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vladimir nabokov || tropics777 on tumblr || mary oliver, “north country” || bakwaas on tumblr || david hockney, “remember you cannot look at the sun or death for very long” || vincent van gogh || bestofgentleearth on tumblr || the oh hellos, “there beneath” || healing-is-cool on tumblr
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weegensirl · 11 days
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I was absolutely stunned when I created this portrait of a bird when I began drawing. My artwork I feel is just catching up.
Do you have any beginner art where you feel you got really lucky?
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hopeful-engineer · 2 months
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serenityquest · 2 months
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astrexq · 6 months
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“Earlier in my life, I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see — the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.”
- Jimmy Carter
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Hope not for someone or something specifically, but a general kind of hope. A hope that she might one day have hope.
Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World
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imfullofworms · 10 months
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Unlike Björk, there
is no army of me; just
one tired, worn-out girl
with a broken sword and
splintered shield that has
yet to realize she's been
defeated, but so long
as that penny spins in
the air, she'll keep
breathing.
by me
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akindplace · 2 years
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My body is weak, but my hope is like venon, spreading through my veins, strong enough to keep me alive, to keep me going, to keep healing. Even when it seems slow, I can remember that this hope running through my frail body is the energy I use to recover. My hope is contagious and spreading through this body, as many times as it needs to fight. I'm not going anywhere.
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jazzpostsstuff · 7 months
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Chapter: AXL Development Documents, Initial Story Concept PART 3
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If you happen to wonder why this project has some psychological or just some heavy themes that haven't been explored by the series prior, it's because the creation of this fanfiction happened to coincide with some bad and traumatic stuff I've experienced a mere month after I decided to make Chapter: AXL into a real thing. Usually when you feel like something is getting really good, there would be a moment you will just spiral down to the depths. Both your existence and mental state fall so deep you would look back at who you were before and not recognise that person anymore.
Going through a sudden loss of a loved one while you're still a child (or rather a teenager in my case but I can say I had a mind of a child at that time) is always devastating, and going through that together with your family can be even more soul-crushing because you see their pain and suffer even more from inability to influence your other family members, feeling weak and even going insane from that sometimes. Knowing that the last time I was optimistic was when I wasn't accepting the death of a family member and was trying everything to make them open their eyes and speak again has been making myself sad everytime I looked back at who I was just one and a half years ago. I am even tearing up while writing this right now, so I am clearly not helping myself here.
You can never truly recover from something like this. You can only overcome, let go and enter a new chapter fo your life as a new person. You would look back at the past, at the good moments you had so long ago, maybe you'll smile, maybe you'll get sad again, but just try looking at the bright side. Those happy memories were something that happened to you. The people you see in them might be gone, but it would've made them sad if you just gave up after the loss. You was strong enough to get back up and learn how to live again, despite everything you went through. And if you're still there, at the bottom, it can motivate you to get better for them and maybe regain the optimism or happiness that was lost.
If you fear death after an experience like this... I know how hard it isfor some because I've been there, but just try to accept your mortality. Knowing that you can't stay alive for all eternity would make you cherish the time you have on this Earth more and live a life to the fullest (within reason). Eternal life would just make you less human eventually (which was also something that happened to X prior to Zero series as well so here's an example of how living forever can suck).
"Why is it in a Megaman fanfic?". Well, I always related to Axl and I managed to bond even more with him after what I went through (the loss of a family member at a relatively young age, to be exact). Besides, Axl's story was supposed to be grimmer and deeper according to one of the producers of X7. I felt like taking a psychological approach to the story of Chapter: AXL and exploring the trauma that you get after experiencing horrific events only made sense. However, I am still not going into that topic too deep because I am still writing a Megaman story, but maybe you can argue that I still can do that because it's based off MMZ, but we have to remember that it's a story about war and hope - a hope for a better peaceful future that comes after the worst, like the light in the darkest depths you could've fell into.
You have to retain this hopefulness, give a breathing room after a disaster and not bombard the player reader with depression all the way through.
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starryvomit · 5 days
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wordsandrobots · 9 months
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This is not in response to anybody in particular but I’m going to be grumpy and pedantic for a moment (I’m in a mood this week, sorry).
Throughout the Gundam franchise, far more major stories end on ‘hopeful’ terms than do not. This is entirely reasonable because hopeful endings are oftentimes more broadly appealing and therefore more saleable. Working shown below, but my point is that liking the qualities in a particular ending is distinct from categorising it. Whether something executes a ‘hopeful ending’ with technical competence or to your liking are important questions, but the truth is, few Gundam shows are totally bleak. A lot of them would probably hit harder if they were, but that isn’t the kind of product they are. I don’t even say that as a value judgement; it’s simply a consequence of what they are and the many, occasionally competing influences upon them.
I suspect this is one of those places where the franchise’s reputation is clashing with the reality, which is why I felt it necessary to write this out. Similar to earlier comments regarding the body-counts in various series, from what I can gather, the . . . let’s say, utter grim and bloodiness is largely restricted to particular iterations (Zeta, Pocket etc.). Again, that’s not me saying ‘that’s bad’ (or even ‘that’s good’). It’s simply a facet of the general tone of the thing.
This isn’t Blake’s 7 or, I dunno, some more culturally up-to-date reference to something that ends horribly my brain is too frazzled to produce. Gundam is more often ‘hope emerging from adversity’ than it is not.
SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT. AS IN, END-OF-THE-SHOW SPOILERS.
I’ve cludged a couple of the movies together with the series where I think it’s funnier to give the filmic endings, but the endings of those particular series don’t go against the trend. Some of the ones I don’t list are more ‘neutral good’ endings than actively hopeful, too, so it’s not like everything not here is automatically hopeless. (Gosh, it’s handy having all these typed up in list form already; usual caveat that I haven’t watched Victory.)
(Also, the IBO part features me going off on one because of course it does. Again, sorry.)
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979): the crew of the White Base reunites as the war finally comes to a close; it is both a happy ending and one that points towards their capacity to be/become newtypes.
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986): Judau and co head into new lives with (some) maturity and responsibilities. Even prior to that, it takes the route of a triumphant recapitulation of Zeta’s explicitly harsh ending.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988): Char’s cynicism is disproved, the rock is moved, the sky literally lights up with the power of the human heart.
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994): the power of love defeats the Devil. In space!
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing/Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1995/1997): peace is restored, the weapons are discarded, Heero finally gets to rest.
After War Gundam X (1996): the entire philosophical underpinning of the UC timeline is ejected in favour of working together to restore the Earth.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996): star-crossed lovers ditch the war entirely to live together off the grid.
Turn A Gundam (1999): a new understanding between the Moon and Earth is made possible; Loren and Diana settle down into queerplatonic domesticity.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002): The war is ended, the mega weapons are busted, Kira and Athrun part on speaking terms.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Destiny (2004): Ditto.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00/Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer (2007/2010): Setsuna (the world’s least people person) becomes a vector for understanding between species; humanity journeys to the stars.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Unicorn (2010): A broadly positive resolution despite the losses; Amuro, Lallah and Char fly off into eternity together because . . . sure.
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011): The Earth and Mars make peace and work towards recovery, the family is reunited, and Flit is remembered as a unifier.
Gundam Reconguista in G (2014): Bellri ditches his responsibilities for a world tour, also everything else finally calms down a bit.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015): For goodness sake, this series ends hopefully. You can problematise the heck out of some of the things we’re shown but if you don’t see the survivors of Tekkadan getting to grow up and (by and large) live peaceful lives as a hopeful ending, I genuinely question your understanding of the term. Hope gained at cost is still hope, hope tinted with bittersweetness is still hope, hope alongside tragedy is still hope.
Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018): Most everyone dies but even so. There are still things to live for and both living and dead find peace.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (2021): Mafty gets away with it by the skin of their teeth; yes I am aware where the rest of the story goes but this film ends unquestionably upbeat.
Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury (2022): Not actually an outlier on this particular score.
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serenitypoetry · 2 months
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Give or Take
into a bucket you give what you've taken
to the rim of the bucket and not a drop more
I notice you hold back for fear that you're wasting
I hope for your sake that the splash overflows
for every drop added is not a drop wasted
a droplet exuded, a droplet received
regardless of whether you see it be taken
a droplet from you is a droplet for me
so I pour in the bucket my hoarded collection
you glare as the puddle expands at your feet
through cracks in the ground what I give is collected
a droplet exuded, a droplet received
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Check out this very cool "low bow". Jon Erdmann took this photo in Columbia Fall :: [Meteorologist Ryan Dennis]
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To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. --Helen Keller
[via "alive on all channels"]
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hopeful-engineer · 3 months
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Is it just me, or is the "it's okay if you haven't got anything done today", "it's ok if you've spent the whole day in bed", "some people are just surviving, simply getting through the day is enough" mindset just really discouraging? Like, I understand it can have a positive effect on people, who are at their worst, like totally depressed, severely sick or tired to the point where they barely have enough strength to stand up. If you're at such a low point of life, it may feel good for someone to tell you to just slow down and rest without caring about getting anything done, but people just keep repeating this and it feels like: "nothing really matters", "nobody cares if you do anything or not", "you can spend your whole life just vegetating and it won't make any difference". It feels like whatever you do is unimportant and your goals and ambitions are just useless and irrelevant. It's not the positivity many of you think it is. Humans are naturally creative, curious and ambitious. Someone, who doesn't have any goals and any sense of achievement in life will just be sad and bored.
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Oh honey. Oh baby. You had so much going on.
Well it's future me here to tell you that it does get better. Now I want to be honest with you, sometimes (even often) I wish to be dead. I hate everything. I relapse into old bad behavior.
But! Do not let that dissuade you. I swear, I promise, I'm the happiest I've ever been now. It's an extraordinary improvement. There's less bad things happening, and your mind is learning to heal. The highs are much higher, and the lows also higher. We will get through this, the me that I once was and the me that I am now.
We're in recovery. We're going to make it.
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dourmbr · 7 months
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I look up at the gloomy sky and smile
For it seems I do not endure my sadness alone
The earth too feels the gloom
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