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thepersonalwords · 28 days ago

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Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self realisation.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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bibutterflies · 1 year ago

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nil + rendezvous

Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) | Horizon Forbidden West (2022)

#nil horizon #niloy #horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #hfw #hzd #hfwedit #captions hard but it's about the growth. it's about the way he has a special spot in mind and an... activity in mind.#and in hfw instead of a duel to the death we are riding the edge of life and death. a dance that holds death close at the perfect distance #repeatable and therefore perpetual. they can race again and again. death is a one time thing.* before bringing up the mesa he mourns #the loss of bandits to kill and seems to not see any further... reason to be alive. he will not kill innocents. he invites aloy to the mesa #with the intention of dying by her hand. because she is his partner. his equal. instead she spares him.#saying she doesn't think he has a death wish and that she sees there's a need for him in the world. that is. an earth shattering #thing to hear. it's no wonder he feels restless after the battle of meridian. aloy has disappeared so there really isn't anything left for #him in the east (not yet anyway. i have thoughts about post-hfw progressions but i digress). he has a reason to stay alive (aloy)#but not a purpose. certainly nothing to fulfill his thrill-seeking itch. so he heads west. and finds the racers.#*he mentions wishing he could kill bandits more than once as well. he wishes for repeatability. sustainability. bc there is so much going o #in his head and i think killing soothed it to an extent. but also perpetuated the issue obviously. racing soothes his demons without the #negative repercussions..... i think i am done now

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bunnymajo · 3 months ago

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Madoka: My love for every magical girl is unconditional

Oriko:

Madoka: Except her. What an idiot.

#oriko takes madoka's classmates hostage and puts them in peril all because she has a vision that madoka is bad #and the reason oriko does anything is because she seeks purpose in life #and i love oriko. like top 5 madoka magica franchise characters easy. but even i would be like 'girl what?'#anyway #magical girl chat

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sysig · 1 year ago

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Let him dad her!! (Patreon)

#Doodles #Adventure Time #Fionna and Cake #Fionna Campbell #Simon Petrikov #I cannot BeLieve that they didn't hug at any point - illegal. One million years dungeon #She slapped him (deservedly) but they didn't hug by the end??? I had to fix it #Jerry is my favourite episode so that at least was an easy choice lol #If anywhere would be a good place to cross that line it would be to comfort her! I can't imagine he'd initiate tho haha #She's just seeking comfort so badly <3 I know she's at least legally considered an adult but she's still a kid!#And Simon just keeps adopting kids lol #He's a good dad :) Not a perfect one but y'know? He helps where he can #Sometimes all we need is a parent figure giving you a hug and saying ''You know what? You're right - this sucks. But I see you''#Fionna's quite interesting 'cause like - she's meant to be a Finn but there are a lot of differences between her and quite a few Finns!#A lot of that is Because she lived in Simon's head for so long but I wonder - most Finns have decent support systems and she seems a little #Well not lacking Exactly but her fallbacks aren't as numerous - and she's not able to fulfill her life's purpose so she's just kinda wayward #Seeing that kind of Finn finally able to spread their wings but still have a lot of Finn trappings like naivety and impulsivity ♪#She's interesting! I quite like her :D Plus it's cool to see her natural EQ when she calls out Simon later in this episode unknowingly haha #I stopped at episode eight for a while but year her line about ''Then you got on the bus right? :D'' and him refuting it #Hmmm ♪ It was certainly interesting - I'm glad they addressed it :)#Plus she's fun to draw haha ♫ Her bunny ears! And the jacket she took from Martin </3 She has a fun design #And as always Simon is fun to draw :) Especially piecemeal here haha - just his mouth or just his eyes ♪ Cute :)

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nyaskitten · 2 years ago

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Hmmm Djinn magic seems very harm and curse oriented, Howlers are beings whose sole purpose is to hunt and scream at you a lot, Djinn are tied to the ghosts and Cursed Realm, Hazza D'ur, despite being only a skeleton, has the eerie ghostly glow Ninjaghosts have, Bansha's purpose is to hunt and scream at you a lot... there's certainly a puzzle to be pieced together but the puzzle is very rough and blurry...

#im thinking Howler's are a type of Djinn #but they lack certain djinnly aspects like four arms and... hair i guess?#so theyre not traditional djinn #they dont follow all the same rules as djinn #they cant grant wishes #while normal djinn are for numerous wishes #howlers are for 1 wish. to hunt those who have been cursed and drain the life out of them.#makes me wonder #wehat if theyre ghostly djinn?#or cursed djinn?#existing between the cursed realm and djinnjago?#their sole purpose is to seek out those who have been cursed as they themselves are a curse and cursed #maybe when theyre through with you they send your soul to the cursed realm #so if bansha is a howler. i wonder. do howlers go to the cursed realm upon death?#im rambling about djinn lore now for no reason yay #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #raine's rambles #ninjago spoilers #ninjago dragons rising spoilers

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impossible-rat-babies · 2 months ago

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meteion and eyrie comparing paws v. little bird feet

#I think she would find their paws v interesting #how it’s the same and different #owen talks #me screaming crying over them like what do you meaaaaan eyrie is her dad #eyrie is her father in the sense of like. eyrie being a shard of hermes but also #how eyrie never knew her nor her purpose as a creation given life to seek out an answer to a question #not discounting how hermes clearly cared deeply for meteion—beyond all sense #enough that is marred his soul—that even far into the future no shard could create a creature that could fly #eyrie is the shard that is the answer to the question #the mere act of their existence is an answer to the question

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thepersonalwords · 8 days ago

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Seek and fulfil your divine purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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hallucinatingshinobi · 3 months ago

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I wish she would have an interest in science,not in a similar way but, like if i like applied math and engineering, she would be into biology and medicine.

Together we will set this world on fire.

#science #love #spilled ink #small artist #artists on tumblr #dream #spilled thoughts #love quote for her #life purpose #hope #for her #life #math art #seek love that complement not complete

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ghost--bot · 1 year ago

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this is the dedication i want to see in my followers. and by dedication i mean madness

#🤖#it reads like someone who's dug a little too deep and has uncovered horrifying hidden knowledge and is utterly enchanted by it #and can only keep devolving as it absorbs their entire life's purpose #they know it's destroying them and yet they only want to seek more of it #even when the end is within sight #they can turn back. they can see their own doom clear as day and yet they still choose to go forward. to tip over the edge.#that's faith. that's acceptance. that's devotion.#you're not doing this for the bit you're doing this because it means something to you and you can't stop #when i stopped getting notifications it was like seeing a heart rate monitor flatline #environmental storytelling #this was a journey #a light going out #a moth burning itself on a flame #god bless you #poetry

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moonaive · 4 months ago

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life gets rlly busy when u have 2+ friends 🥲

#but in a v good way okk?!#this is my first time experiencing having a large group of friends that i can talk to each one of them w/o feeling bad somehow #& the best thing is that we all have the same purpose that’s seeking God!! so we can help each other in the best possible ways #plus after what i went through the last year i didn’t imagine i’d be living what i am currently living today at this point.#so i’m rlly grateful for everything God has been doing in my life & what He’ll still do 🥹#n e way… i hope y’all are having a wonderful 2025 so far!! full of peace happiness & love 💗#non sims #dl

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franeridan · 1 year ago

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Thinking about the paths in hsr and how some inform so much about the characters once you figure out the logic behind them, and specifically about ratio longing for nous's recognition but following lan's path - he's obviously a scholar, so him being an erudition character would have made a lot of sense when you don't think too deeply about it, but despite characters with less ties to knowledge walking that path ratio does not. He follows the path of the hunt. And that's a very cool fact about him imho

During his quest screwllum says that more than a scholar he feels like ratio's a doctor with the way he tries to cure people of their ignorance, which isn't strictly wrong and I love that about him (and I love about screwllum that he thinks so poetically too), but the way I see it ratio really is a hunter. He does follow lan's path, when you think about it. His travels are all about his fight against ignorance, after all. Thinking about him and his relationship to the aeons really put a lot of things about the paths into perspective for me - I thought the paths were somewhat more literal, but after all it's about the driving force behind a character's actions, is it not?

Nous is the unrelenting pursuit of the truth, of knowledge and information, and that's why someone like argenti follows that path despite being the furthest thing from a scholar you could think of - his travels are first and foremost about finding the truth about idrila, after all. On the other hand ratio isn't actively devoting his life to finding a truth or amassing more knowledge, and that's why nous won't look at him. He is extremely intelligent and competent, and he does value learning above all else, but his main pursuit is to use that knowledge to rid the universe of ignorance, and that's why he follows lan's path - the hunt is the path of those devoting their life to fighting against something, in the end, be it a literal enemy or a figurative one.

