#negative framing

[graaaaceeliz]

You know what I love? Positive permanent framing.

You will grow. There will be joy. The sun will always shine again and the rain will always fall again. We are people and people are all capable of happiness, and you will go out and find it.

The framing of these concepts is positive, and more permanent than "you could find joy" "you can grow". It's all in the modal verbs.

However, I feel like I see a lot of permanent negative framing too.

You will learn to hate your body. You will be depressed and it will feel like the end of the world ((note: this statement MAY be true BUT it is important that it continues with a positive. This paragraph is about statements which are not balanced by a positive frame, and not targeted as "I understand your pain".))

I will learn to hate my body - why? Why must I? Must we tell our children that "Regardless of my encouragement, the world will make you hate yourself, because it hates you because you are hateable. And that's bad, but tough, because that's who you are."

Terrible. I do not feel encouraged. I feel insulted and upset and hopeless. If I EVER frame something like this to the children I teach, shoot me.

"Regardless of my encouragement, don't let the world make you hate yourself, whatever it says, because some people want you to be hateable, and they will hate you, and that's not your fault, and it might hurt, but it's okay, because that's not all of who you are."

I talk to my kids about how they frame their thoughts a lot, because it's easy to become stuck in negative framing (thanks, depression) which takes a lot of work to remove (and I am so thankful I have put in that effort and am still putting it in) and which will destroy a person's hope, happiness and esteem. Just think about this classic example:

I can't do it -> I can't do that yet

Or

I can't do it so it's pointless -> I am going to really, properly try and the trying is enough

Can you see why I think it's so important to have positive framing in not just our words but in how we actually think? Next time you see something which discusses negative emotions, spare a moment to re frame it if you can, and take away a positive emotion.

I hate my body, only sometimes, but mostly my body is here as part of me, and sometimes I hate Me too, but I won't hate me always, because I am trying, goddammit, and that's enough.

You ARE (k)enough.

[vampiresinthedaylight]

Im a little surprised at how much Im seeing "they turned conclave into a comedy" irt the live reading, I think its a really funny movie........within the first few minutes Cardinal Adeyemi side eyeing his elderly coworkers vying for the papacy and hitting them with "the papacy IS a huge burden for an elderly man" makes me laugh every time

[tulpars-dead-pixel]

sometimes i think about this line.

[pawzofchaos]

whoooo this turned our better than I had meant for it to @meandtheyeehaws

congrats on 30k!! 🎉 Little dtiys for the who framed fizzarolli au ^^

[declanisms]

proud member of mouri ran deserves better club. there r lots of things I wish she had but first and foremost r adults in her life who actually put her first. like im sorry her parents may love her but they do NOT care for her. why is my girl entirely self sufficient as a 17 year old when both her parents r present and alive. even worse why is she actively looking after her father, a grown adult man, and why does her mother never see her, despite ran clearly craving a closer bond. like separation is not an excuse to just not parent at all

and on the topic of parenting why is she being forced to mother conan when she is also a child. like sure it’s for the plot but she does basically all day to day stuff on her own when she shouldn’t have to. where is the adult support system she should have access to. why is the closest person she can rely on agase hakase, a creepy scientist, and even then only for babysitting. which doesn’t even count bc the fuck shoved conan onto her in the first place. honestly if i was ran and the fuck was like oh nooo I can’t look after children take this child please, and then goes and adopts a child like 2 weeks later I would’ve lost my shit

like not to agree w a member of the black organization but ran truly is an angel bc not only does she put up w it, she’s actively kind and lovely while she does it

[fiona-fififi]

Actually kind of really bothered by baby Han being used to further Athena's story, apparently?? Instead of, I don't know, Maddie and Chim's??

[sad-kiersten238]

[late-draft]

Just sharing some process and colour experiments.

[kindred-spirit-93]

and they lived happily ever after. the end

@maruyaaya just noticed this can be interpreted several ways lmao

[miracle-negative]

"Day4 - Frame"

INKINKINK

[cringefaecompilation]

i do really think trying to reframe ludinus' motives as inherently noble from the start and insisting he trusted mortal people's inherent ability to survive without gods massively castrates him as a villain and detracts from the story matt is trying to tell. why have a story about the lowest caste "npc" characters saving the world if you're going to turn around and say, "but the person with the most privilege was the one who truly understood everything about oppression and loved them all secretly! r/humanityfuckyeah"

he could have helped anyone at any time with the amount of power he attained but refused to and instead moved to commit xenophobic hate crimes against the kryn and straight up be a culture vulture to ruidusborns. he told laudna to her face she would never truly understand oppression despite knowing she was victim to colonization from the briarwoods. he destroyed liliana emotionally, mentally, and almost physically and then said in front of her that he never trusted her and victim blamed her for him almost killing her. ludinus lost the plot decades ago and is running on fumes, something matt himself confirmed. he does not care anymore.

bell's hells having six billion arguments on what to do with the gods (which ngl looking back on, sort of are just them taking aloud about their opinions and then ending the conversation after everyone has said something more than anything) might have been a little arduous to some people, but their constant back-and-forth discussions at least showed they cared more about the feelings of other people. certainly more than ludinus, who decided only his feelings and trauma mattered, and he would do anything to prove himself right and be the unsung hero that he saw himself as.

