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This post has recently made its way into some radfem circle or another, which is really great because they've been saying very entertaining shit in the reblogs. Like this person who tried to pwn me with an epic zinger
Or the "feminist" who sees it fitting to talk like a Gamergater
And the absolute genius who seems to think that someone making a joke post about something automatically means they genuinely partake in it (with their love for nonsensical and reactionary sexual terminology providing additional evidence of deep and nuanced thinking)
Like I think this sort of response provides an insight into how viciously reactionary the sexual politics of these people are, flying into an indignant fury at the mere suggestion that contemporary normative sexual values are not automatically the "healthy" and "natural" state of all sexuality. There's such an underlying rage and insecurity that an obvious joke has them talking like this; they either got too mad to reach the punchline or they're genuinely scared of the Piss Gnomes. These Rad-Fem responses reveal much more about them then it does the thing they're responding to
But all that aside, this is also just funny to me. Like Tumblr is great because its crop of open reactionaries are all so insanely stupid and pathetic. Their love of empty posturing and meaningless words makes it feel more like I'm trying to communicate with a Spore creature than with another sapient human being. So attempts to threaten and harass just turn into free entertainment. It's not high quality of course, but I guess you get what you pay for
Enough psychoanalysing why people have kinks. We need to psycholanalyse why they don't. Like you don't enjoy getting tied up? Clearly your tumultuous upbringing has given you a patholgical need to be in control at all times. Don't like fauxcest? That's because your petite-bourgeois class background means you view the nuclear family as a pure and sacred institution, automatically reviling anything that undermines or subverts this. Not into piss? That's easy; you're scared of the piss gnomes
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I am mohammed ayyad of Gazans, living in very difficult conditions because of the war that the Gaza Strip is under. Since the outbreak of the war on the seventh of October we have been evacuating .
Then the journey of suffering and separation began,because my children were separated and evacuated from our home without covering or clothes., From here they became infected with diseases, and what increased our fatigue was the constant upbringing due to the different areas in which we were displaced, as we were displaced 9 times, and this was very expensive, the last of which was the 9th of this August from Hamad Town. In addition to that, we have lived in the summer season in a tent that did not exceed three meters, closed with nylon, so it is like an agricultural greenhouse atmosphere. It is very hot. All in all, we live difficult days that no human beings can afford
We have no work because of the war, and we do not have any kind of money and this is accompanied by a crazy and horrible rise in prices.
Although water is not suitable for drinking, this is the cause of many diseases
The last suffering is that we are out of Hamad without taking our purposes or our tents and now we are searching the earth in the roads and our children and our elderly parents are suffering..So we use direct donation including what they can or share links fully so people can know our tragedy and pain. Remember a small contribution can make a difference in the lives of many children who are dealing with their health condition all. Leave their details and make them happy with your generous contribution.
For those who see this please, visit their blog and reblog their blog’s posts so they get more attention and if you have the money to spare please donate.
Also I apologize, but I do not have the ability to donate to you. Trust me if I had the ability I would but I don't and I can't. I have no bank account or credit card to transfer money to and no job to gain any money. Every time I ask my parents to help they shut me down so this is the only way to help you. Please forgive me.
#save palestine#free gaza#gaza genocide#free palestine#justice for palestine#palestine genocide#palestinian genocide#palestine donation#gazaunderattack#gaza#support palestine#israel palestine conflict#palestine news#all eyes on palestine#help gaza#free plaestine#donations#freegaza#savegaza#gaza news#gaza strip#gaza under siege#palestine#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#fuck israel#please donate#donation#donate#donate if you can#gaza gofundme
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I feel like apart from what you said about B'elanna being interested in men only under some dubious consent scenario, whatever she had going in previously to Voyager and being in DQ was trying to be as normal as possible for her father's validation, whether she realized she was doing it or not. And besides, she only ever had a good relationship with people who didn't seem to ever be a possible partner for whatever reason. She's very lesbian coded to me for that.
