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dimespin · 1 year

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This may be a weird question, but I've been thinking about Saratoan friend pairs. Since theyre almost always completely platonic could they in theory happen between relatives of similar ages? Or is there a taboo against that? Or is it really common and thats why it's so unusual to have a sexual friend pair, because it's associated with a relative bond?

It does happen with relatives, but just frequently doesn't because of the time frame when most of them form their long term friendships

Most Saratoans are expected to take care of younger siblings to some degree, which makes it hard to view them as an equal peer even once they both reach the same developmental stage.

Younger siblings view their older siblings more like the way people view aunts and uncles or babysitters - adults or near-adults who have some amount of authority over them. And contrariwise older siblings view their younger siblings somewhere between charge, obligation, and pest.

During pre-adolescence, they often rebel against familial obligation and expectation to try and form their own identities and seek out similar age peers to practice the whole relationship, respect, and boundaries song and dance with people who can't overrule them with a show of teeth or be flipped into a bag for a time out. This is the stage when most of them make their life long friends.

So that's why many of them are unrelated, but there's no particular reason someone can't platonically prioritize a family member, and it does happen sometimes with cousins and twins or when births are closer together (most Saratoans have significant gaps between children).

There is a slight stigma against it only in the sense that elders worry that a child who's only real friend is their sibling or cousin is failing to develop socially and is going to grow up lonely and dysfunctional.

They don't necessarily view friend pairings as synonymous with familial love but that the venn diagram has overlap does color things for them a bit and is one of the reasons (not the only one though) for their "ick" reaction to the idea of friend pairs being sexual with each other.

#saratoan #worldbuilding #fantasy sociology

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birgittesilverbae · 1 year

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[UPFRONT. i have to say. SORRY THIS BECAME LONG.] follow-up thoughts on the divorced beatrice lilith spiderman point emotions over ava: ive been turning it around my head and i think. the two of them kinda just ended up shrug emoji-ing on ava turning out to be in both their lives? which feels kinda a copout answer bc im also SO shrug emoji about it, but, also, Really Tho.

like they definitely had a "ava is an adult who can decide what she wants" convo but the point of it became If ava wants to Pick someone and stop fucking/flirting with the other for monogamy feeling reasons they'll just respect that, But Until Then.

(i say shrug emoji convo as if it was so chill between them and not like the only reason nobody throttled anyone is their sheer grip on parental responsibility)

because. its not like they could argue "Who Got Here First" or "the relationship im having with ava is more valid than yours"? its kinda weird, it doesnt seem their style

(and Theyre Still Friends, for all that they feel like biting (non-sexy) their ex-wife, seeing the other being happy/having fun and feeling content with that is in their marrows now, i mean. gestures at their amicable divorce bc they know they fuck each other up. there IS Love there, it just didnt fit quite right.)

theres also smth about.... sharing is not the right word but like. theyre both kinda abysmal at letting people Into their lives in more than just a surface skim?

a therapist could tell them its probably not healthy to have the same pool of friends but when you grew up side by side like they had, yeah well. and. honestly? odds were high that the only people that can Deal with lilith's everything are also the same people that can deal with beatrice's so why not.

like a venn diagram with beatrice and lilith except it turns out to be a circle. so. "Oh, ava silva is in both our lives" probably never really seemed too strange or off-putting to their brains beyond the initial kneejerk What Do You Mean We Want To Fuck The Same Person!!!!!!!

idk. vibes. idk if they match what you feel like they did but thank you for letting me ramble in your inbox the end

wait. im sorry. i forgot to add the tldr. which was i think they really just shrug emoji'd it until things started getting real Real and it occured beatrice and lilith that shit damn fuck they do have to define it they Gotta make a decision on where this is headed and what theyre going to tell their kid

(on a different note also Just say the word if the rambling is actually a tad too much bc i know it does Wander about and i can dial it back no worries!!)

please never dial it back I am eating this up. you're so right on the venn diagram of people lilith and bea can tolerate being a circle, they're absolutely so deeply intertwined that their lives can't be picked apart with the divorce (and not that they'd WANT that, because they're each other's best friend, too, whether or not they're married)

