Attended the Phish Festival 8 event in Coachella Valley California with my best friend Scott in October 2009. Best 3 days I’ve had in a long time. I pulled out the video cam during Ocelot and caught the dragon coming in to the crowd. HA. I drank 8 Foams (Sierra Nevada brewed special for the festival) that night at the show. So good.

One to go!

Another quickie… I went small again. Somewhat of a generic dragon like character.

Last one’s tomorrow… I feel pretty good that I kept the deadline of 1 a day pretty easily, no matter how silly they were. Anyway, the last one’s tomorrow.

Hace ya mucho tiempo que no escribo con una sola mano en un teclado, con lo cual la historia que rellene la bitácora me llevara transcribirla algún tiempo mas del habitual, una vez mas no he contado con esa extremidad mía que se encuentra inmovilizada por una moderna y acolchada férula de aluminio, pero yo llevo la sensación de que un frío anfibio arborícola me ha aprisionado el dedo indice de la mano izquierda, es una aplastante rana gris hostil que dificulta sumamente las labores de mi mano izquierda, normalmente todos los anfibios que a diario veo son fieles aliados de los horticultores, incluso algunos anfibios que a diario veo en paseos o devenires, me muestran con una sonrisa afable las puertas de la sabiduría, de todos es sabido que en un concurrido parque publico, de esta herculina ciudad de la cual soy un orgulloso conciudadano, habita un dragón. En esta ciudad en la que los pulpos se pasean por las avenidas, para introducirse por su propio pie en grandes calderos de cobre ; en esta ciudad también habita entre arces y cedros un dragón de amable sonrisa con el cual los niños y no tan niños jugamos, siempre esta afable y le encantan los mimos en la barriga, la barbilla, el sobaco, las orejas. Es dragón afable, cariñoso,fiel amigo que incita a la lectura de miles de bellas historias interminables.
Los dragones son seres fantásticos que se repiten en numerosas mitologías, a mi cuando hablamos de dragones, enseguida me viene a la memoria una historia de caballerías escrita a la luz de candelas en una lúgubre mazmorra londinense por un cruel y longevo caballero que en la soledad del calabozo recurrió a la escritura como distracción para hacer mas llevadero el presidio. Thomas Mallory escribió en prosa la muerte del mítico caudillo celta al que conocemos como Arturo. Arturo era el hijo de un hombre que camino sobre el aliento de un dragón, su padre era Uther Pendragon amigo de ese gran druida mágico que fue Merlín. Merlín tenia ademas de Uther como afable aliado un dragón, uno de los múltiples dragones que habitan en las grutas marinas de los acantilados de los fines del mundo que hay en estas embravecidas costas. Gracias a este dragón que habitaba a los pies del castillo de Titangel, Uther pudo engendrar a Arturo. El amable dragón expandió su aliento sobre los acantilados , formando una densa bruma sobre la que Uther cabalgo para tomar en sus brazos a su amada, que se hallaba en la torre del homenaje del inexpugnable castillo de Titangel. Titangel es un castillo defendido por el embravecido mar de los celtas, en ese país donde se acaba el mundo llamado Cornualles. Al sur de Cornualles tras pasar la roca del obispo se encuentra otro fin del mundo en otra nación celta la Bretaña. En estas costas que baña el atlántico norte en el viejo continente europeo, se entremezclan y repiten paisajes, lugares,noches,sonrisas,vientos, faros,llantos,verdes, sonidos, palabras,peces,amores,tormentas, dolmenes,azules, menhires,lluvias, sentimientos,piedras, colinas,catedrales, cruces en el mar, prados,naufragios, pueblos, redes, canciones, manos hacendosas,fines del mundo,brumas,nombres,fortalezas,vidas, mar,ilusiones, historias y flores. Los celtas tenemos una flor que nos une a todos , es una sencilla flor amarilla presente en todos nuestros litorales. Es la flor de un arbusto que pertenece a la benéfica familia de la leguminosae. Un arbusto que no solo nos provee a estos litorales de inspiración para ornar acaudalados escudos armoriales que cuelgan en graníticas fachadas, habitadas por el húmedo musgo en las señoriales casas. Aprovisiona de resistentes herramientas, inexpugnables fortificaciones, alimento para el ganado, sustento para las tierras y el mas cálido de los fuegos para la cocina de los hogares. Es un post escueto ,pero me ha llevado su tiempo escribirlo con una sola mano, es un post para la que sin duda considero la flor de las naciones celtas. Contemplad pues la sencilla belleza de flor que mas habita en los litorales celtas y que no es otra que la del Ulex europea. L. Post dedicado a mi madre quien llama a esta flor xurima.

“It is not the beginning of the end, merely the end of the beginning.” These words are particularly appropriate this week, as I finish out Nanowrimo. Tomorrow is the final day, at which time I will have my very first finished novel. Of course, I say finished, but as stated above, this is an illusion. My Novel will have been given shape, but it has not yet been given life. That will require several months of intensive editing, re-editing, reading, re-reading, and possibly some re-writing. However, the basic form which it has now will not change.

It will still be a story about a Dragon named Aurelia who collects books, and is a scholar. She will still set out on a a quest to locate an object with several human companions. And she will still narrate the Story for us. So, I thought this week it would be appropriate to give a synopsis of the Novel as it now stands.

The Story is set in an alternate history Europe, with both Medieval elements and Classical elements, as well as some purely fantastical elements. The Narrator, Aurelia, is a Bookewyrme, though throughout the story she, and other bookewyrmes are referred to as “Librarians” as that is usually their occupation. Aurelia’s library is housed in the castle of the Prince of Durham, the younger brother of the King of Brittania. The Prince has three children, a daughter who is the eldest, and two younger sons. Unfortunately, the daughter cannot inherit, though she is the most suited to do so, because the Law of the Kingdom forbids this. The Princess is on the verge of being married to a Prince of another Kingdom, thus separating her both from her Rightful Inheritance and her beloved Lady Marisa, when she comes up with a desperate plan. She decides to set out to find an artifact associated with the Helenic God Hermaphroditus which is said to be able to change the gender of whoever uses it. She is accompanied by several Guards, the Lady Marisa, our Narrator Aurelia, and Aurelia’s plucky maid, Elsie.

They travel through many lands, and encounter many different people and beings, including an ordinary (and very bad-tempered) dragon, a woman who is one quarter Valkyrie, and a Dwarf. One of the places they visit is the Land of the Elves, which is based rather heavily on Ancient Egypt. Here they encounter the oldest living Bookewyrme, and several Elven Gods. At last, they finish their Journey to the Temple of Hermaphroditus in Eastern Helas, returning the Artifact to its proper place, and gaining the God’s gratitude. The Novel ends with the Princess returning to her own Kingdom to claim her proper place as her Father’s Heir.

Of course, there are a few twists and turns, but as I hope to publish this story some day, I will not spoil them for anybody. The novel is actually the first in a trilogy featuring Aurelia, called The Librarian Chronicles. Currently, the title of this work is “Princess” but it is possible this will change over time.

Many apologies for the short post today. I still have about 3,000 more words to chase around the page before Midnight tomorrow, and if I leave them for too long, they start to Escape.

Until next week, Dear Reader!

Thought for the Day: “You can’t wait for Inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” Jack London

Currently Reading: Cordelia’s Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

I already explained briefly about the structure of Eden, now I will speak about the gardens.

Eden is in the center of the realm of time and space. From a point of view of the third dimension, Eden would be a huge mass of hydrogen. Is pretty cold there.

Eden is built in a dimension that cannot be seen by human eyes. It is a sonic dimension.

All around Eden are placed the gardens. Each garden is what we call a Universe. Each Universe is a garden. Humans call as Universe the whole, but we Angels use the word Universe for each garden, in the singular. Each Universe is separate from the other by a black hole layer, therefore the beings from one Universe hardly can see the other. Some can, but is rare. In this Universe for example is possible to see our neighbor Universe from Orion ( the Universe of green lights), but this is because we are in the very corner of our Universe, in the very very corner.

Each Universe has a particular way to work and different physical rules, the only ships that can cross the from one Universe to another are the Elfic Spaceships, what means, Angels and smugglers only ( who sometimes steal our ships, and travel with these stolen ships). I don´t bother about them because they are under the crown of the Dark Prince, my brother, they are apolitical and there is a silent agreement between me and the Dark Prince, that he supplies the planets that are too far away for my logistic to go, so, although they are criminals, they are totally necessary, because they are a parallel vein that supply mainly tritium and communication for the darkest corners of my Principality.

