#wisdom of age

[m-c-easton]

The Courage of Writing Nuance

One of my textbooks this semester is Words Overflown by Stars, a collection of craft essays by Vermont College MFA faculty. This week I contemplated Ellen Lesser’s essay “The Girl I Was, the Woman I Have Become: Fiction’s Reminiscent Narrators.” Specifically, she reflects on “the point in time from which the story gets told” and the purpose of placing a narrator in the present, reflecting on the…

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#Amy Tan #Detransition Baby #Ellen Lesser #hindsight #Kazuo Ishiguro #MasterClass #narrative point of view examples #narrator&039;s point of view #narrator&039;s voice #reminiscent narrative #Shehan Karunatilaka #The Remains of the Day #The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida #Torrey Peters #Vermont College MFA #wisdom of age

[ce-ayr-blog]

Women are Crazy - Unicorn Challenge

Copyright Ayr/Gray The Unicorn Challenge. A magical new weekly writing opportunity from her – Jenne Gray – and me.Visit her blog every Friday to see the photo prompt, and post your amazing story in her comments section.Or on your own blog, and stick the link down in her comments.The rules are:Maximum of 250 words.Based on photo prompt.That’s it.To hear me read my story, just click here: Women…

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#250 words #different #flash fiction #grandson #hunting dragons #short story #sound bite fiction #unicorn challenge #wisdom of age #women are crazy

[kafkasapartment]

"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."

- attributed to Albert Einstein

#quotes #albert einstein #life #wisdom #youth #aging #physics #science #biology

[starry-crossed]

whenever astarion gets a lil too sassy at tav for deciding to help people i like to whip up this recipe i call 20 bulbs of garlic

try not to let THIS be where your nice, simple plan falls apart, bitch! (affectionate)

#astarion #bg3 #bg3 tav #astarion ancunin #bg3 spoilers #the age old ‘always double the garlic in a recipe’ wisdom gone too far

[linderosse]

Wielders of Wisdom: Intro Cards Round 2! ✨

> Sun, Dot, Lullaby

> Tetra, Dawn, Fable (Details)

> Dusk, Flora, Artemis

Masterpost

#lin draws #linked universe #wielders of wisdom #wis tetra #wis dawn #wis fable #loz #zelda #tetra #wisdomverse #wind waker #phantom hourglass #a link to the past #oracle of ages #oracle of seasons #a link between worlds #the legend of zelda #lu wielders of wisdom #lu tetra #lu dawn #lu fable

[jannaphia]

♔ Young Lamb ♔

Prince Orso from Joe Abercrombie's Age of Madness trilogy

#art #artist on tumblr #age of madness #orso #young lamb #joe abercrombie #yea yea I made him too handsome I know! #but after what happened in The Wisdom of Crowds I deserve a treat #no I'm STILL not over it okay

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Quaeris, quid doceam? Etiam seni esse discendum.*

Seneca

You ask, what may I teach? That an old man must learn too.*

Marcel Duchamp plays chess with Eve Babitz, 1963.

#seneca #latin #classical #quote #old age #wisdom #maturity #ageing #growing old #teaching #eve babitz #chess #marcel duchamp #arts #culture #art

[felassan]

this post is under a cut in case anyone would consider it to be DA:D spoilers, as the things it mentions came from the leak a year ago (spoiler warning for link) that included screenshots and a gif of the game. (the things this post mentions are therefore not new information and this does not reference a new leak)

I'm just thinking again about Rook (which seems to be the PC's name or title) and the imagery conjured by the name. ◕‿◕ this post is just speculation and overanalyzing for fun. also this post is a now-finished draft from my draft section from a while back.

I think it would work as a surname (like "Hawke") or a codename (think Leliana's spies and contacts such as "Butler", "Farrier", "Butcher", "Charter", etc although these are all professions that end in "-er" or "or" iirc). it could also be a title (like Warden, Hero, Champion, Inquisitor, Herald) or a nickname - like maybe it's short for "Rookie", it's a Varric-assigned nickname and it references how the DA:D PC is the newest member of the team after he recruits them?

I think it sounds catchy, and cool - it's snappy and short, Hawke-like in this way. and it sounds like the kind of name a spy or secret agent might have in a fantasy, superhero or sci-fi-type setting.

a rook is a black bird, Corvus frugilegus, a member of the corvid family. rooks have been perceived as vermin and nuisances by people in the past, and persecuted due to this. they bear a resemblance to their crow and raven relatives, both birds which have a large cultural footprint and lots of symbolism in areas such as folklore and art. Hawke obviously also had a bird motif going on from their surname and associated art pieces. corvids also bring to mind the Antivan Crows (assassins, thieves, & spies), reminding of the stuff about how in this game the PC may be trying to operate under the radar, and the reporting on a previous iteration of DA:D which had the game concept as being focused on spies and heists. rook plumage is inky black, bringing to mind darkness and shadow.

from the bird angle, a "rook" sounds neat opposite a "wolf" imo. wolves are obviously another animal that have large footprints in culture, myth and folklore. in the natural world there is symbiosis sometimes between wolves and corvids when hunting/feeding. there are lots of photos of wolves and corvids together.

a colony of rooks is called a rookery. of course, the fortress of Skyhold has a rookery. it's from there that Inquisition Spymaster Leliana operates (operated) sending her black birds on missions with letters and messages to her many agents and spies throughout Thedas. what if Rook is one of Leliana's... "rooks"? a spy or agent of the remnants of the Inquisition.

