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Leonardo and not trying in fear of failing… or succeeding : an essay by your local psychology student.
It is now 1AM, my family’s asleep and it’s time for my brain to analyse every bit of the characterisation of my dear boy in blue in the ROTTMNT movie. (Which was so good.)
Let’s go!
Most of us have heard of the concept of not trying in fear of failing: basically someone will unconsciously be so afraid of the possibility of failing at something and be so unable to take that possible hit to their fragile self that they won’t (or won’t be able to) put any effort in doing the thing. Because failing at something you never tried to succed at hurts much less than failing at something you put effort in. You see this kind of behavior a lot in students, and they can end up droping school altogether if they don’t strengthen their self and learn that failing is ok, a normal part of everybody’s life and doesn’t mean your intrinsically bad.
Leonardo definitely has some of that; if he doesn’t try to come up with a genius plan for this mission, then if it fails it won’t hurt as much. AND if it succeeds, it will be only because of his instinct, talent and wits and it will boost his ego. Win-Win! (I will add that I don’t think he really consciously realises that he does that, because when there isn’t exterior pressure for him to make a plan, he’s able to make extremely efficient and brilliant plans.)
But there’s another aspect of this behavior that can seem a lot less logical: not trying in fear of succeeding. Yes, this can seem conterintuitive, but there’s logic behind that too.
Say you want to enter this prestigious school, but you need to make it through the selection so you make big efforts and you work hard and you pass the exams and get to the selection and… you get in! Yay! Hurray you!
But… now that you have reached that standard… you must keep up with it. By meeting your goal you have shown you can achieve a higher level of productivity and success than ever before and you might now feel a lot of pressure to maintain this level all the time. That’s a big change in your life. One that will probably be accompanied by other big changes and questions (ex. What’s your new goal now that you’ve achieved this one? If it’s a new school, will you have to move away? Will your friends and family be close?)
And if there’s one thing that’s scary it’s the unknown and change.
Now to come back to our favorite boy in blue, if he starts to come up with plans and they work, then people (and himself) will start to assume he’s always gonna be able to make good plans and come up with startegies and that’s a whole lot more pressure than succeeding at an exam because it comes with heavier responsibilities. Like the life of his team.
Responsibilities his big brother has always carried before. Not him, not really. And he sees how heavy they weight on Raph, how much he worries and as much as he makes fun of his "Raph chasm", Leo knows that if he takes the leadership, he’ll gain all those worries and responsibilities in addition to the pressure of meeting this new standard and it scares him.
So he doesn’t plan, he wings it. He doesn’t listen to the worries he avoids them. He doesn’t try and takes nothing seriously. He’s scared.
And that’s also why he very much needed to learn to rely on his team. Because no leader is perfect, no leader can have foolproof plans 100% of the time and sometimes they fail and sometimes they can’t come up with a plan and need ideas from their team (a good leader should always listen to their team anyway and they made it clear) and sometimes they can’t protect everyone and that’s ok because they’re humans. (Or mutant turtles in some cases… my point still stands.)
Humans are imperfect and that’s why they aren’t alone.
They need people to rely on sometimes.
And I’m so glad Leo learned that, because that’s the first step towards being a good leader and the first step away from those fears that hold him down.
(I love this image because Leo looks very happy but also a little scared; he still has so much to learn and it’s all so new for him and of course it’s scary but he’s also with his family and he knows they will support and help him. Thank you animators for such top notch facial expressions.)
