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tending to my garden (blog) in hopes that passers by (creatures and the sort) find solace and comfort in my beautiful nature.
Klara Lidén Self Portrait with the Keys to the City, 2005 Digital print, 60 × 42 cm
What Kind of Drunk Is Your Character?
1. The Emotional Floodgate ❖ Cries at everything: commercials, someone looking at them wrong, the fact that the moon is “too far away.” ❖ Huggy, clingy, desperate for reassurance. ❖ Their sentences spill out in run-ons; words tumble over each other.
2. The Laughing Hyena ❖ Everything’s funny, even the tragic shit. ❖ Inappropriate jokes, cackling fits, wheezing until they collapse. ❖ Often repeats the same joke three times, convinced it’s comedy gold.
3. The Philosopher ❖ Suddenly a poet or prophet. ❖ Rambling monologues about the meaning of socks, death, or the universe. ❖ May sound wise for half a second… then completely lose the thread.
4. The Fighter ❖ Belligerent, quick to take offense. ❖ Picks fights over imagined slights (“What do you mean my hat looks stupid?”). ❖ Loud volume, slurred threats, wild gesturing, maybe swinging.
5. The Charmer / Flirt ❖ Touchy, handsy, unfiltered compliments. ❖ Confidence triples while accuracy in pickup lines plummets. ❖ Thinks they’re James Bond; actually closer to a sloppy puppy.
6. The Confessor ❖ Secrets pour out: grudges, crushes, traumas. ❖ Apologizes for everything they’ve ever done wrong since birth. ❖ Might text their ex, or their boss.
7. The Zombie ❖ Slow, sluggish, heavy-lidded. ❖ Forgets mid-sentence what they’re saying. ❖ Leans on walls, drifts into micro-naps at the table.
8. The Energizer Bunny ❖ Won’t sit down. Dance floor addict. ❖ Loud “woo!” every three minutes. ❖ Wants everyone else to “keep up” when no one else can.
9. The Child ❖ Whiny, needy, throws tantrums. ❖ Demands snacks, complains about being tired, stomps feet. ❖ Often ends up napping in weird places.
10. The Daredevil ❖ Suddenly immortal. ❖ Climbing furniture, jumping into pools fully clothed. ❖ Every idea is “fucking brilliant” and usually dangerous.
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Beatings In A Morgue: Three Complex Scenes
There are three scenes in BBC Sherlock where Sherlock is beaten by a friend in a morgue respectively the lab at Barts which is adjacent to the morgue.
The first scene occurs in HLV with Molly slapping Sherlock’s face after learning of his drug relapse. It has been hotly debated, some people calling Molly out of character and discussing whether violence can or cannot be justified. Let’s have a closer look.
Molly is angry, and her anger serves as an interesting contrast to John standing in the background, arms crossed, wary but passive. The scene seems real enough but the whole beginning of HLV is slightly off - John’s wet dream, the drug den, John injuring Billy’s arm and finding Sherlock there as well. This is the first time in the show that Sherlock has been using deliberately which sheds a curious light on Molly’s extreme reaction because she has never known Sherlock in his drug days. What is more, slapping an addict does not help at all. It is an expression of helplessness and exasperation but nothing that will change the person’s situation in any way. Molly is a medically trained professional and the fact that she loves Sherlock only underlines the irrationality of her reaction. So even if we assume that the scene really occurs in the show, it has been critically discussed and dismissed as out of character by many viewers.
However, Sherlock must have retained a somewhat positive and useful memory of the event because in his MP Molly actually saves him by slapping his face. Remember, the memory is fresh, it happened only a mere hours ago. Here she is slapping him to save his life, to make him remember what he has to do to avoid dying. Actually in a way this is a continuation of the earlier scene, Molly’s fear - Sherlock destroying himself - carried to extremes. The difference being that he has been shot, not drugged himself. (And in TLD we will see another part of this story - Molly examining a gravely ill Sherlock and predicting his forthcoming death due to his destructive using.) But in a way he has brought this about himself by not realising that Mary was dangerous, by still believing that he could reach her via their shared love for John. (He does not call her Mrs Watson without reason).
In a way this is a variation on the very first scene where Sherlock is introduced in ASiP - beating a corpse in a morgue for a certain purpose, in this case to establish forensic evidence. That is to solve a case. Now it is him - an almost corpse - beaten for a certain purpose, that is to keep him from dying.
And then there is of course TLD. This time we see John beating Sherlock (an almost corpse as predicted by Molly) being beaten by his best friend. Everything is exaggerated here - John’s anger, his extreme violence, John accusing Sherlock of killing Mary, Sherlock’s painful self-loathing and acceptance of this treatment at the hands of his best friend.
But there is more to it. Because in a way John here reminds me of biblical Judas: he is turned into an instrument for reaching a certain purpose. Sherlock wants to save John by getting himself almost killed by Culverton and for this he has to be hospitalised. And this is where John comes into play. John has to brutally hurt Sherlock in order to be saved. What kind of crazy logic is this? (And do not get me started on the fact that John only saves Sherlock because Mrs Hudson casually points out the DVD. Otherwise, he would have been murdered by Culverton).
The longer I think about these scenes, the more difficult it is to establish any pattern. There is a certain progression regarding the violence. Sherlock always accepts the brutal treatment. All the slaps and punches and kicks are delivered by friends and the progression is from Molly to John.
But there must be more to it. Because the most important pattern is that all those scenes are in a way bizarre, unbelievable, out of character, unbearable or - in the case of the MP sequence - happening on Sherlock’s mind stage. I wonder if any of these scenes really happens or if they are all part of Sherlock’s mind palace. Btw, the funny thing is that the scene that makes most sense - Molly slapping Sherlock back to life - definitely happens in his mind palace.
This has become much longer than expected and I am really not sure where I am going. Therefore I am as always looking forward to your thoughts and insights.
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listen I am all for fidget toys. But we need to go harder. Humans were actually not meant to sit through lectures without using their hands. Fight against the robotification of humanity. Do fibercrafts in your office/classroom/church. You do not need to sit there like the impassable ideal man. Do fibercrafts. Start embroidering at work. Listen to the call of the strings.
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(please keep me anonymous) some bigots are starting shit around your blog again :(
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You can both just say it to my face next time. Kind of pathetic to theorize about some tgirl you don't like, while not including her at all. If you're going to be a pussy, why even open your mouth?
Anyways, yea the term is inentionally vague.. in WHO CAN USE IT. It's very specifically about transfeminized people, but there's also a million labels somebody could use, & I don't want to bind my word for an EXPERIENCE BASED THING by labels, because it's not based on labels. That's idiotic.
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Anyways, mutationgirl, very stupid to bring up transmisogyny here. How is it "muddying the language around transmisogyny" if it quite literally is doing the opposite? You assholes are the ones ruining every discussion about it by changing what it means.
Look on the tag rn (if tumblr lets you), tell me how many of those posts are genuinely about intersectionality of misogyny & transphobia targeted towards transfeminized people? I'll wait.
So, how the fuck is making MY OWN WORD to start MY OWN DISCUSSION set up in a DIFFERENT WAY with the express purpose of perserving what transmisogyny means in conversation around oppression *I* face, "muddying the word"? Please, elaborate. Explain just how that is.
To add more language for a group of people to better identify different phenomenons & better facilitate discussions without having to use words where they don't apply?
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Anyways, by your second reply it's hard to believe you actually do any transfeminism if you think transmisogyny just means "anything that affects the transfeminized". ADDITIONALLY, even if I was "including TMEs", I'm expressly not talking about transmisogyny. You're the one forcing that word into this conversation, so what's the issue? No wonder neither of you said it to my face, both of you lack logic at all. It's just pathetic words thrown together so you can hype each other up & attack other trans people to make yourselve's feel less miserable. Genuinely, I pity you.
. Anyways, this is all to say! These type of people are the very reason I started this blog.
A lot of tfems are so obsessed with their own doomer rhetoric & misery they are actually incapable of having any healthy community spaces, & anytime one is created it's beaten down. It leads lonely & miserable tfems to only find community in toxic & misery filled groups, keeping the pitiable mass of self hatred & misplaced anger alive.
This blog isn't attacked because they have a true reason to hate it. (they'd actually speak to me off anon & directly if that were true..) It's because it's true community for tfems without needing to create a toxic echochamber & utilize an us v them. It doesn't feed into the shitty cycle, & for a multitude of reasons, people already trapped in these spaces will attack health to keep their toxicity.
So, if you can, when you see a tfem spitting out vile hatred towards other trans people, pity the poor sap. Truthfully it's somebody so trapped in their trans-misery they are incapable of being around other people anymore. It's a desprate cry for help, & it's a shameful plague on our community.
Anyways, I speak about this a lot on main so I fear I am running myself in circles! Not much to say other than this is a shameless display of misplaced anger, & nothing more than a mentally unwell child's temper tantrum. Peace be, random people in these screenshots. May you one day experience trans joy, & atone for the harm you willfully cause others. Until then, lmao.
Peetledoodle EP4: Nut Bread
thank you to @twigsyy , @merrilune , & toast for the help! more detailed credits are at the end!
view the episode on peetledoodle.net for extra info + the soundtrack!
I love remembering that nothing is permanent and I can change my mind and reinvent myself at any moment, even multiple times a day. there are no rules
i have turned it into a letterboxd list: good films that are free on the internet archive!!!! Each film is linked in the notes on letterboxd. this will be continually updated so it's a good link to save if you want to keep up!
Won’t that only solve 75% of your problems?
The book solves half of your problems, not all of them
Say you have 8 problems. You read the book, and you have 4 problems. You read the book again gets rid of HALF, of those 4 problems. So you’re left with two. Out of the 8 problems, 6 were resolved and 6/8 is 75%.
Finally Tumblr can do math
So, what you’re saying, is that if I buy infinite books, I will solve all of my problems, because the sum as n approaches infinity starting at 1 of (½)^n equals 1, which would be 100% of my problems.
No, you will only ever be able to become infinitely close to solving all of your problems, like this:
Please stop explaining math to me im gay
that’s why radioactive material is such a bitch! it only ever deteriorates relative to its mass so it will never completely vanish
This post is pushing me to the limit
Eventually the only problem you will have is this post, and I think we could all live well with that.
Yesterday I had a child say “you did not understand my question” so I said “okay, will you rephrase it for me and I’ll see if I understand better this time?”
Yesterday I had a child stand for about thirty seconds formulating a response and I asked other kids to wait patiently so I could hear her out.
Yesterday I said “hey, can you save your question until the end?” and the child said “I really want you to listen to me” and I listened.
Kids get enough pressure to make their conversation and etiquette “correct” and sometimes I think making connections with them is about letting them be in a safe space to break the rules sometimes.
consensually ran over an emo boy and his studded belt slashed my tires fml
I do really think that the use of ChatGPT and genAI by students highlights the fundamental flaw of our education system focusing almost entirely on grades and test scores rather than generating curiosity and inquiry, which produces individuals who fundamentally do not understand that the purpose of an assignment is meant to be to learn *how* to do something, not simply to produce a product you can turn in to get an A+
this is something that i'm currently observing as I teach a second-year uni computer science class (algorithmics if you wanna know). the main concern of my students is always "how is this going to be graded", "when is this graded", "can we have past exams". to them the practicals and lab sessions are almost a hindrance, and it truly breaks my heart!
I have somewhat succeeded in reversing that trend with my class; a lot of my students who initially didn't show a lot of interest in the material are now asking me questions by mail about the topic! one thing that plays into this, IMO, is their view of the teacher. usually the teacher is seen as this god-like entity that exists solely to grade them and dictate their future while not being fun and scary to ask questions to. this is something that makes me extremely uncomfortable and after 1.5 months of teaching in this class, I have somewhat managed to let my students understand that i'm Just A Dude(tm). i beg on my knees for them to ask me questions whenever they're stuck, i tell them every time that there are no dumb questions, but there are still some students who would rather ask chatgpt about a practical tailored specifically so that an AI couldn't reason about the subject, than me the teacher being paid specifically to be there to answer students' questions and help them.
i think the entire thing about chatgpt use in universities is a very complex interlinked set of problems and situations that ultimately harms the students while being an indicator of strong failures on the part of the current style of education, and the society as a whole
the world gets a lot easier when you learn to be wrong without getting pissed or doubling down. saying, ‘you’re right, that makes sense, I was misinformed, thanks for telling me’ instead of going to war over something your ego’s latched onto will save you time, energy, and the embarrassment of sounding like a whiny little bitch
actually that’s precisely how i grew up and how i formed an outsized ego attachment to being correct and how i became a self righteous little asshole for most of my teen and adult life before learning the lesson presented in figure 1