#Profound wisdom

[headlesssamurai]

[littlenimart]

just finished up Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. the way she describes the Annaresti is so intriguingly just-slightly-alien and my imagination conjured this slightly muppet- esque image of Shevek early in reading that it refused to let go of.

I’ve read a few books recently that have me compelled to illustrate them a bit- I just finished TP’s The Monstrous Regiment and am of course dying to draw them, and on the Le Guin subject I want to pick back up my sketches from when I read TLHOD back in 2021

[darlinguistics]

a mindset that helped me a quite a bit in the past and still presently whenever studying a language gets really difficult or overwhelming or you feel like you are making no progress/not retaining anything or that its all pointless is that 1, there is literally nothing wrong with slowly learning a language. and more importantly, 2, sometimes shit needs time to sink in! i remember finishing korean 101 feeling genuinely like i had learned basically nothing and still struggled with the most easy concepts but! when 102 came along suddenly focusing on new material made me realize that the old stuff became intuitive! and that same pattern happens over and over, where a concept seems so awkward and complicated and impossible to grasp and then a few months later while focusing on an entirely different concept i realize the old confusing things are somehow now the 'easy' part that comes naturally! so i guess basically what im saying is i learned to MOVE ON! let yourself zoom out from this one little piece of the language and see the pieces surrounding it and overlapping with it! if a lesson was hard, good! it should have been! you probably wont feel confident in it during or even right after! but the work and energy you put into it isnt a waste just cuz it doesnt immediately pay off, sometimes you have to look away and just move on and trust that the knowledge will settle itself comfortably into your brain while you work on other things, especially if you keep reinforcing it here and there. consistent work will never be a waste even if you dont get immediate payoff. and one day youll wonder when the hell you got so quick at reading or when you memorized a rule or when you learned something you literally were never taught but just observed with your own intuition. so much of language learning is trusting yourself, and trusting this invisible force and process of learning thats bigger than you. it isnt all up to conscious studying and conscious effort and learning, you also need to give yourself time to unconsciously internalize things. and that takes much much longer than a week-long grammar lesson!!

[wayti-blog]

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.. Until their secret is given to another to look after, then perhaps two human creatures may know each other..”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

[daincrediblegg]

Carl Grimes was truly the prophet of our times when he said “La Jiggy Jar Jar Doo. Durr Durr Durr De Durr.”

[witchesofvaliant]

Deity Wisdom Nuggets - Pt. 1

It's 4 am but unfortunately (jk), the early af morning is when some deities (mainly Hades) like to appear

Me: Btw, if you handle death, who deals with life?

Hades: That depends on what you believe, does it not?

Me: Well-

Hades: Do the Christians not decide that God created life itself as well? And do you not also have the right to choose what you believe? So what do you believe?

Me: Um.. I need to give it more thought

Hades: Then do that.

Me: 🧍

- My appreciation to King Hades, as always 🖤

Btw I'll turn this into a little series, I have a lot of little wisdom nuggets and interesting (or just casually funny) things they drop on me, and I like sharing my experiences. Let's normalize actually working WITH deities, not FOR them, as in a whole God-fearing situation plz 🙏

[mildlyuninformative]

"Words don't die"

A gasoline canister and a lighter beg to differ

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

Stay Safe Online

[earlgreytea68]

Me: I think it could be a lot nicer weather outside than it currently is. Niece #3, age 7: At least it's a day.

[criss-fineart]

There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing - for the same reason that we stand, hour after hour gazing at the distant swell of the open ocean. There is something like an ancient wisdom, encoded and tucked away in our DNA, that knows its point of origin as surely as a salmon knows its creek. Intellectually, we may not want to return there, but the genes know, and long for their origins - their home in the salty depths. But if the seas are our immediate source, the penultimate source is certainly the heavens... The spectacular truth is - and this is something that your DNA has known all along - the very atoms of your body - the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and on and on - were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you feel some ineffable tugging at your innards. We are star stuff. Keep looking up.

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[astrxlfinale]

Somewhere there is an editor who looked at this and said "I can't believe I got away with it" he knew that this was his crowning glory. He had entered the promised land ... he brought it home and showed his wife, and she rolled her eyes and called him an idiot.

+ Chronicles of Legendary Nameless.

Caelus is offering his respects. There truly are countless heroes that sail the cosmos. Naturally, only the divine powers that involved around the aspects of Peach can be deemed the Crowning Glories of one's life. What better move could he make than to hhold his hat close to his chest, another chain link of legacy has been connected.

One day, he'll also have to step forth and be a blazing inspiration for the many ass men to come in future days.

This is the way of his Trailblaze.

[thunderc1an]

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THIS

[theswordofthedragon]

Enunciation, the verbal manifestation of an idea is its first encounter with reality, but a word no longer exists once it’s finished being spoken. Abracadabra, an ancient magical word assumed to mean “I create when I speak” can then be understood not as a spell in the classical sense, with an ability of its own to affect physical reality, but instead as a warning and a promise, to oneself and the world, of the realisation of an idea or endeavour through magic (action, reaction and choice), and then as a reminder too, of our ability to transmute.

And this power can be used to affect inner reality (the self) as much as outer reality (the world), for our actions, reactions and choices have the deepest impact on our lives, and we can make or let imaginary things affect us, or not.

It is when the universe fights against us and resists our change the most, that our magic has the strongest effects, when we set out to change, even reverse, the flow of currents.

[little-red-fool]

Someone called me very wise today.

[redheadedhypocrite]

“I wouldn’t mind being stupid and living in the woods if it meant I wouldn’t have back pain”

-me, thinking of chimps while high after getting my wisdom teeth removed

[iamstandingwater]

I can't explain it but a midsummer night's dream has such drunk girls in the bathroom at a club energy