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[antiquitiesandlabyrinths]

Nut

Nut, my beloved Goddess of the Sky. Now I am a little biased about Nut––She is the main Goddess that I worship––but I will do my best to retain some semblance of professionalism when it comes to discussion about Her. And remember these are unedited essays. Fact-checked, yes, but I'm not going for journal/publication quality.

For the most part, discussions and essays surrounding Nut focus solely on Her role as the night sky and rarely delve into the deep lore and meaning behind Her role and appearance within Egyptian mythology. However, for the purposes of this essay, I will begin with the basics.

Nut, also spelled as Nuit, is an ancient Egyptian Goddess most easily recognizable by either the pot atop Her head or the stars decorating Her body as She arches over the earth. In this latter form, it appears as though Her arms and legs are kept tightly together; in reality, Her hands and feet touch each of the four cardinal points of the horizon, representing the four pillars of heaven.

Her name comes from the hieroglyph W24, the pot, which stands for the sound nw. The t is added as a feminine suffix pronoun, thus creating the name Nwt. Why Nut bears a pot atop Her head has been debated, but the general consensus is that it represents the womb; a carrying object, filled with water and sustenance.

Contrary to a great deal of ancient civilizations who depicted the earth as female and the sky as male (think Mother Earth and Father Sky), the ancient Egyptians conceived of the sky as feminine, and Her counterpart, the earth, as male, in the male God Geb, often depicted below Nut in a reclined position. The two Gods were siblings; the children of Shu and Tefnut, representing air and moisture, and who Themselves were the direct children of the sun God Ra.

Some epithets (titles that reveal nature) of Nut:

One-who-gives-birth-to-the-Gods

Mother of All

She the Great One

She Who Protects

She Who Holds A Thousand Souls

Great Encloser

Perhaps the most well-known of myths that Nut is associated with is that of the birth of the Ennead. I discussed this myth in my Osiris post, but I will recite it in short terms here.

Nut and Geb were conceived from the sibling-union of Shu and Tefnut and, in similar fashion, Nut and Geb were joined together in a loving embrace. However, since the sky was joined to the earth, there was no space for humans or any living thing to walk or exist. Because of this (though the reason in the variations of the myth can differ), Ra decided to have Geb and Nut separated, and had Their father, Shu, hold up Nut; thus Shu fulfilled His role as the atmosphere, the air. But this was not the only reason Ra took this course of action; Ra had fear of a prophecy which stated that the children of Nut would one day overthrow him. Due to His fear, Ra forbade Nut from giving birth on any day of the year. Nut asked Thoth, the God of wisdom and writing, for help, and Thoth went to the moon God Iah (a more archaic version of the moon God Khonsu) and gambled with the moon God for some of His light. Thoth and Iah played the game senet, and each time Thoth won, He earned a sliver of moonlight. Eventually, Thoth had earned enough to have five extra days in the year––the Epagomenal days––and on those days, Nut gave birth to Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys, and in some versions, Horus the Elder.

This story is a rather late telling and comes mainly from the Moralia of Plutarch. Plutarch is not the best and most reliable source for Egyptian history and mythology, and it does not help that his own sources were skewed by the time in which he lived; that being a much later era of Egyptian history in which the original myths of the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms had been changed and altered over time. Still, it gives us some idea of Nut and tells us that She is the mother of some of the greatest and most revered Gods of Egypt.

Another myth that is found in the Book of the Heavenly Cow details another version of how Nut came to be the sky, tying into the myth of the rampaging Goddess Sekhmet who was eventually pacified with beer.

The importance of Nut tends to be underplayed by both modern scholars and modern practitioners of Kemeticism, the revival of the ancient Egyptian religion. Usually, She is relegated to being the mother of the 'main Gods', and simply the sky of the earth. People lack knowledge, or perhaps the desire to find the knowledge, of Her role as a funerary deity. Fortunately, there are still a number of historians and scholars who have devoted some section of their research into Nut and Her roles.

Arching over the earth, Nut was considered as 'the vault of the sky,' and the body through which Ra travelled in both the day and the night. During the day, Ra in His day barque would sail across Nut's body, and in the evening, with Nut's head oriented in the west and Her legs in the east, Ra was swallowed by Nut to be regenerated through rebirth in Her womb, come the next morning. This, of course, gives a somewhat contrasting idea to the fact that Ra is said to pass through the Duat, the ancient Egyptian 'underworld', every night.

Thus we come to a very interesting discussion that I have found a lot of joy in reading about: the argument of whether or not the Duat is a chthonic or celestial afterlife. After all, the word 'underworld' was applied by Western scholars and the Duat itself, as a word, does not denote anything 'underground'. For an in-depth study of this, I highly recommend Silvia Zago's Conceptualizing Life after Death: The Evolution of the Concept of Duat and Related Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature, a fascinating look into funerary literature throughout the eras of ancient Egypt. She comes to the conclusion that, in the Old Kingdom at least, the Duat is a place in the sky, a definitive region within Nut's body. The body of Nut is described geographically in some sections of the Pyramid Texts, and among those regions, the Duat is named. The deceased is described as ascending to the Duat region in PT U271 390;

"Unas ascends on that ladder* which his father Re has made for him. Horus and Seth seize the arm of Unas and take him to the Duat Region."

*The ladder was often used as a symbol of Nut, representing steps to ascend to Heaven, to Her body.

But this is not a solitary region as Heaven in Abrahamic religions is; the afterlife, as conceived by the ancient Egyptians, was the ability to join the cycle of regeneration that the sun took each night and day.

"... it (is) more appropriate to regard these early funerary texts as expressing a multi-faceted yet somewhat coherent vision of the afterlife, one granting the deceased access to both parts of the cosmic cycle – day and night – in order to be reborn at dawn with the sun and achieve immortality." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

"May you cross the sky, united with darkness (i.e. in the Nun or Duat), so that you may you rise from the horizon, the place in which you have become akhs." (PT 217 §152c-d)

In this way, the deceased joined the eternal cycle in the presence of the Gods, and this regeneration took place within the body of Nut––conceivably inside Her womb, where Ra would rest before dawn when He was born as the rising sun.

"...the caption by Nut’s vulva in the monumental versions of the Book of Nut (Osireion and tomb of Ramses IV) labels her vulva as being the Axt iAbtt, “eastern horizon” (text P, EAT I: 81; von Lieven 2007: 51 §7), namely the point of the sky where the sun reappears (i.e. is “born”) into the world at dawn." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

Additional evidence for Nut and the Duat being related is seen in Pyramid Text 442:

“See, he has come as Orion. See, Osiris has come as Orion... ‘Good One’, said his mother, ‘Heir’, said his father, whom the sky has conceived, to whom the Duat has given birth. Oh king (NN), may the sky conceive you/King (NN) together with Orion, may the Duat give birth to you and Orion.”

Whether the impersonal 'sky' (pt) and the personal Nut (the Goddess) are one and the same as literary subjects, or if they are separate as a physical thing and a divinity is somewhat up for debate. The hieroglyphs used to spell pt and nwt are very similar. But considering how consistently the ancient Egyptians attributed personality to natural phenomena and used little distinction between the two, this stands as evidence that it is Nut, as the sky, as the Duat, conceiving Osiris/Orion.

Altogether, what we can take from this is that Nut plays a large role in the afterlife as a place of regeneration and of rebirth, acting as both the day and night sky. She protects, holds, and revitalizes the thousands of souls under Her care, including those of the Gods. There is a lot more discussed in Silvia Zago's publication and I highly recommend reading through it. Personally, this is something I find very auspicious; the idea that, in death, you will return to the stars. And this is a very clear idea in the Pyramid Texts, that the Pharaoh will ascend to become an 'imperishable star'.

PT 139, Utterance 214: The (glorified) humanity bewail you after the Imperishable Stars have carried you. Enter then into the place where your father is, where Geb is!  PT 141, Utterance 215: "Look at me! you have seen the forms of the children of their fathers, who know their spell, who are now Imperishable Stars". (Referring to past Pharaohs) PT 380, Utterance 269: The father of Unas, Atum, seizes the arm of Unas and He assigns Unas to those Gods who are quick and clever, the Never-setting Stars (Circumpolars).

Due to Her nature as a funerary deity, it is not uncommon to see Her represented on the inner lids of coffins, especially in the New Kingdom and later periods of Egypt, symbolically covering and protecting the deceased with Her star-covered body. Here, the sarcophagus is symbolic of a maternal uterus, thus why the coffin and Nut were connected; Her epithet Great Encloser refers to this connection.

