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I'm generally of the opinion that it's bad form to try and Sherlock Holmes anybody's gender, but over the years I've made the acquaintance of a number of self-styled Internet toughguys who insist they're into gender-bending stuff for edgy, not-giving-a-shit-about-your-lame-social-norms reasons, and whenever one of them re-enters my personal orbit I'd be lying if I claimed I didn't quietly check their profile to see if anything I know needs updating.

prokopetz

@omnybus replied:

It took me a while to realize that your use of "Sherlock Holmes" as a verb means "trying to suss someone's "true" gender by scrutinizing arbitrary traits and/or behaviors", and not "take someone's gender and add cocaine and autism"

I mean, the way cocaine was used and regarded socially in Arthur Conan Doyle's time is roughly equivalent to how absurdly over-caffeinated energy drinks are used and regarded socially today, and while I'm no expert, I'm given to understand that "taking one's gender and adding Monster Energy and autism" is sometimes how it goes.

gothhabiba

the state of discourse on disability is so so shocking and so dire. one of the things that disabled people have criticised the most widely and vociferously, one of the most basic points of disability activism (i.e. “inspiration porn is bad”*), and yet people are evidently so thoroughly unfamiliar with it that they think it’s insulting to disabled people not to trot some of us out as cudgels with which to beat others of us!! just absolutely galling

* I don’t love that this is the term we landed on, lmao

gothhabiba

the concept “physically disabled people are physically incapable of doing certain things” is beyond some people’s grasp. it’s actually really frightening

gothhabiba

#i think it's cos ppl automatically assume that being incapable is a bad thing so thinking of a human that way is insulting to them so it's#better to pretend that they're not incapable rather than treating a disabled persons in capabilities as completely value neutral #so thinking being incapable is a bad thing directly leads to the popularity of inspo porn cos it allows them to think of a disabled person positively. which they couldn't do while acknowledging their incapabilities #that's why they think telling a disabled person that they're not incapable is a compliment and that acknowledging that disabled people are incapable of things is somehow an insult and therefore ableist #when really automatically assuming incapability = bad is ableist

sirobvious

Avoid video games that use extrinsic motivation. A video game should at least mostly rely on intrinsic motivation, meaning that the playing of the game itself is the fun part, not the reward you get for playing the game. If you don’t enjoy the gameplay, but you want to earn lootboxes, you’ve fallen into the intentionally exploitative system operating within so many games nowadays, and you need to find another game, because you’re not having fun.

It doesn’t sound serious, but this kind of thing can make depression way worse if you’ve already got depression.

smitethestate

This post got me to stop playing Overwatch and I’m eternally grateful.

note-a-bear

That’s also a core difference between a game trying to exploit the human brain’s tendency toward gambling addiction and a game that exists to entertain.

Like, it may sound like I’m reaching, but op described (pretty closely) the operation of gambling addictions. It’s also why the depression aspect is so real. You’re feeling a withdrawal, of a sort, when you can’t play the game.

anarchistettin

Carry this understanding to social media. Be on guard for quick dopamine responses. Don’t get trapped!

dog-teeth

badweird feelings

chronicbrainfag

not to be a communist on main but these are literally the modes of alienation under capitalism that marx described

dog-teeth

PLEASE be a communist on my posts its literally capitalism thats making me feel this way

hi.

i guess i’m back.

i havent really left my apartment or interacted with anyone in three or four years and i realized that the last time i felt like i was part of a community was when i was on here all the time, despite how much of a nightmare that may have been.

so, i guess i’m gonna try again. or at least try to try again. things havent been going well for me the past few years but i’m sure i’ll talk about all of that eventually. i dont have the energy for it right now. this post is just me saying to anyone who’s still here,

hi. i’m really sorry i was gone. a lot was happening in my life and i needed the time to my self. it’s not over yet, but i’ve realized that blocking out the world was not the best thing i could have done long term. i’ve never been good at coping skills. anyway, i might be around a little bit again, though i doubt i’ll be able to be consistent at all. i didnt have many followers to begin with but if any of you are still here, thank you for waiting for me. i hope i dont let you guys down again.

kiyokospeaks

Death of the author feels like such a white take tbh

kiyokospeaks

“it doesn’t matter that this author was blatantly and violently racist and homophobic because the author is dead uwu”

shoefaced-deactivated20210321

Honestly, death of the author is a concept that is used incorrectly quite a bit. It’s meant to mean “It doesn’t matter if the author had [x] intentions because the text itself and the reader’s interpretation of it matter more than what the author intends.”

So, if an author is not intending to be racist or homophobic, death of the author means their work can still be racist and homophobic if that is what the text portrays to the readers. Whether the author meant it or not.

The intent of the author, no matter how benign, does not change what is on the page. And if the page is full of bias and prejudice, then it’s biased and prejudiced.

ms-demeanor

“Death of the author” doesn’t mean “JK is a racist transphobe but Harry Potter was important to a lot of people so let’s disassociate the writer from her work” it means “JK says the goblins aren’t antisemitic caricatures but they very clearly parallel antisemitic tropes and caricatures in the English Literary Canon so discussing that is a valid approach to exploring race and discrimination in the Harry Potter series and you can’t dismiss that approach with ‘but the author said nuh-uh.’”

bla-flsafa-deactivated20200802

I can drink 3 cups of coffee and go straight to sleep, this is just one example of what is fundamentaly wrong with me as a person

rinokami

That’s a possible sign of ADHD, my dudes. :P One of the prevailing theories explaining ADHD is that it’s caused by a lack of certain neurotransmitters, specifically norepinephrine and serotonin. Everybody has a background level of these neurotransmitters, and when they see or do something novel or interesting, those neurotransmitters increase, and then decrease back down to normal levels. Because people with ADHD have less of these than they should, they are constantly looking for something new and interesting to give them that jolt back to normal levels. That’s why they’re so easily distracted and why they hyperfocus on things that interest them. Stimulant drugs, like caffeine, cause your brain to make more of those neurotransmitters. So while neurotypical people might get a buzz off caffeine, people with ADHD just get bumped up closer to normal levels, and so, if anything, feel calmer. That’s why they prescribe what are basically amphetamines as treatment for ADHD and why ADHD meds are so bad for people who don’t have ADHD.

sandersstudies

WHAT

not-so-innocent-bi-sander

WHAT

official-lucifers-child

W H A T

scripturient-manipulator

Yup! At my job as a mental health counselor where we assess people, if we start detecting hints of what we think might be ADHD, it’s actually something my supervisor trained me to do, to just ask “So when that sort of thing happens, do you ever drink coffee or soda to calm down?” or “Does coffee actually help you wake up, or does it just not do anything?” because it’s such a commonly known fact about ADHD for people in the mental health field.

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hustlinghelltwins

lup but she has,,,,, a gun

no cops at pride only lup and her gun and her very big sword she stole from magnus

part 2 of this

spiraldoom-deactivated20221217

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kyraneko

“The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.”

alterboyx

This is a huge thing ESPECIALLY with kids. To the parent, they lashed out when they were mad and forgot about it, expecting the kid to forget too. To the kid? It was a big moment that defined your relationship with your parents. Stuff my parents don’t remember doing or saying were things that to me spoke very, very loudly, that I was not safe to be open and honest with my parents.

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers, indeed.

stimman4000

people will be like obviously im not transphobic i only hate trans people who don’t tell you they’re trans and ones that won’t shut up about being trans and that don’t pass and that pass too well and who think kids should be allowed to transition and who transitioned late and ones who watch anime and who are nonbinary and ones who make transition gofundmes and ones who are activists and who are gender nonconforming and who conform too much to stereotypes a

jeza-red

Iosefka’s arc is…well… eh… yeah.

You’re welcome.

The fix-it for her and Gilbert is in the works!

tainbocuailnge

my favorite thing about bloodborne is that all of it takes place within the span of a single night

theballmighty

The Good Hunter and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night

tainbocuailnge

the hunter, waking up drugged out their fucking mind with anaesthetics but decidedly no longer dying of terminal disease: alright im about to start swinging

cadaverkeys

zuko definitely shouldve been allowed to drop just one f-bomb in atla…i think he deserves it.

cadaverkeys

thats fucking rough, buddy.

rudegayslang

did jet just fucking die?

aangsslut

ithalpherix

Amlach is the moral centre of all Tolkien’s writings and nobody realises it. Especially not Tolkien himself. In this essay I will

ithalpherix

@lesbiansforboromir sorry I fell asleep but!!

Amlach of the house of Marach appears very briefly in Chapter 17 of the Silmarillion. He speaks at a council of men trying to decide whether or not they trust elves, and argues very persuasively not to, saying that the elves are liars, there is nothing beyond the sea, and no need to fight Morgoth… and then turns up a few days later, saying he’d never been at that council, and he never said that. Lots of people are like “but fake you made a good point tho”, and go hide from Morgoth, but Amlach gets mad.

Amlach repented, saying: ‘I have now a quarrel of my own with this Master of Lies, which will last to my life’s end’; and he went away north and entered the service of Maedhros.

Because it says “a quarrel of my own” lots of people take this as somewhat petty, like Amlach is just mad that Morgoth used his form and wants revenge on him for that? And I’ll admit that it does sound like that, but I’m going to do what I always do when I disagree with something in the Silmarillion and say that since Pengolodh wasn’t there (he was already in Gondolin) he misinterpreted or badly translated the situation.

To me, Amlach realises in that moment that Morgoth wants them to say that only elves have a quarrel with Morgoth, to stand down and not fight him. That’s why he immediately rides to Himring, the literal frontline against the forces of evil, despite the fact that he doesn’t know or trust any elves: he’s had the same realisation as all Tolkien’s heroes, which is that to fail to stand against evil is the same as opening the door and inviting evil in. It’s the same as Tuor and Beren fighting Morgoth even though they’re just lone outlaws in the woods, or Aragorn doing all he can as a mercenary even when he’s not ready to embrace his destiny yet, or Fingolfin deciding to do single combat against a god, or Glorfindel taking on a balrog, or Gondor desperately holding the border against Mordor, or Frodo choosing to be the ringbearer.

Because, if you choose not to fight, you end up as Grima Wormtongue, or the Sackville-Bagginses, or Maeglin, who choose their own comfort or greed over what’s right and cause massive damage. It’s not enough to just look after yourself, you have to actively fight!! And you have to have solidarity with people who are different to you, and recognise that you have a common cause - Amlach goes to Himring, an elf stronghold, just as later the most important battles are fought by all the ‘free peoples’ together in the Union of Maedhros, the Last Alliance, all of the War of the Ring. (Also, this is early enough in Edain-Eldar relations that I’m pretty sure Amlach is the first human Maedhros ever meets? I think he’s a good introduction to us :).)

TL;DR: Amlach is kind of the first and simplest example we have of Tolkien’s central moral message, which is INACTION IS COMPLICITY: STAND TOGETHER AND NEVER STOP FIGHTING.

lesbiansforboromir

Oh I love this deeply thank you

bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

raginrayguns

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

manyblinkinglights

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.