#the world is a strange place

[fearecia]

Huh. Yeah. Far as I know, this isn't a common thing in the US. But also, neither is taking off your shoes when you go inside (though that seems to be a bit more common, depending on the household).

Are you in the US? Are your parents from another culture? This mindset screams "Japanese" to me, but that's probably because I associate the whole "you have inside shoes and outside shoes and never shall the two be confused" with Japanese culture. I also associate the willingness to wear masks when ill with them as well*. So I'm wondering if you grew up in a family with a different cultural background and that's why you're facing what I would consider to be "culture shock."

Conversely, I've worked in healthcare. And it ironically had kind of the opposite effect on me. Like, after the literal shit I've been exposed to, I'm seriously not worried about what's in the general environment. Of course I still wash my hands whenever I'm doing food prep, but I'm generally not worried about it when I'm out in public. I sort of consider anything I come into contact with as a way to keep my immune system trained up and active so that I'm less likely to get sick. Exposure therapy, if you will. That doesn't apply to anything obviously disgusting; I keep my hands to myself and avoid touching excess stuff. I also don't just go out to go out, so there's a lot less exposure in general for me, so that may play into things. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠���⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Of course I'm super OCD about washing my hands whenever I'm doing anything healthcare/client/other people related. I'm just less concerned in general about myself, if that makes any sense.

*Please note that I am terrible at differentiating all peoples and cultures ftom each other and I'm very well aware of it. My labels are very often wrong/incorrect/likely fueled by bad stereotypes. I'm only associating this with Japanese peoples and their culture because my brain is screaming that it's isolated to them and not a generalized Asian cultural mindset, and I'm half remembering images from some educational show about it. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but know that I'm not trying to be an ass. This is one of those things where because my brain has not had a good reason/enough exposure to all the distinctions, it positively refuses to remember things, and I constantly get stuck in generalizations. No offense intended, I swear.

I'm also face blind and literally cannot physically tell the difference between different peoples, so that doesn't help either.

in the vein of "how do you stay safe from getting sick", I wanna say that something I always noticed as a kid was that a lot of the time when I went to people's houses and we would leave at some point to the mall or the park or something and then come back home…I don't remember any of them washing their hands when we got back inside. they'd just immediately lead me back to their room or the living room or something, and then I'd feel incredibly self-conscious about going to their bathroom to wash my own hands. and I always thought it was absolutely bizarre because the way I was raised, the first thing you do when you come back home after taking your shoes and jacket off is go wash your hands. it's common sense. why on planet earth would you not wash your hands. you've just been touching a hundred public surfaces that could have anything on them and you think as soon as you set foot in your own house all the germs you've picked up just evaporate? it's absolutely insane to me to know that so many people don't bother washing their hands. WASH YOUR HANDS.

[rainypebble07]

Me when I go to my 'for you' tab on tumblr and am immediately greeted with a very NSFW Eddie Munson x Reader post:

[wandercr]

sometimes, the training rings in the citadel remind her of vault 101. what difference was there, really, in nursing a bloodied lip from a fellow recruit, rather than butch deloria?

most of the time, she manages to hold her own. she suspects that some of her peers go easy on her. since coming out of the purifier alive, she doesn't exactly look ... healthy. her already pale skin takes on a grayish, almost ghastly pallor; the blue of her veins are visible at her temples and undereyes, but she refuses to spend anymore time in the medical bay. ( and given her recent temper, she imagines them thankful for that small grace. )

none of it stops some of the other recruits from testing just how far their vault dweller can be pushed.

she might be faster, but her opponent is larger, and probably hasn't spent anytime lately in a radiation bath.

he doesn't bother with pretense, no dancing around the ring or giving her a chance to use her agility to her advantage. he comes straight for her, too quick to dodge or weasel away from.

before she can process anything, eliana hits the ground hard enough to knock the wind from her lungs; a hard kick lands against her ribs. fucking asshole --

she wheezes, scrabbling at the ground with dirty, chipped fingernails, as a boot plants against her mid-back. a flurry of curses fight for what little air remains in her chest, and ultimately comes out as nothing at all.

part of her wants to squirm out of his hold and rip his throat out; the other prays for a paladin to walk by and care enough about their newfound hero to keep her in one piece. / @colonelmade

[0it-is-me0]

I don't want to go into much detail, but sometimes after something upseting happens, I tend to seek communities online, that I know are harmful to me. And I know that they don't respect me as a person. But they also don't like a community that just hurt me. And at that moment we have that same rage.

And then some time passes and I leave the group again. Because I know they cause harm. But for a moment I understood and that scares me.

[thenextdoorneighbor]

Why is the world so horrible to the kindest people? Did they decide they would never treat someone else how they are treated? Or is the world just horrible to them because it never seems to effect them?