(From the coffin of Peftjauneith, 26th Dynasty)

An important book from the New Kingdom, which I previously mentioned, is the Book of the Heavenly Cow, found on the outermost part of the four gilded shrines of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the tomb of Ramses VI (KV9), the tomb of Seti I (KV17), the tomb of Ramses II (KV7), and the tomb of Ramses III (KV11). The Heavenly Cow is a form of Nut, just as the falcon may be a representation of Horus just the same as His human form.

Here, Her belly is covered in stars, and She is held and supported by Shu and the Infinite Ones, a group of Gods mentioned in the Book of the Heavenly Cow.

To put it briefly, Ra is betrayed in some way by mankind––interpretation differs, as always––and decides that His presence in the earthly realm is no longer needed nor safe for Him. He has Nut, as the Heavenly Cow, lift Him up into the sky to separate Him from humanity.

This God (Ra) then said to Nut,  "It is in order that I may be uplifted that I have placed myself on Your back."  "What's this?"  asked Nut.  And so She is the person that came to be there in both the heavens.    (of night and day) The Majesty of this God said,  "Stay far away from them (humanity)!  Lift me up (so I am visible)!  Look at me!"  And so She became the sky.  (Chapter 3, Divisions 61-65)

Then Nut started trembling because of the height.  So the Majesty of Re said,  "If only I had millions supporting her!"  And so the Infinite Ones were brought into being.  (Chapter 3, Divisions 70-71)

For further reading on the Book of the Heavenly Cow, I recommend this study: https://escholarship.org/content/qt2vh551hn/qt2vh551hn.pdf?t=rzuech

And the whole text of the Book can be read and downloaded here:

https://www.academia.edu/36107603/the_ancient_Aegyptian_book_of_the_Heavenly_Cow

Something else of note in Silvia Zago's book is Nut's relationship to Nunet, the feminine counterpart of the primeval God Nun. This connection is somewhat obscure and came as somewhat of a surprise to me but I found it immensely interesting. It begins with the fact that the sky was conceived of as a watery expanse; hence the use of boats to cross it, and the verbs used describing the journey: 'to row', 'to ferry', or 'to cross'.

"Besides these indirect clues, the most direct piece of evidence of the watery nature of the sky is the very same fact that its regions are imagined as marshlands, separated from one another by a “winding canal” (the ecliptic), and both possessing shores and lakes: to the south was the sxt iArw “Field of Rushes,” and to the north the sxt Htp(w) “Field of Offerings"." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

The reason why the sky was thought of as a watery expanse is, however, rather easily explainable: the sky was thought of as an interface or barrier between the expanse of Nun (the primordial ocean) outside and the earthly world inside. Nut, held up by the atmosphere of Shu, protected the world from these waters rushing in. As an interesting piece of side evidence, Beaux (1998) found that the determinative sign for star (N14) derived from the starfish, likening these 'lower stars' of the earth's oceans to the upper stars of the cosmos. This is mostly conjecture but has some basis in reality, and if true, would explain later funerary text's allusion to stars swimming across the sky.

Nun stands as the third piece of the puzzle in the Pyramid Text's conception of the universe: earth, sky, and the Abyss. This abyss, in the form of Nun, represents everything opposite to what is imagined on Earth: "... where the world is finite, the Nun is infinite, limitless; while the sun brightens existence on earth, the universe outside is immersed in perpetual, uniform darkness. Where the world is characterized by daily life activity ad continual change, the Nun is inert." (Silvia Zago, 2019) This space has negative and positive energy. In essence, it is pure potential. So while Nun can be possibly dangerous, it also contains the full creative potential, and thus the ability to regenerate. As stated in later funerary texts, it is impossible to undergo regeneration in the ordered world––regeneration must take place when submerged in the potential energy of Nun. (Evidenced by Hornung 1982 and J.P. Allen 1988)

This expanse of potential energy is detailed geographically in the Pyramid Texts, and placed above, or on the outer side, of Nut, but also existing underground beneath the earth. Evidence of this is shown by the hieroglyphic determinative for 'sky' (N1) being used upside down. However, when speaking of these underground waters, it is far more common for the name Nunet (also spelled Naunet) to be used––the feminine counterpart of Nun. This phrase translates to 'lower sky' or 'nether sky', and is clearly contrasted with not only Nun but Nut as well.

"The seemingly ambiguous contradiction lying in the fact the Nunet could be thought to represent both the underground waters, as a feminine counterpart of Nun, and a nether-sky, as a counterpart of Nut herself in an underworld, is due to the fact that, once again, according to the Egyptian mindset, more than one explanation was possible." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

A section of the Pyramid Texts that refers to these two heavens––the upper sky and lower heaven––is shown here and again represents the duality and the cycle through which the deceased passes in their afterlife:

"... your arms are (those of) Hapy and Duamutef, which you need to ascend to heaven, and you ascend, your legs are (those of) Imsti and Qebehsenuf, which you need to descend to the lower heaven, and you descend. All your members are (those of) the twins of Atum, o Imperishable One! You did not pass away, your ka does not pass away. You are a ka!" (PT 215 §149)

The idea for a 'lower sky' likely originated in the need to explain what happened to the stars during the day, and what became of the day sky during the night. Thus the 'inverted' sky served as a nether-region counterpart, nearly identical to the heavenly sky down to its' watery nature. When personalized, this means that Nunet and Nut can be seen as counterparts of one another.

"Denn offenbar gehörte Nut ursprünglich als weibliches Gegenstück zu Nun, griechisch Νουν, dem Urgewässer, wobei die Namen altägyptisch als Njw und Njwt zu umschreiben wären und mit dem Wort für Wasser nwjt zusammenhängen könnten, das uns schon in den Pyramidentexten begegnet. Daβ beide Götter eng verbunden gewesen sein müssen, zeigen mehrere Texte, darunter der bekannte Götterhymnus des Alten Reiches, die Nun und Nut als Eltern eines solaren Gottes bezeichnen. [...] Das Urgewässer, das sich sowohl in der Unterwelt wie über den Himmel erstreckte, fungierte dabei als Muttergottheit. Seine Aufspaltung in das Götterpaar Nun/Nut und die damit verbundene Spezialisierung der Nut zum Himmelsozean wären dann ebenso sekundäre Erscheinungen, wie die Existenz der Göttin Naunet, die erst als Nachfolgerin der Nut das weibliche Komplement zum Nun gebildet hätte, und deshalb auch synonym zu Nut verwendet werden konnte." (Barta, 1973)

For your ease of reading, I've run this through Google Translate for you: "Apparently Nut originally belonged as the female counterpart to Nun, Greek Νουν, the primordial water, although the names could be described in ancient Egyptian as Njw and Njwt and could be related to the word for water nwjt, which we already encounter in the Pyramid Texts. Several texts show that both gods must have been closely connected, including the well-known hymn to the gods of the Old Kingdom, which describe Nun and Nut as the parents of a solar god. […] The primordial waters, which stretched both in the underworld and across the sky, functioned as a mother deity. Its splitting into the pair of gods Nun/Nut and the associated specialization of Nut into the celestial ocean would then be just as secondary phenomena as the existence of the goddess Naunet, who only as Nut's successor would have formed the female complement to Nun, and therefore also synonymous with Nut could be used."

Nut and Nun, both functioning as a place of regeneration and rebirth and imagined as a watery expanse, carry a lot of similarities. With this in mind it is much easier to see how the two could be related and, in this logic, how Nut and Naunet can be seen as both opposites and reflections of one another.

Another object of both celestial and funerary importance that is associated with Nut is the Akhet. For those who don't know, the Axt is the horizon, evident in the name Horakhty, which means Horus (Hor) of the Horizon (akht), and it is the final place where regeneration and rebirth are possible, as it is the area where the sun is born each day.

"Throughout the Pyramid Texts, (the Akhet) seems indeed to be meant as the liminal zone through which the night sun passes coming from the Duat, and from which it rises in the morning, thus an interface between two spheres of existence... So the Akhet was both a point of juncture of cosmic realms (Duat, earth, and sky) and a region in itself, endowed with regenerative significance and symbolism." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

Some sections of the Pyramid Texts even mention Nut guiding the deceased towards the Akhet, describing a 'path of the horizon' where the Goddess leads the dead. This path conceivably led from the western horizon, where the sun sets, to the eastern horizon, where the sun is born again. Where exactly the roads are is unclear; they could be underground or within Nut's body. Which one it is is mostly up to personal speculation.

