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today i watched mickey 17 and discovered my unhinged teenage obsession with rob pattison is alive and well

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There's actually a whole chapter dedicated to citing studies like this in "Bi: The hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality", where the researcher suggests that the "default" state of mating dynamics might be bisexuality and not heterosexuality.

She talks about some really interesting evidence, I believe it was with some sort of chimp, where the scientists of the study argue that sex may have more than just the reproductive function in nature. Because across species (and also in chimp species) different studies have gathered evidence that sex is practiced as mediation, as a bargaining chip, as a way to build trust, and most importantly, just because it's fun and feels good for the animal. Reproduction is just one more of those functions.

The researcher that wrote the book mentioned that in hindsight, it's kind of dumb to assume that the only animals that mate for reproduction are the only ones that get to mate at all because first, sexual selection is one of the filters of evolution but it doesn't prevent the "unselected" animals from having sex at all, and second, it's a natural urge (as proved by the studies in citation) that is satisfied by the act of sex in itself, not the act of reproduction. Sort of how when you're really hungry, it doesn't matter what you eat, so long as you eat something. Or on the flip side, when you're not hungry but wanna eat something, and since you can afford to be picky, you eat what you actually like. Same with animals and sex. When it's not about reproduction (because sex doesn't go away whether there's reproductive partners or not), animals just. fool around with each other for no other reason than that they simply want to. Hence, there's good reason to believe some animals' default, particularly among mammals, is to be bi.

Random fact: They did a study on courtship and mating behavior of American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in the early 1980's. This study revealed that, among other things, the majority of alligator sex is gay

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Yes!!! Your local representatives WANT you to go to local council meetings. That's what those meetings are for!

You know, I used to work in public participation and social innovation. I was a mediator and third-party facilitator for public participation processes, but only in environmental and sustainability stuff. I walked away because I was fucking sick and tired of people complaining that 'tHiNgS neVerR cHaNGE, WhERe Do OUr TAxEs gO???' while attending a total of zero (0) public participation and consultation events. And all the while, the world caught on more and more fire, so I was like, you know what? You can choke, hope y'all know how to swim because you'll need it smh.

It's comforting to see that in the very least and despite the absolute shitfest that is the global political arena, now people seem to be more inclined to engage in their civic life.

So yes! Go to your council meetings!

Go to your city council meetings

I decided to do my civic duty and start going to my local city council meetings, in the hope of staying more informed about local issues, and affecting the things I can actually affect.

I was one of two people in the audience. Things that happened tonight:

-Only other lady in the audience got up at the end during the public comment period and gave an absolutely scathing rant about Trump, comparing his actions to Nazi Germany and predicting a new Holocaust. I am officially in love with her.

-Apparently all the council people and Mayor were speculating about who I was, because they know everyone who usually shows up and I was a stranger. (Someone thought I was a reporter 😂).

-I got waylaid afterwards. They are starved for attention & participation. One of the councilwomen literally pressed her business card on me and told me about the secret meeting prior to the council meeting, which isn't on their website but is still open to the public. (She's the one who told me her colleague had accused me of being a reporter 😂)

-I got introduced around the room to several additional people, and got to complain about the shitty sidewalks in my neighborhood. They said they would look into it!

Anyways- positive experience overall; do recommend. If nothing else, our city broadcasts the meetings on local TV and yours may too; you can stay informed that way. But going in person gets your face known, and means you can actually have an effect.

Small positive change is still positive change.

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owee thanks for the tag! I haven't done one of these in ages haha. Ok, let's see.

Last Song: Does the entirety of EPIC: The Musical count? lol. I've had it on loop for the last month, but especially Dangerous.

Favorite Color: purple 💜

Last Movie: I don't think I've watched a movie in a while. I think the last one was Wicked?

TV Show: DANDADAN. Omg I am so obsessed over it.

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: spicy 😌

Relationship: poly but only in theory because I'm an awkward weirdo :')

Last Thing I Googled: "How many generations are there in 150 years?" I was building a family tree for a character haha.

Latest Obsession: It was probably DanDaDan. Takes a lot for me to get obsessed over stuff, but DDD is the last thing that made me read on AO3 again.

