#flow like water

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Water is yielding but all-conquering. Water extinguishes Fire or, finding itself likely to be defeated, escapes as steam and re-forms. Water washes away soft Earth or, when confronted by rocks, seeks a way round. Water corrodes Iron till it crumbles to dust; it saturates the atmosphere so that Wind dies. Water gives way to obstacles with deceptive humility, for no power can prevent it following its destined course to the sea. Water conquers by yielding; it never attacks but always wins the last battle.

Tao Chênh of Nan Yeo, an 11th-century Taoist scholar 

#water #way of water #the way of water #be like water #act like water #flow like water #tao #taoist #taoism #dao #daoism #daoist #tao chênh #tao chenh #nan yeo #zen #zazen #buddhist #buddhism #zen buddhist #zen buddhism #clouds #clouds and water #unsui #the wheel of life #wheel of life #virtue #virtue of water #the virtue of water #virtuous

[oftengrok]

Hate is immature and a tool for the sinister. It blinds the weak stealthily. Don't be fooled.

#are you a fool? #are you sure #dont lie #to yourself #everyone does #it #be #self aware #open minded #flow like water #understand you are wrong most of the time #everyone is #you would be wise #to understand #love is the answer no matter the question #when you hate #you are no more than a child #unaware #causing your own suffering #i am #love #life #knowledge #all

[shakingparadigm]

NOBODY is allowed to be happy and EVERYONE is doomed

#alnst #alien stage #ivantill #mizisua #this is also random but i associate mizisua with water and ivantill with fire. #and ivantill is fire in the way of meteors and the burn of fists against skin #the blazing star of a rebellious boy and the glow that reflects off of mesmerized black eyes #the red pupil within an expanse of black. light brought to a black hole. reverse supernova. something out of nothing #mizisua is water in the way mizi speaks of the ocean. the bubbly quality of her voice #the wide expanse of blue that stretches before them as sua sings and mizi watches from afar #the cold waters that they played in as children #the natural calming and easy flow of currents #the bright sky above them that paints the waters blue and by extension their memories as well #just like the blue stage lights that painted sua before her death #the flowing of tears onto her lifeless body #memories of bright blue stained with red #(i also associate mizi with water and jellyfish in general lol) #sorry that shit was so random

[puppetmaster13u]

DP X DC X Subnautica

Where the Justice League (mostly focusing on the Superfam or Batfam or Flashfam) are large leviathan-esque creatures living on Planet 4546B. Maybe they can change forms due to Precursor experimentation, maybe not. Those with young hang out around the shallows more than the others, what with most of them being large super or specialized predators.

Enter Danny Fenton, interning on the Aurora when the ship is shot down by the Quarantine Enforcement Platform. Oh sure he probably would have tried to stop the destruction and help, but his ghost powers are a bit on the fritz and a well-meaning worker pushes him into one of the last life pods seeing as he's a child.

Now the leviathans may not know what a ship is exactly, but they can definitely understand that in most cases things technology = precursors. As far as they understand, a metal deathtrap not unlike the old labs or caches fell alongside several metallic eggs, with the emerging hatchlings misshapen and not living long.

But then there's the egg that landed in the shallows, which at first they thought was empty. But a hatchling- much smaller than the previous ones- emerges, a day later than the rest, but they're alive even if their swimming is all wobbly! It's so tiny, and obviously hatched too early with the strange split tail and how it keeps swimming to the surface for air, and they have to protect it! Now if only the little hatchling would answer their calls and not dart into hiding spots whenever they approach...

Honestly this is up to the writer lol, but I like to think that Danny's ghost form, when he finally manages to achieve it again, goes a little naga-esque. Almost like a sea snake instead of just a whispy ghost tail, which while better for swimming doesn't help his freak out over most ghost powers still not working.

Danny is just trying to survive man, maybe find other survivors, turn off this big alien gun, stop creating frost crystals when he sneezes, the usual. He doesn't need giant humanoid-esque leviathan-sized sea creatures poking around!

