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rumblelibrary · 3 years ago

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The Diary of Doctor Laszlo Kreizler

Chapter 1

Synopsis: Alienist’s notes are private, sometimes gruesome, secrets of others and of himself.Those pages belongs to secrecy and decadence, have a glimpse to this world made of drafts, notes, accidents and reflections. Or maybe it is you the only person that should ever reach for it.

While you read this imagine Laszlo mostly at the end of his day, scraping the ideas and the thoughts, adjusting previous notes with additions, closing the day behind himself with a couple of sentences while sitting in his evening robe, a good glass of whiskey and his glasses bridged almost at the tip of his nose. Or maybe imagine yourself, you sneaky thing, reach for it from a far shelf.

Word count: 3k

Warnings: listen, this is the set of ideas and confessions of a man living in the 1890’s. Most of them will be outdated, rough, even deprecating in some analysis of the roles of men, women and social status, religion, etc.So be prepared, my point is to make Laszlo reflect upon those topics, but to be as faithful as I can to his time. Mention of death, mutilation, self harm and a minor depiction of a fight. Psychologically troubled young children ahead! Author’s note: I am a nerd for a good Victorian novel and a sexy Alienist.I have always been charmed by Laszlo’s mind and inner conflicts. So I took the chance and tried to have a run into that rollercoaster. The story is placed between season 1 and season 2.

Diary belonging to Dr. Laszlo Kreizler. This is a professional book of annotations over medical treatments of an alienist toward his patients. Do not disclose and send it back to the address if found: Kreizler’s Institute, xxxxxx, New York City (NY) L.K.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom (c1859). Contributed for digitization by University Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Schiller in his “Die Weltweisen” wrote: So long as philosophy keeps together the structure of the Universe so long does it maintain the world’s machinery by hunger and love. From the philosopher point of view sexual life takes a subordinate position in human’s life, from recent studies pushed by European philosophers, everything is about sexuality and its development. I like to think of the experience of being an alienist as the process of Queen Penelope that, while waiting for her husband Ulysses return, undoes her craftwork every night. I undo the fabulous constructs of people’s beliefs to go back to the rough sketch that stands at the beginning of their loss, their complex, their pain. Maybe that’s why working with children is so motivating and fascinating. They can be saved and yet, I am well aware, some of those sketches already traced in their young lives equal to scars that not even the most advanced theories could cure. But I can sooth them. I can prevent them the torment, the anguish, the recollection at night of those monsters. I feel like a poet would be a better alienist than a philosopher, but I have got no poetry nor philosophy in my veins, but the cold experience of the razor blade judgment of Life itself.

Today I observed a fight among the children at the Institute. Age range between 10 and 12. Boys. The fight was over the possession of a side of the playground, the territory of a pack of youngsters formed under the name of Steven. Peculiar lad, coming from a military background finds comfort in replicating the schemes he lived in his family. He takes the role of the Father/Captain of the team and subjects children that come from a similar background story, but do not posses his same attitude to the command. All quiet on the front, until the space he declared is own spot got affected by the presence of others. Intruders. I knowingly let the events unfold to see how Steven would react to his challenged authority. His reaction was, at first, worded, a sketch, a stage-play of an action he witnessed over and over, and he knew the part so well that some of the contending kids lowered their stance against him. Among considering to mildly intervene into this pyramid scheme of authority, another boy, Jan, calls himself on the role of the educator and hero of the masses and proceeds to unfold a wild and well assessed punch on the newly declared dictator face. Balance is established again. No need for me to arbitrate, once more the laws of nature seem to apply to children as in a state of nature.

Meet John Moore over lunch. His job at the newspaper is picking up, he is charmed by the spirits and the wits that he finds in his shared office with all the other writers. He mentions many, goes on and on over qualities and troubles, gossips and tendencies, and even little scandals here and there. To be aware of all those details gives me no interest, but to see a dear friend so invested clearly gives me something to pick up. To consider also the amount of details and the way he describes this or that member of the journal, I can do a small exercise of analysis. It is almost too easy because John is painfully genuine, even some of the kids at the institute would beat him hands down in a battle of lies. The more he likes somebody, the more he goes on about all the details and the characteristics, often letting aside the physical appearance. When he doesn’t like somebody he has a couple of adjectives for the wits and around four or five for the physical aspects that usually indulge on some repulsive idiosyncrasies. John is a man that painfully fits in the storyline of The Picture of Dorian Gray: to him physical beauty is spiritual beauty and, of course, the other way around. This part of him surely intrigues me, makes me want to tease more from him. But, as a friend, it concerns me as John is way too prone to purposelessly decide that somebody with good eyes is also a good human being, which is a very romantic and admirably naive way of judging matters. I noticed some names that keep repeating in his narration. I dread that it is synonymous of a soon encounter from my side with the objects of his admiration. Fetiches, I dare to say, that I will have to annihilate before they sediment into his mind, perpetuating a narration that soon sees John being mislead by others.

Reserved: Tickets for the Eroica, Symphony n. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven. Thursday evening.

Note on the show: the first movement lacked the pathos needed to begin with, I am not sure that the guest orchestra really managed to portray the wider emotional ground needed to withstand the whole representation. As the evening progressed there were some outstanding performances by the cellists. Still not approving the choice of reprising the early quick finale movement against the lengthy set of variations and fugue that we are used to in presence of the Eroica. Underwhelming the performance of the horn and oboe, vital in the comprehension of the genius of Beethoven.

Niki is a new addition of the Institute, quite old for the standards. He is already 16, he will leave when summer ends to some expensive college his family meant him to stay. His parents expect me to make him “normal” in the time we are allowed together. He is Austrian and I let him act it out like I don’t understand German for the first week of hist stay until today. I believe I hit his pride, which is good, in the moment I answered back to one of his sneaky comments. Now he knows. He is not safe from me, he doesn’t like it. The young man has a tendency to danger, risky tasks and edgy situations. In his mother’s own words “Niki is not afraid of anything”. The phrase didn’t raise any excitement in the father, rather some sort of painful acceptance that is role as the alpha male of the house is probably not only being challenged, but already diminished, if not abolished. I have taken in consideration that Niki will break himself a bone or two in the process of the therapy, probably out of the spite of boredom or rebellion. It took him less than few days to turn himself into an outcast among the outcasts, which only drives me closer to analyse the complexity of his narcissistic wall of self defence. I gave him a physical challenge to lift a certain weight, he is a pretty skinny one, he didn’t like the challenge, but I am sure he will take it. He is a brainy guy, he hates to be questioned on unfamiliar ground. He won’t sleep at night thinking about it. A challenge, in this first phase, can only bring me closer to the ease of his pains. To continue the observation.

It is a sad privilege of medicine, in particular the one I practice, to be able to witness the weaknesses of the human nature and the reverse side of life. Nevertheless, I oblige this same privilege of the study as life moves into shades of darkness. To be aware of it gives more solace to my soul than to be victim of patiently waiting for the inevitable unfolding of the events. To be able to understand more about psychology would bring more comfort and elevation to any human being, the times might not be there yet, but eventually something will move into the direction of a more wholesome approach.

Dinner meeting with Sara Howard, at the restaurant Jardin Des Cygnes, 7 pm sharp. Do not expect to reach the dessert. Do not know if John will be participating due to undeniable tension among the two and the fatal despise of John over French cuisine.

The case that Sara unfolded tonight to my ears feels more and more like pulled out from some gothic book or from the mind of a Roman historian that needed to justify the godly origins of an Emperor. One killing, apparently random, a very constructed iconography over the body. Signs and insults, shapes and drawings. Is this a work of art? Does the killer wants his victim to be his Mona Lisa? His David? I am charmed and destabilised. If this was a murder like any other, then why to spend so much time into it? Based on the description the act of killing itself was quick: a sharp cut over the throat, almost like not wanting to ruin too much the surface to use as base for, what? I keep rerunning those symbols over and over as Sara described them to me, my mind is flooded with the designs of greek philosophers that needed to explain themselves why the sky is above our head and never collapses on us. Hilarious how, no matter the science advancement, in the mind of many the sky stands inevitably overt their shoulders, suffocates them, brings them to a death of the soul and not of the body. Is all this graphic charade indeed only a form to scream for attention? To stress the eyes of an unaware viewer? It seems ridiculously elaborate, a scream for attention would be quick, it would be like guided by instinct, not reasoning, craftwork. Any man with a knife can paint in blood red the walls of a room and that’s asking for attention. That is the primal howl: look at me! I am here! But this one. I don’t know yet.

Spent the early morning reading anew my copy of The Metamorphosis by Ovid. Didn’t touch it in a long time and I got bedazzled by the world of terrible sensuality, anger and selfishness of those gods and mortals. I think back at all the deviances and weaknesses of human kind and I try to relate it to all of those humanoid figures. Niki would be a minotaur, the lonesome son left in the labyrinth and his strive for success is his bull’s head. Or maybe a centaur, because of his wits and strategic thinking. I might keep up the process, maybe this is the way to understand my patients better, to understand the killer better. Must remember not to romanticise it. Greek gods were probably the first form of self indulging of a society that needed gods to be forgiving and allowing favours and punishments, but only in exchange of sacrifices. But the sacrifice never comes from the God’s will, but from the will of the man that perpetuates the act of killing. To sacrifice someone or something is the sadistic response to a lack of love deeply inherited in human mind that becomes neurotic. Is the killer giving the God of his own neurosis a body to feast upon?

I talked with Jan this morning. The young boy is about 10, but he acts like a full grown adult. I could easily asses that’s the reason why he could challenge Steven in that fight. Two children mimicking adults situations they know too well. Jan is son of an industrial man, but he is also son of the dialectics of the industrial revolution. He sounds like he swallowed some of those books about working class rights and communism, probably pushed by a resentful surrounding (mother?uncle? the midwife?) over the social role of his father. As much as incredibly smart and lectured, Jan lost most of his early occasions in life by spending a considerable amount of time using his fists. The anger ever present in the young boy always surprises me, he seems to be holding a power, a strength of a full grown man in those tiny arms. Nevertheless, he is already the tallest of the group. He is surely an idealist, which makes him also tragically fragile. His strength mixed with his heart of gold can make him the best of the heroes or the worst of the villains. He apologised for the fight, he specified how he didn’t like the sound of Steven’s voice, more than the sound, the level of pitch. I can’t stand somebody shouting orders, I just don’t listen anymore. He is so mature even about his own feelings, almost a gentleman in his chivalry toward the weaker children, honest with his open heart and resentful against any form of injustice. I am not spared by his ways, he would come at me whenever he feels like I was being partial over some of the kids, his sense of justice blinds him and transform a perfectly balanced boy into a ranging animal.

