#the-archetype-of-civilization

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

"Hold still." Momo said as was patching him up.

"Tch, how can I if your tying the damn bandages too tight?!" Bakguo glares but he did his best to at least try to keep still. Though, these damn bandages itch.

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

The papers tells of some tests that happened in this place. To some that was pulled into the project and others even killed during it. Even now, most of the papers were either documents of people they brought down here. Even some speaking or having info of Ender and others.

Twin Effect (@the-silver-peahen-residence)

Ender grunts a bit as he slowly wakes up, struggling to sit up from the gurney he found himself in. He grasps his forehead and tries to move his other hand, only for him to find it restrained a bit. He grunts a bit and loosens the binds with his free hand before rubbing his eyes. Noticing his completely stark naked form, he blushes a bit and looks around. The room was eerily quiet as he slowly stands up, nesrly stumbling as he makes his way over to the door. He opens it and peers outside. It was deathly silent, no air or anything being heard in this seemingly abandoned, metallic, cold place. “Hello?” he called out a bit. Nothing. “Hello?” he asked louder before stepping out into the hallway.

@the-silver-peahen-residence

[the27percent]

@the-archetype-of-civilization

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Atieno pauses a little bit, the question about how they have been seems to poke at something - but they try to shrug through it.

".. Very, very busy I guess to put in general terms. Any more detail would require more detail and energy to describe than you'd care to hear. How about you?"

[devintrinidad]

Typical tsundere who has a crush on someone who is cute and adorable and ticks off all the boxes that would make any tsundere happy. Typical tsundere who could feel their knees go wobbly, their stomach full with butterflies, who would stare at their crush from afar. Typical tsundere who has too many feelings that are so powerful and alien, that make them feel strange and make them act in in characteristic ways to their crush.

Typical tsundere who is just so mean and abrasive and can never get their true feelings out. Typical tsundere who doesn’t understand it when their crush looks so sad or angry to see them in the same room. Typical tsundere who gets frustrated when their crush starts to avoid them or gets downright nasty when they see the tsundere. Typical tsundere who loves and cherishes their crush, but never gets it right, who doesn’t understand when their crush tells them that they’re mean and a bully and to leave them alone.

Typical tsundere who finally confesses because they realize that the way they have been acting is wrong and that if they truly liked their crush they would have been honest about their feelings from the start or at the very least would have respected their crush by being civil. Typical tsundere who gets their feelings completely obliterated when their crush doesn’t accept their confession and instead gets told off for their behavior.

Typical tsundere who breaks down in tears because they were honest for once! They let out their true feelings! Shouldn’t their crush be happy that they were confessed too? Shouldn’t their crush be thankful that they had changed just for them?

Typical tsundere who has a broken heart, but that heart still has so many feelings for their crush that they can’t deal with. That they don’t want to spend time trying to parse or comprehend.

No, the tsundere wants to be loved because they did all the hard for their crush.

They must have their crush at all costs.

The typical tsundere becomes the yandere and they will do anything to get their crush back whether it be completely changing their personality altogether or ultimately becoming the monster that their crush sees them as.

The typical tsundere never learned, only evolved.

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

Did a digital napkin doodle a while back, and after comm work tonight I did a spontaneous draw-over. Pretty satisfied with it, 90s horror anime dvd box vibes.

[annwayne]

i havent been able to write anything much for like three weeks and now i'm coming up with a long multi-fandom au fic thats consuming me

im even making pinterest boards i rarely do that

[fictionadventurer]

I once saw a biography of John Wilkes Booth titled "American Brutus" and the more I think of it the more I think that title applies just as much to Robert E. Lee.

Yes, Booth is the man who assassinated a great leader, but Lee has several other similarities to the literary character of Brutus (from the play) that make him an excellent parallel.

Both turned against something they loved. Brutus loved Ceasar and drove a knife into him. Lee was a Unionist who took up arms to help sever the Union.

Brutus was said in the play to be the noblest of all Romans. Lee is oft portrayed as the epitome of being a Southern gentleman.

The actions of both led to the ultimate destruction of the very thing they fought for. Brutus stabbed Ceasar and marched an army on Rome to save the Republic. However, the actions he took in the process led to the Republic's ultimate destruction and paved the way for Octavian's rise to become Emperor, beginning a dynasty of monarchs. Lee joined the Confederacy to fight for his beloved Virginia. His leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia arguably helped delay the South's collapse (such as his first fight with McClellen in the Seven Days Campaign) which allowed the Civil War to degenerate into a total war which resulted in Virginia being devastated and slavery, the very institution it fought for, being (finally) utterly destroyed.

