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4 yrs ago

Current 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

4 yrs ago

I say the words that I wish someone would tell me in vain hope that they might be returned to me.

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4 yrs ago

Existence continues.

4 yrs ago

So much I want to do, so little time...

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4 yrs ago

“I’ve met some pricks in my time. But you, sir...” He said to the offending cactus.

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“NO ADMITTANCE.
NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL.
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE.
GO AWAY.” 
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

NOTICE

Thank you for Noticing This Notice.

Your Noting it has been Noted.

And it has been Reported to the proper Authority.

Hello lurker/ My old friend/ I've come to talk to you again/ Because a shadow softly creeping/ Lurking in the chat while I was sleeping/ And the roleplay that was forming in my brain/ Still remains with the sound of lurking.

In dead roleplays I walked alone/ Narrow pathways of casual zone...

Need mor ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

(Made in collaboration with @hatakekuro)

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

--Douglass Adams

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. 

 At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

 Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.

 And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

 Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth.

 And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.

 The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.

 Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

~~As You Like It, Shakespear											

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

~~ Macbeth, Shakespear											

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” 

“What do you know?”

“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”

“What do you want, then?”

“What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.” 

"Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world’s highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing.

'Can beauty be taken from a man?' the first asked the second.

'It was taken from me,' the second replied. 'For I cannot remember it.' This man was blinded in a childhood accident. 'I pray to the God Beyond each night to restore my sight, so that I can find beauty again.'

'Is beauty something one must see then?' the first asked.

'Of course. That is it’s nature. How can you appreciate a work of art without seeing it?'

'I can hear a work of music,' the first said.

'Very well, you can hear some kinds of beauty - but you cannot know full beauty without sight. You can know only a small portion of beauty.'

'A sculpture,' the first said. 'Can I not feel its curves and slopes, the touch of the chisel that transformed common rock into uncommon wonder?'

'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a sculpture.'

'And what of the beauty of food? Is it not a work of art when a chef crafts a masterpiece to delight the tastes?'

'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a chef’s art.'

'And what of the beauty of a woman,' the first said. 'Can I not know her beauty in the softness of her caress, the kindness of her voice, the keenness of her mind as she reads philosophy to me? Can I not know this beauty? Can I not know most kinds of beauty, even without seeing it?'

'Very well,' said the second. 'But what if your ears were removed, your hearing taken away? Your tongue taken out, your mouth forced shut, your sense of smell destroyed? What if your skin were burned so that you could no longer feel? What if all that remained to you was pain? You could not know beauty then. It can be taken from a man.'"

The messenger stopped, cocking his head to Shallan.
"What?" she asked.

"What think you? Can beauty be taken from a man? If he could not touch, taste, smell, hear, see, what if all he knew was pain? Has that man had beauty taken away from him?"

"I…" What did this have to do with anything? "Does the pain change day by day?"

"Let us say it does," the messenger said.

"Then beauty, to that person, would be the times when the pain lessens. Why are you telling me this story?"

The messenger smiled. "To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. Tell me, what is the most beautiful thing you can imagine?"

...

“In this,” Wit said, “as in all things, our actions give us away. If an artist creates a work of powerful beauty – using new and innovative techniques – she will be lauded as a master, and will launch a new movement in aesthetics. Yet what if another, working independently with that exact level of skill, were to make the same accomplishments the very next month? Would she find similar acclaim? No. She’d be called derivative.

“So it’s not beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not the invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent we think a man can have?” He plucked a final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.”

"A blind man awaited the era of endings," Wit said, "contemplating the beauty of nature."

Silence

"That man is me," Wit noted. "I'm not physically blind, just spiritually. And that other statement was actually very clever, if you think about it."

"What is it to be witty, then?”

“To say clever things.”

“And what is cleverness?”

“I…” Why was he having this conversation? “I guess it’s the ability to say and do the right things at the right time.”

The King’s Wit cocked his head, then smiled.

“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.

“Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled . . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”

Wit shook his head, standing up and dusting off his coat. “Give me an audience who have come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. To them, I will be a god. That is the best truth I know.”

~~ Stromlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson

"You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!"
-Hayao Miyazaki

"In culture an analogous situation leads to the emergence of enclaves shut up in ghettos, where intellectual production likewise stagnates because of inbreeding in the form of incessant repetition of the selfsame creative patterns and techniques. The internal dynamics of the ghetto may appear to be intense, but with the passage of years it becomes evident that this is only a semblance of motion, since it leads nowhere, since it neither feeds into nor is fed by the open domain of culture, since it does not generate new patterns or trends, and since finally it nurses the falsest of notions about itself, for lack of any honest evaluation of its activities from outside."

~Stanislaw Lem, author of Solaris

Some heartfelt music while you lurk

Or U liSTEN TO tem MOOSIC!

I just don't want you to have a Bad Time...

What do I live for?

"I think I've seen this movie before." -@Guess Who

I LOVE TVTROPES!

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In The Sky And The Earth II - A Fairy Tail Adventure Reborn → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

I'm sorry about not posting, I've got a huge and important multipage paper + project to work on, due soon.

No time for RPing >.>

In Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open) → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

<Snipped quote by Crimson Raven>

Now, now, don't lie to the person. There's nothing thoughtful about memes.@Zarkun

Memes?! I wish it was something as sophisticated as memes.

In Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open) → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

@Norschtalen

Heya Norch. Thanks for submitting. We are discussing your CS now. Just letting you know that it has been noticed.

On a similar note, we have a Discord channel, so come join it! Link is in the 0th post of the OOC and you don't have to wait to be accepted to join. Lots of random shit intense and thoughtful discussion happens there. :}

In Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open) → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

So I can start back up on Perry and Elena joining. I've been super busy with work lately. Until we get another person it will remain that way.@PandaBrady

If you think you can keep up with posting and work, you are free to continue anytime.

In Current Mood in One Gif → 7 yrs ago Forum: Off-Topic Discussion

In Samhain Intrigues → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

So real life caught up with me (as it is wont to do) and I have found that I will have little time to RP until Tuesday

Next week

*sigh*

So, I’m not withdrawing interest completely, but I am putting this in a backburner until then. I’m really sorry about this. :/ I truly looked forward to this.

In Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open) → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

@Silver Fox

...You know, Ferrin and Edo!Karn would have a lot to talk about. They need to have an extended and serious conversation, eventually.

In Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

Ferris Solidor

Physical Education, RED Team

(@Krayzikk@HereComesTheSnow@FlitterFaux@Plank Sinatra@Kaithas@Awesomoman64@Tominas@Abillioncats)

Fortunately for all involved, the teacher stepped in to still the chaos. Ferris received his red brace and put it on. He idly considered turning it inward so the color could not be seen easily, but he decided against it, citing that it could cause his teamates as much as the enemy. To the slow speaking, but well meaning faunus,-Blaine, that was his name- Ferris nodded. "I don't think that will be a problem, for all intents and purposes, my metal arm and my leg are part of me, just as much as the ones I was born with." Ferris didn't move back as Blain leaned in a bit too close and spoke too loudly. Instead he smiled confidently at the big guy. "I could do with an irritated red-head. They can be quite feisty in--"

The whistle blew. Woops, game time, Gameface on. Ferris back-peddled into a defensive position, taking the advice given. He was in position just as the ball flew into the air. It was passed down the right side to Triad, who passed it to Selena, who jumped and tossed it to Krysanthe. Amy was the closest, so Ferris hung back to cover anyone who would be close enough for Krysanthe to pass to.

In Samhain Intrigues → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

Working on it, sorry I suddenly had quite a bit of work heaped on my plate. Its frustrating, but it will probably be Saturday before I can finish.

In The Sky And The Earth II - A Fairy Tail Adventure Reborn → 7 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay

I never got the link to it.

Please do.@Sho Minazuki

<Snipped quote by Sho Minazuki>

discord.gg/bZHxMh@Spanner

You got it twice. I Pm'd it ^_^'

[center] [img]https://24.media.tumblr.com/3a8ba414f61e0188376b43f52af1d95c/tumblr_n57ft1EqRI1rayk5go1_500.gif[/img] [/center] [center] [color=silver] [h1] “NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY.” ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless [/h1] [/color] [/center] [center][h1]NOTICE[/h1] [h2]Thank you for Noticing This Notice.[/h2] [h3]Your Noting it has been Noted.[/h3] And it has been Reported to the proper Authority. [/center] Hello lurker/ My old friend/ I've come to talk to you again/ Because a shadow softly creeping/ Lurking in the chat while I was sleeping/ And the roleplay that was forming in my brain/ Still remains with the sound of lurking. In dead roleplays I walked alone/ Narrow pathways of casual zone... Need mor ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ (Made in collaboration with [@hatakekuro]) [hr] It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. --Douglass Adams [hr] [center]All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.[/center] [right][I]~~As You Like It, Shakespear [/I][/right] [center]"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."[/center] [right][i]~~ Macbeth, Shakespear [/i][/right] [hr] “All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.” [hr] “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” [hr] “What do you know?” “Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.” “What do you want, then?” “What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.” [hr] "Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world’s highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing. 'Can beauty be taken from a man?' the first asked the second. 'It was taken from me,' the second replied. 'For I cannot remember it.' This man was blinded in a childhood accident. 'I pray to the God Beyond each night to restore my sight, so that I can find beauty again.' 'Is beauty something one must see then?' the first asked. 'Of course. That is it’s nature. How can you appreciate a work of art without seeing it?' 'I can hear a work of music,' the first said. 'Very well, you can hear some kinds of beauty - but you cannot know full beauty without sight. You can know only a small portion of beauty.' 'A sculpture,' the first said. 'Can I not feel its curves and slopes, the touch of the chisel that transformed common rock into uncommon wonder?' 'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a sculpture.' 'And what of the beauty of food? Is it not a work of art when a chef crafts a masterpiece to delight the tastes?' 'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a chef’s art.' 'And what of the beauty of a woman,' the first said. 'Can I not know her beauty in the softness of her caress, the kindness of her voice, the keenness of her mind as she reads philosophy to me? Can I not know this beauty? Can I not know most kinds of beauty, even without seeing it?' 'Very well,' said the second. 'But what if your ears were removed, your hearing taken away? Your tongue taken out, your mouth forced shut, your sense of smell destroyed? What if your skin were burned so that you could no longer feel? What if all that remained to you was pain? You could not know beauty then. It can be taken from a man.'" The messenger stopped, cocking his head to Shallan. "What?" she asked. "What think you? Can beauty be taken from a man? If he could not touch, taste, smell, hear, see, what if all he knew was pain? Has that man had beauty taken away from him?" "I…" What did this have to do with anything? "Does the pain change day by day?" "Let us say it does," the messenger said. "Then beauty, to that person, would be the times when the pain lessens. Why are you telling me this story?" The messenger smiled. "To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. Tell me, what is the most beautiful thing you can imagine?" ... [hr] “In this,” Wit said, “as in all things, our actions give us away. If an artist creates a work of powerful beauty – using new and innovative techniques – she will be lauded as a master, and will launch a new movement in aesthetics. Yet what if another, working independently with that exact level of skill, were to make the same accomplishments the very next month? Would she find similar acclaim? No. She’d be called derivative. “So it’s not beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not the invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent we think a man can have?” He plucked a final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.” [hr] "A blind man awaited the era of endings," Wit said, "contemplating the beauty of nature." Silence "That man is me," Wit noted. "I'm not physically blind, just spiritually. And that other statement was actually very clever, if you think about it." [hr] "What is it to be witty, then?” “To say clever things.” “And what is cleverness?” “I…” Why was he having this conversation? “I guess it’s the ability to say and do the right things at the right time.” The King’s Wit cocked his head, then smiled. [hr] “Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed. “Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled . . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.” Wit shook his head, standing up and dusting off his coat. “Give me an audience who have come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. To them, I will be a god. That is the best truth I know.” [center]~~ Stromlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson[/center] "You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!" -Hayao Miyazaki "In culture an analogous situation leads to the emergence of enclaves shut up in ghettos, where intellectual production likewise stagnates because of inbreeding in the form of incessant repetition of the selfsame creative patterns and techniques. The internal dynamics of the ghetto may appear to be intense, but with the passage of years it becomes evident that this is only a semblance of motion, since it leads nowhere, since it neither feeds into nor is fed by the open domain of culture, since it does not generate new patterns or trends, and since finally it nurses the falsest of notions about itself, for lack of any honest evaluation of its activities from outside." ~Stanislaw Lem, author of Solaris Some heartfelt music while you lurk [youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZKmmCIqN2Y[/youtube] Or U liSTEN TO tem MOOSIC! [youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-i7Hj1fAYN4[/youtube] I just don't want you to have a Bad Time... [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTrspwpooo[/youtube] What do I live for? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80tq0g4_3dg[/youtube] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOdjqyG37A[/youtube] "I think I've seen this movie before." -[@Guess Who] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgDibw7vB4[/youtube] [hr] [url=http://tvtropes.org/]I LOVE TVTROPES![/url] [img]https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tab_explosion.png[/img]

