#International friends
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The American urge to add a new course on Duolingo every time I make a friend who speaks a different language is overwhelming
#funny#international friends#friends#languages#duolingo#Idi made a post primarily in Dutch (I THINK IDK I'M DUMB) and now I wanna learn it#for no reason other than it seems like the thing to make them happy#(and I feel dumb asking for translations lol)#this also applies to just generally people I follow and characters I like#the only reason I added Irish as a course was because my obsession with Halt bled over into an obsession with Irish mythology#somehow
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Went to visit @always-loki for a few days. The only person who loves Jinx and Arcane as much as I do! Thanks for everything 💕
#books#bookstore#book pic#book photo#online friends#international friends#tumblr friends#arcane#travel#traveling#booklr#bookshelf#arcane jinx
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having a lot of international friends and looking through old discord dms with them is wild because it’s like
- “lol look at this meme”
- “haha it’s so funny how our first languages have similar quirks”
- “can I open up to you about this issue that’s been bothering me?”
- “let’s work out a time that works for both of us to chat since we live in different time zones”
- “HOW ARE YOU STILL AWAKE”
- “wow, talking about the weather is actually really cool when people live in different climates”
- “look at these cool pictures I took on vacation”
- “can you help me translate this?”
- “dang; that sucks. I wish I could fly over to comfort you in person right now”
- “lol I made cookies and wanted to ask if you wanted any, and then I remembered you live across an ocean from me”
- “isn’t it crazy how technology lets us communicate instantly from so far away, and we use it to send memes and stupid stuff”
- “we should meet up one day; I’ll show you around”
- “your connection is cutting out; lemme pause the movie”
- “wait isn’t it like 2 am where you live”
- “I can’t believe we have messages from like five years ago; wow”
- “I just read the news about what happened in your country; are you okay? I don’t completely understand the situation but I’m here if you need me; don’t feel pressured to respond but I just want to know that you’re safe”
- “hey; I know this meme is old and I sent it to you before, but it still makes me think of you”
- “I drew you a picture since I wanted to get you a gift, but I can’t mail anything to your country”
- “don’t worry about your grammar/pronunciation/accent; you speak my first language really well! but if you want, we can try to talk in your language too; I’ve been practicing”
- “what’s going on in your country? the news is saying lots of different things and I don’t know what to believe”
- “we’ll be okay. we’ll get through this”
- “omg look at this funny post”
- “thanks for being here. you’re a really good friend. I wish we could meet in person”
- “the weather where you live is WHAT”
- “you’re probably asleep right now, but I just read the news again, so when you see this, I just want to know if you’re doing all right”
- “omg your pets are so cute”
- “today is a holiday for you, right? how was it?”
- “wow; those pictures you sent are so pretty”
- “look at this stupid cat gif”
- “read the news again; are you doing okay?”
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One of the downsides of being bilingual is that sometimes you find and absolutely incredible, hilarious video or meme, that would make this one specific friend laugh until they could barely breathe
And you can't send it to them because they don't know the language and Google translate wouldn't be enough to convey how funny it is in the original language, so you just sit there, and you have to move on
#bilingual#bilingue#international friends#it sucks ass because id have to explain but then by the time i finished it wouldnt be funny anymore#tragic really
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I absolutely adore having friends all over the world. My best friend casually invited me to come live with her in Paris for a while.
Then, my other best friend casually invited me to her summer home in Mongolia. (I have two Mongolian friends who I want to see again so bad).
Then, everyone I met in South Korea said that if I ever returned to SK, I could stay with them.
(Not to mention everyone I met in SK: from Japan, Kazakstan, France, China, Spain, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Russia, the Netherlands, etc).
#travel#international#international friends#i miss my friends#friendship#cute#traveling#study abroad
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What time is it where you live? I'm trying to tune in to your lovely streams but sometimes I forget that there is a time difference 🤣
hmmmm now that you say this it helped me make my mind up on something. i was thinking the other day and i had the idea to include the time for a bunch of the world-wide timezones because i do tend to get a nice bit of international viewers as well. If y'all wanna drop your time zones either below or in my ask box you're more than welcome to! <3
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Me a Filipino, my Brazilian friend, and my Argentinian friend: comparing food/words that look/sound similar
#international friends#we have a lot of food and words that are similar#because of the spaniards#obviously
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#face#ootd#cute#beauty#couple#fashion#style#high fashion#fashion show#clothing#usa#curlys#curly hair#relationship guru#international relations#international friends#worldwide#travel#sunflower#pisces#333#angel#back#neck#tattoos#slim and sexy#curly and sexy#beautiful girl#beautiful feet#great reet
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Did you think we were finished…. Season 2 coming soon, so stay tuned.
#TimeDifferencePodcast#Bailey and Keeks#Podcast episode#International friends#come and join us#Honest conversation#friendship#romance#lived experience
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erasmus culture is sending your international friends random funny videos and posts that feature their country but have nothing to do with their personality
#erasmus#semester abroad#studying abroad#international students#international friends#erasmus friends#erasmus culture#this is how I show I still think about them#best half a year of my life
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#find a friend#online friends#international friends#penpals#seeking friends#best friend#lgbtq#queer#bisexual#lgbtqplus
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I want to make friends!!! I want to talk about sanrio, sylvanian families, sonny angels, anime and games I like 🥺🥺🥺
#looking for a friend#International friends#sylvanian families#sanrio#im just a girl#i want friends#nintendo switch girl#cute#mutuals#i want moots#gay friends#lgbtq
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i just realised i’m never gonna live in the same city as all my friends
#i want to cry#i miss them so much#having#international friends#is fun#until you realise#you won’t always be close#thoughtsofem#em’s
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i never understood ppl claiming percy has never suffered the consequences of his loyalty. you're talking about percy "i know the prophecy said my friend would betray me but these are my friends they wouldn't betray me" jackson, who walked into a remote part of the forest with luke and almost died in book one. you're talking about percy "kronos told me point-blank there was a traitor but i can't imagine any of these ppl betraying me" jackson, who decided to stop looking for the traitor and moved on. you're talking about percy "nico is acting suspicious and very clearly hiding something from me but he's my friend and i trust him" jackson, who walked into nico's very obvious set up and almost got himself held hostage during the titan war. percy is so loyal that he cannot fathom betrayal until it's happening, and it has nearly killed him multiple times.
#i think ppl focus on what athena said#'you would destroy the world to save a friend'#but that's not fatal for percy! that's what makes percy dangerous *to the gods*#loyalty is a fatal flaw *for percy* bc he can be told point blank that his friend will betray him and still not be able to comprehend it!#i don't know that percy ever voiced his inability to consider betrayal to anyone (in the books i'm pretty sure it's internal dialogue)#so all anyone else sees is the danger he poses to *them* and *their plans*#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#pjo books#fatal flaws#percy#min talks pjo
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GUys everybody how do i meet people internationally? Like just get told about culture and food and drama through trading letters or something.
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Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.
#hlep#original#mental health#my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need.#the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it#i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support#and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist.#the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28!#a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents.#they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of#huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the#longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong.#and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives.#you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead?#or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of.#no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow.#i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel#i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong.#just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop
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