#scriptum

[mercuriicultores]

Franciscus Petrarca – Epistulae de rebus familiaribus et variae, II, 175

[...] In primis philosophiam amo, non illam loquacem, scholasticam, ventosam, qua ridiculum in modum letteratores nostri superbiunt; sed veram, et non in libris tantum, sed in animis habitantem, atque in rebus positam, non in verbis, cuius illud præcipuum munus reor, Tusculanis disputationibus insertum, quod scilicet medetur animis, inanes sollicitudines detrahit, cupiditatibus liberat, pelit timores.

[HIS] Principalmente amo la filosofía, no esa filosofía habladora, escolástica, vana, de la cual nuestros literatos se enorgullecen de manera ridícula; sino la verdadera, aquella que habita no solo en los libros, sino en las almas, y que se encuentra en las acciones, no en las palabras. Considero que su función principal es la que se menciona en las Disputaciones Tusculanas: sanar las almas, aliviar de preocupaciones vanas, liberarlas de deseos y desterrar temores.

[janimay-sprout-cloud]

It was so much fun to draw

[mecharose]

Eye-conography. Is that anything

this is what you find at the Cult of Eyeball church in RCU

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[unusualperidot]

ever since i started taking antidepressants (in june) i started noticing how hard it is for me to understand social norms/cues and that 1) it's been the cause of my social anxiety ever since i was little 2) i've been thinking people live in absolutes (like me) this entire time 3) i have such a hard time handling contradictions, i feel like it's an error

[notyinnina]

Antiquus Malum Cruentus Scriptum De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Antiquus Malum Cruentus Scriptum De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is the book that Pelle Ohlin recommended back in one of his interviews. He named the LP, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, off of the book.

The name is Latin, and it translates to Lord Satan's Secret Files. The whole name of the book could be translated as The Ancient Evil Bloody Scriptures Of Lord Satan's Secret Files.

From what I've been able to find, the book was bound in human flesh and written in blood. It is believed that whoever read its pages would be cursed.

It is one of the very few books that was done in such a way, going back to Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Practice, which encourages the use of human flesh to bound books.

The earliest recording of a human flesh bound book dates back to the 1800's. Some books are currently safely stored by professionals, but the search for any book bound such a way is still going by anyone interested in the topic.

As far as we know, only one copy exists. I can't find the author nor any pictures of the actual book, and I can't find any actual information about the book but the information that Pelle gives us in his interviews.

Pelle himself had stated that he hadn't been able to find the book, where he discovered it is still a mystery to me, but the idea that he was told about it by someone else can be pictured.

If any actual information is found about Antiquus Malum Cruentus Scriptum De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, my DMS are always open.

-Infirmation found in various yet limited sources

[mandoratheevilchaser]

how. did. isreal. get. through. to. the. final. WHO voted for them?? WHY wasn't there more boo-ing??? why were they included at all???? is this real life

[observatoiredumensonge]

Le parti de la rose s’enlise, persiste et signe. L’insignifiance dans toute son ampleur. Suivez le guide … 

[souleaterpostanime]

Soul Eater Post Scriptum chapter 3

Oh, wrote this, cause I had an idea, and was a bit tired of everything after work and the holiday rush lol

The logs that did not turn to cinder

[mercuriicultores]

G. B. Gandinus – Letture latine per uso dei principianti, Liber II: «Mythologia Graeca et Romana»

I. Saturnus

Graeci et Romani olim plures coluerunt deos.

Deorum antiquissimus habitus est Uranus id est Caelus. Is omnium primus mundi universi imperio praefuisse traditur. Uxorem habuit Tellurem, ex qua genuit Saturnum.

Saturnus adiuvante matre patrem regno spoliavit. Pulsus autem ipse a Iove filio in eam Italiae partem venit, quae Latium appelata est. Ibi a Iano, Latii rege, benigne exceptus et in societatem regni vocatus homines in agris dispersos unum in locum congregavit, legem vivendi populis ac disciplinam dedit, domicilia eorum moenibus saepsit. Qua de causa Saturno regnante aurea aetas fuisse perhibetur; terra enim nullo arante fruges ferebat, nulli erant limites agrorum, nulli servi, omnia omnium erant communia.

Saturnalia eius memoriae causa Romae quotannis celebrabantur mense Decembri. Saturnaliorum diebus servis ludendi cum dominis iocandique potestas dabatur, iisque discumbentibus domini ministrabant. Qua re significare voluerunt omnes homines aurea aetate pari fuisse iure.

Fingitur Saturnus senex, falcem manu retinens aut anguem caudam sibi mordentem.

II. Iuppiter

Iuppiter, Saturni et Rheae filius, in insula Creta natus et educatus est. Quum adolevisset, Saturnum patrem regno expulit, regnumque cum duobus fratribus ita divisit, ut ipse imperium caeli et terrae, Neptunus maris, Pluto inferorum haberet.

Omnium deorum princeps et summus habitus est, quare divum pater atque hominum dicitur a poëtis, a Romanis autem Optimus Maximus.

Fingebatur fere sedens in solio eburneo, sceptrum sinistra manu, dextra fulmen tenens. Iuxta eum stabat aquila, quae avis ei sacra erat, et Ganymedes, qui ei pocula ministrabat.

Ex arboribus quercus ei sacra erat.

III. Iuno

Iuno, Iovis soror et coniux, Doerum regina habita est. Argis maxime colebatur. Apud Romanos matrimoniis praeerat.

Fingebatur in solio sedens, habitu regali, sceptro et diademato insignis.

Ex avibus pavo ei sacer erat.

Iunonis ministra et nuntia erat Iris.

IV. Minerva

Minerva, quae etiam Pallas dicitur, e capite Iovis nata esse ferebatur. Dea fuit sapientiae et artium. Colebatur imprimis Athenis, qua in urbe studia litterarum maxime floruerunt. Eadem belli et armorum inventrix et princeps habita est.

Fingebatur armata, galeam in capite gestans, thorace induta, in quo effictum erat Medusae caput serpentibus circumplicatum, cuius aspectu homines in lapides commutari credebantur.

Ex avibus noctura ei sacra fuit, ex arboribus olea.

V. Vesta

Vesta, Saturni filia, dea erat ignis domestici. Cultus eius fuit antiquissimus. Romae primum ei templum a Numa, altero Romanorum rege, exctructum est.

In eo templo ignis perpetuus a virginibus Vestalibus, deae sacerdotibus, alebatur. Gravis poena constituta erat in eam virginem, cuius negligentia ignis esset exstinctus.

VI. Ceres

Ceres, Saturni et Rheae filia, frugum dea erat. Ea enim prima agriculturam et usum frumenti homines docuit, qui antea glande vescebantur.

Sacra eius arcana erant ac silentio celebrabantur.

Fingebatur coronam in capite gestans spicis ornatam dextra manu falcem retinens, sinistra manipulos spicarum et papaverum.

VII. Mars

Mars, belli deus, praecipuo honore a Romanis colebatur. Putabant enim Romulum et Remum, qui urbem Romam condiderunt, Martis filios esse.

Ex eius nomine tertius anni mensis Martius appellatus est. Martius quoque dictus est campus, ubi Romana iuventus gymnicis ludis exercebatur.

Ex animalibus ei sacri erant lupus et equus.

VIII. Mercurius

Mercurius, Iovis et Maiae filius, nuntius erat deorum, imprimis Iovis. Animas mortuorum ad inferos deducebat.

Idem mercaturae deus habebatur. Lyram quoque et palaestram invenisse dicitur.

Fingebatur iuvenis formosus, insignis petaso et talaribus alatis, caduceum manu tenens, id est virgam duobus serpentibus circumplicatam.

IX. Apollo et Musae

Apollo, qui idem Phoebus dicitur, Iovis et Latonae filius, cum Diana sorore in insula Delo natus est. Deus fuit medicinae, artis iaculandi, musicae, poësis. Praeterea divinationi praefuit; quare plurima oracula ei sacra fuerunt, quorum nobilissimum est oraculum Delphicum.

Idem dux erat novem Musarum, quae deae artibus ac litteris praeerant, et Calliope quidem epico poëmati, Clio historiae, Melpomene tragoediae, Thalia comoediae, Euterpe arti musicae, Terpsichore choreis, Erato poësi amatoriae, Polyhymnia lyricis carminibus, Urania astrologiae.

Fingebatur adolescens imberbis, promisso capillo, dextra arcum et sagittas retinens, sinistra lyram.

Apollini laurus sacra erat, quare etiam poëtae laurea coronantur.

Ex avibus ei sacer erat corvus et cycnus.

X. Diana

Diana, Iovis et Latonae filia, Apollinis soror, semper virgo fuisse fertur; quare Latonia virgo a Vergilio dicta est. Praeerat venationibus, silvis, montibus. Eadem habebatur quae Luna in caelo et quae Proserpina apud inferos; quare et triformis et tergemina a poëtis appellatur.

Fingebatur plerumque coma soluta, arcum et sagittas manibus retinens, cervos aliasve feras persequens stipata canibus.

XI. Venus

Venus, amoris et pulchritudinis dea, ex spuma maris orta esse ferebatur.

