#fearlessly

[little-tiffany]

I do not love you fearlessly. (I am afraid.) And so I love you bravely.

-Kristina Mahr

[dharmatalks]

Fearlessness

“Fearlessness” is the topic of this week’s Contemplative Living Podcast. Unnecessary anxiety and stress can arise when we worry about uncertain outcomes. By fixating on what might happen in the future, we inadvertently give fuel to our fears and increase their chances of becoming reality. Once we become aware of this pattern, it becomes clear that each of us has the power to eliminate needless…

[songbirdtunez]

#fearlessly

[hillingdontoday]

Firefighters rescue man from fire at Southall Care Home

Southall residents were startled in the early hours this morning when a care home on Osterley Park Road caught fire. The fire brigade was called at 3:41am and responded by sending 40 firefighters and six fire engines from Southall, Heston, Hayes, Ealing and Hillingdon fire stations.     Part of a room on the ground floor of the home was completely destroyed by the flames.   One man, fortunate to be saved from the blaze, owed his life to firefighters, who fearlessly entered the burning building wearing breathing apparatus. The rescued individual was promptly transported to the hospital by the London Ambulance Service. Fortunately, no other injuries were reported.   Firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control by 04:51am.   The cause of the fire is under investigation.   #southall #osterleyparkroad #carehome #residents #rescued #rescued #firefighters Read the full article

[zevanthsnecromancy]

Hellsing Ultimate: Motivation

supportive husband...?

[vorbarrsultana]

i finished rereading the first four vorkosigan books (+ "the flowers of vashnoi" because ekaterin!!!), and you really have to feel for piotr vorkosigan because what a nightmare life, truly.

imagine you are born just in time for your world to be unified by dorca vorbarra and rediscovered by people from wider galaxy. things are finally looking good, for the first time in 600 years of isolation there is no more feudal infighting, and the promise of galactic medicine and technologies being available lightens everyone's perspectives. sure, your grandpa is called count pierre "le sanguinaire", but who doesn't have terrible relatives?

then you are 15, and suddenly your planet is attacked by the aggressive eugenecist space empire hell-bent on subjugating your people and turning them into disposable material for unethical genetic experiments. you flee into the mountains, away from your family, and create guerrilla forces from locals sworn to your dad, and it's really terrible for a very long time. you have no high-tech weapons and no food, you sleep in a cave in the dead of winter, and the cetagandans try everything (from carpet bombing to chemical weapons) to murder you.

but hey, at least you now have your bff ezar vorbarra, and (from the bff's words on his deathbed) it sounds like you two had so much fun between unimaginable horrors and despair, and it's not surprising, since no one really believes in death after life at 20. then the emperor makes you a general at the tender age of 22. fortunately for him, you & bff make a frighteningly competent dream-team, and the joke's on cetagandans.

then, several years later, you ask the emperor for weapons, because you still sleep on the bare cave floor, there are little resources, and every ghem on the planet is trying to murder you. he offers you the hand of his granddaughter instead, like it's some sort of twisted fairytale, but you grow to love your olivia more than anything, and the tide of war is finally turning, and you allow yourself to entertain the idea of peaceful life, and then...

the space eugenecist empire nukes your hometown, killing your mom, dad, surviving brothers, and two hundred thousand of your people. plus your bff (ezar) gets a radiation doze large enough for it to cause severe cancer thirty years later. great.

but you win! your district is in shambles, your capital is an irradiated crater, your castle is in ruins, but you win! the old dorca dies, and yuri ascends the throne, but politicking is secondary to the fact that you are alive.

yes, you are probably not entirely sane, and you've long forgotten what the peaceful times look like, but you are alive, just under 35, and your entire life is ahead of you. olivia is alive too, and ezar, and you now have three wonderful children, and the extended vorpatril-vorbarra family that hosts regular get-togethers. sure, your mom-in-law is a betan with all sorts of crazy ideas in her head, but she is not pierre vorrutyer. small mercies.

but then the new emperor goes mad, and decides to murder your entire family overnight. your brothers-in-law are gone, one of your sisters-in-law too, and all your nephews and nieces except little padma. but all of this pales in comparison to the facts that olivia is murdered, and that your heir and daughter lay dead beside her.

all you have left of her, of your house, of the family you've lost in vashnoi not a ten years ago, is aral, whom you keep by your side throughout the bloody civil war to put your bff on the throne.

but you win again. you are 43, and ezar vorbarra is now the emperor. you are responsible for the imperium's entire ground forces. you are also responsible for a severely traumatized boy of 13, and the only children you've interacted with without olivia's genle guidance were little messengers of guerilla companies.

what a mess.

[chaosplatypus]

I love love love the early stage relationship of Nico and Will where they‘re still trying to get to know each other better but Will has already decided that this loner, dark and brooding, obviously doesn’t take good care of himself child of Hades is his friend while Nico is just. Too stunned to even imagine such a thing

[ra1ny-daze]

when the character has burn scars and an accompanying traumatic backstory>>>>>

[gleefulpoppet]

Kurt, there is a moment... Ten years [X]. Eleven years [X]. Twelve years. [—]. Thirteen years [X].

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

The determination to know a particular place, in my experience, is consistently rewarded. And every natural place, to my mind, is open to being known. And somewhere in this process a person begins to sense that they themselves are becoming known, so that when they are absent from that place they know that place misses them. And this reciprocity, to know and be known, reinforces a sense that one is necessary in the world.

Barry Lopez, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

[beccawise7]

"What a privilege to live our lives in such a manner that those who no longer walk this earth may be represented in our passion for living fearlessly."

~beccawise7 💜🖤

[songbirdtunez]

#fearlessly

[esilher]

Today, 1 year ago, I posted my first drawing here. I had been wandering around this fandom for a few weeks, trying to understand how it works, visiting everyone's blogs, and on August 3rd I started to participate and…since then a lot has happened!! So thank you all very much (old jedis and newbies), thank you for sharing your love for Glee and all these characters and their lovers and friendships, with words, drawings, photos, gifs, creations of all kinds, thoughts, discussions, games, jokes, emotions, deep or light. And a special thanks to @mynonah for all the crazy collabs! I had a better year thanks to you all! And I'm looking forward to what's to come.

[petals2fish]

Someone’s reading Fearlessly Red and just found out about Remus thanks to @rissa-explains-it-all in the comments and I’m cackling at their reaction because it reminds me of the early days of that fic when everyone (RISSA) jumped down my throat for that plot point

[songfell-ut]

Songfell anniversary post, pt 1

Eyyy so four years ago today, I posted the first three chapters of my story on AO3, having seen an unfinished comic and gotten permission from the artist to write a fic using her premise. This here is the first piece of Songfell art ever, commission from the OG comic creator, @lostmypotatoes 👌

So! I am not posting any new content for the moment. My mom has been having health problems, including me having to help take her to the ER (she's fine, just needs to stay in bed for a while), which delays actual writings a bit. What I am doing is reposting art from four years of Tumblr! C'mon down memory lane, wheeeeee

(Part 2, Part 3)

This is going to be in VERY VERY approximate chronological order as it depicts stuff in the story. Stuff with no set place in the story will be guesstimated because I have that power ah ha ha ha ha

Disclaimer: I've pulled all of these from posts or reblogs made by this specific blog. If I didn't see or repost any Songfell art you've done, especially for the videos, I did not leave it out on purpose. I threw in exactly one image from Discord for the sake of completing a set, but that was it.

In cases of multiple...okay it's just the fork scene that has multiple iterations because everyone liked it, but besides the opening one here (which is still my AO3 pfp!), the one that was the first piece of non-commissioned art I ever got will be first. Enjoy!

This was the first non-potatoes art in the videos, I believe, done by the superlative @venelona (probably the most prolific of the arts on here), when somebody realizes he's gonna lose 😘

The collection skips ahead to Sans contemplating killing the nice lady and then totally randomly thinking of Kris instead, by @mambourin D: But whaddya know--

See? That's the sound of losing, son

That's the sight of losing, by @sharkowskii, whose work speaks for itself. Here's the whole thing, colored fantastically by Vene.

Know what else they did together, and happens once he's been knocked out?

(Look at this so good holy shit) Frisk's had a bit of a tired, scared cry in the hall, and it's time to face her new guest head-on.

I lost my mind at least a little bit when I first saw these, ngl. I can't find the next page that she did for the compiled "movie" video 😢 But now we're coming up on a fun bit of Songfell lore!

I was scrolling through Tumblr and glanced over what looked like a picture of my Frisk ha ha that was kind of VENELONA DID A THING WAIT WHAT

First ever fanart, that's what. We have a High Priestess who is completely done with his goddamn nonsense, and

Pictured: goddamned nonsense. N-Not like he LIKES you, baka

Aaand here's my Discord pfp, by @xxkoichiixx (who seems not to be on here anymore D:).

And here's a very plausible alternate outcome by @vafro1.

Though this was a bit more like it, thanks to @naomyart.

Oh look a distraction after he was stupid what are the odds (Catler1!)

Last and never least (none of you are >:( so there), puns are dumb and it turns out they're into it. The End...for now

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Bonus outtake recording illustration from @dale-the-human

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

obsessed with how everyone thinks the dynamic is like this:

while from kaladin's POV it's actually more like this: