#is very common and boring

[gothhabiba]

I saw this whole long thread of people hand-wringing about "anti-intellectuals" on tiktok and how scary it is that they're believing sourceless claims other people on tiktok tell them, because they claim they have the same chance of being correct as anything that "science says."

and said hand-wringers were waxing poetic about the scientific method and replicability and how everything that's published in an academic journal is guaranteed to be true and correct because of a little thing called peer review whereby scientists (naturally a petty and pedantic people) are encouraged to tear each other's conclusions apart.

and I just have to say. if you believe (in the midst of a major replicability crisis amongst scientific journals, no less) that everything published in a scientific journal is de facto factual or trustworthy, and if you believe that peer review of all things is a process that is guaranteed to prevent papers with anything from flaws in experimental design to full-blown fraud from going to print (as if publishers don't have a literal profit motive to publish studies that yield novel, startling conclusions),

then you are 100% as "anti-intellectual," foolish, & averse to thinking for yourself as the tiktokers you're making fun of. actually I think I like you less. at least their ideas might be bizarre enough to be interesting

#while being wholly ignorant of sociology of science & the social and economic factors that go into scientific knowledge-production #is very common and boring

[glow-worms-are-believers]

Witness Protection

There’s a dead guy in the alley and it’s not Danny. 

Ok, technically there are two dead guys in the alley but honestly, Danny feels like they’re way past semantics.

Because, once again, there is a dead man in the alley. 

Danny is fairly sure the guy’s been murdered. The bloody mess that is the guy's chest is a pretty good indicator, but the bloody knife that's still stuck in the guy’s guts is really what makes it for the teen.

Danny might be freaking out a little bit. Because, while he is used to dead people, they’re never this newly deceased, or for that matter, this gruesomely murdered.

Before his breath can quicken too much, Danny makes himself take a deep breath. 

Say what you want about Danny, but he hasn’t spent his high-school career moonlighting as a teenage vigilante without learning a thing or two about staving off a panic attack. Feeling more calm, Danny focuses back on the issue at hand.

I should call the police, says something in the back of his head that sounds like Jazz.

If I call in the murder I’ll be on the suspect list, retorts some other part of his brain he’s choosing to call the Sam part.

No advice from an imaginary Tuck though. Even in his own mind he can’t imagine a Tucker that hasn’t already passed out cold at the sight of a dead guy. 

Which, fair. Danny is kinda considering the option, as he’s feeling a little faint himself. It is way past time he got out of here. At least he's figured out just how to do it.

Anonymous tips are a wonderful thing, made all the more wonderful by the presence of payphones in Gotham.Danny is officially handing this off to the proper authorities.

Boy is he glad he doesn’t have to be involved anymore.

A few streets over, a hooded figure rounds a corner, their breath coming fast  as they clench their bloody fists agitadely. There wasn’t supposed to be anyone there, and yet. This is an unexpected setback.

The hooded figure leans back against the alley wall to catch their breath. Nothing to do about it but fix it. And as these things go, this is an easy mistake to fix. The face of the black-haired blue-eyed hurdle floats to the front of their mind. 

It should be child’s play.

#Danny calls it in anonymously and the case eventually goes to the bats #The bats figure out its Danny but dont think anythings weird with an anonymous tipoff (it's very common in Gotham) #But then the murderer tries to kill danny coz hes a possible witness and the batfam has to foil the attempt #and Danny has to pretend to be a very scared teenage boy who nearly just died #He acts too well and now the bats have got him in protective custody in a random safehouse #Danny is bored out of his mind and severely regretting not running away when he had the chance #danny fenton #dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #dcxdp #roxpox #roxpoxwrote

[cemeterything]

not letting this be rebloggable because i don't want 1 million discourse comments and assumptions about me as a person in my notes for the next 3-5 months but the more i see and hear about tiktok and tbh the more i see on social media in general the more i'm glad that i was forced to study critical thinking as an actual subject in high school (so my school could pad their exam results scores and skew the statistics in their favor... [palpatine voice] ironic) because holy shitting christ on the cross (<- with blasphemous intent btw)

#🐉 #like at the time i was like fuuuuck who needs this shit its so boring. but now? im glad i got the privelege of a head start #on basic critical thinking skills because wow #anyway i definitely recommend looking up how to identify the common logical fallacies in arguments if youre not already familiar with them #if nothing else because they will serve you very well online

