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World-weary

I can't find my muse. In my ennui I think of this:

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

And I can't think of anything. Maybe I'm just tired, but it's getting harder and harder to think of anything worth thinking. Nothing seems worth thinking about anymore. I grow weary of this world.

So here is the Heart Sutra.

[Translation by E. Conze]

Om Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom the Lovely, the Holy !

Avalokita, the Holy Lord and Bodhisattva, was moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond.

He looked down from on high, He beheld but five heaps, and He saw that in their own-being they were empty.

Here, O Sariputra,

form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form ;

emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form,

the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness.

Here, O Sariputra,

all dharmas are marked with emptiness ;

they are not produced or stopped, not defiled or immaculate, not deficient or complete.

Therefore, O Sariputra,

in emptiness there is no form nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness ;

No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind ; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of mind ; No sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to :

No mind-consciousness element ; There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to : There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path.

There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment.

Therefore, O Sariputra,

it is because of his non-attainmentness that a Bodhisattva, through having relied on the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings. In the absence of thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble,

he has overcome what can upset, and in the end he attains to Nirvana.

All those who appear as Buddhas in the three periods of time fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect Enlightenment because they have relied on the Perfection of Wisdom.

Therefore one should know the prajnaparamita as the great spell, the spell of great knowledge, the utmost spell, the unequalled spell, allayer of all suffering, in truth -- for what could go wrong ? By the prajnaparamita has this spell been delivered. It runs like this :

gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

( Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all-hail ! -- )

This completes the Heart of perfect Wisdom.

[original art above, using Heart Sutra as prompt]

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Accidental Landscapes

Landscapes like these are actually kinda easy, and I usually make them accidentally when trying to make a picture of a pretty girl, but some of the are just too interesting to ignore.

And I wanted to post them before my phone dies forever.

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Stairway to Heaven

My phone is having a near death experience. I have to Jumpstart the screen with a circuit bridge every time I turn it on and the sceen flickers, but as soon as it dies I'll be cut off ro the world for who knows how many months or years, and I won't be able to make any more beautiful a.i. art like this. I just can't give up without a fight.

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Goodbye and good luck.

My phone is breaking and I have no intention of replacing it. This is probably my last post. I just wanted to save a few of my last pics before possibly losing everything. Seems fitting that some of my last works were about a Taoist monastery in a secluded valley. Poetic omen.

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Welcome to My Garbage Bin

Most of these are from my garbage bin, things I made when I was trying to make something else, but I thought they were amusing enough to save.

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Know any good video games?

Has anyone ever heard of a video game where only the best things happen?

You know, a good game. Where only good things happen. Where everything is good. Where there are no problems and the developer is not trying to bombard you with opposition and frustration and/or trying to kill you with his army of psychotic monsters or otherwise trying to make you lose the game.

I'm in the mood for a good game, where good things happen. Does such a thing exist? Preferably free, because free is good.

Seriously, I'm asking.

Because it strikes me as odd that there are supposedly 3 billion people praying their hearts out that they will go to Heaven and yet I can't recall a single video game that attempts to send players to a world where only good stuff happens. 3 billion is alot, so there seems to be a market for this sort of thing, but I'm having a hard time recalling even one good game.

Nearly every video game is little more than a murder spree where everyone is trying to kill you. Seems kinda sadistic. I think there is something terribly wrong with this industry and it reflects very poorly upon humanity.

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Attention All Isekai'd Persons

Never tell anyone.

Do not be fooled by the fact that Isekai stories are extremely popular, if Buddha himself personally told Isekai fans he was reincarnated you would audibly hear the cuckoo clocks in their heads striking 12 as they turn into little girls suddenly desperate to jump into a pumpkin and race off into the night while flapping their arms as if chased by a cockroach.

You would get a better reaction if you said you kill babies. Abortionists are highly respected by the whores and child-rapists who dominate the anime community.

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Hanna on WotC's Bigotry

"It is the way of most wizards to begin by exiling themselves and to end by exiling everyone else." - Hanna, Weatherlight navigator, Dark Banishing (TE 117)

Hannah explains WotC's far-left ostracism policy:

They alienate themselves and then hate you for it.

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Thom Yorke from Radiohead

Thom Yorke sure looks different these days. Cool photo though. I hope I age that well.

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Dear internet,

This may sound weird, but I swear I'm not making this up, this is a totally true story, please hear me out.

I distinctly remember being someone else, a spirit, and entering this body in a hospital. As the host-body's memories started to become my own, I struggled to hold on to my most important memory, something of such vital importance that while this body's memories flooded into my mind and I became this new person I was silently but desperately screaming to myself over and over "DON'T FORGET!! DON'T FORGET!! DON'T FORGET!!", and my last thought as my former self dwindled to an insubstantial echo… "…FORGET!! …Forget! …forget.", and I forgot. But I remembered to not forget. I just can't remember what I was supposed to not forget. It felt very important.

