#spatial reasoning

[mangedog]

shout out to people with spatial awareness issues. wishing you a "didn't bump into any table corners or walls" day today!

[digitalfossils]

[dancingpieces]

So my whole life I've barely been able to picture things in my head, let alone actually manipulate objects in my head, and I've always been bad at spacial reasoning. I absolutely hated puzzle's as a kid, probably cause of how frustrating they were with my spatial reasoning issues and bc my fine motorskilss aren't great. But I've randomly gotten into puzzle's ever since being given a wooden one which helped with the fine motor part. They also haven't been as frustrating as I remember.

When I was working on my most recent puzzle though, the weirdest thing happened. I was trying to figure out if some pieces would fit together and my brain conjured them up to see and then I was actually able to move them together in my head, which I don't think I've ever been able to do!!!! Very weird to be on my 30s and have a completely novel thing happen in thoughts! I'm also super curious what has made it so I'm suddenly able to do something I think most ppl can do when I never have before. Like is it being on meds that are actually treating my chronic illness? It's so cool, but also so weird.

[themontessoriacademyofarlington]

Toddler - Music

These children are very engaged with their musical instruments, working together and enjoying the sounds produced by this wonderful work. Children connect with music from a very young age. They enjoy singing, stomping, swinging, clapping, twirling scarves, and playing musical instruments. Hands on experience with musical instruments like rhythm sticks, bells, shaker eggs, drums, etc., are introduced in our toddler classroom. It has been shown that music helps children build pattern recognition and spatial reasoning, both of which are important math skills. Building music skills helps to develop auditory abilities and phonological awareness, which are foundational skills for reading.

[tabletopbellhop]

New #Boardgame #Review on the Blog

Block and Key from Canadian publisher Inside Up Games

You can't help but notice this great looking game with its two level board and chonky ceramic blocks. A very 3D spatial puzzle where it's your 2D view that matters.

[blenselche]

redoing some old sketches i never used

[existennialmemes]

Me: Am I lined up to clear that doorway I'm about to pass through?

My Brain: absolutely 100% good to go

Me: [bumps jarringly into doorframe]

My Brain: Woah, oh my god, you are not even gonna believe this, but it moved! The doorway moved. Amazing that we got to observe this bizarre event

Me: You know, I would fire you if this place wasn't already so understaffed

[klaasje]

spring has sprunked!

[angelmush]

i got a goose tattooed on the inside of my forearm today and it was a flash piece but it's my favorite tattoo already it means everything to me i could sob

[spiralling-spires]

If he hadn’t been sacrificed, I feel like Michael would have been more a victim and/or avatar of The Web.

I highly doubt Michael was stupid. To be honest, he strikes me as neurodivergent of the “if I just go with what they say, they won’t hate me” variety. He trusted gertrude to not… y’know. Kill him. I feel like that’s a pretty low level of trust, all things considered. He probably knew she was planning *something*, though he grossly underestimated the scale. Consider also that Gertrude was trying to intentionally deceive pretty much everyone so that she could go around obliterating Rituals and being a general pain in the ass to Jonah. It’s not a mark against someone to have been tricked by Gertrude. Hell, he was in an echo chamber designed to keep him ignorant!

Point is, Michael wasn’t stupid. He was scared. He was scared of being hated and left behind and not being enough for others. He was scared of failing people. He’d fall into anyone’s schemes, take any number of hits, whatever it would take to have people stick around and hopefully, maybe, protect him in return.

If it hadn’t been Gertrude and her assistants specifically, if it hadn’t been Fears and supernatural entities and attempts to end the world, he would have been manipulated, rather than lied-to-and-manipulated. He could break the Great Twisting because he *had* been lied to, not because it was the core of his fear. (Ignore for now that the Twisting wouldn’t have worked anyway, if 160 is to be believed.)

And every fear has a bit of manipulation in it, Gerry’s colour analogy rant and all. But The Web relishes in manipulation, in telling you true things that will lead you to the wrong conclusions to do what it wants. Michael was told he could stop a great evil. True! Sort of!

Anyways, Web!Michael when

[unopenablebox]

i simply don't believe that orange cats are temperamentally distinct. i think youre all on one

[eachuisge-cc]

box modeling whitetail antlers is a great thing to do if you have no respect for your own time or sanity

anyway, I wanted to do some vaguely wintry stuff and people have been asking for antlers so that seemed like a good choice.

[digitalfossils]

[caesarsaladinn]

battle of Pliska... Plissken... coincidence? well, yes. obviously

[doctorbrown]

Note to self: write that hc post about how Doc is extremely open-minded even towards things like the supernatural/paranormal & how he doesn't discount the possibility that such things can indeed exist in our world just because they seem to 'break' some pre-conceived notion we have of how the world works

[ephemeral-winter]

does anyone have any tips for turning your brain back on after you take a week off work because your grandmother died because i decided to check my work email today so that tomorrow doesn’t hurt more than it has to and i just have no idea how to read anymore