Sinister Trigonometries @leftcosine - Tumblr Blog

Love that you’re making it clear exactly what physical demands this job has, but could you possibly, potentially, phrase it differently?

sternfleck

My resume

chillyfeetsteak

wheeeeee wahooooo lalalala

#this thing knows aaaaaaaaall about #playing and having fun

princessdraconic

what does a blush even look like, on scales so red as those?

as indicated by my avatar, i am the kind of dragon girl who has patches of scales, so it's a pretty conventional blush

leftcosine

Pay attention to the subtle tilt of the graceful neck, the lidding of the eyelids, one and two, and the idle movements of the wing. The dragon's expressions are easily within reach for those that use eyes to see

Or, of course, that lovely rumble of hers.

princessdraconic

Dragon I saw a while back

so fucking powerful so fucking relaxed. this is what it means to be huge as fuck lizard for real

kimpining

this bit. immense. more vast than the sea.

lilou-the-world-builder

i dont remember how or where i found the original. sorry.

neatangent

I do

https://x.com/kushiro_yuu/status/1814879291651596695

caspercryptid

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

caspercryptid

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

caspercryptid

Mental illness is Off-putting. Trauma and stress make people hard to be around. There are no perfect victims. If your framework for someone under pressure are people who cry photogenically at home in the bathroom or at night when everyone else is asleep and then wake up and act like they're fine then you will fail to recognize it when your coworker who's normally really nice suddenly blows up on someone for leaving forks in the company sink.

Everyone is going through shit. And it doesn't make it okay for them to treat others badly, but it also sometimes makes it difficult for them to recognize that they're treating you badly, like the person on the phone with 9-11 who no longer realizes that he's telling the operator about his day and not answering questions. When your friend of ten years who has a new boyfriend suddenly starts being a massive bitch to you about your weight maybe she's just being a cunt, or maybe she's internalized some bullshit. You don't have to take that, but you Can go "Hey, what the fuck?" And that is often more helpful than you realize. It is easy to assume that someone who does something cruel is acting with intent, but especially in cases where someone's behavior changed in a short span of time, they aren't, any more than the person who is convinced the beanbag chair is going to fix them.

You don't have to give people endless chances. But you should give them at least one chance. Because on your worst week, it's going to be you crying at your friend's birthday party because she ran out of chili before you got to have some, and you're going to want some grace for yourself.

acertainmoshke

All of this and also, sometimes you just cannot control your reaction even if it’s harmful or mean. Which also doesn’t make it acceptable to treat people poorly, but it does tie into the give people a second or third chance and communicate before deciding they’re just terrible now

worldofultimategaming

The World of Ultimate Gaming

lady-of-vitreous-sight

spins your halo so quickly that when you try to lean forward you end up tilting sideways instead

lady-of-vitreous-sight

it's really cute how if its halo spins fast enough it's actually really hard for it to fall over. which is why everyone is allowed to take turns pushing it to try to make it fall over. it's an important physics demo.

tpwrtrmnky

"Whether someone understands it or not, these are the consequences of the political views they're espousing" is a pretty important analysis tool for online movements because quite honestly, over half of everyone engaging in politics online have no foundations for the stuff they're saying and are just saying whatever makes them feel like a member of an in-group.

tpwrtrmnky

If your in-group is "the left" you're very much not immune to this. In fact, trying to do left-wing politics without even trying to build a foundational political understanding is a great way to end up as a neo-nazi with a tumblr accent rather than an effective left-wing advocate.

dropped-doll

i like when they call centipede bites medically significant

dropped-doll

I'm going to do something medically significant

3000s

classic example of a pig egg

77bears

hagiomoto

cryptotheism

Magic is a pathway to all the things imaginable, even imagination is currently limited to our ability to extend it. So shooting fireballs is « out of our hands » currently but theres ultimately a formula for all. Nothings really impossible considering what quantum mechanical studies have shown us.

That's not how quantum mechanics works.

cryptotheism