hello! it's been a while since you've posted any essay collection đ would you be willing to share your favourites of this year with us?
yes! here you go â
Disunited Kingdom by Fintan O'Toole
South Asia's place in contemporary climate fiction by Evan Tims
What's the matter with men? by Idrees Kahloon (archived)
Power to the Caribbean people by V. S. Naipaul (archived)
Can Russia ever be democratic? by Kyle Orton
Death by Design by Daniel Callcut
Joshimath: once upon a town by Rahul Pandita
Exposed by Sadie Levy Gale
In the Shifting Embrace of the Ganga by Arati Kumar-Rao
(Less essay, more interview) Matty Healy by Alexis Petridis
The Roots of Global South's New Resentment by Mark Suzman
How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis by Alex Palmer (archived)
This review of Oppenheimer by Richard Brody of the New Yorker (archived)
India's new growing elite by Shekhar Gupta
There are definitely more I'm forgetting and which I will try to excavate!
early seasons Castiel, warrior of god, unfeeling, unemotional, cold as a block of marble etc. etc., Mr Angel you are fooling exactly no-one, we all saw in s04e03 In the Beginning that you gently clasped Deanâs shoulder to bring him back to the future, you literally had no reason for a supportive gesture like thatâŚ. a bare fingertip on his arm would have been enough, but no
totally not sympathizing with the distressed human
seriously who gave u 2 the right to look at each other like at the last lifeline in the storm, you met like twice đ
If you want someone to sound like a therapist in your spn fanfic, use Garth.
Garth is like the only person in the supernatural world that can get Dean to do something healthy.
It's the fact that frank castle doesn't love himself and he thinks he deserves to be alone for the bad things/actions he did in the past and continues to do but he didn't realize yet that he needs and fucking deserves to be with someone who loves him and appreciate him for what he is. What really strikes me is the concept of found-family that works so well for this character: he found, across his path, a new family (after loosing his real one) and yet he doesn't want to have anyone around him bc he thinks he doesn't deserve it bc in the end is a serial killer, a monster that should be banished and punished for what he's done. He's too evil to deserve amazing people in his life who genuinely cares for him. Even if he decides he's worthy enough to get close to anyone, he doesn't want to get emotionally invested in this. If he let his guard down for a moment, bad things might happen to his new family and he'll be devasted and probably would never recover from that. That's why frank pushes everyone who shows the slightest interest in him (es. karen) away bc he's scared of the person he has become and doesn't want to corrupt the only good thing that has ever happend to him, that is to say karen.
In this essay i will explain why kastle is a metaphor of "the beauty and the beast"...
Republicans must hate supernatural. Every time destiel happens, a Democrat wins another seat
helloooo
hey
I wanted to ask that nothing really exists? Like everyone I see I know like you donât exists? Like im the only on who exists? N im just making all this up? But like how you can realize/remeber yourself when you donât exist n only i do ?
I hope you understand wht im trying to say đ
When People say ânothing exists as it seems,â it doesnât mean that everyone else is somehow unreal while youâre the only real thing. Itâs more that everything you seem to experienceâyou, others, objects, thoughts, feelingsâare all appearing within Awareness, within a single, undivided reality. Nothing is âmore/less realâ than "anything" else; itâs all equally (=) appearing and dissolving within Awareness.
Imagine the effect of a "dream". While in the dream, everyone and everything seems real, including the âyouâ that seems to move around in that dream. When you wake up, you realize that everything in that dreamâwhether it was people, places, or eventsâarose from the same source, not separate from the dream itself. But this doesnât mean one thing in the dream was real and others werenât; it was all equally dreamt.
In the same way, the âyouâ and âothersâ appearing here are all expressions within Awareness itself. Thereâs no separate, isolated âyouâ who is imagining everything else; rather, everythingâincluding the sense of âmeâ and âyouââis arising within the same field of Awareness.
So, itâs not that âyouâ exist while everyone else doesnât, or that only âyouâ are real. Itâs that everything you experience, yourself included, isnât as separate or distinct as it seems; itâs all simply the appearance of "Awareness". This doesnât diminish anything or anyone; instead, it reveals that "everything" and "everyone" is not actually "everything" and "everyone". It's all equally "THAT".
An elaboration/clarification in response to this explanation of how Bucky's prosthetic functions, based on breakthroughs in the field of biotechnology that have been getting mainstream attention in recent years. Namely: Neuromusculoskeletal prosthetic technology, also known colloquially as 'bionic arms'.
While Bucky's prosthetic more advanced because it uses comic book science, this information is helpful all the same; especially for people writing his character (and if you are, I encourage you to research this technology and get a grasp of the fundamentals).
To start, the socket is osseointegrated. This in itself is not new a new surgical technique and is a long-established method of amputation. What osseointegration means is the socket that prosthetic attaches (or 'anchors') to is integrated into/fused with Bucky's bones.
Now, how do these prosthetics move and feel? Here is a brief, but informative explanation targeted at laypeople: