#just the right words of motivation

[loganslowdown4]

Roman: I don’t WANNA do the thing!

Logan: I heard Janus say it’s because you CAN’T do the thing.

Roman: THEN I’M GONNA TRIPLE DO IT! HE’LL REGRET DOUBTING ME!

Logan: Your spite-driven ambition scares me—

#just the right words of motivation #thomas sanders #sanders sides #roman sanders #logan sanders #ts roman #incorrect sanders sides #Janus sanders

[inkly-heart]

Do you have a group discord server? If others want to chill and interact with you. Just wondering

That aside just hoping you’re doing okay Blastic. Still, if you’re not your gotta a lot people care about you.

I look forward to seeing how the rest of the game goofs.

—goofball anon

I don't and sadly I don't think I will make one. It would be fun to interact with people who enjoys my work and wants to chat with me but I just feel it would be too much work for me to handle a discord server. So at least for now I'm not planning to make one.

#and how I've been doing?? #there been ups and downs #maybe bit better?? At least compared to what it was when this month started #I felt so numb for some reason #I just wanted to lie in bed and do nothing because nothing was making me happy. Not even drawing or playing games #I do still get these kind of days but it hasn't been that bad and I have got some amount motivation back to draw again at least #wanting to play games though still have been very low #but I'm taking small steps #I'm also sorry for not having much good news and that I've been so quiet nowadays #I just been struggling a lot what to say and anxiety isn't making things any easier #but I want to thank everyone who are still here hanging around and enjoying my work #even though I have these struggles I'm happy that you guys still want to support me<33 Thank you<33 #not sure did I word these right but I tried my best #and I will also do my best not to give up and keep on going 🌱 #ask #anon

[shepards-folly]

little reminders for myself (ft. mason arathain)

#shep arts #csmp #content smp #mason arathain #god the goofy things I have to do for my brain to accept things really is just finding a way to relate it to whatever i’m hyperfixated on… #i have a sketchbook thats just little motivational things with my blorbos lol #i drew each one with a different method for extra fun #uhh it's pretty obvious but on the left it' lineless / colored sketch kinda / and then my little vaguely mspaint art inspired coloring #and uh yeah just the normal way I do things on the right lol #might do some more of these tbh it's just fun to draw the sillies with some nice little words next to em!

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

MC: Isaac won’t come out of his room!

Dazai: Just tell him I said something.

MC: Like what?

Dazai: Anything factually incorrect.

MC, shrugging: If you say so.

Isaac, arriving moments later: Did you just say the sun is a PLANET?

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp incorrect quotes #ikevamp mc #ikevamp dazai #ikevamp isaac #okay but the image of dazai saying that so casually #is just sending me #and isaac erupting in a fluster #dazai is just the living embodiment of that meme 'i don't technically believe in any of this im just using words recreationally' #it works like a charm when isaac is in his shame and/or sulking corner #trust a nerd (affectionate) to deliver when its about clarifying something #what i esp love about this is the idea of isaac trying to explain why dazai is wrong and dazai is like #fool that you are--i've never been right. but continue u nice funky lil scientist #dazai cares not for facts gentle isaac he cares only for his friends :> #lowkey i have to wonder how many times the mansion has used this tactic #how much do they throw dazai under the bus to motivate isaac and why is the thought so funny skgjlhksjhfd #source: incorrect quotes generator #all i imagine is isaac as plagg like 'this is called psychological harassment!!'

[deoidesign]

What's something you'd like to see before Time and Time Again ends?

#text post #delete later #will also take any words of encouragement #and also of course no guarantees of putting anything in #just working towards the ending and trying to make it good. #writing the last 20 EPS right now #so in a weird brain space and hard to focus and be motivated knowing it's almost over

[wutheringmights]

i want to manifest a new chapter this weekend so badly but I'm almost certain that's not going to happen

#word count is at 16k right now but i have so many tiny scenes to write #but in theory i can only write another 15k words max so.... #this is not a promise. i just want to put this energy into the world now in case it helps me feel motivated to get this shit done! #me rambling #lu ctb

[dennisboobs]

my favourite thing about the always sunny podcast is listening to rcg all say something extremely neurodivergent and then agree amongst themselves and convince themselves its completely normal

