Can’t express how stress free being open minded is.
Some lesbians use he/him? Oh cool.
Some people have people inside their head and sometimes it’s fictional chars? Sick your brains like a pirate ship they’re all working to run.
Some people like being treated like a pet dog? Bark bark bro.
Being fat isn’t unhealthy but a perfectly normal type of body to have? Kinda beautiful how different we can all be.
Something doesn’t make any fucking sense? Cool an opportunity to learn. And even if I can’t figure it out it’s cool we still have mysteries today.
It’s just… idk man. People are weird. Being a person is weird. Society is weird. The universe is weird. Rather than having to “normalize” everything, just accept that some people are weird. So are you. Nothing is normal. the rules are all made up. I once saw a Klingon pushing a baby stroller down the street in toronto. The world is a weird place, man. Just roll with it.
Drk cave perfec t size to put hiker in to explore! inside very soft and comfort hiker walk safely put hiker in dark cave. put hiker in dark cave. no problems ever in ddark cave because good shape and support for hiker ankles weak of big hiker legs. acave mouth yes a place for hiker put hiker in dark cave can trust cave for giveing good love to hiker. friend cave.
I wish there was a way to completely OPT OUT of AI. Like you could set your ENTIRE Internet browser to NOT shove it down your throat.
When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can’t do that with AI.
Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here’s 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!
Someone PLEASE create a way to allow people to get AI the FUCK OUT of our lives if we DO NOT WANT IT!
OK JESUS CHRIST this post caught on. I have NEVER had a post take off like this. Thank you guys.
If T makes you gain weight and E and antidepressants do it too, and so does enjoying good food and not being hungry all the time, then perhaps maybe sometimes joy & weight gain come hand in hand and that’s good
I keep seeing people call the Trump administration shit like “schizophrenic” and “psychotic” and can we fucking not do this please???? schizophrenics and people with psychosis have a biological and neurological basis for their behavior and beliefs. there is no biological basis for being racist and sexist and a monster. schizophrenics and ppl with psychosis are innocent. you can’t beat bigotry with more bigotry
instead of either having a server be muted or unmuted discord should introduce a setting called special princess mode where the server is muted except ☝🏽 for one person that is your special princess and the emoji0oo990op09iop09i8o09i8op09iolp-09op-0opyujiko8o9i8ukol9iukolp9i8uki sorry. i got a drop of oil on my keyboard bc i was eating hummus with a little bit of olive oil earlier and i was cleaning that off. anyway and the notification icon is a heart. and they have to to call it that.
i think there’s actually nothing better than being randomly told “I love you” after doing something characteristically stupid. Like what do you mean I’m a lovable person and I just did something silly and you thought “of course you would do that. I love you.”. No better feeling
would you let me into your room so i can sit awkwardly on the ground wearing an oversized t shirt and look at your posters like a squirrel searching for threats before proceeding to say nothing and stare at you until you speak to me. would you let me do this
my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to
my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that
hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures
my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to
my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that
hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures
Since the body language of cats is pretty common knowledge, I haven’t had to research it too much for fic-writing purposes. I haven’t gotten a chance to interact with sheep nearly as often as I have cats, though, so I find myself looking up the body language of sheep quite often. I thought it might be helpful/interesting to share some of what I’ve found over the years of writing CotL fics, in case anyone wants to use it to help with their writing/art c: Some of this I’ve learned from professional/farming resources, but most of it is honestly just from reading forums about sheep and reading the “informal data” about people’s experiences with sheep!
Stomping, quite predictably, means a sheep is irritated/aggressive, but their stomping isn’t actually all that loud as you might expect with hooves. (Thus, it’s easy to misjudge how aggressive a sheep might be feeling if their stomping is fairly quiet.)
If they’re pawing someone, though, it often means they’re trying to pester for treats/pets.
Ears turned sideways or a bit backwards means a sheep is relaxed. Pointing backwards usually indicates fear. Pointing forwards, especially if the head is tilted up, can indicate either stress or curiosity (the common denominator here is the sheep is trying to figure out what’s going on/if something is unfamiliar or new). Asymmetrical ears are associated with stress or frustration as well.