(In reference to this post)
Man, you're so right. B'Elanna doing things with the perspective of pleasing (the imaginary perfect version that can do no wrong of) her father is a really good observation here. Her stint at Starfleet Academy comes to mind (John Torres was supposed to be a Starfleet officer, according to a deleted line from “Barge of the Dead”), but it's definitely not the only example of this tendency. So much of B'Elanna's life is conditioned by what she thinks he would do, even if I don't think she realizes it (she only starts having dreams of her childhood after discovering that she's pregnant etc); in a way B'Elanna has always been trying to recreate a version of her family where through her hard work and determination things won't end the way they did for her and her mother. I totally agree that her sticking with Tom for so long, despite his behavior and despite so many examples of their early attraction being due to alien crap and/or that declaration of love extracted in a near-death situation, is a symptom of that abandonment trauma as well. I think this is true even outside of a lesbian B'Elanna reading, but it certainly adds some weight to the argument as well. I mean, I know that "lesbian with daddy issues" (hate the term) is kind of a cliché but then again it's not like this was in any way intentional, and as I mentioned reading B'Elanna as a lesbian makes everything that happens to her on Voyager even more brutally heartwrenching.
And you're again right about her choice of potential partners, even the fact that she and Tom started flirting a little when they already disagreed on a lot... can be very easily read as 'I find this guy irritating so I must be secretly attracted to him' which, well. I know from personal experience it's one hell of a mind-trick for closeted lesbians. Her supposedly 'Klingon' attitude towards romance is very significant here imho. Why would B'Elanna lean into her Klingon cultural roots in just this one case, when more often than not she's ashamed of them (and I'm not saying this shame is 'good' by any means), if not because it gives her the perfect excuse to realign her feelings with heterosexual expectations?
Truly the more I look at it the more I can read reluctance and coercion and trauma in B'Elanna when it comes to her sexual relationship with men in general and Tom in particular. There's nothing intentional here of course (just the usual trouble Trek has with answering the question 'are women people?', compounded with and made worse by racism in B'Elanna's case) but the show lends itself well for a lesbian B'Elanna interpretation. And again, the thought that she might be a lesbian... makes all that happened to her on Voyager even more transparently horrifying.
#b'elanna torres#voy#askbox#voyager is straight-up a horror scenario for lesbian!b'elanna........#there's also an addition to this see reblogs
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#do you like the colour of the alphabet#gradually becoming more of a challenge to reblog to the point where every addition will be a real commitment#also for anyone still seeing all these and not because you intentionally choose to keep seeing them#the colour of the sky tah is there so that if you would like to block this ever lengthening post from taking up your dash#i am impressed how far we've got in under a month
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Yall i dont think im gonna be able to stop thinking about usha and g13, actually.
Ushas an old old woman, clueless with tech. Lived long enough to develop various bonds with a LOT of people and relies on them a lot for help. In turn, shes VERY loyal to her close conpanions (a great example would be how she tends to back paula up a LOT, the way she sets up russel and paula to 'fake date' wink and all). She's very warm and very emotionally intelligent even if she's a bit clueless sometimes. Her logic is borderline incomprehensible, but it has heart.
G13 on the other hand, is a hacking prodigy. Hes young, hes sought after for his skills for better and for worse. But in turn, he's essentially lost himself in the process. He may be able to scrape nuke codes, but he'll never make a friend. He lacks any loyalty for anyone and anything except for himself and his interests, and if they dont satisfy those two points, then its worth nothing to him. His logic may be sound, but its cold.
#val rambles#nsbu spoilers#never stop blowing up#dimension 20#usha rao#g13#okay ill black out and maybe think more about it again oops#anyway the conclution is that HE will be learning about the importance of la familia (threat)#i could make an addition to this. something about how despite these differences both of them have a level of percived lonliness.#something g13 is. VERY slowly starting to realize when he first sees doug#anyway following the idea that the cards favorite movies signify a degree of. what character arc ends up being#i genuinely think they WILL show him the power of la familia he isnout here trying ti takenover and suddenly BOOM familia beam (threat)#i love adding to the tags and NOT rebloging but. something something about how they push others away#where for usha it comes off as not wanting to burden others she trusts while for g13 its bc he flat out trusts no one#also episode 2 notes that usha also has a set of trust issues due to her reliance on people she DOES trust.
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ok and what if will jokingly calls mike his knight in shining armor, and mike jokingly does an over the top kneel, and a dramatic lift of will's hand towards his face, until it suddenly sinks in that he was about to jokingly kiss will's hand, jokingly say "anything for you" and they're both silent and it's tense for a moment, if not uncomfortable, and it's not so much of a joke anymore as they stare at each other, mike trying to decide whether he should follow through and brush it off or not. what then?
#this week on things that won't happen but god wouldn't it be nice#anyway I actually stole this from a reblog of one of my posts that's sitting in my drafts#so if you see something similar make it's way across my blog later in a post addition mind your business#also this is maybe not cringefail enough for them but I think they deserve not to embarrass themselves sometimes#stranger things#byler#mike wheeler#will byers
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I never noticed until now that the skull chain thing prominent in Komaeda's official art:
is actually barely visible in most of his fullbody sprites.
The only times we see a lot of the chain is when he's really rattled, and even then we never see the whole thing.
That feels symbolic to me. He's had a life surrounded by trauma, trapped in his luck cycle, leading him to psychologically chain himself to a harmful ideology to cope. Post chapter 1 he's open about the morbid parts of his worldview- and under other circumstances he's open about things like his relentless paranoia, since it's so normal to him- but the more vulnerable parts of him? Those he doesn't advertise. You have to peel back some of his layers to see those outside of the rare occasions his vulnerabilities surface, and even then it's really hard to get the full picture. Do any of us, really?
As an alternative interpretation, there's an interesting comparison to be made with his outfit as Servant, too, as both include a chain willingly worn and tethered to nothing. Both versions of him present themselves as passive and subservient but actually crave importance and control, but Servant is way more blatant and extreme about that- and likely more self-aware about it, at least when comparing him to Komaeda pre-chapter-5. Servant's chain is much larger and in a more prominent and degrading place.
#danganronpa#dr analysis#nagito komaeda#komaeda#komaedology#i sit down to doodle him and end up writing meta about a tiny outfit detail. why am i like this.#then again his outfit's otherwise just. hoodie + graphic tshirt + jeans.#besides the red graphics obviously; it's fascinating to me that it looks pixelly. Why?#and also makes him look blood-splattered because of course#edit: if you're seeing this from the tag i've reblogged with additions hehe
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alrighty, i’m reblogging this with some important additions cause some of y’all can’t be bothered to fucking read, or like. idk learn basic tumblr/internet etiquette.
1. please, for the love of fuck, READ MY PINNED POST before interacting with me!! at the very least read my hard limits and don’t try to push them, because you will be blocked immediately. i don’t care if everything prior to that was a positive interaction, if you can’t have the decency to read a few sentences/paragraphs to ensure that you don’t violate my boundaries, i will not interact with you.
2. this blog does not reflect any of my actual beliefs and i don’t condone any of the content you see here in real life, especially things that are non-consensual like CNC, fauxcest, misgendering, orientation play, etc.
also on that note, the main reason i have this blog is to cope with dysphoria and other mental health issues that are largely in part due to transphobia and discrimination that i’ve had to deal with. especially with what’s going on in my country right now, cause things are already getting worse after the election and i’m scared as fuck so this is one way i cope with that.
if you’re actually transphobic, homophobic, sexist, etc. IRL, do yourself a favor and block me. at this point i’m about ready to restrict my DMs to only other trans people, cause with some of you i’m having trouble telling when some of the shit you say is just for play or not.
3. i have not, am not, and never will even consider detransitioning in real life. i am a proud queer, transgender man who has been on HRT for over two years, and I also eventually plan to have top surgery when the time comes that I can afford it. I’m not going to change my body, wear feminine clothing, or otherwise physically change myself to please anyone, especially not strangers on the internet. there’s a lot of fucked up, kinky shit that i’ll do but that’s not one of them.
i know this was long, but i’m not apologizing for it cause i’m honestly fed up by now. be a decent human being or get blocked.