A rook is also defined as "A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays" [noun], "mist, fog" [noun] and "to cheat or swindle" [verb]. it's also a type of trick-taking card game. these sorts of things bring to mind a rogueish, stealthy aspect, and the shady, shadowy dealings and card-game played in Minrathous Shadows.

a rook is also a chess piece. they're castle-like (since "rook" can also mean a castle or fortification) and usually have their top in the shape of a battlement. they can move in any direction along a rank or file on a chessboard on which they stand (horizontal/vertical, not diagonal). they can also do the "castling" move. in history, rooks have also been called towers, castles, rectors and marquesses. in chess, each player starts the game with two rooks at opposite ends of the first rank. chess itself is a game of strategy and tactics. "the chessmaster" as a trope is a character type who manipulates events, tugging on strings and moving 'pieces' into place on a metaphorical chessboard. [Solas' DA:I dialogue about his past, like the one he has with Sera about cells of spies/agents, hark to this]

in the castling move,

"Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has previously moved; the squares between the king and the rook are vacant; and the king does not leave, cross over, or finish on a square attacked by an enemy piece. Castling is the only move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once."

castling rules often cause confusion, even occasionally among high-level players. historically the move has its roots in the "king's leap", of which there were two forms and which arose in part it seems due to increasing importance of king safety as other pieces were given increased powers through time as the game developed. "the king would move once like a knight, or the king would move two squares on its first move. The knight move might be used early in the game to get the king to safety or later in the game to escape a threat." basically it moves the king away to safety and the rook to a more active position. there is also kingside castling and queenside castling. I wonder, symbolically.. is Rook more the king's rook, or the queen's rook? (reminds me of the Left Hand and Right Hands of the Divine hh). who or what is the king in this hypothetical analogy? the World of Thedas itself? as a castle or fortress.. Rook is the bulwark against what's to come? [over-thinking ik ik, tis just for fun hh].

by now we're all familiar with the chess game Solas plays in banter dialogue with Iron Bull during DA:I. in the in-world chess game, rooks are called towers. Solas moves his right-hand tower once. at a later point in the game, Iron Bull's "Arishok" piece takes Solas' left-hand tower, getting a check and leaving him feeling triumphant. Bull asks Solas wth he is doing as Bull takes Solas' remaining tower. "Your last tower, by the way". Bull, a spy and liar himself, bears down on Solas' pieces "with his full army", thinking a win is in sight. Undeterred, Solas executes a few moves in a sneaky plan and entraps Bull in a checkmate, winning the game after sacrificing various pieces to enact his plan.

rook also brings to mind the Tower tarot card and its meanings. it's associated with sudden, disruptive revelation and potentially destructive change. it connotes danger, crisis, sudden change, destruction, higher learning, and liberation, as well as adversity, calamity, deception, ruin and unforeseen catastrophe. reversed, it connotes things such as negligence, carelessness, apathy and vanity (vanity.. pride). in this depiction of the Tower tarot, lightning strikes from the sky, striking a crown (hubris) off the top of a tower and setting it alight as people fall from the tower to their doom. this imagery and the upright meanings of the card bring to mind the sudden massive change Solas seeks to bring about (destroying the Veil), the revelations and liberation for some that it might bring, his identity as Fen'Harel Lord of Tricksters (deception) as well as the destruction he seems to think the Veil destroying action will cause ("as the world burns in the raw chaos"...). the 'Tower scene' has also already played out once before in Thedosian history, when Solas created the Veil and sealed the Evanuris away, leading to the fall of Arlathan and its wonders. in modern Thedas, Morrigan and Flemeth (as well as possibly some side 'prophecy' type things) both allude to a big change coming to the world.

in DA:I, the Tower tarot card is ofc none other than Solas' ending card, if he is not romanced. in the DA:I version of the card, we see Solas, cloaked in a dark robe and holding a mage staff under a half-moon or eclipse. darkness seeps from his shadow, stark against the orange sky, and blends with the giant black Dread Wolf, looming ominously and open-mouthed above him with its many eyes. (the Tower tarot card Solas scene is later referenced in DA:D promotional art and DA:D-era in-world murals). it makes sense to have assigned this to Solas given the above discussed meanings of the Tower tarot card, but it's a verrry inchresting choice imo to then give "Rook" as a name/title for the DA:D PC.

and most inchrestingly, there's the symbol from the front of Mark Darrah's mysterious Red Book. this mysterious red book shows "a flaming rook" on the cover. the book was an internal guide for developer and publisher eyes only that summarized the vision for DA:D, in its Joplin iteration. we know that the Joplin project has since been revised to an extent that it was the newly codenamed Morrison instead, but the red book is known to still contain plenty of ideas likely to appear in DA:D. most pages of the book remain highly classified. it's the symbol on the front that's of most interest to us though for the purposes of this post. there is a castle, tower, or rook, like a fortress or the chess piece. above the tower, a fire burns, reminding us of the burning tower from the Tower tarot card imagery and what that symbolizes, as well as Solas' "world burning in the raw chaos" line from Trespasser. inside the fire is a wolf, the Dread Wolf, in a now very-familiar and repeated motif in DA:D art, merch, murals, teasers etc. whatever else "rook" may connote, it feels like it's not an accident at all that the PC's name is apparently "Rook", given this depiction of a fiery rook and the Dread Wolf together.

what do you think? ^^

#dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age #bioware #video games #dragon age: dreadwolf spoilers #tag since this info came from the leak months ago #long post #longpost #solas #looking thru old meta post drafts hh #what if Solas is like Fenrir and the DA:D PC is Huginn/Muninn to some Odin-like figure.. #thought and memory.. they fly all over the world bringing back tidings of events. bringing Wisdom #like Leliana's birds in DA:I #the interpretations of them as being to do with trance-like journeys is also interesting given the Fade is the dream world and #the sea of dreams.... #interestingly also Dirthamen has his two ravens Fear and Deceit #he found them in the Fade then outmastered them #endless da chatter hhh #mj meta

[pratchettquotes]

Miss Flitworth didn't appear to hear him. She kept turning her hand backward and forward, as if she'd never seen it before.

"I see you made a few changes, Bill Door," she said.

NO. IT IS LIFE THAT MAKES MANY CHANGES.

"I mean that I appear to be younger."

THAT'S WHAT I MEANT ALSO.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

#DEATH #bill door #miss flitworth #reaper man #discworld #terry pratchett #afterlife #life #youth #age #experience #wisdom #time #changes #aging #same thing #life makes many changes

[whatbigotspost]

Heard a gen x aged character in a movie recently have the ole “everything is TRAUMA to young people these days…how they’d get to SOFT” rant. It reminded me how much I’d rather be the elder who says “y’all don’t seem ok, what’s happening and how can I help?” type over the “act exactly how I expect and let the world harden you instead of softening the world” type.

#generational theory is largely bullshit disclaimer #but still #pro aging #so long as that aging involves gaining perspective compassion and wisdom #and not hardening into a shell of a curmudgeon

[madcat-world]

Age of Pantheons: Toth (1 of 4) - Federica Costantini

#Age of Pantheons #Toth #Thoth #Federica Costantini #Egypt #gods #myths #wisdom #flight #stars #knowledge #fantasy art #digital art

[didzblog]

Just Because…..Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if she can cook! 😏

#daily quotes #emotions #life facts #serious thoughts #feelings #psychanalyse #romance #learning #love #intimacy #sentiments #life lessons #psychology #sexuality #ageing #health #wisdom #relationship

[mortuarymorticia]

who tf cares?

no, hear me out — i’m serious. who. tf. cares.

wear pastel pink with ur punk pins & goth boots. eat ice cream for all three meals. kiss girls & boys & anybody u want. fall in love too many times. eat that second bowl of mac & cheese. order a fruity little drink at a bar bc it tastes good. quit ur job. wear a bikini to the beach. get that tattoo. go back to school in ur 30’s. use sidewalk chalk outside ur shitty little apartment. grow basil in ur 3rd story studio window. color in a kid’s coloring book. be the main character.

the only valuable thing i’ve ever learned in life is who tf cares? the only answer is ME.

stop limiting yourself. do the thing. u’ve got this.

#agere #healing generational trauma #healing #healing inner child #inner child #inner child healing #recovery #trauma recovery #conscious living #living intentionally #wisdom #noncom regressor #age regression #generational trauma

[kafkasapartment]

"'Act my age'? What the f*ck is that, 'Act my age'? What do I care how old I am? The Ocean is old as f*ck. It will still drown your ass with vigor."

Anonymous

#quotes #humor #youth #aging #wisdom

[fictionadventurer]

Potential elements of a coming-of-age arc:

Identity: Learning who you are outside of the family structure

Responsibility: Taking care of other people instead of being taken care of; making your own choices and taking the consequences upon yourself

Values: Deciding which values you will live your life by--holding onto the values of childhood or taking up new values--and using these to inform your adult decisions

Wisdom: Overcoming a childish misconception of reality and coming to a more realistic understanding of how the world works, so you can use this new knowledge to inform your decisions

#adventures in writing #thoughts expanded after considering how under my original definition #northanger abbey is definitely henry's coming-of-age story but not necessarily catherine's #because she doesn't take care of anyone #however she does take responsibility for her actions #takes ownership of her childhood values #and grows in wisdom #i'm not sure you need all of these #i think responsibility has to do with love #caring about someone besides yourself #and if that's the case then responsibility is necessary in a heroic coming-of-age arc #which is why a villain is so useful #because you see what it's like when someone doesn't care about others

[demonforthesemen]

Imagine if one of the characters uttered the phrase, "Más sabe el diablo por viejo, que por diablo." I'd be hooting and hollering fr

#hazbin hotel #lucifer hazbin hotel #my posts #the devil has more knowledge because he's old rather than because he’s the devil #basically with age and experience comes wisdom