#Small steps!!

[runawaymarbles]

The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

#rambling #like by all means always push for more #but man you gotta be able to note the small victories too #and you have to be able to step away for a bit when you need to because there's never going to be an Ultimate End #op

[snakeoid]

imagine astarion so pale hes translucent like a glass frog. ur vampire so white he see through 😭😭

#bg3 #astarion #baldurs gate 3 #bubbles made him whiter noooooo #im always like a step away from just making this thing a zombie and i might. ive been thinking of it #there was a small appin doodle in between but tumblr will not upload with it included so oh well... #tell me if you need this tagged btw. idk if it would be in the gore realm or not

[the-rainbow-of-doom]

(This post was sponsored by a 1+ hour commute)

#I'm so frustrated how little time and energy i have after a day is done #i didn't win the fight against depression to have lofe ruined by THAT now #lacking time and energy to go on job hunt.. it's all very small steps only #a part time job would be marvellous but what flat can be paid with that #maybe also my anxiety is stopping me from getting a new job. what if i get fired. what if it's horrible there. ahh.. i need more courage #mine capitalism #anti-capitalism #work

[ridivenire]

Tav's POV: Embarrasing Rolan

I'm trying to draw again after 3 years of artblock. Not digging how the color version turned out so I posted black&white too

Rolan is verry bullyable

#bg3 #rolan #bg3 rolan #i felt some joy that i missed for all those years #hopefully i will improve but small steps #art tag

[inkskinned]

as we enter the start of a semester and the dreaded Hour of Making Friends us upon us... if ur ever at a loss for what to say in one of those weird social situations where you only vaguely-know people, one of my favorite questions to ask is "what is your favorite food crime." a food crime is like the food combination that you love that other people find revolting. press them to take it further than pineapple on pizza, that's rote. food crimes is a good topic that has many benefits as it turns out all people are degenerates and also it will give you some cool ideas to try out later in the privacy of your own degenerate kitchen

the other good thing to ask is "okay but has anyone here ever been someplace haunted" bc it turns out if you ask most people directly they don't believe in ghosts, but many people are like "oh yeah i lived in a haunted house. ghosts aren't real tho"

#my food crime is that i regularly make a “pasta and tuna” situation that has somehow gotten even more evil and degenerate over time. #it is a ''white wine reduction'' (it's just white wine and garlic powder & seasoning) #and tuna from a can. #and plain pasta. #if i have the spoons i will actually chop garlic for it but this tends to be my comfort food for a REALLY bad day #bc its super easy to make: #boil pasta. drain. put into bowl for later. into same pot u used for pasta. #put tuna (with oil/water from can). let fry a little for like 2-3 min. put in whatever amount of wine. season to taste. #the tuna will get a little crisp on it which is nice. important side note: #this began as a Bolognese sauce. #and one day i had to sub for tuna. i know. not ideal. i cried about it too. #somehow over time it is now its own little evil thing. i would never make someone else eat it. it is beautiful. #but yeah i don't even stir the pasta in afterwards i just slap pasta into serving bowl #slap this ''''''sauce'''''''' on top #molto bene #(i really can cook fairly well btw. this is a food crime. not a suggestion of skill or ability) #(i LOVE baking but when i cook for myself. the autism is obvious. bc i just don't understand the point of most of the steps) #(.... i can just eat the deli meat out of the bag. it is protein. i don't even have to like it. i just have to eat enough calories.) #(also i used to cook MUCH more before this apartment which is so small that i can stretch my arms out and overreach the counter length.) #(.... i'm 5.2. so.)

[macrolit]

#small steps #progress #change #time #patience #liz fosslein #remember this

[sleepsucks]

#26.01.23 #3243 #negativity #small steps small steps #actually gotta get back to taking them

[rosie-b]

They’re finally putting it in the news!!

#at least it’s a step #however small #free palestine #free gaza

[lunaris1013]

It's Moon Landing Day!

On this, Tumblr's first celebration of Moon Landing Day, my insomnia and I bring you this humble, barely researched post of fast facts!

On July 20, 1969 at 4:17 p.m. EDT Apollo 11 becomes the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon.

Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot) and Michael Collins (command module pilot) were the crew.

The Apollo 11 spacecraft consisted of the command module, Columbia, and the lunar module, Eagle.

The crew traveled 240,000 miles from the Earth to the moon in 76 hours.

1:47 p.m. EDT Armstrong and Aldrin, in the lunar module Eagle, separate from the command module. Collins remains onboard the Columbia orbiting the moon.

4:17 p.m. EDT - The Eagle lands.

