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i really and truly believe that there are only two genuine human superpowers, both of which can be actively cultivated:
the ability to find anything interesting, ie the ability to reframe and reflect on any situation or encounter, even/especially negative or boring ones, so as to make what is happening to you interesting, engaging, and personally meaningful to your human experience. this habit of mind is mostly curiosity but it's also woven through with psychological flexibility, especially the ability to regulate your own emotional reactions so that you can respond to challenging or tedious situations in more thoughtful and values-aligned ways that develop your sense of self instead of making you feel trapped or bored or fragmented
the ability to teach yourself new things. idk maybe as a teacher i am biased but i really believe that the single most transformative gift you can give any human being is a deep understanding of how people learn and improve at things. what is more hopeful, more inspiring, or more life-affirming than the realization that you can learn new things at any age, and that the new things you learn (plus the joyful process of learning itself!) can utterly transform the way you experience the world and understand yourself? what is more amazing or incredible than the realization that learning things is not a mysterious & passive process that happens to you but a reasonably consistent set of steps and tools that you can learn how to master and apply to virtually any skill or domain of human knowledge? the superpower of being able to learn/improve at anything you set your mind toā¦ but also the superpower inherent in that quiet unwavering certainty that even if you feel stuck at various points in your life, you have within yourself the capacity to get unstuck through learning and changing and growing and experiencing new things. wowowowowowowow!!!!! what an extraordinary gift!!!!
#i did a classroom observation this week#in a mid-level environmental science research methods course#and at other points in my life i would've been either bored stiff by this experience or terrified because Science Is Hard#and I Am Humanities Person Cannot Do Science#but i actually found myself getting really fascinated by some of the stuff they were doing#i think combined with all the scientific studies i've been reading over the past six months related to fertility stuff#and i was like oh wait like#i could see myself going back and doing a bachelor's degree in a science field#like yeah this is unfamiliar to me & i have a lot of baggage around being Bad at STEM#but actually through doing lots of work with researchers & learning how research works in my own field#i think i've absorbed an understanding of some of the habits of mind science values#and i feel confident enough in my understanding of how people learn new things#that i bet i could apply that knowledge to learning disciplines that previously seemed Off Limits to me#anyway idk just#what a joy it is to be a thinking learning human in the world#how lucky are we!!!!!
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Welcome to the āwhoops! I accidentally started got manipulated into starting the apocalypse!ā Club. Members being Jonathan Sims and Mable Pines. Theyāre both āØtraumatisedāØ
Bonus comic
#whoops!#they got manipulated into starting the apocalypse#everyone makes mistakes :)#Jon: your like 5 you have an excuse for this#Mable: fist of all Iām twelve second you literally got possessed#wait sheās thirteen#oh well#anyway#spoilers#lol#gravity falls#fanart#art#gravity falls spoilers#mable pines#tma podcast#the magnus archives#tma spoilers#the mangas archives spoilers#tma fanart#jonathan sims#tma Jon#whoops I accidentally started the apocalypse club#Have a good day#āØ
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Macaque spent the whole season Big-Damn-Hero-ing and was NOT happy about it xD
#lmk season 5 spoilers#lmk spoilers#lmk season 5#lego monkie kid#lmk#macaque#liu'er mihou#six eared macaque#sun wukong#monkey king#qi xiaotian#mk#li jing#anyone else find it interesting that in english the 'macaque' part of his name comes first#but in chinese the 'six-ears' part comes first? so the way he's called by name in the different dubs has slightly different vibes#i can't quantify 'em tho :/ am not a vibeologist#Macaque was this season's biggest GOAT#like he's very petty about it but he cares about mk and swk SO. MUCH.#(well ok the petty is mostly aimed at swk)#which: fair#POV: everything is going to shit and you are currently the only celestial monkey NOT being re-traumatized or gaslight by celestial beings#macaque's gonna start rolling up to beach parties with a shirt that says:#I Saved The Monkey King's Arse Several Times And All I Got Was An Almost-Hand-Holding-Moment And This Stupid Shirt#MK NOOOOOOOOO#im a fucking wreck that's their KID. he's their BOY. their little BRO HE'S THEIR KID OKAY AND THEY LOVE HIM ENOUGH TO FISTFIGHT THE GODS#which i guess is a little easier since they can win those fights actually#not explicitly shadowpeach#but oh it is there. lurking. waiting to strike#lion king reference! :D
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still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)
anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#calling dibs on skeleton kisses as the name of my band#man scully is just a delightful little weirdo and i'm enjoying him immensely#(i'm going with scully until we get something official just because it makes me think of x-files)#(ć¹ć«ćŖć¼ is also how the agent's name is transliterated and i don't know if it was intentional but i love it as a bonus reference)#(i want to believeā¢)#gosh though#'no one at school likes me because i won't shut up about halloween and jack skellington' i'm feeling VERY attacked right now twst#look scully your people are out there#just get on the forums and -- oh wait you're probably from like the 1800s or something#(my theory is that he's from the past and there's just some Book Magic going on to bring us together)#(LOOK they made a point of saying that the book fair has been held annually for a super long time)#a hot topic goth born before hot topic was invented...so sad š#i dunno i could be wrong but that feels like a good working theory for now#if it wasn't for mal sensing twsty ~magic~ on him i would think he's like. a christmas elf who's going to kidnap jack in a reverse-nmbc#(not ruling that out though because it would be amazing)#god all the sprites in this event look AMAZING. loving the desaturated colors and the extra drawn-on lines š#i'm genuinely kinda sad that we aren't gonna get to see every character like this#who knows...maybe halloweentown will be imperiled again next year...#come back and destroy my keys again please#(that said i'm doing weirdly well so far?)#(i promised i'd save for sebek and just do cursory pulls to get the SRs and not hope for the SSRs)#(...but then leona jumpscared me four coffins in anyway. halloween magic is REAL)
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for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"
#the truman show#sbs rambles#I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them#social workers assigned to them maybe#I dunno#they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit#but here we are#tho#I guess none of us signed up for it#and our data is harvested more than ever#god#high-tech capitalism sucks turns out#OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes#let me specify:#I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this#like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold#and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie#I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem#it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did#youtube did and social media#it's us that's the problem#or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation#that's the origin of most modern problems
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Snow bots au anyone? :D
They're back together a year later because it's snowing againāļø
All right! For context: I imagine them hanging out every winter in some kind of resort (a resort that Blurr owns. Because his bar business has expanded that much over time.)
