#magna life

[dougielombax]

Hmmm…..

Look. I’m not saying it’s real but the fact that the Solis Magna system just happens to resemble Nebula PK 329-02.2 is interesting to me.

Okay.

Make of it what you will.

I don’t study or know anything about astronomy, admittedly.

I just stumbled across this fact thanks to some old BZPower posts.

(Somebody NEEDS to mention this on BioSector01 btw for the Solis Magna system article)

[huariqueje]

Cashmire Scarf Magna Postman

Dutch , b. 1960s

Oil on panel , 100 xx 75 cm.

[bigkickguy]

magna medical

[spicyboelives]

I love your art ! Did you learn the fundamentals / anatomy or anything in the beginning of your art journey?

No actually I was never formally taught, nor did I seek to learn!* I never really considered myself an artist till… I guess this year?

I like figuring stuff out by looking and then copying it down directly. I can draw pretty fast (I think) because I don’t normally sketch apart from legit one or 2 ‘guiding’ lines. I grew up thinking that’s how it was done, and didn’t have access to the internet to tell me otherwise till I was 15.

A lot of times I don’t understand what my fellow artists are saying when they talk about things, I do know what “hatching, line thickness & dynamic” mean because I’ve been given very kind compliments about them before.

These are the tips I do know off! The oven mit thing happens mainly in my head though I just jump to the last step and use my own hands as reference when the pose is more complicated.

*except my senior year I took up a freshman art class cus I had leaned all my other classes n tested out of a bunch of subjects so I had like 3 free periods & they hand to find ways to fill my schedule

[littlepikmins]

Magna refers to Crazy Cyclone as him!

[rainingmusic]

Magna Carta Cartel - Attending Midnight Screen

[were-my-demons-hide]

Maybe I should invest more time into writing again. .. I def should.

[the-black-bulls]

[after being punished by Nacht]

Luck, limping slightly: Oh, man. My butt.

Gauche, cracking up his backbone: Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.

Charmy, massaging her butt: And for an hour? I thought it would never end!

Magna, fuming: I know. How dare that imposter make us sit in those uncomfortable chairs and think about what we'd done!

[pheedraws]

[jackgoodfellow]

Breaking News: Another horrible man is horrible to literally everybody and is then shocked when people are not nice to him. England once again totally fucked. But I hear the monarchy is good for tourism, so

"Doomed by the narrative? Too easy! No... it is the narrative that is doomed by US! (And also, we are so so horny for each other.)"

So it turns out The Lion in Winter (1968) slaps. Katherine Hepburn somehow manages to capture the feeling of watching someone tear out a person's jugular with smiling teeth. She and Peter O'Toole in this movie are basically performing the cinematic equivalent of the song "No Children" by The Mountain Goats and it is wild.

Tagging @thirdsisfics because I associate the term "doomed by the narrative" with the positive feelings I get from talking to you about the trope!

[unofskylanderspages]

Seen above: Magna Drilla's promotion SWAP artwork

[bestofanimaniacs]

Best Song Tournament Round 1/Bracket 4:

Macadamia Nut

The Magna Carta Song

[were-my-demons-hide]

If someone is looking for every bit of my motivation, thoughts and inspiration right now: I am completely and utterly invested in the creation of my Magna cosplay.

[the-black-bulls]

Zora: I know what you're up to. I know everything!

Magna: Oh yeah? What number am I thinking of?

Zora: Pizza.

Magna:

Magna: ...Wow.

[hanban371213]

hello Hannah nation, its time to continue my history lessons! context is in the first post, just go through the first tag

Book 4 - Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries - society, power and colonial dynamics.

Part 1 - Absolutist Europe and Parliamentary Europe

This era is known as the "Old Regime", a period of time characterized for having society split into three Estates, each defined by birth and by the social functions they perform, and each with their own rights.

The First Estate is the Clergy, since its the one closest to God. They're exempt from taxes and mililtary service, and they're identifiable by the "báculo"(silly bishop hat) or by the "tonsura"(silly cleric hairstyle where they have the middle bald). It's the only Estate that's not acquired by birth, since the Clergy can't fuck and have heirs (celibacy). They acquire members usualy from the Nobility.

The Second Estate is the Nobility, the one closest to the King. It's divided into the Nobility of Blood/Sword, dedicated to military service, and the Administrative Nobility, dedicated to bureocratic and administrative roles in the government. They're easily identifiable by their usage of swords.

