re: that discussion about 'brain damage' - what is your stance on the impact of technology usage on children's development and their parents' role in (preventing?) that?
its role in growth and learning (terminology I prefer to "development" for reasons I won't go into) is, in my view, totally individual and extremely context dependent.
and I know that's kinda frustrating as an answer but the truth is anyone who says they can take a huge complicated aspect of the human condition and an equally complicated technology and collapse their relationship to a simple cause and effect statement is...probably selling something.
computers and phones are like other technologies in your house. I mean the things you might not even think of as "technologies". knives are a technology. fire is a technology. you need them both to cook dinner. they can also kill you. ideally you don't introduce your kid to fire by tossing them a pile of matches and saying "good luck" but also ideally you do not act like they're going to be better off never encountering fire without you hovering over their shoulder.
what you probably want to do is something along the lines of "let me show you how the stove works so you can start using it to cook if you want to"
if you study a class of 12-year-olds and their relationships with fire you're going to get a huge range of results. you'll have the outdoorsy kids who can build and light a perfect campfire. the ones who are scared of the candles on their own birthday cakes. the one kinda scary kid who likes to melt their toys. the one who started learning how to weld last year and is perfectly comfortable working with a thing hotter than the surface of the sun.
and parental input is only one component of how any of those kids ended up where they are.
parents have to get comfortable with the idea of doing their best to support their kids developing healthy relationships with technology - all kinds of technologies - while also accepting that their kids are whole people who are shaped by things beyond their control and have the right to make personal decisions they don't like.
you don't get to decide if your kid takes up juggling torches at age 16, but when they're 8 and ask you how the barbeque lighter works, you do get to decide whether you treat it like a normal tool they can master or a scary death machine they should be ashamed of wanting to touch.
genuinely desktop linux will never see mass adoption until some huge mega corporation or future socialist state produces a centralised out of the box version that comes packaged with physical devices. 99% of users do not want to do research on different forks and their strengths they want a box that turns on and shows them the button for the internet
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/
Yeah you can just buy a laptop, turn it on, pick a username+password, open firefox to browse the web, miss chrome, go to the app store, and install chrome and and steam and discord and such. No one tells you to do this because it saves you 59 dollars if you buy lenovo and 0 dollars if you buy system 76 and everyone in the linux community knows "spend 800 dollars on a computer you have to use a third party launcher to play fortnite and genshin on" is a very hard sell and we all want to save you money and make you impressed by watching a computer that windows made slow come back to life.
Also we think choice is good.
another, albeit smaller reason desktop linux won't see mass adoption is that this is how its most vocal advocates love to engage with people
The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.
And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and
His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.
However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.
That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.
yuh i was there, that's how it happened
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirllockandkeyhyenaFollowactually we should start headcanoning female characters as being terrible with childrenlockandkeyhyenastop mother-ifying fictional literally all female characters. that fictional woman would not know what the fuck to do with a child#meta#media#fandom26728,69143,868
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlwhat-even-is-thissFollowMust not pick that scab off. It will not in fact get rid of the scab and just create a different scab. The scab is not done cooking yet. I am completely normal about scabs. <-gripping the edges of his chair so tightly the wood is starting to crack835,92713,812
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirltokkibeanFollowi do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i didharpyharpyharpyYou don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette13116,91334,953
