#learn yourself

[hubbyalh]

What you put in, you get out.

You have to be clear minded and focused solely on your intent. You also have to know yourself and what what works best for your craft. You have to hone in and make something yours. You cannot depend solely on what others do.

You will have plenty of forces out there that can send it back if the intentions are evil too.

All of this is why there are so many who essentially f up and become janky crybabies instead. Those people are just fools that have a lot to learn.

We have to find AND listen to our true guides, or suffer.

[1introvertedsage]

Yes it is

[doccywhomst]

[yournewcryptid]

Math is really tiring, im so glad i finally get to relax and do some knitting and crochet and i oh god oh my what the fuck

[prolibytherium]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[guardian-of-soho]

Still stuck on how Aziraphale ate that meat like he was starving. Like he’d been starved for millennia, and he hadn’t even known it, because he’d never once been fed. But we know they don’t have to eat (nor sleep, etc.), so what he’d been starved for is pleasure. Being present in his body, feeling the joys and longings it could feel. Understanding what taste buds were made for. He hadn’t known; he’d never learned to miss it.

Now imagine what a kiss has done to him.

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

[creatingtodayinvestinginme]

TIME TO UNDERSTAND YOU! #💯

And the first one in line to understand you is you 🫵🏼 #👣

No one knows what you like to eat until you tell them or why you like it until you describe how you respond to it.

No one knows how you want your haircut, or which clothes you want to wear each day… who can tell you why #you like the career you chose? Who knows what it felt like the first time you skinned your knee or had your heart broken??

WHO ARE YOU??? #🤔

It’s time for you to start learning you!

#gotime #now #today #inthismoment #understandyourself #learnyourself #beyou #thebestyou #livefully #lovefully #worthit #gratitude #thischangeseverything #fearLESS #live and #be #free #perspective #happiness #mindset #love #boba #bossupyourgame #lifebydesign

[tamstame]

Knowing Myself saved me

I think one of the greatest investments that I have made is that of learning myself. Where I once was completely influenced by my surroundings and walked around, avoiding pain, avoiding conflict with people closest to me and unaware that I was completely blinded to myself and my own wants, needs and desires. I was only happy when the people around me were happy. I thought it was true happiness…

[americanmarketplace]

Time for a reminder: We are a (CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC) NOT A DEMOCRACY LET IT SINK IN !!!!!!

[flouryhedgehog]

If you don't think that Zionist spaces--even and especially liberal uwu smol bean Zionist spaces--are absolutely rife with anti-Arabism and Islamophobia,

please consider that might be because anti-Arabism and Islamophobia have been normalized for you all your life to the point where you don't even notice them.

Please listen to Arabs and Muslims who point it out.

[personaldevelopment8]

Human Energy Structure

in the

Invisible World

Part 4

The Right Essence is located at an arm's length to the right of the physical body of a person. This is, in essence, one of the constituent parts of the Animal nature in man. More precisely, the Right Essence has several qualitatively different functions, the manifestation of which depends on which is dominant in man: The #Spiritual nature or the Animal nature. The Right Essence is closely related to this #world . The main emotional characteristics of its manifestation in man, when dominated by the Animal nature, are aggression, despondency, or fear. If it is not controlled by a person in a proper way, then he often becomes subject to its “attacks.” The latter is felt as a flow of bad thoughts or thoughts that provoke negative #feelings and as a sudden surge of the state of depression. Its attacks are characterised by the narrowing of consciousness to the level of a certain problem as well as by such emotional states as despondency, anger, greed, resentment, self-blame, a manifestation of any #fantasy or #illusion looping of #thoughts on the same problem. But this happens when a person gives the #power of his attention to these thoughts.

https://allatra.tv/en/book/anastasia-novykh-allatra

[1introvertedsage]

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passerby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

~Vincent Van Gogh~

[finisnihil]

“They finally made this theme more blatant-" Why does it need to be blatant. What's wrong with subtlety? Concepts can be underused but subtlety is not neglect.

Blaring all your concepts and themes is not good writing. It's so disruptive to a story's flow when the characters look off the screen to be like "See? This is the concept. The idea. The theme."

If you can feel the hand of the author becoming too heavy that's bad.

For example: I see people saying Azula's abuse in ATLA is more blatant in the live action and it's good because "it's being discussed more". It already was discussed at length. The show made it clear she was a victim at every turn, every behavior, every reaction, it came from a place of trauma. It was made clear that she was scared of ending up like Zuko because Zuko was an example of what would happen to her if she failed. When she says she's better than Zuko it wasn't just because she was raised to think hersef superior to him but because Zuko failed and failures get mutilated and exiled, failures are abandoned. In that final Agni Kai the music is morose and somber because this isnt some epic battle its a fucking tragedy, the burning out of "Ozai's brightest light" and Azula finally succumbing to her terror and trauma she was repressing now that her worst fears are realized. How can you see a fourteen year old girl chained to a sewer grate wailing and writhing and breathing fire desperately as unsympathetic? Even Katara and Zuko are horrified as to what has become of her.

The writers weren't looking us in the eye and saying "See? She's a victim too" when they wrote this, they weaved it in. They weaved it into her obsesison with symmetry, her extreme perfectionism, the way she talks about Ozai, the ways she calls herself a monster, her isolation from those with healthy home lives, all the ways she held herself together and ultimately all the cracks and seams that she shattered down when she fell apart. It did not need to be blatant to be clear.

[slfcare]

2024 is about letting people care about and for you. it’s about answering ‘how are you’ with honesty, asking for space when needed, accepting help and being open to advice, listening to concerns and having difficult conversations. it’s about trying your very best to let go of the feeling that you’re completely alone, and finding ways to prove to yourself that you aren’t.

[ofswordsandpens]

I know Percy's desperately trying to escape the godly world but not only do I think the gods aren't going to leave percy alone once he's in New Rome, I also think Percy's in the situation now where he can't refuse at all because like, if he was in the mortal world at a mortal college he at least would be able to try and be like "sorry I can't do a quest right now I've already used up my three excused absences this semester try again in the spring :/" but in New Rome? They will be like "Percy! It is an honor to be hand-selected for a quest. And by the gods no less! Stars above, you should be grateful! I don't know what your little greek camp has taught you but here in Rome, we respect the gods' requests. Your absence will be excused. Now go."