The Artistic Eggplant

they/them. Rook, i like shiny things and puns. this is mostly just cool/relevant stuff i find. Scattered among the posts, I do have some original art (like the space waffle and icon)

[dappermouth]

And then you had that dream again.

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[valtsv]

[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.

[dono-cho]

[shinraalpha]

kids you have to learn how to wing it, it will be so much better for you than getting ai to do it

[frothlad]

Synthesis is incredibly useful as a skill. Also: Know at least a little about as much as possible.

[nitpickspot]

Students' inability to even TRY to BS an assignment legit worries me as an educator

[frothlad]

My anecdote is that as a freshling in an honors 101 class for a subject I did not care about, I had to write a paper. I read an encyclopedia article and a chapter or two of an unrelated book and vomited up a six page paper linking the two subjects in three hours. I got an A and the prof encouraged me to submit it to some journal or something. (I no longer remember the details; I think it was psychiatry, and the encyclopedia article was about Pavlov's experiments.)

Learn how to synthesize. My paper was bullshit in the technical sense; I did not care about its truth value, only that it fit the assignment.

As a professional, I once bullshitted my way through a complex derivation of D from C by noting that when B was derived from A in the same process, it dropped all of the terms of a particular type. I just took C, dropped the terms, and got D and it worked. It was bullshit, because I did no work to prove that what I was doing was correct. But it was correct, because I had synthesized what needed to be done.

That's the kind of BS you want to be able to summon on command.

[nitpickspot]

The level of learned helplesnnes in students these days.

They don't search, they don't ask, they don't attempt.

They either know how to do something or they scream at you to do it

[drawthefae]

nights like this

[fioblah]

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tip jar

[poltergoast]

krbk gift for da goat @arie-zzz ❤️

[mewy101]

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?

[littlestpersimmon]

The Woodcarver's Gentle Hands

[500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat]

oh yes it's that time of year

[kingdeath000]

day 1 oc creation: bad childhood, homosexuality

day 15: oral fixation

day 35: favorite color is blue

[transhuman-priestess]

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.

[transhuman-priestess]

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

[genderkoolaid]

& 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

[absolxguardian]

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.

[headspace-hotel]

^^ 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

[valtsv]

can't stop thinking about how hysterical project hail mary would be from rocky's pov when you consider that, by eridian standards, basic human functioning is simultaneously an incredibly hostile and violently perverted body horror fetish nightmare. imagine you make first contact with an alien and it's an apex predator with an obscene number of orifices, made up mostly of toxic substances that it oozes constantly from said orifices, thrives in an unforgivingly cold and suffocating atmosphere, is highly motivated by searching for its next meal + consumes its food publicly in violation of your society's main taboo, and is capable of rapidly transitioning from vulnerable in sleep to alert and in full possession of its faculties at the slightest change in stimuli. grace is in a heartwarming scifi buddy comedy and meanwhile rocky is bonded with and planning on bringing home his species' equivalent of the xenomorph.

[valtsv]

POV you're welcoming home your planet's heroic saviours

[tastefullyoffensive]

[samiholloway]

I fell down these stairs just looking at this picture

[hasufin]

Cursed artifact: Stairs of Discontinuity.

Exposure has a 90% chance of causing a concussion, but a 10% chance of spontaneously increasing your parkour skill

[helditem-moved-xd-deactivated20]

does anyone have the “my wife is home” r/ambien post

[a-really-bad-decision]

[theundeadpumpkin-deactivated202]

[espanolbot2]

Brady Corbet Says Next Movie Is About “American Mysticism” & “The History Of The Occult In America”

The Oscar-winning director of 'The Brutalist' teased his next feature at Dublin's Storyhouse screenwriting festival.

Oh neat! While I won't personally believe in it, the history of other people's belief in it is an interesting subject that I think should be more popularly known.

Like how Joseph Smith (the founder of Mormonism) was a follower of British folk magic traditions when he was living in New England, and he made his money by scamming investors into searching for buried treasure in Native American burial mounds. His tool in this quest, being a stone with a hole in the middle, as the belief was in the time was that by looking through the centre you could find gold...

...Which certainly provides context to him "finding" golden plates in his garden, in that it was a variation of the scheme he was already doing, but with a lot more worldbuilding attached so he could start a religion instead of just grave robbing.

There's a lot of material there is what I've saying, not all of it about scammers, but it's a lot more impactful for American history than you'd think.

[titans-thoughts]

Yeah, there is a lot of American occult tradition that people don't know about because it's largely overshadowed by related British occult traditions, or by the Theosophical tradition (e.g., Blavatsky, Steiner).

[espanolbot2]

Which is kind of ironic, considering how Spiritualism (while technically tracing its roots to 1700s Sweden) was largely popularised in the US and is still somewhat mainstream.

But then, the general lack of curiosity about the subject just leads to folk just lumping everything that isn't Christianity adjacent into "Satanism", which they use to define everything from astrology to African-American folk traditions to the 1800s Druidic revival to Thelema to just reading fantasy paperbacks or playing DnD.

Again, while I don't believe in it myself, I know other people do, and seeing how other people interpret the world is interesting... even if the historical context of some of the newer traditions from like the 1800s onwards can be a touch sketchy (aside from a lot of cases of cultural appropriation, in cases like the Druidic revival due to a lack of written sources some of the folk who established it just kinda made stuff up, like how the Welsh druid and physician Dr William Price while in Paris claimed that an Ancient Greek carving he saw in the Louvre was actually in the language of the Druids and would later say that Homer was Welsh).

[fryyy18]

Sillyyyys but timeskip ☀️