#arah

[dreamsy990]

obsessed with 2/3 members of this trio and the third is on a fucking List

[absurdismee]

KARMA

— Sebuah Konsekuensi Logis —

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“Hidup terkadang hanya mengarahkan pada pengertian yang lebih dalam: bahwa di balik setiap tindakan ada harga yang harus dibayar—mungkin inilah cara karma bekerja.”

Dalam pandangan yang lebih realistis, karma bukanlah sistem hadiah atau hukuman dari langit.

Tidak ada otoritas kosmik yang mencatat perbuatan manusia untuk kemudian membalasnya secara misterius.

Karma bergerak dengan cara yang lebih sunyi, lebih sederhana, dan justru lebih tak terhindarkan:

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Karma adalah konsekuensi logis dari pilihan dan tindakan kita—cepat atau lambat, langsung atau tidak langsung.

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Tindakan melahirkan pola.

Pola melahirkan kebiasaan.

Kebiasaan membentuk karakter.

Dan karakter, pada akhirnya, menata arah hidup kita.

Di situlah karma bekerja—bukan sebagai balasan supranatural, melainkan sebagai hukum keterhubungan antara tindakan dan hasilnya. Sebuah jaringan sebab-akibat yang kita rajut dengan tangan kita sendiri, sadar ataupun tidak.

Seperti yang digagas Aristoteles dalam Nicomachean Ethics:

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

Dan mungkin di sanalah letak kebijaksanaan sejati:

bahwa hidup tidak pernah membalas perbuatan kita melalui keajaiban, melainkan melalui diri kita sendiri—melalui apa yang kita ulang, kita pilih, dan kita bangun setiap hari.

Pada akhirnya,

Karma bukan tentang menunggu balasan. Karma adalah menjalani balasan yang kita ciptakan sendiri—hari ini.

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[raungkemarau]

Ada kematian yang tak diumumkan, hanya sunyi merayap ke sela-sela dada, memburamkan kompas arah, sementara harap memudar seperti cahaya ditelan kabut

[nukeli]

I might have ended up trying to make a Cobra Commander playlist. But I ran out of ideas after these, I guess I don't know a lot of the right kind of songs.

Red Right Hand (Arctic Monkeys)

Applause (Lady Gaga)

Cold Hearted (Paula Abdul)

Primadonna (Marina)

Good To Be King (Antonio Banderas)

Emperor's New Clothes (Panic! At The Disco)

Suggestions?

[skrizka]

Diam tak selalu berati kalah. Mereka bilang lebih baik pasrah. Sebagian memaksa menyerah.

Tidak, aku hanya sedang menghitung langkah. Mungkin benar semua tak luput dari rasa gundah. Tak bermaksud serakah.

HIDUP MEMANG PERLU ARAH

-skrizka, 5 Mar 26

[guratpena]

radar

aku merasa sudah memakai radarku dengan baik. tapi arah cerita tentangmu selalu tidak tertebak.

aku merasa sudah memakai radarku dengan baik. tapi kecepatan gerak menjauhimu seolah bernilai nol.

aku merasa sudah memakai radarku dengan baik. tapi jarak rasa untukmu menjadi sulit diukur.

aku merasa telah kehilangan fungsi radarku.

[wanderingmind867]

I still find it kind of funny that Zartan seems to be despised by everyone, but he's kept around because Cobra Commander just seems to have a weird fondness for him. Destro clearly and repeatedly calls him out as a loose canon. Tomax and Xamot also don't seem to like him. But Cobra Commander keeps overlooking all his betrayals and opportunistic tendencies. Considering Cobra Commander is basically later couped by the rest of Cobra High Command to make way for Serpentor, maybe he sees something of himself in Zartan. Neither one is exactly well trusted by their peers, clearly.

Actually...maybe Cobra Commander really does see something of himself in Zartan. Cobra Commander isn't a traditional human, considering he was one of the Cobra-La denizens way back in the day. I don't remember if Cobra-La is made up of aliens, mutants distantly related to humans or something else entirely. But he's certainly not pure human. And Zartan is clearly a reject from an 80s X-Men comic. He's randomly able to change his skin colour, so I just have to assume he's a mutant. He's apparently also a schizophrenic (according to one of the cards they released with the toys which I found online), so perhaps all of his disorders made him seem almost equally lost amongst traditional humanity.

The 80s show never confirms any of this, because I doubt they thought of any of this in advance. But I think it's a good retroactive headcanon, because it adds humanizing touches to the characters while also explaining previously unexplained character motivations. I think Zartan and Cobra Commander being similar to each other and thereby vaguely fond of each other would explain some things. It also provides an ability for me to have Zartan be one of the only people still working for Cobra Commander in the idea I pitched where Destro, Tomax and Xamot all break away from Cobra Commander. Even at his weakest, Cobra Commander has Zartan and his Dreadnoks.

I think the weird way everyone in Cobra's higher ranks seems to privately kind of dislike each other is kind of funny, too. There's less Cobra characters on the whole as compared to the GI Joes, I think. So that means each villain gets lots of screen time, and I really like each of the show's villians. Especially in season 1, which is where most of the episodes I've seen have come from.

[wellthatsjustprime2]

CC showing blatant favouritism towards his boyfriend

And I mean who can blame him