#rain world Pleading Intellect

[rwautimesamongrain]

More concept designs of the Iterators from my RW AU: Times among rain, a second change in-between karma flowers

Full colored sketch of:

Pleading Intellect (PI)

Looks to the Moon (LttM)

(PI design is inspired by books plus a bit of technology stylized patterns and details)

And Some IRL beta concepts/sketches of other Iterators and related:

Link ver:

[faelingdraws]

a PSA about the chatlog iterators and how you can use them in fanon content

[moonsofmachinery]

Hallmark Sanctity, My little iterator OC! They're a Gen 2 Iterator from the Roaring Skies Local Group. They go by Wistful Tuning Flowers and tend to spend most, if not all, of their time in anon Sliverist group chats. They kind of have a fear of committing to any personality, so they use anon group chats to flesh out someone they would... 'want to be', devoid of any problems or issues. Basically uh, they're a little messed up. Doodles below!

Pleading Intellect is an Anon Pseudonym but I general call them that because its what they're most known by. In my own headcanons, though, they're known as Half Wit Wonders. I just thought it sounded cool and kind of fits their attitude and curiosity in the few broadcasts we do see. Hallmark is also friends with Grey Winds. Hallmark tends to view Grey winds as the perfect image of 'Calm' and 'Responsible' they think they are while forgetting that Grey Winds does have flaws as well. They do eventually come to terms with that fact and have a better, truer friendship with them because of that. Which is why they make a messanger (With Pleading's help) to go and attempt to contact Winds when they suddenly go offline.

Hallmark is a character in my fic which I have not posted, and probably will not post for a good while. Its kind of a passion project involving ocs mixed with canon and its very near and dear to me. I dont know if anyone will like it, but I will eventually post it. If you're interested, maybe send me an ask :]

[midnight-scugs]

Just a little height chart reference thing here for the hell of it + some basic design stuff + heavy iterator generation lore. Warning; this gets LONG, so the rest after the height chart is under the cut. Massive lore dump inside, be prepared.

The height order of the main iterators mentioned in this AU, from tallest to shortest, is Wind > Suns > Moon > Pebbles > Sig > UI.

UI is pretty much around as short as iterators get, Suns is around as tall as normal iterators get. For comparison; UI pretty much comes up to around mid chest height on Suns.

Wind is a special case and is one of the tallest select few because they're a patriarch. For another comparison, Suns comes up to their shoulder at best. The tallest patriarch however, and iterator as a whole, is Omen; they're at least a solid head taller than Wind.

Patriarchs, who mark the beginning of the first generation and the creation of iterators as a whole, are absolutely massive and are just generally quite bulky due to technological limitations so early in, making the progress towards a more streamlined design a later trait. They're built to last over to look good. There's more dramatic head shape variation in patriarchs than in other iterators. They tend to have dull main colors, often shades of gray, with bright markings.

Patriarchs are the centers of regional groups (multiple clusters of local groups forming a broader region), in charge of keeping watch of and keeping order in their regions. They're the ones who big issues are brought to, and their cities can pass laws that effect the entire region, although this level of involvement is rare.

Patriarch examples include:

Wandering Omen; they have a light gray puppet with green markings, a more blocky/squarish head shape, and short, straight gray antennae.

Chasing Wind/Grey Wind; they have a medium gray puppet with orange markings, a longer face (think that common Pebbles design trope type of head design), and long, mostly straight gray antennae.

Epoch of Clouds; they have a dark gray/nearly black puppet with light blue/cyan markings, a very round head shape, and gray antennae with a curled/curved shape starting about halfway to the tips.

First generation iterators are generally on the taller side and are rarely below where falls Pebbles in height, most being around the same height as Moon give or take a bit. After the time of creating the patriarchs, the rest of the iterators in this generation were generally designed with a very friendly appearance in mind, to help further increase public favor towards iterators. They often have a more rounded/"soft" looking build, although there are a few rare exceptions, and they typically have softer features and friendly looking design traits such as rounded or circular heads, vibrant or pastel color schemes, and big antennae. Not a lot of points and edges, lots of curves.

First generation iterators typically hold important roles in their local groups, and are usually the first sources younger iterators go to for guidance. Quite a few are group seniors; the heads of local group who act as leads of sorts, ranking directly below their patriarchs and reporting to them any issues that need greater interference than what they themselves have authority over. They are as vital to the functions of their local groups as patriarchs are to their regional groups.

First generation examples include:

Secluded Instinct; they have a light dusty blue puppet with yellow markings, a head shape similar to Moon (but a bit more tapered at the chin), and short, rounded dark gray antennae. They have a slightly slimmer build than a lot of first generation iterators, but still a bit rounded/"soft" looking. They're a local group senior under Omen.

Sliver of Straw; she has a dull cream puppet with darker cream markings, a round/circular head shape, and long, thin, straight antennae shaped similarly to thin rods. Her rather muted color scheme is notably somewhat rare for this stage in the generation. She has a similar build to Instinct. She's a local group senior under Epoch.

Looks to the Moon (we all know more or less how she looks); she has a turquoise(?) puppet with red markings, a rounded face shape, and somewhat rectangular light gray antennae. She has a more rounded/"soft" build that's typical of her generation. She's a local group senior under Wind.

Second generation iterators vary heavily in design overall, from height to build to colors to common traits. This was by far the longest generation, spanning at least 1000 kilocycles, and it shows in the sheer number and variety of iterators created during this time period. Quite a few of them have more unusual physical traits, as during this time the Ancients experimented with just about anything at least once. Technology was improving and changed heavily over the duration of this generation.

While iterators of this generation are typically no longer group seniors, early second generation iterators are also common sources of advice to turn to, and they may temporarily fill in for their seniors for certain tasks in the case of said senior being away, incapacitated, or otherwise temporarily occupied.

Second generation examples include:

No Significant Harassment; he has a green puppet with lighter green markings, a rounded face shape, and light gray antennae bases with no "proper" antennae. He has a very rounded, stocky build, more so than even a lot of first generator iterators such as Moon. He has a screen/LED type display for a face in order to make him more expressive; looking too closely or when his display is off can get creepy however, as what resembles pupils in the display are actually typical iterator eye cameras that are more visible due to the screen. He at one point filled in for Moon and acted as her replacement for a rather important project she couldn't supervise at the time.

Pleading Intellect; they have a pale gray puppet with orange markings, a slightly tapered head shaped (sort of a heart shaped face look), and long, mostly straight dark gray antennae. They have a medium to somewhat thin build.

Seven Red Suns; they have a light yellow puppet with red markings, a tapered head shape (their face more resembling a mask in a way than anything), and long, outwards pointing triangular dark gray antennae. They have a very thin, almost lanky build. They have quite a few odd traits. They have expressive antennae that are mobile sideways, unlike normal iterator antennae. They have very unusual eyes with colored "iris" lights in the usual black eye; the right is red and has an actual camera capable of zooming and taking pictures, the left is gold/yellow and actually has fairly poor vision due to only being intended to give them a proper field of vision and depth perception when not using their camera eye. They're also the last or one of the last few iterators in their generation, and they have some third generation level technology as a result.

Third generation iterators are usually on the shorter side, with most ranging in height from as short as Unparalleled Innocence to around as tall as No Significant Harassment. They're typically very slender, being quite sleek and streamlined in build, with a few sporadic models with a slightly bulkier build mixed in. Their colors vary heavily varied in range, with everything from muted monochromes to bright vibrant hues and anything in between. In a more canon leaning timeline this would be a very short generation, not even 100 kilocycles before ending in mass ascension, but mass ascension didn't happen here so it could theoretically last at least a good bit longer than that.

