Moving blogs
Hello! I am returning to Tumblr after a much-needed mental health break, but I'm doing so on a new blog. You can find me at @allthoseotherworlds doing the same nonsense as always
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me trying to have a conversation with someone
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I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.
social life aside, the most hated or ignored person in town should be able to live as good and fair and just of a life as the most loved person in town. survival needs to stop being a popularity contest.
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when the subject of "why do people believe things that are seriously wrong and harmful" comes up it feels like you kinda hear one of two perspectives:
"oh, that's easy! it's because they're fundamentally Bad people who want to hurt others and choose their beliefs to justify that! :) hope this helps"
or
"they just don't have access to the same information we do. look at this person who was raised in a cult! don't you feel sorry for her?"
and like, yes, fine, some people were in fact raised in cults, but what i wish people would understand is that the bulk of it is just normal human flaws, like:
- they want to believe stuff that makes them feel smart and cool and like they've figured everything out (you also do this)
- they want to believe stuff that makes them feel like their emotions are justified and grounded in reality, and that the people they want to hurt deserve to be hurt (you also do this)
- they form conclusions before they've processed all the relevant information, and cling to that first impression even when new info comes to light (you also do this)
- they pick up beliefs from the people around them because they want to be liked and fit in, not because the beliefs are good or true (you also do this)
- they come up with reasons that the stuff that benefits them (and the people they like and identify with) is actually overwhelmingly best for everyone and obviously the right thing to do (you also do this)
- they pay more attention to stuff that supports what they already believe and avoid looking in places that might show them otherwise (you also do this)
- they listen to people who talk like 'one of them' and ignore others (you also do this)
- they come up with reasons to dismiss people with conflicting viewpoints as obviously in bad faith or ignorant or a shill or evil (you also do this)
- they fail to take their own beliefs seriously sometimes, and take their beliefs way too seriously other times, in a selective way that lets them do the things they already wanted to do (you also do this)
- the very ways they construct the ideas of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and 'belief' and 'understanding' are biased so that what they don't want to believe comes under lots of scrutiny and what they do want to believe receives less (you also do this)
you, dear reader, are presumably right about everything and were correct to die on every hill you've ever died on, but the difference between you and someone who's wrong about important stuff doesn't look like "well they're inherently evil and i'm not", it probably looks like a combination of:
- natural environment (they would have been exposed to different information than you regardless of their choices)
- being in the right place at the right time (your particular profile of flaws and virtues happened to be what was needed to lead you to the right conclusions, they had the opposite experience)
- random luck (you doubled down on what felt right to believe but wasn't, but it turned out to be inconsequential, or even right for different reasons, while they doubled down on what turned out to be a horrible mistake distorting their entire worldview)
- you do less of the things in the previous list, and over time the difference between you and them adds up
and, look, i also do these things. the nicest and most thoughtful people i've ever met do these things. if you meet someone who never does any of these things, i dunno, give them a fucking medal or something.
i know you're doing your best. we're all doing our best.
#Yeah#I try to remember that most of the time - for better or worse - people are just. people. doing people things#People are always going to be people. doing people things#Sometimes this sucks and it can be mitigated but it cannot be eliminated#and therefore any worldview needs to take into consideration that people are going to be people
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Practical tip for those dealing with wildfire smoke now: you can make a very effective air filter for a reasonable amount of money using a box fan & one of those filters meant for your furnace.
Also, I've managed to pick up 2 of the box fans for very cheap/free from yard sales. Make sure you get a filter rated for wildfire smoke, I think this one cost about $20.
These make a huge difference in the indoor air quality.
Posting again because of the fire situation up in Canada and resulting smoke. If you're dealing with wildfire smoke, these are surprisingly effective and relatively cheap.
Just tape the filter to the fan, making sure the air can't sneak around the edges. I used painter's tape, but I'm sure duct tape or similar would work just as well.
Guys I’ve been trying to figure out ALL DAY why my little weather thingie on my computer has been saying “Haze” and “poor air quality.” Like I don’t check these things very often but we usually have nice air quality in this portion of Ohio.
