#this was so nice

[morganbritton132]

i recently had a health backslide and had a seizure for the first time in months so i’ve been binging this series again. just wanted to say i love your writing style and all the characterisation and dynamics are so perfect. very cool to see accurate rep of seizures/head trauma that isn’t either inspo porn or like a psa. 10/10 from a certified seizure/migraine haver

I’m so sorry to hear about your health setback and I hope you’re feeling better. I wish you all the very best and I hope that if there is any comfort or laughter that can found in this little series that it finds you.

And I want to say thank you!

This is such a nice comment to get and it’s really heart-warming to hear how much people like the series, but hearing that you think the representation is accurate is a relief!

I don’t have epilepsy or experience seizures and I don’t know anybody in real life who does. So a lot of the portrayal of Steve’s head injury is based on research that I’ve done on head trauma and service animals because I want to get that right. And honestly, Steve’s frustration with his disorder and its limitations is really just an echo of the frustration that I feel with my mental health struggles.

Also, the comment about Steve’s head trauma/seizures not feeling like a PSA makes me so happy because it’s important to me that the series maintains this very mundane every day element to it. Like this is just their everyday lives and it has been for thirty years. I think it’s endlessly fascinating that the aftermath to fighting monster is a normal life so that trauma should manifest in very real world ways.

I’m rambling, but thank you, thank you thank you. It means so much and I hope that the world is treating you kind.

#I did crack my head open in high school and would get bad migraines for a few years after that but those eventually went away #this was so nice #eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington

[campbyler]

you guys are so cool!

you sure about that?

#asks #this was so nice #it made me smile so i sent it to thea and suni #and suni’s impeccable timing just happened to disprove your statement anon #but thank you!

[bloodbladesanddemons]

(( hello! I just wanted to drop by and say you make one of the most adorable sekido x oc content you capture his softness in ur art so well ❤️

And chizue is a very lovely character ❤️))

Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you like my ramblings and cheesy romance story!!!

#ask #ask response #answered ask #thanks for the ask #ask me anything #thank you so much #this was so nice

[seek--rest]

Hi lovely Seek. I know you have so many fics in play at the moment and I love that for you (and us!) but I wanted to ask if you’d had a chance to revisit the Hunger Games inspired fic recently? I was really enjoying following along with the fic and even though it’s been a good couple of years since I watched the series, you have a way with your writing to transport me right back into the thick of it. Anyway, I really enjoyed the SM dynamics you’ve built into THG world and if you end up revisiting the fic, I will eagerly be reading, commenting and kudos-ing ☺️

I’m ngl I lost a lot of motivation to write that fic because of how it seemed to be slowly going into the void. I put SO much effort into tying in spidey lore into the world of the hunger games that the feeling that it was going under the radar was demoralizing.

This genuinely made my day and made me open up the doc again to work on it. Thank you so much for telling me this. I just might update it next week 🥹

#seek speaks #this was so nice

[captainmera]

Hi!!! I found your tumblr and just worked up the courage to say that I LOVE In Blood We Rise :D

Your characters have SUCH great and natural chemistry, which is a big thing for me in romances. If they can’t have a lovely and intriguing conversation outside of the romance it always feels a bit off to me. Yours does that AND MORE by having me really enjoy the characters on their own too.

Also the world is super cool. I love when the fantasy elements are casually worked into our normal world. It makes it even better (imo) that it’s in an older era! It also feels very lived in, which is another thing I really appreciate!

Now of course I need to mention the art!!! There are some panels that are just SO COOL that I have to pause and stare at them for a while. I LOVE the way you draw distinctive faces and anatomy for all your characters. The colours too!! God I could go on and on!

There’s definitely more things I love (like the fates!), but these are the big things that I just had to mention. Anyways thanks SO much for working so hard to give us such a great comic!

thank you for reading!!!! And for telling me!!!!! My day is superb now!!! AAAAAAAA ೭੧(❛▿❛✿)੭೨ <333333

If anyone's interested, you can read my comic here! in blood we rise

#ibwr #ibwr ask #asks #THIS WAS SO NICE #THANK YOU AAAAAAAAAA!!! #THIS!! INSPIRES!!!! #art reply #ask mera

[crystaldust]

“Love says: ‘I am everything’. Wisdom says: ‘I am nothing’ Between the two my life flows.”  

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

DISCLAIMER: this is a copy paste from this article, i'm only putting it as a post here to facilitate my own personal access but ofc to share it as well

Rupert Spira says the spiritual path could be divided into three steps and explains each stage of enlightenment through the ‘inward-facing’ and ‘outward-facing’ definitions, thus helping the spiritual seeker understand the meaning of the process:

The first step involves the investigation into the essential nature of the ego or separate self through the neti neti process, in which the witnessing subject of experience is extricated from all objective content and stands alone as pure consciousness, the primary and fundamental element of all experience.

In the second step, consciousness releases its attention from the objective content of experience, from which it separated itself in the first step, and begins to flow backwards or inwards into itself, eventually coming to rest in itself. It is in this self-resting or self-abiding that consciousness is gradually, in most cases, divested of its self-assumed limitations and recognises its own ever-present and unlimited being.

Once consciousness has recognised its own ever-present and unlimited nature – the recognition that is traditionally referred to as enlightenment or awakening – the purpose of distinguishing consciousness from objects has been accomplished and it is now necessary to dissolve this distinction. Thus, the third step on the spiritual path involves an exploration of objective experience in the light of our new understanding in order to collapse the apparent distinction between consciousness and its objects.

The paths of discrimination and love

The initial enquiry into the nature of experience could be called the Path of Discrimination. It leads to the realisation that ‘I am nothing’. The deeper exploration at the level of the body and the world could be called the Path of Love. It leads to the realisation that ‘I am everything’. It is the transition from ‘I am nothing’ to ‘I am everything’, from the path of discrimination to the path of Love. It is the moment when the emptiness of Consciousness recognises itself as the fullness of experience. It is the moment at which Consciousness recognises that it projects the world within itself, rather than from or out of itself.

Usually it is necessary to embark on the inward-facing path first, for most of us are so lost in the content of experience that we have almost completely overlooked or forgotten our own being.

The inward-facing path: Discrimination

The question ‘Am I aware?’ or ‘Who am I?’ invites the mind – ‘like a sinking star’ – away from its customary objects of knowledge and experience – ‘the bounds of human thought’ – and draws it inwards towards its subjective source, the transparent, luminous, non-objective experience of being aware or pure awareness itself.

The inward-facing path discriminates between our self and the objects of experience. It is a path of negation, exclusion and elimination: I am not this, not this. In theological terms, it is the Via Negativa; in the Zen tradition, the Great Death. On the Path of Discrimination we discover what we are not. The movement in understanding from ‘I am something’ to ‘I am nothing’ could be called the path of wisdom or discrimination. The turning of the mind away from the objective content of experience towards the source or essence from which it has arisen is the essence of meditation or prayer.

It is the ‘inward-facing path’ – sometimes referred to as self-remembering, self-enquiry, self-abidance or the way of surrender. Meditation is the disentangling of awareness from its own activity. In meditation the simple experience of being aware is extricated from everything that we are aware of. During this directionless journey, the mind sinks or relaxes backwards, inwards or ‘selfwards’. As it does so it is, in most cases gradually, occasionally suddenly, divested of its finite, limited qualities and, at some point, stands revealed as pure mind, original mind or infinite awareness.

The inward-facing path, or Direct Path, in which the mind turns its attention away from objective experience towards its own essence or reality. Consciousness is the fundamental, underlying reality of the apparent duality of mind and matter, and the overlooking, forgetting or ignoring of this reality is the root cause of both the existential unhappiness. Awareness or Consciousness is the open Unknowingness on which every experience is written.

As a perspective, activity or process the ego is neither a mistake nor a problem. However, as an entity it is a problem, for the belief that our essential nature is limited to and located in the body is accompanied by the loss of the happiness, freedom and peace that are innate in the knowing of our own essential, irreducible being. Ego is not an entity. It is an activity. It is an optional activity of identifying itself with a fragment that Consciousness is free to make or not, from moment to moment. However, the ego is a pretence, a pretence that Consciousness chooses to undertake out of its own freedom. Consciousness, or that to which we refer as ‘I’, is that which perceives or experiences. It is that which witnesses the mind, the body and the world. It is that which is seeing and understanding these words right now.

