I plan to shoot some better photos & footage on my DSLR camera. But, for now, here's some further photos of this wand project. The May Pollen & June Humidity of New England is making it soft, because there's so many layer of medium on this thing.
It has real jade on it, also. And the Tassel has a White Jade Pixiu which is a kind of unicorn, but there's more to it.
It's supposed to be a hybrid of a Ruyi and a Wand from the Wizarding World. I blogged about it further in my 1st blog on this topic.
— 任思麒 Kandice Z. ☮️✌🏽🕊✊🏽 (@BlackUniGryphon) May 4, 2026
The General theme of this custom made DIY wand whcih I hand sculpted using armature wire & Supersculpy was to resemble my sketches of my wand I scripted in to my D.R. Shifting Script at my Hogwarts D.R. (Desired Reality) if you are familiar with "Reality Shifting".
The design blends concepts from Chinese Taoism and also some vague ideas from "Fantastic Beasts" which is a spinoff of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter franchise.
Whenever I get around to scanning my sketches, I will. I just didn't get to it yet since I started a M.A.P. W.I.P. (animation project).
This involved a lot of painting, patience for the layers of paint to set, and also the use of antiquing medium, metallics, and layering of pigments with glazing medium and even mother-of-pearl.
It's based on a fusion of a Rúyì如意, and NO THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY TRANSLATE to "Scepter". It translates to "As You Wish" or "As You Will", and has a massive meaning. The Monkey King, Sun Wukong's Jing Gu Bang was ACTUALLY a Ruyi Jing Gu Bang which he could WILL to to become something else, and transform, just by willing it with his mind, thoughts, desires, and feelings.
A Ruyi usually resembles the shapes & swirls of the Lingzhi mushroom (reishi mushroom) which tends to have heavenly cloud swirls on it, naturally. This motif is also found in various other designs such as ancient Chinese locks, jade pendants, and various other design motifs.
Gifting someone a Ruyi speaks volumes o meaning which it DOES NOT express in Western Languages, so it's easier to just smile & nod at the ignorant foreigner and just say "it's a scepter" even tho' IT'S NOT! Why, because it would take a long time to explain it, the meanings, the words, the customs, the culture.
It Taoism it has a VERY CLEAR magical meaning, and the power of WILL over matter.
If you want to find other examples of Ruyi, you can run a search in Etsy and see what shows up, because it's a lot of interesting stuff at any given time. Highly creative artisans 7 collectors have various Ruyi, including Sun Wukong's Jing Gu Bang.
So, anyways, you COULD say that mine is #Fanfiction or #HarryPotterFanFiction of sorts but it's for my Reality Shifting D.R. Basically, it's when you move you consciousness to another reality, which you can script & design, and you just live their for as long as you want until you come back to your body here in the C.R. (Current reality). Also known as "Localle 3" in "Gateway Process" Tapes by Robert Monroe/Monroe Institute.
I'll blog some more on this later, when I have time.
Most of the characters r people from my C.R. including people I grew up with, went to middle school, high school, college with, or former coworkers & friends of mine, including my friend, David Biedny, who died in January 2024.
Also, "Reality Shifting" is quite different from "Lucid Dreaming" and/or "Lucid Dreams" but they're related, and so is OBEs (Out-of-Body Experiences) and "Astral Travel". You CAN actually use a Lucid Dream as a platform to SHIFT to your D.R. And it's somewhat similar to "Dream Incubation" but it's not a generic dream. In a Lucid Dream YOU CAN TEST to see if you're dreaming, and the checks will prove you're dreaming, and within the dream, and you can take over. But, when you SHIFT to another reality, you can run a reality check and they will all pass. BECAUSE IT'S REAL. You're MIND either made it, or it's an actual reality of molecules that you relocated your consciousness to. There's various views & beliefs as to which thing is happening, but I've found they're all valid. There's also waking methods & sleeping methods. These can also closely resemble "Hypnotic Induction". If you're "wooshing there", this to me suggests Hypnotic Induction, but if you have a SINKING and DEEP FEELING that's Shifting. But, other experiences are more similar to OBEs, Gateway Process, and Astral Travel because there's the vibratory state, tingles, etc. A Common place people shift to is a "Waiting Room" which you can design yourself, and they hang out there, eat delicious foods, watch TV, plan things, and so on.
