#and that's! extremely! valid!!1!!

[shannonsketches]

he's so important to me

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

when ur lame brother said he got better at cooking while he was missing in space and you did NOT think this (grilling hot dogs with his weaponized alien prosthetic) was what he meant

[blue-eli]

Ink October day 8: Unbelted

Made or designed to be worn without a belt.

Lacking a belt.

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[marshmallowloves]

I was thinking about how a lot of people have the "gold-hearted dumbass/the smart one" dynamic with their self ships, in which their F/O is the dumbass. which is all well and good, I love that dynamic.

but I don't see too much of the reverse, in which someone's F/O is wicked intelligent while they, on the other hand, are Too Dumb to Live™, and I would like to see more of that

[tasmanianstripes]

You know what's my second biggest gripe with the latest "fanon is bad, anything that's not canon-compliant is flawed" trend, right behind the fact that it's just rebranded cringe culture?

It just completely shits all over hobbyist and beginner writers. Good characterisation in writing is a skill. A skill that people can be bad at. God knows, it always takes me a while to get a canon character right, I admit I am not the greatest at it or media literacy or reading comprehension - though I try I'm sometimes not the greatest and I still have things to learn. And I hate that we basically went from "hobbyists don't need to improve their skills if they don't want to" to shaming people who aren't good at certain skills.

I hate that fandom as a whole went from "people can enjoy things and do whatever they want as long as if doesn't hurt anybody" right back to shaming and policing people for not having fun the "right" way.

"He would not fucking say that", sorry for being blunt but who gives a shit? Why should you care if somebody rewrites a character for an AU? Why does it bother you if somebody has a version of a character that's nothing like their canon self? How does that affect you in any way?

And it's fine if you don't like fanon, if you prefer canon, we all have different interests and likes and that's fine - but don't pretend like you're better for it.

Block tags, unfollow people, block them if you must. Learn how to control your online experience instead of coming into somebody's inbox, DMs or commenting on their art/fanfics and making your preferences their problem.

[ifeelhuman]

was gonna get to that next episode of arcane tonight (episode 8) but tbh i am too emotionally and mentally irritated and irked to do so.

[junewild]

finally watching thru sophomore year & wondering… why didn’t kristen get the plague when she drank from riz’s coffee cup? i’d expect that a magical illusion virus would be a little hardier than herpes.

[kohakhearts]

when people first meet me and inquire about my studies im generally hit with two different responses, being 1) “wow, that’s an unusual combination”/“you don’t see that often”/etc. and 2) “you must be SO smart!” (or its evil twin, “you must hate yourself ha-ha”), and while the first is obviously a better response than the second, both are kinda…awkward to react to.

like? IS it an unusual combination of interests, or is it actually that most institutions make it exceptionally difficult for people to pursue stem and arts concurrently? and that we don’t often talk about the heavy crossover between stem and the arts because we’re so culturally obsessed with this notion that the world is split into Art People and Science People (also known as English People and Math People)?

and how would my interest in a science make me any smarter than someone in my program who chose to pursue a minor in history instead of physics? also, NO, i don’t hate myself. obviously taking stem classes after spending years believing im “not a math person” has lowered my gpa, but that’s not really something i care about, because at the end of the day i find the subject endlessly fascinating and i enjoy my classes very much, and i get better at math every semester because i have no choice. because it’s just…a method of communication. it’s a language. you practice, you improve - but you have to be consistent and intentional about it. the same way you have to be consistent and intentional about analyzing fictional texts and historical documents.

which is to say that like. you are using the same skills. i tutored a high school student last year who looked at me like i was crazy for saying that close reading a short story is functionally the same as solving an algebra problem. you collect like terms. then you compare and contrast them to make a statement about them - it’s human nature to seek refuge in what is familiar even if it is simultaneously traumatic, or x = 2 and y = -2. you can chart it, you can graph it, you can draw it. listen, isn’t there something so inherently beautiful about the word integral? it’s something intrinsic, baked into a person or a thing - the fundamental values formed within you by tiny, infinitesimal pieces: moments, experiences - they coalesce into something completely different, but still. you can go back. you can find the pieces. define them, pick them apart, put them together again in new ways. expand them, contract them, equate them to something else just to understand them.

half the study of mathematics is called analysis, for god’s sake. what is the study of art if not analysis? is it not the goal of the artist, the writer, to make sense of our place in the world? and is this not what we do in physics, too? look at the world and try to find reason in it? as the poet spends their life trying to make the intangible tangible, the particle physicist attempts to study dark matter. when we form a sentence, we utilize a complex system of equations that are so second-nature to us we don’t even register that’s what we’re doing - but there’s a reason this branch of linguistics is called syntactic calculus.