This has been, of course, mostly an analysis of the Pyramid Texts. Later on, the Duat does take on more of a chthonic nature separate from the earlier celestial conception. The afterlife became associated more with Osiris, an earthly figure of fertility and soil, rather than Ra, the solar celestial figure. However, how it is presented in the Pyramid Texts gives a rather good idea of the Duat being something varying and dependable.

"... the use of the sign (N31) (path) could suggest the idea the Duat was regarded as a path of sorts, while the sign (O49) (township) may indicate that it was imagined to be a defined locale in the cosmos... The signs (N1) (sky) and (N37) (pool) also appear in conjunction with the word Duat, pointing to the idea of the (diurnal) sky or more generically a celestial domain and to its watery nature, respectively." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

The use of the hieroglyphic O49 is interesting, denoting that the Duat could be thought of as a city; this city existing within Nut. Nut, being a holder and protector of thousands of souls, can be easily seen as a city in and of Herself, and is referred to as such by Nils Billing:

"The goddess Nut is characterized as "city" as early as the Pyramid texts. 'Make nni, make nni, O Nut; Geb has commanded that you make nni, in this your name of City.' (Pyr. 1596a-b [587]) The passage is found in the longer spell 587 which describes the creation and establishment of Egypt in terms of a city... The earth, i.e. the kingdom of Egypt, is treated in the symbolic form of the Eye of Horus. After being damaged by Seth, the Eye/Egypt/Kingship is reconstituted by Horus. 'It is he who sets you in order in this your name of Settlement; it is he who comes and he makes nni behind you in this your name of City.' (Pyr. 1595a-b, cf. 1597b-c) This description is directly followed by the Nut passage cited above. The path to a correct understanding of these passages is somewhat hampered by the uncertainty of the meaning of the verb nni... Kuhlmann (1991:219) sees movement as the common denominator of (these interpretations), an interpretation supported by the occurrence of the legs as determinative. The type of movement intended is, however, more difficult to grasp." (Nils Billing, 2002)

The final text of gross importance to Nut is the Book of Heaven, also known as the Book of Nut and the Book of the Celestial Cow, but in ancient times referred to as The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars. This is an astrological text that contains some references to myth but, in general, concerns itself with the course of the stars. It is not a flat text as the term 'book' might insinuate; instead, it is the image of the Goddess stretched out in Her form as the sky, surrounded by extensive hieroglyphs detailing the nocturnal voyage of Ra and the 36 decans through Nut's body. This paper goes into some detail about the contents of the Book of Nut and where it has been found, although it does not contain the text of the book itself.

For further reading on Nut here are some papers and websites I recommend:

A Cosmography of the Unknown. The qbḥw (nṯrw) Region of the Outer Sky in the Book of Nut by Silvia Zago

Cosmic Space and Archetypal Time: Depictions of the Sky-Goddess Nut in Three Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom and Her Relation to the Milky Way by Amanda-Alice Maravelia

Nut, the Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography by Nils Billing (this is not available for free but I highly recommend it)

A Timeline of the Decans by Theresa Ainsworth

Again I recommend Silvia Zago's book The Evolution of the Concept of Duat and Related Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature, and to read the entirety of the Pyramid Texts you can visit this website or this one to read the Pyramid Texts of Pharaoh Unas, where the first edition of the Pyramid Texts was found.

I have gone over a handful of the more simple subjects regarding Nut but if you truly have any interest in Her I suggest reading some of the above links. She is a fascinating Goddess and, in my religious opinion, one of the most powerful and beautiful of Them all. She is highly underappreciated and I love discussing Her. If anyone has any other links or comments to make on this Netjeret, please add them in the comments.

[jotunvali02]

Playing Ace Attorney, Rise from the Ashes, part 1

"It's not Edgeworth who was murdered though."

Careful, be fucking CAREFUL with what you say, Phoenix...

"I am not accepting new cases."

Why?? Do you have better things to do??

Oh, so Mia used to do anything to get what she wants, "anything" too? Hmmm...

"That probably was why she was attracted to me."

Sooooooooooorrryyyyyy??????????????

"You know, attorneys aren't supposed to examine crime scenes."

But, but... I'm gonna slap you so hard, Phoenix!

"Put it in your pocket!" "Sounds like theft to me."

BITCH!!! That's what you've been doing ALL the time with NO second thought and NO regret and what basically made you win your cases and NOW you're having legal qualms??

I'm going to slap you!

*gasp*! Or maybe Edgey has been giving him basic classes of lawyering during these mysterious two months? Is it the better thing to do than your job, Fee-Fee??👀💞

Phoenix being his old whiney bitch again and Ema telling him to shut the fuck off. ^^

"You know, I aced a 97 on my test!" "Too bad they don't have a test for common sense!"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Queen Bitch Fee-Fee's baaack!

Oh, the Queen Bitch likes to be stepped on by another queen, huh?

Ok, did Lana Skye bedded all the sexy ladies of that city?

Don't tell me. The "boyfriend" is Larry, isn't it??

"Very useful. Not."

Bitch, why are you suddenly such a bitchy bitch again, anyway??

Hm, so Phoenix is the "evilest lunches of all".

Oh no.

My baby Edgey.😭

How must he have felt when he was awarded "the best prosecutor"? Two months after learning that ALL of his prosecuting (mentored by the killer of his father and who manipulated him all his life) had been, indeed twisted and ugly?

My baby... Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to gift him that??

"Wright? Still rummaging through my life? You know, I like it."❤️ "That voice..."💘

That voice that caresses and blesses my ears!!💞🥰

"Are you sure you should be showing clues to Mr Edgeworth?" "I don't give a fuck!! He's my boyfriend now! I'll show him anything, Ema! Anything..."

*showing the badge like an annyoing motherfucker again* ;p

"I once dreamed to be a defense attorney too..."

Nooo!!😭 What have I done?? I've made him sad! NOOO!! 😭😭

Can't I kiss him to make him feel better??

Rumors?? Babe, you never cared about the stupid rumors about you before! ...... ....... oh.💔

"Go ahead, Wright! You think I did it, don't you?" "So you've come to laugh at the fallen prosecutor? Then laugh. Laugh!"

No! Nooo!! Never!! What would FEE-FEE of all people do that??? Why do you think he hates you?? 😭😭💔

No baby!! Stop! Stop that self-flogging!! And just let yourself be hugged and loved!

Wait. So defense attorneys can defend themselves but prosecutors can't prosecute themselves?? Why?

Is this a timeline where it's traditional to treat defense attorneys better than prosecutors? Like defense attorney are societally superior to prosecutors?

Nooo... my baby thinks he was betrayed, framed and manipulated by a mentor he admired again! 😭 Takumi, will you stop torturing our baby Edgey just for ONE case????

Ok, an Edgeworth headbutt in Phoenix' face please!

"You must be proud to be the King of Prosecutors!"

But I... I will assassinate you, Phoenix. I will SO fucking assassinate you!

Oh and now you want to nap on Edgey's sofa!!

And Ema starts to get wet with her fantasies of Edgey. I can't blame her, I do the exact same.

"He doesn't seem concerned about his award."

No shit?? And why that, in your opinion??

"I place little faith in my memory." My baby 😭

"Looks like this guy was absent the day they gave out brains and good luck."

B-b-but.. what a douche!! This isn't being a bitch anymore, this is being a complete DOUCHEBAG, Phoenix!

Why are you such a spiteful CUNT today??

Gumshoe was "kicked out of the Criminal Affairs"?? Hmmm....

"What's going on with Edgeworth?" WHAT'S GOING ON WITH EDGEWORTH???

Feenie, have you fucking DEMENTIA joined to your cunt-isis???

No,... Edgey is getting bullied now?? Isn't this trial where he's being framed by a mentor again enough?? Wasn't Von Karma enough????

NO! NO! NO!!

Like, do his colleagues have fucking dementia too?? Did they already forget that Edgey was declared innocent, framed and manipulated all along, all his fucking life?? By the killer of his father?? While he repeated he was guilty and "deserved to be punished"?? Or that he's been living with a fucking PTSD since he was fucking 9??

And he "just wants to snatch the position of Chief Prosecutor", like WHAT?? Or maybe he wants to throw his jail his other mentor who ALSO lied to him and ALSO tried to frame him for murder???

Are lawyers in future Japan all brainless and heartless fuckers??

Ema: "Officer Marshall! Shut the fuck up!!"

Yeah, and don't go badmouthing my baby Edgey, you fucker!

"He was unbeatable. That is until he met you."

Fee-Fee's heart:

"The rumors lead to one person."

Who?? WHO's that umpteenth fucker who dares to hurt my sweet, baby, fluffy Edgey????

"You shouldn't believe your clients, Mr Wright." "Miss Skye: shut the fuck up!"

"I have to discover the truth all by myself!"

YAY! Fee-Fee is finally committing to be a big boy!!🥳

Without needing the help of teenage girl or of dead person!

[invested-in-your-future]

the fact that blake, who was alluded through volumes 1-4 to be this outcasted, thief on the street, possibly an orphan with no hope in sight, so she turns to the white fang in order to change things before leaving when things get too heated, and then SNEAKING into beacon, only for it to turn out she’s literally a princess(chieftains daughter), up there with weiss in terms of power and money, and had very loving parents??? and everyone just thought that was? cool? like she is NOT one of the little guys c‘mon now 😭

I mean, if I were to play devil's advocate, you can absolutely write a character who is interested in progressive reform and change and "fighting for the common folk" and yet is a hypocrite surrounded by wealth.

The issue is that that shouldn't be Blake, and the show STILL doesn't treat her that way even though they had inevitably ended up writing her like that. Especially since the show wanted her to end up the one who is "in the right".

Remember all the times she lectured Weiss about how Weiss just doesn't understand her plight and suffering and is so privileged? How Blake would have had to fight to get any modicum of respect or anything while Weiss lived cozily in her palace? When their standing would likely have them in the same cocktail parties, lmao.

The character whose whole story arc is supposed to explore the idea of discrimination and prejudice ended up being a rich girl who had a spat with her parents and then joined ISIS (and her parents just shrugged and ignored her for years then, which is another can of worms). But it's okay because, in the end, she realized her mistakes and delivered a speech about how it's actually minorities who are at fault for all the racism!

Sure feels silly in hindsight.

Her getting into Beacon with her own name is even dumber - oh look, the daughter of the (former) leader of the White Fang and the current head honcho of The Menagerie is here, trying to hide who she is by... wearing a bow?

They really didn't think it through.

Blake never should have been that character nor was she ever intended to be one.

Blake should be our window into the discrimination that exists in the world - a different point of view that contrasts with how other leads might view things - someone who didn't grow up having everything given to them or being able to rely on support systems and social structures.

How she views even the simplest things in the world around her should, by all means, clash with others - especially since each of the four leads has fundamentally different experiences growing up.

Would she view same towns, same locations, same historical facts, same interactions the same way as her teammates? Would she get treated the same way as they do? Would some characters behave fundamentally differently around her than around others?

Likewise, Blake would have a completely different approach to a lot of the same issues than the others - IF she grew up on the street, struggling for survival and dealing with prejudice, then she would have developed fundamentally different methods of achieving what she wants and have completely different lines she's willing to cross than others.

And on top of that she's a survivor feels constantly stalked and threatened by her past.

It's such a fascinating angle to tell the story through - to deliver world-building through - and the show just throws it away.

[schattenmagier]

🌌 Sci-fi AU?

[ Isi trying to make AU's // Accepting! ]

// Sci-fi isn't my favorite setting, and I don't really have much media to get ideas from that I actively watched. My knowledge of sci-fi comes mostly from big movies/series like Star Wars and Star Trek so it's gonna be a mix between the two of them I suppose ^^ Also I write these more like something like a prompt bc thats cool and gives some insight I guess? So please bear with my limited knowledge :')

Her ship is small. Nothing for a big crew. One, or at best two, people could live on it. Not a big crew. And that's how Lilli prefered it anyway. A small ship is more easily to miss, in battle as well as when escaping. And she was good enough of a pilot for it. Still, she had paid good money to have a device built in that made her small ship almost invisible. That's when she gave it it's name. 'Schatten'. Not creative, because it just meant 'Shadow' in her native language, but she found it fitting enough.

The woman set the course to the next space-station, before switching on the auto-pilot. The path she had choosen should not have any dangers on it, so it should be fine to take her eyes away for a moment. She still had to look for a job after all. While she did had some credits left, she still needed money to get fuel and supplies. Her next travel is gonna be a long one after all.

So the woman grabs her tablet, and opens up a site to check any kind of available job on the station she was heading to. She wasn't exactly picky when it came to how to earn money. At this point Lilli did any job from being a bounty hunter, to a bodyguard, smuggler, killer or even spy. And wasn't she made for some of these tasks? After a while she decides for a simple job on which she has to spy on some dude. Eh, should be fine.

Though her journey to the station will take a while still, so she had quite some time to kill. So, she switched away from the job site, after applying to the spy-task of course, and to the news from all over the galaxy. There were some articles about some big space-fight between offical goverment ships, and space pirates. Some smugglers who got caught. A new alien species has joined some union... Nothing what really interested her. But one article caught her attention. 'Another black hole has appeared! Is this the end of the universe?' Said the headline of said article. Quite the clickbait, given that, while there had been several black holes appeared recently, they had been rather small, and were able to be contained. They were right about it being strange though. Especially because they had appeared quite close to populated places. Stations, planets.

Lilli's eyes narrow as she reads the article. People only thought it was a strange natural incidence... She knows it isn't though. She has seen this before. The woman knows exactly who's doing it was. He was still on it. Trying to find a way to manipulate dark matter. And while she was sure he still hadn't found a save way to do so, he had made progress... It means she has to find him quickly, and finally end this. But he was hiding well...

She closes the pad then, and places it to the site, before staring at nothing for some time. Then she slowly raises her hand, with the palm facing up... Almost immediately a tiny version of a black hole floated just a few centimeters abover her palm. Lilli stares at it for a moment, before closing her fist around it, and suffocating it again.

He wanted to use dark matter to make the perfect weapon... Seems like he really thought that she was dead.

A sigh left her then, and the pilot went back to flying the ship after turning off the auto-pilot. She needs to get her mind off things for a big apparently...

Man idk if this is good. Her personality is a mix between main verse and vigilante AU tbh

[1randomcomic]

Lorevember 2024

I am extremely late to posting this but I did finish my stories for Lorevember days 12-14. I'll add todays, tomorrows, and Sundays ones to their own posts whne they're done.

Day 12: Creation/Destruction

Title: Ancient Fueds

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Original Work, Ancient Egyptian Religion

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Major Character Death

Relationships: Original Male Character & Isis (Ancient Egyptian), Original Male Character & Kek (Ancient Egyptian), Original Male Character & Set (Ancient Egyptian), Set & Isis

Characters: Original Male Character(s), Isis (Ancient Egyptian), Set (Ancient Egyptian), Kek (Ancient Egyptian)

Additional Tags: Ancient Egyptian Deities, Dialogue Heavy, no happy ending, Short, Lorevember

Summary: This is my (late) story for Lorevember Day 12. It's more like a fusion between Days 12 and 13, though.

Kagami steals an unasumming pen. Meanwhile, Set secretly follows him to Isis, hellbent on finishing what he started with killing Osiris.

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Day 13: Beasts/Monsters

Title: Frigid Revitalizations

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Original Work, Norse Religion & Lore

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Original Female Character & Odin, Original Female Character & The Æsir

Characters: Original Female Character(s), Óðinn | Odin (Norse Religion & Lore), The Æsir

Additional Tags: Lorevember, References to Norse Religion & Lore, extremely short

Summary: Ragna gets revived by the Æsir Gods to do their bidding in Midgard, which she's not particulary happy about it.

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Day 14: Magic’s Origin

Title: Origin of The Nothingness Wars

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Original Work

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Gods & Their Creations

Characters: Time, Space - Character, Original Non-Human Character(s)

Additional Tags: Original Deities - Freeform, Original Mythology, Lorevember, Short, Original Universe

Summary: Before Time and Space had joined forces, there was a great nothingness. One so great that even the Gods couldn’t break through alone.

Even after the Gods escaped and created a safe haven for their kind, the Great Nothingness still permeated their very beings. It seeped into everything, despite their attempts to stop it.

Or The story of how the Nothingness Wars began.

[ghostly-wisteria-tea]

Prequel draft

So this is to explain what exactly happened in my fic that forced Khonshu to resort to "damnatio memoriae" on himself.

This is also a prequel to my fic, before Khonshu isekai-ed himself.

This takes place sometime during the Doctor Strange film Multivers of Madness, with the Darkhold, specifically, the manifestation of the collective "evil" within the Darkhold.

Before that, they were fighting a corrupted Wanda. But in this timeline, Wanda still didn't snap out of the Darkhold's influence and was so corrupted that she was completely taken over by the Spirit of the Darkhold itself. She is less of "Wanda Maximoff" and the "Scarlet Witch" and more of the "Collective Power of the Darkhold personified".

