#shes learning from past mistakes

[emeraldspiral]

Girls don’t want to see another attempt at rebuilding the Jedi Order. Girls want Ben Solo back.

#reylo #rey #kylo ren #ben solo #star wars #for real tho #fuck the jedi #they fell for a reason #the entire sequel trilogy happened #because people didn't learn from the mistakes of the past #and just tried to recreate an already failed system #and tros's greatest sin was throwing that theme away #in favor of embracing mindless nostalgia #and rejecting the need for growth and change #if the movie isn't about rey either learning that she needs to modify her new jedi order #to make it actually work this time #or failing spectacularly because of her blind faith in something she should already know doesn't work #this movie will just be doubling down on tros's trashiness

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

It’s just that “Better Than Revenge” is messy and angry, but also so very human and that’s okay. It’s disappointing to me that she felt the need to rewrite her own history on an album about saying exactly what you feel and water down her very human feelings she once had as a teenager. Her anger should be allowed to exist even though the target of it was misplaced, which was purely a product of society seeing that women were led to see each other as competition when it came to romance. She’s clearly shown that she’s changed her thinking from when she originally penned the song over a decade ago with what she said about “august” during the Long Pond Sessions and all of her work since Speak Now.

#taylor swift #better than revenge #I talked about/thought a lot about this when writing my podcast #and it’s not just that one line that targets the other woman it’s the whole song so changing it doesn’t really do much #women’s anger is always seen as wrong and unacceptable as if it’s being expressed in the wrong way #and her making this edit for whatever reason whether it be fear of being ‘canceled’ or not resonating with it anymore reinforces that #like the song is important to her discography because it marks a turning point in her discussion of other women and she’s grown from it #Being human is accepting ​and acknowledging that we make mistakes and are messy at times #and learning from our past missteps and growing from them not erasing them.

[caitlynmeow]

The daughters @ Alcina

#headcanon #house dimitrescu #daniela dimitrescu #cassandra dimitrescu #bela dimitrescu #alcina dimitrescu #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #re8 #they argue and bicker constantly and Alcina’s temper just goes BOOM #they know what’s coming but do they stop? no #they know she loves them like the one thing they will never doubt is their mother’s love for them but yeah angering her is a whole #different story lol #like girlies pls learn from your past mistakes???

[lottieurl]

shauna is never beating the gay allegations. she fucking slays at beating the slept-with-randy allegations tho

#this Never works shauna PLEASE try to learn from past mistakes #i mean okay that was callie's idea but still #also callie KNOWS her mother ok she was like ummm she would fuck her husband's best friend #like callie doesn't Understand quite but she knows enough abt jackie to immediately go hmm randy? scream #yellowjackets blogging #yellowjackets spoilers

[armoralor]

My favourite thing about Bo-Katan Kryze is when she’s a hateful bitch that ruins your favs plans actually

#and even when she fails & gets back up to keep wrecking havoc? I love her then too #when she gives up for awhile and wallows in sadness? yeah I think she’s cool then too #this bitch contains so much hate & anger & failure and I love that for her #I love her when she grows as a person and learns from past mistakes too #wild how that works #the mandalorian #rebels #the clone wars #TCW #Star Wars #bo katan kryze #bo-katan kryze

[alessandramortt]

Danbeau/Thorkyrie double date when??? I could go for some valcarol sprinkled in and, why the heck not, some Maria/Thor. many many thoughts, not enough brain power to decipher them

#Just bc I love them but also bc they Speedran both val and Thor's arcs and I just want them to have some support from danbeau #realizing they can be of help to danbeau in turn #Just a big pile of traumatized #emotionally closed off ppl learning to open up :3 #(Maria is more well adjusted but she doesn't carry all the burden. #its all emotional support and learning to not to be alone again and be part of a family #and not let the past define you while still owning up to your mistakes) #im like. i need my tablet i need to draw them #not remembering till NOW that i HAVE drawn them #but not explicitly as a polycule (it was thorvalcarol with maria being carols wife ofc) #hmmmmmm #carol danvers #maria rambeau #valkyrie #thor odinson #danbeau #thorkyrie #danbeauorkyrie #its a wip #ummm sparkling four?? foursome flight?? #theyre all do connected to flight and sparkles there's SOMETHING there i judt cant see it yet #mcu