I've shifted several times to other realities, and was even stuck there, but I'd eventually will myself back. I just didn't know you could script this until recently, so it's an ongoing thing with me. I've mini-shifted to Hogwarts several times, in fact, I can't remember them all. Glad I wrote them down! I tend to get way to excited, and fuck it up! I've also done Lucid Dreaming several times as well, and I've screwed up 1 of those pretty bad, also. Shifting is EXHAUSTING when you do it, I just tend to go to THE WRONG LOCATIONS for some reason, and I get stuck there. I also have an issue with "Dreamwalkers" whom invade & hack into my dreams, like the film "Inception". Sometimes they're good, other times' they're bad, and then there's neutral or morally gray ones. They can also mess me up.
That's about it for now, but I'll update this project content when I get around to it. I need to shoot more footage & photos of the finished wand.
Wow! So much has occurred since I'd last blogged about Pokemon Go & Grinding to Hit Level 50!
Well, I did it, and then I did many OTHER THINGS! Now, there's 80 levels which started LAST YEAR!
Here you can see my Avatar in my Giovani Black Suit BECAUSE I beat him enough times to get his Blazer from the PLATINUM MEDAL BADGE!
Since Early December I had a major leg injury which hampered my progress, but SEVERAL OTHER MILESTONES WENT DOWN BETWEEN HITTING LEVEL 70, AND I'M CURRENTLY SITTING AT LEVEL 75. In fact, I'm close to hitting Level 76, but was set back since it requires walking 300km, but I had several medical issues, plus very bad erratic weather!
Here's my BLACK Level 50 Legacy Bomber Jacket from the ORIGINAL LEVEL 50 system! HARD CORE! I also have the army green version as well. Plus, I completed the Special Research Tasks and GOT THE POSE and my Mewtwo! And here she is when i hit Level 70 as I was an eleite level and was grandfathered into the NEW SYSTEM! So, I also have a nod to my Original legacy Level 40 System where you can see the Gyarados Hat & my 2020 glasses!:
What an ABSOLUTE GRIND!!!! Jeez!!!
I hit Level 50 in Spring of 2024, and at that point I was almost sure they'd never have more levels, because we kept hearing rumors of 60 levels. But, the bombshell came in 2025 (last year) when suddenly there were 80 levels! Leveling up now is NOT AS HARD.... unless ur injured, like I was. It SUCKED!
I have ALL the XP & ALL The Platinum Medals I could possibly need to hit Level 80 now, but they time gated this stuff! So, if all goes well, I could hit 80 this year.
But, You might ALSO wanna check out the OTHER good stuff that happened for me since I hit Level 50, then 70, and now 75, but almost at 76, probably in a few more weeks. I gotta pace myself, because I have pain management & healing to navigate, plus trying to loose weight.
Fascinating to note that people are starting to WAKE-UP to things I was highly aware of as far back as 2016-17, but often treated with disdain.
I, too, sung the praises of "EDUCATION", which idealistically means a lot to me... however, I find that so-called "education" and knowledge, let alone wisdom, ARE NOT THE SAME. Or, even LEARNING, for that matter. Also this idea that that "getting an education" = "getting a better job"... or, kick the can down the road, and it's "getting an education" = "acquiring employment", let along so-called "gainful employment" is itself a mythology & an urban legend in real time.
I could write essays about how much bull shit this is, not just myself, my own generation, but those younger than myself.
Concepts like "The Law of Diminishing Returns" come to mind.
Before it was the subject of "The ignorant UNEDUCATED MASSES" but NOW it is "The ignorant EDUCATED MASSES".
I'd written a blog post on an older blog, on a different blog, for a different reason, and so on, but HERE is THAT post.
