#step up or step aside

[hyunpic]

#hyunjin #skz #stray kids #fantaken #if this guy showed up to the class i would not be listening to the teacher but him like #the teacher would simply have to step aside cause im only taking orders from this guy #I AM SAT AND ALL EARS.

[bitchthefuck1]

The thing that really kills me about Logan is that his kids are disappointing and ultimately unfit to be CEO, and it's not just that they're like that because he made them like that, but that they're like that because he wants them to be that way.

For all his talk about them being spoiled or coddled and his rant in the S3 finale that getting cut out of running Waystar is their chance to "be your own man" and build something themselves, he has spent the entire show actively undermining any attempt of theirs to do that. Shiv stays out and works in politics, but as soon as she joins a big campaign that could actually distinguish her from her family, he tells her he wants to make her CEO. He offers to buy Kendall out of his shares, but as soon as Kendall tries to take the offer and cut himself out, he refuses. He says he wants them out of the business and doing their own thing, and then as soon as they start actually doing that and buy Pierce, he tries to get Roman back.

The fact of the matter is that as much as he might claim to want a "real" heir, what he really wants is to never need one and for his children to stay children: incomplete, incapable, and under his thumb.

#something something the purpose of a system is what it does #i feel like the 'they are the way he made them' thing is pretty self evident and understood but it's important to distinguish that it's not #just a question of him being bad at raising kids or that he just can't produce the outcome that he wants: he is 100% producing the #outcome that he wants he's just lying about what that outcome is. he doesn't want them to be their own people or worthy of the position #because that would mean he wouldn't be able to control them and (more crucially for him) it would mean he'd have to give up control #of waystar. he doesn't want a legitimate successor because he doesn't want to be succeeded. he wants to deny his mortality and stay #in his spot forever. if his children grow up that means he has to grow old. if he can keep them trapped in childhood forever then he 'has #no choice' but to stay in power because he couldn't possibly leave it to them could he? they're not ready. it's a kindness to keep the #burden of the crown to himsef. #like imagine for a second if he did have a kid who was a perfect CEO candidate and exactly what he claimed to want. do you #really think he'd step aside and let them rule? #or would he see them as a threat and try to find some other way to cut them off at the knees and sabotage them the way he's been #doing with his other kids this whole time. #logan roy #kendall roy #connor roy #shiv roy #siobhan roy #roman roy #succession

[dw-flagler]

thinking about Worm World, the worm themed theme park in southern maine.

Worm World's main attraction is The Legend which is a coaster with no speed governor which frequently goes up to 35% faster than design tolerances allow.

It also has another rollercoaster called Alexandria which is the euthanasia coaster but there's 53 beehives next to the track. (Also two mud dauber nests but they aren't supposed to be there and management can't be assed to hire an exterminator). Guests at the park can buy Warlord Honey which is harvested from the beehives at the park and is actually like really good.

Guests at the park can do meet n' greets with beloved Wormies, like Bitch, who always brings dogs (any guests that touch the dogs without permission are beaten and bodily thrown from the park).

Any park guests who are injured or feeling unwell can go to Bonesaw's clinic, which is just, like, a completely normal first aid station, but. why did they call it that? I mean, they have to know that's a bad choice, right? Why does the first aid station have to be themed? it could just be a normal first aid station and nobody would care.

It has a waterpark section that's all themed around Leviathan, with a wave pool, one of those big bucket things (which fills up and is emptied 10x faster than most other ones in the country), and many more attractions. Sometimes has prop dead bodies at the attractions too.

There's a huge walled section on the other side that says SIMURGH LAND, COMING SOON but it's said that since 2002 and nobody's been allowed in and the security team at Worm World is like, weirdly adamant about not letting anyone in, to the point where they even guard the thing during the off-season, and it's really strange. People have tried to use drones to take pictures but the security team always shuts them down and I heard my cousin's friend's wife's sister had a drone and the security team shot it down with a shotgun in the middle of the operating day.

#they couldn't get any real estate anywhere else in new england they wanted to put it on the location worm takes place #step aside action park there's a new warlord in town #worm #wormposting #Worm World #really i just wanted to try and come up with a shitty theme park that just kills you #*kevin perjurer voice* wormworld was shut down in 2021 shortly before the Slaughterhouse 9000 expansion was set to open to the public

[intotheelliwoods]

ELLI! I JUST LOOKED UP AGGIE CAUSE YOU SAID YOU'VE HAD ISSUES WITH CERTAIN TOOLS

AND I THOUGHT IT WAS WEIRD TO NOT HAVE A WORKING FILL BUCKET TOOL

.................AGGIE'S JUST MAMGA

ELLI!

ELLI WHAT YOU DO MEAN YOU'VE BEEN DRAWING ON MAGMA THIS WHOLE TIME??!!

ELLI!!!!

LISTEN. I REALLY LIKE ITS SIMPLICY. I LIKE BEING FORCED TO ONLY HAVE ONE BRUSH AND THE MOST BASIC ASS BUTTONS ON THE PLANET

#ITS SO NICE AND SIMPLE #asks #also the endless brush possibilities with csp = HORRIFYING #IC ANT DECIDE ON ONE AND ITS BEEN LIKE 2 WEEKS NOW>???? #like aside from screenshotting everything #and you cant really crop the canvas nicely #THERES NO ISSUes WITH IT SMH #like there was the ass fill bucket and cant rotate shit #BUT IG I JUST NEVER KNEW THOSE WERE ALSO FEATURES TILL NOW #its the most basic selection tools #but also a million times better than ms paint #its a step up from ms paint #so at least im not on ms paint

[yuzuuu4]

congratulations on the release of trickstar (and eden)’s cover song! i bring makosuba.

#i went insane when i saw that the MV finally released #i was already losing it beforehand #their outfits KILLED me #im sorry eden but step aside #sorry edenPs its nothing personal #trickstar just has me by a chokehold #so i made this to commemorate #yes makoto is tugging on the shorter chain around subaru's neck #i dont know how it ended up like this #makosuba #yuuki makoto #akehoshi subaru #enstars

[theyonapodcast]

I love the first time Soo-Won supports Lili.

It feels like an overreaction to burst into tears over, essentially, "Go for it," but makes sense when you realize no one takes her seriously.

Her father, Tetora, and even Yona view her as someone in need of protection. They coddle her.

And then here comes Soo-Won, telling her she's capable of making a difference.

That she did make a difference. He acknowledges her strength and believes in her with ease while people closer to her struggle to accept that she's useful.

#yona of the dawn #lili #soo won #don't come at me with 'well sure he supports her. he doesn't care if she lives or dies like the others' #ARGUABLY sure in the first instance they don't know each other that well #and his only main reason to keep her alive (aside from being a human being) is that she's a general's daughter #but i do think there's a real connection in that moment #he sees a bit of himself in her #someone with big dreams of making a difference but just not being there yet #he watched king il run the country poorly for many years as he grew up #also he saves her MULTIPLE times over the course of the series #yeah he's going to step in if someone's coming at her with a sword #but maybe she has everything covered before it gets to that point #he'll let her handle things until she can't #and i think that means a lot to lili #lili: let me try and if i fail i fail #joon gi/tetora/ayura/yona: what if i took on the scary stuff for you? #soo won (pulling up a seat): yeah go for it. i know first aid. #i may be way off base or ineloquent with all this #i just think it's fascinating that soo won supports her without hesitation twice #and she bursts into tears each time #she needs to be told she's a good gi- *gunshots*

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

bangs pots and pans

raph was never any less suited to leadership than leo

raph was never any less suited to leadership than leo

raph was N E V E R any less suited to leadership than leo

idk how many times i can say it before it sinks in that in rise there was never once any point where that was the point being made

if you just like leo’s character better than you like raph’s, that’s fine! if you just like it better when leo is leader, that’s fine! i have no issue!

but we need to stop trying to circle that leadership change back to somehow being about better or worse or ~more cut out for it~ because it sucks to throw the great job raph did through the series under the bus in order to prop up leo’s good qualities. 

they’re both great leaders. they both have strong suits and weak suits in the role, they both have growth and development when they’re in that role. they BOTH make on-screen mistakes in that role and aren’t very good at it at first! not getting a more in-depth explanation about it in the movie or series stinks and it’s very interesting to explore, but seriously. 

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt raph #rise raph #like it's so...... #all of raph's growth as a leader and hard work at it was up and down about him growing as a leader #learning and adapting and incorporating things #when raph messes up the point is NEVER 'ohoho see he's just not as good at it or fit for it' #it's ALWAYS him learning something that he does better with next time #and in that vein leo showing those leadership qualities and potential! #is NEVER about 'oh he would be so much better at it than raph' #it's just about leo having that potential and that talent that went unnoticed! #and like. idk what to tell you leo was doing a not great job at start of movie like raph was doing start of series #if the point was always 'raph cant hack it leo was REALLY meant for this all along' then mayhaps... #one of the emotional high points and climaxes of the finale would not have been raph learning one more important lesson #and the team then fully unlocking the ninpo and rising to their potential #it probably would have been a finale arc about leo stepping up specifically in some way #and all this of course i say having put aside that leadership was never meant to be a big deal in rise anyway.... #pitting 2 bad bitches against each other like this for no reason like they're not both fantastic

[hjartasalt]

