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Subtext: A Life In Between The Lines
Subtext: A Life Between The Lines Subtext is any content of a creative work which is not announced explicitly by the characters or author, but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work. Text is what … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Culture, Dreams, education, Environment, Event, Fashion, Feminism, Flashback, Genealogy, Health, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Music, Mythology, News, Pedagogy, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy, Travel, Writing
Tagged 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, A Life Between The Lines, All The World's A Stage, Amazon, archeologist of text, author, Black Swan, Book, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn, Cari Lynn Vaughn, carilynn27, Colorado, Context, Createspace, Decentered, Desideratum, Diaries, Divorced, Dreams, English Degree, English Major, English Teacher, Enouement, Erasure, Feminism, Foreza Del Destino, Gnostic, Hunger, In Dreams, Insight, interpretation, Journal Entries, Kaizen, Kindle, Lacuna, Literature, Married, Missouri, Mono No Aware, Moxie, Nonfiction, Ohio, OSU, Prequel, Professor, Psychology, Published, Publisher, Purple Rose Ink Publications, Purple Rose Ink Publishing, Series, Sous Rature, Subtext, Telos, Text, The Long Hot Summer, The Long Road, The World Is A Stage, UNCG, Understanding, Volume, volumes, Wings of Desire, Wolf Gift, Work, works, Writer, Wu Wei
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Parallels Between Willow and The Mandalorian
Parallels Between Willow and The Mandalorian As I watched the second season of The Mandalorian, it struck me that there were some parallels to the 1988 film Willow. Although one is Science Fiction and the other is traditional Fantasy, they … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged 1988, 2020, Ahsoka Tano, Anakin, beskar, Character Arc, Cherlindria, Din Djarin, Elora Danan, Evil, George Lucus, Good, Gorgu, Jedi, Madmartigan, Mando, Redeem, Redemption, Sorsha, Star Wars, The Asset, The Child, The Chronicles of the Shadow War, The Empire, The Force, The Mandalorian, The New Republic, Tir Asleen, Willow
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Magical Language
Magical Language BA Ba is the Egyptian word for soul—specifically the personality part of the soul. There are nine different parts to the soul. The other eight are: the khat is the physical body, the sahu is the spiritual body, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology, Religion
Tagged 365, A Shadow Bright and Burning, A Sorrow Fierce and Falling, Abracadabra, Abraxis, Afterlife, Ahura Mazda, akh, Alexandria, Alistair Crowley, BA, Boy's Home, Catholic, Christmas, Creator, Darkest Day, darkness, Dead, Deity, Dualism, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Father El, Five Letters, Game of Thrones, Gnostics, God, God of Light, God of Wisdom and Free Will, Great Archon, Greeks, Harrieta, Heart, Hebrew, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, Hippolytus, hw, Identity, Iran, jb, Jesus, Jewish, Ka, Kabbalah, Khat, Language, Latin, Light, Mage, Magi, Magian, Magic Amulet, Magical Formula, Magical Language, Magnus Chase, Magu, Magus, Mansfield, Medes, media, Numerical Value, Pagan, Persia, Pistis Sophia, Priest, R'hllor, Ra, Rick Riordan, rn, Romans, Rosy Cross, Sacred Heart, sahu, Shadow, Shelby, Sorceress, Soul, Spell, Spirit, Star, Stork, Subtext, swt, The Book of Law, The Crown, The Cup, The Kane Chronicles, The Red Pyramid, The Ship of the Dead, The Sword, The Throne of Fire, The Wand, Uncreated Father, Winter Solstice, Witch, Wizard, Zoroastrianism
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Hermes Helps Out
Hermes Helps Out This collection of poetry, Persephone’s Echo, is about the echoes of the past in both mythology and my personal life. This collection combines the Jungian archetype with Sylvia Plath like confession. It also combines the personal with … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Writing
