#Unified View

[nonbinaryphantom]

i like thinking about character design and picking it apart bc i do think the most important thing when it comes to character design is informing the character in a visual way. like uh maddie and jack

they mix up the traditional american suburban family with an addition of wacky ghostness. like if you ignore their suits they dont look that odd. they look pretty neat too.

i love how their colors complement each other. orange being more loud and boisterous while blue is more understated and subtle. jack is very open with his thoughts he talks about blathering about ghosts like. word for word. while maddie tends to be the more grounded one out of the two.

also i think its really fun how we never see them in ordinary clothes even on their wedding cake topper they still nod to their ghost hunterness with the jumpsuit and goggles

its just fun to see bc it really shows how neurodivergent they are much they care about their work. its a reflection of passion! its a part of who they are, practically a second skin its something that unites them as a pair. it makes them stick out from the crowd and being unashamed about their eccentricity. jumpsuits are also something that connects them with their family

danny is the only other fenton with a jumpsuit consistently. jazz i dont believe has ever been shown to have her own while danny has a very plain one its black and white which are very neutral colors but theyre also a blank slate which given that danny is a teenager, kinda helps that idea. also it connects him with his parents bc he’s the one that takes after them in the ghost hunting business even without them realizing it. which makes jazz not having one something that separates her from them bc she craves normalcy. she wears maddie’s jumpsuit. once in maternal instincts but thats the most its shown. she’s not a ghost hunter, hardly a combatant either and she seems like an oddity out of them which says a lot about her relation to the family as well

i was meant to just talk about jack and maddie but i lost the plot. sorry.

[lemonhemlock]

https://twitter.com/Targ_Nation/status/1611158240359759872?t=bfo77HLITj21KBLCUKx6fA&s=19

Seeing all those likes took years off my life

i don't even know where to begin............

"centrist bs" - the concept of left and right doesn't exist in a medieval setting ...................

where was this energy when cersei was committing abuses left and right and placing her bastard children on the throne? why didn't "the modern audience" "almost unanimously stand by the side of the woman being usurped of her throne" back then? 😵

but this isn't even about one side being more wrong than the other or both sides being awful or war being horrible as a rule or the smallfolk always paying with their lives and livelihoods when the high lords play their game of thrones

that entire tweet is predicated on not grasping the basic principles of the polity they are operating within 😫 you cannot define usurpation based on absolute primogeniture when that society relies on male primogeniture for inheritance, in that context it literally means the opposite

words don't somehow gain whatever meaning you want based on what you think is fair, same how laws don't materialize into existence just because you say so. any kind of law is a social construct, doesn't exist outside the confines of society and requires a certain kind of framework in order to be accepted & enforced. if proposed laws are not accepted by the majority and cannot be enforced, they only exist on the astral plane

there aren't even any proper institutions in westeros. literally the only ones i can identify are the crown and the small council, which serves as a kind of proto-government. there's no parliament, there's no proper justice system, no magna charta. the only courts that seem to operate are Faith-based courts and your liege lord's judgment. medieval-style legal systems and law enforcement are headache-inducing as a rule anyway, but feudal monarchies generally involve constant negotiations and power leverages between kings and their vassals

a more apt characterization of the Dance would be what exactly and how much can the targaryens get away with now that they've decided to impose themselves as rulers of a unified westeros. so far, they had to accept the religion of the land (aegon the conqueror was anointed by the high septon) and were forced to renounce polygamy. they got to keep practicing incest as a result of jaehaerys' successful doctrine of exceptionalism. see? negotiation. now the question remains - are they going to respect succession laws like a normal person (i.e. Andal Law) or are they going to resort to this ridiculous circus every time a targaryen monarch dies? because at the point of the dance, there had hardly been a straightforward transition of power since the conquest

for the internal coherence of this fictional world to be maintained, the nobles should be pushing Andal inheritance rights like crazy, because their own succession is decided on the basis of that and they would be directly interested in not fucking it up for themselves or their descendants by having weird precedents set by the royal family. a lot of these lords, if not most, have bastard siblings/children of their own, as well as elder sisters/daughters. it doesn't make sense for them to threaten their own stability for the sake of rhaenyra of all people, who isn't even good at her job and has done absolutely nothing to endear herself to them. what could they possibly gain by supporting her?

the question of the monarch imposing a law is much more believable in a centralized state, which westeros most definitely is not. imposing laws can also be done via force, of course, as long as """the state""" retains the monopoly on violence. the targaryens' v effective military superiority has so far been conferred by dragons. but rhaenyra's side isn't the only one that has dragons anymore. the opposing faction, i.e. the side who'd perpetuate Andal law, also has them now, as it happens. ergo war.

this situation is absolutely not similar in any way to today's democracies where laws are voted by parliament and the rest of the country have no choice but to abide by them or else the police come knocking on your door and hand you over to the our modern justice system, where your punishment is set by objective specialists & not decided by crazy stunts like trial by ordeal or the whims of your liege lord

tldr: there is no incentive for westerosi nobility to break andal succession law for rhaenyra, since it would be legal self-sabotage by setting a precedent that could come to bite those very same people in the a*se. rhaenyra is NOT an only child - by having trueborn brothers, the only way she can ascend is by breaking the laws & customs of the land. ergo disgruntled lords will inevitably flock to alicent's sons to form covert alliances & subversive power centres that, in time, will erupt in open rebellions. real-world historical examples attest to this happening with or without the consent of their respective figureheads (eg. lady jane grey) - i.e. it doesn't matter if aegon/aemond/daeron play happy families or not. in turn, the only way rhaenyra can prevent this is by executing her brothers/their male descendants. the greens don't want to die => the only way of achieving security for them is by claiming the throne.

alternatively, rhaenyra's life is not in danger as long as she bends the knee, as no-one in-universe would take her claim seriously with 3 living brothers. rhaenys also bent the knee to viserys after losing an election and is still alive. i'll say it again: it is not in the lords' best interest to support rhaenyra in the first place. if we are to go by any logic - what would they gain, should they flock to her? they would destabilize the line of succession for themselves for a (pretty terrible) queen, a reviled king consort and a bastard heir. but, as far as advantages and favours are concerned, what would they be, specifically? in order to outweigh the above-mentioned disadvantages?

you should all blame viserys for getting remarried and fathering sons, because had rhaenyra remained an only child or had only sisters, none of this would be happening & she would have become the first ruling queen of westeros

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

qing dynasty fashion for han chinese women by 泓森猫掌柜

[pocketramblr]

Re: Rabbits in Hyrule. What about Rabbit!Link from A Link To The Past?

Bunny Link is what started me on that downward spiral in the first place because I was like "Well, rabbits have to exist in Hyrule because Bunny Link takes place before this in the timeline, so it makes sense, right?" And then I checked and yes, in a Link to the Past there are other normal rabbits and Link was transformed into one initially to reflect his fearful, skittish nature. And then that same Link goes on to later encounter bunnies in other adventures, cool cool cool

Except

That for the Hero before this Link, rabbits were rare and legendary creatures he heard about but never sees, which is weird, because then it feels more like Rabbit Link was changed into a bunny because it's a legendary, forgotten thing, just as his Hero's Spirit is in this fallen time.

Except except

That's not the reason, it's the first one, because rabbits are just one of many woodland creatures in many countries in this era. It's because he's scared, no legend about it.

Oh, and after Bunny Link, there aren't any more rabbits in Hyrule after his era. His successor has a weird doppelganger in a rabbit hood, and there are Pols Voice, but no more bunnies! Which is! Weird! Did they get hunted to extinction?? Were they prized because of a connection to the Hero who killed Ganon?? What happened??

The only other rabbits are on New Hyrule in spirit tracks, which is a whole new continent!

Why didn't rabbits come back and become common in Twilight Princess?? Did they come back but were overhunted even faster in this timeline?? Because the population of Hyrule wasn't decimated by the sealing war??

And what about the rabbit-like but not quite rabbit creatures?? Did bunnies evolve into blupies? Are Pols Voice just bunnies that got malice'd like the enemy zora did? And if so, what does it mean thematically that the legendary creatures thrived in the death of a hero, before one took the shape of one... But then couldn't survive at all without corruption???

And, for the purposes of my original questions... Are Pols Voice safe to eat, and would they have the same concerns rabbit starvation does? Also, what would comparing any character to a rabbit imply about them? A link to heroism or to corruption? Commonality or rareness? Something crass or awe inspiring? Swift or fearful? Are rabbits symbols of contradiction and duality? because at this point they better be!!!

[astranemus]

We should now come back to the interaction of the living organism with the environment. We have said before that the living organism is characterized by biological autonomy but at the same time is strictly dependent upon the external medium for its survival. The interaction with the environment is structurally determined; namely, it is determined by the internal organization of the living organism. In turn, as already mentioned, such a structural determination for each particular organism is due to biological evolution, and in fact we can see the environment and the living organism as co-evolving.

At this point we can introduce the additional qualification that the environment is “created” by the living organism through a series of recursive interactions, which in turn have been produced during mutual co-evolution. The term “create” may sound forced, but it is not. It may be proper in this respect to cite a well-known biologist, Lewontin, who has been working quite outside the realm of autopoiesis. Mentioning that the atmosphere that we all breathe was not on Earth before living organisms, he adds (Lewontin, 1991, p. 109):

'[T]here is no “environment” in some independent and abstract sense. Just as there is no organism without an environment, there is no environment without an organism. Organisms do not experience environments. They create them. They construct their own environments out of the bits and pieces of the physical and biological world, and they do so by their own activities.'

Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

All that is real is dissolved in semblance, and behind it the unified nature of the Will manifests itself, completely cloaked in the glory of wisdom and truth and in blinding radiance.

from The Dionysiac World View by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1870

[dead-twink-storage]

You don’t see the American media talking about South Africa right now because it’s hard to paint that “black and brown vs mean whitey” stuff when it’s Indians and Muslims going the hardest against black looters.

[rucbarthatbowtiesarecooldw]

Sunday Morning Session

Elder Garrit W. Gong

- Come believe and belong

- When we covenant all we are we can become all we are.

- By losing our worldly selves in covenant belonging, we find our best selves

- God’s ordinances provide guideposts on the covenant path

- 1 covenant belonging centers in Jesus Christ as mediator in the new covenant

- To belong by covenant is: that i may be comforted by the

- We may lose faith in God, but he never loses faith in us. In other words, His porch light is always on.

- However often we stumble and fall. . . . God will be there for us

- 2 the Book of Mormon is evidence we can hold in our hand

Sister Cristina B Franco

- His work and His glory is to enable each of us to receive all of His blessings.

- As His hands we are important to His plan

- It is very simple: every day before I leave my house I pray to Heavenly Father to lead me to someone who needs the gospel in their life.

- I’m smiling because I’m happy

- “1 we can all pray for the desire to help with the work

- 2 we can keep the commandments ourselves, faithful members will always have the spirit with them

- 3 we can pray for inspiration of what we can do to share the gospel with others”

- “how great shall be your joy” - D&C 18:10,15-18

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

- The journey will be challenging, even dangerous. The possibility that he might not return is great, but the adventure is calling.

- We were also invited to go on an adventure, and would go through many sorrows and trials along the way.

- We accepted the challenge to go on our own great adventure of “there and back again”.

- On this adventure the path holds many hills, and holes, and metaphorically even spiders, trolls and even a dragon or two

- 1 you need to choose to incline your heart to God, strive each day to find Him, learn to love Him. And then let that love inspire you to learn and follow his teachings and keep God’s commandments.

- 2 Discipleship is not about doing things perfectly, it’s about doing things intentionally.

- God loves you no less when you struggle than when you triumph.

- It is your choices that show what you truly are, far more than your abilities - Dumbledore

- Discipleship is like learning to play the piano - at first you can barely even play chopsticks! But as you practice you can get better

- 3 take upon ourselves the name of Jesus Christ, and not being ashamed of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ.

- True disciples love God and His children without expectation of anything in return

- When you fill your heart with discipleship you leave no room for anger, judgement, or shaming.

- Come and see, find out for yourself how the path of discipleship will be rewarded. Come and stay.

- God does not need to sell the restored gospel. You merely need to not hide it under a bushel.

- If you and I have felt the stirrings to share the joy of gospel living, today is the day to join the Savior on his path of discipleship.

- It is time to begin.

- Come and see what this marvelous and adventurous journeys all about. Along the way you will find Christ.

- Now is the time to commit fully to seeking God

Elder Walter F Gonzalez

- “Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean” - our Savior always wants to bless us

- Whatever the result, His will will be the best for you.

- As we come unto him, God will come to our rescue, weather to heal us or to help us through hard circumstances

- Jesus Christ is a God of Love, hope, healing. He wants us to be clean.

- In Nazareth, the narrow road, That tires the feet and steals the breath, Passes the place where once abode The Carpenter of Nazareth. And up and down the dusty way The village folk would often wend; And on the bench, beside Him, lay Their broken things for Him to mend. The maiden with the doll she broke, The woman with the broken chair, The man with broken plough, or yoke, Said, “Can you mend it, Carpenter?” And each received the thing he sought, In yoke, or plough, or chair, or doll; The broken thing which each had brought Returned again a perfect whole. So, up the hill the long years through, With heavy step and wistful eye, The burdened souls their way pursue, Uttering each the plaintive cry: “O Carpenter of Nazareth, This heart, that’s broken past repair, This life, that’s shattered nigh to death, Oh, can You mend them, Carpenter?” And by His kind and ready hand, His own sweet life is woven through Our broken lives, until they stand A New Creation—“all things new.” The shattered [substance] of [the] heart, Desire, ambition, hope, and faith, Mould Thou into the perfect part, O, Carpenter of Nazareth!”

Elder Gary E. Stevenson

- kids painted dog

- Confused skunk with kitten lol

- Do we sometimes confuse satan with a black and white cat instead of a skunk?

- Command the enemy of your soul to go away. “Get thee hence satan”

- You have been blessed with the gift of Heavenly help

- We have prophets

- Scriptures

- Prayer

- Through His servants God speaks to us

- He gives them commandments designed to lead us to Him

- Satan always pretends to be something he is not, tries to pass things off as not evil, disguises consequences of sin as something else. . . Camouflages dark things as something that is fine

- “Wickedness never was happiness”

- Spirit speaketh truth and lieth not

President Russell M. Nelson

- Love God and love your neighbors

- includes those of other faiths or beliefs

- I.E. EVERYONE

- Church is service and helping others

- Go hungry to help others who are hungry

- Give all you have +more

- Service: helping everyone

- Refugees

- Hungry people

- EVERYONE

- Charities

- Charity is the PURE LOVE of CHRIST

- small part of the global humanitarian aid and outreach of the Church of Jesus Christ

- Because of YOUR helping hands

- Latter-Day Saints build strong families and communities, wherever they live

- Our greatest joy comes from helping our brothers and sisters

- Caring for others as much or more than we care for ourselves is our joy.

- Living that second great commandment is the key to becoming a true disciple of Jesus Christ.

Side note AGAIN.

All of the apostles agree on what is said in conference. Their views do not differ one from the other. They are servants who all speak the word of God in unison. They have different ways of speaking as they are from different walks of life, some more straightforward, others with kinder tones. BUT THEY ALL SPEAK THE TRUTHS OF GOD UNIFIED IN HIS WORK AS HIS SERVANTS.

[possibly-not-a-ghost]

Ace Culture in the TMA fandom is Projecting all your experiences, feelings, and explorations through a safe lens onto canon Asexual Jonathan Sims send post.

[brunogauthier]

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[ask-aph-itamuney-and-the-ships]

I am interested to see how the great frukus war went down in this au >:))

Unified had taken Kingstate back to his hall.The newfound ship had just went through its first Civil; a war where both of a ships passengers fight against each other in a war.Unified couldn’t tell you why he took a potential enemy in.But he did.

They actually became great friends at the time.Sure, their friendship was very short, but around this time, ships didn’t take in boats. Kingstate was considered a boat because he was not supported highly like other full-fledged ships. Colonizing boats wasn’t Unified’s thing, but still took him under his wing.

…And so Kingstate did. He even wears it down to this day.Although Kingstate won’t admit it…he might’ve had a little crush on the older ship. He found it as admiration and platonic because Unified took such good care of him.

However……The French Revolution came upon Unified almost straight after the American Revolution.

It was a slow build, but Kingstate’s supporters, his sailors and soldiers, thought this was the perfect opportunity to bring the Classic down.

So he did.

…but the actual FrUKUS War…?

Started from a boat from the outside, who didn’t even know he started it. After all, Kingstate and Unified had nothing but tussles and spars, besides the FR Civil. 

This one was on a whole new level.

(To be continued, kinda! I mean, it’s kinda already been hinted/said of what was the trigger to the actual war and if you’re Hetalian, you might know how the war started. Do you have any idea how much research I had to do on you guys to put this together…???)

[misterradio]

finished j&h and wow that ending is so sudden. and grim. kind of makes my heart sink to think about

[astranemus]

Cognition, then, operates at various levels, and as the sophistication of the organism grows, so does its sensorium for the environment, and so does the extent of co-emergence between organism and environment. Thus we go from unicellular to multicellular organisms, where we can have flagella and light- or sugar-sensitive receptors, to the development of sensitive tentacles in the first aquatic organisms, and up to the higher cognitive functions in fish. In all these cases, the organisms contribute to the “creation” of their environments. For example, the onset of photosynthetic organisms may have indeed created a novel, oxygen-rich environment. Similarly, the spider's web, the woody constructions of the beaver, and the cities constructed by mankind modify the structure of their environments. In all these cases, the environment is created by the organism, and this creation permits the existence of the living organism.

At a certain point in the evolution of the sensorium's sophistication, there is the development of a nervous system and with it, eventually, the emergence of consciousness. But from the flagella up to the brain, the same basic mechanism is operative: acts of cognition and mutual co-emergence with the familiar environment. In this process of “enaction,” a term proposed by Varela (Varela, 2000), or co-emergence, as we can say more generally, the organic living structure and the mechanism of cognition are two facets of the same phenomenon of life (Varela, 2000).

...

This means that it makes no sense to talk about mind in an abstract way. Mind is always present in a bodily structure; and, vice versa, a truly living organism must be capable of cognition (the process of knowing). The same holds for human consciousness. Consciousness is not a transcendent entity, but it is always manifest within an organic living structure...

Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

[soracities]

what are your suggestions for starter poetry for people who dont have strong reading/analysis backgrounds

I've answered this a few times so I'm going to compile and expand them all into one post here.

I think if you haven't read much poetry before or aren't sure of your own tastes yet, then poetry anthologies are a great place to start: many of them will have a unifying theme so you can hone in based on a subject that interests you, or pick your way through something more general. I haven't read all of the ones below, but I have read most of them; the rest I came across in my own readings and added to my list either because I like the concept or am familiar with the editor(s) / their work:

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (ed. Nick Astley) & Being Alive: The Sequel to Staying Alive (there's two more books in this series, but I'm recommending these two just because it's where I started)

The Rattlebag (ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes)

The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (ed. Ilya Kaminsky & Susan Harris)

The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa (ed. Robert Hass)

A Book of Luminous Things (ed. Czesław Miłosz )

Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns by Robert Hass (this may be a good place to start if you're also looking for commentary on the poems themselves)

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World(ed. Pádraig Ó'Tuama)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (ed. Kevin Young)

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (ed. Kevin Young)

Lifelines: Letters from Famous People about their Favourite Poems

The following lists are authors I love in one regard or another and is a small mix of different styles / time periods which I think are still fairly accessible regardless of what your reading background is! It's be no means exhaustice but hopefully it gives you even just a small glimpse of the range that's available so you can branch off and explore for yourself if any particular work speaks to you.

But in any case, for individual collections, I would try:

anything by Sara Teasdale

Devotions / Wild Geese / Felicity by Mary Oliver

Selected Poems and Prose by Christina Rossetti

Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel Silverstein

Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez

Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr

Rose: Poems by Li-Young Lee

A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor / Barefoot Souls by Maram al-Masri

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Tell Me: Poems / What is This Thing Called Love? by Kim Addonizio

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins (Billy Collins is THE go-to for accessible / beginner poetry in my view so I think any of his collections would probably do)

Crush by Richard Siken

Rapture / The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman

View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska

Collected Poems by Vasko Popa

Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas (this is a play, but Thomas is a poet and the language & structure is definitely poetic to me)

Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire,

Nostalgia, My Enemy: Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef

As for individual poems:

“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

[Dear The Vatican] erasure poem by Pádraig Ó'Tuama // "The Pedagogy of Conflict"

"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith

"The Author Writes the First Draft of His Weddings Vows (An erasure of Virginia Woolf's suicide letter to her husband, Leonard)" by Hanif Abdurraqib

"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye" by Albert Goldbarth

"One Last Poem for Richard" by Sandra Cisneros

"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky

“I’m Explaining a Few Things”by Pablo Neruda

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" //"Nothing Gold Can Stay"//"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost

"Tablets: I // II // III"by Dunya Mikhail

"What Were They Like?" by Denise Levertov

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden,

"The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider

“I, too” // "The Negro Speaks of Rivers” // "Harlem” // “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes

“The Mower” // "The Trees" // "High Windows" by Philip Larkin

“The Leash” // “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” // "Downhearted" by Ada Limón

“The Flea” by John Donne

"The Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore

"Beauty" // "Please don't" // "How it Adds Up" by Tony Hoagland

“My Friend Yeshi” by Alice Walker

"De Humanis Corporis Fabrica"byJohn Burnside

“What Do Women Want?” // “For Desire” // "Stolen Moments" // "The Numbers" by Kim Addonizio

“Hummingbird” // "For Tess" by Raymond Carver

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin

“Bleecker Street, Summer” by Derek Walcott

“Dirge Without Music” // "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Digging” // “Mid-Term Break” // “The Rain Stick” // "Blackberry Picking" // "Twice Shy" by Seamus Heaney

“Dulce Et Decorum Est”by Wilfred Owen

“Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition”by Wislawa Szymborska

"Hour" //"Medusa" byCarol Ann Duffy

“The More Loving One” // “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden

“Small Kindnesses” // "Feeding the Worms" by Danusha Laméris

"Down by the Salley Gardens” // “The Stolen Child” by W.B. Yeats

"The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass

"The Last Love Letter from an Entymologist" by Jared Singer

"[i like my body when it is with your]" by e.e. cummings

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje

"Last Night I Dreamed I Made Myself" by Paige Lewis

"A Dream Within a Dream" // "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (highly recommend reading the last one out loud or listening to it recited)

"Ars Poetica?" // "Encounter" // "A Song on the End of the World"by Czeslaw Milosz

"Wandering Around an Albequerque Airport Terminal” // "Two Countries” // "Kindness” by Naoimi Shihab Nye

"Slow Dance” by Matthew Dickman

"The Archipelago of Kisses" // "The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel

"Mimesis" by Fady Joudah

"The Great Fires" // "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" // "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert

"The Mermaid" // "Virtuosi" by Lisel Mueller

"Macrophobia (Fear of Waiting)" by Jamaal May

"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

I would also recommend spending some times with essays, interviews, or other non-fiction, creative or otherwise (especially by other poets) if you want to broaden and improve how you read poetry; they can help give you a wider idea of the landscape behind and beyond the actual poems themselves, or even just let you acquaint yourself with how particular writers see and describe things in the world around them. The following are some of my favourites:

Upstream: Essays by Mary Oliver

"Theory and Play of the Duende" by Federico García Lorca

"The White Bird" and "Some Notes on Song" by John Berger

In That Great River: A Notebook by Anna Kamienska

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

"Of Strangeness That Wakes Us" and "Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky" by Ilya Kaminsky

"The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Garielle Lutz

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty

Paris, When It's Naked by Etel Adnan

[vesora]

deferred occupancy [+ rant]

as per neville, this is the common fault of man and i agree. sadly to say, i have done the same.

what does deferred occupancy mean?

you are not occupying the state right now. you are waiting until you tap into the void. you are waiting until the 3d conforms. you are waiting until someone gives it to you. but you are not occupying it right now.

you have in mind to occupy it later or you will experience the state when it comes in the 3d, not realising that the state must be fulfilled first in imagination then it will materialise in the 3d.

do not keep creating, do not keep constructing, do not think of your desire as something that you are not one with already. you must occupy NOW. you must accept you have it NOW. daydream knowing what you are dreaming is true. script knowing what you are scripting is true right NOW.

you are not manifesting it. you have already manifested it.

continuously remind yourself that you are the only creator of your reality so that you do not become an inmate in this sense-world. break free from this illusion. you are the creator. you can control everything. you are a God in a human body. you are GOD. you are a beautiful divine spiritual being who is limitless. Humans were made in the likeness of God therefore we can do whatever God can do. There is no separation between God and me. None at all. We are one.

