#multidimensional existence

[frank-olivier]

The Ra Contact: A Spiritual Journey of Harmony, Intention, and Connection

In the vast expanse of human spiritual inquiry, few encounters have resonated as profoundly as the Ra Contact, a series of 106 sessions conducted between 1981 and 1984 by Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, and Jim McCarty. This extraordinary convergence with a sixth-density social memory complex, known as Ra, not only expanded the boundaries of spiritual understanding but also exemplified the transformative power of harmonious connection and unified intention.

Against the backdrop of the late 20th century, a time marked by heightened spiritual curiosity and the quest for alternative knowledge, the Ra Contact emerged as a beacon of innovative spiritual exploration. Don Elkins, a physicist with a deepening interest in spirituality; Carla Rueckert, an intuitive with a background in channeling and meditation; and Jim McCarty, providing technical support, formed a triumvirate that would challenge conventional spiritual and scientific paradigms. Their collaboration, facilitated by the L/L Research organization, would yield a body of work that transcended disciplinary boundaries, speaking to a wide audience of spiritual seekers and scholars alike.

The success of the Ra Contact was fundamentally rooted in the harmonious dynamics among its participants. Carla Rueckert's earlier work with the Inner Light/Outer Light meditation group had laid the groundwork for the empathetic and supportive environment that would characterize the Ra sessions. This synergy, coupled with the group's unified intention to seek profound, metaphysical understanding, created a vibrational resonance that attracted Ra's attention and facilitated the extraordinary connection. The sessions themselves, meticulously documented in the Law of One book series, stand as a testament to the power of collective intention and harmony in spiritual pursuits.

The Ra Contact yielded a plethora of profound insights that continue to inspire spiritual growth and intellectual curiosity. The teachings underscored the interconnectedness of existence, echoing Eastern spiritual traditions such as Advaita Vedanta, and challenging the illusion of separation. The sessions also illuminated the boundless, unconditional love that permeates the universe, a theme paralleled in Christian mysticism and Sufism, encouraging a deeper appreciation for the divine and our place within the cosmic tapestry. Furthermore, Ra's explanations offered a glimpse into the multidimensional complexity of existence, mirroring theories in modern physics such as string theory and the multiverse hypothesis, and inviting a more integrated approach to understanding reality.

The Ra Contact's influence extends far beyond the confines of its original sessions. L/L Research continues to share the Law of One material, ensuring its accessibility to a global audience. The encounter's emphasis on harmony, unified intention, and the pursuit of higher knowledge has inspired a new generation of spiritual seekers and scholars, fostering a community that transcends geographical and disciplinary boundaries. As humanity navigates the complexities of the 21st century, the Ra Contact stands as a beacon, reminding us of the transformative potential of harmonious connection and the infinite possibilities that arise from embracing our shared, spiritual heritage.

The enduring legacy of the Ra Contact is a testament to the profound impact of collaborative spiritual exploration. Through its insights into the nature of reality, love, and unity, this encounter continues to inspire a global community, encouraging a deeper, more integrated understanding of the cosmos and our place within it. As we reflect on the Ra Contact, we are reminded of the boundless potential that emerges when harmony, intention, and a shared quest for knowledge converge, illuminating the path forward for those seeking a more profound connection with the universe and themselves.

Gary Bean: Ra Contact - The Narrow-Band Beam, The Metaphorical Crib, Carla in Sixth Density (L/L Research, November 2024)

Saturday, November 9, 2024

[mylove-thresher]

bro this was so infuriating to draw but like. Fugirl. (Insert giggle)

The anatomy is so off with the legs but like. I didn’t put too much effort on it ok. Let the legs be wonky doinky.

(What is wrong with me)

[misticfog]

I was watching let's plays and reaching conclusions

[echovoidedangel]

So bc old Minecraft rps my beloved plague my mind (& mithzan fixation) I've thought of a new hc/au concept

Mystery Hotel (a series Shelby made)

Mr. Zan (Max's character) is a watcher

[kotaerukoto]

Every day I am tortured by the fact there are things in Danganronpa 3 that are conceptually interesting (such as the whole thing of "Makoto usually compares himself to others" being flipped, others comparing themselves to Makoto, with Mitarai's high opinion of Makoto vs his own belief that he couldn't do anything leading him to conclude "well there's absolutely no way everyone can deal with despair and death like Makoto did so I have to brainwash the world into permanent hope" and Sakakura's hatred of Makoto coming from how Makoto stood where he was unable to stand) but the execution and implementation of those ideas were almost universally botched

[goldensunset]

i. respect people who write several paragraphs of meta about comic relief jones, bleepus blorpus, minor side character who’s played off as mean and annoying for a joke. i do. i am sorry that you suffer from watching others poke fun at bleepus when you identify very closely with bleepus and see your neurodivergent self in them (? for being… self centered and nasty????) i do and i mean no harm to you. but. i do not live in your reality my friend. and i am going to continue making jokes about side character scrimblo because please understand everything you’re saying is very fanon

[grysi]

Absent Healing

Accelerated Learning

Act of Random Kindness

Active Imagination Experience see Imaginal Experience

Aesthetic experience see Art Experience

After Death Communication

Agoral Gathering Experience

Aikido Experience

Alien Abduction

Alien Encounter

Altered Spatial Perception

Altered Time Perception

Alternate Reality Experience

Alternate Time/Timeline Experience

Alternative Healing see Healing Experiences/Approaches

Ancestral Experience

Anesthetic Experience

Angel Encounter; see also Guardian Angel

Anxiety Dream; see also Night Terrors

Anomalous Weather Control see Weather Control, Anomalous

Apparition; see also Collective Apparition

Apport

Archetypal Dream see Transcendent Dream

Archetypal Experience; see also Imaginal Experience; Mythic Experience; Numinous Experience

Architecture Experience; see also Holy or Power Place Encounter

Art Experience

Astral Projection see Out-of-Body Experience

Aura Vision

Autism

Automatic Drawing

Automatic Painting

Automatic Speaking

Automatic Writing

Automatism; see Automatic Drawing; Automatic Painting; Automatic Speaking;Automatic Writing; Dowsing

Autoscopy see Bilocation; Double; Out-of-Body Experience;

Bardo Experience see Life Between Life

Being in the Zone see Zone Experience

Bilocation

Bioattraction

Blood Miracle, Witnessing

Bodily Functions, Exceptional Control of

Bodily Transformation

Border Crossing Experience

Breakpoint Experience

Breathing, Inner

Brownies Encounter

Burial Alive see Suspended Animation

Call case see Clairaudience; Voices, Hearing

Calling see Vocation, Sense of

Celestial Music see Transcendental Music

Cellular Consciousness

Channeling

Chaos Experience see Desolation/Nadir Experience

Charismatic Personality Encounter; see also Exceptional Person Experience; Holy Individual Experience

Charismatic Prophecy see Prophecy

Child Prodigies see Prodigies

Childbirth Exceptional Experience

Christos Experience

Clairaudience; see also Locution; Voice, Hearing

Clairvoyance; see also Mindsight Experience

Clairvoyant Diagnosis see Paranormal Diagnosis

Clock-Stopping

Coincidences, Striking; see also Serendipity; Synchronicity

Collective Apparition

Collective Consciousness see Human Species Consciousness/Connectedness

Collective Unconsciousness see Human Species Consciousness/Connectedness

Coma Experience

Conscious Dying

Contemplative Experience; see also Meditation Experience; Prayer Experience; Recollective Experience; Yoga Experience

Conversion

Cosmic Consciousness/Connectedness

Cosmology, Personal see Cosmic Consciousness/Connectedness

Creative "Aha" or Eureka Experience; see also Embodied Insights

Crop Circle Encounter

Cross Correspondence

Crystal-Gazing see Scrying

Cutaneous Perception

Dance Experience

Darshan Experience

Daydreaming

Death-Related Experiences (Class)

