#personal development models

[arcanewebs]

personal take on fem tsukasa

[momentomori24]

I may just be insane about this but does this feel like foreshadowing to anyone else. In this scene we see her trying to replicate the skill of someone else (her mother) and failing to achieve the same results that they would. That feels really specific and it's driving me insane.

Like, we see this come back again in the aftermath of the trial. Diana has repeatedly voiced her admiration for Wolfgang's ability to speak and inspire those around him in the darkest of times, saying she wished she could do the same. We see her pour her heart out and give her own speech to inspire the others-- except the reaction that she receives is cold and miserable, far from the newly kindled warmth and hope Wolfgang was able to create every time.

Diana is a chameleon. Her whole thing is to reflect, to replicate and to adapt. Do you think that this small scene where she tries to make a butterfly out of her hairclips-- a butterfly, an animal associated with transformation and change-- and the end result looking nothing like what she wanted it to be is a metaphor for her future character arc? She has declared that she wants to follow in Wolfgang's footsteps, wants to become something new, but do you think that by the end she ends up being the furthest thing from him? Do you think that by the end she will be left distorted, fundamentally wrong? Do you think that if she could see what she will become in the future, the only emotion that she can muster is horror as she gazes at a stranger that's supposed to be herself? That by the end, she won't be able to recognise herself, because there's no "her" left anymore?

[starheirxero]

PLEASE become evil on main your thoughts are always very interesting !! :3

Anon I need you to know I was debating just only making that one post and then biting my tongue about the rest but this ask was genuinely so relieving to see that I teared up a little bit thank you HDKSHDJD

I did, however, uhm. talk a Lot. and I'm very much being more honest about my feelings on this than I usually am, so it's going under the cut bdjshdjdnf

Ahem ahem. So. From a meta standpoint? I just have a very, very weird feeling about what's going on with tsams now that they've Also changed Lunar's name. The only information we have on what's happening is from Discord, where Kat mentioned it wasn't her choice to change Earth's name and the mods reassuring everyone that the changes are for a good reason. I've been seeing theories that the changes are to make them more sellable for merch? But I,, don't fully know why they'd have to change their own OCs for that? So idk

From a story perspective though? It doesn't make sense and it's just another vein of Lunar having no choice in what happens to them.

Just because Libra asked "do you accept this permanent name change?" doesn't mean that "no" was a valid answer, because then what would have happened? They say "actually, I like my name, Lunar feels fine" and then what? The astrals, of which are famously judgy and pushy, say "okay, we'll continue to call you Lunar then! (Even though we just said that Lunar is an unfitting astral name)" like?!?!!??? And Lunar just immediately goes home to be like "uh. I guess I have a different name now? and I don't wanna deal with two names, so just call me Cosmos too."

They didn't make this choice. And honestly! They couldn't have because Lunar wouldn't have ever changed their name of their own volition!!! You can't tell me that Lunar—the character who is known for trying to cling onto a sense of identity so hard that it causes more problems for them in the long run—would be willing to let go of their own name? That is the one thing about them that actually hasn't changed since the beginning, the one thing that's consistent in the face of everything.

Plus, on a more personal note? I had an experience with my old username where everyone was calling me a nickname derived from my url instead of my actual chosen name, and the realization that only one person was calling me my actual preferred name made me have a messy identity crisis. If Lunar wasn't just, a character who is unfortunately the subject of bad writing lately, this choice would probably hit them at some point. They'd probably have that same awful, dreadful feeling of "oh god. no one even knows me."

It's just. Earth made sense because she at least gave her own reasons. She said "yeah I'm tryna be my own person now, so I'm Terra!" but Lunar's reason was just "uh. Libra gave it to me sooo.... 👍 yup." Like. augghhh. They could have gone by both Lunar and Cosmos too if the writing wasn't being so weird but !!! ugh. deflates. it's whateverrrrr

[lovely-hikari-cosplay]

✨🌟Kiran, Fairy of Light🌟✨

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Posting in group (?) order, and as of right now in my mind, Kiran is the central character in my Legacy of Winx series. That’s not to say he’s the leader per se, but a lot of the plot moves thanks to his circumstances and actions ✨

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He’s changed quite a bit from when I conceptualized him in 2018 where his biggest contribution to “The Legacy” was being a male/masc fairy. But now, I’ve solidified the idea of him belonging to a lost tribe of fairies whose light magic is more ancestral and spiritual in a way. Kinda like Bloom, but his “kingdom/home” is well and truly gone and he might really be the only survivor…

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Development of Kiran since 2018 under the cut⬇️⬇️⬇️

[teeforhee]

book Murderbot likes its humans when they possess functioning self preservation skills, more or less. tv murderbot grows to like its humans despite their magnificent incompetence and frankly even when its humans are capable it doesn't get to see them being so. much to consider about this

[infj-hearts-entp]

(via true that)

[ofcowardiceandkings]

from the programming that brought you glue pizza

how do we get this kind of bellend to shut up lol theyre so delusional

[icicledream]

"so many things using the term ai feels like deliberate obfuscation" i hate to tell u this but we have been using the term ai for video game npcs and scientific models and automated tools and generative tools for many decades.

like if this was a more recent acronym yeah it'd feel deliberate but all of those things are, in fact, forms of artificial intelligence

and sure they're trying to buzzword it bc of the genai craze but that shouldn't take away from the fact that we've been using that acronym for decades

[healerinchief]

I feel so blessed to know many talented people that enjoy creating beautiful images with me. All it takes is a good eye and good idea to turn it into a beautiful reality.

This photo was so simple to create. A visiting artist friend put a backdrop up in his hotel room and I styled myself. This is a raw unedited image.

It’s taken me most of my life to recognize and appreciate my own beauty, inner and outer. I’m grateful that I finally have learned to see, accept, and love reality exactly as it is… arguing with reality was insane and painful.

photo credit: John Schuyler

circa 2011

[withahappyrefrain]

boring

If reading a book and cuddling my dog while my former model husband sleeps next to me is boring, so be it!!

[orcelito]

Actually it is SO weird to me to remember that I was an engineering student and that later on I had been pursuing a minor in statistics

I may be a IT & com person in the end, but I do have the foundations of engineering and statistics in my brain too. Wild !

[silly-mode-cilia]

ive been playing a lot of hades recently and I think that zagreus should have the option to hit on achillles in some way. regardless of whether achilles politely shoots him down or he enters a polycule with achilles and patroclus. fishing about to see how achilles feels about nonmonogamy. It would be fun to watch him be so awkward about it

[lunaetis]

[ i'll make a proper hc post about this later when my brain works with me but i really like seeing how much more expressive eden is in the aetherium war event compares to the first time she was awakened. you could see that during the first few story chapters, eden was more stoic, quiet, less responsive. her expression rarely changes. sure, she was a menace from the get-go, but it's so nice to see how she's much more expressive now in the newest event. you get options to shape her personality, ranging from polite & respectful, to cautious, to confident and cocky ( mine is always a mix of them. eden is mostly humble & polite but with a touch of menacing answers here & there. she gets more confident as time goes but never cocky. ) and i love seeing that for her ? i love how the game lets her personality surface with her expressions and she's much more expressive with her facial expression & demeanor now. she smiles more often, speaks her mind, is still fearless but with a touch of humility, and i love that for her. ]

[flockofdoves]

i like that the new sohoku first year is a former basketball team manager. i always find myself really invested in understanding different sports manga manager characters’ relationships with playing sports

granted a lot of the time thats as an extension of just thinking about female characters and asking like. does miki have some genuine preference for being a manager over getting to cycle herself despite her obsession with cycling, or is it a product of her circumstances as a girl, and if its the latter does she already see it as too late or would she jump to ride a bike competitively if there was something more than exhibition races for girls within the institution of japanese high school road racing. would she want her teammates to fight to let her be on the team if that seemed at all like a possibility. etc!!!

but still even having the manager to athlete arc with a boy character will have some thematic overlap that i can use to further my miki thoughts on how that would all play out with rokudai also being a person miki knows now