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homunculus-argument

Imagine if you met someone who can't eat watermelon. Not that they're allergic or unable somehow, but they just haven't figured out how to do that. So you're like "what the hell do you mean? it works just like eating anything else, you open your mouth, sink your teeth in, take a bite and chew. If you can bite, chew and swallow, you should be able to eat a watermelon."

And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.

This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?

"It's red on the inside?"

Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.

"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."

And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.

If someone can't do something after being repeatedly told to "just do it", there might be some key component missing that one side has no idea about, and the other side assumed was so obvious it goes without mention.

therainstheyaredropping

Yep.

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything had a nice list of additional examples like this, with (non-)obvious major insights with regard to opening stitched bags, cleaning your bathroom floor, using a search engine, catching a ball, pinging somebody, proving a theorem, playing sudoku, passing as “normal”, improving your writing, generating novel ideas, and solving your problem.

If you’d asked me six months ago how to get better at something, I’d probably have pointed you to how to do hard things. I still think this is a good approach and you should do it, but I now think it’s the wrong starting point and I’ve been undervaluing small insights. [...]

I think my revised belief is that if you are stuck at how to get better at something, spend a little while assuming there’s just some trick to it you’ve missed. You can try to generate the trick yourself, but it’s probably easier to learn it by observing someone else being good at the thing, asking them some questions, and seeing if you have any lightbulb moment.

hergan416

My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.

Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.

When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.

He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.

Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.

nowordsandnotune

Not quite sure why the clarinet addition got me crying, but here you go people: just in case, let's get you some new pads.

crispy-ghee

There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:

crispy-ghee

Sure! Have some more portraits from the book

trans woman shepherd. send post

#snek speaks #this has nothing but selfish intentions #i just wanna see shep as a woman hehehhe #it'll fix us both methinks #legends of avantris #curse of strahdanya #silas shepherd morgan

thinking again about my LoA x Hades "au",, specifically with what titles/descriptors each character should get,,, chat would i be sick and twisted if I called Gid a Living Engine be honest

#i kinda want to ehehehe #i'll probably think of something later but for now thats sick as hell i think B]#snek speaks #legends of avantris #once upon a witchlight #gideon coal #ouaw #crossover #hades #hades au

nekosaws

reblog this to be an annoying faggot at ur followers

#happy pride <3

emmasmoke8

What music app do you guys use?

The battery has been sucky on my phone, so I’ve gotten a new one, but I can’t get Musi on my new phone. I’ve been checking out various apps for music, but none of them really work for me. The majority are just really restrictive about the music or mandatory about paying without a free option. There’s the popular ones (Spotify, Pandora, YT Music), but I remember the ads on those suck. Is there better options, or should I just settle for 30 second ads every two songs?

#been using tidal recently and its not bad imho #ui and function are VERY similar to spotify #i feel like its got less of a selection tho?#esp if you like cover artists/indie artists #at least in my experience #+ i dont think theres an option for local files like on Spotify #the perks are that its a really easy switch FROM spotify: easy to use + similar ui #+ an option to link spotify acct and move all ur liked songs and playlists automatically

insufficient-multitudes

no because the second I feel like I'm "bothering" anyone I'm out

#real shit i fear

darkmatters-world

gamers i gotta lock tf in wdym we're almost 2 wks thru june and i haven't started my art fight refs,,,,

#i keep making poor scheduling decisions for myself dshgskghs #no work 2morrow tho so. maybe i can get some shit done #AND I HAVE THE PRIDE EXCHANGE !!!#very excited abt that tho hehehehe #hgghg #so much to work on.. so little time.....#snek speaks

loose follow up to a prev post, but. i wanna explore what the fankids would be like,,,

"fankids" i say like i am not the god of their world dslhvfdjskg

n e ways. I think if Calla and Silas had their happy ending, they would have had two kids, a daughter, Dahlia, and a son, Rowan. I think they have Dahlia first, but. I didn't consider this until after they had their first kid in tomodachi which ended up being Rowan dushvujkfg. So. I have more thoughts on Rowan than I do Dahlia.

Rowan I think would mostly have Calla's thin, bony features, with Silas's tanner skin tone, prominent nose, and dark hair. I imagine him as intelligent and reserved, although he's still quite the charmer; def has the makings of an eccentric wizard, although i can't imagine him taking that route. I imagine him being really into botany, following in the footsteps of his parents but enjoying the science behind a garden more so than the cultivation.

