#highligths

[marvellouspinecone]

Here you go :)

this one's smaller so I switched to 5 lines, hope that's fine, too

Here it iiissss!

It took a bit longer than i planned because for the life of me i couldn't find this little lesbian cactus drawing that i had done ages ago (turns out it was in a book that i gave to a friend) and i really wanted to pair them together. It was the first thing that came to mind when i was starting to plan the layout around the TARDIS.

This page is from my handmade journal, so it's a little bit more grungy and scrappy, but i think that hard geometric lines contrast quite well with more organic watercolour stains and distressed paper

This Sappho quote has always been about human connection through time amd space to me, and what says "human connection" better than creating art together even if we are on different sides of the world? Thank you so much for this drawing! I can't even put into words what joy it brings me to have this reminder of friendship, now and for years to come

#i hope you don't mind that i've covered up quite a bit of your drawing #it was a large element to layer smaller elements on top of #it looks a bit crooked but only because of the camera angle #capybara in an ask box #also the lighting is a bit shit but that's on me for doing stuff at night and not having patience to wait for tomorrow to take the pic #the highligther on 'time' as well as the gallifreyan symbols is gold and glittery irl but here it looks just kinda brown

[aspoonofsugar]

Do you think Adam will come back as a demon, having to redeem himself? It kind of feels like that's where the few hints at smth deeper going on with him are going.

Hi!

I mean, there is this:

As Charlie and Emily sing about amoral angels staying in the sky, the focus is on Adam and he looks very triggered. I also personally hope he comes back because I think his character offers great opportunities to explore others. Like Lucifer, Lute, Sera, Lilith and Charlie herself. That said, I am also okay if he is meant as a one-season villain tbh. In this case, I trust it is because the story has other plot-lines to follow. Also, it would be an hilarious call-back to his line:

A man only lives once, we'll see you in one month Gotta say, I can't wait to Come down and exterminate you

Adam, you're either right in how THE man only lives once, or you are so wrong and Charlie is so right, that you yourself get a second chance :P

That said, I think there is clearly more about Adam, Eve, Lilith and Lucifer's dynamic that needs to be addressed (either through Adam coming back or in other ways):

The series starts with the retelling of the myth of Eden in the form of a fairy tale. Still, it is clear that we are given only partial information.

Lucifer: Well, your first wife didn't seem to hate what I had to offer…or the second! Bowchicka pow pow!

Sera: He was the first human soul in heaven…

It is very unclear what happened with Eve and Adam himself is judged a "virtuous soul", after his human death. Not only that, but he affirms what brought him into Heaven is:

Vaggie: reading list "Act selfless, don't steal, stick it to the man." Are you fucking serious?

Except that Adam never once acts selflessly throughout the whole season. So, I wonder if an eternity spent being spoilt in Heaven made him worse.

In short, the things I am interested in when it comes to Adam are:

If and how Heaven has changed him

His relationship with Lucifer and Lilith (Eden + his pact with Lilith)

Let's now try to analyze Adam, starting with what we have in the series.

ADAM THE ANGEL

Adam: Call me, Dickmaster.

Adam is introduced as a powerful angel and a jerkass mysoginist. Both things are important, as they tie to different conflicts:

Adam is a genocidal maniac, who mistreats everyone. Still, he is considered a virtuous soul and holds some authority in Heaven.

Adam is "the man" and is shown discriminating and dismissive towards women. According to Charlie's recount in Overture, his mysoginy might be at the very root of the conflict behind the forbidden fruit and the birth of Hell.

These two sides of Adam come together in his interactions with Charlie, who is both a demon and a woman.

1- He dismisses Charlie's ideas of redemption in his song Hell is Forever, which is full of Christian references:

'Cause it's cut and dry Fair is fair, an eye for an eye And, when all's said and done (said and done) There's the question of fun And for those of us with divine ordainment Extermination is entertainment! Guitar solo, fuck yeah!

In general, he sees himself as superior to demons because he was judged worthy of Heaven. In his mind, this makes him automatically the "good guy", while people who exhibits virtues like Charlie or Angel are still beneath him, as they are demons. In short, he has a black and white mentality:

'Cause the rules are black and white There's no use in tryin' to fight it

2- He flirts with Charlie and calls her with sexist names:

Adam: I got you again, bitch! *laughs* Fuckin' hilarious!

Not only that, but his overall characterization highligths his sexism to hilarious degrees. Some examples:

His favourite food is ribs because Eve was born from one. So, it is as if he likes "eating women up"

He leads an army of hot and lethal women, who follow his orders in battle (classical male fantasy)

He gives Vaggie the name "Vagina" and calls it "the best thing ever"

So, Adam is a combination between a zealous religious fanatic and the patriarchy. All neatly tied up with jock imagery (his tunic resembles a letterman jacket). As a result, his interactions with Charlie explore two different power dynamics:

Heaven vs Hell or to better say Hell is Forever vs A Happy Day In Hell. Is Hell a place of eternal damnation or is it a chance of redemption?

Man vs Woman - Adam is far more childish and less intelligent than Charlie, but she has to kiss his butt because he is in a role of power. As it often happens in human society.

The question is: "How can such a person be worthy of Heaven?"

SERA THE MOTHER

Sera: I thought, since I'm older It's my load to shoulder

Sera is Adam's authority figure, as she is the only one Adam shows respect for. He asks for her validation and is ashamed after disappointing her. Considering Adam was created by the angels, it is easy to infer Sera is probably the closest thing he has to a mother. This also ties with Sera's overall role in the narrative, where she is framed as a parental figure to Emily and to the other angels and souls:

Not only that, but her parenting style seems rooted in the determination to protect those in her care, no matter what:

Sera: It is my position as the head Seraphim to protect our people at all costs.

Even if she has to lie to them:

I wanted to save you, the anguish it takes to Do what was required

Or if others end up hurt in the process:

Sera: Heaven needs us, Emily. Everyone looks to us… and we can't doubt ourselves or worry about the fates of demons when we have our own souls to protect.

She keeps Emily and the rest of Heaven in a Gilded Cage and chooses to exterminate the Sinners. In a sense, she too sees the world in black and white, just like Adam. Her loved ones. All the others. This attitude is present in her relationship with Adam too, as she enables him. Some examples:

She gives Adam permission to lead the exterminations. Even if Sera thinks killing Sinners is necessary, there is no reason to entrust it to Adam, who has a very obvious grudge against Lucifer.

He lets Adam boss around the exorcists and mistreat them. Like he did with Vaggie. In general, Sera gives him no rules, if not a generic "do not embarass me" one. And even then, Adam faces no consequence after he reveals the secret.

Sera is angry at Adam's cruelty towards Charlie and reproaches him for targeting the Hazbin Hotel. Still, this is all she does. She could have stopped Adam from attacking the hotel. And yet, she only makes a single remark.

In general, Sera gives Adam free reign and even fulfills all his cruellest requests. This is made clear during Charlie and Adam's questioning.

Since the beginning, Charlie is set up to lose and the seating arrangement shows it. Sera and Emily are at the very top, as they are the judges. Below them there is the jury and then there are the two sides. Still, Charlie and Adam are not at the same level. Adam is higher, while Charlie is at the very bottom.

Sera sustains Adam's petty objection:

Adam: Objection, lame and unoriginal. Sera: Sustained. No further dictionary references please.

But she is about to refuse Charlie's request and only agrees to it because of Emily:

Charlie: Angel will make good decisions, come on! We have to keep watching! Please? Sera: sighs Yeah, I don't know. Emily: Yeah, let's give him a chance. Sera: Very well, the court will allow it.

Finally, when Adam reveals Vaggie's secret (which is irrelevant to the matter at hand), Sera allows it to happen:

She is the one projecting Vaggie's angelic shadow on the wall. Once again she enables Adam's cruelty, instead of stopping it.

in short, Adam is a person who ascends to Heaven, but once there he spends millenias without anyone questioning or disagreeing with him. All his self-serving fantasies are fulfilled and he is never punished nor called out. As a result, he clearly becomes complacent and grows worse:

Lucifer: So, this is what you been up to since Eden? Gotta say, you've really let yourself go, buddy.

Lucifer's taunt mostly references Adam's physique. Still, this is metaphorically true for Adam's soul, as well. In the end, Adam regresses in Heaven, instead of evolving. Moreover, he never addresses nor solves the key event, which defined his life.

LUCIFER AND LILITH

Adam: You judging me? You're the most hated being in all of creation!

Adam's sense of self is clearly warped by what(ever) happened in Eden. Specifically, he is hurt that both his relationships with Lilith and Eve ended up badly (apparently). This is why:

He overcompensates by being overly masculine. He insists he is THE MAN and keeps blubbering about his love adventures. And yet, he has still no wife, that we know of.

He projects his own feelings on Lilith and Lucifer, to the point that thousands of years later, he chooses "messing their home", as his hobby. Specifically, he tries to steal Lilith away (through their deal) and to make Lucifer as miserable as possible ( which is why the King of Hell sends Charlie to meet Adam at the very beginning - he doesn't want to deal with the Exorcist).

