#than the setback

[ongawdclub]

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C o m e b a c k

#the comeback #is always stronger #than the setback #part of #the come up

[canisalbus]

Currently suffering an ear infection and all I can think is how you said Vasco is prone to them. Does he get miserable and exhausted from the pain or is he more the type to get short tempered and cranky?

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#I'd say a little bit of both but he tends to get more testy than dejected #because there aren't really any effective treatments for ear infections #he's gotten very careful about cleaning and maintaining his ears and trying to make sure they never stay moist for very long #and that has helped somewhat but he can't avoid them completely which frustrates him greatly #Vasco usually manages to react to adversities with prolonged and stubborn optimism #he generally takes setbacks as a challenge instead of a personal failure #but after his patience and good will finally run out he gets upset #he gets angry but usually in a constructive way and it gives him another boost of energy to attempt to fix things #Machete gets paralyzed by sadness but Vasco rarely does #he just doubles down #answered #werewolfteaparty #Vaschete lore #ear infections are terrible I hope you feel better soon

[grimoirering]

how can i begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

#annette fantine dominic #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem #fe3h #annette #cannot believe it took so long to make annette sads but she is not free from me #the inner turmoil annette has of like. having an upbeat attitude. trying her best. marching on despite her setbacks or mistakes #but at the same time. those mistakes eat at her. she's constantly downplaying herself. and her abilities #she's always comparing herself to others. and feeling like she's so many step behind her peers. stumbling and falling in her mistakes #this means nothing if ur not obsessed with annette but like annette's surprisingly low image of herself... :( #she is a whole lot more nuanced than people give her credit for #my art

[seaweedstarshine]

“That’s a bold choice, Dalek Supreme, coming to a wedding planet dressed in white! Unless you’re here to get hitched… should I be flattered?”

“We are here to exterminate you.”

“Oh, that’s probably for the best. Not sure River would be up for a marriage à trois… not with a Dalek, at any rate.”

—Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Victory of the Doctor

#hearts-wrenching audio… methinks it's time for my ''SERIAL CHEATERS OR OPEN MARRIAGE?'' poll I've been wanting to do #river song #eleventh doctor #yowzah #bein real the ending of this audio series was gorgeous - the wedding - Valarie talking about all the therapy she's gonna get #and the implication Doctor goes meditating as a monk in Bells of Saint John for a similar reason- very similar to the prequel miniepisode #ngl this audio series set up The Day of the Doctor better than all of Season 7B #what with it being about the Doctor being terrified of becoming a Warrior again and losing himself to that #if the daleks are around then he killed his people for nothing! now he/oswin made the daleks forget the only thing they fear! noooo #also this part ‘I hate you!!!’ ‘...I hate me too’ #BTW i DO enjoy season 7b but it had obvious behind-the-scenes setbacks i.e. half the stories being wrote for Victorian Clara #and I appreciate the Eleventh Doctor Chronicles for filling in with that time war existential dread #and I love valarie/roanna. and I love the paradigm daleks and I love this boxset for making them so threatening #words by seaweed

[smokeandhubris]

i love love love media that loves the world. i want to be reminded that the universe is so incomparably beautiful and complex. i want to be shown that life is messy and broken and it hurts so bad but it’s so so so beautiful and you can’t help loving it anyway. there are people out there, wonderful ones who will stay by your side if you’ll let them. there is the sun and the warmth of it and the light. there is the path between the trees and the sandwich shop down the road and the river in the paddock and is that wonderful and isn’t that worth living for. i love when media tells you it’s okay to be broken and it’s okay to be hurting and it’s okay to live despite it. tell me i am worth saving. tell me to listen to the rain falling on tin rooftops and fall in love with life. tell me that the world loves me too.

#when u get too silly and start going on and on about how much u love living: #this is because i played disco elysium by the way #i totally underestimated shivers but it’s actually my favourite skill in the game. you love your city and your city loves you back. #wow. and suddenly im reminded of all thats good in life #trauma dump but i have such poor luck in life that more often than not im conviced life itself hates me #but i like to remind myself that living in itself is such a gift and im very grateful for it. i wont let my setbacks make me forget that. #got too silly again #ehe #lou talks

[gofancyninjaworld]

Deshiderella

So, one of the more fun sketches Murata did in his stream was the story of Deshiderella, a sketch featuring Genos as Cinderella, Sonic, Tatsumaki, and Fubuki as the Evil Stepsisters, Saitama as the handsome prince -- and a delightfully demented take on it all. All stream screencaps courtesy of @rayadraws.

Since then, we've had the Monster Association arc and the extent to which you can map the Deshiderella story to what unfolded during the arc is fascinating.

So, throughout the land, there was mass panic and consternation because a group of monsters had caused chaos and had challenged the heroes to a showdown. There's a Monster Bash to attend!

Genos couldn't go to the Monster Bash because he broke his nice new body, on the eve of the battle even. Guess you'll have to sit this one out, son!

But his Fairy God Scientist came through for him at the last minute, complete with dire warnings about time limits.

He arrived after everyone had left for the ball but when he finally set foot on the scene, boy did he steal the show!

Unfortunately, he's not good at listening to warnings and he suffered greatly: he couldn't fly, half his armor melted off, his core was unstable, and there were still many strong monsters to fight. Nevertheless, he pressed on, even winning over the evil stepsisters *cough* I mean, forging a better relationship with both the Psychic Sisters.

Despite the setbacks, he captured the heart of the most noble Saitama, and for a moment, everything was just right.

And just like a Cinderella story, it is precisely when everything looks like it'll turn out all right after all that true horror descends. 'Won't you join me in my dance of death?' seems horribly prescient.

Fortunately, Saitama was able to work a miracle and make things right again.

With even the evil doer saved and admonished to do no wrong, all seems well as the two of them watch the sun rise together.

The only part of Murata's tale still missing is the chase scene. Heh! I'm sure we'll see what he was alluding to shortly! I guess Genos is not letting go of his quest to reach where Saitama is.

EDIT: Thanks to @stuckinfangirllife for reminding me of the most important thing of a Cinderella story: THE MIRACULOUS OBJECT THAT LEADS BACK TO THE TRUE LOVE.

Deshiderella leaves behind his shoe, and yup, in the story we have the precious, precious core:

#OPM #Yusuke Murata #Deshiderella #Genos #the margin sketch turns out to be a real allegory for what was to happen next #very clever #A Cinderella tale is less a rags to riches story than of the perseverance to seek what's good in the face of outrageous setbacks #and it does fit #now bring on -- the chase! #meta

[goldiipond]

graduated 2 years late but who caares im FREEE i can do wjatever i want. i can do anything. i am going to draw my little characters

#skye's ramblings #such a massive weight off my shoulders oogh im gonna cry. its over the plague was simply a temporary setback. fuck the plague. i win #this on top of recent health bullshit has taken a lot out of me n im already feeling better than i have in a while. FUUCK iwant to CREATE!! #idk if im going to pursue college at all (was at college but it was like. a credit recovery program thing. because am special <3 #i just want to focus on my art maan its all ive ever wanted. if i step foot into another school i will simply spontaneously combust <3 #still processing my emotions but just imagine me yelling really big. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKK YEAHHH. YEAH

[sapphorror]

Well. There's the Zim side, alright.

#invader zim #zib #iz posting #saph reads #natterings #seriously is there anything more quintessentially zim than saying that the destruction of reality is a minor setback

[emahriel]

i just found my first digital artwork and had to share the progress... been drawing since I was a kid (like early 2000s), but I think most of my progress was done within the past 5 years.

— 2014 vs 2023!

#em: art #em: txt #my biggest setback all those years: not using references #having references was tremendously helpful #never thought i'd be able to draw rendered pieces; #never thought i'd be able to draw colored pieces #we've come a long way!! #i think my progress was much slower than most ppl who pickup art #but that's okay!!!!

[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

Final chapter of in the morning i’m bulletproof is live!

For the day 31 prompt: setbacks (don’t worry it’s minor)

Read on ao3.

#jamie tartt #ted lasso #ted lasso fanfic #ao3 #jamie tartt fanfiction #whumptober #whumptober2023 #fic #no.31 #setbacks #fic: in the morning I’m bulletproof #what if rupert mannion had a point #whump #sometimes I spend more time looking for a gif than writing #spoiler alert #but our boy is going to the World Cup

[freakinator]

its been 7 hours in the poll so far and i saw the who ppl want to win coming but i wasnt expecting the who they think will win ngl, like i was expecting it to be a little more even but nope lol

#mine.txt #lifesteal spoilers #< jic #wanted to keep my opinion to myself until the poll ended to prevent influence or whatever but realized that was stupid so here it is #personally i want zam to win but i think theyll come to a stalemate #i want zam to win causeas cute as it would be to give zam a redemption arc and esp by minute of all ppl i just dont like that idea very muc #i want his redemption arc if he ever decides to have one to be long and gruelling and full of setbacks and last for seasons #i want him to keep failing and building himself back up and all over again through the influence of multiple ppl and experiences #i dont want it to start and end all cause of one guy #and with ppl as stubborn as those two it would not surprise me if they reached a stalemate #esp since they seem to have completely incongruent mindsets regarding the nature of lifesteal #identical yet opposites those two #zam may think hes more determined than minute but i dont think thats true i think theyre a lil more even #like not to bring up kings but they both went looking for nether fortresses for hours in the first session #they both kept farming and grinding even when the odds are stacked against them #even when they lose hope they keep going anyway for that tiny sliver of a chance that Something happens #like theres a reason minute looked up to him in s3 and i think its cause he saw a lil bit of himself in zam #or at least what he could be if he set his mind to it #but honestly i dont really care who wins or loses that much #all i ask is that the season ends in an interesting way regardless of if its in peace or chaos #characterwise; plotwise; possibly even metawise #just give me something to chew on and ill be happy

[vegetavegetason]

i love vegeta cause so rarely do people change like that of their own volition. he wasn’t forcibly “changed” by others.. but he changed himself, slowly, willingly, as a result of others influence. and i’m so proud of him.

#i love that he is still SO vegeta but he’s not the same vegeta he used to be #like vegeta is more than a villain he’s a mortal just like the rest of them #and he also has flaws and setbacks but he’s also got a heart 😭😭😭 #you weren’t born evil sweetheart 😔 #you are redeemable. always. #talk

[ecoamerica]

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[satiricallyhere]

ik oscar has suffered...... way too much for his time in the show but no one brings up how he's a child of divorce now that renora broke up

#oscar pine #rwby #renora #like he was their CHILD idc that they never all got a scene together #oscar in vacuo: yeah this is a major setback but at least i still have ren and nora! their love is a tangible beacon of normalcy :D #ren [BRICKWALL] and nora: abt that... #guys pls his crush is presumed dead and NOW his pseudo parents (they're 4 years older than him) broke up? he might actually snap

[smute]

big epiphany you guys. big. huge.

#cliffnotes for context: smute almost finish masters. smute think oh‚ maybe phd not crazy wacko shit‚ maybe i can try #but smute also low self esteem. with any small setback - smute think oh what is point. smute bound to fail #problem is: smute genuine self doubt = smute quotidian frustration #ok normal english now #so thats what i realized today. a lot of the ''small'' things i dream of (financial independence‚ a nice little apartment etc) are #expressions of some low level frustration with my nomadic broke student life #rather than genuine desires. and as dumb or as #duh #obvious as that may sound rn #its actually huge for me that i was able to recognize the difference today #this question of what i will do after i graduate has been haunting me for the past year #and i am now realizing that a lot of my own arguments have nothing to do with what i want #just because they're things i don't currently have doesn't mean they would be fulfilling #and #again. duh. #but like. between this debilitating self doubt and certain external pressures 🤨 it was hard to see the difference #anyway i basically just explored some alternative scenarios today #like specific scenarios. went on indeed found some really good stuff and tried to imagine my life a year from now if i took this or that jo #and the end result was that i fucking hated it. they were all great options on paper but the takeaway was that i would never forgive myself #if i didnt give this a try. if i prioritized some vague notion of independence or this idea of ''settling down'' or whatever the fuck #over the one thing that ive got going for me #like i still don't know if the academic path will be any more fulfilling than some other job #god knows my entire academic career so far has been an insane uphill battle. but it's also been so fucking rewarding. like nothing else #and i also still dont know how genuine this wish is #if it's not maybe still about proving myself to some imaginary authority #but like. how long can you psychoanalyze yourself before your goddamn head explodes #no matter how pure my motivation is im beginning to understand that i dont want this to be the end of the road #and maybe that's enough #&

[lesbianasukalangleysoryu]

forgive me but i must speak my truth

vegas cooking for pete hits so hard because he steps out of his comfort zone to learn a new skill for pete—and incidentally finds a personal sense of fulfillment. it speaks to the way that loving someone can make us better, can help us grow and discover ourselves.

don’t get me wrong the act of cooking itself is incredibly thematically relevant. but let’s not lose sight of the courage and humility it takes to try something new and submit to the probability of failure. and it is the failures that make a gesture like this so potent.

it shows not that vegas was secretly a good person all along, but that he has the capacity to become a better person. and for me, that’s sort of vegas and pete’s whole thing, that together they have the opportunity to reconfigure their respective self-images.

#vegaspete #vegas theerapanyakul #by better person i don’t mean less murderous #more like better to himself #able to evolve beyond gun’s expectations #(gun’s interruption is the beautiful sort of setback that allows for a character to go #‘oh now i have to actually apply this lesson i’ve learned’ #easier said than done) #i love that vegas’s emotional healing is just like #‘what if i loved one (1) more person unreservedly’ #loving others… loving yourself… two sides of the same coin methinks

[sabraeal]

1000 Followers Update!

Due to some super fun chronic health shenanigans, the posting for the 1000 Followers Celebration is being postponed a month! Posting will start on 2/2 with to all the ghost still standing in this room, and continue as previously planned from there. Thank you guys for bearing with me-- I struggled with the idea of even postponing for a week, but it became very clear on Monday that I would not be able to catch up with the schedule unless I took an extended break to recover. Can't wait to show you guys what I've got up my sleeve!

#1000 followers #i don't talk much about my illness struggles on here because without a word count limit #i would absolutely write myself into a terrible spiral talking about some of the very recent setbacks #but I do weekly goals up on twitter and I often talk about what's going on there #so it's only fair that i explain a bit in some tag chatter where i have to stay on task #to start: i'm fine and I'm going to be quick to recover now that i've gotten my meds #but due to all sorts of insurance bullshittery that has occurred since september/october #my last three infusions have been over a week late. two of them have been nearly two weeks or over #and coupled with a particularly nasty stomach bug + christmas stress #i ended up with extremely bad exhaustion and brain fog #and on monday finally flared #thankfully i was able to move my infusion up a day so I only had to wait until wednesday #and me and my husband had planned that I would be out of commission for the 10 days my meds were overdue #so I just had to triage my commitments and lay low until they could get me what i needed #it's been two days and i'm doing much much better. back to a place where I can actually write #probably at a better place than i have been since the beginning of December since today I nearly blew through 1K without even trying #but it's been 2-3 weeks of barely being able to scratch out what i consider my minimum #and then a week and change of not being able to even READ without it overwhelming me #so i finally had to face the music of: not only can I NOT do this on time but I need fully shift it #so that I can work without stressing myself or my limits #i am a rat gnawing at the bars of my little rat cage over it but it is what it is #tldr; i'm here i'm fine i just have to accept my human limitations and i don't like it