#confident decision-making

[theluckygirlblog]

How to Create Unshakable Confidence

Confidence isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build. True confidence isn’t about pretending or faking it; it’s about developing a deep-rooted belief in yourself that doesn’t waver, no matter the situation. Unshakable confidence is the kind that doesn’t depend on compliments, external validation, or temporary achievements. It’s a quiet, powerful knowing that you are capable,…

[lazylittledragon]

Kit feeling safe enough with his dad to tell him right away that he broke Dorian's bird feeder and 2. Astarion kissing him on the head as soon as he shows up has me WEEPING. He might have questionable morals lol but he loves that boy and it shows

HE REALLY DOES that's his baby even if he taught him how to use a knife a bit early

[beansoup3000]

I will never get tired of the part in every Murderbot book where Murderbot goes, I am going to callously use these humans for my own objective. Their presence is merely instrumental and I actually think they're really stupid–wait shit they're getting shot at let me throw myself in front of a bullet for them. Idiots

[dykedvonte]

Why do you think did Curly let Jimmy go before the crash? I've seen the theory Curly briefly thought about crashing too but didn't expect Jimmy to go through with it

I generally believe it was shock and a bit of denial.

It’s the sort of thing where Curly knew Jimmy enough to know he blows up at things but he never would’ve expected him to go through with something so crazy. He gives Jimmy way too much benefit. It’s just his nature and the dynamics he has with Jimmy. They have a stable relationship as friends but it’s stabilized by the unhealthy toxic aspects that keep him in it. He’s like this with Anya, taking the gun is something he really shouldn’t have kept off the record, so is Swansea’s feigned hostility toward Daisuke. He doesn’t want to get people in trouble and doesn’t want to believe anyone would cause trouble other than to themselves. He’s a very lenient man.

I think the words were hollow in his head. Said but not really meant like all the times Jimmy lashes out and says something cruel to him or others. He never means it, if he did why would he still be Curly’s friend? Curly’s head wasn’t in the right space in that moment, he just got through panicking with Anya and if the sound design is anything to go by, was panicked and preoccupied going to confront Jimmy. I mean, the flash of the warning signs before he runs back are identical to the dissociative episode of sort he has when going to talk to Jimmy to do his Psyc eval.

There is this sort of assumption in fanon that Curly was the idealic person for the job and simply failed. None of them were the idealic people to be there, it’s Curly’s entire concern with the ladder he chose. I see more interpretations of him being purposefully ignorant where I see him as just always looking the wrong way or not in a place where he can see it. There’s something different about seeing something than being told about it in the human mind. It may just be the psych student in me but Curly def has some sort of cognitive dissonance just like Jimmy but when it comes to his role as a Captain vs who he is.

They blur in his head to where if you ask him if he was acting as a Captain or a friend or himself to his crew he couldn’t answer. Not with confidence even if he did. There are many times we see that Curly himself is not in the right headspace to lead the Tulpar and that’s outside of anything with Jimmy. He’s spacey, he’s not sleeping, he’s deeply unhappy with himself and life. It’s why there’s believability he crashed the ship. Maybe the others saw it, or maybe Jimmy heard enough of it to spin it in a way that made Curly seem suicidally depressed.

So the tdlr is I think it wasn’t so much letting Jimmy go, more so not seeing the severity of what he was allowing to transpire. In his mind it’s just another one of Jimmy’s bluffs, cruel words, off words but just words. Jimmy rarely ever acts, why would he now? Maybe he’s never seen it because Jimmy hides those actions? Either way, he just never thought he’d really do it.

[shallowseeker]

“but shal, how could crowley have slept with naomi when fergus macleod wasn’t alive yet????”

well. for starters, “mesopotamia” could’ve just been a general poetic.

but also could be as simple as… he didn’t.

he has intel on her. and he’s posturing, as usual. because that’s what crowley does.

double entendres and innuendos are his weapons of choice to sow distrust, suspicion, discomfort, derision. to put you off balance, if he can. (and if that fails, he’ll switch to insults or, at worst, incessant goading.)

And the thing is… almost ALL his posturing is sexual. it’s how he wields power (from what traditionally tends to be from a weaker position)

it’s more about how he operates and fergus’s victimhood/ historical demon trauma more than it is a statement of de facto truth

he wants you to read into it

get distracted; get discomfited

just long enough to take your eye off the ball or give him the upper hand in a power struggle

[flowersfromunderground]

[theanonymousninja247]

Hunter

pspsps @pvtpunsart I have something for ju…

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Song: Saint Mesa’s “Wolf”

Edit done on CapCut

[obvious-captain-rogers]

In a fic (I don't remember which one bc I've read so many now) Abbot's nickname at the hospital was Jackrabbit bc he's always on the go and moving and all I could think about was how much I loved it bc of the foil to Mohan's Slow-Mo. Bc they end up working so well with and around each other, and also that little bit of flirting

[cantpickyourgenre]

can I say something that might get me booed? I think a decent amount (to be clear: not all) of the misconceptions about Eddie Diaz come from people forgetting that he’s a dad when the storyline doesn’t physically or verbally include Chris.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

debate

(topic: how many and what configuration of kids do they give off vibes of having (either at present or in the future)(partner is irrelevant in most cases, some could be single parents for all i care))

[dukeofthomas]

My understanding of Jason Todd's age;

Jason dies when he's 15, 4 months before his 16th birthday. He is dead for any number of time; it doesn't count towards his age.

