#the selfish gene

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Hi would it be okay if i asked you why you detest richard dawkins?? Cause i also hate him to pieces and would like to share some indulgent hatered of this fucking old ass shit man. Please go off

I mean, to go FULLY into it would require me to write an entire essay, and I just don't want to?

But the short version is

antitheism is cultural genocide and patently bullshit

focusing on genes rather than the whole organism in evolution is patently ridiculous when the minimum unit of evolution is the *population*, not the gene

in fact, when you realize the minimum unit is the population rather than the gene, you see that altruism and social behavior are very beneficial, even across species (see: symbiosis), and "selfishness" "red in tooth and claw" "law of the jungle" are just bullshit things some people made up to justify their crappy behavior (re: racism. their crappy behavior was racism.)

IQ and intelligence are smoke and mirrors we invented to convince ourselves we're more evolved than other animals (we're not, and every organisms has the intelligence it needs for its environment, adapted for its ecology, and that means that a diversity of intelligences is actually a good thing like diversity of anything is a good thing)

the man is a eugenecist and that speaks for itself

I hate him, and I hate that we live in a world where he is still alive and Stephen Jay Gould is dead, zichrono livracha

#richard dawkins #stephen jay gould #antitheism #evolution #the selfish gene #altruism #sociality

[deliciouskeys]

Okay, imagine Lena's seeing Billy without beard for the first time...

I too sonic screamed when I saw this mini comic😍😍😍😍😂

Thank you 😳🥹🥹🥹

omg it’s killing me that Billy deciding to try this on a whim actually means he’s feeling well and truly settled.

#vans you’re the best #butchlander #mpreg #homelander #billy butcher #the boys #the boys tv #the selfish gene #fanart #cute #lol

[kukuandkookie]

Might copy and paste the text here later from my Twitter thread where I expressed why I enjoyed it, but I recently read My Little Poplar and ended up liking Bai Xinyu and Yu Fengcheng quite a bit!

Yu Fengcheng’s eventual regret was honestly written really well, and the relationship between the two leads has good chemistry. 👌

Even better is that it features Jian Suiying, who I also have gotten weirdly attached to???

Like objectively the book Jian Suiying comes from, In Love With an Idiot, has its flaws. Or rather, it employs tropes that really aren’t for everyone, which includes the main couple fighting constantly (so it’s basically fighting and then fucking and then fighting and then fucking and you get the idea), and it gets kind of overdramatic at times, as some very angsty-type stories can be—whether they’re from China (known as “dog blood” stories) or not.

I even found it a little silly that so many were so obsessed with Jian Suiying, and yet…

Here I am now, sliiiightly obsessed with him. 🤡😂

It’s just that! As I mentioned on my Twitter, he’s so unique for a shou/bottom/uke character!! Before he met Li Yu, he was always the top, and he’s sexually confident and pretty intelligent and ruthless and…well, temperamental. He does admittedly have a charm to him that works and I find it pretty amazing the author managed to predict that, since so many characters in her novels adore him BDMGIHSKD.

Even his red flags give him charm, because while he is problematic, the red flags make him an intriguing character. The author does a pretty good job at balancing the different aspects of him that make him technically infuriating and yet also compelling.

His charm is further boosted by the fact there’s actually a clip of one of his VAs just trying to cheer you up if you’re sad?? Like hello??? 🥺

It is no longer a surprise to me that Li Yu ended up so obsessed with Jian Suiying. 😆

Also I’ll note now the last image is actually by the My Little Poplar manhua artist while the others are from the manhua adaptation of Jian Suiying’s own novel! I like how the manhua artist draws him quite a bit since it feels so him. I’ve seen fan art and they sometimes feature him smaller and thus not domineering enough, even though they usually show him with the same hairstyle—which makes for a fun tangent on its own since danmei designs can be a bit “basic,” so when one specific design becomes a recognizable look for a character, I find it pretty cool.

In fact, one of my favourite details in My Little Poplar was watching Yu Fengcheng be very frustrated with how much Bai Xinyu looked up to Jian Suiying. 🤭

Also just seeing him show up always made me go “yay!” because it’s so fun getting to see him again, especially as part of his story aligns with My Little Poplar (as in the plots of both novels happen somewhat concurrently).

Similarly, the manhua adaptation, My Beloved Fool, has a really nice art style and I really like that the artist always lets Jian Suiying shine by really dressing him up. He and Shi Qi from Trap a Vicious Dog (another series I want to ramble about on why I’m enjoying it so far) are two manhua protagonists I know of who are like…confident smart corporate bosses that get stylish fits almost every manhua chapter, which is a nice detail ahaha.

My Beloved Fool has recently hit the heavy angst section of the novel so it’ll be depressing to follow for a while since you’ll just watch Li Yu fall apart as Jian Suiying suffers absolute hell. 😔

Someone even uploaded the first season of the vomic version of the manhua on YouTube. 👀

Similarly, I’m really excited for the My Little Poplar manhua to get to all the good bits of the story there, since Bai Xinyu develops a lot as a character and I find Yu Fengcheng’s regret especially well done. But evidently it’ll take quite some time to get there; first we have to get past the military bullying alfndkfjjss.

Anyway the actual reason I started typing this out before I spiralled into another huge ramble asjakfl is that I found In Love With an Idiot and My Little Poplar audio dramas on YouTube!!

I’d heard some In Love With an Idiot audio clips from something that some fans had shared to YouTube before, but it sounds like those clips were from a completely different audio drama than the one I landed on. I’m especially excited about the My Little Poplar one. Even if it’s not extremely high quality (I think Bing Xing Xia Deng aka Inferior by Nature aka The Selfish Gene has admittedly spoiled me because it was so high quality 😆), it’s still fun hearing these characters come to life aurally.

Even more so since iirc I saw a Twitter post saying the My Little Poplar and In Love With an Idiot got taken down officially, so they may only be accessible via online reuploads right now. I can’t find the post to confirm, but if true, I’m glad someone preserved them. 🙏

Update: I did find the other version’s VAs of the In Love With an Idiot audio drama! Except it’s maybe a…sequel? Where a Li Yu of the past transmigrates 5 years into the future when Li Yu and Jian Suiying are a couple?? It’s on MaoEr FM…and it’s for free. 👁️

In fact, I could totally ramble about the Bing Xing Xia Deng audio drama—which I already have for a friend, so I can just copy and paste that long-ass (slightly more incoherent because it’s a lot of fangirling) wall of text here haha. I am currently very obsessed with that series too because it really is high quality and I like how it evolved the novel it’s adapting, but my friend is the expert on it so I feel a bit more shy about sharing my thoughts sometimes.

Welp that went on quite a number of tangents but yeah. I’ve enjoyed these novels and I’m very happy they got audio dramas and that they are still out there to be enjoyed after everything. 🥺💕

OH and final note but…the fun fact about the 188男团 aka 188 Group, which is the overall series Jian Suiying and Bai Xinyu belong to (so-called because it’s 10 novels that share a universe and all feature (scum) gongs of 188 cm) got sort of made into an “actual” 男团, aka a boy band/group! I found the couple (?) songs they released and some fan songs and it’s nice seeing them all “singing” together alfjskfjs.

An English translation can be found here!

An English translation can be found here!

Me when I spy Jian Suiying, Li Yu, Yu Fengcheng, and Bai Xinyu especially in the MVs: 🥺

#danmei #188男团 #188 group #manhua #kuku rambles #long post #my little poplar #小白杨 #你却爱一个他 #你却爱一个傻逼 #你却爱一个sb #in love with an idiot #my beloved fool #trap a vicious dog #诱捕恶犬 #秉性下等 #bing xing xia deng #inferior by nature #the selfish gene #Youtube

[angieloveshua]

As I tightened my grip on the umbrella handle, I looked into Ji Chenfeng’s eyes and asked, “Even if I do something to hurt you, will you not regret meeting me?” “I won’t regret it.” After hearing this, I felt relieved for some reason, but then Ji Chenfeng added, “But I still hope you won’t do that.”

Why do I suddenly see myself crying at 3 p.m. while drinking strawberry yoghurt again?

#一念之私 #回南雀 #hui nan que #the selfish gene

[blue-cray0n]

#malcolm gladwell #outliers #freakonomics #steven levitt #rich dad poor dad #robert kiyosaki #the subtle art of not giving a f*ck #mark manson #blink: the power of thinking without thinking #steven pinker #enlightenment now #the better angels of our nature #TED Talks #bill gates #vaclav smil #richard dawkins #the selfish gene #david brooks

[sspacegodd]

Most of the younger generation don't know that before he was the world's best-known evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins was the original host of TV's Family Feud!

He was also a much beloved regular on another game show, Match Game, hosted by the selfish Gene Rayburn.

Here, Dawkins relaxes backstage with one of the Celebrity Feud families.

#richard dawkins #family feud #richard dawson #television #game shows #match game #the selfish gene #the god delusion #gene rayburn

[catofadifferentcolor]

“Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.”

― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

#quotes #richard dawkins #the selfish gene

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

okay Who else first encountered the word ‘meme’ through Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene or something else using it as ‘cultural Gene’.

I Cannot be the only one

#meme #dawkins memes #the selfish gene #richard dawkins #eee original

[deliciouskeys]

Please congratulate me on writing my very first publicly posting my very first birth scene.

I basically rewrote this chapter from scratch after not being happy with it. Am I happy with it now? More so, at least. If you see major errors / text accidentally missing, please let me know, because I wrote it in haste, mostly on mobile, and die like men without betas, etc.

Pineapple Express mpreg, you have officially been dethroned 🪦👑 … (lol)

Yes, my goal is to completely finish this fic before S4 airs and before any conflicting new canon is introduced.

#the selfish gene #butchlander #the boys #the boys tv #mpreg

[littlemyinvadeshighbury]

Everyday I'm forced to wake up in a world where Richard Dawkins invented the word meme

#i feel visceral rage when i remember he exists #the selfish gene #richard dawkins #evolutionary biology #anthropology #why did HE get to invent it huh #hes just so lame #this all stems from having to read The Selfish Gene in one of my bioanth courses #and it felt like utter bullshit bc of my brain #my personal hell #meme

[angieloveshua]

I hate the process of getting over it, the problem that I have to work hard to solve, but if dealing with this “problem” has already consumed a lot of my energy, then I hate quitting halfway.

#he's relatable #the selfish gene #hui nan que #回南雀 #一念之私

[cirrateeb]

im reading the selfish gene and some of the shit the author says is so wild but hes theoretically?? not wrong??? i love it

#i cant even get mad at some of the slight inaccuracies #bc he goes and says stuff like this #and also some based stuff about contraceptives #but this book is actually interesting #would recommend if u like biology i guess #the selfish gene #txt post

[fanficclub]

I'm reading this book called The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins. I understand that it's old, but these things are frustrating: not only does he call every animal a "he", he also says things like this:

A male is an "individual", and a female is a "resource".

Eh.

#biology #the selfish gene #sexism #books

[theeflowerofcarnage]

POV: you played AC syndicate and now everyone gotta be dressed up in vaguely victorian era clothing 😞😌

#ts4 cas #simblr #my sims #ts4 elvira slayer #yes its elvira slayer #and yes ima give her back her very short hair but its 1880 rn!! #Id like 2 think she owned an orphanage n preformed experiments on them by injecting vamp genes or #Feed off them like that vampire lady from the witcher did #shes more evil than miss hell 2 me #miss hell is kinda camp #more like a free spirit shes only evil in her selfishness i guess #BUT ELVIRAAA? Oh shes giving me lady lucille sharpe vibes #How many people did she killed in her pursuit of knowledge