#they set him up to fail

[saprozoicworm]

#they set him up to fail #but hes making an effort #his effort is just horrible #i really can just post anything on here i forget that #thats wild #craig tucker #craig and those guys #tweek tweak #south park creek #sp creek #creek sp

[turtleblogatlast]

One of the earliest examples of Leo’s “I’ll do my own thing to accomplish our goal without discussing it with my team first” is in episode one. It’s super, super quick, and ultimately inconsequential, but it subtly sets up a great precedent that I think is very interesting.

When the boys need to grab the medallion from Splinter without Splinter noticing, Raph, Mikey, and Donnie huddle together with Raph taking the lead in trying to devise a plan to get the mystic device. Meanwhile, Leo slinks away and grabs the device by clocking the situation (by knowing his father well enough to predict his actions - something he does with each family member multiple times in the series) and making a move on his own.

It works out perfectly fine, and is ultimately the best move, and it’s honestly okay that he didn’t consult everyone for something so small when it’s such a non issue to get it, but it nicely sets up how this tends to go in the series, including how it goes in the movie.

To be honest episode one is actually really good at setting up a lot of things for each character in the long run, this is just one example that caught my attention, as small and unassuming as it is.

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #im just ranting at this point feel free to ignore me I’m tired lol #anyway #Leo constantly just goes off and does his own thing #and yeah honestly his own thing often works??? but he alienates his brothers/team in the process #BUT also this isn’t necessarily a one way street #when Leo DOES try to consult his brothers or give his thoughts on matters he’s not really taken seriously #best example here is bug busters where he CONSTANTLY makes his worries and suspicions known only to have them ignored #so it’s almost understandable that he doesn’t often open up about his thought process when it’s easier to just do it #than to try and fail to justify it #after all it almost always works out for him when he does so why not? #and then the movie happens #and that line of thinking doesn’t quite hold up does it? #BUT ON ANOTHER NOTE #like I said episode one is super good at setting characters up #from showing off Donnie’s preference for tech vs magic/mystic #from showing Mikey’s innate talent for mysticism #from showing Raph’s anxieties and how easily they can stack up #there’s more but I’d have to do a closer deep dive on the ep and man am I tired #so off the head rambles it is for now #sorry everyone for my constant spam of Too Many Words into things that are prob Not That Deep #it’s honestly just fun haha #EDIT: bc I saw someone mention it! yeah all the boys have communication issues through the series and it’s super interesting and realistic #Leo in particular stands out to me here because his communication issues are a constant theme that pop up much more often #but each of them experiences this in some form

[lewishamil10n]

regardless of whether youre a nyck fan or a daniel fan, i think we can agree they both deserve better

#f1 #remy.txt #daniel ricciardo #nyck de vries #anti alphatauri #anti rbr #no fr nyck deserves more of a chance and daniel deserves better than to be set up to fail in a car that's beneath him

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Siffrin plays Disco Elysium AU: Featuring backseat gamer Loop.

#in stars and time #ISAT #Siffrin #Loop #disco elysium #digital art #When I first thought of a crossover I went from 1) 'ISAT Disco AU but Loop is all of the skills' #To: 2) 'Loop is in the mindspace alongside the skills #To my magnum opus: 3)'Loop is sitting next to Siffrin backseat gaming him the whole time.' #Loop beat Disco Elysium ages ago and repeated it to the point they know all the vision quests and dialogue variables. #Siffrin just started playing and Loop keeps ruining the fun by using their meta-game knowledge to try and help. #Also let's be real. Siffrin's stats are 100% completely focused into motorics and nothing else. #If we can't Savoir Faire ourselves of this situation - we will explode. Endurance? Call my insurance instead. #Thinking skills? None. Emotional intelligence and morale? A failed social interaction canonically feels like death to them. #I might have bumped Phys up but...Siffrin's Electrochem stat is like -10. And Pain Threshold is emotional durability too. #Unused part of this joke is that I set their signature skill to Drama. #Both these games made my brain melt so now I get to combine them! I have that power! #This joke made me laugh the entire 3 hours I sat down and drew it and that is what creation should be about.

[earlgodwin]

THE BORGIA SIBLINGS + descriptions by their portrayers "I will not have this family at war with itself."

#and yet rodrigo played them like pawns and pit them against each other (unintentionally since he's too blinded by his ambitions lol) #i mean i do love rodrigo but but he fucked his children up with his ambitions and favoritism #especially juan...he set him up to fail by singling him out making him gather his siblings' resentment when all juan wanted was harmony #a cheerful little shit full of bravado until the weight of expectations sucked the life out of him #and then being shunned by his family and having no single peer and no one to hold him or guide his misguided soul #and cesare was boiling with jealousy because of juan's position like bro juan didn't even ask for it?? #how about you direct all your anger @ rodrigo instead of direvting them to your desperate little brother ? #ANYWAYS they're all so prettyyyy #juan borgia #lucrezia borgia #cesare borgia #the borgias #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #david oakes #the borgia siblings #cinemapix #holliday grainger #dailytvfilmgifs #by jen

[samglyph]

I am not going to post anymore progress of this here until it’s actually done (so see you in a couple months probably lol) but I’m putting this here because I love the voice acting it’s just a fun little bit

#kaynes little hiss… #like gee I know I set him up to fail but still. yikes gang #this is technically the second pass for this scene tho the first pass is bright yellow stick figures lol #malevolent #my art

[commsroom]

thinking about my friend @whats-a-terrarium's post about eiffel wanting to go out on a star wars reference (i.e. that he was going to say "i love you" to hera, expecting her to complete the reference with "i know.") and i fully believe that's true. i don't think he would say it so directly unless it was as a reference. (and i do still believe the framing of the scene itself is a meta reference, knowing that the writers were big fans of the new doctor who and the way it evokes "if it's my last chance to say it, rose tyler, i-") but, that said, it also gives me an opportunity to talk about something i usually don't.

eiffel's sacrifice in the finale is selfish. it's his autonomy, and his choice, and hera respects that, but she's the one who has to pull the trigger and wipe his mind, and he knows this, knowing all of her personal baggage about identity and memory. to then, if you accept this, follow that up with a confession-that's-also-a-reference, expecting her to complete it in someone else's words, regardless of the sincerity... that's also selfish, and that's why it resonates as characterization. i believe it's true because of what that signifies.

this is one of the main reasons i've always felt eiffel has to get his memory back - because that's a set-up, not a resolution. he's not cured of being doug eiffel, of his desire to escape himself, of his impulse to self-destruct, of his need to filter the things he can't say through the familiarity of narrative. the point of giving eiffel his memory back, to me, is that he is always himself, that self-improvement is a constant project with no reset button. eiffel has always had a problem with selective memory, and with using it to evade difficult conversations and responsibilities.

people often point out that eiffel seems more soft-spoken after losing his memory, but everything else aside: he literally runs everything in his brain through the filter of pop culture. imagine suddenly not having access to your primary method of communication. the language is there, but the context is not. the circumstances surrounding eiffel's memory loss will weigh on hera, and i think - in an inverted sort of way to constructive criticism - part of working through that is in eiffel learning how to communicate without that emotional crutch. he can get it back once he's done.

#i already said some of this to you saph but i want to say it here too. #i do think there's a sincerely nice part of it re: hera understanding what eiffel means in parallel to how she imagines him saying #'use the force luke' in memoria. and that is an understanding of him she finds encouraging. but i think there's a balance. #like he tries but he's kinda known for speaking more than he listens and i think there's. an interesting conflict to work through here. #in a similar way to how i feel like hera never actually calling him doug to his face. just in her mind. is a strong set up for #romantic intent. it's about breaking down barriers. personal or otherwise enforced. finding what's vulnerable at the core of a person #when all of those defenses fail.

[carsonjonesfiance]

On the subject of Bernie though, he really is a master of political theater because he knew his resolution to stop all foreign aid (all funding meaning including humanitarian aid) to Israel contingent on the kind of investigation that takes months being done within 30 days was going to be impossible to pass but it would make a good pair of headlines when it was introduced and immediately died.

He is not playing politics; he’s playing PR and that’s why he’ll never ever win a vote but he will keep showing up in your feed.

#Bernie sanders #he set up that resolution to fail to prove a point and that’s incredibly cynical of him #I just hope he had a reason for doing it that wasn’t just Raising Awareness #because there is actually a bill being put forward to limit arms to Israel #and this vote takes attention away from that

[lagosbratzdoll]

This is a very very unfinished thought but I've been thinking a lot as I reread the books about how the women of House of the Dragon don't really get catharsis and how that'll likely be worse in S2. Say what you want about asoiaf but a number of named women there experience catharsis.

They kill their abusers (Lysa, Cersei, Dany). They regain some agency after a violation (Lysa, Cersei, Lady Stoneheart, Dany), and they refuse to forgive the people complicit in their subjugation (Lysa, Cersei, Dany, Lady Stoneheart, Jeyne Westerling).

Obviously, three or four isn't enough in such an expansive cast of characters but the point remains that they claw back their autonomy however they have to. They're allowed to be angry, bitter, unforgiving and cruel to their abusers in a way women in House of the Dragon just aren't allowed. They're allowed grief, grief that is violent and destructive.

The women of House of the Dragon don't get angry. They stand around and stare plaintively at the camera, they cry prettily, and they plead for peace and non-violence. They suffer and suffer and suffer and there's no relief.

#although dany doesn't really set out to kill her abuser #in fact she doesn't really think of him as her abuser #but the fact remains that her story begins with his death #she gains her dragons and agency through his death #lysa murdering jon arryn #lysa not going to riverrun when hoster is on his deathbed despite cat's letters #she denies him relief for his crimes against her and it's one of my favourite moments in asoiaf #cersei killing robert #cersei eating robert's children taking back reproductive autonomy from the man that hurt her #lady stoneheart turning her grief and pain onto the riverlands #she hangs freys boltons and lannisters uncaringly #it's a failing of the storytelling because this is supposed to be the feminist retelling of the dance #but instead the misogyny that leads up to the dance has been defanged. #the point of the show has been obscured behind endless arguments of the supposed illegitimacy of rhaenyra's first three children #the women fighting for power have been replaced by evil men perched on their shoulders telling them to do bad things #they're helpless victims carried along by the stream of inevitability #or something idk #also i am not including alicent trying to take luke's eye and injuring rhaenyra as cathartic because they are not the cause of her sufferin #house of the dragon #not asoiaf thoughts #daenerys targaryen #lysa arryn #cersei lannister #lady stoneheart #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #helaena targaryen #rhaenys targaryen

[swordmaid]

had a vision of brienne preparing to enter a joust and jaime is leaning over the stands either trying to give her a kiss or putting his favour on her pauldron and some other dudes are holding onto him so he doesn’t fall over

#it’s that vibe of that person sitting on their friend’s shoulders to kiss the other person leaning from the window #u know the one????? anyway. #I love jb in tourney settings I think jaime would absolutely want her to wave his favour around #while he’s wearing the most obnoxious looking velour doublet so everyone knows that’s HIS favour btw #also I think he’d be the type to coach her from the sidelines and standing up screaming SHANK THE BITCH!!!!!! #when brienne gets dismounted or something he’s gonna be like BOO that’s a foul that didn’t count FLOP! fail. she’s just going easy on you 🤭 #jaime being the most toxic joust spectator everyone hates sitting next to him

[newvestroia]

Sharing this masterpiece I made during my first watch

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#💥 #this was the first thing I made on my own time after I took an animation class #I still have the model btw #i failed at setting up physics for him so I might try again one day fhghfj #blender #bakugan #bakugan new vestroia #new vestroia #gus bakugan #gus grav #myart

[peony-pearl]

"Iroh ignored Azula” Well what if I didn’t believe that and the greatest irony of Avatar is that Iroh was one of the folks who encouraged her strategic thinking that she would use to later hunt him down

#atla #Azula #Iroh #my art #did he fail her? Yeah probably #homeboy had his own set of issues like continuing his father's conquest #he really didn't have time for either her or Zuko #and if Zuko really was born kind of meek to a very competitive family #who's to say Iroh paid much attention to him? #And put favor towards Azula? #and then he's gone for the siege and then an unknown amount of time for his spirit journey #and comes home and Azula is firmly not interested in Iroh #but Zuko who has been ignored and belittled by his father may seek Iroh out #to which Iroh would be open to but he's still messed up over his own issues #and being on the boat during Zuko's exile creates that bond #So Iroh would escape the favoritism aspect of the Fire Nation and show love towards the 'imperfect' son #while Azula has Ozai's favor #Which itself isn't healthy #but idk I can't hate Iroh for a series of events set before his time in which there's going to be a definite loser #and he's already lost #so he's going to try and help someone even if he doesn't really know how nor does he have the motivation at first #but then his care for Zuko grows and he realizes he wants that again and will do what he can #I'll gladly take the imperfect character who at least tries to have his heart in the right place

[martyrbat]

alexa play gary come home :((

#pens lb #i miss him.... #i know playing a goalie while hes hot is a thing. i know that. but whats the long-term plan here? you're going to have #ned still increasing his chances of injuries and fatigue AND a goalie who hasnt played in weeks #its unfair to ned and its setting jarry up to be a scrapgoat in important games #like im not a big fan of the bruins but theyve been doing the right thing in actually alternating their goalies every other game #so the other gets to rest while staying sharp and they're both well experienced. #jarry has 6!!!! shutouts!!!! and thats while being the goalie for the fucking pittsburgh penguins! #you KNOW he can play. you know hes good. why are you purposely setting him up to fail. #and ned has been wonderful! i was so nervous he was going to be traded after not being played for a good bit. i love my eyebrows boy and am #so happy and proud he's been having these opportunities to show how good and valuable he is to this team #but overworking him to such an extent is (once again) setting him up to fail just as much as its setting jarry up to be that scrapegoat #mike sullivan i am shaking you by the shoulders demanding to know what the fuck has been up with these lineups lately

[cephalopod-truther]

I know he's the diggity dog but ren has some serious wet cat energy this season

#He's so determined to be a manager #He's trying to set up local government and nobody cares #He was the only person to lose the game that he arranged #He failed to kill mumbo and then awkwardly had to dig to the surface with him (and grian) bc he forgot to put an exit in his own trap #The only person in the government he set up to carry out their assigned task was Iskall #Iskall who spent longer trying to convince ren that his portal was modern art than he did actually making it in the first place #He's the longest standing redname on the server #He's getting bullied by Mumbo (of all people) #He rides a donkey called you hate to see it #Iskall killed him by taking away the water at the bottom of his tower and then held his stuff hostage until ren agreed not to retaliate #The RD on the side of his base stands for toweR of the Dog #All of his neighbours think this is dumb and have told him as such to his face #It isn't going well for him #rendog #hermitcraft #hermitcraft s10 #hc s10 #hc10 #hc10 spoilers

[earlgodwin]

“…In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.” — François de La Rochefoucauld, The Moral Maxims and Reflections.

#these two smh #i'm so normal about them #cesare outshining juan by every turn yet juan didn't hate him for it because like i said he doesn't care #juan wanting a close bond with him but he was too afraid of being rejected by him #like his tragedy is that he always terrified he's on the outside #and that makes him act out in resentment and jealousy #now don't let me speak on cesare's jealousy which is fucking irritatinggggg #like oh no your dad gave your younger brother a position that he's incompetent in so let's direct all the anger on the brother #and not the father who actually bestowed him with it and set him up to fail *yawns* #anyway i miss these unhinged bros #juan and cesare #juan borgia #cesare borgia #david oakes #the borgias #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #tvedit #francois arnaud #by jen

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

What’s with the trend in comics of Jason going on this long, insightful rant on Bruce’s behaviors and shortcomings only for B to respond like “but murder bad” and that’s considered a valid counter argument?

#jason todd #bruce wayne #dc #this happens to some degree with a lot of villains #but it is particularly pronounced with these two dumbasses #like #Bruce clearly has no deeper understanding of Jason or his choices beyond a very basic profile #and it’s to the degree that it almost feels intentional #he doesn’t understand Jason #(he doesn’t understand ANY of his kids really) #and one’s left feeling that Bruce resents Jason for existing at all #like he’d rather be left with just the memory of a kid that loved him #and really I think it comes down to the idea that he feels he failed Jason #and he sees Jason now as just the embodiment of that failure rather than a living person #but is also unwilling or simply doesn’t know how to properly confront or fix his mistakes #so he sets this arbitrary metric for Jason to fail to meet #so he can focus on that rather than any meaningful self improvement or reflection #and all that is without even acknowledging that Jason is more than this failure. he’s a person who’s ended up stuck in a trauma cycle #both of them have