This behavior is mirrored in how he treats the Princess of Hell too.

On the one hand Adam associates what he considers Charlie's positive traits with Lilith:

Adam: To think someone as worthless as you landed Lilith's little hottie. 'Grats on that I guess.

On the other hand Adam links what he believes to be Charlie's negative traits with Lucifer:

Adam: Risking your immortal life for sinners? That's some crazy shit, even for Lucifer's brat!

So, it is implied he still wants Lilith and despises Lucifer. These emotions are mirrored in his design, specifically his horned mask:

The horns ironically show that Adam was cheated on by (both?) his wife(s)

The horns give him a demonic-like appearance, which may be just another way Adam tries to appear more badass than what he is. All while trying to look more like a demon (Lucifer) to begin with

In other words, Adam is nothing, but a man scorned. Even moreso he is a person, who deep down could never really like himself. Hence why he chooses to wear a mask 24h/24h. Adam wants to be either a Demon or a God, but deep down he is just the Man. Ironically, this is what he could never truly accept about himself.

ADAM- A MAN

In the final fight, Adam is unmasked and we get a glimpse of his real self. What is he like? His design is far more average and human-like than other angels and demons. It is even inspired by his real voice actor, apparently. Why is that so? Because deep down Adam is no-one special. He is just a dude. He is the man. Not even that. He is a man. A person.

Sadly, though, he refuses this truth and tries to be more:

Adam: I started everything on Earth! All of mankind came from these fucking nuts! You all should be worshipping me, you ungrateful, disgusting, fucking losers-

He tries to be God and in this way he becomes worse than a Demon. He dies pathetically, after refusing mercy:

Adam: No… you don't get to end this! I'm fucking Adam! I'm the fucking man, and you're just some fucking clown or something!

He sees Lucifer as his enemy, but the King of Hell barely registers his presence and only considers him in relation to Charlie. His true opponent turns out to be a small woman of low status. And even she barely considers him as someone worthy of her attention.

And yet, Adam is still a man and he shows humanity in death:

Lute: NOOOO! Sir! Sir! Stay with me sir! ADAM!

Lute is his one genuine bond and probably the only person who earnestly makes him happy.

If only he could have pursued his humanity, he might have not turned into a monster. He might have developed a healthier sense of self and could have become happier. Instead, he could never love himself for being just a man and has spent eternity trying to be someone different.

HEAVEN ISN'T MEANT TO SUCK A LOT

Adam embodies the anti-theme.

Charlie thinks that everyone can redeem themselves:

Charlie: If I can show them the dream I've dreamed That any soul can change! Then they will know everyone can be redeemed From the evil to the strange!

Adam thinks nobody truly can:

'Cause Hell is forever Whether you like it or not Had their chance to behave better Now they boil in the pot

Charlie tries to grow into her own person:

Gotta come into my own Gotta come into my throne Gotta take charge and defend my only home

Adam turns himself into an idol:

The golden exorcists bring to mind the golden calf from the Bible.

Charlie thinks happiness and beauty can be found even in Hell:

I can hear all their stories The lost and displaced And I know that they're more of an acquired taste But if I open the door and I give them a place At my Hazbin Hotel It'll be a happy day in Hell!

Adam can't find happiness and beauty in Heaven and his only source of joy is knowing others suffer more than him:

Fuckin' Hell is forever And it's meant to suck a lot!

And yet, Hell might be meant to suck a lot, but Heaven shouldn't:

St. Peter and Emily: 'Cause every single day in Heaven is a happy day Welcome to Heaven

Still, Heaven could not make Adam happy. And if Heaven can't make its own people happy, then what is the point of such a Kingdom?

Sera: It's your position to keep them happy and joyful. Emily: How can I bring joy when I now know we are bringing misery to thousands of innocent people?

Adam is a character that embodies Heaven's problems, not only because he is an evil monster, but even moreso because he is an unhappy and unsatisfied man.

Here are my two cents on him :D We'll see if he comes back and manages to get some development!

Thank you for the ask!

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel meta #adam hazbin hotel #hazbin adam #my meta #asksfullofsugar #anonymous #sera hazbin hotel

[study-core-101]

Highlighting Information in Textbooks.

