#doing his best

[bl00dalchemist]

what centuries living with kinto do to a mf

#oc's (bl00dy) #my stuff (bl00dy) #bl00dalchemist #doodles #look at him #doing his best #not being the best he can be for a while #but staying alive #even against his will

[seeminglydark]

He was, in fact, not done.

In case you ever wondered what the comic this blog is for is ACTUALLY about, before it got hijacked by my hyperfixation ship, this re-draw of a panel from chapter one pretty much sums it up. Mick’s just dealing with your everyday supernatural bullshit, namely, his adopted child Rose being something akin to a cryptid shadow demon magical girl when the moon is full. What’s a mailman to do?

Mick and Rose Parker-Martinez are both from my long running supernatural drama Seemingly Dark on Tapas and Webtoon!

#original characters #magical girl #monster girl #pnw gothic #fun fact #the friend who helped me write micks Spanish weren’t given a script #cuz I don’t script ha #but rather the direction ‘make him sound like an abuela but also vegeta from the Spanish/Mexican dub of DBZ #anyway I love him #doing his best

[harkthorn]

In awe of the size of this lad. Absolute unit

#bird #birds #pigeon #pigeons #feral pigeon #feral pigeons #dove #doves #rock dove #rock doves #columbidae #absolute unit #in awe of the size of this lad #doing his best

[m1rafaye]

Squishy Stanley or Stanley Squishy!

Stanley the Mushie is Nazhu’s adopted son in our campaign, and he’s the sweetest boy you’d ever meet. He’s a homebrew race that replicates those he admires and is close too. So his cap is similar to Apidae’s hat, and his arms are representative of both Nazhu and Apidae! he’s a curious fellow who just wants to be like his mom :)

#dnd character #dnd art #clip studio illustration #mushrooms #he’s just a little guy #doing his best #stuck in the shadowfell currently el oh el

[hottest-gay-bar-in-philadelphia]

Dennis acted his little heart out in the Mac Day Project Badass video 🫶🫶

#doing his best #trying to make it go well #don't try to tell me it was because he didn't want to do it over and over #it was to make mac happy #okay? #okay #macdennis

[sixty-silver-wishes]

I love shostakovich so much I'm so normal about him

#he really was just a guy #doing his best

[artish-boi]

#everybody loves kel #hes just a guy #doing his best #being the comedic relief that i spend too much time thinking about #omori game #kel omori #omori kel

[viewmasterfeeling]

its 2022 why are we still doing will byers discourse

#lane talks #he's just a little guy idk #doing his best #he's not perfect but he's been through a lot of shit so i can forgive him yk?

[brownpuffball]

While I'm still on these Tommy brainworms, I just want to say how glad I am that they show how deeply compassionate and forgiving he is. He's the kind of person who, even without superpowers, would be a hero.

His kindness, his inability to leave people to struggle on their own, his willingness to work towards making a better life for the people he loves. These things make him a hero.

If the members of his family are founts of fantastic miracles, then he is a maker of ordinary miracles. The funny friend who makes you laugh, the delivery guy who gets your food to you quickly with a smile, the man doing gig work to support an ailing friend, the caretaker who sits and watches old movies so someone can remember the good old days.

And the fact that its being implied that he could be more powerful, that he is just choosing to have his powers manifest as going fast and blowing shit up. That he isn't even choosing to blow shit up nowadays and that for all his natural tendency for impatience, he is choosing to go slow. He's essentially ignoring destiny to be cute and live his life.

He doesn't really need fantastic superpowers to be a hero, he's already a hero for all the little sparks of joy he gives to others in a dark and difficult world. And I'm so glad that someone finally gets it.

#Tommy Shepherd #Young Avengers #Wednesday Spoilers #Marvel #Yeah I know I was talking about his superpowers just now #But my boy doesn't really need them #He's just a guy you know #Doing his best #Being a hot mess #Not giving into despair

[tsuntsunfangirl]

#rewatching good omens s1 because i'm in pain #soft demon #doing his best

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

#when the date went so wonderful that you don't even mind that you forgot your umbrella at home #crowley is doing his best and aziraphale appreciates it very much #aziraphale's very special version of pride and prejudice can't get wet #so you gotta use the four year old newspaper you found in your bentley #I am not mentally ready for season 2 #it will change me in a way that I cannot even explain #thank you neil gaiman love of my life fr #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #aziracrow fanart #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #david tenannt #micheal sheen #neil gaiman #digital art

[pocket-dragon]

POV you ate shit during the family drama hour and your adopted peepaw needed your dogs help finding the Temple

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #dnd #bg3 spoilers #durge #the dark urge #durge spoilers #bg3 scratch #dusk #bg3 withers #comic #scratch and my durge share a warriors bond #he is the best boy #doing his best OH NO your one the floor and I AM CONCERNED #big doggo moment

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

#I'm so proud and happy for my coworker and I've been trying to figure out how to let him know how amazing I think he is #what gets me the most is that he's keeping this super down low to avoid giving any hints to his kid #he has a lot of queer friends so he already is known as an ally but there's always a chance it will be different if it's family #and he took that chance and crumpled it up into a ball and slam dunked it into the garbage for three points #and decided that even if his kid wants to hide it from him for the rest of his life he will still do what he can to make their life better #pflag #parents doing their best #parenting win #good news #allyship

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[ultrakatua]

Gale's so good for crowd control, he carried the defend portal fight with Fire Wall really hard. It's mostly because the AI is stupid as hell and just... Rushes through the flames to die.

Then he failed some INT check and got the "Shar's Imbecile" status lol

#bg3 #doing his best #baldur's gate 3 #katua plays bg3

[motheyes]

i feel the best when i’m on call with my gf and playing video game

#been minecrafting a lot past few days #been so fun :) i’m making a big house from a hole in the side of a mountain #it’s fun i love that game #took a teeny break from stardew i cranked like 60 hours into my save already lol #not a lot compared to other ppl im sure #love that game it’s so fucking good #so fun to come back to after a long time of not playing it #i can barely focus rn like my mind feels extremely disconnected from my head #i feel rlly far away. such a weird feeling #i have been on my phone for like 2 hours straight lol #not good for me but my brain is trying to cope rn #doing his best