Scared or uncomfortable sheep might drop their heads, as if to blend in with the flock/their surroundings
If the ears are flicking, the sheep is probably frustrated or stressed. Their ears tend to move more often the more uncomfortable they are
They also tend to snort when they’re annoyed
Half-shut eyes indicate feeling safe, but squinting can indicate the sheep’s in pain. Another common sign of pain is grinding their teeth.
Bunting is an aggressive gesture, and so is lowering the head/presenting the forehead and backing up (preparing to bunt).
On a similar note, head pets or horn touches can similarly be taken as a show of dominance/challenge since rams headbutt. Top-of-the-head pets should be given with caution, only if you know the sheep enjoys it, but it’ll depend on the individual
Common places sheep like to be pet: base of/behind/inside the ears, under-neck, under the jaw, chest, under the belly, top of the tail, behind the horns (apparently sheep can get itchy behind the horns). If they’re really happy with the scratches they might lick the air.
Happy tail wiggles.
Sheep can get the zoomies when they’re excited.
It takes about 4-5 sheep to get them to display their normal flocking behaviors. Isolation from other sheep “causes severe stress and should be avoided,” and sheep separated from their mothers in young childhood tend to be more anxious in adulthood even when in company of others :)
Take the above info as much or as little as you’d like to, since we’re all making fan creations that are fictional anyway so you should do whatever you want forever. Anyway, have fun with these
“oh haha is that a dog cage?” getting down on all fours “that’s so cool lol. hm? oh don’t mind me, I just dropped my phone.” crawling inside “i’m sure it’s in here somewhere.” slowly turning in circles and laying down “where is it? gosh i need to think on this for a bit.” falling asleep “you can close that door btw.”
Me who had an elaborate plan to get you to go into the dog cage: 😐
Forcing someone to become your puppy used to be an art, y'know? Now all it takes is a single headpat and they’re sleeping in the bed under your desk already
See this is what I’m talking about. Do y'all have any idea how easy it was to get prev to act like a puppy?
im american and i knew that like in kindergarten so i think some of you are just stupid sorry
“US curriculums don’t talk about-” ok? And? Are you guys not absorbing literally any information from the outside world? Tv, movies, books, people talking around you? Hello????
I’m sorry do people need to be taught that other countries have metropolitan cities in school or is that information you can kinda infer from like. existing in real life
Absurd that people will just say shit like this with their whole chest. If I had somehow gotten through life to age 21 believing that my country had cities but my silly primitive sepia-toned neighbours didn’t then when contrary information came up I’d keep my mouth shut and head right to wikipedia. I’d take that misconception to the fucking grave.
For USAmericans who care to listen; the issue here is not that you were never taught or exposed to facts about the world but rather that ignorance is used as a shield for criticism. This is considered a dick move as you’re basically saying you know you’re ignorant, you’re saying you don’t want to learn.
If you’re older than fifteen and not currently trapped in or recently escaped from a very overbearing cult then “I wasn’t taught that at school” isn’t an excuse for beliefs that reveal that you fundamentally don’t think of other places as real or important. “It wouldn’t occur to me to put ‘USA’ on my address for international shipping because I just expect everyone in other countries to know where my state is even though I don’t know theirs” “I just assumed that other countries on my continent wouldn’t have cities for some reason” “naturally I just assume that having states is a US thing and other countries either don’t have them or they don’t mean anything, other places don’t have regional differences like we do, we’re so varied and everywhere else is a Country Of Hats” THIS IS A YOU PROBLEM. We all have shitty education systems, yours isn’t special. We all have racist governments and nationalist propoganda machines, yours isn’t special. Your American exceptionalism isn’t suddenly cute and humble if you try to make it about your country being extra bad instead of extra good. You just learned you made a stupid assumption due to inherent racist or nationalist or whatever beliefs? Now you have better information. Maybe think QUIETLY TO YOURSELF about what other dumb assumptions you have because of that and spend some time on wikipedia or watching foreign movies or something instead of crying to the internet that it’s your fourth grade teacher’s fault for not making you memorise a list of foreign cities.
