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Behold: Ponk.

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Behold: Sad Wet Little Guy

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Behold: Little Lighthearted Friend

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Behold: My Little Red Man

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In Response to a Post I Saw

How to explain this- er, I saw a post that a mutual had reblogged. The OP was named 'WizardBreasts', and the reason I am not directly replying to them is that this is more for me to verbalize my own thoughts rather than start a reply chain/argument. Er- if anyone actually sees this, please don't harass the OP.

To get my own plausible biases out of the way: I am a trans nonbinary psychology student, specializing in Cognitive Psychology (studying the way we think) and my passion has always been improving the way the general public thinks about science, psychology, and research

I will briefly sum up the post:

They are the type of person to disagree when someone says 'your brain stops developing at 25' because your brain never stops developing and changing

they think love languages are useful, but they are not real

they disagree with the core concept of trying to fit an entire personality into something compartmentalized: referencing Harry Potter Houses in the particular

Many of the commonly demonized personality disorders are responses to pain

Think about why someone would tell you that you can only make decisions at 25

Psych has been used to oppress people as it was intended to in its conception, don't 'buy into it'

I have a few thoughts about this:

I truly believe this person means well, and I agree with most of what they are saying, to a degree. Most of their qualms stem from people misusing and misunderstanding concepts of psychology and weaponizing them against others. Which is more than valid.

We should question the implications and motives behind everything! It's good practice to make sure we're not ignoring data/evidence and that we're not only seeing one side of an argument!

Psychology has been weaponized against people. I do not think we should blindly accept every conclusion psychologists make (there are so many examples of why that's a horrible idea-). However, if the intention of the OP was to imply that we should dismiss psychology, this would be immensely harmful to our understandings of ourselves and potentially lead to bigger problems for everyone. I believe psychology is the methodical study of a very subjective human experience; it is not perfect by any means. It leaves out a lot of people who aren't the 'norm'. Therefore, we must improve the scope of understanding and make the field more diverse and compassionate. We must also remain careful and critical as it is a powerful tool that can both damage and help.

The points about the 'developing brain' and 'love languages' and 'don't reduce people to neat boxes' are very good, actually. I think a lot of them stem from this desire to not simplify the human experience, which is one of the hardest things we as a greater species must contend with.

I will note my personal take of these topics:

the 25 thing: this is actually a very much contested piece of info in neuroscience and is honestly really misinterpreted. It all depends on how each person defines 'maturity' as specific skills improve at different ages! What this 'fun fact' references is that the development and growth of the frontal lobe sorta peaks out around 25, which is not to say changing stops. Some researchers put the age at 18, and others say closer to 21-25+. My two cents is that, yes, your brain will constantly be changing due to something amazing called 'Plasticity' which basically means your brain will continue making connections and changes to help you function. There are also distinctive changes based on your age and your brain's ability to regulate itself and function, but each stage can be different for each person. So yes, the 25 thing is, at best, a wildly misused and heavily misconstrued measurement of your brain's overall growth, and at worst, a myth weaponized against people.

The love languages: one of my biggest struggles is explaining the usage of language in general. When it comes to very intimate and individual experiences, language is a tool with which we express very complex and personal aspects of ourselves in a way others can attempt to understand. The hard part is that, with labels, many people tend to just group people and dismiss everything else. Which is what I think the OP was originally disagreeing with. I agree with them on this one, love languages can be useful; but to treat them as a be-all-end-all understanding is foolish and reductionist

The Harry Potter Houses Thing: yeah, same as Love Languages, but with tonnes of extra baggage (lookin at you, rowling). In general, I think things like Houses, Factions, Districts (shoutout if you caught those references ig-) can be a fun easy way to short hand personality. However, they fall into a similar trap as love languages in that they can be heavily reductionist and blind people to the fact we are more similar than we are different. IMO, it's sort of a way for people to distinguish themselves, but also find community. But as with every label; it can get out of hand and hurt people.

Demonized Personality Disorders: the ever growing struggle of trying to balance our understandings of disorders, academia, and the general public. I would say this is a huge aspect of why demystifying and being truly transparent about science is such a deep passion of mine. I agree with the OP that Personality Disorders are heavily stigmatized and demonized. Humans fear what we do not understand; and we do not understand a lot of things. We all need to work on being more empathetic and compassionate while balancing it with taking care of ourselves and our own wellbeing. It is a balance that goes both ways with heavy consequences.

Question Everything: No human is without motives, and some motives are more helpful than others. My motive here is to explain why the OP caused me to pause and reflect on my field of study as well as open a monologue so I don't stew in frustration. When it comes to psychology and science as a greater whole: it is impossible to separate human error, desires, and expectations. SO, it is built into the scientific research system that we question every finding and work to find evidence which either supports or detracts from the conclusion at hand. In a way, we are always questioning everything and looking at what evidence we receive and working to improve what we know. I think it's a process everyone should try at least a few times!

Psychology as a Tool of Oppression: Yeah. There's no debate, psychology was used to harm people. So is biology, chemistry, basically every field of learning has been used at one point or another to harm and oppress people. This ties to the idea of questioning motives though, and I think it would be reductive and foolish to try and dismiss everything on an all-or-nothing basis! I am not saying OP is 100% doing this, just that this is what causes my hesitation at the phrase 'don't buy into it'. I think we must be cautious with how we receive information. Nothing is flawless; so we must always work to improve it! Yes, don't 'buy into' everything you read wholesale, but you shouldn't throw away a tool used to understand the complex human experience.

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This episode of Bluey is called: Bluey-mon!

I might make more of this, it depends on my energy. But yeah! This was inspired by my little niece and nephew. They're huge Bluey fans and when I showed them the little comic I made earlier, my niece immediately requested:

Bluey drawing Pokémon in a Pikachu onesie!

I am a man of the people (my niece and nephew) so I got to work on this outline. Maybe one day I'll actually do a full illustration-

The hardest part was getting Bluey's own artstyle correct, she's got such a distinctive way of drawing characters that's very endearing. (Yes, Dragon is one of my favorite episodes)

Fun fact: the Pokémon drawn by Bluey are some of my niece and nephew's favorites!

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This Minisode of Bluey is called: Pokémon!

(Sorry if the quality is low, I'm still figuring out how to properly load images of my pencil drawings)

Anyways! I figured out how to draw Bluey's artstyle consistently (though Chloe threw me for a loop-.) This comic is based on when my then 5 y/o niece discovered Pokémon. I've now doomed her + our family (and by extension, this version of Bluey and co.) to a life dedicated to playing and collecting Pokémon cards!

I think Bluey's favorite would be Moltres or Spectrier. She just seems the type to enjoy powerful Pokémon (and Gen 8 cause it was 2018-19 when the show came out)

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Pov: Heket's First Heretic About to Stomp On a Sheep

I finally got Cult of the Lamb, and I already love it. Managed to get through Leshy first go, but Heket is taking some time.

What I really do enjoy about this though is that I can feel myself improving as I go. The first time, I stumbled into the mini boss with half a heart, but by the second time I had 4 hearts and almost killed it.

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This episode of Bluey is called: Trackpad!

Hahah, yeahhhh, I spent a hour+ of fumbling on my trackpad to draw this!

Shout out to Discord's whiteboard activity ig.

Anyways, this all came about because I realized Bluey and Bugsnax's characters have the same... body type? They're all rectangular nuggets on noodles. And I love them all so much. So here we are, anyways, bye!

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ART FIGHT ATTACK 2

Featuring Princess Fox by BeansAndGravy!

She's done in a Studio Ghibli style and is kinda based on Madame Sullivan from Howl's Moving Castle since they both have a power hungry unhinged leader energy.

I'm still aiming for a drawing a day, so i'm hard at work still.

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Uh- Art Fight time! (Ig)

My first EVER artfight submission was for a friend. I've not drawn a fursona.... really ever except once as a joke? So thanks to my friend for making their character easy to understand and follow.

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I live in awe of people who can naturally use this website. i've been on and off this place for the last year and each day i'm still confounded by how the hell to use this site for anything other than looking at what my mutuals curated for me and then scurrying off.

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Wow, it's so weird to me that people are reposting this all of a sudden.

Not complaining, but it's just further proof to me that I have no clue how this hellsite works-

Anyways, GO PLAY PURRGATORY, PLEASE

It's Natalie from Purrgatory!

love her.

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WIP that I may never finish because I got sad

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I am not immune to our flag means death brainrot. This is now my phone case painting for this year, can you guess which ship it is? (Cmon, how could I, a latine enby, resist the raw power of Jim. And Oluwnde is just too wonderful a character to not love. I need them to be endgame or I will perish.)

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an expert analysis of my five day old chicks

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Hey can we queers please remember that the rural queer experience has unique challenges thanks