#DcxDP #Prompts #Subnautica #Prompts that came from a dream lol #featuring Danny's ghost form being like a naga lol #danny phantom au #Space core Danny #Khaara is like an ecto-disease like a super deadly ecto-achne that the precursors fucked around and found out with #Why are Danny's ghost powers on the fritz? Idk maybe it's his first ghost puberty or maybe it's something the Precursors did #Batfam #Supergam #Flashfam #Hell maybe all three families are there in the crater trying to pspspsps the new son/brother #Batfam are deep-water leviathans with reflective undersides & patterns who start brightly colored and get darker with age #Superfam deserve long flowing fins that mimic the red capes & also glowy bits #Flashfam are long and eel-like for speed with electrical abilities for fun #Wonderwoman is probably plated around the limbs & bits of gold-vein patterns (babies hatched in nests of clay perhaps) #Aquaman is even more fish-esque #Cyborg is a young-adult leviathan that was experimented on by the Precursors and is similar to the Warpers #Green Lanterns have transparent green fins that mimic their constructs & green bioluminescence #Danny: I am not a *baby* #Justice Leviathans: Oh my stars it's a *baby* #Billy: Just accept it there's no escape #No shipping between Danny plz to them he is literally a baby

[walfs]

"if i fail to become the world’s greatest swordsman you’ll be disappointed right?" "you could never fail me."

the entire time zoro is bleeding out and luffy is losing his shit every part of him is moving around to check over zoro except the 1 hand he has latched onto his hip like a vice

"i just need to get zoro's sword ready for him. yknow, for when he wakes up."

entire 1m long dialogue of luffy fretting and being indecisive abt what might help zoro bc he has no idea but desperately wants him to be okay

"i'd eat both arms and legs to save zoro's life."

"he might die, luffy." "and i'd do anything to save him. anything."

luffy perched at zoro's bedside staring at his unconscious body. alone. for who knows how long

"aren't we supposed to talk to him? tell him stories?" "what would i say?" "whatever pops in your head. just... speak from the gut." "my gut hasn't been so great lately." "well... at least he'll know it's you."

"i didn't know what to say before but i know now, and it's so simple. i need you, zoro. i need you to wake up." -> zoro immediately wakes up bc its either that or disobey his captain and he aint abt that life -> luffy full straddling him knees on either side of his hips arms planted either side of his head chests pressed together faces inches apart -> luffy pressing the entire front of himself down in a fullbody hug and then gently petting his head

"it's my fault." "no, you didn't do anything wrong. you acted like a captain." "but our crew is falling apart." "no, it's not. i, roronoa zoro, vow to stand by your side from now until the end. so bring on the marines and the pirates and the sea beasts. you're my captain, luffy, and i'm your first mate."

zoro's fist resting over luffy's heart. luffy reaching up to hold his hand. extended moment of heartfelt silence as they gaze into each others eyes

#it can be yours if you want it #ep 6 personally took me by the hands and led me to the waters edge where the zolu rivers flow free #'drink' it asked of me and i wept as i drowned myself in those waters #because finally i could remember what breathing felt like #anyway im being completely normal abt this

[ganondoodle]

rough concept for the moonbloom (may not be its final name), a counterpart to the sunspot flower

i chose a more greenish color bc green is largely absent from the underground and not a color found in shiekah tech + pink as contrast and ref to the bloodmoon

(totk rewritten project)

#ganondoodles #art #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rewrites totk #open for name suggestions fdjknfjdk #might not be the final design either but i wanted to make it distinctly different to other flowers found in botw #also i like the image of kogas secret shiekah lab having a room akin to nausicaäs room #with the water flowing all around and the flowers there #i think there will be three in bloom #and maybe a few sprouts he managed to grow

[moonviewer]

"I will keep going forward, no matter how hopeless it might seem."

