#so i just politely declined

[agesharp]

most notable time a customer flirted with me/asked me out is when i was 18 working at taco bell and a pretty girl with purple and black hair in a super gothy outfit gave me her number and signed it with a heart and said shed only be in town a few days if i wanted to go out somewhete & told me she was 24 when i asked and i was like. fuuuuuuck

we ended up textinf a little bit but it didnt rlly go anywhere because her sense of humor was eh. but i wouldnt want to date somebody 6 yrs older than me anyways

#💕 #i had even told my mom about it because i was feeling conflicted about whether to take her up on her offer #and my mom was like #you're 18. youre an adult. shes young too. why not do it? #and i was like. ... would you or dad drive me..? #and my mom said pft she probably wants you to be the man and pick her up. hell no #so i just politely declined #sometimes i wonder what itd be like if i had gone out with her though

[chirpsythismorning]

Just remembered that Will sat on the icebox in the van for the 30 hr ride back to Hawkins

#byler #stranger things #that willelmike dynamic in the van after the monologue needs to be studied under a microscope #like why couldn’t we see the aftermath of his monologue??? #what happened?? #when will sat on the icebox did el and mike look confused?? #did they offer to leave room for him to sit there but he declined politely like no that’s okay… #followed by the next 30 hrs of awkward #I know the vibes were OFF #that’s the reason they only let us be confronted with them by the time they arrived in Hawkins #they needed to shift the mood to confusion about Hawkins’ state #bc they could not reveal what the vibes were like before that #no but the prospects of el hugging all of them after saving max #and it’s like emotional and they’re all so relieved she’s alive #but then shortly after that when they’re planning going back to Hawkins #she’s distant again #maybe it’s with everyone so they just brush it off as her needing time to process everything #but it’s still suspicious because… #why are things with her and mike still feeling very off #and then that’s when they’re getting into the van and then will just adds to the awkwardness even more by sitting on the icebox 😭 #I also noticed 2 pillows on the backseat so it’s likely that’s where byler slept in s4 during their shenanigans #so I’m guessing that where el and mike slept while Will slept on the floor 😭 #no but seriously they could not show any of that without giving it all away #the angst and heartbreak and confusion and regret would have been so loud 😅

[wrixie]

my boyfriend got his new job!! it's a $3 pay increase too ;A;

#his drug test and physical are today #he hasn't smoked weed in like two months poor lad #it's been legal for one day in ohio and im like come on smoke with meeeee i miss youuuuuuuuuuu #BUT he's the responsible one so he declined politely and said maybe after he starts working #however if he fucks up and breaks something he'll get drug tested and if they find weed in his system they could fire him' #if he can't smoke anymore at all we'll both be so so so so sad #it really helps him unwind from his day and relax #he's been so stressed out because of the change and he doesn't vape anymore so he's like AHHHHHHHHHH #he literally just texted me saying he was leaving work to go take his tests hehe #nonsims #dl

[exodiust]

the biggest mystery in all of hxh has always been "what the fuck was togashi thinking?" because ANY time he does an interview to "clarify stuff" we just end up with more unanswered questions.

#hunter x hunter #hxh #I find it very annoying when they ask him about plot stuff #he must find it annoying too but is too polite to decline answering them so he just says crazy shit #my post

[tyin-cherry-knots]

not enough is said about the genre of men who a couple days after you reject them hit you with the “hey are you alright?” Or the “I’m here if you ever wanna talk” text because EW you are the LAST person I want support from

#and they’re always so scary about it #and get mad when you politely decline #hell is a teenage girl #girlhood #girlblogging #this is what makes us girls #just girly things #this is a girlblog #girlblogger #i hate men #boy problems

[granitxhka]

not to make a post that isn’t about arsenal rn but

#i got into the politics program at my local university! #im so excited and i feel like im finally doing the right thing for me! #my mom and now my sister are both trying to talk me out of it and im getting a little confused idk why I can’t tune out other opinions #im like should I decline if my family hates it ? like u stupid idiot no ….. but ……… #AH I just can’t they should invent a family that isn’t sooo whatever mine is

[anghraine]

I know I talk pretty regularly about Faramir's weird command over animals, both because he's my fave and it's cool, and because it's just such a strange detail. But I've also been thinking for awhile about some less direct but still intriguing quotes about how he relates to animals.

So, the usual ones first. Here's Beregond, describing Faramir getting his horse to run towards five Nazgûl while the other horses are fleeing:

‘They will make the Gate. No! the horses are running mad. Look! the men are thrown; they are running on foot. No, one is still up, but he rides back to the others. That will be the Captain [Faramir]: he can master both beasts and men.’

Then there are nameless soldiers in Minas Tirith, watching the orderly part of the retreat across the Pelennor:

The watchers held their breath. 'Faramir must be there,’ they said. 'He can govern man and beast.’

(For context, the ancient Númenóreans he takes after could summon particularly beloved horses by thought alone.)

But also, back in TTT, we heard some interesting details that may be pertinent. Firstly, there's Faramir himself, speaking to Sam:

'Were I as hasty as you, I might have slain you long ago. For I am commanded to slay all whom I find in this land without the leave of the Lord of Gondor. But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed.'

And when Anborn reports glimpsing the creature that turns out to be Gollum, he says to Faramir,

'You will not have us slay wild beasts for no purpose, and it seemed no more, so I tried no arrow.'

I think the suggestion here is that it's not standard policy for them to avoid killing wild animals, but a command from Faramir specifically. And he's clear here that he doesn't kill animals for any purpose other than necessity.

And I mean ... if I could get nervous animals to run straight towards Ringwraiths, I'd probably feel weird about killing them, too. But it all does fit together very neatly.

#i joke about horse girl faramir rights but actually faramir is a friend to all animals! of course he is! #we know gondorians and rohirrim do hunt as a practice #that's how the stewards created boromir's horn and the rohirrim hunt drúedain apparently #one hopes not for food #that practice is thankfully over but they'd still hunt animals and such—and iirc the vala they most reverence is oromë the hunter #so i'm just imagining faramir parked in rohan and politely declining to join any of the hunts #which probably seems pretty wimpy if they don't know why. and then he ends up befriending an ungovernable horse or something #but also i really enjoy how it escalates from 'maybe he's a pacifist vegetarian at heart?' to like. berúthiel shit if she weren't evil. #long post #anghraine babbles #faramir #jewel of the seashore #legendarium blogging #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings

[thebirdandhersong]

oh yes ladies I was asked out (on a DATE) last week and I'm still cry-laughing over it because WOW that went down SO badly

#think like mr collins meets eeyore but incredibly fixated on politics and thinks art and literature are a waste of time #apparently he isn't super dejected that I declined the offer because and I QUOTE #'she's a nice girl and has a nice personality and if i were to have a girlfriend she has the traits i'd want my girlfriend to have #however i'm not actually attracted to her' like BRO why did you ask me on a DATE THEN ???????? huh???????? #anyway men continue to be a mystery to me NO idea how their minds work #i have learned since that this boy almost never showers and is a bit of a slob so i may have dodged a bullet #he thinks i have a nice personality because i just gave up arguing with him at one point. some of his ideas on 'wives submitting #to husbands' and all that sort of thing are super alarming and i didn't have the energy to muster up a rational argument against some of hi #wilder ideas. anyway this was such a bizarre experience not gonna lie #in other unrelated news i have concluded that if a boy wishes to grow out facial hair in order to look like a man #it rather makes him look like he's TRYING to look like a man. that's all i got on that #lads i suppose the tail end of this equates to what a wild world this is...... he also happens to be friends with the ex boyfriend #every once in a while i think life is going to go quiet and peaceful and then something bonkers like this happens! lol

[smokeys-house]

You see, accepting baked goods from coworkers usually is a safe bet because most people understand what a cupcake is. Accepting any homemade savory dish or dinner item is risky because as it turns out, apparently, the majority of white americans do not actually know what seasoning is, and have some very... odd eating practices that they assume are universal.

#smokey talks #noah fence if u fit this demographic and do in fact know what seasoning is #also being autistic just means that 90% of the time i do not fw whatever they r bringing #and also i really want to know everytbing thats in it and how its made b4 trying but #apparently its rude to ask. so i just decline instead bc apparently thats more polite

[lafortis]

@mutuals if you're curious why I haven't posted anything About The Thing, it's because I'm stupid enough to be easily traceable from real life to the internet, and also occasionally exist in the direct vicinity of the kinds of politicians that could, theoretically, have an intelligence service vetting people nearby. I don't like, have a clearance to worry about or anything, and technically I'm a contractor anyway, so it's not like I can get fired, but there is a hypothetical world where having a history of vocally supporting "terrorists" etc would put me in a very very awkward situation

#dont think its because i have shitty takes is all i ask #ill probably delet this tmo for the obvious reasons #also to be clear im not self important enough yo even think a background check has ever been done on me #most times high profile individuals are nearby its for like 1.5 hrs and very like #brusque and poorly planned lol #its just like... the chsnce is very much there #there are certain shows that frankly dont align with my politics and never did and made me sick #that this year i am very much going to exercise my right to decline to work on #but just like. local and national politicians and stuff? i dont hate em or anything #but CSIS would in theory not take kindly to me having the opinions that i may or may not have #and doubly take unkindly to me publically espousing them #anyway sorry for being a cuck and a shitlib 😫 i also wish it weren't sl #so*

[spoonstrek]

I like to imagine traveling back in time to the Victorian Era just so I can loudly find refined white sugar a banal item and can bitch about the quality of tea available in the West

#invite me to your 1870s tea party #I'll gently decline any sugar stating I have a sweettooth but dont like to cover the flavor of tea #and then I'll take a sip. make a face like someone just fed me poison. and then add four lumps #this is also my strategy when I go to coffee shops that look indie but are Starbucks dupes #“can I get a black Americano?” -tastes like burnt horse mane- “ohhh where is your cream and sugar? I need this to be a sugary latte now” #though being polite about coffee tasting like shit is actually part of my new cafe scoping routine so I dont actually make a scene #I do add the cream and sugar. i just also take my first sip on the way to the station to make the actual gauging taste on if its good #roz says a thing

[rillette]

DCSHG Hal Jordan is so... Him. Like oh my god he's such a fucking idiot

Like- Diana's first instinct to meeting him was to throw him all the way across Metropolis. He broke up with Carol on Valentine's day then got upset she moved on. He got possessed by plants this one time and then got locked in a broom closet for the rest of the weekend. He became a lead singer in a boy band to save Kara... He's just so-

DCSHG hal is somehow like the perfect happy medium between 70s hal and goeff's hal, it's insane. The scene where he wants to be friends with clark so bad and he's really annoying about it DCSHG gets it fr

#asks <3 #ty for the ask!! #everyday i think about clark just fucking ignoring hal's calls #and that time when hal apologized to clark for CLARK breaking into hal's apartment and yelling at him like girl get a SPINE #i think the problem with hal is that he is just too honest and also everything in his life is always going wrong #so when you go hey hal hows it been just to be polite you get a two hour conversation about how the bank declined his loan application agai

[mellomadness]

sometimes I wonder if I should take a gender studies class just so I can bitch every day about how an imaginary boyfriend is often seen as a requirement for a woman to feel safe enough to have fun at a club, or the idea that an imaginary person with a fake “claim” over me has more influence over predatory men than my own voice saying “No, I’m not interested, get lost”

#venting #hnnnnng the double standard is really really making my teeth hurt recently #(in that I’m grinding my jaw at the mere thought of this particular breed of injustice) #I honestly miss going out with my friends. I miss going to bars and clubs and enjoying the night #but I wanna go with my friends and leave my boyfriend at home for once #he gets to go out and enjoy himself all the time with his friends and they never even have to deal with unwanted flirtation #meanwhile I go out in a tshirt and jeans and get fucking catcalled or flirted with just fucking getting groceries #and it’s not a narrative on beauty or anything. it’s about men’s perception of women #specifically predatory men and men who don’t realize they’re BEING predatory #perhaps it’s because I’ve been going to this fucking gamer school for far too long #and I’ve interacted with so many socially inept/incel men from there #who don’t know what no means or dont take women seriously when they do say no #or they literally cannot read between the lines of a woman politely declining their advances #‘but she was being so nice to me’ yeah bc if she wasn’t you’d either call her a bitch or try to force her anyway #anyway. I’m angry #im tired of living in fear of morons #I’m tired of not being able to go out on a Tuesday night and just walk the town with my friends #specifically my femme friends #we should be at the club!! instead we’re trying to make sure the group is like a school of fish so we’re less of a target #and like. I could talk about this on twt or reddit but. cmon. let’s be real here #MelloMoans #really does feel like we’re going backwards when it comes to gender equality and feminism #especially with the influx of the whole sigma male/high value male bullshit #I understand how it came to be I really do but that plus the whole pick me girl thing is just another toxic view of gender identity #and all it has resulted in on both sides is a wider degree of separation between the genders #therefore allowing both extremes to dehumanize every one that doesn’t identify as sigma male or not like other girls YET AGAIN #(and therefore also opens up the door for dehumanizing lgbtq+ folks but. let’s be real. that hasn’t really gone away yet :/

[heart-forge]

Dabloon thief here.

I'm going to need 1,000 dabloons <3

If you want to file any complaints send them to my boss @obesericewrites.

Listen I don't know anything about tiktok but far be it from me to turn down an opportunity to give you dabloons, although maybe a different currency 🐶🐶

Local girl annoyed with her mama for making her put down her toys for an internet joke.

#talkForge #scampi politely declined to pay but I think with dog -> cat conversion it works out to 1000 #also listen I just got murtle her christmas present: one of those giant lambchops #now I have to wait until christmas to give it to her even though she's going to be so happy........

[torgawl]

i am so emotional with harpocrates and dion's side quest. harpocrates who blames himself for not have offered dion his friendship and support besides the knowledge he shared with him when he was once his tutor. dion who feels so incredibly guilty for having destroyed his nation, what he held the most deer, who feels deeply ashamed and scared of what the person that inspired him all those years ago might think of him and his character after his deeds. harpocrates who doesn't blame him for another's ill intent but recognizes the anguish the prince battles with everyday and who wants to atone for his sense of personal failure towards him by gifting him the flower that represents his nation and making him know he isn't defined by his roots, that he is proud of the man the prince became. dion who is so thankful for the role the loresman had in his life but doesn't feel worthy of receiving the symbol of his people before fullfiling the duty he believes he has, si he defers the flower until after he bids his life against the one who ruined his nation to atone for the crimes he committed. harpocrates who plans cultivate wyvern tails for dion's return and bids farewell with an obvious sadness in his voice. dion who's reparation of his wrongdoings has been looking a bit too much like a forever depart...

#the fact the artifact we receive as a reward for the quest is called bahumut's mercy :') #not sure how to feel about this... i'm so afraid for dion's fate #but i am so glad they got this moment together 😭 #i love all the bits we get from dion with clive and joshua as well they're not really brothers but they're somewhat family #despite the weight he carries which is probably too much for him and i'm so sad about it because i don't feel like this will end well #but i'm glad dion is not alone? he has joshua and clive he has terence he has medicine girl he had harpocrates and all these people who #have been kind to him and supported him #people who believe in him and know his heart #god this boy deserves a hug #harpocrates politely accepted dion's decline and although i understand i wish he refused his refusal and just gave him the damn flower #like you stoopid boy 😤😤 you've already gone your duty 😤😤 sit your arse here and bring your boyfriend and be happy forever with us here #don't risk your life for nothing 😤😤😤 #but alas this is not that simple </3 #final fantasy xvi

[natjennie]

need another wwdits episode touting wellington crew cameos and we're all like oh shit what are they going to the council for oh no but it's actually just stu. he's in the states visiting family. he's just a really solid guy. he goes to help guillermo with a bag or something and they can all smell that he's a werewolf and just don't care. because he's just really nice. he helps them set up video calling tablets. he's a great dude. end episode.

#he's just a solid dude #nadja and laszlo are flirting like fuck and he just politely declines #and they cant even be mad because hes just so nice and chill about it #stu wwdits i love you i miss you stuuuu #stu stu stu stu stu stu stuu #wwdits