Death-Related Psychokinesis; see also Clock Stopping

Deathbed Observation/Encounter

Deceased Spirit Experience see After Death Communication

Déjà Vu; see also Jamais Vu

Dematerialization; see also Materialization

Demonic Encounter; see also Evil Entity

Dermo-Optic Perception see Cutaneous Perception

Dermography see Skin-Writing

Desolation/Nadir Experience (Class); see also Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Spiritual Emergency

Diagnosis, Paranormal see Paranormal Diagnosis

Direct Drawing Experience

Direct Painting Experience

Direct Physical Phenomena

Direct Voice Experience

Direct Writing

Dissociative Experiences (Class)

Dissociative Identity Disorder see Multiple Personality

Distant Intercellular Interaction

Divination

Divine Healing see Spiritual Healing

Döppelganger see Double

Double Vision

Double-Release Out-of-Body Experience

Dowsing; see also Map Dowsing

Drama Experience

Dream Helper

Dreambody Experience

Dream, Impactful; see also Anxiety Dream; Dream Helpher; Existential Dream; Lucid Dreaming; Psychic Dream; Transcendent Dream; Transformative Dream

Dream, Lucid see Lucid Dreaming

Drop-in Communicator

Drug Experience see Hallucinogenic Drug Experience

Dying, Conscious see Conscious Dying

Earth Experience see Planetary Consciousness

Ecstasy; see also Shamanic Ecstasy

Effortlessness

Electrical/Electronic Sensitivity, Paranormal;

Lamp Interference

Electronic Visual Phenomena

Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)

Elongation

Elusivity

Emanation

Embodied Insight

Embodiment see Inscendence/Embodiment/Immanence

Emotions, Transcendental

Empathy

Encounter Experience (Class)

Encounter or T-Group Experience

Energy Experience

Enlightenment; see also God/Goddess Experience

Epiphany

ESP see Extrasensory Perception

Esthetic Experience see Art Experience

Eureka Experience see Creative "Aha" Experience

Evil Entity; see also Demonic Encounter

EVP see Electronic Voice Phenomena

Exceptional Human Experience (General Heading); see also Transpersonal Experience

Exceptional Human Performance/Feat

Exceptional Person Encounter; see also Holy Person Encounter

Existential Dream

Experience of the New see New, Experience of the

Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

Extraterrestrial (ET) Encounter see Alien Encounter

Faces, Paranormal see Imprints, Paranormal

Fairies, Encountering

Faith Healing

Falling Experience

Family Psi

Fantasy see Daydreaming; Imaginal Experience

Feats see Exceptional Human Performance/Feat

Feeling of Being Stared at see Remote Staring

Fire-Immunity

Fire-walking see Fire-Immunity

First Contact Experience see New, Experience of the

First-Time Experience; see also New, Experience of the

Flow Experience

Folk Entity Encounter

Foreknowledge see Precognition

Fortune-Telling see Divination

Gaia Experience see Planetary Consciousness

Galactic Consciousness

Geller Effect see Metalbending

Genius, Experience of

Ghosts see Apparition; Haunt; Poltergeist

Global Consciousness see Planetary Consciousness

Glossolalia

God/Goddess Experience

"Going Native" Experience

Grim Reaper Apparition

Group Bonding

Group Experience/Entity

Group Past Life Recall

Group Psi

Guardian Angel Encounter; see also Inner Guidance Experience; Helper Experience; Inner Helper Experience; Locutions

Guru Encounter see Holy Person Encounter

Hallucination; see also Eidetic Imagery

Hallucinogenic Drug Experience

Haunt

Haunting

Healing Approaches/Experiences (Class); see also Faith Healing; Intercessory Prayer; Paranormal Diagnosis; Psychic Healing; Psychic Surgery; Shamanic Healing; Shamanistic Healing; Spirit Healing; Spiritual Healing;

