#the overconfidence

[deadpoolsmom]

actually I have a second thought about eboy anime twunk slade and it’s that he’s so funny people complaining are just cowards.

this is Absolutely what a man who is definitely gonna lose to newbie superman, be divorced, dodge paying child support, and commit himself to inventing new levels of toxic parenting and beefing with teenagers forever looks like

#he looks pathetic overconfident and like he has everything to lose #it’s perfect lmao #he thinks he’s extremely cool and is GOING to get his ass beat by increasingly young teenagers #twunk in his pre-divorce era (established funniest possible trait for an anime man to have) #slade wilson #deathstroke #my adventures with superman #maws #maws spoilers

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Finally something all hotd fans can agree on

#hotd #house of the dragon #aemond Targaryen #team green #team black #aemond overconfidence is bringing the fandom closer #and that's beautiful of him #lol

[cometshift]

predisasters

#phighting #phighting art #subspace phighting #medkit phighting #art #subspace #medkit #predisaster tag #i think young subspace often gets way too overconfident and there's like a 50/50 chance it'll end weirdly well for him or very badly instea #medkit is the down to earth guy to keep him in check... maybe. if he feels like it #but more often than not he finds more amusement in seeing subspace eat shit. he thinks it's funny #though even when he does try subspace is too stubborn to listen to him. so medkit just leaves him to his luck. they're both terrible #i didn't mean to write so much in the tags sorry i have so many thoughts on them. i'm normal #also i made the 3d model in the top right on the first image i'll post renders soon hehe

[mazamba]

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Ironically, the most eventful day in the careers of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton had nothing to do with ghosts. The two had just returned from the supermarket and were carrying in the groceries, when the shadow in the corner began to speak.

"We need to talk."

"GHOST!"

The couple were on their back before they could draw their weapons.

"You are the foremost experts in the field of ecto-biology," said Batman as if he hadn't just brought down a three hundred pound man and a ninth-degree black-belt before either of them could realize he'd moved, "I have questions regarding your sponsor."

"Sweetie, is the Batman in our living room?" asked Jack.

"I do believe he is," replied Maddie as she stood up and patted the dust off her clothes, "you know, you could have called for an appointment. We'd have made time."

"In the 80's, the two of you had your doctorate studies rescinded due to your studies in what you called "ecto-science"," he stated, ignoring their indignation, "yet you now live in an upper-middle class neighborhood and spend thousands of dollars a year on technology that didn't have a proper proof-of-concept until recently."

"What's your point?" asked Jack.

"Where is the money coming from?"

"If you must know, we have a sponsor," replied Maddie, "after our dean proved to be too small-minded for our research, we were approached by a man who was more open to the possibility of inter-dimensional research."

"He wanted us to study ghosts!" cut in Jack, "He even gave us our very first sample of ectoplasm!"

"That one sample was the backbone of our research for years, until we got our portal running."

"You never asked where he got that sample from?"

"He seemed like a trust-worthy fellow," dismissed Maddie, "all he asks is for copies of our experiments and for ectoplasm from our portal."

"What sort of experiments?"

"Well, at first we needed to verify the psycho-active behavior of the sample," recalled Maddie, "if you give me a second, I have my research around here somewhere."

"You took the sample to several morgues," Batman told them, "the sample's most drastic and extreme behavior occurred when it was placed close to bodies who had a history of violent and anti-social behavior in life."

"Maddie, the League's reading our papers!" Jack giggled excitedly, "But yes, it's how we know that all ghosts are evil ectoplasmic scum!"

"You never questioned the origin of the sample?"

"It was the only sample we had," pointed out Maddie, "but it's properties matched all of our theories."

"The man you spoke with was Ra's al Ghul," he informed them, dropping a folder full of pictures and documents for them to peruse, "thousands of years ago, Ra's found a well of green water that is now known as a Lazarus Pit. Using its power, he has rejuvenated himself time and again to maintain his position as the head of the League of Assassins. After some experimentation, he found the same pits could keep his forces alive, even in death.

"Over time, the League came across a problem that threatened their continued existence. They were consuming the Pit's water faster than it was replenishing itself. After much experimentation, they found a solution. At the moment of death, when the human soul passes over to the Infinite Realms, what you call the Ghost Zone, a small amount of ectoplasm leaks over to our side."

"Wait, you don't mean...?" Maddie trailed off, horror settling in.

"Ra's killed people en masse to replenish his pool," affirmed Batman, "further experimentation revealed that people who died in a state of extreme fear or pain provided more ferocious soldiers. That is where your sample came from.

"In it's neutral state, ectoplasm reacts equally to all emotional ranges. Repeated exposure to emotional extremes will imprint the ectoplasm, causing it to react more strongly to a specific emotional range than to others. The negative emotions of Ra's victims imprinted on the ectoplasm, resulting in your skewed results."

"Wait, how would you know that?" demanded Maddie, "We're the foremost experts on ecto-science and we didn't know that!"

He pulled out a thick folder and slammed it onto the table.

"I had my research peer-reviewed."

"By who?" asked Jack, "We looked all over and couldn't find anyone in the scientific community!"

"You weren't looking in the right place. There is a branch of the Justice League that specializes in the supernatural, ghosts and demons chief among them. They want me to bring you in."

"Really!? Did you hear that Mads! We're being recruited by the Justice League!"

"They want me to arrest you," Batman corrected them, "for illegal poaching of innocent and neutral spirits, particularly after last week's attack on their newest member, Danny Phantom."

"The Ghost Boy!?" roared Jack, "That no-good ectoscum made the League before we did!?"

"I have watched his fights. He takes care to avoid collateral damage and only appears when other ghosts attack, sometimes at great personal cost."

"Look, Mr. Batman," sighed Maddie in a condescending tone, "we've fought the ghost boy for years. He has a history of crime and violence. If you look far enough, you'll find-."

Batman had no time for nonsense.

"The League has already looked into the incidents. All show indications of either coercion or mind control."

"Ghosts are deceitful and conniving-!"

"We have already established that your initial sample skewed your results," he cut Jack off, "this would imply that all of your research and experiments need to be reassessed, including your opinions towards ghosts in general.

"Regarding Ra's al Ghul, you will need to continue working with him. Cutting contact suddenly may put you and your family in danger."

That caught their attention.

"What do we need to do?" asked Jack, all jokes and outrage immediately tossed out the window.

"Keep doing your research with this new information in mind. Your experiments have been applied to the Lazarus Pits, resulting in unstable results. Recent subjects have come out in a mindless rage, while others have shown no effect on their mind, and yet others have had no effect. Ra's is already skeptical of your continued collaboration. If you provide him with research based off this new information, he may decide you are not worth his time or money. When it comes to Ra's, your best option is dismissal to irrelevance. You do not want to make an enemy out of him."

"It's not just that," admitted Maddie, "if we were the only ones being affected, we'd simply let him know we're exploring new horizons outside of ecto-science. The thing is, we have two children, one in college and one near graduation."

He gave them a card. "Call that number. All of their college expenses will be taken care of."

"I... Bruce Wayne?" read out Jack.

"We've collaborated before, he is trustworthy," he reassured them, "the next part is up to you. Will you be scientists, or poachers?"

Their lights flickered, and he was gone.

#dp x dc #batman #jack fenton #madeline fenton #kinda messed with the Lazarus Pit's canon #but it's not like I'm the only one who's done that #so whatever #I do hope I got the Fentons' overconfidence right though

[strrwbrrryjam]

"we need more complex female characters," you guys can't handle molly o'shea, mary gillis, abigail roberts, sadie adler, tilly jackson, marybeth gaskill, karen jones or susan grimshaw.

#karen tilly and marybeth dont get it as much people are usually quite kind or just completely forget about them #but they are included too. with susan molly mary sadie or abigail they get the worst treatment #being called either a bitch whiny mean asking too much emotional etc #i can understand why people can't handle susan. sometimes i can't handle susan #when i see her sometimes interact with the girls or remember the fact that she killed molly i'm genuinely disgusted but she's more than tha #there are layers to her. she's like dutch yet people still like him and try their damnedest to defend him #people might be surprised by sadie being included too but god the hate that she gets from mostly men for being 'overconfident' is insane #you have complex female characters yet you refuse to either give them a thought or completely disregard them as one negative quality #and refuse to recognize that they are just as complex as the men in this game #treat them as such #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 molly o'shea #molly o'shea #rdr2 susan grimshaw #susan grimshaw #rdr2 sadie adler #sadie adler #rdr2 abigail roberts #abigail roberts #rdr2 mary gillis #mary gillis #rdr2 tilly jackson #tilly jackson #rdr2 karen jones #karen jones #rdr2 mary beth gaskill #mary beth gaskill #rdr2 van der linde gang #van der linde gang

[brookheimer]

that was one of the most terrifying episodes of television conceivable and here i am smiling at my laptop like a girl who got a text from her crush. roman orchestrated the election of a neonazi for president, kendall condoned it and admitted he was only really unsure about it because he was threatened by rome's closeness with mencken not any genuine political beliefs, shiv has literally no allies left whatsoever and sibling relationships are entirely fucked, tom is so fired, twitter is demanding roman's head on a stick and insisting shiv is a leftist hero, and i am kicking my feet in the air like a schoolgirl

