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#perspective of soul
ceekbee · 20 days
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“I decided to create
a worry list.
Everything on this list,
I am permitted to worry about,
and anything that does not fall into what is approved for this list
I choose to surrender.
The one rule for the list is as follows:
What is completely within my control to change
or act upon in the present moment,
I will let myself worry about briefly,
for the purpose of stress
is to inspire me to take action,
and all else, I will not and will release,
giving it to the Universe, or to God.
I will not let myself worry in advance,
or remain concerned with what was or what will be,
for all I have is today,
as tomorrow is never guaranteed
and I trust the future version of myself
to handle the problems of tomorrow
just as the past version of me
handled the problems of yesterday.
And I accept that I will make mistakes,
and at times, act in ways that I am not proud of,
but I know within my heart
that I am always dedicated
to becoming a better version of myself each day
than I was yesterday
and to learning from my past.
And I forgive myself
for who I once was,
knowing that I can only ever take action in each moment
based on the knowledge and awareness that I presently have
and so no matter how much I may wish to change my past,
it could not have been anything other than what it was.
And the number of worries on the list
is so small
that I can barely count them on one hand,
compared to my list of the blessings in my life,
which are too numerous for me to count.”
Words by Tahlia Hunter
Artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein
My photo of Short Eared Owl - ceekbee
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 9 months
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Broken Roofs and Fixed Perspectives
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#xue yang#xiao xingchen#Lots of cut content notes on this one. Lets all have a moment of silence for all the cut A-Qing's in each perspective.#particularly ripped and buff 'Daozhang Defender 'A-Qing (her perspective)#funny but poor layout#XY also had a red arrow pointed at him in his own POV that said 'just troubled' but it made the panel too cluttered.#He does see himself as troubled and uses that to justify his actions#but I also think there is room for him to not really know exactly how to feel about himself in this situation#Yi-city is such a fantastic tragedy for so many reasons and you will bear witness to me rambling about it in the tags as this arc continues#Helping a blind man fix a roof? A manipulative act of building trust or genuine display of wanting to collaberate?#XY and A-qing have experience of the cruelty of the world where as xxc has blind (haha) faith that kindness prevails#These three simultaneous know each other more than the other's think and *yet* completely miss the mark.#the stories they tell in the blizzard (and the reactions they have) so perfectly display who these characters are#Both xxc and xy tell stories about unfair cruelty. To xxc it is others who's suffering is highlighted. XY highlight's his own.#A-qing understands xue yang more that she wants to admit. She predicts the twists in xy's story and empathizes with the hurt and anger#A-qing is also taking advantage of xxc! She is also lying to survive!#Though shes mostly benign in her intentions. She really did vibe check the rank stank on XY's soul on the spot#Alas...no one listens to teen girls....
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nyamcattt · 3 months
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lazy sunday afternoon
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chynandri · 11 months
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“for the good of the people, no matter who or where they are… isn’t that right, emmeryn?”
happy birthday chrom!!!! 🥹
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whaalless · 5 months
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High Lord Wolnir my beloved
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royalarchivist · 6 months
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Etoiles: Oh, finally we had a funny moment in Purgatory, let's go. Oh, let's go! One week of wait to have a funny moment.
Roier always knows the best way to diffuse a tense situation.
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piecanl · 4 months
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Do you think Tubbo would recognize the path Bad is going down, because it's one he's already walked down on?
This self-destructive behavior coming from a broken heart?
He hasn't seen Bad at his best, before the eggs got kidnapped. He's seen him a victim to grief more than a father. It's why the blue staining Bad's being isn't out of the ordinary.
But suddenly he starts carrying flowers to remind him of the love he lost, suddenly the void calls out his name even louder and suddenly Tubbo sees himself in the older demon.
And it's scary, because suddenly he sees what he has become, how it affects others.
And for the first time of many, he sees Bad walk down a road he's paved. For the first time of many, Bad is the one repeating Tubbo's mistakes.
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cherry-vennom · 2 months
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If you want to change the world… love a woman, just one woman. Love and protect her, as if she’s the last holy vessel. Love her through her fear of abandonment; which she has been holding for all of humanity. No, the wound’s not hers to heal alone. No, she’s not weak in her dependence. If you want to change the world… love a woman all the way through, until she believes you, until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion, her wildness have returned to her- until she’s a force of love, more powerful than all the political media demons who seek to devalue, and destroy her. If you want to change the world, lay down your causes, your guns, and protest signs. Lay down your inner war, your self righteous anger, and love a woman… beyond all of your striving for greatness, beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment. The holy grail stands before you, if you would only take her in your arms, and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy. If you want to change the world… love a woman to the depths of your shadow, to the highest reaches of your Being, back to the Garden, where you first met her; to the gateway of the rainbow realm where you walk through together as Light as One, to the point of no return, to the ends and the beginning of a New Earth. — Lisa Citore
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yuseirra · 3 months
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If all we need to live is up to time No one's sure what made it brought me to our way of life
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lunarlivs · 7 months
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pov wolfstar
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travelersrest · 10 months
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ceekbee · 4 months
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Ceekbee
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how does one stop being catholic?
You determine that god doesn't exist. Things follow quite naturally from there.
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As much as I adore Sophie’s narration and like… from a writing perspective, think that we shouldn’t necessarily be switching around perspectives, I did really like reading Keefe’s chapters in unlocked. Maybe a hot take that I’m excited that the unraveled is all Keefe? Idk.