Third generation iterators have no real notable positions in the chain of command; they're simply made to iterate and get their tasks done while doing so. Unintentional built in flaws or outright oversights and careless design traits aren't uncommon in this generation, having started to pop up at the tail end of the second generation and becoming more common at this point.

Third generation examples include:

Five Pebbles (we know more or less how he's gonna look too); he has a pink puppet with yellow/gold markings, a longer face shape, and long, mostly straight gray antennae antennae. He has a thin, almost too skinny looking build. His appearance, especially head shape, is notably odd among iterators of his generation; this is this is because he was modeled after Wind, with intent to directly resemble them, and as a result he heavily looks like a smaller, more streamlined version of them with different colors, down to having the same forehead markings. This is also why he's the tallest in his generation.

Unparalleled Innocence; they have a white puppet with light teal markings, a rounded face shape, and two small to medium sized, gray inwards pointing triangular antennae on each antennae base. They have a sleek/slender build that's typical for their generation.

[pansear-doodles]

broadcast iterators tiem

[moon-down]

Real quick some iterators (and two scugs)

In order:

Sliver of Straw Five Pebbles Looks to the Moon (Ough I could of done her better) No Significant Harassment Seven Red Suns

(Page 2)

Wandering Omen Secluded Instinct Gazing Stars Epoch of Clouds (Took reference off of concept art)

(Page 3)

Pleading Intellect Unparalleled Innocence Grey/Chasing Wind

Flickering of A Bug (Sona) Looks to the Moon (she's slaying now!!!)

Below is an unknown scug and Rivulet (I needed to fill the space)

This took me way too long

[follerys-trash-blog]

decided to try my hand at designing the other iterators we hear about in the broadcasts/pearls that we never see

and then i made an iterator oc loll

[mabelcreature]

my designs for the new unseen downpour iterators :D

their names are so cool

[spookyforestcryptid]

Remember pleading intellect? Don't lie to me, you don't. He says like 1 word. anyway here's my design for him! Me and my friend like him because he has a dumb name, so yeah. Also he was the one that gave the ancients wormgrass hair. #realnofake

WAIT I MISSPELLED SWEAR OMG THIS WILL HAUNT ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

[firedjinni]

Some analysis of the overlap between Homestuck chumhandles/trolltags and Rain World iterator names (and pseudonyms)

because what else do you do when you're bored and have Imminent Tasks to do?

To start with, though, some analysis of each individual category to formalize the patterns and "rules" of both naming types!

Chumhandles actually follow a pretty consistent set of rules other than the session-specific ATGC initial conventions! In particular:

It must be either two words exactly, or in the rare edge case of a session leader, one word split between a prefix and a noun (ectoBiologist, carcinoGeneticist). One is too few; three is right out.

No chumhandle is less than four syllables, or more than eight, although one-syllable words are allowed in either half (e.g. twinArmageddons, arachnidsGrip). The longest individual words seem to cap out at 5 syllables (terminally, auxiliatrix).

The most common format is adjective/modifier + noun, with the noun generally being some kind of person or role. (i.e. trickster, biologist, therapist, godhead, gnostic, toreador, geneticist, auxiliatrix, calibrator, culler, gumshoe, gnostalgic, terror) but not always (armageddons, catnip, grip, umbra/ge, testicle, aquarium). The few remaining exceptions either 1) put the noun first (apocalypseArisen), 2) consist of an adverb and adjective instead (terminallyCapricious), or… whatever the fuck Dirk and Tavros had going on (timaeusTestified, adiosToreador).

There is an overall preference for "fancy" and somewhat obscure word choices.

Non-english words are uncommon but acceptable (adiosToreador).

Actually, I'm not sure they even have to be real words either; "gnostalgic" seems to be more of a pun than anything else

For the humans, there tends to be a trend of specific cultural references, generally gnostic or otherwise religious (gardenGnostic, golgothasTerror, timaeusTestified (philosophy but we'll count it), tipsyGnostalgic, arguably turntechGodhead); in trolltags, there's a trend of negative descriptors, violence, and references to the apocalypse.

Iterator names seem to be a little looser overall, probably not helped by the multiple groups of devs not always 100% agreeing re: lore. Thus we can probably say more about acceptable chumhandles than acceptable iterator names, although templates clearly do exist.

Names use whole words and form full phrases, though those phrases don't have to be nouns

Permissible nouns tend to be restricted in category - mostly inanimate natural entities (Moon, Pebble, Sun(s), Straw, Wind, etc) or abstract qualities/behaviors/concepts (Innocence, Harassment)

For natural objects, nouns tend to be simple - one syllable, two at most. More abstract qualities are allowed longer, fancier nouns.

Observed formats/templates include: "[number] [optional adj.] [object]" (Five Pebbles, Seven Red Suns), "[verb]s [preposition] [object]" (Looks to the Moon), "[adjective] [object or abstract quality]" (Unparalleled Innocence, Grey/Chasing Wind, "Erratic Pulse"; in Downpour: Pleading Intellect, Secluded Instinct, Wandering Omen, Gazing Stars), "[noun] of [object]" (Sliver of Straw; in Downpour: Epoch of Clouds). No Significant Harassment is a bit of an outlier but arguably fits group 3, with "No Significant" as the adjective/descriptor part.

The first category of names also seems to overlap the strongest with Ancient naming conventions, so the type of object could speculatively be extended to non-natural objects like bells, beads, etc (though those also seem to be mainly low-tech and "simple" objects), but there's not clear precedent for it.

Overall tone of names is neutral to positive, which makes sense given the context of iterators as the Ancients' "gift to the world" and all that

Looking at these analyses, we can find there is surprisingly small overlap between the two naming conventions! (Although it definitely exists.)

The greatest overlap is probably in iterator names that fit the third template ([adj.] [obj/quality]), most of which can comfortably pass for chumhandles so long as they're just two words and fit the four-syllable minimum. So erraticPulse [EP], unparalleledInnocence [UI], pleadingIntellect [PI] etc scan pretty well.

Chumhandles to iterator names is actually a lot harder, mostly because the range of appropriate nouns for iterator names seems to be narrower overall, and many chumhandles make more explicit cultural or material references which don't translate well into Rain World. Additionally, a lot of trolltags have very negative leaning names, while iterator names tend to be more neutral or even positive in tone. The best few I'd say are maybe Terminally Capricious, Apocalypse Arisen (doesn't strictly fit the naming template but has the vibes~ ok), Undying Umbrage and tentatively Arachnid's Grip (if arachnids can be assumed sufficiently existent for the reference to work), but none of them fully fit the vibes for a proper iterator IMO. Ironically, I've had better luck taking a page out of SBURB Glitch FAQ's book and converting soundtrack titles - Endless Climb, Upward Movement, Plays the Wind, Carefree Action, etc.

This was totally unnecessary but uh. Yeah.

[abuganaf5]

O Allaah, guide me among those whom You have guided, pardon me among those whom You have pardoned, turn to me in friendship among those on whom You have turned in friendship, and bless me in what You have bestowed, and save me from the evil of what You have decreed. For verily You decree and none can influence You; and he is not humiliated whom You have befriended, nor is he honoured who is Your enemy. Blessed are You, O Lord, and Exalted. There is no place of safety from You except with You

Ya Allah, We plead steadfastness with You in keeping to Your commands, and firmness of resolution in pursuing the right course. We beg of You gratitude for favour and to be better at serving You. We beg of You a sound heart and a truthful tongue. We beg of You the good of that which only You know and we seek refuge in You from the evil of that which only You know. And we seek Your forgiveness of that iniquity of ours which only You know

Ya Allah, give us sanctuary from Your painful wrath and Your mighty anger!

In the Qur an You called Yourself Ahlu-l-Maghfirah(the Entitled to forgive), Wasi’u-l-Maghfirah(the Vast in Forgiveness), Dhu-l-Maghfirah(Possessor of forgiveness), Ghfiruh-dh-Dhanb(the Forgiver of sin), Qabilu-t-Tawb(the Acceptor of repentance), Khairul-r-Rahimin(the Best of the merciful), Khairul-l-Ghafirin(the Best of forgivers), Dhu-r-Rahmah Wasi’ah(the Possessor of boundless mercy) and Shadidu-l-Adhab(the Severe in punishment). Deliver us through Your mercy from the chastisement of the Fire and the disgrace of shame when the good are set apart from the evil, forms are transformed, terrors terrify, the good-doers are brought near, the evildoers taken far, and every soul is paid in full what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged!

Aamiin.

Ya Allah, we seek intercession from You with You, and we seek sanctuary in You from You! We have come to You craving Your beneficence, desiring Your kindness, seeking water from the deluge of Your graciousness, begging rain from the clouds of Your bounty, requesting Your good pleasure, going straight to Your side, arriving at the watering-place of Your support, seeking exalted good things from Your quarter, reaching for the presence of Your beauty, wanting Your face, knocking at Your door, abasing ourselves before Your mightiness and majesty! So act toward us with the forgiveness and mercy of which You are worthy! Act not toward us with the chastisement and vengeance of which we are worthy!By Thy mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful

Ya Allah, we repair to You by coming forward, and ask from You good support, so bless us, hear our whispered words, grant our supplication, seal not our day with disappointment, slap not our brow by rejecting our requests, and make noble our coming from You and our going back to You! Surely You are not constrained by what we desire, nor incapable of what You are asked! You are powerful over everything, and There is no force and no strength save in You, Ya Allah, the All-high, the All- mighty!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, make our hearts trust in what is with You and our concern free for what is Yours, employ us in that in which You employ Your pure friends, drench our hearts with Your obedience when intellects are distracted, and combine within us independence, continence, ease, release, health, plenty, tranquillity, and well being! Make not fail our good deeds through our disobedience that stains them or our private times of worship through the instigations of Your trials! Safeguard our faces from asking from anyone in the world, and drive us far from begging for that which is with the ungodly! Make us not an aid to the wrongdoers, nor their hand and helper in erasing Your Book! Defend us when we know not with a defense through which You protect us! Open toward us the gates of Your repentance, Your mercy, Your clemency, and Your boundless provision! Surely we are of those who beseech You! And complete Your favour toward us all!

Ya Allah, place us among the chosen, the good, join us to the righteous, the pious, the first to reach generous gifts, the swift to come upon good things, the workers of the abiding acts of righteousness, the strivers after elevated degrees! You are powerful over everything and disposed to respond! By Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, actualize our expectation from You and You alone, seal our works with good, and place us among Your selected friends, those whom You have set down in the midst of Your Garden, and settled in the abode of Your honour, whose eyes You have gladdened by gazing upon You on the day of meeting You, and whom You have made heirs to the sure stations in Your neighbourhood!

, Ya Allah, appoint for us a hand against him who wrongs us, a tongue against him who disputes with us, and a victory over him who stubbornly resists us! Give us guile against him who schemes against us, power over him who oppresses us, refutation of him who reviles us, and safety from him who threatens us! Grant us success to obey him who points away us straight and follow him who guides us right!

O Allah adorn us with the adornment of the righteous, and clothe us in the ornaments of the godfearing, through spreading justice, restraining rage, quenching the flame of hate, bringing together the people of separation, correcting discord, spreading about good behaviour, covering faults, mildness of temper, lowering the wing, beauty of conduct, gravity of bearing, agreeableness in comportment, precedence in reaching excellence, preferring bounteousness, refraining from condemnation, bestowing bounty on the undeserving, speaking the truth, though it be painful, making little of the good in our words and deeds, though it be much, and making much of the evil in our words and deeds, though it be little! Perfect this for us through lasting obedience, holding fast to the community, and rejecting the people of innovation and those who act in accordance with original opinions!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, appoint for us a hand against him who wrongs us, a tongue against him who disputes with us, and a victory over him who stubbornly resists us! Give us guile against him who schemes against us, power over him who oppresses us, refutation of him who reviles us, and safety from him who threatens us! Grant us success to obey him who points away us straight and follow him who guides us right!

Ya Allah, make us leap to You in times of distress, ask from You in needs, and plead to You in misery! Tempt us not to seek help from other than You when we are distressed, to humble ourselves in asking from someone else when we are disadvantaged, or to plead with someone less than You, Ya Khairul-r-Rahimin(the Best of the merciful), when we fear, for then we would deserve Your abandonment, Your withholding, and Your turning away, O Most Merciful of the merciful!

Aamiin.

O Allah, allow us to commence with good; and allow us to conclude with good; and let the outcomes of our affairs reach good. O Allah, we seek your protection from evil commencements and conclusions, and evil beginnings and ends, and internal evils and external. O Allah, do not put between us and You anyone [to be responsible] for our sustenance besides You; and make us the most content of Your creation with You; and the most needy of Your servants for You; and grant us wealth which will not mislead us; and health which will not distract us; and free us from needing those whom You have freed from needing us; and allow our last words to bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad ﷺ is His messenger, may the blessings of Allah and His salutations be upon him; and grant us death while you are pleased with us without any anger; and make us at the place of resurrection among those who will have no fear upon them nor will they be grieving, through Your Mercy, O Most Merciful of those https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/yahya-ibrahim-4winteraid

O Allah, open for us the treasuries of Your mercy, and grant us, O Allah, mercy that will not torture us after that in this world and the hereafter, and grant us with Your wide bounty a lawful and good sustenance, and do not need us and do not impoverish us to anyone but You, and increase our thanks to You, and to You there is poverty and poverty, and through You from those besides You richness and chastity, O Allah, expand us in the world O Allah, we seek refuge in You from turning your face away from us when we desire You for it, O Allah, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and give us what You love, and make it strength for us in what You love, O Most Merciful of the merciful)

Oh Allah, We supplicate that you make easy for us Prayer and grant us unwavering faith and beneficial patience to receive the blessings that we seek. Your bounties, O our Lord. Ameen

#OYHA

#oluyole2023

#ara_is_possible

#inshaallah_الاقصی

O Allah! Indeed, I ask You for steadfastness upon Deen and firmness upon guidance. And I ask You for that which makes Your mercy compulsory and the things that necessitate Your forgiveness. And I ask You for the capacity to be grateful for Your blessings and to worship You in a beautiful manner. And I ask You for a sound heart, a truthful tongue. And I ask You for all goodness that You know of and I seek refuge in You from all evil that You know of and I seek forgiveness from all that You know of. Indeed, it is You who is the Knower of the unseen.

O Allah, We beg to You the good which Your

Prophet Muhammad () begged of You; and We

seek refuge in You from the evl where from Your

Prophet Muhammad () sought refuge. You are

the One from Whom help is sought and Yours is

the responsibility to communicate (the truth).

There is no power or strength except with Allah

the Exalted, the Great. Juma a Mubarak.

"O Allah, our Lord and Lord of everything, I bear

witness that Thou art the Lord alone Who hast no

partner; 0 Allah, Our Lord and Lord of everything.

I bear witness that Muhammad is Thy servant

and Thy apostle; O Allah, our Lord and Lord of

everything, I bear witness that all the servants are

brethren; 0 Allah, our Lord and Lord of everything

make me sincere to Thee, and my family too at

every moment, in this world and in the world

hereafter, O Possessor of Glory and Honour,

listen to me and answer. Allah is incomparably

Great. O Allah, Light of the heavens and of the

earth".

Ya Allah, the Furthest Wish of the hearts of the yearners and Utmost Limit of the hopes of the lovers! We ask from You love for You, love for those who love You, love for every work which will join us to Your nearness, and that You make Yourself more beloved to us than anything other than You and make our love for You lead to Your good pleasure, and our yearning for You protect us against disobeying You! Oblige us by allowing us to gaze upon You, gaze upon us with the eye of affection and tenderness, turn not Your face away from us, and make us the people of h

O Allah! the Lord of the seven heavens and whatever is between them the Lord of the Great throne; the Lord of Jibraeel, Meekaeel and Israfeel; the lord of the Great Quran; and the Lord of Muhammad the seal of the Prophets. I beseech Thee through Him by whose command the gathering is dispersed, and the scattered are gathered; the living are provided subsistence, the number of sand particles is counted, the weight of the mountains (is known) and the quantity of the Ocean water (is comprehended).

Shaddad bin Aus (May Allah be pleased with him) said:

O Allah! I have been obedient to Thee in the matter most beloved to Thee and it is Thy Oneness and I have not been disobedient to Thee in the thing most hated by Thee and that is infidelity. So Forgive me whatever (I may have done) in between these two. O Thou! To whom I run (for protection), afford me safety against that from which I have fled to Thee. O Allah! Forgive me the great quantity of my sins and accept the small quantity of my obedience to Thee. O my provision against all provisions. O my Hope and object of confidence, O my shelter and support. O One, O Singular O (Thou about whom Quran Says) Say: He God is One (Alone), god the needless, He begetteth not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him. I beseech Thee by the right of those whom Thou hast chosen from among Thy creatures and did not make anyone like them in Thy creation that Thou send blessings on Muhammad and his descendants and deal with me as behooves Thee

. O Allah! I have beseeched Thee through the great Oneness. The effulgent qualities of Muhammad and the sublime quality of all through all that with which Thou has rendered please before thy creatures and through the name which Thou has concealed from thy creatures so that it has not come out from Thee save towards Thee that Thou send blessings on Muhammad and his descendants and grant me relief and outlet in my affairs, and allow me livelihood from, where I expect and from where I don’t expect. Verily Thou giveth livelihood anyone Thou pleasest without accounting

[fictionkinfessions]

I don't know why I'm here or what the hell happened to No Significant Harassment's local group in my odd offshoot from canon. I remember NSH better than any of the others, but everything's still fuzzy regardless. Funnily enough I have awful memory in this life too.

It feels weird to not know as much as I used to. Especially in the gene modification department. Even odder that my overseers and ability to read pearls are just.. Gone. I miss being able to do all that. :(

I miss talking to the others on open signals for hours at a time. I miss the occasional message from Big Sister Moon even if I wasn't in the same local group. I also miss Seven Rising Suns and Unparalleled Innocence too- they were decent friends of mine.

Pleading Intellect and Hollow Flight were barely mentioned in canon, but I remember them well. We all got along so well and I miss them both so much.

Sorry for such a long ask- I just really do miss being an Iterator lol

- Elusive Amnesia (#🌧🧬, non-cannon Rain World iterator)

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[unearthlycat]

jumping on this bandwagon i guess (part 2 here)

#rain world

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🌀 trans-scension 🔁 goldenjetfish

✨ yeekoftheweek Follow

[Image: Navigation directions for a road with a roundabout. An alternate route goes directly through the roundabout. It is labeled "if you;re not a coward ;)"]

got this from my drone nav today

is my iterator fucking okay

👤 herecomestherainagain-deactivated1529700 Go home No Significant Harassment, you're drunk.

🪈 pipe--yard okay im like 99% sure this is fake but i just gotta highlight the audacity of saying "go home" to the guy whose house youre literally driving on top of

🪈 pipe--yard edit: IT'S REAL??!?!

wild-flower-ride-deactivated1532056 void and saints below yall really live like this

📿 guardianknittingneedles-deactivated1534459 Happy one solar-cycle anniversary to the drunk No Significant Harassment post

🪱 cutest-lil-pipe-beast Follow i've only seen this post in screenshots and i still can't believe it's real

🟩 nsh-heritage-posts Certified No Significant Harassment Heritage Post

#rule of laughter #happy 7 sol-cycle anniversary to the drunk nsh post everyone #tumbling stones heritage posts

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☁️ fourteenblueclouds

[image description: Two painterly images of the sky, as viewed from a Metropolis balcony on Five Pebbles during a dry spell. The first shows the sky, uninterrupted save for the spires of distant communications towers. The other, a single figure leaned over the railing of a balcony, looking out over the cityscape.]

the summers up on pebbles were always the worst, but as the end approaches i'm coming to miss them

#original art #artists of tumbling stones #my artwork #painting

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🗡️ nine-sharp-stones it really feels like everyone is ascending these days. this place is a ghost town. i just wish i could join them but i know i'll never be enough. there's too much of me. if i go it'll twist me into something i don't want to be. and all i can do is be afraid.

i miss my parents. i miss everyone. my best friend ascended last cycle. we couldn't be friends anymore because i was "holding them back".

i just wish i could have gone with them.

#vent #do not reblog #delete later

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🌀 trans-scension 🔁 halo-of-seven-suns

⛆ raindeerstampede-deactivated1534012 It still gets me every time that even living up here with an abundance of water, we choose to maintain a system of pipes to ensure access to it.

I have to pay a water bill.

It rains so hard every night my balcony has a hands-breadth of standing water when the shields unroll in the morning.

Does nobody see the contradiction here?

🪻 metropolitanghost Follow op have you ever heard of a drainage system

do you like. realize how nasy that water gets

and you want to DRINK it?

🧃 five-pebbsi-official Follow Why drink rainwater when you could be drinking Five Pebbsi, the official drink of the Five Pebbles Metropolitan Zone?

[five-pebbsi-advertisement.jpg]

Quench your thirst and contract 0 intestinal parasites! None!

🪈 pipe--yard

#wow thanks five pebbsi official brand account that doesn't sound suspicious at all

#thank you five pebbles official you sound very trustworthy #i am sure your drink contains nothing else that would be of concern

#what an incredibly trustable source! i am sure if i perform a search query for five pebbsi i will definitely not find anything concerning on the ingredient list!

🖸 pleading-intellects-hot-robot-bod

#it has WHAT IN IT

i would like to wish everyone finding out about the ingredients of five pebbsi from this post my Deepest Condolences but also, Rest In Pieces

#rule of laughter

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🪨 one-cup-of-pebbles 🔁 memes-to-make-you-ascend

[screencap: a greyscale photo of a cup of gravel tea, with two twigs artfully arranged on a plate. Caption reads, "Working on denying the fourth urge this week! #fourthurge #gluttony #graveltea #dietarypurge #releasethe4"]

these guys have got to be stopped

#i am losing my mind over this

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💬 wondering-ottoman 🔁 leviafantastic

🌘 lingeringluna Follow

[Image: a shiny chitinous box containing unidentifiable bluish-white mush.]

living block just got the new ration shipment today. what the [2].

🌘 lingeringluna this is what they feed the iterator technicians i think

👤 beyondthewinds-deactivated1528045 Technical side of Tumbling Stones, can you confirm?

