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the-badger-mole · 6 months

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Magic Mirror Part 2

After a while, Zuko gave up calling for help. Some time after that, he quit pacing and thought. He couldn't get out the way he came in. That didn't mean there was no other way out. Zuko held his hand out and called up a flame, and sighed with relief when fire licked his fingertips. The darkness wasn't dispelled far, but he could now see a few feet ahead of him, and he realized that he was standing on a dark marble floor. He followed it cautiously, wary of what might be waiting outside his bubble of light. After a while of walking, his fire glinted off of something. He paused and stared the circular hole. His fire was reflecting back at him. Hesitating just a moment, he put it out and found himself looking out into a darkened room. A room he recognized. He was in one of the empty bedrooms in the summer palace. His father's if he recalled correctly. Zuko surged forward, pressing on the glass, but it didn't budge. He was in the summer palace, or at least in the mirrors. That was something. Zuko picked up running along the corridor again, stopping an looking out of different mirrors in the hallways, the bathrooms, the foyer. Finally, he came upon an occupied room.

Katara sat in the library, relishing in a rare moment alone. She'd found an old romance novel and was idly skimming it when the door opened. Zuko watched in horror as he walked in. What would this doppelganger do to her? He beat his fist on the glass and screamed Katara's name. He needed to get out of this prison! How could he make himself heard?

"Katara!" Zuko screamed. She frowned, and started to turn. She had heard him! Zuko doubled his efforts, screaming and banging his fists on the glass until he was certain it would break. But the other Zuko slipped between Katara and the mirror, and smooth as a serpent, sat down beside her. He sat down right beside her. Katara's attention was drawn away from looking for the source of the sound and was now nervously focused on the boy beside her.

The mirror creature was murmuring something to her. Zuko pressed himself against the glass, trying to hear what was going on, but the sounds were muffled and both Katara and the creature were speaking too low. Zuko watched in growing horror as the Mirror Zuko leaned closer to Katara and began playing idly with the end of her hair. Katara's face had gone red, and her eyes were wide with surprise, but she made no attempts to move away. Not even a few moments later when he got even closer, until their noses were almost touching. Katara's eyes fluttered, her lids lowering until they were almost shut. Zuko stopped breathing as the mirror creature leaned in to close the last little bit of space...

Katara's eyes flew wide open and she gasped. A moment later, the door of the library burst open, and suddenly Katara was on her feet with the sofa between her and the boy still leaning forward for a kiss. Sokka rushed in, shouting excitedly about his success in mastering a sword fighting technique. He wanted to show them in the courtyard, and asked Zuko to spar with him to show it off. Katara nearly ran after her brother, casting one last pondering glance at Zuko. The mirror creature waited until they were gone before his pleasant smile twisted into a dark scowl.

Zuko banged on the glass of his prison again, shouting for the creature's attention. At first, Zuko thought it couldn't hear him, but then it smirked, turning it's head slightly in Zuko's direction, but not looking directly at him.

"I can see why you like her," it said, it's voice muffled as if it were speaking through a closed window. "I think I will, too."

"You stay away from her!" Zuko shouted, pummeling the glass again. "You stay away from all of them!" The creature just chuckled and left the room, shutting the door behind him.

Zuko ran down the dark corridor, frantically looking through mirrors for a glimpse of his friends. They must have been outside, because he couldn't find them in any of the rooms. His throat was growing sore from screaming for anyone who could hear him, and his body was sore from sprinting the hall and beating on the glass. He slumped against a wall, allowing exhaustion to catch up with him. Despair, he thought, would come any minute, but to his distant surprise, it hadn't. After all, this was par for the course for him. Perhaps he never considered his fate might be exactly this- trapped in some horrible mirror world while he watched his doppelganger take his place among his new friends, and make moves on the girl he...- it was still not surprising to him that just when he thought his life had taken a turn for the better, something terrible would happen. At least he wouldn't have to wait long for death, he reasoned. He was already hungry and thirsty. He figured dehydration would kill him a few days. He just hoped he would have a chance to warn his friends about the imposter before he went.

"You won't die here."

Adrenaline surged through Zuko's body like a bolt of his sister's lightning. Every hair on his body was standing on end, and he instinctively fell into a defensive crouch, facing the direction the voice had come from. At first, he saw nothing, but he expansive darkness, but then he noticed a figure- tall and pale- approaching him from the pitch dark. He was glowing, Zuko realized with a start. The man had long white hair and a carefully sculpted beard. His hair had been pulled into a top knot with a small flame securing it. Through the shrouding of ethereal light, Zuko recognized that he wore the formal robes of Fire Nation nobility.

"It is so good to meet you, my grandson," the man said smiling. "I am Avatar Roku." Zuko gasped and stumbled backwards. He saw the resemblance now. Roku had the same nose as his granddaughter Ursa. The same mouth. The same slant to his eyes. The features Zuko had inherited. He could only gape at the older man- no, the spirit.

"A-am I dead?" he asked. Roku chuckled and shook his head.

"Thankfully, no," he said. "And you won't die here. It'll be uncomfortable for you, but you're essentially immortal here, although you'll still feel hunger and thirst and such. But none of that matters, because we are going to get you out of here."

