Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Pada dasarnya orang tidak sepenuhnya menolak keberadaan Tuhan, pada umumnya kalangan atheis atau agnostik bingung dengan berbagai konsep Ketuhanan yang begitu banyak di dunia ini. Mereka tidak menemukan Hakikat Tuhan di dalam hidup. Hal sama sebenarnya dirasakan oleh sebagian orang beragama, hanya meyakini Tuhan, hanya itu tanpa bisa mengenal secara utuh. Bedanya, kalangan atheis lebih jujur…

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With election season approaching in the USA, let's revisit some prior calibrations to see if anything has changed...

"we haven't changed the sound effects that we use" and i am actually so happy you didn't

i can't deal with how people react to body hair and fat and scars and asymmetry on women. it is like a toddler tantrum every time someone whines about it like. you are talking about human beings do you know what that they are and what that means

fuCK me accidentally stayed up all night bc i started a new cross stitch at 3 in the morning like an idiot

the needs more spreadsheets print may be.... delayed

to make it up for you have a doodle i made of a fall guy?

i'm gonna set a 2 hour timer for a power nap and drag my zombie ass out for errands and maybe brunch if i wake up in time

would you be able to give examples/explain more about how race only impacts gideon in the tlt-universe? not being facetious or condescending, genuinely asking. thank you!

Hi anon! If you mean my tags to this post, I wrote

#earth conception of race doesn't impact any character in the series except the canonically brown main antagonist

By which I mean my Worstie and main antagonist of the series, John Gaius (PhD).

I don’t think TLT as a series engages with race in any especially meaningful ways. It’s set in a post-Earth society with entirely different social norms, and there’s no concept of race and ethnicity within the population of the Nine Houses. Physical descriptions of the characters are scarce to say the least, and they rarely spell out the kind of features that suggest specific racial connotations, because the POV characters don’t seem to think it’s something worth remarking upon. iirc, it takes until halfway through HtN for the narrative to confirm that Harrow has brown skin.

[See also Tamsyn’s GtN characters description post. It quotes passages from the book, and you can see how minimal the descriptions are, and she repeats several times that her characters’ appearances are up to the readers’ interpretations. It just doesn’t seem to be a big concern of hers]

Then there’s John, who grew up in twenty-first-century New Zealand and IS explicitly Māori in a way that absolutely impacted his character arc. It's not A major theme of his Nona chapters, but it’s there if you read between the lines. The boarding school he went to, which IRL had a high percentage of low-income Māori students on scholarship. The depth of his climate anxiety, his uncompromising “Nobody left behind” stance before the cryo project was halted, and his fervent hatred of ‘the trillionaires’ afterwards... these are all informed to some extent by his background as an indigenous man imo, and so was the global reaction to his developing powers. The “We were going to put you fellas in jail, weren’t we?” the way his initial attempts at publications are all flat-out ignored by the scientific community and dismissed as culty gimmicky faith healing until he leans into it.

John being Māori is just one of the many pieces of his backstory, and far from the most impactful to what eventually went down, but my point remains that he is the ONLY character in TLT whose racial background 1) affects his story arc and 2) is relatable to the audience. Everyone else is ten thousand years removed from Earth, and I’m just not very interested in using racial identifiers when exploring these characters and their dynamics, because the characters themselves don’t care and neither does the narrative.

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THE number one most irritating thing about life is deciding when you're meant to speak or make eye contact and when you're not, and for how long and how many phrases you're meant to say at a time

Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.

ancient egyptian proverb

THEY COULD HAVE FUCKED NASTY IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT SHOP AND IT STILL WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS INTIMATE AND SEXUALLY CHARGED THAN THIS WHOLE ENTIRE SCENE

Here it is... The next installment in this 5 part series with the calibrated level of consciousness for all the states in the USA.

In this article, we now see the first states that calibrate below 200: the level of Truth/Falsehood and Integrity. Which states are they?

Growth is Painful.

Growth is painful but it is so worth it. You are climbing this mountain that is your dreams, and it's painful. It's tiring, you want to give up, you don't know where it ends or starts. But there will be a day when you are at the top. You are no longer climbing. You have achieved your dreams. After that, it is a walk on the park in the morning breeze.

Keep climbing. It gets easier.

anybody else wrecked by the fact that they get to be alive at the same time as dan and phil

haha idk babes 😅 sometimes you babygirl 💞 so close to the sun 🌞 that you accidentally sacrifice 🔪 your literal soulmate 💑 to the devil 👹 but you know life is just like that sometimes 🥰💖💅slime🤪😌🙏

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secret boss thing (aka true final boss of story being among main good cast whole time) and its AB!jinchul

jinwoo literally going his canon path but then supposedly something goes extremely wrong and with resurfacing of so many monarchs and rulers AB in jinchul straight up revolts and goes out of control because apparently strong enough hate and anger can awaken even a godly being after his death circumstances

and then suddenly everyone has much bigger problem to worry about - a really angry and full of hate and anger god who can’t be controlled or negotiated with

one snap of fingers and those he doesn’t like straight up cease to exist, and he absolutely has no remorse over destroying something he once created

jinwoo is spared because he’s ashborn’s vessel and AB has enough warm feelings and respect for his creation to respect his choices and everything would’ve been nice enough if AB wasn’t so angry and determined to straight up erase current timeline and start everything anew

so here we have jinwoo fighting a literal god outside while jinchul has inner fight with AB while what remains of his consciousness and will gets slowly eaten away by AB’s overpowering presence