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If you're searching for the ultimate indulgence in skincare, look no further than the L'Occitane Almond / Amande collection. In this post, I'll dive into three standout products from this collection! Rose xo

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[chalkrub]

made a little linocut for pixie <:^) miss her so much

[puzzlingphronistes]

The "you can crash on my couch anytime" to "can I live in your house and be your dog" pipeline is absolutely incredible. Remember when he got flustered at the idea of a sexy rat?

This is a man who calls dancing sinful. I heard him bark this morning.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

BIRTHDAY HAUL courtesy of a very lovely friend of mine 🥺

bonus goofy pics of a bday snack i had earlier with my favorite menace …..

[docnukes]

[hollownekomata]

//Alright my dudes, buckle up. I finally finished this, and it's LONG. My apologies in advance, because while I did graduate from university I'm in no means good at analysing or repurposing concepts to fit my narrative. But I had fun thinking about this, so...

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◖Mielelambda, the Disciple of Life - Growth and Stagnation◗ ᓚᘏᗢ

I was scouting for new music and came across this print by artist Ravi Zupa. Not only it goes hard as fuck, but the quote struck me right in that brain partition responsible with coming up with Miele.

"Those who are flexible and yielding are the disciples of life”

I went to search for the origin of the quote, and found out it's from Chapter 76 of Tao Tê Ching by Lao Tzu, perhaps loosely based on a translation done by J.H. Macdonald in 1996. Here's the full quote:

"The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. Those who are stiff and rigid are the disciples of death. Those who are soft and yielding are the disciples of life The rigid and stiff will be broken. The soft and yielding will overcome.”

The reason I'm writing about it today is that this quote really resonates with two of Miele's core concepts, stagnation and growth.

Miele has never thought to be different or better than other Arrancars for not resorting to brute strength --if anything, because they were a below-average regular Arrancar born without the aid of the Hōgyoku, they knew they had to find a way to compete with Arrancars of their level to survive.

They observe the Hollows around them tearing eachother apart, growing stronger, only for them to be found and eaten by even stronger Hollows. It's a cycle, a pattern of Hollow-eats-Hollow that defines Hueco Mundo as a world of stagnation, a world where growth is only allowed by pure strength, and even then this growth is coded and expected for the cycle to continue.

(Objectively, examples could be found of efforts to make a difference, like Harribel's, but ultimately, at least in Miele's eyes, they're not enough to bring real systematic change.)

Miele thinks to be circumventing it alltogether by relying on their exceptional hearing and becoming a scavenger, feeding off small animal-like Hollows with little nutritional value (think of Kukkapūro), but in truth they still participate in it, just by maintaining their place at the near bottom of the “food chain”. Again, stagnation: too stubborn to bow their head to someone who could give them a purpose, they don’t even seek to become stronger, they accept that they will never grow any stronger or weaker as long as it allows them to survive.

The moment they are unable to adapt is the moment they are brought to the brink of death. Their environment has changed again, and their inability to evolve along with it (mainly coming from refusing to associate with the new ruling body, Harribel) causes them to fail and be defeated.

Once found by the recruitment squad, they are, for the first time, presented with a choice, a new opportunity to adapt. And they are able to take such opportunity, thriving in this new environment, because they are put in front of the fact that they are weak, and therefore need to leave behind all obstinacy and pride. Thus, they become flexible, soft, yielding --which also explains their sudden change of demeanor to a more meek and subservient one.

Another translation of the quote I'd like to include because it's one of my favorite of the variants I could find, and I think encapsulates well the concept of growth:

"The stiff and strong Are Death's companions The soft and weak Are Life's companions. Therefore the strongest armies do not conquer, The greatest trees are cut down. The strong and great sink down. The soft and weak rise up." (translated by Stephen Addis, 1993)

Miele truly becomes a disciple of life. After escaping stagnation, aka the never-ending cycle of Hollow-devours-Hollow, they choose to run from it.* It is all brought by chance (incosistency, variation in the cycle). They discover just how much they are attracted to life, and how much they needed change: they love watching things grow - anything from plants to buildings to people - the change brought by the seasons, even the day-night cycle.

Every day is unique, made of new experiences and meetings. Even when it becomes the norm, after centuries spent repeating the same actions and feeling the same emotions over and over again, it doesn't become dull. Even the tiniest variations from day to day are a joy for Miele to notice and live through.

The site's very own description of the print that prompted all this nonsense wraps it all up perfectly, in my opinion:

"Chapter 76 of the Tao Te Ching describes how being rigid and uncompromising makes us behave the way dead things behave. Dry leaves, dead wood, corpses. These things are stiff and brittle. When we behave in a way that is flexible and yielding we behave like things that are living. Green leaves, living branches and stems, living bodies."

In the end, Miele is able to develop better in Soul Society because of their frailty, which makes them capable of accepting change and adapt to a new environment, social structure and customs. Perhaps they’ve only joined another cycle, but they’ve done so by accepting the incosistency of life, developing new parts of themselves and gaining strength through a more personal and emotionally-driven path.

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*Note: does this make them a coward? Yes. I have never considered Miele to be brave, they are an opportunist who only applies the notion of honor to their Division. They don’t see worth in themselves alone because their life in HC never had one, and they are just now pursuing one.

There is nothing courageous about joining the victorious enemy, and they don’t believe to have the strength to bring the sort of change they need to HC. They loathe Aizen and his lot for meddling with the balance of its ecosystem, but even after his defeat, they have no intention to try and make it better. They only bend the knee the moment it is entirely favorable to their survival, and to an authority which wasn’t imposed on them by divine right as much as it was done through bartering (a new, sheltered life in exchange of service).