<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><div class="bb-center"><img src="https://24.media.tumblr.com/3a8ba414f61e0188376b43f52af1d95c/tumblr_n57ft1EqRI1rayk5go1_500.gif" /></div> <div class="bb-center"> <div class="bb-h1">“NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY.” ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless</div> </div> <div class="bb-center"><div class="bb-h1">NOTICE</div> <div class="bb-h2">Thank you for Noticing This Notice.</div> <div class="bb-h3">Your Noting it has been Noted.</div> And it has been Reported to the proper Authority.</div> Hello lurker/ My old friend/ I've come to talk to you again/ Because a shadow softly creeping/ Lurking in the chat while I was sleeping/ And the roleplay that was forming in my brain/ Still remains with the sound of lurking. In dead roleplays I walked alone/ Narrow pathways of casual zone... Need mor ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ (Made in collaboration with <a class="bb-mention" href="/users/hatakekuro">@hatakekuro</a>) <hr class="bb-hr"> It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. --Douglass Adams <hr class="bb-hr"> <div class="bb-center">All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.</div> <div class="bb-right">~~As You Like It, Shakespear											</div> <div class="bb-center">"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."</div> <div class="bb-right">~~ Macbeth, Shakespear											</div> <hr class="bb-hr"> “All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.” <hr class="bb-hr"> “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” <hr class="bb-hr"> “What do you know?” “Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.” “What do you want, then?” “What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.” <hr class="bb-hr"> "Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world’s highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing. 'Can beauty be taken from a man?' the first asked the second. 'It was taken from me,' the second replied. 'For I cannot remember it.' This man was blinded in a childhood accident. 'I pray to the God Beyond each night to restore my sight, so that I can find beauty again.' 'Is beauty something one must see then?' the first asked. 'Of course. That is it’s nature. How can you appreciate a work of art without seeing it?' 'I can hear a work of music,' the first said. 'Very well, you can hear some kinds of beauty - but you cannot know full beauty without sight. You can know only a small portion of beauty.' 'A sculpture,' the first said. 'Can I not feel its curves and slopes, the touch of the chisel that transformed common rock into uncommon wonder?' 'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a sculpture.' 'And what of the beauty of food? Is it not a work of art when a chef crafts a masterpiece to delight the tastes?' 'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a chef’s art.' 'And what of the beauty of a woman,' the first said. 'Can I not know her beauty in the softness of her caress, the kindness of her voice, the keenness of her mind as she reads philosophy to me? Can I not know this beauty? Can I not know most kinds of beauty, even without seeing it?' 'Very well,' said the second. 'But what if your ears were removed, your hearing taken away? Your tongue taken out, your mouth forced shut, your sense of smell destroyed? What if your skin were burned so that you could no longer feel? What if all that remained to you was pain? You could not know beauty then. It can be taken from a man.'" The messenger stopped, cocking his head to Shallan. "What?" she asked. "What think you? Can beauty be taken from a man? If he could not touch, taste, smell, hear, see, what if all he knew was pain? Has that man had beauty taken away from him?" "I…" What did this have to do with anything? "Does the pain change day by day?" "Let us say it does," the messenger said. "Then beauty, to that