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“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that
“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that
“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story
“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do
HOW TO PUT GILLS ON HUMANS
since ive been asked a few times i shall make a dedicated post about it regarding putting gills on a human/humanoid there are two types of setups bony fish have 1 gill opening, sharks have multiple gills in blue here
for gills on a humanoid to be realistic they need to be between the neck muscles and the hyoid muscles, like in real fish the red are the beck muscles, green are throat muscles, and blue are areas you could feasibly put gills! using shark here as they take up more space
instead of gill musculature bony fish have a large bony shield called an operculum covering their gills, but the principle remains the same gills are between the back muscles and the throat muscles, though with bony fish you can make the covering just fleshy if you want
here is it all together again as the two main muscles the cucullaris evolve into present in humans are the trapezius and sternocleidomastoid so show how this muscles evolved in sharks its this trapezius-like structure but in bony fish since the shoulder bones are connected to the skull the cucullaris helps move that joint!
this muscle has roots in out placoderm ancestors and can be seen in placoderms like dunkleosteus! here this paper
PDF | The comparative and functional anatomy of the cleaver‐like jaws of the Late Devonian arthrodire Dunkleosteus terrelli remains poorly u
in placoderms it also helps articulate the head and shoulder bones
ANYWAY THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY TED TALK
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lesbian pride moth (making it a flannel moth felt appropriate)
The haircut is likely to maximize Nuerohelm connections, given the fall of tech from the SLDF era with the Succession Wars in the Inner Sphere. It's a fun bit of lore and something we don't get in the modern setting, weird cultural details.
Gyas Jewelmark or Gyas Sarota Metalmark (Sarota gyas), family Riodonidae, Peru
photograph by Nick Volpe
Gyas Jewelmark or Gyas Sarota Metalmark (Sarota gyas), family Riodonidae, Peru
photograph by Nick Volpe
RACHEL RANKS: THE TOP 20 HOTTEST MURCIELAGO CHARACTERS
#3: Isuzu Kujihara
To say that manga has a hard time depicting fat women would be the understatement of the century. Fat women are ALWAYS ridiculed, drawn with ridiculous proportions, villainized, shown constantly eating, used as a punchline for a cruel joke, etc. etc. etc. So imagine my surprise when Murcielago delivered what might be the most positive representation of a fat female character I've read in years, if not ever. Isuzu is gorgeous, never mocked, never insulted in any way, isn't drawn constantly eating; in fact, she doesn't stumble over even a single stereotype. She's one of the many reasons why Murcielago is my favorite yuri series, and she is GORGEOUS. I would KILL for her to show up more frequently. Most underrated Murcielago girl by far.
"You only like this character because she's a woman!" okay and you hate her because she's a woman, knowing that she has all the traits you would enjoy in a male character.
ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means
Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.
You can try to teach a toddler about germ theory or you can get them to wash their hands because "yucky"
Teaching a toddler to wash hands because yucky when the Ethics Understander crashes through the roof. "STOP RIGHT THERE," the Ethics Understander shouts at me. "The disgust response is not a legitimate substitute for a considered value judgment, and in fact, weaponizing disgust instead of grounding those judgments in a more rigorous framework is fundamental to reactionary rhetoric!"
The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."
But I’m not a toddler, and I would never want someone to tell me the “for toddlers” version of their beliefs. If I found out they weren’t telling me their actual beliefs, I’d get mad and stop trusting them. So I don’t want to treat other adults like they’re toddlers.
Toddlers do generally understand "you could get sick." With very young children who can't understand the reasoning behind why something is forbidden or required, you might have to resort to "because I said so" on occasion, but obviously that doesn't work so well with adults.
Giving people the "for toddlers" version of an ethical position can be effective in the short term but will generally bite you on the ass once they do a bit more digging and realize that you gave them a distorted and simplistic version of the truth, at which point they will tell a bunch of other people, "Hey, X is giving everyone a distorted and simplistic version of the truth" and erode public trust in you.
One simply must not lie.
It’s a simple as that.
We live in the age of the internet, an age simultaneously of great distrust and easy access to all the collective knowledge of mankind. When you lie, it will be found out almost immediately -unless you possess the power to repress the truth of a large government, in which case it will take a lil longer- and the person who was not on your side will call you a liar and dismiss your argument.
“But Trump lies” yes, and when his lies are found out his followers don’t care, the same way when your lies are found out you and your radfem communist circle don’t care- people forgive their own lies or justify them; they don’t do that for the person screaming at them and calling for the destruction of their nation, race, or social class.
Obviously.
So!
Tell the fucking truth.
Cool beans, but the problem there is that the deeper expertise you gain on any given subject the less clear-cut "truth" becomes, until you know deep in your bones that a comprehensive, non-reductive, zero-incorrect-statements delivery of the Truth means spending five hours reciting a whole book at someone who's going to get lost ten minutes in.
That's when you have to realize that "true enough" is extremely valuable.
That's what the post is about.
When I was in college, I took an epidemiology class where we had the opportunity to design and present a lesson on vaccines and how the immune system works for an audience of 11-13 year olds. (That was very fun BTW. We played IRL Among Us with diseases and I designed a video game inventory screen of the US Vaccine schedule for children and youth.) I also was repeatedly taught in my public health and policy classes how to write policy briefs, which require the ability to quickly explain very dense topics to a layman. This was taught to me as one of the most important things I could take away from my college education.
I work with kids aged 11-14 mostly in my current job and I have worked with kids as young as 5 in previous jobs and as old as 17-18 occasionally in supporting my peers. I do science education, education about the US college system, financial education, arts and writing education, etc. Being able to explain very dense topics to a layman, including elementary and middle school aged children, has in fact been the most important thing I have learned in school.
Adjust your messaging to your audience. Simplify the content of your message and present it in ways that won't cause your audience to tune out after 5 minutes.
The Lyrans might build them, but if they fall off the back of a truck, nobody says a Cappie can’t drive one…
You Have To Kiss Evil Woman. She Can't Spell Mwahahahaha Without Mwah. Do Your Part And Kiss Evil Woman Today.
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can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings
can you imagine how good fandoms would be if fans thought of women as human beings
Here's a history lesson on trans medicine btw: The guy who coined "gender identity", introduced the concept to psychology and did foundational research on it did so trying to find a way to prevent people from being trans.
Why am I bringing this up? Because the origin fallacy will kill your capacity for understanding literally any concept whatsoever. The guy who coined the term gender identity was anti-trans.
The modern scientific consensus on gender identity is so trans-affirming that anti-trans movements attack the concept constantly.
Theories evolve and change over time, and if you get stuck attacking modern theories by referring to shit that happened half a century ago you will disseminate anti-knowledge.
"don't use 'transsexual' it's offensive" every term we use today was designed to pathologise, malign, and destroy us.
