*:シďžâ§ Studio Ghibli Films + Colors â§ď˝Ľďž:*
No title available
we're not kids anymore.

@theartofmadeline
art blog(derogatory)
đŞź

No title available

â
RMH
AnasAbdin
Mike Driver
Cosmic Funnies
Xuebing Du
Today's Document
Stranger Things

pixel skylines
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
ojovivo
occasionally subtle
h
Game of Thrones Daily

seen from TĂźrkiye
seen from Malaysia

seen from South Korea

seen from Malaysia

seen from TĂźrkiye
seen from South Korea
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from TĂźrkiye
seen from Malaysia

seen from France
seen from United States
seen from Latvia

seen from South Korea

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States

seen from Greece

seen from Netherlands

seen from Germany

seen from TĂźrkiye
@forestofsorrows
*:シďžâ§ Studio Ghibli Films + Colors â§ď˝Ľďž:*
god left-clicking me & right-clicking a random gas station in the middle of an interstate over 1400 miles away & I just stand up & exit my house & start jogging at a moderate pace
Look to the dandelion, if you need guidance on how to live.
Be tenacious and full of sunshine, and donât let it bother you a bit if your beauty pisses people off. Spread color with absurd fecundity. Turn into wishes when you die.
Dior Couture SS 2019
COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA COWBOY WAKA
yeah
friendships come and go but old voltron mutuals are forever
reblog and put in the tags what food someone would have to give you to instantly earn your love
Literally just romanticize your own life. Whatâs stopping you. Who will care. Commit to enjoying things.Â
I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you don't need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let's say public health and the social safety net and vaccines
letâs just take a couch nap, share a blanket, and feel safe together
imma say it. âkung fu pandaâ did more for body positivity and saying that  you can be fat and still be healthy and liked than ANYTHING any beauty companies trying to get your money.
kfp also respects women more than any beauty company too.
It also did âletting go of physical attatchmentsâ MUCH better than certain other franchises did, as @tyrantisterror can clarify.
Well Iâm not really an expert on that subject but people have yelled at me about it a lot so Iâll try my best.
Ok so, as many tumblr Buddhists and Star Wars prequel apologists have informed me recently, âletting go of attachmentsâ is supposed to mean that you donât let your love for others or yourself to become obsessive. Itâs sort of a combination âif you love it set it freeâ and accepting that bad things can happen without dwelling on them - an acceptance that you canât be in control of everything, and that the world doesnât revolve around you.
In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po, compassionate and heroic though he may be, is weighed down by a great deal of anxiety about his life. He still isnât sure if he really deserves to be treated as a hero, he discovers he was adopted and is filled with anxiety about his family, and just as heâs finally making friends with his fellow martial artists a threat rises that is trying to kill them all. Poâs friends, family, and very sense of self are threatened in this story.
His antagonist, Lord Shen, is a perfect foil for him. Shen was born into a wealthy family that was renowned for making fireworks, but wants to use that technology to make canons and guns - weapons that, in the world of this story, are unthinkably powerful - which he can then use to conquer all of China. He is warned that if pursues this scheme that a hero of black and white - a panda, he assumes - will rise to kill him. Rather than pursue a less horrible goal, Shen opts to wipe out all the Pandas in China. Horrified at what he has done, Shenâs parents exile him from their family home, and later die of grief.
Yet despite being given palpable evidence that his current course is wrong, Shen remains committed to his mad dream. He refuses to question the morality of his actions, or accept the consequences of it. He paints his parents as traitors who rebuked his love of him, believing that they were the ones who wronged him by exiling him rather than supporting his ambitions. After all, wouldnât his plan have benefited them as well? Did they not see that he was trying to bring glory to his family, to increase their wealth and status? Did they not see how special and important and perfect he was?
Shen is defined by his attachments. He obsesses over what he feels he is owed, what he deserves, and is incapable of seeing any of his own actions as wrong as a result. Heâs incapable of accepting the consequences of his mistakes, even when they cost him things he loves and values. Every setback he faces canât be accepted as an accident or a result of his own mistakes - it HAS to be a result of other peoplesâ faults, of some monstrous conspiracy to keep him from claiming his rightful place.
He assumes others think like this as well. When Po finally confronts Shen, Shen assumes Po would be furious and vengeful at him for, yâknow, exterminating Poâs race. The fact that Po is unaware of their personal connection is amusing to him, and being the egotist that he is, Shen canât help taunting Po about it.
When Po finally presses Shen to tell him what Shen knows about his family, Shen tells a horrible lie.  â Oh, you want to know so badly? You think knowing will heal you, eh? Fill some⌠crater in your soul? Well, hereâs your answer: your parents didnât love you.â Interestingly, this exact lie is what Shen has told himself to justify his actions - he knows how much it hurts to believe your parents hated you, how much of a betrayal that is, how much you suffer when someone youâre attached to does not share the sentiment, and tries to trick Po into suffering the same way.
Of course, we learn that this is false for both Po and Shen - Shenâs parents did love him, and were killed by the grief of what they allowed their son to become.
By Shenâs logic, Po should be consumed with grief and anger over what Shen has taken of him. Shen expects Po to be just as deranged and vicious as he is - he expects Po to be broken.
Instead, when Po learns the truth, including what Shen has taken from him, Po⌠letâs go. He letâs go of the sorrow. of the anger, of the grief. He letâs go because he knows he was loved and, more importantly, is loved. He letâs go because he knows that while there are bad times, there are also good times. He letâs go because he knows he canât control the past. He canât control what happened to his mother or to his people. He canât control Shenâs actions. The past is history - itâs the here and now, the present, that matters. Po has people he loves and who loves him, and he has the opportunity to act on their behalf now.
Shen:Â How did you find peace? I took away your parents. Everything! I Iâ I scarred you for life!
Po:Â See thatâs the thing, Shen. Scars heal.
Shen: No, they donât. Wounds heal.
Po: Oh yeah. What do scars do? They fade, I guess?
Shen: I donât care what scars do.
Po: You should, Shen. You gotta let go of that stuff from the past âcause it just doesnât matter! The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.
Even after learning everything that Shen has taken from him, Po tries to heal and teach Shen during their final battle. He doesnât dwell on the grief, he doesnât succumb to hatred, he simply tries to stop the violence by any means, the ideal way would be to change Shenâs mind rather than to kill him. Shen ultimately forces Po to fight back, and in the process kills himself. Shen was the warrior of black and white who spelled his own doom all along.
But Po isnât the best example of a character letting go of attachments in the Buddhist sense that this series has to offer. No, the best, most literal example, would be Master Oogway.
In the first Kung Fu Panda movie, Oogway selects what is, essentially, an heir to his role as the ultimate master of Kung Fu. His choice is Po, which surprises everyone since Po is a big, out-of-shape noodle vender, and has no training in kung fu. Yet Oogway is confident that Po is the correct choice, even though everyone else, including his greatest student Master Shifu, insists it was an accident.  âThere are no accidents,â Oogway says to Shifu, âYou must learn to let go of the illusion of control.â
Oogwayâs final words to Shifu are to accept that, while we can affect important change in the world, we cannot control everything - that we have to work with what we are given, and accept that things will not go the way we expect or want them to. His plea for Shifu to believe in Po is also a plea to try and work with the situation as it is, instead of stubbornly trying to force it back into the plan that Shifu had concocted in his head.
And when Shifu agrees to do so, Oogway lets go in the exact way Buddha intended - he leaves the material plane and ascends to a higher existence.
In Kung Fu Panda 3, Po briefly ascends to the same spiritual realm that Oogway currently resides in, and Oogway explains how he knew Po would live up to his legacy - how he saw the past, present, and future of Kung Fu in Po, and knew that the world would be safe in the pandaâs hands. Oogwayâs last attachment to the physical world was his concern for its safety in his absence, and since Po could and would ensure its safety, Oogway was finally ready to let go completely.
Completely letting go of attachments does not work for a traditional heroâs narrative, because the concept isnât about heroism - itâs not meant to be, either. Itâs a philosophy geared towards breaking the cycle of reincarnation, and transcending the problems of a mortal life. Letting go of attachments is what you do to prepare to die, not what you do to prepare for a fight with the Evil Empire.
But letting go of some attachments can be used in a heroic narrative, which is what the Kung Fu Panda series does. It applies Buddhist and Taoist philosophies to a heroic story in a way that makes sense and stays true to both, because it was written by people who are much smarter than George Lucas.
bro tf most people are snickering about sniddies here you got a full on heavily sourced essay on thisâŚ.hello take my post???
Thank you! Iâm just very fond of Kung Fu Panda.
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
iâll probably expand on this later, but the best ADHD Hack ⢠Iâve found/sussed out is:Â
bundle habits together, but donât bundle tasks together.
Explain âŚ
So okay. When you have ADHD, one thing your brain is very very good at doing is making connections between things- ideas, concepts, people, states of mind, etc. This can be a superpower- if most people wouldnât think to make a connection between doing a) and b), and you make that connection, sometimes you can outthink people who arenât as good at snapping things together.
The problem comes in when you start connecting things that you donât need to connect, like âmild displeasureâ with âOH GOD EVERYONE HATES MEâ or âI feel a little crummyâ with âI AM THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLDâ.
So when weâre talking about Life Skills/ADLs, you gotta use that power to make your life easier, not harder. You gotta connect things when it makes your life better and NOT do it when it makes your life harder.Â
Hereâs an example of the habits:Â
I had a stretch of time where I was too sick to do much of anything. I could barely get out of bed to get to the bathroom. I was walking with a stick and generally just⌠le dead. And one of the problems I had was that I could almost never remember to take my morning meds.Â
I decided that the first time I got up to use the bathroom every day, Iâd take my meds. That way I was taking them no matter how crap I felt- I had to get up to pee, like it or not- and it was getting done pretty early in the morning.Â
Getting up to pee meant taking my meds; they were the same thing. I didnât have to remember to take my meds separately, or set an alarm to remind myself, or anything like that. I just did it as part of something I had to do anyway.
As time went on and I started getting better, I realized I could do the same thing with other parts of my routine. If you connect something you need to do with something you have to do, the thing you need to do gets done.
So like⌠say Iâm already in the habit of getting up to take a shower. Iâve lived in crappy apartments my entire life, so the water takes a minute to warm up. Since my countertop dishwasher is right outside my bathroom door, Iâll take a second to empty and load the dishwasher while the waterâs still heating up. It just becomes part of the routine of taking a shower.Â
You donât have to think about Doing The Extra Thing. Connecting it to something youâre already doing means that, after a certain point, it just⌠happens, automatically.
 The problem comes in when you start trying to do this with tasks- things that you only have to get done once, that already have a fair few steps to them. Especially if that task is has a lot of steps, has a time limit, or is otherwise Hard for you.Â
Figuring out tasks with dependencies (I have to do this before I can do this!) is already hard for us ADHDers. Sometimes what happens is that you bundle two tasks together- you decide you canât do something until youâve done the other thing, even though these tasks are in no way connected.Â
Hereâs an example:Â
I have three packages I need to mail. One of them is a gift for a friend in Australia, which costs a lot of money; one of them is a package for my Etsy store which is Not Finished Yet, and one is a very late Christmas package.Â
I might decide, âhey, I need to mail all three of these packages together! I canât mail any of these packages until I bundle all of them!â But itâs probably smarter to mail them separately! I donât want to make my friend with the late Christmas package wait any more, so I can mail that first, and then mail the Australia package when I have the money and the Etsy package when itâs finished.Â
But if I insist that I have to bundle these tasks⌠I wonât get any of them done. Iâll be too stressed out about the Etsy package not being done to mail the other two packages, and then I will run out of money for the Australia package, and the Christmas package will not get sent til Labour Day.
If youâre stressed out about a task with a lot of steps, sometimes itâs worth it to check and make sure youâre not bundling multiple tasks together. Can you do the thing without doing the thing that comes before? Do you have to do the other thing immediately after?Â
Oh my GodâŚyou have just handed me the holy grail of life changing adviceâŚ
Like I already weirdly do this? The other day I needed to remember to go approve my timecards, but I wasnât standing in the room where that task took place, so I clipped my keys to my purse and said âkeys clanging = do your timecard approvals.â I do this ALL THE TIME. âWhen you pick up your wallet, think about the leftovers in the fridge you want to take to lunch.â Theyâre usually just temporary connections, but like. I could easily see making them permanent?Â
THANK YOU this is literally life-changing, especially the example with packages because I do stuff like that ALL THE TIME. Literally that exact thing, as though I canât go to the post office twice. Itâs RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO WORK why do I feel like I can only go once?!?
ADHD
Illustrations by Caitlin Keegan
your heart is a garden. flowers will always grow back when you take care of yourself.