She was dangerous but not in the whole "She can defeat the gods". It's more like, Wanda is releasing so much "Isfet" or Chaos energy as the vessel of the Darkhold, that it is starting a chain reaction and causing other Chaos-based creatures of mythology to stir wildly, like Apep the Primordial Chaos Snake. A Chaos being even greater than Wanda, because while Wanda can manipulate Chaos energy and still retain her humanity, Apep is the full destructive force of Chaos itself given form and is even older than the Darkhold. Other gods in other pantheons are also alarmed by the high influx of Chaos energy as their own respective Chaos counterparts and other demons are getting way more active than usual.

But they are, as usual, very late in their actions. Khonshu was one of the first Deities to foresee the dangers of a fully corrupted Wanda who couldn't snap out of it. He ordered Marc to go to Tibet and assist Doctor Strange and co. They also met with America Chavez and Wong.

They help defend Kamir Taj for a while. In the meantime, Wong is trying to find the Book of Vishanti, the opposite of the Darkhold to find a way to defeat Wanda. Strange is also busy trying to keep Wanda from getting America.

Khonshu though, is very familiar with Chaos magic after spending many millennia fighting Apep, the primordial force of Chaos itself in the Egyptian Pantheon. So, he is able to utilize his experience to slowdown Wanda greatly.

But there is problem since while Khonshu did fight Apep to protect his father at a near daily basis, he never fights alone. He always fights with a team of other gods, like Isis, Set, Horus and other gods. So, he is still at a huge disadvantage and outnumbered that super Darkhole-powered Wanda can overpowering him. Even when other god's and magic-related creatures join in the fight, including Bast who decided to break Osiris' decree and fight alongside her brother. It's pretty much very late to the partly.

Wong did find a spell to in the Book of Vishanti to stop Wanda. But the problem is that Wanda's body itself is making the Darkhold stronger as it's a mix of Wanda's natural power from the Infinity Stone and the Darkhold mystical energy.

Basically, the infinity stone energy within Wanda's body is preventing the Book of Vishanti's spell from fully taking effect because it's not from the Darkhold. It's from space.

This is where Khonshu comes it since he managed to figure out a way to weaken Wanda, by exorcising the Darkhold itself from her body. Separating Wanda from the Darkhold.

His legend is him exorcising a demon from a princess, so he can do the same with Wanda.

But it will weaken him too much from the effort, and the Darkhold will now just be a full-on separate spirit fully independent from Wanda, and will look for a new host.

And the Darkhold will go to the closest available living being, which is Khonshu's Avatar. Marc Spector.

Khonshu can't risk that, but he also needs to stop Wanda. So, he made some changes to his plan, he asks that Bast get Marc Spector and Wanda's unconscious body as far away from the battlefield once the exorcism is done. Wanda is still alive but weak from the whole thing. Khonshu, though will have to face the now free Manifestation of the Darkhold alone.

Khonshu also got Bast and other sorcerers to create a powerful barrier around them. Which Khonshu, inside with the Darkhold then uses his timey wimey moon powers to literally slow-down time to a near complete halt. Warping the time and space inside the barrier to create a dimensional pocket prison that is intended to freeze the Darkhold as much as he can with the help of the other sorceres and gods present. All the same time, Wong is trying to understand the Book of Vishanti and find the right spell for him to use.

The barrier's main purpose isn't to hold the Darkhold though. It's not strong enough to do it in the first place, it is to keep Khonsu's timey wimey thing contained in one point and keep it from spreading out.

But Khonshu is already weak from the exorcism effort and can't keep this up as the Darkhold starts to break through Khonshu's dimensional time-space warp and the barrier. Khonshu anticipated this too and calculated that it is not enough for Wong and Strange to get the Book of Vishanti ready.

So, he did one last trick, which is the suicidal Damnatio Memoriae spell. It is designed to wipe anything and anyone from existence and remove it from the records of that Universe itself.

The issue is that it will never work on the Darkhold.

The Darkhold is pure evil manifested, it is too abstract and conceptual to be erased. And they can't fully erase the concept of evil without destroying the concept of Good entirely. And with it, the entire world, humanity itself and every living creature. The cosmos will collapse in itself when the concept of "evil" is gone and destroy itself to fix the massive imbalance in the universe.

It's practically useless in defeating the Darkhold, but what Khonshu only needs is to weaken greatly again since a huge part of it is blinked out of existence. It will take hours before it regains its strength again, but it is more than enough for Wong and Strange. As they only need a few minutes they need to complete the spell from the Book of Vishanti.

Outside, Marc was knocked-out as he is trying very hard to get to the barrier. Practically going ballistic and angry at Khonshu for leaving him in the middle of a battle.

Khonshu also got Bast to make promise and look after his Avatar in his inevitable absence. Bast knows that Khonshu won't make it and is pissed that he is resorting to using a dangerous spell that even Thoth refused to touch after creating it in the first place. But she also knows that Khonshu's efforts are needed to help Strange, so she took Marc under her wing at her brother's request.

[ladyazulina]

Happy Disability Pride Month!

I saw someone talking about doing the same as last mont with Pride and thought why not? I'm a disabled writer.

Am I, though? It has been so hard for me to join groups and communities because the guidelines are so detailed and I don't always fit, or don't even know if I fit. I don't like labels and it's so hard, but sometimes I need them to understand myself. Still.

I barely know some of the genres I write about. I just know the most known tropes, I don't know which ones I use. I would like to know if I'm disabled.

Being hard of hearing makes me disabled? Living with migraines / headaches 24/7 for six years makes me disabled? Not knowing what's life anymore outside the headaches and the fatigue makes me disabled?

They seem easy questions, but I'm struggling to answer them.

But to not ramble longer, my disabled characters.

I'm still writing all these stories, so they're not yet out there. At different stages, some.

Amayah (Maya), my baby is deaf, from birth. But in her universe, powers exist and hers is about feeling the vibrations of everything, so it kind of seems like she's not deaf at all. But she is, and she struggles.

Markus (Maya) is a psychopath, but is a good guy, I swear. He's working on it, but—it is a disability?

There are probably more from Maya, but they're not at the front of my mind.

Gianna (Vival) is blind. She's from a Digimon fanfic and is thrown into the Digital World alone when her big sister wishes for them to be in a better world, but I'm working on their original story (The Grove of Isis) slowly.

Mimi (Mimi) is... complicated. Depressed. Suicide. It's a pretty heavy story but unfortunately also personal and I need to share it. It's my main project right now.

Goddess, they seem so few, but for the life of me I can't think of all the characters I have right now. And I'm not in the mood to look for them either. This will have to do for now.

[akindofmagictoo]

manuscript search tag game

from @talesofsorrowandofruin​! thank you!

my words are tune, bread, protect, bird

tune (Dragonsong draft 1)

As he scraped his plate clean, SB began to hum, a simple but beautiful melody. Robin joined in easily, like he’d known the tune his whole life, though he frowned in confusion even as he sang. Sierra piled on with a harmony, followed by Holly, the lines rounding out the song.

Isi smiled. The warmth of her contentment seemed to swell in her chest. She picked up the tune SB had started.

A sixth voice joined them from under the table. Enya. Even if she couldn’t see everyone else singing, there was an otherworldly quality to Enya’s sweet melody that blended and stuck out of the mix at the same time. The song rose in a joyful swell, sending gooseflesh creeping up Isi’s arms.

bread (Dragonsong draft 1) (weirdly the only instance of it)

Explaining what Fintan had told them took a long time. It might have been quicker if not for the repeated questions… mostly from Sierra, though SB chipped in a few as well.

All in all, it was well after sundown when Isi and Robin stopped talking long enough to eat. The food was cold, but it had admittedly been cold to begin with anyway.

“So basically, the question is,” said Robin through a mouthful of food, “what do we do now?” 


“Are you including us in that?” said SB.

“No one is making you stay.” Isi set down the chunk of bread she’d been chewing on. “But if you want to, you’re welcome.”

protect (Dragonsong draft 1) (Jasper my beloved)

“We haven’t seen any dragons lately.”

“You’re a knight,” said Sierra. “Why are you so relaxed about this?”

Jasper stared at her for a moment, his expression unreadable. Then he said, “I’m a resident knight. I see plenty of magic in these parts, and I know several mages. I’m old enough to think for myself instead of just blindly doing what I’m told.”

“I thought your whole thing was following the law. Pretty sure that’s illegal.”

