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[callabang]

2025 intention setting

about three times a year (january, may-ish, september-ish) i try to take a look at my life and how it's going and establish some intentions and goals i'd like to incorporate

in 2024 these goals were about acquiring clothing i felt good in, resisting my annual summer seasonal agony, establishing support structures that would ease the transition of my best friend/roommate moving out, playing more ttrpgs, and meeting more strangers. overall i feel very proud of the work i did in all these areas!!

it actually was somewhat more difficult to come up with satisfying resolutions for 2025 because i feel like the low-hanging fruit has been accomplished successfully and i now have to get much more specific about interventions that will feel meaningful and sustainable and address parts of my life that feel unsatisfying. here's what i came up with:

Get offline (try reading 73 books)

Seek out opportunities for mentoring (especially re: writing)

Figure out skincare routine

Determine fitness goals (e.g. increase base pace 0.1 per month + increase weights as much as possible)

Find balance between broad and deep social engagements + time with myself

Decide on 2-3 political resolutions that are sustainable but not incremental (e.g. buying organic, volunteering, donating, etc)

Bring more intentionality to my work

Instrumentalize grad school and increase my bandwidth without being understimulated

Develop a two-ish year plan of living/reflecting (living alone and other directions I want to move towards)

i'm not a hardcore resolution adherent and i generally believe in moving towards joy and care the moment it occurs to you since that's usually (for me) more effective than putting things off to an imaginary future. but i also like using this time of year (new year and also my birthday) to reflect and be intentional so here's what i got! also want to share two posts, one that was very impactful for me in my goal of befriending strangers and one that really shaped how i thought about how i want 2025 to go.

i would love to hear your thoughts and resolutions/intentions, if that's something you're interested in sharing!

[filurig]

shapeshifting is something that a basilisk will nearly always seek to do in solitude.

an act which temporarily blinds and numbs the creature from the surrounding world - they will be left completely vulnerable to it. defenseless. frozen inside the shell of their old form as organs and cells rearrange.

to shapeshift in front of someone is, therefore, the ultimate show of trust that a basilisk can perform.

[heartorbit]

(Just attack!)

[galaxyinacup]

Would you/ have you ever drawn Flower Ranchers fanart? (Jimmy×Tango×Scott)

I have drawn them before and I have done so again for you all!!!

I was originally just going to repost my previous art of them but my bestie gave me this banger idea for them and I needed to get it out there! (Also that art is like a year old now)

I've grown fond of snowbugs... they are so pretty!

I'll still leave my other art of them under the cut, as well as close ups of this one:

[merry-fagoland]

when ur a rarepair fan or a multishipper you need to stop going "haha wouldnt it be interesting if-" as a joke because pretty soon IT'S NO LONGER A JOKE!!!!!!

[katabay]

listen. I know that thee ac2 ship is ezio/leonardo but please…consider…….ezio/machiavelli

the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood novelization, Oliver Bowden

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[copia]

COPIA'S JOURNEY TO RITE HERE RITE NOW ⛧ PREQUELLE ERA

"We need someone new. A firm leader; with youth, and stamina—and sexual charisma...."

video sources | comic bubbles | latin transcript | title font

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bingqiu ponies (Happy Birthday @Piosplayhouse!)

[s1lv3rp4w3dc4t]

shout out object shows with canon queer ships. I'm talking on screen kiss or even just verbal confirmation. all things considered it's a bit strange you don't really see them that much when you think about how gay everyone here is. I love you ii but c2bc did what you didn't and I think that's actually really nice.

[sesamenom]

the "what-to-do-about-the-ring" chapters, but from the perspective of elronds oath-related trauma

all text from Fellowship of the Ring (council of elrond + the ring goes south), except the snippets of the Oath, which i believe is from the Shibboleth of Feanor

inspired by this post

[kkoct-ik]

i dont remember why i drew this

[starrysharks]

"it happens all the time, it happens all the time", a tautology of self-delusion - a one-way love affair that turned me into a weak rabbit

[batsplat]

Casey Stoner, Pushing the Limits

GP11:

GP12:

x

[inkskinned]

sometimes i think that the worst part might be that what you did permanently changed me. the rest of my life is shaped by what you did to me. there is an after you, bleak and bleeding.

and i have to carry it around. i have to take care of it. i have to step around all the broken glass of it. sometimes i think i have finally outrun it; only to find it dripping from my sink. panic attacks in grocery stores - the acrid taste of you suddenly overwhelming. i cannot touch with clean hands; i'm too covered in this silken slime you left on me.

sometimes, though. sometimes i think the worst part is actually that despite all evidence to the contrary - how i scrambled for your approval, took ever-smaller pieces. despite the red flags and the warning signs and the days i spent angrily saying i deserve to get what i need. despite all of it.

i loved you anyway. and knowing that. absolutely broke me.

[nebulainatree]

Ok in honor of this post getting pretty widely viewed I'm posting my (self proclaimed) funny tumblr text meme edit here

[unproduciblesmackdown]

imagine...

...that some things have changed (including some marigold ventures?) and Atlas May is like uh oh both lackadaisy & i are doomed, but if i set up my own death maybe only i'll be doomed and lackadaisy might have to shutter but perhaps more so on involved people's terms, such as mitzi being fine financially, but also if she thinks it's her fault that'll be good for maintaining my posthumous Image to her, perhaps she did some defrauding again? and i'll have mordecai, my trusted & effective gunman, be the one to fatally shoot me, & of course he doesn't want to, but it's Mere Work Ethic time, what's he gonna do besides argue at all maybe, ultimately refuse? (no) and he may hate it but he's not going to want to fully turn on mitzi or anything after because then what would have been the point