Looking Forward To: Returning to my writing projects! I had to take a year hiatus because of life and now I'm almost done with all the horrible adult stuff I needed to do. So hopefully, there will be peace soon and I will be able to keep writing.

Thanks for the tag! @dramaticwriter

Uhhh I haven't been here in the longest time so idk whom to tag, really. I guess @fullscoreshenanigans @angriershorterperson @sketchy-panda and whoever wants to jump on the bandwagon.

10 people I want to know better tag game; thanks for the tag @poetrusic1959 !!

Last Song: Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying by Labi Siffre (I love this song so much)

Favorite Color: Green!! I usually prefer darker greens but I also like sage green

Last Movie: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)! It was a rewatch because I wanted to make my friend experience the film and it was my turn for movie night. Anyway I recommend it if you like musicals :)

Last TV Show: I binge watched season 3 of The Bear at the beginning of the month! (Let’s ignore me watching Squid Game 2 for yaoi just to find out there wasn’t any)

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Love all of these, but spicy is my fav! I’m always finding a way to make my food spicier because I love the pain I guess lmao

Relationship: Single! (currently crushing but shhhh)

Last Thing I Googled: “was take out a thing in 1981” …I was researching for my fic, don’t judge me. The answer was yes btw

Latest Obsession: Maybe Ethiopian music? Maybe reading? Maybe Jeopardy? I’m kind of between obsessions right now

Looking Forward To: Finishing all of my WIPs! I’m not sure when I’ll get them done (if ever), but I can’t wait to have them out in the world for people to read!

No pressure tags: @schofielded @neil-perrys-suicidal-tendencies @neilperryismine @vinesandvellichor @good--merits-accumulated @scriptscraps @stirlinqs + anyone who wants to join!!

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IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill

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Men use “I’m just a man” to cheat on their wives. Odysseus uses “I’m just a man” to kill, slay and torture people to get back to HIS wife. They are not the same.

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buying him time

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father how i've longed to see you!

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I binged all of Pantheon amd I have Thoughts.

ok first of all. w h a t t h e f u c k

this show was a mindfuck and like, you know it is because the premise is one of those jargon-heavy sci fis. but you STILL have NO IDEA how mindfuck-y it will get

that being said, I love the premise and the characters, but I feel like the execution kinda flopped.

Spoilers ahead.

I feel a show like Pantheon really lent itself to go buckwild with the animation, especially because you're dealing with digital realities and that sort of thing. In more skilled hands, this show would have been INSANE to watch. I just keep thinking like, what if someone like Fortiche or Science Saru had done this. Indie animation would have had better ideas on how to stick the landing than the standard, boring marvel-like animation.

Then, the story. I know it got canceled and props to the production team for hardly letting it show but my issue with it is in how it handled the characters throughout the show.

So, Pantheon's premise is that there is a company inventing technology to upload brains to the cloud. But there is a catch. They have to laser off your brain in order to do it, so you effectively die, but then you get to live forever digitally. The other catch is that your brain technically still behaves like a brain and it degenerates, making you worse than mortal because as a computer, your brain wears off faster and you end up like a braindead lump for the rest of eternity. So there's this wild goose chase to figure out how perfect the method to save the people that have been uploaded so far, and avoid the apocalypse of these uploaded people suddenly having enough power to end humanity because they're like more powerful than AI or anything ever invented. And at the center of this, there are Maddie and Caspian, two prodigy teenagers. One is the daughter of the second-ever uploaded person who everyone thought was dead. The second is the actual fucking clone of the guy who invented the technology and is now dead/frozen in criogenesis(who is one of the big bads of the show) and was birthed specifically to finish the bad guy's life work.

The premise is super good but the problem is that the show takes itself too seriously.

Off the bat, the tone of the show is too serious without it needing it to be. It hits you with all this jargon instead of easing you into it. It tries too hard to leave the impression it is an intelligent show—and it is, it's just that it does a lot of telling and not a lot of showing at the beginning.

It also tries very hard to catch you off guard with the plot twists when you can smell them MILES away because of how obvious the context clues are and this makes the pacing be slow and even boring at times. But this is mostly an issue in the first season.

The second season's problem is that it has to rush to tie up what looks like four seasons worth of content in 8 episodes, so for a show that was already plot-dense, this leaves absolutely no breathing room for the characters.

