#acts of merit

[raffaellopalandri]

Intro to Buddhist rites for death

Daily writing promptDescribe a family member.View all responses Buddhist rites for death vary significantly across cultures, regions, and Buddhist traditions. Still, they share common themes and teachings rooted in the Buddha’s understanding of अनित्य – Anitya (impermanence), दुःख – Duhkha (suffering), and निर्वाण – Nirvana (cessation of suffering). Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The death…

[bietrofastimoff23]

"Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Larys does what no one has done for Aegon: he's teaching him. he tells him the harsh truth, which hurts. Otto and Alicent did it too. but the difference is that Larys also demonstrates to Aegon that he is not alone in his path and he will have his support, he is here to help, not harm. He doesn't look at him as useless, even when he's lying in bed unable to move. he sees potential in Aegon - a combination of the ability to listen and the desire to return what is due - which is why he gives him a weapon "your mind is all that remains to you", rather than a finished result.

Larys can manipulate, using his own experience and genuine pain, and sympathize with Aegon's situation at the same time, these are not mutually exclusive things, especially when Aegon showed him his respect by giving him a position on the council ("i should be glad of your talents") and when their fruitful cooperation will bring victory to both of them. Aegon will become Larys' greatest creation if Larys continues to teach him inner restraint and cunning.

[the-crooked-library]

the vampire lestat dropped his single a DAY ago and his stans are already having beef with swifties… 🖐️💀 guys chill you’re both having mental breakdowns to shitty lyrics, literally nobody else gives a fuck

[dykedvonte]

Something something perhaps the reason Curly lacks a truly undamaged ID where his face is visible is to represent how much damage Jimmy had already affected on him throughout their relationship and the way Curly obscured part of who he is and what he stood to unintentionally cater to this toxic influence in his life.

[the-greatest-magic-of-all]

"Why do Fabian and Riz have to get married? Why can't they just be fri-" BECAUSE WHEN ONE OF THEM DIES I NEED THE OTHER TO BE LEGAL CLASSIFIED AS A WIDOWER!!! THAT’S WHY!!!

[nettedtangible]

I'm here to further the Sirius doesn't care about his brother's sex life agenda

[ali3nboyfriend]

due to circumstances i became the only person at my job fully trained in my region which means they keep handing people to me to train so i've got two people asking me questions at least once an hour and now they want me to train someone who's technically senior to me on something she hasn't been shown. so basically i'm living this fucking tweet.

[rexxdjarin]

have we discussed how like

Ahsoka is alive because she is the physical manifestation of the light side of the force.

But Rex….

he likely survived the trauma of his chip removal surgery when he otherwise wouldn’t have because Ahsoka transferred a bit of the light side of the force within her to save him.

One might say that part of Rex is the light side of the force too. That he survives as long as he does because it is the will of the force.

[emjots]

make art that no one but you will ever give a shit about. i mean it. do you think i'm joking? you think art is endowed value post-hoc by others' enjoyment of it? idiot. make art motherfucker. make bad things. fuck you. i'll eat you

[dilfmas]

people really have no sense of joy and whimsy huh

[astralleywright]

it feels weird to frame Ashton's current drive as wanting to be The Most Special and Chosen with this implication that he's being selfish or entitled with what he wants. Ashton, who can count the really good days in their life on their hands, who's been in constant pain for god knows how long. Ashton, a blank slate, deprived even of the meaning that comes from a history and identity. Ashton, deemed so worthless that even a group that called themselves the Nobodies abandoned him.

Ashton was not full and asking to feast; he was starving and asking to be fed. They weren't begging the gods to make them a champion and hand them a spell list, they just wanted someone to pick them up when they fell down for the first time in their life. instead, the gods (in any shape or form he could recognize) left him alone until the moment he become a problem for them.

of course he resents them. and of course he's grasping on to the first answers he's found, the first indication that he's ever mattered. it's fascinating to watch Ashton try to feel empowered by their world-altering burden instead of overwhelmed, and make decisions they'll think were fucking stupid in 20 episodes, and just overall try and tie his disparate parts together into one functioning whole, even if he's not really succeeding. especially if he's not really succeeding! we're not watching Ashton fly too close to the sun, asking for too much and getting burnt. we're watching them trying, clumsily and haphazardly, to pick up their broken pieces and create themselves anew.

[sukibenders]

A female artist/celebrity: Hey, while I'm really happy for all the support you guys as my fans have shown me, can we please establish some boundaries? Some things are starting to make me uncomfortable. Again, I'm grateful but--

Said people the response was aimed towards: Oh so now she thinks she's too good for us? She's so ungrateful, letting all the fame get to her head. Doesn't she know that without us, she wouldn't be as famous? She should just suck it up!

[laeana]

I wish I could pretend I just didn’t hear IRL someone blatantly say that “Lando got the victory stolen away”, that “of course the safety car took some time to come out during the first crash but not for the second one” (so to purposely handicap Lando and to benefit Max) and that “they should just hand the victory to Max at this point”. It made me roll my eyes so hard I think they reach the other side of the planet.

At least I guess that this person’s tendency to refer to conspiracy theory fit their political views 😬

[kaiserouo]

Lord Shaxx...

[kirkwallguy]

"Lucanis is a disaster bisexual" Varric was unromanceable and had more disaster bisexual energy than poor Lucanis. I'm increasingly convinced Mary Kirby truly meant it when she said writing romance isn't really her bag, because of her list, somehow Merrill's romance goes the hardest, and that's the tamest of base DA2. Lucanis being demi is not the problem, it's the fact that he's so unresponsive. Varric had better responses to Hawke's awful flirts and you couldn't even smooch him.

honestly i do feel a little bad for her in that regard because she probably didn't make the choice to have all the companions be romancable, which left her kind of stuck writing something outside her comfort zone in a game where so much was already a massive mess. everyone jokes about varric romance but not having a romantic arc gave him a chance to be more than a love interest. i don't know why im talking about him like he's a beautiful woman but you know what i mean. i think having That One Companion You Can't Romance is good for a game's ecosystem.

[llycaons]

ALSO something I notice is that when a fic refers to 'jiang wanyin' and its not in lwj/a stranger pov, the author either loves him and wants to emphasize how mature and respected and powerful he is (HA) or hates him and wants to emphasize how evil and dangerous and alienated from wwx he is. they're both wrong he is jiang cheng always and forever amen