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'99. aka saturnspawn

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[wizardarchetypes]

i know it's been said on here and said again but people do so desperately need to genuinely do intentional work to build distress tolerance and start figuring out how to recognize the differences between danger, discomfort, and when a situation that is merely uncomfortable is triggering an emotional flashback in your bodies because it resembles a past situation that actually was dangerous which makes it difficult to realize/believe that this moment is merely uncomfortable.

[wizardarchetypes]

i spoke to an allistic person who said their autistic classmate had a meltdown in class, during which the autistic classmate collapsed to the floor in the middle of the room, screaming and crying. they said it was "terrifying" and they were arguing for the autistic student to be removed permanently from the program.

when i asked whether their autistic classmate's meltdown was dangerous or merely uncomfortable, they said, "i felt like i was in danger!"

i understand that. but that's not what i asked.

[wizardarchetypes]

"i shouldn't have to experience that."

yes you should, actually. that's life. upsetting things happen. no one should have to experience any discomfort. but we do. we get stung by bees and sunburns and headaches. we live in bodies in the world.

autistic people are human beings who have the right to exist in society, including during meltdowns. having one class of your entire semester interrupted by a singular meltdown is not anymore of an infringement upon your entitlement to education than having your class interrupted by a fire alarm or cancelled for a snow storm.

one of my peers once experienced a cardiac event 10 minutes into class. it was terrifying. it was desperately upsetting. i was contacted by the school and offered counseling because i happened to be the one who managed the situation until paramedics arrived. everyone was worried about my classmate first and foremost, and then about me. no one blamed anyone, and certainly when my classmate happily recovered and returned to school, no one thought they should be removed from the program.

the difference being that people believe a disabled personal, especially with cognitive disabilities, in crisis are not experiencing something outside of our control, but instead that we are in fact making a choice to make a scene, out of malice.

[7777777awawawa7777777]

grogu is actually a very interesting person. and the mandalorian wears a silver mask and looks cool. but i bet you didnt know that because you just want to be a hater about their movie they made together. you just want to hate it because it isn’t good. shame on you.

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[nemfrog]

The nervous system. Man, woman, know thyself! 1908.

Internet Archive

[fruitviking]

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

[crent-trimm]

You personally enjoying a side character more than the main character doesn’t automatically turn the main character into the real villain of the story.

[molags-balls]

big things happening in england

[apricops]

sentences that are largely recognizable to a medieval peasant

[perdvivly]

Sometimes one thing turns out to be two things and that’s basically fine. But sometimes two things turn out to be one thing and I go wild for that shit.

[errant-heron]

so you know that if you're playing a finite game and you're risk-neutral overall, you will still behave in a risk-averse way early on in order to secure favourable states, and towards the end you will start to take on more risk; your last move will be decided very simply. if you took seriously the idea that claude will immanentize the eschaton in like five years, this would probably alter your perception of risk from that moment onward. you would take the view that whatever game you were playing would end soon and that you should focus on maximizing your expected score on that timescale. i wonder whether anyone is actually doing this

[hymneminium]

The Doomers Are All Right

What is it like to live in a world you believe is about to end?

“My partner's like, 'Let's be sure to save for retirement,'" said an interviewee working in AI policy, "and I'm like, 'Retirement? That's not even in my world model! That's a type error!'" A few even plan to spend down the money they've already accumulated. Tao Lin, for instance, intends to donate his savings over the next few years.

[hymneminium]

You know Mishima died by seppuku. You also already know that

Mishima enjoyed acting out a seppuku complete with the appropriate props, a death poem, a sword for his lover to clutch and, from his briefcase, a length of red cloth, the ‘blood and guts’. The young man watched amazed as ‘Mishima got hard at once and as he died, he came. Without touching himself at all. I had never seen anyone do that before.’

Jan van Speijk became a national hero for blowing himself and his ship up rather than surrender to the Belgians. Well before this he wrote in a letter that he'd prefer to blow himself and his ship up rather than surrender to the Belgians. He wasn't even supposed to be in Belgian territory. The official story is that he ended up there due to the wind and a bad anchor, but, uh.

[hymneminium]

#oh my god did gallagher just discover the term dank this is so exciting #does he know it's a weed thing?? there's no way right

Of course Peter Gallagher knows that "dank" is a weed thing. He also knows that "in heat" is a sex thing and that when aliens "probe" someone it's in the anus.

These are words, not things. Heathcliff is a comic about symbols.

You're never going to get a comic where an alien actually probes someone any more than you're going to get a comic where the Man-Eating Giant eats a man. You're just going to get a dozen comics where aliens like the word "probe".

Heathcliff wears the ham helmet because it's the helmet you wear when you eat a ham. You can tell it's that helmet because it says "ham" on it. The helmet's function is determined not by its form but by its label.

summer = beach = sand = desert = mummy and thus there is the Summer Mummy. Because of symbolic associations that do not otherwise cohere.

Robots don't wear clothes but the mere act of labeling them "nude" makes them nude. And once a painting is a nude painting there has to be a fig leaf because a "nude" without a "figleaf" is "indecent".

A "ham" is a ham even when it's a car. A yam can be a ham can be a car because "yam" sounds like "ham". Symbols have overtaken things.

[hymneminium]

Jimmy is Heathcliff's attempt to manipulate these symbols.

popularity = billboards, popularity = charity fundraising, popularity = influencers. But standing underneath the word "influencer" has failed to make Jimmy popular. Why is this?

[nyancrimew]

[eosofspades]

[virgomoon]

i don't like the way you people talk about addiction. i don't like the way you people talk about bpd. i don't like the way you people talk about eating disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about paranoia. i don't like the way you people talk about ocd and intrusive thoughts. i don't like the way you people talk about cluster b personality disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about autism. i don't like the way you people talk about disabilities. i don't like the way you people talk about lesbians.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you were almost turned into a vampire, but before you could be fully turned, the vampire was staked. This left you with a vampire weakness, while still being human.

Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

How much does this effect you?

Nothing changes

It's inconvenient but I can deal with jty

It will be hard to adjust but I'll figure it out

I don't know if I'll be able to live like this

Maybe I can find another vampire to finish the turning?

I might just kill myself

Results/other

Remaining time: 4 days 13 hours

thanks @theemmjay for submitting this poll idea!! Seriously it's such a cool concept I love it so much

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Paco Rabanne - Fall 2002 RTW

[jetix]

Cypress wood carvings by Mitsuko Taira