I know this is unrelated from my usual stuff and will most likely blow up, but regarding the recent nintendo direct, WE KIRBY FANS HAVENT HAD A NEW GAME IN ALMOST 3 YEARS WERE GONNA STARVE AAAAAA
i have to physically stop myself from indulging in Rythm Heaven groove and Tomadachi life living the dream stuff because i start tweaking and shaking like a cat stuffed with 20 pounds of cocaine
You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they’re usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don’t see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.
Think about it. In real life, the person that’s bottling up all their emotions is not the one that’s brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it’s that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you’re upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…
…they’ve never actually told you anything about themselves.
Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don’t even realize they’re not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they’re in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don’t want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be “don’t think about it” on endless loop.
Basically, the fictional embodiment of the “this is fine” dog.
for people who can’t watch the video: THE AMYGDALA CHANGES TRADITIONALLY FOUND IN MOTHERS SHOW UP IN ALL PRIMARY CAREGIVERS REGARDLESS OF SEX
Changes in this part of the brain were previously used to previously used to argue that women are the ideal primary caretakers of children in all cases. And apparently, it’s false. The reason they found these changes in women was that women were already the primary caretaker in almost all cases, not because there’s something inherent to women that makes them better parents.
this is big news for SAHF and single dads!
This is also big news for adoptive parents and queer couples! Many people try to argue that adoptive parents aren’t real parents because of biology and blah blah blah. Bigots will also argue this case against queer people. So, to all my traditionalists: it’s not science! It’s bigotry and sexist!
Any any any any ANY claim that insists “female” brains are fundamentally biologically different from “male” brains is ALWAYS bullshit. Every Fucking Time. If it hasn’t been debunked yet, it will be.
My favourite part of writing professional emails is sending them and immediately running over to my “sent” folder to check I did in fact write “Yeah, I can make a 3 PM meeting” and not “I think you’re a big stupid piece of shit and I fucked your wife” somehow
There’s a whole demographic of people who are profoundly incurious and just assume everyone else is too, so when they see something unfamiliar they immediately rush to declare that not only have they never heard of it, none of you did either. You’re just pretending. You had to look it up, don’t lie. You didn’t know this
And like, so what if someone had to look something up. That’s how you learn new things. People usually say this about knowledge that’s pretty damn basic, but I can’t get over how they’re not only scornful at the idea of people trying to learn something new, they casually assume everyone else is, too
to be clear, yes i would also do some of this if i had the money. im experiencing blinding envy over the dr pepper mirror dimension.
That woman doesn’t do housework for a day in her life!!! Any regular person would tell their kids to tidy up the skynet or they’re grounded, the fact that she goes “it’s so hard to tidy up after my kids teehee” tells me she has a housekeeper.
I mean, maybe. Or maybe she’s presenting a silly and lighthearted version of being a mom for a TikTok. IDK.
As a parent who has existed visibly online for my kid’s entire life - she’s now 24 and not living with us anymore - there is absolutely no way I’d be airing the literal or figurative dirty laundry like that. 🤷🏻
do people know that a french ex-president (nicolas sarkozy, from 2007 to 2012) is currently wearing an electronic bracelet after he was sentenced for corruption and influence peddling? do people know? i want everyone to know 😌
and that bernard squarcini, the head of internal security (DGSI) during sarkozy’s presidency, just got convicted for influence peddling and has to wear an ankle bracelet for at least two years? 😌🙏
and that marine le pen, leader of the far-right party et one of the (ex)favorites for the 2027 presidential elections, has to wear an ankle bracelet for at least two years and is ineligible for five years?? 😌🙌✨️
My American ass watching other presidents face some form of consequence for wrongdoing…
one of the most enduringly obnoxious things about algorithmic feeds is that there is genuinely no amount of blocking and tailoring and “not interested in this” and “show me less content like this” that will ever ever convince the algorithm that you don’t want to be shown content promoting weight loss
taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least52 years as a fully grown adult
at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
‘middle age’ is typically considered to be between 45-65
it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
it’s wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
young doesn’t mean peaked. you’re inexperienced in your 20s! you’re still learning and practicing! you’re developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
there are a million things to do in the world, and they don’t vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
shout out to the people in the notes saying “this is so true except actually middle age starts in your 30s and ends at 50”. you are completely wrong and you’re the target of this post, get help.
funniest response so far is that middle age is actually 35-50 but that you’re not 'old’ until you’re over 60. great news for that decade in between. category error, you’re young again.
okay well. moving out of the realm of vibes and implications and into the realm of what words actually mean in society, middle age is the 'middle’ period of the typical adult aging process
tip: you can look things up in a 'dictionary’, 'encyclopedia’ or even 'textbook’ to learn their standard range of definitions. many find this preferable to moving through life on a cloud of arbitrary supposition.
yes so 40-60 would in fact be the middle of your adult life per my tags. the middle of your whole life would be about 35-50.
making a post about not being afraid of aging and then pretending people 5 years from the average end are still in the middle and using “well the society which is famously scared of aging says that’s what it is” to back that up is weird and contradictory
should i eat first or shower first *has phone in couch time for another 3 hours due to choice procrastination, a behavioral phenomenon observed in pigeons and rats as well*
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