Highligthing is always a key part of studying, it help us finding the important informantion faster and easier. But it is a doble-edge sword. If done right, it's amazing. If done wrong, it just makes studying more complicate and make us miss important informantion

How NOT to do it

Highlight entire paragraphs

Higlight with one colour

Highlight only the answers of practise tests questions

How to do it

Have different colours to higlight different things (for example, I use orange for key words, thick lines of yellow for key word's definitions/primary ideas, and thin lines of yellow for secondary ideas and examples)

Dont highlight unnesary words. The important information will stand out without filler words. Example: instead of "Rome was built on 753 BC" hightlight "Rome was built on 753 BC" Now, the key information (Rome/built/753BC) stands out in the sentence. Also, having the sentences reduced to key words without connection forces you to create those conections in your head and can help to get better in redaction of texts.

Highlight the information necessary to understand the topic, not what sentences you need to memorize (understanding is ten times better than memorizing)

How do you highlight?

#study motivation #studyblr #study #study aesthetic #study blog #study-core-101 #studyspo #student #study community #studyinspo #studyblr community #study tips #study techniques #study method #studying #studying tips

[akanothere]

Just wanted to say I LOVE your Danny/Jed designs and now they are how I see him always under the mask. I also started reading one of the fanfics you highligthed in your instagram (don't fear the reaper one), and I don't feel like this for a character in a long time. The deisgn fits so well sadhgasdhsagdf

THANK YOU😭❤️‍🔥 I SQUEAK EVERY TIME I HEAR SOMEONE SAY THEY SEE HIM AS HOW I DRAW HIM WHEN READING FICS 😳… AND GOD BABY DON’T FEAR THE REAPER IS MY FAVOURITE DANNY FIC I AM CRYING THAT ONE IS A BIBLE LEVEL MASTERPIECE😭😭😭😭😭

#everybody should read that fic #the best #danny johnson x reader #fic on my list #damn now I wanna read it for the 18th time I’m obsessed

[yearofinstitutionalization]

Some highligths on Suchwita ep.21, with (a more tamed) Jk and (for random reasons) also Tae!

43/638 One Suga a day while he is away

#suchwita #another Suga banger #suga military countdown #bts army #bts daily #agust d #agustd #yoongi marry me #bts suga #min yoongi #i miss yoongi #yoongi #suga edit #suga bts #suga #jk #jungkook #v bts #taehyung #taehyung bts #bts pics #bts edits #bts #k pop icons #k pop idol #bts kim taehyung #bts kpop #kpop #kpop bts

[milder-manners]

Kerioth being a Empire's spy could mean so many things !

One, the Empire will/could now be notified a third party is interested by the documents (and that said third party have loads of Ender pearls). Also, did Sapnap told her Dream's fireproof ?

Two, this implies that the End Empire's threat to burn down the city is either a secondary plot to get the documents (since they didn't relied on it at first. But why now that a third party appeared ... Is it a coincidence because Kerioth took too much time or a distraction?) or that they want an excuse to burn it down anyway. To conquer more, to have access to the End portal (don't think so, they already have one)... they shouldn't need an excuse so this is weird.

Three, is Kerioth's partner (with the broken leg) in the betrayal ? I first thought it might be Vow herself since they were a big hooded figure with claws but Kerioth doesn't seem to be a team player + Vow getting her leg broken from such a fall is doubtful + you would have highligthed even slightly such a big foreshadowing (at least I think so). So it's Kerioth against the other Hunters and it seems like she's done waiting. Unless she prepares for when the hunters leave the city.

It does raise other questions but this is already a long ask x)

Oh wow this is a lot that's so cool!!!

Firstly, Sapnap did tell the Hunters (and the Stardwell government) what happened with Dream (btw they don't know his real name, Dream didn't tell the innkeeper that). So Kerioth does know he's fireproof.

Second, the Endall Empire doesn't have an End Portal. They might have one in their territory, but they're so incredibly hard to find and the only way is to use Eyes of Ender. But those pearls could be better spent on creating End chests rather than risk breaking; it's just not worth it considering how hard enderpearls are to get. Also, the threat on Stardwell was absolutely the second plan. The Empire is huge and powerful, but they don't play stupid. Giant battles and sieges is a costly resort they'd rather sidestep entirely. Kerioth was the head of their first plan.

Three, yah Kerioth's partner, Reddering, is also a spy too. The documents were the number one priority, they didn't take Kerioth's actions personally.

I'm glad you're enjoying the story!!

#white.dragon.au #I hope some of these answers could get the theorizing ticking

[teal-skull]

Powerwolf meets Käärijä, part 1

Okei okei okei guys, we are going to have wild and crazy time. In 2019, I had a dream about Powerwolf and made a post about it.

I'm reading the description of that dream rn and I'm going insane how many things of it are käärijä related, just let me highligth them for you:

Poison green visuals and rap metal mentioned, sounds like Käärijä to me. Also he mentioned in Kaaozine interview that he listens to Slipknot soo....

Also a finnish dj was introduced to the band.

Anyway I feel like this dream predicted me negletting the Powerwolf fandom for Käärijä so here's a silly edit I did:

@radiant-sunlight-blueberry @zonkutonshorrifyingpeenie

#there is like 5 people in this planet who will understand this post but that's okay #this is for my powerwolf mutuals #käärijä #powerwolf

[bookhousestark]

Arya and retaining her identity

A popularised headcanon in metas is that "Arya is losing herself" and will be "beyond repair" by the end of the series, instead of coming full circle and journeying back to herself with the knowledge and skills she's acquired.

Re-reading Arya’s chapter, I found every page is loaded with the reassurance of Arya’s individualism carying on. Instead of giving herself up, rather, Arya appears to be hacking the system of the HOBW training, gaining the affiliated invaluable skills while retaining her integrity, even using her inner streght as Arya/a wolf to make it trough her trials. This is highligthed through:

1. Her wolf dreams, which she wilfully (though sometimes guiltily) succumbs to, and from which she still draws the identity of a ‘wolf’.

2. Her sense of justice, which she carried on since AGOT and her frst brush with true cruel injustice (Mycah’s death); in killing, she cannot accept the ‘we don’t judge, we just kill’ dogma, Arya still needs to reassure herself that she’s serving justice in some way or other. Those are Arya Stark’ own principles (as taught by her father, previous ruler of the North).

3. Her friendliness and ability for affection and compassion continues on. She misses those she leaves behind.

〇 WOLF IDENTITY

Though she feels guilty about it, Arya continues to break the rules by clinging to her identity.

I should not be dreaming wolf dreams, the girl told herself. I am a cat now, not a wolf. I am Cat of the Canals. The wolf dreams belonged to Arya of House Stark. Try as she might, though, she could not rid herself of Arya.

She not only doesn’t avoid but rejoices in these dreams, in an identity she by day tells herself she is leaving behind,

That was the best part, the dreaming. She dreamed of wolves most every night. A great pack of wolves, with her at the head.

When she is afraid of getting her first face, at a point that should mark her beginning as ‘No One’, a blank slate who is anyone and nobody, Arya instead toughens up with the reminder that she isn’t anyone, that she is ‘a wolf’, the ‘night wolf’ from her wolf dreams, those that ‘ belong to Arya of House Stark’.

She was the night wolf, no scraps of skin could frighten her.

〇 JUSTICE SEEKER

There are many who try to mischaracterise Arya’s sense of justice as ‘sociopathy’, implying her motivation to kill to be a sign of such. But Arya’s motivation doesn’t lie in lack of empathy for the criminal, but in a frustrating abundance of emphathy for their victims. It starts with the first cruelest and most unjust event she has witnessed in her short life: Mycha’s death. As the rest of the Starks, up until this point Arya has a mostly innocent, naive, sheltered knowledge about the injustices of the world. The Trident incident unravells so many hard truths at once it’s appaling:

↦ how an innocent peasant child, Mycah, could be assaulted by a high rank person just because they could

↦ how he could die based on unjust claims by his agressor, Joffrey, one cannot go against because of the agressor’s high rank

↦ how a witness, Sansa, could just lie for their own benefit, retaning the favour of a handsome Prince

↦ how the wrong ‘culprit’, Lady, could be unfairly sentenced upon the caprices of the powerful, like Cersei

↦ how the force acting in ‘self-defence’ on behalf of Arya, Nymeria, is sought to be unjustly sentenced

↦ how the person in power who should be giving justice to all, Robert, is too complacent and apathetic to care

↦ how in the face of corrupt power, everyone else, like her father, is powerless and so justice and truth inexistent, ETC

And no one had raised a voice or drawn a blade or anything, not Harwin who always talked so bold, or Alyn who was going to be a knight, or Jory who was captain of the guard. Not even her father.

Arya’s appalled thoughts are in a way naive, for anyone who knows how things actually work in an unfair world. But it’s at the same time eye-opening.

The nature of this sense of justice is not erased by her journey in the HOBW. It is invoked in the same manner at the beginning of her training, when she first hears about the beginning of the Faceless Men-

He killed the slave? He should have killed the masters!

And her perspective and motivations haven’t changed by the time she recieves her ultimate test (and first face) to receive her official robes.

