#hard circumstances

[biblebloodhound]

Accept Your Shadow Side (Acts 7:30-40)

What really gets us into a terrible mess is when we ignore or deny our shadow selves. We then demonize the other while claiming purity for ourselves.

“Forty years later, in the desert near Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush. When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he went to take a closer look, the voice of the Lord called out to him, ‘I am the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses shook with terror and did not dare to look. “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your…

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#acceptance #acts #acts 7 #acts of the apostles #good and bad #hard circumstances #hard hearted #martyr #self-acceptance #self-awareness #shadow self #spiritual life #st stephen #stubborn

[courtmartialme]

mermaid riza concept that i drew for mermay, forgot about for months, then picked up again this past week and got obsessed

#fullmetal alchemist #fma #riza hawkeye #roy mustang #royai #mermaid riza #once again tumblr is making posting this very hard #anyway. i love making riza the creature in these kinds of au #roy only gets creature privileges in very specific circumstances

[egophiliac]

redesigning my headcanon for Sebek's parents, based on important new information (SCALES)

(you can't see it but they're both wearing crocs)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #they are truly the most inspiring love story of our generation #though i guess he's not dr. zigvolt since zigvolt is the clan name... #unless he took her name which i absolutely could see. why would you ever not want to be called zigvolt. #this does tie nicely in with my headcanon that sebek's siblings got more of the fae features than he did #and he has a Complex about it #i get the impression that sebek's siblings are much closer in age to each other and also have more of their dad's chill #so sebek is sort of the baby of the family and he's got a Complex about that too #i think a lot about the zigvolt family for characters who have never actually appeared #on the subject of actual canon though #i do actually really appreciate that both sebek and silver each had a little moment of reassuring each other #that this is 400 years ago and also incredibly unfortunate circumstances #and present-day reality lilia and baul love them very much #(i do think sebek is secretly baul's favorite grandkid) #it was just nice to see! especially from sebek! he is sometimes a very thoughtful boy and it's always nice to see that side of him #sebek trying SO hard to get baul to like him though 😭 #and lilia being like 'aw i think you're getting kind of fond of him :)' #i love. Characters.

[blog-of-frontiers]

Okay the thing is that it would have been SO easy for Wyll to turn to the dark side, as it were. When he was exiled he had nothing but a blade and a demon in his ear. He knows he did the right thing and was punished for it, and then he was set loose. The fact that Wyll spent seven years with a devil as his patron and only consistent companion and still remained good is a testament to his determination, grit, and strength of character, not dullness of it

#being the good guy is fucking hard actually!! under those goddamn circumstances!?? #i love wyll and some friends ragged on him last night and i just won't stand for it!! #bg3 #wyll ravengard #the wyll to live tag #baldur's gate 3

[spearxwind]

🔻 Show your weapons 🔻

Some more experimental stuff!! I'm really enjoying the polygon tool, so I', trying to get better at it >:3c

#windyart #the hollowridge disaster #knife #adriel #hes there :) #adam #dragonfang #im pretty sure ive also drawn adam in this exact pose before i know but its a good pose so im doing it again #body horror #kind of?? yeag #given the circumstances in these drawings it is substantially toned down from what it usually is i just wanted to do some angled stuff #yeehaw though #also playing more with hard black shadows. i rly wanna use those more bc i love how they look

[bunnieswithknives]

I like think David and Rowan met briefly as kids. Just the once on some kind of bring your kid to work day. They only made eye contact. Brief enough they don't remember it when they meet again later but... Idk I just think its a nice thought.

#Thinking a bit about TOU again... #tou #two of us!David #two of us!Red #dhmis #I cant remember if I mentioned this but Roy got parts for sets from Peterson's and Friends and Sons so they sorta worked together #Mr petersons like an independent contractor who came and went #Personal hc of mine is that if Roy and Lesley hadn't died when they did they woulda eventually set up an playdate between David and Rowan #And so they would have gotten to hang out and play as kids #They only would have ended up as casual friends tho unfortunately #David only bonded with Rowan as hard as he did cause of trauma and circumstances lol #me when I make it bittersweet teehee teehee #You get the life you always wanted but never bond with the person who meant everything to you

[kwillow]

Old Wounds

So excited to finally post this comic collab between @chocodile and I! She did the initial thumbnails and colors and provided the evil wizard rabbit, and I did the script, sketch and lines and provided the pathetic prettyboy unicorn.

