#Environment benefits

[danielnelsen]

while i get where this comes from and it’s true to an extent, i reeeaaaally don’t like how people try to explain “trans men don’t [necessarily] have male privilege” with things like “some trans men don’t pass”.

like sure that’s the most obvious example (someone who is seen as a woman won’t have the privilege that comes with being seen a man) but you’re still acting like being a passing trans man is just a free opt-in to male privilege which is………kinda the issue.

[untitledgoosegay]

re last reblog I do see fanfic culture pushing/replicating a certain model of "what trauma looks like," "how trauma works"

this is a problem across all areas of society obviously, but transformative works are, well, transformative. they're about crafting and modifying narratives where the fan-creator sees a flaw or a lack -- often for the better! don't get me wrong, I've done my fair share of "I take a hammer and I fix the canon," it's the main thing that gets my creative gears spinning -- but what happens when that "flaw" is simply a narrative not conforming to popular expectations?

some people just don't get PTSD from events that sound obviously traumatic. they're not masking, and they're not coping; they just straight-up didn't get the permanently-locked stress-response that defines PTSD. they walk away from a horrible experience going "well, that sucked, but it's over now." some people do get PTSD from events most people wouldn't find traumatic. we don't really know why some people get PTSD and others don't. but fandom has an idea of events that must be traumatizing, of a "correct" way to portray trauma. you see the problems with this lack of understanding in e.g. fans pressuring the devs of Baldur's Gate 3 to add dialogue where the player character badgers Halsin about his own feelings on his abuse -- because he must be traumatized, and his trauma must fit a certain mold and presentation of sexual trauma, under the mistaken impression that anything outside that narrow window is somehow "wrong" and disrespectful or even harmful to survivors.

take, for another example, the very common trope of a traumatized character who hates touch or sex "learning" to like touch or sex as a part of their healing process. certainly that can be healing for some people; other people will never like, or want, touch or sex, because of trauma or because they just don't. the assumption that someone who doesn't want sex or doesn't like to be touched must be traumatized, must be suffering from this perceived lack, is seriously harmful -- to asexual people, to people with sensory issues around touch, and to people for whom healing from trauma means freedom to refuse sex or touch.

and there's a secondary trope, one that's slightly more thoughtful but ultimately repeats the problem -- that once someone has learned that their boundaries will be respected, they'll feel it's safe to soften those boundaries. once they feel safe refusing touch or sex, they'll feel comfortable allowing it on their own terms. but many people don't, and many people won't! many people will simply never want to be touched, and never want sex, and they are not suffering or broken or lacking because of it. the idea that proving you'll respect someone's boundaries entitles you to test those boundaries -- the paradox is obvious, and yet this is something i've seen hurt (re-traumatize) people i care for.

people are imperfect victims. people don't heal in the ways you expect. many people have positive memories of their abuse, of their abusers. many people hurt others in the course of their trauma, in ways that can't easily be unpacked in a 5k oneshot. very few narratives of trauma and recovery actually fit the ones put forward by popular children's media and romance novels -- which are the ones I most see replicated in fandom spaces, because they provide the clearest narrative and easiest catharsis, and so they're easy and soothing to reach for.

that's not necessarily a bad thing! i am not immune to goopy romance tropes. i am not immune to teary catharsis. not every fic has to grapple with ugly realities. but there's a problem when these narratives become predominant, when people think they're accurate and realistic depictions of trauma, when the truth of trauma is unpleasant and uncomfortable, and doesn't fit any single narrative, let alone one of comforting catharsis

[fawntastic]

Why’d they have to pit two bad bitches against each other

[todaysbird]

anybody here who farms insects for human consumption and would be willing to participate in a interview for a (positive) article around insect farming? please dm me with your email and i’ll reach out!

[turbo-virgins]

people who say fans will come to love datv in time the same way we did with da2 underestimate my ability to hold a grudge

[blaec-ynk]

i know some people are absolutely incensed that Arcane dropped the ball on the classism and discrimination and poverty and all those plotlines they had introduced but the truth of the matter is that Arcane always framed any type of Zaunite insurrection/revolution against Piltover in bad lighting and claimed that any fight/war for the freedom and wellbeing of future generations is ultimately evil because it gets people living right now killed

Vander is the most sympathetic Undercity leader/hot shot only because he is supporting Piltover's superiority and oppression of the Undercity. he has a deal with the cops to ensure that he will keep his people obedient and subservient to Piltover and the cops. he aids the status quo and thus Piltover's exploitation of Zaun; he never encourages pushing for change in any manner, violent or non-violent, instead always pressuring those around him (esp Vi) to just take Piltover's scraps and mistreatment because you wouldnt want to lose your loved ones, would you? (which is just like, a threat. an actual threat that figures of authority like cops make to their victims to keep them inline) Completely ignoring the fact that people in Zaun HAVE, ARE, and WILL BE losing loved ones to police brutality, disease, toxic/radioactive exposure, famine, poverty, gang violence, etc. BECAUSE OF PILTOVER.

Arcane is/(started out as) a great show but it was always most sympathetic towards Piltover and the status quo. it never pushed for Zaun's independence/freedom in any meaningful way--and whenever it did deal with Zaun potentially becoming its own nation? it didn't show the power of revolutions, of class actions, of uniting and protesting and fighting back--it just said that if you sit your ass down tight and let the oppressive government shit on you enough, you might eventually be granted some rights--unless you fuck it up with a rocket, of course. but that's not how real life has ever worked

not only that but any attempt at fighting back is literally shown as being plain violence for violence's sake. we dont see or hear anything about how silco or vander planned on rebuilding the Undercity/Zaun, how they wanted to expand infrastructure, how they would support the people and keep them safe--Arcane doesnt paint revolutions as the complex operations they are, they just show us the violence of them and nothing else. like really, all Silco wants to do is use Shimmer to scare topside--but that's not how revolutions or fighting against opressors works! because Piltover will be scared, yes, but that just means they will double down harder on all the violence and restrictions. that's obvious. not only that, but lets say Piltover gets scared and retracts from Zaun completely--Zaun seems to be heavily dependent on trade from Piltover to get what they need to survive. Silco doesnt mention anything about how to fix that. and that to me just plays on harmful stereotypes about any and all kinds of social movements. all of the real work is reduced to violence.

i dont have a closing statement im just so pissed at how theyre handling the classism in s1 now that im rewatching it

[yardsards]

fuck any job interviewer that's like "so how much money do you expect to be paid for this position"

idk dawg??? as much as you're willing to give me??? don't make me play "do i lowball it and risk getting underpaid or highball it and risk not getting hired" mind games. i did not come here to play the fucking price is right. you're the one writing the paychecks here.

[moongothic]

Going back to this thing briefly

When adapting this chapter into an episode Toei did not explain nor demonstrate to us what the fuck that spike was (instead they gave us Sables #378545), so we're no closer to finding out what kinda new moves Crocodile might have up his sleeve, whether that really was a Haki-infused sand spike or what

But when I was checking the melting point of sand out of curiosity (to figure out if Crocodile has a fighting chance against Akainu, which in theory he does because Akainu isn't hot enough to melt sand (in theory)), I was reminded of the fact that sand is mostly made of silica

Or, in other words, quartz. Sand is, on average, made of crystal. Of course, sand is also made of other things and other minerals (not just quartz), but if we wanted to assume Croc's DF is made of one element and one element alone, then let's just assume it's 100% silica, right

And now I can't help but to wonder now though

Could Crocodile have learned a new technique where he somehow compresses and hardens his sand so much it can turn into large, solid crystals? Or more specifically, sharp pointy stabby weapons to murder people with? 'Cause. How fucking cool would that be

Also considdering how much Crocodile likes his bling, being able to form crystals to murder people with would arguably be on-brand for him

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Hello resident animorphs expert! I'm terribly curious: do you have physical copies of all of the books, some favorites, none? I have all my favorites, but every time I'm in a used book store I wonder if I should clear out every copy just to have them all.

Answered here!

If it's within your budget, I say go ahead and get copies. Used bookstores often have to recycle books that don't sell to make room for ones that do, so buying them is preserving them. And not having to go through Rainforest-Destroying eCommerce Monopoly to do so is a huge bonus — I finished my collection with Ebay and Bookshop.Org, but neither place has everything.

