A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.
Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.
Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.
And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.
The psych nerds found out ages ago that punishments that make the child think for a few minutes (about one minute or year of age until they’re tweens) is much more helpful to develope social intelligence and understanding than punishments which prevents thinking, like the ones that involve pain. In fact, corporal punishment encouraged lying, extreme reactions, violent outbursts, go figure, they don’t trust you.
This is all really fucking serious and important and I’m mainly reblogging for that, because this correct mentality needs to be spread around more, but I’m also reblogging because I absolutely lost it at the child who dreads having to wear the normal blue hat of shame.
please do not force an lgbt label onto anne frank. she died before she had the chance to explore her sexuality and if you need to think of her as lgbt to have empathy for her you need to reconsider how you think of holocaust victims. please do not vilify her father, a man who lost his entire family in the holocaust, for censoring the parts in anne’s diary where she expresses attraction for women. it was 1947. jewish girls were already seen as hypersexual. he was protecting her legacy as best he could, and you have no right to call him a villain for wanting what was period-typical best for his late daughter.
Non-Jews, please read and reblog.
It is good to remember one part of her identity she was exploring, but that shouldn’t be the only part of her you can empathize with, and remember the time.
Perfectly matching and replicating colors just by seeing them is an art, and, while it’s also a very useful task, people who can do this are primarily artists.
Yeah but no but yeah – Look he didn’t just colour match it, he also added in the turbulence medium, the clearcoat and the correct metallic flecks… for a paint that will dry a lighter shade than when it goes on.
That’s like being served an entire thanksgiving meal made my one person in 45 minutes and then saying “Oh they made me a snack”: It is radically underselling what this person can do.
I feel like some people have a weird romantic fetish for aromantic people because I swear I’ve had multiple friends confess their feelings for me after coming out as aro.
One even said “I cAn MakE yOu feEL lOvE” like bitch no, no you can not.
One even said “I
cAn MakE yOu feEL lOvE” like bitch
no, no you can not.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
i always thought the crown of thorns resembled a dead halo which is apparently not as common an interpretation as i thought
living halo:
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dead halo:
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don’t get me wrong “cruel parody of a crown” slaps as symbolism goes, but the idea of it also being a subversion of holiness, that which resembles but perverts it, just adds something in my opinion
For years my mom has argued with me about her belief that Rick & Morty plagiarizes my early 2000s flash cartoon, The Fear Hole, about a portal full of monsters. Otherwise the two just have mad science, dimensional portals and goofy alienlike creatures in common but she thinks that’s SO specific she wishes I would sue cartoon network. Last this came up I had to show her other examples of these tropes to demonstrate I didn’t invent them and she was just like *eye roll* okaaaay sweetie I still think they copied you but I’ll drop it for nowwww
Anyway now there’s a Rick and Morty episode about a phenomenon called a Fear Hole, which is a portal full of monsters. And it’s an easy coincidence but I am absolutely never going to hear the end of this now 😢
In mid-January 2023, my temporary contract with my employer ran up and I was laid off. Since then, I have applied to over 140 jobs. I know the number because I have to track and report all of my applications in order to get unemployment benefits.
Most jobs didn’t call or email back. Only a handful called to do an interview. Only one place hired me in late March for what seemed like a simple payroll/data entry position, and within a week, I realized it was a pyramid scheme. I came down with a bad flu the next week, and while I was recovering, I was fired via text.
I don’t remember where I heard this, but it was said that many of these jobs aren’t actually hiring at all, and they’re putting out bogus applications on job sites to make investors think they’re a big, growing company worth investing in. I can’t help but feel like there’s truth to it.
I can cite the whole Fake Listings thing for you. It is true.
About between 1-in-4 and 1-in-3 job listings in the US are just fucking fake. A combination of identity theft scams, attempts to prove growth to investors, and attempts to suppress labour complaints by understaffed and overworked employees.
I sent out SO many applications and got so few interviews I could count them on one hand. When I actually GOT to the interview stage, I usually advanced pretty quickly.
A few jobs ended up having to shelve the position for various reasons. A couple ended up going with someone else. And the others actually proceeded to the offer stage.
But this was after MONTHS of applying and hearing NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING. Several times I was told that they “selected other candidates”, only for the position to pop up AGAIN the next week! Once job did this THREE TIMES.
This should ABSOLUTELY be illegal. These places ask for basically a fucking essay before you can submit an application. It is literally taking away time and effort that could be directed at places that would actually have a chance of hiring you.
I applied to hundreds of jobs over the course of years and got one legitimate interview, which immediately got me hired.
i’m going to get fired from my job because instead of being like “hi, welcome to burger king” i’m going to say “hi, dagoth ur welcomes you my sweet persistent fiend”
Nerevar, Friend Or Traitor, Would You Like Some Fries With That
Did you get the false Whopper? So naïve, shame on you!
Is This How Your Honour The Kingdom Of Burgers? Is This How You Honour The Whopper Uneaten? Come to me opnely, Nerevar, and not through Drive-thru.
It began here, it will end here… Have you any parting orders? Or shall we skip the fries and get to our business?
Welcome, Moon-and-Star. I have prepared a shake for you.
OHMY GOD SO I JUAT PLAYED AKINATOR AND TRIED TO MAKE HIM GUESS HIMSELF BUT HE KEPT ASKING IF THE PERSON I WAS THINKING OF WAS GAY AND HAD A BOYFRIEND AND I JUST KEPT PRESSING YES AND THEN
shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.
moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over.
put on clean, comfortable clothes.
put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.
drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.
clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink.
blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.
make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something.
make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.
go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.
call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.
cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.
Circulating. Seasonal depression is creeping around now.
I was Judas at the last supper and instead of Jesus saying the whole “body to bread, blood to wine” speech, he just sang the entire Neon Genesis Evangelion intro, word for word, and I refused to betray him.
part of being an ally to trans men is not being a dick to cis men for their appearance btw
the short trans men hear you. the trans men with bottom growth—or who are post-phalloplasty—hear your bad jokes about small dicks. the trans men undergoing hrt who are losing their hair hear you talk shit about bald spots.
also, hot take, you should care about not hurting random cis men in addition to not hurting trans men. like just because some guy is being an asshole online doesn’t mean the thousands of young boys reading your comments about someone with their same acne deserved it. i don’t care what your reason is, even if you think someone is bad enough to warrant being bullied, who gave you permission to hurt the innocent bystander?
hey y’all should spread this version bc some people need to hear this context
they’re huge-nosed, money hungry, ugly, primitive, golem-making explicitely-non-human humanoids. unless of course they’re the evil dark-magic practicing main villains of the universe (who are also huge-nosed ugly non-human humanoids). And people still deny how antisemetic the designs are, despite the fact that Villagers were designed by Notch, also known as Markus “Q is legit. Don’t trust the media” Persson.
So! I decided to fixit.
I could just make them humans, but I’d prefer keeping to canon and having players be the only humans. So, let’s make them anthro animals like Piglins!
I think sheep is the best animal, as they can be docile symbols of peace like Villagers, or aggressive headbutting gremlins like Illagers. The lore of villagers and illagers shown in MC Legends is basically that they both blindly worship humans, right? Might as well make them literal sheeple!
(Yeah, turns out it’s ridiculously easy to make a resource pack that replaces models.)
Introducing: Lamblets & Ramlets!
The two species differentiated by the Ramlets having horns, while the Lamblets do not. However, that might not always be enough to differentiate them at a glance. Not as easily as you can with the vanilla beige vs gray skin. Therefore, there’s four versions of the pack, to suit your preference of what type of balance you want between gameplay and variety.
Simplicity The most similar to vanilla - Lamblets have beige skin and white wool, while Ramlets have gray skin and dark gray wool.
Variety Lamblets have beige skin and Ramlets have gray skin. Both have one of 6 random wool colors - white, gray, dark gray, black, brown, and rarely, pink.
Diversity Lamblets have random wool and one of 4 random skin tones - beige, white, gray, and black. Ramlets have random wool, but always gray skin.
Canonicity Both Lamblets and Ramlets have both random skin and random wool.
Oh my god I never even realised until now that you're the one who wrote all those Pokémon reviews. I remember reading your iconic opinions on Garbodor and Lucario YEARS ago and feeling so vindicated that somebody else hated Lucario's stupid fucking mouth.
Sometimes I think maybe I misremember it but then I look it up again and yeah they really portray its mouth like a person mouth and not a dog mouth. it doesnt have a muzzle. it has a mouth like a guy under a giant nose. it doesnt have canine jaws that open up. why did they do that to him. are they cruel
That’s a tough one because a part of me would want it to be “accurate” because the accurate version says so much about the real mindset of that religion, but the accurate version is also the most boring. Heaven and Hell in Christianity are just literally NOTHING. Heaven is floating around forever in just pure unbroken bliss (they don’t want to say it this way, but what they seem to mean is one never-ending orgasm) and canonically Hell is just people hovering in infinite fire in so much pain they can’t do anything but convulse and scream and that’s it. “Real” Christian afterlife beliefs are utterly devoid of worldbuilding or story material! You get either the good nothingness or the bad nothingness! Supposedly you never even say another word ever again for eternity because you can’t in hell and have no reason to in heaven. At least, that’s what every Christian I’ve ever known in “real life” thinks?
I think getting into how I’d fix that while remaining true to the spirit would take me a lot longer to sort out. I think they should maybe STILL be places where the human souls are distilled down to one mindless sensation, because that’s actually got some intriguing applications too, but I’d want there to be other things other than all the floating idiots. Souls are probably like an infinite energy resource to everything else inhabiting those realms.
Its the last essay of the year and the events going on in Gaza - and similar events elsewhere - had me pondering some thoughts for those who may feel powerless and like they can’t do anything. It’s not perfect, but its something.