"What is this place?" Zuko asked.

"You're in..." Roku paused and looked around thoughtfully. "Let's call it an annex of the spirit world. You see mirrors can serve as a sort of gateway, if you know how to use them. "

"How do I get out?" Zuko "I'm not even sure how I got in!"

"You got caught by a lesser spirit," Roku explained. "Some of them are nasty buggers, but mostly harmless. Unfortunately, your grandfather, Azulon was attempting to recruit spirits to fight for him, and foolishly didn't see to it that all the portals he tried to open were sealed."

"Of course," Zuko groaned, rolling his eyes. "It's not enough that I pay for my own sins, I still have to deal with my family's, too?"

"That is, unfortunately, what comes with the territory," Roku sighed sadly. "You will one day be the Fire Lord, and it will be your duty to make amends for the sins of your forebearers. But compared to untangling the mess of the spirit world, that'll be a cake-walk. Especially, if you keep the right people by your sides." Zuko stared at Roku, mystified.

"Are you sure you're related to me on my mother's side?" he asked. "Because you sound just like my uncle." Roku chuckled and shook his head.

"I know of your uncle Iroh, and I respect him a great deal," he said. "I'd be happy to claim him as a grandson, but no. The only connection I have to that side of your family was my friendship with your great-great-grandfather. Now, to get you out of here."

Zuko was waiting once night fell and everyone began to turn in for the night. Roku had gone some time ago, wishing his grandson luck, and Zuko was alone. Finally, the door to the bedroom swung open and Katara entered. He waited until she had shut the door and lit her lamp to begin banging on the mirror and shouting her name. This time, Katara heard him immediately. She looked over at the mirror in confusion and gasped.

"Zuko?" Her mouth hung open in shock.

"Please! Don't freak out," Zuko begged her. Katara stood rooted to the spot, gaping at him. She looked over her shoulder, towards where she had just said good night to her friends, Zuko among them. Then back towards her mirror in confusion.

"What?" she whispered, taking a cautious step forward. Zuko slumped against the glass in relief.

"It's me Katara," Zuko told her.

"Zuko?" She got closer, inspecting the mirror. She looked behind it to see if there was a door or something she hadn't noticed before, but the mirror was attached to the dressing table, leaving a gap of several inches between the back of the mirror and the wall. She moved in front of the mirror and frowned when she saw her reflection in front of Zuko. "How are you doing this?"

"I'm trapped!" Zuko told her. "That-that thing out there, it isn't me. I was in the woods, and there was this huge mirror, and when I looked into it, that thing grabbed me and trapped me in here. You have to believe me! That isn't me out there!" Katara stared at him for a long moment before shutting her eyes and taking a deep, shaky breath.

"I believe you," she said. Zuko hadn't been expecting that. He had planned a whole list of proof of what he was saying, but it all flew out of his head.

"You do?"

"I knew something was off when he came back," Katara explained. "He was acting weird, and he didn't know where the dining room was. And then later he almost...I saw him close up and I realized his scar was on the wrong side."

"What?" Zuko gasped. He hadn't noticed. He hadn't even paid attention to that.

"I thought I was crazy," Katara said. "No one else said anything, so I thought maybe I was wrong, but..." Her eyes swept over his face and she nodded slightly. "I was right."

"Thank Agni," Zuko sighed. He leaned forward, resting his forehead against the glass. His throat closed around a sob and he thought for a moment he would weep with relief.

"How do we get you out?" Katara asked, pulling Zuko's focus back.

"He needs to look in a mirror," Zuko explained quickly. "He's part of this world- the spirit world- so any mirror will do to bring him back in." Zuko was glad when Roku told him that although the spirit needed Zuko to look in that specific mirror in the woods, he didn't need the spirit to go back there. He didn't think he could guide any of his friends to the right spot, let alone trick a spirit who had no inclination to go back there.

"I don't know how to get him to look, though," Zuko said. "He purposely avoided looking in the one in the library.

"Y-you were in the library?" Katara's face went suddenly red, and then Zuko's face flushed, too.

"I-I was just looking for a way out," he said. "I wasn't spying." Katara dropped her gaze and shifted on her feet.

"It's..." she huffed and shook her head. "Whatever. It doesn't matter. I have an idea. Just wait here for me. Don't move, okay?"

"Alright," Zuko said. Then Katara grabbed one of the tarps that had been covering the furniture when they arrived, and threw it over the dressing table. Zuko was plunged into darkness. His pulse quickened, but he swallowed hard and forced himself not to panic. He could trust Katara.

A few minutes later, he heard the door open again. There were low voices and some giggling that sounded like Katara.

"We have to be quiet," Katara was saying. "If my brother catches you in here, he'll kill you."

"Oh?" Zuko heard his doppelganger chuckle. "Don't worry, love, I can keep a secret." They stopped talking for a long, uncomfortable stretch. Zuko tried to peer through the tarp, but it was too thick. He heard footsteps stumbling across the room.

"No," Katara said sharply. "Not the bed. We're not quite there yet."