#rottmnt#rottmnt movie#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie#rottmnt movie spoilers#rottmnt leonardo#rottmnt raph#long post#my post#I love leonardo a normal amount#which his with every fiber of my being like any normal person should#hey it’s been a while since I’ve analysed a characters psyche#the movie has been my muse#it was so good and now I feel even deeper sorrow at the idea we could never get another season….#I SO wish the movie will do good and nick will finally decide to renew it#also it’s almost 2AM and I REALLY need to sleep…#I hope my English isn’t too bad in this post XD
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fun fact: Them
#willos nation I have an important announcement to make#eyagh *disintegrates into powder and scatters into the wind forever*#that's all thank you for coming to my ted talk.#barbie mariposa#barbie mariposa and her butterfly fairy friends#barbie mariposa and the fairy princess#Had to attach a link to the last image because tumblr fucked the quality so bad#barbie#barbie movies#On a different note. They go on chore runs together. In my mind#I should've drawn that but you're going to hear it from me here instead#She invites him out on a laundry run to cut down on the being bored out of her mind and notices he's actually enthusiastic about it#Because like. Having grown up mostly sheltered and relatively(self-imposed or otherwise) isolated he#hadn't really had the experience of just Hanging Out very much#like hell yeah an excuse to leave the palace without having to deal with socializing with strangers. too much.#because she can deal with that. And i mean. he likes hanging out with her.#So she just keeps inviting him over for other menial chores. He's actually kindof competent at it and she really doesnt mind the extra help#cakeart#Also. also. She does poses for him. to draw. paint. whatever#Not in a weird way. in a figure drawing way. understand my vision. look me in the eye.#Artist/muse scenario in general. consider. consider. i'm correct#This post has been in my drafts since november it's not going to show up in the tags if I keep talking
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more art in the same day??? man, im just clearing out my backlog of art and yall won't hear of me for another 3 months lmao
anyhows!! any of yall seen wolfwalkers?? i would die for that movie so bad-- cartoon saloon really knocked it outta the park w/ this one...
drew me n' my best friend over as wolfwalkers - little wolf shapeshifters ♡ backgrounds are from the movie itself, i had nothin' to do with those :]
#wolfwalkers#cartoon saloon#wolfwalkers fanart#wolfwalkers oc#i fucking adore the artstyle smmm#its so crunchy and crissppp - and like- the difference of the woodblock-like style and the sketchier wild??? absolute fivehead move#also if i wouldve seen this movie when i was a littel child#i wouldve lost my shit.. just completely#i was such an utter wolf kid... like- running around on all fours wolf kid...#the lack of wolf-related media has been somewhat remedied nowadays... but the selection back then was... honestly kinda sad :')#im gonna make my own wolf media...#my legacy of being a game-designer is an ode to my younger self.#my art#buds musings#but in the tags...
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i ' m living for how kuro & i are just mutually 🤝'ing on the fact that broly and miguel are probably gonna end up throwing hands before the week is over
this is exactly why i be out here living for crossovers. canon can bite my ass (sorry, miguel), we do what we want, out here 😎
#ooc#i've been so happy to just have a muse again that i could throw at a fandom and make some sorta sense#one of the blessings that the portal tech in atsv has given us#and if the spiderverse rpc do be kinda dead until whenever the next movie comes out#then watch me just be vibing in my own lil place here#I'm content and happy to be writing consistently again with tons of sweet folks#ty for putting for putting up with me & my slowness#<3
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2 projects left and i am free this semester
#i finished a fuck load of practical exams#this finals push is something#anyways one of them was a stage play for 21st literature#phantom of the opera! i was a background dancer and backing vocals#i miss practice for it :(#i watched the royal albert hall perf and 2004 movie for it#i'm thinking of watching the other film versions too#all i ask of you & the reprise has been stuck in my head for like 2 weeks now omfg#i did mainly props for this project#the phantom mask and the don juan papers#i took home the papers some masquerade masks and 2 copies of the script we put together hehe#what else uhhm#oh for my birthday my dad bought me the aapi variant of dd#11 from this one guy#its on my like comic wall now hwhe#it's all iron fist lie this month lol#on oct-nov it was all the blindspot/muse covers i had#mm at some point i started a bloodborne file and couldn't decide on how i wanted to make my hunter to look so i just made a bootleg P ..#like from lop. lol#i plan to get a haircut and buy holiday gifts at some point this week#my actual holiday break doesn't start until the 17th because of the remaining project's due dates but i'm going to get my parts done sooner#i think that's all the interesting life updates i have?#a.talks#my apolocheese for the tags explosion. Again
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Yooooo they dropped a new Goosebumps series just in time for spooky month??
