G1 My Little Pony comic #21 - The Very Special Spectacles

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Some Ego-flavored existential crisis for you on this fine evening, perhaps?

Not too linear of a story, just some ideas that got thrown around

Summary: Ego doesn’t know who tf they are or who they wanna be and sometimes that’s just how life works

Greybeard meditating in the halls of High Hrothgar

"The Greybeards stay away from me, and I stay away from them. Suits me just fine."

--Temba Wide-Arm

Writer’s prompt…a society so advanced that not only do they possess Dyson Spheres, they can contain and store the energy when a star explodes…including any resultant black hole, magnetar, or anything that is left after the nova. AND, they can move it to anywhere they like; using it as an energy source for terra forming, or as a weapon, if need be…

I think it’s fin[a]lly time for me to come clean. . .

I don’t like Izzy Hand.

He’s soooooo mean :(c he yells at Steve and Edgar, which is abuse! He kee[p]s trying to make Lucy do wo[r]k when he’s CLEARLY got a med[i]cal condition ([l]azy-horny disorder which makes you not want to do work and instead have sex), that’s so ableist o[f] him!

And I d[o]n’t think his tiddies are bangin’. In fact I think they’re d[o]wnright pathetic compared to my REA[L] fave, Steve’s, god tier tiddie[s].

And S[T]EVE, man, w[h]at’s not to l[i]ke about Steve? He’[s] so cool! He’s so good at runn[i]ng away from all hi[s] problems! I wish *I* was good at th[a]t! He’s got WHIMSY! What more do you NEED from a pirate captain anyway!?

Also can we [j]ust appreciate Edgar for a second? He’s n[o]t gonna let a silly little thing like years of friendship get in the way of his fun! Izzy Hand was [k]illing his vibe! I’m so glad [E]dgar made him eat that finger, he really deserved it for that!

Matt Freeman (Operation Ivy)

We are 95% certainly getting Bearded Stede and Greybeard (new growth beard to be willingly shaved off this time? Tbd) and I for one am so fucking exciting

I would love to hear about the deities (?) in your spirituality! and a very curious to see if they are similar to mine.

Hello! The deities I mainly feel and work with are an aspect of Freyr (Frej the Tender), an aspect of Odin (Greybeard), and three forces of nature I've dubbed the Matriarch, the Patriarch, and the Crooked Horn.

Frej represents everything that needs to be cared for and tended to, from seed to harvest and the relationship throughout. Some of the places I find him are in ploughed fields, domestic animals, food storage, tame/captive/domestic plants, baby animals, hunts, and intimate acts, including sex. I also see him in boars, which are sort of a symbol of him.

Greybeard is an amalgamation of every old teacher I've had. He is wise, kind, and stern, he demands respect but loves to tease, and more than anything wants us to learn and grow wiser. I haven't worked with him in a long while, but I've started to come back to him in recent months.

My Parriarchs can't be separated from each other. The Matriarch's primary domain is consuming (eating, drinking, taking, giving), while the Patriarch's primary domain is growth. His seed falls to the ground when she rustles a branch, he makes it take root as her waters flow over it, and as she nourishes him, a sprout appears. Though she will devour many of his sprouts, some will persist and grow by his hand, as she digests the many and fills the soil with her nutrients to once more feed him. They're two strings of DNA - without being tightly intertwined, they just break apart.

The Crooked Horn is everything that doesn't go as we planned. They're entropy, I suppose. I see them in lightning strikes and dice rolls and birth defects. I've only very recently understood that the Crooked Horn also represents a detachment from your own stubbornness and preconceived notions - like the ultimate opportunity to learn. I've long felt that the Patriarch was tied to Frej and I'm starting to think the Crooked Horn might be tied to Greybeard.

I also work with several smaller spirits: The Pheasant, the Bison, and Spindekælling (an aspect of the Spider), as well as the Idealist who is a character from modern fiction that I prefer not to name by name here. Pheasant is my primary guide - he tries to teach me to open up and show my true colors, even if it's sometimes to my own detriment. It's very difficult for me to listen to him because I have a lot of self-repression due to trauma, but I still have many years left to learn. Bison teaches me to be present and grounded and to live in the moment. I have a tendency to "live in the future," (i.e., I'm a planner, rather than a doer) so a reminder to just sit down and close my eyes and listen to the birds singing is often needed. Spindekælling creates. She's the aspect of Spider that spins webs and she teaches me patience, focus, and to hone my crafts, rather than jumping from hobby to hobby. It's very difficult for me to listen to her too. The Idealist is who I'm most connected to. His lessons are about hope, understanding, conflict resolution, and looking towards the future.

All this is tied together by Dust. I don't... really believe that these entities I work with are tangible, definable, finite, observable entities. I think they're all aspects of Dust, which is the essence of consciousness. If you've read His Dark Materials you'll understand because I basically believe in those books' idea of Dust. Dust particles can band together to form entities for a time, and you can talk to those entities and sense their presence, and they can affect the world around them. But at the end of the day they're all just dense gatherings of Dust - they're all different aspects of the same particles. Particles that are everywhere around us, in every rock and tree and droplet of water. So all this is basically pantheism with extra steps.

The duality of Dirk; grey of beard, Snorlax of hat 🤣 #gpoy #greybeard #imold https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0QDazOgYM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I made a thing to support the campaign to let Taika use his own facial hair in Season 2

I tried to draw a tough scary Blackbeard Kraken, but he is a soft ball of butter who just wants to be loved and that's just how it is.

I’ve played this game for like 10 years and just discovered that all the graybeards (but Arngeir) can’t speak without using the Thu'um.

I figure I have one more full day of illustration before I can start the coloring phase

Ya: democracy wins in the light; hope the same in the rain No stealing elections around me!! #ivoted #gotv #tuesdayrain #greyday #greybeard (at Pasadena California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkuBVjnPjM9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The making of The Blackbeard

📸:LS