we wish to have for ourselves. For my part i wish nothing more than to see him charred husk on the floor, but..."

He hesitates.

"My moirail, you see, used to be matesprit with him. And well, with all the pale affection i have for her in my collapsing and expanding bladder based aquatic vascular system, objectively speaking, she is... Shall we say...

Batshit fucking insane, on her better days. She would have his legs cut off at the knee and nailed to the ground, the lids of his eyes surgically removed so that he may never avert his gaze, and then all of his good friends slowly killed off in front of him while he begs with the regret of having ever 'betrayed' her. Or so she says."

You really wish you could take or dismiss jobs based on morality sometimes, but that's not a luxury that's often affordable when one is in the business of contract killings. You've got a lot of people on your tail, especially right now, and if you want to live another sweep you're going to need the cash and means this guy is willing to part with.

"Well, i'm not asking you to go so far. Just making sure most of them die will be enough. Personally, i'm interested in however much closer you can bring us to the aforementioned item. Find us even an inch of information and you shall have rewards beyond value"

Fancy nobles and their metaphorical ramblings. What could he possibly have to give better than Money. You keep walking towards the mansion in silence. You'd like to think the years have toughened you, molded you into this hard-boiled lethal mercenary that knows no pity and no remorse and yaddi yaddi yadda, but the truth is it still sticks to you. The screams of agony, of visceral hate, even from people who would laugh doing the same. You hate things that stick to you. Sometimes you wish a great wave of death would swoop away through the galaxy and wash away every troll and their starships clinging to the void of space and let them crash down on the sun and planets all around. And only you would be left. Civilizations of the entire universe would cheer and start anew. They'd make art and products more beautiful and pleasant than your entire species has even tried to produce in the thousands of years of its slaughterous existence. And you'd be left jumping from planet to planet, seeing it all, trying as much as you can with the time in this world that is actually yours to u—

"May i ask a question?"

Ugh, hasn't he talked enough?

"Shoot"

"There are millions of low bloods, fighting and killing each other, right now and at any given moment. No doubt you've been amongst them at one point. But where they have confronted death twice, thrice, maybe a dozen times, you've met countless more foes, some outclassing you in number, in sheer strength, in psionics. What is it that makes it you came out on top, and they perished?"  

You consider answering with something stupid, that a noble would like, like "idk, i guess i'm just better", but in your walk, obnoxiously slow though it was, you've grown just a smidgen of respect for the man and his strange passion for arboreal botany. Here you were, thinking shit about your species' sense of artistry, might as well say something worthwhile.

"I think it's just luck. No matter how skilled, strong and prepared you are, at the end of the day you enter a battle with some amount of unknown information. Everyone risks death, i've just been lucky enough to hit twelve on every roll of my d—"

"WRONG!"

His scream makes you take a step back. Shadow hits your face. Dusk has set. The sun is now behind the Mansion.

"It is because you are better, Lenote!"

Its mass cannot be distinguished from its shadow which has now passed your head and runs ever deeper from whence you came.

"Highbloods are stronger than Lowblood, Psions are stronger than Mundanes, Number is stronger than being alone."

You now realize that at some point the man shifted from leading the walk to walking besides you. He takes a step closer to you, or so you think. It's too dark, you can't be sure.

"And you, Maipur Lenote, could come all this way to my doorstep because your talent with the flame and the blade, because your cunning as killer, it allowed you survive even without those cheap advantages of circumstances."

You could swear he has gotten taller. But you could not, you cannot see. You hear movement from where he is, but it's not his, it's something else. Is there a beast there, with him, in the shadows? An alien? Why would it not sneak up from behind you? Throughout this talk you've been certain you could kill him with relatively little risk if need be, but now you're not so sure.

"We ask this job of you, Maipur Lenote, not because you are some petty mercenary. But because you are an Artist. with Death."

It's lunging towards you. You take out your machete and swing in the air. You hit nothing. You equip your Giant Paintbrush and the steel plate under its hairs is hit by the flint of the machete. Sparks fly. It ignites the tar coating your brush. Light again.

He is just standing there. Normal Sized. No beast anywhere. Nothing lunging at you. Just a bitch with a smug face while you're flipping the fuck out.

"Is there a problem, Maipur Lenote?"

"Uh, yeah, it's dark as shit in here. I was just getting us some light."

"Ah, I see. I happen to have excellent nocturnal vision, so i don't always notice these things. My apologies."

Excellent nocturnal vision my ass, you think. His pupils were completely undilated, there's no way he could see shit in there. Finally, you reach the manor's patio.

"We have arrived."

He opens the door and signals you to get in.

"Come on in, the rest of The Court is eagerly awaiting to meet you."

"You're not gonna ask me to leave my weapons at the door?"

"Of course not, we have manners."

You step through the doorframe. As the doors closes behind you, you think back to your talk with that man. Or rather, the one he has had with you. You think that, in your little game furriers, you might have ended up the prey.

Excipit: Gods damn, i love writing. You forget how fun this shit is when you start thinking about how you "should write" instead of actually doing it. I've cut the Lusus and Personality section. The former, i think i'm doing away with since it's not relevant most of the time. Ajiana Carcha (this guy) had a very weak mosquito-type lusus who died from getting crushed/killed when he was pretty young. It broke his heart really badly </3. That's enough lusus info, imo, maybe i'll integrate it into Physicality for future posts. Personality i'm not doing away with, but when you've got such an extensive short story, plus for an antagonist who you generally want to keep mysterious more than a protagonist, i think it's not necessary. I dream of a day where i'll be able to just say stupid non-sequiturs in the Excipit. Instead most of it is taken up on the actual subject of the post. Ugh, so annoying.

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025/366 | 🐫 Do Not Put ‘Product’ In Charge

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Don’t get me wrong. I have a lot of time and respect for 🖇️ Dana Blankehorn - as you can see … so this one caught my attention

There’s a single rule I’ve learned studying technology this last half century. Product must be in charge.

.. and 🔗then he goes on

I totally disagree, so had to comment and did. Reproduced here for posterity

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I don’t disagree on taking the finance wonks out .. but not sure I agree on putting product in … I know lots of companies that lead with product .. and it doesn’t work unless there is wider purview which is often missing in product thinking. Our friends in Cupertino don’t lead with product .. though many pundits think they do .. they lead with vision, experience and story that the product delivers against.

The ‘top’ needs to be market, future market, visionary oriented. Disciplines that used to fall under marketing … though sadly not anymore .. as they are all chasing data and models and RoI .. but those people exist. In all of those disciplines. The dude at the top can still be a focussed finance wonk … their ancillary skill (beyond those three core requirements) is to listen to everyone, take advice and pay attention.

Again .. the man at the top of Cupertino is ‘operations and supply chain’ ( by history ) but to the casual observer, that isn’t so obvious. Meanwhile, the man before him was vision and experience and story .. sure he definitely had a say in product … but from an holistic viewpoint -

Just one slice of the holisticism (is that even a word)… how many ‘product’ people get what good design can do.

If they do .. I mean REALLY do .. why are there so many badly designed, poorly performing products out there?

What Do You Think?

Postscript - sometimes the Leonardo images take a few tweaks to get even close to my underlying message - but in this case - third go - and was only generating 1 image at a time. Sometimes I run out of the 150 free credits that I get every day - and have to choose from a bad lot.

This image just spoke volumes to me as ‘the house that ‘product’ built.

Funnily enough - today’s emoji was also absolutely clear.

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