Ordered book, to be delivered around tomorrow evening: Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci by Paul Valéry. Suddenly feeling myself as a gross ignorant in art themes. I always regarded myself aware of the artistic personalities and tendencies of present and past, but this new amount of perceptions over the human figure and the human body leads me to document myself more. I could ask John for advice, but he wouldn’t take things at matter that seriously. I can almost hear him say how I can make gruesome a pleasant topic such as art. I should probably wait to see the body to push any further aesthetic study, but I find myself not being able to stop. I reckon, I can allow myself a vice or two.

Today I saw the body of the killed man, courtesy of the Isaacson's. To be fair, I had underestimated it. In Sara’s descriptions, probably due to her more analytic mind, all the charm of the representation got lost in favour of a less cryptic and reasonable understanding of the act. Sara got what some alienists will call a masculine mind, which I don’t perfectly agree on. If I apply that same approach John would be a very feminine mind, all wrapped up in romanticising even the ugliest. I guess that dividing the world in “fragile and gentle” and “strong and powerful” is just easier to explain the fluctuation of something that doesn’t need a real name or a category like human inclinations on thoughts. I got a feverish sense of patience by looking at the body. Each symbol traced with sapient slowness, dense of the time that the killer spent with the body. That is a work of hours, he had time and meaning. He had resources and was able to spend not less than the time he needed to reach, a vision? An ideal? A message? Is it the message meant to be understood? Am I supposed to unravel it or it is maybe just the way the killer communicates within himself? And if I do decifrate the code, will that bring me closer to him? Or to his next victim?

Reminder: ask John to replicate all the symbols on the bodies in the correct measure and order. It might be needed some hard convincing. Addition: scheduled meeting, his house, 3 pm.

It wasn’t a day like any other when I met you. Or maybe it was, and that’s why I got so struck by it and now I am here playing it over and over through what my memory clung on so desperately. In my own experience, life was often similar to swimming in a lake. Those rich, dense lakes in the north of (illegible cancelled word) were my father used to bring us during summer. I still feel the pull, the draw down toward the abyss. It ashamed me, in a way, the fear that such a simple feeling aroused in my young mind, unaware nevertheless, that such a feeling would follow me through all my existence. It was a prophecy and, like most of the prophecies, was a riddle. I cradle in my heart the charm of those days, the mindless happiness. The foolish feeling of freedom. Little I knew that freedom would be taken away from me that soon, that the body that used to navigate me over the dense waters, helping me to fight the haul toward the unknown, would become my own cage. That day. Today. The day where I met you, the day I was afloat. The child gasping for air felt the wrench become a gentle push and now he is floating on his back over the scary waters of reality and malice. It gave me relief and it gave me terror, because since that very moment I knew that I would never be able to move on from the sight of you. From the feeling of your eyes lingering on me. From the smile you so easily shone upon me. From the whiff of imported perfume that hit me when you turned on side exploding that swan like neck. And nothing, not even my stern look, could dim that wave of hope that your sole presence washed over me. The abyss roars, calls me to a home of damnation and terror and curses my name and yet you repeated that hell-bound name of mine after me and I felt safe.

John told me so much about you, it feels like I have always known you.

The rope is gone from my neck, the guillotine won’t fall on me, I am spared, I am free.

I have read your latest article, I am thrilled to help with the case.

I am in disbelief.

Your voice.

Dr. Kreizler

How dare you? How dare you to come into my life, to appear, like a vision, mystical, in a way I despised at University when all those theology students talked about the divine. In this very moment I can’t recollect much of what you said, something about the case, about going with John at the obituary. It feels confusing, I feel overstimulated, my memory fails me, I am not sure anymore. I write these few lines and it is passed the hour of the witches and I wish, I demand, to never see you again, because life should never grant hope to a condemned man.

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renaerys · 4 years ago

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This is a multi ask question. 1. How did you get into the reds? Like what made them stand out to you that didn't for the other two ships. 2. Do you have any color crack ships? 3. I know in BTM you had Blossom xBoomer develop a bond and become good friends so do you think you'll have that brotp development for the others? I know Brickx Buttercup couldn't stand each other in the story but would they get along in a future fic of yours. Or exist in a headcanon. Or any of the ppgxrrb being friends with a different counterpart. 4. What's your pet peeves in this fandom? I have plenty but that's a post for later. What traits are the characters given that you hate? Tropes you wish would die? Tropes you wish were used more? 5. Can you explain why Dexter is used a lot in this fandom?? I'm aware that there was a comic by bleedman where Dexter and Blossom were a couple I believe but aside from that I'm confused on why he's in fics. Was there a crossover episode i missed?? I like Dexter and loved Dexter's Lab but can we just keep him in his show. His presence in the fandom doesn't really fit imo.

Wow okay, long ask! I think they must have changed the ask character limit recently, which is great. It’s nice not having to send multiple asks. Thanks for numbering, the lawyer in me is extremely grateful for the organization! ;)

1. I love the Reds’ dynamic. Everyone interprets it differently, but for me it’s the “dark edge lord I’m-great-at-life prestige whore with deep-seated emotional insecurities but a good heart that wants to put in the work to improve and be better” type shipped with the “confident, courageous no-nonsense HBIC who is emotionally intelligent but wholly and vocally not taking responsibility for your toxic masculinity/emotional baggage bullshit” type. They challenge each other to grow beyond their flaws and shortcomings while highlighting/mirroring some of the same fun or positive qualities in each other. It’s a true match of equals. Other ships I like with this dynamic are SasoSaku, IzaNamie, Zutara, and RivaMika, among others.

2. I like Butchubbles, Blossoomer, and Bersoomer. I also ship Boomike and Robbles. How about just Boomer x Everyone??? He’s perfect, case closed, let’s all go home.

3. Brick and Buttercup will have a friendship arc in the BTM sequel. It’s like a friendship between two people that blooms because they realize they hate all the same things, which imo is the only true basis for a lasting friendship. I’ll also be further developing Butchubbles and Blossoomer friendships because I love them dearly.

4. A few, but the biggest and most annoying one to me is the unrepentant bad boy asshole Brick who never apologizes for his behavior, who is loved and/or admired by everyone in spite of (or, alarmingly, because of) his bad boy assholery. It is depressingly ubiquitous in this fandom in particular. Narratives that endorse this behavior by him and either forgive it blindly or worse, glorify it, make me want to claw my eyes out. It is perpetuating, reinforcing, and rewarding the idea of toxic masculinity, the “I can fix him” trope, and the “not like other girls” trope because his love interest and no one else can magically change him for the better. Ladies (and gentlemen), taking on a person’s emotional baggage and doing the work for them while also acting as the narrative’s tool to absolve their bad behavior without ever exposing, correcting, and changing it is objectively TERRIBLE. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s romantic. It’s nothing but toxic, sexist, and gross. It is a trope that needs to die in a fire. It is the reason I specifically wrote BTM Brick’s arc the way I did, to fight against this awful trope. Thank you, next.

5. Not sure. I’ve heard of that comic that uses him and ships him with Blossom, but I’ve never read it so I can’t speak to it. I imagine the reason he is included in fics is because Dexter’s Laboratory aired on Cartoon Network at the same time as PPG, and they had some crossover in staff (e.g., Gendy Tartakovsky worked on both shows). There are some Easter eggs in the shows that reference each other, for example, a couple PPG episodes where Dexter is shown to be a student at Pokey Oaks in the background. We can consider them all as part of the same universe in a sense. I don’t really have much of an opinion on his inclusion as a character in fics, but I can understand why some people might not like it. Crossovers are not for everyone, and if he’s just used as shipping fodder, that in and of itself can be executed poorly. I’m sure he can be used well too. Just depends on the story and the writer.

#y'all really interested in my random opinions on the internet??#well cool #i have a lot of them 0.0 #Anonymous

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mittensmorgul · 5 years ago

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I don't think Sam ever actually "gave up hope" in the future timeline. He kept dragging Dean along with him, trying to keep fighting. But losing Eileen is what made Sam have a "death wish," according to Dean (or Chuck, maybe). I'm really not a die-hard Sam/Eileen person necessarily, I could take it or leave it. But your comments about them always seem like you're saying that they don't even really care about each other, and that's just... not true.

Okay this is gonna be a convoluted sentence, but I need everyone to follow along with this one: If anything I’m saying about Sam and Eileen’s relationship is being interpreted in such a way that the reader believes that I am implying that Sam and Eileen do not care about each other, that’s the reader’s inference, and not what I am actually saying.

It is obvious in s15, just as it was obvious in 11.11, 12.17, and 12.21 that Sam does care about Eileen. And that Eileen obviously likes Sam (and Dean, for that matter… her interactions with Dean are just about as cute, for anyone who hasn’t picked up on that… like in 12.17, more than half of her conversation ARE WITH DEAN, and Dean clearly cares about her, too. Even if it’s always been presented in a slightly different way, or possibly in a less… intense? way than her interactions with Sam.

That said… in the future timeline– that is, in CHUCK’S STORY HE WAS SHOWING TO SAM– Chuck’s STORY (which, remember, he planted Eileen in Sam’s life in 15.06 specifically to become Sam’s love interest, for the purposes of Chuck’s story) said that Sam’s had a death wish ever since Eileen died. Because that would line up with CHUCK’S STORY as it had been playing out all season that had made her into Sam’s love interest. That story also suggested that Dean… LOST THE WILL TO FIGHT after he had to lock Cas up in a Ma’lak box. Not that Dean had a death wish.

(I mean, we know this is accurate but this is how Dean personally reacts when he loses Cas. We know how he reacts when he loses anyone else– think about what he did when Charlie died. He went on a murder rampage against the Stynes for killing her. When Mary died he broke some furniture and went full bore toward both resurrecting her and stopping Jack. But without Cas, Dean loses the will to fight. Sam has… always been different. He referenced Jess in 15.04 to remind us of how he was after she died in the pilot episode. Just like John, he picked up the revenge mission and ran with it. But for Dean, Cas is different. Without Cas… Dean gives up.)

But if we are to believe this is a True Seeing of future events that WILL actually happen in reality, we have to disregard the fact that Chuck is a supremely unreliable narrator. And the guy is not a great liar. And it’s been lampshaded repeatedly this season that he’s not a particularly good storyteller either.

