#fear and courage

[sunbleachedstars]

@fear-and-courage

A figure stands a decent distance away. They don't seem to notice Sunset. His hair is a reddish hue, and sits messily.

They seem... Odd.

*he's seen so many odd people today that he doesn't even know whether or not to be thankful this is one doesn't seem violent....yet*

'EY! YOU A'IGHT OVER THERE?

#fear and courage #osha #rp #intro

[time-woods]

late night talks

#back at it with the lasso tool #love that thing sm #this was also like mostly done on magma bc i was feeling off with csp when i was drawin #chasing stars au #sīdus the fallen star #prismo the wishmaster #the carmine cavalier #scarab the god auditor #prohibitedwish #adventure time #fionna and cake #adventure time au #tf when you just want to hold the being youve grown oh so close to but you just cant build up the courage to do so #fear and love go hand in hand at times

[carolinemillerbooks]

New Post has been published on Books by Caroline Miller

New Post has been published on https://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/abandon-fear-ye-who-enter-here/

Abandon Fear Ye Who Enter Here

A friend of mine took a series of tests to determine her mental decline as she aged. Happily, for her, the tests were comforting.  Even so, I admired her courage.  What she’d done was like poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick.  If the news hadn’t been good, how would she have coped? Alzheimer’s, for example, has no cure. Early intervention is key for dealing with Alzheimer’s, experts say.  But to what end? A few months of clarity before drifting into that good night and all the while knowing the Good Ship Memory has left the dock? When there is little to be gained, I prefer not to know. Many will think differently.   Fear affects us in different ways. It can leave us catatonic and in denial. Or, like people prancing across hot coals, it can initiate a frenzy to save ourselves.  In every case, fear tests our sanity. People like my friend who face reality with courage leave me in awe. Pete Buttigieg, the U. S. Secretary of Transportation, is also unflappable. Asked about the current state of our democracy, his answer is matter-of-fact.  Our system of government is designed to pick winners and losers.  For the process to work, people have to accept outcomes. Buttigieg’s response is so simple, it smacks of naïvite.  That’s the beauty of truth.  Once grasped, It is simple and profound, like E=MC(2).  Finding the truth is where the complexity lies. After two years and several ballot box investigations, ending with no evidence of wrongdoing, some Americans continue to believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election. They believe the lie because that is the outcome they wanted– as if wishing could make it so.  Like flat-earthers living in a spherical world, they close their eyes to truths that distress them.     If the outcome of an election is difficult to grasp, for many the knowledge that climate change is about to exterminate our species is unfathomable. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine arises from that consummate ignorance. Ukraine belongs to Russia, he insists. But what does that mean to a dead planet? Absurdity’s crown goes to Iran’s Mullahs, of course. They worry about women’s headgear while the ground crumbles beneath their feet.   If the flat-earthers and their ilk would open their eyes, they’d see the time for rancor is passed.  We must work together if we are to save our species. Unfortunately, too many scrunch their eyes against the light.  They insist Time has a reverse gear that if thrown would return us to better days. Better days aren’t the same for everyone, as we know.  White supremacists long for the era when they were allowed to see themselves as superior beings, a superiority that justified imperialism and slavery. People like Marjorie Taylor Green cling to the notion of race.  It flies in the face of science but it serves her purpose. “…illegal aliens are on the verge of replacing you [whites], replacing your jobs and replacing your kids in school and coming from all over the world, they’re also replacing your culture.  And that’s not great for America. By 2050, half of the U. S. population will have darker skin pigmentation than today’s mix. Pigment means nothing. We don’t discriminate against people based on hair color. Why concern ourselves with skin? Race warriors should attend to the date 2050 for a different reason. That’s the year scientists predict the earth becomes uninhabitable for humans.   Fear can galvanize people into action, as I’ve said. Too often the outcome ends in mindless hate. Ukrainians are as pigment deprived as any Russian.  Even so, one propagandist for Putin’s invasion insists the children of his enemy should be drowned and burned.  Why are people “freaking out?” a researcher asks in response to the times. No one has an answer. Like the stars, black holes, and the universe, being made of stardust, perhaps humans sense the cosmos is shedding tears for our demise.  Is there a cosmic consciousness? Some speculate it exists. To align ourselves, they urge us to move beyond science.  As useful as reason is to us, they insist it is  too narrow a framework to integrate other aspects of the mind, creativity, intuition, or empathy, for example. To discover a different harmony, our inner world will have to experience a shift of epic proportions. The evolution could take a century. Unfortunately, we are running out of time and so we blind ourselves to the future, choosing to engage in a frenzied suspicion of  “the other.”  Reason has no power against the fires of insanity. Insanity must burn itself out, taking us with it.    I cringe to hear talk about saving the planet.  What colossal hubris.  Earth will spin on its axis regardless of rises in temperature and water levels. A few birds might continue to sing. Climate change is about us.  Will we decide to work together or close our eyes to what lies ahead?  Which is to be,  earthlings?  Courage or cowardice?   

#2020 election #a conscious universe #Climate change #Donald Trump #end of the human species #fear and courage #fear energizes hate #illeglal aliens #Marjorie Taylor Green #Pete Buttigieg #population shift In U. S. #race #Reason fails #Russia's Urkraine invasion #the big lie #the inner mind #Vladimir Putin

[leonardospoetry]

#courage #love #fear #poetry #poem #quote #writer #poet #original #literature

[pratchettquotes]

"Come and sit where I can see you. That's good manners. And let me tell you right now that I ain't at all afraid of you."

The tall, black-robed figure walked across the floor and sat down on a handy barrel, leaning its scythe against the wall. Then it pushed back its hood.

Granny folded her arms and stared calmly at the visitor, meeting his gaze eye-to-socket.

I AM IMPRESSED.

"I have faith."

REALLY? IN WHAT PARTICULAR DEITY?

"Oh, none of them."

THEN FAITH IN WHAT?

"Just faith, you know. In general."

Death leaned forward. The candlelight raised new shadows on his skull.

COURAGE IS EASY BY CANDLELIGHT. YOUR FAITH, I SUSPECT, IS IN THE FLAME.

Death grinned.

Granny leaned forward, and blew out the candle. Then she folded her arms again and stared fiercely ahead of her.

After some length of time a voice said, ALL RIGHT. YOU'VE MADE YOUR POINT.

Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

#esme weatherwax #granny weatherwax #DEATH #maskerade #discworld #terry pratchett #faith #fear #courage #darkness #in the dark #light #candlelight #face your fears #impressed #good manners #courage is easy by candelight #you've made your point #long quote

[seance]

STEDE BONNET / THE GENTLEMAN PIRATE / CAPTAIN OF THE REVENGE

#ofmdedit #ourflagmeansdeathedit #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #userbecca #useravia #ughmerlin #usernobie #userelio #edits #forever inspired by @taiturner wonderful use of gradients #cj you're an artist #i couldn't go on anymore without making a proper tribute to my favest character of this show #i love them all from the bottom of my heart #but he'll forever be my pookie #with all his flaws AND HIS STRENGTHS #cause he has both people i won't let you sleep on mr bonnet duality #and his care for the crew! for ed! his fears and his path to finding the courage to face them all #for the others and for himself #i'm just channelling my inner lucius and frenchie being very protective of him okay bye

[philosophybits]

There's a difference as big as that between heaven and hell between the proud courage that dares to fear all and the humble courage that dares to hope for all.

Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers

#philosophy #quotes #Søren Kierkegaard #Journals and Papers #pride #fear #humility #hope #courage #ethics

[thirdity]

I suddenly felt that I had resources, I’d never before used my resources — and now a whole latent power was throbbing inside me, and a greatness was overtaking me: the greatness of courage, as if fear itself had finally invested me with courage.

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.

#courage #fear #emotions #feelings #power #quotes #Lispector #Clarice Lispector #The Passion According to G. H.

[charlieconwayy]

Movies That Made Me: Back to the Future (1985)

#filmedit #bttfedit #motionpicturesource #80sdaily #back to the future #moviesmademe #gifs: movies #* #this had to be the first pick for this meme #i saw this on a class trip in fifth grade and it changed my perception of movies #obviously it's considered one of the best films ever made with one of the most perfect scripts ever and honestly? i agree #biff still being in their lives at the end is weird af but i get why the writers did it #i have known this script word for word since i was probably 14. even rewatching it for this gifset i was just mouthing the words #my hot take in the ~fandom is that there never has been and never will be anyone who can play marty except for mjf #one of the reasons (aside from the music being atrocious) that i do not like the musical #“back to the future made me a feminist” essay also sums up my thoughts perfectly #the CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE that is earth angel bleeding into the score during the kiss #crispin glover's heel turn from fear into courage during the car scene is one of my favorite performances in any movie #we do not give him enough flowers i fear