"Whatever the lady wishes," the mirror creature purred. There was another stretch of quiet. The footsteps stumbled closer and Zuko heard them bump against the dressing table. Then suddenly the tarp fell away and Zuko saw himself and Katara locked in a passionate embrace for a split second before the mirror creature glanced up and found himself staring into Zuko's scowling face. He only had moments to act. Zuko felt the moment he connected with the spirit, and he reached through the mirror- now as liquid as when he was pulled through- and grabbed the creature's throat with both hands. Then the yanked him forward and pulled him through.

On this side of the mirror, the creature no longer looked like him. It was a small, shadowy figure cowering before Zuko. Remembering Roku's instructions, Zuko didn't hesitate. He called up a ball of fire a hot as he could manage and incinerated the creature. It wasn't dead, Roku had warned him, but it would be a long while before it would be able to pull itself together. That done, Zuko launched himself at the glass, landing in a heap at Katara's feet. She reached down and hauled him to his feet, studying his face carefully.

"It's you, right?" she said.

"It's me," Zuko assured her. Katara still looked dubious.

"What did I offer you in the caverns beneath Ba Sing Se?" she asked. Zuko winced, remembering that day.

"To heal my scar with the spirit water," he replied. Katara melted in relief.

"I mentioned that day to the mirror thing," she said. "And he had no idea what I was talking about. He thought we'd had some kind of tryst. I figured it was as good a reason as any to get him into my room."

"Smart," Zuko mumbled. He looked down at his feet, trying to let go of the sudden pang of anger in his stomach.

"I'm glad you're okay," Katara said, hugging Zuko. He relaxed into her embrace. But gradually, as the fear from his ordeal receded, a new realization dawned on him. Katara hadn't known the mirror creature had taken his place in the library, and she hadn't been opposed to a kiss from him. That thought chased away what lingered of his jealousy, and hope sprang up in it's place. Maybe, he chuckled to himself, the mirror creature had done him a favor after all.

The next day, he would take his friends and destroy his grandfather's spirit portal. Then he would find the pond he'd been looking for and take Katara there. It would be the perfect spot to confess his feelings.

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Prompt Day 3: Cure

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lifewtr · 5 months

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and the difference is this | M+ | 1/7

After a horrible moment that leaves her befuddled, Katara seeks out the most undesirable route to her problem. For Zutara Week 2023 (@zutaraweek), Day 5 + 6: Respite, Forge.

Katara stares at the envelope in her lap. Sighs. The bleak scent of antiseptic clean burns its way up her nose and stings at the back of her eyes, pricking harshly at her tear ducts. 72 hours in this hospital bed, and you’d think she’d be used to the smell of 99.99% nothing by now.

“..checked for underlying abnormalities, of course. There were none,” her doctor, an older woman with a shock of long, white hair, continues explaining details that flow through one ear and out of the other. Katara understands innately, by the tone of the doctor’s voice, that the woman is only trying to do her job in reassuring her that everything is going to be fine; at least, as fine as can be considering the circumstances, but...

‘But,’ Katara thinks as she stares, unseeing, at the corners of the paper, ‘it seems the shock has finally caught up with me.’

Just yesterday—no. Three days ago, Katara had landed in Yu Dao with nary a thought to her wellbeing aside from, maybe, the headache she would surely acquire from the week of back to back meetings that had awaited her. Always the prepared one—always mindful of her blood and the disdain the rest of the world tended to dish at those like her because of it—she had carefully and meticulously planned her trip in order to encounter the least amount of resistance possible. Her cycle was on track. The usual scent and pheromone suppressants necessary to navigate life outside of the South Pole were introduced into her system normally, just two weeks prior. She had even gone out of her way to get well and thoroughly debauched the night before her morning flight—just in case.

Imagine her surprise when, only a few short hours after checking into the lodging at the Embassy and venturing out for something to eat, she’d nearly fainted with the dizzying onset symptoms of pre-heat.

She hadn't been able to get to the nearest emergency clinic fast enough. In hindsight she discerned that returning to the Embassy was the smarter thing to do, but in her bit of panic, in her bit of pre-heat, the only thing that had been on her mind was making it fucking stop.

The emergency clinic staff had gotten one whiff of her—one look at the wad of cash she’d dug out of her purse—and then promptly stuck her in an empty room in an unoccupied wing. Three cups of ice chips and a hefty injection of the fastest-acting heat inhibitor on hand later, Katara remembered who she was, where she was, why, and did not stay for paperwork or questions.

Thank La for money.

Frazzled, upset at her body’s strange bout of betrayal, and undeniably starving after the brief stint of overtime her immune system had just pulled, Katara ordered delivery on her walk back to the Embassy in the hopes that it would arrive before she did. ‘The most random thing just happened,’ she’d texted Suki the details, not one to alarm the entirety of her family if it wasn’t bad-bad, and left a shorter, though similar voicemail for her primary care physician back home. The instant relief of the heat inhibitor and the late-summer air of the evening on her walk back to her lodging had calmed her into concluding that it really was a freak occurrence—it wasn’t her first time in Yu Dao, but she did used to get ill when hopping from country to country as a kid. She’d concluded, with the distant mind of someone used to compartmentalizing their immediate issues in the face of tasks-needing-to-be-completed, that the incident was similar. She took a plane into the city this time around, and maybe she should just stick to boats.

