#where i think very hard about everything

[zeibei]

if i havent said ive thought a lot in detail about the internal workings of the machinery inside robots it would be a damn lie!!!!

in my head just is like damn that body of yours is insane!!!!

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

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Understanding the Two Types of Happiness: Hedonic vs. Eudaimonic

We all want to be happy—but what does that really mean? If you dive deeper into the study of happiness, you’ll find that there are two distinct kinds: hedonic happiness and eudaimonic happiness. Understanding the difference between them can change the way you pursue joy—and can even help you build a life that’s not just happy, but deeply fulfilling.

Let’s break it down.

What is Hedonic Happiness?

Hedonic happiness comes from pleasure, comfort, and immediate gratification. It’s the feeling you get from eating your favorite dessert, binge-watching a great TV show, taking a luxurious vacation, or buying a new gadget you’ve been eyeing.

At its core, hedonic happiness is about maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. It’s immediate, it’s real—and it absolutely matters! Small pleasures add richness and joy to our daily lives.

However, pleasures are often fleeting. A perfect meal eventually ends. A vacation comes to a close. A new car loses its sparkle. Even though these moments are sweet, they rarely create lasting happiness on their own.

Think of the countless celebrities and wealthy individuals whose lives are filled with luxury, entertainment, and adoration—yet many of them still report feeling deeply unhappy or lost. Pleasure without deeper purpose often leads to emptiness.

What is Eudaimonic Happiness?

Eudaimonic happiness is different. It’s about living in alignment with your values, growing as a person, and contributing to something greater than yourself. The term comes from Aristotle, who believed that true happiness comes from fulfilling your potential and living virtuously.

In modern terms, eudaimonic happiness is about meaning, purpose, and long-term wellbeing. It’s the kind of happiness you feel after working hard to master a skill, raising a family, volunteering for a cause you believe in, or building deep, authentic relationships.

Unlike hedonic happiness, which often fades quickly, eudaimonic happiness grows stronger the more you nurture it.

Notice the difference: Hedonia is about feeling good in the moment. Eudaimonia is about being good over the course of a lifetime.

Why Both Matter—But One Matters More

Both types of happiness are important. Life would feel dull and joyless without little pleasures. We need laughter, celebration, and rest!

But when we rely only on hedonic experiences to make us happy, we often find ourselves stuck on what psychologists call the hedonic treadmill—chasing the next thrill, the next purchase, the next fleeting high, without ever feeling truly satisfied.

Lasting joy—the kind that makes life feel deeply worthwhile—comes from weaving meaning into our everyday experiences.

That’s why many rich and famous individuals who focus solely on pleasure often struggle with depression, addiction, or a profound sense of loneliness. Meanwhile, others who balance their wealth with meaningful projects—like starting charities, mentoring others, or creating art that uplifts the human spirit—often report a deep sense of contentment, despite the challenges they face.

In short:

Pleasures create moments of joy.

Purpose creates lifetimes of joy.

Exercise: Discover Your Hedonic and Eudaimonic Sources of Happiness

Here’s a simple but powerful exercise to help you better understand what brings you pleasure—and what brings you meaning.

Step 1: Make Two Lists

List 1: Write down all the activities, experiences, or things that bring you hedonic happiness—that is, immediate pleasure or comfort.

List 2: Write down all the activities, experiences, or projects that bring you eudaimonic happiness—a sense of meaning, purpose, or personal growth.

Step 2: Compare Your Lists

Where do you notice overlap?

Are there pleasures that also bring you a sense of deeper fulfillment? (Example: Cooking a meal for your family might bring both pleasure and meaning.)

Are there areas where you’re heavy on hedonic experiences but light on eudaimonic ones?

Step 3: Keep Updating

As you move through your week, pay attention. New things will pop up that belong on one list—or both. Keep adding to your lists and reflect on them often.

The goal isn’t to eliminate pleasures. It’s to balance them with purpose—to create a life that feels good today and continues to feel good for years to come.

Final Thoughts

Happiness isn’t something we find once and hold onto forever. It’s something we build—moment by moment, decision by decision.

Pleasures are the sparkles on the cake of life—but meaning is the cake itself.