🧮 sixgrains-official Follow yes i am a real iterator technician and i eat this every day,, for my lunch and for dinner i eat neuron flies. hope this helps

👤 beyondthewinds-deactivated1528045 Thank you, definitely official account of famous iterator architect Six Grains of Gravel, Mountains Abound

#this is an old and humorously meant post i know but… #but no really what?! #i knew it was bad for the stragglers but i had no idea… #at least once we all ascend it'll be a bygone worry i suppose… #tw gluttony

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🌀 trans-scension 🔁 halo-of-seven-suns

⛓️ atopthespires becoming an iterator technician with high ambitions but i'm incredibly clumsy, introduced to them on the first day of the job and i am simply so charming they cannot help but fall in love with me for "research purposes" and i become their specialist little technician attending their every whim despite being the least qualified individual to do so <3

⛓️ atopthespires some of you are very confused what i mean by this, so let me make it clear: i want to [U.] the iterator

⛓️ atopthespires

#op do you understand that the puppet is just a simulacrum of a body? #they are much vaster than your reproduction-addled mind can concieve of i promise you that

the simulacrum being puppeted by a vast inconcievable machine is part of the appeal. whats not clicking

⛓️ atopthespires

#you realize the councils would literally throw you into the void fluid vats for that right #if you don't get excommunicated first

might i introduce you to this Wondrous New Skill called: lying

#rule of laughter #heresy tw #not safe for worshippers

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[abuganaf8]

O Allaah, guide me among those whom You have guided, pardon me among those whom You have pardoned, turn to me in friendship among those on whom You have turned in friendship, and bless me in what You have bestowed, and save me from the evil of what You have decreed. For verily You decree and none can influence You; and he is not humiliated whom You have befriended, nor is he honoured who is Your enemy. Blessed are You, O Lord, and Exalted. There is no place of safety from You except with You

Ya Allah, We plead steadfastness with You in keeping to Your commands, and firmness of resolution in pursuing the right course. We beg of You gratitude for favour and to be better at serving You. We beg of You a sound heart and a truthful tongue. We beg of You the good of that which only You know and we seek refuge in You from the evil of that which only You know. And we seek Your forgiveness of that iniquity of ours which only You know

Ya Allah, give us sanctuary from Your painful wrath and Your mighty anger!

In the Qur an You called Yourself Ahlu-l-Maghfirah(the Entitled to forgive), Wasi’u-l-Maghfirah(the Vast in Forgiveness), Dhu-l-Maghfirah(Possessor of forgiveness), Ghfiruh-dh-Dhanb(the Forgiver of sin), Qabilu-t-Tawb(the Acceptor of repentance), Khairul-r-Rahimin(the Best of the merciful), Khairul-l-Ghafirin(the Best of forgivers), Dhu-r-Rahmah Wasi’ah(the Possessor of boundless mercy) and Shadidu-l-Adhab(the Severe in punishment). Deliver us through Your mercy from the chastisement of the Fire and the disgrace of shame when the good are set apart from the evil, forms are transformed, terrors terrify, the good-doers are brought near, the evildoers taken far, and every soul is paid in full what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged!

Aamiin.

Ya Allah, we seek intercession from You with You, and we seek sanctuary in You from You! We have come to You craving Your beneficence, desiring Your kindness, seeking water from the deluge of Your graciousness, begging rain from the clouds of Your bounty, requesting Your good pleasure, going straight to Your side, arriving at the watering-place of Your support, seeking exalted good things from Your quarter, reaching for the presence of Your beauty, wanting Your face, knocking at Your door, abasing ourselves before Your mightiness and majesty! So act toward us with the forgiveness and mercy of which You are worthy! Act not toward us with the chastisement and vengeance of which we are worthy!By Thy mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful

Ya Allah, we repair to You by coming forward, and ask from You good support, so bless us, hear our whispered words, grant our supplication, seal not our day with disappointment, slap not our brow by rejecting our requests, and make noble our coming from You and our going back to You! Surely You are not constrained by what we desire, nor incapable of what You are asked! You are powerful over everything, and There is no force and no strength save in You, Ya Allah, the All-high, the All- mighty!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, make our hearts trust in what is with You and our concern free for what is Yours, employ us in that in which You employ Your pure friends, drench our hearts with Your obedience when intellects are distracted, and combine within us independence, continence, ease, release, health, plenty, tranquillity, and well being! Make not fail our good deeds through our disobedience that stains them or our private times of worship through the instigations of Your trials! Safeguard our faces from asking from anyone in the world, and drive us far from begging for that which is with the ungodly! Make us not an aid to the wrongdoers, nor their hand and helper in erasing Your Book! Defend us when we know not with a defense through which You protect us! Open toward us the gates of Your repentance, Your mercy, Your clemency, and Your boundless provision! Surely we are of those who beseech You! And complete Your favour toward us all!

Ya Allah, place us among the chosen, the good, join us to the righteous, the pious, the first to reach generous gifts, the swift to come upon good things, the workers of the abiding acts of righteousness, the strivers after elevated degrees! You are powerful over everything and disposed to respond! By Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, actualize our expectation from You and You alone, seal our works with good, and place us among Your selected friends, those whom You have set down in the midst of Your Garden, and settled in the abode of Your honour, whose eyes You have gladdened by gazing upon You on the day of meeting You, and whom You have made heirs to the sure stations in Your neighbourhood!

, Ya Allah, appoint for us a hand against him who wrongs us, a tongue against him who disputes with us, and a victory over him who stubbornly resists us! Give us guile against him who schemes against us, power over him who oppresses us, refutation of him who reviles us, and safety from him who threatens us! Grant us success to obey him who points away us straight and follow him who guides us right!

O Allah adorn us with the adornment of the righteous, and clothe us in the ornaments of the godfearing, through spreading justice, restraining rage, quenching the flame of hate, bringing together the people of separation, correcting discord, spreading about good behaviour, covering faults, mildness of temper, lowering the wing, beauty of conduct, gravity of bearing, agreeableness in comportment, precedence in reaching excellence, preferring bounteousness, refraining from condemnation, bestowing bounty on the undeserving, speaking the truth, though it be painful, making little of the good in our words and deeds, though it be much, and making much of the evil in our words and deeds, though it be little! Perfect this for us through lasting obedience, holding fast to the community, and rejecting the people of innovation and those who act in accordance with original opinions!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, appoint for us a hand against him who wrongs us, a tongue against him who disputes with us, and a victory over him who stubbornly resists us! Give us guile against him who schemes against us, power over him who oppresses us, refutation of him who reviles us, and safety from him who threatens us! Grant us success to obey him who points away us straight and follow him who guides us right!

Ya Allah, make us leap to You in times of distress, ask from You in needs, and plead to You in misery! Tempt us not to seek help from other than You when we are distressed, to humble ourselves in asking from someone else when we are disadvantaged, or to plead with someone less than You, Ya Khairul-r-Rahimin(the Best of the merciful), when we fear, for then we would deserve Your abandonment, Your withholding, and Your turning away, O Most Merciful of the merciful!

Aamiin.