The food she’d ordered had indeed been waiting for her by the time she’d flashed her badge at the guards posted at the Embassy’s western entrance, and then again at the receptionists desk where she gleefully collected it from. ‘See? Everything is fine,’ she’d told herself while swiping the keycard to her suite. She felt good, considering, and then even better once she’d tucked into her steaming plate of korma-smothered komodo chicken. She reviewed a few notes on her tablet while she sipped away at her rose-milk, as she definitely would be at that meeting first thing in the morning, and did not resist when fatigue finally poked at her.

‘Fine,’ she remembers thinking after she had finally showered; after she had taken an actual, no-nonsense moment to observe her physical state with the glow of her own hands. Clean, lotioned, and not at all freaking out anymore, Katara had set out her clothes and gone to bed.

Three hours later she woke up shaking. Burning. Covered in icy sweat and so nauseous that her vision dotted black in her efforts to roll over and flick the bedside lamp on.

“Oh,” she remembers gasping out, guttural and disgustingly sick with the scent of her own over-ripeness; with the aching, pulsating flare of painful need that had suddenly wracked through her womb, “what the fuck.”

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gemgirl28 · 10 months

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How do you make friends in zutara fandom? It’s been really hard for me because I seem to find myself in bigger discords where it feels like everyone is in a clique and it’s hard to connect, and they talk so badly about people they don’t like to the point I’m afraid to say anything because I don’t want them to do that to me too. I don’t know if it’s gotten worse lately or if I’m just looking in the wrong place

Hello anon! First off I'm sorry you've struggled to connect with other people in the fandom. It definitely can be difficult when we are all interacting with each other online, but I hope you do make some genuine connections 🫂

I will say, making fandom friends in 2023 feels VERY different from 2020/2021 when I first got into fandom, and that is very much due to shutdown vs things opening back up. When I started engaging with the zutara fandom in August/September 2020 I was working full time from home doing a job that was often dead (read: I was online during working hours) and a part time job on the weekends that was soooo slow it allowed the brainrot to really sink in as I daydreamed about zk while working. Now I work in office a minimum of 3 days a week and while we are in our slower season, we still have a ton of work to do to prep for our busy season.

And that's just me! I know people who are engaging in other fandoms, have also had work ramp back up, have had family stuff that pulls them offline, etc. It's a different space than it was when I was first making connections with people (and I would be curious to see if anyone who was already online pre-Covid has written a dissertation about the waves of online engagement due to shutdown).

Also, I do struggle to make connections in larger servers, mostly because I get overwhelmed at the nonstop activity and end up muting them. I do think they are great places to keep up with fandom activity, like events, fanart, fanfics, etc, but for initially making friends I find it tough.

So all that to say, here is my personal method for making fandom friends (results may vary):

Engage with the same person over and over. Like their posts, comment on them, reblog with commentary/additional tags, just over and over engage with them.

They slowly start to engage back (liking your posts, responding to comments, reblogging your reblogs, etc.).

Slide into their dms and ask them how they are doing, then tell them what about them made you slide into their dms (I legit messaged someone that their vibes seemed nice and it worked).

Talk about fandom stuff but also about your interests outside of fandom (IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: DON'T SHARE IDENTIFYING INFO. I'm talking about things like fave foods and music, not where you live or your mother's maiden name).

Be friends forever.

Now that I'm reading that back it sort of reads like instructions for getting to know someone on a dating app. But also, if you aren't trying to fall a little in love with all your mutuals, what's the point?

tl;dr: It can be tricky making friends now that real life has ramped back up, but if you give it a little time and effort, you can make some great connections in fandom.

#i hope this helps anon #and in case I haven't made it clear #I am always down to scream about zutara #it might just take me longer to respond these days #anon asks #my asks

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stardust948 · 4 months

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2024 Writing Goals

Finish Dead Hearts. That is my top goal for this year. I'm more than halfway done with it.

Start on Kinsguie part 3. Been sitting on Chapter 1 forever. I really want to get that up.

Work on:

Head Above Water

Brave is the heart that loves

Zero Eclipse

Scars can heal and reveal where you are (Fire)

Finish:

Druk the Matchmaker

The Backrooms

Enemy Fire

New work:

Urzai adopts the Gaang AU. (title pending)

Zutara Neverland AU that I promised a while back and got stuck on Chapter 1 😅

Steambaby meets Ozai one-shot

Storm summoning Zutara au that I didn't finish in time for ZK Week 2023

Maybe / Not top priority:

Avatar Ozai

Zutara Wonderland AU

Zutara Tarzan AU

Expand on People like us and Inside we are beautiful creatures

I'll also like to title each chapter mainly because it's easier to find a certain scene instead of memorizing number order.