Healing, Psychic see Psychic Healing

Healing, Shamanic see Shamanic Healing

Healing, Shamanistic see Shamanistic Healing

Healing, Spirit see Spirit Healing

Healing, Spiritual see Spiritual Healing

Health/Well-Being/Wholeness Experience

Hearing or Reading About EHEs of Others see Vicarious EE/EHE

Heart Knowledge

Helper Encounter

Helper Spirit

Heteresthesia

Highland Sight see Second Sight

Hitchhiker, Phantom see Phantom Hitchhiker

Holy or Power Place Encounter

Holy Person Encounter; see also Exceptional Person Experience; Marian Apparition

Human Magnets see Bioattraction

Human Species Consciousness/Connectedness

Human-Animal Interaction see Interspecies Communication/Encounter

Human-Machine Interaction

Hyperacuity

Hypermnesia

Hypnagogic Experience

Hypnopompic Experience

Hypnosis-at-a-Distance see Suggestion-at-a-Distance

I-Thou Experience

Idiot Savant see Savant Syndrome

Illumination; see also Creative "Aha" Experience; Enlightenment; Koan

Imaginal Experience

Imaginary Companion

Imaginary World see Paracosm, Creation of

Immanence see Inscendence/Embodiment/Immanence

Immersive Thrill Experience

Immortality Experience

Immunity/Invulnerability; see also Fire-Immunity

Imprints, Paranormal

Incendium Amoris

Incipient Manic Psychosis

Incorruptible Flesh

Incubus Experience; see also Old Hag Experience

Influenced Writing see Channeling; Automatic Writing

Inner Breathing see Breathing, Inner

Inner Guidance Experience; see also Guardian Angel; Inner Helper Experience;

Inner Helper Experience; see also Guardian Angel; Inner Guidance Experience; Locutions;

Inner Movement

Inscendence/Embodiment/Immanence; see also Recollective Experience

Inspiration; see also Channeling; Creative "Aha" Experience;

Inspired Writing or Drawing see Automatic Drawing; Automatic Writing; Channeling;

Intercessory Prayer

Interspecies Communication/Encounter

Intuition

Invisibility see Dematerialization

Jamais Vu; see also Déjà Vu

Koan; see also Creative "Aha" Experience

Kundalini Awakening

Kything

Laughter, Inward

Laying on of Hands; see also Therapeutic Touch

Levitation

Life Between Life

Life Interconnectedness Experience

Life Review

Life-Changing Experience see Conversion; Exceptional Human Experience

Lifehoods, Experience of

Light Experiences

Light Beyond the Light Experience

Limerence

Liminal Experience see Border Crossing Experience

Limit Experience see Border Crossing Experience

Literary Experience

Locutions

Love

Lucid Dreaming

Luck; see also Serendipity

Luminous Phenomena

Long-Gom-Pa Running

Macrocosm/Microcosm Experience

Magic/Sorcery

Magnified Vision

Map Dowsing

Marian Apparition see Holy Person Encounter

Martial Arts Experience

Materialization; see also Dematerialization

Meaningful Coincidence see Synchronicity

Meditation Experience

Mediumistic Experience

Memory, Exceptional see Supermemory

Memory, Transpersonal see Recollective Experience

Metal Bending

Metanoia see Exceptional Human Experience

Microscopic Vision see Magnified Vision

Mind Over Matter see Psychokinesis

Mindsight Experience

Mineral-Human Experience

Miraculous Experience/Encounter

Mirror Vision

Missing Time see Altered Time Perception

Moebius Experience

Monition; see also Premonition

Multiple Personality

Muscle-Reading

Music Experience

Music of the Spheres see Music Experience

Music, Transcendental see Music Experience

Mystic Heat see Tumo

Mystical Experiences (General Class)

Mythic Experience; see also Archetypal Experience; Imaginal Experience

NAD see Transcendental Music

Nadir Experience see Desolation/Nadir Experience

NDE see Near-Death Experience

Near-Death Experience (NDE) see also Life Review; Light Beyond the Light Experience; Non-Near-Death Experience; Tunnel Experience

