New Competition: Vampire vs Werewolf

Posing is very important in physique competitions. Practice. Practice. Practice.

Bill clear 115cm 😍❤️
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“It serves me right!”

That’s what I wanted to say ever since I heard a video of me presenting to a large group of audience. It was awful. I didn’t realize it before but I sound like a robot, so blatant and without any intonation. When I asked others, all they could say was it was good or it was a bit fast. No one mentioned my lack of intonation during that time. So, I had my hopes high. I thought I might win or at least made it to the top 10. Silly me, I didn’t win in the end. Instead, two of my friends who accompanied me made it.

The three of us were officially selected by our faculty so we’re quite lucky since our accommodation and tickets are being paid by them. As an official representative, the faculty monitored our progress closely. At some point, I practiced with them twice or thrice. And I had to be honest, I was confident of my skills, well at least my skills in English. I am able to pronounce well and made it easy for people to understand. So, I became secretly arrogant after seeing how my friends perform in their presentation. I thought that I might win so I didn’t practice as much as my friends. I think that’s what account to me not making it to the top 10.

Being arrogant means being too confident in one’s skills and it would be hard for them afterward to hear feedback and act on it. This happened to me since I was too confident of myself. I knew for a fact that I always forgot my lines and get nervous performing in front of people but since I thought my English and ideas are good enough, I didn’t do a lot of practice. In fact, there are days I only practice once a day and not at all. I hate this part of me and it took me a few days after the competition to know that I’m at fault. Yep, and that was after watching that video.

Maybe, I thought I could win just because I’ve won before in an English Presentation during highschool. But that was years ago and we were against participants from my own town. It was even a team presentation so what I’m lacking, my friends made up for me and vice versa. It isn’t the case for this competition though since it was an individual competition and we only have 3 minutes to give our presentation (Yes, a 3MT competition). I’m even competing with people overseas which uses English almost every day. It was a new battlefield and it was an eyeopener experience for me.

At some point, I thought that I had to lose for me to be able to reflect like this. If I were to win, I would be stacking up my ego and would terribly affect myself in the future like a boomerang. But since I lose, I was able to retrace back and reflect about myself. I’ve never really thought of myself that much but this forces me to think about it and I was so ashamed that this had caused my downfall in the competition (okay, the ‘downfall’ is a bit exaggerated because it’s not that bad since I improved in my attempt of remembering my lines and delivering my presentation till the end).

I was still glad though, that I wasn’t too saddened by this and was able to move on. What made me bad about myself is because I’ve been too confident and thus not giving my best for this competition, underestimating things when I get too confident. So, by writing this post, I hope that I would be able to learn about this experience. Learn not to underestimate anything and give my best to everything.

Ciao!

- Reina

Yoooo

It’s like three months late but here’s our pride performance! We weren’t perfect, but we did our best and everyone seemed to appreciate it. It’s the thought that counts, right? 😂

A little more of the danceeeeee

Competition Time!

This is sort of a spur of the moment thing but I’m gonna hold a competition for all of my awesome followers!

Rules are simple, reblog this post add stuff if you want - that’s completely optional - and I’ll have a random picker chose a winner out of all the people that reblog!

Only 1 reblog counts as entry to the competition so any additional ones won’t increase your chances.

The prize is a free, personal 5k commission that can be customised in any way you’d like!

This is open until Monday 26th of August at 10pm UK time!

Thanks for all the support and good luck!

Hedda winner 115cm 🥇😍❤️
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tl;dr: There is a website that can allow you to view content of any blog, putting into serious jeopardy the impact of blocking

Not sure whether to be concerned or what, but people of tumblr.com, meet tumbral.com.

It is a website that allows people without a tumblr account to view tumblr content, trends and blogs. It seems to be pretty up to date, I checked one of my ask blogs on here, and it has posts i uploaded today (for me)

It provides STATS on the blog (though they seem inaccurate, the most notes I’ve had on a singular post on that blog is like 30). 

But what has has got to be the weirdest thing on this website is when you search up a tag (in this example #aph germany), and once you click on the tag to pull up results, this appears:

The last viewed blogs has my head scratching, because I have never interacted with anything related to these blogs, and these blogs likely don’t have anything to do with the tag. You can just view content of blogs you don’t even follow (i know you can do this normally, but I just find this weird).

But there can be serious implications of this

Imagine if you will, you have been blocked from a blog because of reasons. Through tumbral, you can VIEW CONTENT FROM THE BLOG, circumnavigating the purpose of the block.

If anyone knows what to do with this information, please add it in a reblog. If you don’t, signal boost for the love of privacy.

To spread the message faster, within the tags of this post are what are described by tumbral as the most popular tags on tumblr at the moment of posting, please use some of these to increase the message spread.

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Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Winning Proposal for The Xingtai Science And Technology Museum (ArchDaily)

Mischievous werewolf pup freaks out local pet dogs

This is a very plain design, but for some reason, the first one I can actually think of as a character? I kind of want to draw her now

rich piana in his best shape

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Omgomgomgomg! I want to win this so bad!!! My birthdays the 10th of September! Could you imagine seeing Taylor Swift for you birthday and waking up in Paris!! OMG please let the stars align for this prefect moment! I don’t think I’ve ever wanted something so much in my life 😍😻

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Captain’s Log | August 15, 2019 at 08:06PM | Why am I a Weimaraner

Ballroom!!

Also another comp outfit

Finally used this water thing lol

For the flipped comp!!!

Thanks @love-nikki-lost-in-translation for tipping me off that “Chinese Valentine’s Day” was supposed to be what I know as Tanabata. My Herder didn’t score too high but I like him anyways