#writing #writing goals #fanfics #star's writing #atla #atla fics #zutara #zutara fics #urzai

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ailtrahq · 7 months

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Polygon co-founder submitted a proposal to the ApeCoin DAO governance forum for the creation of its own zero-knowledge Layer-2 blockchain. APE has seen a significant decline in demand since the month began. In a new proposal dated 10 October, Polygon’s co-founder Sandeep Nailwal suggested that ApeCoin DAO develop its own zero-knowledge Layer-2 (zk-L2) blockchain using the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK). Read ApeCoin’s [APE] Price Prediction 2023-2024 The proposal comes nearly 18 months after Yuga Labs, the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, tweeted that ApeCoin “will need to migrate to its own chain in order to properly scale” following its “Otherside” NFT minting event in April 2022, which resulted in the highest gas fees in the history of the Ethereum [ETH] network. We're sorry for turning off the lights on Ethereum for a while. It seems abundantly clear that ApeCoin will need to migrate to its own chain in order to properly scale. We'd like to encourage the DAO to start thinking in this direction. — Yuga Labs (@yugalabs) May 1, 2022 The ApeCoin DAO voted in a later proposal to keep ApeCoin within the Ethereum ecosystem. However, the question of an ApeCoin-specific chain remains open. In his proposal, the co-founder argued in favor of Polygon’s CDK for the proposed zk-L2 network by highlighting its security, low fees, shared liquidity, customizability, and interoperability, making it suitable for achieving ApeCoin DAO’s goals. According to Nailwal: “ApeChain will provide the ApeCoin DAO with an efficient, secure, and decentralized execution environment upon which ApeCoin DAO projects can be built to help realize this mission.” APE holders have it rough At press time, the project’s native token APE traded at $1.04. In the last month, its price has declined by 10%, according to data from CoinMarketCap. The month so far has been marked by a drop in demand for the metaverse-based token. On 2 October, the token attained a price peak of $1.29 and has since declined by 19%. Source: CoinMarketCap An assessment of the movements of key momentum indicators on a daily chart lent credence to the above position. After the bears initiated a downtrend on 3 October, the token’s Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Money Flow Index (MFI), initially positioned above their respective center lines, began trending downwards. As of this writing, the token’s MFI approached the oversold zones at 28.34, while its RSI was spotted at 35.37. This suggested that token sell-offs have significantly exceeded accumulation in the last two weeks. Moreover, APE’s Parabolic Stop and Reverse (SAR) indicator – which identifies potential reversal points in an asset’s price direction- confirmed the market’s downtrend. How much are 1,10,100 APEs worth today? When the dots that make up the indicator are positioned above the price, it indicates a downtrend. Also, when these dots are closely packed together, it suggests that the trend is strong. All of these were true in APE’s case at the time of writing. Lastly, its Aroon Down Line (blue) at 78.57% indicated that the downtrend was strong, and APE’s most recent price low was reached relatively recently. Source: APE/USDT on TradingView

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jonathankatwhatever · 8 months

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Trying to let out a lot really fast on 4 Sept 2023. It’s like a torrent of understanding. I’ll start with the physical: I am stretching out the long-stuck and damaged places in my left arm, and made another shift to turn to give the left side full independence. This included looking at my hand and thinking that’s his hand, and I could watch him do stuff. This doesn’t read like much, but it was vivid to experience. I don’t want to reach for ideas; I hope they come out naturally. Right now, though, I’m having trouble controlling my left hand because it’s been worked out so much. I’m hoping it settles down. It’s so full of life.

I had nearly an entire description of how this all maps play out in my head, so I know it’s just below the typing or handwriting level.

One cool thing was the recurrence of an old idea: that bare-knuckled fighting means you extend that thumb under the fingers, really stretch it into place, so then a small wrap around turns your hand into a hard, solid object. I also was able to twist and turn myself into positions that allowed my arm to snap out so the heel of palm struck. Again, transmitting maximum force with minimal damage to self. That was cool to play with.

I keep glimpsing some of the ideas which flowed through me earlier. One was not why I couldn’t trust you, because argument to me is to discover the sources of anger, the reasons why that anger comes out, etc., and that instantly said it’s simplest to run parity checks, which means CM36 because the orthogonal grid squares space has a side of SBE2. And that, I now see, means a 36Square, which is a whole lot better than merely having the projection of 36gs. I don’t mean to put down 36gs, but now that structure, that count, can actually associate and otherwise thread to 36 and other counts because the orthogonal structure is the same form of nSquare as any other count. This count happens to be integer.

Is that correct? Can I say this is true? I mean Alternation generates irrational sides like root5. This is the 1Space count, the count of gs along the sK, if we count step by step out the zK. That’s the same path generated in Alternation, except this is where the Alternation is ideal, when it counts exactly the number of grid squares between. Okay.

So we run parity checks and that generates a CM36, which means it Attaches to a CM28 to make a CM64 Thing. Let’s take this as the negative, as in, the parity check looks for errors, ranking them from fatal back or down. Isn’t that another version of P≠NP in which the ideal parity check becomes the solution? And we can’t know it because of what comes next, which leads to that all this potential is ‘laid out’ on the inside edge of the Dimensional Enclosure, which now doesn’t sound like bull at all, given that D-structure says we exist in a DE and that DE translates higher dimensions, higher D-structure, in the I//I process so the D4-3//D3-4 process operates.

That seems to be ancient inspiration for a dome, right? You see it written above you, like the bowl of stars, and that connects the natural to the createable world. Breakable heaven. If people can grasp this, then there’s hope.

