#i am cautiously optimistic about this

[nick-nellson]

Wicked (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

#wicked #wickededit #filmedit #musicaledit #filmgifs #wicked 2024 #dailyflicks #userbbelcher #cinemapix #filmtvtoday #chewieblog #cynthia erivo #ariana grande #usersource #musicalsedit #popcultureds #* #nessa007 #tusersadie #userninz #jonathan bailey #userclara #i am cautiously optimistic about this

[inkskinned]

he says i hate everyone except you and that is addictive and that is kind of romantic and beautiful because you're young and you're kind of a sarcastic asshole too and you don't like bad boys, per say, but you don't really like good ones either. and you like that you were the exception, it felt like winning.

except life is not a romance book, and he was kind of being honest. he doesn't learn to be nice to your friends. he only tolerates your family. you have to beg him to come with you to birthday parties, he complains the whole time. you want to go on a date but - people are often there, wherever you're going. he's just so angry. about everything, is the thing. in the romance book, doesn't he eventually soften? can't you teach him, through your own sense of whimsy and comfort?

at first - you know introverts often need smaller friend groups, and honestly, you're fine staying at home too. you like the small, tidy life you occupy. you're not going to punish him for his personality type.

except: he really does hate everyone but you. which means he doesn't get along with his therapist. which means he has no one to talk to except for you. which means you take care of him constantly, since he otherwise has no one. which means you sometimes have to apologize for him. which means he keeps you home from seeing your friends because he hates them. you're the single exception.

about a decade from this experience, you'll type into google: how to know if a relationship is codependent.

he wraps an arm around you. i hate everyone except you. these days, you're learning what he's actually confessing is i have very little practice being kind.

#i used to think it was romantic too and then i was like. now i see it as a HUGE red flag #writeblr #it is also almost EXCLUSIVELY said by immature ppl who think this is normal #fyi even if u think it's funny and ur like 'im an introvert it's just TRUE' like. you need therapy (ily tho) #healed introversion is just ''i would prefer to be by myself'' not ''i hate every person'' ... hate is not normal. that is not healthy #im sorry. i know it feels accurate. but if you're walking around with that kind of rage.... #1. you're making a LOT of assumptions about every single person u have ever met. which is often unfair and unkind #and also usually involves judging people based on their worst moments or little mistakes #2. you are being unfair to the person who is ur ''exception'' #3. there is a VAST difference between ''ur my favorite person'' and ''the ONLY person i like.'' #idk i think this is just a personal bias thing tbh #im sure there are people who have this experience normally #but i have YET to find a man who thinks like this and ISNT absolute DOGSHIT. although tbh.... like. im sure he exists #when u hit like 30 some of the things that were once kind of hot now just sound fucking exhausting. like ''im in a band'' #edit in the tags: i used to kind of be like this too. but the thing is that like. my life became so much more peaceful #once i started believing that people are generally good. like yes i am mad at the world at large #but it's just.... a very hard way to live. you're not a bad person or wrong for the ways other people hurt you and taught you to be angry. #but that anger will continue to hurt YOU. it will punish YOU. it will prevent YOU from making new deep connections. it will protect you yes #but it will also cause MASSIVE blowback. bc if you lose the One Person... your life will fall apart. i know this personally. #i really recommend just trying to be... cautiously optimistic instead. like. yes #people can be horrible and cruel and there are some communities (incels for example) that aren't worth that optimism #but i think like... most people will hold a door for you . most people want to help you find your wallet . #i hope one day you are able to find peace. i hope that rage eventually smooths over. i know how hard it is PERSONALLY #and i know what must have happened to you. and im deeply deeply sorry we share the same wound. #but i promise - sometimes we all need someone else to help us carry the weight. eventually the rage has to die so that we can let help in #i had to spend years biting at outstretched hands. i still often do. im still very wary . and my heart breaks that you flinch too. #here's the thing: i don't blame you. but we were both acting out of fear and pain. .... not out of healthy behavior. and ... change #was needed. i needed change too. rage was useful for a while. then it just left me isolated and bitter. i had to (with effort) #choose to let that rage go. and let people in . VERY SLOWLY THO LOL

[wibreth]

A summary I saw posted on discord! I did not write this ❤️

ok here's my effort at collating all the high-level updates.

