#pleroma

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Pleroma, physical embodiment of creation and destruction, strongest of the aeons! Amazing intelligence and knowledge, can be understood by anyone (though its messages are typically through mysterious visions), and can see through all illusion and darkness. It also has magic to create anything at any time, overwhelm you with the majesty of a god, shape or create various materials...and cast literally any spell of 9th level or below. So it has all the magic. can also create black holes or orbs of pure creation, so if you want a field of wildflowers just give it a minute.

Oh yeah, and for size, somewhere in the 8-16 ft (2.4-4.9 m) range. At least in PF1. PF2e leaves size a bit more up to interpretation, more caring about the space it takes up on the grid unless specified. So go a bit taller or smaller if that's your jam. It's creation incarnate, if it wants to be 30 ft tall then sure. EDIT: fixed where I'd called them inevitables. That's what I get for cranking these out for a few days straight to prepare for the holidays!

[mnemotechnicstoo]

Creation of the Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)

A4 collage, foil, pencil frottage, digital collage

From early Christian Gnosticism and the Nag Hamaddi library, the Pleroma is the Gnostic spiritual superstructure. It includes divine female spiritual elements, such as Sophia and, particularly, Barbelo, which resonates with me. In some versions of the Creation of the Pleroma, god gazes onto the sea (which serves as a mirror) and his reflection manifests as another, female, being – Barbelo. Out of this gender fluid, narcissistic moment, God’s son materialises and the Holy Trinity is formed. My version is even queerer still, including 50s and 70s male pinups and an image by Marsden Hartley, an under-appreciated gay American painter, who was working at the turn of the last century.

[riotouseaterofflesh]

A warning to anyone trying out the fediverse/Mastodon

There's a large cluster of people who are basically an alliance of photomatts and (if you're on Twitter) Jai orbiters who try to police the various servers to isolate people they deem to be undesirables.

They are deeply transmisogynistic and unhinged, in ways that make photomatt's recent behaviour seem downright enlightened in comparison.

A recent good summary of what's going on is posted here.

A much lengthier history of this drama (which has been going on for years) has been put up by a kindly anon here.

The fediverse isn't all like this, but you do need to watch out which server you make your account on.

General red flags to avoid:

any involvement with "The Bad Space"

mastodon.art

users who frequently post to the #FediBlock hashtag

use of automated or shared blocklists (these are for entire servers blocking other servers, not individual accounts)

reasons for blocking a server mentioning "oliphaunt" or "tier" anything

As a general rule, you will want to coordinate with your mutuals which servers you go to as much as possible, to minimize the chances that you end up on different instances and end up getting cut off from each other until at least one of you makes an alt so you're both on servers that communicate with each other. This takes a bit of trial and error but unfortunately that is the nature of a decentralized social networking system.

So all that said... I really hope staff smarten up, Matt gets put in his place by his and Tumblr's lawyers and we can all stay where we are.

[darnellclayton]

I typed a message to the @tumblr team about copying a feature from @wordpress & @wordpressdotcom that allows the latter two to automatically post snippets with links to Mastodon.

I know activating ActivityPub within Tumblr is currently expensive…

…so a better option would be to flirt with the Fediverse instead via auto share. At least until ActivityPub support comes to the Tumblverse (I still believe ActivityPub activation should be a premium feature for those with custom domains as an anti-spam measure).

It would also be cool if Tumblr could embrace other platforms beyond Mastodon such as:

Misskey

Pleroma

Firefish

Threads (in the future)

…but that might be asking too much. Maybe…it would be cool if they supported the others though.

[dearimasu]

[stupidwittlebaby]

Fediverse! We're in it! Feel free to follow haumeageth@seafoam.space! Our posts there will be very similar to our posts here - otherkin stuff, plural stuff, daily life stuff c:

[alamantus]

So I know it's been ages, but since I have some physical games on the Itch.io winter sale, I figured I'd break my silence and post about what I've been up to!

The main reason I haven't been posting here is that I haven't really been doing much game development. It's been my day job as a web developer and personal web development projects for quite some time! The most significant project has been building Feather Wiki, a tiny (55 kilobyte), self-contained, single-file wiki/nonlinear notebook that runs in any browser!

If you're interested in my day-to-day postings, my primary social media is the Fediverse, which you've likely been hearing about in terms of Mastodon thanks to all the Twitter nonsense (I'm on a Pleroma server, but that's neither here nor there). If you're on a Fediverse server, you can follow me there at robbie@devs.live! I also have several other accounts linked in my description there for various more specific topics I enjoy.

Anyway, I hope you all are doing well on your gamedev journeys, and I wish you great creativity and drive in all your current and future endeavors!

[mergaliscious]

Another friendly reminder that we're allowed to talk shit about CEOs on the fediverse and while it's probably not a good idea to make death threats against your server admin, if you run your own server you can say literally anything you want

[andmaybegayer]

I'm looking at getting back on Fedi. Are there any Fedi servers with like, a well used Admin Patreon. Having both run and been on instances that have died due to lack of admin interest, I'd like to just pay an admin for the simplicity of a server that is at some level a job, not a hobby.

[mateuscosme]

[negreabsolut]

[boocook]

Coming soon to a prog near you! @2000adcomic #2000ad #2000adcomics #2000adart #davidhine #hammerhead #aliens #scifi #scificomics #scifiart #dust #pleroma #voidrunners https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMKlDUs6a8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[drhoz]

#1955 - Pleroma urvilleanum - Glory Bush

AKA Tibouchina urvilleana, lasiandra, princess flower and pleroma. The specific refers to 19th-century French explorer and botanist Jules Dumont d'Urville who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. The plant, on the other hand, is from Brazil.

Yet another ornamental left to its own devices at Lake Mangamahoe. Naturalised in NZ since 1977, and a weed in Queensland, Australia.

[dubhdove156]

Don't you hear the melody?

Why child do you fight against?

Feel the rhythm in your soul

Find reason for a felony,

in this symphony condensed,

an order against my control

Aren't you watching the play?

Why child do you blind yourself?

Binded in your silly role,

a fool made of clay,

like a puppet on a shelf

Child you are my entire goal

Why aren't you playing my game?

I made it just for you my love,

complex in design yet simple to play

Day by day release your shame

Piece by piece rise above,

sacrifice yesterday for today

Freedom is here O'Child

Why can you not be witness?

It is your design I have embedded

Child you're born to be wild,

in prison you're limitless

It is to you whom I have confided

[alephskoteinos]

Sorry to say that I expect to be distracted from Revolutionary Demonology for a little while, because I'm having to spend a week putting something together to fight for my job. Nonetheless, for whatever reason I found myself contemplating the way the book discusses the order of the cosmos as a "thermodynamic abomination". I find there's many contours there.

The word abomination here is an obvious rhetorical flair, but is conventionally a moral designation. There's a connection to the presentation of the cosmic order as being violently derived from its origin - carved in a Mother's flesh and blood as it were. "Abomination" is Latin in origin, meant colloquially to denote an object of almost supreme disgust but conceptually as a reference to some grievous offense against divine moral order. But perhaps for Gruppo Di Nun it's flipped, and the order itself is the grievous offense.

Perhaps in this configuration the order of the Man-God Machine emerges necessarily as crime, against the undifferentiated void that was once represented by a Mother, like Tiamat. In this sense we find ourselves in suspiciously familiar territory: that of Sethian Gnosticism. Here Marduk and Yaldabaoth almost look like the same person, and the Pleroma is the black void of the Mother's womb, what Gruppo Di Nun seems to figure as the objet du desir of a universal death drive. I suppose I can already sense a picture pregnant with Plotinus' old objection - that this world is such an utterly corrupt and criminal one, and yet here are the Sethians content to persist within it rather than excise from it. The void of the womb is such a wonderful place, the order of things is such an abomination, steeped in blood. Whatever are we doing here then? I suppose that's an answer I still have to find out by reading the rest of the book.

Much more intruigingly though, I almost feel an uncanny sense of a perspectivist dissolution of order and chaos here. Fundamentally, "abomination" is a category situated against pre-existing order. But for our "thermodynamic abomination" the "pre-existing order" is none other than primordial chaos. In the Sethian cosmogony there is a similar, somewhat inverted theme. It can be argued that, instead of primordial chaos, Pleroma if anything embodies a kind of primordial order, that being a necessary affect of the quality of divine unity that it's supposed to embody. And then Sophia and her son Yaldabaoth transgress and corrupt that unity and order: first by Sophia breaking the rules to conceive independently, and then by Yaldabaoth creating his own cosmos distinct from the Pleroma. Thus "chaos", of sorts, is introduced, and thence suffering.

Sophia herself is interesting to contemplate in this mix since, from what I have seen, Gruppo Di Nun places an intense focus on queer resistance to the heteropatriarchal social order, and so an antinomian queer rejection of heterosexual reproduction is very much in play, at least from what I've seen. This is represented in the figure of Apophis, the Egyptian serpent who ate the dead and battled Ra in its quest to devour the universe, and against whom a litany of spells were created for the sake of warding off, protecting from, or combatting. An uncreating force that continually overcomes creation, a recurring and unreproducing entity, the anti-dialectical power of extinction. And I thought of Sophia, as representing an entirely different rejection of hetero-reproduction, particularly in the Valentinian cosmogony.

Sophia "fell" because she tried to produce a new being without the aid of a syzgy, or twin, here meaning a male counterpart - as in, through parthenogenesis. The Aeons (including Sophia) were supposed to be emanations of the divine unity of God (that is to say the "true" God of Gnostic theology, which we must stress was still a Christian God), and as emanations they could only emanate other emanations through heterosexual reproduction. Syzygies were pairs of male and female Aeons who in turn emanated other syzygies, more heterosexual families of Aeons. Only God, who we should keep in mind was still called "The Father", was uncreated, and so only God could perform parthenogenesis. Sophia, however, wanted to understand God by way of imitation, and to do this she wanted to conceive a being without the aid of another being. This of course is an obvious flying in the face of heterosexual reproduction, which in Christianity both orthodox and Gnostic seems to be considered ordained by God. This attempt is regarded, in Valentinian terms, as a cosmogonic abortion that is in turn the cause of the creation of the physical world, and with it the suffering of all beings, and later regretted by a penitent Sophia. I would say that this narrative presents a profoundly negative attitude to abortion, even by the standards of "orthodox" Christianity at least up until the 19th century.

I can see, though, that this is not the ideal archetype for Gruppo Di Nun's worldview, since Sophia's fall is ultimately situated in a universe where divine unity is at the centre of the universe, where the fundamental opposite is the case for Gruppo Di Nun. And yet we could easily go back to the previous conversation of "thermodynamic abomination" as parallel to primordial cosmogonic transgression.

Thinking about the idea of transgression against the void is fairly fascinating for the rammifications it presents. But the nagging question of course would be should Life really have been expected to not emerge as it did, because it goes against Mother's wishes? That is the sense of what "abomination", as an inherently moral category, could as well imply.

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

Killah Priest - Pleroma (Official Music Video)