#growing up shy

[poet-by-the-lake]

As someone who grow up with no friends and now has a few…it’s kind of weird?

Like I’m genuinely surprised every time they show that they enjoy my presence and it’s not even a low self esteem thing it’s just…pleasantly surprising. Like I am capable of receiving love which is pretty neat.

I like friends, they’re cool.

#friends #frienship #growing up lonely #growing up shy #growing up autistic #growing up undiagnosed

[just-gingerkat]

You ever lonely af and find a group of people who seem perfectly friendly, talk about the stuff you're interested in, laugh at the same stuff you find funny and you really wanna try and be friends with them but you're too damn anxious so you're just like

Cause thats me

Every day 😂

#why cant i just be normal #come on me just be brave #why is socializing so scary #growing up shy #being shy is not fun

[permdaydreamer]

This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

#teenagers #early twenties #late twenties #growing up #childhood #nostaliga #introvert #homebody #quiet life #outcast #shy #college #university #high school #neurospicy #neurodivergent #mental health #mental illness #social anxiety #it’s okay

[ethugs]

When you too shy to tell the barber he messed up

#myactualposts #videos #worldstar night #tiktok #growing up shy

[mattmurdockismyspiritanimal]

My high school sweetheart is classic literature.

#reading #introvert #growing up shy #high school #classic literature #literature #school

[temeyes]

boyish smile

#im a worm... a LIAR!!!!!!! i said i wasn't in the mood to draw... #but i woke up thinking about this mfer........ and i was inspired......... #it's really nice to see fictional characters you grew up with grow up with you too LOL #he's my favorite blond boy.. ilysm #i have so much to say but im too shy to ramble how much i love him HAHAHAHA #haikyuu!! #haikyu!! #haikyu #hq!! #haikyuu #tsukishima kei #kei tsukishima #tsukki #tsukki kei #haikyuu tsukki #art #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #sketch #doodle #anime #manga

[milkcioccolato]

FIRST MEETING!

The first time they actually meet, finally!

I had wanted to draw this for so long, but other things always seemed more important at that moment, so I just kept postponing it🙈

#here Obi-Wan is barely 15yo and hasn’t been with Qui-Gon for very long #that’s why he still has his padawan cut! #he’s just gonna stop bothering to cut it at some point and just let it grow out #Maul is 12yo and still very shy when meeting new people #especially cute older boys that make him all flustered! #Maul fell right away. like. immediately #obi just thought he was a very cute kid and a nice friend #until Maul grew up a bit more and went from cute to pretty to handsome #and then obi started catching feelings #star wars #milks artsies #darth maul #maul #obi wan kenobi #obi wan #obimaul #jedi obimaul au #jedi maul

[tapeworrmart]

Lmao what if I drew my OC as a postal insert. They meet in a human shield situation I think 🥰

#It's funny cuz angel originated as a gta v insert and jsut grew form there. Yet I've always been too shy to draw him w trev #But I've seen other drawing their postal self inserts and I got brave!! #Maybe one day I'll draw him w T too. But there's so much in my head #But postal insert!!! I figure dude would drag him out of a situation where he's getting shot up p bad #And then the Stockholm syndrome grows from there. And angel is his own version of fucked up so it fits #Anyway I'm sick w tonsilitus rn so sorry if this is janky I needed smth to do at 2am #fan art #art #sketch #character art #OC art #Original art #The postal dude #Postal 2 #Original character #Original character art #Tapeworrm oc #Angel

[trexpel]

So kiss me

#UGH I was listening to Kiss me by Sixpence none the richer while high #felt possessed to create this #Noelle you’re such a hopeless romantic #queen #I get it girl #I was such a hopeless romantic growing up #I’m so happy I’m in love 😭 #anyways #noelle holiday #noelle deltarune #susie deltarune #deltarune #suselle #she’s trying so hard to be smooched but Susie is so oblivious and also shy

[transmechanicus]

That prev post reminded me how much it weirds me tf out when someone only interacts with specific subsets of a minority group and learns their associated niche behavior patterns, and then tries to apply those patterns to every member of that minority that they meet afterwards only to be shocked when it doesn’t work.

#my stuff #i went to a queer group a while ago to make friends and the only two other transfems were both way more shy and feminine and reclusive than #and these two had been attending for a while so they were everybody else’s baseline for transfems #this is not the other transfems fault to be clear they’re just giving #*VIBING #and then i show up looking like i spilled out of a metal concert and slapped on the she/her sticker it got me some looks #like ohhhh you think all trans girls grow their hair out and wear pink and play 1 billion hour final fantasy i see how it is #ohhhh you have preconceived notions of what trans womanhood looks like #surprise i wear band shirts and a leather jacket 6/7 days a week i cuss and take up space and have mostly guy friends #and that doesn’t make me any less of a woman

[asafeplaceforus112]

She's a little wonky, but in my defense I haven't drawn in a while and I just didn't have the energy to do more than a fixed up sketch

headcannon stuff below

My personal headcannon that after octo expansion, Agent 8 gets access to a regular diet and gets all cuddly and plump! Like energy of a weight lifter kind of fit!