Neopets is now a standalone entity after JS's closure.

New head of said entity is Dominic Law (staff name probably Altador...that's what he goes by in NMC server), who previously headed NMC and saved Neopets through a "management buyout deal"

New TNT has raised $4M from external investors to be used for rebuilding the brand/site.

Plan to incorporate Ruffle to save Flash content. 50(!) games will be returning via Ruffle on July 25th!

Plan to launch new mobile app "World of Neopia", "a social life-simulation game in which you live your ideal Neopian life from the perspective of a Neopet"

Plan to increase communication. "releasing monthly updates, hosting regularly scheduled AMAs, and launch an exciting new brand ambassador program"

New unified home page launching July 20

Plan to relaunch Island Builders

Plan for "a virtual concert"

Plan for a new plot (called "The Void Within" per the youtube video)

Launch 2M NC giveaway, which ends Aug 6

Neopets Metaverse has been cancelled. Some assets will be used for World of Neopia, but world of Neopia will have no crypto/NFT elements. Collectibles continue to exist and can be traded on secondary markets but have no utility.

#im plagiarizing sorry #cautiously optimistic i guess? i am nervous about the new owner's association with crypto however #neopets

[utilitycaster]

God I'm sorry but Em Friedman is the Dnd Shorts of Actual Play writing. The Burrow's End coverage is egregiously off-base and there's just a pretty profound ignorance of How Things Work. Like, how TTRPGs work, but also how Actual Play works, and more generally how fantasy as a genre works, and there are some significant errors in really simple things such as the fact that ACOFAF used D&D, and usually Polygon has a bit of editorial integrity but this is giving like. CBR Top Ten Most Cool Things About D20.

#i have. many thoughts about the latest burrow's end episode #namely if it's the setup for a twist I am intrigued and excited! #if it is the twist itself...y'all could read about stoats on wikipedia and not a single article on How Do Nuclear Power plants work huh #and to be clear the friedman/dnd shorts comparison holds either way; i'm cautiously optimistic re: the actual show #but GOD the coverage is BAD #burrow's end spoilers

[legendaryrooftopscene]

we're only on episode 3 so there is PLENTY of time for GMMtv to disappoint me and go off the rails, but so far Only Boo is falling into the same category for me as My School President: a simple concept, executed well, played by actors who understand their characters and writers who approach the script with earnestness. it would be very easy for Moo to be a pushy, spoiled, whiny prince, but thankfully he's just a sweet, overenthusiastic, confident guy. in the same vein, it would have been easy to make Kang a grouchy, mean, stick-in-the-mud, but instead we are treated to an introverted, thoughtful, rough-speaking but well-meaning kind young man. I think both actors are doing very well, but especially Kang's actor, who is a complete rookie. there's a sense of depth and weight to Kang-- he's got a lot going on internally, and Sea is able to show that through small details in his acting. it's fantastic. if you've been on the fence about watching Only Boo because it's yet another GMMtv high school BL, I recommend giving it a shot. it's cute and charming and funny and very earnest. plus Milk is there.

#original #only boo #only boo the series #this is my Official Endorsement for this show; please have tomatoes on standby to throw at me in ~ 8 weeks #i am CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC...... #a tad worried about pacing but that's fine if the plot kicks in more

[ottermatopoeia]

Tr*mp being found guilty is awesome but at this point I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Shit's about to get VERY real, VERY quickly.

#it's already been scary but it's about to get crazier #i am cautiously optimistic but i can't imagine the people who've decided he's their savior are gonna take this well

[cheekblush]

i'd rather be friendless than to constantly have my boundaries disrespected

#i am so frustrated and annoyed rn #at the beginning of this year my ex best friend reached out to me and i cautiously let her back into my life #things were going great but now she turned a harmless topic into a full blown discussion even though i told her multiple times that i no.. #.. longer want to discuss this matter but she kept going & then accusing me of continuing the discussion as well #and tbh i really should've stopped engaging with her messages much sooner but it's so annoying when someone sends you lots of messages with #their opinion although i mentioned several times that i want to drop the topic & then i'm just expected to shut up lol #she didn't respect my wish to move and made a huge fuss about nothing #i stopped replying to her since yesterday bc i really had enough & i should've just left her on read much sooner #but her messages were truly annoying me #her last message now says that we often have different opinions & she thinks she's more optimistic than me & that makes it hard for her to.. #talk to me..... i was so dumbfounded when i read that this morning #our initial conversation was about whether a song is more pop or rnb....... & she twisted that into me being negative lmao #she was so obsessed with being right that she couldn't drop the topic even though i told her how exhausting the convo was for me #and like it's such an irrelevant topic... imagine being that obsessed with always being right 😭 #idc anymore i'd rather be a negative bitch than someone who disrespects others' boundaries <3 #i thought she changed for the better but she's so self-righteous opinionated & stubborn it's awful #i calmly told her that her behavior is bothering me & we easily could've just moved on but she kept going on and on #and she herself admitted that it's one of her flaws that she always has to be right & she's being petty & yet she didn't stop 🤡 #even writing all this down feels so silly to me bc the initial topic was sooooo trivial #am i supposed to feel sorry for thinking a song was rnb rather than pop???? like go touch some grass please #she even sent me a screenshot of the wikipedia page of the song to prove that it's rnb & it literally said synth pop & rnb lol #but i wasn't even mad about that her not respecting my wish to drop the topic & move on even though i said it multiple times really pissed.. #me off though.... like girl just let it go it's not that deep!!! #but apparently i'm negative & pessimistic for having a different opinion than her 🤷🏼‍♀️ #like imagine starting a fight over smth SO IRRELEVANT but i'm the negative one sure lmao #okay i just needed to get this off my chest bc i don't have anyone to talk to about this & it's just ridiculous to me #☁️

[bcitisthelight]

Can I say, I’m actually really fucking impressed with how firm this show is about being complicit in injustice. Rogue One was really beautiful and striking because it was this message of “no act of good is too small to matter”. People remember the hallway scene in Rogue One because of Vader, but it actually made me cry in the theaters because every Rebel knows they’re dead, but there they are passing the plans hand to hand, through broken doors and crammed corridors, not asking for help but telling others to run.

But this show is tackling the opposite side of the same coin. It’s true, says the narrative, that no act of good is insignificant. But no act of evil is insignificant either. I really was expecting some “both sides have fine people” bullshit out of a show approved by the Disney corporation, but so far the tone isn’t pulling any apologies or excuses. There’s no such thing as a nobody, you don’t get away with cooperating with evil just because you’re a side character who will be forgotten the moment you go off the screen. Your actions have weight. The choices you make matter. You decide to fight injustice, or to enact it. That’s the bottom line. It reminds me a lot of that old thing “well what about the custodian on the Death Star”. Well, he was on the Death Star. He chose to work with and for imperials. It doesn’t matter why.

Like, every act of violence in this show comes down to a side character deciding - often for base and petty reasons - that it’s easier or better to hurt others than it is to do the right thing. Two sleezy corrupt cops shake down a guy who dared to get attention at a brothel instead of them. An officer gets a score of men killed and terrorizes a town because the Corporation Must Be Protected From Scum, and the whole time he is just dripping with his eagerness to get an atta boy for it. Timm sells out Cassian - knowing it will mean death, let’s be honest - strictly because he’s jealous that Bix cares about him. I was insanely impressed that they went with “lady decides she will be White Savior and kidnaps a boy away from his home and culture because she’s convinced she can Give Him A Better Life And Teach Him English”. The oppressors of this show are white people in positions of power, and that’s fucking intentional!!! And what do they get for their complicitness? Those two cops get murdered. The officer gets nearly all his men killed because of his thirst for blood. Timm sells out Cassian, and his thanks is being murdered in the street without a thought or second glance, and the show makes it clear that this is the consequence of dealing with evil. You don’t get to save the day when you play Devil’s Advocate. They do not care for you. They will not make your life better. You will not be squashed by the oppressors boot any slower just because you lick it clean before hand. I’m obsessed with that. It’s gutsy as hell, and I’m so interested to see how far they really take it.

