#feel free to add on!

[ehh-balance]

i can’t stop thinking about the rage tokens and the bad kids and who it would be most painful for each of them to blow up on if they ever reach 5 tokens (aside from another bad kid)

riz i feel like would obviously be his mom. sklonda has seen a lot of what the bad kids go through and has helped riz whenever she can (loam farms, the end of the corn cuties, the end of the sisterly showdown, kalvaxus) she’s seen riz STRESSED out and for him to finally snap. i feel like to have a kid who’s always been so grateful and recognize what an awesome parent you are to finally snap and yell and get angry at you, has gotta hurt as a parent

there’s an argument for either jawbone or aelwyn for adaine. but jawbone is definitely a well adjusted adult who deals with mental health struggles as a guidance counselor so i feel like jawbone wouldn’t take it too hard. and i know adaine and aelwyn still have an antagonistic relationship but lemme tell you. when you’re close to someone like that, you can tell the difference when someone is really pissed off or just joking around. and aelwyn is probably still pretty torn up about how she treated adaine. and adaine probably knows that so she would totes use that to hurt aelwyn if she was ready to boil over from stress

i don’t know if i would want kristen to blow up at bucky or cassandra. i would love a scene where kristen snaps at bucky and bucky snaps back. bucky definitely has got to have some strong feelings about kristen leaving and basically not talking to him for like two years. but imagine cassandra finally being strong enough to reach out to communicate with kristen and kristen snapping at her again after all the work she’s put in to try to make it up to cassandra for the first time

i don’t have time rn to do everyone but i might come back and get the rest of the bad kids

#feel free to add on! #gimme the angst #d20 fantasy high #d20 fhjy #fhjy #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #adaine abernant #aelwyn abernant #riz gukgak #fantasy high #cassandra fantasy high #bucky applebees #sklonda gukgak

[gothhabiba]

Some hints about evaluating scientific studies

Firstly, understand that something being published in a scientific journal (or an academic journal for the social sciences) does not automatically make it true. Publishers profit from publishing novel, eye-catching, surprising research, which means they are more likely to publish positive results than ones that didn't find a connection between given variables. This means that scientists' careers benefit when they get positive results. Certain institutions also benefit from certain findings above others (a committee for research on "obesity" that is funded by a government organisation tasked with ending it, for example, is likely to try to stretch the evidence to find a link between body weight and poor health outcomes). So how do people evaluate scientific studies, especially without being scientists themselves?

Literature reviews

Literature reviews, which aim to assemble and summarise most of the available or influential papers on a given issue, can be a good place to start when trying to research that issue. Typically, scientific studies shouldn't only be evaluated on a case-by-case basis (since even well-designed studies can be contradicted by other, equally well-designed studies), but a full survey of the different results people have gotten should be taken.

Background information and conflicts of interest

Try to find out who funded a given study. Who published the study? What do these people stand to gain from the results of the study being accepted? (For example: you might pay special attention to the experimental design on a study on whether a certain essential oil helps to reverse hair loss that was carried out by a company that sells that oil.)

In theory, many journals call for study authors to declare any conflicts of interest they may have in a special section of the paper. This section should also list funding sources. You might also look up the authors on linkedin or something to find where they're employed; also look into whether another conglomerate owns that company, &c.

Experimental design

If the study involves a survey, have the authors of the paper provided the questions that people were asked, so that you can evaluate them for potential ambiguity or confusing wording? Not being transparent about the exact wording of questions is a sign that a study isn't trustworthy.

What's the sample size? Is it large enough for the claim the study is making to be reasonable? (More on this in the next section.)

Does the experimental design make sense with what the researchers wanted to study? Are the claims that they make in the conclusion section something that could reasonably be proven or suggested by the experiment that they performed?

Does the experimental design "bake in" an assumption of the truth of its hypothesis? (For example, measuring skeletons to argue that they fall into statistically significant size groupings by sex, using skeletons that you sorted into "male" and "female" groups based on their size, is clearly circular).

How was data collected? People might change their answers to a survey, for example, if they have to speak to a person to give them, rather than writing them down anonymously. Self-reported information (such as a survey aiming to figure out average height or average penis size) is also subject to bias. A good study should be transparent about how the authors collected their data, and be clear about how this could have affected their results.

Also regarding surveys: do the categories that the authors have divided respondents into make sense? Are these categories really mutually exclusive? If respondents were asked to sort themselves into categories (e.g., to select their own race or ethnicity), is there any guarantee that they all interpreted the question / the boundaries of these categories the same way? How would this affect the results?

Interpretation of results

Could anything other than the conclusion that the authors came to explain the results of their experiment? For example, a study finding a correlation between two variables and assuming that this means one variable causes the other ("being in a lot of stress causes short stature" or vise versa) could be missing a secret third thing which is in fact causing both of those things (e.g., poverty). Check to make sure that the authors considered other explanations for their findings and ruled them out (for example, by controlling for other variables such as socioeconomic status).