The outward-facing path: Love

The culmination of the inward-facing path is the recognition of the presence, the primacy and the nature of awareness – or, in religious language, spirit or God’s infinite being – which transcends all knowledge and experience. However, it is not yet the full experiential understanding in which awareness itself, or God’s infinite being, is known and felt to pervade and saturate all knowledge and experience, and indeed to be its sole substance and reality. It is to recognise the transcendent nature of awareness but not its immanence.

The second is an outward-facing path of openness, inclusion and allowing: I am this, am this. It is a path in which the apparent separation between our self and anyone or anything is dissolved. It is a path of unconditional love. It is the Via Positiva. It is the Great Rebirth in the Zen tradition. This path is the means by which we recognise the inherently peaceful and unconditionally fulfilled nature of our being. It is the cure for suffering, the direct path to peace and happiness.

The outward-facing path is the means by which we recognise that our being is shared with everyone and everything. It is the remedy for conflict and the means by which kindness, harmony and justice are restored to humanity. On the Path of Love we discover what we are. The movement in understanding from ‘I am nothing’ through ‘I am everything’ to simply ‘I’ could be called the path of love. This is also the moment at which the traditional spiritual path of renunciation becomes the Tantric path of embrace and inclusion. It is the moment at which the full spectrum of experience is welcomed, explored and celebrated for what it truly is.

In the final stage of this exploration the distinction between consciousness and its objects collapses completely. Experience is not just known by consciousness; it does not just appear in consciousness; consciousness is all there is to experience. To begin with, as we take our stand knowingly as aware Presence, the mind, body and world recede into the background. When the presence and primacy of our self has been established, objects come close again, closer than close. They dissolve into our self and reveal themselves as none other than the shape that our self is taking from moment to moment. Presence is so utterly and intimately one with every appearance, it says ‘Yes’ so unreservedly to every experience, that it is also known as love.

So, to summarise, we move from the formulation, ‘I am something’ to ‘I am nothing’, from ‘I am nothing’ to ‘I am everything’, from ‘I am everything’ to ‘I am’ or ‘Awareness is’, from there to simply ‘I’ and from ‘I’ to…we truly fall silent here. To begin with, we understand objects as appearing to Consciousness. Then we understand that they appear in Consciousness. Then we understand that they appear as Consciousness. Consciousness knows itself in and as the totality of experience. Once the essential, irreducible nature of the mind has been recognised, and its inherent peace and unconditional joy accessed, it is necessary to face ‘outwards’ again towards objective experience, realigning the way we think and feel, and subsequently act, perceive and relate, with our new understanding.

[Source]

#non dualism #nondualism #o #this was so nice #i will def read more of his work #i think i need to meditate on all this #idk how to tag it yet #tag #basics #imp #fave

[lactoseintolerentswag]

Hi there! Just wanted to say I love your Rise character analysis posts, I reference them pretty much every time I write the characters. Thank you for putting in the work!

🥺🥺🥺

Thank you so much for the message!!! Glad you're finding my silly posts helpful, I do my best to make them easy to read.

More are coming soon I promise!! Took a break from writing and junk bc of finals, but my last one was today so. Winter break creation time be upon ye

#this was so nice #very pleasant ask to find in my inbox #critter talks #asks

[cloudcountry]

im one of your moots but im going anon because id feel bad if you think you have to be more sympathetic just because you know my identity

i just felt the need to apologize about the whole idia situation. i didn’t engage with it at all and not saying my stance on the matter throughout the situation, but i feel kind of bad because i said nothing. inaction can sometimes be as harmful as action in some cases, and i feel like this was one of them

granted, the whole situation is over now so my apology just feels like a “look at least i wasnt part of it” apology rather than a genuine one :/

sorry, that’s besides the point. my point is that i feel i shouldn’t have sat back when i sensed your discomfort in the first place

you honestly don’t even need to actually answer/post this since i feel it’d bring unnecessary attention to the situation again after just ending but it’s your choice :)

<3

i definitely wasnt expecting something like this in my inbox when i woke up ^^; but thank you for apologizing!! i dont blame anyone that didnt say anything, it can be hard when the thing you want to speak up about is so widespread. i probably should have formatted my posts asking people to stop with more clarity? i dont know.

