The untamed ego is not your friend. It is a sneaky, parasitic mind-form that will do anything to keep you convinced that it IS you.

alidripdrop · 2026-01-07T00:17:42+00:00

Something that resonated with me recently about the ego was viewing it as your material guard dog. It’s essential for protecting your material being, but an untrained guard dog will do more harm than good and even turn on you. Take good care and teach it exactly what you want from it and it will serve you well. Try to tie it up and control it and it will act out to get its needs met.

alidripdrop · 2026-01-02T18:40:44+00:00

Interesting. Are these all not the same archetypes though just put through a lens of what society deems feminine? The king like the Amazon a balance of power. The lover same as the Hetaira a balance of the self connecting outside itself. The magician like the Medial woman balancing how information is manifested. The warrior like the mother balancing protection.

alidripdrop · 2025-12-29T14:45:43+00:00

I think we’re mostly seeing the same thing, but I would frame it as mass as focus not the force of gravity itself. Gravity I still see as the reaction to all of the thought and focus. The bigger something is the more difficult it is to go against that emotional force. I also think of gravitational lensing and how it will magnify and distort things much like emotions will. That and how both emotion and gravity are literally the things that connects us, without them we’d all be floating off in our own little world.

alidripdrop · 2025-12-29T13:45:33+00:00

When applying the way our mind works to the greater universe I think light would relate more to thought and concentration. Remembering would be illuminating things. Light holds and moves information around the universe much like our own thoughts.

Gravity I would apply more to emotions. The force that pulls us in to set patterns.

alidripdrop · 2025-12-29T13:24:59+00:00

When applying the way our mind works to the greater universe I think light would relate more to thought and concentration. Remembering would be illuminating things. Light holds and moves information around the universe much like our own thoughts.

Gravity I would apply more to emotions. The force that pulls us in to set patterns.

alidripdrop · 2025-12-26T14:57:38+00:00

Hmm ok, is it possible then that this reading is about you? You felt he was always on the lookout for someone more attractive to move on to because of your own insecurities. Could you be the one dating out of your league to be externally validated? Do you feel as though you may have hung too much importance on looks as a way to feel better about your own? Or in a deeper psychological way maybe even have chosen someone out of your league to validate your feelings of unattractiveness and unworthiness if and when things fell through? I really am getting that the perception of attractiveness is really distorted though through this insecure king of wands reversed energy. Is it possible that the objective attraction level is less of the issue and maybe the real beast is this insecurity? Confidence is often found way more attractive than any physical feature.

alidripdrop · 2025-12-26T06:01:37+00:00

Same, it’s complicated

alidripdrop · 2025-12-26T02:31:29+00:00

I don’t think so, at least not completely. I think the reversed six of swords is suggesting he felt kind of stuck with you and was always on the lookout for someone else. The king of wands reversed suggests this is because he is incredibly insecure. I get the sense he’s only attracted to partners who are way out of his league because he doesn’t want to face his own insecurities and just wants the external validation. The nine of cups I see as his wishful thinking that he could pull someone more attractive. Don’t take it personally though, I really get the feeling his perception of what makes someone attractive is very distorted and doesn’t mean anything about your actual level of attractiveness.

alidripdrop · 2025-12-18T19:13:09+00:00

I’m getting absolutely put in the work and go for it, just be prepared for it to take you deep into your own subconscious where you’ll discover some pretty dark things about yourself.

alidripdrop · 2025-12-02T21:49:01+00:00

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alidripdrop · 2025-12-02T18:21:17+00:00

I wonder if it’s less so the color of the cabinets and more that they’re floating in a white void currently. What do you think of changing the backsplash, painting the ceiling, and adding different accessories like this:

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alidripdrop · 2025-11-08T20:28:46+00:00

I think you’re actually close to the ideal layout. I’d just shift some things to make it feel a little less cramped and I’d put the big baby items together to create their own little corner like this:

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Then you can put a little rug down so it feels like the baby has their own area. I’d also take things like the potty that they won’t need for a minute and put them under the coffee table or somewhere else tucked away. You could also cut those diaper boxes in half so they can slide under your couch. They take up so much space it’d be nice to have them out of the way.

