#following the brush

[waywordsstudio]

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 -

Elder's travelogue from the 1990s is a worthy enough introduction to some of the traditional aspects of Japanese society, though it barely reaches outside tradition nor offers much reflection for the year he spent there with his family.

[theelegantrubble]

I am surly and achy and hope these are the pains of birth.

- Journal entry, 4 June 2023

[cangrellesteponme]

wife

[fatcatlittlebox]

"Let it lie." 1x02, 1x04, 2x08

(X, X)

[stewedlycan]

The guy he thought was interested in monsters has actually NO interests in them, but DOES have an interest in him specifically ( but there’s no time to process this because he needs to save his friend from being murdered)

[fox-guardian]

[ID: Digital meme drawings of Celia, Alice, Sam, and Gwen from The Magnus Protocol on a gray background. Celia is a slim Korean woman with short black hair and glasses. Sam is a shorter fat South Asian man with short, curly black hair and a mustache. Alice is a tall, lanky white trans woman with freckles, piercings, pink cat-eye glasses, and shaggy brown hair. Gwen is a short white woman with blonde hair in a ponytail. All their outfits vary slightly in each image.

The first image is Celia "cicada blocking" both Alice and Sam at once, by cornering them and death-gripping the walls around them with all four limbs. Her torso is at their collective eye-level, and they are both wide-eyed and blushing at her.

The second image is a redraw of the "cat pulling two people by their sweaters" meme in which Celia is the screaming cat pulling on Sam and Alice. Celia has been drawn via tracing over the cat directly, and is very small and oddly proportioned as a result.

Third image is another meme redraw featuring Sam and Celia embracing and kissing while Sam holds a drink in his hand behind Celia's back. Alice is squatting behind them, casually sipping from Sam's drink, despite holding a drink of her own.

Fourth image is of a lower quality than the others and shows Alice standing in a corner while Gwen attempts to crowd her in with both arms. She is significantly shorter and her hands are placed around Alice's waist height. Alice looks down at her, unimpressed, and Gwen is sweating.

Fifth image is a meme redraw showing Gwen standing on Sam's knees while he holds her up by her legs. Sam is winking at the viewer while Gwen leans her arm against the wall near Alice's head. She is still sweating but now Alice is covering her blushing face with her hands while looking up at her.

Sixth image is a meme redraw showing Alice smugly lifting Gwen and holding her against a wall while Gwen looks surprised and flustered at her.

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idk why this last episode had me in a meme-making mood but here we are. featuring a lot of wall-related shenanigans and celia trying desperately to keep the gang together by any means necessary. also dyhard <3

[sysig]

For Requestober No.2

What about Handplates Gaster and Papyrus trying hard to have a bonding activity and Sans just chilling behind them eating popcorns...?

👉🏻👈🏻

Day 14 - He's supervising

[the-one-with-spider-brainrot]

I don’t have a clever caption for this it’s just brothers being brothers

[sketchy-tour]

OH WHATS THIS??? A MAN I HAVENT DRAWN IN, LIKE, A YEAR???

Yea remember when I originally was a sun and moon artist for two seconds? Legit popped into the fandom and then disappeared. Lmao

Anyway drew this on a magma with pals! Was kinda relaxing to doodle this dork again! Oh man I...really need to actually watch Help Wanted 2! Hadn't gotten a chance to!

[petrichal]

koby and luffy for the heart 2.0

[yiifune]

sword.....yaoi.... yay

[waywordsstudio]

3 Word Review: “Following the Brush” by John Elder -

Elder's American-family-adjusting-to-Japan story has lots of close anecdotal experiences that offer some basic concepts from traditional Japanese culture; brief and unpursued, they remain enjoyable but basic.

[theelegantrubble]

Eternal Return

[Nietzsche] accepts the inevitability and suffering of reality (eternal return) but insists that the person, the self, must change perception. This change of perception must address only oneself, for no other expectation or altered circumstance but only sheer will, insight, and perception, can give us a new ability to understand, tolerate, and transcend suffering. The present moment of existence must become the tablet on which to etch one’s aspirations, intentions, conclusions, directions, not change any external circumstances but to see through everything, to live in its contradictions. [Emphasis mine.] Eternal return is purgation of past weaknesses, failure, error, desire. The self must embrace not only the will to pursue a new self but what would be associated with Nietzsche as the will to power, meaning no more than the taking control of one’s self in life and destiny. Because this self-made destiny is the fruit of a personal struggle, the self must overcome much that is irrevocably external affecting the inner person. The will must transform the self not through attack but through transvaluation, the will overcoming obstacles, subjectivities, falsehoods, not reliant on society, culture, others, but forging one’s own path and system of thought and values.

From: Eternal Return via Hermit's Thatch

Once again I've been thinking about eternal return (heh).

Once again I find myself circling, hovering around the periphery of action.

Once again I find myself going through all of the motions and preparations leading up to an actual change. I make the run up closer than I ever have.

Yet still the gulf remains. The gap. The canyon between me and It.

I have been at this point so many times before.

I just need a better approach, I say. So I retreat back. I plan the route. I clear the path. I wait for favorable weather. The wheel turns again; I set off running. It's easier this time, I am gaining speed. I see the Other Side. I see where I can land. I just need to jump, and...

And I skid to a stop, right at the edge. Again.

It is easy to get lost in that. Here I am making the same old mistakes. Here I am again, not doing the thing I claim I want to do.

The gravity of my goal, my task, has no doubt captured me. But I can't come into land. I simply spiral tighter and tighter around it. And sometimes I drift away and maybe that's what I need – to let it go and float off somewhere else – but no, at the farthest reaches, the arch of orbit tugs at my back, my retreat slows, and my path bends and I am on the approach again.

How many times will I do this?

But to think that this isn't yet another repeat of every other failed attempt... to realize that I am not being cursed with another frustrating iteration, but blessed with another chance to get it right...

...that despite how many times I have found myself here, the only thing that exists is this present moment...

”...the person, the self, must change perception.”

[temporary-tats]

Mon Loup

Please send help, Wenclair has taken over my brain.

Per usual, do not reupload without credit/permission. Thanks folks!

(My ko-fi, should you wish!)

[queenielacy]

I’m kinda shocked by the amount of people, especially young people, that fell for the anti-China propaganda. Ever since the great migration to Little Red Book/RedNote, I keep seeing post from fellow Americans like ‘Oh, wow, Chinese people are normal. They’re just like us. They’re not evil.’ Um, yeah, did you really think all Chinese people were evil? Did you really think all ~1.4 billion people were evil? You thought they were all sitting around a comically large table, laughing menacingly as they plotted the downfall of the US? It’s great people are learning that the average Chinese person is just like every other average person in the world, but it’s also kind of sad it took some of you so long to come to this realization.

[hoofpeet]

I mean to be real . The main problem here is that I was not planning to be alive by this point. And now that I *am* I've abruptly had to reckon with the fact that I actually have to plan for the future now b/c I won't just be dead before it matters