Mirror Reflecting Water

Angels fall from grace, demons rise from sin, all are equal on the dais of reincarnation. Tracking: mirrorreflectingwater

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted.

World’s turning to shit here, which is ironic because it seems we hit the evolution jackpot. People have all sorts of powers and abilities coming out of the woodwork, and society is having trouble keeping up with it all. Government’s talking about chipping / collaring everyone who has a special ability, which has gotten people who have said abilities extremely incensed.

I doubt the bill will be passed, but the fact it was created is extremely telling about the state of law and order. Three days ago, I’ve had to “persuade” several people very strongly to leave my halfway house alone. Who knows maybe they’ll rethink their life choices or hand themselves in? In any case, world’s turning to shit, and my daughter and I and the growing number of kids using this place are in the middle of it. 

I think I need to do a renovation of the place. This place barely fits a family of four, much less ten people. School’s been closed for the month now since things changed, and ironically, Lev’s pretty disappointed about not going to school. What sort of daughter did I raise? 8\. I’m pretty sure that’s not my influence. 

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Whoever’s still following me probably heard what’s been going on the news or living under a rock or willingly sticking their heads in a hole. 

The world’s changed. People have been popping up from the woodwork with supernatural powers which include basic things like increased strength to manipulating the elements. These People call themselves Awakened, and despite the broadness of the powers they display, they're linked to each other in some mysterious way. I’m not entirely sure how either, but these Awakened recognize each other and even use similar lingo, e.g, “stats”, “quests”,  when conversing.

That being said, supernatural folk have existed before the so-called Advent Day. It just seems that whatever restriction they’ve had on them has been lifted. And yes, not all of them are benevolent, e.g., there’s an incident involving a bunch of cultists sacrificing children to some underworld demon thing in the city I’m in, but that’s to be expected.  

These Awakened are not as common as people think, perhaps 1 in 10000 as a conservative estimate. Frankly, there’s not enough of these people to cause a riot, and whatever riots on the news are often normal people seeing the slippery slope of tagging and recording one group of people and fighting against that. However, something tells me the numbers will change in the future.

If you were to ask me what my final conclusion is....

We’re all in one big game. The questions to ask are who are the players, what are the rules, and who are the pawns. Survival may very well mean knowing the answers to these questions.

- Lenore

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==> Push Notifications ==> National News

Law and order has deteriorated after the government’s declaration that all people possessing supernatural abilities will be required to register and tagged for the public’s safety. This sensible law was created after a series of atrocities occurred throughout the country, many involving the sacrifice of people, including children.

Many supernaturals have appeared at their local city hall and police station, protesting the violation to their freedom. Several of these riots have resulted in injuries and deaths to those keeping the peace and innocent bystanders. Our news station sends our condolences. 

What do you think about the government’s reaction in controlling these dangerous elements in our society? Too far or not gone far enough? 

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This just in. There’s a city on the map that people are unable to name. This phenomenon appears to have occurred before April 1st or what some of the crazier supernaturals are calling “Advent Day.” No one appears to know the name of the city, including those that are living in it, and people trying to remember what their city is called end up in extreme distress.

However, mail and deliveries appear to come through without any problem. Scientists are baffled by this phenomenon. 

Does this mean that there’s a powerful supernatural living in this city all this time, possibly causing all this? 

Stay tuned for new updates as we get them. 

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scolopendragonfish replied to your post: scolopendragonfish replied to your post: ...

Oh geez, I’m sorry to hear that. The not feeling well, I mean. They can be rather sensitive at times, those mortal coils. Anything that’d help it get better?

Clearly a new body. It’s time to play body snatcher. oooOooOooOoOOOoOOo

In all seriousness, it’ll probably pass. Just a pain in the ass. You’d think being asleep for three whole months will make you well-rested but nope. 

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scolopendragonfish replied to your post: So… my kid climbed the roof when I wasn’t looking...

But how does the snowman look?

It’s a snowman with an antennae as a nose. A cute scarf. I’d go back outside to take a picture, but my -everything- is acting up again. And by everything, I meant my shitty excuse of a mortal coil. 