4:18 p.m. EDT - “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed,” Armstrong reports. When the lunar module lands on the moon’s surface at the Sea of Tranquility, it has less than 40 seconds of fuel left.

10:56 p.m. EDT - Armstrong says, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” as he becomes the first human to set foot on the moon.

11:15 p.m. EDT (approx.) - Buzz Aldrin joins Armstrong on the moon. The men read from a plaque signed by the three crew members and the president, “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”

11:48 p.m. EDT - President Nixon speaks to Armstrong and Aldrin via radio from the Oval Office, “(it) certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made.” They speak for two minutes and the call is televised on both ends.

Armstrong and Aldrin spend over two hours collecting moon rock samples and data, and spend the night on board the Eagle.

Text from CNN, image from USA Today

#moon landing day #of course I'm celebrating #armstrong meant to say #one small step for A man #happy moon landing day to all who celebrate

[camplease]

i feel like this is a hot take, but it's clear to me that so much of ianthe's outward projection of superiority is a deeply ingrained — really, formative — sense of inadequacy. it's to prove to everyone, even the people who were supposed to love her, who were supposed to inherently value her, that she does actually have value — in fact, she has the most value because look at what she can DO!

and i don't even think she's entirely internalized that, but that kind of projection kind of falls apart if you show even a moment of self-doubt

and i know ianthe isn’t supposed to be sympathetic here, or at least i’m assuming she’s not to most people, but can you imagine the body horror of being inextricably tied to and irrevocably altered by the guy you grew up with and didn’t even really like and who didn’t like you either (but who served you because that was his Role, and, who, even though you’ll never admit it, you maybe even cared about a bit because at a certain point that’s kind of unavoidable - i know she tried to convince palamedes she didn’t, but she is a known liar prone to sentimentality), but it was fine because you knew you were better than him, too?

except now you're not exactly, not entirely better than him, because he's not just fueling you, you didn't get to just use him to become someone who matters. instead, he's part of you, and you still don't matter?

like from what she says about her parents' reaction to the canaan house aftermath, even that part didn't work. she didn't earn mommy and daddy's validation, admiration, anything

and she's running his empire, but she's still third place to surrogate daddy, too. if she even places!

ianthe naberius is very much the consequences of her own actions, i’m not going full apologia here, just imagining being in that position and. goddamn

#ianthe tridentarius #the unwanted guest #naberius tern #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #ianthe naberius #tridentarii #cw ianthe #m.tlt #tlt #anyway #† #i say all of this when actually i may be entering my ianthe apologist era i have a whole in defense of essay in my head that #i haven’t been up to articulating so far 🤡 #like boo hoo poor her but like also KIND OF MAYBE IDK IDK LISTEN IM JUST SAYING #people have so much sympathy for harrow because of her childhood trauma but i feel likeeee. ianthe’s childhood sounds profoundly fucked and #neglectful even from the small glimpses we’ve gotten into it so far #doesn’t excuse her at all and also yes obviously harrow has taken concrete steps towards becoming a better person even having spent less #time being an adult i'm not discounting that at all i'm not saying they're exactly the same #just ALSO! #you know etc etc i’ll get to it eventually maybe

[buglaur]

some of the sims i'm gonna play the new pack with!

#kit and navin are step-siblings. navin is a freelance web developer and kit is doing art commissions. they live in house 1 #dee max leo and gaz all study at foxbury. but they hope to make it big with their band! they live in number 2 #braidy owns the pub on the corner and she's renting a small apartment to virgil upstairs. she lives upstairs also #i gotta fill 2 more houses still hmmmmm #but rn i gotta start an assignment that i have due at 6pm tomorrow #i hate enterprise gahhhh my brain is not built for business 😫

[goldensunset]

joining the war on autism on the side of the autism etc etc

#i’m never drawing again i swear (lie) (i enjoy suffering) #n harmonia #natural harmonia gropius #zekrom #pokémon #pokemon #pokemon black and white #pokémon black and white #pkmn bw #pokemon bw #my art #bw #AAHHHHGHGGGHGH blorbo. i’m very tired but like #i have to commemorate every game i play! #i would say i am this guy’s biggest fan but i’m like 13 (14?) years late to this party i know i’m not #i haven’t even put scratched the surface of blorboposting yet i’ve seen some wild and good stuff out there i gotta step up my game #hope this looks ok i was kinda rushing to get it done while it’s still february lol #(i have a self imposed rule that i have to draw at least one thing a month) #zekrom can be wildly too small to scale. as a treat. i needed it to fit in the frame LOL #i’m quite proud of this i think. we’ll see how tomorrow’s me feels! #usually i regret posting something immediately after finishing it esp when late at night but as i said i’m rushing lol #one of the first pokémon i’ve ever drawn and it’s a Complicated Legendary. goody #but like look at my boy n right #[edit: fixed a few minor issues]

