#silent achievements

[iammystica]

Celebrate the small victories, the quiet wins, the silent achievements. Celebrate the magic that happens behind the curtains. Clap for yourself even when no one else is watching.

-Chameleon Aura by Billy Chapata

#poem #poetry #literature #quoteoftheday #self help #quotes #freedom #self healing #self growth #self worth #words #celebrations #silent achievements #small victories #quiet wins

[tmos-time]

dramatic little bastards about these things arent they

#tmos has art #erisol #eridan ampora #sollux captor #'cooper why do you think sollux plays world of goo' you say. i silently look over to my 100% steam achievements of world of goo. #also thats the only way i think sollux would ever find the song o superman. i think these two can listen to that song together as a treat #anyways GOD i hope the sequel is good

[juniemunie]

TEST DRIVE TEST DRIVE TEST DRI-

I have so many thoughts about this entire sequence, from the way Hiccup and Toothless get along to the MUSIC- (the music analysis is going to my tags)

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But im gonna talk about Toothless pov again

I always think of this is like, the forbidden friendship scene for Toothless the way the actual forbidden friendship was for Hiccup

If Hiccup's scene was Toothless connecting to Hiccup through human things (sharing food, smiling, art and all that)

Then this scene is Toothless' because Hiccup connects with Toothless through flying, something I've always headcanoned to be what dragons (the ones that fly anyway) need not just to survive, but to live and bond with others.

if Hiccup's FF is the beginning of the potential then Toothless' FF is the "end", the moment where the potential is found and fulfilled, the thing that really solidifies their friendship because both has now experienced and accepted the other's unique sides

Just, yeah Toothless sees Hiccup just getting it, understanding why flying is so wonderful, hearing him cheer and whoop in joy like a fledgling's first time in the air, and seeing him at the end instinctively understand what to do-

Like that sudden spin near the end of the sea pillars- and both of them looked surprised they even managed to do that together instinctively- when just a few minutes ago Hiccup couldnt even dodge the two very obvious sea pillars in the beginning

He looks up at this human, this strange clever, brilliant little human who has somehow made this even possible, who has broken every preconception he has, who is now flying with him with a dragon's instinct but baring his teeth in that human way of expressing joy, screaming something he could not parse perfectly in his dragon tongue but understood the meaning all the same.

"We did it."

#they did it. they achieved what they thought was impossible but together they reached it #the line can apply to a lot of things so ill let you think about it #i totally didnt get that 'we' thing from a fanfic COUGH #httyd #httyd movies #junie art post #can u tell ive gone insane #this was supposed to be a short caption but ive gotten carried away #toothless the dragon #toothless #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #hiccup #NOW. FOR THE MUSIC. #most of the analysis is already talked well by sideways and phoebe-kate so ill talk about my headcanons and interpretations #toothless' theme always repeats over and over. not ever really having a satisfying conclusion which ive always thought of as a silent show #that toothless was never really happy or content with his life before since he lived a dangerous and monotonous life of serving the queen #sure in exchange for his servitude he was given shelter to a place no viking can reach but he would never call it home. #he most likely wanted out of that sitaution. wanted something new and he got that rather violently through hiccup #now lets talk about hiccups theme. his theme is beautiful and sounds complete. but in the beginning you barely if ever notice his theme #unless youre really looking for it. his theme plays quite subtly and softly. showing how hiccup wants to be seen but he never is #at the start his theme plays after berk's which makes it sound as if hes following them. he isnt the same as berk but he tries to be #FF comes and hiccup and toothless connect both on screen and music. see you tomorrow has hiccups theme play clearly & confidently for once #test drive comes and toothless takes the lead- hiccup following right after him. it sounds amazing but theyre still not quite there yet #then the sea pillars moment and toothless theme plays twice waiting for hiccup's theme to jump in- to let go #and when hiccup does let go his theme jumps right after toothless' fitting perfectly and toothless' lets hiccup theme take center stage #its loud & beautiful and you get to hear it so clearly it takes your breath away and it ends with toothless theme finally reaching an end #they completed each other both musically and in character #they broke the rules of the world and are neither berk's theme or the dragon's they are two parts creating something new and beautiful #they completed their theme bros thats their theme its not berks or the dragons its their very own #okay im done i dont know if i got this across right i hope yall at least get the gist of my insane rambling

[rhymaes]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook, Eps. 1, 40, and bonus // Mahmoud Darwish

#do u ever think abt. how the sea was never a grave for fang duobing. because he always believed #li xiangyi lived. that he was alive. and safe. and elsewhere. #and then what a cruelty. to have encountered someone so made for you & you for him that the world as u both know it #is continually redefined to the point that your old dream #born out of a place of achievement is replaced with a new one of hope and love and care #that the ocean was a gift to fang duobing because it is what saved li xiangyi the first time. #and then he made it his final and silent grave. #just. god. god. god. #mysterious lotus casebook #mlc #li lianhua #li xiangyi #fang duobing #fang xiaobao

[itspileofgoodthings]

is everything terrible or is it just the damp of the first spring rain

#no but really. I adore this moment so much #because it’s eowyn’s whole problem and the problem of her circumstances in microcosm #she is alone and cold. the city has fallen silent. there’s no one there. there’s no one to balance out her view #there’s no one to stand next to her and see things for what they are #yes—painful dark difficult #but also. sometimes just in process #sometimes just hidden in shadow #sometimes just the curve of the valley #sometimes just the damp of the first spring rain!!!!!!!!!!! #you can’t see that truth on your own and if you try to be positive you tip into delusion #you can’t achieve balance on your own. and so just. #him stepping up to stand next to her. his hand going into hers. saying I do not believe this darkness will endure #it just rights the ship of her soul in a way that hasn’t happened yet #because no one has ever stood beside her #or maybe it’s a part of the righting of her soul—Theoden and Eomer both have their moments where they draw near her and around her #in a way they didn’t (couldn’t? didn’t?) before #but then he’s just the last piece. someone from outside. someone who sees her with such clear eyes. who loves her with such a hopeful heart #and all of her angst just washes away #sorry I’m just having a breakdown over here #Eowyn’s story kills me. I think about it all the time. I think about her isolation and her innocence and her bravery and her vulnerability #and her unsteadiness and her desire for glory and how pure and bright and vivid like flame she is and Faramir just being there to catch her #and let her be who she actually is. I JUST——— #lotr liveblogging

[serenanymph]

how well would your ocs do against a cockroach tag game

rules: yeah that's it. that's the tag. idk if anyone has done this before but rate your ocs by how well they'd do against a cockroach.

gonna be a lil annoying and tag a biiiiit more people sorry lol. no pressure to join in tho!!! and anyone else who wants to can hop in. @lyssa-ink @reneesbooks @macabremoons @space-writes @squarebracket-trick @scribbling-stardust @toribookworm22 @lorenfinch @sapphos-scientist @e-klair @arctic-oceans @sidhewrites @loopyhoopywrites @hallwriteblr @talesofsorrowandofruin @cream-and-tea

(anyway the rest is under the cut bcuz I have a LOT of characters so I'm gonna go a bit insane. Pulling from Beast as always)

Crys: - doesn't bat an eyelash, kills it easily - merciless, 10/10

Icarus: - a lil startled, will jump if it flies at him, but manages to catch it and set it free outside - 8/10. this boi is too good for this world

Rhyme: - begins by trying to smash it to a pulp - rapidly gets more and more irritated when she keeps on missing - finally lets out a primal scream of rage and fireballs it - 6/10 because she nearly burns down the house

Sol: - lets out an undignified squeak - leaves the room - if it flies at him he's sprinting out of there - 3/10

Dahlia - rolls up a newspaper and whacks it a few times?? like a normal person??? - 9/10

Beatriz: - faints - poor bbg can't handle the terror - 0/10 - alternatively shoots her feathers and skillfully punts it out the window - so overall actually 5/10

Honorary mentions

Iri and Yuan: - incoherent screeching - KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE - both trying to get behind the other - so many feathers embedded in the floor. so many - Iri scales up Yuan's back and stays there on his shoulders like an overgrown squirrel - 0/10

Jorge and Jordan - they catch it - and store it with their dozen other cockroaches used to prank people - 10/10, but I'm docking points for the malicious intent

#is this?? how you make a new tag game??? I have no idea actually but whew that's a long title #I have an itch to make an entire series of hyperspecific oc tag games. Why #breaking news: local author takes avoiding writing to a new level as she starts infodumping about her ocs vs cockroaches instead #my posts #writeblr #writeblr community #wip: beast #beast #tag game #sorry if this is a bother!! (I'm mildly nervous about tagging these many people hhhhhhh) #(“lol” I say silently shaking in my boots) #I am going to get a good grade in making a tag game. something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve #and uhhhh CHARACTERS. oh dear there are so many #char: crys #char: icarus #char: rhyme #char: sol #char: dahlia #char: beatriz #char: jordan #char: jorge #char: iri #char: yuan

[thesearchforbluejello]

This has absolutely been discussed many times but I am once again losing it over the fact that "Rogue One" as a name is making sound out of silence.

It's formed as a last minute, emergency name for the shuttle, for the people aboard, for the mission when Bodhi says it; it has no precedent, nothing that came before it for that name to be used. But when Bodhi says it, it exists.

It both takes advantage of and retcons the Rogue Squadron we've seen before in the original trilogy, where there was no Rogue One. But there is now, because Bodhi said it.

Jyn's name, Cassian's name, K's name, Chirrut's name, Baze's name, Bodhi's name, every one of the rebels that are on the shuttle... none of them come up again in the things that temporally follow. Yes, those pieces of media were created before this film, but in the world of the story, they come after, and it becomes a remarkable silence.

Rogue One as the team that took Scarif and stole the Death Star plans exists as Rogue One because Bodhi pulls that name out of silence, out of nothing that preceded it. "Rogue One?! There is no Rogue One!" "Well, there is now." And after Scarif, there is no Rogue One again. It existed only for what it accomplished.

On a meta level, that's exactly what the film does as well-- it tells a story that was only a handful of vague lines before, draws it out of the lacunae and places itself where it belonged to tell a story that was restrained by the shape of the narrative that came before it and was unavoidably wrapped around it. It's the quintessential "doomed by the narrative."

There's also the fact that Jyn's theme is built around dies irae and reflexively creates a reference to her in parts of A New Hope and also makes the score tell you that she's doomed by the narrative to die but I've screamed enough already.

#I will lose my cool entirely if I go off about the soundtrack okay #the achingly beautiful string motifs #the way he pushes the brass into a register that *hurts* #the fact that he takes advantage of Williams' over the top punchy incidental style and constrasts it with the absolute #stunning orchestral style he's so good at with the low strings and brass and the juxtaposition of lyrical sections with tight rhythms UGH #permanently yelling about Giacchino okay #like he took all the good bits of Williams and made them 70x better sorry Williams fans #there's more Super 8 in this score than I ever really thought about before but it's raw in a way a lot of his work hasn't been #I would like him to write more gut wrenching shit like this please I'm begging #like Giacchino absolutely pop off with his writing okay #he punched us in the throat with Up too but that was different #either that or let Chris Tilton do it I'd be fine with that also #anyway I digress this movie makes me foam at the mouth gnaw a table leg feral okay #the Jyn Erso and Hope Suite is probably Giacchino's crowning achievement imo #you have to sit silently and stare at a wall after it #like you have to take a recovery minute #also he WENT. THE. FUCK. OFF. with the Darth Vader motif #congratulations to this movie for making Darth Vader genuinely terrifying for the first time ever #idk you guys I'm just permanently obsessed with this movie #the rest of star wars just exists around this movie okay #they all wish they had what this movie has #I will not be taking criticism at this time

[erelavent]

with lewis’ statement, do you not support as a driver anymore?

The short answer is no.

The longer answer is that I'm holding him to the standard he set for himself in 2020 and he has fallen extremely short of that and I'll explain why.

After George Floyd was murdered in 2020, Lewis said unequivocally that "Black Lives Matter". He understood that there was a systemic problem where police were systematically murdering Black people at disproportionate rates and getting away with it. Did that statement mean that, other races getting killed by police didn't matter? No, it was common sense that all death at the hands of police was a problem. It meant that it was important to bring attention to and try to fix a problem that was affecting Black people at higher rates than others which is why saying "All Lives Matter" or "Blue Lives Matter" would have been counterproductive.

But he didn't just say "Black Lives Matter", he did something about it because he understood that posting donation links after yet another murder simply wasn't enough. He protested in the middle of a pandemic and proceeded to ask Mercedes to change the livery of the car to symbolise the significance.

Let's bring that same logic to today. Posting "My heart breaks for all the innocent lives lost in Israel and Palestine, and all the lives that have been forever changed. The scale of the ongoing suffering and loss is truly devastating and there is no justification for the deliberate targeting of people — especially children. We cannot accept it" is an All Lives Matter statement. It deliberately ignores that one group is being targeted and has been for decades. It ignores that one group is disproportionately being killed at higher rates by the other group. And it's counterproductive to dismantling the apartheid and systemic genocide of Palestinians by colonial settlers on their own land.

He said we need to put pressure on leaders to end this. Which leaders? Israel has the support of 3 colonial powers behind it. One of which, the U.S. has consistently vetoed a ceasefire each and every time it has come up at the UN. Before this, the UN's official position was a 2 state solution that screwed Palestine out of the best half of it's land.

Further, the links he posted also ignore that there is no way to get aid into Gaza. Medecins Sans Frontiers has said that Israel has cut off food, water, electricity and medical supplies. Israel is also bombing relentlessly and indiscriminately without a ceasefire. They are killing Palestinians, journalists, aid workers (all war crimes) and injuring so many more that the medical system is on the verge of collapse. What good are donations they can't get to?

So for Lewis to post that All Lives Matter-esque statement when he clearly understands power dynamics, systemic brutality, and knows the importance of calling it out by name is an intentional disregard of genocide and I'm unwilling to support that.

In the words of Maurice Switzer, it is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

#the bar is in hell if you think Lewis really achieved anything at all with this statement #I can't speak to any other drivers because half of them are blocked and the other half are silent regardless #lewis hamilton

[mystery-salad]

The journal pages for the new Silent Surf fractal, from the Grim Investigations achievement!

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #guildwars2 #silent surf fractal #silent surf #gw2 achievements

[cruelsister-moved2]

"the truth is she did it alone, and remembered it all her life."

#thinking how you never get the time back... #im hyping up my mum to finish her novel (first draft of which was shortlisted for an unpublished manuscript award in a literary magazine) #and she used to write short stories and often have them published like when i was little #but its like . shes never going to get all that time back... #even though shes aware now and whatever she'll never get the time back she spent just endlessly cleaning up after children and a useless #husband and being an unpaid therapist and working and and #and its all just... transient work that leaves nothing behind #like housework is not a legacy. but its there invisibly in everyone elses achievements #that they got to do because of ur silent invisible constantly erased (in the literal sense bc clothes get dirty again and new meals need to #be made) work #which in an equal society where everyones doing some housework is sort of lovely #but when all these talented women are fading into nothing to make their sons and husbands into Great Men it just makes me want to throw up

[favroitecrime]

barbie discourse getting unhinged actually please end the debates by tomorrow. the movie did nothing to deserve all this chaos and the fact i saw someone say margot and the movie started a ‘movement’… please.

#may have to be a hater just bc of these people actually #BREATHE the white women will be fine #neither of them had a shot anyway who cares😭 #also shouldn’t have based half their marketing on ken if they weren’t looking for success on ken’s part🤷🏻‍♀️ #also how DARE any of you make america feel like she needs to apologize #YOU missed the point of the movie if you’re ignoring america’s achievement here in favor of bitching about two white women #actually you probably didn’t i didn’t watch the movie #but the fact so many people walked out blubbering about ‘important message’ and then almost everyone who did #having this horrendous reaction. maybe the message sucked and wasn’t spoken clearly cause WHAT are you so upset about #and WHY would you attempt to put down the other women who RIGHTFULLY earned their place in the noms? #it’s so funny actually everyone who’s being asked who they’d sub in for margot instead is going silent cause really who the hell are u #replacing and even if you DO manage to come up with a name why is greta lee not your first choice #tag: i speakth

[thetriggeredhappy]

FINALLY BEAT THE POSTGAME ON SLAY THE SPIRE LETS GOOOOOO

#shut up me #slay the spire #bunch of shitty cursed runs on ironclad and i gave up and switched to silent #now for getting all the achievements. also I Am Once Again Intrigued By The Silly Merchant Character #minecraft villager ‘hrm’ sounding ass with LORE????? #good game 10/10 if you like roguelikes and deckbuilders

[vhgr]

book aemond this book alicent that god forbid characters written as historical figures of their fictional world get any dimension

#i know i know we love dynamic personalities but #there's a thick line between that and shallow portrayals #because that *is* all you can get in a #how should i call f&b #fictional history book #on my end i think the show and ewan gave aemond a brilliant dimension #alicent could have had a little more conviction sure but i think they had achieved just that in ep6 #maybe it's just me but im not a big fan of characters becoming lovesick pups with no direction of self #“”you've only just arrived“” girl do i need to remind you of driftmark or what #miss haughty and silent judgement alicent hightower??? where are you #the kids miss you #i feel like... the problem is in the execution #not the idea #but that's details of storytelling that i wont get into #why am i saying all this you ask #idk it's late and im thinking senselessly

[mrsjadecurtiss]

Pokemon is one of the last bastions of cinematic-story franchise gaming that doesnt have annoying voice acting blabbing constantly leave it alone... not every media needs to use the same stylistic devices

#silent protagonists are good. reading game is good. #unless its an accessibility issue but there could be some sort of screenreader implementation #most voice acting games dont voice literally every line anyways so they presumably have the same accessibility problem #idk why people constantly wanna push for every franchise to be the same cinematically #zelda added voice acting what did it gain? nothing #i dont miss it whatsoever in the older games #theres a certain mood achieved when you only have music and no voices #mjc textposts

[hyaciiintho]

🌸｡*ﾟ+. I think for all intent and purposes, I'll be referring to P as... well... "P" in all his tags and whatnot. Try to keep things as spoiler free as I possibly can on here. At least for a few months? I'll try to tag "Lies of P Spoilers" in things that have spoilers, though when it comes to writing in certain verses (post-game), I can say with 100% certainty that... it'll be incredibly spoilery c': So... warning on that front, if anyone cared and wanted to play the game themselves if they hadn't yet. If anyone wanted any other specific tag to use (because the general spoiler tag is kinda used by the fandom in general dfghujkdf), I can make one people can blacklist so they don't get spoiled!

Also, his google doc is probably gonna be hella spoilery, so if people just want to interact with an in-game verse (like beginning to mid-ish timeline) then they're free to request whatever information for him for that via DMs! But I think imma get started on his doc soon (after I fill my queue with other stuff) because... I'm excited to use him and I have the PERFECT FC's for him to use~

#MUN SPEAKING 🌸 ᴬ ʷᵉᵃᵛᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ᵗᵃˡᵉˢ; ᴾᵃⁱⁿᵗᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ˢᵗᵃʳˢ #I love him so much you have no idea how hard I hyperfixated on this game. Full on 5-7 hour sessions of playing sdgyhus #Trying to uncover every teeny mystery I could. Sans the bad ending because I refuse to do it achievements be damned LOL #But man... I have the rot HARD for this game. P is my little baby and I will cradle him and love him ;; ;; #I have so many theories and headcanons for him already like-- his muse is HARD on the brain right now. #And with how many little details they put in the game to show off his personality in subtle quiet ways??? #Yeah. I'm. My Silent Protag bias is leaning WAAAAAAY IN (looking at you Link--). And the amount of screens and lore theories I have-- #HYUUUUGGHHHNNNNN LISTEN I CAN TALK ABOUT HIM AND THE STORY ALL CENTURY OKAY and I honestly do on my personal blog like I don't shut up LMAO #anyways lemme stop rambling and actually fill my queue with stuff and then bring my baby boy to life ♡ #Hope everyone's had a lovely day/night!!

[oglegoggle]

My body aches so fucking bad, my dudes.

#this is goggles #it’s times like this my heart is extra achey for one of the things that made me stay with my ex as long as I did #I could bother him to massage me and it felt amazing #he commented once that my muscles feel exactly like those of an ex whom had fibromyalgia #honestly I haven’t stopped thinking about that and I don’t exactly know what to do about it #like fuck I am like always in pain #I’ve never really actively acknowledged that before #I was just like under the impression that some level of constant pain is just the human condition #and my parents like would actively shame me for drug seeking whenever I would ask for a painkiller #I kinda really feel like a great deal of my life has been defined by the expectation to just endure suffering with quiet grace #and it was a new experience that someone would suggest that my value isn’t determined by my capacity to just endure and stay quiet #that like I can and should actively seek and improved quality of life and that I can achieve it #it was a weird emotion paired against the expectation to just silently endure the ways he actively decayed my quality of life #the filth and squalor that filled my home was miserable and I was sick all the time and so stressed out by his awful pets #but I had to just accept that about him and if I don’t I’m not accomodating him #he taught me that I can seek better life and I’m out here seeking a better life #without him #not for lack of care about him but for his lack of care about me #I’m going to find a lover whom will actively care for me as much as I care for them #honestly I would legitimately love to be with someone who makes me feel like I don’t have to be in charge and responsible all of the time #I would love to relax and not make choices and not have to be peacemaker and not have to be the voice of reason #I would love to be affectionately bossed around honestly #I don’t want to be the dd I don’t want to be the sitter I don’t want to be the bookkeeper or household manager or maid or dad or anything #I want to be useless and beautiful #I want to lay on my chest and have my legs rubbed until the pain recedes #and then my bussy destroyed lmfao