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Posted in Xanthan's Xenodochial Xanadu
Posted 4 years ago
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I'm not a huge fan of the existential, I got enough to worry about without having to worry whether my thoughts are even my own.
But I learned a long time ago that the only thing I can control in this world is me, and I hold me to pretty high standards. I refuse to be a hypocrite, so if I would look down on a quality of workmanship from someone else then I hold myself to that. And whereas that thought process came about when I was a child and had limited life experience, and so believed that someone could give their all into everything they did without killing themselves, some vestiges of it still remain.
I maintain that I am in control of myself. But I cannot choose for someone else, and I have no influence over my schedule or my life. It's always been this way because of the way my family works. I accept this. It frustrates me, and it limits me, but I accept this. I work with it, and I'm pretty good at averaging 25 years worth of "planned that, but xyz superceeded i again" into a pretty comprehensive mental tree diagram of what could happen and what's worth gambling on. I'm still wrong sometimes. I shrug. I move on. I'm right a large portion of the time though, and that's the important thing.
You do not have control over the world, the events that occur, or even truly what happens to you - but you can look at this wonderful machine we live in, throw down the rose colored glasses of "what you'd like to do/see/etc" and put on the welding goggles of "lets make it work". No its not always comfortable. Yes there's a lot of sacrifice and putting up with not getting your way. But you will be able to forge your way.
Yield when the tides of battle are not in your favor, but never submit. Never give up. Compromise is, indeed, different than settling; but stating it so passively is a step in the wrong direction. Being passive in this world leads you to dark places where the feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness, and powerlessness surround you and start to win. I learned that the hard way, and had to claw my way back out from that very deep dark hole.
Be serene enough to accept the things you cannot change.
Be brave enough to change the things you can.
Be wise enough to know the difference.
But I learned a long time ago that the only thing I can control in this world is me, and I hold me to pretty high standards. I refuse to be a hypocrite, so if I would look down on a quality of workmanship from someone else then I hold myself to that. And whereas that thought process came about when I was a child and had limited life experience, and so believed that someone could give their all into everything they did without killing themselves, some vestiges of it still remain.
I maintain that I am in control of myself. But I cannot choose for someone else, and I have no influence over my schedule or my life. It's always been this way because of the way my family works. I accept this. It frustrates me, and it limits me, but I accept this. I work with it, and I'm pretty good at averaging 25 years worth of "planned that, but xyz superceeded i again" into a pretty comprehensive mental tree diagram of what could happen and what's worth gambling on. I'm still wrong sometimes. I shrug. I move on. I'm right a large portion of the time though, and that's the important thing.
You do not have control over the world, the events that occur, or even truly what happens to you - but you can look at this wonderful machine we live in, throw down the rose colored glasses of "what you'd like to do/see/etc" and put on the welding goggles of "lets make it work". No its not always comfortable. Yes there's a lot of sacrifice and putting up with not getting your way. But you will be able to forge your way.
Yield when the tides of battle are not in your favor, but never submit. Never give up. Compromise is, indeed, different than settling; but stating it so passively is a step in the wrong direction. Being passive in this world leads you to dark places where the feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness, and powerlessness surround you and start to win. I learned that the hard way, and had to claw my way back out from that very deep dark hole.
Be serene enough to accept the things you cannot change.
Be brave enough to change the things you can.
Be wise enough to know the difference.
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Posted in Xanthan's Xenodochial Xanadu
Posted 4 years ago
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I did it, i finally signed up for my GRE 
I hate standardized tests both on principal and from experience, but I'm gonna do it and I've gotta do it if I don't wanna lose my place in this program lol
I hate standardized tests both on principal and from experience, but I'm gonna do it and I've gotta do it if I don't wanna lose my place in this program lol
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Posted in Xanthan's Xenodochial Xanadu
Posted 4 years ago
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@Xanthan: Aww thank you so much! yeah its going to be quite a bit of work, but this will make a really good piece for building my portfolio haha
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Posted in Xanthan's Xenodochial Xanadu
Posted 4 years ago
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@Xanthan: Will do!
