#they learn to meet in the middle

[sanchoyoscribbles]

karma and charmarielle, and angel and demon who are roommates !

redesigns of ocs from 2012 (this is actually the 2nd redesign I did of them, first was in 2019 or 2020 but I was unhappy w that redesign)

they got in a fight where charmarielle was trying to hunt down karma and send her back to hell, and in the fight karma stole her halo where her divinity is, and charmarielle stole karma's horns, where her malice is. theyre both stuck as humans now with all the Human Emotions they both lacked before...

they live together bc they were both lookn for roommates to afford an apartment on the low wage jobs they had to get, and theyre both looking for each other knowing they rendered the other powerless but they other holds their key to getting they powers back/getting back to heaven and hell. but neither know who the other one is/what they look like in their human forms and become friends accidentally (gfs later) the story is like. them trying to convince the other theyre a Very Normal Human :) while being wildly dysfunctional abt it LOL. average late 20s girlies. by the end ofc they dont care abt returning bc theyve learned to be human and are in LOVE 🫶

(they are still both objectively kinda jerks tho <3)

#karma and charmarielle #karma #charmarielle #charmies name is a combo of charmaine and ariel asjdfk i wanted her to have a very. Angel Sounding Name #karmas name has been the same since 2012 HAHA im not changing it :) #ocs #doodles #sketches #oc #karma originally had a moth boy bf bc the story was..uh..more of a fantasy setting i think? he has been written out goodbye king #they do kinda function as magical girls now in. a way. kind of reversed sdkhf #as in their true forms are more colorful. charmies hair gets longer. karmas points out and gets brighter. and the eyes horns wings etc #oh also the bit abt them being jerks..in this universe demons exist only to tempt humans and assigned to one sin usually #angels exist only to stop demons as sort of robots #so karma is very hot headed (her sin is wrath) and charmie is cold asf at first #they learn to meet in the middle #but theyre also sorta fixated on each other/finding each other humans a second thought bc of their respecitive missions and goals #and seeing humans as beneath them. hence. asshole behaviors

[markantonys]

i'm thinking about nynaeve's line to egwene in the testing vision about how egwene will be a better "servant of all" than nynaeve ever could be. i love that moment so much! because it plays into one of my very favorite Themes from the books: the difference between heroes who focus on the greater good, sometimes at the expense of individuals (egwene, rand, moiraine, elayne) and heroes who focus on individuals, sometimes at the expense of the greater good (nynaeve, perrin, mat). and neither is inherently better or worse than the other, it's just two different ways of looking at the world! for each character, we see moments where their outlook is a strength as well as moments where it's a weakness/flaw.

i saw someone say that nynaeve undersells herself in that line because throughout the show we've seen HER be a servant of all. and that's very true............IF we define "all" as "the two rivers." nynaeve would die & kill for Her People, and for any other individuals she comes across who need her help, but she doesn't care so much about broader causes or ideals. her arc is really unique because it's an inverse leadership arc, i.e. she starts off in a leadership position but then as the story progresses, she realizes that she is not suited to leadership on the huge scale that's needed for the last battle and steps aside to let people like egwene and rand, who ARE suited to it, take up that leadership.

(if you will allow me a bit of #gawynposting, gawyn actually has a very similar arc in this respect: he starts off expecting to become first prince of the sword, but then when he gets his first real taste of large-scale leadership as the leader of the younglings, he's miserable. he doesn't care about the younglings' cause, he just wants to protect his specific loved ones, elayne & egwene, because at heart he is an Individuals Guy, not a Big Picture Guy. and so in the end he rejects his role as first prince and dedicates himself to protecting one specific person, egwene, as her warder. but the tragedy of his character is that even after all this he still can't shake the My Duty Is To The Big Picture conditioning that's been drilled into him since childhood, and thus focusing exclusively on protecting one single person during the last battle makes him feel selfish & guilty about "wasting" his fighting abilities and he decides it's his duty to sacrifice himself for the greater good. sob!)

anyway, i love this line because it's not true and also it's true. nynaeve IS a selfless servant of all, but egwene will be a better servant of all-all than nynaeve could be. because egwene is more able to set aside her personal feelings to focus objectively on what's best for the greatest number of people, whereas nynaeve just can't stomach the ruthless calculus of war (which, again, is not a knock on either character, they're simply different kinds of people and BOTH kinds are needed to win the last battle). and that's why it could only ever be egwene who got the amyrlin arc, even though you might initially expect it to go to nynaeve due to the setup of her being the most powerful aes sedai of the age.

#wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #wot book spoilers #nynaeve al'meara #egwene al'vere #gawyn trakand #this particular Difference In Outlook is also part of what makes gawene so interesting & enjoyable to me esp their TGS/TOM conflicts #because this really is what's causing those conflicts at the root of it #egwene is focused on her big-picture duties and struggles to make room in them for a personal relationship #gawyn is focused on his personal relationship with egwene and struggles to make room in it for the big picture #but in the end they're able to help each other meet in the middle <3 #gawyn learns to understand the difference between egwene as his girlfriend & egwene as his amyrlin #and to modify his behavior with her to be appropriate for the respective situation #and egwene learns to allow herself work-life balance and to metaphorically take the stole off when in private with her partner #and to share her burdens with him and ask him for help with them

[boyrobott]

Astro Boy + first steps

#very disappointed that we didnt get a scene like this for the 2003 version actually :( #also. you know what. i'm gonna say it. i love the 09 version of this scene so very very very much #the way that tenma meets astro in the middle instead of waiting on the other side of the room is such nice & subtle symbolism!!!! #it's such great foreshadowing of his eventual redemption arc!!! because later on he will learn to FIGURATIVELY meet astro in the middle!!! #god im fuckign losing it #astro boy #astro boy 1960 #astro boy 1980 #astro boy 2009 #tetsuwan atom #mighty atom #gifset #my gifs #onward and queueward

[wormy-worm]

ok u know what maybe if the world isn't ready for sunrazer post that means that the world IS ready for Amoveous siblings post. This is Milo and Enho and theyre my DARLINGS and i love them SO MUCH. i have. SOOOOOOOO many thoughts abt them but after the previous post massacre i do not really feel like typing all of that xoxo love <3

#THESE DRAWINGS HAVE BEEN SITTING IN MY DRAFTS FOR MONTHS LOL #meart #original character #robot oc #ily enho ily milo my darlings my angels my loves my funny robot guys. #ive posted abt Andromeda on here b4 if u remember her Enho is her best friend !!!!! #Enhos a battle robot who doesnt want 2 fight people.. #hes the oldest sibling and theres a lot resting on their shoulders! #shes supposed to be this big metal protector but U.U she just wants to hide in his room.. and make music for the internet.. #him and andy have this whole arc abt like. autonomy and identity and junk #being as andy is a government experiment who was raised to be a superhero who. has not yet realized that she HATES being a superhero lol #Enho inspires her! #milo um. does his own thing. he was the second amoveous bot and he is lucky to have been built without the responsibility of a battle bot #which means hes a LOT weaker. doesnt have a million weapons and lasers and such like enho does. no one expects much of him. he HATES IT!!!! #he wants to be POWERFUL! he wants to HURT PEOPLE!! he wants to be USEFUL!!! hes ANGRY ALL THE TIME #its EXSAUSTING. #yk that tinkerbell thing thats like. cuz shes so small she can only feel one emotion at once. and its so big it consumes her entirely? #hes that. he lives entirely in extremes. everything is 100% for him #he jumps to conclusions so quick and so violently.. hes incredibly impulsive and it gets him into a lot of trouble. #hes also a total NERD!!! GOOB!!! says mlady unironically. likes bad computer games. wears a stupid tie everyday. cartoonishly schemes 24/7 #enho for the record is also a pretty angry person. they just dont rlly express it. they dont express much of anything lol. #shes semiverbal on a talkative day. he can be REALLY REALLY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE THO. THAT MF CAN BE SO PETTY. GOOFY ASS #but shes TERRIFIED she'll lose control of her emotions and her body and that shell hurt someone someday. absolutely terrified. #enho is as afraid of his strength as milo is of his weakness. theyre both two ends of the same extremes in a lot of ways. #polar opposites and yet exactly the same. they resent each other a lot. they need to learn to meet each other in the middle. #anyway ''i dont feel like typing all that'' and then i ramble in the tags for ten million years lol ToT I LOVE THESE GUYS #theyre my oldest ocs in this universe and i have so many thoughts if you have any questions feel free to ask me lol

[tomathi]

the most important characteristic of a good teacher is the ability to vividly remember what it feels like to have no fucking clue what you're doing

#this post is for several people #my boss who taught me jack shit about her business and still rolls her eyes at me whenever i have a question #my old calc professor who felt the need to insert a 'it clearly follows that' step in every proof he did #thereby making them useless to his students #no sir it does not clearly follow #we are here to learn #not to assume and handwave the middle bits #this post is for every student who has tried and tried and tried but just cant seem to understand #its not your fault #your teachers are supposed to meet you where you are #not the other way around #lacking in functional slash applied empathy

[atticcreationz]

Ylfa to Fig pipeline send tweet

#two sides of the same coin #but for real tho the daughter of an archdevil and the chosen of death #one constantly rebelling and not seeing her parents as complex people then having to learn what rebellion actually means #one desperate to please authority figures & idolizes her elders has to learn that they are complex people and she needs a little rebellion #they both gotta get their kisses in #anyways this is nothing #just love how they meet in the middle #dimension 20 #neverafter #d20 #ylfa snorgelsson #dimension 20 neverafter #fig faeth #figeroth faeth #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year

[raayllum]

The most Catholic thing she's ever said

+ Bonus continuity of Callum being more willing to indulge ("why wear ourselves out on a road when we can let the river do the walking?") / take the easier path ("It's too easy" "No it's not, it's exactly the right amount of easy" / "It was easy, too easy, even though I know it's wrong") / be solution oriented ("That's very clever, but how does that solve anything?") whereas Rayla still insists on always making things more difficult than they need to be

#luckily they are still learning to meet in the middle #dragons liveblogs #5x02 #characterization #like if she had just told him about the coins earlier he could've looked for that AND the startouch stuff in the bookery #and they probs would've made it out before sunset

[murasaki-cha]

Eruhaben: So let me get this straight-

Alberu: More like let me run this bi for you

Cale: let’s ace-ess the situation

Sui: Let’s see how this pans out

Rosalyn: Lesbi honest with each other

Choi Jung Soo: Let’s trans-fer some knowledge

Choi Han: I’m gay

#que Eruhaben frustratingly sighing because they’re doing an emergency meeting in the middle pf a battlefield #but all his kids are queer little fucks and have learned gen z culture by the modern bois #trash of the count's family #tcf #lcf #trash of the count’s family #lout of the count’s family #incorrect tcf quotes #tcf incorrect quotes #eruhaben #tcf eruhaben #alberu crossman #cale henituse #sui khan #rosalyn #tcf rosalyn #choi jung soo #choi han

[permanentreverie]

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#ok so mini rant session #i am doing a bit better today - little less distraught over getting fired from a job i thought i was doing pretty good at and i was trying #really hard and genuinely enjoying #and just more baffled because truly i had no warning and i was completely blindsided #i was in the middle of a 3 month trial and i would have a review at the end in which i would be offered a permanent position if it went well #and i thought i was making my way towards that! granted i was still making mistakes but genuinely not of such a great scale i thought it #called for my immediate dismissal #that being said i was still VERY MUCH IN TRAINING. i had only been there A MONTH AND A HALF learning COMPLETELY NEW SYSTEMS #and i was told that i had been there a few weeks already and that i wasn’t catching on quick enough. that there were some areas i was #understanding and others i just simply wasn’t #and i asked what areas specifically so that i could learn more and try harder #and they didn’t give me a specific answer. #ok and so. so. i have this insecurity. #that at first impression people will like me. that they may think i’m pretty or kind or funny or whatever #but then they spend time with me or get to know me and realize that that’s all bullshit. #that i’m actually not pretty and im mean and loud and selfish and lazy and rude and etc etc etc #MASSIVE fucking insecurity in that like that’s why i genuinely don’t have friends or a significant other #and that genuinely i’m just a Bad Person #and when i was fired? i was told ‘a persons true colours show after a few weeks’ #so that’s MAJORLY fucking me up. #when i was hired i was boasted to about my boss’s hiring process and how she’s ’only been fooled twice’ #and the morning before i was fired in a meeting my supervisor told everyone that i was doing quite well. #so yeah i truly had no fucking warning. at fucking all. #hurt and confused and angry and baffled and did i mention hurt #anyways if you’re still here i’m sorry i know this is not a good look for me

[i-bring-crack]

Hear me out, Zhigang tried to learn Hindi for Siddharth only to have accidentally learn Arabic by mistake.

#he is like that one guy who has a crush on a japanese girl and learns chinese to impress her #he tries to speak to Siddhart in the next conference and the other just bluntly states 'thats arabic' in the most fluent arabic ever #also i do like to headcanon that had it not been for Siddhart's middle life crisis he would have probably tried to learn english #portuguese #and chinese to meet and befriend the national hunters again. #but you know his hero complex due to context is full on amazing to spiral this man into being henious

[queerlyloud]

Just to be clear, I am greyro and I understand that what is between ART and Murderbot is queerplatonic, I am not sexualizing or romanticizing their relationship, but I just read Network Effect, and THESE ROBOTS ARE LIFE PARTNERS, YOU CAN FIGHT ME

#mine #jo is reading #murderbot diaries #network effect #ART (Asshole Research Transport) my beloved #murderbot #murderbot and ART #these robots are life partners #theyve met two whole times and art was about to destroy an entire planet for murderbot #both of their plans relied on their unique pet names for each other #art met murderbot one (1) time and literally made its identity and their shared time together the key to its salvation #they love each other your honor #get you a life partner who meets you 1 time and learns an entire new field of medicine to do surgery to help you pass as human #get you a life partner who meets you 2 times and is willing to destroy a planet if they dont give you back #get you a life partner who meets you 1 time and decides to avenge you by brutally murdering your murderers before reviving you using- #-the name only you call them #get you a life partner who also hold your hand while watching scary tv shows #and plays the soundtrack from your favorite soap opera when youre updet #and will snip and banter with you but will also apologize and meet you in the middle at the end of the day #god i love them so much #for me it will always always always be the devotion

[chickensoupleg]

Silly thought but what if Billy's mom, in an attempt to save her son because she can't take him far without Neil tracking them down immediately, just fakes his death. She's trusted enough to take her son to the beach where it's just her and her little boy, and she can't take Neil's abuse anymore and a weird moment of understanding as she watches Billy ride waves with his giggles filling the air between the rushing of the water and the sounds of the seabirds that she won't leave him there either.

So she sets up something with relatives of hers where they'll take Billy temporarily and make it on the news that there was a freak accident and a mother is devastated because her son is gone, fashioned where no evidence could be pinned elsewhere. Times it so that yeah maybe a stronger wave or even a riptide caught the otherwise experienced but still a child surfer by surprise. Neil blames it on her because that was their son and how could she be so daft to not keep track of him. It gets pretty bad, but she knew it would, so not even a month later does she disappear as well.

She gets ahold of Billy again, but far away from where they used to be because Billy is supposed to be dead and Neil might find them if they stayed. They end up at Hawkins because it is a tiny little town and there was no way Neil would find them.

And then something happens to Billy's mum anyways because life just kind of hates him so he stays with the relatives which are the Holloways because why not, and they don't mind raising their nephew with their daughter who is about the same age. They get along great. He even gets along with the neighbourhood kids, even if they're also within that fairly wealthy attitude.

Cut to years later and Billy is a grown teen now, hanging out and doing great when a new family rolls into town and he catches a glimpse of a man he barely remembers anymore but still feels phantom chills run down his back.

Lucky for him, the man doesn't have any reason to randomly approach the teenager that echoes a family long gone.

#billy hargrove #he meets max through steve and when he finds out this is his ex-dad's stepdaughter he gets the urge to protect her #which he finds weird because he doesn't know her at all but he still feels like he should #neil doesn't recognise him because he only knew him as a little boy and he understood his son died years ago #and this teen can't possibly be his deceased son #even if billy had the same first name (or maybe his name was something else before and was now billy for whatever reason) #billy doesn't react in any way either (he's learned customer service smile and its genuinely been a while) so neil doesn't suspect a thing #and neil isn't about to humiliate himself by calling him son in the middle of public #was sleepy when i wrote this

[zephyr-draws]

musings on insects, isolation, and how much can change when you're not looking

#i started this like a month ago #and finished it today because i was laughing at how much the sentence 'i'm going bug hunting with my partner' would kill pre-college me #but yeah. i'm still learning to accept that i'm not alone anymore. #learning to love insects was easy. it's a lot harder to learn to love myself #in the wise words of a fic my friend wrote: it sucks so bad sometimes. but even when it sucks it's better. #personal #insects #also all of the scenes in the middle two pages are specific memories that have contributed the most to why neither of those things are true #1. meeting my partner in an entomology class i took on a whim #2. the fateful 8 hour dnd conversation on a field trip for that class that started our friendship #3. trip to a museum (i also could have drawn the part of that trup where i got to hold a cockroach but i don't have a picture of it) #(and i really like that picture of her) #4. seeing a cockroach on the way to class and both of us yelling 'oh my god a little guy!' #5. working at an insect collection together (oh god the things our boss has probably heard) #6. seeing a boxelder bug on the way to see a movie together (we always saw insects when we spent time together) #7. seeing fireflies for the first time when i visited her over the summer :D

[championsandheroes]

So I'm not the only one disappointed in how un-qunari Iron Bull was (esp as a romance option)?? Thank Creators XD And written by guy who made my fave Bioware romance (Garrus) somehow?? Like, the excitement I had and how fast it went down the drain when I realized IB is basically some very horny (pun intended) guy who likes to party after philosophical debates we had with Arishok and Sten was quite a let down ngl, at least for me personally. Sorry for a long rant lol

Yeah... I think Iron Bull is an interesting character, but he isn't what I wanted from a qunari romance. Kinda like how I really liked what a mess Cullen was in DAO and DA2, but I found the romance in DAI underwhelmingly normal and not what I expected it to be.

#Iron Bull was too well adapted to non-qunari society #I wanted the culture clashes #that was a big part of the appeal #Cullen having Issues (TM) was a large part of what made him interesting #I suppose it says something about me that I found Samson more appealing than Cullen in DAI #both as a character and in appearance #give me the weird #give me the mess #I love a disaster #I love learning about other cultures and other ways of doing things #I want to meet in the middle - not where I am

[dbphantom]

maybe i should have gone into practical effects instead of computer science...

#when i was in middle school i used to use red and black pens + spit for blending to make it look like the backs of my hands were torn open #i can't believe it's almost 4am. i just spent 5 hours typing up an essay about MM's erik that i just fuckin privated bc i was embarrassed #AND I STILL NEVER SPELL HIS NAME RIGHT THE FIRST TIME AAAAAAAA #i was right but im going to save all my points for the fanfic im currently planning out and promptly NEVER GOING TO ACTUALLY WRITE #I say shoving my plans for my h2o s3 rewrite off the table #yes i skipped from s2 to s3 i had a BRILLIANT idea [season 3 h2o spoilers ahead be wary my mutuals who are still watching] #okay so you know how lewis goes to the american institute of marine bio in the middle of 3? since this is tied to my s2 rewrite fic i wante #to actually finally reasonably re-introduced dr denman to the story because i never liked that she just fucked off at the end of s1 #despite WITNESSING the moon pool magic. so i made it so she runs into lewis while doing a presentation for the college and they have a chat #(because her JAW paper plays an important part in my s2 rewrite bc i imagine lewis is the kind of guy who SAYS he deleted every copy of #it... but ACTUALLY he secretly printed himself out a copy to study in private to compare to his own notes bc #[lewis voice] come *on* guys just THINK of the progress that he could make with this! [grabby hands in front of chest]) #so yeah they have a chat and Linda kind of gives Lewis the opposite dilemma in s3 that Louise gives him in s1 about science and magic #since SHE knows about the moon pool and has been biding her time and she knows Lewis knows and Lewis is like ah... uh oh. #it will eventually tie into the idea it's not about forcing science and magic together or separating them #its abt respectfully and responsibly utilizing both to see their fullest potential. which lewis learned in s2 and Linda has... not. #BUT #later on she gets a call from 1 (one) ryan who is like 'hey so i heard u did environmental studies on mako for dr bennett a couple years ag #and i was wondering if you've seen anything weird there as im currently doing a-' and she's immediately like 'YOU SON OF A BITCH IM IN' #and he's like 'wha-' and she's like 'i have already booked my plane tickets we're going to have a great time we have lots to talk about :)' #and wheeee now they have someone who knows about mermaids on their team and it's the perfect way to bring lewis back to relevancy in s3 :D #it also gives me reason to have two bad bitches (linda and sophie) meet and get to know each other which is not a dynamic ive seen in #any of the H2O fics i've ever read so im very hyped to delve into how they'll play off each other #also charlotte is there so technically three bad bitches (only in my au Charlotte never lost her tail and is part of the gang she just move #because she felt like she needed to leave to really be able to find herself without being in her grandmother's shadow but she comes back bc #well... it's season 3 mako is sounding the fucking emergency alarms everyone is showing up sdkghkfjhg) #im also so so so hyped to show u guys who's coming back in the s2 rewrite because it ISNT denman and i think everyone thinks it will be :3c #(i said she when telling ppl to look forward to a familiar face... but can u blame me for getting hype she's one of my favorite characters! #i love u H2O #cruddy rambles

[joghurtbrot]

just found out there's really cheap language classes here at an adult education center so guess who's gonna learn Hebrew as soon as they offer a new course for beginners!!

#I've been thinking about this for about a year #one time a guy read me a passage from his old aramaic homework and it was so beautiful #I know that's not modern hebrew but still #another time I was on the train with a middle aged israeli singer and she was just! so! fucking! hot! #I fell a little bit in love with that one so I have this small hope of meeting another enticing israeli singer if I learn hebrew #and of course it's a beautiful and fascinating language #personal #language #langblr