"Dreams Can Become Reality!"

“There’s Nothing Crueler Than Letting A Dream End Midway.”

"Remember Why You Started Down This Path, And Let That Memory Carry You Beyond Your Limit.”

"A goal with no plan is called a delusion. You need a plan in order to achieve your goal."

"To you, my life looks pathetic, meaningless. I wandered around, searching for myself. And I found myself, blessed with friends better than I could ever be. Could a guy ask for a better life?"

"Nothing is more dangerous than a wounded hero!"

It’s off to summer camp for Midoriya and the U.A. students! But this is no ordinary vacation—it’s high-impact training where the students are expected to develop their Quirks even further! The teachers have set up some tough challenges, but none will be as difficult and as life changing as the threat a new group of enemies poses. What’s even worse is who the villains’ target is and why... -- VIZ Media

Understand yourself and those around you.

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It’s off to summer camp for Midoriya and the U.A. students! But this is no ordinary vacation—it’s high-impact training where the students are expected to develop their Quirks even further! The teachers have set up some tough challenges, but none will be as difficult and as life changing as the threat a new group of enemies poses. What’s even worse is who the villains’ target is and why... -- VIZ Media

Kohei Horikoshi

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An exploration of the intersection of neurodivergence, obsession and disorderObsessive was, still is, my natural state, and I never wondered why. I didn’t mind, didn’t know that other people could feel at peace. I always felt like a raw nerve, but then, I thought that everyone did.Writer and journalist Marianne Eloise was born obsessive. What that means changes day to day, depending on what her brain latches on to: fixations with certain topics, intrusive violent thoughts, looping phrases. Some obsessions have lasted a lifetime, while others will be intense but only last a week or two.

The Book

Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking is a culmination of a life spend obsessing, offering a glimpse into Marianne’s brain, but also an insight into the lives of others like her. From death to Medusa, to Disneyland to fire, to LA to her dog, the essays explore the intersection of neurodivergence, obsession and disorder, telling the story of one life underpinned and ultimately made whole by obsession.

Marianne’s Brain

Marianne Eloise’s brain operates differently from those of “neurotypicals”. Once the “weird” child both at school and at home, she has lived in an embattled emotional state for as long as she can remember, with repeated episodes of debilitating anxiety and depression. She has also suffered from anorexia nervosa. When she was a child, few adults cared to understand what was behind her distress. Her difficulties remain complex, but her memoir rallies hope.

Her Difficulties

“Without obsession, I have nothing. It’s taken me on journeys across the world in pursuit of things that interest me, and it always wins against the things that I find hard about being alive.”Eloise, a culture writer and journalist, describes a mind that never switches off. Her looping, repetitive thoughts make for tenacious worries and all-consuming interests – as adolescence unfolds, Jim Carrey and The Twilight Zone are replaced by Noughties pop-punk.

A Culture Writer and Journalist

She divides her book into three sections, on “obsessive”, “intrusive” and “magical” thought, drawing on extensive research and interweaving personal reflections and amusing asides. Making order out of the chaos of her mind is important to her fragile sense of safety in the world, but she describes paradoxical impulses along the way: to swim in seas despite a terror of drowning, to dance at gigs despite often feeling threatened by people, lights and noise.

Order Out Of Chaos

Her ruminations cluster around specific themes: time, water, fire, nightmares, the city of Los Angeles. Through her fascination with Walt Disney it is revealed that, as a child, Disney stamped an owl to death. His life’s work perhaps sprang from the associated guilt, but Eloise – as an adult – considers Disneyland “the one place on earth everything ceased to be complicated, difficult, grown-up; everything was taken care of”. As she finds stable love with her fiancé, Karl, she also gets more respite from other fears: of her dog dying, of her body fleshing out.

Her Rumination

She processes trauma. Her mother, a mental health nurse, suffered too, with a gaze wandering far from her two daughters.Eloise made sporadic efforts to get help in the form of therapy. “It turns out, though, that if there is an irresponsible adult in your home leaving the gate open or the gas on, then it is not possible to do CBT.” It wasn’t until recently that Eloise received an autism diagnosis.

She Processes Trauma

In her late twenties now, she has also been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, nightmare disorder, dyspraxia and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which affects the body’s connective tissues. “Diagnosis is a lifeline”, she writes. “It empowers me to live the way I need to, to ask for help and space.”

“Diagnosis is a lifeline”

Marianne Eloise’s brain operates differently from those of “neurotypicals”. Once the “weird” child both at school and at home, she has lived in an

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“Nothing can suppress a human’s curiosity.”

“Even in moments of the deepest despair… I guess we can still find hope, huh?”

“When people are faced with a situation they don’t understand, it’s easy for fear to take hold.”

“Do you always want to live hiding behind the mask you put up for the sake of others? You’re you, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

“The only thing we’re allowed to do is believe that we won’t regret the choice we made.”

“This world is merciless, and it’s also very beautiful.”

Anime Season 2 coming to Funimation in April 2017! The blockbuster manga edges closer to its thrilling conclusions. The mysteries of the Titans are being revealed… who will escape death at the hands of giants and human beings?

Anime Season 2 coming to Funimation in April 2017! The blockbuster manga edges closer to its thrilling conclusions. The mysteries of the Titans are being revealed… who will escape death at the hands of giants and human beings?

Hajime Isayama

Attack on Titan

From "The Empire Strikes Back"We often judge people and situation by what we see or what we've been told before. However, the reality may (and often do) differ from the 'image' we have in our mind. Humans tend to fall into confirmation bias, pushing themselves far into the wrong reality. Hence, it is extremely important to always allow the possibility of misperception.

Judge me by my size, do you?

From "The Phantom Menace"The famous qoute of Jedi master is often understood as the description of the 'dark path'. However, what's important is that anger and hate is not necessarily directed outside. For instance, when we fear changing or trying new things and it makes our life less pleasant, we may start blaming ourself, feeling anger slowly turning into self-hate (which may lead to mental health issues such as anxiety or depression).

Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

From "The Empire Strikes Back"Historically, people have tried to exalt themselves by abasement of others. Even now we honor those who unleashed wars with thousands and millions of victims, and the rulers who succeeded in wars are considered great.According to Yoda, greatness doesn't come with war, and we can use it in everyday life, when we find ourselves in conflict with someone.

Wars not make one great.

From "The Empire Strikes Back"This line is spoken by Yoda after Luke refused to lift the starship out of the swamp: "Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different".According to Yoda, we are capable of much more, but barriers in our mind prevent us from doing it. Great achievements come with belief.

No. No different. Only different in your mind.

From "The Empire Strikes Back"When a person gives an attempt, she also keeps the failure in her head. A person who firmly decides to solve a problem focuses entirely on a successful result.Now, backed by science we know that brain has a powerful instrument called reticular activating system which filters our reality. Focusing on success shall find the ways to get it, while focusing on failure shall find the obstacles.

Do. Or do not. There is no try.

It is not necessary to read scientific or business literature to learn new things. Movies also provide excellent food for thought and I manage to find answers to my questions in unexpected places.

The StarWars.com team ranks Yoda's most memorable lines!

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As the most celebrated version of the masterpiece goes on display, we examine its many meanings.We all know The Scream – or we think we do. Boiling sea beneath blood-red sky. A figure – genderless, featureless, alone on a precipice – confronts us with an anguished face as it covers its ears with formless hands.It is a skull, or perhaps a foetus. Its body is contorted, as if without bone and muscle, and it appears to be undulating into the sky. Two figures walk away, oblivious as the world dissolves into chaos.

The Scream

Edvard Munch’s timeless representation of human terror, created at the birth of modernism in Europe, makes its long-awaited return tomorrow at the opening of Norway’s new £500 million National Museum, after more than three years in storage. This is the oldest of several Screams, painted in 1893. Norway’s most revered painter reworked it many times (one is in the nearby Munch Museum; another sold at auction for nearly $120 million in 2012 –(then a record) and in numerous lithographs. In earlier versions, the figure is a well-dressed man gazing to sea. But this is The Scream you probably know.