[comixandco]

cleo sertori had a fear of swimming since she was a child and nobody considered for a second that getting stranded on a boat in the middle of the sea then falling into a cave system where she had to swim through subterranean water tunnels to the ocean where she had to tread water until a s&r team found them would be traumatic and exacerbate her fear into full aquaphobia

secretly becoming a mermaid helped her get over her fear but to everybody else her being cagey about the pool party and washing the dishes makes 100% sense when they stop for a moment and consider she’s probably terrified

#h2o just add water #cleo sertori #lewis like ‘i don’t know what’s going on with her lately’ bestie you know what’s going on #they were missing for hours #it’s fucking rude that her parents weren’t more supportive like ik it was the 2000s and nobody believed in therapy but it wouldn’t be that #hard to switch cleo from dishwashing to hoovering and bin duty or fucking. yard work. or if it’s about helping out at dinnertime they could #teach her how to cook she could do meal prep #honestly not enough people thought cleo was pretty courageous like she was out there facing her fear everyday #she went through those tunnels she painted her room like the ocean and kept fish she helped emma with her training before the incident on #mako she was trying to overcome her fear every day #also. emma’s parents thinking she had depression and trying to help was A+ parenting but it was also possible that emma was also traumatise #like?? it’s one thing to swim in a pool and be fast it’s another to push against currents while pulling your friend who can’t swim #and the tunnels were long too they almost ran out of air #i think after that her reluctance to swim should make a bit of sense lmao

[rusty-courage]

playing in a life series just seems like so much fun

#especially with last life rules #though knowing me i'd probably hole up and hermit my way through just out of fear sdjfklsdjf #the name's rusty courage for a reason #it's because my courage do be rusty

[mylonelydreaming]

This person pointed out the difference between the scenes of Link kneeling before Zelda VS Rhoam

His eyes being open kind of does feel like barely-contained rage or frustration to be honest

The age of calamity moment is also extremely tense

He glares at the king the whole time before giving an extremely weak bow & almost passive-agressive looking head turn. Boy is barely containing rage. You just know he has lost a good chunk of any real respect he had for him witnessing him treat zelda like that.

#botw #aoc #zelink #botw link #age of calamity #botw memories #breath of the wild #courage to glare right in the face of your monarch without a shred of fear #as he should #link #zelda #king rhoam bosphoramus hyrule

[palatinewolfsblog]

"The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified." Sinead O'Connor (R.i.P.).

#quote of the day #quote of today #sinead o'connor #what's important #bravery #being brave #courage #have courage #the meaning of brave #fear #no fear #terror #the meaning of life #life #true life #life with a meaning #what matters

[apparently-artless]

Sousou no Frieren E09

#sousou no frieren #frieren beyond journey's end #frieren at the funeral #frierenedit #animeedit #anime gif #fyanimegifs #dailyanimatedgifs #himawaari #tuserashes #userokkottsus #tuserelena #usergojoana #userdabiluna #artsgifs #i love how stark has the right amount of fear and courage <3 #snf spoilers

[leonardospoetry]

#courage #love #fear #poetry #quote #spirituality #literature #writer #original #healing

[arthursknight]

i am thinking about how arthur pendragon was courage, was literally universally acknowledged for his bravery, would do anything, including risk his own life, to protect those he loved

the bravest man in all of camelot

and to him, to courage himself, the bravest man he ever knew was merlin

#merlin #arthur pendragon #bbc merlin #merthur #two sides of the same coin #ABSOLUTELY INSANE. ABSOLUTELY INSANE. #FERAL EVEN. #bbc you crazy for this one!!!!! #courage recognizing courage. heart recognizing heart. #arthur looks at merlin and sees all the bravery he wishes he had #courage to love. to heal. to believe. to hope. #arthur's courage is for the sake of camelot. merlin's courage is for the sake of arthur. #and merlin looks at arthur and sees all the bravery he wishes he had #to live his truth. to face his enemies. to change despite fear. #fuck me dude. fuck me. #roya tag #bc this is roya's fucking fault.