O Allah, allow us to commence with good; and allow us to conclude with good; and let the outcomes of our affairs reach good. O Allah, we seek your protection from evil commencements and conclusions, and evil beginnings and ends, and internal evils and external. O Allah, do not put between us and You anyone [to be responsible] for our sustenance besides You; and make us the most content of Your creation with You; and the most needy of Your servants for You; and grant us wealth which will not mislead us; and health which will not distract us; and free us from needing those whom You have freed from needing us; and allow our last words to bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad ﷺ is His messenger, may the blessings of Allah and His salutations be upon him; and grant us death while you are pleased with us without any anger; and make us at the place of resurrection among those who will have no fear upon them nor will they be grieving, through Your Mercy, O Most Merciful of those https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/yahya-ibrahim-4winteraid

O Allah, open for us the treasuries of Your mercy, and grant us, O Allah, mercy that will not torture us after that in this world and the hereafter, and grant us with Your wide bounty a lawful and good sustenance, and do not need us and do not impoverish us to anyone but You, and increase our thanks to You, and to You there is poverty and poverty, and through You from those besides You richness and chastity, O Allah, expand us in the world O Allah, we seek refuge in You from turning your face away from us when we desire You for it, O Allah, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and give us what You love, and make it strength for us in what You love, O Most Merciful of the merciful)

Oh Allah, We supplicate that you make easy for us Prayer and grant us unwavering faith and beneficial patience to receive the blessings that we seek. Your bounties, O our Lord. Ameen

#OYHA

#oluyole2023

#ara_is_possible

#inshaallah_الاقصی

O Allah! Indeed, I ask You for steadfastness upon Deen and firmness upon guidance. And I ask You for that which makes Your mercy compulsory and the things that necessitate Your forgiveness. And I ask You for the capacity to be grateful for Your blessings and to worship You in a beautiful manner. And I ask You for a sound heart, a truthful tongue. And I ask You for all goodness that You know of and I seek refuge in You from all evil that You know of and I seek forgiveness from all that You know of. Indeed, it is You who is the Knower of the unseen.

O Allah, We beg to You the good which Your

Prophet Muhammad () begged of You; and We

seek refuge in You from the evl where from Your

Prophet Muhammad () sought refuge. You are

the One from Whom help is sought and Yours is

the responsibility to communicate (the truth).

There is no power or strength except with Allah

the Exalted, the Great. Juma a Mubarak.

"O Allah, our Lord and Lord of everything, I bear

witness that Thou art the Lord alone Who hast no

partner; 0 Allah, Our Lord and Lord of everything.

I bear witness that Muhammad is Thy servant

and Thy apostle; O Allah, our Lord and Lord of

everything, I bear witness that all the servants are

brethren; 0 Allah, our Lord and Lord of everything

make me sincere to Thee, and my family too at

every moment, in this world and in the world

hereafter, O Possessor of Glory and Honour,

listen to me and answer. Allah is incomparably

Great. O Allah, Light of the heavens and of the

earth".

Ya Allah, the Furthest Wish of the hearts of the yearners and Utmost Limit of the hopes of the lovers! We ask from You love for You, love for those who love You, love for every work which will join us to Your nearness, and that You make Yourself more beloved to us than anything other than You and make our love for You lead to Your good pleasure, and our yearning for You protect us against disobeying You! Oblige us by allowing us to gaze upon You, gaze upon us with the eye of affection and tenderness, turn not Your face away from us, and make us the people of h

O Allah! the Lord of the seven heavens and whatever is between them the Lord of the Great throne; the Lord of Jibraeel, Meekaeel and Israfeel; the lord of the Great Quran; and the Lord of Muhammad the seal of the Prophets. I beseech Thee through Him by whose command the gathering is dispersed, and the scattered are gathered; the living are provided subsistence, the number of sand particles is counted, the weight of the mountains (is known) and the quantity of the Ocean water (is comprehended).

Shaddad bin Aus (May Allah be pleased with him) said:

O Allah! I have been obedient to Thee in the matter most beloved to Thee and it is Thy Oneness and I have not been disobedient to Thee in the thing most hated by Thee and that is infidelity. So Forgive me whatever (I may have done) in between these two. O Thou! To whom I run (for protection), afford me safety against that from which I have fled to Thee. O Allah! Forgive me the great quantity of my sins and accept the small quantity of my obedience to Thee. O my provision against all provisions. O my Hope and object of confidence, O my shelter and support. O One, O Singular O (Thou about whom Quran Says) Say: He God is One (Alone), god the needless, He begetteth not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him. I beseech Thee by the right of those whom Thou hast chosen from among Thy creatures and did not make anyone like them in Thy creation that Thou send blessings on Muhammad and his descendants and deal with me as behooves Thee. O Allah! I have beseeched Thee through the great Oneness. The effulgent qualities of Muhammad and the sublime quality of all through all that with which Thou has rendered please before thy creatures and through the name which Thou has concealed from thy creatures so that it has not come out from Thee save towards Thee that Thou send blessings on Muhammad and his descendants and grant me relief and outlet in my affairs, and allow me livelihood from, where I expect and from where I don’t expect. Verily Thou giveth livelihood anyone Thou pleasest without accounting

[alzaeemadel]

O Allaah, guide me among those whom You have guided, pardon me among those whom You have pardoned, turn to me in friendship among those on whom You have turned in friendship, and bless me in what You have bestowed, and save me from the evil of what You have decreed. For verily You decree and none can influence You; and he is not humiliated whom You have befriended, nor is he honoured who is Your enemy. Blessed are You, O Lord, and Exalted. There is no place of safety from You except with You

Ya Allah, We plead steadfastness with You in keeping to Your commands, and firmness of resolution in pursuing the right course. We beg of You gratitude for favour and to be better at serving You. We beg of You a sound heart and a truthful tongue. We beg of You the good of that which only You know and we seek refuge in You from the evil of that which only You know. And we seek Your forgiveness of that iniquity of ours which only You know

Ya Allah, give us sanctuary from Your painful wrath and Your mighty anger!

In the Qur an You called Yourself Ahlu-l-Maghfirah(the Entitled to forgive), Wasi’u-l-Maghfirah(the Vast in Forgiveness), Dhu-l-Maghfirah(Possessor of forgiveness), Ghfiruh-dh-Dhanb(the Forgiver of sin), Qabilu-t-Tawb(the Acceptor of repentance), Khairul-r-Rahimin(the Best of the merciful), Khairul-l-Ghafirin(the Best of forgivers), Dhu-r-Rahmah Wasi’ah(the Possessor of boundless mercy) and Shadidu-l-Adhab(the Severe in punishment). Deliver us through Your mercy from the chastisement of the Fire and the disgrace of shame when the good are set apart from the evil, forms are transformed, terrors terrify, the good-doers are brought near, the evildoers taken far, and every soul is paid in full what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged!

Aamiin.

Ya Allah, we seek intercession from You with You, and we seek sanctuary in You from You! We have come to You craving Your beneficence, desiring Your kindness, seeking water from the deluge of Your graciousness, begging rain from the clouds of Your bounty, requesting Your good pleasure, going straight to Your side, arriving at the watering-place of Your support, seeking exalted good things from Your quarter, reaching for the presence of Your beauty, wanting Your face, knocking at Your door, abasing ourselves before Your mightiness and majesty! So act toward us with the forgiveness and mercy of which You are worthy! Act not toward us with the chastisement and vengeance of which we are worthy!By Thy mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful

Ya Allah, we repair to You by coming forward, and ask from You good support, so bless us, hear our whispered words, grant our supplication, seal not our day with disappointment, slap not our brow by rejecting our requests, and make noble our coming from You and our going back to You! Surely You are not constrained by what we desire, nor incapable of what You are asked! You are powerful over everything, and There is no force and no strength save in You, Ya Allah, the All-high, the All- mighty!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, make our hearts trust in what is with You and our concern free for what is Yours, employ us in that in which You employ Your pure friends, drench our hearts with Your obedience when intellects are distracted, and combine within us independence, continence, ease, release, health, plenty, tranquillity, and well being! Make not fail our good deeds through our disobedience that stains them or our private times of worship through the instigations of Your trials! Safeguard our faces from asking from anyone in the world, and drive us far from begging for that which is with the ungodly! Make us not an aid to the wrongdoers, nor their hand and helper in erasing Your Book! Defend us when we know not with a defense through which You protect us! Open toward us the gates of Your repentance, Your mercy, Your clemency, and Your boundless provision! Surely we are of those who beseech You! And complete Your favour toward us all!

Ya Allah, place us among the chosen, the good, join us to the righteous, the pious, the first to reach generous gifts, the swift to come upon good things, the workers of the abiding acts of righteousness, the strivers after elevated degrees! You are powerful over everything and disposed to respond! By Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, actualize our expectation from You and You alone, seal our works with good, and place us among Your selected friends, those whom You have set down in the midst of Your Garden, and settled in the abode of Your honour, whose eyes You have gladdened by gazing upon You on the day of meeting You, and whom You have made heirs to the sure stations in Your neighbourhood!

, Ya Allah, appoint for us a hand against him who wrongs us, a tongue against him who disputes with us, and a victory over him who stubbornly resists us! Give us guile against him who schemes against us, power over him who oppresses us, refutation of him who reviles us, and safety from him who threatens us! Grant us success to obey him who points away us straight and follow him who guides us right!

O Allah adorn us with the adornment of the righteous, and clothe us in the ornaments of the godfearing, through spreading justice, restraining rage, quenching the flame of hate, bringing together the people of separation, correcting discord, spreading about good behaviour, covering faults, mildness of temper, lowering the wing, beauty of conduct, gravity of bearing, agreeableness in comportment, precedence in reaching excellence, preferring bounteousness, refraining from condemnation, bestowing bounty on the undeserving, speaking the truth, though it be painful, making little of the good in our words and deeds, though it be much, and making much of the evil in our words and deeds, though it be little! Perfect this for us through lasting obedience, holding fast to the community, and rejecting the people of innovation and those who act in accordance with original opinions!

Aamiin.

, Ya Allah, appoint for us a hand against him who wrongs us, a tongue against him who disputes with us, and a victory over him who stubbornly resists us! Give us guile against him who schemes against us, power over him who oppresses us, refutation of him who reviles us, and safety from him who threatens us! Grant us success to obey him who points away us straight and follow him who guides us right!

Ya Allah, make us leap to You in times of distress, ask from You in needs, and plead to You in misery! Tempt us not to seek help from other than You when we are distressed, to humble ourselves in asking from someone else when we are disadvantaged, or to plead with someone less than You, Ya Khairul-r-Rahimin(the Best of the merciful), when we fear, for then we would deserve Your abandonment, Your withholding, and Your turning away, O Most Merciful of the merciful!

Aamiin.

O Allah, allow us to commence with good; and allow us to conclude with good; and let the outcomes of our affairs reach good. O Allah, we seek your protection from evil commencements and conclusions, and evil beginnings and ends, and internal evils and external. O Allah, do not put between us and You anyone [to be responsible] for our sustenance besides You; and make us the most content of Your creation with You; and the most needy of Your servants for You; and grant us wealth which will not mislead us; and health which will not distract us; and free us from needing those whom You have freed from needing us; and allow our last words to bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad ﷺ is His messenger, may the blessings of Allah and His salutations be upon him; and grant us death while you are pleased with us without any anger; and make us at the place of resurrection among those who will have no fear upon them nor will they be grieving, through Your Mercy, O Most Merciful of those https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/yahya-ibrahim-4winteraid

O Allah, open for us the treasuries of Your mercy, and grant us, O Allah, mercy that will not torture us after that in this world and the hereafter, and grant us with Your wide bounty a lawful and good sustenance, and do not need us and do not impoverish us to anyone but You, and increase our thanks to You, and to You there is poverty and poverty, and through You from those besides You richness and chastity, O Allah, expand us in the world O Allah, we seek refuge in You from turning your face away from us when we desire You for it, O Allah, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and give us what You love, and make it strength for us in what You love, O Most Merciful of the merciful)

Oh Allah, We supplicate that you make easy for us Prayer and grant us unwavering faith and beneficial patience to receive the blessings that we seek. Your bounties, O our Lord. Ameen

#OYHA

#oluyole2023

#ara_is_possible

#inshaallah_الاقصی

O Allah! Indeed, I ask You for steadfastness upon Deen and firmness upon guidance. And I ask You for that which makes Your mercy compulsory and the things that necessitate Your forgiveness. And I ask You for the capacity to be grateful for Your blessings and to worship You in a beautiful manner. And I ask You for a sound heart, a truthful tongue. And I ask You for all goodness that You know of and I seek refuge in You from all evil that You know of and I seek forgiveness from all that You know of. Indeed, it is You who is the Knower of the unseen.

O Allah, We beg to You the good which Your

Prophet Muhammad () begged of You; and We

seek refuge in You from the evl where from Your

Prophet Muhammad () sought refuge. You are

the One from Whom help is sought and Yours is

the responsibility to communicate (the truth).

There is no power or strength except with Allah

the Exalted, the Great. Juma a Mubarak.

"O Allah, our Lord and Lord of everything, I bear

witness that Thou art the Lord alone Who hast no

partner; 0 Allah, Our Lord and Lord of everything.

I bear witness that Muhammad is Thy servant

and Thy apostle; O Allah, our Lord and Lord of

everything, I bear witness that all the servants are

brethren; 0 Allah, our Lord and Lord of everything

make me sincere to Thee, and my family too at

every moment, in this world and in the world

hereafter, O Possessor of Glory and Honour,

listen to me and answer. Allah is incomparably

Great. O Allah, Light of the heavens and of the

earth".

Ya Allah, the Furthest Wish of the hearts of the yearners and Utmost Limit of the hopes of the lovers! We ask from You love for You, love for those who love You, love for every work which will join us to Your nearness, and that You make Yourself more beloved to us than anything other than You and make our love for You lead to Your good pleasure, and our yearning for You protect us against disobeying You! Oblige us by allowing us to gaze upon You, gaze upon us with the eye of affection and tenderness, turn not Your face away from us, and make us the people of h

O Allah! the Lord of the seven heavens and whatever is between them the Lord of the Great throne; the Lord of Jibraeel, Meekaeel and Israfeel; the lord of the Great Quran; and the Lord of Muhammad the seal of the Prophets. I beseech Thee through Him by whose command the gathering is dispersed, and the scattered are gathered; the living are provided subsistence, the number of sand particles is counted, the weight of the mountains (is known) and the quantity of the Ocean water (is comprehended).

Shaddad bin Aus (May Allah be pleased with him) said:

O Allah! I have been obedient to Thee in the matter most beloved to Thee and it is Thy Oneness and I have not been disobedient to Thee in the thing most hated by Thee and that is infidelity. So Forgive me whatever (I may have done) in between these two. O Thou! To whom I run (for protection), afford me safety against that from which I have fled to Thee. O Allah! Forgive me the great quantity of my sins and accept the small quantity of my obedience to Thee. O my provision against all provisions. O my Hope and object of confidence, O my shelter and support. O One, O Singular O (Thou about whom Quran Says) Say: He God is One (Alone), god the needless, He begetteth not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him. I beseech Thee by the right of those whom Thou hast chosen from among Thy creatures and did not make anyone like them in Thy creation that Thou send blessings on Muhammad and his descendants and deal with me as behooves Thee. O Allah! I have beseeched Thee through the great Oneness. The effulgent qualities of Muhammad and the sublime quality of all through all that with which Thou has rendered please before thy creatures and through the name which Thou has concealed from thy creatures so that it has not come out from Thee save towards Thee that Thou send blessings on Muhammad and his descendants and grant me relief and outlet in my affairs, and allow me livelihood from, where I expect and from where I don’t expect. Verily Thou giveth livelihood anyone Thou pleasest without accounting

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Gods Don’t Die

(this is a piece I wrote on my old blog as part of a 50 followers celebration - tweaked and re-uploaded! :3)

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“Gods don’t die.” He protested, no longer Aetius, nowhere near Zeus. “They-! They don’t!”

The nameless being before him only laughed.

o0O0o

“Gods don’t die” is something that the whole world believes. Humans and monsters and magical creatures, bound together by this one understanding; this one law of creation. You could destroy a god, tear up their essence, break them into a thousand tiny pieces and cast them into Tartarus – it would rid you of them, but it would not kill them. They would not die. They couldn’t.

The only ones who know differently are the gods themselves. They are not immortal, as is believed by the rest of the world. As they themselves had previously believed. No – they are each the latest in a long line, selected by chance beyond even the fates.

And just as their powers were once given, so too they must eventually be given away.

o0O0o

“Gods don’t die” becomes a mantra that each one repeats to themselves as time begins to run out. That belief, held by the entire rest of the world, is one that they force themselves to indulge in. They must fool themselves. They must block out the truth. Gods don’t die, they can’t, they mustn’t-!

They won’t.

o0O0o

Gods don’t die, they agree as they gather. They are sitting in their chambers on top of Mount Olympus, overlooking the wretched world, as they have always done. And they have a plan. Because somewhere down there are their successors. Still mortal, and still unknowingly awaiting their mantles and destinies. But if the Gods can take the initiative, and strike them down before that happens… they will not have to give it all up. They will not have to cede their thrones, nor their power, nor their identities – all that they have come to claim as their own, after so long.

“It is cruel.” Cautions Hestia.

“It is dishonourable.” Admits Ares.

“It is selfish.” Explains Dionysus.

“It is childish.” Chides Hera.

Of all of them, it is Hades who ultimately casts the deciding vote. Thanatos himself stands behind him and nods approval.

“There is nothing cruel or dishonourable or selfish or childish,” he says, “about not wanting to die.”

Nobody argues.

o0O0o

Gods don’t die, Demeter believes as she moves to bring about the destruction of the girl slated to succeed her seat of power. At the very least, she believes as such until the moment where the plants she had snaked around the mortal to crush her are blasted apart. Splinters fly. Leaves crumble into ash. Even as she watches, fresh greenery sprouts up around the girl – but their curls are protective, not constrictive, and the spears of thorns they form are pointed in Demeter’s direction. Faced with her own power, she feels vulnerable in a way she has not throughout her entire Godly existence. She feels vincible.

“You, girl.” She is forced to put effort into keeping the tremor out of her voice. “What is your name?”

The girl stands up straighter upon realising she is being addressed. The terror is still apparent in her eyes – being smote by a God is just about the worst fear of every mortal in the world. But she still holds her head high.

“Ianthe.” She says, boldly. “My name is Ianthe.”

It is at this moment that Demeter can see her successor’s spirit. The girl is young and strong, and so very afraid, but she is also idealistic. No weathering through age, no nagging belief that loss is inevitable. And Demeter herself realises the truth of her own existence. She is not infinite. Much like the plantlife that she knows so well, she is seasonal. She is clonal. And she is only prolonging the inevitable.

“No, it isn’t.” She responds.

o0O0o

“Gods don’t die” is a phrase that Athena is infinitely familiar with. She knows full well that it is a lie, as well as all that that lie entails – and that knowledge weighs on her as she fights. At least, she assumes it must be affecting her, or she would not be losing at all.

Her chosen “successor” is a mortal named Gaia (and she almost laughs at the irony of being named for one goddess and usurping another), who possesses none of the cool intellect or strategical knowledge that she does. Instead, she fights with her fists. And her legs. And occasionally her head. She’d initially struck Athena as the female counterpart of Ares, and her resolve to not lose her seat to this cretin had been strengthened.

And yet, trap after trap, and feint after strike after feint after strike, are all blown through as though they’re nothing. Athena uses every battle technique that she has been blessed with the knowledge of, and the girl breathes in and out and clenches her fists and outmanoeuvres her at every turn, almost as if by accident. She raises her shield, Aegis, and the mortal closes her eyes and leaps into the air and strikes the shield so hard that it buckles under the weight of her fist. Athena is thrown backwards by the weight of the strike, and rolls against the ground for a long time before coming to a stop, weapons and body both broken.

She opens her mouth to say something – to ask how – but the girl speaks first.

“Why?” She pleads, sounding so distraught and so horrified and so very mortal, even though she is something far beyond that now. “Why did you do this?”

Athena doesn’t know what to say.

“Why did you attack me?” The girl demands. “What did I do to you?”

It wasn’t what you did, Athena wants to say. It was what you were going to do. What you were going to become. But the words die in her throat as she considers them. War is many things. It is bloody. It is necessary. It takes and it takes and it takes, and it rocks the world. And so rarely is it righteous to anyone other than the aggressor. War is the home of courage and cowardice both, and all she has done today is fight to preserve herself – to remove someone else from the equation before they know that they are a part of it, all so that she may cling to what she knows.

If a goddess of war does not stop and ask why she is declaring it, Athena thinks as her vision darkens, then perhaps her title is best lost to her after all.

o0O0o

“Gods… don’t die.” Rasps Zeus, though his mortal wounds suggest otherwise.

Looking down on him, foot planted on his chest, is… some mortal. A young man called Theophrastus who has just inherited his parent’s farm, and never strove for anything more, never will strive for anything more, despite now possessing all the powers of the lord of the skies.

The farm is now embers around them, the flames and the heat long snuffed out by the rain.

Zeus tries to move, but cannot. It is clear what will happen next.

At least, he reckons to himself, he did not go quietly. The battle between Theophrastus and himself had lasted for two straight days. The lightning had split the sky open, and the thunder had shaken the earth. In the end, it had been an old war wound that had caused his downfall – his tendons had never been the same since Typhon, and his reflexes were not what they had once been. And, after so many hours of constant fighting, he had faltered, and been unable to avoid the final bolt of lightning that Theophrastus had hurled at his chest. And so, he had fallen.

He looks up at the sky, blinking, wishing that he could shield his eyes from the rain. At the end of all things, it is all just poetry on top of poetry. The universe emphasising over and over and over again that his time is over, that he is no longer fit to be himself. To be Zeus.

“If Gods don’t die,” Theophrastus asks coldly (his parents were inside the farmhouse when Zeus blew it to pieces), “then how have I killed you?”

It is suitable that as he dies, Zeus finally understands.

“You did not kill Zeus.” Says the old God remembering what his name had been so long ago. “You killed Aetius.”

o0O0o

“But… but Gods don’t die.” Stammers the young man at the foot of Hades’ throne.

Hades rises and removes his helm. “No,” he agrees, “they don’t.”

He throws it. It rolls down the steps in front of the throne, coming to a stop as the knees of his successor. The man can only look up at him in bewilderment.

Yes, Hades muses, there is nothing cruel or dishonourable or selfish or childish about a fear of death. But there is nothing about it that is anything other than futile, either. If there’s one thing that being lord of the Underworld has taught him, it is that your feelings for death are irrelevant. It will always claim you anyway.

And yet, it is not always the end of the story.

“Gods don’t die.” Says Hades, accepting his fate with a heavy breath and a light heart. “But Gods are not what you think.”