#make stuff up

[kingusshrimpus]

Drawing my Saw OC for the soul, I love u Myles <3

Considering expanding on his lore…. Potential step-brother to Scott Tibbs??? Hmmm we shall see :)c

I love being cringe and free 🗣️‼️🔥

[hansoulo]

Because I’m dumb of ass I only just realised that Ain’t it a Gentle Sound comes from a Hozier lyric and the knowledge has killed me dead, as if that fic could get any better than it already was 💀 don’t feel you have to answer this, it’s just for my own selfish enjoyment, but do you have ideas about what the readers husband was like or looked like? 💖

i was hoping people would catch the reference!!! reference? idk it’s literally just a lyric lmao but i picked it bc yknow,, hozier. also. death. and tenderness. wow im such a deep author hemingway come get ur hoes 😎

idk why but i kinda have like,, a colonel martinez sort of character in my head whenever i think about her husband?? like the same kind of authority/presence but not,, batshit crazy like carrillo HAHA 

he’s just sort of a chill dude who wanted to settle down, start a family, and do his job and do it well. then he got killed. oopsies!!!!

i’m planning on having reader talk more about him in part 7 so there’ll be more backstory and i also decided on a whim last week that his name was jose fuentes so that’s fun ;-;

[qupritsuvwix]

You Can’t Separate Witchcraft from Activism

To be a witch is to have and to exercise agency on behalf of all.

fascinating

[aetherscribe-blog]

Making Stuff Up - Introducing Tale Foundry

   I like to imagine that on this blog, I offer people help with the difficulties of creative writing in as many forms as I can. This wish of mine to offer such help has often been inspired by many others who do this, and most recently I have come across a YouTube channel that exemplifies this in a creative and all-round entertaining way. This YouTube channel is “Tale Foundry”.

   I have only been a subscriber for close to about a week now and in that time, i have ravenously devoured every single one of their videos. The channel was created by Benjamin Cook and Chloe Mansfield with an intention that only they can put well:

                “A show about made up stuff for people                                  who like to make stuff up.”

   Every month, these guys make a series based upon a certain factor of creative literature, genre or creator. Examples amongst these they have covered so far are Junji Ito, Don Quixote, Irish Mythology and, currently, H.P. Lovecraft. Each series consists of three videos, first being a brief insight to what they’re covering, the second often being a list of examples of that subject. The third and final video of each series is a short story that is written by them personally in emulation of the subject they’ve covered and the techniques borrowed from them, not only providing their watchers with a working example of how that subject works, but also with an essentially free audio book short story to listen to. Every one of them is amazing! (My personal favourite so far is “The Harlequin”, a story based on the interesting subject of American Folk Heroes)

   It was thanks to Tale Foundry that I learnt about Mimetic Circulation, a subject they can explain better than i ever will be able to with any number of words or blog posts, and virtually about numerous writing skills and tips. It’s people like these who have inspired me to try and do my best to hep others as well, and yet  know I may never surpass people like these.

   And so I hoped to try my best to bring these guys to everybody’s attention not only for their benefit, but for yours as well. Check them out, look through their series for something that piques your interest and give it a watch! See how you like it and perhaps you might learn as much from these as I did. If not, then perhaps they will at least introduce you to new artists and writers that you may have never heard of! Enjoy, and another thanks to @talefoundry for guiding me further through my never-ending cycle of learning!

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[mattynmarns]

we will get through this it will get better 🫂🫂🫂 and take your time if you need it!!

luv u sm 🫂💕

[pivot2thrive]

Making Stuff Up

What makes humans different from other animals on this planet is our ability to make stuff up. That seems a basic enough observation.

We conjure up ideas, create visions for what could be, and try to make these ideas realities. Some ideas are more useful than others to be sure and many wither up and die as is evidenced by the myriad brilliant ideas I’ve had that have been forgotten by the next day (hence the valuable habit of writing things down I suppose…that or maybe they weren’t all that brilliant).

