#simpleminded

[yimingpurelandacademycenter]

Practitioners, don’t be too clever As a practitioner, first learn to be virtuous, because only the virtuous can bear the utmost. In other words, be simple-minded and embrace losses. Suffering loss is a blessing. Of course, this applies to the initial stage. After you’ve attained some achievement and gradually developed wisdom, what you have would be no longer cleverness. You would use wisdom rather than cleverness. With wisdom, you have neither discursive thoughts nor evil thoughts, but all good thoughts. You know everything like the back of your hand. This is different from cleverness.

[wtfforged]

last rb made me miss marro really bad so have my collective ok? this is the photo i pull out of my back pocket to ask whether i should get just the sandwich or the fries for my order

(1/2022) i have a lot of wips from back then too and id post them but i kind of want to try and finish them/redraw them... one day....... 2022 was such an era of art improvement and also just. Alot Of Art/wips bc id finally gotten my hands on a screen tablet

[ebiemoon]

someone: ok but the donghua doesn't have the same essence as the novel-

someone else: ok but the manhua doesn't portray him the way the novel-

someone ELSE: but see the audio drama is arguably the best adaptation-

me: yay more tgcf!!! yay more tgcf!!!!!!

[luvrxbunny]

patheticccc

[arytha]

Helloo!! For the ask game, how about The Lost, the Star(s), and/or The Righteous? 👀👀

Oh yay I can introduce a few OCs I haven't shown you guys before :3c

The Lost!

[ID from ALT: A portrait of my OC, who has no name currently. He is wearing stylized grey and black monochrome layers with white fastenings, and a black mask with a cat's smile. Coming from behind him is a shadowy creature with the face of a cat. His hair covers one of his eyes, and he is looking down with a morose expression. Above him is the title 'The Lost'. End ID]

This kid is! Part of a set of twins. I bought his initial design (which I have since tweaked) on DevArt as an adoptable back in the early days, and he was sold alongside his twin- who was bought by someone I've never talked to. lol.

So! As far as his lore is concerned! He knows he's one of a set of twins. He knows he isn't alone- but his twin doesn't exist in this universe. No birth records, no one other than him has any memory of them. Even Data would be unable to confirm if his twin actually existed at any point in time. So he's not lost, but his twin is :3c The cat is a creature who consumes loneliness that he lets stick around. I need to name him.... I love his design...

The Star!

[ID from ALT: A portrait of my OC, Amelie. She has dark blue-purple hair, a pastel purple flower in her hair, ans a layered purple blouse. She looks offscreen with faint, sleepy surprise. Next to her is the title 'The Star'. End ID]

This is Amelie! She is! An astrological devil! Actually, she happens to be the very first one! And possibly the very first intelligent lifeform in my universe, as she was born alongside my universe's equivalent of the Big Bang!! She will exist as long as CMB hasn't completely redshifted into obscurity. She spends most of her time in a coma, with one of the other original AD (a redshifted galaxy) keeping an eye on her as her 'Gravekeeper'. Sometimes she 'wakes up' if the ADs are facing something that threatens their (and thus, the universe's) existence. Eepy and powerful little lady.

[whydotheycallmechimney]

a new pet peeve of mine is people shipping characters solely for the fact that they have similar personalities/experiences. I love ships that are mirrors of each other as much as the next guy, but if your ship argument is "why are they with a character that loves them despite their differences instead of the character that is an exact replica of them" then I think that's kind of silly

[yakiire]

@flamestyle: it's a day of love and peace

what about swords

[everythingroyalty]

watching people scramble to defend willy is so

[circusrockmag]

This week in 1985: The Breakfast Club film premiered.

Trailer

📽️ https://youtu.be/Z0ILH0-5KpA 📺

🎪

The original CIRCUS Magazine Official Website is👇

🖥️ https://www.circusrockmag.com/dynamic-library 📱

[stellarhistoria]

i have feelings about kh lore and my best friend isn't awake to hear me go insane over it :(

[reversiblesthings]

Seperti yang kamu tau.. Aku tak selalu ada, tak selalu bisa. Namun.. “kamu tau aku dimana, sedang apa, dan, untuk apa?.”

[vinylanswer]

New Simple Minds LP that I haven’t listened to yet. The last one had some good songs, but the mix was SO COMPRESSED THAT THERE WERENT ANY DYNAMICS ANYWHERE. IT’S THE AUDIO EQUIVALENT OF WRITING IN ALL CAPS WHEN THAT HAPPENS, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS EQUALLY LOUD and it made the album impossible to listen to for more than a minute or two. Seriously, no whining; it was exhausting. There are dynamics in everything we hear in real life and, as you can see here, even in writing. It’s part of who we are as a species, how we communicate and how we sense our surroundings. Dynamics have kept us alive for millions of years, so forcibly removing them is wildly unsettling. I have my fingers crossed that this new album has some built-in breathing room this time.

[gorteaus]

Apart from being an appreciated, though however brief touchup on the concept of altruism as a type of behavior not purely exclusive to humanity (an analysis for another day) I truly think that Youpi may be an initial spin on the “powerful nen user with impeccable intellect” trend.

Within the world of hxh, every nen user worth their salt has been incredibly intelligent and demonstrative of the fact that they have at least more than a couple brain cells to rub together; from Kurapika to the adult Zoldycks to the Phantom Troupe and Genthru, the list goes on. Pitou and Pouf and Meruem as well, follow along this line, with the sole exception to their family being Youpi.

And sure; every skillful nen user has been shown to possess their own varying levels of wit, but Youpi is perhaps the first in a long line of users who’s been demonstrably shown to be straight up dumb. Like, can’t-tell-the-difference-between-Pouf-and-Pitou’s-en-type dumb. His opponents (Knuckle and Morel) even call him out on this to his face.

I once again point out the apparent with this neatly falling in line with his personality being a direct contrast to Pouf and Pitou’s for the first half of the arc (y’know, before he goes batshit berserk with rage). Both are scheming and calculative whereas Youpi sits around all day and must ask questions in order to get answers. He receives information painfully at face value and his thought process is consistently linear and straightforward in a world where being quick witted can mean a difference between life and death. He is only able to survive as long as he does, in part due to the fact that the title of “royal guard” actually meant a little bit of something in his particular situation, and that sometimes strategy is moot in the face of raw power. In spite of this, his circumstances end up forcing him to seek new tactics and adapting when push comes to shove.

If I'm able to say that Togashi’s divergence from the overpowering, scheming mastermind in this instance is played particularly well or interesting? Hard to say, especially when we weren't given enough time with the royal guard (I say this as I am biased), but I find his evolution and progress as someone who could hardly be trusted to tell his right from his left or tie his own shoes (if he ever wore them) to a character fully capable of deducing Meleoron’s ability and keeping his calm whilst doling out instructions to Pouf in a dire situation as something really charming.

[konanyeh]

the coming up 3.5 anniversary thing in ak is really cool and theres a lot of stuff- events, new operators, modules, etc etc- but the thing im happiest about is. arene getting chinese voicelines

[duron-derry]

Days in my life. Portraits and beautiful meetings with brillant, kind and renowned people: Boy George, Martin L. Gore and Andrew Fletcher form Depeche Mode, Dot Major, Dan Rothman, and Hannah Reid from London Grammar, Shepard Fairey aka Obey, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill from Simple Minds, Ibeyi, Mike Scott from the Waterboys, Sharleen Spiteri from Texas. And last but not least, Anton Corbijn.

[basslinegrave]

stop me before i make an au for the escape room clones