#pursuing your dreams

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

#the actual animation of the wolf eating your character wasnt scary he kind of just cartoonishly swallows the character whole lol #the scary part is being pursued by him and never knowing how close he is #i remember being surprised when i first saw the game bc it was presented to me as #a fun addictive sort of game kinda like a mobile app game #and then i see it and its a horror game and the creators are just completely oblivious to it lmao #dream art #<- thats my tag for all my dream-inspired art #art #gif #photomanipulation #digital art #liminal #weirdcore #used a mix of ai photos and regular photos for this one #the ai stuff is sooooo good for recreating what a dream looks and feels like #but i didnt use it too much bc i wasnt able to get the specific photos i wanted :/ #hmmmm this is vore isn’t it

[ritik3630a]

How do I grow my passion?

What is passion? Hello there! Today we are going to talk about something that everyone seems to be searching for – passion. We often hear people saying, “I’m still trying to find my passion,” or “I’m not passionate about anything.” But what if I told you that passion is not something that you find, but rather something that you grow? Yes, that’s right! Let’s dive deeper into this concept.Passion…

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#Ankur Warikoo #commitment #dedication #do epic shit #failure #finding your purpose #growth mindset #Learning #motivation #overcoming obstacles #passion #persistence #personal growth #pursuing your dreams #self improvement #showing up #Success #trying again

[simplyettad]

Today's Inspiration

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#Challenges #Dan-Koe #Personal Growth #Pursuing Your Dreams #Self Love

[oscar-fastri]

congratulations logan sargeant for getting a ttpd song just for him!

#av.spills #ls2 #ttpd #logan sargeant #taylor swift #“your home's just a town you're a guest in” #TELL ME THIS ISN'T MOVED ABROAD AT A YOUNG AGE TO PURSUE DREAMS CORE

[inejschumacher]

This segment of Haas TP’s Ayao Komatsu’s monthly newsletter has me sobbing

I hope Haas does well in Suzuka the whole team deserves it <3

#having to leave home to pursue your dreams and coming back at the top is so!! #he deserves a great season and more #haas f1 team #kevin magnussen #nico hulkenberg #ayao komatsu #formula 1

[boltgunkillerr]

out of all the breakups in the breakup episode finchel’s was beyond goofy. like klaine broke up bc blaine cheated and brittana broke up because of the distance but i didn’t even know finchel was still Together in that episode so how are they breaking up 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#like i mean finn basically broke it off with rachel before he sent her off to new york to pursue her dreams #and he joined the army and then had to leave the army after 16 days #and then he backpacked across georgia for MONTHS #and never messaged rachel during this time #i mean that just signifies that your relationship is completely over #so her kissing brody and pursuing stuff with brody wasn’t a bad thing #plus she wasn’t even dating him or ready for that because she was worried about finn anyway lol #very silly situation to me. i love this episode tho so i’m not hating #finchel is just continuously very funny to me as a couple i think i like them? just yk cause they’re canon in the show anyway so #and i hate to admit but their drama is very entertaining so #gleeposting

[linguistics-and-lesbianism]

man listening to AHWTV hits so different now. like the characters in that album were always tragic, they always had sad stories. but after listening to jenny from thebes it feels like they were all doomed from the start. idk if jeff and cyrus were ever explicitly a part of jenny’s crew but regardless it’s hard not to hear echoes of jenny’s narrative in the best ever death metal band out of denton

#like #it’s the way that the same passions that led you to pursue your dream is the same thing that causes your dreams to fail #like jeff and cyrus love their music. they believe in it. but that belief got cyrus sent to the other school #in the same way. jenny loved her safe house with all her heart. she would kill to protect it. but that same passion made her lose everything #i’ve connected the dots #(you didn’t connect shit) #the mountain goats #tmg #jenny from thebes

[altair214]

If Dream of the Endless had access to the Am I The Asshole subreddit "Am I the Asshole for condemning my lover to Hell?"

"I was informed quite recently by a friend that this is a good place to receive unbiased judgement on past actions of mine that were not well received by people. As there are few beings I trust to ask for unbiased, well-meaning judgement from, I turn to the internet.

After a recent excursion to Hell, my raven saw fit to inform me that condemning a past lover to Hell might be seen, in my raven's words "as a dick move." My sibling, who has seen fit to give a mortal the tools to imprison me for a century and has made an attempt on my life, has criticized me before for the decision I made to condemn my lover to Hell.

