Germany | 23 | taken | Music, Books, Animes, Writing ♥ || "Du hältst dich für einen schlechten Menschen. Du glaubst, dass du trotz deines Heldentums und deiner Tapferkeit und guten Taten böse bist. Alles andere ergibt keinen Sinn für dich. Nur so kannst du es dir erklären. Du glaubst, alle deine guten Taten seien nur Selbstbetrug."
A conversation between two people has a shared meaning that you construct together, right? Like if we have a conversation, we have to come to some agreement about what the takeaway from it was. “We passed the time,” “We discussed politics,” “We flirted,” or whatever.
The British conversational idiom isn’t about saying the opposite of what you mean per se, it’s about giving your conversational partner enough interpretive room that, if they want to, they can retroactively change the shared meaning of the conversation without explicitly acknowledging that that’s what they’ve done, and so save them from embarrassment. An example would be two people having a conversation that could be interpreted as flirting, or as innocuous. By being indirect, they give each other room to either advance by becoming more direct (making the takeaway “We flirted”) or back out at any point (making the takeaway “We chatted about how fond we both are of our platonic friendship”) without having to make themselves emotionally vulnerable by actually saying what they want. Which is why some British people find it rude when you back them into a conversational corner and the only way out is to actually say what they want explicitly: it’s considered rude to force other people to be emotionally open. The whole point is that you’re supposed to play the game together in such a way that you don’t have to do that: to fail shows either a lack of conversational skill or a lack of care for your conversation partner’s feelings.
None of this is ever made explicit, of course: that would be rude.
That’s why many Americans are rubbish at verbal flirting, but they make excellent long-term relationship partners.
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2020 has been the wildest year and it’s still January
Hatsune Miku was announced in the cochella lineup
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit being royals
The US killed an important Iranian general which prompted everyone to think WWIII was happening
Mr. Peanut died???
Justin Bieber thinks babies are #yummy
Nikkitutorials was blackmailed into coming out as trans
Adam Sandler threatened to purposely make bad movies if he doesn’t win an Oscar (he wasn’t even nominated so looking forward to that)
Gwyneth Paltrow sold out candles that are meant to smell like her vagina
The upcoming NBC streaming service announced a TAZ animated series
Grimes announced that she’s pregnant with Elon Musk’s baby
Parasite became the first foreign language film to win best ensemble cast at the SAG awards
Kat Von D sold her makeup company
Onision called the cops on Chris Hanson
Pete Buttigieg had to ask for applause at rally
Jeff Bezos phone was hacked because he clicked on a shady link in a text
i would like to add on to this because
Grimes is naming her child War Nymph and is tweeting as if her unborn child is making the posts
Joe Rogan said he’s probably voting for Bernie
Kaitlin Bennet allegedly shitting herself at a frat party is a trending topic
the impeachment trial began in the Senate
the coronavirus has killed 17 people in China and one person in Seattle is infected- there were major plagues in 1820 and 1920 and now it might be happening again
the Doomsday Clock is now officially at 100 Seconds to Midnight
after Gwyneth’s vag candles sold out it was announced she’s getting a netflix show about how she makes her products for goop
heres a fun throwback
I truly hate what this post has become
This is one of those things that make you heavily symphatize with time travelers and there always present question “do I tell them?” And the answer is “Definetely no”
Dabihawks AU in which both are heroes and Hawks likes to wear all the Dabi merch he can get his hands on in public to embarrass him and to help him out with the sales at the same time because Dabi is shit at PR. Dabi tells him to stop it because he doesn’t care about being popular anyway, but Hawks doesn’t. Dabi thinks it’s mostly a territory thing (spoiler: it is).
Bonus points if, like. Hawks is the only member of the family who bothers with the Dabi-branded edgy stapled clothes. Fuyumi is too discreet and traditional and she finds his fashion sense a bit too… grotesque, but she owns like… A Dabi branded toothbrush or something to show her support. Shouto straight up just goes to family dinners with Hawks merch on, because he’s always been a little bit of a Hawks fanboy, but now he just wants Dabi to admit that he wants Shouto to wear his stuff. Natsuo owns several pjs with Dabi’s logo on, but he never told him. However, he subscribed their dad to several Dabi-obsessed forums, podcasts and merch-ad blogs. Enji is too much of a boomer to know how to unsubscribe and everyone around him pretends not to know how to, either
Extra bonus points if Hawks begs Dabi to start wearing Hawks’ merch in public too so that they can match… But Dabi firmly refuses for weeks… And weeks… Until
……….. Until everyone finally forgets about the dumb boyfriend jacket thing and the internet eventually quiets down enough for Dabi to pull his trump card. So a movie Dabi starred in finally premieres and Dabi is invited… And he dresses perfectly normal for the event, save for three tiny red feathers poking out from his suit pocket. The Internet goes wild all over again as people basically take this as a marriage proposal and Hawks positively bird screeches when he sees him on tv. He buys three copies of all the tabloids featuring pictures of Dabi from that night
me at the fucking ballot counting office changing all the trump votes into biden votes so we can begin taking away all white kids from their parents and make them trans
in a few days a poor lawyer will be forced to remain serious while using this post as evidence in court
okay so for those who wanna laugh at spn but dont feel like watching it;
episode starts out with dean going to a pie festival. sam mentions how he wishes cas and jack were there and dean is like “true. oh well”
meanwhile some vampire mimes (for real) kill a man and abduct his kids. basic motw stuff ensues.
theres a cameo of a girl from season 1? she talks for two seconds, they show a flashback, and then kill her immediately
sam and dean free the kids and fight the vampires and one of them pushes dean. then sam goes to leave but dean is like “somethings got me” and come to find out he was pushed onto a hook that stabbed him in the abdomen from behind. he refuses help and says some bullshit for 10 minutes and then bleeds to death. a fucking HOOK killed him. on a show about monsters. a hook.
so sam continues being depressed. he is alone. continues doing hunts.
meanwhile dean wakes up in heaven! its so cool! wow! everyone is there! (you dont get to see them though). he sees his car (in heaven) and decides to take a drive (in heaven.)
as dean drives (in heaven) you see a montage of sam. he is walking with a toddler with “dean” embroidered on his overalls. then he is playing baseball with an older boy. in the background, a blurry blonde woman watches them. i guess thats sam’s generic wife and mother of his child that we never get to know the name of or see without a background blur
the montage progresses. sam gets old. he’s in a hospital bed in his house. his now adult son tells him “dad its okay. you can go.” so sam passes away due to old man disease.
meanwhile dean finishes his drive and gets out of the car. sam appears behind him. dean says “hey sammy” and they hug and the camera pans away while carry on my wayward son plays.
It’s okay to be a beginner at the things you are interested in. There is no reason to feel intimidated by people more advanced than you are, because they too were in your place at one point. Keep learning and growing and expanding in whatever it is that you love and let nothing and no one stop you. You don’t have to be at the same stage as someone else. You can just be at your stage and that one is okay too.
does everyone who is not fully plugged into the spn fandom right now know that after they filmed the confession scene misha collins and jensen ackles almost died in a small plane crash because you all need to know this
one of my favorite fucking feelings in the world is when you’re having a discussion with somebody about literature and themes and storytelling and etc or even just like, your feelings, and as you’re rambling on about the interpretation of something-or-the-other you have this lightbulb moment where two ideas connect in your head all of a sudden and you couldn’t have done it without the context of another person there and you both get so excited about this new theory you’re developing
like. collaboration. trust. complexity. awakenings. this shit isn’t just analysis, it’s art.
Someone: hey, if you’re a writer, why don’t I ever see you writing?
Me, a writer who’s been daydreaming about three characters, two unwritten chapters, some scraps of dialogue, and a partial plot that still needs to be heated up in the microwave before it’s usable:
