#true leadership

[girl4music]

The problem with Maya as Captain over Andy or Jack.

It’s not that she’s power hungry, as Jack put it. Being power hungry isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you know and understand the benefits of collective power as well as individual power and know how to use both and to delegate effectively. I totally understand where Maya’s coming from being a woman myself that has also been made to feel like they are less than they’re worth and then the one day they get a leg up - they’re going to take it because they know what they’re worth even if they may not be ready for what they’re worth.

But Andy has a right to feel upset about being passed over for Captain because she knows she’s worth it too.

No, the problem with Maya as Captain is that she makes everyone work to HER high standards, not THEIRS. Being an Olympic gold medalist who won her victory on a sprained ankle and all, her all out certainly isn’t everyone’s all out and she’s not recognizing that. Her philosophy of “embrace the pain” won’t be helpful or even inspirational to everyone because everyone does differently, thinks differently, feels differently.

A true leader knows the difference between being a leader and being a boss. Yes, they’re both, but they recognize when one is needed over the other in different situations and circumstances with different people. Andy does. Jack does. Maya doesn’t because she’ll push and she’ll push forgetting that her limit on being pushed is way above everybody else’s limit and this is something she would learn about her team if she spent enough time in the position of a lieutenant. She’s jumping the gun because she’s being offered it and she’s hungry for it. Not because she’s ready for it.

Now if Sullivan truly thought that he had to make the call not to make Andy Captain… then he should have chosen Jack over Maya instead. I’m guessing the reasons as to why he didn’t choose Jack was because of his recent PTSD problem and the fact that he is a man and he wants a woman in leading power for once. The problem with that? They’re both discriminatory reasons because Jack has earned his position as Captain. Has had worked through and overcome his PTSD problem and he is well aware of some things that are in desperate need of change and solution and he really cares to change and resolve them. But he can only attempt to change and resolve those things if he is in a position of power. He can’t do it as a lieutenant. Being passed over for Captain just because he is a man is not right just as much as it wouldn’t be if a woman earned the position and was passed over because she’s a woman. Sullivan was discriminative in not choosing Jack if he wasn’t going to choose Andy.

If it wasn’t going to be Andy, it had to be Jack. It should not have been Maya. Maya is not ready for Captain because while she may know the team well enough to know their individual strengths and weaknesses and how to use them, she doesn’t recognize that they can’t work to her high standards. Both Andy and Jack would recognize that along with knowing their team well enough to know their individual strengths and weaknesses and how to use them to their most influential and beneficial purpose. Maya is ready for a lieutenant position, but she’s not ready for Captain because she has a lot to learn about true leadership. That’s just the truth of it no matter how much blood, sweat and tears she’s put into finally getting a leg up as a woman in a position of power.

A woman should definitely be in a position of power. But it should be Andy, not Maya, that was chosen. That’s what Andy is upset and has gone into passive-aggressive mode against Maya and Sullivan about. That she knows it’s her time to lead. She’s right. Her father has intervened yet again to prevent it because HE thinks she’s not ready for it when she absolutely is. HE thinks she’s not ready because he has no respect for her as a grown woman who knows her autonomy. Sullivan didn’t know what to do about Pruitt’s request of him. Not only may it be the final words he says to him but also Pruitt has already caught on to his feelings for Andy and so if he chose Andy as Captain against his request to not to, he’d worry that Pruitt would think that he only did it because he is in love with Andy and not because he believes she’s earned it.

The ironic thing about all this though is that’s exactly why Sullivan has fell in love with Andy. It’s because he has seen her earn her rightful position as Captain of Station 19 that has what has enamoured her to him. And he has made the wrong call to go with Pruitt’s request over his genuine love for and belief in Andy.

Sullivan should have went with his gut… And his heart.

In only one day, Maya has proven Sullivan wrong about his choice to make her Captain and Maya’s aware of it. This is only going to cause more complication and conflict within the team’s ranks and they really do not need that right now when changes need to be made. When they really need to work as a well-oiled machine and only Andy or Jack know how to run the rig right.

[b0bthebuilder35]

[keepthedelta]

my controversial opinion of the day is that the mclaren car is not as good as some of you are pretending it is. people keep calling it a rocketship and while i do think it's clearly the best car on the grid at the moment i don't think it's actually that much better than the mercedes or ferrari or even the red bull. all of this ferrari tractor or red bull junkheap talk is just not quite true. i do think that max are the ferrari boys are outdriving their cars but i also don't think they're totally shit cars

[aingeal98]

Rewatching aos s5 and s6 and it's so funny that regardless of whether the writers intended it or not, the way Daisy communicates with fellow agents she leads makes is clear that she would in fact, be a great director. She's compassionate and practical and confident and not a single agent we see outside of fs family and yoyo have issues with her. Her fatal flaw is that she's too attached to her old friends who she loves and trusts despite them both having gone a little evil and ruthlessly immoral due to the past season's trauma. Like literally if fitzsimmons respected her as much as they respect each other and as much as Daisy respects them, s5 and s6 would be drastically more positive for the whole team.