I could do it, but I love the Dark Prince, and I think that he does the job well, so I do not intend to take his job. There is space for everyone to grow in my Principality, since the person respect the populations, so I respect his fire of doing things on his own way, as long as he remains away from Michael´s policies and for exploiting the populations, and in this case there is another silent agreement, the price of his products are lower that the official products, however he sells mainly to the poorer populations, so he is an important branch for me to fight the Michaels´s system that made happen a sick distribution of resources, and this way I can be sure that everyone gets the necessary to live.

So, as I was saying, each Universe is apart form the other by a black hole ring. Each Universe has a Princess, a Dark Prince, An Ambassador, a Melquisedec´s office, at least.

The Princess distribute the land and establish the lineages of the kings, plus built the structure, choose the philosophy and even can order a changing in few physical rules to the Graal, if that would be good for the populations. We can also destroy or order new planets, change the routes and so on, but generally this things are chosen before there are populations in the Universe.

The Dark Prince is the one that will host under his crown all sort of criminals, and organize them to the minimal damage ( to Eden). He is an Angel too. In the case of this Universe, the Dark Prince is my brother from the Diamond Family ( in the Black Diamond stage).

The Ambassador is always a Lucifer, he takes care of the Eden´s citizens and of Edens business in the Universe.

Melquisedec´s team collects the taxes – the Princess don´t touch the taxes. He also liberates the resources that I need to run the Universe. We work very well together, his team is wonderful, they are usually hosted at the Embassy, because they are citizens of Eden and the Embassy is the best protected place in the Universe.

How do I run the Universe? Theoretically, through the royal lineages. But now the Universe is not being run, it is more to something chaotic because Michael attacked and killed my Kings and Queens and placed impostors in the thrones of all major planets. As a royal lineage takes generations to be done, because of the genetic adjustments, me and Lucifer had to invent the democracy to fight back the thieves, but it makes our job much more complex.

Democracy is a condition, not a choice, as it may seem. We establish it, with a lot of sacrifice, after a kingdom has been taken by Michael´s barbarians, so to protect the population against their exploitation, but it is not the ideal system. The ideal system is the kingdom with a king from the celestial lineages.

Why? Because then we can distribute the resources better. A royal family from the Angelic lineages have something that others are not supposed to have – the genetic that allow what in English is called “channeling” or “paranormality”, this way the royal family can be all the time in contact with the Principality, receiving our direct orders and placing their kingdom in tune with our organization for all the Principality, making the resources flow smoothly among all planets. Presently, without the true royal lineages placed in the right positions just as hubs of communication and flow of resources, the contact among the planets and with us in the Principality is almost non existent.

A paranormal cannot be loose among the ordinary population, as it is happening now, because he suffer, he is delicate. Now they are born everywhere without special protection, but to spread the genetic was the only way to protect the royal lineages from been completely terminated by the Michael´s hunters. A paranormal must be protected inside the walls of a palace, by a guard of beings of his kind plus a guard of Angels. Why? Because he is a telephone, a precious and rare tool, a gem whose genetic took millenia to be prepared.

As a delicate tool, if he is unprotected, he will be used by evil spirits, because a telephone can be used by those who have access to the line, while he was prepared to serve only the Angels. There should not be evil spirits in my Principality, they are also a result of the distortion and mess that Michael created, because he destroyed the perfect system of collection of the souls that we had, since he placed into the hearts of the creatures the wish to meet God. This way, these souls are out of tune, and our systems are not capable to collect them decently, and then they suffer of hunger and thirsty, because there have never been created a place for them in this state, they should not exist in this state, and then they become evil and take control of the semi-sacred sensitives.

I did all right in the beginning, I placed my Angelic genetic in the best individuals of all species, I turned them into Queens and Kings, and there was no famine, pain, cold, or lack of education or lack of development, all in time.

But then Michael come, hired barbarians to kill my Kings and their families “in the name of God” with his brainwashing, called the real Kings as barbarians and placed in the throne the corrupt brute of his court, that started to exploit the people. As his “kings” were not paranormal sensitives, he kidnapped the paranormals of my celestial lineages, the original heirs, because they had special capabilities ( the one of being capable to talk to us in the Principality), and enslaved my children at service of his brute corrupt “kings”.

What could me and Lucifer do? Well, we asked to the Department of Philosophy, and some of our friends in there come up with this brilliant idea of democracy. We finally took the power partially back with the democracies, but this system is not perfect, because we have no way yet to protect the sensitives, our direct children, who are still exploited, and there is no way to assure the fair distribution of resources, and there is still corruption. But is better than the Michael´s barbarians.

Michael could not take all the Kingdoms, so he had a great idea. He established a parallel spiritual power, that he called religions. In the original kingdoms there were no need of religion, because the Queen and King are in contact with the Angels all the time. There is no need to maintain a second expensive structure, because the resources, if remaining in a kingdom, must be applied for the education of the children and in structure, not in keeping an expensive structure to supposedly please God, deceiving people. People does not to have to think about it, the royal lineages are doing the connection for all. This is the most pragmatical and economically optimal way.

Because in the original kingdoms there were no religion, Michael called them barbarians, but the contact with the Angels were much more intense and effective in that times than now.

Well, with that, Michael took some Kingdoms, that we turned into democracies later, but he kept the control of the minds through his parallel religious structure, that is not at all tied to Eden, it is only tied to the Grays and run by the Grays, because me and Lucifer are the ones with the original power of attorney of Eden, only we have the official channels to Eden. The connection of Michael and his religions with”God”never left the borders of this Universe, at least not officially. About GOD herself, yes, she does speak even with ordinary people, She can speak even with a flower, but She does not accept intermediates. If She is to speak with someone, She goes directly and speak, and differently of us, Angels, that need a sensitive to be our voice for the populations, GOD does not need it, She speaks directly to the person, so the religions does not have anything to do with Her, at all.

In my Principality there were originally one function for each kind of person, and all could live and be happy. But now is all messed up, people´s minds are full of the burdens that they don´t need, and everyone suffer in one field or another.

Me and Lucifer, we look at this with horror, but we honestly don´t know what else to do. I continue my endurance for the Alchemical Marriage in human bodies, but there is not much for me to do from here. Democracy was our last shot, but in this places it seems that the religions of Michael prospered too. Well, we will continue thinking, and one day we will find a way to set the minds and hearts free again, and to undo the genetic mess that Michael did to assure a way to enslave the populations in his own purposes.

Unbelievable? See the results, then. See the results, Grays, look what you did with your betrayal, look at yourselves! See the results, Eden! Look at the populations that remained loyal to me, there is no famine, no pain! Look at the populations that carry the dragon and the Elfic symbols! They are not so numerous, but there is no under-education! They are the top in life style in every single planet of my Principality!

One think is vital to reveal.

The humans were not supposed to be our masterpiece. The Grays were. The Grays received the best minds that we had in stock at the Graal Industries. The Grays received bodies immune to radiation, and they were given the Stars to live, the Grays were given originally the appearance of Cherubims, and most important than that, they were the only ones in the Universe given the possibility to feed with the most noble of the food, the gas tritium, placing them in the evolution hierarchy closest than any other species to the Angels.

This is why the betrayal of the Grays is so bitter to me, it is what more hurt my heart, I cannot look to a gray without feeling betrayed, except for the reduced branch of Grays that remained at mine and Lucifer´s side. They are Michael´s motor, the only reason by which Michael prospered.

From our favorites, the Grays become the army that took our legitimate power, and place it in the hands of the thief Michael. The Grays were the ones that performed fake miracles for Michael to impress the populations. The Grays were the ones that killed my direct sons, the original Kings, and all my heritage. The Grays were the ones that killed my daughters, the original Witches. The Grays were the ones that established for Michael a parallel spiritual power, apart form the administrative power, and pursued and tortured my direct lineages, the true celestial lineages, since the beginning of Michael´s betrayal.

What did the Grays got? Human meat. Michael promise to them fast progress by the ingestion of human meat.

So, the Grays of Michael, that once depend only of the Angels and of the noble gas tritium, now become slaves of Michael and depend of human meat to exist, being completely powerless at the hand of Michael that uses them mercilessly until they die of work. These Grays teared apart the spiritual power from the administrative power, giving even more room for excess of public expenses and corruption, because now there are two structures for this to happen. And the people, that should only be happy, develop the mind and technology and leave this things of “God” with the royal family, now is confused believing that they have the fake burden of contacting God directly. This will never happens, because the genetic of the paranormality is necessary, and this fake psychological burden takes the focus of what is important: create their own spaceships, power sources, feeding endless sources, and enjoying thrills of happiness with never ending new discoveries.

In my administration there in no fast progress, I don´t believe in this. Usually is only a waste of time, because the hurry guy must go back all the way in the future. Michael as everyone know is a great speaker, and a lawyer. He fascinated the Grays with the promise of fast progress. He told that the Grays should not depend of Eden to receive Tritium, that they could get their own food and become independent. All wonderful words. The Grays despised what we legitimate Angels in power gave to them. What did they got with Michael? Just look at them! That appearance and slavery is the price of their betrayal, and there is no much I can do to help! Although this fact, we still do what we can for them.

MICHAEL RUINED MY CHERUBIMS!!!! HE TURNED THEM INTO UGLY FEARCE MEET HUNTER DOGS!!!! HE TURNED MY FIRST HELPERS AGAINST ME!!!! I wish to cry when I see the Grays with this present appearance, that is the direct result of their ambition, their lack of trust in me and Lucifer, and they betrayal. Now they can just eat pieces of meat thrown to them under Michael´s chair, and obey without question, always near the starvation.

I spoke with a military General Gray few years ago. He asked me if I knew the purpose of life, because for the Grays the only purpose is to work. Of course there is a purpose, the purpose is to be happy. Of course he could not know this, because once the Grays were conceived to be free and noble members of my Principality and of the Realm of Eden, and now they become, and this is the only condition that the new generations know, they become slaves and dogs of Michael, of course that there is no purpose in slavery. That is why they just know work. When they are tired, they are drugged to work more by their own superiors, that are drugged to work even more by their superiors, that in the end are pressured by Michael to put them working until they die. And they are pride to live this way!

Me and Lucifer could save, with a lot of personal sacrifice of us both and our teams, few hundreds of Grays, that are presently called Yellow Grays, but the Cherubim genetic is lost. Michael´s technicians messed up so deeply in their genetic to adapt them to eat matter that presently they have so few traces of the original beauty that there is no way to go back. The few communities of Grays loyal to us are trying to go back, but the result is few and slow, and demand a degree of sacrifice of them almost unbearable. The new generations of Grays are only victims, they don´t know anything about this, and they buy the silly stories that Michael tells them with passion and high tones in the voice, as is his style of hypnotizing the audience.

Is said in legendary registers of the Grays that they went through a long period without receiving the cargo of tritium, and that they were forced to find an alternative. But at the same registers we can also find their hunger for fast progress, at any price, and, also, we know pretty well that Grays don´t die without food, they hibernate, so is hard to believe that they really went through a life or death situation. Hard to know what happened, because it was far before the episode of the planet Tri, far before the human kind of Gaia was even though of as a possibility by someone at Eden, and involved small colonies of humanoids that do not even exist anymore in this timeline.

However one thing I know, nobody ever starved in my Principality, except those who give themselves voluntarily to the exploitation of Michael, so I may speculate that, if really there was a long period without tritium, perhaps Michael stole the cargo directed to them, to force their choice, and probably he killed the Queen, King and all the heritage, so the Grays could not contact the Principality in time. But still this story is not very likely, first because I would know about the stolen cargo, and second because I can feel anyone from my lineages with serious problems even billions of Stars away, so probably Michael just corrupted few Grays to hide the Tritium, blame the Princess and Lucifer, and deceive the others. Yes. It may be so. Corruption is Michael´s style. That if we decide to believe that there was really a long period without Tritium. Another answer is that it was just mere ambition. Anyway a Gray leader back in the far past made the choice to join Michael and consequently to change their genetic to eat human meat, anyway, anyway, it has nothing to do with the new generations of Grays that are paying a bitter price for that choice.

Last week I received someone from Michael´s political party at my courtroom, and the guy said without any shame that I don´t fit to politics because I do not allow corruption, which is a necessary method to run politics. Imagine that! This guy is sitting at Eden´s Low Chamber! ( the equivalent to a parliament).

I wonder why I am writing all this truth and Michael is not moving. He has more power than me presently. I don´t like at all of this silence, I know that he will not drop the bone easily. I don´t know what is going on in my original dimension, but I must continue telling the real history of the cycle that we lived while away of Eden, before something happens, like for example the remote possibility of having the communications with Gaia forbidden again.

Now, many may ask why this happened this way, and maybe think that me and Lucifer are weak. I am not painting myself and Lucifer as victim, I am just telling the story as it was. Why we did not react? Because we never believed. And still now, is hard to believe. Michael is my youngest brother. Do you know, that baby little brother that a teenage girl hold in the arm? The most loved in all the Diamond family, the young baby boy over cared by all of us. God, my mother in the realm of formless, where Michael is also my brother, said me once that Michael became this way because we older sisters over protected him. Of course that our over care does not justify his cruel string, but even after all this cruel actions and betrayals is very hard to me not to see him as that lovely baby.

By another side, Michael was Lucifer´s best friend, “Lucius” then, near since the birth. As close cousins, they went to pre-school together, they stole together the girl´s underpants when they become teenagers ( metaphor…), they did everything together. This guy, who betrayed us to the last of the possibilities, this guy who turned my Principality upside down, hunted my descendants, took part of my legitimate power, spread corruption and famine among the populations that I love, only to assure his place in the top by fear and pressure, this guy, is our Michael. That baby! The brilliant child of the Diamond family that were even invited to conclude his studies in Satania, where most of us even dream to enter once in a lifetime ( I never entered)! We older sisters were so proud of him! We had so much hope in him! We dedicated so much love to Michael! How could me and Lucifer and our relatives of Eden ever believe that he was behind the falling apart of the Principality. It took ages for us to believe.

Beside, I have never been prepared for sabotage. We do not learn this things in the School for Princesses ( read Department of Philosophy of Eden).

In the planning, my Principality would be perfect. And it would really have been prefect, if was not for the betrayal of someone so close to us. Nobody is ever prepared for this level of betrayal from a younger baby brother and best friend, there is no way to prepare an essence to this situation. There is no way to deal with someone so close easily.

But Michael did not care about our familiar ties as we did. All that he wants is power, power, power. He does not care about the welfare and real expansion of the populations, he just makes nests of corrupts that go the the top and leave the rest of the populations behind. He distributes the resources in a bizarr way. He needs the famine and pain to maintain himself in power, because he is not the legitimate heir of this Principality and not of Eden.

Me and Lucifer become almost powerless without the Grays, for many dimensions, including the most rich and resourceful ( and wished) of all, the third dimension, because the Grays were our primary army. Of course we have the Angel´s army, but the Grays ( Cherubims) are the ones genetically suited to travel among the dimensions, this is their primary function, to be the bridge among the dimensions for the Angels. The Angels are not capable to touch the third dimension easily, we must do it through the few species that are capable to naturally migrate among the dimensions.

The Reptilians can migrate too, but the Reptilians have remained neutral. As it seems, they noticed what was going on before everyone else, including us. I don´t quite understand their position, but they are so few in number that maybe they really assumed the most safe position for themselves, besides, they are older than the rest of us in terms of inhabiting this Universe, so maybe they still know something about this war that we don´t know, and I guess that they will not tell. Our side don´t push someone against their wish, what makes to govern sometimes hard, but this is our principle, so we cannot force them to tell us what else they know.

Anyway, this is not finished yet, and there is a lot to happens along the next 100 years, because the end of the endurance period for the Alchemical Marriage is approaching. Things will heat up, and still is impossible to foresee the result.

The future will tell.

Enough for today.

I love you all, truly. If it was not for the love that I feel for you, I would just go back to travel freely, but I cannot let my beloved ones in the hands of my brother, this is why I am accepting this harsh fight. I don´t seek power, I like freedom more. However I love you so much, Universe and Eden, that I cannot allow myself to stay away from power, what would mean, to leave my beloved ones unprotected, at mercy of a policy that I don´t trust.

Talk to you tomorrow, Eden.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

This whole dream was bright and colourful, like a kid’s cartoon show. I was an animal of some kind (I don’t think I’d been turned into one, it was more like this was my natural state) and I lived with all the other animals in a forest/jungle. The start of the dream is quite hazy but I remember a feeling of peace and happiness. This harmony was shattered though because the dragons and the wolves were going to have a war.

