#cautiously optimistic

[geotheraider]

ATLA Live Action

Evening ATLA fans and shippers alike, I just wanted to pop in and make a quick post. I've seen a lot of discourse over the past few days and weeks that think both positively and negatively about the Live Action reimagining of the show. I'm personally a Zutara fan, but I've consumed some Kataang content over the years. From a shipping perspective, I think we should all do our best to calm down a bit and try to enjoy whatever is placed before us.

Now - meat and potatoes of this: From an avid enjoyer of ATLA in its various media (no, the comics don't necessarily tickle my fancy, and 2010 didn't exist). Regardless of our shipping backgrounds, Kataang or Zutara mostly, we all enjoy countless retellings of the same story involving the same cast of people. In the past 6 months, I've read around 30 novels worth of the same people falling in love and saving the world alongside incredible friends and family. What's one more fanfiction in the bunch, just one that makes it to a bigger screen? So long as it's good, let's enjoy the content given to us. If this first season is awesome, the big thing we need to be concerned about as a group is whether Netflix produces more episodes.

PS: One thing to note - this is not directed at any one person or post or anything of that sort. I love just about all of ya, and want to encourage you to keep making your loved content of choice. BE CREATIVE! <3

#zutara #kataang #atla #geotheraider writes #avatar the last airbender #atla fanfiction #cautiously optimistic #aang #zuko #sokka #katara #toph #suki

[lxikoniko]

Idk if I should be intrigued or scared by this...

Original tweet here

#rayman #cautiously optimistic

[rad-roche]

fantastic day for me, walton goggins enjoyer. also the tv show is looking pretty... pretty good...?

#fallout tv series #text post #i gotta do some cowboys after this #you know how i get about sad men in big hats #cautiously optimistic #matt berry as the mr handy is a fucking get

[chaossmith2]

I can’t believe it’s going to be in the year of our lord 2024 we’re finally going to get Good Shadow Characterization™️ for the first time in what feels like forever

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #potentially anyways lol but I have high hopes #cautiously optimistic #is he good is sonic prime? I haven’t watched it #anyways #the virgin: ​‘shadow is a lone wolf he thinks team mates are a liability he never saw rouge as his friend’ #vs the chad: ‘shadow is misguided and conflicted and it’s the people around him that help bring the best in him’ #chaos chats

[echo]

#gaza #cautiously optimistic #news

[probablyhuntersmom]

Whoa.

#cautiously optimistic #gargoyles #gargoyles reboot

[floralovebot]

still don't love the 3d direction but its def not a surprise considering literally everyone else is doing it too. more surprised it didn't happen sooner honestly. flora still looks too light. but it looks like with the 3d style, they're doing more realistic, dynamic lighting so,, idk fingers crossed it really is just highlights this time and she looks fine in the actual scenes. while i still prefer og winx, i honestly think aisha's new transformation is better. i feel like they studied fanart redesigns lol

#wonder if we'll get the specialists... scared to see what they look like #aisha's skin tone actually looks cooler than her og tone #glad they got rid of those fuckass braids tec was wearing in the concepts #*earlier concepts #also allegedly no episodes made either brothers we are still in the trenches 🫡 #the leak said maybe 2026 im crying #but at the same timr #cautiously optimistic #it seems like they really are doing their research and taking time to listen to fans #i wouldnt be surprised at all if these leaks are on purpose to gauge reactions #iginio if youre reading this - make flora's skin darker - a little less pink on stella - maybe more subtley with flora's dress? #ALSO iginio please leak the specialists and stormy i NEED to see what they look like god bless 🙏🙏🙏 #ALSO MUSA WITH BROWN EYES LETS GOOOOOO

[iminaworldofpureimagination]

#atla #katara #aang #atla netflix #cautiously optimistic

[beardedmrbean]

The presidents of a wide-ranging group of 13 universities are elevating free speech on their campuses this academic year, as part of a new nonprofit initiative announced Tuesday to combat what organizers call dire threats to U.S. democracy.

The Campus Call for Free Expression will take different forms on different campuses. The campaign, created by The Institute for Citizens & Scholars with funding from the Knight Foundation is designed to cultivate the freedom of expression on campuses and help students work together to find solutions to complicated, divisive problems.

“The national context of the deep political polarization, the inability of people to speak across difference in constructive and civil ways, it seems to me that colleges and universities need to be the institutions at the forefront of showing a better way to do that,” said Jonathan Alger, president of James Madison University, which is participating in the initiative.

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars first convened a group of college presidents in March 2022 to discuss how to prepare students to actively participate in democracy. Eventually, the presidents and schools committed to five principles of free expression along with new, on-campus programs that each school designed themselves. Those include new training at freshman orientations, faculty seminars and convocation remarks.

While not new, controversies around free speech at universities abound, from students protesting invited speakers to state legislatures targeting faculty tenure, and also reflect an increase in restrictions on freedom of speech more generally.

