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A history of the word (and practice of) genealogy

Image is courtesy of an article about tracing Irish ancestors and the quote comes from Lawrence Overmire's official website.

As I've written before, I am a genealogist (formerly employed as one) who has done "research updating genealogy of my mom’s family by my grandfather, using varied resources on the internet and photographs," while mentioning genealogical sources in varying other posts. [1] But there is one question that confounds me: what is the history of the word and practice of genealogy itself?

Reprinted from my History Hermann WordPress blog and Wayback Machine. Originally posted on Jan. 3, 2018.

In his 1967 novel, Washington D.C., Gore Vidal hilariously makes fun of, on pages 198-199, (as you could put it) the practice of genealogy:

Mr. Carhart was standing at his desk on which had been arranged a series of charts containing thousands of little boxes, some blank and some written in. "Genealogy," he said amiably. "I've traced the Carhart back to Robert the Bruce, in two lines." "That must be interesting sir." Peter [said]....Mr. Carhart's reputation as a bore was not exaggerated. Not only did he...have a series of set numbers...but he could also be spontaneously dull. He was exactly what Peter needed. "I'm all right, as you can see, through the nineteenth and most of the eighteenth century, a few holes here and there, of course, but the Carhart line is clear. Then in the seventeenth century was have a few little problems." He frowned: large problems obviously. "There is a connection with Sir Thomas Browne which is quite exciting but depends entirely upon this lady here." He pocked at one of the little boxes. "Who was her first husband? And are we kin to her children or to those by the second husband?" ...[Peter then gives Mr. Carhart his magazine] Peter was becoming restive: a sign that he was responding to the Carhart treatment. He was bored to life again.

Of course, I'm taking the context out of this story perhaps too much, but this whole thing does make me chuckle. It is worth noting that Peter and Mr. Carhart were talking in a mansion and both were white, in the "high life" of the wealthy to say the least. So, you could say that from this that genealogy was a hobby of the rich. I dug into this further, to find out the origins of the word itself.

The origin of the word "genealogy."

Before moving onto the history of the practice of genealogy, why not delve into the origin of the word itself?

Unfortunately, John Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins does not have an entry for the word "genealogy" (likely because it was not used as often when the book was published in 1990) but does have one for "family." It saying that the word has an unknown origin, with the word familia, indicating a term for domestic servants in the household, deriving from the Latin word famulus and only coming to its current meaning when translated into English to mean the "whole household," then narrowed again to a "group of related people." However, The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories solves this problem by giving the origins of the word "genealogy" on page 229:

genealogy [Middle English] This came via Old French and late Latin from Greek genelogia, from genea 'race, generation' and -logia 'speaking, discourse.'

The Online Etymology Dictionary, of course, has an entry as well, which is similar to the one on the Oxford Dictionary, along with other entries for the related words "genealogist" and "genealogical":

early 14c., "line of descent, pedigree, descent," from Old French genealogie (12c.), from Late Latin genealogia "tracing of a family," from Greek genealogia "the making of a pedigree," from genea "generation, descent" (from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups) + -logia (see -logy). An Old English word for it was folctalu, literally "folk tale." Meaning "study of family trees" is from 1768.

Encyclopedia Brittanica also talks about the origin of the word "genealogy":

Genealogy, the study of family origins and history. Genealogists compile lists of ancestors, which they arrange in pedigree charts or other written forms. The word genealogy comes from two Greek words—one meaning “race” or “family” and the other “theory” or “science.”...Genealogy is a universal phenomenon and, in forms varying from the rudimentary to the comparatively complex...The history of genealogy can be divided most easily into three stages. The first is that of oral tradition; the second, that in which certain pedigrees were committed to writing. The third stage comprises the period from approximately 1500 in western Europe and later in the English-speaking world...In the early days of civilization, before written records were made, oral traditions were necessarily important...Numerous Asian genealogies appear in the Bible. A cursory examination of these will reveal that they belong to the first and second stages in the history of genealogy...In southern India the ruling house of the maharajas of Travancore claimed to trace its descent, direct and unbroken, from the old Cera kings of southern India...The very long Asian genealogies begin as oral pedigrees and were later written down, but they concern only princes or great persons. In Africa the one instance of a claim to very long descent, that of the emperor of Ethiopia, bears a similarity to Tod’s Rajput genealogies...Under European influence, some Asian countries have adopted the practice of keeping systematic records for all citizens. In China, with its ancient system of ancestor worship, long, drawn-out pedigrees, including claims to descent from Confucius, are not unknown...In modern Japan, the registration of vital statistics is regulated by law...In the Bible there are many genealogies, the object of which is to show descent from Adam, Noah, and Abraham. By the time these genealogies had become part of the Jewish scriptures, the concept of racial purity had reinforced the keeping of family records...In Roman genealogies heroes were always descended from gods...With the invention of writing, the oral became the written tradition. This occurred in Greece and Rome, where genealogies were recorded in poems and in histories...With the conversion of the peoples of Ireland, Wales, and England to Christianity, the recording of their regal traditions began...From roughly 1100 to 1500, the emphasis of genealogists was on pedigrees of royal and noble lines...This period also saw the emergence of pedigrees of lesser folk...It was during the third period in European genealogical history that records that came to include everyone began. This period extends from 1500 to the present...In the course of so doing they discover and work with general principles which apply to pedigrees other than their own, though records other than those applicable to their own case do not interest them...The writing of private family histories by professionals is very common...In tracing family history, the worker follows certain rules...As the centuries are passed, the numbers of those who can prove a descent by the male line dwindle, until by the time of the Norman Conquest scarcely half a dozen pedigrees can be traced in the male line for either Saxon or Norman.

Further books, such as The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, say that genealogy is one of the two ways of classifying language, being the same as "genetic" in this context. [2]

How should we define genealogy?

First, before telling the history of the practice, we should define what genealogy even is! Otherwise, telling a history would be pointless.

The Webster's New World College Dictionary defines genealogy as simply "a chart or recorded history of a person or family from an ancestor or ancestors" or as "the science or study of family descent" and as "descent from an ancestor; pedigree; lineage."

Beyond that broad definition, there are many others out there. Some seem to differentiate between "family history" and "genealogy" (especially depending on whether you live in North America or Europe) while others say that genealogy is "history in a microcosm." [3] In terms of the word "genealogy" itself, some enthusiastically say it is a "hunt to answer every question you have ever had about your family and family history" while others say it is "essentially the study of information" or your "own personal history mystery." Others, like a site on Italian genealogy, note that

Often it is important to know where we come from, for a fuller sense of direction in life, in participating to a larger general design. All those who contributed to our genetical map are in a certain sense still living inside ourselves, wherever their physical existence took place. The research of our roots is both genetic and cultural: from the dusty, crumbling papers of documents people who belong to what we now are come out of the mist of time and look at us silently, affectionately, waiting for someone to decipher their documents, rescue them from oblivion and pass their otherwise forgotten names and stories on to the next generations...Genealogy, as all researchers know, needs imagination, that special feeling that there must be something somewhere, and just the right stone must be moved, the right person interviewed, to connect the missing link.

Furthermore, the following sites define genealogy as the following:

"a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group" or "the study of family ancestries and histories" or "descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage; ancestry."- Dictionary.com "an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms" or " regular descent of a person, family, or group of organisms from a progenitor...or older form [pedigree]" or "the study of family ancestral line" or an "account of the origin and historical development of something."- merriam-webster.com "The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree" or "A record or table of such descent; a family tree" or "the study, and formal recording of such descents"- wikitionary "Genealogy is the study of the history of families, especially through studying historical documents to discover the relationships between particular people and their families."- Collins Dictionary "the study of the history of the past and present members of a family, or a particular history of this type"- Cambridge Dictionary

Using these definitions, many of the posts on this blog would fundamentally be genealogical in nature, especially the ones about the members of the Maryland Extraordinary (Extra) Regiment.

The practice of genealogy

As it stands now, the public, at least in the United States (and in other countries like those in Europe and across Asia), seems deeply interested in genealogy. This has been reflected by the Mormons, who are big into the subject by running familysearch.org and its affiliated Family History Library. Even the Boy Scouts of America has a genealogy merit badge (I don't remember that from the time I was in Scouts)! Additionally, the Internet Archive has genealogical works, and the Library of Congress has certain collections.

A search on Google Books pulls up a lot of old genealogical publications. Avoiding specific family histories, or genealogies, I focused on genealogical publications.

For a magazine titled Genealogy: A Journal of American Ancestry, published in 1912, is an index to volumes 1 and 2, and then focus on specific families, certain records are transcribed (1790 census), and then there are columns for the publication on genealogical questions. These columns interestingly do not indicate gender of those writing in, but only their inquiries and surnames, with mentions of where the responses are located, on what page I presume:

The final page noted that it only cost $5.00 a year for a subscription to the Genealogy magazine, which was published by William M. Clemons on 45 and 49 William St in New York City, and edited by Lyman H. Weeks. Advertisements for family history information were also offered as was a list of nearby genealogists, and notation of the magazine having its own archive of genealogical materials.

I could go through over 300 other pages in the Google Books, but perhaps it is better to focus on the publisher, editor, and genealogists mentioned in their "directory," just in the first issue of this magazine (noted above).

Mr. Clemens, whose full name was William Montgomery Clemons, lived from 1860 to 1931, and published at least 26 works, various magazines and family records, along with books on Mark Twain, to name a few. The Genealogy Bank has an article about him and his life. They write that

William Montgomery Clemens (1860-1931) was a prolific genealogist and writer. Nephew to the more famous Samuel Clemens [or Mark Twain] (1835-1910) – he was also a newspaper man and author...A prolific writer, he was the author of well over 100 books and hundreds of essays and newspaper articles. His regular column – “Notes on American Ancestry and Revolutionary Records” regularly appeared as the “Genealogical Department” in the Columbia, SC newspaper – the State...Over 80 of Clemens’ genealogy columns appeared in the Star.Each one has genealogical details & information for families from across the country. He regularly received questions from his readers and posted them to this column.

What about the editor, Lyman Horace Weeks and recommended genealogists H. Wattel and E. Haviland Hillman? Lyman Horace Weeks was also a prolific genealogical writer as this page shows, only appearing one time in Harper's Magazine apparently. The New York Public Library describes him as such:

Lyman Horace Weeks (1851-1942) was an American genealogist, historian and editor. His specialty was genealogical research and he wrote and edited monographs and serials. His biography of Sir Peter Warren, British naval officer who aided in the capture of Louisbourg in 1745, was based on genealogical research.

Nothing else is known about him from my internet searching. For H. Wattel, it seems an insurmountable task to find his first name. As for E. Haviland Hillman, he seems to have been based on London for some amount of time, part of the F.S.G., writings some books (see here and here). From a quick search, the term "F.S.G." seems to be an accreditation of some sort. Further verification proves this to be correct. The denotation refers to one as a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists (SoG), based in London, founded in 1911. The organization describes what this means:

[As a fellow] they enjoy the knowledge their services have been recognised by their peers. They are entitled to use the initials FSG (Fellow of the Society of Genealogists) after their name and mention it on any professional websites they have. They are not compelled to do anything else. Fellowship is given for work and contributions already made to Genealogy; not for future work.

Likely when Hillman was a genealogist he was held to the same standard. SoG in 1911 was apparently founded as "a place where professional genealogists and amateur enthusiasts could meet." But who were those genealogists and enthusiasts? Considering that it was only 50 people at its founding in 1911 and still less than 1,000 after WWII, as noted by the UK's National Archives, it is probably worth an educated guess that the group was exclusive, attracting those who were well-off, respectable, male, and white. While it has become "Britain's premier family history society," it seems to be still exclusive to an extent. It has a "registered office located in Greater London," as noted on a business site, at the building, as it looked in 2015, below:

Courtesy of Google Street View

The building is small and almost looks like a library, at least inside. I was expecting something more ornate, but I was wrong.

What about 45 and 49 William St in New York City? As it stands now, it is a huge apartment building with construction on the street level. As it turns out, this location is just one of the many places rented out within the "Trump Building" (because Trump is the landlord of it) which was constructed in 1930. However, this magazine came out in 1912, 18 years before the tower was constructed. So where were their offices? While a photo of William Street before 1930 cannot be found, the city was teeming with cars and many skyscrapers even by the 1920s. It is likely that the building they were in was invoked a relatively recent style, as noted in an article by the New York Times:

By the beginning of the 20th century, the first generation of downtown skyscrapers ground out any remaining vestiges of the Dutch city, and in 1901 The New York Times mused that the crooked streets “remain to this day to bewilder modern New Yorkers"...Amos F. Eno, whose family had owned property in the area since before the Civil War, gave South William a renewed Dutch twist in 1903...Gilbert chose brick the color of honey and trimmed his commission with the soft white terra cotta that frames bays of leaded windows, rising to a stepped gable bearing a small circular window.

Then we get to The American Genealogical Record, published by a company in San Francisco. It told the history of specific families, just like Genealogy magazine, and seemed to resemble genealogy books we still see today. Sadly, this book does not give any insight into genealogy at that time.

Concluding words

There is still something to say after all of this. The practice of genealogy has changed over the years. Originally it was a hobby conducted by an exclusive few who were undoubtedly well-off white men (and perhaps some women). As the years went by, it became more inclusive and more scholarly. Genealogy is a field open for those of all races, sizes, and shapes. It allows one to cross class, racial, gender, or other lines which is, at times, harder in other disciplines. This is, what you could say, makes it unique. With all sorts of genealogical information online, one can sit at their computer and look up this and that, but this only gets so far because not every record is digitized. So, you still have to go to cemeteries, archives, libraries, historical societies, and the like. You can't look up everything online. To end this post, I look forward to your comments and the future trajectory of History Hermann, fully moving into the field of genealogy!

Notes

[1] See "The story of the extra regiment soldiers: from McCay to Patton"; "Benjamin Murdoch’s life after the war"; "“A young man with some property”: the story of a former Maryland captain"; "“A character for probity and honor”: the story of Theodore Middleton"; "“A Gentleman of Maryland”: the short life of Edward Giles"; "“An officer of the Revolution”: The story of Mountjoy Bayly" (In this post I wrote that "the only way to find this out would be to, perhaps, would be to contact the DC Archives. I don’t feel it is my place to do this since I would be intruding on genealogy research by the family itself, but it is open for any other researchers"); "A “person of trust”: the story of Archibald Golder"; and "The post-war life of Alexander Lawson Smith, a “Harford Man”".

[2] The QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson also has no entry for the word "genealogy" which should be no surprise.

[3] The Society of Genealogists makes this distinction, defining genealogy as "establishment of a Pedigree by extracting evidence, from valid sources, of how one generation is connected to the next. (In essence, this means the discipline of the construction of a valid family tree)" and family history as "a biographical study of a genealogically proven family and of the community and country in which they lived. (In essence, this means the writing of a biography of a series of related ancestors of common genealogy. Family History incorporates Genealogy)." By these definitions, I have engaged in genealogy and family history!

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smileandscream · 3 years ago

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Okay, first of all, I'm really sorry! It's been a long while and I have no excuse!

The alphabet is complete and ready to be posted, but since it's a pretty boring bit I'm going to offer you an incomplete list of my favourite Greek sayings, which is more fun, and hope it kind of makes up for my extreme lack of dedication, lol.

Anyway, here we go:

My favourite (not especially family-friendly) Greek sayings

Στου κουφού την πόρτα, όσο θέλεις βρόντα.

[Direct translation (warning for the wild syntax differences between the languages :P): On the deaf man's door, as long as you want knock.]

It means there is no point trying to convince someone unresponsive or especially thick-headed of a thing that is true (to you).

Έβαλε τον λύκο να φυλά τα πρόβατα.

[He had the wolf guard the sheep.]

When you try to recruit someone to your cause who is obviously doing it with ulterior motives and will betray you.

Γλώσσα παπούτσι, μυαλό κουκούτσι.

[Tongue a shoe, brain a seed.)

When someone talks a lot but is, simply put, not very bright.

Αλλού ο παπάς κι αλλού τα ράσα του.

[Elsewhere than the priest are his robes.]

Spoken of a very untidy, disorganised person.

Δεν μπορείς να έχεις και την πίτα ολόκληρη και τον σκύλο χορτάτο.

[You can't have both the pie whole and the dog fed.]

You can't have everything; you have to make compromises, sacrifices.

Είπε ο γάιδαρος τον πετεινό κεφάλα.

[The donkey told the rooster he had a big head.]

When you criticise someone, despite having the very same flaw you attribute to them, or ignoring your own wrong-doings.

Έχεις κι εσύ πολλά ράμματα στην γούνα σου.

[You too have a lot of stitches on your fur.]

When you are not blameless for something you accuse people of; when you've done plenty of sketchy things yourself.

Ήταν στραβό το κλήμα το έφαγε κι ο γάιδαρος.

[Crooked was the grapevine the donkey ate it too.]

When a situation worsens even though it was already ~not ideal~

Κακό σκυλί ψόφο δεν έχει.

[A bad dog death doesn't have.]

A bad person is very difficult to get rid of, never leaves it alone, persists for years and years. Frequently used about elderly politicians.

Ο βρεγμένος τη βροχή δεν φοβάται.

[The wet man the rain doesn't fear.]

When you have nothing to lose anymore, you're already used to the situation and are probably angry and ready to fight it.

Ο πνιγμένος από τα μαλλιά του πιάνεται.

[The drowned man for his hair grabs.]

When you're really desperate and willing to grasp at anything to try and save yourself.

Ο χορτάτος τον πεινασμένο δεν τον πιστεύει.

[The sated man the hungry man doesn't believe.]

Pretty self-evident. Privileged people aren't able/willing to listen to others talk about their suffering.

Όταν ακούς πολλά κεράσια κράτα μικρό καλάθι.

[When you hear a lot of cherries hold a small basket.]

On a controversial, very argued-about issue, be careful what you believe and use critical thinking.

Όπως έστρωσες θα κοιμηθείς.

[As you made (the bed) you will sleep.]

Simply put: You did this to yourself. Deal with it.

Στερνή μου γνώση να σ' είχα πρώτα.

[My later/last knowledge if only I'd had you from the very start.]

Again, self-evident. Used when you regret having done something the way you did when you were younger.

And, last but not least, possibly the best out of all these,

Στους τυφλούς κυβερνάει ο μονόφθαλμος.

[Among the blind men rules the one-eyed one.]

When a group of unknowledgable, probably dim people, is led by someone who is not very smart either, but is smart enough to know what buttons to press and what to say in order to get to them and have them follow.

That's about it with tidbits of Greek wisdom for today.

Little Trivia: these sayings are obviously the product of a closed-off, rural society. They are old, maybe going as far as the nineteenth century, and stopped being made or widely used when people started moving to big cities some seventy years ago. Since then, many have been forgotten, seeing as the concepts they describe, on a shallow level, seem to be outdated to most modern Greeks. They are viewed as part of their cultural heritage and painstakingly written down by researchers aiming to preserve these little memorials of the country's past.

On a following post, I may list some of my favourite sayings which include curse words (the word "shit" is used much more than you'd expect), or analyse some of these on their tenses and vocabulary. Let me know what you prefer.

Going to post the alphabet in about an hour, I think.

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clarste · 4 years ago

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Sorry if you've been asked this explicitly before, but what are your thoughts on Penguin Logistics, specifically in comparison to the other organisations/factions in Arknights? I recently started and managed to grab everyone within a few pulls, except Sora (and I guess Mostima, unfortunately.) and I think they're easily my favourites. Would love to hear your thoughts. Cheers.

No one's ever asked me that, but they probably should have since I've gone all-in on Penguin Logistics ever since I pulled Exusiai and Croissant early on. I then proceeded to never pull any of the others, forcing me to buy Texas and Sora in the shop and much later dump all of my accumulated gacha currency getting Mostima. Anyway, my goal in life is to use the entire team and also max them all out. PL4life!

Anyway, my initial impression of them was that they were the cast of a 90s anime like Cowboy Bebop or Bubblegum Crisis (...Tokyo 2040). Like, they're an eclectic band of hyper-competent misfits working for a small company operating at the edge of the law. “Penguin Logistics” itself sounds like a euphemism for being, like, smugglers or something. "We'll get your package where it needs to go, no questions asked." Then Code of Brawl came out and I was totally right except they are also very dumb in a funny way. Like, they accidentally got into a turf war with the mafia, but apparently that's just business as usual.

Anyway I want to talk about each of them individually now so apologies if this starts rambling.

Texas is pretty clearly the main character of Penguin Logistics, and you can tell because she's the hub of their whole relationship wheel on the in-game chart.

She's also kinda Spike from Cowboy Bebop, although less laid-back I guess. She's a former mafia assassin on the run from her past, but her past won't leave her alone. Incidentally, "mafia" in this case refers to the various wolf families from the fantasy Italy equivalent in this setting, although they make some interesting comparisons to wolf packs in the profiles. However, Texas's family is dead, which should make her a "lone wolf" that will supposedly never have another place to belong. Except PL itself is proof that that's wrong.

Theoretically she’s just the team’s driver, but because PL is always getting into ridiculous anime fights she’s also good at that part too, using dozens of little... lightsabers(?) that she throws around willy nilly. It would probably look super-cool to see in action, except this is not that kind of game so we’ll just have to wait for the anime or whatever. It’s noted in her profile that her fighting style shows that she unconsciously sees as the only purpose of a weapon as being to kill, and heck, she’s right.

She's cool-headed, adaptable, and the serious one you can always count on, but she's not above getting into friendly(?) brawls just to take out her frustrations out.

Her name comes from the extinct subspecies of Texas Wolf.

Next up is Exusiai, the angel who loves nothing more than guns, god, rock and roll, and apple pie. In that order. In other words, a stereotypical American. Even though she's from the fantasy-Vatican. Basically she's a cheerful, friendly, laid-back person who never really fit in back home where people are expected to be more serious and orderly. Not enough to be, like, shunned or anything but she's always been a weirdo. All angels have guns though, that’s like standard issue. She wishes she could have more though.

She's also super religious, but interestingly never brings it upon her own. I feel like she probably realizes how uncomfortable it can make people who don't share that religion to suddenly bring up Jesus all the time in casual conversation. Like, she's not ashamed of it or anything, but she won't shove it in your face either. Personally, I find that a pretty cool characterization for a fictional religious person.

