#BreakingThrough

[the-feral-quill]

When the Fog Lifts

The fog of your doubt clouds my sight, blurring the world around me, heavy and thick, yet as fleeting as air you can’t breathe. The heart you guard so carefully aches to break out.

It yearns for the connection it once knew so well— Like the well of unworthiness you pour into, over and over, telling yourself you’re not enough, that you’ll never be enough, using someone else’s words as your knife, digging the wound a little deeper. At least then, you’ll feel something you can control.

The swell in your heart, like a tide, threatening to knock you down with each wave of emotion, making you feel as if you’ll drown, as it keeps pushing you down— like the feelings you want buried deep, lost to the ocean floor, never to be seen again, except by someone willing to dive into the unknown. But by then, it will be lost to the sea once more.

Giving your love to the web— the careful web you wove, fragile, the tension pulling it taut, about to snap. You caught something you weren't expecting, and the web became heavy, the weight of it all too much.

It’s like the weight that shifts every time you hear my name, the echo of my laughter, lingering in your mind.

Does it feel worth it yet?

Has love been so cruel, that you’ve given up hope? That the sun never shines in your direction, that the moon is the only light you can see, though you hide in its shadows, the shadows you’ve made— the place where you're alone, yet safe.

But your tears fall silently, your cries muffled in your hands. All the unspoken words fill up each hand, slipping through your fingers, like leaves falling on a crisp autumn day. Yet you believe they’ll be stomped on and swept away.

Acceptance feels like fear, wrapped in the weight of responsibility. You believe it will pull you deeper into the dark, but the light you seek is within reach.

The hope you hide will come to light. It will show you the garden you left behind. It will show you all the ground you covered, all the hours you spent. Your garden is simply unattended, but it never relented. It stays there, even if you walk away. Throw your words out like seeds, watch them grow—albeit slowly.

Like the warm breeze of hope, pushing the fog of doubt away, the sun was always there, only blocked by the mist.

So open your hands, your heart— let the seeds fall where they may, and know that, when the sun breaks through, we'll be here, together in the light.

[tfclarkfitnessmagazine]

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[nineplanets]

7.30

my best friend has the BEST smile sun breakingthrough heavy cloudsher smile, her smile-rjm

[anneleighton]

Please Be There   One of the songs I'm plugging this week.#Mentalhealth #Bothofus #TalkToMe  #BreakingThrough #INeedYou #YouNeedMe #funky #Soulful #Keyboards John Hall Johanna Hall #Orleans

[sparkyarmadillo]

So to add on some of my thoughts, cause yeah, very interesting to consider (i do love pedantic minutiae).

Id honestly never considered Sturmhalten having sparks, I've no idea why. Being asked now my first thought of response was to think 'but theu don't have civilian spark?' which, well there's no reason they shouldn't? Though it is a spark-ruled town yhats been under the Other's control at least the past 20+ years, i actually wouldn't be surprised if they decided that sparks were too much to handle (given the inability to be wasped), and since sparks are rare enough that small outskirt towns don't really have any (source? Uhhh, maybe gil's fake parentahe story, im actuallynot sure where this thought comes from.), then just shooing out or just killing (or Lucrezia Summoning Engine-ing) any sparks in sturmhalten wouldn't be too much an operation.

Since wasps are intended to make someone into a mind controlled slave thing, and since a toddler with the fine motor skills of raw potatoe chopsticks isn't particularly useful for carrying out evil orders, then i wouldn't be surprised if wasps simply didn't affect children of a certain age and under. Or at least they wouldn't if there were limited wasps. But could, and then the child would still grow up. I don't remember if suspected-prior-children revenants were mentioned during the bridge scene at Passholdt or not. Like beyond the 'if you knew they'd become monsters' bit. In the comic im pretty sure not, but might’ve in the novel? (I could just be remembering fic.)

Combining the previous two points, yeah, id say a as-yet-to-breakthdough spark wouldn't get infectable, maybe? But i have multiple ideas, depending on how sparkiness works. Like if its a from-birth type of thing with additional traits that simply present/develop under certain circumstances, like puberty or maybe neurochemicals being high in stress (since most do seem to breakthrough during stress). In which case id say no, can't be wasped. Versus if they're predisposed to developing sparkiness, but the breakthrough itself triggers a start of changes in the brain, and previously it would've been within non-sparky brain expectations. In which case, id say theu can be wasped pre-breakthrough and now being wasped will prevent any future breakthrough. There'd be too much brain chemistry being controlled by the wasp to even allow breakthrough circumstances to arise.

The fact Agatha's locket slowed down her breakthrough development changes after she'd partially started breakingthrough, id say the second options seems more likely, that wasps could prevent a breakthrough in someone predisposed to that. Her case was slightly different, but it did still deal with Lucrezia's brain messing nonsense, and id suspect some similar components to the method of mind copy/transfer vs control. And this thought made more sense when i started it, but now i don't know why. It still feels like there's logic to it somewhere, but i don't know where. Maybe that the locket would respond to breakthrough similarly to suppressing mind control, it is equally reasonable that wasps which also deal with brain activity would supress it? The locket at least shows that breakthrough is very much a neurological thing, so wasps being able to prevent changes in the brain seems reasonable to me. But once those chanhes exist, the wasp has no blue print on how to connect to the brain, or gets confused by something already being there. Or something.