#and to be clear im not diagnosing them charlie said he wasn't neurotypical #like deadass i think. the reason some of their writers just completely botch the gang's motivations/dialogue sometimes is bc at their core #these characters are all. SO autistic. which inevitably leads to them being misunderstood by others outside their group #whether rcg realizes it or not they inject this very specific vibe of neurodivergence into the gang #and its why they will just. argue over inconsequential details bc they Need to be understood completely #they can't just drop it unless they are crystal fucking clear #imo the biggest mistake other writers make is thinking that the gang is completely desensitized when its more like #they just don't react the way you would expect #which is often... adjacent to that but still distinct. and its trauma that influences this as well #the gang does not believe they themselves are 'bad people'. theyre most often oblivious to the fact that the things they do are insane #rob saying he doesnt pick up on social cues and then going on to argue in circles with glenn #i dont think last week was anything crazy but i think. rob doesn't know when to let up. which is a problem that *i* have #and while it comes across as being confrontational in an 'im right youre wrong' way i dont think its driven by ego here #just like with how as they said mac and dennis are making up while chucking bread rolls at each other #on both sides its frustration at being misunderstood #but they are all similar enough that even if they disagree over small details theyre usually on the same page. and this can be beneficial!! #thats the conclusion of the ep!!!! whether its suggesting smoking to cancel out the toxic apple skin or suggesting words u cant think of #glenn said he was upset about feeling misrepresented and picked on #dennis gets angry for those exact reasons in.... ALL of his big rage scenes #its frustration that leads to anger because youre speaking to (another) brick wall and you can't adequately explain yourself #which. glenn is clearly more competent than dennis & i think a lot of the time in sunny the gang is WAY more obtuse for the sake of comedy #but its interesting to watch the dynamic because as charlie said last week #they are mac and dennis (especially when theyre fighting) #i just think.. they are in a semi-unique position to understand this because this is how they are. while several other writers do not get i #ada speaks #untagged

[homielander]

the most interesting character detail about maeve through which i have extrapolated at least half my understanding of her is that she prefers to be called maeve. i frequently see "maggie" pop up in meta and fic as her chosen name, but quite literally nobody calls her that, including (and most significantly) elena. elena is maeve's tether to her humanity and her refuge away from vought, yet even elena only ever refers to her as maeve. (and in season 2, we learn that maeve started dating elena before she joined the seven -- before queen maeve's popularity would have become so inescapable that she would feel compelled to introduce herself by that name.) it's especially notable that in her final scene, maeve refers to starlight as annie for only the second time, but she is still called maeve by both annie and elena.

here's what we know about maeve's life as maggie: she had a rocky relationship with her father whom she doesn't seem to speak to anymore, she's from a "cousin-fucker hick town" as described by homelander -- i can't imagine this place being terribly lgbt-friendly, and she generally lacks connection with anyone she would have known before becoming queen maeve. she doesn't have fond memories of this time of her life, and perhaps that extends to all associations with it, including the name maggie.

i tend to think that becoming queen maeve was, in many ways, self-actualizing for her. the act that garners her national attention and earns her a ticket to vought is a heroic one -- she breaks every single bone in her right arm to save a school bus from falling off a bridge. and i know madelyn says she is responsible for the mythos of queen maeve, but this character was still aspirational, and likely someone maeve wanted to live up to. in any case, this new identity gave her a purpose and tools to achieve it: she wanted to help people! by her own admission, maeve enters vought bright-eyed and hopeful, not far off from annie. (maeve is also one of the only supes in the seven not to know about compound v -- she doesn't strike me as religious but believing she's among the very few born with powers would have strengthened her internal drive to be a hero.)

it's for the same reason that i think maeve actually... liked having powers? of course she says otherwise in her last season, but season 3 maeve is cynical and weary from about two decades of dealing with vought and homelander's abuse. they've used her first as the token woman and then the token gay person of the seven. after growing largely passive to the brutality of the job, the flight 37 incident forces her to confront all of the violence she's witnessed and tolerated. she's given pieces of herself away and she loathes the husk of herself that's left. i don't find it surprising that she would want to relinquish every single connection to vought, including her powers.

assuring herself that she will be better off without her powers comes with an added benefit: she gets to distinguish herself from homelander, who would be lost without his powers. and i think she is eager to make this distinction in her mind because there are some uncomfortable similarities between their initiations into vought. the mantle of homelander allows him to exert agency for the first time in his life, just as the mantle of queen maeve endows her with purpose for the first time in hers. (crucially, none of his current circle call him john, either.) they both enjoy being the most powerful superheroes in the world, the unending public adoration, and (in my interpretation) each other. they're also both overwhelmingly lonely and they know it -- homelander teases her multiple times about how she has no friends with a bit more bite in every passing season, while maeve is keenly aware of his isolation and exploits his yearning for love pretty effectively.

maeve steadily grows disillusioned with her position at vought because she still has a moral code, suppressed though it may be. even so, she nearly relents to homelander's vision: that they will be lonely at the top but lonely together. she's pulled out of her miserable state of inaction by annie and elena. annie reminds her of what a hero should be (what she was, once); elena offers her a way out of vought, serving as maeve's light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.

she escapes that tower as maeve, not maggie. she rejects homelander's god complex which engenders his cruelty towards regular people and 'lesser' supes -- no one will call her queen maeve ever again, at least -- but it is still important to her to be a hero, and for better or for worse, she found that as maeve. i feel like she'd struggle to exist without her powers (possibly the self-awareness hasn't settled in yet) for all the reasons mentioned above. i like to think that eventually, she'll circle around to helping people and resisting vought however possible -- albeit on a smaller, more covert scale so she can continue living a peaceful life with elena.

#sorry for this word vomit i have just been thinking about maeve! what's in a name... #motivated by 2 years of reading takes about maeve wanting to be a normie (during s1-3 and prior) that i don't rly agree with #i'm not offering this as the 'right' interpretation of course this is just what makes sense for me!! #i have a couple of things i wanted to add (particularly re: maeve x HL since i know how consensual their relationship was #is controversial and i feel a bit weird slipping in that characterization of it w/o any follow-up) #but for now i am just going to say it fits with how i perceive her character trajectory and leave it there?? #because i don't want to disrupt this post my thoughts on that #i also have mixed feelings on her ending but again not the post for it i suppose #queen maeve #the boys #maeve x elena #maeve x homelander #annie x maeve #supe names in this show are interesting... curious to see what they will do w annie next season

[clitfisto]

can i be critical of black sails' writing for a second. for a show thats typically very very good at creating depth for even minor characters, 90% of the black characters are super fucking shallow

#like. mr scott had plenty of depth but then he died. max is super complex but she also has the lightest skin tone. #i couldnt tell you madi's distinguishing personality traits so far she just does everything right. girl where are your character flaws #shes been in the plot about as long as woodes rogers has and i could write a 1500 word essay on him if i gave enough fucks to #but you can summarize her history motivations and personality in like 4 sentences. 6 if you include her relationship with silver #like for one of the 4 most influential figures in the revolution youd expect a little nuance. a character weakness. an ulterior motive or 2. #like it lowkey just feels like theyre gonna kill her off for silvers darkest hour...... #and beyond all that the entire population of her town have maybe 5 speaking lines collectively???? #like when one of the pirates assaults one of madis men the focus is entirely on the white characters and potential fallout for the alliance. #that dude doesnt even get to speak for himself. because if madi isnt the mouthpiece for all black characters she doesnt have a role. #ok this is turning into the ''madi deserves better writing'' power hour so im gonna shut up now

[16-jarrah]

i get why people would opt to say walter was a terrible person since the beginning, but i think that's like, the most boring takeaway you can get about his character. he was already insecure and prideful from the start, and it's what would hurt him and keep hurting him. but like, being insecure and prideful are regular traits any regular person can have. the actions that he makes because of these traits, which in turn keep fueling his ego more and more, are what makes him an interesting character. and he was already pretty capable of hurting other people, but he wasn't doing it out of malice, but more because of careless selfishness at first. what makes walter terrifying is that the more he does it, the more he becomes aware of what he's doing, and the more he keeps going and keeps being more and more meticulous and deliberate about what he does that hurts people and even to the point when it was specifically to hurt people.

i think the traits were there in walter from the beginning—the pilot did a pretty good job of establishing how powerless he's felt all his life and just how susceptible he is to letting this newfound perceived power get to his head so easily. he even says this explicitly in 5x06 "Buyout" when he tells jesse "i'm not in the money business, i'm in the empire business". but saying he was this monster from the start kind of implies he didn't undergo through a character arc throughout the show when it's quite literally what he did. he got worse. so much worse. through mostly the fault of his own fragility.

