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swarmkeepers -> tempestclerics

#moving blogs over to a Different pluralized version of the subclass of my dnd pc asdfghjkl #hi it's still me sola #finally able to like posts from my primary blog

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remaking the blog, refollowing a bunch of ppl, i'm not a bot i promise oof

mmm kinda wanna nuke my entire online presence and start over

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Ok I have beef with amatonormativity (the assumption that everyone prospers in an exclusive romantic relationship).

There’s a friend of mine. He’s a guy. He’s done a lot for me and I love him in a very naive platonic kind of way. They was you do your best friends.

When he gets happy his nose crinkles and his voice cracks and when he’s sad he gets the deeply pensive and world weary look and he’s always wearing shirts with holes in them.

He’s got two kids and the way he behaves with them just makes my traumatized heart hurt because he’s so gentle and wholesome and it’s so sweet.

I can’t talk to my mother about it because she always makes it wierd. In fact, most people like to make it wierd.

Can we just normalize having friends of different genders, different ages, different life-stages, and being allowed to love them? Why does love have to be this strange word that carries such a heavy stigma?

Isn’t it love to bake your injured friend a lasagna?

Isn’t it love to give someone a cool rock you found? Or a little trinket that reminded you of them?

Isn’t it love to want to make their day better and to see them smile?

Amatonormativity is killing kindness. Let me compliment people just because they look good in that shirt or because they have a nice smile. Just because. Let me be affectionate with my friends without it being wierd. Let me call them silly names or get them dinner without it automatically being called flirting.

Just let me love people in all the little ways i want to.

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aroooomantic

[ID: a drawing of a werewolf sitting and smiling with a wagging tail. they are holding a small aromantic flag beneath the writing "arooo". end ID]

#awww

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being a person is so weird bc i’ll be like “i wish my brain was kinder to me esp when i’m already having a hard time,” and then i remember that i’m my brain and i have to be kinder to me and that nobody else will do it for me

#mm post too loud

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It may be year of the rabbit everywhere else, but here in Vietnam its year of the cat! Happy new year! Chúc mừng năm mới!

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Some Gamechanger shows are like “we have brought together some of the absolute most talented people you have ever seen in your life in order to allow them to showcase their amazing skills in the guise of a friendly competition” and other Gamechanger shows are like “we are going to psychologically torment these people to see which one breaks first” and there’s no telling which is which until it’s too late

#game changer

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I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. I don’t want to.

#neverafter

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PLEASE tell me more about the Sheherazade/Simulation theory!

YEAH so that passage is from this book review of the arabian nights. the simulation hypothesis proposes that reality is a simulation (the theory has been pretty widely discredited, but it’s still fun to think about imo), and a thought experiment that endorses the theory asks us to consider the likelihood that humans will advance technologically to the point that we can create and run high-fidelity simulations of reality. if we concede that, at some point, this technology could be available to humans, we then have to consider the likelihood that such technology has already been invented and our reality is a simulation resulting from that technology. because if simulation technology is feasible, what's the likelihood that we're at the top of the chain of simulations? not terribly high. 

without a supercomputer to simulate a reality in which she survives, though, all scheherazade can do is tell stories. that’s the closest she can get to creating a new reality. so she tells stories about storytellers (who survive their stories!), creating a nesting doll of stories and their corresponding realities. and so eventually she’s created a story within a story within a story; what’s the likelihood, then, that she’s at the top of the chain of stories? not terribly high. which is a good thing for her! because if these stories are about people who survive, that means, as a character in a story, she is also going to survive. 

which is why i LOVED that in adventuring party they identified aesop as “a story telling a story,” especially considering The Authors are the cosmic horror of the season. in this world, telling a story is a powerful act, because when you tell a story the people in that story are at your mercy. we see this with mother goose’s book; to become a character in one of the stories in his book can be a form of protection (as it is for old king cole and jack), but it can also be a sentence to an eternity of fear/loss/horror (as it would be for little miss muffet were she to go into the book). scheherazade, mother goose, and aesop are The Authors to someone, and they have their own Authors who dictate the stories they’re living in. i am simply so obsessed with the idea that, by telling a certain kind of story, you can alter the story you’re living in and its outcome.

#neverafter

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I recreated Caravaggio’s “Judith Beheading Holofornes” in Kid Pix Studio from 1995 using a mouse

#blood #AJCORE

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Happy Lunar New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới! 

Vietnam is celebrating the Year of Cat this year, may we all go through life as blissfully as a cat! 

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the only thing stopping me from inviting my mutuals to have a coffee with cake and talk about our blorbos is geography 

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i might just be autistic but data entry fucking rules dudes you just. enter the data. you take the data and you plug it in. then what? who knows! who cares. the data. has been entered. what next? buddy you’re not gonna believe this it’s more fucking data. excel used to be my enemy but now she is my best friend

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“In an experiment revealing the importance of having friendships, social psychologists have found that perceptions of task difficulty are significantly shaped by the proximity of a friend. In their experimental design, the researchers asked college students to stand at the base of a hill while carrying a weighted backpack and to estimate the steepness of a hill. Some participants stood next to close friends whom they had known a long time, some stood next to friends they had not known for long, and the rest stood alone during the exercise. The students who stood with friends gave significantly lower estimates of the steepness of the hill than those who stood alone. Furthermore, the longer the close friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared to the participants involved in the study. In other words, the world looks less difficult when standing next to a close friend.”

— my new favorite psychological study, done by Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, and Proffitt and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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there's been an on purpose at the accident factory

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#ty for id #also. 100/10 url omg