#a hard road

[jt1674]

[polar-jake778]

Resentment.

Within each and every one of us lives a parasite many dismiss as an emotion of irrational fear, truth, and intelligence. Resentment. But why do we remark such externally ugly sensation, with so much trust? Almost as if we respect it, more than we do ourselves. Well, I believe we hold such high regard for it, because we think it sees us for what we truly are. All those emotionally drawn assumptions about the self reflected on hatred, anger, and seen as a truth proposed by resentment.

I am no hero, no family person. Deep down, I am an outcast, as long as I see that for what it is. I can live each day waging war against such approach to ample living. That face, those stretch marks, the lack of discipline. I see an enemy. And I hate them. Resentment fuels such thoughts. Such seething hatred, frothing at the mouth as any idea of negative self worth crops up. We are a danger to ourselves, just as much as we are to others.

Many have said that it is easier to hurt another, than it is to hurt oneself. But I do not believe this. Through hurting another, one hurts themselves. Just like help. Through helping another, one helps themselves.

We are all mortals who bear the burden of resentment. More so, like a devil sat upon our shoulder whispering the words we think we think we deserve. Why we are so dumb. So rude. So evil. So worthless, in a world full of worth !

Scorn by regret, corrupted by resentment. Such putrid odour ferments. It is okay to feel down. It is okay to think your self inferior from time to time. No head should remain above the clouds for too long. But neither should they be exposed to the belly of brutality for too long.

Be kind to yourself. Remind yourself, that you bear a story so drastically different to the rest. Sure, perhaps I, and the many others, know not of such path. But knowing yourself, is enough. For the sake of the calm sea, respect what you have endured with glee. You continue to breathe. You continue to brave the days to come, even when they seem so hopeless and empty.

Thank you for reading this oddly specific tangent. I hope you, as much as I, find this helpful.

To show my appreciation, POLAR BEARS. !

I love them so much, man…

[eternal--returned]

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers ֍ Sitting in the Rain (1967)

I'm sittin' out here in the rain baby Under that old green tree I'm sittin' out here in the rain baby Wonderin' why you don't come back to me

Gonna lock you in my arms baby Before I throw away the key

[flyingbunniesart]

Had a sudden brainworm about both of them in cowboy outfits.... western AU klapollo.... hooo boi

[KOFI]

[hamstersnamedmarinette]

A comic for @buggachat and @ladybeug (who has never been a cat before, rip)

[thethunderthedragonfruit]

i was REALLY surprised i hadnt seen anyone animate over anything from the prevenge script reading yet, so i took matters into my own hands. i thought this bit was hilarious

audio from here

[inkskinned]

actually sometimes being neurodivergent is great bc you have a particular kind of Silly Mode that just . manifests glory. harmless fun is my precious side quest & i have a high score in whimsy. like okay if i gotta be the first dork in the dance pit it's gonna be me and this random toddler and we're gonna avril-style rock ouuuuttt

[peachebo]

saw a really interesting cloud on a way home..

and it said you are a superstar!

[sleepnoises]

I've started quilting my quilt and I thought it would be fun to approximately quilt in the shape of major roads (thanks yarrow for suggesting this in april) but now I want to quilt it more densely and feel locked into the road thing as 1) it is a sin to lie 2) as i am learning, Boston has an infinite number of roads

I will actually probably do leafs or vines or so on but wanted to share my road conundrum

Additional planning materials:

[archer973]

One of the things I realized when I watched Fury Road directly after Furiosa:

Furiosa doesn't treat Max like she treated Jack. She treats Max like Jack treated her.

There are so many parallels - the way they meet, their conflict with each other that quickly turns to partnership, their journey to The Green Place (and how it fails)...

But where before it was Jack reaching out to her, now it's Furiosa who is asking Max his name, teaching him the kill sequence for the rig, trusting him to have her back in a fight, giving him everything he needs to leave (even when she wants him to stay).

Furiosa doesn't see Jack in Max, she sees herself. Everything from the muzzle to the nightmares to the fact that he barely speaks is a direct parallel to what she was like when she met Jack, and Furiosa knows it. And so as someone reached out to her, she reaches out to him, this feral, half-mad Wastelander. She reaches out and offers him hope, just like Jack did to her when he came back for her on the Fury Road.

And together, they find some kind of redemption

[jt1674]

[elliottjpg]

"Boo."

Happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to all who observe.

Like last year, I opted to do a redraw of an old drawing from 2020; a companion piece to my previous drawing, a redraw from 2019. Night Watch is a good context to revisit the past and look at how I've evolved.

Rise up!

[butchvamp]

other people have already said it but it’s really soooo lame how Flat elgar’nan and ghilan’nain are. especially when you compare them to solas and mythal. elgar’nan was literally mythal’s husband, they had children together, surely he wasn’t just pure evil the entire time? why don’t we get to see any of their regrets in the literal regret prison that was originally intended for them? (because theyre just evil, of course!) why couldn’t what happened with the titans have been an unintended tragedy born from them just desiring bodies, unknowing that it would hurt and anger the titans, with those consequences spiraling into a brutal and bloody war between them… and then we could have actually seen more of what happened during this war, the impact it had on the titans and dwarves, and the desperation to end it that led to the death of the titans and solas’s regret and the eventual twisting of the evanuris into godhood… but nah. they’re just pure evil.

[aztarion]

you see god in red when you look up

[gullamor]

Nothing Good Happens In The Deep Roads

Hi, I'm new here to Dragon Age Tumblr. Publicly, anyway. I lurk. Anyway, I've been playing Veilguard like many of us I imagine. For show and tell I have brought you the most paranoia-inducing segment of one of the companion quests and I like... haven't seen anyone mention it or talk about it so I would like to add it to the collective borg of screams. So, like, spoilers. Duh. You've been warned.

Still here? No turning back. Okay good. Welcome.

SO ANWAY. I'm on a second playthrough now, trying out new options and classes and things. I get around to that point where you start to get companion quests fired up and Lace's kicks in earlier than a lot of them to me at least. Ya go down to the Deep Roads where nothing good ever happens. And my first time through, visiting Kal-Sharok I distinctly remember it being... fine. Like there were darkspawn and stuff but that's just the deep roads and they cranked the gross factor on the darkspawn anyway, so... what gives? Where are my bad vibes and sad times now of going down in the deep roads where nothing good ever happens? Enter playthrough numero dos. I'm picking through Kal-Sharok, really getting up in there. Trying to find all the things I missed. I was standing at the precipice before delving down into the Deep Roads. And my eye snags on this fucking thing:

Now, y'all with color coordination skills may note that all the bad guys and evil shit down here is red-coded. In my brain, I was just thinking to myself. Huh... that looks like a Venatori crystal. ... I don't remember there being Venatori on Lace's quest. So naturally, I'm curious. I continue on, and try to get up closer to get a better angle.

Huh.. that doesn't look like a venatori smashy smashy crystal... that looks like a person... And then ALL AT ONCE I recall where her questline continues and how there's angry Red Lyrium Titan Lace by the end of her questline AND that Valta mentions 'something has found Lace' when we're talking to them and then we get jumped. There's no shot that's angry lyrium Lace... right..? So now like any sane person, I'm on my guard the entire rest of that quest. And I was fucking right to be BECAUSE SHE STALKS YOU THE ENTIRE TIME. I eventually remembered as I was playing you can zoom in with the photo mode they blessed us with and could see Lace. But they stalk you through the entire area until you get to the chamber where Valta is. I don't know if I caught them all, and I am too frightened to go back and find it so I dump all my findings here for the community to scream with me about.

tl;dr, and my thesis statement in all things with these games Nothing. Good. Happens. In the Deep Roads.

[whirlpool-blogs]

(small child starting to meltdown) “Hey, hey. *snapping* We’ll play later, okay?”