Honestly, probably the best social tip I could ever give you guys is literally just ask. Need to make a doctor’s appointment but don’t know how? Call the doctor’s office and ask. Don’t know the meaning of what someone said? Ask them. Don’t understand the instructions you were given? Ask them to repeat or clarify. This has literally never failed me, no one’s gotten angry, no one’s refused to answer.
Even in situations where you think it might not work, I once accidentally missed a deadline to accept a job offer, so I called and asked if they could reset it and they did. Just today I called a doctor and asked how to schedule an appointment, the lady told me how, and then I did it. Didn’t know if someone was being sarcastic or not, so I asked and they told me. Just ask.
lesser movies than mamma mia (2008) would’ve made the central conflict be between the three dads and stoked endless competition and jealousy between them, fighting about who gets to be sophie’s “real dad” and who has (and had) a “right” to pursue donna but mamma mia is no such movie. mamma mia is a cinematic masterpiece and as such they are pals throughout, happily go along with all the shenanigans and spend loads of quality time together throughout the film. they are just vibing! and then all three of them become the dads no questions asked. no drama! only vibing in greece
you know what i think really slaps? the fact that every generation of teens online have grown up with personality quizzes. when i was a teen we had quizilla. before the rise of buzzfeed they were ubiquitous in magazines and a bunch of sites had flash personality quizzes that played like games. now we have uquiz. entire chunks of the internet might be getting phased out someday but on god we have our right to find out which fruit best represents our personality
one of my favourite hcs in the Les Mis fandom is that all members of the Amis are named Jean and that this is the reason they’re calling each other by their last names - but consider this:
one of them has a completely different first name but every Ami just assumes they’re also named Jean and then one day they find out
staunchly against toddlers being given phones. stop that. give them little stuffed animals to play pretend with. fucking talk to them for a second even. stop giving them your phone. stop giving kids phones and ipads. stop it.
