#treatise

[cliamhteoir]

"Practice is better than artfulness, because practice could be sufficient without artfulness, but artfulness is never sufficient without practice."

- The Long Sword Gloss of GNM Manuscript 3227a

[varanusniloticus]

I need some help identifying the book where these came from. The illustrations are pretty sweet! EDIT: it's "The Martial Arts of Medieval Europe by Ryuta Osada" 中世ヨーロッパの武術 (by 長田 龍太) https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%95%B7%E7%94%B0-%E9%BE%8D%E5%A4%AA/e/B08JVK5R9W/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

[dancefail]

give me your headcanons brother i want to hear u cook. if u want a prompt uhhhh… gimme dreamtale headcanons.

ooooh omg!!! ok soooo i kind of have a lot of weird hcs surrounding their powers… idrk that much about dreamtale canon and most of them come frm me trying 2 make treatise have a somewhat consistent magic system/plot motive if that makes sense?

anyway it might get long sooo going under the cut:

dream is always at 100% of his power whereas nightmare is always around… less than half. this is because their capacity 4 magic is different based on the amt of apples they consumed! nightmare can use a lot more magic because he can contain more magic (which makes him a lot more powerful in terms of brute force) but he kind of lacks the ability to control how much he uses because its such a large quantity of power and one that he didnt have the ability to properly ‘grow into’ over time... also, because he’s constantly at less than half of his full ‘energy’, he’s perpetually exhausted so he doesnt exactly… train lol. hes basically just hitting the stars w a strategically minded rock until they leave him alone

on the flip side of that dream has a lot less capacity for magic (around 0.1% of nightmare’s theoretical ‘maximum’) but has learned how to conserve it AND replenish his reserves quickly (i.e. skimming off the top of an AU’s emotional state) so he doesnt instantly burn himself out. he does feel pretty good all of the time due to being topped out on magic constantly.. though i feel like his ability 2 sense negative emotions is stunted bcs hes actively trying 2 stay away frm them. i think negative emotions hurt dream more than positive ones hurt nm bcs again the quantities of magic they have is different… its like having 1 drop of coloured water in the sea vs in an eyedropper

sooo anyway!!! given this lore the main reason for their conflict (in my mind/treatise) is that dream has to guess how positive the multiverse is whereas nightmare essentially knows (he can gauge it based on how exhausted/energised he is) and therefore can just assume it’s too far in the negative if the pool he samples from is too biased, and nightmare just doesn’t want to be constantly exhausted from fighting. so he tries to make more aus negative. which leads to more fighting. which leads to more exhaustion. which… etc etc.

basically i feel like the core of their conflict wld be really bad communication issues that have had around 500 years to fester >>; and because theyre so powerful they end up dragging a lot of the multiverse along in their conflict. its less of a war and more of a dispute to them almost?? bcs 500 years in the grand scheme of things is not a very long time

[a-thread-of-green]

A Treatise on Body Horror

Fools say that body horror came about in the films and comics of modernity, birthed in pulp and crystalized in Cronenberg. But I say that body horror is as old as bodies themselves. The terrible transformations Greek gods wrought upon mortals, the Apostle Paul's hatred of fleshy desires, the corporeal mutilations that Virgil shows Dante down the pits of Hell and up the mountain of Purgatory: this too is body horror.

Fools say that body horror is the realm of fiction alone, of human-flies and alien imposters and cybernetic implants and Videodromes. But I say that body horror is in us, always. Yes, in times of terror like wars and car crashes and deep-rooted infection. But in the everyday as well. The simple fact that we flush away our waste, that we expel our snot into tissues. How even imagining the circulation and digestion occurring inside each of us at this very moment forces a cringe of disgust: this too is body horror.

Fools say that body horror is meant for shock and fear and wrinkled noses and nothing more. But I say that body horror is the trace of unease that crowns every physical joy. A doctor rips an artery from the leg and sews it into the heart, and saves a life in doing so. A single cell invades the body and feeds on its host and swells into a fetus, and this parasite is loved even before it emerges from the womb. An acid torrent dissolves the scraps of corpses of living things, and so we do not starve: this too is body horror.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

D. Paolo Grillando, D. Giovanni Francesco Ponzinibi - De Sortilegiis alter De Lamiis et Excellentia - Martin Lechler - MDXCII

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 456 is a popular treatise that claims to be a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great on a variety of topics, written in Andalusia, A.H. 797 (1394). Originally written in Greek or Arabic (origins are unclear), also translated into Latin

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[tashaclown]

Dads N' Flags

I'm realizing for the first time that many things in my childhood which seemed arbitrary and unfair definitely WERE, and it was not me but the people who set up the system that were at fault.