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clowndensation · 11 months
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there’s a question to be asked i think about to what extent “getting out” can be conflated with “being saved” in this show, and what freedom actually means to any of these characters.
like you can argue that shiv saved ken by voting against him on gojo, but what if your intent behind saving someone is to inflict a worse punishment than if you’d just left them trapped? can a child weaned on poison survive on milk, or are you just sentencing them to a death by inches, starved of the only thing they know? and if you save someone specifically because you know that being saved is the worst thing that can happen to them, is that kindness or cruelty? at what point does a good thing become a malicious act?
and you can say that roman is finally free, but what exactly is he free from? the company? his father? does unlocking a cage mean saving a dog, or are you allowing him out on the street knowing there’s a kill shelter nearby? if the driving anxiety behind roman is that he’s an idiot and a failure—that he’ll never amount to anything, and trying will only lead to pain—and he’s finally cut loose once all of those anxieties have crystallized into cold hard fact in his mind, what has he actually escaped from? if the cage is in your mind, is it even possible for somebody else to unlock it?
the fundamental truth of a tragedy is that even being saved can be a death sentence, if the characters are incapable of escaping the thing doing them the most harm (themselves and their childhoods)
#'what about shiv' if i think about shiv i'm going to kill myself. she needs her own post. there's too much there to get into.#anyways seeing a tremendous amount of At Least Roman Is Free <3 tags that have me going. right. for sure. free from what?#because it's certainly not the intense amount of self disgust that has driven him in circles this entire time.#i fear he may feel the weight of alienation on his soul for the rest of his life. and he won't even try to alleviate it anymore.#and ALSO the idea that shiv went out of her way to save kendall as an act of like. altruism. like it was a sacrifice on her part#which i feel is a very toothless perspective on shiv and the psychological torment that's been weighing on her essentially since birth#like her choice in regards to gojo is one of the meatiest most harrowing bits of character work i've ever seen#and while of course there was love inside that action (because nothing these characters do is entirely divorced from love)#i don't think it was necessarily a kind or forgiving or sacrificial love#like this was an intense vitriolic snapping from a dog that has been kicked by her dad all her life.#and who absolutely refuses to accept that from her brother (because that would mean acknowledging that kendall takes the mantle of Dad-#and that she's subservient to him. which is the one thing she absolutely will never do#because it's a level of degradation that's finally a step too far)#anyways. um. insane season that i still can't look at directly or i'll perish on the spot.#succession
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thekingofwinterblog · 5 months
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So just one visual detail about Soul Eater I love and i wonder how many others ever noticed, is the way the series frames Maka and Crona visually.
Crona is way, way taller than Maka.
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And even moreso when sitting down, with Chrona's jaw almost reached the height of the top of Maka's head.
But you probably don't remember it that way, and there is a very specific reason for that.
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And the reason is because after Crona's heelturn, the show very speciffically frames their shots so where Maka almost always looks like the stronger of the two of them, despite being way smaller.
Crona is very often standing at an angle hunched forward, especially when sitting. Maka by contrast usually stands straightbacked in her full height.
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It uses this visual dynamic to showcase and reinforce the idea that Crona is much, much more fragile than Maka... But also that Crona always looks to Maka as a source of strength and support, while Maka is happy being that support.
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Even in situations where the Height is shown very, very clearly, Crona always looks to Maka, rather than it feeling like Crona is looking downwards at her.
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This framing is so strong that even when Maka is lying on her back paralyzed, and Crona stands over her, it still doesn't give a feeling of Crona looking down at her, but as someone looking to her for approval.
Of course this is just the normal shots that are somewhat easy to miss when not looking for it.
There is also the important stuff, where the show uses this visual contrast and dynamic to great effect.
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When Maka finds Crona in the pit, she is framed as big, standing over Crona looking down, because she is the powerful one here, not Crona.
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And when we flip around to line more up with Crona's persepctive, though she suddenly becomes smaller in the shot, she still has all the high-ground, Maka is still standing above, looking down, while Crona can't even muster up the courage to look her in the eyes, furthering emphasizing how strong Maka seems in Crona's eyes.
It emphasizes just how weak Crona feels when compared to Maka, who Crona sees as a pillar of strength and bravery.
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And when Maka goes down in the pit she grabs Crona by the neck and lifts, literarily holding Crona up through her owns strength while telling Crona to stop giving in to selfhatred and loathing.
And that doesnt change for the entire scene.
Crona doesn't muster the strength to stand, and Maka has to keep Crona standing, first with a closed fist, then two hands around the arms while shaking and asking for confirmation that it was medusa, then in a supporting hug.
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Maka is straightbacked and strong, while Crona has to literarily lean on her for support, showcasing Maka's strength and how Crona in turn relies and draws courage from that strength.
And following up on that, every single time when Crona is able to stand up tall, straightbacked and... Well not not exactly proud, but distinctly not looking fragile, are all moments related to doing something brave in relations to Maka.
Standing up to protect her from Giriko, having the bravery to go with her and the rest of the crew to the party, going to confess everything to Shinigami with all the potential consequences that might entail, or my favorite, just standing tall while looking to her final battle with Asura, after having finally grown enough as a person to stand up to Medusa, and taking the Vector blade for Maka.
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It's a very understated bit, but when you notice it, it's kinda amazing just how different Crona looks in this moment cimpared to the usual look.
On paper, Crona should look fragile and weak, having just taken a massive wound so the arm is clutching the recently closed injury, a huge, oversized coat over the shoulders, and Marie's hand supporting on Crona's shoulder.
Crona should look weak, but that's not the case.
Crona in this moment actually looks suprisingly powerful, with a straight spine and with the spindly physique hidden by the coat, so you instead focus on the wide shoulders.
In other words, very much like how Maka is able to channel an aura of strength despite a very unimpressive physique and height.
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