#they didnt fact check I guess!

[llycaons]

Misconceptions

Misconceptions about lemmings go back many centuries. In 1532, the geographer Jacob Ziegler of Bavaria proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring. This description was contradicted by natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed that they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous generation...

Lemmings have become the subject of a widely popular misconception that they are driven to commit mass suicide when they migrate by jumping off cliffs. It is not a deliberate mass suicide, in which animals voluntarily choose to die, but rather a result of their migratory behavior. Driven by strong biological urges, some species of lemmings may migrate in large groups when population density becomes too great. They can swim and may choose to cross a body of water in search of a new habitat. In such cases, many drown if the body of water is an ocean or is so wide as to exceed their physical capabilities. Thus, the unexplained fluctuations in the population of Norwegian lemmings, and perhaps a small amount of semantic confusion (suicide not being limited to voluntary deliberation, but also the result of foolishness), helped give rise to the popular stereotype of the suicidal lemmings, particularly after this behaviour was staged in the Walt Disney documentary White Wilderness in 1958. The misconception itself is much older, dating back to at least the late 19th century. In the August 1877 issue of Popular Science Monthly, apparently suicidal lemmings are presumed to be swimming the Atlantic Ocean in search of the submerged continent of Lemuria.

an incredible couple of paragraphs from the lemming wikipedia but my favorite is the last one

Another myth may have roots in the fiercely aggressive nature of lemmings during population booms, and the corresponding leftovers of predatory frenzies: lemmings do not explode.

of all the small creatures in the world lemmings get THE most insane myths

[puppyeared]

adhd is when you shoot for the moon but you forgot the rocket fuel and by the time you realize it everyones already on the moon and then you panic and crash into the sun and it explodes

[torchstelechos]

You know those "do not separate"/"often bought together" memes that people did for the Submas plushies? I like to think Immortal Volo found out that Ingo had a twin fully because he saw one of these memes and went, Ah fuck I separated them :(

[howaboutalittlehelpneos]

Oh oh I've got an idea for a poll, here's one for the dub enjoyers

If you are going to be mean about the dubs in general just simply don't do that

[marsixm]

im trying to wrap my head around why i dont get enthusiastic about reddit style fiction (not a dig but a descriptor) like scp and shit like that, bc its not that i can’t enjoy them but i think its like… when stuff is framed as if it were real, but its fiction, its like, well KNOWING its fiction eliminates a huge element of the intrigue, but also, crucially, i like character-driven stories, or at least stories WITH characters. but i also like it when things are interesting for said characters to experience, like, i want the ghosts and monsters and conspiracies but i want the characters to be character-ing, yknow? not that i dont enjoy slice of life and… what would u call the first thing, non-character specific horror? idk? but i prefer when its both. its like i love kirk and spock but also i do enjoy watching them Experience Situations when i watch star trek. i enjoy the idea of spooky national forest monsters that arent real but experiencing it alongside a character would be better, and i want more trans and gay characters whose lives are clearly trans and gay but i want a plotline to unfold too

[criticaaaaaaaal]

[toastsnaffler]

its actually nuts how missing a single vaccination has shaped my entire fucking life. like not only would I not be deaf if I had gotten it on time but I probs wouldn't have adhd either 🫣

[sanstropfremir]

hi!!!! do you have any advice era taemin styling thoughts to share!!!!!

oh of course!!!! who would i be if i didn't? i talked about the advice styling in more general terms in my taemin and masks post a million years ago and a little bit here in this post where someone asked me my fave taemin stylings, but there are a couple of places where i wanted to go into more detail!

advice is very interesting, styling wise, because on first glance it's all over the map. but there's very conscious effort at play to conceptualize and visualize the idea of combined dualities. ngda was taemin's magnum opus, an interrogation of binaries and strict moralities with the conclusion of creating a new self outside those systems. and, very importantly: the new self is built from those systems. as exemplified with ending shot of him being doused in white paint, the new is informed, synthesized from the old. which you can see in how none of the clothing is in true monochrome. it's always as a purposeful duality: skin/covered, black/white, white/red, red/blue. even his hair is dual toned. and it also is ingrained in the fabric of most of the garments themselves. the split black and white suit, the thorned jacket, the tartan suit set. i know the tartan might not seem like it follows the trend, but tartan patterning is made from using multiple colour warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) lines while weaving, which creates an entirely new pattern just from alternating colours.

the other point i want to note in particular is the king imagery. with the minting of a new self in a new system outside of the old, one has the choice whether or not to take a position of power, and taemin 100% does that. the most obvious king imagery is in one of the rounds of concept photos:

and there's also the extremely obvious:

as well as the thorned jacket, which is undoubtedly a jesus reference but importantly it is a marker of carrying the thing that hurt you as a mark of pride and strength. taemin has taken a lot of public scrutiny over the course of his career and there are some motifs throughout advice that are emblematic of that scrutiny:

the extensions: the last time taemin had notable extensions was for sherlock when he was nineteen, almost a decade ago. he had a lot of unwarranted criticism levelled at him for being 'feminine' and that public response had a very dramatic impact on his persona and the trajectory of his work

the instagram 'baddie' look: again, he's taken a lot of shit for being 'feminine' and he took that to the most extreme he's ever done

the mascara tear tracks: taemin has spoken several times about how he doesn't like to/finds it uncomfortable to cry in public

the boyishness of the point styling: because he debuted so insanely young, there's always been a perception of youth and immaturity around him and with this tartan suit he embraced it instead of trying to shy away from it. that outfit also bears striking similarity to gainsborough's blue boy portrait (c. 1770):

which, although it would be incorrect to say that this particular portrait is indicative of 'short pants as indicating boyhood' ('teenager'/youth clothing doesn't exist in this period but that's a costume history lesson for another day), it is true that short pants in the last two centuries have become inextricably linked with school-aged youth. that, combined with the previously cited image from the inkigayo stage of him in this outfit sitting on a throne, paint a very clear picture of a boy king who has rightfully and confidently taken his place at the head and as the inspiration of an industry.

and a parting thought: i know it's a likely coincidence but i'm not going to look down on the fact that this suit combo is from the loverboy ss21 collection, titled 'the healing'

[caramelmochacrow]

overanalyzing haruna and tsubaki's conversation in the my prince event bc i got nothing else to do.

their conversation begins after aoi goes to get some beverages for her and haruna. before that though, aoi says that she's been getting better and better at acting as romeo ever since she started practicing with her. aoi praises her, tells her that everything feels right, but she says that the only problem she has is that it lacks authenticity; it lacks motivation.

haruna, right after aoi notes this, says and i'll quote: "Focus on my motivation, on authenticity over an idealized role...."

then aoi goes to get beverages and tsubaki appears with boxed lunches, telling her that it tastes better than it seems.

she thanks tsubaki for the boxed lunches and tsubaki asks haruna how practicing is going, haruna answers that she's getting better and better thanks to aoi. she also adds the fact that aoi memorized the lines to help. tsubaki says that it sounds like something aoi would do, and asks if aoi was acting as juliet.

haruna says that tsubaki is correct, but she believes that aoi should've been acting as romeo, with how charming and prince-like she is, she believes that role would suit her more.

tsubaki's face, as soon as she hears this, turns serious. she hesitates before answering with "i see".

right after, haruna says that she has been copying aoi's mannerisms whenever she plays as romeo because to her she is the perfect image for romeo.

now, before this episode in the story, aoi and haruna met up in a cafe and aoi opened up a little bit about herself, she told haruna about the fact that she likes making jam, that she's afraid of bugs, and the reason she started djing. (im not adding more to this because it isnt connected, as much as i want to do it though.)

back to what was happening, haruna says that she pales in comparison to aoi, who is, "so confident, so cool, so..."

tsubaki, hearing this, says and i'll quote: "you haven't learned anything, haruna. you've only seen aoi on a superficial level."

haruna tells tsubaki that it wasnt her intention, but she then remembers aoi saying that "everyone seemed to like it" and it hits her that aoi was just going with what people told her.

tsubaki tells her that aoi isnt sensitive enough to be bothered by it, but there is more to what haruna sees. she says that aoi is deeper than that and that she would appreciate it if she haruna could see every part of her.

incomes the quote of tsubaki saying that she loves likes every facet of aoi and then aoi herself shows up. tsubaki gets flustered, tells her she made boxed lunches, and runs away.

after aoi chuckles about how she got them boxed lunches, haruna apologizes for seeing her just for her looks and actions, not what was under it. aoi tells her that she shouldn't be sorry and that she appreciates the compliments with a smile. haruna wonders in her head if what she was saying was true, if she truly meant every word she said.

now, since tsubaki and haruna's conversation is done, im gonna go to aoi's initial 3* card story "the girl with the long hair".

tsubaki and aoi were going to meet up in a cafe and tsubaki was late, after aoi says that she just got there too because she took a walk to pass the time tsubaki apologizes and says that she "made a reservation online but the beauty salon made her wait", aoi assures her that it's alright because she doesnt mind. she also notes that tsubaki has long hair, so it must be a bit harder to take care of.

tsubaki asks if that's the reason why aoi has hers short and aoi answers with "not really no. i just think it suits me."

tsubaki then asks if she ever wore her hair long and aoi answers that she used to in high school, tsubaki chuckles and aoi asks her what's funny about it so tsubaki answers that she has a hard time believing it.

aoi then tells her that she can show her a photo from before, and tsubaki agrees, i will add the fact that tsubaki sounds excited here compared to aoi who sounds nervous when she was about to show the picture.

tsubaki looks at it and notes that it isn't how she imagined and kind of freezes for a moment, aoi asks her if she was alright and that she was right there. tsubaki then says that that's what makes it so hard to believe and aoi says that was the reaction she usually got, she also says that the others photos of herself at those times werent as cute. after she says that, she tells tsubaki about how people saw her as a crossdressing boy and tsubaki's face relaxes to a serious one and she asks aoi if it ever bothered her. aoi replies that she just tries to stay positive and says that she tells herself that she looks better in short hair and that it was more manageable.

tsubaki tells aoi that she's envious of her, maybe talking about the fact that aoi can manage to stay positive about something for so long, then aoi then changes the subject -- and attention -- to tsubaki, telling her that she hopes tsubaki keeps her long hair (making it seem that aoi thought she was talking about hair) because it suits her and then while she's flustered, asks her what she thought of the lyrics.

there is a only a slight difference in the card story because u cant read their thoughts, but u can tell that tsubaki caught on the fact that aoi has difficulty seeing herself as cute because of how her classmates treated her in high school, while for haruna's case, when she saw aoi's photo properly knowing who it is, she doesnt catch it, she doesnt see it. all because aoi managed to hide it well. thanks to that, it goes to haruna thinking that aoi was being kind and considerate because she was acting like how she should be, but aoi tells her that she just does it to be considerate and that she cares for them. haruna then says a note to herself saying that "to play a romeo convincingly, one must sincerely care for others." and that she must be kind and considerate to juliet because that will make her role feel natural.

now then. when aoi was going to show haruna the photo, her face was blank, no emotion, just a polite smile. comparing that with tsubaki's, she was nervous looking and nervous sounding: hesitant. this probably connects to the fact that she had her poker face on when she isnt with rondo.

aoi changing the subject by telling both of them that she doesnt mind or compliments them is something people do in real life, (take it from me, who does this all the time) she knows how to avoid and take away the attention from herself or the subject of the conversation. that's why in most event stories, unless theyre focused on rondo or aoi herself, she almost doesnt talk at all.

oh yeah, tsubaki saying that her boxed lunches are tastier than they seem is connected to the whole thing of the event, which is trying not to judge the book by its cover.

i honestly have no idea how to end this so just. like. take this. my mind is fried and i cant word my thoughts on it anymore.

[coldflasher]

you know what’s a scam? at the end of last year i just severely stopped giving a fuck at work and i was literally spending so much time doing fuck all, messing around on my phone for most of the day only to then edit like 30k in the space of 2-3 hours after lunch, and somehow i got away with it and my quality scores were fine. this year i was like okay this is not cool, i’m gonna make a determined effort to do this properly. so now i actually focus and don’t procrastinate, and yet i’m now consistently underperforming and i’m about to be put on performance review for the second quarter in a row which is... not great

i personally think our scoring system is stupid and needs an overhaul because in spot checks, they take off the same number of points for everything. so if i were to completely fail to edit a sentence and left it in a completely unreadable state, i would only lose one point, but then i also lose a point if i misplace a hyphen. so like. last year i somehow managed to fully miss this massive sentence that ended up making no sense whatsoever, and that was fine, apparently, because i didn’t lose points in other areas, but now i’m about to be put on performance review because i missed a few commas and accidentally used a mixture of single and double speech marks in a quote

the worst part is the way they do checks is so annoying because they just pull two random papers from the past 3 months and you can GUARANTEE they will pull a shit one. you can be on top form for ages and then have one bad day and somehow they always manage to pick the one paper you made mistakes on. i’m aware that they do this on purpose to put the fear of god into you because the idea is obviously that every paper should have no mistakes but let’s be real, that’s not realistic. human error is a thing. everyone makes mistakes. and somehow they have a sixth sense for finding the papers you made those mistakes on.

the problem is that last time i went on performance review, they monitored me for a bit and then did an extra spot check and the papers they pulled that time were basically perfect. one literally had no errors and the other had like. two. so i got a near-perfect score. which probably made me look great, like i’d worked really hard to fix the issue, which to be fair, i did. and they were really happy with that. except this quarter they pulled two more and i got the exact same bad score i got last time. so now it looks like i only started putting in effort when i was being monitored and then just immediately stopped trying again as soon as i wasn’t under review which ISN’T EVEN TRUE. i’m genuinely trying, here. but i’m very aware of how bad this looks and now i’m gonna have to do another one of those awful meetings where they bring up the fact that i’m Underperforming (*already shaking and crying at the mere prospect. once again i am about to get a bad grade in having a job*) and they literally have a senior manager who just. sits in the meeting in silence. watching. and nodding. while some other guy points out all the mistakes i’ve made. because that isn’t unnerving at all

i hate employment, i want to go live in a little hobbit hole and never have to receive another performance review again

[mrfoox]

Just remembered how after my autistic diagnose every offical person was so careful to approach me about it at first. I know that's probably standard bc not everyone will like those news or know how to handle it but I legit just had doctors go 'hey... So... Are you okay? How do you feel?' and I was like 'haha, nice, so I haven't just been faking/now I know why I'm so different'

[isaacathom]

finally! the last hornblower books i needed to complete my set! 😭

[gibbearish]

huh

[harmonizedhero]

Anyone else thought about how in fantasy, despite in irl history spears being more common due to it having more range and is easier to get into gaps of armor, swords are more prevalent because they are seen as cooler.

Wouldnt it happen to wizards, witches, and other spellcasters too? Because in fantasy staffs are very common to see, despite the fact that wands are easier to carry, and to conceal. Hell, if i Remember right. in actual past stories, witches basically used fuckin soul guns that are made of wood or whatever. Which is close to a wand i think. Then again, ig a wand would be to a staff user what a dagger/shortsword is to a spearmen, something to switch to in cqc.

[pizzapizzadickz]

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[free-is-taking-over-my-life]

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