#an illusion that's what it is

[heartorbit]

searching for a star that's still unknown to anyone!

[trashmancer]

Professor Dekarios sketches 💖

[mummer]

rhaenyra outsourcing motherhood to rhaena and assigning her that passive feminine role was REALLY interesting….. rhaenyra as a character is at her most fascinating when she is forced to navigate and ultimately perpetuate the gendered structures she despises and wishes she could transcend— the seeds of her tragedy already sewn here. just great character work

[i-lavabean]

Smol. Tiny, even

[stuckinapril]

how are you so in love with yourself...this is not me accusing you of narcissism or smth i genuinely am in awe of how much you seem to like yourself and be in love with yourself and I try so hard to be like you and do that too but i fail every single time...i really really want to know how I could be like this too because i know it is one of the biggest things stopping me from achieving happiness

Not sure if this is a ubiquitous experience, but for me personally affirmations can only go so far. There’s always been a direct correlation between me doing action-based things and my self-esteem increasing, so I try to keep my promises to myself (study at x time, work out at y time, just doing whatever I need to do even if I don’t have the motivation for it). Someone told me that self-esteem comes w doing esteemable things, and I’ve never forgotten that since. What someone thinks about me (including the gargoyle voice in my head lol) won’t faze me if I have tangible accomplishments under my belt I can refer back to on bad days

[fuckmeyer]

the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.

if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.

choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.

if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.

even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.

Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.

[jordynbreeloa777]

Why manifest by a “certain deadline?” You have everything you want NOW.⏱️

Why set limits on yourself to manifest this desire “in a week”or this desire is “bigger so I’ll manifest it in a “month” like what? Do you not know how stupid you sound. If you truly knew about the law, you wouldn’t be saying stuff to yourself like this. If so, the only reason is that your desires should never take more than 3 days to manifest. PERIOD. IF NOT, don’t get discouraged. But Neville Goddard specifically quotes “that for this world, the realization is 3 days” Keep a mindset like that. YOU ALWAYS MANIFEST IN 3 DAYS OR LESS. YOU HAVE ALL YOUR DESIRES RIGHT NOW BECAUSE YOUR CHOOSING TO HAVE FAITH IN THE LAW, AND THE UNSEEN. NEVER, like I don’t ever want to hear you guys say “oh to manifest a dollar will take me 2 days, but a million dollars will take me 3 months.” If that’s your mindset, and your dominant belief you have, which is to put unneeded limiting beliefs on yourself. No desire or manifestation is “big or small” instant results is 100% real even if it’s not in the 3D yet, remember that’s not our goal we want to have it in our imagination since that is truly the only real reality. Happy Manifesting!💝💝

[zumazozuma]

BEHOLD my newest contributions to this community ✨

[rozugold]

I get not wanting to draw Di!Tommy digging up his best friends corpse so: Tommy being the one to sew up Tubbo's shirt

Fun times

[theneighborhoodwatch]

Where is Eddie's watch? He wasn't wearing it.

i definitely remembered eddie having his watch, so i rewatched the holiday special segments prepared to ~debunk~ this, but turns out the answer's a little more complicated (and a lot more interesting): he doesn't have it in the live-action scenes...

...but he does have it in the last illustrated segment right up until this shot.

of course, he then closes his eyes, and when he opens them again...

...it's gone. and even after he comes back down from Whatever That Was, it stays gone.

you know what they say about eldritch madness: the more you see, the harder it is to forget.

[simplydnp]

the october 19th post is going to be their silhouettes behind the gay flag. concert in the background. you can't quite tell what they're doing. it's captioned 'no seriously imagine it'

[kaurwreck]

based on what fukuchi said regarding the one order, fyodor can't use it. the one order has already been configured to fukuzawa. it's not clear that fyodor knows this (although it's explicit that fukuchi didn't trust fyodor).

it's also telling that fukuchi comments that fyodor wouldn't be able to interfere. he doesn't clarify with what fyodor wouldn't be able to interfere. (such as, for example, fukuchi reconfiguring the one order against fyodor's conception of the plan.) it's also relevant that fukuchi says "no one else could have thought it up," indicating he understands, to some degree, fyodor's genre of strategic reasoning. surely, then, he's picked up on fyodor's overt blind spots regarding others' capacity for trust and subversion based on trust.

that fyodor can't command the one order renders fyodor's threat moot, although nevertheless informative.

because if the one order coordinates all of the users' subordinates, then anyone subordinate to fukuzawa could be commanded by fukuzawa. bram, shortly before fyodor took him, pledged himself as a knight to aya, even forsaking his prior title to subordinate himself to her.

his subordination to aya is so deeply ingrained that fyodor even still calls her princess and affirms that the vow remains.

in other words, all aya has to do to give fukuzawa control over the vampires. is subordinate herself to fukuzawa. vow with her whole, fierce heart that she is his to command. or, fukuzawa can reconfigure the one order to respond to her voice; if fukuchi was able to transition the authority he was granted to use it to fukuzawa, then fukuzawa should similarly be able to do the same.

tl:dr, the one order is useless in fyodor's hands, and, together, fukuchi's love for and trust in fukuzawa and bram's love for and trust in aya are a chekov's gun.

[mayhemspreadingguy]

@magnusbae pitched the idea of Dream with curly hair

So here's a silly doodle of his hair curling up when he's happy 😌💕

[fisheito]

(3) remaining

[nectar-cellar]

progress

[lunian]

progress in my Dragon Age Origins playthrough being like

I feel like Alistair's quest with his "family reunion" is not his potential to get into his "villain era" but actually mine

LOSING 15 GOLD COINS TO HELP THIS RUDE BTCH OF A SISTER WHO ALSO THREW RACIST COMMENTS AT ME ARE YOU F—

*high pitched noises*