Then I finally put the pieces together.
It’s smoke. From Canada. Enough to cause noticeable haze and polluted air warnings in southern Ohio.
I had no idea it was that bad up there. Praying for you guys, please stay safe!!!
#I live near one of the fires and it's scary!#it's more controlled now because it rained for like a week straight#but we don't get big fires like this near populated areas a lot so it was scary#I have friends who evacuated for a bit because they were 1 street out from an evacuation zone#they're okay now though#Fortunately I have an air purifier because we thought maybe it would help my allergies when I got Artron#it didn't but it did help with the smoke#Which wasn't bothering me a lot but I wanted to make sure Artron was okay with his little kitty lungs#and preexisting respiratory stuff#he seems okay too thankfully
We don’t need to pit therapy and better social support (higher wages, universal basic income, etc) against each other. We should want both.
Like, I think UBI would solve a lot of problems, and also I think therapy should be more accessible for more people. These are not mutually exclusive, and neither is a solution for the other - therapy can’t solve poverty, and better social support will not eliminate the need for mental health support.
#I don't think anyone has come out and said this directly#but it seems vaguely implied by a lot of posts about how therapy won't solve x problem#like you are correct that it won't#and people suggesting therapy as a solution to poverty and such is silly#but I see more people saying that therapy isn't a solution to problems than I see people saying it will cure your poverty or whatever#so after a while it starts to make me like#worried people are going to turn this into an excuse to reduce healthcare's already abysmal insurance coverage for therapy#anyway bad therapists are bad and there are many many reasons why someone wouldn't want to see a therapist#I avoided therapists for years after a bad experience#but I have one now who is really helpful and I'm grateful for them!#getting actual eating disorder treatment after years of quasi-recovery#also potentially an adhd assessment
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I didn't know this was happening, but the moment I found out I knew that I had to support my fave Doctor Who pairing. It's looking so much better for them now!
I'm still not above asking for drawings though xD
If you don't mind, could you maybe draw the TARDIS with this version of the aroace agender flag? Thank you!
Yay! Thank you so much for voting!! :) I am so glad Doctor/TARDIS are in the lead again!
(btw, @drwho-shipbracket will continue with a new bracket after the tournament is done, this time with rarepairs. So no Doctor/TARDIS, I suppose, but I am sure it will be fun, too! In case you want to stick around :) )
I hope you don't mind I am using the same TARDIS as for the others this round. WIth your flag added of course!
[ID: two cuts of a watercolour/pencil art piece of the TARDIS in flight, pulling a version of the aroace agender flag behind. end ID]
For everone else: There's still time to vote for Doctor/TARDIS in the finals!
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Every time I have to grab my cat and move him off the counter I feel like one of those irritating hand things in like, Zelda games, that grabs you and moves you to the start of the dungeon
And much like in a Zelda game, my cat is just trying to reach the final boss (space above the cupboards he likes to sleep in)
#Sometimes I pick him up and let him up on top of the fridge so he can get up there himself#I don't mind him up there I just can't have him on the counter because that's where the stovetop is#and I don't want him thinking that's an okay place to stand on#I also have no idea if the hand thing is even in newer Zelda games#I am remembering A Link to the Past which I think had them
Every time I have to grab my cat and move him off the counter I feel like one of those irritating hand things in like, Zelda games, that grabs you and moves you to the start of the dungeon
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A mirror breaks
hera-the-wizard
at long last, I can finally gather my friends, my granda, a goat that died a couple hundred thousand years ago, and a stunt flier presumed dead around the campfire :)
either you’re out of the hole or you’re in hell
Shoot god with a bullet made of sins to save the world
sketchy-aura
Whoopsies! You hit God But Evil with a hammer and now you get to marry him if you want!! Or you get to kill him :(
Hm. Sunlight.
psycho-chair
she’s not really dead
there’s three endings, actually
happily ever after :3
you later receive a phone call from that one guy
they show up to call you a bitch and erase the timeline
The sun moth is dead so you and your hundreds/thousands of agender siblings decide to do void shit to everything
(one of the multiple endings. Also you and your siblings killed the sun moth yourselves)
sixthesnek
bad ending : weeehehehe wow it sure is a long fall off this very tall building… :3
Good ending: lemme just traumatize all my friends (again) and then move away lmao
got to top of mountain. ascend
You capture God
thesewerratgod
God decides that you won’t be erased by the change in space-time
Bonus ending: fuck you nightmare satan
never pay more than $20 for a video game
You’re trapped in a cycle of pointlessly trying to reset a universe that can’t be fixed from inside it and will end in minutes, but that’s probably lifetimes anyways so like. It’s fine.
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This isn't a Garashir post, but I guess you could read it that way if you wanted?
Everyone seems to think Garak would be proud of Julian for keeping a secret so long, but on the flipside...
His secret got found out.
To Garak and other Cardassians, isn't that a huge fucking deal? Like, life ending? So, instead of just simply expressing 'I'm so proud of you for being so good at lying' and whatnot...
Garak probably wouldn't wave off Julian's discomfort with being 'found out'. He'd think 'what a perfectly reasonable response to having your entire life flayed open like that', I think.
He'd likely think not mentioning it would be a courtesy, but then the Doctor mentions it first and of course. It's no longer a secret, so he no longer has to hide it-- so Garak just says, very gently, that he's sorry the Doctor's secret was found.
And if he knew the details, that it was found because his father was not only incompetent, but also fought and tried to make up with lackluster apologies so often that he didn't even pause to think over his words before running off at the mouth.
That the 'family secret' was ruined because his relationship with his family was bad.
All of that seems like something that Garak would feel really bad for Julian about. But he'd say it you know, sideways.
~
"I suppose you know by now."
"I suppose I do."
"Nothing to say about it?"
"I am sorry"
"S-. You're sorry?"
"It was such a precious secret to you, wasn't it?"
"...yes."
"One your family had been protecting all your life."
"Yes."
"I am sorry you lost it."
~
Something like that.
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I love when cats hold things in their little paws, it’s so good
Case in point
I love when cats hold things in their little paws, it’s so good
[ID: 11 gifs from season 3, episode 22 “explorers” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show miles o'brien and julian bashir inside o'brien's personal quarters. they are both drunk. julian is seated on the couch, and miles is on a chair behind the couch.
1st gif: "unless she really ignored you because she can't stand you." miles tells julian and then keeps laughing to himself.
2nd gif: miles is still laughing while julian says, "isn't there some explanation in between?"
3rd gif: miles stops laughing and sits up, he tells julian, "well... you're not an in-between kind of guy." and julian asks him, "what do you mean?"
4th gif: "well, people either love you or hate you." miles tells him matter of fact, he is holding a snack with his fingers. julian has turned to face miles, "really?"
5th gif: "i mean, i hated you when we first met." miles tells julian, pointing towards himself and chewing on his snack. "i remember." julian replies.
6th gif: miles leans back in his chair, "but now..." he trails off chewing his snack, and eating the one in his hand.
7th gif: the camera cuts to julian as he turns his head to look at miles once more. "and now?" he prompts him.
8th gif: the camera cuts to miles, he turns his head to look towards julian, he tells him, "well... now i don't." then looks ahead once more and goes to eat more of his snacks.
9th gif: the camera cuts to julian as he turns his head to look ahead. he is nodding while telling miles, "that means a lot to me, chief. it really does."
10th gif: miles leans over the couch, he tells julian, "really! now... that is from the heart, huh?" julian is nodding as he speaks and he pushes his fist against julian's shoulder to stress his words.
11th gif: julian turns to look at miles who continues talking, "huh? i really do. not hate you anymore." miles seems surprised with the realisation as well. /end ID]
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@thebibliosphere seems like this would be in your wheelhouse
#okay so#I thought they used their teeth like straws#but I also made up a species of vampire that lived on fruit#like fruit bats#and used their teeth as straws but also their blood was some kind of universal anti-venom??#And actual blood was like acid to them or something?#And they could go out in the daytime but not at night I think
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DOCTOR WHO | The Shakespeare Code (3.02)