#esp institute

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Joe Bonomo - ESP And You! - Bonomo Culture Institute - 1974

[spoopydeboop]

Literally everyone in Jon’s life: “You need to be around people. Isolation isn’t good for you. :(“

Jon: “Maybe you’re right.”

Jon, some time later: “Hey guys :)”

Literally everyone in Jon’s life:

[miquellah]

miquella as a jesus allegory YES but not Just as the divine figurehead in the institution of christianity. jesus as the guy. jesus as the son of god. jesus as the kindhearted, earnest soul. jesus as the one people put their earnest faith into and followed. jesus as someone who agonizingly, excruciatingly gave all of himself in sacrifice for the salvation of others. jesus who was a friend to the forsaken and downtrodden. jesus as “guy who was actually Really Cool and onto something before all this religion fucked it up”. can anybody hear me

[slocumjoe]

the idea of danse being obsessed with snack cakes and sugar in general because he's a synth is funny but it hits below the belt when you remember he's canonically got an alcohol problem, and he doesn't drink when he's working, and he's usually working

[chemicalarospec]

my favourite part of Death Note is that it's an excellent critique of how ridiculous and horrible police/policing ideology/punitive justice is when taken to its natural conclusion/extreme, but the old man writing it absolutely did not have that in mind -- as evidenced by the fact that he had the Good Normal Police take down This Unhinged Freak Who Thinks We Should Kill Criminals (tho tbf I do think it's a pointed critique of the death penalty - "it's still murder even if they're death row criminals" like it's not spelled out but it's pretty obvious the death penalty is murder too then. But the author kinda gives up on acknowledging the normal "justice" system isn't 100% prefect by the end). like I'm not 100% certain but I do think Light's dad was just made a policeman for plot convenience & possibly to explain why criminals take up so much space in Light's head, not because the Kira's ideology could only be developed by the child of a cop. (L would have used that as evidence it was the case.) Also the author said Mr. Cop Father is good.

[timechange]

MCFLY JULY ‘24 — playing hooky.

MARCH 8, 1983

“Hi Doc, sorry I’m late.”

The fourteen-year-old greets @doctorbrown as usual, sliding the key under the mat and leaving his skateboard by the door. Einstein immediately bounds over, tail wagging, and Marty scratches him behind the ears.

“What’s on the list for today?” the boy continues, completely oblivious to or deliberately ignoring the fact that it’s Tuesday at 12:03 PM and he should most definitely be in Mr. Johnston’s fourth period geometry class right now. “More welding, maybe some circuitry? Dreamin’ up some new schematics?”

As if sensing his best friend’s discontentment and knowing he’s been found out, he groans, flopping onto Einstein to give the canine an impromptu hug. The sheepdog, pleased at the attention, thumps his tail more vigorously and licks the teenager’s face.

“C’mon, Doc,” Marty wheedles. “Linda’s skipping today too! It’s not like I got any tests or anything. Anyway, I learn more from you. You know that.”

What he’s pretty sure the scientist also knows is that, other than Doc himself, nobody actually gives a shit if he’s at school or not. Not his parents, especially not after last night. They probably don’t even realize, and sure as hell don’t care, that he’s gone.

[033h]

I just feel that grinding and professionalism are sooo against my desired state of being and the older I get the more I feel like I’m just collecting these fractured versions of myself I’ll never be able to reconcile but maybe that’s okay… I still kind of envy people who can condense it all into one genuine self tho

[sepulchral-pulchritude]

we need to stop speaking abt specific experiences of oppression as if they are 1. required to be considered a member of a specific minority group 2. only ever experienced by a specific minority group

(unfortunately every time i have seen people expressing this sentiment, it has been an excuse to deny racism, transmisogyny, homophobia etc.)

that being said, i think we should be more mindful of not saying things like "every woman has experienced [xyz]" and "only gay people experience [xyz]" because it is almost never true. 1. privilege insulates some people from the consequences of their minority status and 2. society is not so creative in how it punishes nonconformity

[infernal-lamb]

I love the concept of Narinder (in theory) being eventually sweet and compassionate simply for the fact that I know every time I looked at his dialogue in game I was just like “what the fuck is this guy’s problem” like u dgaf about those cats you raised? why are you saying such mean things

[the-monkey-ruler]

I was reading The Monkey King's Daughter (you can read the whole book for an hour) and apparently the protagonist is also Guanyin's grandchild? Can Guanyin be shipped?

I mean I can’t say like what are like the moral implications of shipping GuanYin itself cause that is so not my place but I’m still going to answer this cause it kinda of interesting when it comes to modern media. First off saying that like I have never really seen romance done with GuanYin. At least in a serious way. But if I had to take a guess it can be seen as 'possible' as much as like shipping anyone in Chinese mythos, in that isn't really taken seriously at all. In a lot of modern fan spaces there are a variety of crack ships for more humorous or hypothetical situations like I have seen literally the Star of Venus shipped with Jade Emperor just cause. But I don't see much with buddhas or bodhisattvas in either post-modern media nor in fan spaces. At least that isn't Wukong or Sanzang since they are both Buddhas. And I have done a whole thing about how Wukong for decades wasn’t seen as a romantic figure until like there was a huge character reconstruction, but that isn’t usually the case for most characters.

I would say that the most mainstream instance I can think off the top of my head is The Lost Empire (2001) where it had the main character has a romantic plot with Gaunyin herself. Of course, that wasn't really a masterpiece within itself but this was considered like a 'bad choice' more so that it was just a very strange and awkward romance at that.

Funny enough I think I see more romantic for humor's sake on Guanyin in comic books or games as likes gags at most. Like in Westward comics (later a tv series) Guanyin has a celestial-turned-demon trying to pursue him that he always rejects. Another is more play for laughs but Guanyin in the Fei Ren Zai where people just don't know it's Guanyin and think she is so attractive.

I've seen some games that have Guanyin as like a pretty boy/girl but otherwise nothing even close to a romance plot. Those are more just for like aesthetics of making every character look overly attractive to sell it.

The best I can say is that is just kinda strange and a little strange personally but I can't say that it can be taken seriously. I mean Wukong is supposed to be a Buddha by the end of the novel, so if The Monkey King's Daughter has it that a buddha can have a daughter then there wouldn't be anything stopping the author from having a bodhisattva having kids.

[ruelpsen]

If I had to choose between cutting off my hand and redoing grad school apps, I'd seriously consider the hand. Be gentle with yourself, it's a fucking slog. What kind of program are you looking into?

Thank you for the reminder to be gentle. This shit has been stressful, and having for various reasons only about a month and a half to actually do focused work on applying has SUCKED. Not looking forward to potentially having to do this again in the future (it's complicated but I'll explain why in a sec), but I am SO looking forward to two weeks from now when these applications are in and it's out of my hands, as much as the waiting game itself sucks in its own way.

As for programs, I don't want to get too specific. I was a double major in undergrad, and I'm not exaggerating when I say I've literally never met anyone else with those two specific majors. (Ftr one is a STEM field and the other in the humanities.) I want to keep studying both in some capacity in the future, but to make a long story short I'm stuck in a position where I have to hold off on applying to the program in the humanities for now.

As annoyed as I am about the 'long story' part of that, I'm totally fine with prioritizing the program in STEM for now. Hell, in some ways that's a good thing given the limited amount of time I have to work on applications. But at the same time, I've greatly limited the number of schools I'm applying to so I can focus on creating well-tailored applications for their specific programs and faculty, and that means each potential rejection would leave me with a far smaller share of options. It's a bit of a risk, but damn it I'm trying my best to show how strong of a student I've been and that I would work well with their specific people. Hopefully things work out in the end.

I hope your own efforts have paid off too, wherever life has taken you.

[lildoodlecat]

so as you might imagine i primarily read mxtx fic but i've had a recent resurgence of interest in tma (bc i discovered via yt animatics that there were bonus q&a n' such episodes i never heard so listened through all those) and from my last quick browse i wasn't particularly interested in the fic available. however, i remembered i DID have one open i'd thought about reading but ended up closing bc i just wasn't feeling it enough to let it keep clogging up my tabs

so, since i'm still riding the dopamine this is giving me i hunted down the aforementioned fic (luckily in my marked for later. ty past me for not at all underestimating my indecisiveness and hoarding of potentially useless things tendencies) and was like. ohhhh fucK that's actually an interesting canon divergence! i understand why i had this open.....

and then i binged through the first 4/9 chapters of this 145K fic in two days and?? i'm having so much fun. actually. which is really nice bc i kinda don't have enough like. fresh interests to exploit a;lksdjf as it were for my Disorder to be happy with. most things i've been indulging in for the last while are pretty well worn unfortunately

but ye i'm glad i'm having fun with this and also just excited to read such a fun fic :3

[the-saucy-wave-equation]

I had a really nice seminar today about communicating in science as a woman, and it was just so nice to discuss all of the toxic behavior in our institute, and then did a lot of workshopping about useful strategies to deal with typical sexist experiences

[specialmouse]

lgbt people need to stop thinking in terms of black and white and by that i mean stop thinking our oppression as directly analogous to the oppression of black people by white people it's not the same !

[yves-and-scessernee]

I understand that many people have had to deal with U.S. Americans asking things like "Wait, there's Starbucks in Africa?" and I agree that we rightfully deserve to get dunked on for that

but as someone involved in religious and interfaith life, it's not unheard of for me to run into the opposite situation. this post goes out to a conversation I had recently with a friend, a truly lovely person, which began with "Oh! Before I forget, here's a book I picked up from the monastery my grandfather took me to a while back," and snowballed into "Wait, there are monasteries in America?"

[madhyanas]

i can never tell if i (a brown woman @ a predominantly white university) am 

making everything about race AND/OR

being weird about race OR

being normal about race, it’s just that weird racial things actually happen

also what does it mean that i’m looking for ways to ‘justify’ how i feel abt race and interacting w white people. why do i want approval on how i feel and think abt race. i’m deeping it too much but dude. what