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"I'm lying to you but this sentence is technically the truth without context" is such a good trope. Like yes the way that I am spinning these words forms a lie but if you squint I'm actually not lying.
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I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.
Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.
#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain
Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"
I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.
I feel like, for the people who were once more idealistic and became more cynical, it's never "they aged out of it", but often "they got hurt and are afraid of being hurt again", "they were ignorant (often due to privileges they didn't understand they had) and as they learned more they got so horrified they overcorrected", and/or "they were proven wrong over and over and are afraid of feeling humiliated again."
Whatever the case, there are absolutely a lot of people who are just on a high horse looking down on those 'naive' idealists, but there are also a lot of people for whom it's rooted in fear. Sometimes the latter use the prior act as a mask, and sometimes it's just sincerely both. Sometimes it's also the clinical depression with or without the others, but yeah.
But the thing is, cynicism isn't inherently pessimism. Idealism isn't inherently optimism. As often as those overlap, they can be swapped. Mix idealism and pessimism, and you get... people with impossibly high standards incapable of finding joy in anything for what it is, who believe Perfect is not only possible but mandatory. You get people criticizing all representation for not being good enough, etc. Even those people can be motivating, but an oversaturation... isn't great.
The cynical optimist, on the other hand, is "expect the worst, hope for the best." And sometimes that hope is too passive, especially when surrounded by other cynics and especially too many pessimists. But the attitude inherently does believe things can get better, does want and will try to trust people, even expecting to get hurt more often than not, because sometimes they won't and that's still worth trying.
And we absolutely need idealistic optimists! We need the people with the most motivation to dream big and chase those dreams. The widest eyed idealists are so intensely powerful and we need so many more.
All I'm saying is, there's a solid step in between the misanthropic critics and the shining beacons. Often it's even beneficial to have both kinds of optimist. The cynic can sometimes help foresee and plan for problems, or help keep the scope of a project more attainable and sustainable. The idealist is more likely to see and take opportunities and motivate the cynic to act, providing direction. Just in broad stroke trends of course, but the point is, as long as it's rooted in optimism, in genuine hope, it can still be effective.
If people—if you, person reading this reblog—are skeptic and afraid and can't just let go of that, fighting through that fear is still good. The exhausted "fuck it, I may as well try" is still trying. "I know the odds are slim but they're Not Zero" is a workable mentality. "If I don't try I definitely won't succeed, where if I do I only probably won't succeed, and some chance is better than no chance" is a workable mentality.
And sometimes, if people can pick themselves up out of the pessimism pit and work on doing more of that, even just sometimes, then... they will start seeing things work out more. They'll see more things fail without it being the end of the world, more ways they can get up and try again or learn from it for something else. And the world starts to feel a little less scary. And obviously it's not a hard dichotomy, but maybe they keep getting even more optimistic, maybe they start leaning idealistic in some regards, too.
I fully agree that full misanthropy is ultimately a very immature attitude, regardless of anyone's actual age. Just, while some people will have a vivid wake-up call, others will need to work on it gradually, so I wanted to offer advice to them on how to do that. Start with hope. Out of exhaustion or even sheer spite if that's what it takes.
If morale wasn't important or powerful, there wouldn't be multi-billion dollar industries dedicated to trying to crush it. Don't let them win.
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having lunch and someone's watching cnc videoes loud as fuck style so i'm just here chewing my food while there's sounds of water jetting and steel screeching in the back
Me reading "CNC": Consensual non-consent
Me reading "water jetting and steel screeching": oh so it's really niche consensual non-consent
I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous
have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.
they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.
their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.
longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years
toxic flesh
has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.
lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion
largest genome of any shark
eats everything including moose and polar bears
ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you
this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard
just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !
Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir
I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks
That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.
Picture of her from the USA Today
I would let her kill me for sport
just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what
and then in ryan goslings interviews he’s like “i was struggling in the depths of hell. until a beautiful puppeteer angel lifted me up out of the darkness and saved me so completely and understood the character so well we had to make him play the role for real”
can I make a confession that might get me in trouble
I save scummed through every variation of this guy’s dialogue tree because I really, really wanted him to perform unethical surgery on me. like I’m still so angry about this. WHY have the gross knife hand doctor if he can’t pull out your appendix and laugh about it??? what is the POINT
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how to cover letter:
polite greeting (it's me, boy)
introduction (i'm the ps5)
establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)
establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)
describe what you can bring to the organization (cowboy times in space)
No IDs, but these tags got me in a huff:
So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.
They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.
And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.
Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.
Yoga pants. Hmf.
people in cold climates would have a tide line of white marks around their knees (if they were normal height) in the winter.
From wicking up road salt.
The visceral memory of that time is something that never leaves you. Everyone's jeans were many inches higher in the back than the front because you kept stepping on the hem and ripping it off. Your lower legs were so very cold. Every new pair of jeans literally enveloped your entire foot, they were so so long re: leg-to-waist ratio. Walking on a rainy day was a legitimate workout. You have no idea.
Robin Hood thoughts
So, having recently rewatched the Disney Robin Hood movie (the one where everyone is anthropomorphic animals) I am thinking about Robin Hood as a crossover character. He's had a lot of changes over the centuries; tying him specifically to the reign of Prince John didn't happen until about four hundred years after that event, for example. So, what are some of the core aspects of the character that make him Robin Hood?
He's English. While Robin's exact nationality is perhaps flexible, he exists within the conversation of what rights and duties Englishmen have. The further we get from England, the more you will need to adjust the political settings of the background and story.
He's a criminal. Robin Hood works outside the law, and often against it. He might reluctantly work with a law enforcement officer against a worse criminal, but he's suspicious at best of the system, and often considers it outright corrupt.
Despite being a criminal, Robin has a very strong set of ethical principles. He does not steal from people who can't afford it, does not accumulate wealth for himself but distributes it to those who need it, avoids needless killing (but won't hesitate to kill if he has to) and is courteous to women even beyond what is normal for his society.
Robin Hood is a trickster with a sense of humor. He enjoys playing pranks, but also laughs when the joke's on him. Some of his best friends are people who bested him once.
Robin's on the side of the little people. Even when the story for some reason makes him not a yeoman but a fallen noble, Robin Hood always stands for the poor and oppressed.
He's a good leader. Robin is charismatic, and quickly gathers a group of loyal and competent followers. While he's capable of doing missions on his own, he is also excellent at group tactics, logistics and strategy.
Robin Hood is a champion archer at a time when use of the bow was especially tied to the yeoman class. He can use sword and knife, but archery is where he truly shines, which is often a weakness as well, since he cannot resist an archery competition.
Robin is a skilled woodsman, living in the forest, poaching the King's deer, knowing all the paths and how to move without them. Once he's back in Sherwood Forest, you can't catch him.
Any other core traits you can think of? Other thoughts?
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That's a good comprehensive list. The only other things that come to mind, and some are merely expansions of things you've already mentioned:
Robin is a good sport. When he clashes with Little John and loses in a fair fight, he is annoyed with himself, but not resentful towards Little John, and immediately acknowledges him as victor and the better with the quarterstaff, before inviting him to join him. (Apparently earlier versions of the story had Little John being much cannier, and a good leader in his own right, rather than the "not a deep thinker, but incredibly brave and super-loyal" archetype he'd later fill)
Robin Hood is not a womaniser. He is courteous to all women, but romantically, he remains loyal to his one true love, Marian.
In some versions Robin has the private endorsement of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard and John's mother. She shares his opinion of John's stewardship, but cannot act directly, so she aids Robin discreetly.
He respects religion, if not many aspects of the Church. He is devout in his own Christian beliefs, and some legends have him being a devotee of the Virgin Mary. However he despises the hypocrisy from religious powers as much as for the gentry, and will rob a corrupt bishop as easily as a Lord. Friar Tuck is a mendicant monk, who lives simply and humbly, which Robin respects, even if he teases Tuck about his constant appetite. (Being a mendicant monk does not tie into the usual Crusades era setting, as they weren't a thing at that point, but hermitic monks were, and the "jovial monk" archetype was already part of folklore so...)
In some versions Robin is a former soldier, returning from the Crusades, so learned many of the skills he'd use in his mission against Prince John there.
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