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femmefatalevibe · 1 year

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2023 Mid-Year Check-In & Reflection

Some journal prompts and questions to reflect & evaluate your progress throughout the year. Hope this helps xx

January- May 2023 Reflection:

Looking back, how would you describe the first half of 2023?

What are your highlights of the first half of 2023? What goals, milestones, or accomplishments have you achieved in the past 6 months?

What failures or ruts have you encountered in the first half of 2023? How have you coped with these lows? What mindset shifts, habits or routine changes have you/are you implementing to get back on track?

What goals did you set for yourself at the beginning of 2023? What happened with your progress? Which goals did you pursue and which did you abandon? What happened with the goals in each category? Why or why not did you choose to continue pursuing each of these goals?

What have your routines/daily lifestyle habits looked like for the first half of 2023? What improvements or downgrades have you made? What aspects of these routines do you like or dislike? What needs to stay the same and what needs to change?

June- December 2023 Goals & Reset:

On January 1, 2024, what would you have accomplished between then and now to consider these next 6 months to be a successful half-year?

How would you describe your ideal self going into 2024? What habits, routines, ways of working, socializing, dressing, interacting with others, and self-care activities does this person incorporate into their lifestyle?

What goals do you have for the second half of 2023? Describe these goals in the most descriptive and specific ways possible in each area of life. What habits or routines do you need to implement to achieve these goals? Don't be afraid to think outside the box for creative or unconventional solutions.

What challenges do you anticipate having to face over the next 6 months? What specific actions or routines can you implement to minimize the impact or consequences of these obstacles?

What have your experiences throughout the first half of 2023 taught you about yourself? How can you leverage these self-discoveries to work towards becoming closer to embodying your ideal self? What habits, people, products, routines, or self-talk practices do you need to add or remove from your life to make these lifestyle changes possible for you?

Feel free to share any insights, accomplishments, or life lessons in the comments, too. Everyone deserves to feel heard and have the chance to celebrate their wins!

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fawnvelveteen · 2 years

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SPUN-SUGAR PINK SPOTTED TULLE BALLGOWN by DAVID FIELDEN.

DAVID SEIDNER, HARPER'S & QUEEN, 1987

#david fielden #1980s #1987 #1980 fashion #pink #ballgown #fashion photography #harper's & queen #david seidner #mirror #reflection

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bonefall · 6 months

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mmm would it be possible for Mistystar and Leopardstar to fight/met during the BOTTE? or was Leopard already fed up with Tigerstar, his batshit insane plans and her status reduced to 'Tiger's another lackey' (like Darkstripe and many others) to really care about revenge? if she ever thought about it, that is.. im assuming she would be pretty pissed about being killed (there was a post about Mistyfoot first trying to poison her and Leopard realized it and instead decided to take her on a solo patrol to.. deal with a rogue i think? and then Misty gave her a rock appointment) and might had thought about making Mistystar pay, but it's been soooo long before BOTTE that she might had.. moved on? or just decided she had better things to do, not sure.

I have a BIG rule for the BOTTE, an unmoveable object, which I will abide by like a solemn vow;

NO spirit will be killed by the same cat twice.

I already changed it so Yellowfang doesn't get Brokenstar (he's not even present) and Brambleclaw doesn't get Hawkfrost, so I certainly wouldn't have Mistystar do it to Leopardstar!

I have some ideas but first; context.

The Killing of Leopardstar

Mistyfoot was sloppy.

Leopardstar recognized the way that Mistyfoot had poisoned her food, because she'd done the same thing to Crookedstar before her. Not enough to make it quick, just enough to weaken.

The emotion that licks at her is frustration.

Is this what her life has come to? Dramatic irony? Is this some kind of cosmic joke? To die just like her predecessor, wasting away for a few seasons in the darkness of this musty den, before solemn mourning and empty platitudes from her underhanded murderer.

What should she even do about this? Reveal Mistyfoot in front of everyone, exile her, she plots against her from the safety of another Clan, some kind of rebellion, rah rah rah we just dealt with this.

It's boring. It's so boring it's offensive. This will be the state of RiverClan forever, deputies poisoning leaders and taking power quietly until the end of days. No honor, no nobility, just treachery until the sky dries up and its rich blue becomes a crackled pale-brown.

If she is to die, she will not go out in the slow and painful way she killed crookedstar without a fight.

So she smacks the limp fish aside and brushes past Mistyfoot with a snarl, not even caring enough to drink in the way her traitorous deputy's ears flushed pale, knowing she'd been caught.

