#Simplicity of Existence

[journey-to-balance]

Life Humbles You...

In a bustling city, amid the cacophony of deadlines and ambitions, I found myself engulfed in the whirlwind of life’s pursuit. Years melded seamlessly, each one a canvas for chasing dreams that often felt like elusive specters slipping through my grasp.

Yet amidst the chaos, life’s subtle whispers found their way to me. With each passing year, it imparted invaluable lessons, reminding me that true abundance lies not in the ostentatious display of wealth but in the appreciation of life’s simplest pleasures.

As time unfurled its tapestry, I unearthed the profound beauty in solitude, the restorative power of a restful night’s sleep, the nourishment derived from wholesome sustenance, and the tranquility found in leisurely ambles. However, it was within the embrace of loved ones that I discovered true opulence, relishing every shared moment with an ardor unmatched by material wealth.

The allure of life’s grandiosity gradually waned, replaced instead by an earnest reverence for its modest wonders. The laughter of children, the warmth of familial embraces, and the tranquility of twilight vistas became my treasures, my raison d’être.

Today, I can safely say I'm grateful to have embarked on this voyage of self-discovery. By immersing myself in the simplicity of existence, I've been able to derive delight from life’s mundane intricacies, and revel in the ephemeral beauty of each passing moment.

[turiyatitta]

The Paradox of Gain

A Journey Beyond the Self In our dialogue on Guru Viking, the episode “Bodhi in the Brain” unfolds a narrative that delves into the essence of spiritual enlightenment and the realization of oneness. The conversation between host, Steve James, and me explores the paradoxical nature of gain in the spiritual realm, a concept that challenges the conventional paradigms of achievement and…

[bixshits]

so rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead functions on the idea of these guys not having a choice right? and even if they choose to just sit down and not move anywhere they'll probably be moved to where they need to be regardless? and the only choices they have are how they choose to interpret their world, with rosencrantz needing to find and test the boundaries of it and cement their place in it and guildenstern trusting the narrative without question? and guildenstern refuses to allow either of them to decide who they are? and they are so interconnected with each other that they are simply inseparable and indistinguishable, even to themselves? and they cannot define themselves without the other and become lost when they lose each other? and their choice (or lack thereof) in identity (or lack thereof) is mutually decided (or determined) to be in their inherent love and trust and unity in and with each other? and you expect me to be normal about that?

[niedoceniony]

Może po prostu jesteśmy…

Coraz częściej myślę, że ludzie na siłę szukają sensu. W religii, w pracy, w ideologiach, jakby życie koniecznie musiało „do czegoś prowadzić”. Ale może nie musi?

Może po prostu jesteśmy. Bez celu, bez planu. Może nie trzeba wszystkiego rozumieć, a już na pewno nie trzeba się tym wiecznie przejmować.

Bo przecież przemijamy. Tak jak wszystko: natura, zwierzęta, cykle dnia i nocy. Dlaczego człowiek miałby być wyjątkiem? I może właśnie to przemijanie, to znikanie, jest czymś… dobrym? Może to ono nadaje wartość chwilom?

Czasem łapię się na tym, że myśl o śmierci mnie uspokaja, zamiast przerażać. Nie chodzi o dramat, o ucieczkę, tylko o to, że świadomość przestaje istnieć. Cisza. Spokój. Jak sen bez snów.

Nie chcę się bać końca. Nie chcę żyć pod presją, że muszę coś znaczyć, coś osiągnąć, mieć „sens”. Może warto po prostu żyć, tu i teraz, nie szukając odpowiedzi na siłę.

I może, kiedyś, gdy nadejdzie czas… dobrze będzie po prostu zasnąć i zniknąć. Bez bólu. Bez żalu. Bez lęku. Po prostu. Jak wszystko inne.

ENGLISH

Maybe we just are…

I find myself thinking more and more that people desperately try to find meaning. In religion, in work, in ideologies - as if life has to lead somewhere, has to have a purpose.

But maybe it doesn’t?

Maybe we just exist. Without a goal, without a plan. Maybe we don’t have to understand everything - and certainly, we don’t need to constantly worry about it.

Because we fade. Just like everything else - nature, animals, the cycles of day and night. Why should humans be any different?

And maybe this fading, this vanishing - is actually just something good? Maybe that’s what gives moments their value?

Sometimes I catch myself feeling calm when I think about death, rather than afraid. Not in a dramatic way, not as an escape - but simply as the idea that consciousness ceases to exist. Silence. Peace. Like a dreamless sleep.

I don’t want to fear the end. I don’t want to live under the pressure that I have to matter, to achieve something, to have a meaning.

Maybe it’s enough to simply live - here and now - without forcing ourselves to find answers.

And maybe, someday, when the time comes… it will feel right to just fall asleep and disappear.

No pain. No regret. No fear.

Just like everything else.

[certifiedcoffeeaddict]

is this anything

[dani-luminae]

So I had a random idea that could basically be the premise of my version of the Loki series that could be the prelude to this previous idea. And I made a banner for it, because I still don't like the canon Loki series titlecard.

Including my OC Cassia. Because she's stuck in my head. :)

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An unusual energy signal reaches Maxville, opening the gates of the Multiverse, a vast and unpredictable expanse, to their realm. In the ensuring chaos, Cassia disappears - abducted by forces from a different timeline.

Loki follows, but finds himself blocked from rescuing his daughter; some unknown power throws him aside and locks the boundaries of the timeline her captors drag her to. He falls into the grasp of the TVA, a faction of timeless beings who were meant to protect the Sacred Timeline from splintering into unnumerable realities that comprised the Multiverse. Since their failure, they have been reeling and lacking a directive, but that doesn't stop them from swiftly capturing Loki upon his arrival. They know better than to trust Loki for any reason; however, hearing that Loki is trying to rescue his daughter? That's a motivation they haven't heard from the trickster god before. Reluctantly, Judge Ravonna Renslayer and TVAgent Mobius are interested in helping Loki track down the source of all this chaos, especially since it may be rooted in one particular timeline that they've never been able to access.

(Ravonna and Mobius have different personalities in this version. While Ravonna is ambitious and hopes to salvage some part of her reputation - since the TVA failed, and the Multiverse emerged, under her precedence as judge - she's far more willing to accept challenges to her worldview, and has a soft spot for children as she still vaguely remembers being a schoolteacher back when she was still part of the Sacred Timeline. Mobius is a lot less self-righteous and demeaning, and a lot more interested in learning the intricacies of the Multiverse, seeing it as a mildly intriguing change of pace from their previous work reinforcing the Sacred Timeline.

Also the TVA is less weird psuedo-50s/60s retro-geometric corporate office inspired and more futuristic like. Their equipment sort of blurs the line between technology and magic, startlingly similar to Asgardian technology.)

Meanwhile, Cassia wakes in a timeline in which Midgard is ruled by King Loki, a "superior" version of her father who was never defeated at the Battle of New York and thus rules over Midgard to this day. But, far from being menacing to her, he welcomes her. It was his minions who brought her here at his command, he says, to rectify what he sees as an indignity: that an inferior Loki should have what he, King Loki, has always wanted - a child and an heir. He wants Cassia to be his daughter, a Princess of Midgard as she deserves, not daughter to a Loki who can't offer her anything like a kingdom.

At least Cassia can play along nicely while she tries to figure out how to get out of here.

[kayawolfhorse]

Emotional support Minecraft world

[kakuriyo]

i'm probably in the minority of this but the spy x family manga has bored me for months now.

i did enjoy martha's backstory but other than that it's been stagnant and unsubstantial. there's nothing driving it forward.

[a-s-levynn]

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[rxttenfish]

..... actually back to thinking about how much of a theme it is with miravi, of treating the self as an animal. as in, to focus on animal needs and wants, just realizing you are another living thing and that you want warmth, and comfort, and ease, and a lack of pain, and good food, and care. that you aren't beyond that, can't push yourself into a shape beyond that, and even moreso to look at it neutrally, as a fact, to approach it without judgement or baggage and to lay down inside it. to be the self more wholly in that way — aaravi being loud and coarse and not good with social situations, and to not look at those as failings, but to own them, to be them, to find people and places where those can be held easily and readily, not to be forced into another shape, another thing she's not. that none of these make her bad or awful or not worth considering, that people are just like that sometimes, and they're just as loved as people who aren't. that miranda has limits to her body, things she cannot do, things that she cannot force herself to do, that would hurt her, and it's better to treat them as just a fact of who she is, a fact that needs to be met and accomodated, to not have to shun it away and into a shape she isn't. that she has merfolk needs and merfolk impulses and a merfolk body and merfolk ways and none of those are lesser or worse, only different, only animal in another way. that things aren't sorted into good or bad things, good or bad traits, that they can and should love the bad things about each other and the good things aren't golden and perfect and inherently not going to cause trouble, aren't as much a part of them as the bad parts, and that there's only what each of those things mean in how they appear, how they exist in dialogue with everything else around them.

[quinloki]

Tagging X Reader Fics

Hey all - I saw this post going around and wanted to make an easy, two-cents kind of post to go with it.

Primary Point: If you want to keep your tags clean, Moonpaw's request actually helps. You can tag "x reader " "reader insert" and then just the character name. Instead of 4-5 different ways the fandom uses a character name plus all those variations of that name and x reader.

Example:

[ x reader, reader insert, donquixote doflamingo, doflamingo, doffy]

vs

[donquixote doflamingo x you, donquixote doflamingo x reader, doffy x you, doffy x reader, doflamingo x you, doflamingo x reader, doflamingo x y/n, etc.... ]

Secondary Point: I love Fantasticsnail's description of x reader as a sort of RPG journey style story. Sometimes there's parts of the character insert that need to be defined for the story's sake, and generally there aren't, and sometimes we define parts because it' comforts us as writers (and sometimes those variants aren't for everyone And That Is Okay Too.)

Just make sure you tag your stuff.

You can warn about other details in your CW or Notes prior to the story start. If you want folks to know you prefer y/n, or you use [name] or whatever, that's a good place to do it.

I'm not saying you *have* to do things this way, but too much variance in tags makes it hard for people to avoid what they want to avoid.

Just like you don't want to surprise someone with dark content unexpectedly, you don't want to surprise them with x reader or even canon x canon!

Everyone has a right to curate what comes across their dash, and please, remember, don't censor your tags T-T Nothing sucks more than being afraid of spiders, having that word blacklisted, and seeing spiders cause someone decided to tag #sp!ders or some such.

Tumblr tags aren't smart. Simplicity is best ^_^

[midnight-the-pony]

The one and only genuine reference sheet I'll ever make, for my main Midnight Moon

[which-hospital]

kind of horrifying news in my opinion: there are more days between today and With a Bullet than there are between Begin Again and With a Bullet, meaning that post-getting-shot Teddy has existed for longer than pre-getting-shot Teddy did

[coldslaws-gear-station]

Really quickly in regards to a Lady centric thing I'm writing; was Penny regarded with his neopronouns while in the plasma frigate? Or was that a development after?

"really quickly" ME AND MY NO ASK NOTIFS.

anyways that was an after development <3

[subaru-meteorlight]

💫.

[bogkeep]

kofola is good drink because it has the vibes of a beer without being beer. and also they're not afraid to try out weird flavours. raises my keg of rum flavour kofola