Which is also sort of a hint that beneath her goofy exterior she's a thoughtful, deliberate person who doesn’t let anyone in by accident. Texas notes that they're exact opposites in this respect. She also has an extremely interesting relationship with the next person.

Her name comes from the Greek word for the order of angels in Christianity often translated as "Powers."

Mostima... where to start...? I guess first of all she’s a fallen angel, apparently because she pointed her gun at her own kind under MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. Probably related to the whole war in Kazdel thing, where many of the other MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES in this game took place. Long story short, stuff happened in the war, she pointed her gun at another angel, Exusiai’s sister is dead under mysterious circumstances, and Mostima gave up her gun and now wanders the world delivering long-distance packages for PL. But that’s mostly an excuse for to be alone as much as humanly possible. She can also use time magic because I dunno why not. MYSTERIOUS.

She’s friendly enough, talkative even, and has a hobby of visiting new places and trying out the local food, etc, but her real defining trait is that she just doesn’t need other people. She’s explicitly aromantic, saying she has no interest in love, but she also has no need for friends or family or apparently coworkers either. Because of the way the world is, she spends most of her time driving through the endless wastelands between cities, with nothing but a truck, some packages, and her thoughts. There’s something... romantic about that (in the other sense of the word), but even she admits that the romance of watching the sun set in a desert with no one else around for hundreds of kilometers gets old after a while.

I feel like I should note that she has a very “best friend of her big sister” relationship with Exusiai, by which I mean she’s known Exusiai since Exusiai was a kid and to her Exusiai will always be that kid. Also Exusiai only joined PL in the first place to hunt her down and get answers about her sister’s death, but Mostima just laughs it off and leaves town for another year or five.

Her name is probably a corruption of Mastema, a rather infamous fallen angel in mythology.

Croissant is... well, to be honest everyone past this point is more of a minor character. Which is actually a weird thing to say since none of these people are actually major characters in Arknights, but I guess these are less important people even within the group?

Croissant’s gimmick is that she’s always trying to make money by selling stuff. I guess she’s a merchant? But not, like, a formal one who runs a shop, she just gets her hands on stuff through her connections and sells it. But in like, a friendly down-to-earth way, it’s even said that she lives paycheck to paycheck. She’s a girl trying to get by with a second job, I guess is what I’m saying.

Team-wise, she’s the muscle of the group, being a minotaur and all. She lifts the heavy packages and also smashes things with her MAGNETIC HAMMER which I don’t know why I find that name so amusing. Gameplay-wise her special move can knock all the enemies around her halfway across the map and I smile every time she does it.

Her profile notes that she’s really just living her best life as a normal-ish person, and that helps make everyone around her feel normal, and that’s important in a setting where half the people around you are dying of magical cancer (no one in PL is Infected though).

Her name comes from the French word for Crescent and also a type of Pastry. Leaning more towards Pastries in my opinion.

Sora is an idol singer. Because, to be perfectly honest, what ragtag band of misfits is complete without an idol singer? She can’t really fight, but I guess Texas must have saved her life at some point or something because she bullied both her agency and PL into letting her work there part time. And also she is obsessed with Texas. I guess saying it like that makes her sound kind of annoying, but she really isn’t, she’s just an earnest girl chasing her dreams.

There’s also this interesting thing where a lot of her basic information is censored by her agency in order to protect her privacy (”do not dox the idol”). Even including her race. She presents as a wolf, but her promoted E2 art has her as a rabbit, which raises some interesting questions that don’t really get answered.

Her name comes from the Japanese word for Sky.

Lappland is not really part of PL, but she’s PL-adjacent enough to be worth mentioning here. Basically she’s an old acquaintance of Texas from back in their mafia days, and she’s obsessed with hunting her down and... fighting her? Killing her? But in, like, a sexual way? She’s kind of a crazy psychopathic killer. Maybe. She can also be very calm and polite when she wants to be, although with a taste for gallows humor. That just makes her scarier because you don’t know when/if she’ll snap.

There are two kind-of explanations for her being like that: A) her family is dead and she has no “pack”. As a wolf, the stress of living without a pack is supposed to be maddening. B) She’s infected with Oripathy (magic cancer) and there are crystals growing in her nervous system. Which... can’t be good. The answer is probably a combination of both.

But the most important thing about Lappland is her base skill and how it interacts with Texas. Basically, in your base there are various jobs you can assign people to and different characters get different bonuses for them. Most people in Penguin Logistics get bonuses for working the Trading Depot, for obvious reasons. Lappland gets a “bonus” where if she’s in the depot at the same time as Texas, she loses morale slower but doesn’t actually get any bonus to productivity. Meanwhile, Texas gets a bonus to productivity when Lappland is around, but loses morale way faster. In other words, Lappland is slacking off and making Texas so uncomfortable that she works twice as hard just to get the job over with so she can leave. This is their relationship as defined by game mechanics.

Texas also has another bonus where she loses morale slower if Exusiai is there, which completely cancels out the penalty she gets from Lappland. In other worlds, Exusiai being there too calms her nerves enough that she doesn’t feel the need to immediately escape.

Oh yeah, I forgot to talk about Emperor, who’s the owner of Penguin Logistics. He’s a world-famous rapper wearing a Tupac shirt and also literally immortal.

#not touhou #arknights #penguin logistics

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holylulusworld · 5 years ago

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Always the same

Request: Can you please make dean x reader, when they meet for the first time but ready is shy and awkward, but her friend is loveable. So, dean, sam, Cas, and jack pay attention to her friend rather than her. She feels sad and disappointed, but she is used to it. She didn’t cry, just smiling in pain. The reader likes dean. Dean is a gentleman to her but maybe he treated girls the same. So, she is the kind of person that walks alone and behind while they are laughing in together.

Pairing: Dean x Reader, Sam Winchester, Jack Kline, Castiel, OFC Michelle, Charlie Bradbury

Warnings: angst, shy reader, heartbreak, shitty friend, comforting, fluff, language, a hint of kidnapping

This is the requested sequel to: Overlooked

Charlie is alive for this story.

When Dean and you entered his motel room he got a pie out of the bag, along with two forks, bacon and pancakes.

He’s watching you sit on a chair, offering you a fork as you hesitantly take it. “Thanks.” Your voice barely above a whisper you dare not to look at the tall hunter.

You know he pities you, there is this look people give you recognizing your distress. Your brother gave you this look, and Michelle does the same.

“Why are you shy around me too? Did I do something wrong?” Dean tries to start a conversation, but you don’t know how to answer his question.

“We barely know each other. How could you have done something wrong?” Sniffling you poke the food with the fork, not hungry any longer. “Not your fault I’m plain and boring. I know that even Michelle has enough of me sometimes.”

“Hey, we can’t all be like her or me. I’m more the ‘here I’m guy’, Y/N. If you are shy, that’s okay. But don’t hide from me too, we could…” Dean can’t end his speech as someone knocks at his door, disturbing the longest conversation you had with a man in a long time.

Dean is rushing toward the door, poking his head out to see someone making his face contort in anger.

“Huh, Michelle? What are you doing here? I thought you wanted to check the location of the last murder with Castiel while Sammy and Jack go to the library.” Slightly annoyed Dean glares at Michelle, who chuckles.

“I thought we could use the time wiser. I know you and I have some chemistry, Dean. I could sleep in your room; don’t think I want to spend more time with Y/N. She’s annoying me since Tulsa with her babbling about lore or something…” Michelle smirks, sliding her fingers over Dean’s chest.

Tears well up your eyes and you believe Dean wanted to make fun of you, just like your friend. They planned this to make you feel even more miserable.

Grabbing your keys, you rush toward the door to duck under Dean’s arms, turning around you blink a few tears away.

“You know, only as I’m shy you didn’t have to make fun of me, Dean. I got you are not interested in someone as plain as me but that’s just cruel…” Sobbing you run toward your car as Dean runs after you, calling your name.

“Y/N stop, that wasn’t a plan or something. I didn’t know Michelle would come to my room. I asked Castiel to take her with him to have some time with you.” Dean tries to stop you, but you slap his hand away, shaking your head.

“I’m shy, not dumb, Winchester. I know when someone tries to fool me. The whole evening you didn’t even look at me and suddenly you want to know me better. Shove your lies up to your ass. I knew I’m better off without you or Michelle. She only wanted to use my knowledge and strength.” Opening your door you toss your purse and jacket in.

“Y/N, please believe me…” Dean tries once again but you get into your car, slamming the door shut.

“Oh, you should know Michelle likes to do it without a condom and had STD last month. You better be careful before you celebrate you pranked me.” Starting your engine, you drive away without looking back, not seeing Dean’s pained expression.

“Son of a bitch, Michelle! You win the prize for the worst timing like ever.” Beyond angry Dean kicks a stone before he stalks toward Michelle.

“We still can have fun, Dean. Y/N will calm and come back. She didn’t pack her stuff.” Michelle chuckles, trying to touch Dean once again.

“She already packed her stuff and wanted to leave before I invited her. Jesus, Sam was right this morning. He said you didn’t invite Y/N, even after Jack told you to do so, on purpose. You even forgot to tell her about the diner.”

Slamming the door of his room shut Dean shakes his head, inhaling sharply as Michelle tries to win him over with dirty talk.

“I met a lot of shitty people in my life I can tell, but you beat them for sure. Get your hands off me right now. I want Y/N’s number.” Dean is holding out his hand to check Michelle’s phone for your number before he tosses it at her.

“When I’m back you better are gone, ‘cause neither me nor my brother like having bitches around.” Storming toward his car Dean deals your number but he ends up at your mailbox.

—-

“Find her, Sammy. She was so hurt…” Pacing around the room Dean looks at the laptop, hating his brother can’t find you fast enough.

“Relax, Dean. I already found her phone. We will drive to the motel and you can talk to her. Y/N is a nice girl, smart too. She managed to translate this old Greek oath for me in no time. She wasted her whole night while Michelle was partying, Dean. I hate to say it but…” Dean huffs giving Sam his best bitch face.

“I know, bitch. You told me so, Sammy. I just wanted to give Michelle a fair chance and offer her and Y/N a room in the bunker. I didn’t know she’s a bitch trying to get into my pants and leaving her so-called friend behind.” Dean is grabbing his key, rushing out of the room to drive toward your position.

“Wait for us, dude. We need to apologize too, Dean. Cas, Jack and I messed up too.” Sam is running after his brother, as Castiel and Jack watch Dean cursing in front of his car.

—-

“Where is she, Sammy?” Looking around the empty motel room Dean curses seeing your phone lie abandoned onto the nightstand. “Do you think she forgot her phone?” Sam shakes his head, sighing.

“I guess she knew Michelle would try to get her ‘research slave’ back. I got no clue how to find her, Dean. I’m sorry.” Sam looks around the room, not knowing how to help his brother he sits onto a chair.

“We can’t give up, Sammy. She’s a nice girl, tough hunter and now she lost her partner. What if anything happens to her?” Dean checks the nightstand, kneels to look under the bed, even looks behind the mirror to find any clue of your whereabouts.

“Care to explain why you look under the carpet?” Sam watches his brother, cocking a brow, as Dean robs toward the second nightstand, almost squealing as he finds a piece of paper.

“Got something!” Holding the piece of paper in front of Sam’s face, a triumphally smirk on his lips Dean points at the flyer. “Look, a Dungeons & Dragons festival not far away. I bet Y/N will be there.” Dean is proud of himself, grinning as Sam rolls his eyes.

“Dude, maybe someone else dropped this flyer. It could lie there for weeks or even months.” While Sam tries to reason with Dean his brother gives him a glare.

“Read the date, bitch. It says the festival starts today at six. I don’t think the flyer lies here for months. Get up and help me find my girl.” Dean is running out of the room, the flyer still in his hands he ignores Sam started to laugh.

“I think you got it bad, Dean.” Pointing at the flyer Dean doesn’t answer, only whistles for his brother and the angels to follow him.

“Shut up and get into the car, Sammy. I got to find my shy girl and tell her I didn’t try to trick her.”

—-

“Awesome!” The redhead you met months ago squeals, hugging you tightly as you followed her invitation. “I knew you would make it Y/N. Where is your friend?” Charlie is craning her neck, not seeing Michelle.

“We parted ways, Charlie. You know…” Sighing you toss your bag onto the prepared bed. “You were right with Michelle, Charlie. She was a bitch.”

“What? Seriously, tell me everything, girl. Let’s rip her apart and talk low about her. She was nagging about us talking about Dungeons & Dragons the whole time. I told you she’s only keeping you around for doing her research, lazy cow.” Charlie sits onto the bed, letting you warm up with her.

“I liked a guy and told her so. We met him during a hunt. He was…” Sniffling you blink a few tears away.

“Let’s say I liked him a lot and Michelle used to opportunity to make fun of me. I thought he is nice, tries to get to know me but I was wrong.” Wiping away a few tears you keep on telling Charlie what happened, and she turns pale hearing Dean’s name leaving your lips.

“Hey…” Slinging her arm around your shoulder Charlie sighs. “We are going to rock this festival as the devilish queens of Moondoor, Babe. How about you change into your costume and I check on you later?”

Walking out of your tent Charlie dials Dean’s number. Ready to kill her friend for hurting you.

—-

“Where is she? Charlie…” Looking around the field Dean tries to find you, but Charlie slaps his cheek harshly, shaking her head.

“Did you hurt that poor girl to get into that chicks’ pants? Michelle is a bitch first grade, Dean. I knew the moment I met her she is up to no good. Dude, she used Y/N as bait, let her walk into a building full of vamps all alone.”

Charlie slaps Dean’s other cheek, pointing toward your tent. “That girl likes you and….” Blinking a few times Charlie wonders why Dean starts grinning before he pecks her cheek.

“Sorry, Charlie but Sammy will explain everything. I got to get my girl…” Dean is running off, not caring he looks odd between all the LARP’er as he’s wearing an FBI suit.

“What?” Eyebrows raised in confusion Charlie looks at Sam who can’t hold back a chuckle at the sight of his brother dashing toward your tent, running two elves over as he stumbles toward his goal.

“He got it bad, Charlie…so bad…” Sam slings an arm around Charlie’s shoulders, leading her toward Castiel and Jack as he starts to tell her what happened.

—-

“There you are! Damn, girl, you are hard to find.”

Dean gulps, drinking your outfit in. You are wearing a short dress and wings. There are flowers added to the straps and all over the thin fabric. Your long hair is curled, framing your face. You even got cute elf ears.

“What do you want?” Arms crossed over your chest you glare at Dean as he tries to find the right words, but your outfit makes his heart beat faster.

“I swear I didn’t plan anything. I told Michelle to get the fuck out of my way. I tried to find you by tracking your phone.” Dean talks fast enough to make himself gasp but he keeps on going. “I found this flyer.” Pointing at the piece of paper in his hands Dean gets closer to show you his prey.

“Yeah, I lost it at the motel room.”

“I knew you would be here and dragged everyone to the festival. I wanted to make sure you know I do like you and would love to get to know you better. You know I once led the knights of Moondoor into a glorious battle and I’ll do it again.” Dean is waiting for your response, but you burst into laughter at his serious expression.

“You know that I’m one of the evil elves of Moondoor, right? I’m the one slitting the good people’s throat open, Dean.” Smirking you get closer to the tall hunter, showing him your hidden weapons and he hums in appreciation.

“I got a thing for bad girls in that case. I could help you creating fear and panic through violence on innocent elves, princesses or whatever. Let me be your trustful knight, my lady.” Dean is tilting his head before he cups your face to capture your lips in a soft kiss. “Please…”

“You barely know me, Dean…” Confused you try to tame your wildly beating heart as Dean mumbles ‘I don’t care’ against your lips.

“Dean…”

“We hunted together for over a week and I like your style, Y/N. You are smart, caring and got a bad taste in food like me. I like you are a tough hunter but shy and want you to give me the chance to get to know you better by slaughtering innocent Moondoor citizens…” Dean smirks as you pat his chest, nodding.

“Lend me a hand, Lord Winchester. I think my sister and I can never have enough minions to help us.” Leading Dean out of the tent you smile as he takes your hand in his.

“You said Michelle shall fuck off?” Giggling you glance up at Dean.

“Not exactly but I told her to stay away and that Sammy and I do not like having a bitch around. Now let’s be bad and kill some elves…” Dean chuckles as you nod eagerly, pointing toward another tent.

“Let’s kill these first, I bet they won’t see us coming…” Sneaking behind the tent you squeal as Dean tosses you over his shoulder to run toward the Impala, growling something like ‘I’ve got this’ and ‘son of a elves bitch’ as almost the whole LARP’er community is running after the hunter.

Sam is watching the scene laughing, not knowing if Dean realized he just kidnapped a queen, and everyone is after him.

“Shall we tell him they won’t stop till they got hold of her?” Charlie chuckles glancing at Dean pushing an Orc away.

“Nah, way more fun to watch him defend his prey.” Sam laughs as Dean sprints toward his brother, screaming for help as you giggle.

“Dean, let me down and they will stop chasing us…” You scold but Dean won’t have it.

“No way, Sweetheart. I will never let you down again…” With that Dean runs faster to get away from the angry mob trying to get hold of his girl.

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ash-trash · 4 years ago

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💗💥☀️🌙🌺 for all your ACTIVE RP charr.

Oh my! To keep this from going overboard, I’m going to keep this to Charr that are participating in active guild or open RP! Let’s get started...

Sela Lunarstep:

💗 Ramble a bit about this character!

Oh gosh, there’s so much to ramble about! Sela’s actually not my oldest EU character, she’s younger than Kurra by a smidge, but she’s definitely my favorite! She’s currently having a pretty rough go of it, but I really love thinking about her “private” life outside of Warband stuff - she gets into tussles, makes jewelry, all sorts of exciting things! :3c Sela’s name comes from, shocker, the Greek moon goddess Selene, while Lunarstep has changed a bit over the years. Originally, she was a shadowstep thief build, which is where the Lunarstep came from, but now it’s more of a... she’s always at the front of the pack, leading the charge, sort of deal. :p

💥 Are there any emotions your OC doesn’t know how to deal with, doesn’t understand or hates having to feel? Any reason behind this?

Sela is garbage at dealing with anything related to her own vulnerabilities and weaknesses, aha. She’s built up this huge facade of bravado that fixates on her being the perfect soldier and the best Legionnaire and so she has a huuuuge amount of trouble asking for (or accepting) help, or admitting that she can’t do something. Vulnerability is a big no-no and so naturally, although she does well with the more maternal relationships within her Warband, she really struggles with anything that veers towards the romantic. As far as hating to feel something, she hates to be embarrassed or humiliated, again related to her own pride and confidence.

☀️ How well does your OC take care of themself? Do they tend to put others before their own wellbeing and if so how often? What is their favourite way to pamper themself?

I’d say that she does a pretty good job of taking care of herself, but she absolutely puts others before herself. She prides herself on taking care of her warband and spoiling them and that often translates to making sure they get the lion’s share of the goodies while she scrimps. That said, she does have enough of an ego to feel that she “deserves” the good stuff, so she generally takes care of her own needs pretty well. Except sleep.

🌙 What are some of your OC’s favourites? Favourite food, colour, season, stuff like that! Give some general simple facts that tend to get overlooked!

Hmmm, stuff that’s overlooked... well, her favourite colour would be purple, season would be fall (she likes the milder weather and really enjoys the autumn leaves), flavorwise she loves spicy things (honestly, just because she’s trying to show off and be tough) as well as deep rich flavours... More obscure stuff might be: Her favourite time of day is late night, favourite bunk is the bottom one, favourite horn is her upper right one, favourite instrument would be the flute (she tends to prefer her music in the higher ranges - piccolo’s up there too!), and favourite cheese would be a nice heady parmesan.

🌺 What additions would your OC make to their body if they could? Lets say, if they don’t have a tail would they want one? Wings? Horns? Do they wish they could shapeshift?

Sela’s pretty happy with her body as it is, but there’s definitely a few changes she’d make. As much as they’d get in the way, she kinda wants bigger horns, and definitely bigger teeth. She’d love to be even more flexible than she is, and she’d like some extra muscle and definition to her legs. Wings would be nice, but definitely not all the time. Shapeshifting, of course! That would come in so handy!

Graf Towercleave (Yes, he still counts >.> ):

💗 Ramble a bit about this character!

Ah, Graf, my old man... Graf is definitely one of those characters with the most fleshed-out backstories, especially in how it affects him nowadays, and all the traumas and memories that come with it. I don’t remember the inspiration for his first name, but the second part was because he was originally designed to be a WvW Firebrand in his off-time (which... never came to fruition, oops), so Towercleave. I’m really excited to see the next step in his journey, though it coincides with my own journey in such a way that I do find myself getting emotional about the good-byes... ;w;

💥 Are there any emotions your OC doesn’t know how to deal with, doesn’t understand or hates having to feel? Any reason behind this?

I’d say that Graf doesn’t really do well with a lot of the “non-Charr” emotions/feelings: any sort of romance, faith, or selfishness. He’s learned to deal with them in others, to be sure, but they’re still fairly alien to him. I’d say that as far as things he experiences that he struggles with, it would be the trauma of his past - whether it’s something that he experienced in the Sieges, or in his time with the Vigil, he... doesn’t do well with being “scared”, or not in control.

☀️ How well does your OC take care of themself? Do they tend to put others before their own wellbeing and if so how often? What is their favourite way to pamper themself?

He does good at taking care of himself, though perhaps a bit more spartan than is strictly necessary, because that’s what he’s used to. He’s been a soldier his whole life, through and through, and he knows how important maintaining his equipment, including his body, is. He does a good job at keeping himself in shape and healthy, though perhaps to a detriment of not allowing himself many luxuries (except for warm baths, those are always welcome). Although he does consider others, he usually tends to leave them to their own devices, except when he decides they’re too young/naive/bullheaded to do it properly, such as a certain blue-haired warbandmate.

🌙 What are some of your OC’s favourites? Favourite food, colour, season, stuff like that! Give some general simple facts that tend to get overlooked!

Favourite food would be some good old traditional charr chow. Grilled meat, lots of special sauce, no fancy frou-frou to mess with it. Maybe some cheese. As far as colours, although most of his life tends to be filled with red, he’ll admit to liking a nice deep dark navy blue the best. The sea has been a rare treat for him, and he enjoys it when he can. Favourite season would have to be winter. Although he doesn’t care for the snow and cold and slush, he likes the way it makes the world slow down. He likes that everyone hates it together, I suppose. Some more obscure ones... his favourite flavour of pie is strawberry, his favourite place was a small grove in what is now the Dragonbrand - nowadays, it’s probably the Hero’s Canton, because it has the most nice memories without bad ones to taint it.