Tagged 2008, A Dark Muse, Adonis, Aeneid, Affair, Alicia Keys, All Apologies, Anais Nin, Anxiety, Aphrodite In Jeans, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Birth, Bring Me To Life, Building A Mystery, Burn For You, Butterfly Chains, C S Lewis, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Cassandra, Christa Wolfe, Dante, Daughter, Dead Souls, Death, Demeter, Depression, Dido, DJ Muse, Echo, Electra, Emily Bronte, Erica Jong, Evanescence, Fall, Fallin, Father, Garden, God, Goddess, Greek Mythology, Gyges, Hades, Harry Potter, Harvest, Heart Shaped Box, Hera, Hermeneutics, Hermes, husband, I &I, I See Stars, If on a winter's night a traveler, Iio, Intertextuality, Italo Calvino, Kreo, L Frank Baum, Longing, Lost, Margaret Atwood, Marriage, Medea, Memosene, Mother, Motherhood, Narcissus, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Odysseus, Ohio, Ovid, Penelope Prescribes Perseverance, Persephone, Persephone's Echo, Phoenix, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possession, Publish, Rapture, Rick Riordan, Ring, Rings, River Styx, Robin Fox, Sappho's Leap, Sarah McLachlan, Sehnsucht, Shakespeare's Sister, She Who Remembers, Shelby, Spring, Stay, Strawberry Fields Forever, Subtext, Summer, Summerhouse Later, Surfacing, Taja Sevelle, Text, The Art of Love, The Beatles, The Chronicles of Narnia, The English Patient, The Neverending Story, The Road To Oz, Tragedy, Underworld, Virgil, Winter, Wuthering Heights, Zeus
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power November 2018 This She-Ra is less edgy than the original perhaps, but more modern. She-Ra represents modern Feminism and it is interesting to note the sometime subtle differences crept up in the 32 or … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Feminism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged 11 years old, 17-18 years old, 1985, 20-25 years old, 2018, Adora, Angella, anime, backstory, Balance Nature, Big Hero Six, Bow, Brightmoon, Broom, California Hippie, Castaspella, Catra, Crystal Castle, Die, Eco-Feminist, Entrapta, Erroll Flynn, Eternia, Etheria, Evil, Feminist, Feminist Ecology, First Ones, For The Honor of Grayskull, Frosta, Frosta Eskimo, Game of Thrones, Glimmer, Goddess, Good, Greed, Halo, He-Man, Headdress, Hordak, Horse, horsey, Industrialization, Jack Sparrow, Jem, Kill, King Micha, Light Hope, Lighthope, Lyanna Mormont, Madam Raz, Magic, Maleficent, malevolent, Mermista, Mermista Indian, mother and daughter, mother-daughter relationship, Mysticism, mysticore, Nature, Netflix, Norse Mythology, old woman, Pastoral, Pegasus, Perfuma, Perfuma Mixed Race. Bow Black, Planet, Princess of Power, Princesses of Power, psychological manipulation, Queen Angella, Rebel, Rebel Camp, Rebellion, Runes, Scorpia, Sea Hawk, Secret of the Sword, sexualized, shadow tendrils, Shadow Weaver, Shadoweaver, She-ra, Spinnerella, Star Wars, Star Wars Prequels, Storm Troopers, Swift Wind, Swiftwind, Synergy, Tech, Technology, The Fright Zone, The Horde, The Incredibles, Unicorn, Vallkyrie, Whispering Woods, Woods
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Dia De Los Muertos
November 1, 2017 Dia De Los Muertos Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a Mexican Holiday celebrated around Halloween. In the 1960s the Mexican government had the Aztec festival declared a National Holiday. In the Aztec … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Mythology, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1960s, 2017, All Inclusive, Anglo-Saxon, Aurora, Aztec, Belle, blantly racist, bones of the dead, born mortal, Calveras, children who have died, Cinderella, Coco, Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, decorate graves, Dia De Meurots, Disney, Families, Fashion, festival, Festivals, Goddess of the Dead, Greeks, Hades, Halloween, Honoring, Indigenous Roots, Intent, Jasmine, La Calvera, Latin Culture, Latina, Latino, Maya, Mexico, Mictecacihautl, Moana, Multicultural, Native American, offerings, openly mock, Overacting, Persephone, Pocahontas, Princess Tiana, Racist, Respect, sacrificed. ancestors, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, special, Sports Teams, Sugar Skull, The Book of Life, Underworld, Unique, White
