#The Way to Mastery

[eyeoftheheart]

“Along the way to mastery, you walk the way alone.”

― Master Shi Heng Yi

#Shi Heng Yi #Shaolin #Shaolin Wisdom #Shaolin Temple Europe #The Way to Mastery #Martial Arts #Way of the Warrior #Spiritual Warrior #Aloneness

[bacchuschucklefuck]

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #not art #fhjy spoilers #its!!! gods I will Be My Ass in the tags rn. but thats so like. deliciously setting typical #like porter's desire is to transcend and his contempt for the world he's in feels. idk Real #like he plays the game bc he wants to win and be done with it. how do I word this #yknow. being a god would like. be his win state. when he gets that happening thats it his story is done he checks out #meanwhile the bad kids do actually just like playing the game lmao. like they love adventuring! #theyre so solidly Of This World. they carry the values that can only be born of it and they like having mastery over it #its a meta angle that I think is very fun specifically for d20 being in such a unique position in the zeitgeist when it first started #the rat grinders are from DnD Writ Large. porter wants to escape. but this is the bad kids' home its Their Actual Play Show #which makes it so fucking excellent to me that porter's question is somewhat of merit! its their show and it tries very hard to punish them #and they just straight up dont listen to him here lmao bc they hate him but! since the moment the academic track ended its been clear #that they save the world bc they Like Playing. With Each Others #thats what riz thinks the core of adventuring is! thats why fig stayed! and I also think thats why this hovers over elmville now and #a dead god is coming back in the school gym. porter is a shit evangelist but even if hes a good one I dont think it wouldve worked like he #wants it to. the only way he couldve escaped is if he'd not involved elmville at all. thats where the bad kids met dude #its a shitty place that fucks with them but they all come back here bc they wanna play with each others #and in that regard I think thats what the stress tokens ultimately means. Is This Game Still Fun To Play. ITS A RAGEQUIT LIMIT #Im literally running from one end to another of this conspiracy board Ive pulled out of nowhere #Ill draw after this I just wanna get this out. gods this episode has done nothing but furthering my delusion of grandeur actually #Im the hottest smartest manthing on earth Im king fucking midas over here. anyways uh! great ep!

[ugghouly]

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the dungeon meshi animation style is changing very quickly? Like the first few episodes are great in their style, and all the episodes have beautiful animation and story but I have noticed it has gotten really playful. Like exaggerating the models way more than just for good smears and action.

like this insane chilchuck took up the screen for SEVERAL SECONDS. I want to stress that this is not critique at all I just find it fascinating. It's like you can see the team quickly fall into a rhythm and find a style they all enjoy over these first 8 episodes. The way the characters emote and sometimes look in general is borderline unrecognizable from ep one and I've never seen an animation style change so quickly in a show's run. I would like to think it's indicative of the crew having fun because that makes me happy to think about. I don't know why you would go this hard on the animation in both the serious and the silly worlds if it wasn't for the fun of it.

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #rambling #I have been noticing this slowly #at first it was like in the mimic episode when in my watch party I was turning to my friends and going #'holy shit! go back to that shot! chilchuck's ears were massive!' #but now it's very clear that fucking with the models is here to stay and they are developing a mastery over it #like marcille was def off model during the undine fight but it looked so good the way they drew her face there

[4dkellysworld]

Tend lovingly to the garden of your mind

#excerpts #way of mastery #jesus

[marionjabbs]

i just KNOW mrs flood is going to turn out to be the final boss of the toymaker's legion and be the embodiment of the showrunner i just know it

the knowing winks to camera are getting SO ominous

#doctor who #dr who #also ruby's mother is going to be part of the legion. and ruby inherited telly show powers #which is why she keeps demonstrating mastery over the medium of tv #warping her own reality to the way a tv show or a story in general SHOULD go #according to her own expectations #except for when they tried to find her parent and couldnt which would make sense if the parent was a reality bending deity figure #invoked from the outer reaches of the universe when 14 did the salt trick #the toymakers legions are less like offspring and more like... suckers. like a plant

