#i live my life by that philosophy

[sculkshrieking]

COULD I GET A 3L SCAR... or cat hybrid scar... or both....

both!!!!

[mid-nighttiger]

honestly it's hilarious whenever someone tries to assert that living without attachment is 'literally impossible' as a blanket statement like it's an undisputed fact, cause i and millions of other ppl across the world who practice non-attachment are just sitting here going 'impossible? news to me.' and then ignoring them and continuing to go about our business

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Everyone talks about how Roy killed Lust as a symbolic proof that he is devoted to actual love but no one talks about how Envy was outed by Riza almost immediately as a symbol of her always accepting what she has and even being content with it. Maybe love IS a narrative force and theme to be reckoned with (and rightly so!), but content when you have so many reasons not to be and when others sometimes have what you don't? That's super cool, too

[melit0n]

I'm drunk and I'm using Tumblr as my notes app sso everybody ignore me

I am so full of love for everything. I love thr way sunlight comes through the window just right during golden hour. I love the birds in the tree outsifr my window. I love the way tge wind howls in a storm. I love the graffiti artist that keeps poppping up around the city. I love the moon and the sun and the stars and the universe and every thing that has ever been

I love the smell of new and old books. I lobe the taste of hot cocoa. I love the sounds of the city. I love the texgure of the wool of my scarf. I love sunsets and sunrises and all of that

I am so full of love and it is bursting out of my chest

Am I getting drunk because I hate myself? Yeah, but do I still want to live and enjoy because life is cool? Yeah!!

[medic88itup]

How wonderful, beautiful, to allow yourself to see something from someone else's perspective. To let yourself like. Everything. To allow yourself to appreciate something simply for the value that someone else finds in it. There is no meaning but that which we assign. If nothing means anything, then it can mean EVERYTHING. Perhaps life is simply a wonderful accident. Okay. Now allow yourself to stand in awe at the outlandish probability that you are conscious and sentient in this moment to experience life. The odds are beyond calculation. Stand witness to the wonder of your own existence, improbable as it is. And allow yourself to know joy in anything and everything.

Here is a purpose: If, like me, you need a way to be useful, if only to justify your own existence, then let your reason for living be to appreciate your good fortune. Let yourself enjoy and accept good things, like kindness, and peace. Not cuz you deserve it, not cuz it was a gift or whatever and you wanna be gracious, nah...just cuz it's there and you're there. Might as well.

[ramayantika]

YOU ALL I WATCHED OPPENHEIMER

[llycaons]

I'm finally watching s2 for real. the atmosphere IS very fun and true to the book, but like...not to be a killjoy but I hate that hc let that guy gamble his daughter's life. I hate it so much and it's bullshit that the justification of 'it's mutually consensual' is the last we hear about it. that woman never agreed to this! you can't bet other people like you own them! that might be the worst thing hc ever does like genuinely I don't understand why more people don't talk about it like he's at the head of an organization that allows people to use other human beings as bartering chips...or at least lets the men use their female family members. but he's treated in the fandom (and canon) like all his behavior is justified bc he's funny and sexy and devoted like...jesus christ. I feel so wild like how have I never seen anyone talk about this

[beastofwant]

I feel deranged + like I have no real autonomy or choice + like every mental health professional ever deems me intelligent because I'm self-aware and know how to take a test and generally base decisions on logic and fact as oppose to emotion, and then decides that I'm their Special Little Guy they want to Fix so they can make me into a Good Worker Drone and I just want to sob honestly. I want to live comfortably and happily and safely. That's it.

I don't want to "be successful", success for me is comfort and stability not a big check or a big house or even graduating college. I don't want to go to college so I can become employed, I want to go to college to learn in a structured environment things I wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to. I don't care about what is profitable or what would be a "good career", I just don't.

I feel like a fucking alien. We only have one life on this earth, and you mean to tell me you want to spend it Making Number Go Up? Or you think I should spend it like that? Why do I have to do anything with my life just because I "have potential", I'm a human being!!!!! Why shouldn't I have a choice? even if I, individually, held the secret to curing cancer in me, do I not still deserve the choice to become anything other than a doctor? I feel so crazy. I don't understand humans.

[seeminglyseph]

……. You ever make a post absently complaining about a line in a podcast misunderstanding cows, and then 7 months later it abruptly becomes extremely popular and gains over 500 notes in a day with seemingly no sign of stopping and you can’t actually remember which podcast it was you were mad at anymore?

[giddlygoat]

it’s so funny bc i’m homeschooled and i avoided like 90% of the Average Kid childhood trauma bc of that and when ppl ask about my education i’m just like. look buddy. i can attribute an astonishing chunk of my good attitude, adventuresome spirit and kind heart to having watched my little pony instead of doing homework.

i know it sounds silly [because it is!] but i’m not kidding. being able to choose what i pursued was EXACTLY what i needed growing up, so i didn’t have to waste any extra time on subjects that didn’t appeal to me, worry about bullies or awful teachers, AND i had heaps of free time to spend doing what i pleased [almost entirely drawing]. i learned to write a check, order and shop for my own food, care for farm animals and pets, ask for help, speak my mind, dress as i like, and foster an outgoing and hopeful outlook on life that school would not have taught me.

my mom is incredible, and she has taught me countless invaluable things about life. but as a little kid, your parent’s lessons tend to bounce right off. the very same lessons from my favorite characters however, typically didn’t!

watching my little pony reinforced everything my mom stands for: kindness, reaching out and helping others, and looking out for and encouraging your peers, to name a few. good news - these very values are portrayed in flawed and deeply relatable pastel ponies with catchy songs full of heart and joy! watching my little pony prepared me for far more than i could have imagined in life, sometimes with something as simple as asking myself “what would rarity do?” in a situation i’m not confident in, for example.