[noirandchocolate]

Itsy-bitsy headcanon before bed:

I’ve mentioned this in (very minor) passing before but in my lil’ AoC-verse, the Yiga Clan has been surreptitiously farming mighty bananas in Faron for centuries. I just think, that they have too many stockpiled (and in the other timeline, every member who pops up to kill Link has some) for their stores to come solely from theft and happenstance gathering.* And after all, bananas don’t grow in the desert or highlands of their home…

Anyway, they “farm” in a way that makes the groves look very natural, so nobody else would tend to notice they’re not just growing wild. Just as they’ve been looking after the apple trees on Satori Mountain as stated in my linked post up there. The thing is, that means the Clan can’t defend their crop too intensely, and they always lose some of it to passers-by. In the past, there have been some incidents where Hylians have thought they were farming bananas in the general area; these were dealt with by quickly grabbing as much of the crop as possible, laying natural-seeming traps, and putting illusions on the trees to make them look blighted until the Hylians gave up again for another while and moved their operations somewhere else in Faron.

Post-Calamity, Master Kohga made it known that it’d been his people tending a large amount of banana trees all this time and that they hoped to plant more and expand their operation. Princess Zelda, as one show of gratitude for his assistance (*cough saving her father’s life cough*) and to aid in her own push to legitimize Yiga participation in commerce, worked with Kohga to draw up formal documents to the effect that yes, that land and those trees/bananas belong to the Clan. Which Kohga privately thought was annoying political theater since why wouldn’t it be theirs, why should the Yiga have to make nice to ~earn~ a right to what their hard work had created, but…still, he saw it as a step in the right direction by the Princess, surely (since it seemed she was trying hard to make nice from her end, too <3).

So where do the Yiga farm their bananas? Largely all along the stepped cliffs of Ubota Point, with a smaller reserve crop (looking even more wild and natural) on the higher areas around Bronas Forest and Kamah Plateau.** Post-Calamity, the Clan has been able to start building an open and permanent base of operations on the Point, as they’ll begin to sell and ship some of their crops to places besides their home in Karusa Valley (Urbosa and the Gerudo are among their first big customers, hehe). The Yiga’s once-small Faron Team has been bulked up considerably now that they don’t have to hide. Things are just getting underway with this, but it feels like a good start to their business relationship with Hyrule. Yay! :D

Okay goodnight everybody! <3 <3

*There’s turn-in quests in AoC where the Clan wants to buy up every mighty banana in Hyrule. This is to sustain them while they understandably are shorter-handed and all-hands-on-deck with the Calamity (thanks Astor) and haven’t been as able to tend their crops, which they haven’t been up front with Hyrule about anyway ofc.

**As I’ve also said before, I headcanon that locations on the BotW/TotK map are bigger in “real life” for lack of a better descriptor. So Faron in general is big enough for the Clan and Hylians to be farming bananas and other things too. But incidentally, Ubota Point’s environs are the area in BotW where you can find the most mighty bananas, just growing everywhere! …and personally I’ve also been attacked by a bunch (ha! I have made a banana pun!) of Yiga in Faron both before and even more after that timeline’s Kohga fell in a hole, so….

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Pluralities

sci-fi novella

a burned out 20-something with premonitions has a gender-questioning journey, after quitting their job and becoming friends with benefits with a trans guy

with a parallel narrative about a runaway alien prince in a space empire and his complicated friendship with his sentient spaceship friend

audiobook arc from netgalley!

[taamlok]

man i really don't notice the veilguard soundtrack until i'm customizing the inquisitor and get to hear dai's. the quality difference is wild

[jinxedshapeshifter]

One of my favorite things about Ace Attorney transitioning to 3D is that we get character designs we'd never get in 2D because of complexity or animation. Notable examples include Nahyuta and Kazuma. Nahyuta's design isn't overly complicated but still looks like it'd be a pain to draw because of fabric details (some of which are so subtle I didn't notice them while I was playing SOJ), and Kazuma's hachimaki animation only exists because TGAA is done in 3D (or, more accurately, Kazuma's hachimaki was a contributing factor to TGAA being in 3D from what I've read).

Another bonus is that even though some of the animation is janky, the fact that the 3D models make animation easier makes for some incredibly fun cutscenes (my favorite across Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice being the Dance of Devotion cutscene you get before divination séance sequences) and the characters having 3D models makes for some super fun sprites too (characters' accessories and hair are affected by physics, notably; Klavier’s hair and necklace move when he does, and Nahyuta's prayer beads respond to him holding them as he slams his fist on the prosecutor’s bench).