I almost wanna wait to see what happens when SiCal eventually have Dahlia in tomodachi lmao, before making any decisions about how she looks/acts. In my heart though I think she looks predominantly like Silas, maybe with Calla's eye color. I imagine her being reserved in a more quiet, independent kind of way. She keeps to herself, and gets a little nervous in social situations. I imagine her as someone who likes getting her hands dirty, enjoys putting in work. Maybe has a more artistic streak? Not painting, but more like sculpture, really likes working with her hands xx

I think if High Noon and Magnolia had their happy ending, they'd have just one kid, a son they'd call Reach for the Sky, or just 'Sky' for short hehehe. I've thought about him the least, but my darling friend @pawpunkao3 has been helping me sort of bring him to life (bc he knows more abt kitties/kitty genes than i do dkshudsk), and iirc we settled on Sky looking mostly like his dad (bobcat), with his mom's white spotting on his wittle paws <3 funny enough i also envision him as being pretty reserved, very down-to-earth. I think he would also have a strong sense of justice instilled in him by his father, but he's overall very non-combative, and I think he would follow his own no-kill policy if he was ever forced into a violent situation. Can't quite imagine him becoming sheriff like his dad, but I could see him making a good deputy, or maybe just some sort of freelance bounty hunter or smth. I think he would still be involved in criminal justice in some way or another, nepobaby ass /aff

#ouhhghh #they r real but they r NOT real they will NEVER b real 😭😭😭#i should make more fankids hehehehe #“fankids” lol #i have so many ocs that could be parents under different better circumstances #snek speaks #ocs #oc #original characters #original character

how we feeling drawfee gang

#the news like JUST hit me <//3 #ouhghh #gods bless the whole team and karina especially on whatever adventures she moves onto xx #snek speaks #drawfee

computer-graveyard

This stream was... good

#ghost of karina's hittin different today

userfish

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

userfish

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

vaguelyluciddragon

Trans women are radically accepted on my page.

Trans fems are radically accepted on my page.

Trans men are radically accepted on my page.

Trans mascs are radically accepted on my page.

Nonbinary people are radically accepted on my page.

People with neopronouns are radically accepted on my page.

People with xenogenders are radically accepted on my page.

All transgender people, no matter how "weird" their identity is, are radically accepted on my page.

blackheartbiohazards

"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

blackheartbiohazards

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

spellscarred

Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don't promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).

This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.

blackheartbiohazards

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

blackheartbiohazards

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

blackheartbiohazards

"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"

and

"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"

are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.

If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.

averageidiotenby

DUDE IT’S PEDO FICS EVERYBODY THINKS THEY’RE NASTY

blackheartbiohazards

Let me explain this to you in simple terms.

Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.

If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.

This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.

kawaii-pigeon

I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said "well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad."

And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.

plague-of-insomnia

The fact that I’ve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time there’s new idiots who do not get that you can’t have *some* censorship.

Either you’re for it or you aren’t.

The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.

Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?

When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.

Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?

When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.

Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.

Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.

Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??

The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.

The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.

This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.

Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I don’t know what to say to you.

scientia-rex

And the people who keep bringing up child sex abuse as a reason for censorship are doing it very specifically because everyone feels like then they HAVE to agree with the person in favor of censorship.

It’s not that there isn’t widespread societal agreement on this. It’s that they want you backed into a rhetorical corner where you feel compelled to agree with them.

ruffboi-mags

Also, like, we KNOW how this shit shakes out in fandom because it's happened before.

In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."

Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".

Censorship is authoritarian and it will ALWAYS have more collateral damage than you can imagine.

nyxelestia

Going to add that fiction which had sexual abuse and communities which played around with it as a writing topic are the very things that protected me from irl sexual abuse when I was a teenager. I was in a dicey situation, and realized that while my situation did not match up to any of the superficial or textbook cases mentioned in passing (if at all) through school, it matched up a LOT to what I'd learned about irl sexual abuse through works of fiction and the rhetoric of my communities. I got out of that situation and dodged what was, in retrospect, one hell of a nasty bullet. If it hadn't been for that "nasty" fiction and those "nasty" communities, I would very likely have been abused, and subject to further violence spiraling out from that abuse.

benjis-house-boat

you can’t have *some* censorship.

the-real-seebs

Yup! It really is, in fact, pretty much that simple:

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

sweet-reaper

Just to be clear on my views ❤️

don’t like don’t read

#tags exist for a reason folks

Putting this here b4 i forget but i am sooooo so tempted to give Cici chest and/or facial hair like godssssss

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