I thought this was an interesting parallel between the arts and life.

Fascinating comparison! Naturally, I challenge Lee's image as the "perfect Southern gentleman" (Was he the one I heard of who ordered a runaway slave to have his back washed in salt water after a whipping? You run across a lot of horrible slave owners in early American history, so I'm not saying it was, but I know he was a cruel master in other ways), but that is a popular image of him, whether it's true or not, and it parallels Brutus's upright image.

To me, the most interesting difference between Lee and Brutus is that Brutus betrayed a friend for his principles and Lee betrayed (some of) his principles for his friends. Both approaches are flawed in different ways, and it's a compelling moral dilemma to explore.

I'm continually surprised at just how literary the events of the Civil War can be--people who are foils to each other, events and people that draw out themes, happenings that have poetic or dramatic irony or justice. It makes one wonder--a couple of millennia down the road, could the Civil War and its characters be the focus of an archetypal epic drama the way that Caesar's was? It's a compelling--if odd--thought.

[arueshalaetablebuildingsociety]

This list is only symptomatic. It fails to determine and treat root causes, which would be better listed as:

- Recognize that Neoliberalism has two entire tools and one of those tools is bribing a rich person to do something. The other tool is bombing the everloving fuck out of a South American town because Nestle wants to steal all of their water and ransom it back to them (assuming they don't just sell it to white people thousands of miles away instead), and they can't do that if the town has a reliable source of cheap water.

- Fix material conditions driving people across every demographic to a desperate and unempathetic "them or me" mode of living.

- Curb the ability of ANY one person or group of people to amass and control that much wealth and power.

- Hold political parties to the same standards we hold toothpaste brands; if a political party loses a crucial election against the worst person imaginable, that is a failure of the party for refusing to offer a better candidate rather than a failure of the voters.

- Dissolve the majority of "economics" as any sort of empirical model; like any system with outsized reliance on a single, arbitrary, derived number, calculations based on GDP can be easily poisoned so material conditions for the majority of people worsen but GDP improves.

- Reform education to remove the whitewashing of history that creates a false impression of "the arc of history". History is like every other system: it doesn't arc upwards unless people make it. This WILL mean talking about exactly the sort of things that make Neoliberals uncomfortable, like the Battle of Blair Mountain, or the Tuskegee Experiments, or how France invaded Rwanda to prop up the Hutu Power government, or how the German Liberal government ended Nuclear Power for Coal and LNG fossil fuels while also still claiming to be a leader in the fight against Climate Change.

- End, once and for all, the idea that anyone succeeds off of individual merit as even a majority factor. Elon Musk did not become the wealthiest man in the world by working hard and Tesla proves it: it was Trump's reelection that has saved Tesla, not any qualities present in Musk. Tesla was hemorrhaging money because Musk was using it as a pack animal to hold all the debt he was getting from running Twitter into the ground. Elon Musk became the wealthiest man in the world by inheriting the emeralds his dad forced slaves to mine at gunpoint, and using that to sue to be named a founder of SpaceX and prevent the real founders from ever taking credit, thus ensuring he would have a constant lifeline from the US DoD because SpaceX is an aerospace company and is "critical infrastructure" despite proving less efficient than NASA in every aspect.

You will never have a Liberal Andrew Tate; Andrew Tate is so seductive to angry young men because he doesn't pretend the problems affecting them don't exist but instead falsifies a cause for them to project their anger onto. Why can't Liberals address the actual problems affecting these young men? Because Neoliberalism as a model doesn't allow for those problems to exist, because it's a flawed model. GDP is going up, therefore there can't be any issues affecting these young men even though there quite objectively are. These are problems you can't bribe a rich person to fix. And while you can bomb the everloving fuck out of the young men, that doesn't really affect the root problem, does it?

And if you're only fixing the symptoms and not the causes, that's called palliative care. It doesn't mean the patient will get better, just that they will die in slightly less pain.

things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

[mycelia-i]

Civilization vs Nature // This Is Their Home Too

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2013: Critique of Historical Materialism in PRC Archaeology

Lately I’ve been reading Chinese articles on archaeological discoveries and how they have been changing the accepted picture of China’s past. Stressed also is historical materialism that informs how those discoveries are understood by the Party and apparently also by the archaeologists that is has been funding. 2020: Xi Jinping to Politburo Collective Study Session on Chinese Archaeology 2022:…

[tyrantisterror]

So, there was this TV Tropes article I liked called "The Five Races" that broke down the archetypal races that people put in fantasy and scifi settings that have more civilized creatures than just humans. You can probably guess what the archetypal examples are - humans, elves, hobbit expies, dwarves, etc. But it didn't call them by those names, but rather by describing their role in the narrative, and how they work as reflections of/contrasts to human beings.

Like, yes, elves are popular, but Asari from Mass Effect and Vulcans from Star Trek also fill the same basic role in their setting. The Gorons from Zelda fill the same basic niche as dwarves, the moogles from Final Fantasy are often hobbit analogues, etc. It even had a counterpart for "evil" races - because when you get down to it, Orcs, Krogans, and Klingons are the same basic proud, often antagonistic warrior race with bad blood with the "good" guys.

But they deleted both those articles in favor of one that just lists elves and dwarves alone, because I guess it was too conceptual to see all those connections. I'm salty about it.

[honestlymysticalexpert]

Astro-Observations.

I realize having 2H-8H, 4H-10H, and 6H-12H placements is common for women. And being feminine houses explains alot.

And in that way, 10H would represent the martriachy while the Guru in the philosophical 9H would represent patriarchy.

I think Aquarius is the archetype of the absolute masculine and Pisces the absolute feminine.

I've noticed air pairs up well with water and earth with fire. Air understands intensity as much as water does. Where air is a hermit and water a healer. Also water recognizes air is crazy like pixie crazy, whereas being entertained by the fact that they're the lunacy crazy, but they only under-estimate air. 🍃 this psycho-active game is what keeps the two going. Fun pair.

Air and earth at first seems boring, but the more they peek underneath the unmoving stability and silence of earth, they realize a humor that's hard to forget. And because air is timeless in the end, earth with it's tranquility wins the air to earth. Air brings a breeze; and this becomes a tropical 🍹 love.

The stubborn unmoving nature of earth is well understood by the inspiring nature of fire.

----I believe any synastry could work, and should if it was meant to be, and not to leave anything to fate 🍃 but even the most difficult like 8H 💄 synastry has worked in numerous cases for different individuals.

---I think the 4H 🏡 as one of the angular houses is very important since it's home and home is where the heart is. And the heart is the store for all our spiritual and earthly treasures. So it would make sense that originally cancer was ruled by ♃ Jupiter the planet 🌏 of abundance 💰.

Generally Jupiter for a woman's chart denotes the "earthly treasures" through the 🕺 Husband, and representing foreign cultures goes to say literally the woman as a home maker is accepted native to all cultures, belonging to none and therefore. The 9H being where the woman gets a culture they'll marry into, men as suitors, and residents of the 9H house. HENCE the 9H placements.

As for the man ; the Venus position indicates where they marry from. Nature and background of the woman in their 4H.

Literally the only axis that matter for a woman are the ones mentioned above concluding 1H-7H, 3H-9H, 5H-11H, to be the ones that matter for the man. And so the placements in it, infact this is relative and common on most Natal charts.

The mars 💉 placements show our actions, traditionally represented by scorpio(feminine) and the Aries (Masculine).

Also Mars is where we get adrenaline from, things "energize" us, ENERGY. ⛮ Meaning for the men the (ethereal) appeal comes from how consciously awake they are, and for the woman, the transformation they can do, as home makers in building Inheritance, as well as "the shared resources."

----The 8H, of shared Inheritance goes ahead to be a shadow of the 12H 🌊 what proceeds the eternity of a soul. Where Venus is exalted in Pisces again making it the highest archetype of a woman, in being the "golden alchemist of love". Compassion. Women are Soulful according to the 12H.

And ⚙ according to the 11H the epitome of the masculine, men are revolutionary. Fathers of civilizations. And because it all fair in love and war. Love is also a feminine form of civilization.

Fire and earth belong together too, like air and water.

That being said all chaos return to order, and all order is born from chaos. Therefore each harmful aspect in a birthchart appears to be neutralized by a uniquely powerful order in the chart. I think that makes astrology a "divine" science.

