#parabola

[marejadilla]

Edward Minoff

“Parabola” Oil

“Storm Surge” Oil

[thatsbelievable]

[realsafari]

why am i laughing so hard????

parabola.

[honeymongering]

Figuring out a Silverer outfit for Arden. :3

[johnybones56]

I love when Fallen London wants content to not spoil things but it was very clearly written when the concept of what's "late-game" or "a major spoiler" was very different.

It's always saying stuff like "He briefly mentions Parabola but before you can ask what that is he changes the subject" and it's like dude I have a studio apartment there, me and my friends all go birdwatching in Parabola on the weekends, you just need to know which birds are safe to look at.

[septiccoffeefreak]

Look. Look I KNOW Parabola has nothing to do with being plural. I KNOW it's about spirituality and the human experience and cherishing being alive. But THESE:

ARE SOME PLURAL ASS LYRICS.

[eusouevangelica-eusouevangelico]

O Reino dos Céus é como um tesouro perdido! (Mt 13:44)

Na parábola de Cristo, Ele narra a história de um homem que descobriu um tesouro enterrado em um campo, tão valioso que o levou a uma decisão radical. Assim que percebeu o valor daquele achado, o homem vendeu tudo o que possuía para adquirir o campo. Não porque o campo em si tivesse grande valor, mas porque nele estava escondido o tesouro que mudaria sua vida.

Esse homem simboliza cada um de nós. Seus bens representam tudo o que consideramos precioso neste mundo, enquanto o tesouro é o Reino dos Céus.

Com esta parábola, Cristo nos convida a refletir: estou disposto a abrir mão de tudo o que considero mais valioso em troca do Reino dos Céus? Estou usando os dons e recursos que Deus me deu para alcançar o que é eterno?

O homem da parábola não hesitou; ele compreendeu que o tesouro tinha um valor incalculável, muito superior a tudo o que possuía. Da mesma forma, somos chamados a buscar o Reino de Deus em primeiro lugar, utilizando tudo o que temos – nossos talentos, tempo e recursos – em prol do Céu.

Agora, pense: você tem dado valor ao Reino e à sua salvação? O que você tem priorizado mais do que a promessa do Reino após a volta de Cristo? Pode ser um momento, uma pessoa, prazeres temporários, escolhas erradas, ou até você mesmo. Priorizar algo só acontece quando reconhecemos seu valor acima dos outros. Se deseja dar valor ao Reino, ore ao Rei para que seus olhos e coração sejam transformados, para que você veja e valorize Cristo acima de tudo. Após isso busque-O nas Escrituras para conhecer mais ao Rei e se tornar mais parecido com Ele, visto que o servo sempre será parecido com aquele a quem serve. Assim darás cada vez mais valor ao que tem o mais alto valor e, de fato, é o mais importante.

Como disse John Piper: “A verdadeira conversão é experimentar uma mudança de coração e mente que valoriza Deus em Cristo mais do que a própria vida.”

[fathomlesslyqueer]

Ms Bean: opens an orphanage

Ms Bean, weeks later:

Time for a field trip, little ones!

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London Species: Focused Albatross

[alexander-the-greatest1987]

[esteemed-excellency]

the concept of the folly is subjective and it has been suggested that the definition of a folly "lies in the eyes of the beholder"

[neathyingenue]

Drew this a while ago but just now getting to post it!! Here's a sketch of Silvia's Parabola reflection. I'm calling her "the Daffodil Maiden." For an overexplanation of the Yucatec Maya, Welsh, Spanish, English, and Catholic visual references-- look below the cut :)

Also I *am* working on the OC gouache portraits (got one done and two sketched out) but my hip is injured or something?? making sitting down painful so I can't paint :/ As soon as I can, I will get to work on those again!

The majority of the reflection's garment is based on the huipil of the Yucatec Maya, specifically the versions worn in the jarada, the national folk dance of Belize. Silvia's is embroidered with daffodils, the national flower of Wales. The flared hem is ruffled and gathered, trimmed with ribbon, a nod to European textiles/sewing techniques and Spanish folk-dance costumes. The ribbon sash thing is also part of the jarada costume--here I want it to constrict Silvia a bit.

The long unstyled hair is taken from the pre-Raphaelite painters, who depicted idealized versions of Victorian youthful femininity. Specifically I'm thinking of Waterhouse's 'Lady of Shalott,' because that poem is about a mirror and a forbidden glimpse of a desired reality. It's too perfect for Parabola! The halo, though, moves us into the more austere Catholic ideal of the virgin saint, most notably Mary the mother of Jesus.

I specifically took inspiration from the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico and the Americas, who legend states appeared to an Indigenous peasant, St. Juan Pablo. There is a lot of debate among Latin Americans about how the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe should be interpreted. Is her apparition the Church's attempt to redirect and control Indigenous goddess-worship? Or does it represent an important step toward inclusion in Christianity for Mary to appear to an oppressed non-white person? Does she represent colonial control, or the resistance to it? Although Silvia was never Catholic, Catholicism is one of the most recognizable impacts of Spain's colonialism in the Americas, so I wanted to visually depict that tension in this design.

The daffodil rod references iconography of St. Joseph, Mary's husband. Legend states that his walking-stick flowered with lilies to show everyone that he would be Mary's husband and Jesus's legal father. Joseph is the patron saint of fathers, immigrants, exiles, and workers, so that's also relevant to Silvia's backstory.

With this design, I'm trying to convey Silvia's complicated relationship to her cultural identities, as well as her deep desire to be seen as morally pure and good. I think she would be uncomfortable with how European and maidenly her reflection is--because it would force her to confront the fact that her moral code, no matter how radical, still smacks of European philosophy and Catholic ideals of "purity."

[epichunterka]

Am I going feral? I had to write an essay about parabolic and symbolic features in literature and since I have no self-preservation I made a comparison of Plague and Dead Poets Society based on main characters, motives, universal tropes and the overall concept of evil. The funnier thing is, I actually made it work and looking similar.

[the-avaricious-meddler]

The color green is often associated with envy.

[pardalote]

The edge of the parabola.

This is still kind of a work in progress. It's a failed/abandoned thing that I don't talk about much. It's a large, glowy tribute to a curve.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photography Credit: Brassaï, "Chartres in Winter," 1946

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"It is hard for most of us to believe that both angels and demons mingle with humans on Earth. Yet tradition teaches that they are rarely seen in their essential form; they go about their business in plausibly devised appearances, looking like regular people in order to pass unnoticed.

They are instructed, in fact ordered, to affect the lives of men and women, either to raise them to higher consciousness or at least higher ethics, or to seduce them downward to the animal sphere.

Their common purpose is to allow us to exercise our free will, to choose.

This free will is the unique power granted to men and women and which we must exercise or eventually lose. If either angelic or demonic influence was always stronger than our free will, people would be compelled to be good or to be bad. Real choice would not exist and free will would simply be a comforting fantasy. But in the actual struggle of forces, a man or woman can choose to follow the light with difficulty and at some cost, or not. The great Cosmic Design requires us to force our souls through this eternal struggle."

~ Lillian Firestone on how angels sometimes are not what they seem. From 'On the Train to Siberia' in Parabola

[Ian Sanders]