Everything is justified by the plot and the moral dilemma it tries to present. The characters, especially Maddie and her mother, and then later on Caspian and Maddie, are vehicles for this dilemma but without tying them believably to realistic human motivation. You could basically plug in any other person and you would wound up in the same situation because they are just that, vehicles that take a guess on how anyone would react without giving them individuality.

Like pretty messed up shit keeps happening to Maddie and Caspian all the fucking time but you don't have time to process it because these poor kids are always pushed to the next event in the plot and their emotions come off as "this messed up thing happened, this is how a person in this situation should feel. you get three seconds before becoming a plot device again, chop chop". There is not one single moment of introspection or buckling under the pressure.

Which brings me to my biggest issue: The romance between Maddie and Caspian.

There was ONE, maybe two moments in all of season 1, where you could tell that these kids would prob end up together. One. And when I tell you that it happens out of nowhere in S2, it truly happens out of nowhere. Like, there were so many opportunities prior to them "confessing" their feelings to each other to build the rapport, and it just doesn't happen. Caspian and Maddie are constantly at opposite ends of a moral spectrum, but when they clash, the show tends to ignore the fact that have feelings for each other. There is not enough interpersonal conflict and this is a pity because the characters themselves have the potential to be wonderfully contradictory and flawed but they're just vehicles for the dilemma.

It is also a pity because of the way the show ends. Especially because of how the show ends. The satisfaction of the end hinged on the relationship between Maddie and Caspian, which is not well executed because other than a few "tell-not-show" scenes, you can hardly tell they're in love. So the ending, while mindfucking and really cool, is simply not as satisfactory as it could have been. It's not a "in all the worlds, in all the timelines, only you could show me this" moment, when that's actually what it's trying to sell you.

All in all, I do still recommend it because it's a very brainy show and the characters still do have a moment or two that make them endearing. The ending is buckwild, and it is worth a watch.

That being said, I know that the show is based on "The Hidden Girl and Other Stories," but the show actually fleshes things out more than the short stories.

Anyway, I hope this show eventually gets more traction so that I can have my fill of character-driven conflict on AO3 lol.

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Quick hijack because I'm a little obsessed over data lol, but yep, it's funny that the 1 to 10 range isn't aggregated (but it's an interesting chart nonetheless). As it is, it looks like the most common number of comments you can expect to get per work is 0, between 11 and 20, or 2. But actually, the most common after 0 is probably just 2 (because if you aggregate the frequency, the 1 to 10 range surpasses even 0).

The jump on 11 to 20 is probably just because of the aggregation and it looks like a big jump, but that's just because the 1 to 10 range is not aggregated itself. If it were, that would have the biggest comment frequency. So, in general, just from looking at how the 1 to 10 range behaves, it is very unlikely that a single value between 11 and 20 is larger than 2 (because of the aggregation), which means 2 is probably the most common number.

I think what the chart is saying is that in general, the most common number of comments per work is 2, and that among all ranges, the 1 to 10 comments per work is the most common.

tl;dr: the jump in the 11 to 20 range is a distraction. Other than zero, the most frequent number of comments you might expect in a work on AO3 is actually 2.

I got curious a minute ago and pulled some AO3 numbers.

I'm too lazy to fiddle with the bucket sizes to make this look better.

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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Let's play a game called "I Am Not American So Let's Try To Pretend the US Doesn't Exist for 4 years as it falls into a fascist, technocratic, theist dictatorship that not even the depths of hell could fathom so it doesn't happen to us because good god do they not SEE how it looks from here. Do they truly not see what they're doing? it's like driving past a car crash good god, you canNOT look away. Did he really. did he. did elon musk really deadass do the nazi salute? ?? did trump really sit the tech oligarchs BEFORE the actual cabinet he chose? ? oh my god. oh wow. no no look the other way, he's looking at us. pretend you don't see him before he wants to rename us."

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Ppl love to say “we are living in Orwell’s 1984!!!” about everything but the shift from Trump starting the idea of a tiktok ban to “Trump is saving tiktok!” is theeee most egregious example of doublethink I’ve ever seen in real life like it’s embarrassing lmao

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is anyone else obsessed with the lil frog that's in all the dtmf promotion? he's so adorable 🥺🥺🥺🇵🇷

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