#oh well I must be wrong then

[mccromy]

In regards to why Yue Qingyuan is like that when it comes to Shen Jiu, I have some thoughts.

To begin with, I always interpreted their relationship as purely platonic/familial (though perhaps with potential to turn into something else had things been different. I think their personalities are compatible in that way.)

Because of that, I empathize with Yue Qingyuan from my place as the oldest sibling, and because of it I think I can understand him when it comes to his behavior regarding Shen Qingqiu. (Because of that, I admit I'm not objective, so don't take this as a serious analysis and just my thoughts)

And for this I feel that Yue Qingyuan, more than allowing Shen Qingqiu to do what he pleases because he feels guilty, feels responsible for Shen Qingqiu's actions. He doesn't let Shen Qingqiu abuse his disciples, be hostile towards their fellow peak lords, and "engage in debauchery" just because he doesn't want to further strain their relationship, but because all of this is his fault.

When Shen Yuan first transmigrated and Yue Qingyuan asked him to stop punishing Luo Binghe, it didn't feel like he was making an attempt to stop Shen Qingqiu from further abusing the boy, but like the admonishment of an older sibling telling their little brother to stop acting a certain way. A "why are you doing this? You are not getting anything out of it, there's no reason for this other than you being cruel, stop it." Had Yue Qingyuan been making an attempt to stop him from harming his disciple, he would've actually put an end to it. He's the sect leader, he could just take Luo Binghe to another peak if not outright order Shen Qingqiu to stop.

There was a time my younger sister started bullying a classmate, she didn't see it as such, and I know she's not purposely cruel but she was young and thoughtless. In that situation I didn't take the other kid's side and reprimanded her harshly, yelled at her for being mean, ordered her to stop. I asked her why she did that (boy was annoying/everybody else was doing it too (and so it couldn't be wrong)) and told her that what she was doing was cruel, that everybody was being cruel to that boy, explained to her how bullying works, asked her how would she feel if she was annoying and everybody made fun of her, and asked her if she wanted to be a bully.

Yue Qingyuan said something along the lines of ''that boy hasn't done anything wrong, he tries so hard, aren't you tired? Hasn't it been enough?" He didn't take Luo Binghe's side like he should have, but he appealed to Shen Qingqiu's logic. He knew Shen Qingqiu and had an idea of why he was doing it, and addressed it calmly, tried to convince him to stop because there was no point, he was only making himself angry. He wasn't assertive either, only coaxing, because he also felt all of this was his fault. And not only that;

I believe Yue Qingyuan genuinely loved Shen Qingqiu, but he didn't like him anymore, and he felt terrible for it. He cared so much for him, yes, Shen Qingqiu was the only person he actually cared about and he couldn't be objective when it came to Shen Qingqiu. But he was constantly exasperated by him, he was so disappointed, and he knew he could like him again if Shen Qingqiu just stopped acting so caustically. But what right did he have to dislike Shen Qingqiu after how he failed him? If Shen Qingqiu acted like this it was because he was hurt, and whose fault was that?

Love and like do not always go hand in hand.

Think about a parent, a friend, a sibling, an aunt or an uncle. Someone you loved so much as a child and who was good to you. Someone who gave you gifts and played with you and heard you ramble and rant for hours, who defended you from others, who always had a smile for you. Now think about the time you realized they were a bigot, or that they yell to waiters, are cruel to animals. That they hit their partners or their children. You felt disappointed (and even betrayed) but you still loved them, you just didn't like them anymore, and you could no longer trust them, but if something happened to them, you'd be inconsolable. And you just know that if they just stopped you would like them again, you'd be so proud, you'd be so happy. In many cases like this what actually happens is that people feel guilty for loving someone so awful. In Yue Qingyuan's case, he felt guilty for not liking him.

Shen Jiu was not a good man, but he was hurt and the world had never been kind to him, so Yue Qingyuan took it upon himself to be unconditionally kind to him (even if he didn't realize that the way he chose to be kind also hurt Shen Qingqiu) and Yue Qingyuan was also the reason why Shen Qingqiu was so hurt, if Shen Qingqiu was cruel or violent, the blame fell on Yue Qingyuan's shoulders. How could he even dare to side eye Shen Qingqiu for how he behaved, when he wouldn't be like this if it weren't for Yue Qingyuan?

Yue Qingyuan's guilt doesn't come solely from not getting Shen Qingqiu out of Qiu manor, but from every single consequence that followed his failure. He's at fault for any and all of Shen Qingqiu's sins. He is also the only person who will ever be good to Shen Qingqiu, who knows he isn't the monster he made himself to be. He has no right to be disappointed in Shen Qingqiu's actions because they are his fault, he would never dare impose his own will above Shen Jiu's because hasn't Shen Jiu been subjected enough to the whims of others? he will never use his authority to stop him, he's the only ally Shen Jiu has, and he's also the only person in the whole sect with power over Shen Qingqiu, not only because of his position as sect leader, but because of how well he knows Shen Qingqiu, his secrets, his past and weaknesses. This puts him in a position to hurt Shen Qingqiu in ways no other could, to damage beyond what any other would be able to.

Yue Qingyuan's regrets are way more complex than what people make them out to be. Yue Qingyuan is aware that his silence about the fact that he did come back but was too late wounds Shen Qingqiu deeply, and the longer he doesn't explain himself the more Shen Qingqiu hurts. But this is also the only way he has of punishing himself, and he also feels guilty about it.

Imagine how he must see his own situation, Yue Qingyuan is respected and well liked, rich and powerful, he will never have to submit to other's wishes, he is free, untouchable, his brother is alive and healthy and close by. He has it all and more than he ever dreamed of, and deserves none of it, how could he ever allow himself to be forgiven? When in the end he's the person who has hurt Shen Jiu the most.

There are more reasons why he keeps quiet about the Linxi caves, most stem from trauma, and I believe his own need for punishment is one of them.

So when I see his behavior being reduced to ''he doesn't want for sqq to hate him more'' or ''he's just ashamed and guilty'' I feel sad because, Shen Jiu might be the most misunderstood character by other characters in the story. But Yue Qingyuan is the most misunderstood character by the fandom.

#yqy loving hours continue #Yue Qingyuan #svsss #yqy #mip #i was like. if my sister acted like that and I had the same baggage as yqy. would i act any different? 🤔 #and the answer was: I don't think so #a consequence of shen jiu being so mischaracterized by fandom is that people mischaracterize everybody else as well tbh #''if Shen Jiu did nothing wrong but everybody acts like he did then everybody else must be wrong!'' ma'am he did some things wrong #the whole plot of pidw stems from the things he did wrong #did he do everything he was accused of? nope. did he do some of those things tho? oh hell yeah #not a huge fan of the whipping kids thing. but killing his abuser and burning down a manor was so cool of him. based

[soupykappa]

Bro needed the win

#hey I may be late but at least I did it #albert wesker #resident evil #chris redfield #my art #digital art #a little silly #i love him #Chris needs a win at least once #wesker looks like a wet cat lol #barbie meme #mugshot #mvc3 #I just realized I did the thing wrong for mvc3 oh well it’s funner cus it looks like it says cum3 #chrisker #he’s so angry #wesker is done with Chris’s shit #man I must love putting wesker in a straight jacket

[kationella]

If you thought figuring out who you would invite to your wedding was hard, try being Percy and Annabeth with their wedding list.

#percy and annabeth are high profile their wedding must be the event of the year #“so when we invited Chiron we also had to invite Mr D cause it would be weird if one came but not the other since both of them ran camp- #but if Mr D gets to come when we don't get along as well then Hades must also be invited since Nico will already be there and i prefer him #but then we also have to invite Zeus cause it will be a slight if he's the odd one out of his brothers #but then Hera MUST be invited cause her husband is going and she's the GODDESS OF MARRIAGE SHE COULD DOOM US IF WE GET THIS WRONG #that means Annabeth must play nice for a day sorry #but if someone like Hera gets to come and we kinda dont like her then Aphrodite will get mad we didnt invite her since she kinda wanted this #BUT if Aphrodite Zeus and Hera are invited THEN we must also invite Ares so Percy must play nice for a day sorry OH SHIT WE FORGOT APOLLO #you get the gist #pjo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #headcanons #hoo #thoughts #funny

[mitamicah]

Another 'Micah should sleep' thought;

I guess Jere and Mikke reminds me a lot of me and my sister.

We have the shorter individual with darker hair and a dyed beard that is very silly and having close to no filter compared to the more mature, taller sibling with lighter hair and no beard who seems to have their shit together a bit more (even if they are very busy) and also openly cringes at their sibling/lightly friendly bullies them for their behavior.

The one thing I can think of that is a bit off with this comparison is that I am the older sibling and jere is the younger xD

#oh well #it is not shower thought it is in-bed thoughts xD hahah #if it means i can call myself jere (sorta) i will take it xD #fun fact: like jere had to stop his sport of choice (hockey) i too had to stop mine (horseback riding) #now you know xD #jere pöyhönen #mikke pöyhönen #käärijä #micahs foolery #not that it matters but like jere i am definitely also the one with the pötsi in our relationship xD #how wrong that must sound :'D #i am the shorter rounder darker dorkier less put together blorb

[norrlands-nonsense]

Sansa Stark - Old Hollywood Movie Star Part 1

Part [2] [3]

#sansa stark #sansa stark manip #sansa stark edit #jonsa #because I said so #as always -always- jon is around #somewhere #no one knows and no one actually cares when sansa is looking this fine #I have a bunch of these with sansa as various movie stars from the golden age of hollywood #all started but unfinished - of course - because that is my aestethic it would seem #😒 #can someone recognize the pic of the movie star I used for this manip? #wanna guess? #anyone? doesn't matter if it's right or wrong! #hello? #*taps mic* is this thing on? #hm strange - but I guess we must be experiencing some technical difficulties? #ok well I'll just say it real loud - I know you're all dying to know! #AVA GARDNER! #oh yeah #you betcha #um #hellooo? #oh well #I'll just - #*turns off mic and uses it to beat myself into sweet sweet unconsciousness* #my edit

[e-adlirez]

I went back to sign these before posting and holy crap I did four of these within like 24 hours--

"It's like I'm not even a person, am I?"

"No I cannot let you pass, don't you MESS with ME."

"Just keep your mouth shut and your palm open, and you may just get FILTHY, STINKIN' RICH!"

"You can't quit, Emma. The song is so simple, we'll teach it to you!"

"Who will pray for you when your body's gone? This is the consequence for what you've done!"

Oh yeah I drew four of these in 2022, the prompt for drawing these was wanting to redraw these things haha, I was surprised how long ago they were when I went back to watermark them

Edit: changed the quotes so they sounded more cohesive lmao

#geronimo stilton #thea stilton #thea sisters #art #drawing #my art #fanart #redraw #it's like 3/5s starkid because I've been obsessed with Nerdy Prudes Must Die lately #THE WHO WILL PRAY FOR YOU ARIA WAS WHAT SINGLEHANDEDLY MADE ME CHECK OUT THE MUSICAL #anyway so Vi is the corrupt vizier from Twisted if you're confused #no she's not Ja'far and Ja'far did not do anything wrong /j #even an entire year later Colette is a nightmare to draw as the Beanie's barista #if you're wondering why I never drew a Pam in 2022 two reasons #one the hair #two I was drawing a blank at Pam because I was feeling self-conscious like “I don't wanna put too much Starkid I should be unique” #that resulted in an entire year of not drawing Pam for the series #then I found the thing again and decided to redraw it and quickly run into the exact same conundrum I got in last year #sooooo npmd happened and I was like “screw it” and drew Pam as Grace Chastity because I might as well lean into the hyperfixation #marceline is a bassist queen while Nicky is a guitarist. oh well

[leonkennedyaoi]

starkid aggie sheet

#realuzed i got hannahs age wrong but #oh well! too late to fix it now #hannah foster #tim houston #paul matthews #grace chastity #the guy who didn't like musicals #nerdy prudes must die #black friday #starkid #my art

[e-wwis]

I am a book COLLECTOR. not a book reader. do not be fooled by my extensive library. I am ill-read.

#'oh you have so many books you must be so smart and well-read' FALSE #don't get me wrong I'm still a bookish person #but I sadly do not have enough spoons to read books cover to cover anymore #not like i used to in my youth (my youth was lkme 6 years ago)

[revvnant]

i sit and stew on a post so potent about the victim blaming that goes on in wider fandom headcanons about these characters that goes unnoticed because it's never overt or even intentional and i eat my hands because it's the jumpscare games for kids with their parents' credit cards.

