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Jem, sweetheart, don't step into the light. You'll end up in a world you don't recognize where you have to overcome your disaster bisexual tendencies to actually think and do detective work. Do you really wanna do that? Do you? Okay, yeah, there's hot men and women on the other side but- ohp he already stepped through, there he goes, hm, what a predicament
#fantasy#original fantasy#original character#oc#art#oc art#artwork#original character art#original art#fantasy art#my oc art#my oc stuff#my ocs#Jem the disaster bisexual#He's panromantic#he's got this#I mean#No he doesn't#But he'll pretend otherwise#fake it till you make it#or just#fail upwards#that works too
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Not Mine. Thought to Share.
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stan pines would learn about the existence of crypto and be confused about why all these suckers are throwing their life savings away on money that doesn't even exist. then he realizes all these suckers are throwing their life savings away on money that doesn't even exist and shortly afterwards "stancoin" is born. gravity falls-typical hijinks ensue
#hex talks#gravity falls#stanley pines#grunkle stan#I dont know how crypto gets created and I doubt he does either#I think he fails upwards into making it happen then the whole thing goes bust
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knowing there was going to be a general grievous Star Wars movie & it got canned years ago & now “the mandalorian and grogu” is gonna be the next theatrical Star Wars movie makes me wanna pume. I want to see general grevious as the wolf of Wall Street not Dave Filoni’s Infinity War.
#don’t get me wrong a grevious movie would probably suck ass but it would be so funny#mandalorian and grogu is just gonna be more of the lamest shit imaginable and Dave will continue to fail upward#filoni is so far pretty incapable of making anything good and he relies way too much on interconnected stories#just like all bad disney crap#im preaching to the choir but I do ever so love to sing with them
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a woman told me "Pretty thing like you shouldn't have to do hard work," when I tried and failed to get a heavy box I was trying to donate out of my car and hmmmmm if I don't get fucked in the next two seconds I'm going to explode.
#I'm failing upwards bay-be#i've charmed her with my weak arms and pretty face#now we will make sweet love in the donation drive through of this goodwill#and I will surely die in the process#but what a way to go#I also think she was making fun of me#but hey that won't stop me#i'm so into women
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What a lot of people don't understand about navigating the "real world" as a neurodivergent person is that we were told all the rules of society growing up that we naturally followed, only to find out later just how often neurotypical people are either breaking those rules or operating off completely unwritten ones to get themselves ahead and that somehow ND's are the "dumbasses" for not realizing that these unwritten rules and rule-breaking is the "norm" despite that norm going against all the rules and values that were drilled into us from birth that we were expected and predisposed to follow.
#just two cents from a neurodivergent trying to live in a neurotypical's world#it's been a harrowing experience learning just how much i was taught to navigate the real world isn't done in practice at ALL#the majority of hollywood is built on nepotism#many successful “gurus” within their respective industries are complete shams who either failed upwards or broke the “rules” to get there#many of these industries are simply built on socializing and knowing people rather than actual skill or capabilities#it's like the adult equivalent of “lmao you really BELIEVED that lie i just told you that you took in good faith??? you're so gullible!!!”
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local rich faildaughter, having internalised zero lessons from previous consequences to actions, proceeds to believe has achieved rightful glory when in fact has just majorly fucked herself over
#gwen i love you but you may have just failed upwards for the last time in your life#gwen bouchard#tmagp#the magnus protocol
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DAY 71: shy
#codacheetah#isat#loop isat#isabeau isat#isat spoilers#i'll never get over loop being described as 'shy'. what a wonderful image#top one casual remarks from isabeau that cleaves loop's facade#like loop's personality is just a targeted missile to piss siffrin off. they're not at all confident and snarky#they're doing like the physical manifestation of winning an argument against yourself in the shower#second they see the party though Oopsies we're in scary territory. That's your family and they dont know it's you Oops#ok anyways ever since i saw that post i was like damn. this is just how i view loop in party postcanon#for as much as I think they SHOULD go explore around and be their own person for a while i think realistically they would not do that.#theyre going to go be a weird freak hovering around the party and refusing to socialize with anyone but siffrin and theyre gonna feel awful#(read: they're going to antagonize siffrin and it fails tremendously bc now The Rumor Come Out and siffrin knows what loop is doing.)#like loop as much as they can barely stand to even look at isabeau (for instance) i think their claws are sunk far too deep in.#onehats maybe the circumstances are different because there is a gap in understanding. there's no point forcing siffrin to confront the#obvious conclusion that loop is them (and thus siffrin's happy ending nails loop's coffin)#(THIS IS IGNORING TWOHATS PREREQS GOTTEN ONEHATS. BC THATS ITS OWN CAN OF WORMS)#but twohats. idk. for as much as it lets loop release some of their rage and process their feelings a bit. i think it might also be the pus#that makes loop consider their own existence as a person a bit more. theyre not a sponsor->corpse theyre just loop#theyre just somebody who wants desperately. they want to stay with them#theyre still siffrin. if also loop.#i think loop would force themself to reconnect with the party in the same vein as siffrin forcing himself to communicate more.#but of course having conviction and living an experience are not the same thing. so siffrin's going to flounder the emotional honesty thing#tremendously and loop's going to be. blair witching it in the corner.#hey i might have forgotten which post i was writing the tags under. oopsies#idk if these tags are comprehensible at all. i just really want to see loop fail upwards into friendship with everyone
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genuinely like how do you seem to be good at like... EVERYTHING? I'm so jealous of how skilled you are at things seemingly naturally
Things are not as hard as you think! Do them and see what happens, and then keep doing that over and over, regardless of failure.
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Sketched with a blue lead mechanical pencil and colored in with various markers. Fanart of Cody and J.C. from the indie animated series, Failing Upward. @waebakstudios
Timelapse video Check out the episodes of Failing Upward on Waebak Studio's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/waebakstudios More places to keep up with the latest episodes and news of Failing Upward: https://linktr.ee/waebakstudios
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i dont gaf if youre poor in america, dont join the fuckin military!
#theres literally no draft no required service yall just want the upward mobility that the military promises (and often fails to deliver)#like. hello. hello. hello.
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ace's first on screen presence has him wearing both a jacket and a black hat, making him both the most clothed we ever see him and also demonstrating that he clearly has different colours of the same hat for different occasions. realistically this choice was deliberate by the animation studio to make him look more mysterious, giving him a recognisable motif whilst simultaneously building intrigue and not spoiling the whole fire power thing but. what's the in-universe explanation. he doesn't know there's an audience. this leads me to believe that he donned this outfit in a deliberate attempt to screw with Luffy and be all mysterious and psych Luffy out by pretending there's some guy following him (except it didn't work because he'd already left Drum). first of all - peak older siblingism. second of all he's sooo extra I'm surprised he didn't wear that same black hat when confronting Blackbeard to set the mood better. third of all do you think it's actually a different hat or did he spend the time between alabasta and drum painstakingly peeling paint off of the orange one. much to think about...
#ive genuinely thought about him every day since ive met him#its been almost a year and he still crosses my mind every day#miss him so bad#dramatic ace is real to me because he puts real effort into showing off for the strawhats when they meet#except he has a significant amount of girlfailure in him as demonstrated by him getting bodyslammed by luffy when they reunite#wasnt he also crouching on a roof waiting for blackbeard to pass by#hes my wife your honour#if he DID spraypaint that hat its not even like he could dunk it in the ocean to wash it off either#ace raised by buggy au where they both reach catastrophic levels of failing upward#portgas d ace#one piece#straw hat pirates#asl brothers kind of#monkey d luffy#ace one piece
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Cannot believe that being gay and horny (and good at cricket) got Thomas Barrow the under-butler job, perhaps this is a lesson to all us gay folks looking for jobs...
#downton abbey#thomas barrow#seriously the U-turn from 'we can't even give him a good reference before we kick him out'#to 'actually we should promote him to under-butler'#was amazing to behold#thomas barrow king of failing upwards for real
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Imogen Temult two hours earlier: “I’m not sure if I’m single or not” 😔 *dramatically angsts about her relationship*
Imogen Temult two hours later with a soul anchor: “😎 ding dong the bitch is dead, gf time is back on!”
For once Imogen’s girlfailure energy worked in her favor. The world saw her dramatic ass and had to prove her wrong like it do. But this time it gave her a boon instead of falling down stairs.
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Hunter belongs to @/quieteeks (can be found by the same username on twitter and tumblr!)
Please please read the "yikes" au by @/quieteeks its pure unhinged Alan!
#my dear hatchet man#mdhm#my art#I keep coming back to that au it is très magnifique#Alan fails UPWARD#Alan with no filter is best Alan
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Can you draw a picture of what you think Jay is getting up to in the dragon's rising.
its unlikely since we've been meeting all the other ninjas one at a time, but in my heart of hearts i want to believe that jay and cole ended up getting stuck with each other post-merge. They're probably causing more problems rather than fixing them lol....
thanks for the request :D !!!
#i love cole and jays dynamic it makes me happy seeing them fail upwards together <3#ninjago#lego ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#ninjago fanart#cole ninjago#jay ninjago#asks
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