Are the results of the study generalisable to the population that the authors claim they're generalisable to? For example, the results may not be true for the entire population if only cisgender men between the ages of 30 and 40 were tested. Sampling biases can also affect generalisability—if I surveyed my college to try to find out the percentage of women in the total population, you might ask "but is your college sure to have the same percentage of women as the Earth does?"

Statistics

Are the results statistically significant, or are they within expected margins of error?

Many studies provide a p-value (a number between 0 and 1) for their results. In theory, a p-value represents the chance that the study's results could have been achieved by random chance. If you flip a coin ten times (so, your sample size is 10), it's not very odd to get heads six times and tails four times, and you wouldn't accept that as proof that the coin lands on heads more often than tails. The p-value for that result would be high (that is, there's a high chance that the coin appears unfair only because of random chance). On the other hand, if you flip a coin 100,000 times and it lands on heads 60,000 of those times, that's much better evidence that the coin is not a fair one. The p-value would be much lower. Typically, a p-value lower than 0.05 is considered statistically significant.

In practice, there's more than one way to calculate p-values, and so studies sometimes claim p-values that seem absurdly low. A low p-value is not proof of a claim in and of itself. Check to make sure that the authors of the paper also provide the raw data, and not just the p-values; this indicates a concern with other people being able to independently evaluate their results, rather than just trying to get The Best Numbers.

Citations

If the study cites something that seems foundational to their claims or interpretation, try tracing it back to the paper that was cited. Does the source actually claim what the authors of the first study said it did? Does the source provide proof or support for the claim, or does it seem flimsy, like a "common-sense" assumption?

Replication

Check the studies that cite the one you're currently looking at. Has anyone else tried to replicate the study? What were their results?

What if I really, really don't want to read scientific studies?

That's fine. Not everyone is concerned enough with specific scientific questions for regularly reading scientific papers to be reasonable for them. Just keep in mind that not everything in a scientific journal is necessarily true; that profit motives and personal and institutional bias impact results (e.g. when some studies revealed a lack of poor health outcomes for "obesity," and many scientists responded by calling it a "paradox" that needed to be "solved"); and that pop science and journalistic reporting on science are subject to distortions from the same sources.

Try finding commentators on scientific matters whose output you like, and evaluate their writing the same way you would evaluate any other critical writing.

#feel free to add on! #this doesn’t really incorporate the extent of my cynicism wrt to scientific establishment but. lol #reading comprehension #critical thinking

[mamma-mia-mammon]

starting a mams & asmo collection

#literally hearts guys #feel free to add on! #obey me asmodeus #obey me mammon

[writingintheforests]

Favorite Hurt/Comfort Phrases

- Easy, easy.

- Shh. Shh. Breathe, just breathe for me.

- It’s okay. You’re okay.

- No, don’t do that. I know it hurts. I know, I’m sorry. Don’t do that.

- I have you. You’re safe now, you’re safe now. I have you.

- I’ve got you. Hey, hey, I’ve got you.

- Look at me. Look at me. I’m right here.

#feel free to add on! #the ​comfort in hurt/comfort is imperative to me #hurt/comfort #whump tropes #whump #whump dialogue #could also be #whump prompt

[teencopandthesourwolf]

THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN EVERY EPISODE OF TEEN WOLF EVER

part i (part ii HERE)

17 different heart attack-inducing storylines all overlapping with one another with some genuinely excellent concepts and lots of cool af lore that's executed so terribly it convinces you that whomever is in charge must surely be a hamster

werewolves and teenagers alike with some seriously debilitating mental conditions running around like they're contestants on the wheel of fortune

scott pining loudly over allison, pre or post allison's death, regardless of who he is dating at the time

beautiful beautiful derek "my whole family died and i'm being soso brave about it and trying to make myself a new one by collecting teen misfits and putting them in a plastic tupperware box but forgetting to poke holes in the lid bc i'm on the spectrum and trying to process and deal and grow as a person is really tough when life keeps getting harder instead of easier and will somebody please PLEASE just give me a break" hale.

deaton being a smug little twat

STILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTILESSTI

greenberg being the star of the show

lydia slaying

everybody apart from stiles running around like headless chickens while stiles tries to tell everybody what they need to do but none of them ever listen to stiles so stiles has to do something drastic and dangerous then everybody is all like OMG STILES WHY DID YOU DO THAT THAT'S SO DRASTIC AND DANGEROUS WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU and stiles has to try his best not to eviscerate every single fucking one of them bc he is a good friend to scott

jeff davis doing his doggone constipated best to debunk sterek by writing dialogue/giving directions that hilariously just ardently confirm sterek even more with each epically gay scene

scott sending out thee biggest punch me i'm a motherfucker vibes

AUTISM

danny mahealani stealing the hearts and minds of young and old alike

dylan o'brien being extremely kind by trying his absolute best not to show up all the other actors with his scene-stealing, oscar-worthy performances every second he is on screen and failing miserably.

scott ignoring his phone

mama mcall being so real and a milf

derek's eyebrows being an actual main character

scott auditioning for a new cutting edge reality tv show show called: GIVE ME A NEW PERSONALITY BEFORE SOMEBODY ENDS MY LIFE FOR ME!

boyd being better than everybody else

57% of scenes being filmed in beacon hills high school

41% of scenes being filmed in beacon hills hospital

peter hale, cunt, rocking your world whether you like it or not

(part ii HERE)

#feel free to add on! #emo lycanthrope romantic comedy my beloved <3 #teen wolf #the one and only #show of all time #gay werewolves #freaks and geeks with magic #the biles bilinski diaries #and scott #lol #sterek #team woof #tw meta #every episode of teen wolf ever #tcats posts #a wolf and his queueman

[dreary-clouds]

systems with tiny headcounts i love you, systems with huge headcounts i love you

systems that remember your trauma i love you, systems that don't remember your trauma i love you

systems with very similar alters i love you, systems with very different alters i love you

systems who want to pursue functional multiplicity i love you, systems who want to pursue full fusion i love you

your experiences are all valid.

#bee.txt #feel free to add on! #endos please dni #system #traumagenic system #system positivity #did #osdd #osddid #did positivity #osdd positivity

[starburstsobsessions]

#Feel free to add on! #lesbian #sapphic #Wlw #hozier #Thor #Daniel Howell #Harry styles #frank iero #mcr #Poll

[iamthecomet]

have you done ghoul teeth headcanons before? like, whos got straight teeth, crooked teeth, chipped, etc? i think mountains got a little chip in his left fang, but from what i dont know

Ghoul teeth!!! Ghoul teeeettthhh!!!

Dewdrop has a couple crooked teeth. Namely, his top right fang making for interesting bite patterns when he sinks them into something. Has top and bottom fangs--a left over from being a water ghoul.

Mountain definitely has a chip in his left fang. He won't talk about how it happened. Dew started a rumor that it's from chewing on rocks.

Cumulus has a gap between her front teeth. Her fangs are shorter than everyone else's--but still just as effective. She's proud of her teeth, she knows they make her adorable.

Aether’s fangs are oversized, one of them is gold. It got knocked out by Ifrit during his first heat topside. He's also missing a back molar from a similar incident.

Swiss the only ghoul with perfect teeth. They're almost a little too perfect. He's very proud of them and takes extra good care of them.

Cirrus long, sharp fangs that she takes very good care of. Her teeth are a little crowded, especially on the bottom. Her teeth are very white--almost too white. Her smile looks dangerous.

Rain has double fangs. His normal canines are long and sharp, the ones directly next to his front teeth are shorter, but also razer sharp. He has sets on top and bottom. One of the shorter fangs has the tip chipped off of it.

Sunshine has a chip in one of her front teeth. It happened during her first week topside when Dew accidently hit her in the tooth with his horn. Her fangs are extra sharp.

#comet canons #crow ♡ #ghoul headcanons #ghost headcanons #ghoul teeth #feel free to add on! #dewdrop ghoul #aether ghoul #rain ghoul #cirrus ghoulette #cumulus ghoulette #sunshine ghoulette #mountain ghoul #swiss ghoul

[maxtothemax]

i know the flock got thanksgiving with anne but tbh i would love to see them do thanksgiving by themselves at the E-shaped house. iggy is in charge. max isn't allowed anywhere NEAR the turkeys (the flock obviously needs multiple turkeys, they eat a lot). instead she gets to help chop vegetables while fang works on cranberry sauce and stuffing. nudge is supervising angel and gazzy with the pies. it's not perfect but there's a LOT of food and it's all theirs.

#feel free to add on! #maximum ride #the flock #they speak #headcanons

[atuohs]

i know it’s not the healthiest thing per se, but i love thinking about a protective to the point of being possessive f/o

if they were to catch anyone staring at you, they’d put their body in front of you as a shield

going through a crowd, they’d have you held tightly against their side

if you had a secret admirer, your f/o would find out whom it is immediately, ending their dreams of you quickly

on top of that, confronting anyone who expresses interest in you, even if it’s assumed

not controlling what you wear, but offering you their coat when you’re getting too many looks

having a hand on you at all times if they can help it

#feel free to add on! #mine #self shipping #self shipping community #f/o community #f/o imagines #cw: possessiveness

[inkshine]

How Camp Here and There Characters Dance: Headcanons.

