New Year - Blog Posts
And with that, the year 2024 has begun. Happy New Year to you all. 🎊🎊
With the new year comes the buzz about new year resolutions. What goals, intentions or habits are you setting for yourself this year?
My main intentions for this year are:
Following my joy🪇
Being rooted in the present moment 🌴
And showing up more authentically 🐦
And as someone who focuses more on the process rather the the goal, the habits/systems I'm implementing include:
Creating bi weekly content📝📋
Taking daily evening walks 👣🚶♀
Listening to self development podcasts 🔊
Remember, when it comes to goal/intention setting, it's more than just what you want to achieve but who you want to be and who you want to show up as. And that is reflected by your daily habits/actions.
_You can do this!! So what's one simple habit are you choosing to focus on?🦋
On Post-Holiday-Season Depression
I think many people are experiencing post-holiday-season depression now that we're past Christmas and are already in the new year. We've compressed most of our expectations, hopes and honest desires into a dream we thought would come true at this time of the year. I'm not saying that this week inevitably tumbled short on it because this typical sadness doesn't come from disappointment but from having gone through the whole thing without any of it contained--with only some material evidence, proving that it really happened.
With my girlfriend we have a little 4 years old tradition for Advent, where we make these heartwarming calendars for each other. One little surprise for each day. It's never really anything that amounts to a christmas present or something, just chocolate or tea or some small ornament (these from her and I wrote a novella broken up into pieces, one for each day). This tradition of ours isn't making this part of the year a huge, outstanding whirlpool of awesomeness. No doubt though, it certainly feels very nice and I'm always looking forward to it but it's not a big feat, really. However, when I run out of small packages I feel like crying. This routine of getting something nice for each day and giving something that I hope is encouraging, is missing terribly. For me its lack is so heartbraking that whenever I think about it I genuinly feel like crying.
The same applies for Christmas Eve, only on a bigger scale. That's the day, when my year reaches its climax. But it's gone. I still have my presents and memories but I couldn't hold on to the day itself.
New Year's Eve is also just a scar. It's a lot like sunrise or spring: a beautiful, romantic, shimmering start. Well, the promise of starting over again, which we humans can't help but believe in and to my greatest surprise it isn't completely baseless... New Year's Eve is a shiny, happy celebration most of the time but when it's past we're left with doubts about our convictions and hopes (ironically I've found this to be baseless).
When this part of the year is past and we're stripped from the air of sometimes loud, sometimes quiet ceremonialism, we can feel very low (surprisingly suddenly).
Often times I wonder if there's a cure for this sad state but I had the bitter revelation that there isn't.
When it's Christmas or New Year's Eve, or even when it's Advent, we may be gifted with something unearthly. I think these holidays allow us to see things we couldn't otherwise. And we're moving toward this transcendent greatness, only we don't always have the privilige of being lifted externally in addition to our futile efforts. These unutterable big things are what generally guide our imagination, when we're formulating definitions of everyday greatness and when we're trying to break out from the everydays.
I'm extremely sad by having all the celebrations brought to an end but I have my hopes intact and dreams unbroken--actually, I have them strengthened.
FOCUS!!
Napapansin mo ba na parang paulit-ulit ka na lang sa mga problemang pinag dadaanan mo? Na kapag darating yung malaking alon sa buhay mo lulubog ka na lang at aahon. Tapos mag pray ka tatawag ka kay Lord, iaahon ka nya. Tapos ganun ulit.
Subukan mong tignan kung anong ginawa ni Hesus sa gitna ng kanyang pinakamabigat na pinag daanan ang pag ka pako sa Krus.
Hindi Nya ikinahiya ang pag kakapako sa Krus para sa kagalakan na nag hihintay sa kanya sa Piling ng Ama. Hindi Nya ikinahiya ang pag kaka pako sa Krus para kaluwalhatian ng Habag ng Diyos sa atin.
Nakatingin si Hesus sa goal Nya ang maluwalhati ang Ama.
Ikaw, san kaba naka Focus? Sa problema o kay Hesus?
Sa Kanya lang tayo tumingin dahil Sya ang ihemplo na dapat nating ipamuhay. Tama na ang mag pakain sa problema. Ngayon na ang simula ng pag babago ang pag takbo sa karera ng ating pananampalataya. Siya ang pinag mulan at kabuuan ng ating Pananampalataya. Eto na ang oras para tumingin sa TROPHY natin na nag hihintay sa langit. Wag mong ikahiya ang pananampalataya mo ang, DIYOS ang bahala sayo.
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Bloavezh mat 2022 d’an holl !
Bonne Année 2022 à tous !!!
Ein glücklisches neues Jahr 2022 für alle !!
Happy New Year 2022 to all !!!!
Anyone else find this time of year difficult? Is it wrong to say I feel a little bit of anxiety thinking about the next year? I want to be excited and hopeful, but I feel a little bit scarred by the past few years. Things have been okay, really. It just feels like impending doom sometimes. The news doesn't help.
🎄☃️ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Wishing you endless joy, peace, and success in the year ahead 🌹🎄
Thank you! You too (and everyone who sees this)!
merry ☃️࿌ིྀ྇⋆ᘓમ૨ıડτന੨ડ⋆࿌ིྀ྇☃️ to those who celebrate it yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
So I have started a thing to motivate me (kinda)
I have a jar next to my bedroom door and everytime I have a good health day, I put a tiny piece of origami in it
My friend (@ask-and-i-answer ) wanted to do something similar so we came up with a mug and money system. The bigger the coin, the bigger the pain she had that day.
For example: a quarter would mean that she was having extremely bad pain and a dime means very little pain.
Seneca on December Holidays:
‘It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. License is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations, – as if the Saturnalia differed at all from the usual business day! So true it is that the difference is nil, that I regard as correct the remark of the man who said: “Once December was a month; now it is a year.”’ © Seneca, "Moral Letters to Lucilius".
2023 Pfp!
New year, hopefully not the last lol
Hi dear friends, may I officially wish you a very Happy New Year and the absolute Best Wishes for 2023 🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈🙌. I hope the New Year will be a very fine year for you and bring great joy and happiness 🙏👍😌.
I will dearly look forward to showing some wonderful art works here for you through out the year and I dearly thank you for your kindness through out 22 .
I hope the new week has begun well for you , I'll start showing more art works very soon , be well and Take care 🙌🤗🙏☺️
my new year goals for 2025 is to DESTROY GENDER
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Crescent Cookies 🌙
I’ve been wanting to use some magick since the last time I almost burned down my kitchen so here we go.
Baking or cooking magick is wonderful way for witches in the broom closet to create and discretely practice.
TBH this recipe went haywire so I randomly threw some more stuff in oops.
What you’ll need
For cookies
2-2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour
2 sticks of softened salted butter (add 1/4 a pinch of salt if you don’t have salted butter)
3/4 cups of sugar
2 tablespoons of milk
1/2 cup of chopped almonds
Pinch of Cinnamon
For icing (optional)
3/4 cups of powdered sudar
1 tablespoon of milk
A dash of vanilla extract
Recipe
Beat the butter until fluffy, then add sugar. Best until combined
Add almonds, cinnamon and 2 cups of flour, mix until combined
The mix should be crumbly and not a dough yet. Slowly add milk until dough consistency.
Use the rest of the flour for your hands and break off pieces to form crescent shapes
Place on cookie sheet and cook for 15 minutes.
In another bowl mix together powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Add more powdered sugar or milk for desired consistency.
Allow cookies to cool then dip into frosting while still warm.
Random notes
You can light candles in your kitchen, cleanse your space before cooking or add anything that you find fit.
I left some of these cookies on my alter and brought some to a friends party, this was the first time I successfully baked some I’m pretty proud.
I wish everyone a blessed new year ~
Heart containers full baby
happy New Year I will flood you with my blorbos even more next time
My OCs in their New Years clothes!
A drawing I finished some time ago for @askafterlife 's January art challenge over on Discord! If you want, there's a challenge every month. You can join the Discord here!
Happy New Year to all!!
It's not New Year yet where I live, but I still wanted to wish everyone who's now in 2022 a very Happy New Year :) 2021 was a rough year, so here's a drawing of Ace with champagne to wish for a better, nicer year!!!
EVERYONE!!!
@l3m0n-c0r3 @teddythetriceratops @c-large-pancake-with-holes @ekster--exotic @w1llow-w1sp @azrael-1121
We got a new year celebration party, get your butts over here on MC if you're not busy :dab:
Can't The Future Just Wait? - PJO
F.A AU: Part 2 of Characters
Dilly ~
Type: Scarf
Occupation: Former Rebel
Gender: Male
Appearance: Just a silly little red scarf man, that has glasses :silly:
Personality: Uneasy around most strangers, and now supports Anne and Bonku. He's more of a side character, but, he's still here lol.
Pax ~
Type: Train Station Clock
Gender: Male
Occupation: Train station master
Appearance: Quite literally a train station clock lol.
Personality: Just a very fancy man to be totally honest <3. Another little side character!!!
Quill ~
Type: Quill Pen
Occupation: Forger/Former Rebel
Gender: Male
Appearance: ... You get the jist by now lol.
Personality: Sneaky, laid back, a little more than a side character I guess. (He luckily is alive here... What do I mean? I ain't saying :3).
F.A AU: Part 1 of Characters
[This will go over my OCs in this universe as well! (For now, though)]
Anne ~
Other Names: Enforcer and LittleHawk
Gender: Female ♀
Species: Forgotling (Human)
Occupation: Determinant
Background Information:
Voice __ Rachael Messer.