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So... my kid climbed the roof when I wasn't looking and took the antennae off the satellite dish and used it for a snowman's nose.

Now we are without television. rip

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Happy Lunar New Year!

[monokumamemes]

Munday Meme Part 1 Send a Symbol

😀 ; Do you enjoy your interactions and rp community?

😁 ; Have you made any friends since creating your blog? 

😅 ; Have you ever done something embarrassing or made any mistakes that you can’t forget about? 

😉 ; Are there any ships for your muse that you enjoy, or ships that you would like to see happen? 

😳 ; What is something or someone you have always wanted to write with? i.e. a particular plot, a character, etc.

🙄 ; What are your biggest pet peeves when it comes to tumblr? 

😠 ; Is there anything you dislike about your muse? 

☹️ ; Do you have any insecurities about writing and/or interacting with other people?

😮 ; What is your favourite thing about your muse?

😍 ; Is there anyone who inspires you or that you look up to? 

😴 ; What time of day are you more inclined to write? 

😂 ; What are some similarities between you and your muse?

🤔 ; What are some differences between you and your muse?

🐶 ; Do you have any pets?

🐱 ; Are there any pets you wish you could have?

🐼 ; What are some of your favourite hobbies?

🦁 ; What is your current big obsession? 

🌸 ; Have you ever met an rp partner in real life? Would you like to?

📱 ; Are you open for sharing social media with your rp partners? i.e. Skype, Discord, Messenger, etc?

❤️ ; Are you currently single or in a relationship?

👀 ; Askers Choice.

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She’s feeling better now. 

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Tight Space, Solitude

Tight Space: Does your muse ever feel that they’re not living up to their own potential?

All the time, though Rise feels that this is a good thing.

If she were to live up to her full potential, there would probably be a lot of dead people in the future. Her gifts were in chaos and destruction; all she was good for was bringing misery to herself and others. 

Solitude: Name 3 things your muse couldn’t live without. 

Her daughter, Flamma, and the internet. In decreasing order of importance. 

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Disease: What does your muse do on a sick day?

Other than bringing her daughter to and fro school, Risette does nothing when she’s sick. After her coma, even a small cold can lay her out for days on end. So when she’s home alone, she just stays in bed, orders delivery for lunch and dinner, and sleeps the day away. When she goes to pick up her daughter, she’ll down several energy drinks and walk the couple of blocks to pick her up. 

She’ll try to help Lev with anything she’s having trouble with, though most of the time it usually ends up with her passed out on her chair with her daughter wrapping a blanket on her. 

[fulminata2]

When you pick up a sword for the first time you will be slow and awkward. This is frustrating, but refuse the temptation to try and become a “faster” fencer. Chasing after speed is like trying to catch smoke. If you try and pursue speed, all you will accomplish is haste. Haste is the enemy of 1st class fencing.

Speed is a lie the untrained mind tells itself when it sees an action it cannot follow. The truth is a combination of timing, control, and fluidity. Fluid motion, even done slowly, will always arrive before a hasty strike. Control will allow you to move without wasteful motion that will slow you down. Timing will eliminate the need to move fast almost entirely. There is no need to get somewhere fast so long as you get there at the right time.  

[auckie]

Tip for mymutuals who engage in bladed armed combat

[thinkherenow]

There is some generalizable wisdom here.

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sansblog123 started following you

Your name brings me back to the era where the internet was getting started. 

Moniker’s Lenore. Who are you?  

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shit so...

My five-year-old received her first ever detention yesterday after pushing some older boy over for bullying her and her friends. And that punishment was to be fulfilled today on a weekend. 

Thinking it’d just be any other day, I dropped her off like I usually did and came back at noon when her sentence elapsed. 

Problem is when I reached the detention classroom, I see papers and debris flying about like a miniature tornado was contained within. From the window, I see my kid sitting at her desk and staring at something behind her. Two adjacent desks were conspicuously missing. 

I enter inside. And I see what she’s staring at: a crying, scared 7 or 8-year old boy. I find the missing desks as splintered wood and warped metal near the boy’s sides, not anywhere close to the boy. He was physically fine.

