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compassionmattersmost · 4 months ago

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The Radiance of the White AH: A Buddhist Bedtime Story of Guru Yoga

On a quiet night, beneath a sky filled with shimmering stars, little Tenzin lay nestled under his blanket. The soft glow of the hearth flickered across the room, and beside him sat his grandmother, whose voice was as soothing as the wind moving through prayer flags on the mountaintop. “Tonight, my little one,” she whispered, “I will tell you a very special story. It is about a practice called…

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dearmyloveleys · 3 months ago

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love and hatred each fill half the heart.

大梦归离 (Fangs of Fortune) 2024

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#dont get me started on how they turned each other's love and gifts into weapons #i will never get over how lilun's gift is a rattle because he is a newborn in the human world #he doesnt understand the complexity of human emotions #zhuyan is the only one to teach him and before he can fully learn and comprehend #they are separated #before they fall out lilun is left with the only human emotion he knows from zhuyan: friendship #and zhuyan's umbrella is evidence of that human emotion #to shelter someone voluntarily expecting nothing in return #is the simplest yet kindest and loving action that is so human #in fact children learn about true kindness by understanding that it means giving without expecting repayment #in the earlier episodes zhuyan said that it takes a demon hundreds or thousands of years of cultivation to understand a single human emotio #if they never found the demon dungeon i believe lilun would have developed and process human emotions better #his heart was in the right place but they weren't #of course after being locked up for millennia any love he has will turn into hatred #he doesnt need to learn hatred #when you understand a person deeply that depth either turns into love or hatred #the actual CP we deserve #not my essay in the tags again #fangs of fortune #大梦归离 #cdrama #fangs of fortune gifset

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hottakehoulihan · 24 days ago

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There's, like, some cape-groupie wannabe influencer out there? that has some followers on some platform or another? and anyway they have or pretend to have the same first name as Skitter/Weaver/Khepri and make a big deal about this because they're looking for exposure and clout.

Well, you can't blame them for hustling, I suppose. Everyone's gotta pay rent. : /

Still, when their fans or sockpuppets pop into regular conversation about important things to say "tee hee I thought you were talking about Taylor Runner for a minute! (or whatever the name is)" and pretend like this is a real mistake people could really make?

Be gentle and friendly, of course. Gently but FIRMLY shuffle them back into the children's play-zone area, pat them on the head and tell them they're wonderful, and then close the door behind you on the way back.

Otherwise we'll have no end of this kind of thing. 9_9

#thebirdcage #wormblr #Like with a pseudonym like that is she *pretending* to have powers?#that's a good way to get ganked #children are our future and all we should teach them well and etc. ...but dang if that doesn't sound exhausting.#What would Taylor do?#Taylor would be very kind and any awe or fear generated would be an entire accident

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bigskydreaming · 1 month ago

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Some childhood abuse survivors find catharsis in stories about abusive parents going to jail, getting the shit beaten out of them, being definitively disowned by their child or otherwise facing punitive consequences for the abuse they inflict.

Some childhood abuse survivors find catharsis in stories about about abusive parents apologizing to their child & owning their behavior, going to therapy, putting in work to do better by their child while understanding the harm they did will never actually be erased or forgotten, and don't really care if those stories never emphasize or explore punitive consequences in depth.

Some childhood abuse survivors find catharsis in both these things at different times, in different ways, or to different degrees.

Petition for people who do not identify as childhood abuse survivors to internalize that this shit is complicated and thinking that there even are "obvious" outcomes, wants, or reactions here is 100% due to assumptions about childhood abuse survivors stemming almost entirely from generalized and "obvious" storylines. Y'know. As opposed to there ever having been any actual trend in media of survivors taking the lead in exploring a wide range of story directions and resolutions here.

#todays rant brought to you by My What Big Balls You Have lecturing self-identifying survivors about how they “Should” never want #anything to do with parents who have ever abused them. Like. That might seem pretty obvious to anyone who has non-abusive parents #to spare and can afford to imagine HYPOTHETICALLY being better off completely disowning an abusive parent rather than #live with the possibility that they might at some point be abusive again #but when you've lived your entire life WANTING the kind of relationship between non abusive parents and children so much media #& other members of society teach/preach is the Normal Status Quo that everyone “Should” get to enjoy in life.....its actually NOT #quite so obvious a choice to just....go ahead and accept that'll never be a thing you get to have with your parent & is for Other People #so just go ahead and cut your losses there now. its good for you see #and also you're dumb and masochistic if you dont get that. apparently #anyway. stupid opinions that infantilize survivors and assume things ppl have no business assuming dont take holidays!

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vigilskeep · 2 years ago

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i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

#its crazy how people will assume she is all the tropes she subverts and then ignore her #also how sympathy for circle mages’ indoctrination only lasts until they get old i guess and then fuck them #because its not as if they were ever a terrified child who’d never had anything better than a single templar’s mildest kindness and any kind #of home even if it was the tower #so an orphan kid who had no memory of anything but scurrying between farmsteads and hiding in barns #didnt want to leave. what a shock. you guys dont get the place comfort has in keeping circle mages complicit #so it’s violent and terrible and you never have privacy and your children get murdered and you’re always watched and hated #its also a warm bed and community and a chance to succeed #do you honestly think every kid from fucking THEDAS knows theres anything better out there #that doesnt make the circle good. it makes it horrific that they prey on vulnerable kids to teach them the world hates them #and only the circle is ‘safe’#i just think there should be some sympathy for those kids and what they grow up into #its easy for the player to walk in and say their character would hate the circle and never have listened to the templars #its easy for say an amell or even a surana with a family back home to not fear what they left behind #wynne genuinely thinks without the circle mages would all be murdered and she’ll fight and die protecting her fellow mages #from the right of annulment #yes its a flaw that she goes on to teach others the circle must be tolerated and that is precisely how the circle is perpetuated ove #over generations #but its amazing to me to just act like its her fault #well. this is more tags than i expected it to be

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itissadbutitsmy-artblog · 1 month ago

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I think it’s cute if lemongrab can go to wizard city, like the wall lets him in and he's never thought about it before or questioned it, but he doesn’t really exactly grok that he’s A Wizard

he knows that he doesn’t get in trouble for going there, but he knows that some people do. which is kind of a big deal for him

#adventure time #wizard city #<- cuz larry #lemongrab #larry #digital #being a wizard is really more of a molecular thing than an education/trained-in thing #you’re deeply sad and mad and magic glued itself onto your cells bc of it? OK! the wall will let you in #you’re genetically predisposed to magic and also it’s tearing you apart mentally to be able to see the spirit realm and stuff?#OK! the wall will let you in #the wall clearly isn’t trained on each specific wizard. because there’s a SCHOOL OF NEW UNTRAINED CHILDREN #who could all get in. unless they all had to go to an early orientation to teach the wall their voice so they could enter the city #insane.#wc and its population of baby wizards is a menace to ME SPECIFICALLY #okay wow that was all unrelated.#i do think lemongrab would have a problem with the password.#some kindly wizard would be like oh sure young lad password's 'wizards rule' and lg would be like Excuse Me.#wizards rule WHAT. (wall disappears)#and the other guy'd be like well like they just rule in general. dont you agree. raises eyebrow. ahem. young wizard.#and lg would be like ummm i think they need to earn that kind of respeckt. >:/#he begrudgingly agrees it's OK because they 'rule' the city. so technically it is correct. but he has middling problems with it #as a guy who cares about saying correct statements and being precise

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palatinewolfsblog · 2 years ago

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"A child's mind is not a bucket to fill, but a fire to be kindled." Dorothea Brande.

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bisexualmultifandommess · 1 year ago

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Boffins AU where both Bilbo and Bofur raise Frodo after his parents die and Bofur is constantly showing Frodo off and carrying him around because he loves his new nephew/adopted son. He loves to cuddle both Frodo and Bilbo because they’re his entire world.

#anyone upsets them and bofur goes from the funny and kind dwarf to the protective dad and husband #he also loves to play with the other hobbit children especially merry and pippin #bofur definitely teaches frodo all kinds of songs and then frodo teaches them to merry and pippin #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #bofur #bofur the dwarf #frodo baggins #bilbo x bofur #bofur x bilbo #boffins #bilbofur #au #alternate universe

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squorttle-pox · 2 months ago

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idk if it means anything really, but i think it's interesting how after all their time together as a couple in a christianity-adjacent world, lucifer and lilith only had one (1) child, and it was only 200 years ago at that

#for a show based on a religion notorious for the expectation put on women to become mothers (especially at a young age)#(and in certain extreme cases the only real role of a woman being essentially that of a breeding tool/incubator)#it's a neat detail (though quite likely unintentional) that the Ultimate 1 Most Horrible Sinner Couple betrayed heaven's rules #then went on to have a long (happy? generally successful?) relationship without needing/rushing to have children #presumably satisfied with one another rather than feeling obligated to make themselves “useful”#I feel it really highlights exactly the sort of differences that came of lilith choosing lucifer over adam #like no wonder amirite.#freedom for lilith was as small and inherent a thing as bodily autonomy (👀); as getting to have a relationship where she can be loved for #who she is instead of what services she can provide #the show obviously mentions this a lot in other ways but to me a main example of this is the childlessness in their marriage #again idk if it means much but i haven't seen this talked about much i know this specifically is not talked about in the show either #but it's a pretty obvious deviation from what christianity teaches women and what lilith would have especially known to be her role at the #beginning of humanity where they needed to do a lot of ~populating~#even nowadays the expectation for women to become wifes and be subservient to their husbands & the role of sex being purely reproductive #all that time but only 1 kid & so late too just goes to show how absent those roles + rules + expectations were once lilith rejected adam #(and therefore heaven)#which. the detail itself can be interpreted in different ways as can the reaction to this particular interpretation. but personally i'm just #happy for her that she (perhaps/presumably/temporarily) got to experience a loving relationship based on mutual respect and equality etc.#so like good for her #this doesnt really have a point i just thought it was a cool detail #rant post #shitpost #kind of #hazbin hotel #lucilith #i am not trying to generalize christianity itself here btw #and when i say extreme cases i do mean *extreme* as i know it's not reflective of the religion as a whole or it's principles #but in the hellaverse specifically it does seem like those teachings and mentalities and heavily unequal gender roles *were* meant to exist #so the specific lack of their fulfillment with lucilith seems important

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pwurrz · 18 days ago

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every time i think about how triggering and traumatic yakumo’s last event must have been for him (involved with weird cult shit again, kidnapped and put in a room exactly like the one him, eiden and olivine were put in at the academy, forced to witness the brutal genocide of yokai, attacked and nearly killed for openly looking like a yokai/using his yokai powers, watched as the last remaining yokai of the island was forced to sacrifice himself to protect an island inhabited by people who couldn’t care less if he lived or died, etc), i shake just the slightest bit more with rage.

only a little bit more at a time, and yet, somehow i’m already vibrating with enough energy to produce a level of heat that rivals the sun.

#‘yakumo is once again forced to witness human selfishness at its peak’ I THINK HE GETS IT NOW #I THINK HE UNDERSTANDS HOW SELFISH PEOPLE CAN BE #I THINK HE UNDERSTOOD THAT WHEN HE HAD TO WATCH AS HUMANS MURDERED HIS ANCESTOR’S WIFE FOR LITERALLY NO REASON #OTHER THAN THAT SHE WAS MARRIED TO A SERPENT YOKAI WHO WAS KIND TO THE VILLAGE CHILDREN #NO LIKE GUYS I THINK YAKUMO UNDERSTANDS HOW BAD HUMANITY CAN BE #I DON’T THINK THERE’S MUCH OF A POINT IN CONTINUING TO TEACH HIM THAT LESSON #I THINK HE’S BEEN LEARNING THAT LESSON HIS ENTIRE LIFE. ACTUALLY #LIKE. DO YOU WANT HIM TO COMPLETELY SNAP???#BC PERSONALLY I THINK ITS REALLY COOL WHEN CHARACTERS ARE STILL NICE DESPITE EVERYTHING THEY’VE GONE THROUGH #IT TAKES SO MUCH STRENGTH TO BE KIND. OR WHATEVER THE QUOTE WAS #mouser gets angry about yakumo ep 29474002648 #nu carnival #yakumo ♡

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strawberrystepmom · 8 months ago

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i love u family man hajime umemiya

#it's so easy to envision a future with him like the minute you meet him #he's open and honest and kind and handsome and holds the door just perfectly and cooks you dinner at his apartment and #you're looking at that notes app list of baby names after your first date and then closing it out like ugh stop it stop that craziness but #every time you see him you just know...something in you knows...this is the man i want to father my children #you want him to teach them how to kindly disengage from conflict #you want to watch while he uses those big arms to toss a baby over his head and catch the giggling bundle with a smile of his own #after a few too many glasses of wine shared one evening you even let it slip that you think he'd make an excellent father #the tips of his ears turn red but his eyes are heavily lidded and he's like 'oh yeah? have you thought about that a lot?'#and that's how u end up with your ankles behind your ears begging him to give you one <3333 #cw breeding kink #cw dubcon #just to be safe #but yeah im dying over here

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swan2swan · 1 year ago

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Annual reminder that Aang wasn't a terrible dad, that one episode was badly written and had poor perspective. Aang was a busy, working dad who had a lot of stuff to do, and then suddenly his third kid was a full-on Airbender and he was literally the only one qualified to teach this baby, so then he finally had an excuse to put his family before his duties ("My family IS my duty now, suckers!!!"), and so Kya and Bumi were all "What the heck, Dad???" because they were now teens (iirc) and they missed out on all that stuff.

It was basically Aang going from "my family has 20% of my time" to "my family has 40% of my time". Still not enough, probably, but Aang could finally go and explore his own culture without feeling guilty about leaving the rest of the world to fend for itself.

#poor dude probably had all kinds of mental issues #also literally everything else about his dadhood has been outstanding #his son gets a high rank in the navy #his lesbian daughter gets to go do her thing #tenzin had it hardest of all the kids #we can also get into the whole part where Aang's whole culture separated parents from their kids #so he wasn't exactly raised with a child-to-biological-parent bond himself #the perils of culture clash...especially with a devoted water tribe mother #you've got a culture that says ''Family is EVERYTHING parents will teach their children for LIFE''#meeting a culture that says ''Everyone in the world is your family so you have to treat them equally''#.....gosh that story really needs to be explored more #and they could NOT have delivered it more clumsily #or wrapped it up more frustratingly #''here we are lamenting all our insecurities and inner doubts but LOOK THIS FAMILY PHOTO SHOWS US HAPPY WE MUST HAVE BEEN HAPPY''#I mean...they were #but it was also poorly executed #legend of korra #tlok #atla #how to tell the casuals from those who take this seriously #''aang was a bad dad'' do you even READ SUBTEXT

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thegreatyin · 7 months ago

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i feel like i need to share this part of the scoundrel's response to the FL OC census with the rest of the class. it's just. what can i even say, really.