New, Experience of the; see also First-Time Experience

Night Terrors; see also Anxiety Dream

Nightmare see Anxiety Dream

Noble Acts, Witnessing or Performing

Noetic Experience

Non-Near-Death Experience

Nonallopathic Healing see Healing Experiences

Nostalgia

Numinous Experience

OBE see Out-of-Body Experience

Object-Reading see Psychometry

Odor of Sanctity see Scent, Transcendental

Odor, Paranormal; see also Scent, Transcendental

Odor, Transcendental see Scent, Transcendental

Old Hag Experience; see also Incubus Experience

Oracles see Oracular Experience

Oracular Experience

Orgasmic Experience

Orientation

Other, Experience of the; see also Double Vision; "Going Native" Experience;

Otherworld Personal Future Experience

Ouija Board Experience

Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)

Outer Space Experience

Outsider Experience see Border Crossing Experience; Double Vision; Other, Experience of the

Panoramic Memory see Life Review

Paracosm, Creation of

Paranormal Diagnosis

Paranormal Electrical Effect see Electrical/Electronic Sensitivity, Paranormal

Paranormal Faces see Imprints, Paranormal

Paranormal Healing see Psychic Healing

Paranormal Imprints see Imprints, Paranormal

Paranormal Odor see Odor, Paranormal

Paranormal Sound see Sound, Paranormal

Paranormal Touch see Touch, Paranormal

Paranormal Voice see Voice, Paranormal

Past-Life Recall

Peace Beyond Understanding

Peak Experiences (Class)

Peak Performance see Exceptional Human Performance/Feats

Peak-in-Darien Experience

Performing/Witnessing Noble Acts see Noble Acts, Performing/Witnessing

Perinatal Experience

Personal Best Experience

Personal Cosmology see Cosmic Consciousness/Connectedness; Outer Space Experience

Phantom see Apparition; Haunt

Phantom Hitchhiker

Phantom Phone Call

Photography, Paranormal see Psychic Photography

Physiological Feats see Exceptional Human Performance/Feats (General Class)

PK see Psychokinesis

Placebo Effect

Planetary Consciousness; see also World-Wide Web Experience

Plant-Human Experience

Plateau Experience

Poltergeist Experience

Possession

Post Mortal Messages see After Death Communication

Post-Mortem Communication see After Death Communication

Post-Mortem Painting, Visions, Voices, Writing see After Death Communication

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder see Spiritual Emergency

Prayer Experience; see also Contemplative Experience; Intercessory Prayer; Meditation

Experience; Yoga Experience

Prebirth Experience; see also Life Between Life

Precognition; see also Premonition

Premonition; see also Monition

Prenatal Experience

Presence, Sense of see Sense of Presence

Presque Vu

Primal Life Experience; see also Life Interconnectedness Experience

Prodigies; see also Savant Syndrome

Prophecy Experience

Proxy Sitter Experience

Psi Experience see Psychical

Experiences (Class)

Psi Timing

Psychedelic Drug Experience see Hallucinogenic Drug Experience

Psychic Dream

Psychic Experiences see Psychical Experiences (Class)

Psychic Healing

Psychic Imprint Encounter

Psychic Photography

Psychic Surgery

Psychical Experiences (Class)

Psychography see Direct Writing

Psychokinesis

Psychomanteum Experience see Mirror Vision; OracularExperience

Psychometry

Psychoneuroimmunology

Psychotherapeutic Breakthrough Experience

Psychotherapeutic Resonance

Qiqong Experience

Rainmaking; see also Weather Control, Anomalous

Rapport

Raps see Sounds, Paranormal

Rapture see Ecstasy

Reading While Asleep see Sleep Learning

Reciprocal Apparition

Recollective Experience

Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis see Haunts; Hauntings; Poltergeists