Norway’s Most Revered Painter 

It is the one on which Munch dripped candle wax, possibly left out in the garden and on which he scribbled: “Could only have been painted by a madman.” It was stolen then returned in a gallery raid in 1994, and is reproduced on endless Munch merchandise, from women’s dresses to babies’ bibs to desktop inflatables – and, of course, emojis.The Scream has seeped into pop culture and sits deep in our collective psyche. Even if you have never heard of Munch or seen the artwork in the flesh, you will know and understand its tortured figure.

A Tortured Figure

We use it ironically, as visual shorthand for exasperation, perhaps anxiety. Why does it resonate so deeply? Thierry Ford, a conservator at the National Museum, says we project whatever we want on to Munch’s figure. “There is no right or wrong way to interpret it – it’s so versatile.”And, according to curator Vibeke Waallann Hansen: “It’s so radical and communicative – everyone of any culture, even a child, can understand it, even if people interpret it differently.”

Versatile

Munch’s masterpiece is different from reproductions – the brushstrokes are more dynamic, the colours of its tempera and pastel are more luminous than on the umbrellas and tote bags in the gift shop. The figure’s expression seems to be in shock, not anxious; its eyes are blank crosses that lock into my gaze. Something unseen appears to be clutching its shoulder; the perspective is dizzying. I notice gouges on the surface. It is as if The Scream is forever shifting, familiar yet unknowable. I must be peering too closely because a guard rushes over to ask me to stand back.

Forever Shifting

Unlike <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9126366/Mona-Lisa-copy-may-have-been-painted-by-Leonardo-da-Vincis-lover-art-historians-suggest.html">Mona Lisa</a>, which last month in Paris had cake thrown at its protective glass in a bizarre climate protest, the returning Scream is not alone in a room. It is hung with other Munch pieces (intentional on the part of the curators: the artist conceived it as part of a series depicting stages of love). There are no ropes, glass sheets or electronic alarms. Only a few visitors can enter at one time. Hansen describes it as “a non-selfie experience”.

A Non-Selfie Experience

The circumstances in which Munch worked on it give more clues to its resonance. He was nearly 30, and he knew The Scream was special. His life before had been ravaged by madness, sickness and death. His mother and sister died of tuberculosis; his father was dogged by depression. Another sister became schizophrenic. Munch turned to drawing to keep himself occupied, but his pious father gave him no support and considered an artist’s profession unholy.

The Scream Is Special

In 1889, he escaped to Paris, where he encountered the post-impressionists: Van Gogh’s expressive and emotional brushwork; Gaugin’s heavy, simplified outlines and contours. He took them, and injected his own sense of northern European melancholy, developing a new style of painting that reflected interior life rather than the physical world.Four years later, in 1893, he painted The Scream that’s in Oslo’s National Museum, while living in Berlin, where an exhibition of his work a year earlier had caused a great commotion and established him as a pioneering artist.

A Northern Melancholy

Hansen points out that The Scream is not screaming; that was not Munch’s intention. He left several poems, notes and diary entries in which he described the circumstances behind the image, including this diary entry written in 1892: “I was walking along the road with two friends – then the sun went (I went) down. Suddenly the sky turned blood-red and I felt a breath of melancholy and an exhausting pain under my heart – I paused, leaning against a fence, tired to death. Above the blue-black fjord and city there was blood in tongues of fire.

The Sream Is Not Screaming

My friends went on and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and felt that a great, infinite scream went through nature.”The scream is emitted by an outside force; the figure covers his ears because he cannot bear the intensity. Hansen suggests a second interpretation: “The scream is the world surrounding you. You are afraid that you cannot cope with social relations, with love. Munch first showed it in a series called the Paintings of Love – and it was about love and desire.”

An Outside Force

Across Oslo harbour, Munch superfan <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/thanks-tracey-emin-people-finally-talking-disease-killed-mother/">Tracey Emin</a> is in town to unveil her bronze sculpture, The Mother, outside the Munch Museum. Later, she talks about her fascination with The Scream. “It’s like some kind of sperm-like, unborn presence that is just within the ether,” she says. “It’s not a ghost, not a spirit. It’s something half there, and half in another world.”She points out its timelessness: “I went to Egypt, to the Valley of the Kings, where there’s a foetus that would have become a king. And I said, ‘Oh my God, it’s just like The Scream!’”