So, what’s this CM28? We can see it must be an nSquare, a 28Square because that enables a 64Square. That connects the very old idea that we can draw out a line that’s 64 counts long, that’s 8 counts long, etc. And that finally brings together the old idea that both these work. That appeared a week or two ago, and here it is again: and 8 count not only squares but squares on the line to make an Extent of 64gs. That enables the translations into the different forms. To be blunt, when you realize everything is a construct, then my qualms about whether this can be done are greatly alleviated. I can’t say eliminated, because qualms should be active and ready to go when needed.

That gets to the next idea, which is that all these parity checks which say no, defines the communicative process in Alternation. And it means all these can be preserved or perhaps that they exist as templates in every iteration so the process fits into the larger process which repeats the same process.

This is getting to be too much to get out. It’s pretty advanced for me now.

So, we have all these parity checks, which gives meaning to the concept of the Registry of Actualities, because now we have both. As in, an Actuality may read at one level as true but be false below. The Registry thus keeps track of alterations. How else would condemnation work? As I keep saying, it’s an algorithm.

What kind of CM64 Thing is this? Well, it’s generated as a parity check, so it’s intangible and the relation to the tObject is thus that there’s this nSquare space, which is shared but to varying depths, casually or intimately, and this would be an iThing. Except: what if the CM28 is the embodiment, the representation of IC of L7, meaning again the 7bT count around a Hexagon, or if you lay out the fD to a bT, then you triple count the original bT, once for each side and one for the whole, which fits the Hexagon as well because it picks one or the other in any fD to be the last count, the count to the far edge of the Hexagon, of D6 within D7. Another way of looking at it is that, after this, you need to shift to a heptagon, at least as part of the active operation, meaning D8 is invoked.

That means this would describe an object to its outer edge, in Hex, which is important because that gives full life to D3 (and the D-structure operations to D3). In IC. Which means non-specific other object, or it can be a compressed LC and thus a specified other. So the parity checks connect to the 28 structure to be - oh wow, I forgot that CM36 flips inside CM100 and that means this is the pairing, and that defines parity checks in a few ways. So for example, if you check for errors in a positive or negative image, then you check those in pairs because they need to be constrained in the construction.

That was a lot. I need a break.

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Judging by the explosion of music and movement in me, together with dramatically increased ability to work through pain to greater freedom, I hit it.

I’m seeing much more and how this forms a fundamental dimensional process.

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Ethereum scaling protocols drive zero-knowledge proof use

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. This week, Finance Redefined looks at the growing popularity of zero-knowledge proof-based scalable solutions. Zero-knowledge rollups (ZK-rollups) technology has gained a lot of traction over the past year thanks to its increased use in the Ethereum ecosystem. Bug bounties are seen as a great reward system for white hat hackers to weed out bugs in the DeFi ecosystem, which often fall prey to exploits. However, recent analysis suggests these programs have mixed results. After a series of exploits on the Multichain protocol over the past couple of weeks, the founder of Connext proposed a “Sovereign Bridged Token” standard to prevent future issues and exploits. Algorand’s decentralized lending protocol is set to wind down by year-end as developers claimed building a borrowing and lending protocol is “no longer a viable path” for the protocol. The top 100 DeFi tokens had another mixed week in terms of price action, followed by a late surge on July 13, aided by the partial verdict for Ripple in its fight against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), leading to an 84% surge in the XRP (XRP) price. Ethereum scaling protocols drive zero-knowledge proof use in 2023 Ethereum scaling protocols dominate the use of ZK-rollups, with major launches, new research and healthy competition among the key highlights in a sector report published by ZKValidator. The node infrastructure operator’s “State of ZK Q2” report reflects on significant events across the ZK ecosystem, with notable launches of ZK-powered layer 2’s highlighting the use of the technology for scaling in comparison with other market segments. Continue reading Algorand decentralized lending protocol Algofi to shut down by end of 2023 Algofi, the borrowing and lending protocol built on the decentralized finance blockchain Algorand, will soon shut down. According to a July 11 announcement, developers’ “belief in the strength of Algorand’s technology and novel consensus algorithm has not wavered,” however, the Algofi platform will wind down soon. Continue reading Bug bounties can help secure blockchain networks, but have mixed results Bug bounties are programs organizations offer to incentivize security researchers or ethical or white hat hackers to find and report vulnerabilities in their software, websites or systems. Bug bounties aim to improve overall security by identifying and fixing potential weaknesses before malicious actors can exploit them. Organizations that implement bug bounty programs typically establish guidelines and rules outlining the scope of the program, eligible targets and the types of vulnerabilities they are interested in. Depending on the severity and impact of the discovered vulnerability, they may also define the rewards offered for valid bug submissions, ranging from small amounts of money to significant cash prizes. Continue reading Arbitrum-based Rodeo Finance exploited for the second time, $1.5 million stolen Arbitrum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Rodeo Finance was exploited for $1.53 million on July 11. The DeFi protocol was exploited using a code vulnerability in its Oracle, leading to a loss of over 810 Ether (ETH). Rodeo Finance was earlier exploited on July 5 for around $89,000 due to a vulnerability in its mintProtocolReserves function. According to data shared by blockchain analytic firm PeckShield, the exploiter later bridged the stolen funds from Arbitrum to Ethereum and swapped 285 ETH for unshETH. The exploiter then deposited the ETH on Eth2 staking. Finally, the exploiter routed the stolen ETH using the popular mixer service Tornado Cash, which exploiters often use as an exit route to obscure the transaction’s footprint. Continue reading Connext founder proposes ‘Sovereign Bridged Token’ standard after Multichain incident A July 7 Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) seeks to standardize how tokens are bridged between networks. The “Sovereign Bridged Token” standard, or EIP-7281, allows token issuers to create canonical bridges across multiple networks. The proposal was co-authored by Arjun Bhuptani, founder of the Connext bridging protocol. In a July 7 social media post, Bhuptani claimed the protocol would help prevent issues like the July 6 Multichain incident, which some experts have described as a hack. Continue reading DeFi market overview DeFi’s total market value saw a bullish surge after three bearish weeks. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that DeFi’s top 100 tokens by market capitalization had a bullish week, with most tokens trading in the green. The total value locked in DeFi protocols remained below $50 billion. Thanks for reading our summary of this week’s most impactful DeFi developments. Join us next Friday for more stories, insights and education regarding this dynamically advancing space. Collect this article as an NFT to preserve this moment in history and show your support for independent journalism in the crypto space. Source link Read the full article