I’ve spent the last few days in Paris and in Barcelona and have witnessed many great architectural achievements. The reality is that these towers, monuments, cathedrals and buildings were first conjured up in someone’s mind. Then the vision became relational to persuade others (sometimes more forcefully than we’d find tasteful these days) to gather the resources and talent necessary to build these works. Then they were built with teams of people working to make the idea a reality.

And I get to walk by and enjoy the fruits of someone’s passion that ultimately came to fruition. Well, fruition at least for now, history has not always been kind toward providing a permanence to such things.

There is a passion, a relationality, an execution, and an impermanence that accompanies even the most successful indications of our ability to make stuff up.

Other stuff we’ve made up includes the notion that money has value. Well, it does and it doesn’t, right? It actually only has value if everyone pretty much agrees that it has value. But, when we all agree that it does, it makes transacting to get what we need much less complicated than bartering with everyone. There is utility in the belief that money has value.

And we make up stuff called hypotheses that we think create predictive models for how and why things work, like planetary motion, electron behavior, why things fall, what happens when a sperm meets an egg, etc. The better predictive models become labeled theories when the results are consistent. Of course, models are replaced by other models over time when the newer models prove to her more predictive and are more useful. But this stuff was all made up in our minds based on our observations first.

It seems that much of the power that comes from our ability to make stuff up comes from its utility, whether generating a feeling of awe, making life more efficient, or providing a better prediction tool for living (or a portion of it anyway).

Which brings me to faith…

Sometimes its hard not to think that God may very well be like the concept of money, a useful construct to help individuals and groups internalize the beliefs, thoughts, ideas and wiring (perhaps through a dramatic rewiring of the brain) that set them up for success. God can be the ultimate attachment figure, the loving parent or partner, to help a person internalize her worth and value to be successful in a variable and uncertain world, a bastion of resource to deal with negative emotions that aren’t as useful today as perhaps they were 100,000 years ago.

Unlike money, the notion of God remains valid at an individual level even if the group spurns the notion. Ask any martyr about this one. Yet, like money, it has a relational nature to it (though here it is to God, to others and to self rather than counter parties).

Is there really a God or are we just making stuff up? is really the question. It’s a profound question and one that anyone considering deeply his or her faith must struggle with.

But what if we have framed the question incorrectly. In that same way that the nature vs. nurture question is setup to confuse, most scientists will actually say that the question is flawed as it is both nature and nurture that work together. Nature sets the foundation and nurture provides the experience that creates the observed outcome. The observed outcome is both 100% nature and 100% nurture. Without nature, it would not occur. Without experience it would also not occur as nature would never have been agitated sufficiently to create the outcome. Reframing the question appropriately transcends the difficulty of the question.

Perhaps we should reframe the Is God Real? question to be…what if God is found in our individual and collective ability to make things up? What if what it means to be image bearers of God is exactly our ability to make things up and to do it relationally?

A prominent Catholic speaks of God being the power in the universe that helps me to be my best version of me with implications for you and us as well. To me this means that we keep learning and adapting to the thoughts, feelings, events, relationships, etc. that we have in life toward a target of being our best selves. That means when we find stuff that we’ve made up to be useful, we keep it, when its useless, we cast it out. The same goes for relationships or at least we learn to keep our distance from the one’s that hinder and move closer to those that help us to thrive.

Perhaps God is both 100% real and 100% made up. Real in that God is the foundation that allows us to make things up, even things about Him (or whichever pronoun you’d like to use). It’s what we make up about Him that needs to be useful.

[thebiggamehunter]

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What Is MSU and Is It Something I Do? (VIDEO)

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I was listening to an interview that Marc Miller did for the “Repurpose Your Career” podcast when Marc used the term, “MSU.” Do you MSU?

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the one thing you can be sure of in life is that everything always goes back to larry

and it’s FUNNY because that’s a trademark of a conspiracy