[pitchcom]

alex albon - waiting on a miracle

[stuck-in-jelly]

Cant stop thinking about how apparently Season 7 is going to be Ezran’s season and the slow and steady build up to a breaking point for him.

Ezran is in a weird delicate balance, walking across the tightrope of being a child and being a king. We see both sides equally, we see Ezran’s barely clinging childlike mannerisms and we also see him command and lead both with love and with force.

And he is equally regarded in this manner by the people around him, some addressing him more as a child then king and others more king then child.

“Who is this child?” “Such childish dreams.” “You deserve time to do kid things” “the whining child king.” vs “He is a King!” “Because you know-you’re the King.” “That is what King Ezran decided.” “I serve the true King.”

That is already a lot to try and balance, his wants versus his duty as a king but now that balance is being tested.

The weight of everything is starting to crash down. His stressful rule as a king in a time of insurrection and war, his own people pushing back against his ideals and attempts at progress, his citizens and home decimated by a dragon, his father’s murderer being freed by his own brother, and now the releasing of an ancient evil.

No one told him his father was dead, too worried to tell a child horrible news, and no one had told him the plan to bring Runaan back, hardly giving him a second thought.

The more I think about it the more my brain drifts to this section from the season 2 novelization:

“No. No, no no!!” Ezran shouted. He didn’t care if he sounded like a two-year old.

“Ezran. It’s going to be okay,” Rayla started to say.

That was about the dumbest thing anyone could possibly say, Ezran thought. Nothing was ever going to be okay again.

Just the moment Ezran fully reverts to being a small kid again, when he stops caring that he is acting like a child because he is a child because he is mad because its all hitting him at once and it isn’t fair.

I want to see how he takes it all

[mara-ganger]

i should just have this pinned for whenever someone asks me what my channel is about ;

[zoeology31]

okay i would love to hear why jeffers and garver have beef

Ok, this is legit one of my favorite baseball sicko topics. The Twins are not a high-personnel-drama team so it's kinda fun to have this one thing. We as a fanbase do probably exaggerate it but it's very much real.

The short version is when they played together in 2021, they both wanted to be the starting catcher and saw each other's ambition as a personal slight. The 2021 team had a lot of bad vibes, and Garver got traded that offseason as part of a larger vibes clean-up, and for at least a couple years after that he remained salty that the Twins picked Jeffers over him.

The full timeline long version is this:

Garver was drafted in 2013 by the previous front office, which was notoriously shit at prospect development. As a big, power hitting catcher with questionable defense, analysts weren't optimistic he would stick at catcher. He didn't debut until mid-2017 (at an old-for-a-prospect 26), but an early season injury to primary catcher Jason Castro in 2018 suddenly made him the main guy. He was as advertised, great hitting and meh defense. He had a breakout 2019, hitting 31 home runs in only 93 games as a major contributor to the record-breaking Bomba Squad team. In 2020 he struggled and got injured, which opened the door for Jeffers.

Jeffers was drafted by the current front office (who took over in 2017) in 2018, in the second round, which was universally regarded as a massive long shot by the Twins. So much so that it's a story he's asked about and tells frequently to this day. Like Garver, he was a big, power hitting catcher with questionable defense who wasn't favored to stick at catcher, but under the Twins' new minor league catching coach (who was later poached by the Yankees and has turned Wells and Escarra into defensive standouts) he quickly became a well-regarded defender. This was where the catcher one-knee-down trend started; it was taught to all Twins catchers, and Garver said on record he wished he had coaching like that as a prospect.

Between this and his well-lauded baseball IQ and drive to improve as a player, Jeffers was an extremely highly regarded prospect in the Twins system. While we don't have much of Garver's thoughts on the matter from this time, I can't imagine he took well to his team drafting and developing their catcher of the future while Garver was still in arbitration. Jeffers shot through the minors, skipping triple-A (in part due to the 2020 minor league cancellation), and looked great in his small 2020 major-league sample, starting both playoff games over multiple more experienced options.

The plan in 2021 was a 50/50 split between Garver and Jeffers, given Garver's injury history and Jeffers' inexperience. Jeffers struggled to start the season and was sent down, but in early June Garver got hit with a foul ball and ruptured a testicle (truly he was destined to become a Mariner), making Jeffers the primary catcher. This general trend continued the entire season, with Garver outperforming Jeffers significantly on offense, but given his repeated injuries and Jeffers' better defense, the 50/50 split remained. They were both unhappy with this, with Jeffers openly attributing his hitting struggles to a lack of consistent playing time.