#it is unfortunately really fun writing them being the worst person alive #yin-thoughts #fallen london #if you ever wonder why i habitually bully them it's because they deserve it with takes like this #and they're really comically overdramatic saturday morning cartoon villain coded #their destiny isnt actually the chariot. their destiny is actually either becoming the team rocket to the rest of the master's giovanni #or becoming one of those grumpy reformed children's show villain characters that's portrayed as a Big Threat in the beginning #but then by the end of the second season they've just become like. adopted into the squad as a grumpy tagalong #one of the two. perhaps both simultaneously. they contain multitudes #they're like the kind of character that would have a my little pony episode dedicated to teaching them about the magic of friendship #and perhaps the magic of not discarding one's entire identity to idolize a drunk chiropteran asshole #scoundrelventures

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thelioncourts · 4 months ago

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#the twitter girlies are mad that people are pointing out that a huge aspect of armand/lestat is that lestat looks like marius #'reducing armand's relationship to lestat like that is an injustice to his character' is it though??#because it's true #not only do lestat and marius look alike #but they exude the specific kind of energy that has heads turning that has people wanting to listen to them that has people listening to th #*them #and lestat getting armand out of the children of darkness cult #(even if he didn't actually give a fuck about getting armand specifically out)#is completely reminiscent to armand of marius 'rescuing' him from the brothels #and teaching him philosophies of life and how to live and introducing him to purpose and meaning #the difference is that marius wanted armand and had him #and lestat clocks armand so fast and is like 'absolutely not'#and not only absolutely not but acknowledges that whatever darkness resides in armand would kill lestat with its horror and depth #and this is why i can't take anyone seriously #people comparing louis to marius (not remotely similar in ANY aspect)#people that think armand's love for lestat isn't more of a trauma response than anything else #and frankly this is why i do not believe whatsoever that armand and lestat hooked up in the show world #because lestat will not would not could not #and that's a huge part of lestat's character tbh #and a huge thing that DOES separate him from marius

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bookinit02 · 5 months ago

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literally what a day i am still shaking

#i didn’t realize how scary it would be to teach for the first time😭#like i feel like my social anxiety has gotten so much better over the last few years but this was like.#social anxiety on Crack #i did do really well like i think you’d barely even be able to tell i was nervous #just bc when i’m scared i kind of disassociate and go on auto-pilot so i usually seem fine #but like. i have been replaying every second of it in my brain all day nitpicking for places i messed up #and this one guy made a Comment when i walked in which did not help #genuinely overall it went so well and everyone was so nice #but still. SCARY😭#luckily (?) i will be teaching 4 days a week for the next 2 years.#so i will have plenty of time to get used to it lmao #it’s weird bc i tutor so often but turns out small groups of Children online #is very different than a full class of 18-19 year olds😭#anyway. hopefully i will get Less nervous bc i would hate to feel like this every day

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herefortheships · 2 months ago

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As an anxious overthinker, one of the worst things that can happen to me is having an afternoon appointment. By the time of the appointment, I've already had the entire freaking day to overthink absolutely everything. From how I'm going to act once I'm there, to what's going to happen, what conversations I might have, how long the whole thing is going to take, maybe it wasn't a good idea after all, "this bad gut feeling means I'm not supposed to go there!", etc. I overthink absolutely everything.

#AAAH!#Overthinking #Olympic overthinker right here #anxiety #annoyed at myself #what else is new #I hate afternoon appointments of any kind #this is an orientation for an associate's degree I start in January if all goes well #if you're new around here then probably you don't know yet that I am a college drop-out 💀#I've only ever completed a certificate course on Copyediting in 2022 #that's it #and I haven't used it because I've tried freelancing but it's extremely hard to find people who will give you a chance #with no experience working as an editor #Oh and publishing houses require that you have a bachelor's degree AND experience working so that's out of the question #I've edited things but for my sisters and a friend and that's it #So I wanted to get a degree on something more common so I can have jobs that are above minimum wage #last year I worked as a teacher thanks to my sister having a job at that private school #they were desperate for a science teacher and a math teacher so I did that because I have an almost completed Biological Sciences degree #It was Hell dealing with children so becoming a teacher is out of the question unless I teach adults lol #Anyway I want to do this associate's degree I have a feeling it could like change my life for the better #BUT! I am so confused and scared I am just going to bail on it again and drop out #or hate it again out of nowhere due to anxiety and overthinking #I want this to go right I am literally so nervous #Anyway I am going to try to have a normal day until I have to leave for the freaking 4:30pm appointment....

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