#always forward

[thepreciouspurrsian]

Today was the last day of my PhD classes. ✨

Even though exams and my dissertation are still ahead, the classes are officially over and that alone feels like a real ending. No celebration, no applause, not even dramatic goodbyes. A quiet one. Just a deep feeling that suddenly settles right in the middle of your chest. 🥰

It’s a strange feeling. Sweet, with just a trace of bitterness. The sweetness of knowing I’ve come through a huge, heavy and challenging chapter of my life… all those days sitting in class, presentations, writing papers, exhaustion, hope and three full semesters of long drives back and forth between home and university. And the bitterness of knowing it will never come back in the same way. Even if I do a postdoc, there won’t be classes anymore. Being a student in this sense won’t repeat itself. 🥹 After June 2026, I won’t be a PhD student in Architecture anymore, I’ll officially become a PhD candidate.

I made it through this path. Truly! 🧿 And somehow… it’s beautiful. 🥹🤍 So beautiful!

[artfuldodgerslens]

but also, an empath

[heroofunicornway]

So my head canon for the wizard is that they doesn't really remember anything from before Ambrose brought them to the spiral, so their first real memory is of being pushed to fight Malistaire's draconians. In a very real way, they were born on a battlefield.

Did Ambrose craft them into the champion they needed? Is there any part of them left over from their half-dreamt memories of earth? From their parents? Or has the yw always been a created thing, no different than these Lemurian experiments?

[reptussanctus]

There's no point to regretting.

Regretting won't change it.

Life is one way. Can't go backwards

[foxydarling]

and i remember this too, when something or someone tries to diminish everything i've become. i smile with kindness, grace, and humility and walk away from whatever no longer serves me.

[askcaffeinehazard]

Commission for @The-Brazen-Bull as a gift to his friend in memory of their late cat, King Leonidas. It was interesting to do a polydactyl cat!

[stripesandrockers]

[the--stag--king]

A common line I say to myself: "You don't travel backwards."