#advanced mindfulness

[yuvaap]

Exploring Advanced Meditation Techniques

Advanced meditation goes beyond basic mindfulness, offering deeper relaxation and heightened awareness. Learn sophisticated techniques to deepen your practice, enhance mental clarity, and achieve emotional balance. Perfect for those ready to elevate their meditation journey.

[1alchemistart]

doing my duty of drawing skeleton falin

[chipthekeeper]

I'm sorry. Well, there's work to be done. We have to live to do it, though, don't we?

[clownsuu]

YO YOU ALIVE CUZ

barely </3

my mind has been consumed by quirky old men and this game is N O T making it easy KJBFEKFBWK

[hotchology]

[astrophysician]

EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS

hi everyone, my main source of income has become unreliable and i need help to cover my rent and bills this month. i'm looking for any and all support/work while i work on a long-term solution.

i have commission info up on my ko-fi, and will be happy to negotiate for requests not outlined over there. i'm also interested in freelance work as a comic artist or illustrator (so if you or someone you know is looking for artists, my portfolio is here)

my ko-fi's set up for a specific kind of art, but i can do portraits, character design, comics, sketchdumps, you name it, honestly. sonic characters, robots, furries, D&D characters (with armor!), real life people, heck i'll render lineart (i've done it before)! there isn't a lot that's off the table (except NSFW unfortunately). here's some examples (and you can find more in my art tag and on my ko-fi):

portraits

character design

if you've been looking for a good time to commission me, now is the time. my ko-fi is also open for general donations-- every little bit helps. if all you can do is reblog this post, thank you.

reach out to me through DMs if you're interested!!

[angelpuns]

Kid Leo Au: Reunion

Part 16!!!

To everyone that guessed Leo was gonna feel guilty about smthn that hasn't even happened yet, here's a heart <3 good job! He is predictable this time around :)

Yeah I do think Leo would feel guilty both about it happening in the past and the idea that Raph WOULD DO IT AGAIN IF HE THOUGHT IT WOULD WORK!!

Anyway,

NEXT TIME ON KID LEO...UH OH!!!

Side note I am gona try and start adding prev links, but only to upcoming updates cause the amount of time it would take to go back and do it to the entirety of Kid Leo is just wayyy too much and I have a day job :) But I will try them from now on, since they've been requested! If I end up thinking it's too much trouble in the future I may stop, but we'll just see how it affects the posting process.

Kid Leo Au Masterpost | First | Prev | Next

[zelda-daily]

Your favourite character! As a request :D

Day 102: Rutela

[malvolios-yellow-stockings]

fellas is it gay to be a directionless lonely insomniac approaching your 30s without having accomplished heterosexual milestones of settling down and having kids and also not having an outlet to exorcise your feelings of loneliness, shame, dejection and inadequacy, being a faceless consumer in the age of neoliberal hegemony who is unable to form meaningful human connections or feel pleasure in any meaningful capacity. is it then gay to only be vulnerable in support groups where others believe you are dying or seriously ill, in groups where you are frequently embraced by other men who share your sense of urgency, in the only context where everyone can get over being temporarily embarrassed and ashamed of their flood of emotions?

is it then gayer that this scheme you built for yourself is obstructed when a woman disrupts the all-male group you go to and that woman is everything you don't want yourself to be - a "weak person", outwardly self-loathing and ironic, painfully self-aware, lethargic and hysterical at the same time, undoubtedly feminine and carelessly vulnerable and only violent towards herself, never others (maybe that she’s free in all the ways you are not)? is it gayer still that this disruption triggers the appearance of another "man" in your life who is your own edgy, idealised version of maleness, masculinity & manhood. (is it gay that you show your anger and jealousy towards this woman, expressing your distaste by saying “if only i had wasted a couple of minutes and gone to watch marla singer die and none of this would’ve happened” after your idealised man saves her from suicide and has sex with her very loudly so you can hear (“i could’ve moved to another room… where i might not have heard them. but I didn’t”?) Is it gayer still that you reject her advances multiple times later on while loudly expressing your disinterest in her sexually)

fellas is it gay that this man turns your life upside down, convincing you to found a club that by definition and principle excludes women (“it’s for men only”), where men intimately fight underground, in a dark basement on an increasingly regular basis and where your fighting partner is almost always different every time, where you recognize each other in the wild but are instructed not to be publicly open about your membership to this secret fraternity of sorts (almost resembling the dynamics of gay cruising and hook-up culture)? is it gay that your previous need to be embraced by men in a no-questions-asked context is replaced by the same but different mechanism/ritual, this time with expected, welcomed and consensual violence intricately tying your idea of freedom and therefore pleasure with pain? fellas is it gayer still that the guy who taught you to embrace and overcome that pain lives with you and kisses your hand before leaving a chemical burn there in a shape suspiciously resembling lips?