Old Wounds is a look into the alliance between Duke Hyden and Lord de Luxe, an alliance that winds up being a mere ploy for Hyden’s experimentation with unicorn blood and leaves Ambroys feeling rather drained (and often unconscious on Hyden’s floor). It takes place towards the end of their “friendship”, after there’s some serious bad blood between the two - bad blood that sustains a centuries-long grudge.

(Well - I say “bad blood,” but Hyden seems to think the blood is juuuust fine.)

#sorry if you saw me upload and delete and re-upload this - tumblr wouldn't let me post this unless I #specifically made page 7 smaller than the other pages. I don't know why. #this is such a functional website #chocodile says ambroys is a poor little meow meow in this #a poor little neigh neigh if you will #but I promise outside of this circumstance he's a horrible awful git with barely restrained rage issues #and there's a reason he has to work with hyden of all people #it's just that he's a coward #and Hyden is the Alpha Villain around these parts #ANYWAYS... hope this post works this time and I hope you guys like it! we worked very hard on this! :'D #comics #ambroys #amaranthine #my draws #furry

[quirkle2]

The tiles are no longer white, and the bathroom looks compressed and scintillated; hotspots of light blare in seething oranges, corners buzz in deep purples, noises manifest in confusing patterns that obscure other patterns. It hurts. The tiles aren’t white anymore. Nothing is quiet. The colors pour in. Shigeo is tired of color.

another scene from rainspeak ! suffered a bit with the colors but i don't ,, Hate this, so up it goes <3

#qkdraws #id in alt #if u tag this as reim*b i'll fucking skin u #i rly enjoyed writing this scene it was rly fun #and hey ! this is the scene i mentioned i wanted to try but wasn't going to cuz i didn't have the skillset yet #uhmm fuck past jay :/ i drew it anyway #i didn't try too hard on the perspective i know it's a bit wonky #but personally i think that adds to the theme <3 #reigen is so funny i Know this is a serious scene n all but .is he even capable of not wearing suits #he's like a kid's cartoon character with his One outfit in all circumstances. like the other characters wear other shit #him tho ? in my head he is Always wearing the suit. i'll break the time space continuum if i put him in anything else #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 mob #mp100 shigeo #shigeo kageyama #mp100 reigen #reigen arataka #eyestrain #cw eyestrain #eyestrain cw

[river-of-wine]

A long way from home

#red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #molly o'shea #sean macguire #kieran duffy #rdr2 spoilers #I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about these three and their positions as Irish immigrants #or the child of Irish immigrants in Kieran’s case #and how all of them have different backgrounds and are in the gang because of different circumstances #I went into the game not knowing about any of the Irish immigrant plot lines #with them or the o’driscolls #and it hit me very hard #I will make a big post discussing it someday #and the layers of tragedy it adds to their characters #but I’m very tired and I love them very much #fanart #digital art #my art

[sittinginsunflowers]

My heart absolutely breaks for Amangeaux. like imagine after not seeing people for half a decade, you finally reunite only to immediately be plunged into battle. No time for awkward explanations or stilted apologies, it’s fight together or die. But she also can’t help herself but care for them. She tries to protect raphaniel from his own worst instincts, but steps back when she realizes he needs this for himself. She tries to reign in karna’s blood-thirst, while still being willing to follow her down into the pits if it means a shot at helping karna to safety.

(She doesn’t know that these people she cares so deeply for are the ones who poisoned her husband to keep her from producing an heir. Or that karna offered up her baby for murder, not even caring to check if he actually posed a threat to the throne. And even worse, they’ve told each other these secrets, and are completely remorseless about what they’ve done.)

And then, after being blackmailed into doing the FDA’s dirty work which nearly broke her as a person, she discovers the person who organized it all was the same woman who’s looked after her all her life!! and she finds this out right before she has to deal the final blow to end her suffering!!

