#karma tl

[soupysuki]

Ò̵͕ b̵͙͌ ę̸̇ y̵͕̆ ̵̀͜ m̷͖͗ e̴͔̋ .̴̢̐

[karmalelou]

Karma tl really was cooked up in a lab specifically for me. Like it's THE Lulusuza au. It's like they read my fics and said damn girl, this is good. Let's make it official.

[turnaboutarchives]

Gyakuten Saiban 3 4Koma Kingdom- “Teach Me • 2”+”Grave” translation

[satsuha]

playing AA for the first time in 2024, i am not immune to short haired girl

[youkaigakkou-tl]

Chapter 118 - Disaster Drill Survival

monke time

(ALSO 2 EPISODES OF THE ANIME ARE NOW OUT IN CASE YOU MISSED IT SOMEHOW!! EPISODE 3 TOMORROW!!)

(ALSO YOHAJI IS GETTING THE GFANTASY COVER NEXT MONTH!!)

(ALSO KARMA KARMA CHAPTER 1 IS ALSO OUT!!)

(Also on mangadex)

[dpurut]

I finished 4 of the same sketchbook WAGHHHHHHH THEY DONT SELL THESE ANYMORE

[calamitydaze]

[littleeclectic]

Outdated Twitter app has officially kicked me out... so outdated tumblr app is my only friend now

[cyarskaren52]

I want meg to clear him so badly

[salsa-di-pomodoro]

(covered in bruises and scratches, panting) *inhales* I MADE IT TO OUTSKIRTS

[bearfeathers]

what kind of ted lasso ass horoscope is this lol

i want the ones who wronged me to suffer 😠

[soupysuki]

i could not decide which code black outfit set i liked more so i hope this selfish indecision has benefitted someone (/▿＼ )

[swiftzeldas]

“we should focus on her MUSIC not who she DATES or DATED BEFORE” ok i agree and i also think it’s very funny that taylor lautner said he feels safe but he’s praying for john. that’s objectively hilarious.

[velvees-archive]

At 20 years old, Miles Edgeworth’s only mentor tells him never to step foot into his opponent’s territory lest he fail to crush them in court. 4 years later, Edgeworth enters Defendant Lobby No. 1 to warn opposing counsel Phoenix Wright about Redd White’s decisive testimony.

Some post-AAI1 reflections + how Phoenix unravels Miles from the very moment they meet again.

After playing through the original trilogy, up to 4-2 on Apollo Justice, and all of Ace Attorney Investigations 1, I couldn’t help but jot down my (admittedly incomplete) thoughts about Phoenix and Edgeworth’s relationship, especially as it pertains to Miles’ “unraveling,” or his departure from von Karma’s teachings.

We already know von Karma had no love for Edgeworth. Crushing the late Gregory Edgeworth’s legacy under the guise of mentoring his son (and eventually ruining his career at its peak) was von Karma’s last act of hatred towards the departed.

From Miles’ perspective, however, von Karma was an accomplished teacher to whom he owed his gratitude and career’s success. This is important because Edgeworth’s actions are fundamentally motivated by his desire to express his “gratitude,” repay debts, and honor legacies.

His debt to von Karma compels him to strive for the perfection his mentor obsesses over. Achieving perfection takes the form of absorbing von Karma’s teachings, among them the AAI1 screenshot from earlier: only face your opponent in court, and make sure you crush them when you do it.

We know for a fact that the “demon prosecutor” internalizes von Karma’s teachings. He follows them to a T.

So, following 15 years of indoctrination, 4 years of putting the von Karma creed into practice, and an entire childhood AND early adulthood’s worth of gratitude, you’d THINK Edgeworth wouldn’t dare dishonor him…

Until he does, by coming to the defendant lobby to speak to his “enemy.”

Prior to playing AAI1, I thought the impetus for Edgeworth’s character development was 1-3, wherein he reevaluated the facts of the case and helped Phoenix get Dee Vasquez a guilty verdict. I still think 1-3 was the first time he consciously acknowledged the possibility (keyword: possibility) that his prosecutorial upbringing wasn’t..sound…(lmao!)

But with this AAI1 von Karma and Bratworth interaction, I now believe it was 1-2—with Edgeworth subconsciously disregarding his mentor’s teachings and Phoenix acting as the catalyst—that shows us when he first strayed from the path of a Von Karma.

An aside: Do I think AAI1 Bratworth was perfectly characterized? Not at all; he’s much too noble for that era of his life, though I don’t think it affects my case.

Edgeworth is a man full of contradictions. He comes to the defendant lobby to tell Phoenix his case is hopeless, though he has no obligation to disclose—nor has he ever set a precedent of disclosing—decisive witnesses’ information to his opponents.