I can still vividly remember when I was in primary school starting year 6 and my school announced that they would now be making dance lessons mandatory for years 6 and up and then when I received my schedule a little while later and saw the letters 'DAN' appear four times throughout the week and immediately decided that it must be short for dance so I complained to my family like "ok I knew they'd be teaching dance this year but this is just excessive" only for one of my older siblings to essentially go "'DAN' is short for Danish you idiot"

#it was like that meme the one that goes 'saying this she casually threw aside a large rock' or whatever #except the next step after that is to pick up an even bigger rock

[welcometogrouchland]

Steph on a desperate quest to get Damian to unwillingly incorporate informal gotham-isms into his speech by using "jabroni" in every other sentence

#ramblings of a lunatic #dc #steph: it's subliminal messaging #tim: i think with your goal in mind it's legally classified as psychological warfare #damian is in the middle of a dramatic monologue to a villain who's tried to hurt innocents and/or his family and it's borderline Shakespear #right up until the end where he says ''you craven feeble jabroni'' and he full on paralyzes in horror at what's become of him #it's so bad he can't even finish the fight. bruce has to step in and give the final blow and takes Stephanie aside after the case is closed #bruce in his 'about to fire you in the most emotionally insensitive way possible' voice: stephanie. what did you do #stephanie: my best. and it payed off #stephanie brown #damian wayne #i selected jabroni as the word bc of pure whimsy reasons #I'm open to suggestions on what would be more accurate to greater northern new jersey where gotham is allegedly located

[azurajay]

finally got to martyn's secret life episode today and i was both amazed and horrified to see that nobody was exaggerating his condition one bit; that was the most stressful episode by far and he is absolutely the wettest cat on the server 😭😭

#step aside pearl double life we have a new sheriff in town #i couldnt fathom why he stayed in the caves that long even after getting the diamond chestplate #like Yeah the diamonds are great but girl #not at that price‼️‼️ not worth it‼️‼️‼️ #he was SO close to yellow already that was soooo terrifying #i was about to ask if we've ever had a yellow in ep1 before but that was Literally the inciting incident of 3rd life LMAO #anyway #pearl is next on my list but i actually might switch out to gem insteas #i seem to be collecting povs who all circled round each other?? but ive genuinely seen abt 10 whole seconds of scott so far so #need a gem and the scotts pov #and actually whatever cleo and love island were up to #maybe if i wasnt playing sm dragon age I'd have caught everyones pov by now 😭😭 #bluejay sings #secret life smp

[kinard-buckley]

a truly terrible idea has latched hold of my gremlin brain which is, buck and tommy do break up so that buck can pursue eddie because either tommy thinks buck is in love with eddie or buck feels like he should be with eddie because everyone else keeps suggesting there's something more there BUT buck/eddie getting together changes their dynamic so much that neither of them are enjoying themselves (and they're worrying about losing what made their friendship so special because of all the changes to the dynamic) AND buck and tommy keep hooking up [air quotes] platonically (with tommy stumbling into inconvenient feelings and pining pathetically for buck while fucking him) while buck struggles to sort out intense feelings toward eddie (which obviously have to be romantic of course) vs. his calm, more settled feelings toward tommy (they're not as intense as his feelings about eddie so they can't possibly be romantic) blah blah long story slightly less long but buck realizes he's been in love with tommy the whole time and was having trouble separating strong but platonic feelings for eddie from his romantic feelings toward tommy and then tommy's like "newsflash asshole i've been in love with you the whole goddamn time"

i'll never write it because it's irredeemably stupid and i value my peace but it IS sitting in my hindbrain tormenting me right now

#thank you for coming to my ted talk #i'm not tagging this bc i don't want it showing up in any show or ship tags but............................... #terrible evil plotbunny free to a good home #nobody ever writes about the friends who get together bc 'why not everyone else already thinks we're dating' and then it doesn't work out #because the dynamic changes SO MUCH that you're not sure if it was such a good idea in the first place #now add a third person to the mix that you like but aren't sure how you feel about them #not sure if eddie would be aware it's casual and non exclusive or if there'd be miscommunication leading to angst #honestly this is just me venting my frustrations with those breakup fics masqueraring as b*cktommy that have tommy #graciously sacrificing himself on the altar of b*ddie's true love and stepping aside magnanimously #that's not interesting to me to read even as a b*ddie shipper #if buck and tommy have to break up let it be real and messy because real people are real and messy #let tommy fight for buck even if it doesn't end up working out #let buck and eddie feel guilty because buck did genuinely care about tommy and eddie does like him as a friend #let tommy cut both of them off because even though he likes both of them he still has feelings and it hurts seeing them together #let tommy be petty about showing off a new love interest or fwb and how much happier he is with this guy than he was with buck #let buck wonder if he made the right choice or not bc he didn't ever want to hurt tommy #he only convinced himself tommy would be completely fine with the breakup because he needed him to be fine so that he could do it guilt fre #let eddie wonder if they made the right choice or not bc while he finally has what he's wanted for years it did hurt someone he really like #maybe it'll all work out in the end for buck and eddie AND tommy but i just want it to feel real and not overly polished and sanitized #and no one is hurt or upset or petty or flawed #anyway #i like mess #don't @ me #i might have to write this now but i don't want to be chased off with pitchforks and torches #text #shut up giallos

[juniperhillpatient]

absolutely insane that the body’s response to “I have to wake up early for something very important tomorrow” is *heart beating at a terrifying rate, pulse racing, hard to breathe* like. the engineer of bodies is kinda sick fr I just wanna sleep smh

#I feel like we make suffering with anxiety disorders seem so memey #when in reality it’s actually a living hell 🥲 #rose.txt #pray for me. I’m gonna have several panic attacks tomorrow I can feel them coming 🙃 #I just need to be able to step aside when they come #starting new jobs is part of life rose. man up bitch 😜

[justanotherhh]

angel will put himself in harms way to protect others who are definitely in less danger than he is (also egg bois)

#hazbin hotel #angel dust #angel will put himself in harms way for: cherri charlie niffty husk egg bois and (offscreen implied) sir pentious #of these charlie and probably niffty were less in harms ways than he was #and while he absolutely was supportive of husk during their little showdown it came off the back of husk having just revealed #that he used to be an overlord #sir pentious was just getting beaten up by that guy when vaggie had them *team bond* and angel stepped in + carried him up the stairs #also he had his back wingmanning with cherri bomb (that's an aside though) #conclusion: he's a good boy yer honour #good trope also want to see it again #my meta

[akkivee]

bonds are necessary for the true hypnosis mic to be used according to rei!!!! so bonds not only negate the effects on the target, but also on the user as well!!!!!

#this is vee speaking #the amount of love rei has can bring humanity to its knees i think #like i feel like that’s basically rei saying as long as you have love nothing can harm you/anything that’s broken can be fixed #i wonder what hypmic would have been like if all six divisions actually got to be in the series from the start lol #like i feel like i was right about rosasa being created for rei to get him into the battles #esp now that we know HIS agenda behind the drbs was to find a user #and in harmonious cooperation we learned you can share a mic so if the bond’s strong enough #they can withstand the effects together #oof i’m straying from my original thought lol but i like this train of thought better lol #chuuoku intentionally brought nagosaka in to utilise their bonds with ichiro and samatoki #so i can’t tell if chuuoku fully understood why the drbs were a thing??? #but i assume so and ramuda and jakurai was just their easiest back up plan???? #like tho half the teams were put together by choice the other half (posse dh bat) were government crafted #and setting aside posse for being crafted for watchdog reasons lol nagosaka were intentionally made and made using bonds #rei went to rosasa and bat’s connecting thread was hitoya #so i think chuuoku must have also been in on the drbs plan 🤔 #and ramuda now that i’m thinking about it???? #like he may not know the entire picture but he seemed to know when to step in to combat the true hypnosis mic effects hmm 🤔 #lol look at me spontaneously building an observation from ground up thru tags again having food for thought is always fun lol

[mercuriallily]

Here's some more Deme from last night!!

#sasha's stuff #cats the musical #cats cosplay #cats the musical cosplay #demeter cats #cats demeter #cats 1998 #it's so cool having another cat to dress up as #step aside nora degreen there's a new ace non-binary demeter in town #I'm kidding there can be two of us #also can we appreciate how smooth the transition is from the gloves to the unitard #this entire costume is just perfect #I've been waiting since april and it was worth it

[sysig]

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#Weekly TV Guide #Hey guess what I was up to this past week #If you guessed ''Editing 150+ individual pieces to stitch together into the next Month's worth of queue posting'' you'd win the prize #Absolutely sickening amount of editing lol but I did it! #I really wasn't sure if I was going to be able to since there was like - a lot lol #I realized there's like seven steps to my doodle posting wegh that's a lot of steps #But the system's been keeping things moving! Slowly but surely #I'll need to set aside a bit more time to work on my second behind-the-scenes project yet >:P #But I think I'll be able to! Patience bleh #Anyway! Finally starting to round out the Handplates stuff! #There'll still be some here and there :) #But for now the focus has shifted to Helix lol #Even right now - y'know how the queue is behind by like a month? Yeah lol #I set it down for a bit and now it's back again! It's convenient in its own way haha #And no we're still not into 2024 yet lol #Technically anyway - some of these were started at the end of last year and only finished recently!