#lead don’t follow

[brettesims]

Real leaders never negotiate their standards.

#lead with love #leader #leaders #lead don’t follow #quotes #quote #self love #standards #positive quotes #entrepreneurship

[victimized-martyr]

Sorry I never gave a proper update on tumblr——

here’s some brainstorming doodles from Keo and me on the white board and some examples Keo made in my notebook. I won’t forget it, one of my harshest note was “NEVER draw Kenny in 3/4!! Trey hates that!” 🤣 The story leads stressed that Trey is very particular with acting decisions and poses, most of which don’t translate into the animation. It’s for him at the editing stage, to “make his voice sing”. Getting into Trey’s head, funnily enough, requires FEELING. Feeling what he’s going for in terms of delivery, to learn what not to take literally in his script (when trey says “kathleen kennedy is like terminator” it’s not what you initially think it means), what emotion or gesture to put in to elevate a joke, to get the message through. It’s so fascinating!

In short, I didn’t make the cut. I was “too fresh”, and needed more experience with the technical aspect of storyboarding…. but I was complimented by Keo for my intuition, something that can’t be taught. I was over the moon when I was told I got the style of the show, whereas other trainees with 10+ experience couldn’t. Some of them tested but don’t even watch the show!! That’s crazy, but I guess that’s to be expected. My knowledge of the show and deep love for the characters got me this far, but I need to work on my actual story boarding skills (keo said my struggles are in composition and scaling) to stay!! 💪🏼 I’m taking this… as a not yet, not a no. I’m already on their radar, in their database, I’m incredibly lucky I got to make my THIRD connection in the studio, I just need to work on myself until I can arrive. I’m so grateful for all the support from friends family and industry moots to get me this far, it’s only the beginning of the year but I don’t think anything could top what happened to me this March!!!!!

#south park #kyman #i’m tagging kyman bc the damn ship got me this far too credit where credit is DUE 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #behind the scenes #it’s so funny actually I drew in a lil kyman moment in my boards at the studio (not as like a haha i’m a sneak this in. more like. it just. #flows outta me lol) #and when i received notes on that panel the leads didn’t say anything abt my kyman…. they zeroed in and kinda argued w/ each other if i #should have drawn more details for the lockers or not 🤣🤣🤣 #Keo came clutch so I followed his advice in not drawing the details but greg insists abt drawing them in #and then they went into ‘well trey doesn’t say anything when I do/don’t draw them in’ and i kinda stood there like 🧍🏻‍♀️ #I thought the whole thing was hilarious in the end #maybe I should draw that moment jgkgfjfh #talk tag #I feel like I scammed everyone like…. I’ve never professionally boarded in my life. How the hell did i get this far.

[rintoki]

a a a a a a a a a

playing dress up with aventurine. where he’s your pretty little doll. trying on clothes because he likes to show off how pretty he looks in everything. except the clothes gets progressively raunchier… and sluttier… and more revealing. until he finally comes out in just lingerie, expecting some kind of reaction from you.

but you’ve just been looking on with a mild smile on your face, barely even a chuckle as he climbs onto your lap. aventurine can feel the familiar anxiety in his belly, the doubt growing in his mind. but he can’t turn back now; instead he grabs your hands, bringing them to his waist as he puts on the overconfident expression he knows all too well.

he spills his honeyed words, his eyes drawing you in. he’s far too pretty—gorgeous even—for you to ignore him like that. so he toys with the loosely tied bow across his chest; it wasn’t meant to stay tied for long, one small tug and it all comes undone.

he feels your thumbs rubbing along his waist, hands squeezing slightly and aventurine feels right on the edge. so, so close, he’s almost got you. the thrill of winning just within reach, just a little more…

“you look amazing in this one as well, i’m sure your lover will deeply enjoy it,” your easy smile and relaxed frame gave nothing away, toying with the silky fabric of the lingerie.

and he nearly stumbles as you move to stand, signaling the end of your little ‘meeting’. you’re not sure what he’s looking to gain from doing this, especially since he has yet to propose some kind of deal to you. however, it was getting late, and it wouldn’t look too good on either of you if you were seen leaving his residence so late in the night.

“if there’s no other outfits to show me, i think i’ll take my leave then. have a good night, aventurine.”

you’re gone before he can even think of an excuse to make you stay. or rather, if him dressing up like such in front of you isn’t enough to get you to stay, what else is a man to do?

#turns out #you’re denser than a bag of bricks #oopsies #you’re just coworkers #friends if we’re being generous :) #did i cook with this or am i actually tweaking rn i don’t know #sometimes u follow a train of thought and it leads you to funky town #anyway #i want him to be desperate #wracking his brain thinking HOW DO I GET THEM TO WANT MEEEEEEE wails and cries #he’s a peacock of course #he only shows off his pretty feathers and draws you in #but you have to be the attacker heh #he can’t make the first move what is he desperate (he is) #the first person to fall is the loser obviously #and aventurine never loses #six.writes #hsr aventurine #aventurine honkai star rail #dom!reader #sub aventurine #honkai star rail

[jemgirl86]

Bucky after watching Sam and Steve interact during Captain America: Civil War:

#he spent a few days in their company and said to himself: i need sam wilson… real bad 😭😭 #sambucky #samsteve #smh he hasn’t left sam alone since! lol #bucky saw the complimentary outfits & the way they had each other’s back & the cute way steve always followed sam’s lead #looked right at steve and thought: #i don’t need a boyfriend #i need your boyfriend #😭😭

[tariah23]

This is such a harmful sentiment to push considering that you don’t necessarily have to be “attractive,” (beauty is subjective, yada yada) in order for men to want to harm you in the slightest… like man, what…

#the lady talks about being followed and harassed and so on as if every woman and girl in the world regardless of their age and #‘good looks’ #hasn’t experienced this and will continue to #I hate when these girls especially ones who are conveniently attractive talk about stuff like this under the guise of speaking for all #women while x-ing out most women #this easily leads into the realm of ‘you’re too ugly/fat to be assaulted ANYWAY-‘ #talk that I see spread by misogynists and bird brained women like it’s such a natural thing to even say it’s actually rly scary #especially when it comes to the assault shit which is usually about power and control anyway #they don’t care what you look like #you could be covered up head to toe and someone would try to hurt you just because #I hate when women like this go online thinking that they said something open their mouths I really do #rambling #tw assault #got dudes in the comments going ‘she’s not even pretty anyway she’s like a 4 out of 10’ #completely missing the message (as if they care) and see #these are the kinds of people that stuff like this attracts #stuff like this coming out of a woman’s mouth especially is so dangerous #I don’t think I’m the most good looking person in the world and I’ve been followed sm times I had to run away from a guy once and luckily #my bus was right fucking there!!! #then the guy who was harassing me years ago at a bus stop and forced me to hug him and touched my butt and no one else was around to help #me… #and he kept on trying to get me to go back to his apartment around the corner like that was so #the man who followed me into the store as I was shopping and I noticed that he kept on staring at me #then tried to holla and he looked way older than me and I think he was a pastor or something too he had a nice car and tried to get me to #come with him #sm more incidents over the years like this is crazy pls don’t say stuff like this and act like it’s normal #someone in the comments said that people like the woman in the video think that being pretty will free them from the patriarchy and like… #YEAH 😭 #it’s so obvious too lmfao #these be the same women calling themselves ‘girls girls’’

[swordmaid]

shri’iia mood board

#she is like if og fairy tale rapunzel was raised as an unsocialized but very loyal and rabid guard dog instead of a daughter hope that help #but so many thoughts of shri’iia and her unyielding devotion #since she /IS/ a paladin. and if oaths comes from a person’s conviction and less from a deity’s blessing #I think she can get rather intense lol. but now instead of following a chaotic evil spider goddess she’s now using that devotion #to follow her newfound broken oath (path to freedom)!!!!!! #also I think there’s something sauurr scrumptious abt her previous oath being a blessing from a goddess (which in turn she had to be devote #to 24/7 or else she won’t have access to her powers ) vs new oath stemming solely from her own will and conviction #I was reading up on the paladin lore and the idea that they just believe in themselves /so/ hard they just manifest their powers is #hilarious and frankly does not make sense but the thematic change of where shri’iia’s oath charges stems #from - from something transactional to something innate is compelling enough to me that I don’t care if it doesn’t make sense !!!! #also something about how her oaths is now innate and tied to her own conviction -> leads her to actually find her sense of self and self #worth again bc before she had NONE……. olivia wilde nod gif

[ormymarius]

lost and confused fish man <3

#embodiment of the question mark #posting a lot of bs leading up to the movie but I don’t even care 😭 #you follow the orm blog you get orm!! #orm marius #patrick wilson

[somedreamlove]

I have a slightly different opinion about the ‘power dynamic’. I feel like it comes mostly from a lack of respect for self, and too much respect for the external things like fame, money, social circle… which leads to insecurity in the presence of people with those things. If we pare that all back, the feelings and boundaries of someone without all that stuff are just as valid as those of someone with all those. We have to respect ourselves to know we are not better or lesser than anyone, and we have a right to uphold our own boundaries.

#like I’m sorry but I can’t even fathom disrespecting yourself that much #because I don’t think people are somehow more worthy than me because they have more followers on youtube dot com #like be for real. #but it’s important because insecurity leads to feeling like she can’t express her boundaries because he’s superior to her #(which is literally the mindset she described in her second post) #like ‘oh he’s such a hugeee creator’ girl you are just as valuable a human being as he is.

[waywardstation]

Thoughts on Akari's EX outfit? I love the colors!

I like it too!! I don’t love it, but I really appreciate that they went with Hisuian Samurott’s colors!

The only thing holding me back from loving it is probably where they put the darker and lighter colors. I’m a fan of character designs where headwear is generally lighter than the jacket/shirt/pants if there is going to be a contrast. And that might be because I like characters with dominantly dark color palettes, and lighter colors are secondary. And that is because it just personally pops in a more appealing way to me than a primarily light color palette with darker colors as the secondary.

That’s just my personal preference when it comes to character designs though! I would swap a few colors around, but my adjustments would make her EX’s values look very similar to her original. That might be why I still prefer the original though haha, it’s primarily dark.

For what it is though, I really like the EX!! It looks really great, just my personal taste in value dominance prefers the original ^^

#wayward’s asks #I may do a reblog of this wirh a quick edit later but I can’t right now #almost every single one of my original character designs follow this preference of mine #dark values dominate the color scheme and most light colors are secondary and almost always around the face/head #it just helps lead eyes to the face while keeping my personal design preferences #and same with this Akari #with the original #my eyes go right to her face #but with the EX my eyes go right to her waist with the wrap #cause her face is light surrounded by dark #but her body is the bigger contrast area where it’s a strip of dark surrounded by a big space of light on both sides #it just leads my eyes somewhere I don’t want it to go #I generally want my eyes to go to a character’s face

[ashes-forgotten]

Everyday I sob over the funny nightmare kids,,,,, the moment when Six finds the raincoat is the moment where the player realizes she is, indeed, Six. The little menace you played as in the last game, this is the same kid. You know her. Little Nightmares II takes place before the first game. At least as she is at this point, Mono knows Six, too. He knows her better than anyone has. Better than anyone ever will again. Six knows Mono better than anyone ever has, better than anyone will ever again. And the song that plays is called *True Colors.” I love to think that this represents Mono for the first time really realizing who Six is… and accepting her. The reverse being true as well. By this point, these two know each other’s tricks. They’ve gotten to know how the other thinks, they’ve survived *together* and they know who the other is because of that. It’s just this beautiful moment where for the first time, these kids get a quiet moment to just… look at eachother. To *really* look at eachother. To look at how far they’ve come together, what they’ve been through, what they’ve done. For the first time, they really see each other as they are.

And they accept each other.

They go on together, just like they have before.

I’m never gonna shut up about their friendship, it makes me CRY.

#you can’t tell me they don’t care for eachother #six copying mono’s actions and immediately following him everywhere and reaching for him on instinct at times #mono holding her hand and protecting her and guiding her no matter what #they’ve put themselves in danger to save eachother so many times with no hesitation #I JUST #THEY ARE FRIENDS #THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS #little nightmares #little nightmares ii #little nightmares 2 #mono and six #six little nightmares #mono little nightmares #and the fact that after this scene she starts taking the lead because she’s more confident but still always waits for Mono 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[whereismyhat5678]

yo vigi.

do you have 2 grandpas?

like king ghost and john? how are they going?

….

Sorry sorry- here, maybe this’ll make up for it:

#Pizza Tower #To put it simply I don’t think Vig would know about Ghost King #I mean he may have heard of him but the way you put it it confuses him a bit since he wouldn’t call him his Grampa. He nearly even knew him #Of course that leads to me also think John probably met him in the afterlife inside the tower #Like he followed Vig to comfort him and all of a sudden he just met him one day- #I’d say they’re more rivals to friends since I think it’d be funny- 😂 #Anyways-…..I don’t think Vig would wanna talk about his grandfather that much…..It just… #…It hurts him to much… #Vigilante #John E. Cheese #Ghost King #Request(?) #Ask #Anon Ask

[demigodofhoolemere]

Marvel: This character from this other thing is also gonna be in this thing and this thing which means you have to watch this thing and also this other thing to understand them and also these individual movies are building up to the plot of the next Avengers team up which will lead into this thing and this thing which will have this character and this plot thread which means you’ll also have to watch this thing and—

Me:

#marvel #marvel critical #i’m begging you to stop sucking the joy out of the individual sub-franchises by making each of them about The Next Thing #maybe i don’t WANT shang chi to get bogged down by the universal plot #maybe i don’t WANT to see characters you’ve ruined for me also start showing up in other things and ruining those for me too #maybe i don’t WANT every last little thing to be the most important thing ever #can i have some PEACE and get a nice story with the characters i like without the trappings of the entire rest of the universe stuck to them #follow black panther’s lead please. in fact maybe just let ryan coogler do everything from now on. #every piece of news or rumor that i see for the mcu moving forward is absolutely exhausting #i want this to stop #@marvel remember when you cared about individual stories in the first couple of phases? because i do every day

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

Can you put some thoughts on buggy and his crew relationship? I noticed people think of them as uncaring about their captain, what do you think? Why would they follow him? Talking about the ogs not the worshippers

absolutely i can!

…though i’m afraid there’s not much to say. mohji and cabaji, our two named officers on the crew, are simple opponents for our heroes to beat in orange town, and that’s about as seriously as the story ever takes a buggy pirate crewman. unlike buggy, who zigzags between being a joke and being a character with real depth, these guys are pretty consistently jokes.

that said, taking a serious look at them, i think buggy found a crew that’s a lot like him, for good and ill.

they’re fully bought in on the romanticism of the captain-crew bond, and of bonds of friendship forged over a meal at sea. just look at their brief appearance at the start of the impel down arc: they bought an eternal pose that points to impel down! the whole crew is on their knees in tears thinking of buggy and ace awaiting execution… they want to do something about it! there must be something they can do!!

but oof, those sea kings sure are… real big…

and when alvida flatly tells them they’ll never make it, that even if they could, impel down is impregnable, and in any case she’s not going to let them use the big top to do it… they back down. still tearful, but now it’s “we’ll never forget you!” “see you in the next life!” tears. they know their limits, and beating alvida, to say nothing of whatever else awaits them, is beyond those.

