#and its use and its prevalence

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

#dog books #this chapter was very sad reading #when you become aware of punishment #and its use and its prevalence #it's hard not to despair #again this is why positive reinforcement feels like absolution #maybe now my eyes are open I can make up for what I did #what I did because it's what everyone does #because it's more acceptable to punish than to do anything else #I've been having so many thoughts about punishment and society and justice #this book was very validating #another great validating moment in my jumbled thoughts #was listening to the You're Wrong About episode on justice #with Amanda Knox #it helped to ease the despair a little

[ghostly-cabbage]

We need to talk about the worst thing about making AUs....

The fact that then when you inevitably think about crossovers you don't want the crossover with the canon you want it with your specific AU. Your brain worms, your circus, but THEN WHAT?

Oh, yeah, to understand this crossover you need to go read this entirely different fic/series? Girl help 😭 you can't do that

#high-key this post is about the genrex x dp crossover I started way back when and how I don't think i'll ever be able to go back to it #bc fae and I have literally put such a massive amount of work into f.h:s and fleshing out the world and how everything works and #the characters personalities and development that I genuinely do not wanna write something in the canon universe anymore #like f.h:s has become my default way of thinking about Rex in a creative capacity #we're here just to suffer but also experience untold amounts of joy you know #we're really lucky here in the phandom bc fanon is so prevalent that people are willing to get in on the ground floor with any #wacky crazy fun hcs you can dish out #and i love it here for that #but for the smaller fandoms its... you cant expect your readers to already have an understanding of your specific au and bible length hcs #anyway #in a low-key way this post is also about how #last month Fae and i went insane for several days about our gen rex AU version of Rex ina crossover with Murderbot and it was so fun but al #It was just for fun and for us YES but I keep thinking about and it's objectively hilarious to write something that is for a max of 4 ppl #When you really get to it tho it was actually for a max of 2 people and those two people are named Kei and Fae

[razberrypuck]

fucked up that dropping gillion off for his training was done as unceremoniously as it was btw. it wasn't some grand goodbye, they didn't do anything special that day for their little boy -- it was just gillion and his father. his sister, his mother, his grandfather, they weren't there. it was just gillion, his father, and a quiet, possibly several day long trip to the capital. it was just gillion and his father at the steps of the palace, just his father that saw the big smile on his face, heard the little boy's promises of telling them everything when he got home. no one had even bothered explaining what was going on to him. he had to figure it out on his own, when papa never came back.

#obviously gill has /loads/ of mommy AND daddy issues #but i think the simple fact that it was reed and reed alone that brought him to the palace #is why his daddy issues are SO prevalent #like hes called SO many people “papa” (as opposed to “mom”; which hes only /really/ used for aster and lunadeyus) #and its just. auauaaggdhghg #he doesnt necessarily think about falyn and reed as his own parents anymore; he asks edyn about their wellbeing like she isnt his sister #(referring to them as “The parents” rather than “Our parents”) #but hes so desperate for that parental connection. he always has been. #and it makes me. emotional. #i want to meet his parents. i want HIM to meet his parents. #i want him to have the opportunity to build a relationship with them #or to find some kind of closure; at the very least. #jrwi riptide #jrwi #jrwi show #just roll with it #gillion tidestrider #jrwi gillion

[spooksier]

also btw that passage about media consumption as activism and the idea of "gayboring" (this post) are twin sisters to me because when you see media consumption as activism and therefore as a reflection of real life, any gritty or unsavory or "weird" aspects of any marginalized culture/community gets completely sanitized in favor of portraying an "ideal" form of that community in the eyes of consumerism (i.e.: boring and safe and non-confrontational)

#text! #might need to write a whole paper about 'gayboring' as a concept because it is....it's so prevalent rn....... #ofmd s2 and wwdits post-s2. who said that. #not to say they're bad stories just that they (in my humble onion) are using queerness to avoid actually writing plots #bc who needs plots when you have ao3 tropes lol #it's literally why i stopped advertising myself as a 'queer artist/trans artist/black artist' bc its being turned into a selling point #rather than a real life #(again in my humble onion) #sorry im working on my final research paper im in a writing mood

[oifaaa]

actually i prefer mexican dubs to american english dubs because they're more faithful to the Japanese script (usually)

My friend you have missed the point doesn't matter if you are watching sub or dub or reading the manga unless its in the og Japanese your getting a translation English Spanish Portuguese Irish they're all very different from Japanese they all change things to make it make sense its also good to point out that it's not one translator for one language there are multiple people whose job it is to translate and they also deserve to be rated on their own merits anyway if you enjoy the Mexican dub over the American English good for you you don't have to try and justify it just enjoy the show how you enjoy it

#ask #anon #for example ive heard the jjk official manga translation has had issues with the translator doing a poor job #thats one person doing a bad job at translating #sorry about going off on you a bit friend #but as you probably know the whole translation argument #its very prevalent in the dub vs sub argument #even tho its still english #sure one has to match the animation #but the other still cant sit there trying to explain all the little words we don't have in English #they used to try its didn't go great #also still needs to make sense in a english conversation

[lakeinstillness]

I see so much ableist content being made and reblogged about tim on tumblr and other websites. stop using his schizophrenia purely for angst and then forgetting it exists outside of that. schizophrenia isnt just the "my dead loved one showed up as an hallucination to talk to me" disorder, yet its a LOT of the content I see, most of which is by people who arent psychotic.

people ignore that hallucinations can take other forms. yes, psychotic people can hallucinate dead loved ones, and it's not the only form of representation that we deserve. every schizospec and psychotic person's experience will be different and not everyone will have the same symptoms. not every schizospec or psychotic person will even have hallucinations as part of their disorder.

we see the insane asylum AUs, the AUs where a character goes ""p*ycho"" or ""insane"" and either starts murdering people or is a poor little tragic pitiable thing where they end up dead at the end. the "psychopath" AUs, and the fan media where masky is violent, evil, or malevolent and tim cant do anything about it.

the content you make where you clearly dont understand schizophrenia, DIDOSDD or any other stigmatized disorder you claim to be representing. where the bare minimum research is done before you start talking about those disorders. countless, countless other examples.

schizophrenic people see your posts. schizospec and psychotic people see the ableism you perpetuate and spread. people with DID/OSDD, disorders that have an increased chance of psychosis but are not the same as schizophrenia, see your posts, and your anti-system ableism. especially in regards to masky and tim.

our symptoms are laughed at and material for #schizoposting or r/fakedisordercringe. if we speak up about ableism then we get people messaging us purposefully triggering and paranoia inducing messages. we're treated like oddities, people ask invasive questions without asking if that's even okay first, and they make assumptions without even knowing anything about us.

if you have depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, etc - you can still perpetuate ableism. schizospec people, psychotic people, and systems are constantly having to prove our humanity. we shouldnt have to. we shouldnt have to constantly see people refuse to understand our experiences.

Im asking you to educate yourselves. read about the experiences of actual schizophrenic people. understand that hallucinations are only one possible symptom among many others. read actual research for DID/OSDD. please be critical and keep an open eye for ableism against schizospec people, psychotic people, and systems. I implore you to take this post to heart and think critically about what posts and media you interact with and the content you create in the future.

#marble hornets #ableism #sanism #theres been a lot Ive been seeing lately. #its really hurtful. #like Ive said before. its not just someone made an ableist post - 50 other people agreed with that post. either by liking or reblogging it. #of course its not just one post that Im talking about. but you get the metaphor. #please do research. sources that are respected and legitimate. our personal experiences are important too but you cant just depend #on one or the other. please do independent research and listen to our voices. #dont rely on us to educate you every single time you have a question. google can answer a lot of questions. but reach out if you cant find #answers. sometimes theyre hard to find through search engines. #sometimes its exhausting to look at the marble hornets tag. ableism is still prevalent.

[sparklecarehospital]

Does polly still have TUC in multicare :0

he does! :] he just manages it a little better

#they use a cane for mobility sometimes tho #its more the drowsiness that isnt as prevalent. he has a bit more...emotional expression as well #answers #multicare au

[thebewilderer]

hey can we please stop using medical terms to describe normal fucking human experiences

you're not "dissociating", you're just zoning out

you're not "hyperfixated", you're just focused

you don't have "maladaptive daydreaming", you just daydream

you're not "stimming", you're dancing

you're not "so autistic about [topic]", you're just intetested in it

it's not "a touch of the tism", it's someone playing with a fidget toy

There's been a lot of pushback lately on here about people colloquially saying things like "the weather's been bipolar lately" or "that's psychotic" and "I'm so OCD about this" and "so-and-so is a narcissist". Which is great! But it is absolutely infuriating that these standards don't appear to apply to autism or ADHD.

The same people who comment about how it's ableist to say "that's schizo" will inevitably be reblogging dozens of posts using "autisticly" as an adverb, or featuring "autism be upon ye" and "autism creature" memes, or calling Tumblr the "autism website".

It's incredibly frustrating that for whatever reason, this website has decided that autism and ADHD aren't "real" disorders and don't deserve the same respect y'all give to things like schizophrenia or BPD.

#autism #actually autistic #adhd #actually adhd #also not to poke bears but a lot of the people doing this claim to have autism or adhd as self diagnosed disorders #not all of them but a HUGE portion. maybe lets stop treating disorders like personality traits mmkay #self diagnosis #self diagnosed adhd #self diagnosed autism #oh im tagging all of it im furious #its more prevalent with autism from what ive seen here but yall using a lot of terms exclusive to adhd for your daily life emotions #ih #misc #me being problematic probably

[clonerightsagenda]

I suppose it speaks to how much we internalize cultural narratives that Jonathan Stroud's work is consistently critical of British imperialism (Bartimaeus being about how empires rise and fall and rot from within and how they rely on oppression, slavery, and theft; Lockwood & Co featuring the rich and powerful extracting resources from the literal afterlife and demonizing the people displaced by their actions while taking advantage of the chaos to profit and consolidate power) but other cultures are still mostly portrayed as a source of artifacts and curiosities for the British to use and study despite there being an entire sequence making fun of the British Museum.

#none of us are immune from this #thinking of that post I wrote about NVP's Native American hole in its heart #anyway I am not expecting flawless politics from a mg/ya series #so my biggest critique is actually the fatphobia #which is prevalent in many things but seems REALLY prevalent in British kids books in particular #bartimaeus trilogy #lockwood and co

[stagefoureddiediaz]

the space mobile being so prominent behind Shanon got me thinking thoughts and all up in my feels - space theming continues around Christopher and his parents and I'm watching with my eyes on stalks at this point

#space theming my beloved #the fact Shannon can be part of the universe now is so important #she was so intertwined with the dinosaur theming before this and now the space theming is much more prevalent #and the only time it has been with her before now is when she wasin Christophers bedroom before she came back into his life #then it was a rocket ship #in combination with sitting the three of them in the same place during their various scenes - the use of yellow - the entire scene #it all plays into the Buckley-Diaz family and Shannons place within it no longer being historic but a central if absent part of it #I've very very in my feels about the choices they made to position Buck and Shannon alongside one another and Eddie - its really beautiful #911 spoilers

[yookodee]

isnt alastor like. creole and white. not black. why do people keep saying he's black am i missing something.

#like come on man its mixed rep in media 😕 #mixed rep for those of us who didn't really take as many poc features as possible #im black/white not creole or anything but i didn't get coily hair so i can look like a slightly more tanned white person #if you're not familiar with black facial features ofc #but like come on guys why is very visibly black alastor so prevalent im like really sure he's creole/white #and creole ppl need rep too???? like come on losers #mad about mixed rep #hazbin hotel #alastor #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor

[twistedmaiden]

So those "how to not fanonize a character" and "fanon is all awful annoying characterizations" and all those posts/"guides" are really starting to sound like those "how to no write a MaRY sUE!!!" guides and warnings from the early 2010s and stuff

It's kinda pissing me off

You're starting to sound way too similar to the "fans" that like to grill people on canon to make sure they are REAL FANS™

#i get being mad that people will take fanon as law too #but people like fanon stuff because its usually FUN and its popular for a reason #if you don't like a part of fanon you can ignore it just like you can parts of canon???? #its starting to get away from just being annoyed by the prevalence of fanon stuff and becoming the 'well ACTUALLY' #kinda of stuff we used to make fun of annoying fanboys that would quiz people on to make sure they were a 'real fan' #its obnoxious #if you care SO much about canon then why are you in a fandom #just go back to the source material

[fiapple]

repeat after me: if you are the descendent of colonizers living on stolen land, you do not get to judge the methods of decolonial resistance movements.

#this isn’t in relation to the last reblog itself it just reminded me of something #thoughts #sarahofmagdelene has some good shorts about this on insta though #like specifically abt how it relates to white feminism + patriarchal notions of (white) womanhood #the skinny of it being that white women tend to impose the standards of white womenhood laid out by white patriarchy onto those who they ar #*womanhood #(​sorry all over the place today) #complicit in the oppression of with the added specifically racialized view of violent resistance through the lens of various savage tropes #have to get a copy of her book after the strike tbh #but yeah i think a lot about this in congruence with how authoritarianism is such a deeply engrained aspect of whiteness & how that itself #contributes to the attitudes being discussed here being so prevalent even among my fellow white people who consider themselves leftist or #progressive (& how that relates to how many white people are liberals/neoliberals posing as being farther left than they are) #but if we were to relate this specifically to the last reblog i would like to point out that another part of that is the whiteness frames #good & bad as an immutable either/or binary & the way super fucked up notions of purity play into whiteness #which (not an excuse absolutely not acting like this is still 100000% white supremacist at its core) is what leads my fellow white people t #be so fearful of having current or past wrong doings pointed out as such & why so many are more concerned with being seen as racist than w #the actual racism they perpetuate/garner privilege from #because that means being horrible with no chance of change (thoug oppressed ppl do 100% hold the right to view their oppressors as such #the white guilt this often leads to when self imposed is what leads to attitudes like the article from the last post describes) #(& so the difference of perspective in the oppressed feeling that way & the oppressor using it to self flagellate is v important here) #& all of this is ultimately rooted in the carcerality inherent to whiteness as a social construct #both in terms of the far worse tangible violence imposed upon poc (particularly black people & fn ppl here in canada) & the carceral view o #morality white “culture” imposes upon those white people who are unwilling to fully do the work to divest from whiteness #hope this is coherent #also if any of this is out of line plz lmk #but basically to cut to the chase power (& as a result empowerment of the oppressed) viewed through the lens whiteness has set for it will #always be fucked up & lead to completely racist conclusions about liberation movements for poc #& the reason i mention this in relation to decolonial movements specifically is due to whiteness being an inherently colonial construct it’ #*itself #racism

[evilmagician430]

who up sinning their fest

#one of my worst recent hyperfixations i'll admit #and i dont even have an excuse like ohhh i used to read this back in the late 2000s before all the terf shit #no i got into it in late 2023 this school year cause i stumbled across the tvtropes page #and i was like 'sinfest'? isnt that the name of that terf Twitter comic? but the cover image showed a sick ass artstyle so i read it #and im just obsessed with it now its such a strange spectacle. its like a political cartoon and a newspaper comic at the same time #my fav era has gotta be late 2000s maybe early 2010s sinfest... hell maybe even mid 2010s sinfest if i ignore the sisterhood #now every strip is just about jewish people or calling trans women groomers #and almost every once-likable character is now canonically a terf and/or racist and/or antivaxxer etc #or theyre just not in the comic at all anymore like my dear criminy and fuschia #i hope we never get another appearance from them godbless #cause last time we saw criminy he was helping squig and slick break a terf out of she/her penitentiary. with fuschia's permission #theyre definitely the best part of 2010s sinfest. a bygone era #the best part of 2000s sinfest is the sharp artstyle and lil e just being evil #and the best part of 2020s sinfest seems to be. um. laughing at how ridiculous it is? its kind of hard to enjoy though. #i intend to stay updated on it because i like being able to say i've read all of sinfest start to finish #but man i gotta get an adblocker soon cause i read it on the official website cause idk how else to read it online and the ads are constant #really funny when ur reading a strip criticizing the prevalence of ads in our day to day life #not as funny when you remember tatsuya is probably making money off of them. so yeah im gonna install ublock #but the problem is i usually read it on my school computer to pass time. and that technically isnt my computer so i cant download ublock #anyways. i could ramble on about how much i love and hate and am obsessed w sinfest all day but heres some fanart of the characters. #id like to make my own headcanon version of sinfest aka sinfest if it was good #but headcanons arent enough... i need to kill tatsuya ishida #sinfest #squigley sinfest #monique sinfest #lil e sinfest #the devil sinfest #tangerine sinfest #images that are horrid to see and look at #mspaint

[skyburger]

"fnaf is the scariest game ever" "no its silent hill" "well i think its resident evil" everyone shut up!!!!!! youre all wrong. its actually zack & wiki quest for barbaros' treasure (on the nintendo wii) but only the level "keeper of the ice". that level scared me so bad as a kid and you can tell because its the only individual level i remember the name of off the top of my head. like there is nothing scarier than a) being chased and b) being on a time limit. and you know what this level has? BOTH OF THOSE. this level is still scary to me im like AHHHHH!!!! and then i die

#i had to google horror games after i thought really hard for silent hill and fnaf #because like. resident evil is just not a horror game in my mind... its just cool zombie game... #to be fair though. the only one i actually played a portion of was re6 which is probably the least scary one in the whole series #anyway do the kids still find silent hill and fnaf scary. i dont know. #well the former id say yes given how prevalent ps1 horror has been in recent years #fnaf i have no idea. im a massive wuss so its scary when i play it for myself #but watching someone else play them especially when i know them well isnt scary #and ive watched fnaf videos for YEARS #so i dont know. (old man voice) these damn kids... back in my day we watched markiplier scream at freddy fazbear and we LIKED it! #anyway its objectively a horror game and thata literally fine thats all i needed for this post #MY POINT HERE. my point here #IS THAT HIT ZACK AND WIKI LEVEL KEEPER OF THE ICE. IS SOOOOO SCARY #its not that scary but i see tjat level and im like 3 years old making my mom play this level for me again #and for the record yes me and my sister really did make our mom help us with z&w #she remembers helping us with frost breath the most because we like did notttttt get that one at all #and she could never remember how to do the mirrors based on what combination of stands is there (because tjeres like a few variations) #so she always had to look up a guide 😭😭 #my poor mother on fucking gamefaqs or something in like 2010... legends only #anyway if you have no idea what level im talking about (any of my oomfs reading this that isnt end) (hi end) PLEASE look up this level #and i need you to think of like a 5(?) year old making her mom play this game. #this aforementioned child is still a massive wuss as an adult btw. some things never change #anyway watch that level and think about how someone like me. whos already a scaredy cat! #imagine how someone like me felt at age 5 possibly younger playing this level #I WISH I COULD LIKE CONVEY EMOTIONS OVER TUMBLR. why cant i attach a .emotion file to this post #anyway ramble over <- hes said that like a million times today #scariest level in a game ever...!!!!! FUCK that keeper of the ice bitch im GLAD he died #muffin mumbles

[aro-bird]

It's so disgusting to see so many alloallo people straight up spew arophobic and acephobic rhetoric that literally came from stupid ass discourse from like six years ago like COME ON

Using shit like "Ace and aro people had never been oppressed!!!" really shows your ignorant ass

It doesn't matter how much we try to explain to them that we are constantly dehumanized, ostracized, and even vilified because of our orientations because they don't fucking care

It doesn't matter how much we try to say that our sexuality and romantic orientation is still being medicalized, how it's seen as a disorder, and how so many people still try to "fix us" with conversion therapy because they don't fucking care

It also doesn't matter how many stories, articles, or studies we show them about aro and ace people being erased, harassed, threatened, or even killed for their identities because THEY DON'T FUCKING CARE

#mayaposts #the disk horse #im not gonna maintag this bc im way too tired #i hate how prevalent this rhetoric still is just neatly covered up bc it's addressed to ''cishet men'' or whatever #besides if you look at those notes and tell me wih a full chest hat they're just talking abt ''the straights'' and not #abt aro and ace people? #i wont believe you #you know why? #bc ive seem this kind of shit thrown at us for years #its disgusting that so many people think that way and im so sick of it