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Kuon (2004) dev. FromSoftware

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my takeaway after finishing SH3

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it's not a line between genius and madness

it’s that you can leverage madness for genius

leverage your own unconscious process for conscious intent

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When swimming through water, the snake leaves traces in the form of wavy circles, which exactly correspond to the dynamics of the shape of prime numbers.

A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive factors other than 1 and itself. Prime numbers are specific numbers.

Don Zagier, a distinguished expert, said: “Looking at these figures, one feels the presence of one of the inexplicable mysteries of creation.

The images you see here are created using circles with diameters of successive primes, superimposed on each other and repeated from a common source. For each natural number "n" we draw a periodic curve from the origin intersecting the "x" axis in "n" and its multiples. Prime numbers are those that are intersected by just two curves: the prime number itself and one.

This is a simple method of constructing prime numbers using geometry.

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The artist is merely the one who goes on learning after growing up. A good learner will finally learn the hardest thing: how to see one’s own world, how to speak one’s own words.

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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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The Red Book: Liber Novus, Carl Jung

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Doctors are like: ughhhhh. You're confusing. Come back if you die

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Sanam Sayehafkan — The Spherical Ruins (from series “Labyrinth”) [oil on canvas, 2021]

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it's important to talk about how pop psychology sucks ass. but that shouldn't distract you from also talking about how Serious, Official, Legitimate Psychology also sucks ass.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

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A Defense of Snow White’s Prince Florian

“He kissed a random corpse in the forest!”

“He’s preying on a child!”

“He stalked her!”

Please, please, you guys, I’m begging you to actually WATCH the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

WATCH.

THE.

MOVIE.

Because the Prince kissing Snow White is, to me, one of the most heartbreaking scenes in Disney history.

And here’s why.

First of all, the Prince is clearly close to Snow White’s age. He is both drawn and voiced as very youthful. He looks and sounds about 16 or 17, at the oldest. He is NOT a “predator”. He’s a boy who loves a girl, like in any good fairy tale.

Secondly, the Prince meets Snow White early in the movie. She’s NOT a complete stranger to him at the end. And their first meeting is significant. The Evil Queen makes a big deal out of Snow White’s looks, being “the fairest of all”, etc. But the Prince is first drawn to Snow White’s VOICE. He’s captivated by her singing and her kindness to the birds. He sees beyond her looks. He sees past the rags she wears and recognizes that this is a good person, a beautiful person on the inside. Then when she’s startled by him, he’s very polite and soft-spoken, apologizing for frightening her. He’s a total gentleman. Then he serenades her, letting her know how much he admires her. (Words that she has NEVER heard from ANYONE else in her life, by the way.) Then he even smiles at and is kissed by a dove that lands on his finger, hinting he has a connection with animals somewhat like hers.

And then there’s a fade to black. So we actually don’t know if she came out again, if they talked for a while. Maybe they didn’t, but maybe they did. The film doesn’t clearly tell us one way or another. But there is a possibility that they did get to know each other a little there. And if they didn’t, something is still beginning between them. They share warm smiles and affectionate looks. They both feel it, and they both hope to pursue it.

Then Snow White finds out her stepmom wants her dead and has to run away. Which means the Prince noticed her absence.

And the narrative text later tells us that he “searched far and wide” for her after she disappeared. (This guy walked so Fiyero could run, let’s be real.) Imagine the person you’ve been thinking about, hoping to get to know, wondering if they may be the one, suddenly vanished without a trace. And she’s the Princess of your neighboring kingdom. And then the Queen of the same kingdom also suddenly disappears. Wouldn’t you be alarmed? There’s a chance the huntsman may have gone to the Prince’s kingdom for help, and warned him of the Queen’s horrible actions. There’s also a chance that the Queen already had a bad reputation in the area, and the disappearances were a confirmation of what was already suspected. So the Prince nobly tries to find out what happened to his newfound love, worried about her safety. Snow White sings about her hope that she will see him again and tells the dwarfs about him … but the full truth of the situation is that he’s been thinking about her too. It’s a mutual young first love, pure and innocent.

Then the Prince FINALLY finds his beloved… in a coffin. After a “far and wide” search, there she is, apparently DEAD! All his hopes and wishes for a possible relationship with her are dashed. A 17-year-old who once dreamed of reuniting with his first love has just found her dead. He knows absolutely nothing about the poisoned apple’s spell or its cure. He doesn’t know a kiss will save her. He thinks she’s gone. Forever. All he knows is that he has found the girl he loves too late, and he couldn’t help her, despite all his searching. So, he kisses her goodbye. He kisses her as an apology, a sign of regret for lost dreams, a chance that he seems to have been denied. A 2-second touch of her lips to show his devotion. Then he bows his head and grieves.

This moment demonstrates than in him, Snow White has found the genuine love she’s been yearning for. While her stepmother tried multiple times to murder her, now she has someone who genuinely values her, so much so that he searched everywhere to find her when she went missing. Who was so heartbroken and crushed at the notion that she was gone forever that he gave her what he thought was a goodbye kiss, his one and only way of showing what she meant to him before he became haunted by the ghost of her memory, of his failure, of his lost chance at love.

This is a deeply and tragically romantic moment that has sadly been widely misunderstood. Do not slander Prince Florian! He doesn’t deserve it!

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❄️🥀👸🏻🍎🥧

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Job market so bad I started following my dreams

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I've spent two weeks making art and getting bossed around by my 5 year old nephew while his parents get set up in their new house, so I used his paints and my neocolor iis to make them a piece for their new home:

my nephew added stamps to the page so i turned them into hot air balloons; the house feels like a castle after their last tiny apartment so i made this a castle; and now they can see the water so i put this castle on the water.

Because he's five, my nephew has since made me redraw this castle like four or five times so he can add: a dungeon; the beast from Beauty and the Beast; gargoyles; more stamps; trees; a path; a trap door, etc.

Draw with kids, they're the best!

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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

- Ursula K. Le Guin "The Dispossessed"