#values-and-principles

[thepersonalwords]

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

Doris P. Johnson

[bruciemilf]

Re: your most recent ask YESSS SAY UT LOUDER!!!!!!!! BRUCE LITERALLY STOOD BY HIS PARENTS MURDERER'S BEDSIDE WHILE HE DIED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE WHO WOULD!!!!! BATMANS COMPASSION AND EMPATHY IS SUPPOSED TO DEFY BELIEF, ITS SUPPOSED TO BE BEYOND COMPREHENSION!!!!! HE IS THE LODESTONE FOR EVERY ROBIN, THEIR GROUNDING FORCE, THEIR MORAL TRUE NORTH!!!!!

Yeah!!! To me, Bruce is not moral creature. He’s a virtuous creature

[philosophybits]

You live only insofar as you live according to your own ideas. Your principles are only the means, your calling the end in itself.

Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas

[mollysunder]

In "The Fourth Principle", Mel's young cousin appears to have golden runic tattoos in the same style as Mel.

Mel's cousin's tattoos are not nearly as intricate as the ones Mel has in s1 and definitely not by s2.

We know that Mel's tattoos are tied to her magic, and from the reviews of Chosen of the Wolf, there's a larger connection between mages and these experimental runic tattoos. This could mean that Mel's cousin is also a mage, albeit someone who isn't especially powerful based on how simple her tattoos are.

If Mel's cousin is a mage, I wonder if that may be one of the reasons Mel has her cousin so close to her. From the way Ambessa spoke of mages, and even from Mel own voice lines, the Medardas have a negative opinion of mages. Could Mel have allowed her cousin to be elevated to her side as assistant to the Medarda matriarch to protect her against this kind of scrutiny?

Based on the spoilers from Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf, obtaining these tattoos isn't a simple or painless task, and yet more members of the Medarda family have them by the time Mel returns. I also noticed that Mel's cousin doesn't seem to be that much older than Mel was in her flashback in Arcane. Except at that age, Mel didn't have ANY visible tattoos. I wonder if in reaction to the Black Rose's successful campaign to steal majority of the Medardas' holdings, the family became more aggressive in utilizing all their assets, which includes family members with any potential as mages. There's more family drama to come with the Medardas then!

[hylianengineer]

Part of being a scientist is falling in love with things other people don't appreciate. Part of being an ecologist, in particular, is falling in love with things that other people think of as nuisances or even evil.

Spiders. Weeds. Mosquitoes. I can't even hate ticks, although I really wish they would not bite me.

This morning I told my father I was disappointed because his yard didn't have enough 'weeds' in it - it felt like going someplace you'd expect to run into an old friend and being unable to find them. Where's the speedwell? The chickweed? The perfoliate penny-cress? My parents aren't even the type to spend time, money, or effort trying to have a monoculture lawn, but for some reason there is a marked lack of plant diversity there.

My mom is annoyed about the spiders that keep appearing in the basement bathtub (which, okay, they do keep dying in there which is unfortunate). But I like them and want to see them and learn what kind they are. I found a dead one and scooped it into a petri dish to look at under my microscope. My apartment doesn't have any spiders and I'm jealous that my parents get them, but don't even like them!

If you learn to love the lifeforms we humans share our lives with - often despite people's best efforts to eradicate them - then you will discover a new world of joy and awe right in front of you. The only drawback is that you then have to listen to everyone else talking shit about it, and I have yet to find a way to teach them to appreciate it.

[quotelr]

Celebrating people is a form of love

Sunday Adelaja

[creekfiend]

pip do u ever wish u had a caring and dedicated handler like those dogs who their people refer to as Big Feelings Dogs. or that people interacted w u using non aversive methods. the more i look into dog training the more i wish for this. life is ruff

bro, yeah.

I think even if you can't get treated that way by Most people you are interacting with and you CERTAINLY can't get treated that way my institutions, the people who you come home to should at least be gentle with you and take you in good faith and proactively consider your wants and needs. like. your loved ones at least should do this. it can be hard to find people who are in the habit of it. but it's pretty great if you can. and then it's like you can do it for EACH OTHER which is even better bc you're on a beautiful journey of Be Nice To Each Other (And Yourself) together

[simptasia]

if julian and garak were to have children (and i imagine they do), i think the kid(s) would have the last name "garak". not only does it continue mila's last name, but it destroys richard bashir's oh so precious legacy

[the-sonic-crew]

"SAY NO MORE SIR!"

*grabs my leather bag and pulls out a comically long chain of handkerchiefs tied together and a lamp*

"erm one sec it's here somewhere....."

*my hand inside the bag starts glowing and a kitty of light with the gigachad face is in my arms in the simba™ pose*

"alas. Sonic you must bow before the ultimate kitty because you arent ultimate sry chat..😿😞"

"AHA NOW KITH!"

(YAYAYYAAYYAYAYAYYAYAYAYYSAYATAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAAYATATATTAATATATTTATATTATATAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYY)

[shadow's inner monologue at that moment went something like this:

Ugh... the... kitty- NO, MUST RESIST- but... the kitty...- NO, SHADOW. IT'S NOT WORTH IT, YOU'LL DO SOMETHING YOU'LL REGRET WHEN YOU'RE OLDER. PEOPLE WILL COME UP TO YOU IN THE FUTURE, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO TELL THEM THAT YOU AND SONIC AREN'T IN A RELATIONSHIP, AND THEY WON'T STOP BOTHERING YOU. IT'S NOT WORTH IT- but the kitty... it's... all of it... the ultimate kitty.... -that does sound pretty cool but you CAN'T SHADOW. REPULSED, REMEMBER? YOU'LL DO IT AND THEN YOU'LL FEEL THAT ANXIOUS FEELING IN YOUR STOMACH THAT GROWS AND GROWS AND YOU JUST FEEL SO OVERWHELMED AND UNCOMFORTABLE AND OH GOD-]

I... I- I- I-

[Sonic gets up from where he's been bowing, expression morphing from a playful flirt to a worried, faltering grin. His eyes train, briefly, on Shadow's chest; it's started to rise and fall at a quicker pace, faster than he's ever seen it- even during all of their races and petty fights.]

Hey, are- are you feeling alright?

[He steps closer to Shadow, but Shadow's expression only morphs further into something closely resembling horror before masking itself quickly with anger.]

GET AWAY FROM ME. I JUST- I just want- ARGH!

[He backs into a 'corner' of the space, curling into a ball.]

You're all the same. You'll force me to do such a thing... when I...

... I think maybe that was a boundary we shouldn't have crossed. Sorry guys, no kisses for Shadow in the near future. Or, uh, judging by that reaction, probably ever. Sooooooo if you don't mind, I'll justttttttt... yep that cat's ours now OK BYE

[EXPLANATION IN THE TAGS -💀]

[gynandromorph]

regardless of my or your opinion on AI art, saying that artists also make their art by simply viewing a lot of art and then regurgitating a mixture of statistically probable pixels implies that humans learn like machines do, and this isn't even remotely accurate. ignoring the phenomenological and social components of human learning really only stands to dovetail into viewing humans as material goods on the same level as a server farm. psychology has actually been sliding into viewing the brain as computers, and computers as equivalents to the human brain, and it's caused a lot of harm. we can't talk about some psychological phenomena without using Computer Terms to do it because that's the language that was given to them. viewing humans and computers as functionally equal with enough bits to replicate neurons won't humanize robots, it will dehumanize humans. it is advanced as an ideology for that purpose. in the end i see humans viewing art and integrating it into their own ideas for art as valuable because i think that humans don't exist to create a profit for some guy in silicon valley and i think that enriching human lives is good. humans don't "learn" art in order to produce replicas; the art is a byproduct.

[thepersonalwords]

Your business values can make you soar above the competition.

Doris Perdue-Johnson

[curiosity-killed]

*crawls out of 2 yrs’ silence on mdzs* in a modern au Lan Wangji’s reliance on structure and rules could closely mirror the way some students advance immediately from bachelors to masters to phd without taking breaks because it is a “safe” route that allows them to fulfill family and societal expectations of success and intellect in a relatively familiar environment without the perceived higher risk and greater volatility of success in the workforce, particularly where there is a family business in which such education is not necessary but still rewarded. His protection of Wei Wuxian could similarly play out as him dropping out of his studies before being pulled back by his family, and his growth across the 13 yrs supported by completing his degree but shifting his dissertation focus or concentration to a less theoretical and more highly applied vein of the same field. In this AU, I—

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Jim’s trapped on Earth, Spock’s got to leave without him and doesn’t want to.

[arthursfuckinghat]

The symbolism with Arthur Morgan and King Arthur from the Arthurian legends is going to make my mind explode in this essay I will-

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Asgard heavily invests in the equivalent of Faraday cages for whatever electric infrastructure they use

[random-xpressions]

I don't measure my richness by my bank balance but I feel the richest at the sheer thought that I can't be bought or sold...

Random Xpressions