#se loop

[mbti-notes]

Anon wrote: Hello there! I wish you the best. I’m a 20 years old female and i believe that i’m an ENTJ.

I’m a student who is study at home alone for university exam. But i have problems about studying. I don’t have motivation and discipline enough. I believe there are several reasons for that.

1) I’m so pleasure oriented in general. And when it feels so boring and exhausted i’m just giving it up.

2) In the past, i was studying very well and enjoying it, i was so ambitious and always so driven. I was not alone that time. There was a circle, a group of people who i see them as opponents. And this was making me full of ambition and i was able to study.

For a long period of time, i have to study all alone and i don’t have anyone to see as an opponent. In this marathon, literally there’s nothing to stimulate me for study, for finding that ambition again.

Since i was a kid, i was so successfull, always the first at my classes. But after that, in my country whole system has changed just before two months left the high school entrance exam. There was a big exam ( for getting in high school, 5 6 years ago ) and i felt shocked for the first time. And i quit studying when whole system changed because of i believed i couldn’t handle in this short time. I was studying since 8 months and now the whole game was totally changed so I gave it up.

After that day, i couldn’t find any ambition or desire for study in me. And i became obsessed with that desire after this happened. I felt like i have to feel that ambitious for able to study again.

I believe that i can’t go anywhere with working only for a sense of responsibility, without have a strong desire to go. I can’t take to be avarage, i have to be the best at it. I think this might be the reason.

I also feel ashamed of being unseccessfull. And because of that i’m trying to not to talk to people. I stay away from them.

Of course, i’m aware of how unhealthy and silly all of this thought, feelings and beliefs. And i want to change them into something usual, i want to be able to study, work, do anything even without feeling like it. I want to stay disciplined. What should i do?

Any advice from you would be a treasure for me. Thank you.

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This topic has been addressed before, so do a search. There are two interrelated points to pay attention to:

(1) You are too extrinsically motivated. The only reason you do things is to obtain some external reward. The problem with this mentality is that, as soon as the reward is removed, your motivation disappears, revealing that your "ambition" was ultimately shallow and the reward ultimately meaningless. The remedy to this is to nurture intrinsic motivation, to be motivated by your own subjective or personal reasons. Intrinsic motivation doesn't disappear as easily because it is your own, precious to you, and under your control. I suggest that you read previous posts on the topic.

(2) Intrinsic motivation is closely related to Ni development in ENTJs. Through Ni development NJs deeply understand that it is important to live life with a sense of purpose. Purpose involves having a vision of the future and your future self that you hope to actualize. Ni vision acts as a guiding light or a north star to give your life meaningful direction. At 20 years old, you should have undergone substantial Ni development already. If you haven't, then you will become more and more prone to Se loop, which commonly manifests as having poor self-control due to constantly neglecting your future self. These are basic functional stack concepts that are already covered in the Function Theory Guide. I suggest you read the study guides as well as previous posts about Ni development.

[starlooping]

the naming? ah, the naming. // what should we call them? // a birth? ah, i'm glad! // thank you for being born.

[wiltking]

i was in heaven

[loopscereal]

VAMOOOOOO FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS A SPRING FNAFHSSSSSSSS

[alphabetcompletionist]

wait a minute, i was gonna be a bitch about my unwanted child i'm too afraid will karmicly punish me if i kill it, but this is what came up

didn't this button hide it from searches entirely before? what's 'discourage' supposed to mean? what changed?

ABCDEFGHI KLMNOPQRSTU WXY

23/26

[matrix-es-real]

Based on this fanfic:

On Such a Winter's Day

by crayfisher98

Timeloop stangst

[strixcattus]

If I had a nickel for every video game I've played with a monochrome protagonist who had a small blade and was either trapped in or facilitating a time loop or time loop–like structure, I would have four nickels.

And that's actually starting to be a lot of nickels.