There were multiple reported conflicts between teammates in a largely miserable 2021 season rife with illness, injury, and awful pitching blowups. Josh Donaldson got the headlines, but last year senior Twins reporter Dan Hayes confirmed, though talking carefully around exact names, that Garver is "not positive" toward Jeffers and only Jeffers and "both of them decided to not play nice toward each other". He declined to get into specifics, saying, "There's nothing really to know other than they didn't like each other," but confirmed the reason was they both "wanted to be the lead guy". This backs up statements both players made in 2023, which I'll get into later.

Despite being among the more productive members of that 2021 team, both Garver and Donaldson were traded after the lockout ended in 2022, as part of the domino chain of events that ended with the Twins signing Carlos Correa. Rookie catcher Ben Rortvedt was traded alongside Donaldson for notoriously bat-first catcher Gary Sánchez, cementing Jeffers as the Twins' choice at catcher. Early in the 2022 season, the team's positive vibes and great clubhouse chemistry were frequently discussed, inviting the inference of what personnel changed between seasons. Despite continuing to run 60/40 or 50/50 splits with his co-catchers, Sánchez and later Christian Vázquez, Jeffers never complained again about playing time and has been very complimentary of them both.

For Garver's part, he suffered an arm injury in 2022 that limited him to DH, and he intentionally delayed season-ending surgery until after the Twins played the Rangers in July. In 2023, with Jonah Heim's breakout season, Garver was pushed even further to DH, where he was an excellent hitter for the World Series-winning Rangers. Jeffers, meanwhile, finally had his own offensive breakout in 2023, though his characteristic framing-centric defense declined significantly as he reworked his mechanics with coaches.

The Twins and Rangers met in late August, with the Rangers on a losing streak, and in the first game Jeffers hit a pinch-hit go-ahead home run to seal a big Twins comeback, complete with massive bat flip. The next game, the Rangers hit Jeffers. Unintentional or not, who knows: the pitcher had been wild and there was a runner on, but first pitch of the at-bat and he hadn't been missing in that direction. Either way, the next half inning Sonny Gray hit Garver (who had homered earlier in the game) in clear retaliation and the benches cleared. In his postgame interview, Garver blamed Jeffers for the benches clearing, referring to him as "their guy" and essentially calling him stupid for thinking the hit-by-pitch was intentional.

No further drama ensued that series. After the Rangers won the World Series, Jeffers was asked in a private Q&A if he'd contacted Garver to congratulate him on the win; Jeffers gave a firm but awkward no and said something like, "We're not really... friends" in a forced polite way before directly referencing the August incident and Garver calling him "their guy".

Ultimately the Twins wanted stability at catcher and they made the right decision. Garver's offensive highs have been much higher, but Jeffers has played 85% of his games at catcher, is highly respected by the pitching staff, and has developed into a team leader, if not quite the catcher of the future they were hoping for. I think the Twins' choice of who to keep reflected mainly Jeffers' skillset and potential, but also who they thought was a better clubhouse fit. I don't know who started the beef, but I would say the blame for not being the bigger person lies more on the 6-years-older veteran.

Since Garver joined the Mariners things seem to have simmered down, but there's not nothing if you're looking for it. Garver's other former Twins teammates all seem to regard him pretty well, which makes the dynamic with Jeffers stand out even more. The Mariners did also hit Jeffers with a pitch at the end of a lopsided series last May in which Jeffers performed very well, on the first pitch of his final at-bat for their only HBP of the series. Garver's also been a bit cursed, as yesterday makes twice now he's come out of the game due to injury against the Twins on his rare catching days.

Another level of context to all this is catcher legacy is very important in Twins culture. Garver was drafted the year Joe Mauer had to move to first base; Jeffers was drafted the last year Mauer played. The Twins have spent the last decade-plus searching for Mauer's replacement, and that title means a lot, so maybe it's not surprising such a deep rivalry would form between the two homegrown players with the best chance at that title. There's actually a great Youtube video about the saga of Twins catchers post-Mauer. This rivalry, whether or not it's still ongoing (I think it is), certainly adds an interesting flavor to the story.

[lemurballing]

does anyone else think about sonic and tangle’s friendship. anyone else

because like they’ve HARDLY spoken or interacted one on one, and certainly haven’t shared terribly much about themselves to each other. sonic just showed up one day with a magical princess and helped save tangle’s town, and she was like ‘i HAVE to be part of that’.

but then they also just Click together. like they Get each other because they’re so similar in some ways, they’re on the same page of two different retellings of the same story. in issue 24 sonic was down and hopeless and tangle almost IMMEDIATELY got him to smile and lighten up and have faith in his own efforts to do his best - she inspired sonic, in turn like he’d inspired her. it’s mutual!

he has the prior experience, but tangle has the ‘let’s just go for it!’ positive perspective that sonic shares and they feed into each other. they both give each other this breath of fresh air, and left unchecked turn into a wild gust <3