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirltoskarinFollowfor all the credit freud doesn't deserve, it's somewhat inescapable to realise how often you speak to an adult and feel a shift in the conversation as you begin to speak through them to placate the ghosts of their helicopter parentstoskarinyou know what I mean, less so in the sense of general immaturity, more in the sudden drop below your feet as you notice that this conversation about books has taken on the dynamic of asking if sarah can come out to play without getting her disciplined1309712
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlparasitoidismFollowwe all have that one friend trying to rebuild the world according to their own warped philosophy 225,6997,226
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirldittography-direwolfFollowView on TwitterTotally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.21414,76320,322
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlfieldexploresFollowNever Learned - Gator Daystwenty-fourth-order-simulacra...the alt text?10112,02719,469
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlbyjoveFollowat least now we know why he has yet to return when Britain is in peril kitkatmooseWe need a flick where King Arthur wakes in modern Jamaica and is very confused.byjoveI think that would be so much funny. He wakes up on a remote beach in Jamaica and he only speaks/understands Brythonic and Medieval Latin. Locals assume he was a tourist who fell from a cruise ship or received a head injury and floated away from a resort. The authorities cannot match his description to any missing persons reports and his fingerprints and DNA produce no hits on INTERPOL. They suspect he may be Welsh or French because the language he speaks resembles Welsh or Breton but France and the UK both state he is not a citizen of their country. Stateless and deeply confused, he is taken in by the community near the beach where he was found, being cared for by a number of local families and doing odd jobs. He slowly learns English and adjusts to the contemporary world, uncertain if his belief that he is the legendary King Arthur was formed by whatever traumatic event caused him to end up Jamaica or if he is actually King Arthur and Prydain is in eminent peril. Mysterious letters from Morgan begin to reaffirm his belief he is King Arthur. He must choose between staying in Jamaica and continuing the happy life he has made for himself or finding a way to get back to Britain without any documentation. a-daksancient king white boy stuns locals by ordering in perfect Jamaican Patois byjoveHe gets to Britain and everyone expects him to sound like a posh noble Englishman because that is the picture Malory painted but he prefers to speak Welsh and when he has to speak English, he speaks with a thick Jamaican accent. #arthuriana245,12210,256
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animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlbustedlestatdollFollowmy mom just had a 7cm brain tumor removed and since she's woken up she's been talking nonstop about this dream she had about going to an art gallery full of colourful paintings by a 'homosexual artist' named klimsdorf who was ethereal and wise, both young and old... at first she was convinced he was a real person but after failing to find him online she's accepted he was a figment of her subconscious mind and is now determined to bring him to life via painting his portrait herself. she's 67 and has never drawn in her life. and now this. blorbo from her tumor29963,670119,086
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlladybugpill0wpetFollowone thing mash really did nail is the complete chaos of the male living space. i walked into my friend’s college apartment once and two of his roommates were completely hammered and trying to figure out how long it would take them to brew their own beer while the third one was working on his golf swing in the middle of the living room while smoking a cigar. tell me that’s not an opening shot of the swamp1241805
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlprokopetzFollowBasically what I'm getting from the present "giving 100% at work" Tumblr discourse is that a lot of people have fairly narrow notions of what blue-collar versus white-collar jobs actually entail. There are in fact manual labour jobs where a significant chunk of your average work day consists of Fucking Around, and conversely, there are desk jobs where you crunch eighty-hour weeks for years on end until you suddenly drop dead from heart failure at age 32. It's absolutely true that you're more likely to end up in a No Fucking Around Allowed situation in a blue-collar occupation, but you can't tell whether or not someone is in that position based purely on whether or not they work in an office. Shit, call centre workers are white collar on paper, and the kind of fuckery a lot of call centre workers are subjected to involves genuine human rights violations.866,40510,826
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlantarcticconfessions-deactivateI love how it doesn't matter what expedition it is. They all turn into excited kids when they meet penguins. asteroidtroglodyteThe Penguin: GIANTS! no way! I’m gonna wave at them THEY WAVED BACK! Holy Shit they’re dancing with me! My Wife is never gonna believe this OMG I got to dance with a Giant today so cool. The Humans: Penguin! No way! I’m gonna wave at it IT WAVED BACK! Holy Shit it’s flapping with me! I got to play with a Penguin today; so cool. givemeafuckingjointwhere's the joy and whimsy guy? Have they found this one yet?redmegarex@joy-and-whimsy-official joy-and-whimsy-officialJoy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!Who am I to deny a penguin some joy and whimsy 🐧#penguins#Penguin#cute1434,09946,924
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilemexicastFollow"Overconsumption is bad because we have limited resources on earth and the production of your comforts is done by practically enslaved global southerners" - yes real. Fucking real and true. "Overconsumption is bad because you will get fat and lazy and stupid and fat and your brain will rot and youll be a feeble whiny disabled" - okay you are a eugenecist. Can you fucking hear yourselfmexicastsame thing for ai usage. Are you complaining about companies investing in ai over people, or are you just an inch of self preservation away from openly calling its users the R slur? Be fucking honest i see how you talk. 1,3401,921
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilefangs4faggotsFollowi think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g #meta#media13,52023,649
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodileqillermemeFollowterriblewomanyuriJust to make it clear, this happened December 15, 1923. This was a man enslaved by a system that gave him pennies as pay and hundreds in debts. He killed anywhere from two to twelve of the people who wanted to lynch him and wounded up to twenty-six other members of the lynch mob. That year, eighty-four Black people had been lynched in the state (Mississippi) he lived in. Slavery in the USA never ended, and it sure as hell didn't end with the American Civil War.#history254,2777,821
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodileboof-chamberFollowisuggestrevolutionthis is my suggestion2256416
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodiletlirsgenderFollowHonestly I think a lot of fantasy authors could take a lesson from sci-fi and just, have their fantasy worlds explicitly *not* show The Entire World as it exists in-universe. If that makes sense. Like in space exploration stuff it's common to namedrop a bunch of shit we're not unpacking right now to signal the expansiveness of the universe without having to do extensive worldbuilding for like 100s of cultures you're only gonna see once. It's honestly weird that high fantasy rarely ever does this! This is the easiest ticket out of (gestures broadly) the whole "one (1) country for Africa and Asia each" thing. Maybe it's not relevant to the plot maybe your map is only covering a specific corner of the world where the story is happening. It can still exist in the background. You can just do that #writing#media272519
animalpetcelReblogged frostopssavee-babyFollowSADLY, MY BABY QAIS'S HEART STOPPED TONIGHT, AND HIS LITTLE BODY BECAME COMPLETELY STILL.There were no ambulances to save him, so I carried him on a wooden board toward the hospital, screaming through every street and begging my neighbors to help me carry my child before it was too late.savee-babyThe doctors managed to bring baby Qais back, but they rushed him into intensive care and connected him to machines. They told me his wound had deepened by another three centimeters, and they could do little more until I found a way to secure the treatment he urgently needs.savee-babyI am begging you as a persecuted mother in Gaza, watching my baby bleed in front of me, unable to stop it. Please donate now and help me save his life before it’s too late.Please donate now Gofundme savee-babyI have no words left to describe this nightmare. I am begging you with all the strength I have left—please help me buy the treatment and medicine Qais urgently needs. Every donation could help keep hope alive for my little boy.savee-babyUnfortunately, Qais has run out of medicine, and I cannot afford more. To everyone who helped before, I beg you again today, donate now. Your kindness kept him alive, and he still desperately needs support. savee-babyI will never forget those who donated, shared Qais’s story, and tried saving my child, but unfortunately I still cannot afford enough medicine or clean bandages. Please, donate now before his condition becomes even worse. savee-babyEvery night, I promise myself I will stop begging and somehow find another way. Then morning comes, Qais still needs medicine, and I return with the same broken heart, asking for help again, please donate now. 51,611353
animalpetcelReblogged frostopsprokopetzFollowSomething I see getting overlooked a lot when discussing queercoding in historical media is that in many cases it's not evidence that the writers secretly shipped it; it was aimed at straight dudes specifically to freak them out. Depicting a male villain as sexually interested in a male hero reads as horror to the cishet male audience. Like, Venom didn't spend years and years being blatantly characterised as Spider-Man's creepy stalker ex because Marvel's writers were all closeted yaoi fans. That was meant to be scary – which of course doesn't mean you can't read it differently, but don't give them credit they don't deserve!#media#meta512,5635,602
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animalpetcelReblogged waheelawhisperermikkenekoFollowAI tool use is becoming mandatory for more and more roles at my company, unfortunately including mine, so I've spent the last week or so undergoing training courses and practice exercises for Claude Cowork, and here is my conclusion:Congratulations, you made a computer that cannot successfully count to ten.mikkenekoclaudd Cowork perfec t size for put personal financial data inside for a\nalysis! inside very Safe and Convenient financ data consume put data in Claude Cowork. Put Personal Financial Data In Claude Cowork. no problems ever in clode cwork because Anthropic is Friend who will take sososo good care of your data trust <3 Cowwork yes a place for a data health data put financial data in cowok mouth can trust claud for giveing good work to data. friend coworkappendingficso as someone who isn't required, how do they know you used ai to do work?mikkenekoEach person's account is given 'credits' which are centrally tracked and if you aren't using any they ask why not.canuckerrant51,9312,618
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlst-justFollowIs there a specific term for the - trope? tone? subgenre? idk - of fictional stories that are clearly in love with the trappings and aesthetics of a certain (deeply romanticized) past cultural moment, but simultaneously too conscientious and aware of all the horrible bigotry and oppression inevitably woven into every stitch of the thing as it actually existed to set a story there without it kind of killing the mood? So you get a wide variety of sci fi/fantasy settings whose culture is strangely reminiscent of England-as-depicted-in-Jeeves-and-Wooster or the stories of Agatha Christie or The Regency, except everyone's queer feminists and racism doesn't exist and all the miserable drudge work is done by magic/robots instead of servants? For lack of anything better, I'm going to go with 'spiritually steampunk'#meta#media356217
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animalpetcelReblogged paperconsumptiondatsderbunnyblogFollowThis comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.catboycommunistevergreen16,45024,323
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirldeadgenerationsFollowpeople over a certain age really did have their brains cooked in their skulls by the heckin Soviets. like there's no other word except hysterics for the shit boomers pull out of their ass about heckin communisms whenever someone proposes a library or apartment blocks or even progressive tax rates. no one makes communism and the Soviet Union sound more utopian than some old cunt frothing about a new bus routedeadgenerationsdo old people not get it that when they say urban development is soviet communism young people don't think "wow urban development is so dystopian and scary" they think "woah communism must be fuckin awesome"3132333
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animalpetcelReblogged frostopssavee-babyFollowSADLY, MY BABY QAIS'S HEART STOPPED TONIGHT, AND HIS LITTLE BODY BECAME COMPLETELY STILL.There were no ambulances to save him, so I carried him on a wooden board toward the hospital, screaming through every street and begging my neighbors to help me carry my child before it was too late.savee-babyThe doctors managed to bring baby Qais back, but they rushed him into intensive care and connected him to machines. They told me his wound had deepened by another three centimeters, and they could do little more until I found a way to secure the treatment he urgently needs.savee-babyI am begging you as a persecuted mother in Gaza, watching my baby bleed in front of me, unable to stop it. Please donate now and help me save his life before it’s too late.Please donate now Gofundme savee-babyI have no words left to describe this nightmare. I am begging you with all the strength I have left—please help me buy the treatment and medicine Qais urgently needs. Every donation could help keep hope alive for my little boy.51,611353
animalpetcelReblogged frostopsarttlaFollowok i came up with something#Art#cool2278874
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlabyssalaquarist00Followpick up that non-fiction bookabyssalaquarist00not all of us can live in fantasy 100% the time like i see some people on here do and it's refreshing to learn something new. its been philosophy, essays, and history for me and i feel much more at home on planet Earth for it knowing that people have been struggling and wishing similarly for millenia.its not that fiction doesnt have its place, its important and healthy to exercise the imagination, but non-fiction can do so much to boost and supplement that. if not for yourself, for your art or for the people you're aroundabyssalaquarist00"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your ownabyssalaquarist00this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction15911,39715,452
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlporcelain-dollbonesFollowit really is kind of interesting how attached people are to the idea of the improvised line and the genuine reaction in film. nearly every single famous moment or line has some sort of claim floating around that it wasn't in the script and was either made up on the spot by an actor or was sprung as a surprise on the actors to get their 'real' reaction. you know, sometimes people do come up with good lines in advance and write them down, and sometimes people can pretend to be have a convincing emotional response on screensquishy-gumblealso important to note that a lot of the 'improvised' lines that people talk about are things that might not be in the script, that the actors cone up with while shooting, but still discuss and figure out with the director before shooting the final takes. genuinely improvised lines without any prior knowledge are pretty rare. i think instances when the people involved in making a film collaborate to make changes to a script are really cool, and the fetishisation of the 'genuine reaction' and 'improvised line' also cheapen this form of 'improvisation' i.e. collaboration and flexibility among artists253,5347,640
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlmovementnudgeFollowMovement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌X1911,87817,149
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilehoundmotherFollowmany of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change. houndmotherthis is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were. 517,84110,812
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodiletragicwaifFollowWhen they torture u to insanity and then torture you for being insane 😂😂😂278,76012,669
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilemelodies-stereoFollow"in my socialist utopia, we will still be allowed to hunt, discriminate against, and kill a specific kind of person" <- a LOT of you for some reasonmelodies-stereoin MY socialist utopia, justice will not be emotionally driven... except in regards to this one type of person i really don't like and want deprived of rights and recognition6201,103
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodileassiraphalesFollowreylo was probably THE worst thing to happen to star wars. just had to drool over a genocidal 6 and help encourage the derailing of an entire trilogy. no luke skywalker shouldn’t have killed him bc it would have gone against his morals but he should have phoned a friend assiraphalesall for a man whose number one personality trait is toddler temper tantrums assiraphalesthey were supposed to be the main focus of the trilogy and kylo should have just been a bug they SQUASHED 725,3679,481
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilepocketssFollowblockhead gets mogged1078,23629,224
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilegwenthebardFollowToo many Odyssey adaptations make Poseidon look like he has random beef and was being petty, or defending his cannibal son no reason, because I need to specify that Odysseus:-sacked the shit out of a city he was patron of-using deceotion hiding in a statue shaped like a symbol of his-despite this Poseidon helped Odysseus out by sending a sea serpent to eat a guy yelling that the Trojan Horse was a trap-Greeks then brutally sacked the city-made no offerings for the gods and Odysseus took credit talking about how smart he was-Odysseus then proceeds to meet his son and blind him-Odysseus used deception again and would have got away with it, but proceeds to leave his full government name and address behind whils bragging about how smart he is#greek mythology4218591
animalpetcelReblogged coldgoldlazarusivxnberk-deactivated20150718*favorite character comes on screen* *traces a heart around them with my cursor*96,57982,989
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlstrawberry-crocodileFollowso just thinking about that whole "hollywood movies have ex wives and ex girlfriends in them because hollywood writers are all divorced men" is like... only part of the picture. i think it's part of broader trends in screenwriting and film making. having an ex girlfriend allows you to have a romantic arc in the plot where two characters go from Not Kissing to Kissing without having to actually devote time to, like, characters meeting each other, establishing relationships, writing good chemistry... yknow, writing a romance. which is really useful if your boss wants you to write a romance and you don't want to fit a romance in your Adult Action Comedy.strawberry-crocodilepicture it. you're a hollywood writer for Hero Action Franchise Movie With Some Laughs #Gazillion. you aren't making a passion project that explores your unique perspective on life, you are making a product. your boss has some requirements from this end product- gotta have a sequence with some catchy pop, gotta have the US military be good guys, gotta have a romance. this is an action product. its gender neutral (read: its for men but women should watch too), so you can't devote more than, mmm, 10 minutes of screentime to this relationship. also, you're a 30-50 year old man who has never held down a relationship for more than a year and doesn't quite understand things like "womens' internality" or "flirting". there are two clear options. Corporate mandates that there be one named woman in the movie. She'll be around for the action and exposition scenes. Great! We add some banter with the lead (who is of course a man), she'll try to prove her competence, he'll be clumsy and dorky but ultimately more competent than her, classic romance stuff. At the end they kiss. Add an ex! This fulfills the romance quota, but it also adds conflict; something you've learned that scripts need, the more the better. Find a skinny blonde woman, have a scene in act 1 where she's a bitchy nag at the protagonist and is dating some other dude, but then at the denouement after he's saved the world or the city or killed a bad guy she jumps into his arms and kisses him. or maybe just tells him he's alright, we're feminist now!#meta#media196369
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlpetemcvries23Followthe natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in. 12813,26622,877
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlstrawberry-crocodileFollowpersonally i believe there are two things you need to be keenly aware of to write an actually good m/f romance. obviously a good writer isnt going to just plainly state them but u should be able to tell.1. how does the patriarchy and coercion for women to be presentable and marry and be moms and serve men affect each character and this relationship?2. WHAT DOES THE WOMAN LIKE ABOUT THE MANstrawberry-crocodilejust in general i think straight men... struggle to imagine what exactly the woman is getting out of a relationship. so they gesture at "he's nice" and "he saves her" and "he's dorky" I DONT CARE IF YOURE STRAIGHT, IMAGINE SOMEONE YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR LIFE WITH!!! also read stories written by women. #meta#media87661,477
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlquasi-normalcyFollowIt is kind of funny that there were so many Holden Bloodfeast-types in America who spent four and a half decades and the twilight years of the republic practically begging for war with Iran, and then they go it, and now they appear to have lost.quasi-normalcyLike imagine being John Bolton and having your worst enemy finally give you what you've always wanted and it sucks utterly, and now you have to die in jail.1172361
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodiledailymannersFollowIf you give someone a ride home, or walk someone home, don't leave or drive away until you see them get inside and close the door behind them. Make sure you see to it that they get fully get inside safely before you leave. This also applies to temporary residences, such as a hotel, airbnb, dormitories, ect. Seeing to it that they fully make it inside safely isn't just about fear of something as drastic as an assault or a mugging. It would also be awfully annoying and stressful for them if they lost their key, and before realizing they're locked out their ride or walking companion has already sped off, so now they're stuck outside alone with nowhere else to go, and possibly a dead phone (when it rains it pours). Or maybe there's dangerous fauna in the area. Or maybe the neighbor's poorly trained dog with aggression issues is loose. Or maybe they slip and hurt themselves while walking to the door. Even if you're absolutely positive they'll make it to the door safely, it's still a kind and thoughtful gesture to let them know that you care enough about their safety to see to it that they make it inside safely. sorcyressThis is a thing my mom trained into me (also: second-to-last car to leave an event waits for the last car to make sure both can turn on and start driving home). It's not exactly that I judge my friends who drop me and go, but I do always notice which cars stay until my front door is actually open. And on my end, it means sometimes I will get out my keys and clearly jingle them as I'm walking up the steps, as my own signal to the driver that I'm good. Community is good and this is an easy way to make me feel loved.31,4001,821
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilebeardedmrbeanFollowthey used to let kids have real funafriendofblahajThere's an xkcd for that :3Side note: polonium-210 is a very dangerous isotope, however it "does not pose a radiation hazard when kept outside the body", as the alpha particle it emits have very little penetration power and cannot pierce even the outer layers of dead skin. It has still killed countless people, though, not because of children's rings, but because of tobacco. Polonium latches onto and concentrates in tobacco leaves, leading to heavy smokers being exposed to more radiation than survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.It's always wild to me seeing comments about different toxins like this on information about random things in the past, but it's never discussed when it comes to cigarettes.mossadspydolphin9014,12721,028
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodiletlirsgenderFollowOne of my toxic cherik thoughts is that it's in no small part about the crazy telepathic intimacy going on and, yknow, the mind control powers. Not in like a "Charles is lowkey mind controlling most of the people in his life" way (though, yknow, #truke) and more that he can make your brain just ... stop. Which has to feel good as hell when you have crazy crazy crazy untreated ptsd and want to kill everyone 99% of the time. It's like heroin tlirsgenderCrucially neither of them think it's weird and/or bad to be doing that but literally every other outside perspective is Really Uncomfortable. Charles thinks it's nice that he can make it stop. This is the same guy who thought giving Jean DID on purpose would be helpful tlirsgenderLike it's not even that he's a calming presence organically or anything it's ethically questionable hypno shit. It's chemical dependency. Magneto you don't need him you need fucking lexapro tlirsgenderConsensual ☝️ but still weird. Like. Imagine. You hate him but you can lay your head in his lap and Feel Okay for a little while. This is why they're Like That #marvel#xmen#I feel like that also Jean and Emma#eternity#eternity project#wunderkind#Sumoreaten299329
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilegalileosballsFollowAlso, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom. The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do. This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that. And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum. #personal668,23515,024
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilefeminist-spaceFollowjohanna-swannGIF by castielsseverydayconmanThe ancient texts were true… They DO have a reaction image for everything…1611,27717,861
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodileovidFollowit’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom allbuthumanit's a romcom to YOU. to me it's psychological horror15176,91185,600
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodilekatestewarttFollowNcuti Gatwa
SNL UK Monologue polarity-disturbed[ID: A series of six GIF panels shows Ncuti Gatwa standing on a stage lit in red and purple neon, wearing a sheer dark brown shirt patterned with sparkling silver web-like lines and high-waisted trousers. Vertical signs behind him read “LIVE” and “MUSIC.” White captions appear across each GIF as he speaks to the audience.In the first GIF, he smiles with his hands clasped together as the caption reads, “Millions of you watched me as Eric in ‘Sex Education’...”In the second GIF, he grins and clasped hands while the caption reads, “And maybe 12 of you watched me in ‘Doctor Who’...”In the third GIF, he shrugs with both hands thrown outward as the caption reads, “Hey, maybe that’s why I kept crying.”In the fourth GIF, the caption reads, “And even though I have since regenerated into Billie Piper...”In the fifth GIF, the camera cuts closer to his face as he gives a baffled sideways look. The caption reads, “I don’t understand it either.”In the final GIF, he leans forward intensely with his hands clasped again as the caption reads, “I still love ‘Doctor Who.’ And I got to meet so many crazy characters.” /End ID]191,4343,272
animalpetcelReblogged coldgoldlazarushomophoblaFollowTwice a year in Hawaii the sun passes directly overhead and objects cast no shadow. It’s a phenomenon called “Lahaina Noon”phoenix-theurgeYou're full of shit, Hawaiians are just able to levitate coconut milk.dirty-noonaAs a Native Hawaiian, 1) I thought this happened everywhere, 2) ofc we can levitate coconut milk18819,76037,179
animalpetcelReblogged teatitty70sscifiartFollowNigerian artist and actor Bolaji Badejo, who played the titular Alien in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic#history3313,93120,665
