Artwork by Crocq Clement.

25% of the people have a 4th cone and see colors as they are

Alas, this apparently is all of the bull.

In short: tetrachromacy (while a thing!) is actually pretty subtle and a bit rarer - and isn't going to show up in an RGB image from a computer monitor like this one is.

And they don't see "like bees" because they see in the ultraviolet range and humans don't.

And humans with color-blindness mostly (?) aren't "dichromats," they're "anomalous trichromats" with three types of cone, but where one or more of them is just miscalibrated to be more sensitive to a range that overlaps with one of the others. And that's also much less than 25% of the population.

And also, this whole thing was written up by a marketing professional, who appears to have astutely picked up on the fact that if you present a neatly written "test" that tells all of the viewers that they're special in some way, they'll excitedly share it around. 

So. 

You knew the headline was coming, but check out the top comment.

KIRK THIS WHY YOU GOTTA FILL OUT THE LOG

classic Kirk

Ever have one of those days where you’re not stressed about anything in particular, but it just feels like something’s been *chasing* you since you woke up?

I swear I can practically feel its breath on my neck. Metaphorically.

Are you working from Franchia today

Yeah, how’d you know? And I recently found this manuscript about a movie about a hallway…

No but seriously this is unpleasant

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"It’s not like we can effect the level of the lake."

"If this was a Zelda game we could."

"WE CANNOT EFFECT THE LEVEL OF THE LAKE."

Okay but y’all how is there not a zelda tabletop setting yet?

"Fight monsters while solving little physical block puzzles" is actually an astonishingly good idea.

[snipception]

Okay, so I feel like I need to stress some things. In reference to point 1 there…yeah, I did make the point in a footnote that some part of my reaction was in fact a reaction to being emotionally manipulated. But you’re absolutely right that at some point it became “by being shitty to my friends and (for a much longer period), to me, you have made yourself a valid target”. Like I kindof implied in my first answer, it was not a shining moment for me.

And like Sol, I have an immediate “why bother” reaction to questions like “are you trustworthy” and “are you safe”, because I feel like there’s no trustworthy answer to them. If I say yes, I could just be lying, and if you don’t feel safe you already have a better answer than I could give you. 

But you’re sitting here telling me that you actually trust my answer to this question, so maybe your mind works differently than mine (go figure). So here’s the best answer I can give you: There’s a reason I had to reach back 16 years for that story. All the impulses that led to that episode are still very much part of me. But I express them very differently now, and I feel like that matters a lot more. Short answer, yes, I am trustworthy and yes you are safe . But also, if me being in your immediate environment makes you feel unsafe anyway, I can also…stop doing that. It is, after all, your house. Just let me know.

Anyway, this has all been a massively unpleasant outgrowth of a “man, wanna hear a fucked up story about teenage-me?” anecdote, and I feel like I’ve been put on trial, so can we be done now one way or the other?

We can! I accept your reassurance, if you can accept my apology for dragging this out through multiple steps of cross-examination over an offense that's now old enough to drive, we can return to being cool!

(I'd understand if you remained bothered, and am willing to buy you apology booze as weregild. Either way, you may continue being in my house!)

(Also "being cool" is totally an improvement over "being anxiously wary," so I do think some form of this exchange needed to happen at some point? But I do wish I'd been able to accomplish that in a way that was less painful for you, because holy crap is "needling people about bad memories until they convince me that they're harmless" not a thing I feel happy about doing.)

Anyways, the cut is some word-vomit about why what you just said is a good answer that I actually trust! You can feel free to skip it if you just want to be done with the whole thing, but I think it's actually broadly complimentary? So yeah.

WORDS.

the hell kind of question is that

honestly I’m a bit bothered by how readily you seem to dismiss that the person they’re referring to was extendedly emotionally abusive to them, like, they’ve already expressed sincere remorse for their actions but this isn’t like someone swiped their parking place okay. if you’re planning to emotionally abuse them then. what. I’m thinking otherwise you’re good

it’s okay to find this upsetting and unsettling but to try to make someone convince you they’re a good person? uhhhhhhh

Things!

1) Based on their original post, the context wasn’t “this person was emotionally abusive to me for an extended period of time.” It was “this person was a total dick to my friends this one time they both met.”

