#arcane knowledge

[shisasan]

John Dee, Monas Hieroglyphica (The Hieroglyphic Monad) Originally published: 1564

[hat-of-knowledge]

Dead wood continues to move

[hat-of-knowledge]

It's a crab, actually

Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried

[ains-art]

She's an excellent subject for texturing fun if you ask me 😌 Also she doesn't really have golden nails but it felt fitting for the vibe...

[blazerlazer555]

this is it im going insane

i just tried this technique again (which, for reference, is exactly as seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovG5F2rKL-c in this rehab video except with more time in the air) and now i am genuinely hung up on why people don't do this. it's distressing

like, all things considered (speed, maneuverability etc) going forwards is obviously better but this isn't worth nothing! it is effortless and just as fast as a light jog. is the only reason humanity hasn't utilized this technique the fear of being perceived as "silly"???

the only potential counterpoints i can think of are 1. i'm actually tiring myself out more than i believe and 2. nope it's just that. help me

[femmephantasm]

you know what they say: the meekest bee is first to pee!

[shamballalin]

Esoteric Metaphysical Science Uncovered

M42 in the Orion Nebula is the womb of our solar system, prior to the birth of the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms of our home planet. You are born of the stars, since you are born of the Earth. There is more to you than you have been told. The origins of who we are and how we got here are as convoluted as those over the centuries who attempt to tell us “How it is.” Humanity can only go…

[hat-of-knowledge]

First you must give love to the world without expectation.

how do I get love

[skannar]

The Oddity Odyssey : Minute Fiction

Treat yourself to fresh roasted coffee…. MINUTE FICTION Sponsored by: If you enjoy this “Minute Fiction” please follow skannar on the social media platform you followed our link from. skannar is funded by advertising, affiliate marketing sales fueled by visitors like you. Your follow is appreciated. You step gingerly through the narrow doorway, the worn wooden floor creaking softly beneath…

[hat-of-knowledge]

Very little that you experience is real. The remainder is the assumptions of your mind

[chopshajen]

✨ Heartbeat ✨

A little animation based on @thunderwhenhepurrs’s beautiful ficlet about Viktor finding his form post-canon. All thanks to Gabe for the inspiration ☺️💕

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By thunderwhenhepurrs

He does have a heartbeat.

He didn't, not that first night after the End of the World.

Not until Jayce laid his head on his chest the next morning, listened, and frowned. "It's quiet."

Viktor's entire body jerked, the part of him that was still starlight — it had been slowly becoming solid over the past hours, relearning and rebuilding itself — pulsing.

After his head stopped spinning, Viktor would recall the feeling of his body remembering.

They both felt the sudden drum of his first heartbeat thud against his ribcage. It sputtered then, skipped, multiple beats in a row, silences that were too long, hit hard and then soft.

It is ten minutes later, when they have shifted so that Viktor's chest presses against Jayce's, his large heart leading Viktor's like a conductor, that it relearns its rhythm.

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[haliaiii]

The modern prometheus

[superrosebudboy]

I think something I find really delightful about jayvik is that, for all intents and purposes, they are perfectly set up for enemies to lovers friends. Like they're from two opposing cities that are constantly in tension, and while Jayce doesn't come from the wealthiest family, he still is from a respectable house, whereas Viktor more or less had to claw his way up from the bottom. They absolutely could have a sort of rivalry or resentment between them, but they just don't because they inherently respect each other. The fact that these two men choose to respect and love each other (platonically or romantically or however you see it) is so interesting and dynamic. The show doesn't brush Jayce's ignorance aside (with viktor's "I'm from the undercity") but it also doesn't make viktor resentful, spiteful, or jealous of Jayce's "golden boy" status or his upbringing. These two men decide to work together, to respect each other, to love each other, and I find that so refreshing.

[vesna-v-irkutske]

What do you think Artyom and Nikita (mostly Nikita) would think of their "fans" ?

Oh, Artyom likes having "fans". Knowing that someone is interested in him, and someone sees him as something more, tries to understand him, shows him sympathy, must stroke his ego. Although Daphne said somewhere that he was still kind of shocked by it, that he didn't understand it. Two things can be true at once.

May 22, 2023. "Vlada, hi. Got the letter on May 5th. • To be honest, it's an interesting admission — the interest in Nikita's and my philosophy... O_O I'm being completely serious: this is the first time I've seen something like this. I'm very flattered. =)"

June 26, 2023. "The reaction to the sudden popularity was calm. Although I was wildly freaking surprised. But at the same time, remained calm =D"

Although I bet he'd have cringed at some stuff and tried his best to ignore it and focus on something else.

January 6, 2024. "How I feel about trolls on the internet. I don't give a hoot about the internet and everyone who lives in it =) I hardly ever go there, so I don't come into contact with trolls."

As for Nikita, it's hard to say. Back then, he wanted attention and recognition. I'm sure both of them had fun playing Among Us in real life. Law enforcement officials said that they kind of liked talking about their crimes, that someone listened to them, paid attention to everything they said. They got what they wanted: attention and being treated seriously. They posed a real threat, they felt powerful, they were capable of changing lives.

Later, I think, the shame and realization woke up. Half a year after their arrest, Nikita said that he no longer needed all this, and that he felt ashamed. In November 2012, he said, "I feel sick/bad when I think about what I have done."

In June or early July 2012, Nikita gave an interview to a newspaper: — Why is Anoufriev supported on social media, but you don't have any fans? Is he more ideological? — I don't really care about this idea at all.

What I'm trying to say is that Nikita only talked to his mom and gave interviews to a couple of newspapers and journalists because they asked him, not because he was particularly eager for it. In short, he wasn't looking for contact. Just like his whole life before that. So I think he didn't even know about his "fans", or he wasn't very interested. Who knows exactly why there's not a single letter from Nikita from prison. He had no one to write to but his family. And I'm not really sure if someone else knew his address to write to him. Besides, he was a very closed-off, anxious and depressed person, I doubt that he wanted to communicate with strangers. Who knows what they might have written to him? All kinds of threats and insults? He knew it himself.

I think he'd have distanced himself from it all and disappeared into the shadows. At the same time, I'm not denying the possibility that he would be interested if he found out about the "fans". Just a sizeable maybe. But I think that he, just like Artyom, would be extremely surprised, confused and wouldn't understand this. Maybe he wouldn't necessarily have thought anything about their "fans". Maybe he'd have thought it was weird. Perhaps he'd constantly wonder why people were interested in him, if there was any catch in it, if they were actully laughing at him? Maybe he wouldn't really care.

But he'd totally be weirded the fuck out because of some of you, especially if it had to do with his looks and something romantic/sexual in general.

Of course, he knew about TCC, but he suddenly found himself on the receiving end of that interest. And I think he'd have been very distant with his "fans". He was never a talker, and even less with a bunch of different people. Maybe, by some miracle, he'd have managed to make a couple of friends (hopefully better than those he had before, just someone nice and compassionate instead of someone interested in very dark stuff; however, Nikita was very deeply convinced that he was nothing good, and that he didn't deserve anything good; besides, all these positive and pacifistic things were alien to his mentally ill, disappointed in the world, people and himself brain; there's comfort in suffering and misery, if it's something you've been used to since an early age, because it's familiar, and getting better requires a desire to change, effort and energy, which depressed people have very little of). Anyway, who knows how it'd have affected him. Don't encourage mentally ill person's bad tendencies.

[calliope-calliope]

A helpful guide

[bayntons]

1.04 Happy Progress Day!