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The Last Jedi
December 18, 2017 The Last Jedi The Last Jedi is poised precariously between the past and the future. The Last Jedi picks up right where The Force Awakens left off. It follows the template laid down by The Empire Strikes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged $1, A New Hope, Alice in Wonderland, Bad, balance, BB8, Ben Skywalker, Blame, Books, Brother, C3PO, Caesar, Canta Bight, childhood, Connection, Crait, Culture, Current, Current Culture, Dark, Die, Divine Nature, DJ, Dogobah, Far Far Away, Father, Feminism, Fighting, Finn, First Order, Flawed, Flaws, Franchise, Future, Galaxy, General Leia, George Lucas, Good, Han Solo, Heroes, Hitler, Hoth, Jacen, Jaina, Jedi, JJ Abrams, Johnson, Kill, King of Hearts, Kylo Ren, Lando Calrissian, Las Vegas, Leia, Let Go, Light, Long Time Ago, Loyalties, Loyalty, Luke, Luke Skywalker, Marsh, May the Force Be With You, Mother, Nero, nobody, Originals, Parents, Parts, past, Perfectionism, plots, Poe, poor boy, Prequels, Present, Princess Leia, R2D2, Rebirth, recycled, Red, red room, Redeem, Return of the Jedi, Rey, Rich, Romanticize, Rome. Praetors, Rose, Save What You Love, Sequels, Sister, Sith, Skelling Michael, Sky City, Snoke, Subtext, Surrendering, Swamp, The Empire Strikes Back, The Force, The Force Awakens. Ben Solo, The Last Jedi, Training, Trump, Twins, Universe, Yoda
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Lost Girl’s Hybrid Heritage
Lost Girl’s Hybrid Heritage I recently discovered the Showcase Show Lost Girl and binged watched it on Netflix. The Canadian Urban Fantasy show ran from 2010-2015. It also ran on the SyFy Channel, but I never caught it. While I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged Aaron Ashmore, Alcede, Anita Blake, Anna Dressed In Blood, Banshee, Bisexual, Blood Mage, Bo Dennis, Bothers Grimm, Brownies, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Caribbean, Celtic, Claudia Donovan, darkness, Doyle, Duppy, Dyson, elements, Evony, Fae, Fae-bysitting, Father, Gaelic, Geruda, Grandfather, Greek Mythology, Guruda, Hades, Hale, Hans Christian Anderson, Harry Potter, Hel Shoes, Heritage, Hindu, Hybrid, Indian, Iris, Irish, Jacob Grimm, Japanese, Jumbee, Kenzie, Kitsune, Ladyhawk, Laurell K Hamilton, Lesbian, Light and Dark, Lost Girl, lover, Lover's Apart, MacKenzie, Meredith Gentry, Michelle Pfeiffer, Monster of the Week, Mother, Mount Olympus, Mythology, Nate, Netflix, Night, Norn, Norse Mythology, Nyx, Pam, Paranormal, Penthouse Suite, Percy Jackson, Peter S Beagle, Red Caps, Richard, Scottish, Seelie, Selkies, Sex, Showcase, Siren, Sookie Stackhouse, Steve Jinks, Succubus, Syfy, Tamsin, The Dark Queen, The Last Unicorn, The Morrigan, The Phantom Queen, The Red Shoes, The Skeleton Key, The Vampire Diaries, The Wanderer, The Wizard of Oz, The X-Files, Trick, Tristian and Isuelt, True Blood, Unaligned, Unseelie, Urban Fantasy, Valhalla, Valkyrie, Vampires, Voodoo, Warehouse 13, Werewolves, Xena, Yggdrasil, Ysabeau, Zeus
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Blake and Tradition
Blake and Tradition Kathleen Raine, 1962 Part 1: The Northern Sun: Visions of a Sage: The Swedenborgian Songs and Jacob Boehme and Tiriel Part 2: The Myth of the Soul: The Sea of Time and Space, Thel and The Myth … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Mythology, Poetry, Psychology, Religion
Tagged 1962, Blake and Tradition, Cave of Nymphs, Demiurge, Demon Red, Descent, Emblems of Love, Gates of Birth and Death, Hermetic Myth, Jacob Boehme, Jesus, Kathleen Raine, Liquid Venus, Mental Travelers, Moist Soul, Oothoon, Percy Bryce Shelley, Persephone, Prometheus Unbound, Selfhood, Spectors and Watchers, Suffering and Return, The Ancient Trees, The Children of Urizen, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Myth of Kore, The Northern Sun, The Sea of Time and Space, The Swedenborgian Songs, The Tyger, The Zoas of Energy, Tiriel, Vaughan's Cave
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