#And the Hope of a Better Life
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sunlitsoil · 1 year ago
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there is always tomorrow
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desultory-suggestions · 1 year ago
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You have to stop ruining things for yourself preemptively because you believe they’ll fail anyway. Give yourself a chance to succeed.
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 5 days ago
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What was in the blood.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#better drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan sizhui#jin ling#lan jingyi#granny wen#This may very well be the comic to have undergone the most revisions of this whole project.#I wanted to bring a very specific feeling to this moment - but there are so many things going on in the second half of this episode.#I still think I could have done better - but I've spent days on this one. I do not normally spend *days* on a comic.#In the end...even if the wen remnants passed away in terror and anguish...there was still love and compassion that remained.#Despite WWX's actions not making idealistic change - it gave them enough hope to not fall into complete resentment.#Though only one person truly lived - they recognize him with love.#The return of the toy (in PD-MDZS it's the origami pinwheel) is such a lovely bit of symbolism.#When we age we often leave behind the toys and people we knew - but there is always a fondness and nostalgia we can't erase.#LSZ - who's traumatic coping mechanism made him forget it all - still feels that familiarity.#We often want to walk away from pain - but the past isn't a door you just shut and forget about.#It is only through walking back into that metaphorical playroom and seeing who you used to be that we can understand ourselves.#So his toy childhood and return to him. It does not fit within the life he has built. He is too old. But that love still lies within him.#PS: The last panel features the Circle of Willis - the major artery system that wraps around your brainstem.#I personally love it's shape a lot. It looks like a little guy! It's so distinct! Easily in my top 5 human parts of human circuitry.
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loosethreadsofyoursoul · 7 months ago
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the degree to which magic in bbc merlin is an allegory for queerness is insane. what do you mean people with magic hide in fear for their lives because it’s illegal. what do you mean merlin’s mother sent him away to the big city bc she was afraid of what would happen if their small town found out he had magic. what do you mean merlin is taken in by an unmarried old man who used to practice magic but can’t anymore. what do you mean morgana was morally on uther’s side until she realized who she was and that he was wrong for wanting people like her dead. what do you mean anti-magical propaganda spreads misinformation that all magic is evil and everyone who practices it is also evil and should be killed. what do you mean there’s a recurring underlying theme of magical being solidarity
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zeldalizzy · 4 months ago
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February: Northern Nights 🩵
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a-compass-without-a-needle · 4 months ago
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This is what happened after 3.1 isn't it?
#hsr#phaidei#phaidei nation I humbly offer thee a low quality meme to cope with the doomed yaoi that was going on#phainon#honkai star rail#fellas is it gay for your red coded rival to your blue coded rival to clasp his hands over your own after you stabbed him#due to thinking he was the objective of your revenge quest#pull your sword deeper in and by consequence add to your proximity while smiling and fondly say “Found you.”?#Was it casual when you had an insanely charged and homoerotic scene in the hot baths that had you face down on the ground at his feet?#no but seriously these two have me in a chokehold#what do you MEAN you told him your precise weak spot just in case you became you turned against his cause#and his presumed future EMIYA Archer coded shadow self immediately went precisely for it?#and you KNOW you'll die with a wound in that weak spot in your back and you told him about it anyway#and you tell people to keep an eye on him after you go to meet your fate and then ask him to watch over your people#and he says he'll work hard to learn your language#AND FINALLY#“If there's a chance in the next life you should come visit my library.” WHAT IF I PERISHED ON THE SPOT?!#that's their “See you in the next world.”; their “Do stay alive. I wish you the best of luck.”;#their “I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.”; “You were a wonderful experience. You were everything.” etc etc#they make me ill (positive)#also I find it so funny that as a KevinSu shipper in HI3rd I went into Star Rail expecting for the dynamic to be more coded with Anaxa#only for Phaidei to hit literally all of my points and favorite tropes in a ship and by consequence my head with a steel chair lol#really hope we see Mydei again soon because literally the first thing Phainon does after he's gone is talk about him all the time#he is a professional yearner and I respect him for it (especially since I too miss Mydei as if he's Odysseus going off to war and sea#for 20 years and I'm Penelope waiting at the shores of Ithaca)#also sorry for the low quality screenshot I was literally too invested in the quest to try and take better ones#gotta love how Hoyoverse is always giving the Kaslanas some of the best romances in their games and ESPECIALLY so if they're queer#myphai
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eddiepeaches · 5 months ago
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happy together <3333
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wiisagi-maiingan · 3 months ago
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Just found out that the "five stages of grief" weren't actually about grieving other people at all, the theory was created when psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was working with terminally ill patients and used those terms (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) to refer to the non-linear coping methods people use when faced with their own deaths.
