#saving this for future reference

[mooncaps]

Critical Thinking Tips

1. Did you actually watch the video you want to discuss or did you just look at the thumbnail and assume you knew what it was about?

2. Did you actually read the article you want to discuss or did you just look at the headline and assume you knew what it was about?

3. Who told you about this thing? What's the source of this information, how well do you know them, and why do they deserve your trust?

4. How likely is it that this one source is the only one that knows a big piece of information that nobody else is talking about?

5. Is getting outraged or depressed about this actually going to be helpful?

6. Are you assuming the worst explanation for something that might just be regular nonsense?

7. Is this actually hurting anyone or do you just think it's weird?

8. Are you assuming a generalization about an entire group is true about every single member?

9. Are you deciding that harmful phobias and stereotypes are actually okay if they're against people you don't like?

10. How likely is it that someone in a desperate situation is going to think the solution to their problems is sending messages to low-influence strangers on Tumblr?

Feel free to add more...

[herukaizaa]

𝓥𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮 𝓛𝓲𝓼𝓽.

v.1: star student

verse takes place canonically in season 1, or before the series starts. zane is the top student in duel academy and is marking himself as their best student to date. he is glorified as a future pro duelist that is sure to be one of the greatest. despite his status, atticus' absence as well as his own, weak brother enrolling the academy, seems to weigh on him from time to time.

v.2: hell kaiser

verse takes place canonically during season 2. after sustaining a major blow to his reputation in the form of 10 straight losses in his career and losing out on many sponsorships, zane's outlook and character completely changed. taking on an edgy approach, talking about enduring pain and displaying a ruthless, cold and disrespecting disposition - he now adopted the moniker 'hell kaiser' and strives for nothing, but victory.

v.3: weakened

season 3 timeline - both before and during the trip to the other world. having realized his weakened composition, zane has calmed down significantly from his pro dueling days, and is looking to land one final duel, to mark his legacy. in his concern for the safety of people in duel academy, he's willing to endure pain to complete necessary duels. he's not too sure where he stands, between the top student zane and hell kaiser. he is both, but in his desperation, also neither.

v.4: second life

post-season 3, and season 4 onwards timeline. having been revived unexplainably, zane has for some reason, received a second shot at life. with his need to recover, zane abstained from dueling unless the situation was dire enough to force his hand. but his priorities now lay in his younger brother, syrus.

v.5: cyber legacy

set post-season 4's timeline. with the promise to start again with a new deck and plenty of recovery time taken, zane reclaimed his position as a pro duelist. owing his status and goal to the cyber arts and to his brother's progression, zane strives to create a new pro league, in which he too is a participant, to honor his past. he soon becomes an accomplished and world-renowned duelist, enough to be marked in days to come (arc-v). but for now - the new pro league is what he focuses on.

[purpleglitch]

Do you need sapnap too?

Not for this assignment but thank you for the references anyway!! he's just a little guy,,,,,,,, 😢💕

(crying every time i see that dreamnap photo oughhhh)

[satyr-hole]

Charcoal and steel

BARKING FOR YOU VERY LOUDLY

[kalkydra]

lol

[caiman-the-chimera]

Got this empty Pokémon tin case thing from my brother cuz he’s moving out, what should I put in it/use it for?

[mooncaps]

How many times can I break before I stop putting myself back together?

*sighs, grabs duct tape*

I guess at least one more.

[freakasaurus-rex]

sneep…linguisneeps?

*sneepsnorp begins bouncing around the inbox*

sneepfix and snorpfix used as affixes! sneep and snorp can also be base, means ‘to do like sneepsnorp’!

sneepsnorp belongs in many parts of sneep! often exclamation, if lacking additional snorptext.

sneepsnorp only translates as much as sneep thinks necessary for understanding, since sneep knows not everyone sneeps snorpish! sneepsnorp may have additional helpful narration *in asterisks, generally denoting actions or feelings* and not require any translation when sneep’s meaning can be inferred!

*sneepsnorp snorps on happily. sneep has somehow procured a whiteboard (?) during their mini lecture*

oh how wonderful! what an interesting language you have, sneepsnorp. pit-pats for such a good demonstration

[mooncaps]

You can hurt blorbos. It is always morally neutral. They don't exist.

Equally, love and acceptance for blorbos doesn't automatically make you a good person. They don't exist. If you don't love and accept real people then your acceptance of blorbos weighs nothing.

And especially if you harm or harass real people over what they've "done" to fake people, you need to log off and re-evaluate your choices.

Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.

[purpleglitch]

hiii! on the topic of sketchbooks i found this vid a couple days ago and it was so interesting!! its a very pretty sketchbook but what i like is how the person explains their thoughts behind their studies, and how they actually use the sketchbook as a "learning tool". it made got me very motivated to try some stuff tbh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7REkgRr20I

HII OMG THANK YOU TAIZI 💕 this is very helpful <33 i'm getting excited to use the sketchbook now 👁

[shittybraindrawings]

[kathaynesart]

psst where can i find replica donnie refs

I gotchu, fam!

Early-Mid 20's Replica Donnie

Early 30's Replica Donnie

I apologize for so many inconsistencies. There's plenty considering I've been drawing this guy with little to no self-ref over the past year and a half (especially that dang hood of his). So take it all with a grain of salt. <3

[melancholic-rowen]

Leo's references are finally here!!

[scribz-ag24]

clebi wants to get everyone matching scarves bc it would be cute.

I love this idea, we love the pmd world scarves

[anonf1writer]

[deludedplatypus]

I've never seen the mental health one before! This should be everywhere!!! I was dealing with severe anxiety for eight years before I went to the doctor because I thought everyone had that, and then he didn't believe me and told me to get off social media (I didn't have any accounts back then). This scale would've been so helpful as my "normal" was a 7 or 8 and my "wow, feeling way more relaxed than normal" was a 6.

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”