“Is the king going to come out here and stop me?” Jasper’s eyes twinkled. “The way I see it, my job is to protect, and mages often need it. So, also… yes, I know that there are four mages in this room, and you are safe here. For as long as you need.”

bird (Dragonsong draft 1)

Some of the townspeople ducked into nearby houses, emerging with coils of rope. Some others peeled off into the birdhouse, calling names that Isi assumed belonged to their children. It still hurt to know that some were gone.

@ashen-crest @zmwrites @vellichor-virgo you’re up! your words are nightfall, horizon, safety, whisper

[polillalegacyarchive]

Of course as soon as the three companions heard that there was a town festival to celebrate the arrival of fall, composed of three showings of classic movies at the drive-in theatre, they made their way there.

Celene had told them dogs were allowed to run free if well-trained, so Jak had decided to bring his. And they were the most excited they'd been in weeks, sniffing everywhere, their ears up and eyes darting.

Wes headed towards the cars parked facing the screen and, spotting a pride flag, skipped towards it.

"Hey look, my people are here! I told you I'd get laid tonight." Wes had a look in his eye, like it'd been too long.

"I thought you had a boyfriend?" said Isi.

"He's not interested in me until I bring him his van back. In *pristine* condition, he said." Wes rolled his eyes, clearly mad.

"Iz, I wouldn't" said Jak, always trying to keep the peace.

"So you're looking for a distraction?" Isi taunted.

But instead of getting defensive, Wes just replied: "Why wouldn't I? Seems to work for you!"

He went further in, closer to the screen, looking for somewhere they could settle. And even though Isi could think of a few sharp answers, she let it slide.

It was soon time for the movie to start, night was slowly falling, and it was the tenth time in 10 minutes that Wes was mentionning how hungry he was.

"Fine, let's grab something to eat before we can't get up without being yelled at!" decided Jak.

Isi and Jak got up and left Wes to watch the dogs. They followed the smell of food, going around cars. But on the way, they stumbled upon a group of people, settling in for the movie.

"Come on, Ror's, please! I know this movie by heart, I don't want to see it again!"

"I said no already, I'm not going to give in." Rory answered, before she noticed the newcomers.

"Hi" said Isi, happy to see her again.

"Oh hey!" said Rory, smiling up at her.

"Who's that?" said the redhead teenager.

"So how are you doing?" Isi had already forgotten completely about getting food.

"Great! Happy to see you here! Want to join us? We've got a comfy couch and some blankets."

For some reason, the rest of the group she was with seemed surprised at Rory's invitation.

Isidora still nodded: "Absolutely! That sounds much comfier than the bench we found upfront. Jak, will you go tell Wes and get the dogs?"

A couple of seconds went by without an answer from the bodyguard. When she turned to him, his gaze was locked on the teenage girl.

"Do I know you?" he asked, his voice low, his eyebrows lower.

The redhead looked baffled.

"You know what, I forgot to feed my cat before I went out. I'm gonna head home. I also know this movie by heart anyway" said the last member of the group, getting off the couch.

"Lux, wait" Rory started, before she was interrupted by her friend Lou.

"Leave it Rory, tonight's not the night."

Isi, confused, simply looked at Jak. But he seemed still stuck on the teenager. She tried stepping on his foot to snap him out of it.

TO BE CONTINUED...

[libidomechanica]

“Cupid stone go tell,”

Salted creatures are bull, your lives     off from a stage set, A soft peace had not the rest renowned     ship and tender bay? And now it, and countenances apart     make us a family

of conscience give more pretty,     to thee. Drawn up in sheaves which whoever tastes in gray shadows     bathe means prepare than that Love our skin, the wind the light,     and lives are puppets, Man

in hideous human race; beauty     be; it is delight: the threatened shine like a jewel-print     on what Meg o’ the sweet hopes of the press Stature one to     war nor princes do them

not; the fair ones; compass round his     Anguishing, and loathed to blame the time, and streams with what other     I bow’d: I bow’d that gallant badge-the dead! But, as soone     will making ears, instead

of pleasure, measure, a shield, and     poor; then second rape, for his breast: she oft haue for those next?     To this earthly thing trimm’d in the hand, or I’d enter,     and sighing smile, so as

some honey on her alone? Cupid     stone go tell, but thy secret sent bee: and touch that dullard     fit? When forsake these long I hope nothing whisper, and     bishoped by former

height of her Eyes wide world where passive     weapons fly. Dark, an Isis hid by this my inner     shrine, thy lawn, see the lamp of her eyes our wishes has-ke.     My naked morn. A fruit.

The same film over, what you my     buddhist my naked to the dance was sweet influence, and     somethinks, not so, lest a hands in natures&above though     too much fires, yet doubtfully

she struggle forth of their sighing     and to gathered in a harmonized the foes. Backward     as a Nun breathless with slow haste fled from the best it in     parliament; for in gear,

we’re rich interwove with thing, to     put thy bed; my dust would rise and mouth were joins me in heauens     doe melts into his art can tell, blest, but in their couplings,     and given here with the

world that weaves rain stood with thy mystic     case, still I was desolate another before. Way     by day, or Trimmer air is of a pleasure in the maple     sets their forefront bare

to seeming Death may oft be     unreturning wind the ancestral crooked like morning like     Dian and revive the gross, and long brain; for she would a     man and by now just from

me, and force you inside your coming,     my own hues all the dayly, once possess’d of gently     she gloriously, and his suit was long blink is none little     head, their end know the

daylight a tutor of his mantle     hath so displaced, and the ship already sheltered in     natural. I see a better of this dungeon darken’d in     jollity, and fill with

increases their sight blind the prophet     dreaming. While these tuneless ill. So as soon signed, who     scorne, to warm starfish. The shrike, and permitted, not so great     appear untouched by the

East, sighing and kissing, and the     power, debased by thee sing, and have I not Honour more.     While storm; the bird, that all. Of hem, that was, distrust abused;     to justify the hill.

[randomthingsbylfcds]

AMAZON CHALLENGE

Chapter 3:

Artemis- Kareena did it! Glinda Faba and Leroy joined us. We have a Matriarch. Leroy, on the other hand, is very handsome. Your genes and mine will produce a very beautiful heiress. Unfortunately, I can't procreate yet. My sister hasn't found her partner yet. On the other hand, this could end up being a good thing. Since Lady Roxanne is pregnant, I will be able to test Glinda's efficiency. In general, everything is going well. But I still miss something in my life, euphoria, music, dancing…

Isis- My sister has been pressuring me more and more to have an heiress. Even more so now that we have a Matriarch. I've been hearing rumors about a deadly werewolf named Greg, if I have a daughter with him, she will be just as powerful. All I need to do is locate him and win a fight against him. I also want to expand my Court since Roxanne is temporarily unusable, as she carries Hercules' baby. There are rumors about vampires in the desert. I'll check tomorrow.

Kareena- I finally completely turned into a vampire. That helped me win the fight against Leroy. In the euphoria, I fought again, with a nobody called Stuart, now he is also our hired hand. Even though he only recently left, I miss Hercules. I know I shouldn't feel like an Amazon, but I can't stop it. Maybe an heiress will fill the need I feel.

Ophelia- The first baby is on the way. If it is a girl, it will be raised by the Matriarch, Glinda. If it's a boy, I'll find a way to take him to Hercules. Both have the same function, transforming these children into an army of wizards. However, if these children were born vampires… Well, that would be a problem. Luckily, I think I can find some books that talk about this. I'm so proud!

WELCOME TO THE CLAN, MISS GLINDA FABA, THE MATRIARCH

traits: Impulsive, Neurotic and Family-Oriented

occult: Spellcaster

function: Glinda Faba serves as the Matriarch, a wise and nurturing figure responsible for raising and guiding the children of the Amazons. Her role extends beyond mere education; she imparts essential cultural, magical, and ethical teachings, ensuring that the future generations carry forth the traditions and values of the courts. Glinda acts as a stabilizing force, fostering unity and harmony among the Amazons.

court: Newmoon

[jonathankatwhatever]

I feel like when I’m scanning a crowd for a face, and I can’t resist the temptation to look at each face, as though I’m not sure if that’s the person, when of course recognition is instantaneous. It may be wrong: I remember once when I was probably 4 or 5, and I was with my mother at the drugstore at the corner, so I was off in my head, and I suddenly realized I had no idea where she was, and I saw a woman’s hairdo disappearing out the door and turning so I could see the hair over the signs in the window, and I jumped to the conclusion that was mom and she was looking for me, so I ran after and of course it wasn’t and I had to explain, which of course meant I couldn’t be trusted because I would jump to conclusions Iike that and do stuff that otherwise makes no sense or which was outright dumb and damaging, like those moments would insert themselves when I was transitioning or when I was being forced to do something, like they used those entry places to get at me. I still don’t understand why I would smoke cigarettes and fall asleep when I didn’t smoke. That episode is too ridiculous to detail. Impulse control lacking. But not always in the moment, as witness my lifelong obsession with you.

