#smarter than i think i am

[wreckitremy]

I need yall not on tiktok to see and listen to Mariah

[pukicho]

You just revealed you don't know what the word 'titular' means. When Americans try to sound smart they misuse words. Happens every time. Stay in your lane.

I am smarter than you in every single subject you could possibly think of. I am the titular fucking pukicho.

[runawaymarbles]

I really wish I could be cool and edgy and nihilistic like "people are stupid and we're all going to die and we have that coming." But unfortunately people are stupid and I do give a shit and I don't want everyone to die and I don't think we actually have that coming despite the aforementioned stupidity. Very unfortunate. Way less satisfying. Everyone in my inbox is either willfully ignorant, heavily indoctrinated, or 14 years old, and I can't even be smug that they're going to suffer for it because I'm upset they are going to suffer for it (along with everyone else.) Like some sort of loser.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

if Crozier had a nickel for every time someone close to him kept a mortal wound secret from him he'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's definitely enough to give him some very specific trauma for the rest of his life

[unnonexistence]

imo a core part of the newmann dynamic is like... you've got these two very very intelligent people who have spent most of their lives being Smartest Guy In The Room. which feels great! but also, it's very hard to form close and trusting relationships when everyone else sees you as Smartest Guy In The Room. and if you maybe don't have great social skills to begin with, you can't figure out how to compensate. and it's hard to build up solid self-esteem when the only thing people value you for is your intelligence, and a lot of them resent you for that, too. so really it is very very lonely.

and then they meet! and neither of them is the smartest guy in the room anymore! and that is both EXHILIRATING (omg! someone who gets me!) and TERRIFYING (the fragile pillar i built my whole self-esteem on is crumbling! help!).

they do NOT know how to cope with this. best they can do is being obsessed with each other.

[casscainmainly]

Hi

i wanted to ask, in canon, cass is able to speak normally and fluently but struggles with writing and reading and dyslexia right?

From what i've read that seems to be true, but i haven't read modern cass stuff besides bg 2024 where she seems to be able to read and write aswell

She does indeed have a language disability! From Batgirl (2000) #67:

Important part is that while she does struggle to read and write (more than speaking), Babs points out the she "can learn". We know from Gabrych's earlier issue (#58) that Cass has advanced significantly at this point in her reading skills:

It's still a struggle, but I think at this point her skills are speaking > reading > writing (and speaking is not completely fluent). Another thing we know from Batgirl (2008) is that Cass attended ESL lessons and got tutoring from Alfred. Beechen was trying to explain evil!Cass though, so whether you accept this explanation for her sudden fluent English is up to you. I think this is a copout since we didn't see this progression, and it's immediately followed by N52 anyway. But to answer your question about modern!Cass, honestly it's all over the place. We can start with Tynion's Detective Comics (2016), which remains the modern run that focuses most on her disability. Basil's Shakespeare lessons improve Cass' language ability, to the point where Babs says:

This is markedly different from pre-52, in that Cass seems to be a better reader than a speaker. So modern!Cass is reading > speaking > writing in terms of skill. This is supported by Batgirls (2022), where Cass is seen to be a huge bookworm and reads Steph's letter in #14. I think Batgirls overshoots this a bit because we don't see her struggle with reading at all, erasing her disability to an extent - this is my qualm with the current Birds of Prey run as well in regards to Cass' dialogue. Modern comics are hit or miss in terms of how they handle, or if they even address, Cass' disability.

Writing is the field least explored both pre- and post-52. We know from Batgirl (2000) #2 that Cass does practice writing, or at least she did at one point. As far as I recall we don't see her write again? Cass can type - as far back as Batgirl (2000) #30, we see that she can use a keyboard. We also know from TT's Nightwing that there's a family group chat, though Cass mostly sends emojis. Typing with a keyboard reduces the cognitive load of making sentences, so it's likely Cass is a more confident typer than she is a handwriter.

In general, modern comics have focused most on the speech aspect - Tynion's 'Tec, Batman and the Outsiders (2019), Batgirls '22, Batgirl '24, and Mariko Tamaki's story in Festival of Superheroes generally all focus on speaking over reading/writing (in contrast to Batgirl (2000) which touched on all three areas). The preview of Batgirl #7, though, has Cass listening to an audiobook as she reads, so Brombal is highlighting Cass' reading disability! Even if it's not all that visible in Cass' modern appearances, her disability is still a huge part of her character!!!

If you want a fairly in-depth look at the history of Cass' disability (until 2023), check out @dailycass-cain's post!

[seri-tonin]

Part three of enstars memes except you can tell who my favorite character is

[pre-successful]

I can't figure out how to tag OP--Tumblr insists there's no one with that username 🙄--but this post sent me down a rabbithole, and while I still don't honestly understand much of what I've found, here are some potentially cool things to consider in this connection (and/or incorporate into fanart):

The bound monster!! An enemy of the gods Jame and the cult, bound but destined to break free!!!

Plus someone could DEF make something of the famine/hunger illustration + the Egg Thing.

Also, if you read the wiki, some descriptions of Hel lowkey remind me of the depiction of Woe on the show. Not in any specific way, but in terms of Vibes.

(Also, how do you share a post within a community? I'm Getting Old in terms of tech literacy 😭)

[undercoverangell]

“penelope was a spartan so she’d be so buff and into violence and murder haha!! thats why she was so chill w odysseus killing all the suitors!!!” WRONG!!!

shes buff and into violence and murder and killing bc shes just like that. god forbid women have hobbies. hobbies like. stare at husband covered in blood. admire husband covered in blood. carnally desire husband covered in --

[tanadrin]

I know some of y'all have, like, complicated personal histories with psychotherapy, but it's kind of wild how borderline conspiracy-theory stuff about how psychotherapy functions get accepted as uncontroversial fact in this corner of tumblr.

[bytewire]

Are Architects Smarter than Humans?

The way AL-AN talks mixed with the fact that Architects are more technologically progressed than humans in the Subnautica universe leads him to seeming ‘smarter’ than the average human. He has a wide range of knowledge and despite his lack of experience with human social cues he is able to articulate himself extremely well. He also has access to tons of information due to his prior position as a scientist, but also because of what comes with existing as an Architect in the first place.

I mean, if your brain had direct access to all information available currently, you'd of course seem smart, but is that just you retelling what things have already been discovered or is this you being ‘smart’?

In that case you are only as smart as Google allows you to be (and the proverbial Architect GoogleTM is damn good). If you took an Architect never connected to the network and a human with no access to the internet how would they compare with their baseline intellect?

Wait a minute—what does that even solve? You could also argue the fact that because Architects are (usually) always connected to the network that this hypothetical is entirely unfair because it strips Architects of something that defines how they function. Being connected to the network is their normal existence, which would indeed imply that they are smarter than humans, yes? As they normally should have access to this advantage.

The average Architect has all the available knowledge that their species has learned available to it at all times while the average human has to rely only on things they’ve learned and how well they can research a certain topic. Again, being connected to the network for Architects is like if your brain was connected to Google and also literally everyone that currently exists and those that existed in the past. Just because a singular Architect may not have learned something for themselves doesn’t mean they can’t implement and use that knowledge. Just like how humans don’t need to have been the one to discover something for them to learn about and understand said thing.

Except then we go back to the issue of are they smart or do they just reiterate things they have available information on without actually having had studied or learned about said things? Even that fails to acknowledge the fact that they’re a hivemind! Trying to measure just one Architect is pointless when the only Architect mind that exists singularly from the rest of the network is AL-AN—besides he was never supposed to exist individually in the first place… and we have gone back around in a circle.

How could you even begin to compare the two species at all when they are so inherently different? Architects have senses that humans cannot begin to comprehend as we have never experienced them and vice versa. Their perceptions are very different from ours. Differences that make them seem so otherworldly to the other that it’s difficult to ascertain where you begin to measure which is ‘better’ and which is ’worse’.

