#Adapting Approach

[vninspire99-blog]

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same

Wisdom of Colin R. Davis and his thought-provoking quote: "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."Embracing resilience and learning from setbacks #SuccessAndFailure #GrowthMindset #OvercomingChallenges #LifeLessons #E

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” This thought-provoking quote challenges the conventional notion that success and failure are polar opposites. Instead, it suggests that the paths leading to both outcomes often share striking similarities. In this article, we explore the profound meaning behind this quote, analyze its key messages, and offer cautionary…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You ever gonna make poorly drawn TGCF?

Long answer short: No.

But, I have a tag for TGCF fanart I've done, and I probably will draw more in the future!

If you're looking for a comic with 'silly summary' energy, I *highly* recommend Tempo-Takoyaki's 'Almost TGCF' Series.

[lovecolibri]

Brennan having to tell Jujubee she's going to fall due to being stunned is hilarious because he's SAYING "absolutely my call" and "100% my call" but you can tell he is *struggling* to put his foot down 🤣

The queens are absolutely his spoiled grandkids that are used to facing zero consequences 🤣

[buwheal]

Wh-

Alright. We keep calm. Spamton, you’ve probably been hurt before. You know what it feels like.

1. Does it feel like something might be broken?

2. Do you have any stab wounds?

3. Did you hit your head at any point?

4. Do your f1 things work on you, and if not, do you have anything that might help with it? (Not the s potion, I repeat not the s potion)

[oldfashionedmorphine]

mondays have become my new wednesdays (for wips) since i work on wednesday instead of monday now lol…so with that said, here’s a wip for my byler + henderhop 10 things i hate about you au :)

it’s much longer than i would usually share but i worked a lot on these scenes the past two days and i wish i could start posting this story already, but unfortunately i keep writing everything out of order and there’s a lot that still needs work for the first chapter 🥲 but for now, please enjoy my two favorite schemers; dustin and lucas <3

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“Dude, you’ll never guess what happened!”

“What?”

Dustin looks around at the bustling hallway. “On second thought—not here, too many ears,” he says, then he leads Lucas into the nearest bathroom. And Lucas sighs at him when he checks under the stalls to make sure the coast is clear first. “Okay, so get this—she didn’t say no!”

“Huh?”

“I asked Jane out and she didn’t say no.”

“Wait—she actually said yes?”

“Well, no—she still isn’t allowed to date, just like you said—but stay with me a moment, ‘cause here’s the kicker—her dad just changed the rules! She told me she can date once her brother does. Can you believe it?! All we have to do is find someone for him and then it’s a done deal!”

“Uh…we?”

“Yeah, well, I thought since I don’t exactly know enough people around here that maybe you’d have a better idea of who’d be up for such a challenge. ‘Cause Jane said Will’s kind of a—”

“Dick?”

“Yup,” he says, nodding. “So?”

“So, what?”

“Do you know someone who might be interested in dating a difficult guy?”

“Uh…yeah, so here’s the thing…Will’s—”

“Gay? Yeah, I know—Jane told me that already.”

“Right, but that’s the problem—I don’t know of any other gay guys in school. He’s kinda the only one.”

“Oh—shit. That sucks."

“Sorry.”

“No, no—it’s fine. Like every other problem there’s always a solution. We just have to think outside the box.”

“Uh-huh.” Lucas checks his watch. “Well, we only got five more minutes until class starts, so maybe we should—”

“Hold on, I just need a sec—it’ll come to me…” Dustin taps a finger on his bottom lip as he starts to pace back and forth while Lucas folds his arms and leans against the wall. Think, dammit—if no one else in this school is gay, and finding someone outside of town would be too much of a logistical nightmare to try and arrange, then how could we get this to work? It’s not like we can force someone to be gay…but maybe—maybe someone could just pretend—yes! That’s it! He snaps his fingers. “I got it! What if—what if we find a guy and we convince him to pretend he’s interested in Will?”

Lucas furrows his brow. “What?”

“Think about it—we don’t need them to actually be gay, they just need to pretend they are.”

“And how would you convince someone to do that?”

“Easy—with money. Everyone has a price, right?”

“I don’t know about that—would you fake being gay for money?”

“I’m not a potential suitor, so my own personal answer to that question is completely irrelevant to the point I’m making.”

“In other words; no?”

“What?! I never said that! All I’m trying to say is that there’s gotta be one guy in this school willing to date Will for a couple bucks!”