To Becky’s horror, all Chuck seems to care about are the monsters, and he gets angry and tries to argue when Becky tells him that NOBODY cares about the monsters. That we all care about the characters. And Chuck’s pretty much been trying to prove how great the monsters are ever since. Have you noticed that pretty much every episode this season so far has involved monsters? Ever since they got the hell rift sealed up, anyway. Ghosts and demons apparently aren’t good enough for Chuck, and from 15.04 on we’ve had vampires, werewolves, witches and djinn, a marid, werewolf, and now (FINALLY! Chuck is probably thinking) Leviathans, leviathan blossoms, a mention of Eve, and whatever that rando corpse was in Purgatory, aka Monster Heaven.

And yet, Chuck’s line is that without him in the universe, it would be Nothing But Monster Apocalypse, as if he was the one holding all that at bay. And just… dude, do you think we’re all “crazy and stupid” like you attempted to convince Dean that Sam was for telling him the truth about how you had manipulated their lives in 14.20? He pulled a similar string of lies with Amara (who saw through his lies), he pulled a similar string of lies with Becky (who still tried to be kind to him anyway, even after he treated her like a jerk). So I’m wondering how anyone trusts anything he says now, you know?

Chuck made the monsters. He LIKES the monsters. And it’s like he’s writing his ending out of spite over Becky’s critique of his “fic” in 15.04. Becky doesn’t like monsters? Doesn’t think the stakes were high enough? Well, he’ll show her! What does she know? She’s not a real writer anyway, right? Just a fanfic writer who wants them all to sit around an talk about their feelings. Ew, right?

>.>

So, yeah, this is how I approach anything that we’re told is part of “Chuck’s process,” or Chuck’s story. With the assumption that he’s lying. Because writers lie.

(This was also a staple of his character in s11. This is exactly how he wrote back then. Metatron called him out on it several times, but even then we know he was still trying to lie his way out of direct responsibility for anything. He blamed Dean for not having killed Amara (!!!????) as if that was something Dean was supposed to be able to do. He blamed Amara for “blocking him” when we’d seen her literally tearing through the world looking for him. Then after all that, he said they CAN’T kill Amara because it would create an imbalance in the universe and the universe would collapse. Pick a story and stick with it, Chuck. We also know when he writes himself into a corner, he invents something on the spot to fix it, such as Chekhov’s Equalizer Gun. Or going WAY back to 5.10 and the apocalypse that failed… The Colt, which was supposed to kill anything, failed to work on Lucifer, because it didn’t fit Chuck’s desired plot, all of a sudden there were five exceptions to the Colt’s powers. Shocker, that… >.>)

Rule of thumb: If Chuck is saying something, there’s a super good chance you should at least inspect it with a measure of doubt, run it through the BS filter for good measure, and then give it 24 hours or at least one (1) more installment of canon before you begin to trust it…

But back to your original question. If Sam and Eileen hadn’t at least LIKED each other, Sam would never have even CONSIDERED any sort of a relationship with Eileen, and Chuck’s plot would’ve been foiled a heck of a lot earlier. Chuck’s a bad writer, but he’s not THAT bad of a writer…

eta, because after posting I realized I never addressed the first part of your question: Sam gave up hope when he refused to cast the spell to lock Chuck up. That’s what Chuck is referring to. And it wasn’t anything to do with Eileen that made him “lose hope.” Which is Chuck’s phrase for what happened... maybe “lost the will to cast that spell in particular because of the risk of a specific set of consequences,” is more accurate. Because Sam remained defiant (or disbelieving of Chuck’s story) up until Chuck told him that their fate as cheesy vampires wasn’t the worst of it. The worst of it was that Sam and Dean would give up, and the world would be overrun and succumb to the monsters. That not just the Winchesters, but all of humanity, would lose. THAT is what Sam could not put at risk.

Okay, I just needed to get that in there :’D

#spn 15.09 #spn s15 spoilers #Anonymous #chuck's process #spn monsters

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jaerie · 5 years ago

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11/11/11

I was tagged by @phd-mama and @allwaswell16 and @chloehl10 so this is more like 33/11/11 hahaha I got a little carried away with this but I love answering stuff like this

Answer 11 questions, come up with 11 more, tag 11 people.

1. Tell me, do you like music on when you write??

No, I have to have silence. Or, you know, normal household noises. When I was in high school I listened to music with the tv on while doing my homework but now.... I think it’s moreso because I periodically close my eyes and visualize the scene or really throw myself into the character to get the emotions right and the music just takes away from that. I also hear music in a really complex way which I won’t explain here because this is about writing, but yea, it’s too much stimulation

2. Are you someone who plots everything out before you write it?

Absolutely not. I can count on my fingers the number of times I’ve actually plotted something for a fic in this fandom. I’m definitely a fly by the seat of my pants kind of writer. I generally have somewhere the fic is going, but I usually let the characters steer so sometimes it vectors off someplace I never expected it to go. That’s how so many of my better fics have gone. I did have to plot out As We Were, As We Are extensively because wow complex precise true to life timelines, but that’s really the only one I’ve actually done a real one for.

3. Do you write in chronological order?

Most of the time, yes. Occassionally I’ll jump down and write or start a scene that either inspired the whole fic or that I want to get down before I forget it, but I usually write from start to finish.

4. Do you like to eat while writing?

hahahahaha usually no. But only because I’ll get distracted and like.... not write....

5. Is there a trope you love?

I am a sucker for fake/pretend relationships. It’s so obviously one of the most predictable storylines but I’ll read every one of them. I don’t know why. The misunderstanding angst of it... I don’t know!

6. Have you written it? (See 5)

I don’t... think so... Is that bad I don’t remember? But I don’t think I have

7. Is there a trope you hate?

I can’t really do the sugar baby/daddy scenario... there are a few cases where it’s worked but in general, no.

8. Have you written it? (See 7)

I think there is a little bit of it in a couple maybe? And someone asked me to write one that’s still in my maybe pile... so I might.

9. Can you read your main ship with other pairings?

Depends. Usually yes because if it’s a pairing I don’t like I just kind of generically gloss over it in my mind a bit? Or imagine the same description but not that exact person? But there aren’t really a lot of absolute nos for me and it’s usually related to me not like that PERSON rather than the ship (taylor swift for example, have to really speed through fics with her in parts BUT like I said, it’s easy for me to imagine a likeness that’s not HER specifically. Idk). If it’s well written then it’s worth getting through it, if it’s not well written, I probably wouldn’t finish it anyway.

10. What’s a solid NO GO for you?

I don’t have many and most of them even have exceptions so I don’t know what a solid no is until I see a tag that’s a solid no?? And they’re the usual general niche things? (scat, watersports, idk those things) Hardcore bdsm-type is a no for me (but there have been some exceptions). MOST things that are nos for me like daddy kink, I can still read the fic, I just kind of... speed through those parts? I don’t really have any actual triggers... I don’t really read a lot of girl direction if they’re both girls. Which is a weird complicated issue for me because I WRITE IT. And there are some good ones out there that I have read but in general...? idk it’s weird and probably has a lot to do with me being sdpofijapsdgjoidsjfosdj about words for vagina rather than it actually being girls. But to be fair it took me years to be comfortable writing cock and dick without blushing and running off. I don’t know, it’s something about reading it that it usually isn’t my first choice. That was a long complicated answer just to say “not really”

11. Do you have a signature move, aka, let’s say for no particular reason, just because, coming in pants?

oh my god. Yes. Probably. I can’t think off of the top of my head but I definitely find myself returning to the same phrasing or words or actions. Especially when it comes to abo and knotting.

1. What’s your favourite fic you’ve ever written, and why?

Sisterwives and As We Were, As We Are I think because they are the two I put the most into. Plotting, planning, emotions, etc.

2. Pick three words that you think describe your works overall.

Problematic (lol), intense/emotional, sexual.

3. How long does it take you to write a fic?

Varies. I’ve written 20k+ in 24 hours and I’ve written 5k in a month. Really depends on what I’m working on and my emotional state of stress.

4. What’s the hardest thing about writing?

For me? Fluff and filler. And English. I’ve fallen into a pattern of writing that probably has a lot of errors in tense. But... it is what it is.

5. Do you listen to music or anything while you write? What’s normal for you when you write?

I answered this one in depth above

6. How do you come up with titles for your fics?

I have this terrible thing where I just name a fic and run and then regret it and want to change it once it’s already posted hahahahaha There are a handful that I’ve named after Hanson lyrics just because I think it’s funny... but most of the time there is no rhyme or reason to it.

7. What’s one piece of advice you’d give to a new writer?

Just keep writing. Because it’s easy to get discouraged about kudos and attention. Kudos and attention does NOT equal quality. It’s still something that I struggle with letting go, but as a new writer it’s more difficult not to see that as a failure. But my first fics in this fandom still have some pretty low kudos counts and my fics in other fandoms have as few as FIVE kudos. Five. I think they’re great fics, but I’m just not as known in that fandom/there aren’t as many readers. For example, I wrote this AWESOME Brokeback Mountain fic for the Hanson fandom and it has only 15 kudos.

8. How important do you think tags are when you are publishing a fic?

*gets up on soapbox* Tags are the most important part of publishing a fic. I am a firm believer that anyone can write anything the want as long as it is properly tagged. Proper tagging is the writer’s only responsibility to the reader. If those are in place, what follows doesn’t have to be tailored to anyone.

9. Do you write for fests/exchanges? If so, do you enjoy them? If not, why not?!

I have mixed feelings about this. I used to write for both. Now I exclusively write for fests and I’m selective about the ones I participate in. Why? Well for one, deadlines. I’ve made the mistake too many times of overcommitting and then nothing felt right and I was stessed about it and just... not good. As for exchanges... I’ve been burned in the past? By dropouts and such? Or by the giftee not liking or never reading the fic? Or by me needing to drop out for mental health reasons but not because I was writing FOR someone? I’ve done a handful of pinch hits since I swore off exchanges, but they’re too much anxiety for me personally. (I have had some good experiences with exchanges though!! Not all of them were bad!!)