-M
OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER before we get to the fun stuff: this blog is for fantasy purposes only and i will not always be active as i do need to take occasional breaks from this kink for my mental health. IRL i am a proud transgender man and fully believe that trans people are the gender they say they are, deserve basic human rights and respect, etc.
additionally, i do not actually condone any nonconsensual actions, r*pe, incest, etc. in real life and i only engage with that kind of content for kink purposes.
other boundaries include that i will send pictures but will NOT send video/audio or participate in video calls. unless we talk for a while and i get genuinely comfortable with you i probably won’t give you any of my other socials so please don’t ask for them. i also don’t give out my actual deadname, you can call me the name i use on this blog and that’s it.
HARD LIMITS include: piss/scat, vomit, other bodily fluids aside from breast milk, spit & cum, face slapping, severe injury/gore, death, ANYTHING involving actual kids or animals, etc.
alrighty, now that that’s out of the way, time for the fun stuff😵💫😋
hi, i’m mila, i’m 22 yrs old and a fakeboy who loves showing off for real men and lesbians who need a good little slut to break in. i love when ppl dm me and demand pictures, give me commands, etc. i’ve had a blog like this before but it got nuked and then i was busy with irl things so i’m only just now coming back to it.
there are very few kinks i’m not into (see my hard limits listed above) so feel free to do/say your worst🥴🥵
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y'all wanted pvp enabled on tumblr, I think that's exactly what this awful new note preview feature is because it's really making me want to fight people
#square up#real talk I see why they might've added it#because it (1) can show you important reblogs or additions and (2) may increase engagement#unfortunately that (2) is sort of based in how other sites increase engagement#showing you things you engage with even if that engagement is driven by you being super pissed at it!#given this website's delightfully bad algorithm I suspect it's just showing the most popular reblog? I hope? which again#could be good sometimes#but it's also ugly and distracting and I do not want all these random opinions on my dash :)#tumblr staff pls let us disable
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Mixed Media Challenge
I've been very busy lately and not making as much art as I'd like to as a result ;_; I really want to do something fun and experimental with traditional media, so I've thought of a game — like a color palette challenge, but instead of listing color palettes I'm listing art materials (some more conventional than others).
So send me prompts with one of the following:
Character(s) from a fandom I am in (Four Swords / LoZ, Pokemon, Studio Ghibli movies, etc.)
OR a Flight Rising breed (I will draw one of my own dragons who is that breed)
OR two or more animals to make a combo creature out of
and two or more of the following:
Pencil
Ink pen
Colored pencil
Crayon
Watercolor
Acrylic paint
Sharpies
Craft paper
Aluminum foil
Yarn
Felt
Beads
Highlighter pen
Rainbow scratch-away sheets
Shrink plastic
Recycled materials
#we'll see how many I manage to do#but hopefully at least a few!#I may also include additional materials as the inspiration strikes#mixed media challenge#I'm making this post itself non-reblogable because obvs my list of fandoms and materials is specific to me#but if anyone else wants to do something similar I'd love to see! :D
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ppl who've seen howl's moving castle and not read the book would be stunned to know that
A. The real world exists in that universe and Howl is from Wales- his real name is Howell Jenkins
B. Sophie is a witch; she speaks life into things like hats, sticks, scarecrows, etc.
C. The scarecrow wasn't just some prince who got cursed and left on the side of the road, he's a prince who was taken apart by the Witch, who used pieces of his body to create the perfect man. He's wondering around looking for the missing pieces of his body
D. Howl has a human skull in his castle that belonged to the prince. When the scarecrow puts it on it can speak
E. In the book, it doesn't show howl & Sophie's relationship change like in the movie. They hold hands at the end of the book while ignoring everyone talking to them
F. Markl's name is Michael, and he's dating Sophie's youngest sister Martha, who runs the bakery that Lettie ran in the movie
G. Sophie has two younger sisters, Martha & Lettie, who switched places because Martha wanted to work at a bakery and Lettie wanted to learn magic, so they used a spell to disguise themselves
H. Howl courted Lettie for a period of time
I. Howl has a sister, Megan, who doesn't think too highly of him
J. Howl went to college
K. The black section leads to the real world, not the war scene you saw in the movie. There's no color for that in the book
L. There are more than 4 colors on the door selection
M. Heen is supposed to be a human cursed to be a dog, and he doesn't work for madame suliman
N. The person who taught howl was actually Mrs. Pentstemmon, who is killed by the Witch of the Waste
O. Madame suliman isn't a character in the book. She (might) be based off of wizard suliman, also named Ben sullivan (who is from wales), who went off to go kill the Witch and ended getting killed himself, and whose body parts were also used by the witch to make the perfect man
P. The witch of the waste was killed very quickly. Her demon, a woman from the human world named Mrs. Angorian, set out to find Howl and kill him.
Q. In the book, Howl spends a very long time in the bathroom preparing himself to go out and get another girl to fall in love him with him :/
R. Howl gets a cold and he basically convinces Michael that he's gonna die and gets him to do everything for him
S. Sophie's not allowed to mess with the spiders :/
T. Sophie doesn't get Calcifer to like her by telling him she likes his spark. She just bullies him into listening to her.
U. Sophie and Calcifer still have the deal, but Calcifer is trying to give her hints throughout the story so she can figure out what's up w Howl & Calcifer
V. Howl gets drunk. Very drunk. He says he is "cone sold stober" when he is, in fact not
W. Sophie gets mad at him and cuts up one of his suits.
#leaving this here until I think of more things#can you tell I read the book and rewatched the movie#similar in some parts and different in others#expected in a movie adaptation but also I'd like to see a version where everything matches up w the book#howls moving castle#howl jenkins#howell jenkins#sophie hatter#howl pendragon#added more thanks to some wonderful additions in my reblogs
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“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
#ok listen up#this one is not what you think#BUT IT ALSO FITS THE ACTUAL CHARACTERS#soo fans of The Hour enjoy i guess#agentbluefox bestie beloved you can reblog this knowing the additional layer here#anyways#i did not see the show but I WILL and I will pass away#however right now#luca nietzsche#reina vermont#my beloved!!!#MY BELOVED#he was dead from the beginning#you don't get to choose who stays with you until the end#the hour bbc#freddie lyon#bel rowley#freddie and bel#the hour#ben whishaw
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Hello, I'm Hanan I write to you with a heart weighed down by sorrow and embarrassment.😓
The war has destroyed our lives, we are living in a worn-out tent, facing hunger, cold, and illness.💔
My baby Yaseen is suffering from severe infections, and my elderly mother-in-law can no longer walk after a coma caused by anemia.😥
Our health is deteriorating, and the bombings do not stop; we have already lost many of our relatives and loved ones.😢💔
All I ask for is a chance to save my family. We urgently need Blankets and clothes to keep us warm and buy a winter tent to protect us from the rain and cold, in addition to medicines for Yaseen and my mother-in-law, which cost $60 weekly. Please, help us as much as you can. 🙏🥺
Watch my story, Short Video: https://bit.ly/3Uz4vn9
Donation link: https://gofund.me/b905b50e 🕊️
Or vio PayPal: https://bit.ly/3C9TPFi
This campaign is vetted by @gazavetters, and my verified number is (#152)
For those who see this please, visit their blog and reblog their blog’s posts so they get more attention and if you have the money to spare please donate.
Also I apologize, but I do not have the ability to donate to you. Trust me if I had the ability I would but I don't and I can't. I have no bank account or credit card to transfer money to and no job to gain any money. Every time I ask my parents to help they shut me down so this is the only way to help you. Please forgive me.
#free gaza#save palestine#gaza genocide#free palestine#justice for palestine#palestine genocide#palestinian genocide#palestine donation#gazaunderattack#gaza#support palestine#israel palestine conflict#palestine news#all eyes on palestine#help gaza#free plaestine#donations#freegaza#savegaza#gaza news#gaza under siege#gaza strip#palestine#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#fuck israel#please donate#donation#donate#donate if you can#gaza gofundme
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Kahvi and Ahdri are both living the monsterfucker dream
#I use “monster” loosely. Tyldak and Two-Edge aren't exactly monsters but they fit the aesthetic#Elfquest#Also this makes me sad about the lack of female monster-esque characters in Elfquest#Anyway I'm going to reblog this with a funny addition so please check for that if you're seeing this
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𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒆'𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓
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#sims#ts3#sims 3#photoshoots#character verse#emmelie hyun#taylor astra#so I reblogged that song prompt thing but decided I won't do it in order but instead just take vague inspiration from it#and this is how I came up with a lot of song edit ideas#this is supposed to represent the time when emmelie tries to erase taylor's memory and send her back to her world#but she remembers everything#and emmelie can't forget her either#there's a whole backstory to it which can be summed up by emmelie accidentally messing up things and contributing to her dad's disappearanc#when she went against the time rules to travel to the past to see her ex#and this is an additional layer to why she's afraid to fall in love and feels really guilty#also in the current version of this story taymelie are kind of the main focus#with also possible lydia/jin spotlight#milo and irene are just in the back chilling#maybe I'll write it someday and it won't be as cringe as the 2020 version lol#I was planning to do it in the future gen of the new fletcher chronicles but there's a loooooong way to go
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At the bus stop one time there was a gaggle of preschoolers waiting to catch the bus for a field trip day, and someone walked past with a couple of friendly little dogs, to great general delight.
But after a little bit, the dogs were getting overwhelmed, and the preschoolers were gently coaxed to back off so the person with the dogs could continue on. Specifically, one of the preschool teachers said, "Sometimes, when you're small, being surrounded by big people can be a bit scary and overwhelming. Even if they are friendly."
This was recieved as great wisdom: after all, the preschoolers were also small, and understood how scary and overwhelming big people could be! And the dogs were indeed even smaller than the preschoolers, so it made sense.
What was funny and charming was that, upon absorbing and reflecting on this wisdom, they all felt the need to tell it to one another. In tones of great insight, they turned to one another and said, "Did you know? Sometimes when you are small, being surrounded by big people can be scary and overwhelming! Even if they are friendly!" Back and forth, without any particular concern that they were all saying the same thing. Have reached comprehension of an insight, it must be shared!
I must say that this behavior is less charming in tumblr users than in preschoolers. Not least because tumblr users, having gained a little analytical skill to misuse, insist on Summarizing and Generalizing and Unifying the insights they repeat, quickly turning any interesting new information into formulaic dogmatic mush.
#i made the mistake of looking in the notes of the beach sand post i reblogged to see if anyone else had interesting comments#And the rate at which it went from like#1) person states with moderate confidence an opinion based on their personal observations#2) multiple people reply with “wow thats so insightful!” (aka it aligns with my preconceived notions of how things work)#3) someone else adds additional personal observations which are not really relevant but which can be absorbed into the narrative#4) people start outright stating the underlying belief on which this bias is constructed as if it were a fresh insight#5) general derisive attitude towards people who haven't seen the Obviously Correct solution to this complex real world problem yet#It's very.......#It's not like it's a high stakes post but it's such a microcosm of the whole dogmatic phenomenon#Also this js a more specific gripe to My Field or w/e#But the degree to which people react to the problems caused by the whole “Control of Nature” era of engineering#with this equally reductive “Nature will Fix Everything” type of attitude#Is sooooo frustrating.#Yes a great many of our current problems could have been avoided if we had not made massive changes to ecosystem processes on the assumptio#That they were simple and we understood them. And that they would respond in predictable ways.#the simplicity in retrospect of “wow we Should Not have done that” does not mean that they are simple to undo!#You can't go back in time. You can't turn back the clock on chaotic processes#Which is. Almost every process ever.#Restoration is hard! Returning to previous regimes of sediment or flooding or fire is tricky and full of foibles!#Moving towards a future which doesn't suck as much even if the past cant be recreated is also uncertain and difficult!#It's frustrating to see people act all high and mighty about how they Respect Nature unlike whoever is making all these decisions#When their understanding of the natural processes in question is AS simplistic as the people who caused the whole mess back in 1910 or w/e#Like I'm not saying there's not bad interests standing in the way of functional restoration on all levels#That's very much a fight to be fought.#But looking at that fight-in-process and saying “wow none of you Respect Nature like me uwu let nature fix it”#Is.#Ugh.
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