#settle for second best

[mexcine]

"Ken was vain and boastful, but he had his virtues." Aunt Alice: "Take it from an old career crone -- grab him quick! He can give you a home and security." (Romantic Secrets 1, 1949). "Sure, he might emotionally abuse you, but you'll have a HOME and SECURITY."

I'm not sure what "old career crone" means: does she have a "career" as an "old crone"?

Protip: for extra snark, read Aunt Alice's dialogue aloud in the voice of "The Simpsons" Lunchlady Doris.

#romance comics #Romance Comics Tuesday #old crone #romantic advice #settle for second best #Youtube

[fatuismooches]

EVEN MORE CUTE DOTTORE MOMENTS TO MAKE YOU SMILE 🙏 (because I am too tired to post anything of quality)

#smooches talks #ouhhhh... to experience the domestic life with him... #someone motivate me to start writing actual fics again... #the dottore honeymoon fic merely has the title “medicus scriptor amorem” and “Honeymoon fic” in the actual document LMFAO #i made it on... january 27 oops #idek if im gonna stick to that name because google translate for latin is so bad omfg #(TO THAT KIND PERSON WHO SENT ME IDEAS ILY AND I PROMISE I WILL RESPOND. I PROMISE IM NOT IGNORING U) #i also have another wip i havent touched with loving the harbingers when they weren't in the fatui yet #no like seriously i think churning out 50k words did something to my writing state 💀🙏 #a snippet from dottores part: Il Dottore’s strength was nearly unmatched in the Fatui being the Second Fatui Harbinger and all. #what most people do not know is that he was… certainly not the best fighter during his Akademiya days. #A claymore was also out of the question - he grumbled when he had to lug his numerous research materials and parts to the desert… #In the end you settled on teaching Zandik the basics of a sword. do with this as you will... #however i am still so proud of myself for fabulam diu oblitus #i was rereading in class bc i was bored and i was like #damn i kinda ate with this #thanks for listening to smooches mini writing life crisis if u made it here #okay i go sleep now... i have midterms this week #OMFG THESE TAGS R SO LONG IM SO SORRY

[mickeym4ndy]

Mickey and Ian’s characterization was flawed in the final seasons but one thing I found particularly odd about some of Ian’s decisions is that they almost felt like he didn’t know Mickey at all. Which is so weird because Ian is the one who knows and understands Mickey better than anyone. It’s one of the main things about their relationship.

But then he tells Mickey that he only has 87% of his heart when he knows about Mickey’s own insecurities and doubts. He knows his husband. So he had to have known how Mickey was going to react to that and how much it would’ve hurt him? Similarly suggesting a temporary break in prison. After everything surely he’d have to know how that was gonna go? Same thing with the monogamy conversation I think.

Signing the lease without telling Mickey when he knows how Mickey reacts to change and new surroundings. And about how Mickey feels about the South Side (he literally has a tattoo that says South Side Forever, no matter what happened to him there, Mickey viewed that place as his home). I do think Ian’s intentions for it were pure so they could start fresh, and probably part of it was because he knew if he brought it up to Mickey before signing then Mickey would never agree. But why would he ever think Mickey would be okay with him making that decision without him? And surely he’d have to know that a change that big wouldn’t be easy for Mickey to adjust to.

Not comforting Mickey after Terry’s death and being dismissive when he knows how complicated grieving an abusive parent is and Mickey’s history with Terry. Ian understands how complex those feelings are because he felt them after Monica. And he knows Mickey, even if how Mickey feels about Terry is hard for Ian to understand, he still knows that showing that level of emotion is difficult and rare for Mickey.

These aren’t even criticisms of Ian, they’re criticism of the writing. It’s fair that sometimes they’ll both make decisions that might be against how the other person feels, no one’s perfect. But a lot of these just don’t really make sense to me? One of the most important things about Gallavich before the later seasons was that Ian often saw through Mickey and understood him. He knew what Mickey wanted/meant even if it was contrary to what he said. Where did that part of their relationship go?

#shameless #there’s probs more #half this post was about Mickey’s characterization and how they dumbed him down and regressed a lot of his intelligence #but it felt too long so that’ll be another post I’ll make some day #ian gallagher #Mickey Milkovich #gallavich #shameless s10 #shameless s11 #suggesting that Mickey might be open to a non monogamous relationship is another one #Ian do you not know your husband at all??? #it’s like the writers just wanted them to fight but they didn’t know or care what about #so they just made one of them say or do something stupid #I do think the second half of the apartment story was ok like Mickey finally communicating to Ian that he didn’t feel comfortable w it #and Ian actually listening and agreeing that they didn’t have to go #but both of them ultimately agreeing to it because they both know it’s for the best and that Mickey just had to get past the fear #but the idea that Ian actually thought Mickey wouldn’t be furious with him in the first place #and that he’d settle in all ok and just go to the gym like no problem??? #he knows his husband better than that #I won’t talk about the flirting with that random gym guy because that was just mean and gross

