#Striving for the Stars

[malerek]

Under the Radar YA 2021 #8 | 6 underrated YA books 📚

this week, Under the Radar YA brings 6 underrated YA books from all genres to all tastes 📚 #BookBlogger #Booktwt #UnderRadarYA

Under the Radar YA is a Sunday weekly feature of little-known YA books turning one year this week. How does this work? 📚 The books featured on this little-known YA books list have less than 150 reviews on Goodreads and were published one year ago this week.📚 There are no sequels featured, only standalones and first books in a series.📚 The list used for reference is YA Novels of 2021.📚 I’m not…

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#book blogger #Enduring Freedom #Foxgloves Are For Deception #Hydrosphere Rising #On the Hook #Striving for the Stars #The Marvelous Mirza Girls #under radar ya #underrated books

[metroid-fusion]

5p

#simple little doodle tonite #a511ff #20e9ff #guilty gear #starring some sorta cross between her tml design and her x-xx design #something i do with guilty gear guys and also every guy is mash together whatever parts of different designs i like the most #like i tend to draw sol pretty ggxxish but like in the strive fit. ykno? its my right as a fanartist #and so listen. strive baiken boops hot and all but in guilty gear 1? listen. look at me. listen. #oh shit im posting this at 2am. whatever. ill rb it tomorrow morning

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Boba Fett just didn't want Bridget to become a Ruthless Bounty Hunter like he used to be...

(boba fett being a guest character in guilty gear would be cool too...)

#boba fett #the book of boba fett #star wars #guilty gear #bridget #tbobf #the holiday special #mandalorian #guilty gear strive #guiltygear #starwars #comic #fighting games #guilty gear bridget #bridget guilty gear #bounty hunter #the empire strikes back #return of the jedi #trans #crossover #artist wanabe #my drawings

[hanadoesstuffwrong]

Some doodles because the concept art for this mediocre corporate mess has been haunting me

#we could have had it all #starboy #asha x star #wish 2023 #wish rewrite #wish concept art #pls don't bother trying to defend the movie to me cos i really really really don't care #these two have been rotating in my brain like a rotisserie chicken and thats why im here #disney used to be known for exactly three things: insane musical numbers + traumatising parent death scenes and LOVE STORIES #h0w do u manage to leave each of those out of ur big celebration homage flick????.. #i have my own full rewrite with replacement song concepts that will never see the light of day but thats what these come from #the gist is its gender-swapped Stardust where the moral is 'dont strive so hard for an ideal that u miss the good things u already have' #the fanart and animatics and analyses are the best things to come out of this movie by far!

[short-wooloo]

Why I Love the Jedi

Its something that i only recognize in hindsight

When I was a kid, I struggled at times with my self control, I'm on the spectrum, I had trouble at times in school, I got overwhelmed, I had meltdowns and breakdowns, I would get angry and upset I behaved in a way that was not ok, and afterwards I always remember feeling embarrassed and ashamed of how I acted

And the Jedi...

The Jedi were what I wanted to be

They had great self control, they had mastered themselves, they were not ruled by their emotions, they were what I wanted, they represented the ideal of what I wanted to be and to work towards

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #jedi #jedi order #jedi appreciation #personal #the jedi were right #the jedi are ideals #they're representative of what we're meant to strive for #freedom from our anger and fear #a state where we've let go of our baser emotions #where such no longer rule us

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

[Art] Fish and Bird

Artist: 阿凯路过了 || Source: ♡

⌚ PG commissioned the artist for the Lasting Waves event ⌚

Caption: Two fish stranded onshore, relying on each other to survive. Their breath, shared between their lips, intertwines and blends with passionate kisses.

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#Artist: 阿凯路过了 #the theme of this commission is probably one of my most favorites. especially the fish and bird caption. #the freakin' literature!! the star crossed lovers theme. #striving to not just retain yourself but to survive together with your love against the laws of world and thriving. #UGGHHHH 😣😭❤️ #mlqc victor #mlqc li zeyan #mlqc #mr love victor #mr love queen's choice #恋与制作人 #李泽言 #love and producer #mlqc cn

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Star Trek AU Tenmas (and mirror!verse Tenma)

Tenma is a half-Vulcan, half-Human and thus doesn't quite fit in with either society. He was raised Vulcan and thus strives toward the ideal of pure logic, though has never been able to succeed in the ritual purging of emotions that all Vulcans undergo, to his great shame. Rather than seek to join Starfleet, he instead took his post within the Vulcan Science Academy with a focus in engineering.

After an intense and violent emotional breakdown caused by the death of his wife and son, he is essentially expelled from the academy until such a time that he can "master" his humanity. He’s assigned as an observer to a Starfleet research outpost, where he meets and must cooperate with Ochanomizu. If he is to be accepted back to the Vulcan Science Academy, he must come to terms with his human half; a difficult process, for someone who views humans as inherently inferior for their illogical nature.

Because he's not Starfleet, it gives him room to be kind of an antagonistic force since he's serving the interests of Vulcan rather than Starfleet and sometimes, even though they're allies, they don't get along. Ochan can't give him orders because they're not the same chain of command so they're gonna be butting heads a lot.

Mirrorverse Tenma: This version of Tenma has achieved balance with his human half and accepts his emotions rather than try to suppress them. He actually did become a member of starfleet the Terran imperial fleet, as one of the few avenues through which a Vulcan can obtain status in the Terran Empire (short version of the alternate timeline: when humans made First Contact with Vulcans in the Mirror!verse it did not go well for the Vulcans).

I can't decide whether he's working his way through the ranks to install himself at the top or if he's engaged with resistance groups aiming to sabotage and overthrow the Empire....though knowing him he might be playing at both ends.

