#Following Our Paths

[talesofourworlds]

@valiantxunion continued from here!

Lost certainly was one word for it, especially after they'd chased that monster down to stop it from taking their kills. So when Karol had chased the beast, Raven had chased after him to make sure he didn't get into a worse situation. The kid... he was pretty much like family by that point, right? Karol sure did seem to look up to him an awful lot, but gods knew why. Raven felt pretty sure he wouldn't be able to bear it if something happened to Karol. Outside of what had happened at the Blade Drifts, of course. That had been scary for everyone involved.

Eventually, he'd caught up to Karol and joined the efforts to take down the beast and get their catches back. No one would be happy if they came back empty handed. Especially not Rita. Best to avoid Rita's wrath. That was one thing Raven didn't want to be on the receiving end of, and he knew Karol likely felt the same.

One last well timed arrow coupled with a blow from Karol had taken down the beast, and Raven had been relieved. They'd gotten their catches back. They'd taken down a monster that likely could have caused more trouble for others. But now, they were lost. Lost, and as Karol pointed out, about to get caught in a nasty looking storm.

"Well, Cap'n Karol, I think you're right."

What were they meant to do now? Survival skills started to come back to him as he looked around, hoping for any signs of areas they could shelter in. They needed to find something, otherwise they'd both get soaked to the bone. He already could feel the rain starting to fall a little faster, soaking into his baggy coat. Think, dammit!

"First, gotta find somewhere ta take shelter. We ain't gonna have any better of a time if we let ourselves get soaked," he advised. A part of him felt a little odd, being the one giving out advice. Karol had asked for it, though, and he wasn't about to let Karol panic if he could help it.

"There's gotta be somethin'. A cave, a conveniently hollowed and split in half log..." Okay, the second option would be a stretch. But the longer they stood standing around, the more likely they were to get soaked. Old man didn't want to get soaked, and he sure didn't want that for Karol.

Then he heard a clap of thunder. Yeah, okay. No more time to stand around. They needed shelter. Now.

"Quick, let's try that way," he urged, motioning to the side and hoping for the best. He hadn't actually noticed anything new there, but it was worth a shot to look there if nothing else. "Before this ol' man, or you, gets zapped!" Maybe lightning wouldn't actually strike then, but he didn't want to take any chances.

#ic #valiantxunion #A Weed Tryin' to Bloom (Raven) #Following Our Paths #I chose after because why the hell not #But when in the timeline is this outside of after the Schwann reveal? Who knows xD #Raven just like 'Nope nope nope I'm not about to let Karol or myself get hit by lightning'

[uwhe-arts]

follow this path . . . | uwhe-arts

#follow this path #forest paths #photographers on tumblr #winter vibes #enchanting forest #the nature is our home #landscape #original photographers #uwhe-arts #nature #original creators #vertical #explore #uwhearts #photography #hiking #alleys #occurs

[justalitlecreacher]

I might be super late on the uptake here but I’ve just noticed that in Into the Spiderverse, when Miles meets Peter for the first time the colors behind Miles shift from Prowler’s purple and green to Spider-Man’s blue and red

With what we know now about the universe Miles’ spider came from, I wonder if that Miles and this Miles traded fates?

#like if Miles was originally meant to follow in the footsteps of his uncle #I cant see our Miles becoming Prowler but if a version of Miles can be Prowler #then it’s not impossible that something could change #but Miles becoming Spider-Man led him on a different path #Spider-Man #into the spider verse #across the spider verse spoilers #across the spiderverse #miles molares

[wiirocku]

Isaiah 53:6 (NLT) - All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on Him the sins of us all.

