#Three Year Seperation

[lockhartandlych]

seeing people utterly fucking abuse corn makes me feel like im going insane

PEOPLE WILL GET THREE DINKY LITTLE CORN PLANTS AT THE GARDEN STORE, BURY THEM IN LIFELESS POTTING SOIL AND THEN ACT SURPRISED WHEN THEY START STRUGGLING

LIKE DUDE

DUDE

DUDE

CORN WAS NEVER A SOLITARY PLANT

IT'S BEEN CAREFULLY BRED AND DOMESTICATED OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO HAVE A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS SISTERS AND YOU ARE DEPRIVING IT OF THAT AND THEN ACTING SURPRISED WHEN IT CANT GROW

PLEASE. IM BEGGING YOU. IM ON MY FUCKING KNEES. YOU HAVE COLONIST BRAINWORMS. STOP IT WITH THE MONOCULTURES.

PLANT SOME FUCKING BEANS AND SQUASH!!!!

AND STOP PLANTING THEM SO CLOSE TOGETHER.

[rosemary-is-in-pesterquest]

For someone gassing up reading comp, reread your own post? YOU said she's okay with not seeing her friend but was groveling for her crush 🥲 Rosemary stans isolate their ship from other relationships almost as much as canon does.

Because Kanaya was gonna stay behind and possibly not see her again, in comparison to the eventual reunion with her friends after the trip. I think you’re taking a little joke too seriously anon

[aturinfortheworse]

Discussions of empathy always feel very strange to me, even beyond the complicating factor of people saying empathy when they mean compassion.

And I think it's because empathy encompasses a range of mental and emotional skills. Like I have dear friends who are low-empathy in the sense that they do not readily share other people's emotions. But they are not unempathetic, because they still have the learned skills of considering other people's points of view and connecting other people's experiences to their own experience.

And when I look at my own experiences, there are times when I feel extremely unempathetic, like not just the absence of empathy but the opposite of it: an emotional pushing away from what the other person is feeling. But I can still use the mental skills of empathy in those situations: I can listen to and consider the other person's needs, I can draw parallels to my own life, I can reflect other people's feelings back to them with compassionate understanding.

So then when people say "Some people just don't experience empathy!" it gets confusing because yes, many people lack that emotional response or have various constraints like feeling empathy for animals and objects but not for people—but being incapable of using the mental skills is clearly a failure to learn (a failure of teaching) that can be corrected if it's helpful to do so. I've seen no shortage of parents and educators working with children or students with intellectual disabilities, going through the steps of teaching empathy, which is something all of us need/ed to be taught at some stage.

Which, to be clear, is not the same as teaching compassion or morality, though obviously it helps a lot with those things. It's sitting with people and saying "When you said that, it made me feel sad" and "You know how you hate the rain? I feel like that about ticking clocks." and "Why do you think X is behaving that way? Hm no, I don't think they hate you. I was thinking they might be really tired today."

And like it's not a competition but I think those skills are more essential than the emotional response of sharing other people's feelings. Purely emotional empathy can lead to an uncompassionate response because then you're in a situation where dealing with your own negative feelings can be the higher priority, and you end up trying to downplay the problem or avoid it or explain it away, rather than supporting people.

[caterpillarinacave]

little announcement, I made a new sideblog @acaterpillarscupoftea !

It’ll be mostly things like fashion & art history, poetry, writing, paintings, baking, ect :)

[thateclecticbitch]

You'd think an autism diagnosis on file would be enough for the government to believe I have a permanent disability, but you'd be wrong 🙃

[hoperaypegasus]

Just statistically speaking here, not all these kids can have absolutely insane parents/guardians like Gingka and Hikaru have with Ryo. 

Like, we know Madoka’s dad runs B-Pit so he’s also a mechanic, but have him also be just an average looking dude. And Yuki’s grandfather might have been an old astronomer obsessed with beyblade, but like have none of his coworkers have believed him with the legendary blader thing. Because let’s be honest here, if your really old floor supervisor said a mythical star was going to chose the next saviors of the prophecy, you would not believe them.

And also, make some of these people have nothing to do with beyblade. Like absolutely nothing. They’re are so confused at what these kids are doing, but are trying their best to be supportive. 

For example...

Kenta’s mom? She’s a waitress at a really nice restaurant downtown and sometimes brings home extra deserts for Kenta.

Kyoya’s dad? He owns his own small real estate company and still also works as an agent a lot.

Hikaru’s mom? A nurse who ended up falling sick and dying from a disease she was working to heal.

Nile’s sister? Oh, she currently works as a seamstress as she’s in law school to become a family law attorney.

Demure’s grandmother? She was teacher who worked especially with language learning.

Julian’s family? Huge tycoons in manufacturing, especially in the car and vehicular industry.

Sophie’s family? She actually comes from a line of famous fashion and costume designers, commonly featured on Broadway and Hollywood.

Wales’s family? They’re old money from the oil industry and work globally to expand their company to this day.

Chao Xin’s sisters? One is a teacher, another is a travel agent, and the third one works at a pet store not far from Beylin Temple.

Mei Mei’s family? Oh, they run a pretty popular restaurant that’s even made it onto some global food locations lists.

Tsubasa’s parents? They were also special investigators but did not use beys at all in their work, sticking to more traditional methods.

Dashan’s mom? She was an admissions officer at Beylin temple and worked outreach for new students.

Gingka’s mom? Oh, she became a horror and mystery author after she left Koma and married an editor.

Masamune’s mom? She’s a diplomat actually and works with trade relationships between the US and Japan.

King’s mom? A social worker who adopted him and his siblings after falling in love with them on the job.

Benkei’s grandmother? She was a chef and the one who taught him how to cook.

And yes, they are all very confused by Ryo as a person as well as how the hell he was able to become director of the WBBA.

[planet4546b]

oh beloved team of mine........please do not do this to me before the semester even starts..... !

[milo-is-rambling]

My brother got a three month work from home internship at the company my mom works for now it’s gonna be like the house is a fucking office building from 9-5 😭😭😭

[oysterie]

Christmas gifts for my family are going to be cutting it close 🤪😐

[navramanan]

So tired of continuesly feeling this way I keep trying and failing time and time and time again

[punkdragons]

Lotta Lightning ancient discourse going around after that live stream but I've gotta add my two cents about the bug legs.

It's gonna be a gene. They'll have normal leggys with basic and then one of the line breaking terts will be called Mantis or something and it'll change their legs into praying mantis bug legs. It feels fairly obvious to me?

And then people who don't care for bugs can still enjoy the ancient and people who want the bug legs can have them. I also see mandible being ported to this breed fairly quickly.

Gotta remember they don't show the whole hand at once. They designed the basic on livestream. The wild terts are yet to come.

[caterpillarinacave]

well this sucks

[grey-eyed-menace]

"...so, uh, is it a bad time to mention that Foster freaks me the fuck out?"

Akatsuki turns to Eisuke with wide eyes, who in turn arches a brow.

"Really?"

"Eisuke in case you've fucking forgotten in the last ten minutes of your life, I'm an underwieght nineteen year old. I generally try to ignore the fact that most of the men in my life find me attractive by virtue of fact that if I do I'm going to have a very ugly panic attack, so him calling me 'Sexy Bones' is not helping that continued willful ignorance."

"...is this why you began screaming about stereotypes three minutes into the Carolina fiasco?"

"You're just now asking that!?"

[nintendont2502]

Lmao I found this old video I made to try and explain what my mind sounds like most of the time and its. Pretty accurate

(warning for just way too many sounds playing at once. Seriously it isn't a fun time lmao)

[willhelp-exe]

*goyishe voice* hhey…. i dont know if this is offensive or not ……. or if im right …………. i dont want to assume anything ofcourse but h…..happy new year if you celebrate……… can i say that ? can i say happy rosh hashanah ? can i say that ? can i ? is that okay ?

i love you guys. never change

[maytheamazing]

I simply don't think the USA should have the power to veto anything. Who gave them the power to veto a country from becoming part of the United Nations, especially as they are currently helping facilitating a genocide against the people of said country?