No joke is one-size-fits-all, but adding "but I remain optimistic" at the end of any somewhat-speculating statement makes it funny, taking a different tone in each.

Adding it to the end of something positive gives it an unexpected twist - implying that whatever the good thing that happened was, it wasn't what you expected or hoped to happen, but you're yet to give up hope of whatever the fuck you've now vaguely implied towards might still happen. "He survived and is expected to make a full recovery, but I remain optimistic."

Adding it to a neutral statement implies that you think something can be done about it, funniest if the statement is something that obviously can't be affected. "Apparently it's tuesday tomorrow, but I remain optimistic."

And the bleakest, most hopeless statements just become bleakly funny by the grim absurdity. "About 30 seconds remain until impact, and the chances of any of us surviving the crash are zero. But I remain optimistic."

Reposted from @jackblack Kung Fu Panda 4 in theaters now!!

📹 @taylorstephens

Im gonna shill for Marie Kondo again but this is why I find her books (yes, books, the TV show is fun but ultimately misses a lot of the core ideas) so good.

A lot of home org advice fully misses this aspect. Kondo not only acknowledges it, but leans into it. And ultimately this helps motivste me to keep my space tidy - it's really hard to me to keep on the nebulous goal of self-care, but much easier to get up and put things away if I envision my salt and pepper grinders as like, retail workers who are now standing in an empty shop (my dining table) and just wanna go home (the spice rack where they live).

Normie tidying process: that heater should be put away for summer! I mean, I'm not gonna need it

Me: well it's just chilling and also I can't be arsed.

Kondo: that heater has done a good job keeping you warm over winter and now it should get to go have a rest in the cupboard

Me: !! Sabbatical for my heater!! Thank you for your service sir and have a very nice break!

TOM HIDDLESTON as LOKI LAUFEYSON

LOKI (2021)  | 2.01 Ouroboros

i want to smoke crack with her

Grandmama ATE this

Nothing compares

I am OBSESSED with this

Sometimes I can’t wait to be old and fabulous

sure there is 'making up a guy to get mad at' but i JUST realised what i normally catch myself doing is 'making up a guy to justify myself to'. like. buddy leave it, you are allowed to exist 👍

characters overextending themselves when using magic until they start bleeding from their nose/ears/etc >>>>>>

characters losing control of their magic because of the intensity of their emotions >>>>>>>

Portrait of a Young Woman, Jean-Etienne Liotard 

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer 

#they look like theyve been having a chat about u and u just walked in

I’m on mobile, somebody edit them into this please

Y'all take too long

Same energy

No worries guys, they’re there too

if i say something that makes you go "why the fuck would he say that" know that i, too, am wondering that

TOM HIDDLESTON LOKI LAUFEYSON (THE AVENGERS)

Maybe it’s cliche to say it, but art—any kind of art—is a journey. It’s amazing to look back and see what 10 years can do: how we’ve improved our eyes, our skills, our imaginations.

(And remember—the point is not to look back on past work and say how “bad” it is now. It was good at the time! We’re proud of what we do in the moment! That’s how it should be!)