I'm not sure why, but I have a vague feeling I made some kind of deal with a goddess who granted me a powerful boon in exchange for something I promised to do, but I have no idea what it was, which is a very odd thing to have a vague feeling about. I think maybe I was supposed to be some kind of hero and save the universe or something. Fuck if I know. I can't remember shit. And I feel kinda bad about it. Somewhere in the universe there could be a beautiful goddess sitting around like "WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?! I WAS DEPENDING ON HIM!!".

What would I say to that? Ummm… sorry? I, uhhh… got distracted? I was going to save the universe but, uhhh… it slipped my mind? I just flaked, I don't know what to tell ya.

So, I suppose it's possible I might be like the worst losercore valley-dude superhero demigod of all time, like failing to save the universe because I like totally forgot who I was and what I was supposed to do.

Or maybe I fell into a supervillian's amnesia trap! Maybe I was mindwiped to thwart my super-destiny!

Or maybe I wiped my own mind because she was giving me a shitty deal so I weaseled my way out of my end of the bargain by becoming a totally new person and thus totally not obligated to do anything for anyone. … This thought gives me an uncomfortable feeling that I might have upset an evil goddess. I am not okay with this feeling. But why am I even having this feeling?

I suppose if I wanted to be logical, it's possible my subconscious mind was a horrible person who used a very well thought out dream to play a very cruel yet admittedly funny joke on me. I always wanted to write fiction, but I always felt like reality was way more important, maybe this was the compromise. I don't know, that seems kinda boring compared to the possibility that there could be a sexy goddess involved. I think I'll explore the sexy goddess angle, just in case.

Either way, I feel kinda bad about this, it's really nagging at my conscience, what if there's a beautiful goddess out there who is totally depending on me and I just dicked out on her? "Thanks for the boon! See ya!" Total dick move, no way, I'm not like that. …I hope. …but what am I supposed to do? I try to be honorable, but I've spent years trying saving the world in lots of ways and nothing seems to be clicking. Everything has gone to shit. I'm having a hard time awakening any superpowers, which I suppose I might have because I am obviously not wired to function as a normal human being, that "being normal" shit did NOT work out AT ALL. Being some average wage slave is obviously not my destiny. But I'm just barely managing to survive here. I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle. I don't know what to do. I need your help.

If anyone has any information on who my goddess might be and what I was supposed to do, please, please let me know. The survival of the entire universe may or may not be at stake, I'm not sure.

Or if you're just a cool person willing to help a guy out, please reblog this message. Maybe somebody you know knows somebody who knows something.

Thank you in advance, and may we all figure out who we are and what we're supposed to be doing.

[isekai-man]

Volcanic Explosion Dragon

"Kill the dragon!", they said.

"You'll be a hero!", they said.

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Dragons

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What were the real Elves like?

Most people don't realize myths are based on fact. The word elf means white, as in white skin, white hair. It was a pale Northern tribe akin to fairies, as in fair skin, fair hair. Races are known by their physical traits, like the Orochi, Nezumi, and Kitsune were mythologized as animals because that's what their physical traits reminded people of. Well these Northerners developed pale skin, hair, and eyes because the northern hemisphere gets less sun, so they were called white people ("Elves"). Elves were known as short and fit because long thin limbs lead to frostbite in northern climes. The ears and earlobes were slightly larger and thicker, also to protect against frostbite, so they stuck out through the thin straight hair more than average, but they didn't stick straight out or in long thin points, they only looked long and pointy when viewed from a certain angle. They were a hunting tribe like the Inuit, but they migrated earlier and got less sun so they adaoted more. A hundred years ago, dreadlocks were called "elf locks", because when you lived in the snow you didn't wash your hair often unless you were lucky enough to have a geothermal hot spring (or into watersports). Elves also had a reputation for sexuality, because you get experience when sharing body heat is a matter of survival. Same for crafting clothes, as in the shoemaker story. Elves were basically Viking vampires, short stocky sexy smart meat-eating Vikings with bigger ears and sharper teeth and dreads, although modern Viking bloodlines were diluted after they became wealthy German merchants. Pure blood is a bigger myth than Elves.

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That Time I Became Someone Else

When my out of body experience started to become transmigration, I could see the back of my future body like this:

You might think this looks like a Facebook avatar, but I assure you that is pure coincidence. Anyway, I could sense the person I was going to become, but they seemed like a souless shell full of memories, more like a host body than a person (dude was dealing with a serious depression), he was like a Facebook page full of posts I was about to inherit. [...but I'm pretty sure I had never even heard of Facebook, you won't get a penny out of me, Fuckerberg!]