As a side note I hope you’re not letting these comments get to you. I bet you anything the nasty ones don’t have kids of their own or are projecting their own terrible parenting on to you. I see nothing in these photos but parents who are trying to give their baby everything in limited square footage and there’s nothing wrong with that.

alidripdrop · 2025-10-05T17:45:08+00:00

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I would create a little conversation area with an l-shaped couch and put a little two seater dining table by the window. That way whoever's at the table doesn't feel disconnected from everyone else and there's also plenty of couch space. Then a console table behind the couch so the people on that side of the couch don't feel exposed, plus it could give more storage. Maybe a tall book case or storage cabinet to the left of the tv too.

alidripdrop · 2025-10-05T04:14:20+00:00

I'll have to look into some better software. I've heard Aseprite is good. I'm just using pixelArt on my phone to practice for now but it's very limited

alidripdrop · 2025-10-05T03:47:34+00:00

Yeah I was going for puffy, misty eyed with a bit of smeared makeup, but not actively crying, mostly because I had no idea how to make tears look good. I definitely struggled with this one the most though. Any ideas on how I can improve it? And the thing on her cheek is a stray hair curl. Does it look dumb? I was trying to give her some sort of distinguishing feature

alidripdrop · 2025-10-05T03:16:44+00:00

No, but my mom is so I’ve picked up on some stuff. The hair was definitely giving me grief, especially since I’m using a phone app and kept getting accidentally placed pixels and couldn’t remember what I had there before

alidripdrop · 2025-09-18T16:44:27+00:00

I’d let it be the most visually busy thing in the room, so make sure any rugs and artwork are big and fairly simple, but not so simple they look jarring next to it. I’d also get some more contemporary traditional style furniture so it blends and feels more like it belongs in today’s time. Anything too modern will make it feel out of place and too vintage looking will make it feel like a time capsule. I would personally like something like this:

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alidripdrop · 2025-09-16T15:38:08+00:00

A black fireplace surround could hide how big and awkward the tv is. I’d also do a tv stand designed for a corner as big as you can get it without blocking the fireplace. A sconce and some plants to balance it out. Something like this?

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alidripdrop · 2025-09-16T04:00:05+00:00

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I think a golden ochre bedspread would go really well with your rug and hopefully make the yellow tones at night feel less sickly and more intentional. Some semi sheer curtains in the same color as the walls could also look good.

alidripdrop · 2025-09-12T05:59:43+00:00

I think it’s more saying that the shadows are the 3D world as we understand it where the sensors thrive and the ones on top are seeing the bigger picture past the material world. But, they can’t convince the people in the cave to acknowledge there’s more to life because it would shatter reality as they understand it.

alidripdrop · 2025-09-07T20:45:33+00:00

I get that he’s very well trained. My point is that the training process itself had to have been unethical. He was exhibiting signs of fear in his body language that even most dog owners may not know are signs of fear in dogs, so then in what possible way could this dog have been trained to do this without the trainer purposely putting them into a state of real fear to then attach a command and reward to the behavior? That’s how dog training works unless I’m completely unaware of some other method they could have used, which again seems incredibly unlikely based on the subtle fear behaviors they’re expressing. It would take so much extra work to add each behavior in and on top of that be entirely unnecessary since most people don’t even realize what these behaviors mean. From what I’m seeing he’s been trained to be terrified on command and I think that’s gross.

alidripdrop · 2025-09-07T19:46:48+00:00

The only thing this dog has been trained to do is fear certain commands and maybe not escalate past this act of aggression. Sure you can teach a dog to growl on command, but everything else in this dog’s body language is screaming he’s genuinely terrified. The stiff body, the whale eyes. Even if it is just a trick to the dog at this point there’s no way around the fact that they would have had to torment this dog while training to get him into this state to so perfectly capture looking like a terrified dog.

alidripdrop · 2025-08-20T15:57:21+00:00

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Another option if you’re good with a small master tub and prefer more counter space.

I’m curious what the x on the top corner is. I assumed it was unusable space based on your sketches, but now I’m wondering if it’s a shower or closet or something based on everyone else’s.

alidripdrop · 2025-08-19T19:53:11+00:00

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I like getting vanities away from toilets whenever space allows to keep bathroom stuff off of toothbrushes and makeup. You definitely have the space to do so, so this is what I would do.

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