How To Care Less About What Other People Think

How to Care Less about what Other People Think

1. Know what matters to you, personally – what you stand for, and what your values are .

2. Don’t be anxious about breaking social norms. The more often you do this, and go against the flow, the less it will bother you to simply be yourself.

3. Decide not to live as a people pleaser, or to get upset and take rejection personally.

4. Hang out with people who are self confident, who know what they believe in, and what they want from life. You’ll find their self-confidence will rub off on you, too, and you’ll start to worry less about what other people think.

5. Working on becoming more competent in the skills and areas that matter to you. That will naturally enhance your self confidence, and develop a self image that is strong and positive.

6. Travel, or spend time with lots of different people. That will show you how diverse attitudes and outlooks are. That is, there’s no one way of being – so find, and be, yourself.

Some things England/Spain shippers (and the rest of the Hetalia fandom) get wrong

“Spain’s hegemony over the seas ended after the Armada’s defea-”

“The Anglo-spanish war (1585-1604) was a victory for Engl-”

“British Empire replaced Spanish Empire after 1588”

“Both Empires (Spanish and British) were even during X perio-”

“England and Spain have always been enemi-”

“England has always beaten the crap out of Spa-”

England/Spain is my OTP, and since I’ve read too many times things like the ones listed above I think some real historical stuff would be enlightening for everybody. So, shall we?

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seashellsakura

7 years ago

2016’s Top Books

How many lists can Dan and Phil appear on? Here’s another.

1. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling 2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan 3. The Raven Cycle series +1 by Maggie Stiefvater

4. The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare 5. The Captive Prince Triology by C. S. Pacat 6. A Song of Ice and Fire Series −3 by George R. R. Martin 7. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas 8. The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic 9. The Amazing Book is Not on Fire −3 by Dan Howell and Phil Lester 10. Pride and Prejudice −1 by Jane Austen 11. The Throne of Glass series −1 by Sarah J Maas 12. The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan 13. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 14. The Warriors series +2 by Author Collective 15. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 16. The Infernal Devices series −8 by Cassandra Clare 17. The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer 18. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan 19. Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

20. Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

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seashellsakura

8 years ago

Great heroes need great sorrows and great burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It’s all part of the fairy tale.

Peter S. Beagle (via thewritersguardianangel)

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seashellsakura

5 years ago

as a procrastinating overachiever i feel like i don’t necessarily “half-ass” things, it’s more like a “3/4 ass”. like overall did i do pretty well? yeah. did i reach my maximum potential though? i think the fuck Not.

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seashellsakura

8 years ago

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on April 22, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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seashellsakura

8 years ago

you’re damn right they have (x)

follow @the-movemnt

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seashellsakura

8 years ago

Warmth

Chapter 2

It had been a normal day for Michelle, until she found the Russian giant on the sands of her favourite beach.

Now, Seychelles had not had the quietest upbringing. Her history, especially after her independence, was dominated by coup after failed coup, more a spectacular mess than anything else. Not surprising, really, considering who her parents were. But, also being who they were, there had been lessons - dozens of boring, boring lessons - on, apparently, How To Survive ( it was more, she thought, How to Best Pick Fights and Not Make Friends, but meh. Europeans.) She’d been given a handbook too, underlined and highlighted, with stapled-in pages no less dog-eared that the rest, probably something passed down among her various pseudo-siblings, but that was besides the point. The point was, Seychelles did not follow most of the rules, but some she did, if only to be particularly safe.

So, naturally, the last thing she was expecting was to run into one of the countries on the ‘Avoid At All Cost’ list, lying on her beach, not realising that he was well on his way to getting very nicely sunburnt.