People Pleasing Is Over

🇨🇦/48/Lawful Evil/Horny On Main/Gray Ace Elder Goth/Baby Bat/Agender/Panromantic Anticorporate/Anticapitalist/Anticonservative Fiction Writer/Song Writer/Cat Parent/Autistic Fandoms: The Birthday Massacre, Discworld, Star Trek, Transformers, Steven Universe

[theonlybezo]

About me

My name is Nathaniel

I am forty-eight years old

I've been married since August 25, 2007

I've been on Tumblr since late 2013

I am a butcher by trade

I like to write songs, stories, and album reviews

My favorite band is The Birthday Massacre

I played Shopkeeper Mordecai in Dust: An Elysian Tail

I am a classically-trained operatic tenor

I have three cats: Aziraphale aka Zira, Crowley, and Sir Terrence Anaconda Pratchett aka Terry

My favorite movie is Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem

I am firmly on the autism spectrum with co-morbid OCD

My favorite television show is BoJack Horseman, although The Good Place is a close second

I love Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams

I love talking about philosophy, but am very bad at small talk

I consider myself agender and have no particular pronoun preferences

I'm a panromantic grey asexual

I am a hard materialist and do not believe in the existence of supernatural entities, religious or otherwise (no gods, no monsters, et cetera)

I do not believe in souls or metaphysical reward structures (no heaven, no hell, no cycle of rebirth)

I am anticonservative, anticorporate, and anticapitalist

One of my personal goals is to die without any recurring subscriptions (though this is getting harder and harder as everything is being monetized)

I listen to all genres of music, but the one I listen to most frequently, aside from The Birthday Massacre, is symphonic metal.

I consider myself a metalhead and a goth

I like absurdist humor and crack comedy

I'm straight edge, minus the edge. And the straight. I don't smoke, drink alcohol, or take recreational drugs

I don't like coffee and prefer tea. English breakfast or Earl Grey, for preference

My favorite color is purple and my favorite shade is black.

I love listening to podcasts and some of my favorites are: Embrace The Void, Philosophers In Space, Citation Needed, and all of the Puzzle In A Thunderstorm family of shows (God Awful Movies, The Scathing Atheist, The Skepticrat, and D&D Minus)

I am very left-wing leaning and support equal rights for all human sub-classes (most of which are social constructs)

I am a feminist

I do not believe billionaires should be permitted to exist, and if they are unwilling to be taxed out of existence, other options are on the table and should be considered

I do not want to make anyone uncomfortable, so if I do make you uncomfortable, please feel free to block me. You don't owe me an explanation or anything. Just know that I will never try to make anyone feel uncomfortable on purpose

I follow back pretty much anyone who follows me, and I don't have any DNIs. I try to treat everyone the same, as much as possible.

[sirstinksalot]

Quite geometrical

[hiveswap]

I cant wait when in 50 years it's revealed that all modern queer infighting was a psyop

[imjunebitch]

if ur ever wondering if a retail worker or fast food employee ur talking with while they r on the clock wants u to hit on them remember this helpful acronym: N.O. T.H.E.Y. D.O. N.O.T.

No they do not

nO they do not

no They do not

no tHey do not

no thEy do not

no theY do not

no they Do not

no they dO not

no they do Not

no they do nOt

no they do noT

this acronym will help u know what to do in the future!!!!

[herpsandbirds]

[apricops]

can I just say that we all owe Kojima an apology for Metal Gear Solid 2? He looked right into the camera and said “the future of information control will not be censorship, it will be drowning people in trivial noise and misinformation until people partition themselves into their own separate realities” in TWO THOUSAND AND ONE. Three years before Facebook existed. Kojima gave us the biggest Babe-Ruth-pointing-at-the-sky called shot of all time and we weren’t ready for it.

[redstonedust]

well, no, i didn’t expect leopards to eat my face, but this obviously wasn’t what the leopards eating people's face party wanted. they were stifled by their opposition and bureaucratic red tape! i think we should give more power to the leopard eating face party, so the leopards only eat the faces of people who deserve it. plus they just put a new leopard in charge of the face eating, and i think this one really brings something new to the table. so yes i'm voting for the leopards eating people's face party again. why wouldn't i.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

it's important to yell "fuck you kill yourself" at the tv advertisements to counteract the mind control

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I’m blindsided by authors using ai in their works. how can readers and writers tell if the writing is ai generated?

I’m gonna assume writers know whether or not their own works are ai because they either write them themselves or have ai write for them.

but as for readers (or writers who read other writers’ works), no, you can’t tell unless the writer themself says their works are ai generated. anything else is witch hunt, speculations and possibly wrongful accusations — all of which harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

so if at any point you think an untagged work is ai and if that bothers you, quietly click away. but you can never know for sure based on vibes. because everything ai writes, a human writer does. that’s what ai was trained on and what it was trained to mimic.

I’ve already talked more about this here, here, here. and more on my other blog @writingdose here and here.

[stimbianz]

stained glass bat ( source. )

[background-character-341]

For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[plumslices]

If we don’t microdose delusion we won’t make it through this reality babe….

[leebrontide]

So I remember reading about this study in grad school where they have a bunch of clinically depressed people and a bunch of non-clinically-depressed people a game that was partially chance and partially skill, and asked them to estimate how much control they had over the outcome.

The depressed people were far more accurate in estimating how much influence their actions had on the outcome of the game compared to their nondepressed counterparts, who consistently overestimated the effects of their own choices on their chances of winning.

Then I remember this other study (CW animal testing) where they put rats in a bucket of water that they couldn’t get out of, so they’d have to swim. There was a fairly consistent point at which the swimming rat would falter, and stop swimming, fated to drown.

Except that that’s when the researchers would pull the rat out of the bucket, give it a nice rest warmth and a meal.

When those SAME rats who had been rescued before were put in the same situation again, they swam much LONGER than they had before.

Why? The risk was the same either way- drowning. You’d have thought that the fear of drowning would keep them swimming to their maximum length no matter what.

The researchers conclusion was that the rescued rats had something they hadn’t had the first time- they had more hope. A miraculous rescue could come, and that let them swim for longer, just in case.

I think we do microdose delusion because sometimes that little overestimation of our chances, of our luck, keeps us swimming that little bit longer, just in case something good happens. And sometimes, that little margin really does make the difference. 

[vanwolffen]

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather.

[syn0vial]

hey, don't just leave the quote there! the last line is what MAKES it!

"YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE.  HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?"

[real-actual-guy]

alas. i read books now. anyways everybody go read all of discworld

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[velvetys]

Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

[stillnaomi]

a lot of the moralizing against revolutionary violence makes absolutely zero sense when you acknowledge that revolutions don't happen because some people think violence is a generally good tool of solving problems, but because the mass of the population is pushed past its breaking point by the conditions imposed upon it by the system the ruling class is using violence to enforce