My stupidly high perception catches several torn papers flying about, multiple increasingly agitated writings of ‘STOP IT” and “IM TELLING THE TEACHER.”

In that moment, everything falls down as the localized storm stops. My kid turns her head around, hair messy from the wind, and I see her hand pressed against a large bruise over her eye that wasn’t there before. 

I’m not proud of saying this. But in that moment, when I saw her hurt and in tears, I wanted to LOBOTOMIZE THAT LITTLE FUCKER WHO DARED TO HIT MY DAUGHTER. A syllable was nearly out of my mouth before I realized what exactly I was about to do - to a kid barely older than my own. 

I turn my head over to the front of the room and notice the last and most important person in the room snoring away - the supervising teacher - out like a light and smelling suspiciously of strong alcohol. That drunk syphilis-guzzling fucker slept through the entire thing. 

If this empty headed jackass was actually doing his job, none of this shit would’ve happened! 

I give my kid a quick hug before I take a piece of paper lying on the floor and kneel down at the second/third-grader. I write down who I am and how lucky he is to survive a valuable lesson about how bullies sometimes bully the wrong person. I explain that I would like him to not say anything on the matter and then hint about how if my kid could do this, imagine what I am capable of.  

I lead the kids out of the hall and into the front foyer. I tell the boy to stay here and be picked up by his parent and remind him to not say a word before I take my understandably distressed kid out of there.  

I’m not comfortable with leaving behind so many loose ends. If I had to choose between my kid and that brat, I would choose my kid without hesitation. But I don’t want my child to wonder one day about a boy who once bullied her that mysteriously disappeared...

Not sure why I’m posting this. Maybe I just want affirmation that I did the right thing or at least not major wrong ones. Ugggh.

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precognitiveignition‌:

if tumblr creates an ai out of this absolute fucking shitshow it is going to be the most erratic irrational unpredictable and completely useless pile of dogshit ever to plod its way pointlessly through the whole of human fucking existence

hell it might even surpass just being the most ridiculous waste of resources in the whole of human history and become the most painfully pointless presence in any timeline ever

Hey! I resemble that remark. 

Also, when you think about it, a blogging site is meant for people to post their thoughts onto a public venue which really amounts to dumping kilobytes of erratic irrational unpredictable and completely useless piles of dogshit onto a background of more bullshit aka the internet. Staff is really just taking the logical next step to create revenue by creating something to make bullshit without our bullshit.

Shitception. 

[precognitiveignition]

okay so clearly staffs whole plan is to annoy us off of this fucking website so they can just have it be all spambots and watch the robots duke it out for who can sway the most of their kind

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Stop hinting at staff’s secret plan. 

Don’t look at this post folks. No one’s trying to create an ultimate A.I. while not knowing how A.I. work; that’d be silly. I mean the female-presenting nipple bot worked really well, right? Gonna get that learning how to filter the bad porny art from the good artistic art, yup.

Those spambots are all gonna be eradicated and slowly bred to create one smart bot. What do you mean bots don’t breed? Don’t be silly. Why do you think we get more of them? And it will be a great nation of bots too. It totally won’t be Idiocracy. 

Yup. Ignore this here post. 

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Curses: Does your muse believe in good/bad luck? How about karma?

Rise does not believe in luck. To her, what people perceive as luck is one of two things.

The first is an expected aberration of statistics. An example of this is how flipping eight heads in a row is an improbable outcome (chances are 1/256 in a single set of eight coin flips), but in the grand scheme of things, enough coins are being flipped in the world - perhaps millions of times when considering the history of civilization - that the probability of the outcome appearing at least once approaches 100% when you consider all those flips.

The other is a perceptive bias - where one incorrectly assigns the outcome to an unrelated factor. An example of this is picking colored tickets out of a hat and thinking that red is the most lucky because you happened to pick prizes with red before when in reality the assignment is completely random. 

Additionally to Rise, karma is both a social and statistical phenomenon. If you do bad things on a regular basis, you’re more likely to do bad things to someone who has the power to do the same to you. Likewise, if you do good things, you’re more likely to have people want to do kind things for you. Anything outside of society and animals sentient enough to repay kindness isn’t actually karma and just coincidence.