#this is exactly what i wanted. and the preview? rome going full TMB-level egoism and overconfidence in the fucking EULOGY??? #oh baby let's go #this is horrendous i'm so happy #succession #succession spoilers #america decides #100 #500 #1000 #this time on posts i didn’t expect to get notes

[lavenderfeminist]

this is THE funniest fucking post I’ve ever seen in my life

#not men’s deadly overconfidence being a positive trait #I genuinely can’t breathe

[sherlockig]

#i am sorry but stede was not overconfident here #he was heartbroken and felt the need to prove himself and he felt let down and wanted to feel better #and he did not care what happened #this is stedes breaking the steering wheel in the middle of a storm moment #my poor pretty sad darling #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #rhys darby #darling honey light of my life #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers

[lewishamiltonstuff]

#I'll leave this here #overconfidence #my goat !!! #f1 #formula 1 #lewis hamilton #formula one #lewis #lh44 #mercedes amg f1 #f1blr #mercedes f1 #team lh44 #singapore #singapore gp 2023 #2023 singapore gp #p3 !!!!

[ruhrohherewego]

jason todd as robin being overconfident or arrogant has so much comedic potential. it’s like a little dog thinking they’re a big one. every time he sees dick he challenges him to a duel and every time he thinks he’s going to win. he doesn’t. after every fight he says to bruce “clearly i need to up my training regimen, next time i’ll get him!” and bruce doesn’t have the heart to say otherwise.

#and then of course the fun character development when he's redhood and just as confident but said confidence is 100% justified <3 #idk bruce mentioned that in one of the comics i read and i thought it was a fun detail #this is the same kid who stole batman's tires and hit him with a tire iron ofc he's overconfident sometimes #btw his overconfidence is not him being impulsive or unskilled or whatever #it just means he thinks he can fight god and win #and with enough preparation he probably can #jason todd #dc comics #bruce wayne #dick grayson #batfam #batfamily

[chloecherrysip]

Mario's (nearly) successful training run

#mario movie #mario movie spoilers #super mario bros #super mario bros movie #super mario bros movie spoilers #cherrysip edits #there was a new korean ad that contained this whole scene in HD and i wanted to gif this anyway when the movie came out SO #LOOK AT MY BOY GOOOOOOO #he was doing this on NO sleep having force-fed himself dozens of mushrooms to the point of being sick #because the sun is rising and peach is leaving in the morning and he's going with her no matter what it takes #his brother needs him and he's not gonna let him down!!!!! #(and then he gets a tad overconfident at the end lol BUT HE BASICALLY DID IT. STILL IMPRESSIVE) #and i love that for peach it didn't matter. she saw that he had the determination and the drive and wasn't going to give up #that's all she needed to know. who cares if he didn't touch the flagpole? he fought for it all night long and that's what counts :)

[ink-the-artist]

I am so curious if anyone else does this, one of the most useful things I do when making art is being stupidly overconfident almost deluding myself, like if throughout the entire process I completely convince myself I can pull off whatever it is I’m trying to do, even if it’s something beyond my skill level that I naturally don’t end up reaching at the end, the end result comes out better than I expect even when it doesn’t look like what I was going for. I don’t rly know how to properly explain this but I’ve been doing it all my life and it’s probably one of the funniest mental processes I go through when making art

#you would think this leads to feelings of disappointment when the end result doesn’t meet my lofty goals but it doesn’t #idk how it works #I mentioned this in an art class once related to a conversation I can’t remember now #no one related 😭 #I will convince myself I can do this super impressive thing beyond my abilities #and hold onto that delusion the entire time im working #and of course the outcome isn’t that I actually achieve this impressive thing #but the outcome is often better than I would’ve expected when looking at it at the end no longer in the overconfident delusional headspace #I think I have a mental illness

[savemysoulmyartsucks]

Pilot Kai is an absolute chad. This man was willing to fight skeletons with no proper training to protect his shop. After he is told a story about Lord G he still is willing to fight skeletons, Lord G and whoever stands in his way to get his sister while simultaneously saying ‘I refuse to get involved in your sibling rivalry’ proceeds to set a speed record on a park-core course and pick a fight with literally everyone. The absolute confidence this man has in non existent abilities is unmatched.

I miss him so much, nobody is doing it like Pilot Kai

#lego ninjago #ninjago kai #kai #kai smith #pilot episode kai #God I love that overconfidence overprotective idiot #10/10 big brother #lego Ninjago thoughts

[uncanny-tranny]

Periodic reminder to trans people who use minoxidil/rogaine on their face:

Make sure to wash your hands afterward, especially if you have cats. Also, please keep it off your lips. You don't want to ingest it (it also tastes like hell, take it from me). If you're prone to dry skin, invest in a good moisturizer, something that agrees with your skin and will keep it feeling nice.

Carry on. I wish you all the best of luck in whatever you do to promote hair growth 💛

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #trans advice #yes we can talk all day about if it's effective for facial hair use #and that it isn't necessarily approved for use on the face by the fda as far as i know #so listen to yourself. if you decide to try it out then ditch it that's genuinely fine #beard oil can definitely be a decent investment (one that i haven't done for some reason) #i know reminders like this aren't necessary for all but i like being able to remind myself too #sometimes you get so into the monotony of routine that you kinda forget y'know? #like i've had to force myself to be mindful and slow when i do my shots because i can get overconfident in my speed #and that just means i fuck something up along the way lol

[doki-doki-imagines]

You never show your face to him during intimate moments.

Bachira Meguru:

-No way he is okay with this, he needs to see your eyes to understand what is going on.

-They are also the first trait that pulled him to you, so covering them ruins all the fun.

-“Ohi, what’s wrong?”

-There is no way Bachira will let this topic go, he’ll cage you under him and he’ll stare until you break.

-Bachira can be pretty intimidating when he wants.

-So you break, you tell him you don’t want to see his disgusted face when he’ll look at your body, how you are scared shitless of your low appeal, and…damn you can’t talk anymore between sobs.

-Bachira treats you with the delicacy that only someone in love could have. He is still caging you under him, but his expression is much softer like his embrace.

-“You can be so dumb at times. Don’t know how those thoughts got into that silly head of yours, but I’ll make sure to push them all away”

Rin Itoshi: -Why do you always hide your face, why do you always turn the other way around, why, why, why

-So Rin thinks he is the problem, you don’t want to look at him because you are disgusted by him, maybe you prefer to think of someone else…

- As often happen Rin's green monster crawls under his skin, ready to vomit venom on you at the first sign of hiding.

-But this time, when you cover your eyes for the nth time Rin notices something new; are your lips trembling? Are you gonna cry? Is he so disgusting?

-So with his usual gentlemanly ways, he grips your wrist to push your arms out of the way and whispers “What the hell is wrong with you”

-The atmosphere is so tense you think it is gonna kill you soon if you don’t spill your insecurity and that’s what you do, chest heavy, but trying to maintain at least a bit of dignity

-“Never heard such dumb shit ever in my life”

-If the situation wasn’t so dramatic, you have kneed his kidney.

-So you think to be the problem…this change the entire situation! He doesn’t know how to deal with this situation anyway, but he feels relieved!

-A little less relieved when he looks at your face, eyes watery and ugly pout.

-Rin for sure doesn’t know how to express himself with words, so he’ll do it physically. Will it take more time? Probably, but it is the easiest way for him while trying to make you understand how pure shit those intrusive thoughts are.

Oliver Aiku:

-With a guy like Oliver the issue came out way sooner than with the others guys.

-And for you, the issue got even worse since it was way easier to imagine him going with someone else if you aren’t good enough.

-With someone else, Oliver wouldn’t have given two fucks in all honesty.

-But he is serious about you?? So he at least wants to try, he doesn’t want to give up so easily.

-It was during a normal indoor date that Oliver asked you about this.

-You were watching a film together, your head lying on his chest, his arm around your waist, so it was easy to stop your probable runaway.

-And he was so good at making you relax. It’s not like it was easy to talk about the topic, but at least Oliver put you at ease.

-But his ass is burnt. Do you trust him so little? Damn it hurts. He jokes about it with you, laughs even, but the pain is real.

-Oliver will try anything in his capabilities to make you understand that more often than not brains can come out with fucked up shit that aren’t true.

-But now you also have to demonstrate you trust him; it still stings you know?

#bllk imagines #blue lock imagines #bllk x reader #blue lock x reader #bllk headcanons #blue lock headcanons #bachira meguru #bachira meguru x you #rin itoshi #rin itoshi x reader #oliver aiku #oliver aiku x reader #often read over confident reader with their body and since I'm not I decided to make a trope for reader like me #even if honestly I hope nobody has my same problem #Overconfidence in this case I think it is a blessing LOL #I had so many characters in mind but went for them #I love you Oliver #did I put him in the ship post...I think I have to edit it ouch #what a girlkeep girlboss gaslight thing to do not adding him to keep Oliver all for myself AHAHAAH

[vellichorom]

identity crisis

( ft @satisfiedskye's narrator! )

#uwu art #The Stanley Parable #The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe #TSP Narrator #Paraverse #Narratorverse #IN WHICH the overconfident narrator gets paired with one who.... does not remember he is one & gets STRUCK #ohh ollie my blorbo bleebus ollie