it was funny at first but when anons and even people you've never spoken to before start getting in on it, it can become overwhelming really quickly. and then it gets frustrating because you explain time and time again that you HATE this guy but nobody listens. its like nobody cares about what you have to say and honestly this made me like idia even less. its funny because at the start of it i was debating whether i should actually try and see good sides of him. but yk, what happened happened!

you might think this apology is just you passing off responsibility but i didnt read it that way at all. you took the time to tell me how you feel and im grateful. ^^ because in doing so, you brought to my attention that it wasnt just dove and aster who could tell i was genuinely starting to feel uncomfortable. so thank you.

im definitely not planning on starting this whole idia thing again!! i really hope it just stops now.

#anons <3 #this was so nice #thank you to whoever sent this

[ofthecaravel]

Good morning in advance! Have a wonderful day <3

good morning!!! YOU have a wonderful day!!!

#this was so nice #eating my cereal so happy now

[laurfilijames]

*Boop!*

You're such a good writer it makes me angry XD I'm about to join a bunch of new fandoms I'm not even in just to appreciate your fics more and try to absorb some of your talent

Well Scylla my dear, first I'll return your boop

And then I'll SCREAM AT YOUR COMPLIMENT BECAUSE I CANT EVEN DEAL WITH IT

I keep going back up just to make sure I read it correctly and I still can't believe it.

You are so welcome to come join in some of these fandoms (it's fun here, I promise!) and I can't even begin to wrap my head around you wanting to just so you can appreciate what my fics are about.

I am floored and weepy and my heart is so full because of this ask.

THANK YOU!!!!!! 💗🥰

Here's some Boromir Tax

And some Charlie Tax to help entice you further

#🥹 #this was so nice #asks

[j-restlessgeek]

Will leave this question here for you to reply if you want to tell at some point; how was the munich concert 😁💚? I hope you had a great time 💛💚💖

Oh it was absolutely insane, freaking loved it. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

This turned out long, more under the line :3

At first I was very scared and felt wrong but I was met with the sweetest and kindest people ever. It was so nice, I freaking loved it. Absolutely insane. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Yesterday is now up to my fav concert (very close to being first) everyone was so nice and sweet and caring. I didn’t felt like running/crying once during the entire concert, which is nice cause usually large groups activate my flight response and this time there was non. Everyone was so nice and sweet to me.

My absolute highlight was meeting Häärijä, hugging him and having him sign my plushie, which he loved (my sibling also told everyone about the „small“ guy, they also pushed me in his direction, they spotting him first) damn his hugs are so nice. It was so warm and soft and welcoming, the best hug I ever got and I want to go back and replay hugging him 😭😭😭😭😭😭🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 (so grateful I got one and that he loved my plushie, even took pictures of mini häärijä) his voice is just like everything about him, soft and warm. He’s the very berry best. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛.

The concert itself was absolutely insane, Jere is a born performer/entertainer (is that the same word?) and was absolutely adorable. I don’t think I can add what hasn’t been told already 😅. Well maybe that Häärijä was absolutely adorable and sweet. And that he went up and down a set of stairs in his roller skates which is wow, he only held onto a hand. He also tried to hide behind Jukka once during the concert and tried to pass as one of them. Someone should get him a pink suit just for it :3. Also during one point Jere borrowed glow sticks from a fan and turned into a traffic controller, showing left and right. And grumpy looking Häärijä (rarity).

Only added the last one cause of Jere‘s expression, caused me to burst out laughing afterwards. Look at his silly face. It was really so freaking nice 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹. Enjoyed it very much. Note for next time tho: warmer clothes for queueing.

#käärijä #häärijä #käärijä european tour #this was so nice #i had to rewrite this three times cause every time I tried to post my already written answer tumblr decided that nope am eating this #this got long #wow #💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 #absolutely enjoyed it

[silverdragonreads]

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies), James Bond - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond) Additional Tags: 00Q Reverse Bang, Getting Together, Getting to Know Each Other, Post-Skyfall, Q took lessons in urban camouflage, Bond is curious Summary:

In the weeks after Skyfall, after the dust settles, James Bond becomes curious about his bright new Quartermaster. Over the next year, James finds himself learning more about the new Q, but the more he learns, the more he wants to know. Along the way, he might even learn a thing or two about himself.