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #persona 4 #p4g #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #shirogane naoto #naoto shirogane #YELLLLING i love this because there's layers to it ok #first of all yosuke of all people telling people that they have a tin ear for others' feelings means so much to me because #on the one hand there's the irony of someone who tends to shoot his mouth off and easily maybe accidentally offend people pointing that out #but also remember how yosuke tends to be very introspective on the things he says? how he comes back to apologise the next day or so #because he reflects on himself!! he knows he's not the greatest at talking but he tries his best!! #and that's the second layer to it because the contradiction of yosuke's foot-in-mouth disease is also how sensitive he is to other people #yosuke apologising to chie because he's realised that he's terrified her with his actions when he first drags yu into the tv #yosuke wanting to apologise to nanako for bringing up her deceased mother because he thinks he's made her uncomfortable #yosuke being the one that brings up how naoto must feel as he's settling in into the school! his boundless empathy!! #and i think actually it does make him the perfect person to talk to naoto about it especially because in this investigation #they really represent the dual sides of the work. yosuke is driven by his need to get justice and his very emotional cause #naoto is driven (at first) by profession and the cooler calculus of rationality and logic (until his pride was provoked at least) #idk i think that before naoto yosuke was really the one driving the team's investigation and analysis #and after naoto joined them it just. rounds out his effort significantly #so that's my third layer yeah them talking behind the scenes is so important to me #yosuke reaching out to naoto to discuss the case because he's got all these notes that he can't make sense of #naoto reaching out to yosuke to discuss the case because he can tell which one of the IT is idk essentially the project manager #don't get me wrong yu leads the team and everyone does their part in the team as well #but yosuke man. yosuke. the right hand man. the ideas guy. the one trying to form hypotheses about their evidence. #and idk i feel like yosuke probably commented that in a sort of throwaway manner as they're reviewing clues because he tends to do that #kanji's “didn't you tell me there were all kinds of love” or the beach scene and LISTEN maybe yosuke drops a lil philosophy sometimes. #maybe he drops a lil life advice like nbd. yosuke says very observant or wise things at times!

[patrick-zweigs]

why were they about to fuck

#????? #no one else #i actually thought for a second #esp after the ‘some guys slept around’ intro….. #anyways he’s my best guy now #the leg posture wtf??? #my bestie couldn’t settle down he needed to get .. #robert rosenthal #rosie rosenthal #mota #masters of the air #motaedit #*

[simping-on-the-daily]

Cause you're royal, you're rebel, you're more than one together however you go ever in the spider society~

#pov when you wanna draw miguel in apple's clothes but you don't have your equipment so you settle for second best #spiderverse #sony spiderverse #across the spiderverse #atsv #miguel o'hara #atsv miguel #miles morales #atsv miles #eah #ever after high #simper says stuff

[wofsilliness]

KINKAJOU HAIRSTYLES!!!

#she took me FOREVER to design #I already had an Idea for moon but kinkajou is difficult #I had NO ideas for her #but I sort of settled now so yay!! #i think once her hair grows out #she gets it in lil pigtails #I’m drawing that later #also IM BACK ON MY WOF ROLLL!! #160 HOURS ON MY IBIS CANVAS WERE MAKING IT TO 200!!! #laufey ily laufey #SECOND BEST HAS MY HEART #anyway I’m tired gnnn #wings of fire #wof #hwof #human wof #kinkajou wof #wof kinkajou #art

[flodoeslancer]

don't settle for being the friend whose presence is tolerated. if you're not cherished, that's their failing, not yours. I know it sucks to have to find new friends, but if that's the dynamic, they're already not your friends. don't settle for 'close enough,' because at some point, it won't be anymore.

#friends #friendship dynamics #never settle for second best when you deserve the best

[your-fave-is-bi]

Painted n dry sets + just painted set, second coat drying

I only made the red raw meat set, the rest were made by my sister n just never got to the being inked stage lol

#personal tag #for the blue n gold set i tried SO MANY ones before admitting gold just looked best on it #i tried a dark silver and a light silver snd s bright light blue n none of them worked well #the dark silver looked nice but wasnt legible at all #so i settled on just. gold. and it does look nice. i doubt you could ever really go wrong with gold numbers #for the blue set thats drying i used a metallic blue paint #the first coat was. annoying. but i also did that at the crafternoon with friends #when i was taking some braintime after session 0 discussions that went way longer than i expected #so i prob also hsd frustrations from the overstimulated brain then #did a second coat here at home with my tunes n in my chair in my space with my everything n it went. much smoother #also bc i REALLY loaded the paint up on the first coat lmao #we do we learn we vibe #for the othet sets i have i wanna see if i can mix some paints to get my desired colors #there’s a real pretty smoky grey set with dark pink glitter flakes in it…v nice looking #thinking of doing that in a dark dusty pink #and there’s a sparkly green teal set with the slightest drops of dark blue here n there that I want to ink dark blue #but maybe a very bright dark blue could look fun too. hmmm

