Which one are you?
Or reblog and ask your followers!OH MY FUCKING GOD TELL ME WHICH ONE I AM
anon is on
anime me plz
yeah sure
….lets do this
I managed to watch nothing but anime for a decade and only the bottom set was applicable at the time
whahappen
don’t you understand
with meg gone
now the longest surviving characters besides sam and dean
are the ghostfacers
No, you don’t understand. Sam and Dean didn’t survive, they’ve died themselves.
Those two out-lived the Winchesters.
they stay in the kitchen when the kitchen gets hot
The blooming air is leaking today.
There is always something missing.
My life is a torpid flank deflating between pauses, waiting for
the explosive gathering of legs
You can lead a horse off a cliff, but you can’t make it pray.
In a year, I depreciate exponentially.
In a year, the rest shops for fittings and trim.
Outbursts are branching toward lights are interminally spaced
I use my mercury to touch your backbone.
The wrong calm brims over.
Eliot measured life in coffee spoons, but Van Gogh had wept into
the cup years before.
There is always always something missing
My life is exhaling, coated in cool fur, waiting to test firm footing
There will always be a thousand strides between the root
and the light.
this is actually so powerful wtf Shel Silverstein
i love shel so much
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The Monomyth
The idea of the monomyth, also known as the hero’s journey, is so massively important as a method of storytelling across the globe and so completely integrated into our cultural consciousness, many writers create stories that fit into its norms without even realizing they’re doing it. We have seen this story layout hundreds of times, and yet it seems new with every retelling. The monomyth is so ubiquitous as to be universal while still rooting itself deeply into us as a story that each individual wants to be told.
If you’re a storyteller, the monomyth and its components are worth learning, so dig in!
THE DEPARTURE
1.) The Call to Adventure: The hero starts off in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown.
2.) Refusal of the Call: Often when the call is given, the future hero first refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.
3.) Supernatural Aid: Once the hero has committed to the quest, consciously or unconsciously, his guide and magical helper appears, or becomes known. More often than not, this supernatural mentor will present the hero with one or more talismans or artifacts that will aid them later in their quest.
4.) The Crossing of the First Threshold: This is the point where the person actually crosses into the field of adventure, leaving the known limits of his or her world and venturing into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are not known.
5.) Belly of the Whale: The belly of the whale represents the final separation from the hero’s known world and self. By entering this stage, the person shows willingness to undergo a metamorphosis.
THE INITIATION
6.) The Road of Trials: The road of trials is a series of tests, tasks, or ordeals that the person must undergo to begin the transformation. Often the person fails one or more of these tests, which often occur in threes.
7.) The Meeting with the Goddess: This is the point when the person experiences a love that has the power and significance of the all-powerful, all encompassing, unconditional love that a fortunate infant may experience with his or her mother. This is a very important step in the process and is often represented by the person finding the other person that he or she loves most completely.
8.) Woman as Temptress: In this step, the hero faces those temptations, often of a physical or pleasurable nature, that may lead him or her to abandon or stray from his or her quest, which does not necessarily have to be represented by a woman. Woman is a metaphor for the physical or material temptations of life, since the hero-knight was often tempted by lust from his spiritual journey.
9.) Atonement with the Father: In this step the person must confront and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in his or her life. In many myths and stories this is the father, or a father figure who has life and death power. This is the center point of the journey. All the previous steps have been moving in to this place, all that follow will move out from it. Although this step is most frequently symbolized by an encounter with a male entity, it does not have to be a male; just someone or thing with incredible power.
10.) Apotheosis: When someone dies a physical death, or dies to the self to live in spirit, he or she moves beyond the pairs of opposites to a state of divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss. A more mundane way of looking at this step is that it is a period of rest, peace and fulfillment before the hero begins the return.
11.) The Ultimate Boon: The ultimate boon is the achievement of the goal of the quest. It is what the person went on the journey to get. All the previous steps serve to prepare and purify the person for this step, since in many myths the boon is something transcendent like the elixir of life itself, or a plant that supplies immortality, or the holy grail.
THE RETURN
12.) Refusal of the Return: Having found bliss and enlightenment in the other world, the hero may not want to return to the ordinary world to bestow the boon onto his fellow man.
13.) The Magical Flight: Sometimes the hero must escape with the boon, if it is something that the gods have been jealously guarding. It can be just as adventurous and dangerous returning from the journey as it was to go on it.
14.) Rescue from Without: Just as the hero may need guides and assistants to set out on the quest, oftentimes he or she must have powerful guides and rescuers to bring them back to everyday life, especially if the person has been wounded or weakened by the experience.
15.) The Crossing of the Return Threshold: The trick in returning is to retain the wisdom gained on the quest, to integrate that wisdom into a human life, and then maybe figure out how to share the wisdom with the rest of the world.