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Blockpass heralds Consensus 2023 with the most affordable, built-for-crypto ZK KYC

Blockpass is excited to reveal that it is sponsoring and attending the Consensus event in Austin, Texas this week, from the 26th to the 28th of April. One of Blockpass’ founders, Hans Lombardo, will be available to meet prospective customers and investors as well as press representatives at the event. In addition, Blockpass is offering a temporary discount on its services, with its subscription…

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Zutara Week 2023

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“Craving” (2023)

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 (23:32) JEFELEN ALMOST missed making this announcement, owing to personal life struggles...

It was my pleasure to have served as Executive Producer on Jason Horton's horror/thriller feature, "Craving" (in conjunction with 50 Caliber Productions™, and in association with World One TV™ and Sky Island Storytelling™), which sees release as of today!

http://www.cravingmovie.com

After a drug deal goes south, four desperate heroin addicts barricade themselves in a country bar as a sinister group of masked individuals gather outside. Besieged, and with the manifest effects of withdrawal beginning to set in, further embroiling their impromptu hostage situation, a dark secret one of them is harbouring threatens to surface, raising with it the very real potential to destroy them all! Now they must all work together in order to escape, or else face the monster within...

Featuring disturbing practical prosthetic effects by BRAVO F.X.™. Distribution is being handled by Indie Rights Movies™. Available now to rent or buy through the following electronic vendors:

Prime Video™: http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8XQHPFK

Google Play™: http://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Craving?gl=US...

YouTube™: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK-WDKamSYY

To coincide with the general release of the movie, a red carpet world première shall also be staged on this occasion, courtesy of Laemmle Theatres, to take place at NoHo 7 (located at 5240 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, California) as part of their 'One Fright Only' programme (sponsored by FirstGlance Film Fests).

http://www.laemmle.com/film/craving

Doors are scheduled to open at 7:30pm PST, on Wednesday, March 8th. It's late notice, I confess, but tickets do remain available, albeit in limited supply: http://41820.formovietickets.com:2235/T.ASP?WCI=bt...

In addition to the debut screening, a live Q&A session shall follow, hosted by Gigi Gustin, and featuring writer/director J. Horton, producers Ashley & Kevin, along with effects artist Robert Bravo. If you're able to make it (at such short notice), then you won't want to miss this...

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#JasonHorton #Craving #ItWillTakeHold #SolidBeast #ThereAreMonstersInAllOfUs #IndieRightsMovies #WorldPremière #AvailableNOW

BREAK!!**

Thursday, March 16th, 2023 (13:31) I'd have shared these sooner, being that it's been a full week already, but reportedly The Academy™ staging it's award ceremony within days of the "Craving" première has lead to delays in what Getty Images™ has been able to process. Be that as it may, here's a (somewhat belated) glimpse into the red carpet comings and goings of that evening:

http://www.gettyimages.com.au/search/2/image...

At the time of writing, there's but a mere nineteen images on display, despite it having been a sold out capacity crowd on the night... however this number will likely increase over time, I suspect.

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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 (23:32) Generally speaking, I don't make a habit of sharing material of this specific nature, as this isn't content I typically go in for, personally, but I do feel that "Craving" ought to be receiving more attention than I've been able to muster thus far, so here's a new review trailer, featuring pull quotes provided by the likes of The Independent Critic, Film Threat, PopHorror, Voices from the Balcony, Influx Magazine (& Entertainment News), along with those of IndyRed, for your considered attention:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/-4ApMnk6tOw?vq=hd720&rel=0...

Seeing what the critics have had to say in response to this J. Horton release, maybe take a look and judge for yourself.

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Sunday, September 24th, 2023 (13:31) So, an intriguing (if not amusingly non sequitur) promotional campaign has been run over the past couple of months (that I'm only just now becoming privy to, for one reason or another), which I shall accordingly mirror serially in the comments below over the next week or so, in the interest of attracting "Craving" a little further attention here -- news to follow...

