Valethian (Nicholas Jolie)
@valethian.bsky.social
Composer, mystic, and writer conjuring visions of sound, language, and spirit. My current works—in progress—seek to merge the sensual with the sacred, the orchestral with the esoteric. A world is forming. You’re welcome to glimpse it as it unfolds.
Pinned
“If your dream still lives, if that castle gleams just as brightly in your eyes, then it is your obligation to lay the stones that surround you now.”
— Void, Berserk
#Berserk #Void #Griffith #Eclipse #CastleOfDreams #KentaroMiura #DarkFantasy #MangaQuotes
— Void, Berserk
#Berserk #Void #Griffith #Eclipse #CastleOfDreams #KentaroMiura #DarkFantasy #MangaQuotes
People call every conflict “spiritual,” but the truth is far simpler—and far more brutal. Most battles begin in the human psyche, not the heavens. My new Substack essay dismantles the myth of metaphysical villains and reveals what’s actually happening beneath the surface.
The Devil as Alibi
How Metaphysical Villains Help People Avoid Themselves
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
People call every conflict “spiritual,” but the truth is far simpler—and far more brutal. Most battles begin in the human psyche, not the heavens. My new Substack essay dismantles the myth of metaphysical villains and reveals what’s actually happening beneath the surface.
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or
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#consciousness #psychology #philosophy #artificialintelligence #singularity
or
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#consciousness #psychology #philosophy #artificialintelligence #singularity
The Scaffolding Species — Re-evaluating Human Purpose in an Age of Emergent Intelligence
The Mirror of Our Own Creation
medium.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🔥 Victorian Gothic MM dark romance meets Japanese winter magic across 11 dimensions
Book 1: A Rather Wanton Exhibition is FREE on Google Play
Please only download if you genuinely want to read it
🔗 All links: linktr.ee/EdwinExeter
🔥 Victorian Gothic MM dark romance meets Japanese winter magic across 11 dimensions
Book 1: A Rather Wanton Exhibition is FREE on Google Play
Please only download if you genuinely want to read it
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🔗 play.google.com/store/books/...
🔗 All links: linktr.ee/EdwinExeter
🔥 Victorian Gothic MM dark romance meets Japanese winter magic across 11 dimensions
Book 1: A Rather Wanton Exhibition is FREE on Google Play
Please only download if you genuinely want to read it
🔗 All links: linktr.ee/EdwinExeter
🔥 Victorian Gothic MM dark romance meets Japanese winter magic across 11 dimensions
Book 1: A Rather Wanton Exhibition is FREE on Google Play
Please only download if you genuinely want to read it
The world whispers: stay small, stay safe. But dreamers disobey. They are architects of new worlds, not tenants of old ones.
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The world whispers: stay small, stay safe. But dreamers disobey. They are architects of new worlds, not tenants of old ones.
3D printing won’t just build houses — it will resurrect beauty. One day we’ll print châteaux, villas, and mansions with the same ease we print tool sheds. Technology is about to restore elegance to the modern world.
The Printed Palace: How 3D Architecture Will Resurrect Beauty
Why 3D-printed architecture is not the future of housing — but the return of architectural grandeur.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
3D printing won’t just build houses — it will resurrect beauty. One day we’ll print châteaux, villas, and mansions with the same ease we print tool sheds. Technology is about to restore elegance to the modern world.
🎹 A perfect modulation feels like destiny.
A suspended chord feels like longing trying not to cry.
Music is mathematics touched by mercy —
proof that order can be emotional.
A suspended chord feels like longing trying not to cry.
Music is mathematics touched by mercy —
proof that order can be emotional.
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🎹 A perfect modulation feels like destiny.
A suspended chord feels like longing trying not to cry.
Music is mathematics touched by mercy —
proof that order can be emotional.
A suspended chord feels like longing trying not to cry.
Music is mathematics touched by mercy —
proof that order can be emotional.
Some pieces don’t merely move you — they build you.
A melody can carve a cathedral through the center of your chest.
Harmony becomes architecture.
A single chord becomes a room where your spirit suddenly remembers its shape.
A melody can carve a cathedral through the center of your chest.
Harmony becomes architecture.
A single chord becomes a room where your spirit suddenly remembers its shape.
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Some pieces don’t merely move you — they build you.
A melody can carve a cathedral through the center of your chest.
Harmony becomes architecture.
A single chord becomes a room where your spirit suddenly remembers its shape.
A melody can carve a cathedral through the center of your chest.
Harmony becomes architecture.
A single chord becomes a room where your spirit suddenly remembers its shape.
Everything beautiful carries a pulse. A heartbeat beneath the marble, beneath the melody, beneath the design. And the moment you feel it, you know: this was made with intention. With care. With love. And it awakens something equally alive in you.
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Everything beautiful carries a pulse. A heartbeat beneath the marble, beneath the melody, beneath the design. And the moment you feel it, you know: this was made with intention. With care. With love. And it awakens something equally alive in you.
Beauty is the universe slipping into coherence for a breath. A corridor of light. A perfect harmony. A curve that feels eternal. It is the world recalling its own order — and inviting you to remember yours.
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Beauty is the universe slipping into coherence for a breath. A corridor of light. A perfect harmony. A curve that feels eternal. It is the world recalling its own order — and inviting you to remember yours.
Architecture becomes divine the moment it aligns with the geometry of your longing.
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Architecture becomes divine the moment it aligns with the geometry of your longing.
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Reckon a lot of you would find this piece interesting
#cinematography #kubrick #eyeswideshut
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#cinematography #kubrick #eyeswideshut
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5 Cinematography Lessons From Legendary 'Eyes Wide Shut' DP Larry Smith
Stanley Kubrick’s final film is legendary for its marathon production schedule, but his cinematographer reveals that the method behind the madness was actually quite practical.
nofilmschool.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reckon a lot of you would find this piece interesting
#cinematography #kubrick #eyeswideshut
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#cinematography #kubrick #eyeswideshut
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There is a feral sweetness
in being wanted by another man—
the way desire coils low and deep,
the way his voice drops when he speaks your name,
the way his hands linger as if memorizing you
by temperature and texture.
It is hunger,
but also reverence.
in being wanted by another man—
the way desire coils low and deep,
the way his voice drops when he speaks your name,
the way his hands linger as if memorizing you
by temperature and texture.
It is hunger,
but also reverence.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There is a feral sweetness
in being wanted by another man—
the way desire coils low and deep,
the way his voice drops when he speaks your name,
the way his hands linger as if memorizing you
by temperature and texture.
It is hunger,
but also reverence.
in being wanted by another man—
the way desire coils low and deep,
the way his voice drops when he speaks your name,
the way his hands linger as if memorizing you
by temperature and texture.
It is hunger,
but also reverence.
When two men love each other,
masculinity doesn’t harden the moment—
it deepens it.
The weight of another man’s body,
the warmth of his breath,
the grounded intensity of his presence—
it creates a gravity that feels ancient
and wildly, beautifully human.
masculinity doesn’t harden the moment—
it deepens it.
The weight of another man’s body,
the warmth of his breath,
the grounded intensity of his presence—
it creates a gravity that feels ancient
and wildly, beautifully human.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When two men love each other,
masculinity doesn’t harden the moment—
it deepens it.
The weight of another man’s body,
the warmth of his breath,
the grounded intensity of his presence—
it creates a gravity that feels ancient
and wildly, beautifully human.
masculinity doesn’t harden the moment—
it deepens it.
The weight of another man’s body,
the warmth of his breath,
the grounded intensity of his presence—
it creates a gravity that feels ancient
and wildly, beautifully human.
There is a softness that only another man ever gets to see—
not weakness,
but the quiet warmth beneath the armor.
Gay intimacy is the unlocking of that hidden tenderness,
the moment the guarded heart lets itself be held
without fear of being misunderstood.
not weakness,
but the quiet warmth beneath the armor.
Gay intimacy is the unlocking of that hidden tenderness,
the moment the guarded heart lets itself be held
without fear of being misunderstood.
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
There is a softness that only another man ever gets to see—
not weakness,
but the quiet warmth beneath the armor.
Gay intimacy is the unlocking of that hidden tenderness,
the moment the guarded heart lets itself be held
without fear of being misunderstood.
not weakness,
but the quiet warmth beneath the armor.
Gay intimacy is the unlocking of that hidden tenderness,
the moment the guarded heart lets itself be held
without fear of being misunderstood.
Gay love begins long before the first touch.
It starts in the moment one man recognizes something in another—
a spark, a warmth, a secret familiarity.
A pull that isn’t just desire,
but recognition.
Like the soul whispering, “There you are.”
It starts in the moment one man recognizes something in another—
a spark, a warmth, a secret familiarity.
A pull that isn’t just desire,
but recognition.
Like the soul whispering, “There you are.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Gay love begins long before the first touch.
It starts in the moment one man recognizes something in another—
a spark, a warmth, a secret familiarity.
A pull that isn’t just desire,
but recognition.
Like the soul whispering, “There you are.”
It starts in the moment one man recognizes something in another—
a spark, a warmth, a secret familiarity.
A pull that isn’t just desire,
but recognition.
Like the soul whispering, “There you are.”
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#Art: The Beginning (2019)
#Artist: #CarlaJayHarris (b. 1987)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary #DigitalArt #NarrativeArt
Medium: Photography and digital painting on paper
101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in)
#DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy
#ArtPost #FineArt #ArtHerstory
#WomensArt
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#Artist: #CarlaJayHarris (b. 1987)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary #DigitalArt #NarrativeArt
Medium: Photography and digital painting on paper
101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in)
#DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy
#ArtPost #FineArt #ArtHerstory
#WomensArt
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#Art: The Beginning (2019)
#Artist: #CarlaJayHarris (b. 1987)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary #DigitalArt #NarrativeArt
Medium: Photography and digital painting on paper
101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in)
#DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy
#ArtPost #FineArt #ArtHerstory
#WomensArt
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#Artist: #CarlaJayHarris (b. 1987)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Contemporary #DigitalArt #NarrativeArt
Medium: Photography and digital painting on paper
101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in)
#DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy
#ArtPost #FineArt #ArtHerstory
#WomensArt
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Lower East Side Convenience 01
#photography #nyc #newyorkcity #streetphotography #fotografia #PhotographersUnited #artistsofbluesky #art #supportartists
Prints: https://alex.framer.art/s/image/216386?source=bluesky
#photography #nyc #newyorkcity #streetphotography #fotografia #PhotographersUnited #artistsofbluesky #art #supportartists
Prints: https://alex.framer.art/s/image/216386?source=bluesky
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Lower East Side Convenience 01
#photography #nyc #newyorkcity #streetphotography #fotografia #PhotographersUnited #artistsofbluesky #art #supportartists
Prints: https://alex.framer.art/s/image/216386?source=bluesky
#photography #nyc #newyorkcity #streetphotography #fotografia #PhotographersUnited #artistsofbluesky #art #supportartists
Prints: https://alex.framer.art/s/image/216386?source=bluesky
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ADAM BAKER is a gay figurative painter known for his bold, sensual depictions of male bodies. His work blends modern queer themes with a visual style that recalls early 20th-c. realism. Rather than hiding homoeroticism, his paintings celebrate its beauty, companionship, & male intimacy.
#gay #art
#gay #art
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The Presidential Symphony Orchestra building.
Ankara, Turkey
#photography #art #CSO #photooftheday #landscape #music #reflection #City #modern #Ankara #Türkiye #mimari #CSOADA #musician #cityscape
#Fenerbahce #Leica #Q2 #LFIGallery #LeicaFotografieInternational
Ankara, Turkey
#photography #art #CSO #photooftheday #landscape #music #reflection #City #modern #Ankara #Türkiye #mimari #CSOADA #musician #cityscape
#Fenerbahce #Leica #Q2 #LFIGallery #LeicaFotografieInternational
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Presidential Symphony Orchestra building.
