“i dont dislike taylor swift as a person, i just think her music is not that good” well i hate her as well. why the fuck am i biking everywhere and taking trains and walking two hours if she produces two tons of co2 emissions for a 15min flight. fuck her
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theres some lady on instagram who goes to thrift stores and buys cute homemade quilts and cuts them up to make staggeringly ugly jackets and i know it shouldnt matter to me but my god
theres some lady on instagram who goes to thrift stores and buys cute homemade quilts and cuts them up to make staggeringly ugly jackets and i know it shouldnt matter to me but my god
So a few days ago came to a realization, went a little bit mad, dove down a numerology hole and now I have a theory - the importance of numbers in TES all comes back to the Fibonacci Sequence*.
Specifically we have the first bit of the sequence. ‘0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13’. We’ve got the void of nothing, Sithis, the Zero Sum. The two ones that make two; Anu, Padomay, and so on but also one by itself can be taken out of the sequence for all of its fancy relevance. 3 for the guardians, the tribunal, the liberators of cyrodiil, etc etc etc…
For a while 13 stumped me. Couldn’t think of any numerological significance to it in TES before I remembered the use of 13 as the division of the stars and their signs. 16, and its absence in the sequence at all, also threw me for a bit but works so long as you consider 16 as being not important in and of itself but only important in its relation to 8.
Anyways, this probably all reads like gibberish but it had my brain going
*For those not in the know, just skip this bit, but for those not an explanation; the Fibonacci Sequence is a fancy mathmatical sequence of numbers where the previous two numbers are added together to reach the next number. So, for instance, if you have '1, 1, X’ then x would be 2. Then the next number would be 3. And so on.
Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being “venting”, even if you’re not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can’t talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.
And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.
It’s to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I’m literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.
when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.
One of them said something like, “it doesn’t bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn’t talk about it ALL the time”.
The other replied, “Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say ‘when I was in treatment,’ it’s like when you say 'last year’.”
I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person’s scary special crisis is another person’s last year.
Well its official: Geek Culture has gone mainstream
this is gender historical revisionism (assuming we’re supposed to read the figures on the left as dudes.)
it was very much mostly not dudes writing pregnant spock fic to distribute in paper fanzines in the 1980s
man, this is like the Some Girls Play Games?? articles that have been published every year since at least 1990 but somehow remain surprising and newsworthy
I mean I don’t think it’s quite that? I think it’s more the whole ‘what used to be our weird geek shit has been taken over by the normies’ complaint (which isn’t always a wholly invalid/inaccurate complaint!) but from a perspective that insists/assumes/implies that all oldschool geeks were male and all women are normie
or in other words, (geek harry du bois voice) “are women bourgeoisie normie?”
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so quite a lot of people expressed interest in a guide to lion dance! and since the lunar new year is coming up in a couple weeks, which means everyone’s exposure to lions is probably going to increase, i figured i’d go ahead and make it! right click + open in new tab to fullview, etc etc, i hope it’s helpful, although if you only take one thing away from this powerpoint, it’s this: lions are not dragons
disclaimer: i learned fut san style at an american university, and the senior members of the troupe were almost all from hong kong and taiwan, so most of my knowledge is drawn from what they taught me. lion dance varies widely depending on the style and the country of origin, and many schools do things differently! this is just an attempt to establish a baseline and give you a really basic intro to one of my favorite art forms. :)
Rapists, and killers, too? Really? (Those on death-row?) The drug/prostitution problems are just a portion of USA criminals.
yes, all criminals. the moment you say “except X criminal” is the moment that people will try to convict their opponents as having committed X crime.
it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.
do you understand what i’m saying? you can’t take away the rights of any category of criminal, because suddenly that category will be overflowing with people who totally 100% definitely committed that horrible crime.
Rapists and killers already vote, those in prison may as well too. Not every person like that is in prison, and not every person in prison is like that.
Let them vote? I guarantee you’d see change
yes also this, i honestly didn’t even think about that so thank you for bringing it up!!
Utah will become the third state to restrict trans persons from using bathrooms in buildings other than schools, alongside Florida and North Dakota. However, the legislation in Utah is of a different caliber as North Dakota’s bill only applies to correctional facilities and dorms and Florida’s legislation only applies to government-owned buildings.
In accordance with the bill, trans individuals could also be charged with voyeurism and/or criminal trespass if they use publicly owned bathrooms that align with their gender. According to Utah’s law, these class B Misdemeanors are punishable with up to six months in jail and a fine starting at $1,000 if charged and convicted.
the law has already passed, as of last week. I can’t emphasize enough how scary this is for the trans community here. please keep an eye out for any trans people you may know in the state, and consider avoiding utah if you’re trans. this is beyond horrible for us here
and. some of you guys clearly never learned about intention vs impact. just because you did not have negative intentions with what you said to me as a palestinian does not mean that it did not impact me negatively. im not responsible to try and figure out whether you meant well or not. so if u send me a horrible ask and i respond to it horribly do not send me another one complaining about my response and talking about how i took your question the wrong way. im tired
“go to hell” is basic. “i hope your next favourite character is from a piece of media that doesn’t do them any justice and undermines their potential” is smart. it’s terrifying. it’s realistic.
There’s this perception on here among neurodivergent people that neurotypical social behaviour is all fake and arbitrary. That it’s a cruel, baseless game played to “weed out” ND people or to cause pain and complicate things on purpose.
This is wrong. All of those social rules and nuances ARE communication. Sorry if this is rude but it’s not the NTs’ fault if things don’t gel- the gap goes both ways. Just because communication doesn’t make sense to you, doesn’t mean it’s random or purposeless. Remember this post?
Every interaction in an NT conversation has purpose, and communicates something, and I don’t understand why nobody ever explains this to ND people. There’s information on basic stuff like facial expressions, but never what any of it actually means.
Small talk about the weather isn’t about the weather. It’s about how nice it is to be around the people you’re talking to, or feeling out their understanding of the world, or just saying that you’re both present and people and you’re being people together. It’s not literal. The words are, but the broad scope isn’t.
A conversation is not just an exchange of words, it’s an exchange of acknowledgement, attention, and emotional understanding. Of course it confuses people when their part in that exchange is met with flat affect or unembelished words. It’s like looking in a mirror and not seeing your reflection.
While this article frames them in terms of romantic relationships, I find that “bids” often appear in relationships of all kinds. We may interact with those bids differently or have different expectations related to bids depending on the kind of relationship we have with someone, but realistically, a lot of how we interact with each other in the world, especially fiddly little social cues and expectations, have to do with these!
The way we choose to respond to, prioritize, and make bids within our various relationships can have a lot to do with how connected we feel with others, how effectively we are able to communicate our needs and capacities, and how comfortable/secure we are able to be with others.
See also autism See also Ehlers Danlos syndrome & Fibromyalgia
It’s amazing how much more visible things become when you accept that they exist.
It is and always has been.
When you stop telling people how to behave outside of basic decency, and just let them be who they are with a supportive framework, it turns out they display tremendous variety and perfectly wondrous complexity.
We gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers!
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