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深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=28051258

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=28051258

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=28051258

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=28051258

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n59fa251a00b4

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n59fa251a00b4

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n59fa251a00b4

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

深淵の霧と浄化の光　Туман Безодні й Світло Очищення
栄光へ、行け
Іди. До слави

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n59fa251a00b4

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#ＡＩ生成 #darkened #sky #never #clear #abyssal #mist #swallow #hope #blow #wind #reek #death #innocent #people #through #chaos #forth #wave #heavy #with #spiral #lament #spewed #out #history #strong #soul #abandon #future

A Trip to the Moon

History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk

There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.

And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.

The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.

That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.

Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.

A Trip to the Moon

History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk

There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.

And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.

The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.

That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.

Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.

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"500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the #1960sFolkRevival. The simple #repetitive lyrics offer a #lament by a traveler who is far from home, out of money, and too ashamed to return. In a May 1963 interview on Folk Music Worldwide, #PaulStookey of #PeterPaulAndMary characterized the song, which appeared on the group's 1962 debut album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p1C7za9xic

"500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the #1960sFolkRevival. The simple #repetitive lyrics offer a #lament by a traveler who is far from home, out of money, and too ashamed to return. In a May 1963 interview on Folk Music Worldwide, #PaulStookey of #PeterPaulAndMary characterized the song, which appeared on the group's 1962 debut album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARsVeP7_30c

Today's poem:

Fotheringhay
- by Mary Queen of Scots

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/725783400477310976/fotheringhay?source=share

#MaryQueenOfScots #poetry #lament #egotism #power #execution #imprisonment
#fotheringay #ElizabethI

Today's poem:

Fotheringhay
- by Mary Queen of Scots

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/725783400477310976/fotheringhay?source=share

#MaryQueenOfScots #poetry #lament #egotism #power #execution #imprisonment
#fotheringay #ElizabethI