#I WENT DOWN A RABBITHOLE IM SORRY

[coreytaylr]

100% legit totally real facts about the historical stede bonnet

no the title is not a lie these are really REAL bc believe it or not, somehow the show made our stede MORE competent than the real one

sources: Real Pirates podcast (ep1, ep2, ep3, ep4, ep5), Dirty Sexy History podcast (with jeremy moss, bonnet's biographer, who LOVES the show, and said it changed his perspective on bonnet's and blackbeard's relationship PLUS he has the stedesrevenge handle on twt)

the library on the revenge was a real thing. the man really did that.

running away from his family to be a pirate

paying a salary to his crew

SHOWING UP IN NASSAU IN FRILLY GENTLEMANLY CLOTHES AND A POWDERED WIG

before bonnet's capture, he ran his ship aground and that's how the english caught up with him BUT the two english ships also ran aground (😭), so they fought each other with their flintlock pistols from behind their ships (until the tides turned and dislodged the english ships first. rip)

adopted an alias when he started pirating so people wouldn't know it was him but he raided ships near Barbados (where he's from), so that didnt turn out well. his solution? burning every ship from Barbados

he only succeeded in his early days bc merchant ships knew they would get off easier if they surrendered

ATTACKED A WARSHIP that whooped his ass so bad he almost died. the remaining crew steered the ship to Nassau where he met blackbeard

blackbeard stole the revenge from him but "allowed" him to stay on BB's ship (either as a guest or as a prisoner, it's not clear, but he def wasn't a crew member bc he didn't have any chores)

he was seen on deck running around in his gowns 😭😭

BB eventually reinstated him as the captain of the revenge and they sailed together for a while

"there is a 4 month period where stede and blackbeard kind of disappeared and no one really knows what they were doing" 👀

BB allowed bonnet to raid on his own which lead to him getting his ass beat by the Protestant Caesar. BB then proceeded to HUNT DOWN THE PROTESTANT CAESAR while flying the RED FLAG (which meant no mercy to anyone on board)

bonnet would raid ships and take what provisions he needed and give the other ship what he didn't need (essentially the library raiding scene lmaoo)

BB betrayed bonnet by raiding his ship and marooning his crew while bonnet was off getting a pardon

SO BONNET SWORE REVENGE AGAINST BB who was at the time, the most feared pirate

this led to him adopting another alias - "he also changes his name, at the time he goes by captain edward's. which is really interesting, I don't know if that's an homage to, you know, edward teach, but.. captain edward's with an "s", that's as if he's.. a possession of captain edward" ONCE AGAIN 👀👀👀👀

HE ESCAPED PRISON BY DRESSING AS A WOMAN

after escaping, he was promised a sloop by some rando. when the rando didnt deliver, bonnet "WROTE HIM A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER REPRIMANDING THE MAN"

that letter led to him being recaptured 😭😭

he was hanged while holding a bouquet of wilted flowers

[kedamonoxx]

[The way I dropped everything and went to tumblr to make my own jax headcanons to satisfy my autistic homo brain?!1?1!?!]

‼️HES 22 YALL IM GOING DOWN THE RABBITHOLE…

Literally😫 (sorry)

Okokillshutupnow ‼️MAINLY MASC PRONOUNS. BUT I CAN DO A FEM ONE LATER FOR MY BBGS<3

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Canonically stated by the creator he isn’t fluffy, I imagine he’s like smooth, like porcelain.

Compliment this gremlin, god it’ll fuel his ego so so much.

I feel like he’d be aroace but my lil idiot self wanna “play” with the polygon rabbit so imma say he just doesn’t get around much so ppl assume he is aroace. He just gives the vibes🤷🏻

God please pet him. Just. Like little pats every so often to make him question wtf is going on.

If y’all r dating he’d be the type to like-not leave you alone. Like a puppy he’d be glued to ur side. Or like stalking you to make sure youre okay.

Has smacked kinger out of the way to see you. Kinger sat there and, delayed went: “o w.”

Calls you stupid names to embarrass you “shmookums”, “bae” , “pretty boy” , “big boy” , “S L U T” <3

Stares at you a lot. Zones out a lot to, you can tell by the staring.

If dating (and with previous consent) he’d smack ur ass randomly just for you to turn around and go “WTF- oh hi jax”

He thinks it’s so funny.

Like- so funny. Magical even.

Finds little trinkets and brings them to you, kinda like a crow. “I bring a shiny thing. For you 🥺” in a sarcastic but also like humorous way.

He blushes, and he knows when he does cause he feels warm. So he runs off to literally cool off or refuses to look at you. (Or anyone) “stfu. I’m fine just- BLUSHING?! ME??? NEVER…k maybe a little- I MEAN NO NOT AT ALL-“*flips off, but gets censored*

Still tries to cuss a lot. Even with the censor it gets his point across. (I mean you hear like the first letter- like “BI****ch”)

Lanky mf. But regardless of him FEELING like porcelain he is very squishy. (Literally rubberhose)

“Haha ur gay” y/n: “we are literally in the middle of making out what is wrong with you???” J: “oh..yeah- right. F**k”

Gives gifts to show love. By literally going into ur room and leaving a shiny pebble with a sticky note with a happy face on it -> 💎😉

Gets bored so he doodles a lot. Nothing much just…layouts of the circus so he can effectively plan pranks. :)

Its 3am imma go to bed love y’all. <3 I’ll do more later

[tibby-art]

Sorry for spamming your notifs just now....I went down a rabbithole..

I FUCKING LOVE YOUR ARTSTYLE RAAAAAAGGG🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️🙏🙏🙏🦅🦅🦅🦅

IM GONNA EAT YOUR ART RAAAAAAAHH😡😡😡💪💪💪😈😈😈😈😈

!!!! thank u cheers 🩵

[nott-another-sideblog]

autistic! theo nott hcs because i want to

in first year he claimed a table at the library and sat at it so many times he couldnt sit anywhere else. one day he comes in to see some random sitting in 'his' seat and accidentally pops the poor lads inkpot out of rage. there was a hasty reparo from theo and a very quick exit after that

has broken so many quills from bending them between his fingers its unreal. he buys them in batches of ten or twenty and has broken all of them by terms end

hates getting his hair cut but also hates feeling his hair on the back of his neck. every month or so its a constant internal turmoil

really likes potions but hates touching the slimy ingredients so often ends up compromising with his partner with him doing the "boring stuff" like precise weighing or stirring to get out of touching the awful textures.

hates divination bcs there are no solid rules. the phrase "its up to interpretation" puts him into fight-or-flight mode

once stupefied someone as a reflex when they grabbed his shoulder. he was very deep into a good book and it scared the shit out of him. do not grab him ever

has learned how to use silencing charms that follow him so he doesnt have to hear the loud noises in the corridoors. this also makes it very hard to get his attention

uses sarcasm often but half of it is by accident. he just doesn't tell them its accidental

"hey, wanna go to x?"

"well. doesnt that sound exciting?"

"no need to get snarky, theo. i'm just saying it could be fun"

*was being completely serious* "fine, then. i suppose there's no harm in trying it"

brilliant poker face purely because he forgets to show emotion half the time in any way thats noticeable if you arent either used to it or looking for it

very twitchy. like, he cannot sit still. he can try. but it wont last long.

'quiet kid' until you ask him about time travel or something he's interested in. then you can't get him to shut up. i am a firm believer in theo nott who wanted to be an unspeakable but was put off by the confines of the ministry so decided to research mad shit by himself

loves the dungeons' low light level. no light means less headaches.

has the exact same breakfast every day: two toasts and a tea. except on holidays and his birthday, in which he has fruit pastries, or on sundays, where he has jam and toast

only found out he was autistic bcs a random kid he was working with asked him if he was 'on the spectrum' and he was so confused on what 'the spectrum' was that he fell down a research rabbithole and realised, oh

"sorry if this is overstepping, but are you on the spectrum?"

"the what"

"yknow, the autism spectrum"

"pardon my english, but what the fuck is an autism"

*two weeks of looking into it later*

*staring into a mirror* "ah"

hated the yule ball.absolutely despised it. went anyway because it was a once in a lifetime thing, but mainly hated it apart from the bit at the end where everyone left.

does that thing where if one side of him taps something, he. has to tap the other side to feel balanced again. if you do it you'll get what i mean, if you dont doit im sorry i cant explain it

loves pressure. sleeps with two blankets so he can feel properly buried

[weirdfreakidiotloser]

went down an accidental rabbit hole 😭 all i wanted to know was how old jenna malone was in Donnie Darko, but ended up finding this about sexual assault. She didnt want to name the assailant which i absolutely understand (and i do feel bad for sharing this) but i love these movies and cant keep watching them not knowing who jr was. Now just figured it was probably not an actor for some reason, but the mention of cancel culture made me rethink that. Of course it may have been sexist of me to assume it was a man, but, ya know. So i googled pretty much every man on the cast + allegations. Nothing until i got to this guy, Wes Chatham (Castor in the hunger games). He ended up having multiple cases. Its not specific as to whether or not it really was him, but i figure someone with multiple allegations probably is responsible for this one too.

Just wanted to share in case anyone else went thru the same thing, and again, im sorry to disrespect her wishes, however, i do think who ever it was (as im only speculating) should be held accountable.

edit: going down this rabbithole also led me to find out about the very recent passing of Donald Sutherland, aka president snow :( rest in peace to a legend, who made the hunger games what they are. 🤍🤍

[kiwisoap]

hi!! i just came across android update required and i am SO into the writing style and ur characters. i saw the sneak peek n im intrigued... do you have any thoughts about them, or any ideas abt other ocs or works

aaaa THANK YOU sorry it took me so long to respond to this!!! i'm really glad you like my silly little guys!!! :-) (also link for anyone who is unfamiliar)

i DO I have SO many thoughts that i haven't had time to write about because i have been

DYING

trying to write my master's thesis (uauauaugh) BUT!!!!!! YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A CHANCE TO SHARE MORE OF MY THOUGHTS THANK YOU

ok the work that the sneak peek is from is. still In Progress. it has been at a standstill for the past uhh little while (through gritted teeth. graduate school...) and its currently the longest of my wips for them in terms of like, completed and edited wordcount. however i have several other wips for them including but not limited to:

mace has to take a group of middle schoolers to a robotics competition (he hates this)

Ajax becomes a bit of a secondhand parts dealer for a small subset of the local android community

Ajax gets fucked UP by an off-label software update

Work shenanigans >:3

I also have just. so many thoughts about them all the time so if you or anyone else is curious i am HAPPY TO ELABORATE FURTHER

As for other ocs or works, i really wanna write more about mav/hana/indy from employee onboarding!!!! They were originally just supposed to be throwaway characters but. i got attached ajsdfkajsdf

I also have a ton of background lore for that story as well cus i got way too into dreaming up stuff about hypothetical research stations for inhospitable environments and went down a rabbithole collecting floorplans of antarctic research stations (Amundsen-Scott south pole station my beloved)

anyway THANK YOU FOR THE ASK

[radsplain]

hello radsplain. sorry if this ask might be better suited for a radfem receipts blog, i think there's some on here like that, but im new to radfem stuff and didn't know where to go. (and i needed somewhere that allowed anon asks. ty <3).

anyways. i went down a rabbithole of "wtf even are some of the porn blogs on here?" and i found a blog that i thought might be a perfect example of how male entitlement, rape culture, pornography, and TIMs are interconnected. it's at lstprv2. just read the pinned post and youll quickly see what i mean.

no this isnt some weird scam or something, i just found the blog in question SO batshit that i needed to share it. like its actually beyond parody. i think it straight up would make people terfs thats how bad it is (tw for like crazy misogyny if u take a look).

Oh fucking hell. I swear, if women knew that a good chunk of the men they’re defending with their lives as their “trans sisters in arms” were into this kind of stuff (and that it plays a definitive hand in their desire to “transition” so they can embody their fetish full-time) they’d be absolutely beside themselves.

The fact that this scrote has a forced feminization/detransition kink ONLY for “trans men” and specifically likes the idea of “dykebreaking” is sickening to me. But truly none of it is surprising. I mean, there’s just SO much more to that post I could unpack but I’m afraid I’d lose too many braincells trying to scrub the mental images out of my mind afterwards.

[furiousgoldfish]

My family are okay, and it could be a lot worse than it becoming more ... influenced these days? They've been listening much more frequently to gateway alt right stuff (in front of me at least) and gone a bit heavy in the religion aspect of stuff. Had a bit of a panic attack when they listened to some anti-lgbt stuff in front of me (in the closet)

They themselves were abused in their own childhoods (though they definitely wouldn't put it that way + normalized back when they were growing up) so maybe i should cut them some slack? Apart from occasional slaps on my hand and when i was younger they used to bang my head with knuckles a bit if they were really mad. Theyve apologised for it but do mention how back in their day it was way worse.

I dont know i guess ive been thinking much more about the future recently and how theyd HATE it if they found out some of the stuff i really think. Lots of yelling. Its embarrassing to talk about this with friends.

This sounds dumb when i put it into words but for years now ive been forced to keep a diary. I liked the idea of having one and writing down about my self so i went with it until one day i wrote about how mad i was at them. They read it despite me telling them not to and made me apologise and write down how sorry i was for doing that. There was a lot of yelling. I cried. They openly read what i write now and kinda force me to do it. ngl I kinda hate the thing now. Was that wrong of them?

maybe this is too vague for a checklist but request for one about signs your family is going down a conspiracy rabbithole/signs your parents are victims of misinformation would be nice. This ended up rambly im sorry.

Anon, I am so sorry, this sounds like an absolutely terrifying experience. You're blameless in all of this, you're perfect as you are, but your parents are actively participating in a hate group against your own person, in front of you, consistently exposing you to that narrative, and that is like being in the enemy's lair, isn't it? It has to affect your well being negatively, to hear those sorts of things, it's like you're forced every day to listen to perspectives of people who absolutely despise you, think you shouldn't exist or be the way you are, and who are ready to go and hurt anyone who is like you.

No, you do not need to cut them any slack. Were you any of their parents who did those things to them? No? Were you the founder of the culture where were hit, or force children to hit themselves? I don't think it's possible, since you weren't even born when that shit started. So your responsibility for this is zero. Yet these two people are coming at you asking you to be grateful they're not doing worse to you. Apparently by the logic of 'we had it bad, now you have to be grateful when we do bad things to you'. As if.

No person or being who was abused in the past, regardless of how badly, has the 'free card' to now inflict similar abuse on you. That is completely ridiculous and if that were true, than anyone abused would be going around hurting everyone else and it would be 'fine' because that person was abused as well. That kind of thinking only brings forth more abuse and trauma and nothing else. You did nothing to deserve any of that shit. If their parents hurt them, they should go ahead and take it up with their own parents. Except, they don't, do they? Because they cowards and prefer blaming and directing it towards their child.

If you had a kid, would you want that kid to be grateful you're hurting them slightly less than your parents are doing to you? It sounds insane, doesn't it. You'd want your kid to be happy and safe from ANY abuse, not paying for whatever anyone else has done to you in the past. Because that kid is innocent and did nothing to warrant bearing the burden of your past. And you are that kid right now, you are asked to bear the burden of the abuse that got absorbed into culture, abuse that your parents suffered and abuse they feel entitled to inflict onto you, and for what? It doesn't make anything better or fairer. It doesn't make the world a better place if you're getting hurt in it. If your parents think it's normal they can do it to their parents, thats none of your business. You're a kid brought into that family by no will of your own, subjected to horrifying shit and told you should bear it like it's normal. It's not normal. No child deserves this.

I also have to say that banging your own head with knuckles is especially vicious and victim-blaming abuse to do, I'm sickened by the very thought, and if they felt sorry for that, they would have never done it. It sounds like they'll do just anything in anger and expect 'sorry' to fix it. Sorry doesn't fix abuse. They shouldn't have slapped your wrists either.

The last part of your ask really had me in shock and horror, because that was such an intimate invasion of your privacy, and for them not even even feel sorry or ashamed for invading your private boundaries like that, but to be enraged you dared to feel anger? It's disgusting what they did. They should be so deeply ashamed. Any normal people would realize there's something wrong with them if their child is so mad and would take it as a sign to do some introspection and to evaluate whether they've been unfair, cruel, abusive or hateful to the kid, that is if they already went so far to read your diary without your permission, that they forced you to have!

Their reactions prove that they're so dead-set on controlling you, they even want to control your inner thoughts, convince you that you have no right to anger, no right to human feelings or human expressions, that you should be like a robot who only listens to commands and reacts in the way they want to. It's dehumanizing, disgusting and insanely cruel. You're a human being who's been hurt. Of course you're angry. You have the right to anger. You should have the right to express it in any way you want to, not just to write it in your private diary, but to yell and scream and fight back. But you got punished and had to take your own words back, when you did the least possible expression of it, writing it down privately.

Here's a post that feels relevant, explaining why it's wrong for parents to suppress anger in their children. Here's another one on importance of anger.

They know that any sign of your anger is a proof of their abuse, and that's why they're fighting so hard to suppress it. If they put that energy in trying to be good parents, they could have been great parents to you. They made their choices. Just based on this shameless and gross invasion of privacy and trying to control even your thoughts, it sounds like they have narcissistic tendencies, and they should not be trusted with a child.

I wish I could give you the checklist you asked for, but I have no experience whatsoever on parents, or people, who are being sucked into conspiracy theories, I think I've read articles about it, on topics like QAnon, explaining the phenomena, I'll try to find the post explaining why do people fall for conspiracy theories in general. Here it is. I hope it helps.

If anyone has more resources on conspiracy theories or knows about a checklist, please link it to this post.

[voidwritesstuff]

Ive seen other people post their ISM ocs so why not add mine into the mix. Jerico Castro Aka The Blaze//The ember.

The weapon for this level is a Fire proof weighted blanket that Desmond uses to hug The Ember which is blaze's inner child

Set in a medieval/dream Core village with Woods, you would follow blaze around, evading the fireballs/Fire breath she throws at you (n trust me. They HURT). The player would need to follow the scorchmarks around and hug The Ember until she calms down and shows to the blaze that desmond is no danger towards them both.

The Blaze: represents my ocs impostor syndrome,anger issues and emotionally bad upbringing she had during their life, which had left her a raging Ball of anger and Fire.

The Ember: represents Jerico's acceptance of her issues and instead of keeping all her anger in, they let it go and move on with their life as a now uni student. Also represents her burnt out gifted kid side who is just so tired and could do with a good hard cry.

->Jerico Castro is genderfluid and Bisexual.

->The Flash and Rainbow seem to have an appreciation If not a crush on Blaze, and during the level you can see rainbow leaving flowers (sunflowers especially) for blaze to find, and you can even hear his lamenting when he realizes that giving a fireball a bunch of flammable flowers was not a good idea.

->this crush of rainbow is strictly reserved for rainbow himself. Desmond sees jerico as a patient ,having an almost mentor relationshipp because he doesnt want her to live what he lived as a fellow burnt out gifted kid.

->While chasing Blaze around youll see her walk to the edge of the forest to meet with Flash and hear them have a little chat, flash scoops her in his hands and since hes made of metal the Fire doesnt hurt him, his spotlight nuzzles the head of Blaze and he sets her back down to then dissapear back into the Woods.

->Her respective greek mythos is mainly a sphynx,though when angered she takes the attributes of an european dragon (wings,horns,tails And sharp teef)

->desmond would start in the cementery(seeing blaze bury her last psicologistp,then up to an art store, a record store where you see a small scene of Lucas and Jerico chatting over music and vinyls, then a mall (where you'd see her hang out with Sorrowful [@theallenshorefangirl oc] and the watcher) and finally end up in Blaze's house.

->Blaze was adopted by two family Friends of her Bio family, Raymond Castro and Eryz Bloom, which you see in her ending hugging her and leaving beautiful sunflowers instead of scorchmarks

->Shes an overworked animation uni student.

->her tape is between Lucas and the final boss, mainly because her arc mirrors Desmond's life when he was her age, its meant to represent desmond healing his past trauma by helping others who went through something similar as he did.

Tape: cw for mentions of someone dying of cancer,shitty family, anger issues and religion.

Desmond: so...what brings you here?

Jerico: anything and everything, ive had a rough life so far. Dont get me wrong! Ive had good and bad,but the bad is really bad (chuckles) but mainly? My last psicologist died of cancer...and I heard you were good so...here I am

Desmond: thats...awful im so sorry for your loss

Jerico: much appreciated, im and was raised catholic so...I Like to think shes up there in the clouds watching over me...but I felt like she was the only one that would stand up against my biological family, they were assholes you know? I could never be enough for them and i--(clenches fists, gets really tense)(sigh, body relaxes) sorry, sorry, I have anger issues and its hard sometimes

Desmond: dont worry, I know how that feels. I have to say that you seem to know yourself a lot

Jerico: wise beyond my years, I had time to look into myself even before I started therapy. I dread change but it comes naturally to my for some reason, im a whole can of worms, Mr.Wales

Desmond: desmond,please. And dont worry,im sure we'll find out just how deep the rabbithole goes, patience and Grace

Jerico: (playfull scoff) patience, people in my life have always told me I need more patience...(blinks a few times) I was thinking out loud,sorry. But I actually quite like that phrase, I think ill start to use it

Desmond: see? Progress already (polite chuckle)

Jerico: (laughs) I think we're going to get along just fine, Desmond.

[these-godforsaken-halls]

hi i just wanna say i love quality entertainment so much like you don't understand im going completely feral over your writing idk what you've done to me. i would be writing this as a comment on ao3 but unfortunately i am very Afraid so im doing it here instead because this feels easier somehow idk uhhh. i feel like i haven't properly communicated just how fantastic i find your writing tho like hoLY FUCk??? i was reading just going insane insane insane like daMN. and im not even that into hermitcraft like i just watch grian sometimes and then yesterday i went down a bit of an animatic rabbithole and then a tumblr rabbithole and found the excerpt u posted of the invisible boat bit and then i was like man i gotta read that fic it sounds awesome and dude you delivered SO HARD ARGH. anyway sorry if this is weird i felt like gushing im going to go now

-🕷️

oh my god... oh my god!!?? this isn't weird at all this has made my entire night 😭❤️❤️ thank you SO MUCH for the kind words i am so so so happy that you like the fic!!!! i've been working really hard on it, and i'm really proud of how it's turning out (some of the scenes that yall haven't seen yet, LORD i can't WAIT) and this just. gahahahdjchnfhdd im very flattered and im just that much more excited to keep working on it. thank you thank you thank you

[whumpshaped]

wait im sorry scratch that. i went down the rabbithole of pretty arabic names and found This. and doesnt he look like a rayan to u

s..soft touch.....

Are you gonna give caretaker a name 🥺

ignore genders for now (or maybe forever /j) do u like any of these

[sadnesshotline]

baku bae

omfg i went to get a bakugo meme then realised i didnt acc have a good funny one then went to pinterest and added pins to my board for like 30mins and forgot abt this completely

[petewentzisblack1312]

I LOVE SomeMoreNews. In high school in 2016-2018 I was very right wing/libertarian and I used to listen to Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Blaire White, Paul Joseph Watson etc and idk I had an exacerbation of my mental health, I dated an incel and broke up with him (it’s a very long story I won’t bore you with), and then covid happened and I went to nursing school and I started questioning everything that I was told those few years. I mean I was young and impressionable and suppressing my sexuality and trying so hard to be a pick-me-girl which led me to be very angry and that’s how I think I ended up in that sphere of things. ANYWAY SomeMoreNews is very much to thank to bringing me to the left. During quarantine I watched EVERYTHING they put out and idk it really helped me realize where I was wrong. Plus it’s fucking funny and Cody’s delivery is amazing. Idk I just really love them.

Jordan Peterson for me was the one that was very hard to let go of because his self help stuff is… adequate, as Cody says, like it’s generic psychology stuff and like you should expect him to be adequate to even good at psychology since he has a PhD in the topic. It helped me during high school and I really took the book and his lectures to heart but I remember watching that clip that they put in the video where Jordan was hesitant to express support for gay marriage and idk… as a 16 year old girl questioning her sexuality who already didn’t have supportive parents it was so hard to hear from someone I looked up to but I swallowed it down and kept watching him and supporting him. Idk. It was very hard and painful during that time and as a leftist now I just feel healthier because I don’t have to constantly compromise my identity and I’m not as angry at myself for things I can’t control. Anyway. SomeMoreNews is amazing and the episode on jordan was 100/10. I recommend it to everybody now.

i am very very glad to hear that you feel healthier now. like thats the most important thing to me in this whole ask, that youre doing better. im glad some more news was a boon to you. im also glad you got something out of petersons self help, but im sorry you fell down the rabbithole of the rest of petersons whole deal, and im sorry you had to experience his weird conditional homophobia. ultimately, im happy youre healthier and happier now!

also smn is genuinely very funny. i love codys delivery of virtually everything, like hes so expressive in the dryest possible way. love to see what new and exciting ways cody k johnston says "Fair and Balanced™��®" i really liked the jordan peterson episode as evidenced by me finding the time to watch it twice in two days. then again maybe thats just my weirdo ritual of watching some more news episodes over and over ad infinitum. theyre very good at deconstructing the rhetorical tricks different grifters use, which is really helpful for learning how to combat them just generally. theyre not the only ones who do this but i like the way they go about doing so. its just easier for my brain to grab onto after a couple watches. after watching their jordan peterson video and hearing them dissect how dr lobster tries to sell himself as a man without ideology i felt like i had enough context to rewatch abby thorne of philosophy tubes video on jorbson b porbsons ideology. it helps that smn plays clips of what theyre talking about and then breaks them down i think?

obviously a throughline in a lot of right wing grifters rhetoric is that they start with their feeling and justify it with cherry picked 'facts', which helps me understand that conservatism is an ideology based on pathos, and that that is the front you should probably argue on if you want to change minds. seeing it deconstructed over and over again in different examples really makes it easier to identify. it really goes to show you that the best way to change someones mind isnt by playing their game but arguing on a completely different front.

i will say something i noticed is that they do a fair bit of "im inside your walls and can see you" type humor so if thats triggering for you id be mindful. its normally throwaway jokes so that may be better or worse for you.

[seaswalllow]

#worldbuilding my beloved#i wonder if theyve gotta take courses that would generally be for veterinary sciences irl? and also like. dealing w slime hybrid patients#how do you deal with a sick slime. what do you do in that situation ghslfjs#dream smp citizens