#fics read in 2023 #00q #james bond #10 to 20k words #this was so nice #another fave

[dontblinkdontevenblink]

hi, i’m drinking hot chocolate right now and feeling very emotional and i wanted to tell you that i love you a lot and i’m so proud of you and you’re doing so great and i know it’s really hard for you right now but. i just. take this as you will, but i’m just SO SO SO SO proud of you for doing all of this for humanity :))))))))

I was not expecting this today but thank you! I love you too, and I'm proud of you too! You're brilliant and worthwhile, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

#ask blog #doctor who #tenth doctor #david tennant #i'm sobbing #this was so nice

[waywardstation]

Eeeeey, I noticed you liked the poll I made about Ingo’s age in Arceus. First off, I just wanted to say I’m a huge fan of your fics! I love that you write for Ingo and Akari since there’s not too many of those kinds of fics, and the fics for Arceus have died down overall since the release of Scarlet and Violet, so it’s nice to know there are still people who write for it, and for the Ingo and Akari relationship specifically, so thank you for that. Anyway, since I can’t see who voted for what on the polls, I wanted to ask you directly what you thought Ingo’s age to be in Arceus. I also wanted to ask which design for Ingo you liked best, his design in Arceus or his design in black and white and black and white 2 . (I made a poll for that question too a while back)

The age poll OP is talking about

Ingo’s design poll OP is talking about

Oh my goodness thank you!!! That is so kind ;w; I’m really happy you like my fics!! I’ve been a little sad seeing the PLA fics dying down a little too (and I’ve contributed to that, but unwillingly; school and overall health are just eating my life away right now ^^;)

But trust me I still have so many PLA/submas fics I want to write!!! So many uncle Ingo and niece Akari concepts to explore! The strength of SV’s grip on me is comparable to a limp noodle haha

AND! Yes I actually voted on both of your polls you mentioned! Thing is, I forget to like a lot of the polls I vote in haha. I just vote and move on.

BUT! For your age poll, I voted for the early-late 30’s category. Ingo’s definitely older in PLA than he is in bw/bw2. So I see him somewhere in his thirties purely because the older he would be in Hisui, the harder all the sudden changes would be on his body. And he already goes through so much :( the information isn’t revealed in canon, so I like to see him in his 30’s somewhere.

AND for which design of Ingo’s I liked best? Honestly I sat on that one for a long time haha. It was really hard, but I ultimately went with Warden Ingo’s design because his appearance in PLA really piqued my interest (I thought the shredded clothing was so cool before I realized who he was) and was what got me started on getting interested in PLA and Submas. Had to give the design credit!!

Thank you so much for such a kind ask OP!!! I appreciate it!! ^^

#wayward’s asks #THIS WAS SO NICE #I’m so glad you like my fics!!! #and that you cared enough to want to know what I voted for ;v; #thank you!!

[v3lnys]

🎀 list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! get to know your moots or followers <3 - lotus

thank you lotus! ily 🫶

1. music! lately ive been listening to more nostalgic songs, but generally metal and punk makes me happy 🤷

2. big freshwater fish... big beautiful creatures i love youu....

3. the weather! it was super windy today, but otherwise it's starting to warm up and its amazing.

4. talking to people (esp with shared interests). pls if u wanna chat lmk im so down to talk all the time

5. just existing with others. parallel play my beloved. i love sitting irl/in vc and just hearing people chat or do their things.

#ask game #this was so nice #agh lovely lovely lovely #🤏

[buckttommy]

"I can’t wait to fall in love with you."

WE NEED TO TALK. HOW CAN YOU WRITE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE AND LATER DESCRIBE IT AS YOUR GREATEST SHAME???? THAT HAD ME FLAILING AND KICKING MY LEGS AND MAKING NOISES THAT ONLY BATS AND DOGS CAN HEAR.

ANON HELP THIS IS SOOOOO 😭 I HAVE THE BIGGEST SMILE ON MY FACE THANK YOU AJDHSKAKDJSJAK

#jack answers mail #HELP #DON'T MAKE ME LOVE THIS FIC #THIS WAS SO NICE