#PEAR project

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

THE CORONATION OF CHARLES III : AN IRRESISTIBLE SPECTACLE

Nothing prepares you for a coronation — not quite, not fully. King Charles III had waited seven decades for his moment, he had rehearsed the ceremony in the days before, yet as he approached the doors of Westminster Abbey, his face betrayed his anxiety. He turned, he muttered, he fidgeted. For much of the two-hour service, his expression was, if not exactly a grimace, a study in suspense. 

When the two-kilogramme St Edward’s Crown was placed on his head, he closed his eyes sombrely. Queen Camilla braced herself similarly when her own turn came.The audience were unprepared for the coronation, probably more so. No one much younger than the 74-year old king could remember the last one, which took place when Winston Churchill was prime minister. More than 2,000 people filed into the Abbey, and their eyes seemed to widen at the plethora of colourful garments, the grandeur of the jewels, the assortment of the great, the good and the deserving. 

Observing the singer Lionel Richie sitting next to the former Australian foreign secretary Julie Bishop gave a sense of the strangeness of the occasion. There were roles for people with titles such as the Lady of the Order of the Thistle and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant.

It would be wrong to say that the British public had been gripped by the prospect of the coronation. Two-fifths thought it was a waste of taxpayer money, according to one poll. Two-thirds didn’t care about it very much or at all, according to another. After all, there had been a glut of royal pageantry in the past year: Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee weekend last June, followed by her funeral in September.Yet, as so often, royal ceremony proved almost irresistible. Foremost was the music, guided, we are told, by the king himself. Westminster Abbey is a fragmented building, where few seats have a direct view of the central space. It has been hosting coronations since 1066, which means that for many centuries, most attendees must have been craning their necks. Because of that, and because most of the congregation had to be seated for two hours before the main service began, the music mattered. The choir’s rendition of Handel’s Zadok The Priest, sung in the most sacred moment of the service as the King was anointed with oil behind a screen, was a triumph.

 When the congregation later responded with the words “God Save the King”, the noise reverberated deep into the stonework.

[Thanks you Robert Scott Horton]

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Ian Sanders  · So Charles III will be crowned on Saturday in a ceremony which will start at 11 a.m. BST and possibly go on until 2 p.m. This is a multi-faceted phenomenon and various opinions may be held about it all. 

I have my own - and no interest in trying to persuade anyone else to  adopt them.What I'd like to draw attention to is that a large number of power-possessing beings will be gathered in a powerful sacred place (Westminster Abbey), while many millions of people around the world will be paying attention (of sorts) to proceedings. 

Some of you will be familiar with the research done by the PEAR project and by the Global Coherence Initiative which suggests a greater degree than usual of cohesion in our collective consciousness at times of mass focus. This may be a good time to devote some time and effort to wishing the world well, whatever that means to you.

[elizi--s]

teto edit of a card i like

[ros-sauce]

saw a post about tall emu and short rui and it did something to my brain

[askblueandviolet]

Hey blue or mayor- I got a question.

What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Mine is chocolate.

Also here have this *put flower crown on his head*

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[puppypuppypuppypuppy]

probable design for my human spam for when he was a kid idk tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[gaillol-13]

Since I'm back on my AO bullshit I'd like to acknowledge this HOW 2 episode called How 2 ask a guy out...

Me af:

[palaeophis-fr]

I'm trying to get Dirt/Dirt/Pear. I think this isn't even the first time this project has thrown a hatchling one(1) color off.

OTL

[dont-tell-my-mom-im-here]

Can you get in trouble for yelling at a teacher outside of school? Asking for purely hypothetical reasons

[ajihaew]

ROB ME OF MY DIGNITY AND LAUGH

[chandajaan]

Have you ever met someone and immediately be like oh were so similar! But in a way that only I know

[isimchi]

Check out Poppy in all his pear-shaped glory! Thanks to @potential-fate who helped me out by updating Poppy's wardrobe with their pear-shaped fat morph default mesh! He looks so much better now with a more realistic shape ^_^

[reliquiaenfr]

thank you to everyone who enabled my insane idea re: collecting 177 pears. i will be doing that now. might never scatter those imps, idk if i even care lol

to celebrate having a focus again, i have four new double pears! including two that are dream combos!!

double pears with cottoncandy and cerulean primaries omg i cannot WAIT to gene them i love them soooooo much ;u; i've wanted a cotton/pear dragon for literal years i am so happy. (juice, the cottoncandy, will be a perma baby, hence the lame excuse for an outfit. duckweek i'm not sure what breed i'll go with but he will be fade/striation/belly)

plus a hunter and saffron primary. excited to have a beekeeper finally! and lmao another swamp dragon? in my lair? groundbreaking.

obvs they aren't done, the genes will come eventually. in the meantime i've set up a LF thread in the forums, and don't forget i've got a pinglist you can join for front row seats to my descent into madness :D

[potential-fate]

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[lu-is-not-ok]

I like him a lot.

[jaw-bones]

(k)inktober 04 | shibari ft. fiachre & yves~   — uncropped on patreon!    

[omppupiiras]

LOL i was thinking about this (fake) wedding cake project we had to do when i was in school and i checked if i still had pictures of mine...... it's more beautiful than i rememebered 🤩🍐 i mean who WOULDN'T want weird pears with faces as their cake toppers