#the ravening war #the ravening war spoilers #lady amangeaux epicée du peche #anjali bhimani #dimension 20 #d20 #i am not well #characters who love and care despite it being not in their best interests just break my heart #she’s got the biggest fucking heart and I just want to give her and Colin a hug #she’s trying so hard to do the right thing and be a decent person in the worse circumstances #and no one really cares for her the way she does for them #I can’t wait to see where she ends up

[transhawks]

do you ever think about how Hawks had the biggest failure in the manga? Like if the core theme is that people who are left of society need others to reach out to them and that if people genuinely try to understand others there can be a connection, essentially the character and narrative who completely failed this theme is Keigo and Jin. Keigo failed Jin. Like, Keigo's even been the mouthpiece for this theme of connectedness in the manga and bringing people together (his comments when Deku was brought in), several times over, and I keep thinking of how it will look when Shigaraki is saved and reached out to by Deku, how this will look when Touya is finally home with his family, when Himiko gets to have a normal night with Ochako and just be a normal girl. Keigo's just going to have to live with the very apparent realization that the kids succeeded where he failed and that Jin's blood is on his hands needlessly. He'll look at the kids and the villains they saved and look around himself and realize he could have had that, too, if only he'd tried to connect. Hawks has always been a really tragic character, and I know from the start we were into this idea of a boy thrown into tragic circumstances with no freedom out of them, but I think there's something to be said that the biggest failure in this manga, and likely of his life, was due to his own actions and buying into his own narrative of never having another choice.

#god sometimes this hits me so hard #keigo's literally the biggest failure of this manga #there's something so interesting about how much Horikoshi subverted the narrative around Keigo #he's not trapped by his circumstances but by his own belief in them #takami keigo #hawks #i just need to see one fanart of the savior squad and their villains and then my mind explodes

[biblebloodhound]

Where Is God in My Suffering? (Psalm 22:23-31)

We simply are not privy to everything in God’s mind.

Crucifixion, by Georges Rouault, 1937 “Praise him, you servants of the Lord!    Honor him, you descendants of Jacob!    Worship him, you people of Israel!He does not neglect the poor or ignore their suffering;    he does not turn away from them,    but answers when they call for help.” In the full assembly I will praise you for what you have done;    in the presence of those who worship…

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#adversity #difficulty #faith #god&039;s majesty #god&039;s presence #god&039;s sovereignty #god&039;s steadfast love #hard circumstances #hardship #miracles #mystery #paradox #psalm 22 #psalms #spiritual life #spiritual struggle #suffering

[royalarchivist]

Green Gay Ninja's "team full of strong opinionated leaders" ran into a lot of communication issues on Day 1, but nobody has more experience wrangling loud rowdy people than FitMC.

#FitMC #QSMP #Etoiles #ForeverPlayerG #Forever Player #Purgatory #Forever #Green Team #As someone who's worked as an educator and someone who Cannot Stand People Talking Over Each Other and/or Not Listening To Each Other #This was so hard for me to listen to I started skipping through the VOD because it was frustrating me to a ridiculous degree #but Fit doing this made me laugh out loud #I've definitely been in his shoes before #Q #Poor Etoiles they picked him as team leader but nobody listens to him #Today (or I guess yesterday. I'm queueing this on Sunday and it'll post on Monday) Etoiles was talking about it #and he said he was a bit shy / quiet when they elected him as leader #and he kinda laughed at how he constantly got talked over #meanwhile I'm just like [SEETHES] #It's not actually THAT big of a deal I just have hangups about being spoken over which makes me sensitive seeing it happen to others #regardless of the circumstance #But it is literally Not That Big of a deal here. They're all friends just hanging out going on a roadtrip in Purgatory together lmao #Anyways #When I occasionally catch myself being frustrated over non-issues like this I just give myself a vibe check like: #[Etoiles voice] ''Relaaaaaaaax bro; it's not that deep'' #A bit of a tangent but #I think a lot (not all but a lot) of fandom discourse stems from people projecting their personal feelings onto situations #''Well if *I* was in this character's place I'd feel [insert emotion]'' #''Therefore my perspective on this matter is objectively correct because I have experience with [whatever] so I know how they'd feel'' #I think we all need to remember to vibe check ourselves and take a step back occasionally. Not all experiences are universal #Fit

[radio-venom]

no. listen. a twin fight is different. you’re the same, you’re nothing like them, you’re enemies, you know each other better than anyone, you will never understand them, you’ve been compared since birth, you’re each other’s oldest companion, you’d kill each other, you’d kill for each other, you’re each other’s reflection, you know everything that’s hurts them the most and you can tear them to shreds better than anyone on earth and they can do the same to you. you are hurting yourself.

