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So I’ve been teaching 6th grade since January, and one thing about my female students which made me upset to realize is how many of them are obsessed with skincare. I've heard the girls in my class discussing the EYE CREAM they use. Like tf you mean eye cream? You're ELEVEN!!! I'm a decade older than you and have never even touched eye cream!! The most skincare a middle schooler needs is cleanser and moisturizer, maybe some acne cream. Who tf is selling you all this other stuff? Who tf told you you needed all this?

It hurts me to see. Their brains are too young for these types of insecurities 😭 no 11 year old girl should be obsessed with wrinkles, I wanna beat tf out of whatever tiktoker made them believe they needed skin that perfect

Do you know how fucking miserable it is to watch a group of 11 year old girls obsessively check their skin on pocket mirrors? And hear them talk about how they need new products to fix “imperfections” created by tiktok?? I just taught them last week what the OCEAN TIDES are. I helped one of them spell the word “conduction” yesterday. They just learned what the atmosphere is. Who the fuck is telling these literal children that they need eye cream??!! When I catch you!!!

Random gag becoming relevant 10 episodes later, bless Ryoko Kui.

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You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face, until I realized they totally would, and they will eat your face, too!” warns defector from the leopards-eating-faces party

don’t hide this in the tags….

#really important actually#like. it’s so important that we allow people to STOP voting for leopards eating faces#because if you attack anyone leaving the leopards eating faces party when they realize it’s bad#the only support system they’ll have is the people who want them to come back to it#you have to make it possible for people escape instead of considering them forever tainted and impure and inherently evil

One-shot tabletop RPG where you play as a bunch of medieval English peasants trying to trick the royal tax-collectors into believing that your village has no taxable assets. It plays out exactly like a new-school heist caper RPG, except in reverse, with the players devising and carrying out the scheme which they must then prevent the NPC "party" from uncovering. Do you fake a plague? Pretend to be mad? Construct a second, much shittier village and try to keep the tax collectors so distracted they never think to ask what's behind that hill?

Also— figuring out where you're gonna hide several thousand eels.

this actually gets so much funnier if they're doing this on a manor by manor basis. lots of villages were actually split btwn multiple manors, so you could just have a bunch of villagers running across the borders with barrels of eels and their good horses/cows in a benny hill-esque sprint to avoid the tax collectors

bonus points if the manor's reeve (also usually a peasant) and the lord are also in on it because what self-respecting medieval person didn't love tax evasion?

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#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.

Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety. 

After all, comedy is timing.

"I would die for you, I would kill for you" okay but would you live for me. Would you go outside and watch the birds go by for me. Would you breathe in the air and savor it and think about how it tastes just that little bit sweeter for me. Would you stop self deprecating for me. Would you love yourself for me.

Okay. Great.

Now would you do all of that for yourself?

!!!!!!!!!!

Exactly the point of this post.

You need to love yourself for you. But if that's too hard, find something else to love yourself for, and that'll trick you into it before you know it.

And hey.

If your immediate, reflexive reaction to this post is to be like "lol nope, can't do that, not me"

That is not a static fact of your existence. It's something that you can work on. It's something you NEED to work on.

I have many, many people DM me the same self depressive spirals on here, and other platforms connected to this online set of profiles. It's a pit. A toxic pit that drags you down more and more that's all too present in the trans community. But you need to work your way out of it. It's brutal. It's difficult. But you have to work on it. In the end, it'll be far less painful than enduring every day hating yourself. But it will be work. Not healing, not glamor, not someone saving you... Just work. But you gotta do that work of loving yourself.

I believe in you <3

how do i do that…

working on loving myself that is lol

stop talking bad about yourself is a major first step.

The more you tell yourself you're ugly or not worth loving, the more you believe it and the harder it is to start. Even if you aren't at the point of complimenting yourself, at least stopping those negative comments is a great start. Then you can work on slowly recognizing the parts of yourself you enjoy and start believing that you're a good person worthy of being admired.

(This goes double for saying you want to die btw. Stop saying suicide jokes, they severely harm your brain and mental state)

It's hard, especially when you don't have much of a support network and in that "nobody loves me because I'm terrible unworthy of love" spiral.

But you gotta believe your friends. They wouldn't be here if they didn't like you. If they didn't see something worth loving in you.

So trust them.

Fucking this.

Even if it feels like lying to yourself. You gotta say those positive things about yourself. And one day you'll start believing them.

A little trick I learned is that every opportunity I ever had for a self deprecating joke was instead an opportunity I could use for an over the top, noticably ridiculous arrogant joke.

Super superficial and stupid example. Every time someone thirsts over some picture perfect insta model that's clearly in a different caliber than me. Instead of my first thought being "I could never, I'm so ugly", manipulate that thought into "oh, she's a bad bitch just like me". Obviously that's a shallow example, but it applies broadly- any situational self deprecation could be situational affirmation.

If you find yourself in a spiral, oftentimes the best thing you can do is snap yourself out of it in the short term. Distract yourself. Not just on your computer. The more sensations the better. If you can touch something, smell something, see something, anything that's different than whatever you're doing at that moment, that's better.

That's in the moment. But long term? You gotta work.

Sees a piece of media has SungWon Cho in it: It's prozd! my friend prozd! we went to tumblr posts together

the science bitch urge to correct all common misinformation when it appears vs the knowledge that people hate that bitch actually

before I learned that this behavior is annoying I was the most intolerable child on the playground I will tell you that much

rly did not expect this to get notes but I guess we are all that bitch. anyway this is something I am still actively working on bc this urge is hard to master but when this comes up, I find it helpful to ask myself 1) is this misinformation going to directly hurt someone if I don't correct it? 2) will correcting this person hurt their feelings or make them feel stupid?

if the answer to question 1 is yes, you should probably make the correction, but make an effort to do it as gently as possible. ("so, fun fact about that, there was a study..." works at least a little better than "actually, that's not true.") if the answer to question 1 is no, then things really depend on question 2. my default is to assume yes, I might hurt someone's feelings, because I've seen too many people shut down completely after being corrected on something.

anyway. ymmv and I am not an expert at this but asking myself these questions has helped me not seem like quite such a know-it-all asshole in social situations.

(this is also all very context dependent. I work in science, and at my work it is completely acceptable to say "no, actually you're wrong and I can provide citations to back it up," even over something trivial. this can make it even harder to find the right balance among non-scientists, but I still gotta try because I do not want to shut down conversations or hurt people's feelings.)

in case you were wondering about my other annoying urges, no I have not solved the "giving unsolicited advice on tumblr dot com" one yet.

further excellent advice about this from tags from @pegasusdrawnchariots:

#about#I spent years feeling bad abt this before I was like#u know what. my friends deserve to be well-informed adults#& I don't want them to get hit w a 'well actually' by someone truly insufferable down the track for sharing the same fact#so if anyone wants to know‚ the secret to being a know-it-all bitch that people DON'T hate is#first: validate what the other person said. yes I read that somewhere too. yes we got taught this in school growing up too. (KINDLY)#second: offer to share yr info. OFFER ONLY give them a way out. sometimes people have heard it all before & they just don't care. that's OK#third: the best way to share a correction I find is to do it Conspiratorially. people love being In Cahoots. make them included not insulte#'ooh do u wanna hear what I read in a debunking article abt that?' 'when we studied this in class I heard a different story!'#'I'm abt to save u so much money. this is unfortunately a very well covered-up scam & I can tell u why if ur curious'#I have saved people from eating raw potato using this method. from buying collagen powder. it works trust#fourth: share what u know! if possible first identify where/why/how the misconception occurred#journalists misrepresenting data. a quote out of context. propaganda from a monopolised industry. etc. esp w concrete evidence#so the person doesn't feel stupid by the end!! this is more likely to make them appreciate u than resent u for correcting them#fifth (optional): u can be a bit self-effacing if u read the room & deem it necessary#e.g. 'I just realise now that no one asked haha but I wanted to share it anyway! I know I had my mind blown when I first found this out'#I know that as a science bitch yr priority is The Facts. trust me I've been there#but if u want to pull this off around people‚ yr priority has to be The People. sad but true#u have to make them feel like this is a balanced conversation AND check that they actually care AND that they're curious#& sometimes the person u were originally telling might not care but someone else who heard might approach u later & ask on their own!#if u were kind the first time around people know they can be curious/ignorant around u without feeling belittled#also. it helps if u have a reputation as the Local Fact Sharer#that way people will see u kindly correcting them as the Local Fact Sharer just Sharing Them Facts again#so volunteering Facts that don't stem from correcting people is vital groundwork#anyway go forth science bitches!! I love & cherish u <3

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