#mel's musings;#I've been sO pleasantly surprised that all the spooky stuff from my childhood that's been rebooted has actually been GOOD#the goosebumps movies#the are you afraid of the dark series#the scary stories movie#so I have hopes for this goosebumps run to not let me down.
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okay I watched hocus pocus 2 and I feel normal again
#good movie love that movie#I was really at the end of my line after work today I’m ngl#AFTER HELL WEEK IS DONE IM GONNA WRITE SO FUCKING MUCH#I keep making notes on my phone about replies bc I have the muse I’m just. exhausted#so I can’t write atm#this whole two hours of sleep a night thing is breaking me a little#almost there u guys ALMOST THERE#ooc.#this has been a vent post I guess sorry#I hope everyone is having a good night
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it's coming up on that time of year where I rewatch Samurai Jack in its entirety...
#I'm excited but also...#idk I feel like when I get to s5 it's gonna break me#Jack has been my guide my comfort my muse for YEARS#plus the art is just so. fucking. good.#but mannnn when he's down bad it makes my brain so sad 😭#and I know when I see him feelin defeated I'm gonna draw parallels to my own life#and I...whewwww am I ready for that??? idk#I usually start watching in October and finish around December#I am a slow tv watcher and I find it actually v difficult to marathon shows 😭#my brain needs breaks and my heart needs breaks and it's like#??? ok all movies are like 4 hours long now but they used to be 1.5 and that was perfect!#but my cousin will marathon a show that's 12 episodes each 25 minutes or even shows that have HOUR LONG EPS#and idk how she does it#but um yeah#another chii fun fact I guess#samurai jack is one of my favorite pieces of media of all time it's nostalgic and inspiring and so very beautiful#chii talks atchu •.•#samurai jack#for a while I even contemplated getting a tattoo based on the show like oooooo I'm glad I didn't but I was CLOSE#I know a girl who got one of Aku and it looks fuckn SICK#ok bye I have to work now :-((
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my sister really wants to watch an episode of this show, so i'll be back!! and i'll be writing when i do!!
#i've been writing this whole time ofc! i just haven't posted anything yet uvu#and i feel like i'm in the zone inspiration wise but my sister has been really wanting to finish this show#so i'm gonna go do with her bc i don't think i'm gonna lose my muse#the show's a romance and between that and watching the dnd movie i'm feeling very!! ready to write!!#i'm rambling once again but ahhh i'll see y'all later!!#get ready to ramble | ooc
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"Giving your canon muse the same pronouns you use or making them trans is making them into a self insert. :/"
If you're a cisgender mun and you write your canon muse as cisgender, you're making them a self insert. Especially if they're the same gender as you :/. See how some of ya'll sound? Lmfao
#A self insert character is when a character is a self insert.#The weird ''anti-woke'' people have been popping up in the RPC and some of the shit they say is as asinine as you'd think.#''There's nothing wrong with writing a white muse unu'' As somebody who has written an entire family of white OCs for more than a decade...#Never has anybody come into my ask box or DMs giving me shit for writing my white OCs.#MUH VICTIM COMPLEX. I'M SO UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN WE'RE NOT ABOUT MEEEEEEE. LGKJLFKJGLKDFJGLKDFJG. GET REAL.#You know what that shit sounds like? ''THEY'RE NOT PUTTING WHITE PEOPLE IN TV OR MOVIES ANYMOOOORE''#as if there aren't tons of white cishet actors still in multi-million dollar movies and popular TV shows where they're the main characters.#Goofy goofy goofy#zombert.txt
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let me write stark family content damn it
#ooc post !#i wanna write drama! angst! complex relationships!#my muse for characters has been so off lately i'm sorry y'all who followed me for sw content and am now dealing with me on my asoiaf bs#hyperfixating on my dumb little feral wolf child is all my brain is capable of lately apparently#and helluva boss but i don't write muses from animated shows/movies on tumblr so i'm just sitting here screaming about#a traumatized owl demon and a manic depressive clown by myself#anyway i swear i'll get back to writing the replies and memes i owe soon#and starters i haven't forgotten about those#my muse is just all over the place and will not go back to non hyperfixation mode#screams into a jar and throws it into the ocean as a gift to poseidon#anYWAY back to staring at my drafts for twenty minutes before i give up and go to bed#negativity tw#i love oversharing in the tags of unrelated posts like it'll improve my mood
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and if i said.... pet.er peve.nsie.....