I don't know why I'm surprised, a lot of these sorts of things are deeply misunderstood and misrepresented, but knowing the context really does change its meaning and just makes it make sense in a way it doesn't when applied to grieving other people.
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demadogs · 7 months ago
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The past will come back to hunt you. ⤷ Yellowjackets season 3 teaser
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 5 months ago
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Maybe we never had a chance.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#a-yuan#Ultimately...despite how hard we try to reach people - sometimes it just is not possible.#Sometimes all you can do is wish that things could have been different. You pen a note with all the things you want to say -#and then you let it go. The words stay unsent and unspoken. You just watch the rift between you grow until you're too far away to try again#It is a sad end! It is two people who want to be closer but do not have the right capacity to do anything but shut doors.#Worse yet; it's two people who feel it is not their place to try and impose anything more.#It takes so long to heal from endings like that. You never get enough closure when there is still a faint hope of 'another day'.#It's a false amicability. It's closing a door and telling yourself that at least the windows are unlocked.#WWX will keep up his friendliness as a way to hold LWJ at a distance. LWJ can only try to help so many times.#Speaking of tragedies of trying to help; Let's talk about the addiction metaphors in this episode.#WWX tells LWJ in fairly straightforward terms that he does not *want* do be doing ghost cultivation.#What he wants is to protect people - by any means necessary. If he had another option he would take it.#The path WWX 'chose' is one that is deeply mired in external shame and taboo. He jokes about it but it clearly doesn't feel great.#And I put 'chose' in quotes because just like many who find them selves in bad situations - the choice is an illusion.#He's adamant that this is 'his' choice. That he is in control.#Better to be villainized that endure the terrifying reality that you lack any ability to have choice anymore.#If he had the choice - truly had the choice - he would not be doing this.#You can't help those who don't want to be helped. So of course all LWJ can do is watch from the side. Offer a hand when he can.#This life was a tragedy and the countdown to it all blowing up started a long time ago...
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ceas1de · 3 months ago
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Finally, some good reasons to actually live to 2026
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pennumbra · 5 months ago
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My piece from @hisuizine. The player's first encounter with Alpha Pokemon was so memorable to me that I wanted to illustrate it!
Leftover sales are going on between now and March 15th! 🍃🏔️
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ursiday · 5 months ago
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Do you see viktor and elsa’s relationship as platonic or romantic?
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Okay so how long do you have
My personal interpretation is that they have feelings for each other... I go back and forth on how to contextualize that but I don't feel limited to one interpretation either, it's fun to consider different scenarios and I think their relationship is pretty ambiguous regardless. I love their characters and history and the way they seem to share a really unique and meaningful bond so I enjoy it any way you spin it, but I think them having feelings for each other adds this additional layer of tension and tragedy
I almost see them being friends as too straightforward and I don't think they're the kind of people who can have uncomplicated relationships. Even if Elsa wasn't married, with the circumstances of Viktor's separation from his wife I can't imagine him with a healthy attitude about having any kind of romantic feelings let alone being in a "normal" relationship again. But at the same time I think she would naturally fall into that hole in his life like how Ivy did for his daughter. Whereas even though Elsa has her husband and brother I'm not sure if she shares that "common ground" with them that she says she has with Viktor
My vision is that they seem to connect in a way they don't with other people and they care about each other a lot but in a way that can never be fully realized. Anyway to answer your question: Yes
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manticorecure · 20 days ago
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sooooo twitters doing hopeful s7 dreaming and i just wanna say that everyone on tumblr was here first . ❤️ just ftr! Anywayyyy s7 rozamroseflame art 👍👍👍👍 s7 team built off me and bee @iron-sides's dearest hopes and dreams and the fact that zam alr said she would give hannie first teammate priority + wants to team with ro ....... please let the stars align and put flame on their team too 😭😭😭😭🙏 girls and their local immortal(?) demon
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daniel-is-me · 2 months ago
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sending a certain message
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asm5129 · 5 months ago
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Hey.
If you’re trans, an immigrant, or anywhere on Trump’s list of targets, I need you you to know something.
You’re amazing. Your life contributes endless value merely by your existence. I wish I could meet you and hug you (with your consent) and tell you that you are loved, but I’ll have to do it here instead.
You are loved. You are beautiful. You are valued. No matter what they do, they cannot take that from you, because I will always feel that way about you and they cannot take it from me.
Please know, there will always be people on your side. Even if you can’t always see us, we are there.
Survive. Love yourself. Celebrate the small things.
And remember—fascism isn’t stable. MAGA worldviews are corrosive and selfish, more than comfortable stabbing each other in the back when things aren’t going their way.
They wouldn’t need to control us if they thought things would go their way naturally.
All empires fall. And from the ruins we will build something better.
You just gotta make it there.
[PS reblog if you agree and think marginalized people should know they are loved and valued]
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