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Ok I want to know something
how often do you talk with the mutual you speak the most to?
every day
several times a week
once a week
once a month
less than that
i'm too much of a coward to talk to my mutuals
also if you want to please add in the tags whether you've met in person and whether you live in the same country
with how deeply physical their bond is, i don't think that hollanov ever bothered to develop a safeword. i do think, though, that they developed-- by accident!-- a physical system to tell each other how they are feeling. and it definitely bleeds into their life outside the bedroom, and it's definitely subconscious at this point, and it definitely makes it into the locker room and onto the ice by the time they're both in ottawa.
which means maybe the centaurs have picked up on the fact that hey, sometimes when shane wants ilya to stop doing something, he taps his arm twice. or if ilya wants shane to move one way, he taps him three times. or if he just wants his attention, its a squeeze. which is all relatively normal, and they probably think its cute that they have an unspoken language for communicating with one another.
and then maybe-- by accident!-- it starts taking root as a thing, and then mindlessly troy or wyatt or bood accidentally double pats shane's arm to get him to stop talking to ilya for a moment, and shane thinks for a moment, that was a weird coincidence, and moves on. but then it happens again, and then maybe luca squeezes his arm to get his attention and then bood taps him three times to get him to move aside so he can walk past and shane feels himself flush to the ears and catches ilya's eyes across the room and ilya definitely noticed that too. so now what? they can't full well ask them to stop without saying, hey, so this was a sex thing. but it'd be weird to let it continue... right?
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Are y'all ready for my most out-there take on what Shane does after hockey?
He and Ilya have retired and they decide that before they jump into the next thing, they're going to take a bit of a sabbatical – do some traveling, settle at the cottage, maybe look at some family planning stuff. As part of this, they've been looking for weird little quiet places to go on dates, and one of the places they try (after a pretty boozy dinner) is this bar that they don't realise until they're there is actually a comedy club. And it's an open mic night.
Ilya is immediately like "My Shane, you're funny, you should go tell some jokes." And Shane at first refuses, but then Ilya promises to reward him by blowing him in the bathroom right after if he does it, and Shane's had juuust enough alcohol to be like fuck it. So he signs up.
When his turn comes, he's so nervous he feels like he might throw up. But then he spots someone with a camera and between that and the lights, it starts to feel just like a press conference. He's used to trying to get a room full of journalists to laugh when he says something quippy and he realises this isn't that different. He could actually do this.
And he does.
He does his five minutes and he absolutely kills. His dry delivery and a cutting wit go down so well with the crowd that afterwards the owner of the club approaches him to ask if he'd like to do a fifteen minute set sometime. And Shane actually really wants to, but he's already promised Ilya that they'd take this year to rest and plan. He's about to tell the guy no thanks, when Ilya interjects. "He would love to, thank you." And then Shane and the owner only have just enough time to exchange numbers before Ilya's dragging him off to the bathrooms.
And that's how Shane Hollander hard-pivots into becoming a stand-up comedian.
As someone who’s pretty radically improved their life the last few years wrt ocd I do have book recs ready ahshshhs
I have a therapist who’s rly good w ocd but I started self directed and still mostly self direct and she supports me and helps me clarify things and she gave me a good grade in treating my ocd which is Normal To Want and Possible To Achieve etc lolol
Anyway the book I found that was rly helpful was Overcoming Unwanted and Intrusive Thoughts which was rly helpful to me as someone w pure obsessional ocd (ocd based around mental rather than physical compulsions) bc even tho the kind of intrusive thoughts the book covers aren’t the specific mental rituals and horrors I deal w it focuses a lot on the mechanism of ocd and if you’re someone who is good w self motivating but just need to know what’ exactly is happening to your brain and thus what to do about it I’d recommend this one
The one my therapist got me on to is called Self Compassion Workbook for OCD which was rly helpful for me bc one thing that can get you even more stuck in the cycle is how mad you can get at yourself for being in the cycle. Even as someone w I think pretty good self esteem I did find this useful and def didn’t realize how much misery could be prolonged by being upset about feeling bad
And as that post said these days effective OCD treatment is often about learning to not try and fix discomfort. Like many ppl w ocd feel like we’re good at sitting w discomfort bc we’re uncomfortable so often but what we can miss is that we’re not sitting w it we’re trying to fix it and when you learn to just be like “yup I feel terrified and insane and I’m not going to fix it or avoid it” it goes away so much quicker and this primary lesson has absolutely changed my life I’m so much happier like this understanding is the main aspect of treatment that for me has totally changed my existence and it rly is a muscle that gets stronger and stronger
Like for me these days a bad ocd trigger lasts hours whereas when I was in my twenties a truly bad ocd trigger could last daysssss
Anyway obv not a doctor just an ocd bitch who’s now able to live her best life
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The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
British actor Anthony Head, best known for his roles in TV shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso, Merlin and Little Britain, has died at the age of 72. Head found international fame as Rupert Giles in hit supernatural teen show Buffy in the late 1990s. He went on to have a recurring role in sketch show Little Britain, play king Uther Pendragon in the BBC's Merlin, and appear as former football club owner Rupert Mannion in Ted Lasso. "He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family," his daughters Emily and Daisy said. His daughters' statement said "it is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of our extraordinary father". They added: "It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many." They also said they knew "how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues and fans of the show he was in", adding that he "loved his job very much" and "always considered himself incredibly lucky". His family acknowledged that "his legacy will live on" and said they considered themselves "lucky" to have watched him doing what he loved throughout his career. Head's other credits included The Iron Lady, Persuasion, The Inbetweeners and Manchild.
RIP anthony head, you will be missed.