[pangyham]

been marinating so many chongyun thoughts lately. thinking about post yang energy episode bedridden chongyun + a tense interaction between xingqiu and hu tao

#literally drafted in my notes and the first scene and line of dialogue is “you're terrible” SDKJGH #hu taoooo hu TAOOOOOO WALNUT save me. was never super interested in her but poetry event changed me (in many ways but hu tao fixation is a #delightful new development) #creating a liyue gang dynamic that caters only to Me #i wish i could do hu tao and xingqiu justice but i can't because they're both smarter than me #how am i supposed to emulate their literary prowess and mastery #they would have such witty conversations and i can envision it but i can't execute it LOL #edit: #tangy talks genshin #hu tao #xingqiu

[lycianlynx]

✧ where the delicate stops

assassin mastery drabble.

much has been taken from you.

your fingers knit together when you think about it, trying to keep the memories from falling through your fingers. you would rather die than forget, you think, the wrongs done to you. wrongs are wrongs are wrong, and forgetting means leaving it in the dark to go unseen, unjudged. your roots, your childhood, your home: you are the only one who sees the depths of these losses, in the knowledge the lone bearer.

it was tolerable, once. easy to bury and let be, like a time capsule whispering wishes into the earth. but even mountains erode, even earth breaks. what is a pair of shoulders in the face of that kind of force? those slight things can't bear the thunderclap of the highest order of theft, the pillar which breaks the childs back. the greatest heist, the easiest theft, the most unskilled and the most devastating.

life. it's life. of course it is. kick someone wrong, can't feed a mouth right, slip of the hand. easy as that.

and the way you remember it, it was unceremonious. unskilled. unjust, unfair, unforgivable—embers left in a forest, waste dumped in the water. monsters bearing down on an unarmed man, laughing and jeering. knocking him over like building blocks. blood on the dirt. blood on your garden. blood on those tenuous things you were starting to think about holding close again, for what is sacrifice and bearing all that weight but love?

blood on his robes.

what is sacrifice but love? you love and that's undeniable. you think about burns on your hands from a pot running too hot. you think about a sack of pilfered potatoes slung over your shoulder as you run. you think about plunging the knife in and in and in to make sure that lance doesn't rise again. you think about the saints and wonder if they'd accept a dirty little thief like you, lopsided and bloodstained. does love lead to this?

then why do you still want to love? you don't know. it's selfish. it's grotesque. but even if it's an uneven scale, even if your side is tipped too far down and drenched in sin, you wanted to. you still want to. you want that bright, warm thing you knew love at its best as again, even if you feel ground-down, raw and half-dead in it. o god, why do you keep the faith? why does love lead to this?

o god, is this what happens? is love to suffer and die? is it good to keep the rage, the remorse this close for something like love? is it good for love to be having the shadow of a mourner stand behind you, ready to take your hands and mind? what will that rage make you do? what will that mourner make you do?

in that, you aren't sure you care for what is good anymore. but love is good, isn't it? you need to be good to be loved, don't you? (this thought scares you.)

o god, so give me the bitter cup. it's easier to bear the conflict in silence. easier to bury it and draw that love into anger. easier to draw that love into burdens and memories. easier to do all this than to think of the root of it as love.

so you don't think of it when you draw the blade, the dagger, the notched arrow back. you remember the things taken from you, your roots, your childhood, your home. you think of father. you think of the blood; think in anger of seeing the echo of it elsewhere and find it repulsive. think that all that red's better off on your hands than anyone else's, anyways.

so to the grieving heart, this is right. ceremonious in the skill, fair and just. perfect cut, bulls-eye. clean kill.

really, just look at that. keeled over without a damn sound. noone will find this idiot for days, here.

hah. you've really become the worst kind of thief, haven't you?

