#critical period

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Basically ✰ hold on tight kiddo! these are tumultuous times, but you're gonna be just fine.

[psychfactsbutitsactualscience]

Critical Periods! (in terms of psychology)

When our brains develop, there are certain periods of time where our brains are primed to learn a very specific skill or characteristic, especially language.

During the critical period, specific environmental influences must be supplied to encourage normal development. In the case of language, its critical period would be when an individual is ~5 years old. The 5 year old must be spoken to for them to develop language skills of their own.

The craziest thing is that if you miss a critical period, the brain is altered permanently and the child literally cannot develop the skills that were missed.

A critical period is different from a sensitive period in which wile critical periods REQUIRE specific stimuli at a very fixed point in someone's life, sensitive periods just mean that it would be easier to grasp a specific skill.

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“Pop pop!”

[redditreceipts]

"we like young women because biologically, that means they're fertile"

then why do you find periods disgusting? those are the single most indicative sign of fertility. by that logic, you must be incredibly attracted to a women who speaks openly about her period, right?

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how bell’s hells defeats ludinus: imogen projects her period cramps

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Another thing that's been kinda grinding my gears about how the Calamity is talked about within the fandom is that it's only a conflict between the Primes and Betrayers when mortals are also very much involved in the conflict too?

Like, this is where we get the Vestiges of Divergence and the Arms of the Betrayers. It's where heroes like Purvan and Alyxian and the Laughing Hand and the Cadeogeist originate.

There were mortal armies that fought alongside the Primes to stop the Betrayers from wiping out humanity.

[weekdaysend]

Redesign of my old Cherri Bomb redesign because it looks bad and outdated.

[potpourri-of-ecclecticism]

Time is such a fleeting concept in the HOTD universe because… how long has it actually been since Rook’s Rest? Like, how the hell is Aegon recovering so quickly? Wasn’t he out of action for nearly a year in the books? I have no clue how long has it been on the show since he sustained FIRST THIRD DEGREE BURNS and FREEFALL from the heavens. I’m mind blown - someone explain this timeline to me I’m sitting over there.

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HOT BOI!! IS BACK!!

I think. I figured out how i wanna draw his new long hair...

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"I feel a great desire to have news of you for it has been a great while since I received a letter from you and you can imagine, my lady sister, what a great joy your letters are to me for the love I bear you."

— Juan Borgia in his letter to his sister, Lucrezia ♥

[ebisul]

I honestly can’t bring myself to really care much about the acolyte cancellation like i really just feel bad for the actors and people of color who are being negatively effected by the rampant racism

But on the other hand, I don’t really want more of the bury your gays even if its your best selling point, “lightsabers are phallic” (yknow the religious symbol of a Jedi’s life), Sith are sexy show and its straight up bad writing

[justatalkingface]

I JUST FREAKING REALIZED SOMETHING!!!

Aizawa didn’t get into the hero course until his second year and was bullied by Sensoji for being a waste of space.

And Sensoji's actions were justified.

Now stick with me here.

Isn’t it a bit odd how Bakugou's behavior was justified? And I don't mean just in a favoritism way.

Despite how much he was willing to bash Class 1-A, Hitoshi didn't seem to acknowledge Aizawa favoring Bakugou. Not once. This is odd as he was there when Aizawa openly defended Bakugou during the Sports Festival. And you'd think Aizawa would correct Hitoshi's opinions on Class 1-A, but he doesn't.

And with how Aizawa made the battle between both hero courses focus on Hitoshi...

I'm sorry. Correct me if I'm wrong but...

Was Aizawa setting things up for Hitoshi to become like him? Was Bakugou going to be set up to be another Sensoji that Hitoshi had to face off?

Because if the war didn't happen...Hitoshi was going to be in Class 1-A way earlier.

...I don't think Eraserhead is self-aware enough to plan something like, which is saying something because even more self-awareness would tell him how stupid it is, but...

It's hard to get past the fact that, fundamentally, he's a hollow shell of a man. In all likelihood, he was a mess before Oboro, but after he died? I think something just... broke inside him.

This isn't really something I talk about, but at the core of him, Eraserhead is someone going through the motions, just existing one day at a time. He doesn't seem to have... goals. Objectives. Plans. Desires. Dreams. All he really has is his work, and he's not really doing his work well, is the thing. The first thing he does after getting life altering injuries is go back to work the next day, held together by staples and a prayer. Logically, that not only put back his healing, it might have actually worsened how much permanent damage he had.

He works day and night, and it's clear he's not managing his time well by his constant exhaustion, so most likely if he's not doing UA stuff, or being dragged around by his friends, he's off fighting crime. I mean, hell, he barely even eats.

He doesn't shave, he doesn't clean up, he doesn't get his hair cut... all of that stuff is because he probably doesn't have the energy or will to do it, and, real talk? I honestly wonder if he's so skinny because he's malnourished in some form, because those jelly packets or whatever can't actually be meeting all his nutritional needs, especially with how much energy he has to be burning every day.

I think the main reason Present Mic and Midnight got him to join UA was to save his life. Not from a major threat or anything, but from himself. With him at UA, they could dial him back, stop him from running around picking fights and parkouring across roofs 24/7, and maybe even get a real meal in him.

All of the stuff I've been talking about... 'logically', doesn't that ruin his vaulted 'efficiency'?

When Eraserhead says, 'efficiency', or 'logically', or whatever other word he uses to sound smart, he doesn't really mean, 'doing it in the best way possible', even if he's lying to himself that he is; what he's actually saying is 'doing it the most simple and straightforward way possible, right now'. If he thinks a student is too much trouble, rather than trying to fix the problem he just gets rid of them, and if they manage to pull themselves together after he does that? All the better.

The reverse, though, is as long as they aren't too much of a problem, then they're not actually worth punishing, not unless he's basiclly forced to: he doesn't let Bakugou run wild because he likes him, really, he does it because he doesn't think dealing with him is worth his time, the same way he lets Minoru be a creepy little pervert without really doing anything to make him stop, until he finally crosses the line enough that Eraserhead has to be involved, like by putting a kid in danger. The reason his only comment when he holds Bakugou back that first time is about his dry eye is that honestly, that was all he actually cared about: not that he was attacking other students, but that Bakugou was making him do extra work.

It's why the few times we see him actually deal with a student's problems (that weren't his favorite, anyways) is when he was already doing something else involving them in the first place, because if he's already there, working with them, might as well do this other shit, right?

It's only efficient.

To bring it back to your original point, though, I think part of the reason he's such a hypocrite is he doesn't really reflect on himself, or his actions. While he does think on the past, it's not anything productive, it's just him... wallowing in his grief and self loathing.

The reason Hitoshi was the main focus was because, well, Hitoshi was Eraserhead's main focus, so he wanted him to get a lot of the experience everyone else had been having as fast as possible, and beyond that I don't think he was thinking through the implications beyond that.

I've found a lot of Eraserhead's actions make sense if you ignore everything he says, and instead draw a metaphorical straight line between him and whatever it is that he wants to do. It's not deep, it's just so OOC for a normal thought process that it throws you off.

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