The participating schools include the University of Notre Dame, a private Catholic research school, Benedict College, a historically Black school in South Carolina, Rollins College, a small liberal arts school in Florida, and Ivy League member Cornell University, which in April announced that freedom of expression would be the theme for its 2023 school year.

Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers University in New Jersey and a historian of African American history, said he was motivated to join the initiative in part by what he called a growing deep disregard for American institutions.

“If I don’t speak up now on what I see that’s so concerning, if I don’t do this now, then when?” he asked, adding, "When I saw the Confederate battle flag marched through the Capitol Rotunda in January 2020, that’s when things shifted for me."

This September, Holloway will lead a freshman course that will examine the meaning of democracy and ask students to help design a program for the university to improve civic education.

For Rajiv Vinnakota, president of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, there are two main reasons to focus civic education on college students. For many, their colleges will be the most diverse community that they’ve ever experienced and students have the potential to shift social norms as they enter public forums and start to participate in politics. He hopes that the collective commitment of these schools to fostering critical thinking and the exchange of ideas around contentious issues will encourage other institutions to join them.

“Are we able to get above the cacophony of these issues of free expression to be able to get people in general (and) leaders to be able to see that higher ed can and should play a leading and proactive and positive role in civic preparedness?” Vinnakota asked.

The Knight Foundation provided a $250,000 grant to the institute to convene the presidents and eventually other university staff in a series of conversations over a year and a half.

“We believe in the free exchange of ideas. We believe in an informed citizenry so that the people may determine their true interest,” said Alberto Ibarguen, president of the foundation.

The nonprofit PEN America offers training to colleges and universities around cultivating an exchange of ideas as part of its work advocating for human rights and free speech. In general, Kristen Shahverdian, senior manager of its Free Expression and Education program, said that showing students why protections for free speech matter is an effective way to win over them to hearing about opposing views.

“When students learn about how writers and artists around the world have been persecuted for their free expression, they understand the ramifications of squashing another’s speech,” she said in response to emailed questions.

James Madison University is partnering with the Bipartisan Policy Center to host a training for more than 4,000 incoming students this year to prepare them for free expression on campus. The training will ask the students to participate in real time through a survey application and the school will also use their responses to help design future trainings. JMU already surveys new students about their civic engagement and repeats the assessment in their third year to measure student learning.

Lucas Morel, a professor of politics at Washington and Lee University and chair of the Academic Freedom Alliance, said more universities and colleges should embrace a mission of cultivating the pursuit of knowledge through the airing of different ideas and arguments based on evidence. A college education is not just meant to help students get a job or gain knowledge, but also to help make them engaged citizens, he said.

“If we don’t do a good job of helping them be careful readers and careful listeners, it stands to reason that as citizens they won’t be careful listeners and careful expressors of their own thought," he said. "And it will be difficult for us to function as a self-governing society.”

#nunyas news #cautiously optimistic

[raziraphale]

every trigun adaptation wolfwood gets whiter please somebody save my boy he's fading away

#new trailer looks good though im jazzed #cautiously optimistic #reilly.txt #trigun #trigun stampede

[askinnyblackman]

i am happy we got brittney griner back! HOWEVER we can’t criticize russia for their super harsh laws on weed possession while we do the exact same thing ourselves. if there were a time to legalize or at the very least decriminalize weed, this would be the time to do it, joe

#when we do it it’s good and when they do it it’s bad. got it #cautiously optimistic

[vaya-mernda]

Being a DM is like corralling cats.

#i assume #let’s hope this new group will stick #cautiously optimistic #dnd

[imascar]

I might be in the minority but I'm not comfortable putting all of my chicks, if you will, into the Bi!Buck basket. I'd like that to be this episode's theme (or start of), but I'm not 100% sold that is where we are headed just yet. I'd love to be wrong on this. Please let me be wrong.

The storyline could be so multi layered, and there are so many ways of including the whole FireFam into this. Maddie, of course, but also Hen and Karen for advice and Bobby for that Father Figure guidance. Tommy (who kind of looks like TK from Lone Star if you squint) and Eddie and Christopher, of course. I really hope ABC is on this bandwagon, but I'm holding back just a bit.

Again, please, please let me be wrong, lol.

#911 abc #buck x eddie #buddie #beginning of #maybe #cautiously optimistic

[5and3nevermind]

Jimin/Taemin collab? Is it a hint?

I’m not sure, but that would be amazing! They’re both such awesome performers, and I love the idea of good friends working together. How fun! 🐥🐥

#ask #don’t want to get my hopes up #cautiously optimistic #or it could be Jimin and Taemin (prod Suga)? #now I’m just daydreaming

[istumpysk]

June 1, 2022 ->

August 12, 2022 ->

If he managed to wrap up Jaime + Brienne (and Cersei?) over the span of two months that’s pretty big.

#cautiously optimistic

[babyy-long-legzz]

Overwhelming, reluctant, obsessive,

A lot to handle, cautious, extremely excited/in love

Positives to negative words I’ve recently heard

#obessive love #cautiously optimistic #hopeful romantic #words #inspiring words #emotional words #just words