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[thelonelyshore-if]

that last reblog has me thinking about how fucking excited i am for things to get messy. i love bad people. i love good people who do bad things. i love people who are neither good nor bad but who are deeply selfish. i love characters who allow themselves to be so ruled by fear or grief or regret that it turns them into something terrible. i love allowing MC the choice to love those people anyway. in spite of it, or maybe even because of it.

[socialbutterfly19]

At the end of the day it’s up to me to do what’s best for me

[creatingnikki]

I wanted to tell you I love you. But no words came out. I wanted to write about everything I had been through this year. But the truth didn't spill. I'm containing it all for now. Why? Is it weakness? Self preservation? Confusion? Fear? Anger? I honestly do not know. When it comes to you and when it comes to this year, there is not much I know with objectivity. And I'm trying to not think with my feelings. Feelings are beautiful when felt but disastrous when followed as the north star. Maybe that, that is perhaps the biggest lesson of 2023. My feelings for you led me to abandon my values. Your feelings for me made me be okay with that. Feelings feelings feelings. Most times fickle, many times foul. But that's not even the issue with feelings. Feelings are fleeting. And I want to rely on more fundamental and foundational things. Let my feelings exist to be felt fully. Let my feelings exist to be written about beautifully and truly. Let my feelings exist to remind me I am human, to remind me I am alive. And yet let my lessons, my values, my strategic mind guide my decisions from here on out. Because if it were left up to my feelings? I'd be in your house smoking my third cigarette in between kisses telling each other how much we've missed this. And that is not something I am going to allow anymore. That's my mind looking out for me. That is my soul whispering the path forward. This time I will listen. Let my feelings only feel.

[storiesbyastrocraft]

Far Cry 5 Fic - Choices

If you haven't read it yet, the idea for the fic is here!

TLDR | The Deputy walks away from Hope County without making an arrest, but the collapse is still underway. God has given Joseph a new prophecy for Edens Gate : A group of four omega's are headed to hope county and each of them are destined to be mated to the Seed Family.

I am trying to decide what I want to do with the group that comes to Falls End. I am planning on writing it as one big story that switches perspective between the Omega's where the Omega's can stand in as a reader.

But there are four omegas and they need names so I am trying to decide what to do about that-

I did kinda imply there were going to be fem readers but I am kinda wanting to do mostly masc readers. Looking at this pairing wise :

Joseph x Male Omega Reader Jacob x Trans Masc Omega Reader John x Nonbinary(?) Omega Reader (AMAB that uses any pronouns) Trans Fem Faith X Female Omega Reader

If anyone has any ideas on what you would like to see happen feel free to reach out, I am currently plotting things out for at least the next few chapters. I kinda have an end goal in mind but I am open to changing that depending on what people want.

[cantevenbeachhere]

23. How do you make decisions?

Uh…with my brain.

Oh you mean like - right. Yeah okay.

Well, uh, it depends on the decision I gotta make, ya know? I mean, thought obviously goes into it. I’ll ask for advice from wiser people than me, like Weird Barbie or Ordinary Barbie, or I’ll ask people who know me best like my best friends Ken and Ken.

100 Random Questions

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All My Change.org Petitions, Part 1

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[ultraviclence]

should i get discord and if i do mutuals do u have it

[eternalsailormom]

Nice avoidance technique there

[cloudycoffee]

i know making decisions is hard. even if i was sure it's the right decision, it will still be hard. maybe what i can do is at least not be so hard on myself along the way (which is also difficult). accepting the ups and downs, recognizing my doubts and being there for myself anyway. i'll get through this.

[wukongfeetpics]

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

[badookie]

Some more jayvik Pacific Rim au since everyone asked so nicely!! Jayce is making sure Vik grows big and strong by stealing all the protein from the mess hall.

The lore behind Vik's short hair is that he crashed out around 3am, unable to solve a mathematical theorem, and forced Jayce to cut all his hair off with craft scissors in the dark. [nods nods]

[eelhound]

"Unlike 'authenticity', 'willing' is not a very desirable word. First of all, it’s not a thing one can possess, it’s an action, something one has to do. And unlike authenticity, there is no sense of comfort in 'the will'. Authenticity promises certainty, whereas the will promises uncertainty. And in times of turmoil, it is all too human to prefer that which promises predictability to the unknown. Colloquially, willing usually appears around New Year’s Eve when people start talking about resolutions and how they’d like to change their lives. The will becomes a question of 'willpower'. Or worse, willing can remind us of those difficult times when someone implores us 'Are you willing to cooperate?' 'Are you willing to try?' 'Are you willing to do what it takes to get the job done?' But for Arendt, the will was the means to our freedom, it was the promise that we can always be other than we are, and so to the world. The will is a space of tension inside the self where one actively feels the difference between where they are and where they would like to be.

Willing is the mental activity that goes on between thinking and judgment. It has the power to shape us by drawing us into conflict with ourselves. Without inner conflict, there is no forward movement. These are the basic principles of willing:

Willing is characterised by an inner state of disharmony.

Willing is experienced as a felt sense of tension within the body where the mind is at war with itself.

Willing makes one aware of possible decisions, which creates a feeling of being pulled in multiple directions at once.

Willing can feel very lonely. Decisions and choices are shaped by one’s environment, by the everydayness of being, but ultimately the responsibility for deciding is up to oneself.

Willing makes one aware of the tension that exists between oneself as a part of the world, and oneself as an individual alone existing in relationship to the world.

Willing is the principle of human individuation.

Willing relates to the world through action.

The will is the inner organ of freedom.

Everyone makes hundreds of decisions a day, but most of the time they aren’t conscious of the decisions they are making. Their decisions are not subjected to the will. Instead, they are simply following a routine of patterns that have been formed over time. In order to engage the will, one must be willing to pause. Because, while thinking moves from past experience, and imagination fixates on what might happen in the future, the past and the future are beyond the reach of the will. Willing is what happens before one acts. To be in a state of willing is to be in the Now.

Authenticity is attractive in part because it promises a sense of harmony, it is the promise that, if we know who we are, then we can act in a way where our actions are in alignment with our values. But the will is characterised by a sense of conflict. It is the inner organ that generates tension within the self, making one aware of the discrepancies between who they are and who they might like to be, or what they want and what they might be able to have. But it is this tension that is vital for bringing consciousness to decision-making."

- Samantha Rose Hill, from "Beyond authenticity." Aeon, 18 July 2024.

[kitdunsmore]