#oh boy six a.m.! ( ooc ) #|| the shortest form of the post is that. #|| people would rather will be insane and believe he's doing his best for those kids. #|| than entertain the possibility that he was an angry man like so many angry men. #|| and when you tip that domino. it does not stop falling. #|| if he loved and supported his kids why did michael act out that way? was it just his fault? #|| and i say this as someone who also takes mike to task for the bullying and fratricide but like. #|| to paint a picture of the perfect afton house. to say those three kids were consistently loved and treated well. #|| is to say what happened to them was pure happenstance. #|| which leaves a sour taste in my mouth and makes me kinda nauseous. #|| better that michael is just a bully and elizabeth was beloved and what happened to her was an accident. #|| and not a result of neglect and endangerment. #|| it feels like rolling a rock uphill to go into the tags every time and see how william was a loving parent. #|| and it also denies the reality that. your parent can love you and abuse you. it happens so often. #|| sometimes a parent will think they're doing what's best for you and they'll hold you dear in their heart. #|| and the physical manifestation of that love is nevertheless deeply harmful. #|| if will must be out of touch with reality why isn't it the idea that he did nothing wrong with his kids when that isn't at all true. #|| three dead kids all at his facilities but it's because michael was a bully elizabeth didn't listen and ennard just Did That. #|| not because evan had his party at a place he hated. or william brought his daughter to the premiere of his child killing machine. #|| gwuhhhh bluhhh GEHHHHHHHH. AAAAAAAAAAA. #negativity ///

[zero-a]

people will go all "just be yourself and love yourself! :)" and then go "if you don't act the way i want, you gotta reprogram your entire way of thinking then reach into the very core of who you are and what makes you you, discard it, and replace it with this better, friendlier, more empathetic version that's coincidentally far more convenient for me to deal with than any other possible compromise we can make that you can do for me but doesn't stretch your mind to nothing but thin bands of what you'd consider 'You' :))))))"

#mine.txt #just thinking about all those 'think positively!' and 'romanticize your life!' posts #like on one hand i can see their merit cause self-hatred though instinctual is ultimately detrimental to your mental health #but on the other hand...some of them (a lot of them) are really just unashamedly asking other people to completely change themselves huh #all in the guise of ''positive thinking'' ''self-love'' and ''betterment'' no less #i suppose i shouldnt be surprised considering most people can barely grasp the concept of someone who Genuinely has muted emotions #as a natural state instead of a depressive symptom #not to mention the human quality of escalating things #so ofc tumblr which seems to currently be in its mental health recovery phase would naturally lean in so hard towards ''radical happiness'' #but man sometimes i really do just wanna shake the person from behind the screen and say #'no! dont you understand! this is just how i am! stop implying that everybody who doesnt feel joy at simply waking up is a miserable hag!' #sometimes they dont even imply it they just straight up say it 💀 #im honestly fine (as in idc) with seeing them but they remind me so much of those toxic positivity bitches that sell you random hoaxes #and tell you that youre ''ruining their vibes'' when youre not just beaming like the sun every waking second #well idc most of the time that is #sometimes they just trigger my szpd (and my dpd weirdly enough) #with the szpd obviously i dont like being told what to do and what to feel and having some rando assume things about me #but with the dpd its like #oh i must be doing something wrong ofc this stranger on the internet knows more about emotions and feelings than me #cause im a dumbass who doesnt Feel things therefore i must do what they say even to my own detriment #this mainly applies to those guilt-trippy ones so ive learned to steer clear of them #possibly even block the op

[deep-spacediver577]

#DSD577art #Danny Phantom #more stupid Lore just dropped #from the cracks of my brain... #has anyone done this before? Oh well... feast apon my take on it! #I dub this ghost Nickie they are hermaphroditic due to obvious reasons relating to their inspiration #nickelodeon #If you don't recognize this creature go watch the intro again! #That little blue one is their child! #Can you guess the name? #if you can't get the ref then you're too young to be a Zoomer... #If the character has glowing white eyes you must make way! They are important... #it's a ground rule #Nickie is ''god'' of the series in my darkest thoughts #I will not be taking questions #Fartman lost Danny's custody to this thing in court! At least I like to think that #Oops! I used the wrong side of my brain...

[jettreno]

I assume it’s bc of the tv show but I’ve seen a couple posts randomly dunking on the last of us but for such dumb reasons. “I want to play lighthearted silly games instead of grimdark ones” “I want to play games that are more inextricable from the video game medium, games that are less cinematic” the good news is that those games exist! the last of us is in fact only two games out of the countless video games out there, so I would recommend not playing them if you don’t want to

#rambles #it’s an irritating example of ‘i don’t like this popular thing so it must be everyone and everything else that’s wrong’ #like. it’s so funny I saw a post complaining that games are too dark bc of druckmann’s standard but like #they literally listed other big studio games in the post as counter examples #as like ‘studios SHOULD be making games like THESE’ #but clearly….they are #so like. what’s the point here? #also possiblyhighly controversial opinion but i like the tlou gameplay #it can get boring when it’s like ‘pick up and move these planks’ #but they rectified that in the second game #but like. what im saying is that just bc tlou is cinematic doesn’t mean it’s bad at being a game #it’s not trying to copy a film - otherwise it would have been a film to begin with #it’s particularly well suited to the screen and i am personally very excited for the tv show #but the tv show doesn’t render the game irrelevant #the experience of playing the game is excellent #honestly my hope is that the show will open the door for more people to examine viddy games and take them seriously #which would then ideally lead more people to appreciate the more unique and game-specific games out there that CANT fit the screen #uhhh what else. oh yeah - tlou also DOES take advantage of the game medium? #just in subtle and admittedly occasional ways #a standout is in part2 when the game won’t move forward until u as the player make ellie torture nora #now i have BIG issues with this scene but it’s for the (no pun intended) execution rather than the concept #basically if it were almost any other character than nora in this scene it would work better #BUT - that emotional turmoil and devastation and guilt and pain from pressing x and hurting someone until they give you what you want? #that’s not possible in any other medium #anyway hehe oops this is a long rant 🤪 #my point is if u don’t like tlou then don’t worry u don’t have to play it 💕

[ratgirlcopia]

putting it out there now but i don't think copia's gonna die. i think what happened to terzo was so over the top insult-to-injury because it was "goodbye lawsuit era, you've been embalmed alive and beheaded and we're never going back." i think the other two were the same, more or less. copia's just. wildly different. it's not like it's tradition for the papas to get murdered. it just Happened. and even if it was tradition, i literally don't think ghost tradition matters in the post-lawsuit age.

#copiaposting #copia is also like. in my opinion. tobias flexing that he can create a character from scratch and do it really really well. #because the “papa emeritus” concept was not HIS in the beginning. he made it his own. but it was not His. #and cardi copia was (i think) a response to that. like. oh well if i don't have any original ideas then explain this thing i whipped up. #which is also why the papa silhouette/aesthetic is a lot less prominent in copia's marketing than the others. imo. #tldr i just don't think there are any Rules of what must happen between ghost eras that still apply post-lawsuit. #it's different. i believe him when he said copia would be around for five years but i don't think that necessitates Death. at all. #of course you can feel free to put me in the stocks and throw tomatoes at me if i'm wrong but eh. i think this is right.

[designernishiki]

You asked for a fic rec so I’ll toss this one at ya: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46767358?view_full_work=true Stick through the formatting for the characterization, tone, and really the whole vibe of this fic. I haven’t been able to get the bathroom call between Daigo and Majima out of my head for weeks since I read it with how naturally it all flows. My own little Daigo characterization booklet to review when I feel like I need a refresher on him.

so I may have stayed up until 6am reading this (would’ve slept earlier but I couldn’t stop reading it) and hgggahaghhhhaggahshhhhhhhh that was one of the most well-characterized fics I’ve ever read what the fuck. like the differences in how each character speaks (both tone-wise and in differing levels of authenticity) and how they speak to specific others (the daigo and majima dyanmic specifically- how they actually take into account how long they’ve been working really closely- SO good), the mental anguish and chaos vs the overwhelming emptiness of being daigo dojima but no longer The 6th Chairman Daigo Dojima……….I could keep going but I think you get it.

tbh I’d been wanting to write something exploring a similar set of dynamics/situation (post-kiryu’s fake death, interactions with haruka, daigo, and/or majima specifically, reflecting on his shortcomings while acknowledging the heavy Grief left behind) but now I’m like. well I still could but this was so well written in regards to daigo and haruka that, as far as something between those two goes, I don’t feel the need to.

thanks for the recommendation! my brain is broken now (affectionate)

#rambling #fics #fic rec #there’s a little bit of minedai in there via flashback but I don’t know if im gonna put this in my minedai tag cause it’s really #not tecccchnically a minedai fic. it’s just. a daigo-centric fic/study more than anything #my favorite more lighthearted moment in this story is daigo talking to haruka in Okinawa after like 3 years and hearing about her #‘situationship’ with yuta and how it’s just more convenient to tell people they’re a legit couple and daigo’s immediate response on impulse #is just. ‘that must be nice. I mean that you can do that. if it were two guys or two girls or something you wouldn’t be able to do that.’ #or something like that and simultaneously sweating because he has no fucking idea why he’s saying that and can’t find a way to abort #my only critique is that I was hoping he’d come out to her (probably on the scene after that where it’s just them sitting on the deck) #and it wouldn’t even have to be a Big Thing it’s just. it felt like it was leading up to that (whether coming out on purpose or on accident) #but ah well #don’t get me wrong I think she could probably figure it out on her own based on the fact that daigo’s never had a girlfriend to her #knowledge and is in his 40s + that weird little gay tangent he went on earlier out of the blue #if anyone could pick it up though context clues and hints it’d be haruka and akiyama The Investigators. and oh no. looks like that’s #exactly who he’s stuck with #id love to see an update cause of this oh mannnn #(if anyone could pick it up it’d be those two + also majima but I kinda figured at this point majima would almost certainly already know #they seem like they have a mutual (possibly unspoken) recognition of one another on that front. based a little on what daigo says about #‘when kiryu says jump you say how high’ and majima floundering a little before admitting ‘you know I can’t resist those big #brown puppydog eyes…’ like i know that’s not too on the nose but it’s enough of a casual acknowledgement to Me that it feels… idk it just #feels like they Know. it just makes sense. and I hope they do cause it’d feel a little less lonely and terrifying to be gay in that world if #that were the case. yet another thing making it feel like majima’s a way more viable parent figure to him than kiryu fr fr…… #anyway I could keep going forever so I should probably stop #I’ve never considered how daigo would interact with akiyama and now they’ve got me intrigued. I really hope they update this with something #daigo #I really think a chunk of this fanbase (particularly The Queers) understand daigo as a character better than rgg studio does. and cares more

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

#science #transphobia #cass review #less 'cass review' generally more 'zucker specifically' because this same problem exists outside cass #have lost count of the number of times i've seen 'well THAT study may have said most trans kids persist but it MUST be wrong' #'there's another study says the exact opposite. that one's right. obviously.' #but cass is why i'm annoyed by it now #normally i don't have a problem with critical observations and questions. yeah check your science! that's good! #there have been some bullshit studies and some bullshit interpretations of good studies! scientific literacy is important! #and normally also am willing to pretend the people pulling reaction 1 on some studies and reaction 2 on others are. not the same group. #but now there's a ton of cass supporters tryna say 'oh the cass review didn't reject or downplay anything for being pro-trans!' #'some studies just weren't given much weight for being poor evidence! not our fault those were all studies with results trans people like!' #…….………….aight explain why zucker's findings are used for the 'percentage of trans kids who don't stay trans' stat instead of anyone else's. #would've been more scientifically accurate to say 'yeah we just don't know.' #'studies have been done but none of them fit our crack criteria sooooo *shrug*' #like COME ON at least PRETEND you're genuinely checking scientific correctness and not looking for excuses to weed out undesirable results #am also mad about zucker in particular because his is possibly the most famous bullshit study #quite bluntly if you're doing trans research and think 'yeah this one seems reasonable' you. are maybe not well-informed enough for the job #there's just no way you genuinely look at the research with an eye toward accurate science regardless of personal bias #and walk away thinking 'hm that zucker fellow seems reasonable. competent scientists will respect that citation.' #that's one or two steps above doing a review of vaccine science and seriously citing wakefield's mmr-causes-autism study #it doesn't matter what the rest of your review says people are gonna have OPINIONS on that bit #and outside anti-vaxxers most of those opinions will be 'are you actually the most qualified for this because ummmm.' #people who agree with everything else will still think someone more competent could've done a much better job #people who disagree with everything else will point to that as proof you don't know shit and why should we listen to you #anyway i'd love a hugeass trans science review with actual fucking standards hmu if you know of one cause this ain't it #……does tumblr still put a limit on how many tags you can include guess me and my tag essay are about to find out.

[toastsnaffler]

my boss asked me to run this assay again bc she doesnt like the results but every time I run it I get increasingly more beautifully perfect standards + lower cv%s and the sample DHs are still exactly the same. dunno what to tell u girl..

#i even managed to time it this afternoon so I could make up the samples from scratch again and its literally Exactly The Same #so either ive managed to make up the samples wrong twice in a row. or this is just What Is Present In The Sample 👍 #im pretty sure I did it right the first time bc I made higher conc ones too and they formed curds/solidified in a perf gradient #welp. ill email her the repeats monday and do it again I guess...... #like even the t0 and controls are consistent so it must be right!!!!! #oh well weekend now innit #.diaries