minimal-effort™

im always saying shit like ‘the worst thing i could do for my mental health right now is isolate’ while crawling into bed with my phone

peace and love on my dash this afternoon

i think one thing that will really invariably get me to click out of a fic immediately, if i even get as far as opening it in the first place, is He Would Not Fucking Say That’s hornier cousin “he would not fucking fuck that hard or that prolifically”. like when regardless of canon personality a character enters the bedroom and immediately becomes this almost christian grey parody ultra suave dom with dubious bdsm practices and it’s like. i’m very sorry but i truly hand on heart do not think he knows how to use his dick like that

tw: theft, body horror, facial disfigurement

My manager was in the break room with me and she said 'I don't ever remember oranges being THIS hard to peel' and I just responded 'they're making them harder to peel' without thinking and she looked and me and said. Why?

@herobrine

do you guys wanna see the most perfectest png of my cat

polite bubby.png

One of the many problems with using euphemistic language is that the euphemism eventually just becomes the new word for the thing. We can't use "ejaculated" as a dialogue tag anymore because that's just the normal word for nutting. We can't refer to a dialogue as an "intercourse" anymore because that's just the normal word for fucking.

i started playing Disco Elysium and last night (the same day i started playing) i woke up to my stomach hurting so bad that in my delirium i thought it had to do with something from the game.

and looked it up…

i thought this was completely normal until waking up later after the pain was gone.

you’re playing the game better than anyone else has ever played it

help

i asked my dad to make me a hot chocolate and he’s literally sawing something in the kitchen rn

ive said this before but it was on my old blog so I'm saying it again

dehumanizing abusers is not effective at doing anything other than make people think they're ontologically incapable of violence

it's also creating a class of people who you can abuse while telling yourself that you're Good and Moral and Not an Abuser.

if you dehumanize the caught abusers then the uncaught abusers will use their humanity as proof of innocence

if you dehumanize the hypothetical abusers you create incentives for false accusations as a means of dehumanization whenever dehumanization is desired for other reasons

#it also puts distance between the problem and steps that could be done to address it#if abusers are inhuman and therefore can’t be helped or redeemed then we don’t have to think about how we can prevent it

Or the older-person version: no they didn’t, because we didn’t know yet.

There are definitely things my teachers mistaught me that were pushing an agenda (hi, “you can catch AIDS from sharing towels”!), but here’s an incomplete list of stuff I had to learn later because nobody knew in the 00s:

—there were multiple cradles of civilization, not just the Fertile Crescent

—my eye color isn’t a mutation actually, there are five genes controlling it not two and that does in fact allow for weird in-between colors like mine

—clear photos of Pluto (I grew up with the pixelly one we all marveled at because WOW, we got any kind of picture at all from all the way OUT THERE)

—five different species of genus Homo

—Einstein was wrong and there are absolutely no hidden variables driving quantum entanglement

—there is actually a smoking gun that the Kennedy assassination didn’t go the way it’s commonly told

—the FBI tried to drive MLK to suicide

And I could keep going. The older you are, the more pronounced this effect gets; my dad is 69 and could contribute “everything we know about the human genome,” “duck and cover is only marginally effective actually,” and “anything we learned from any space mission past Apollo 13.” (Yes, I realize those dates seem to not add up. He dropped out at 16 and went back later for his GED.)

This is why, when you hear something you previously didn’t know, you should 1) cross-check it against other sources to be sure the facts are correct, but 2) never assume it’s wrong just because that’s not what you learned in school. Because let me tell you, if I stopped with only what I could learn in public school by 2006, I would still believe the Egyptians hadn’t developed pulley systems before building the pyramids, that plasma can’t exist on earth outside of extremely carefully controlled lab conditions, and that Kosovo isn’t its own country.

Fauci claimed AIDS was airborne. I am sure loads of teachers were falsely informed thanks to him.

In the first year of study he said it MIGHT BE passed by close familial contact BUT ALSO required more study. That was twenty years before I took sex ed. My teacher was a devout Christian who was openly pissed off she had to teach us about condoms—in other words, she was one of you.

Shut the fuck up, magat.

Another factor is that textbooks and curricula get updated at irregular intervals, and you're learning a snapshot in history. My second grade science textbook identified mushrooms and fungus as a form of life called "protist" which was a school of thought in the sixties that lasted juuuust long enough to make it into my textbook.

That doesn't even begin to get into the politicization of textbooks-- sometimes it wasn't in your textbook because the people who chose your textbook didn't want you to know it.

maybe it's because i was raised catholic but churches shouldn't look like furniture stores