#s33

[asiaphotostudio]

Taiwan, 2018 Taipei, Taiwan. 台湾 台北市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

#taiwan #taipei #domino pizza #pizza hut #pizza #police car #street corner #digital camera #dslr #photography #photographers on tumblr #coolpix #s33 #nikon #2018 #台湾 #台北市 #ピザチェーン #ピザ戦争 #パトカー #街角 #都市風景 #デジタルカメラ #オールドデジタルカメラ

[thewertsearch]

AT: i JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, wHY, AT: wE CAN'T DO THIS THE EASY WAY, AG: What good would that do you? AG: Whatever the purpose of this game is, it makes you work hard for it! AG: That way you 8ecome stronger along the way and you are 8etter prepared for whatever's next.

I agree with Vriska, insofar that I do think the game is designed to challenge its Players, through slowly escalating trials. This has been my theory for quite a while, and it’s nice to see the characters are on the same page.

However, I think Vriska has taken this idea, filtered it through her worldview, and come to a very Vriska-like, very incorrect conclusion. She seems to think she needs to help this process along - that she should manually force Tavros to grow stronger, through whatever pain and hardship she can come up with. I’m sure it helps that she wanted to do that to him anyway. 

Absolutely nothing we've seen supports this - indeed, Sgrub is very obviously trying to get the trolls to cooperate, seemingly tricking them into merging their ‘competing’ teams together into one single get-along session. Sgrub’s ‘hardships’ are supposed to come from the game, and the Players are supposed to tackle them together. 

AG: Remem8er when we used to flarp together???????? It was the exact same principle. And that's why you were always outmatched! You were too soft and not well prepared.

Actually, I seem to recall that Tavros never let you win. 

Funny how you seem to ‘forget’ that - particularly when there’s no one around with the guts to correct you.

AG: Nothing comes easy, Tavros. That is why we go through the trials in the 8rooding caverns when we are young. AG: To make sure we are strong when we come out!

Vriska believes that what Alternia put them through was good for them - which is understandable, really. She’s reframed her brutal life as a sick sort of ‘training’, allowing her to pretend that nothing bad ever happened to her. 

It was good. It made her a better, stronger troll.

AG: Do you remem8er the trials, Tavros? AT: nOT VERY WELL, nO, AG: Well, I do, and they were a 8itch. AG: 8ut now that I think a8out it, it would make perfect sense if your trials were really easy 8y some mistake. AG: That is why you are such a soggy phlegm sponge, and why you got picked 8y such a sad, frail little lusus!

And because Tavros didn’t get brutalized, he’s weak. 

Which is a bad thing, of course. His stupid, sweet, caring, frail little lusus did him a disservice, and Vriska isn’t jealous at all. 

AT: mAYBE i SHOULD ASK TINKERBULL ABOUT THIS, AT: hE'S REALLY SMART, nOW THAT HE CAN TALK, AG: No!!!!!!!! AG: You don't need help from your lame 8ull fairy. He is only holding you 8ack.

She’s not j8alous 8t all!!!!!!!!

#2350 #homestuck liveblog #full liveblog #act 5 #s33

[infinitesofnought]

Awareness of seeing is invisible. Awareness of hearing is silent. Awareness of touching is intangible. These three awarenesses are part of one indivisible personal awareness.

Personal awareness exists beyond both entropy and negentropy, it cannot seek itself or avoid itself by trying with direct personal effort.

To succeed in harmonizing mortal personal awareness with eternal transpersonal awareness, remain sensitive to sensitivity and aware of awareness, divesting from seeking or avoiding direct personal effort.

...Here I think that Taoism makes a decision to conflate the absence of subpersonal qualities of personal consciousness with an assumed absence of sensed qualities in sense itself. While I think this is false in an absolute or scientific sense, it is true enough locally that it is quite profound and leads to a useful philosophy for living our personal lives. This is the “Eastern Way” toward the attainment of a fully satisfied selfless self, in diametric opposition to the “Western Way” toward material attainment by a forever unsatisfied self that is selfishly ‘full of itself’.

Going back to the re-interpreted text, I think that the advice given is that to follow the Tao, aka seek ‘flow states’, one should, seemingly paradoxically, neither try nor avoid trying to take personal action. Perhaps it is the opposite of the Western sentiment attributed to Thomas Paine and George Patton “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” The Eastern sentiment could be read as “Do not seek to lead or follow. Get out of the way.” The idea is to use personal motivation to integrate itself with transpersonal sense and motives rather than to assert its personal agenda onto the rest of the (interpersonal, subpersonal, impersonal, transpersonal) universe. ...MSR proposes that while it is true that our personal cocoon of insensitivity causes a disconnection with all other conscious experiences, this disappearance of consciousness is no enigmatic ‘non-existence’ or ‘suchness’ as Taoism suggests. MSR suggests that beyond the sensory cataract of personal experience is not a grand nothingness to which all sense returns, but one lone Holos or totality within which all experience is preserved forever in some sense (similar to the concept of the Akashic Records).