[mysweetobsessions]

Countries are strange because where I live a school shooting like in the US is unfathomable, even though it’s a dangerous place, meanwhile an 18 year old slept with a 14 year old girl in my school and she got expelled and he didn’t have a single repercussion to pay which for an American I’m sure is unfathomable…

[lilbit-of-kizzy]

Ok so a little ways down you'll see I tagged something about freezing after getting out of a pool in the desert and yeah it's true!

I remember now my dad was talking about it and everyone was looking at him like he was nuts but yeah! They actually close pools (at least to children under a certain age) depending on what the weather's doing! That's insane

[unassumingtherizinosaur]

Now that Paramount+ has as many ads as cable did and forces you to sit through them in the middle of episodes, anybody know any good Star Trek pirate sites?

[barely-getting-bi]

heyyy does anyone wanna be parted from me but never parted, never and always touching and touched???

[actually-phoenix]

Every ship needs an imagine about their tongues changing color with candy or slushes for the culture it never gets old

[transmasc-rose]

I'm thinking about the horror of the Doctor from the perspective of non-companions again, especially as it relates to people those companions know.

Rose? "Ran away" (not wrong) for "a year" (a week) with a "man" (alien) "twice her age" (approximately 50 times her age but yeah, he is Time Lord middle aged), and then gives absolutely no explanation for how or why that happened, except that she was "travelling".

Then when her mum does get an explanation (which, frankly, is only comforting because of the unfamiliarity of the alternative given. The devil you know.), Rose barely checks back in.

She almost dies for him. When she thinks he's dead, she's changed in a way her family doesn't know how to handle. Then she's gone for who knows how long and comes back with the Doctor wearing a new face.

When her original tenure as a companion ends, and Rose lives in Pete's World, she works for Torchwood/UNIT (they become the same organization). She volunteers for the Dimension Cannon. She explains to the alternate earth how to rig up a time machine.

She's changed in ways that no one else can really understand.

Amy? There's everything with River Song of course (though I'm still not there in my viewing), him running away with Amy the night before her and Rory's wedding, and also the connection between the Doctor and the Time Crack being the reason all of Amy's family's dead. Obvious stuff.

However he's also the strange man who broke into this child's house and made a mess of her life that she never got over, that promised to take her away from here, that she wrote about and drew and carved and made her friends dress up as.

And they sent her to psychiatrist after psychiatrist without any help. In their perspective, to work through what she imagined. In her perspective, to tell her that her reality wasn't real.

And then he comes back.

And to some extent, later, when he shows himself to everyone, isn't that more frightening? That the story your child told you, of the strange man she met as a child, of time travel, of nearly being stolen away, hadn't been a lie, or a misinterpretation, or an imagining?

And so he shows up at her wedding. And steals her away again.

Donna I feel like has the least horror until her final episode. I think exploring the in between section of her meeting the Doctor and finding him again would be interesting, but not exactly horror. More an exploration of how obsessive the companions can get about him, how it eats their whole lives with even one encounter, even as it makes them better people.

And then, obviously, the horror of having your mind altered and erased against your will by someone you trusted. For your own good, of course. Because he knows best. How could you know better than him? He's ancient. He's practically all knowing.

Shouldn't you be grateful?

(And he's forgiven.)

[ex0rin]

Jack Quaid as Boimler | Strange New Worlds: Those Old Scientists

[stromuprisahat]

I take it you don't think of dany as an colonizer or imperialist either

colonialism 1. the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

While Daenerys took over cities in Slaver's Bay, she's hardly "another country". She didn't bring settlers to replace the original population, and she quite literally states she wants to plant trees and build peaceful society, which hardly counts as economical exploitation.

imperialism 1. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.

Again, Dany's not a country, and while she takes over said cities, there's no colonization happening. She only brought her small khalasar, most of the people following her are sort of locals, only from non-ruling classes.

This is what she does. Ironically mostly with already present military forces (The Unsullied):

conquer 1. overcome and take control of (a place or people) by military force.

overthrow 1. remove forcibly from power.

[seraph5]

"I'm so nervous about how much emotion Spock is showing because that means that something is going to have to close him up tighter than a clam at the end of this series so Kirk can spend the next 10 years shucking him like an emotional oyster" - my review of episode 1 season 2 of Strange New Worlds

[myenterpriseisparked]

There's something kinda poetic about Number One, a character that was a high ranking woman on a 60s tv show who was removed from the story because the network said "no" to a female first officer, getting the storyline she is today. The trial is an allegory for a lot of things, but seeing Number One go through what she has in canon and regain her rightful place on the bridge has a poetic resonance to it, considering the real life bts things happening over the last 60 years. Ad Astra per Aspera indeed, Ma'am.

[halfstayed]

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