Daniel Aster

Should note that this is only in classical Shankaran Advaita Vedanta. Vishishtadvaita Vedanta uses ‘nirguna’ to mean Vishnu completely lacks impure attributes. Ramakrishna’s Vijnana Vedanta views Nirguna and Saguna as equal, not one being “ultimate” and the other “relative”.

Doubly interesting considering he himself is not really that popular. Everyone knows vaguely about eldritch horrors, Cthulhu, &c., but Lovecraft as a person is relatively unknown by most outside of maybe the adjective “Lovecraftian”.

In the sense of actually comparing the religions, no. But it does make sense in this case because the Germanic languages pulled the names of the weekdays from the Roman names using Interpretatio Germanica. I would agree that they should have noted that in the post, though.

They’re mainly going off Interpretatio Germanica, in which the continental form of Odin is interpreted as being their name for Mercury.

Beginning Anew!

#Art #Drawing #OC

#WeeklyBackgroundArt 5/52:
Head for Volcano Island.

I am enjoying this more angular style of vector art a lot! :D

I will try to keep WBA varied as I actually want to experiment and improve with all kinds of styles and ideas, but so far vector style stays on top! :>

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#WeeklyBackgroundArt 2/52:
Cross the Bridge.

This one is... interesting. I am not very happy with the colors and the emptiness of the scene, but that's a good thing because now I know what I'll need to focus on next time!

I'm happy with the scene concept tho! :v

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Animated Moon?!

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‘Thy’ in this sense actually used to exist, it later became ‘forthy’ but that is also obsolete now.

Drew a silly plant boy. Name's Kaype! (also ignore that I haven't posted anything this month)

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Indeed. It also seems that the Old English word already had the connotation of being for animals, as do its other Germanic cognates.

Ban pharmaceutical ads!

Honestly, I am one of the few who actually prefer e-books. The actual physical experience of a book is unmatched, but when it comes to reading I do so much better with an e-book, unfortunately. It helps me to focus more since I don’t have to worry about pages moving or the weight, &c.

Side note: I have no idea why I called it ‘Minus Zero’, lmao.

Not to say the more relaxed or silly film aren't fun, I just really think Godzilla works so much better as a disturbing nigh-horror film. Kaiju mindlessly fighting and destroying cities is great fun to watch, but it isn't near as impactful.

I finally watched 'Godzilla Minus Zero' today & it was incredible. It may be my favourite Godzilla film & among my favourite films in general. I hope if a sequel is made that it keeps to the more serious tone & doesn't devolve into absurdity like the older ones.

#godzilla

Oh, no problem, it's really nice to talk to people with similar interests and am grateful for the reading list! I will try to remind myself to give my thoughts, haha.

Only semi-related but I really wish there was a way to italicize titles or something…

- I also make conlangs frequently.

- Biology. Esp. evolutionary biology, cladistics, & taxonomy.

- General philosophy and religious studies. Esp. phil. of mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, & ontology.

- I don't game much but I like Half-Life, Minecraft, & TF2.

- General history.

Main Interests:

- Hinduism, specifically Advaita Vedanta. I am a convert.

- Writing & reading. My favourite genres are horror (cosmic, psychological, Gothic), weird fiction, mythology, & similar. I wish to be a writer of both fiction & essay if need be.

- Linguistics. Esp. phonology & historical.

Generally prefer more 'pure' horror, humour could be fine. I tend to dislike romance, but I am willing to try that out, as well. Really, it just depends—it could go either way for me.

Thank you again. Of the authors listed, I probably know the least about Blackwood, so I am very intrigued.

I will check them out. Thank you!

Very well put, actually, I will be using that as advice, haha. I would agree, I like Lovecraft's style but it can get rather distracting. I would lean more towards liking King's style, only I quite like archaisms and formal & obscure verbiage. Honestly, I read Smith just for vocabulary sometimes.

Sure, I'd love some recs! Of Howard's I read one of the Solomon Kane stories; never was too interested in Conan, personally. I will check out 'Pigeons from Hell', though.

Hah, I have had the same problem. Recently, a large part of my practice has been finding more of my own voice, which has been somewhat difficult for me—but I am getting there, I think.

Very fun list. My favourites are King, Lovecraft, Poe, & Smith—not only from that list but overall. I have been meaning to get into Bierce, Blackwood, & Chambers, but have not yet. Read a story of Howard’s and it was fine, I should probably read more of him as well.

“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

This was probably my most viral tweet. I've seen it pop up in a lot of quote aggregators, sometimes attributed to a wonderful but definitely not-me filmmaker.

Virginia Woolf on rhythm in writing

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

I've probably read this poem 100 times, but when the world seems particularly gone to hell, it still brings me to tears.