The Totality of experiences are eternally present and experience-able in an Absolute sense, but all component experiences are diffracted through complex nested modulations of relative insensitivity. This diffraction temporarily limits the totality of sense experience to a single timeline of experience that senses itself in terms that echo the very condition of that temporary limitation. Each diffracted partition of the Holos is a temporarily temporalized version of eternal experience into an episodic stream of memory-laden feelings and thoughts. This is the the binding of our subjective qualities of experience, including the sense of being a subject.

...In MSR, I critique physical entities like mass and energy as reductionist quantitative abstractions that accidentally deny the underlying universal fabric of qualitative sense affect and motive effect. Primordial sensory affect and motive effect replace mass and energy as the local modes of participation. The physical universe of anesthetic-mechanical appearances is understood to be a kind of shadow of the Aesthetic Holos that reflects the ability of consciousness to partially divide and alienate itself for purposes of multiplying and enriching itself. The physical world is not an illusion, simulation or maya, it is just that reality in the local sense is an inverted reflection of reality in the absolute sense.

...Everything from social media to the Metaverse to AGI is expanding our connection to disconnection. I think that because of that grounding in disconnection, all of these projects are ultimately doomed to failure in the ways that truly matter to us, despite promising exponential success in the ways that Western-Materialist model and its virally expanding institutions have conditioned us to think that we should want. We dreamed of extraterrestrial conquest, and instead we are conquering ourselves with anti-terrestrial nauseas. We have mistaken the uncanny for the sublime.

...Taking this back to the Tao Te Ching, I propose that Lao Tzu’s error is only an error in the absolute sense, not in a personal sense. While we are alive, the transpersonal conscious experience that envelopes our personal conscious experience is silent, invisible and intangible. We can only get glimpses of it when we’re not looking and our envelope of limited personal awareness is slightly breached such as noticing synchronicity or completely opened up in a life altering event. When those larger breaches occur and the personal intellect is flooded with its version of transpersonal awareness, some contents are necessarily distorted and omitted. Personal awareness correctly identifies its contact with transpersonal awareness as more significant than ordinary experience but without any means to ground it in its ordinary sense-making terms. Hence, to the outside observer, the psychedelic or mystical experience is seen charitably as visionary or uncharitably as psychotic.

To temper that extreme, chaotic end of the spectrum of consciousness, MSR should be seen as only an outer framework of philosophy to point toward the possibility of a new synthesis between the systemizing and empathizing modes of awareness. That possibility would be fulfilled when people free themselves from pathological extremes and find common sense closer to the terrestrial center of our universe and the fully individual and human center of ourselves.

– Craig Weinberg (x)

I agree with most of this post and suggest reading it in its entirety, but I don't think that the concepts of "nothingness" and "suchness" are really where the error is located. I think the error is a disavowal of "everythingness" - but it goes the other way as well. Going beyond either duality or non-duality means recognizing that "nothingness" and "everythingness" are really the same.

What is "suchness"?

Difficult to describe in words - but the "suchness" of, say, a flower means its unknowable essence, which includes the fact that it points to, and implies, everything that exists beyond or outside of it (the Totality). It is merely an expression of everything that came before it, as well as the ultimate principles that determine how things evolve.

(And yet it is what it is as well - this flower, here - nothing other than that.)

"They say each thing conceals some hidden thing. Yes, it is the thing itself, this unhidden thing, That lies concealed within." (Fernando Pessoa)

And yet. All of these principles and how they evolve, all of this totality, is nothing other than what it is. None of it actually "means" anything other than: this is how things are, in this universe. There's no, say, universal signifier that says that this is the way things have to be. It just...happened this way. This implies that the opposite could be true. Every affirmation contains within it its negation, and vice-versa.

(Again, difficult to describe in words, because there's in sense in which it had to be this way, couldn't have been any other way.)

Not only that, but when we refer to Totality we have to take into account how things could evolve in the future. In other words, what we have is not an inert record, but a record that pulses with potentiality.

That potentiality, which exists...before or behind everything, is the sense beyond sense. It is the taught string of the lyre. The Totality is every way the string has moved in the past, and every way it will move in the future. But what of the silence to which the string returns when its vibration dies down?

#taoism #craig weinberg #s33 #multisense realism #the concept is freed at the level of god #each thing diametrically opposed to itself #a poem buried in the silence of things #potentia #entelechy #aleatory

[smallknowingjester]

:33 < this was fur an art trade of sorts Love these 8irds!!!!