“You may have bad dreams for a time,” warned the kindly man. “Her father beat her so often and so brutally that she was never truly free of pain or fear until she came to us.”

“Did you kill him?”

“She asked the gift for herself, not for her father.”

You should have killed him.

Arya clearly cannot accept the HOBW’s dogma of killing indiscriminately. She cannot abibe by what would actually be the ‘sociopathic’ view.

In fact, given her ‘test’ to kill a man in an intelligent, untraceable fashion, she struggles more to find the reason why the man deseerves to die as most important to her, rather than how.

“He is an evil man,” she announced that evening when she returned to the House of Black and White. “His lips are cruel, his eyes are mean, and he has a villain’s beard.”

Eventually, in her research, she finds it-

“No doubt many a captain sinking in a storm has taken some small solace in his binder back in Braavos, knowing that his widow and children will not want.” A sad smile touched his lips. “It is one thing to write such a binder, though, and another to make good on it.”

Cat understood. One of them must hate him. One of them came to the House of Black and White and prayed for the god to take him. She wondered who it had been, but the kindly man would not tell her.

The man is a greedy scammer running an ‘insurance business’. He took advantage of desperate men afraid to leave their family starving in the event of their death, and when one such a time came he didn’t pay his due. It’s then that ‘Cat’ makes up her mind.

Another reason why she's attributed sociopathy is the wish to kill in itself. But, then again, the reason is justice, and when it comes to justice (whether legal, moral, or both) many other characters kill/want to kill, without such epithets attached to them.

We don't catalogue Ned Stark, the father from which she draws a lot of her lessons as a sociopath for killing a deserter of the Night’s Watch.

His lord father smiled. "Old Nan has been telling you stories again. In truth, the man was an oathbreaker, a deserter from the Night's Watch. No man is more dangerous. The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile.

So why is Arya considered as such, when her motivation is presented the same as his own?

The girl was not sorry, though. Dareon had been a deserter from the Night's Watch; he had deserved to die.    

Moreover, as readers we even know the man Ned killed had greater motivations, while Arya's was straight up abandoning his crew, among which a sick old man, to be cold and starve.

"Don't go fondling my wife now, Slayer," said Dareon, laughing. "But if you want one of her sisters, you feel free. I still have coin enough, I think."

Coin that might have bought us food, Sam thought, coin that might have bought wood, so Maester Aemon could keep warm. "What have you done? You can't marry. You said the words, the same as me. They could have your head for this."

Furthermore, how ďoes it come that we don't judge Oberyn Martell for wanting to kill The Mountain himself for his crimes and atrocities done to others, but it is unnatural for Arya? The Mountain is on her own ‘list’, and not even for a matter of personal grievance, or a loved one’s, but because of a lack of justice for the helpless innocents he abuses under a corrupt system that allows him to continue.

As for "personal" revenge, it was righteous for Tyrion to kill Tywin for what was done to him (and others). There shouldn't be any difference between that and Arya wanting Cersei death, for what happened to her and her family at her and her son's orders.

There is a lot to say about how this is an unhealthy ‘drink poison and expect the other to die’ kind of anger to Arya’s justice seeking, about being driven by a need to feel some kind of power in powerlessness, wanting justice in all this unfairness. That there is trauma she needs to heal, and ways to apply her principles in peace and with peace of mind, without allowing this anger to eat at her. Stoneheart - Mother Merciless - will probably play a big role in showcasing to her this cautionary tale: of what it would mean for one to have nothing left of them but their anger and grief.

〇 AFFECTIONATE HEART

Arya remains the genuinely empathical, caring, extroverted girl who feels deeply for others’ pain and gains affection for all she lives around, no matter how much parts of the fandom try to pseudo-diagnose her with antisocial pesonality disorders, for which she’d have to bear opposite characterisation.

Aside from the mentioned empathy that makes her angry about others’ suffering and wishing for justice on their behalf, Arya, additionally, still ‘makes friends with anybody’.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but  the pack survives. She had no pack, though. They had killed her pack,  Ser Ilyn and Ser Meryn and the queen, and when she tried to make a new  one all of them ran off, Hot Pie and Gendry and Yoren and Lommy Greenhands, even Harwin, who had been her father's man.  

***

She missed the friends she'd had when she was Cat of the Canals; Old Brusco with his bad back, his daughters Talea and Brea, the mummers from the Ship, Merry and her whores at the Happy Port, all the other rogues and wharfside scum.

***

"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," she sang sadly. A foolish, giddy girl she'd been,  but good hearted. She would miss her, and she would miss Daena and the Snapper and the rest, even Izembaro and Bobono.  

IF ARYA ISN’T BECOMING ‘NO ONE’, WHY IS SHE STILL THERE?

She doesn’t think she has anywhere to go.

“How long must I be blind?” she would ask. “Until darkness is as sweet to you as light,” the waif would say, “or until you ask us for your eyes. Ask and you shall see.”

And then you will send me away. Better blind than that.

***

“Do they frighten you, child?” asked the kindly man. “It is not too late for you to leave us. Is this truly what you want?”

Arya bit her lip. She did not know what she wanted. If I leave, where will I go?

Arya is incapable of leaving her past behind, of forgetting her true identity, of forgetting the people she cares about, or of giving up on her own principles. She’s managed to make it so far by relying on ‘Arya’s strength (and lying about it), on finding compromises in doing what’s asked of her while keeping to her own beliefs, and because she doesn’t believe there’s a place in the world for Arya Stark anymore.

Her reclaiming her own identity will probably be a mix between a compromise that crosses the line of what ‘Arya’ would do, and upcoming news of Starks being back in Winterfell.

#aryastarkmonth2022 #asoiaf #arya stark #meta #day 14

[sunrisekiller]

【 一月雜記 】

今年跨年得了腸胃炎虛弱的躺在床上，用風暴腹瀉的方式，華麗的度過了2022。

本月highligth原本是要回台過年，卻因為經濟不景氣，擔心請假會被裁員而取消了飛機票。算一算也快三年沒回家了，過去生活的好壞都感覺離我越來越遠。有鑒於此情，我在年底的時候聯絡了一些生命中重要的朋友們，試圖找回那些「ㄟ晚自習前要不要一起跑操場」、「安東街後巷喝私釀梅酒（順帶一提是真的overprice）」或「穿睡衣，擠在租屋處大聊感情、算塔羅牌」的感覺。大家物非人是，相談甚歡。

今天在博客來買的《綠之歌》寄來了，看完後除了對高妍的畫工五體投地外、看到背景的各種場景（台藝校園、公館、mangasick…etc）更是激起一波難以言述的澎湃之情。我只能抓著書，激動著找著網路圖片，努力的用圖示跟從中文粗暴轉換而成的英文詞彙，試圖還原我的青春給沒去過台灣的男友。

不知是否是因為這該死的戰爭疫情、貧富差距、金錢責任、西雅圖遼闊的天空，或冥冥之中所做的所有選擇；總覺得自己大學剛畢業時滿腔的浪漫被殺死的差不多了，取而代之的是一種明確的扎根感。我不能在雨中散步了（會感冒），不能躺在自由廣場看星星了（一樣會感冒）；但我可以切身感受到疫情對社會造成的影響、也可以給我弟兩百塊去買一個雞腿便當。

[llaramaia]

Full face of drugstore makeup (under 35€)!

Where can i buy these products?

Essence fix&last primer (elf dupe)

3.83€

Fit me foundation

6.95€

Catrice concealer

2.71€

Essence contour stick

2.58€

Essence all about matt fixing compact powder

3.79€

Essence the blush

2.69€

Essence Mascara "I love crazy volume*

3.15€

Revolution highligther

3.59€

Essence Juicy bomb

1.50€

Or

Essence extreme Shine lip gloss

2.24€

[gracesimsdaily]

1 base - 8 Sims TikTok challenge (part 1) CC I used | Part 1

Hey everyone! I cannot create sims in The Sims 4 without using custom content anymore and some of you are curious to know which one I use! 

In this specific post I will be sharing CCs from this video https://bit.ly/3ODO5oQ

First, the CC I use for literally any CAS I create!

Eyelashes and EA eyelash remover by Kijiko 

Skin Overlay : Windflower by @llumisims​

Eye Colour : Lioness eyes by @dangerouslyfreejellyfish​

Eyebrows : Maxis Match eyebrows by @stretchskeleton​

Hair : Kourtney Hairstyle by @simcelebrity00​

Glasses: Same old glasses by Nords

Eyeliner : Lioness by @dangerouslyfreejellyfish​

Hair : Matthew Hair by Marigolde

Earrings: Butterfly piercings by @grafity-cc

Lipstick : Poison kiss lipstick 

Highlighter : kylie cosmetics - highligther good as gold

Eye makeup : Pilipala eyeliner  

Hair : Renee Hair by @aharris00britney​

Earrings : Oracle earrings  by @bloodmooncc​

Necklace : Ski Necklace by @sentate​

Eyeliner: dark as night eyeliner 

Unfortunately I can’t find the nose ring anymore :( 

#the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims 4 cas #sims 4 cc #the sims 4 cc #content creation #ts4 cc download #ts4 maxis match #ts4 #ts4 cc links #ts4 download

[bocio]

Casa Curutchet, el único proyecto de Le Corbusier en Sudamérica (1949). Ejecución de obra por Arq. Amancio Williams. Highligth indiscutible de esta escapada de domingo a La Plata junto a @fernanditas_ y @santi_pomeranz . Mañana subo otra tanda de fotos. Excelente la introducción que nos dio Joaquín antes de dejarnos recorrer a gusto la casa. @casacurutchet.capba #laplata #lecorbusier #arquitectura #arqgentina #modernismo #architecture #archilovers #archdesign #architecturephotography #archdaily #argentina #urban #urbex #modernarchitecture #design #diseño #neverstopexploring #travelphotography #fotografia #photography #igersargentina #domingo (en Casa Curutchet) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjgzt9pOe9x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#laplata #lecorbusier #arquitectura #arqgentina #modernismo #architecture #archilovers #archdesign #architecturephotography #archdaily #argentina #urban #urbex #modernarchitecture #design #diseño #neverstopexploring #travelphotography #fotografia #photography #igersargentina #domingo

[s-heda]

oioi amor, você pode fazer um pacote completo pra mim? Com bio, icon, highligths, fotos de destaque.

meu shape é um hoseok carioca, modelo que gosta de praia, bissexual, fã de pagode e que tem 26 anos.

Faço sim! Chama no pv para q eu possa mandar😁😁😁

[donellajane]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: LIVE Show CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Abracadabra Blush & Highligther Refill in SO CHIC.

[noteyu]

Aku mau cerita.

Tadi aku mentoring tentang projek yg aku kerjakan di salah satu komunitas pengembangan diri. Seharusnya sih mentee yg hadir 3 org tapi 2 nya berhalangan jadilaah aku satu2nya mentee yg hadir. Awalnya siih kya overthinking gimana2nya. Tapi aku coba aja gitu untuk melewatinya dgn ttp masuk zoom meeting. Yg ada di kepala aku tu cuma "klo dihindarin juga ga nyelesain masalah weh, malah nambah" akibat kesalahan di masa lalu, agak kapok juga ternyata.

Singkat cerita, mentoringnya insightful parah. Mentornya easy going bgt lagi. Tapi yang aku highligth dari perkataan beliau adalah "apresiasi diri kamu, yang sudah mau berjuang sampai ke tahap ini" hehe rasanya mo nangis denger itu. Karena aku sendiri sering bgt bahkan selalu aja nyalahin diri terlebih dahulu ketika suatu keadaan tak sesuai dengan pilihan, keinginan atau harapan. Padahal nyalahin diri itu ga baik yg kdng buat kita ga percaya diri, insecure berkepanjangan, bandingin diri dgn org lain. Akhhh.. ga enak bgt tapi masih dilakuin.

Apresiasi terhadap diri sendiri itu bukan berarti kamu sombong. Gakk.. itu sebagai bentuk cinta ke diri kamu dan mensyukuri apa yg Allah sudah berikan kemampuan untuk kamu yg telah menghadapi semuanya yaaa walaupun ga sesuai.

Ga sesuai bukan berarti ga baik. Sesuai bukan pasti juga itu yang terbaik. Intinya syukuri, hargai, terima apa yang ada dan upayakan dengan terbaik.

“Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu, padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi (pula) kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu; Allah mengetahui, sedang kamu tidak mengetahui,” (QS Al-Baqarah: 216).

Semangat menebar benih kebaikan di Bumi dan bertumbuhlah. Panen kita nanti di Negeri Akhirat yaaa🤍

#self reminder #self love

[gamart0]

The Song: Bani Abidi

This film by Bani Abidi was a break through the way I used to feel silence. Or to be fair, it was really an eye opener for what I've always felt around silence and quietness in general. This film is part of an illustration of what is to feel lonely as a migrant in a completly different country far from everyone you're close to. Bani Abidi uses the main character of the film- an elderly man who had recently arrived to a new unfamiliar country- to highligth the impact of silence. By confronting the isolation of his new apartment, "he makes his own soundscapes to recreate what is familiar and reassuring."

There's a feeling of discomfort in silence on Abidi's film about loss, migration and homesickness that would reflect what I am aiming to look for in my sound piece.