#I’m just really impressed tbh #i am cautiously optimistic about this show #tony gilroy really said ACAB with his whole chest #and you know what good for him #andor spoilers #andor series #cassian andor #andor

[kazz-brekker]

saw an article about it while at work today and wow the casting for the murderbot diaries really is chugging along, i kind of assumed it would be one of those book adaptation that was announced with one actor attached to it and then stayed in development for a like a billion years but i think they've already cast every major character for the first season?

#i am feeling cautiously optimistic about this tbh? #still think they could have gone with someone other than a white guy for murderbot #but i am intrigued by the cast so far #i wonder if they'll start filming this year if they've already cast everyone? #pie says stuff #the murderbot diaries

[pixelateddork]

I think Lil Lupin deserves something nice :3

#{myheckinart} #lupin iii #lupin zero #lupin iii zero #lupin the third #lupin the 3rd #arsene lupin iii #I am cautiously optimistic about Lupin Zero but I am still 100% hyped

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

Ah, the ableism is about to get worse, isn’t it…..

#Hopefully there will be many productive and respectful conversations to be had about psychiatric institutionalization! #I am cautiously optimistic that Taylor will approach the topic carefully #Swifties and the general public however…. #C #And I know my mutuals will be respectful and thoughtful as always! #Just… yeah.

[crimeronan]

woke up feeling like death today after 16ish hours in bed (my hip kept subluxing in my sleep last night and waking me up w pain) so i resigned myself to today being a Bed Day and did two minutes of gentle exercise and popped my joints back into place and lay in bed and used my inhaler and ate some food and then all of those things made me..... feel..... better????????? so. i'm gonna go swimming after all actually.

#have to brace my leg but it's fine. that used to be my default state so it's nice that it's not anymore #usually if i wake up feeling like death it's an omen for the rest of the day #and self care just maintains the baseline of 'i will not kill myself' #so i am...... Very Cautiously Optimistic about what this means for my health. we'll see. #autoimmune tag #swim tag

[burningsoftly]

my one wish for 1923 is that Elsa narrates the entire thing, like a really cool ghost judging her less cool family for the rest of time

#i am cautiously optimistic #but still emotionally devastated from 1883 #and a little confused about the timeline #1923 #1883 #1923 series

[jorvikzelda]

Thank you GM Bee this was the best SSOBlrthday gift I could've imagined :,)

#especially bc I didn't think it was coming until tomorrow! lol #surprise gift! #literally all of it is exciting and I am optimistic #cautious about parts of it but I trust GM Bee and it seems like they've played a big part in this revamp so #CAUTIOUSLY optimistic about some parts but there's nothing they said that made me go oh that Cannot be done well #z talks

[evansboyfriend]

also with how well the audience has accepted tommy / the fandom has latched on to both tommy and lou, i would be surprised if they decided against keeping him around idk idk

#not to advocate for. idk what's the opposite of queerbaiting? #im way more interested in dedicated writers who care about the characters producing quality content than trying to please the fans #but we know sometimes an actor is signed for like 5 episodes and then stays on or keeps coming back??? #i am cautiously optimistic #or hopeful. mostly hopeful. #i love tommy kinard fr #emma.txt

[personinthepalace]

Lockwood & Co Official Trailer!!!

It will premiere on January 27th, 2023. Get hyped!!

#lockwood and co #lockwood and co netflix #lockwood & co #lockwood and co trailer #lockwood and co video #THE OFFICIAL TRAILER IS FINALLY HERE #I've been checking all day yesterday #I am so excited!! #but I'm also keeping my hopes low #bc the last time I was excited about my favorite book series being adapted to a tv series it didn't go so well haha #but this looks promising #so I am cautiously optimistic haha #two more weeks!! #videos in the palace #posting in the palace #Youtube