Fingitur curru vehens, quem cycni vel columbae trahunt; comitatur eam filius Cupido vel Amor, puer alatus, arcum ac sagittas ferens. Praeterea comites habet tres Gratias, venustatis deas: Aglaien, Thaliam et Euphrosynen.

Apelles Venerem pinxit e mari exeuntem, quam picturam nobilissimam Venerem Anadyomenen vocant.

Ex arboribus myrtus ei sacra erat.

XII. Vulcanus

Veneris, pulcherrimae omnium dearum, maritus erat Vulcanus, turpissimus omnium deorum, Iovis et Iunonis filius. Is propter deformitatem a Iove de caelo deiectus in insulam Lemnum delapsus est, quo casu claudus factus dicitur. Erat autem deus ignis ac fabrorum ferrariorum; nec in Lemno solum, sed etiam sub Aetna monte et in Aeoliis insulis habere officinas dicebatur.

Ministri eius erant Cyclopes gigantes, unum modo oculum media fronte habentes, qui Iovi fulmina fabricari putabantur.

XIII. Pluto

Pluto, Iovis frater, inferorum deus, in Orco habitabat.

Fingitur in solio sedens, truci vultu, sceptrum manu retinens.

Plutonis uxor erat Proserpina, Iovis et Cereris filia. Eam flores in nemore Hennae legentem olim Pluto rapuisse dicitur.

Orci partes erant Tartarus, ubi improbi post mortem poenis afficiebantur, et campi Elysii, sedes piorum.

Iudices umbrarum tres erant: Minos, Rhadamanthus et Aeacus.

Ad inferos umbras deducebat Mercurius, deductas excipiebat Charon et trans Stygem et Acherontem, Orci flumina, transvehebat. Ii, quorum corpora humata non erant, diu ad ripam Stygis vagabantur; quare veteres magnam sepulturae curam habebant.

Ex flumine Lethe manes oblivionem superioris vitae hauriebant.

Introitum Orci custodiebat Cerberus, canis triceps.

Malos homines excruciabant apud inferos Furiae vel Eumenides; erines serpentibus circumplicatos habebant, manibus faces ardentes praeferebant.

XIV. Neptunus

Neptunus, Iovis frater, maris imperium obtinebat. Amphitriten uxorem duxit, maris deam, ex qua Tritonem genuit.

Neptuno equus sacer erat.

Agnoscitur imprimis tridente, quern manu tenet. Comitatur eum Triton filius tubicen, concha utens pro tuba.

Multi praeterea erant in mari dii minores multaeque deae, in quibus clarissimae sunt quinquaginta Nereides Nerei senis filiae, quarum una, Thetis, mater Achillis fuit.

XV. Bacchus

Bacchus, Iovis et Semeles filius, vini deus fuit.

Fingitur adolescens formosus, nudus, saepe etiam cornutus, hedera coronatus, manu tenens thyrsum id est hastam pampinis obtectam. Currus eius a tigribus aut a leonibus trahitur.

Comites Bacchi erant Nymphae et Satyri caprinis pedibus et Silenus, qui Bacchi praeceptor fuerat; praeterea mulieres ebriae et furentes, quae Bacchae vel Maenades dicebantur.

Baccho immolabatur hircus, quod animal vitibus nocere solet.

XVI. Ianus

Ianus summa religione a Romanis colebatur. Praeerat omnibus rerum initiis ac vicissitudinibus, imprimis anni et mensiurn et dierum.

Mensis Ianuarius, qui annum aperit, a lano nomen accepit.

Ianus antiquus Italiae rex fuisse et omnium primus homines ritus sacrorum docuisse putatur.

Fingitur bifrons, manu altera clavem, altera virgam tenens.

Templum eius belli tempore patebat; quum antem pax facta erat, claudebatur.

[foxglovesys]