#idk if i put it into words right but i'm just musing #was walter a good person when brba started? up in the air. but his family genuinely adored him. despite feeling like a loser teacher #some of his coworkers actually really liked and respected him. he was just as much of a regular person as anyone else was tbh #you know it's interesting that he and gale basically have the same motivations. why jump to meth of all things. why go from 0 to 100 when #it sounds COMPLETELY ridiculous. but they were both very passionate about chemistry who felt like their potentials were wasted and felt #like they were finally putting their skills to good use again. getting to flex their muscles and shit. whenever they cook better purer meth #than most other people. i think it's a really genius idea to have this premise for the show lol #cz as much as walter is motivated by him feeling like he desperately has to take control of his own life he also is a scientist at heart #who desperately needs to apply his knowledge and skills somewhere where it would feel gratifying #seriously dude you could've tried to get a paper published or two or something. djhdidhd #but the academe has its own Politics and whatnot. so one could only speculate why walt didn't get to pursue that any more #(aside from the whole grey matter industries thing) #anyway uhhh i hope i get the post across lol not to sound cheesy cliche but brba is a corruption slash character deterioration arc #quite literally the whole point is that he Didn't Start Off Like This And He Gets Worse #again. he already had some of his bad tendencies and traits but it's like. we all do that's not necessarily inherently make or break #it's what he DOES and KEEPS DOING. CONSCIOUSLY that turns him into the horrifying man he is by the end of it all #so i just think if your biggest takeaway is Walter Was Always A Monster then you're just missing the whole damn point #op #brbaposting

[badolmen]

I think one of the hardest things for privileged leftists have to learn is that they can’t just automatically agree with the majority. They can’t just automatically agree with the opinion of the POC, the queer, the Jewish person they’re interacting with in the moment because ‘they’re the experts in their own life.’ Which is true! But there is no monolith. POC and queers and religious minorities are not some mystical pure hivemind that always agree on everything and have correct opinions all the time. People are people. What one person finds offensive another might not care about.

I feel like it’s very evident these days where you have some people of a minority saying x is bad and some people saying x is good. Which is correct? Well, you have to educate yourself and make a critical assessment of the arguments before coming to your own conclusion. But now you have leftists who are desperate to be the most agreeable person in the room with the ‘right’ opinions who waffle and fail to organize in any meaningful way because they refuse to let the subject at hand have meaning for them, personally. They’re so busy ‘listening’ to minorities they’re not actually thinking about what they’re hearing, they’re not processing the biases underprivileged people can still carry, they’re not critical of reactionary politics or propaganda so long as it’s what the people immediately around them agree on.

Grow a spine, pick a side, and actually have a framework for your political and social involvement other than ‘let’s be real niceys with everyone :)’

#ra speaks #personal #politics #sorry I am. so frustrated with some people rn. sorry that international politics can’t all be sat down like toddlers and told to play nice. #politics is MESSY and EVERYONE has ulterior motives whether they’re aware of them or now. look at behavoir and contrast it with words. #this feels like an offshoot of oppression Olympics ala ‘the most oppressed person in the room is always right’ no. no they ain’t. #you NEED to understand history and arguments and process them and come to YOUR OWN CONCLUSION #stop asking minorities to tell you how to think and feel. get up off your ass and make commitments. if they end up to be antithetical to #your beliefs - you can change! but you need an actual belief system to hold political movements and organizations against. #otherwise your just pouring water through a net and retaining nothing productive at all. #hm. anyways. #I have the emotional disposition of a chihuahua in an ASPCA commercial #👍 okay take care eepy time #oh god the tags. tumblr what the FUCK are you doing. why double hashes. wh. bro pls stop.

[silvermizuki]

#fantasy because I’m doodling sword poses right now and #I feel happy drawing again #or motivated might be a better word #also don’t scold at me for the price 😭 I just want people a bit more interested/enticed #commissions #hush silv

[chipper-smol]

TIL (or a few days ago) when employers create a new job posting on linkedin and don’t specify the experience level it defaults to listing it as ‘entry level’

which explains why there are so many ‘entry level’ positions requiring 5-6 years of work experience

#G muses #do fact check me on this though #i read this from somewhere online #i did a little but gave up cause the idea of wording my search inquiry just right #immediately killed my motivation

[dennisboobs]

god hole is a fundamental dennis scene but not because of the way everyone else uses it

#ada speaks #you use it to say dennis is unfulfilled because hes not having sex with mac i use it to tie literally everything he says and does back to #one. very specific line. #i don't want real power. because with real power comes real responsibility. and i don't want any of that shit. #i just want the money. and The Illusion of Power. (and puss) #did i do it did i quote it right #wait hang on #HELP I GOT IT WORD FOR WORD I TRULY EXPECTED TO FUCK UP SOMEWHERE #ok. well #anyway. anywayyy. EVERYTHING. all of dennis' motivations whether intentional or not. come back to this #and everyone misunderstands dennis in a very similar way: assuming he is a control freak #its not true! thats not true! #surface dennis vs actual dennis! #he appears that way but he doesn't want the responsibility that comes with truly being in control #he just wants to feel like he is or at the very least Could be in control #in gets analyzed when he talks about being the one standing near the executioners switch #and knowing that he Could throw it. #its more about dennis' reluctance to be out of control than it is about him being in control. that loss. when the illusion breaks. #thats when it becomes a problem #he needs insurance. a way to get the upper hand if he ever does find himself being manipulated

[pepprs]

im home and already swallowed by despair. can you believe i was in CHICAGO a few hours ago. and now im here. lol

#i know i know. and i need to let the anguish motivate me to get out of here. but it feels like i dreamed it all #purrs #chicago #i had a rough time getting out of the hotel and through the airport to my gate and also im bad at math so i fucked up the calculation about #when my flight lands bc of the time zone change and i gave my parents the time in central time not eastern time so my dad was waiting for m #for like a half hour and texting me and i wasn’t answering bc i was still in the air and he was pissed at me and snarky in my texts with hi #and i was sitting there on the plane and could just feel his words ripping into me and the horrors rushing back in and i still haven’t #recovered from it honestly. it wasn’t that big of a deal he just said something that i misunderstood as him saying he was giving up waiting #for me and going home bc id already wasted his time and even though that was not what he actually said it just kinda burrowed into me that #my parents were mad at me and were probably also mad at me for not communicating with them AT ALL the entire time i was in chicago. and it #just was eating me alive. im home now and we haven’t talked about it but they did say things disapproving of the fact that i did a lot of #stuff by myself which i probably shouldn’t have told them. idk. it’s not even that bad i just am torn apart by their rejection of me and #utter inability to just like be happy for me without criticizing some part of it or restraining me. plus the house is just as much of a #biohazard as it was when i left and all the broken things are still broken and it’s like. a lot. i miss the hotel LOL #i think im just sleep deprived and not in my head right today but i do not want to be here. sinking in quicksand unable to breathe. but i #have to be the one to get me out of it and i should have learned how in chicago but i didn’t it was just a break and now im stuck again #delete later #kind of terrible that instead of being so proud and happy about what i did my immediate reaction is to be miserable that im home now lol

[anonbinaryweirdo]

Screams into a big black deep hole

#mb for not spamming your blogs as usual as i normally do i just #ive been feeling super bad for the last few weeks ?????? #I feel???? #like shit?????? #even though im????happy???? #i think????? #damn breakups do a lot to a mf #dw ill be fine i think pretending is my slogan #slogan. i that the right word. #wtv anyways ill find motivation to spam you guys again eventually #i just wanna be swallowed by the ground dor now though lmaoooo🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