This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:
If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.
This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace
everyone who reblogs this and is like “I ordered my own tea this week” or “I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation’- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.
apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office
this is the phone. he apparently was in the middle of a meeting with the department the other day and got annoyed so he pressed a button, said “I have to take this” and left
David’s co-workers probably: “This is a valid tactic to embarrass him into buying a mobile phone, right?”
David: “Bold of you to assume that I get embarrassed.”
It’s so lovely to see Hans and Henry become friends in kcd1, and even if it’s rough at first, it’s so clear that Hans is interested in Henry. He comes to watch Henry’s first training with Bernard, and after he gets insulted at the archery range he stops Bernard from punishing Henry and offers a competition instead. Yes, he’s still a standoffish prick, but he’s fair. I also think he might be intrigued by a boy around his own age who is not a bootlicker and is a little stubborn and impudent. Must be refreshing.
After the brawl at the alehouse (where he was drunk and hot-headed) he apologises the next day as they go out hunting. And he explains that he feels it’s unfair that Henry gets rewarded while he’s always punished. But he’s not angry at Henry about it. He asks after Henry’s father and Skalitz. He enjoys the company, being able to brag a little and show off. And then of course Henry saves his arse, and the rest is history!
some of the shit hans can say to henry after he freed him from maleshov is so sick i prayed for you and im so glad the virgin mary heard my pleas? my brave and faithful companion? i wish i was there to fight by your side in kuttenberg? here’s a knightly reward for your knightly deed? this shit is abnormal.
chin deep in the trenches oh my fucking god… i know he was practicing all morning. repeating all of that to his reflection in the pond by the baths
“kung pow penis,” a phrase commonly used in reblogs to indicate utter disdain for OP, has twelve letters, each of which (traditionally) must be supplied by a different user. the unanimity of disdain indicated by these twelve unrelated users has strong parallels to the requirement of unanimity for a jury—also traditionally of twelve—to arrive at a verdict. in this essay i will
I got in my head the idea of doing a tapestry-inspired painting based on this quest, so here it is! Among the flowers on the ground there are dandelions, st. john’s wort, and valerian, as they’re the ones you can find in the Talmberg Woods.
Looking forward to painting Henry in an armour at some point, because after trotting so long beside Hans like a dog here, he very much deserves to look like a knight next.
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