#earnestness

[privatejoker]

I'm not sure if this is a stupid question to ask, but how do you write? More specifically, what inspires you?

i do it out of commitment to practice almost exclusively

#focusing on process. doing it a lot. being curious about what i like and dont like. opennes and acceptance to the work i make #earnestness #silly

[areadersquoteslibrary]

"Religion is responsibility or it is nothing at all."

- Jacques Derrida

#religion #responsibility #faith #earnestness #God #belief #jacques derrida #derrida #modernism #postmodernism #religious #spirituality

[creative-anchorage]

I was trying to find discussions on earnestness (since lately I keep seeing that trait talked about as odd or laughable), and found this reddit comment:

"A person who [is earnest] says exactly what they mean and does exactly what they say. They don't try to manipulate or deceive. They don't hide their true feelings out of fear or to obtain benefit. Other words that could be used to describe this quality are authentic, genuine, pure of heart. It's a quality that is rare in the postmodern world, so it is really quite moving when you encounter a person who embodies this virtue."

That sounds like a pretty ideal person to me! Is earnestness/sincerity really that rare? Am I really that rare? Do I overwhelm people by being this way? Are others really that concerned at having a carefully constructed ~cool~ persona? 

How has the idea of "cringe" become so invasive as to try to kill off any uniqueness to people's personalities? And how can anyone get to know you in the first place, if you do not actually show yourself? Do people not want to be known?

I don't get it.

#earnestness #sincerity #anti cringe culture

[quietflorilegium]

"I know that if I'm hit where I am earnest, I will never recover."

John Green, “The Anthropocene Reviewed”

#john green #the anthropocene reviewed #earnestness #vulnerability

[lowcountry-gothic]

I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface. ‘Hip’ people love parodies. But there’s no such thing as a timeless parody, is there? I have more respect for the earnest guy who does something that can last for generations, and that hip people feel the need to parody.

Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

#quotes #randy pausch #the last lecture #earnestness #parody

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

#yuri on ice #yoiedit #yoi #victuuri #ice adolescence #anime gif #*gifs #animangahive #dailyshounenai #userkarura #usergojoana #userhanyi #useralphonse #usertorichi #usermoonz #usericybtch #userheidi #usergokalp #userartless #homuras #himawaari #this is not goodbye this is still my house!!! #devastated but not surprised tbh but i still wanted to channel my emotions somehow and just. express how much this show means to me so here #this thank you goes out to u guys. the fandom #mappa can eat a brick btw <3 #god i wish i could articulate just how special yoi is to me #it truly resonated with me like very few other pieces of media have (i can count them with one hand in fact) #it was sooooo revolutionary and ahead of its time not just in terms of queerness but also in terms of mental health #it truly changed me as a person and i just. really appreciate how earnest and kind it was above all #thank you yoi. you will be a part of me forever <3

[ordinaryfailure]

Although we tend to think of earnestness as a kind of naïveté, naïveté is nowhere among its definitions. Instead, earnest is defined as, at once, a form of potency and a portent, as ‘showing sincere and intense conviction’ and ‘a thing intended or regarded as a sign or promise of what is to come.’

Cameron Awkward-Rich, “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” (2020)

#cameron awkward-rich #black studies #trans studies #earnestness #song #protest #black trans lives matter #tony mcdade

[fairycosmos]

i hope you are being compassionate with yourself today. you are your oldest childhood friend

#🫂 #sorry 2 be earnest but i mean it so im not sorry actually

[thedreadvampy]

people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.

#red said #also there are posts and tweets like THIS IS JUST FOR MCU FANS #like please go on demonstrating how you've adopted 'mcu fan' as a shorthand for 'person who likes films i don't' #or 'person who likes films that are popular' #because the defining features of mcu films are that they're high budget irony poisoned derivative works #targeted at a broad audience so aiming to be accessible and inoffensive #and it really seems. like 'accessible' is the part of that you object to #bc EEAAO is a highly original A24 indie film with a 14.5m budget which is NOTHING #it's made mostly with practical effects and sets #and most importantly it's beautifully painfully earnest. it's never trying to shy away or go Hey Look How Silly This Is 😏 #everything is driven by its earnest desire to talk about specific themes #i think the people comparing it negatively to mcu films are stuck on the fact that it's about a multiverse and it's got jokes #and colourful action scenes #but they miss that the referential jokes (like racacoonie) and setpieces aren't the point of the film

[skiitter]

low key very obsessed with sex-adverse Astarion. like he's The Thirst Companion. The fucking Only Fangs joke. All the smut fan content. And then it does a total 180 and he's like "actually my sexual identity was weaponized against me and i was forced to use it to lead hundreds of people to their deaths". It's just such a compelling and interesting twist on his character. I love it.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #the way he reacts to the hug almost broke me #just like so??? touch starved??? for genuine earnest kindness #also no shade to the astarion smut fans y'all were doing the Lords Work

[cemeterything]

the thing about "callout/cancel culture" that convinced me it's rotten to the core is the dehumanisation you face once you become the subject of a campaign like that. a lot of criticisms of callout/cancellation attempts appeal to the humanity of the subject, pointing out that it's unfair and unproductive to treat a person, a fellow human being, regardless of how much harm they've caused and how genuinely unlikable they are, like that. but unfortunately the reality of being the target of a mob mentality often means facing the very isolating and traumatising experience of realising that you've ceased to exist as a person in their eyes. you're a representation of your transgressions, an embodiment of harm that needs to be erased like a blemish, a spectacle for entertainment, a means of earning social approval by publicly condemning and humiliating you in what quickly becomes a competition to see who can strike the blow that knocks you down so you never get up again. nobody cares about who you are outside of what you did. people make mistakes and hurt one another, but there is always the capacity for change, for regret and reparations. you are an irredeemable monster. you can't change. the only way to make sure you can't cause harm ever again is to neutralise you entirely. to drive you off and hurt you so badly that you never consider coming back. and it often succeeds. but it doesn't make the world a better or safer place. it just tells everyone that certain behaviours will be punished, so you should conceal them, and harshly condemn them in others so that everyone knows where you stand; nobody will stand up for you if you're accused and brought out for judgement, so you shouldn't trust anyone, and always be on the lookout to take them down before they can do the same to you. you're not creating a safe, welcoming community. you're creating a panopticon built on fear and punishment.

#🐉 #yes ive been the target of multiple harassment campaigns. yes i was in the wrong and deserved to be held accountable. #no i didnt deserve to be treated like that. and no i didnt change because people were cruel to me. #i changed because i was lucky enough to have friends who supported me and pointed out that they wanted me to be better because they cared #their disappointment and earnest belief in my capacity to be a better person was what made me realise i could and needed to do better

[soaked-doors]

sabaody’s been rough but at least my son looks cool

#this is like the second time around OP has made me grip my screen and go ‘’luffy you gotta kill these guys’ in real earnest #tldr it’s dire out here #one piece #monkey d. luffy #luffy #one piece fanart #my art #sabaody

[pureseasalt]

iñaki godoy studied luffyology at the esteemed monkey d'university. he graduated top of his class. latin honors. he's on his way to get a phd. oops wait he's already got it. my god. the talent on this young man. he's got that natural troublemaker face. the class clown at the back of the class kind of energy. a kid who's hiding something in his hand. u take one glance at this guy and u know he's not up to no good. but would u follow him anyway? are u kidding me. look at him. of course u would.

#one piece #one piece live action #opla #Iñaki Godoy #episode 1 #still on episode 1 but i cannot stop smiling #like. none of this would work without luffy #for u to believe in this world and its wacky kooky crazy laws and realities u have to first believe in luffy #and by god did iñaki make me believe #hes so. earnest. like. yeah. luffy. you are gonna be the king of the pirates.

[cali]

this is how they used to have sex back when everyone was smooth down there and when metaphors weighed more than truth or logic

#https://www.tumblr.com/ofallingstar/179497848364/the-importance-of-being-earnest-2002 #^gif from there

[albaharu]

It killed me seeing Wyll laughing at the worst joke in existence in game, and then praise the fucking clown so earnestly, but even more seeing later in youtube everyone absolutelly loathing the clown except him and jaheira fksksjdjdks

#anyways i love this man he is so silly so earnest #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #wyll ravengard #tav #prudencia tav #astarion #karlach #karlach cliffgate #astarion ancunin #dribbles the clown

[saturdaysky]

when your waterdhavian crush ambushes you with extremely cheesy flirting and to your deep horror, it works

if you respond equally cheesily — "Read it? I could've written the thing 😏😏😏" — he hits you with this:

i'm afraid there was simply no one else for me after that

#i cringed through the entire interaction and it was a delight. wouldn't change a thing #don't let this comic fool you tav is just as bad #terminal levels of earnest swaglessness in this galemance run. love that for them. sorry for the rest of the party #sky does bg3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #mayhew #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #galehew