@/jjjjjjjjeffrey's tags raise a very good fucking point

dsmp doctors and nurses are probably also required to know basic like. veterinary sciences, i imagine??? there's no way around it given like half the fucking population is a hybrid of some kind

basic physiology of what they might run across, probably, Expanded Pharmacology [oh gods potions here would be a nightmare too lololol if their tech is in the 50's, going off of prior headcanons floating around, i don't want to think about their medicine especially because people would probably be like "meh it's fine i'll just chug down a healing potion and be done with it"], etc

and listen i hc that slimes might be unusual but they're so resilient that it's hard for them to come down with anything as is, you just kinda chuck meds at them and let them absorb it, they don't have any particular weaknesses which helps

charlie slimecicle walks in for his flu vaccine or whatever they're circulating and they just sigh and think hey at least they don't have to worry abt missing a vein

undead hybrids are okay-ish, just keep 'em out of the sun, don't give them any healing pots, know which of the decay is normal for them and what has to be trimmed back to regrow

nether or end hybrids? particularly endermen or blazes? hoo boy THAT'S going to be fun, there's probably specialists for those too :fear: good luck if you're one of the rarer hybrids [boss hybrids, popular as those are in headcanon]

i had a point here and it's just gone now but that dsmp clinic is not paid enough to deal with the bullshit of the server. the fifth citizen walks in with those weird red bloodvines on them and they have to take a crash course on what to do in an epidemic against a magical fucking hivemind parasite that lets you speak in moonrunes and turns you red or bleaches you.

as a nursing major i feel so bad for the like three doctors on that server in those memes lmfaooo healthcare is so wild as is i can't imagine adding magic and hybrids to the mix

specialists in different hybrid types- wing specialists, dental specialists in handling not just human teeth but tusks and fangs, etc, undead and nether specialists

can you overdose on potions?? how many times have they seen c!Schlatt be dragged into the ER for suspected alcohol poisoning (the tabloid is all the talk the next morning), having to rapidly call up other specialists like "hey okay do i need to give this skeleton hybrid a healing potion or a harming potion, im trying not to get sued because im pretty sure that courthouse in the sky is violating several OSHA regulations"

[lilacborrower]

heres a bunch of headcanons for the niche dance mfa au that i have 1.5k of disjointed thoughts about and will probably never finish. dance research is fascinating! highly recommend going down a wikipedia rabbithole or looking into dance journals!

under the cut bc this got v v long

dex is a Big Ass nerd about choreology. 

“what is choreology” u know how music has a notation system? so u can look at the score and learn the piece from it? choreology is that but for dance. labanotation/laban movement analysis and benesh notations are some big ones.

during undergrad he went thru a lot of character development and realized that Ballet Is Not The Foundation of All Dance and learned that most prominent figures in modern dance were Very Bad People.

his research is in responsible/ethical use of eurocentric theories created by Very Bad People with Very Bad Ideas ingrained in them. specifically labanotation. because rudolf laban uhhhh really sucked but labanotation is incredibly useful.

went to like. uiowa for his undergrad. a school with a dance program but not a Dance School

yes he is a certified labanotator

please talk to me about choreology it is so cool

nursey and contact improv

NURSEY AND CONTACT IMPROV

his thesis work is specifically site specific contact improv (hi leaf piles)

florida state. “wait hey i didnt know fsu had a dance program” correct! florida state has a dance CONSERVATORY. how do i know this? i googled “expensive dance conservatories us”.

gets in lots of fights w dex abt a) BA vs BFA and regular programs vs conservatories and b) “how the fuck is improvisation a thesis, nurse. no. listen. no--LISTEN--it’s not a piece, it changes every time--”

he has every single issue of contact quarterly

chowder

ok im torn here

either dance as a means of conflict resolution

or like. making shit inspired by aquatic creatures

usc glorya kaufman school of dance

or maybe alonzo king LINES training program?

ballet background it suits him idk

resolving conflict in an embodied way has like. so much potential.

bunhead ransom

“im still thinking we could make a piece out of this”

ballet

BALLET

ballet and biomechanics/kinesiology and figuring out how to most efficiently/safely do ballet things

“no no don’t do that stretch it puts too much pressure on the hip capsule try this stretch for your psoas instead”

he danced with The Royal Ballet before he retired and decided to go back to school

undiagnosed test anxiety also applies to “stage fright”

and thesis reviews

cultivating a healthy mental and physical relationship with ballet!! his minors ballet class is the best bc it instills 0 baggage in his students

holster

i know the film minor is fanon but this boy loves the tech side of dance

projections! motion capture! fancy shit like that!

helps ransom w his thesis by sticking him in motion capture gear to figure out what exactly his body is doing

his undergrad was a film degree im sorry

jack

high school was the School of American Ballet

and then he burned out before he was picked to join the company

and then he got his bachelors in history!

and now hes studying vernacular dance & national identity in wwii

has Opinions on george balanchine

bitty

eating disorders in the dance world

also pie

somehow hes getting his MFA in dance with a concentration in pie

aerial silks background

someone please draw this boy doing silks

bonds w jack over george balanchine Opinions

lardo

if shes writing the grant.......shes getting the grant

unmatched grantwriting skills

she WILL get the funding for your project

anyway shes focusing on dance management

shitty

the effects of psychedelics on performance and creative process

with a side of

how do the performing bodies change the interpretation of the work bc everything outside of the skinny white ballerina carries a Political Weight whether we like it or not so how do we combat that and change that

but like. in conjunction with getting high.

because its shitty

[damagedsmile]

//Hullo hullo everyone, just flying in here with an update & I apologise for taking so long about it.

