#daily focus

[thegodwithinblog]

Passions...

But, first and foremost, you have to watch your mind constantly for greediness, for anxiety and...

Wanting more What is something very important for you?? What is your absolute passion, that which makes you truly inspired and happy?? I ask myself this, no matter if I already know it. I ask myself this daily to have it fresh in my mind, so I can pursue my goals, my passions and behave accordingly. Wanting more out of life is not something bad. A better relationship. A better job. More money.…

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#Daily focus #Goals #happiness #Inspiration #Passion for life #Self-development

[virtualcoach-blog]

The Power of Forgiveness 30 Day Challenge 2022 Day 1

If we are honest, God was working on forgiving us for our transgressions and trespasses long before we even considered seeking His salvation

And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors - Matthew 6:12 Focus on Forgiveness e-newsletter The Necessity of Forgiveness Who needs to forgive someone? (Most of us won’t admit it, but we definitely need to forgive others.) Who has been forgiven? (If we are honest, God was working on forgiving us for our transgressions and trespasses long before we even considered seeking His…

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#daily focus #focus #forgiven #forgiveness #power #prayer #prayer challenge #Word

[sealsdaily]

So, depending on how my situation is gonna turn out, i may stop interacting with people as much on this blog (asks, tags, reblogs, etc.) and just focus on dailies. Everyone else on the sealsdaily team might also pitch in to do that instead if they see this, but in any case this is how it's gonna be. I'm still gonna be posting on my main blog, it's just gonna be ordinary everyday posting though. In any case, I hope you guys understand. Love you all 🦭

#not daily #mod ribbon #It's really not a big deal btw im just trying to wean myself off of posting and try to focus more on more pressing things in my life #harbor seal #phocidae #baby seal

[wigglesdtuff]

A bit of a different one today for a DTIYS on Twitter!

#frobin #nico robin #one piece #daily wtt robin #day 43 #it still counts even if she's not the main focus #i still drew her my beloved #and her husband and her son

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Playbook: Ways To Get Your Life Together During A Rest Season

Reading a diverse array of books, articles, and essays on different topics and skills that interest you

Take a language, art, cooking, or professional skills-building course (like coding, graphic design, social media, etc.)

Take long walks and try out different workouts/workout programs

Get creative in the kitchen, try out new recipes and meal ideas

Create fun mood boards, playlists, etc. Refine your signature style, preferences, and aesthetic

Watch interesting movies, films, YouTube videos, and listen to different podcasts

Journal, write, draw, dance

Streamline your wardrobe, makeup, and beauty routines. Do a closet clean out, or rearrange your home decor. Experiment with makeup, hairstyles, nail designs

Get organized. Clean up your space, hygiene, and digital environments (phone, laptop, iPad, etc.)

Take time for self-reflection: Get to know yourself, your values, what you want out of life, what & who gives you energy, and those places or people that drain you

#daily activity #daily routine #fun things #to do today #femme fatale #goal setting #productivity #focus on myself #it girl #dark feminine energy #dark femininity #high value woman #the feminine urge #high value mindset #queen energy #dream girl #female excellence #female power #feminist #feminism #intersectional feminism #women empowerment #female liberation #life path #patriarchy #life advice #life skills #higher self #personal growth #self reflection

[afoxdoeswrite]

I tend to listen to music when I'm going on walks, but Spotify recommended me that Dracula Daily audiobook version, so I figured I've have a listen. Dracula's pretty cool and all, but I always remember it being super long and kinda hard to read through in anything more than little bits, so I figured 'hey, a daily mini thing might be neat to try'.

It is incredible how that team is able to make things scary. I was walking around in broad daylight on a main road, there were dozens of people all over the place, and somehow I felt so alone listening to it that I got chills. Genuinely brilliant, I'm really impressed and this is definitely going to be my background audio for going on walks for a while now.

#re: dracula #dracula daily #admittedly when i first read dracula i was pretty young #so that might be part of why it was always difficult for me to focus on reading it for more than a couple entries at a time #but listening to it as a podcast is actually working quite nicely #the acting is amazing and i've barely heard any of the cast yet #i'm quite looking forward to more of it

[motivatedaily]

#motivation #motivate daily #you can do it #you can do this #self help #self love #love yourself #positive thoughts #love life #cleopatra #one year change #want to change #change myself #focus on god #focus on yourself #focus on your goals

[zero1qn2]

a piece that will most likely be unfinished + sketches (second one directly inspired by @indigo-constellation writing)