#Isaiah 53:6 #all of us #like #sheep #strayed #away #left #God's #paths #follow #our own #LORD #laid #on Him

[lunarharp]

lazy scribbling of my baldur's gate 3 characters

#*emerges from 430 HOURS of life-changing playtime blearily like a lost and confused kitten* #i lost my interest in drawing bc everything is too sad & horrible right now. it was a luxury and privilege to lose myself in this instead #what follows will be my personal and trivial emotions about that #i'll do better proper drawings later. for me. they are both so very dear to me... deeply dear...unforgettable journeys of fate #truly have played like one possessed for the past few weeks. you have no idea. what do i do now. what do i do. #their personalities are so vivid to me though they mostly made the same choices. both intersex and they/them - canonically <3 #i missed out on FOUR PARTY MEMBERS in my first playthrough due to not understanding anything whatsoever. #gloaming ended up with wyll and pavane romanced karlach and astarion. and ended up with the one i did NOT plan on. this wasnt the plan #one of the most fulfilling romance paths i've ever..i cant say more..it all got too immersive and now i have to just.. MOVE ON ?????????? #live in THIS world where i can't gut imperialism personally and emerge alive from that? #without Long Resting? without my character requesting a kiss from their beloved after a tough day ?? #without preparing my little spells? without channelling divinity from my death god to keep us all alive? #without dyeing my man's clothes fancy colours for him? without him Approving whenever i lie and double-cross our enemies #without sharing clothes with my ex? without choosing to eat the heavy food first so that the weight is easier on her Carrying Capacity? #without orchestrating ways for all of my friends to kill the abusers that ruined their lives for a decade or even 200 years? #without experiencing degrading horrors on a daily basis but in a cathartic way where we always make it back to our rooms at the inn #WITHOUT SPEAK WITH ANIMALS??????????? #at least there's music. just like with persona 5 that will always be with me. always #like how p5 melodies take me back to those feelings. those rich and personal feelings.... BUT THIS WAS A WAY MORE NUTS EXPERIENCE #i thought i would hate it. i did at times. thought it would desensitise me to various things. it did. but there was so much more..it was... #Well anyway *continues my life* imagine if dnd was real..something to think about

[boyfhee]

hellooo thank u so much for 2k?!?!?! honestly when i re-started this account, i didn't expect the experience to be better than the prev one ( i didn't even expect myself to stick around for a year, it was my blog's 1st anniv on 22nd ) anyway, i'd keep it short— thank u for reading my works and leaving your feedback, it really means a lot ♡

#milestones ♡ 2k #see i would've hosted an event but my commitment issues r thru the roof #i've dropped more events than i've completed but am thankful to each and every one of you in those 2012 people #whether we talk or not im just glad you're here #moots who i rarely ever talk to : sorry for being so bad at communicating and thank u for following me #i hope we get to interact more before continuing on our separate paths #ok enough sappy stuff ya'll go stream dark blood!!!!!

[yellowymellon]

In the SU herta wonders how HooH would perceive nanook, I thought before Abt it, HooH isn't doing anything Abt nanook, but then again most aeons that represents a concept of great impact or can single handedly influence the universe have their natural counterpart,

HooH wouldn't kill yaoshi cuz Lan exists, and the destruction acts as a counterpart to continuance of life

Preservation's counterpart is destruction also, I think that's one of the most matched pairs

If ena was still alive then by technicality aha would be their counterpart

Propagation's propagated too much and became a problem for almost everyone but ig mainly it would be ena

Nous got mythus, altho I consider this unnecessary as nous doesn't bring any chaos to the universe

Funnily enough, if we speak Abt philosophies then IX's natural counterpart would be aha. It's worth mentioning aha helped trying to kill IX once just cuz. (I don't enjoy my fav aeons fighting cuz I'll have to side with my bias aka IX )

Neither fuli, nous, akivili or idrila bring any kind of dispute to the table

I wonder tho, oroboros overlaps with IX in a sense, IX's concept definitely overwhelms oroboros', altho the latter is said to have vanished it could be that IX absorbed them. Yet xipe, who doesn't exactly share everything in common with ena did in fact absorb them, Herta asks the same question too. Their paths aren't all that overlapping, harmony may require order but order is more detached

I'm also curious Abt finality, Herta questions nanook's existence when finality is much more grander, and honestly it's the same scenario as the harmony and order. Finality also could've absorbed IX as IX believes in that everything is bound to end and that it's meaningless (but it could be that finality doesn't have the same nihilistic view). I'm more interested in knowing why finality existed in peace, HooH doing nothing Abt it when there's no counterpart that naturally balances it out. Yaoshi is arguably the counterpart but it doesn't quite fit. I'm not even sure what could counter finality, the origin? (I look at u with a HoO Elly pfp Lol) the continuance of life? If that's so wouldn't that be life itself, making the finality represent death? Some of these aeons are way older than the rest, ultimately it doesn't make sense