I had quite a LOT to say, tho that blog was rather short. I had quite a lot of ire, resentment, disdain, and full on contempt for THOSE whom out to have done better, and would have us believe that by stating THE OBVIOUS that we were some how STUPID, or too lacking in smarts, brains, vision, or sophistication to comprehend ART as THEY declared it.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES, BITCH!
So, I find THIS lil' tid-bit finding its way to me:
Where were u 10 years ago???
I have so many thoughts, so much experience(s), and of various kinds, broad, detailed, and in depth & volume.
I was quite irked at the very individuals whom claimed to help me, support me, encouraged me, and I followed through, only for them to NOT deliver. Those whom make their livings as literally teachers, and instructors, and use this as a guises as tho THEY KNOW BETTER. UNQUESTIONED.
However, I found out that by the sheer direct experiences myself, with THEM, I KNOW BETTER. And the moment you start to shine, prevail, and overcome difficulties, and unfair odds, they hate u further. They turn on you, if you actually start to grow, learn, surpass, and eclipse things.
And, if you're good at anything, you can be often met with strange reactions from others. Not just envy, or jealousy, greed, parasitic intentions, or a need to control you, or possess you....but, also FEAR! Fear of ALL KINDS! Disgust, wrath, ire, rage, snobbishness, while claiming you are, even if you're very kind, nice, and good to them and others... this is seen as YOU thinking YOU'RE BETTER THAN OTHERS, and looking down on them. People fearing you will take their job.
Then, there's those whom actually do that which they believed, and what they intended to do, or at the very least, it was in their hearts. To teach, encourage, and so on... but, even within the University setting, there's a bias, an echo chamber, and also a kind of group-think culture as well. They can ALSO be out of touch with reality, or the rest of the general populace.
It is TRUE that an ART SCHOOL does not ACTUALLY TEACH anyone how to MAKE ART, nor how to be an artist.
Scams within scams.
Fraud within fraud.
How I wish, at the very least, I could just BELIEVE in education... and yet, these things have motives behind the scenes as well.
Everything often feels like a Kaftka Trap... probably because it is.
But, at the very least, I can say that unlike so many others, I KNOW that I CAN GO THE DISTANCE, that I DID TRY, I did strive, and I did bother.
At some point, you just start to realize it was a either a wasted effort, and to just end it, because you cannot get that energy back, nor that time.... it slips through the fingers.
But, I KNOW what I am capable of.
I UNDERSTAND when things are rigged, unfair, unequal, and I also understand that I have no actual reason to feel shame, nor failure, because I was not wrong. I also care nothing for your petty, stupid judgements, nor your cruelties, because I know I needn't stoop down to your level like you.
In a world of pay-to-win, there are no winners. Because it's fake.
Why should I care what you think of me?
You whom have no concept of even what value even really is.
What should I even care what you think, nor how you feel about me, based on ideas just fed into your mind?
Opinions of lesser minds and hearts.
What I think of YOU, and feel, is my pity. I pity you for your small, narrow minds, and for the cages you placed yourself within.
Why should I care to measure up to your systems of measurement, which is unfair, rigged, and ever changing?
You can take this contempt, and sit on it.
This world could be far better. But, it isn't.
I understand this is not my fault, and I DID try to help it. It's rigged. It's not a bug in the system, it's a feature. THIS is what this world is.
It is intended to be this way.
And, thus... I shall just continue on with my own arts, and wishes, and I care nothing to survive it.
Tear me down! I dare you!
Fear does nothing much to me now. I fear no death.
Yet, you won't.
This reality wishes me to stay stuck alive in it.
For all those whom suffer with fear with a lethal diagnosis, and seethe in fear of death, it does so just to milk you each nano second of ur pain, and fear. But, for me, I'd view such a diagnosis as liberation. Ergo, I have no such diagnosis.
But, each year, it STRIVES to cause me some new medical issue, which is NEVER enough to kill me. NO, just set me back, foil my plans, and make me inert.