Leopardstar calls for a rushed meeting, telling them all that there's actually 40 - 50 feral rogues on the border right now and she saw them all last night or something, so she's taking Mistyfoot to go confront them right now. Don't follow us.

(Something that the more astute members of the Clan immediately recognize as Leopardstar setting up cover for a death match, including Misty's brother Swansong. She snaps at him when he runs to stop her, Don't Follow.)

Once they're a fair distance away, at the southern delta that divides WindClan and RiverClan, where the cliffs will hide them and the wet stones will not catch the scent (and where Reedwhisker will die, someday), Leopardstar lays it out.

No more tricks. No more schemes. If one of them is to die, it will be with honor.

"You want my lives?"

(Boss music fades in. Misty sees the health bar appear lmao)

"Come and take them."

After she came and took them

Leopardstar is kind of obsessed with the final battle of her life. That fight was everything she hoped for, except that she didn't win.

She wants it again, and she will triumph this time.

Hawkfrost is easily able to twist it into, "You lost only because StarClan shone upon her with that stone. It wasn't real skill. Join our cause and we can get you that rematch, we will defeat Mistystar, win back RiverClan, and dethrone the Stars!" But at the end of the day, it's an excuse.

Same sort of excuse Leopardstar came up with when she believed she wanted an honorable battle, rejecting the guilt and fear that clawed at her to think about dying the way Crookedstar did.

She does this a lot. Dodging feelings of remorse or regret by substituting power fantasies, avoiding any hard lessons. She says she wants revenge, but what she's actually doing is avoiding taking an L. Shame is a vagrant in Leopardstar's heart; she will never let it stay for long.

But...

That's really hard to do when Tigerstar is actively using her and speaking over her in every interaction. Being here, in the Dark Forest, taking the SAME advice she once groomed into Hawkfrost to only look at the positives of Tigerstar's legacy and ignore atrocities, is embarassing.

It's HUMILIATING.

She had her starshine BASHED out of her with a rock and went to the hell she'd been downplaying since she "regrettably" tore down the Bonehill. Being Tigerstar's stooge. Reducing the proud, ferocious leader of RiverClan into a goon.

Towards the end, she will have a scene with Hawkfrost, proud warriors that they are as mentor and apprentice, and vaguely address this. As far as Leopardstar's ego will allow, of course... the shame of it.

It's an important moment, because it's as much about Leopardstar and Hawkfrost as it is about Hawkfrost and Ivypool.

Leopard is too set in her ways to change, even if she is capable of brief glimpses of self-reflection, of which this is one. Hawkfrost, however, is seeing his mentor and himself in a different light. How she'll let herself be humiliated over and over as long as she can cling to her ego... and how by doing Tigerstar's diplomacy work, Hawkfrost is doing the same.

And he's dragged his OWN apprentice into it, too. She accidentally double-killed her friend, Antpelt, but he killed him more by bringing all of these trainees here to begin with. How Ivypool gets pitted against Tigerheart because TigerSTAR is playing mind games, how it's destroying her bond with her sister, how much fun and joy in the Dark Forest he's missing out on by not giving the afterLIFE a chance...

How much he's thrown away for this, before and after his death.

I'm not sure yet if it's the LAST stop before the BOTTE, but it's close to the end of Hawkfrost's redemption arc. Recognition of self through the other. He is part of a cycle he has a choice to break.

But anyway... back to Leopardstar.

She wants to fight Mistystar, but I don't think I'll let her have that satisfaction. She has already gotten nearly everything she ever asked for and can't even acknowledge that she did.

I think it's most fitting for SWANSONG to finally get what he craves; a chance to take a burden off his sister.

Leopardstar allowed TigerClan to STRIP his brotherhood from her because they don't share blood. Forced him to pretend like Rippleclaw meant anything to him, as if Oakheart hadn't been his proud baba as long as he could remember. Stonefur, Mistyfoot, and Swansong are the kits of Graypool; and he's not gonna let this golden FART ignore that ever again.

So my idea is that when Leopardstar meets Mistyfoot in the Second Wave of the BOTTE, she pounces onto her for her rematch, but Swansong BURSTS out of the crowd in response and rips her off, allowing Mistystar to go back to defending their Clanmates

"I don't want YOU," Leopardstar spits, "My battle is with Mistystar!"

"Tough titfeathers! It's MY turn to get a hit in for Stonefur!" He bristles with equal parts fury and excitement, lunging towards a fight he's dreamed of for years.

Still subject to change, though! And I'm not sure if Swansong dies here, or in the 3rd Wave, or if maybe he succumbs to injuries after the BOTTE is over.

It would also be fitting if he got a whack on Mapleshade though... since Maple doesn't even consider him Applekin and won't curse him. It would be neat for him to get angry about that lmao. "What do you MEAN my siblings are haunted by a demon? But NOT ME?? What ELSE am I getting left out of???"

EDIT: I'm currently planning to kill him in the 2nd Wave

#better bones au #BOTTE #BB!Leopardstar #BB!Mistystar #BB!Swansong #BB!Hawkfrost #BB!OOTS #I say this about a lot of BB characters (because I love this project) but man I really like Swansong #Context btw because he hasn't come up in a while: Swan is the adopted brother of Stone and Misty. His biosibs were faders.#Beloved golden retriever coming up for his fake ear medicine to suffer as Part Of The Family #Oak was only going to ask Gray to suckle Misty and Stone for him but then they were like #''Hey wait. Ripple was only an honor sire anyway. This is super convenient wanna parent together?''#And BB!Oak is such a DUDE he was like ''Yooooo ABSOLUTELY I'd LOVE another baby with a friend!!''#Oak cannot walk 5 foxlengths without making a friend. He's just like that.#Sqweezy type grindset #They never really told the kits about Ripple because he wasn't relevant + Queen’s Rights anyway #But everyone else knew Ripple was Swan's biodad because he's the river's reflection of him. and the other two are literally blue.#The three of them were the last to know.#But Swansong is great because he's such a happy kind of angry when it comes to defending his family #He's like ''We have to hide a body? Girlie SAY NO MORE I have already compiled a list of top 10 places they'll never look''#''No we dont need to hide the body..'' ''Ah. Well. Ok that's fine too. Anyway. What is our cover story let's get the details straight''#She couldn't make him deputy because he's too aggressive and supportive lmao #He's actually a lot like a meaner and smarter Oak. He was super close to their dad.#Also he's the mate of Moss instead of Frog because I put it to a vote and we collectively said so #Fixing a minor inconsistency where Moss has more kits after Frog is supposed to be dead #Also Frog was a sleaze where Swankit from the Missing Kits was a blank slate.#Slaps the roof of the RiverClan this bad boy can fit so many blorbos in it #Between Hawk and Leopard and the entire Applekin family I really adore it

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rebelcharmings · 11 months

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in another universe raven queen and dexter charming are waiting with 25 different mirror screens for tailor quick’s EveRAfterS (ERAS) tour tickets

#IVE BEEN WAITING IN QUEUE FOR 4 HOURS FOR THE AUS PRESALES #IM LOSING MY MINDDDD AND THIS IS HOW I COPE #also can someone appreciate my ERAS tour acronym #i worked rlly hard in trying to fairytale-languagify it #if u didn’t know raven and dexter r canonically swifties in the books #or ‘quickians’ as they called it #ever after high #eah #raven queen #dexter charming #tailor quick #taylor swift #eras tour #apple has no idea what’s going on but she supports it #her band one reflection broke up years ago she just wants to go to the fairy styles concert #eah taylor swift

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applebees4prez · 6 months

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when i say that this was my 9/11 i fully mean it. i would pull out my computer and write it myself if it weren’t so personal to dan. i will go into debt to make this happen. @danielhowell if there is anything i can personally to get dan is not okay out into the world i will do it i don’t care if i’m a freshman in college i would die for this.

#DINOK MY BELOVED #i’m getting way too fucking emo about this #actually idc #this is everything i could ever want #not only is this concept so fucking interesting and cool #but i love dan and everything he does so much #i have full trust in everything he creates #idc if it’s parasocial #i went to wad it was the best thing ever #i’ve watched every dd episode five times as they came out #daniel howell is a true creative visionary who should get to run wild #but also i need to go back to the plot #not only is it a reflection of dan’s life #but so many people are actually going through this same thing #and will continue to #i go to class every day and see the guys who are business majors or whatever #and i just want to scream in their face that there is more to life than d3 sports #also as somebody who’s interested in dan this is everything to me plotwise #like yes queen i am also incredibly grateful that you dropped out of law #i am so happy that you have become comfortable not just with your sexuality #but with who you are in general #you don’t know me but you raised me #and i am so proud of you #AKDHAKDHSK SORRY IM DONE NOW #BUT I COULD GO ON FOR HOURS #daniel howell #dan is not okay #dinok #why i quit youtube #dan howell