[acaciapines]

every day im like “once i get through arc one of the owl house daemon au editing is going to be so easy.” and then i remember the countless small things that add up and up and up. yall i need to make the bat queen relevant.

#chatter #TO BE FAIR STILL EASIER THAN ARC ONE LOL #she should show up in 6 and 12? if I remember right? #and her role is more worldbuilding than anything else. but still SO MANY THINGS LIKE THIS…. #and even big things like. mari having settled as a pug. flapjack officially transing his gender in 16.5 #instead of it being implied he would’ve gone that way at the end of 21 #palistrom tree seed lore. how human-daemon vs witch-palismen names work #WORTH IT IN THE LONG RUN BUT. so much work….. #in other news he hasn’t shown up yet but I AM thinking about a final post epilogue sraf fic <3 #yes i like where the story ends w luz and Mari. but consider sending my second favorite ten year old to witch school #SRAF FIREFLY CLAWTHRONE’S GUIDE TO BEING THE BEST OWL YOU EXIST. TO ME #here’s hoping for a June release! I thiiiiiink it’s still possible lol depends on how hard all those smaller edits r #when im not basically fully rewriting and adding in new scenes it should go way faster

[dandyshucks]

need Guz to hug me tightly for like an hour solid oh my god dhdjdkl I went driving for the first time in over a year and I chewed my lip raw 😭😭

I'm starting to look like a caricature of Anxiety with all these physical symptoms and signs LMAO

#this is so ridiculous fhfjdkdl #i do not like driving fjdkdl i know i should not be on the roads #but unfortunately i have to bc i live rural and also my parents insist i ''just need more practice'' #practice is not going to fix the dissociation 😭😭 practice will not fix the Other Drivers being shitty and scary and reckless fjfkdl #it might make it slightly easier bc i wont have to think as hard about shoulder and mirror checks and roadsigns and speed limits #and where i am located on the road and intersection rules and whatnot #but like... it does not fix that i live in a town (and world lol) where ppl are fucking bonkers on the road #i had someone riding my ass for like a full five minutes. we had only two feet btwn us. MAYBE. IF THAT MUCH. #he was BIG mad that i was going the speed limit #and THERES A POLICE STATION LIKE RIGHT NEAR THAT AREA MY GUY IM NOT GONNA GO OVER THE SPEED LIMIT RIGHT THERE LMAO ???? #also im a rule follower usually so i do tend to go Exactly the speed limit fjfkdl #and maaannn that makes people SO fucking angry dhfjdl its impossible to drive Anywhere without having someone right on ur bumper #its so ridiculous like... that's not helping anyone ??? ur not getting to ur destination faster by riding up on somebodys ass ???? hewwo ??? #ANYWAYS. i drove around the neighborhood and then went up the highway and thru some intersections and then into the main core of town #and then i got my dad to take over from there bc it was lunch hour and the core of town is a lawless land at the best of times #MY NERVES ARE FRIED. i need Guz to act as a weighted blanket or one of those pressure therapy vests for me LOL #im like... shaking fhdjsl that was far more than i thought we were going to do for driving today good lord #IM OKAY THOUGH I SURVIVED I DIDNT EVEN HIT A CURB OR ANYTHING #i think I've only hit a curb once so far in all my times driving and that was on my second time driving on a road i think #so pretty good track record... im a very careful driver fjdkdl i work so hard to be safe and drive smoothly #during my driving test the only thing the test guy had to critique was that i waited at an intersection when i could've gone #but the reason i waited was bc i wasnt sure i could make it across the traffic lane before the oncoming vehicle got to us #so it was like. a safe decision overall but a little too hesitant which can actually be unsafe fjdkdl #AUGH ANYWAYS SORRY FOR RAMBLING SM #driving stresses me out so bad and my lip is all raw now and i have so many physical stress symptoms the past few days fhfjdl #after tonight i should be able to calm down a bit hopefully fhfkdl theres a thing we're going to tonight thats been stressing me out so bad #but after tonight it'll be over and hopefully I can get myself settled down again fjfjdkl #dandy.cmd #vent //