(please do not repost my art and just leave a link to it if you'd like to share instead, thank you!)

#shining nikki #sn nikki #my art #sn #nikkiverse #i drew this for an art contest #but i really drew it because i wanted to say something with its message #and because i needed a reason to paint something to practice my art style #lol #i tried to make it so even those who don't know its context could understand...at least a little bit #i've recently been watching Naoki Saito (an illustration advice youtube channel) and i've been wanting to try out the things i learned ther #this time i wanted to try conveying a concept/message just in 1 image alone #at first it was honestly more difficult than i thought i tried it for days #but nothing worked and when i finally did get the idea that became this drawing it was because i was thinking one night of how #nikki was someone who has failed thousands and thousands of times yet she never gave up #i admired that because i was thinking of how i just keep failing in my goals that night #that was when i thought i wanted to convey that strength that nikki has #that strength that i also wished to have #and that was when the concept just flowed to me like water so easily #isnt it strange that its only when i start to feel like theres something i want to say that i finally find the idea to express it #something so obvious that i don't even realize lol #for context this image is about someone who lived in a world operated by AI where all emotions and creativity are shut down and dominated b #AIs kinda like the current AI crisis in the art community #but this someone believed in a world with vivid color #and the heart that created such an imperfect yet beautiful world before AI dominated it #thats what i wanted to express #thanks for reading if anyone bothers reading my long rants lol :)

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

All is as thinking makes it so - and you control your thinking. So remove your judgments whenever you wish and then there is calm - as a sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay.

from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

#meditations #marcus aurelius #stoic #stoicism #philosophy #thinking #overthinking #quiet your thoughts #quiet your mind #reflect #control your thinking #control your thoughts #remove your judgment #remove your judgments #be calm #calm #smooth #flow like water #be still

[ace-bookdragon]

i'm wondering about jinx’s tattoo. where did she get it? who gave it to her? why? when? the smoke-ishness of it reminds me of the flare gun. was it in memory of it? a hope that one day the gun would bring her sister back, a hope so deep that she wants it tattooed on her body?

#water could be another interpretation. flow. be the shape they make you #arcane #jinx arcane #alternately: she has this in the game and it's explained but because i don't care about the game and like theorizing #i'm thinking of it this way

[mayomkun]

Insane how many social cues humans have and you're supposed to know them all without being told

#and how they varies in different cultures #people and their funny complicated social structures are interesting to observe but not when you're in the situations #a group of people that fit together is a wonder to me because people are so so different #there are so many hidden rules they know but don't talk about and they just. know how the water flow and go along with it #and most of the time people seem to know how to do that so naturally #truly amazing when you think about it #meanwhile I think it's one of the most difficult thing to deal with #a single gesture or sentence could mean a lot of things and there are endless ways to response to it #I never meant to be offensive or unpleasant but then before I knew it I already did something wrong asfgjk #it's not their fault they misunderstood because I didn't get the hint. I just wish people tell me things directly sometimes #I study people like a bug but I'm also. a bug #delete later

[dearqueerdeers]

so APPARENTLY me and my bestie have been drinking liquid different ways our entire lives.

I drink liquid out of a glass by putting my bottom lip and tongue on the bottom rim of the glass. The beverage flows over my tongue, then I swallow.

My bestie drinks liquid out of a glass by putting their bottom lip (only) on the bottom rim of the glass. The beverage flows through their bottom teeth, into the bottom of their mouth (under their tongue), then they swallow.

#polls #I feel like I’m going insane lmao #they always say that they prefer room temp water because it hurts their teeth #and I was always like ‘how??’ #until TODAY when I learned that the water is actively flowing THROUGH their bottom teeth #and I’m like. yeah ok that probably hurts #I also have dental trauma tho so im vv careful about glass/ceramic/etc not touching my teeth #hence why my tongue is always between my mouth and the cup when I drink #idk!! #yall tell us which one of us is drinking water wrong

[sysig]

Didn’t know you had it in you, did you (Patreon)

#Doodles #Adventure Time #Fionna and Cake #Simon Petrikov #Winter King #Winterkov #What? Me? Enjoying a self/ ship ft. two dorks wearing glasses? Haha couldn't be me that doesn't sound like me at all #Trading one Tom Kenny brainworms for another sheesh - Tom Kenny stop voicing queer scientists challenge (impossible) #I hadn't drawn Simon before but I have known he's a massive cute for a heck while now lol #And yeah confirmed - he's Really fun to draw especially this iteration #His crows feet and hair streak ugh <3 #Plus I've just missed this style of eye more than I realized haha #And Winter just flows off my pencil like water like woah #I blame Spamton at least partially for that lol although he's easier to draw than Spamton :0 #Spamton is very fun! Winter's just easier for some reason :0 #Maybe 'cause he's so soft-faced haha ♥ And I don't use my colours on him lol #Honestly I only count this as self-slash on a technicality - yes they're both Simon bodily but that's not really Simon in Winter anymore huh #Maybe to some extent - he's still a scientist and all but honestly there's a comment I can't stop thinking about since I saw it #About how really that's The Crown using Simon as a host just without the madness - and his skills aid in keeping him lucid #So it's like a ghost puppeting your clone's still-living corpse more so than kissing yourself :) In my opinion lol #And I don't say that to get away from self-shipping! I love that stuff!! That's just genuinely how I read Winter now haha #Not that he wouldn't play into it lol #I've seen a ''I am like this so you are also like this :) Right Simon? :) You're like this'' and I enjoy that very much #Manipulative so and so <3

[pikbro]

was fucking with a pokemon randomizer that a friend sent me and got these pairings. cool designs happened

heres the site lol

#non pikmin art????? crazy #i can make these fuckass designs but i cant draw normal pokemon LMAOO #the 2nd one is somewhat inspired by fanmade future paradox mons #the arms r supposed to be flowing water. hopefully it looks good #imagine them flowing like princess celestias hair kinda. thats the vibe #i dont have any special design notes for the 1st one its just cute for the sake of being cute lol #anyways. tag time #pokemon #pokemon fusion #pokefusion #sylveon #clefable #inteleon #deoxys #☆ my art #☆ my ocs #? i guess??? idk theyre jsut designs

[theloveinc]

tw: prostitution probs

OMG I know your shinsou drabble about him faking being your pimp for an undercover mission was like a little long ago, but it changed my atoms molecular structure

Like maybe you both are discussing what you've discovered that night on the couch you're sharing with the criminal and you hear somebody coming and than you gotta act like you're having... YKNOW??? 😫

Like maybe you noticed it first so then you like throw yourself on top of shinsou, fake moaning that sounds real, bouncing a little on top of him so the couch creeks a little to really sell it and it takes a little for shinsou to catch on but he's a mess because you sound real 😣😣😣

And from the criminal's POV, it's dark so he can't see your clothes that are on and is like well don't like me interrupt you before he heads back to whatever he came from 🤭

(link to ref. post here!)

SFAJKSDHJKAFDSHK it only takes him about five seconds to get the gist of the scene but... those five seconds change his entire perspective on the both of you, don't you think??

Because I think for the first few moments when he thinks it's real... he forms an entire confession in his head that's ready to spill from his lips just as fast, going hot where your hands splay on his chest, his cock jumping in his jeans when he tries to say your name. Even the hands he immediately puts on your hips to help guide you are genuine, not just to make the whole thing look... less pretend.

But then your eyes are shooting back down to his face and they're not filled with love or lust, they're filled with panic in waiting for him to play along....... and the whole moment he was able to build up comes crashing down, forcing him to realize exactly how he feels about you and....... how doomed your situation is, if you're gonna have to physically, now, keep up the charade rather than just label it.