2) I’ve known toloveviceforitself for, like…what, seven years now? All of which have involved a pretty cordial relationship! Hell, they spend about as much time in my house as they do in yours.

I am not a random person from Tumblr who suddenly took issue with something they posted and decided to Capital Letters Take Issue with something they said.

Instead, I’m someone who lives…pretty closely adjacent to them, and who’s pretty deep within the radius of their social influence, and who’s been feeling consistently anxious about how safe they actually are around people both specifically and in general.

So when someone’s like “Yeah, so this one time I totally destroyed someone’s life when they slighted me,” it…doesn’t feel entirely unreasonable to ask them to reassure you that you shouldn’t have to worry about that sort of thing!

3) And…yes, actually, the way they answer would make a difference! Because as someone who’s known them for as long as I have, I’ve developed a sense that they’re definitely capable of being vindictively manipulative (and also a sense that they’re vastly more persuasive and charismatic than I am!)…

…but also a sense that they tend to be pretty good about answering questions honestly when they’re plainly asked.

So, yes, I would believe toloveviceforitself if they told me I should feel safe around them. And since they’re someone I’m scared of — and since they’re someone who spends a lot of time in my house and spends a lot more time with my roommates than I do — I don’t feel like a bad person for requesting this reassurance. 

[snip[

Look, snow chairs are a tragedy of the commons thing that actively makes everything worse for everyone and if the worst thing that happens to someone for engaging in that fuckery is that they lose a chair that they put out in the street where *curb trash* goes…

Ahem. Anyway. I’m arguing with an example which is probably not productive. If you really want to know how I structure my morality I can go into it, but the short answer is no, I am not littlefingering anyone. (I assume? I think littlefinger is a GOT character and you aren’t asking about sex acts but I’m not 100%)

He is a GoT character! I was referencing the thing where he goes “Yeah, you shouldn’t trust me,” but then characters trust him anyways because he’s useful and charismatic, and then when he inevitably betrays them he’s like “Come on, I warned you about this.”

…but man, the answer I was looking for wasn’t “Here, let me explain the ins and outs of how I personally understand the morality of my actions.”

I was hoping for something more like, “Yes, you can feel safe around me, because I’m no longer the kind of person who will take pleasure in hurting you the second you’ve done something to designate yourself as fair game.”

Yeah. It's just...man, that story clicks really well with, like. Personal advice I've been hearing you give that amounts to "if you can get away with it, why the fuck not?" And the friggen snow chair thing, and such. 

So I guess this is just a polite request to confirm that you're not Littlefingering us, and thinking that "Yeah, uh, my internet handle is a demon and I've given you all these warning signs that I'm not to be trusted, so what's about to happen to you is entirely your own fault."

(I think it's okay to politely request this of people every so often, right? Like how you have to periodically resubscribe to a newsletter or something.)

("Please check [yes] if you're quietly maneuvering to betray us when it's profitable or amusing, we understand if you are but just want to avoid continuing to send you notifications of community events if you're only using us as a pawn in some sick game.")

Today's thing it feels like there must be a word for:

The state of persistent, low-level panic that vibrates in the back of your mind and feels like a metallic whine at a pitch you can’t hear but nonetheless makes it hard to think or feel anything else.

[snip]

Pretty sure the term is “severe anxiety”. Feel better, friend.

Are you sure? I've always heard anxiety described as more of an involuntarily, looping replay akin to having a song stuck in your head, while this is more "cloud of angry and defensive buzzing."

(I also can't shake the sense that this is just how most people feel all the time, and the fact that I can clearly identify this as an alien mindset is a tremendous luxury? But still.)

6 Types of Love

Five Additional Types Of Love (Based On Poorly Construction Neologisms)

Shippa love by proxy; where you desire the object of your love to start being a thing with *that* person *over there*

Cringea a love that you feel kind of gross about for a bunch of reasons but that you keep indulging when no one is looking

Habos a desperate, protective love of something that's just been *there* for so long that it seems important and necessary, regardless of whether it's actually making you feel good or not

Pentatempos an all-consuming love of the best thing you have ever seen, to be replaced by a new thing in five minutes

Matra a love for one who is a precious, precious babby