[snailfen]

i forgot i never posted these.... sinnoh trio scugs real

#nebi makes a self indulgent au for the 3056th time real. #im in church rn and im. so eepy and also im really bored . please help me #anyways ik asking where the fuck the parents are is like Not Common in pkmn but rain world is not that kind of game so cynthia is concerned #rain world #pokemon #dppt #trainer dawn #rival barry #trainer lucas #OOO ACTUALLY lucas gets hisuid but bc of how rw works it sends him to the future instead of the past.... that would be so cool #OH AND I JUST REALIZED INGO COULD VERY MUCH BE THERE !!! HE CAN HAVE HIS TRAINS !!! I MEAN THE TRAINS DONT WORK ANYMORE BUT #THEYRE THERE. so cool i love it when my brain makes connections #champion cynthia #my art

[extraneousdominomask]

We passed a Bentley on the road which prompted @bisexualwolfodonnell to tell me that her proposed surname for Bentley the turtle was "Martin" (as in Aston Martin, keeping up the car theme)

That led us to discuss what Murray's surname would hypothetically be, and naturally I suggested "Pinkman"

sly au where everything is the same but murray's favourite word is 'bitch'

#I started with a very common and boring surname - Brown - and then was like. wait.

[capfalcon]

i genuinely cannot get over how simple and beautifully effective rafael barba's character is. he is a man who hates predators and rapists. he is a man who loves the law, loves what it can do, loves what it stands for, loves it like a person. he's a lawyer who hates rapists. that's who he is.

and it works for a show literally about special victims, that's what he was made for. but it is remarkable to me that they're able to do so much with a character that has a very stringent motivation.

so much credit to raùl esparza, of course because he made barba amazing and real and nuanced, but barba is just a great character. here is a man who spends his time defending women and putting away predators. without any tragic backstory, either. he isn't a good person because his mom died, or because his sister got hurt by someone. he's just a good person.

#also i usually hate to praise a man for doing something that we would never overtly praise women for doing #like i think women defending women is quite common and good and needed #so its not that im heaping praise on him for what he does its more who he is #his character is so good and so nuanced and yet very very clear #idk as a writer i think its so interesting how hes not dull or flat #hes a lawyer. we usually only see him in that one capacity and yet it never gets boring #crazy #rafael barba #svu #law and order svu

[ruthlesslistener]

You misunderstand, a baby girl is a grown man that had committed atrocities. Pk is the perfect baby girl.

And you cannot convince me wl and or herrah did not call him baby girl.

Oh thats true. I was under the assumption that a babygirl was like, some sort of pathetic man that you wanted to impregnate or something. Which def. works for WL, even if she likely picked it up when overhearing nobles flirt and thought it was just a generalized term of affection. Herrah I feel would do it in a condescending fashion and be surprised when PK doesn't fight it, but then again Herrah had a very different view of PK before Hornet's conception and likely didn't realize just how detatched from normal gender concepts the god-king of Hallownest actually was

#anon #reply #the pale king #i mean ig it works for me too in that i like to impregnate him #except for me its entirely to punish him and watch with fascination as he spins circles around the dilemna of feeling life grow within him #not being able to escape the fact that they are his children like he could when the white lady bore them #and also bc its very funny to me (and gender affirming) to have a character who is so deeply reminiscent of a middle aged man #in fact be a genderless bisex god that does not care too much about adhering to the rules or commonalities of the mortal world

[muraenide]

Chiming in to ramble about ship bias

Canon-wise, Octatrio will always be my top ship bias for Jade, but on a broader introspection, my favourite ship with Jade will always be Jade and a Situationship regardless of the muse in question.

It's easier to picture shipping Jade with someone he worships, that he admires, or that he adores, but for both personal and impersonal reasons, he doesn't initiate the official relationship or even accept it if he is offered by the person in question. Instead, Jade prefers to live in a parallel reality to this person to whom he's devoted himself, by going to lengths to ensure that their lives will never interact or overlap each other yet always staying close by just an arm's reach away. Even if the person in question got into an official relationship with someone else, it doesn't dissuade Jade from moving on because part of him expects this possibility and it's all within his expectation that the way he lives his life isn't the way everyone else wants to live their lives.

#𖦹 ⋆꙳ ⁄ ooc. #// anyway jade is tough to love regardless of how close of a relationship they have in canon #// most of the time the moment the other side admits to wanting an official relationship it might be over for both of them #// but keeping things within a Situationship works best for Jade because part of the allure is that it keeps both parties guessing #// where they stand with each other #// and that is a directly something that appears attractive to Jade since he's never bored if that's the case #// and usually how I picture it is that jade and his special someone always originate from two very different worlds or realities and most #// the time they have nothing in common or even shared or discussed any future plans at all #// they just sort of exist within each other's circles for years and years until the point that you realize you don't remember a time in #// your life where the other person doesn't exist; which is the same time when all the built-up memories and past hits you and you realize #// that you've known each other since the beginning of time and that they have always been a constant in your life in ways you never even #// realized until this very point and you decide that this is the person who can convince you that 'forever and after' can indeed #// be achieved with them #// just sort of like brushing past each other's shoulders for years or even decades without consciously choosing a significant other before #// you realize that Fate chose Them for You

[voidedjuice]

tbh when it comes to any romantic subtext between frieren & himmel i didn't pick up on any at all while reading 😭

#so it was surprising to see that the common view was that its soooo obvious to everyone but frieren that himmels in love with her #i just thought they were good adventuremates crying emoji #text #airing my random thoughts while bored #this isnt a hater thing btw im sure its very sweet to the perceivers im just totally blind to it #must be how colorblind people feel when people talk about those colorblindness test images

[fellhellion]

I always felt blaming Snow White the character (especially both her Disney iterations and the Brothers Grimm fairytale) for her fear in the forest is just. Unimaginably silly considering both iterations make a point of telling us she is a child. And considering what context the connotations offered to that term by the fairytale genre, plus the fact Snow White is able to marry by the end of her tale, it really sheds some light on the fact that like. for the majority of her story she’s straddling the line between child (not legally eligible for marriage) and adult (legally eligible for marriage) as defined by the traditional fairy tale genre, which makes her very young.

#there’s also a very present thread within Grimm’s version where beauty both shields and endangers a young maiden #*because* of the link it has to marriage #the huntsman will not strike her down because she is too beautiful #her stepmother feels threatened by her beauty being surpassed #and the Disney iteration specifically includes the subtext of Snow White’s beauty surpassing the queen being ALSO the thing that #enraptures the Prince - thus presenting a very present threat to her rule (note that she is a singular ruler at this time) as with #Snow White’s marriage her husband would take up position of King #plus again! all the additional context and subtext in Snow being the child of the original queen #and the stepmother having no heir of her own #and it being very common at that time for women to die in childbirth - leaving the replacement wife with the struggle of ensuring her place #(and the place of any children she bore) in the line of succession #but the only way Snow would ever approach that now in a sanctioned manner by the fairytale is through marriage #tunes titters

[ratgirlcopia]

shameful how the Fan Media will only push the "dracopia" narrative. how many times does tf have to bring up inspector clouseau before clousopia receives an equal share.

#copiaposting #i swear everyone blacked out after dracula and missed that copia is also at least 50% one of the most comically Fail Guys in all of media. #this is my halloween post i'm a registered accredited forklift certified vampire hater. #(hater is a strong word. more like. bored to tears with the most common versions of them and also does not find them hot.) #for me to like them they need to either be all the way on the very silly and cartoonish side or like. what grady hendrix did. #the rest of it is just devastatingly boring and they take too much real estate away from better creatures. #that being said. dracopia in my head SHOULD fall into the extreme silly cartoonish side but that's not where most of the content is. #which is a travesty. of diabolical proportions. have you seen how he behaves onstage. come on now.

[risingsunresistance]

"if this update makes it to the main server i'm quitting" (<- guy who has played this game daily for four years)

#shut up we all know you wont leave #''this update sucks they need to add a way to make pests less common'' *does that* ''i change my mind i dont like it anyways'' #how did you people not get bored of the garden. *i* finally have a reason to wanna go back there #saw one person in particular say no one liked the rift vacuuming I DID I LOVE IT SHUT UP YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME #the amount of silverfish i've vacuumed would make you sick #i can see the complaints but i think ''just get rid of the update'' is a really dumb way to go about this #if they get rid of EVERY piece of content they make because you personally dont enjoy it then we are gonna have a very stale game #i think ppl are being too aggressive with it. you can offer constructive criticism instead of telling them to scrap all that development ti #chat #sb

[rosesradio]

wondering if the mutuals would actually try to fight me if i spoke my truth about the barbie movie…

#listen listen listen #it was just an acid trip…and while i agree with the messaging Of Course it just felt a little too on the nose #also was not a fan of the ‘in the patriarchy in barbieland the Barbies are being brainwashed ! there’s no other way they’d want to— #stay home and be a boring housewife !’ when like…it’s a perfectly valid choice. & feminism is about a woman’s right to choose #also something something cellulite something something #it felt like there were like a million stereotypically sized Barbies (like a size 2 or xs or whatever)— #& like 1 or 2 plus sized ones & like that was it. it feels like that for most movies these days but like where’s the medium/large girls yk #i didn’t like how they made ken a villain like i thought he’d have more of a fun/enjoyable role But I understand why they did it like that #also they never mention boys also play with Barbies? I get it’s probably more common for girls because Society but the movie was— #very sex-divided imo. and at the risk of a dad joke it kinda put girls and boys into boxes (ba doom crash) #overall between the catching the barbie plot and the stopping the Kendom plot and the ‘i wanna be a human’ thing at the end— #it’s like they were trying to put several different things together & it shows #i feel like people don’t feel comfortable talking about what they liked & didn’t about the movie because they’ll be accused of not liking— #its messages. but that’s not true for me anyway. i liked the messages and the aesthetic & all. but the way it came together was just…:/ #rose.txt

[waywardsalt]

i made this a few months ago for a discord and i figured i might as well share it here too

#loz #legend of zelda #phantom hourglass #bellum #bellum is kind of a nothing villain but i like him #this image is basically the framework for how i write bellum's relationship with linebeck a lot of the time #the severity and seriousness of 'ruined your life' varies between aus n shit #ironically post-ph is one of the ones where 'ruined your life' is a bit hyperbolic #im in a talkative mood rn so im gonna have a little tag tangent going on #bellum is fun and like with this image you can take him many different ways depending on your own tastes and readings n stuff #recently i pinpointed some character i mightve accidentally based my take of bellum on and it escapes me rn #but i like to have him come off as a sort of brash young god sort of thing whos been very gung-ho about what hes been created to do and #represent and ive def leaned into him acting differently in different aus but backing it up with the idea that. hes immortal and thinks its #fun to try different things hwne he earnestly interacts with and among mortals. like in my crimson king au (the uh. one where he has a #homoerotic relationship with linebeck) his purpose behind masquerading as human and settling for a decidedly slower and more complicated #method of obtaining food and taking control is because he wants to challenge himself after years of just smashing through and taking what h #wants and because hes more interested in the more minute details of mortal interaction and how he could play along for a while #hes a bit more... whimsical? laid-back? something for the most part with linebeck because he's used to being a fuckin demonic god whos #mostly just playing around and not making attachments bc fuck it if he gets bored he can just eat these people and this one guy gets his #mercy and support because he's interesting and useful as a tool (and eventually as a source of genuine friendship. a common theme i seem to #have with bellum [perhaps as an accidental parallel or smth to the spirits n oshus] is him stumbling into finally understanding why #relationships are worth it? like a lot of the time his interactions with linebeck give him a new understanding of humans and he learns to #care about linebeck despite starting off seeing him as just an interested subject to watch or tinker with idk how to describe it #like in post-ph [ig post ph spoilers] as the fourth member of the main cast his main arc is abt kinda being forced to mingle with mortals #and ends up really caring and supporting these people and considering his own role and place in the world after kind of isolating and #surrounding himself with effectively a literal hivemind and loyal monsters and just reacting to outside forces with the intent to consume #and eradicate all danger so ig theres some parallel with linebeck too? bellum is a work in progress he's kinda a weird oc at this point? #when does an existing character stop being that and starts becoming an oc idk. its a weird line here bc bellum has minimal characterization #) anyways. funny meme or whatever. the discord seemed to like it im not used to sharing memes or whatever. #my post

[wafflessquad]

not to be a 🤡 but cocktail d'amore 0:06-0:08 vs the beginning of incenso thank you for your attention

#yes it's only a few notes yes i caught it on the first listen yes i have a bad migraine and i'm very bored #anyway i have decided that they form a common universe #you could argue that both of them reference the baltic even #i will stop clowning here

[throttlegainwell]

Hello, Didn't want to say anything except it is awesome to find a fellow Jonathan Byers AND Scott Summers enjoyer, I love both of those characters a lot.

Ah, that's awesome! Thanks for saying hi. I am, indeed, massively gone for both of those guys, and I am equally delighted to come across another fan of both.

#answered asks #scott summers #jonathan byers #very little in common except for all the stuff they have in common really #but i mean eldest sibling issues probable neurodivergence hyper-independence loner status don't want to be in charge but kind of have to be #responsibility to their people to the detriment of their own well-being got to do everything themselves not well liked or understood #accusations of being boring or morally questionable but just doing their best and grinding away relentlessly #abandonment issues childhood abuse & neglect i could go on #yet they're so very very different and also one shoots kinetic energy beams from his eyes #so there's that #scott would dislike jonathan's music #and ngl the fact that jonathan spends a significant portion of his time in a darkroom under a safelight #which is red #and scott's whole deal is red #that cracks me up a little #though there's something to be said for scott's keen spatial awareness vs. jonathan's eye for composition #and jonathan isn't a nuts and bolts guy and he can handle himself but lbr scott's training regimen would kill him #also i doubt jonathan has ever read a comic in his life and even in the 80s scott was no one's favorite #also yeah they're both pretty reserved quiet & locked-down emotionally & can't deal with their issues + pragmatic as hell #but i think jonathan has more self-awareness about it and he's way more sensitive #whereas scott was just never going to be a particularly emotional guy he's logical af it's how he's wired #anyway yes i love these two hyper-competent messes a whole lot #and have written many words about them both and will probably write many more