#get it hun

[thatfrenchacademic]

Got once again told that I was "good at making conversation" and had "people and communication skills"

and that is the biggest lie I ever heard

so a girl will end up writing some sort of "practical guide to making conversation, by a recovering agoraphobic".

But also. If you need a "how to people when no social skills" guide right now, my absolute no bullshit guide is The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook (2018, 3rd ed), esp chap 8 and 10. Includes: how long is appropriate to look at someone in the eyes? What are good conversation topics for your neighbors, your colleagues, your boss, your date? How to safely practice social skills/conversation? How to handle shaking/blushing/sweating/nervous stuttering? How is talking to a group different from talking to one person? How to gracefully end a conversation? How to ask for a change at your work schedule? How to start getting better at it *progressively* without being overwhelmed?

It's not a feel good self help/self improvement book, it is not a magic remedy with secret formula, it is more of a "let's learn a new language", with homework and notes to take. Give it a try, it is very easy to find it online

[pro-fixation]

Yk everyone needs a time where they just need to date themselves. Like treat yourself like loyalty, trust yourself.

Simply just take your time and fall in love with yourself. You deserve it.

Source: Pinterest

[tootiredtofunctionproperly]

Oscar Jack Piastri after seeing one too many landoscar edits: Let me show you I am HAPPILY taken and definitely NOT in love with my team mate LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND

[thesleepiemooth]

Drunk Cat

Did a small doodle from this photo I took

there are so many things i could imagine from this but the first that came to mind was Narinder freaking barfing on my baby Bloom!

it could have been her beating him in a drinking contest buuuut ill let him keep some pride XD

[theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome]

And if you put your, put your heart in it, heart in it Then we'll do more than just get by together...

Hold Me Like A Grudge - Fall Out Boy

[goldenpinof]

yeah, exactly

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[avaantares]

I decided the ficlet I'd hastily churned out for @guardianbingo prompt Frustration was going to take too long to polish before posting, so for the fill I thought I'd focus on the scene that inspired it instead.

During his early (re)acquaintance with Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei vacillates between three different states in his presence:

Everything's fine, I'm just a harmless professor, nothing to see here, why are you in my office again?

You are the most obnoxious creature ever to draw breath and I would strangle you if it wouldn't blow my cover

Why can't you be Kunlun, like you're supposed to be?

This scene in episode 3 passes through all three, but especially the last one. At some point, Shen Wei must have grieved over the promised reunion that didn't play out the way he'd expected, and the frustration and pain of having to repeatedly face a Kunlun who doesn't know him (and who can be supremely irritating when he's in deflection-detection mode) finally pushes him from his innocent professor routine into an almost accusatory observation of the human condition. It's a rare break in character for him at this point, and while Zhao Yunlan notices, he doesn't quite know what to make of the statement or the hard look he gets from the usually polite-but-reserved Professor Shen.

[frogsandmagic]

Good to see that Ruben had just always been That Intense about his style. Terrible that his memory was wiped tho, horrifying implications honestly.

[omaenanimonoda]

half of me thinks i should not be posting such a half-done WIP, BUT -

the next week or two may be very distracting so i'm caving to the impulse to share something while i know i have the chance. this is that 4-panel idea i mentioned recently (yes, there will be one more image)

and i think with this, everyone knows what the theme is and what will be happening in that last image.

oh- also for the 'transformation' guardian bingo card!

[unforth]

Ngl as a small business owner who puts out something extremely pirate-able and who has never earned enough to make a pay check, this...

...is extremely upsetting.

Do y'all realize that most small business are maybe a handful of people? Do y'all realize that company's like LLCs exist to protect owners from legal and financial repercussions if the company falls apart? I'm not a company because I have stockholders, I'm a company so that if the business goes bankrupt the banks can't seize my fucking house. It's not evil to use existing legal structures to protect my family's assets. It's not unreasonable to ask people not to steal from businesses like mine.

It's like on Tumblr when it's One Artist or One Author Doing The Thing Themself you guys are all about it but the minute anyone tries to collectivize to do better we go from One Person Against The World to The Embodiment of Capitistic Evil with no in between, which is especially insane coming from the website that claims to think individualism has turned toxic and we should do more with community organization. The minute lots of people are involved in a business, there HAS to be legal structures like contracts and shit to protect the people involved. The Lone Creator Forging a Path is great for that one person. What about everyone else?

And so... some of us try to make a company to lift up a group.

And then I see shit takes like this.

Maybe. Maybe DONT fucking pirate from literally anyone just cause they've got the word "company" I'm the name?

Maybe remember that for small businesses, yes even when they're a company, there's a single person, or a family, or a group of friends, who are working their asses off to build something, and actually? Stealing from them makes you a FUCKING DICK.

Like. You realize we're just people right? Other regular people trying to survive the dystopian hellscape that is the now?

Maybe stop acting like you're automatically entitled to the labor and creations of others solely because you've decided that there is an entire huge category of people it's okay to steal from.

Like honestly. What the fuck.

[simpingforcys]

Oh how I love this man. I adore every part of this man.

I won't lie, my 5-year ago self would be screaming if she saw me now on her knees crying 'why' and all I could be saying is "he silly"

[fanbynature]

i hope in iwtv we get to see lestat leaving little messages all over the world for marius like a sick love puppy before he even met him

[darkcreamz95]

Ooh I'd love a Jure doodle for Valentine's 👉👈

"When the weather gets warmer, I will take you to the sunflower fields!" 🌻

[REQUESTS CLOSED (15/2/2024)]

[tyrianludaship]

You know how it is. Just two normal people talking during their normal work normally

Proships DNI

Reblogs > Likes

(also me rambling in the tags)

[dreamsrunfaster]

Ballister Boldheart, out loud: what if they dont like me O.O

Ballister Boldheart's iPod: I DONT GIVE A FUCK I'M THE SHIT AND I KNOW