#guide to joy

[simplyarty1]

Create Your Happiness: A Self-Accountable Guide to Joy.

What if happiness wasn’t something you had to wait for, chase down, or hope to stumble upon?What if happiness were something you built brick by brick, choice by choice? Happiness is not random. It’s not reserved for the lucky few.It’s an inner creation and a personal responsibility.And you, beloved, have far more power than you may realize. The Myth of External Happiness Many of us were taught…

[divinit3a]

much to discuss. . . 🌼 for @r0b0-wannabe's A Botanist's Guide AU :D 💚

[facts-i-just-made-up]

The Only Known Photo of Mary Todd Lincoln

Best known as the wife of Abe Lincoln, Mary Todd’s past as a bandit in the American West prior to her marriage to the president is often hidden away and suppressed to showcase her puritan-approved married life.

Seen here at the Siege of Thunderdome in 1830s Nevada, Mary killed seven sheriffs to steal the fabled gold of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt with her band of sisters, all of whom were literally her sisters. In the end she proved impossible to catch, so Abe married her to join their empires. She and her siblings proved critical in the civil war, destroying numerous Confederate forts, kidnapping Confederate President Jeff Davidson, and burning the South’s entire supply of gingham fabric.

Though she remained more quiet during Abe’s life, her spirit couldn’t be held down after his assassination, upon which she tackled John Wilkes Booth, ripped out his eyes and testicles, and ate his entire trachea on the spot. They won’t teach this is American History class of course, but the photo shows her true vibrant spirit.

[spineapplestudios]

Girl, I love your wife ✨️✨️✨️

I think he likes you too

[luckymagicbelle]

Sadness!Siffrin fanart for @snickeringdragon's fic Joys of a Sadness! Very adorable fic!! Go give it a read if you want to experience many conflicting but very good feelings

[splitshard]

ADAM WARLOCK & THANOS READING GUIDE!

Reposting this because of the new fans from Marvel Rivals! You can use this to read either character individually or them both <3 A lot of their comic storylines are tied together, do not separate them. I have the main 616 continuity, various AUs and other adaptations I like!

ACCESS HERE!!

[sharkbath]

How it felt watching the Guillermo family plotline as a Guillermo stan

[lucifer-kane]

Seeing audio drama creators be very on board with people making original characters for their thing is so very good and it makes me, a chronic oc maker, so very happy.

[ladybender]

crying at leela losing her orphan of the year award when she met her parents dhsgausg

[queer-reader-07]

I LOVE ABSURDISM!!!!

[fictionadventurer]

A Biltmore Christmas may be the first Hallmark movie to drive me to fanfic.

[wildishmazz]

I am definitely not the only person to point this out, but there are fewer than I would have expected.

This is Arthur Dent's dressing gown(being modelled by Ford Prefect).

And this is what you would probably get if you gave a picture of it to a production assistant and told them to find the closest match they possibly could.

[monster-prom]

Trait requirements

(take these with a grain of salt, this is all interpreted)

• Dahlia

• Bold – She admires those who excel, and boldness reflects confidence and achievement.

• Charm – Being impressive and skilled often involves charm.

• This COULD also mean that one maxed-out stat would work for her but from personal experience, 25 of one stat didn't work, maybe I did it wrong tho so you can try.

• Bold and Fun also worked for me if i recall.

• Damien

• Bold – He loves danger, meaning you likely need to be pretty bold.

• Fun – Danger often correlates with reckless, fun-loving behavior.

• Joy

• Smart – Having a plan to fight evil and being capable implies intelligence.

• Charm – Since she has a weakness for "sexy people," charm makes sense.

• Calculester

• I've been told you dont need any specific traits for him, just hearts and successful interactions.

• Aaravi

• For Aaravi I'm pretty sure all of your stats should be as high as possible in general, and have them be around the same level I believe.

• In a short multiplayer game, I've heard that 5-6 on every stat should work.

• Milo

• Charm – Being an influencer is about social presence and likability.

• Creativity – Content creation requires originality and artistic sense.

These are my best guesses based on the character requirements descriptions. If you have any corrections to make, please do, I want this guide to be as correct as possible. And also if you have the exact values of each trait, please do share. I will also try to give exact values based on each type of game length and/or multi/singleplayer mode.

[smilingberryy]

Been a hot minute, but I still have been on a creative high since the end of October and got a few characters designs jotted down for both my AU's!!

I plan to color them digitally when I can but I really love how these came out :]

[barbielezbian]

sooooo its apparently Dick Grayson's 85th anniversary of his first appearance ever today! back on March 6th 1940, his first comic Detective Comics #38 was released, so to celebrate I decided to overcome cringe and post a poem I wrote about Dick and this idea of what he inspires and exists as in the world (good and love and care felt in- well you'll see)

i hope you guys see where i'm coming from with this, bc it doesn't mention dick by name but i hope it feels like him to you too, in a way

Everlasting

Step forward

And let that beam of sudden blinding bright sunlight hit your eyes

Peeking out at you from between the cloud-grazing concrete and steel of your life now

Let yourself wince and turn from it, only to see

A sign.

Nestled and half covered, faded and half forgotten, a park you spent your childhood playing, where you’d drag your grandmother to day after day,

Her heavy hand wrapped around yours

Until she lets you go and you run forward your new shoes staining with green and you almost forget to look back and

She’s waving you on, on towards the slide. you’re

So small and it’s so Tall and it touches the clouds.

You know you can touch the clouds.

You’re scared but her voice urges you on so you climb, high high high.

You look back. Up on top.

She’s lost between the leaves of the trees, but the breeze doesn’t let you forget as it whistles through fluttering leaves and you can smell her perfume rising to you. you can’t see her but you know

She’s there.

You can’t see the bottom of the slide, you don’t know where you’ll go; you have a feeling she’ll catch you

At the other end.

So with your heart in your throat and fresh breath in your lungs, with fear a tremble in your skin up and down your arms and legs, adrenaline like a Doctor’s hammer to your knee,

Like a reflex, you take the leap.

The journey is dark and scary and fast with turns unexpected and up becomes down and you don’t know how long you’ve been here, maybe forever, maybe it’s already over, maybe you haven’t begun-

It’s a long way to the bottom

- but you come out the other end to her wrinkled face smiling, like it (always) was shaped by the way she looks at you. It’s in her nature.

You’re happy. You want to go again.

You want to go again. The sunlight hits a faded sign, nature encroaching upon the words. But the park is there. You enter, follow the path with feet much older, much more different than before.

You find the slide.

You sit on the bench.

Trees rustle overhead, dappled memories in the flashes of blue.

You haven’t thought about her in years.

You smell her perfume

On the breeze.

You smile.

She’s still here.

She’ll catch you, if you need it. (I wonder

If you need it.)

Overhead

A bird chirps. Let it, let your eyes be caught by

A baby bird, just a small little thing, spreading its wings.

Red will bloom on its belly, soon enough,

It’s in its nature, as it gazes up to inevitability, to something like destiny,

Up at the blue it will one day reach, soon enough-

(With enough hope, with enough determination, with enough of an everlasting spirit unable to let you forget, it could get hurt, you could get hurt, but you could also soar and you won’t know you won’t know until you-)

Like a reflex, it takes the leap.

[bright-and-burning]

oh baby did i have a NIGHT