Our story took place 10,000 years ago. She was a mortal queen and very beautiful. She was desired by many, but she refused them. One day she laid eyes on me, not knowing who or what I am, and decided that I would be her lover. She pursued me, and eventually found me in my realm. We began to get to know each other. She truly loved me at first. And I loved her. No one had ever loved me enough to go to the lengths she had to find me. I offered to make her the queen of my realm. But when she truly began to understand what it is that I am, and that I would not abandon my realm to be her lover, she became fearful. I did not want her to leave me, so when she ran, I ran after her. She hurt herself in the hopes that it would make me disgusted with her and leave. When she saw that she did not scare me away, she allowed me to heal her. We made love all through the night.

In the morning, her city was destroyed, for the First Circle had decreed that one of the Endless cannot love a mortal. We had both known that. She had tried to put an end to our relationship before it was too late, but in the end our desire for each other had overcome all else.

In her despair, she killed herself. I was distraught, I would have made her my queen. But she chose death over me. She chose to abandon me, she chose to abandon hope, for death. Still, I would have forgiven her for that transgression. I would still have her as my queen. I would still love her.

But she rejected me. Even though she loved me, she would rather die than be with me. So I told her that I would offer my love a final time, but if she once again would choose death over me, that I would condemn her soul to Hell.

She did not answer at first. She said that we were never meant to be together and that darker things would come to be if we tried to be together. I asked her once again as she was making the journey to the Sunless Lands. She told me to leave her. I asked her for the last time. She refused me and I condemned her to Hell.

She sought me out, only to reject me. To reject dreams by killing herself. She loved me and yet would choose to die rather than be with me. She would choose Hell rather than be with me even though she sought me first. I felt that my actions were justified. She was not moved by the pain that her actions caused me. What could I have done except punish her for her callousness?

I felt I was completely justified in my actions until very recently when I saw her in Hell. I had not thought of her in a long time, though I still loved her. But my recent experience of being imprisoned for a century had changed me in ways that I have only recently admitted to myself. For the first time I wondered if perhaps my original judgement to condemn her to Hell was made in error. So I am turning to here at the recommendation of a friend. Am I the Asshole?"

#dream of the endless #okay so to start this might not be perfectly in character #but in order to make it plausible that dream would turn to the subreddit #i had to make him just slightly more self aware than would have been a perfect characterization of him #secondly this is from dream's pov so of course it's not an unbiased view of what happened #thirdly i made some changes from the story tales in the sand because i don't think that story is an exact retelling of what happened #because firstly it's not a love story it's a story warning against the dangers of pursuing a power beyond your understanding #it treats dream as just a storytelling device rather than a lover #which he is both so you need both to characterize him accurately #plus nada still offered that he join her in the waking world so i don't think dream was as bad in actuality as tales in the sand might lead #one to believe #though dream is still absolutely the asshole here #trying to make him look sympathetic even from his own perspective was kind of hard #anyway #but this was fun to write #i think some of dream's problems would have been solved had to consulted the am i the asshole subreddit #he's not unreasonable #he'll fix his mistakes once he's realized he's made them #but he has a tendency to have extremely bad judgement on occasion

[cloudburst-ink]

🌈 Free the gays from weird heteronormative top/bottom discourse 2k24!!! 🖤 (And by extension, the dom/sub associations that go with it!! Which are also a completely separate though sometimes overlapping concept!!!)

Write your violent angry murder blorbo getting railed!! Make that sweet shy angel baby a top! Make them both verse and throw the concept out altogether because it’s inherently a bit silly to start with!! ✨ And your personality in the rest of your life often has nothing to do with your bedroom preferences anyway! ✨

Or don’t! Do whatever you want because it’s fanfiction! 🥰✨ Write them with whatever dynamics or lack thereof that you want—that’s the point! And no one can tell you what is and isn’t okay to write in your own fics!! 🎊 They're fictional characters, have fun!!!!!

Happy new year fellow fandom gays!!! Go wild!