Anyway tell me which aeon you'd like to follow if you were in HSR world!!! :3

#if there are spelling mistakes no there aren't :D #i'm too eepy to care rn #take these as the nonsensical ramblings of an old timer #i could write mini essays abt this game but remember nothing from school #maybe we have a problem in our society 🤨 #idk why im answering this here but the aeon id follow would be fuli! #not my fav but i resonate with the path #ill ramble more later 😭 now i eep #hsr #honkai star rail #star rail #hsr aeons

[talesofourworlds]

@valiantxunion continued from here!

She knew it had to have been longer than when she'd actually asked for those five extra minutes, but dammit the bed was cozy and she just... didn't want to get up. Admittedly, it was her own damn fault. The night before, she'd wound up staying up much later than intended reading one of her books. The aforementioned book had ended up on the floor at some point. Likely after Rita had fallen asleep herself. She'd likely be kicking herself for letting her book stay on the floor like that once she actually was awake. But for right then?

Yeah. The young genius mage was perfectly content to sleep longer if she could get away with it. From the sound of it, the others had already left. All except Karol, who's whining she could still hear despite trying to sleep. What was the big deal if she slept a little longer?

Her brow creased, and she shifted and shuffled under the blanket further as if it would make Karol go away. The annoyance in her mumbled grumbles was muffled by the blanket, but it seemed she wasn't immediately going to launch into Fireball using mode.

Then she felt him nudge her. There was shuffling under the blanket again, and the very distinct glow of the Bodhi blastia around her neck. Oh no.

"I said five more minutes!" Good thing Karol had gotten his bag ready as a shield, because there was a fireball forming and just about to strike.

#ic #valiantxunion #Pyrokinetic Genius (Rita) #Following Our Paths #RIP Karol xD #But yeeees :D I love their dynamic this is going to be fun #For us. xD Karol might think otherwise

[theminecraftbee]

as we get into more grian stuff I’ll go ahead and admit to the probably most tutu-inspired bit of this au in my head, which is that in the theoretical fifty-episode anime of my imagination, the first arc is basically played entirely straight and goofy, with the goal of putting the spirits back in the jar and re-sealing magic being unquestionably the good guy thing to do and the Enemy being unquestionably bad. the main confounding factor here, of course, is that we as the audience know grian can’t be a villain, because he’s grian, and we know him well enough in his civilian form to know something’s got to break.

the second half, however, is the consequences of the first act. here’s where we start to pull in things like the civilian support group, or cub’s possession and subsequent partnership with the spirit of chaos. we get more of the public debate going on about the magical girl situation and public opinion. we start to get a lot more of grian’s descent and subsequent redemption. and we start to properly question the status quo the beginning of the story gives us: is “put the spirits back in the jar and seal away magic again” really the correct course of action? was the last great mage really a perfect hero? is scar?

do we follow the way we know the story should go, or do we choose a new path?

anyway I thought I’d mention this as I brought up grian’s arc because a lot of the grian stuff, from his perspective, ends up playing into the grey area that exists here.

#magical girl scar #it’s MY self-indulgent magical girl au and I can choose the major themes! #anyway the ‘should we follow the path assigned to us or become our own people’ conflict is way less pronounced than tutu season 2 #and unlike tutu the ‘author’ here isn’t really like an actual guy still causing problems #but LIKE tutu the idea is that the first season tells us the basic story but the second season is the consequence of growing out of that

[ohdeargodwhy]

Okay but if we actually get tedtrent endgame my crops will be watered for 10000 years

