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abductedlawnchair · 5 months

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*ranting and raving and stomping on rooftops and flailing my arms about* HUMANS ARE AMIMALS!!! WE ARE ANIMALS!!! QUIT ACTING LIKE WE'RE NOT!!!

I am so goddamn tired of society acting like we're not!!! I am so goddamn tired of us as a society acting like we are above all the other animals!!! I do not care that we are the apex!!! We are fucking ANIMALS!!! Like, just take a step back and observe us like we have our own nature documentary on Nat Geo or something. Maybe with David Attenborough or whatever, idc. Just imagine it.

We are a species of apes that just so happened to gain the ability of extremely complex and abstract thought, capability of language, an almost absurd level of self-awareness, and the type of intelligence that allowed us to discover, invent, and develop tools. A species of apes that just so happen to have such a crazy level of curiosity that we have the capability to learn about the world around us, and beyond.

The way we learn and develop is fascinating. If you observe a toddler from that standpoint, watching them interact with the world around them, you'd see how natural curiosity is to us, in our human nature. Neil deGrasse Tyson has literally said that children are beings of chaos because they're curious and learning about the world around them.

We all have children in us, just like we have our ancestors in us!!! Our brains are wired like theirs. Relatively, we have been in this state of society for an extremely short amount of time!! Our brains and nervous systems are still wired to survive and keep us safe from predators and other dangers!!

We are social creatures!! We need love and connection to survive!! We can't do things on our own. The only reason we ever got to where we are is because we work together and communicate and share knowledge. The way society is right now is too isolating!! Humans aren't meant to be fighting for a place in society!! Haven't you seen zookeepers?? Or anyone who cares for nature in any capacity?? We have an incredible capacity for compassion and caretaking, because we have the capability to know and understand the inner workings of ourselves and countless other species!! Caretaking and compassion is literally an innate human trait!! We're supposed to take care of each other and the world around us!! We literally are capable of pack bonding with ROOMBAS, for fucks sake!! Little robots that our ape brains see moving around on its own, being part of our homes, and thinks "little guy is alive... I love him"!!! Isn't that beautiful???

We were an evolution of Mother Earth, Herself, to grow Her and expand Her and care for Her!!! Whether you believe in intelligent design or just the absurdity of it all, it still happened like that. We have the capacity to care for Her in an evolved level, yet we're fucking it up so badly right now.

Indigenous cultures have always been on the right track. They've always been right about this. They have always known that we are all pieces of the same organism, just like the atoms and cells and organs and electricity in your body are all part of one body!!

And btw, culture is another HUGE part of us being social creatures!! Being expressive and creative and connected!! That's part of our nature!! We're meant to sing and dance and laugh together!! That connectivity of us being a collective is So Important!!! Making fun of people for being "sheep", or having "herd mentality" every single time is so stupid because yes!!! Yes that's EXACTLY how we are supposed to be!!! We are social creatures, remember?? The whole point is that we do things together!!!

I know how society is rn isn't the end all, be all, but it just breaks my heart that this Capitalism shit goes against some of the most beautiful parts of humanity!! We are animals!!! We are cute and curious and compassionate and social and we need warmth and sunlight and sustenance from the earth and water and sleep and shelter from the elements!! We have instincts just like everything else!! We came from the dust and we will return to the dust because we will always be part of the Earth, just like all the other animals!! And somehow, despite all odds, despite how robotic Capitalism wants us to be, our human nature seeps into everything.

Take care of yourself! You are an animal, after all! <3

*climbs off rooftop... for now*

#humanity #humans as animals #human spirit #and the true nature of humanity #anthropology #nature #human nature #whimsy #childlike wonder #wholesome #ponderings #galaxy brain #ramblings #connectedness #shouting into the tumblr void #soap box

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adorkabletwilightandfriends · 2 months

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ihrtmichael · 3 months

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what al pacino movie is this

#soap box

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bruisedconscience-reblogs · 3 months

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Please go watch Argylle!

I don’t imagine it’s going to do well at the box office, which, like…. Stinky.

Henry Cavill is not the main character but he shows up a lot!

If you want to see Sam Rockwell be a goof in a Kingsman-adjacent universe and see a midsize woman kick ass, please go! The movie is long because SO MUCH HAPPENS. I like the soundtrack too!

Pleaseeeee!

#argylle #soap box #ooc #mine #sam rockwell #henry cavill #argyle

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artist-issues · 11 days

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I’m going to talk about something potentially suicide-related, so watch out.

Music can’t save you.

I keep seeing that all over the place—seriously, all over the place, not just from actual musicians— and I feel like someone needed to say it.

All you’re really claiming when you say “music saved me” is:

Music has a powerful effect.

During a time in my life where I felt like giving up, that powerful effect changed what I was feeling so that I did not give up.

Okay those two things are true, but let’s take a step back for a second.

If you’re lost in the woods and considering giving up, sitting down, and letting yourself starve or be eaten by wild animals, a bird could have the same impact. You might look up, see a colorful shape flying through the trees, and decide to follow it. Now you’re moving. Now you’re doing something, instead of giving up—regardless of whether or not you can keep up with the bird, regardless of where it’s leading you. So sure, that is a good thing. But it’s only temporary, a bandaid solution to your problem. Even if it leads you to water, or shelter, you’re not “saved.”