like…believe me. if you told my teenage self i’d be taking calculus-based courses in university, i wouldn’t have believed it. i teach high school students now who tell me they know they aren’t good at english, but it doesn’t matter to them because they do so well in math. and i get it. i do. but it’s disappointing, too, because i think my knowledge of math has made me a better reader and writer. and it feels like most people are missing out on that connection, because they feel like it’s impossible to make. but any experimentalist can tell you there’s an art to the scientific process. any musician or poet can tell you that great art is dictated by numbers - rhythm, rhyme and metre, all of it. the only group of people as interested in conceptual symmetry as physicists are artists.

anyway, all i’m saying is like - one is not more essential than the other, these things are inextricably linked, these things are as fundamental to human existence as breathing. there’s a reason why astronomers defer to shakespeare to name newly discovered bodies in space, you know? we've all gotta learn to love the math in our art and the artistry behind math.

[finnickodaiir]

I'm not gonna reply to the reblogs, if you're missing the point that badly even when I said that "her out of touch billionaire ways can't be ignored" then there's no hope for you

[stxrmstained]

// i think the best thing about himbos is them occasionally having moments of inexplicable genius intuition, like seira yesterday happening to roll a nat 20 in an otherwise impossible intelligence check

[crunchycrystals]

im not a fic writer but im kind of tempted to write something if only for the sole purpose of representing the ways people have to take care of curly hair bc every pjo fic i read doesnt talk about it

[rachymarie]

Anyone else relatively young still but dealing with an aggressive silver streak taking over the hair and don't wanna be stuck doomed to dyeing they hair for the next 20+ years to look younger/fit in etc??

Dad once started teasing me for calling me granny and I was like you are a sexist pig. I am a silver vixen (sans the money, send help*)

[alicentwhore]

Everyday I think I hate this fandom and a lot of the people in it just a little bit more

[malewifesband]

EDIT: if this post has made you think about whether or not you are autistic, im really glad! i hope you get some better understanding of yourself and are able to find community and support

however before you go and tell a therapist and seek an official diagnosis please read this thread and consider the points made therein:

autism is highly stigmatized. be fully informed about what you gain and what you lose from having an official diagnosis before seeking one.

EDIT OVER ENJOY THE POST

people do correctly identify that laios is autistic fairly often but a lot of the reasoning begins and ends with his special interest and social difficulties, but honestly it goes far deeper into the build of his character than just those two things

his pain tolerance is wildly inconsistent, unable to tolerate a drop of hot oil (or any heat) but able to shrug off both his leg being bitten off and it being reattached

hes sensory seeking in the extreme. he rubs the bat bones against his face, pets and fluffs the shapeshifter tail.

his desire to eat monsters comes from three very autistic places. 1) the rules for why monsters are not okay to eat but animals are are arbitrary to him so he cannot follow them easily: he cannot understand the 'feelings' argument others make. 2) this too is a sensory seeking behavior. he wants to experience these new things, new flavors and new textures. 3) it completes his knowledge of the monster in question to also have data on its edibility. because he cannot draw that arbitrary line around all monsters, he wants to evaluate them case-by-case and see if real patterns emerge. butchering and eating the monsters improves his knowledge of them greatly and highlights their importance in their ecosystem, as well as making him a part of that same ecosystem

he cannot emote the way others expect him to. he compartmentalizes his feelings (to an unhealthy degree) because he needs a pragmatic solution. so as long as there is a problem to solve, that matters far more than evaluating his emotions and allowing himself to experience them. while this is also a coping mechanism for ptsd, it is a trait found in many autistic people regardless of trauma, as we have trouble sorting the feelings we have and often need time to think about what we feel, so it becomes easier to simply not do it and pretend we dont need to. laios emotions certainly affect him, with or without his processing them, but others do not see what they expect to see and thus dismiss that he is feeling what they would feel

he is incredibly gifted with pattern recognition, observation, and analysis within realms he understands. to understand subjects that dont come easily to him, he must filter them through his established schema (his special interest--this is why they are so special! they help us sort the world). when he isnt sure about the social cues and details hes observed in the shapeshifter arc, he filters it through the lens he understands best: monsters. he was making correct observations about his friends all along, but he could not be confident in that the way he was about their behavior when it came to his interest (chilchucks caution, senshis passions, and marcilles carelessness)

[fingertipsmp3]

No one really talks about how the first period you have after fully coming off birth control will absolutely fuck you up