#this is about trigun lmfao #apply this to whatever twins you want tho lol #it’s also about me and my twin irl #trigun #yes it was a sibling fight but a twin fight is different it’s so hard to understand unless you have a twin #you’ve been at the exact same stage of everything every moment of your life #you have almost a psychic understanding #you want to kill them for what they did to you or rather what your circumstances made you do to each other #you are both each other and so far removed from each other your relationship to them sickens you #trigun got the twin fight right #nai is dead you killed him killed vash more than actually killing him could #i don’t hate my twin anymore but we tore each other apart as kids #lol sorry kelsey #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #millions knives

[vinelark]

bart thinks kon is maybe stupid for not realizing tim is robin, but kon just respects robin so much that subconsciously he can't allow himself to make that connection until robin tells him himself

yeah! also kon initially met tim (as a civilian) in a situation that made him perceive tim through a certain lens—tim was one of a few rich kids kidnapped for ransom, and at that point, if asked, kon probably wouldn’t be able to imagine robin getting successfully kidnapped by a non-supervillain. like he knows robin is human/not a meta (and understands what this means for robin specifically more and more as time goes on) but the bats still have this carefully cultivated vibe/reputation that masks their vulnerabilities. so when kon interacts with tim after that initial kidnapping, he’s already framed tim as someone normal/vulnerable in a way that he doesn’t see robin. also, he’s extrapolated his idea of tim as a rich kid who does rich kid things with his time (yacht parties, hiring whole actors, living in a penthouse, getting fostered by a gazillionaire) and not vigilante things with his time. like he thinks tim is weird and funny and intriguing and surprisingly kind but he also imagines tim hanging out in expensive boarding school libraries and fancy galas and stuff. and while he’s vein_guy_meme.jpg trying to respect robin’s privacy, when he does idly imagine robin as a civilian he still pictures rob on, like, a roof or in a cave or napping on top of the tower fridge or something. so it’s not like he’s Seeing It and then rationalizing his way out of realizing, but rather that he’s pre-rationalized both tim and robin in a way that already separates them in his mind.

tl;dr kon's a smart guy and could totally put it together with the right prompting, so the watsonian reason he hasn't is all of the above; the doylist reason is because i as the author am having fun and also want the reveal to drop at a certain moment.

meanwhile bart met tim without any of those preconceived notions, and caught on as soon as tim said names (robin's shorthand for "no names in the field") because bart was like, huh, that's a very robin thing to say, and also this guy is having a weird reaction to fear gas so now i'm thinking about gotham, and also we're on a roof, and also his hair looks kinda windblown and spiky, all of which reminds me of ohhhhh shit omg okay that's why robin wasn't answering his messages got it

#kon is thinking too hard and bart is thinking just the right amount. i love them #also bart knows how good robin is at being a cryptid so he assumes there's a reason kon hasn't put it together #whether that reason is extra deliberate on robin's end or just circumstance #but boy will bart be ready when the penny does drop #timkon #bart allen #kon-el #my fic #asks

[necessarymeanstoanend]

spade represents the tip of a pike; an implement for killing

alex’s

white void of doom

sketch and background element/scribble that isn’t really visible but i’m sharing just in case anybody did notice it.

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#now i have to draw one for alex *sobs* #how tf do you guys come up with backgrounds for EVERY DRAWING?! oh my god. i’m not creative enough for this bullshit #two things i discovered with this drawing: 1) birds are hard af to draw. 2) wet black hair is hard af to draw #you guys have no idea how many purple hues are actually in this art piece #this is like if dream and jessamy happened to have met under way worse circumstances #anyway let me know if you guys have any ideas for alex’s (i have no idea when exactly i’ll actually get around to it but still) #bones and shit #a majority of this one was inspired by The Locked Tomb fanart and symbolism #6 hours and 34 minutes but i’m gonna guess that roughly an hour and a half of that was me trying to figure out a background #tom sturridge #like minds #murderous intent #like minds 2006 #nigel colbie #art #fanart #drawing #digital art #nigel colbie fanart #artist of tumblr #like minds art #nigel colby #<- including the old tag bc why not #somebody get this movie out of my brain #scoop it out along with all the other useless shit i keep in there #i was thinking maybe alex’s should be the complete opposite of this #like instead of his head being turned down it would be turned upwards #maybe he should be wearing the clothes he did when we first saw him with sally rowe (or maybe his school uniform) #i ​definitely want both of them to be side profiles and the theme is going to have to be somewhat consistent as well #<<‹ these tags are mostly so i remember my own thought process but feel free to leave your two cents