#i have never read the books but ive just watched the first 2 narnia movies#it was def my first time seeing prince caspian idk ab the other narnia i probs watched it as a kid#but he..... he is calling me#mr doomed blonde twink who makes poor choices but is doing his best....... welcome back all my muses#i was gonna say welcome back kurt but... tate... levi.... probably more#ive never been. Good at writing fantasy im not great w anything that requires lore#hes just. oh hes calling to me#and the. specifically the pains of living a life in narnia and being king and then having to go back to the real world and be Just A Kid#idk if hes in the third movie im ab to watch it now but the bitter sweet end of 2 where he says hes leaving narnia and he wont be coming ba#and aslan says its bc he has nothing more to learn from it like..... kinda heartbreaking and would destroy u as a person#a world where ur king and u do everything u can to make the right choices but u dont do things really right and u get people killed#and yeah narnia prevails but it doesnt prevail bc of u. its in part bc of u but ur decision cost lives it risked a lot#and then its like. well ur leaving now and thats it bc it taught u what u needed to learn#and like maybe it did but he had no chance at redemption at fixing things there like his redemption was to leave it to someone more capable#and then he has to just like. go be a person. and live a normal life#like thats wild#im gonna go watch the third movie if u have read the books sound off on if u think i should based entirely on my little rant ab peter#the issue here tho. is if i made him. u see. two muses named peter on this blog... both with a last name starting w p.... its almost like.#its almost like one would have to be a solo blog#'but quin ur literally never here anyway' but what if for a hyperfixation muse i was here#this post started w the intent of 'narnia peter solo blog' but now... i am thinking perhaps spider peter would be a better solo bc of his.#bc of the fixation i have#however he intimidates me a Lot as a solo blog bc hes such a. everyone knows him u know hes a Big muse and i fear the pressure of that#then again narnia i think is big too? and theres the talks of the new movies so thats also potentially big muse#its crazy bc i have sososo much muse for every muse i have but my brain is saying abandon this blog and make both peters solos#and i Cant do that#but at the same time................................#my issue has always been too many blogs and being stretched too thin but also. w all due respect. who cares#like i am here to have fun and most of the time my blogs dont last bc no one writes w me not bc i dont want those muses#and yeah theres no guarantee making a new blog would change that but idk. kinda vibe w the idea of starting new
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/ Since I mention in my pinned post that this blog has some changes from canon, I'm going to make a rundown post that I'll be linking in my muse info on my blog. My timeline post covers some of this too and has other things canon to my muse that aren't here because they're timeline based and not direct changes based. I'll update this as needed.
Repede had another owner before Yuri got him in the game. I'm combining this with FS. Thus, Repede would have been basically an infant when he and Lambert ended up with the knights. From there he took to Yuri as he did in the FS drama CD so Yuri was primarily in charge of Repede during his stay with the knights, but he and Flynn raised Repede together as is in line with the game. This means they continued raising him together even after Yuri left.
In the JP version of the game, Yuri says he was with the knights for a short time but doesn't specify how long that time was, so I'm completely yeeting the "three months" dub aspect from this blog. I can't reasonably assume he signed up, took the exams, went into training, went from errand boy to battle status, then went on normal missions and left in the span of three months. So as usual, we're following the JP timeline. Generally anything the dub makes up or actively changes from the original context/tone gets yeeted here.
In the FS drama CD, Flynn is extremely repetitive about Yuri quitting the knights and with his nagging. At least with @mistralxsoul and anyone else who prefers it the following way in threads with my muse, we're toning it down because it just feels absolutely batshit to us how bad it is in the drama CD (it's worse than even the movie itself).
