I am so tired of Reborn pissing off OP people that could easily kill that pathetic fucker and THEY DO NOTHING!
Ichigo and Shirou fought and befrieded literal gods before. Reborn got owner by a mere Atlantian.
The fact none of Tsuna's pathetic useless Guardians confront Reborn for all the abuse tell us a lot.
He's pathetic nothing. A mere mortal hitman.
Also, this fucker blackmailed a child to fight the Varia for Tsuna. Put a butch of assassins against a child to test his capabilities and is trying to use his mysterious powers for himself, why Shirou even helped him? Should have let the Arcobaleno (minus Skull) root in hell.
The nerve of this man? He's a shinigami, a death god, Ichigo should send Reborn to Hell.
Reborn needs to die a painful death.
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Tips for a Successful Creative Life
To have success in your creative life, try approaching it with:
=Patience=
The creative life requires having patience:
with your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual self
with the physical environment in which you create
with the tools of your trade, as they evolve with time, with use and with the technological advances that improve/change/obsolete them
with the stages of artistic growth through which you pass
Learning to calmly change and adapt with these aspects of the creative life is key to success. Don't rush it, or you'll miss the important bits!
=Persistence=
The creative life requires being persistent.
As a photographer, I've found that what I imagine I'll find at a location is not always what exists in reality, for any number of reasons such as weather, crowds, repair work, etc. I sometimes have to return to that location repeatedly over a period of days, weeks, even months or years, until the conditions are just right in order to match my vision. Occasionally, after persisting long enough, my vision changes to match the conditions - a happy accident? Perhaps…
When working with models in a studio setting, the chemistry between people doesn't always blend well click, the lighting fails, someone becomes ill, etc, and the shoot has to be postponed until a later date. Such is life. If you want the shot, you'll have to roll with it.
Being prepared (and willing) to try again (and again) is a sign that you're following your true calling.
=Passion=
The creative life requires being passionate.
Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist Greg Marinovich once said, "Shoot what you care about." Indeed, a creative person must approach their craft with passion, or run the risk of being exposed as a fraud. The discerning viewer can detect whether a work of art was one produced by someone who was simply going through the motions vs. a piece that came from within a person's soul.
Always remember that your creative work matters. It matters to you, the artist, as well as to those who view, appreciate and even purchase it from you. But your sole responsibility is to follow your passion, and allow everything else to take care of itself. Author and screenwriter Steven Pressfield put it quite bluntly when he said: "To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution."
Continue to adjust your actions, materials and environment to maintain and increase the passion you have for your work. When your work is the first thing you think about when you wake up, the thing that occupies your thoughts most of the day, the last thought before going to sleep at the end of the day and the subject of your dreams (all of these in a positive, constructive way, of course), congratulations: you've most likely found your passion.
=Passiveness=
The creative life requires being passive - being humble, keeping focus off of self and on the work.
This is no easy feat. We are by nature ego-driven creatures, and crave attention above almost all else. To be a fulfilled creative person means to devote heart and soul to the work, with no thought or concern for the outcome or what accolades it may garner.
So easy to say, so very hard to do. But when you've found your true calling, however, it's not so bad.
Be warned: ego can prevent growth, ruin a reputation and destroy a life's work. So, check yourself continually: am I keeping the work front and center? am I accepting praise with humility? am I giving to others of my time and talents without concern for the cost?
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Being patient, persistent, passionate and passive can help you to succeed as a creative person.
My two cents.
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If you can recognize how much of North America was cultivated over thousands of years by indigenous people, then you also need to recognize that a significant chunk of "wilderness" here is dependent on human intervention to thrive.
There are countless plants and fungi, from mushrooms to grasses to trees, that have been proven to do best when regularly harvested, whether it's because harvest makes them release seeds or clears away dead growth or provides more light to younger plants, cultivation means that harvesting is often to the benefit of the plant.
Which means that you also have to recognize that locking those plants away from people, even with the best intentions, can actually do horrible damage to their populations and to existing ecosystems.
There isn't an easy solution to this problem. Proper foraging isn't something that most people are taught anymore and many of these plants do not have significant enough populations right now to survive excessive harvest.
But going forward, as we work on restoring ecosystems and helping our planet (and our relationships to the land) heal, then we need to acknowledge that humans and nature are not separate entities and that we've always been dependent on each other.
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so listen i fucking hate landlords but! i think we gotta stop making fun of landlords for "passive income" and stick to focusing on the way they, you know, get that income by exploiting people, by withholding the basic human right for shelter from others.
people love to be like oh landlords dont do any actual work like the rest of us, but like? a lot of disabled people cant do "actual work" either. people hate us because we collect ssi (if we can even get through those hoops) without working "real" jobs or creating any value that capitalism cares about. some of the stuff ppl say abt landlords sounds exactly the same. landlords DO suck but the way some of yall talk about them rlly shows that youre still stuck in a capitalist and christian and ableist mindset, where you think everyone should struggle to justify their existence, their right to food and shelter, their right to survive.
personally i think we should ALL get passive income (universal basic income <3) because we have inherent value regardless of how much we work. we just shouldnt impoverish our fellow people to do so!
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