Appearance: Anne is a young human-looking woman. She appears to be around her late teens or early twenties, regarding her age. During the game she is wearing the same blue and white dress together with brown boots. She wears a glove on her left hand (The Arca) and has a pair of mechanical wings (Arca-Wings) which helps her jump higher and climb. She has brown eyes, pale skin, and ginger hair.
Personality: Anne's role as the enforcer makes her strict, but she is also compassionate. Some of her actions are dependent on the player's choices.
Bonku/Master Bonku:
<SPOILERS???>
Aliases: Master
Occupation: Dictator
Gender: Male
Voiced by: Lou Lambert
Bonku is a main character in Forgotton Anne. He is a human forgotling and the totalitarian ruler of the Forgotten Lands, who usurped control from the original ruler, The Caretaker.
Appearance: Bonku appears to be a middle aged man. He has long, blonde hair and a beard. He wears a white shirt, with a red vest and brown pants. Bonku sometimes wears a green cape, though not always. On his right hand, Bonku wears one of the Arca's and he is always seen carrying with him a walking cane.
Personality: Once an inventor in the human world, otherwise known as the Ether, Bonku is the totalitarian ruler of the Forgotten Lands. He is determined to escape the Forgotten Lands and be remembered once more. Though some are loyal to him, Bonku sees all forgotlings as mere objects and a means to an end. Despite this, Bonku does appear to care deeply about Anne, raising her from infancy and desiring for her to be remembered, just like himself. (Of course, he no longer is THIS cold, he actually respects forgotlings, most except for the remaining rebels.)
Kyson ~
Other Names: Enforcer. [When him and Anne are together, they're called the Enforcers]
Gender: Male
Species: Forgotling (human)
Occupation: Determinant
Background info:
My OC
Appearance: Kyson usually only has one single clothing choice throughout the whole RP, besides occasionally changing his hair style. ---- He has slightly long, and dark, ginger hair, that's seen either in a bun or hanging down. His eyes are a minty green, and he usually has such a innocent little look on his face <3. ---- His Arca is seen on his right hand, due to him being right handed. He has on a cyan long sleeve, with a white woolen vest, and black leggings (they're a bit baggy, due to them not fitting him.) His shoes are simply a pair of black and white slip-ons, not even needing to be tied. ---- When on a mission, he will have Arca-Wings most of the time.
Personality: Kyson is a newer forgotling human, having only been in the forgotten realm for about two weeks, and only has been on three patrols with Anne. He's curious, energetic, sometimes anxious, and overall just a innocent little silly :D. Though, he has autism, and often copes with things by playing his guitar, which he ended up in the realm with. It's rare for forgotlings to bring another item, and it not become one itself. He just wants everyone to be peaceful, but, sadly, he'll come to find that isn't always possible...
New AU:
Hello y'all, new year coming, new AU to play around with!!!
This AU is based off the amazing, and heartbreaking game, called Forgotten Anne.
You may want to watch some gameplay of it, or read some!!! Unless you would like to play the game for yourself. You can get it for free on the app store, but you can also get it on switch, and some other platforms.
The game plot follows a girl named Anne, within a world of the forgotten. Most things here are items come to life, consisting off mirrors, bowling balls, flower vases, pieces of armour, mannequins, you name it.
Few are humans, yet, Anne is one of them. Including another character, called Master Bonku. I'll go into more detail later on.
Anne and Bonku are few who own things called, Arca. Now, if you don't have an Arca, and your a forgotling (the forgotten people of this universe), you will at some point crystallize. There is no exact time when one will, though.
If you have an Arca, you are able to not crystallize. Yet, not everyone can have an Arca... Due to there being one single stone that they can be made from.
And, it's currently with Bonku, in the Central Tower. Which is where he has his office, private office, etc.
Anne lives in her own little place, and oftenly uses communication mirrors to communicate with him. He's basically like a father figure to Anne ^^.
Anyways, all forgotling souls are made up of a thing called Anima. If an Arca is used to absorb the Anima from a forgotling, they basically become lifeless. Anne's is able to restore Anima back into forgotlings, how this became to be? I don't wanna spoil anything ^^. Anne also, in the game, and in this AU, has a pair of Anima powered wings, allowing her to glide, and jump up to higher places.
Back to the crystallizing, there has been no formula made up to stop it, but people are trying to figure out some way...
I'll be going over the main premise of the story, when the AU is set in, the main characters that will appear, and such, in another post. If you have any questions, please, let me know.
Once again, check out the game for more context, it'll help me a lot of y'all already know what it's about lol.
@l3m0n-c0r3 @c-large-pancake-with-holes @w1llow-w1sp @ekster--exotic @azrael-1121 @teddythetriceratops
{PS: For those without MC currently! I will roleplay with you all through messages, and inform the others with what has happened. I'll also be telling you about what goes on as for on MC rp with this AU ^^. If you ever wanna rp, let me know!}