The dragons had always been outcasts who kept to themselves. I don’t know how they had fallen out with the wolves but the rest of us were not involved at all. These dragons weren’t huge like the dragons in cartoons, they were more like big lizards who stood on their back feet. They were probably about the size of a person, maybe smaller.

Everyone was apprehensive about the war because we were afraid we’d get dragged into it or our homes would be destroyed. For this reason, on the day of the first battle, we were all hiding underground. We were hiding under some wooden floorboards and we could look through the slits. We saw the armies of the dragons and the wolves approaching each other (the wolves also stood on their hind legs). At this point it all kicked off and we ran further away from the battle.

At some stage during the battle, an army of humans arrived. I don’t think they had any idea that there was already a war going on between the animals. I’m pretty sure they were just trying to invade whatever country we lived in. This caused everyone, wolves and dragons included, to run as far away as they could and as fast as they could from the humans. The smallest animals were the most scared as they knew the humans would trample on them without even noticing.

I think I was an animal that could swim because I was suddenly swimming in an underground lake with a frog I knew. We surfaced to find ourselves right under a wooden bridge the humans were running across. We had to keep ourselves perfectly still and not disturb the water in case they saw us. We could hear them shouting to each other and I saw them load their guns before running across the bridge.

That’s the last bit I remember but I know the dream was much longer and much more detailed than that.

Dreamer xxx

Woah, Henry’s Dragon is named! Its name is Pheonix. Congratulations to Noct for winning the contest! Also, I am logged on Pandanda NOW on Willow Server. Say hi!

Everything you didn’t know about your favorite animals!

Black Bear

Claim to be the first to wear baseball hats backwards.

Confused loneliness with horny-ness once, but thankfully used protection. Vowed to never let it happen again.

Probably the most sports trivia knowledge, ever. It’s mind-blowing.

Came up with the cheer “strawberry shortcake, banana split! All you guys are playing like sh…!” At ’sh..!’ looks around mock-bashfully.

Once had a delay in O’Hare airport in Chicago that lasted 22 hours.

SquirrelHad a huge crush on Charles’ friend Buddy from ‘Charles in Charge.’

Look cute in a fedora.

Aren’t sure if you’re kidding when you’re being sarcastic.

Taller than you’d think.

Great rack.

Dragon

You won’t believe their stories – but, honest, they’re true.

Guilty pleasure of quoting Disney meetings during work conferences – but doing so on the sly.

Doesn’t watch baseball until the World Series.

Went to a nudist beach and giggled the WHOLE time.

Wikka-wikka-wikka-whaaaa?

Giraffe

When they go on trips they’re the ones that end up paying five dollars for a toothbrush at the hotel gift shop.

When they’ve been drinking they’ll admit it – they had four years of lessons on the accordion.

Think it’s funny to do an impression of Fred Flinstone, but instead say “yabba dabba don’t!”

Did just go there.

Don’t own any loafers, but are always on the look out for a good pair at a great price.

As I mentioned earlier, the selection of the talented young to be sent to the race of the Alchemical Marriage ( with these young having just a confuse idea of what is going on), plus the score of their performance is done primarily by the android computer system that runs our civilization. At the end, when there are few candidates remaining the High Council and the Supreme High Council will watch the candidates closely, but until there all will be run by the system.

The counting of scores is done by two parameters: specific weight and final result of credits and debits.

The specific weight is the quantity of matter that the sonic control of each individual needs to aggregate, to become operational in material environments. I will speak about the sonic control later. The quantity of matter that the sonic control needs to operate is given by the ability of the mind to set up the adjustments of the sonic control. The mind has as tools for adjusting the sonic control the 7 virtues and the 7 sins.

The counting of credits and debits is the direct result of the actions of these candidates over the material world, mainly over the lives of others. It is called carbon credits, and it makes a temporary second layer of matter over the sonic control. While the first layer of matter is permanent and necessary, this second layer can be used as money for those who are capable to negotiate in the 4th dimension. On other hand, a layer of debit can be a sign for third parties to enslave the individual into an unpleasant situation, but this is another issue.

While the Angel is in the material world, only technicians of the Graal could perhaps analyze separately these two parameters. In general, the Angel as a whole is weighted and the result is called generically as specif weight. I am not going to speak about the parameters for humans at this text, these are for Angels and Fallen Angels. For humans the counting of “elevation” has more parameters, like for example the matching of the behavior with the initial purpose given by the Graal, among others, and this is not our issue, we are still talking about the Alchemical Marriage of the Angels.

Let´s talk again about me and Michael. I am in the top of the race because my specific weight is lighter. Nobody can hack this measure in the system, it is material weight, anyone can calibrate our equipments to be precise anytime, there is no way to deceive because this parameter is so absurdly basic.

So, last year of Gaia ( 2008), the technicians of the Graal took mine and Lucifer´s weight and raised us to the top of the score.

Many Angels of Eden were very confused and frustrated, because they have always been supporting Michael´s political party.

They did not know our position in the race, because the communications between Eden and Gaia, for the public ( at Eden) , were forbidden since 20.000 years ago and were restored fully only last year. Before there was only diplomatic communication, and limited communication with few departments.

Most of Eden were at Michael´s side, so they were very angry with our raising in the score, and because of their loyalty many Angels connected with us personally ( means like made a multidimensional phone call), to blame us and to find out and expose what they thought that was a failure of the system.

They blamed and blamed…until they approached us and took a look around, and found something very different of what they expected. The guys that came to talk to us did see and feel that something was wrong, not with us, Fallen Angels, or with the system, but with the story that was told to them during the time that the communications with us were cut.

They could see with their own eyes that mine and Lucifer´s behavior did match with the specific weight that the equipments were showing, and then come the question, why harm and defamation had been done against us all this time? The answer was clear, we just could be hiding something!

That is what crossed their minds, I know, but I am not the one to answer it. Each Angel must find his own answer, because as opposite to my brother, we don´t need to manipulate the minds. I am Veronica, the bearer of the truth ( vero). My bridegroom is Lucifer, the bearer of the light. When the light approaches the truth, there is no need for explanations, all is clear to all, it is then just a choice of each essence to open or not to open their eyes to see the truth that the light shows.

But as I bear the truth I can tell why our specif weight is lighter. Is because we don´t have guilt. Not even the guilt that could possibly come from postponing, because we have been always very active to spread our beliefs.

Michael´s political party has the guilt of oppressing and torturing the feminine essence in all the known time and space, plus at Eden. The Angels of this political party gave themselves in holocaust many times, however this action, although fair, just settle the parameter of credits and debits, leaving them even with the accountants, however, there is the other parameter for the specific weight, as I said, that is the adjustments that the mind does to operate the sonic control.

Me, Lucifer, and all the Rebels can adjust the sonic control to work very lightly, because we don´t have any intention of pushing anyone, like Michael´s people push the feminine essence against their real will and purposes. If one are not going to pressure another, there is no need of weight.

Easy to understand? Not to respect the other essences is a hell of a heavy weight. One must became weighter than the other to push this other.

Of course, we are capable of momentarily overweight ourselves, so to rescue someone. We, as daemons, as they call us, are masters about sins and virtues. We can wear or take a sin from our sonic control at our will, as well as any virtue. They are tools at our tool belt. We are not addicted to, and we don´t fear any sin or virtue, but we don´t discard them, that would be silly, they exist and are very useful, and we know how to do it.

I personally love my anger and hate tools, they take me down to hell to see wonderful things at the speed of light. I love to watch the dense feelings of the hell, specially the damn dense sick loyalty that exist only there, that sometimes bring me tears. The feelings of the hell are so beautiful that I built a castle for myself in there, so to watch them better. The same way I can use virtue tools to rush to heaven, anyway these are tools for us Fallen Angels.

Speaking about rescue, makes me remind that we used the same tools to rescue Miguel and Matael. Of course, this was our duty as we run the Principality and the Embassy. Lucifer Ab Havona and even the Lucifer Gawry Eil came to that event. I wondered for long time the real reason why Miguel and Matael were locked there at the center of the Elemental Control of Gaia, and I wondered even more why they rushed to Michael ( to assume Nebadon) as fast as they left the hospital of the Embassy. We all have been one time or another locked there at the Elemental Control, but still I wondered about that event for a time, because it was kind of shocking.

Easy to understand now. I love Miguel and Matael, cousins of my love Lucifer, but now I know that besides Michael live the brute souls who enslave the feminine essence. What Miguel and Matael did to their brides is unspeakable. I know that their brides will hate me for saying this in public, because the feminine loyalty of Angels is almost eternal, but I must say even if they come to hate me, because Eden must know what was really going on in Gaia while they believed in Fairy Tales sitting in their wonderful homes at Angelsland.

