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@gncanimecharacter

kaitlin • she/her • 18 • ireland
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that looks like a condom and the fact that everyone in the notes is saying “the orb” proves that no one on this website fucks

the fuck kinda bouncy-ball ass condoms are you using

the fact that someone thinks that looks like a condom is proof that no one on this website fucks

ok y’all it’s LITERALLY taken from the “wizard pondering his orb” image

it’s an orb. 

ok not to beat a dead horse but i found the ORIGINAL image and it’s cover art from a lotr themed ttrpg.

so

No it isn't that's from 1993 you fucking poseur, it's from A SPY IN ISENGARD published in 1988 I'm SICK and TIRED of you people getting it WRONG

5 reblog additions later and this post is still best summarized by "no one on this website fucks"

I know things about the hobbit and I fuck like a champ, sorry about your personal failings but they do not apply to me

Becoming less reactive is a big part of growth & decreasing stress. Sometimes this type of avoidance can be looked at as lack of interest or uncaring, but it isn’t. If you let everything get you worked up, you’re damaging your mind, body & soul

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i love that photoset of elsa and her mom because it clearly shows how the mom is literally just an elsa recolor

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God forbid kids and their parents look alike, as if genetics were involved or something, ha

Disney straight up copy past Elsa and her Mom face it just the same face. is not genetic is poor and bad character design

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Royal families tend to have smaller gene pools, so there’s a lot less variety

There is a big difference in look alike because they are blood related and just straight up copy the same face and do different colors for the hair

Again. Is poor character design

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“it’s not bad character design it’s inbreeding”

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"MSG tricks your brain into thinking food tastes better."

Yes, Brian, that is the essential function of spices and flavorings.

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“Actual spices” - msg is monosodium glutamate. It is found in nature. It’s in fucking tomatoes. The reason it has such a stigma against it is due to - surprise! - racism and xenophobia, since it’s primarily associated with asian cuisine even though msg is in a wide variety of American foods as well, both naturally or as artificial flavoring. Is it possible for too much msg to kill you? Yeah, sure, but the same goes for table salt as well.

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Next time you are eating your favorite Bar-B-Q or meat rubbed with good ol spices check the ingredients for MSG, because it is very prevalent in that and those same people who claim to have headaches from Chinese food with MSG chow down on Famous Dave's...

Hey also fun times if you think you might be sensitive to MSG I'd strongly recommend getting tested for celiac disease or a corn allergy, because it turns out a lot of the "symptoms" of MSG sensitivity are the same as the symptoms of getting glutened (also in spite of being "glutamate" MSG does not have gluten in it!)

But yeah unless you're getting your MSG "symptoms" when you eat doritos you're not experiencing MSG sensitivity.

Now, I don't want to discount the possibility of actual MSG sensitivities because the fact that latex is naturally present in bananas doesn't mean that people can't react to it - I'd be willing to grant that there are probably some people who are sensitive to MSG.

If you think that might be you I'd recommend seeing if you can set up a double-blind test feeding after a couple weeks of exclusion, because that's also how you test seriously for actual allergies and sensitivities.

But for me it just turned out that I was wrong and I was allergic to corn and wheat and I am delighted to enjoy MSG in my rice noodle soup.

[image from athetos: tumblr tags: #msg is poison sorry #people have been hospitalized for it #please use actual spices]

[image from ms-demeanor: a bag of nacho cheese Doritos and the ingredients list of same. the seventh ingredient listed, out of two or three dozen (depending how we count the parentheticals indicating the ingredients of certain ingredients), is monosodium glutamate.]

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My favorite description of MSG-phobia is “what if salt was poison, but only when Chinese people used it”. Like, it literally makes no sense aside from the racism and pseudoscience

It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

I cant agree with this post more

I witnessed something similar with my younger brother (this was when he was In fifth grade so bear with me here) and his friends. The teacher assigned for them to build a somewhat accurate spanish mission in Minecraft because their school had gotten some iPads and she needed to assign them something other than a PowerPoint.

Now here’s the thing. Most of these boys, my brother included, have ADD/ADHD. About a week into the project all they had in their shared world was chaos. Somebody filled the place with tnt and lit it up. Holes everywhere. Whenever one would attempt to try and build something (mostly wood huts and not the actual project) it would be destroyed within minutes as the boys began to insult each other heavily and complain that the design was ugly.

I brought my own ipad with me and decided to sit with the boys while they continued their reign of terror. I joined the world and built a hallway out of brick at the very center of this war zone. Immediately one of them tried to destroy it under the impression that “it looks bad”.

“Well, what should I make it out of?”

“Diamond.”

The ten year old mind is a mystery to me…

Anyway, then I showed him some pictures similar to these:

I reasoned that it would be easier to sway this kid toward another pretty block than trying to get him to stick to the materials of the time, so I asked him if he would like to help me replace my brick design with quartz (eh, it’s white).

Bam! One of the ten year old anarchists is dutifully building me a glittering gem hallway for our insanely rich monks.

The other three are off somewhere still yelling at each other and setting off explosives, but we have something built. Much to my surprise the kid asked if he could build the church next because he “wanted to build the most important part”.

Here’s where I learned something important. I don’t have ADD or ADHD but as I said before my brother does. When he gets fixated on something, he’s really gets into it. Once a few minutes had passed and this kid already had four walls up I decided to grid up the entire mission. One gets the church, one gets the farm, etc.

After playing the game with them for an hour, I had a pretty good idea of where each kid should go.

Church kid, I found, was very particular about materials and shape(hence his hangup over the brick). I gave him free reign over the outer walls of the mission and showed him the reference pictures to get him started.

My brother liked the farms most (he was building dirt domes over the cows don’t ask me how I made this connection it just worked, okay), so he was in charge of building pens for the animals.

Another kid was, at first glance, very loud and bossy when it came to decorating (constantly said we were making chairs wrong). Turns out he likes interior design, like putting benches and beds in the little rooms, so his bossiness was just frustration with my brother’s artistic sense I guess.

Another was very good with placing trees and plants around the exterior (I guessed this because he covered the place in a ridiculous amount of trees and I asked him if he would like to know where they are supposed to go). He got to make a vineyard for us and organized how the crops should go.

So how did it turn out?

Actually very nice!!

So what did we learn? Kids actually like to play games and be praised for their creativity and intuition. If I had just told them to stop messing around rather than direct their attention to areas within their interests, they never would have gotten anything done.

After an hour of gaming they:

  • Mirrored my language; “thank you!”, “which part are you working on?”, “I like this block.”
  • Realized each other’s strengths; “hey [kid name] can you help me with the roof?” “How do you make the big trees [kid name]?”
  • Were able to articulate exactly what they did or didn’t like without using force; “that looks good!”, “how about we put it there?”, “I don’t like that block, how about this one?”

On the plus side, since we moved the game file to my device for safekeeping, I now have a cute little souvenir of the time I played Minecraft with four ten year olds.

This is a really long post, but it’s super important. In games like Fortnite where you’ll find lots of kids, it’s important (if you can) to steer them away from toxicity. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into kids who talk like toxic adults and the act of just being nice to them completely turns them around.