🌺 What additions would your OC make to their body if they could? Lets say, if they don’t have a tail would they want one? Wings? Horns? Do they wish they could shapeshift?

Honestly, he’d mostly just... fix his current one. Make it less old, less achy, less stiff. Shapeshifting and the rest of it sounds like a lot of faff. He wishes he had a third set of ears so he could hear humans better. Maybe another pair of arms to hold more things.

Naphtha Seizetar:

💗 Ramble a bit about this character!

But I ramble about her so muuuuch, FINE. For any newcomers, Naphtha was originally a villain in a Lunar plot that met a gruesome end, but I loved the concept so much that I had to remake her (a sort of AU, what-if-her-life-turned-out-different) as a good girl. I’ve actually got a sort of spooky story in the works with her (and at the rate I’m going it might be spooky season before it’s ever finished) that’s going to give her a bit of development with her magic because right now the poor girl is a dummy and would rather play with pressure cookers.

💥 Are there any emotions your OC doesn’t know how to deal with, doesn’t understand or hates having to feel? Any reason behind this?

A lot of them, probably. Naph is a sweetie but she doesn’t do well with a lot of “serious” things. She likes being left alone to her own devices and is still getting the hang of the much-more teamwork oriented Seize group. So I guess emotionally, uh, things like teamwork and codependence and responsibility, whatever emotions those are. As far as hates feeling, she really doesn’t like feeling like she’s wrong (ironically). She doesn’t like feeling like she’s being irrational, or that she’s not justified in what she’s doing.

☀️ How well does your OC take care of themself? Do they tend to put others before their own wellbeing and if so how often? What is their favourite way to pamper themself?

She does not. Naph is the kind of gal that would go weeks without showering, live off of corn chips and stale marshmallows she found under the couch, and develop a 12 coffee a day habit so she only has to sleep once a month. Naph does not take very good care of herself at all, and she takes care of others even less. She’s not necessarily inconsiderate, she just... as above, doesn’t do well with the whole teamwork thing and kind of figures that she can take care of herself, so everyone else can too. As far as pampering herself, she rarely goes above what’s “necessary” as far as self-care, but on the rare occasion that she did decide to treat herself, she’d get a lot of fancy soaps and oils and just... go to town on her fur and spend like a whole day grooming and scrubbing and getting the years of grime out of there until she’s as soft and fluffy as can be.

🌙 What are some of your OC’s favourites? Favourite food, colour, season, stuff like that! Give some general simple facts that tend to get overlooked!

Favourite food would be mushroom anything. Probably her favorite ever is something she had in Lion’s Arch one time, some sort of pasta dish with mushrooms and squid ink - it was salty and savory and rich... Her favourite colour would be brown (well, she’d say black but as far as actual COLOURS), and her favourite season would be fall. She likes the spoopy season, and enjoys cronching the leaves. More uncommon things, her favourite shape is octagon, her favorite simple machine is the screw, and her favorite animal is the carrion devourer.

🌺 What additions would your OC make to their body if they could? Lets say, if they don’t have a tail would they want one? Wings? Horns? Do they wish they could shapeshift?

She would absolutely go all out and give herself big ol’ bat wings and like 3 more sets of horns and huuuuge fangs and way bigger claws and a pointy tail and SPIKES and probably a third eye on her forehead... heck yeah.

Elda Throatchop:

💗 Ramble a bit about this character!

Ahhh, Elda. I included her mostly because I wanted to talk about her and also she’s sort of gotten sucked into a few open-ish things lately so she totally counts >.> She’s another NPC-turned-character from Lunar’s Drizzlewood plot, this time a generic helper NPC that was supposed to get killed off but Lunar actually did well enough that she survived, and helped them through the final fight. Aesthetically, she’s actually based off of the Pokemon Obstagoon, which is where her last name comes from as well. Sort of. I’ve honestly had the idea for a Blood engineer in the back of my mind for years now and Elda is absolutely not that! She’s not at all what I would have made had I set out originally to make a Blood engineer, but I love her anyways and I’m really enjoying her.

💥 Are there any emotions your OC doesn’t know how to deal with, doesn’t understand or hates having to feel? Any reason behind this?

Elda hates feeling loneliness. She doesn’t mind being alone, and she can handle that just fine - she likes her private time to tinker or work on projects or test the latest whatever, and she probably does better on her own anyways, but she... needs to know that there’s people there for her if she wants/needs. She doesn’t like being isolated. As far as stuff that she doesn’t know how to deal with, probably regret? She’s so far operated on a kind of “live hard die young” sort of deal (and she almost did, dohohoho) and so when missed opportunities or regrets jump out at her, she’s not really sure what to do about it. It never spurs her to action so she’s kind of just left there staring at it like “so... what now?” and it kind of shuts down her whole mojo for a long time.

☀️ How well does your OC take care of themself? Do they tend to put others before their own wellbeing and if so how often? What is their favourite way to pamper themself?

Elda takes decent enough care of herself. Not exemplary (she’s not out here practicing yoga or getting enough fiber) but well enough! She eats regularly and gets enough sleep and bathes often, so she’s doing pretty good! Although she doesn’t regularly put anyone above herself, she would do it for certain people, like her friends or family. She values them and their role in her life enough that she’s willing to self-sacrifice to make them happy and keep them around. When she does want to treat herself, she tends to splurge a little on some shiny new tool or toy, often with the excuse that it’s for work and it’ll help her be more productive, but she knows that it’s just because it’s bigger and shinier and has an extra spanner or something.

🌙 What are some of your OC’s favourites? Favourite food, colour, season, stuff like that! Give some general simple facts that tend to get overlooked!

Her favourite food would probably be things that are kind of finicky and interactive, so poultry wings, or artichoke, or shellfish. She’s not really picky about flavours, though of course she likes things meaty. Her favourite colour is obviously red, though she’ll admit to a fondness for pink as well. She never understood why humans attach so much meaning to it - pink’s cool. Her favourite season is definitely summer - she likes the clear skies, the bright weather... More random stuff! Her favourite Bop-It command is Twist It, her favourite style of soda pop (if such a thing exists in Tyria, I dunno) is Dr. Pepper, her favourite sport is wrestling, and her favorite piece of clothing is her belt buckle, which is made from the melted down remains of her first gun.

🌺 What additions would your OC make to their body if they could? Lets say, if they don’t have a tail would they want one? Wings? Horns? Do they wish they could shapeshift?

Elda’s pretty happy with how she is, but given her choices, she’d like to be quite a bit taller and a bit bulkier. She wishes her teeth were a bit pointier, and she always wished she could grow a longer mane - she wants to have a big spiky mohawk too. As nice as wings or shapeshifting would be, it seems like having too many things would just get in the way.

#Thanks for asking!#Long post #Sela Lunarstep #Graf Towercleave #Naphtha Seizetar #Elda Throatchop

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Congratulations, NAY! You’ve been accepted for the role of THE LOVERS with the faceclaim of ASHLEY MOORE. Admin Cas: I think we can all agree that The Lovers is a difficult concept to pin down. It’s a task in itself to balance the devotion they have for The World, her world, while not sacrificing who they are at their core. But, Nay, you were certainly up to the task. There’s something so lovely about Prudence, so beautiful and admirable, but something hungry. So much of her life revolves around The World, but that does not mean that Prudence doesn’t have a story of her own to live out. I particularly enjoyed the way you likened her story unfolding to a caterpillar grows into its chrysalis; to become a butterfly or moth, either is possible. I can’t wait to see what you do with her!

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Out-of-Character.

NAME: nay

PRONOUNS: she / her

AGE: twenty-two

TIMEZONE, ACTIVITY LEVEL: gmt + 5 ; and i’d say my activity ( especially with quarantine, still ) is at a 7/10. lately, i have been trying to write every day, and that means at least a reply every day – even if posted through queue after being written on a better writing day.

ANYTHING ELSE?: i wrote this way too quickly, because i suck at being patient and didn’t want to wait a week to turn in an app, so forgive me for the sinful typos committed in my haste! this definitely isn’t as polished as i wish it were. also? there are possibly too many insect-facts in this and if that shit squicks you, i am so sorry.

In-Character.

SKELETON: the lovers

K E Y W O R D S

UPRIGHT: love, harmony, relationships, values alignment, choices

REVERSED: self-love, disharmony, imbalance, misalignment of values

| source: x

NAME: prudence “prue” luna lockhart

→ ETYMOLOGY ;

P R U D E N C E / “intelligence; discretion, foresight; wisdom to see what is suitable or profitable;” also one of the four cardinal virtues, "wisdom to see what is virtuous;" from Old French prudence (13th Century) and directly from Latin prudentia “a foreseeing, foresight, sagacity, practical judgment,” contraction of providentia “foresight” (see providence). Secondary sense of “wisdom” (late 14th Century) is preserved in jurisprudence.

L U N A / “the moon,” especially personified in the Roman goddess answered to Greek Selene; also, an alchemical name for “silver”; from Latin luna “moon, goddess of the moon,” from PIE *leuksna- (source, also: of Old Church Slavonic luna “moon,” Old Prussian lauxnos “stars,” Middle Irish luan “light, moon”), suffixed form of root *leuk- “light, brightness.” The luna moth (1841, American English) so-called for the crescent-shaped eye-spots on its wings.

L O C K H A R T / Scottish: of uncertain origin, probably from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements loc 'lock', 'bolt' + hard 'hardy', 'brave', 'strong'. English: occupational name for a herdsman in charge of a sheep or cattlefold, from Old English loc 'enclosure', 'fold' + hierde 'herd(er)'.

| sources: x & x

FACECLAIM: zendaya coleman ( or ashley moore or natali litvinova — in order of preference! )

AGE: three-&-twenty for zendaya / four-&-twenty for ashley or natali

→ BIRTHDATE: fantasy-equivalent of july 8th; the most cancer baby there ever was!

DETAILS: it took me forever to find a skeleton that made me feel the enduring love i’ve been searching for beyond the ability to see a story, and as it always, unfailingly, tends to happen for the rare occasion where i opt for a softer character, it caught me completely off-guard. initially, surveying the tags, i was leaning towards the skeletons of the wheel of fortune, the hierophant, the devil, the hermit – all of whom, in my opinion, are characters who have been shaped by a darkness, be it inherent or inflicted, that’s rendered them with shadows or edges. with the lovers, that’s not the case. they are tender: like a paramour’s kiss, or a bruise, or an overripe peach you can sink your fingers into. and maybe it’s my unflinching desire to subvert the stereotypical presumption of what it is to be soft, the fragility noted in their skeleton does not translate to weakness or meekness to me; i enjoy that they are both tender, and possess the ability to be chaotic, and manipulative, and impulsive and desperate and vindictive and defensive. what i love most about this particular skeleton is the sheer humanness of them.

that, and their love for THE WORLD. for a moment there, that was definitely what drew me to them; this idea of love as religion had my mind reeling like a siken poem, rhapsodising about a love so powerful, it can alter a person. this is partially because i am the most hopeful and shameless of romantics, and partially because love, its nuances, and its powers and vulnerabilities genuinely, deeply interest me. however, working my way deeper into this application-form, that changed.

it is the love that the lovers — or prue, to me, now — holds for THE WORLD is one that attracted me. it is her own potential for growth that’s kept me in her clutches, besotted, wishing to tell her story. hers is a tale, i believe, of metamorphosis: a question i posed in a later section, as well as what lurks in my mind, is whether that metamorphosis is one that leads to a moth or a butterfly. did you know it is moths who come from cocoons, but butterflies who come from a chrysalis? moths, who are drawn to light. butterflies, who drink nectar, also help spread the seeds to grow more of the flowers. both which come from a caterpillar, whose first meal is typically the egg they come from. what i enjoy is the ambivalence that presents itself — or, as i like to call it: potential. there are several directions that prue’s story could go in, several choices that could define her, and it’s all up in the air until it isn’t anymore.

i wish i could tell you that my EUREKA! moment wasn’t insect-research, but i can’t, because that would be a lie. i’m not even sorry.

BACKGROUND:

☉ CONTENT WARNING(s): infant death, stillbirth, body horror imagery, insects

come, dear reader, won’t you settle in? let me spin you a tale—a tangled web of one, indeed—about a girl who smells sweet as white roses and is as satiny to touch as her gossamer-thin garments. this girl is just a girl; she has never been the girl. even so, this story is her story, and though she is not equipped to be the heroine of a story, or so she believes, she is the heart of this one. like a heart, she is swollen with the fullness of blood: thus, let me etch this tale into parchment with the blood of love, in crimson-ink of metallic-reek.

it comes in three parts: a beginning, a middle, an ending; it is for you, dear reader, to decide which is which.

let us anoint this tale the title of METAMORPHOSIS –

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i. THE EGG ;

before there is the girl, there is a man and a woman who live in faerûn by the sahrnian sea, bound together by a contract that is decidedly not the forest-fire love faerie-tales herald. yet that is not to say that love never comes, just because love comes after. when it does, it is a calm love, a steady one; a love that has never cost one to lose one’s mind, and has been grown, meticulously, over the passage of time and the trials and tribulations have littered the path of a match made by those who are older and have witnessed so much more life than them. it is not for years that the woman feels nature stirring within her body’s vessel, and when it does, it is with the undying bestowing upon her a gift that makes up lost time.

when the girl comes, she comes from a belly more full than most. it makes sense that it is so, for there were meant to be two of them: a boy, and a girl. one might suppose that, in the end, there still were, yet only one in the way it mattered.

( you decide, dear reader: which is which? )

she is born — and it is days, and days, before her time. no matter, a name still awaits her. prudence, they call her. pierce, he would have been.

from the beginning, she emerges from the ruddy cave of her mother’s womb incomplete. a greyish pallor remains where life ought to be warming her skin; it is as if he leeched enough life from her for him to choke on, and she siphoned her brother’s death through the connection only womb-mates share – and this is what she will hear in later years, when she asks about him.

she will wish she hadn’t.

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ii. THE CATERPILLAR ;

( when you feel unforgiving, dear reader, remember: it is a caterpillar’s job to eat; without an abundance of consumption, it cannot survive. it is this abundance of consumption that allows for the production of silk. it is this same abundance of consumption that is its undoing. )

years do not care if one is ready to bear them; they come, when they must, as they must. and so comes to pass the childhood that tries to swallow prudence lockhart whole, over and over and over –

as an infant, blood is filtered out of her body and fresh blood poured into her veins. it helps, some. it does not help enough, yet there is nothing more to be done; her parents must take her home, and pray to the undying god for the rest. they pray, and pray, and pray, as two people of noble blood and lucrative business-dealings rarely stoop to, for lack of need to need it.

as a child, prue is still a frail slip of a thing, with bones jutting out against taut bronze flesh in protest. fill yourself up, her mother pleads. you must survive, beloved. she offers her savory meals and sweet decadence twice, and anything she takes a suggestion of a liking to just as many times more — and it works; it takes time, but work it does, and prue’s cheeks round some and at times flush rosily, some weakness giving way to the minute miracles that are her tardy signs of life. it is not much, but it is enough, isn’t it? it is to the mother who has warred for her existence. who still combats for prue’s survival.

when does the girl begin to feel that it might be her that her mother is fighting, when every frustration about her lessness, her inherent lessness, begins to steal the breath from prue’s lungs – for is it not her who is all poetry & rot, wisp-thin & about as flimsy? her heart fills with hot, vital blood then: it beats loud and clear as a belltower’s toll, cutting through all else with the potency of its truth. this is as much as i am, she beseeches in turn, as her mother had once done, except not, for graceless tears roll down her cheeks in impassioned rivulets and the voice that thickens with feeling.

how will you survive the world, beloved? her mother implores.

i might not, prue knows. i might not, she accepts.

it is the caterpillar’s destiny to unbecome –

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iii. THE CHRYSALIS ;

– unbecoming takes time.

it takes long enough that both mother and daughter grow used to it, initially, and then around it, ultimately.

there is, after-all, the distraction of warfare engrained in the backbone of their precious faerûn. there is the journey to tyrholm, the settling into the dregs of hightown – not quite lowtown-bound, and not-quite-not. it fazes her parents to not be profound upper-echelons of society; her father, a man used to running the business inherited by the men in the lockhart family, and her mother, who had spent all of her time worrying for prudence and never had to about wealth. but prue, for her part, is accustomed to the notion of not-quite-right / not-quite-enough; the feeling might not be home, per se, and yet she recognises the walls of the house all the same – could walk its rooms in the dark, if she had to.

it is circumstance that calls the lockharts to castle tyrholm.

it tears at her parents: her father believes in not squandering opportunity, and her mother would rather squander anything but prudence. even THE EMPRESS sees it, does she not, when she cants prudence’s head and observes her fragility? the king’s reputation precedes itself; would a heart as true and innocent as hers survive a court like his? within minutes, it is too late to ponder it any longer. within minutes, it is no longer a choice, but a deal already struck. just like a match: it cannot be unstruck. one can endeavour to douse a fire, but it is not the same as un-starting it.

for a time, the castle is one more place prue does not feel she belongs; it is alright, she tells herself. you are alright, she says – because her mother is no longer by her side telling her anymore, is she? silken thread ensnares the girl when THE WORLD knocks on her door one evening; it is lilly-white, the radiance of their smile. prue does not understand why, then; she is nothing exceptional, she flounders for the right thing to do, and even then, she gets it wrong so much more often than she ever gets it right. perhaps, she will never understand why – why they are so kind, why they make her feel seen, why…

and still, this once, there is no question of whether it is enough. they are more than enough.

for the first time in her life, prue discovers what it is to be warm.

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tell me, dear reader – is this a butterfly’s or moth’s metamorphosis?

PLOT IDEAS:

❂ “love, for you, / is larger than the usual romantic love. it’s like religion. it’s terrifying.” – richard siken

see, i told you: siken’s poetry reeling through my mind. religion is a really interesting ideology to link the notion of love to, because there are so many boundaries one crosses in the name of faith. at times, we call it the lesser evil. other times, we say it’s letting the end justify the means. we’re all trying to be holy.

this is where i want to start discussing potential plots for prue — but i want to, first, preface it by saying that though THE WORLD is very much at the centre of her story, it is because prue’s unparalleled love for them is central to her life-story; i treat it like an experiment, where prue is the dependent variable and her love for THE WORLD is the independent variable that incites action & reaction, placed in different situations. it is, that said, the most potent of variables, and can hardly be called controlled, despite how desperately prue herself attempts to keep it to the corner-alcove they hide the truth of their love in. this love is not a selfish love; it is strong, and all-consuming, and maddening – more than a soldier’s swearing fealty to a kingdom, it is the most devout of prophets bowing their head at the altar of the divine deity they put their faith in. that’s pretty intense stuff, right? i want to see what it elicits.

this can be a double-edged sword, and in fact, i’d be rooting for it to be. on one hand, i want to explore how this love has made prue strong. i want to see how it has made her braver, and more resilient. i want to explore that she took THE EMPRESS deeming her fragile-seeming, and how she’s donned it as armour, because it is that same delicacy that has made THE WORLD love them. i want to explore it through interactions with the royal family foremost — THE WORLD, of course, but THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, THE CHARIOT, and if it works out, maybe even septimus himself. it’s rare for prue to not let things slip, and roll off her back, but that is when it comes to her. her love for THE WORLD makes her want to protect them, fiercely; it lights a fire in her soul that has never been lit before. and fire? yes, it warms – but oh, it burns, too, doesn’t it? it has the power to ruin. and i don’t want to limit that exploration to just the royal family; i want to explore it with the animosity-potential between her and TEMPERANCE as well, but that’s one plot i’ll talk more about further down.

there are little ideas floating around in my head that i would love to explore with the respective players, but i could imagine a friendship between prue ( probably due to her sweet-tooth luring her, too often, to the kitchens ) with THE HANGED MAN – and to explore a bond, that could further be complicated, potentially, by prue not being able to talk about what she and THE WORLD share. or, more chaotically: for her to share it, and for THE HANGED MAN to let it slip to THE DEVIL? how far would prue go to protect this? and would she, if it presented the opportunity for the future where she and her love get to be together is pushed closer by it? how selfless is her love? how powerful would fear be against it?

i’m honestly just a firm believer that, when our backs are against the wall, that’s when we find out who we really are. and that’s the main storyline i want to explore with prue, more than anything else, because i think that she has never been pushed to that edge and, because of it, she’s never copped up to her own identity. she met and fell in love with THE WORLD at such a young age, so quickly and wholly, that it has shaped so much of what her ideal self is. i want to see how her ideal self would differ from the reality of her. and i want to see her confront it.

❂ “you are going to break your promise. i understand. and i hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that i will not hate you.” – catherynne m. valente

very recently, someone put forth an idea to me: love is a promise. that’s what i want to talk about here. there’s a sense i got — both from the lovers’ skeleton, and THE WORLD’s — that both of them know that there is a time-limit on their relationship. or, at the very least, whatever room there is for prue in their future, it isn’t a room where they share the bed. but i also get a sense that they know it, and neither of them talk about it. i think a part of prue feels like the amount of good that THE WORLD has brought her will last her a lifetime, and i think that isn’t true, so much as she’s hoping it is? i want to see the two of them talk about it. i want to see prue wanting them to fight her love. i want prue to admit she wants to be chosen over duty, or a marriage with someone who isn’t her, or fear, and i want to see what something like that would do to their relationship. or hell, i want someone who has power over THE WORLD, like THE EMPEROR, or THE EMPRESS, or THE CHARIOT or THE HIGH PRIESTESS to find out about the true nature of their relationship and force that choice once they even start talking about, so the situation can force their hands even if they don’t force one another’s.

there’s so much between the two of them i want to dissect and play with, it apparently needed to separate quotations. oops?