Miguel and Matael did not treat their brides as equals, what would be a great concession because the girls are better. They treated them as cargo and as burden, they did not respect their brides will and need for expansion, and did not respect the love that they received from the brave Ruby girls. They just froze the two girls alive in a coffin for thousands of years. Repeating: froze Isis and Osiris alive in a coffin for thousands of years. Only because the boys were incapable to win them in the argument. Of course, of course, of course that Miguel and Matael would join Michael as soon as they were free, to assume the top positions at Michael´s side. And of course that they will never have the same specific weight of Lucifer, that is the standard of the freedom and respect to the will of the essences.

Who is going to become your next governors, Eden? What do you want for yourselves?

Isis and Osiris, I understand the love that you feel, I wish you the best luck, and I wish that you manage to find a way not to be frozen along the eternity every time that you disagree with your husbands. However, if you ever think twice about this marriage, there are wonderful Ruby guys among the Rebels, that will ever respect you and the magnificent beings that you are. I am not joking. In case you don´t remember in Eden there is no police and everything is allowed, if they decide to freeze you and put you at the center of the room as an ornament nobody will infertere, until you decide to sue them yourselves ( what you cannot do frozen), or until you become so sad that you decide to go back to the formless realm. Those who do not value loyalty do not deserve it. Nobody deserve this level of sacrifice without real need for it to happens ( like for example a son in danger). Nobody need to have this kind of life. You are our cousins, you are welcome here anytime.

About Miguel and Matael, I reinforce that I love you, we were part of the same fleet as pilots, we know each other since schoo time, and I intend to continue cooperating with you, but I don´t share your point of view, and is time to bring light to the happenings of the cycle that we lived in Gaia.

Gabriel, on the other side, dedicates all his energy to find his bride, still unidentified and perhaps living as human ( hey, Gabriel´s bride, are you awake?).  Of course he would remain beside those who understand this feeling and that have been through the same search. While human he was a wonderful and respectful husband. We all at Havona share his wish to find her, and this shows which side this fortunate couple belongs, were they can live their love without restrictions.

This was my communication of today to Eden, I hope this was useful.

I truly love you all, otherwise I would not speak, because this is painful for me.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

Hello Everyone!

CowboysBlitz

Olá pessoal. Bem, espero que tenham sentido minha falta depois de alguns dias sem um walkthrough meu. Embora, pensando bem, talvez não tenham sentido tanta graças ao nosso time que praticamente coloca um post novo por dia no BadgeAddicted . Hoje trago instruções de um jogo diferente, que chama a atenção pelos seus gráficos simples e pela idéia trabalhada pelo criador, que faz com que você queira ir até o fim, e então, recomeçar só para ter aquela sensação de dever cumprido obtendo todos achievements do game. A baixo tentarei levá-los a conquista destes achievements. Então aprendam HOW TO RAISE A DRAGON.

Choose Your Path!

Bem, o objetivo do jogo é bem simples. Você deve passar pelos 4 estágios da vida de um dragão, sendo que o último você estará na pele de um bravo guerreiro que escolherá entre venerar a criatura ou se opor a ela. O jogo é interresante pela diversidade de opções que você pode escolher na construção de seu dragão. Entretanto, ainda sim, o jogo é curto e pode ser finalizado em poucos minutos.

Primeiro Estágio – Aqui não há muito o que fazer. Na verdade você só irá definir a cor que deseja para seu dragão. A cor será definida por aquilo que ele come, portanto, se quer ver ele verde coma bastante vegetais. Você pode obter a coloração que quiser, basta saber combinar as cores primárias. No final desta etapa o mago irá levar seu dragão para o castelo dele.

Segundo Estágio – Nesta etapa seu dragão se encontra dentro do castelo do mago. Aqui você irá definir o tipo de chamas que sua criatura terá. Você pode optar por Fogo, Heal, Plant ou None (nada). A baixo digo como pegar cada um deles.

Fire Breath – São 4 itens que o dragão deve comer. Fogo da lareira 2 andares abaixo da jaula que você inicia a fase. Lampião, no alto da torre direita do castelo. Vela no quarto do bebê. Tocha no esgoto.

Heal Breath – 4 itens. Cogumelos azuis no esgoto. Garrafa azul no quarto do bebê. Remédio azul na torre direita. Taça azul, logo abaixo do quarto do mago.

Plant Breath – 4 itens. Planta logo acima da jaula. Flor da fonte na parte esquerda do castelo. Árvore no corredor central do castelo. Planta acima da sala de jantar.

Breath None – Apenas saia do castelo pelo esgoto.

Terceiro Estágio – Neste estágio será definido o comportamento de seu dragão. O Behavior é feito a partir das ações tomadas nesta fase, ou seja, aquilo que você faz no nível implicará no comportamento do dragão. São 7 Behaviors existentes, como segue abaixo:

Fiery – Precisa do Fire Breath – Queime tudo a sua volta e então sente no castelo ou na área mais a direita.

Necromantic – Precisa de Heal Breath – Ressuscite aquilo que estiver morto. Depois sente no castelo ou na área a direita.

Healer – Precisa de Heal Breath – Use os poderes de cura em tudo que conseguir. Depois sente no castelo ou na área a direita.

Rampaging – Pode ser adquirido com qualquer poder – Coma tudo em seu caminho, então sente no castelo ou na área a direita.

Reclusive – Pode ser adquirido com qualquer poder – Siga a fase até o fim e sente no castelo ou na área a direita. Não faça nada, não use seus poderes e não coma ninguém.

Wild – Precisa do Plant Breath – Utilize o plant breath em tudo em seu caminho, e então, sente no castelo ou na área a direita.

Fertile – Precisa do Plant Breath – Utilize o plant breath apenas nas plantações. Existem 3 na fase. Se acertar uma ou duas árvores talvez ainda consiga este behavior.

Titles

Guardian – Qualquer poder – Não mate nada e sente no castelo.

Tyrant – Mate tudo e todos que puder e sente no castelo. 

Watcher – Não mate nada e sente na área direita da fase.

Scourge – Acabe com tudo e com todos e siga para a área direita da fase.

Quinto Estágio – Aqui você apenas irá definir o final do seu jogo. Nenhum achievement está relacionado com as ações que fizer aqui.

Bem, espero que isto ajude a todos você a pegarem as badges do jogo. Não dá muito trabalho, apenas lembrem-se que não é necessário reiniciar o jogo inteiro para conseguir os achievements, pois no menu inicial você pode escolher que etapa deseja fazer denovo.

Abraços, CowboysBlitz.

Game Link: http://www.kongregate.com/games/GregoryWeir/how-to-raise-a-dragon

Bueno primero que nada pensaras quien rayos es Greg Zeschuk, Bueno el simplemente es el co-fundador de Bioware y jefe del recién creado, grupo creativo de RPG/MMO de EA, así que simplemente es de los meros chonchos por parte de Bioware y como sabrás ahora parte de EA.

Pero basta de tanto rollo y vamos directo a lo importante en una entrevista que le realizo Joystiq.com, el cual lo primero en preguntarle fue, Dragon Age ha sido el primero juego que desarrollan para la consola de ps3 que nos puedes decir de este proceso a lo que él contesta:

Nos Asociamos con Edge of Reality, de modo que estábamos con persona que han tenido la experiencia y eso fue un proceso bueno ya que ellos sabían como hacerlo y bueno de ahí partimos para trabajar en equipo y así poder explotar todo el de la consola y yo diría que fue muy interesante y estimulante trabajar en otra consola y no solo en PC y Xbox 360.

También comento lo siguiente:

Tenemos a unas cuantas persona trabajando en casa (no se a que se refiera con eso, pero me supongo que se refiere a el desarrollo en la consola ps3 por su propia cuenta y no junto a Edge of Reality), Creemos que es una plataforma clave, así que obviamente estaremos trabajando de forma definitiva con el Ps3. Sabes no puedo decir nada acerca de Mass Effect en ese sentido pero ya sabes, lo puedo decir, Dragon Age y futuros juegos definitivamente llegaran al ps3. Fue genial pasar por la experiencia de hacer Dragon Age, y poder familiarizarse con todo el poder del ps3. Una vez más, cada plataforma es diferente, pero ahora creo que estamos en la posición de que el ps3 será el futuro inminente.