We can take my dad: He sent us out to buy a flag for the house. It was apparently something my mother thought tacky and wouldn't allow. They divorced on good terms, with her leaving to live with my sister across the country.

Last bit of *mis en place*, is that my dad wanted to follow "flag code" as he was in the military. He half assed this immediately with a cheap wall mounted flag which he put outdoors, completely unlit all day and night in any weather. The thing was torn off the wall by a storm and he picked it up out of the mud to hang back up. Without getting into the weeds of FLAG CODE; I've realized on reflection how bad it hurt me to get screamed at for letting the flag touch the floor when he would later go on to disrespect the flag in virtually every other way possible. The rules weren't FOR my father. I was not allowed to disrespect the flag in his house because he was a manipulative bully. When I was a child we didn't have money to go rent games from the local store, but then he buys himself a TV that day. That wasn't because he suddenly got paid. He had money for himself and not for me. The rules did not apply because he was the male with the most money. The final bit I'd like to formally lay out is that flag code states that a flag that has touched the ground is soiled and has to be ceremonially burned. As you can guess that flag still hangs today in a home where I'm unwelcome.

TLDR; The world is unfair when people CHOOSE to MAKE it that way.

[kv-actual]

which virtue of the swordsman are you based on flos duellatorum?

Certainly the Lynx and the Elephant. Structure, strength and measure are usually my foundation.

Continuing to work on my daring and speed but I'm definitely not a counter fighter. My height and size helps in close binds and intimidation.

One of my favourite positions to fight from is bicornio on the right shoulder / Two-horned stance / Stance of the Anvil

It confuses German fighters and it's a fun way to setup a thrust or even a quick fendettte cut.

[walimatu-library]

The Nature of the Cosmos

Abstract

The sea of clouds and stars above has instilled a sense of awe and wonder since before creation of the written language. With the inventions of the telescope and the observatory, astronomers have acquired the ability to see past the Great Blue Veil and into what lies deep within the Cosmos. I myself have beared witness to the grand ethereal beauty of planets, moons, meteors, comets, and even more stars. Unfortunately, the newspapers and tomes fall utterly short of expressing their magnificence, and I don't only mean in a metaphorical sense; they literally fail to convey just what the Cosmos truly are. These heavenly bodies aren't just balls of rock, fire, or gas. I hypothesize that like the sky above us, these celestial objects, or simply Celestials as more scholars are beginning to call them, are merely how the human brain is able to perceive and comprehend them. I also hypothesize that the Celestials exist on an entirely different plane than our own. My theories on the true nature of the Celestials, our perception of them, and how to better understand them will all be outlined throughout the remainder of this treatise.

Contents

Abstract ☚ I. Planets and stars II. Minor planets III. Comets and the Nirmanic Zone IV. Meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites V. Planetary and star systems VI. Galaxies VII. Universes VIII. The Multiverse IX. The Cosmic medium X. The World Cycles XI. The Greater Cosmos XII. Final thoughts

Chapter I. Planets and stars →

[lifeless-discodancer]

I've been playing The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. All i have to say is Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto, Treatise, Manifesto.

[beroebluejeans]

Whenever I am thinking very hard about The Locked Tomb, I find it important to remind myself Tamsyn Muir did compare the series to the KFC Double Down.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/muir_interview/

[80-ursa-major]

i put up with grinding the entire fucking dungeon and getting almost nothing,

now the next dungeon is the same

everything is cursed and a lie

i'm convinced sidegrading is a conspiracy and it simply doesn't exist for anyone remotely useful

[dancefail]

new chapter of treatise (altruist’s bane) is up!!!

[tatardraws]

An illustration of a creature from a 13th century treatise called Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing.✨ Had to draw fan art of that funny faced creature, only relying on the image knowing nothing about the description.. Turns out the wonky face might be only thing the original artist made accurate: Apparently this drawing is labeled "cattle of the sea" and on the same page there's also a drawing of a fish. Good change the creature really was supposed to be a sea cow ..! 😂🙉 That would actually explain the short head and whiskers! Was also wondering why there's this very believable Indian desi cow anatomy on 13th century Arabic book (at least the hump is definitely more common in Indian cattle) and that got covered as well. This particular page is from a copy probably made in 18th century western India! Neither the illustrator nor copyist is named but the nature of art, paper and ink has given good reasons to believe so.

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 441 is two Arabic works on alchemy copied together in different hands. The first, a 14th-century treatise based on the work of the 8th-century alchemist and chemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, copied in A.H. 970 (1562); the second, a pseudo-Platonic work on alchemy with commentary (tafsīr) attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Copy of first work completed at the end of Muḥarram in Aleppo (Syria) in A.H. 970 by al-Ḥājj Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbbās (f. 92v); second work is undated and unsigned.

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[mellounir]

it's all over now, baby blue