10. Which work of yours are you most proud of and why?

As We Were, As We Are..... because.... DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FRICKIN RESEARCH I DID FOR THAT FIC!? ALL WHILE WRITING IT DURING NANO?!?! I put soooooooo much into that fic that I’m sad it didn’t get much attention. It was written for the Alex exchange so Harry is written as Alex so that’s probably why. Some people have a big problem if fics aren’t written a certain way. I don’t know. I was really sad about that though. I LIVED in WWII for months with that fic and it will always be special to me. I’ve even thought about putting more work into into it to have it published somewhere. I know it’s not like... classic 1D fic quality or whatever but I think the bones of it are strong enough. I don’t know, I’m probably delusional. haha but I still like it

11. What’s next for you?

Oh man. Well. I said I was going to stop writing for this fandom. But then this rush of support came in and then I started to feel really spiteful and thought that I’d keep going just because of that... and I feel like I’m only just now gaining a following for my fics that keeps me motivated enough to keep improving... soooo I’ve committed to a few fests coming out this fall. I am also participating in Wordplay going on right now. The first fic comes out tomorrow I think. I also have some Sisterwives timestamps.

1. What fic have you written that you wish everyone would read?

dunkirk fic and sisterwives probably

2. What’s your favorite character you’ve ever written?

hahahahaha harry from one of my yet to be published sekret fics hahahahaha but I really love so many of them like shifter harry

3. What’s your most popular fic and why do you think it’s your most popular?

By Kudos? Where Do We Go Now. And I have no idea. Because I always have to click to even remember which one it is. And it was written so fast and I remember not liking where it went but just hit publish because it was a pinch hit... I honestly have no idea. Someone please give me insight on this because i have no idea.

4. What’s one of your favorite fan fics that you haven’t written?

I kind of answered this above but I’ll also say The Wilds because it wrote so fast. I wrote the whole thing in under 24 hours

5. What is your current WIP about?

Ummmmm Some of them are going to be posted on anon I think? So I’ll just say Thor Harry

6. What is a fic that you hope to write someday?

siiiiigghhhhhhhh my Almost Famous au

7. Do you read fics from other fandoms? Which ones?

I read a lot of Thorki... and random fandoms. I love to read a lot of fucked up shit just for the shock value of it?? I don’t know, I’m weird like that. So I started branching out to general tag searches so I’ve read stuff from tons of fandoms that I don’t even know what they are. I think Supernatural is one I frequent a lot because they have some real fucked up fics.

8. What author or book has influenced you as a writer?

Sooooo There was a writer that really sparked my creativity back when I was in a different fandom. But then they disappeared from that fandom and I ran into them as a popular figure in the 1D fandom but they’re kind of hated in the fandom now?? so I won’t say their name. BUT in the other fandom, they had this fic that I still go back and read to this day every once in a while. It was intense, a lil fucked up, and just... yeah. The kind that sticks with you.

9. What’s one of your favorite books from when you were a child?

Island of the Blue Dolphins. Which I reread a few years ago and ??? idk I was a weird child. I mean I didn’t think it was a BAD book

10. What’s an au/trope that you thought you didn’t like until you read one and loved it?

Harry Potter AUs? haha I’m sure there are more than that because there have been a LOT I didn’t think I’d enjoy and then I loved... OH THE TIME TRAVELER AU. I don’t remember why but I didn’t read that foreeeeever because I didn’t think it was my thing.

11. Choose one: angst or fluff?

angst. this isn’t even a question.

Wow. I probably spent too much time on that. If you’ve made it this far, kudos for sticking in there through my ramblings.

Let’s see.

1. What is the most problematic concept in one of your fics?

2. Mpreg. Yey or ney and why.

3. What aspect of a fic can you write but not read?

4. What aspect of a fic can you read but not write?

5. What fic is your most popular?

6. Is it a fic that surprises you or is it one you wish was not as popular?

7. Is there an exchange/fest that you didn’t write for that you wish you would have?

8. Do you write in any other fandoms?

9. What was the first fandom you started writing for?

10. Do you write other pairings other than your main?

11. What projects are on the back burner?

Omg this was so hard.�� um.... @tragic---love @wendydarlingfics @reminiscingintherain ummmmmm omg tagging people gives me such anxiety bc i feel like i’m annoying. its a struggle. back at cha @chloehl10

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lia-nikiforov · 7 years ago

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Summer Anime Watchlist

We’re a couple of weeks into the summer and it’s time to decide which shows I’m gonna be keeping up with for the next three months. Because there was so much terribleness, I’m going back to my worst-to-best format for this list, so let’s get right into it

Dropped

Netsuzou Trap: Fetish lesbians are predictably terrible and gross, moving on…

18if: What was that first episode even about. It was so confusing and nonsensical and it also looked butt ugly. I’m guessing it’s trying to be Alice in Wonderland-esque but it’s just boring and weird. Heck, I’m not even sure if I was awake through the whole episode. Can’t be bothered with more

Keppeki Danshi Aoyama-kun: I was willing to give this a 3-episode chance but then ep 2 came along with the mandatory waifu character and I HAAAATE her. She’s literally my most detested heroine trope and I want to delete her from existence. Also the rest of the episode wasn’t particularly funny, but mostly I couldn’t stand the heroine girl and wanted her to die and can’t imagine myself suffering more of her insufferable existence one more minute. It’s a shame, I had good expectations for this show.

Saiyuki Reload Blast: Nothing particularly wrong with this one, but I wasn’t particularly hooked by it, and although it’s not very prohibitive for newcomers, I definitely feel I’d be more excited about these cool dudes being cool if I had any rapport with them.

Inertia watching or let’s see how long until I can’t be arsed to keep watching

DIVE!! Oh wow, they actually made diving boring. A running theme this season is taking something interesting and making it boring. Just wow. The main character is borderline insufferable, his girlfriend is awful (and he is awful with his girlfriend) and his friends are milquetoasty forgettable at best. And the animation and visuals are so bad you’ll be hard-pressed to find an on-model shot of any of the guys and the diving itself looks so inconsequential. I’ll give it one more episode, but I’m honestly more than ready to drop it.

The Reflection: So this is a collaboration project with Stan Lee and on that alone it’s a bizarre and interesting thing that somehow was willed into existence. It’s a shame it’s a boring thing. The visual style is unique which isn’t necessarily a good thing, but I didn’t find it as terrible as others did, ymmv on that one. The story though, god was it boring. Also the plot doesn’t make any sense as of now, to the point that I’ve no idea what the story’s even supposed to be about. The animation is chunky and almost non-existent and the fight scene was just so dull. Idk, idk, idek what it is about, if next episode doesn’t give me something I’ll drop it.

(couldn’t even find a gif for this one lmao)

Re: Creators: Ah yes, just what this show needed, a sleazy eroge author to glorify plus giving “totally-not-the-protagonist” Sota an excuse to participate in the self-masturbatory megacrossover that’s apparently gonna take up the finale of this show. Did you know light novel writers are awesome? Light novel writers are awesome and this show won’t let you think otherwise.

Hitorijime my Hero: You know, going in I wasn’t aware there would be two focal pairs, but as soon as I found out I thought for sure the teacher-student one would be the problematic one… then along came the other couple that has its big moment when Dude A tells Dude B that he has to choose between fucking him or never talking again. Run for the hills Dude B!! Of course that’s not what happens and why must BL always be this gross ugh. I should also say the direction and storyboarding is a mixture of incomprehensible and terribly bland. Honestly hoping at least the teacher-student pair gets something interesting going soon or I might drop it

Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu: I think people doing Tourabu anime are missing out on a huge opportunity to appeal to bigger audiences by restricting their stories to the tomfoolery that is the game’s original plot. For a series that has a serious look like this one, I certainly expected some variation on the story, but so far it looks like I’m just watching Hanamaru without the village parts. I’d thought the show was going to be more about the actual Bakumatsu period –hence choosing Hijikata Toshizo and Sakamoto Ryoma’s swords as the main focus-. I think one of the show’s biggest shortcomings is that the villains are just loads of faceless minions so they don’t feel particularly threatening and although visually the fights are fairly cool, there’s just no tension or excitement. Will I end up dropping this one too?

Centaur no Nayami: it’s just okay? Mostly harmless? I hope demon girl is actually a lesbian and not just fetish lesbian? The merpeople skit was pretty good and it’s interesting how they’re politizing the racial issues of this Monster world, I certainly find those segments much more interesting than the ones where the monster girls are just being cute (the school play, for instance, was so boring I almost quit the episode halfway)

Vatican Kiseki Chousakan: This show is very stupid and also they say they’re going to South America but they actually show Mexico and cacti in the middle of the jungle what are they doiiiing? It’s also kinda unintentionally funny, although I think they piled way too many mysteries for the opening episode and it’s become way too convoluted. But having a notorious interest in Catholic iconography (even though my level of atheism is over 9000), I was very pleased with the accurate depictions of the martyrs, and mostly I’m rooting for the killer to succeed just to see how they execute Catherine’s and Lawrence’s martyrdoms. Please don’t let me down show.

Since there are no gifs for this show either, please appreciate the Road Closed signs in English with the cop car that says Policía Federal in Spanish

Honestly this part of the list is kinda vague, I don’t have a particular order of preference for these shows beyond not being notoriously impressed by any of them but also not bored to tears either

Shokoku no Altair: This one I wouldn’t quite call a disappointment, but it sure has a slow start. Episode 1 was quite confusing, the second one was way better but still feels like it’s lacking something. A problem I have is that the totally not Germanic dude is way too inequivocally evil. Politics and war are never quite that black and white, but this guy is so unsympathetic watching his different plans unfold becomes quite frustrating (I also have like zero tolerance for “cheating”, which is what all his practices can be categorized as). I feel the characters need a little more depth before I can get more invested in it. Also sad to see this one got the C-team from MAPPA ):

Ballroom e Youkoso: This might be my biggest disappointment of the season tbh? It’s fairly standard sports anime fare but it has done nothing particularly interesting to distinguish itself. The animation can be really impressive… when there is any, and that’s the crux of the problem here. We’re two episodes in and we haven’t seen a full dancing sequence. Heck, I timed the dancing in ep 2 and made barely 13 seconds of actual movement. Episode 3 clocked at a full minute in spite of being entirely set in a competition. There are just so many still shots it’s quite grating. I was really expecting to get a Stammi Vicino moment in episode 1, a show-stopping performance that enhanced the beauty and wonder of dance with a mesmerizing choreography and beautiful music, but the show seems too focused on being Haikyuu, emphasizing the power and OOMF of the moves rather than any artistry or fluidity, and don’t even get me started on the music because there isn’t any or it’s of minimum importance. I’m reaaaally hoping this one improves down the line

Fate/Apocrypha: I mean, it’s Fate and it’s dumb but it’s so far mostly (emphasis on mostly) inoffensive and the battle between Karna and Siegfried was pretty cool, A-1’s doing a fairly decent job of recreating that ufotable feel. I also quite like Mordred, she’s cool and fun and her dymanics with Sisigo are very equal, which is great when you compare how main girls were treated in relationship to Shiro in the main Fate series.