[welcometogrouchland]

Also in the replies of the Steph concept art on twitter announcing she was gonna be in a new project at DC (posted by Travis Mercer), there were at least 3 comments saying "will Tim be there?" I don't care how hard you ship timsteph I'm exploding you with my eyeballs if you do that on my girls post again

#ramblings of a lunatic #taking a step back to acknowledge that my stanning may be getting overzealous #but then again I'm not in ppls quotes or replies I'm vagueing on an entirely different website with no relevant tags. it could be worse #anyway I know tims had it rough these past couple of months ever since zdarsky shifted focus of the batman title to have less tim #but it still feels. idk. just a wee bit uninspired to act like steph can't go two steps without tim being behind her #im ngl i like timsteph when they're cute but timsteph twitter has been. pissing me off a tad lately #the refusal to acknowledge the sexism in dixons robin run and how it impacts stephs writing and their relationships writing #the refusal to acknowledge tims occasional condescension and hypocrisy when it comes to stephs vigilantism #seemingly only wanting her to be spoiler when he wants her around and telling her to give it up most of the time #also the constant disrespect of stephs batgirl era on there weirdly enough? #I've harped on about this on main and in drafts but despite it's flaws it's a good turn for stephs character #she's the focus she gets development (an upward trajectory! which had previously been unheard of for her! bc she did have flaws as spoiler- #-its just that both writers and characters alike seemed to arbitrarily decide she didn't have the capacity to grow past them! but she did!) #hell i saw a BIZARRE take today i just have to bitch about #which was them saying that Batgirl was a ''heteronormative mask'' steph put on #with spoiler being her more authentic self (and this being paralleled to gender expression with stephs isolation from the batfam as spoiler- #-showing how she ''wasnt like them'') #which. I'm not denying you the view that spoiler has a certain genderific swag to her but the needless dragging of her batgirl persona #steph got treated badly as spoiler bc she was A Girl. it's genuinely that simple dixon felt batman and robin would never stand for a girl- #-running around doing the things they did and would need to chivalrously stop her. he's gone on record saying this #she's constantly getting belittled by mostly men (cass also dismisses her but it feels distinctly less gendered) #and in the end it's barbara who learns to give steph a second chance despite her mistakes and they have a positive relationship #something ppl are quick to dismiss as being in and of itself sexist bc they're pairing the two girls off together #as if batgirl isn't a legacy and as if babs and steph don't have parallels in their resilience and refusal to accept when ppl tell them no #for better and for worse!! #like. idk how you took the strongest feminist element in that comic (bc there are elements of sexism here and there! 2009 n all) #and somehow turn it into ''heteronormativity'' YOU PPL ARE JUST SAYING WORDS AT THIS POINT!!! #anyway. someone take away my internet access

[dravencore]

knives's bitterness towards rem solidified when she stayed behind because oh she didn't fight to save tesla but she's going to give her life for the humans ok i see how it is

#he never heard the blank ticket speech! #he probably thought that because she did that Now that she had the potential to do that Before instead of the other way around #her feeling helpless at what happened to tesla is what gave her the strength to try and save the ships #because she isn't going to go through that again not ever #[grabs knives by the face] people learn and grow from their past mistakes

[the-trans-dragon]

Could a person with mental illness do THIS?

*spends 20 minutes trying to respond to a text, too anxious to commit to a first word such as "Hey" versus "Hi!" versus maybe a unique catchphrase I should incorporate into my personality like "Banjo bonjour!" or, if it would be more logical, "Bonjour banjo!"*

#🙃 #its a specific person who i never really decided what kind of relationship we have #maybe she was technically one of my bosses? but we started on the same day and bonded over #trying to adjust super quickly and not make mistakes (or to learn from them very quickly) and then we #had some really nice chats about our lives and families and partners #so its like. we are casual coworker acquaintances and we are Girls Who Are Friends (im not sure if she #knew i was trans and nonbinary. i think she assumed i was a woman. but the way she perceived and interacted with my gender was comfy in a #very specific way that makes me feel Okay Being Seen As A Girl. it still doesnt feel like ME. but i can fit inside it without #contorting and hiding parts of myself. kinda like the pants i bought at goodwill that definitely didnt quite fit but #my wife hemmed them a bit and i could squeeze my butt into them if i held my breath and they were a great pair of work pants for $7 #anyways lol she was like a peer/mentor/cool aunt's even cooler best friend/woman you sat next to at the ER one time and she felt like you'd #known her forever but it was probably just because it was 2:30AM and neither of you had slept and were both lowkey curious if you were gonna #die before getting medical help/drunk woman who accidentally says something you've needed to hear for the past decade. lol #so idk if its a “hello” situation or a “hiya” or a “hey sup” or what. :3 well there went another ten minutes while i #rambled in the tags. okay byyyyyye. #sorenhoots

[seventeengoingunder]

realized that i need to keep away from album theories because they negatively affect my experience of the album itself. trying to piece a sound and theme together from two pictures will eventually turn into me rationalizing that taylor will actually do what i want her to do and building expectations that will only lead to disappointment and living with phantom albums that could’ve been :/

#i was sad that i wasn't excited for the release but then i realized. we haven't heard a single second of it. once a song comes out and #i like it as i usually do #then i'll be excited for it! #but i am going to learn from my past mistakes (reputation and lover) #and live in peace where if i don't like what she comes out with i won't experience it as this great tragedy #anyway. growing out of fandom spaces is very sad #but maybe also good? who knows!

[wingsyliveblogs]

Hey I'm not sure if anyone ever asked you this before but do you think amity should be punished for her bullying?

Aw, man. I have actually received an ask similar to this before, but I really don't feel comfortable answering this at the moment. This is partly because I don't tend to have a particularly conclusive answer to a question like this, but also because it feels like a potential opening for the kind of debate that I really would prefer to avoid. Sorry!

#wingsy liveblogs #ask #wingsy watches owl house #not a fan of the 'do you think [character who has done bad things] should be Punished For Their Crimes' type of question #like. are we implying that the narrative is not ALREADY punishing her by having bad things happen to her in nearly every episode she's in? #...my feelings on this are mostly informed by past experience with some of my favourite characters in other fandoms #many of them are unpopular or divisive; they've done bad things or were previously antagonists or are simply considered annoying #if a character does something bad I'm not going to deny it #but I'm also not eager to tear them apart over it - especially if they learn from their mistakes and grow as characters #I'm sure you meant well with this question but I hope you understand why I'd prefer not to answer it! #weird asks about Amity

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Kendra, Rose, and Willow all look so pretty here, imo.

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #buffy #kendra young #rose martinez #willow rosenberg #boom #also can i just say that i love kendra in boom so much? i have some issues with boom's version of the buffy story #but she's the shining star here that will make me happily overlook them #also i'm really enjoying the anniversary story thus far. i feel like maybe they've learned from some of their past mistakes?

[dragonfyre-creations]

I don't think I've ever poured so many of my physical attributes and so much of my heart and soul into a character design before in such a personal way before so fuck it whenever I finish the final design for Faeng and whatever I come up with I'm making her into my sona (dragonsona? Persona? Idk how this works lmfao)

(long dump in the tags and under the cut)

The last time I was even remotely connected this much to a character was when I designed Jaxsu, but honestly never truly made her my sona/main character, she was just the one I used most often in art pieces. I never really actually liked her lore and backstory enough because she was what I wanted to be instead of what I am/was. Jax isnt perfect either, but her parents love her and otherwise has friends and is loved unconditionally. She has a healthy relationship with everyone and everything. This is where the disconnect happened and where I actually started to dislike her despite her being my otherwise favorite character for awhile. Both Faeng and Jaxsu have ADHD and Autism but Jaxsu was able to put that towards a job and becoming a ship captain and winning a colosseum tournament. She's done all of these great things so even if she didn't have a healthy relationship with her parents they'd still love her because she's done something impressive and useful.

Faeng on the other hand, has to fight for everything. Her parents are important and have important jobs, and place all of these unreachable and unrealistic expectations on her and expect her to reach them with minimal effort and be perfect, but she can't no matter how hard she tries. She needs someone to explain it and break it down for her in steps so she understands what do to and how to do it so she doesn't mess it up. She's both strong and smart but it's not in practical "normal" ways or subjects. It's convoluted, It's not in the ways everyone wants her to be, she has no teachers to help her understand how to channel that strength and intelligence into something "useful" so she puts it towards the things she likes and wants to do, and thus struggles in a world that would otherwise be easy to navigate and conquer if she were "normal". Those that do understand her and try to help her are alienated by other people in an attempt to either punish both of them or force her to adapt to be somewhat passing as normal, if not then at least listen to what she's told to do. She does eventually make acquaintances but find that her twisted speech and weird explanations aren't worth trying to decipher and understand so they leave, they don't put in the effort to meet her halfway even though she's struggling and doing her best to speak in a way they'll understand.

Her parents acknowledge her differences but in a way that frames it as flawed and wrong, something that needs to be corrected, and push her to figure out her problems by herself, tearing down any support network she tries to build. She tries her damned hardest but it's not enough, it never is and never will be for them because she's not the perfect child they wanted. She showed promise in her younger years being a "gifted child" so she knows what love and acceptance lies in wait and what could be if she could just be normal and perfect. Her achievements and promise come and show in waves. She burns and fizzles out in one of the most virulent, painful ways possible after getting hurt trying to prove her worth yet again. She holds nothing but criticism, vitriol and contempt for herself because she can't claw her way back to where she was before, this time something happened and something is terribly, horribly wrong this time but she doesn't know that it is and can't figure it out, nor will anyone tell her. Whatever it is, left a mental and several physical injuries and it does nothing but deepen her self hatred and her parent's waning belief in her. She listens to false promises and praise of other people who do nothing but wish to manipulate and harm her but she stays because any form of praise is deemed good, she hungers for more and does worsening things.

She ignores the people who tell her that what she's doing is dangerous and will only end in disaster, because she doesn't believe them. If the people who are saying they're her friends are telling her that the people she hurts deserve it and that what she's doing is good, then surely she needs to believe them over strangers, right? Everything comes to a breaking point and shatters around her leaving her with quite literally nothing but her own self hatred, newfound rage and overbearing mental issues she needs to navigate once again to find out what hell it is and what's wrong with her now. She's scared of everyone and everything with the added bonus of now being hyper-aware and perceptive of people's mannerisms and behaviors, especially those who want to manipulate or harm her again. She wraps every vulnerable part of herself in metaphorical thorns and teeth to bite and maim whoever pries and digs into what she truly is, even people who want to understand her. She suffers at more than her own hand, forcing herself to deal with everything alone, until she finally meets someone that could be considered a true friend. She slowly opens up and helps them as much as they help her before everything comes crashing back down once again upon the reveal that they've been lying to her the entire time about very serious issues, and she's been used as nothing more than an attack dog once again. She burns every bridge and everyone around her in one final breakdown of rage before shutting down completely. One of the groups of friends she's shoved stay comes back and asks if she's ok. She doesn't understand why they're being kind, why they're concerned it why they care and tries to shove them away again. Every single day they still ask, talking even if there's no response from her, until she finally relents and breaks.

