Sebastian | Brasil sil sil | 20s | VIOLENTLY GAY | Mild funnyposting | Certified Otter™ by the Council of Otters | Uppercase W Whore (I get bitches now) | Benny is Love, Benny is Life, #benny4ever
Hey!!! My name is Sebastian, I have a pronouns page, and my pronouns are he/him. Here's a list of my diagnoses.
I am HomoSexual™. I'm trying to keep this shorter than my last pinned posts so here are some pillars of my personality:
I like Half-Life and Portal, my favorite bands are Jinjer, Meshuggah, Periphery, Opeth and A Sense of Gravity, I tend to think I'm funny, I'm probably 25% cool. I have three sideblogs: @just-faggot-thoughts (NSFW sideblog I WILL block minors) @abaddon-of-secrets (dreamcore/liminalcore sideblog) and a ventblog that is currently inactive.
My tagging system goes as follows:
#seb speaks his mind - Original posts
#seb's writing - My writing
#seb does vocals - My vocals, I do screaming and singing
#seb shows himself - For when I want to show my face (and my tits before I made the NSFW blog)
#vent - Ventposts (for blocking if necessary)
#no antipsychotic - I quit my antipsychotic. Reporting on that.
#kity - Any post I ever see that has a cat in it I will tag it this
#dogy - Posts with dogs
#birb - Posts with birds
#webbed site - Posts that webbed site
#supernatural - Posts about That Show With The Normal Brothers
#blorbo!chuck - Posts about my blorbo Chuck from the aforementioned show
#lyric posting - Posting lyrics
#show dad - Saving things to later show to my dad
#writing - Old writing tag (so far most of it is here)
I cannot recommend bringing your heritage and culture into how you view media enough.
It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.
As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.
I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.
So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.
The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.
I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.
The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.
You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.
When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".
"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?
However, when I repeated my viewing to a college class, they were fascinated. The implications of what I had seen and felt made the film all the more terrifying and solemn. It encouraged a lot of people to try to ask themselves what media meant from a cultural perspective, where they hadn't done that before.
As others have pointed out before, if you visited a web page 20 years ago and it acted like that, you would rightly assume your computer had gotten a virus.
No one did better than random chance, even though they only included people in the study who are experienced with astrology and stated that they expect themselves to do better than random chance
They gave every astrologer a set of 50 things about a person and 5 birth charts to choose from. They weren’t even coming up with the chart themselves!
After taking the test, most thought they nailed it. Zero out of 152 did better than 5 out of 12. None nailed it
Astrologers who rated themselves highly experienced (“world class experts”) did the same or worse as those who said they have limited experience. Both performed the same as random chance
Karpov had cemented his position as the world's best player and world champion by the time Garry Kasparov arrived on the scene. In their first match, the World Chess Championship 1984 in Moscow, the first player to win six games would win the match. Karpov built a 4–0 lead after nine games. The next 17 games were drawn, setting a record for world title matches, and it took Karpov until game 27 to gain his fifth win. In game 31, Karpov had a winning position but failed to take advantage and settled for a draw. He lost the next game, after which 14 more draws ensued. Karpov held a solidly winning position in Game 41, but again blundered and had to settle for a draw. After Kasparov won games 47 and 48, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes unilaterally terminated the match, citing the players' health. Karpov is said to have lost 10 kg over the course of the match. The match had lasted an unprecedented five months, with five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov, and 40 draws.
i think the internet should transition from being so usa-centric to being brazil-centric. not cos i have any personal connection or bias towards brazil, i just think if anyone could possibly usurp america’s cultural dominance online it’d be them
I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor
