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mmm kinda wanna nuke my entire online presence and start over
remaking the blog, refollowing a bunch of ppl, i'm not a bot i promise oof
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Ok I have beef with amatonormativity (the assumption that everyone prospers in an exclusive romantic relationship).
There’s a friend of mine. He’s a guy. He’s done a lot for me and I love him in a very naive platonic kind of way. They was you do your best friends.
When he gets happy his nose crinkles and his voice cracks and when he’s sad he gets the deeply pensive and world weary look and he’s always wearing shirts with holes in them.
He’s got two kids and the way he behaves with them just makes my traumatized heart hurt because he’s so gentle and wholesome and it’s so sweet.
I can’t talk to my mother about it because she always makes it wierd. In fact, most people like to make it wierd.
Can we just normalize having friends of different genders, different ages, different life-stages, and being allowed to love them? Why does love have to be this strange word that carries such a heavy stigma?
Isn’t it love to bake your injured friend a lasagna?
Isn’t it love to give someone a cool rock you found? Or a little trinket that reminded you of them?
Isn’t it love to want to make their day better and to see them smile?
Amatonormativity is killing kindness. Let me compliment people just because they look good in that shirt or because they have a nice smile. Just because. Let me be affectionate with my friends without it being wierd. Let me call them silly names or get them dinner without it automatically being called flirting.
Just let me love people in all the little ways i want to.
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[ID: a drawing of a werewolf sitting and smiling with a wagging tail. they are holding a small aromantic flag beneath the writing "arooo". end ID]
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being a person is so weird bc i’ll be like “i wish my brain was kinder to me esp when i’m already having a hard time,” and then i remember that i’m my brain and i have to be kinder to me and that nobody else will do it for me
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It may be year of the rabbit everywhere else, but here in Vietnam its year of the cat! Happy new year! Chúc mừng năm mới!
Image description: looping animated art showing a calico cat licking the head of a white rabbit laying next to the cat. The cat is wearing a collar with a bell, the tassle of the bell swings with the cats movement. The rabbits legs kick out periodically. The background is red, the number 2023 is written in goild above the animals. end Image description
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Some Gamechanger shows are like “we have brought together some of the absolute most talented people you have ever seen in your life in order to allow them to showcase their amazing skills in the guise of a friendly competition” and other Gamechanger shows are like “we are going to psychologically torment these people to see which one breaks first” and there’s no telling which is which until it’s too late
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I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. I don’t want to.
[Image ID: a drawing of Pinnochio and the Evil Stepmother from Dimension 20’s Neverafter, where Pinnochio stands alone against a cornered while two shadow arms reach out around him. Pinnochio is a black marionette doll who looks petrified and holds his own broken nose as a weapon, but it’s clutched in the way a child holds a toy for comfort and the nose is covered in blood and gore. Perched on Pinocchio’s shoulder is a menacing corvid, with a single glowing eye. The shadow arms reach far beyond Pinnochio up to the shadow smirk and evil eyes of his stepmother. The overall picture is darkened to add a layer of mystery and horror to the image. End Image ID].
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PLEASE tell me more about the Sheherazade/Simulation theory!
YEAH so that passage is from this book review of the arabian nights. the simulation hypothesis proposes that reality is a simulation (the theory has been pretty widely discredited, but it’s still fun to think about imo), and a thought experiment that endorses the theory asks us to consider the likelihood that humans will advance technologically to the point that we can create and run high-fidelity simulations of reality. if we concede that, at some point, this technology could be available to humans, we then have to consider the likelihood that such technology has already been invented and our reality is a simulation resulting from that technology. because if simulation technology is feasible, what's the likelihood that we're at the top of the chain of simulations? not terribly high.
without a supercomputer to simulate a reality in which she survives, though, all scheherazade can do is tell stories. that’s the closest she can get to creating a new reality. so she tells stories about storytellers (who survive their stories!), creating a nesting doll of stories and their corresponding realities. and so eventually she’s created a story within a story within a story; what’s the likelihood, then, that she’s at the top of the chain of stories? not terribly high. which is a good thing for her! because if these stories are about people who survive, that means, as a character in a story, she is also going to survive.
which is why i LOVED that in adventuring party they identified aesop as “a story telling a story,” especially considering The Authors are the cosmic horror of the season. in this world, telling a story is a powerful act, because when you tell a story the people in that story are at your mercy. we see this with mother goose’s book; to become a character in one of the stories in his book can be a form of protection (as it is for old king cole and jack), but it can also be a sentence to an eternity of fear/loss/horror (as it would be for little miss muffet were she to go into the book). scheherazade, mother goose, and aesop are The Authors to someone, and they have their own Authors who dictate the stories they’re living in. i am simply so obsessed with the idea that, by telling a certain kind of story, you can alter the story you’re living in and its outcome.
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I recreated Caravaggio’s “Judith Beheading Holofornes” in Kid Pix Studio from 1995 using a mouse
[image description: the kid pix recreation described above. the painting shows a woman in the process of cutting a screaming man's head off with a sword. she has a clinical expression, as does an older woman who stands behind her.]
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Happy Lunar New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới!
Vietnam is celebrating the Year of Cat this year, may we all go through life as blissfully as a cat!
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[image description: art of a white-and-gray cat sitting next to a light brown rabbit. they are sitting on top of a pile of red envelopes. the envelopes are decorated with cherry blossoms, gold coins, and other green and gold designs. flower petals are falling from a branch in the upper right corner. the background of the image is a warm and buttery yellow, with lighter yellow streaks to look like sunbeams falling onto the animals and the envelopes. the words, “chúc mừng năm mới!” are written in red across the top of the image. the artist’s signature, “Lê,” is small and next to the rabbit. end image description.]
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the only thing stopping me from inviting my mutuals to have a coffee with cake and talk about our blorbos is geography
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[ID: A comic of a skeleton wearing a black cloak motivating themself to get up. The first panel is the skeleton tying their purple sneakers on the side of a hill with a skateboard resting next to them saying "My internal mantra when I'm forcing myself to move is 'you need to put your little shoes on'. The second panel has flames in the background as the skeleton says "You need to put your little shoes on and run from the devil." The third panel is the skeleton riding the skateboard with their shoes on with text reading "And it works".]
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i might just be autistic but data entry fucking rules dudes you just. enter the data. you take the data and you plug it in. then what? who knows! who cares. the data. has been entered. what next? buddy you’re not gonna believe this it’s more fucking data. excel used to be my enemy but now she is my best friend
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“In an experiment revealing the importance of having friendships, social psychologists have found that perceptions of task difficulty are significantly shaped by the proximity of a friend. In their experimental design, the researchers asked college students to stand at the base of a hill while carrying a weighted backpack and to estimate the steepness of a hill. Some participants stood next to close friends whom they had known a long time, some stood next to friends they had not known for long, and the rest stood alone during the exercise. The students who stood with friends gave significantly lower estimates of the steepness of the hill than those who stood alone. Furthermore, the longer the close friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared to the participants involved in the study. In other words, the world looks less difficult when standing next to a close friend.”
— my new favorite psychological study, done by Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, and Proffitt and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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It’s titled Social Support and the Perception of Geographical Slant
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Someone did a follow up study…
AND??? What were the findings???
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They were able to replicate the results of the original study and also show that the effect continues to hold true even if the social support is received via texting with a friend instead of the person’s physical presence
[Image description: headline to an online article from the journal “Technology Mind and Behavior,” volume 2, issue 2: Can Text Messaging Influence Perception of Geographical Slant? A Replication and Extension of Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, Proffitt (2008). Published on Jul 28, 2021. Description ends]
See Also: Irish Proverb:
“Two people shorten a road.”
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there's been an on purpose at the accident factory
me when i actually accomplish a goal
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[ID: a thread of tweets by Amelia Bloody Rose @AmeliaRoseWrite from 3/23/19:
TANGENT: I really want to do an analysis of the apparently productive suffix ’-ception’ which, when appended to a noun, gives the noun the meaning of recursivity or “nesting.”
It’s a reanalysis of “inception,” which means “beginning,” but it specifically refers to the movie of the same name, in which an inception is the planting of an idea in someone’s head. However, in order to do this, you have to travel through nested layers of someone’s dreams
I’ve seen people (@egoraptor, notably) complain that using “-ception” to refer to nesting is inaccurate, since the word isn’t actually referring to the recursive dreams but rather the planting of an idea.
But that misses the point; the “-ception” suffix, as applied to nested items, is derived not from the general word, but rather from a specific reference to the movie–a movie whose big idea WAS recursion or nesting.
And so you’re not referencing the word, but its specific use. Kinda like how if I describe a “Frankenstein’s” whatever, you’re probably not going to wonder why I’m using an old German name to describe something cobbled together from spare parts.
“-ception” also comes from a longstanding tradition of reanalyzing and repurposing the ends of words as suffixes. Others include “-athon” from “marathon,” “-oholic” from “alcoholic,” and lately “-quel” from “sequel.”
It’s the sort of thing I love–that a very complicated concept (recursive layers of something) can be conveyed by even just a part of a word.
So whenever you hear people talk about “there’s a German word for [complicated concept]” or whatever, remember, English has a specific suffix for “recursive layers of an object or concept” that can be applied to ANYTHING.
(Also, as an aside, one of my favorite uses of “-ception” is referring to a turducken as “birdception.” Everything about that is just wonderfully preposterous)
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