#New Year Resolution 2022

[redwan999]

Flashback 2022: Year of Grief

I always write a review at the year end. I try to summarize how I have spent the year and what are my success/failure in this year. This review guides me to make correction for future years and helps me to achieve more. I try to to name the year in one word by summarizing the major events happened in that particular year. As 2022 was approaching in the final hours, I was thinking what to name the…

[purrplegraqe]

art from 2023

[humming-fly]

[youtube link for HD viewing]

After nearly two years of on-again off-again work here it is, the animatic that's been stuck in my head ever since I first heard this song back in 2018!! Finishing this behemoth was my big goal for the year and that was even before I decided to fully illustrate it, but somehow here we are!

I honestly wasn't ever sure if I'd be able to make this a reality since the song is a mix of fast paced with slower portions and I didn't think static images would fit very well, but rather than give up on it I was super inspired by @siruoa​‘s brilliant greedling artvid over here, and decided to give that style a shot myself with just the best results I could’ve hoped for!

Anyways thanks to all of ya’ll that have been so patient and encouraging since I dropped the sketch version last spring, I hope you all enjoy my love letter to FMA, Greed, and this this banging song as much as I do~

(Additional project details under the cut)

All art and animation was done within Clip Studio Paint EX over the course of 12 months. Overall this animation has 70 shots made up of 11 active animation folders, with the more complicated shots having up to 7 pieces moving at a time. I frankly lost track of the number of layers used, but it was well over 1200 when all was said and done h a

Music Used: Stronger by The Score

(and just in case you thought I was kidding about the 2018 thing lol)

[not-the-blue]

world's greatest archer

[nikoisme]

take me back to the days when i could animate

[bylrndgm]

happy 2023 byler tag!

✩ thank you for an amazing year! - e.

[sofiaruelle]

I realized i never posted my 2022 Artist Wrapped before New Years. Whoops!

[redwan999]

Mid year review of 2022 Resolution

I normally review the resolution for a year at the end of the year but this year a little bit exception. I was 4 month behind writing the new year resolution and I am pretty much sure I will be late to write a year end review as well. Hence writing a mid year review now in end of November. In audit we normally do hard close audit at 11 month of the financial year to check if there is any…

[kamamo1]

Optimus Prime:

Orion Pax and TFA Optimus:

[outlying-hyppocrate]

happy beloved new year 2024.

[nicknotes2]

[rosykims]

ELSPETH COUSLAND, WARDEN COMMANDER OF THE GREY

There is no Ferelden son or daughter alive who does not know the name Elspeth Cousland. Though still walking amongst us in the world today, feat after impossible feat has elevated the Warden Commander's name to the heights of near myth. Like the Dwarven Paragons, Ser Aveline the chevalier, Dane and the werewolves and beloved heroes of old, the Highever woman known simply as Ella to her friends is regaled by taverkeep and teryn alike for her legendary exploits during the Fifth Blight. [template]

[Except from ‘Faces of the Dragon: Figures of Fame and Notoriety Throughout the Dragon Age’ by Brother Genitivi]  

[dk-thrive]

Continuously — you.

Misplacing the year is useful.

Pretext may grow into medicine.

Ignore numbers until they become secret persons.

Pour out this metal thermos. But it isn’t a thermos, that’s just an image to help you physicalize an intellectual process.

If you want to transform a book you’ll need ingredients.

Read lines from an enchantress when you want to be a bird.

Ingest liquid prose when you prefer to be fluid.

A good title only proves you have work ahead of you.

Remembering your potency impels me further. I want to be impaled by a poem.

Beginning is always precarious. Avoid snow-covered terrain and long-haired ponies. Avoid skipping ahead, as I’ve inadvertently just done.

Return to certain constitutional texts when you need protection.

Refuse to look at detailed maps. You don’t need to know the future.

Your headache isn’t fake — but pretend if you can.

Fantasize that for the next six hours you will not stop.

