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#being your authentic self#pride#pride month#justjanusthings#janus sanders#deceit sanders#ts janus#ts deceit#ts sides#sanders sides
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can I be so open and vulnerable with you guys. the card I was given from people at my old office was sincerely so nice and really validating but also I feel like the main impression I left other people with was "she's really nice" WHICH IS GOOD, I DO WANT TO BE KNOWN AS NICE but also part of me is like... should I maybe strive for "innovative" or "creative" or "a go-getter" because being The Nice One just feels a little mealy-mouthed of me y'know?
#I think there is something to be said here for being so averse to conflict and also such a control freak that I spend incalculable energy on#making other people happy/comfortable/cool-with-me so on and so forth#like this has been a problem in past friendships too as I've grown up#and I've noticed it even online like sometimes I'll have A Take and I won't post it because I don't want to be negative about something#that someone else may like or whatever#which is GOOFY because some of my favorite people are those with strong personalities (bc it's a CLEAR VIEW of that person's personality!!)#and yet here I am like "tee hee I'm so nice everyone likes me because I'm nice anyway when I look in a mirror all i see is a blank wall''#lol y'know? and like no I certainly express opinions and express emotions other than Just Being Happy#and also any waylaid attempts at being so neutral as to not offend people uhhhhh don't work. ask me how I know#(I know because people have hated my guts on the internet before lol)#so it's like: this performance is truly for no one but yourself AND!!!! *AND* it's not even good for you because you might not actually be#being your authentic self#anyways I'm afraid to be a hater and also I'm afraid people won't like me so I try hard to make them like me#and THAT leads to me getting a very nice card about how everyone likes me and me inevitably going: but do they know and like the REAL me#lololololololol that's so goofy#anyway kids be yourselves#also what can I say I derive great pleasure from trying to be the nicest person a cashier interacts with on a given day so#idk there's a middle ground to be struck therein and I'm still navigating it
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Unmasking Myself: A Journey of Authenticity and Breaking Free from Societal Molds
#podcastwednesday get on the train! The authentic train that is. Join me as I share with you how many times I hat to let the mask fall before I realized that to attract a man, I just needed to be me ;-)
Have you ever contorted yourself into someone you’re not just to be liked or fit in? Join me on a heartfelt journey as I peel back the layers of my past, revealing the self-imposed barriers that once stymied my journey through my 20s and 30s. We’re not just talking about growth; we’re actively breaking through the soil of conformity to bask in the sunlight of authenticity. Tune in as I bear my…
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#Attracting love through authenticity#Being your authentic self#Personal Growth#Self Improvement#Self Reflection
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my most underrated Kataang take is, I think, the inclusion of Katara's epiphany in The Fortune Teller at all. We've talked ourselves hoarse about how it's the clear turning point in how she consciously thinks of Aang (I will always mandate that she was just unknowingly down bad since the pilot because Look at her behaviour dear god) and how it's important that she has this epiphany even after knowing Aunt Wu's predictions 'aren't real' or necessarily set in stone.
What I want to talk about is why I think it's important that THIS is the moment she sees Aang in a new light amid his previous attempts to have her think of him 'differently' than she did at the beginning of the episode.
When Aang is being sweet to her (making her a woven accidental-betrothal necklace that she happily accepts), Katara is appreciative and responsive, but still says "he's just a good friend, a sweet little guy, just like Momo".
When Aang tries to flirt with her under Sokka's aloof guise, it falls flat. When he tries to get her attention in general (and when having parallels with Meng), it likewise doesn't work.
Finally, he tries the flower but it falls into the lava (symoblism, anyone?) and they have bigger things to deal with, like making sure the town isn't completely wiped out by the volcano. It's also worth noting that after Aang's conversation with Meng:
He never actively tries pursuing or wooing Katara in the same way. He's still kind towards and supportive toward her, of course. He, at some point (probably after the 2nd cheek or third cheek kiss) eventually starts to think (understandably) that Katara has feelings for him. But as of The Fortune Teller, he's stopped trying to have her see him in a new light or do a big romantic gesture.
And that's exactly when she does, consciously, fall for him.
Not when he's trying to woo her in failed, false personas, not when he's being his sweet romantic self, but when he's being the most himself all episode: Aang, "the bravest person [she] knows, who's done nothing but help people and save lives" since she met him (1x12).
He's not paying attention, he's not trying to impress her. He's just being a good, determined Avatar. A good, helpful person. A powerful bender, completely in control of himself and his element. Being himself.
Her Aang.
