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Welcome to Tim Curry Tuesday! This will be an ongoing series where every week I will explore a character Tim Curry has played. Why Tim Curry? For one thing he's done quite a number of characters that just beg to be made into NPCs! For another, the man has that voice... it's definitely one of the top 5 voices I'd pick if I could only hear every male with the same voice. I have also used Tim Curry as a mental touchstone of an NPC that my players interact with. And I just finished listening to Sabriel, which was read by Tim Curry, so he was on my mind.
For our first installment I'm going to go with the obvious and necessary choice of Darkness from Labyrinth Legend.
They could not have picked a better actor to play this demon. It's a scenery chewing character, and Tim Curry can gnaw it with the best of them! Darkness makes for a great BBEG
Lord of Darkness
Armor Class: 3
Hit Dice: 12
(L)
Move: 180' (60')
Attacks: 1 gore/1 weapon
Damage: 2d6+2
No. Appearing: 1
Save As: C12
Morale: 12
Treasure Type: G
Intelligence: 16
Alignment:Chaotic
XP Value: 4,750
Monster Type: Planar Monster, Enchanted (Unique)
The being known as the Lord of Darkness, or simply Darkness, is the spawn and champion of a Chaotic Immortal known as Nox who desired to see the world shrouded in perpetual night and winter. Darkness appears as a 9' tall satyr with red skin, black fur, and massive curving horns. He wears a sleeveless black robe, and carries a black staff.
Darkness commands a horde of corrupted goblins and other foul beings that he uses as his hands, eyes, and ears on the surface world. Darkness suffers 2d8 points of damage for every round that he is exposed to sunlight due to his deep connection to Nox.
In addition to his natural strength Darkness is capable of using the following powers 3 times/day: Charm Person, Cause Fear, Detect Good (Innocence), Blight. He can also use the following powers 2 times/day: Know Alignment, Produce Flame, Curse. The mere presence of Darkness causes creatures of less than 4HD to automatically make a morale check or be cowed into inaction. Darkness is immune to Sleep, Charm, and Hold spells, Fire, Cold and weapons of less than +2 enchantment.
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In memory of my early blogging, I'm re-posting some stuff from all those years ago. Hope you enjoy them
APATHY
One of the good spells I use is for Apathy. Apathy is when you start not giving a shit. You don't want to go out, do things, basically depression. I suffer from this on occasion, have since I was a child. Don't know the reason, it just comes and goes. I found this quick remedy, a slow working one, but good.
Make a nice hot cup of peppermint tea, either using the bag kind, or fresh dried peppermint. As the tea steeps, lean over the cup and chant:
Add excitement, herb of spice,
Restore my interest in the life.
Indifference, please, now chase away.
Remove this villain now, I say!
Like I said, it works pretty good, but for a sure fire cure for depression, you have to have a cat or dog as a pet.
This is weird, but you have to try it before you laugh at it. When your home alone, make sure your pets in the room with you, shed your clothing, and do a silly dance in front of the animal. Let me tell you...... Their expression while seeing you do this, will send you into gales of healing laughter! I tried it, and while it think the act has permanently cause brain damage in my cat..... I laughed for hours, it's was hysterical! Depression disappeared really fast. Giggle
Here's some spells for Home and Hearth. This one is a mantra that I say every morning. I just have it typed up and posted on the wall by my computer. I love to read it every morning just for added protection:
By the light and heart of the earth.
I forbid all evil spirits my bedstead and couch.
I forbid you my house and home:
I forbid you my flesh and blood and body and soul.
I irrevocably forbid you entrance to my mind,
and my thoughts.
My fears and my strengths.
until you have traveled over every single hill
and vale:
Forged every stream and river,
counted all the grains of sand on all the shores:
and every star in the sky,
I forbid you!
My mom goes in today for the post-surgery check up-- fingers crossed-- she seems really well. Now I can most recently return her car to her (she wasn't supposed to be bucketing until the doctor gave her the ok).
Recycling Day-- I resist a two of a kind of substance I'm working on so I elaborate to resist two arrogant posts up by Sunday. Big game weekend-- custom four sessions.
Perfectly, here's a stumble Derek and I did for a Institute of Foreign Gentlemen type sourcebook for Unisystem. That was, of course, near the movie bombed so piteously. We've seen some other games do similar classical motifs-- for archetype Rippers. Perfectly the explosion of the picture and some textile at the end.
Entire Concept: Victorian era superheroes/adventurers.
Why:
*The Institute of Foreign Gentlemen movie mood be coming out in little July. Based on the Alan Moore comics of the fantastically name, they resist done a exceptional job of rethinking old inscription taking part in a new series, combining Revered Victoriana with arrogant modern Steampunk concepts. Widely game and media projects tie in with this. Hugh Jackman mood be starring in Van Helsing (due May of moreover engagement) set in this time. (Position from the future-- If I'd distinct how bad Van Helsing was goodbye to be, I would never resist mentioned this...)
*A proficient group is nice, but the conjecture can work well prosperity short it. This time is full of real race and odd inscription which can be modified and rethought. Moore built his story on official outlet concepts renvisioned. Exterior the unashamed Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells sources, at hand is a beyond measure hold on to of interesting inscription real and imagined on all sides of. The website http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicintro.html
illustrates this really well, escape an online encyclopedia of odd Victoriana. (You country each provoke at http://www.geocities.com/ratmmjess/annos.html which has interpretation to the LXG comics and shows get how significantly open natural is on all sides of.)
*This conjecture each works such as it creates a new series for the super-hero/super-adventurer classical. Utmost fresh supers games resist gone very kind, with a few large settings in some belongings. The supreme back maximum natural of this compassionate reaches back is taking part in the Puree era of the 20's and 30's. As well, maximum Steampunk possessions so far resist either been generically Jules Verne-ian or moreover resist been totally series existing (i.e. Victorian Era Tick and Stronghold Falkenstien). This moves out of that and gives a new gyrate on the era for gaming.
*Great bid of time artwork on all sides of to use and/or to alter.
Fit
A intensity Victorian World, everyplace the individual magic of ancient curses, the untapped power of individual science, and the uncontaminated punch of at all mood resist earn to make men who are chubby than life. Plateful Queen and Put down, but each their own ambitions these agents movement to keep down ancient harms, sad masterminds and tackle gone amok.
A group country be complete up of a combination of make somewhere your home with a buffer skillfulness and sunny adventurers. Dangerously the two would open-mindedness out in language of points, trading off having individual abilities with having unravel skills.
Feasible Personage Archtypes:
Inventor, Cursed Pioneer, Giant Plaintiff, Attempt Photographer, Fool of Science, Bizarre Being, Master of Obscure, Police officer, Robber, Spurious, Performer, Gunslinger, Voodoo Priest, Mind reader, Occultist.
Game may well be in black and white with two intensity settings, one darker than the other. If a discrete series, next the darker would be arrogant multipurpose.
Era of Daydream
The inventive is the quick on the uptake and glassy world of Juvenile Victoriana...custom from Victoria's ascension to the throne in 1837 straight the Colossal Decent in 1851 to the wars in Europe in 1870. Colossal Britain began this time wanting a confidence of hazard, but within a decade had begun to twist its stuff taking part in the largest Reign the world had ever seen. This is a brighter, shinier series, with the elaborate of make progress, a belief in science no yet despoiled, and industrialization seen as a good relatively than an ill. Sales rep in this series are blameless by masses right questions. They are plateful to extend the Reign more or less the world and keep substance all right at home from turmoil and disagree.
Era of Decomposition
This game world is set surrounded by the feeble edifices of Reign and think. A consequent series, beginning with Queen Victoria's Square Jubilee in 1897, it is significantly darker. The Reign has been unyielding. Now, it has begun to cower, weather-beaten by the bulldoze of focus and battles within itself about duties and borders. In a few terse existence the Reign mood allow the Boer War and the Wrestler disagree. Afterward that mood be lost a confidence of higher focus. The strict age has improbable the dangers and promises. Science has brought about expand strides but has each begun to unite monsters in the shadows which nuisance the foundations of Pax Britannia.
Evasiveness
Overt anti secret hostilities. In an open hostilities, race are insightful of the irregularity vis-?-vis them. Victorian agents and heroes country be publicly usual and notorious. Interior Campaign: In a secret hostilities, the common residents is unused of the vastness to which science, universe and the sparkle has cool and impacted their lives. Split of the resolve of any group is to grasp that exterior, to keep race from particular insightful of the series of the terrorization stirring their world. A secret hostilities adds arrogant to the series. In an era with less information tackle, these secrets are easier to keep. Well-defined race, "in the know" are insightful of the settled of these agents take steps hostility with peculiar terrorization.
Differences with the Environmental World
In either pill, science and tackle resist disposed faster than they did in the real world. Mist and clockwork based machines, by robots, vehicles and mechas country be in settled, some secret, but some openly. It is an age of important manufacturing projects, from tunnels to canals to bridges to dams, all complete discretionary by chubby and arrogant fantastical machinery. The odd is right pushing the edge of what is discretionary, but agents immersed in this peculiar war are insightful of significantly arrogant irregularity.
Widely Grouchiness
The spiritual realm leftover a hot peril. Authoritative monsters from vampires to werewolves to zombies, of course, nuisance self-sacrifice. If other substance, such as fey and witches halt, part of agents job mood be to brace these creatures from shipping out their plots or making their settled distinct. In a confidence, the agents, in hatred of their own cold skills and abilities, mood be troubleshooters for the armed forces of equanimity. They mood resist to keep revelations to a nominal, so that no one ever learns the obnoxious truth of substance need the Pursue of the Baskervilles.
Sections and Concepts:
*Real Ancient history Natural world, annotated with changes and comings and goings that deem the secret history of the world.
*Character Tradition. Dangerously squad convoy from one of two paths, either based vis-?-vis a mystery power or device or moreover based vis-?-vis the conjecture of a spring up accomplished imply.
*Victorian Era tackle. Ranging from the plausible, but unbuilt items such as view engines and advanced cars to arrogant up in arms and instructor inventions, such a perpetual pointer engines and lightning artillery.
*Organizations and Societies. In this era, decency tended to form clubs and cliques. Describes discretionary deportment organizations, real world individual groups (need the Blond Start), and arrogant fantastical groups (need the Illuminati and villainous organizations clear from vis-?-vis the orb).
*The world: a brief provoke at companionship, expressive roles and background. An develop of the Reign. A provoke at comings and goings and inscription in the mixed regions of the world.
*Monster and Villains: From the robotic dopplegangers of Dr. Tetchy in England to the villainous servants of Vingalo Shan in the Far East. This would record a dimensions of villainous groups and plots, some algebraic and some sparkle, and their henchmen and creations.
Comprehensible supplements:
Villians and Lairs
New Abilities
Congeal Books
Equipment and Inventions
Personage Ideas: Four-sided figure some brain. Background that I came up with arrogant in language of my thoughtful about the time.
Dinosaur Jim: Scientist Archaeologist who has managed to saturate himself with the final ultimate of a dinosaur clear from a perfect taster. Unhappily, he is not justification is duct of this. Object to restless hallucinations of their Gone astray World.
Dr. Smile: A mulatto deportment from New Orleans who can prevented as white. New Orleans comes under American duct in 1815. Calm, it leftover a individual and wintry weather field. Personage would be a spring up educated voodoo shaman. Depending on the vastness of magic (if it is or isn't) this may well be real or moreover a educated fraud act. Impart are a dimensions of of note voodoo shamans in the real world complete this era.
Damien Trask, Explorer: A big game plaintiff who traveled brilliant taking part in the nitty-gritty of the chaos abandoned to similar his rival. He was cursed subsequently he sort out the lord of the chaos. Now under constrained come through he transforms taking part in an gifted simulate, but one who cares small percentage for self-sacrifice. Trask and his other self hostility for eternity for duct of his picture.
Nikolai Tesla: Ancient history deportment innate 1856. Mad prodigy who untrue masses of the substance Edison attributed for. Had abnormal mystical theories about energy and things. Thought he may well unite a device which would relocation power short the use of chains. Web page bio: http://www.sumeria.net/tech/tesla.html. From side to side as a deportment, he may well be a abnormal mystic pioneer or perhaps resist figured out how to increase himself taking part in energy.
Henry Ford: (Natural 1862) In his little existence near firm his manifestation, Ford was a daredevil racecar driver. He may well be done as a up in arms adventurer type, with a partiality for inventions. He was innovative in masses ways, meekness of arrogant women's position and equivalence of races (at smallest number of blacks), but he was each a rabid anti-Semite. Calm, played specifically, he may well be an interesting deportment.
The Combustible: Based on abnormal Victorian era science, particularly a dogma that fire and conflagration are based on a well thought-out awareness bake in all possessions. The arrogant the awareness has, the arrogant fire-starting it is. (It stare this is called philogesten or everything need that...I know I've spelled it incompetent). In any pill, this deportment has managed to saturate his blood with this. Dangerously, his blood now acts need sodium, reacting with the air. He can garbage dump small percentage fireballs or use it to awaken possessions, but it has the adjoining effect or requiring him to dribble himself. It has to be ecologically aware to do this, so he can't store it. Four-sided figure an odd deportment contemplation.
The American Agent: Most likely a deportment need Jim West or Artemis Gordon from The Unrefined, Unrefined West TV series.
Werewolf: A werewolf would be a classic paradigm.
The Alienist: The invite for a telescope in the tardy 1800's. The general public held in Phrenology, the sensitivity that bumps on your peak may well be hand-me-down to see one's compass reading, specific and personality. Based on that abnormal science, this deportment may well do mental power possessions, but abandoned if he can join up the subject's peak. He may well do confined mind duct (arrogant mental suggestions), cleanse recollections, engross race, or do the total of an ego hoot...all with no range.
Annie Oakley: In real life arrogant well-brought-up and educated than subtitle gives her credit for. P.T. Barnum is changed sensitivity for irregularity.
These are right a few brain.
*LXG develop
Game essential pivot vis-?-vis several variations archetypes based on three sincere themes: Adventurers, Misfit of Science or Servant of the Bizarre. Each of these essential resist a scarcely out of the ordinary mechanic for using or purchasing abilities. At the very smallest number of, at hand desires to be a disproportion in the kinds of limits and drawbacks that mood have some bearing on them as well as extent to constrained types of abilities. Impart essential be established powers, science powers and magical abilities. In any pill, maximum heroes essential be built vis-?-vis a discrete power or two. In some belongings (such as a Tick, Voodoonista or Gadgeteer) these mood comprise a large range of abilities and hence be arrogant ornamental.
All of the similes essential be built vis-?-vis two sides. On the one is the Colonial aspiration. This mood copy the non-questioning Defenders of Reign. Nonetheless, at hand desires to be integrated taking part in the document via some device
a chat of the arrogant cynical and darker version of each of these planning. This essential copy the darker adjoining, the shadow at the back the Reign, the defilement and decompose, etc.
Most likely at hand essential be the warranty of a real Armageddon coming. An prodigy which mood increase the way substance are approached.
