#Practice optimism

[lifestylebuz]

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[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.

[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.

[fishdetective]

did my swim test at the sailing club today and boy howdy. beforehand some of the old volunteers were talking about how they'd seen people lie and say they could swim and then start drowning when they actually did the swim test. and that was not me because i can in fact swim. but it has been probably 7 or 8 years since i have swam, and it turns out swimming requires a different kind of muscle strength than my normal activities. so as my limbs turned to lead towards the end of 50 meters, i did have to think very very very hard about how embarrassing it would be if i couldn't make it. BUT I DID MAKE IT

[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

[lotus-pear]

he can have all my primos🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

[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

[thebirdandhersong]

never mind....... I heard janine say "is he a derelict? is he a ne'er-do-well?" and I can't deny it no more. we're literally the same person

[canary-song]

The dynamics between my spidersona and the rest of the spiderband are so real and I have NO ART MOTIVATION to show it. Eternal Suffering.

Juno is about a city's worth of sunshine contained in the volume of a 5'1" boygirl, with about just as much cheerleadery good sportsmanship to back it. They're used to trying to play the role of Support in every social circle, but everyone here is just as capable, so they're able to lean back a little. They have a startlingly loud laugh, put effort into finding a keyboard (as you can't lug around a piano) so they can play while on group hangouts, have loved to go grocery shopping in Mumbattan with the gang to do mini potlucks, and I think they've initiated several web-based races.

But that's just everything they try to be. They max out that energy because its fun, and because these people are not just their friends, but also an.. escape, from 20777813. They don't want people worrying, dwelling on what they're running from. There's jagged edges they don't have the foresight to sand down, of course, so maybe Hobie picks out and has issue with their worrying Rule Follower For Survival attitudes, or Pav's argued with them over their snappy and sometimes antagonistic personality around villains. I wish I had the energy y'all do for spidersona art.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

NANO CARDS FINALIZED T-24 HOURS UNTIL GO TIME, WE ARE CLEAR FOR TAKEOFF

[leejeann]

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