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progress update for chapter 16 of cots: “Divine Relatives Are Actually Just Really Needy”
feat. my description ares in this chapter!
The man - actually, no, calling him anything but a god felt inaccurate. He was tall and muscular, with wavy red-black hair pushed back away from his face and falling just under his shoulders. His eyes were hidden by a pair of sunglasses with red lenses, but they didn’t hide his sharp cheekbones nor his expressive eyebrows. He was handsome in a wild way.
His aura pressed down on them, filling Percy with the kind of rage several counselors had tried to train him to repress. It felt like split knuckles, a bruised cheek, and the vicious joy you felt after a good fight that you won but only barely.
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(o_O)(o_O)(o_O)(o_O)
..Now slowly walk over to your Aunt Artemis and start singing Taylor Swift, and she’ll kick you out on her own. She hates Taylor.
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making the most banger Percy Jackson oc ever (child of a demigod and a god) (the gods involved are Aphrodite and ares but eyem not sure which part) (she’s kinda season one cat valentine aesthetic wise)
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Ares and Māni as Yab-Yum II
Yab-yum as an image is easy to misread if you come to it through a Western lens, because the embrace looks erotic and so the mind reaches for familiar categories: sacred sexuality, hieros gamos, that kind of thing.
There’s genuine overlap with those currents, but the Vajrayana understanding is doing something more specific. The union depicted isn’t primarily about sexuality or even fertility. It’s about the inseparability of two principles that conceptual mind habitually splits apart. The image is saying: these two things you keep experiencing as separate are, at the level of reality, one movement.
The traditional pairing is method and wisdom (upaya and prajna). Method is compassionate action moving through the world: it has direction, force, intention, contact. Wisdom is the recognition of emptiness: it is open, boundless, without fixed center, not fooled by appearances. Neither is complete alone.
Method without wisdom becomes compulsion; action that doesn’t know what it’s doing or why. Wisdom without method becomes a beautiful vacancy, luminous but unable to touch anything. In union they become what the tradition calls bodhicitta in its fullest sense; awakened heart-mind that is simultaneously empty and responsive, spacious and precise.
Bringing Ares and Māni into that frame:
Ares is all contact. He is the principle of showing up fully, of not hedging, of meeting the moment with your whole force. There is something almost merciless about him. Not cruel, but unwilling to be diluted. He doesn’t stand at a safe distance. He enters. In the yab-yum image he is the figure whose feet are on the ground, whose posture says I am here, completely, without reservation. His quality is presence so total it becomes a kind of fire.
Māni is all reflection. He is the principle that receives without distorting, that holds without grasping, that illuminates without generating its own heat. The moon doesn’t decide what to shine on, it simply shines, and whatever is there becomes visible. There is something profoundly non-preferential about Māni, something that doesn’t flinch from darkness because darkness is simply another surface to illuminate. His quality is awareness so clear it becomes a kind of water.
In their union the fire doesn’t evaporate the water and the water doesn’t extinguish the fire. That’s the whole point. What looks like opposition from outside is, from inside the embrace, a single warmth; the warmth of awareness that is simultaneously completely committed and completely open. Neither grasping nor retreating. Neither burning nor going cold.
For a practitioner working with both of them, which is to say, working with both of these qualities in oneself, the yab-yum image is a map of integration. The part of you that wants to act, to cut through, to be fully present in the world without apology: that’s Ares.
The part of you that knows how to be still, to reflect, to hold the whole situation in awareness without collapsing into it: that’s Māni.
Most of us live in an oscillation between those two, lurching from one to the other. The yab-yum says the goal isn’t to balance them like weights on a scale. It’s to discover the place where they were never separate — where your action is already luminous and your awareness is already fearless.
There’s also something worth naming about the fact that this is two male deities in embrace. The traditional yab-yum pairing is male-female, and that maps onto a specific cosmological grammar. But the tradition also recognizes that these principles (method and wisdom, fire and water, presence and reflection) are not essentially gendered.
They’re qualities of mind. A yab-yum of Ares and Māni doesn’t violate the teaching; it strips away the gendered scaffolding and asks what the union of those qualities actually feels like when the imagery is allowed to be more naked. For many practitioners that stripping-away is itself clarifying. The doctrine becomes less abstract when the image stops being something you can file away as “symbolic of male and female.”
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Prayer to Ares
I want you the way fire wants air.
Come to me the way you come to battle,
without hesitation.
I am not careful with you.
I dream of your hands and
the weight of you.
I dream of your heat on my skin,
iron remembering the forge.
I offer you this wanting,
raw and entire,
laid at your feet
like a weapon surrendered.
I am yours.
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Ares and Māni as Yab-Yum
Yab-yum — literally “father-mother” — is the iconic Tibetan image of two deities in embrace. It is not erotic in the ordinary sense; it is a depiction of the union of opposites or complements that produces awakening.
Traditionally, the male figure represents upaya (skillful means, compassionate action) and the female figure represents prajna (wisdom, the recognition of emptiness). Together, neither is complete without the other.
Ares (heat, force, presence, the sword) holds Māni (coolness, reflection, receptivity, the mirror) in inseparable union.
Action without wisdom becomes violence. Wisdom without action becomes passivity. Together, they embody the full cycle: the warrior who knows what he is doing, and the moon that illuminates why.
For a practitioner, meditating on their union is working with the integration of will and awareness, of courage and discernment — neither swallowing the other, both necessary, both sacred.
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Michele Kang a l’engagement d’Ares de rester présidente de l’OL au moins jusqu’en juin 2027
Le Progrès
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Eagle recadre John Textor et clarifie les termes de l'accord avec Ares qui a permis à l'OL de rester en Ligue 1
L'Équipe
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managed to finish one of these variant/chara insp memes and it was NOT for any of the decay gang 😭 anyways go #MyLivingWeapons
template graciously provided by @myshollow!
[[MORE]]charas listed:
- bronya zaychik (hi3)
- violet evergarden (…violet evergarden)
- firefly (hsr)
- ange le carre (princess principal)
- emara / moza (emara 2018)
- anby demara (zzzero)