❂ “all things truly wicked start from innocence.” – ernest hemingway

we all have the occasional ( or perhaps more, no judgement! ) propensity for wickedness. i feel really passionately about softer people not being safe from cravings for chaotic behaviour, even if they might, in prue’s case, justify it through the innocence of intention. a lot of her initial effusion is of a heady amalgamation of sweetness and delicacy; i want to see her display a dash of something that takes leave from that, and surprises even herself. now, though not at all set-in-stone and totally up to be discussed with the respective player, i could easily see it rearing its head in the dynamic between herself and TEMPERANCE. how many times will she be shooed away from a room with a beautiful woman and the love of prue’s life? it terrifies prue, the idea that THE WORLD will slip out of her fingers like the sands of time, so much sooner than she is ready for. i’m curious: would there be a moment where she would not leave? where she would make the nature of their relationship known? would she ever snap back, or continue to smile tenderly, bow her head, and listen?

i’m also dying to explore the potential plot brewing between the lovers and DEATH. part of this is a total shot in the dark, so bear with me, but – imagine this: there is a darkness in them that tugs at the darkness in her; they are hungry, and she is a starving-thing, and what a pairing they could make. imagine prue venturing into lowtown with them, and for the alternative reality DEATH’s hunger dangles that could open a door to an actual future with THE WORLD? i want there to be temptation — towards darkness and chaos, yes, because i am a sucker for moral ambiguity, but also for the loyalist that prue is to be lured by the revolt.

❂ “you cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why it’s beautiful, and before you know it, it’s neither of those things, and you’re standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.” – clive barker

it is difficult for even me, as i delve into prue’s psyche, to be a wordsmith adept enough to encapsulate the sheer magnitude of her love for her lover. let me tell you this, though: it is love that is devout enough that prue would sacrifice herself before it. she would shirk what she believes she knows of herself to fight for THE WORLD. but there is little in the universe free of the shackles of consequence. it feels inevitable to me that, at some point, sooner or later, prue will commit an action or reaction in the name of love — and then, she will have to live with it. it’s even better to me for her to go beyond her limits for this love that is everything to her, and then find herself turning to them to sacrifice for her as freely as she does them… and for them to, perhaps, not be able to. or perhaps, for it to turn prue into a person she herself can no longer recognise. there was a part of me that wanted to already cook something up, and to toss it into the writing sample portion, but i decided otherwise. if i get to write this character, i want to start in a place that is different, and develop my way towards a darker pasture, so to speak.

a darker pasture, however, is where i want her to at least visit. in a setting such as this one, i don’t think it can be helped, truthfully.

❂ “each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – anaïs nin

while i was trying to knit this application together into one whole piece, a recurring concern for me has been that i want this character to have its own story, and the lines of that can get awfully blurry when the character is one the feels as intensely as prue lockhart does. she is such a hypersensitive creature; more than anything, it is her interactions that penetrate her, and alter her, and cause the discord between the sides that are wont to tug at her, who stands in the most Lawful Neutral of spots. i’ve decided to lean into it, though, because i genuinely believe that it poses an intriguing dichotomy between her inherent nature and the nurture that moulds it beyond the obvious, magnitudinal parental hand in it. that said, there are actual several different potential connections i want to toy with here. ( one of which is THE HANGED MAN, but i already mentioned that above, and didn’t want to be repetitive! )

THE MAGICIAN / listen, prue is so used to being the Softest. but this little baby is even softer than her, and every time they flinch, she just wants to help. she tries, at every turn, to be kind and i really want to see her become a friend / confidant for them? maybe learn about their magic. to maybe give them a secret of her own back ;) gal pals, gimme. i need something wholesome; it can’t all be agony & ecstasy, god damn it.

WHEEL OF FORTUNE / it is pure coincidence that throws the two of them together as often as it does. but prue is the sort to believe the best in people, and is never too arrogant to admit where she’s been wrong. this bond is where her feelings towards magic first begins to see development, and i am so, so, so interested in toying with it. even more so when you throw in their bond with THE EMPEROR — does faze prue a little — and his relationship with THE WORLD in there. such potential for growth and drama.

DEVIL / for years, every time prue has seen them, she has walked in the other direction. otherworldliness is unnatural enough as it is, but the proof of what they can do scars them with evidence of it – and so, out of genuine fear, she’s evaded them. and yet, coincidental interactions with the WHEEL OF FORTUNE has made prue think twice. a look at the haunting in their eyes has made her think thrice. i want to play with that dynamic!!!

THE MOON / hers is the only magic that does not scare prue, i think. it is the only one she is not too intimidated to ask questions about, because she truly is extremely curious when she takes an interest in something, and a lifetime of listening in the background has given prue a taste for stories. i feel like she could bring out something adventurous and wild within prue? a part which prue never got to explore, because she grew up with a very, very cautious mother who kept a very close eye on her and treated her like glass because prue really does look fragile. i want a bond to make her feel stronger!

THE STAR / if there is one thing that prue has grown up to be, it is a true romantic. it makes him something of a kindred spirit; something in her could reach out to something in him, creating a kindred bond that makes her feel seen in a way that only THE WORLD has ever given her.

THE TOWER / because she was raised right by it, the sea is where prue feels most at home, and she always has. i could see there being something about THE TOWER’s stories making her feel warm inside, and thus, her braving a friendship with them. i think she could use the wisdom of someone older? and there’s just something about them that made prue shyly scuff her toe at the ground, like – an oliver twist moment of, “can i have more, please?”

THE FOOL / stories talk about princes and princesses. the dragon’s fire, the nobel steed. prue looks at him, and she wonders: where are the stories about them? the princess’ lover, and the king’s soldier – those who fight for the crown, without wearing it. it could make for such an unlikely bond, but such an intriguing one, i think? i got the idea, and i just could not shake it. humour me!

and 0f course, there is potential with literally every other character, too, but i honestly ran out of time before i could come up with something for them too. i’m down to flesh it out~

❂ “we grow. it hurts at first.” – sylvia plath

at the start of her story, prue starts off as a fragile underdog. she turns blossoms into a lover, and it turns her fiercer – which is not the same thing as being fierce, but it’s a start. what i want for her — what any writer wants for their muses, i reckon — is growth. i want prue, who has grown up sheltered and protected, to experience pain and hardship. i want her experiences to call into question what she thinks she knows, flip it on its head, and make her think. i want her to think, and to change her mind, and to change it again. i want her to confront her fears, and her uncomfortable truths, and to experience all the tempestuous emotions she’s spent her entire life keeping at bay, having convinced herself they could shatter her. i want her to unearth her endurance, to test its limits. i want to explore her undoings and remakings. what i enjoy most about her is the volatility of her that most would not see coming, because volatile and tempestuous and emotional is what she is. she is all heart, all the time, everywhere. can you imagine how visceral that has to make every experience?

imagine the potential for growth if she let herself just feel all of it. if she opened herself up, and let the universe rush in, instead of walking on eggshells as she does. just imagine. that’s what i want for her.

CHARACTER DEATH: i could, of course, see prue meeting an end. in fact, there are a couple of circumstances that could make it deliciously poetic, even.

Writing Sample.

They match each other: step for step; right, then left –

Hardly anyone turns to look at the two of them anymore. The two of them, making their way down the hall, with their dark heads leaned close together, like two plants growing towards one another when the sun leaves them for too long. It might be more peculiar to see them apart. There is a strange pride that twists a corner of Prue’s mouth at the unshakeable knowledge of the fact – a hint of tremendous pride at the small, precious claim THE WORLD makes with the statement of their proximity. It is everything to her, and perhaps it is what lends to the smoothness of her gait as they move past the portrait-eyes that scrutinise it, as if they await another of the many stumbles they’ve already witnessed. Prue floats beside them.

Her heart is gone, long-since pressed into the palm of their hand. Does it weigh them down? She could pretend it is why she keeps their fingers curled into the crook of her elbow, helping them carry the heaviness of the heart she’s given away to them; Prue holds fast to that touch with her own hand covering their fingers, unwilling to give up those four pressure-points that burn her flesh through the silk of her sleeve for anything, enough to shield it with the dome of her palm.

“ – Prudence?”

Their hand flinches at the same time as Prue’s grip on their fingers tightens. As if a chill blew in, and froze the marrow in her bones, the girl stills in place. It is not because she recognises the voice. It is because she ought to have done, for what the cant of her head finds is a woman whose gaze mirrors her own: amber-warm, almond-shaped. It is her same mouth that speaks the syllables of a variation of her names that does not belong to her, not as Prue does.

“Mama –” she says, her voice so quiet, she fears it might not reach her.

She is too far away now. Even mere footsteps away, she is too far.

Extras.

✦ INSPIRATIONS → anne shirley cuthbert – from anne of green gables; tiana – from princess & the frog; missandei of naath – from game of thrones; margaery tyrell / house tyrell – from a song of ice & fire; madame lebedeva – from deathless; effie trinket – from the hunger games series; jack pearson – from this is us; patroclus – from the song of achilles;

✦ INSPIRATION TAG → here;

✦ PINTEREST BOARD → here.

#accepted #accepted: the lovers

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imaginarycircus · 5 years ago

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The Good Place Project: Post #1

(project master post)

WTF is Ethics?

It’s deceptively easy to define ethics as doing the right thing, but what is the right thing? The concept of rightness or good is slippery and without specifics like who, why, how, and what’s at stake, there’s nothing much to talk about except vague, mushy concepts like Good and Right. This is one reason ethics is hard to discuss and practice. We talk in universals, but we act in specifics. We study and contemplate the big picture, but we live in our choices. Learning to translate from vague principles and hypotheticals to everyday thoughts and actions is the work of ethics.

So wtf is Virtue?

The Greek concept of virtue has nothing to do with Christian ideas or any sexual connotations, as in euphemisms for unbecoming behavior in women. I had to recalibrate the word when I first started reading ancient philosophy. So what is it? Plato never gives a simple and solid definition of virtue. His dialogs are about asking questions, not answering them. Do we know what we think we know? What is it we think we know? If we can find the best way to ask a particular question will it lead to a clear answer?

Aristotle’s definition of virtue is snappy. It’s doing the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, and for the right reason.

The right reason is what renders actions virtuous or not. If you do a good thing by accident it’s nice, but it’s not virtuous. If you avoid doing something bad because you fear punishment, you definitely aren’t practicing virtue. If you do the right thing because you know it’s the right thing, that is virtue. It has to be intentional. So that’s easy, right?

Easy as pie, if said pie is universally delicious to all people and cures all diseases. Alas. That pie is impossible and so is perfect virtue.

Hold up. Why can’t we be perfect?

Perfection is a static quality because it cannot change. It simply *IS* and nothing in the physical world is static. Everything is changing at every moment, becoming something and then breaking down. Our lives can’t be perfect, but they can be virtuous. I like this because fear of not being perfect or of being wrong often hamstrings us needlessly. I mean Chidi. Bro. Pairing a guy who fears making mistakes with a woman so cynical she sees no point in doing good things is brilliant. It makes them both consider their behavior and change once they become friends. I want to talk about how all the characters affect each other in another post.

I’m dancing around Aristotle’s concept of “becoming.” It is the most important part of all his philosophy. Good is not something we are. We are becoming ourselves by doing good. I want to tell you all about this right now because it’s the kindest most practicable ethics I’ve read, but I’m cutting myself off to stay focused. It will come up in a later post. Crap. I’m going to have to make a post and just dump a lot of Aristotle on people who want it. idk if you noticed yet, but he’s kind of my fave. I’m not planning to stick to ancient philosophers forever, but it’s where our characters begin, where my education began, and where the western canon begins. Apologies to the Pre-Socratics, but how many people have even heard of Anaxagoras? TBF he was actually kind of cool. Most of them were Sophists. We don’t like them. They’re a bunch of punk ass bitches.

How to be a good person.

Yeah. How? I honestly don’t know. This is a preliminary post so I’m setting aside what “good” can mean in this context. Defining your terms is a huge part of philosophy and that’s what a lot of Plato’s Dialogues investigate. The word good has a ridiculous number of meanings in the wild like high quality, satisfactory, useful, competent, worthy of approval, and this specific goodness that is virtue is a whole discussion in and of itself. Aristotle calls it beautiful and there’s something sort of noble about it. But we all have concepts of what is good and right. That’s all you really need for now.

I’m not being cute. I really don’t know how to be a virtuous person, but I can tell you that philosophers advise practicing virtue for its own sake, education, learning from and observing wise people and friends who are like you. Self-examination and reflection is required. If that sounds like A LOT consider that you’re already doing some of this to some degree.

Does it matter if we’re virtuous or not?

I think so. Socrates talks a lot about being good so you can be reincarnated as a bee or some other highly organized creature and maybe you can see what I meant about not finding answers in Plato’s dialogues.** Aristotle says we practice ethics to be happy. It’s not the kind of happiness derived from someone baking you a cake. It’s not pleasure per se. It’s a soul deep rightness that you’re doing what you’re meant to do.

Our purpose in life is to be happy the same way an acorn’s purpose is to become an oak tree. We try to do good things, to be good people to benefit others and become ourselves--happy people.

I promise I will come back to “good” and “happy” later and try to really dig into them.

** I assume people know this, but just in case--Socrates was Plato’s teacher. Most of what we know about Socrates was written by Plato. The Dialogues are like little plays--the dialogue written out. So what is Plato’s work and what was truly Socrates is up for grabs. Plato was Aristotle’s teacher and let’s just say that Aristotle is cut from a different cloth. If you ever have questions, please don’t be afraid to ask me. I want to share cool ideas with people and I am not judging anyone for what they don’t know. People can’t know everything and if you want to learn you have to start at the beginning. I didn’t know that Plato’s dialogs starred his teacher until I read them.

Do other people matter or is ethics something you do alone?

Other people are crucial. We can see in The Good Place why everything hangs on relationships and community. We are "political animals.” People live in civilized societies with codes of conduct and intertwining lives. We depend upon each other. Politics is the condition of living in a city or group. That’s all it means. Our existence is political. You cannot be ethical on your own. It’s always in relation to other people and the rest of the world.

People learn different things and are good at different things. This is a benefit of living in a society. All of our lives can be improved by people sharing ideas and skills--by people taking care of each other.

sources:

1. Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, translated by Joe Sachs. Mr. Sachs is (was?) a tutor at my college. His Greek translations are par excellence. Aristotle is dense and hard to crack open. I had to read parts of The Physics half a dozen times before it started to make any sense. I think he’s definitely worth reading, but reading it alone without being able to discuss it sounds difficult. Not impossible though. I’m referencing The Politics at the very end there.

2. Plato’s Dialogues, Princeton University Press, various translators. Specifically The Meno and The Apology here. The Meno is a good dialog to try if you’ve never read Plato. The Gorgias is also useful. I know people are all about The Republic and The Cave and that’s fine. I just can’t stand that Dialogue and cannot personally recommend it. You can pick up and read Plato easily. You may find it interesting or obnoxious. Socrates likes to flirt with many people, especially pretty young men. Even though he can be maddening, he was also brilliant. He believed in his work so deeply that he was happy to die for it rather than recant or say he was wrong. He walked the walk until they executed him. I think of Socrates as the First Teen Idol. He got all the kids in Athens het up on philosophy and disobeying their parents and people lost their goddamn minds.

#TGPP #The Good Place #wtf is ethics #hell if I know #but I've thought about it some #lol 𝞥-curious

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sohottubgarden · 4 years ago

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Kimberley

Lol,”I don’t like this, I am leaving”

Ok now seriously now I’m doing some book browsing at the Library like eight months ago and then came across some Ranma looking shelves hoping there would be a Ranma and seeing that the Ranma’s were all translated into what’s Greek to me Laotian or what not and I’m saying god F, why can’t I just get to seeing something pan out for me? A whole four months of Ranma 1/2 reading could get me really far and out of an only place in Long Beach that I have yet to judge as good or bad. Just even or worse, plain stupid. Sorry, “ignorant.”

I picked out an animated novel. The name Angels coupled with Demons got me thinking about Da Vinci and how I’d be able to draw some parallels and maybe it’s supposed to right away from the very get go. But not. I’m not Catholic, so.

The best part being still finding out how to pronounce twin with ing not twine like knotting twine together, I totally now get why I can get so confused. I used to think all the time that my parents had been kidnapped and taken in by a Texas Chainsaw Leatherface Loving fam and bam, I’m their new workhorse. That, oh, just pretended to kill himself so he could, oh, stop making fig pie.

I just opened up some wikepedia pages on some pretty holy crappable stuff and I already see what’s haunting me. I mean I have the devil a name and now it’s not what I thought it was? What did me and the rest of us do when playing around with wax and petals do when he’d slyly switch places with another characature and call himself something else.

But, to tell you the truth, I only assigned the dumb sob so much power after reading Dante’s Inferno. Really. Give my holy thumping ass some lessons to learn after and or right before having to face a fact of life that doors are meant to be broken into? Give me a god damned break.

So, all things holy can be found this morning rise. I sincerely hope and secretly do know what a bunch of bullshit Wikipedia is. And just how nice it was for me to never ever have to get near a website to site sources.

And then there’s LBCC’s defunct library and book store. Oh, spoiled crack that egg and serve it to me in a green apple lamb.

#beelzebub

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eksbdan-blog · 5 years ago

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New Post has been published on https://passingbynehushtan.com/2020/02/16/doctrine-vs-the-didache-of-jesus/

Church Doctrine vs. the Didache of Jesus: A Prophetic Think Tank

Didache or Doctrine?

Well, here we go again. The story about how 1st century Christain words were twisted and morphed into ideas that have little to no relation with the original. And what could be more consequential than that of the word “doctrine”?

The “doctrine” of faith, such as “faith alone” or “faith with works.” The “doctrine” of Christ, such as “fully man and fully God” or “a man that became divine.” The “doctrine” of justification as a free gift, without works, or justification by works. The “doctrine” of ecclesiastical authority, or the authority of scripture alone. The “doctrine” of a particular systematic approach. The “Doctrine” of a theological proposition. Are these really 1st-century Christian, Christ-ordained teachings (doctrine, didache) or something else?

Now far be it for me to suggest that none in this mix of truth and error is original Christian teaching. What I’m saying is there is a huge difference between a truth that is a conclusion and a truth which is a premise or a fact. A conclusion is just a series of words adding up to a faint outline of what it exists to sign. So is a concept for the knowledge for which it merely symbolizes. What I ask is if doctrine in its original form is a supernaturally demonstrated and historical truth about Jesus Messiah or a derived human representation or proposition of it.

The answer is simple, isn’t it? We know unequivocally what that answer is. But we sure don’t like it and our relationship with “doctrine” is sure not modeled after that answer.

Please don’t underestimate the gravity of this question and its reverberations through our entire conception of what it means to be a Christian and what Christian truth is ultimately. Our conception of “Doctrine” effects what of the Bible will be presented to the world as crucial and ultimate examples of Christian truth claims.

This, in turn, tells the world what kind of morality with respect to that transcendent Truth of the Father Christ essentially displayed. How our emulation of His Truth is a sign of our salvation in Him. Our grasp of this concept is not one vital component in the whole of the conceptual “Truth” meta-symbol, its the whole kit and kaboodle. “Doctrine” is “Truth” or Truth is a mere bystander loitering along the way to Christ that comes to help when there is some faith accident, ready to make things right. But what essentially did Christ teach, give us as doctrine, for us to give to others?

First, what is doctrine:

A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters. The body of teachings of a religion, or a religious leader, organization, group or text1

Doctrine, from Latin doctrina, (compare doctor), means “a body of teachings” or “instructions”, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. The Greek analogy is the etymology of catechism.

These are pretty general. Let’s forget about these and take the meaning from the source. Doctrine is didache (διδαχή) in the Greek

from G1321; instruction (the act or the matter):—doctrine, hath been taught.

Our only real task is making sure that this didache, as Christ and the apostles used it, looks like itself and not gratuitously like the world’s general conception above. If it were limited to a mere “body of teachings” or “instructions” or “principles” or “positions” I don’t think we would have Christ’s didache. Why?

Because if Christianity is about for the first time in human history there is a divine disclosure of otherwise impossible knowledge about the existence, nature, and plan of this transcendent God, it’s not going to be about “instructions,” it’s going to be about the content of those instructions and that knowledge itself.

If doctrine is from a supernatural source and about transcendent reality, it’s then about knowledge content that itself shows supernatural origin.

Under the above criteria, is the concept of “doctrine” ultimately any teaching that is not transcendently self-attesting? Could it be teaching and knowledge that could have come from the creativity and resources of men?

Please keep this in mind as we proceed. This, my friends, if you profess faith, can change your life by a means that a conception of “doctrine” the church offers could never do in any number of relativistic years.

Didache occurs 30 times in the NT. In 13 other occasions the word διδασκαλία didaskalía, did-as-kal-ee’-ah is used:

from G1320; instruction (the function or the information):—doctrine, learning, teaching.

In 1 Titus 1:3, there is also ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω , “to instruct differently.”

1 Timothy 1:2-4 (KJV) Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

Interesting that in the KJV there is one instance (Heb 6:1) that translates logos in Greek as “doctrine” in the phrase “doctrine of Christ.” Why I don’t have a clue. Perhaps it makes more sense than the “Word of Christ” or logos of Christ?” If so, we have to ask why it would make more sense.

Why to us it makes more sense is really the story here. The story is about how to fallen Man things that sound too arcane and foreign must be given the prosaic workover so it looks more like us. “Doctrine” has been given the prosaic workover.

This is a preamble to our post-cross historical age that became obsessed and fixed exclusively on “doctrine” as statements or conclusions, rather than a “teaching” of the word of Christ, which is an entirely different and much more exacting matter, as we will see.

Ok, what is it?

What kind of information is this doctrine? The most important and defining “teaching,” and from where they are informed, which joins every believer around a common set of facts?

Why would I even ask such a question, “what is Christian doctrine?” when everyone knows what is Christian doctrine? Everyone knows the historical beliefs of the Church. We also know it as the accepted propositions of a particular denomination. Of course, we also know what “doctrine” in the dictionary means? Asking this is almost like asking “in what year was the War of 1812 fought?” Or, “what is the meaning of apple pie?”

Since I’m asking for the definition of something that everyone already knows and has agreed upon, at least that doctrine is about the confessions of faith, how could I not but introduce yet another of a million articles talking about the Westminister Confession? Or quoting Scliermacher on dogmatics? Or pulling out a Catholic catechism? Or “the 5 Fundamentals’? That “doctrine” is essentially a creed?

Certainly, I would not be so presumptuous as to own pull out my own bullets of doctrinal devotion and contrasting them with nearly two millennia of work by our wise and prudent scholars. What, do I think that this question is open to some question like that which the Judgement of Paris entertained? How impudent! How could two millennia be wrong?

Yes, that is what I mean. Informed are two millennia from the same place. Namely, the underlying assumption of “doctrine” as that of religious propositions that are not their own evidence for their truth but nevertheless define Christian faith.

As I have implied and sketched out a destination, this article aims to establish not the topographical features of the common “doctrine” idea encompassed in “faith statement” or “post-1st century object of theological warfare,” but to get at the heart of it. To see if at that heart there might be something about a kind of Christian doctrine fallen through a 1900-year-old crack. Deleted or relegated, but still, the only kind which, if made singular and primary, removes the arguability of “doctrine” to give back its power.

The power to stand not only as a conclusion but a predicate. As a symbol and a substance of the truth it states, and return Christianity to more a kind of spiritual science than a scholarly and pedestrian mosh pit before another genius that wants to thrill people more with his own revelation than the one Jesus sent.

If it were so, then the divisiveness and covetousness end that comes with touting only from one’s own resources a belief that is open to equivocation, attack, and death. We want to give back to it what was instead unequivocally gutted from it: its self-attest-ability.

But to do this, we have to clearly open up for comparison what is that corrupt consensus reality on the subject of doctrine, how important the 1st-century conception of doctrine it is to the faith by comparison, and what is the cost of losing it. If we are then able to discover what is the real “doctrine” which that world echo chamber has refused, we will turn its own assumptions back on them.

“Doctrine” is essential? “Doctrine” is “truth.” Then any confession of truth which holds to a conception of a belief statement in spiritual things which is capable of supporting itself as true only out of the resources of the mind and emotions is not important to the faith and not “truth.” On the contrary, the cost of losing false doctrine is not only zero, but more like the resurrection of Christ from the dead.

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The Consensus Reality: Schleiermacher

Since Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834) is considered the arch dogmatist and the father of modern liberalism, and since we are living after him we are prudent to start with the one who best exemplifies what we believe about doctrine today.

Schleiermacher was a Kantian. Immanuel Kant denied the possibility of an objective, demonstrable divine knowledge. There was no way to “prove” Christian doctrine as true, and that is not its purpose. The purpose of Christianity is for the education of our passions or moral bearing, for the betterment of human societies. Kant was a functional atheist in this sense, believing that Christianity is not “true” in the classic sense, but still held dearly to the preforming of his Christian devotions and moral self-control. He was functionally an atheist, but very, very religious.

Schleiermacher followed Kant in insisting that Christianity has nothing to do with the belief in miracles, but one engaged directly with Jesus and his redemptive power. Look at these from The Christian Faith:

Page 109: Unity of doctrine in the church is not required.

P. 76: Doctrine is the “accounts of the Christian religious affections set forth in speech.”

P. 123-125: The whole of Christian Doctrine is “facts presupposed by antithesis” combined with facts that remain unchanged during the development of the antithesis and ” facts determined by the antithesis.”

P. 142: “religious feeling” is the essence of the Christian experience and the proposition that describes its basis is the “totality of finite being existed only in dependence upon the Infinite.”

P. 591: “The authority of Holy Scripture cannot be the foundation of faith in Christ; rather the latter must be presupposed before a peculiar authority can be granted Holy to Scripture.” The Old Testament was insignificant for this.

Any book can be the “Bible,” not necessarily the OT or NT.

Two forms of consciousness are knowing and feeling. Knowing and doing is the anthesis to feeling. Feeling sits between knowing and doing, and so is the “seat,” as Barth called it. The primary object of knowledge is therefore pious feeling.

Does any of this sound familiar today?

You may say that much of this is eschewed in Conservative congregations, but I assure you that none of them really do, as will be seen.

Although they fought and debated, Schleiermacher was essentially a Hegelian. Hegel disagreed strongly with him on the Trinity, which Schleiermacher thought was not settled because there was never any attempt to enunciate clearly by Christ and the apostles.

Hegel thought of history as a movement between a proposition, an opposing conception (antithesis) and an outworking synthesis. It is not important what is this thesis, antithesis or synthesis, but only if it works toward human freedom. Although discovery influences a new view of reality, it is clear from Hegel’s language that the focus is on the “proposition” moving history, not changing facts, and what people decide is true. History is human self-consciousness interpreting and re-interpreting itself: “History is the process whereby the spirit discovers itself and its own concept.”

The spirit is primarily its own object; but as long as it is this only in our eyes, and has not yet recognised itself in its object, it is not yet its own object in the true sense. Its ultimate aim, however, is the attainment of knowledge; for the sole endeavour of spirit is to know what it is in and for itself, and to reveal itself to itself in its true form. It seeks to create a spiritual world in accordance with its own concept, to fulfil and realise its own true nature, and to produce religion and the state in such a way that it will conform to its own concept and be truly itself or become its own Idea. (The Idea is the reality of the concept, of which it is merely a reflection or expression.) This, then, is the universal goal of the spirit and of history.2

I say his language, among many nuanced others, gives Hegel away. Notice, “the Idea is the reality of the concept, of which it is merely a reflection or expression.” Now, I speak of concept and idea as essentially the same thing because they are both framed within, not without, human power, but not that they don’t differ. An idea is an impression, a theory, a concept, is a procedure or plan.

To Hegel, the idea is the reality of the concept. The idea, the human idea, lying purely in human self-consciousness, is effectively the symbol’s meaning, and the concept is the symbol. You can argue over this, but the takeaway is Hegel speaks of this in terms of an ultimate human symbol, where all plans and theories are human constructions.

You can see this insular self-focus deeply within the conclusions of Schleiermacher.

Although I didn’t think he ever put is this way, to Schlienermacher Hegel’s “freedom,” the directional goal of all history, is “redemption.” It is Christian consciousness and the human redemption by the constructed Christ idea, rather than the knowledge of His objective reality, that is the heart of his philosophy. “Facts” are determined by contact with that which opposes the concept of redemption: ” the contents of the self-consciousness of the redeemed.”

The Christian consciousness of redemption entails concepts such as God’s holiness, righteousness, love, and wisdom; the opposing negative states of evil and sin; and the transition between them by way of Christ and the church through rebirth and sanctification. These concepts, further, presuppose others: creation and preservation, an original state of human perfection, and the divine attributes of eternity, omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience.3

Simply read it all in context. Redemption by the guidance of doctrinal conclusions. Notice that one set of the doctrines of redemption presupposes others, and the whole is a model of redemption by Christ. Nothing of this has anything to do with a revealed faith, a faith that grounds itself on the historical appearance of God which shows itself by demonstration. Translation: forget Messianic Prophecy, it about “redemption” the concept, not the reality.

Now, I’m not going to waste a lot of your time. I’m not going to go through the Patristic Fathers, Aquinas, Augustine, and then back up to Barth to show you this pattern. The subjectivism, the philosophy, the self-experientialism, the Age of the Creed, and so on. But let me just mention one: The Didache, The Lord’s Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations.

Its a kind of catechism, a policy of the church order. This is a very old document. Some date it from the second century but more from the 1st century. But, I beg you to remember that age does not mean original, and there is nothing to suggest this was written by one of the Apostles. At this point, the church was expanding and adjusting to the world around them, and if there was something true in what most were doing there was just as likely to be something false in what others were doing. If subsequent ages showed an error and mainstreamed it then they got it from somewhere.

The Didache on the surface is a very innocent document. All it does is lay out some basic guiding theological assumptions. But this is not the earlier and genuine manner of Christ or the Apostles when they spoke of these. It was always with reference to the revelation upon which they were predicated.

They did not ignore the parabolic nature of Christ’s truth, such as that within the Sermon on the Mount. They did not suggest that you are pure and blameless because you acted in a certain way. And they did not suggest that a doctrinal proposition was all you needed to believe with respect to the Truth of Christ. But the Didache does and as such its the start of what we have today.

Now, I can only go by the document itself. I understand that there was an unstated subtext to all of this, which is belief in that original messianic, scriptural phenomenon. The problem with the document is that it never mentions them, but strips them from the Apostolic habit and only talks about the old, Greek and pagan idea of morality as doing a thing and believing a thing. Because of this, it is a well-intentioned disaster.

Did you know that “If someone gives you a blow upon your right cheek, turn to him the other also, and you shall be perfect?” That, “Woe to him that receives; for if one having need receives, he is guiltless?” Did you know that murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, magic arts, witchcrafts, rapines, false witnessings, hypocrisies, double-heartedness cause spiritual death?

Of course, the author means they are signs of spiritual blamelessness or spiritual wickedness, not the cause of it. But with this language what is stopping anyone from concluding otherwise?

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Christ’s intention in the Sermon on the Mount was to wrap physical behavior as a sign around his prophetic revelation, which was to be known and believed, not the goodness of what someone does or says. As was his habit, He did not do it directly, such as saying “because you believe that the prophets foretold me as Messiah and I fulfilled them, act in such as a way to show the world that what you believe matches what you do.” He gave it in parabolic fashion. But why?

Because the Sermon on the Mount is a prophecy as much about what the true Christian demeanor will be as it is a prophecy about what it will not be. Which is not just “murders and blasphemies” but mostly those who want to involve themselves in a Christian religion by cutting out the first clause “because you believe that the prophets foretold me as Messiah and I fulfilled them,” from the second clause, “act in such as a way to show the world that what you believe matches what you do.” Christ is hiding a crucial truth about a future faith because if stated plainly people will just go around robotically mouthing a formula they are supposed to find for themselves.

The SOTM is the greatest example Christ ever gave of His transcendent genius, so much so that even today we don’t get, nor want to, the difference between doing and essential believing.

Not that the Didache shows what true Christian subtext they were really operating under:

But after you are filled, thus give thanks: We thank You, holy Father, for Your holy name which You caused to tabernacle in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality, which You made known to us through Jesus Your Servant; to You be the glory forever.

What is this “knowledge?” What is this “Holy name?” Just “Jesus?”

I’m going to go right to the Bible and show you what the whole of human history is, by contrast to the Christ’s truth with respect to “doctrine.”

Not Ditto for Didache

Now, none of this will matter to Scliermacher-ites. It won’t matter for Catholics, LDS, Eastern Orthodox, Unitarian Universalists, JW’s, and just about all Protestant denominations and strains which put what you personally believe over why you objectively believe, either practically or explicitly. It only matters, or should matter, for those that really, really mean it when they say the Bible is the sole rule of faith or practice.

It is more than a little interesting that this didachḗin its first NT mention comes in Matthew 7, after a long discourse by Christ setting forth the main doctrinal question: what must one believe in order to be saved?

The Sermon on the Mount is about this, not “be good and nice and all and you are then a follower of Christ.” We think the ideational “what,” not the transcendent “why,” is this “doctrine,” and if asked to give one we will quickly answer something like “Jesus is Savior,” “the blood of Christ cleanses from all sin.” Especially in light of the following:

Matthew 7:13 (KJV) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

See, the narrow gate is “Jesus” and “Jesus Saves.”

Fine, those are true. But what is narrow (στενός), a particular, restrictive, precise, exact, more difficult, less traveled gate into Truth, to Christ, to the sheepfold, in relation to a definition of “doctrine?” Is it just another kind of religious statement, and the true one only if the statement is believed true? Well, Jesus gave the answer by context:

In vss. 9-11, we have a serpent, stone, bread, fish, good and bad gifts. We give good gifts to our son when he asks, not inert and worthless ones. So is the difference between the doctrine of Christ and that of the Pharisees.

The Law and the Prophets (v.12) are summed up by Christ as good gifts, not evil ones. That is not a faith statement. It’s a faith knowledge, and one specifically of Christ in that revelation. We should give to others transcendent, objective Truth, not lies. Not pharisaical law-keeping, not the Shema, not the 613 Mitzvot, not tradition, not mouthing certain true words, but believing the true Phenomenon of God before them, as we would have others to us. Because:

Matthew 7:14 (KJV) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Jesus then proceeds to give such good gifts in his doctrine.

Matthew 7:15 (KJV) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

The context for this doctrinal truth is set on false prophecy and true prophecy. That prophecy which is Satanic, Pharisaical prophecy, the core idea of false doctrine, over against that of Messiah and then Jesus Messiah. False prophecy and prophets are animated by lies such as righteousness through keeping the Law, or righteousness by believing and reciting the Shema. True prophets are animated by a kind of revelation of God’s truth, which is alone capable of grounding and motivating their righteous actions, and that truth is the truth of the Christ of the Prophets. The reason all along for the Law and the Shema.

The false prophets in mind prophesy in Jesus’ name, cast out devils in his name, and have done many wonderful works (v.22). The works are certainly not evil. These are what Christians are supposed to be doing. Obviously, “works” means something else to Christ.

These false prophets are then professing Christians, not atheists, doing the right things, uttering the right words. Since the “fruit” of which Jesus asks us to test for good and bad is then not what they do and say, it must be on why they do and say. Their scriptural motivations, if there is anything at all scripturally motivating them.

“Well, then, why you believe is still a doctrine, like “Jesus saves!”

No, it can’t be, at least not by our common conception of the word “doctrine” as religious concepts (ideas). The things these pretenders do is doctrinal, we must remind ourselves. If doing good is correctly thought good when it reflects a good belief and a mental/spiritual state, but believing is thought the belief only in a concept, which is a representation but not necessarily a fact, then our functional notion of essential doing is the same: that which is merely an appearance, not a substance. Our idea of “doctrine” is then at variance with what we know about symbolic reality, that symbols are indicators of ultimate reality, not reality itself.

If the doctrines the Pharisees hold are correct by action, then Christ, again, is talking not about what they are doing, but why. He is not talking about Doctrine as what is said, but why. He is not talking about statements, or what informs statements from personal choice, or what informs statements that could easily come from intelligence, craft or imagination, but that which is distinctly impersonal and supernatural in its origin. “Jesus saves” is not. Although true, it’s a human construct, a concept, that is meant to sign that impersonal and supernatural knowledge, not act in its place.

What we are saying is that it’s not the content, the external statements of a true or false confession of these false prophets in the Church, but perhaps a container of one, it’s informational, scriptural premise. Obviously, these people are saying and doing the right things (“cast out devils in your name), but they apparently have no revelational control, the container, over that expressed belief. It’s a heart problem, not a problem of expression, which is very deceptive.

As he always does, Jesus does not tell you openly “the right motivation is Me in the prophets, now being fulfilled.” He does it in parabolic fashion. Again, by subject context. He has already mentioned the prophets twice. Now he tells you what the doctrine of the prophets. Who would have guessed that the doctrine of the “prophets” is prophecy?” Ironically, the relatively few that were genuinely, unhypocritically searching for and loving Truth.

“Doing” his sayings (7:24) is not doing by “casting out devils in your name” or “many wonderful works” or about being nice. “Doing” is believing and prophesying Jesus by the prophets. This is the “rock,” both Christ Jesus and His Prophetic Word of demonstration, that will not be washed away “when the floods came.”

This is Christ giving a prophecy of the future as a prophetic argument for doctrine and faith in the OT prophecies of Messiah so promised and now fulfilled;

Matthew 7:27 (KJV) And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Yes, the “Rock” is Christ, and Christ is a doctrine, but “rock “is certainly not the “doctrine” of external appearances and creeds, but”Rock” means something truly spiritual. It is that peculiar and special and unique spiritual motivation by the only stream of Scriptures which could ever be put as Christ’s informational equal.

Now that we know what is “doctrine,” what about the doctrine of notitia (notice, understanding content), assensus (to agree with), and fiducia (the assent of the intellect to the truth of some proposition) in Reformed conception?

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In the way that I have just described it, this is not a “doctrine,” because “doctrine” is not propositional truth, its the revelational knowledge itself. That truth requires propositions, but they are submissive to that revelation. It goes without saying that there is something about this epistemic scheme that is true and doctrinal, that to believe one must know and understand what is to be believed. To agree with it and trust it. What is not agreed is that doctrine is propositional content, propositional agreement, and propositional trust in religious or philosophical concepts.

The false prophets are by all appearances not to be faulted by their doctrine if this if the benchmark is just concepts and religious works. But could their fault be the shallow depth to which they believe their propositions? Well, it would have to be to the depth to which they believe a faith claim by its proof which is supernatural.

Christ did does not make idle propositional claims to which he expected notitia, assensus and fiducia, but made a demonstration of propositions that he expected to be obeyed directly in faith. His demonstration is that of supernatural showing and fulfilling, not claiming. Proving, not suggesting. Real supernatural phenomena, not platitudinal confessions. The fulfillment of Messianic prophecy, not “Jesus is Messiah, the Son of God.”

Mat 15:9 refers to the doctrines of men opposing that of 15:8:

Isaiah 29:13-14 (KJV) Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Therefore, “doctrine” in v. 9 is the doctrine of the Messianic Prophecy of Christ.

In Mark 7:7, the exact same doctrine and exact messianic prophecy is cited.

In Romans 12:7, Paul uses διδάσκω, in the Authorized Version “teaching.”

Ephesians 4:14, Paul uses διδασκαλία: he refers to the doctrine of 4:13:

Ephesians 4:14 (KJV) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Ephesians 4:13 (KJV) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

“Knowledge of the Son of God” is not primarily experiential knowledge, as the Church would have it. It’s not your feelings and imagination as your point of contact with God, its a witness to a kind of personal appearance of God himself in objective reality. That appearance in objective reality is either in the form of a theophany in spatial reality or one in temporal reality from a record of history and the results of moral judgment.

It’s the same as in Phillipians 3:8, “the Knowledge of Christ.” Nowhere in any epistle does Paul speak of “knowledge” in the personal sense.

Col 2:22: “the doctrines and commandments of men” are set in contrast to the doctrine mentioned here. Religious ordinances are:

Colossians 2:17 (KJV) Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Then, we have 1 Timothy 1:10 (KJV)

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

Which sound doctrine is identified here? In 1 Timothy 2:5-6 (KJV), we have: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.”

This is a perfect description of Messianic Prophecy in toto, “to be testified in due time.” That is, Jesus gave himself long before, before the foundation of the world, as a Promise to mankind. This was fulfilled “in due time.”

1 Timothy chapter 4 contains several instances of this word: verses 6, 13 and 16.

All of this is prefaced from verse 1 of 1 Timothy 4:1-3 (KJV)

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

The Spirit prophesied of latter times of apostasy of the faith.

Then, in 2 Tim:

2 Timothy 3:16 (KJV) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

“All scripture” is not at this point the New Testament. It was still in process. This refers to the Old, and if to the OT to the OT revelation of Christ within. This is “doctrine.”

2 Timothy 4:3 is a prophecy about doctrinal prophecy. In later times people will throw away “sound doctrine” for lust, being informed not by this doctrine directly but by false teachers of another kind of doctrine. I shudder when I read this!

Need I say more?

Look, guys, it’s not about you and me. It’s not about anything that we do or conjure. Doctrine is not a matter of choice, or of our choosing, or of our imaginations and feelings. Doctrine is not even conceptual. Doctrine, although a concept, is first a kind of compulsion of an honest man around a divine phenomenon, which a concept can only represent, and also falsely represent. The concept and “doctrine” concept is not God or doctrine. Even the concept “God” is not God, its a concept, and God has nothing to do with your control or cleverness in coming up with a way to think about Him which is not the same as himself.

Have you seen this phrase on a church sign sometimes: No Jesus, No Peace; Know Jesus, Know Peace? Let me change that a little bit, because we don’t know Jesus because we want peace, because “peace,” like Jesus Messiah, is not really idea an idea, its a point of exposure and transformation before the reality, the fact, of God shown in history.

No Messianic Prophecy of Christ, no Christ. Know Messianic Prophecy, know Christ, and his doctrine.

Did you ever expect that God might lead you to stay a place firmly within your own spiritual tradition or settled perspective yet one that is firmly outside of it? That is a description of the supernatural residing in Matter, or Christ enfleshed. Of transcendence taking up residence in the common. The real place in which we as Christians were ordained from the beginning, not a cultural consensus reality. Maybe God led you here because he wanted to turn the light no inside your heart about a precious truth that consensus reality is not wanting to give you. If so, take a chance, be patient, and read on. Here is one truth leading to many that might change your whole perspective on faith.

please see:

Christ and the Noun Norming of Transcendence: A Prophetic Think Tank When I Survey the Wondrous Nace, part 1: A Prophetic Think Tank

https://www.yourdictionary.com/doctrine ↩

Lectures on the Philosophy of History, second draft, 1830. Translated by H. B.Nisbet, 1975 ↩

http://scriptoriumdaily.com/schleiermacher-trinity-and-redemption/ ↩

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5, 7, 14, 17 for the Classics ask 😊

@vaeputodeusfio HI! I am so happy to asked me a question! :D And so, here we go:

5. what is your favourite story from Herodotus’s Histories?

EKK!! I haven’t gotten to his histories yet! I need to do that, so I honestly don’t know. If there is a story with Hades in it, I’m game. (As the author is Greek, if I remember, right?)

7. who is your favourite ancient historian?

I would have to say Suetonius and Tacitus tie as my favourite for many reasons. I think they balance one another. Suetonius tell me about the people and Tactius tells me about the world they live in. You can’t know the world without the people and vice versa.

The thing that irritates me is when people say Suetonius is fake or untrue. Because he brought to light so many horrendous details about people like Tiberius or telling us Domitian was abused by Nerva. I don’t usually get on my soap box, but even if some of the other historians ignore these details, we can’t- as modern historians ignore them. Because in real-life, it’s not cool to shrug of accusations of abuse, because ignoring the survivor, or telling them ‘it didn’t happen’ is horrible. And the thing is, is that these historical people Suetonius wrote about: WERE PEOPLE! So, I feel personally that ignoring and writing off what Suetonius wrote about is telling these historical people who were abused that none of it really happened. That’s my personal thoughts on the matter and I understand if you feel differently, but that’s why I will believe what Suetonius wrote.

As for Tacitus, I really like him in general. I know that he is a bit of a dull read sometimes, but I really feel like I am there in Rome with him. There is a texture to his work that is beautiful. I love all of the details and sometimes funny events that occur. I still open my book and cry though sometimes when I remember that Tactius’ work on Gaius Caesar is missing. T_T It made me SO sad yesterday... I was going to make a whole ‘Ancient Roman Troubles’ post about it. But I love Tacitus, because he brings something to the table that Suetonius and Cassius Dio don’t; and that’s the whole world in which these people lived. And for that, I am so thankful to Tacitus.

14. which Greek tragedy is your favourite?

YES! This is going to be an interesting response. I started reading Medea and Antigone years and years ago, but I never ended up finishing them. I LOVED them. But around the time I started reading them, I got hit by horrible depression and I had to stop. After I recovered, I found the translation of Antigone that I had been reading (I owned Medea) and I haven’t been able to read them again. I WANT TO but I get a bit worried about if I pick them up, will I go back to that horrible state? I was also reading Lord of the Flies at the time too and I haven’t been brave enough to try and read it again. There is music I don’t listen to anymore and yeah. I really liked Medea. She was awesome and for some reason, I thought she not only killed her kids, but baked them in a pie for Jason? I think I am mixing it up with Titus Andronicus or Medea started a trend.

17. if you could recover one lost work, which one would it be?

TACITUS’ BOOKS ABOUT GAIUS CAESAR! I STILL CRY OVER THE LOSS AND I WON’T EVER GET OVER THEM!!!

Anyhow, thanks so much for the ask and I hoped you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed getting to write this!

Thanks,

TTC

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Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Cult of Saturn, Cronos, All Seeing Eye, Analysis

Saturn & The Occult: Saturn Worship

The machine world Orus, where humans were 'seeded from’

There has always been a bite out of the fruit

“A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought -- alone.”

apple "apple; any kind of fruit; fruit in general," Apple of Discord (c. 1400) was thrown into the wedding of Thetis and Peleus by Eris (goddess of chaos and discord) Apple of one's eye (Old English), symbol of what is most cherished, was the pupil, supposed to be a globular solid body. Apple-polisher "one who curries favor"

fruit "any vegetable product useful to humans or animals," "an enjoyment, delight, satisfaction; proceeds, produce, fruit, crops," "to use, enjoy," “harvest; virtuous action" "income from agricultural produce, revenue or profits from the soil" "profit," "offspring, progeny, child" "odd person, eccentric" "a girl or woman willing to oblige," "easy picking."

*bhrug- "to enjoy," "to endure;" "use, enjoy, possess,"

Labyrinth Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it. The term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. In this specialized usage maze refers to a complex branching multicursal puzzle with choices of path and direction, (see clone, holt, mirror, etc)

Asterion (/əˈstɪriən/; Greek: Ἀστερίων, gen.: Ἀστερίωνος, literally "starry") Asterius, one of the Giants. (see astro-)

The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

brain "organ of consciousness and the mind," "front part of the skull, top of the head" *bhragno "something broken." train of thought (see earlier) brainsick (Old English brægenseoc) meant "mad, addled."

brain-wave "apparent telepathic vibration transferring a thought from one person to another without any other medium”

wave "move back and forth," "to wave, fluctuate" wæfre "wavering, restless, unstable" "to move to and fro; to weave" "moving billow of water," Old Norse vagr "water in motion, wave, billow," Gothic wegs "tempest" to make waves "cause trouble"

*wegh- "to go, move, transport in a vehicle." "to convey, especially by wheeled vehicle," It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit vahati "carries, conveys," vahitram, vahanam "vessel, ship;" (click to see more)

mind "memory, remembrance, state of being remembered; thought, purpose; conscious mind, intellect, intention," from suffixed form of PIE root *men- (1) "to think," with derivatives referring to qualities of mind or states of thought. Meaning "mental faculty" is mid-14c. "Memory," one of the oldest senses, now is almost obsolete except in old expressions such as bear in mind, call to mind. Mind's eye "remembrance" "to remind oneself," "perceive, notice" "to give heed to"

*men- (click to see all relative words/forms) It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit manas- "mind, spirit," matih "thought," munih "sage, seer;" Avestan manah- "mind, spirit;" Greek memona "I yearn," mania "madness," mantis "one who divines, prophet, seer;" Latin mens "mind, understanding, reason," memini "I remember," mentio "remembrance;" Lithuanian mintis "thought, idea," Old Church Slavonic mineti "to believe, think,"

"small, isolated." Greek monos "single, alone," Persian mandan "to remain;" Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to project." Latin mons "mountain,"

temple "building for worship, edifice dedicated to the service of a deity or deities," Commonly referred to PIE root *tem- "to cut," "cleared (measured) space in front of an altar" "any place regarded as occupied by divine presence" "flattened area on either side of the forehead,"

temper "to moderate, bring to a proper or suitable state, to modify some excessive quality, to restrain within due limits," Latin temperare "observe proper measure, be moderate, restrain oneself," "mix correctly, mix in due proportion; regulate, rule, govern, manage." Latin tempus "time, season" (see temporal) "restrain, modify" "measuring" "due proportion of elements or qualities," "characteristic state of mind, inclination, disposition"

ash "powdery remains of fire," from PIE root *as- "to burn, glow." "Finely pulverized lava thrown from a volcano" æsc-here "company armed with spears," æsc-plega"war," literally "spear-play."

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“They say they’re celebrating icons inside.” (see below)

“It’s not our world. We don’t matter.” (Lest you remember the maniacs that are running this show. Their opinion is irrelevant. Know Thyself. Remember the holy whole hole.)

case "what befalls one; state of affairs," "a chance, occasion, opportunity; accident, mishap," "to fall, sink, settle down, decline, perish" "that which falls" as "that which happens" "receptacle, box, that which encloses or contains," "to take, hold" "enclose in a case,"

Maniac (2018) - Symbolism Decoded - Esoteric Hollywood

“Have you ever considered that, despite all your problems here…It’s likely that you’re currently trapped inside a malfunctioning and extremely dangerous simulation, which is, in itself, directed by a suicidally depressed consciousness.”

Google: Change is in the Air Metaphors. Male lose female. Switch. Dump old things, move on. Get with the program. Change is inevitable. *peig-: cut to measure, adorn;"

holo- (see *sol- above; mythology) before vowels, hol-, word-forming element meaning "whole, entire, complete," from Greek holos"whole, entire, complete," also "safe and sound;" as a noun, "the universe," as an adverb, "on the whole;" from PIE *sol-wo-, from root *sol- "whole." Often translated as whole, which it resembles but with which it apparently has no etymological connection.

trap "contrivance for catching unawares," "stair, step, tread" "mouth" "door in a floor or ceiling" “encircle; capture,"

Probably, he said, “they fought about control.”

circle "circular figure; small ring, hoop; circular orbit" "ring" (see circus). "group of persons surrounding a center of interest" "to shape like a globe," also "to encompass or surround with a circle," "to set in a circular pattern;" (Earth is a group of sun-worshipers. See sol above)

encompass "make, put in"

compass "space, area, extent, circumference," "circle, radius; size, extent; pair of compasses" “divide equally," "with, together" "to devise, plan;" "to surround, contain, envelop, enclose;"

com- (.com) "with, together," cum "together, together with, in combination,"

con "negation; in the negative;” "to study, get to know, peruse carefully," "to know" "to guide a ship, give orders for the steering of a ship," "to swindle,"

words that start with con

cave (see above. next/previous post) "a cave, vault, cellar" noun use of neuter plural of adjective cavus "hollow," "to collapse in or down" "yield to pressure"

cavemen (our origins & that of monkies)

monkey (see robot, orphan, slave) Monequin (recorded as Monnekin in a 14c.) maimun "monkey," literally "auspicious," "woman," a contraction of ma donna "my lady." Monkey has been used affectionately for "child" since c. 1600. Monkey business attested from 1883. Monkey suit "fancy uniform" Monkey wrench is attested from 1858; its figurative sense of "something that obstructs operations" is from the notion of one getting jammed in the gears of machinery (compare spanner in the works). To have a monkey on one's back "be addicted" "to be angry." The three wise monkeys ("see no evil," etc.) "to mock, mimic," from monkey (n.). Meaning "play foolish tricks"

trick "a cheat, a mean ruse," "trick, deceit, treachery, cheating," "be evasive, shuffle," "trifles, nonsense, a tangle of difficulties," "to dress, adorn"

Let us make man to our image and likeness

then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,

Dalek

So do not be afraid of them. For there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.

Building minds of robots, creating clones & silhouettes in our image & likeness

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Quantum Entanglement

clone "a twig, spray," related to klados "sprout, young branch, offshoot of a plant," "to strike, cut" (see prior *da- etc)

holt (see above) "woods, forest, grove, thicket," "beam, timber;" "to strike, cut."

mirror "a reflecting glass, looking glass; observation, model, example," "look at" (oneself in a mirror), "observe, watch, contemplate," "shade, shadow." "to reflect," "to be a model"

silhouette Usually said to be so called because it was an inexpensive way of making a likeness of someone, a derisive reference to Silhouette's petty economies to finance the Seven Years' War Used of any sort of dark outline or shadow in profile "abundance of" and zulo "hole" (possibly here meaning "cave") (See above)

shadow-figure "silhouette,"

shadow (see sky above/prior/after, depending on viewpoint) "the effect of interception of sunlight, dark image cast by someone or something when interposed between an object and a source of light," ("to the," "from the," "of the," "in the") of sceadu (see shade (n.)) shadow is to shade (n.) as meadow is to mead (see eden, *agro-, etc) "anything unreal;" mid-14c. as "a ghost;" "imitation, copy" (see above form/image) "the faintest trace" "a spy who follows" "to protect as with covering wings"

silicon The name is patterned on carbon from the concentration of manufacturers of silicon chips used in computers, watches, etc.

silas "living in the woods,"

forest "cover with trees or woods," "the outside woods," "the royal forest." "court, judgment;" "flower."

The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest swallowed up more men that day than the sword.

jungle "dense growth of trees and other tangled vegetation," "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," "wild, tangled mass" "place notoriously lawless and violent"

desert "to leave, abandon," "leave without permission;" "cause to leave," literally "undo or sever connection," Latin deserere "to abandon, to leave, forsake, give up, leave in the lurch," de "undo" (see de-) + serere "join together, put in a row" (from PIE root *ser- (2) "to line up") "desert, wilderness, wasteland; destruction, ruin" "fact of deserving a certain treatment (for good or ill) for one's behavior," "merit, recompense," "be worthy to have," "serve well," "completely" (see de-) + servire "to serve" "suitable reward or punishment, what one deserves"

de- Latin de "down, down from, from, off; concerning" "down, off, away, from among, down from," but also "down to the bottom, totally" "completely" (see prior hole, holy, whole) "not, do the opposite of, undo"

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Now that we’ve come (see above) full circle, back to ‘terms’...

icon "likeness, image, portrait; image in a mirror; a semblance, phantom image;" in philosophy, "an image in the mind," related to eikenai "be like, look like,"

Enki

eclipse "an eclipse; an abandonment," literally "a failing, forsaking," "to forsake a usual place, fail to appear, be eclipsed," from ek "out" (see prior ex-

real "actually existing, true;" mid-15c., "relating to things" (especially property) "belonging to the thing itself," from Latin res "matter, thing," of uncertain origin. from Latin regalis "regal" (see regal).

regal "royal, kingly; of or belonging to a king, worthy of a king," "to lead, rule."

actual "pertaining to acts or an action;" "real, existing" (as opposed to potential, ideal, etc.); "active, pertaining to action," (related to time, cronus, saturn, the builders, ect) "a doing" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move")

*ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move." It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Greek agein "to lead, guide, drive, carry off," agon "assembly, contest in the games," agogos "leader," axios "worth, worthy, weighing as much;" Sanskrit ajati "drives," ajirah "moving, active;" Latin actus "a doing; a driving, impulse, a setting in motion; a part in a play;" agere "to set in motion, drive, drive forward," hence "to do, perform," agilis "nimble, quick;" Old Norse aka "to drive;" Middle Irish ag "battle."

(See prior shadow, mare)

artificial "not natural or spontaneous," "of or belonging to art," "a work of art; skill; theory, system," "craftsman, artist, master of an art" (music, acting, sculpting, etc.) (SEE BELOW) "maker," from facere "to do, make" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put") artificial day "part of the day from sunrise to sunset" The word was applied from 16c. to anything made in imitation of, (image) Artificial intelligence "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines"

Apollo (words in bold have been mentioned previously) God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Both Apollo and Artemis use a bow and arrow. Apollo is depicted as young, beardless, handsome and athletic. In myth, he can be cruel and destructive, and his love affairs are rarely happy. He is often accompanied by the Muses. His most famous temple is in Delphi, where he established his oracular shrine. His signs and symbols include the laurel wreath, bow and arrow, and lyre. His sacred animals include roe deer, swans, and pythons. Some late Roman and Greek poetry and mythography identifies him as a sun-god, equivalent to Roman Sol and Greek Helios.

alien "strange, foreign," "an alien, stranger, foreigner," "of or belonging to another, not one's own, foreign, strange," "wholly different in nature" is from 1670s. Meaning "not of this Earth" "being from another planet,"

“I’m going to talk about aliens.”

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kindred "family, lineage; race, nation, tribe, people; kinsfolk, blood relations," compound of kin (q.v.) + -rede, from Old English ræden "condition, rule," related to rædan "to advise, rule" (from PIE root *re- "to reason, count") (see b4) for phonetic reasons (compare sound (n.1)) but perhaps encouraged by kind

kin cynn "family; race; kind, sort, rank; nature" (sounds like sin) (kin carries sin) Old High German chunni "kin, race;" Dutch kunne "sex, gender;" Gothic kuni "family, race," Old Norse kundr "son," German Kind "child") from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget," (see above/prior)

blood "to thrive, bloom." "temper of mind, natural disposition" To get blood from a stone "do the impossible"

race (see also, world) "running, rush (of water)," "a running, a rush, a leap, jump; a storming, an attack;" "to rage" (of fire)) PIE *ers- (1) "be in motion" (see err) "contest of speed" "people of common descent," "race, breed, lineage, family" radix "root," "tribe, nation" (see above) "group of people with common occupation" "to unite, to join." "to rush headlong, hasten, enter rashly." "run with uncontrolled speed," "strong current of water," "channel of a stream" (especially an artificial one to a mill)

mill *mele- "to crush, grind." Latin millesimum "one-thousandth," from mille "a thousand" (see million) "to keep moving round and round in a mass," 1874 (implied in milling), originally of cattle,

err errer "go astray, lose one's way; make a mistake; transgress," "wander, go astray," figuratively "be in error," "be in motion, wander around" "error; deception;"

sound "sound, musical note, voice," Compare gender (n.), thunder (n.), jaundice (n.), kindred. (see above) "sound, safe, having the organs and faculties complete and in perfect action," "healthy, strong" "holding accepted opinions" "fathom, probe, measure the depth of," Old English sund "water, sea" (prior mentioned) "narrow channel of water," "to move, stir, swim" "cause something (an instrument, etc.) to produce sound."

cure “care, concern, trouble,” “means of healing” "make whole” “one responsible for the care (of souls),”

ava (multiple sources) Āvā, a feminine given name in the Persian language, meaning "voice, sound". A variation of Eve. May be from the Latin "avis," meaning "bird." Chava ("life" or "living one"), the Hebrew form of Eve. In Hebrew it’s seen as related to Chava, which means “life” or “serpent,”

Ava Gardner (eve of the garden) Hollywood star in The Killers (also known as A Man Alone) The Bible: In the Beginning... She was the youngest of seven children.

Druid They are believed to have been prevented by doctrine from recording their knowledge in written form, thus they left no written accounts of themselves. Old Irish druí ‘druid, sorcerer Middle Welshdryw ‘seer; wren’ *weid- "to see" The sense of "oak-knower" or "oak-seer" drýs (δρύς), "oak-tree" possibly connected with an association of that bird

avatar "descent of a Hindu deity to earth in an incarnate or tangible form," "descent" (of a deity to the earth in incarnate form), from ava- "off, down" au- (2) "off, away") + base of tarati "(he) crosses over," from PIE root *tere- (2) "cross over, pass through, overcome." (see above) Meaning "concrete embodiment of something abstract" is from 1815. In computer use, it seems to trace to the novel "Snowcrash" (1992) by Neal Stephenson.

*tere- (click to see forms) "to rub, turn," "bore a hole;" "wounded, hurt;" Greek teirein "to rub, rub away;" "borer," Welsh taraw "to strike." "cross over, pass through, overcome." "through, beyond;"

matrix matris, matrice, "uterus, womb," from Old French matrice "womb, uterus" Latin mātrix (genitive mātricis) "pregnant animal," also "source, origin,"

The many figurative and technical senses are from the notion of "that which encloses or gives origin to" something. The general sense of "place or medium where something is developed" is recorded by 1550s; meaning "mould in which something is cast or shaped" is by 1620s; sense of "embedding or enclosing mass" is by 1640s.

The mathematical sense of "a rectangular array of quantities (usually square)" is because it is considered as a set of components into which quantities can be set. The logical sense of "array of possible combinations of truth-values" is attested by 1914. As a verb, in television broadcasting, from 1951.

simulate "feign, pretend, assume falsely" (implied in simulated) past participle of simulare "to make like, imitate, copy, represent," stem of similis "like, resembling, of the same kind" (see similar) (see race, gene) Meaning "to use a model to imitate certain conditions for purposes of study or training" (also see above)

machine "structure of any kind," “trick” "house" "that which enables," from root *magh- "to be able, have power." "device made of moving parts for applying mechanical power" "a vehicle; a stage- or mail-coach; a ship," (think vessel, sky, *(s)keu-) slang the word was used for both "penis" and "vagina,"

chroma in reference to color, "intensity of distinctive hue, degree of departure of a color-sensation from that of white or gray," khroma "surface of the body, skin, color of the skin," "color" and, in plural, "ornaments, make-up, embellishments," khroizein "to color, stain, to touch the surface of the body," khrosthenai "to take on a color or hue," khros, khroia "surface of the body, skin." from PIE *ghreu- "to rub, grind" (see prior commons)

Hello, my name is Hue-Man?

nectar from Greek nektar, name of the drink of the gods, which is said to be a compound of nek- "death" (from PIE root *nek- (1) "death") + -tar "overcoming,"

goo The first element perhaps somehow imitative, or shortened from burgoo (1787) "thick porridge."

leek "leek, onion, garlic,"

Garlic Magical Attributes (gar-leek) Garlic is masculine in nature and associated with the planet Mars, the element fire and the sign Aries. It is sacred to Hecate and is a suitable offering to her left at a crossroads. A spell from the American West(world) to send away unwanted lover: Garlic cloves can also be used, with other things, to stuff poppets intended for negative magic. (wait....puppets!? nahhh) Garlic is said to have aphrodisiac powers when eaten.

Make you go ga ga in la la land

Caught in a world wide web (see com- above)

web "woven fabric, woven work, tapestry," from PIE *webh- "to weave" (see weave (v.)). Meaning "spider's web" is first recorded early 13c. Applied to the membranes between the toes of ducks and other aquatic birds from 1570s. Internet sense is from 1992, shortened from World Wide Web (1990). Web browser, web page both also attested 1990.

weave "to weave, form by interlacing yarn," figuratively "devise, contrive, arrange" webh- "to weave;" also "to move quickly" "combine into a whole" "go by twisting and turning" "method or pattern of weaving" "to move from one place to another," "move to and fro;" 1590s as "move side to side."

Rumpelstiltskin (3 days) a miller lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold

*(s)pen- (from spin) "rope or chain that holds an anchor to a ship's side;" "measure of weight;" "distance between two objects;" (relate to space terms) "two animals driven together;" "lay a snare;" Armenian henum "I weave;" Greek patos "garment," (see above flesh, sky, etc) spiðra "spider," literally "spinner." (see below)

Spider Grandmother In Hopi mythology, "Spider Grandmother" (Hopi Kokyangwuti) is the creator of humans, identified with the "Earth Goddess". Spider Old Woman appears as the equivalent of "Thought Woman"

Charlotte's Web He is befriended by a barn spider named Charlotte, whose web sits in a doorway overlooking Wilbur's enclosure. When Wilbur discovers that he is being raised for slaughter, she promises to hatch a plan guaranteed to spare his life. Death is a major theme seen throughout Charlotte's Web and is brought forth by that of the spider, Charlotte's web. According to Norton D. Kinghorn, Charlotte's web acts as a barrier that separates two worlds. These worlds are that of life and death.

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Roll Out The Future

Here’s the scroll for ya...No need to reinvent the wheel...

“What science fiction directors imagined decades ago, is now a reality.”

“5G is not just designed to connect people; it was meant to connect virtually everything else;"

“5G WILL TRANSFORM”

gig/giga/giants/gene/genesis/born (see etym relations in a near post where we take a trip down the rabbit whole through wonderland. Keep up the great search my friends and continue the revelations in your glory-full, glory-us, desired heart shaped boxes through this beautiful disaster. Cheers to The Game.

Only decades. We’re at the precipice of humanity. The ending of a cycle and the beginning of another. The recycling. The cross. X. Switch!

#ElectricUniverse

“I ThinQ, therefore I Am.”

Technology Is Our Next Nature

Squaring The Circle Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge.

Methods to approximate the area of a given circle with a square, which can be thought of as a precursor problem to squaring the circle, were known already to Babylonian mathematicians. The problem was even mentioned in Aristophanes's play The Birds.

“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math, and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of #SPACE travel.”

asteroid "one of the planetoids orbiting the sun, found mostly between Mars and Jupiter," "star-like," from aster "star" (from PIE root *ster- (2) "star") + -eidos "form, shape" (see -oid).

-oid word-forming element meaning "like, like that of, thing like a ______," from Latinized form of Greek -oeides, from eidos "form," related to idein "to see," eidenai "to know;" literally "to see," from PIE *weid-es-, from root *weid- "to see."

*weid- It forms all or part of: advice; advise; belvedere; clairvoyant; deja vu; Druid; eidetic; eidolon; envy; evident; guide; guidon; guise; guy (n.1) "small rope, chain, wire;" Gwendolyn; Hades; history; idea; ideo-; idol; idyll; improvisation; improvise; interview; invidious; kaleidoscope; -oid; penguin; polyhistor; prevision; provide; providence; prudent; purvey; purview; review; revise; Rig Veda; story (n.1) "connected account or narration of some happening;" supervise; survey; twit; unwitting; Veda; vide; view; visa; visage; vision; visit; visor; vista; voyeur; wise (adj.) "learned, sagacious, cunning;" wise (n.) "way of proceeding, manner;" wisdom; wiseacre; wit (n.) "mental capacity;" wit (v.) "to know;" witenagemot; witting; wot.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit veda "I know;" Avestan vaeda "I know;" Greek oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see;" Old Irish fis "vision," find"white," i.e. "clearly seen," fiuss "knowledge;" Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn "white;" Gothic, Old Swedish, Old English witan "to know;" Gothic weitan "to see;" English wise, German wissen "to know;" Lithuanian vysti "to see;" Bulgarian vidya "I see;" Polish widzieć "to see," wiedzieć"to know;" Russian videt' "to see," vest' "news," Old Russian vedat' "to know."

knowledge early 12c., cnawlece "acknowledgment of a superior, honor, worship;" for first element see know (v.). The second element is obscure, perhaps from Scandinavian and cognate with the -lock "action, process," found in wedlock. From late 14c. as "capacity for knowing, understanding; familiarity;" also "fact or condition of knowing, awareness of a fact;" also "news, notice, information; learning; organized body of facts or teachings." Sense of "sexual intercourse" is from c. 1400. Middle English also had a verb form, knoulechen "acknowledge" (c. 1200), later "find out about; recognize," and "to have sexual intercourse with" (c. 1300); compare acknowledge.

2019 Will Be All About the Moon & One Weird Asteroid

Creativerse is a sandbox game that does not define one specific game goal to be reached, but lets players set their own objectives. Even the quests are purely optionally, although their rewards are very useful and only few players would want to refrain from gaining them.

capsule "small case, natural or artificial," "box, case, chest"

case "what befalls one; state of affairs," "an event, happening, situation, quarrel, trial," "a chance, occasion, opportunity; accident, mishap," literally "a falling,"

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Building of the third temple while the trump-ets sound to worship the living god and continuously serve to it’s will recycling through eternity.

What is the problem? The problem is the terrorists. (opposition,polar)

The Twelve Apostles

The Twelve Spies

Here we have two in the same coin. Basic duality. Become whole.

Intel's new 9th Gen desktop CPUs have ditched integrated GPUs The new processors join the company's three existing 'flagship' 9th-generation desktop chips,

quantum computers solving problems that were never there!

flagship a war-ship bearing the flag of an admiral, vice-admiral, or rear-admiral, from flag (n.) + ship (n.). Properly, at sea, a flag is the banner by which an admiral is distinguished from the other ships in his squadron, other banners being ensigns, pendants, standards, etc. Figurative use by 1933.

banner "standard," *bandwa- "identifying sign, banner, standard," also "company under a banner" (source also of Gothic bandwa "a sign"), from suffixed form of PIE root *bha- (1) "to shine." Formerly the standard of a king, lord, or knight, behind which his followers marched to war and to which they rallied in battle.

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, (From A-Z)

chip (see clone/holt above) "to pare away by cutting, cut off," verbal form of cipp "small piece of wood" "break off fragments" "contribute" "small strip of wood," Old High German kipfa "wagon pole," Old Norse keppr "stick," Latin cippus "post, stake, beam;" "small disk or counter used in a game of chance" "thin, tiny square of semi-conducting material"

Men are part what? Anima(ls)

anima Jung's term for the inner part of the personality, or the female component of a masculine personality, 1923, from fem. of Latin animus "the rational soul; life; the mental powers, intelligence" (see animus). For earlier use in the sense "soul, vital principle," see anima mundi.

animus (see spectrum below) "temper" (usually in a hostile sense), from Latin animus "rational soul, mind, life, mental powers, consciousness, sensibility; courage, desire," related to anima "living being, soul, mind, disposition, passion, courage, anger, spirit, feeling," from PIE root *ane- "to breathe." andi "breath, breathing; current of air; aspiration in speech; soul, spirit, spiritual being."

anima mundi "spiritual essence, distinct from matter and supposed in the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato to be diffused throughout the universe, organizing and acting through the whole of it," 1670s, Medieval Latin, literally "soul of the world;" used by Abelard to render Greek psyche tou kosmou. "the rational soul; life; the mental powers, intelligence" mundus "universe, world" (see mundane).

mundane mid-15c., "of this world," from Old French mondain "of this world, worldly, earthly, secular;" also "pure, clean; noble, generous" (12c.), from Late Latin mundanus "belonging to the world" (as distinct from the Church), in classical Latin "a citizen of the world, cosmopolite," from mundus "universe, world," literally "clean, elegant"; used as a translation of Greek kosmos (see cosmos) in its Pythagorean sense of "the physical universe" (the original sense of the Greek word was "orderly arrangement").

Latin mundus also was used of a woman's "ornaments, dress (think clothing/eve)" and is related to the adjective mundus"clean, elegant" (used of women's dress, etc.). Extended sense of "dull, uninteresting" is by 1850. Related: Mundanely. The mundane era was the chronology that began with the supposed epoch of the Creation (famously reckoned as 4004 B.C.E.).

cosmos "the universe, the world" (but not popular until 1848, when it was taken as the English equivalent to Humboldt's Kosmos in translations from German), from Latinized form of Greek kosmos"order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array;" also "to establish (a government or regime);" "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women).

Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (compare kosmokomes "dressing the hair," and cosmetic) as well as "the universe, the world."

Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but it later was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. For specific reference to "the world of people," the classical phrase was he oikoumene (ge) "the inhabited (earth)." Septuagint uses both kosmos and oikoumene. Kosmos also was used in Christian religious writing with a sense of "worldly life, this world (as opposed to the afterlife)," but the more frequent word for this was aiōn, literally "lifetime, age."The word cosmos often suggested especially "the universe as an embodiment of order and harmony."

cosmetic "the art of beautifying, art of anointing or decorating the human body," "the art of dress and ornament," from kosmein "to arrange, adorn," from kosmos "order; ornament" "superficial, affecting the appearance only"

epoch "point marking the start of a new period in time" (such as the founding of Rome, the birth of Christ, the Hegira) "stoppage, fixed point of time," from epekhein "to pause, take up a position," from epi "on" (see epi-) + ekhein "to hold" (from PIE root *segh- "to hold"). Transferred sense of "a period of time"

*segh- "to hold." "place of instruction;" Sanskrit sahate "he masters, overcomes," sahah "power, victory;" Avestan hazah "power, victory;" Greek skhema "figure, appearance, the nature of a thing," related to skhein "to get," ekhein "to have, hold; be in a given state or condition;" Gothic sigis, Old High German sigu, Old Norse sigr, Old English sige "victory."

The human race

eclipse "eclipse, darkness" (12c.), from Latin eclipsis, from Greek ekleipsis"an eclipse; an abandonment," literally "a failing, forsaking," from ekleipein "to forsake a usual place, fail to appear, be eclipsed," from ek "out" (see ex-) + leipein "to leave" (from PIE root *leikw- "to leave").

Recall ash above; cave

Prometheus In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/prəˈmiːθiːəs/; Greek: Προμηθεύς, pronounced [promɛːtʰeús], meaning "forethought")[1] is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation of man from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity, an act that enabled progress and civilization. Prometheus is known for his intelligence and as a champion of mankind.

In another myth, Prometheus establishes the form of animal sacrifice practiced in ancient Greek religion.

In the Western classical tradition, Prometheus became a figure who represented human striving, particularly the quest for scientific knowledge, and the risk of overreaching or unintended consequences. In particular, he was regarded in the Romantic era as embodying the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy: Mary Shelley, for instance, gave The Modern Prometheus as the subtitle to her novel Frankenstein (1818).

Prometheus Etymology Related Words:

Prometheus (see *men- above) demigod (son of the Titan Iapetus) who made man from clay and stole fire from heaven and taught mankind its use, for which he was punished by Zeus by being chained to a rock in the Caucasus, where a vulture came every day and preyed on his liver. The name is Greek, and anciently was interpreted as literally "forethinker, foreseer," from promethes "thinking before," from pro "before" (see pro-) + *methos, related to mathein "to learn," from enlargement of PIE root *men- (1) "to think." However Watkins suggests the second element is possibly from a base meaning "to steal," also found in Sanskrit mathnati "he steals."

Frankenstein allusive use for man-made monsters dates to 1838, from Baron Frankenstein, character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus." Commonly taken (mistakenly) as the proper name of the monster, not the creator, and thus franken- extended 1990s as a prefix to mean "non-natural." The German surname is probably literally "Franconian Mountain," stein being used especially for steep, rocky peaks, which in the Rhineland often were crowned with castles. The Shelleys might have passed one in their travels. The German surname also suggests "free stone."

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil.

spectrum "apparition, specter," from Latin spectrum (plural spectra) "an appearance, image, apparition, specter," from specere "to look at, view" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe"). Meaning "visible band showing the successive colors, formed from a beam of light passed through a prism" first recorded 1670s. Figurative sense of "entire range (of something)"

*spek- (see shadow above) It forms all or part of: aspect; auspex; auspices; auspicious; bishop; circumspect; conspicuous; despicable; despise; episcopal; especial; espionage; espy; expect; frontispiece; gyroscope; haruspex; horoscope; inspect; inspection; inspector; introspect; introspection; perspective; perspicacious; perspicacity; prospect; prospective; respect; respite; retrospect; scope; -scope; scopophilia; -scopy; skeptic; species; specimen; specious; spectacle; spectacular; spectrum; speculate; speculation; speculum; spice; spy; suspect; suspicion; suspicious; telescope.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit spasati "sees;" Avestan spasyeiti "spies;" Greek skopein "behold, look, consider," skeptesthai "to look at," skopos"watcher, one who watches;" Latin specere "to look at;" Old High German spehhon "to spy," German spähen "to spy."

The Watchers Watcher (Aramaic עִיר ʿiyr, plural עִירִין ʿiyrin, [ʕiːr(iːn)]; Theodotian trans: ir; from the root of Heb. ʿer, "awake, watchful";[1]Greek: ἐγρήγοροι, transl.: egrḗgoroi; Slavtransliteration, Grigori,[2] "Watchers", "those who are awake"; "guard", "watcher"[3]) is a term used in connection with biblical angels. Watcher occurs in both plural and singular forms in the Book of Daniel (4th–2nd century BC), where reference is made to their holiness. The apocryphal Books of Enoch (2nd–1st centuries BC) refer to both good and bad Watchers, with a primary focus on the rebellious ones.

(There is plenty of amazing info. This rabbit hole does not contain depth of information, just bits for those that would like to continue deeper research. It is up to YOU to find the key. You are the key and have to feel it within yourself. You can’t do it alone, but you have to.)

“In those days, when the children of man had multiplied, it happened that there were born unto them handsome and beautiful daughters. And the angels, the children of heaven , saw them and desired them; and they said to one another, ‘Come, let us choose wives for ourselves from among the daughters of man and beget us children.’ “

We’re repeating behaviors, habits and programming. Many times over.

player Old English plegere, agent noun from play (v.). Stage sense is from mid-15c.

play Old English plegan, plegian "move rapidly, occupy or busy oneself, exercise; frolic; make sport of, mock; perform music," from Proto-West Germanic *plegōjanan "occupy oneself about" (source also of Old Saxon plegan "vouch for, take charge of," Old Frisian plega "tend to," Middle Dutch pleyen "to rejoice, be glad," German pflegen "take care of, cultivate"), which is apparently connected to the root of plight (v.), but the ultimate etymology is uncertain.

Meaning "to take part in a game" is from c. 1200. Opposed to work (v.) since late 14c. Related: Played; playing. To play up "emphasize" is from 1909; to play down "minimize" is from 1930; to play along "cooperate" is from 1929. To play house as a children's activity is from 1958. To play with oneself "masturbate" is from 1896; play for keeps is from 1861, originally of marbles or other children's games with tokens. To play second fiddle in the figurative sense is from 1809 ("Gil Blas"). To play into the hands (of someone) is from 1705. To play the _______ card is attested from 1886; to play fair is from mid-15c. To play (something) safe is from 1911; to play favorites is attested from 1902. For play the field see field (n.). (see above)

business Old English bisignes (Northumbrian) "care, anxiety, occupation," from bisig "careful, anxious, busy, occupied, diligent" (see busy (adj.)) + -ness. The original sense is obsolete, as is the Middle English sense of "state of being much occupied or engaged" (mid-14c.), the latter replaced by busyness.

Again, play and busy-ness, two sides of the same coin showing masculine and femine perspectives. BOTH are accurate.

white reflects, black absorbs

“And the one seated there looks like jasper and carnelian, and around the throne is a rainbow that looks like an emerald.”

Humans only see within a very limited window of the electromagnetic spectrum

window (see many related terms prior, it all connects. bridge the gap) literally "wind eye," from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr "wind" (see wind (n.1)) + auga"eye" (from PIE root *okw- "to see"). Replaced Old English eagþyrl, literally "eye-hole," and eagduru, literally "eye-door." Compare Old Frisian andern "window," literally "breath-door."

rainbow Old English renboga; see rain (n.) + bow (n.).

rain (a flood maybe?) Old English regn "rain," from Proto-Germanic *regna- (source also of Old Saxon regan, Old Frisian rein, Middle Dutch reghen, Dutch regen, German regen, Old Norse regn, Gothic rign "rain"), with no certain cognates outside Germanic, unless it is from a presumed PIE *reg- "moist, wet," which may be the source of Latin rigare "to wet, moisten" (see irrigate). Transferred and figurative use of other things that fall as rain (blessings, tears, etc.) think t-airs not t-ears "strife, enmity"

bow Old English bugan "to bend, become bent, have or assume a curved direction; to bow down, bend the body in condescension or reverence, to submit," also "to turn back" "withdraw" is from 1942, from the notion of "exit with a bow or bows." "strung, elastic weapon for shooting arrows," "know one's intentions or inclinations" "practice an art other than one's own;" "on the wrong side, inaccurately;" "have more than one means to accomplish something;" "exaggerate, lie." "forward part of a ship," "an inclination of the body or head"

emerald "bright green precious stone," "shine" (compare Hebrew bareqeth "emerald," Arabic barq"lightning").

Etym words associated with moth

luna "the moon," especially as personified in a Roman goddess answering to Greek Selene; also an alchemical name for "silver;" from Latin luna "moon, goddess of the moon," from PIE *leuksna-(source also of Old Church Slavonic luna "moon," Old Prussian lauxnos "stars," Middle Irish luan "light, moon"), suffixed form of root *leuk- "light, brightness." The luna moth (1841, American English) so called for the crescent-shaped eye-spots on its wings.

lunatic "affected with periodic insanity dependent on the changes of the moon," from Old French lunatique "insane," Middle High German lune "humor, temper, mood, whim, fancy" (see above)

iris "iris of the eye; iris plant; rainbow," from PIE root *wei- "to bend, turn, twist." Iris was the name of the minister and messenger of the Olympian gods (especially of Hera), visibly represented by the rainbow (which was regarded as the descent of a celestial messenger). The eye region was so called (early 15c. in English) for being the part that gives color to the eye; (see prior *kel- , chroma, color, etc; hue-man) the Greek word was used of any brightly colored circle, "as that round the eyes of a peacock's tail" [Liddell & Scott]. Another sense in Middle English was "prismatic rock crystal."

phase "phase of the moon," back-formed as a singular from Modern Latin phases, plural of phasis, from Greek phasis "appearance" (of a star), "phase" (of the moon), from stem of phainein "to show, to make appear" (from PIE root *bha- (1) "to shine") "to carry out gradually"

We’re worth soooo much more than mere words could ever describe (judge, identify, type, gene, etc...see many related terms above)

*bha- "to speak, tell, say." "proclamation or edict;" "voice, sound," phanai "to speak;" "narrative, account, tale, story," "talk, rumor, report; reputation, public opinion; renown, reputation;" "to boast," "prayer, request;" "law" It forms all or part of: abandon; affable; anthem; bandit; banish; blasphemy; confess; defame; fable; fairy; fame; fate; infamous; infamy; infant; infantry; professor; prophecy; prophet; prophetic; banner; beacon; epiphany; fantasia; fantasy; phantom; phase; photo-; photocopy; photogenic; photograph; photon; photosynthesis;

The light may not be what you think it is, friends... (The same can be said about ‘dark’)

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

dark (see also black, *(s)keu-/sky, ether, sea, silhouette, eclipse, etc) "without light, lacking light or brightness (especially at night), obscure, gloomy;" "sad, cheerless; sinister, wicked," Of complexion, "not fair," "to hide, conceal" "obscure, not easily understood" "characterized by ignorance, backward in learning, void of intellectual light" "in secrecy, in concealment" For vowel change, see marsh.

mar "to deface, disfigure; impair in form or substance" "to waste, spoil," "to hinder, obstruct," PIE root *mers- "to trouble, confuse" (see prior mer-, flesh, ex-, X, ect.) Sanskrit mrsyate "forgets, neglects," Lithuanian miršti "to forget"

lucy in the sky with diamonds lucy in disguise (see rumpelstiltskin above)

prism "a solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane polygons, and whose sides are parallelograms," from Late Latin prisma, from Greek prisma "a geometrical prism, trilateral column," (Euclid), literally "something sawed (as a block of wood), sawdust," from prizein, priein "to saw" (related to prion "a saw"

Also note the reversal of the image on the back side of the album (That being said, the LG vid above has a flipped pyramid descending on TV)

The key takeaway here is the illusions that our minds feed. Both as individuals and as a collective, based on relativity, gravity, etc.

Imagine for a moment that planets aren’t ‘out there in space’ but that each one of US are the planets. Now use nasa terms and curve the way you perceive reality. We are all observing this world around us and judging it. It just so happens that we ‘need’ this information in order to even begin understanding and navigating the world around us. It’s also a deep paradox and a great trap. The reasoning for this is based upon perspective. How many lifetimes, games, and stories do you need?

Our minds are consistently etching out this idea of what we deem reality and this world is. Seldom is that understanding static. It changes. We change. We grow and begin to see things differently. We might change our preferences or people we associate with. We might change our style or our tastes in food, etc. Long story short--our terms and definitions will always fall short. Our judgements will never fully stand true, not even with ourselves.

We chase them though. We love to be ranked and judged, get good grades, give and receive gifts, gold stars, and raid loot crates. We really just love the chase, the hunt--even if it ends in heartbreak. It’s a survival game to see who can have the most [insert your desires].

America has us fooled. Evolution has us fooled. Bigger is not always better. Nor is more. If you have more of something, each of those ‘somethings’ will have less and less time with you, the more you accumulate. (unless you’re cloned?)

Our very own minds have us fooled.

At this rate our problems will never be solved. Can we not see this thing unfolding? The Truth is everywhere, just look around. It’s in everyone and everything, making the body of the beast, whole. Holy moly! Back on track.

“The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed.”

This message contains more than just one truth. The paragraph above (track) contains multiple truths if you just go back and read it slowly, drink some coffee, and reflect on it. You’ll begin to see it from new perspectives as you circle around your mind through different ideas and concepts of how that may be perceived. Our minds are so quick to (magnetically) attach to polarities. If it isn’t this, then it must be THAT! (ie-good/bad, black/white, up/down, etc etc)

dragon (nominative draco) "huge serpent, dragon," "serpent, giant seafish," "to see clearly," from PIE *derk- "to see" zoraht "light, clear;" Albanian dritë "light" Hebrew tannin "a great sea-monster,"

dragoon "cavalry soldier," "carbine, musket," because the guns "breathed fire" like dragons "to compel by repeated threats or harassment," "to force by the agency of dragoons"

worm (see storm, gig, *tere-, weave, bow, iris) "serpent, snake, dragon, reptile," also in later Old English "earthworm," from root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." "abject, miserable person" "any disease arising from the presence of parasitic worms" "difficult problem" is from 1951, from the literal can of worms a fisherman might bring with him, on the image of something all tangled up.

Wormwood (see planet x, cross, crossing, nibiru, etc)

Draco The traditional name of Alpha Draconis, Thuban, means "head of the serpent".

It would seem that we’ve come full circle

The Circle of Life YT Video The Circle of Life Lyrics

If you want to defeat the dragon, you have to think like a dragon.

The deepest truth of this entire reality is that we are all beautiful disasters. We all know this at our core

We wouldn’t even escape our very own judgement!!

Black might seem scary or deep and dark, but it is really the absorption of all colors. It is the wholeness without the segregation. Darkness is where the truth lies, and lays. On Day 7, he rested.

seven Long regarded as a number of perfection (seven wonders; seven sleepers, the latter translating Latin septem dormientes; seven against Thebes, etc.), but that notion is late in Old English and in German a nasty, troublesome woman could be eine böse Sieben "an evil seven" (1662).

Magical power or healing skill associated since 16c. with the seventh son ["The seuenth Male Chyld by iust order (neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene)," Thomas Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," 1579]. The typical number for "very great, strong," as in seven-league boots in the fairy story of Hop o'my Thumb.

The Seven Years' War (1756-63) is also the Third Silesian War.The Seven Stars (Old English sibunsterri), usually refers to the Pleiades, though in 15c. and after this name occasionally was given to the Big Dipper (which also has seven stars), or the seven planets of classical astronomy. Popular as a tavern sign, it might also (with six in a circle, one in the center) be a Masonic symbol.

Most often, love leads to suffering. That doesn’t make it good nor bad. That’s why it’s called Falling In Love, no matter which direction you fall.

“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”

So I ask of you, whom will you allow to be the judge of you?

If it’s your mirror, I certainly hope you meet your own expectations. There are still wolves here, and you might be one of them.

Any god claiming to be as such, should heed warning. That is very much an effect of ego and control. A deeper love would want you to decide for yourself, even if that means walking through hell to find whatever it is that you think you need. Only to come back Home with a greater understanding about the depths of unconditional love. Any words, definitions or terms would only sell it short. To realize and remember that you have always been perfect.

Any love that could love all of everything in all of creation, no matter the wars and opposition, is some hell of an infinite sea that I’ll stop describing :)

Don’t be fooled though friends. You contain all the beautiful madness and chaos. You just have to access the hidden (subconscious) files. You’re a wolf and a sheep (metaphorically, that’s not your gender) the wheat and the tear, the fruit and the weeds, the beauty and the beast, the sun and the moon, the roots and the branches, the father and the mother, feminine and masculine, the sweet, the sour, the spicy, salt, and pepper. Welcome to Chaos.

To think it all started with a triangle...

Tell me something girl, Are you happy in this modern world? Or do you need more, Is there something else that you’re searching for?

Tell me something boy, Aren’t you tired trying to fill that void? Or do you need more, Aint it hard keeping it so hardcore? (Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3-GiIWAGQ)

I could continue these posts for eons. The signs and symbols are all around us. Have a keen eye and do your due diligence while intuition leads you Home. Follow the still, quiet voice of love in your heart for all things. The pieces will mend together and you shall be reunited with your one true love.

You’re not anything that you believe yourself to be. You are so much more...

You’re a Beautiful Disaster & We Are The Spectrum.

I’m sorry to any and all that I have ever wronged. I forgive and release those that may have wronged me. Everyone here is doing the best that they can with what they have, the tools and the information at hand. All speaking our version of the truth and telling our story, part free will, part fate. Forgive us, for we know not what we do.

I wish you the very best of luck in your journey. I wish you strength, endurance, persistence, depth, faith, hope, and love. I wish you courage & honor in your discovery of the keys to the abyss.

Farewell My Love, Goodbyes Are For Never, A Journey Through Time

“We’re at the end of the book. We’re not going to be able to change anything now.”

I hope you’re praying. I hope your soul is changing.

#quantum core

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geodude96 · 8 years ago

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English idioms

I know there are people in this fandom who aren't native English speakers. I also know that English can be a very difficult language to learn, especially with things like idioms that might not make sense if they're directly translated. So I thought I'd compile some English idioms that you might see in the AA games or fanfics, along with their definitions or explanations. I did something similar once before, split across several blog posts, but I thought I'd compile them here. The examples below will have specific gender and/or personal pronouns, but those are just for example and clarity purposes. They can obviously be changed to suit the context.

-I talked her into it - I convinced her to do it

-I talked her out of it - I convinced her not to do it

-she talked him down - she convinced him to descend (such as from a dangerous height); or she explained how to descend (such as giving instructions over a radio to an inexperienced pilot); or she convinced him to lower his asking price for something he's selling

-to talk (or hype) someone (or something) up - to explain the good points of someone (or something) in such a way as to create excitement, anticipation, or appreciation

-another (or “a whole other”) kettle of fish - a completely different story or explanation

-don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched - don’t make plans based on a theoretical result

-the last straw (or “the straw that broke the camel’s back”) - the last inconvenience, annoyance, indignity, etc. that can be tolerated

-more _____ than you can shake a stick at - an overwhelming or unusually large number or amount of _____

-at the drop of a hat - at the slightest provocation (”The baby will cry at the drop of a hat.”)

-as the crow flies - the direct distance between two places, regardless of roads or obstacles

-she made a beeline - she took the shortest and quickest route to a destination (usually a straight line)

-milk run - an easy or simple errand

-_____ run - an errand or trip with the purpose of retrieving or obtaining _____ and bringing it back ("Everyone at the party was hungry, so Apollo was chosen to go on a pizza run.")

-he talked down to her - he talked to her in a condescending, insulting, or patronizing way (not to be confused with “he talked her down”)

-she has him wrapped around her little finger - he will do almost anything she says, and/or will do almost anything for her, usually due to a crush or something.

-[name], eat your heart out - die of envy (said in a joking context)

-to play devil’s advocate - to introduce an unpopular opinion, theory, or possibility, despite its unpopularity, usually because it needs to be considered, even if the person introducing it disagrees with it

-a shot (or "a stab") in the dark - a guess

-water under the bridge - something that doesn’t matter anymore or that has been forgiven

-to tie the knot - to get married

-to jump the gun (or “to jump to a conclusion”) - to make an assumption or conclusion based on insufficient information

-born with a silver spoon in his mouth - born to rich parents; born into and grew up in a life of luxury

-he put his foot in his mouth - he (probably impulsively) said something that turned out to be embarrassing and/or made matters worse

-you bit off more than you can chew - you started or accepted too many tasks, assignments, or responsibilities at the same time

-to beat around the bush - to avoid a main topic, or to be intentionally vague about a topic that one is expected to discuss

-to let the cat out of the bag - to reveal a secret

-to spill the beans - to reveal a secret

-to beat a dead horse - to continue discussing a topic after it becomes pointless

-once in a blue moon - very rarely

-take it with a grain of salt - don't consider it too seriously

-we'll cross that bridge when we come to it - we'll deal with that problem only if/when it becomes necessary

-not playing with a full deck - lacking intelligence, or not thinking clearly

-a few ____ short of a ____ (for example, “a few bricks short of a load”) - lacking intelligence, or not thinking clearly

-he put his foot down - he insisted, or he asserted his authority against opposition

-to put the cart before the horse - to deal with problems in the wrong order —-This expression probably comes from the days when people still used horse-drawn carts. If a cart is “before” (which in this case means “in front of”) a horse, the horse can’t pull it.

-can’t see the forest for the trees - too obsessed or concerned with details to recognize the overall situation

-get-up-and-go - energy, drive, motivation (There’s an old joke that involves some variation of the following: happy person: “Where’s your get-up-and-go?” sad person: “It got up and went.”)

-way out in left field (or “it came out of left field”) - very unusual or unexpected

-he drives her up the wall - he excessively annoys her

-like talking to a brick wall - talking is completely pointless because the listener isn’t listening, isn’t interested, or doesn't understand

-get the lead out - hurry up (The word “lead” has two pronunciations and many definitions. Here it’s pronounced “led” and it means “a very heavy type of metal that blocks radiation”. It’s also the only thing Superman can’t see through.)

-to show him the ropes - to explain necessary basic things such as rules, boundaries, policies, procedures, etc. to a newcomer

-keep it under your hat - keep it a secret

-hang (or “hold”) onto your hat - brace yourself; get ready for the big startling/tense/surprising/scary thing that’s about to happen

-mind your p’s and q’s - behave yourself

-make sure to cross your t’s and dot your i’s - carefully check your work to make sure everything is done and/or done correctly (These last two are also examples of the only situation in which plurals ever have apostrophes, because if these didn’t, they’d look like a misspelled word or part of a word instead of indicating the plural of a letter. Like if “i’s” didn’t have an apostrophe, it’d be confused with the word “is”.)

-easy as pie - very easy

-piece of cake - very easy

-it’s all Greek to me - I don’t understand any of it

-______ is my middle name - ______ is my specialty

-to hit the nail on the head - to be absolutely correct

-the pot calling the kettle black - pointing out something about someone else that is just as true of oneself

-Keep your shirt on! - Be patient!

-like water off a duck’s back - easily; without any apparent effect

-What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? - How is that relevant to this conversation/situation?

-What am I, chopped liver? - semi-serious expression of annoyance at being overlooked

-you're toast - you're in serious trouble, ruined, finished, defeated, or destroyed

#arrow #the flash #legends of tomorrow #ace attorney #english idioms #english as a second language #english as a foreign language

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writinggeisha · 6 years ago

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You’re at that point in your dating or relationship that you want to call your guy by a special nickname but it has to be cute so where are you going to find that? Don’t fret, we have a huge list of cute nicknames for guys, say them out loud to see how they sound, and choose two or three in case he doesn’t like one you have chosen.

We have even included some in Italian, French, German, Russian and a couple in Spanish. You will have a few to try out and see how he likes them, if he doesn’t like any of those, come back to the list and try again! Remember, a nickname means more if it is personal between the two of you and if he doesn’t like mushy nicknames like lamb chop then stick to the classics like babe or hun. Something else to remember when picking a nickname, do not use one that you used with an ex or one that makes him feel self-conscious about a short coming such as height. If he is short do not call him shorty, we shouldn’t have to explain this but that would just be cruel.

You don’t have to choose from this list either. Think about him, his expressions and his personality. Does he show emotions easily or not, what kind of hobbies does he have, all these things can help you choose or make up a nickname for him that is more personal and mean more to him than just a random nickname or Babe or Sweetheart.

Cute Nicknames For Guys:

Adorable – or you can add to it with Adorable Angel. Amore Mio – Italian means “my love”. Aniołku – Polish meaning angel. Angel – because he protects you, makes life easier for you. Agapi-Mou – Greek for “my love”. Angel Eyes – his eyes are sweet and kind and full of love. Angel Baby – another cute name for a sweet guy. Angel Face – he has that sweet angelic face. Amorcito – Spanish translates to my little love. Angel Heart – you see he has the heart of an angel full of love and goodness. Angel of Love – he is your angel of love so let him know – maybe you had given up on love until you met him. Angel of Mine – self explanatory. Ace – he is your ace that trumps all the other guys. Angelito – Spanish translates to angel. Anteros – Greek for mutual love.

Baby Cakes – your love. Babe – a classic nickname. Babu – Indian, it is a title of respect for an educated man, South Asia uses it a respect for a father, grandfather. If you want to use it as a pet name the urban dictionary says it would represent respect for something that has exceeding value. Baby Face – he has a young face. Blue Eyes – (if he has blue eyes). Baby Blues – (for blue eyes). Baccha – hindi for males, meaning baby the female version would be Bacchi. Bright Eyes – eyes that are bright and full of promise. Baby Doll – for a handsome guy. Bumpkin or Country Bumpkin – if he is from the country. Bellissimo – Italian for lovely if he has a lovely spirit, soul, or is just plain handsome. Bad Boy – not criminal just a little rebellious. Better Half – cause being with him brings out the best in you. Boo Bear – for a cuddly guy. Bärchen – German means little bear. Boo – for a cute guy. Bello – Italian for good looking male. Baby-Love – great lovely guy. Bambino – Italian for baby. Buttercup – sweet and beautiful to you. Bedroom Eyes – if he has seductive eyes. Bootylicious – no explanation needed. Brown Eyes – if he has brown eyes. Braveheart – he is brave and courageous and stands up for what he believes in.

Casanova – a true master of love. Carebear – cause he is cuddly and takes care of you like no one else. Cutiepie – if he is super cute. Cowboy – a strong male nickname. Corazón – Spanish meaning sweetheart. Cuddle Cakes – for a cuddly boyfriend. Cuddle Bunch – guy who likes to cuddle. Cariño – Spanish for honey, love. Chaviv – Hebrew meaning dearly loved. Champ – he is your champion. Cuddle Bear – he loves to cuddle as much as you. Candy-Man – he is sweet in everything he does. Captain – he is the captain of your heart. Cuddle Muffin – for a sweet guy who likes to cuddle. Cupcake – sweet guy. Caro Mio – Italian for Dear for the male gender the female would be Caro Mia. Chi Chi Poo – cute rhyming nickname. Cuddle Buddy – another amazing name for a guy who is cuddly.

Darlin’ – an oldie but goodie. Daudi – Swahili meaning beloved. Doll Face – cause he has that clean smooth face. Dream Boat – from the first time you laid eyes on him you’ve been dreaming of him. Dear Heart – ��another oldie but still good. Dreamy – he is dreamy to you, let him know it. Drakonchik – Russian for little dragon. Dewdrop – for a wise and refreshing guy. Dreamlover – he is everything you been dreaming of in a lover. Dumpling – delicious as a dumpling. Daredevil – this guy likes rock climbing, skydiving, well you get the idea. Diamond – he is your diamond. Dashing – he is dashing and needs to know you find him so. Dream Guy – lets him know he is your dream guy. Don Juan – he is smooth and you like it.

Enchanted – if he is a charming guy.

Fire Cracker – he can be a bit feisty. Fuzzybear – for an affectionate guy. Fabio – need we say more? Foxy – sly sleek and gorgeous. Flame – because he sets your heart a flame. Firefly – because he brings light in to your life.

Gorgeous – the nickname says it all. Good Looking – again we needn’t explain. Gladiator – A true warrior. Green Eyes – this is pretty obvious. Gum Drop – he is sweet and tasty. Golden Boy – he is your golden boy and this lets him know it.

Handsome – no explanation needed. Hunk – he is a 10 to you and this will tell him that. Heart Throb – he has your heart throbbing just by stepping into the room. Hon’ – a standard that never goes out of fashion. Honey – sweet as honey. Huggies – he is the one you want to hug on you and you on him. Hugs – he loves giving hugs. Honey Bear – sweet and cuddly. Hot stuff – he is your hot stuff. Heart Breaker – he could break hearts. Honey Bunch – sweet guy. Honey Bee – he is busy all the time and still sweet. Hot Lips – you love getting his kisses because they are hot. Hottie – you find him sizzling what better way to say it. Honey Buns – you find his buns extremely sweet. Honey Pants – he really fills out his jeans well. Honey Cakes – he likes cakes you like cakes why not. Hotness – similar to hot stuff, lets him know you find him irresistible. Hun Bun – similar to honey buns. Honey Drop – drop of sweetness. Hubby – nickname for husband. Hunny Pot – he is a whole pot of sweet. Hunny Bunny – he is cute and sweet. Hot Honey – he is hot and sweet. Huggaboo – this is new but he is huggable and cute so it fits.

Iron Man – you think he is strong. Italian Stallion – you find him extremely hot and well built. Indian Warrior – he will fight for what he believes in. Inamorato – Italian meaning, male lover.

Jelly Bear –sweet and cuddly. Jay Bird – he likes birds and blue is his favorite color. Jelly Bean – he may act hard but he has a soft heart. Jazzy – he is full of spunk and fun. JAAN – Pronounced as Ja-an has its roots in the Sanskrit/Urdu language meaning ‘Life’. JD or Jack – he is like Jack Daniels smooth and distinct. Joyful Knight – he brings joy everywhere he goes.

King – he is your king and you are his queen. Kissy Face – every time you see his face, you just want to kiss it. Knight In Shining Armor – he will rescue you whenever you need it. Kochanie – meaning beloved.

L’amour De Ma Vie – French translates to Love of my life. Love Muffin –if he loves muffins, this might be a good one for him. Lamb – soft cute and cuddly. Lamb Chops – could be used for a guy who is small and cute. Love Bug – there really is a bug called the love bug. It is seen in Florida during certain times of the year which is its mating season and how it got its name love bug. So while it’s a bug, it still a cute name for your guy. Lover – an old standard that can be used. Lambkin – soft, cuddly and sweet. If this defines your man, this might be the name for him. Love Face – he has a face you simply can’t help but love. Love of my Life – this one should be reserved for exactly that. Luvy Duvy – a mushy form of endearment. Love Bear – he is big and cuddly full of love. Lover Boy – he’s good looking and your lover. Love Machine – he shows you love 24/7. Lovey Dovey – a mushy form of endearment. Lover Pie – similar to lover boy. Light of my Life – he brought light into your world. Liebling – German meaning darling. Lady Killer – he is good looking and many women check him out. Luchik – Russian means sun beam ray of light. Lovebird – like the actual “lovebirds”, he shows affection to you. Love Train – since the beginning he has taken you to places you never knew.

My Love – the one you love. Mooi – Afrikaans meaning Handsome. Mi Amor – Spanish for “my love.” Mr. Right – should only be used if you are positive he is actually Mr. Right. Mój drogi – Polish meaning my dear. Mr. Perfect – simply because he is perfect in every way. Mon Chéri – French meaning my darling. Mister Cutie – he is simply a cutie, nothing more needs saying. Magic Man – he can make you feel like no one else, almost like magic. McDreamy – he is just simply dreamy to you. Ma Raison De Vivre – French meaning my reason for living. Mr. Night Rider – tall, dark, and handsome. Muscles – he is well built and you like that. Moje Szczęście – Polish meaning my happiness. Mon Trésor – French meaning my treasure. My All – because he is everything to you. Moonbeam – because when he looks at you, it’s like moonbeams surrounding you. Misiu – Polish meaning teddy bear. My Knight – the one who will fight for you and rescue you when you need it. Main Squeeze – lets him know no matter whom else is in your life, he is your main guy. Mon Bébé D’amour – French translates to my baby love. My Everything – no explanation needed here, he is simply everything for you. My One and Only – again like Mr Right shouldn’t be used lightly. My King – to you, he is a king so why not? Mon Ange – French translates to my angel. My Sunshine – he is the sunshine in your life, no better way to let him know this. My Hero – he is your hero because he rescued you. Mon Coeur –French translates to my heart. Mr. Adorable – simply put you find him totally adorable. Munchkin – may he is small and sweet then this could be the name for him. Ma Foi – French translates to My faith. McSteamy – you find him absolutely steamy hot. Mon Ciel étoilé – French translates to my starry sky. My Heart’s Desire – let him know he is your hearts desire. Mon Beau – French translates to my beautiful one. My World – he is your world but again make sure it is really true before using this one. My Beloved – he is the one you love. My Better Half – he brings out the better parts of you. Ma Force – French translates to my strength. Man Candy – hey who doesn’t like candy, especially the kind without extra calories? Maravilloso – Spanish translates to gorgeous. Mon Amour – French translates to my love. Mr. Cool – this is the guy who is always cool no matter the situation. Mon Dieu De Sexe – French translates to my sex god. If you really want your man to feel special, use this one. My Lion – fits a guy who is like a leader. Mr. Amazing – you find him amazing in every way so let him know. Main Man – this tells him of all the men in your life, family or friends that he is the main man in your life. Muñeca – Spanish translates to doll.

Num Nums – you find him totally scrumptious. Near and Dear – no matter if he is near or far he is dear to you. Nenito – Spanish translates to baby. Number One – because he isn’t only your number one but your only one. Nookie Bear – yep made up but hey if he turns you on then let him know it. Nookie Wookie – yep made up but sounds cute.

Old Man – been around forever. One and Only – we don’t need to explain this one. Other Half – he is the other half that makes you a whole. Osito – Spanish meaning cuddly, teddy bear.

Pumpkin – because you think he is first rate and physically attractive. Panda Bear – big and strong. Pooh Bear – like pooh he is cute and cuddly. Pryanichek – Russian means he is your gingerbread man. Peanut – if he is small or short and cute. Perfect – he is perfect for you in every way. Peach – sweet like a peach. Puma – he is quick as a cat and sleek. Pookie – you find him cute. Precious – he is precious to you so tell him. Playboy – he likes to play with you but he isn’t dead and will check out other women. Pookie Bear – you find him cute as well as big and strong. Precious Angel – he is precious and an angel to you. Pookie Pants – similar to pookie and pookie bear. Pudding Pie – maybe he likes pudding pie or the color of his eyes remind you of your favorite pudding pie. Puddin – he is soft and sweet just like pudding. Pussy Cat – he is sleek supple and moves like a cat. Prince – he is your prince don’t let him forget it. Pitbull – he is loyal and tenacious. Paramour – French translates to lover. Precioso Mío – Spanish meaning my precious.

Querido – Spanish meaning darling, dear, lover.

Romeo – maybe your guy is cute and has a good way with words. Raindrop – because like rain drops he is a force of nature to you and your personal growth. Roo Roo – cute rhyming name. Rubber Ducky – soft pliable and cute. Rolling Thunder – he is loud and cute. Rum-Rum – for a strong guy. Rock Star – what guy doesn’t want to be a rock star.

Snookems – made up name that can mean anything you want. Sweetheart – this is a classic for sure and never goes out of style. Sweetie Pie – because he is your sweety and maybe he likes pies. Sugar – he is sweet just the like white granules of sugar. Schatz – German translates to treasure. Sugar Pie – similar to sweetie pie. Sailor – great for navy guys both active and retired. Sexy – to you he is the sexiest man alive. Süsser – German translates to sweetie. Snicker Doodles – like the cookie he is yummy and sweet. Snuggles – this is good for him if he loves to snuggle with you. Snuggley Wuggley – same as snuggles, he loves to snuggle. Schnucki – German translates to darling or sweetie pie. Snuggle Bear – Similar to snuggley wuggley or snuggles. Sexy Eyes – you find his eyes to be the most sexy eyes you’ve ever seen. Sexy Pants – the way his pants fit him makes them and him extremely sexy no matter if he is walking toward or away from you. Sona – Indian translates to Precious. Snuggy – a snuggler. Snuggy Huggy – not only does he like to snuggle, he likes to hug. Stud Muffin – you find him to be a stud and you want to devour him too just like your favorite muffin. Stud – strong well-built and sexy women look at him and want to bear his children. Sweety – like sweetheart, it is a classic that never goes out of fashion. Stallion – Like stud, he is well built, beautiful, and you think his children would be amazing. Soulmate – the one mate you will spend eternity with, so be careful when using this one. Sakharok – Russian means your sugar. Stardust – for a romantic guy. Sugar Lips – when he kisses you all you taste is sugary sweet love. Sparky – if he is full of energy, ready to go at a moment’s notice then this might be a good one for him. Southern Comfort – cuz he is smooth and sweet just like the drink. Sunny Boy – he brings sunshine everywhere. Sweet Cheeks – his cheeks just look so sweet you can’t help yourself but call him sweetcheeks. Sweet Pea – you find him sweet and cute and who knows maybe he likes peas. Soldier – just like sailor, great for active or retired soldiers. Studley – similar to stud or stud muffin. Sugar Daddy – he is sweet and takes care of you. Sugar Plum – sweet and sugary. Strudelman – he is like strudel with many sweet layers to him. Sweetness – you find him totally sweet. Sweet stuff – cuz he is always sweet. Sugar Puff – need we say more? Sweetthang – a slang of sweet thing or sweetheart. Super Stud – he is your stud and to you he is super so tell him so. Sexy Devil – cause he is sexy and devilish. Sunshine – he brought sunshine into your life. Sweetums – similar to sweetheart, sweetypie etc. Sweetlips – his kisses are sweet. Sexy Face – this says it all. Spunky – well cause he is spunky. Sugar Britches – he just oozes sweetness. Sugar Smacks – yes it sounds like cereal but when he kisses you, all you can taste is sugar. Sunbeam – he brings sunbeams in your life everyday.

Teddy Bear – cute and cuddly. Tiger – strong and sharp, sleek and graceful when he moves just like a cat. Treasure – he is your treasure so don’t let him forget it. Toots – similar to babe, sweetie, or honey. Tesoro – Italian translates to Darling.

Velvet Lips – when you kiss, his lips are like velvet. Viking – he is strong. Valentine – he has your heart every day.

Wookie – right out of Star Wars. Wuggle Bear – for the big guy who likes to wuggle. Wuggles – for the guy who likes to combine hugging, cuddling, and wiggling. White Knight – he is your white knight. Wolverine – he is tenacious and will fight for you always.

Yummy Bear – when you look at him, he is yummy.

Zeus – A God you can really boost his self-worth this one. Zorro – a tall dark and mysterious man. Zany – he has a weird sense of humor but you get it.

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