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mol - 29 - scotland

cathag bheag -> little jackdaw

reading: the amber spyglass, seveneves, book of the new sun

watching: his dark materials

listening: our wars have ended

playing: blue prince

twt | letterboxd | my face | my gifs | my dog

#pinned

stazher

artfight thingy for @t34-mt. not too good at this stuff but oh well

clearly some of you have not been to the labyrinth of pestilence deep beneath kentucky

noknowshame

alright so when I was a teenager I went to this bug-themed summer camp for socially stunted nerds and on the way back from it I visited the university of kentucky. I met with an entomologist there and while we were touring the department he asked "wanna see something cool?" so he took me down an elevator to what must've been a sub-sub-sub basement on a card-access only floor, and after turning several more corners we went through two sets of (I'm not even exaggerating) 12-inch thick doors, opening onto one long as fuck corridor. each side of this hallway was lined with about 50 refrigerators. and each and every single one of these refrigerators was filled with hundreds of thousands. of live. bedbugs. the very reasonable explanation for this was that they were doing research on insecticides and needed to test them on real samples, but they could not under any circumstances allow them to escape, so they had to be kept under area 51 levels of overkill containment. but reasonable or not that was very much not what I anticipated seeing that day. so yeah. I decided after that I did not want to become an entomologist

curlicuecal

absolutely baffled to get to the end of that story and hear you decide NOT to be an entomologist but possibly that's the entomologist in me speaking

noknowshame

as this breaches containment it is vital to me that The People know my problem with the bedbug labyrinth was NOT the bedbugs. that was obviously sick as fuck. the problem was it dawning on me how much entomology research is anti-bug instead of pro bug. weird girl equivalent of realizing how much time veterinarians spend putting down dogs

talesfromthecrypts

MAD GOD (2021) dir. Phil Tippett

there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection

beardedmrbean

tolbiny

honestly something so entertaining to me about tay kolma telling milf mothma or whatever her name is that his politics are too dark and twisted for her to comprehend. meanwhile he's talking to the woker. i just feel like thats an excellent subplot to be dealing with. you reconnect with your old best friend from before she got married off to her socialite malewife thinking you'll shock her with your crazy libdem politics meanwhile she's personally funding a galaxy-wide rebellion out of her spending account and doesnt gaf. sort of thing that would have me going home and screaming into a cushion

#andor #literally and he was only doing it to get in her pants and when she didnt fuck him in s2 he threatened to go public as if she wasnt #the literal woker #dude died badly assassinated by her network of spies like how much can you misjudge a situation