#my own folly...................

[kingfakey]

anyway borderline people and fellow cluster b socialites you're literally so strong. like i get it, i do, and i wanna give you credit for not smashing that glass, for remembering to breathe. you get too much shit for the one time you crumble, and not enough credit for the 9/10 times you don't. it takes strength and resilience and i know how much work you're putting into it and i love you for it. 💖

#i'm mostly recovered from the borderline diagnosis now but whew worse few years of my life #you're not exhausting to be around actually other people just don't know how to take accountability for their own follies #/b

[lifeinpoetry]

“Every poem is a description of its own creation . . . a kind of hologram of the mental condition at that moment.”

Success is a kind of failure.

Youth is a kind of genius.

Not-suffering is a kind of suffering.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "That It Is Folly to Measure Truth & Error by Our Own Capacity," Normal Distance

#quote #elisa gabbert #poetry #normal distance #out of my collection #that it is folly to measure truth & error by our own capacity

[thebirdandhersong]

btw I hate this

#i know i'm whining but like. by all rights i ought to be in CLASS. LEARNING THINGS. BEING PRESENT #instead what am i! wallowing in my despair and also my own folly (ate something suspicious last night and now am paying my dues)! #listen if i've only got one opportunity to study under joy clarkson i want to ATTEND ALL THE DARN CLASSES #phew phew okay anyway anyway i will be fineeee :) i just need to sleep

[party-gilmore]

maybe it’s the AuDHD but every time i see that “if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around - yes you would if you really loved her as deeply as he did then you would” post i can help but feel… like…

is there not love in slogging through the doubt because I Understand the Rule? knowing that if I were to indulge in the selfish need to Be Sure i would be sentencing her again? that if Hades has lied or broken his contract i would return again and hold him to it, now with even more leverage given that he’d broken an oath? that if she had fallen and i reached the top, again would i go back however many times it fucking took?

because I know that if I Don’t Look then losing her is possible, but if I Turn Around then losing her is certain? so this time, on my way back up, the enemy to fight isn’t the underworld or death or hades, it’s myself and my doubt and my fear and i am not stronger than it but my love for her is.

and just because the way i feel it is rooted more in logic and reasoning that emotion and adrenaline doesn’t mean it’s any less passionate or strong.

anyways i know it’s a personal take it just feels like it’s… kind of giving us more analytical type lovers the stink eye a bit. “if you really loved her as much-“ then i would’ve followed the one fucking rule in spite of my fear of MAYBE losing her because DEFINITELY losing her is such???? a MUCH bigger fear???? just logically speaking???

but let’s be real you don’t really… SEE a lot of logical love in media. Not romance specific media at least. It’s all rash decisions caught up in the passion making mistakes hurting each other before figuring it all out. And it’s always portrayed as the IDEAL. Like true love is FIRE! True love is EMOTION! True love is you just can’t think straight around each other!!!!

so that’s probably my REAL frustration actually not with the post itself but just how it feels like it drives home this… “if love isn’t making you a little desperate, it’s not really love” narrative.

And I just… MY love is strong and deep and passionate TOO damnit!!!

#idk just something about how that post is written makes me feel… #that like. as someone who’s showing up love is a little more analytical the implication that the only way to love deeply is to love…. #i don’t want to say ‘foolishly’ because i know that’s my own biases coming through because it’s hard for me to see the story as #‘Romantic Tragedy’ and more of a ‘Characters Folly’ type story because it doesn’t seem romantic to me at ALL i would be so fucking PISSED i #was Eurydice like. ‘But the tragedy is that he gave in to love and couldn’t help but look’ NO the fucking TRAGEDY is that she was almost OU #and all he had to do was NOT LOOK like if he REALLY loved her like REALLY ACTUALLY LOVED HER then it’s… it’s a 100% chance he loses her if #he looks. like that’s KNOWN. it’s set in stone. and if I was her and i was almost out and he turns to look my last memory of him isn’t #’oh my love how tragically fulfilling you couldn’t stop yourself i am gone to you forever but at least i know your love for me was so stron #that it was your only weakness’ no it would’ve been ‘you… you couldn’t have trusted? you couldn’t have waited? you knowingly sentence me #back to death out of your own selfishness and fear. we were almost free. but your love for me clearly wasn strong enough to make you brave’

[grimvestige]

been playing doom eternal and the sentinel architecture inspired me to finally try to illustrate something from the duergar in my D&D setting since it's actually sorta similar, plus I missed doing environment paintings tbh

#q #my art #concept art #dnd #dnd art #dungeons and dragons #duergar #Duergar are basically their own thing in my setting #since I gave them magma blood #and all their stuff is pretty much built of highly polished obsidian and silver #with magma flows and such #folly of helios

[practicalsolutions]

Really really mad at a secret level in ultrakill.

