🍒 Codes

[karinagiada]

"If he's a monster, then I'm his creator." - @senlinyuwrites.

Kaine Ferron, I promise to try not to be wholly obsessed with you but I am already completely enthralled. Can you hear all of our hearts pounding in unison as we enter September?

[codes-by-cherry]

"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."

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“You can't play God without being acquainted with the Devil.”

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"I don't think God rested on the seventh day. I think he reveled in his creation knowing that someday it would all be destroyed."

Working on my 'God Ends Here' jcink skin right now. Trying to keep it clean, easy to use, and smooth to navigate. Can’t wait to show the final version!

[codes-by-cherry]

New Jcink skin – early preview.

Not finished yet, just a first look at what’s coming 🔥

[codes-by-cherry]

Attention, attention everyone!

I got a couple of things

I would like to get off of my chest

Haha

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Wip

[the-picture-of-eve]

Dark Academia Word List

Some words I came across while doing research for an essay on jealousy and masculinity in The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare. Definitions taken from Lexico.

Adumbrate: foreshadow OR overshadow OR indicate faintly OR represent in outline

Agalma: (rare) an image, representation, or emblem; specifically the image on a seal

Calumniate: Make false and defamatory statements about

Catachresis: the use of a word in an incorrect way, for example the use of mitigate for militate

Chthonic: relating to or inhabiting the underworld

Contention: heated disagreement OR an assertion, especially one maintained in argument

Contrition: the state of feeling remorseful and penitent OR (in the Roman Catholic Church) the repentance of past sins during or after confession

Cozen: (literary) trick or deceive OR obtain by deception

Demotic: Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial OR Relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing (katharevousa) OR relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c. 650 BC and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period (hieratic) OR ordinary colloquial speech OR demotic Greek OR demotic Egyptian script

Diatribe: A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something

Diffident: modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence

Epideictic: characterised by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill

Ekphrasis/ecphrasis: The use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device

Facetious: treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant

Histrionic: Excessively theatrical or dramatic in character or style OR of or concerning actors or acting OR denoting a personality disorder marked by shallow volatile emotions and attention-seeking behaviour

Iconoclasm: the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices OR the rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical; the doctrine of iconoclasts

Ineffable: too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words OR not to be uttered

Ineluctable: unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

Imprecation: (formal) a spoken curse

Invective: insulting, abusive or highly critical language

Licentious: promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters

Oneiric: (formal) relating to dreams or dreaming

Pallid: (of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health OR lacking vigour or intensity; insipid

Prosopopoeia: a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified OR a figure of speech in which an imagined, absent, or dead person or thing is represented as speaking.

Renege: revoke OR go back on a promise, undertaking or contract

Sibylline: relating to or characteristic of a sybil; prophetic and mysterious

Sparagmos: The dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies.

Thanatology: the scientific study of death and the practices associated with it, including the study of the needs of the terminally ill and their families

Thraldom: the state of being in someone’s power

[cherrystew-art]

#2 try