#maccadam#transformers#snow bots au#uh thatās a lot of characters. okay letās go#left -> to right. top to bottom haha#Swerve#Rung#Tailgate#Rewind#chromedome#cdrw#jazz#prowl#jazzprowl#rodimus#rodimus prime#Wing#Drift#Blurr#Swindle#I originally wanted to add Brainstorm falling out of bus window and Perceptor catching him but my brain is shutting down I need to sleep ha#jazz and prowl switching their hats be like#Prowl: I sense something is wrong..where's my hat?? (looks around) (sees it on Jazz's head) Oh there it is. Cool.#five minutes later: wait. If my hat is there than what am I wearing right now???? error 404#world greatest detective ladies and gentlemen~
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quick itfs sketch page
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#yuji itadori#megumi fushiguro#itafushi#fushiita#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#yuuji#megumi#fr some reason it's rare fr me to b happy with monochrome pieces so i am combatting tht general dislike by making it itfs#harder 2 dislike smth when it's a bunch of sketches of my ship kissing#oh ya threw in some good ol Corner Angst also bc i ended up not wanting 2 draw a third kiss dsfhjshdsdfjg#doing this got me thinking about tht one itfs piece i did back in april#captioned smth smth 'im on an itafushi kick'#n how that was like. the piece that opened the floodgates n made me realize how actually insane i am abt them#before it was just a casual Yeah This Ship Is Cute ill draw for it when the mood strikes#then after doing tht draws i ws like wait a minute whats happening to me#now here i am 5 months later completely emotionally dependent on these 2 traumatized 15 year olds#anyway this sheet is kind of an homage 2 the other one :'> how far ive come. how far theyve come. they make me ill every waking hour
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Hope you donāt mind unsolicited kitty cat pictures of my new worm-beast! Forcibly reminding myself that randombred cats can look like anything and that this elongated fella I found living at the local zoo is not in fact an oriental-type/lemur hybrid.
I'll be honest, this is the first cat I've seen that could actually be a Balinese cross.
if you'd only shown me the first photo, I would have 100% believed that was a Balinese. the fur and body type are so specific. and then the last photo couldn't be a Balinese (because of the white spotting), but I'd still believe it was an Oriental Longhair.
it's only the second photo that made me go oh......that's not quite right.....that's not how that should look.........
so I'd say the possibilities are:
you found a cat that has coincidental similarities to a Balinese/Oriental (cool!! awesome cat! the breed had to get the traits from somewhere, makes sense!)
you found a badly bred Oriental Longhair with a wonky face (not likely, OLHs are rare and tend to have a more standardized show-type appearance)
you found a Balinese cross (cool!! awesome cat!)
in any case, they are very beautiful and I'm an admirer of their special white stripe.
#people have sent me sooooooo many photos of their supposed balinese/siamese crosses. and I have side-eyed all of them#because they've all just looked like pointed domestic shorthairs/longhairs#this is the first time I've been like oh šššš wait a second ššš#I dunno though it could just be these specific photos making it look a certain way#take everything I say with a huge spoonful of salt
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hm ok so interestingly, bdubsās courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillarsā¦.
you donāt use an odd number of pillars. like ever.
let me get this out of the way first: i get why youād build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillarsā¦. fascinating implicationsā¦
every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.
doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.
one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. thereās no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.
symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.
with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.
and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.
literally by design, it was not built for justice. itās built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message youāre supposed to be getting from this show.
the biblical story he used, with king solomon. itās about king solomon. isnāt really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. itās about showing (off) how wise and just he is. thatās the point. hm. interesting.
now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.
itās not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you arenāt seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.
imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. heād look so much more trapped in there.
having a central pillar blocks the entrance. itās not welcoming. you have to go around it; itās immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, itās there blocking you again.
this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldnāt call it so much coincidental as i wouldā¦ subconscious.
after all, yāknow. form follows function.