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[jadedharleys]

macpaintadventures

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[thenerdyai]

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[z0mb1tch]

some little pokemon pixels :3 i got the pngs from this post by @plushviscera

#1'm n0t d34d 1 0nly dr3ss th4t w4y; graphics #8-b1t h3ll; pixels #r34n1m4t0r s33 u l8r; gifs #rentry #rentry material #rentry graphics #rentry resources #carrd #carrd material #carrd graphics #carrd resources #pixels #pokémon #plushies

[xx-shotgunenema-xx]

troll height headcanons

gamzee - 6'3 eridan - 6'3 kanaya - 6'2 sollux - 5'11 vriska - 5'10 tavros - 5'9 equius - 5'8 aradia - 5'8 nepeta - 5'6 karkat - 5'5 feferi - 5'3 terezi - 5'2

#homestuck #beta trolls #troll headcanons #gamzee makara #eridan ampora #kanaya maryam #sollux captor #vriska serket #tavros nitram #equius zahhak #aradia megido #nepeta leijon #karkat vantas #feferi peixes #terezi pyrope #i can only s33 gamz33 as tall as fuck #h3 might b3 tall34 than 34idan but h3 slouch3s so much that no1 can t3ll #thats just how i s33 it at l3ast #h3 might actually b3 clos34 2 6'5 but h3y who is t4uly to say?

[cyanidecornaceae]

hey youre really cute btw. flushed as shit for you but lmao never saying this shit off anon can you imagine

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[mete0rbyt3]

semi live-blogging my read through of homestuck (im actually watching lets read homestuck my ass does not have the time nor attention span to read it myself)

im currently experiencing the wonders of karrezi. terezkat? i forgot what their ship name is but i like dont s33 it anywhere

like i will actually be thinking about this all day

#neon / tavi thoughts #i also like davekat but i havent gotten that far to s33 actual canon davekat #i really like karkat can you tell #i also love it when terezi calls karkat cute theyre so stupid i love them #honestly i like s33ing any of these guys get along #karezi #i fall in love with ships very easily btw #like show me one or two cute moments of them and BLAMO theyre now my favorite ever

[quadrant-horror-stories]

Kidnapped anon - NO7 BUG ANON - here, ou7 of 7he maze and you'll never guess wha7 happened. I was given "apology cake." I've now had cake for 7he firs7 7ime ever, i7's soooo good. I've forgiven 7he maze inciden7 on grounds of cake. Is 7his normal or am I jus7 falling for a dumb 7rick?

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#submission #8>gnapp3d anon yo>r story is sooooo comp3lling to m3 Io<3 it. #I wo>ld off3r >p my s3r<ic3s 8>t lik3. lawy3r proc33d>r3 'kill 3<3ry m>ti3 yo> s33' and all. Sorry #bugnapped anon #artesk

[thewertsearch]

She really placed the Totem Lathe as far from his hive as possible - in the middle of a meteor storm, to boot. Was she trying to kill him again, or just playing fast and loose with his life? 

If he died, it would sabotage Gamzee’s progress, which would sabotage Terezi’s progress, and so on. Vriska, who discussed the server-client daisy-chain with Karkat, definitely knows this. I really thought she’d care more about winning the session than any petty grudge, but maybe I was giving her too much credit. 

Having narrowly dodged obliteration, you take your place as the PAGE OF BREATH in the LAND OF SAND AND ZEPHYR.

Tavros wanted to fly, and he’s scored the one Aspect that might make that dream a reality. It might also mean he shares personality traits with John, so I’ll keep an eye out for any going forward. 

He’s also a Page. I tried to analyze the class before, but since I didn’t have an in-comic example, I didn’t get very far. It’s a medieval term, and I guess Tavros does fight with a lance, but that’s all I’ve got for now. 

As I mentioned in the analysis linked above, the Page’s role might relate to the other traditionally medieval class, the Knight. The two might function in similar (or complimentary) ways, and we’ll be able to see how they compare when we’ve seen more of our two Knights in action. 

AG: Taaaaaaaavros! AG: Go outside and look at what I 8uilt for you! You are going to FLIP!

Vriska, you motherfucker.

AT: i THINK THIS, iS, AT: pROBABLY MEANT TO ANTAGONIZE ME,

Ya think? 

I’m not surprised he preferred Prospit. If Vriska was my server, I think I’d stay there too. 

AG: Didn't we make a truce, Tavros? That we would try to 8e less 8oring from now on? AG: You don't want to 8reak your truce with me, do you Tavros?

Just trucies being trucies. I’m sure this was made under no duress whatsoever. 

AG: Now hop out of your wheel device and get clim8ing!!!!!!!! AG: Or crawling. Whatever! Stop 8eing so helpless. It's pathetic. [...] AT: [...] i'LL BE SORT OF DEFENSELESS, AT: lYING DOWN ON STAIRS, [...] AG: You did not just use that excuse. We 8oth know you can commune with these things.

