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[frostklamm]

dreaming the dark

[teenagerposts]

this is so pure

[adventurecore-suggestions]

my grandma embroidered little flowers on her clothes like i do and she taught me how to cook asparagus so it actually tasted good and she wrote about grief so simply that i could make sense of it when i was a child that had just lost a grandfather and sometimes i wonder how much of me is made of her and how much of me is my uncle and how much is my best friend and how much is my little sister. i wonder how much of them is me.

[mothdogs]

A few years back, I got really interested in this topic. I read a book by a man named Douglas Hofstadter, who’s the director for the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University. One of the foremost American researchers of the science of cognition, Hofstadter has written a lot of books, but the one I’m most familiar with is called I Am a Strange Loop. Strange Loop’s focus is on determining how, exactly, does consciousness—individuality, thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, desires, a sense of personhood—arise from inert and unthinking molecules? After all, atoms don’t have personalities. But yet people, who are only atoms all told, somehow do.

The crux of his argument is that humans are self-referential feedback loops. We take in information from the world and incorporate it into how we react the next time we receive information. A whole section of Strange Loop is dedicated to Hofstadter’s concern with the memory of his late wife, Carol. She died suddenly and he was left wondering what parts of her, if any, can “survive” in his memory. And he eventually concluded that every human is a combination and response to all the other humans they’ve ever interacted with:

As long as you remember someone—a dead friend, a relative, a beloved pet—your experiences with them, the way their personalities influenced you, in turn affect the way YOU act and interact with others. Personhood is a self-replicating concept. Your actions ripple out in ways that can never be fully seen or understood. In a vast, cosmic sort of way, no one ever really dies–they live on in their friends :-) 

[clementiens]

“We are all curious collages, weird little planetoids that grow by accreting other people’s habits and ideas and styles and tics and jokes and phrases and tunes and hopes and fears as if they were meteorites that came soaring out of the blue, collided with us, and stuck. What at first is an artificial, alien mannerism slowly fuses into the stuff of our self, like wax melting in the sun, and gradually becomes as much a part of us as ever it was of someone else (though that person may very well have borrowed it from someone else to begin with).”

[aleyma]

Fabergé, Chick, 1899-1908 (source).

[clowniconography]

i think werewolves should be allowed to have fancy bloodlines and wealthy aristocrat families that go back generations amnd big fancy manor houses the way vampires do. aka yet another thing terry pratchett was correct about

[azzandra]

So you’re saying werewolves should be concerned with...

...their pedigree.

[thenib]

From Kasia Babis.

[simonalkenmayer]

I’ve never understood people who make those sorts of jokes. I identify with this cartoon enormously.

[benepla-deactivated20200506]

[systlin]

Sometimes you see a post and just realize there’s some Wild Shit going on in a community you never knew existed

[unicorncryptid]

[carebear-onion-lizard]

Attached for original context

[thevoidfarer]

Finally, I understand

[supreme-leader-stoat]

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL POST.

[stupidpetface]

[shutyourmoustache]

Okay but her in the dress doing the handshake full-out? 😍

[catchymemes]

Curious Zelda

https://twitter.com/curiouszelda

https://www.instagram.com/curiouszelda/

[wonderlace19]

She does looks like she would speak in rhyme then disappear into the woods

[broken-seal-deactivated20240220]

[iserlychopedly]

[luimnigh]

I'm genuinely concerned about the amount of people who think fictional characters (and by extension, actual people) need to be "rational" and "logical" at all times or else it's bad character writing.

[luimnigh]

Assuming you're able to be purely logical and rational in your opinions and decision making is a really bad thing.

It's effectively assuming that you're always right and your conclusions are always correct.

It's ignoring the fact that everyone has biases and everyone is capable of irrational emotional reactions.

That's outright dangerous. Because it means you're not doing introspection, you're not being critical of your own actions.

And if you don't stop and ask yourself why you're doing something, you can just sleepwalk into doing terrible things, because your baseline assumption is that you're right and anyone opposing you is wrong.

[catchymemes]

[toughnuttoswallow]

[charamells-deactivated20220424]

Eeveelutions

[dunsparce]

not even a millisecond later 

[eelpatrickharris-deactivated202]

anyone else have one of those Formative Omegle Experiences that’s stuck with you

[eelpatrickharris-deactivated202]

i remember once matching up with this 27 year old mechanic. he found the omegle page open on one the shop’s computers, and he wanted to see what his coworker was up to. we matched up because of our listed “manga” interests.

he asked how old i was, and i lied and said i was 16. as a conversation starter, he asked if i had my license yet, and because i was 12, i said no.

so he starts giving me driving tips. get a junker as your first, because when you finally get a new car, you’ll be able to appreciate it.

stick shift is going out of fashion, and even if you learn how to drive that way and enjoy it, get an automatic. it’ll save your ass on nasty hills and in rush hour traffic.

and most importantly, never hold your hands at 10 and 2. go with 9 and 3. he’d always loved cars, and used to race when he was younger. became pretty well known in the indie circles. one day, he was speeding around the track and just came out of the curve when a girl in the crowd flashed her tits at him.

he was so distracted that he crashed straight into the barrier. due to how he was holding the wheel, he broke both of his arms. he still has a couple lingering issues.

i asked him if it was worth it, and he said yes. he’d do it again if he had the chance. they were the finest tiddies he’d ever seen.

the moral of this story is that, to this day, i grip 9 and 3 when using both hands because wait that’s what tiddy guy said i should do.

[welcometoyouredoom]