#Directing Focus

[compassionmattersmost]

Mastering Your Mental Focus: Owning and Directing Your Attention

Swamiji’s description of attention as “your own property” emphasizes its personal and controlled nature. Here’s what this means: Attention as Your Own Property Personal Control: Attention is under your direct control and influence. You have the ability to direct and focus it according to your intention and will. Awareness Directed by Will: Your attention is essentially your awareness, which…

[fisherrprince]

it’s not necessarily that I hate the themes most prevalent in fiction set in the real world and it’s not necessarily that I don’t like stories revolving around real people or relationship drama or interpersonal issues it’s more like im a dog who doesn’t recognize that a pill is still a pill if it has peanut butter on it. I need like the little peanut butter spoonful that is aliens or robots or monsters or time travel or something fantastical and not at all down to earth real life so that you can approach me and be like “this story is about how friendships can deteriorate over time and also how this guy feels bad for being a bad friend and causing his buddy problems with their girlfriend” and then look at me making a face at you and be like “AND! they’re all aliens who are doing all that across spacetime” and I’ll be like OHHHHHH OKAY YAY (shlop shlap shlup the sound of a dog horking down peanut butter pills) wow what a poignant story

[kevjeanday]

This is very unfinished but I needed everyone to see the vision I had

[pharawee]

Welcome to the far side of the moon.

—SHINE · Official Trailer · 2 August 2025

[inkyrainstorms]

The burn, no, the brand, is stark and sickening against the skin of Stanley's right shoulder. The skin there is raised and shiny, blisters freckle over the sharp slashing lines of the sigil. It was supposed to be protective, a warding symbol, but now it's seared into his twin's flesh. Ford wants to gag. Stan squirms a little, his hands fisted in the sweater thrown over his knees. “I'm guessing it's a little worse than a sunburn, huh?” 

— AME, chapter 11

@aroace-get-out-of-my-face throwing this at you and scurrying away like the little creature I am. I’ve had this specific kind of composition stuck in my head literally since I read the chapter and I finally decided last night to do the basic sketch for it. I told myself it’d take a couple days to do, I can take my time, there’s no rush or anything.

I. Uh. I did this in. Today. I did it all today.

[liampaynememorial]

Honoring Liam Payne: A memorial across time and space

As we continue to process the heartbreaking news of Liam’s passing, I’ve created this tumblr as a space where we can come together and remember him.

Several of you, including some anons, suggested the idea of holding an online memorial, especially for those who can’t attend the services being held in various cities. I believe this is a beautiful way to honor him and support one another.

I’ll be posting more details on Monday, as it’s quite late now and I’ll be travelling tomorrow to attend one of the memorials. But I wanted to get this blog up and running to share a date and a way for us to contribute.

We’ll be holding the online memorial on October 29th. The time doesn’t matter — just join in whenever it’s October 29th where you are, so everyone can participate in their own time. What can you share?

You can contribute in any way that feels right for you —whether it’s edits, fan art, poems, a personal note or letter, song lyrics, gif sets, your favorite photos of him, special moments, stories… Just tag me and I’ll make sure to reblog it.

Please, take care and be gentle with yourselves during this time. I’m sending love and strength to all of you 💕

[variousqueerthings]

reblogging again about Big Eden made me think about some of the native american/canadian queer cinema (Indigiqueer Cinema) I've enjoyed.

Found a handy dandy Letterboxd List called Queer Native Pride and Beyond that has a whole bunch of movies I haven't seen yet, and below some of the ones I've gotten to experience (three out of four are linked):

Big Eden: a story about a gay man who returns home, because his grandfather gets sick. A sweet, beautiful man (played by Eric Schweig) starts to secretly make him food to help out. it's an amazing slice-of-life/subtly utopian bit of film-making, in that nobody in the town is homophobic, but being gay/shame is still a big part of the exploration within it.

Wildhood: a movie I got to watch at a film festival (always good to go to your local queer film festivals, many surprises to be had) and it blew me away. a roadtrip movie about two brothers who escape their abusive father to reconnect with the elder's mother and Mi'kmaq heritage. letting go of the instilled shame of being indigenous goes hand in hand with letting go of the instilled shame of being queer

Fancy Dance: this movie isn't about being queer, it's about the ongoing murder of indigenous woman and girls, and it's also a beautiful road trip film between an aunt and her niece, the former of whom is sure her sister is dead but unwilling to face it and to destroy her niece's innocence. Lily Gladstone plays the lead, who's also a lesbian, which is just a choice that works really well for the movie even if it's not the focal point (available on Apple+ TV and however you access movies, but would recommend throwing this one some views if you have access to official streaming)

Honey Moccasin: a 1998 movie i watched at another film festival (this time online), it's anarchic, it's a comedy, it's a thriller, it's got musical beats, it weaves in the intricacies of exploring Native identity and Queer identity, it's a surreal story about a few things, one of which include focus on a "closeted drag queen." it's a movie that beats against conventional film-making to create something not beholden to tropes and clichés forced upon narratives about being Native

[louisplumpyass]

who is he giving these fuckable eyes to?!