[dangraccoon]

As Ever

Day 21 ~ time loop ~ (Alt. Prompt)

Fives

Word Count: 2097 Content: Bio Chip Arc, Fives dies, actually he dies multiple times, the time loop resets if he dies or gets reconditioned, so because time loops can get fuckin dark, so I'm saying a soft Mature 18+ (recommended), Sheev Palpatine is his own warning anyway

“The mission… the nightmares… they’re… finally over.”

“Fives? No, Fives…”

—

His eyes fluttered open, squinting at the harsh light of the medical room.

“I… what…”

“Do not worry,” AZI chirped brightly. “Brief confusion is normal when waking up after a surgery.”

“Surgery,” Fives repeated, his hand coming up to the side of his head.

The patch. From the surgery. The chips? “You removed the chip?”

“Yes,” AZI said, whirling around to pull the two slides from his drawer. “Identical in structure.” He held the slide up side by side. “However, it appears that the one I found in your friend had mal–”

“Tup’s chip malfunctioned, but mine was fine,” Fives thought aloud.

“That is correct,” AZI chirped. “There is no way of knowing what will happen to you now that we have removed your chip.”

Fives’ mind felt clearer in this moment than he’d ever remembered.

Hadn’t he done all this already? He could so clearly remember seeing the chancellor–you don’t forget when a seemingly kindly old man orders his guards to murder you–escaping, finding Kix in 79s, and talking to General Skywalker and Rex. Oh, Rex. The memory of his ori’vod holding him close, crying as the second of the shinies he’d practically adopted faded away. 

Is this what happens when you die? He thought bitterly as he scowled at the floor. You have to relive the worst parts of your life? What’s next? Umbara? The Citadel? Kamino?

“Are you experiencing anything out of the ordinary? Anything that could be a potential sign of the mental decline your friend experienced?” AZI broke him from his bitter thinking.

“No, no,” he said, waving him off. “I don’t… think so. Maybe–do you think he had deja vu?”

“There is no way of knowing what Clone Trooper Tup experienced before his death, however feelings of deja vu are not a common indicator of an impending mental break.”

Fives sighed, pushing off from the table to pace the small room. “I swear, it feels like I’ve done this before.”

“Like you’ve done–”

“All this,” Fives groaned, his hands gesturing vaguely. “You removed my chip, we go to the records hall. They take me to the chancellor, he–”

Fives went still, his mind working over his options. 

“ARC Trooper Fives?”

“AZI, I think this goes much deeper than the chips in our heads.”

—

“General, you have to believe me, I can show you–”

“You’ve gone too far, Fives.”

“Stand down, soldier!”

“No, Fives!”

—

“General Ti,” he said. The general came to his side. “The-the doctor injected me with something… I-I don’t feel well.”

“I’m sure it was just to help you relax, Fives,” she smiled sympathetically. 

“No, no,” Fives shook his head. “It… doesn’t feel like last time. This one… this one’s gonna kill me. Please–”

“Fives, I do not understand–”

“I…can’t see’i- ‘nym–”

“Fives? Fives!”

—

“Fives, what are you doing in here?” Shaak Ti questioned, still in her meditation pose. “You are meant to be completing the tests necessary to put you back in the field.”

“General, when we were cadets, you helped me and Echo find our place in our squad. You did us a huge favor and I have just one more to ask of you before I’m sent away.”

He could see the skepticism in her eyes, but she nodded. “What can I do for you?” 

“I need to know something about you. Something you’ve never told anyone before– something that you’d need to investigate if someone said it back to you.”

“Fives–”

“I know, General. But please, once I go back to that testing room, I’ll either be sent to the front to die or I’ll have my memory wiped. Either way, I know too well that I’ll be a dead man.”

Fives could feel something touch his mind. He let his eyes close, allowing the Jedi to prod him for answers.

“Something small,” he pleaded quietly. “Just something that would tell you to talk to me.”

As the general’s touch eased from his mind and she simply searched him with her eyes, he began to lose hope.

“Apologies, General Ti,” he said finally. “I’ll leave you to your meditation.” He gave a slight bow and turned for the door.

“Fives,” her voice reached his ears right before he opened the door. “Nannariums.”