#atla#kataang#aanglove#pro kataang#like she always would've fallen for him just by proxy of aang being himself. it was Inevitable#otp: penguin sledding#been thinking about how much shipping revolves around ideas of 'understanding' and a desire for authenticity between characters#doesn't get much more authentic than them#atla meta#analysis series#analysis#every so often i get dragged away from my 24/7 rayllum brainrot to think about another ship#cause i was thinking about how much they have the kataang vibe of#'i've seen the best and worst in you and i believe and love you so much' +#reaffirmation of how that person sees you as your likewise best most self actualized self and. yeah
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Stabby stabby time 😌✨
(Original meme audio source can be found via this YouTube video!!)
#once again I’m so bad at putting silly short meme stuff onto my main channel without thinking it’s gonna humiliate me HELP 🥲#l’ll get over it this is my exposure therapy hour#it doesn’t help that I told classmates in college about my YouTube channel and didn’t think about how that would fuck with my anxiety lol#like ‘OH NO WHY DID I DO THAT THEY’LL KNOW I’M CRINGE AND WEIRD NOW’#listen if people can’t tolerate you at your cringiest and you feel like you need to mask around them 24/7 then it’s not worth#you gotta be your authentic self and enjoy your interests regardless of how people view it#trying to people please the masses is only going to wear you out and make you feel disconnected from yourself#‘fuck it we ball’ mentality saves lives tbh#….I don’t know I’m still trying to pep talk myself into it being socially acceptable to post sillies :’)#for now this will be a Tumblr exclusive until I stop being a baby about it✨#(also wouldn’t it be funny if my channel has a running joke of everyone not knowing what Puzzles age is? Just a thought)#(first Meggy asks him about it and now I’m asking too)#(no wonder the guy pulled out a knife people won’t shut up about his age lmfao)#mr puzzles smg4 meme#mr puzzles animated#smg4 girl how old are you I’m getting nervous meme#girl how old are you I’m getting nervous mr puzzles meme#hplonesome art
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Being yourself is free.
#be your authentic self#jay z#Shawn carter#quotes#motivation#explore#hip hop#roc nation#Beyoncé#Houston#being yourself is free#for you
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#word#word of the day#writing#writers#writerscommunity#writers on tumblr#writeblr#writeblogging#quotes#quote#life quote#quoteoftheday#quote of today#real character#authenticity#authentic self#authentic#be your true self#true self#be your best self#inner beauty#inner work#inner thoughts#personality#real personality#be yourself#be your own inspiration#me being me#beautiful#becoming that girl
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i think id be happier if i went on T but honestly thats not an opportunity for me right now
#cara speaks#its hard to love your family and also know theyd hate you for being your authentic self
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the spongebob squarepants movie (2004) is one of the greatest movies of all time. it's comedic genius. hit after hit. perfect comedic timing. this is your public service announcement to watch it if you've never seen it
#spongebob#the spongebob squarepants movie (2004)#.txt#being an adult is sooosososo fucking cool bc u can actually just be as ''abnormal'' as u want & if anyone judges u u can just never speak t#them again#i'm 25 years old. in my bedroom. on tumblr. rewatching the spongebob movie. next to my bratz dolls. with my cat. eating frozen berries and#leftover veggie lo mein. i just moved my collection of cas the cat's whiskers into a tiny bag. i've been sewing and and#u can just do anything. live your authentic self!! indulge in whimsy!! oh and watch the spongebob movie asap#up to the scene right now: BALD! BALD! BALD! /MY EYES!!!/#classic
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coworker was going on and on about the importance of regulating your nervous system today and i'm thinking 1) you don't know what that means and 2) if i were a teenager and someone told me to regulate my nervous system i would start throwing things. frankly it's hard not to throw things when hearing that as an adult.