Sunday, October 1st, 2023 (23:32) The question needs to be asked: in the modern climate of agenda-driven editorials and politically-motivated misinformation, have YOU found yourself craving news with a little more... bite? Well then, look no further -- #CravingNews is now a thing (apparently!), and it's delivering all the hard-hitting facts you've been hungering for:

Sunday, October 8th, 2023 (13:31) With abominable headlines like this, one naturally feels compelled to ask: is it his FOOT that this philandering cryptid should be named after...? #CravingNews

Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 (13:31) Batboy couldn't possibly be wrong! #CravingNews

Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 (13:31) I've heard tell that one has to have their wits about them when frequenting a Cracker Barrel™, m'yes... #CravingNews

Monday, October 30th, 2023 (23:32) An honest peak behind the curtain: I unwittingly attached the wrong image to that previous entry for a while there, prematurely showcasing this article -- fixed now. I then went and FORGOT to update yesterday as planned -- so that which was initially presented seven days early is now being published a day late! Be that as it may, while I might have missed my deadline here, you sure wouldn't want to miss out on those highly sought-after Taylor Swift concert tickets... #CravingNews

Sunday, November 5th, 2023 (23:32) And to think, certain exponents are still harping on about the E-MAILS of Hillary Clinton...! #CravingNews

Sunday, November 12th, 2023 (13:31) Okay, so the previous edition of #CravingNews may have admittedly contained minor spelling errors... but now, thanks to the futuristic wonders of modern technology, such egregious misprints are most assuredly a thing of the past (plus, the truth about Mike Pence revealed...).

Sunday, November 19th, 2023 (23:32) Forget what you may or may not have read about Shrimp Basket™ and/or Airbnb™, #CravingNews has the real scoop, and it ought to be music to everyone's ears -- "Craving" is making noise on a certain FOX™-owned over-the-top content platform...!

#TrustUs #WeDoOurOwnResearch #SeeBelow

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 (23:32) It may have become apparent through several of those satirical #CravingNews headlines that "Craving" is actually now available (for FREE!) on the Tubi™ ad-supported streaming service -- you can actively see for yourself right here:

http://www.tubitv.com/movies/100001990

Being that it's now October 31st, and therefore Halloween (wOoOoOoOoOh!), why not cap off the #Spooktober season by giving this a look? Of course, in the event that you enjoy the presentation, please do consider paying to rent or purchase the movie through one of the aforementioned outlets, so as to help ensure the production of future projects of this ilk. #SupportIndependentCinema

Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 (13:31) Some of you who have been paying attention over the past nine months will have noticed that the video thumbnail featured at the outset of this running presentation has since changed -- this has been updated to better market the physical distribution of "Craving", which is now commercially available on DVD and blu-ray through the following merchant outlets: Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4C2QMN http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ4GC4WL Walmart™: http://www.walmart.com/ip/5054134896 http://www.walmart.com/ip/5096250790 Best Buy™: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/36099389.p?skuId=360... http://www.bestbuy.com/site/36099316.p?skuId=360... Merchbar™: http://www.merchbar.com/rock.../craving-rock/cravin... http://www.merchbar.com/rock.../craving-rock/cravin... So if you've streamed the movie to your satisfaction, now's your opportunity to own a copy of your own for prosperity, which can only been seen as something to smile about!

Thursday, March 14th, 2024 (23:32) 2024 UPDATE: I've been meaning to share this for some time, in all honesty, because I'm genuinely impressed with the outcome... and I think you will be too! While "Craving" primarily employs traditional practical effects to achieve the disturbingly tangible sensibilities of its visuals, digital effects were still used sparingly in order to enhance what was captured in-camera, most notably during the flashback sequences. For these, in particular, emerging software applications were utelised in order to de-age our actors, as showcased here by the industrious Brook Hubbs:

http://www.facebook.com/214902598/videos/1330317184494496

It's no secret that I'm not a fan of the technology -- AT ALL -- but even so, when it's applied appropriately, the results really can speak volumes for themselves. Given the modest budget we had to work with for this movie, the augmented footage is remarkably convincing, I feel, and truly enhances the overall presentation, selling those sequences in ways that probably wouldn't have worked otherwise. I'm not ashamed to say that there's a degree of bona fide pride that comes with putting out vision of this respectable quality.

#2023

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The meaning of BITCOINZ

The BITCOINZ is a cryptocurrency

BITCOINZ is a cryptocurrency from BitcoinZ Pro Info with immutable maximum supply & defined number of new coins entering the market, with halvings on its mining rewards every 4 years. It is the oldest and maybe the only “BITCOIN” named project that can still be mined with a normal PC and it is not a Bitcoin blockchain fork, as it had its own genesis block! BITCOINZ was launched with the legendary “BITCOIN” name because it added optional privacy with its “Z” addresses, fixed the high Bitcoin fees reducing them almost to zero, offered scalability, protected the PC miners from the ASIC elites with its Z-hash algorithm and at the same time it truly honored Bitcoin’s vision with: Fair launch with no premine or ICO sales Proof of Work model (it can be mined) No company structure as it is 100% Community Driven, with no central authority ever issuing & distributing coins.

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