#I love speeches

[carnivorousladybug]

In Defense of Public Speaking

Is it just me or do you think public speaking is so much easier than having conversations with people, one to one?

This may be an unpopular opinion because I often hear the reverse. As a college student, I'm always amazed when people who are quite talkative in class struggle when it comes to making a speech in front of everyone.

To me, public speaking gives you the element of control. Unless I am making an impromptu speech, everything I say is calculated, planned, and rehearsed. Every word is thought out in advance and the tone and tempo of the speech is something I can spend days perfecting before my presentation. Perhaps it is the perfectionist in me speaking, but I believe it's beautiful. Public speaking is more predictable than speaking one-on-one, which, to me, has numerous variables that can't be calculated in advance.

But whether I am delivering a rehearsed speech or making an impromptu one, there's a sense of peace in knowing that I have an allotted time to express myself and that I will be able to use it to its fullest. No one is going to interrupt me, at least not usually, and even if interruptions do occur, that's okay. As a speaker, I have control of the room and I can navigate the situation with poise to bring my audience's attention back to me. This is the "default"; etiquette commands people to be respectful, quiet, and to listen carefully during a speech. In normal conversations, it's less of a requirement and in my experience, most people are horrible listeners.

In public speaking, questions and comments won't be asked until the very end. During Q&A time, people are more likely to think twice about what they're going to say. This may be due to exercising careful listening skills or be a result of fearing that they'd misspeak or voice something unintelligent in front of the crowd.

Additionally, there's an appreciation for pauses when making public speeches. Rather than being perceived as awkward silences, they are seen as a public speaking strategy. When I pause during my speech, people won't see it as an opportunity to interrupt and shove their words down my throat. Instead, they'll think, "Oh. A dramatic pause. I wonder what she will say next."

On the other hand, when you converse with someone, you must repeatedly make quick decisions about how you're going to respond to the other. There's a back-and-forth. Now, don't get me wrong, I love dialogue and love listening to others share their thoughts and discussing with them! I would not want to talk to a brick wall.

But with many people, I try to plan carefully before I respond to them. There are a lot of steps involved in the "art of conversation", at least for me. First, I have to actively listen to the other person. Then, I have to interpret the information they're telling me. Sometimes, this means simply remembering what they said. Sometimes, it means analyzing, giving sympathy, getting rid of personal biases, and trying to understand the many nuances of their words and truly seeing them as a person. Lastly, I have to carefully choose the words that I think would be best for the person and the situation. With people I know and trust, the last step is easy. But with most people, they're not. It might take me a second to reply. I might pause as I talk.

Sometimes, this silence is seen as "Oh, she just doesn't have anything to say." But no. I'm simply thinking carefully. And then they move on to a new topic while I'm still over here, thinking about the old one. This is especially an issue with people who aren't patient or have very low attention spans.

I care deeply about how I communicate my ideas, and I like to choose and calculate my words before speaking. I also like to give my whole attention to a person when they are speaking. I won't start thinking about my reply until I know for sure that you are done saying what you wish to me. So please, do give me one second to collect my thoughts to form a reply. For this reason, I like to speak slowly when I am conversing and if you make me feel like I have to rush to get my words out, I will get frustrated and feel as if you are not giving my thoughts the respect and consideration that I am giving yours.

I listen more than I talk when I'm in conversations with people... but public speaking? My speeches tend to be longer than I originally planned. I love it.

#public speaking #public speaking skills #public speaking tips #I love speeches #social anxiety #personal rant

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#i can not find any better versions of this #but i love her speech #and i love her #and i love lukes reaction #so here you go #polin #penelope x colin #colin x penelope #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #love #luke newton #nicola coughlan #bridgerton

[almondcroissantsandink]

i need that full moon episode stat to make sure this silly guy is doing well

#helluva boss #helluva boss fanart #helluva boss stolas #stolas #stolitz #blitzø #blitzo #art #fanart #digital art #csp #clip studio paint #artists on tumblr #illustration #i love him sm #his character design is also GREAT #just a silly guy #animation #i like the idea of if he had speech bubbles they would be full of stars like his one cape #i did that for the other comic i made and really liked how it looked :)

[rithmeres]

i don’t think i’ve rewatched atla since becoming a committed pacifist and i just finished what was probably my tenth rewatch and i have never loved aang more. i've seen it so many times but i still came away with a new appreciation for the way the end of the story was handled. aang is the only survivor of a genocide and he is clinging to the last remnants of his culture and religion, and everyone is telling him the only way to save the world is to kill the dictator whose regime is responsible for the genocide, but to do so would abandon the deeply held beliefs of his people. if aang goes against his beliefs and kills ozai, his people's way of life dies completely and sozin wins.

aang knows it would be wrong but he can't see another way out so he prays for an answer, and the universe hears him and the spirits send out the lion turtle, and the creator answers him. and here's the thing that i never put together before today: aang would not have been able to energybend ozai if he had given in and wanted to kill him. the lion turtle tells aang that only the incorruptible can bend another’s energy, or else they will become corrupted themselves. and i think that aang, because of his love for the fire nation as he had once known it, was never corrupted by personal hatred for the fire lord or the fire nation. he was able to expertly hold two conflicting beliefs in harmony better than any adult could, the belief that ozai is a horrible person and the world would be better off without him and that he's still a human being with a life that is sacred.

and i don't think it's a matter of selfishness like some people make it out to be. aang is not some immature little kid who doesn't want to kill because killing is for bad guys. he's an incredibly wise and spiritual person who was shaped by airbender beliefs and upholds airbender beliefs, and he can see beyond the scope of this war. the balance of the world depends on the existence of the four nations, and aang does not just represent the air nomads, he IS the air nomads. he's all that's left.

despite many people’s interpretation of the four past avatars’ advice, none of the past avatars outright tell him to kill ozai. they tell him to be decisive, to bring justice, to be proactive, to be sacrificial. but none of them tells him definitively to kill him. he doesn't disobey or ignore their advice, he follows their ancient wisdom while still staying true to his beliefs. yangchen actually comes the closest to outright telling him to kill ozai (even more than kiyoshi, surprisingly) but what she fails to account for is that aang is not just the avatar, he is the last airbender, and being the last airbender is far greater a burden than being the avatar. no matter what happens, once he dies, there will always be another avatar. but if he is not careful to preserve the airbender way of life, there will be no more airbenders. yangchen could sacrifice her air nomad way of life for the sake of her duty to the world because there were thousands of other air nomads to continue their traditions. aang has no such privilege.

and it's not that he doesn't want to kill, it's that he actually doesn't think he can do it -- both that he won't be able to emotionally bring himself to kili someone, and, prodigy that he is, he doesn't have the raw bending skill to overcome a comet-powered master firebender. and then it turns from 'i don't think i can do it' into ‘i can’t do it.’ and when the avatar state gives him enough power to actually do it, he changes the answer to ‘i won’t do it.’ he overcomes all the combined power of his past lives to say no, i have found another answer and i will remain incorruptible. to kill is to maintain the power struggle of the fire nation and to reject air nomad wisdom and without airbenders the world CANNOT be brought into balance.

the only thing ozai cares about is power, and that's what the entire fight with ozai is about, physically and ideologically, because ozai only sees power in terms of force, fear, threats, and violence. to ozai, aang (and his entire people) are weak and undeserving of life because they are largely pacifists, but he fails to see the magnificent power that the airbenders do hold, spiritual wisdom and mastery of the self and contentment and joy and harmony and a deep understanding of the world that a man like ozai could never obtain. to kill ozai would ratify ozai’s worldview that power as he defines it is the most important pursuit in the world and the only way to assert one's right to be in the world is to be cruel and violent like him. i think to ozai, becoming powerless might be worse than being dead. he wants power, or he wants death, and aang gives him neither. it upends everything he believed in. aang, the avatar, but more importantly, the last airbender, armed by his past lives' power and his people's love and the spirit world's blessing and the lion turtle's omniscience (and toph's mastery of true sight through neutral jing), ends the war 100 years to the day after the air nomad genocide, in the way that his people taught him, with power that goes beyond force and violence, with spiritual wisdom, with an incorruptible soul, with mercy -- mercy that is not weakness, mercy that brings justice.

#they just don't make kids cartoons like they used to!!!! #also zuko said 'love and peace' in his coronation speech. i am squinting at bryan and mike. is that what it think it is #atla #aang #meta

[transfelixfelicis]

I had a speech on Friday and I actually loved doing it so much— my friends said I didn’t look nervous at all which is good bc I almost had an anxiety attack

#I love speeches #Why

[nipuni]

"All in all, not all that bad - being born I mean. Because I could hear music, and I heard Christine."

#phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #erik #cherik #christine daae #yeston and kopit #my art #his dying speech haunts me forever #I love him #I'm posting more than usual because I'm doing next month's patreon work in advance #because I am hosting family until the end of the year and have a ton of work to do on top of it 😖 #so please excuse the post timing inconsistencies

[too0bsessedformyowngood]

SHE CALLED HIM SEAWEED BRAIN I CANT-

#percy jackson spoilers #pjo spoilers #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo series #annabeth chase #grover underwood #annabeth pjo #percabeth #grover pjo #ares pjo #I broke down when Annabeth gave that speech to Hephaestus #Annabeth was really the mvp of the episode #also I loved seeing her nerd out over the traps #also so excited for the next episode #lotus casino and Hermes lets goooooooo #this show is doing the books so much justice #1000/10

[swannsways]

The Holdovers was a little movie that we made in Boston, about three people that came together to form a little family.

#da'vine joy randolph #paul giamatti #dominic sessa #the holdovers #my gifs #filmgifs #dailyflicks #moviegifs #bafta 2024 #THAT'S MY FAMILY I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #what a speech!! #just as phenomenal as her performance in the film #TO KNOW YOU IS TO LOVE YOU #I CRY EVERY TIME I SAY YOUR NAME #my god ik she invented love and family and poetry

[andi-o-geyser]

Something is wrong in this city, and it's been such a slow burn that nobody even realizes they're dying.

#Hank Green ladies and gentlemen #i just. wow #this is still stuck on my mind #of all the intimidating speeches i gotta put this at an instant n.1 #because like jESUES CHRIST #the delivery the nuance the message #the fix my love pls do not die next episode #dimension 20 #mentopolis #mentopolis spoilers #d20 mentopolis #dimension 20 mentopolis #d20 spoilers #hank green #brennan lee mulligan #the fix #dnd #long post #andis thought geyser

[sualne]

something i wish i'd see more in trigun fanarts is people having vash speak their native/non-english languages completely unprompted, ive seen folks have him speak french, which he canonically knows, but i really do believe he's a polyglot. mostly because of that one time in the desert when he saw the samurai and wanted to greet him in japanese but struggled to remember how to even say hello.

my headcanon is that rem had them learn as many languages as possible but with the big fall and so many people dying, which i think is what led english to became No man's land main (or even only?) language, means that vash (and knives!) both got horribly out of practice and are various sort of rusty in every others languages.

what im saying if there's any pun or joke you've been dying to write but just doesn't work in english vash (and knives!!) are right there!

#trigun #i LOVE saying 'that one time in the desert' when the whole planet is a desert it's so unhelpful its funny. #i love vash speaking french because im french and it is just. the stupidest language. the speech patterns can be so funny when overly #familiar or even rude. jveux dire imagine vash parler avec l'accent d'ta région natale ou autre. vash avec l'accent provençale jamais j'm'e #remettrais. encore pire si j'le fais parler avec mon vocabulaire du désastre. les possiblités quoi!! its also incredibly funny to me that #knives could also speak in any other languages. like what if he gets mad and decides to talk to the gung ho guns in idk finnish instead #OR WHAT IF KNIVES SOMTIME USE VERLAN PUTAIN ce serait génial. ive been thinking about it since ive read the manga. theres so many #hilarious tings we could do. real untapped potential. everyone you have the possibility to do the funniest thing pls.