“Well,” Lucas shrugs, “I guess…potentially there is at least one guy I can think of who’d maybe be up for it if the money’s good enough—I mean, I don’t know him that well, I’ve just heard some stuff, so no guarantees—but I definitely don’t have enough money to convince anyone of anything.”

“Me either…” Dustin hums, then he snaps his fingers again. “Which means we’re also gonna need someone to help finance the operation—someone rich, but also stupid enough to believe it's all their idea. Know anyone like that?”

“Actually…yeah.” Lucas grins. “You remember Troy, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, the other day after practice, I overheard him in the locker room talking with some of the guys…about Jane.”

“Oh yeah? What’d he say?”

“They were kinda ragging on him a little about how he’s never had a girlfriend and he mentioned that she was the only girl in school he was interested in and how much it sucked she can’t date anyone. So…it’ll probably be pretty easy to convince him to try and pay a guy to date Will if he truly thinks it’ll give him a chance with her.”

“Okay—yeah. We can work with that,” Dustin says. “Think you can get him on board?”

“I’ll talk to him during lunch, but we gotta get to class before—” the bell rings, “—and we’re late.”

“Shit. Sorry.”

“Man, you owe me a soda.”

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Halfway through lunchtime, they get the ball rolling on their ploy with Troy.

Lucas hangs back for a couple minutes while Dustin gets into place. He slides into a seat at a table adjacent to Troy and his friends as nonchalantly as possible—Lucas told him the plan would work best if he didn’t hover, so the compromise was for him to sit within earshot while pretending to study his chemistry textbook. So far they hadn’t noticed him. He gives Lucas a thumbs up from across the cafeteria, then he watches as Lucas signals back before he moves to approache Troy’s table.

“Aye yo, Troy,” Lucas says with a casual upward nod.

Troy looks up at Lucas, seeming mildly annoyed at the intrusion. “Sinclair,” he replies.

“Got a sec?”

“For now. What’s up?”

Lucas takes a seat in one of the empty chairs. “So, uh…couldn’t help but overhear you talking the other day,” he says, then lowers his voice to a whisper and Dustin can barely hear him, “about Jane Hopper.”

He huffs. “Yeah, what about her?”

“I just…I had a thought—figured it couldn’t hurt to run it by you, you know, just to see if it’s something you’d be interested in.”

Troy shares a quick look with one of his friends—James something, from what Dustin can remember—then he looks back at Lucas, shrugging a shoulder. “Shoot.”

“Okay, so, basically, the situation seems to be that you wanna get with Jane, but her dad won’t let her date anyone until her brother starts dating, yet the odds of that ever happening are practically zero, since you’ve got two major factors working against you when it comes to Will Byers; obviously, everyone knows he’s gay, so the—”

“Are you planning on telling me something I don’t already know anytime soon, Sinclair?”

“Dude, let me finish.”

“Then spit it out already.”

“Hire someone. Pay a guy to take him out—ideally someone not afraid of a little challenge since he’s a bit of a headcase.”

Troy frowns, and when it seems as if a cat had got his tongue, his friend James speaks up, “Got anyone in mind?”

Lucas scans the cafeteria, then he points to the guy he told him about earlier—Mike Wheeler. “Him.”

“Frogface?” James says, laughing as he nudges Troy in the arm.

“Yup. He’s the one you want.”

“Okay, but why him?” Troy asks, brow still furrowed.

“Well, I don’t know what you’ve heard, but the word is that his parents cut him off after he got sent to juvie during sophomore year, so he’s always strapped for cash now—my friend Greg said he was even bragging to some guys in his English class about how he sold part of his liver on the black market to buy a new bass guitar last summer. So I highly doubt he’d say no if you make it worth his while. Plus, he’s clearly done way worse shit than having to date someone like Will Byers—just seems like a solid investment to me.”

“Right,” Troy says—he doesn’t seem convinced or all that interested. “If you say so.”

“Hey—all I’m saying is it can’t hurt to see if he’s willing. You’ve really got nothing to lose if he says no, but everything to gain if he says yes. He gets paid, you get laid—just sayin’.”

Troy’s face turns the slightest shade of pink. He glances around the table at his friends, then looks back at Lucas, nodding. “I’ll consider it…but why the hell are you even telling me this anyway? What’s in it for you?”

“Simple. You get Coach to let me start for finals. I’m tired of being kept on the bench until the last five minutes of the game in the hopes I’ll score him a Hail Mary. Because it’s complete bullshit. You know full well we wouldn’t even need a Hail Mary if he gave me more time on the court, but for some strange reason Coach doesn’t see it that way, and we all know you’re the only one who can change his mind—seeing as he’s your dad and all.”