Reincarnation Experience see Past Life Recall

Remote Staring

Remote Viewing

Rescue Circle

Resurrection After Death

Retroactive Psychokinesis

Retrocognition

Reunion Experience see After Death Communications

Revelation

Rhabdomancy see Dowsing

Rhythmic Experience

Rock-Human Experience see Mineral-Human Experience

RSPK see Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis

Sacred Sites see Holy or Power Place Encounter

Sacred Silence

Sacred Stillness

Sacred Vision

Savant Syndrome; see also Prodigies

Scent, Transcendental; see also Odor, Paranormal

Scrying

Séance Experience

Second Sight see also Clairvoyance; Extrasensory Perception (ESP); Precognition

Self-Realization see Enlightenment

Sense of Presence

Sense of Vocation see Vocation, Sense of

Serendipity; see also Coincidences, Striking; Luck

Shamanic Ecstasy

Shamanic Experience

Shamanic Healing

Shamanistic Experience

Shamanistic Healing

Shamanistic Initiatory Crisis

Shared Anomalous Experience (e.g., see also, Collective Apparition; Shared Dream)

Shout see Spirit Shout

Shouting see Spirit Shout

Sight, Second see Second Sight

Silence, Sacred see Sacred Silence

Sitter Group Experience; see also Séance Experience

Sitting see Séance Experience; Sitter Group Experience

Sixth Sense see Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

Skin-Writing

Slate Writing

Sleep Learning

Sleep Paralysis

Soothsaying see Divination

Sorcery see Magic/Sorcery

Soul-Retrieval

Soulmate Experience

Sound, Paranormal

Speaking in Tongues see Glossolalia; Xenoglossy

Species Consciousness see Human Species Consciousness/Connectedness

Spirit Guide

Spirit Healing

Spirit Photography

Spirit Shout Experience

Spiritual Emergency/Emergence Experience; see also Desolation/Nadir Experience; Shamanistic Initiatory Crisis

Spiritual Healing

Spontaneous Cures

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Spontaneous Remission see Spontaneous Cures

Stair Flying

Staring, Remote see Remote Staring

Stigmata

Stillness, Sacred see Sacred Stillness

Street Lamp Interference; see also Electrical/Electronic Sensitivity, Paranormal

Sublime, Experience of the see Numinous Experience

Suggestology see Accelerated Learning; Supermemory

Supermemory; see also Accelerated Learning

Supernatural Assault see Incubus Experience

Surrender

Suspended Animation

Synchronicity

Synergetic Experience

Synergistic Experience see Synergetic Experience

Synesthesia

Table Turning see Sitter Group

Table-tipping see Sitter Group

Tears, Transcendental see Weeping, Transcendental

Telekinesis see Psychokinesis

Telepathy

Teleportation

Telesthesia see Clairvoyance

Temperature Changes, Anomalous

Theophany

Therapeutic Touch

Thought Transference see Telepathy

Thoughtography see Psychic Photography

Token Object Reading see Psychometry

Touch, Paranormal

Trance Running see Lung-gom-pa Running

Transcendent Experience see Numinous Experience; Mystical Experience; Peak Experience

Transcendent Dream

Transcendental Emotion see Emotion, Transcendental

Transcendental Music see MusicExperience

Transcendental Odor see Odor, Paranormal; Scent, Transcendental

Transcendental Tears see Weeping, Transcendental

Transfiguration

Transformative Dream

Transpersonal Experience

Transpersonal Memory Recollective Experience

Tumo Experience

Tunnel Experience

UFO Abduction Experience

Alien Abduction

UFO Encounter

Alien Encounter

Uncanny Feeling/Sense

Unitive Experience

Unorthodox Healing see Healing, Experiences/Approaches

Vanishing see Dematerilization

Vertigo Experience; see also Immersive Thrill Experience

Vicarious EEs/EHE

Virtual Transcendent Experience

Vision Quest Experience

Visionary Experience; see also Sacred Vision; Vision Quest Experience

Vocation, Sense of

Voices, Hearing

Void, Experience of the

Walk-In Experience

Water Witching see Dowsing

Weather Control, Anomalous

Weeping, Transcendental

Wholeness see Health/Wholeness Experience

Wilderness Experience

Wonder, Experience of

World-Wide Web Experience

Xenoglossy, Recitative

Xenoglossy, Responsive

Yoga Experience

Contemplative Experience

Prayer Experience

Zero Ground Experience

Zone Experience

[bruqh]

you would think neverafter is the fantasy fairytale season but actually it is the dark academia season

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Genuinely I am not judging. They tend to their business (doomsaying) and I tend to mine (poking the biological concept of a so-called "circadian rhythm" with a pointy stick).

Point being, I try not to be xenophobic. These (loud-mouthed) bitches are my cousins. They're family. Sure I love them. But the (highly vocal!) 4am prophesizing? The "weighing down every branch of every tree outside my window, until the boughs weep & shake & break with the violence of feathers"??? Getting to be a bit much motherclucker. sweetheart i love you get the fuck out of my soundscape

Ah. The crows are conglomerating, yet again.

[mc-pumpkin]

So from a qPhil perspective, his hardcore world is his dreams, and in his dreams he's researching these leftover monuments from god-like beings. He knows all about them in and from his dreams. And now suddenly one of them, the worst one of them all, is contacting him in his waking life

Yeah aside from seeing things no one else seems to see I am not surprised he's no longer sure what is and isn't real. The subjects of his dreams just became reality

[newmonsteravenue]

I'm holding hands with every person who tagged that last post as 'me'

[mineralmines]

there's also something to be said about how a lot of fandom spaces consist mostly of women and trans/non-binary folks, and how the time we put into hobbies is pretty consistently ridiculed. like cis men are out there trashing entire cities bc they have big emotions about a football game, i KNOW they aren't out here tryna make fun of anyone for being too into something.

sorry to keep harping but the thing is. like. people pretty much universally have profoundly complex and richly textured lives outside of the internet. like everyone you'll ever meet will have their share of complicated relationships, personal struggles, identity issues, et cetera. and these people will likely have deep inner lives and senses of self that an outsider is not easily privy to yk. but then you get all these Posters with a superiority complex who log into the fandom blogging website, see a fandom blogger blogging about fandom, and for some reason forget that other human beings have a rich inner world and assume that this little niche interest site somehow represents the totality of the fandom blogger's life and that they can deduce some sort of damning portrait of a Life Consumed by Media from the fact that they sometimes blog about fandom on the fandom blogging website. and then they make stupid ass posts like the aforementioned. it's so pretentious and self important and mean spirited with zero substance. Banished to the salt mines for 10000 years

[macbethz]

He wonders what age he’s finally reached. The Time War used years as ammunition; at the Battle of Rodan’s Wedding alone, he’d aged to five million and then regressed to a mewling babe, merely from shrapnel. Now, the ache in his bones feels… one thousand years old? Well. Call it nine hundred. Sounds better.

In the same way RTD's 'Doctor Who and the Time War,' where the above quote is from, is a page from a novel that doesn't exist, this is a splash page from a comic that doesn't exist. Time War PTSD, much like the war itself, is multidimensional.

Now available as a print by popular demand!

[starchbean]

The reason I'm diving so headlong into the SVSSS fandom when I also love TGCF (I haven't yet read MDZS) but haven't delved NEARLY as deep into the fandom is thus:

Fanfic for TGCF... well, it FEELS like fanfic. That isn't bad. I LOVE fanfic. But the story of TGCF is self-contained. The /real/ Xie Lian and Hua Cheng etc are them as portrayed by MXTX. They had the trials they will have, and now these poor old men get to rest in each others' arms, which is beautiful.

AND ACROSS THE ROOM

Scum Villain fic does NOT feel like fanfic, because IT IS REAL! It happened! It ALL happened! Thanks to the Bing-ge extra, the persistent existence of multiverse and multiple instances of Binghes and Shens etc is evidence that there is definitely more out there the original MXTX story doesn't touch on. And the best part is, it doesn't matter how wacky it is, it's STILL REAL!