[justnoodlefishthings]

me whenever i meet a new person

#waow i love adopting your unique vocabulary and speech patterns and your mannerisms

[b4kuch1n]

study of this masterwork

#wayneradiotv #rtvs #sonic the hedgehog #after '''''typesetting'''''''' this thing I almost forgot how to spell hedgehog #the caption is fully unironic btw this is for educational purpose. its very fun to draft a comic from an existing ''thumbnail'' it turns ou #but also I just love comics dude. I just love sequential art its so cool to see how anyone arranges things in their own comic #like. wayne's sprite on top of the ''what!!'' speech bubble. really fucking good #little bit sad I couldnt catch the streams live even tho they did run in my timezone... bc Im bad at sleepin #but! Im gonna try and set an alarm this weekend. wanna hang out for a bit #also yeah all dialogue in this is accurate to the original. no use fixing whats perfect as they say #debated printing this out and scuffing the paper with eraser and then re-scan it. for authenticity. but Im tired and dinner soon so #sorry cosme my friend cosme I couldnt commit. I couldnt do it.... #anyways yeah. I dinner now #have a good day lads! what u see truly is what u get

[jungwookjins]

"so, being like a year or so out from the record 'so much for stardust' and looking back at it, the idea that this record was somehow a lot about the idea...how like one day you're not gonna exist and that can just be this big existential dread that kinda follows you around and it can feel paralyzing. but i think instead of just feeling paralyzed, it was important to make this record, and it's a weird record, and i say that because whatever you make — it's bracelets or tiktoks or videos or music — i don't know, you know, memes, whatever it is. make stuff. make stuff 'cause you have to make stuff, make stuff so you feel like you're alive. make stuff, and make the world a little more fucking weird." -pete wentz before heaven, iowa; sacramento, ca 3/3/24

#i really loved tonight's version of pete's make stuff speech #the the way he worded everything tn was sooooo #yeah <33 #make stuff so you feel like you're alive #this is just like hegel said #fall out boy #fob #pete wentz

[lucabyte]

deeply frustrating to eavesdrop on, i'd imagine

#love sitting some characters down on a vague object on a vague background. go be in the outdoors. just dont sit by anything complicated. #in stars and time #isat #isat spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #in stars and time fanart #isat fanart #this doesnt have any wider context i just wanted to draw some facial expressions and poses. also speech bubble practice for me #so sorry about the hand lettering but i was trying something 👍 #anyway i hope loop's extemely fake annoying 'stoop to my level please' laugh comes across as that specifically lol

[sableeira]

I love how this was just a little theater performance for soukoku. Dazai’s dramatic acting once he “realized” Chuuya was there. Chuuya’s vampire noises. Dazai’s overdramatic speech about memories… the long pause before the cheerfully fake goodbye. Dazai’s annoyed look when Fyodor was talking shit about his and chuuya’s bond (he probably felt so smug on the inside). Dazai’s other speech about the power of friendship and their fate that was completely unnecessary because he knew that Chuuya wasn’t actually possessed. Chuuya fake shooting Dazai in the head, which they have extensively trained for in the past. Their commitment to the bit is everything

#I love Angst but I love skk being little shits even more #Chuuya shooting him in the head to interrupt his speech about fate and destiny feels personal now #like Chuuya was really like: we all know this is just a bit… shut up… #all of this really makes the whole meursault arc hilarious af #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd spoilers #bsd s5 #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #osamu dazai

[rileyclaw]

the first and last time he falls asleep first during emerald trio basement time

#he felt safe enough to accidentally conk out. and look what they did to him. #they put kitty whiskers on him. #the owl house #toh #human realm hijinks #emerald trio #hunter noceda #willow park #gus porter #toh season 3 #fanart #comic #they would love slinkies btw #comic and speech bubble formatting is my enemy. sorry for the adhd format this is in LMAO #camila noceda #disclaimer i dont think theyd actually do this to him. at least. not more than once. LMAOO fhJDHS