#but keeps the brain engaged

[reading-writing-dying]

Favorite type of writing is when I have to stop writing a thing because I need to figure out the Lore for a part of it so I have to switch documents to figure out that then switch back to keep writing with the new Lore in mind

Very fun way of writing for my brain that loves to come up with new ideas constantly but dreadfully inefficient :/

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I've been doing a lot of reflection as of late, especially after this past class.

This past class was about the Torah and Tanakh in general, and the way the rabbi talked about the commandments (specifically the ten commandments) has made me really reflect on how I interpret them, specifically the fifth commandment, or honoring your mother and father.

This is a commandment I have wrestled with for a long time - in fact, it brought me away from g-d at multiple times. I was severely abused when I was incredibly young by my mother, and I used to feel insulted at the implication that I were to honor her while she got to live a better life. It was hypocritical, in my eyes.

But this rabbi surmised that this particular commandment was because parenthood is an act of creation, something that is like the g-d from which we come from. My realization is this: I don't think we're necessarily meant to take even these commandments literally.

I this particular commandment is more of a call to honor creation - creation is a gift, and like any gift, many people simply will not like it and will discard it. The person who abused me created me, but she did not honor creation. She didn't honor me, but I can still honor it.

I have started to honor creation much more. I'm too young, too unstable, not mature enough to be a father (though I fantasize about it), but I create all the time. I create relationships, I create with my hands through crochet. I create memories, I create my world. And I can honor who I am and where I came from that made me who I am. I've been learning one of the mother tongues of my family (Italian, since part of my family originates there) and it was judaism that inspired me to do this.

I don't think g-d wants me to honor my abuser. I think He wants me to remember the Holy action of creation. When I am a father, that act of creation will be Holy, and indeed, I am already joyful about the thought.

I have seen many people struggle with this particular commandment, but I think this perspective helps me personally. I don't think I ever have to forgive my abusers (plural), and I don't think I am commanded to simply because they happened to be family. I am commanded to recognize the holy, to elevate the mundane. In doing so, I will remember g-d. Through creation, I honor g-d and everything he has done for us, for me, and for our collective people.

[mewvore]

touching grass and walking around so I can get more outside inspiration for a monster woman with a giantess muscle growth thing going on

[tblsomedoodles]

The preferable Alternative - Part 11

Start - previous - next

The Gamechild has learned a new trick : )

[timblrdrake]

What do you do when your sleep schedule doesn’t

-A totally sane Gothamite, 2:03 am

i wouldn’t know, i don’t have that problem.

-Tim Drake, 2.5 hours of sleep

[birdbrainss]

@thegnomelord I know there wasn't much description of the Beelzebub summon's description, but saying you like body horror was a pretty good way if getting fanart out of me.

Ifrit from Gnome's COD fanfic Hell Has a Basement Floor!!!! With the shirt very tastefully burnt away in an epic battle, and not just because I wanted to draw cool scars. Totally.

I always feel a little silly whenever I draw perspective stuff, so I hope it doesn't look too dopey.

[tempered-grace]

HYBRID THEORY?????? In my AP Chem class??????

[aurosoul]

realizing that my main task rn is to figure out how to make art for myself again 🤔

[midnight-mismanagement]

Sir Pentious and Vox Similarities

- Pathetic

- Inventors/Innovators of their respective technologies

- Simultaneously ahead of their times and yet still old school in some facets

- Rely on support (P - eggs and hotel, V - Voxtek staff, Vees)

- Do not do well in direct confrontation, rely on inventions and support

- Have a “base” to conduct ranged operations (P - aircraft thing, V - gamer screen room)

- Looked up to/admired someone, wanted to be their equal (P to Vees, V to Alastor)

- Got brutally rejected

- While Pentious’ support system paved the way for him to be a better person, Vox probably got worse, who knows

- Hypnotism powers

- Will change themselves to please or appeal to others to be accepted (P will spy to please Vees, then reform to please hotel peeps, V will present differently to please audiences, etc)

- Visual motifs (P is covered in eyes, V’s head is a literal visual medium and has eyes everywhere with his drones and cameras)

- Need(ed) to be seen as a nemesis to Alastor (P obvs past tense), pick fights they can’t win unprovoked (V was more of a verbal battle but still lost rip)

- similar drip

- top hats

- bow ties

- I’m sure I’ve missed some stuff

Is this anything

[cuttledreams-bugs]

me trying to hype myself up to posting online again despite The Horror

[softness-and-shattering]

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[katabay]

top 5 fandoms?

oooh, okay! so my top 5 to hang out in (which is not necessarily the same as stuff I draw fan art of, but ones where I’ve gone to group meet ups at conventions, attended watch parties/events for, actively seek out the tags for on twitter, etc) are probably

-Kamen Rider

-the bitter Sam fan side of SPN

-DMBJ

-Pacific Rim

-Guardian/Zhen Hun or the Yakuza franchise

[atomiccryptid]

if any of you have had to get an mri before can you tell me what it was like? i have a 45 minute one next week and i am. not looking forward to it.

[rapidhighway]

I need to start exercising again, I would like to try jogging again but I literally feel like a disgusting slug whenever im outside and moving around other people

Also I have some kind of gait problem so I just hurt my feet every time I go jogging

[udunie]

ugh im so tired and i almost broke my finger and im on my period, but i couldn't write yesterday either and if i don't write today im gonna completely lose inspiration for this fic :(

[arttsuka]

Just wanted to tell you that whenever I get on Tumblr, I genuinely enjoy your posts and what you talk about. You're very honest and real, and it doesn't feel like you're posting to get likes or attention, it's just you. Sharing. And I really (not the word I'm trying to think of, but in a way it is) appreciate? Enjoy? you. : }

Aww, that's nice.

Take this random out of context screenshot from a movie I was watching the other day (2 weeks ago actually)