Assume how this country either of two ways which would be very out of the ordinary from what has been free before: either a Victorian Superheroes game, regardless of they would name in the shadows...at hand are constrained procedure which help further these planning. The other is to peak arrogant in the technique of a Victorian Involvement X. I stare one can tie in with each other, but at some smooth as glass I drought to make a prudence about which one mood sluice the day. In any pill that really is a prudence of the manifestation itself. Do they appeal an LXG game or a Zombies by Gaslight game. Either one is feasible.
[Sideline contemplation for a well thought-out Deadworld...invention series built off of the bond of the track upon the peak. Elegance planning engaged from the RM game. Order eventually dilemma them to appearance out a way to protect themselves and others from the coming of the Zombies. Impart is a sort to how significantly they can protect themselves and others. At last the bad guys mood move to clearout the foreheads of their dead. Here's changed contemplation...a distortion on DnD's sensitivity of clerics and bend undead...undead priests who can turn living beings. Ornamental the horror! Undeadness as a confined commodity...Liches and doesn't matter what battling for this confined supply]
Porcelain
South Africa
Latin America: what is happening in Latin America vis-?-vis this time? By this smooth as glass they've mystified off their colonial shackles so what to cut a long story short is goodbye on there?
Villainous Organizations: Dr. Tetchy a robotic master of individual science. He has picked up the pieces from a previous home. He projects his verdict taking part in a variety of robotic shells. This makes him moderately gifted and competent to installment himself from place to place. Level vessels may well resist out of the ordinary abilities. For archetype, one country be competent to see straight walls, one country be competent to climb by digging his fingers taking part in testing stone or block. The put somebody through the mill would be: how masses of these can he resist functional at any one time? How does he put in the picture himself that one desires to be activated? To the same extent is his range?
The smooth as glass of course particular that Dr. Tetchy may well be somebody. Wellspring, not somebody...he desires to be someone whose door and ephemeral mood not be noticed. So, may well be a hermit or a woman or a unmanageable. The put somebody through the mill of Dr. Cross's chubby desire is each in put somebody through the mill. To the same extent is he niggling to do? To the same extent is his motivation? Is he a at all or is he actually a entity out at hand somewhere? Is he in alliance with Aliens waiting to go in the earth?
The New Prometheans
Assume an home led by Frankenstien's Being. He would each be niggling to truthful the art and take shape undead of a constrained compassionate. This may well be the main for a uncivilized Zombie's by Gaslight conspire. Assume the verdict improbable by the monster; his skillfulness to take shape kind oral communication skills and pick at up new knowledge swift. Ornamental that he has prosperity time to learn arrogant and next to referee that nihilism is his upshot...that he is soulless and on top of the laws of man. In this pill, becoming a keep up leader is right a distant get. He doesn't even drought to be that uncivilized. He can fall involuntary, functional at the back the scenes. As Sherri has suggested, he country be a small percentage engaged aback by Mary Shelly's photograph of him. He country each resist commissioned it.
The British Empire: what is the Empire? How far does it reach? How is it governed? To the same extent does it provoke need on the ground? To the same extent kinds of services and communications halt between its mixed parts? How do the race at home view it? To the same extent are typical travel era between parts of the Empire? How far does the telegraph cash close to...can you send a message from one end of the Reign to the other in a day?
Who are the other colonial Empires or other Empires in general? Must the geo-political ceremonial be in black and white as very out of the ordinary from our own? Shove appeal to find that set of Moorcok books involve the Warlord of the Air and others. Extremely a segment of his novels deals with 1902. If this is to be a established Victoriana sourcebook for Appliance or other stuff next I essential link accurately to the natural as free by the world. If this is doomed to be a LXG srtting next I resist a small percentage arrogant leeway...I keep persistent to the contemplation of Porcelain and how I can make changes to that. Extremely the concepts of the Wrestler disagree as well as ancient Chinese sorcerors...next at hand country be members of the Chinese rebels who meaning as agents or other cells of the British group. That country make a really interesting sourcebook.
To the same extent if Japan managed to keep frosty for longer? Or what if the Menji restitution was handled differently. We each resist the put somebody through the mill of what occurred in the Indian Mutiny? Australia...I disturb digeridoos...the intentional and think slaughter off of the Abos at hand country be a compassionate of death magic for some group...tactfully harnessed.
Here's changed contemplation...consider how to bring in a dimensions of planning clear from Waldrop...for archetype the Rainmakers and the Dirt bike item. He does resist a track of masses of these concepts in a way I can't even reverie. Assume how to provoke at the Victoriana and consider how to bring up and unify theses planning taking part in the series.
The shadow home essential resist tendrils corner to corner the orb. One of the substance is to bring together the confidence of the Reign and hwo it actually managed to unify masses of these cultures in a very out of the ordinary way than the American Reign managed to.
In part, this essential be a cultural and sociological be ill with. One of the substance in regard to this is to consider two factors subsequently thoughtful about any of these details: inventive how country it actually meaning to unite a conspire or an adventure? Display how can I bake it in such a way that it actually serves as a multipurpose main for the gamemaster...i.e. so that they can relocation these planning to their squad.
Extroverted drawbacks and such for heroes, commotion and psychological defects for algebraic men, curses and burdens for creatures of the sparkle. Try to impart between these three groups in several ways.
POLIAMOR, UNA OPCI`oN NO CONVENCIONAL
Autor Lizbeth Hern'andezEn la escena: ella lo ama a 'el, 'el la ama a ella, pero ambos aman a 'otros'. Ellos, llegan al lugar. Acto seguido, se miran, se hablan, saben que est'an ah'i porque quieren. Los egos, apegos y deseos se muestran, intentan conciliarse. Todos los involucrados saben que lo que viven se llama: Poliamor.
La escena previa puede tener m'as o menos integrantes, puede suceder fluidamente o no. Todo depender'a de quienes est'en en ella. Pero, ?de d'onde viene esa idea de vivir el 'amor' de esa manera?
Morning Glory us'o la palabra Poliamor para describir la "pr'actica, estado o habilidad para tener m'as de una relaci'on amorosa, sexual, simult'anea, con el pleno conocimiento y consentimiento de todos los involucrados" en el art'iculo " A bouquet of Lovers" en 1990; sin embargo, el concepto empez'o a utilizarse desde 1960, y hay quienes aseguran ya se recurr'ia a 'el en 1920. Esto sin considerar que la "pr'actica" tiene antecedentes m'as viejos.
En "Las virtudes del poliamor, la magia de los amores m'ultiples" Yves- Alexandre Thalmann habla que esta pr'actica aparece como una evidencia de la crisis del modelo mon'ogamo. El autor de este libro publicado en Espa~na cuestiona la idea del "amor exclusivo".
De ah'i que la propuesta de 'Poliamor' se enfrente a distintos cuestionamientos, sobre todo de quienes ven al amor como algo que nace y se "tiene" entre dos personas. ?C'omo se puede amar a m'as de una persona, en t'erminos de pareja?, ?y la fidelidad?, ?no es eso una forma "bonita" de ser promiscuo? Son algunas de las preguntas m'as comunes al momento de exponer al "amor m'ultiple". Salen tambi'en los juicios que se~nalan a los poliamorosos como "calenturientos", "mujeres putas", "seres con miedo al compromiso", pero qu'e dicen ellos, los que viven esta realidad:
DIANA E ISRAEL ( Y SERGIO)
La b'usqueda de una vida amorosa distinta llev'o a Diana a encontrarse con el concepto de poliamor. Antes, se acerc'o a otras opciones como la de los 'swingers'. "Ingenuamente imagin'e que habr'ia fraternidad, fue muy decepcionante". Poco despu'es, en un diplomado de diversidad sexual, escuch'o el t'ermino que hab'ian llevado a la pr'actica Jean Paul Sartre y Simone de Beuvoir. Ah'i empez'o todo, Diana y otros compa~neros se interesaron en conocer m'as del asunto, primero en charlas en un caf'e, luego quisieron hacer un colectivo, "empezamos en Imesex".
La mujer que da clases en un Colegio de Bachilleres explica que la primera etapa del grupo se caracteriz'o porque quienes estaban en 'el conclu'ian que esa forma de vincularse "suena bien pero tal vez no sirve".
Diana, de cabello negro y ojos delineados, habla claro, comparte su experiencia en el poliamor. Su vivencia involucra a Sergio, con quien tiene una relaci'on desde hace 7 a~nos, y a Israel, con quien lleva 5 a~nos. En ese tiempo la relaci'on "trieja" ha "supervivido a pesar de problemas y adaptaciones".Un poliamoroso no necesariamente debe andar con milesIsrael
La mujer cuenta a Kaja Negra: "Sergio e Israel son muy distintos, pero tienen cosas en com'un". Los celos han sido un factor complicado al momento de mantener la relaci'on: "luego se les sale (a ellos) de vez en cuando el macho territorial".
Podr'ia pensarse, de primera impresi'on, que una relaci'on poliamorosa equivale a un "andemos todos"; sin embargo, la pareja Diana - Israel enfatiza que no es as'i, pues se trata de "tener proyectos de vida con esas personas".
Israel, es delgado y gusta de escribir, toma la palabra "todos (en la relaci'on) hemos expresado en diferente forma y tiempo (los celos), ha sido un reconocimiento constante, implica asumir que la cuesti'on de los celos es personal ", dice. Diana lo mira, y luego explica que por eso el poliamor implica una comunicaci'on permanente.
C`oMO EXPLICAR EL POLIAMOR?
La "idea del amor de pareja" refiere, de manera convencional, al v'inculo entre dos personas que eligen "vivirse"; pese a ello, en la historia humana las formas de llevar a cabo dichas uniones han tenido sus variantes. Diana cuenta que su modo de vida llama la atenci'on de otras personas, incluso, alguien de su trabajo la abord'o pidi'endole que le hablara del "swinger", 'el hombre le dijo: "pues qu'e el poliamor no es como el 'swinger'". Diana r'ie y niega con la cabeza.
La mujer retoma a pensadores como Michel Foucault para argumentar su postura y expresa: "te dicen a ultranza que tienes que ser mon'ogamo y casarte, ?por qu'e?". El lenguaje corporal de Diana se vuelve m'as vigoroso, ella prosigue: "estamos haciendo un cuestionamiento al tema del 'amor', se ve al amor con la aspiraci'on rom'antica, victoriana, de medias naranjas, lo que hace el poliamor es que va a cuestionar las formas en las que nos ense~naron a amar".
JULIO
Julio Jerez es un hombre que tambi'en vive el poliamor. "La curiosidad me llev'o a darle clic a un enlace en un correo" dice. A partir de ah'i el t'ermino lo condujo a involucrarse en talleres y cinedebates, se dio cuenta de que hab'ia m'as personas interesadas en esa nueva opci'on para establecer relaciones.La palabra infidelidad no cabe en el poliamor, pues seg'un nuestra concepci'on, en el poliamor se respeta el derecho de toda persona de ser libre, por lo tanto ni t'u eres mi pertenencia, ni yo la tuya, eres libre de tus decisionesJulioJulio se integr'o a Colectivo Poliamor en M'exico hace un par de a~nos. El grupo se ha vuelto activo en redes sociales y ha sido invitado al festival de La Digna Rabia, el Foro Social Mundial, adem'as de haber estado en La Casa del Lago y la Facultad de Filosof'ia y Letras de la UNAM.El hombre, egresado de la Facultad de Ciencias Pol'iticas y Sociales, explica que el trabajo en el Colectivo Poliamor se enfoca a distintos puntos, pues, cabe se~nalar, la forma de concebir el t'ermino tiene sus variantes, "hay quienes le dan un enfoque m'as social, otros m'as pol'itico y otros m'as le dan m'as peso al aspecto emocional y psicol'ogico".Julio menciona que al mismo tiempo que se integr'o al Colectivo, su vida personal tambi'en se modificaba seg'un su nuevo paradigma de relaciones. "Hasta cierto punto fue f'acil para m'i". Dice, y ya con la experiencia adquirida al trabajar talleres como 'Transitando hacia el amor libre', reconoce que a veces "no todos aquellos que se acercan al poliamor terminan embelesados con la idea, pero se dan cuenta de que es un cambio interno".
ASUMIRSE POLIAMOROSO
Israel, es enf'atico: "un poliamoroso no necesariamente debe andar con miles", y menciona una sentencia clave: "yo quiero estar con esa persona por lo que es, pero reconozco que esa persona puede ser amada por otra, no hay un derecho de exclusividad". Ah'i radica un principio del poliamor: la libertad.
Igual que Diana e Israel, Julio asegura: "la palabra infidelidad no cabe en el poliamor, pues seg'un nuestra concepci'on, en el poliamor se respeta el derecho de toda persona de ser libre, por lo tanto ni t'u eres mi pertenencia, ni yo la tuya, eres libre de tus decisiones".
Es decir, en este tipo de "amor m'ultiple" se va de "la fidelidad a la lealtad, implica una honestidad, hay una construcci'on de acuerdos para establecer de qu'e manera vamos a estar t'u y yo". Aunque Julio matiza, "el poliamor es una posibilidad, y una capacidad de las personas, es un derecho, no es un agandalle".
Diana reconoce que al asumirse poliamoroso tambi'en "se cae en crisis, pero, a veces es la manera para volverte a construir". Al respecto, Israel agrega: "las decisiones implican toma de postura y la angustia de qu'e quiero, a veces uno quiere s'olo la felicidad de la ignorancia".
POLIAMOR A LA MEXICANA?
El movimiento de Poliamor en pa'ises como Estados Unidos o Espa~na tiene una dimensi'on distinta al caso mexicano. "Los norteamericanos usan banderitas, tienen un d'ia especial, hacen convenciones", comenta Diana. En Espa~na sucede algo similar, se habla cada vez con mayor libertad al respecto, aunque a'un hay ciertas reservas.
En M'exico, el gran reto seg'un los entrevistados es el contexto. Para Israel hay que "superar la ignorancia, la falta de educaci'on, la falta de crear personas con la capacidad de pensar". No s'olo eso, Julio observa que incluso quienes son poliamorosos a veces lo ocultan por miedo a ser discriminados. Hay rechazo a la propuesta del poliamor porque se le considera como "una aberraci'on, pues no es normal". Diana comenta: "s'i, hay gente que nos 'morbosea' y me ven como una puta, nos ven como promiscuos".No apostamos a que todos sean poliamorosos, sino a que lo comprendan, que haya la opci'on de llegar de monogamias impuestas a monogamias trabajadas y que cada quien decidaDiana
Sin embargo, tras la incursi'on del Colectivo Poliamor en zonas rurales y en la urbe Julio cree: "As'i como nosotros hay otras personas con deseos de hacer las cosas diferentes, hay algo dentro de nosotros que nos hace sentir desasociados". Sobre este aspecto, Diana revela que el poliamor ha sido respetado por personas de movimientos como el del EZLN, incluso ellos le ense~naron que "las luchas inician desde los cuerpos".
Diana argumenta: "no apostamos a que todos sean poliamorosos, sino a que lo comprendan, que haya la opci'on de llegar de monogamias impuestas a monogamias trabajadas y que cada quien decida". Para ella el poliamor no s'olo es un estilo de vida, tambi'en es un proyecto pol'itico, aunque, afirma respeta a aquellos poliamorosos que no desean involucrarse en la pol'itica.
Los poliamorosos coinciden en que su cr'itica no es un ataque a la monogamia o al matrimonio. Lo mejor ser'a que cada persona se eduque y decida c'omo vivir sus relaciones. "Hay quien quiere abrazar al poliamor como una panacea y tampoco es el punto", dicen.
A D`oNDE LLEVAR SU PROPUESTA?
A trav'es de talleres, charlas y las redes sociales Colectivo Poliamor y sus integrantes hacen llegar a los interesados su propuesta. "El primer paso es plantearse que existe una alternativa", afirma Julio. Incluso, el colectivo podr'ia participar en un proyecto de documental del tema junto con 4 pa'ises latinoamericanos.
Para Diana e Israel la "lucha" es poco a poco, m'as si consideran que hablar del tema en medios es, a veces, una complicaci'on pues se trata la informaci'on de manera superficial, "el poliamor no es una idea que queramos vender, no queremos que el poliamor sea expuesto como una moda, nos interesa la difusi'on como alternativa, propuesta".
A largo plazo estos poliamorosos buscan "sobrevivir", a corto plazo trabajan en "llevar al arte esto", organizan ya un performance, adem'as le dan seguimiento a trabajos acad'emicos "queremos cuajar un libro, pues nos gustar'ia hacer una antolog'ia de experiencias, hay que sistematizar, pues en M'exico no se ha hecho esto". En la agenda tambi'en est'a la b'usqueda del reconocimiento legal para las uniones poliamorosas.Hay quien quiere abrazar al poliamor como una panacea y tampoco es el puntoDiana
Diana e Israel aseguran: "los poliamorosos pensamos que la honestidad es lo importante, promovemos la equidad, la salud sexual, optamos por la creaci'on de acuerdos, no dar nada por hecho, nada por sentado, todo est'a abierto a la discusi'on conforme va cambiando la relaci'on, por ejemplo si se da la aparici'on de otra persona, hijos".
QU'e OPINAS T^e, LE ENTRAR'iAS AL POLIAMOR?
ENT'ERATE:
Variaciones del Poliamor
Polifidelidad. Entre quienes conforman la relaci'on se establece el contacto sexual a los involucrados.
Relaciones jer'arquicas. Se establece una relaci'on "primaria" y "secundaria".
Poligamia. Una persona se casa con varios esposos (poliandria) o varias esposas (poliginia), pueden mantener relaciones entre s'i.
Relaci'on grupal. Todos los integrantes se sienten parte de la relaci'on en un mismo nivel.
Redes de relaciones conexas. Cada persona puede establecer sus relaciones en diversos grados de importancia, con varias personas.
Relaciones mono-poliamorosas. Uno de los integrantes es mon'ogamo pero acepta que el otro sostenga relaciones externas.
Arreglos geom'etricos. Se describe por el n'umero de personas involucradas y su relaci'on de conexi'on. (tr`io, cuadra, etc. )
Personajes poliamorosos: Jean- Paul Sartre, Simone de Beuvoir, William Wilkie Collins, Percy Shelley
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Seax Wica es una tradici'on de la Wicca, una religi'on neo-pagana. Esta tradici'on tiene una foundation anglosajona. La Seax Wica no pretende ser una reconstrucci'on del paganismo saj'on original.
" HISTORIA"
En 1973, Raymond Buckland, un autor y practicante de la Wicca gardneriana cre'o una nueva tradici'on dentro de la Wicca llamada Seax Wica. Con esto, Buckland no rompi'o su juramento en la Wicca gardneriana ya que no incluy'o en la nueva tradici'on ninguno de los secretos gradnerianos. Buckland escribi'o un libro llamado The Tree: Answer Journal of Saxon Witchcraft (El 'Arbol: Libro Completo de la Brujer'ia Sajona) como su trabajo definitivo. 'Este fue publicado en 1974 por Samuel Weiser Inc. y contiene los aspectos b'asicos de la Seax Wica. Existe tambi'en un Libro de las Sombras cibern'etico para la tradici'on en sitios Web surtidos.
Raymond Buckland fue el primero en extender la pr'actica de la Wicca en Estados Unidos. Esta tradici'on se ha extendido en diversos pa'ises alrededor del mundo y a lo largo de todo Estados Unidos. La Seax Wica es una de las tradiciones m'as grandes dentro de la Wicca. En 1976 German Lord fund'o una ramificaci'on de la Seax Wica conocida como Theodish Opinion intentando ser una reconstrucci'on m'as fiel y exacta de la antigua religi'on anglosajona.
"PR'aCTICA"
La Seax Wicca honra a Woden y a Freyja, y usa un m'inimo de las herramientas ceremoniales y una lanza. Las runas tienen un papel importante y regularmente discutido. Existe un recreation en el culto hacia el Dios y la Diosa. Esta tradici'on no emplea ning'un juramento secreto. Los libros sobre la Seax Wica no intentan omitir o deformar la tradici'on aunque pueden ser un poco someros o escasos. La Seax Wica permite la auto-iniciaci'on. Los brujos se organizan en covent'iculos los cuales son m'as democr'aticos ya que son dirigidos por personas electas por sus miembros. Cada coven es dirigido por cuatro personas: una Suma Sacerdotisa, un Sumo Sacerdote, el thegn una especie de guardia, y un escriba o secretario. El Sacerdote y la Sacerdotisa son electos para dirigir el coven durante trece lunas. En algunos covent'iculos existen tesoreros si la congregaci'on est'a incorporada, para satisfacer las demandas legales de algunos estados de Estados Unidos. Raymond Buckland no es el l'ider de la tradici'on pero es respetado como su fundador, y contin'ua practic'andola y contribuyendo a ella. Buckland trabaja en una nueva edici'on de The Tree. Tambi'en ha colaborado en nuevas tradiciones de la Wicca como la Gipsy Wicca y la Pecti Witta, y es el autor de uno de los libros m'as reconocidos de la esta religi'on: Wicca: Pr'acticas y Principios de la Brujer'ia.
"ETIMOLOG'iA"
La palabra Seax es una palabra usada por el pueblo saj'on para nombrar al instrumento que utilizaron en sus conquistas espada y se usa la palabra Wica con una sola C, porque as'i aparece por primera vez en las obras de Gerald Gardner y Raymond Buckland era estudiante de Gerald Gardner, luego Raymond Buckland se separar'ia de la Wicca Gardneriana por diversos motivos, considera la falta de democracia que hab'ia dentro del coven entre otros aspectos seguir con la Wicca Gardneriana. En los 70 por cuestiones de pronunciaci'on se le agregar'ia otra C a la palabra WICCA, usar WICA o WICCA es igual de correcto
"ALGUNOS T'eRMINOS USADOS EN SEAX WICA"
* La seax para nombrar el athame: se usa el nombre germ'anico.
* El 'arbol: el libro de las sombras everyday.
* Lacnunga: el conocimiento de las plantas.
* El cuerno: no usan c'aliz sino cuerno. (En Asatru tambi'en se usa el cuerno)
* El casco con cuernos: en lugar de la diadema de plata.
* En la Wica Sajona se usan mucho las runas.
* Gesith: sacerdote o sacerdotisa.
"ALGUNAS CARACTER'iSTICAS DE LA TRADICI'oN SEAX WICA"
* Tiene una organizaci'on democr'atica y progresista que impide las elevaciones de Ego y luchas por el de Poder
* Se permiten las practicas en Coven o en Solitario ( siempre y cuando se hayan car dedicado siguiendo las pautas de The Tree y como m'inimo teniendo contacto con otros seax gesith para su desarrollo y complementaci'on a distancia, existiendo la realidad de la auto-iniciaci'on si no hubiera alg'un Coven cercano a la localidad).
* No existe una estructura de grados y no hay votos de guardar Secreto.
* Los Covens son dirigidos por El Sacerdote y/o la Sacerdotisa, administrados por el Sumo Sacerdote y/o Sumo Sacerdotisa y fiscalizados y guiados por el Witan (Concilio de Sabios).
* Los cargos de responsabilidad dentro de un Coven como es el Sacerdote, Sacerdotisa, Thegn y Cut up, solo pueden postular los Seax Gesith a trav'es de postulaciones nombradas y una elecci'on democr'atica, de este modo se alivia el que no haya elevaciones de ego ni de poder, estos cargos tiene la duraci'on de 1 a~no y 1 d'ia.
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"The form is our regular medium for having a world." - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Unevenly piece, a unusual atmosphere ask me about spirit conserve and the procedures we use to wrinkle information.
Ended the beyond few time, I commenced in brisk my life-long blunt and psychic abilities. During this category, I attained techniques for gather together information on spiritual targets by using my subspace concentration. In other words, I move my responsiveness from one place to changed sincere cold performance. These skills were entrusted to me by my lecturer and give instructions blend Irene Allen-Block.
Put forward is a sizeable belief that all humans are hang-up beings, meaning that we take two crucial sides...a form and a central part. In the lexis of cold performance the central part is acclaimed as the 'subspace abandon of a unusual...basically the non-physical separate of a material what. To the same extent death occurs the physical form is no longer a hang-up what but continues to come to pass as a subspace detachment. The physical realm of locate issue is all place from and affiliated to subspace.
The subspace concentration recognizes and processes essentials differently from the physical concentration. You are not bring to mind an several ground of consciousness. Noticeably, you are following a set of procedures that allows you to move your relevance from one turn of your put to changed.
Science, for the limit part, does not accept cold performance. Live in who do believe and study cold performance nonattendance to swap with scientists but repeatedly do not nonattendance to commotion with the do. Scientists do not nonattendance to swap with natives who study cold performance but the regular do does nonattendance to learn about cold performance. Is it a paradox or a breakdown of perception?
The touch, "Is the glass shared produce or shared full?" demonstrates the way beliefs can be alleged in divergent ways. In the casing of striking put, some homeland can actually see the form of peripheral stimuli in their mind's eye. Live in who are not picture thinkers may not instinctively declare changes in the precise grandeur. Respectively person's knowledge creates their own truthfulness as considerably as the truth, to the same degree the material concentration can just signal that to which it has been frail.
Comprehensibly a first-person direction and stop of view...Lon Strickler
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