#basic empathy

[celestialwhippedcream]

Billionaires don't deserve to die a slow, horrible, painful death.

Billionaires deserve empathy.

And not empathy from us, I mean they deserve to have empathy for the people they exploit.

Billionaires deserve to have a conscience.

Billionaires deserve to lose all of their money.

Billionaires deserve to be evicted.

Billionaires deserve welfare.

Billionaires deserve to sleep on the streets.

Billionaires deserve to knock on the door of a homeless shelter begging for a respite from the cold or heat.

Billionaires deserve humanity. Humanity that would turn their world upside down, and pull the cashmere rug out from underneath them.

Humanity that would radicalize them.

But that's just me!

#oceangate #titan submersible #billionares shouldnt exist #but that doesnt mean they should die #capitalism #anti capitalist #anarchist #communist #bill gates #mark zuckerberg #jeff bezos #basic empathy

[emperornorton47]

Stuff like this helps me when blocking people.

#woke #wokeness #Basic empathy #empathy #MAGAt bait #Woke is good #anti woke #Anti woke is a joke

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #155

Tony can be... a bit overbearing with his helicopter parent tendencies. To combat this, Peter sets up a small protocol with FRIDAY. 

Any time Tony wants to do something paranoid or invasive, FRIDAY is to send him a helpful article first, with titles like "Excessive Surveillance Can Harm Adolescent Development, Study Finds" and "Why Teens Need Privacy From Their Parents"

Peter leaves the choice of articles up to FRIDAY, trusting her to send ones that fit the situation.

While this protocol does get Tony to reconsider some of his more... extreme impractical requests, in most cases it fails to change his mind. Being hands-off about Peter's safety is not something he can do -- not when he knows the kinds of dangers this particular kid could face.

He's grateful for the insight that the protocol has given him, though. So instead of removing it, he decides to add to it. He asks FRIDAY to make it a two-way street. Now, whenever Peter complains about one of Tony's safety protocols, FRIDAY will send an article to help him understand

However, Tony doesn't anticipate the kinds of articles FRIDAY will choose. While she continues to send Tony studies and editorials, to Peter she sends news reports from Tony's past

Peter's mad that Tony has put trackers in everything he owns? -- "Tony Stark Still Missing: Inside Month Three of the Harrowing Search"

Peter hates the constant health monitoring that FRIDAY does when he's in the tower? -- "Death Wish or Death Sentence? Stark Behavior Tied to Secret Illness that Almost Cost Him His Life"

It goes on and on. For every seemingly insane overreach, there's a story, an experience Tony is trying to protect Peter from. 

They both still disagree about how much protection is too much, but at least they understand each other better now

#tony upon reading peter's articles: hmm. that's... actually pretty convincing. I guess I can see where he's coming from #FRI babe send pete something equally convincing so he can see my side #FRIDAY: here are tony stark's traumas age 0 to present- #irondad fic ideas #irondad and spiderson #iron dad and spider son #she basically bombards him with empathy #FRIDAY is truly a strategy queen #peter parker #tony stark #irondad #spiderson #ironfam #queueueueue #see announcements #also if tony ever complains that he didn't want FRIDAY to share all those personal things- #peter: payback's a bitch huh

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

Tumblr: “just because you look fine on the outside doesn’t mean you’re not suffering on the inside 🥺😢”

Also tumblr: “the hostages look fine (besides all the visible injuries), which proves they were treated well.”

Tumblr: “listen up men! Just because a woman smiles at you doesn’t mean she likes you. Women do that when creepy guys make them uncomfortable as a defense mechanism against violence.”

Also tumblr: “the Israeli hostage smiled at her kidnapper who held her captive while she was injured and who still holds her brother hostage. She must be in love with him! 😍”

Tumblr: “stop saying ‘children are adaptable.’ Childhood trauma scars you for life!”

Also tumblr: “those child hostages look fine.”

#israel hostages #hypocracy #the Hamas fandom is unhinged #all that critical thinking and nuance and empathy and basic understanding of human behavior #really went out the window #israel #antisemitism

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 2 - Psyche Skills

Part 1 - Part 3

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #disco elysium #MDZS disco elysium au #jiang cheng #jiang yanli #yu ziyuan #While it's more in vogue to draw a character's skill roster tailored to them - #One of the more subtle details I love in DE is how some of the skill portraits parallel character portraits of people hbd associates with. #Theres somethine rather poetic to be said about how other people shape out thoughts and sometimes act as a 'voice' in our head. #How we are in part a collection of impressions other people left behind on us. #I am a huge Skillhead (Those are my friends! My party members! They love me! They have their own agendas and alliances!) #so of course a healthy portion of this AU is dedicated to them <3 #the Int skills go basically unchanged from DE. Psy as well (with changes to a few quirks in voice). #Fys skills though...well...wwx is in a different body! Those voices belong to Someone Else. #Esp electrochem (MXY in this AU also partied to near death. WWX is withdrawing and craving substances he's never even heard of before) #While I personally don't fully subscribe to Volition Jean I *do* see Volition Jiang Cheng. The voice of your Not Brother keeping you afloat #All three of these parallels make me unbelievably sad. They are also both purple. Art is like that sometimes. #Empathy Jiang Yanli...oh man do I have a lot of thoughts about her. Disco fans Who Know....you can probably see what I'm cooking. #Authority is a really interesting skill in DE because *yes* its about power and intimidation - but it's also about finesse and respect #Titus Hardie and YZY both abuse *and* finesse how they establish their authority - in a way that leaves quite an impression. #2 more mdzs disco posts that I *need* to create and then I'm off to working on raffles <3

[deimcs]

WYLL approves of valiant acts of defending the innocent or the defenceless, and appreciates kindness towards children. Peaceful, but decisive actions resonate with him, and those that take a genuine interest in him and the struggles he faces are also well-liked by him.

#bg3edit #gamingedit #baldursgateedit #baldur's gate #bg3 #wyll ravengard #wylledit #userewbie #(hope it's okay if i'm tagging you ♥) #edits #this came out terrible cause i had to go to work mid making it #and i lost my flow #but i couldn't give up posting his sweet face so have it anyway :( #he says this to tav during the party but have you considered this is basically the core of who he is as a character #if only half the world would choose empathy and resilience and selflessness every single time! #if only baby girl! #anyway i'm kissing him on the forehead and wishing him sweet dreams as we speak #also i had to fight for my life trying to find art and models that didn't have mizora in it i'm--

[ranticore]

I gave up on editing and did this instead check it out. I had a rough time with the zeta because they kept getting too anthro dog-ish and I wanted them to read as primates. The one pictured there is a crew member on a whaling vessel (chef and lookout).

Image description and transcript of text below the cut:

[Figure 1 description: Front and side views of a zeta's face with the skull and external anatomy overlaid and separate. The skull is similar to a baboon's with massive broad fangs and a huge saggital crest on top for muscle attachment. Figure 2 description: a bar of colours ranging from dark brown, to reddish, to pale cream, to violet, to blue, to dark blue. Beneath it are several blue markings resembling a stylised 'A' or an arrow. Figure 3 description: a pair of zeta standing together. They are blue, brown, and cream in colour and wearing fancy black collars with dark tassels, and knuckle-guards to protect their feet. They have stocky muscular bodies and ape-like heads. One is propped up on their elbows over the back of the other, looking in a different direction.]

Text reads:

Terrestrial Zeta of Siren: Overview

Zeta are large quadrupedal mammals primarily found in the Eastern continent, the only area of significant continuous land. They are specialists at hunting and killing the local wildlife, most of which have strong chitinous shells and can be thought of as similar to millipedes or isopods. Zeta maxillary canines (1c) are the largest on Siren, laterally flattened and lacking sharp points, instead used to crush and split open the shells of their main prey, and they have huge saggital crests to support their jaw muscles. Zeta were formerly aquatic and still retain tail flukes and dense bones from that evolutionary era (3). They have a plantigrade, knuckle-walking locomotion and lack tongues. Zeta are marsupial and unisex.

Fig. 2 shows the coat colour variation. It is divided into red phase and blue phase shades. While most individuals have both phases, some are solely red or solely blue. Zeta are the only people on Siren who have naturally occurring blue pigments in their skin and hair, and blue eyes. The settlers who genetically engineered zeta also programmed in the logo of their megacorporation, which was a stylised blue letter 'A', which would appear like a tattoo from birth on the skin of zeta, formed of their own pigments. Over subsequent milennia, the logo has become indistinct and abstract, and the blue pigment is no longer limited to this particular marking, but found all over.

Kattakati

During the development of zeta, the genetic engineers wanted to produce a creature which would never have solidarity with a member of its own kind. They tampered with the brains of their creations, thinking that they had produced a creature with no sense of community, empathy, solidarity, or sympathy. In the intervening years zeta have developed a novel way to regain those traits, for their own survival. Early aquatic and terrestrial zeta developed a form of eusociality, viewing members of their pack as themselves, as limbs of one being, and over time this developed into the Dry Bowl practice of Kattakati pairing. This consists of a pair of zeta who have entered a binding agreement to consider one another a single being (3). Legally, socially, and culturally, a kattakati is one person. It has a single name and will not allow others to distinguish between its component bodies in any meaningful way, as they are supposed to be taken as a complete whole, together. It is frowned upon to consider the pair anything other than one guy. The two halves of a kattakati do not necessarily agree on all things, but this is not a contradiction; a person often thinks contradicting thoughts, and feels contradicting things. The nature of the bond is not platonic, romantic, or sexual, and a kattakati might make friends and date other people (you can't date just one half - you need to date the whole guy).

#told ya it was unethical #setting: siren #i know empathy is a charged word here but it's hard to discuss the effects of the GMO without falling back on it #they basically turned off the part of the brain that says We Live In A Society and a bunch of other stuff besides #is it scientific? no. i just wanted to explore what is necessary to reverse-engineer 'society' back into a population #speculative biology

[bartholomew-junior]

wooooo revived!clover! i have so many thoughts abt this au and they cannot all fit here so take some doodles

@brewingcoffi

#i am very shoddy at drawing kids and the most practice i’ve had in a while is the 5 souls drawing #so clover looks a lil half baked #shout out to ceroba who i cannot draw at all but who is having flashbacks of kanako #i imagine flowey’s getting desperate because clover is the 6th soul and the underground is almost free #and he yearns a lot for simpler times so he keeps clover in some basic attempt to hold on to past stuff #some “let’s entertain each other for a while longer” stuff #also the soul of JUSTICE losing all of their EMPATHY and EMOTION?? when that is the very basis of them? #their purpose? that’s huge stuff. and its all so flowey can get back at his dad. god this au is so cool #undertale yellow #uty #uty clover #flowey #flowey undertale #on the edge of my comically large seat waiting 4 the next lore drop #edit: how in god’s name did this get 100 notes

[pinkhysteria]

- “Finally, a familiar feeling. Luke didn’t take me over completely.” 

#tvd #bonkai #kai parker #you'd think luke was some captain save everybody bonnie-loving mother teresa #the way bk antis talk about him to discredit bonnie's relevance to these things djskjdsk #and a lot of chrs had basic human empathy from the get-go and never almost died for bonnie with it idkkkk. 🙈 #g* #kaiparkeredit #luke parker

[jebustraun]

oh go fuck yourself‼️‼️

#how the blackhawks are still getting away with repeated mismanagements while the sens got clapped for gambling (which the nhl promotes) #and because of their dogshit season they are gonna get another high up draft pick #praying they get fucking disbanded so bedard and celebrini can have a career somewhere that doesn’t lack basic empathy #chicago blackhawks #hockey #nhl

[bruciemilf]

Adam should be more worried about his son’s admirers than some bisexual’s hotel (Hazbin hotel folks you’re welcome)

#what I basically had in mind is that cain handles the murderers/killers but he judges them unjustly #you kill your abuser? hell #which is obviously an extremely unfair system. just because HIS murder was unjustified he views all of them to be the same #to me it’s an allegory of how little empathy and critical thinking the justice system puts into these things #very hot tho #hazbin cain #hazbin hotel #fanart #art #digital art #hazbin oc

[etoilelafleur]

“What’s considered a crime against you?”

People who demonise Velvet and baby Veneer, context?

I HATE PEOPLE WHO DEMONISE VELVET

#trolls 3 #velvet and veneer #trolls 3 band together #Y’ALL SEE A GIRL CHARACTER BEING A VILLAIN AND DRAG HER THROUGH THE MUD AND THEN BABYFY THE MALE VILLAIN BECAUSE HE’S SOFT AND UWU TO YOU #WHEN HE JUST DISPLAYS BASIC LEVELS OF EMPATHY #GET A GRIP ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

In defense of Jessica Drew, imagine you were the manager of Target then one day your boss came in and was like 'yeah imma need you to be the sole emotional supporter of this 16 year old girl who also lives here now good luck' meanwhile you're already pregnant and doing your job trying to run the store and shit

Damn wouldn't you be like 'sir I JUST work here I make $7/hr also im due in 12 days'

#give Jess a break she's just an employee #you wouldn't wanna become emotionally responsible for a teenager at your 9-5 either let's be honest and real #she didn't sign up for that just because she has basic empathy #Jessica Drew #Miguel O'hara #spiderman #spider man #atsv #across the spiderverse #Gwen Stacy #spider gwen #spidergwen

[zeravmeta]

sion holmes and trismegestus II watching guda defeat a beast just by telling her that her life and feelings aren't worthless and they never had to fight:

#nskzhax #the 3 smartest things on the planet SHOCKED that basic empathy kept a bnuuy from ending it all #zerav meme #fgo #fate grand order

[redbean-nom]

Ventress is really enjoying being the master for once huh. she finds an untrained clueless young force sensitive and immediately goes full Yoda mode with the balance-stuff-on-your-head test and accompanying cryptic commentary

and it's even funnier when you remember that qui gon in TPM checked anakin's midichlorians with basically a covid rapid test

#star wars #tbb #tbb s3 #tbb spoilers #the bad batch #asajj ventress #tbb omega #redbean talks #is ahsoka literally the only post-empire master/master adjacent trying to follow somewhat of a normal curriculum #what with the anakin training vids and all? #and then kanan's over there teaching ezra to use the force by throwing empty milk cartons at him on top of the ship #or throwing rocks at cats until ezra learns force empathy (to get the cats to stop attacking his face) #and ventress goes out to 'train' omega and accidentally summons a giant cuttlefish kraken thing #and then shes just like 'hm i did. not mean to do that. oh well this is a lesson now watch and learn' #stuff to draw #at first i wasnt sure abt force sensitive omega #but. since ventress is in the picture i will accept nightsister-trained force sensitive omega #basically like ventress' version of whatever maul was doing with ezra #she already has the green crossbow (and before that hte purple energy bow)!

[morethanwonderful]

Genuinely Zhou Ying from Tai Sui is one of the most insanity-inducing characters ever written, like

He's a prince. He's chronically ill. He eats almost nothing that isn't bland and medicinal. He hates his dad so much he wants to start a revolution to destroy him. He's born vaguely psychic and eventually becomes the closest thing his world has to omniscient. He starts his revolution by having two local politicians chopped into mincemeat, blended together, and poured out in the street. His favorite person in the world is his annoying little cousin that hides out at his house with him when he gets in trouble with his parents. He's probably a sociopath. He's murderous enough that all his servants and subordinates are scared of him. He has the same clothes made for himself every year. He founds and runs his universe's version of the CIA. He had his bones magically removed as a baby. He's a commentary on the way that psychotic and neurodivergent children are often villainized and mistreated by their caretakers. He has his bones un-removed over 20 years later. He's faking his chronic illness to cover up other, weirder chronic illness related to the bone removal and psychic thing. He loves his grandma. He purposely engineered his mother's miscarriage as a young child. He can turn himself into mist and break off chunks of his body while in mist form. He grew up with his consciousness halfway bound to a hell bubble full of demons. He has a personal assassin/assistant/general-purpose henchman that can turn into paper and ride around in his sleeve. He sometimes calls the henchman a cutesy nickname. He was partially raised by the living embodiment of emotional manipulation. He sometimes calls his annoying little cousin an even cutesier nickname. He tries to destroy the whole world in a fit of grief when he thinks his cousin's dead. He basically kills himself in order to plonk his soul into a magic mirror and see beyond the bounds of reality. He treats his own life and body as expendable assets because he was bred and raised to be a human sacrifice. He didn't speak for years as a child because the way he spoke scared his mother. His experience of the world is so alien and incomprehensible to others that a man with the power to play souls as music cannot understand his tune. He's a case study of the fact that sometimes you simply cannot save someone who doesn't want saving. He's thin and sickly from his illness but canonically beautiful. He has his father's eyes. He spoils his pet cat.

#like he's not even my favorite tai sui character #that honor goes to the main character himself mr. annoying cousin #but genuinely I have never encountered another character in fiction like zhou ying #I've written essay length posts about zy and all the ways he's similar to different characters written by the same author #but still I would say there is no character like zhou ying #he's chronically ill he's neurodivergent he's basically psychic he's kinda evil and has no empathy but is filled with love for his family #his desire to destroy the world is met by nothing but love and accepance from the protagonist. even as he stops him #he destroys himself successfully as the main character tries desperately and fails to stop him #literally no other character like him #tai sui #zhou ying #tai sui priest #priest #taisuiposting #tai sui spoilers #this post wasn't meant to be this long but I really got carried away talking about him #I love this novel #zhou ying my beloved