#Practice optimism

[lifestylebuz]

The Power of Positivity: How to Cultivate a Positive Mindset and Live a Happier Life

Why is the Power of Positivity important? What is it? Positivity is the propensity to regard life and its difficulties favorably. It emphasizes the chances and opportunities they provide rather than downplaying or denying reality’s unfavorable aspects. Power of Positivity is important because it might enhance your relationships, mental and physical health, and capacity for goal achievement. Power…

[gearbroth]

Sneakin’s around like this...

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

I love your depiction of Hamilton and Lafayette, it’s so funny! Lafayette is so sweet and happy and Hamilton just has beef w/ the entire world. I can’t wait to see more of their brotherly relations in ur AMAZING art style

God, they're so narrative foil coded

Seriously though, there's some fantastic contrast between them. They're just similar enough (both roughly the same age, both insecure and glory hungry, + their "shared father" or whatever Lafayette said) - and yet they manage to be exact opposites at the same time.

I could say more but I think this bit from Mike Duncan's biography about Lafayette basically gets at what I'm trying to say:

"Like Lafayette, Hamilton grew up without a father. He also lost his mother to a fatal illness at almost the same age Lafayette lost his. But where the tragedies of Lafayette’s childhood made him the heir of a fabulous fortune, the tragedies of Hamilton’s illegitimate childhood left him systematically cut out of his family’s inheritance. So where the dark clouds of Lafayette’s life were lined with silver, the dark clouds of Hamilton’s life were simply dark. Lafayette emerged from childhood buoyant and effusive, Hamilton cynical and reticent. But even though Hamilton started life a penniless bastard on the periphery of European civilization, and Lafayette started life an insanely wealthy heir in the heart of a great kingdom, they fell into an easy friendship. French was not the only language the two young men shared. The also shared a code of personal honor and a desire to prove themselves to the world." -Mike Duncan, Hero of Two Worlds, The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Now, I am not qualified to speak on the real figures, but I do like to write. So, there is a narrative opportunity here that drives me insane.

Like, cast Hamilton as brilliant, but overly cynical with a habit of assuming the worst in people, and give him a negative character arc where he comes close to recognizing the potential good of humanity but ultimately falls into his more authoritarian tendencies. Then contrast him with Lafayette who's more naive. He's not quite sheltered but unfamiliar with the sort of selfishness and greed he'd have encountered if he grew up in a more vulnerable financial position. In coming to America he, like Hamilton, is forced to reckon with contempt, greed, and the failings of democratic government. But, unlike Hamilton, still manages to come out of it with a generally positive opinion of humanity.

I'm just saying, if I were writing history to contain ✨themes ✨ they are a perfect opportunity.

[problematicsashawaybright]

You know what???? 2025 is going to be a better year because I'm going to MAKE it a better year. I can't stop the curse of things constantly happening to me, but I can do things to make life better on the inside. I can't stop the life-changing events that seem to follow me, but I can take my meds and eat vegetables and keep my room clean and learn a new hobby and hang out with my friends. Whatever happens in 2025, I'm at least going to do my best.

[my-mild-ginger]

Sketch practice ✨✍️

Happy New Year! 🎉

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[makorragal-312]

Us: Buddie might be canon this season, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up.

-911 gets moved to ABC-

Us: BUDDIE CANON Y’ALL!!!!

[wildflowercryptid]

i like to think that the other bb students' perception of florian goes from thinking he's this cool mysterious & melancholic pretty boy trainer from paldea that blazed through the bb elite 4 and nearly beat kieran to wondering how the hell someone who seems to know shit about dick when it comes to battling ended up as an exchange student at a battling-focused school.

[cillyscribbles]

i'm really sorry the requests are rolling out so slowly! i promise i haven't forgotten them and am getting to them with much joy in my heart :) feel free to send in some if you've had any thoughts.

[invinciblerodent]

i say this with all the calculatedly cautious optimism in the world, i swear, if people Andromeda (as a verb) Veilguard/Dreadwolf, write it off as a horrible terrible failure, and fill every discussion with fatalistic bull they concocted from half-sentences all on their own before they'd not even play, but just SEE even one minute of it, I will start biting

[theartsyhognose]

Finally drew the cutest magical girl in the creek!! I love Sparkle Cadet sm 💖💖

[realjdobypr]

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[catboyrescue]

still thinking abt getting to speak to new psych for the first time on friday and how we wound up talking for nearly two hours. if he double charges me i won't even mind. it was horrible but incredibly cathartic. i'm still recovering.

he also gave me a working diagnosis of c-ptsd which is kind of lol

[risingsunresistance]

"To put it bluntly, players running Slime Minion setups are generating far too many coins every day, through corrupted fragments. This sell price nerf only applies to corrupted fragments."

damn, goodbye my beautiful minions o7

[iam-lnt]

this is another edition of study vs sketch

[ninsiana0]

rev•o•lu• tion•ary op•ti•mism

adjective, noun

1. The belief that a better world is possible through political struggle, and (especially) that participating in the struggle is itself transformational

From "Pessimism Is a Luxury We Can't Afford" by Dayton Martindale

https://inthesetimes.com/article/revolutionary-optimism-hope-political-organization-participation-activism-change-transformation

[fluffyphocks]

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