#what if we lied on the steppe just you and me looking into each other’s eyes #like colleagues do #good friends that are completely platonic and nothing more at all #not yet done with drawing these two and thinking about them daily #sorry not sorry #pathologic #мор утопия #daniil dankovsky #pathologic 2 #burakhovsky #artemy burakh #the bachelor pathologic #the haruspex #i have a multitude of drawings started and unfinished because of inability to focus and get motivation #which I am very sorry for however my mortal coil is keen on actively making my life worse #however. still hope to finish some more patho art soon…

[fernlessbastard]

okk love your blog, so I rlly wanted to send an ask even if its nothing too especific ;-;

soo, since u like tntduo (like me :]) whats your favorite hc for their relationship? I love hearing about hc's, and since your art its so cute, u probs have some cool hc's

Thank youuuuu I appreciate it so much, and by all means flood me with asks! Asks are great, I love asks, be it random thoughts, art ideas, opinions, etc etc, asks are always welcome (unless they're from the 🥝 anon 🙄🙄🙄 /j/loving)

And a favourite headcanon? Hm, i don't know, hard to say. I have multiple headcanons, idk if I favour any in particular

There's one where after revival Wilbur's body is kinda fucked up in the nerves and blood vessels department, so he has some trouble with kinda controlling it, which particularly expresses itself in his hands being unsteady. They're so unsteady, that the first time he picks up a guitar again he can't play right. He blows up over it and has a breakdown, and vows to never play again. He still ends up trying a couple times, but each time he just immediately gets pissed off and upset, and tosses it away. It really breaks him. At some point he's at Quackity's place, and he sees a guitar. He looks at it for a while, but doesn't say anything, of which Quackity makes note. Next time they meet up Wilbur shits on Quackity for not having touched it recently, so Quackity takes it as a challenge. Once the music starts, Wil goes quiet. He's sitting to the side of Q, slightly behind him, and after a while for just a moment he leans against his upper back, and closes his eyes, simply l taking the moment in. This situation repeats, a couple times, and each time Wilbur lets himself relax a bit longer. He starts playing with Quackity's hair as he listens, and one time he l begins trying to braid it. His hands are shaking, he's struggling to divide the thick hair into even parts, he's having trouble keeping the braid even, but what's crucial is that he does it. Next time it repeats. And next time too. And the next, and eventually the braids start to look actually pretty decent. Time passes, they meet up more often, and eventually comes a day when Wilbur takes the guitar. No words are exchanged. No ridicule, but no praise either - no verbal acknowledgement. Instead Quackity just sits slightly behind him, and begins gently braiding his hair. The notes are wonky and don't always sound quite right, and the rhythm is messy, and strumming only goes well sometimes, but he's playing...

Quackity kisses Wilbur's head, right above the new braid. He leans in, partially hugging him, as the other's playing. It's been a bit over a year since he started playing again, and the difference is big. Neither knows if he'll ever fully regain the control and steadiness of his hands, but he manages to keep the rhythm, and the notes now ring out clear a big majority of the time. He plays quicker songs too, now; sometimes they both sing, and laugh when they mix something up. Quackity smiles, closing his eyes as Wilbur once again butchers a random song by changing up the words completely to make it as on the nose as humanly possible. He begins to wonder what they should eat tomorrow for their anniversary breakfast.

#it ties into another hc where I'd say they don't really focus on things like valentine's day or anniversary etc #they obviously still celebrate but they just do it however they want and don't care about whether it's “grand enough” #Quackity's had more than enough relationships where those specific dates would be all there was to the relationship #so instead they just focus on showing each other love on the daily and celebrating however they want whenever they want #but that's more loose cause again they still love celebrating but it's just not performative the way it was in Q's previous relationships #ask #asks #ask fern #tntduo #dsmp #tnt duo #wilbur soot #quackity #quackbur #dream smp #tntblr #writing #fernless writing #c!tnt duo #c!tntduo #c!wilbur #c!quackity #c!quackbur #c!wilbur soot #fernless bastard #hurt/comfort #quackbur headcanons

[selfeating]

see, to me, as an eastern european, the rampant orientalism of ‘dracula’ is yet another dimension of its comedy, but i want people to take a moment to consider how our friend jonathan talks about ee, and think about how his narration is very much in line of how real-life westerners described the region. 

