#why are we not CAPITALISING ON THIS

[fisheito]

We have blowup doll morvay

And we're doing NOTHING with him???????

[hepbaestus]

fitties and truly out at this point

LETSGO FITTIES

[pfhwrittes]

gnashing my teeth and wailing at my Punnett squares and it's entirely @gemmahale's fault (cariad, you monster i love you)

okay all you need to know for this to work is that lycanthropy is an X linked double recessive gene (you need two copies for lycanthropy to present. if someone only has 1 copy they're a human carrier).

what does this mean for werewolf au?

reader is a werewolf. price and ghost are human carriers. gaz and soap are human non carriers. (although the reader absolutely assumes due to soap's incredibly hairy forearms that he's the other carrier out of the four of them)

[spn2006]

okay this destiel post is actually making me crazy because THIS is what i mean when i say no one knows what queerbaiting means anymore. brother they capitalised on destiel every time they made a new season of supernatural

[deci-doodles]

This was originally a request from a friend but I figured I might as well post here coz I think it’s too funny

Audio: Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique Mvt. 4. March to the Scaffold

Would highly recommend listening to the whole track coz it’s a banger but also it’s literally the composer having an opium-induced fever dream about him getting his head lopped off at the guillotine so

[organised-disaster]

All my Snowbird playlists! The "rumi" one is the original "snowbird," but I decided to make snowbird the general one with rumi and sera combined

Ashamed to do this but tagging @randosfandos for the attention (they're the only person who'd be interested in this lol)

[september-poetry]

Are You Not Afraid Of The Feeling In Your Chest?

The weight on my chest is heavier than anything else

Holding up the world on my shoulders

Did Atlas let it crush him eventually?

It would be so easy

To let it fall

Don’t follow me into the unknown

You won’t see the light anymore

This cave is full of shadows

We keep ourselves safe from the sun

The warmth burns us to the bone

So feel the cold

Embrace it

You’ll get used to it eventually

I feel trapped

The gaze of a caring predator

Do you feel it while you suffocate me?

I know it feels good

To hold my life in your hands

To feel my breath stutter

Butterflies in my throat

Choke me out

Pull on the chains that bind me

And watch me break apart

If I’m your dog then won’t you bring me out behind the shed

And shoot me dead

Let my blood spill out

The red a comfort in the dark and damp

The only colour against the fading sky

Do you see the smoke?

Do you think it sees me back?

Only the moon mourns the dead

Because what’s left of these discarded bones this time

He needed to be saved

And you saved me

Care to try again?

Finish your job this time

You find my jaw first

The next time you go outside

Of course what’s left behind

Is the violence of my broken bite

A liar

To say I couldn’t control it

The catharsis of the pain was all that mattered

And now that its gone

Do you miss me?

The teeth marks that mottled your skin

The scars I left

The wounds you bare

And my bones are hollow

Lost in the overgrown

Don’t worry my love

You’ll get over me eventually

07 / 09 / 24

[aerithisms]

why does jill need rescuing so many times in ff16 omg. game came out in 2023 and its only significant female lead is treated like princess fucking peach

[sophieebridgerton]

the trick to getting into conversation about football i have decided is you have to say one (1) clever thing at the start then you have free range to say anything. many of you know things so this should be very easy for you

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

Apple Berry drew vs Apple i drew

[gaytventhusiast]

Why is there no button on keyboards that capitalises words when you highlight them? Sometimes I just want to change words I've written into capitals but I am struck with how, despite feeling like their must be, I cannot find the key on the keyboard to do so with a click. Alas, I am doomed to have to rewrite the entire thing. Was there some alternate universe where I could do this? It feels like there must have been.

[whysamwhy123]

I'm sure there exists a timeline in which Swerve vs RVD is used to build a feud between Hook and International Champion Swerve, and in that timeline, I am so much happier and being so obnoxious about it right now.

[jojotichakorn]

don't know about *my* archen but sure thanks pinterest

[whitehartlane]

there’s an easy solution to all this lark and it’s simply STOP PASSING IN THE FUCKING BOX

[csuitebitches]

Crafting a Personality and Capitalising on it

How do we craft a personality that is socially charming yet true to our roots?

How do we mingle and meet new people without feeling awkward or shy about it?

How do we not lose ourselves while following all these blah blah etiquette rules?

Welcome to part 2 of my Chic Girl Mentality series. 🤍

Today, we will focus on crafting a personality that is still you but better.

First, let’s talk about people in social settings. You’ll meet people who are confident, secure and socially charming. You’ll meet quiet people who may be equally socially charming or just very shy and conscious. You’ll meet the braggers and the doe-eyed followers. There’s a lot of different types of people in the world and knowing how to gracefully navigate most of them is nothing but a learned art.

People, regardless of their bank balance, are insecure of what they do not have yet. This can be looks, money, experience, lifestyle, and so on. How do we capitalise on this without exploiting or manipulating anyone?

By knowing how to tell a story.

That doesn’t mean that you need to become a public speaker or politician, it just means that you need to be able to craft intriguing stories about yourself, using your own life and experiences, to “sell” an interesting version of you socially. We’re all interesting people but only a few of us know how to say that we’re interesting without saying that we’re interesting.

Experience 

People, even those with money, will always be more attracted to those who have experiences, especially, unique ones. Whether it’s travelling to exotic locations or trying new culinary destinations, or wearing unknown designers, knowing obscure artists or writers, or being at the top of your industry… experience is the most important thing to cultivate first.  You already have experience. If you went to school, high school, college, joined clubs, your first job, any travelling, etc - these are all experiences.

Make a list of 5 of the most interesting experiences you think you have.

Hobbies and interests 

Have a couple of lowkey hobbies that you feel enthusiastic about. Whether it’s doing some charity work on Sundays, or cooking, or pottery, whatever it is, keeping a hobby is healthy. 

There should be something to you that an acquaintance can remark about: “CSB? Oh yes, I’ve heard that she’s a great dancer.” 

Vulnerabilities 

Certain vulnerabilities must never, ever be shared. It will 100% be used either as gossip or blackmail. 

However, coming across as someone with no weaknesses is rather untrustworthy- it makes the other person feel that you’re clearly hiding something. 

Make a list of vulnerabilities that are small and you don’t mind sharing. These should be vulnerabilities that will never ruin your reputation in any form but can be used as a form of bonding with empathy. 

And make a list of hard core vulnerabilities you know you should never share with anyone. Keep it memorised rather than written down. 

Experience + Hobbies or Interests + Safe Vulnerabilities = Personality

Storytelling 

Now that you have some experience, hobbies, interests, and your “safe” vulnerabilities sorted even if it’s limited - what will make it stand out is the art of storytelling. Some storytellers can make even the most mundane experiences sound magical - it’s all in the words and delivery. There’s a reason why every Holy Book is a story, packed with lessons and morals - it’s impactful, easy to remember and recall and relatable. Craft your experiences into stories. Use those 5 experiences that you noted down and start writing them down as stories.

Take up an online storytelling class or watch videos. Start honing this skill by writing and reading good literature. 

Refine your 5 experiences further. Run it through chatGPT, say them out loud and most importantly- start testing them out on people. See what makes them chuckle and what doesn’t; what makes them empathise and what doesn’t.

A famous comedian whose name I can’t remember does the same thing. He creates his set. He goes to a small pub and tries it out on the audience there. And the first set is always the first. The audience may not laugh at his jokes, they might boo him or sometimes, he might get a laugh out of them. But every time, he goes home and refines his set further. Once his set is fully refined, and he accomplishes his goal of the audience peeling with laughter at every joke, that’s when he goes on national TV / on tour etc etc.

The most important thing is to craft your stories of your experiences in a way that it delivers the value you want the person to remember about you.

For instance, if I want to be seen as creative and innovative, I won’t tell the person in front of me, “oh, I’m soo innovative and creative!”

Rather I will weave that into a story. “When I was 24, at my first job in the advertising space, we were losing clients left and right. And one weekend, I was on a trek on the mountains - it’s one of my hobbies - this idea hit me, and I suddenly knew exactly how to get our clients back. My team was hesitant about my idea, and we got a lot of pushback, but we went ahead. The night before my launch I was so nervous, I got hardly sleep. And you won’t believe it, but the idea worked! The response was fantastic.”

Let the other person come to the conclusion of you being innovative and creative. Human beings love to deduce things and jump to conclusions and provided you set the context the right way, you should be able to project the version of you that is the best part of you.

Vocabulary 

A sign of a good education- even if you don’t have it - is a diverse vocabulary. I’ve always had a little more respect and awe for those who are articulate, can speak smoothly and speak confidently. I’ve noticed that my American friends, for instance, tend to talk fast with lots of filler words, and sentences tend to end with a pitch up instead of down, which to me indicates hesitation or indecision. Speaking slower, ending your sentences with pitch going down to indicate a full stop rather than up makes you seem like a refined speaker even if your subject is utterly stupid. 

Body language and mannerisms, social interaction 

Watch old classic Hollywood movies to really understand this - especially romantic ones. Choose ones with a femme fatale or siren-like female lead, and watch how she enraptures the male lead or the audience around her. 

A combination of fantastic storytelling and body language will take you places beyond your dreams. Some of the biggest frauds, scammers, politicians, criminals are also some of the best storytellers. Humans are attracted to stories, we pick up body language intuitively, we can sense when someone is nervous or isn’t. Unfortunately the world isn’t a kind place and will not necessarily help you out of your shyness- in fact, that might just make you the best target for exploitation. 

Storytelling + Vocabulary + Body Language = Your Best Personality

[halalchampagnesocialist]

It’s scary just how much fascism is on the rise. Im aware it’s not new either, there’s been a resurgence happening since God knows when, but it seems to be more apparent now and more emboldened. And it’s not just white nationalists, but right wing nationalists from non-Western countries too who are a threat. Even “moderates” are trying to appeal to these people.

It’s not just racism they’re pushing either, but transphobia too which ended with the death of a child a few days ago. Denialism of all sorts as well, like climate change denialism, anti-vax rhetoric, and so on.

The world we live in is in shambles. There’s very little security of any kind… which is why we need to work to fix it. But instead we have liberals gaslighting us that only voting or appealing to those in power will fix things meanwhile the right-wing demagogue capitalises on these issues to shift the blame onto minorities. Again, it’s not anything new by any means but it just shows how desperately we need to build something new and very quickly.