(Especially because he's supposed to be the one in charge, the pimp, and it kinda makes him want to vomit thinking about treating you like something he owns, and yet he still has to pull himself together enough so that the criminal doesn't get suspicious if he actually acts like he loves you..............)

Then they're gone and you're all relieved (still sitting on his crotch) and now he has an entirely NEW problem that has to be faced (gasp, his feelings!!), and that's aside from the chub he's praying to god you can't feel.

Good. Grief.

#shinso #NO BC ME TOO AND I'VE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABT HIM MORE LIKE WHAT DO U EVEN DO !! ABT HIM!!! #ANON HOW COULD U DO THIS TO MEEEEEEE #I NEED IT SO BADLY I NEED IT LIKE WATER AND AIR #sorry if it's a lil short my roommate cut me off halfway so i lost my flow #but please i'd love to talk abt shinso more!! #im just thinking abt him on the couch all red-cheeked with an arm over his face to hide his embarrassment from you #and you're so sweet just trying to make sure he's okay... not even realizing that you made things WORSE #when u were just doing ur job #like genuinely u think he was spooked not that he has to face the fact he loves u now #it's... ASDHLFKASJDFKAJSHDN #I NEED IT I LOVE U ANON BYE #CAITIE THINGS #GEN #anon

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

To the newly out nonbinary kids who are worried they’re not trans enough and aren’t sure you’ll be able to confidently refer to yourself as trans: give it time. one day you’ll be shouting off the rooftops that you love being transgender and you’re not even sure if that’s the first time you’ve ever even said it

#yes that was me #im like shocked that i ever really struggled with that #thats what happens when cis people smack you down over and over. you become emboldened and determined #your trans friends and loved ones help you feel worthy enough #those silly insults and attempts at gotchas flow off of you like water #we’re the strongest mfs alive and they have no idea #yes even if you dont decide to transition whatsoever you’ll gain the strength and courage to call yourself trans

[octoagentmiles]

If Natquik has been missing for so many years, how the heck did this guy get a hold of tea and biscuits? The octonauts find a half eaten one in the station after he leaves, so do you think he scavenges anything that gets shipwrecked? Or did he just have a fifty year supply of this stuff?

this is an EXTREMELY good question!

but. it's also, like,,, sadly, one of the few mysteries of the show that I believe can probably just be chalked up to the beautiful, wonderful magic of ✨🌈 "cartoon logic" 🌈✨

HOWEVER!! where's the fun in that??

my theory is this:

Natquik is very close with the penguins in Antarctica, and we know that those penguins travel a lot in order to get back and forth from their nesting grounds, and/or to visit family.

thus, the penguins pick up various, random extra food along their journeys, so they can bring it back to him. they've been doing this for years now.

(as for the tea, I imagine he probably took at least SOME stuff with him when he left; which could include a tea kettle, or even just a pot + mini stove.)

it's the only realistic explanation I can think of. we know Natquik's good at rationing and storing food because he tells us so in AnB, but c'mon. if he didn't perish from the cold, eating hundred year old biscuits would've done him in eventually.

I've talked about Natquik and his relationship with the penguins before, but I just gotta reiterate: I FIRMLY believe the penguins saved his life, kept him alive, sane, etc.. so yeah. I can see them bringing him leftovers from dinner like Good Neighbors and him being so grateful he forgets all about how they broke into his station last week and broke his favourite seismometer.

#i dunno how many shipwrecks there are in antarctica- considering how shook he was at the mere sound of flowing water #but ig we'll never know the truth unless they decide to tell us one day. which i don't really expect any time soon but y'never know #octonauts #ask #professor natquik #octonauts headcanons #my hc for how long Exactly natquik was in antarctica for keeps changing and i'm not good at math #coulda been 10 years. 20. 30. 576. nobody knows. #ironically i hc that HE genuinely doesn't know bc he lost track of time jfhdhdj so like– #¯⁠\⁠ ⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠ ⁠/⁠¯