Anyway, as the memories started to fill my mind they became invasive and it started to feel more like this:

It didn't look like that, but it felt like that. I was being railroaded and I couldn't stop, there was only one way to go. It got real creepy real quick. [Please ignore the alien language at the bottom of this original art which I, yes I, myself, just made (with the assistance of someone's possibly evil supercomputer).]

Then it's started to feel like this:

If you've ever felt like that you know there is fuck all you can do about it. At that point I was just struggling to hold on to my last and most important memory.

It got extremely invasive.

Then I became the guy who was here before me and I couldn't remember anything about who I was before that, except that I was definitely somebody else just a moment ago and had just forgotten something extremely important.

[That's not my work, that's Satou Kazuma from Konosuba. I just thought it might be appropriate.]

Here was my initial sketch I was going to work with to make the art for this post, but I thought the Kirlian effect was good enough to portray a sense of brainwaves and intelligence transference, and the Polaroid memories were kinda tacky and not really accurate because I don't recall what specific memories were overwhelming me, it was more like information overload.

I was going to not post that since I'm slightly embarrassed about using porn images in the Polaroids, but then I figured if I got embarrassed about that I would never become a harem protagonist, so I absolutely had to post it, because superstition.

And that's how I became who I am today.

[Do not try this at home. Results may vary.]

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Dear internet,

This may sound weird, but I swear I'm not making this up, this is a totally true story, please hear me out.

I distinctly remember being someone else, a spirit, and entering this body in a hospital. As the host-body's memories started to become my own, I struggled to hold on to my most important memory, something of such vital importance that while this body's memories flooded into my mind and I became this new person I was silently but desperately screaming to myself over and over "DON'T FORGET!! DON'T FORGET!! DON'T FORGET!!", and my last thought as my former self dwindled to an insubstantial echo… "…FORGET!! …Forget! …forget.", and I forgot. But I remembered to not forget. I just can't remember what I was supposed to not forget. It felt very important.

I'm not sure why, but I have a vague feeling I made some kind of deal with a goddess who granted me a powerful boon in exchange for something I promised to do, but I have no idea what it was, which is a very odd thing to have a vague feeling about. I think maybe I was supposed to be some kind of hero and save the universe or something. Fuck if I know. I can't remember shit. And I feel kinda bad about it. Somewhere in the universe there could be a beautiful goddess sitting around like "WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?! I WAS DEPENDING ON HIM!!".

What would I say to that? Ummm… sorry? I, uhhh… got distracted? I was going to save the universe but, uhhh… it slipped my mind? I just flaked, I don't know what to tell ya.

So, I suppose it's possible I might be like the worst losercore valley-dude superhero demigod of all time, like failing to save the universe because I like totally forgot who I was and what I was supposed to do.

Or maybe I fell into a supervillian's amnesia trap! Maybe I was mindwiped to thwart my super-destiny!

Or maybe I wiped my own mind because she was giving me a shitty deal so I weaseled my way out of my end of the bargain by becoming a totally new person and thus totally not obligated to do anything for anyone. … This thought gives me an uncomfortable feeling that I might have upset an evil goddess. I am not okay with this feeling. But why am I even having this feeling?

I suppose if I wanted to be logical, it's possible my subconscious mind was a horrible person who used a very well thought out dream to play a very cruel yet admittedly funny joke on me. I always wanted to write fiction, but I always felt like reality was way more important, maybe this was the compromise. I don't know, that seems kinda boring compared to the possibility that there could be a sexy goddess involved. I think I'll explore the sexy goddess angle, just in case.

Either way, I feel kinda bad about this, it's really nagging at my conscience, what if there's a beautiful goddess out there who is totally depending on me and I just dicked out on her? "Thanks for the boon! See ya!" Total dick move, no way, I'm not like that. …I hope. …but what am I supposed to do? I try to be honorable, but I've spent years trying saving the world in lots of ways and nothing seems to be clicking. Everything has gone to shit. I'm having a hard time awakening any superpowers, which I suppose I might have because I am obviously not wired to function as a normal human being, that "being normal" shit did NOT work out AT ALL. Being some average wage slave is obviously not my destiny. But I'm just barely managing to survive here. I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle. I don't know what to do. I need your help.

If anyone has any information on who my goddess might be and what I was supposed to do, please, please let me know. The survival of the entire universe may or may not be at stake, I'm not sure.

Or if you're just a cool person willing to help a guy out, please reblog this message. Maybe somebody you know knows somebody who knows something.

Thank you in advance, and may we all figure out who we are and what we're supposed to be doing.