Take 10 minutes today to start your lists. Reflect on them. Choose one small action this week that leans into eudaimonic happiness—whether it’s helping a friend, learning something new, or doing work that matters to you.

You have the power to create a life filled not just with pleasure—but with real, lasting joy.

Start today.

It’s gonna be great!

Best,

Drew

Source: Understanding the Two Types of Happiness: Hedonic vs. Eudaimonic

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[fumifooms]

Chilchuck analysis speedrun: As a hardworking half-foot who grew up poor and discriminated against and had his gullibility taken advantage of multiple times in his early adventuring days, Chilchuck thinks optimism is a dangerous flaw. He’s stressed and strict all the time because his job is noticing details like traps that could get everyone killed before anyone knows it, he takes the lives of everyone to be on his shoulders, and with the way he speaks about it that probably partly reflects how he felt about taking it upon himself to provide for his family too. His life’s always been pretty centered around work and has become even moreso now that his wife left and everyone is independent, and due to past events he’s very iffy with bonding with coworkers. He thinks feelings and job are a disaster mix. Like with his wife or with parties hiring him as sacrifice, being open or having good faith is vulnerability which can get you hurt, so he processes and shows all his stress as anger instead of worry. Doing strict dieting probably isn’t helping the irritability what with hunger, and on top of being a hunger suppressant alcohol might be the main stress reliever he has.

His grey hairs are so earned

[icewindandboringhorror]

What would you choose? :0c

(note: original image is from HERE (link) - but I edited it to add a wider variety of options.. also added $3 extra to the total, even though I know that makes it more uneven lol, I thought if you're adding 10 whole extra items, the money to spend should at least be increased slightly, if that makes sense..)

[purpurussy]

everything Dan said about labels in BIG was so extremely real and personal to me and people really gloss over a lot of it sometimes I need to talk about it more about it when I'm not exhausted

[bunnyboy-juice]

it took 5 years, but i finally got covid ):

[egophiliac]

A-anime?

you know, sometimes I forget that Twst is actually an isekai that starts with the protagonist getting run over by an inexplicable horse-drawn carriage. and every time I'm reminded is a delight because that's AMAZING.

also. look. okay. there's a lot of very fun stuff in the trailer but I am obsessed with that Crowley surprised pikachu face. me when I spend all my keys and gems literally hours before they announce overblot SSRs and drop the anime trailer:

[starry-bi-sky]

how do you clone a fey? that's trick question; and fey love those!

@the-navistar-carol (<333) brought up a good point while I was talking about my changeling danny au with her -- Dani! How would she exist in this au? Danny's a changeling - a fae. How would Dani, a clone of him, be created? How do you make a fey? Not through any means that Vlad is doing; you can't make a fey through unnatural means, considering the Fair Folk are nature. And Vlad's not a fey himself -- he's a halfa, even if he could make a fey, it's not in his best interest too. He's a powerful ghost, but even the weakest fae can overpower the strongest ghost. He won't want a clone of Daniel to be more powerful than him.

(In a three tier hierarchy it goes Ancients -> Fae/Mythos -> Ghosts. They all live in the Infinite Realms, but on different Planes. The fae live above the Ghost Zone in the Fey Wild, while the Mythos live beside the Wilds or down in the ghost zone depending on where they are. Places like the Frozone, the Athens Acropolis, and other such large islands climb throughout all three Planes.)

(While Ghosts can travel into the Fey Wild, its generally advised against as the ectoplasm tends to manifest differently there due to close contact magic. It can make it rather disorientating for a ghost, and as human spirits, the Fae living there would jump them faster than they could blink. So unless you're willing to play mind games with 'steal thy name eat thy face' fae, most ghosts keep out of the way of the Wilds. Fey can travel down into the Ghost Zone, they just don't bother.)

That's of course, not taking into account if Vlad even knows Danny's a fae himself. Vlad doesn't ring me as someone who really cares much about ghost culture or the going ons of the GZ. He might be aware that fae exist, but the moment he realizes he can't use them for personal gain he just doesn't bother with them. The risk is greater than the reward, and he'd rather not get eaten. But lets assume he's aware by now that Danny is fey, and has to take that into account while cloning him.