i like to joke about how they should play my little pony for the kids in school, but i think it really does teach many things that aren’t inherently reinforced in the school system [although, i am only speaking on what i’ve heard from people who weren’t homeschooled. i have been inside a school only once for a short time].

anyway, this is all to say that it saddens me a bit when people casually reduce my little pony to something of little significance. mlp obliviously isn’t going to be everyone’s thing, but the positive impact it has had on me and countless others is undeniable, and it’s my hope that we soon live in a world that proudly encourages more media like my little pony for not only kids, but people of all ages to enjoy unabashed, no matter their story. every time i hear a friend say their parents didn’t let them watch it because it was ‘too girly’ or whatever nonsense, i become increasingly determined to make that world a reality.

long story short: i hold my little pony close and i am very grateful for what it’s taught me and continues to teach me, even all these years later. it’s good to be earnest and love as much as you can.

[lord-squiggletits]

I know there are as many religious good guys as there are religious bad guys in IDW, but I think I pinned down the reason why it feels like the most prominent religious figures are all bad guys and it's pretty much due to the worldbuilding.

Maybe my memory of the comics is just really bad, but the religious worldbuilding in IDW is....kind of trash honestly. I'm not sure there's a single religion or religious custom that doesn't exist solely to further the plot along. Like, it's one thing for the Camiens to worship the Primes and that causes a lot of stuff in exRID/OP, but what does that worship actually look like? What are their holidays, customs, religious texts? What about "spectralism" which basically the only thing we know about is the Festival of the Lost Light and some hippie color coding and aura shit? Like sure, there are characters who are religious and their beliefs come into play sometimes, but it honestly feels (especially in MTMTE) more like their religiousness only exists when it's relevant to the plot and it's just kinda. Disappointing eh. Lacking in worldbuilding. Plus the more religious a character is the more it's written as their entire personality and the driving force making them evil so it just kinda made me cringe to read honestly.

[gingerbreadmonsters]

have to go back to the embassy tomorrow and i would so deeply love to walk into the ocean

[always-a-joyful-note]

Here's the enstars tw list, enjoy ★

well would you look at that....

the tw list should be a trigger warning in of itself. I simply do not believe this is real

[oatbugs]

. anyway after writing the tags 4 this post i told my research partner i will no longer follow his dreams lmao. still helping w it but i need to engage in research that i find satisfying

[guilty-shot-au]

What if the coin - between heaven or hell - lands on its side?

The whole saying around the heaven and hell coin initially represented duels. The loosing side experiences a hell, the winning a heaven, and with how close a fair duel is, it's always like a fifty-fifty chance.

Time passes, and the saying finds fit with disagreements as a whole. Only one side of a crossing path will really win in the end.

What would a sideways coin be but the rare draw, or an equal agreement between the two?

It is possible, it is real, and yet…

Landing a coins sideways is nearly impossible in practice, it's hard to even purposefully place one on a table this way.

And that's what the world is, dominated by the chaos of conflict, with only few finding and accepting an in-between.

[littleapocalypsekitten]

So, okay, things on my dash today have got me thinking about the whole “Glee over death / wishing death on people” thing that is very popular on the Internet, and life in general it seems.   I will not lie and say that I haven’t done this.  I do outright imprectory (?) prayers sometimes.  It’s a matter of certain politicians, people in power and wanting them out of power because they’re a clear and present danger to Democracy, my rights and the rights of people I love and innocent strangers, they are the creators of wars, so on and so forth.  I hope every day that a certain person who puts chandeliers in his bathroom is found dead on the toilet beneath said tackiness from a random heart attack because I literally think he might be Hitler 2.0 if he meets with undeserved success again.  However, when I think like this, I’m always “If it is the only thing that will get them out of power,” because, at the end of it all, I really would rather people SEE negative consequences for their negative actions.  It’s much more fun to me to watch someone who had no love for others and actively hurt a majority see his empire crumble.  I like the idea of certain people (who, in all likelihood, never will) spending the remainder of their lives powerless and behind bars.  So, I really don’t want people to die, I just want them de-powered and it is much, much more fun to me to think of bad people rendered powerless in a non-lethal way.  Jaiiiiil.  Jaiiiiil for a thousand years!  It feels like more of a punishment.   I feel the same way about mass-shooters.  Most of those people go in with suicide in mind as well as homicide.  They want to go out in blaze of glory, taking out a lot of random people before getting shot by a cop.  (This is why the proposal for an automatic death penalty for them will not stop them).  I much prefer the rare occasion when these monsters are taken alive, because that way, we can put them in the can and study them.  The Buffalo supermarket shooter is going to be in prison for the rest of his life - and while I doubt he’ll have remorse, he at least does not have freedom - nor the finality of death.    I don’t cry for a bunch of billionaires who played stupid games and won stupid prizes.  I’m pretty apathetic.  We need fewer billionaires in the world, so I do not grieve them, but I also do not celebrate, because it doesn’t feel quite right to me.  To me, Death is something that we will ALL face, one way or another, eventually.  Unless the transhumanists actually succeed in transferring rich people’s brains into robots, they will die.  You and I will die.  I lost a very dear loved one this year, unexpectedly - everyone you love will die - I have been feeling this keenly.  So, to me, death is not justice.  It’s just a thing that happens to everyone.  Every time is “before your time.”  Every time is “too soon.”  So, you know, it feels hollow to me to wish death on anyone.  I much prefer wishing consequences on bad people.   Sometime, the consequences are an “early” death, but it feels like a get out of jail free card to me.