We all believe dumb shit and don’t know anything. You think I know anything about your states? I don’t. When people from non-English-speaking countries started buying my books online I couldn’t understand the address formats to post them; I had to learn. I don’t automatically know which countries in the world are larger than mine, I look up the info if I need it. Sometimes I say make a bad assumption and dumb shit and people are like “Derin what you said is wrong actually” and tell me otherwise and then I learn that. This is not an issue of having information. Everyone can be wrong about stuff, but your “uphill in the snow both ways” ranting about how nobody should expect better from you because Your Uniquely Bad Culture And Schooling is at fault for every problem is getting old.
Y'all don’t seem to understand that, for a lot of Americans, the first time they experience truly global thinking is University.
That’s why Universities are so dangerous to certain political factions.
It’s not rocket science, but education is IMPORTANT and not all educations are created the same. I would encourage you to try to understand that an alarming % of the USA is illiterate or has a very low level of education. That’s not necessarily their fault.
Be kind. Understand that the world SUCKS and some people need a little help seeing that the world is this huge, complicated, interconnected machine that runs BETTER with kindness.
What Americans leaving comments like this think they sound like:
im american and i knew that like in kindergarten so i think some of you are just stupid sorry
“US curriculums don’t talk about-” ok? And? Are you guys not absorbing literally any information from the outside world? Tv, movies, books, people talking around you? Hello????
*sigh*
No.
Just… no. Don’t be a dick about this. This is not a situation where being a dick will help.
First, people do not just know things. There’s a LOT out there that you - and yes, that’s you, too - simply don’t know. And you don’t even know you don’t know! You never asked!
And that’s the second thing. Not everyone is equally interested in every aspect of the world. I know more about the rules of Chunkey than Scrimmage, and people still play scrimmage! But I’ve never cared. So, yes, it’s entirely possible for someone to not know about metropolitan centers in Mexico because they never asked.
Which is the third thing. You basically assume that media depictions are correct. Not because you think TV, films, &c are authoritative sources of information, but because why would they lie to you? You’re not applying critical thinking to these things because there’s no apparent reason behind it. It’s like… your friend is telling you about this boss he had named Ted, and afterwards he says he punked you since the boss’s name was actually Bill. And you’re going… okay, but why did you change that? Why would you lie about that? What did you accomplish? So you don’t ask “Are there really a lot of pine trees near DC like you see in the X-Files?” It’s just not something a reasonable person asks about.
And yes, it’s true - a lot of people aren’t all that intellectually curious. They just aren’t interested. You’re not going to make them more curious by being a dick to them. You’re going to make them learn One(1) new thing: intellectually curious people are assholes. And they don’t want to be an asshole, so….
So, yeah. Don’t be a dick about this. The American education system is an awful patchwork which just doesn’t talk about a lot of important stuff and misrepresents things. And it’s not all the same stuff, either. And availability and accuracy of supplementary knowledge varies wildly. You will not improve this by being a dick about it, especially to people who are admitting there are gaps in their knowledge.
That’s fine and all, but that’s not the problem. The problem is that, even if people don’t just know things, it’s always americans that admit their ignorance of life in the global south and rather than saying “good to know” or just learning quietly about the world outside their bubble, make themselves victims of the abhorrent American Education System. As if the gaps in their knowledge are solely the education system’s fault, and they should be validated by us, the people of the global south who have to be informed about what goes on in the US because it impacts us dierctly.
It’s just frustrating to always have americans (because europeans, even when they’re as ignorant don’t victimize themselves) come into conversations about somewhere other than the US and try to make it about themselves, about how bad they have it, about how terrible their education system is. People shouldn’t be dicks in general, but when the issue is as widespread as it is, some snap back in frustration, and asking us to keep coddling american’s feelings even in such minor issues as these is not an actual solution to the widespread ignorance about the rest of the world present in the US.
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