swim swim

A red solo cup of milk; allergic to the baptismal font

[dunkstein]

Maid cleaning a massive chateau surely belonging to the richest people you’ve ever seen, and as she’s walking from room to room you notice that every single portrait is of her

[dunkstein]

You specifically understand

[ozth]

[wilwheaton]

[radhexx]

This is great especially for women in the workplace who have learned kinda self-demeaning patterns of behavior in order to not be seen as a bitch. I started communicating this way in my VERY male dominated field and people definitely started taking me at least slightly more seriously. If that makes sense

[darth-snuggles]

Even in my heavily female-dominated industry (and office), using this kind of phrasing sees me taken more seriously by management, HR, and clients. I also find that for things like requesting PTO or schedule flexibility, I’m more likely to get uncomplicated agreement from the company if I phrase it as a statement of intention rather than a request for permission. This also goes for asking for accommodations; “X is not going to work, I need Y and Z” is a lot more effective than “I would like Y and Z, if it’s not too much trouble.”

[hiruma-musouka]

I highly recommend these phrases for any individual. When utilized with good context that avoids adding passive aggressiveness, these phrases convey confidence, assurance, and capability. Those qualities are admirable so people respect you more if they believe you have them, even if you’ve made an error because you’re also taking accountability and proceeding without groveling or getting defensive.

If you speak like you know what you’re doing, people are going to give you a good faith take that you are correct. Likewise, if you apologize frequently for yourself for insufficient reasons or act insecure in your desires or proposals, people presume you have reason to be insecure or apologize.

[cognitohazardous]

me: hmm time to google something

google every time: can i PLEASE have your location PLEASE 🥺🥺🥺 I need to know where you live so BAD 😫😫😫😫 Where do you fucking from?????? 😩😩😩😩😩😩

[bentrollio]

Do I get bitches? Idk, do I own a cat shaped charcuterie board with mouse cheese knife?

[ramtiger]

[bentrollio]

post CANCELLED everyone GET OUT

[bentrollio]

IM BEING CRUCIFIED LIKE CHRIST

[tweeterwilbury]

People will literally be doing anything on ao3

[tweeterwilbury]

^ what inspired this post btw

[cherryfleischer-deactivated2026]

I'm starting to understand why depictions of mohammed in islam are forbidden

[kurage3833]

I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY DFHKDSDHKKS

[pastelclownkitty]

MY OVARIES!!!!!!

[foralteregos]

Our*

[pastelclownkitty]

THEYRE COMMUNIZING MY FUCKING OVARIES!!!!!!!!

[foralteregos]

Our*

[pastelclownkitty]

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY FUCKING OVARIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[foralteregos]

Our*

[pastelclownkitty]

I DO NOT CONSENT TO YOU COMMUNIZING MY FUCKING OVARIES!!!!!!

[foralteregos]

Our*

[pastelclownkitty]

yeah no i dont care if i have 121 followers youre not doing that to me

[i-give-you-a-fish]

You get a Common Clownfish

Amphiprion ocellaris

[pastelclownkitty]

you know what. i may be getting jumped by tumblrians but at least i have my clownfish. its me and you against the world buddy

[levil0vesyou]

Our clownfish

[pastelclownkitty]

I CANT HAVE ANYTHING IN THIS FUCKIBG WORLD

[anodymalion]

The Summer Hikaru Died is like. what if you believed you were a disgusting monster for being gay. but then you meet a real monster, and over time you start to believe that even this monster deserves to be safe and happy, and it's the first time you start allowing yourself to believe that maybe you do too. what if I cried one million tears forever

[pierc1ngblo0d]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[swordoftheberserkgutsrage]

who fucks with this

[packsosick]

tryna find the source

[swordoftheberserkgutsrage]

its from this game im working on called deltarune

[kurage3833]

sleeby..... did i sleep through 60% of work?....while in my office??.....

insatiable sleeb, what am i to do.....

[kurage3833]

update: sleeb went away when i deleted all phone games (except sudoku for the subway), all social media off my phone, turned off all notifications and badges except text, and yeeted my apple watch into a drawer.

i feel like a human again c:

[kingcatnine]

being the last one to send a message before the chat falls into sudden silence always feels like u just made the worst faux pas of your life and you go sorry guys was that weird and they're all like no sorry I was just looking at a leaf on tbe ground leaf.jpg like oh ok

[winonaparadise]

thinking about how my parents did everything in their power to hide 9/11 from me as a child to the point of taking away my TV and preventing me from going outside so when we went to a 1-year anniversary church service about it in 2002 i thought the pastor was recounting the story from scripture and was like wtf how did i not notice there were planes in bible times that's crazy and then i went and pissed all over the church bathroom floor to test if i had free will

[couldntrelate]

[psychephrenic]

[virtualgirladvance]

[daggernoballs]

[dovand]

[largishcat]

i actually get a bit annoyed with people who get a bit annoyed when people say “sorry” in response to their bad news. “why are you apologizing you didn’t do anything :/” like okay well a) you don’t know that and actually yes i am the secret architect of all your woes and have been this whole time, way to refuse to acknowledge a woman (gender neutral)’s accomplishments. and b) we’re both fluent english speakers so you know perfectly well that “sorry” isn’t always an apology and is very commonly used as an expression of general regret or sympathy. not in this case, because i have been your secret nemesis for years, meticulously plotting your every misery, but, like, in general

[kurage3833]

Like most girls (gender neutral) I used to be someone who chronically said "I'm sorry". Once I stumbled upon the "women stop apologizing" discourse about a decade ago in high school, I got curious about where I got from and why. Of course it was from the women in my family, and gender/partriarchy theory was helpful at the time to break out of the habit.

Now, with more distance, I've thought about my own subconscious reasons for saying sorry the way I did, and why it feels ickier to say and hear it as an adult. Usually, I was worried about what the struggling person thought of me as they disclosed their suffering, and if I might have had a part in it. Or perhaps I had some hidden responsibility, and I wanted to anticipate that responsibility before someone got mad at me. Sometimes I was desperately seeking reassurance for my own unique pain from their suffering.

As a chaplain, my goal is to remind my patients of their humanity -- their sense of hope, meaning, and connection. Usually this is achieved through some sort of attuned mirroring through listening/conversation/prayer. Like most counseling-adjacent professions, this requires putting my own behaviors under a microscope and asking the question: how might my pain be impeding this ethic. Most of my "I'm sorry"s in the past were motivated by how I was feeling, not about the person's pain that I was witnessing.

With practice, I've integrated "I'm sorry" back into my lexicon, with particular attention to my motive and tone. Usually it involves emphasizing the sorry part of the phrase if I'm responding to someone's suffering, and the I'm part of the phrase if I want to take responsibility. Regardless, I'm sorry should never be offered with the expectation of reciprocal reassurance.

Not everyone's a rhetoric and tone robot like me so go drink and be merry, but rest assured I am taking these measures to plot your demise. Sorry not sorry.

[boycritter]

maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

[lengthy-artery]

ashes to ashes, dust to dust, reeses to pieces

[evilnicegirl]

what they dont tell you about those little hand baskets in the grocery store is if you put enough things in them they get heavy