swishes my fluffy $$$$-ing tail

haze, they/it, adult. on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

[rt0no]

[transskywardsword]

I love speed runners

[transskywardsword]

to those asking: welcome to restaurant%, where you help ganondorf rebuild his life as a humble restaurant owner by building a restaurant around him as fast as possible without getting murked

[beaft]

the phrase "but i didn't mean to!" in the context of causing harm is kind of redundant to me, because almost nobody means to cause harm. most of us just want to do the right thing. and i don't mean that in a wishy-washy "oh, we're all good deep down" way, i mean that even people who regularly do the most heinous shit imaginable will have a way of justifying it to themselves. the world is not populated by hollywood sadists and psychopaths.

[beaft]

actually i have been thinking about this some more and i want to add on to it:

abuse in caregiving professions (like teaching or nursing) is not solely a result of power dynamics. it's also because people who go into those professions often have a idea of themselves as Good People, and are consequently incapable of recognising or acknowledging when they've hurt someone else. instead, they mentally put 'people who have inconvenienced me' into the Bad People box so they can freely abuse them while maintaining their moral high ground.

i read ross greene a lot when i was working with "difficult" or "behaviourally challenged" children. his refrain is "kids do well if they can" - meaning, in short, that most kids act out only when the demands of a situation exceed their capabilities. punishing them for this is not only cruel but also completely pointless, because they also don't want to be doing what they are doing.

a teacher who believes that there are two categories of people - Good People who Mean Well, and Bad People who Cause Problems on Purpose - is not going to see it that way. they're gonna put themselves in the first category, and the misbehaving kid in the second category. and once they have effectively depersoned the child and placed themselves on a pedestal, the world becomes simple again. because abuse is something that only Bad People do.

[spiribia]

It probably is kind of fun to be a parent bird and find big fat bugs to put in your child’s goalpost mouth. And the more you do it the larger your baby gets, which shows your progress. Mine is reaally big, think I’m going to get a high score this time. It has a unique skin too, I’ve never even seen this one before. Has anyone gotten that one, dark brown and white belly with stripes? It’s not even in my Wrenpedia, it has to be a really special unlock

[spiribia]

I’d appreciate if you didn’t call my child a “parasite”, thank you very much! Typical r/childfree

[sunnyonline]

[crehador]

the best photo someone could take right now is of their dog watching tv with this shot on the screen

[climbingonroofs]

Here you go OP

[sigmaleph]

it's sort of nice to see someone have an unusually bad ai opinion on my posts and when i go to block them i see DON'T TAKE INSPIRATION FROM MY ART on their bio. like oh ok there never was any chance you'd contribute usefully to this conversation, that really validates my decision to not explain the details of why what you said was stupid.

[lakevida]

i bet the pain will end if i arrange a perfect enough sentence about it

[egregore-engine]

a lot of people did not graduate from the very basic lesson of "What is a social construct"

[egregore-engine]

Look. You're not obligated to understand the world around you. But if you don't, you will constantly stumble through the world, bewildered and confused.

[worldmovingslow]

husband: I'm so glad we finally have our own place! You did such a great job decorating it, honey

fujo wife: Really? You don't think it's kind of...chintzy?

[fipindustries]

📁undertale/deltarune

my version of frisk is a lot closer to alice in wonderland than to steven universe. in that they are a kid who is trying to be polite and patient but is kind of done with all the nonesense that the creatures from the underworld are subjecting them to.

at least that is how i read this face.

😑

[poketcg-art]

Hisuian Zoroark -- SIE NANAHARA

[paintedhorses]

“ Ikaika Seahorse “ Hippocampus | Carved by Ken Means

[dramatic-dolphin]

in hungarian one of the words for bumblebee is dongó. anyways whenever a song has the phrase "baby don't go" in its lyrics (surprisingly often), i close my eyes to savor the beautiful picture it has painted in my mind's eye. bébidongó.... baby bumblebee 🐝

[pombonpurin]

[jennamoran]

The problem with the idea of the soul is, how does it get through doors? Your body goes in and then there's this weird transition and then you're on the other side of the door and like ... does your soul just *know* to move to your new location? Does it stay behind and they have to send a new soul down? Is this the origin of the door ghost epidemic?

[manyofnine]

does your understanding of a soul somehow divorce it from the body?

is your understanding of the thing that makes us alive somehow not connected to you as a person?

do you seriously think that if you lost your soul and got someone else's you would still be you?

why, in what universe, in what mindset- would a door ever be any kind of hindrance to something that lives inside of you???

[jennamoran]

You can't separate the concept of self from which side of the door you're on without opening the door to the possibility of opening the door to find an identical version of yourself on the other side that's already you because the only difference between them and you is that they're on the other side of the door and that's irrelevant (if you separate the concept of the self from which side of the door you're on) to the concept of the self!

... I think you're probably maybe confusing them with mirrors?

[jennamoran]

#but if the only difference is the side of the door#how can we open it?#wed both be pulling or pushing with the exact same strength leaving the door where it is

oh this one is easy you just move the hinges to the middle

[noisytenant]

Whenever I see some anon asking an artist if it's "okay to take inspiration" from their art it makes me want to make some kind of manifesto or billboard or PSA or skywriting campaign to undo whatever damage strange litigious illustrator types inflicted upon the most basic foundations of the creative process. We can't let them get away with this

[basilica-lacrima]

fucked up and evil mahiro