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inkbrushmood · 11 months ago

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IKB WIND: Swim Against The Current (2024)

#ikb wind #graphic design #illustration #ikb original art #quote #inspirational #motivation #swim against the current #inkbrushmood design #inkbrushmood.com #sunday koan day #visual koan #quotes #koan #zen

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gramarobin · 2 years ago

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#dead fish #go with the flow #swim against the current #go your oun way

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emotionalripple · 1 year ago

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...don't be afraid to follow your own path...

#follow #follow your own path #destiny #strength #determination #surreal #dream #swim #swim against the current

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comixandco · 1 year ago

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cleo sertori had a fear of swimming since she was a child and nobody considered for a second that getting stranded on a boat in the middle of the sea then falling into a cave system where she had to swim through subterranean water tunnels to the ocean where she had to tread water until a s&r team found them would be traumatic and exacerbate her fear into full aquaphobia

secretly becoming a mermaid helped her get over her fear but to everybody else her being cagey about the pool party and washing the dishes makes 100% sense when they stop for a moment and consider she’s probably terrified

#h2o just add water #cleo sertori #lewis like ‘i don’t know what’s going on with her lately’ bestie you know what’s going on #they were missing for hours #it’s fucking rude that her parents weren’t more supportive like ik it was the 2000s and nobody believed in therapy but it wouldn’t be that #hard to switch cleo from dishwashing to hoovering and bin duty or fucking. yard work. or if it’s about helping out at dinnertime they could #teach her how to cook she could do meal prep #honestly not enough people thought cleo was pretty courageous like she was out there facing her fear everyday #she went through those tunnels she painted her room like the ocean and kept fish she helped emma with her training before the incident on #mako she was trying to overcome her fear every day #also. emma’s parents thinking she had depression and trying to help was A+ parenting but it was also possible that emma was also traumatise #like?? it’s one thing to swim in a pool and be fast it’s another to push against currents while pulling your friend who can’t swim #and the tunnels were long too they almost ran out of air #i think after that her reluctance to swim should make a bit of sense lmao

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skekbi · 29 days ago

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Various SATC doodles cause I been thinking bout him and his cat (whos actually average scug size SATCs just pocket sized) Hopefully Ill finish the thing Im writing soon

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useless-catalanfacts · 2 years ago

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Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

#I'm from a seaside town that has become popular with tourists who come for the beach and the mediterranean climate #and the typical whitewashed walls of mediterranean coastal towns #in just a few years the average rent has gone up so much that now the average rent id #*is over 1000€ per month #one thousand!#that's a whole salary!#in the past 2 years they've been building a new neighbourhood. they've destroyed the vinyeards to make a new neighbourhood that will make #the town 1/3 bigger than it is. that's a lot. but all those houses are luxury houses with private swimming pools for rich foreigners (we #already have 2 private British schools high schools and college(in the british sense)/baccalaureate where their kids go and never have to #interact with locals. I teach some of those kids and they're very prejudiced against locals and very bigoted against the catalan language #(which ofc they never bother to learn)#there's a law in catalonia that says that for every certain amount of houses you build you are obligated to build a certain percentage of #affordable housing. so in this new neighborhood they built the bare minumum affordable housing which is still too expensive for us #and since there's so few of them everyone is competing to get them. the city hall and the bank have had to make an official competition for #them but you only classify if the renr would not be more than 1/3rd of your salary which is impossible. my cousins who are in their mid 30s #and have been working a good qualified job for 15 years (and their partners too) are considered too poor to be considered for the #affordable housing #everyone is having to move out to other cities away from their friends and family and current jobs. the only jobs left here soon will be #mostly directed at tourists #and the only way to continue living here if you're a normal person and not rich is if you're an only child who one day might inherit the #parents' house #but we look around at what's happening in nearby cities and we see the next step which will be airbnb taking the houses that are left #in many places (I've posted about thia before) there aren't any flats for rent or sell anymore that isn't an airbnb #I'm still lucky in my town when compared to other places like Barcelona which are already full of the airbnb plague #actualitat #airbnb #tourism #touristic massification #gentrification

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valtsv · 2 years ago

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Where did you swim in the open ocean? And how scary was it?

i grew up by the sea

#it wasnt really scary except for the fact that swimming back to shore always took longer than youd expect #because you had to fight against currents and also sometimes the tides #it was very easy to panic if you werent used to barely making headway after several minutes of fighting with the water #and didnt know how to adjust your course appropriately

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cherrymoonvol6 · 1 year ago

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mannnn what really gets me about the "family" scene in TTT is how hunter clearly wants to impress luz. he wants her to respect him and to think he's cool, and not only can we see that in all the ways that luz basically refuses to do so (and how that comprises most of their banter), but also in other moments where hunter is in a vulnerable state around luz. like hollow mind for example, where after hunter hears the truth about his nature as a grimwalker, this is how he steps out:

he's completely closed off to luz: he even steps out with his fucking eyes closed, turning his back to her as soon as he's able to. like he can't even bear the fact that she's able to look at him while he's in this state.

and this happens in TTT too: when hunter brings luz to the old house to "fight off belos", he's clearly shaken and inestable and luz first tries to address it by suggesting them to wait for the group, but he insists and then ends up voicing how he hates feeling this scared, this vulnerable around luz. and this is where she takes another approach and offers the masks.