También otra de las preguntas que le hizo joystiq es. ¿Han hablado de Mass Effect para el Ps3? porque eso sería un problema ya que si mass effect será una trilogía ¿cual sería el principio en el ps3?.

Y dijo:

Nosotros no estamos hablando nada acerca de Mass Effect para Ps3, Yo no sé nada de eso! sería una locura hablar de eso, yo no sé nada.

También para finalizar dijo:

Que el desarrollo de Dragon Age para ps3 fue una experiencia tan positiva que utilizaran los recursos internos de ahora en adelante en el desarrollo de la consola.

Mi punto de vista es que esto es algo realmente bueno porque de ahora en adelante todos los nuevos juegos de Bioware estarán en Ps3 y mejor aun si son programados en la consola de Sony y con esto me quedo con la sensación de que pronto se anunciara el tan aclamado Mass Effect para Ps3 ya que Billy pago los millones por un beta que tendrán pronto los usuarios de Xbox 36o, o ustedes que opinan de todo esto que acaba de decir este señor?.

A también quería dejar en claro que todo esto es una traducción oficial por parte de mi y si quieren enterarse de todo solo denle clic en el link.

Just know that if Bruce was still alive, he would undoubtedly still be kicking more ass that any action movie star(or person) that you’ve ever known of. The difference is Bruce Lee did it in real life when other action stars only did it for money.

There really isn’t much that I can say about how awesome Bruce Lee is that I haven’t already proven by permanently tattooing him on my right shoulder. He was literally the most awesome Chinese American in the whole world and considered the most influential martial artist of the 20th century, and a cultural icon. If you don’t agree then I will shoot you in the face with my fist rocket.

If anyone hasn’t seen a Bruce Lee movie then you should definitely watch Enter The Dragon on Blu Ray.

I’m just going to post pictures of Bruce Lee now because my vocabulary isn’t extensive enough to give him proper praise.

I know bodybuilders who can’t flex their lats like this.

I also recommend reading the book, The Tao of Jeet Kun Do. He wrote it while he was basically paralyzed… You know, that time that the doctors told him he would never be able to teach gung fu again? Well, he wrote a book about it since he couldn’t move around properly. Even though he wrote his book, he still decided that not walking was fucking lame so he instituted his own program to regain his strength and within a few months he was walking around again like normal and starring in the best kung fu movies of all time.

That is dedication, that is perseverance and that is why Bruce Lee is so amazing to me. No matter how many tragedies befell him(you can read about them on the sites below), he never gave up. I encourage all of you to do the same. Never doubt yourself. Doubt only brings thoughts of failure which in the end, will stop you from doing anything 100%. Some people may think I’m a cocky bastard and although I may seem that way at times, it is only because I have faith in what I am capable of.

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and try not to get killed today shopping for clothes.

Bruce Lee websites:

www.brucelee.com

www.bruceleefoundation.com/

www.allbrucelee.com/

www.bruceleedivinewind.com/

I haven’t played noughts and crosses in I don’t know how long, but when looking for something to add to the ‘Kids, Big & Small’ section of the store I came across these lovely little sets. I notice that we no longer call it noughts and crosses but rather the americanized ‘Tic-Tac-Toe, which I have to admit I don’t fully understand. Never the less these little resin sets fit in with the theme of the store quite nicely.

We have teams of opposing gargoyles, fairies and dragons and dragons against unicorns, as well as a stunning chess set that features Vikings against Celts. Each of these sets comes in a decorated gift box and would be an ideal christmas gift for any fantasy lover, they are too good to be kept in a cupboard, so have them on display!

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BARBARA HAMBLY, FENDRAGON, Points, 361 pages, 2001. Traduit par Michel Demuth. Genre : fantasy pure.

Voici le roman que j’avais hâte de recevoir tout en redoutant la lecture. Ayant très peu lu de fantasy et de sf, j’ai toujours peur de ne pas accrocher. C’est le choix de Fashion, bien entendu.

Jenny Waynest, magicienne de son état, est la compagne de Fendragon, le légendaire tueur de dragons. Elle accepte de le suivre vers les contrées du sud, à la demande du roi, pour mettre fin aux agissements de Morkeleb le noir, puissant dragon qui terrorise la région.

Depuis ma lecture du Seigneur des anneaux, j’hésite toujours avant d’ouvrir un livre de fantasy par peur d’être déçue. Par manque de temps aussi. Heureusement, Fashion a eu la bonne idée de choisir un livre de SF pour la chaîne de livres. J’ai passé un bon moment retrouvant ce qui m’avait plu autrefois (pas avec le même talent tout de même) : les dragons (je devrais me pencher sur la trilogie d’Eragon), les contrées hostiles ou le chaos n’est jamais très loin et les héros attachants.

Bonne surprise donc et comme je suis inscrite au défi crazy SF de Geishanellie, j’attends vos suggestions pour continuer ma découverte!

Bonne lecture!

Continuing on this subject then…

Please read the previous post if you just dropped by.

I am pretty aware that most of what I write here is completely opposite to most people´s beliefs, but what has to be said just has to be said. The point of view of the Rebellion is not popular, we don´t deceive and don´t create illusions, so the reality that we show is harsher, but we have been working in the shadows for what we believe, and now is time to expose it, no matter if someone believe or even come to be aware of our philosophy. My duty is just to register this content.

So, in the previous text I explained why and when a preparation for a marriage takes place.

Once a couple agree to get married, be this marriage formerly arranged by the families or by the planning personnel of our civilization, or else just a rare case in which a couple just fall in love, despite of not being genetically programmed to do so, the preparations will start.

I want to note that before the preparations for the collective Alchemical Marriage of this generation of Angels started, right in the stage when Eden´s planning department was selecting the best candidates amongst the young, those with potential to become the future Counselors and top personnel of the major areas for the next cycle of Eden ( the replacement of the Councils), right then, Michael´s political party did a sabotage and hacked the system in a way that only the members of his club of boys were identified as apt candidates and therefore sent for the initial tests that were tests to verify the candidate´s leadership capabilities.

What I call “system” in this case is not just our political system. We live inside a system that is something like a computer system that runs everything in our civilization, however it has conscience – what in Earth is called Android. The identification of candidates in this case, as well as the score in the race, is done by this Android system and not by Angels personally.

Well, Michel´s group deceived this system in a way that the system would not identify any apt feminine Angel to be sent to the race. My loyal Jethro, always risking himself for the Rebellion, was the hero this time. He applied himself for the tests, been naturally approved, because he is brilliant, and at the door of the transport he exchanged his place with me, as we planned to fight back Michael´s movement, once we could not at all to prove that the system was hacked. This was our creative movement, a legal move, because as it had never happened before, Satania never bothered to create a law forbidding the exchange of places at doors of transports in this sort of event. We are genius. We Rebels are so very genius. We are even more brilliant because actually we did not know exactly what was all that fuzz about. Is easy to tell the history now so long ago but at that time all was confusing, with lots of misinformation on the way.We had a clouded idea but for concrete we just knew that something was going on, we knew that was important ( if was not important our oppositors would not have the trouble to mess up the system…), we knew that it was to exclude woman ( it always was to exclude woman…), among other unpleasant possible purposes, we also knew that the way the event was been conducted was not right, and naturally as full of fire Rebels we had to do something about.

So I end up sent in his place, and later he joined me, and somehow the other brides came too, so I guess our Rebellion had more brilliant movements but I was not there so I don´t know what happened after I left. One of the characteristics of this sort of test is that in the first times we are completely isolated from any contact with Eden.

In the end, the preparations for the Alchemical Marriage for our generation went on without any problem ( without any problem for the system to select the candidates, I mean, because for us candidates it would be a long beginning).

Is important to say that without Jethro I would not be in the race, that without Jethro´s first movement no girl would be in the race, and that without girls in the race, in the end of the race, all the places in the government of Eden would be in the future completely taken by my little brother´s chauvinist group, drawing a black future where all feminine essences would be completely oppressed and abused, as happens in all places were Michael´s finger touches. It would happen in Eden and as a reflex would happen in all the Universes, much strongly than it has ever happened.

Jethro Ab Loxlok must be recognized as the hero that allowed our hard work of resistance to continue at that time. As he is a General, the position of hero fits him well, this is his nature.

However is important to note too, that there are only three positions for the Supreme High Council, thousands of Elves were in the race, and in the end I was indicated for one of the positions.

