1. Hold your head high, and look others in the eye
2. Smile
3. Stop apologizing
4. Relax and be quick to laugh at yourself (but not at others!)
5. Dress in a way that indicates you have self worth
6. Use good manners (like saying please and thank you) as this is actually a mark of self respect
7. Expect other people to believe in you, and to see and appreciate your good qualities.
8. Before you know it, its no longer fake
wheRE WAS THIS ALL MY LIFE
As someone who did this, I can guarantee you it legit works
This, my darlings. All of it. Because step 8 is true: it will no longer be fake, you will have taught yourself to have confidence.
Like Carrie said: Stay afraid, but do it anyways.
If you keep your hands clasped behind your back it makes you appear broader and invokes a pressence of confidence/seniority/hey-listen-to-me/importantance. Demands attention, essentially.
Clasping your hands in front of you though is a more submissive stance. Doing this while someone is talking and leaning forward slightly gives the appearance that you’re interested in what they’re saying.
I once had to give an impromtu speech in front of a tong of deans and did the first when I was talking and the second when my partner was talking. Went over really well. Got compliments days afterwards from them because of how I presented myself (they didn’t know what I was doing, or at least doing it intentionally).
Don’t stare too long directly into someone’s eyes, it makes them uncomfortable. Instead, move along the different features of their face from time to time, like their eyebrows to their nose to their left eye then right eye.
Practice in a mirror smiling with your eyes. Makes your smiles appear less fake more genuine, even if they are fake.
Ask people how they are, questions about themselves. People like talking about themselves. Makes you seem interested in them. They like that, then in turn like you.
This works, kiddos. I used to have self-esteem issues until a few years ago when I started faking confidence. Now I’m borderline egotistical.
Correct your body language and speeh habits. It does wonders.
It’s also Bucky being more than a little upset that they turned his gentle, harmless friend—who Bucky wanted to PROTECT from the horrors of war—into a fighting machine.
was that really necessary
it’s also Bucky realizing that he can no longer protect his best friend no matter how hard he tries. he’s utterly helpless now, even after the war is over. they’ll always be wanting steve to fight this or that, and bucky won’t be able to do a darn thing to protect him.
It’s also Bucky taking the 5 seconds he has of Steve not paying attention to him so he can allow himself to process all these emotions without worrying Steve. If you watch Bucky through the movies, you’ll notice he always makes sure to look like he’s 100% fine if other people are looking at him. Fighting with Steve, but smiling at their dates. Recently tortured, but walking confidently by Steve’s side. Basically a mess, but all “Let’s hear it for Captain America!” It’s a pattern, really. Even in the flashback in CATWS, you can see he looks a lot less confident when Steve isn’t looking at him than when Steve is.
Also, Seb has mentioned that researching WW2, what left the deepest impression was how quickly everybody dies. You get attached to someone only to watch their heads being blown up in front of you the next day. I’m sure this influenced how he chose to act this scene. Because you can bet by the time this scene takes place, Bucky has seen many people – hell, maybe even friends – die, and recently, he’s had to see his whole unit be killed or captured by HYDRA. This certainly plays a role here. It’s not just a general sense of “I can’t protect Steve anymore,” it’s more like “I don’t know if Steve will live till next week.” It’s very real, very immediate. It’s a concrete prediction more than a vague fear. And if Steve’s survives, there’s still the fact Bucky knows what’s like to be changed by war, and Steve will be changed by it, which Bucky certainly hates. Either way, he loses the Steve he knew, even more than he’s already lost, with the whole “Steve Rogers is suddenly a super soldier” deal.
I’d say this scene is wartime Bucky in a nutshell. He handles the entire crowd and this whole Captain America propaganda thing without hesitation, he smiles at Steve and makes sure Steve enjoys the moment instead of pulling some “I did my duty” bullshit, and only then he allows himself to be overwhelmed by the fear that comes with being able to think 48923740 worst case scenarios in two seconds. If we can trust interviews with cast and crew, this eventually becomes his role in the war, basically – he thinks fast and does his job protecting Captain America and the missions, he takes care of Steve on a personal level by shielding him from the worst of the war as much as he can, and only then, if there’s time and Steve isn’t looking, he thinks about how the war is affecting him.
But anyway, overall, this scene is about overwhelming loss of everything Bucky knows, as well as an attempt to hide this as well as he can. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that in the 4th and 5th gifs, Seb looks a lot like comics!Bucky does when he says goodbye to his younger sister, thinking he’ll never see her again and almost breaking down in tears, but unwilling to show her he’s scared. For your reference:
yeah the movie titanic was sad but i can watch it now and not even blink twice. bridge to terabithia on the other hand? i saw that movie one (1) time as a kid and vowed immediately afterwords to never ever watch it again. once was enough for that movie
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
The original Megalovania it plays when you square off against Dr. Andonuts
Keep in mind that this is from a rom hack made by Toby Fox, and it isn’t in any of the vanilla mother games
Bonus: It’s not like this was an mp3 Toby made and slotted into the game’s files. Earthbound (and N64 and previous games in general) had their music generated from tones being synthesized in the game itself to save on space. Toby got into the guts of Earthbound, programmed a whole song himself using backwards modding tools of an SNES game, and got the catchy tune we all meme today out of it.
Gay Ryan 