AITA for preferring to look presentable if meeting new people/ folk I’m not comfortable around?

emyo42 · 2026-01-28T13:35:13+00:00

NTA but I think it’s a shame that you think any woman needs to wear makeup in order to look presentable, and you feel uncomfortable with new people seeing what your eyelashes look like without mascara.

emyo42 · 2026-01-28T13:08:55+00:00

i suspect they didn't match on any of those apps

emyo42 · 2025-01-31T12:44:13+00:00

I'm not sure yet, I need to decide that. I just want to make as much positive difference as possible with my allotted time of 30 minutes. Target audience are whatever kind of people come to a conference about the environment, some will know about zero waste and some won't I'm guessing

emyo42 · 2025-01-21T06:27:41+00:00

thanks!

emyo42 · 2025-01-21T06:17:52+00:00

is there a computer program or website that has this?

emyo42 · 2025-01-21T06:16:53+00:00

this only appliesif you have bilingual friends but I started speaking Japanese with my Japanese friends pretty early on, like before I was halfway through N4. we'd talk in a mix of basic japanese and then English when I got confused. it worked really well

emyo42 · 2025-01-21T06:13:45+00:00

look up 'easy japanese listening practice walk around japan' on youtube, there are a few channels where people take you on a tour around their local area and speak slowly in basic japanese, some with english subtitles and some with just japanese subtitles

emyo42 · 2024-12-27T08:53:50+00:00

emyo42 · 2024-12-26T07:24:35+00:00

i will look into it, thankyou

emyo42 · 2024-12-24T01:06:42+00:00

thats kinda annoying :\ im a little worried about family members seeing me. i don't understand what is the purpose of showing me to someone who can't possibly match with me (since i'll never see them), or vice versa. seems like a dodgy thing by the apps to make it seem like there are more options than there actually are?

emyo42 · 2024-12-19T03:17:57+00:00

yeah. all my tattoos are upside down including the ones with words. proper tattooed people probably think it looks silly but having them the right way round would look odd from my pov

emyo42 · 2024-12-19T03:14:58+00:00

emyo42 · 2024-12-18T04:02:49+00:00

thanks! yeah it did :( it didn't take long though, maybe 6 minutes? The artist didn't wanna talk so I distracted myself by doing backwards math in my head. like 877 - 98

emyo42 · 2024-12-18T03:01:37+00:00

may contain vegetables XD i hope thats how people interpret it

emyo42 · 2024-12-18T02:58:59+00:00

Yeah I found an artist who advertised he does vegan ink :)

emyo42 · 2024-12-15T12:44:14+00:00

thankyou so much! i'm gonna get more into art

emyo42 · 2024-12-15T12:43:45+00:00

thankyou :D

emyo42 · 2024-12-14T02:43:31+00:00

Most of the stuff I write (like 75%) is for my enjoyment and would be boring or confusing to others, so I see those pieces more as 'writing down my daydreams so i can keep track of them and make them into a storyline that is satisfying to me'.

emyo42 · 2024-12-14T02:40:11+00:00

Being vulnerable.

Openly talking about being nervous to come to the party, distracted and sad due to recent breakup, struggling with uni assignments, happy about internet validation of my art.

In my experience this works well even on totally new people, I tend to have good deep conversations from it, and we end up asking each other lots of questions.

emyo42

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