That's not to say I think all Ace Attorney games should be in 3D (because I actually think it should be dependent on the story the writers are trying to tell and whether it'd benefit the game mechanics better for something to be 2D or 3D), but it allows for so much more in the character designs, sprites, and cutscenes, and even though Dual Destinies is a bit messy (because it's the first 3D Ace Attorney game) I could feel the difference between the games being 2D and 3D.

[dreadfutures]

Man. The wind rises is gonna haunt me forever. I know if I show that to my grad school "I'm taking the US Military Industrial Complex's Money and Giving It To Green Energy!" bestie she will probably hit rock bottom. What a mirror to hold up to a scientist or engineer entangled in bloody engines of our society.

What a loving, beautiful homage to being an engineer. having a passion and excelling and bringing others with you for the purity of the practice. And what a human, complicated, messy world it paints where sometimes pursuing that dream is a fantasy to cope while your inventions kill people or enable killing people. do you die without applying yourself, say goodbye to your big dreams and shutter them? Do you let someone else be the one to take your place in that role? Does pursuing your dream in this way ultimately poison a dream, something that once gave you joy and drive turning into a dreadful nightmare? Was there another way? Does it matter?

The slide rules were *insane* to see btw. I gasped lmao

And the scientific process, by which I mean the iterations and observations and prototyping, that was great.

[celebrityhero]

yeah adhd is cringe now because it's kind of becoming 'overdone' and people on social media talking about it turned it into the disorder that causes every single problem on the planet thus making life basically unlivable. annoying extremely long post under the cut you know how it is

but I feel it is two-pronged as a repetition online because i do think it has effected more parts of my life than i ever realized and being diagnosed with it plus autism did make me feel like i had to come to terms with a lot of things about my life and my behavior that i assumed were not only normal and i was being dramatic about but also so normal and typical that everyone did them and i just had to learn how to stop having problems with it. the second prong is that i think people are kind of using it to wash away possibly all personal responsibility. i hates ta says it but i do think the notion that people with adhd benefit from more discipline is most definitely true. i can do things at my own pace and it is probably better for me to not inflame my pots every fucking day (and pots will improve with exercise & honestly i am eating like shit lately but pots hasn't been too bad bc of it though i imagine it will worsen if i don't improve it soon) but 'my own pace' involves a lot of simple mistakes that i really do just miss and have to let go and forgive myself for that an average person would not have to do.

THAT ALL BEING SAID... i can only remember so many things from my childhood that lead me to believe my adhd diagnosis is 'legit' in the sense that i was just reading an article that illustrated that internet usage is actively depleting our attention spans, giving us 'checking' behaviors, giving us mutlimedia split focus (can't remember if that's the term in the article I wanted to link it after I was done reading it if it held up), like this stuff is a no-brainer it's stuff i noticed happening to myself as a little computer addict eight year old && i was just blogging on allykatzz and playing webkinz but i still felt like something was happening to me mentally and changing how i was thinking and behaving. this is stuff we all have noticed over time too, so i guess my inquiry for the uprising of adhd diagnosed individuals is if your internet usage is plentiful and if reducing it has ever made you less distractable? I Have Found that reduction of usage does not make me less distractable and i seem to be able to entertain myself without a personal entertainment machine. but i also have never reduced internet usage for longer than a week if that. but i do remember things about being a kid that lead me to believe i really do have adhd, how it persisted into teenagerdom is hard to say because as a 'digital native' (another term from the article) i only lived so many years of my life without using a computer a lot lol. i would like to mitigate that too though.

and i think i have gotten better at choosing what i want to do online and also trying to fight the online checking behaviors or even ones like 'omg i can't post xyz online because it's CRINGE!!!!' but i like to type a lot sorry screw me kill me behead me run me over with with your gay little bike i really don't care if it's cringe. i yam what i yam. and i think choosing what i do online is a step towards reducing my contact with online world which is a step towards better discipline that hopefully reduces my adhd symptoms.

