#will it go round in circles

[djevilninja]

Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston | The Midnight Special

[culturevulturette]

Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?

[sluttybibuck]

im at the destiel anniversary. im at the buddie canon. im at the combination destiel anniversary buddie canon during the presidential election even

[getoutofmytardis]

drew these many moons ago in a frenzy. figured i’d fix them up at some point. did not get round to that lol. maybe one day! in the mean time behold my beloved ghosts<3

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Thinking about Achilles again. How he's never black or white.

How he has man-slaying hands and hands that play the lyre, how he's the best warrior (and often seen as the epitome of masculinity) and how he stayed on Skyros dressed as a woman, and he was feminine enough that people believed he was a woman, how he's a blood-thirsty warrior who spent most of the iliad without fighting, by choice, how he's part mortal but also part god, how in the version of the myth where he's dipped in the Styx, he ends up invulnerable, except for his heel, how he started the war as a child, ended it as an adult, and still behaves like a child during the iliad, how he doesn't care about anyone (letting the Achaean warriors die without feeling remorse for an argument he had with Agamemnon) while loving incredibly strongly (avenging Patroklos' death to the extreme), how he makes fun of Patroklos for crying while spending most of the iliad crying himself, how he's feared by Trojans for being ruthless and still, still tried to save Iphigenia so long ago.

He's never full anything, never full mortal, never full god, never fully invencible, never fully masculine, never fully feminine, never fully emotionless, never fully emotional, never fully mature, never fully immature, never fully ruthless, never fully merciful.

He's a combination of greys, never a full black or a full white.

[imerian]

My (very old) loscar brooch (?) that i just now made doodles for

More pictures under cut

[escapedaudios]

so we know ash hates (loves) mitski but how does mr escaped himself feel about her music

I'm obsessed and I'm writing an entire traditional audio play based on Liquid Smooth. It's a drama/supernatural horror story set in 1950s Hollywood.

[redhairandpronouns]

if you are so obsessed with the language we use to describe the oppression of trans men that you derail posts discussing it/harass people for talking about it. You Are Part Of The Problem

[groundbreakingdot872]

| Oh... the world's a strange place, Guinevere. Never underestimate the power of love. I've seen it change many things.

[disaster-j]

Thinking about Eddie having a nice and slow and calm sexual realisation journey that's mostly just him staring squinty eyed at Buck from a distance like-

Eddie: Buck... is hot

Ravi, next to him: yes?

Eddie: like? he's physically attractive?

Ravi: well.. yeah?

Eddie: he's physically attractive to me. Specifically.

Ravi: are you-

Eddie: i don't get it *walks away*

[chickenfriedawesome]

fic where monoma keeps trying to set shinsou up on dates because he's trying to get over his own massive crush (which he assumes to be unrequited because shinsou never responds to his Blatant Flirting), except shinsou keeps rejecting every one of monoma's offers because he actively has a crush On Monoma

[culturevulturette]

Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?

[blairdii]

i’m a psych student, so i did some analysis of behaviour. i’ve got an exam tomorrow, but clearly, this is more important to me.

a study on andrea’s stella’s negative and positive reinforcement approaches, and is it working?

now, we’re aware that andrea stella never praises lando in the media, and constantly praises oscar. even when lando performs beautifully, andrea has nothing good to say. when oscar performs terribly, andrea puts the blame on the car, and not the driver. lando performing terribly, andrea blames the driver.

andrea does a lot of negative reinforcing towards lando. like, if he continued to not praise lando, he will eventually be the best and reach his highest potential. while that could be a motivator, i do believe that andrea also needs to understand the driver and person that lando is. we’re aware of how lando is an over thinker and struggles with mental health. we’re aware that he constantly criticises his own skills and just believes that he’s not good enough. negative reinforcements work to a certain level. i have a negative reinforcement technique where i hate it when my enemy in college does better than me in exams. that’s how i motivate myself to study and get good scores. but, im also an overthinker and struggle with mental health and think that im not good enough, that when i do well, i need someone tell me that i did a good job, or get a reward in some form or the other. if lando does have a negative reinforcement as a motivator technique, and andrea is the one who gives that negative reinforcement, it’s also necessary that andrea gives a reward to his driver when he performs well. right now, for lando, the positivity or the positive reward comes from his friends and family. but, it will still stick in his brain that his team principal doesn’t think he’s good enough.

at the same time, andrea does a lot of positive reinforcement with oscar. maybe it’s what motivates oscar. being told that he can do it, and that he’s a good driver, and that something wasn’t his fault is his motivator. which is maybe what andrea is doing with the constant praises. yet, it doesn’t change the same thing as before, that if oscar does perform bad, a punishment, or a negative reaction must be given to maintain that balance. constantly giving positive reinforcements will not lead to an improved driver or an improved result. it leads to the driver not understanding what they’re doing wrong and how they can fix it. oscar is an amazing driver, don’t get me wrong, i’m merely pointing out the difference in reinforcement approaches. oscar needs to receive praise where it is due and receive criticism where it is due. if it’s only praise, it will never benefit him. as long as andrea continues with the positive reinforcements, oscar will continue to think that he’s doing everything perfectly.

now, i don’t know what happens behind closed doors, obviously. it’s very possible that andrea praises lando and criticises oscar during their team meetings and stuff. but, from a fan point of view, based on what we’ve seen and we’ve heard with the interviews and stuff, this is what i’ve noticed.

i personally believe that andrea needs to find a balance for both drivers. if he’s going to be team principal for mclaren for a while, i do believe that he needs to find a balance of praise and criticism between both drivers to really push them to achieve their full potential. and if andrea doesnt do it, we will have one driver on his high horse, never unlocking his maximum potential, and the other driver putting in all the works and falling deeper into a spiral of never being enough.

anyways, you don’t care, i just wanted to tell someone, and i decided to trouble you!

- wyr anon

OMG NO I DO CARE!!! this tickled and triggered the past psych student in me (i did it for a levels like.. 2 years ago. i barely remember jack thought so ntm on me 🙏)

me personally, i see all of andrea's treatment as both positive punishment and negative reinforcement. negative reinforcement in which andrea takes away 'praise', with the (futile) attempt to get lando to perform better, but also the fact that he's solely doing positive punishment to discourage the behaviour of lando performing well, which, in turn, leads him into performing...inadequately (more on this later).

(little visualisation; credits to b.f skinner🙏)

i am very sure that andrea knows what he's doing to lando. there's no way that he thinks this entire negative reinforcement system would work (????) on him, even given that there is nothing for lando to change.

now, we all know that is not lando's case. matter of fact, he should be in all of andrea's good books by now. and i think there are reasons to why andrea is doing this, but i will focus on one; warning, take this with a grain of salt, because obviously, i don't know what's going on inside his head, and i can only infer from what i perceive from what he shows us.

andrea is doing this with the intention to depreciate lando, this is where positive punishment comes in. i know it sounds a bit of a stretch, but when i'm weighing my options and really observing stella's behaviour, there is no other way i can perceive this. lando performs extremely well, for someone who has just gotten a good car after 5 years driving a tractor, occasionally putting it on pole, and even winning from it twice, and the other time he didn't, he drove superbly from p5 (if i recall correctly) to win the race. what could guarantee the need of positive punishment, public bashing, if not to bring him down.

again, could be argued that lando would benefit from it, perform even better (in a sick way, i know, but that's mainly the incentive behind positive punishment) but with someone already giving it their all, and on top of all that, is very open about his anxiety and overthinking, it's too far-fetched to think that it would be helpful in any way.

could this be a twisted method of manipulation? maybe yes, maybe no. but no one uses positive punishment without the intention for the behaviour to change; normally, this would mean, lando would stop performing 'bad' and start improving; yet, there is no 'bad performance', is there? so, in this process, andrea has (knowingly, unknowingly, who knows) used reverse psychology and inflicted the opposite of what positive punishment usually does.

(i think i should mention that positive punishment doesn't always work, not even taking into account whether the person has good mental wellbeing or not. in some cases, it can trigger the person to do worse just because they have, probably, received positive punishment their entire lives and so, with no substantial support, they end up doing the antithesis of what p.p is intended to do. kind of like a big fuck you. but anyways.)

andrea is aware that lando constantly does better than oscar; and his [not-so discreet] favouritism is inciting him to act this way, perhaps with the purpose of inculcating more doubt into lando, so that it appears that oscar is better. no better way to do this, than have the tp themselves tell the public that they think a driver isn't driving well.

we mustn't forget that everything in f1 is calculated. i am very aware my point is a stretch, but andrea can't be doing this for any other reason.

unto oscar's positive reinforcement treatment:

you've said all i have wanted to. this method only encourages behaviour, instead of discouraging like positive punishment does. it gives oscar a big wad of entitlement, especially since he is not being told where he goes wrong, and this praise is done so publicly, so it's even more long-lasting.

positive reinforcement will keep oscar at where he is, giving him that privilege of thinking lando owes him wins and places (which, i think, is so cruel; if oscar really thought that him helping lando with one point earned him that win, then he didn't do what he did in the brazil sprint out of the goodness of his heart.), whilst lando's negative reinforcement turned positive punishment will end depleting his performance. he'll not stop thinking that he needs to do better for the team, keep repaying favours, keep sacrificing himself, and with his own tp not praising him for all of these, he may end up seeing that even his good deeds aren't cared for.

[robintheoriedbyler]

Wouldn’t it be so much better if Milevens could just accept Mike, Will and El in a stand alone point of view.

Mike: He is a complex character who doesn’t understand himself, being in a relationship that is only based on kissing and not understanding each other. This honestly just makes his character spiral because he’s giving too much to El and not caring about his own well being.

Will: A character who has been through so much shit and doesn’t deserve the hate he gets just because of being in the middle of a “ship”. He is also a character that needs a development, he needs to know that he can be loved and deserved for who he is.

El: She is a strong powerful wonderful person who needs to learn about the world and her situation around her before getting into a relationship. She should be having the normal human experience first before involving herself in something so serious.

Basically what I’m trying to say is Mileven doesn’t make sense, it does not balance out and it’s just bringing them down as a whole and Will GET OFF HIS CASE ALREADY, let’s be real if Will wasn’t there Mileven wouldn’t exist because Mike needs his “bestfriend” to calm him down and say it’s okay to tell your gf you love her.

Anyways. BYLER NATION AND PLUTONIC MILEVEN WE CHEERED.

[rick-ety]

I just think they’re silly @aiberry 💕

[williamrikers]

holy shit. THEY WENT THERE. literally every week they keep blowing my mind, this is THEE best show i have ever seen and i am in absolute awe of that writing.

this episode, they followed up a substantial critique of celebrity culture and how it affects people's personal lives by not one but TWO speeches about queer rights (one of which made me cry btw), kawi having to deal with his dad's death which was unavoidable in every timeline, and him finally getting to terms with and honestly telling pisaeng about his feelings.

this whole episode was basically kawi struggling against his own fears because being openly queer means facing hardships he wouldn't have faced being with pear versus pisaeng who is struggling against his mother's homophobia. the fucking LAYERS. you could write an academic paper about this show it's so fucking nuanced and smart, HOLY SHIT.

anyway, watch be my favorite