#fic: dads #ava x beatrice x lilith #ask #anon

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cornflowercanine · 3 years

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catgirl; meulin leijon girlcat; silverstream cat girl; 'crazy cat lady', girl that likes cats a lot in general girl cat; -points at my own cat-

#clove rambles #trying to articul8 why i think cat that is also a les8ian is gender #and yeah i think warrior cats is a real good example of it. theyre kitties that like other girl kitties :3 #also weird for girlcat and catgirl the first word implies ....#like; CATgirl is a human/humanoid taking on cat tr8s; GIRLcat is literally a cat that is a girl #looking at my original messages from uhh like a month ago where i first had this realiz8ion #i also noted that cat; is cats from chatchat #and girl; is hinata hyuuga #im onto something here. anyone else on the same wavelength as me #the fucking venn diagram and spectrum of girl and cat and its overlaps

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cosmik-homo · 5 years

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I hate those moments when you realize how neatly your favorite things relate into each other

#this is about me still thinking about various alfred/dalinar/12/vimes similarities #ita less of a venn diagram and more like a very weird chart #or it can be a venm diagram if i find a good four format #its just that dalinar and vimes share gruff while 12 and alfred are #dare i say it #fluff?#not in the fic sense theyre softer dorks and i wanted it to rhyme #but also 12s hair is magical #edit: actually alfred is an odd one out for never commiting war crimes huh

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tsurangaconundrum · 3 years

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Ur buddy dba here!! Ok so my dad and sister rlly love baseball, like theres a local minor league team theyre fans of. I myself did think a home run was where the guy got back to the starting plate (actually its where they hit the ball and it goes over the wall, BUT it has to stay in the lines?? Idk i think this makes it kinda unfair to the left handed players, which there are a lot) so im not really well versed in anything sporty*. But they were going and for once i come along mostly because there was a discount on hotdogs and i fucking love tubed meat. And i noticed a lot of interesting things whilst i was there.

So there were these two guys sitting in front of us and they were pretty quiet in the first inning (each inning has TWO rounds, like each team gets to hit the ball which actually makes a lot more sense cuz its even and whatnot) but then the blue shirt guy gets a couplea drinks in him and he starts yelling at the players? Which i suppose is customary, a lotta ppl were doing it but i still found it quite rude, especially cuz the stuff they were saying was… weird. Like the bad team had the same thrower out for like 5 innings and THE ENTIRE TIME blue shirt guy yells about how tight his pants are. Which, yeah, dude was like. Baseball pants are kinda like leggings and all of these guys are. I dont wanna be vulgar but they all look really nice!! You know what i mean. Baseball pants? They’re nice! Anyway it was kinda like blue shirt guy was catcalling the thrower and im like 90% he was being homophobic somehow but he was also literally staring at another dudes ass the entire time. I think he wouldve punched me if id brought that up tho.

Ofc the mold (hit cw tv show) slowly consuming my mind wasnt exempt from this lovely family bonding experience so i was like. Damn. What if castiel supernatural were here (actually furst i thought about sam winchester a lot because he seems baseball) and then i casually tried to come up with the best stupid meet-cutes that could happen at a baseball game. I despise that the term meet-cute is something in my regular vocabulary but also it gets the point across so whatever. Lets play tumblr game: imagine ur otp. Oh no! I hit you in the face with a baseball and now you are sueing me i hope we dont fall in love :( (;)). / Its .25$ hotdog night but i forgot my quarters :( oh? You have a quarter? Well what do u want in exchange? My hand in marriage?! Ok. (Yes this one has more pornographic implications but SHHHHH. Its too easy dont take the bait) / im the mascot and ur scared of the foam creatures from hell so u drop kick me and apparently im kinda into that. / ooh im a sports announcer except i spend the entire time complimenting u instead of talking about the game. I lost my job can i stay with u plz.

I’ll stop. But fr buying someone .25$ tubed meat actually holds so much love. Mmmm hot dog. If it werent rude to take pictures of random people i think i would have a camera full of old guys who look like stan lee. There are a lot of them. I think old guys kinda go in like a venn diagram of stan lee to like. Another old man. Idk u know what i mean. That doesnt have much to do with the rest of this other than i saw an old man who looked like stan lee. Hm. This is all much less funny than it was in my head, and i feel that my revelations about baseball are most likely common knowledge thats just new and shocking to me (like when the first time i went to camp and was dissapointed to find out we WERENT sworn enemies with the camp across the lake, and therefore no team bonding or canoe racing for the future of the camp or like dance offs would be happening which i knew were unlikely but i at least assumed there would be pranks or something. Then again mine was a camp for disabled kids so i feel like any prank that was played on us could very easily become a hate crime.)

Haha this one isnt as fun as i hope i usually am nor doesit contain any dead animals but i rlly wanted to check in on u and say hi and all that and i thought the overtly sexist middle aged man who yelled at a guy for having a tight ass for like 3 hours would be a good way to do it. How’ve you been? Also. Baseball. Opinions? I think its fun and I enjoy watching it i guess but i think they should hit the ball more often cuz its way more interesting than all the throwing back and forth.

*actually i know about fencing because its the raddest sport. Swords!! Fuck yeah!!!!!!!

dba i genuinely do not know where to start in responding to this. you amaze me. you met dean winchester in the flesh. sexist objectifying men looking ass. that man was posessed by the spirit of dean (rip jackles true vessel).

also you know astonishingly little about baseball. maybe my dad loves baseball a too much amount but he knows almost all the players names on basically any team (because being insane about things is genetic. i do blame him for this blog). i think its semi boring but its not the worst sport (football is the worst) and i do watch on occasion.

now for a bit of baseball knowledge. the game actually favors lefty hitters, they're in demand, because more people are right handed and therefore more pitchers are right handed, and it's easier to hit an off handed pitch (left with right or right with left) than a same handed pitch. so if the other team doesnt have a left handed pitcher to switch in (which is very possible), the hitter could have a better chance of getting a solid hit. the foul lines on either side are pretty even, so it really doesn't harm lefties or righties. so yeah. lefties for the win!

#im actually left handed myself!#ive been good. well i got a cold despite masks and everything somehow but im mostly over that so yea!#also so true the stan lee ification of old white men is so real #dead bird anon #asks #i hope my baseball explanation makes sense lmao

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doctorjohcoy · 3 years

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Hey man! I'm the owner of Colonel-Cutter? And I was wondering if you would want to talk about antz!? 0o0

hello helo hi i know you sent this ask like,,months ago holy shit but i didnt reply bc i couldnt think of anything to talk to you about? i watched antz like three times and watched the directors commentary at the time and i still couldnt figure out how to reply lmao im real sorry

but uhh idk i guess im answering this now because i wanted to show you why i was fixated for a while

idk if you ever read homestuck or problem sleuth but uh, colonel cutter reminds me of this guy, droog

so i was absolutely obsessed for a bit bc theyre both one of my favorite character archetypes, the neutral evil more relaxed second in command to a villain type

also hes really cool obviously, i like the littel detail that he has a missing tooth (haha ants with teeth) like he got it knocked out during a fight or something

i was gonna make a venn diagram but i cannot focus long enough to count the similarities between them

but yeah uh hi if u still feel like replying wanna tell me what you love about antz or the characters or something? its cool if you dont

also uhhhh i was looking for pics of cutter for this ask and i found this dude

WTF i didnt know they made toys whaT id like one of these weird lil things

#feethands!#anyway i ur colonel-cutter blog is cool okay bye again im super sorry for never replying it was very rude #docasks #i started thinking about cutter and droog again so thats why #i think i drew cutter maybe once but i couldnt tell u what i did witht he drawing #hhh #0o0 #ur an antz kin if i remember right? maybe im wrong #cool if you are

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fadinglake · 6 years

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one of the worst things about all the weird unnecessary mental illness gatekeeping is (the fact that people shouldnt have to pull out a list of their diagnoses aside) the fact that so many people don't KNOW the reason why their brain does the things it does or the psychological name for what it's doing.