Made in Abyss: I wasn’t quite expecting to get into this one but it got really good critiques so I decided to give it a shot. So far so good. The aesthetics are bright and vivid and the concept is unique and exciting. There are some murmurs around the net about the source material that concern me so I’m only cautiously optimistic right now.

Kakegurui: I guess it’s fine? I’ve a feeling it can get really boring really fast (episode 2 featured a memory game and even the cheat was extremely bland, I was almost laughing at how surprised the other students were when the girls got pairs lmao), but so far it’s been more or less interesting, with engaging visuals and great voice acting, even if I’m not a big fan of the over-erotization of the whole thing. Sayokan’s OP is gr10.

The only inequivocally good (new) show this season

Isekai Shokudo: Although this is not an outstanding show in any aspect, it just succeeds at everything it sets itself to be and that’s a surprisingly rare quality this season. It has a pleasant, homelike atmosphere. I find it kinda funny that the characters get blown away by what looks like fairly standard Famires food, but it’s a sweet little show nonetheless. It’s unassuming and unambitious but it makes me feel happy (and hungry) and I enjoy it a lot.

The sequels from Spring that keep me sane

Boku no Hero Academia: We’ve slowed down a little for the internship part except OH NO IIDA WHAT IS YOU DOING SOMEONE SAVE HIM. I love this show

Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul: None of the new shows this season were good enough to overcome the leftover sequels from spring, especially not Bahamut that has once again delved in the complexities of war and also given us Nina’s extremely baddass dragon gandma. I don’t have a lot more to say in the scarce two weeks since my last appraisal, other than the show continues to be utterly excellent in every regard

Damn this season is dead. I guess it’s a good time to catch up on my pile of shame? I’m trying to binge Symphogear to catch up to the new season, it’s a palatable type of garbage entertainment. I’m starting a Masters’ course in two weeks so maybe not having a lot of anime on my plate is a good thing? Let me know which shows you’re watching and which are your favorites of the season!

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simkjrs · 7 years ago

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chapter 6 asks that are people in distress about shinsou

SPOILERS FOR THE FIC, so it’s all under the readmore

** before i start, i just want to say, the sheer number of people who have guessed that it’s himiko impersonating shinsou is frankly alarming and equally hilarious. thanks yall

Anonymous said: OH MY GOD SHINSOU MY SON, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM??? HE DOESNT DESERVE THIS????? (for real, tho, that chapter was?? So good??? I'm so happy to have read this)

you’re absolutely right he doesn’t deserve this and im doing it to him anyways, which objectively proves that as an author i am not and never have been trustworthy. im sorry if i ever tricked you into thinking otherwise. im crying as well

Anonymous said: holy crap that chapter. where do i even start. i knew the kidnapping was coming up but that scene still managed to punch me in the gut. shinsou doesn't deserve this he just wanted to be a hero you guys. also the scene where izuku brought mitoki flowers was really great and i'm so happy that conversation happened. and the paintball fight? best thing i've ever laid my eyes upon. sorry this wasn't very coherent, i'm gonna go fling myself into the sun. thank you for this amazing chapter.

thank YOU for the feedback, i’m really glad you enjoyed the mitoki conversation & the paintball fight because those two scenes were the ones i was most nervous about. as for shinsou, you are very right. he doesn’t deserve this and im sorry

Anonymous said: WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! that was so intense!!!!!!!!!!!! that chapter was amazing you lied sorry ://// (izuku has a crush on shinsou and i couldnt be happier. sweethearts, the both of them.) SO MUCH HAPPENED AT ONCE IM FU KCIFNSICIAJX!!!! WHAT HAPPENED WITH SHINSOU??? MY BOY WHO THREATENED HIM. WHO HURT HIM??!?!?!!?!??!!??!?! i got so emotional all throughout this chapter i almost cried like 26 times that was wild af!!! NOW HOW DO I RECOVER FROM THIS!!!! (im so worried about shinsou. about everyone.)

hfjldksf thanks!! glad you enjoyed it!! im sorry for making you emotional. its the unintended side effects of tryin to convey izuku’s state of mind

i know this won’t ease your suffering much but for a while i intended for chapter 7 to be from shinsou’s point of view, and it was quite literally just titled “what happened to shinsou.” this may still happen. im not sure yet. stay tuned next for,

Anonymous said: *twitch twitch twitchy twich* omg suddenly i understand those comments from your betas. like. i'm legit speechless???? why. why would you do this, you evil writer from awesome land. like i just. im in like. the all caps state of shock. that FREAKING LAST LINE AKDJKLADSLKAJDSKLJLKJ. like. *squeezes air* i dont even know where to begin???? I MEAN CLEARLY I STARTED AT THE END BUT LIKE. so much. to talk about. like. the smile bits of gaming and cats and pics then THAT KAST KUUSJDFHSKJDHFSKJDHSJDF

i bait in readers with cute fun shenanigans and then i go in for the kill

(thank you for writing in, i’m glad you enjoyed the chapter <3 )

Anonymous said: no, but like, ur saying that chapter 6 is the worst one YET (which is a HORRIBLE LIE. this chapter was great. even if it let us all devastated afterwards. but whats a good fanfiction if it doesnt affect the reader tho heh(and your certainly is a great fanfiction. one of the greatest)) is it because of the giant clusterfuck that 7 and/or 8 is gonna be? (kamino ward, all might reveal, kidnappings+ SHINSOU) im legit worried haha ( btw "(accidental) dad might: Stealth Style" is my favorite tag now)

i cultivate my tags with pride. im glad you enjoyed that one in particular :3c and also... thank you... i was super insecure abt ch6 so it’s really nice hearing ppl liked it! i really appreciate it <3

the next chapter(s?) are going to be a clusterfuck so you are probably wise to be legit worried. preemptive apologies. i don’t know why im doing this and im sorry also

Anonymous said: I don't actually believe that Shinsou did it, naturally. Maybe the villains pin the blame on him cause it's easier to do it to someone that everyone is already wary about? I honestly have no idea, you're too unpredictable with some of these things

u have a good nose anon... but also when have i EVER been unpredictable about anything. my taste and storytelling is incredibly predictable in that it is always The Worst and Incredibly Self Indulgent. all you have to do to pick out the path im taking is think “what path allows simk to pander to their own interests the most?” and thats the path i’ll take. this is exactly what is happening with the entirety of this fic and especially with this next arc

Anonymous said: is shinsou being blackmailed?? controlled by someone else?? someone stole his face?? was he used as a hostage bc he interacted with class I-A more? or is someone threatening izuku again or.. ahhh idk what it is but I really feel he is not a traitor so: my current theories about shinsou. am I close??

yes to all of the above

Anonymous said: Pretty sure you didn't get many theories yet cause we are still in shock. Send help pls. (Loved the chapter btw that chapter was legit a roller-coaster of feels.)

theres no help to be found. i did this irrevocably and now theres nothing we can do about it

(thank you! i’m really glad to hear that, and hope that you have recovered from your shock :p )

Anonymous said: thoughts on shinsou's reasons: bakugou is a abusive shit who is undeserving of being a hero and made him lose all faith in heroes, blackmail, threats, brainwashing, some other type of convincing, he has been the traitor the whole time and you just want to kill us with angst, the LoV is threatening deku and if he doesn't help them they kill him, rage against society has reached its peak (same tho), or he wants to get back at bakugou, or the Cat Cafe is being threatened. please stop killing me.

this is a really impressive laundry list of unconventional reasons for shinsou to join the villain alliance. i love it. i too would become a villain in order to save my favorite cat cafe and spite a person i don’t like

@armcontrolnerve said: it was himiko in the study with the candlestick

d...does this make shinsou the murder victim

Anonymous said: I JUST READ THE NEW CHAPTER AND JUST WANTED TO DROP BY AND SAY YOU'VE UTTERLY WRECKED ME. I have tears in my eyes, I am currently flailing about like a fish while my brain goes into overdrive trying to dodge the reality of that ending. Shinsou was helping Izuku not two scenes ago, he was probably kidnapped and forced to do it against his will via torture or something. I refuse to believe that Shinsou is a villain and you cannot tell me oTHERWISE

good instincts. hold onto that feeling

Anonymous said: My guess: shinsou was kidnapped by Villain Alliance. Himiko Toga is using her quirk to impersonate him. But...why

bad pr image for yuuei

Anonymous said: all im thinking is that girl with the quirk that lets her shapeshift into people if she gets their blood and im just. oh no. shinsou. how could u do this to the poor sweet gay boy. meet me in the pit for a fight, and also a round of compliments for ur fucking writing skills. u made me cry. i love this fic so much but unfortunately i still have to challenge u to a duel, for the sake of these poor children, and their mental health,,, (ps i love ur writing and ur fantastic!! byeee)

if you kill me youll never get these children back alive

(thank u though... this made me laugh. rest assured that i will promptly apply all my writing skills to elucidating the mystery of what happened to shinsou)

Anonymous said: Shinsou probably got his quirk stolen by Sensei or someone is impersonating him I guess. Or his classmates are jerks and framing him or something. Smh

his classmates threw him under the bus

@sunslammerdown said: hi i am a person who reads your very extremely good fanfiction... thanks very much and also Wow Rude How Dare You. you said you were surprised at not getting more shinsou theories so heres my two: 1) It Was Toga, shinsou is kidnapped its not good 2) It Was All For One who can take quirks and use them on people and shinsou has a mind control quirk, its very not good still

what if its... 3) both, for maximum suffering, and the ultimate very not good happenstance

@viperofsand said: I am sure I had something in mind when giving my review while I was reading chap 6, but after the final part my mind was all 'WHAT THE HELLLLLL', so, there is that. Also, I am inaugurating #ShinsouIsNotAVillain2017 for this fic starting now.

this is a good hashtag. i’m behind it. i have no right to be but i am

Anonymous said: ok i'm trying not to panic bc of the cliffhanger but just tell me, will we know /why/ shinso is doing what he's doing ?? i'm trying not to spoil for ppl

no worries! we will find out exactly what happened to shinsou...

@auspiciouswhiskers said: How much do I have to pay for a Shinsou redemption and/or Shindeku endgame because pleeease you have responsibilities

you don’t even have to ask. its already under way...

