Roses and Sharks

|| she/her || 30s || cis, but not het (kinda into everyone). || This blog is (sometimes) NSFW and 18+, but mostly flowers 🌺 No Minors, please!

[spinus-pinus]

Common Raven Corvus corax

1/21/2024 Orange County, California

[roomwithavoid]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i got a fucking. advertisement on youtube. from google ai. saying. without sarcasm and with complete sincerity. "if shakespeare is too hard for you, you can always have our ai explain it to you." im gonna throw up. im gonna throw a molotov cocktail. if i see that ad again im reporting it for hate speech. how fucking dare you. i will kill you with my bare hands. with my exit pursued by a bear hands. i will tear google headquarters down brick by brick. im going to start biting people.

[shamebats]

There's some serious penis fuckery going on in the ski jumping world

[shamebats]

They're calling it penisgate/crotchgate...

[shamebats]

Are ski jumpers enhancing their penises to fly further? WADA is ready to investigate

World sport's anti-doping body has vowed to look into the lurid claims that first surfaced in a German newspaper in January.

Archive link: https://archive.is/dwVgu

[shamebats]

[moose-mousse]

Fun, insane, sourced!

This is a fucking beautiful piece of internet right there!

[ocean-in-my-rebel-soul]

https://x.com/i/status/2013855146493534520

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do

[vyco]

i miss my cancelled wife

[litttletom]

Commission for Marianne

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[landunderthewave]

I guess my thing with vegan olympics ("Oh you eat *honey*?? Oh you buy *second-hand leather*??") is if you have a person eating 7 meat dinners a week and they cut down to 2 and you have a lefty eating 1 meat dinner a week cutting down to 0, arguably the first person is having a bigger impact with their meat reduction.

Or in other words: Incremental improvements by a lot of people have more impact than (in my opinion unnecessary) perfection by a few.

And the issue with vegan olympics is by cutting down people on their "imperfections" you're discouraging the behavior you apparently want to see. Also you're making the lifestyle less attainable for a lot of people (vegetarianism will be more attainable for big parts of the population than veganism; reducing the *amount* of meat/animal products people consume vs. reducing it to 0 will be more attainable on a population level).

Don't punish the behavior you want to see.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

why is ut always "being fat puts pressure on ur joints" but never "being skinny makes u more vulnerable to joint/bone injury" like lets be real im not playing this game with u where u get to pretend u know anything about medicine much less my personal case . u are going to have things happen to u and ur body no matter what size u are and pretending fat people are somehow the only people who can possibly sustain weight related injuries PISSES ME OFF . be fucking serious

[cavegirlpoems]

[tye-wig-music]

Chemical castration for sex offenders to be trialled in 20 prisons - BBC News

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is also exploring whether chemical castration could be made mandatory.

[lowercasenospaces]

This is about the UK specifically.

[cavegirlpoems]

See this? This is the trap. This is how they get you. You appeal to outrage and emotion, you make a bold statement like "sex offenders don't have rights" and whip up that righteous anger, get people all thirsty for blood and punishment, right? And that's their foot in the door. Once you've decided that there's a class of people it's okay to do this to, there's no clean line in the sand anymore, is there? Now chemical castration (or whatever fucked up shit you wanna bring into it) is an option on the table. This is how fascists talk, this is how fascists think, and this is how fascists appeal to you to get what they want. Because once you've given them that inch, they can use it to take a mile.

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

Alan Turing (as in the Turing test) was chemically castrated following a conviction for “homosexual acts” in 1952. He committed suicide as a result.

[clockedtomb]

Human rights are for EVERYONE. ALWAYS. A thing that is a human right, such as bodily autonomy, is not something you can deserve or not deserve. It is not that kind of thing. It is a kind of thing that everyone must have always, no matter what they've done.

The specific pedophile who sexually abused me when I was a child, should have faced consequences that would reduce the risk of him abusing other children, but the management of risk to others must also protect his human rights, because when we compromise anybody's rights we compromise everybody's. Also, who gets convicted and who committed a crime are overlapping but not the same. People are way more likely to be convicted if they are poor and racially oppressed and way less likely to be convicted if they are rich and racially privileged. What happens to people who "do crimes" actually happens to people who are not powerful enough to escape the criminal system. If you are very powerful, actually having done the crime is often necessary to be convicted. This is not as true for the rest of us. In my country, there are an estimated 60,000 innocent people who are currently incarcerated. Many of them will never be exonerated. A lot of what drives this is stereotyping. I often encounter the opinion that trans people should not have any civil rights because we are pedophiles, and pedophiles should not have any rights. If you endorse the idea that there is ANY group that does not deserve human rights, then bigots are just going to tell you that whatever group they hate is also that.

[goldcrescent]

and not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but another reason I hate the return of 2000’s th*nspo shit is bc starving does make women frail and has longer term consequences like early osteoporosis, brittle bones/teeth, insomnia, ect. Your muscles will start eating themselves. It also makes you extremely emotional and severely lowers your capacity for critical thinking not bc you’re a girl but because your brain isn’t getting any fucking nutrients so idk I just feel like its very convenient that every time there’s an uptick in fascist rhetoric and women’s rights are being stripped suddenly it’s peak fashion for women to be starving, weak, and exhausted

[skaffen-stitches]

This took me twenty years to finish. I am not exaggerating. It's never too late! Also if you don't know what to do with a piece of embroidery, a cushion is always a good option (that realisation is what for me to finally finish the damn thing)

[cassettecolonthree]

i think therapy as a psuedo-deific force in the more modern generations worldview is really exemplied in like. how people will say to you "youre a freak, go to therapy" and when you say "actually ive talked to my therapist abt this and theyve told me its a good way to process my issues" and they respond "well youre therapist is feeding into your mental illness and needs to have thier license revoked 😡😡😡 thats not real therapy." and it becomes very clear they are not thinking of the material realities of therapy as a interaction and dynamic, and more of Therapy as a nebulous "make you normal" genie.

[atouchofsass]

it's 100% crucial that anywhere you see or hear the word "calories" you mentally replace that with "energy" and you will see how insane everyone in the world is acting for no reason

[utilitycaster]

The first thing about the organic vs. planned argument in actual play is that the idea that the former is more authentic is completely fallacious. I think you cannot plan specific plot resolutions, at least not for the end; but as I talked about in the Adventuring Party post, doing more up front work in backstory planning will permit you to play a character more organically by giving you a stronger understanding of their worldview and how they would naturally respond to situations. A character who is more structured and planned will be more natural in their responses because you can actually inhabit their mindset and react smoothly.

The second is that associating authenticity as exclusive to an unstudied spontaneity is an insult to art as craft generally and anyone who perpetuates this fallacy is not someone whose opinion I will respect in that regard.

The third is that many people fucking suck at identifying what is planned and what is not: I think many people are also not terribly good at analyzing a narrative for what feels natural and earned within it vs. what rings false, but that has a subjective element, whereas I can objectively tell you that any extended cinematic DM monologue that takes place in the absence of the player point of view is explicitly a planned and fixed point, and those are often lauded by the authenticity-above-all crowd as genius when I am more often frustrated and annoyed by those scenes than entranced. I've seen people claim Dimension 20 "feels" more like friends around the table than Critical Role even though, while the cast of D20 are friends and most did know each other well going in, they were explicitly put together as the table for a new show on Dropout, whereas Critical Role did in fact start as a home game, even though it obviously has not been one for years. Much of "authenticity" is purely vibes-based and should be derided as such.

The fourth is that this obsession with authenticity is both untrue to how many TTRPGs and certainly D&D are played (GM-ing is very much defined by heavy use of the illusion of choice) but also leads to the tautological self-centered pattern that is frequent in fandom and in people generally. Authentic = organic = unstudied = good, and artificial = planned = corporate/calculated = bad in this incorrect paradigm, so if the viewer likes it and thinks it is good, it is organic, and if it the viewer dislikes it, it is too planned and artificial. See above for an example of that (highly planned and even lightly scripted DM talking to themself scenes - and lightly scripting a character's speech isn't bad, to be clear, it's just literally the most obvious example of not being off the cuff). I will not bring up specific examples here as I suspect they'll derail the conversation, but suffice it to say I can name no shortage of hypocrisy in which the "good" thing is organic and emerged naturally like a wildflower and the "bad" thing is aimless and meandering even though at best both were due to a lack of/deviation from a plan and at worst this is again a case of failure to accurately identify what is planned and what is not. Show me someone who claims to prefer the organic and ask them if they also prefer characters who have a pre-existing relationship prior to the first session/episode and I assure you, they will say "yes" more enthusiastically than your average player or viewer.

The fifth is that this worship of the golden calf of authenticity has bled into some truly worrying areas such as the realm of safety tools to the point that people are essentially demanding tables psychically divine the exact topography of every individual's comfort zone because to actually voice your concerns would be an undue and inorganic burden. This is, of course, more unsafe, because safety is by its nature an intrusive and conscious act, but again, because the planned is not the pure and untouched goodness of the organic, it is bad.