He's resurrected; he is in a coma for 1 year, then catatonic for another. He is then put into a Lazarus Pit. (These 2 years are practically useless, as he doesn't remember them and they contribute very little to the story. They could be condensed to 2 months and it would change basically nothing.)

He trains for about a year. You can then give him 1-12 months of prep and planning time before his debut as the Red Hood, and the story of UT(R)H, at which point he would be mentally 16-17, physically 18-19, and it would be (--) years after his birth.

[howdoyousleep3]

listen, i fully intend the attitude this statement comes with, so please hear me out:

i am fucking learning about the ins and out of fanfiction and patreon. i didn't know it was such a hot button topic and incredibly divisive. i'm fucking tired of people coming into my inbox and messages and SUBSCRIBING TO MY PATREON ACCOUNT JUST TO HARASS ME about how i'm ruining fanfiction and that i'm selfish for even starting a patreon.

i am learning. i am processing. i am confiding with those that believe in me and my writing and wish to so graciously monetarily subscribe to my patreon to see where we go from here.

i obviously don't want to fuck anything up for anyone but goddamnit, give me a fucking break and shut the fuck up and LET ME THINK.

much love and warm Daddy thoughts to those that DESERVE IT, fuck. 😡❤️

[psychopomp-namine]

was reflecting on this liu xiao character study fic and I just want to copy paste my comment from there so it's easier for me to find again later through my blog's tags

the xiaochen childhood friends meeting is still so ??? to me sometimes. first of all, "if you don't have the guts for that, how can you be my friend?" is so bananas for a kid to say. something something friendships are earned and relationships are transactional.

from one particular lens we could, mayhaps, think liu xiao was actually a Normal Kid (lmao) and was just trying to look cool in front of tianchen and spouting nonsense that Sounded Cool. otoh. what if liu xiao is just genuinely Like That from the beginning

so in the fountain scene, liu xiao can (literally) afford to get his shoes wet (replaced) when he fetched the football; meanwhile, li tianchen would (quite reasonably, imo) rather avoid getting his shoes wet and in doing so struggled to fetch the ball on his own. liu xiao demonstrating that he's willing to lose to gain something, without actually losing anything. li tianchen comes away from this actually losing and losing and losing until he gains liu xiao's... approval? attention? yeah.

I was also reading this li tianchen character study fic (by @muninnhuginn) and wanted to preserve my comment from there for easier look up as well, because I am having Thoughts.

like. I think it's soooo fun that li tanchen sees cheng xiaoshi as another hunter. like, of course! the one guy who can maybe help him must be one! it kinda makes me wonder if li tianchen would have been able to really disentangle himself from liu xiao if cheng xiaoshi was able to help him somehow. maybe not through changing the past, but changing his perspective — the classic cheng xiaoshi move. like, what if cheng xiaoshi was able to succeed with li tianchen where his speech with emma failed? something something instead of being a hunter, you become a guiding light just like how others have been one for you.

and pairing this with my tianchen-vein thoughts from before of how vein is also a fox and represents how, if we follow liu xiao's metaphor, vein is also a "beast" but he doesn't have to be a victim. something something cheng xiaoshi failing to be the hunter li tianchen wished he was, and vein failing to act like how foxes (like tianchen, like tianxi) are expected to act. just breaking that metaphor down until it no longer really serves him

li tianchen pleaseeee have extra screen time in season 3. I miss you so much 😭

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[elvenbeard]

You're my World

Doesn't matter where we are as long as we're together.

New Pride Flags Makeup (AXL Edition) by @pinkyjulien 💛

[oddly-casual]

I think Mutant Mayhem is the first tmnt propriety to make Leo my favorite turtle right off the bat.

Not that I don’t like Leo anywhere else, but usually it takes me like a second rewatch or something to really pick apart Leo’s character in full to appreciate him- and even then he’s usually not my favorite.

But MM Leo is my favorite for reasons I cannot identify.

Maybe it’s the way he walks, his cringe fail personality, I don’t know but I care about this loser so much.

Idk he cares so much abt his siblings despite the fact that they can be so mean to him sometimes. He is also the one who continually pushes to do the right thing when theres nothing (or even sometimes worst things) to gain from it.

Even his attempts at being cool come off as dorkish but it’s charming in a way only little kids can be. In a ‘you’re doing your best sweetie’. Leo is a single mother of three while also being a teenage boy, that takes work.

He’s such a silent but calculating character, ironically when he doesn’t try so hard and does what he feels is right he gets the best results (ie his leader speech, the plan to be accepted, gaining the acceptance of other mutants) for all his fumbling and try hard attitude he has such natural potential it’s insane.