#and i'm being the bad guy saying no actually that's not something we can recommend without issue because that will be 'controversial'#there's also something so weird and bass ackwards about assuming that all children are in crisis right now#it's like saying they're all experiencing trauma. when that is not at all how trauma works#and i piped up and said yeah probably 50% of kids are doing fine right now re: politics and would be annoyed to be treated otherwise#like 'oh you must be so broken over this.' no. not really.#and that doesn't mean we have to bend over backwards to cater to those kids but you do have to keep them in mind#if i showed up crying at work the day after the 2016 election there would have been student and parent complaints#in 2021 my school attempted to adopt a policy requiring pre-approval to teach anything 'controversial'#with 'controversial' defined as anything two people could reasonably disagree on#so walking into a class of 30 kids and saying 'since we're all traumatized let's do some deep breathing to heal our nervous systems' is#not gonna fly. more teachers will come under scrutiny and will get in trouble. that's not something we should be telling them to do#oof sorry. multiple tangents there.#point being. even if learning to 'regulate your nervous system' was totally achievable it still wouldn't be universally accepted#and god forbid anyone have any kind of physical or psychological or emotional difference that affects their 'regulation' 🙃#it just feels like such a trap to say you can fix yourself by self-regulating. because if you fail then what?#oh god i just remembered the convo turning to 'evidence-based practices' and how she said that's bullshit and white supremacy#because you should have practice-based evidence instead...#try something and if it works then it works and it's valid is how she described that. ugh#listen I won't die on the evidence-based practices hill but so many people in my work orbit treat it like a dirty phrase#like it's just some annoying procedural hoop to jump through for no reason#you know you can hurt people by just doing random stuff to them right?!#fuck.#i am so tired. I don't want to talk about my feelings at work. I don't want to 'hold space' for 'difficult emotions'#and i'm getting tired of listening to coworkers dump their shit on me too#but can i say 'hey you are dysregulated and that is making me dysregulated'? nope. definitely not.#because the default assumption is everyone talks through all their feelings all the time. so if you're not then you're doing it wrong.#talking through my feelings is what i have a blog and a notes app and inanimate objects for#and i'm doing pretty well with all that. i just don't want to do it at work#I think i can be my 'authentic self' without blurting out whatever is in my brain at that particular moment regardless of appropriateness#okay. done ranting. sorry. if you read this far goddamn wow congrats. i love you <3 have a good day okay? <3
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I got my first hate comment on Deviantart yesterday on my old man Yaoi art I did for 810NICLE Day this year
YAY MY ART IS BEING THAT RECOGNIZED HATERS ARE COMMENTING!
#bionicle#g1 bionicle#lego bionicle#rambles#shit post#oml did this person really think i was still early Internet days me and easily got effected by Internet hate?#I'm just having fun drawing what i love and that is the old man Yaoi while being my authentic self and your just a sad hater lol 🤣
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#being nice#nice#nice people#nice person#niceness#connection#listen to your soul#soul#authentic#authenticity#authentic self#be your authentic self#integrity#quotes#words#wisdom#life lessons#inspirational words#growth#healing#james hollis#loss of self
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Honor Blackman guest stars as art expert Syd Lewis in Saber of London: Deep in the Heart of Chelsea (1.3, NBC, 1957)
#fave spotting#honor blackman#cathy gale#saber of london#the vise#the avengers#classic tv#deep in the heart of chelsea#1957#nbc#so im visiting parents for a week or two and taking the opportunity to catch up on my old tv watching as i have access to my beloved#dvd collection. Saber was one of the final network releases I've located (after‚ i might say‚ a long long search for a reasonably priced#copy). so. the story of Saber of London. (deep breath). SoL is really a development of The Vise; for more on the needlessly complex history#of that series you can follow the appropriate tag above. in short The Vise was a crime anthology made specifically for US tv but produced#in the UK using brit actors writers and directors. the recurring character of Mark Saber was popular enough that the show eventually became#The Vise: Mark Saber; it then became Saber of London. some sources still regard this show as essentially being a later series of The Vise#(and it does still use the og theme tune over the end credits) but considering the title change and (crucially) the fact that SoL saw the#series move from ABC to NBC‚ im gonna consider this its own self contained show and number the episodes accordingly (ie. this is series 1 o#Saber of London not series 5 or 7 (depending on your counting) of The Vise). anyway now that's all out of the way.#there's little material difference between this series and the slightly earlier The Vise: Mark Saber episodes besides new titles and a#different introductory spiel from star Donald Gray. our hero is still a plucky private detective undertaking modest cases that the show's#budget will allow. this ep concerns art forgeries and an attempt to trap the criminals responsible‚ which means Saber must call on an art#expert to help authenticate the works. enter Honor! not yet a star‚ Honor did have a decade of acting experience behind her#which is maybe reflected in the fact that she's given an unusually meaty part for a woman in this series: she's neither victim nor love#interest (which are the usual roles) but a witty and intelligent source of assistance to the hero.#unlike The Vise episodes (which could take up to a decade to appear in the uk if they did at all) SoL appears to have had a fairly regular#slot from Granada about two years after the show's US premier. this ep would have been seen by uk audiences in 1959
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so in the text messages it’s shown that max and safi attended vinh’s halloween party before the events of the game and my mind has been spinning about how that went lol. i know both max and safi ended up getting wasted by the end of it but i was wondering if you had any headcanons about that particular night? specifically with how max and vinh interacted with each other considering how they would most likely still be in the early stages of getting to know each other.
i also wonder what their actual costumes were?? especially considering how safi seemed to really want to show vinh up in that department lmao.
aha. well! it’s very funny you mention the party, because i am drafting up a fic that takes place after and during it for a safi/max piece … so i’m afraid i’ll have to be pretty tight lipped about some aspects.
