#simply esoteric

[salembehindbars]

How I expect people to talk to me:

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

If she talks about "Women have a far deeper connection with the spiritual realm" and the "Divine Feminine", run.

[porcelaincvnt666]

i love when i remember how much i love mitski!!! fuck u and ur money! im tired of ur money!

[esotericas-sims]

detour for friendship posting before we meet the new baby

[fire-on-fuel]

since we're talking about this being the "functional label to bypass getting into the comittment issues" aroallo type of aromantic and not the aroace type of aromantic sucks so bad. they should give you a warning or something

[dead-generations]

The average Australian is very financially literate and understands a lot about long term personal financial management especially compared to an American. But good God are we economically literate.

The idea of building apartment blocks specifically for an entity to own and operate them to be rented out consistently is regarded with skepticism as voodoo economics. "diverse economies are undesirable" is a frequent refrain. domestic productive industry and even innovation cultivation is viewed as not simply risky but necessarily nonviable, and in fact childish and naive. It is taken as given that the global political-economic situation will extend indefinitely into the future. We somehow learned nothing from covid and the concurrent Chinese trade war. Australians cannot even conceive of the possibility of a world in which a war could occur which would directly impact Australia.

I don't really have a point to this besides exasperation. She'll be right cannot be the basis for economic, political and military planning!

[cowtoolsfanart]

People who gripe about historical fashion accuracy and I fundamentally DO NOT get along

[honeyrisuke]

you can boo me all you want, i think the concept of "self fulfilling prophecies" is esoteric nonsense at best and abusive gas lighting at worst

when you correctly access your skillset and express that, and then it happens just as you said bc you know yourself, that's not a self fulfilling prophecy.

"I will fail this test bc I know I've never solved any of these exercises correctly, even though I studied" isn't a self fulfilling prophecy. it's not being a delusional idiot.

"Just so you know- I'm really annoying and exhausting when I get upset and people usually can't deal with that" isn't a self fulfilling prophecy. it's being aware of who you are and trying to do damage control for when things do go south. not mentioning the problem (or worse, lying about how there's no problem) will not make the problem go away.

If I tell you about something I deeply struggle with, that I don't see as worth fighting for OR that I can't change and need you to be patient with me for, and you call that a "self fulfilling prophecy", you might as well tell me to "shut the fuck up with the negativity". All that accusation means is "it's your fault after all, you did this on purpose, and you don't deserve patience for it".

When I say "I shouldn't talk to people when I'm upset because it only ruins friendships", I don't say that to gain sympathy or to be dramatic or to feel sorry for myself. This is a WARNING. I am COMMUNICATING what is going on with me so we can both be careful about that, with a precise worst case scenario I'd like to avoid. When the other person then tells me to "always come to them" and "never be afraid uwu uwu", and I do so, and it happens LITERALLY just how I said it would- that's not a "self fulfilling prophecy".

That is me correctly accessing as situation, the other person not listening to me or not taking my words seriously at all, and then finding out that I was in fact right about it. So all that's left for them to say is "oh, but it's your fault. Because you said it, that's why it happened. YOU set yourself up to fail" bc otherwise they'd have to admit that actually they didn't respect me enough to listen.

[astrxlfinale]

While this is unrelated (somewhat) in my grand scope of HC creation.

To have someone like me, a Kingdom Hearts fan, also have the Clockwork ability deal with aspects similar to keyblades in terms exploring the realm within people's Hearts pleases me to know end.

I fucking love that series and the fact I get embody it with my Star rail muse too makes me do backflips.

Dive to the Heart when.

[space-spring]

Cerya Phoraena from tactics ogre IS really cool btw, she's a great character. Fierce and ruthless militia leader lady who takes bullshit from no-one :>

She definitely seems right up my alley lol!!! I'm a sucker for lady knights and doubly so for the ruthless leader type :) I went and looked her up after seeing that art you rb-ed and went, "okay okay alright I think tactics ogre got me with this one..... 😔" I've always stuck more on the nintendo side of jrpgs so I just need to get over the hurdle of finding a good way to play it, but after that I'm really looking forward to getting into tactics ogre (+ a bunch of other games that are more on the sega side of things)

[salembehindbars]

“You actually have to talk to a guy to get a boyfriend.”

[demonicimagery]

mmm maybe imo webcomics are … better than physical comics

[esotericas-sims]

From the journals of Florence Spectre,

Day 5.

Dig team headed back up the mountain today, and began the mammoth task: Exploring the temple. Floors seemed sturdy, but it was clearly large. Long way to go.

