Words mean nothing without investment

one critical piece of advice is that opportunities are fractal doorways

you can take an opportunity that seems small, a group meeting for an hour once a week let's say, and if you really commit and put a lot of effort into even a small opportunity, if you work to prop open that passageway, then you will find that it can surprisingly quickly multiply into many future possibilities, many future paths.

one of the members of your small book club desperately needs a babysitter for the weekend. that's a gig. another one hits it off with you on some obscure topic. the bulletin board at the place you meet has a flyer for a class on writing. you go, and now you're in an environment full of other people who are there for the same reasons. talk to them. over drinks one night an older member encourages you to apply for uni with one of your short stories you wrote for the class. et cetera.

I spent a lot of time paralyzed with indecision, trying to find just the right opportunity to get me where i wanted to go. that's the entirely wrong way to go about it. practice pursuing possibilities is more important than optimizing your choice of path, waiting for just the perfect opportunity to magically drop into your lap. It likely won't happen like that, it's not necessary, and you don't need to live your whole life at once. Frodo didn't arrive at Mt Doom by making the optimal choice on the first crossroads out of the shire.

Instead cultivate an attitude of engagement with whatever imperfect seemingly insignificant opportunities that are already in front of you, and keep an open mind & eyes, and trust in the fractal nature of reality. look for threads to pull, opportunities to pursue, and engage with people as if every one of them has something new to teach you, and somewhere new to take you that you've never been. they probably do. the more you engage the more you'll find out that this is true; trust that paths will lead to more paths even if you can't see them yet. trust that the big scary void question mark of a future contains not only unseen dangers but also an unseen unfurling infinity of options and paths, friends and lovers, work and play. i love u

Fuck it Rat Fairies

happy old gnoll

for every we're so back there are three consecutive it's so overs

Vulva en Vogue

just call it the Labia Case and be done with it

This is still a great technique

“Now I’ll try to outline the 30-day test I want you to make. Keep in mind that you have nothing to lose by making this test and everything that you could possibly want, to gain.

I want you to write on a card what it is you want more than anything else. It may be more money. Perhaps you would like to double your income or make a specific amount of money. It may be a beautiful home. It may be success at your job. It may be a particular position in life. It could be a more harmonious family. Each of us want something.

Write down on your card, specifically, what it is that you want. Make sure it is a single goal and clearly defined. You need not show it to anyone, but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day.

Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when you get up and immediately you have something to work for, something to get out of bed for, something to live for. Look at it every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at night. As you look at it, remember you must become what you think about and since you’re thinking about your goal, you realize that soon it will be yours. In fact, it’s yours, really, the moment you write it down and begin to think about it.

Look at the abundance all around you as you go about your daily business. You have as much right to this abundance as any other living creature. It’s yours for the asking.

Now we come to the difficult part. Difficult, because it means the formation of what is probably a brand new habit and new habits are not easily formed. Once formed however, it will follow you for the rest of your life.

Stop thinking about what it is you fear. Each time a fearful or negative thought comes into your consciousness, replace it with a mental picture of your positive and worthwhile goal. There will come times when you will feel like giving up. It’s easier for a human being to think negatively than positively, that’s why only 5 percent are successful. You must begin now to place yourself in that group.

For 30 days you must take control of your mind. It will think only about what you permit it to think. Each day, for this 30 day test, do more than you have to do. In addition to maintaining a cheerful positive outlook, give of yourself more than you’ve ever done before. Do this knowing that your returns in life must be in direct proportion to what you give.

The moment you decide on a goal to work towards you are immediately a successful person. You are then in that rare and successful category of people who know where they’re going. Out of every 100 people, you belong to the top five.”

“SELF-CONFIDENCE will solve almost everything in your life. You must never, I repeat, you must never stop complimenting your qualities and loving yourself as deeply as you possibly can. A great tip: record a long audio-file of the most powerful affirmations (that is, positive sentences about yourself, your life, the world, and your future) that you can possibly think of. Hear these sentences when you are taking long walks, when you are cleaning up, when you are doing the dishes, in short, whenever you have any time to spare at all. Keep this habit going as long as you can…and your life will soon improve massively…because the thoughts and beliefs that underlie its quality positively has.”

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I would be very cautious about broadcasting your L’s and self-deprecation. Your subconscious cannot take a joke. What you repeatedly tell yourself is what you become. Other people will start to believe it too. Don’t be shocked if you keep joking that you’re a dumb bitch and people use you and discard you. You insisted!

Simon Weil's 'The List of Temptations (to be read daily)' from her diary.

Im actually getting repulsed by level up gurus and their awful advice.

Nothing is about the individual. Everything is about the idealized woman who is not only sexy and beautiful but worldly enough to realize that being a human being is for commoners not elite successful women

"If I've got a problem, then we've got all one." Today's art warm-up brought to you by more World's Beyond Number fan-art! This time of the Lightning Bolt & Fireball 'Tomori' This was a really fun design challenge! I'm pretty sure I'll change some things about their design over time too :)

Of the three metaphysical axioms put forward to the mages of this Citadel: The Axiom of Interpolation, The Axiom of Mediation, and The Axiom of Proliferation — this third axiom does not describe any actual truth of the lingua arcana, nor does it more broadly describe any facet of the greater binding.

Rather, this axiom is pure intellectual technology that serves a political purpose within the Citadel, given as magical writ for the expedition of a Citadel convenience. The ramifications of this being made magical law sully every instance of the lingua arcana that it touches. Its danger to the future of wizardry, when the convenience of its acceptance has long since passed — the ripples of its effect on magic itself will still be felt.

Should the archmagi see it in their wisdom to reverse my dismissal, I will be happy to walk them through how I discovered this stain on the face of magic itself.

Good day.

The Wizard Shundri