So its been a tough time for everyone with C-19. Ireland is going into another lock down. I hope yall are taking care & regardless of your opinion on the matter, I hope yall are being respectful & safe.

Life has been abit topsy-turvy for me. Im learning that grief is just a series of moments where, when you least expect it, you spontaneously combust with tears. Ive had good days but a lot of days where it do be just hanging on by your nails & wondering when the rabbithole ends. So basically I'm at a point where I really don't know how I'm going to feel the next hour, the next day... yanno. I've had moments where I feel ready to return here & do something small but that feeling always changes to the opposite; I'm being careful with discerning what is a manic whim & what is real. I think that's a very important skill for anyone in this position or with mental health issues to learn, so im learning something new this past while.

I have not been able to write anything or draw for months now. Its very frustrating & depressing in itself as I am a creative person & often feel smothered when unable to create. I just have no energy or ideas & am very resentful of myself for feeling things that disrupt my hobbies. But I know i need to feel & go through this so am not pressuring myself. I'm focusing on keeping myself clean & fed & practicing good sleep hygiene; once I can master these three fundamentals, I can focus on other things.

Its funny, I think, that life experiences can alter you so much that you forget how to be human in that you find yourself forgetting to eat & unable to perform daily self-care routines & unable to show love towards those you know you love dearly. To sum it up, I think its fair to say this is the lowest point of my life & its been both horrible & eye-opening. I feel like a burn victim, without skin, everything hurting & tiresome & feeling seperate from myself & my former life. In that same perverse way, that part of me is abit thankful for c-19 because it means I don't have people coming close to me & hugging me & generally being sympathetic: I find im loathing that behaviour now. I don't want to be the person whom suffered a great loss that everyone needs to comfort, I just want to be a person that people treat like normal.

I opened the door the other day to a Traveller woman trying to sell me bedsheets & she said "ah take that, it'd be a grand present for your ma" to which I said, "my ma's dead". It was easier to say than I thought it would be & it was actually a relief to say it & receive a fumbling apology, "I'm sorry, my ma's dead too." I appreciated that more than receiving a hug or a pat on the back. Not that a stranger would do such things, but yanno. We had a moment like saluting each other & I bought pillows off her, the end.

I hope I'm making sense. I hope no one takes offence to this. This is just my feelings, my journey. I've been calling myself a child of grief, making this journey to a port in a storm where i can start a new life on that port & begin anew once I've shed this old skin thats dried out from salty tears.

I've been playing TS4. I started the Asylum Challenge on medium difficulty. I have Joker there ofc with 6 others. I did have 8 Sims but Jared Leto died in the pool (he went for a swim instead of sleeping ffs). We've had 1 Asylum baby that was adopted away for obvious reasons. Currently Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way is trying to get with Rob Zombie's creepy twin, Bob Zombie. Joker is hitting it off with my Sim whose aesthetic is inspired by Emilie Autumn. I called her Kathryn Wheel cuz of the torture device/HIM song.

I got two rat kittens for Valentines Day (not sure if I've told you before). They're Fancy Rats but with blue colouring, which I've never seen before in breeds. I called them MizPah & BoBoBetty. The Precious got a new snake, a BEL he calls Helvita but i call her Boo.

I got my hands tattooed a wee while ago which wasn't as painful as my neck but painful enough that I'm relieved theyre done & healed up. I'll try remember to post pics whenever. My memorys been a bit scatty with meds. Im also working on losing weight again so I've been very tired & grumpy when I'm not huddling in a nest of blankets growling at The Precious when he enters my space. The only way he earns my trust each eve is to give me coffee & tell me im being very good. Is this a joke? YOU be the judge...

Anyway. Im alive & still working on myself. I thank yall for your patience & support, it means a lot to me knowing my friends on here are rooting for me. I'm toasting yall rn with my iced coffee (still trying to perfect the recipe but im getting there). I hope yall are doing well & are happy, safe, & healthy. Remember I love yall & wish you all the very best, even if I'm not present or feeling sociable. We'll all get through this, i promise you. Remember that you only really see light when things are very dark 💜