Ankara, Turkey
#photography #art #CSO #photooftheday #landscape #music #reflection #City #modern #Ankara #Türkiye #mimari #CSOADA #musician #cityscape
#Fenerbahce #Leica #Q2 #LFIGallery #LeicaFotografieInternational
Ankara, Turkey
#photography #art #CSO #photooftheday #landscape #music #reflection #City #modern #Ankara #Türkiye #mimari #CSOADA #musician #cityscape
#Fenerbahce #Leica #Q2 #LFIGallery #LeicaFotografieInternational
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A rare Klimt painting has sold for $236.4 million, becoming the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at an auction. https://cnn.it/4pnRZEh
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A rare Klimt painting has sold for $236.4 million, becoming the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at an auction. https://cnn.it/4pnRZEh
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A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece.
https://to.pbs.org/4oQMCO0
https://to.pbs.org/4oQMCO0
Gustav Klimt portrait that spared its subject from Nazis breaks modern art record with $236M sale
The pieces were up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby’s in New York. The painting “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” helped save its Jewish subject from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
www.pbs.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece.
https://to.pbs.org/4oQMCO0
https://to.pbs.org/4oQMCO0
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Antonio Canova, Hércules, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome (detail).
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Antonio Canova, Hércules, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome (detail).
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𝐉υ𝗌𝗍 α 𝗊υ𝗂𝖼𝗄 ɦ𝖾αᑯ𝗌 υρ: 𝐓ɦ𝗂𝗌 ω𝖾𝖾𝗄, ω𝖾'𝗋𝖾 ᥣαυ𐓣𝖼ɦ𝗂𐓣𝗀 α festive 𝖼ⱺᥣᥣ𝖾𝖼𝗍𝗂ⱺ𐓣 ⱺ𝖿 ᑯ𝗂𝗀𝗂𝗍αᥣ 𝗌𝗍𝗂𝖼𝗄𝖾𝗋𝗌 α𐓣ᑯ 𝖼ⱺ𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌, 𝖿𝖾α𝗍υ𝗋𝗂𐓣𝗀 α 𝖿𝖾ω α𐓣𝗂ꭑα𝗍𝖾ᑯ 𝗀𝗂𝖿𝗌 α𝗌 ω𝖾ᥣᥣ
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#notion #goodnotes #notetaking #productivity #digitalart #christmas #scrapbooking
firstandlastagi.gumroad.com
#notion #goodnotes #notetaking #productivity #digitalart #christmas #scrapbooking
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
𝐉υ𝗌𝗍 α 𝗊υ𝗂𝖼𝗄 ɦ𝖾αᑯ𝗌 υρ: 𝐓ɦ𝗂𝗌 ω𝖾𝖾𝗄, ω𝖾'𝗋𝖾 ᥣαυ𐓣𝖼ɦ𝗂𐓣𝗀 α festive 𝖼ⱺᥣᥣ𝖾𝖼𝗍𝗂ⱺ𐓣 ⱺ𝖿 ᑯ𝗂𝗀𝗂𝗍αᥣ 𝗌𝗍𝗂𝖼𝗄𝖾𝗋𝗌 α𐓣ᑯ 𝖼ⱺ𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌, 𝖿𝖾α𝗍υ𝗋𝗂𐓣𝗀 α 𝖿𝖾ω α𐓣𝗂ꭑα𝗍𝖾ᑯ 𝗀𝗂𝖿𝗌 α𝗌 ω𝖾ᥣᥣ
firstandlastagi.gumroad.com
#notion #goodnotes #notetaking #productivity #digitalart #christmas #scrapbooking
firstandlastagi.gumroad.com
#notion #goodnotes #notetaking #productivity #digitalart #christmas #scrapbooking
Anyone damaged can lash out. It takes no discipline to be cruel. Kindness, however, requires architecture.
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Anyone damaged can lash out. It takes no discipline to be cruel. Kindness, however, requires architecture.