She's finally loved and accepted despite every fault and every flaw she has, and every time she tries to pull away out of fear of being an inconvenience they pull back twice as hard and remind her that she's able to just exist, she doesn't need to constantly be useful and that they care. She finally, finally is comfortable enough to let herself be accepted and then becomes the most clingy little shit, just as they do with her. But yeah, my own life has been very much of the same, especially the last part. Every time I go on another self-hatred spiral and drop off the face of the earth my MonHun bros give me a metaphorical slap to the face and remind me that I don't need to constantly prove my worth to everyone and prove that I'm useful, and that existing every once in awhile is more than enough. If that doesn't work then it's "you need to get your ass back over here because we're failing the Safi siege without the absolutely ridiculous amount of DPS your build Switchaxe does". I was not intending for her to be so much like me but goddamnit she's wormed her way into being my favorite now and I guess Mirage is no longer my impromptu sona

#I've been working the last 3 hours on her design and like just noticed HOW MUCH of myself i put into her design #especially parts of myself im self conscious of and don't like/didn't like growing up. i usually zone out esp during a character design #but i stopped and i looked at it and my first thought was “that's me. that's me on that canvas.” and for some reason felt so happy with it #ik that's probably a selfish thought to have and im nowhere near done with her design but i looked at it and loved it so deeply. #she's imperfect and ugly and flawed but that's ok because she's still beautiful in her own weird way and her friends still love her #this is the weirdest shit I've ever experienced but i honestly feel like I'm finally accepting a part of myself I've hated and shoved down #for so long because of the absolute gnawing feeling of unacceptance I've always been subjected to as “not fitting in” and something she say #is “who gives a shit what other people think about me. i have friends who love and care about me just as much as i do for them. #you dont need to be liked by everyone to be worth something. sometimes just existing is enough for the people who do love you“ #the parallels of both my life and her lore are so similar they hurt on a visceral level i cant describe and it was completely unintentional #we both trust too easily whether it's out of naivety or stupidity and not learning from past mistakes and have been hurt so deeply #so many times beyond our own comprehension by the betrayal of other people to the point of shutting down every attempt at friendship #despite knowing just how much being alone aches and burns and put both physical and mental health on the line to get the approval of others #but never letting anyone get close enough to be friends out of fear of being hurt again #and having every vulnerable part of ourselves wrapped in metaphorical knives and glass to hurt anyone attempting to get to know us #but simultaneously and unknowingly hurting ourselves too with that choice. we're both aware of what we're doing but also unable to stop it #out of fear and lack of people willing to understand our pain and frustration and anger over things and it's so so frustrating #we both lash out when angry or hurt and push people that we love and love us back away out of fear that if any “ugly” is exposed to them #they'll leave because we lose our one redeemable quality of “being convenient” in a group #but simultaneously don't them trust fully out of fear. we know we're loved and love back but never fully in case its all a lie. #we both want nothing more than someone to understand and listen to what happened to us and actually stay and be friends rather than leave #like truly actually want to be friends and not just stay out of pity or sorrow over what happened #i think this is just something that comes with the autism tbh #i am she and she is me #rambling #dragon character #character writing #character building #dragon oc

[nozomijoestar]

New hibike ep almost making me cry

#SHE'S ACTING MORE LIKE ASUKA AND LEARNING FROM PAST MISTAKES TOO AUUFHFUUAUAAAAA IM GONNA FUCKING CRY #also return of 'im pulling out la chancla' face #and where Reina is steel with no glove Kumiko more and more is capable of Asuka's being steel in a velvet glove attitude #while still genuinely caring for others and taking on their burdens in a way Asuka didn't allow herself to #she's marrying her logical side and loyalty to Reina with wanting to care for the ppl she's in charge of- w feeling emotions #she's more and more balanced as a person and connected to others and getting less afraid of doing #the emotionally difficult things and making choices #introducing the idea of thinking about her future this ep will have insane consequences by the ending

[gay-yosuke]

the monotony of transferring file data is somehow less appealing to me (man who loves logging data) than fucking with the logic of a command that, when i programmed it, made me say "you will have to pay me to fuck with this logic again".

im not even getting paid.

#risette......... im sorry my past self was a fool.... #i should've known i could load from files but i didnt care to find out how for ages.... #AND THE ONLY REASON I KNOW HOW TO THIS WELL IS THE COMMAND I WANT TO FUCK WITH THE LOGIC OF.... #not my fault i think its too predictable to have one weakness one resist and one block. #it should be truly random. #...i think i can fix it really really easily though. i do. #and im fully willing to make a dangerous mistake to test that theory. and im not even gonna fucking boot her to check if it works #i believe that much in it #and also too many people are awake presently who are aware of the command and if they fuck with my files while she's running off my pc #and not off her server then im going to end up ripping at least a FEW chunks of hair out #anyway ! stream true story. #im not loading her current version to the server without #uhm. well. putting those 400 fucking shadow files in. #on one monitor ! with like four different notepads open . #future axel will not learn from my agony.

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

The first real conversation Katniss has with Peeta is when he tells her that he wants to die as himself, that he doesn't want the games to change him into something he's not, and that he wants to keep his identity and prove he's more than just a piece in their games because that's the only thing he has left to care about.

The first time we see Lucy Gray she sings a song that basically says that nothing they could take from her was worth keeping. "Can't take my past. Can't take my history... You can't take my charm. You can't take my health."

The capitol has taken everything from them both, but at the same time, they could never take away who they are.

They are both likeable charismatic and funny, with the kindest hearts, and incredibly loyal to the people they care about.

At the same time, everything they do before the games, and during is calculated. Lucy Gray singing a love song and winning the hearts of the capitol. Peeta confesses he's in love with his district partner, therefore cementing her identity as desirable. Both of them know how to sway people with words, how to charm people, and how to manipulate crowds. Neither of them has any problem doing so to keep themselves, and the people they love safe.

Lucy Gray's song The Old Therebefore, about learning how to love and live her life to the fullest before death, a final and calculated stroke in a last-ditch effort to save herself from the arena. This evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for her life alongside Snow.

Snow, watching the 74th and preparing for the 75th Hunger Games sees Lucy Gray in Katniss. A young girl, from the 12th district. Unafraid at the reaping. Selling a false love story, manipulating a boy who loves her in order to get out and supporting the revolution with the mockingjay as her symbol.

He threatens her family to get her to sell that she and Peeta are in love, to prevent the revolution, because obviously, she's pretending. He's had experience with a girl just like her before. He has no doubt that she has the acting ability to sell this story because clearly, she manipulated the first Hunger Games in her favor, the same way Lucy Gray manipulated him.

Watching the interviews for the 75th Hunger Games he realizes-

Katniss is just an impulsive girl, in a Mockingjay dress she didn't know about, made by someone who supports the revolution.

Peeta is a boy who has the ability to move people with just his words. He made Katniss desirable, he was the one who sold the love story, and he was the one to make their romance seem real. Katniss only started the revolution because she would rather risk dying with him than live without him. A concept President Snow was completely unfamiliar with. And it is with all these realizations crashing around him Peeta drops the baby bomb. He knows the baby's not real, and so does Snow. But it evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for the lives of the tributes.

Is it Lucy Gray or Peeta?

By the time Snow realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late.

Peeta is still charming and manipulating the capitol. Katniss is in love.

He goes up against a kindhearted boy expecting to beat Sejanus again, only to find out that it's Lucy Gray he's fighting; knowing he will never be able to escape their ghosts.

-from a conversation i had with @grandtyphoonpoetry breaking down every character in the hunger games.

#I have so many thoughts about this #they are so powerful with their words #i will never get over how many different kinds of power fueled this revolution #everything came full circle #peeta mellark #lucy gray baird #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #the hunger games #hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes