#it is a process

[tgmsunmontue]

             There are photos, Ice agreeing to so many photos with newly minted graduates and Bradley lets them all go, fights his way through the crowds to find Mav. He and Ice can stage photos later, there will always be times when they’re in uniform. Just the fact that they’re here is more than enough and he’s so happy that he has had them supporting him every step of the way.

              “Captain Mitchell.”

              “Midshipman Bradshaw. Congratulations. Your father would be very proud. I flew with him you know?”

              Bradley blinks.

              Blinks again.

              Hopes his internal dialogue somehow is being telepathically beamed into Mav’s head.

              You are such a dick. Hopefully his expression does enough to convey his exasperation.

              “Really? I didn’t know that sir.”

              Mav gives him a shit-eating grin and Bradley wishes Ice were there to hit him around the head. Not that he would, not in this setting, but damn he sees why Ice is always so tempted.

(Updating AO3 and re-reading SoS chapter 5...)

[katyspersonal]

I've attempted to make a complete list of Soulsborne characters that should be designed manually (this applies to 'design a mentioned character from the scratch' and 'alter a reused data' all alike), as a self-reference and godDAMNit, it was a MISTAKE. You guys can't even begin to imagine how many Glup Shittos there are in Dark Souls 2 @_@"

Granted, I hate myself enough to eventually draw all of them and have something to say about all of them ofc. I did do that with BB's cast already fdsdfssdf But why there are SO many. help

[boy-gender]

Trans flag hair time! Im doing a baby pink and baby blue split dye. First though...to kill this old red with a color remover...

[kaleidoscope1967eyes]

im really trying to be accepting of myself, but being acespec is yet another damper on my ability to interact with people

[dawngyu]

falling in love is a process. it needs time, it needs care, it needs effort. i’ve never really believed in love at first sight... it’s always been about growing into it, day by day. and reading this… it makes me think you didn’t fall out of love with writing. you just set it down for a while and all that time, writing was waiting, waiting patiently for you to remember how much it’s always meant to you.

I just fell in LOVE are you shakespeare

what nooooooo

this made me blush and rereading what i wrote had me all giddy but i said what i said!

[thesoulache]

“The researchers and trauma experts Bessel A. van der Kolk and Alexander C. McFarlane write, “Reason and objectivity are not the primary determinants of society’s reactions to traumatized people. Rather . . . society’s reactions seem to be primarily conservative impulses in the service of maintaining the beliefs that the world is fundamentally just, that people can be in charge of their lives, and that bad things only happen to people who deserve them.”

Excerpt From “Trauma Stewardship” by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

To discuss the attitudes of society towards traumatized people..

this is a great topic to further research and discuss..

How society views people with disabilities, mental/physical health issues, caregiving needs, special needs of any kind, or just “otherness” .. and how that contributes to various challenges and harmful consequences on various levels ..

And why the service to maintaining these faulty but convenient beliefs?

The cognitive biases and collective attitudes/stigmas that prevent society from recognizing truth, having capacity to perceive larger picture, developing/implementing compassionate and realistic views and responses towards certain groups of humans..

I have even found myself falling into these biases and standpoints/attitudes towards myself and others with disabilities, trauma, or obstacles/barriers to being “normal contributing member of society”..

These prejudices and cognitive biases that seem to take place of reality in relation to “others” are so subtle, insidious and contagious..many don’t realize they have picked them up like a virus from the larger environment..

Our brains are designed to save as much energy as possible by utilizing shortcuts so the reasons behind these cognitive distortions aren’t necessarily insidious but the effects of them, without questioning or critical thinking do become so.

It’s like the basic programming/default mode that the brain comes with is just good enough to survive and navigate the world somewhat successfully as a rough draft but if someone truly wants mastery in life and to exist as more than a default mode character (npc) then they need to utilize critical thinking, mindfulness, and contemplation. In order to get true accuracy, clarity, knowledge, and understanding about anything in reality there needs to be a desire and motivation to operate one’s cognitive function in the upgraded version mode which most people don’t care to do because it requires intentional work, energy, and focus. Humans are also designed to be lazy as long as they can get away with it and don’t like anything to change because that requires extra effort and new ways of thinking and organizing oneself which disrupts the status quo of daily human functioning and affairs.

I digress…

Point being that these cognitive biases are part of the societal conditioning because micro/macro system functions ..

in order for real change to occur to shift the general collective unconscious/subconscious there needs to be a tipping point in the number of individuals who are changing their minds proactively and therefore a/effecting their local ecosystem enough to shift what gets produced and perpetuated in the popular mass culture via our favorite human game, telephone (Chinese whispers).

It is the individuals who are willing to put in the work and exert that extra energy to become masters of reality that help to shape the larger culture in its overall evolution..

Society is a trance that one must actively work towards not falling prey to and correctly re-building in the direction of sanity that the majority will dismiss, criticize, ignore, or actively resist until the tipping point when they can no longer do so successfully and must then acquiesce to the new collective trance that they will probably then attach to and defend just as rigidly as they first resisted. And so it goes..

Another quote from Trauma Stewardship: (as I continue on in my course reading after disrupting myself through extensive contemplation and reflections that certainly isn’t required and nobody but me will likely read/appreciate…BUT that I must express in order to continue on in my human existence and feel okay about doing so)

“Oppression thrives on misunderstanding, alienation, and us/them binaries.”

Aka ignorance, aka operating with lazy cognitive default programs as previously discussed…yes indeedy..the main force behind majority of human evils is not pure psychopathic sadism but ordinary jack-and-jane-type convenience. Oppression can come from a variety of sources but I would argue that the most fundamental and impactful one is the lazy, unregulated operating of one’s cognitive-perceptual system.

[theaftersundown]

the holy grail types of fanfic

[foolfortune]

current mantra

[know-ill-keep-moving]

viktor vs cait innit

[liberalsarecool]

You unlit candle.

[dionysiaproductions]

[devotedlystrangewizard]

i think everyone should program at least once just so you realise just how fucking stupid computers are. because theyre so fucking stupid. a computer wants to be told what to do and exactly that and if you make one typo or forget one detail it starts crying uncontrollably

[mewvore]

Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LESBIANS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

[djungleskogs]

it’s crazy how absolutely blatantly luigi’s constitutional rights are being breached and people seem more concerned about his appearance than a real, scary view of the power CEOs and the healthcare industry have over the legal system. like yeah he looks good in those photos i can appreciate that too but can we focus on the fact that the media is absolutely treating him as if he has already been found guilty. this could happen to anyone. anyone could be arrested over the death of a wealthy, influential person and the precedent being set right now is essentially that the prosecution can run wild and create documentaries declaring your guilt. like that’s really serious and scary.