#illuminated illusions

[illuminatedillusionswcrp]

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[cadmusfly]

bought a book in a language i don't understand with the dream of manually scanning, OCRing and running it through machine translation for my own enjoyment because dead frenchmen brainrot

i should actually set up a pipeline for that before the book gets here

[toyastales]

Glow With Me

[jinglinillust]

Day22 

Le pain au chocolat🥐🍫✨

« Celui qui mange ma chair et boit mon sang a la vie éternelle, et je le ressusciterai au dernier jour. » . .

Le pain au chocolat 🥐🍫✨

"Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day."

. . 法式巧克力麵包🥐🍫✨

「凡是吃我的肉、喝我的血的，就有永生；在末日，我也要叫他復活。」

[shahabdrawings]

Ghost in the mirror

[illusion-of-luminesence]

Oh, like everyone just thinks that! Who knows where it came from. I personally think it's pretty fucking rude, but people look at me like I'm am asshole too!

(Being somewhat honest, but he also dislikes the idea of being smited)

"Ah."

" I Too Think-Eth That Is Very Rude."

"Talking Shit About a Deity! Do Other Mortals Have No Sense?!"

"I Shall Findeth The Origine & I Shalt Smite Whomever Or Whatever. Thy Shall Regret—"

[He goes silent for a moment]

"Anyways."

"What Is Thou're Name?" :)

[despondencytendencies]

You instill sparks in others, you charge them with your illusions, and when they burst forth into illuminations, you are taken in.

— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June from "A Journal of Love" : The Unexpurgated Diaries of Anaïs Nin 1931-1932

[idiopathicsmile]

i got like halfway through describing this to my parents yesterday before my dad looked me dead in the eyes and said "and you want it to be a show." it is a blessing and a curse to have so many people in my life who know me so well.

you know what really grinds my gears?

okay, bear with me: so as you may know, harry houdini and arthur conan doyle were friends, at least for a while.

by the early 1920s, both arthur conan doyle and acd's wife jean, aka lady doyle, believed whole-heartedly in spiritualism, talking to ghosts and all of that. (sidenote: this was of course right on the heels of a devastating world war and a devastating pandemic, both of which had created a huge population of grieving people, so spiritualism was having a moment.)

lady doyle sincerely thought she had the ability to go into a trance state and pass along messages in writing from the dead. she offered to do this for houdini. houdini agreed.

lady doyle attempted to channel houdini's late mother. she basically drew a cross at the top of the paper and filled it with generic platitudes addressed to "harry." houdini's mom was jewish and didn't talk like that, so houdini knew the jig was up, even if lady doyle didn't. but not wanting to make the situation awkward, he kind of went along with it to their faces.

then acd decided to publish a glowing account of the seance, and since both he and houdini were super famous, it got a lot of attention, and letters started pouring in for houdini, asking if this was true. ultimately, houdini couldn't lie about it. so he essentially said, like, "yeah, i think lady doyle THINKS she can talk to ghosts but she absolutely can't." and it ruined his friendship with acd forever.

and then of course a lot of the people running seances weren't even well-intentioned like lady doyle, they were just simple charlatans taking advantage of traumatized people mourning loved ones. in houdini's youth, he and his wife had traveled the carnival circuit where he did an act pretending to commune with spirits, so he knew all the tricks of the trade AND he had lingering guilt over having done this, AND he was infuriated by this increasingly popular wave of con artists so he decided to assemble a team of anti-grifting grifters and together they went on the road exposing whichever spiritualists were preying on the locals.

houdini's best agent was a young woman named rose mackenberg, who donned disguises to visit the fraud de jour and then importantly sussed out what non-supernatural thing was actually happening, and then houdini would demonstrate the techniques onstage to packed audiences.

