#failing to meet the expectations

[kvaradonaa]

Fernando Torres and Andriy Shevchenko

#andriy shevchenko #fernando torres #listen #i really hate to be that person but their stories are so much alike #phenomenal strikers brought to chelsea for an obscene amount of money #failing to meet the expectations #both were described by their chelsea teammates as surprisingly quiet and work focused never socialising etc #sometimes these descriptions did not match the impression that their teammates from other clubs had #both were portrayed in media as abramovich's favourites and had to constantly defend themselves from these accusations #but also they both spoke very positively of him in this 'only person that trusted me and was always so kind to me' manner #i'm not saying that they were both victims of something dark and twisted and manipulative at chelsea but

[spicyraeman]

I love the domestic bliss of shadzel raising lil baby xan, but something about single mom lae'zel is incredibly compelling

#maybe i just wanna see her struggle #i feel like shed have A Lot of complex emotions about having to raise a child #like i dont think shed activity Want to raise him #but shes already committed and gods be damned if she doesn't give it her all #even if she fails at meeting up to the expectations of a “mom” #shed be fine simply as his caretaker

[nano30cm]

they're gym buddies :)

#reprise reprise #td lightning #td lindsay #td tyler #total drama fanart #hey. fuck you. [makes lightning the most beautiful boy in canada] #he and his dad had a lot of heart to hearts and learned about toxic masculinity and high expectations and now hes doing a lot better #still completely full of himself but hes earned it #i like to think lightning and lindsay met thru modelling #and now they meet up sometimes at the same flashy expensive gym to hang out and motivate each other #(its mostly lindsay cheering him on unnecessarily and lightning talking endlessly about muscle groups n calorie loads while she spaces out) #tyler has top surgery scars but hes always been kinda lithe so the incisions were small #if i were a better artist i'd draw in his extremely tacky goatee sorry tyler fans ive failed you #ALSO IM SO SORRY I WANTED TO GIVE HIM A GOLD STREAK TO MATCH LINDSAY #BUT INSTEAD I MADE HIM LOOK LIKE EGORAPTOR IM SORRY TYLER FANS IVE FAILED YOU #i like to imagine these three have so much positive energy and its an endless positive feedback loop between the three of them #tyler always wanting to get good at new sports and lightning encouraging him and getting excited about new maneuvers #and lindsay getting excited to try something new and tyler being super supportive even if she bombs and it goes on and on forever #every time i scroll up from these tags i get flashbanged by egoraptor again

[wrecked-fuse]

pocket billy steve and eddie (brag) about tattoos, and more

🔪🔪🔪 в вк не репостить🔪🔪🔪  

#stranger things #harringrove #metalsandwich #pocketverse #wreckedfuse #billy hargrove #pocket Steve sees his friends are bragging about their tattoos while he has nothing to show (even his lil chest is clean lol) #he is very shy and concerned big ones don’t like him so he says sorry for failing to meet expectations 😣

[long-days-pleasant-nights]

Comphet Wilson means so much to me

#house md #hatecrimes md #james wilson #hilson #like buddy has had so many failed marriages and relationships with women #he needs to marry his boy best friend #but I can totally see him only dating women bc he feels that that’s what is expected of him and that’s how he’s supposed to act #bc that’s ‘normal’ #but then he meets house who doesn’t care about normal #house is his manic pixie dream middle aged man #I want him to have a gay awakening and kiss house

[sporesgalaxy]

listening to my evil music and thinking about vladlence

#they are both failing to meet the cishetero social expectations . they are both so desperate to compensate by overachieving other ways. #no one can say anything about you being a prissy man or an angry woman if youre holding all the cards. #you cant be an aberration if you make all the rules. if youre the center of the universe. if you become the new gold standard. #adddna #silence alexander #vladlence

[grimxark]

When will people understand that the lost light isn’t the first time Rodimus has been in charge of something. He had a whole team he trusted and went on adventures with who trusted him in turn. He was essentially a leader of a whole resistance. So many ppl seem to frame him as a bad leader because of the way Magnus talks about him in the beginning but continue to forget that Magnus goes to him for advice and trusts him as a leader even if he does questionable actions. Fail to remember Magnus is harsh on him bc he expects some sort of Tyrest out of him and because he’s seen how good a leader Rodimus can be and knows he can do better. Keep forgetting that Rodimus stopped reading Magnus’ reports before Overlord because they are mundane and petty observations that really don’t matter all that much. Rodimus clearly states he doesn’t read them anymore, meaning he read them before. He says why he stopped. He’s familiar with the way Magnus writes. He knows what’s going on in the ship. Please open your eyes I’m on my knees. He just seems less committed about it because 1. It’s 200 people but he remembers every single one of them 2. Every time he commits to something and cares deeply about it it ends in deep disaster so he’s trying to detach from it and failing sooo bad

#for fucking real I keep. urg #people are harsh on him. they expect so much from him and he can’t meet those expectations bc they’re IMPOSSIBLE #they want him to be Optimus. to be a Prime. and fail to forget he’s a different person #he’s just a guy. leave him alone. #the fandom bullies him in such a way I think he’d hate it but think it’s funny #not judging anyone. I care but you know enjoy media as you wish it’s whatever. you’re the one consuming it not me #the ramblings of a mistful storm #Rodimus #maccadam #meta

[enjoythesilentworld]

did you hear that? that was the sound of my heart shattering into a million pieces.

via NN

#KRISTINA #BE HIS MOM NOT HIS BOSS #💔💔💔 #i feel insane #oh to love your mother so much and to want nothing more but to make her proud #but oh to crumble under the pressure as you fail her again and again #i hope they fix their relationship even more after everything #she starts the show angry with wille for not meeting her expectations #and ends it with the acceptance that she has to let him go #(or else she’ll lose both of her sons) #young royals #yr s3

[blankandhappytales]

The disappointment when the lift opens up and you're not instantly assaulted by a dozen metallic, wrapping around your to drag you in for forceful conversion into a drone...

#when the real world fails to meet up to expectations

[odysseys-blood]

literally how i feel any time i read this line. absolutely NOT

i think he's a great mirror type character for the mc depending on how much you draw on the default ra-on and their characterization, but more specifically their feeling of inferiority to solomon (which i take for my mc loyal). both the mc and bael are stuck filling in for a role for a king that neither feels they're well equipped for or were even born to hold and the fact that bael's so used to taking the fall that he's automatically ready to do it for you too is just. man. orz

#cliffnotes/.txt #whb #bael whb #its so...augh he makes me so sad #ik itll probably take forever to get to avisos since the promised chapter 6 hasnt even released yet #but waiting so patiently to pick bael apart (not really patient (vibrating like a chihuahua)) #bael and mc spiderman pointing meme #god and both being like an imperfect copy #just similar enough to pass off as a fraud but so very different at the same time #and bc of that they'll never be true replacements #though the mc isnt even supposed to be one its like #the moment of disappointment almost everyone has shown when they realize its not solomon #even if they change tunes and bounce back quickly its there #happy to meet you but still upset its not him #and the underlying expectation that it *should* be him at first #like how it should be beel in avisos. but its not #both get a good amount of reassurance and support from those around them tho i will say its nicd #esp after seeing how the rest of avisos' camp feels abt bael #they love him and trust in him so much even though he always feels like hes failing them just by not being the king #he does so much and still feels like itll never be enough #ok now im just rambling its time to be quiet before i write an essay in here

[a-blip-of-billdip]

we need more ford haters in this fandom. this dude is a fucking loser. it has nothing to do with him being a nerd, and everything to do with him being a borderline narcissist who has ruined the lives of every single person he's come in contact with

#gravity falls #ford pines #stanford pines #fuck ford #yall i cannot describe how much i hate this fucking dust bag #i hate how much the fandom is obsessed with him too #even alex acknowledges that ford is an asshole whos in love with himself and has no problem destroying peoples lives to get what he wants #examples; stan fiddleford (almost) dipper and mabel (almost) his au self and fiddleford in an au AND the entire dimension of that au #fiddlefords entire family- their parents (specifically his mother who loved stan more than she loved ford and NEVER GOT TO SEE HER SON AGAI #BEFORE SHE DIED BC OF FORDS FUCKING ACCUSATION) #which btw let me just side track slightly to point out that ford DIDNT make a pwrpetual motion machine. #if all it takes is one screw loose for it to stop working it isnt a perpetual motion machine. period. #he wouldve gotten into thr college with a lie and he wouldve absolutely failed to meet the expectations in his 'dream scgool' #(a school he didnt even know about until the day pRIOR. a school he was willing to abandon his TWIN over and... again. #destroyed stans life over.) #theres so so so so so so so many other examples #so mamy #but im getting TOO mad

[opashoo]

OCtober Day 8+9: Emett and Rani Tuzanh, Sisters

The Pariah and the Paragon. Some things can't be fixed, but a closed fist can become a hand again.

#I've been thinking about these two so much the past few days #Their relationship has launched a huge push into developing the world and I love it #I love these two #emett is the one on the left outcast in the village and ran away early #rani is basically everything the village could want in someone she is an exemplar #It took a long time for rani to realize that the burden of failure was not on Emett for failing to meet expectations #but on the village for not supporting her #emett tuzanh #summoner #knight #occult researcher #agender #demigirl #transgender #she's got the works #rani tuzanh #monk #barbarian #wrestler #titan wrestler even #she saved the village once by wrestling a bear in single combat #kobold #OCtober #my art #pathfinder #pf2e #dnd #thank you for reading the tags as always #I also drew heavy inspiration for the background from Omensight which is a severely underappreciated game #nonbinary

[springboggle]

Also my bf didn't come down for Chinese because he shares his car with his family and they used it for something yesterday. I guess he didn't even think to Uber or Lyft down or yknow, use the other fucking car they have.

I ordered myself some Subway with the uber eats card I got from the doggy daycare interview, but I'm just retroactively pissed off. All week I was looking forward to Chinese with him. I treated myself but I'm about to start fucking working soon and Sundays will be my primary off day starting next week, now planning will be even more impossible. And he couldn't even find a way to have Chinese with me or something. Or just come at night and go somewhere else with me. Like, I'm legitimately trying to wrap my head around why he can't seem to find a way to make shit happen ever unless I take responsibility and pressure him to be an adult. No fucking thanks.

#ramblings #between this and one sided sex and being too much of a pussy to just ask for money I'm like. #ready to dump him once I get my first paycheck. at this point I basically meet my own needs while he twists himself into a pretzel #trying to meet mine and always failing. I can tell him what I want all I want but if he cant or wont do it he. cant or wont fucking do it #autism or not 🙄 #again this is why I'm so skeptical of communication advice on this site. like... #are people communicating poorly or are you just unable to fulfill the request and making them out to be a problem. #''I want to eat Chinese with you for Valentines Day.'' and then he proceeds to just not make a plan b unless I do...c'mon #thats pretty straightforward! he just didn't or couldn't think of another way to come down. but I can't pressure him #because then I'd be the entitled one expecting neurotypical behavior (reciprocation) or whatever.

[eenasbabysmom]

A beautiful thing about this fandom is that we’ve come to a near universal agreement that in the 13 years of WWX being deaddeaddead, that JC obsessively carried JL everywhere in the cultivator’s boba baby wrap equivalent . . .

A less beautiful thing is that I have not yet encountered this in art form and therefore I am DISAPPOINTED in us.

#mdzs #cql #jiang cheng #jin ling #just needing visual representation of jc stalking around the training grounds #jl strapped to his chest #so when a jiang disciple fails to meet expectations #they get a double dose of impatient correction (jc) and haughty judgement (jl)

[br1ghtestlight]

big bob is very interesting to me (YES i know he's in a total of two and a half episodes. let me have this) bcuz earlier in the show they definitely intended to protray him as an abusive alcoholic father who never cared about bob and always treated him horribly. and that's true to a certain extent

i think when they figured out everything w/ lily they leaned more into big bob being emotionally unavaliable and depressed/greiving and not really knowing how to be a good dad in a really traumatic situation + raising his son in the only way he knew how. not saying big bob was NEVER abusive or that he was a good dad but they definitely reconsidered how he was protrayed in later episodes. he's not cruel he's just a very Mentally ill fucked up old man who had no idea what he was doing raising a child in the 1970s and 80s as a single dad and restaurant owner

weirdly enough there are parallels between jimmy pesto and big bob vs bob and jimmy junior. and on that note do you think when jimmy jr is older they'll be called Big Jimmy and jimmy

#i dont think jimmy pesto OR big bob are good dads tbh #big bob is a better grandparent than parent bcuz the expectations are much lower on an emotional level #(and yet gloria STILL somehow fails to meet them) #jimmy pesto is..... jimmy pesto #would love if they did an episode someday focused on the parallels between bob and jimmy jr bcuz their interactions are always great #but h jon benjiman just voicing with himself for an entire episode couldnt be too fun for him #txt #bob's burgers

[essektheylyss]

Would I be a calmer person if I was willing to dnf a book? Undoubtedly. But then I wouldn't get to deconstruct exactly what I don't like about the book for my own learning process, and I would lose out on some prime kvetching, so I think it levels out.

#I'm like 70 percent of the way into this book and I am GOING TO FUCKING FINISH IT DAMMIT #it's increasingly annoying me cuz it will sorta go in a direction that seems like it might fix some of my problems with it but then it fails #and I think it's fundamentally cuz like. why are you expecting me to remember what the fucking heart indexes you're referencing are #while also explaining photons and carbon to me like I'm five #tbh the personified science concept chapters are the MOST annoying to me #cuz there has been one human narrator in this book that actually felt like they had a voice #and that person fucking DIED first of all (for no reason which would've been WHATEVER IF HE HADN'T ALSO BEEN THE STRONGEST NARRATOR) #and then these personified science chapters have at least some distinction in terms of voice #but the more there are the more annoyed I get about how LITTLE voice anyone else has #like why do Mary and Frank's chapters read the same as Janus Athena's meeting minutes. what the fuck bro. #anyway I'm an aggressive completionist and i am not giving up but I'm mad about it #megs is reading