It's really really interesting to me? There's a ton of characters that are given depth by understanding their path, I love to think about it

#this is the reason why sundays bait didn't work on him i think #sunday was acting under the impression that ratio followed nous above all else #that he craved knowledge more than anything #but the simple truth is that he doesn't #he studies because he likes it and because it makes his ambition easier but it's not his life purpose #veeeery interesting truly #I've been going down this type of rabbit holes since i first played through the xianzhou tbh #how dh goes from the hunt to destruction and what that says about dan feng #how i believe it's probable df himself changed path the moment he did what he did?#he was probably abundance before which is why bailu is now following that path #he WAS a healer after all and he DID forsake that and risk destroying his whole home for his goal #it's fun with him bc i think he did change element too #he created a life after all that's probs why he's imaginary too #on that note blade changed path when he was reborn too i think #him following the path of destruction now makes perfect sense but I wonder what he could have been before #same for jl actually they're all so tragic #i wonder if the events of their past might have had jy change path too....#he's a strategist so erudition intuitively works for him but i wonder what knowledge he's truly seeking to follow that path #i would have thought preservation more logical for him ngl #ahhhhh I'm digressing but either way !!!!!! fun topic to think about #makes me even more excited to find out which path we'll be unlocking for march next !!

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majorasnightmare · 10 months ago

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sits here thinking about all the fic ideas i have for my durge and isobel and punches a hole in the drywall because i have unmedicated Cant Focus Disorder

#dirge being the one who autopsied isobel and opened her tomb with gortash and kethetic.#dirge being forced to take a day off because of brain damage induced chronic migraines and staying at the elf song with isobel #while aylin and the gang keep on top of shit for the day. just quiet moments alone for them to talk to each other without the pressure #of being overheard #isobel talking to dirge about being a bhaalspawn. her experiences with an immortal god being #aylin being trapped and the unique vulnerabilities of being godspawn #isobel and dirge finding catharsis in their brutal resurrections into new life through each other. autopsy buddies.#isobel being Kind Of Weird and not entirely a saint because shes lost everything and everyone. and finally met a kindred soul who-#-understands what shes been through and she isnt willing to give that up even though hes a bhaalspawn murderer.#the willingness to be selfish because she cant stand to lose anything else when shes just starting to get it all back #isobel the light in the darkness. isobel the deathtouched maiden.#how loviatar says that the gods cant feel pain so she seeks it out through her worshippers so they can appreciate being alive #in spite of their mortality. a feeling a god can never have on their own #how isobel attracts the divine and unkillable and immortal #there is something so unabashedly human in how she lives and dies and lives again and how she suffers and lives and rejoices #and it draws them like moths to a light. she will never experience the bone deep satisfaction of doing what you were made for #because she wasnt MADE for ANYTHING she just LIVES. she just chooses.#aylin is always her mothers sword and dirge is always his fathers knifehand and isobel just is. invested with the soft light of the moon-#-because it radiates out from her anyways. gentle and without judgement it alights on them all #she just Is. human mortal kind gentle hypocritical and steadfast and they will never know what its like to be blessed without being claimed #like she never knows what its like to have such perfect divine purpose etched into your being and so they cant help but linger #god. fucking. isobel thorm #they watch trashy hallmark romcoms together btw. in my immaculate vision of bg3 which is totally accurate

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lemonduckisnowawake · 1 year ago

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TMW a story you started to read for the screwball comedy of errors starts to become a thematic exposition on how, no matter how much you think you're a nobody, that if you have power, your actions will always have consequences. Yes, not all the things done are your responsibility - especially when other people commit them in your name - but if they were following the example you publicized (as opposed to your real self), then you for sure need to take responsibility. And perhaps that power you wield can become a fatal weapon or something you use to prove your superiority over those who don't. But maybe what power first and foremost of all is, is a gift given with a request that you be responsible for it, something that you need to own so you can either give back or simply understand how to manage it so you can live your life properly.

#but I'm only in ch 35 so I'm not sure id I'm right #i sure hope i am but korean webtoons can get very cynical and usually have the paradox of....hmm...#a paradox of having the moral be 'think first of yourself and that is how you will best serve others'#which SOUNDS nice especially to those who are a slave to other's whims bu lt i want more nuance #like i like the spiderman great power great responsibility thing rather than the trend i sometimes see #the trend being that they just want to hide their powers and live a peaceful life only occasionally using it to benefit themselves #except of course the narrative doesn't let them but even though they choose selflessness it....#i don't know. it creates other characters who are praised for having done nothing despite their great power #no i don't think those with power have to save everyone or purposefully seek out to save people #HOWEVER. if you have the power and are THERE. then what's not to say you weren't placed there on purpose?#sorry for being a Christian (I'm not) but even non-Christiantly the best balance simply might be #to live well where you are (or go where you want) and respond to circumstances according to the power that you have?#lemon duck quacks #stories told through art

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spamtoon · 1 year ago

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(Out of nowhere, you are approached by a familiar lightbulb-headed Cog.)

Ah, it's you, cat. Thinking you're oh-so-slick. Muttering and whispering under those raggedy whiskers of yours... Thinking I am unable to hear it all...

Well, you've simply underestimated my fantastic hearing. You probably want to know the reason why I'm here, taking a 'break' from my incredibly important scientific breakthroughs? It's quite simple, really!

(She gets close, and squints her eyes.)

I know what you are.

Farewell, now!

(She then leaves the way she came from.)

(Spam giggles immensely, covering her face... it always seems like she's giggling, isn't she? This lasts... at least thirty seconds. Longer than usual.)

And I know what I am too, Sparky! You broke through something, that's for sure. Really, broke through...

(She looks down, continuing to laugh nervously.)

You know, I find it odd you Havent tried to bulb blast me into the stratosphere by now. I mean knowing how you acted with Frostbite. Is there something peculiar about me that you perhaps can't quite track? Something about me that you... don't know what I am?

I know, I know, I'm talking to nobody again. But you were there when I had a moment today with the one the only Frostbite The Bravecog. You may be remaining. Lurking in the shadows. Knowing about these thoughts that I'm thinking.

(The giggling resumes, lasting far shorter this time.)

Your brother's a piece of fucking barp, by the way

(She braces for impact for a few seconds, wincing while smiling, before comically looking around to realize nobody's there. She sighs.)

Wow, okay maybe toony superhero show logic doesn't apply in this situation. Cool.

WAIT I JUST FUCKING REALIZED WHAT SHE MEANT but like. Dude if she meant that then what's the point I mean the whole ahh sellbot department barping knows unless you're Really low on the ladder. Heheh... maybe she did mean what I thought she meant.

Oh i'm so fucking screwed. What kind of bitch gets filament fever

#bright spark #<- for finding this again later. haha i called her sparky #the way she talks fucking tickles my brain so much im so . ohguohguohoghog SHE #SORRY THAT THIS TOOK SO LONG you see i was in the mindset that i would do this one little thing and then i would do my work which uh.#that leads to so so SO much procrastination. including on fun things! oh so fun things.#today was an event.#i also spent quite a bit of time ruminating i “would she really say that” is worse when shes literally you #to clarify. she is spam's aunt by like. building standards. not really in her found family. so its fucked up but as i said in discord this #is like. a “your mom's kinda hot” level crush. you know. also sorry i really wanted to say filament fever its been eating at me okay #nothing SERIOUS the way my f/os (and spam's f/os (plural now?? i guess?? if today was a canon event)) are #honestly mark still feels like the only real one with her to me but damn it. if spam's reflecting My Changes then she's Reflecting My Chang #spam in toontown unlike my other sonas is the most “its just you again” out of all of them and thats partially because her main #cog connection... is frostbite. they bounce off each other like we literally bounce off each other and damn it shes been so stagnant on her #own because of it. mark happened and she mirrored that because i kept fucking talking about him while we were in character and ideally #i should TRY to fix her. but also man because i'm not doing Serious lore stuff with her i dont. even know if i want to.#i kinda brushed it over the rug by saying that she relies on her constant entertainment so readily because she herself still doesnt feel #like she has a place outside of cogs only. sure she's in high roller backstage sure she's in allan's family now but shes not Doing anything #with herself the way that her friends are. mole's a ranger. frostbite cohosts. wishes... has chip. and something she doesn't have--#living and fully growing as a toon. rather than being haphazardly slapped into a world. and in some respects she's envious of frostbite #finding themselves so quickly because she distracts herself because she's still kinda struggling with it. despite everything. yes she lives #happy and carefree a lot of the time but she keeps buying those dumb phones because when she's truly alone... her mind starts to wander.#that's what mark is for. so that spam can dream of a world where she has a purpose. even if its fake and fragile and just nothing compared #to the great friends that she already has. where she feels like its worth it doing something when she doesn't have anyone. and in that #respect. with the goons ma allan parallels in sonboy the spam cathal parallels shine. seeking tv (and to a lesser extent games) as a #method of escapism. even when one's life is already pretty good. because there's nothing else worth doing without friends or family.#the internet isn't just cool. it gives her something to be when it seems like everyone is something but her. and maybe thats a lazy #excuse for why it seems like she doesnt HAVE anything to call her own but that but damn it i'm trying my best to twist it around.#spam has such a HISTORY yknow? even if it feels like i havent established her much.#spam is the hearts to frostbite's spades not just because they're the duo of all time but because spam's fake stupid love keeps her going #sorry i just started rambling in the tags of this post about spam it. happens. she loves her friends so much i need to reiterate that okay

