#particular problem

[teaboot]

As someone who grew up with "I'm not going to praise you for doing what's expected of you; that's not being good, that's doing the bare minimum" I want to encourage you to celebrate every little thing you can. Everything that takes energy and effort should be appreciated and you're allowed to be happy about trying.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

In the past month, I’ve seen:

A “community cat” with a fractured jaw, respiratory distress, and massive hemorrhaging after being hit by a car

A kitten with one fractured leg, one severely lacerated, and another degloved (skin removed) with torn ligaments after being found in the street

A young cat unresponsive with an uncontrollably high fever due to a tick-borne disease

A beautiful, well-loved kitten who stopped breathing due to a suspected brain bleed and was unable to be revived while preparing for surgery to repair a shattered pelvis after being hit by a car

Again, all these happened in the past month. And these are just the really bad ones I can think of off the top of my head.

All these cats, except one, are now dead.

But yeah, free-roaming is good for cats. They know how to take care of themselves.

[drowningbpdbodies]

“How are you?” I should be in a straight jacket but unfortunately for the both of us I’m here

[foxflowershrine]

hey, small psa:

fictives are just people. you wouldn't walk up to a person you saw on the news once while they're having dinner and say "holy shit guys it's Jimothy Cumwomble, great job on stopping that armed robbery, sorry your brother died in the process". that would be completely socially unacceptable - you'd be butting in on their life, overstepping not just their boundaries but basic social decency, and bringing up potentially traumatic life events. it's rude, infantilizing, and potentially directly harmful. so why would you do the same to a fictive just because you know, or think you know, their source?

and that's not to say "never bring up a fictive's source to them", plenty of fictives enjoy talking about their sources! but there's a little thing called tact. you can ask whether they're okay with talking about it, or join in on a conversation where they already are, even just a "hey if you don't mind could we chat about your source" would go a long way. but suddenly changing the topic to their source not just without warning but by singling them out as "weird" or "interesting" and saying things about their source that would never be appropriate to say to a singlet about their past is not cool.

TLDR, a fictive existing in a public space is not an excuse to single them out, put a spotlight on them, and bring up potentially traumatic parts of their history just because you think their source is neat. have a little common sense about timing and approach, or just let them exist in peace.

[zu-is-here]

tee hee (*´∇｀*)✿

[vacuously-true]

Need people to stop saying "that graph is misleading" when the y axis doesn't start at 0.

Yes sometimes graphs are indeed intentionally misleading you with a weird y axis. But I have seen on this website, three times in as many days, and referencing different graphics, people say "that graph is misleading" when the y axis not starting at 0 is for real simply the best way to convey that particular data.

"I initially misinterpreted this graph despite the perfectly reasonably and very well labeled y axis" ≠ "this graph is misleading." Your data comprehension skills just need work. That's a you problem.

[dionysiaproductions]

[magicpiano]

I can't stop thinking of an AU where instead of killing Lenore Dove, Snow has her arrested for her 'crimes' and sent to the capitol to become an avox. A fate that, to her at least, is probably much worse.

Maybe Snow has her work in the tribute center too. Every year she can see Haymitch, and he can see her, but they are not able to touch, or talk. No comfort, just a reminder of what you can't have.

It is a threat, how he keeps Haymitch in line. The reminder that he can, at any time, make Lenore Dove's life worse. Haymitch spends years and years trying to think of a way to get her out, to save her, and keeps coming up with nothing. At least until the main trilogy.

Wouldn't that be, like, the worst, most fucked up, and tragic AU?

[psychotrenny]

It's need to be emphasised that relatively little anti-atheism on tumblr meaningfully engages with the actual issues with New Atheism (or any other existing strain of reactionary atheist thought). Most of the rhetoric shows less concern with the main body of the movement and more with superficial shadows of its legacy; informed less by the specific role of New Atheism in supporting US Imperialism and more by the vague recollection that some atheist youtubers in the 2010s were anti-feminist and the vaguer recollection that some atheist intellectuals in the 2000s were Islamophobic. There's little critiquing the ideology and historical role of Hitchens or Dawkins and much more critiquing the personal character of u/edgyneckbeard93. The overall state of anti-atheist thought on tumblr has less in common with this and more in common with this

And on the relatively rare occasions someone following this strain of thought actually references New Atheism in place of "Reddit Atheism", the movement will have it's historical significance and contemporary legacy massively exaggerated while being rhetorically removed it from the broader context it occupies. Because the level of hostility many self "Progressives" on tumblr direct towards atheism as a whole is not remotely proportionate to the impact of it's actually existing reactionary manifestations. Little of this hostility can be described as a misguided but well-meaning reaction to the genuine problems of reactionary atheism. It's largely tumblr users engaging in their favourite practice of promulgating reactionary ideas using progressive language; the existence of reactionary atheist movements (whether referenced directly or not) is just a convenient excuse to engage in the most vulgar forms of anti-atheism without sounding like any other religious reactionary. Responding to critiques of tumblr anti-atheism by saying things like "Erm, you realise New Atheism was bad though" completely misunderstands the context what's being said and why

[secondbeatsongs]

if you write fic there will come a day, btw, when you look back at your WIPs and published works, notice some fun trends that line up with something in your dnd character's backstory, overlay that with the general vibe of whatever's going on in your brain, and go, "ah. fuck."

[mellohiizz]

hiii how are we feeling about the recent wemmbu uu episode?? because im losing my mind im definitely not normal about it

[zivazivc]

my brainrot about these two can be measured in liters

[rosy-crow]

Seph hallucinating his mother protecting him from his father vs Angeal hallucinating his mother blaming him for his father’s death. THESE BOYS GOT ISSUES.

[kelocitta]

You're not glossing over the suffering and trauma the Scavengers have been put through at the hands of Artificer or having them all be ok with it just because they felt sorry about it like so many AUs like to do right?

Who said anything about them feeling sorry about it ����Artificer has a lot of issues but if they were justified is not one of them they're grade A hater

On a more serious note: It depends. I don't like the 'genocidal maniac' style of characterization so they're pretty far from that, so if you consider anything less than that sympathetic you're not gonna find it here. They have a brain and a goal so their destruction is/was a little more targeted and less of a wildfire. They harm a lot of people in the process, and they don't particularly have any qualms with that ('Sometimes you get caught in the crossfire, get over it or punch back' mindset) but they aren't a killer for fun or a sadist or anything like that. As for what others think of them... What they did was still pretty awful, but I imagine its not something a lot of people know about. Or at least don't know that Artificer specifically did it. Not exactly something they're advertising and they also pretty much live in a toxic swamp away from the people who would be most suspicious.

[fairylando]

The way Lando (and Carlos) immediately go back to each other after having a hard time and being down needs to be studied. They probably find comfort in each other due to the fact it reminds them of much simpler days aka their McLaren era. They’re soooo Call it what you want by Taylor swift coded

this is exactly how i look and feel like whenever they try to convince us that they're "just rivals" and nothing more until one of them retires, and then go and do this everytime.

[simplepotatofarmer]

the absolute irony of this addition to one of my posts is that this person later goes on to dehumanize the exact person i was talking about when i said 'even them'.

and that's why you have to be so careful not to let your dislike of someone turn into a willingness to take away their humanity.