So, how does Dani exist? Good question! Honestly; i'm not sure. She might not exist at all, or if she does, she's more halfa than fey. Vlad would need a lot of human dna and ectoplasm to balance out all that fae magic. He manages to steal DNA from Jack and Maddie to do it, and since Jack's fey ancestry is very dormant its much easier to use alongside Danny's DNA.

In turn, it results in a little girl whose more human-ghost hybrid than clone. With that little extra boost in fey magic making her not a fey, but still relatively powerful. Dani is less of a clone and more of a lab-grown little sister. It's a rather tedious, complex process that has Vlad tearing his hair out trying to figure out. But he does eventually figure it out.

[kinokoshoujoart]

the coolest kids in forgotten valley!!☆

(…it seems there may have been a stretch of time where rock and lumina were the only kids in forgotten valley…🥲)

poseref

[doctorweebmd]

ok my OTHER reflection:

on the one hand its really frustrating to see the posts about docs and healthcare in general on here be so narrow-minded. bad experiences with certain providers have lead to a huge spread of misinformation and mistrust with the whole system. which can and HAS lead to people avoiding 'evil' doctors for perfectly treatable illnesses and dying from them (the vaccine bullshit, anyone?)

but on the other hand. it is TERRIFYING how some of these docs practice medicine. at times i think 'are you just burned out and don't give a shit or are you straight up just stupid?' and i work in critical care. where quite literally every case is life or death. even in the academic sector where there is supposedly a standard of excellence, some doctors i would not let touch my loved ones with a ten foot pole.

and that sucks. i know this is the no nuance piss on the poor webbed site but 'the medical system and people that work for it are fallible and aspects of it are morally questionable at best/unethical at worst' AND 'the field of medicine exists to help people first and foremost and mistrusting/avoiding it can be detrimental in the long run' can and DO co-exist

[deoidesign]

Hello! I just discovered your blog and I immediately became captivated by your webcomic, but I'm unsure where to read all of it. I know it's on Webtoons, but I can see it hasn't been updated for a while, and you still post about it.

Are your physical novels just prints of the webcomic? Are they a continuation? Is the story complete? Thanks in advance!

Hi there!

Glad you found me and are enjoying my comic!

It's only on webtoons, and the story is not complete yet! We're 2/3 of the way through right now. It's currently on hiatus, and it's scheduled to come back in about 2 months!

I'll explain why it's been so long if you're curious, but also for my followers who might also be wondering about it under the cut. Sorry, it's pretty much just me complaining haha

I took a month off I took 2 months to get the books printed I took a month to prepare my next comic and I took 2 months to write the rest of the series (I knew the character arcs I wanted, but not the time periods or mysteries!!!) I've been working on actual episodes since then

I had to take some time off because of some pretty extreme burnout due to the sheer amount of work it was to draw over 800 pages and write 6 complete stories in a year and a half... I was getting sick almost weekly due to the overwork, it was really really bad honestly. I was having to work 60+ hours every week just to keep up...

The nature of the comic itself is also difficult... Each of the arcs is a complete, self contained story which can be read (ideally) without context, and my arcs need to be about 10-13 episodes each... And since I have an exact number of episodes to work with, it's even harder.

It takes a ton of planning and a ton of refinement, and working week to week with no breaks I was forced to put out second or even first drafts, so I just wasn't happy with the work I was doing... And to do that for the rest of the series? I wouldn't be proud of the work I did.

Plus... To be entirely honest, webtoon has treated me quite badly IN MY OPINION... They deprioritized me before I launched (I had to beg for more promotion, I'm not exaggerating), they outright denied me the opportunity to even ask for a raise, I don't make any money on fast pass and they pay me less than my partner makes working at trader joes. My first editor left me completely hanging, my second editor (who I loved) was fired... And they told me I wouldn't get a third season before my first season even finished. So it was just repeatedly completely demoralizing.

I'm sorry it has taken so long, it'll have been 10 months by the time I come back. But I realized... I won't get promotion either way. I won't get more episodes either way. I won't get more money either way. So to finish everything, to make it feel good, to make it something I'm proud of, I chose to take longer to make it better.

I am fully aware I will lose a significant amount of my readership for this and it might genuinely affect my career moving forward. But it's what I had to do! So I'm sticking to my guns on it, and I'm confident long term it'll be worth it. It never could have been this good if I didn't take this much time.

[jackass-jones]

Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised