#gateless

[relentless-gruul-siegeseer]

When an organization (like a guild) takes up a significant portion of the population, of course its going to have done bad things and have some crappy people, so ya, that's every guild, and it's hardly surprising. A lot of the Gruul are pretty deep into Anarchy, but let's be real, we have our own set of hierarchies and ways of going about things. We have leaders and such.

But the Gruul are less organized and more factionalized than other guilds. We all share a general culture but every clan (and there are so many) does their own thing, handles themselves. Someone with enough renown and has garnered enough respect or fear will speak as our "leader" until challenged for the position, and may direct other clans but we are effectively independent units.

Me? I think the guildless and Gateless should stand up for themselves and I'd be happy to work with them. A bit of anarchy is good. But don't think anarchy is the only thing we're about.

Gateless? Based. Gruul r just u but bettr tho.

I am not a part of the Gateless Movement. Let me make that perfectly and abundantly clear. I am not, have never been, and never intend to be part of the Gateless movement. on the other side though, the Gruul are as guilty as every other guild of seeing the Guildless as nothing but collateral. The Gateless fundamentally want equity, the Gruul want only Anarchy.

[wisdom-and-such]

— The Gateless Gate. 12th Century. China

[trevlad-sounds]

For the birds 021

04.10.2024

Intro 00:00 Go Outside–tired for thinking-01:23 Gollden–missing hawaii (a long outro)-03:46 Leaving–Sense of Place-08:35 weareforests–your song ! the radish-13:30 Tegu–2×4-18:39 The Gateless Gate–The Flickering Light of Dusk-24:04 Sunshine Playroom–Pause for a Comma-34:36 Hélène Vogelsinger–Elevation-37:14 Günter Schlienz–Besinnungspfad-41:50 Outro-59:41

[lowcountry-gothic]

Hand-stamped yokai-themed Hiragana flashcards, made by Gateless Gate Studio.

[jbfly46]

[allyouknowisalie]

One day Deshan kept asking Longtan for instruction till nightfall. Longtan finally said, "The night is late. Why don't you go to bed." Deshan thanked him, made his bows, raised the door curtain and left. Seeing how dark the night was, he turned back and said, "It's pitch black outside." Longtan lit a lantern and handed it to Deshan. Just as Deshan reached for it, Longtan blew it out. At that Deshan came to sudden realization and made a deep bow. Longtan asked, "What have you realized?" Deshan replied, "From now on, I will not doubt the words of the old master who is renowned everywhere under the sun." The following day Longtan ascended the rostrum and declared, "There is a man among you whose fangs are like trees of swords and whose mouth is like a bowl of blood. Strike him and he won't turn his head. Someday he will settle on the top of an isolated peak and establish my way there." Deshan brought his sutra commentaries and notes to the front of the hall, held up a torch and said, "Even if you have exhausted abstruse doctrine, it is like placing a hair in vast space. Even if you have learned the vital points of all the truths in the world, it is like a drop of water thrown into a big ravine." He then burned all his commentaries and notes. After making his bows, he left.

Gateless 28

[markrosewater]

If or When: A couple of traditional Ravnica sets with a dedicated mechanic for the Gateless.

If. It’s hard enough fitting in the guilds. Any guildless mechanical content would probably been in a Ravnica set not focused on the guilds.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Old Friends • Stained Glass • Forecast • The Spine • Coasting • Vanishing Point • Traces • Water Wall • Cut Apart • In Circles • Gold Leaf • Heightmap • Dormant • Apex Beat • Gateless • Sandbox • We All Become • Interlace • Tangent • Signals • Impossible • Blank Canvas • Paper Boats

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[danco110]

“A-Are you sure, Vennick? I mean, that dragon is really-”

“Yes, I’m sure, Saresi!”

The angel and her summoner argued, while still in clear view of their opponents. Standing across the plaza from them, waiting patiently, were a young woman and her trained dragon, covered in Gruul-colored armor and scales, respectively.

“But, the dragon…” muttered the airborne angel, ironically the more hesitant of the Gateless pair.

The human man standing on the ground beneath her continued to insist, “It’s a training exercise! Khaita and Scorch both agreed to it…I think?”

Vennick glanced across the plaza to the Gruul pair, who both nodded in unison.

“Yeah!” Khaita roared in response. “And I don’t speak dragon, but as you can see, I can’t really force Scorch here to do anything he doesn’t want to!”

Scorch reared back and triumphantly loosed a huge breath of flame.

“Right,” Vennick noted, before returning his attention to Saresi. “See? And besides, I’ll patch you up if you get hurt. And…”

Saresi tilted her head.

“…and pay the Golgari if you die. Again. I’m still sorry about the Izzet thing, by the way.”

