#can your science explain that?

[bethanydelleman]

Edit: Turning off reblogs on this post since I've been told it contains misinformation. Also, someone reblogged it with a huge rant and blocked me (as far as I can tell), leaving me unable to reply and with only partial notes and that freaks me out.

So I was telling someone about my boy, Sejong the Great of Joeson, who deserves that title "great" since he was so concerned about illiteracy that he created the easy-to-learn Korean alphabet (Hangul) by himself, but then the nobility got mad about all these reading peasants and tried to ban it. And my friend says, "Oh, I thought illiterate poor people in the past were just lazy."

And I was like, "No, no, you don't want your indentured servants and peasants reading and figuring out how much you are screwing them over. The adapted Chinese characters that Korea had been using took years to learn so it was a natural gatekeeper of knowledge."

And then, because one must be fair, I went on to explain how Europeans locked up their knowledge behind Latin, especially the Bible, and how it was so important that Martin Luther translated it into everyday German, because once you can read the Bible yourself, you can challenge the almost absolute power of the church. Only the rich could afford to learn Latin, so only the rich could read the book that their entire society was allegedly based around.

I do think things are much better today, but why are most scientific papers paywalled and scientists sometimes act as if they should be treated like infallible priests...

Edit: I wanted to end this post on a happy note, but then I started thinking about paywalls and it made me a bit depressed. We still do make our best knowledge less accessible to the average person and I hope we can do more to change that.

[stardustedseas]

okay a couple more wintersentry things because i had more ideas but they didnt fit the vibe of my first post so

bucky showing bob one his favorite restaurant in town that has food to make your eyes roll back but never seems to be super busy or overwhelming. it has an old timey charm, ran by a couple almost as old as bucky himself with decore and vibes to match, it feels like a place suspended in time in the best way possible. okay maybe they dont officially call it a date but with the soft lighting, yummy food and livley but easy conversation all in a little bubble of their own, it sure seems like a date to anyone looking in.

ouuughhhh them both being so touch starved but unused to a soft hand, they easily slip into a routine of lounging around together in silence, just taking in the comfort of another human being. with bucky reading a book with his arm slung over bobs shoulders as he rests agaisnt buckys side and playing a random game, (inspired by this art which i love sm) it quickly becomes both of their fave way to decompress.

STOOOOOP imagine bucky taking bob out for a joy ride around the city on his motorcycle and giving bob his coat (the dream) because 'its chilly and yelena would have my head if you caught a cold',,,,, no other reason,,,,def not because bucky thinks he looks so handsome with wind swept hair, biggest grin and all bundled up in his leather jacket. ougggh or bob showing bucky some of his comfort games (idk how canon this is but i love how everyone seems to agree he enjoys games and would love sdv and animal crossing), even if bucky doesnt fully understand the apeal, he does enjoy watching how excited bob gets to explain the little virtual world he created. its kinda comforting in the way that its so mundane and inconsequential in comparison to their regular one wrong move and youre dead day to day.

bob thinking buckys metal arm is so cool and loving to just look at and touch it. maybe it even helps ground him by tracing along the golden lines, feeling the smooth texture, and focusing on the cold of the vibranium against his sweaty palms instead of the dark thoughts trying to take over. bucky feeling a little better about himself with that, knowing his arm isnt just a tool to harm but can be of help in more ways than lifting something heavy. even though hes killed and hurt many many people, the fact it brings comfort to bob is,,,, nice <3

sobssss them learning to take better care of themselves together, eating food not just because its a necessity but just because it tastes good, using better soaps on their hair to keep it from getting too tangled or greasy as fast, doing simple activities that dont realy have an end goal besides being fun, trying to get a sleep schedule that isnt pure ass, hanging out with people instead of brooding in loneliness.

bucky lowk highk feels bad because bob is so much younger than him with a lot less life experience, still coming into his own, but the connection they have is undeniable.

[shepscapades]

Gehegrgrgrrgehegrrr same person who just asked about the quiz, and i can't remember if I got a 56 or a 55!!! I teeeeeechnically chose to remain anonymous so we may never know but I'm definitely curious now.. but regardless!! I thought the quiz was perfect, it was genuinely so much fun! I wouldn't worry about needing to clear things up, but I don't think anyone would blame you for tweaking a few things if you see fit, it's your au after all :]

OOH yeah yeah, I believe there was… 5 people who got a 55? But I haven’t gone through and checked the names for those or anything. I also think it was a fun balance of silly and challenging,so i'm glad you think so! :D

one of the things that I’m planning on making more obvious at some point is the fact that etho was built for terraforming :) it’s on his official reference sheet and came up a few times in asks i think, but an overwhelming majority picked redstone, for good reason x) it’s one of those silly details that just kinda came up here and there without ever being an important feature of any comic or anything, so it doesn’t surprise me that it got missed. I’ve had a silly comic of an early days ethubs comic that I’ve actually wanted to do for like at least 2 years I think, so it’ll be fun to revisit some of those old ramblings to turn it into a lil comic :D

[call-me-copycat]

As someone who's always loved microbiology and public health...

WHAT IS THIS??

I have wanted to work in public health pretty much my entire life, but it's genuinely getting scary now

This is horrible, is this true? If anyone knows anything else then please please please let me know!!

I have a personal fear of ebola, after having read tons of books on it that were given and (heavily recommended) to me by my favorite teacher in highschool. Not only that but it was the virus I was assigned to study and present and I worked on that research for an entire year as well

Also please absolutely read this book for more info on Ebola! You can read it free here!

If you don't have the time at least watch this video!

[dialalagirl]

If cordelia has purple hair

And karlheinz has white/pinkish hair

Where tf did the gingerness come from??

oh i’ve BEEN thinking about this

first of all: anime genetics are lawless. man’s out here playing eugenics jenga with the bloodlines of hell and thinks “redhead twins” is the natural result of white-pink + purple

second: i firmly believe the gingerness wasn’t inherited, it was manifested. ayato came out of the womb already pissed and the hair just ignited on contact with raw maternal trauma

laito? laito saw the family dynamics and said “i’m going to speedrun coping mechanisms and make it fashion”

their hair is less genetics, more ✨emotional combustion✨

i don’t trust ketchup man. i don’t trust that family tree. and i definitely don’t trust whatever godforsaken vampire punnett square he’s sketching in the void

[superconductivebean]

#1650

what sort of a bullshite fantasy could an author write if they despise magic and think it is not real. it is absolutely real. math is real, and math is magic, as nobody is able to comprehend where has it come from or why. communication at our levels is magic. or lives are, too.

magic is how we explain the existing but inexplicable things.

this silly explanation gets our consciousness a well-deserved rest even if and when it wants to understand why are were not what are we (which it can study but still wont be able to answer, why)

understanding magic as a whoosh at the table in lieu of that, for it to appear a dinner is…

an understanding a fantasy author cannot afford really.

the author of a fantasy book must know realities of life in order to write fantasy—whilst they know whooshes aren't possible, the feel of the perception of magic definitely is present in all of us. denying that very much real, existing, lively feeling is a full equal of denying the existence of the trans folk or the intersex folk or asexual folk— any folk that cannot be comprehended by a small, isolated, poor brain.

a poor brain is prone to delusions. it wants to challenge the universe that somehow created so much forms of life on a single planet for unfathomable number of billions of years. it yells at a cloud that has seen civilisations fall and the birth of this planet for making it see incomprehensible people and to feel something it cant understand.

frankly i do not know why jкr is like this. she is a living rot of a human being: unempathetic twatwaffle who does not deserve a single cent or respect even for being another human. there are things that make people fall so low; to me, it's when they are this senile, and you might already know the next word i want to say about them: you give them a forever rest.

yet i think ignoring her is not a solution. she's a not a small figurine; she's a titan, and titans are fought to death, not left unseen in the dark; it is what i meant by the 'forever rest', however, i do not mean death as the one and only solution. i meant, 'so irrelevant that she is as good as dead'.

how does one achieve this? aggressive economic reforms, i suppose. social policies will follow suit, and as it's economically more viable to have less pointlessly gendered world, jкr and her cronies wouldn't have much of a footing any longer when that inadvertently and inevitably happens.

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

[vandalizingyourschool]

what have I got myself into

[allidrawscomics]

I don't make the rules and I'm not accepting discourse, thank you.

[sirensongster]

I'm thinking of starting a Substack for posting my silly little hobby essays on food and disability advocacy. Would anyone be interested at all?

[scatterpatter]

Feeling normal again

[dull-c]

hang on just one sec give me a minute just one moment hold up I just gotta

[ersatz-introspective]

bcs i'm aware of how i automatically percieve people, i earnestly try to give the benefit of the doubt a lot. i tend to believe people are Actually Just That Dumb™ when they're joking about something, so i try to get ahead of that & tell myself people are joking when they say something stupid, so that i don't look stupid

all i've learnt in doing that, is most of the time, people aren't joking. they actually did mean what they say, & i made the situation 10× worse by laughing at what they said.

not only does it reinforce the idea in my head that people are Dumb so i need to take the reins on literally Everything, but it also leads people to believe i'm making fun of them for saying something silly & talking to me less, when, if i knew it were a genuine thing they thought, i would have gladly explained it without judgement

but i don't really know how to stop treating them as jokes, because what if they ARE joking so they laugh at me for how Stupid i am for taking the bait? i can't handle being made a fool of, i think i'd rather die

[kidspawn]

shoutout to the guy at work who reassured me that me taking my time to find the career I'm actually passionate about is not a bad thing and congratulated me on going back to school after my gap year. what a guy. what a lad. I almost cried. thanks man.

[unnonexistence]

i started doing climate data transcription on Zooniverse today & it's nice. i feel a certain kinship with these 1950s weather observatory scientists who were trying to use up their stack of preprinted-for-the-1940s observation sheets & had to keep crossing out the "4" in the year field. they were doing it until at least 1952

[sga-owns-my-soul]

crying at 7am bc your best friends are Science Brains and try to explain the Cool Concept of Dimensionality to you but you are Too Dumb To Understand