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ungiorno-nellavita · 2 months ago

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What Gives Me Direction in Life

Daily writing promptWhat gives you direction in life?View all responses There are days when life feels scattered—when everything seems to be happening all at once, and none of it aligns with how we imagined things would go. On those days, I pause. I breathe. And I ask myself a simple but grounding question: What’s my purpose?Purpose is what guides me when I feel confused or lost. When problems…

#dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1926 #finding purpose #intentional living #life direction #mindfulness and reflection #overcoming setbacks #personal growth #purpose-driven life #self-discovery journey

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a-a-lost-munchkin · 6 months ago

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I Can’t Help But Wonder

Odysseus, who just violently and mercilessly murdered 108 or so men, who claims in the next song that he’s no longer a kind or gentle man, actively listens to Telemachus and kindly and gently responds to everything his son’s expressed.

Telemachus asks, “Am I like you? Am I strong like you? Will you embrace me? Will you love and accept me as yours?” He says, “I’ve felt so alone.”

And Odysseus claims him in a heartbeat, answering, “My son. My boy. My sweetest joy I’ve ever known. I embraced you twenty years ago. I’d do the impossible for you. I’d die for you.” He says, “Seeing the men here today, I can only wonder what you’ve been through for twenty years. My son, you’re already strong. You’re my own. You’re not alone. I’m home.”

And then they fucking embrace.

#don’t mind me I’m just over here sobbing #something something Odysseus being an attentive loving father drenched in blood #the way he literally responds to everything #he says ‘you are MY SON I’ve never stopped embracing you’#‘I may be deranged and unhinged after years of torment but I’ll be damned before I let you think you’ve ever been unloved by me’#the instrumentals reflect it too #Tele’s piano is hesitant and very faint during his part overwhelmed by Ody’s guitar #the moment ody starts singing the piano blends immediately #Ody’s got open arms for his son #epic the musical #epic #odysseus #epic odysseus #epic telemachus #telemachus #epic the Ithaca saga #the ithaca saga #ithaca saga

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vocabulary-altering-posts · 6 months ago

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you really need to raise your standards for what's considered "a phrase" because if it only makes sense in the specific context of the post it was originally found in and it isn't repeatable in other situations, that's not a phrase that has entered the lexicon, that's just something someone said one time.

i started this thing last week i need all the posts i can handle

What doesn't alter your vocabulary may alter, or may have already altered, someone else's. This is not about adding to The General Lexicon - I have an entire tag for things that change this site as a whole, which has a higher bar; this is largely about novelty and humor. This is us curb-stomping whatever the fuck we want into the right form for our needs, whatever those needs may be, including altering aspects of the phrase to fit the necessary format or context. It's a linguistic shotgun.

its my fuckin blog bitch ill shit where i want

#vaps.ask #i use 'phrase added to inventory' to reflect that these are things that may change someone's personal lexicon or that already have #also everything on this site is something someone said one time.#also keep in mind i do not genuinely hate you anon. i'm just slightly flabbergasted that someone comes in #and critiques a gimmick blog that i started Last Wednesday #with clearly arbitrary guidelines and nominations #like...why do you expect quality. you're setting yourself up for failure here #it's a grab bag. a random draw

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demiurgicviscera · 2 months ago

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people making fun of trans masc and men’s names always falls so flat, because they tend to be some of the most beautiful and classic male names that exist? liam, will, jack, finn, izzy, viktor, lucas, theo etc . and you know if we were instead en masse choosing names like apollo, achilles, hades, dionysus they’d find a reason to make us feel pathetic for it too. one can make anything look stupid if you try hard enough, and people try really hard when it comes to trans men and mascs and what we choose to do with our own autonomy.

#for the record i fucking love all sorts of names that trans men and mascs pick out for themselves #i’ve seen dionysus a few times and i am so obsessed it’s crazy like. more men naming themselves based on greek mythology please.#actually just any mythology ever. being a trans guy is sick as fuck and it hits so hard when the names reflect that #i also love devastatingly average names. steve. bill. harry. like fuck yeah. i want to see a harold. maybe a greg.#trans men i love you #transandrophobia #anti transmasculinity #mumbling mind

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kittykatninja321 · 8 months ago

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My less popular opinion (and what I believe to be implied by the art in Lost Days) is that rather than waking up in a fully grown body Jason didn’t actually complete his puberty until after his Lazarus pit dip while he was on his murder tour. Imagine you’re tied up in a basement in Berlin getting interrogated by a teenager and his voice is cracking the entire time and if you laugh he’s going to shoot you

#Late puberty Jason truthers rise #Egon calling up Talia like ‘did you send me a middle schooler what is this’. ‘He’s technically high school aged actually’#he would’ve been like 18 when he finally regained consciousness but the way he’s drawn could easily be mistaken for 15 #I know people love the body dysmorphia angst of Jason waking up big but I offer you this: Jason wakes up looking basically the same to a #world that has moved on without him and is unrecognizable. His death/injuries stunted him he existed for years in a state of suspension #while the world passed him by. He was on pause while everyone kept moving on and he didn’t get unpaused until the Lazarus pit and he has #to scramble to catch up. He’s actually 18 but the last thing he remembers is being 15 and his body reflects this state #and then once his mind is finally back online puberty hits him like a truck. Just look at the difference between how Jason is drawn #immediately after his dip in the Lazarus pit vs the end of lost days when his training arc is over #It implies it could’ve been multiple years but in order to fit with the timeline of other comics I personally don’t think it #would’ve been that long. I think he just sprouted up like a weed #Jason Todd #dc #I think Jason is technically still growing by the time he’s red hood. In my personal mindscape he doesn’t reach his peak buffness/height #he’s like 21 and he’s 19 in utrh #Sorry for my 1538283th post about red hood lost days I’m obsessed with his little fucked up coming of age story #Red hood lost days