Since the timeline for Yuri and Flynn's knighthood conflicts super horrendously between the novel, FS/FS drama CD and the game, I'm mixing all of it together (primarily because I consider the novel more canon than the FS drama CD). Basically (for my muse), they signed their names and didn't take the exams immediately, but when they eventually did it was at least a couple years later, due to Yuri still having his teen appearance when he signed his name to join in the novel. This is because otherwise, if I average my muse's teen age out to be fifteen/sixteen and his age to be about eighteen/nineteen in the knights, it would mean he'd been with the knights (including training, etc) anywhere from 2-4 years if his sign up was immediately after the novel's events. If they were to sign up and join immediately after the novel timeline, it also makes even less sense because Flynn's attitude in FS and his relationship with Yuri (and remember, the FS drama CD comes before the movie's timeline and Flynn was even worse about Yuri's attitude in the CD) would seem like it literally 180'd overnight.
So basically, to avoid all this insanity, a short summarized timeline for my muse would be: they signed up but didn't join right away, Flynn moved away and was gone for a couple years or so after the events of the novel, both of them changed in personality/behavior drastically in that time, they met up at the exams, they went into training, they got sent to Niren's squad, they were more errand boys than actual knights when they were still super fresh newbies and Yuri was extremely annoyed with that, they were actual knights for a while (I'm going to say Yuri was a knight for at least six months or more, especially if I consider the trajectory of Flynn's behavior toward him in the drama CD through the end of FS), the events of FS were not one straight timeline and things happened between the days etc etc, then Yuri left.
Following the game's drama CDs, Yuri hesitated a lot more when Flynn was injured at Zaude. If not for Flynn nudging him to go after Alexei even while wounded, Yuri wouldn't have left him there.
Following the same drama CDs, it's Raven and Repede who find and look after Yuri when he wakes up after Zaude. That is to say, Repede was already with Raven and lunged when he sniffed out Yuri in his room (super doggo powers). Raven followed Repede in a panic, who ran to Yuri's room upon realizing Yuri was there, and Raven finds Yuri awake but right in the middle of passing back out (the sound is basically Raven's voice being distant with some ringing, so it's from Yuri's point of view that Raven is trying to get him to steady himself but he passes back out). Raven takes care of him from there until he's recovered properly enough to go back. In this time, Rita did investigating and eventually, with the others minus Raven, went to Zopheir after deciding they couldn't dawdle and just wait in their grief. While they're there, Yuri and Raven have headed out after them and show up together and reunite with the rest of the group. Raven has already been updated on what Yuri knows from Duke at this point (Duke saved him as usual, but the drama CD changes come in after that), so the two of them update everyone else.
In the game, there's a skit with Yuri, Flynn and Karol where Yuri mentions "playing in a river", but in the novel, they were actually getting water at the river and the other kids were playing in the river when they got attacked by a monster, fell into the river (Yuri also mentions (I thiiiink in another unrelated skit) that just falling into "a river" was enough to panic him), and Flynn grabbed onto a merman. For my muse, I'm just going with Yuri simplifying the situation to Karol while keeping the novel's event as my muse's canon.
#{ muse info + headcanons }#/ a lot of the timeline post itself is also for me and not y'all LOL but like. if you need to know#differences in interaction with me this stuff is good to know at least bc I don't strictly follow the game canon#I follow a mix of official content and obviously some of it overlaps and retcons other things#as for the dub if you've been here long enough y'all know I hold a huge ass grudge against#how much it changes Yuri's behavior/personality and his attitude toward Flynn#but the three months thing just does not feel reasonable to me on top of the dub just making it up#and it helps SO much to have that free time period for writing#even if we assume he wasn't counting the training to officially join the knights in the dub#three months is... way too short imo and then if I combine the FS drama CD with that#it makes even less sense bc the girls tried to get Yuri to stay when he did actually almost quit#on top of the whole not rly doing knightly things for a while at first#and yeahhhh it's just a fucking MESS to try to cram everything with all this content into three months#also like since I LOOOOVE the teen arc of the novel and that's My Fucking Baby Boy#I don't want to actually change anything from it so I'm just mixing everything together to keep it all#it's like... I love all the official Yuri content and so I want to keep as much of it together as possible#but since it's not always the same people working on the content or bc there's such a time gap between content#things aren't always consistent and when it comes to writing a muse I just. NEED timeline consistency#even if I have to make it myself LMAO. I try to keep as much of the game stuff together as possible#since I know most ppl interacting with me only know the game and possibly the movie#and not all the drama CDs and all the various JP exclusive content#but it's hard to keep it together perfectly when there's so much other content I'm using that has formed my muse#like... my muse exists the way he is bc of all this content you know? and only using the game#would change him a fucking lot in hindsight with the way he thinks and reacts and such#like... there's no fucking way he's not traumatized after the events of the novel in the teen arc there's NO fucking way#it was bad enough that it nearly pushed him to murder when he was a teenager#and he might have actually done it if his foster mother didn't stop him (and end up doing it herself)#so yeah I mean... I do my best to keep him within game context with most people I interact with#but the more you interact with this boy the deeper you're gonna get into muse specific lore lol
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FINALLY WATCHING THE GERMAN DUB OF SEASON TWO AND NANACHIS VOICE IS SO GOOOOOOOODDDD OH MY GOD
they TACKLED the androgyny aspect oml im so excited to see how they did faputa
#gu6chan's musings#the german dub has been so GOOD (surprisingly)#i came in rlly apprehensive but reg; and marulk; and nanachi; and ozen..... just!!!!! *crumples*#only one i have any real complaints about is riko dhdjdjjf#but even she improved MASSIVELY from s1#i never watched the full first season in gernan since i had found it while rewatching the english with my sister at the same time...#and ofc we're planning to watch the movie again (which im already 'eh' about) so i skippes straight to season two and BOY#IM SOOOOOO !!!!!! YES!!! YES!!!!!!!!!
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it's funny how half the bands I mention liking to my mom she has been to a concert to
#depeche mode. the killers. muse.#the mountain goats but only because she was going because of me#also when watching the barbie movie in theaters she leaned over to me twice to say she went to a concert by the artist of the song#for both closer to fine and push#idk its funny my mom has been to a lot of concerts#still goes to them
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📽️ YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR
you’re literally the director, producer, muse, screenwriter and cast of your dream life, your muse is who you want to be, the screenwriter does all the work behind the scenes and the script and basically everything that goes into making the movie the movie.
what you put into your screenplay (whether it’s aff tapes, living in the end, embodying your dream life or doing sats) everything you put into your screenplay dictates the outcome of your movie (your dream life)
you literally need to be the best method actor in the world and feel your dream life so it can harden into your dream reality. when someone is preparing for a role reading the script doesn’t get them far they need to transform into that character so they can perform to the best of their abilities
make your own rules, how are other people going to tell you what to do like hello?? the law is about you and literally nobody else this is your movie who cares if you wanna do whatever you want if you think doing methods are beneficial go for it at the end of the day it’s your life and you have the power in your hands. we all want an award winning life full of success, love and happiness and it is coming!! congratulations in advance
you find manifesting difficult because you make it difficult for yourself, you complicate it for yourself by over-consuming and fixating on methods that’s why you feel stagnant!! affirm and persistence goes a long way i promise it seems like people throw around this term all the time but it’s literally true that’s what makes loa easy
”your desired state already exists but is excluded from view. an assumption brings it into sight by changing your perspective.” - neville goddard
— ༊ xtra hehe i hope this analogy makes sense at the end of the day this is your life and your creation you are in control and it is finished you have your dream life you are the director of your own life and destiny ⁺ this is literally sats but i loveeee affirming and making my own short films in my head knowing that when i wake up i will live in that moment
— ༊ i hope you find this useful!! i’ve been crazy consistent lately even im scaring myself (@etherealkissed88 definitely has some of my favorite loa content!! you should definitely follow her) that’s pretty much all i have to say have a good day/afternoon or night and good luck on your journey because it’s already done
#law of assumption#neville goddard#manifestation#loa#manifesting#affirmations#dream girl#dream life#self concept#ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ⪩ ⪨ manifestingbymoi ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ⪩ ⪨#manfiest#affirm and persist#void state#living in the end#it girl#reality shifting#manfiestation
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