[blueskittlesart]

I get the impression from your posts that you don’t think there’s a future where Zelda would end up queen of hyrule (I can see where her becoming queen would undermine her entire arc of getting freedom from the painful expectations of princess/chosen etc), but how do you think that hyrules government will work beyond that? Is the population recovered enough for that to even be something established within their lifetime?

honestly, based on what we see in other games, hyrule was never REALLY a proper monarchy. I think it's pretty likely that the hylian monarchy was functionally a symbolic one, especially by the time that botw rolls around. in most games in the franchise, hyrule is largely made up of sort of mini single-race societies that function by defaulting to whatever small tribal government they happen to have. With a kingdom technically made up of multiple different species, each with their own differing cultures, customs, and even lifespans, it makes much more sense to have small governments united in name alone. i think any genuine attempt at true united government of such widely varied and relatively isolated races would not end well for hyrule (can you imagine being a hundred-year-old zora and being told that you have to listen to laws made by hylians who have been alive for a fraction of the time you have?? no way.) But by having a technical alliance under the symbolic hyrulian royal family, all of these races reap the benefits of alliance amongst each other while maintaining their relative independance. This is why most of the villages in hyrule are race-isolated and have their own governing bodies--the zora have a king, the rito, gorons, and gerudo have chiefs, and several of the hylian/sheikah villages have mayors or other governing bodies. these are the actual, functional governments of hyrule. the royal family serves both symbolic and practical purposes as a symbol of the kingdom's allyship and as an entity that can build, maintain, and direct a widespread military force (and i think there's also definitely a religious element to their rule over hyrule, as literal descendants of god in-universe,) but other than that it isn't doing a whole lot of actual governing. (the exception to this rule is MAYBE post-wind-waker on the new continent, and maybe immediately post-sksw, specifically because in both those cases the hyrulian royals would have needed to take a more active governing role in order to rebuild the country.) so with that in mind, I think botw and totk make it pretty clear that this method of small government works pretty well for hyrule. I think the most zelda would EVER be is a sort of ambassador between villages and races, especially as hyrule becomes more intermingled in the aftermath of the calamity. small democratic government largely appears to be working for hyrule and for zelda in totk, so i think that's the road she would choose to continue down rather than attempting to reinstate a monarchy that never actually did that much in the first place.

[terezicaptor]

I'm so obsessed with that clip it's insane. Like

The second cellbit jumped into that hole with tubbo he was doomed. When he jumped in he was immediately knocked down to 4 hearts. And he doesn't realize his hearts are low until he's at 2 and he immediately goes for the tea but it's already too late because tubbo doesn't stop digging the second he has started

AND YOU CAN SEE earlier in the clip tubbo digging at the ground and cellbit lands a hit on him before tubbo runs off into that bare bit of stone and cellbit follows right after

Cellbit's laser focus + Tubbo's quick thinking leading cellbit right down to his death...

I'm obsessed with that clip it's so good

[aadmelioraa]

Eärien and Valandil parallels Rings of Power Season 1

[ikram1909]

A sextuple winning captain btw.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway in 'Nothing Human' vs Tuvok in 'Resolutions' There's something here I know there is I can almost wrap my teeth around it.

[maeamian]

Well the shoot themselves in the dick brigade got what they wanted let's just hope they were right.

[20s-turtle-posting]

i need to watch back through 2k3 again bc i swear Raph and Leo barely even fight about the whole “leadership thing.” Like I can’t really recall any of their fights explicitly being “im a better leader than you”??

maybe my memory is faulty but i swear that most of the fights are literally just Raph essentially butting heads against any idea he even slightly disagrees with or doesn’t see the point of, even if half of hose nitpicks are just that, Raph being an obstinate nitpick and being loud and gruff about it. Most of them never blow up into real fights

the only big fight i can remember Raph and Leo engaging in is the fight during City at War, in which situation they both had extremely relevant points, and Raph wasn’t even challenging Leo’s position as leader, he just thought Leo’s point of view was rash and stupid

[b0bthebuilder35]

[common-blackbird]

He was crying ;__;

[ut-girl666]

Idea: The Matrix, being a parasite that uses the Primes as it’s hosts, slowly turns the Primes into eldritch horror-ific beings, and the forms they hold in front of people to make them appear normal are actually just a ‘cloaked’ form for their ‘true’ form (Maccadam from CV for example). This happens to all the Primes, it just usually takes a long time even by their standards to build up enough, and usually the newer/younger ones are like baby horrors.

Another idea: Rodimus, having been born in the primacy essentially as Optimus’s son, has grown up with them, and seen them in their true forms from a young age. It is now impossible to freak him out with them, because before Hot Rod could walk, he looked Nova dead in the face in it’s true form as it cradled him in it’s arms, and cooed up at it. Optimus now says that to Rodimus, they’re not horrors, they’re eldritch wonders. He genuinely looks at them and believes some to be quite pretty. Or he calmly/casually asks if Op thinks Quintus’s Subnautica octopus ass could fit in a flower vase, because octopuses don’t have bones, and this is long dead ghost, so it’s gotta be possible, right? (Op just wants one normal conversation about the Primes with his son. one. that’s all he asks (while snorting laughs but that’s beside the point-).)

In short: The Primes are eldritch horrors in their true forms + Rodimus isn’t bothered in the slightest about this fact.

[cantaloupe]

The Terror (AMC) Episode 1: Go For Broke / Publilius Syrus / Moby Dick, Herman Melville

[gladiator1977]

The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliant to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of the powerful men.

Star Wars Thrawn: Alliances