#i will forgive everything bad about this series retroactively #ted lasso #tedtrent #ted x trent #tedependent #pinballing between tedtrent is a delusion and its gotta happen because of trents rule of threes love our chats foot in the door #because sleepless in seattle and a reporter who loved him for so long before a meeting right at the end of the story at an airport #because something more than a silly game of football because follow your bliss and teds deserved to be loved even by those who hurt you #because path less travelled because ted oblivious bisexual because trying something new and flipping straights #because trents outfits and feels like home and red string bracelets and if music be the food of love play on #it would absolutely be out of left field if it happened but also not because its #a million tiny little things that #when you added them all up #they meant we were supposed to be together #and I knew it. I knew it the first time I touched her. It was like coming home #only to no home I'd ever known. #sleepless in seattle #it would be the perfect 'unexpected' 'woke' ending #dont be cowards writers!!!!! #but also you should have done more to set it up ffs

[nctafraid]

@amillixnvoices​ ||  ❝ i can’t breathe. ❞

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way, it was supposed to be simple and easy. The crime scene was supposed to be secure, and yet it wasn’t. He looked over at her, pausing for a second too long. “Hey it’ll be okay.” He breathed out, but he wasn’t even sure of that himself. Things were going from bad to worse, and he couldn’t even figure out what he was supposed to do for her. “We’re going to get out of here, I just need you to trust me.” His service weapon was out, but there wasn’t even anything for him to aim at, he couldn't figure out where the threat was coming from. 

#amillixnvoices #who we are might be predetermined but the paths we follow is always of our own choosing (tim mcgee main verse)

[snake-snack-stede]

it would be funny as hell if stede has another auxiliary wardrobe moment and thinks ed is in danger of this kraken he keeps hearing about.

#the kraken is following the exact same path as the revenge!! ed my love please hold on! #<- ok wait I'm gonna tell myself to shut up because that just reminded me of ed's lyrics and made me sad #ofmd #our flag means death

[nyanslaughter]

damn twilight sparkle was right... rhat friendship really CAN Magic

#i love my friends so much dude #a handful of rhem follow me. hello rhere 👋 my beloved friends #i will kill for them i think #if you are a friend and you are Reading This it is about you!! and all the same if you are Not readingthis #because you are with me and our paths have crossed and i loveyou #i think that is what life is all about #chatterposting

[yume-fanfare]

something something the fact that hajime and mitsuru more or less assume and understand that ra*bits are going to follow different paths probably sooner rather than later but are also the two that want it to happen less

#both mitsuru and hajime have rejected Huge offers in favor of being idols......... #and. tomoya doesn't really want to be a cute idol #nazuna is in college #and has already made the point that. they're going to grow up and eventually they won't fit the cute image anymore #mitsuru is getting more roles as a cool guy in dramas and has become fairly popular on his own #hajime is the one who's sticking more to the cute line of work #anddd (i glance at bishoujo senpai) #back in sweet halloween tomoya and hajime already collided over this #and the conclusion was that while they were going to follow different paths they would always stay together for now #but like ññññ (glances at romantic comedy) #but mhmm (i glance at hajime's !! 4* fs where it's said they don't talk as much bcs tomoya has a lot of acting work n hajimes solo work #and hajime is taking it p well and encouraging him) #sanctuary. i understand the situation was different as there was some perceived real danger #and in the beginning hajime does have that 'we may be separated now but our hearts are always together' mentality (lol) but. yyeah. #i still think that experience has gotta have made him worse #(i glance at the imminent hajime center) #(i glance at the future tomoya center) #(i glance at the new years stream) #bunny angst time maybe #can we get bishoujo in game pl- #enstars #how to ra*bits #mar's midnight rambles

[icannotholdmypen]

personal ramble I'll probably delete later: there's something so profoundly frustrating about my mother wanting to talk to me about my job and the creative process and then shifting the conversation to be about our relationship at the mere mention of a name she knows. it immediately stops being a technical fun conversation about art and starts being a nostalgic therapeutic one and I feel so limited by it. help she's stuck in the stereotypical narrative of her personal sorrows and won't let me out.

#sorry about that I just had to let it out #it just feels like one more stone setting me on the domestic woman path I never wanted to follow #can't talk shop kid sorry we have to talk about the particularities of every man that's ever worked with you #and about how our different opinions about your job led us to discussions that strained our personal relationship #which is really the only thing you should be thinking about #the career you've being trying to build is just a backdrop for it