It is inherently fun and sexy to say statements that swap the traditional genders of pronouns and terms mid-statement, such as: “I’m going to make him my wife” “She’s my boyfriend” “Who says a guy can’t be a pretty princess?” “That girl’s the coolest dude I’ve ever met” “She’s a madman who has to be stopped” “It’s not his fault he’s a material girl” Gender is a set of watercolors and the prettiest shades come from mixing the paints together.
my cats are in a toxic gay relationship. the one in the foreground is Joseph and the one who is sneezing is Lenny. sometimes they frolick together. Joseph encourages Lenny to sniff his ass. Joseph beats the shit out of Lenny, which makes him have a sneezing fit.
I absolutely love that the Pokémon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
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A non-exhaustive list:
Mega Evolution comes from a meteor. The impact of that meteor literally split the dimensions apart and made it canonical that different versions of the same game are parallel dimensions (Alpha Ruby is a different world from Ruby, for instance). This is later confirmed by the presence of Anabel in Sun and Moon, who fell through dimensions from a world without Mega Evolution.
Speaking of Sun and Moon, wormholes are opening up all over Alola, letting in extradimensional beings that Pokéballs don’t catch properly. There are silver-skinned humans from one of these portals that live in a giant prismatic city.
Also in Sun/Moon, you can pass through to a mirror world where day is night and night is day. When this happens, you can catch the mirror world version of your box legendary friend.
There’s a giant space alien in Sword and Shield who’s leaking particles that cause Pokémon to briefly turn massive, which sometimes rearranges their genetic makeup.
In Scarlet and Violet, reality is splintering. There’s a hole to the future/past that generates paradox Pokémon which are heavily implied to have been materialized out of a researcher’s desire to see them rather than actually from their future/past. The same energy that supposedly made them enables Pokémon to become any type they want and caused a robot to gain human sentience.
In the hole you find the paradox Pokémon in, you find buried monoliths that nobody knows where they came from. The very material they’re made of is canonically unidentifiable.
Time and space were briefly unraveled in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as a maniac tried to overwrite the current world and make a new universe out of it, and in the Platinum universe, this opened a hole to another dimension where a banished god lives. The banished god was pissed off about this and abducted the guy that messed with time and space.
People sometimes slip through the cracks and become Pokémon in Pokémon-only worlds (the Mystery Dungeon series) or drop through time to different eras (Legends Arceus’s protagonist and Ingo).
In Mystery Dungeon, time is eroding (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky), and the world is warping and distorting into areas that scramble themselves every time you enter them and make the inhabitants of those areas agitated and hostile (entire series).
the thing about mystery dungeon tho, and in particular explorers of sky, is that they were the FIRST games in the franchise to do multiverse shenanigans wayyy back in the ‘00s. i mean the very premise of “human from a world with both humans and pokemon comes to a world with only pokemon” implies that these people are either coming from the main game universe(s) or something similar.
(spoilers for the explorers games, particularly explorers of sky, beyond this point)
then in explorers, they introduce TIME-TRAVEL, wherein the hero isnt actually a human from the human world, but a human from the FUTURE of the world youre playing in, a future where time froze because the god of time went insane after his house started falling apart. and by the end of the main plot, you stop his house from doing that, thereby erasing that future (and therefore yourself) from ever existing, marty mcfly style. but then to thank you, and to soothe the grief of the friend you left behind, the time god says “hey bud sorry about that, lemme just—” and just Brings You Back
and THEN, in explorers of sky, they added special episodes that center around side characters. and in the fifth and final version of this, you play as grovyle (the player character’s former partner from the future, who sacrificed himself to bring a bad guy BACK to the future to get him out of the way) as he journeys through the frozen future to try and defeat the insane time god on HIS end. and at the end, the world begins to unfreeze as the effects of your victory in the past begin to ripple forward. everyone—grovyle, his allies, his enemies, even the time god himself—is erased from existence while watching the first sunrise in eons as their entire timeline collapses…
but then they wake up. everyone is fine. everyone turns to the time god to ask wtf happened, and he says “idk man wasnt me. some power beyond me must have done this.” and they all just,,, go on with their lives. the implications of this are that a bunch of heroes stopped the bad future from ever happening, but then some nebulous and omnipotent force (thought to be arceus, the ultimate god of all pokemon) just Brings It All Back, meaning there are now two PARALLEL futures, one where the world sucked for a long time, and one where presumably it was totally fine (we dont get to see this future but obviously time DOESNT stop in this version), and suddenly you’ve got an explicit, discrete, canonical multiverse, years before the main series ever touched the idea
so anyway TL;DR: in mystery dungeon, you erase the future from happening, but a capital-g God so powerful even the god of time doesnt know them says “actually no” and un-erases it as its own alternate timeline simply because it wouldve been sad not to, thus creating a multiverse.
theres a reason its my favorite game of all time shskfhskf
also no the shit about time god’s house is not an exaggeration, the god of time is a pokemon called dialga and he begins to go insane as his home, temporal tower, slowly collapses. its ultimate collapse (and his insanity) is what causes time to freeze across the world. now really all this means is that the inanimate world (rocks, trees, rivers) become petrified, but only SOME pokemon follow suit. how anyone at all survived is a mystery (dungeon. heh), but evidently some DID because YOU are one of these survivors.
I wonder what kind of symbolism they’re trying to get at
“There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.” -Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director/art director on Neon Genesis Evangelion