[white-hole-station]

Another thing about the Outer Wilds protagonist that I can't get out of my head: We never get to find out what our instrument was. All Travelers leave with one, so they can signal home, but we never see our own because we never find a place to make camp, or have enough time to sit down and let everyone know that we made it. It breaks my heart.

[thebonesinmy-closet]

Mark and Rex should make out, and Mark should totally wreck Rex's face doing so, and Rex should let him. a tender kiss to Mark, when filled with passion and pent up energy, feelings like a vicious bite to Rex, but he's not quick to point that out. Mark should kiss Rex till it hurts and Rex should dig his nails into Mark's back, barely managing to break skin, even Mark says it's ok. Rex should try and match the speed and strength at which Mark is capable of defiling him, but ultimately fail — he could never dream of catching up to a Viltrumite. Rex should tell Mark he doesn't have to be gentle.

both have always had to be careful, but they can rip each other apart and welcome it. they've endured so much pain, why not find a way to enjoy it?

Mark should hold Rex tenderly with arms that could crush him, and Rex should relish in feeling secure. they should tangle their legs together and mingle their breaths and push each other against walls and mattresses and pillows. friction and heat building between them. moments where they stare at each other as Rex pants for breath and Mark waits for him to catch his breath with a look so patient it hurts they pant for breath, and there's the pull to be tender that feels slightly foreign but also so very good and right. their foreheads come to rest against each other at some point.

they talk about their insecurities. about the shit no one else wants to hear or knows what to do with. Rex covers Mark's hands with his own so he can't see the blood that isn't there. Mark takes hold of Rex's when they shake with a tremor that will never fully go away.

they aren't perfect. but they're something good. just for now.

[firefamily]

thinking about Oliver's recent video interview and how he said that stuff about bucks love life flicking on for a moment, that he will struggle with the morality of it, and that it would be part of bucks adjustment period after Eddie leaves. the only way to interpret that really is that whatever happens, it isn't something buck feels good about, and happens as a direct result of Eddie being gone. So whoever else turns up - it's not going to be about them. It's *still* alllll about Eddie

[connabeth]

i know the pjo tv show is beyond help aside from the lovely main cast but it irritates me to no end when they add in useless side characters while deeply struggling to properly characterize their most important ones. alison my ass, chris rodriguez is RIGHT THERE. solely focus on that, if at all. given how short these episodes are and the resulting shallowness of some of most pivotal scenes, dishing out screen time like oprah to a bunch of nobody characters is not going to elevate the show in any way, shape, or form. deviating from the text-established percy-centric narrative and introducing additional plot points to some behind-the-scenes luke narrative when they miss the mark on the main storyline is just yet another distraction and waste of energy on everyone’s part

[woe-is-tuli]

ATEEZ(에이티즈) - 'Lemon Drop': Jongho

[spicyvampire]

WANDEE GOODDAY (2024) EP. 2 // EP. 6

[mystery-salad]

Let's make a GW2 character: COMPLETE

Starting at the beginning of January, I wanted to see if we as a community could walk through the character creation steps all the way to a complete character. And you guys did it! I want to genuinely thank all of you who played along and contributed to the voting in each poll. This would not have happened without you guys, and the amount of people participating made it so much fun to watch as the poll creator.

Oops All Foofoo (honorable mention to Fortuna Oddchoice and Meowning Glory for making it to the final poll), the charr necromancer you brought to life! This is not my oc, it is the community's. Anyone can claim this chonker, do what you will with them!

Below the cut you'll find the full cc appearance for this charr, along with every choice you made after. Do what you like, and have fun with it!

A necromancer closest companion is death. In acknowledgement of this, I mark my face with the symbol of a Ghostly Wraith

Trouble may follow me, but I use my Charm to overcome it.

I am proud to be Ash Legion

I would die for my warband, especially Dinky and Reeva, my sparring partner.

They tell me the soldier that sired me is a Sorcerous Shaman

[therealstonedelephant]

sukugo is a crack ship TO YOU. to me it's a perfectly legitimate ship, held back within the canon universe principally due to adherence to classic genre structures and not by lack of character compatibility