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I hate the idea of 'missed potential' or 'missed opportunities', because 99% of that is hollow made up garbage. My 'potential' is only what I feel like doing and what I want to be doing, there is no 'third hidden potential' that I'm failing to put to use, my only potential is my own prerogative. There's nothing else I should be doing or developing right now or I'm missing out, I know my reality, I know my abilities, I'm choosing to do this, there's zero potential for anything else but my free will to be exercised.
Also most of what is presented as an 'opportunity' today is an opportunity to be exploited. You're not missing out on jobs you could be doing right now, you're doing better using your own time for your own purposes than it being stolen for someone else's. You're not failing to rise to the opportunity if it's something you don't feel like doing, something you don't feel confident or happy doing, or something that scares you - that's not an opportunity! That's literally just something you don't want to be doing. It can miss you and you're better for it.
There's not a wild fantasy world of insane things one could be doing if only they didn't miss opportunities, in reality a person cannot be expected to modify their own free will and jump into someone else's in order to 'not miss out' or 'fulfill potential'. We can fulfill our potential by doing exactly what we feel like, when we feel like it. Also it is insulting to imply someone only has 'potential', because we all have more than that. We're someone already. We're doing something already, just by being. We're a part of society, we're surviving, we're experiencing the world and we're making choices. If you see that and go 'ah missed potential', then you're just creating an in to trick people into thinking that they could be more fulfilled following your will, rather than their own. And no they would not be. We're more than the 'potential' to do someone else's bidding.
#pushing pressure on kids and young adults to live to expectations that have nothing to do with their own desires#missed opportunities#fomo#missed potential#manipulative behaviour#just leave people be#angry rant#rant
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HL Incorrect Quote #57
Garreth: I bet I can fit 15 chocolate frogs in my mouth.
Leander: You are a danger to society.
Sebastian: And a coward. Do 20.
#sebastian and garreth are each other's shoulder devils when it comes to shenanigans#leander once again wonders why he's best friends with garreth#there should have been more house unity shown in the game#missed opportunities#garreth weasley#sebastian sallow#leander prewett#hogwarts legacy#hogwarts legacy incorrect quotes
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luka modric, you will always be special. you have been that babe, you are that babe, you will always be that babe. love you babygirl, stay golden.
#(johnny voice) THIS MAN is my GIRL#luka modric#real madrid#the way sergio and i could have fangirled over this sweet bunny together#missed opportunities#sergio ramos#ramodric#modramos
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☹️ Look at what we could've had ..
🧡🤎 Denzil Patrick x x
❤️🤍 By Parra x x
#sigh#missed opportunities#only Louis couldve pulled off that orange shirt and matching set#matching sets#Denzil Patrick#by Parra#Louis Tomlinson#AOTV Global Screening#13 May 2023#Fashion Louis#mine
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On ACOTAR Faeries and Names
For some reason, SJM undoes most, if not all, of traditional faerie lore in her books. (I haven't read TOG or CC so I can't comment on those.) The cynical part of me thinks it's because faeries can be difficult to write well, therefore she took the easy route; the more forgiving part of me thinks it's because she set out to explore why humans believed certain myths about faeries, but then lost interest as she spent more and more time in the realm of the Night Court. (Side note: I find it odd that SJM chose to emphasize that the Illyrians are NOT really faeries, whether High or "lesser". I honestly wonder why that is.) Regardless, there's nothing very faerie about SJM's High Fae, etc. except for their ethereal beauty and pointed ears and the fact that they can do magic, I guess.
I've already written about Aging and Lying when it comes to ACOTAR's Faeries, and I thought I'd touch on another aspect of faerie lore that SJM chooses to ignore. (Heh, that rhymes.)
Names.
His [Rhysand's] eyes shifted to my face. “What’s your name, love?” Giving him my name—and my family name—would lead only to more pain and suffering. He might very well find my family and drag them into Prythian to torment, just to amuse himself. But he could steal my name from my mind if I hesitated for too long. Keeping my mind blank and calm, I blurted the first name that came to mind, a village friend of my sisters’ whom I’d never spoken to and whose face I couldn’t recall. “Clare Beddor.” My voice was nothing more than a gasp.
~ACOTAR ch. 26
Clare and her family are killed because Rhys revealed that name to Amarantha, even though he admitted later (in the next book) that he thought she made it up. So, Feyre's fears were not unfounded, but once she is Under the Mountain with everyone else, she is still reluctant to give her name when Amarantha asks for it.
Lucien is even brought forward and refuses to give away Feyre's name. For his defiance, Amarantha orders Rhysand to shatter his mind before Feyre finally gives in and shouts her name for everyone to hear. The Lady of Autumn even repays her sacrifice by helping her with one of Amarantha's "household tasks".
What is the sacrifice, though? It would seem that the only reason Amarantha wants to know her name is because Feyre knows hers, and wants to address her "properly":
“Feyre,” Amarantha said, testing my name, the taste of the two syllables on her tongue. “An old name—from our earlier dialects. Well, Feyre,” she said. I could have wept with relief when she didn’t ask for my family name. “I promised you a riddle.”
~ACOTAR ch. 35
In traditional faerie lore, it is said that names have power, so giving a faerie your name gives them power over you. (It is important to note that they cannot take anything from you. It has to be given.)
There is a scene in Hayao Miyazaki's animated classic in which the young protagonist Chihiro signs a contract to work for the sorceress Yubaba. In a beautifully animated sequence, her signature floats away and into Yubaba's waiting palm. She literally signed away her name. Chihiro is then given a new name in exchange: Sen. By the next day, she has already forgotten her original name and her purpose (freeing her enchanted parents). It is only when another ensorcelled young man gives her the bundle of her old clothes with a card in the pocket (with her name written on it) that she remembers who she was, and why she's there.
I just think it could have been very interesting to give Feyre a similar plotline in ACOTAR. By giving Amarantha her name, she no longer has it, and can no longer remember it. (And since the story is told in first person, it's easier to convey.)
How she gets her name back could be handled in one of two ways: Lucien gives back her name like the true friend he is, or she doesn't remember it until the very end.
If we explore the second option, this is what I'm thinking: Amarantha sought to break Feyre in mind, body, and spirit. The one thing she could never take from Feyre was her love for Tamlin.
“I love you,” I said. “No matter what she says about it, no matter if it’s only with my insignificant human heart. Even when they burn my body, I’ll love you.” My lips trembled, and my vision clouded before several warm tears slipped down my chilled face. I didn’t wipe them away.
~ACOTAR ch. 43
In my Faeries and Lying essay (linked above), I think it would have been more powerful for Amarantha to want Feyre to admit to lying about her love for Tamlin. In the same vein, I think it would be that much more impactful for Feyre to admit that even if she does not know her own name, she knows she loves Tamlin, and that's enough.
It's the one thing Amarantha couldn't take from her. It's the reason Feyre went Under the Mountain in the first place. And most importantly, it's the answer to the riddle. Love. And that's enough.
#my essays#sjm critical#the farther we get from the first book#the less magical it gets#acotar is a better standalone book#acotar worldbuilding#missed opportunities
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Sometimes I randomly will think of how they really missed out on having Vanitas and Riku interact...
Like how would he interact if he was there with Sora, Ven, and Vanitas. Like then Vanitas' mask comes off.
Remember when Riku had that bizarre WHAAAAAAAT at the possibility Aqua was another Sora. And at this point everyone knows Sora also had Ven's heart too.
So for him to just see another Sora except he looks much like him bark darker shades, would just have been really interesting.
Like so many missed opportunities, he could honestly rile him up based on his insecurities and how darkness took over him and how he sent the island to darkness.
And he has Sora's face so it's going to be THAT MUCH HARDER.
Also even the fact we didn't see the dark riku on the organization's side interact with Vanitas is another crime itself.
THEY WERE ON THE SAME SIDE SO HOW COME WE DIDN'T SEE THAT!?
Okay to be fair Vanitas didn't interact with much of the others either— which is still a crime...
Don't get me wrong I loved the keyblade graveyard battle scenes and how they fought and trios getting reunited. Vanitas choosing to go and Sora seeing his face was a good scene, but there were a lot of other missed opportunities...
Instead vanilla Riku only dealt with the replicas, and Sora saw the organization Riku (which is Repliku from the past brought to he future).
But Sora got to see both Riku and Vanitas, thought it wasn't the Repliku who stayed with og Riku.
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Even Sora talking to Repliku would be something because he would be sad that he forgot him.
Sometimes I like Riku angst and the sad things happening. But what if it made him realized he FORGOT SOME STUFF and needs to remember—
That Sora forgot about COM events and Necklace Theory stuff and must regain them??
#kingdom hearts#kh#riku#sora#kh riku#vanitas#kh vanitas#repliku#dark riku#riku replica#replica riku#vanipliku#vaniku#soriku#necklace theory#Vanitas and Riku should have interacted in kh3#missed opportunities#organization xiii#kh3#kingdom Hearts 3#chain of memories
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Maybe drawing Cleo and Joan?
They are doomed to be enemies to lovers, I’m afraid
#i love them so much#missed opportunities#so many missed opportunities#them <3#clone high#cleopatra#Joan of arc#jfk#Abe#cleo x joan#joan x cleo#Cleo#digital art#fanart#drawing#ask#anon
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Also. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen any AniCow posts. But.
I need you all to know that there is currently a Cattle Industry Convention taking place at the same venue as Megacon Orlando.
This has to have been the biggest missed opportunity for a crossover event, ever.
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Going through the Lokius tag with "pie" in any field, and I have yet to encounter a fic other than mine where the pie contains drugs of any kind (hallucinogens, memory-altering, mood stabilizers, or hell even aphrodisiacs (surprising given that it's AO3 )). And like I did find some sexy times pie scene fics but they don't involve any kind of drug.
Honestly, I can't believe there's so few drugged pie fics. I've heard people say that but I had to see it to believe it. What are we doing to our youth to have them not apply classical dystopian tropes?
#missed opportunities#lokius fandom what the hell are you doing?#i feel like my niche in this fandom is non-fluffy lokius given i'm writing a thriller about the pie#on drugged pie#the drugged pie fic#lokius#mcu!loki#mcu!mobius#and my other lokius fic is dark!lokius and very fucked up#most of the fics based on the pie scene are cutesy and fluffy dates
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Finally watched Cobweb, and they had a pretty good ending right in sight (okay, maybe it would have been a little predictable and cliché, but whatever, it's not like the ending they chose wasn't even more clichéd), and they didn't go for it, and I am frustrated.
#ok maybe I'm the only person in the cozy corner who watched for the plot instead of 'the plot' but#GAH#cobweb#ending#missed opportunities
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Man
I really deluded myself into thinking there was going to be an episode in New Mew about Mint dancing
But now it's almost certainly not being renewed for season 3 and it didn't happen in season 1 or 2, and now I just look like a massive clown
#there could have been so much potential for an ep anout her dancing man#missed opportunities#art#digital art#tokyo mew mew#tokyo mew mew new#tmm#tmmn#tmm new#minto aizawa#mint aizawa#minto tokyo mew mew#tokyo mew mew minto#tokyo mew mew mint#mint tokyo mew mew
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supernatural literally put their characters into a cartoon and then didn’t give dean heart for cas and didn’t give cas little birdies above his head every time he got love confused with dean
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Sorry guys I chickened out and didn't murder anyone yesterday
#I'm still grounded anyway#Did you know if I murder someone it's called a 'car accident'#maybe next time...#missed opportunities#the bentley#good omens rp
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I saw your post about dumb points people make so that Dimitri and the Kingdom come off as worse and to justify Edelgard invasion and I was wondering if you have heard the one about how people try to use Duscur amd Sreng as a excise?
Like they claim that the Kingdom bad treatment of both nations makes them morally evil and that they deserve to be wiped out and conquered in return or that Dimitri has no actual desire to free Duscur and is just using them.
But they always conveniently forgot that the Empire has done the same thing to Brigid and Dagda in the past or even the fact that Edelgard is openly using Brigid
Imo that also explains why Petra completely falls flat as a character, because we have the situation where she is Adrestia's hostage, and could really bring something to the table about imperialism, power (in)balance and...
We have Nopes, where, iirc, Pat tried to lolcalise the part where she wonders why Faerghus used to see Duscur as something else than a land to be conquered before the Tragedy, when Adrestia always set its sights on Brigid - but bar that?
In this situation - a character being a literal hostage of another - I would have expected more than 5 throw away lines and the insulting (Petra is a princess, not the daughter of a fisherman, you really want me to believe she never learnt the language of the juggernaut trying to invade every saturday? Apparently Brigid people know how to speak Fodlanese, if her paralogue is any indication!) trope of "doesn't know the language".
(and yet it speaks volumes about how Adrestia treated her, even if it's not realistic : the child under house Goneril's "good care" is more fluent than her even if he has difficulties to pronounce Mercie's name, whereas the commoner who was saved and cared for by the prince is perfectly fluent in both languages, and even taught him some Duscurian in return!)
But ranting about Petra will take another post altogether, especially how she is perceived in certain, hm, corners of the fandom.
Let's say people living in said corner of the fandom embraced their favourite png's rhetoric, and the famous "Adrestian double standard" even in their real life interactions (with other fans). And it when it doesn't apply, they just create it.
I remember early on after the first Nopes leaks how people tried to piece out (10k years of lore!!) how Sreng and Faerghus's borders came to be, and some "devoted fans" immediately jumped on the Faerghus BaD wagon.
But conveniently ignored Wilhelm the Sailor, writing how he utterly failed his campaign to invade Dagda, off handedly mentions how Brigid people are "savages" and prefers to die there than to face the Emperor of the time who's going to be very pissed that he didn't manage to invade Dagda.
It's more or less (10k years of lore I'm telling you!) explained Sreng and Faerghus/Gautier fight over ressources, but why the fuck Adrestia wants to "adrestianise" Brigid and Dagda? For ressources or just to spread the might and glory of Emperor Ionius III ?
Saying Dimitri doesn't want reparations for Duscur and to cleanse Duscur's name is like saying Rhea's ears are round - you have a better chance to win an argument against a potted plant than against some people who aren't even talking about the game.
#anon#replies#you want to tell me Brigid is so insular that their crown princess doesn't even know how to speak Fodlanese#but peon 1 and peon 558 who welcomes the adrestian army/the church in her paralogue know how to speak Fodlanese?#giving her that trope is pretty shitty tbh#they could have given it to the former child slave not the princess turned hostage!#even if it speaks volumes about how adrestia treated her#Dimitri BaD#FE16#3 nopes#missed opportunities
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