#endarkenment

[learmonti]

If the Earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?

~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

[prose2passion]

last year's feature on the general endarkenment of our times is now in the open archives and sadly still as relevant as it was 12 months ago.

[monriatitans]

WORD OF THE DAY Tuesday, September 6, 2022 OED Word of the Day: endarkenment, n. The state of becoming less informed about something than was previously the case, or of finding a situation, subject, more obscure than before.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "How we should handle this new endarkenment which wants to destroy everything that the democracies in Europe and North America have fashioned over centuries." - 2007, Guardian 24 Feb. (Review section) 8/3

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[shepherds-of-haven]

What would a casual conversation between the Faceless Lords be like? How do they get along with each other?

They don't get along at all! Some people misinterpret their relationship as being related to each other, like members of the same family, but actually they're each five different rival generals who rose to prominence and earned the Archdemon's favor during the Dawn Wars, leading to their elevation in power--they were each 'selected' for the position as a result of their individual deeds and schemes back then, so they each regard the others as rivals, though they'll sometimes reluctantly cooperate if required to by their lord and master. It's comparable to the relationship between Sibella, [REDACTED], and High Augur Arameri, or even better, the relationships depicted in Soldiers of Hael (if you're familiar)!

You can actually see what a casual conversation is like in a very specific route of Chapter 5! :)

Hope that makes sense!

[gebo4482]

The Endarkenment

Teaser

[kris-mage-fics]

A couple of Shepherds of Haven memes on this fine day. MC when they have one of those dreams:

Monsterfucker Endarkenedfucker Mages:

[aylaaescar]

sims 4 gameplay is so mid, but it sure is great for making my Shepherds (and they even live in Haven)

row one: Tysinno Maratis (he/him, hunter heritage and circle training, healer, Ayla romance) | Brygita Sinuraya (she/her, elf heritage and self taught, battle-mage, Shery romance) | Lyka Layosa (they/them, ket heritage and self taught, binder, Tallys romance)

row two: Odelina Payne-Isibis (she/her, norm heritage and apprenticed to Belnus Farplane, shifter, Briony romance) | Vincent Vircona (he/him, norm heritage and circle training, enchanter, Riel romance) | Elyon Rhuinae (she/her, elf heritage and circle training, diviner, Prihine romance)

row three: Fayne Uvana (xe/xem, norm heritage and self taught, wild-mage, Chase romance) | Seyda Moderni (they/he, ket heritage and circle training, elementalist, Red romance)

[exquisiteagony]

writing some blooddrunk au endarkened and it is quite funny

[theunbeholden]

Ideology: The Thirty-six Sith Rules

From the first book in the The Way of the Sith trilogy. Tenets are the principles or rules about nature that allows one to confront or face oneself or others, in a way that will help one understand knowledge, knowledge of oneself or others, physical or metaphysical. To see what awesome power you have within yourself as a being that is one its way to garnering a whole and healthy mind. It’s meant…

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘City of Heavenly Fire’ (#6 The Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare

The Shadowhunter gang rally once again to fight enemies from all sides. Genre: YA, Urban Fantasy, LGBT+ No. of pages: 733 Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary’s own brother. Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare,…

[tnpx]

So you think you’re a meteorologist. 🧐😶‍🌫️⛈☄️🧑🏾‍🚀👾🛸

Facebook post by OP: I've turned into the lady who can tell you that it's going to rain because of her bones. One day, I'll be old enough to say, "But, if it's raining, it's cancelled." I can't decide if I'm looking forward to that or not.

First and only comment: And, ho many days before it rains, how hard… and what time 🌻

So I am part of Ororo after all. Fact checked and note taken.

[alastairstom]

Something I think that makes TLH stand out is how relatable the characters' traumas are. In most of the series, the characters have by and large suffered some massive supernatural trauma- Will's fake curse, Jem's yin fen addiction, Emma's parents being killed by demons, Julian's dad being Endarkened. But the TLH squad contends with issues that are very real, that you or a friend may have coped with before. Alastair deals with an abusive alcoholic father and a toxic ex; Cordelia has massive golden child syndrome. Grace is essentially a glorified sex slave undergoing physical abuse. Thomas is realistically grieving for his sister. Even Matthew, the most "supernaturally" traumatized of all the characters with the events of CLS, had pre-existing mental illness and the trauma of parentification. This is magnified even more by the fact that Cassie made TLH more character-driven than past series and actually did a pretty decent job of delving into most characters' underlying trauma responses on-page. Combine this with the fact that every member the TLH group responds to their trauma in realistic ways, and it's no wonder that the TLH stands out as feeling uniquely real.

[shepherds-of-haven]

Y'know those scenes in horror movies where a ghost posesses a person and tries to trick people on the outside of something like a salt circle to let them out? Which of the shepherds would you think would be the hardest or easiest to trick by that kind of a methood if something was possesing the mc?

Hi there, this question is similar to another one (if an Endarkened took the shape of MC, who would hesitate and who wouldn't fall for it) that I think my answers there also apply! Here and here!

[gebo4482]

The Endarkenment