#The Secret

[amtalchemy]

Manifestation Words

“I will” - directs the intention

“I am” - sets the manifestation

“I have” - directs the manifestation energy towards you

“I want” - creates desire / motivation, sends out manifestation into the universe for it to be guided into creation

“I am going to” - sets the intention

“I just manifested” - clears third eye / crown chakra blockages towards manifestation

“I need to” - creates a sense of urgency towards action for manifestation

“I create” - sets a flow of energy out into the universe

“I created” - sets a flow of energy that is directed back to you

“I manifested” - clears blockages towards beliefs in order to direct manifestation frequency back to you

#law of attraction #law of assumption #law of belief #alchemy #the secret #manifestation #magic #magick #witchcraft #occult #spell #journaling #astrology #vedic astrology #sidereal astrology #universe #abundance

[cherrystainedknuckles]

in my ideal world there was a second yj98 spinoff comic that ran in 2003 called "saint elias" that is gotham academy-esque and followed the adventures of newly-humanified greta and recently-retired anita as they joined saint elias school for girls alongside cissie and traya

I am definitely going to be posting more about this >:) potentially even with a fic series if I can get my shit together heart emoji

(reblogs are much loved and help other people see my art!)

#cherryblogs #cherryart #saint elias #saint elias vol 1 #<- AU tags bc I am going to be posting more about this #my art #yj98 #young justice #young justice 1998 #greta hayes #the secret #traya sutton #cissie king jones #arrowette #anita fite #empress

[renareyart]

YJ 98!

Stripped down version of the Teen Scene magazine cover.

#young justice #young just us #robin #superboy #impulse #wonder girl #tim drake #kon el #conner kent #timkon #bart allen #cassie sandsmark #tim drake robin #kon el superboy #lobo dc #empress #arrowette #the secret #slobo #comics #cartoon #illustration #digital art #procreate art #fanart

[fraudue]

can you keep a secret?

#my art #dc comics #young justice #greta hayes #the secret #yj98 #illustration #artists on tumblr

[apoemaday]

The Secret

by Denise Levertov

Two girls discover  the secret of life  in a sudden line of  poetry.

I who don’t know the  secret wrote  the line. They  told me

(through a third person)  they had found it but not what it was  not even

what line it was. No doubt  by now, more than a week  later, they have forgotten  the secret,

the line, the name of  the poem. I love them  for finding what  I can’t find,

and for loving me  for the line I wrote,  and for forgetting it  so that

a thousand times, till death  finds them, they may  discover it again, in other  lines

in other  happenings. And for  wanting to know it,  for

assuming there is  such a secret, yes,  for that  most of all.

#poetry #denise levertov #the secret

[urloveangel]

Michael Scott ✨ the loa girlie ✨

#Michael Scott #the office #loa #manifesting #scripting #manifest #the secret #law of attraction #manifestation #posted #Netflix #comedy #living in the end #act as if

[metamorphesque]

— Denise Levertov, The Secret

#quotes #literature #poetry #classic literature #poems #denise levertov #the secret #writing

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

I will never stop being amazed at how OP every single person in young justice is. Tim is literally not only one of the most likely people to go evil but the most effective and figured out Batman and Robin’s identities from a half formed, toddler memory. Cassie literally went up to the Gods and demanded that they give her full power and is literally half god herself. Bart is not only extremely intelligent but has literally forced people into pocket dimensions and is can basically control reality. Anita has a part of the anti life equation in her brain that lets her control people and is the heir to a vodun empire. Kon is not only half Kryptonian and has all the invincibility and powers of Superman but has his own unique power he can dismantle every single gun in a room with remotely. Greta can drag your soul into the afterlife, can shapeshift and teleport. Slobo is also invulnerable and has OP senses. Cissie’s form of retirement was deciding to compete in the Olympics because of how good an archer she is, not to mention how thoughtful and strategic she is. Even the nonpowered members of YJ are fucking insane.

#yj 1998 #young justice 1998 #young justice #young just us #tim drake #red robin #cassie sandsmark #wonder girl #kon el kent #superboy #bart allen #impulse #greta hayes #the secret #anita fite #empress #slobo #cissie king jones #arrowette #DC comics

[rahabq]

#girlblogger #coquette #girlblog #girly #girlblogging #female manipulator #waifspo #sylvia plath #the bell jar #jeffrey eugenides #the virgin suicides #my year of rest and relaxation #ottesa moshfegh #donna tartt #the secret #hyper feminine #female hysteria #doelette

[soleminisanction]

So. What actually happened between Secret and Spoiler?

The meat of this story goes down in Young Justice (1998) #30.

Taking place sometime shortly after the YJ crew returns from their adventures in space with Doiby Dickles, the story proper opens with a scene of Steph trying to follow Tim home to find out his identity and getting caught to establish that tension in their current dynamic for anyone who wasn't also reading Robin at the time.

As a refresher, when they decided to date (which was a couple of publishing years back at this point, during the events leading up to No Man's Land) Tim had tried to talk Steph out of it because he couldn't tell her his secret identity and he didn't think that was fair. Steph had responded with, quote, "I don't care about any of that, Robin. I just want to be with you." But she'd recently decided she wasn't happy with that arrangement after all and had been sneaking around trying to learn his identity behind his back.

This issue is very cathartic to me because it's one of the only times she's called out for violating her boyfriend's privacy, which starts here:

Couple of things to make note of here: Greta's not attacking Steph. We'd previously seen what it looks like when she uses her billowing clouds of angry smoke to attack (against Harm and the Pointmen, for example), and that's not what's happening here, she's just really pissed off. Steph is the one who escalates the whole thing to violence with that kick.

And while there is an element of jealousy here -- Secret did follow Robin home to get a look at his girlfriend -- the thing that's set her off isn't seeing Steph with Robin, it's learning of and seeing her self-centered justifications for her plans to continue trying to violate his boundaries. Which, it should also be noted, is something that Secret could do much more easily, but chooses not to. So it probably just pisses her off even more to learn that her crush is dating someone who'd disrespect him like that.

So they take it outside.

Where Greta, despite her anger, is almost certainly holding back because... yeah, let's face it, Steph doesn't actually stand a chance in this match-up. She has no powers, she hasn't even trained with Cass at this point; I don't know where she got that grenade but she's otherwise working with like a red belt in strip mall aikido and a bunch of gear she probably bought out of the back of a magazine. Secret is a sentient hellportal, a conduit between the realms of the living and the dead. She's pissed off, but she's still mostly focused on calling Steph out with her words rather than physically harming her.

Which Steph responds to with, again, a grenade and... this:

Why yes, that sword does come out of nowhere for a single panel and then vanishes into the ether, never to be explained or mentioned again. I find that hilarious. I suspect the script just said "Spoiler cuts the power lines" and left Todd Nauck to figure out how that worked.

But uh, speaking of how that worked -- in Greta's defense for how she'll behave later on in this post, Steph just clearly tried to kill her first. Like. I assume that any grenade a Bat is carrying around isn't so high-powered that it's actually going to hurt somebody if thrown at them directly so for all my joking I'll give her a pass for that, but the power lines?

Steph, of course, has no way of knowing that electricity is Greta's weakness, let alone that it's a trauma trigger for her. But she also has no way of knowing that Greta isn't an average metahuman teenager who would just, y'know, die from being hit with several hundred to several thousand volts of electricity. Which is part of a trend in Steph's characterization -- she's always had a tendency to make rash, dangerous decisions like this and only consider the ramifications after the consequences smack her in the face.

And once again, this is Steph's escalation; Greta only lets loose after Steph tries to low-key murder her. But I did say in my previous post that she was explicitly trying not to kill Steph here, right? That's because she's not:

"Oh," she says, directly to Steph's face. "I'm not going to kill you, but you're going to wish I had!"

The issue ends with Tim giving the girls a lecture about trust that... honestly, doesn't actually make much sense, but it's only there to set up the bullshit Bruce would soon pull in Robin to wrap up the whole Steph-and-Tim's-secret-identity subplot.

Instead, I'll just take this moment to point out that these two pages are the only part that anyone besides Steph and Greta themselves actually saw: Steph, overpowered and running like bugger all while a furious Greta hunted her down. Tim and Red Tornado don't have any other context for this encounter, and anyone else hearing about it would have even less.

We should also probably address the question of whether Greta was actually trying to hurt Steph here and: no, I don't think she was. Not physically, anyway. I think when she tells Reddy that she "just wanted to scare" Steph, she was telling the truth. Which, mind you, means she was going to dump her into a terrifying hell dimension and give her a repeated taste of her own mortality. But it wouldn't have hurt her; it didn't hurt the gang when they teleported through it in issue 19. And, frankly, between this issue and the shit Steph pulls over the course of the Robin issues around this subplot... I think she deserved it.

I never said I wasn't a hater.

Now, to be fair, Steph has no way to know this. She doesn't know Greta, and she doesn't have a reason to think kindly of her. And like I mentioned, it's an important part of Greta's storyarc that her powers and her connection to death makes her friends suspicious of her, and that suspicion sadly drives her to Darksied.

Which is why I'm inclined to think that their next encounters, brief as they are, are deliberately framed. First in issue 50:

And then in issue 54, during the storyline where Secret has allied herself with Darksied:

This leads into Greta basically eating Steph for reasons that don't actually have to do with their conflict -- she's already eaten the D.E.O., ie, the people who held her prisoner, and would continue to eat, it's implied, everyone on Earth except the members of Young Justice, saving them for last as we come to climax of the story. That probably counts as "trying to kill Steph" so technically speaking Greta has tried to kill Steph once, it just wasn't the time everybody thinks about or in a jealous rage. It wasn't personal at all, she was just part of a checklist.