#sincerely #a real life gay who has been repeatedly mislabeled #by people who will never be in the bedroom with me to find out anyway 😌 #and who enjoys representing these kinds of internal dichotomies in my own writing #maybe my violent anger blorbo just wants someone to take care of HIM for once #maybe he wants nothing more than to be fragile and soft and never could be before now #maybe he wants someone to pin him down and fuck him silly and fuzz out his constantly over-vigilant brain #MAYBE HE JUST LIKES TAKING IT UP THE ASS #there are any number of wonderful and fun and awesome reasons #to explore unexpected dynamics in smut fics #and i encourage everyone who wants to to pursue those desires without shame!! #and without fear!! #maybe my sweet soft baby boy blorbo just wants to make his partner feel good and relax for once #maybe he loves so deeply that he can only express it through teeth and ropes #maybe he just finds the fantasy of control super sexy in a world where he otherwise has none #embrace your wildest most “ooc” smut dreams!!!! #because your fanfics are first and foremost for YOU #and don't let anyone else's opinions influence you otherwise 🖤

[todayisafridaynight]

That prev anon was right about calling you mine people always talk about how Mine is so horny for daigo when in reality he probably shuts down at the thought of holding daigos hand it’s too much for him!

Hes so real for that tbh like i get it ……. I really do …….

#snap chats #its about respect and not wanting to overstep but still feel like youre going to explode on the inside thinking of him #i get it king …. stay pining ….. #its why thinking of daigo being the one to pursue mine makes me yell fiPWZNJ #main man mine tryna just be at a respectful difference and then daigo just makes full strides to him like Hi :) #it makes me kick my feet and wanna open google doc … cause i cant DRAW THIS WEEKEND 😭😭😭😭 #stupid computer …. at least it’ll be fixed by monday hopefully but still ….. i wanna be a fanatic NEOW #ig since i cant work i can just. type on my phone. even if it makes me wanna throw up but we ball #bitch omg the shinsengumi showed up in the movie im watchin for class … hey nerds …. #ok im gonna day dream for the next hour maybe ill write something down later

[jorvikzelda]

today i had this Vivid memory flash through my mind of kissing my ex boyfriend (this was like 2018) and i felt so viscerally fucking revolted and I gotta say. it is truly impressive that I didn’t realise I’m a lesbian sooner than fucking half a year ago

#z talks #like the misidentifying as ace was Inevitable i think. that was due to repression that realising i didnt like men would not have fixed #(context: id’d as bi ace like. i wanna say 2016/17-2021/22 sometime and then went into ace and Questioning) #remember the time i really solidly settled on being aro because ‘romance has never not felt like a chore and putting on a facade’ #babe no thats because your most recent and also singular long term relationship was with a Man #and thats the only one youre looking back on #its so funny how i dated a guy and it was so thoroughly Meh that i just didnt feel like pursuing anything romantic for a very long time #(A REACTION I HAD NOT HAD AFTER MY PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS WITH GIRLS) #And DIDN’T somehow consider that maybe I just Didn’t Like Guys #its nothing i grieve or feel sad about dw its honestly mostly funny to look back on #no wrongs were committed and i dont hold a grudge against the guy it was just me being confused and compheted #(…which is also a weird word to apply because at the time i identified and was out to my friends as a trans guy Binary. #This Was Also Wrong.) #was a weird time man. a truly weird time #anyway. all is well i have now been on 2 dates with a really cute girl and she gave me tulips <3 #as part of a Care Delivery bc i had a Migraine and No Painkillers Or Snacks #get well flowers <333333 #and now i dream of kissing her under the moonlight #With the uh. Hornetposting lately it May seem unlikely but yes I DO interact with real women! Romantically! #They coexist Wonderfully <3 #Anyway. I’m gonna go to bed #Realising that im a lesbian solved all my identity problems including my fucking gender which is just fantastic #I am very happy and whenever I think of being a lesbian it grounds me to reality a little bit stronger and i go yeah. Yeah.

[athenaholmesartistsguild]

Back to the Major Arcana featuring Haruka!

This was an interesting card to work on! I'd watched a video going a bit more in depth on color theory so I tried to work some of the things I learned into this piece!

I didn't want this post to be too long so I have some more design notes on this card's Patreon post. You can read those and download a High res version of this card for free! It was also available 2 days early for Patrons just a quick mention

Interpretations are below the cut:

In the pursuit of understanding the self, the Hermit has elected to remove themselves from their outside world. At this point in the Hermit's life, others' opinions and thoughts are too overpowering and make it difficult to decide what they truly want.

Whether this be metaphorical or literal, the occasional period of self-isolation can be very beneficial, especially if you've felt like you've been doing certain actions that aren't aligned with who you truly are. It's important to note that this isolation period should not last forever. The Hermit is aware that their solitude is not permanent and chooses to make the most of their time.

While alone, the Hermit can focus inward: their thoughts, their desires, and what they believe is right or wrong. Away from the public, the Hermit aims to define who they are. Their values, the direction they wish to take their life, things that only they can decide for themselves.

When the Hermit appears in a reading, they're urging you to consider your recent actions and whether they were what you truly wish you'd done. What pressures are causing you to act a certain way? Do you wish you'd done something differently?

Perhaps a period of withdrawal would be beneficial to finding the answers to these questions.

Reversed, we see a Hermit that's isolating for more harmful reasons. When faced with the outside world, it can sometimes be tempting to disappear into oneself. The unknown is scary and it's human nature to try and avoid it at all costs.

While there may be times when you simply aren't ready to step out of your comfort zone (as doing so can do more harm than good), a reversed Hermit in a reading suggests that maybe it's time to begin the transition back to the outside world. This can be done as gradually as you like, but try to make those decisions based on what feels most aligned to your inner self. Simply asking that part of you for guidance will oftentimes give you the answer you need.

The main theme of the reversed Hermit is someone who's acting in ways that just don't feel right. Whether due to fear or outside pressure or any other myriad of reasons, a reversed Hermit feels like they're not being authentically themselves. Even if they're not conscious of it, there's a nagging feeling in the back of their mind telling them something needs to change.

What actions can you take to feel more like yourself? How do you define yourself in the first place? Are there any voices around you (or within) that are leading you astray?

Haruka's arc in Yakuza 5 is such an interesting one and it's been stuck in my brain ever since I first played it.

For almost her entire section, Haruka's living her life for other people.

She feels pressured to become an idol in the first place because Kiryu informs her that the orphanage is struggling financially. She allows herself to be completely isolated from her family in the hope that she can create a better life for her siblings.

She becomes closer to Mirei and then feels obligated to help her surrogate mother figure relive the glory that was stolen from her. Even after Mirei dies, Haruka feels obligated to join an idol group with the girls that made her life hell during the Princess League.

Through the whole game, there's this theme of following your dreams and doing what you feel is necessary to achieve them, and then you have Haruka.

She insists being an idol is what she really wants, but the whole time it really doesn't seem that way at all. It seems like she's just being shuffled around any way the adults in her life see fit.

Until...

At the very end of the game, she sees Kiryu, the man that raised her for almost a decade of her life, her father, and she can't keep pretending.

She never wanted to be an idol. She never wanted to be so thoroughly separated from her family. She wants to go home.

And here we see the Hermit turn from a reversal to upright. Haruka's isolation from her home taught her that pushing away her desires to live for others is painful and depressing and the exact opposite of how she wants to live her life. She refuses to be a pawn in the Idol industry and in Mirei's own agenda (even if Haruka cared about her).

It's Haruka's turn to figure out what she dreams of and how she'll achieve those dreams.

#I know the events of 6 kinda throw this out the window but I'm just analyzing Haruka's arc in 5 okay?? #I love how even with the hamfisted 'dreams' theming in 5 there's this really complex arc exploring the harm pursuing your dreams can cause #if you aren't conscious of how you're treating others along the way. #And then we see what happens if you don't think about your own wants and needs and identity #and just live as a vessel for others to project their own motives onto. #It's so good and interesting and ughhhhh #It's honestly not surprising that after this game 0 was released. RGG Studios was on a roll #Next card is Death (my personal favorite tarot card) so look out for that! #my art #yakuza fanart #sawamura haruka #yakuza #tarot card design

[astrito]

"Lo que es estar como tuna"

An animation based on @mscribbles's omentio piggyback comic !!

More about it under the cut:

Damn you're actually here. ok...... /j

This is the first short film I've ever made! It was an uni assignment done in the span of a week and I was the only one working on it.

Would you believe me if I said that the hardest part was translating the dialogues? I had to closely examine the ESP version of Super Paper Mario to know these character's way of speaking, plus adapt the dialogues so that the original intent and meaning was kept...... that shit is hard!!!!!! translators have my utmost respect lol

The second hardest thing was getting timing right because I did not have time to make an animatic. I really was just going with what felt right. I think I did a decent job at that...!

Something I really liked about the process was the pre-production phase because that's when I had to do the vectors for the characters! To be honest with you I felt like a caveman every time I learnt literally anything new about Illustrator........ is this how people feel when I tell them about Moho????

...Oh well!!! There's some things I'd def change of the animation but overall I'm seriously proud of this, and!!! and!!!

...I hope you liked it as much as I did!!!!

astro out!!!!

#dimentio #o'chunks #omentio #dunks spm #mimi spm #super paper mario #spm #anim-astro #art-strito #cries like that one video of the baby with reverb #WJEHRJEKWHJ im glad im proud enough to ignore my damn shyness and just post this. its good methinks #also if anyone has questions about how i did something you can ask:3 #the other day I showed this to my friends and i was very very happy to answer their questions hehe #reminder to self. i have to post this on fb lol #also gODD i gotta go sleep. classes........ terrible....... imagine pursuing the career of your dreams since you were a wee child.... #imagine.... ewwww /j

[robertsbarbie]

yall im gonna throw up i have officially applied to the art college i was scared to

#once again ‘you never know’ is the mantra of 2024 for me 🥳 #i really wasn’t gonna apply and then yesterday happened and like #life is too short to not even try to pursue your dreams #eris: text

[echodrops]

A key problem I’ve seen bandied about over and over is that Y’sthola doesn’t have a “character arc” and that she is a very static character--she has no growth because she essentially came in without any flaws that could be fixed over time in the narrative.

Characters don’t need flaws to be good characters. But in the absence of flaws, what they do need is organic motivation. Y’sthola ostensibly has a motivation: she loves knowledge and wants to learn more to sate her own desire for information about the world. She’s literally a ham-fisted “curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back” metaphor.

The problem with this motivation is that no reason has ever been given for it. Why is she so driven to pursue knowledge? What made her choose this path? What events in her life led her to this specific course, when we meet her sister who behaves in a totally different (read as: much less self-sacrificial) way? What made her leave her family to study with Matoya and then leave Matoya to join the scions?

At her core, Y’shtola is characterized by her lack of prevailing connections. She has essentially no backstory other than “has a sister and studied with Matoya.”She has a family but never spends time with them. She loves Matoya, clearly, but still made the choice to leave her to join with Louisoix. Why? Although she’s friendly to all the scions, she still isn’t given any of the truly personal relationships that mark the other scions’ stories--she doesn’t have a Papalymo, a Minfillia, or a Moenbryda to truly “humanize” her; Matoya is the closest, and Matoya is a side character at most.

To be honest, I don’t care about learning a ton more about Y’sthola’s search for knowledge. It’s a typical and, in her case, criminally under-developed motivation. What I do care about is why, surrounded by so many opportunities to connect, she remains quintessentially a stray cat.

It seems to me that Y’shtola’s story would be much more interesting if it was not about this or that arcane magic she can learn to advance the plot, but instead about the deep and personal struggle between individual desire--endless pursuit of knowledge to sate one’s own curiosity--and the abiding desire to belong to others, to forge meaningful connections even if that sometimes means giving up on some of your personal, lone pursuits.

If you are never satisfied, can you ever settle?

Y’sthola’s "character arc” shouldn’t be about intelligence. It should be about wisdom: the discovery that the road to enlightenment might actually be the road that leads you home.

#Y'sthola #ffxiv #ff14 #Final Fantasy XIV #character musing #just some thoughts I was thinking tonight #and I guess I should say #I don't mean this in the sense of #'powerful female character gives up dreams to have a relationship' #I mean this very much in the Ahab and Moby-Dick way of #'sometimes endlessly pursuing a personal aim leaves you bereft' #'sometimes your own desire denies you peace' #what value is knowledge without meaning? #what happens when you've learned all there is to learn? #where lies happiness?

[aza-trash-can]

I'm the comma fairy

C'mere, your works need more commas

#aza's trash #give me your writing and i'll put in all the commas you need #i'm only half joking i seriously wanna start freelance editing at some point #my ultimate dream is making a name for myself in the fanfic community as an editor i'm not even joking #i doubt i can pursue editing professionally in the long run but if i can do it as a side job? perfect