#Athenaeum Fragments

[philosophybits]

Whoever doesn't pursue philosophy for its own sake, but uses it as a means to an end, is a sophist.

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

[pandaemoniumpancakes]

A work is cultivated when it is everywhere sharply delimited, but within those limits limitless and inexhaustible; when it is completely faithful to itself, entirely homogeneous, and nonetheless exalted above itself. Like the education of young Englishmen, the most important thing about it is le grand tour. It should have traveled through all the three or four continents of humanity, not in order to round off the edges of individuality, but to broaden its vision and give its spirit more freedom and inner versatility; and thereby greater independence and self-sufficiency.

Friedrich Schlegel, from ‘Athenaeum Fragments: 297.’ in Friedrich Schlegel’s Lucinde and the Fragments, trans. Peter Firchow.

[loserfrankenstein]

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Athenaeum Fragments, Friedrich Schlegel (#206)

[feranmut]

DESPITE ALL HER EARNEST EFFORTS, days would come where she can hardly bring herself to be within the confinement of her assigned housing. no amount of guidelines between her and others would quell such reclusive natures 一 in her own way, it was simply how she is. so, to find seclusion far from such places was truly a blessing amidst it all, deep inside a scroll that she has tucked away in the back of the athenaeum which rests upon the floating skyline of the sky-strewn isles, far from most wandering eyes.

until the presence of another arrives, much to the fragment's exasperation一

when she turns to take note of who, there is no true fury which gathers in the orange of her gaze, more akin to a calm before a storm one does not know the trajectory of. and when eyes meet that of the scribe's, she simply holds her ground, standing in picturesque view of the gardens which sprawl across the idealistic horizon to paint a scene which none might find anywhere on the island itself. yet, such a place would only remain in the scroll painted from her mind's eye.

lips part to offer a sigh of slight annoyance, if not acknowledgement of her current situation, while her expression mirrors so briefly. ❝ I had thought I buried the scroll deep enough in the back. I should have known someone nosy enough would manage stumbling into here, ❞ she jabs without so much of a hesitation, almost as if scrutinizing his thought to continue rummaging through more than what was initially presented up front.

❝ ... wake up, if you know what is good for you. ❞

@hetuvidya

[affirmation--negation]

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Friedrich Schlegel, “Athenaeum Fragments.”

[gardenofdelete998]

In order to understand someone who only partially understands himself, you first have to understand him completely and better than he himself does, but then only partially and precisely as much as he does himself.

August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel: Athenaeum Fragments (1798)

[polyanthea]

Many of the works of the ancients have become fragments. Many modern works are fragments as soon as they are written.

-Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

[purring-meadows]

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We are bodily 16; collectively we are fine with They/We/Xe pronouns; and the names Toby, Willow, River are all fine to use if you don't know who's talkin'! :-D

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"Doubles" are okay! We don't quite believe in exact doubles, considering the complexity of source material ^^

We are fictive heavy! We support all types of (VALID) systems. Whether you are fictive heavy, poly-fragmented, have a low head-count, etc. We like to enforce an open and welcoming environment! :-)

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Azalea - brainmade

Azrail - brainmade

Basil - brainmade

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Ben - BATQFTIM

Bluebell - brainmade

Box - brainmade

Clarabelle - brainmade

Corbin - Tubbo fictive

Creame - brainmade

Darling/Esmé - brainmade

David - "Lalin's Curse"

Deiderich - brainmade

Derwin - brainmade

Edward - Gotham

Elizabeth - brainmade

Fauve - brainmade

Felix - BATQFTIM

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Jihan/June - "My Hot Friend is Glowing"

Karina - brainmade

Kasimir - "Diabolik Lovers"

Kat - "Stars Align" Kanako fictive

Kel - "OMORI"

Kiara - "Danganronpa: Killing Harmony" Kirumi fictive

Kris - "DELTARUNE"

Leviathan - Tubbo fictive

Linnea - brainmade

Lithia - brainmade

Lynx/Aether/Link - "Legend of Zelda" Link fictive, variety of games

Mare - "Red Queen" book series

Mary - "IB"

Mellifleur - brainmade

Merlin - BBC's "Merlin"

Michi - "BNA" Michiru fictive

Miriam - "Black Butler" Mey-Rin fictive

Mirza - brainmade

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Newt - "Maze Runner" movies

Nico - "Percy Jackson" books

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Rayne/Fleur - brainmade

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Rowan - "LUMINE"

Sam - "Supernatural"

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Simon - "Lord of the Flies"

Sloth - "Tokyo Ghoul:Re" Saiko fictive

Sock - brainmade

Sock - "Welcome to Hell"

Sparrow - Tubbo fictive

Spectre - Tubbo fictive

Starla - brainmade

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Tilman - Dragon Tubbo fictive

Tobias - "(not) My Family" Tubbo fictive

Toby/Tubbo - CC!Tubbo

Token/Toby/Temple - brainmade

Tubbo/Jester - Tubbo fictive

V - brainmade

Val - brainmade

Vinyl - brainmade

Wanda - MCU movies

Wax - WaxFraud fictive

Widow - "Stranger Things" Henry fictive

Will - "Stranger Things"

Willow/Cedar - brainmade

Zipporah/Quiver - brainmade

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[loominggaia]

Whats up with those ancients the people that were not forged by gaia what can you tell us that's not too spoileriey?

Not much is known about the so-called "Ancient Ones". They were a race of peoples that lived on Looming Gaia over 6,000 years ago, and it's believed that they were the cause of Gaia's rampage that tore the great continent apart, creating the version of Looming Gaia we know today.

What the World Athenaeum knows about these people is just what they have heard from nymphs and the celestials, plus what they've studied from artifacts these ancient peoples left behind. Gaia's rampage tore all the world's land apart and buried the vast majority of the Ancient Ones' civilizations very deep underground. Some sank to the deepest depths of the sea. But once in a blue moon, researchers will unearth a piece of this ancient world's strange technology and learn a little more.

Many researchers believe that the Ancient Ones were not native to Gaia, but instead came from somewhere else beyond the stars and colonized her body. They may have come from another galaxy, or even another universe entirely.

Researchers have found images of what they believe to be the Ancient Ones, but they are very worn, distorted, and hard to make out. It seemed this species was humanoid in its structure, with large bald heads and large black eyes. They appeared to be dworf-sized, which is why they are sometimes called "Ancient Dworfs" in some regions.

They wielded very advanced technologies that are still not understood. It's believed that they used highly destructive advanced weaponry to wage war on eachother, and it was this event that caused Gaia to rise up and destroy them.

After she wiped out the Ancient Ones, Gaia was thought to have used fragments of them to create many new species of people. The theory is that she created many different peoples so that no single one would become too powerful. They would hopefully keep eachother in check, and the nymphs were her backup plan in case they didn't.

Well, we can see how that turned out...

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Questions/Comments?

Lore Masterpost

[3thurs]

Third Thursday events and exhibitions for September 21

Third Thursday events and exhibitions for September 21

The next Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia — is scheduled for Thursday, September 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. This schedule and each venue’s location and hours of operation are available at 3thurs.org.

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

Yoga in the Galleries, 6 p.m. — Join us for a free yoga class surrounded by works of art in the galleries. Led by instructors from Five Points Yoga, this program is free and open to both beginner and experienced yogis. Sanitized mats are provided. Space is limited and spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis; tickets are available at the front desk starting at 5:15 p.m.

Student Night: “Southern/Modern,” 6 – 8 p.m. — Join the Georgia Museum of Art Student Association for refreshments, door prizes and themed activities to celebrate the latest exhibitions, including “Southern/Modern.” Student Night is generously sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council.

On view:

“Southern/Modern” — This exhibition is the first project to survey comprehensively the rich array of paintings and works on paper created in the American South during the first half of the 20th century. Featuring more than 100 works of art drawn from public and private collections across the country, it brings together a generation’s worth of scholarship.

“Where Shadows Cross: Photography by Jim Fiscus” — Iconic image maker Jim Fiscus produces layered single-frame stories that comment on human experience. 

“Sky Hopinka: Lore” — Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this video work stemming from Hollis Frampton’s 1971 experimental film “Nostalgia.”

“In Dialogue: Power Couple: Pierre and Louise Daura in Paris” — Portraits of Joaquín Torres-García’s daughters by Pierre Daura and Louise Heron Blair.

“Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection” — Selections from Larry and Brenda Thompson’s gift of works by African American artists.

“Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art” — Works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others, on loan from Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.

The museum’s days of operation are Tuesday – Sunday. Reserve a free ticket and see our policies at https://georgiamuseum.org/visit/.

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art

ATHICA@675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200

6 – 8 p.m.: Artist-in-ATHICA sculptor Mickey Boyd hosts open studio hours for his installation in progress. Boyd’s work investigates the substructure of the contemporary built environment through replicating the forms writ large around us. In surreal facsimile constructions, he uses the same materials as those in our residential structures: dimensional lumber, drywall, insulation, found doors, and windows, calling our attention to the suffocating sameness that pervades our market-driven society.

ATHICA@CINÉ Gallery

“80s Skate Photography: J Grant Brittain” — Drawn from Brittain’s vast catalog of skate photography, the exhibition highlights images found in his monograph “Push.”

Lyndon House Arts Center

“Sanctuary: Works by Mary Engel and Cheryl Washburn” — This exhibition combines the work of two artists with a shared passion for animals. Though their media of choice differs greatly, these two artists are compassionate for and inspired by creatures of all kinds.

“The Fables, by Kristin Roberts” — Athens artist Kristin Roberts illustrates Aesop’s Fables, inspired by their combination of personal accountability, the laws of nature, and the tenuous border between life and death. 

The Athenaeum

“Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue” — Often located in the heart of a city or campus, the sports stadium has the capacity to fortify national, regional or community-based models of identity. Inside, the spectator is bombarded with carefully orchestrated stimuli, immersed in a multi-sensory experience intended to incite an emotional response. In “Red Green Blue,” Paul Pfeiffer edits audio and visual recordings of the UGA Redcoat Marching Band, examining the mechanics of the performance through close-up footage of band members and their directors during and between periods of play.

The Classic Center

Galleries will be inaccessible due to an event in the gallery spaces.

tiny ATH gallery

“Serendipity” — Works painted by Jim Barsness and Jesse Blalock in tandem. It was serendipity when Jim Barsness and Jesse Blalock met the first time, and when Jesse’s Mustang broke down in front of Jim’s studio, it was fate. They started painting together, sharing their processes, styles and their joy of art and creating.

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Third Thursday was established in 2012 to encourage attendance at Athens’ established art venues through coordination and co-promotion by the organizing entities. 

Contact: Michael Lachowski, Georgia Museum of Art, mlachow@uga.edu.

[philosophybits]

Mysticism is the cheapest and most moderate of all philosophical ravings. Only credit one of its absolute contradictions, and you will thereby supply all its needs and even allow it to live in the lap of luxury.

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

[shihlun]

A fragment, like a small work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Friedrich Schlegel, “Athenaeum Fragments #206“ (1798)

[ihavenoconsistentname]

Since Revita finally has it's final boss in the game with this new update I wanna actually make a recommendation post that isn't just Revita Good;

For starters, Revita is a fast placed twin-stick platformer roguelite with a pixel art style. The currency system has 3 elements to it essentially with the primary form being your hp during runs (other than that there's 2 forms of currency you use at Memoria Station, soul coins and I don't know the name of the other haha). You start with 4 max HP and the difficulty system is shard-level-based, each shard has different modifications to your run, the level determining how many modifiers there are (e.x., shard 1: you start with one of your health containers drained, shard 2: shard 1's modifier + some rooms may have an additional wave of enemies). Every time you win a run on your current shard level, you gain another, so like shard 0 win will give you shard 1, shard 1 win will give you shard 2, and so on and so forth.

There are a lot of NPCs that offer different things, a lot appear in the clocktower (aka the area where you actually do your run) offering different things unique to each NPC (e.x. the queen NPC will remove a curse for 1 hp, the chef will give you a free hp-related item), there's also some that appear in Memoria Station (the imprisoned which is where you unlock items for soul coins (currency you get just by doing runs, also selling fish that you catch), the caretaker which gives you prison keys to unlock items when you unlock a secret (achievements) and offers dialogue after you die and return to the station, the tinkerer which you bring blueprints to for add-ons to your runs or decoration for the station, a couple others).

This update also added new weapons, essentially like how Hades handles having different characters, via weapons. They have unique fire rates, damage stats, etc. There's also "active items" in a sense: Celestial Weapons. I don't remember them all off the top of my head, but the names are based off zodiac signs (Scythe of Libra is my favorite, there's a few really cracked ones). They charge up as you shoot enemies and are essentially another way to deal damage, minus Scorpio Hook, which allows you to grapple across the room essentially (and steal from shops :]).

Healing is similar to in Hollow Knight, when you kill enemies you gain soul, when your bar fills up you hold Q to heal. If you heal at full hp, you start to create new max hp, 4 heals = 1 full container (it fills when you complete the container). Throughout your run you get room drops occasionally as well, which can be a few things (damage ups, keys, metro tickets, shields, hearts, I think soul meter fragments as well).

A lot of things you have to unlock with blueprints at the tinkerer, like the ability to choose between 2 curses when getting cursed, tickets, things in shops, etc.

