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Wet Beast Rotation

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do you guys wanna see my favorite video on the internet yes you do

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do u ppl say ‘etic’ or ‘eee tee sea’ when u read this?-> etc.

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Hi! I enjoy your stories very much. As a shy person myself wanting to push myself out of a shell I am curious if you've always been naturally good at meeting people, or do you get social anxiety too? Sorry if this is a super random/personal question. I appreciate you!

I used to get REALLY bad social anxiety but then I accidentally threw myself off the deep end on the first night of college when I heard people assembling furniture out in the hall and thought "If I do not get up right this second and go hang out with those people I'm going to lie here crying about how much I miss my family all night and they wouldn't want that."

So I went out in the hall and said "Hi! I'm [Gallus], and I thought I should meet people instead of being a miserable wreck in my room!"

And then we spent the rest of the night assembling dorm furniture, talking about weeb shit and generally having a good time! and every single time I've gone and introduced myself to someone since then, I've either made MORE friends and had a good time, or had, at worst, a perfectly neutral time. So that positive re-enforcement really helped.

Anyway, the three Guidlines to Meeting People:

Meet people at places they expect to meet people. People do not want to make friends when they are busy with something else- see how much we hate it when people come to the door when we were working or cleaning. But when they're at somewhere they expect to socialize like a Hobby Meeting, a convention, The Club? they're THRILLED to make friends and tbh probably glad you broke the ice. Go to places where people who share interests with you are meeting. They'll probably adopt you.

2. The Worst Thing that will happen is that you will lightly confuse someone. No for real. Nobody is going to scream at you and you're not going to terrorize someone by saying hi. It's fine.

3. Sample conversation script for those of us who have brains that make us act like we're in a movie:

*Be At Place to Meet People* *See someone who looks interesting to talk to, who is not actively doing a physical task or already having a conversation* You: Hello! I love your (Physical aspect of their appearance they chose: Hair color, lobster-themed dress/Dog/Orbital mechanics tattoo)!" Them: Oh, thanks! It (single sentence of explanation: I did it myself/It has pockets/He loves people/I got it for completing my thesis!) (this is a sign that they are open to social activity) You: That's so cool! I'm (you name), and I'm new here. You seem like cool people, can I hang out with you? Them, and I actually for real swear this will be the answer 90% of the time: Sure!

Congratulations! You have introduced yourself to someone. Continue to be a huge dweeb about the thing you have a mutual interest in and you will shortly have a new friend!

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Source: merletails

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Journey to Babel happening after Amok time is so incredibly funny because in that episode Jim learned that Vulcans have a heat cycle and his first officer has to fuck right now or he'll die. Met Spocks WIFE and also learned that T'Pau the most influential person on Vulcan is related to Spock, got into a messy three way divorce arc between T'Pring, Stonn and Spock, then having to literally fight Spock to the death and DIED. And yet after all of that extremly personal drama Jim witnessed Spock still didn't tell Jim who the fuck his parents are. Like the man is insane, your best friend and captain saved you from a fuck or die situation, got you out of a loveless marriage, literally died for you and you still won't introduce him to your mom and dad.

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I, for one, am happy these actors feel comfortable being loud about how much you and your friend suck. If you’re doing something so against that show as voting for a rapist convicted felon who wants to end democracy, what did you expect? Especially from those women?

Actors being loud about how these assholes are NOT welcome makes fandom safer for a lot more people who deserve to be there.

Maybe your fav actor hating you for your bigoted politics should be a cause for reflection about what’s gone so wrong in your life. You know, if this bothers you so much.

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Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

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On the subject of Conventions

So Dashcon is in the air again, and a lot of people have been talking about the how and the why and the reasons for its demise. And a lot of people have been talking about the sociological and fandom reasons why it didn't work out, and while I don't think anyone is wrong about their theories, there's something most people just don't understand.

Almost every con you have ever attended has been bare inches from total collapse.

I say this as someone with decades of con work. Of being a vendor. Of being a volunteer. Of talking to other con runners.

Every con I've ever interacted with has been a few bad choices away from not making it through the weekend. Financial choices, PR choices, guest choices, staffing choices. The number of ways that a convention can fail is STAGGERING, and the problem is, cons that have been around for a long time, that seem successful, that seem stable, have gotten very good at hiding their problems.

They still have the problems. They're just good at hiding them. And that's the important part. As long as the attendees do not KNOW that you're in full meltdown mode, you are stable. If you can hold it together, if you can distract people, if you can just make it through Sunday, you're golden.

Otherwise, you will be Dashcon, and a thousand other cons that thought that this would be easy. That they just had to put up a website and book a hotel ballroom and let the money roll in.

Things I have seen/experienced/have first hand knowledge of:

-Workers set off sprinkler system the day before con. -Fire alarm causes entire building to be evacuated. -Masquerade MC gets into a physical fight with a teenager in a restaurant outside of the con mere hours before said masquerade, and has to be replaced. -Con chair redoes the con branding entirely so he has an excuse to fire his ex-girlfriend, who cosplayed the con mascot. -Con goers set off fire extinguishers in hotel elevator, con is charged for this. -Tax agents show up on Friday morning and start going from table to table, demanding tax licenses from every single vendor, including teenagers in Artist Alley, who have no idea they needed such a thing. -Major guest shows up drunk to a major panel and has a screaming meltdown on teenage fans. -Two cosplayers dressed as special forces operatives INCLUDING PROP WEAPONS, are walking home in a major city at night. Cops pull over and demand that they get on the ground. Cosplayers run. Somehow, miraculously, they do not get shot. Police dept then sends a major police presence to the con the following day and attempts to bill the con for the police detail. -Con organizer does not read convention center contract in full; ends up with an unexpected bill of almost 20K more than expected. -Multiple cases of vendors getting into physical fights. -Bomb threats. The worst one involved the local police, the FBI, and an Australian police force. -Sharing convention center space with an Obama speech. -Sharing convention center space with 'Walmart Presents: Bass Pro Fishing Challenge." -The hotel double booking the space with a college Fraternity party. Leading to a physical fight between drunken frat boys and a bunch of cosplayers dressed as ninjas, forever remembered as 'the battle of the bros vs. the Narutos.' -The hotel booking a wedding reception in the same venue. Neither the con goers or the wedding goers were happy. -MASSIVE amounts of counterfeit badges -Hotel flooding. -Freak storm trapping congoers in the hotel. -Freak storm trapping so many congoers in the hotel that the hotel staff locked down all floors, forbidding people from moving between floors or spaces, giving rise to very real fears of structural problems. -Drunks. Seizures. Drug overdoses. Physical altercations. -Con refusing to cross a picket line of striking workers and being nearly bankrupted by the penalty fees -Three separate instances of major violence (mass shooting in another state, a bomb going off within view of the convention center, a person stopped from attending another event in the same facility with a car trunk full of guns and ammunition) happening so close to the convention that major policy changes had to happen with next to no notice.

Conventions are incredibly complex. They are incredibly time intensive. They require a massive amount of man power and a lot of knowledge to do right.

And so very easy to do wrong.

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a dragon finds a clutch of goose eggs and attempts to hatch them

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eating pastries is so humiliating cause you'll be having the time of your life having it and then when you're finished you look down and you're covered in flakes and sugardust like fuuuck now everyone is going to know i'm a messy pastry whore

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DIANE AND PETER PLEASE

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Lest we forget. 😏

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Reading Star Trek novels, expectation: will enjoy fun adventures, probably a resurgence of a teenage crush on Spock.

Reading Star Trek novels, reality: massive crush on Sarek.

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Hey has tumblr heard about the Chase “Infinite Money glitch” debacle from tiktok yet because