#to learn the lessons life gives you

[jemmo]

i love that the whole of that final ep is just all these characters setting themselves on the path of healing, that none of them are magically fixed, but instead are all committing to creating a world where not only they can heal, but where they can stop others from hurting. because it was never about a single person’s journey, it was about how a system managed to hurt and repress and ignore everyone in it, and how it’s only them wanting and fighting for better, for themselves and for the people they care about, that has the ability to destroy that system, and set in place a community that includes everyone. it’s only after the sun and moon have crossed each others passed, once the world has been shrouded in black, that clear blue skies can be seen again.

the eclipse, i love you.

#the eclipse #man this show #I just can’t help but applaud the message it managed to convey #and how everyone committed so much to a show that above all else wanted to promote love and acceptance and infividuality #and allowing yourself the space to not only mess up #but the space to forgive yourself too #the space to let yourself be flawed and hold yourself accountable and take every experience as a reason to grow #to learn the lessons life gives you #and move past them #don’t live in fear don’t live in resentment don’t live in pain #wake up tomorrow and try to find a world that is brighter #where the sun and the moon both exist and both let the other shine #bc they can only shine thanks to each other #wow I’m so emo this showwwwww

[midnightrealness]

shout out to Cedric's hexley hall teacher he was a real one

Also also!!!! Kind of a headcanon that his teacher was known for being overly kind and patient with "problematic" kids, and that it was under his teaching that those kids would thrive and progress with magic the most

Cedric was of course one of those kids, and during his time at Hexley Hall he still would talk and ask for help from that teacher even when he wasn't his student anymore

I just think its so cute that even decades later he still holds so much respect for him, and his words literally stuck with him his whole life

#sofia the first #sofia the fandom #cedric the sorcerer #cedric the sensational #cedric the great #crazy how when you give space for kids to make mistakes without reprimanding them they learn so much more #crazy how that works #fuck u goodwyn you bitch #sorry chat i rewatched substitute cedric again #also on top of carrying this lesson for life cedric also used it to teach other kids and knfsjdjdjsjsj #i wonder if he saw his younger self in vivian #how she was scared to even try afraid that she would make a mistake

[clarisse-doodles]

Cass + ballet 🩰 (ft. supportive siblings and good dad Bruce)

I love the idea of Cass enjoying dance. It's an outlet that allows her to express herself without words, and I think she would enjoy the highly technical aspect of ballet combined with its storytelling and emotional side. and as a former dancer I always have fun imagining my fav characters do ballet :)

#ft good older bro dick grayson. and supportive babs and steph. and good dad bruce #sewing pointe shoes in the batcave as one does #cass jus having fun #dick and cass bonding over how they both enjoy stretching and falling asleep in the strangest positions #the rite of passage of trying pointes for the first time #bruce watches her first performance and she gives him a big hug #listen yall when i saw that comic panel of cass seeing ballet for the first time and the way it just Made Sense to her #i havent been normal since #i also just love the idea that eventually cass decides to take lessons and makes friends and learns things she'd never considered because #i think she'd be able to replicate most of the steps just by watching because of her training but she would be coming from #a background focused on martial arts and fighting and not. art and storytelling #and i'd love to see that being explored more. cass using her athletic skillset in something so unrelated to vigilante life #creating beauty instead of causing violence #clearly i've thought about this too much #if you have fic recs PLEASE GIVE THEM TO ME #i haven't read a lot of comics either outside of the first half of cass' batgirl run so recs for comics abt cass welcome as well! #clarisse doodles #dc #cassandra cain #batfam #batgirl #black bat #dc fanart #ballet

[lvstharmony]

​beyond grateful for the people that are surrounding me in my life, just as i am grateful for the people i’ve parted ways with, for without them, i would not be the person i am today.