for a community that seems very aware of how difficult it can be to navigate the realm of professional diagnoses, let alone an ACCURATE one, it seems exceptionally easy for people to forget how barren the resources are for people trying to figure shit out on their own. its hard enough to get a clear idea of symptoms for anything that isnt depression and general anxiety. just attempting to diagnose a single mental illness in yourself can be ridiculously difficult, and it gets even worse if you've got more than one thing going on. understanding comorbidity is like navigating a fucking minefield of non-information. there's no chart or grand venn diagram explaining different mental illnesses and disorders and how they can overlap and work off each other. even checking symptom lists can lead you astray by virtue of mental illnesses manifesting in different ways in different brains.

so for people who should understand how fucking hard it is to figure out what the fuck is going on with your brain, and who claim to want to help people that have shit going on by advocating so strongly that youre checking Disorder Credentials (lmao stop doing this) you're sure doing a lot of mentally ill people a massive disservice by demanding they have a set of labels for their issues. i assure you all this is doing is 1) making them doubt themselves 2) denying them support 3] ostracizing them and most of all 4) making you look like a giant fucking toolbag

honestly if you let the fact that someone doesnt have a specific mental illness exclude them from support for their symptoms, youre behaving like a stuck up brat. plenty of mental illnesses share symptoms with each other even if theyre called different things (like how people with adhd hyperfocus on something and people with autism have special interests. those two are the same thing) and if youre saying that people don't get to participate in whatever symptom relief or understanding or resource is being offered, you're a jerk and you're not being helpful

#mental illness #preachy #gatekeeping #self dxing

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isaacathom · 7 years

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‘think about the venn diagram’ id rather never have to think about a venn diagram ever in my life

#also like i guess what she has is a venn diagram but theyre all also like. nested inside. theres no weird middle overlaps. its all or nothin

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jillmckenzie1 · 6 years

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Why? Because They’re Dumb – Local Movie Reviewer Takes on Predator

On the cinematic Venn diagram, there can be an awful lot of overlap between a great movie and an awesome movie. Before we go too much further, let me stake out what I mean by that. A great movie is one with impressive production design, acting, screenwriting, and direction — essentially all the ingredients have been baked in to give us a film of quality. Apollo 13 is a great movie, as is Monster and Deliverance.

An awesome movie, on the other hand? That’s a movie that directly tickles our reptile brain, delivering a thrill, a joke, something purely designed to elicit an immediate response. Do awesome movies concern themselves with rich characterization or innovative direction? Naw, son. These are the kinds of movies that pair well with beer, pizza, and a roomful of rowdy friends. The Last Boy Scout is an awesome movie, as is Demolition Man and The Relic.

Can an awesome movie have aspirations of greatness? Sure, just look at some of the Star Wars movies, or a larger chunk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. These films have a patina of respectability, and try to manage that tricky balancing act between quality and cool. Sometimes, that respectability feels a little too safe.

There’s something refreshing about a movie that wears its lack of pretense on its sleeve. It is what it is, and it’s content to be nothing more than that. Exhibit A is The Predator, a movie that features shoddy special effects, a laughably stupid script, and a third act that’s borderline incomprehensible. If I’m being honest, though? I enjoyed it.

We begin in the vast reaches of space, as one big-ass spaceship fires on a smaller-ass spaceship. The smaller craft narrowly escapes, which is good! It then proceeds to crash land on Earth, which is bad. That’s especially inconvenient for Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook), a military sniper attempting a hostage extraction as the ship crashes. Things get even more inconvenient when the iconic and extremely angry alien hunter emerges from the wreckage and proceeds to decimate Quinn’s team. Quinn narrowly escapes,* but not without swiping a mask and an arm-mounted weapons system from the fiendish thingy. Does he turn the alien tech over to his superiors? Nope! He mails it home to his family. Why would he do such a thing? Welp, because he’s dumb.

Meanwhile, we’re introduced to evolutionary biologist Casey Bracket (Olivia Munn), a scientist who is rudely accosted by a group of shadowy government operatives. Led by unsubtle maniac Traeger (Sterling K. Brown), these folks have been studying the actions of Predators on Earth for years. They have acquired technology, tissue samples, and now the unconscious Predator that jacked up Quinn’s team. Do they euthanize the fiendish thingy so that a) they can perform an exhaustive autopsy and b) so that it can’t pose a threat to them? Nope! They strap it to an operating table. Why would they do such a thing? Welp, because they’re dumb.