#umataro tenma #star trek au #my art #I was gonna wait to post this till I finished Ochan but I wanted to post them nowwwwww #I thought it would be funny to draw mirror!Tenma with no facial hair as a like reversal of Spock lol #since narratively they fulfill the same role (half-human struggling with their emotions) and mirror!spock has that beard #I was debating whether I should make Tenma a full human that was simply raised on Vulcan and strives toward purging his emotions #but having him be half-human half-vulcan works as a means to make him kind of a social outcast on both ends #also you Cannot give me the option to give Tenma tactile telepathy and expect me to NOT pick that #.............and also pon farr bye #the ochan one is gona be really cute tho. hes adorable.

[shredsandpatches]

Sometimes when you're having a slow week at work because you have a backlog of digitized materials and you're by yourself in the office you end up finding delightful things on JSTOR. Bottom!Faustus is totally canon.

Also, this read on the "talk not of a wife" exchange, from the same article, is not groundbreaking (nor is meant to be) but is extremely well articulated:

#this is a pretty cool article all around #it's basically about how DF is an inverted version of calvinist striving for god #and the ways in which it's framed as addiction #doctor faustus #hot faust summer #otp: as many souls as there be stars #faustposting at work again 🙃 #also this is grist for the sexy demonic possession fic i am starting to sketch out #working title: two sickos one body #my smutfic is A+ character analysis you know

[lancerfay]

some stream drawings, was going for the vibe from the sketchbook ones I've been doing (but haven't shared)

We got some Elster and ARAR content

We've got some Siffrin!

and we've got a Testament!

(Little ask that I'm pretty close to getting the affiliate thingy on twitch so if ya want, follows are loved and appreciated <3) https://www.twitch.tv/lancerfay

#signalis fanart #in stars and time #guilty gear strive #digital art

[sgtscourge]

Y'all know that trend where you draw your comfort characters as that one Steven Universe comic panel? Yeah. I did that.

#guilty gear #guilty gear strive #sol badguy #honkai impact #honkai star rail #welt yang #hsr welt #art #artists on tumblr #i think we're gonna have to kill this guy

[whirablr]

my konata mod skin is finally out!

#lucky star #konata izumi #bridget #my work #guilty gear strive #guilty gear

[catboldbot]

I think one of my more important Life Philosophies that I've been developing lately is: the goal of a lot of personal growth or relationship work should not be to prevent bad things from happening, but to manage them as gracefully as possible

you can't ever make a relationship have perfect communication and coordination that 100% never has any screw-ups, but you *can* work to make the screw-ups look less like explosions of emotion and distress and more like little bumps on your journey

you can't ever completely remove depression, anxiety, loneliness, etc from your life... but you can work on responding to them in a way that keeps from derailing everything

perfection is a thing I strive for knowing that I'll never reach it -- and knowing that is critically important. perfection is what I strive for, but a graceful failure is what I want to be

#striving for perfection without letting it consume you in negative ways is very much a challenge #but I do think that you can reach a good kind of balance by accepting that #shooting for the stars is the most valuable if you'll land on the moon when you miss rather than exploding in atmosphere

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Boba telling his Tragic Backstory to Bridget for some reason...

(Maybe I should draw Sol and Boba Together but I thought he is Way Too Overpowered compared to the Daimyo so I went with Bridge instead...)

#boba fett #star wars #guilty gear strive #guilty gear #bridget #bounty hunter #mandalorian #the mandalorian #the book of boba fett #attack of the clones #bobafett #guilty gear xx #tbobf #guilty gear bridget #bridget guilty gear #the empire strikes back #arc system works #artist wannabe #my drawings #jango fett

[steakout-05]

so i kinda learned how to draw Captain Picard for my dad's birthday card and i am quite proud of it :D

#captain picard #star trek tng #star trek #picard #jean luc picard #my dad's favourite tng character is captain picard so i thought i'd try to draw him :) #star trek is going to make me excel in the art of drawing old men if tf2 hasn't already...... #it legit took ages to learn to draw this man and then this just. kinda happened. #i like how there's all this careful detail on his face and then his little button thingies are completely misaligned and uneven #apparently i can draw detailed sketches of old men but not 4 simple little circles somehow #truly the struggle of being an artist #also i now have immense power and you will see qcard ship art at some point in the future and there is nothing you can do about it #i hope star trek will be real someday #if there is anything humanity's tech should strive towards it should be creating star trek in real life #like build an entire enterprise with all the technology and all #even make it SOUND like star trek #please please please if we ever end up making starships we NEED to make them sound exactly like star trek ships #we need to make data as well #if ai is so good then why isn't data real yet. huh. ever think about that techbros #anyway i realy like this drawing and it's one of my favourite drawings i've done ever :D

[robo-ky888]

Nightmare blunt rotation

#asuka r kreutz #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #honkai star rail #genshin impact #kaveh

[opticfile]

everyone has one unfinished fic that they cling to and reread 1000 times and mine is Soul Fishing by lunessie on quotev. every time I remember it I reread that bitch, I wonder where the author went, I don’t even know this person but I love their work so much I have read it countless times since 2020 and it hasn’t even been updated since 2019. I crave more endlessly please come back and write more of ur funny words lunessie I miss you

#opticfile ✧༺࿐ #it was a hetalia soulmate au fic #prob one of the best hetalia fics I’ve read #like that bitch is top 3 MINIMUM #please come back your writing is what I strive to recreate with every click of my keyboard #hetalia #hetalia world series #hetalia world twinkle #aph hetalia #hws hetalia #hetalia world stars #hetalia axis powers