Also for the prompt:
I know this doesn't look like much, but I'm so excited for the potential of this thumbnail I made tonight. The poses and motions are what I've been imagining for days. There's a decent amount of work between this and the ideal, but I'm still just super excited.
Also for the prompt:
I know this doesn't look like much, but I'm so excited for the potential of this thumbnail I made tonight. The poses and motions are what I've been imagining for days. There's a decent amount of work between this and the ideal, but I'm still just super excited.
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Posted in The Camp Half-Blood Chronicles(and other stuff by Rick Riordan.)
Posted 4 years ago
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@LupaPrinceRomulus:
Honestly there had to be some gods associated with The People, because The Book was reinforced by pretty significant magic. I think as a kid I always assumed it was Frond the Elvin King, who was referenced in the coded scroll at the bottom of the pages in Book 1, because as far as I know, he was the Fairy King back before the People were driven underground, and it seems like there hasn't been a Fairy King since. (It seems like LEP runs the city (s) -- i couldn't get through Atlantis Complex, so idk about other LE cities -- but if there were higher powers to answer to you'd expect to have heard from them during some of the more serious and dangerous situations that arose.)
Also lore-wise, Fairy Kings tend to be assigned by nature/some greater power than just a conquering army or a powerful man.
LupaPrinceRomulus:
I could see the Lower Elements Police having HAD their own Gods a long time ago too, for what it's worth.
I could see the Lower Elements Police having HAD their own Gods a long time ago too, for what it's worth.
Honestly there had to be some gods associated with The People, because The Book was reinforced by pretty significant magic. I think as a kid I always assumed it was Frond the Elvin King, who was referenced in the coded scroll at the bottom of the pages in Book 1, because as far as I know, he was the Fairy King back before the People were driven underground, and it seems like there hasn't been a Fairy King since. (It seems like LEP runs the city (s) -- i couldn't get through Atlantis Complex, so idk about other LE cities -- but if there were higher powers to answer to you'd expect to have heard from them during some of the more serious and dangerous situations that arose.)
Also lore-wise, Fairy Kings tend to be assigned by nature/some greater power than just a conquering army or a powerful man.
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Posted in The Camp Half-Blood Chronicles(and other stuff by Rick Riordan.)
Posted 4 years ago
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@LupaPrinceRomulus:
Oh I would live for that. To watch Artemis devour Lockhart alive with his own boasts would be a thing of beauty. Actually one of the only things I still check up on on tumblr is the blog af-answers, the artist is very good at her character representations and keeping them in character etc. The Harry Potter crossover she did was excellent, you should go find it!
Wait was Foaly even in it??? Like a huge part of the plot pertaining to the lower elements relied on foaly being smart (and a smartass).
But yeah, ive wrestled with that for years in daydreams. The 3 types of centaurs are largely not compatible. AF!verse and Riordenverse is kind of explainable, especially after the advent of other mythologies in Riordenverse. The lower elements are (largely) celtic myths and characters so the centaurs that were more closely tied to Tir na Nog would obviously have followed that history (Heaven city being basically the faeish "other world" thus why im using that name) instead of with the hellenic traditions. That and, like Chiron, i'm sure there are other centaurs who don't have the nature or interests of frat boys.
I frankly don't know enough about HP!verse to make a good argument, but they seemed to be less "human" from my memory.
LupaPrinceRomulus:
Artemis Fowl's gonna have 'quite' a few words to say to Gilderoy Lockhart
Artemis Fowl's gonna have 'quite' a few words to say to Gilderoy Lockhart
Oh I would live for that. To watch Artemis devour Lockhart alive with his own boasts would be a thing of beauty. Actually one of the only things I still check up on on tumblr is the blog af-answers, the artist is very good at her character representations and keeping them in character etc. The Harry Potter crossover she did was excellent, you should go find it!