#this came about by me being like ew why are there an odd number of pillars thatās such a faux pas and just overall odd (haha) choice#but then i was like oh wait. thereās something to this#i dont think it looks BAD. i just think that odd number of pillars causes problems and maybe it doesnt stick out to other people as much#but it bothers ME. okay#bdubs#bdoubleo100#hc10#hermitcraft#mightaswellspeak
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Wow, not even 5 seconds in and they're already starting a fight.
FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT
MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)
#undertale#deltarune#utdr#crossover#crossover comic#my art#art#twin runes#twin runes comic#kris dreemurr#frisk#chara#susie deltarune#ralsei#this guy really knows how to get under people's skin huh#so what's his deal#either way the fun gang is not amused#lesslo... more like... loveless#oh wait#that's where his name comes from isn't it?#my favorite running gag has got to be everyone pointing out or drawing attention to the fact that frisk is green#because that's literally what all of you did when they were first shown in their dark world armor#i wonder if anyone even caught that meta joke#And no lesslo isn't chara#not all red people are the same
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uhmhmhmmm just occasional thoughts about Daniel's interaction with Marius
#(can't wait to see old Daniel shutting him up immediately)#sorry i can't stand Marius's hypocritic ass and since his role in Lestat's life is unavoidable then i just need to see Daniel's reaction#because old Daniel is definitely going to be much different from the book one (who ended up living with Marius at some point š)#like oh damn he isn't going to deal with Marius's bullshit and his āim the smartest person in the roomā behavior#and ofc im sure he is going to call the fucker out for all the shit he did to Armand#iwtv#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#amc interview with the vampire#iwtv daniel#daniel molloy#marius de romanus#iwtv fanart#vampire chronicles#my fanart
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Anyway Iām always thinking about how other characters/the skills talk abt kim and harry
This game man
#admittedly at least one of these isnāt . great#but itās cuno man#what can you do#disco elysium#kim kitsuragi#harry du bois#my sillies#bangs my head against the wall#this game makes me crazy#there were more I couldnāt tell if I should include or not#but these ones already make me oouuuugh#oh yeah wait#kimharry#should I include like#cw f slur#I donāt know#on the one hand itās tumblr#but on the other hand#itās tumblr
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woe be upon ye
#ouch#im thinking spared nari is gonna be devastated that he let his sons i mean disciples lay down their lives for him#though that was their job#but he was the one to give them that job oh regret#man nari hates the lamb so much after that (also himself#but its easier to hate the lamb) like they took his crown they took his sons they took his freedom they took everything#yet they still liberated him from his chains#is this what he waited a millennium for?#good thing we can resurrect them phew major crisis averted#narinder#aym#baal#the lamb#narilamb#lmao this does not deserve the ship tag but im just gonna tag every art piece where they feature together as narilamb#since thats the end goal#cult of the lamb#cw blood#my art
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Senshi doesn't often cook for other people š§
I was heavily inspired by @fruit00's Senshi drawing for the way I drew him! c:
#yall better appreciate me drawing so many male thirst traps š¤ I miss drawing beautiful women#gotta draw some falin to recover š#for the record I kinda rushed these bc I was getting sick of workin on them but ideally I would've added a lotta scars on senshi#I was like I shouuuuld do that but I do not want to to spend any more time on this lmao#everyone will just have to settle for flawless skin senshi#maybe it's maybelliiiiine oh wait that's for hair#my art#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#senshi dungeon meshi#senshi#marcille donato#marcille dungeon meshi#dunmeshi
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last chance to guess what the new round of birthday outfits will be!
#art#twisted wonderland#twst devs like 'aw no. oh man. we didn't think it would last this long.'#'uhhhhh this year they're all going to...(throws dart at dartboard) wear big silly hats'#'wait no we did that one already. DAMNIT'#...i'm just now realizing that in my excitement over fellow i forgot to look at the other announcements#and i. might potentially have missed if they actually said anything re:birthday cards#w h o o p s#well i can't un-draw this so have it anyway
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joel being a Disney princess
look everybody my art is arting properly again! also pls send me any asks as i'm awfully bored lol
#i mean look at that smile#look at that cat#look at that fox. the birb is fine but i mean wow it feels so good being happy with me art again lol also guys guys dija notice the dimple?#ldshadowlady#lizzie ldshadowlady#ethoslab#etho#hermitcraft#trafficblr#hermitblr#life series#life smp#empires smp#ethogirl#etho tag#jimmy solidarity#solidaritygaming#boat boys#jizzie#shadowbeans#what's jimmy and joel duo#like do i tag smallidarity???#or is that a ship only basis kinda deal#sic months on tumblr and i'm still dumb to the ways of this site lol#oh well#smallishbeans#joel smallishbeans#me art#nvm ty han!!! wait i cant tag them y do u hate me tumblr?#Disstrack duo
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