[dustykneed]

hey dusty I'm here to push my Spock purring agenda on you. thoughts?

of course <33 he's the og catboy. now for a transporter malfunction so they all purr:

i like to think jim is DEEP in that cat brain (not because the transporter malfunctioned any differently for him as opposed to bones. but because he is just Like That honestly). bones is the sort of... almost humanly intelligent flavor of cat. except he retains his 24/7 anxiety and jumps three feet every time someone sneezes too suddenly. and jim knocks shit off spock's counter all the fucking time so bones just eats shit all the fucking time lmfao

#star trek #star trek fanart #mcspirk #mcspirk fanart #star trek the original series #star trek tos #spirk #spirk fanart #mckirk #mckirk fanart #spones #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #spock #jim kirk #mcspurrk #that's it that's the tag for this now #dust trek hcs #yes jim is perfectly capable of doing the graceful cat thing and perfectly vaulting onto spock's dresser. #he was just huffy bc spock wasn't petting him lmao. he needs the attention <33333 #bones on the other hand. SO BAD at doing the graceful cat thing #yes he can jump. No he cannot aim. he leaps like one of those tiny frogs that evolved to be so small they fling themselves bc they cant jum #he eats shit ALL THE TIME (mainly because of jim lmfao) but that one time he tried to get out of spock's way on the ground but failed that #MISERABLY lolll and spock stepped on his tail and spock felt so bad about it he scritched him behind the ears for twenty minutes #cats #tos #spock is like...catnip for cat!mckirk bc he PURRS and he's warm and he gives the best scritches #also jim will not hesitate to scratch a bitch if provoked but bones just does the batting paw thing because he's a doctor not a cat dammit #he feels bad about scratching people even though he is literally a cat xDD

[wilcze-kudly]

Lin "I fear emotinal vulnerability" Beifong expressing affection to her closest family member purely via shoulder squeezes

She's so awkward. I love her.

#that's one small squeeze for lin one huge step for linkind #lin beifong #suyin beifong #legend of korra #avatar #tlok #the legend of korra #avatar the legend of korra #atlok

[akindplace]

It’s easy to dismiss your achievements when they seem so small in comparison to what your goals for the future are. Please remember that small steps are progress, don’t beat yourself up for not getting closer to what you dream of by doing things at a pace that is not respectful to your own limits, to your circumstances and whatever problems you struggle with. Those small achievements build up with time, they bring you closer to your goals. You can still enjoy life while you’re not where you wanted to be and you can still enjoy the journey when you do things at your own pace. You have time, and you’re not a failure.

Remember to recognize the small steps you make, and try to be patient, those small steps are taking you to new places, even if that is hard to see now because you’re still just at the beginning of your journey. Try to accept yourself as you are, knowing that things will change not only because you’re working towards it but because change is natural. Things won’t stay the same forever, you’re not stuck - you’re making progress even if you don’t see it.

Try not to beat yourself up at the end of the day because you couldn’t manage to do everything you planned. You’re trying, and the fact that you are doing so is already a good thing. Those small daily achievements matter, even when you can’t achieve all the ones you set out to do because you only have so many hours in a day. Please don’t push yourself to always get everything done so you can reach your goals as fast as possible because you won’t be able to enjoy your success if you’re burned out and struggling with your health. It’s not over yet, but you need to rest so you can carry on. You can keep trying tomorrow, it’s not too late. You will get there, but be mindful of your limitations, be kind to your body, recognize the smallest of achievements, they all matter. You matter.

#original writing #self-acceptance #self-worth #reminder #validation #positivity blog #on taking small steps #on rest #on perfectionism

[larabar]

some adau things ^^ he cheers barry on through the dreamgear

#hiiii its been a sec #the first one was supposed to be a thing referencing loz spirit tracks #because someone left tags a while back mentioning spirit tracks and the brainrot came RIGHT back. you know i love spirit tracks #probably why i love tmosth so much help #i didnt add anything else to that sketch because i didnt wanna ruin it skfnfj but its sonic running alongside the train like on the #spirit tracks box art #he figured out he can run by creating little spots to step. like platforms #helps to get some stress out since he hasnt been able to run in such small cars #also helps him Realize he was stressed #sth #doodles #actually dead au #hes got feeling in the dreamgear too so he likes hangin out in there #i think about that gotf issue a lot. when he has a body for a bit and being able too Feel really gets to him. auughhg #gotta reread it