He turned to look at her, finding a soft confusion still covering her face, but her eyes were curious. 

“They are my favorite flower. No one else knows this.”

Relief stole over him. He nodded his thanks to her, then walked to his seemingly inevitable death.

—

“Perhaps it would be best if clone trooper Fives and I discussed this without your presence,” the Chancellor said, his smile warm and sickly sweet. Fives fought the urge to punch him.

“Chancellor, I must object,” General Ti scowled.

“Please, Master Jedi,” the Chancellor cooed. “Trust me. I will not be alone.”

Whatever that aiwha-bait doctor dosed him with was fogging his mind. 

“N-no,” he protested, instantly sure that this must have been the pivotal moment. This is where everything went wrong. “General, please. Don’t leave me alone with him,” he pleaded, stepping towards the kind Jedi. “He’s not the one at risk, General.”

The General startled. “Fives, what are you–”

“This is obviously the delusional ramblings of a defective clone,” Se protested.

“On the ship, on our way here,” Fives breathed, all too aware of the glare boring into him from the Kaminoan. “The doctor injected me wi-with something and I can’t… Please just stay with me.”

Shaak Ti’s eyes scrutinized him. 

“You can… you could see if something was affecting me, couldn’t you?” he said, his eyes searching hers as much as she searched his. “Making my head all foggy?”

“Master Jedi?” Palpatine probed. 

He could feel the general’s gentle touch at the back of his mind.

Fives tried to calm himself, pulling only one memory to his mind. Too many would confuse her–he found that out last time.

A quiet meditation room on Kamino. The quiet confusion and curiosity on her face.

Her own voice.

“Fives. Nannariums. They are my favorite flower. No one else knows this.”

Shaak Ti gasped quietly, her eyes going wide. She thought for a moment. “If it would be a comfort to this trooper, perhaps it would be better if I stay.”

“Thank you, general,” Fives sighed, relief flooding his body.

“Of course,” Palpatine said, his voice still that of a kind old man, but his expression soured as he looked at Fives. “All will stay present, but perhaps we should all just let the man speak.” He looked to the general and the doctor, who both gave a nod.

Fives’ teeth ground together. “Thank you, sir.”

“Please, Fives,” General Ti nodded. “Tell us what is going on.”

Fives could feel his hands shake, his focus solely on the General. “There is a plot against the Jedi, General. There is a Sith in this–” his eyes nervously turned towards the chancellor. “In the Senate. They’re controlling this war from both sides.”

“This is lunacy,” Nala Se muttered. “Chancellor, this clone has clearly gone mad without his chip. He must be–”

“Doctor, we all agreed to let Fives speak,” the general said, fixing her with a stern look.

“The chips have… orders written into them to kill the Jedi. We would be forced to obey the order without a second thought,” he said, determinedly continuing to speak over Nala Se’s renewed objections. “It isn’t supposed to happen until someone triggers it, but Tup’s malfunctioned and it caused him to execute the general.”

Shaak Ti’s face betrayed her whirlwind of emotions. 

“Master Jedi, I find I must agree with the good doctor,” Palpatine muttered. “This is obviously a very, very sick clone.”

“General, I swear on- on nannariums, I’m telling the truth,” Fives insisted.

“I am taking ARC Trooper Fives to the Jedi temple for evaluation,” the general said suddenly. “He has made many… disturbing claims, yet I can sense that he truly believes them.”

The chancellor stood aghast, stammering “But Master Ti, I believe–”

“I will bring him to plead his case before the Jedi High Council and our temple’s best mind healers,” she said, her voice exuding confidence. “I’m sure we can all say that we want what is best for the Republic, yes?”

“Well, of course–”

“And what is best for the Republic is to learn the origin of this clone’s… delusions.”

Shaak Ti ignored the protests from the doctor and chancellor as she pulled Fives from the room by the arm.

“Thank you for believing me, General,” he practically gushed. “I don’t know how to tha–”

Before he could finish, Shaak Ti spun on her heel, her saber hilt pressed to his chest. “How could you know that?” 

“G-general?”

“That is something I’ve not told even my dearest friends,” she elaborated. “Clones are force-null; you cannot have seen it in a vision, yet the memory felt real.”

Fives’ eyes darted around the room. It was empty except for them, but he couldn’t shake the feeling they were being watched.

“Take me to the Council, General,” he pressed. “Please.”

She fixed him with a hard look but placed her lightsaber back on her belt. “I will.” She turned back to continue.

He sighed. “Thank you, again, General. I’ve been–” 

She stopped, eyeing him over her shoulder. “Do not speak until we are before the council.”

He tensed and she looked away and sighed. “I have already been… biased, but the rest of the council must receive the full story.”

A chill ran down Fives’ spine. “Yes, General.”

He sat in silence as the transport took them to the temple. Over the last… oh maker, he’d lost count of how many times he’d been through this–this was the first time in a while he started to feel that tiny spark of hope deep in his chest–perhaps a little further down than where Fox had shot him about half of these days. If he thought about it too hard, he could feel that hole burning into his chest, he could hear Rex’s anguish. He’d do anything to stop that from happening again, to stop hearing that broken cry of his name spilling over his brother’s lips. If all of this was real and he was being given so many chances to get this all right, he’d do it for Rex, for Tup, and for all their brothers.

“Your thoughts are… quite loud,” the general hummed as they arrived at the temple, her eyes–filled with curiosity–meeting his for the first time since leaving the Senate building.

He felt his cheeks flush. “Oh! I’m sorry–” 

“No, no, it is alright,” she waved his concern off. “Perhaps I should not have been eavesdropping.”

“That’s okay,” he murmured. 

“While I find your… situation… to be perplexing, your dedication is commendable… and perhaps a bit inspiring,” she smiled as the doors to the transport closed behind them. 

“Uh, thank you, General.”

“Fives, you are aware that the things you have claimed are extremely unbelievable, yes?” she said as they entered the halls. Idly, Fives wondered how many clones had entered these halls before.

“Yes, sir,” he nodded, adding that “it was unbelievable to me too, the first dozen times” under his breath.

She took him directly to the High Council Chamber, telling him–and the pair of guards by the door–to “stay put. I mean it, Fives. Do not lose this opportunity” before entering the chambers.

He glanced at one of the guards. “I’m not going anywhere, but if I don’t move my legs right now I’m going to lose my mind.”

The guard didn’t answer save for a small nod. He thanked them and began pacing.

“You’re not the first to wear down the floor out here,” Plo Koon said, the chamber door closing behind him. He couldn’t be sure, but Fives was fairly certain he was smiling beneath that mask. “And I am certain you won’t be the last.’

“General Koon,” Fives chirped automatically, standing up at attention. 

“At ease, Trooper,” Koon answered. “If you are ready, the Council is ready to hear your story.”

Suddenly, the weight of everything happening to him seemed to hit him. Not just his own fate, but the fate of all of his brothers rested squarely on his shoulders. The fate of Tup’s honor sat there, as well. If he could prove that what happened with General Tiplar wasn’t Tup’s fault…

“Fives?” Shaak Ti whispered. He hadn’t noticed her come out. “Are you ready?”

Fives took a deep breath, squaring his shoulders.

“Ready as I’ll ever be, General.”

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[xinyuehui]

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[threepoint14art]

cosa que me encontre en twitter :9

[nach0]

ok i think i'm done for tonight but when i hop on tomorrow; i might need help

i've done the loop with helping everyone twice, sif is losing their mind (what else is new) and afaik i've gone and done all the quests and gotten all the information? do i just keep playing over again?

the main thing i can think of is odile's suspicions about the loops- or just something about sif in general- but i haven't figured out how to get her to act on them just yet

so yeah if anyone has any (preferably non spoiler but if that's unavoidable that's fine) tips on what i should be doing let me know <3

[mbti-notes]

Hey, hope you are doing well ! I had a question concerning one issue i’m dealing with.

