The Hero's Journey ~ The Road of Trials by hogret, journal
The Hero's Journey ~ The Road of Trials
"We'll never survive."
"Nonsense, you're only saying that because no one ever has."
- Wesley and Buttercup (when preparing to enter the Fire Swamp), "The Princess Bride"
This is Stage Five in the Hero's Journey. The earlier stages are here:
Stage One – The Call to Adventure
Stage Two – Refusal of the Call
Stage Three – The Helpers Arrive
Stage Four – Crossing the Threshold
By the time we reach this stage, the hero has committed to the adventure.
She is on the plane; she has accepted the new job; she is pregnant; she has said “Yes” to a big opportunity.
(Not all at once, obviously, but you ge
The Hero's Journey: The Helpers Arrive by hogret, journal
The Hero's Journey: The Helpers Arrive
In previous journal entries, I talked about The Call to Adventure, and Refusal of the Call.
This - the third - stage of the hero’s journey is where helpers arrive to support the hero in her quest.
"It all depends on what you want, you can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin - to the bitter end.
And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours - closer than you keep it yourself.
But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo."
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Helpers can take various forms – think about fellow tr
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“ The misfirings of my beloved/despised mind that conspire to convince me to destroy all have rendered me housebound and led to a solitary life. A creature of past, proof, memory and imaginary friends, I am aware enough to know the things I see and hear are not real, but that does not mean I do not still see and hear them.”
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For a very long time Lauren Simonutti's haunting photographs were a spectral presence amongst the deviantART community, as emulato
"Alderaan? I'm not going to Alderaan.
It's late, I have to get home. I'm in for it as it is."
~ Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars: Episode IV
Last week's journal presented The Call to Adventure – the first stage in the Hero's Journey.
The next stage comes when the hero thinks twice about taking on the adventure that is beckoning her forward.
She may have known that something needs to change or that she needs to take action, but then reality hits as she realizes that this endeavour may be more than she wants to take on.
That's the point of this stage.
Being a hero is hard, and adventures are often supremely unpleasant.
"We are pl
The Hero's Journey ~ The Call to Adventure by hogret, journal
The Hero's Journey ~ The Call to Adventure
"Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."
~ Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV
The call to adventure yanks our hero out of their ordinary, everyday life with a clarion call to down tools, take up a sword (literally or figuratively) and head off into the unknown on an adventure. The call may be a gradual realization or it may be from a cataclysmic event, such as the potential destruction of one's planet.
"Come off it Mr. Dent, you can't win, you know.
You can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely...
I'm afraid you're going to have to accept it...
this bypass has got to be built and it's going to be built!"
~ Mr Pross
Foreign Words the English Language Needs by SilverInkblot, journal
Foreign Words the English Language Needs
Oh hello. I’m finally getting around to making this news article that I said I might do, like, a month ago. Sorry, I’m not used to writing news articles. Bear with me.
Back in August, I started a series in my forums for cool foreign words. It went over extremely well and numerous people requested that I combine them into a handy-dandy news article for deviantART at large to enjoy. So, here you are: fifteen foreign words that the English language needs to steal appropriate.
Hiraeth (Welsh)
What it means: A feeling of longing associated with displacement, but not necessarily displacement from one’s original home. An intens
We have art so that we may not perish by the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
For me, painting is a way to forget life.
Georges Rouault
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
The question of common
1) love
2) the future is so much brighter
3) friends
4) seeing others smile
5) to fulfill my dreams
6) to watch the sunset over the ocean
7) not only to love, but to feel loved
8) to dream
9) to achieve dreams
10) to learn something from the hardships, and make tomorrow better due to it
11) to have your toes in the mud on a warm summer day
12) to laugh
13) to experience new things, may it be travels, may it be dancing under the moon.
14) to feel the sun
15) to take the time to sit and watch ants
16) to lie in the grass
17) to hear the crash of waves
18) to hug and be hugged
19) to make a child smile
20) to eat a piece of chocolate
21) to hear
I'm pretty good, thanks, V. Got a bit disillusioned with art and the internet, also started fishing again, so the art kinda took a back seat...my studio turned into my fishing workshop. Getting the urge to do a bit more drawing now. Won't be as much as before, but the odd bit of random nonsense may surface periodically!