Melody @songandmelody - Tumblr Blog

there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection

pavizi

haha ok i gotta get up at 6am to get ready for a week long coast-to-coast drive to finally escape the american south. wish me luck on the move!!

songandmelody

Oh hey, you're doing basically the opposite of what I did like a year ago (WA -> VA)

Pro tip, only go to Kansas if you're willing to harbor a newfound hatred of Kansas. It's basically nothing but corn and plains.

Otherwise, good luck! Manage your energy and try not to fall asleep on the road, take breaks when you need to!

smalllfieldmouse

my ex used to get pissed off every time i showed them this video they would be like "that's not how a train works" really angrily and storm out of the room

#jacob's ladder type shit #like the toy i mean

cheatexp

isaac is about a DID system. nubby is about a median system. baldi plus is about something i haven't quite figured out yet but it does have plus in the name. balatro is about nothing at all

cheatexp

nobody understands those numbers like i do

r3ked

ⓘ Cats are able to produce sounds

r3ked

ⓘ You cannot prevent this.

songandmelody

Mrow.

nicole-the-hololynx

cosmicnyan

man this is bullshit why is christmas the only one that gets a unique adjective.

have an ecstatic easter, bitches

songandmelody

Gets two actually, holly AND jolly, but easter gets nothing. Total nonsense

apolladay

So, from what I can tell of the red/blue button controversy, people who press blue see pressing red as murdering blue-pushers, while people who press red see pressing blue as committing suicide.

So, which is it?

blue = suicide

red = murder

Voting ended onJun 20

songandmelody

I've been thinking a bit about this red button/blue button thing, and I feel compelled to give my insight on the matter.

For context, there's a hypothetical scenario that runs like this: If you press the red button, nothing happens to you. If you press the blue button, you'll die, unless 50% or more of people press the blue button, then they live.

Now, I'm not sure whether this was an intended aspect of the hypothetical, or whether this was (incorrectly) inferred to be so, but this seems to have gained a lot of traction on the idea that this is meant to relate to American politics somehow - that is, pressing the red button is "equivalent" to voting Republican, and pressing the blue button is "equivalent" to voting Democrat, often times with the intended moral of, "Gee, buddy, you pushed the red button? Kinda #problematic of ya, that's basically the equivalent of voting for Donald Hitler Reagan."

I disagree with this notion, because there's just not enough nuance. This implies that:

Given that you have voted Democrat during some American election, that you are to be unfortunately slated for death in some manner

The only consequence to an American Republican president is murdering specifically, only, and all people who voted Democrat

Murder for political or governmental reasons is only conducted under Republican rule

The only way to fundamentally make a difference in American politics is to put your life on the line.

At the very least, if you disagree with the above, we can at least agree that this hypothetical, evidently summable up in 1-2 sentences, perfectly made for social media sharing and reposting, is way less complicated than the actual reality of the situation. Trying to get insight on anyone base on their binary, assumption-of-the-law-of-the-excluded-middle answer is going to be pretty pointless given that such a scenario would realistically never occur.

Everything has nuance, everything is complicated, and you cannot judge your fellow man based on a simple response to an intentionally simple question, no matter how hard you want to.

#suicide mention #death mention #politics

abandoned-quiche

wait do people actually think chapter 5 is going to shadowdrop tomorrow. even when ch2 came out he gave us a few days first

songandmelody

They've been starving for updates and slowly going insane, quiche. On reddit they've been making altered posts that make Deltarune look more boring/straightforward than it is

I forgot to bring this up earlier and don’t want to DM you on discord since you’re more likely to be woken up by that (I think) but I thought of another really good alternative phrase to the whole “unalive” thing everyone hates but still uses

“Turning (pronoun equivalent to single “them”) into next year’s compost”

Yes this is good, I approve!

I also thought of "Turning (pronoun equivalent to single "them") into a body bag filler" while reading this over but it's not as snappy as "next year's compost"

queen--snow

my phone often buzzes and crashes while I'm on this site and I've just thought that maybe my phone could be a robot girl and that's her heartbeat and as it speeds up then crashes that's just her getting flustered from the yuri posts that hit my dash

Happy pride month

songandmelody

What irks me about modern day self-censorship language for the sake of appealing Le Algorithm (such as unalive to refer to someone dying) is that there's usually a lot of other ways to refer to apparently disallowed topic without using the specific word.

Take "unalive" for instance. This is often used in the context of video games, where killing enemies is a central mechanic. But you can also defeat enemies, you can dismember them, you can dispatch them, shapeshift them into corpses, etc. Restrictions beget creativity, and censorship is a restriction, so it eludes me as to why people aren't being a little wacky about it.

songandmelody

Calling a coffin a "forever box" will never not get me.