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I dreamt that there was a new meme that went, “If I dids it, I dids it. If I didsn’t, I didsn’t.” There was a third line, but I forgot what it was.
happy to report i’m back on my bullshit
and a rare variant
HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE CAT MEMES IN MY DREAM
>:3€
THAT’S IT, THAT’S THE MEME FROM MY DREAM
Andrew Garfield on The Stephen Colbert Show discussing his problem with certainty of faith. [x]
worthwhile to point out that Andrew Garfield is Jewish and that asking questions is a central part of Judaism
BREAKING NEWS: I GOIG TO FUCKING GET YOU
when my raspberries have started to mold after 2 days
As (1) a lady who pretty much exclusively writes potboilers and monster porn, (2) a lady who reads a lot, and (3) one of those saps who acts like books have magical powers, I feel like difference between "people who like books" and Book People(tm) is a lot like the difference between "people who play video games" and Gamers(tm)
"I engage in my hobby because I think it's Intellectual(tm) and enobling and I look down on people who do the exavt same activity but for fun" is the kind of opinion you expect to hear from a guy who has very strong opinions about ethics in women's gaming journalism but that's exactly how a lot of you approach reading books
Honestly? I think the schism between speculative and literary fiction was actually vital to the ecosystem and we should bring it back. "I'm a real reader and I only read Serious Real Books and I think they don't have any tropes in them" Yeah yeah, I took AP English in high school too. Suck my ovipositor. You're just jealous of my jetpack.
Nah. They’re obv a seahorse.
Good guesses, but the answer was "drider"
Drider WITH JETPACK.
actually love books but tbh there are Book People who are like, the same breed of gatekeepy assholes as incels on the gamestop floor who just want to rub it in your face that they are book nerds which is like a different and advanced nerd (i guess) and it's just like... more self-righteous and equally fucking annoying
like, i love reading. i love writing. if you read ever, at all, in this economy, good for you! try new things if you can, because some new stuff is really exciting, but it's just good to read in general.
i listen to so many books on tape. i have adhd, this is an accessibility thing as much as it is that i have too many hand-based items in a day to carry a book around and do the dishes. i have been told many times "listening isn't the same thing as reading". okay.
i have picked up old and outdated textbooks from the recycling center, literally about-to-be mulched, and made papercrafts from them. i got an earful about how i'm the death of society. okay.
have gone out of my way many times to buy a book from small bookstores or spent hours under the covers reading or literally skipped school or work to finish a good novel - but i don't necessarily have any fucking interest in infinite jest or other, thick "i keep this book front and center so you know i'm smart" books i'm never gonna be able to get through, so i have heard many times that i'm not really into books. okay.
and what's weird is that it's often taken out on other readers. i understand that in your middle school you used to get an award for reading outside of your grade level but now nobody cares that you finished all of war and peace. we both got that award, buddy, look how fucking thick my glasses are. you do not have to read stuff other people find intellectual just to "prove" you're such a big grown-up boy who is winning at reading. nobody is keeping count. super proud of you for reading all of Kafka's work in a night, super not looking to be in a competition with you about how smart you are and how great you are at reading!
and i actually love other not-Book-People. not-Book-People who are into books are so goddamn hard to find bc they're like, aware that Book People are fucking annoying and not-Book-people are like :) yes i like books. please do not worry i will not care if you only read teen vogue they have good articles often. not-Book-People are like. you ask them what they're reading and they'll give u a laundry list of stuff to try and they're so excited for you and they'll find something that perfectly fits for your request for "like dumb because i'm having a hard time right now and don't wanna think but not like aggressive-dumb, like heartwarming? and maybe there's gay people but not anything about space im feeling burned out on space - and not too dumb because i like to think but also not something that gives me a headache and and and"
and Book People will be like. lol i'd say ender's game but it's probably too intellectual for you since you don't want to read about space. i wish i was someone as dumb as you because i simply cannot enjoy a book that doesn't actively fistfight me to understand it. fucking idiot that you are you probably only read for the attention of men lol. i remember reading for "fun" that was back when i was 11 but i was stupid then like you're stupid now lol i cringe to remember what it was like to just enjoy reading without basing my entire personality off of it
“In college I had a physics professor who wrote the date and time in red marker on a sheet of white paper and then lit the paper on fire and placed it on a metallic mesh basket on the lab table where it burned to ashes. He asked us whether or not the information on the paper was destroyed and not recoverable, and of course we were wrong, because physics tells us that information is never lost, not even in a black hole, and that what is seemingly destroyed is, in fact, retrievable. In that burning paper the markings of ink on the page are preserved in the way the flame flickers and the smoke curls. Wildly distorted to the point of chaos, the information is nonetheless not dead. Nothing, really, dies. Nothing dies. Nothing dies.”
— Nicholas Rombes, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (via bobschofield)
rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:
This is magenta, and not pink. Unlike pink, magenta doesn’t actually exist. Our brain just invents magenta to serve as what it considers a logical bridge between red and violet, which each exist at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.
TL;DR this color is fake (and also I hate it)
Wait til you learn about Stygean Blue
Your brain is a badly-designed hot mess of bootstrapped chemistry that will tell you that all kinds of shit is happening that has no correlation to physical reality, including time travel. It just makes things up. Your brain is guessing about what’s happening when your eyes saccade, what’s happening in your blind spot, and what the majority of the visible light spectrum looks like, and you don’t know it’s happening because it doesn’t aid your survival to become aware that a lot of what you see is fake.
The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.
Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.
You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.
“Sorry, what the fuck?”
What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like.
Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.
What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:
We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.
Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”
That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.
So how does magenta factor into this?
Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.
What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?
Fucking green.
Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.
So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green.
And so it made up magenta.
So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”
No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:
Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.
Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?
Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.
The perception of color exists within your brain, and your brain says you see magenta. So you see magenta.
So I googled Stygian Blue and…
Yall.
FORBIDDEN.
HOW TO SEE THE FORBIDDEN COLOURS
Hyperbolic Orange is the color my soul is
Dark tumblr show me the forbidden colors
We are back on this again.
Might fuck around and accept the things I cannot change
might go wild and have the courage to change the things i can
Would be funny if I had the wisdom to know the difference
Last Life would be rated pg-13 (at least) because of the Murder™
This means there can be (at least) one f-bomb in the series.
So, Trafficblr, I present this to you:
Who gets it and When
You gain nothing in doubting. Not a thing. Believe in yourself. Always. Forever. That’s the only way forward. Radical self-love and unwavering self-esteem.
“omg how do u come up w this stuff” well ive been plagued by visions since birth
people on this website loves days and dates. you could make a post that says “it’s sweet fat of the hog tuesday” and people would go nuts reblogging it every tuesday