While all of that foolishness is going on, we meet Quinn’s 11-year-old son Rory (Jacob Tremblay). He’s on the spectrum, and we know that because (heavy sigh) he’s superintelligent and seems to have a photographic memory. The lad receives a mysterious package from his pops. Inside is…you guessed it, the Predator gear. As young Rory is screwing around with the tech, he unwittingly activates a homing beacon. The signal is picked up by another Predator, an Apex Predator, if you will, who’s on the hunt for the first Predator and the gear. When the gear starts doing weird stuff, does Rory tell his mom, Emily (Yvonne Strahovski)? Nope! He hides it and keeps screwing around with it. Why would he do such a thing? Welp, because he’s dumb.

Hey, remember Quinn that we talked about like an hour ago? He’s been labeled a lunatic, and Our Hero is tossed on a bus filled with a group of colorful military whacko birds called The Loonies. They are:

Nebraska (Trevante Rhodes), a smooth operator who tried and failed to blow his head off.

Coyle (Keegan-Michael Key), a profane jokester.

Baxley (Thomas Jane), a man afflicted with Tourette Syndrome.

Nettles (Augusto Aguilera), a religious man convinced the Rapture is coming.

Lynch (Alfie Allen), an Irish explosives expert who’s…Irish.

When all hell breaks loose and both Predators and Predadogs** are mauling everyone in sight, Quinn must try to save his son. Do The Loonies take that opportunity to peace the hell out of there? Nope! They instantly bond with a complete stranger and risk their lives to help him. Why would they do such a thing? Welp, because they’re dumb.

Can and should we expect high quality entertainment from the fourth installment in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 Predator series? Critic Robert Warshow wrote, “A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man.” Pretentious quotes might not have a home in this particular review, but it’s the only way I can explain to you how The Predator made me feel. There were two tracks running in my brain during the film. The first was the Critic Track, which racked up an impressive amount of criticisms. The second was the viewer track that repeatedly said, “Dude just got cut in half! That’s awesome.”

Shane Black directed, and we’ve got a real good news/bad news situation here. The good news is that Black knows why we’re here, and wastes zero time getting to the mayhem. His pacing is absolutely relentless, and even when many, many things happen, Black is shoving us onto the next set piece. His set pieces are hilariously gory, and I can imagine him cackling as he devises multiple ways for the human body to be shredded. The bad news? We have a lot of shoddy FX work, clumsy editing, and a third act that’s almost impossible to understand due to hasty reshoots. I’m actually surprised that a major studio allowed a movie this sloppy to be released.

Remember about 3,000 words ago I talked about how dumb the script is? It is impressively stupid, but Black and co-writer Fred Dekker have crammed it full of profanity, jokes, and fun characterization. There’s a great running joke about how Predators are not technically predators, and the script gives the characters just enough personality to be memorable. Despite the script stretching your suspension of disbelief to traumatic lengths, the cast is game and goes to town on the chewy dialogue.

Speaking of the charismatic cast, everyone is clearly having a blast here. As our human villain Traeger, Sterling K. Brown is terrific. He’s an amoral maniac who spits out one-liners with vicious glee. Boyd Holbrook and Trevante Rhodes have easy chemistry, and these guys need to be in a buddy comedy as soon as possible. The majority of comic relief comes from the goofy shenanigans of Thomas Jane and Keegan-Michael Key. When the film remembers to give Olivia Munn something to do, she’s solid, and she’s someone I can see headlining a credible action franchise.

The Predator is dumb as toast, a careless and foolish blockbuster that has nothing useful to say about the nature of the universe or the human condition. But it doesn’t care about any of that. It’s determined to deliver gallons of blood, tons of jokes, and a good time. Get yourself some cheap beer, a whole bunch of chicken wings, and prepare to hogtie your brain for an hour and 47 minutes, because this movie definitely isn’t good. It’s just awesome.

*Movies like this are all about narrow escapes. Just once, I’d like to see an easy and convenient escape.

**You read that right.

from Blog https://ondenver.com/why-because-theyre-dumb-local-movie-reviewer-takes-on-predator/

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