(more specifically: you just don’t even need to ask. there just isnt a need. hold that thought for a shindeku endgame though bc who KNOWS where im headed with that)

Anonymous said: Izuku's gonna lure Shinsou with cats and everything will be just fine. Izuku holding up fuku, taka and isao: you know u can't harm them Shinsou: defeated

this is the ultimate villain shinsou ask. nothing is ever going to top this. you dont even need to fight shinsou you just have to appeal to him with cats and he’ll crumble instantly

Anonymous said: Eh, I don't know if I'm angry, but I am a tad disappointed if it actually is "what it looks like" with Shinsou. I mean his whole deal is that while his power seems like one that a villain would have, he doesn't actually want to use it that way. If he really is a villain in your story, that sorta defeats the purpose of his character, you know? But I guess I'll just wait and see what you plan to do with it.

that aspect of his character is probably what makes what im doing 100% more awful so i guess what im trying to say is: don’t worry it’s not what it seems, but also, i should not be allowed to touch a computer

Anonymous said: ok ok i have an idea about why shinsou provided inside help(i hope im at least a little right or im going to cry): he was threatened by the league? they saw him hanging out with deku and probably knew that he didnt know he was Hella Strong or smth and were like "look, if u dont want ur friend to die ur gonna have to Cooperate" and shinsou being an amazing friend was like "U LEAVE HIM ALONE U COCKROACH" and he did That. it probably happened in That One Stupid Horrible Month (please. PLEASE)

shinsou became a villain for deku confirmed. be gay, turn to the dark side

Anonymous said: honestly while i'm still Actually Dead over the latest chapter Izuku having his Gay Awakening over someone who stabs him in the back is Relatable lol

h...hold that thought...

also. i’m really sorry to hear that, and i hope you’re in a better place now. may your future gay relationships be blessed

Anonymous said: It's Mamoru. The ending to your new chapter is definitely a twist that I didn't expect at all. But oddly I'm not angry. Is Shinsou really going to be a villain? Because it kinda goes against he is fighting for. Or is he threatened?

spoiler alert...

@chocowl said: holy fuck simk

A theory: was Shinsou kidnapped by the VA and Himiko used her Quirk to look like him? That would explain the silence towards Izuku and would heal our tormented souls Q-Q

the truth is, the entire villain alliance is conspiring to fuck over shinsou, specifically

#chapter 6 #ask #ask compilation #anonymous #chocowl #auspiciouswhiskers #viperofsand #sunslammerdown #armcontrolnerve #the number of asks is...so much #spoilers for the fic ///

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doesthequeercharacterlive · 7 years ago

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Big Mouth

Yes! And also probably the most unproblematic ‘no’ I could give (there’s a lot of ghosts, of which one is queer).

However, that doesn’t mean this is a show with good queer representation. Yes, even though episode 3 exists. Warning, if you click below it’s spoiler city.

Big Mouth is a show about puberty, which is a horrible, awkward word, and I guess that’s fitting. I’ve watched this show in its entirety, and I still don’t entirely know how I feel about it. It does manage to do some things quite well; there’s a very early, very odd, conversation about how homosexuality is all well and good...

And so is sexual experimentation, though the ‘B’ word is, of course, not mentioned (the ‘B’ word is bisexuality). The oddness of the conversation is not under any criticism here, because it’s a weird show. So, you know, it’s a little bit SNL meets PSA, but that’s tonally consistent.

However, it also aims for some targets that aren’t as broadly acceptable as they used to be. Once upon a time, a writer might be able to argue that they didn’t know any better. Those days are past. Meet this guy:

Hello indeed!

Up to this point, most characters’ names are mentioned at least in passing. They have their own little quirks (Andrew and his Hormone Monster), and their interests (Missy with her Social Studies themed dance, and Jay with his magic tricks). This young man is the first person outside the main and supporting-main cast to show up. What’s his thing?

He’s gay. His thing is that he’s gay.

It’s a very specific gay though. He’s sassy and out, and exists entirely to dress well and throw out pithy one liners. He’s not a person, he’s a pint-sized stereotype. It was better than nothing in the nineties, and it was old in the oughts (fucking Modern Family). I had hoped we’d seen the last his ilk on our screens.

Roughly ten minutes after his introduction we find out his name is Matthew.

Does he have interests? Does he love anything or anyone? What’s his home life like? I’unno. Pretty much every other minor character has an arc of some kind (Lola gets some moments to herself during the sleepover episode). Matthew doesn’t. He just pops up occasionally, and the more he does the sadder it makes me. I just wanted him to be a person, ok?

Which brings us to episode three, “Am I gay?”.

This is probably the first plotted story I’ve ever seen about figuring out your sexuality, that wasn’t played for tragedy. The arc begins with Andrew getting a boner over Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson as Paul Bunyan (who doesn’t love the Rock?). Andrew, in spite of his prior interest in women, comes to question whether he is gay.

1. I acknowledge that the show was trying to normalize exploration of identity. Some of us do think we’re attracted to people not of our gender and at an end of the continuum because that’s what’s modeled to us throughout our entire lives. It happens. It’s not uncommon. It’s ok to explore your identity, and see what labels work for you (if any do). However...

2. We all know what bisexuality is, and it’s never mentioned. I was actually expecting it to be a plot point later in the episode, because the Hormone Monster’s advice is terrible, and so he’d initially leave it out. I was wrong.

3. The fact that the episode doesn’t mention the word bisexuality at all* is bi-erasure. Bisexual people exist, and the show really should’ve had someone tell Andrew that he might be bisexual, and not gay or straight.

*I lied, bisexuality shows up once in the credits version of the gay song.

There’s a nice arc in there about thinking he’s attracted to his best friend, because he feels close to him. Unfortunately that arc is directly after this:

Freddie Mercury, our Lord and Savior, was a bisexual man. He had well-documented relationships with people of at least two genders. He is one of the most prominent queer icons of the previous century, and his identity should not be erased. We should not be fucking that up in 2017.

I’m not even going to touch the Antonin Scalia thing. The “if he’s a homophobe, he’s secretly gay” trope can go die in a fire.

Oh, god damnit... What do you think the ‘B’ stands for??

Freddie’s still bi and trans and intersex people exist...

The final instance of queerness that’s addressed in the show, comes in the form of an affair between Shannon (Jessi’s mother) and another woman. It’s handled pretty well for the most part. Shannon’s issues with her husband Greg, their lack of intimacy, the burden she bears in performing the brunt of the work raising their daughter, and his regular drug use, are juxtaposed with the sacrifices he has made, and the emotionally abusive manner in which she sometimes speaks to him. It is very clear that their relationship has been on a downturn for a very long time, and it is equally clear that Shannon is not performing a morally acceptable act by cheating on her husband, even if her decision is understandable. There is nuance in the relationships involved, and homosexuality is not placed on any pedestal (which... has a tendency to happen in cheating narratives).

And there’s a very well placed musical number during which people perform the electric slide.

I hope that’s not true, but carry on.

Indeed!

In short, this show is a mixed bag. They do try to address how confusing exploring your sexuality can be. There are no tragic elements to this exploration. Nobody’s killed (you can see what I mean by the unproblematic ‘no’, since Freddie is an historical figure, as are most of the ghosts on the show), but the queer characters on the show are reduced to their queerness, only implied to be bisexual (A WORD THAT WILL NOT BE USED), grossly misrepresented, or committing adultery. Kudos for having more than one queer character, but you know, maybe we could’ve given Matthew an arc? And not erased all the bisexual people? Because bisexual people suffer enough? I have not covered all the casual transphobia with enough depth, but trans people too, deserve better than this. These problems are easily avoidable (Brooklyn 99 puts the effort in).

This post has focused on how Big Mouth treats queer people, but queer people are certainly not the only minorities that get shafted unexpectedly and with little context. Sometimes it’s clearer that the joke is meant to satirize how minorities are treated in society. It’s usually not. Unclear jokes can easily perpetuate inequality. In no particular order:

Nnnnnnnn....

Alright so there’s actually a really long history of Black people not having their names respected and it’s still current so...

Oh god

I don’t want to have to explain how I feel about this scene

I really hope fans of this show don’t find this in the tags and get upset about it, but I’m not a coward, I tag the content damnit.

#testpass #transphobia cw #homophobia cw #biphobia and bi-erasure #Big Mouth #tv series

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michellelewis7162 · 5 years ago

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The Alternative Wes Moore 1 Title, A pair of Fates

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12th Nov >> Fr. Martin's Gospel Reflection on Matthew 25:1-13 for Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A: ‘Stay awake’.

Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Gospel (Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Canada)

Matthew 25:1-13

Jesus told this parable to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of heaven will be like this: Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones did take their lamps, but they brought no oil, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight there was a cry, “The bridegroom is here! Go out and meet him.” At this, all those bridesmaids woke up and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, “Give us some of your oil: our lamps are going out.” But they replied, “There may not be enough for us and for you; you had better go to those who sell it and buy some for yourselves.” They had gone off to buy it when the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding hall and the door was closed. The other bridesmaids arrived later. “Lord, Lord,” they said “open the door for us.” But he replied, “I tell you solemnly, I do not know you.” So stay awake, because you do not know either the day or the hour.’

Gospel (USA)

Matthew 25:1–13

Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps. Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight, there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise ones replied, ‘No, for there may not be enough for us and you. Go instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves.’ While they went off to buy it, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went into the wedding feast with him. Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came and said, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’ But he said in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”

Reflections (3)

(i) Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Many would know from experience that wedding ceremonies do not always go according to plan. I remember a priest telling me who works in a parish down the country that at one wedding he was the celebrant no one remembered to bring the civil registry form that is signed after Mass by the couple, the two witnesses and the priest. The journey to get the form was about a thirty-mile round trip. As you can imagine, the wedding Mass started somewhat late. In my experience, most wedding Masses start later than the time for which they are booked. I was invited to no less than two humanist weddings during the Summer, never having been at one before. They both started bang on time. My sense was that a late start would have been seriously frowned upon by the solemniser.

The wedding ceremony described in the parable of today’s gospel reading certainly got off to a late start and it was the groom who was late. We cannot be sure of the precise form that the wedding ceremony took in the time of Jesus. It seems that it was customary for the groom to first come to the house of the bride late in the day and then to take his bride to his own house for a celebratory meal. Young unmarried women stationed outside the bride’s house would go out to meet the groom on his arrival and then accompany the couple to the groom’s house with lighted torches. It was an important role. It had the practical purpose of lighting the way in the darkness but it also provided a real celebratory atmosphere. In the parable, five of the young women had enough oil to keep their torches burning, in spite of the groom’s delay. The other five had enough oil, provided all went according to plan and the groom arrived on time. There was no point in the five who came prepared for the long haul sharing their oil with the other five because, as they said, there wasn’t enough oil for all ten to last the length of the procession. It could have all ended disastrously.

