#slavish

[howifeltabouthim]

You will negate and deny yourself . . . if you seek only to please me.

Tanith Lee, from Delusion’s Master

[weirdletter]

Slavish, by Ren Tu, via ArtStation.

[alunah-lalunah]

Schopenhauer's Pain

If Will is the child of pain, then desire and effort are fundamentally responses, not origins. Every urge, goal, or striving is triggered by a felt deficit; pleasure or reward is secondary, temporary, and derivative. Recognizing this, the practical approach is not to fight desire itself, nor to chase abstract notions of self-actualization, but to map which pains truly demand attention and which are socially or biologically amplified distractions. Energy wasted on illusions of lack such as status, comparison, vanity, culturally injected ambition can be consciously reduced, while effort is selectively deployed to structural gains such as clarity, survival, bodily integrity, and autonomy. Life becomes less a race against imagined desires and more a precise navigation of pain-driven signals, allowing you to respond with awareness rather than blindly exhaust yourself.

Seeing Will as the product of pain shifts life from reactive chaos to strategic precision, where your system’s movements are measured, not slavishly compulsive.

[thelunaticartist]

A Series: Mythology and Culture

Bibigul Gorky, the cunning sirin from Kazakhstan  –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The sirin is a creature from several Slavic cultures. She is said to have the face and chest of a woman and the body of a bird, most often an owl or an eagle. Contrary to the solkonost, another bird-like creature, it symbolizes sorrow. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– I took the time to look into different Slavic tribes and took inspiration from their clothes. ———————————————————————————

[malcolmflynn4]

Trump’s Sheep OMG! This video by @donwinslow is amazing! #TrumpsSheep is 100% accurate & shows how sad it is that the orange idiot’s base can’t think for themselves! Please watch & RT! pic.twitter.com/3uq14x1aQU — Ducks Can Resist Too 🌊💙🦆 #FreshIsBest (@dhershiser) September 21, 2020

[1five1two]

A great-souled hero must transcend the slavish thinking of those around him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[postersbykeith]

[5wordsaday]

slavish (adj.)

of or befitting a slave; being or resembling a slave; abjectly submissive; base; mean; ignoble