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2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

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Today I was trying to chat up this girl standing with her friend at a lesbian bar and said “oh are you two together?” meaning were you friends before being next to each other at this bar and one turns to the other and goes with all the venom of a black mamba snake “I don’t know Cara, are we?” and I was like you know what? not my table

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I often say I know less now than I knew before I got a bachelor's degree in Psychology and I stand by it. Every day for those four years was just "remember Established Fact? Simply not true" and we'd go "so how do we know what IS true?" and they'd say "you kinda don't but you can do a lot of math about it and then guess. The math was also just made up by some guy and doesn't work a lot of the time. Exams are on friday don't forget to learn these five chapters of half-facts and ONE useful skill."

It was still pretty fun though. I am now an English major.

psychology courses will really be like

dr. beebo bongo discovered the bongo effect where if you play a ukelele at a low volume overlaid with any given nic cage movie you'll get an uncontrollable jerk in your left pinky finger. the study became famous however dr. beebo bongo later admitted he made the whole thing up for fun

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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, A dog and her puppies

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One thing about Van Gogh that people don't talk about is how brilliantly he uses texture in his artwork. The way he uses oil paint is so three dimensional, and he's so aware of it and uses it to his full advantage to add depth and texture. It's not as obvious in photographs or digital versions of his paintings, which is a damn shame because once you see them in person you realize how much it adds to them. There's one in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam called The Sower with a tree cutting through the foreground, and the majority of the trunk is one flat stroke of paint, ending with a knot in the trunk made bulbous by the end of a brush stroke that was never smoothed out. One of his paintings in the Met, Wheat Field With Cypresses, has the brush strokes very choppy on the top of the wheat, but smooth and almost textureless on the stalks. It's one of the things that I think really separates him from the other artists of the period.

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We're so honored to present yet another incredible animatic by Danica Dickison: the introduction of the Man in Black!

Adapted from The Wizard, The Witch and The Wild One, Ep. 2: The Naming of Things https://www.patreon.com/posts/public-episode-83080272

You can find Danica and her work here:

https://www.instagram.com/lilevergreen

https://x.com/lilevergreen1

https://danicadickison.wixsite.com/website

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My protest sign that I knew I had to make when I listened to episode 46:

(due to space I had to amend the original quote slightly)

'For truly, while any yet are captured, how can any be free?'

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OLLA vogala hebban nestas?? in deze economie??!?

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I just started watching Trauma Dump with Lou Wilson, and Y'all, it needs to be said, this is GENIUS.

Trauma!Lou is the inverse of Host!Vic on VIP. He's unserious, glib, flippant. He's dedicated to creating Sick Rad Dope Fun Mental Health Content. He's a Walking Facade of Party Energy, approaching the deeply personal process of self discovery with no sense of transparency or gravitas whatsoever.

Anyone who's seen Lou in anything - Dropout, Crit Role, WBN, even Kimmel - knows he's a damn good actor and a magnetic personality. This project tests our understanding of Lou and asks us what we think we're seeing.

Vic said in an interview (which I can't find now, unfortunately) that they've encountered people who believe Host!Vic is the real Vic, and they have to explain that just because a character has their name doesn't mean it's Really Them. VIP is improv, but there's two comedians bouncing off each other in that environment. By contrast, Trauma Dump is also improv, but Lou's the only actor on set. Paul is, presumably, just doing his job. (unless he's an actor playing a therapist, but that's a whole different level of meta I'm not equipped to dig into here.)

The premise is awkward in its own right: Lou says he wants to get profound, but then dodges like his life depends on it. Paul is certainly taking the situation seriously; he's not sure whether he's meant to find Lou's behavior funny or not. It's tonally bizarre in a way that rhymes with VIP but also subverts the expectations of improv. You can already see the confusion in youtube comments, two hours or so after the stream. "This whole thing is a bit, right?"

This bit's game, to borrow a term from improv, is the gap between Lou and Paul, and How Lou works to maintain the gap while Paul works to close it. How much of Trauma Dump is Paul using his expertise on a fictional character, and how much of it is actually catching The Actor Lou Wilson off guard?

Actors put pieces of themselves into the characters they play; their perspectives and experiences. It's part of the mechanism of acting. Therapists remove their personal biases and feelings from their work environments; it's part of the mechanism of therapy. With these facts in mind, where are the lines? Where does Lou Wilson (sick rad awesome fun PTSDTF bro) end, and Lou Wilson (Actor and Human Person Who Exists) begin? We genuinely don't know, and that's what makes it an incredible soup of funny, scary, surreal, and magnetic.

I really, really hope this turns into a series.

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My mom’s gay best friend who was like my live-in nanny when I was a kid used to get super into helping me gag everyone with my school projects like one time in first grade we had to do a craft for the 100th day of school and bring it in to show the class and he helped me hot glue 100 pennies to a wooden board that we’d coated with metallic spraypaint with the pennies arranged to spell out “100” and then we attached a strand of 100 battery powered LED lights to it and it came out so crazy I just know these other kids were mad as fuck when I showed up with it

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They don’t actually give you an encyclopedic knowledge of something when you get in a degree in it. They give you the skill to learn more about it on your own.

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Ayo Edebiri | Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" | Vogue | May 05, 2025 | 📷 Xavier Scott Marshall

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Once your eyes have been opened you can read lesbianism into any media. At a certain point it doesn’t even take effort it comes naturally

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If I had my looks and also had the ability to read social cues I'd be unstoppable but no I have the fumbling bad bitches disorder that makes me fumble bad bitches. To humble me

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it's called a museum because me 'n' u see 'em

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disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

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one thing about me is that I'm looking stuff up. you mentioned something and I don't know it? I am pulling out my phone and googling that shit. an actor? theoretical physics? a world leader? a vocabulary word? I am on the wikipedia page as we speak