Edit; am thinking Leos have to be self sufficient because they are primarily ruled by the sun. "The father" in astrology and therefore being the energy of sustenance it will and must show in them and on them in a certain way. "Boss vibes" 😎 ✅

[some-pers0n]

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why are icewings like that

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"oh ho hoo! i love living in my giant mansion built from the poor disabled dragons (that i hate because theyre poor and disabled). i am soooo much better than all of the other dragons from the other tribes because i am civilized and more proper than those barbarians. we installed a system where we hate the poor and disabled dragons and make them go fight in wars while the rest of us sit around and laugh and mock the ones at the bottom for being useless and dumb and having empathy. we never even leave because we hate other dragons so much and think theyre inferior in every conceivable way. it is better to stay in our big mansions and eata the ice all day than to go outside"

🌫️ iceyspicey-deactivated49970701

This is the reason why we "never leave" because we are always subjected to stereotypes like this. I'm sorry that our tribe are the only ones who are proper enough that the rest of you cannot possibly comprehend it. Because of our society, the circles help form a more efficient tribe. The ones who aren't able to provide as much go to the outskirts, where they're then tasked with basic, easy jobs that anybody can do. It's the most us higher circle dragons can offer them, as they're too sensitive and weak to truly fight in war or participate in such a world. Then, we sort the more capable dragons into higher circles as they are more intelligent, athletic, and less prone to emotional instability and potentially risk our entire army. The highest get rewarded for their abilities and are given lives of luxury as they truly earn it, while those who don't try or push themselves enough are given what they deserve.

But, to the rest of the world, we are seen as "pompous" and "haughty" for being more orderly. Called arrogant and made a mockery of. Reduced to this archetype.

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I eata the ice yum

🌫️ iceyspicey-deactivated49970701

Are you serious right now? After all I just said? You're still mocking the IceWings? I hate this site so much.

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I eata the ice yum

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THEY DEACTIVATED LOL

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[txttletale]

hey not trying to be a shithead but genuinely curious; and not saying it isnt, but what makes honest hearts like super racist? because, okay its been a while but i dont remember it being *that* bad?

am i missing something? (probably)

well, essentially, the whole dlc hinges its plot on its idea of 'tribal' society vs. 'civilized' society. this is like... a distinction with origins in 19th century scientific racism used to argue that indigenous peoples were 'primitive' and 'backwards', a lesser form of life compared to the more developed 'civilized' people. and this is a distinction that is everywhere in all the fallout games, including new vegas (i think it's super fucking racist that the white gloves practice of cannibalism is constantly narratively linked to their 'tribal origins' and described in the terms of a regression or degeneration)--but honest hearts is about it and so it's really inescapable.

joshua sawyer can say whatever he likes about multi-ethnic diverse groups or whatever but the tribes in honest hearts are very clearly inspired by racist stereotypes about native americans--they are naive, gullible morons (follows-chalk can't understand the concept of a casino) at worst and noble savages with (textually) biblical innocence at best. their names, their art, their societies--all just a white guy's idea of "vaguely native american" without any research or care.

and imo worst of all (and this is something im aware the devs have properly acknowledged) they have absolutely no agency--your role in the dlc is to be a "civilized" outsider who tells them which of two white "civilized" mormons to listen to. none of the 'tribals' are able to make their own decisions or lead themselves--they need a mormon missionary to tell them what to do! there is no way to resolve the dlc without picking which white mormon missionary they should listen to other than just murdering everyone indiscriminately.

and, like--i am aware that honest hearts thinks it is gesturing towards a critique of these ideas. you can criticize the paternalism daniel shows towards the sorrows, and the dlc clearly intended it to be criticized--but that criticism is weak and hollow when the only way to follow up on it is to put a different white mormon in charge. it is the most archetypal white saviour narrative possible--and yes, i also know daniel was 'supposed to be asian', but that doesn't change anything because he is in fact, as the "civilized" missionary preaching paternalistically to the "primitive tribals", fundamentally white-coded

so i mean yea it's racist because it relies on racist stereotypes about native americans, mandates that a white person come and take charge of these poor stupid 'tribes'--but even if you changed all that, it's fundamentally about an idea of 'civilization vs. tribal society' that it accepts as a true and meaningful distinction as its core premise, and that is just a straight up racist premise.

(and the reason i keep bringing up that both daniel and josh are mormons is that mormons have a long and storied history of brutal violence and colonialism against indigenous peoples, from their original violent settlement of utah to their 'indian placement program' to their deeply racist scripture, which makes their portrayal as benevolent white saviours particularly galling and repulsive)

[ross-hollander]

An insightful engineer once said...

...that there are exactly five archetypes of custom 'mechs in the galaxy, and every new and novel design falls under at least one of them:

The You Are In My Way and I Have The Money To Alter That, the over-armored monstrosities decked out in more firepower than both sides of the FedCom Civil War put together and with so much extra gear tacked on that Theseus might ask "hey, are you sure that's my 'mech?"

The You Can't Hit What Isn't there, the latest in the extremely long line of attempts to create a dodge-based 'mech, about half of which tend to circle back around to re-inventing battle armor because that's about as close as you can get.

The Ares Convention Violatinator 10,000, which would constitute an atrocity just by idling in the hangar (flamethrowers are practically a necessity).

The I'm Going To Make A Better Rifleman This Time Just You Watch, forever succumbing to the Rifleman Curse (which is that nobody can make a better Rifleman). You really can't improve on...well, mediocrity, at least.

The I Do Not Want To Pilot A BattleMech, the ones that are quite clearly an attempt to put legs on what is tactically an artillery piece, missile silo, fortified machine-gun emplacement or similar, wholly sans any consideration for what 'mechs are meant to do on the battlefield.

There are also the demi-archetypes of "Atlases Are Scary But This Is Scarier", the person trying to create an intimidation-based 'mech, and the "The Technicians Will Smack You After They Finish Reloading", also known as the "Itano Circus Ringmaster".

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Allegory

Allegory - a story that alludes to other literary works or comments on common conditions of life.

When a work or its passages are allegorical, they are similar to an event, character or setting in a story that is universally known: a fable, a parable in the Bible, or a Greek myth.

Allegories have 2 levels of narration occurring at the same time: the actual events, characters and setting presented in the story, and the ideas they are intended to convey or the significance they bear.

3 Literary Forms that you might use when discussing allegory:

Fable. A fable is a short story, often featuring animals with human traits, to which writers attach morals or explanations.

Parable. Parables are most often associated with Jesus Christ, who used them in His teachings. They are short narratives that exemplify religious truths or insights.

Myth. Myths are stories, either short or long, that are often associated with religion and philosophy and with various races and cultures. They embody the social and cultural values of the civilization during which they were written.

When writing about allegory, determine whether all or part of the story is allegorical.

Sustained allegory. This occurs when a story’s allegory continues throughout the work, from beginning to end. The sole purpose is to convey the dominant idea. The idea is emphasized rather than the story’s actual (literal) details. For example, The Pilgrim’s Progress is a story about Christian’s difficult journey from his home in the City of Destruction to his new home in the Heavenly City. But the main idea is about the rigors and trials of Christian life.

Episodic allegory. This occurs when a story contains an allegorical episode or passage. The passage is based on both the actual (literal) events in the story and the allegorical elements. For example, during one scene in the film Star Wars, Darth Vader imprisons Luke Skywalker, and Skywalker must exert all his skill and strength to get free and to overcome Vader. This temporary imprisonment signifies those moments of doubt and discouragement that people experience while trying to overcome obstacles. Similar heroic deeds have been represented allegorically in the stories of Jason and the Argonauts and Beowulf and Grendel.

When analyzing allegory, ask yourself the following questions:

The application of allegory. Does the allegory (fable, parable, myth) refer to anything or anyone specific? Does it refer to an action or particular period of history? Or does the allegory refer to human tendencies or ideas? Does it illustrate, point by point, particular philosophies or religions? If the allegory seems outdated, how much can be applied for people living today?

The consistency of allegory. Is the allegory maintained consistently throughout the work, or is it intermittently used? Explain and detail this use.

Do extra reading and research:

To understand allegorical implications in a story, you have to become familiar with the source of the similarities.

Allegorical sources include world history, classic works of literature, and archetypal ideas, such as the “quest” or “coming of age.”

You might need to use a dictionary, encyclopedia, or other reference book. For example, you would not recognize that the musical West Side Story is allegorical unless you were aware of its similarities to a classic work of literature: Romeo and Juliet. Thus, to see certain implications in West Side Story, you have to have a general grasp of Shakespeare’s play.

Remember: As long as the similarities are close and consistent, your allegorical interpretations of the story will be valid.

If these writing notes help with your poem/story, do tag me. Or send me a link. I'd love to read them!

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