because even the age old adhd diagnosis checker of do adhd meds work for you? then yea you probably have it, doesn't really feel Real to me because if the internet is changing our cognition, even able to reduce the gray matter in our brains and things, then who's to say that it isn't also making adhd medication work for people who otherwise did not naturally otherwise qualify for adhd? like to be honest even when i qualified for adhd diagnosis from a therapist & a psychiatrist, i wasn't given extensive testing. they didn't go over my childhood. they didn't bring in my mom to ask about how i was doing or what i was like. it's not standard to inquire about someone's internet usage. i truly think we are getting to a point where we might need to start changing someone's internet habits before we consider evaluating them for anything, but i am not a psychologist nor am i deeply studied in these things, nor do i even have a precursory survey of psychology or anthropology or whatever else one would need to study to Really Understand these things. i just am making observations and i do talk to people irl, i think my internet presence gives the impression i do not do that. but i do! and among my peers and my age group i do think it's a cause for concern that we are addled with distractible qualities. i think getting distracted is normal and i've talked to my mom about our shared webbing thought patterns and i guess i call into question how natural that is for me. would i have ever developed that if i didn't go online?

and for as much as im leaning into confirmation bias for my own self i do remember as a kid being very sure i didn't have adhd, because i knew some kids who did have it and they read to me as stupid--keep in mind i had already developed a maladaptive narcissistic coping mechanism to protect myself, so i tend to chalk that up to that rather than to me finding my peers beneath me in a genuine way. though maybe i did genuienly find those people stupid in a shameful way. i viewed adhd purely thru a lens of ability, and that is real that the things that matter about adhd is how it affects one's abilities, and as a kid i didn't like to think of myself as unable to do things. it was true that i would get bored of reading books even if i liked them, and i would need to jump into some other activity, but a) i was a kid! and b) i liked drawing and writing my own stories way more than i liked engaging with something someone else made (and i was always very sure that i could do what other people did but better, i guess i can't decide if this is a child ego thing or maladaptive narcissism because i have only recently recognized and tried to grow out of this). i liked reading because i liked visualizing, but i would often become distracted and skip ahead, or distracted and begin daydreaming--these are things my mom also said she did. i rarely got in trouble but when i did it was because i was being disruptive because of my quirks like clicking pens or shaking my legs, and there's also the angle of inattentive adhd or adhd in girls being a little more tempered and not as noticable or diagnosable. but while all of those things are true how are we supposed to feel absolute certainty that i definitely have adhd and have had it since i was a kid? how do we know if that wasn't all byproduct of internet addiction or otherwise internet mental erosion?

and i propose the same question to everyone who uses their adhd as this life-changing, shocking, mind-bending deliverance of the good psych world that has persisted, hidden from their self-perception for years of their lives. yes, it can be true, but with how it's utilized in the common consciousness i just call it into question. there are those tweets about how people with adhd can't do anything, annoyance at its permeation throughout the digitalscape verbalized through little posts poking fun at the phrasing of those adhd information posts, which i also think are funny. and i DO concur that a lot of this stuff is cringe and frankly yeah overdone. i do question how is it possible that we all have it? how is it possible we all have a developmental disability? how is it possible that every single person who has this diagnosis, myself included, can not stop bringing it up whenever they make a mistake or lose focus for 5 seconds? it wasn't paramount for a good chunk of our lives so did it really reframe our self-perception that severely? as a kid i thought people with adhd were morons! even if i didn't mean it and i was just being ignorant or narcissistic, i could have never imagined myself as being just like them. they were loud, obnoxious, had no control over their actions it seemed like--and we can kindly ignore that i had similar experiences that i was not self aware about for a long while, just for the sake of argument. as much as i think that it makes sense why this surge happens and why the annoying 'omg sorry i have adhd' 'btw i have adhd' 'as someone who struggles with adhd...' seems to be the case for every single diagnosed person for not no reason, i do agree with the general perception that it all seems a touch overblown. oh, i don't know, it's just a little too convenient that every single thing is just too difficult for those with adhd. the poor dears.

[hooked-on-elvis]

"The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)" (1969) Directed by Peter Tewksbury; Screenplay by Arnold Peyser and Lois Peyser; Produced by Lester WelchStarring; Cinematography by Jacques R. Marquette; Music by Billy Strange. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — Based on Chautauqua by Day Keene and Dwight V. Babcock. CAST Starring Elvis Presley... as Walter Hale. Co-starring Marlyn Mason... as Charlene; Sheree North... as Nita Bix, or Miss Bix; Edward Andrews... as Johnny; John Carradine as Mr. Drewcolt; Anissa Jones... as Carol Bix; and Nicole Jaffe... as Betty Smith. Guest star Vincent Price... as Mr. Morality. Production ran from late October to mid-December 1968.