traitor, inside your mind

According to the oc polls u lot want to see someone who: has a sunburned/tanned freckled face, white singed hair, chipped horns, their body is inorganic and they’re possibly a robot of a sort, their aesthetic follows YEEHAW 🤠 logic, their theme colour is turquoise, and they’re filled with bitterness and betrayal

for example, when chatting with coworkers, i’ll often ask if they have any fun weekend plans. but let’s be real - we all feel like friendless losers when someone asks that question and we go “uhhhhh… no.” so instead, i phrase it as “so, do you have anything fun planned over the weekend, or are you just going to enjoy having some time to relax?”

phrased like this, there’s rarely any awkwardness. you’ve presented two options & given both equally positive connotations, so your conversational partner has an automatic “out,” so to speak

but it works for higher stakes conversations too!!!! my mom was saying this weekend how she and her neighbor both like walking around the neighborhood & that she wanted to suggest they take a walk together sometime, but was worried about how to approach the conversation

so i said “how about you just say ‘i’ve noticed we both like taking walks! would you be interested in going for one together, or do you use walks for some precious alone time?’”

now Walking Neighbor has an automatic “get out of jail free card” if she wants to say no!!!! which means my mom doesn’t have to worry about the conversation being uncomfortable, because she’s set it up to go smoothly

I love these two so much.

Dracula and Jonathan’s Tango - from The Polish National Opera production of ‘Dracula’.

oh, Sisyphus! i got you