Jedidiah: He has. Two. Left. Feet. Even if he knew what to properly do with himself on a dance floor, he still probably couldn't pull off his desired moves. He is...surprisingly decent at slow-dancing, due to having slow-danced with Sydney in the past. But it's been a while. Maybe they'll strike it up again soon and give Jedidiah a chance to polish up his slow-dancing skills again.

Sydney: He doesn't dance very much, on account of his body making it difficult, but when he does, he's not afraid to put his whole heart into it, especially if it means the kids will be entertained. He's fond of slow-dancing...especially with Jedidiah.

Juniper: He knows like five popular dance moves and only rotates through them. A couple of those moves haven't been in style for years. The kids either find it hilarious or eye-rollingly cringeworthy.

Rowan: Surprisingly skilled on the dance floor. He has a lot of pent-up energy almost all the time, and he's not bad at letting it out through dance. Whatever dance he does, he puts his whole chest into it.

Soren: Soren is more fond of interpretative dance. Only no one can interpret what his dance moves are supposed to mean or be. Sometimes he makes fluid dancing movements and gestures that appear to mime things related to death, dying, burial, and emerging from a grave. People tend to give Soren a pretty wide berth on the dance floor.

Elijah/The Elephant Man: Shown canonically to have at least some pretty passable knowledge of waltzing and slow dancing, so I think he definitely knows how to lead a partner in a dance. In terms of solo dancing, I feel like his dance moves would be quick and quite showy or flashy. He would be pretty popular in clubs...if he was still allowed in them. He hasn't been to many, but those he has been in, he's been, ahem, forcibly escorted from the premises by a deeply unnerved bouncer desperately trying to avoid eye contact. (this last part is my headcanon btw!)

I would do Marisol, Yvonne, and Fennel, but I can't think of any right now lol-feel free to tell me your suggestions!

The Tonies: Their dancing knowledge and skills consist entirely of vintage New York dance moves, and moves they just made up. They are skilled at the former, and less so at the latter.

The Campers: The campers dance moves are as diverse as the kids themselves, but Cabin Dungbeetle's in particular consists of a lot of headbanging and mosh pit style moves.

#ramblings #camp here and there #chnt #chnt sydney #chnt jedidiah #chnt juniper #chnt rowan #chnt elijah #sydney sargent #jedidiah martin #my headcanons #headcanons #feel free to add on!

[enpr-ss]

Etho has made the advancement [Plot Armor]

#ethoslab #etho #hermitcraft #fake decked out advancements #decked out 2 #inspired by netheritenugget's fake dsmp advancements #because he forgot to take his armor off before entering #a lot of people did it especially in the beginning #but etho's was by far the funniest #but ren's was the most impactful (left an ice block to make the parkour easier) #keeping explanations in the tags as I can't do hovertext in tumblr #blue because decked out #feel free to add on! #doing all the past ones first according to my memory #not in any particular order #I'm not going to cover repeats or those I haven't watched #enpr-ss

[whumperofworlds]

I love you whump I love you hurt/comfort I love you kidnapping I love you rescues I love you tied up and gagged I love you beaten up I love you blood I love you crying I love you emotional whump I love you whumpees I love you caretakers I love you whumpers.

#i love you meme #whump #whump humor #kidnapping mention #blood mention #feel free to add on!

[poppiesandpromises]

Roots of life and laughter

Hold me close from hereafter

Soft eyes, silly smile

Lay with me for awhile

#thanks for the poem! #27paperlilies #feel free to add on! #🖤

[tokyoafterschoolsimps]

Just wanna ask:

What got you into Housamo?

For me, it started with a Horkeu Kamui fanarts. What kept me in was a dream I had where I “dated” Wakan Tanka (it was one sided :,( )

And now, thanks to the Wakan Brainrot and Kamui fanarts, I am stuck here with u losers (affectionate) >:D

#housamo #I think this is a fun ask :) #feel free to add on!

[solarwindsempire]

Common Plural Documentation Tools + Where to Find Them

Pluralkit - A discord bot used so that members can proxy as themselves within discord servers. There's a website located at dash.pluralkit.me that makes inputting information doable with limited commands.

Tupperbox - Another discord bot. While not exclusively used for plurality, it is still very useful to systems.

SimplyPlural - An app used for documenting members, front, etc. you can add friends, do system-wide polls, and much more. This can link to Pluralkit as well! There is a website version at app.apparyllis.com

Mindly - An app that lets you document pretty much anything. We, personally, have seen it used for documenting innerworlds and subsystems.

#i’d tag who i am if i knew #feel free to add on! #these are just what we've seen to be most popular #plural #pro endo #plurality #system #pro endogenic #endogenic #traumagenic #multigenic #actually plural #pluralpunk #plural community #plural system #plurality resources #plural resources