#difficult decisions

[lokavisi]

Rune Meditation - Thurisaz

Thor was my guide for this meditation, seeing as it's his rune and all. The first image he guided me towards was someone knelt on the ground holding someone just slain in battle. The choice was made to sacrifice their life to protect this person and fight for something greater than themselves. Sacrifice and protection were the key words of this little journey. The energy of thurisaz is one that recognizes the beauty in the immense sadness that accompanies a necessary but devastating loss. There is an energy of deep respect that in turn deserves to be respected. The magic of thurisaz is good to call upon when you must make a difficult choice in the name of the greater good, to protect that which is sacred and worth protecting. There are things - people, places, ideas, emotions, animals, plant life - that are meant to keep living on so that the world may see how sacred they are. They need to be protected, and we may be called to make great sacrifices in order to do that. I asked Thor about the imagery of a rose, since thurisaz is related to (and looks like) thorns. I saw an image of a rose grow it's thorns into talons to fight back at an animal coming near it, and then one that had enveloped itself in a bramble of thorns. He said while it is key to use the thorns as needed for protection, you need to remember to leave space for the beauty and necessities of life to get through. You shouldn't choke out that which you are protecting while trying to protect it. Give it the space and resources it needs to keep growing and continue living. My biggest take away was the feeling of reluctant but necessary acceptance of the sacrifice(s) that needed to be made in order to protect the sacred things in life. Whatever that looks like to you, make sure you are giving no more than what is needed when doing this work of protecting. Often times giving you entire life (physically or otherwise) is not necessary, but that does not mean you will not be challenged when doing the hard work that needs doing. Others that have come before you have made such difficult sacrifices before. You will only add to the human tradition of finding the strength to do the right thing and protect what deserves and needs protecting in this world.

Hail to Thor and Thurisaz!

[devilsrecreation]

I don’t need it

I don’t need it

I definitely don’t need it

I don’t need it

*knowing I have to pay real money just for fragments* I don’t need it

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

I'm..... going to finally write the letter. To my mother. Laying out how she broke our relationship. That I'm not going to speak to her anymore and she will not be seeing my children again.

I know she's going to blow up. Upset. Anger. Will probably (continue to) shit talk me to family and social media. But I..... just don't care anymore. She's hurt me so deeply and I cannot forgive her. Especially since it's ongoing.

She's not going to change and I've accepted it. My biggest sadness with this decision is, I'm very close with my grandmother, her mother. This grandmother however holds so tight onto family that she might take my mother's side over mine, she's her kid afterall. Which, tbh I'm not even going to be mad about. Hurt terribly. But not mad.

Family is so important to me but I refuse to tolerate and cater to such toxicity and I do not want my children around such people thinking it's okay to behave that way.

My siblings feel the same way. Except maybe the youngest who's too young to understand. Which also sucks because I already barely know my youngest sibling and this cut off pretty much ensures I'll not see them again + mom will probably poison their view of me which I can't really do anything about at this point.

But I'm tired of this resentment and tension looming over me for the past several years. Festering. We were supposed to have a big family hash out all cards and sentiments on the table and it never happened. I'm tired of waiting for something that's probably never going to happen.

I'm waiting until some things come to fruition but it'll be before yule. I want my grandmother to meet her newest grandchild before possibly losing her from this choice... so I'm going to wait. Wait until a few things are in order before this move.

It's going to be difficult. I'm honestly scared that my mom is one of those people who'd call services out of spite when she's cut off from the grandkids (that she currently never makes an effort to see outside one holiday a year, mind you) but yeah.... this is going to suck and I want more ducks in a row before she hurls any retaliation my way. Because she will. She will throw a fit in some way and I'm not looking forward to it.

[flawedamythyst]

Challenge: make a poll of your five fave characters of all time, then tag five people to do the same.

Tagged by @kangofu-cb , who should know better than assuming I can make a decision over fav characters. In the interests of not spending three hours debating the merits of every blorbo I have ever had, I will just whack down the first 5 I think of from 5 different fandoms.

And I will wimp out on tagging because of the social anxiety of it all but if you wish I had tagged you, go for it.

[drearydroplet]

Broooooooo, there is no greater decision in the world than having to choose if you want to stay up for another hour for food to be brought to you or to go to sleep. Like I’m sooooo hungry and I want a hot fudge Sunday, but like what if I fall asleep before they bring it to me… Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh this puppy is ready for bed.

[gay-caveman]

okay so do you guys know that part in ck when ali and johnny see each other again and ali says something like:

"my daughter was on the path to becoming a ballerina and then she joined a punk band"

that led me to the head cannon that in college ali, susan and barbara created a band and were semi-popular in the late 80s-90s.

like imagine jessica somehow becomes friends with one of them and invites daniel to one of their shows. she's all like "Daniel you HAVE to come to my friends show sometime you'll love it". and so they go and daniel is just bugging out trying to figure out if that's ali or not because she dyed her hair and she looks completely different from when he last saw her.

but then. imagine this okay. hear me out on this.

so we know johnny 'partied through all of his 20s' and also loves music (specifically rock) so just imagine him and the cobras ALSO going to the same concert as jessica and daniel. IT HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL. LIKE HOW WOULD THEY REACT??? AHHHH.

anyway this was just a really long post about how I think her daughter saw old pictures of her back when she was in the band and thought 'holy FUCK thats so cool'

and so she asked ali about it and ali brought up a huge bin from her basement with all her old clothes and stuff from then and so now that's all her daughter wears.

[chronurgy]

Gonna finish my first Bg3 playthrough in the next few days so now I gotta decide what to do next. Will I just play Vesper again or come up with another durge hmmmmm

[soleberlandieri]

@whumptober

@whumptober-archive

Title: Your thoughts are mine

prompts:  “Would you lie with me and just forget the world?” Gurney; Flatline; “Don’t go where I can’t follow.”

Fandom: Naruto

Rating: Teen and up audiences

Pairing: Kisame x Itachi

Summary

From the text: Kisame smiled, he was free now. He would never have imagined that having nothing left to lose would make him so peaceful. Anger and pain had been vented, he had stopped using Samehada to crush rocks, cut trees and dig craters in the ground. Now an extreme bliss had taken possession of him. His beauty sucked him into a funnel, he felt his feet leave the ground. “You will no longer feel pain, my love. And neither do I."

Kisame x Itachi; KisaIta

[bearlytolerant]

Hmm now I don’t know if I want to write filth or go find the pirate who will be mean to me.

[lieximhuman]

Thinking what’s healthy for me VS. would my parents be mad/ upset

[a-secret-songwriter-and-poet]

It hurts more thinking

the people who had my back,

the people who showed me the view,

said “this could be you”

lost their faith in me first.

How can I stay?

No matter what,

I’m breaking my heart

either way.

[darklight-owl]

The need to keep working on cou vs the want to finish my original species.........

[thenalexica]

different ways characters navigate moral ambiguity by genre

Crime Fiction:

Corrupt cop making dirty deals to catch worse criminals Vigilante justice outside the law Breaking rules to protect family Using criminal skills for good Evidence tampering to ensure justice Illegal means to stop greater evil

Fantasy:

Dark magic use for noble ends Assassination for greater good Breaking sacred laws to save realm Deal with evil forces to gain power Sacrifice innocents to save many Betraying oaths for right cause

Literary Fiction:

Affair to escape abusive marriage Theft to provide for family Lying to protect loved ones Revenge vs forgiveness choice Choosing between duty and desire Sacrifice one to save many

Horror:

Making deals with dark entities Becoming monster to fight monsters Human sacrifice for greater purpose Trading others' lives for survival Using forbidden knowledge Embracing evil to prevent worse evil

Sci-Fi:

Genocide to save human species Breaking AI directives for humanity Time paradox murder prevention Playing god with genetic engineering Sacrificing few for space colony Breaking laws of robotics for good

[biggoldbelt]

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[sunny-luna]

to write Yuri or watch gru smp

[ravenfiire]

god I would draw so much descendants art if I knew how to draw humans

The pains of being a furry artist