nothing more disappointing than a shower with low water pressure. i don’t want to feel like a wet sad beast left out in the rain i want to be power washed.
i always think about that study where they had adults hold a baby, and when they were told the baby was a girl the adults said she was cute and small, and when they were told the baby was a boy they said he was big and strong. they rated the baby’s ability to do things and tendency towards certain toys differently. they even held the baby differently. (x) or when they rated the baby’s physical ability to do various tasks such as climbing up a slope differently, (x) & when they measured how much parents told their girl children vs. their boy children to be careful and stop being so rowdy (x), & when they measured how often girls and boys were told to be quiet. (x)
this was, obviously, all unconscious behavior in the adults. they’re not all like, raving sexists who outspokenly believe that women can’t do stuff or that girls really should just be quieter, be more still than boys. like its not even counting the direct, actual messages, its just literally how every single person in your entire life treats you, and if asked they would probably deny that its even because you’re a girl. how the fuck am i supposed to believe this doesn’t affect a child’s development when its literally constant throughout the entire process
This shit starts as soon as early as when someone’s still a fucking fetus. I’ve heard the saying “discrimination starts as soon as you leave the womb” but it actually starts earlier than that.
GoddAMN I am so sick of genders
“Delusions of Gender” by Cordelia Fine goes over all this in lots of detail if you want to be REALLY infuriated (and educated!)
I absolutely second that book.
And yeah. Every time someone points to something like average strength distributions or the distributions of Olympic athlete strength my response is:
A) The differences between human average physique from different nations, based on diet and childhood healthcare access, are greater than the differences between genders.
B) We have literally never seen a world in which women aren’t being systemically underfed, underexcercised, and physically demotivated since childhood. If you think that doesn’t throw the curve of what sexual dimorphism in humans would look like on an evening playing field, you’re simply not being serious.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office deliberately misled people into believing that Briana Boston had been released without charges. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.
no it’s for concealment during combat operations in fantasy candy land type environments with bushes made of cotton candy and candy canes used as load bearing architectural elements. like the kart game in wreck it ralph. duhh.
While undoubtedly designed as a research and conservation tool, and probably even valuable as a way for the inland ultra-rich to dine on extra-fresh red snapper, I choose to believe this is just one guy who likes to take his fish for walks.
i know i’ve said this before but i’m going to say it again because the more i work with geriatric women the stronger i feel about the fact that the only anti-aging that women in their 20s/30s should be obsessed with is building strong bones and muscle mass. that’s like the most important thing you can you can do right now to lay a good foundation for healthy aging. you can botox the shit out of your face but that’s not going to do anything to save you from dying prematurely from a fatal hip fracture that you can’t bounce back from because you didn’t do anything to prevent yourself from becoming frail and breakable. like i know that sounds harsh but that is reality for a lot of older women and i don’t want that to be you.
wikipedia i love you but it is absolutely buckwild to present two options of “hey do you want some merch?” and “when you die will you give us some inheritance please.”
being obsessed with a character is so fucking embarrassing like I’ll be getting dressed in the morning like “I bet the 12th doctor would wear these socks” bitch shut the fuck up
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office deliberately misled people into believing that Briana Boston had been released without charges. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.
Illustrated for @HT_Black’s upcoming TTRPG, Toonpunk Second Edition, and its lore book—coming soon!
Oh no, your initial assumption was correct; it’s a common misconception that that arrow is pointing to the fox. The computer used to be a human, but now he’s a virtual presence represented by a chicken. The fox is transgender.
The dinosaurs in jurassic park being mixed with frogs is clever and conveniently also means theres an in universe explanation for them not having feathers, but i do think they should go one step further and have like a little exhibit in the visitors centre or something with a plaque like “more recent research suggests many of the species you will see today likely had feathers, to make up for this inaccuracy we would like to present you the following:” and it’s a little terrarium with a frog they’ve genetically engineered to have feathers, yknow to even it out
i was in a thrift shop the other day and they were playing the most unsettling variations of normal christmas music, culminating in this rendition of the 12 days of christmas except it was like 12 guys all singing over each other and going “no!” and interrupting the lyrics with random other phrases until they deadass just started singing 5 golden rings to toto’s africa. can anyone confirm that this is a real song and not that i stroked so hard i astral projected into a universe where everything is somehow worse than it is here
idk how to tell you this dude but you died in every timeloop like it got ridiculous. it was like some final destination shit. i gave up trying to save you after a while idk what it was
for fucks sake i never thought i’d see Instagram style pseudo-scientific bullshit on tumblr.
‘dysregulated nervous system’ is a sentence made up by people to sell you essential oils. IT IS NOT A MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS NOR A RECOGNISED CONDITION. I cannot find a single reputable health website or medical research paper describing 'dysregulated nervous system’ as an actual condition.
Even if its just a meme you guys gotta be careful abt ANY vaguely related health stuff on the internet. made up terms like this are designed to prey on the vulnerable.
EDIT: putting my money where my mouth is. Here’s a paper discussing the problems around claiming 'nervous system dysregulation’ is responsible for everything. TLDR, theres no solid evidence its a thing.
There’s this way of talking about tabletop games that just seems to imagine DMs as someone who isn’t playing a game with their friends who they know and like and I don’t get it. Are people hiring DMs in enough numbers that this is normal?
Or is the community just so brainrotted the fundamental relationship between players and dms has to be what, aersolised
As a game designer and player, “DM as a service” is really scary to me. Not from the DM side. Go make your money, game masters! Offer your services. Thats just fine. But from the player side, I think it CAN be really destructive.
Over the last few years I’ve noticed a huge shift away from player engagement in games. It seems more and more often players just don’t want to engage with the rules, beyond their character’s specific mechanics (and sometimes not even that). Or they dont want to engage with the narrative, beyond questions that they are directly asked. Or they don’t want to engage with other players, ignoring them almost entirely. Even in games that are about this kind of engagement, where the core mechanics demand players engage and take a share of responsibilities.
I think the “DM as a service” model encourages this. It allows the player disengagement by putting all responsibility on the DM. If the DM is being compensated for organizing and running the game, doesn’t all responsibility fall on them? Aren’t they responsible for every aspect of the game, including the vital roles and responsibilities of players? That seems to be the attitude, and it’s honestly pretty shitty. Most TTRPGs are designed to be shared storytelling experiences, where each player has narrative and mechanical responsibilities. Even D&D. When players shirk those responsibilities, when they expect the DM to do every bit of the game for them, it breaks the experience. It creates some other, lesser thing that isnt what the designer intended. It specificlly does not create the actual experience of playing the game. It’s also grossly unfair to other players who are participating as intended, especially the DM.
My game The Magical Land of Yeld is designed to be a collaborative storytelling game. This happens on more of an adventure by adventure macro scale than a scene by scene micro scale. At the end if each adventure, players tell the GM what they want to do during the next adventure. This is an important part of each adventure and an explicit rule, not a suggestion. An explicit way for players to influence the game, to focus attention on aspects of the narrative or rules they want to explore.
“I want to return to Boulder Town to learn the secret Cheesecake recipe.”
“I want to be in a situation where I can use my Backstab and LightningStrike Special dice.”
“Lets learn to swordfight so we can impress the Prince when we meet him.”
That kind of thing.
Additionally, the role of GM is meant to shift to a new player every few adventures. This gives each player a regular chance to control the game’s narrative and explore ideas within the story and rules they are interested in. It gives everyone a turn in the GM role as often as they like and ensures players are building a story together. Because the story we build together is better that the story 1 GM makes up on their own. At least in this game.
And yet… so often we find players just ignore these rules. rules. When asked what they want to do in the next adventure, they give vague answers, or none at all. When it’s their turn to be the GM, they say they dont want to. They don’t want to engage with the game’s rules and create a story together. They want to be entertained.
Gendered parenting is so weird. As a little kid I was a total daddy’s girl, I was told I would always try to sneak into the garage, I was always very interested in everything he was doing and would follow him around while he was working, but while my family was never the type to outright say “you can’t do that because you’re a girl”, they simply didn’t entertain the idea that I could possibly be interested in cars. Then when my little brother was born, it was just assumed he would become a mechanic like our dad because he was a boy. Even though he, unlike me, didn’t like being in the garage much and wasn’t all that interested in what dad was doing. Once he got to a certain age, dad started making him help and would drag him away from his actual interests for it, which lead to a lot of arguing and not much actual learning.
Gendered expectations sort of create doubles of children. There’s the real child with their actual personality, interests and behaviors, and then there’s the Gender Child.
My real brother hated soccer and team sports. The Gender Child that existed only the minds of the adults in his life needed to play soccer because that’s what a Boy Child does.
Growing up, I always felt like adults didn’t actually know me as a person and they weren’t interested in getting to know me. Because they felt they’d already learned everything there was to know about me when they were told “it’s a girl”.
When I talk about how I never got gifts I actually liked from my relatives (to this day I still don’t like getting gifts that aren’t something I picked out myself), it isn’t actually about the gifts themselves. I don’t even remember them. What I do remember is the feeling of being given gifts that were seemingly not bought with the real me in mind. They were for the Girl Child™️ version of me. The me that adults wanted me to be, not who I actually was.
For those who don’t know, Elon Musk has recently been directing his assholery towards Wikipedia — calling them ‘Wokepedia’ due to the amount they spend on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and calling for people to stop giving them money “until they restore balance to their editing authority” —, now is a great time to consider donating to Wikipedia!
is still super wip and the whole thign is almost 2 minutes but now i’ll go sleep
That little “ahahaha~” at the end is so Lamb coded this is perfect✨ you’re inspiring me to make my own Epic animatic since I’ve also been so obsessed with it
is still super wip and the whole thign is almost 2 minutes but now i’ll go sleep
That little “ahahaha~” at the end is so Lamb coded this is perfect✨ you’re inspiring me to make my own Epic animatic since I’ve also been so obsessed with it
is still super wip and the whole thign is almost 2 minutes but now i’ll go sleep
That little “ahahaha~” at the end is so Lamb coded this is perfect✨ you’re inspiring me to make my own Epic animatic since I’ve also been so obsessed with it
is still super wip and the whole thign is almost 2 minutes but now i’ll go sleep
That little “ahahaha~” at the end is so Lamb coded this is perfect✨ you’re inspiring me to make my own Epic animatic since I’ve also been so obsessed with it
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