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though the costumes i tentatively picked out for this fic and vinh’s halloween party is from a real world show called yellowjackets : a two season show about girls being stranded in the wilderness and losing their minds … to be as vague as possible. i personally love the show, so this is minor indulgence on my end! but there is some significance to my pick even if some fans won’t understand the reference. safi attends as ‘the antler queen’ and max’s outfit is more basic, given the fact the texts imply she was sort of spacing her own costume … she’s just a yellowjacket, a teenager, so they both look something like this ( with modifications of course, they made these outfits from scratch ) :
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i’ve always found the antler queen’s design to be rather mesmerizing in terms of how haunting it is, so i think safi’s arts-and-crafts project for it would definitely show up vinh at the party. it’s not just the costume either -- it’s the energy she’ll carry while wearing it. and if there’s one thing safi is so good at, it’s silently commanding attention without much effort and maintaining an aura of mystery. point is : she’ll kill it. max’s is more low effort ( it’s just the jacket you see in the second picture, and her project doesn’t even look nearly as good, i’m afraid ) but being attached at safi’s hip helps! i could go on and on about why i’ve picked these outfits for them, though i’ll shut my trap for now because the fic touches upon it lightly … but if you’ve seen the show, you probably have an inkling as to why they’re wearing what they are, and why this show would be so up safi’s alley. vinh lang stands no chance!
but as for how vinh and max interacted during that night, i sadly doubt they brushed shoulders much solo. safi and max showed up together in matching costumes and i’m sure they hardly left each other’s side the whole time, what with max being such a loner initially ( she didn’t even hang out with moses one-on-one back then ) and safi being obsessed in turn … they likely existed in their own bubble and anyone who talked to one basically talked to them both. vinh would likely be jealous of this, given his admission of such feelings to max in spin when he confessed that safi would talk about max ‘all the time’, so this is a similar situation : where vinh wants safi’s attention and time desperately, but she is eagerly orbiting around the new blood instead. very complicated! this is also a vinh who is posturing still in many ways and is stupidly jealous, meaning that there wouldn’t be much going on between him and max besides some catty pettiness on vinh’s part, and total obliviousness on max’s. he likely would avoid her if possible back then, despite his own conflicting feelings about everything surrounding her -- since i do firmly believe vinh was always attracted to max in ways he couldn’t quite explain, outside of a vague ‘we could hook up’ feeling. which makes being jealous of her more complicated than it should be. for all his sleuthing and bitter stewing, i don’t think he could ever properly hate her, so instead it’s an odd game of sore looks and snide remarks. they knew of each other ( vinh knew more about max than she knew of him, given safi’s rambling ), perhaps talked in passing, and max clearly saw vinh enough in her day-to-day to have his photo on her photo wall … but their beginnings were still curt and bittersweet. it’s important to remember that!
#my posts.#life is strange double exposure#vinh lang#max caulfield#safiya llewellyn fayyad#hope this answers your question! sorry to be vague but ah. fic stuff. alas!#but yeah vinh’s feelings towards max were very turbulent before i think#he was always into her ( imo anyway ) but was intensely jealous … perhaps even felt left out#im sure seeing safi and max reminded him of safi and maya in many ways. and it sort of hurt being an outsider to that#so! a mixed bag … he wants her but he’s jealous whenever safi’s around. wants to fight for safi’s attention childishly but can’t.#similarly cannot hate max … there is nothing he can find that makes him hate her. in fact he’s curious! and interested#etc etc. max similarly is implied to have been attracted to vinh for a while ( aka has thought about kissing him before )#but she ALSO has no idea about his thing with safi at this point and hasn’t gotten to know his more authentic self. so her views on him are#shallow and skewed …#but! i do like their interactions pre canon. i think there’s a lot of interesting things to do there#i digress though <3 for now <3
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what got me so insanely angsty about the relationship between ludger and casey is that it's not even subtext. it's literally in the text that are their own words.
they canonically enjoy the other person's company.
they canonically believe the other person is one of a very few who could understand them.
they canonically understand each other, from personalities and capabilities to behaviors and thoughts.
ludger canonically regrets ruining their relationship.
casey canonically wishes to mend their relationship.
they canonically want(ed) this relationship.
#the only thing that really is subtext is that ludger even now still lowkey yearns for it as well#just similar to how he lowkey enjoys teaching under the pretense of playacting#will there ever be a day sayren finally frees me from this suffering 😔#every time ludger cites the reason why their relationship can no longer work out its always how he thinks casey should think about him#but unfortunately for him casey being the girlboss as she should will think and do whatever she wants#barely related if you squints but#it sure is funny that ludgers authentic self gradually leaks out day by day and becomes what his supposedly fake identity is known for#and vice versa#something something... and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self#if at one point your fake identity becomes one with your true self then can we still say it only is a fake identity?#are you a man dreaming of being a butterfly or are you a butterfly dreaming of being a man?#aro ludgercasey propaganda#selmore's undercover husband
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