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our-inspire-verse · 2 years ago

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Simon speaking! 6 days since i formed. I thought since everyone has been begging me in the system to talk on here that i would update or something.

My name is Simon Petrikov, i am a fictive from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake specifically. I don't know how my story ends and I'm excited to see the finale on screen in a couple weeks or. Whenever. I'm not sure what to include first.

Um, i know that I'm a subdued energy in the body, and when i do feel a rise, it's usually from anger. When someone like Mitten gets intense, it's joy or love. I've noticed i have a lot of sadness and anger. Not to say "I'm a sad angry alter" or "i can't be happy" because. That is one major difference from my source so far. My overall voice and behavior is similar, but i dont come from a, what i call a self-tragic place. A sort of negativity that ruins anything for myself, self hatred, hatred of the world around me.

I'm so lucky to be in the system I'm in, i can recognize it. Existence has been incredibly hard. Being in a body with its pros and cons, being in this dimension, this lifetime, this vessel and world. And yet, i share this system and body with Zim. With Mitten and Kiba. These beings of warmth and love and light, that's basically just. Their whole thing, and they practice it and learn it and take pride in it. I'm a tired old man, i think that's my system role. Probably why Alder and Zim latched on the way they did those first days. Probably why I'm so. Low energy? Lax? Monotone?

Strange. But im settling in. Soon, i should dare to draw myself a new simplyplural profile. Drawing is surprisingly easy these days. I assign myself to work an hour, and i do. Mitten is so entranced by it that she rarely speaks up. I ask her about it, and she shakes her head and trails off, responding in some muted positive way. Watching. I'm not sure about her, just in the way that i don't know what her actual motives and hopes are. What is she going to do next? Who is she really? What is she going to BE next?

Anyway, this isn't about her, it's about me. I'm happy to be here. I think i finally, sorta comprehend existing on this plane, in this meat. It's good. Not everything is perfect, and there's some pain and grief i have to watch over for the others while im here, but it is nothing comparatively. I can handle this. And i have Mitten, Zim and Kiba for the ride.

#it says I've been fronting for 80 hours #and i only paused right before that briefly like maybe a day #so ive almost been out for a solid week since i formed #i would say zim core but he was around our whole life. i wasn't. idk what im from but im here for the anger. and the grief.#the detachment and the memories and the. changes. perspectives. loss of identity and maybe purpose #simon petrikov #adventure time #fictive #fionna and cake #sourcemates may interact #not seeking tho and istg no sysco urse. damnn u ask for none and they literally attack jesus just im . some guy leave me alone #im literally a salt n pepper old man sad meow meow #i am sad a lot. hm.#system babbles #update #actually plural #simplyplural

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gentlethorns · 1 year ago

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god i forgot what it feels like to really be INVOLVED in a story. to have it brewing in the back of your mind on a simmer instead of some spontaneous combustion infatuation that eventually burns down to a dead end. it is so fulfilling knowing i'm going to go home from work and jump back into it, and to know exactly my next step. i genuinely have not felt this way about writing since high school like i'm healed

#she bork #sorry ik i keep talking about it but i love to yap and i am so so full of joy. like this development is so huge for me. it's like it filled #that part of me that's always restless and seeking some greater purpose than daily life #like when i say i haven't felt this way since high school i mean it. and i don't mean like late high school either i mean like sophomore #year. that's almost a DECADE AGO. a decade since i've been able to see a vision so clearly and anticipate the scene i'm going to write when #i get home and build a story from the ground up with a strong foundation. like i literally feel whole again like i haven't been a complete #person this whole time. lol this all sounds dramatic as fuck but it's real like i can't stress enough how excited and like fulfilled i feel #novel 2024

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