Items are called relics, you get them in a few ways; If you unlock them for the first time at the imprisoned, you start your next run with them (you can start with a maximum of 2), you can get them from large chests (key rooms in the tower, floor 1 chests cost half a heart, the rest cost a full heart, not max hp/container, just the filled heart), from mini boss enemies (if you see and speak to the knight NPC and say yes, a mini boss enemy will spawn at some point in that area, defeating it drops a relic), shops, and offering hearts to statues (1 statue per area). You can upgrade relics on the metro after every area, depending on the rarity they may cost different amounts of max hp (e.x. some cost half a heart container, some cost a full heart container). You can also get relic hammers, either as a room drop, chest drop, or the twin npcs on the metro that give you a hammer if you recycle a relic.

There are 5 areas: Grazing Grove, Fungated Funnels (Alt: Hollow Hives), Arid Athenaeum, Somber Sepulchre (Alt: Calm Calderium), and Ticking Towertop. The bosses are based on the 5 stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance, though the boss Acceptance comes after Enigma, who you see in the tutorial phase when you first play (spoiler; you're forced to lose in the tutorial).

There are secret rooms, this is how you find them: You have to shoot the walls and hit the secret rooms while enemies are in the room. Regular secret rooms will flash blue and the music changes next to them, second secret rooms have a different indication; your bullets stop at the wall, you get what that means when you see it. If you get hit or don't shoot the wall during combat, you can't open the secret rooms. After combat, you shoot the spot on the wall where the secret room is until it opens.

If you like bullet hell games: you'll probably like Revita. It gets more bullet hell-y as the areas go on. Anger is relatively bullet hell-y, Bargaining as well, Depression, Enigma, and Acceptance very much are, along with those areas as a whole. If you don't like bullet hells, I think you maybe will still like it? It isn't *that* bullet hell-y in general, but it does get up there with Depression and Enigma especially. Just depends.

The basic lore is that there's a cycle with the clock tower. Every time you die, you return to the metro station. If you make it to the end and win, you take the place of Acceptance, aka accepting your fate. In Enigma's spiel the first time you make it there in a run, it's stated that you and Enigma are the same, and it's shown at the end of the run that you take the place of them, and the cycle continues.

Additional little things:

-Hats :] Just a fun little cosmetic

-There's dailies and weeklies, they're seeded and set the same for everyone, accessible through tickets. You can unlock alt hats as a reward. I'm really bad at both so I've unlocked nothing.

-The tinkerer NPC self-refers with plural pronouns

-Every boss is referred to with they/them pronouns (as far as I'm aware)

-There are some accessibility settings such as game speed, player and enemy outlines, aim assist, and changing the font to be an HD font instead of a pixel font

-You can play with controller but it's much better with mouse and keyboard (I've tried controller, it's. Not really good—)

-For Halloween some enemies had cosmetic changes (culteye enemies were sheet ghosts, small slimes looked like pumpkins), and similarly, for December/Christmas, some enemies have Santa hats (slimes and culteye enemies have them)

-There's a cat by the tree that you can pet, it makes a little heart when you do, and there's also a secret for petting it I think 100 times, you unlock the cat room which switches your stats around

-There's a frog secret, I recommend doing it on shard 0: in Fungated Funnels there are frogs in some rooms. If you shoot or dash near them, they get scared. If you scare no frogs, eventually there will be a pink frog in a room next to a wall. Shoot the wall during combat like secret rooms, then open it after, and you will meet the frog king

-The dev of Revita, Ben, is LGBTQ+ :] I don't know exactly how he identifies but he does use he/they pronouns

My post can't explain to you every little thing in Revita, there's a lot you'd have to see for yourself. So if you like roguelites I would recommend Revita 100%. You can get it on Steam, some ccs also have it available on their Nexus stores (and by that I mean I know Olexa and Reto do, I bought it from Reto's Nexus store).

[bustakay]

There are men whose whole activity consist in always saying No. It would be no little thing always to be able to say No correctly, but whoever can do nothing else can certainly not do it correctly.

Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments, 71.

[sisyphean-revolt]

One can only become a philosopher, not be one. As soon as one thinks one is a philosopher, one stops becoming one.

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments #54

[oddspineandtheemptiness]

Fragments | Means of Production Note: Like a scroll found in a desert cave by a Bedouin and his dog, or a stone cuneiform tablet, broken and eroded by centuries of worry, my daily notes and journals are comprised of little more than fragments. “A fragment, like a miniature work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself like a porcupine,” writes Friedrich Schlegel in Athenaeum Fragments. Fragments as quills. As spines. As chain links. (at Millsboro, Delaware) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTANPYOl_NL/?utm_medium=tumblr