Jethro put me in, Jethro have always been at my side during the race, but I would not reach the final indication if I were just a puppet of Jethro as some are saying back at Angelsland.

I reached the final indication by my own merits, by my own effort. We all in Lucifer´s team are very loyal to each other, we are very supportive, we all help each other, but we are all, all of us, without exception, damn good and talented. Everyone in our group is the best in his own expertise, it includes me. This fact, plus the extreme loyalty among our members and restless effort of everyone, made the difference, but only loyalty without talent would not place us at the top of the score board, as we are now.

The race is not finished I guess ( there is no way for a candidate to know when it is finished). Our enemies may have a lot of tricks yet, and may even beat us momentarily in the score yet, but we will win, just because we are good, hell of good, all of us, all the Rebels.

Now that this event of exchanging of places is clear, I will speak about the ritual.

To agree to get married does not mean at all that a couple will reach the marriage. Besides, it is a formality, when we agree we don´t know what this means, we just know that we love our partners.

The preparations consist of many steps and levels. First there is a long preparation in Eden, and I am not going to talk about this part. Secondly we take part in a huge numbers of simulated situations ( something like the holodeck of Star Trek). If Angels could die we would nearly die of stress and tiredness in this simulations. I am not going to talk about this part either because there is too much information. Perhaps I speak about this steps some other day.

After the simulations come the “Fall”. We are sent to have real life experiences in planets such as Earth, where all kinds of problems are possible to happen. We, the candidates, actually don´t know that this whole thing is happening. The subject of the Marriage is something vague on our mind, something to think about in the future, actually we are being analyzed while we think that we are accomplishing missions that are part of our job and our life.

I know about the marriage now because I am in the end of the race. By the rules only near the end of the race the candidates are informed that they have been in a race all that long period that they thought that the world was falling apart over their heads. Also, only in the end of the race is when we are informed that the marriage have something do to with the top political positions of our civilization.

The very last part of the race is the return. We must find a way to return to Eden by our own ways, and there are lots of rules for this part. This is where we Rebels are now.

When the young return then the ritual starts, I mean, the very real Alchemical Marriage, for all couples that succeeded, at once. These couples will be allowed to marry, they will allowed to reproduce, and they will also assume the top positions of Eden.

To assume the top positions of Eden means that they will inherit Eden and everything that exists, all the Universes, because everything in Eden is based on property.

For example, I am the Princess of this Principality, so everything in the Principality is my property, including all lives. The Supreme High Council owns the Princesses, and naturally everything that belong to the Princesses is also property of the Supreme High Council.

The system goes this way along all levels. It would not work in places with high level of diversity in all fields, I wonder, but as we have controlled genetics, as the center of our mind is kept at the Department of Philosophy and also as we have very well organized families, it works very well for us, because we can truly that everyone in our civilization wants the best for the collective ( we are programmed to be this way) , and we trust that nobody among us will exploit the others. In summary: It works. At least there.

Considering our level of development, plus this system, plus the eternity, plus our magnificent legal system, all put together makes Eden the paradise. The property concept is part of the whole set of choices done in the past for our ancestors that made Eden to become the paradise. The concept of property at Eden is not the same way as seen in Earth. The will of any individual is always above what was planned for him, and everything can be done at Eden by anyone, for the price that it takes, and in the time that it requires. When we learn how to use our political system, there are no limits at all. Is difficult to explain it in words that can make the concept clear for all species of this Universe at once, because the several populations have very diverse references and none of them are even close of what we have in Eden.

About the Alchemical Marriage, I think that each case is different, because there is a huge creative potential in Eden, and events don´t happens twice the same way there, so I can talk only about my case.

My story starts when I was called to a mission of transport in a planet called Tri. I am a cargo pilot and sometimes I get missions of exploration too, but more cargo. I am an Universal truck driver, working for our kingdom, for our masters, the Supreme High Council. All pilots belong to the same guild, all pilots are part of Eden´s army, all pilots have military training, however not all of us receive military missions.

The kind of mission that a pilot receives depends of his equipment. The equipment belong to the pilot, not to the army, however the pilot himself belong to the army, therefore his equipment belong to the kingdom too. It happens this way because the equipments also have conscience and Android brain ( A series brain), and because of this the pilot and his equipment´s brain create bonds, therefore they are partners, and they remain together forever – of course, the ship is always updated with new technology, but the ship is a loyal friend of the pilot. My ship, Thule, is a cargo ship, therefore I can just have cargo or exploration missions, she is too big for ordinary military missions.

My main cargo is gas tritium. Tritium has almost no volume, but it is to be transported by cargo ships because of protocols about cargo. Although gas tritium is our main cargo and it does not require a huge ship, the cargo ships must be huge because sometimes we transport matter too.

As you may have noticed, the pilot has the same name of his ship ( Veronica Ab Thule, Jethro Ab Loxlok). This is my name of pilot, it will be changed when I become Counselor.

My heart feels small when I remember the free life of pilot, I know that as Princess I will never have that life again, so I treasure the memories of that time. I am not complaining, but to talk about this makes me nostalgic. I am glad because I decided to spent my youth as pilot, and I am grateful that I had this option.

Now back to the Marriage. As a pilot, was easy for the planners of the Marriage´s tests to get me in trouble. Me and my entire fleet – 6 ships, 2 elves in each Ship, plus Tao, my Android and best friend, plus Satan Asmodeus who were the one who shot us down. Most of the crew was composed of young Elves engaged with someone. That day, we fell…

We fell at the distant small Earth of the Solar System, of the Milk Galaxy, of the borderline Universe where I was once conceived ( my parents planned my existence while in vacations in a planet called Thule of Vega, near here, where a friend of mine used to raise Dragons, that time. Thule of Vega does not exist anymore in this timeline. It had wonderful red dunes.

Well, we fell. And I know that later more Angels fell here. ( Why here?) . So we become Fallen Angels.

Our brides and bridegrooms were left in despair at Eden, without information, without support from the official organs, and had to find a way, alone, to come to rescue us. This, of course, was part of the tests, and, of course, our partners did not know about the wedding race. The system arranged to make everything difficult for them.

By the rules of the engagement, we will find all sort of difficulties during the Fall, and our partners will find all sort of difficulties to reach us, at Eden. If the love survive to all this, if we endure all possible bad experiences that the Universe can provide and still want to get married, then we reach the Marriage.

We are allowed to give up at any time. Satan will always be together to offer an easy way out, so beyond enduring hell we still have to learn to deal with the Satan designed to us. Of course, if we give up we don´t know that we are giving up, because we are not aware about the race. We just escape from the wonderful offers of Satan because something just does not seem right in our heart. If we are not deep decided that the only way for us is the person that we love, and have capability to feel in each way that person is, while we are blind inside a human body, blind for our own dimension I mean, then certainly Satan will drop us down.

Those who fall must live in human bodies. We don´t know about this rule when we fall, but the Helius Sun assure that we will do that soon or later. Our original bodies are indestructible, at least this is what we deeply believe when we live in Eden, until we are thrown in a planet such as this, that sits inside the crown of a Star, and we find out, with horror and shock, that after few millennia our original bodies are falling apart melted by the radiation.

Needless to say that despite being something forbidden, we crossbreed with the local humanoids, to transfer to them our genetics and prepare conditions to transfer our essence to that kind of body after few generations of preparation. We don´t do it because we are kinky. We do it because we don´t have contact with Eden or anyone of our kind and we don´t know what is going on, we are lost far away with broken equipments and without any sign of rescue, we are melting and we just don´t know what else to do except to become humans. It is the only possibility at hand to avoid to go back to the realm of formless ( and to lost our position in the family, friends, goods, love, and go through a long process to go back to the realm of form again).

It is not an easy decision, and not fun at all. We don´t even know if we will ever be able to revert the process, however we just don´t want to go back to the formless dimension. For the humans it is a top prize, there are some characteristics, creativity for example and many others, that were not originally in them, and now exist because of this choice of ours long ago.

I have lived in human bodies for nearly 20.000 times, now. I hope this is the last time. We are not meant to have comfortable lives, after all this is a race of endurance, there are thousands of couples competing for the same positions, or for the right of being with the person that one loves, spread in thousands of planets, and few will reach there, so the Satan of each couple, that in the end can be compared with a sort of coacher, will not give them a minute of rest. I wonder who created this sadistic game, but…I can´t take the merit of the learning, we actually become stronger after all this. I just hope it can be easier for the next generations.

Well, this ends the explanation about the Alchemical Marriage.

