#critical period

[bubbas-psych-dump]

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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[thepuppost]

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[aprito]

what a coincidence anon, me too!!

[yashley]

“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?

[thenationofzaun]

"If only Season 2 had more episodes/if only the show had more seasons it would be better"

No girl, more episodes and seasons would have just been filled with more bullshit. If you were only saying this about S2 Act 1, I'd get it. But after all 9 episodes have dropped y'all are still saying this as if "rushed pacing" was the end all be all issue of this season?

Having more episodes wouldn't have fixed their garbage politics and horrible messaging baked into the show's very foundation. It wouldn't have fixed the glaring plot holes opened up by the idiotic flashbacks. Nor the juvenile Disney Junior "resolution" of conflicts (because the writers genuinely don't think Piltover's oppression of Zaun is that big a deal). Nor the terrible characterizations of most characters (how can more episodes fix Vi for instance, when it didn't even register to the writers that prison would have traumatized her?) It wouldn't have fixed the plot devolving into MCU avengers-assemble-to-defeat-the-zombie-horde drivel either. That was always the slop they were heading towards.

I think so many people have way more faith in the writing team than I do. They truly think that the only issue with Season 2 is that the writers were screwed over by Riot and not given enough screentime. That if they did have the time necessary, they could have fixed the show with their wonderful writing. But from what I see in season 2's limited screentime, it's the writing itself that completely lacks any maturity or intelligence.

Give the season 12 episodes, and you'd have ended up with 12 episodes of the same old nonsense, just with more meandering in between. Give the show 50 episodes instead of 18, same result.

[thunderwaveart]

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

[evilroachindustrial]

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.

[verboselocket38]

To be fair the only reason cheating is ok in recent episode is because it's supposed to parallel Stella & Stolas situation so he's feeling some type of way about it if they didn't have that going on I'm sure they'll be fine with killing them and also aren't they supposed to be a little emotionally grown right now according to Viv or something? 😗 maybe idk and super unpopular opinion don't come at me but cheating isn't a big deal like I heard one guy say once "Who hasn't cheated at least once" It doesn't take away hurt but it's very common and cheating isn't the worst thing someone can do imo genuinely not trying to start a fire but people act like cheating is a crime like how they treated that Berry dude or whatever with Sabrina Carpenter or the Try Guys dude (I don't know his name)

.....Dude what the hell?

Ok first off, just because the cheating is a parallel to Stella and Stolas doesnt mean that The cheating the husband did WAS OK!!!!

Second, if ANYONE says "cheating isnt a big deal 🙄" then they should not be in a relationship EVER. Because your breaking the trust of your partner and not only hurting your partner's feelings, but suprise suprise, YOUR HURTING THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU!!

JUST BECAUSE CHEATING ISNT "the worse thing a person can do" or "is common" DOES NOT MEAN ITS RIGHT! ITS STILL A BAD THING AND SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE A BAD THING.

Do you know the people who haven't cheated once or more when in a relationship? ALOT OF PEOPLE! The ones who do cheat are toxic who dont consider their partner's feelings or the people around them.

IF ANYONE CHEATS WITH YOU, DONT STAY WITH THEM! THEY JUST PROVEN THAT THEY DONT CARE ABOUT YOU FEELINGS WHILE SEEING SOMEONE BEHIND YOUR BACK! ANYONE WHO GETS CHEATED ON HAS THE RIGHT TO BE FURIOUS, SAD, EMBARESSED, HEARTBROKEN, OR ANY OTHER EMOTIONS THEY COULD FEEL WHEN THE PERSON THEY THOUGHT LOVED THEM DECIDED TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE IN THEIR PLACE!

Given how you worded this, you probably havent been cheated on in your life, and genually its a huge red flag to believe cheating is "No big deal."

If you still dont believe me, let me put it like this for the Stolas stans:

If Stolas cheated on Blitzø with Vassago or some other man whatever tf his name is, you'd probably be singing a different tune.

To end this, I just want to say don't come to my blog defending CHEATING and acting like its no big deal. Go somewhere else.

[laterkatersays]

callowmoore finally gets mentioned, by name, on a 4SD and then Ashley Johnson refuses to answer a question about Fearne and Ashton because she's still waiting to see where things go, like they haven't already cuddled every night for the last week (including one time on top of a dragon), made out underneath a blanket, kissed in public in front of all of their friends, had canonically very loud sex that was overheard by every member of Bell's Hells and the Mighty Nein, and made plans just before leaving for the final combat to take mushrooms together (when Ashton said "I would do any fucking stupid thing you were ever down for")

girl, what exactly are we waiting for?

[littlefankingdom]

"You're lying if you're saying Bruce didn't put Jason in the Robin colors"

Yeah, let's forget how this malnourished kid decided to fight Ma Gunn's men ON HIS OWN because he thought Batman wasn't going to come, and also saved Batman's ass that night. Jason was going to go fight criminals before he was Robin. Bruce gave him a way for him to help, which he wanted to do. Also, another version of canon (actually, the first) as him declaring himself as Robin when Dick informs Bruce of his retirement from the tricolor costume to become Nightwing. Like, neither Dick or Bruce made him Robin, he went "Mine now" like the little brother he was, taking his sibling's shit.

[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.

[star-dragon-art]

HOT BOI!! IS BACK!!

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

[borgialucrezia]

"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 ♥