#glory of life

[simplicius-simplicissimus]

It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

-David Livingstone about his travels through Africa in the 19th century

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[gaia-is-here-now]

3 centimeters tall. happy tangotek thursday

[liquid-purple]

Queen of the Rainwings

I don’t usually go here but I drew it for class

[prinsomnia]

✷ purest thoughts ✷

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[tervaneula]

Dad bod Leonardo gets his own post! I updated the prosthetic base and gave him a little bit more chub <3

[chaiaurchaandni]

4 year old Ahmad Shabat - an israeli airstrike hit him, his parents & 4 siblings; he survived, they didn't - then they hit him & his father's relatives; he survived, they didn't - then they hit him & his uncle; he survived, his uncle didn't - both of Ahmed's legs have been amputated because of injuries. He survives.

i hope Ahmad gets to live. i hope he has a beautiful and fulfilling life. i hope he finds love and safety and comfort and success. i hope he finds happiness. i hope he heals. i hope he continues to survive. in spite of the violence, in spite of the trauma, in spite of the horror. in spite of the world.

[hedgehog-moss]

Jour de brume

[mikuyuuss]

Ok, not only did Moon Dong Eun avenge the villains of this story. She found love afterwards and was able to pursue architecture like she always wanted to. She now dresses freely with her tattoo, proudly showing her scars. She's no longer confined to her trauma. Dong Eun got her revenge AND her happy ending!

Even though she was so convinced that she's a terrible person for wanting revenge, she actually managed to touch the lives of the people around her through simple acts of kindness (empathizing with them for being victims) and those same people came back to support her as well.

It's usually "revenge is bad" this "you got revenge but at what cost" that, but no, she got her revenge AND her and other people's happy ending. Even though it's a dark story about how victims suffer, there's always the underlying message of hope, where they also understand and help eachother. Even if they had to bend the rules to get it, The. Victims. Won. Oh. My. Goodness.

In the end, it wasn't exactly just "revenge," it was also about bringing justice to the victims.

[autumncottageattic]

fox_and_blueberry

[almostaknight]

sooo real of you jaime except brienne is not going to hell with you 🫶

[robottheodorlasso]

Say hi Teddy!!!

[scintillyyy]

don't be fooled by alfred's snarkiness and/or pretense of disdain for vigilante life, that man is 100% also a vigilante in all but lack of code name, same as the rest of them. he is NOT a civilian side character or civilian life connector character, he is almost completely a vigilante life connector character.

leslie is a civilian life connector character. devlin davenport is a civilian life connector character. jack drake is a civilian life connector character. alfred, who has on multiple occasions dressed up as batman & once helped tim take down the joker, does shockingly little narratively to actually connect bruce to his civilian life outside of the occasional smarmy comment about bruce's lack thereof, unlike leslie who exists to connect bruce to what he can do for gotham as bruce wayne, not batman. but he is there to ensure tim stays connected to vigilante life/connect him to the batman part of bruce's life when he goes to boarding school with tim. you see what i mean.

[p4nishers]

"i'm burdened with glorious purpose" and "i never wanted the throne, i only ever wanted to be your equal" and "i remember a shadow. living in the shade of your greatness" and "your birthright was to die as a child" and "you were born to cause pain and suffering and death" and "do you think what makes a loki a loki is the fact that we're destined to lose?" and "you are alone and you always will be" and "my life was a waste of time" and "most purpose is more burden than glory" and "how do you live with [the burden]?" "scar tissue" and "no, there's no comfort, you just choose your burden" and "i know what i want, i know what kind of god i need to be, for you" and

[catedemia]

going completely insane in the name of eduction and knowledge is the only path to glory it seems.

[chaiaurchaandni]

Alessandra Sanguinetti, "Portrait of Modern Palestinian Childhood," 2004.