#fascinating experience

[mx-lamour]

I've been in physical therapy for a neck/back strengthening program, because most of my work/hobbies are things I lean over. I have had terrible posture most of my life for a few reasons.

Sometimes my PT coach likes to chat in between exercises. Sometimes during. Usually just small talk.

But then I'm in this machine, pushing 88 pounds of torque with my spine, and he asks me if I have any new projects going on.

This guy, who I already know is normal athlete guy, and who knows that I engage in art and writing endeavors he has no frame of reference for.

It's sweet of him to be curious, but my god.

So I wrack my brain, and start to explain in the most basic and general way how I'm... doing cosplay? And like, writing a research paper about it?

But it hits my special-interest desire to go into animated detail, full of silly jargon, wherein I would feel compelled to define and delve into the background of every other word, and I'm having to curate on the spot which details are important and why and which he would be able to follow and how to present them in an order that makes sense, and I'm doing a pretty bang-up job, and then suddenly I start to realize that I am burning up.

Miraculously, I manage to say "I'm getting really hot" but don't actually remember that I am still currently engaged in a physical workout, so the guy jumps in and saves me and tells me I can stop the exercise.

I'd literally stopped processing the physical exertion. My brain apparently set it to autopilot in order to effectively craft speech instead. I did not feel tired or sore. I could easily have gone back to doing more reps if I had only shut my mouth.

But as it was, like a computer trying to run a software it wasn't built for, I was literally overheating.

tbh I'm a little bit curious what the crash point would have been, and which would have gone first, my tongue or my back or something else entirely...

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[i-schmeared-it-on-a-bagel]

I heard the doorbell ring, so I went to go see who was at the door, and my sister yelled "IT'S THE MAYOR" "I NEED PANTS"

[an-absolute-nightmare]

oh hey i forgot to mention this weird thing that happened couple days ago. i was hanging out at the park with my friends when this old man having four paintbrushes in his hand comes up to our group and starts looking at us. and we all became kinda awkward because well. it was an awkward situation. and i think we were all half expecting him to ask if he wanted to paint us but then he went from one corner of our (fairly large group) to another and then? starts to sing?? and we all didn't know what to do bc it was so weird and random but also he was singing pretty well so we all just sort of stood/sat there until he finished and then he brisk walked away??

[wolfythewitch]

Gf: I want to try out she/they pronouns

Me: holy shit we yuri'd our yaoi

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Kiss Kiss Fallen Tree!

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[soybean-official]

Family portrait.

[fanfiction-obsession]

Major Monogram from Phineas and Ferb is a fascinating accidental example of unjust biases stemming from ignorance and laziness instead of intentional harm in the ‘species-ism’ that is a root of injustice in the PnF universe. In this essay I will

[kayvsworld]

I wish there were mcu comics I wish there were comics but of the mcu. low stakes inter-movie 2012 avengers tower style shenanigans and I am NOT talking about avengers assemble the cartoon OR the tie in comics I am saying a series, an avengers series specifically of the avengers and they do avengers things and it's mcu but it's comics

what I am actually saying is that I wish there had been more avengers movies before aou where they did avengers things and were friends, an avengers 1.5, but this is a more unfixable problem

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[ladyofspoons]

of course you have a blue kanohi and pronouns

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[the-random-phan]

Ectoberhaunt Day 13

Isekai: Old Hero New World

[thepringlesofblood]

ok so like. murderbot is famously anti-food right? but consider. we know secunits have a sense of smell. it mentions liking/not liking plenty of smells across the series (the 'dirty sock' human smell, ART's showers smelling good.)

where i'm going with this is that good food smells good. and i don't think mb has ever been around any good food. like think. academic surveys, mining installations, close-quarters space travel, these are not places or occasions known for their cuisine. its experience of food in an olfactory sense is probably limited to ration packs & corporate cafeteria lunch settings. until relatively recently, it had never even been through the 'human' parts of stations before, where it may have smelled some sort of actual food in passing. it's probably seen plenty of other types of food on media, but never smelled any of it.

so imagine. come with me on a mind journey. mb stopping in on Mensah's actual house for some reason during the day, and one of her spouses or something is baking gingerbread (very much the kind of cookie that fills up the whole house with good smells). like. would it even recognize it as being food necessarily? gingerbread is very much one of those smells that everyone tries to recreate and no one quite can. I imagine it's not thrilled with the concept of ovens in general (humans please stop putting your hands in/near hot things), but imagine it frantically trying to place the smell and mensah being like hey you good? and it being like theres. a smell. something must be wrong somewhere. and mensah being like oh no that's just gingerbread, tano's baking cookies. and it's like that's FOOD???

[saint-miroir]

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!-- Animedia Magazine (05/1998)

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of the things that I found particularly interesting in Demigods of Olympus is that it finally gives the best direct comparison we've seen so far between Percy and another character's experiences in terms of academics and particularly ableist discrimination.

The way Zane describes his experiences and what we see in his POV is that, while he is similarly discriminated against for his "atypical" behavior and blame is placed on him, the only sorts of punishments he receives for this are relatively benign, such as an increase in counseling. (It is also notable that Zane is somewhat autistic-coded, such as having the "incorrect" scripts when speaking with adults and Sam explicitly reminding him to remember to make proper eye contact.) Percy, on the other hand, similarly experiences discrimination for "atypical" behavior, but whereas Zane is treated as "too smart for his own good" and given slaps on the wrist, Percy is automatically labeled as aggressive, destructive, and a trouble-maker based on preconceived assumptions about him and is more severely punished, such as being frequently expelled.

We rarely get this level of direct comparison between Percy's experiences and that of another character, particularly such similar experiences, so looking at the differences is really interesting to gauge what their different experiences with ableist discrimination is like - and how it could potentially tie into intersectionality and other forms of discrimination at play for them.

For instance, Zane's parents are generally heavily implied to be middle-class and/or generally financially secure, versus Percy who grew up poor, so it could be classism in combination with ableist discrimination. Alternatively, it could be intersectionality with racial discrimination, as neurodivergent behavior in people of color is significantly more likely to be punished more severely and labeled as aggressive or disruptive behavior due to racist preconceptions - particularly since we know Percy's experiences with ableist discrimination are also somewhat based on assumptions people make regarding his appearance. Both Zane and Percy are racially ambiguous - Zane's appearance essentially being completely unspecified, but Percy at least having some notable details such as having a deep tan complexion. If not racism, it could also be colorism, which in this context often has similar intersectionality. There's a lot of potential options.

It's just very interesting to me! I love having such a direct point of comparison to examine the experiences of two characters within.