#do hard things

[victusinveritas]

Comic by Ellis Rosen

#comic #ellis rosen #procrastination #do the thing #do hard things #do it anyway

[malbecmusings]

Do hard things - Graham Weaver. They get much easier and your life will be so much more rewarding. Keep the faith. Take the leap. Be a beginner. DO it. I believe in you.

#i don't know who needs to hear it #graham weaver #do hard things #keep the faith #take the leap #be a beginner #become an expert #do it #you've got this #i believe in you

[pratchettquotes]

It took a great deal of courage to stand there in that dark. Rincewind didn't have that much, but stood there anyway.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

#rincewind #sourcery #discworld #terry pratchett #wizard #hero #courage #brave #unlikely hero #coward #contradiction #do hard things #in the dark #he stood there anyway

[fields-of-arbol]

#do hard things

[funsimplethings]

#post traumatic stress #post traumatic growth #victor frankl #holocoust #steve magness #do hard things #surviving #despair #depression #inner world #horrific #life #death #meaning #bearable #community #trauma #brain #search for meaning #growth #explore #avoidance #our story #our narrative #recovery

[discoveringmyself88]

So excited to cheer my friend on from afar. You’re going to kill it!!!

#run #running #boston #boston marathon #killing it #do hard things #cheer #cheerleader #yay #love #awesome

[homeschoolfun]

Did this awful book make anyone else as miserable as it made me?!? I read this at 13 😭

#ex fundie #homeschool #homeschooled #harris brothers #fundie snark #rebelution #book review #do hard things #homeschooler #inadequacy #homeschool trauma #evangelicals

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone #yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post. #writeblr #ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person #and on this blog we support workers. #at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going. #when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens #have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists #and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like. #it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases - #at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory. #it was what i had seen. #and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference #we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol' #so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender #and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID. #he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different #i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.

[charvikavarma]

I always like to say..."do hard things." #shorts

In a world where comfort and convenience are highly sought after, there is great pride and fulfillment in choosing to do hard things. It allows us to break free from the monotony of routine, and instead, explore our full potential. It allows us to prove to ourselves and to others that we are capable of achieving greatness even in the face of adversity. #lifejourney #personalgrowth #dohardthings

#do hard things

[qweenofurheart]

the tim drake experience

#i wanted to explore his way of thinking so bad it’s so strange to me #i think he does things the hard way for the sake of doing them #and he probably carries a lot of physical and emotional turmoil which he doesnt acknowledge until it’s quiet #full time career in concerning the people around him !! 😀😀 #my art #batman #batfam #batfamily #batman comics #batfam fanart #batfamily fanart #dc comics #dc #dc fanart #tim drake #tim drake fanart #red robin #red robin fanart #stephanie brown #stephanie brown fanart #spoiler fanart #kon el kent #superboy fanart #conner kent fanart #conner kent #dick grayson #dick grayson fanart #nightwing #nightwing fanart #damn so many tags

[nerdpoe]

Danny is about to be kidnapped in Gotham This is not a good time.

He's studying for the SAT, he's already been kidnapped by Vlad like, four times that week and it was a fucking Tuesday, he forgot his wallet at his new apartment, locked himself out of said new apartment (he could phase through the door but that wasn't the point), he's just been informed that the grant he applied for was denied so he needs to ask his mom and dad for college funds when he'd already told them he had it covered, and just...it was shit.

It had been shit. The entire week had been awful and annoying and he was ready to either murder everyone on the planet or go find a corner to cry in for the next three days.

So when the band of wild goons working for whatever villain of the week pulled up and tried to kidnap him, he snapped.

He used them to vent.

Shouted about how terrible his day had been, how terrible his week had been, how he'd already been kidnapped by his creepy godfather who was way too into him, how college funding was shit and the grant system was rigged, and how he'd have to call a locksmith or break down the door to his own apartment if he wanted to go to bed-all of it. He unloaded all of his frustration.

The goons actually backed off.

One of them gave him an awkward side hug and told him it'd get better.

Danny wasn't paying attention to his surrounding. He doesn't realize that the whole thing was livestreamed.

So when he gets home to his apartment later that day, his door is opened for him by the vigilante Spoiler before he can even turn intangible.

She brought over BatBurger and kidnapped Bruce Wayne, Gotham's bumbling Prince, to talk about college grants.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #steph watched the livestream and felt GREAT SYMPATHY #so she actually did trick bruce into coming with her and breaking into an apartment as bruce wayne instead of batman #told him it was an important job #he clued in that it wasn't crime related after she told him to stay put so she could get food #sure fuck it he'll give this rando kid a grant #he'll pay for the whole thing education is important #literally no one looks into the whole “i've already been kidnapped four times this week” thing #cuz everyone gets kidnapped in gotham #well almost no one looks into it #jack and maddie fenton do when they see the clip #vlad learns the hard way not to piss off the people who design weapons specifically meant for you

[pratchettquotes]

But magic is never as simple as people think. It has to obey certain universal laws. And one is that, no matter how hard a thing is to do, once it has been done it'll become a whole lot easier and will therefore be done a lot. A huge mountain might be scaled by strong men only after many centuries of failed attempts, but a few decades later grandmothers will be strolling up it for tea and then wandering back afterward to see where they left their glasses.

Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

#maskerade #discworld #terry pratchett #magic #witches #wizards #universal laws #hard #easy #do hard things #breaking records #high standards #excellence #accomplishment #climbing mount everest #not simple #it's been done

[fields-of-arbol]

This is a great article for men out there. I definitely feel better about who I see in the mirror and have much more satisfaction in life when I focus on doing. I would also add that in addition to creating, mature men must also maintain. Still in the spirit of doing rather than buying or consuming, but instead of always creating something new, the mark of maturity can also be taking care of what you already created.

#manliness #do hard things

[funsimplethings]

#do hard things #steve magness #why we get resilience wrong and the surprising science of real toughness #introspective #distinguish feelings #internal signals #body #emotions #feeling #reaction #handle stress #stress #internal state #internal alarm bell #self awareness #clarity

[sketchy-tour]

Redrew some of my old daycare attendant doodles as stress relief today

#The original doodles were not posted here I'm p sure and for good reason they are SO BAD #but I wanted to draw something but without need to think too hard so redrawing something old felt good enough #also featuring the whole nickname thing the DCA fandom was always so fond of. Do yall even still do that??? I havent been up to date #ah. The blorbos before wally #anyway #fnaf security breach #fnaf dca #dca fandom #dca fanart #daycare attendant #fnaf daycare attendant #self insert #self insert x canon #my art #sketches #much needed comfort art

[inafallsaway]

Drawing time!

#one piece #monkey d luffy #luffy #nico robin #nami #I think they draw together a lot #both can’t draw tho lol #I tried to base robins style after the couple eps she we do see her drawing #she has lots of sharp lines lol #also wanted to include a ton of tiny cute things on the fridge #I wanted to add more but i think I went a wee bit overboard #the things in the corner if you can’t tell are magnets that represent all of them #ok no more rambling I hope you like I worked hard on it hehe #my art