ARIEL NEEDS LEGS
I was gonna make Emmy draw this but she said no so I drew it myself.
I’ve never drawn a comic before!
guys this post is turning a decade in 8 days
Source: tumblr.com
One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.
Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”
Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.
person who knows how logistical things works has picked up the cannon, hefted it thoughtfully, and put a single chalk mark precisely on the problem.
Okay class, show of hands. Who can tell me where you all went horribly, shamefully wrong?
so in both cases, there's an obvious self-interested choice, and an obvious pro-social choice; the skew is weird but I guess whether people weigh self-interest or altruism higher is fairly susceptible to framing? esp. because there's so little other information about the situations
The point of course is that the two situations are literally isomorphic. Taking the red pill is like the waiting room.
And you're right that this is susceptible to framing effects, but in a literal isomorphism like this that's at least a little disturbing.
(Basically we recreated a classic prospect theory experiment.)
Source: The New York Tattler, July 8, 1909.
me in 1909 showing up to see the bone
rapidly unsheathes my katana and you immediately get a phone call from your wife asking for a divorce
I ONLY DO DIVORCES
-CALLIE MAAMLET, DIVORCE RONIN
Ahahah, guys I put my jeans on this morning that have holes in and one of the holes lines up perfectly with my tattoo 😭
Loooook
