#Ship Bias Meme

[therealmofamorus]

(asl, original, crossover, danganronpa x hentaiverse) Ship bias for Makoto Naegi with hentai girls?

Makoto x Leona (Discipline)

Makoto x Alicia (Kuroinu)

Makoto x Yuri (Joshi Luck)

Makoto x Ingrid (Taimanin Series)

[carnyreborn]

Ask by @superstar97

Top five favorite Jaune pairings?

It's a bit older, but I'll answer in the Ship Bias format.

5. Weiss - More for the porn, I don't think they'd make a good real couple, but they could fuck a lot. So that's worth something!

4. Yang - Blonde Solidariety, Yang has a wilder and fun personality which can match well with Jaune's softer and cuddlier self. I think he'd make for a very grounded and solid boyfriend to Yang.

3. Ruby - Ruby is very much my favourite RWBY character, and I enjoy shipping her with most folk, Jaune's not different. They would match up well, and the irony of him ending up with the partner of his first massive crush is up there.

2. Nora - Especially in the case of Ace Ren, or fem!Ren, Nora is just... she's among my favourite RWBY characters to write, so getting to do stuff with her is always fun. I'll always enjoy shipping her with Jaune too, they are very high energy and the hijinks they can find themselves in can only be matched in scope by how wild their fucking would be.

1. Pyrrha - unironically, the best ship they had for him. And then they killed her. Ugh. But yes, Pyrrha is still fantastic, her mark in the series is still felt, and she is simply a loving and great girl, the perfect match for the dumb himbo we know as Jaune.

[madmanwonder]

Type: Ask

Summary of the Question: What are your top four favorite Silver pairings?

Meme: Ship Bias Meme

Silvamy — the ship between Silver and Amy Rose

Silvonia — the ship between Silver and Sonia the Hedgehog

Silvicole — the ship between Silver and Nicole the Holo-Lynx

Silvaze — the ship between Silver and Blaze the Cat (I Lean toward them being like siblings, but considering my kinks...)

[biisutoarm]

ship bias!

SHIP BIAS MEME

I'm going to keep this fairly simple. I'm a big shipper of ElfEver. Yes, it's the canon ship for Elfman apparently, despite receiving awfully little (to actually no development). I will admit that I despise how it was just handed to us as a "and now they're crushing" kinda situation, but hey. My man gets love, who am I to say no!

The contrast is pretty awesome too, and Mashima has given us the gem that is that one cover of them together pre-skip. Elfman is a rowdy brute and Evergreen is graceful and poised. I also love the homage to Beauty and the Beast, and more than that, I love Evergreen's vain personality. It just makes me laugh

[airlocksandaviaries]

he gets passed around that mansion like a damn joint

inspired by this post and co-created by @assignmentimprobable ty for the storm pics bestie

[zero-is-nebulous]

Look yall it's my first time using this app and we half asleep be kind and forgiving ✋️

[wreedenthusiast]

[waitingforsecretsouls]

Didn't exactly happen like this in canon, but if I was Zahard I'd probably abuse my precognitive abilities as an excuse to avoid social gatherings...

[melamemea]

❤️ i'm okay with dropping ships. to me, dropping ships does not equal no longer interested in writing other things. no longer feeling a romantic ship ? tell me ! let's start over ! there are so many other relations we can build up instead ! dropping a ship with me does not mean i will think badly of you, sometimes we lose muse for ships and that's okay ! ❤️

[atangledfate]

"ship bias?"

Gold x Surge, i dunno why but the thought of Gold helping Surge find her past with her telepathy. Drawing them closer and helping connect, is cute to me!

though i'm just as ok with Surge ruining gold and making her an angsty goth girl! equally adorable!

[jeclrs]

[cryoexorcist]

'Ship Bias' (if you've got any more favorites!)

SEND SHIP BIAS FOR UP TO FIVE SHIPS

Chongyun x Ayaka Chongyun x Heizou Chongyun x Cyno

[witchcraftandburialdirt]

ship bias !

Send ‘Ship Bias’ and I will share up to 5 Ships I have a bias for for my muse! THESE ARE IN NO ORDER OF THE JOY I GET FROM THEM--I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH OK AAA-- Egg rant over

((AAAAAA I did these for Robin in different parts of his life as well as a different verse that I'm working on! Thank you for your interest! ♡( ˃̣̣̥﹏˂̣̣̥ ✿) I'm cutting this one because I kind of went crazy with it gughkdfghj and don't want to clog people's dashes.

VIKTOR-- This is specifically for Past!Robin (but could still trickle into current or even a future version of him), most likely in a verse where he didn't end up getting his shit rocked by A/Bel-- Since Robin was in the academy at the same time as Viktor and Jayce, I imagine these two would have bumped into eachother quite a few times, especially as Robin was part of the medical department. I've often said that Robin needed ONE friend and he wouldn't have made the mistakes that he did. These two would have a relationship based off of a mutual love of science, respect, and both being loners--as well as Zaunites! While I mostly view these two as being very close friends, I believe with more development they could dip their toes into romance. Robin, as with others, would happily listen and debate Viktor in a healthy way, as well as perform stupid experiments with him for fun! ----

SETT-- THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT. It STARTED because of @beast-man-bastard but then @pitgritted and @wolvensden kept talking to me about cute situations in regards to Robin and Sett! A big, tough, scary dude who finds the chance to be soft around the doctor of his fighting pit? UGH. There's alot of drama there, particularly because Robin was killed by a "leviathan" of a man--so he's physically intimidated by Sett at first, until they can both have a proper discussion and open up!!! Sett helping Robin reclaim a sense of physical security while Robin helps Sett gain emotional security? Yes!!!!! This is built heavily around current Robin being hired by Sett or being brought into the pit by some scumbag who thinks "ah corpse can't die, perfect fighter to watch get beat tf up". I really love when ships can help both parties, romantic or not, and this really fits their relation. Having someone to confide in is really important to people, and I think that's something that could easily grow here. -------

DANNY JOHNSON-- THIS WAS ANOTHER ACCIDENT. GOD--I REALLY LOVE THESE TWO; SO MUCH THAT I WAS INSPIRED TO MAKE A DBD VERSE FOR ROBIN LOLLLL. OK OK. You can blame @bells-of-black-sunday for this ship; god it was so out of no where? This essentially takes place, in league verse, in Piltover once Robins returned, Danny--going by Jed Olsen--attempts to murder him because it would make an interesting headline about Mages not being Safe in Piltover. Little does he know that Robin cannot die, so his plan goes somewhat haywire and Robin just sort of "haha, wanna try again?" Robin later drunkenly sees Jed and asks him out to dinner only to forget about it day of, but then they end up going together and its VERY much a battle of wits, jabs back and forth, and 4D-think-12-steps-ahead-of-your-partner-chess. Robin is nonetheless impressed by this and the two stART DATING? Robin moves in with Danny etc. The serial killer thing doesn't necessarily bother him as much as it should since Robin was part of shady business already and doesn't really have many feelings about it. He does worry about Danny but knows he's clever enough to get out of most trouble. Shockingly, this relationship is very sweet and standard besides the serial killer angle and Robin opening up the layers of his machiavellian nature; these two do not want the other to get hurt, and can easily confide in the other without any sort of judgement. They are casually affectionate with eachother and don't have to worry about the other looking at them weirdly for their hobbies or their past, which is definitely a breath of fresh air for both of them.Not only that but Danny, so far, is the only one who has been able to get on the demon's good side and actually manage to get Robin to come BACK to life--but I wont go into that too much because I've already word vomited all over. Its dark, romantic, and disgustingly adorable despite the events happening in the background. I have a lot of feelings.

[voleuxe]

fixing tags (in theory) dwbi

[braveryhearted]

Send ‘Ship Bias’ and I will share up to 5 Ships I have a bias for for my muse!

( accepting from mutuals and anons )

Anon said: Ship Bias (Kyon and Reigen)

Kyon 1 Haruhi Suzumiya 2 Yuuki Nagito 3 Mikuru Asahina 4 Original Character ( around his age range ) 5 Crossover Character ( around his age range )

Reigen 1 Original Character ( 19+ ) 2 Crossover Character ( 19+ )

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Marshmallow Longtermism

The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this week!

My latest column for Locus Magazine is "Marshmallow Longtermism"; it's a reflection on how conservatives self-mythologize as the standards-bearers for deferred gratification and making hard trade-offs, but are utterly lacking in these traits when it comes to climate change and inequality:

https://locusmag.com/2024/09/cory-doctorow-marshmallow-longtermism/

Conservatives often root our societal ills in a childish impatience, and cast themselves as wise adults who understand that "you can't get something for nothing." Think here of the memes about lazy kids who would rather spend on avocado toast and fancy third-wave coffee rather than paying off their student loans. In this framing, poverty is a consequence of immaturity. To be a functional adult is to be sober in all things: not only does a grownup limit their intoxicant intake to head off hangovers, they also go to the gym to prevent future health problems, they save their discretionary income to cover a down-payment and student loans.

This isn't asceticism, though: it's a mature decision to delay gratification. Avocado toast is a reward for a life well-lived: once you've paid off your mortgage and put your kid through college, then you can have that oat-milk latte. This is just "sound reasoning": every day you fail to pay off your student loan represents another day of compounding interest. Pay off the loan first, and you'll save many avo toasts' worth of interest and your net toast consumption can go way, way up.

Cleaving the world into the patient (the mature, the adult, the wise) and the impatient (the childish, the foolish, the feckless) does important political work. It transforms every societal ill into a personal failing: the prisoner in the dock who stole to survive can be recast as a deficient whose partying on study-nights led to their failure to achieve the grades needed for a merit scholarship, a first-class degree, and a high-paying job.

Dividing the human race into "the wise" and "the foolish" forms an ethical basis for hierarchy. If some of us are born (or raised) for wisdom, then naturally those people should be in charge. Moreover, putting the innately foolish in charge is a recipe for disaster. The political scientist Corey Robin identifies this as the unifying belief common to every kind of conservativism: that some are born to rule, others are born to be ruled over:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#healthy-populism

This is why conservatives are so affronted by affirmative action, whose premise is that the absence of minorities in the halls of power stems from systemic bias. For conservatives, the fact that people like themselves are running things is evidence of their own virtue and suitability for rule. In conservative canon, the act of shunting aside members of dominant groups to make space for members of disfavored minorities isn't justice, it's dangerous "virtue signaling" that puts the childish and unfit in positions of authority.

Again, this does important political work. If you are ideologically committed to deregulation, and then a giant, deregulated sea-freighter crashes into a bridge, you can avoid any discussion of re-regulating the industry by insisting that we are living in a corrupted age where the unfit are unjustly elevated to positions of authority. That bridge wasn't killed by deregulation – it's demise is the fault of the DEI hire who captained the ship:

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/03/26/baltimore-bridge-dei-utah-lawmaker-phil-lyman-misinformation

The idea of a society made up of the patient and wise and the impatient and foolish is as old as Aesop's "The Ant and the Grasshopper," but it acquired a sheen of scientific legitimacy in 1970, with Walter Mischel's legendary "Stanford Marshmallow Experiment":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment

In this experiment, kids were left alone in a locked room with a single marshmallow, after being told that they would get two marshmallows in 15 minutes, but only if they waited until them to eat the marshmallow before them. Mischel followed these kids for decades, finding that the kids who delayed gratification and got that second marshmallow did better on every axis – educational attainment, employment, and income. Adult brain-scans of these subjects revealed structural differences between the patient and the impatient.

For many years, the Stanford Marshmallow experiment has been used to validate the cleavage of humanity in the patient and wise and impatient and foolish. Those brain scans were said to reveal the biological basis for thinking of humanity's innate rulers as a superior subspecies, hidden in plain sight, destined to rule.

Then came the "replication crisis," in which numerous bedrock psychological studies from the mid 20th century were re-run by scientists whose fresh vigor disproved and/or complicated the career-defining findings of the giants of behavioral "science." When researchers re-ran Mischel's tests, they discovered an important gloss to his findings. By questioning the kids who ate the marshmallows right away, rather than waiting to get two marshmallows, they discovered that these kids weren't impatient, they were rational.

The kids who ate the marshmallows were more likely to come from poorer households. These kids had repeatedly been disappointed by the adults in their lives, who routinely broke their promises to the kids. Sometimes, this was well-intentioned, as when an economically precarious parent promised a treat, only to come up short because of an unexpected bill. Sometimes, this was just callousness, as when teachers, social workers or other authority figures fobbed these kids off with promises they knew they couldn't keep.

The marshmallow-eating kids had rationally analyzed their previous experiences and were making a sound bet that a marshmallow on the plate now was worth more than a strange adult's promise of two marshmallows. The "patient" kids who waited for the second marshmallow weren't so much patient as they were trusting: they had grown up with parents who had the kind of financial cushion that let them follow through on their promises, and who had the kind of social power that convinced other adults – teachers, etc – to follow through on their promises to their kids.

Once you understand this, the lesson of the Marshmallow Experiment is inverted. The reason two marshmallow kids thrived is that they came from privileged backgrounds: their high grades were down to private tutors, not the choice to study rather than partying. Their plum jobs and high salaries came from university and family connections, not merit. Their brain differences were the result of a life free from the chronic, extreme stress that comes with poverty.

Post-replication crisis, the moral of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment is that everyone experiences a mix of patience and impatience, but for the people born to privilege, the consequences of impatience are blunted and the rewards of patience are maximized.

Which explains a lot about how rich people actually behave. Take Charles Koch, who grew his father's coal empire a thousandfold by making long-term investments in automation. Koch is a vocal proponent of patience and long-term thinking, and is openly contemptuous of publicly traded companies because of the pressure from shareholders to give preference to short-term extraction over long-term planning. He's got a point.

Koch isn't just a fossil fuel baron, he's also a wildly successful ideologue. Koch is one of a handful of oligarchs who have transformed American politics by patiently investing in a kraken's worth of think tanks, universities, PACs, astroturf organizations, Star chambers and other world-girding tentacles. After decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, court-packing and propagandizing, the American billionaire class has seized control of the US and its institutions. Patience pays!

But Koch's longtermism is highly selective. Arguably, Charles Koch bears more personal responsibility for delaying action on the climate emergency than any other person, alive or dead. Addressing greenhouse gasses is the most grasshopper-and-the-ant-ass crisis of all. Every day we delayed doing something about this foreseeable, well-understood climate debt added sky-high compounding interest. In failing to act, we saved billions – but we stuck our future selves with trillions in debt for which no bankruptcy procedure exists.

By convincing us not to invest in retooling for renewables in order to make his billions, Koch was committing the sin of premature avocado toast, times a billion. His inability to defer gratification – which he imposed on the rest of us – means that we are likely to lose much of world's coastal cities (including the state of Florida), and will have to find trillions to cope with wildfires, zoonotic plagues, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

Koch isn't a serene Buddha whose ability to surf over his impetuous attachments qualifies him to make decisions for the rest of us. Rather, he – like everyone else – is a flawed vessel whose blind spots are just as stubborn as ours. But unlike a person whose lack of foresight leads to drug addiction and petty crimes to support their habit, Koch's flaws don't just hurt a few people, they hurt our entire species and the only planet that can support it.

The selective marshmallow patience of the rich creates problems beyond climate debt. Koch and his fellow oligarchs are, first and foremost, supporters of oligarchy, an intrinsically destabilizing political arrangement that actually threatens their fortunes. Policies that favor the wealthy are always seeking an equilibrium between instability and inequality: a rich person can either submit to having their money taxed away to build hospitals, roads and schools, or they can invest in building high walls and paying guards to keep the rest of us from building guillotines on their lawns.

Rich people gobble that marshmallow like there's no tomorrow (literally). They always overestimate how much bang they'll get for their guard-labor buck, and underestimate how determined the poors will get after watching their children die of starvation and preventable diseases.

All of us benefit from some kind of cushion from our bad judgment, but not too much. The problem isn't that wealthy people get to make a few poor choices without suffering brutal consequences – it's that they hoard this benefit. Most of us are one missed student debt payment away from penalties and interest that add twenty years to our loan, while Charles Koch can set the planet on fire and continue to act as though he was born with the special judgment that means he knows what's best for us.

On SEPTEMBER 24th, I'll be speaking IN PERSON at the BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY!!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/04/deferred-gratification/#selective-foresight

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