#;wc. 674 #;tell me another story | drabble #honestly this backslides a bit into where he was mentally during fe6 #also mf is such an unreliable narrator im gonna beat their ass #chad stop thinking about your family challenge #im a firm chad should never class into assassin ingame truther but at toa i think hes processed his insane grief enough to stomach it now #sorry both their mastery drabbles as of now are this melodramatic but there was NO WAY i was wringing a normal assassin drabble out of them

[chiropteracupola]

the amount of time I spend on tumblr dot com has given me quite the set of standards when it comes to artworks on the theme of 'Trans Angel', and actual museums are failing to meet those standards quite spectacularly.

#news from the cupola #if you don't want to hear a lot of inane whining stop reading this post Here. #today once again I saw this particular sculpture entitled exactly that. it is the most unpleasant thing I have ever beheld. #it is relevant that it is a sculpture about the transamerica pyramid and not about Transgender things. but I do keep forgetting that. #so many errors were made in the construction of this fucking thing. I have seen it maybe thrice at this point and it has not grown on me #in the slightest. and I know that the conversation about Good Art and what makes Good Art is certainly fraught. #but by my lights whatever this is this isn't good art #maybe it's partially that this thing is displayed among some really wild examples of Just What Can Be Done With Clay #it's surrounded by hundreds of years' worth of technical mastery and it fails to be anything of note except bad to see! #clunky sculpting! ugly glazing! forms that are difficult to parse but also not very interesting once you do see them! #and why in the goddamn does it have the twitter logo sculpted all over it. what is Happening. #everything else by this artist in this exhibit is also not great in similar ways? #it's not even bad in a way that's interesting! it's just. not good! #it all feels like they're trying far too hard to make Art That Means Something and missing by a mile #also. no one calls the transamerica pyramid that. You Say The Whole Name. or you just point at it and say 'that one'

[loststolenorstrayed]

Sometimes I think about how Wendy is both kinder and crueler than she would be otherwise due to the way her background radiation of despair flattens everything

#my post’s #my post's #dont starve #dst #wendy dst #like. she doesn't care much for appearances or normalcy (in a non-constant standard way) #allowing her and webber to be friends #allowing her to deal with the horrors of the constant #she has mastery over a form of magic which allows her to face these things on an equal footing and her mental defences against them are #pretty damn good for a 9yo. because she's too sad to be horrified #but also she has this vicious streak that nobody seems to notice #'suffer worm! death will find you! the way she can order Abby at any time to Start Killing #her damage bonuses when Abby's already attacking #it's an interesting set of traits. I think she takes after Maxwell in the way that anybody with magical powers in this world goes a tiny bit #mad with it. even wickerbottom isn't perfectly responsible with hers #in conclusion. I like wendy #you guys don't write her mean enough

[iamnmbr3]

And honestly Draco was the REAL hero of the war. According to Harry himself, Draco disarmed Dumbledore. Draco was in possession of the Elder wand and as long as he was alive Voldy couldn't use it properly. I bet Harry revealed this info during Draco's trial which ultimately saved him. He was the real hero and didn't even know it or attempt to be one.

Personally I view it as there were many heroes who each did their part in the war. But certainly Draco's internal conflict and actions on the Astronomy Tower played a central role in enabling Harry's ultimate victory. Draco wasn't really aware of the significance of this moment though. I think Draco's most heroic acts were the ones he consciously chose - like deciding at great risk to himself and his family not to identify Harry (or even Ron or Hermione, despite the fact they weren't disguised and were easily recognized by others) at the Manor.

And yeah I absolutely think Harry testified for Draco.

#Not to mention the way he arguably didn't put up much of a fight and let Harry take his wand #which may have played a role in transferring mastery of the Elder Wand as well. #asks #Harry Potter #Draco Malfoy

[ljesaw]

can’t stop thinking about somebody saying that zuko is constantly going against his very nature in order to be evil and i will be crying about it forever frankly

#do you ever think about little baby zuko loving and adoring his mother #like that mama’s boy is gentle…..underneath…….All That #the complex relationship between zuko and literally every member of his family makes me actually lose my shit #zuko and ozai make me foam at the mouth ozai should rot but i also just love complex crunchy family dynamics #but i also think about at the end of book 1 #and jeong jeong talking about how fire is dangerous because it’s so unpredictable #which also speaks to the way firebenders wield their fire #the typical form that’s used in that they exert a lot of force and power on their opponent #probably largely because there’s truly only so much they can control with their own element #and only really gifted firebenders can master such a fickle element well enough to exert that kind of effort and focus #do you ever think about zuko learning and understanding all 4 elements to better his own mastery and form(s) #this post was supposed to be about zuko’s complexity and the fact that i went on an entirely unrelated tangent #that’s actually somewhat related too #just speaks for itself. one day ill make sense i swear #anyway if this doesn’t make sense. i’ll fix it later. maybe

[4dkellysworld]

Forgiveness

#excerpts #way of mastery #jesus #forgiveness #releasing

[noverim-te]

And as you, as the soul — the individual divine spark — begins to choose to withdraw the attention, to withdraw the value you have placed upon all things, and as you learn to simplify the nature of your own consciousness, as you begin to realize that you can surrender into something that seems beyond you, that you can entertain the insane thought of trusting the invisible, you come more and more to be less and less. And as you become less and less of what you thought you were, conversely, you become more and more of what your Father created you to be — the Thought of Perfect Love in form, a channel, a simple vehicle through which that Love of Spirit can shine forth. And your only task becomes the cleaning of your windows, the polishing of your floors, the weeding of your garden, so that that Light can pour forth unimpeded.

The Way of Mastery: The Way That Calls You Home

#the way of mastery

[kicktwine]

I hope you understand that I am still! Obsessed! With the whole "anything, my liege" comic with Sor and Venty. Like just how Shook Sora is as he *gets* it a bit too much as he realizes that Ven might be willing to go just a bit *too far* for him and he doesn't know if he wants or even can handle that responsibility, but at the same time he doesn't wanna just dismiss that part of Ven yakno?! Cuz that is just how that funky lil blondie is with his knightly ways and menacing protective streak

KICKS MY FEET GIGGLING…. IM GLAD YOUR BRAINS BEEN WORMED I also think about knight wayfinders and fiercely protective ven a verrrrry normal amount I love them….. I love how so extremely different all the heart hotels perceptions of the world are you think they’d be the same but nah one of them has a high school dramadey cult of the coworkers thing going on and one of them has an ancient society sworn fealty thing going on and that’s. concerning, but probably fine. it does however shape how they act around each other dramatically. and sora is just right there with his own business but he seems to be the focus of the things going on (because he’s sora). which is concerning but probably f

#recently I have wondered. is it a terrible idea to have three dragoon retainers. probably! Unless #PUTS MY CHIN IN MY HANDS KICKS MY FEET. TY ANON…. 💕💕💕 #I like to think vens kinda the most lax out of the wayfinders vis a vis mastery and the way they were raised #but the most lax out of the three of them is STILL pretty jarring to everyone else #and he gets extra possessive or protective when it comes to his friends especially sora so it’s just a little intense. you forget he’s 3000 #everyone else is protective like crazy but not in … such a way #ask #anon

[umbane]

here's my mastery charts... this says something about me but I don't know what it is

#it's the way onetricked ezreal since mastery came out and yet aphelios and kayn are comparable in size to him #also don't talk to me about hwei. help #my m7 looks like the emo band that riot didn't let us have #this will only dull the blade / ooc. #also I haven't played jinx in years except for like. two days ago when I finally got her m7 token

[thelostgirl21]

I blame @0dde11eth for this!

#The Witcher #Jaskier #Radovid #Geralt of Rivia #Yennefer #Ciri #Roach #Very very mini Roach! #But too big for ants! #Jaskier's mastery of #Magnum #Or is it Blue Steel? #Zoolander #Parody #Made way too fast! #Radovid is so hot right now! #Look it's late I'm sleep deprived and I have no idea what I'm doing anymore! #My Posts #My Stuff #Unfortunately! #Moisture is the essence of wetness... and wetness is the essence of beauty!