#to set lower expectations

[petit-papillion]

Ferrari Car Launches 2019-2024

📸 Scuderia Ferrari

#as much as i loved the super hyped up launch from last year #i can appreciate them taking it down a notch #to set lower expectations #but man if this car delivers.... #sf90 #sf1000 #sf21 #f1-75 #sf-23 #sf-24 #charles leclerc #carlos sainz #scuderia ferrari #f1 car launch

[lunarwednesday]

Do you know her favorite spell? The spell to create a field of flowers.

#frieren: beyond journey's end #sousou no frieren #frieren flamme #frieren serie #frieren #frieren fanart #lo and behold i have once again been captured by the found family trope #great grandma serie needs to set her expectations lower

[clannfearrunt]

HEY HOW ARE WE FEELING ABOUT DEDF1SH/ACHT BEING CANONICALLY THEY/THEM

I think I've unwittingly become the fucking Splatoon Gender Bad News Guy but I would not get your hopes up in the slightest:

The translation in Splat 3 has been kind of Weird, not with the major shit as far as I know (thankfully) but with little things on the side; they have little oddities that would not be fucking there if the English team were communicating well with the JP team, which doesn't inspire confidence in the quality of their already pretty Meh english twitter posts.

I would watch the info on Dedf1sh's Official Bio on their splatbands info section of their website:

(sorry every website I use is in comic sans it's the firefox settings)

If they change Ded's pronouns to they/them in here, THEN I would get out the bottles. Or if they use they/them in the actual game when Side Order comes out.

tldr: bizarrely, I super would not trust the goddamn official Twitter account for info which is certainly a fucking sentence but it's true! Shit's weird. Shit's weird in the game even. Just don't get your hopes up and get them shattered or god forbid start up discourse I can't do this again you Cannot Start Dedcourse 2. HOLD YOUR HORSES EVERYONE we have jumped the gun on Dedf1sh Translation before and it ended in disaster learn from the mistakes of the past

#sorry im kind of talking to a General Audience here bc this is a bit of an info post. ''you'' isn't specifically you! #splatoon #asks #duskittycat #dedf1sh #splatoon 3 #splatoon side order #ive been calling shiver's situation Dedcourse 2 but IT'S ACTUAL DED THIS TIME #nintendo barely has a grasp on binary trans people let alone nonbinary people you have to set your expectations a little lower

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabattery]

I hate when people in the upper middle or upper class say “eat the rich” and then someone chimes in like “you’re the rich”. Yes! I acknowledge my position of privilege! I do not face any of the struggles that come from a position of financial instability, and I never have! I know that I do not have an intimate knowledge of what being poor is like, and for that I am eternally grateful. However, we aren’t TALKING about people who get to live comfortable lives. Most of us (and by that, I mean people who say “eat the rich”) aren’t even talking about the families who have a vacation home, or bought their kid a pony, or the ones with a backyard pool, or even the ones who have like five TVs or a huge house! I, at least personally, am not talking about people who have enough money that they can live in luxury, go to expensive restaurants for special occasions, or spend a year abroad. Yes, that is wealth! Extreme wealth! But that kind of wealth isn’t inherently harmful, because that is the kind of wealth that could have been made without completely fucking everyone else over, or inherited. I still think people in these positions should make donations to charity every so often, and so on. Of course, I think that anyone who has the means to help others should. But frankly, to say that these are the people we need to be burning at the stake, is just idiotic. Eat the rich is a saying most effective when applied to those with excessive wealth. Billionaires- people who can buy companies, people who could own hundreds of vacation homes without making a dent in their wealth. People who can comfortably spend 250,000 big ones a piece to go on a suicide mission to see some wet metal at the bottom of the sea. People like Bezos and Musk who have screwed countless people over, and will continue to do so without batting an eye until the day that they die. And somehow, manage to keep doing so after, as well. There is ABSOLUTELY no way to obtain that amount of money without stepping all over innumerable people, ruining lives, and damaging our planet. People with that much money could never even BEGIN to spend it all. Yes, there are rich people with big houses and swimming pools! There are also rich people who stockpile the amount of money that could end the homelessness crisis and choose to never touch a penny of it. I think that you can live comfortably and acknowledge that the ultra-rich need to be taken down. I think that you can live INDULGENTLY and acknowledge that the ultra-rich need to be taken down. The billions that they hoard aren’t a rainy-day fund, or in case of emergency, or them saving up so they can go to Spain during spring break. They’re just there. They could EASILY change millions of lives and barely make a dent in their wealth. That’s what sets them apart. “The Rich” in “eat The Rich” aren’t just rich people. They are people with enough money to change the world for the better, who choose not to.

#please don’t come at me for this #I just think that you can have a nice cushy house and a stable income and still acknowledge that billionaires are insane #going to France for summer break doesn’t mean you need to die #choosing not to END THE HOMELESSNESS CRISIS IN AMERICA despite HAVING THE MEANS TO out of greed does. however #like yeah my financial situation is fucking awesome right now and every day I am so happy for that #but I genuinely can’t even comprehend spending more than 1000 on a boat ride unless it was seriously a once in a lifetime thing #and you’d have to pay ME to get into that tiny ass submarine #the only life changing thing about that tin can was how much your life expectancy lowered the second you set foot in it #oceangate #eat the rich #discussions #polite debates

[running-in-the-dark]

the thing that I knew would happen when my mother-in-law gave us a vacuum cleaner with a battery has happened: the battery is dead and apparently we have lost the charging cable.

#I mean I suppose that kind of thing is to be expected while you're moving #but there's also a lot of dirt when you're moving #so the vacuum cleaner has been really useful! #except now it will be entirely useless until we find the damn cable (if we find it that is. a replacement is 20€. I'm not paying 20€ for a #fucking charging cable for a vacuum cleaner!!! this is why I would've just bought a corded one 🙃) #like it's a nice vacuum cleaner. it's light. it's efficient. it's not too loud on the lower settings. the charge of the battery lasted quite #a while! #but now we need to keep track of one more cable and remember to charge one more thing and also the battery will die completely one day and #it will probably be either impossible or insanely expensive to have it replaced #I'm not a fan. #personal

[c4ndyc41n]

I am the monster you created

who can i commission to sing this in a kermit voice

#intrusive 3am thoughts #every show needs a muppet au i think #jinx #jinx arcane #arcane #kermit #the muppets #setting the stage with this bad boy #to lower expectations #cains candy #artists on tumblr #im serious about the comm #JKSHDJSH

[pumpkinsouppe]

I need to stop making plans for when to play video games because this is genuinely so embarrassing that I only completed ONE GAME SINCE MAY

AND ITS THE ONE I CHECKED OFF. Bro I started hades last September 😭😭😭😭😭 I love that game sm def a top 5 but I’m so bad at finishing games gjdlksfmlk

#bro fndsilfhdo #to be fair I was super busy with school and now I’m super busy with zines but… #I need to set lower expectations for myself

[niuxita21]

If these two aren't meant to be in love with each other, someone on the directing team fucked up REAL bad lmao

#el grito de las mariposas #the cry of the butterflies #minerva mirabal #arantxa oyamburu #shitty screencap posts (TM) #omg wtf with tumblr's new photo set creator my shitty screencap posts look even shittier!!! #anyways the way I'm kweerbaiting myself here EYE have to laugh #came for the female-centric historical drama centering on a period of latam politics I know very little about #and stayed for the homoerotic friendship that's pretty on brand for me tbh #and yes I know kweerbaiting as such is not a thing but it's particularly funny here bc like minerva mirabal was a real person #so if she was not actually a lesbian that's on me for creating a story in my head lmao #that said the directing in every scene with these two is at the very least harold-adjacent #and older arantxa is FO SHIZ hiding something I just thought it was a torrid lesbian affair with the protagonist #but it could just as easily be that she did end up getting in bed with the trujillos and was maybe instrumental in minerva's execution #(which would devastate me if it turns out to be the case) #or that she's not proud of having been a dancer at that club because it does look like the female dancers ended up doing... other stuff #still not to worry bc as soon as I read that article about how the show was about the undying FRIENDSHIP between these two #I knew to lower my expectations #so then WHY do they keep having such bizarrely intimate physical contact and looking at each other like THAT like what is the angle here??? #still I'll stick around because I'm curious about what older arantxa is hiding if it's not lesbianism #and because minerva's actress is so fucking beautiful omg she looks like a young salma hayek it's hypnotizing #look at me back on my bullshit making posts of rare f/f pairings from shows no one's ever heard of #feels good feels organic nature is healing etc

[thebusylilbee]

the signals im getting from The Mandalorian season 3 are properly deadly at this point, im expecting this new season to be nothing more than the rotten putrid corpse of whatever this show used to be

#all I want is to be proven wrong but until then im setting my expectations lower and lower #the mandalorian #the mandalorian season 3 #jon favreau #bee tries to talk

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Izzy stans: we could get canon steddy hands, but even if we don't Izzy's gonna be on the ship with everyone after this is all over

Me, knowing what happens to villains in this series:

#this is not me being a hater for once #babygirl you are setting yourself up for disappointment #please please please lower your expectations because i would bet money on your blorbo dying in the dumbest way possible #i just dont want you to hate the show #even if he doesnt die he cant still be hanging around and have there be a happy ending for Ed Stede and the crew

[gentlethorns]

fuck dude i have got to find a job where i can be self-employed and creative. i cannot be in fucking retail hell anymore

#she bork #tbd #like now i don't deal w customers which is cool but now that i work at like a big retail store and not a little mall outlet the pressure is #insane. and i have bosses who never say good job or thank you and who have set me up to fail by throwing a department on me that i was not #hired to run or trained for and frankly don't have time to run properly either. so every week just starts w me in our weekly meeting being a #fucking piñata like 'why didn't you get this done 🤨 you need to manage your time better 🤨 you're losing sales 🤨' and i'm like i'm trying!!!! #what more can i do!!!!!! and then the side of it i actually kind of enjoy (which is what i was originally hired to do) is very very hard on #my body bc it's a very physical job (i run the team that unloads the trucks every day and like i'm usually helping unload bc i'm not just #gonna stand there and watch while my team busts their asses lol) and now i'm finding out that it's actually not normal to wake up every day #w your joints screaming and stiff and that i might have a chronic condition (doctor is thinking some sort of chronic inflammatory arthritis #but i won't know if my imaging and blood tests showed anything until like mid-june) and i'm like. so even the part of my job that i don't #mind as much is not good bc it's like actively destroying my body. okay sick 🤠 and i don't wanna quit bc i've only been there for like #eight months and this job would be really valuable on a resume but i don't want it to look like i'm a job hopper or like i'm fickle or #unreliable. so i'm stuck here for a while i think. but the pressure is destroying me mentally and i know i need to find a position somewhere #else that is 1. not fucking goddamn retail bc retail will always be hell and 2. not management bc i don't see myself ever really getting #into upper management but lower/middle management gets shit on the most so if i go somewhere else and end up in middle management i'll be #right back to wanting to kill myself in a matter of months. basically i'm tired of expectations and pressure and stress and i'm tired of #waking up at fucking 2:30 every morning just to go in and get shit on and destroy my body all over something that in the end i do not fuckin #care about. i need to make art and be held accountable by only myself. idk i've been toying w the idea of learning how to tattoo and trying #to start establishing some artistic skill so maybe eventually i can do that? not now bc the economy sucks and that's scary lol and anyway i #have to give myself some time to actually learn the skill and perfect a style. but it makes decent money (at least before the expense of #supplies and taxes) and allows you to travel and still work and also it would be fun. and i could tattoo myself so it would cut some #expenses for me since i cannot stay away from the damn needle. idk lol i need to save some money before i buy a tattoo gun or anything but #i'm considering it bc i am going fucking crazy rn and ik this feeling will leave me eventually but i also know it will come back bc it #always does. and i'm tired of just surviving and just making it through every day and every week like i want to be happy and this is just #not doing it for me anymore #ugh fuck why couldn't i have been born w a brain that likes numbers and code and technology. i love being an artist but it makes finding a #sustainable career really difficult bc i feel so restless and miserable when i'm stuck in a passionless job but my passions are not #particularly profitable. hate it here why wasn't i born a capybara no job no responsibility just squint and squeak and sun

[harringtonisms]

so what's the game plan for when "the crawl" just ends up being dr. brenner somehow evading death again & crawling out of nevada

#i have no faith in the duffers #if i set my expectations lower than the upside down then i cant be disappointed #st

[backpackingspace]

Okay but obi wan and luminara sneaking out to escape their strict masters and going to party in the lower levels regularly. Quinnlan got uninvited because they realized he wasn't sneaking out. Tholme wished him well and wanted up for when he got back to hear about his kid's adventures

#Star wars #obi wan kenobi #luminara unduli #Quinnlan vos #I'm just such a fan of them being angry teenagers together #You cannot convince me that qui gon didn't set a curfew for obi wan when he was 13 and just never changed it #This man fully expects his 17 year old kid to be home be 8 pm sharp #This causes half their fights #Sneaking out #Tholme encourages quin to go down to the lower levels because it's helpful shadow training

[tutuandscoot]

Is it seriously too much to ask that the 10 or so real, genuine fans of T+S’s only good, solid 1hour+ interview with them/either of them talking abt themselves and skating isn’t with DAVE FUCKING LEASE!!!!!????! Like can we please do better than that!?!

#I’m not mad. just disappointed #actually no I’m a bit mad #just when I think we get a good one we get let down #I need to learn to set my expectations a lot lower #me clinging everytime I want to watch a good 1:14:00 mins of VM talking together and Dave fkn lease has to be next to them 😑 #*cringing

[smute]

ok as promised here's the sex paper

#ok so this is literally just for the 3 people that asked me about it #i mean it's public anyone is more than welcome to read it obvi #all im saying is #dont feel obligated to look at this and dont expect to be entertained kfkfkdkg #this is an academic text after all. and a term paper on top of that not a sexy lil essay where anything goes #i.e. sort of niche and dry by definition #i mean i do try to write in an accessible way and to make it as ''fun'' as i can but. yeah its probably not super interesting if you're #unfamiliar with women in love. although i did include a short summary. weirdly enough. must have been worried about the page limit uvghjfdk #ilooking back its actually kind of underdeveloped imo like i easily could have written twice as much #and i wish i could've beefed up the conclusion a little more. its like. all set up and very little evaluation #but alas! #anyway it was good enough for my prof #and im just lowering expectations now lol #i have a few other papers that i could share #that might be a little more interesting for non lit people #but obvisouly only if anyone's interested. im not trying to start a profesh blog or anything #unless 😳 #no im really not #& #lit

[beldaroot]

word on the street that s&b s2 is completely diverging the crows' storyline from book canon... my god almighty i call heaven and earth to bear record today that netflix, you will crumble!!!!!

#the way i'm never gonna get a loyal soc/tck adaptation even though we have the perfect actors... it's so sick and twisted #i told myself to keep my expectations low but ig they have to go a lower HELP sorry for my constant book purist attitude it's a flaw ik! #also.... releasing it on a random thursday? what's going on? lol netflix setting it up to fail hm? #sab #sab spoilers