A bit of short term memory loss, or like just lapse in memory kinda makes sense? Like it might explain the lack of panic people had about being wasped. But we know that revenants can't actually talk about being wasped or give themselves away or anything, just physically can't. And that Klaus managed to at all (via the storm king wolf story that Tarvek deciphered) was an outlier. And even then, he was really vague about it (frankly, im still unsure the logic behind Tarvek's deciphering), and the fact that self-insert-phil-foglio wouldn't have known the true meaning might've been the only reason Klaus could tell him the story. Ergo, i wouldn't be surprised, either, if the wasps also controlled other aspects of behavior which allowed the host to stay relatively calm and normal acting. They can panic after they're de-wasped, if a cure is ever found.

So as a general question to the Girl Genius fandom: has there ever been any confirmation on what happens if a slaver wasp infests a child Spark before their breakthrough?

(Most) wasps don't affect Sparks, but at the same time you are not really a Spark at birth. Although the kids do seem to be unusually brilliant, so clearly there is some indication from early on. Maybe you are immune from birth.

For that matter, do we know how old you have to be to get wasped? Could an infant be caught when they were born, or would we say they need to have an understanding of language? An infant won't be able to understand any orders, but if they're already inclined to obey it might be easier than doing it on their fifth birthday or something.

(Mostly I'm wondering how Sturmhalten handled new Sparks. They're rare enough there might not have been any born into the town at large... but it's equally possible there was a teenage boy working in a tavern who one day built a robot to collect and clean dirty plates. What happened to him? Did he throw up the remains of a wasp embedded in him for over a decade and assume that's a usual part of breakthrough? Did that wasp never manage to enter at all? Did the town perhaps notice when a small child was immune to the wasping, or were his parents - ordered to present him for it but no one thought to be more specific - just not questioning it, because they were too glad their son would be free.)

[zanerosetta]

Cool clouds on the walk home from work the other day 😊 ... ... ... ... ... #weatherpics #weatherornot #weather #clouds #sunset #sunsetpics #dusk #silverlining #breakingthrough #dusk #duskpic #gayaf #instagay #sunshine #sydney @sydney #skypics #skyporn #sydneytourism #gaysingle #sunbeams #blushingclouds #gaylifestyle #nature #naturephoto #naturephotography #gaytravel #pink #purple #gaystagram #cloudpics #samsung (at Penrith, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1sRElAHi9b/?igshid=17ybtz8ht9jbi

[dearartdirector]

People tell me im good at what i do. I feel like im good at what i do. Ive even been educated with a degree for what i do, and art directors tell me they like what i do, that they will keep me in mind for future projects. The work never comes. I keep in touch with my work, i get responses but no jobs. im at a loss here. I thought i was born to be an artist, but the market shakes its head. Truthfully I'm lost as a person. I don't want to quit you, illustration, but I'm literally dying here.

I have seen many artists in your position. I have often been the AD who has said to artists “You’re doing everything right, when the right project comes up I’d love to work with you.” — And I never say that to people unless I mean it. Unfortunately the time between “ready to be hired” and “hired all over the place” is variable. I have seen it happen so many times: An artist develops their work and gets to a unique voice and a hirable skill level. They have all the right connections. Multiple ADs have their eye on the person. We all know they’re going to “break through” all at once and get hired a ton of places…but it’s just a matter of timing. Once they get that first job or two the momentum quickly picks up speed and their career is off and running. A year later no one even remembers that they were struggling to find work.

Unfortunately I don’t know what to say other than hold on. If you’re getting responses and people are saying they’re keeping you in mind then trust that and hold on. ADs don’t say that shit to be nice. I can’t tell you how long you have to hold on. It may take a while for the right manuscript or Magic card or magazine article, etc. to land on that AD’s desk that says YOU on it. You may need to get a side job or take non-art work to hold on but please hold on. You are pushed right up against the glass and you just need that one commission to break through the crust. Do a good job or two well, communicate well, hit your deadlines, and the gossip machine will click into effect and all those ADs who told you they were keeping you in mind will start seeing that job and hearing from the AD that hired you what a great job you did. Chances are, some of the other ADs will be jealous that they didn’t get to hire you first. We seriously do gossip about you artists all the time. And we root for you too. 

Just hang on. Keep making great work. Keep showing it around. Send out that newsletter quarterly. Keep networking. A year from now, you’ll go back and read this post and will be surprised you doubted this much.

Just.

Hang.

On.

—Agent KillFee

[wholyfit]

Where does your strength come from? Do you ever feel like you are doing it alone? Have you had feelings like I have felt lately that the flow looks like it has gone? So what is going on Lord? . Even with one arm behind your back....Push through!! This is when you ask the Holy Spirit for a refreshing of Himself, welcoming Him into your presence every day and continue to pray for discernment!! Always pray and not give up! Our stance is prayer. Listen and then respond to our Lord! If we end up on our face in anguish or confusion or brokenness...we pray. His word promises and is truth! He will lift us up first spiritually then comes the domino effect...physically, emotionally and mentally. I Praise You Lord for Your love, mercy and grace, when I never deserve it! . PRAY with me out loud this warrior prayer!! Believe and receive in Jesus name! ❤️🙏🏻🔥 . God the Help of Those Who Seek Him . Psalm 121 . 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord is your keeper; The Lord is your shade at your right hand. 6 The sun shall not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. 8 The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore. . #WorshipWednesday #WholyFit #ChristianFitness #notyoga #notnewage #HolySpirit #Jesusiswithyou #pray #submittoGod #Heisable #Psalm121 #truth #transformation #restoration #overcome #youarnotalone #receive #renew #breakingthrough #Jesus #GOD #pushup #pushthrough #breakingdownwalls #stronghold #love #hope #faith #mercy #covenant #grace https://www.instagram.com/p/BzwcXS9g7pb/?igshid=e0te9g8dit7w

[ioneye]

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[soulreflectiontarot]

Today’s message is about healing yourself by facing you insecurities head on. Please take only what resonates and leave the rest. The cards used are from The Soul Reflection’s Twin Flame Messenger 2 by Nadine Swiger. . Today I’m picking up on missing another person or missing feeling like yourself. For some, it may be both or someone has been struggling with both and missing you. . The question is “How to heal?” You are being guided to face your feelings head on today. There is some karmic loop or pattern that has sent this heartache your way. It could even be an ancestral karma pattern that you were sent here to break. Allow time to feel this pain so it can be properly heal your soul. (If it’s your person , give them space to heal. Send love and support from afar). . There are feeling of insecurities and not being worthy or good enough. This has been triggering soul searching and deep healing within. It’s time to release and let go of those negative thoughts of feelings. Raise your self-love, self- awareness, and self-worth! You are worthy to attract a love that raises your spirit in every way. You are worthy of a love that supports you unconditional with total acceptance of who you truly are. No matter if this is friends, family or a lover. . Let your inner light shine. Sit in the energy or thoughts - “You are good enough!” - because you are! Soon others will begin to take notice. You will attract what you put out there. Including more self-love and confidence. . . . #oracleoftheday #oraclereadingoftheday #oraclecardsreadings #breakingtoxicity #breakingkarmacycles #breakingthrough #breakingthroughtheillusion #releasing #findingselflove #findingselfworthagain #reconnectingwithyourself #findhappiness #releaseinsecurities #twinflamejourney #twinflameconnection #twinflamelove #soulfamilylove #soulfamilytribe #lovewithin #soulreflectionoracle #twinflameoracle #twinflamemessenger2 #nadineswiger #soulreflectionoraclecards #twinflame #twinflamemessages #twinflamemessenger https://www.instagram.com/p/CncALS-O7Pr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xxblu3wolf17xx]

So I've been thinking. Lately I've been watching tarot videos and everyone that knows me ask about them. Well, I've been thinking and I kinda wanted to do what all the other #tarot users do. So, I'mma make it happen. Also I've been wanting to make a blog and just make a community we're everyone is welcome and no hate is spread. I want to be more active on social media and in real life. I want to get out of my shell and head towards the future. I'mma make it happen. You can help me make it happen by likeing this photo and helping me make the community grow and thrive. Please I want to make this work. Thank you! #tarot #tarotreadings # blogs #community #movingforward #breakingthrough #awakening #LGBTQ #numberology #witchcraft #youtubefuture #youtube #dailyreadings #blogger #socialmedia https://www.instagram.com/p/BpvlCdvA6Kg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8wa92plgujyw

[tradethemark]

New work I’ll be exhibiting for a group show in Newcastle in June. #breakingthrough #blackstonegallery #locus #groupexhibition #christinamclean #banksiapod #stoneware #ceramicobject https://www.instagram.com/p/CceOY7dPzIi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[savidgemike]

The warm light of the Sun punches through the darkness of the Storm. ============================== "A Little Bit of Hope Breaking Through" by Michael Savidge Made with #sonyzv1 & color corrected with #snapseed, this work is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International & available via Wikimedia Commons #shaftoflight #raysofsunshine #glimmerofhope #fromtheheavens #breakingthrough #skyphotography #thestormwillpass #fromthecarwindow #travelingmemories #inspirationiseverywhere #practicingcomposition #practicemakesbetter #creativecommons #ccby https://www.instagram.com/p/CaiCNrdvUfn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[freedom4ewa]

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[nebula-roleplay]

[katmicari]

I have been neglecting this account, but I will try to better for a while. So here, this is an abstract I made for the art show last month. I call it Breaking Through. Acrylic on canvas. #painting #art #artistsoninstagram #abstract #breakingthrough