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Actually, I think this does link in with a wider conversation that I have been thinking for a while Tumblr maybe needs to hear.
There's a common meme on this site now that no one here has any reading comprehension skills. The best one is, of course, the original "No offense but reading comprehension on this site is piss poor/How dare you say we piss on the poor" post, which gave rise to the nickname "pissing-on-the-poor website". There's also the "I like pancakes/How dare you say waffles are terrible" one. Both of these are great, because they're silly jokey ways to show two closely related phenomena that are probably the commonest ways to fail a reading comprehension check.
The first is someone reading certain catchphrases or buzzwords in the post, and based on their own biases or prior experiences or whatever else, their brain simply fills in what it reckons the poster is saying on the topic. Instead of reading the rest of the sentence and digesting it, the reader then just uses their assumption as the interpretation, and reacts to that.
The second is closely related, because it also uses biases and prior experiences to to interpret the post, but rather than ignoring what the OP is actually saying, it instead performs a series of gymnastic leaps to construct a whole new assertion on the OP's behalf that simply isn't there.
There's also a third, of course; that one is people being so eager to feel smug and superior over someone they perceive as Bad that they wilfully assume the OP is stupid or being serious when they're actually joking. And if the reader hadn't been so blinded by their desire to get to look down on someone, they'd have seen the very obvious tells, sometimes even including sentences like "Obviously this is a joke." (I think we have all seen examples of these. Also, in a bid to avoid as many reading comprehension fails here as possible, this does not include misunderstandings borne entirely of neurodiverse struggles to parse intentions; but, neurodiverse people are just as likely as neurotypicals to have ego play a part in their misinterpretation of others, and that is what this point is about.)
And the thing is... actually, we are all capable of any of these. I imagine a sizable chunk of people reading until this point were probably thinking "Lol, yeah, people are so stupid," but na, nage, I'm not having that. Literally everyone does these sometimes. And it becomes a particular risk when the topic under discussion is something that might brush against an issue that is a pressure point for you, like a social justice talking point that you are forever having to argue with internet strangers about, for example. Your brain holds schemas! And sometimes it likes to pattern match things before it deigns to tell you about its findings! And that can hit you right in the emotions, which if they are strong enough, really can shut down all rational thought.
But. This brings me to the real point of the post.
Because the thing is, we have all saddled up and gone to war under these conditions, or at the very least been strongly tempted to. And a vital skill that literally everyone has to learn, sooner or later, is:
Before you hit 'reply', double check the post to make sure you fucking understood it.
And that does not mean "simply re-read, confirm your bias, carry on." It means, "Is it possible to read this post from the point of view of someone who doesn't intend it the way I've taken it? If I put myself in the shoes of an innocent, could they still have written these words? Is there another interpretation for these phrases?"
And you do have to do this step. You simply do have to. Because if your desire is to 'clap back' and call someone a gargling knobskin made of garbage, fuck me sideways but you must see that it is imperative that you check if they actually deserve that kind of treatment first. You cannot spend your time claiming that we must all choose to be kind and then not bother doing your due diligence before screaming a person's various and assorted bigotries at them. If you misread it, and they were innocent - you are the raging aggressive cunt in this situation.
It does not matter that you reacted from an emotional place of normally having to defend yourself either, by the way. Sure, that makes the quality of your human soul better than that of the average Redditor who just enjoys anonymously hurting people, I guess? But it's also irrelevant. If you messaged someone and called them a misogynist because you performed several mental somersaults and landed on your own sore spot when they meant no such thing, you are the attacker. You owe them an apology. And yeah, sure, you can explain your over-reaction as the product of your normal experiences if you like, but that is only an explanation, not an excuse. You are still the asshole here. You still need to apologise and mean it.
And you could have avoided it if you'd done that due diligence, as you should have. If you're going to take a swing, make sure it's the right target. This was once described to me as donkey people - they don't think, they just kick. This is admittedly a little unkind to donkeys, who always do their due diligence, but I feel it's an apt metaphor.
TL;DR: If you feel moved to angrily reply to something, first make sure you've interpreted it right. Don't be a donkey person. And if you ask for clarification, people are innocent until proven guilty. Ask nicely. If they are a bigot, you can then smelt them for parts.
#I reckon anyway#mileage may vary I suppose#but this has certainly made my life a lot happier to stop assuming everyone was attacking me#and to stop getting into pointless fights with no good or satisfying ending#this has been this week's Gospel According to Elanor
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part 1 (on VA and being better than humans)
part 2 (on welt and being just a human)
#remember how in second eruption welt keeps getting covered in blood edgelord style whenever he fights??? yeah#wait first off#hi3#honkai impact 3rd#welt yang#void archives#voidwelt#my doodles#okay anyways. VA isnt human but they haven't been in a “human” body for very long so i reckon there's a lot of new experiences to make#and. i dont think he gets to be dignified enough NOT to be whiny about it. cmon. itd be so funny#second of all sure welt is human but that dude's real used to not giving a shit abt how he's doing and acting like a robot instead of a per#cuz he's got more “important” shit to do#(that's so fucking real of him man ME TOO BESTIE)#also as i told kai: that last panel is not a look of surprise or horror. i tagged this as voidwelt for a reason#i think we all know what kinda look this is#edit: and why tf would they be fighting sky people? why can they bleed? dont ask me im here to draw gay people covered in blood#edit 2: oh my god i didnt add the blood in the first panel. THATS WHAT THE JOKE REVOLVES AROUND???
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thinking abt the fact that the gods send literal sixth graders out to do their bidding and for some reason it works
#this is obviously abt percy jackson#just like thjnk abt it#sixth grade me would’ve talked so much that my quest mates would’ve abandoned me in the woods#like i kid u not#sixth grade me was a force to be reckoned with#but i actually could not order subway by myself so how am i supposed to retrieve a whole lightning bolt#anyway#percy jackson#pjo#pjo tv show#percy jackon and the olympians#riordanverse#lynx talks
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Tried my hand at animating something in MMD today! I'm not an animator by trade so this is one of my first times doing so 'properly' lmao, hope y'all like it! :)
#reckon I could get away with pretending it's in-game? XDD#roxirinhsr#honkai star rail#aventurine#hsr aventurine#hsr#roxirinart#roxirinanimates#new tag I guess! :D#don't ask me what he's being woeful about idk#Aventurine finding out that the casino's closed#hsr animation#aventurine fanart#I guess it's fanart?#Aventurine fan animation#IDK ANYWAY GOODNIGHT IT'S 3AM
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you could never hurt me
#the top one is a little misleading theyre not beefing there^^ imesh was just like wow you let me in so close i could literally kill you :o#elias: nuh huh#anyways. it's two am and i spent the last 20 minutes writing captions for this#GOOD NIGHT#vtm#vampire the masquerade#vtmb#/elias#artists on tumblr#toreador#art#/imesh#hunter the reckoning#< i guess. i havent read the hunter books yet because i dont know which edition to go with#vampire#scarabocchi#like and subscribe for more radioactive toxic vampire relationships#it took 5 minutes to actually show up on my dash when i tell you i got SCARED#oc lore#elias lore
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well? are you coming in or not? ꩜⋆.°⭑
sweater design inspired by @toothflowers
link to toothflower's post: https://www.tumblr.com/toothflowers/767798306930933760/another-completely-not-michael-distortion-inspired?source=share
amazing sweater btw and thank you for getting me out of art slump :D
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#RAHHHH I SPEEDRAN THIS#anyway thank you toothflowers fr#i don't think i quite did the sweater justice but i reckoned he would like it. so.#art#artists on tumblr#my art#tma#michael distortion#the distortion#the magnus archives#magnus archives#tma fandom#fanart#tma fanart#tma podcast#tma michael#michael shelley tma#michael tma#michael#michael shelley#michael the distortion#getting increasingly frustrated at myself for not completing other pieces. but hey that's life i suppose#tma the distortion#the spiral#spiral#eyestrain#tw bright colors#eyestrain tw#cw eyestrain#bright colors
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I know this might seem like a wild crossover, but so far as I'm concerned it makes perfect sense. >:D
#technoblade#maedhros#silmarillion#silm#I've been listening to dramatic songs again~#this time it was 'ticking away' which is a valorant mv thingy#That and league of legends do very epic sounding music#so its great for thinking of stuff like this#this was started on the premise of 'they gotta look Terrifying'#and really cool at the same time#:D#I'm not entirely sure how I managed to do this?#but I did.#And I Like It.#EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH#>:D#silmarillion fanart#hehe#sons of feanor#kinda#one of them anyway#technoblade fanart#RIP Technoblade#Technoblade Never Dies#HEH#I reckon I captured the 'spirit of terror' with these two#like. If I encountered these guys with their weapons in hand#I would run in the opposite direction-#YE
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i just think
#excuse me. sorry. mommy? sorry. mommy- sorry. mo-#veilguard spoilers#look.#did i beat mythal into the ground? mayhaps. absolutely.#do i also find her hot? yes.#let a woman be evil#god i hate her. i love her.#''she was the best of them'' the bar was in the fuckin ground solas????#i wasnt gonna go into my opinion on her but here we go#i hate this woman. i love this woman. she's manipulative. she's not sorry about anything at all. redeeming quality Where?#some kinda spirit turns into a woman and starts a thing w elgarnan and peer pressures a spirit of wisdom to take a body against its will#hatches lyrium dagger rendering titans tranquil plan to end the earthquakes bc she and her ppl where fucking??? stealing their blood????#but again convinces wisdom spirit to do it/work out the details she just does the actual ritual everyone goes yay mythal!#gets murdered by her husband/other???children/siblings? whatever the fuck they are to each other#yada yada fast forward like 7k years#she's a swamp witch now talking in riddles and laughing at inappropriate times fdksjfksdla#and traumatizing young daughters she continues to give to birth to#and turns into a dragon like. literally. every. game. this bitch cannot stop turning into a dragon. it's her favorite thing to do#godforbid a woman have hobbies anyway#so then she's slowly amassing power and hinting at a RECKONING REVENGE bc she was BETRAYED and she knows solas is gonna pull some shit#but then she just lets him kill her/take her glowy blue essence and there's no reckoning#no revenge#she appears to her latest daughter as a ghost and bestows 1 last curse upon her:#secondhand embarrassment for realizing she shemsplained to the dreadwolf himself#for some reason she materializes from the statue and goes ''sorry you felt that way solas'' and vanishes again#hilar. iconic. go girl give us nothing.#i love her i hate her that's how it is.
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Every time I think Sasuke’s clear and obvious homosexual obsession with Naruto might be maybe a little one sided, Naruto will do something absolutely insane like walk into his childhood room after two years, grab his dusty picture of Sasuke, gently brush it off, fingers lingering for a moment over Sasuke’s face, and lovingly whisper “Sasuke…I’m home…”
#n-naruto….on god what the hell is wrong with you#SITTING ON HIS BED HOLDING SASUKES PHOTO AND WHISPERING HIS NAME???#H O W does ANYONE watch this fucking show and now IMMEDIATELY clock these two#I’m at the point where I’m starting to think it’s .. just what the author intended#like….who wrote this. and why#I could easily look it up but my fav explanation is ‘person into shonen who had or had a crush on his childhood best friend’#‘and is still working some things out in regards to it’#anyways#I have a theory that this is why classic anime ‘bro’ types don’t like sasuke#they are unable to reckon with the sheer magnetic force of their extremely obvious love for each other#I think it scares them#DOESNT SCARE ME BITCH#NARITO GO GET HIM BACK FROM ORROCHIMARU SO YOU GUYS CAN KISS ITS IMPORTANT#naruto#sasunaru
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(lesbian noises) anyways so. Paris and Grace thank you so much dead reckoning I adore them
#dead reckoning#m:i7#paris#grace#grace mission impossible#paris mission impossible#pls give me last names#anyways i love women#mission: impossible dead reckoning part 1#mission: impossible dead reckoning#pom klementieff#hayley atwell#mission impossible#mission: impossible
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the world is yours, literally 💭🎀🧁
so if you've been on this side of tumblr or any girly self improvement etc. side of social media, there's a high chance you've discovered the statement "you are the creator of your own reality" or "the world is yours" or something along those lines at some point. it sounds so far fetched when you first hear it, without any thought going into its true meaning, but the reason this is used so much is because it is true.
we are our lives. you are the world around you. everything in our lives is intrinsically entwined in ways we can't explain and the biggest connection out of all of them is us and life. it sounds obvious and self explanatory, sure, but when you think of it on a deeper level and dig into the complexity of the notion, like most things, you'll find it holds a lot stronger of a stance in your life.
have you ever noticed how so many metaphors for your life and bettering yourself reference and relate to nature and the world? "treat urself like garbage and the flies will come”, “water your own garden before anyone else’s”, “the darker the night, the brighter the stars”, “needing good roots to grow", they all relate to the sun and the sky and the sea and the world and the ground we stand on. they all relate to earth.
have you ever noticed how when people free themselves from bad situations, their reality and their world around them seems to get better too? how it seems to shift along with them?
because we are our world. every building we've built, every concept we've invented, every life we've created and every life we've lost, everything on this earth down to the last blade of grass was once nothing, but once we began to discover and create and flourish and bloom (see, the analogy still stands even there), the world grew along with us, and still is every day.
in truth, the world is in no set way, shape or form. it is not a singular entity. that's why your life can be remade and reshaped so easily within the blink of an eye (but that's for another time) because the world you know is solely your reality. that's the reason everybody has a different perception of you just as you do them, the reason why we have separate interests, conflicting outlooks, the list goes on.
the more we grow, so does our world, and our reality. you've seen how many people have changed and grown and gotten happier and healthier and only kept on going when they finally began to step up and better themselves, how their world changed along with them. because us and the world are one and the same.
the most important thing i'd like you to ask yourself is how do you treat the world? how do you view the world? and how do you treat and view yourself? are there any particular differences? similarities? anything that stands out? what is the world to you?
all my love... 💬🎀🫶🏻💗
#hello!!!! rant post today!!!!!#i remember having a surge of inspiration and writing this all in one sitting at my desk#and i went back to go and edit it at the time im writing this to finish it up#and i realised i was on such a rampage id already written pretty much everything i needed 😭#inspired bee is a force to be reckoned with guys.#anyway this is just one of my personal beliefs but i think you guys should know ab it too#i think this could potentially be very helpful to people just as a reminder#but i love u#have a good day bb#<3#it girlism ୨𖹭୧#girlblogging#it girl#wonyoungism#girlhood#pink pilates princess#girly tumblr#this is what makes us girls#girly stuff#girlcore#girlworld#girl talk#girl therapy#girl code#im just a girl#this is a girlblog#girl thoughts#girl things#hyperfemininity#it girl energy
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it’s the spider brainrot blog because i be thinking about shamura again
#cult of the lamb#cotl#the ones art#the purge of the crowns#cotl shamura#bishop shamura#cotl yngya#cotl crowns#ig?#cotl ocs#basically as well#anyway#want to explore young god shamura so much more because i have. thoughts#them being slapped right in the middle of the growing crownbearer tensions#forced into a pantheon and being as cold and distant from the others as much as possible#whilst also forcing a facade of comraderie as they build their own pantheon with their siblings#horace is what i’m calling the ice ogre crown bearer of like. the tundra ig?#yknow it probably contributed to why shamura would develop the fear of narinder betraying all his siblings with the swell of devotion-#-because in my au that’s like the biggest reason why war broke out amongst the greater pantheon of crown bearers-#-and also literally what the old faith did to become the five#shamura sweetie use your knowledge oh god they can’t hear me their war vibes are too loud#also horace accepted shamura into his pantheon whilst the others didn’t want them#so theres uh. that betrayal too. war sucks ig-#my shamura pre lobotomy is a force to be reckoned with huh-
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what other silly little antics do you think charles and erik got up to in that cube besides play chess because my money's on book discussions. like them book clubs with suburban moms where you drink wine and talk about books you read except theres no wine i dont think thats permitted in the plastic cube prison and theres not even a club its just two old men
#xmen#x2: x men united#cherik#charles xavier#erik lehnsherr#professor x#magneto#snap chats#living up to my username hey#born to think about silly cherik ideas forced to '''''Legally Purchase''''' and read college textbooks this SUCKS#i mean i got my book at an ''''Extremely Great' Discount'''' this week but still. let me think of old people#anyway i think they should do book discussions ... i dont remember if there was an established timeline between the first and second movies#but ive decided theres a decent amount of time until i decide to rewatch the movies. which will be thursday probably vajVLAKJ#ANYWAY MY THEORY VALID erik allowed to read while he in there ... who givin him books .. did he bring those ...#or did charles drop it off ....... please im gonna throw up ik erik gon make a crack about 'professor x' giving him assigned reading#well listen here king at least it isnt about Organizational Behavior In The Workplace😩#ok thats all for tonight#whenever i say my 'nightly cherik ramblings' im usually joking but at this point i am being routine about this vjaeLVKJAEKJ#and i say this as if its a bad thing ... the opposite i reckon ...#i cant wait until i can actually draw them jvareLK#alight bye i have to mentally prepare for my first day of the semester. later <- it is 1AM 💀💀💀💀
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I’ve already read like half of “The Reckoning of Roku” in like a day, and was making memes to send to my coworker so here they are
Does contain some mild spoilers as a warning
#anyway I’m having a good time#also don’t worry Roku I’ll kill Sozin for you 🗡️#how can someone be down so bad for someone but also be so awful to them#I guess Sozin can but god I wanna throw him off a cliff#anyway#avatar the last airbender#avatar roku#the reckoning of roku#the reckoning of Roku spoilers#spoilers
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Aroace Riz real but also Fabian is SO clearly in love with him and Riz has no idea
#honestly fabian might not even fully know yet#a core part of fabians character is that he is so deeply afraid of rejection that he is never going to pursue the people he actually wants#i do think he likes Maezy a lot but i think he only knows how to pursue hot toxic women that will discard him at a moments notice#which in a way protects him from ever actually dealing with heartbreak#is he a gay man dealing with comphet? ehh maybe#i could see that#but I think the vibe i get is more about how he has these platonic friends he completely adores and is fully devoted to#and then in another category he has the people that he does not have any actual attachment to that he will allow himself to pursue#and crossing the boundaries in between those two categories or allowing himself to pursue someone he really cares for#would require a level of vulnerability he is in no way prepared for#in his home life he has an emotionally detached mother who is well liked but kind of floats through interactions on a surface level#and a father who is extremely concerned with fame and glory and attention but doesnt seem to have ever stopped moving in his life#genuinely fabian does not know what a safe loving partnership would look like#and we see him constantly oscillating between emulating his mother and his father in relationships#but just beneath the surface is a little boy who wants so badly to cling to his loved ones so tight and be squeezed right back#with no way of knowing how to even ask for that if he wanted#and riz is his best friend in the world and he knows on some level that riz is simply not interested in having that kind of relationship#not on the level fabian needs#but that also makes riz a safe target for these feelings of devotion#theyre just friends! just besties! fabian never has to reckon with his own loneliness or harmful patterns#if he channels all of his yearning for closeness onto his best friend#anyway! this boy needs therapy#fhjy#fhjy spoilers#fabriz
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thinking about how dean’s character gets simplified in fandom, or more specifically, the very black and white lens that gets applied to him. because integral to dean, from my point of view, is that he is both a victim of abuse and a perpetrator of it. that these two things do not cancel each other out or outweigh each other to the point that only one matters. he’s both, you cannot separate him from the fact that he’s both.
but very often, people do. dean is either a victim. or he’s an abuser. it’s like it’s hard for people to hold both those facts in their heads at once. dean went through incredible amount of trauma as a child and an adult, is routinely faced with violence, has resorted to alcohol abuse to cope with it. he’s also a violent person, someone who retreats into tactics of emotional abuse and control when he feels threatened, who hurts the people around him constantly and the people who are closest to him (ie Sam, Cas, later Jack) get the brunt of that abuse. these are just facts. they’re things that happened on the screen and cannot be denied.
and it’s. idk it’s weird to me (not unexpected, because he’s hardly the only character to ever get this treatment) that dean of all people is the one portrayed in such an either/or way when one of the defining moments of the show for him is that during his stint in Hell, he was tortured and then became a torturer to escape that, to feel like he had some control again, and he relished in it. it’s baked into who he is.
#dean as a victim of abuse who goes on to continue those behaviors is still important to me surprise surprise#i didnt want to put this in the main post but also. from observation. when people start projecting onto him This Gets Worse#because. you know. as noted before: big fandom - lots of queer & neurodivergent people here.#tend to be targetted by abuse. statistically.#and mix that with a character you can project heavily upon. one you can project queer/neurodivergent hcs on even.#then like! understandably stressful to reckon with him being canonically kind of shitty sometimes! no one wants to consider their own#potential for shittiness - not even through a character they just heavily relate to!#(note: opposite happens as well. people project onto sam -> see dean hurt sam -> block out the idea that dean could be just as much victim#as he is abuser. its just. easier like that.)#anyway. none of this is like. a crime. just an observation. really we get all our biases from the society we live in — a society obsessed#with perfect victims and evil unredeemable abusers.#all that stuff leaks into fandom takes whether we want it to or not#dean winchester#spn
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