All pain will end almost immediately.

If you are able to endure forgetfulness.

Welcome imperfection as you would a cup of tea served to you by a beautiful, devoted attendant.

Your attendant will stay as long as you like.

When lost, reread these instructions.

Don’t speak.

Ecstatic impulse is now.

Continuously — you.

— Laynie Browne, “01.05.16″ in (NY Times Magazine, December 29, 2022). Also in her book: “Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists” (Wave Books, June 21, 2022)

At the New Year, the list genre returns with a vengeance when people make their annual resolutions. Laynie Browne’s list poem follows the usual form with its numbers and occasional imperative. Browne’s list, however, is an anti-list, a list for the imagination and strangeness, asking the reader to misplace the year, to avoid the dangers of beginnings, to “Refuse to look at detailed maps.” In the new year, Browne’s speaker isn’t looking for the usual pedestrian and mundane resolutions that we name for ourselves, such as losing weight or saving money. Instead, her resolutions argue for openness, freedom from the past, the self and the known, for something unknown and magical. Selected by Victoria Chang

[angelfawngirl]

new years resolutions 2023! ♡🎀

take up yoga

take a trip

spend more time with family

run more often

study more when given quizzes & tests

treating myself after overcoming something huge

restart sleep schedule

get a proper job by august

self care more often

[poetryofmuses]

January is fast, it's foreign, January is exciting only in December.

[lazyyogi]

New Year's Resolutions for 2023

We can use any day of the year to set goals, resolve to make life changes, and grow ourselves. Yet the perspective afforded by the liminal period between one year ending and another year beginning lends especially well to such projects.

That's why I like making New Year's resolutions. And I encourage reflection, contemplation, and experimentation for anyone walking a spiritual path. It is the yogi's equivalent of the scientific method. This is just one of endless opportunities to do so.

My focus isn't on hitting certain targets in the upcoming year so much as reflecting on how I've changed in the past year and the manner in which I would like to guide new growth in the coming year.

Reflecting on 2022 and the years preceding it, I feel that my sense of love, camaraderie, and passion have been obscured in a few ways. Much of this is due to the rigors of my job, the day-in-day-out cycles of adulting, and the resulting mind-body imprints. Yet the weariness of samsara is but a dusting upon my heart-core, obscuring but not diminishing its innate radiance.

Therefore my theme for 2023 will be Heart ❤️‍🔥

The following shall be my starting point.

It is said that there are many qualities that support the path to enlightenment, such as devotion, peacefulness, discrimination/contemplation, non-attachment, and clarity.

However there is one quality that if lacking, then enlightenment will remain ever elusive. And if present, then enlightenment will be inevitable.

What I am speaking of is the Desire for Liberation.

It is my desire for liberation that led me to where I am today.

"The desire for Liberation functions as the fuel for one’s spiritual practice. If all sorts of spiritual attributes are present...but there is a lack of desire for Liberation, actual advancement, as determined by the degree of freedom from misidentification, will be slow, if at all. If, though, the aspirant would have none of the other requisites or beneficial attributes, but was endowed with an intense desire for Liberation, the other needed requisites and such would manifest in due course of the practice..."

"...all the force of the desire for happiness that drives the person’s life while caught up in illusion becomes the intense desire for Liberation, as that Realization alone is full satisfaction, the fulfillment and the end of the desire."

-- Master Nome

"Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny your self nothing--give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond." --- Sri Nisargadatta Mahraj

Desire for liberation, which is the desire to be peaceful, happy, and free without conditions or endings, is born of the Heart. Every desire we have ever had and every happiness we have ever experienced is a small reflection of that mighty light, similar to the way the moon glows due to the sun's luminosity.

My prayer for 2023: May we all marinate in the limitlessness of our original nature and find this new year to be a temporal advancement toward the recognition and enjoyment of that timeless Reality.

Much love and happy new year to each and every one of you!

LY