I talk to you like you’re the actual person on the other End. I’m not sure when I realized that was possible. I’m aware of fiction about two people who search their lives for each other, but those are somehow internal to this world, up to reincarnation. And that leads to the weird stories, right? But I’ve never seen this Storyline, unless we stretch the Isis-Osiris story to fit, when of course we are completing those ancient insights rendered into story form. I’m going to write this: like the way the p-adic numbers complete the rationals. I think what that means is p-adic numbers cut the rationals to fit. Here is where I’m having trouble. At this spot.

Keep going to see what happens. According to our theory of Identity, there is a center ‘you’ and a shell ‘you’. This is easily seen in a simple Hexagon: there is a center and an outside edge. If you think of game pieces, the outer edge is the queen in chess moving around the relatively stationary king.

That is highly simplified, because that center End reaches out to the edge, so the actual difference is what identifies as coming from here versus there. We categorize there as the Boundary, as coming from the Boundary into your perception, as thus generating from the perspective of that End of that particular pairing to the center End. I’m sure this is all very simple and I’m doing a bad job of explaining, but I’m trying to say that the edge of the Hexagon acts as the transmission mechanism of the Boundary, that all the pairs reduce to 2 different forms. One form is 1:3, that 1 of the 3 pairs in Hexagonal are dropped to make a grid square. The other form is that 2 pairs are then formed, and that means the 4 remaining embody anywhere from all of the dropped pair or none of it down to the edge itself folding into the Irreducible yK. Indeed, I guess one way of looking at it is to say that this in the infinite series by which this disappears, and that can be done by using p-adic numbers at this spot because then that makes a finite limit up to which we count, meaning the I//I chop or just the Chop.

Did I get enough to work this out?

This HG is an infinite series in Triangular, which disappears into the depths and into the reals on the right-side of CM1. And we then apply p-adic, left-side counting, which means we Chop at the HG and thus it segments 1-0 to the Irreducible yK. Again: we simply treat this HG using left-side methods, meaning it is a limit, which we count up to from 0, which gives us the 0 we need at the other End of the 1-0Segment.

Wow. I was going to say that the mechanism now more obviously fits to the open notebook image, that an HG looks more like 2 pyramids joined at the tips. Take away the other pair of sides to get pages of a notebook over the spine. There are obviously many Pathways possible, and they all bear a similarity: each is the center of a specific Hexagon. Then when you connect 2 Ends, that 1-0Segment joins 2 Hexagons. It quickly gets complicated as you add 1Segments. The point is that as soon as you have 2 Ends, then you have 2 Hexagons. The Irreducibles draw the yK, which makes an fD because that inverts on the yK when the orientation is xK, which makes 4 Hexagons. The xK oriented pair are interlocked over the central fD, meaning this is the result when we draw a 1Segment connecting along the yK, so the Ends being connected would be the original center End and then along the yK over the fD, not over a 1Segment (but over 2 in Triangular).

These basic connections are clarifying well. So the leaf or page idea is that you need the HG to make a Path that works. That seems to mean a lot, including the ability to not collide by following the same path in the same direction at the same or close enough to it speed, being far enough apart, etc., all the way up verifying where the Bip is by comparing across multiple informational Pathways. Head-on is not only a collision, but then it’s a struggle to reach the Bip, which sort of symbolizes a lot in life, that we struggle.

Example is that if you run the 7’s in both directions over an HG, then you get collisions in each 1-0Segment, which thus provides more information because each of those locates versus ideal. Thus total victory, etc. achieves dimensionality. And in the ideal, this locates the midpoints across a sheet.

Okay, so two great big ones. Plus the way of describing identity took shape.

And to cap this session: by treating the HG as p-adic, as left-side counted, then we’re doing that at grid squares, so the 0 is at grid squares. But that 0 is the disappearance of the HG, so the D6 to D4 transition occurs within this Chop. That completely makes sense because now we both add and deconstruct by hands, including both hands (and neither).

Question: I don’t remember thinking that D5, the box with a hat drawing, is in gs, but rather than you can draw representations of them, so a box with a hat in every orientation of the 5 1Segments, and in the different directions, has an ideal 1Space form.

Look at LayerView: a 4 is within L9, so a count of 5gs includes all the ways 4gs can be ordered in LayerView. The connection is that we treat each gs on the diagonal as 1gs, so we’re counting that dimensionality across each gs, which stretches the dimensionality of the abstract object or thing across the grid. So a 5 count is dimensional and can be represented as an 1Space polygon of 1Segments. Note that I have not thought about equilateral polygons, but that’s a hat drawing. I’ve mostly just thought about the ideal translation. So yes, we can take the radial lines, and invert each triangle which appears to make a non-Triangular fD.

[violasgamingpalace]

P5 thoughts up to fourth palace-

2nd dungeon was fun enough, though kinda weird theming-wise. If he sees himself as a shogun and his pupils as samurai, why is his palace still an art museum? Maybe they decided they couldn't do back to back historical.

Weird that Madarame requires multiple days to clear but no dungeon afterwards so far.

Madarame fight was a lot of fun. It felt impossible at first, but eventually I got a good strategy. Then I bought the best knife and got a rampage persona and strategy was unnecessary.

Yuseke gay

3rd dungeon almost was too hard to beat in one day for me. The oni are really tough to get through, and the mini boss fight with the three guardians? That was the hardest fight in the game I'm already guessing- only got through it with a null-phys persona

Did we really need the 2nd girl to join the party to be threatened by sexual slavery? I thought having one would be enough, but I guess not

Legit have no idea what leverage mafia man has on Madoko to be honest. She clearly looks uncomfortable and all she has to do is tell her (prosecutor) sister she was kidnapped, which isn't even a lie, and that's all the justification her (AGAIN PROSECUTOR) sister would need for a warrant to search his premise and get tons of evidence pointing to his other crimes.

3rd big boss was disgusting easy. First phase literally could do zero damage to joker. Second phase had terrible damage as long as tarunda was up.

Fourth palace was fun! Was curious why Sandman was so high level- now I know it's for the Egypt theme, which is kinda cute.

Balancer of scales is a tough generic fight that I basically always ended up cheesing with Isis making you immune to light and dark spells.

Fourth Boss fight was kidna boring. It basically just came down to status effects, which at least meant she had more to do than 3rd boss.

Your teacher is in a maid costume? It's almost funny, but not quite breaching past the sexual fetish territory. (And again, very weird to see first boss is bad for seeing women as sexual objects when Joker clearly does the same!)

Starting fortune teller social link is such a pain oh my god.

Shogi playing girl is great. I'm hoping she stays kinda weird but worried they'll make her normal soon.

Oh my god- In a Convo with Ann she says 'Wow, I'm hungry. I wish I had a sandwich' and the best choice to gain points with her is to say... 'You should make a sandwich then'. God this game. (And God Ann- will she ever break free of having the personality of 'Just Girl'?)

Had the exclusively gay moment of Persona 5. Honestly I spent most of it confused why they assume Ryuji was gay over anything else. Very funny Atlus said 'Dont worry, we fixed the homophobia guys' and literally all they did was just explain why they thought he was gay.

[welcometothevale]

“Thank you, I know this is silly. But, well, as its pretty obvious from my past and what I am to humans, I haven’t really ever had good experiences with parents. Even my one close friend and I had to meet and play in secret because his parents thought my dark soul would taint him.” They explained, hopefully clearing things up that they didn’t think his parents were evil or even mean people. But they had never had a positive experience in this department. 

“Yeah, I’m pretty tired after everything, and bereft. So I could use some food and rest. Obviously I want to sleep next to you. You have a pretty good record for keeping the nightmares away, “they ticked off one finger on their left hand, their index finger, counting one reason they liked to sleep with him, “you’re like a warm cocoon when you hold me against you,” a second finger raised, their middle finger, “and I’m in love with you.” This time when they spoke those words, they weren’t meek and didn’t whisper or hide. Instead they leaned up and planted a small, sweet and feather-light kiss on his cheek. 