The Third Estate, no special name, was the most varied one, since it's made up of literaly everybody else, from the richest bourgeoisie to the poorest beggers. As a general rule, the majority of the Third Estate was made up of Farmers, around 80% in France. All of them pay taxes and all of them live for their work.

Each Estate expected to be immediately recognized by their outfits and recieve the treatment they believe to be owed.

The act of switching between Estates is called Social Mobility, and it was extremely difficult, nearly impossible, to acomplish. The only ones able to do it were the Bourgeoisie, who were at the very top of the Third Estate, and could make the jump over to the Nobility. It could be acomplished in two ways. Since they were very rich, they could afford expensive education and obtain administrative jobs by the King, becoming a part of the Administrative Nobility. Another way was by marrying into very poor Noble families, through "marriages by convenience". The Noble would obtain their money, and the Bourgeois would obtain Noble status and privilege.

Absolutist Power, as defined by some random French guy whose name I did not write down, has 4 main characteristics. It is Sacred, since it was God who granted it to the King to be exerted in His name; it is Paternal, the King should cultivate an image of "father" of the nation; it is Absolute, the King obeys no one; and it is Submited to Reason and Wisdom, since the King was chosen by God, he inherently posesses good qualitiies that insure a good government.

In the Absolutist regimes, the Court represented the pinacle of power. Nobles, advisors, and members of the government, all lived in the Court and for the Court, that lived for the sake of the King. The most notable example is the Court life in the Palace of Versailles, which was known as a "staging of power", as it was essencialy a 24/7 theatre with very strict etiquette around everything, all for the King. All events, clothes, activities, were all done to apease the King; even the smallest act done by the King immediately acquired political and diplomatic meaning; everyone in the Court anxiously waited for an invite, or a smile, or any sign of gratitude from the King. The French King who started with Absolutism, Louis XIV, was known as the "Sun King", since Everything and Everyone in the entire country orbited around the King.

In Portugal, Absolutism was fully implemented during the reign of King Dom João V, after previous Kings progressively increased the royal power and diminished the power and influence of the Nobility and the Courts, with Dom João V refusing to meet with the Courts even once. (sidenote, these "Courts" in plural refer to the representative assembly of the three Estates and the country. I'm not sure what the correct translation may be, in Portuguese it's the same as Court but in plural.)

His Absolutist reign was very sucessful due to the times of peace the country found itself in, and from all of the money from the Brazilian gold and diamonds.

In the middle of an Europe dominated by Absolutist regimes, the United Kingdom was a Parliamentary one. From very early on, since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215(better call saul chicanery reference?!), the powers of the King were already limitied. John Locke defended the existence of the Parliament under the belief that all men are born equal, free and autonomous, and as such any power MUST depend on the will of the people, creating a sort of "contract" between the governed and the governor. The United Kingdom's Parliamentary regime served as an example of liberty to be followed, in contrast with the rest of Europe.

damn the amount of content in these books will only keep increasing, so i'll start spliting the books into various posts. thats all for now, say bye to teacher hannah

[ancestorsalive]

A Lily - Ħajti Kollha, Qalbi [official video]

James Vella returns as his musical alias A Lily and announces his upcoming new album Saru l-Qamar his own label Phantom Limb – setting archival Maltese home recordings to new music for a fascinating album of nostalgic quasi-ambience and cross-generational dialogue.

From the 1960’s until the modern era, it was common for families in Malta to receive reel tapes from relatives abroad. Maltese emigrés resettled in the UK, Australia, North America, etc, would record their news onto cassette - often in the form of għana, traditional Maltese song - and mail the tapes back home. Amazingly, through the superlative archival work of Malta’s non-profit heritage foundation Magna Żmien, many of these tapes still exist. A Lily (Phantom Limb label head honcho and musician James Vella, who is Maltese) was allowed access to Magna Żmien’s collection and in late 2022 he began creating new musical works responding to these personal recordings. These works make up the oneiric bliss of the new album Saru l-Qamar [Eng: They Became The Moon], his first release on his own label.

The video for 'Ħajti Kollha, Qalbi' [Eng: My Whole Life, My Darling] was edited by Nick Bonell, using 8mm footage shot by Vella’s paternal grandfather Marco Alberto, of his own then-young family growing up in the sun-baked splendour of Malta’s limestone and carob trees.