#calming practices

[compassionmattersmost]

Quote: Thich Nhat Hanh, "In Love and Trust"

“If we know how to breathe, we will be able to generate the energy of mindfulness and recognize, embrace, and calm our painful feelings within a few minutes. These are essential, basic practices recorded in Buddhist sutras. If we only study the sutras in theory, we’ll never be able to master the practice.” ~ From: Thich Nhat Hanh, “In Love and Trust” 👉 amzn.to/4hTT7fX

[hinamie]

i'm exactly as normal about him as I thought I'd be

[rputthebottledown]

Nelyo isn‘t very impressed with his new baby brother.

Its part III this if officially a series now!

part I & II

part IV

part V

part VI

[8r14r-r0s3]

I think the fanganronpa community would be a lot nicer and happier if we all collectively invested ourselves into nicher fan games. Like yes, P:EG is great, DRDT is amazing, SDRA2 is peak, but if those are the only fangans you have consumed you need to delve deeper. Go find something with like 20 views and art that looks kinda sketchy and go sit through it. If it's good, fuck yeah, new thing to be crazy over! If it's bad, then congratulations, you've consumed a bad piece of media, now be normal about it. It's fanfiction. Stop expecting every fangan to be Edens Garden visually. Stop expecting every murder case to have LINUJ level complicated. Stop expecting every fangan to be peak fiction and better than danganronpa in every way or else it's bad and horrible forever. It's fucking fanfiction. People are creating fangans for fun and you consume them for fun, and there are so many fun fangans you can find and cherish and experience if you open yourself up to flawed media.

[ghostymarni]

some vod hid the caf

he’s threatening a knuckle sandwich in retaliation if he doesn’t get it back

can I tag you? get fox’d???? Is this how it works? @eobe @lonewolflupe @foxwithadarkside @nika6q

[anghraine]

The other thing about the Kirk-Uhura brotp that I have many feelings about:

Of all the ~430 positions filled by people on the Enterprise, I'd argue that there are none for which outwards composure is more important than for the communications officer and the commanding officer. Above all others on the ship, those two have to stay cool under pressure and retain the ability to keep talking (often to large numbers of people), while projecting unfaltering assurance and resolve.

As individuals, Kirk and Uhura have obviously put a lot of effort into developing that bedrock of composure, while also being pleasant or assertive as needed. Throughout TOS, they both come across as confident, charismatic, very skilled, eloquent professionals. Both of them can be lightly charming and easy to underestimate, or sharp-tongued and forceful, and both of them are clever and good liars.

But tbh, I think that TOS also gradually reveals both Kirk and Uhura to be incredibly high-strung people who are just really good at their jobs.

It's not that either is naturally easy-going and chill! As people, Kirk and Uhura have zero chill. They're just very controlled and very deliberate about projecting what's needed.

Neither are perfect at this by any means. Kirk lashes out now and then, and visibly fights off tension headaches or anxiously fiddles with his own hands. Uhura gets intensely nervous or upset every once in awhile. There are points in the show where one of them will just start losing their shit. But that's unusual, and mainly used to flag the circumstances as exceptional. And even in those cases, we repeatedly see them swapping the role of being a calm and reliable rock for the other one as he/she is about to snap. When Kirk's composure starts to crumble, we'll often see Uhura as this steadying, quietly supportive, or challenging presence as needed; when Uhura starts falling apart, we repeatedly see Kirk flip into a calm, affirming figure taking pains to remind her of her importance and capabilities.

I think this is a bit different from the way that, say, Spock works to keep an iron grip on his vulnerabilities and adheres to cool reason while doing Science, or McCoy might get snappish or plainly desperate but always has a clear enough head for Medicine. Kirk's and Uhura's roles, at least as they choose to approach them, require these constant performances of a sort of lightly emotive, personable steadiness that keeps the whole ship smoothly running even as they're doing the intellectual/practical work of their jobs.

Also, in addition to the explicit dialogue around their professional synergy and rapport, quite a bit is carried by physical acting from Nichols and Shatner as well. For instance, we'll see Uhura's expression shift without a word to dawning realization around some Scheme or Shenanigans that Kirk is carrying out while people around her are still visibly ?????????? Or you'll see these moments of solidarity or trust in how Kirk physically carries himself towards Uhura. It's also made really clear that there is zero sexual attraction or romantic interest between them—they're both charming, attractive, intelligent, and even close in age but it's just not there at all, even repressed or stifled.

In any case, Uhura is the only person other than Spock whom Kirk feels the need to name both times that he records potentially-posthumous special commendations in TOS.

Kind of-neurotic-but-hypercompetent platonic duo of my heart <3

[raincoatpng]

childhood faves :)

[somegrumpynerd]

A bunch of doodles inspired by @wickjump saying Cross has an eternal kicked puppy look (and steadily devolving into dadmare because y'know. My Brand)

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

One of my favorite moments between Echo and Omega that always hits me right in the feels occurs in "The Return" :

Echo: "See? They always work it out. And I don't even see any blood this time. That's progress."

Omega: "Do you think the intel we recovered will help you and Rex?"

Echo: "We still don't know the coordinates of Tantiss, but between the datapad and all you and Crosshair have told me, we're closer to finding and freeing those clones."

Omega: "I wish I could have done more to help them."

Echo: "You did all you could, kid. And you did exactly what you're supposed to do: you got out of there."

All the ways Echo flawlessly mediates between Hunter and Crosshair when needed deserves a post of its own; and I love that it culminates here in Echo addressing Omega's concern over her brothers with practicality and good humor.

Then, Omega brings up her other main concern: helping the other prisoners

Echo doesn't just give a flippant conciliatory answer, though, instead treating Omega as he always has by giving her the full truth while also reassuring her: he acknowledges that there is still work to be done, but also encourages her by telling her the intel she provided is helpful. And when Omega expresses regret over not being able to help the other clones, Echo reassures her that she did the right thing by saving herself.

And I just think that is so important, so crucial for someone like Omega, who is so compassionate and altruistic, to hear: she proves time and again that she will put others above herself, and Echo implicitly reminds her that her own welfare is important, ensuring her own safety was the right call, and she did the best she could - and that's enough.

(Also, given Omega's downcast expression after her talk with Echo clearly showing us that she still feels remorse and concern even with Echo's assurances, I just love that Echo doesn't hesitate in the finale to let Omega join him in carrying out a mission that has become so important to her: saving the other clones.)

[divortion]

mikey and nicky pencil study i did over the long weekend

[babybison]

What's that? The score of a student who didn't study?

[nibbelraz]

little doodles

[squirebingus]

Do u think as a human he would cling upside-down in doorways and jumpscare people

[barksbog]

i took leon to a zoo (Wildpark Ernstbrunn/AT) with wolves and a lot of free ranging deer. There were also hoards of small school kids there that day and he was extremely good about it

[oriixxc]

[satoblue]

forbidden fruit!reader throws up on satoru’s dick the first time she tries giving him a blowjob