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screampotato · 11 hours
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A lot of showrunners and movie directors need to hear this. If you crank up the peril too high and for too long, we just check out and it all becomes "meh".
I really want to tell the Doctor Who showrunners that an episode doesn't need to have "stakes higher than ever before" to be good. In fact I'd argue that the best episodes affect only like 5 people. No destruction of a whole planet/galaxy/universe necessary
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screampotato · 11 hours
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you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’
so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over
to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people
to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole
i’m proud of y’all.
it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.
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screampotato · 14 hours
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Finished cardboard bonnethead shark
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screampotato · 16 hours
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As someone who has memory issues, I started to feel like my memory was getting worse in my 30s and got quite worried about it. I've since come to the conclusion that my episodic memory is good for maybe 15-20 years' worth of memories, so if there are more than that, some get pushed out. I identify strongly with the character "me" from Doctor Who, who is immortal, but with a human memory which doesn't have the capacity to remember an immortal life.
It is what it is. In my case, I feel it's related to really good memory powers in other areas, mostly to do with retaining visual and spatial details. But in case anyone else is worried their memory is getting worse as they get older - it might not be getting worse, it might just be because you've got more past to remember.
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screampotato · 17 hours
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You think you have some idea how old Weird Al is and then you watch Airplane!
i want everyone who ever has a poor judgement of age to know that weird al is older than jack black by a decade
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screampotato · 17 hours
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We all see ourselves as the architect and our partner as the raccoon.
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screampotato · 1 day
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There's a lot of truth in this, for the vast majority - but there are also people who don't crave intimacy, who are naturally solitary souls. They may be perfectly well disposed towards people and wish them well, but they don't want them close. And that's still a way of being human.
We try to understand each other by projecting our own experiences, but it doesn't always work.
I'm really into science stuff and I'm curious the scientific reasons someone is aro or ace when so many people say the reason we are human is to have sex or romance? I don't believe that's true, I think we just..kinda exist. No purpose really
I never really understood the 'makes us human' argument. Animals have sex, and they do things like courtships and mate for life. So I'm not sure how any of that makes us unique or more human. (We are, one the other hand, the only animals that cook our own food.)
The science itself is interesting though. It seems like a number of factors play a role in determining sexual/romantic orientation and it seems to be a combination of nature and nurture. But there's also still a lot we simply don't know. I tend to agree with we're just existing though. We're just part of the natural diversity that is, and I think that's cool.
All the best!
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screampotato · 1 day
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The human race as a whole has a need for sex, in order to keep existing. But like a lot of other species, we don't need every individual to participate in that. Take bees: in a hive of 50k individuals, maybe about 8000 will be fertile males, and only one at a time will be a fertile female. The rest don't breed at all. But they all have a role to play in the life of the hive.
Human beings don't have rigid roles like bees. Instead, we have a wide diversity of abilities, interests, drives and motivations, so that in any given group of humans, we can all take on different roles to suit the individuals and the needs of the group. It makes us incredibly adaptable and powerful and I mean, you can't argue with success.
So the idea that, because the species as a whole needs to reproduce, every single individual therefore needs to be motivated by sex and romance, is silly. There's enough breeding capacity to keep the species going, just among the people who are motivated to have children. Even if there's quite a big percentage who are focused on other things, it's not any kind of problem and brings its own advantages.
Asexuality and aromanticism are just another example of the diversity that makes human beings so adaptable.
I'm really into science stuff and I'm curious the scientific reasons someone is aro or ace when so many people say the reason we are human is to have sex or romance? I don't believe that's true, I think we just..kinda exist. No purpose really
I never really understood the 'makes us human' argument. Animals have sex, and they do things like courtships and mate for life. So I'm not sure how any of that makes us unique or more human. (We are, one the other hand, the only animals that cook our own food.)
The science itself is interesting though. It seems like a number of factors play a role in determining sexual/romantic orientation and it seems to be a combination of nature and nurture. But there's also still a lot we simply don't know. I tend to agree with we're just existing though. We're just part of the natural diversity that is, and I think that's cool.
All the best!
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screampotato · 1 day
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Do you ever feel that music is speaking to you in a language you understand perfectly but don't speak a word of?
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screampotato · 1 day
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I love all their noises, but the clucking or booping as they move around is my favourite.
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screampotato · 1 day
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This is insane. Who has like £11k spare every month to save? What is this based on?
People really do like to set up impossible standards just to make people feel bad about themselves.
I like to tell myself I'm good for the economy, because saving, whatever else it might be, is BAD for the economy. I'm keeping my money in circulation!
I found this savings chart on instagram with no source and have no clue how realistic it is.
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screampotato · 1 day
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Massive bulbous head. Buttocks like a horse. Strangely elongated nose. And boobs. Nothing else has boobs. Boobs are weird.
Im gonna be real with you I don’t see why the platypus is seen as such a weird animal when I think there’s far more fucked up things on this planet. It is a very weird MAMMAL, yes- it’s just that most people default to mammals (and perhaps sometimes avian reptiles) when the word “animal” is uttered. Some people don’t even know INSECTS, the most common animal, are animals, on account of them being small and boneless. So of course they think a mammal that evolved a beak and venom is weird! They can’t even process what a Portuguese Man O’War is.
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screampotato · 1 day
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I think we are significantly weirder than platypuses. Weird bald long-legged ape things with googly eyes.
Im gonna be real with you I don’t see why the platypus is seen as such a weird animal when I think there’s far more fucked up things on this planet. It is a very weird MAMMAL, yes- it’s just that most people default to mammals (and perhaps sometimes avian reptiles) when the word “animal” is uttered. Some people don’t even know INSECTS, the most common animal, are animals, on account of them being small and boneless. So of course they think a mammal that evolved a beak and venom is weird! They can’t even process what a Portuguese Man O’War is.
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screampotato · 2 days
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It's not really about disgust for me, it's about safety. I'm happy to eat cheese that had mould cut off, as mould is a natural part of making cheese, but I won't eat bread that has had mould cut off because to my knowledge that's a bit risky. Hair in soup is annoying but nbd if I or someone in my family made it, but hair in soup in a restaurant is a sign of bad food hygiene and will really bother me.
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screampotato · 3 days
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This is amazing. I would watch this show. The funny thing is that the title "queer eye for the straight guy" still works
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screampotato · 3 days
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I had never heard of Dungeon Meshi until Horse Guy tried to use a reference to it to deflect from the pictures in his To Be Sorted folder, which left me with bad associations to the name.
However, I watched the first episode of the anime yesterday and it really is very good.
Existing on tumblr the past few weeks
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screampotato · 3 days
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But they told him, "Beware, do not fly too close to the sun." The blaze will surely melt those wings. But alas, he fell, his cries swallowed by the sea.
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