He tells Phoenix he’ll do anything to get a guilty verdict, yet he warns the defense that his witness’s testimony will be considered infallible, prompting the player (Phoenix) to dissect the following testimonies with more care.

He tells Phoenix not to expect any special treatment from him, yet his very presence in the defendant’s lobby is in direct opposition to his respected mentor’s wishes.

It takes just one appearance from Phoenix for the filaments of von Karma’s indoctrination to unravel. 4 years into his career, Edgeworth has met many attorneys—most notably, Mia Fey—who embody Phoenix’s faith in his clients, yet none could shake his foundations like Phoenix Wright.

Edgeworth may have not been ready to turn a new leaf upon his first encounter with Phoenix, but the fact that a loose thread from his childhood (that’s emblematic of his innocence, his dreams, and dare I say his father’s drive) ultimately leads to his unraveling is poetry if I’ve ever seen it.

TL;DR Phoenix deconstructs Edgeworth like he was born to do so. The moment Phoenix decided to chase after him, Edgeworth had already lost.

[cosmicdream222]

The void explained in an old Reiki book

The other day @gorgeouslypink posted about Reiki and the Void on her challenge account here. Usui Reiki is the type of reiki I learned back around 2018, although I kinda half-assed the training and never fully read the book 💀 So I found one of my old Reiki books (it’s from 1995!) and flipped to the back to see if there was an index. There wasn’t, so I proceeded to open it to a random page and what is it about? The Void.

It’s kind of flowery Buddhist language but it’s the void y’all:

Here is the text for easier reading:

Reality is created by the action of Mind from the Void. The Void is the depths of fathomless peace, purity, perfection, mystery and joy. In Wiccan terms it is Spirit, Ether or Goddess. All Be-ing comes from the Void, and it is the essence of all existence. All Be-ing (everyone) is already in a state of perfection, a part of the Buddha Nature (or Goddess Within). Reality is also the Non-Void, which is all potential, and a vast complex of worlds and shifting universes.

Mind emerging from the Void is the first Buddha source, but this source is obscured to most people by the illusion of the senses, the Non-Void. The reality created by this obscuring of Pure Mind is like the reality created in a mirror. People in incarnation do not awaken to their intrinsic purity (the Void) which exists beyond the senses. Their understanding is based upon the Non-Void's illusion. A distorted mind on Earth acts to creates a distorted reality, resulting in suffering.

"Mind, which manifests itself as wisdom, is intrinsically Void; yet everything proceeds from it and is therefore mind's creation." Everything real is created from the perfection of the Void. Yet, because of distortion and illusion, we perceive the world as imperfect and remain attached to delusion.

Wisdom=energy=creation is the Void, and participates in Nirvana. Human perception of reality is Non-Void, based upon potential, and participates in the Mind's creation of suffering in the world.

Enlightenment is understanding the joy of the Void, one's perfect Buddha Nature, and leaving the attachments and delusions of the Non-Void and the senses. Once true reality is perceived, attachments and cravings no longer have meaning, and Nirvana is attained. This understanding is Enlightenment, which leads to the release of the soul from karma and incarnation. It happens by the freeing of the Mind from delusion.

- Essential Reiki by Diane Stein, 1995

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・。.。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

My tl;dr summary:

Our reality is created by the Mind, which comes from the Void. Everything comes from the Void, and its limitless potential. The 3D world (the non-void) we see is an illusion created by the senses. Unenlightened people suffer because they are stuck in the 3D’s illusion, thinking what they perceive with their senses is real.

True understanding, or Enlightenment, comes when we grasp the joy and perfection of the Void, realizing we already have it all, and can release attachments and delusions of the senses.

[schistcity]

i hate reddit so much. my external hard drive is failing so i went to see if people had any recommendations for different brands and sorry, i guess, for naively expecting grace and decorum from reddit users, but of course of course of course the top comment on a thread titled "i need help choosing an external hard drive" is some 30k karma fuckhead saying "tl;dr don't buy an external hard drive" like my bad for not anticipating the classic tango of pretentious non-answers that this website has made its cultural dance. brother u/nevertouchedawoman i'm so very glad you were here to engage us with your pearls of wisdom! i actually honestly hope you fall down an open sewer grate!! the lack of self-awareness in the average reddit user baffles the mind. i don't care if you're a fucking saint in real life, if you have ever answered a question on reddit by uselessly countering the entire premise of the op's problem ("hey what's a good action movie to watch with my nephew?" "you should really be introducing him to higher brow cinema, try ghibli" *the anvil i'm holding over your head drops onto your head and you turn into a little squash-and-stretch accordion*) you're going straight to hell when you die because i'm going to be beating you back from the pearly gates with a baseball bat. choke. i'm going to buy a seagate 2TB i guess.