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andy-clutterbuck · 1 year ago

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SMITHSONIAN PROP DONATION | 2017

#IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS #Andrew Lincoln #*#andygifs #HI SANTA #B E A R D #happy sinday #santa baby hurry down the chimney tonight #when you put both hands on the side of a cat's face and scratch #yeah #it's so FLUFFY #the view from above #SO PLUSH #GRAY #im yelling #stop yelling

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alchemisoul · 2 years ago

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"The view from above — look at the thousands of flocks and herds, the thousands of human ceremonies, every sort of voyage in storm or calm, the range of creation, combination, and extinction. Consider too the lives once lived by others long before you, the lives that will be lived after you, the lives lived now among foreign tribes; and how many have never even heard your name, how many will soon forget it, how many may praise you now but quickly turn to blame. Reflect that neither memory nor fame, nor anything else at all, has any importance worth thinking of."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.28

#still point of the tao #taoism #daoism #eastern philosophy #philosophy #chuang tzu #chuang zu #marcus aurelius #stoicism #stoics #the stoics #western philosophy #greek philosophy #the view from above

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dramaticeyerolls · 2 months ago

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Needed a new phone case, and the brainrot took care of the rest <3

#good omens #good omens fanart #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #illustration #procreate #digitalart #an Angel and a demon take in the view from above after dining at the ritz

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courfee · 4 months ago

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17 December 1975 / 15 May 1976

#hp #marauders #sirius black #regulus black #black brothers #sirius black fanart #regulus black fanart #marauders fanart #the black brothers #marauders era #my art #black borthers angst #mine #sirius and regulus #jsyk what you see there in the background actually is the sky you would see on the above dates from islington #i specifically chose the dates cause sirius wouldnt be visible anymore at that point #and he could have totally run away already by that point being 16 and all #also because i am such a nerd who has to get things correctly that is actually more or less the view you would have from claremont square #grimmauld place #took me for fucking ever to find some good references above the roofs and i still had to improvise a lot #originally i had an inbetween slide with regulus watching james and sirius walking together having fun in the great hall #but i didnt do more than just a very rough sketch of that it somehow didnt fit sorry #(also i am still not 100% happy with especially the first one but ive tried so long to fix it i eventually had to give up...)

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hydrachea · 7 months ago

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Thinking about Robin and Sunday's halos.

About how Robin's halo isn't a closed circle, but more like a branch forming a circular shape, where the start and stem don't touch. It's also uneven in shape and splits into three flowers, like it's allowed to grow freely, unobstructed. Something about Robin having left Penacony and having escaped the confines of her cage, being able to flourish. About her being able to let people in, and connect to them.

Meanwhile Sunday stayed behind to be the head of the Oak family and conform to the strict role that's expected of him, and his halo is a perfectly symmetrical shape that's practically fully closed off. It's sharp, almost more like a crown of thorns than a halo. And it almost doesn't have any openings to let anything, or anyone, in easily. It actively discourages getting close to it.

And then if you want to get sappy about, which I will - Sunday doesn't let anyone in, with that almost completely sealed, thorny halo of his... But there's an opening in Robin's halo, and so it can fit around Sunday's. Something about him always being able to find solace in her, because there's room for him in her (halo) heart always, by design.

Anyway I'm not normal about them.

#honkai star rail #hsr #hsr robin #hsr sunday #there's also something to be said about the size and position of their respective halos #robin's is much smaller than sunday's #and it floats above her head a little tilted to the side #it looks more like a fancy accessory #sunday's is a lot bigger - it's almost bigger than his head #and it hangs behind him #always hovering in view like a frame #much more oppressive than robin's #those siblings... those siblings!#mihoyo!! you can't keep getting away with it!#when are you releasing sunday from npc jail #ray's records #thank you kura for prompting those thoughts with your art and then making me put them into words #and this one goes out to you mercy for your additions i am ALSO abnormal about #harmonycest #this was prompted by the ship and the ship was on my mind when i wrote it so i am tagging it but this works without the shipping goggles to #no matter how you see them robin is so so important to sunday #his safe haven even in the way their halos are shaped #mihoyooooooOOOOOOOOOOO

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fuckyeahchinesefashion · 16 days ago

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OP: Check out. The fully-sexual charged cinematic movement design.