(if you want to know more, check out episode 175, "ghost racket crusade" of the podcast Criminal or read Tony Wolf's book The Real-Life Ghostbusting Adventures of Rose Mackenberg.)

but yeah, what really gets my goat is that all this happened and as far as i know, we still don't have like four seasons of a Leverage-style historical procedural about rose mackenberg and the rest of the crew having adventures in the 1920s as they unmask craven hucksters all over the united states. (what we do have, apparently, is one season of a show called "houdini and doyle" which is about the oddball friendship of two contrasting men solving sometimes-actually-supernatural mysteries, and whose premise does i think at the very least a real disservice to houdini's whole quest and also totally erases rose, who is arguably the most interesting part of this story to me.)

i am just steamed about this. steamed.

[skyecoaiart]

Walk toward light

[the-pharmacology-specialist]

The Illusion of Freedom Part 6

Illumination Illumination is supplying or brightening with light or the resulting state or providing insight, clarity, or understanding (Merriam-Webster dictionary). Darkness cannot withstand the light. Situations often blur the line between being a problem and a solution, a complex dichotomy that doesn’t always neatly align. Dear traveller, have you pondered the profound significance of…

[illuminatedillusionswcrp]

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[misschatz]

Samsung Products Storyboard

[dmitriandreivitch]

L'illumination est un processus déconstructeur. Cela n'a rien à voir avec le fait de devenir meilleur ou d'être plus heureux. L'illumination réduit en miettes tout ce qui n'est pas vérité. C'est voir à travers la façade de l'illusion. C'est une remise en cause radicale de tout ce que nous avons pu considérer être vrai. Adyashanti

[aceparagonings]

tag dump part 3 ( dynamic and ship tags! )

･::･ﾟ☆ HANEKOMA: you took me under the gentle touch of your wings; you have always been my father. ☆ KAKYOIN NORIAKI 💎 meeting you was a fated encounter; you are my shining emerald; our radiance will envelop the galaxy itself. ♥☆💎 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ NORIAKI — the sunshine that illuminates your unbreakable emerald; you brighten my world & life. ☆ THE-COMPOSER ☆ you look after me like a guardian angel does; you are my first friend. with you I feel like I can do anything. ☆ KIRYU JOSHUA ☆ you waltzed into my life like an unknowing crescendo; yet our harmonies are melodic together. I will keep Shibuya safe. ☆ KISARAGI GENTARO ☆ my dearest friend — you and I are the stars that will light up the galaxy. with you at my side I have nothing to fear. ☆ G'RAHA TIA 💠 you inspire me to keep going despite the odds I face; with you at my side there is nothing to fear. ♥☆💠 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ G'RAHA — love that transcends time & space. when we’re together I feel like I’m home. ♥☆📷 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ TSUKASA — fate dictated that we are never to meet; and yet we are two halves of a whole. ☆ KADOYA TSUKASA 📷 destroyer of worlds & my other half — together we'll defy our destiny and forge our own path. ☆ JUGGLUS JUGGLER 🌙 with words laced with sweet venom to coil around a heart — yet you didn't need to cast illusions to win my heart. ♥☆🐍 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ JUGGLER — a heart of darkness cannot exist without a heart of light; let me be the guiding star on your path. ☆ DANTE SPARDA 🌹 the devil to my angel; on wings of rebellion does hope burn anew. ever stronger; ever higher. ♥☆🌹 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ DANTE — ''heaven or hell; let's rock!'' for you—I’d brave the flames of hell itself on wings of hope. ☆ TOKIWA SOUGO 🕛 oh valiant boy king — how brightly does your smile shine. may you never forget that brave heart as fate tests your will. ☆ MYTHCAELS ☆ heroes we are; standing side by side to protect what's important to us. as your mentor I vow to subvert your destiny. ☆ ONODERA YUSUKE 🪲 you who also protects everyone's smiles — because of your kind heart I've found another ally to always rely on. ☆ KAITO DAIKI 👑 although our ideals didn't always align — I know that I can depend on you. thank you for also keeping tsukasa safe. ☆ HIKARI NATSUMI 🍊 it's because of you that tsukasa is who he is today — you kept believing in him no matter what.

[laliwilde]

beep beep coming through

[illusion-of-luminesence]

can i have a hug ?

"No."