#Four Quadrants

[fictionadventurer]

A while back, someone mentioned my post about the pieces of media that make up the Four Quadrants of my heart. Looking back at it, I found that while I still love the stories on that list, they aren't things that I actively engage with as much at this point in my life. I needed an updated list. If those first four quadrants are the base layer of my heart, this is like a second tier--the pieces of fiction that define my inner life at a different stage of life.

I think my current Four Quadrants are:

Tolkien: Specifically The Lord of the Rings, for its emphasis on holding onto hope in the face of despair, refusing to do evil even when it seems like the only way to win, holding onto home and beauty and the simple joys of life, counting on help from outside the world when it seems like there's no way in the world you can succeed

Elizabeth Gaskell: For her emphasis on caring about individuals, coming together as community, considering the big-picture forces that shape society as well as the tiny moments of everyday life in ways that show both are important

The Hunger Games books: For their pro life message, emphasis on how objectification leads to evil and how we must always see humanity in others, how love and family are the way to overcome evil, the importance of striving for hope and holding onto morals in a dark world,

Frank Capra movies: For their love of the common man and the simple joys of everyday life, the tension between idealism and practicality, the rock-solid understanding that doing the right thing is worthwhile even though it can destroy you

All four of these things are variations on the same thing, but with enough differences between them that the shades of nuance cover most of the ideas that I'm engaging with most in fiction lately.

[turiyatitta]

A Meeting of East and West

Advaita Vedanta and Ken Wilber’s Four QuadrantsAs we navigate through life’s labyrinth, we encounter myriad philosophical viewpoints designed to offer us clarity about the nature of reality. Two such perspectives – one rooted in ancient Eastern spirituality, Advaita Vedanta, and the other a more contemporary Western theory, Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory – provide us with intriguing interpretive…

[snarliecharlie]

Juno's second touch session. She's getting it!

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok Voice: You are her official right hand while I have been making detailed psychological observations about her for the past four years - we are not the same.

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[rosalette-roxburgh]

Dont say that till is secretly in love with ivan that takes away ivan’s insane commitment to a straight man being his greatest tragedy. His greatest commitment to the bit, even

[sickfires]

you know between tyzias being friends with daraya and dammek im surprised she doesn’t own a pair of spiked bracelets

that's what the oversized hoodie is for.

[regicidal-defenestration]

The language part (ie the Main Actual Game) of Chants of Sennaar is very fun don't get me wrong - figuring out when a radical means person, or signifies a verb, etc etc - but the number system is absolutely fascinating

[zeddpool]

I have no explanation for this, just that I've shipped some of these since I was 8 years old

Fantastic Polycule for your consideration

[anachronistic-falsehood]

ghostknife could never be strictly romantic to me if they ever happen btw. they've got something much deeper and more intimate and interesting going on than just romance. like they're just as much partners as they are with dakota and ashe just in a vaguely different way. u get me. they're in a codependent four way qpp. u can't have ghostknife being canon if u dont have the rest of them all being just as affectionate and clingy as ghostknife is. william and vyncent kiss sometimes and dakota braids vycnent's hair and ashe sits on williams lap and lets him preen his wings and dakota and ashe fall asleep on the couch with their legs tangled up in each other and dakota wears william's sweaters and only gives them back when they stop smelling like william and ashe asks vyncent to brush her hair when they're too tired to do it herself. ghostknife is romantic but they're also a Secret Third Thing and they also have that Secret Third Thing with the other prime defenders. the romance is just kind of a bonus. the more important part of their relationship is that Secret Third Thing. does this make any sense or am i just too aromantic to get romance and i'm just overcomplicating it again and not realizing it

[vetaraprot2524]

New Au that will be about war and more….“They will come to destroy all the Transformers.”

Sin the representative of chaos and hunger

Guilt the representative of sin and death

Krieg the representative of war and madness 

Fend\cure the representative of disease and poison…..but…..she is the one who heals and lives

[hsrmtbrm]

so gamzee did not go as planned.

[turiyatitta]

The Harmony Within

[snarliecharlie]

Brit got me this treat dispenser for my birthday that I've wanted for a long time. He gave it to me early because he couldn't hide the massive box.

The session I recorded was 40 minutes and the file was like 4 gigs so I had to edit it. Sorry for the ugly watermark, I didn't feel like importing it to my computer.

Anyway, touch session with a treat dispenser.

[kurohaai]

"coward."

[thresholdbb]

Who in the hell are those random crewmen Janeway takes on vacation with her to the Pendari system during Tsunkatse???

[nailtagyuri]

Cant wait for the shot in the live action kingdom hearts movie where they're both in a car and the cartoon character is sitting in the passengers seat (left half) while the white guy (right half) is delivering exposition and driving