LupaPrinceRomulus:
did the Foul movie forget the geniuses part too!
did the Foul movie forget the geniuses part too!
Wait was Foaly even in it??? Like a huge part of the plot pertaining to the lower elements relied on foaly being smart (and a smartass).
But yeah, ive wrestled with that for years in daydreams. The 3 types of centaurs are largely not compatible. AF!verse and Riordenverse is kind of explainable, especially after the advent of other mythologies in Riordenverse. The lower elements are (largely) celtic myths and characters so the centaurs that were more closely tied to Tir na Nog would obviously have followed that history (Heaven city being basically the faeish "other world" thus why im using that name) instead of with the hellenic traditions. That and, like Chiron, i'm sure there are other centaurs who don't have the nature or interests of frat boys.
I frankly don't know enough about HP!verse to make a good argument, but they seemed to be less "human" from my memory.
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Posted in The Camp Half-Blood Chronicles(and other stuff by Rick Riordan.)
Posted 4 years ago
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@LupaPrinceRomulus: I mean i think to dogged fans will keep hoping, but Uncle Rick has been working nonstop for a couple of years to get Disney onboard with a good[/] reboot/series.
As for AF, i saw it best in a tumblr post heaven forbid:
[i]Book Artemis would release a fake shark into the water where Movie Artemis was surfing, wait until he thought he was safe, and then release the real shark.
I love my savage boy, he was already relatable and okay so I'm a little megalomaniacal but they just watered it down and made it flat pepsi to the masterpiece of a coke float that the original was.
As for AF, i saw it best in a tumblr post heaven forbid:
[i]Book Artemis would release a fake shark into the water where Movie Artemis was surfing, wait until he thought he was safe, and then release the real shark.
I love my savage boy, he was already relatable and okay so I'm a little megalomaniacal but they just watered it down and made it flat pepsi to the masterpiece of a coke float that the original was.
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Posted in Xanthan's Xenodochial Xanadu
Posted 4 years ago
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@Xanthan: Excellent! And I'll have to go find those two ^^
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Posted in Forum Topic Question
Posted 4 years ago
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@Colin: Okay understood! Thank you very much for your time and help figuring out where to put it!
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Posted in The Camp Half-Blood Chronicles(and other stuff by Rick Riordan.)
Posted 4 years ago
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@LupaPrinceRomulus: Yeah i refuse to look at the AF movie, that book and those characters have meant too much to me over the years that I wish the movie had never been made.
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Posted in Forum Topic Question
Posted 4 years ago
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@xvz: Thank you so much for your help!
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Posted in The Lupa Clan: Where Werewolves plus other peoples gather
Posted 4 years ago
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@LupaPrinceRomulus: Totally different topic, but loving the new sword Lup!
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Posted in Forum Topic Question
Posted 4 years ago
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This may not be the purpose for this forum, and if not please let me know, but where might someone post about activities and pastimes? I am meaning specifically things like non-religious witchcraft/magic craft?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Posted in Xanthan's Xenodochial Xanadu
Posted 4 years ago
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@Xanthan: Thanks for explaining! Pixel art is something that I am not skilled at see art credit in signature, my skills are more driven towards manga art, but I'll tag you with some videos I used to learn from. But my experience with art is that I had to learn how to think about both art and physical objects/3d objects before I could actually get good.
Assassination Classroom is definitely top tier tbh, like to the point that I go around with the main character as my icon/name on pretty much every social media. That and I identify with the character a lot. I haven't seen Black Butler, Orange, or Juuni Taisen, but the others you mentioned were pretty good!
Assassination Classroom is definitely top tier tbh, like to the point that I go around with the main character as my icon/name on pretty much every social media. That and I identify with the character a lot. I haven't seen Black Butler, Orange, or Juuni Taisen, but the others you mentioned were pretty good!
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