Saresi’s eyes widened as she shook her head. “What? Oh, no, that’s not why I’m concerned. No, Scorch is just…so cute!”

“…Cute?” Vennick startled, glancing towards the dragon across the way.

“Yes! I wouldn’t dare hurt a beloved pet.”

“Wh- You- I think Scorch is going to be just fine!”

While Vennick and Saresi’s argument broke down, their opponents continued to wait, albeit with quickly draining patience. Khaita gave a snickering laugh from the snippets she could hear.

“They think you’re fragile, Scorch! Handle with care! Heh-heh…”

Khaita gave her dragon a playful punch on the snout. Scorch did not see it as such, and angrily breathed smoke through his nostrils.

“Sorry,” Khaita squeaked, quickly looking away.

[I love Urbis Protector, but I really don’t care for the Gatecrash art. The face paint looks stupid imo. Look it up!]

[transfemme-shelterdog]

I saw someone mentioning a magic deck that lost them all their friends.

I raise you "the deck i built because people kept bringing US$3,000 competitive decks to casual play groups". Which goes infinite life gain (doubled) if a player does an infinite token creation and sack combo.

Yes I am petty. (My girlfriend runs Oona. or Olivia Voldaren. depending on what mood she's in. She does still play with me though. So at least there is that!) (it has a set of several commanders i can rotate out between plays just so people think i brought a DIFFERENT mono-white deck this time. but nope. its still just this one.)

and it only has US$25 worth of cards in it!

==Commander== Baird, Steward of Argive (sometimes. it depends on my mood)

==Lands== Blighted Steppe 25 Plains

==Artifacts== Armory of Iroas Cathar's Shield Explorer's Scope Gilded Lotus Heavy Mattock Hedron Blade Icy Manipulator Jousting Lance Profane Memento Sharpened Pitchfork Short Sword Sword of Vengeance True-Faith Censer Vanguard's Shield

==Enchantments== Ashes of the Abhorrent Authority of the Consuls Conviction Divine Favor Faith Unbroken Iona's Blessing Leyline of Sanctity On Serra's Wings Ordeal of Heliod Pious Interdiction Revoke Privileges Sunbond

==Instants== Angel's Mercy Blessed Alliance Dazzling Reflection Renewed Faith Soul's Grace Swords to Plowshares

==Sorceries== Mass Calcify

==Creatures== Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit Aven of Enduring Hope Benalish Honor Guard Benalish Marshal Bishop's Soldier Bottle Gnomes Cataclysmic Gearhulk Conclave Phalanx Danitha Capashen, Paragon Elite Vanguard Faithbearer Paladin Favored Hoplite Filigree Familiar Guardian of the Gateless Kor Duelist Kwende, Pride of Femeref Leonin Arbiter Lyra Dawnbringer Militant Inquisitor Monk Idealist Nyx-Fleece Ram Observant Alseid Rhox Faithmender Sentinel of the Eternal Watch Seraph of Dawn

~ 🌱📏

Budget mono white hell yeah!

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Aerial Maneuver

"When you put all of yourself into an attack, without fear or hesitation, in that instant you may attain greatness." —Predak, Gateless freemage

Artist: Scott Chou TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[underthegates]

You say you’ve been in an azorius prison. But they can’t just like, arrest you if you haven’t done a crime right? You mustve done SOMETHING

The most recent instance was caused by me informing an investigator that an anonymous tip was insufficient probable cause to search my home for signs of affiliation to the Gateless movement. It took nearly two months for them to schedule a hearing. all to find out that I was, in fact, right the entire time. luckily this happened during the holiday season so the school didn't have to arrange for a substitute. Though I did have to get a friend to feed my bookwyrm. Ultimately the Gateless movement is the cause of a lot of my legal issues. Much of my family, including both of my parents, were prominent members of the Gateless movement, pair that with my public disdain for the guild system, and clearly I'm just waiting to commit an act of terror. (To any Azorius or Boros reading. This is a joke, not a confession of guilt.)

[sharkface]

People get so mad at you for jumping fences but like why do none of them ever have gates. It's so annoying that there would be a path that shaves a couple minutes off my commute to work but there's a gateless fence in the way. Not my problem

[henrysglock]

He's Talking To Me Through The Lights!

Something that just hit me (and I'm not sure why I didn't make the connection earlier) is that we can't concretely say it was Vecna, or any version of Henward for that matter, that we saw in the shed with Will on Nov. 6th, 1983.

Now you're probably saying to yourself "Okay, James Henrysglock has finally lost the fucking plot". I promise you I haven't, and that I actually have a pattern that supports this. Please just like. Give me the chance to explain what I mean.

Let's look at the lightbulb in the Byers' shed when Will is snatched:

And we all go: "The lightbulb, like in the Creel family's attic! The blinding light! That's a trademark Vecna thing!"

Except it isn't.

First off, the lightbulb itself, while connected to to the Creel family's attic, isn't specifically a Vecna thing. It's also heavily attributed to HNL.

Second off, when we first see "Vecna" trance and kill (allegedly) in 1959, gateless kills, there is no blinding light. It's just flashing lights:

It's the same deal in 1979:

No steady, blinding light, just flashing lights.

So really, what's wrong here is the assignment of the light's behavior, that steady, blinding glow, to Vecna. Blinding lights have never been a Vecna-specific trait. Blinding lights are, in fact, consistently linked to gate events.

When do we see lights steadily flaring bright throughout Stranger Things??

Season 2: El closes the gate

Season 4: Vecna kills Patrick and opens Watergate

Season 4: El fights One

Now, this particular sequence becomes more complex when we consider a few confounding details:

1. El's Changing Eye Blood Between the blinding light sequence of teen El and the banishment of Henward by baby El, there is both a camera swap and a makeup swap. We never see bright-lights teen El again after this swap, despite irl El continuing to function in NINA the way she had been when her teen self was shown to us. This means we may not have seen the fate of whichever baby El teen El is representing, especially given that Martie and Millie match in blood pattern in BTS pictures (a blood pattern we never see on filmed baby El).

2. The Dematerialization-Gate Split + Mirror Swapping The gate and the dematerialization don't occur simultaneously.

Nor do they occur within the same mirror orientation, with the same crack patterns, or with the same bloody gown pattern. They are separate events. We do not see El open wallgate, even though we know, logically, that she did so.

3. The Lighting The lighting when El dematerializes Henward is identical to the time she dematerialized the demogorgon: Dark, teal-grey, flashing lights.

Why do I dredge all that back up?

Because the earlier bright light is most likely associated with the gate outcome. It's always a gate. Always.

"Okay, well, clearly Vecna opened a gate and yoinked Will, then."

Did he though? Because Vecna himself seems to think differently:

Vecna couldn't open gates until ST4, otherwise he would have done so earlier.

We also know it can't be the demogorgon that yoinked Will, either, because demogorgon attacks are associated with wildly flashing lights. The light in the Byers' shed just steadily brightens. I have a theory about the sound overlay, because a similar thing happens visually in 4.07 when they overlay the gate and dematerialization outcomes:

I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple different things happening at the same time in different timelines re: Will's disappearance (I will touch on this below).

So, most of all, this begs the question: Why is the lightbulb in Will's shed behaving as though someone is opening a gate, when Vecna cannot yet open gates?

This leaves me with two main speculations:

1. The lights flared due to El opening Mothergate, given that that happened on the same day. El first contacts the Demogorgon at 1:33pm on Nov. 6th and panics. We aren't given a time for the opening of Mothergate, but it was sometime later, likely far later, given that it occurs during the shift of the guy who gets chomped in the elevator on the night of the 6th:

This would mean that someone else was in the shed with Will, likely someone from or in cahoots with HNL, which would explain how they were able to get his fake body accurate right down to the clothes he went missing in. Those may even have been his clothes on the doll, given that one of the newspapers said he was found being experimented on in HNL.

2. Will, panicking, opened his own gate to escape the situation. He ended up in the UD that way, hence why he's still wearing the clothes he disappeared in.

(Note, these situations are not mutually exclusive à la timeline theory and the differing newspapers surrounding Will's disappearance)

Either way, what the hell is going on here?

[santoschristos]

The Gateless Gate

Mumonkan, or The Gateless Gate, is a collection of Zen Koans that serve as tools for awakening beyond conceptual thought.

Each Koan is a riddle or paradox that cannot be solved through logic, pushing the practitioner to leap beyond the thinking Mind.

The “gate” is gateless because true insight is not entered from outside - it arises when we stop seeking and realize we've always been on the other side. Buddha Beings @BuddhaBeings

"The Great Way has no gate,

A thousand roads enter it.

When one passes through this gateless gate,

He freely walks between heaven and earth."

The Gateless Gate by Ekai, called Mu-mon, tr. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps

[commonplacebuddhism]

Chan is called the "gateless gate" because it has no door to enlightenment. The methods fool you into thinking, “Aha, there's a door. Let's find the key." People will look for the key, the right method that will get them enlightened. They search for the door to enlightenment, and not finding it, they may give up. In fact there is no door. But according to each person's practice and karmic disposition or virtuous roots, suddenly he or she may gain entry and become enlightened. In the process of searching, one just walks through the gateless gate.

— The Method of No Method by Sheng Yen