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What if the purpose of life is to learn how to suffer?

Thus, the "goal" is not the bright spots, the heights of achievement or accomplishment. The darkness is where we find whether we have the strength to persevere and smile again.

#kimboo's musings #paraphrased from a friend #I love this approach

molabuddy

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

the-eldritch-it-gay

Been a while since I've done art. Since I've been rewatching Nirvana in Fire for the like 6th time, I decided to do some studies to ease back into things and get some practice in.

I kinda just picked some screenshots I took at random of some characters, and it was fun seeing the way I slowly started messing with colors more and more with each one, so by the time I got to Qin Banrou I was just going kinda crazy with picking colors.

In order here we have:

Marquis Yan, Prince Yu

Consort Jing, Qin Banrou

#Nirvana in Fire

fraactals

this site is actually insane and so amazing for anyone who reads historical cnovels and wants to understand historical context

you can find things like: * this map of chang'an when it was the capital of the tang dynasty

or * this reference on the various measurements and units, their conversions to more widely known western units, and their regional/dynastic variations or * this list of sayings related to marriage

etc etc etc

larimar

Rest in peace Sam 🕊️ 1947-2026

rosenkranz-does-things

one of the greatest commissions I've ever gotten

8nin

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away

#TRUE #15 years later and still TRUE #the tumblr tragedy

telecommunikate

absolutely devastated to hear about sam neill's death. an absolute legend and icon of aotearoa cinema

mumbo-isthemoonbig

i was so naive in thinking that spirk shippers were exaggerating. what the fuck is wrong with these two.

mumbo-isthemoonbig

SPOCK HAS A MATING CYCLE?????

#Kirk/Spock #I'll never call them spirk sorry #but GOSH it is a delight to see posts like this #yes yes yes continue the traditions

therozanov

THE UNTAMED | episode 23

#the untamed #oh damn my heart

rosieandthemoon

Tararua Forest, New Zealand

evilwizard

just a heads up. im gonna do a big curse soon

evilwizard

okay so honestly i wasn’t expecting they’d be able to hide the body for this long

evilwizard

LINDSEY GRAHAM ?

The Bastards of Yunmeng (a Yiling Wei sect fic): Chapter 86!

My Yanli/Meng Yao epic fic is up to 175k+ words, which even I can hardly believe. Even if that's not your ship of choice, you might enjoy the fic which is SO MUCH MORE than that!

It's still a WIP, and still on track to hit roughly 200k when done. Will it get finished before the year is out? *lights a candle*

SUMMARY

She should be strong for them. She should hold them and tell them everything would be all right. All she could do was stand there and cry. “What happened, child?” Lao Wang asked softly, staring at the tangle of her brothers. His hands were firmly set on his cane, but there was something soothing about his presence in that moment. It helped that he wasn’t actually looking at her when she started to speak. “Father…Sect Leader Jiang found out that my brother and I are not his children. Our mother was an adulteress.” She took a deep breath, wrapping her arms around herself, starting to shake. “He…he kicked us out.”

#bastards of yunmeng #YaoLi #WangXian #minor XiCheng #Yiling Wei Sect #MDZS #CQL #The Untamed

homunculus-argument

I disagree with the wording of "cooking is art, baking is science". No, art has far lower stakes than cooking - if you set out to make art, it is simply not possible to fuck up so bad that the end result would not count as art if you're still willing to call it so. It might be ugly as hell and look nothing like what you meant it to be, but art is art nonetheless. However, if you start cooking with the goal of making food to eat, it is entirely possible and actually quite easy to fuck up so bad that the end result does not count as food, as it isn't something you could or should eat.

Cooking is a science: you can, should, and even must fuck around to find out, as even if you end up making something terrible, you have now learned what happens if you do that. You have gained valuable information. And sometimes, you accidentally strike gold and have invented something tasty and awesome.

Baking is religion. You have been told how things must be done, and if you stray from the righteous path that was shown you, you just go to hell. Doesn't matter what it was that you fucked up, you go to hell forever. And if the scriptures that were given to you are somehow incorrect, you go to hell for following them. Fuck you and good luck.