is it gay to semi-ironically describe your co-habitation with him as married life, comparing yourselves to ozzie and harriet while tying this guy's tie, this action making you the (house)wife of the pair, then later on basically imagining that he slaps your ass after handing you beer to serve other men with? is it really gay that you get jealous of the two people this idealised man you live with shows deference to interest in? first the woman you yourself previously showed no (outwardly sexual) interest in and who was established as a kind of a rival (wherein it was impossible for both of you to be satisfied in the same way at the same time, who invades your power animal coping mechanism sequences, and whom you later embrace as an ally and quite possibly a part of yourself) and then another guy whom you then monstrously, savagely beat after feeling an "inflamed sense of rejection" and explain ruining his body by saying you “felt like destroying something beautiful"? fellas is it gay that this idealised confident man dresses eccentrically and flamboyantly, accessorises rings and big colourful fuck-you-glasses, mesh shirts etc. going against the subdued yuppie masculinity of corporate male America, who is free in all the ways you aren't and who spews (and seduces you with) anti-social undercooked anti-capitalist rhetoric and pseudo-scientific cool guy bullshit which goes against mainstream society bro!, who uses his job/pass time as a projectionist to smuggle pornographic imagery into family films (and who represents your own violent subconscious lurking in you in the form of a penis appearing for less than a second right at the end of the film?) and who tells you that maybe neither of you need women in your lives, while you discuss your absent father figures. is it gay when he spits his own blood into the mouth of a presumed gangster telling the gangster "you don't know where i've been lou" in a time where the impact of AIDS is looming large and heavy over everyone, but is inextricably tied to gay/queer men and IV drug users?

is it gay (of the repressed, self-hating variety) to create a whole fella you can pine after and effectively beat yourself up after he picks you up to live with him and punch the lights out of another dude you recognize is beautiful because the imaginary best boy friend you created in your head, that being you, has possibly experienced homo lust which is becoming increasingly hard to suppress?

and fellas is it gay to want to be tyler and want him at the same time?

is it also gay when... [gunshot]

[helenstudies]

It's funny learning both japanese and chinese because in chinese when chinese learners complain about difficult words they are those that have simple strokes, about 3 or less pinyin pronunciations but have 58 different meanings and need specific usages where as in japanese, the difficult kanjis have 40 strokes like they've clawed all the way to earth from hell and have 80 different pronunciation but the meaning is pretty much the same across the words. So when I see chinese learners complain about a difficult word it's "guys, I think we should've left this word to die in classical chinese" but when japanese learners complain about a difficult word my response is either "that's just 8 radicals on top of each other. that's not hard" or "who angered a kami of kunyomi dominion, my god."

[fatedroses]

I offer the frankly hilarious scenario of zenos and estinien having to work together (probably because of tataru) and a little bit of headcanon-ing I have in regards to the one main issue they run in to when theyre a duo.

[satellitefool]

Quick Worlds Beyond Number public service announcement for non-patrons, as I haven't seen this posted officially yet:

Fireside 46 confirmed that Episode 47 isn't coming out next week. They've only just finished recording the book and they want to give the production team time to cook.

Considering how good the editing and audio production is on this show? Fair.

[chidoroki]

December 19th - Happy Birthday Chifuyu - ft: his tvtropes

[slavic-roots-western-mind]

Chinese Christmas & New Year Vocab

The holidays are almost here, so here's some useful vocab in Chinese! Even though Christmas isn't really a big celebration in China, it's still useful to know some vocab. Merry Christmas in advance!

圣诞节快乐 (shèng dàn jié kuài lè) - Merry Christmas!

圣诞节 (shèng dàn jié) - Christmas

圣诞节前夕 (shèngdàn jié qiánxī) - Christmas Eve

新年 (xīn nián) - New Year

新年快乐 (xīn nián kuài lè) - Happy New Year!

春节 (chūn jié) - Spring Festival (Lunar New Year)

元旦 (yuán dàn) - New Year's Day

除夕 (chú xī) - Lunar New Year's Eve

圣诞老人 (shèng dàn lǎo rén) - Santa Claus

圣诞树 (shèng dàn shù) - Christmas tree

圣诞礼物 (shèng dàn lǐ wù) - Christmas gift

圣诞卡 (shèng dàn kǎ) - Christmas card

圣诞袜 (shèng dàn wà) - Christmas stocking

圣诞装饰 (shèng dàn zhuāng shì) - Christmas decorations

彩灯 (cǎi dēng) - Christmas lights

星星 (xīng xīng) - Star

铃铛 (líng dāng) - Bell

圣诞花环 ((shèng dàn huā huán) - Wreath

彩带 (cǎi dài) - Ribbon

圣诞球 (shèng dàn qiú) - Christmas ball ornament thing

雪花 (xuě huā) - Snowflake (The literal meaning is snow flower which I think is just so pretty)

蜡烛 (là zhú) - Candle

圣诞派对 (shèng dàn pài duì) - Christmas party

圣诞市场 (shèng dàn shì chǎng) - Christmas market

拐杖糖 (guǎi zhàng táng) - Candy cane

姜饼 (jiāng bǐng) - Gingerbread

姜饼人 (jiāng bǐng rén) - Gingerbread man

热巧克力 (rè qiǎo kè lì) - Hot chocolate

圣诞火鸡 (shèng dàn huǒ jī) - Christmas turkey

蛋酒 (dàn jiǔ) - Eggnog

圣诞布丁 (shèng dàn bù dīng) - Christmas pudding

圣诞水果蛋糕 (shèng dàn shuǐ guǒ dàn gāo) - Fruitcake

圣诞饼干 (shèng dàn bǐng gān) - Christmas cookies 驯鹿 (xùn lù) - Reindeer

红鼻���驯鹿鲁道夫 (Hóngtóu lù hán lǔ dàofū) - Rudolph * Apparently the former Crown Prince of Austria has the same name as Rudolph the Reindeer

雪人 (xuě rén) - Snowman

雪橇 (xuě qiāo) - Sleigh 耶稣 (yē sū) - Jesus

天使 (tiān shǐ) - Angel

牧羊人 (mù yáng rén) - Shepherd

三博士 (sān bó shì) - Three Wise Men

农历 (nóng lì) - Lunar calendar

阳历 (yáng lì) - Solar calendar

倒计时 (dào jì shí) - to countdown

辞旧迎新 (cí jiù yíng xīn) -See the old year away and welcome the new year (idiom)

春联 (chūn lián) - Spring couplets

福字 (fú zì) - Luck character

窗花 (chuāng huā) - Window paper-cut decorations

灯笼 (dēng lóng) - Lantern

鞭炮 (biān pào) - Firecrackers

烟花 (yān huā) - Fireworks

红包 (hóng bāo) - Red envelope

饺子 (jiǎo zi) - Dumplings

鱼 (yú) - Fish

年糕 (nián gāo) - New Year cake (sticky rice cake)

汤圆 (tāng yuán) - Glutinous rice balls

苹果 (píng guǒ) - Apple

橘子 (jú zi) - Orange

春卷 (chūn juǎn) - Spring rolls

酒 (jiǔ) - Alcohol

[nicomoon69]

@stephcassweek day 2: alternate universes

[mirensiart]

i have a super self-indulgent fire emblem modern au that brings me comfort during hard times and I suppose I could share it with u guys, maybe even draw it if I ever have the time...

But like, as you know, in canon marth marries caeda and chrom+lucina & lissa+owain & emmeryn are their descendants and their great great great great great great (add more greats) grandkids right

Anyway i just love the idea of a modern au where marth&caeda are chrom+lissa+emmeryn’s parents (lissa and emm can be adopted or the blonde gene is recessive idk) and like, lucina is grandpa marth’s fave and owain is grandma caeda’s fave and idk I just love the idea of all of them as a fam lmao

marth & caeda being like, super famous and also well known, marth is like a huge celebrity everywhere, like maybe an a-list actor with like 10 oscars and 20 nominations lmao caeda is like an actress too and they met on the set of a movie and everyone's obsessed with them lmao

emmeryn followed in their footsteps and is also a mega celebrity but went into politics, like she even becomes president at some point, while chrom+lissa try to keep a low profile for their kids’ sakes

I think chrom suffering from the tony hawk syndrome would be absolutely hilarious lmao like he is a nepotism baby cause his parents are MARTH and caeda and is like idk a famous actor and yet no one recognizes him ever lmao he marries robin who is his manager and people recognize robin more than him

meanwhile lissa is like the only one of the marth×caeda kids who isn't an actor or into politics and yet SHE is recognized everywhere unlike chrom lmao

LMAO OK BUT

lucina bringing severa to meet her grandparents for the holidays and she’s like “honey pls don’t freak out” and severa’s like “why would I—OHMYGOD IS THAT MARTH LOWELL?!?!”

marth signing an autograph on a napkin for severa during dinner, though

Also severa awkwardly meeting chrom (her father-in-law lmao) and telling him he is her mom's celebrity crush kdbdjd