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iambeautifullyunhinged · 13 days ago

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astearisms · 2 years ago

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fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

#i’m part of the demographic where i was a kid when adventure time started and now watching fionna and cake as an adult makes me emotional #because did they keep us in mind when writing fionna and her attitude towards life #the dissatisfaction #the hoping for something more #something more magical than this dreary life filled with working to live and living to work #it’s so reflective of how life feels for me and perhaps many of us #and also Simon’s episode was so sad but so well thought out #exploring his feelings after the events of the adventure time finale is something I’m glad we get to see #there were already so many layers to his character in AT but now it feels like we get to dive deeper #I also felt emotional hearing Rebecca Sugar singing and writing a song that encapsulates his feelings so well #😭 it’s been awhile seeing her work exist alongside these characters #and all of these emotions get stronger because I remember AT being the one to inspire me to be a storyboard artist #when I was younger I used to follow many of the board artists here in tumblr and would get so inspired by them #to create simple but powerful boards that can capture the feelings of characters so well #Rebecca Sugar’s songs for the AT characters inspired me so much too #I’m sorry this is long I’m just feeling so many things experiencing all of this again as an adult #my art #fanart #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna the human #cake the cat #simon petrikov

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teratomatica · 3 months ago

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you always land on all fours

#umineko #umineko spoilers #ikuko hachijo #ikukos turn for a more serious piece... the old man has reigned for too long #now. INCREDIBLY LONG INCOHERENT TAGS RANT INCOMING FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN:#it makes me so so sad how little discussion there is about specifically ikuko because imho she fits so neatly into a lot of the more #overarching Big Themes of the game in a way that i have not ever really seen people take notice of or point out in a meaningful way #like even just off of the top of my head. the significance of names and what it means to go by a name that's Not Yours (she has like 4+)#what it Means to be a witch how it represents a person's deepest insecurities and flaws & how its at its core a coping mechanism #the fact that it takes two to create a universe and trying to do it on your own anyways has the capacity to bring you intense misery #^ (how she's shown to be extremely dismissive of her own work and skill until a collaborator comes into her life and helps/encourages her)#and even the family/patriarchy/misogyny stuff that is so prevalent in the rest of the game comes back around to her. even her Only Friend #(young&stupid atp to be fair) remarks that shes Weird for being unmarried + the little she does say about her past invites the question of #to what extent her self-image stems from her family deeming her a freak outcast & effectively disowning her while celebrating her brothers #and i have lot in my mind about the witch thing specifically because i think her particular situation is very reflective of what umineko's #entire magic system and fantasy facet as a whole is meant to represent for an individual. from what little we see of (what is presumably)#her Real personality she is shown to be deeply self conscious in a way that is JARRINGLY diametrically opposed to both 1.) what we see in #featherine and 2.) what we see when she is acting as a Public Figure. because both of the above are very much purposeful acts that she is #putting on in order to obfuscate her true self. and i have always been very resolute & adamant about not totally equating her to featherine #not only because im very firmly in the camp of “featherine is the avatar of the Pen Name & tohya is part of her too” but also very much b/c #i feel very strongly that the stark differences between the two are very centrally relevant to her character & her psyche. as is the case #with most other witches featherine's personality traits serve to reveal/magnify a lot of ikukos inner workings by playing on her #insecurities/reversing them e.g. ikuko being very quick to downplay her skill/achievements becomes featherine being the COMPLETE opposite #to the point where she barely registers even other witches as living beings rather than just fun touys. BUT even though i do champion the #ikuko/featherine separation so hard i ALSO think it is purposefully relevant that at first glance the line between them seems so blurry #her introduction implying a more nebulous separation between her reality/fantasy counterpart is i think is an intentional move on her part #like it is part of the front she is putting up when acting as the Author. as opposed to Ikuko the person who we (in a way ironically very #similar to the way that the Real Battler is presumably only shown during the boatscene) only very briefly get to see take up screentime #which even on a meta level lines up very well with her apparent underlying nature as a like. extremely private largely reserved/shy person #hit tag limit but if by some miracle anyone is still reading this thank you... please see ikuko with the love she deserves... ok ily byeee

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breadandlottery · 3 months ago

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#squidgamegif #squidgameedit #squid game #hwang in ho #look at this dramatic ass emo mf giving blue steel to his own reflection #what is he THINKING whats going on in his mind crack it open and show me please i need to know i need to dissect him like a frog #shoutout to hooptedoodley for pointing out how fine lbh looks in this scene this is not something i specifically noticed before but OMG?#balgif

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paper-bag-arts · 3 months ago

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something abt mclennon and reflections

#i ponder their divorce often #i ponder johns reaction often my god #like do yall ever think he felt a lil bad #in some corner of his mind #do you ever wonder if he made a villain out of paul and clung to yoko bc it was easier than trying to have both of them #anyway #um #something something theyre literally each others reflection something something #the beatles #mclennon #paul mccartney #john lennon #mclennon fanart

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rodawgg · 6 months ago

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i HATE this guy UGHHHHHH *hits him with a frying pan hits him with a fryging pan,, ive yet to unlock him but i. hes pretty awesome haha haha hahahahhhhahhhhhhahhahaaaaaaaaaa,, i need to hit him with the girl beam NOW. NOWWWWWWWWWW AHHHHHHH