it seems that you have come across my blog, so i suppose i should introduce myself
hi, my name is wia
well, not really, but for the purpose of my internet presence, that's what i call myself
as you can probably see, i'm new to tumblr, so please be patient with me
i'm from a town in the czech republic (czech blog @ztraty-a-nalezy) , currently studying at a grammar school, i'm a capricorn, introvert, atheist
if you ever get a feeling you might know me irl, please just block and leave
i am queer, use she/they pronous, but i'm still in the closet
i speak czech, english (B2–C1), german (B1–2) and spanish (A1–2)
i am a multipassionate person who refuses to make sideblogs and puts everything here, sorting it by tags
(or at least i'm planning on doing that, who knows how it will actually work out lol)
something about my interests:
sorry i tend to overshare when it comes to my hobbies, this is gonna be long
Music:
i sing in a choir, play the guitar, and am trying to learn the piano by myself, there's always a song playing in my head and you will most likely catch me singing it out loud (i've been singing Let it snow for a year now)
i would love to get into songwriting, but i haven't yet found the courage
i mostly enjoy pop music but also listen to folk, rock(-ish music idk), country and then just anything i like
currently, my favourite artists include Taylor Swift, Xana, Sophie Pecora, Ed Sheeran, Maggie Lindemann and MANY more
Literature:
from time to time i write poetry in my native language and very rarely also in english, i've been thinking about posting it on here, but rn that's too scary, maybe someday
i also write prose, i currently have one wip that i've been working on for a few years now, but i'm kinda lost and procrastinate a lot
as to reading, i really enjoy it but also don't do it as often as i would like to, i mostly pick up YA mystery/thrillers and books with queer themes
Studying:
i'm a straight A student, but not that i would study a lot, i'm that person that everybody is jealous of because they get good grades without trying much (i'm sorry, but also why should i apologise)
overall i love learning new information about basically any field in the universe (geography, psychology, history, biology, art, literally anything)
that however results in the fact that i know something about everything but haven't studied anything in depth
i enjoy learning languages as well
recently, i discovered the concept of a second brain and am trying to build one in the obsidian app
i'm also currently writing a paper on graph theory implementation in maps (maths, coding and stuff)
Crafts:
this is probably the branch of my interests that i overlook the most and never stick to any of it for a long time
i make bracelets - out of threads or beaded ones
i kinda crochet sometimes, but nothing big since i never learned how to properly
from time to time i like to draw something, but i mostly love to admire art that other people made and then fantasise about being able to do the same
i enjoy photography and making digital collages
sometimes i do some origami, in general i enjoy diy tutorials wheter they are about practical stuff or just silly little creations
Sports:
i do gymnastics, not in the high-level serious american way, but very low key, i started as a little kid and haven't stopped since, and eventhough i objectively suck at it (i can barely do a front walkover), i just love the sport, i've also started coaching the little kids
i am a member of a czech sports organization called Sokol
besides that i like hiking, swimming and cross-country skiing
i would love to learn climbing, snowboarding and get into calisthenics
Movies/series:
tbh, i don't really watch anything, and i left the majority of these unfinished, but here you go:
castle
rizzoli & isles
bones
the mentalist
killing eve
house md
grey's anatomy, station 19 (watched just a ton of marina compilations lol)
lucifer
once upon a time
sherlock
gilmore girls
taskmaster
the traitors (czech version)
as to movies, i really don't know lol, i watch czech fairytales
Other:
i keep a journal, where i mostly write about my daily life and thoughts, but from now and then i also make a scrapbooky page or two, other than that i keep it very simple, definitely not aesthetic or posting worthy
i enjoy solvig the rubik's cube, crosswords, puzzles and also the NYT games
recently i joined a theater club at our school
as creepy as it may be, i have to admit that i love people watching and i can get a bit obsessive about middle-aged actresses
there's plenty of skills and activities i want to pick up but currently just don't have the space to:
cooking, baking
sewing, embroidery
playing the saxophone, violin, literally ANY instrument
yoga, meditation
web design (nekoweb, neo-cities)
dance, clogging
chess
if you read this whole post, thank you so much
would you like to be my friend maybe?
i want to meet new people here and if we share any of these interests, or the experience of being multipassionate, let's talk! <3
you'd think that "inhuman thing that isn't a person but speaks like a person and talking to it will slowly drive you mad" would only be found in folktales and fables and so on. but no. chatgpt
I love how ppl just do this sometimes to their potential ancestors. In the 25th century my descendants are gonna dive into old records and find a selfie of me, photoshop cybernetics onto me, and say I had the perfect face for being annoying about how it felt uploading my brain to the SolarNet while wearing stolen techpriest robes
may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.
People panic about "But what if kids pick up bad ideas from it???"
When I was a kid, Power Rangers got banned at school because we all thought it was incredibly cool and kept trying to kick each other in the head. No-one bothered explaining "Those are trained actors and it's all practiced, they don't *actually* hurt each other, and you're not good at that yet", they just banned it.
So we went to the park after school and read Kim's smuggled copy of the Power Rangers magazine and kicked each other in the head there instead.
(This is a metaphor, but it's also literally true. So much kicking in the head.)
God forbid parents actually talk to their teenagers.
I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.
A lot of tough situations where we now feel like we “don’t know what to do or say” had social scripts just a couple of generations ago and they might have been canned phrases or robotic actions but they could still be meant sincerely and unfortunately we haven’t replaced them with any more sincere or easier new script.
a lot of people are giving examples in the notes of things they just find annoying like not using headphones in public, but OP is talking about actual literal scripts of things to say in awkward situations
if you have a date or two with someone and you don't see a relationship developing? most millennials / gen Zers just end up ghosting. but a social script that might have been taught and rehearsed in the past could be:
"I really appreciated getting dinner with you the other night and I enjoyed your company, but I'm afraid I didn't feel a spark. I wish you the best, and hope you find that special someone!"
like it sounds kind of trite but it was at least something to say and it can still be meant with kind sincerity. it also communicates in 2 sentences that you don't want to see them romantically again, but there aren't any hard feelings about that. that's it!!! that's all it takes!!!
Another example is that at parties a lot of people talk about how awkward it is to mingle or talk to people they dont know. But at old timey parties that was traditionally the HOST'S job, and there was a specific scripted way of doing it that eased the process! The host would bring you in, introduce you and maybe even a little bit about you like what you did for a living, and then guide you to a group you could talk to. They didn't just let you in the door and then ditch you to fend for yourself in a sea of strangers. That would be unthinkable and no one would be surprised if a get-together like that wound up being awkward.
I still do the party-host thing and yall can, too! (Thanks Mad Men for teaching me a lot of outmoded social scripts... no really tho)
Remember things about your friends! Ask people about their weekends, hobbies, holidays, studies, and jobs! Listen for the concerns people have and what they are working on! Draw connections between one person and another to get the ball rolling. "Oh, Maura, you just got your first cat! You should talk to Felix, he used to work at a rescue. Felix, please tell Maura all the new-cat-guardian pointers."
"Bill, Sheila, Xan, this is my friend Kale. Kale is really into Star Trek, Bill you and them should talk about it!"
Orrr whatever! After you make the introduction and draw the connection you just float on into the next interaction with someone else at the function. Just listen, care about your friends, get our of your own head, and think of how you can bring other people together and you will feel 100% less awkward.
It’s so nice of this zoo to add environmental enrichment for their human inhabitants, replicating the feeling of a big cat possibly being above your head.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
