#☆humans

[sol-consort]

Humans having just discovered that the gaint metal tongs in space unlock fast travel through the galaxy: oh boy, can't wait to activate every mass relay we can find, whoever turned these off must be an idiot lol

Turians opening fire without warning at first sight of relay 314 glowing again:

[1-jar-of-stars]

On Friendship.

[texaschainsawmascara]

links to the donations mentioned

https://unrwa.org/

https://www.instagram.com/gazamutualaid

https://campusbailfunds.com

[valtsv]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[inthereellife]

YALL! Our favorite Tumblr runner DID IT! He won gold!

If yall need a reminder Noah Lyles is this wonderful nerd

Noah Lyles won GOLD!

Noah Lyles is the Fastest Man!!!

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[emerald-dragonflame]

I had a vision

[dreamdropsystem]

ya'll who's up for group meowing

[oldtvandcomics]

HEY GUYS!!

GUYS!!!

FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!

ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!

We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.

As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:

Spain - 38.72%

Finland - 30.31%

Ireland - 24.86%

Netherlands - 24.15%

Germany - 23.54%

Belgium - 23.09%

So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!

[foldingfittedsheets]

Back in 2017 I signed up for one of the Cards Against Humanity sillies and did their Cards Against Humanity Saves America. Basically they were like fuck Tr*mp and his border wall and used the funds from the campaign to buy land and to make all 150,000 contributors part owners of said land across the US/Mexico border.

It was fun and silly and I got a little certificate.

Today I got an email that Elon Musk illegally annexed that land for SpaceX and that CAH are suing him over it. So possibly I’ll get like $100 if they manage to win a lawsuit and stick it to Musk. It’s like even more bang for my original buck.

[sol-consort]

Okay but salarians' emotional processing is very fast to us.

It only seems fast to us.

From their perspective, we're the ones who wallow in sadness, never let go of a grudge, spend entire lifetimes yearning for love and never making a move, stay determined despite the odds

I can't tell how they must view it. How would you view a species whose happiness lasted years at a time? who take your life equivalent of months as a mental health break, who stay affected by the movies they watch to days on end.

To us, these years, months, and days are equivalent to weeks, days, and hours.

It's not just a case of a long lifespan—you don't see the asari stretching out their emotional experiences just because—no, we do in fact process emotions at a much much MUCH slower rate than those funky space frogs.

The awkward situations it would cause, the aftermath of a fight between you and your salarian friend where they immediately process it, decide it wasn't worth it, forgive you, and get over it. All within the same minute.

Meanwhile, you, the apex predetor human that you are, were cussing them out in your head during the whole duration of that minute. Only to turn around and see them return to their natural friendly demeanour, which could serve to either diffuse the situation or...

Piss you off even more. And now you're mad for two reasons.

So you restart the argument because you want them to engage with you, to actually show some emotions, a resemblance of a hint that they care. It's a basic human need to want others to relate to your emotions, to empathise, to actually stimulate you, and meet your emotional intensity.

But you get nothing from the salarian, they're fully over it. They'd much rather talk about the new episode of their favourite show, even watching paint dry seems more interesting to them than repeating this.

The misunderstanding it would cause, the gaint hill titled "miscommunication" every salarian and human must cross when it comes to friendship. The human brain reading too much into the salarian's behaviour, measuring it to the human scale and completely misinterpreting the message. While the salarian is completely lost to why you're making a mountain out of an ant hill, why can't you just let things go?

Worst case scenario, we seem very prideful, emotional, fragile, and nagging to them.

Best case scenario, we are confident, infectious with our happiness, determined, full of life and soul to them

But the most realistic scenario is that the salarian doesn't take offence because their unconscious brain knows you're a different species that should be acounted for with different measures, while our brain's tendency to "humanise" other species is a double edged sword that makes us hold them to human social standards that they invetiably fail to meet.

They realise they're speaking to a human with an average human emotional range. They don't look down on you for it, they understand therefore they empathise in their own way, become more paitent, allow behaviour from you that they wouldn't allow from other salarians because they know its in your nature.

If a human bit you because you touched their stomach, you'd completely cut ties with them. But if a cat smacked you awake with its paw for food at 3am, you wouldn't bat an eye at its behaviour. Because you realise the difference, you know this is normal cat behaviour, they square up with each other all the time. Their paw smack might as well be then first letter in the cat alphabet.

While some humans tend to misinterpret this behaviour as the cat hating them, the intentions do not matter at the end of the day because the action is hurtful and unacceptable to them.

Conclusion: Cat people would get along extremely well with salarians.

[taxidermycanine]

YOU THERE

HALT !!!

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[schoolhater]

[jesusinstilettos]

I’m about to save you thousands of dollars in therapy by teaching you what I learned paying thousands of dollars for therapy:

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

6. Repeat, it takes practice but is a skill you can learn :)