I also think she'd really value individuality because of her time as a solider, and have lots of piercings and change her hair and all that because of it!

She likes shopping and buying lots of outfits and stuff because she likes that its ~ her stuff~ and she doesn't have to share

She wears the golden toothpick on all her dates with Captain 3 and they share a set of earrings

She's specifically this bright with Captain 3, when alone its more like those characters that are smiling softly and tall and you have no idea whats going on in their minds vibe!

This image is before side order and I headcannon that 8 was going home from a date when they got sucked in

#splatoon 3 #splatoon 3 spoilers #splatoon 3 side order #splatoon 3 sider order spoilers #side order #side order spoilers #splatoon 2 #splatoon 2 octo expansion #octo expansion #agent 8 #agent 8 x captain 3 #agent 8 x agent 3 #agent 24 #sketch #I just really think 8 is neat #I love the idea of shy and battleworn but niave 8 #that gets to grow up #and still hella traumatised #but has that one person that they feel safe with

[suaimhneas-gairid]

my favourite part of the new käärijä song is the YEARNING LOOKS wait no it's the SENSUAL TOUCHES wait no it's the FRUITY LYRICS wait no it's-

#gay gay gay #i love how he doesn't shy away from it at all #he knows what his fans like #and he dives straight in #but actually my favourite part is how they puffed up his pant spikes #those pants will never die #käärijä #but actually it's the trashy edm breaks #but actually it's the shameless capitalising on his famous catchphrase #no actually it's really how the whole song just encompasses his attitude #he doesn't give a fuck what people think #he's here to have fun #he will never cringe #it's inspiring #i wanna be like käärijä when i grow up #but for real i didn't like the song the first time i heard it #i still don't know if i do #but i love it because it's käärijä 💚 #tags got long huh

[poolpvrty]

Well, I've been afraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

The sun, the moon, and their star!

#back at it again with my sirius james and remus bullshit #this time featuring their slight redesigns #paired with a sad fleetwood mac song #sirius black #james potter #remus lupin #this is them in the middle of the war i think. they're definitely adults but not quite “old” #i just love the idea of sirius having a super curly funky mustache and pretty wispy hair #very suave very nonchalant very sexy and he knows it yk? #and remus being this shy bashful mess with a mean temper #everything about him is unremarkable but he's so kind and it makes sirius short circut #and james is so arrogant but he tries hard to humble himself often #he's a bright person and it's just so natural for him he doesn't mean to “take up space” #weirdly his overbearing presence and painfully sunny personality is what people in the order end up liking most about him. #they're all kinda assholes but they're growing and trying to be better #“i guess I've still got some more healing to do.” #marauders #hp marauders #hp fanart #best friends <3 #moonchaser #wolfstar #prongsfoot #artists on tumblr #<3

[introspectivememories]

touch-starved bernard dowd is sooo canon to me

#hs!bear who had a reputation for sleeping around not bc he particularly enjoyed sex #but bc at least during sex sm1 would touch him #and he'd give anything to be touched like someone wanted him and not bc they were obligated to #college!bear who was initially interested in the pain cult at first but became hooked after they patched him up gently #hs!bear who would drape himself all over his friends and hope this time they wouldn't push him off #bernard dowd who goes his whole life being told by his family that he's too touchy and it makes people uncomfortable #bernard dowd at a young age creating rules for himself after being told time and time again that he makes people uncomfortable #and being unable to follow them bc he loves these people and he knows no other way to show it #bear watching his family shy away bc they don't enjoy and he knows that but why does it feel like they just don't want his touch? #bear breaking all of his rules and hating himself for it. loathing himself bc don't you see bear? you're too needy too touchy. you make #people uncomfortable. and the thing about children who grow up loathing themselves is that they rationalize any affection they recieve #someone from his family hugs him and he thinks to himself: they're only touching me bc they have to. they're uncomfortable doing this. #they're only doing this bc everyone knows how much you like hugs. look dowd you've made someone uncomfortable again. #so he categorizes every touch as Fake or Real but bc he grew up like this every touch is Fake. bc no one really wants to touch him. they're #only doing it bc they have to. bc they're obligated to. #bear who walks around feeling like a stranger in his own skin bc no one will touch him and if they do touch him he can't recognize weather #it's Real or Fake and so the cycle continues. #bernard dowd #dc

[starlightandsunshine]

Alright 3rd and final Star Wars take of the day that is probably pretty lynchworthy:

Echo should have died/already been dead in the Bad Batch arc in s7. Sorry guys, I love Echo too, but the story would have worked better if he was already dead when they got there.

Like there's a lot of things that could have made this arc better in general that I'm not going to really get into here without touching on the character design or whitewashing and racism around the clones (which many much more qualified people have talked about way more eloquently than I ever could). Like the fact that this arc should have been a Cody&Rex arc rather than writing Cody out so early in or the weirdly dismissive way the writers treated the other characters in order to lift tbb up when they could have just. Not done that. Really very easily.

But specifically the Echo thing: as soon as Rex finds out the possibility that Echo might still be alive, he is immediately ready to jump in with both feet without looking, and Anakin cautions him that they might not find Echo alive and he needs to prepare himself for the possibility that they can't save him. This has huge overall narrative implications, because we, the viewers, know that in a few weeks time he is going to turn his back on the people who love and trust him and betray everything he's ever sworn to stand for bc he is worried about the possibility of not being able to save Padme.

Now Rex goes with tbb and Anakin on a rescue mission that might not be a rescue mission. Tbb are still being very dismissive of the "regs" and Rex, quite understandably, is not handling their attitudes very well.

They get there, it's a trap and so on and so forth, but here's the important part: they don't find Echo alive. The Techno Union found him after the Citadel arc and mined his brain for data through hand wavy star wars means and they had no need to preserve anything else or keep him alive after that.

The rescue mission is too late and they never had the chance to save Echo at all. And Rex breaks. He holds it together for long enough to complete the mission, they escape the Techno Union and protect the village, but once they get back on the ship and head back towards Anaxes, he just shatters. Full on sobbing on the floor devastated bc he was so sure he could save Echo. He was so hopeful that he could save this one person after everything. After Fives and Tup and Ahsoka walking away and Kadavo and Umbara he just wanted to be able to save one person that he cared about. And they were already way too late.

We can see Anakin faced with all of this and the shadow of his future actions that he will do so that he will not have to deal with his own potential grief. We can see the paralells between Rex doing everything in his power to have the possibility of saving his brother and Anakin taking extreme steps to have the possibility of saving his wife.

The shadow of RotS hangs over the entire arc and this then makes the scene with Admiral Trench hit so much harder. Because it's not just the warning of how far Anakin has already fallen, its the spectre of the future hanging over his shoulder in more ways than one, the way that throughout the arc you can see his resolve to never lose Padme hardening so he never has to face that grief.

On the other end of things, tbb are faced with Rex's very real and present grief for Echo and have to acknowledge the love and care that the other clones have for each other. They get to grow as characters and learn to respect the grief of the "regs" bc there is a shared kinship there, they do share more than they don't, and they are all horribly aware of just how easily it could have been them. The arc can end with them learning to respect the other clones and finding a closer kinship with them rather than returning to the status quo just with Echo as a member and they sort of like Rex now. Not only would that have made them more relatable as characters but could have set up a much better conflict for the future in their show rather than the weird thing with Crosshair that we did get and them still not really connecting with any of the other clones in a show centred on the clones.

Like, let the characters fail. Let them lose. Let them have succeeded in their mission without having it be a victory. Let it be bittersweet. S7 is already bittersweet. We know what is coming. We know how close it is. The shadow of it looms over every single interaction in this season. So don't shy away from it. Lean into the shadow of Anakin's choices, lean in to the paralells that you're writing in, let the events have meaning and impact and consequences like so much of the rest of the show.

#star wars #sw tcw #tcw #clones #captain rex #tbb echo #tbb #anti tbb #sort of but i'm tagging so it doesn't end up in the main tag #let them fail #let them learn #let them grow #acknowledge the fact that anakin's fall isn't just about his anger or hatred #its all centred on his fear #and let him have emotions that aren't just anger or snark #let him see other people grieve and be unable to turn away from it #this arc should have been about losing even when you do things right #and implying that anakin learned the wrong lesson from that #it should have been about the rex and anakin paralells that the show never fails to lean into but always shys away from fully embracing #and yes it should have been about tbb too #but it should have been about them learning and growing #they should have come away having learnt something the way the main characters in other arcs always do #but they didn't #they just essentially returned back to the status quo with 0 actual character development #which makes them weaker as characters #and weakens the story that is trying to be told

[fauvester]

Idan big lad good heart

HES JUST A BIG GUY

#HES JUST A BIG GUYYYYYYYY #dee s 9 #garashir adoption au #garak growing up to look more and more like tain. looking in the mirror like hmmmmm #ALSOOOOOO SHY LITTLE CARDASSIAN BAPPIES..! YES!!! #hes a real sweet himboish guy. smart on paper too. lots of word games in that family. very verbose. #but also got a little touch of The Sentiments. #grew up on a steady diet of Starfleet Stories (tm) and seeing federation aid workers every day #wants to fling himself out into the starrrrrs practice some frontier leadership #(people assume that being tall and getting good grades means that he's a good person to look to for authority)