Cnetizens: How did the director come up with the idea to have him kneel on a playing card, adding so much aesthetic energy, is that some kind of genius?

#china #cdramas #dramas #lmao #They are siblings and they're discussing serious matters #this scene is actually rather heavy because the younger brother is involved in drug trafficking #carrying more than 50 grams of heroin will result in a death sentence in china let alone being involved in drug trafficking #the older brother is a gangster king #but even he doesn't dare to get involved in the drug business because it will bring about the demise of his family #sorry for digression I mean how did the director make this scene which has absolutely nothing to do with sex #so sexually charged?#btw there're many posts with rich information about China's crackdown on drug crimes on xhs and douyin #especially about how the four major drug-trafficking families in Myanmar were wiped out overnight #they buried undercover Chinese counter-narcotics police alive and kidnapped and brutally excuted civilians #so if you're interested you can go with the key words 缅甸四大家族覆灭 on xhs and douyin #cnetizens' views on drugs are related to modern Chinese history #the first chapter of modern history in high school textbooks is the opium wars #There's a very dark joke on xhs about which country in the world would least like China to withdraw from the P5 #and the answer is the UK #because it's in the first chapter of China's modern history #the Destruction of opium at Humen in 1839 #no offence but Breaking Bad can't last for more than one episode if it happens in china because of the sewer detection technology #they can detect the tiniest amount of drugs in feces in a body of water the size of a lake for up to six months #which can be quickly locked down to neighbourhoods and portals #Once a foreigner was caught smuggling and selling 222.035 kg drugs in China and sentenced to death with two other Chinese associates #his country's prime minister asked for his extradition #cnetizens commented that there was an opium war and he still dare to come to China to sell drugs be like 找死court death #All the above information is to explain the gangster king's attitude towards his brother's drug business

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loworbittourist · 2 years ago

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Gwangyang industrial complex - South Korea 🌏 4k link

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milkygem · 4 months ago

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Good morning Chicago 🌞

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petit-papillion · 6 months ago

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Love this pov!

The team waiting for Charles and celebrating his Monaco win. 🍾

Monaco Grand Prix | 26 May 2024

🎥 xxmardybum

#such a special moment #can't believe it's already been almost a week!#charles leclerc #team celebrations #monaco gp 2024 #view from above #ti amo

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natjennie · 6 months ago

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what's weird about the fantasy high drama is that like. it seems to me like people forget d&d is primarily a) a game you play with your friends and also b) luck based.

I mean it's fine to say that "nothing felt like a challenge" and "they just dominated everything and there weren't any stakes" but like. it's not as if they weren't up against huge threats. they lost the mall fight. the last stand was an onslaught of enemies. they fought a dozen dragons from an airship. the fights were hard. they're just really good. they've had very good dice luck in general this season and are all very high level and highly specialized. fig is gonna beat deception and performance checks. adaine's gonna figure out the arcana. riz is gonna succeed investigations. like. for some reason their strategical competence and wisely picked abilities are. a downside? a disappointment?

the thing about d&d that you need to remember is it's first and foremost a game. it's mostly random and it takes you down weird paths and you're playing to have fun with your friends. the dice are literally telling the story that it's their time, it's their year. they've struggled enough. they've trained enough. they're good at what they do. and in my post about the academic/domestic/personal stressors being the focus, d&d doesn't have any other system to work them out than rolling different skills. that's what d&d is. brennan set specific challenge levels for different tasks and the players strategized to prioritize which abilities they were strongest in. the challenges were there. and the players rose to them. they were both smart in their delegation of responsibilities and lucky with their dice rolls. of which, both are foundations of d&d.

don't mistake them being good players and getting lucky with there being no hardship. just because they smashed through the wall, that doesn't mean the wall wasn't strong. they were just stronger.