The concept that married people live longer is interesting. I'm sure there is some merit to the idea that if you're married there is someone there to nag you about going to the doctor, but I think much larger factors are having the finances of dual incomes and access to an immediate support person.
Surgeries require having a designated person to look after you. Many injuries require driving to somewhere like an emergency room which can be hard to do if you are the one injured. If you're home with the flu, it's hard to tell when it's bad enough to go to the hospital without another person checking on you. And if you pass out it requires another person to find you like that to get medical aid.
You can prop it up as the benefits of marriage, but I think there's a much deeper discussion to be had about how we've built society around marriage as an inevitable conclusion and neglected to build support systems that function outside of romantic pairings.
Here’s the thing. Married MEN live longer. The statistics for married women are less clear, perhaps because one of the things that causes premature death for married women is getting murdered by their husbands. It’s good to have someone around to drive you home after your surgery, to nag you to go to the doctor, to take you to the ER if you need it, and it’s usually wives that are taking on that care role for husbands, but it’s often sisters and mothers who are doing it for other women.
Single women also tend to build networks in a way that single men do not, so they get the benefits of relationships in other ways.
I’m curious what the statistics will look like among same-sex married pairs, because I feel like they are both more likely to get the benefits of marriage than women who are married to men.
RIP Anthony Head (1954-2026)
FUCK THIS YEAR, FUCK THIS YEAR, FUCK THIS YEAR
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❌ Does this ship make any sense whatsoever by any reasonable metric
✅ Does the thought of these characters standing next to each other make you want to chew concrete and then break apart a nearby automobile with your bare hands
okay here is my kevin coming out one shot, it's really short so that's that! implied kevandreil and all that magic :)
I really like the idea of Jean and Neil speaking only French when they have sex, because Neil genuinely doesn’t give a damn what language he uses to moan about how good he feels. so switching to French comes naturally to him, not for himself, but because it makes things softer, warmer, more intimate for Jean. there’s something deeply tender about Jean having his first truly sincere sexual experience in the language that has always carried comfort within it. and Neil, who usually treats language like nothing more than a tool for survival, chooses French because he knows it feels like home to Jean.
French is for arguing with Kevin and seducing Jean
the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.
Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.
& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group
I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.
^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety
And it’s such a OBVIOUS issue and I wanna rip my hair out about it.
We seriously, as a society, expect teens to have zero sexual feelings and urges, have no interest in privacy, never go out or walk places or be left alone without an adult chaperone, never be allowed to watch a scary or gory movie, never date, never do anything online or in person without mom/dad/other authority watching their every fucking move
And then at 18 we expect them to be fully fucking formed adults??? At 18, after being denied anything even remotely sexual, we expect them to understand consent, safety, and have the intellectual and emotional ability to handle sex and relationships?
At 18, for the first time some of these kids are finally allowed to fucking walk to a friends house or stay at the library by themselves without mom and dad watching and we expect them now to NOT bring their parents to a job interview??? After being told allll their Lives that they cannot do anything important without mom and dad and that strangers are always completely terrifying and bad and mom and dad need to protect you from them, you’re surprised they bring their parents to job interviews???
You’re surprised they’re emotionally stunted? You’re surprised they can’t cook when they were taught cooking is scary and dangerous and they can’t? You’re surprised they don’t know how to navigate their neighborhood without gps even when walking when they weren’t allowed to ever go anywhere without mom and dad??
Yall are surprised by this shit??
The teenage years exist for young people to learn how to be adults. That includes trying adult things, knowing that if something goes wrong they can call mom and dad.
But so many parents not only don’t allow their kids to watch r rated movies, forget that, they don’t let their kids fucking HANG OUT WITH THEIR FRIENDS WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION. I’m not even kidding. Half the kids I work with are not allowed to hang out with their friends (I’m talking 13-17 year old here) without a parent present. Many aren’t even allowed to text their friends without mom and dad reading every text. It’s insane.
We’re destroying today’s children in the guise of safety but it’s all fucking laziness and being afraid to actually understand a parents role. It’s not to protect your kids. It’s to prepare them to be able to stand on their own two feet you fucking lunatics.
My job, as a parent, is to raise an adult. Full stop. That’s been my mantra from the beginning, and any time I want to stop my kid from doing something independently I remind myself of that.
My sister-in-law (who still lives with her parents) didn’t take that approach, and the result is that my 12 year old is more confident and capable than her 20 year old.
We invited him to live with us because we live in a city, and suddenly I’m having to finish raising this kid. I don’t mind, and he’s a great kid, but it was not what I expected a 19 year old to need when he moved in with us in the fall.
people who don't have anxiety scare me
my housemate (who i love is and a great friend) has an essay due tomorrow that she's not finished and last night she went out for well over twelve hours including multiple clubs and then going to someone's house and now she's not even doing her work despite doing nothing yesterday or today when she literal has 15 hours left to submit it
i'm having literal regular panic attacks over my exam despite having spent 4 straight days doing almost nothing but revising
it's insane to me as someone's whose been ridicously anxious since she was a literal child
I would absolutely be your roommate in this situation because my adhd brain needs the adrenaline of the last minute to get things done.
if rebecca yarros really wants to make money she should just make ridoc and bodhi go at it for like three chapters yaoi does way better than character death
Maybe when they got together in New York, Rachel Reid was giving her this advice...
at this point bodoc becoming cannon would make me more excited for book 4 and i have a....lets say "complicated" relationship with bodoc these days
I genuinely hope Rebecca was giving advice on taking care of yourself as a chronically ill girlie and Rachel was giving advice on the joy of mlm resulting in on-page Bodoc and Brennaolin
And Mirena, while we’re queering the narrative
@rantabtaftg I'm, uh, pretty sure that would escalate very quickly