and it's just soooo cute how hard luz is thinking about this, trying to come up with anything that will make hunter feel better, and her cute expression when she sees the masks 😭 and ofc hunter's reaction is perfect too:

like this is beyond thoughtful for her to recognize this as one of hunter's insecurities and earnestly do something to make it better. and i love the subtext of the masks being representations of luz's found family from the boiling isles... aside from the moment NOT happening in the noceda household to begin with. because hunter's not a noceda babyyyyyyy and also how hunter DOESN'T get the king mask because king is luz's brother and hunter is NOT luz's brother this is amazing thank you verrrry much

what makes this moment even better is that when luz verbalizes what's clear for us now, that hunter is part of the group, that hunter is someone worth taking care of and he is loved and considered family by luz, he's still wearing the mask luz gave him.

which means he's able to fully allow himself to feel and express the emotional impact of this moment because, thanks to luz's gesture, his emotional boundaries are completely met and respected by luz. like holy FUCK they love each other SO much 😭😭😭😭

#the owl house #lunter #they have completely taken over my life by now. i wish this was a joke #i even made a playlist. like only my numero uno had made me reach those desperate measures before. well not anymore!#how amazing that this moment is impactful in making hunter crucial in luz's life but NOT as a noceda. nuh uh. anything else literally #not even a clawthorne either btw lmfaoooooooo like hdsjhds sibling truthers you are swimming against the current here

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dopepoisonivyoncrack · 11 months ago

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*sigh* I wish loving small breasts wouldn't feel so much like activism

#blorbos always love big breasts. character is beautiful so she must be given big breast...#if one writes a fic with small breast is like swimming against the current #ivy shitpost

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glassfirefly · 6 months ago

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Once again feeling frustrated by the way this fandom overlooks the Barright ship. I spent years disappointed by the lack of content about them and seriously, I don’t get it: they have a lot of potential, much more than most of the popular ships. There, I finally said it.

#at this point i’m quite used to swimming against the current #venting or something #barright

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gentlethorns · 2 months ago

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you know what? i'm gonna say it. i miss being seventeen. not for the "glory days," bc they weren't, by a country mile lol. if i had glory days i'd say they were in 2020. but i miss the electricity, the constant undercurrent of euphoria and deep plunging black. i miss the fight i had. i was literally known for being scrappy. i was self-destructive and coping poorly, but goddamn if i didn't burn bright and long. it took me until my twenties to finally start to fizzle out. does the candle with its wax melted down to the base of its glass cage miss when the wick was lit?

#she bork #it's not even that i'm tired of fighting necessarily. clearly. if i was i wouldn't miss it. i think i miss being ABLE to fight. now i just #don't feel like i have the grit i used to have. i'm not sure if it's bc i'm healthier mentally or bc my energy has just dissipated over time #but i miss taking hit after hit (metaphorically) and wiping the blood from my lip and standing again and raising my fists. i don't do that #anymore. and again even if it's bc i'm healthier i'm not sure it's a good thing that that stubbornness and grit is gone. is it automatically #better to seek the path of least resistance? i'm not sure.#maybe it's learned helplessness? idk i mean logically one person can only suffer so much before they learn it's better not to fight or that #fighting isn't even always possible. but i've always struggled. i've always gone head-first into these things and white-knuckled it and made #it through even if only w self-violence (which was often remarked upon as self-discipline). now i feel like i just flounder and flop and cry #like a fish w a wailing voice on the dock as it loses its breath. i really do think it's partially bc i'm sane now but somewhere inside me #that crazy flame still dances. and ik that bc from time to time i still feel the heat against the sides of the glass. maybe it's a lack of #confidence. maybe it's that ik now that it's impossible to hate yourself into a different better shape (both physically and mentally). but #it was so exciting to try. if i'm miserable regardless i'd at least rather be having fun.#furthermore it could also be that my chaos is no longer external. a lot of what i have going on is internal/physical and it's a daily thing.#fighting daily is a lot harder than fighting through my shitty relationship or that one season of volleyball that destroyed me mentally lol #(ik that sounds ridiculous but it was pretty fucking bad). i'm no longer fighting against other people or external circumstances that i feel #a need to prove myself against. i'm fighting my own body which has proven a tougher match than anticipated. bc how can i? i live here. i #cannot will my body to function. i can swim against the currents of my illness and often do. but that's less glamorous than punching walls #and running for miles like i used to. i want to break a hand. i want to run three miles in half an hour. i want to doll myself up for a #dance and spend the whole night driving w the windows down strung out on a cocktail of cortisol and dopamine. i want to live in the eye of #the hurricane again. and i never will. and it's good but i think it's made me soft.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years ago

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[from my files]

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Thanks, Rebecca Solnit! Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, talks about a swim he once took. A decent swimmer in his own estimate, Vedantam went out into the sea one day and discovered that he had become superb and powerful; he was instantly proud of his new abilities. Far from shore, he realized he had been riding a current and was going to have to fight it all the way back to shore. “Unconscious bias influences our lives in exactly the same manner as that undercurrent,” Vedantam writes. “Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers; those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine.” Joan Halifax

[via “alive on all channels”]

#Joan Halifax #Alive On All Channels #my flickr files #metaphor #the sea #swimming against the current #strength #quotes

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saccharineomens · 1 year ago

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ough. i need 2 things right now

-a five hour long hug

-a job offer in animation with people who treat me like a person and not a machine that pays a wage high enough to cover my $3k/month student debt

#vent #misc #so exhausted of feeling like im swimming against a current that's headed for a waterfall

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keeps-ache · 2 years ago

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