It's called being happy

oblivion is an abysmal game and everyone should play it

Farewell!

The comedic timing in this is Oscar worthy

(full article here)

all fruits are actually the same flavoir they just paint them different colours to trick you into thinking they're different flavours

peace and love on my dash this afternoon

being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

Reblog if you're a partially muscled skeleton screaming for 30 seconds by the perimeter fence on November 14th

[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]

“I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me” is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat

the best part is the line is “i guess i would scream too-ie”

Stuie is back on my dash!

Oh, I wonder if we’re going to hear Caitlyn’s name being said at all during her low arc, or if she’s going to disappear completely into being Commander Kiramman.

She doesn’t even want this power or position, in fact this is everything she’s been trying to get away from but she’s so broken at this point. She’s not even angry anymore, just completely checked out and accepting the role because, of course. She’s a Kiramman, she’ll never escape being a Kiramman, and she believes the only person who’s ever seen her for being Caitlyn betrayed her, doesn’t love her (as much as she loves her sister). If she can’t be loved for Caitlyn, the next closest thing is to be respected for being a Kiramman.

She really is acting just like Jinx, retreating into the worst part of herself because she believes that’s all anyone sees anyway.

Also thematically I love the contrasting parallels where Powder/Jinx’s final moments in season 1 ep 3 are loud; screaming, sobbing, while Caitlyn is completely silent/mute for hers. Powder actively embraces (Silco) her change, while Caitlyn passively allows it (Ambessa) to cloak her.

Satirical newspaper The Onion bought conspiracy bullshit InfoWars. I have been laughing for 5 minutes.

The Onion gains all their intellectual property, social media accounts, product inventory, and subscriber lists.

Source

From the CEO of The Onion

rememeber. when nothing is wrong you can make it wrong. the power is yours to make the situation as terrible as possible. dont give in to the situation. change the outcome. from neutral to worst. be the worst case scenario you want to see in the world. i believe in you.

you can discuss the problems within academia literally forever and you probably should but “historians are trying to keep information from you” is always going to be an anti-intellectual, reactionary opinion, sorry, literally no way around that

if you literally don’t even know what a professional historian does at work daily and you literally think it’s oppression for someone to ask you to crack open a book every now and then, i promise it’s not a historian’s fault why you don’t know anything

no “historians” do not do this, people who donate diaries sometimes edit their family journals to make it more savoury though, sorry you should learn more about what historians do, which is what i was talking about

really? i don't believe it can you show me?

Do you still want those ingots on the top left or can i melt them down for my experimental car

there's a lot to be said about how the average person indulges in delusions far more than anyone is really comfortable grappling with. every now and again, a poll comes out that reveals some sort of number of people who believe they have magical powers, usually pretty high, and everyone takes turns making fun of it and affirming their own Sanity

this is more observational than scientific, but it really does seem like writing off delusional thinking as the realm of the "insane" creates this valley where the "normal" person's thinking (especially a person who considers themself normal, but that's a whole other kettle of fish) must be more empirical, because, categorically, they are not insane

I betray a bit of a tendency towards criticising pop-psychiatry here, but I really don't think it's entirely fair to treat "hallucinations" and "delusions" as these incomprehensible eldritch states of the Other when the most stable person you know is a few nights of bad sleep and one day of unreturned phonecalls away from saying something that would qualify them for a pretty severe diagnosis

most people won't admit to having any kind of hallucination at all for fear of being locked up and yet the occasional weird fucking nighttime ones that you know aren't real are, to my knowledge, one of the most common and universal human experiences

there's an interesting thing I've noticed pretty often when someone first makes friends with schizophrenic people, which is that they undergo this period where they get anxious about whether or not they're a little schizophrenic (I'm guilty of doing this too) before either shutting down entirely or becoming more open to engaging with their own internal concept of sanity

it's so universal that it really brings into sharp focus just how much effort social norms encourage in rejecting everything that could make you seem even a little bit similar to groups that have been written off as morally defective, which makes them seem even more alien and incomprehensible in turn

you're only really allowed to acknowledge these experiences if you're making jokes about them, which I think is a big reason why shadow people and sleep paralysis demons are such an enduring topic of memes. you're only allowed to acknowledge you experience distressing sensory phenomena when it's part of a socially affirming in-joke

The vast majority of mental illness symptoms are completely typical functions and behaviours, but occurring frequently or severely enough to become a problem. They're not some Unique Thing Only Those Insane People Have.

yes I am always saying that.

mental illnesses are almost always "you do something that everyone does, but REALLY BAD or REALLY OFTEN"

like, ADHD: Basically every ADHD symptom is something that everyone does. fidgeting? having trouble focusing? getting distracted? hyperfocusing? time blindness?

Everyone does those from time to time and for one reason or another. We call it ADHD when you do it so much that it causes you problems, and it can't easily be fixed by things like "drink less coffee" or "get rid of distractions".

And the same goes for delusions and hallucinations. Everybody can get them, it's not a fundamentally different thing that only People With Delusion/Hallucination Disease get.

I bring a sort of "it's wrong to hate people based on how or where they were born" vibe to political discourse that apparently right wingers and left wingers both don't really like