Terminally ill Shen Yuan finds his way to a catgirl cafe where femboy catboy transmigrator Binghe is trying to work his way out of poverty? Mobei Jun kidnaps Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky and forces him to rewrite PIDW so that HE becomes the demon emperor because Binghe is real fuckin unstable and it's a headache--and every written change alters their world immediately after Airplane writes it? It's out there somewhere in the multiverse, surely!

And of COURSE they'd act slightly differently between iterations, BE slightly different--it's not OOC, it's multidimensional variation. No matter how hard you meme, it doesn't feel fake at all, and that's INCREDIBLE! It lends itself to being a superfandom!

I'M COMPLETELY NORMAL ABOUT THIS! ABSOLUTELY HINGED! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[bricky-brikson]

Thinking about the "trilion and 12 years old" joke about Bill and thinking about his psychological development after the Euclydia massacre

In the show, we see that while he can plan ahead and manipulate people, he's often foiled by his own impulsiveness/anger/emotions. His ultimate goal is to escape the Nightmare Realm/Dimension 0. And sure, he says this is because he promised the Henchmaniacs he'd help them, but ultimately as others have pointed out, Bill is terrified of death. He wants to live forever - have "a party that never ends with a host who never dies". All he cares about is himself, his own survival and hedonism

All this to say, Bill has the emotional development of a teen. He hasn't gotten past the self-centredness nor the reward/adrenaline seeking behaviour, but has emotionally evolved enough to be able to manipulate people and such (and be able to feel guilt, even if it's just a picogram). Though his immaturity shows when he doesn't get his way.

One might think that, being a trillion years old, he would've developed a bit, but here's the thing - major traumas can "freeze" people at certain developmental stages. We don't know how old Bill was when Euclydia was destroyed - though considering his behaviour I would bet he was a teen.

(Or whatever the equivalent of that stage is for his species. They have exoskeletons- do they have instars then? Whatever, that's not on the topic of this post)

Seeing his entire dimension destroyed after (what was probably) a well-intentioned attempt to show them what he saw ("They'll see. They'll all see.") permanently emotionally stunted him. However it was he got his powers, he was a teen/young adult with powerful abilities who had just erased an entire dimension from existence and was now accountable to no one but himself while also being deeply traumatized. His constant partying and implied substance use were probably the only coping mechanisms he could think of, dissociating because he has no idea how to actually confront what happened. The way he talks about the massacre - he detaches himself from it yet still admits guilt ("A monster."). Only post-divorce does he implicate himself in the event, though still obscuring its true nature ("I liberated them.").

Being surrounded by individuals who are similarly maladjusted for most of his trillion-year lifespan certainly didn't help things. The Henchmaniacs are likely somewhat stunted as well, or at the very least don't offer much in the way of mature/emotionally adult conversation, especially since Bill reacts so poorly (read: homocidally) to any sense of malcontent.

Which is to say, I think part of why Ford was important to Bill was because, compared to him, Ford was more emotionally developed (Ford is emotionally stunted in his own ways, but not as severely as Bill IMO). Subconsciously, their relationship was reaching a hand out to the scared teenager in the centre of Bill's psyche and offering him someone to lean on- someone who had their shit a little bit more figured out. A kind of figure Bill hadn't had since he killed his parents.

Of course, such vulnerability probably felt so alien that Bill tried to distance himself. I always wondered - why didn't Bill just lie to Ford about his plan to take over Dimension 49'\ ? Ford would've believed him, finished the portal, and Bill's plan would've been fulfilled. Well, I think it was Bill trying to burn the emotional bridge. In his own impulsivity, his own desire to dissociate instead of confront, he would rather make sure that he would never be able to be vulnerable to Ford than fulfill his grand plan.

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I don't remember where I was going with this. There's no conclusion. I'm spinning this triangular multidimensional tyrant at physically impossible speeds in my mind and if I didn't write something about him my skull was going to turn into a fine powder. It's almost 2 AM, so it's entirely possible this post makes 0 sense, in which case feel free to inform me of that in the notes.