person, would be the times when the pain lessens. Why are you telling me this story?" The messenger smiled. "To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. Tell me, what is the most beautiful thing you can imagine?" ... <hr class="bb-hr"> “In this,” Wit said, “as in all things, our actions give us away. If an artist creates a work of powerful beauty – using new and innovative techniques – she will be lauded as a master, and will launch a new movement in aesthetics. Yet what if another, working independently with that exact level of skill, were to make the same accomplishments the very next month? Would she find similar acclaim? No. She’d be called derivative. “So it’s not beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not the invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent we think a man can have?” He plucked a final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.” <hr class="bb-hr"> "A blind man awaited the era of endings," Wit said, "contemplating the beauty of nature." Silence "That man is me," Wit noted. "I'm not physically blind, just spiritually. And that other statement was actually very clever, if you think about it." <hr class="bb-hr"> "What is it to be witty, then?” “To say clever things.” “And what is cleverness?” “I…” Why was he having this conversation? “I guess it’s the ability to say and do the right things at the right time.” The King’s Wit cocked his head, then smiled. <hr class="bb-hr"> “Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed. “Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled . . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.” Wit shook his head, standing up and dusting off his coat. “Give me an audience who have come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. To them, I will be a god. That is the best truth I know.” <div class="bb-center">~~ Stromlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson</div> "You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!" -Hayao Miyazaki "In culture an analogous situation leads to the emergence of enclaves shut up in ghettos, where intellectual production likewise stagnates because of inbreeding in the form of incessant repetition of the selfsame creative patterns and techniques. The internal dynamics of the ghetto may appear to be intense, but with the passage of years it becomes evident that this is only a semblance of motion, since it leads nowhere, since it neither feeds into nor is fed by the open domain of culture, since it does not generate new patterns or trends, and since finally it nurses the falsest of notions about itself, for lack of any honest evaluation of its activities from outside." ~Stanislaw Lem, author of Solaris Some heartfelt music while you lurk <iframe src="//youtube.com/embed/kZKmmCIqN2Y?theme=dark" frameborder="0" width="496" height="279" allowfullscreen></iframe> Or U liSTEN TO tem MOOSIC! <iframe src="//youtube.com/embed/-i7Hj1fAYN4?theme=dark" frameborder="0" width="496" height="279" allowfullscreen></iframe> I just don't want you to have a Bad Time... <iframe src="//youtube.com/embed/-BTrspwpooo?theme=dark" frameborder="0" width="496" height="279" allowfullscreen></iframe> What do I live for? <iframe src="//youtube.com/embed/80tq0g4_3dg?theme=dark" frameborder="0" width="496" height="279" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe src="//youtube.com/embed/KAOdjqyG37A?theme=dark" frameborder="0" width="496" height="279" allowfullscreen></iframe> "I think I've seen this movie before." -<a class="bb-mention" href="/users/guess-who">@Guess Who</a> <iframe src="//youtube.com/embed/EhgDibw7vB4?theme=dark" frameborder="0" width="496" height="279" allowfullscreen></iframe> <hr class="bb-hr"> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://tvtropes.org/">I LOVE TVTROPES!</a> <img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tab_explosion.png" /></div>

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