animalpetcelRebloggedtainbocuailngeFollowon a related note i'm thinking again about how whenever i talk about how women are written in fate, once it leaves my immediate circles someone i've never seen before will be like "I was drawn in by the unintentional queerness but I fell off when I realized it's all just otaku wish fulfilment" and how there's swathes of people who have convinced themselves kinoko nasu is like, some kind of bumbling pervert who accidentally stumbles into wokeness through the intersection of his fetishes sometimestainbocuailngei feel like this is almost the same problem as like, people saying lord of the rings is generic fantasy when if you actually read it a lot of the markers of modern fantasyslop aren't actually there at all on a thematic and even plot structural level. like fate has a lot of the outward markers of misogynistic pervert waifu slop so people go in primed to expect misogynistic pervert waifu slop, because that's what it looks like from the outside, but it only looks like slop from the outside because of all the slop trying to jack fate's swag without understanding what made fate so good. #fate series105213
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlapollos-boyfriendFollowi’m gonna cry it’s raining right now and i just passed by a family where both parents were without an umbrella but their kid who couldn’t have been older than like 3-4 was proudly holding this GIANT umbrella whose diameter was as tall (if not taller) as the kid. both the parents were getting absolutely drenched but u could tell the kid was just so happy to have an “adult” task and carry the umbrella themselves and i think that sacrifice is what love is all aboutapollos-boyfriendhastily-made artist’s recreation in the five minutes it took to get to my stopsmol-fangirl-bean149,13965,444
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlenergyprisonFollowHaving a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement 216,85132,901
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirljohntorringtonFollowtoxic codependent familial dynamics this. toxic codependent romances that. what about toxic codependent coworkers. i can’t do my job without this guy here or i’ll kill myself. idonthaveacontract9333,65049,294
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlpokeballvictimized> steam sends me an email> game you wishlisted is on sale!> wow, 30% off!> $50pokeballvictimizedI can wait. You'll be 80% off one of these days. I'll outlast you.6416,01722,807
animalpetcelRebloggedkindauglypikachuiconFollowGifts from Exusiai the New Covenant, Hoshiguma the Breacher, Silverash the Reignfrost, Wang, and Amiya to celebrate the 6.5 anniversary of Arknights!!#Arknights19
animalpetcelReblogged strawberry-crocodiletlirsgenderFollowMaybe one day we can stop moralizing the concept of privilege & everyone will get normaler about being told they have relative privilege over other people. Like literally everyone everywhere in some way. It's fine. Being aware of it can't hurt you tlirsgenderThere's such an endless chorus of outraged "but what if I'm poor? What if I'm autistic" and it's like. Ok. You're not getting this at all let's just start over 22,0173,109
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirltxttletaleFollowonly tangentially related, but--i also can't stand the stance that making transgressive, controversial art is in and of itself politically progressive. there were these guys in 1920s italy you might have heard of who were making avant-garde, abstract, transgressive art too! #meta#media#it should be obvious and yet7220709
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlwillgrahamscockFollowai fatigue willgrahamscockai books, fanfics, ai google assist, ai short form content, ai summaries, ai memes, ai artists averyfortshireI cant even go and see some street food trucks without their damn menus having AI images on it. you have a camera. take photos of your goddamn food. I would rather see a photo of the most weirdly lit burger than the fake monstrosity you're showing me. 215,3157,911
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlatomechFollowCowboy and his saloon gal guy 💙💛#deltarune111,2637,627
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirlpokeblader3FollowI'm serious when I say we gotta give Temmie Chang half the credit for Making Undertale (and Deltarune)She's got an animation degree, I know the art in Undertale gets underappreciated sometimes because it's trying to evoke an older simpler style, but the art in Undertale is legit amazing and without Temmie, none of Toby's ideas would have been able to be realized (without finding some other artist and animator)She deserves more flowers for being the one who made the vast majority of the art assets for an entire game that is one of the most commonly cited games as an influence on others (her style is so beloved and recognizeable, there's a fully complete Undertale fangame emulating it)#undertale#deltarune14917,36033,429
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirl898-deactivated20210515some of y’all bout to be real mad at me. but it must be said. some of the shit u call corny/cringy is actually just genuine/cute/sweet and y’all r just afraid of expressing any type of positive emotion 5163,90781,065
animalpetcelReblogged neapolitangirljson-deruloFollowWhenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"218,45936,248