Stop viewing your desires as something not in your possession yet. Stop scripting as if you don't have it yet. You have it right now. The 4D comes first then the 3D conforms. The change in the 4D must be made. The change in self must be made.

It is fruitless to not occupy your state right now. You will keep daydreaming ABOUT your desires and not FROM. You will keep viewing the desires as something outside out of you, something that is not unified with you. This will lead you to keep running in circles, blaming the 3D for not conforming when it is you who has not changed self yet and deferred occupancy of your desired state.

Slam the door on any doubts or worries you have. I don't care, slam it. Ignore it. Oh what if my desires don't manifest? Who the fuck is the 3d to tell YOU, a GOD, what is a fact or not? Tell the doubts to go fuck themselves. Or gently scold them whatever floats your boat. Fact is, do not pay attention or you will keep running in circles. Just let go and believe. Just let go and try without controlling the outcome on a conscious level by worrying about time etc.. it will materialise soon, it has no choice but to!

Be still and know you are God {@lotusmi hehe}. It is done. Why? Because you said so. It is done because you fucking said so.

Remember who you are. You have the power to change anything in your life, simply by thinking from the desire; simply by becoming the desire. The external reality is extremely malleable and our creative mind is the Potter. We mold the external reality through our assumptions. If you assume something, it has no choice but to materialise. If you have FAITH, you will have it in the 3d. Even if you don't, you will still have it, especially if you work on your self concept.

Stop waiting. STOP WAITING! YOU HAVE IT NOW. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WAIT FOR. Your unwillingness to accept you have it now already is what is delaying the externalisation of your manifestations. Because creation is finished! It's done!

You lost 100 euros and you're stressed? No youre not, 100 euros is like 1 cent to you. Tell your subconscious that you're not stressed because you're a millionaire and handle the situation as you would normally because the state is not lost! The outer man does not manifest, the inner man does; the real self does! The subcon only hears what you tell it, so tell it wonderful things. Accept you have these things. Do not wait. Do not wait PLEASE.

You have everything you need right now. All the knowledge needed, you have it already. It is done. It is done because you said it's done. And who are you to say it's done? You are God, you are the ONLY creator / molder of your reality, outside forces don't exist. Even if you believe outside forces exist, they have NO influence in your reality; NONE AT ALL. So, how can you say you don't have it when you are the creator?

Occupy the state now. It is done. Stop waiting and think from it. You already are it. YOU HAVE IT RIGHT NOW. DO NOT BE A SLAVE TO THE 3D SENSES. YOU HAVE IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE IN CONTROL. YOU CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE. THERE IS NONE THAT CAN CONTROL YOUR EXPERIENCE EXCEPT YOU!!!!

THE 4D CREATES THE 3D. DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE 3D. IT WILL AND MUST CHANGE IF YOU OCCUPY THE STATE EVEN BY JUST AFFIRMING. JUST HAVE IT RIGHT NOW. HAVE IT. YOU ALREADY DO. IT'S DONE

YOURE SCARED? NO YOURE NOT. WHY WOULD YOU BE SCARED? WHY WOULD YOU ASSUME YOU WILL FEEL SCARED WHEN THE DESIRES MANIFEST? ASSUME THAT YOU FEEL ONLY THE BEST EMOTIONS AND ONLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU.

THE CHANGE OF THE 3D IS NOT PERMANENT. IT IS EASILY MOLDED. IT IS NOT HARD. YOU CREATED IT. IF YOU REGRET SOMETHING, GO BACK. BUT DO NOT LET THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN HOLD YOU BACK FROM MANIFESTING TRUE UNBRIDLED HAPPINESS.

FUCK FEAR. IT HAS NO PLACE IN OUR LIVES. HOW CAN WE BE SCARED WHEN WE ARE IN CONTROL OF EACH ASPECT OF OUR LIVES? HOW CAN WE FUCKING DOUBT OURSELVES? GET UP. STAND UP. YOU HAVE IT NOW.

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Christ Is the Answer to the Problem of Divisions

Brothers, I am making an appeal to you using the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I ask that you all express the same view and not have any divisions among you, but that you be joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. - 1 Corinthians 1:10 | Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)