First room of interest had racks of articulated skeletons, armed with weaponry. Colorfully painted - guards? Against what?

Tried out a new camera to take photographs. Spotted jewels in broken urns, alongside bones. More burials. Not sure this is a temple. Maybe burial site? Another room had just plants, with a carving of leaves on the wall. Plants underground? Lots of questions.

Deeper into the underground, found plinths with bowls - offerings? Same four symbols we have seen multiple times. Leaves, sun, etc.

R.S. located another set, this one with gold dust in one of the bowls.

Not sure what we should take and what we should leave. Seems like a bad idea to desecrate this place. R.S. disagrees - wants to put it all in a museum.

Eventually reached the bottom chamber - large, symmetrical. Two unlocked boxes in the center. Not looted? Why was this place abandoned? Riches still remaining. Very strange.

Boxes contained golden idols - they attached together into one whole piece. More on that later. All in all, very successful day, although brought up more questions than answers. Life & death symbolism? Religious building or burial site? So many skeletons - why?

Not sure we will be able to find answers to any of them.

Playing with  SeveralPerson’s Ultimate Decades Challenge Rules

Started: 1800s

Current decade: 1910s

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[raubtierfuetterung]

I hate being a girl

[cerastes]

“Hear me out”s are a losing game. You are better off betting your life savings on a single game of poker. You can’t do a meaningful hear me out, it isn’t possible. The very nature of the internet is people lowkey trying to come across as “I Have Seen Fucked Up Things In My Time” experts and survivors. Anything that can threaten to put a crack in that fragile ego will immediately be shot down. “Hear me out”s aren’t regular statements, they are challenges, you are trying to come across as someone with Higher Fetish Power than others, which directly clashes with someone’s I Have Seen Fucked Up Things In My Time-fu. No one will ever admit to have a less esoteric fetish or kink than others. Not on the internet.

“Hear me out”s say something about the shooter: They too want to Have Seen More Fucked Up Things, and not only have they normalized it, they get off on it. They usually append “cowards” to the “hear me out” because it is a statement of me > you. The most annoying kind of person, in the most annoying arena, challenging you to the most annoying duel. The best counter is to shoot it down because that has no counter in this context: They already showed their hand, you can simply call it a bad hand and win.

“Hear me out”s are self-destruction. Your “hear me out” could have been a link and a “this is hot”. You willingly chose the losing battle when it would have taken less effort to not lose. “Hear me out” is not about your “hear me out” ultimately, it’s about you thinly veiled with something else. Sun Tzu warned you about this.

[homunculus-argument]

When it comes to high-context and low-context cultures, where one has the expectation of people understanding specific subtle nuances of what someone says, and the other has the expectation that everything needs to be explicitly said to be understood, I've heard plenty of people from low-context cultures ask "why not say what you mean and mean what you say then, why would you have to speak in riddles?" about high-context ones, like people of the latter type are just being cryptic and esoteric on purpose.

But culture does not consist of things you do on purpose, it is just the way things are done where you were raised. And when you were raised in a high-context culture, the thought of needing to explicitly state something instead of using some phrase or expression that you've learned to use comes as a culture shock, too. It's not "fuck you for not correctly understanding my riddles three", but "oh shit, I hadn't occurred to me that I would need to say that out loud."

The first time I went on a business trip to the US, my partner came with me, and we immediately discovered that he does not fare well on long flights. So when my publisher asked me about future trips, inquiring whether my partner would be coming with me, I asked him. He said that he would, if the flights weren't such a problem - he would need to travel in some way where he could get his feet up or lay down during flights, like business class or first class. Being also a finn, I understood what he meant and relayed the message as is to my publisher, not considering that they might not.

To both of our surprise, they started to actually look for first class tickets for us.

Finnish culture is a high-context one, people don't talk much and aren't very confrontational. Being demanding and putting someone else into a position where they're forced to be upfront or demanding is rude. And in finnish, saying "this would only be possible if these entirely absurd/completely impossible conditions were met" is a polite way of saying "no". You are simply explaining why something cannot be done, without either saying an explicit "no" or seeming like you're making up excuses. It offers the other party an opportunity to agree that these conditions cannot be met, so neither party will come off as confrontational or demanding.

Both me and my boyfriend considered it self-evident that the request was absurd, and could not be read as anything but a polite way to decline. It had not occurred to me that an american's natural response to "it would be impossible to do this" is to start figuring out how to do it anyway.