#your future starts here

[nightingaleatdawnwrites]

Life Is Beautiful: Hopes and Dreams

Excerpt 4

March 20th, 2024

Looking back, I don’t regret anything. I’ve learned a lot from all the mistakes I’ve done in the past. What matters most is that we learn from all our mistakes. That’s why they are called “Lessons Learned In Life”.

I may have a few regrets, however, maybe, just maybe, there will be a point in time that I will be able to accomplish whatever those regrets may be in the future. I’m still young and there are still a lot of years ahead of me.

I don’t know what my future will be. But this is what I believe in ~ I am in my dream destination and there’s no turning back! I will do my best to stay here as long as I can. It’s either I study one of the courses I intend to study in May or have a LMIA employer sponsor my visa, meaning my tourist permit visa will be converted into a work permit visa.

I believe that fate and destiny brought me here to Canada. I also believe that this is what God has planned for me. I have always dreamed of joining my parents here, however, there was something holding me back before. But that has changed…

To all the dreamers out there who can read this, never give up on your dreams. Keep chasing them. Do your part and never give up until you’ve reached your goals and have become successful in life. When you’re already at the top of the ladder, never forget all the people who helped you get there. Stay humble, and always pay it forward.

Trust God’s perfect timing. Walk with faith in God. Always keep the faith and always pray. Prayers work… All the time!

#Life #Lessons Learned In Life #Regrets #Your Future Starts Here #Fate #Destiny #Chase Your Dreams #Never Give Up #Never Lose Hope #Success #Goals #Stay Humble #Pay It Forward #Trust God's Plan #Trust God's Process #Thankful Grateful Blessed #blog #blogger #personal blog #inspirational words #motivational words #deep thoughts #Count Your Blessings #Silence Speaks When Words Can't #Nightingale At Dawn Writes #Artsy Ally LB #My Life #My Masterpiece #Pinterest #Tumblr

[notemaker]

The WatchTower.

#inspired by Cass's series once again #Casey: i may be three foot tall-- #He'll give you the stinkeye the second you raise your voice at Leo #And no one can look at Leo in the eye and tell him to get Casey off #This works perfectly well for both parties #anyways this started as a doodle but then I wanted to do some color practice and here we are #A king on his throne #Casey junior #Leo #Leonardo #future leo #casey jones junior #future casey #casey jones #rottmnt casey jr #casey #leonardo hamato #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt #ilustration #turtle art #that may be raph's arm but he's still alive rn dw about it #tmnt leonardo #tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #art post #my art #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles fanart #cassey jones #cass apocalyptic series

[dolcevideo]

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[readaboutdolce]

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He's the biggest kid here. Large and In Charge.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #su she #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #jing ling #Who are the other juniors? Who ever you'd like them to be. I will probably have to retroactively tag them #(Hello! It's Fer from the Future. Here to retroactively add character tags!) #ouyang zizhen #nameless red disciple #The camp councilor energy continues! WWX's secret power/talent isn't demonic cultivation #its herding teenagers. One of the hardest entities to rally #I adore the uncle energy he has with Jin ling here. Oh you're gonna start banging at doors? No no don't stop #you're sooooo good at it why don't you keep going? Yell some more. Use your talents #If he keeps yelling he *might* summon the purple uncle so its a fine line to walk #The goal with jin ling in that last panel was the same energy as when you catch your dog eating something they shouldn't #and instead of running you enter a staring contest. Does this make any sense. #EDIT: I went to check my notes for this post last night and went “oh geez y'all hated this one huh” only to realize that I uh #saved it as a draft and didn't actually put it into the queue. MASSIVE head empty moment. #So sorry for ppl who got worried or were looking forwards to the comic update. I wish this one was funnier to make up for it.

[vimbry]

jumping off the back of the post about genres of song lyrics, another thing about tmbg's lyrics in particular is that even when they write about pleasant themes, they still manage to frequently do so through a sinister lens:

the experience of having children and looking after them:

a nice little nightlight protecting a child muses on the shortcomings it would have outside its assigned responsibility:

fantasising about getting high in the park with your crush:

#tmbg #AND. I love it. #please feel free to add to this btw. I feel like there's more flansburgh examples but they're dropping out of my head #I've gone on and on about ''sleeping in the flowers'' already. so I won't repeat myself too much in the tags here #but I can also see how it's intended to come across as playful. like. #it's two people in love having a silly exchange between each other #I also like the little interlude from the nightlight's lullaby-of-sorts to the child to describing how it would make a really bad lighthous #''man it's a good thing I'm not one of those. I'm too small. if I did that then people at sea would crash and drown horribly hahaha #anyway good night'' #and actually re: nanobots. it only just occurred to me #I'd gotten 'newborn citizenship of the micronations'' being a verbose way to describe. babies lol #but is the start of verse about the actual birth of a child and getting so distracted by the preparation and stress #that you almost forget oh yeah. I have this kid now :) #and thinking about how even tho your worries around that are now over you'll focus instead on all the future responsibilities you'll have #how does something written in such a detatched way manage to be so sweet

[smelly-fozzy]

as if the military doesn’t release adds that look like fucking video games. As if the military doesn’t depend and prey on people’s need for a higher education just to secure a somewhat better paying job, by handing out scholarships to anyone who joins. As if the military doesn’t come into our schools, and quite literally try to indoctrinate minors- Y’know the people who you claim you’re trying to protect.

#Fuck kosa #The fuck do you mean it’s for the children. Nothing the government does is for any of us- let alone for the children #If they cared about the children they would’ve gotten a fucking handle on gun violence #They would advocate for mental health and better school systems #They would start addressing climate change to help prepare so that your children can even have a future #and I hate to be the one to break it to you- but the government doesn’t give a fuck about your kids. #look at how they treat other kids around the world- hell look at how they treat the ones here. #stop kosa

[shirozora-draws]

... anyway! if i wasn't so tired/busy this whole fucking month, i'd already have gotten to a comfortable spot in the 3quelfic Part 1 revisions and started the final outline and first draft of That Staircase Doodle fic, but i am tired/busy so the best I can do right now is spend way too much time sketching and cleaning up said sketching some thoughts on Reluctant Mand'alor Din and Jedi Knight/Ambassador Luke.

i intentionally left in the older sketch line layers to 1) show my thought(?) process as i figure out a composition and 2) remind myself that this is NOT a polished piece, I don't got time to make fancy arts beside the 3 final prints for the print shop project.

I have one more scribble ready to go but it's thematically so dramatically different from this little one that I'll post it either Thursday or Friday night.

... I should.... actually get back to writing fic actually.

#shirozora draws #dinluke #skydalorian #lukedin #din djarin #luke skywalker #the mandalorian #star wars #AU sketching #story: the eros and psyche on the staircase fic #actually inspired by me reading a refresher on the actual 'eros and psyche' story #i would say this is so loosely based that you'd break your eyeballs squinting for connection #just have to believe my brain connected 'eros and psyche' with a dinluke doodle based on a pre-raphaelite art #IT MAKES SENSE I SWEAR #anyway this came out of the thought of eros sweeping psyche off her feet and carrying her off to his home #but here it's a lot about the elusive reluctant mand'alor letting down around this bright jedi knight #and showing him what it's like to have a jetpack and be able to fly (more like ditch boring council meetings at will) #and luke who's really just there to get friendly enough with the mand'alor to ask for grogu's future #gets swept away and starts falling in love #shit i need to write this down somewhere shit fuck fuckkkk

[mishy-mashy]

Kudo and Lady Nagant are actually parallels and foils to each other.

Kudo led a Resistance to fight for what he believed would be the greater good (taking down AFO), knowing his path was hard and killing many for that purpose.

Lady Nagant follows that same path, Pro Hero version: being a Hero to help others, but killing many in the process and realizing how this bright light she believed in casts a darker shadow.

Lady Nagant's tired, which is why she killed the chairman and was arrested. Exactly because she grew tired of everything and shouldering the duty on her own, she's set apart from other Heroes and inmates

But even though she's sick of platitudes (righteous/flowery words for a greater moral purpose), Kudo doesn't dislike them

Kudo isn't tired of those. He wasn't tired of fighting against AFO. He's still fighting, and in ch. 413, he's still willing to die for this purpose.

Even if All For One is technically dead, the Quirk and will lives in Tomura, and Japan is still collapsing. It's all about to come down, and Kudo's seen this before.

Kudo could've easily been just like Lady Nagant. Fighting against society itself, scrounging things and people to fight, and watching so many die on your path, for and against you, so you can keep doing what you should...

Kudo's not optimistic like Midoriya and Hawks. He's aware of what he's done for his purpose, like Nagant. But he still looks toward the future, and is optimistic to believe in that. That what he's doing will help the future.

Lady Nagant saw Hawks and Midoriya, and wondered how they could keep fighting. Why were their eyes still alight?

Lady Nagant asks Hawks how that can be. AND HAWKS' RESPONSE?

HE WASN'T ALONE. HE'S STUPIDLY OPTIMISTIC. WHO DOES THAT SOUND LIKE?

Hi Kudo.

Can you imagine how bullheaded he has to be to do this? How could you grow up in crumbling Japan, and still think about stopping the great evil looming on the horizon? How could that thought have ever occurred to him, to go against current reality? That the person bringing peace really isn't? That he should stand up and fight?

Even Kudo thought Midoriya was delusional, and Nagant can't understand them for being so hopeful. But Kudo himself is crazy for standing up to fight the greatest evil at his peak, with even less strength than anyone else. First Generations were weak, not only because AFO took everything good, but because they were the base of the age of Quirks. The first Quirks were all weak. They'd only grow as they mixed and evolved through time.

Kudo falls into the group of people Nagant can't understand. The group that Nagant grew out of.

If Kudo had been alone like Nagant, he'd have been just like her in the end. But he wasn't. Even though their paths are so similar. They're both fighting a dark, bloody path for the "greater good" they can't see, and with all the death they're responsible for, the purpose behind this all is becoming muddled. But Kudo still managed to keep his eyes set ahead, and didn't lose sight of it.

Kudo knew he couldn't do it alone, and gathered allies. He had Bruce, and the Resistance, who followed him to their graves.

How could he have the will and charisma to gather people and be able to pull it off? Even All For One has to acknowledge that stupid, stupid light in their eyes that persists.

Kudo's eyes have a similar, if not the same light as Hawks and Midoriya.

The two panels even parallel each other. A shot of their left eye, with that light, and text in the exact same place, questioning the existence of that glimmer.

Kudo may not be a Hero or even a vigilante, but Star still reached out and caught his attention directly.

Bakugo has the same will as Kudo. Like Nezu with that "first step", and All Might paving the way for the next generation, will spreads.

Kudo had allies. Nagant was all alone. Only when Midoriya reached out to Nagant and told her to fight with them, recognizing her will, did Nagant smile and call him a real hero. She even gave them the information needed, and did join their side, to keep fighting.

Nagant had allies late. Kudo had them from the start, and so could continue.

#of all the characters KUDO and LADY NAGANT? wow #honestly id never think of a correlation between those two #until that weird word [platitudes] #i hit an image limit here #this post is all over the place BUT DO YOU SEE MY VISION? #its a bit “not really” but their paths are similar #wanting to do for the greater good. walking the path and blood starts gathering on your hands and at your feet. the end goal isnt there now #but the future has it. #kudo #lady nagant #bnha #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #spoilers #when the greater good is actually more exhausting and darker than you think #but you chose this path. society has to be preserved. you have to continue. youre in too deep #such and such yknow

[cheeseknives]

I got last months electricity bill and it was like 800€ something, whhhaat the fuck

#this is going to be me just complaining lmao feel free to ignore #I practically live alone when moms not here ???? #but also like #if you have whole ass family #let's say partner and three kids or something #and you want them to have same kind of upbringing as you so you get a house with a lawn n all that in rural area #how the fuck are you supposed to do that ??? #I'm not even against the idea of raising kids myself but in this economy..? #hurr durr future bad #but also men who want housekeeper of a wife but also complain about gold diggers like dawg #you have to have stay at home money to have stay at home wife lol #even if both of you work you cant expect your wifey to do all the work at home #the municipality is going to look at our bill and the amount of residents in our house and think we are growing weed or something... #but yeah this is why you dont remove fireplace from old ass house old heaters are expensive to keep on #like idk if I should just turn them off in rooms we dont use ? #bc on the otherhand what if something like mold starts growing there since its still winter #ughh #turning this house into igloo I dont want to think about funny numbers on the screen #remember to unplug things if you arent using them #I probably should check that no one is living in our attic or something #I have desire to bother someone about this

[nutzo0001]

what grinds my gears, and happen so very often:

short post, and just for my blog (here just to have place to input it in)

0/27, 17/04/24 Random thoughts

many intenrnet posts about "how people love..." to be awake at 1-5am, "just to be in..." dark and silence, alone, with their thoughts - when one person pinpoints it, it is romantic for a while. but then, it starts to (get popular,) feel sacharine and there are copycats andcomments to it. makes one wonder ?how so?"

...

what to do? it feels like the best era already happened, and we live in the last era - last juice of past glory - pastiche of it. '97-'15 peak (/before big-media...). after that, culture and society went to era of "meta-criticism", being critical about why [it] is so critical... - gives me the same "vibes" as if... your dreams came true, - but then , as if - you start to feel guilty, lied to (sorts of "suffering from success"), weird ("and now what!") - similar to about any [post-revolution] (brainfog) zeitgeist - you got what you want(ed), - but how to assure this wont repeat, that [*this*] will not be took for granted (...), forgotten, and bagatelized - (new-)normalized, - simplified, and >> used in (some, pol.) future campaign , and or used in some form of (pol., soc.) coercion?!! - - just *another* status quo, "without" history!

(they npcs accept unacceptable)

#what grinds my gears #and happen so very often: #short post #and just for my blog (here just to have place to input it in) #0/27 #17/04/24 Random thoughts #many intenrnet posts about “how people love...” to be awake at 1-5am #“just to be in...” dark and silence #alone #with their thoughts - when one person pinpoints it #it is romantic for a while. but then #it starts to (get popular #) feel sacharine and there are copycats andcomments to it. makes one wonder ?how so?" #... #what to do? it feels like the best era already happened #and we live in the last era - last juice of past glory - pastiche of it. '97-'15 peak (/before big-media...). after that #culture and society went to era of “meta-criticism” #being critical about why [it] is so critical... - gives me the same “vibes” as if... your dreams came true #- but then #as if - you start to feel guilty #lied to (sorts of “suffering from success”) #weird (“and now what!”) - similar to about any [post-revolution] (brainfog) zeitgeist - #you got what you want(ed) #- but how to assure this wont repeat #that [*this*] will not be took for granted (...) #forgotten #and bagatelized - (new-)normalized #- simplified #and >> used in (some #pol.) future campaign

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Even 6 years after botw, and 3 months after totk's release, I have to admit: They're good games, though lacking in story, but they're honestly not good "Legend of Zelda games." Totk being less so than botw. It's not about the shrines, puzzles or temples, or lack of them; the games are just kinda missing that LoZ feeling. I think an anon had a good take: LoZ refers to Zelda's story from a historians perspective, but is actually the story of Link and his adventure for us players. Botw is missing that, and in totk that's completely gone, with everything focusing on Zelda.

Hey, thank you!

I think I try to stray away from what makes a good Zelda game (or a Zelda game altogether) because I think that there is nothing more Zelda-core than fighting about what makes the essence of Zelda, and everybody being convinced they're extremely right about it (not excluding myself AT ALL btw, it's just... for some reason it's impossible to talk about Zelda and what you care about in the series without taking it to weird absolutes and being semi-toxic about it, which ??? it's so strange that it's a nearly-universal thing, why is it such a thing) and it's ultimately very personal. Obviously they kind of lost me with TotK in terms of player values, but I completely relate to seeing this thing you love drifting away from you.

I think what I miss the most is the bittersweetness, this idea that for any act of bravery to become a legend, you have to part with something meaningful and let it rest behind. At the heart of every single one of your adventures, there is this sacrifice that you have to make: be it a relationship, a sense of innocence, a person, an entire world... I often hear that Zelda only cares for happy endings, and I don't think it's that true? Like of course things are good by the end, the baddie is dead or sealed away, you are triumphant, the world is no longer in disarray... But there's always a cost.

I think it's really the heart of why I failed to connect with TotK's themes at the end of the day, if I try to de-intellectualize and take it in a more emotional way (and then of course it resonates with all of the reasons why I'm bothered with depicting any kingdom as worth preserving as is, without questioning anything about it)

#asks #thoughts #totk #totk critical #tloz #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #thanks for the ask!! #yeah I can think of something we the player personally lose in any other game I've played #but totk it's... yeah... #I suppose the zonais count? #but even their civilization and monuments seem to be staying there when the game end? so it's not even a case of “the past fading away” #which would have been cool and also emotionally compelling #and thematically stronger #like “you have dealt with the past's weird hangups now go and make your own future” #but here it just... freezes everything in time #I suppose Rauru Sonia and Mineru count?? but like you have no relationship with them #it was zelda's loss not the player's #I guess you lose your arm?? but really you're just restoring what was before the game started #and it's portrayed as a good thing too not like parting with a strong newfound part of your identity you will learn to live without

[theskyexists]

It's funny how... They desperately try to update a story and almost succeed and make it make sense and the women get interesting roles and the gender essentialism is made 'unfortunate' or changed but then the story has to return to the original vision and Chani the Warrior, Chani the Clear-Sighted cannot tell Paul: you piece of shit. If you want to be emperor, alright, but let my people go. Leave this place. Give me the nuclear codes.

The original books said: this was inevitable. But it wasn't. And the films definitely make this clear. But they have to say the same thing or it truly isn't the same story anymore: this was inevitable.

Though it wasn't.

#even if most of her people are lost to lisan al gaib and the jihad... not all... #1. paul could have chosen to die in a million futures where he doesnt win: didnt #2. paul could have said: ok i got arrakis now: i got the spicefields hostage: ive got the emperor: we are starting our terraforming and not #doing the war #3. he could have knelt to chani and said: heres my blood heres my ring you get the nuclear codes im at your service #4. he could have chosen to die again after having bested the emperor by trying to ascend without an army behind him #well ANYWAYYYY #chani HAD to be silent and silenced to make the story work #not speak a single word to him again #dune #my stuff

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you absolutely already know this, but i adore your work. i think it's hard to avoid the pressure of being surrounded by people we might consider "true artists," but the fact is that, frankly, everyone who makes art is an artist.

before this year, i hadn't drawn a complete piece in nearly three years. the line work i did produce felt abysmal and i was tempted to give up. then, i saw your comic and i thought, "wow, that's really cute, and it looks like a fun style to emulate."

i drew you, pondering me, eating grass. and it WAS fun. i forgot how fun it could be. i can draw lesbian horses, or pony!WWX throwing a chicken, or me eating grass. i can even make shitty memes! and all of it, no matter how good or how bad, is fun again.

you bring a lot of fun to people here. that's something equally as important as people who cultivate fancy line work or expert level digital painting. i'm sure that's something you know, but i hope it never hurts to hear it.

happy first season, friend! i can't wait to see the rest.

As a chronic perfectionist, it's been a long journey for me to accept that 'done is better than nothing' and that the worst critical voice is my own. Sure there's people who've gone to professional art schools, and those with a more than a decade of experience on me, but honestly? Would I tell a child their sonic drawing isn't art? Just because they have no 'experience' or 'technique'? Absolutely not. So I'm no longer saying my efforts should not count as art.

At the end of the day, art is what we choose to make it. We have the power to create whatever we want. And we are going to use it to have fun! We never lost the love and fun for creation we all had as children, we just told ourselves it wasn't enough. But it really is B*)

#ask #non mdzs #Thank you so much for this very heartfelt message B'*) #This kinda hit hard for me cause this blog isn't actually my first attempts at art (started with the classical florals and life drawing) #but it stressed me out immensely. All I could see was flaws and it made the process miserable knowing I wasn't going to succeed #So I stopped trying. I didn't draw for *years* #The point of Poorly drawn mdzs was always 'it doesn't matter how it looks it matters that I just keep going' #and it made art fun! I was making comics for ME and no one else. The bar was so low and I really could only go up from where I started #I think art block might be 50% fear of failure and 50% the weight of expectations. *That's* why art is perceived as 'hard'. #I'm gonna be fully honest here; your art is GORGEOUS!!! I'm glad you didn't give up B*) Though I understand the feeling. #I have greatly enjoyed chatting and collaborating with you! Thank you for so so many things #I hope to see more of your work again in the future!! I hope you keep finding the joy and fun in the act of creation! #is it not so amazing we can make something out of thoughts in our heads? #Lets all remember that art let's us draw ourselves eating grass and realize how wonderful that is

[tianhai03]

GUYS ASJHGDHJKASJDK LOOK C COLORED ONE OF MY DUMB DOODLES FROM TWITTER AGAIN WHERE I FORCED DANTE TO HAVE A SHOWER I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

(again, the line art is done by me while C colored over my art!)

#asjhasfjadfajkfkdjahjkj this makes me so happy thank you *gross sobbing* #devil may cry #dante(dmc) #ally(sona) #collab #fan's colorings #i feel like i should start a tag for all the colored stuff people have done with my art so here it is! #C's future submissions and anyone else's will be tagged with this! i'll go back and edit the prev ones #if you have anything to show me you can submit it to me or just tag me in a post i'll look at it and put it in the tag #and C; again; if you feel like you dont want me to post any of your stuff anymore just let me know and i'll stop! #these are my drawings but you also took part in coloring it so if youre not happy with it anymore im not gonna post them #anyway im gonna keep looking at this and giggle to myself like a child getting a present now have a nice day everyone #allyart

[sonia-the-hedgehog-2369]

Honestly, my Spotify Wrapped was not at all surprising. The entire soundtrack was a banger from start to finish and has consumed by brain like a brain eating amoeba along with the rest of this game. All the more wonderful considering this year wasn't the best and filled with stress for the future. I just want to say thank you to @sonicthehedgehog and especially to SEGA Sound Team for helping me get through the year and for making me feel undefeatable just like you did all the way back in 2008. Here's to another one!

#I actually started to tear up while writing this out #this game and series legit mean so much to me I can't even #sonic frontiers is an incredible game and I am so excited to see what's in store for the future #spotify wrapped #sonic frontiers #sega sound team #sonic the hedgehog #undefeatable #one okay rock #kellin quinn #vandalize #break through it all #find your flame #I'm here