Some Kind of Sperm-Like

From foetuses to emojis. The “Face Screaming in Fear” was added to platforms in 2010 – inspired by both Munch’s image and characters in Japanese anime – and has been used in millions of digital messages ever since, whether to add feeling to a photograph of a positive lateral flow test, or to punctuate a picture of a toddler’s chocolate-smeared face. It’s a joke, to convey despair at mundane inconveniences.Has this new digital life reduced Munch’s existential cry to glibness? Alisa Freedman, professor of cultural studies at the University of Oregon, doesn’t think so.

From Foetuses to Emojis

“People still respect and know its culture, they know the work,” she says. But now, like other emojis, it has a new role helping humans to communicate. “The Scream has become social glue,” she says.In any case, we are using it less. According to Unicode, the official body in charge of emojis, the screaming face is the 55th most-used icon, and fell in global rankings between 2019 and 2021. Freedman says others are taking its place: the skull is increasingly used to convey dying of shock or laughter.

A Social Glue

Nevertheless, Emin fears The Scream has lost some of its power. “I went to the museum shop and there were nail files with The Scream, so when you file your nails it goes, ‘Wheeee!’ I thought, ‘That’s so bad. What would Munch have said?’”I think about Emin’s encounter with a Scream-like mummified foetus, and she’s right. Once you start looking, you see The Scream everywhere. I see it in 5,000-year-old carved mace heads at the British Museum, screaming silently for millennia, and again at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Somerset, where a selection of Henry Moore’s found objects is on show.

The Scream Everywhere

They include a piece of beach detritus – a wooden disc with three holes, some kind of winding mechanism.Moore cast it in bronze in the mid-20th century. It looks like The Scream. He must have known.And I see it in the mask worn by the villain in Scream, Wes Craven’s 1990s classic shlock-horror film. I realise why Munch’s masterpiece resonates.It is just an iteration. The Scream has always existed, and it always will.-----Why Munch’s The Scream isn’t actually screaming. As the most celebrated version of the masterpiece goes on display, we examine its many meanings Helen Barrett, 10 June 2022 •

Munch's Masterpiece Resonates

As the most celebrated version of the masterpiece goes on display, we examine its many meanings

Why Munch’s The Scream isn’t actually screaming

Émile Cohl is the father of the animated cartoon. In 1907, Cohl was hired as a scenarist by Gaumont to generate one-page story ideas for movies.
Between February and May 1908, Cohl created <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasmagorie_%281908_film%29">Fantasmagorie</a>, the first fully animated film. To create the animation, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and traced the next drawing, reflecting the variations needed to show movement. The animation contained over 700 illustrations.

The Story of Fantasmagorie (1908)

Georges Méliès was the first cinemagician for his early use of special effects in cinema.
In 1902, he appeared in one of his own films, l'oeuf du sorcier (The Prolific Egg). The groundbreaking exploration of scale, multiplication, and transitions truly sealed his reputation as a "cinemagician".

Georges Méliès (The Prolific Egg)

McCay is considered the father of "true" animation.
His 1911 film, Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, or Little Nemo contains two minutes of pure animation using sequential hand illustration in a novel way.

Winsor McCay (Little Nemo)

British filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton is credited with creating the first animation in America. He was the first to use stop-motion as a storytelling technique.
In The Enchanted Drawing, Blackton sketches a face, cigars, and a bottle of wine, then "removes" these last drawings as real objects so that the face appears to react.

The Enchanted Drawing (1900)

The animal locomotion studies of Eadweard J. Muybridge are among the earliest visual experiments in creating an illusion of motion. The "persistence of vision" principle laid the foundation for later forms of videography.

Muybridge: Waltzing couple (1893)

A look back at the early-20th-century inventors of a new art form, from Émile Cohl to Eadweard J. Muybridge

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Jokes in shows like The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm were at first lost on many people, or the awkwardness was too much. Cringe comedy is a highly successful genre in film and TV, yet some people either don't get it or actively dislike it. What is less clear is how cringe comedy works and why some people enjoy the secondhand embarrassment or find it excruciating or boring.