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merilles · 11 months

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éowyn ⚔️💛

#tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #middle earth #legendarium ladies #eowyn #art #fanart #lotr fanart #my art #merilles #eowyn my queen beloved shieldmaiden of my heart...#i enjoy giving her freckles and scars to reflect the hard lives of the rohirrim #and that iconic brown/gold dress just fits her perfectly i couldn't help it-

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rollforjackass · 5 months

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POV: you’re a bug living in questionably-human john constantine’s apartment (original panel, hellblazer #88)

#scopophobia /#eye contact /#SORRY THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING IVE EVER DONE FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER I CANT STOP LAUGHING ABOUT IT #Uncomfortably Spooky Constantine my beloved #'is he bothering u queen'#in my defense the original panel is not Less unnerving #rolling with ratblazer's yellow-ringed eye design for this shitpost it is my Favorite design for him #+ my own thing that his eyes reflect light at night like a cat's #john constantine #oxly hollers

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sexymikayla2 · 13 days

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#mikayla demaiter #sexy mikayla #reflections #sexy lingerie!#amazing body #stunning babe #ultimate sex machine #supreme sex queen #blonde bombshell

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roughroadhaley · 2 months

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I still cannot believe they had Roy come to Keeley’s house and read her a letter in which he says that she never did anything wrong in their relationship despite the breakdown being partially her fault and her only response is a somewhat emotional face & “thank you”. then immediately following that Rebecca hands her a ton of cash to fix her company failing which was also partially her fault and she just says thank you. And we’re supposed to think she deserves this and has grown and this is a sufficient moment for her. And in the finale the reason her and Roy don’t end up together is because HE has work he needs to do on himself and she has fuck all to do apparently. why can’t they just let her be a person

#please free yourself from the women are queens feminism writers #I’m begging you #this is not a keeley jones hate post though im just sad at her writing #keeley jones I would’ve let u realize u need therapy or a community college class or some self reflection and maybe less hairspray #love u girl ❤️‍🩹#keeley jones #ted lasso

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femmefatalevibe · 1 year

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The secret to happiness is learning to not take anything personally. Let other people's actions and words speak for themselves. Remember that their negative projections highlight an inability to sit with themselves long enough to introspect and engage in some much-needed self-reflection.

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northernember · 8 months

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thinking about the Devastating emotional damage that would come from being constantly told how much you look like your father, how much you take after him and looking into the mirroring and seeing nothing but his jawline and cheeks, the broadness of his shoulders, the forming shadows of his facial hair beginning to come in, the way his bronze eyes sit in your face. and at first you look upon these features with pride and they make you straighten your back and shoulders, raising your chin slightly to look as much of king as he is "but I will be kinder" you say, "I will lead with a gentle and generous hand" and you would have, in the only way you knew how, but it would not have been what was needed, it would not have been the kindness it was meant to be. then,,, then you had your mind taken from you, your limbs and body no longer your own but to your minds eye, and the memories that ingrained themselves in your head afterwards, there was no difference; and so as your hand gripped the sword and your arm raised above your head, your feet steadying themselves against the ground, the world slowed to a tormenting pace,, and then your arm arched down, the writhing shadow in your mind forcing you to use all the strength you have, to cut clean through the neck of your father. And the eyes, the nose, the jaw and the cheeks you saw repeated in every interaction and every reflection rolled past your feet, severed from the shoulders and height you had grown so easily into. What was it like afterwards? When you met his eyes in broken glass or rippling water. Did it feel like looking at a corpse? Did it feel like you were back in the throne room, severing his head again every time you caught a glimpse of your own reflection, every time you saw his haunted, grief ridden eyes looking back at you instead? Is that why you blamed yourself so heavily for what happened to your brother? Because you bare your fathers face and shoulders and body and He failed him? I don't blame you. How could you not feel his failures as yours every time you looked into a mirror or still puddle and saw his face, his bronze eyes and black hair crowding the surface. And so you bore not only your own sins but his as wells, because truly they are interchangeable by this point. "You are your father's son" They said, pride, sadness, bitterness, anger, and resignation brimming the sentence, disregarding completely how you glanced side long at his reflection in the window, desperately aching to see your own face looking back at you, for once.

#red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #red queen series #cal calore #tiberias vii calore #head in hands #im going through it #was suddenly overcome by the aching grief of tiberias calore the 7th #literally undone by the thought of him having to spend the rest of his life basically looking into his dead fathers eyes every time he sees #his own reflection #what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck #[anguished wailing]#anyways enjoy #i was thrashing on my floor yowling like a wounded animal as I wrote this

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