#Harsh Lessons

[cmweller]

Challenge #04354-K336: Proof of Might

Why do you keep insisting on picking on these havenworlders? Do my students need to kick your tail a second time? -- Anon Guest

Master Twii tended to keep their dojos in the Edge Territories. It was where they were needed most. It was where one could easily find cogniscents 'proving' their strength by beating up smaller and weaker ones.

To Master Twii, it only proved that they wasted their strength on bullying. To Master Twii, people like that needed some kharmic realignment.

Of course, it couldn't be the master that taught bullies a short, sharp lesson in manners. It had to be their former victims. So they started teaching. Simple lessons. How to fall without being hurt. How to regain solid footing. How to stand to reduce being toppled.

[Check the source for the rest of the story]

[patience-hope-strength-courage]

When someone shows you they don’t care… believe them the first time. 💭

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Who is this sassy lost child?

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[ravoress]

Love how Vegeta gave a speech about how impossible it would be for a low class to reach the heights of an elite like himself (or whatever it was)

Then Goku goes 'fuck that shit'.

[fjordfolk]

Just to be clear, my ask was not meant to judge you about how you love your pups! My question stemmed from a sad thing I witnessed at the last obedience trial I worked. A woman from my training club entered her two dogs that day – one got her OTCH, and the other NQ'd in open. She came out of the trial hall furious, yanking her dog's leash, and proceeded to tell us she wasn't going to "waste" any more of her time training him, because he wasn't a winner or whatever. She brought her other dog out to visit people and sniff stuff later in the afternoon, but the dog with the NQ stayed in his crate the rest of the day, and it absolutely broke my heart. Nobody else seemed to have any problem with the idea that she would totally reject one of her dogs because of his trial performance. (And what's worse is she really did stop training him and spending time with him after that.) So anyways, whenever I hear anyone say they have a favorite, all I can think of is the sad puppy sitting in the back of a van all day because he got startled during a trial. Which obviously is very very very different than "Sparty is my roommate and Troja is our dog."

That is indeed very different.

It is also different because Troja is the succesful ribbon earning certified sheltie dog and Spart? Spart is an effective DQ. Somehow still everyone's favourite.

[proffbon]

Had to replay this choice two times due to extreme cases of 'He would not fucking say that'

[neonbuck]

there's a certain furry webcomic artist who I don't feel safe around at all, really shows lots of red flags for being a covert transmisogynist, and is also just extremely unpleasant a lot of the time. but so many of my friends like their work that I have to keep my mouth shut and wonder what kind of appeal they see in that person

[fujii-draws]

still thinking about your post about your dusknoir and how the option of doing Anything But What He Did was always available to him yet he chose to walk along a path that only ended up hurting himself and quite literally all that he held dear to himself.

I think he really beats himself up over it because there's something so gut wrenching over the idea that a safer, better option that wouldve guaranteed a good outcome to you and those you hold dear, yet your narrow scope of reality and the fear that crippling you if you had stepped out of your designed path (assuming he did not already do that when adapting to the father figure ruse that he tried to pull) had you by the neck to the point where even the option that 'things did not have to go this way' was already not possible, and you had no choice but to go on. and now, dusknoir had no one but himself to blame for the cracks and strains he forced upon the two kids who looked up to him. the option to be with them, to save them, to shield them from him, yet he took it upon himself to be the knife that stabs them in the back when they willingly embraced his shine and the venom that reeks into their bodies when he tells them how much they had meant *little*, if *nothing* to him at all. he could've raised their spirits high, yet he proceeded to slam them down into reality and teach them the harsh lesson that nothing good comes out of a stranger with good intentions, even when that stranger made you feel as though you deserved to be loved. that you did not need to be so afraid, and that there was no shame in who you are. he was their light, and he burned so bright that he left them tearing and weeping in the darkness.

Sinnoh.

[study-diaries]

If nobody hates you, you're doing something wrong

[cartoonchaos]

“gee i wonder why there’s still so much more fanfiction about male characters” “we need more morally complex female characters” “i love relationships that are doomed by the narrative” “more stories need to treat mentally ill characters with compassion and respect” “all his problems could’ve been fixed if he only went to therapy” you fuckers can’t even handle the ending of fionna and cake

[mycptsdstory]

After this year, I've learned a lesson.

When someone ghosts me, I know where the door is.

When someone ghosts you, it means they aren't mature enough to have an open, honest, raw and uncomfortable conversation with you.

I've stopped blaming myself when someone ghosts me. I blame them.

Like I said in a few posts that I did; when someone can't have that open, honest, raw, uncomfortable conversation with me... I'm leaving, for good.

I know you made your bed and I made mine. By me leaving and I'm never coming back.

[storytellering]

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[boathungry]

me 3 hours ago: yea idk i'm like really disillusioned with dating apps. it all just feels so transactional and encourages everyone to be the most judgemental version of themselves. i don't think i wanna engage with them anymore

me now: EEHEEHEEHEE CUTE GIRL TALK TO ME

[runawaycarouselhorse]

[its-spooky-bitch]

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[gemkun]

@kafkaisms said : who is ratio’s favourite stellaron hunter

      ⸻       ❝   sam.   ❞   he   states   with   unmistakable   conviction.   ❝   despite   the   organisation   making   themselves   scarce   ,   i   have   been   in   a   fortunate   position   to   act   as   this   stellaron   hunter's   teacher.   indeed   ,   sam   is   a   unique   addition   who   has   sought   lectures   on   eclectic   subjects   outside   of   the   usual   syllabus.   it   has   been   exceedingly   refreshing.   ❞

  ah   ,   it   appears   his   asker   is   not   satisfied   with   just   an   answer.   there   must   be   an   extensive   explanation   surrounding   the   rest   of   the   repertoire.   how   tedious.   ❝   as   for   the   others   —   kafka   has   .   .   .   a   certain   personality   that   does   not   bode   well   with   mine   and   it   is   advisable   to   avoid   encounters   with   blade   ,   though   his   peculiar   ailment   is   something   that   piques   my   intrigue.   of   course   ,   silver   wolf   is   notorious   for   her   escapades   in   the   technological   spheres   ,   and   i   would   rather   not   engage   or   be   caught   in   her   stunts   as   her   latest   victim.   their   leader   —   destiny's   slave   —   well   ,   i   find   his   ❛   scripts   ❜   to   be   quite   fascinating.   if   only   i   could   steal   a   glance.   ❞