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platonic shuffle ➛ dialogue the west wing (1999—2006) | s03e02
I love a woman with a loud ass laugh. I love a cackle. I love a guffaw. Love when a bitch laughs so hard it scares the dog. Be unapologetic in your joy.
is this not what happened
canon event to me idc
Heated Rivalry | 1.05 (creative liberties taken with speech to text)
posted this on my nsfw priv on twt, but its clothed and not too risque or nsfw for tumblr? so i think its okay to post it here? (for early vday since ill be away)
this is from a "manipulation advice" video and it's just so fucking funny to me. why didn't I think of responding to insults like this
I can’t remember where I got the information now, but apparently if you stare silently for at least 4 seconds it triggers a feeling of rejection which I don’t have to tell you is uncomfortable and makes most people backpedal pretty quickly and awkwardly.
Immediately going concerned/extremely polite always throws people off their game, it's beautiful.
The Quiet Stare Of Disappointment is also super effective, indeed .
My sister and I were walking across a car park.
Random bloke: Maybe if you walked more you wouldn’t be so fat
My sister stops dead, stares him in the eye and goes: Is everything alright at home?
I’ve never seen a man’s face turn to horror so fast
We just walked to her car and drove off
The silent stare is so effective. I learned about it in social psychology in undergrad, and have often used it to great effect. Probably the best example is when I went to sign the papers on the car I was buying—I had already worked out a price and my trade-in with the salesmen the day before—and they decided they were going to take $1000 off the value of my trade-in. (I want to emphasize that I was buying a 10+ year old car; I ended up paying $8k total.)
"No," I said. "That doesn't work for me. If you're unwilling to honor the deal we made, I'm not buying a car from you."
Well, they talk for a living. So they talked. Here I am, a young woman on my own, and these two men at the dealership are giving me all the reasons they couldn't possibly honor the deal we made yesterday.
So I sat. I didn't say a word. I just stared at them.
They kept talking, trying to get a reaction out of me. After about 10 seconds, they abandoned all pretense of logical arguments and started hammering pathos. They weren't even buying my old car from me for the dealership; it was a personal favor for which they were using their own hard-earned money to help this poor guy at church who just got out of rehab and his house burned down and his children exploded and his dog left him for another man, etc etc
I didn't say a word. I just stared at them.
They began falling apart. They continued trying to hustle me, but their confidence left them. I think they might have been sweating.
Within five minutes they caved and signed the papers for our original deal.
I have been told for years I am intimidating, and by people who had never even seen me angry. Just in general, intimidating. This absolutely baffled me until a friend one day pointed at me and said — “This! Right now! You’re being intimidating!”
Friends, I was staring silently at someone while inwardly flailing desperately to come up with a response to something they’d said that wasn’t overly rude but also was holding my ground. In my mind, I was being hellishly awkward. I couldn’t summon any charm, I couldn’t figure out a sentence to string together. Silence spooled out horrifyingly between us as I got farther and farther away from being articulate and became more and more flustered by this failure to respond. From the outside, I guess, I just looked like a stone cold bitch waiting for them to get their shit together, lol.
I still don’t think I’m intimidating but you know I’ll take it.
a huge part of appearing intimidating is simply being obviously willing to no bluff just walk away
conveying wordlessly their unimportance
...Wait, so I can just do the Mom Look on full-grown people? The look I give my five-year-old when he starts to do something he knows he shouldn't... I can do that to normal adults when they do something THEY know they shouldn't?!
Goddamn, I'm gonna have to try that!
These are all great points, but the "are you okay?" answer is not just a tool to 'own' someone, it genuinely helps me in another way
That person is very probably not Mad At You, strangers are very rarely Mad At You, they don't know you. They are probably having a bad day and you are just some guy that happens to be there
'are you okay', reminds me that they are probably not a horrid rude person 24/7, they are probably having a bad day. And hopefully it reminds them too
I'm never saying it to shame someone into changing their behaviour, I'm genuinely asking because they probably are not okay
I'm going to say that this isn't just helpful with rude strangers
When my kid was small and acting up I would stop and ask "are you okay?" Because I assumed if they were behaving badly there was a reason and there usually was and they didn't know how better to articulate it
Now they are a teenager it's still helpful
And if me or my husband is being dick it's not usual behaviour and "are you okay?" Is helpful
Hell my teenager uses it on me
I was having a very bad mental health day the other day and it was making me irritable and frustrated and I was being kinda a bitch because I was overwhelmed and we had this convo:
Teenager: are you okay?
Me: *angrily* no
Teenager: can I help?
Me: no
Teenager: should I leave you alone?
Me: yes
And then they left me alone
And then after I calmed down I apologised and made sure they knew they hadn't done anything wrong and I wasn't irritated at them
Communication is good
not to be talking about avengers (2012) in the current year (2025) but tony stark walking into a room full of spies and government agents, planting a hacking device on one of their computers, starting up a little hacking program on a giant screen in full view of everyone present, and then exiting WITH NO ONE NOTICING simply because he is THAT good at misdirection and running his mouth. what the fuck. icon legend media trained at the Maria Stark Public Appearances Bootcamp at age 4 guy who crowd worked his way out of a senate hearing they do not make them like this anymore
heyyy i dont know if you ever made a list but do you have any pining!dean recommendations? i just want to read about him being sooo in love with his baby brother it makes him sick:);thank youuu
i have not!! i did pining!sam, it's only fair to do pining!dean :)
It's Just That You're My Everything by intrepidheart [14k, pre-series]
It’d be really cheesy if Dean said that he dreamt of Sam all the time. Like, gag-worthy, finger-down-the-throat, rolling-eyes kind of cheesy. Doesn’t mean it isn’t true. (Or the one where Dean loves his little brother too much and won't ever do a thing about it.)
If Gold Rusts... by ulexite [131k, seasons 9-11]
What he wants from Sam isn’t wrong, not exactly, but it rests at the precipice of wrongness, one gentle nudge might send him over and beyond. He only wants to live their lives ensnared by each other, half-feral as they’ve always been, in want of nothing and no one else and owing nothing to the world. He’s ready to risk letting it all burn if it means he can hold onto Sam a little longer. He’s never bothered asking why.
Odysseus, American by coyotesuspect [10k, Stanford era]
Dean finds Peter O'Toole's recording of the Odyssey in a bin marked “Audio" in Casa Grande's only used bookstore. The place smells like cigarette smoke and old books, and it reminds him of Sam.
Sweet as Sugar, Easy as Pie by merle_p [6k, post-15.19]
“Just hurry,” Sam says, his face still illuminated by the afterglow of his laughter. “If I have to wait too long, I might just eat all the pie without you.”
Hot air for a cool breeze by passengerseatsam [10k, Stanford era]
As Sam's freshman year at Stanford comes to a close, Dean and John work a shapeshifter case in Mississippi. Dean is fine. He is.
Edges by Linden [3k, pre-series]
Dean wants his brother, and Bobby isn't blind.
i still need you, but what good’s that gonna do by according2thelore [22k, Bunker era]
Dean is cursed with Hanahaki disease, and wants to die with some dignity. Sam is going to save his brother at any cost.
If Only in My Dreams by dollylux [2k, Stanford era]
Dean's unraveling on his first Christmas spent apart from Sam. (Stanford era)
Been Here All Along by orphan_account [7k, pre-series AU]
Sam is a late bloomer. Traditionally, omegas found their partner and went through their first heat by sixteen. Sam is about to turn eighteen, and he hasn’t even let out a whiff of heat. He’s never been interested in any of his suitors, either. And Sam has had plenty. Dean can’t help but be pleased as punch about the whole situation.
Living in god's blind spot by applecrumbledore [25k, pre-series]
Dean was getting hard, watching Sam. The worst part was that he was surprised by it: he lied to himself, so perfectly and for so long, that he actually managed to feel scandalized, as if it were news to him. Me? Hard for my brother? Since when? But it wasn’t news. It wasn’t the first time. It wasn’t the fifth time. Sparring last night. Watching him sleep last week. At a motel pool in Arizona last year. Dean had been sick for so long.
Happy With You by fictionallemons [3k, post-15.19]
Sam shuffles his feet and sighs. “I’ve been seeing someone. In Lebanon.” The ball of anxiety moves to Dean’s heart, which feels frozen. Sam’s…dating?
this narrow room where life began by peculiarstate [36k, season 1]
Everything Dean is, even all these years later, is still for Sam, only ever Sam, it beats through his blood more real to him than his own heartbeat, Sam, Sam, Sam. The common fucking denominator of Dean’s entire life.
Be yourself so ppl looking for u can find u
Peter: *sneaks into the tower at 2am*
Tony: *turns in a swivel chair* Care to tell me where you were?
Peter: I was with.. uh... Harley..
Harley: *also turns in a swivel chair* Care to- *keeps spinning* Tony- I can't stop the chair-
— tony stark / iron man
ok but consider:
college-era peter, chasing 10 year old morgan around new york as she runs around in a homemade iron man costume trying to be a superhero, wondering if he was really like that once upon a time
and tony just deadpanning, “worse. so much worse”
peter, running after morgan: mr stark PLEASE come collect your child
tony: this is payback for all the times the nypd called me saying the exact same thing
peter: i have finals!!
tony: i have a heart condition
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i miss tony stark so bad
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man IRON MAN (2008) dir. Jon Favreau