#failing upwards

[silveragelovechild]

Warner Brothers to be sold again?

The article at the link below discusses Warner Brother’s uncertain future. I blame AT&T.

AT&T’s big mistake was thinking an old fashion telephone company could run a Hollywood movie studio.

Next it put John Stankey in charge of Warner. Stankey was a long time Bell-Head who knew nothing about making movies. He was out of his league and he had to step down 2 years later. In another example of failing upwards, Stankey was later made CEO of AT&at itself!

Get this - AT&T bought Time/Warner for $85 BILLION and sold it to Discovery 3 years later for $43 BILLION! (Losing half its value! I guess Stankey earned his promotion.)

But Discovery has no idea what it’s doing other. It’s most produces cheap TV shows for the Food Network and HGTV.

Discovery’s solution was to cancel movies and show that had been already filmed but not released. WTF?!?

#blame John stankey #failing upwards #lost $42 billion #Warner brother #discovery #david zaslav

[bklynmusicnerd]

Dex is very bad at his job and I'm more interested in seeing how long it takes Sonny to pick up on that than the whole "Dex is Michael's mole" thing.

#general hospital #dex heller #he was gonna give him a promotion #while it took this man three days to escape a college girl's dorm #failing upwards

[unsurefuture]

my manager really don't do shit

#how u work in IT but have no IT knowledge nor understanding of IT? #failing upwards

[werecreature-addicted]

a woman told me "Pretty thing like you shouldn't have to do hard work," when I tried and failed to get a heavy box I was trying to donate out of my car and hmmmmm if I don't get fucked in the next two seconds I'm going to explode.

#I'm failing upwards bay-be #i've charmed her with my weak arms and pretty face #now we will make sweet love in the donation drive through of this goodwill #and I will surely die in the process #but what a way to go #I also think she was making fun of me #but hey that won't stop me #i'm so into women

[hellenhighwater]

genuinely like how do you seem to be good at like... EVERYTHING? I'm so jealous of how skilled you are at things seemingly naturally

Things are not as hard as you think! Do them and see what happens, and then keep doing that over and over, regardless of failure.

#failing upwards babey

[trackpadhell]

Hunter belongs to @/quieteeks (can be found by the same username on twitter and tumblr!)

Please please read the "yikes" au by @/quieteeks its pure unhinged Alan!

#my dear hatchet man #mdhm #my art #I keep coming back to that au it is très magnifique #Alan fails UPWARD #Alan with no filter is best Alan

[theplatypusblue]

Can you draw a picture of what you think Jay is getting up to in the dragon's rising.

its unlikely since we've been meeting all the other ninjas one at a time, but in my heart of hearts i want to believe that jay and cole ended up getting stuck with each other post-merge. They're probably causing more problems rather than fixing them lol....

thanks for the request :D !!!

#i love cole and jays dynamic it makes me happy seeing them fail upwards together <3 #ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago fanart #cole ninjago #jay ninjago #asks

[rabdoidal]

the thing about laios (for first time watchers/readers of dunmeshi) is that however weird and fucked up u think he is now. he stays that way for the entire series. he is a little more considerate towards people but hes still 100% a freak and most people around him are entirely unsure if hes secretly evil or just stupid

#personal #he fails upwards #dunmeshi spoilers

[grapefruit185]

death the kid is such a hilarious character i will never be over him

#soul eater #death the kid #soul eater fanart #fanart #grapefruit185 #i hate that little emo brat #it's so funny watching this show as an adult vs as a 13 year old #i used to think he was this badass eccentric character #turns out he's just this rich spoiled emo ocd wreck that somehow fails upwards #i love it lmfao

[martianbugsbunny]

Girlboss x malewife enthusiasts I beg of you not to forget these two:

The classics the icons the legends

#love them sm #they're simply adorable together #and the part where they fell in love accidentally while trying to get their sister and bestie together is hilarious #they really failed their way upwards on that one tbh #white christmas #white christmas 1954 #Phil davis #Judy haynes #Danny kaye #vera ellen #it's the christmas movie ever #girlboss x malewife #martianbugsbunny ships

[utilitycaster]

Anyway returning to Lore Stuff but: feels really likely The Crush was due to Ludinus's attempt to contact Ruidus in the late 500s, which is what led to the fall of Molaesmyr. I wonder if he even realized until centuries later, since I don't think he was able to communicate with Ruidus until he started working with Ruidusborn which feels comparatively recent. Imagine unwittingly setting into motion a natural disaster that permitted the final stages of complete imperial takeover on an entirely different celestial body and then finding out 200-odd years later that this is extremely beneficial to your lifelong dreams.

#i really do understand the depths of his hubris because he keeps...not failing upward he is too smart to fail #but he keeps stabbing in the dark and hitting precisely the right thing. i do wonder if he orchestrated the eve of crimson midnight #timeline gets a bit wonky there due to Writers Doing Math #or if he was just a clever opportunist #critical role spoilers #critical role #we really need to get more info about ludinus like. the choice to fixate on ruidus is in fact brilliant. #he could have taught liliana or two a thing given that he basically saw priests saying RUN and was like. bet. #but like...his notes in molaesmyr don't mention the people on the moon #just a sealed alien entity. did he know? did he think the moon was only a prison? #we ALSO need the actual history of ruidus. can chet just. touch the ground. can fcg cast legend lore

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

Are we going to talk about the fact that Luka and Kagami have the same exact goal in Determination that Alya and Nino have in the NY special, of trying to get Adrinette together by having Marinette be more clear in her communication and having Adrien gain more insight into the world around him, and then try to carry out their plan in the same exact way by locking them in a room together, which is almost immediately foiled both times by an akuma who bursts into the room, only for the plan to sort of work out anyway and Adrinette’s feelings and relationship become strengthened? Because…

#the parallels that exist here are just #shshfkagdgs #so goooood #no matter how flawed the plan is #it still works out #Adrien is too in love with Marinette #for it not to work #it just fails upward #ml determination #ml new york special #Adrinette #adrienette #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #mlb #miraculous #ml #kagami tsurugi #luka couffaine

[fymeetrasurik]

Lots to say about Ahsoka but for now, I wanna talk about Thrawn. After Andor I knew this would be a problem, because it was a problem back in Rebels too.

Thrawn isn't built for these stories. During Rebels, they just put a mask of competency on him while still handing him L after L. "These losses are all part of my plan" "The rebels escaped but I meant for that to happen" ect ect. Just thwarted by the scooby doo gang. Cause let's be honest the rebels crew aren't exactly strategists.

Then in Andor, we get competence. Not brilliance mind you like Syril was still a buffoon. But the ISB came of as so threatening just because they were able to do their jobs without slipping on banana peels. We've now seen how dangerous the empire can be when they crack down and try.

But we're talking Thrawn. Whatever the ISB are? He should be playing in a different league. Competency vs sheer genius. I mean after all this entire season was about how dire things would be if Thrawn made it back to the galaxy.

And what do we get? "Oh these are acceptable losses, oh they won this round but that showed me their flaws. Oh we don't want to waste our precious resources now do we" Proceeds to throw away a few dozen troopers and a bunch of tie fighters. It's the same as it was in rebels. A mask of false threat over just another imperial.

If I'm a normal person watching this show, and have no concept of rebels, much less the heir to the empire trilogy, I can't imagine they get the sense that Thrawn is a big deal at all.

#ahsoka #ahsoka spoilers #thrawn #andor #filoni has always had this problem #if the villains constantly fail upwards then it doesn't really feel like there's much danger for our characters #remember when grevious used to be a wildly competent general/jedi killer? #i remember #remember when thrawn could defeat entire armadas with only a small fleet of his own? #i do #villains used to be where star wars shined #now they're an anchor holding everything down

[vongulli]

your fem!buggy changed my mind on buggy. help. she lives in my brain. thanks for proving that i am not immune to buggy the clown.

AHAHA i'm glad!!! I love buggy a whole ton, I have a blast drawing any version of him!! THATS SURPRISING i feel like it'd be tough not to like him HAHA

I thought he was so much fun when i first saw him in the show!! peoples amazing art made me super fall for him though.. love goggles are now on forever...

#Ask #ask reply #vonchatty #text #hes so silly and fun.. name a better failing upward character you cant #I LOVE HIMMMG #plus his relationships are super interesting to me (and funny) #what a perfect clown #!!!!!!!!! #id do a doodle for this but im drawing croccobug yuri.. mind is preoccupied..

[sluttylittlewaste]

Hilarious that the same people defending any and all questionable choices the Bad Kids make (namely Kristen lbr) by saying "They're just kids! They have all this trauma and it's fucked up to expect teens to be good and nice all the time!" are the same people insisting that Kipperlily is an evil bitch and the Ratgrinders deserve to die.

#it's almost like the rules of empathy and nuance only apply to characters you like 🙃 #we know absolutely nothing of significance about the Ratgrinders #and i can't wait for Brennan to remind us of that #you want to complain about Kipperlily using her families money to try to buy the campaign??? #The entire shrimp party that kicked off Kristen's campaign was bankrolled by her rich friend #Adaine is a total bitch to anyone who isn't in her immediate friend group #Fig is a literal full time criminal at this point #they have at least 50+ murders under their collective belts at this point #the only verified difference between the Bad Kids and the Ratgrinders at this point is that we know nothing about them #I hope they are the biggest red herring Brennan has ever pulled #because I feel like there are people in this fandom who are so used to self-identifying as victims that they've become full bullies #and they're projecting that shit in some really gross ways #The same way Brennan had to remind Adaine that she wasn't the only one with a shitty life when she was dunking on Zayne? #how about we all take a big step back and try to have a little more perspective #instead of jumping straight to being triggered by a CHILD who had the audacity to not love your faves behavior #let me die #if i die #d20 fhjy #fhjy #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #kipperlily copperkettle #the bad kids #the ratgrinders #we have no context on what those kids went through in all the time the Bad Kids have been running around doing other shit #Aguefort is an awful school and their friend is dead #maybe she has a reason not to like the super special “chosen one” that got personally resurrected by the principal and keeps failing upwards #i didn't want to be a Kipperlily defense page #but the energy of the Kipperlily hate reeks of double-standards and unprocessed high school bitterness

[strawberryblackcrown]

buggy is fabulously unhinged (as i expected him to be) but also there are so many moments that slip by that hint at how complex he is as a character?? considering that oda didn't even mean to make him as prominent in one piece initially, the way they tied him into opla is so satisfying?? his actor is a blessing and so is this show

#opla #one piece live action #maz watches opla #i am frothing at the mouth and going insane for him. really i am. #the fact that opla is only the east blue arc and i'm already waiting for impel down just to see this stupid clown again fail upwards #buggy the clown