you may wonder for example, what is orientalist about count dracula reading english train schedules? as one academic notices in this article, dracula’s obsession with trains mirror that of jonathan, who mentions a couple of times how he’s leaving railroads, a symbol of western ‘civilisation,’ behind, and with that he also leaves ‘europe’. this narration is a perfect reflection of travel reports from decades before. similarly as our friend jonathan, a real-life historical figure count de segur remarked that he left europe entirely when entering poland, at the same time also moving back ten centuries  and finding himself among hordes of hands, scythians, vent, slavs, and sarmatians. same attitude displayed by coxe, who summed up his impressions of poland recalling villages wretched beyond description, and going on to talk about the hovels all built of wood seemed full offilth and misery, and everything wore the appearance of extreme poverty. also not too far from what wrote john ledyard, when he claimed that he had not reached europe until he was in prussia. 

but to westerners, ee was not only foreign and poor, it was also a land of “terror,” look: lady mary wortley montagu describing her travel through hungary as if she was going to war, talking about how she was going to be froze to death, bury’d in the snow, and taken by the tartars who ravage the part of hungary [she] was to passe. this idea surely seems like a fantasy, but in terms of imagination, travellers often got even more extra: take, for example, salaberry describing the hungarian noblemen as the centaurs of fable (lol).

so, what i want people to know while reading dracula, is that the setting is not described the way it is only because it’s supposed to be a horror story; to many [most. all, even] westerners, the very idea of travelling to ee was equivalent of a nightmare, anyway. 

#sorry for the focus on poland and hungary but they were often taken to be that ‘border’ between west and east i’m talking about #eastern europe #daily dracula #dracula #bram stoker #yutro.txt #yutroposting

[technoturian]

Been reading some takes on the emasculation of Jonathan and erasure of the suitors in adaptations because they draw focus away from Big Daddy Alpha Dracula and it just makes me feel a way... This is a book about Mina but it is also about men and these many very different ways to be a Good Man from Jonathan who is meek but kind and honest and true, Quincey who is reckless but loyal and brave, Seward who is melancholy and at times arrogant in his intellect but also absolutely determined to use his knowledge to help, heal and understand others...

And then you have Dracula, who is at his core a selfish monster, who preys on the weak, who abuses women and turns them into his slaves, who takes advantage of and subsequently discards the poor and ill.

Here we have a clear cut dichotomy between positive and toxic masculinity in full display, honestly STILL a timely story to be told over a century later. And yet everybody makes the story about sexy hot alpha male Dracula and then creates a half-baked good-bad dichotomy between the two women instead.

#Dracula #Dracula Daily #Dracula Spoilers #Stories #Meta #Dracula is over a hundred years old and we're STILL SEEING this focus on irredeemable villains and making them sexy and palatable #at the expense of the heroes #and then completely throw the women under the bus to further service their villain's narrative; make Lucy BAD and that's why he hurt her #and Mina is GOOD and that's why he loves her #it's all about him

[dathen]

The end of the November 2 Re: Dracula episode had me tearing up… Mina is sinking deeper and deeper into self-loathing and despair, even as she keeps a bright face outwardly. It shows so much when she starts to worry about Jonathan, and the way she almost feverishly turns to prayer like she’s sure she’ll lose him—like how she blamed herself for Lucy’s death, she seems to have a “I hurt everyone around me” complex that gives her the foreboding that he’s next to fall.

And she pours all her heart into that, because she doesn’t dare pray for her safety or rescue, she’s unworthy and unclean and should be ashamed to even ask for protection for those she loves. It’s gotten so much worse over the past month. She’s drawing close to the castle now, and doubtless feels like she’s being drawn to her prison and her tomb.

#mina murray #dracula daily #re: dracula #my resolution to focus more on mina this read through is AGONIZING

[midzilla]

a moment of care, afterwards

a request from @lookoutrogue

Alternate (cause my brain needed it):

#the witcher #geralt of rivia #eskel #gerskel #daily doodling #ty for reaching out sorry that I am a trash human who can't focus or do anything of use #I wanted to get this done before the end of year and this is technically still under the wire

[moonsun2010]

Oh Jonathan...

#my art #dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #gosh the imagery of jonathan exploring and climbing the window and chapel etc #I need to draw the chapel sometime. #i rmb reading a post abt how dracula is becoming jon and jon dravula loss of self etc #here jon is imitating dracula too im yelling. man when he thought of mina first AND last before he thinks he might die. what a couple #ngl with the focus on the mountain range this feels more romantic than gothic but like i cannot tell if theyre mutually exclusive or subset

[cuties-in-codices]

Where do you find these manuscripts? Is it like a website or do you find it randomly??

hey, thanks for the curiosity! lenghty answer below the cut :)

1)

medieval manuscripts are typically owned by libraries and showcased on the library's websites. so one thing i do is i randomly browse those digitized manuscript collections (like the collections of the bavarian state library or the bodleian libraries, to name just two), which everybody can do for free without any special access. some digital collections provide more useful tools than others (like search functions, filters, annotations on each manuscript). if they don't, the process of wading through numerous non-illustrated manuscripts before i find an illustrated one at all can be quite tedious.

2)

there are databases which help to navigate the vast sea of manuscripts. the one i couldn't live without personally use the most is called KdIH (Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters). it's a project which aims to list all illustrated medieval manuscripts written in german dialects. the KdIH provides descriptions of the contents of each manuscript (with a focus on the illustrations), and if there's a digital reproduction of a manuscript available anywhere, the KdIH usually links to it. the KdIH is an invaluable tool for me because of its focus on illustrated manuscripts, because of the informations it provides for each manuscript, and because of its useful search function (once you've gotten over the initial confusion of how to navigate the website). the downside is that it includes only german manuscripts, which is one of the main reasons for the over-representation of german manuscripts on my blog (sorry about that).

3)

another important database for german manuscripts in general (i.e. not just illustrated ones) is the handschriftencensus, which catalogues information regarding the entirety of german language manuscripts of the middle ages, and also links to the digital reproductions of each manuscript.

4)

then there are simply considerable snowball effects. if you do even just superficial research on any medieval topic at all (say, if you open the wikipedia article on alchemy), you will inevitably stumble upon mentions of specific illustrated manuscripts. the next step is to simply search for a digital copy of the manuscript in question (this part can sometimes be easier said than done, especially when you're coming from wikipedia). one thing to keep in mind is that a manuscript illustration seldom comes alone - so every hint to any illustration at all is a greatly valuable one (if you do what i do lol). there's always gonna be something interesting in any given illustrated manuscript. (sidenote: one very effective 'cheat code' would be to simply go through all manuscripts that other online hobbyist archivers of manuscript illustrations have gone through before - like @discardingimages on tumblr - but some kind of 'professional pride' detains me from doing so. that's just a kind of stubbornness though. like, i want to find my material more or less on my own, not just the images but also the manuscripts, and i apply arbitrary rules to my search as to what exactly that means.)

5)

whatever tool or strategy i use to find specific illustrated manuscripts-- in the end, one unavoidable step is to actually manually skim through the (digitized) manuscript. i usually have at least a quick look at every single illustrated page, and i download or screenshot everything that is interesting to me. this process can take up to an hour per manuscript.

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in conclusion, i'd say that finding cool illuminated manuscripts is much simpler than i would have thought before i started this blog. there are so many of them out there and they're basically just 'hidden in plain side', it's really astounding. finding the manuscripts doesn't require special skills, just some basic experience with/knowledge of the tools available. the reason i'm able to post interesting images almost daily is just that i spend a lot of time doing all of this, going through manuscripts, curating this blog, etc. i find a lot of comfort in it, i learn a lot along the way, and i immensely enjoy people's engagement with my posts. so that's that :)

#if you ever have any specific questions about any of these tools or my strategies feel free to ask or dm me #i'd also be interested in recommendations of databases that are specific to other languages/regions that are neither german nor english #preferably with a focus on illuminated manuscripts #or useful databases that are just not very well known #ask #medieval art #medieval studies #btw @anon sorry for only getting around to answering your ask now #and re: your following message. first of all never apologize for your english skills. like ever #it's a daily struggle for me as well tbh. i never post anything without german/english dictionary tabs open lol #and i feel like i 'owe' it to the tumblr blogger format to write in smooth english #secondly your question wasn't dumb at all! i'm glad somebody asked :)

[dailyriolu]

A silly guide on how I draw normal Riolu vs My sona

#Riolu #Doodle #The Mod #Do not use my sona thanks #Just wanted to give a silly doodle while I ramble #I admittedly made the last few daily pieces as basically a progression of my eyes for the last ~1.5 years #Keeping up with everything became harder because of my eyes #I only talked about this briefly on my main twitter #I was diagnosed with keratoconus #My eyes got worse over time #so I was squinting constantly and would get headaches trying to focus my eyes to draw or play half the games I did #it sucked. I slept a lot to get rid of pain and I felt like I couldnt do my normal work so it kept piling #I had surgery + got RGP Contacts to help me see normally this year tho! #So I can finally get my shit together and have been slowly trying to get everything going/sorted #Just to like... explain where I disappeared to #Ofc Its hard to do anything art or reading without my contacts in #tbh i didnt even know until December lol so it went for awhile and thought my prescription went from good to shit #so i took a minor break from social media to keep where my eyes used online to mainly discord