I’m a 19yo ENFJ. In the ENFJ ego development article, i recognize myself when it’s say « you imagining being criticized ». I’ve noticed that when i’m sharing an opinion, when i’m expressing my feelings, or when i let someone know that i didn’t like something they did to me, i imagine them saying like the worst things to me and i get angry, defensive, as if they really did. Lately it has gotten a little better because when it starts, i’m able to tell myself that it is all in my mind, that i can’t tell that they will react like this, that it won’t help to assume the worse, that those people would never do me like that. But it’s still is really stressful and overwhelming. Any tips to manage it and understand it better ?

You seem to be referring to underlying self-esteem and self-worth issues that are common for FJs, so I suggest you read past posts. As explained in the Type Dev guide, the key to personality development lies in the auxiliary function. It provides introverted balance to extraverts (as well as extraverted balance to introverts).

To be an "immature" ENFJ basically means Fe+Se often run away into extremes because there is no introverted counterbalancing force. Such ENFJs only know to define people's identity or measure their worth through external appearances. As long as you can maintain the appearance of being a good person through obtaining momentary praise from others, then you're really a good person? As long as you can maintain the appearance of harmony by submitting to others and denying the disharmony you feel within, then your relationships are really strong? Proper auxiliary Ni development should help counter this superficial way of thinking.

Do you live your life as though you're always performing? Is the way you behave in front of others the entirety of who you are? Is there nothing inside you that exists independently from how others perceive you? If you're constantly allowing others to define and measure you, you will suffer from insecurity, since your feelings about yourself will shift with every little change in the social winds.

Developing introverted functions involves forming a stronger sense of self with a solid personal boundary, and possessing inner substance that others don't always see and can't touch. As such, your opinion about yourself should matter just as much, if not more than outside opinions. An important aspect of ego development is learning how to be an independent individual, to stand on your own two feet and stand up for yourself as necessary. Of course, you can learn to advocate for yourself in a way that produces as little harm to others as possible, e.g., by improving your communication skills or conflict resolution skills.

The purpose of Ni+Ti development is to connect with the whole truth. It sounds like the root of your problem is that you don't operate on truth but merely on insecurity. The consequence of caring more about surface appearances than underlying truth is that you won't know the truth of who you are, and your naivete makes you gullible and susceptible to any and every attempt by others to influence you (for good or bad). But when you value the truth above all else and know how to connect to the whole truth of who you are, the words of others will only matter to you to the extent that they are truthful.

[marcmiauu]

VERANO A MEDIAS solo queria dibujar a benja y sus amigos en el cricket

benja lo llevó a elliot a verlo jugar y ni siquiera le dijo a los amigos que lo tenia de pareja,, y elliot se quiere hacer el misterioso.

BUENO CONTEXTO DEL GRUPITO DE BENJA

son 4, arthur roscoe, matthew dunn, lowell callingwood y benjamin scott (xd) tienen todos la misma edad menos lowell que es un año menor, calculo que benja es el mayor del grupo.

se conocen porque benja entra al colegio y se hace amigo de arthur, este ya era amigo de lowell y arman un grupito, después se une matthew al ser amigo de lowell!! aparte jugaban todos cricket así q xd

en resumen son 4 boludos (uno más que el otro) y se quieren mucho, se celan entre si (en joda (creo)) plot twist: a arthur le gusta benjamin y de hecho fue mutuo en un momento pero nunca se confesaron y benja lo superó </3

[lovealotgirl]

it’s me n my identity crisis against the world 💪

[loopscereal]

mi par favorito de perdedores

[thorsenmark]

I’m Off to Explore Lassen Volcanic National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking along the Manzanita Lake Loop with a view looking to the southeast across the waters of Manzanita Lake. This is in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Lassen Peak is the backdrop beyond an opening in the trees. My thought in composing this image was to take advantage of this opening and what I felt were the layers present from the nearby thicket and woods, to the more distant shoreline with the forest of trees, and finally ridges and peaks. I also liked the balance between the trees and forest with the reflections off the waters.