#the third road

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Gotta hand it (no pun intended) to Grendel's Mother.

Really who is doing it like her. Like you go up to this...Thing... that OVER A CENTURY OF SCHOLARSHIP hasn't be able to determine the species of, she's a human/troll/elf/dark elf/ogress/water spirit/mermaid/wolf mermaid/troll(the other kind)/troll-kin(seriously)/Generic Big Scary Monster/demon/ghost/dragon/shapeshifter/berserker/abstract concept, some people think she's the remnants of an ancient Germanic goddess, the only thing the text is clear about is that she's descended from Cain. she's like a hundred years old. you say "who or what the fuck are you" and she says "you can call me Dana, Jenny Greenteeth or SHE-WARRIOR BRIDE OF HELL, I don't know what I am so fuck you. I only care about one person anywhere ever and its the giant kid that I raised. dont ask who his dad is fuck you. he drinks blood he kills people if you fuck with him I'll kill you. if you fuck with me I'll kill you. I live in a giant secret cave full of treasures under a lake, I'm so fucking shiny, get out of my lake fuck you fuck you fuck you" and she's just the hottest MILF you've ever seen

...god I love her so much!!!

[astranemus]

The break between theism and secular rational modernism is a relative not a radical one. Truth replaces God, scientific reason replaces revelation, scientific authorities replace theologians and the nature of heresy charges, but crucial aspects of the fundamental logic do not. The origin goal is still singular and universal; there is still a royal road leading from and to it; and the enemy for both programs remains, strikingly, "superstition". That is, in this context, unlicensed (that is, wild) enchantment. It follows again that, as against enchantment, both religious and secular universalist programs are different versions of the same road, with its two branches. They constitute, in effect, "two vying monisms", and the noisy, tediously predictable "debate" between the so-called "new atheists" and religious fundamentalists is largely a turf war for control over "knowledge, rule, order".

That said, there remains an important difference in principle between theism and secularism. It results from the apophatic nature of God as an ultimately unfathomable spiritual mystery, which denies the final promise of analysis and control that material reality, ultimately limited even if very complex, seems to hold out to science. Theism thus denies what scientism embraces: the prospect of ultimate mastery, and with it complete disenchantment.

Patrick Curry, The Third Road: Faërie in Hypermodernity in The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

me for the past three years, writing my weird enochian fic/all my spn postcanon stuff/my original story/just hc'ing in general: Man, when Good Omens S2 comes out and (REDACTED) finally show up, shit's going to start hitting the fan EVERYWHERE

me when its 3 days before Good Omens S2 and shit starts hitting the fan everywhere:

...uh, hey, random question, but are yall in the Hades Game, Riordanverse, Lore Olympus and Walker Texas Ranger fandoms doing ok? nothing's fucked up there right.

please let nothing be fucked up there.

[allieloveslucien]

Lucien Moments - The Third Road

[saintlucyrepresents]

Adam Birkan สุขุมวิท - The Third Road

Adam Birkan’s newly completed personal project and already sold-out book, สุขุมวิท - The Third Road, is a series of images captured along the road Sukhumvit, a major transit route spanning 14 kilometers within the boundaries of Bangkok. The Third Road serves as a physical but liminal embodiment of the human experience in Thailand, highlighting a conflicting evolution through struggle and prosperity, industry and history, and time and culture. Together, these opposing forces create a living tapestry of a place and its people. 

Explore Adam Birkan’s series The Third Road here.

[the3rdroad]

baby manticore. cub. when The Skrunkly the He

didn’t handle his first molt well and cat-puked all over the couch.... 

why his paws so big tho. spotty babey. little bingus man

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

TTR Amv Idea #1

Having freed herself and her son from their years-long imprisonment since the destruction of the Mere, Briar, now fully feeling the loss of their mother's power, seeks out the ancient rowen-tree dragon, Caorann. She hopes to gain the same draconic protection that the original Grendel held, but Caorann has her own opinions about what Briar and Saeminthe "should" be... and any decent dragon never passes up the opportunity for a campily villainous speech (or song).