My Dad And I Once Had A Disagreement Over Him Using The Adage "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger."

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

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I need some help identifying these characters. Do these two look familiar? My family used to have this weird art book that I think I mistook as a children's book and these were the two main characters. I think their names were John and Yoko but I can't be sure. here's some details about the book of that helps.

3 years ago

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2 years ago

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WHAT

I HAVE A CLASSPECT ASK

*Le ded X|*

Welp, it’s my first classpect ask, congrats to @tsuki-no-miyako 🏆

(also sorry if it’s a little lackluster, I’ve never done this before)

Anyway, let’s get into it!

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Rogue

• Passive Steal class

• Active counterpart: Thief

• Inverts to: Knight

Light

• Inverts to: Void

• Associated with: literal light, fortune/luck, knowledge, openness, Skaia (in a sense)

Rogue of Light: One who redistributes (through) Light.

You are the Rogue of Light. Your inversion is the Knight of Void. You do not share your title or inversion with a character in canon. As with all Rogues and/or Heroes of Light (̶R̶e̶a̶d̶:̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶I̶'̶v̶e̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶a̶l̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶)̶, you are a smol bean.

Description

As the Rogue of Light, you are able to move Light from point A to point B. Now, this can mean anything from moving literal light to redistributing luck and knowledge throughout your session. You’re kind of like Robin Hood, as all Rogues are, taking from the rich to give to the poor. In this case, poor in Light. Because you are a Rogue, this means that your session will have uneven amounts of Light in various places in your session, and your job will be to even out everything.

The universe operates in a state of equilibrium. Ever heard of entropy? It is a state of chaos and inconsistency. Right now, in your session, this is the state that Light is in right now. This may not seem bad, but it is (slight exaggeration). There will be uneven amounts of luck spread across the Incipisphere, which could be both good and bad.

Good scenario: Light, which represents luck and knowledge, is spread so it is easily accessible to you and your fellow players, but not so much to the enemy. Your lands, no matter how dark and gloomy (looking at you, my fellow Heroes of Void >;]), will be either shrouded in light or will at least have small light sources, such as crystals or flowers. If you die a Heroic or Just death as a god tier (or get absolutely rekt by your denizen), you’ll have a much higher chance of catching a lucky br8k. This will make it easy for you to gather as much information and resources as possible, though you still need to get rid of Light’s entropic state. The universe, despite it being less useful to you, must always be in an equilibrium state (or at least most of the time).

Even though every universe will eventually be destroyed in the end, but let’s not dwell on that.

Bad scenario (and, if I’m being honest, what will most likely happen): Luck and knowledge will have turned their eyes from you. Your planets will look like they were just pulled from the Furthest Ring (my sympathies to your Void player if you have one, they’re not gonna see shit). Your enemies will, in the beginning, have an edge over you in battle and strategy, as they will have a great deal more knowledge and luck than you (no, they won’t have AAAAAAAALL of it :::;P). Your mission (not your quest, that only pertains to your land and personal growth) will be to restore order to the entropy, and I imagine you will be able to do this once you have Ascended. And no, there will be no coming back from a Heroic or Just death when you’ve Ascended if you still don’t have aaaaaaaall the luck (or even a little). Them’s the br8ks ::::/

I think that’s pretty much it, but good god did that take forever. I hope this was good, and thanks for requesting this! I actually had fun writing this. Which really isn’t saying much since I typically HATE writing, but whatever. Thanks again!

Also, sorry I deleted the actual ask, I tried to shenanigan my way through the mess and it didn’t work :/

3 years ago
Here’s A Sketch For The Land Of Shines And Charts (LoSaC).

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3 years ago

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This is kinda relaxed blog where I retweet cool stuff, make some posts about Homestuck Classpect stuff that I think about and post art that I either am working on or finished. If your interested in classpect questions or art commissions then drop an ask, soon I’ll get a Patreon opened up when things become official and until then feel free to make free request.

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