Thinking about Changeling:The Lost and how the concept of the Fetch as allegory is kinda genius to a trans/nonbinary reading. The fetch is a facsimile left in the place of victims, spirited away and changed by the true Fae. It is impossible for most people to ever tell the difference:one could go their entire lives without suspecting that your family member has been replaced, but the fetch is different:it is static, resistant to change. the fetch of a child will grow up like you'd expect it to, and grow old as its expected to, as well, and nothing more:it follows the path that blends it in. Does things that those around them would look at go, "oh, they would do that. That is so like them." Consider the plight of a trans person snatched away before they came out, or their egg cracked. It stands to reason that their fetch would NEVER transition:Their family expects their boy to grow into a young man. A deviation from that pattern draws the wrong kind of attention. And when that person comes back, changed by their time in Arcadia, they might behold the Fetch living in their shoes: The imagery of Her family enjoying a holiday dinner with Him springs to my mind. And whats worse is that the family probably likes the fetch better. fathers and mothers pass the gravy to their perfect son when in another life, without the intervention of the kindly ones, they would have ran their true child from the family home when they came out. The same true child that watches from a window now as they share their hearth with an invader, a body snatcher of sorts. Thats gotta sting. I know how much it stings because my family forced me back into the closet multiple times:They simply ignored my confession that I didn't fit in the neat category of "boy" that had been lovingly prepared for me. They told me I wasn't transgender and that was that to them, or they just outright forgot after a while. I have been both the fetch and the changeling at the same time in this scenario. The question is, what does the changeling do now? does she simply vanish in the night like I did, leaving the past life to be content with its fake memory of her, or does she burst through the window and take that fake memory, cave in the loathsome imposters skull until he collapses into twig and twine and leaves, ripping that happiness and baring cruel, unbelievable reality like tusks at everyone witnessing the event? Does she meet her false self in secret, and try to work with it, understand it? That reminds me of half-measures I've seen taken by friends. Call me by my deadname around my dad. Please. I think the most horrifying outcome from a trans perspective is that of replacing the fetch:doing away with it in secret and concealing the truth about yourself to slip into your old life. But that life no longer belongs to you: His flat chest and blunt teeth are antithetical to who you really are, now. Your claws and yellowed eyes and femininity are going to scratch under that false skin forever, until you take it off. Maybe you'll do it in secret, letting your horns breath in nightclubs and venues and forest paths far from the eyes of the people who knew the false you (in both senses of the term) or maybe you'll stuff your true nature away as far and deep as you can, even if it destroys you. Change is deeply, deeply terrifying after all.

[applepies-and-starlight]

tRick or TReat

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Todo pensamiento lógico se reproduce en lenguaje abstracto sub specie aeterni. Pensar de este modo la existencia equivale a omitir la dificultad, es decir, la dificultad de pensar lo eterno en proceso de devenir, algo que uno, sin duda, está obligado a hacer, puesto que el pensador mismo se halla en proceso de devenir. Síguese de esto que pensar abstractamente es más sencillo que existir, a menos que por existencia se entienda aquello que usualmente piensa la gente, algo como ser una especie de sujeto. Tenemos aquí nuevamente un ejemplo de cómo es que el más simple deber es también el más difícil. Se piensa  que existir no es mucha cosa, mucho menos un arte. Es obvio que todos existimos; pero pensar abstractamente -eso ya es algo relevante. Pero existir verdaderamente, es decir, dejando que la conciencia penetre en la propia existencia, siendo simultáneamente eterno, incluso más allá, por así decirlo, y no obstante presente en ella en un proceso de devenir -eso es lo verdaderamente difícil.»

Søren Kierkegaard: Postscriptum no científico a las Migajas Filosóficas. Universidad Iberoamericana, A. C., págs. 309-310. México, 2008.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

[mecharose]

The World in Reverse: What is your character holding back? 

in a very literal sense, Brett is holding back so much as even thinking about her human fiance Issac, so the Lord of Ruination doesn't hunt him down and peel his bones apart like a cheese stick.

"i'll kill anyone who touches you" is a promise he intends to keep! 🥰

major arcana ask game!

[noneun]

Non mi dilungherò nel sottolineare l'ennesima contraddizione ed ipocrisia di una strenua difenditrice (anzi, strenuo difensore) della famiglia tradizionale. Nemmeno il tempismo con il quale due strade "divise da tempo" abbiano portato proprio ora alla fine della relazione. E, nemmeno sull'opportunità di tirare in ballo figlia e padre (ma, su i figli, Salvini docet).

Piuttosto sottolineerò la grossa risata che mi sono fatto leggendo "Non ho altro da dire" seguito da "post scriptum".

Seguita purtroppo dalla grossa sofferenza causata dal contenuto del post scriptum stesso. Cioè, veramente. Ma come accidenti si fa a scrivere una sesquipedale cazzata del genere, sbagliata da ogni punto di vista: intere catene montuose sono diventate polvere a causa dell'acqua, ma di cosa parliamo.

E vabbè, da politici abituati dalla mattina alla sera a sparare cazzate non si può certo pretendere un post geologicamente corretto...

[not-souleaterpost]

10 thousand years of heaven

Actually wrote another fic (well started as an unrelated short-story idea in my head before falling asleep but then I realised that I can actually connect it quite well) Still posting it here cause I'm not sure if people who only care about the comic feel about these. Anyways, back to work on the iceberg, just neated a little creative break.