and those limits never really change as the series goes on! so they give in and give up earlier and earlier, each time an obstacle appears in their path.

this crew values strength, but they don’t have much interest in doing the work to increase their strength, either as individuals or as a crew. they’d rather ride on a stronger person’s coattails, and call that person “captain.” buggy’s ‘growth’ as a pirate is a bit of a mirror image to that, actually—he’s getting stronger and stronger subordinates (or “subordinates,” as the case may be), but not really getting stronger himself.

buggy’s crew follows him eagerly and loyally, but that camaraderie doesn’t really extend to one other when worse comes to worst. they watch with fear, but no protests, when buggy targets one of their own for destruction—knowing that one wrong word could put them in that same position. is it so surprising that they’d turn that attitude on buggy himself, when former warlords come calling?

so yeah, i can understand where the ‘uncaring’ perspective comes from. they’re quick to give up (and to be fair, buggy would often also like to give up, but people around him keep misunderstanding his intentions), and that includes giving up on buggy when things get tough.

but what else are they supposed to do, get stronger? that’s literally the greatest swordsman on the planet, how is cabaji supposed to get on his level? ridiculous. at least if he keeps his head down he gets to be middle management at cross guild.

#asked and answered #one piece #buggy #buggy pirates #imo buggy and his crew are all cowards but his crew are less stubborn about admitting that they’re cowards #they don’t have his pride! or his ambition! but he can talk them into following his lead… up to a point #unrelated: i do like the mental image of the buggy pirates swaying alvida & surviving the sea kings & getting to ID *just* as buggy escapes #very powerful umbrella academy car meme energy #*pragmatic characters

[ahalliance]

this fucking with qphil’s memory and conception of reality thing is reminding me a lot of how both qbagi and qcellbit received info to jog their memories which impacted them both tremendously . a plan which was orchestrated by the resistance . the resistance that is planning on getting a new member by the end of the week (somehow . they haven’t told fit pac or etoiles How they plan on acquiring said new member) . idk if there’s a correlation but the circumstances are mysterious!

#qsmp #jay liveblogs #i don’t follow phil lore closely idk if it’s been disclosed Who is fucking with his conception of reality #maybe it’s the hardcore gods forcing themselves into the world of the island somehow . #maybe it’s a force within the island triggering these episodes . idk #the resistance has felt very contained to the island itself so far so idk if they’d be able to reach Past that . but who knows #also maybe the new member is literally just qslime or smth lmfao #like . his lore return is just codeflippa leading him to join the base

[phantomram-b00]

I’m suppose to be doing homework but do you guys think there was a point where Aziraphale dressed up as a demon and just adverted his color to black and yellow (it pretty)—

When up to Crowley and go:

“May I finally tempt you into something Crowley?”

with his bastard smile as Crowley just smoking, face flush and everything. And is in between just wanting to kiss the bastard that is worth knowing or melt and see how he going to tempt him.

(Bonus is if Crowley was gonna be funny and dressed as an angel until seeing how Aziraphale dressed.)

#aziraphale most likely tempt him to a restaurant date and Crowley is all in on this #demisexual #bamf aziraphale #good omens #ineffable husbands #you know Aziraphale would have too much fun dressed as a demon and being a bastard about it #just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing #halloween #homework? me? nah. #jk! please do your homework you guys don’t follow my ghostly lead 😭 #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow

[kicktwine]

fray is so intriguing but I’m sure he’s rolling his eyes at me constantly like Just Kill Things. Idiot Cat. You tank like a caster (Ari voice I AM A SPELLCASTER)

#drk is taking forever. AUWHFISHDJ #drg is progressing well I need a higher ilvl though #I don’t study the dungeon before I go in on dps I want to experience it. But I’m not expected to lead then… #me following the healer every time #play game