There's an enemy in a dark level that can 1 hit KO you but you can't see it. I actually tried to wait outside a vent to see this creature and never did. Too dark? Invisible? Idk. I ragequit the level and looked at the enemy list to see the horrifying thing that's been whooping my ass.. and its a fuckin scrungly stick figure looking ass thing.

I'm being bullied by this guy.

#ultrakill #also limbo is so friggin chill looking #i dig the industrial look of the prelude levels #very surprised and also confused trying to put 2 and 2 together between the game and what fans have said or drawn online #confused in a good way #love the juxtaposition of machine and theology #of human folly(because the humans are all dead and they probably tampered with hell?? sending robots to hell seems like tampering.) #or do robots go to hell on their own? #are robots sentient enough to qualify for hell #if robots could qualify for hell then ik where all the Amazon Echos are gonna end up lmao #ooc #this isn't even art so I'm not putting it in my art tag

[kirnet]

i cant believe i missed so many good wyll names. my sincerest apologies

#i was blinded by my own hubris. my own folly. icarus #flying too close to a cool man with a name similar to my own #ramblings

[cambracts]

i just want it stated on the record that when the opportunity arises, i'm absolutely going to roast raphael. he's more than earned it for the shit he pulls throughout the game

#OOC. #TBD. #if you expect me to defend anything this man does #that's not gonna happen #he's the biggest hypocrite in the world #twisting peoples' fears and failures and insecurities into opportunities for himself #despite the fact he's so insecure about his own existence and place in the hells #as he exists in the shadow of his father; an archdevil #finding himself harboring the same folly and vices as the mortals he claims not to be #i could go on for ages about this #but my point stands: i'm roasting him from dawn to dusk #without any shame

[chimaerakitten]

my knife chocolate mold might not arrive until Thursday :(

#I was thinking of making a cake for the #ides of march #alas tis my own folly not ordering it several days earlier when I first thought of it

[nabtime]

Writers block?

When in doubt- write from the bathtub.

Even when you don’t manage a single word, at least you’ve gotten a nice bath out of it.

#nap shitposts in the afterlife #writing #listen. there is no fool proof way to best writers block. we writers are fools and proofing against our own nature is folly #i say this. while in the bath. my laptop (yes my laptop) is glaring at me from the toilet seat. #perhaps I’ll get over this bit in the bath. perhaps i will not. #i do highly recommend writing in here tho. nice and quiet and dark and my bones aren’t aching as badly for once. #yes it’s precarious. yes i have my laptop balances on a towel on the lip of the tub. #but you see. i still haven’t written a word! so ha!

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

In other news, I've forgotten how I titled my post crisis au where Lena and her birth mom are living in a virgin river-esque town as hedgewitches, and Lena is the town doctor and her mom runs a bakery truck.

So. That's fun.

#time to go scrolling #victim of my own folly #gotta do what i gotta do

[fiveais]

There’s at least a few more tucked away in my phone somewhere, but yeah- I have no idea who the people I drew these for are. I just saw “it’s my birthday!” and I became possessed by a for-hire clown.

#plz ignore the cringe fandom #also that bat felt too sexy to put in a party hat #that was my own folly tho

[lifeinpoetry]

Distance is a kind of time, which means distance is also a kind of money.

A strange kind of distance. A kind of freedom, maybe.

I kind of feel like I’m brushing up against another layer of the multiverse. Language is fucked. Via some kind of space-time bug.

It’s almost hard to call it dystopian because there is a kind of utopia inside the dystopia.

I fear pure subjectivity is a kind of erasure. The people in power will use it against us.

Hate can feel like a kind of power.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "That It Is Folly to Measure Truth & Error by Our Own Capacity," Normal Distance

#quote #elisa gabbert #poetry #normal distance #out of my collection #that it is folly to measure truth & error by our own capacity

[bogglebabbles]

I have made the mistake of setting my schedules with a half-hour lunch rather than the full hour because I reasoned it's better for me to get off earlier than sit around doing nothing but I did not account for the fact that it makes it so I don't have the time to prep a lunch AND get a little power-nap in the afternoon so I'm just doing the back half of my shift either sleepy-eepy and unproductive OR furiously hangry and equally unproductive.

#boggle makes a living #i lay on the pyre of my own folly #gonna start keeping almonds or something at my desk

[fridayyy-13th]

hhhhhghhghgh i want to WRITE but my laptop’s DEAD and i don’t have my CHARGER bc i left it at HOME and didn’t charge it last night like a FOOL…

#friday chats #hate and war on planet earth why is it that whenever i WANT to write i CAN’T because of my own follies #don’t mind me i’m just griping

[wolfchosen]

give your dark urge an 8 wisdom so you can have to make absolutely terrifying checks like this one

#🙢. 🗡 .ooc #i could save scum it but i do that so rarely #i'm just AAAAAH NOOOO #i have no inspiration i'm being betrayed by my own folly right now #this is act 2 durge spoilers btw