“Fine. But I swear, Sinclair, you better not choke if—”

Lucas snorts, then he gets up from the table. “Trust me, I won’t…anyway, I’ll catch you ladies later at practice.” He starts to walk away and nods at Dustin, signaling him to follow him, and then they both head toward the cafeteria exit.

“Are we sure we can trust him though?” Dustin asks once they’re in the hallway.

“Man, I wouldn’t trust Troy any farther than you could throw him…but if he can’t convince Mike to take out Will, then it won’t even matter anyway. Right?”

“True…”

tagging some of my fans: @boahey @total-serene560 @magentamee @greenfiend @foodiewithdahoodie @smalltownwheeler @stranger-things-yapper

[cainlane]

my question is why the hell is dmitry (and the rest of the squad) so mad at yan like "until i find out whose side you're on" ??? dude just adapted a persona while killing the creatures that are destroying YOUR people to give the rest of the survivors some hope, not to mention that he was SHOT by his supposed friend which was impossible to understand from the text alone

[muninnhuginn]

Ngl definitely thinking back to the cartoon-making chapter now we know that Twilight doesn't realise studying/pursuit of knowledge can be fun. No wonder the cartoon he made sucked. He was approaching it purely from the educational angle with zero idea of the entertainment aspect that makes edutainment programming effective.

It's not that he was really bad at writing the fun parts. He plain didn't realise there were meant to be any in the first place for it to work.

Copying the aesthetics with no understanding of what was underneath.

[qaanngi]

Medibang Pro on ipad, brush, and colouring style experiment with my beautiful goblin daughter.

[redpenship]

why is everyone advocating for wade to die in the knuckles show? who else is going to convince shadow that humanity is worth saving so he helps sonic stop the ark

[sonknuxadow]

this is crazy get knuckles out of there

[laufire]

while many times this goes unspecified, as many authors think it goes without saying, it's an inescapable truth that a non-insignificant amount of characters in the western canon come across as profoundly white, cisheterosexual and christian in their demeanor and in their values. speculating about how a character might change if you altered any of those groups invites a deeper exploration of these aspects than you're likely to encounter in most corners of fandom.

not to mention, how much more inviting these arguable blank canvases seem to be when it comes to fandom engagement, vis a vis explicitly non-white, non-cishet, non-christian characters.

[obserbolisk]

My main takeaway from the murderbot tv adaptation is a sweeping “yay, they changed enough to justify its existence as an adaptation” quickly followed by “damn, they did not make any interesting, novel changes”

[draculestigame]

This game is sooooo beautiful I enjoy replaying it again and again- I wonder, how come when Renfield thinks of Jonathan, his face becomes obscured by a flower, and then when Jonathan thinks of Renfield, the same thing occurs?

thank you, we're glad you enjoyed it! 🌻

those moments are meant to evoke a few things. the big thing was a feeling of distance -- it's been a while since Renfield and Jonny have met in person, so they're not confident they have a perfect memory of each other, or that who they are now will be the same as who they were when they last met.

it's also intended to evoke a bridal veil, to go with the rest of the wedding imagery.

as for why Jonny gets a floral theme; all the love interests have a nature motif of some sort (Drac and Cez have fire, Ghost has ice/electricity...). Jonny's colour scheme was chosen to make him feel like a bright presence in the story, it went well with plants, plants fit his vibe, things slotted together from there.

[isfjmel-phleg]

There was a post related to TSG going around a while back, and someone in the notes had presented their theory that Colin has rickets which is why going outdoors does him such good. I went through the text this week to take note of what we're told of his physical symptoms to see if there was any actual textual argument for that theory, and full post later, but the short answer is no but we can draw some other conclusions from his medical history, and Burnett's actually making a lot more sense than she's often given credit for. This isn't a story about how going outdoors magically cures physical ailments. It's closer to what @fictionadventurer would call the "Gaskell Theory of Mental Health."

[refractionfish]

slowly but surely i am finishing up anj 2 and i got to episode 39, which bookends the harimau fight. wow. everything with joe and carlos in that arc was gay already, yet the anime staff looked at it and decided to push the homosexuality to its upper limits

[adhdo5]

A hill I WILL die on is that TGCF has 0 old man yaoi. None. Even Guoshi, who by all accounts should be playing cards with Nannasprite and Yoda and look the part, canonically looks 30 maximum. THAT DOES NOT COUNT. I don't CARE how many centuries old they are on paper. REFER TO MY HEADER IMAGE!