#victim < victorious

[selfdoubtvssuccess]

Consider me anti self-pity...

Too many people refuse to take control of their own circumstances and end up stuck in a life they are incredibly unhappy with because they choose to play the role of victim, instead of that of victor. I am a true believer that through God and self-discipline, all things are possible. Success is a decision. If you don't see an open door, pray about it, and climb through a window instead.

[selfdoubtvssuccess]

Imagine how much more we'd get done if we didn't spend so much time feeling sorry for ourselves.

“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

— Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom

[farenmaddox]

... is it just me, or was Supernatural's ultimate thesis statement on the character of Cas that angels cannot and never will be any good at independent thinking and all efforts at expressing free will shall have unexpected and terrible consequences? He thought he was digging a tunnel out and he was proud of himself but actually all he dug was his own grave. The message being that you actually cannot escape the role you are assigned no matter what?

This is the message of Cas, as a way of underscoring the arc of the actual main two characters, in which the thesis statement is that you cannot escape the trap of toxic masculinity and patriarchal hegemony, you will never deal with your trauma in a way that matters, and you will die and spend eternity caught in its endless cycle. The maze has no exit.

the son becomes the father and becomes absent. this happens to all four members of TFW 2.0 in one way or another. god is dead, long live god. long live broken promises.

[pianokantzart]

Some scattered thoughts on Mario Tennis Aces

Warning: spoilers ahead

I love that every time any of the characters talk about the stakes, they're like "we've got to save Luigi! ... and the others I guess..." Even in the finale when they're doing a big tennis match to determine the fate of the world, Wario and Waluigi are booed by the crowd while Luigi... despite still being possessed by Lucien... gets cheered for and talked about in a positive light by the announcers.

What's also interesting is that Wario, Waluigi, and Bowser talk and act very much like their normal selves while possessed. They're being manipulated in some part, with Bowser saying that the racket's power makes him "want to control things more than usual," but it's clear Lucien is exploiting preexisting desires. Luigi, however, never says a word, and is fairly expressionless compared to the others. He is not being manipulated so much as he's been entirely robbed of his senses, turned more into a tennis playing puppet than a minion. But if you think about it... that aligns with the goals each of them had that caused them to take hold of Lucien. Wario and Waluigi wanted the power to defeat their enemies in tennis, and were granted that desire to the best of Lucien's abilities. Bowser wanted to take over the world, and Lucien actually went so far as to fuse with him so they could conquer as one entity.

Luigi wanted nothing more than to hold the pretty tennis racket, and for most of the story... at the sacrifice of every other part of him... he got exactly that.

[sleepyorchidmonster]

One thing that I really like about Book 1 and the Epilogue is how they establish the game's main formula and themes (also a solid start for the story) while also adding a bunch of mysteries.

The first one that comes to mind is the mines and the phantom dwarves, but also Grim's Chimera form and Riddle's Overblot.

About Riddle's case, that's the only time where a victim's eyes change colour during an overblot, not to mention how he's being suspended by blot strings like a puppet.

While both elements can be justified due to their symbolism to Riddle's story (Idia being connected to his Phantom as a way to represent his grief, for example), or maybe just an early design choice that wasn't used with the other overblots, the fact still stands that this was the FIRST overblot we saw, at the QUEEN OF HEARTS dorm, in a game called Twisted WONDERLAND. Also Yana is great at foreshadowing.

With Book 7 bringing back the overblots, I can't help but wonder if those details will come into play in the story. Maybe we'll have to fight Riddle's overblot to free him from the strings so he can fight on his own, or the red eyes show that SOMEONE is watching and this can be the first time we meet the mastermind behind the overblots (we need something to worry about in Book 8, why not set up a final future boss right before the big Malleus fight)

Playful Land is also focusing on puppets, so there's that too...

[good-beans]

Me in every other mv when the murder finally happens: *feels a pang of fear, shock, horror, sorrow towards the character*

Me when

[torusdove]

Any motherfucker on my blog who supports Israel can genuinely kill themselves. I ain't kidding. Get the fuck off my page and jump off a bridge.

FREE, FREE PALESTINE

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Tito Corbella - The victory of the victim.

[worstloki]

Zionists will claim they stand with the innocent people on all sides and then their posts about Palestine are limited to condemning Hamas, talking about antiZionism being antisemitic, labelling all Palestinian men rapists and murderers, talking about how ‘actually’ evil Iran Russia Lebanon/Syria China Iraq Yemeni ‘regimes’ are, why segregated laws and regions and settlements across Palestine are Necessary Actually, why no one who doesn’t know about every single historical event in two continents shouldn’t stand in solidarity with Palestine, saying other countries should just take in the remaining Palestinians as refugees, saying Hamas could stop the killing of civilians anytime, saying Palestinians aren’t innocent because they don’t appreciate occupation, explaining why ‘Israel’ is ‘actually good’, saying that no one understands ‘buzzwords’ like ‘Zionism’, ‘genocide’, ‘apartheid’, ‘racism’, ‘innocent’, saying Arabic words make them uncomfortable, acting like Oct 7 was an isolated event or that the attack was nothing more than a continuation of thousands of years of hate for Jewish people, saying that speaking out for the injustice and genocide in Palestine and not every other specific form of injustice happening in the world means you don’t care about helping people but actually just hate Jews, asking where the Jews will go as if the only natural choices would be getting expelled or genocide, proudly equating a genocidal ethnostate and sociopolitical movement with Judaism, etc.

[gayestcowboy]

help. i just killed orin solo in the duel. no slayer form required. the monk is unstoppable

[selfdoubtvssuccess]

What are you putting in your body?

Is it giving you long-term fuel, or just making you feel full for a short period? Is it heavily processed and full of extra additives, or a combination of fresh ingredients? It is good for you, or is it the cause of that heavy, sluggish feeling? Diet is such an important factor in your overall physical and mental health.

[mobblespsycho100]

obsessed w/ how one of Topaz's attack lines is just. "LIQUIDATION 💰💵📈🔥"

LITERALLY LMAOOOO

[areyouwho-ithinkyouare]

sorry nope literally can’t help myself so if you haven’t seen douglas is cancelled yet then go watch it instead of reading the rest of this post because legitimately major spoilers for a show you absolutely should watch as un-spoiled as possible.

The thing i keep coming back to with this (still, at times, genuinely flawed) show, is how i actually cannot think of any piece of media that tackles rape culture this specifically. This is not about rape. It is not a #metoo story - it’s about the culture that enables rape. It’s very very specifically NOT about sexual harassment/assault/coercion itself. Madeline brushes her feelings about Toby off - she gets to hate him forever but that’s simple. What matters to her is the man who was meant to be one of the good ones, who would never ever treat a woman the way Toby treated her, but who turned around and walked away when he saw that she was terrified and alone in Toby’s room. Who turned the traumatic experience he knew she had gone through into a quippy little one-liner to laugh about at parties, diminishing her work in the process. THATS the kind of man this show is calling out. And it’s about the women too - the wife desperately trying to stop her husband from admitting to anything while accusing madeleine of fucking him. The daughter who refuses to believe that her dad would ever lie to her. 

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

Kill the notion that Star Wars needs to step away from force users. I don’t know about you, but I love to see space wizards fight with glowy swords. The only thing that needs to change is the good/evil dichotomy of the Light and Dark sides of the Force. Give us a show about a Padawan who tries her hardest to be a great Jedi so she buries her emotions so deep within herself that she loses herself and becomes complacent with Jedi/Senate corruption and turns to the dark side to reconnect with herself and rediscover what made her want to be a Jedi in the first place. Give us the story about a child who’s sibling is taken by the Jedi so they ally with a Sith to break into the Jedi Temple and rescue their sibling. Give us a movie about a Dark Lady of the Sith and her apprentice defending their home planet from being absorbed into a sector of the Republic where their historical oppressors would hold their seat in the Senate.

All those stories could feature epic clashes between Force Wielders without contributing to the perceived stagnation of Star Wars shows featuring Jedi and Sith.

[vampirewithdoubts]

i don’t know what’s wrong with me but every time i like a piece of media my brain tells me i have to make blueprints of the space and build it on sims

[selene-19]

The hate on bkdk especially on Katsuki Bakugo on Twitter is hilarious. The antis and haters are really active and I read so many nonsense tweets and takes. I respect their opinions and their ships. But seriously, slandering fanarts of bkdk? Spreading hate and insults? The homophobia? Delusional scenarios on how Katsuki should be punished for his past bullying and how his FRIENDS should hurt him for that. Never really moved on from Chapter One? From Season 1? I usually keep scrolling and don't minded them but it's been more than a week of hatred already. Ever since he won the popularity poll and the arts featuring him and Izuku by Horikoshi san makes them unbearable and bitter. I respect there ships but I don't respect them being so vile to bkdk artists and their takes on bkdks being supporters of abusive relationships. We don't fetish on bully x victim and other nonsense like Stockholm syndrome 😂

They are worst than Katsuki right now. At least Katsuki knows his wrongdoings, acknowledge it, has the best character development in the series, he apologizes and atone for it and even gave his everything for Izuku.

Well, we just keep winning 🤭💚🧡