To complicate things even further you would have to consider what each species considers to be intelligent at all, and then both would have to agree on these requirements. Is a fish lesser than a human just because it experiences existence in a way unfamiliar to us? What even is ‘smart’ or ‘intelligence’ and who decides what that means? It’s always going to be biased when the beings who created the definition also makes the rules and the criteria that must be met to fit that definition. An IQ test would mean nothing to a species that evolved under entirely different circumstances and whose minds work in entirely opposite ways to our own. Just as whatever they use to measure intelligence might not apply to how our brains work…

…Oh my god, it’s a loop that never ends. I can’t even remember which side I was arguing for, or if I was ever even arguing for one at all. Quite honestly, there’s no answer to my original question. I’ll be frank with you I cannot come up with one anyhow. I tried, but the more I kept writing the more I realized that each point contradicted itself again and again until we end up here. Back at the beginning.

“Are Architects Smarter than Humans?”

[carriehobbs]

there’s something about the fact that n would become human again if given the chance and they wouldn’t want their child to become a vampire but they simultaneously assume that the detective will turn. i’m not articulating the thought well but n sewell i love your contradictions

[kairos-polaris]

fwiw you're right and you should say it about the inherent unfunny of the "oops he was trans!!!" popular fanon thing. as if Jonah, known details oriented man with telepathy powers wouldn't be picking bodies carefully. and also BIG agreed about it being messed up to consider "dysphoria/queerness as a punishment for being evil" somehow funny or an acceptable joke format like. there is a BUNCH of weird homophobic/transphobic-adjacent stuff people do with him in this fandom but that one's right up near the top. jokes are supposed to be funny, someone explain to me why this one is. 'idk it's just funny lol' like no fr tell me why you (the fandom not you-you) think queerness as a punishment is funny. answer quickly.

thank you so much! I felt like I was crazy but like. sure it's a funny hc. it's still exposing biases. one example that comes to mind is that one person in Arcane fandom who hc'ed Cait reading product labels for Vi. they are just having fun! not being classist assuming Vi can't read because she grew up poor! sure they are wrong but they are having fun so it doesn't matter /s

"an old man being stuck in a trans man's body is funny" what's the punchline? what's the joke?

[thedreadvampy]

Me trying to be low-key and normal: "Ehhhhh so I think Saltburn is really the epitome of naive camp per Sontag largely because Emerald Fennel has a strong desire to reflect a very specific aesthetic sensibility but you know, because rich people lack a certain uhhhhhhh connection to the I guess cultural zeitgeist of Normal Fucking People it's just a clusterfuck of absent signifiers, right?"

Me trying So So So Hard to impress people and look cool: "So I'm trying to read The Second Sex but it's full of sentences like 'reifying the alterity of women removes access to the human Mitsein' and it's like lol, what does that even mean?" [<< knows full well what that sentence means and actually thinks that's the clearest and simplest way to express the idea]

[icedb1ackcoffee]

to my fellow creatives: never stop making art. art is an act of protest.

[animentality]

'what academics thought of him' get that stick out of your ass, as if writing a bs paper is more valuable than literally 95% of jobs XDD

you know what's really sad?

you don't even know just how much you don't know.

you think that you and I are on even ground and that I just have an inflated sense of self worth and that we are intellectual equals or that we are, in some way, capable of the same logical processing power and deductive reasoning, you just didn't finish school and I did...

but we aren't.

and the saddest part is that you really never will know what it's like to understand things on the same level as I do, nor will you ever attempt to do such a thing.

you're sort of like a newborn puppy trying to contemplate the existence of a mirror.

you're capable of seeing the world around you, but you will not know why or how it works, and everything that happens to you will be outside of your control or comprehension.

and that's tragic.

and I feel sorry for you.

because that must be a terrifying and confusing way to live.

and fear mostly leads to fury and lashing out at anyone you can reach, because you cannot influence anything else, and you just don't understand why.

this is the only way you can assert yourself and make you feel in control, and the worst part is... you don't even know how easily we can see through you.

and you are still, ultimately, powerless.

you're just, you know. also embarrassing yourself.