[remitro]

feeling shrimp emotions about cbee again. sorry it will happen again

#postcanon ranboo revival is real to me. thinking a normal amount of thoughts about them when everything is over and the dust settles #full believer that they get like. married married after ranboo is revived because goddammit they never got a wedding the first time #and maybe ranboo's ghost was a little too haunting because tubbo can never quite forget it the bloodstained wedding dress the ruined veil #the way their hair hung in front of their eyes #down in the way that ranboo always hated with he was alive because of how it touched her neck #about those empty empty eyes about something in the shape of someone you loved more than anything that doesn't understand. OK #really normal about replacing something that haunted you for so long with something happier. with something joyous #michael gets to be ring bearer. tommy is the flower girl AND the best man because he's just cool like that #ranboo's bouquet is pink tulips. jasmine flowers are braided into their hair. Does Anyone Hear Me. Does Anyone Fucking Hear Me #hm. i need to draw this will i probably not. but i want to. GOD i want to #they have the first set of rings on their horns but i think they order a second set for their actual hands #tommy spends at least five minutes laughing when he sees how much bigger ranboo's ring is in comparison #look. to me tubbo is maybe 5'4 if we're being nice about ranboo has AT LEAST a full foot on him if we're being generous #he never had a chance

[tonyglowheart]

after like a week of running between Michaels and JoAnn to compare yarn types and colors (why are the colors I am trying to match so hard to acquire, hm ? ), I have finally gathered the materials to make a Leetol Guy

#crafts talk #actually this is technically like second or third in my queue #but first is a sweater and I need to redo the cast-on (rip) #and the second I'm like... waiting for the library book that has the pattern I think would fit the project best lmao #but it's apparently being shipped thru Link+ to my local lib so theoretically should be soon...? #My first choice for eyes was also sold out at Michaels so now I'm entertaining going with safety eyes lol... we'll see ig #the color matching/pairing for that one was also a nightmare lowkey still is and will be until I settle on the final choices lol.... 8') #maybe I SHOULD let this project skip the line and just start it lol #there are plenty of free patterns for what I'm thinking. Plus I settled on crochet so I can also always freestyle it at some pt #* I'm still kind of waffling between a couple of options for this color palette but on the whole I'm generally pretty satisfied with it

[evilvarric666-archive]

Yet another bob's burgers ass problem in the princehendir household.

#me & dad spent like twenty minutes workshopping the phrasing of a printer paper sign #explaining that the hand cut fries are going to be a lil different because there was a crop failure #with the potato variety we usually use & so we had to buy a different one #and we couldn't settle on anything so we just made three different signs and called mom up to decide which one was best #she took one look. silently grabbed her own piece of paper. and made a sign in like ten seconds #it was really good. much better than what we came up with. #that's the sign that we're using #my dad is a pr nightmare btw #quote from mom: ''how did you manage to make it sound so scary''

[strawberrycriisiis]

[ btw her go-to ice cream cone is black chocolate, raspberry and salted caramel ]

#˚ ⋆｡˚ 🍓 about&headcanons 🍓 ˚｡⋆ ˚ #aka what i take to the ice cream shop i go to in my town when the best one is closed and the second best is too distant #so i have to settle with the one that makes chocolate GOOD i guess

[applecherry108]

Eughhh… 😬

I think I just encountered one of those middle schoolers operating at a fourth grade level that tiktok teachers have been talking about.

#Like he’s clearly trying his best but it’s like basic instructions leave his brain after 5 seconds #he’s not getting frustrated or anything but I sure am. he may be holding it together bc his mom is watching over him #I was performing a pre-test at a medical office that involved a camera and he just…. could not stop moving #and I’ve dealt with kids. little baby kids. all ages of people with different things going on but this one just felt different #it’s hard to explain but I’ve been doing this dang test for long enough that I know the difference between behavioral issue and adhd #but the way this kid was felt like neither. like he understood the assignment but it was like that understanding wasn’t being comprehended #the instruction was ‘look at the x and please don’t move’ and the camera takes 10 seconds if that to take a photo #but he’d always move at the last second. like he’d look around or move his jaw (which unfocuses the camera) or he’d straight up just #shift his whole body before settling back in. like. it’s like he couldn’t comprehend that ‘look at the x’ meant don’t look away from the x #that ‘don’t move’ meant ‘don’t move at all even if you come right back’ #like it takes all of 10 seconds and his inability to follow directions made the process take like 5 minutes. #and his mom said NOTHING! most parents will repeat my instructions (bc let’s face it. kids listen to their parents more than a stranger) #they’ll gently scold there kid with a little ‘hold still buddy’ or ‘don’t look away’ but she did NOTHING #and maybe that’s part of why this felt different. why it felt like one of the kids the tiktok teachers talk about. idk man #apple talks #to the tune of spam