#and he’s an OPTIMIST
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very admirable tbh how much of an “i can fix him” gay curt ISN’T. he saw he couldn’t get through to the fucked up man within 5 minutes and was like ok *pulls trigger*
#spies are forever#also very cunty of owen to refuse to be fixed#edit: actually gonna elaborate cuz it’s SO funny to me#cuz he has all the makings of an ‘i can fix him’ bitch#he TRIES to be an ‘i can fix him’ bitch#(owen stop 🥺 owen look at me 🥺 owen this isn’t you 🥺)#and he’s an OPTIMIST#literally pushes on despite the odds multiple times in the show out of sheer stubbornness#but it only took one (1) conversation with owen for him to realise he was fighting a losing battle#basically what i’m saying is owen is un-fixable (affectionate)#he’s so unfixable that curt sabotages almost his entire own character arc to take him out#saf
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Then Jason never kills again.
#dc#dc comics#batman#red hood#bruce wayne#jason todd#my art#I know that Bruce is an very optimist person and belives that the system can be fixed and all that but this is very funny#Jason got burned so bad he had to leave Gotham for a while to think about his choices
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✦ Come hell or high water ✦
#own art#own characters#CanisAlbus#art#artists on tumblr#Vasco#Machete#anthro#scenthound#sighthound#dogs#canine#animals#Vasco's worries and insecurities creep out at night when his sunny and optimistic shield is at it's thinnest#when did their situation become so dire? what could have they done differently?#how powerless he feels when facing Machete's ailing health and the snare that keeps tightening around his neck at work#every time he visits him there's less of him left#how much would he be prepared to risk to keep them both safe if it came to that#and would they succeed if they somehow tried to make a break for it and leave everything behind
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i just know aang be getting on zuko’s nerves with his “lemme see lemme see” nosy ass
he thought he was just gonna teach the avatar firebending but got a little brother instead im crying 😭
#aang may be the reincarnated avatar spirit but he is still an optimistic and annoying 12 year old child#and zuko is an emo teenage boy with anger issues#atla#avatar the last airbender#aang#avatar aang#zuko#prince zuko
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Alright, I'll say it: Jack Harkness and the Doctor's relationship is possibly the most fleshed out/complicated dynamic in Doctor Who and that is INCLUDING the master/doctor relationship. Seriously, think about it:
the fact that when they meet jack is presented as sleazy con man and the doctor makes him brave- makes him good
but that they are both willing to die for rose as long as she is safe
and then she comes back and dooms them both to live (even though jack has already died for her and the doctor WILL die for her)
(ninerosejack is canon and you cannot convince me otherwise)
but then the doctor sees jack as immortal as someone he COULD spend the rest of his life with
and instead of embracing it like you'd think he would because he is so wrecked by people leaving him/being left by him the doctor RUNS bc the Doctor is so scared of jack of what he means of what he is
jack ends up abandoned in dalek dust goes back in time to find the doctor suffers a hundred years alone/being tortured but STILL WAITS
(screw amy being the girl who waited or rory being the boy who waited- Jack Harkness is the boy who waited and he did it FIRST)
Jack finds out that he was abandoned. that the man that he loves HATES the sight of him. that the doctor would rather have a genocidal murderer than have him
and so Jack gets the hell out of dodge to go to a man who DOES love him
and don't get me wrong Jack loves Ianto and Jack DOES remember Ianto until he dies as the Face of Boe don't forget that (protecting Novice Hame from the virus as he couldn't Ianto
BUT AFTER EVERYTHING THE DOCTOR HAS DONE TO JACK JACK STILL LOVES THEM
Jack still considers five billion years cursed to never die to be BETTER than the alternative: dying a young time-agent-turned-con-man
Jack has more reason than any other companion save maybe Amy to hate the Doctor & yet spends 20 years in jail to rescue Thirteen still LOVES HER
AND AFTER FIVE BILLION YEARS HE ORGANIZES THAT FIRST MEETING ON SATELLITE FIVE HE ORGANIZES 9/ROSE'S FIRST DATE
jack harkness is a living ghost a reminder of the doctor's failures a physical fixed point and yet he still loves the girl who cursed him and the time lord that turned him into the kind of person that would give his dying breaths to protect the last of humanity in a dying city and tell the doctor that he is not alone
because fuck it, YANA was a warning but also a reminder a final gift
jack had been there all along, a ghost an echo a PROMISE
there is no more human character than jack harkness
#jack harkness#captain jack harkness#meta#tenjack#ninejack#ninejackrose#ninerosejack#nine x jack x rose#ten x jack#the face of boe#tenth doctor#ninth doctor#thirteenth doctor#thirteenjack#thirteen x jack#i still have a lot of feelings about this man#janto#ianto jones#his story SHOULD BE TRAGIC and in a lot of ways it is but it also beautiful and optimistic about the strength of love and the human spirit#jack devoted himself to the doctor and was spat out but he welcomed it#simm!master
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The thing about Wyll is that he Gets It. He knows the story. He knows the kind of man his father is and the kind of man he was supposed to be. He knew what Mizora was when he made the pact. He knew what it meant. And he was just a kid, and his city needed saving, so he did it, and he paid that price, and even knowing all of that he still tried to appeal to his father for understanding and forgiveness.
He sold his soul to do the right thing. And he was cast out. And he knew what character that should have made him.
He knows the story he's in, and every day he chooses who he wants to be instead.
#he gets it!! he fucking gets it!!!!#genre aware yet furiously optimistic king!!!!!#hes literally the peoples princess#“baldurs gate isnt a monarchy” then explain the peoples princess wyll ravengard#bg3#the Wyll to live tag#anyway sorry for waxing poetic i just remembered i love him#wyll ravengard#im also watching acofaf. he deserves to be in a regency world#hed fucking crush#maybe i should... nay ill pocket that sentiment. for now#he said oh the scarred and scorned hero turned villain? nay i shall fucking not
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he says i hate everyone except you and that is addictive and that is kind of romantic and beautiful because you're young and you're kind of a sarcastic asshole too and you don't like bad boys, per say, but you don't really like good ones either. and you like that you were the exception, it felt like winning.
except life is not a romance book, and he was kind of being honest. he doesn't learn to be nice to your friends. he only tolerates your family. you have to beg him to come with you to birthday parties, he complains the whole time. you want to go on a date but - people are often there, wherever you're going. he's just so angry. about everything, is the thing. in the romance book, doesn't he eventually soften? can't you teach him, through your own sense of whimsy and comfort?
at first - you know introverts often need smaller friend groups, and honestly, you're fine staying at home too. you like the small, tidy life you occupy. you're not going to punish him for his personality type.
except: he really does hate everyone but you. which means he doesn't get along with his therapist. which means he has no one to talk to except for you. which means you take care of him constantly, since he otherwise has no one. which means you sometimes have to apologize for him. which means he keeps you home from seeing your friends because he hates them. you're the single exception.
about a decade from this experience, you'll type into google: how to know if a relationship is codependent.
he wraps an arm around you. i hate everyone except you. these days, you're learning what he's actually confessing is i have very little practice being kind.
#i used to think it was romantic too and then i was like. now i see it as a HUGE red flag#writeblr#it is also almost EXCLUSIVELY said by immature ppl who think this is normal#fyi even if u think it's funny and ur like 'im an introvert it's just TRUE' like. you need therapy (ily tho)#healed introversion is just ''i would prefer to be by myself'' not ''i hate every person'' ... hate is not normal. that is not healthy#im sorry. i know it feels accurate. but if you're walking around with that kind of rage....#1. you're making a LOT of assumptions about every single person u have ever met. which is often unfair and unkind#and also usually involves judging people based on their worst moments or little mistakes#2. you are being unfair to the person who is ur ''exception''#3. there is a VAST difference between ''ur my favorite person'' and ''the ONLY person i like.''#idk i think this is just a personal bias thing tbh#im sure there are people who have this experience normally#but i have YET to find a man who thinks like this and ISNT absolute DOGSHIT. although tbh.... like. im sure he exists#when u hit like 30 some of the things that were once kind of hot now just sound fucking exhausting. like ''im in a band''#edit in the tags: i used to kind of be like this too. but the thing is that like. my life became so much more peaceful#once i started believing that people are generally good. like yes i am mad at the world at large#but it's just.... a very hard way to live. you're not a bad person or wrong for the ways other people hurt you and taught you to be angry.#but that anger will continue to hurt YOU. it will punish YOU. it will prevent YOU from making new deep connections. it will protect you yes#but it will also cause MASSIVE blowback. bc if you lose the One Person... your life will fall apart. i know this personally.#i really recommend just trying to be... cautiously optimistic instead. like. yes#people can be horrible and cruel and there are some communities (incels for example) that aren't worth that optimism#but i think like... most people will hold a door for you . most people want to help you find your wallet .#i hope one day you are able to find peace. i hope that rage eventually smooths over. i know how hard it is PERSONALLY#and i know what must have happened to you. and im deeply deeply sorry we share the same wound.#but i promise - sometimes we all need someone else to help us carry the weight. eventually the rage has to die so that we can let help in#i had to spend years biting at outstretched hands. i still often do. im still very wary . and my heart breaks that you flinch too.#here's the thing: i don't blame you. but we were both acting out of fear and pain. .... not out of healthy behavior. and ... change#was needed. i needed change too. rage was useful for a while. then it just left me isolated and bitter. i had to (with effort)#choose to let that rage go. and let people in . VERY SLOWLY THO LOL
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what she says: yea i’m fine
what she’s thinking: the story brought both carpenter and faulkner to their inevitable end points that have been foreshadowed from the v first episode of the show ambiguity of carpenters death aside she stood on the banks of the river singing like her nana glass and was gunned down by the military and faulkner was drowned dragged delivered by the god and story he had let devour him but. but. before those things happened right before the narrative reached its end both of them stood up and said no! i want to go forward! i want to find something past this whatever it might be i don’t want it to take me yet im going to keep on walking! and it was too late! the thing is it was too fucking late!!!!!!! the aquifer was already flooding the soldiers were closing in she was to hurt to run he can’t swim. the chance had come and gone at the beginning of the episode for any hope of them reaching each other ever again but even though it was too little too late never ever going to be enough they both looked the site of their doom in the eyes and said i do not accept this. not here. not now. i am staring at you– the thing that will eat me — and resolving to pry open the jaws and choose to use the last moments of my life (whether i know it or not) to run and stumble and crawl and cry and sing in the hopes of reaching the people who matter to me more than being made your meal. and of course they got fucking eaten anyways. of course they did bc they were walking towards it from the beginning. but there is a way out, there is a way forward, there is a land beyond the storm that is possible to reach if you choose to step out of the story that has been built for you to find it. we walk on, with a rough and tarnished hope, and a tangled, ruined love. it can end with love, and it can end with kindness. even as the jaws are closing. ours is a world of miracles.
#unrelated but i fucking knew he was blond i knew it from episode one. vindication.#is this anything. i don’t know if this is anything. i just have a lot of feelings okay.#this might be too much of an optimistic read re both of their last moments but i think the themes are very much there#and baked into the finale. none of them wanted to be eaten man.#also schrödingers carpenter and faulkner realizing she was right and going after her at THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND#are two narrative choices that are going to haunt me until the end of time. like holy shit they really did that huh.#*stares in podcast rambling*#tsv#the silt verses#tsv s3#the silt verses season 3#tsv spoilers#the silt verses spoilers
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Wait a god damn minute.
Does that mean that he tweeted THIS from the fucking hospital?
#i'm going to actually be sick#he was seriously at such a low point#he fainted on the floor of an a&e and they had to hold his legs up to keep the blood from pouring out of him#and then his big project gets leaked before he was ready#(AND someone thought dan was his son!!)#and THIS IS HIS RESPONSE. THIS????????#he is just. so special#so optimistic despite so many things#so sweet and positive in a profoundly brave way#i'm in anguish#back on my dan and phil bullshit#phan#dan and phil#how phil nearly died#amazingphil
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Page 18 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! In which Felix brutally debunks whatever Adrien heard from Bri about their 'fairytale relationship' (she was trying to be nice! 🥲), and outlines how their Miraculous' powers of Fortune worked! 🪄🏰
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#miraculous ladybug#mentor au#A Matter of Trust#felix sphinx#bridgette cheng#adrien agreste#RIP bri trying to give adrien hope for his own ladybug and protecting his perception of felix :')#nooo haha they were always so sweet and nice and in love!!!#though what adrien actually needs to hear is that they WERE terrible and still ended up together#so he can handle the spats with his own ladybug without feeling too disheartened! bri was in his situation too and she got her man!!!!#i don't think i mentioned it in this comic specifically but bri DOES know who marinette is; so she knows for SURE she adores adrien#otherwise she wouldn't encourage the kitten so much lmao; be optimistic but not delusional honey!!!#(felix is aware bri knows babybug but has chosen to stay out of it; he's just concerned with adrien)
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when a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes
OR: what were we supposed to take away from episode 4 if not ‘bucky is a war widow’
#masters of the air#mota#motaedit#hbowaredit#bucky egan#john egan#clegan#like it's genuinely a 1:1 parallel and i'm NOT supposed to read bucky in ep4 as a grieving widow???#this kind of also turned into a rumination on how willfully optimistic bucky is that they'll both make it through the war#(he has no other choice. his heart couldn't take another—)#hence the titular smoke getting in his eyes. you understand#he's blinded by love and then by rage. and i adore him#this ended up being more of a video essay than an amv so i hope people enjoy it!!#i had a really good time making it and i'm really proud :')#particularly the sequence of him seeing the bomb in london -> seeing the bomb in germany -> the sunset in algiers#also clearly continuing my mission of making mota amvs to big band / jazz :)))#ANYWAY.#kbsd.amv#kbsd.hbow#40sjukebox
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POLITES: (pointing) Look! There in the distance, I see an island! I see a light that faintly glows. Maybe they’re people lighting a fire. Maybe they’ll share some food, who knows?
EURYLOCHUS: (stops peering into the distance to stare at POLITES) “Share?” Is that what we’re calling it now? (pretending to be an islander) “Oh gee, we have so much food, what do we do with it all? If only six hundred starving soldiers would turn up to help us eat it!” (drops act) They “share” because we have 600 swords, you delusional fool!
ODYSSEUS: (ignoring them both) Something feels off here. I see fire, but there’s no smoke.
EURYLOCHUS: I say we strike first! We don’t have time to waste, so let’s raid the place and—
ODYSSEUS: (cutting him off) No. Polites, gear up. You and I’ll go ahead. We should try to find a way that no one ends up dead.
EURYLOCHUS: (incredulous) Assuming for some reason these island people just willingly hand over what’s probably a whole month’s supply of food for their entire village…you and Polites are just going to bring it back enough food for six hundred men? By yourselves?
POLITES: (looking admiringly at ODYSSEUS) He’s very strong.
EURYLOCHUS: (to POLITES) Remind me… How did you survive a whole decade as a soldier in a siege?
POLITES: (without shame) I stayed behind Odysseus, mostly.
EURYLOCHUS: Right. And you killed how man Trojans, doing that?
POLITES: (earnestly) Oh, I don’t like killing. I’m a pacifist. Greet the world with open arms!
EURYLOCHUS: …
POLITES: …
EURYLOCHUS: What the f*ck, dude.
#epic: the musical#epic the musical#eurylochus#polites#jorge rivera herrans#optimist vs pragmatist#with all love to Polites#how DID he get through a war with open arms#full speed ahead#epic troy saga
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For way, way too long after he's thawed, Steve uses the quip "put me back" at every minor inconvenience he experiences.
His toast burns in the morning? Put me back. His pencil breaks when he's sketching and marks the page up? Put me back. He hits his hip on the corner of a table? Put me back.
Back where? Anyone around him asks.
Back on ice, is Steve's answer.
#idk there's something funny to me about steve being super nihilistic with his humor from growing up in the depression as the son of an#immigrant and being an artist himself#like#everyone expects cap to be sunshiny and optimistic and he's like no you fuckers#(funny but also a little sad 😅 steve and his post-ice depression errands)#steve rogers
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Silt Verses protagonists // Returning Home
#the silt verses#hi just realized carpenter and faulkner's returning home episodes are both chapter 9 of s2 and 3 respectively#idk what to do with this info#anyway something that makes me deeply emotional about this#just the way all of them return to it#paige expecting to come home to an empty abandoned place. surprised to find what's there. seeing the land as unpredictable.#carpenter knowing of the ruin of her previous childhood home. haunted more by the people she left behind. finding no comfort in being back.#faulkner being optimistic. saying perhaps his home could be a temple one day. this is the safest place i could be he says#(and I can't help but think about faulkner leaving marks before he left his home. so that no one else could find a home there.)#(both paige and faulkner returning home when they have no where else to go)#hayward looking up at his old home fondly. there's nothing left for him there. nothing he can find that he doesn't already have.#let her have the lie of me he says.
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Billy’s allowed to sit on the throne in the rock of eternity there’s just also another perfectly rectangular rock over his head to remind him that if he ever gets to full of himself and tries to take more then he was given, well… there’s a reason they call him the world’s mightiest mortal
#leo says shit#billy batson#dc captain marvel#dc shazam#shazam#i think literally everything should be just a little fucked up and morbid in the rock#like. it’s magic. it’s dark and powerful and not to be toyed with.#Billy’s emblem is lightning. his blood isn’t sparkles it’s a deadly force of nature.#yes there’s talking animals and body swaps and billy is the magic somewhere between cartoons and folk horror and religion#the rock should feel like the weight of every soul and billy should see that#because he’s seen the worse of the world and come out an optimist#magic is freedom but freedom is responsiblity. that’s what captain marvel is.#sorry what was I saying? oh yeah uhhh I think Billy should have a dark sense of humor and so do the gods
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"my mom found this internship for me. such a slacker, she said. i just hope she doesn't blame herself."
me 🤝 swansea would do anything for this guy
edit: yeah i'll pin this i'm proud
#unnamed friend.jpg#mouthwashing#daisuke#gore#i want to contribute at least one (1) fanart to the tumblr mouthwashing ecosystem cause the art barrage inspires me to create faster#so yahoo crossposting from insta again let's go#anyway real talk during the scene where he's laying on the ground while drunk my heart was like HNNNNGH IM ILL 😭😭😭#love when media introduces an optimistic and determined character and then crushes their spirit like a soda can. yummy stuff#also oh my god i rarely post art on here so checking my personal image tag is a free jumpscare#what do you MEAN my art looked like that only a year ago
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