There is more to say, but I don´t want to say, not now at least. Perhaps when I am older in this existence.

I will speak more about our Fall someday.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

One of the things I really dislike  about Thanksgiving is how everyone seems to eat such an early dinner. Which means you have to go over to wherever you are going early, which means I have to get up before noon on a day off. Which isn’t really so bad, but just feels like it at the moment because I am still waking up. I just thought I would jot down a blog post now in case I do not have time later tonight.

I never really pay much attention to Thanksgiving, or look forward to it the way that I do other holidays. I think I have always thought about it as a time where I can finally put up Christmas decorations, start wrapping (and finish buying) presents, and look forward to winter break. It wasn’t until this year actually, that it began to mean so much more to me. Thanksgiving gives Dragon the warm fuzzies that Christmas gives me. He is a passionate Atheist, which is a story for another day really, as I am not. I am kind of a religious mutt. Anyway, I didn’t know until recently why Thanksgiving makes him so happy, until he told me that he could feel good, and feel like a family, and happy, and celebratory, without that looming religious connotation. Like you can be grateful on this holiday, not for something some man in the sky has done for you, but for the life you have made for yourself. And knowing that he feels this way, just made this holiday 10x better. I think next year, which will be our first Thanksgiving as a married couple, I am going to host dinner here at our place, merge our families for dinner, and make it special.

Anyway, I know every blog in the US today will probably have a list of things they are grateful for, but that isn’t going to stop me. I have of gratitude to dish out, and if this blog is a documentation of life as I see it, I definitely do not want to forget this.

The first thing I am grateful for, is my Dragon. He truly has become the most important person in my life. I know that if it were a choice between him and anyone else in my life, he would win hands down. Though, maybe that is easy for me to say since I know I would also never be in that position :p I really never thought that I would be this lucky. I never thought I would find this kind of love so early in my life. I am so grateful for the man Dragon has become. He is my Master, my lover, my fiance, my best friend, and the man I plan to spend the rest of my life with. And when I say that, I mean it. I know exactly what forever means, and I am willing to spend all of my time doing all of the hard work that needs to be done to make us work. I know that no matter what life brings us, I am going to have him standing next to me, helping us move forward, the way he always has. I am grateful for the peace he has brought into my life, and I am grateful that I have no fear of who we are going to become, because I already know who we are now, in this moment. I am grateful for the way that he has not only accepted me and my faults, but grown to love them. He has never once tried to change me, never wished I could be something that I am not. I am grateful that I go to sleep at night with a man who is everything I ever wanted, perfectly imperfect, better than I ever could have dreamed. So thank you Dragon, for all you have done, and all you will do.

I am grateful for the relationship I now have with my father, something that was greatly helped by having Dragon in my life. My father made a lot of mistakes when I was young. My grandmother stepped in and basically raised my brother and me herself, causing my father to often feel like an older brother. He did a lot of wrong, but he became a man before my eyes, after the death of grandma. He had the courage to change, had the strength to get better, and had the humility to apologize. I could never deny him my love and respect. Patching up our relationship caused me to mature, and blossom, and now I feel closer to my father than I ever have. I am grateful and proud of how he has changed, and I will always love my Daddy.

I am grateful that my brother has found a passion in music. Aaron had an even harder life than I did. Looking back, I can see how I could have been a better sister. There used to be a lot of anger and resentment directed towards me from him, and I never blamed him. But about 2-3 years ago, he began teaching himself to play the guitar (on my guitar, actually) and his life has changed. Every time I see him, he is better at playing that the last time. It is amazing, because I always thought that I was the creative one in our family, but he has so much in him as well. He has created deep meaningful relationships, found more joy in his education, found something that made him truly happy, and as a result, has grown to be so mature. He is 18 now, but I still think of him as my little brother. I am grateful that we have become a brother and sister again. I am grateful that he has not grown too “cool” to call me ’sister’, and still calls my father ‘daddy’. I am grateful that even though we had the upbringing that we did, that he managed to hold onto the beauty of life. I love him very much.

I am also very grateful for my friends, especially Ladybug, Chevy, Aimee, and Charlemagne. I feel like we have grown closer than we have ever been before, after this year. You all support me and my happiness so much. I look at other people, and the friendships they have. Some of them (not all) are shallow and selfish. I know that we are not like that. I have known you all for years now, and we have really been through so much. When it comes to Dragon and I, telling you about our “situation”, was one of the hardest things that I have ever done. I was so afraid of losing you all, and you just looked at me like I was silly for thinking you guys would even care. You showed me that I have nothing to worry about, and that you will always love me. You took Dragon into our circle as a true friend as well, and I feel like you all showed him what real friendship was, for the first time in his life. And that has made all of our lives better. I will never stop feeling grateful that my life is so full of people who support and truly love me. I hope you all know that I support you in every way as well, and I will always be here when and if you need me.

I am grateful for Leo. He has brought so much happiness into our lives. He makes me laugh every single day, and he really feels like our baby.

I am grateful for the roof we have over our heads. It is no surprise that I did not want to live here in the beginning. But it truly has become my home. I love being here, and I love how Dragon has allowed me to remodel and redecorate, and made me feel like there is no where else I belong. I mean, I have a pink kitchen. And he lets me keep out all of my toys and Hello Kitty collection, and everything else. So I am very grateful.

I am grateful for my health, and my healing. Everything is not perfect, but it is getting better. I am grateful that I am alive and well.

I am grateful for our financial security. I know that we are very well off, and this is the first time in my whole life that I have not had to worry about bills getting paid, or having food to eat, or anything like that. I am truly grateful for this everyday, and I try to give that back to our loved ones as well, whenever possible.

I am grateful for this blog. I have finally found a place where I can write, and feel comfortable. It doesn’t matter any longer that certain people found and read it, because that was never going to stop anyway. I am grateful that I found the support and courage to put my life out here. I have an outlet now, where I can be heard, and where I can be myself. I am going to be able to look back at these moments in 5, 10, 15 years, and remember. I have spent so much of my life trying to forget things that I did not like. But with this blog, that doesn’t have to happen anymore. I have found my voice again, and I truly missed it. Writing everyday just makes me happy. I have met some great friends here as well. It is just so nice to feel connected to someone you have never even met. And for that, I am grateful.

I am grateful that school is almost over. it has been hard, and difficult, but I have already come so far. I know I can do it. And, even though I do not like to admit it, I am grateful for my education. I received a scholarship that has truly changed my life. I am going to graduate with my bachelor’s degree, and NO debt, which is truly amazing. I am definitely grateful for this.

I am grateful for my art. Creating things has always been a source of comfort and healing for me, and over these years, I have gotten better about criticizing myself. I have learned to stop thinking, and just DO. I have come to a point where I can just let go, get it all out, and in the end I have something beautiful. I hope that I can share this with the world someday, and bring happiness to others too. For that, I am grateful.

I am grateful for my collar, and what it means to us.

I am grateful for my body, even if that is shallow. I have gone through a lot of up and downs with my confidence over the past few years, but I finally feel like I am becoming comfortable in my own skin. I am proud of the way that I look. I am proud of my long legs, my scars, hands and feet that are always cold, my long curly hair, my sparkling eyes, and most of all,  I am proud of my fat, which makes me soft and fluffy to touch, fills our my dresses in just the right way, and makes me feel like me. I am proud of my femininity. I am grateful for this confidence, because I have found that over the last few years, even though my body did not change much, the way people perceived it did. As my confidence grew, so did my attractiveness to others, and even if it is shallow to think so much of myself, I am grateful for it I am grateful to be a woman!

I am grateful for everyday that feels like I can handle it.

I am grateful for my country, and the slow changes that I feel are going on. I am grateful our new President, and I am grateful that if he doesn’t step up, we can replace him in a few years and start over. I may not have always been the best Patriot, but I really do try to do as Mark Twain said and “love your country always, and your government when it deserves it”. I am grateful for the opportunities I have had simply because of where I was born.

I am grateful for my wonderful sex life. I am grateful for the excitement and happiness that comes from being open-minded and healthy about sex.  That’s all I will say about that, since this is public

I am grateful for the ability to change. If there is something I do not like, I no longer feel like I have to “live with it”. There is always something that can be changed, even if it is only your attitude and how you see it.

I am sure I could go on, but these are the main things. I have to go get ready now. But, I hope all of you have a wonderful day, and have just as much to be grateful for. Go to sleep a little fatter, because life is too short.

<3Shii