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burins

i've seen a number of fics write clark as not knowing or understanding human limits and making either stupid or sexy mistakes about it... but honestly i think clark, who has spent about 20 years studying human limits very, very carefully so that he doesn't get nabbed by the government/outed as a hero, would have a better understanding than most people of what, exactly, the human body is capable of!

tharkuun

The way i think about it is that all animals need to learn their limits in interacting with different materials. As children, we hit too hard and we get the feedback of "ouch!! That hurts!!! :(" and we learn to not do that. We try to pick a flower with our grubby toddler hands and we crush it accidentally, and next time we grasp it more gently. We learn through trial and response how to move about the world.

Clark had to do all of that, too, when he was growing up, but a mistake from him could have meant death/destruction for whatever he was interacting with, so i imagine it was a very stressful experience for the kents to try to gently but firmly work through his limits with him in a safe manner that would also convey what an average human would be able to do.

As an adult, i really dont see why he would have an issue with knowing his own strength -- he reasonably would already have learned how to interact with the world, just like everyone else has, albeit with very different capacities compared to him

thunderwhenhepurrs

Yes yes this! I definitely have had thoughts before of how the Kents would need to teach Clark as a baby (going with the idea he’s notably alien from the start and doesn’t somehow get his powers triggered from puberty like some canons). Clark probably heard a whole lot of that “ow, it hurts!” or noises of pain when he was little, and one of his earliest connections is that his touch = pain.

One of the words I imagine Clark learned first was “gentle”. I can see a core memory of his being his Pa holding him as a toddler, teaching him how to reach out and pet their calmest cow so lightly. Clark already so afraid to touch, but Jon takes his little hand in his and applies just enough pressure, petting the cow for him. “Gentle, gentle,” he coaches as Clark starts to do it himself.

Then other, less pleasant ones. Clark being upset at six or seven and trying to fling himself into his mother’s arms. He clings to her too tight, and he hears her rib as it cracks, even before her sudden scream of pain. He learns to wrap his arms around himself, instead, when he’s upset.

Jon makes the mistake of telling a ten-year-old Clark his grip needs to be firm when teaching him how to handshake and gets a fractured bone of his own. It’s six months before he can convince Clark to try again.

The Kents building out little exercises over the course of his life for Clark to learn his limits. Pick up this egg without breaking it. Throw this bale of hay, but only this far.

Maybe even a fun one, teaching him how to line dance. It teaches him how to move in sync with humans, in the way humans can move, at the right controlled speed. Clark has to stomp enough to make a sound, but not break the floor or rattle the ground. He has to jump, but not too high. He has to be very aware of a crowd of dancers around him, understand the space he takes up and how not to collide with anyone.

Clark didn’t train in martial arts or swordplay like Bruce or Diana to learn control of his body. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t spend his entire life training in his own way.

#oooh I love all of this #superman #Clark Kent #dc

hyumjim

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vehder

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rneliflua

The last play I watched before the pandemic was a Beauty And The Beast adaptation and when Gaston proposed to Belle there was this little boy in the audience who yelled NOOO DON’T SAY YES, so when Belle naturally turned him down Gaston turned to the boy with his hands on his hips and said “well, now look what you’ve done”

alkthash

#no one breaks the fourth wall like gaston

valtsv

something I've only just realized about pacific rim is that. well. they test for drift compatibility by sparring. and newt and hermann verbally spar all the time.

valtsv

the scene where raleigh and the audience meet them for the first time shows us how they engage in rapid-fire arguments that can only be possible if they're anticipating each other's responses and forming their own to counter them in advance. soon after we learn that they've been doing this on a regular basis for years. and what's more, newt delivers a pitch-perfect impression of hermann's ranting in sync with him, successfully predicting his exact words before he even starts, and even managing a decent imitation of his facial expressions and body language gestures. their drift compatibility was foreshadowed from the start.

tigersinlondon

'#galaxy brain: they know they're drift compatible and they RESENT it' via @veganthranduil

2percentsugar

the fact that "eco" and "ethical" are two separate concerns in the global north, and that "eco" is a much more popular concern, with many "eco" products being made in actual sweatshops, is a big part of why i am The Joker

2percentsugar

if you think this is an exaggeration or splitting hairs where it doesn't matter:

i used to work at a Local Organic Produce store that's popular with the lefties in my city who are interested in food justice. i quit for a lot of reasons, mostly the boss, but something i will always remember is one of our suppliers coming in to drop off produce, being told her check wasn't ready, and her laughing and responding it didn't matter -- even a low bank account was more than enough to pay the migrants who picked her produce. i am not filling in any blanks here. she said this.

after quitting, this was a common story i told people about my time there. some then became annoyed at me, acting like i was a wokescold trying to undermine the store's "eco" mission with unrelated "ethical" concerns. but, like -- if food justice isn't for the people making food, who the fuck is it for?

like, don't get me wrong. my contention here is that the things go hand in hand, and that something which is unethical isn't actually eco. after all, humans are a part of the fucking ecosystem, and if a product can only be made by unsustainably exploiting humans, then it's unsustainable. doesn't matter which chemicals were used in making it, or whether or not animals were factory farmed.

falseficus

they *cannot* be separated. a product cannot be either eco or ethical — it must be both. a product that is made through human suffering cannot be eco for the reasons you said; a product that causes human suffering by contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem cannot be ethical. it must be both and we must insist on both

catasters

i-shall-not-show-mercy

abouquetofdaylillies-deactivate

Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."

It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.

headspace-hotel

This has already been said in the notes, but if PMS causes extreme depression and even suicidal ideation, that is in fact something that most people do not experience and it can be treated

Like for the majority it really is "oh i'm hungrier and moodier than usual"

^this should be a part of sex education so the point still stands

godesssiri

I went to my doctor after I was walking to work one morning and saw a bus coming and actually took a step to throw myself in front of it before I pulled myself together. Later that day I started bleeding and was literally like someone flipped a switch and I didn't feel suicidal anymore. Which made me feel like I was loosing my mind because who goes from 'I want to throw myself in front of a bus' to 'I'm perfectly fine' just like that? I did some research, I went to the doctor and described my feelings, he looked me in the eye and gently asked what I thought it was, I said I'd read about PMDD and I thought it might be that, he said 'I think so too' and wrote a prescription.

If, before you get your period, you feel furiously angry, suicidal, irritated by every tiny thing to the point you want to murder someone, stuck in a black hole you'll never escape from. If you are experiencing extreme emotions for what seems like no good reason, especially if you get your period and those extreme emotions just go away. You're probably not just PMSing , you may have PMS's feral big sister PMDD and it's treatable.

Also this is something that can develop as you get older. So if you used to get normal PMS but what I wrote above sounds more like your norm now then don't just write it off as regular PMS.

eliotheman

”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media