#i have left so many people throughout my life #and #if someone would ask me if i’d regret any choice i’ve made i would say no #i regret hurting people yet i wouldn’t change a thing if i could #without the suffering the sacrifices and the lessons i would not be the person i am today that i can finally say i’m proud of #whenever i read the question “would you want to be your friend if you’d meet yourself?” deep down my answer was no #i was a good friend and i always tried my best to be there for everyone #but i was so blinded and overwhelmed by my pain that i tried so hard not to project on others that it was exactly the thing i’ve done #i was extremely caring sensitive loving and selfless but my ”bad“ traits were just as extreme #my emotions were so overwhelming that they were scattered all over the place that it didn’t allow me to have any control over them #i used to be so terrified of being alone. all i’ve felt was a great loneliness that was residing within me #until i’ve gathered the strength to leave an entire friendgroup with people that meant the world for me #they weren’t good for me anymore just as i wasn’t for them #since that day i’ve grown a lot i became a better and healthier version of myself #i learned how to be alone and to find the peace in it and in myself #all i’ve had was Allah swt. and He is all i will ever need. #without the hardships in terms of friendship i wouldn’t have been able to learn how to be alone and love and enjoy it #without it i could not say that i could easily give up the people in my life #i could if i had to bc i have Allah swt. #but i’ve learned how to choose and to choose the right people #i don’t need you and never will but i choose you bc i want you in my life and i think that makes it so much more special #i can finally say that i love the person i am today and can’t wait to see myself grow even more as the cycle of growing is never ending #I still have so much to learn and I will let it come to me with open arms #an open mind and an open heart #above all the most precious gift i’ve earned is to learn how to have tawakkul. #everything that happens every trial that is afflicted upon us has meaning #and it’s beautiful. #being able to pick out the khair in everything is the biggest blessing #alhamdulillah for the things that bruised my soul alhamdulillah for the things that mended it #alhamdulillah for everything bc truly; Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear.

[beliscary]

in the au with the ladyhawke vibes that exists only in my head, i think terence's version of the curse would be a fox 🤔

#bc he's clever!!! also he's just like. a biiiit more chill than navarre lmao lmao #no Mouse as such bc I think Kihel should be here #dion is of course still dragon just. you know. stuck that way during the day. cute lil black fox haunting his war tent at night. #i am of course lying abt it being in my head only. ive started a sketchdump #& i think the curse wasn't inflicted bc of romantic jealousy in this instance #but instead like... 'this is the life you will have regardless. take this suffering as an opportunity to learn a lesson.' #'you only delay the inevitable.' #'give him up. do your duty. be a good weapon.' yanno? 'if you only accept your responsibilities you can see the sun w/ your own eyes again' #dion: What Sun Without Him

[boricuababy714]

#boricuababy714 #cada rosa tiene sus espinas #give #don’t #empty #you #life #life lessons #life learning

[brothfan1997]

the problem with adventure time is that i am so deadly serious about it and how good i think it is so it is difficult to have casual conversations about it without delving into my personal philosophies about the meaning of life and what we owe to each other and ourselves etc etc etc. cannot be normal

#sure its a funny silly show but its about life death the universe and everything in between #and it manages to grapple with extremely complex and emotional topics in ways that leave you feeling both meloncholy but also… ready? #to confront yourself and your place in the universe. u kno #at least. thats how i feel about it LOL #i’m not talking season one or even two but that doesn’t negate the vaue those seasons provide as set dressing and emotional tone. etc #to me adventure time is less about the characters (although it is certainly about them) #and more about painting a vast and nuanced portrain of a fantastical universe that gives life and humor to abstract ideas and feelings #it teaches you how to sit with them. and make peace and grow and change and love etc etc YOU KNOW !! #the love that went into creating it is so palpable with each and every episode #also that post going around about how having to shoehorn in a moral lesson is a major problem woth the artistic integrity of many kids shows #adventure time does not have that problem. #it proposes ideas ? but it takes characters entire seasons #years even #to learn from their mistakes. anyway #adventure time

[fiendishartist2]

putting a man in my screenwriting tv show concept with shaking hands knowing the fandom would completely disregard the sapphic main characters for him

#teeth gritted rn giving him the worst most normal average joe name. bc i want no one to care about him #ive learned my lesson being a tma fan #fandom would rather sympathize w a shitty man than have basic empathy or understanding or respect for a woman #im adding a shitty boyfriend to the story bc it needs outside conflict. so robin has a lowkey misogynistic bf lol #hes the type of guy who seems normal until you express any sort of interest in traditionally feminine interests #and then he turns into a filmbro whos going to explain the concept of cinematography to you #but if you get to ambitious and start to be more successful than him he starts bitching about chores and how you dont love him bc you- #were to busy with work to cook dinner for him #its not perfect on robins side ofc. shes becoming intertwined w this woman at work even if it seems antagonistic and shes starting to- #-ignore him in favour of aria who is giving her the excitement and mutual respect that her shitty bf has never given her #aria may think she is the most evil disgusting horrible woman on earth but she doesnt condescend or think robin is incapable #robin is in fact so capable she is singlehandedly ruining aria's life lol #anyways thats my oc rambles <3

[arachnidiots-a]

i don’t quite touch on liam’s mental health or state of mind much even though it’s a very crucial thing that is constantly behind a lot of why they do anything or act how they do or even dress in the nauseating colored outfits but coming home for liam is so much more difficult than they could’ve predicted.

the expectation that everyone knows them and their life is waiting for them is all so naive really. they’ve been gone for months, they’ve changed in ways that are almost unrecognizable at times. there’s not a person who understands the devastation of their experiences besides roxy and even then they had different paths while being thrown around in the multiverse.

and time moves, things are different when they come back. peter and martin have been storing what they can that’s left from liam’s apartment in their own because nobody dares to get rid of it. when liam comes back they’re living on the couch in that apartment and they have lost a space that is entirely theirs to grieve, to cry, to recover, to heal in. it’s only a couple months but a couple months when you can’t sleep and you don’t feel like you’re breathing or talking right is such a profoundly difficult situation. their chest feels like it’s going to split open at any moment and after five months everyone pitches in to get liam in what’s essentially a shoe box of an apartment. but it’s their shoebox! all to themself!

they don’t have much to start over with besides what’s been saved by the boys but it’s almost better that way. the clothes from the multiverse are tossed and long gone and good riddance because liam can’t stand the idea of ever wearing them again. those are layers of an estranged life. they can’t even keep the suit, they make a new spider-suit and while it might not look too far from it at least the fabric is new and so is the thread. that’s what matters. everything else just felt wrong and gross but to don their colorful wardrobe doesn’t feel right either, it’s mostly comfortable nostalgic clothing for a while. she wears hoodies and old shirts and it’s nothing harsh on anybodys eyes. on good days there’s a typical colorful windbreaker. on bad days there’s a blanket over her head.

being around people who know you, who recognize you is such a relief like no other. liam’s no longer staring at faces they know and pretending they’re just a passing considerate stranger. but… they don’t know liam not like this anymore. they don’t know or understand or comprehend the way in which the experience is so heavy on their soul. there’s concerned glances and stares and dropped conversations. they want to help but google doesn’t have advice for what to do when your cousin comes back from the multiverse. it’s refreshing and claustrophobic all at once

loneliness didn’t make them so independent they don’t know how to be around people. it didn’t harden them to let nobody in. it’s not your typical- they were lonely for so long and it made them closed off kind of arc. they were lonely, they were desperate and craved attention. they came out of it needing those connections. it’s all very: you might not know this exact version of me but you did know one and i need you to know this one too. i’m asking you to know this one too even if it’s hard and i’m not making it easy and none of us are meeting expectations right now.

being back with roxy again is a terrifying relief too. there’s the fear and the sleepless obsessive nights where liam needs to hear from roxy because what if one of them disappears again. and yet! they fall into a rhythm and work together like no time has passed at all when it comes to being a spider duo. they’re more confident, they’re more experienced, and they’re side by side again. the two spend so much time together when they’re back, they really are inseparable and nobody’s going to try and stop that (except a spider-man villain but). they need each other, they’re soulmates in every way and once again there’s a pair of blue and yellow strings so perfectly laced together again. who else is going to understand the feeling of chasing a face down in hopes of a friend and finding that there’s no recognition in their voice and their face and their eyes??

and ohhhh sweet sweet emmett jeffries!! the little half brother they barely know and who tries his hardest to reach out to liam because nobody’s heard from them in a while and he has memories of a sweet sibling who’d look out for him. he’s going to college soon and they’re not close but maybe they can be!! he’s the perfect little joy for liam because he doesn’t know and he just wants to get to know her and learn about her and it’s a distraction that’s pleasant and full of love. he doesn’t look at her with sad eyes and she doesn’t feel like he’s some ghost from her adventures because out there she never met another emmett! she barely knew one to even meet!

crawling out of the absolute pit of their state is such a long process and they throw themself towards so many distractions and means of coping through giving college another try and working constantly and building the web. but also there’s just a whole lot of love and determination and a really really good support structure that is in place and is found again that allows for them to grow and get better. she’s still haunted, she’ll always be haunted, but she’s full of love and hope and a whole lot of confidence in one truth: they can endure it

#gave it a read more bc i knew id be going on and on tonight. oh the rambles of a woman with a wet towel on her head #also if you ever want to know about liam and their life and these sorts of things in au verses come give me a poke #they’re obviously not free falling in different worlds in like their non spider-man verses but they have shit going on regardless #how else are they meant to learn the lesson that they’re okay on their own and also okay with other people #mental health tw #depression tw #ask to tag other stuff! #peter parker watch ur back im in a Mood #LK. BELIEVE / headcanons

[littlehen]

sept cents jours aujourd'hui!

