#reinforcing

[postcard-from-the-past]

Coal miners reinforcing the walls, Artois region of France

French vintage postcard, mailed to Paris

[neurovarious]

[coolxatu]

she allegoried on my cave til i [JOKE PENDING]

[hinamie]

spins him around trying to understand the pink mop he calls hair

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

[pangur-and-grim]

I entered a poetry contest and made the long list!

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Abby and Gregory discover Michael is an artist too

[zhongrin]

thinking of secretly dating the general of the luofu, when you're the healer for the cloud knights who receives flowers and many gifts daily ー some signs of gratification and others a form of demure confessions. but there are always those ones who are brave enough to present you the blooms themselves, followed by the atypical sweet words and the million-strales question. to which you always answer with the same sentence that leaves them wondering just who on luofu is the lucky guy: "i'm sorry, i already have a boyfriend."

... that is, until one day, you're faced with a rather persistent admirer. almost as if on cue, you hear footsteps behind you, a calloused hand settling onto your shoulder, accompanied with the familiar timbre of the man whom you might as well have been married to for all these years, a flourish of pride in his firm words:

"boyfriend, indeed. i am the boyfriend."

[kingkrillin]

just need to share how much I dislike this post lol

people will fully expect trans men to put ourselves on the line for everyone else and meanwhile the only time they acknowledge our existence is to talk about how "low risk" we are (obviously untrue) or to volunteer us out as a community for potentially dangerous activist endeavors that they wouldn't risk doing themselves

"we need to get uncomfortable!" and what's actually being discussed is convincing a subset of the community to be uncomfortable on your behalf while you do nothing to show solidarity with us

[ceaselessims]

thinking about how elias admits to martin that he's been trying to figure out a way to shatter martin's "precious image" of jon but hadn't found how yet so he has to go with the weaker option of bringing up martin's mommy issues (which fails)

martin truly too gay for the narrative he's fucking up everyone's plans

[oh-dear-so-queer]

In fact, ideas about human and animal homosexuality tend to be mutually reinforcing.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[xxplastic-cubexx]

personal happiness or what the fuck ever

bonus:

[heynhay]

playing dirty

[surskip]

little robot guy. movable eyes

[jedi-starbird]

Obi-Wan: oh? who's this?

Cody, who's been carting around an orange cat he found sleeping in Obi-Wan’s discarded robe all day, and assumed that his general had been transformed due to standard Force Bullshit™️: ...no one. apparently.