one man's trash is another man's treasure

I saw a poll about superior breakfast foods and this poll was so American i decided to make my own but Polish (if it's too regional or too personal I'm sorry in advance) so it's just as incomprehensible and unrelatable to people from other cultures as American-centric polls usually are to me LETS GO

A couple of disclaimers :

Disclaimer 1: most of these are elements of breakfast not full breakfast meals. Meats and eggs are usually paired with sourdough bread or rolls, and vegetables: most often fresh or pickled cucumbers, chives or green onion, radish, and tomatoes (usually in summer cause in winter they taste like cardboard).

Disclaimer 2: These are the foods me and my girlfriend from kinda poor families in the South of Poland remember eating growing up in early 2000s. So if your experiences of Polish breakfast are different uhhh I'm sorry?

Disclaimer 3: Never trust articles in English about Polish breakfast foods because they're either complete bullshit or just Polish dishes that would fit an American idea of breakfast: pancakes and potato pancakes or apple fritters are dinner foods here. So are zapiekanki, any kinds of soups (excluding zupa mleczna which was too weird for me to include cause no one ate it out of free will) and stews.

As far as being a woman goes I think I'm just a poser

Like I enjoy the aesthetics but I just don't commit to the culture

"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

Partake in the joy of creation just for the fun of it. Just for a laff.

Also do this with writing

I'm wondering - there's a lot of talk about aphantasia lately.

To it's hard to imagine the opposite, as in being able to 'see' images in your head. It must be an exaggeration?

But then I think about the fact that when I read fanfiction and the dialogues are good at following characters' speech patterns I can hear their voices in my head very clearly. And now I'm wondering if it is in any way connected to aphantasia or lack thereof.

This isn't scientific research, just a tumblr poll so don't sweat it too much. I'll let you decide what 'clearly' means to you in this context cause it's hard to measure that objectively. Personally, I think that if you're able to see a full image with different details and you don't need to 'focus in' on a specific element of the picture to come up with what it looks like, it counts.

isn't there a photoset somewhere with an apple of varying photo quality that kinda shows what different people see when visualizing? idk where to find it

Me neither and I know this post - but my gripe with it is that it's not entirely accurate, and aphantasia as I understand it is much more complicated.

I have a problem with imagining things but it's not like I can see a sketch in my mind (which was last but one stage in that post), but if i were let's say, told to imagine a picture with a house and a tree and a swing:

I would try to picture it and in my brain I put a placement marker that there is a house and a tree and a swing and maybe where they would be in the composition. Maybe the sky is blue and cloudy and the grass is green and it's summer.

But if someone asked me what the house looks like I would have to imagine it again. Not remember what I saw (because what I saw is an approximate - my idea of what a house is) I'd think of house shapes i know and I could conjure them in my mind. I think I'd be able to do it pretty accurately cause I can think about houses I've seen. Similarly with the pattern of walls, or the rooftop.

And then you ask me about the tree and I have to think again. And again about a swing. So I would be able to describe all the properties of these things and overwrite them on the image in my head but they'd still be placeholders. Cause even after thinking about them, I'm not able to see the full image. It's like it's shifting all the time depending on what I zoom in. Unrendered, maybe a couple of splotches on a canvas with a sticky note describing what it should look like.

And that's what I mean when I say I don't believe in the reverse of aphantasia. Not a staunch disbeliever - just haven't seen anyone prove convincingly that they can truly see images in their mind (and I'm very open to being convinced). Because as someone who draws I'm always confronted with the fact that what I 'imagine' in my head is a lousy approximate and I start to bring the real image to life when I put it on paper.

And when you draw, it's not like your hand can't follow your brain (maybe partially, cause your motor skills are still important for technique), like what I thought when I was a kid, when i didn't understand the process. It's just that the image in your brain is a collection of concepts and mental references that you can interpret when saying you imagine something. Even when you're using a reference, the image gets filtered through your brain, which warps it. Learning to draw, to me, is literally schooling your brain to interpret these patterns and bringing it into the outside world in a form that makes sense.

So yeah if anyone disagrees (especially other people who draw) I'd be very interested in hearing what you think. I think I either have aphantasia which I guess could slightly disable my ability to produce visual art, or most people are not able to see images in their heads as well as they think but don't realise it. Or I'm completely wrong about all of this and it's something else.

In light of tumblr being a motherfucker I logged into my pillowfort account to seei f it still stands. It does! The username is simply : Alek because yes I signed up so long ago it was available.

If any of you have pillowfort accounts to follow let me know!

I just found this quiz and it’s, phenomenal

you will find me interesting

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I feel a bit silly posting this but I'm trying to track my progress with singing and I'm pleased with this one

Please reblog if you can, I'd like to get as many different results as possible!

perfectly illustrates why you NEED to reblog fanworks you like.

^^^^^^