The important bit I wanted to focus on was Steph and Tim's descriptions of their past encounter, and the fact that Greta calls it an exaggeration. With that context, I'm inclined to think that "almost killed me in a jealous rage" is the way that Steph framed their story to other people, not necessarily because she was trying to manipulate anybody, but because that's how she, Stephanie, internalized and interpreted the event.

Because Steph, demonstrably, doesn't think she was doing anything wrong. If she wants something, like her boyfriend's secret identity, or whatever, she will come up with excuses and justifications why she should get to have it ("He's testing me! He wants me to figure it out!" etc.) and no one can change her mind. So it's inconceivable to her that this person who clearly has a crush on her boyfriend would actually be mad at her for the reason they say they're mad at her; clearly, to her, Secret was jealous, and therefore Secret must have been the aggressor. Plus, she was big and scary and Steph (to be fair) had no way of knowing that Greta was mostly just having trouble keeping her emotions under control.

And because nobody else saw what went down between them, people were more inclined to believe Steph's story over Greta's, partially because Greta was clearly the overpowering victor when Red Tornado and Robin arrived on the scene, and partially because Greta's powers mean people, even her friends, tend to be suspicious of her, which is a key point in her personal, rather tragic storyarc.

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So, to summarize, because I know this has gotten rambly: Greta followed Steph home to investigate her and was angered by her violating Robin's privacy. Steph escalated their dispute into violence, and then further into attacks that could be perceived as lethal until she bit off more than she could chew. Robin and Red Tornado, arriving at the tail end of the fight, only saw the much more powerful Secret overwhelming normal human Spoiler and were therefore more inclined to believe Steph's version of the story which, naturally, framed her as the victim and Greta as the aggressor, when it was in actuality a more even fight fueled by anger rather than jealousy.

#stephanie brown #greta hayes #the secret #spoiler #young justice #dc comics #meta #long post #tim drake #young just us #stephanie brown critical

[cherrystainedknuckles]

Young Justice (1998) #42

I’m literally so obsessed with her

#comics #dc #young justice #yj98 #young justice 1998 #greta hayes #secret #the secret #hal jordan #green lantern #the spectre

[geminimoonmadness]

Manifestation prompts

Manifest your intentions 🪄

Vibe: I want it, I got it 💝

It’s best to read these out loud to speak them into existence, alternatively you can write them down!

Continue the process until you truly believe…

✨✨✨

©️Copywrites reserved GeminiMoonMadness

Confidence & self esteem

I am strong and confident

I am worthy of my desires

I am adventurous

I am brave and have overcome my fears

I am in control of my life

I am awesome

I enjoy meeting new people

I am the hero of my own life

I can. I will.

Physical Health & Body Image

I love my body

My body is allowed to change

I feel joyful in my body

I am so much more than my appearance

I trust in my bodies ability to heal

I am making today count

It’s my time

I accept myself how I am and embrace self love

I will not compare myself to others

My body is a gift

Money & Financial Abundance

I always have enough money

My financial situation is improving

I am worthy of having money

I trust myself to make sound financial decisions

I have profitable skills

I accept financial success

My life is rich and full

I am allowed to have success and happiness

I am happy and grateful for the money I have

Work & Career

I believe in my skills & talents

My skill set is impressive

I am creating a work life that motivates and inspires me

I am driven towards success

Being successful at work is easy for me

I make smart moves & decisions

I let go of my work related stress

Success and wealth come easily to me

I know I will find my dream job

Love & Relationships

I am open to give & receive love

I believe in love

I am ready to meet my soulmate

Others treasure my love

I am attracting a kind, loving partner

I choose love not fear

Others treasure my love

The love I am seeking is seeking me

I am choosing and not waiting to be chosen

I am worthy of love

I am radiating love

#manifest #manifesting #manifestation #spiritual #the secret #manifestation prompts #spiritual journey #healing #manifest journey #manifest guide #spiritual advice #spiritual guidance #manifestation tips #spiritual community #spiritualinspiration #spiritual knowledge #spiritual awakening #spiritualgrowth #spirituality #new age spirituality #dream #believe #goals #self awareness #spiritual development #spiritualhealing #spiritualjourney #spiritual manifest #moon manifestation

[cloudeling]

aurgh. i hate shading

#greta hayes #the secret #dc comics #young justice #yj98 #cloudelart

[georgeromeros]

Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996) Season 2 Episode 18  The Secret

#tales from the crypt #tvedit #classichorrorblog #horroredit #vampireedit #my gifs #talesfromthecryptedit #the secret #television #vampires #horror #tv gifs #1990s #larry drake #grace zabriskie #mike simmrin #stella hall

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

François-André Vincent (French, 1746-1816) Le Secret, 1795 The J. Paul Getty Museum

#François-André Vincent #french art #french #le secret 1795 #1700s #the secret #art #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #european #fine arts #europa #mediterranean #drawing #women in art

[urloveangel]

thank you God!

#oracle #Oracle reading #111 #quantum shift #2024 #posted #quote #spirituality #spiritual growth #manifesting #loa #the secret #the source #source #universe #divine love #god #let god #miracles #higher self