16.) Master of Two Worlds: This step is usually represented by a transcendental hero like Jesus or Gautama Buddha. For a human hero, it may mean achieving a balance between the material and spiritual. The person has become comfortable and competent in both the inner and outer worlds.
17.) Freedom to Live: Mastery leads to freedom from the fear of death, which in turn is the freedom to live. This is sometimes referred to as living in the moment, neither anticipating the future nor regretting the past.
These are Joseph Campbell’s 17 steps to the “hero’s journey”, or the monomyth. This is not a checklist, nor is it a blueprint. It’s…a guideline, if anything.
(Yes, yes, I’ve started reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Not to help me with my writing, but to look inside the human desire to go on adventures. It’s fascinating and is filling me to the brim with wanderlust.)
A few links for further research:
- TV Tropes’ Article on The Hero’s Journey
- Wikipedia’s Article on Monomyth
- ThinkQuest’s Article on The Heroic Monomyth
- Changing Minds’ Article on Campbell’s ‘Hero’s Journey’ Monomyth
- TedEd’s Video “What Makes a Hero?”
- Another Video on the Hero’s Journey/Monomyth
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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Quick lit-geek note here: Campbell’s notion of the “monomyth” can be problematic precisely because it’s monolithic; it can tend to reduce all stories to the template of the “hero’s journey,” and I hope the problem’s obvious in that gendered name. Yes, you can find stories that fit this pattern in almost every culture, but only if you look hard, and only if at times you overlook the stories that don’t fit. Campbell based his idea on Jung’s “collective unconscious,” the idea that there is one universal human psyche, that underneath all humans are the same, but you can only say that if you erase some important differences. Like gender, for one.
I did me an essay on “Beowulf” as the Monomyth. Good times were had.
Idk, I’m in the camp that thinks it’s cool that despite some obvious differences, so much of humanity has a lot of very basic things in common (Like the swastika design being found in some form in the art of almost every culture around the world) and outdated though it might be the collective unconscious is just a really neat concept to me.
You don’t need to be in school to improve your education. Check out Coursera!One of the biggest issues that I continue to see pop up for people, especially within the young adult generation[s], is the problem of being at a loss for readily available, and seemingly ‘affordable’ educational sources, information, and courses. I recently reblogged a post with a brilliant list of 500 FREE online courses from top universities, which was pretty popular. Then I received a suggestion from a lovely follower of mine to check out Courseera, as I might be interested. So, in addition to the previous online free courses post, I present you with yet another amazing and FREE resource for personal mind expansion. Courseera offers dozens of free online courses from various universities such as Princeton, Stanford, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania.Below you can view the different types of courses offered on this useful site:
- Mathematics and Statistics
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- Society, Networks, and Information
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Knowledge is power. Educate yourself, explore, and expand!
UPDATE: Within the last few weeks 12 World-Class Universities [new to Coursera] have added more than 100 courses to be available for FREE on Coursera, in addition to the already spectacular selection!
Below is a list of the newly accessible Universities and the courses they each provide:
- California Institute of Technology
- Duke University
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Johns Hopkins University
- Princeton University
- Rice University
- Stanford University
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
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You can also view a list of all courses available here. Enjoy & keep expanding!!
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Of spectacular glass
Take off your bifocals.
Lessen the
selective tendencies
of the linguistic.It’s the seeing anew of the losing party.
It’s the difference between “among” and “amid.”
Of the like is a nautical pathway
[De]constructive and hypersensitive.It comes as no surprise,
the in and out focus.Forgetting all of the lower hemisphere,
what really is neat is watching coffee
manifest threefold.Auto-intuitive sequences
push for an alternate blue,
Confounds the neon in metropolitan tubes…Would you suggest a sort of murder
in the form of a key?Foam
recurs in the infinite sense
Particles//decayednoted:
nuance[s]//sunblind// scuttlebutt miniatures
charred on the shore
of spectacular glassA collaboration with the infinite dieneongeist
(Source: thejournalsofelliotblue)
The Boat by Pablo Iranzo
Described as “an experiment using photos of textures to create a sense of space and landscapes”, Pablo’s majestic boatscapes evoke the same feelings of awe and wonder I had when sailing the vast, endless seas of Wind Waker for the first time: a tiny dot against the ravaging waves, charting the big, unknown forever.
![uutpoetry:
Of spectacular glass
Take off your bifocals. Lessen the selective tendenciesof the linguistic.
It’s the seeing anew of the losing party. It’s the difference between “among” and “amid.” Of the like is a nautical pathway[De]constructive and hypersensitive.
It comes as no surprise, the in and out focus.
Forgetting all of the lower hemisphere, what really is neat is watching coffeemanifest threefold.
Auto-intuitive sequences push for an alternate blue,Confounds the neon in metropolitan tubes…
Would you suggest a sort of murderin the form of a key?
Foam recurs in the infinite senseParticles//decayed
noted: nuance[s]//sunblind// scuttlebutt miniatures charred on the shore of spectacular glass
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