[mythicalartistx]

Soriku in Novels Part 2 -

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As Sora looked at them together, he noticed his vision growing blurry.

"Sora..?" Goofy set a hand on his shoulder.

Donald peered into his face, "Crying for joy?"

"I'm not crying!" Sora turned away and scrubbed his eyes. He was not. There was no reason to cry when he was glad. Riku was alive.

I want to see him. I have so much to tell him.

"Riku..."

In the land of dragons, Sora sees himself and Riku when he looks at Shang and Mulan. It's the cutest thing ever. This actually happens in game too.

Though I want to point out how in the manga Riku ask Shang to give a papou fruit to Sora and Immediately Sora knows it's from Riku cause... "only Riku would do something like that" well umm... I don't know about you but that seems kinda.... 🏳️‍🌈🧐. So he tells Shang to give it to Mulan fully knowing the meaning behind the fruits and sees them as a romantic couple who both like each other, hoping their destinies will intertwine forever.

Also this is why Sora realizing he's alive in reunion scene doesn't make sense because he already knew from several other moments.

"Riku..." Sora looked up, holding tight to his friend's hand. "It's Riku... Riku is here. He knew that it was Riku's hand he clasped. It was bigger than the one he held a thousand times before, but in his heart, Sora felt it.

A knot of something he could barely define filled his chest. Clinging to that hand, to Riku's hand, Sora fell to his knees. "I was looking for you...!" Tears spilled all over and flowed down his cheeks as he pressed Riku's hand against his face.

As much as it is cute in the game, the novel adds so much more. It shows inside feelings. And Sora knew it is Riku's hand cause he felt it in his heart ahkshshshshsh— A HAND HE HELD THOUSANDS OF TIMES BEFORE!? He could have said he held it before or several times— but no he had to go with thousands of times.

And then he gets some sort of knot in his chest he could barely define??? I don't know ummm it kinda sounds like Sora might like him....

Then later he presses Riku's hand to his own face.... Um Sora, you are so cute when you interact with Riku that it's so obvious he likes him but He is so oblivious about it..... Man Riku must be really having to contain himself and make sure he isn't going to get flustered.

The next few are around a similar moment,

He thought he heard someone calling his name. Sora call me to, eventually pushing himself up. The first thing his eyes focused on was Riku—collapsed on the floor.

"Riku..!" Sora scrambled over to him and knelt down, perring into his face.

It belonged to a silver-haired boy.

The first person he pays attention to is Riku and then he peers into his face. Then the moment after this is just crazy.

Riku!" Sora flung his arms around the other boy, looking up into his face.

Far up. I know we haven't seen each other for a year— but Riku's so much taller! No fair!

Listen, he immediately flings his arms around Riku. That's so cute. I love how cute he is when he realizes Riku got so much taller. I think it's so funny how he wants to be taller but never does because Riku always growing. It be funny if he managed to get taller like one day and then Riku ends up surpassing him AGAIN.

That word from him had a terrible certainly to it. Sora's brows drew together and he moved closer to his friend again, staring into the face he'd missed so much.

"Seriously, Riku!" Sora grabbed his collar.

This is the lines, after the eyes couldn't lie/ myself scene. And oh ho we got some stuff. This scene in general is sad and you just want to hug Riku for all he's been through because he's clearly upset at himself for it and feels so much regret. Then Sora grabs his COLLAR. I bet he said the I'm not a sap line to hide the fact he was flustered. He's so close to him.

With that, Riku threw off his black cloak. In his hand was his own Keyblade— the Way to the Dawn.

"Yeah..." Sora agreed, seeing that the other boy was already leaving. He was only too happy to follow, "Riku!"

These two are so cute especially how Sora acts around him. Like he so happy to be with him. It's just so wholesome and great. I love their relationship, their friendship is also the cutest.

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Guys. For some reason? For the first time in over 10 years, what I think are blisters - or soon to be blisters - formed at the bottom of my feet. What the fuck do I do with them?

I am at dorm and I have none of the usual stuff you use to treat them and my heel currently hurts too much to walk on it to the store where I know they 100% have something to treat it with. Would a hydrocolloid pimple patch work? That's the only thing I have here

[yardsards]

found in a yearbook from the 1950s

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[umeboshilover]

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they're having 50% off sale if any of you have wanted to try there products...

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

love how my friends visit my in my state One Time and immediately go “oh u poor thing. we need to help u leave here Immediately.”

[keithbutgay]

i just noticed something and i wanna point it out so itll bother you too /silly

throughout most of tts in 2 part eps its titled with the normal title, and then "(Part I of II)" or "(Part II of II)" after

except for cassandras revenge and plus est en vous

the most annoying thing is that the inconsistencies arent even consistent within themselves

like 13 and 14 use roman numerals for the first part but then regular numbers for the rest?? but all the other episodes use only roman numerals

anyway do you remember which episode has the hot cocoa thing its very important and for scientific reasons (m gonna try ta memorize the scene) :P

uhh wait i need an actual question dont i

umm

whats your favorite font?

ASDFKH that will annoy me but there's another fun fact under my belt!!

I actually don't know what episode it is but i can recite so. much. of that entire scene. hang on i'll try to find it

oooh um. i really like handwriting fonts, not sure which one is my favorite specifically. i also love the death note font!!