Jesus often looked out upon the day to day lives of people and saw something deeper there than others saw. The story Jesus tells begins, ‘the kingdom of heaven will be like this’. He recognized some dimension of God’s kingdom in the ordinary experiences of people. The day to day happenings of life spoke to Jesus about our relationship with God. The simple message that Jesus draws from the experience of this wedding party is, ‘Stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour’. ‘Stay awake’ in the sense of ‘be attentive’ or ‘be prepared’. In the writings of Israel’s prophets, God was often portrayed as the bridegroom and the people of Israel as the bride. In the gospels, Jesus speaks of himself as the bridegroom. On one occasion when his disciples were criticized by the Pharisees for not fasting, Jesus replied, ‘the wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them’, clearly referring to himself. The first believers would have associated the bridegroom in the parable with God or with Jesus. The parable encourages us to be alert and prepared for the Lord’s coming, and, in particular, to be alert for the long haul. The wisdom of the five of the bridesmaids consisted in their having enough oil to keep their torches burning for the long haul.

There is a reading often read at funeral Masses from Paul’s second letter to Timothy, where he says, ‘I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith’. Coming towards the end of his earthly life, Paul could say that he kept the light of his faith burning for the long haul, until the end. We need a durable faith in these times. Every person’s journey of faith has its ups and downs. Our faith can be strong at one time in our lives and weak at another. What matters is that we finish the race of faith, that we keep the flame of faith burning to the end. We keep the eyes of our faith fixed on the Lord, even when darkness comes over us and we wonder, ‘Where is the Lord? What’s keeping him?’ There is a lovely line in today’s responsorial psalm, ‘On you I muse through the night’. Being attentive to the Lord during the night, including the dark night of the spirit, the night of the Lord’s seeming absence, is a vital part of the journey of faith. Today’s first reading reminds us that this attentiveness to the Lord, day in and day out, night in and night out, for the long haul, is always a response to the Lord’s attentiveness to us. When Jewish writers spoke about Wisdom as a female figure, as in today’s first reading, it was really a way of speaking about God. According to that reading, ‘Wisdom is found by those who look for her’ because ‘she is sitting at your gates’. The Lord is always near to us when we seek him. He remains at the gate, the door, of our lives, attentive to us, even when the night seems long. He asks us to be as faithfully attentiveness to him as he is to us.

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(ii) Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

It is lovely to be met by someone when we arrive home from a journey. To be greeted by a familiar face and then to be escorted from the airport or the railway station or the port to our final destination makes all the difference. To be met by a friendly and familiar face is all the more gratifying if our arrival has been delayed. As the minutes tick by, we wonder if the friend who promised to meet us will still be there when we arrive. Doubting their presence, we might find ourselves thinking about other, less convenient, ways of negotiating the last, short stage of the journey. Recognizing the hoped-for presence in the crowd, despite our very late arrival, makes us all the more appreciative of their coming. Our delay has changed nothing. They have been true to their word, in spite of the inconvenience of the unexpected delay.

Perhaps the bridegroom, in today’s gospel reading, was equally pleased to find that at least some of the bridesmaids were there to meet and escort him to the wedding banquet, in spite of his very late arrival. The festive procession would happen regardless! Thank God for those wise enough to have had enough oil in reserve in the event of a long delay. The darkness would be lit up with bright lights after all. The faithfulness of at least some of the bridesmaids was all the more appreciated, because it required foresight, planning and attentiveness.

We value faithfulness in others, especially when we know that it has cost them something and has made demands on them. We appreciate it when people do what is asked of them, when not to have done so would be understandable. Those who remain focused on the task and alert to their calling, in spite of an unexpected turn of events, are great treasures. It is one thing to be faithful when all goes according to plan. It is another thing to remain faithful when the plan unravels and we find ourselves facing into something we had not bargained for.

When the Lord calls us to be his followers, it is always for the long haul. When he addresses us as ‘the light of the world’ (Mt 5:14), he looks to us to keep our light burning to the end. The words addressed to parents in the Baptismal Rite, immediately after the baptism of their children, express this beautifully, ‘May they (your children) keep the flame of faith alive in their hearts. When the Lord comes, may they go out to meet him with all the saints in the heavenly kingdom’. Baptism calls on us to keep the flame of faith alive in our hearts, until the Lord’s coming. The Lord looks to us to keep that flame burning, so that its light is there to greet him, regardless of the lateness or strangeness of his coming to us.

In the times in which we live, it can be a struggle to keep the flame of faith alive in our hearts. Some may feel that the harsh winds of recent weeks in our own Diocese are threatening to extinguish the flame of their faith. Like those in the gospel reading today, they may be tempted to cry out, ‘Our lamps are going out’. Yet, the Lord does not leave us without oil in these difficult times. We have the assurance of the first reading that ‘Wisdom is bright, and does not grow dim’. If we understand Christ as Wisdom, the wisdom of God, we are being assured that the light of Christ’s presence does not grow dim. We are heartened to hear in that same reading that Wisdom, Christ, walks around looking for those worthy of him, and graciously shows himself to them. The Lord comes to us in our hour of need. The oil of his faithful presence to us ensures that our own lamps, the flame of our faith, need not go out. What is asked of us is that, in the words of the responsorial psalm, we gaze on him in the sanctuary. As we turn in prayer to the Lord in our need, he will keep us faithful, and the fire of his love will keep the flame of our faith burning brightly.

Followers of Christ are called to be long-haul people. Like the wise bridesmaids, we are to be there with our lamps lit, even if the bridegroom arrives at a ridiculously late hour. We are to keep the flame of faith burning through the long hours of darkness when the Lord seems to be absent. We are called to have a faith that endures, the only kind of faith worth having. If we are to have a faith that endures the scandalous frailty of the church and the hostility of its critics, we need, in the words of the letter to the Hebrews, to look to Jesus, ‘the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross’. It is in looking to him, whose face always shines upon us, that the light of own faith will continue to shine.

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(iii) Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

We all know from experience that things do not always work out the way we expect them to. We can plan for something, but then we can discover that it does not happen or it happens in a different way to how we had expected it to happen. In the words of the poet Robert Burns, ‘the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’ –often go awry, as we might say. The unexpected can come along and knock our plans for six. The parable Jesus speaks in today’s gospel reading reflects that human experience of the disconcerting impact of the unexpected coming along. The ten bridesmaids had a reasonable expectation that the bridegroom would arrive at a certain time for them to escort him to the wedding banquet with his bride. However, as is often the case at weddings, everything happened much later than was expected, only on this occasion it was not the bride that was late but the bridegroom. Five of the bridesmaids, in their wisdom, had planned for this possible scenario and five had not. Those who had anticipated the unexpected had brought enough oil to ensure that their lamps kept burning through the long hours of waiting. The five who had not anticipated the unexpected ran out of oil and had to go and buy some, and as a result they could not provide the escort for the happy couple and found themselves locked out of the wedding banquet. I’m sure many of us would have some sympathy for the poor foolish bridesmaids as they are called. There but for the grace of God go many of us. I tend to work on the basis that things are going to work out in a certain way, and when they don’t I can be easily thrown; I’m not always great at dealing with the unexpected or managing the unplanned.

Yet, it is a great gift to have the wisdom that enables one to adjust to the unexpected. The wisdom of the five wise bridesmaids consisted in doing what was expected of them, in spite of the unexpected turn of events. I read recently something recently about Herbert Hoover who served as President of the United States from 1929 to 1933; he was in office during the Great Depression and at the time of the Wall Street crash. Reflecting back on that time, many years later, he said, ‘Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next’. The wisdom of the five bridesmaids wasn’t anything extraordinary; it was very practical. It consisted not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next. They had the resources of oil that enabled them to do what had to be done next, even though the circumstances were not ideal and things had not worked out quite as they had expected. We all need resources that enable us to do what has to be done in the day to day circumstances of life, including those unexpected circumstances that are part of life.

The wise bridesmaids had resources of oil that enabled their lamps to remain lighting during the long and dark hours of unexpected waiting. We all need those inner resources that keep our faith, hope and charity burning brightly in those moments when we find ourselves having to deal with the unexpected. For us as Christians the inner resources that keep our own lamp of faith, hope and love burning are the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It is those resources that give us the wisdom we need to do what we have to do, regardless of the circumstances in which we find ourselves. The fourteenth century German mystic, Meister Eckhart, said that ‘Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it’. It is our relationship with the Lord that opens us up to that kind of wisdom because the Lord himself is rich in that kind of wisdom. He certainly had that wisdom that consists in doing the next thing he had to do, doing it with his whole heart, and finding delight in doing it. This kind of wisdom is not something esoteric; it is not for the select few. It is the Lord’s gift to all of us; it is offered and available to all of us. That is the message of the first reading today, which speaks of Wisdom as easily found by those who look for her, as making herself known to them; she is described there as sitting at our gates, as walking about looking for those who are worthy of her and graciously showing herself to us as we go. This is the wisdom of God, the wisdom of the Lord, which is freely given to all who seek for her.

This kind of wisdom which consists in doing the next thing we have to do, doing it with all our heart and finding delight in doing it is well captured in a simple well-known story. A holy old monk was sweeping up the fallen leaves in the monastery garden when a visitor asked him: ‘What would you do, brother, if you knew you were to die in ten minutes’. The old monk replied, ‘I’d carry on sweeping’.

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Each of these suits stands for a particular approach to life: Swords The Swords are the suit of intellect, thought and reason. They are concerned with justice, truth, and ethical principles. Swords are associated with the element Air. A cloudless sky, open and light-filled, is a symbol of the mental clarity that is the Swords ideal. This suit is also associated with states that lead to disharmony and unhappiness. Our intellect is a valuable asset, but as an agent of ego, it can lead us astray if it is not infused with the wisdom of our Inner Guide. Cups The Cups are the suit of emotions and spiritual experience. They describe inner states, feelings and relationship patterns. The energy of this suit flows inward. Cups correspond to the yin, or feminine principle, in Chinese philosophy and are associated with the element Water. The ability of water to flow and fill up spaces, to sustain and to reflect changing moods makes it the ideal symbol of the Cups suit. Wands The Wands are the suit of creativity, action, and movement. They are associated with such qualities as enthusiasm, adventure, risk-taking, and confidence. This suit corresponds to the yang, or masculine principle, in Chinese philosophy and is associated with the element Fire. A flickering flame is the perfect symbol of the Wands force. This energy flows outward and generates passionate involvement. Pentacles The Pentacles are the suit of practicality, security and material concerns. They are associated with the element Earth and the concrete requirements of working with matter. In Pentacles, we celebrate the beauty of nature, our interactions with plants and animals and our physical experiences in the body. Pentacles also represent prosperity and wealth of all kinds. Sometimes this suit is called the Coins, an obvious symbol of the exchange of goods and services in the physical world. SUIT OF SWORDS suit-of-swords-tarot-cards Other Names: Staves, arrows, spades Element: Air Attributes: Active, male Astrological Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius Direction: West Season: Pagan – Spring / Esoteric – Autumn Self: Mind, thoughts, intellect Jungian Function: Thinking Body Part: Head Qabalistic World: Yetzirah – the Formative World Air is seen as the intellect, logic, and reasoning. An active element, Air circulates and so cleanses; it carries your thoughts and dreams; is also expansive when hot and is said to be expressive. Your mind or thoughts can be seen as clear or clouded; speech requires breath, which requires air. Swords represent logic, the mind, and your thoughts. They deal with problems and troubles, planning, communication, ideas, your intellect and how you use it. They represent your daily and life struggles, problems in general. The very nature of a sword is aggressive and warlike. Combined with the swiftness of air, the combination can see situations arise quickly. The ability to see clearly means the resolution is quick also. Swords people are great thinkers. You will find them in the study, research, academia, the sciences, law courts, and libraries. They love to learn and live to do it in any capacity. Keywords: decisions, worries, problems, issues, tension, communication, intelligence, disagreements; arguments, logic, reason, cognition, ideas, inspirations, balance, equilibrium, the mind, mentalism, thinking, facts and figures, definition. Reversed: vicious, ruthless, manipulative, cold, unemotional, spite and malice, accidents, inertia, indecision, confusion, mental blockages, biased, illogical, mental health issues, negative life changes. King – Serious, controlling, rational and mind/intellect-focused; Reversed: Foolish Queen – Intelligent, writer, communicative yet cold; Reversed: Ineffective Knight – Fierce, determined, aggressively pursues goals; Reversed: Boredom Page – mentally unstable or intellectually immature, acts without thinking; Reversed: Stupidity Ace of Swords – A fresh start, a sudden opportunity or idea, clarity; Reversed: Improbable 2 – Indecision; Reversed: Conflicts 3– Heartbreak, betrayal; Reversed: Torment 4 – Meditation, rest, retreat; Reversed: Disturbance 5 – Mind games, hostility; Reversed: Treachery 6 – Leaving, accepting help, going somewhere better; Reversed: Trouble 7 – Secret plans, abandoning ship; Reversed: Clumsiness 8 – feeling powerless and stuck; Reversed: Escaping 9 – Overactive mind, anxiety; Reversed: Martyrdom 10 – Feeling defeated, self-sabotage; Reversed: Sabotage SUIT OF CUPS suit-of-cups-tarot-cards Other Names: Chalices, Grails, Cauldrons, Hearts, Vessels Element: Water Attributes: Passive, female; cold, wet Astrological Signs: Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio Direction: East Season: Pagan – Autumn- / Esoteric – Summer Self: Emotions, love, receptivity Jungian Function: Feeling Body Part: Heart Qabalistic World: Briah – the Creative World Water is seen as the emotions, your feelings, and your intuition. Considered passive, water can be deep or shallow; you like the ocean, are responsive to the moon; your tears can rise and fall; out of control, your emotions flood; Cups represent your emotions, feelings, your subconscious, intuition, and psychism. They deal with love affairs, all relationships, inner expression, your reactions or responses and the pursuit of happiness. Generally passive and not outwardly extrovert, creativity through expression are some of the traits of this suit. Careers are usually in the arts or creative pursuits, they are, poets, painters, florists and designers, nurses, social workers, and caregivers. Cups people are happy in the background doing their own thing, though they are often actors distinguishing the limelight from the private time like no others. Keywords: creative, intuitive, clairsentient, psychic, passive, affectionate, receptive, imaginative, caring, relationships, love, dreams, sensitivity, romantic, artistic, spiritual, compassionate, tactile, nurturing, the unconscious mind, domesticity, culture, expression, flexibility, fluidity, calm motion, serenity, empathetic, aesthetics and beauty. Reversed: needy, co-dependent, intense, neglectful, fantasists, uncaring, cold, unfeeling, moody, unresponsive, illogical, lost, negative, pessimistic, emotional, overly sentimental, tearful, selfish. King – Repression of deep feelings, possible alcoholism; Reversed: Selfishness Queen – Emotionally nurturing, intuitive, sensitive; Reversed: Ignorance Knight – Romantic, adventurous, following one’s heart; Reversed: Pessimism Page – Creative, inspired, learning artistic skill; Reversed: Gloomy Ace of Cups – emotional fulfillment, joy; Reversed: Indifferent 2 – Partnership, mutual attraction, compatibility; Reversed: Abandonment 3 – Celebration, fun with friends, laughter; Reversed: Jealousy 4 – Boredom, dissatisfaction with what is being offered; Reversed: Avoidance 5 – Dwelling on the negative, self-pity; Reversed: Alienation 6 – Sentimentality, kindness, help; Reversed: Discouraging 7 – So many choices, indecision, getting lost in fantasy, wishing and dreaming; Reversed: Lethargic 8 – Abandoning something in search of something better, vision; Reversed: Sacrifice 9 – Indulgence, self-satisfaction; Reversed: Disintegration 10 – Emotional bliss, happiness, attainment; Reversed: Disruption SUIT OF WANDS suit-of-wands-tarot-cards Other Names: Batons, Staves, Rods, Clubs, Staffs, Scepters Element: Fire Attributes: Active, masculine; hot, dry Astrological Signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius Direction: South Season: Pagan – Summer / Esoteric – Spring Self: Will, actions, desire Jungian Function: Intuition Body Part: Genitals Qabalistic World: Atziluth – the Archetypal World Fire is energy and action, passion, drive, and ambition. An active element, it can cause permanent change; is expansive; can be aggressive; is proactive and undeterred. Wands represent creativity, energy, passion, and action. They cover your spiritual pursuits, your career, and creative projects. Leadership, self-growth and general optimism are some traits of this suit. Careers are usually in business, they are leaders, entrepreneurial & sales focused. Wands people like to get ahead and are generally proactive in all their activities. With an unrivaled healthy vitality, they are often accomplished sports people. Keywords: intuition; creativity; vitality; sexuality; spirituality; vision; energetic; outgoing; impulsive; motivational; pro-active; spirit and spirited; optimistic; enterprise; commerce; business; careers; opportunities; the thrill of the chase; competitive; growth; personal development; inspirational; enthusiastic; sexual; passionate; action; movement; initiation. Reversed: rash; impetuous; ruthless; greedy; narrow-minded; hyperactive; brash; manipulative; conniving; mean-spirited; overly optimistic; risk takers; heartless; aggressive; selfish; misleading; sadistic; distrusting of others. King – Career focused, mature, passionate; Reversed: Impostor Queen – Confidant, focused, has zest for life; Reversed: Fatigue Knight – An adventurous risk taker who follows his passions; Reversed: Apathy Page – newly inspired, excited about life and work; Reversed: Passive Ace of Wands – New beginnings, creative spark, fertile ideas; Reversed: Unpromising 2 – Contemplation, assessing one’s life direction; Reversed: Dispute 3 – Reaping the rewards of your efforts; Reversed: Idleness 4 – Celebration, safety, the home; Reversed: Discord 5 – Competition, minor struggles or disagreements; Reversed: Timidness 6 – Success, accolades, and achievement; Reversed: Disapproval 7 – Feeling defensive and on guard; Reversed: Yielding 8 – Speed, things manifesting quickly; Reversed: Stagnation 9 – Pessimism, gearing up for the worst; Reversed: Weakness 10 – Feeling oppressed, exhaustion, too many responsibilities; Reversed: Impractical SUIT OF PENTACLES suit-of-pentacles-tarot-cards Other Names: Disks, Coins, Deniers, Stones, Diamonds Element: Earth Attributes: Passive, female Astrological Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn Direction: North Season: Pagan – Winter / Esoteric – Winter Self: Body, Jungian Function: Sensation Body Part: Feet Qabalistic World: Assiah Earth is seen as the material, the physical & the sensual. A Passive element, Earth allows growth & production; promotes prosperity; is the foundation on which anything is built. Pentacles, represent all things material and physical, what you experience using your senses. They deal with your money, business deals, material possessions, your job, arts, crafts, your home & garden. Working hard & getting the job done are attributes of this suit. Pentacle people don’t mind getting their hands dirty whether that’s working on the land or in a factory. Strong & dependable, often found in the trades, removals, farming, landscaping & homemaking. Keywords: sensual, sexual; strong; lithe; dependable; reliable; stoic; practical; skilled & skillful; artistic; common sense; traditional; regular; straightforward; grounded; sensible; lush; fertile; growth; luxury; wealth; prosperity; apprenticeships; scholarships; dull; dutiful; realistic; down-to-earth; materialistic; money motivated; domesticity; health & fitness; exercise. Reversed: miserly; slave drivers; workaholics; pleasure seekers; neglectful; shoddy work; dullards; negative; pessimistic; superstitious; thoughtless; penny pinchers; lazy; unforgiving; selfish; greedy; covetous; moronic. King – Enjoys the good life (food, drink, and leisure), financially secure; Reversed: Hoarder Queen – Healthy in body and finances, grounded and calm; Reversed: Unreasonable Knight – Cautious, sensible and slow to progress; Reversed: Inexperienced Page – Student, commitment to learning; Reversed: Rookie Ace of Pentacles – Financial reward, clarity of life purpose, goals; Reversed: Debt 2 – Balance, multitasking; Reversed: Impractical 3 – Meaningful work, enjoying one’s work, suitable career; Reversed: Mediocrity 4 – Hoarding, feeling poor, holding self-back out of fear; Reversed: Greed 5 – Minor money troubles, health problems, feeling like an outsider; Reversed: Helplessness 6 – Charity, accepting and giving help; Reversed: Cruelty 7 – Patience, waiting for your plans to bear fruit; Reversed: Unemployment 8 – Hard work, focused efforts, laying the groundwork; Reversed: Skill-shortage 9 – Luxury, rest, financial and material comforts; Reversed: Dependency 10 – Financial success, strong business relationships; Reversed: Restrictions

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