#transcending fear

[felixwylde]

They Were Always With Me

I was never alone. Even in the silence between heartbeats, they were there—shifting at the edges of awareness, pressing against the fabric of my mind. In my ignorance, I thought them demons, hungry and insatiable, their whispers twisting through my thoughts like creeping vines, choking out the light. I feared their touch, recoiled from their shadows, mistook their presence for torment.Now I see.…

[compassionmattersmost]

Interfaith Harmony: Ganesha, the Universal Remover of Obstacles

There is an ancient story, older than memory, that speaks of a gentle presence who stands at the threshold of each journey. He is called Ganesha, the remover of obstacles. In Hindu tradition, he is worshipped as a friend and guardian of beginnings, an embodiment of wisdom and gentle strength. His form is unmistakable—an elephant head, eyes deep with understanding, a body both round and rooted, as…

[un-haunted]

[zillychu]

Finding out the Danny Phantom pitch bible originally included more creatures other than ghosts really makes me want to just (DUMPS TRANSCENDENCE AU ALL OVER IT)

[blood-orange-juice]

Skirk quest Skirk quest. This is the last post for today, I swear.

I'm not sure what to think about her pupil anymore or whether any of my theories about him hold.

I caught a certain vibe from him in the very beginning—making something that broke him into a source of strength and beauty. It's a type of story I look for everywhere.

I think it's the single most badass thing a person can do and also no one around that person is usually happy when they do it.

(the second part is important, otherwise it's just motivational porn)

It's also usually a story reserved for older female characters, so seeing this line of thinking in a guy barely in his twenties was… mind-boggling.

So all the analysis and fics I wrote about him were written with this as the focal point.

And it turns out that Skirk is this type of character, so now I don't know. Was any of this ever his or maybe I was just chasing the silhouette of his teacher. Maybe he really doesn't have much going on besides ambition, warmth and thrill-seeking .

(which makes a great character already, just a simpler one)

Or maybe it's just the philosophy of their martial art and the main trick all three people of that lineage do, just in their own way.

He's still thematically relevant, though. Arrogation of mankind, sweet delusions vs harsh truth, the importance of dreams, the same person being seen as a conquering enemy or a protector depending on who is looking. All the main themes of the game.

[sendhook]

we, and i mean WE AS A COLLECTIVE, all need nigel mcguinness

[raiseupyourbat]

'mark chose helly' he chose himself actually. he chose to be himself rather than to run through that door and damn himself into oblivion. Mark S chose to stay with the woman he loves for what could be their final moments, to have things go down on his terms instead of bowing to the whims of a guy who didn't even treat him like a person.

There was never a 'choice' bc both marks want different things - mark scout wants to get gemma back and put all of this behind them, and mark s wants to live, to stay with those he cares about and exist.

There was never any helly vs gemma situation. Only ever mark vs mark.

[serpentface]

You mentioned a while ago that Faiza is afraid of mice. Is there any specific reason why (e.g. a traumatic memory involving the animals)? Faiza grew up in a wealthy household; so I doubt that mice ever posed a legitimate threat to her health, safety, or food supply, as they might for poorer people.

There's not a specific reason, it's just a phobia + disgust response. The only thing I have canon as a Mouse Event is her having been freaked out by the experience of feeling A Mouse run over her legs when she was trying to sleep and being very nervous about that situation as a little kid.

This isn't like, traumatic though (and people sleep on the floor so this is going to be a Relatively common experience that most people don't derive phobias from). She's just creeped out by them. A lot of it is mouse-specific too, like rats wig her out as well but it's the lightning fast skittering movements of mice are that really unsettle her. They are just Too Small and Too Fast and have creepy nasty little worm tails and carry disease and eat your food and etc etc etc.

Most people will have regular encounters with mice, so she would have plenty of minor interactions that reinforce this fear. She will have periodically experienced walked into a room/opening a pantry/ etc and seeing a horde of them creepily zip into the shadows. She also grew up with pet polecats (favored Wardi housepet + ratter), and they don't do the cat 'bringing their owner their kill' thing but Will stockpile bodies of prey for later use, so it's very likely she's like, moved aside some clothing or looked behind some furniture and found a heap of mouse carcasses. Probably has tried to kill one only to watch it leap 20x its body length straight up and disappear into a crevice, unsettling. Etc.

That's in conjunction with (pretty standard) intense cultural aversion towards small rodents as grain/house pests. They're considered Extremely dirty animals heavily associated with disease and contamination, which is especially acute in a worldview heavily centered around an integrated physical-spiritual cleanliness. And as grain pests they can pose very legitimate threats to people's survival. This isn't going to be a direct Threat to nobility, but it's still a factor at play. Things that pose threats to the survival of peasantry are also going to be concerns for nobility (it's just that the latter is likelier to be inconvenienced than Starved), which goes doubly for potential agents of disease (there's only so much the material benefits of class can do when you don't have vaccines/antibiotics/etc, you're Less likely to die of disease than someone living in cramped high density quarters but if you catch something You Catch Something).

[slutforpringles]

Perez's new race engineer is not Simon Rennie and all I can say is thank fucking god for that 🙏🏻😮‍💨

[eggsistential-breakdown]

Ian and the twice-divorced gray-eyesed rift Ian from the first chapter of @reblogincarnation-blues's fic!

anyways the closest experience I've had to the the feeling of reading the second chapter is taking my roommate to the ER for four hours for suspected appendicitis only to come back with a UTI diagnosis and an antibiotic prescription. and it breaks your one year streak of roommates getting appendicitis. in a good way.

[vintage-tigre]

[longagoitwastuesday]

Every day I am haunted by the fact JJK could be amazing but it will be just idk Bleach or something

[ategods]

kind of wanna write people who hate each other

[death-rebirth-senshi]

I think a lot of bloodborne content takes the moniker of "god" too seriously and literally, ignoring what feels to me like a core point: "God" is a human word and a human projection onto the Great Ones.

Ultimately we don't know much about them; the ability to interact with the great ones is limited, and the results of trying to seems ultimately ruinous.

We the player of course can only ever interact with great ones to slay them, though notably both Rom and Ebrietas are initially nonhostile and killing them is *our* perogative.

Not that I don't think the theme of killing god and transcending aren't there - in Rom's case, we have to kill it because it blocks human insight - but I also think it's relevant that we supposedly "transcend" the flesh and the human condition with the same logic by which one becomes a beast: we kill and imbibe blood and we sacrifice until we kill the right thing and something miraculous happens.

Also feels relevant to me that the specific phrase "hunt the great ones" is used; the Choir and School of Mensis both look up to the great ones as gods and humans as stupid and inferior, but you the player meet them as creatures, and what plays out is mundane creature on creature violence.

[m0tel6mxzzy]

memes i made in 7th grade

[oscquinn]

biblically accurate lip, carl and ian

ft. @tinyphantomsalad & @thelazyhero-ttums