Photo by Herb Ritts, 1987.
Someone with a social anxiety disorder will never get tired of hearing you say:
“I’m here for/with you”
“I like you”
“I love you”
“I value you as a person”
“Your opinions matter to me”
“I’ll go with you if it’s too scary”
“No matter what your anxiety tells you I’m not going anywhere”
“Your feelings are valid”
Especially when they’re anxious
Especially when they’re anxious
Especially when they’re anxious
Even if you’ve already said it. Say it again. And again. Please.
Cause it may seem silly to someone without S.A.D., but it’s actually really reassuring to be reminded of having support even if we were just reminded last week, or last month, or yesterday. It’s important. Really important. Cause the anxiety will often lead us to feel alone, unloved, like the person might go away if we share our feelings, even when we know it’s not true. It’s a million times easier to be convinced by someone else than by our own anxious brains sometimes.
This has been a PSA.
This is actually a Flying fox species. A Northern Blossom bat. Pixie is a subadult and 8g. Currently raised by our volunteers, she still needs a bit time before she will start to fly but getting more active now.
Photo/caption by Wildlife Rescue Darwin
ok, real talk 2
welcome back to things we love about David Bowie and cannot explain to outsiders. Today, we’ll speak of Bowie’s habit to entertain himself when he is with interviewers. To express this differently, one could also title this
SHIT THAT DAVID BOWIE DOES IN INTERVIEWS
So if you ever decide to interview David Bowie, here’s a list of why you shouldn’t. Or absolutely should.
Yes, he disgresses (one minute, we’re talking about cigarettes, next thing we know, he’s talking about anthrax in the American subway?) but I don’t want to talk about the adorable little cute that David Bowie, a grown man, ends up as when he is bored or just feels like being endearing.
Which is quite often when you are David Bowie and the interviewers are boring (aka not risking anything)
and ask the usual questions
*tragic sigh*
or nobody is willing to entertain you
wait… what?
I mean, apparently even the thought of some interviewers trying to bring some order into the conversation by preparing notes seems pretty hilarious to him.
The secret to interviewing Bowie is that if he decides to fuck with you, he will mess up your interview. A variety of distractions are in his usual repertoire.
The sunglasses, for example. Being told the trick by some friend, he firstly used it during the dark time that Tin Machine was.
And because he’s David Bowie, Master of Recycling, he did it again. 10 years later.
Some things never ch-ch-ch-change.
Maybe it’s not his fault. he just gets distracted very easily.
If he wasn’t such an annoyingly cute bunny while doing it, we’d probably be a lot more pissed about it.
(what’s with the bunny thing?)
There’s more, tho. He’ll compliment himself
or fucking slap himself on live television because let’s be honest WHY NOT
mock journalists
do this when he’s kinda… fed up with you
(probably because you called him Dave)
Or you’ve done the mistake of mentioning the few things he’s been asked too often
then, he’ll probably be quite unamused
On the other hand, if you treat him a bit too right and ask good questions, he’ll do other things you are not ready for either
I’m literally explaining the problem with this by demonstrating his response to the question of how he stays so cool.
So if you can’t handle sexfaces, don’t ask him what his clothes are made of. Or how he composed Life on Mars?.
Because he’s David Bowie. And it’s a terrible glorious idea wanting to interview him.
You can’t predict what he’s going to do. The guy pretended to drop dead once. No shit sherlock. Maybe if you’re mean to him on live tv, he’ll do the same and just lie there for minutes.
He’s a fragile being, and you should not fuck with him. (He might disagree if you’re pretty and activates his charm, but then again, his wife kicks butt, so yeah, don’t fuck with him.)
Thank you for joining me.
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