Let’s talk about Tavros for a bit. 

The guy is a casual gamer, who defines fun on his own terms. I somehow doubt the trolls’ strategy of ‘political sabotage, vicious interrogations, and cold blooded assassinations’ is going to appeal to him, and he’d probably prefer to sit this one out. 

In an ordinary game, this would be fine - but this is Sgrub. Losing this game won’t just kill your FLARP winning streak, or even break your spine - it’ll kill you, all your friends, and doom your species to extinction. The trolls are fighting - as a team - to survive and thrive in the Medium, and it can be argued that Tavros has a responsibility to help them do so, if he’s able. 

And holy hell, is he able. In this lusus-prototyped Medium, Tavros has been granted extraordinary power. Even if it only works on Imps, I can think of dozens of uses for it - and I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t work on Ogres and beyond. They’re animals, after all - twelve times over. 

Tavros didn’t ask for this, but he is undeniably one of the most important Players in the session right now. His psionics give the trolls an incredibly powerful card to play, and his ability (and willingness) to use this power effectively is going to have a significant effect on the session’s outcome.  

All this to say: Tavros needs Vriska’s attitude. He needs her approach to gaming, her drive, and resourcefulness, in order to take full advantage of his abilities. If she’s able to get over her grudge and train him properly, he could be an amazing asset. 

Right now, she’s choosing to bully him, instead. If she keeps this up, she’ll be shooting the session in the foot by wasting a valuable team member. I’m interested in whether her drive to win will eventually overpower her hatred for Tavros - and I honestly don’t know where I’d put my money. 

AG: Hey! Why don't you psychically command them to carry you up???????? [...] AT: i WOULDN'T REALLY, AT: WANT TO MAKE THEM DO THAT,

He was comfortable controlling the Fiduspawn back at his hive, so I don’t think this is an ethical issue.

No, I think Vriska’s just too pushy. Tavros is (rightly) pissed off that she has the gall to order him around while she’s harassing him. Her suggestion is a good one - I have no doubt that most of them are - but all her ideas are going to be wasted on him, until she starts to interact with him in a more constructive manner. 

Vriska is both the best and worst teacher that Tavros could possibly have. 

#2348 #homestuck liveblog #full liveblog #act 5 #s33

[smallknowingjester]

is tumblr aware youve been watching naruto bcos of etho or

:33 < hi tuna! lets not twll tum8lr a8out that!!!!!!!!^_^

#fanclu8 #i mifht eventually post kakashi art 8eclaws it dou8les as etho #8ut the kakashi thing STAYS on twitter. ok? #twitter s33s me at my worst

[curiositasmundi]

Giradischi Garrad AT6 e Amplificatore Supravox S33.

#Supravox S33

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Disciple: /ᐠ｡ⱉ｡ᐟ\ﾉ < Popurrlar media tends to depict catgirls as having roughly the same purrfrences in prey items as regular housecats, but this reprursents a misunderstanding of how feline prey selection works. Cats don’t hunt mice beclaus they prurfer the flavour; cats are hypurr-optimised predators that will hunt and kill literally anything they can catch. Their purrfrences in terms of prey items are less a matter of taste and more a matter of scale: mew can only venture so high on the food chain when mew weigh ten pounds. Given access to the force multipurrliers of tools and opposable thumbs, a catgirl would abspurrlutely look at a T-rex and s33 tonight’s dinner.

Disciple: (ﾐΦ ﻌ Φﾐ)∫

Meulin:  (^・x・^) < UNFURRTUNATELY TYRANNOSAURUSES WOULD LIKELY BE HIGHLY TOXIC

Disciple: (=ʘᆽʘ=)< Furrtunately, catgirls are also highly toxic.

Nepeta, staring at a T-rex: :33< yeah I could take that

#submission #the disciple #meulin leijon #nepeta leijon #incorrect homestuck quotes #homestuck #this took forever #// #mod terezi #yeah i bet it did op #just fur the record the leijons only do the 3 thing on double-e's #so like see becomes s33 but sea stays sea

[thatoneluckybee]

just saw someone speaking homestuck in the wild, 42 dead 130 injured

#Rambles #n3v3r th0ught 1 w0uld s33 th3 d4y #Is that readable #Idk I've never actually. Interacted with the series (??? Book? Comic? Videos? Idk) but #I saw it and I went to their profile and. Yeah. #No hate to anyone in the fandom lmao yall are having fun but goodness seeing all those numbers broke my brain #I'm so eepy #Ive Been doing animals all day. Youth fair day.... woke up to do animals just got home from doing animals #I love my rabbits but I'm so tired of holding rabbits for today