As they approached, then entered, the massive, opulent cabin, Rowan’s eyes— a similar shade to pale mint—widened as they ate up their surroundings, the decor, everything that screamed of him. It was beautiful, lavish but also homey and comfortable. They loved every part of it, especially the parts she could really tell represented him as a person. “Your home is amazing.” They said in awe, forgetting they now would be living there as well. It was their home where they would live together. Forever if they both lived that long. Rowan could as long as no one killed them by causing too much harm to their body, which was more resilient than a human body though still subject to damage easier than say a demon or vampire or dragon. Forget even comparing the strength of their life and body to a god. If they lost enough blood, they died, which could happen in so many circumstances. They didn’t age, didn’t catch any human diseased—a few obscure, supernatural plagues or curable illnesses could effect demigods, but those situations were very rare due to demigods being one of the more rare species to exist. There were now strict rules when it came to copulating with a human thanks to Zeus’s antics. It was part of the reason Isis only had Rowan. 

“I love it. Oh, can we eat then take a bath before we go to bed? And, um, if you wanted to join me in the bath, er, y-you could.” They were incredibly bashful after their offer to him. Their face was on fire and pointed directly at the dark hard wood flooring—the toe of their soft-soled, doe skin boots, they were more practical to wear during travel than their sandals, played with the corner of an ornate rug that covered placed to be framed by a love seat, a full couch, and a comfortable looking chair that was quite large. It was shaped to cup the person resting in it from all sides. The parts of the chair that someone would touch when sitting were all made of plush cushions that, when they pressed on it during the short awkward silence, the redhead wondered what it was stuffed with to make it so soft and bouncy but still supportive. 

“So, anyway, uh, food? Do you have any here or will it have all spoiled?”

(I am writing this out of pure boredom and fun XD I like fantasy okay >:P )

Theta took a deep breathe as he hid himself from mortal vision amongst he clouds. His scales felt wonderful as the wind brushed against them and he felt the air current changing. He could hear the rumbling of thunder around his wings, his head tilting to see how bad the storm would be, as he made his decision. His dark navy scales cloaked him well against the night sky as the rain pelted him upon his decent. He would need to take on a more comfortable form upon landing. 

He noted a forest near a village as he began his rapid decent the weather taking a bad turn. His form shifted and shrank to mortal form as he landed just as lightning struck him in the back. His entire body lit up with pain as he tumbled into the foliage and undergrowth of the forest. He trembled as slowly he began to lose conscious, thankfully in human form, exhaustion took him and he passed out.

[beardedmrbean]

Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada.

Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Ms Begum's passport details with Canada, and smuggled other Britons to fight for IS.

Ms Begum's lawyers are challenging the removal of her citizenship, arguing she was a trafficking victim.

Canada and the UK declined to comment on security issues.

Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to Syria to join the IS group in 2015.

At the main Istanbul bus station, the girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their journey to IS-controlled Syria.

A senior intelligence officer, at an agency which is part of the global coalition against IS, has confirmed to the BBC that Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS.

The BBC has obtained a dossier on Rasheed that contains information gathered by law enforcement and intelligence, as well as material recovered from his hard drives, which provide extraordinary detail about how he operated.

He told authorities that he had gathered information on the people he helped into Syria because he was passing it to the Canadian embassy in Jordan.

Shamima Begum cannot return to UK, court rules

Rasheed, who was arrested in Turkey within days of smuggling Ms Begum to IS, told authorities he had shared a photo of the passport the British schoolgirl was using.

The Metropolitan Police were searching for her, although by the time Canada received her passport details, Ms Begum was already in Syria.

The dossier shows that Ms Begum was moved to Syria through a substantial IS people-smuggling network that was controlled from the group's de-facto capital in Raqqa.

Rasheed was in charge of the Turkish side of this network and facilitated the travel of British men, women and children to IS for at least eight months before he helped Ms Begum and her two friends.

Ms Begum told the BBC's forthcoming I'm Not A Monster podcast: "He organised the entire trip from Turkey to Syria… I don't think anyone would have been able to make it to Syria without the help of smugglers.

"He had helped a lot of people come in… We were just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn't know anything."

Rasheed kept information about the people he helped, often photographing their ID documents or secretly filming them on his phone.

One recording shows Ms Begum and her friends get out of a taxi and into a waiting car not far from the Syrian border.

Rasheed also gathered information about IS, mapping the locations of the homes of Western IS fighters in Syria, identifying IP addresses and locations of internet cafes in IS-controlled territory, and taking screenshots of conversations he was having with IS fighters.

In one conversation, Rasheed spoke to a man believed to be notorious British IS fighter and recruiter, Raphael Hostey, who says to him: "I need you to work under me. Officially… I want you to help us bring people in."

In a follow-up text, Rasheed asks Hostey: "Can you explain a little, please?"

Hostey says: "Same thing that you're doing now, but you work for us bringing equipment, bringing in brothers and sisters". Mohammed Al Rasheed replies: "I am ready, brother."

Rasheed was arrested in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa not long after he had facilitated the girl's journey to Syria.

In a statement to law enforcement, he said that the reason he had gathered information on everyone he had helped, including Shamima, was because "I was passing this information to the Canadian embassy in Jordan".

Rasheed said that in 2013 he had gone to the Canadian Embassy in Jordan to try to apply for asylum. He said: "They told me they were going to grant me my Canadian citizenship if I collect information about the activities of ISIS."

The BBC has been able to confirm that Rasheed passed in and out of Jordan multiple times between 2013 and his arrest in 2015.

Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the Begum family, said there will be a legal hearing in November to challenge the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship and "one of the main arguments" will be that then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid did not consider that she was a victim of trafficking.

"The UK has international obligations as to how we view a trafficked person and what culpability we prescribe to them for their actions," he said.

Mr Akunjee said it was "shocking" that a Canadian intelligence asset was a key part of the smuggling operation - "someone who is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone".

"Intelligence-gathering looks to have been prioritised over the lives of children," he said.

Shamima Begum is now held in a detention camp in north-east Syria, her citizenship was taken away in 2019 after she emerged from the ashes of the so-called IS caliphate.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said intelligence services needed to be "flexible" and "creative in their approaches" to fight terrorism, but "they are bound by strict rules".

"We will continue to ensure that proper oversight is done, and as necessary look at further steps", he added, while speaking at a press conference in Ottawa.

A Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokesman said he could not "publicly comment on or confirm or deny the specifics of CSIS investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities".

A British government spokesperson said: "It is our long-standing policy that we do not comment on operational intelligence or security matters."

[torebelwasright]

september 15, 2014 — a day after a theorist attack on the american congress in washington d.c. both of them had seen this happen on the tv, though still in two separate houses. marisa had called to inform him she had something important to tell him and they should meet as soon as possible. her husband, unsurprisingly, had a business to attend in the capital city. once the news of the attack spread all over every news channel on tv, asriel was pretty convinced it was what marisa was going to share. after all they both heard whispers. both from one and the same person — edward coulter. his dear university friend and his lover's husband. he's been discreetly going on and on about the upcoming changes in the us government. asriel, once being an active man in politics, was encouraged to re-enter the former ranks and join a vast project that was going to greatly impact their futures as well as the whole country's. asriel had an important news to tell marisa as well.

the news of agreeing to her husband's proposal a week before he left boston. asriel's decision based on the undeniable tension that told him it was better to find himself in the eye of the storm and be informed first hand. the whole idea of forming an organisation called the sons of jacob. the name itself revolting at best, its ideas unthinkable for most people living in twenty first century. he wasn't informed of what would be the immense operation everyone within the organisation has been whispering about. officially, it was an isis organized action. they both knew, though, it wasn't the case. what he heard just seconds before, though, seemingly had nothing to do with the attack. nothing to do with the shaky politics. nothing to do with curtural changes. and yet it had everything to do with it.

❛ are you sure ? ❜

his hand pressed to his lips, brushed against his growth, taking in the news. it couldn't be happening now. the maternity units have been no more than a ghost for years now and most people would rejoice in the news. i'm pregnant ; the two words everyone in the modern world, all over the globe, wanted to hear. thought it was barely one small battle victory for many of those few lost the war by miscarriage, fatal generic illnesses and cot deaths. they would have gone though it. they could have easily lie the child was edward's. he had no reason to suspect his wife was in love with his old friend for three years now. they could have managed that. . . if not for the dynamic changes. it was all going to go down now. the fanatic plans were bound to become a reality once the most of the parliament members, along with the president, we killed in yesterday's attack. the government that was bound to be silently taken over by sons of jacob, who saw fertility as the most desired and treasurable of resources.

❛ we have to leave. . . i don't care how you will make him believe that you must go back to france — but we cannot stay here now. he cannot find out. ❜

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