#usually when you get to a milestone #it gives you a free trial of the paid version of the app #but this time it has not :( #I am doing one lesson a day currently which is no way to learn anything valuable #but the new job is taking up my whole life rn #anyway félicitations à moi #duolingo

[prncssguya]

today’s the day

#birthday #i’ve been musing about the age 27 and what i’ve learned about life up to this point #apparently this is the age where you should have shit figured out #this past year i’ve adopted more of a ‘go with the flow’ mentality #life is going to happen regardless of the choices you make #time will still move forward #one thing i do love about getting older is you stop giving so much of a fck about petty things #i missed out on alot of things when i was younger because of anxiety #now i’m just doing whatever i want #i don’t want this to get too long so i’ll end it with the most important lesson i’ve learned so far: #mental health is the most important part of your health #your thoughts guide your actions and the choices you make #adopting more of a positive mindset can be crucial to just getting through the day #many days i don’t win but there’s always tomorrow

[jackpotsadmon]

shit like kizuna and distant blue sky are going to be the fucking death of me man

(long kizuna and pokemon rants in tags + a lot of emotional rambling and spoilers)

#digimon n pokemon were my first two animes and like. i hold those memories very dear to my heart #i loved both of these btw i am holding back tears i just saw distant blue sky i love ash man he’s just. like he’s just some guy i love him #he gives off this kind of childish joy that made me love pokémon in the first place when i was little . like baby etke would sit and watch #the gengar episode from the first season on repeat SOBBING #i don’t have to say why kizuna one hit KO’d me do i? /lh #mini rant actually because it’s been an . Hour #agumon and gabumon were so and are so important to me as characters . the point of digimon partners in season one is that they are there #to be a mirror to what their partner needs to accept and overcome. gabumon never gave up trying to make matt feel loved and helped him stop #repressing his feelings and agumon and tai gave eachother things to live and fight for!! that’s why agumon’s speech about life in 02 gets me #because he has had to fight a lot. but he did it all because he had tai and tai had him #and i think what kizuna missed the mark on was that it wasn’t that tai and matt didn’t need them or want them anymore. #it was that agumon and gabumon helped them get to a place where they don’t need that mirror anymore. #it sucks and i wish they hadn’t left but like. i think that’s the point #like we’ve all had shit that has helped us grow and cope and learn and when we leave it or when it leaves us it feels painful. it sucks #but you realize how much that thing really helped you become a better person #christ this got personal and ranty. anyways i’m still emotional about kizuna #kizuna’s ending wasn’t happy. but you could tell in the credits that even if they didn’t have their partners anymore #the lessons they learned from them is still there #digimon #gamma’s static #pokemon #digimon last evolution kizuna

[fortune-maiden]

I think about this part a lot…

What if SQX had been left behind for Xie Lian and the others to find?

What would have happened to him? Would Pei Ming have taken him in?

#tgcf #shi qingxuan #Pei Ming #obviously with my bias the answer is a very loud yes #but realistically I do wonder about it #what would his care have looked like? #would he have made sqx his Junior as an excuse to keep him in his palace? #would that have been allowed? #but what would that have been like for sqx? #being kept in the heavens in the care of someone he’s been gotten along with #the once glamourous wind master now pei ming’s ward #another idea I like is pm reluctantly taking him to ysh’s retreat #sqx learns to farm #I have also thought about aus where sqx ends up in px’s care #because what could be more awkward than being stuck with someone you got banished! #except px is not going to coddle him. he’s going to be nice and sympathetic #and give sqx all the life lessons pei ming always talked about giving never had the backbone to

[thesmokinpossum]

no but for real, i need to kill the caregiver in my head because everytime i decline to do something for someone else knowing that doing it would not have been benefical to me (and generally would have been actively detrimental) I spend hours if not days feeling guilty about it even if I had never consented to do the thing in the first place and i’m really getting sick of it

#honestly at this point of my life i need to be selfish and focus on getting my shit together #i cannot be ayone primary support system #and i need to learn to be ok with the fact that it might be difficult to accept for some people but it's still the reality of things #also i'm currently taking a break from weed mainly monetary reasons i'm broke as hell and i'm stressed as fuck #so if you think that you want me to be your number one mental health ressource no you don't #it's kinda like asking a drowning person to give you swimming lessons

[deus-ex-mona]

“if you don’t have anything good to say, ✨don’t say anything✨” is my life’s motto, after all~

#my specialty is keeping my opinions to myself… all while silently judging you to your faces #it’s a skill i learned from my mother… though she’s also a hypocrite who judges you with the people she’s with. thanks for the life lesson 妈 #i’ll only give my opinions when asked… or cry about it in the tags of my own posts bc i really like my echo chamber ok #(…though it’s also bc i have actually contributed to misinformation in the past… [stares at my sh*n j*da* tl]) #i’d like nothing more for that nonsense to get buried under my old posts but the lyrics vid that used my tl has over 100k views now and— #[buries face in hands] i would like to sincerely apologise to everyone who has had the misfortune of seeing that horrible tl #i mean!!!! i literally forgot that the word ‘hoarse’ exists!! that’s why that weirdass ‘till our throats burn dry’ even exists s o b s #and i also forgot to even type in some entire words and aaaaaaaaaaaaa #the cringe is real. s o b s. i’m so sorry for the misinformation #what brought this on? well… i’m just having my daily ✨quarter life crisis✨ wherein i’m struck by the realisation that i’m bad at everything #then i thought about my tls，which led to me thinking about my greatest tl failure (aside from my daikirai tl)… #…which naturally led to the thought of ‘oh crap i spread misinformation :(’，which led to… this #i swear i’m bad at everything aside from running sideways in crowded train stations… maybe my true talent was crabwalking all along…? #inedible blubbering

[firefly-fez]

hank and john i love u, ur doing amazing sweetie but do u have any idea how hard it is to sound professional and respectable when im emailing charities about the p4a. i am trying so hard to make this sound like a lucrative promitional opportunity and then i have to say ‘worldsuck’ with a straight face. like its a great term and it captures the impossible persistent reality of suffering and injustice like no other but. buddy. it dont exactly have a professional flair. i am trying to establish myself as a humanitarian advocate and honestly nerdfighteria is, like, a genuinely good foundation for that kind of advocacy and volunteerism but it’s a little like i am trying to build on an admittedly very sturdy steel frame that also happens to have a million little smiley face stickers all over it. like. this isn’t technically impeding me but i am concerned im going to raise some eyebrows.

#look maybe theres a lesson in this for me to be honest #after all those years of trying to be the prefect student the perfect girl to set myself up for good things in life #the thing that actually helped me get a leg up in the direction i truly wanted to go #was not in fact the hoity toity private school culture obsessed with reputation and prestige #but a couple of heartfelt and earnest nerds with known to cover their faves in sharpie #it makes sense doesnt it? #i was a sponsor to a girl in poverty and we were penpals and great friends #and i promised myself a long time ago whatever i make of my education would be to benefit kids like her #i want to make good on that promise but i have no idea how #so for a while there i bought into the idea that i should be impressive and successful and have resources and opportunities and good grades #and be their perfect student and all but eventually #eventually i fell from grace by becoming a little more like my friend than my prestige obsessed culture is comfortable with #and i realised i had turned myself into a perfect piece of propaganda for them to wave around as an example of why you should give em money #but at my least successful i was more has more understanding more nuance and more insight into the trials of my friend and ppl like her #i should have realised it would have me branded as a class traitor that i would never learn it from the School of Prestige #i wanted to be a student and you wanted me to be impressive #you cant exploit my intellect for your propaganda anymore i will not use it for you #i will not paint over curiosity or compassion or enthusiasm any more #i am free of you / i will take all the riches you gave me / and betray you by making no profit #but give freely and generously to those you kept out of your golden gates #you thought they werent good enough for you but there is wealth that you will never know in their hearts that you cannot see #because you only think of wealth as someting you can possess #there are riches in this world beyond your pocket; false prophet #i know now that i have sold too much of myself to you #i know now that if i continue in my plight to be good enough i am drawing a line between myself and the disadvantaged #dishonour them to exhalt myself and feed them the lie that human worth is earnt won and proven by feats purposefully impossible for most #my people love to brag about being the ‘land of opportunity’ but leave out the years they spent stealing; cheating; killing; plundering #that made ‘opportunity’ impossible everywhere else #now they have the gall to applaud themselves for success and lie about winning fair and square #gaslighting to forget all the world’s history and they almost had me fooled