#its not that great of a book

[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

[b4kuch1n]

polymer broadcast signal hijack

#pikmin #captain olimar #ft. louie captain shepherd and collin #as well as #moss (pikmin) #watched a stream series of pikmin 4 (its frankenbugs' series) thats what this is about really #but mostly. I just love olimar. I just really enjoy that man #also this really got me flexing those bande dessinée muscles from back thens lol #Ive missed drawin with this kinda proportions... I should do it more #Im gonna draw an olimar to put in my wallet. I need to make my life harder to explain to strangers #I also wanna. add more details to his space suit. make it look more like real life space suit for fun & entertainment #man I enjoy the animals in pikmin so much. they really are just like. animals. theyre animals #its great I love how genuinely bug-lookin the bugs are even with the stylization. pikmin and pokemon are really good at that #would like to learn how to do that... sometimes in the future #oh yeah fun fact. my effort at cleaning up my undercut a few days ago went badly. right before I went to a family reunion thing for 2 days #so I was goin out of my mind at that event postin abt olimar bc I love him #and then. when I got home. I decided to shave my head instead of trying to fix the haircut again #and so the sequence of events becomes I post about olimar -> I enter my bald arc #I am okay with this. have a good night lads. binding books is actually really fun u should try it

[rabid-transcendentalist]

Mexico when Texans have to start crossing the border for a better life good heathcare

#this meme requires some suspension of disbelief because people were already going to Mexico for their heathcare prior to this event #this is part of a phenomenon called medical tourism #which exists in part because its cheeper for someone who is in need of medical care in the US #to book a flight to another country #receive medical care in that country #and travel back #than it is for them to receive medical care in the US #anyway #great job #mexico #reproductive rights #abortion

[juniemunie]

Broskis ts!underswap is so fun. every single part of it is *chefs kiss*

I went in completely blind and honestly i think it was the best move i could have made

i love how its just swapped roles but not personalities so it leads to stuff like this its so creative

Anyways have some more self insert sansnomaly (and chara)

#sansnomaly #junie art post #*adds chara into the “puppetted children thirdwheeling sansnomaly” club* #sans x reader #sans x self insert #utmv #undertale au #ts!underswap #CAN I JUST SAY WHILE SANS IS GREAT HERE #TS SWAP ASGORE IS JUST AS AMAZING? #LEGITIMATELY. THE ENTIRE RUINS IS SO WELL DONE ESTABLISHING ASGORE AND WHAT HE DOES THERE #that i was so. so. reluctant to leave him. #i connected and sympathized with him more than i ever could with toriel in the original. hes so darn sweet its painful. #and from what ive “heard” in the uh. geno route... smarter too. #anyhoo. back to sans. #i wont lie im not that big on comic book heroes. im not that uh savvy #but SPOILERS!!!! #i love how cleverly they implemented the alter ego with crossbones and sans #also seing sans pull new pranks really reminded me how exasperating he is back in UT #every ridiculous line and bs he pulled was so... *sigh* i understand papyrus now #unfortunately for him thats not gonna stop me from loving him any less #crossbones' personality specifically took me a while to like. but he grew on me. (like a barnacle on my ass) #but seeing him admit he liked being crossbones was super cute as hell omg #whatever makes you happy sans #being crossbones also rises to the most ridiculous ideas too so. cant complain

[facts-i-just-made-up]

what’s the plot of the great gatsby? I need to write an essay on it

I forgot it so I looked it up and everyone is named like Baker and Gatsby and Caraway and Myrtle and they live in Eggs and I'm guessing this is more of a cookbook or cocktail thing than a novel.

Also for some reason this is on my phone:

#hemingway & gellhorn #f scott fitzgerald #the great gatsby #its a cook book! a cookbook! #unreality

[itsmedrawpower]

When do we start?

#ive been reading Moominpappa's memoirs #and the moomin books in general #wow #joxter is such a great character #exactly as promised #i love Tove's writing so much #its so charming #moominvalley #the moomins #joxter #the joxter #moomin books #moominpappa #moominpappa's memoirs #book quote #the groke #also #wtf the groke eats people

[gotogull]

I post Kirby and WH40k art exclusively now.

#friend got to me to read a WH40k book and I was expecting misery and depression because its 40k and everything is turbo facist #but instead I read a book about two bitchy robots having a slap fight #its great #the infinite and the divine #orikan the diviner #phillias the executioner #shes so cool holy shit #trazyn the infinite #wh40k #warhammer 40k #necrons #gull #executioner phillias

[tabooiart]

mr goatman... goat me a man.... make him the goatest that ive ever seen...

#my art #fanart #starkid #team starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #tinky #t'noy karaxis #tnoy karaxis #the tinkerer #i think since he experiences all of time and space at once that in his 'true form' he sort of fades and flickers between alternate poses #n such #his appearance here is very much inspired by how he appears in the black book #the half skull face and the horn turning to gears is so <3 #(ted voice) smash #yknow for someone whos favorite is wiggly i sure draw tinky a lot. hes just fun i love him #i know ive been cranking a lot of art out lately #well you see i am on break from uni and also im going insane. so its a great mixture #dont worry im going back to uni in a week and ill go back to drawing once every two weeks <3

[alatariel-galadriel]

“Jason? Is there a reason you’re dragging that man?”

“He’s unconscious. Makes walking hard.”

love that jason is a pedantic lil shit in every universe

#drag him jason!!! #panel is from Dark Knights of Steel 1 #edit: actually i finished the issue and mmm i'm not really feeling it meh #but i'm leaving my rant below because it's a really good book #listen this series is already giving me 'enchantress from the stars' vibes #okay not really but i want to talk about this book #which is a GREAT book told from 2 perspectives (and therefore 2 genres) #a sci-fi (extremely star-trek-eque) 'planet that hasn't reached space travel is being exploited by evil corp and i need to fix it #without violating the (equivalent of) prime directive #and a fantasy 'a strange witch is in the woods and she's telling me to use guerilla warefare against what i think is a dragon' #do yourself a favor and read it its great #jason todd #red hood #batman #dark knights of steel #whispers from the ally #ally reads comics

[finelythreadedsky]

JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

#alphabetical order. im not ranking them #i still have two more froma zeitlin essays to read (one new and one a reread) in the next few days though #and its possible one of those might knock amy richlin off the rest (nothing personal; its a great piece just not my area) #but if im willing to have two things by the same scholar i would have to rethink including grethlein 'the poetics of the bath in the iliad' #some of my favorite articles/book chapters of the year are not on jstor though... #bill beck 'lost in the middle: story time and discourse time in the iliad'!!! #and lyndsay coo has a 2020 chapter updating and expanding this 2013 article that is 🔥🔥🔥 #and of course judith mossman 'women's voices in sophocles' which is what send me to garrison 1989 and rood 2010 but is not itself on jstor #i also reread some of melissa mueller's objects as actors book which is wonderful as always #and i would be incredibly tempted to put william m calder iii's tereus article on a top ten list for sheer entertainment value #jstor wrapped #mine

[mysteriouslysublimeperfection]

I LOVE THEM SM😭😭😭

#they are my roman empire #Yasammy>> #I need to see them being asilly cute couple in jwct #pls im forever greatful for them being canon #they are the cutest #jurassic world camp cretaceous #jwct #jurassic world chaos theory #camp cretaceous #yasmina fadoula #jwcc #sammy gutierrez #yasammy #istg if u told me to write an essay on why they are my favs i could write a whole book #not even kidding at this point #🥹🥹🥹 #if i could analyze every scene with them in it i would. #(im just too lazy) #anyways i must stop yapping #they are my first people i ever shipped in a fandom #and im so happy its them🥹 #cant wait to see them in jwct fr fr #ok enought yapping #goodbye #have a happy rest of ur day

[felassan]

ouugh i just cant wait to return to thedas

#dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age #bioware #gpoy #feels #video games #i think thedas is my favorite setting #and in da the world of thedas itself is my favorite character #to properly return! like us- in a game as opposed to a comic or book etc #which r great but isnt the same as playing and exploring #its been so long and i need to go back fr #i am so excited for the summer #thedas dragonage i love u #thedas dragonage wanna run to u 🥺🥺 #meet me halfway right at the borderline its where im gonna wait #for u #ill be lookin out #night and day #og mj

[koszmarnybudyn]

You see the most autistic boy ever and the meanest girl wyd?

Have a Link and Scary drawing i couldnt finish because i didn't have enough time but i think looks cool anyway.

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #link li wilson #scary marlowe #my art #scary has the coolest outfit and then i just draw the boys in khakis #i nearly drew link in a suit but then i didnt #that is a leg brace on link because i headcanon he has some hypermobility issues or something #they are also both autistic and i headcanon link with dyslexia but that's beside the poin #anyway im on vacation its hot as balls my birthday was two days ago and i had really great chocolate cake today #and i havent slept till about 4 cause i was reading a great good omens fanfic also im reading the book probablly idk i dont usually stick #with books

[matcha-b]

nevermoor fanart ✨✨

[ID: digital art of morrigan crow from nevermoor in a black dress with white sleeves. the background is solid purple with orange outlines of an umbrella, a bird and some sparkles. End ID]

#yayyy #nevermoor #morrigan crow #nevermoor fanart #great book series i love it #ok to be honest with u guys the last time i read it properly was like 2021 i just felt like drawing mog bc i finally figured out her design #dw i most certainly will get re-obsessed with it again #its like that for all my fandoms rlly #for now ive got a bunch of vocaloid and eve utaite wips to work on #ty nevermoor-described for the id btw

[orpheuslament]

Dead Stars, Ada Limón

#ada limón #words #poetry #nr #dante.jpg #not sure how i feel about this book its kind of not hitting the way i expected it to but it has some great bits

[demadogs]

im always like “wow im so tired i should go to bed” and then i open ao3

#and its literally always for snowbaz content #a book i read when i was 16 #god the chokehold a fictional gay vampire has on me is insane #im gonna tag byler bc you guys probably relate #byler #ao3 #great website fr #i dont know how or why people still use watpad #1k