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Anonymous asked:

I love reading your thoughts and writings on everything--even when I don't agree with a particular stance, your thinking is so insightful and gives me a lot to grapple with. Do you have any advice for cultivating one's own ability to think critically and deeply? And any suggestions for theory or readings that you've found helpful for this? Thank you so much! 💕

ty!! i'm glad to hear it--i do try my best to be clear about what i believe & why as much as possible so it's nice to hear that i'm succeeding (esp. because i think marxist-leninists tend to be v. v. bad at this)

honestly i only have two pieces of advice which is 1. read as much as you're comfortably able, and 2. never take any preconception you have for granted. like, for me i think this started when i started doing my undergrad and realised 'oh wow newspapers just straight up lie about shit all the time'--from that point on whenever i encounter something that challenges my notions of something i actively try to drill down 'okay, on what grounds do i think this? what basic premises do i believe that lead me to think this, and what's the logical line between them?' sometimes you will be able to answer very easily--but sometimes you will run into a question mark, a missing stair, and from there you can explore the topic more deeply and come to a different position in a v. fruitful way!

it's helpful to have someone to talk out these things with, or even just to write them down into the void. start a blog (or if you dont want strangers getting mad at your thoughts) a journal. might feel silly but i guarantee that trying to explain your positions, even if it's to nobody at all, is one of the best ways to make yourself meaningfully grapple with them.

i also recommend trying to familiarize yourself with some theoretical lenses--not that you should immediately adopt one wholesale, but you should familiarize yourself with the bases of some models of how the world works, so that you can follow different trains of logic & evaluate different explanations for positions before discarding them. this isn't vital for the project of interrogating your own positions, but it provides a structured & easier way to do it than just kind of trying to blindly fumble through your own ideas.

(& obviously make sure you don't fall into any of the like, classic failure modes of being self-critical of becoming, like, a neocatholic trying to find penance and atone for all the Secret Bigotry in your heart or so on. i have never done this or anything like this but i feel the need to say this just bc i do see people on this web site especially be prone to this kind of thing and want to be clear that like assigning a level of moral guilt to having flawed presumptions and challenging them for yourself is self-destructive & not useful to anybody)

good luck, & remember that critical thinking is a skill like any other that requires development and practice, not a moral virtue or an inherent trait of the chosen few

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I'm rewatching Fantasy High and it literally just occurred to me for the first time that Coach Daybreak hates Fabian so much because Fabian's father is like. the epitome of what Daybreak sees as the wrong kind of people abusing Spyre's immigration and amnesty policy.

Riz telling Fabian that he's jumping into that corn monster's butthole for him... that was romance

the end of ep 2 really never stops being fucking crazy huh

the way Lou is like. entering a state of hysteria laughing so hard he's nearly sobbing demanding to know what the fuck Brennan has done. he's so dear to me.

Riz throwing up in Fabian's backpack. that was also romance. Fabian subsequently throwing the backpack across the parking lot with Riz inside of it? that was romance too.

like I get that Biz was never going to become a regular part of the crew because he was a Nice Guy skeeving on Adaine even before he got mind controlled but man. he was just a dumb teenage geek he was so excited to help get Sam out of the palimpsest :(

still gonna be funny when Riz shoots his fingers off tho

unhinged that the kids' first interaction with Jawbone is him telling Fabian to eat his hairy, crusty ass

the setup for the Black Pit fight is soooo good.... I wanna run something like that...

the party's only like level 3 when they have this fight which means Brennan has to kidgloves so all the PCs don't get fucking obliterated, but imagine how much you damage you could (ethically!) dish out with a nightclub full of monsters against a party of. let's say hypothetically. six characters who are all level 12.

the way Kristen managed to give an inspiring speech so bad that it ended in admitting that she tried masturbating with a corn cob. incredible. who is doing it like her.

the abandoned mithril factory skate park genuinely might be my favorite battle map throughout all of dimension 20 history. I just LOVE how many different layers of action there are for the players and NPCs to scurry around on, it's SO dynamic. also the pavement golem is !!!

not to be just hugely hugely biased towards the first season as the highpoint of the show because there is a lot of great stuff that comes later but god. Kristen really might be my favorite of Ally's performances on Dimension 20, they're just putting So Much into her and it's so funny and heartfelt and deeply weird. and that was their first time ever even playing d&d! their mind!

when Fabian wrote out an entire briefcase worth of hand-lettered calligraphy business cards for Riz. that was ro

misc notes from episode 11:

I understand if they didn't want to have two people playing any one class, and Emily ended up multiclassing as a warlock in Sophomore Year anyway, but it feels like such a waste that Fig didn't even take one level in barbarian. she would have been so fun with rages, just so Fig could pop off a nasty melee attack with her bass every once in a while.

also Fabian is just. consistently so sweet to Adaine like all the time? like back in the half-pipe battle he called her cute and told the Hangman to respect her, he makes a point of saying her school uniform is adorable when they go shopping in this episode, etc. I'm not saying this is a shippy way I just think it's very cute how Fabian just seems to really dig her.

seeing the Seven crop up as NPCs is so funny in hindsight, Ostentatia and Sam and ESPECIALLY Penny are just soooo different before Izzy and Persephone and Becca get in and make them insane. like Riz's whole relationship with Penny is so wild when you look back on it after the Seven because Brennan just describes her as like a fun babysitter but then it turns out that while Riz is a funky little investigator with a trigger-happy streak Penny is just like. straight up a cute lil stone-cold assassin.

obviously ACAB but Sklonda arresting Aelwen and telling Adaine's dad to suck her dick is so rad. cop thing aside Sklonda is the #1 milf in fantasy high.

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This is true. The frontal lobe uses as much as 30% of your daily caloric intake. Imagine if every day, you had to max out on frontal lobe usage just to cope with reality. It puts the nervous system into a stress situation and this further affects the body’s ability to use calories efficiently.

Being neurodivergent or disabled means masking, and masking is incredibly difficult for the body. It’s also very demanding on the brain.

Also “you don’t look autistic” is fucking stupid and ableist to say.

Running ActLikePeople.Exe is fucking EXHAUSTING, let alone ActLikePeopleExpect.

we can share comedy bits involving trans people without going “see THIS is how you joke about trans people without being transphobic” can we just enjoy the joke without being reminded everyone hates us for five minutes. please and thank you

Remember: women can regenerate your health if you think about them for long enough, but be careful on overcharging it

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i do nothing but think abt women everyday. have i overcharged it.?

Your natural yuri abilities have given you a resistance to this debuff, but at the cost of being easily flustered by women which temporary disables your abilities

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wow...! thanks for the tip! i think im finally ready to face the dark lord!

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ghhhooooohh fuck. shes sopretty.

yall with adhd or autism or such ever just get…. bored. like so Painfully bored. like its not “oh hehe i was so bored and i made this” to flex or “oh im so bored bc i have nothing to do” but like a “i am physically incapable of ending this horrible understimulation with any activity i might attempt” and its genuinely fucking painful

Bonus points if you try a bunch of things and none of them are right so you’re just walking a circuit around your place, getting increasingly frustrated about all the things you don’t want to be doing and not being able to settle on a task

Opening and closing the tabs on my computer hoping for the stimulation but getting nothing

yall with adhd or autism or such ever just get…. bored. like so Painfully bored. like its not “oh hehe i was so bored and i made this” to flex or “oh im so bored bc i have nothing to do” but like a “i am physically incapable of ending this horrible understimulation with any activity i might attempt” and its genuinely fucking painful

Bonus points if you try a bunch of things and none of them are right so you’re just walking a circuit around your place, getting increasingly frustrated about all the things you don’t want to be doing and not being able to settle on a task

Opening and closing the tabs on my computer hoping for the stimulation but getting nothing

modern au star wars. rey, poe and finn all live in a one bedroom apartment with poe’s corgi. rey doesn’t have a social security number. leia signed the lease so poe would stop sleeping on her couch. hux is kylo’s manager at the gamestop

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han and leia are divorced but have been living together anyway. luke lives on a ranch in the middle of nowhere in arizona and they used to visit him every christmas but eventually leia got tired of trying to figure out what “ok so there will be no signs at this point, but after three hours you’ll see a rock. turn there” means

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luke and han are the exact opposite sides of the antigovernment spectrum, which becomes a problem after luke realises he really loves drones

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luke was raised on the ranch by obiwan, who has technically been squatting there since the 60s

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padme had a will but anakin just had a piece of paper that said he thought obiwan should have his dogs and also his sword collection

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luke refuses to mail anything so when he wants leia to have something he just drives to california and puts the package on her porch. he has a really poor concept of what leia needs, could use or would like so half the time she opens these 20 year old boxes signed “LUKE, YOUR BROTHER” in fading pen to discover, like, a broken tv and a note that says “can han use this for anything?”

When children are young, the agricultural mafia tries to get their hooks into them. It is believed that an essential part of early childhood development is to learn about every animal you will see on a Western European farm, and to memorize their noises and favourite foods. Why is this, when most of these children will visit only a cubicle farm for the rest of their lives?

One argument is that schools are not solely a vehicle for career training for children, but instead a glorious academy where the passions and curiosities of the young mind can chase new ideas. That’s a really nice utopian belief, but even the folks pushing the “learn about cows” program don’t believe in it either. Here’s what I think it is: Big Pickup Truck wants you to think of yourself as a bit of a hayseed.

Crazy? Not so much. Think about the last time you got into a hobby or other intense volume of knowledge. There is a sort of arc, where at the start you felt like you really understood everything there was to know about the hobby. This happens about five seconds before you realize how little you actually know. If your local Chevy dealer can keep you at about that level of knowledge re: agriculture, you’re more likely to buy a bigger truck. Yeah, we need the half-ton, honey. What if we encounter a sick sheep? They go “baa.”

Primed with this baseline structure of factual farm-animal knowledge, North America is kept slavishly obedient to the pickup trucks. Barns, too, but that might just be because I keep wanting to look inside them to see if any shitty old pickup trucks are hidden within. Pickup trucks, you see, they go “vroom.”