Cringe comedy

Cringe is present in certain elements of slapstick humour, in that we laugh at someone’s humiliation or misfortune. But there's something noticeably different between laughing at Mr Bean and the cringe comedy of today. Cringe comedy gives a feeling of embarrassment when watching someone behave in an embarrassing way. The difference between slapstick and cringe is that slapstick feels more detached, where we laugh at someone. Cringe comedy feels personal, as if we live through their embarrassment.

Why we cringe

Humans are wired to function in societies. We are highly sensitive to emotions like shame, embarrassment, and cringe. Cringe comedy seems to exploit that awareness. We may enjoy it because it simulate unusual social situations and we witness the consequences without having to experience them. In this way, cringe comedy may strengthen a kind of defence mechanism against the cringe of our own lives. Those who experience greater degrees of cringe are more empathetic.

The science of cringe comedy

There’s a difference between experiencing cringe and finding it funny.We laugh at moral or social violations which offer no real hurt and are not happening to us. Cringe humor has to relate to our everyday lives in some way. When we laugh at cringe comedy, we reestablish ourselves on the right side of social norms or taboos. We know the rule and know when someone has broken them, and then we laugh to relieve our own sense of social anxiety.

Venting social anxiety

Cringe tell us that there might be more than one thing going on. Sometimes, we empathise with the events, such as watching a mild social faux pas - someone wearing the wrong clothes to a party. However, cringe comedy should be separated from contemptuous cringe, which involves an emotional distancing from the person you're cringing at. You perceive the person as embarrassing themselves, but instead of feeling embarrassment on their behalf, you feel annoyance and disgust at them.

The contemptuous and the empathetic

Empathetic cringe, where we relate to the situation, could be viewed as us mocking ourselves.A contemptuous cringe has a darker side. The producer or comedian may manufacture or invent contempt. For example, when we are invited to laugh at the weakness is "Screeching Feminists" are we saying that feminism is shameful?

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Why do will some people find cringe comedy hilarious, while others will see it as boring rubbish? The answer is your life experiences.

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"In all things, one cannot win with defense alone. To win, you must attack."

"Laws aren’t perfect, because humans who created laws aren’t perfect. It’s impossible to be perfect. However, the laws are evidence of the human struggle to be righteous."

“YOU CAN’T EVER WIN IF YOU’RE ALWAYS BEING DEFENSIVE. TO WIN, YOU HAVE TO ATTACK!”

All 12 volumes of Death Note in one monstrously large edition! This hefty omnibus combines all 2,400 pages of the megahit thriller into a single massive tome, presented in a beautiful silver slipcase. A perfect collectible conversation piece and a must-have for Death Note fans. Also contains an epilogue chapter never before seen in English! Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life?

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All 12 volumes of Death Note in one monstrously large edition! Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life? All 12 volumes of Death Note in one monstrously large edition!

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Death Note (All-in-One Edition)

“I’ll leave tomorrow’s problems to tomorrow’s me.”

“Is that really the limit of your strength? Could the you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.” –

"Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could the you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward."

"I'm not a hero because I want your approval. I do it because I want to!"

Class-S hero King is known as the strongest man on earth. Even monsters fear him. But when a mysterious organization sends an assassin after him, the shocking truth about King is revealed! -- VIZ Media

While Saitama's distracted at a martial arts tournament, Centichoro, a threat-level Dragon monster, attacks! Metal Bat engages it in battle but struggles against its gargantuan size. The monster knocks him into the distance and right into the path of hero-hunter Garo! -- VIZ Media

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Let your strengths overcome your weaknesses.-

QUOTES OF THE LIFE

<ul><li class="ql-align-center">Tears are simply the raindrops from the storms inside of us-</li></ul>

Never make permanent Decisions on Temporary feelings-

Life doesn't always give second chances, take the first one-

A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.” —

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —

Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.” —

Nowadays quotes by I'M POSITIVE VIBES. Positive lines to make your day positive. Always believe yourself. 

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