You’re not “saved” until you’re no longer lost, no longer in the woods. You have to get back to your home. You have to get back to a place where you know where you are in the world, and how to get what you need, and everything makes sense again.

It is the same way with music. Or any art.

Art can remind you of what’s good, and beautiful, and yes, true. But it is not the art that saves you. It is the truth that does the saving. The art just had a hand in reminding you of it. So it would be way more accurate to say “music helped me.” But you still have to deal with whatever it was that got you to the place where you felt like giving up. And part of that is making sure that you know what the song is saying has truth in it, and that truth actually applies to the problem you’re having, because you can lean on truth, and it’s what made the music worth anything in the first place. Otherwise, the music is just a distraction, and distractions end.

In that sense, it’s more like a tiger is stalking you through those woods. You can get away from it briefly, especially if something beautiful or good or true distracts you from the thought of laying down and letting it take you. But eventually you have to kill the tiger, or get out of the woods where it lives.

Truthfully—truthfully—a song can get you out of, or into, a state of mind and emotions. But those emotions have a source. And if you don’t get rid of the source, or neutralize the source, your songs are only going to be bloody bandages on a wound. Worse, the songs might make you start to love the sight of bloody bandages, when what you really need is disinfectant and actual healing.

I do know this from experience. I’m just saying, think about it.

#Soap box #personal #personal post #for my followers #suicide #suicidal thoughts #music can save you #music has power #the power of music #music #mental health #trigger warning #suicide warning #twenty one pilots #Tyler Joseph #kings kaleidoscope #Chad Gardner #Clancy

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runeskiamorph · 1 month

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Regarding the M-count mystery:

-It is unreasonable for us to assume the clones don't know they are in a Star Wars show. Therefore, the clones, 'soldiers programmed to follow orders without questions', not knowing what an M-count is or what midichlorians even are is COMPLETELY CANNON.

-The only times midichlorians are mentioned in the entire franchise is when the Jedi are talking with other Jedi. They never bring it up with 'outsiders' or even the parents of younglings. The parents and common folk just say "the child has mystic powers" and call them "sorcerers" of an "old religion". They don't know about midichlorians.

-It's also reasonable to assume the scientists working on the project don't know what they're looking at; they just know what to look for in a successful transfer. If they did know, they wouldn't be doing the same thing and expecting different results. Additionally, the Empire as a whole works on a "need to know" basis. Not every officer knew about Project Stardust, only the elite did. No one outside of Palpatine and his goons knew about Project Necromancer, and even they probably didn't know what the purpose was.

-Similarly, the Jedi would not have their archives and secrets public for everyone to exploit. Even if they did, the Empire erased their archives and altered history to maintain control.

-Rex wouldn't know about M-counts because he didn't need to know and just thought his General was crazy.

-Bounty Hunters wouldn't know because they're not payed to care. They just bring them in.

-Ventress WOULD know because she was trained by a sith who was a Jedi.

The Bad Batch didn't watch the Phantom Menace, aergo, they wouldn't know what we, the audience, knows all too well.

#star wars #the bad batch #star wars bad batch #the bad batch s3 #soap box #Rant

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demis-alted · 7 months

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my frustration

i normally talk about Canadian tv shows but omg i am so done with the loki fandom. heres my piece: you can ship lokius, sylki, nothing whatever, I don't give a shit. Sylvie, in my opinion, is a bad character. Do I love lokius with all my little gosh darn heart? Yes! Do I care if its not canon? Am I a sylvie hater because shes with loki? No! Not one bit. I don't like sylvie because she is a bad character, and should not be in loki. Would I like her if she wasnt in loki and in her own independent thing? No! Probably not at all! would it be lands better if she was though? Abso-fricken-lutey tooty-ly! If they want to make a badass better than loki girl with trauma and a cool badass story? By all means, go ahead! I'll hate it, but go ahead! dont hijack a series that could have been amazing and try and cram in stuff THAT IS NOT ABOUT THE TITLE CHARACTER AND THAT NOBODY ASKED FOR. do i think sylvie should be hated on for disrupting lokius shippers dreams? Not at all. I think sylvie should be hated because shes a (in my opinion) bad character. (Character being the key word here, as i have zero beef with the actor behind her, lovely lady im sure.) so there.

#loki #loki season two #lokius #sylki #anti sylki #sylvie #anti sylvie #opinion post #soap box #rant post #character hate

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masseffectdoctor · 5 months

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Something that I think people need to understand and remember about Henry Kissinger is the fact that he was a Man in a position of relatively little personal power, in comparison to something like say a president.

However this absolute bastard war criminal is probably responsible personally for more death heartache and pain than just about any other single human being that's ever existed.

So as we crab rave and piss on his grave, I want you all to think about and remember the positions of power we see now. Especially so in the US. Because the decisions we make do affect the lives, happiness, and well-being of people all across the world.

So I'm gonna co-opt his death for a brief second to just remind you that he didn't happen in a vacuum. His destructive and monsterous existence was not born of thin air. People helped make him. People helped give him power.

Lets not be those people again. Let's do better than the people who put these war criminals in power.

#henry kissinger #just my thoughts #soap box #lets do fucking better #piss on him and do better #elect better officials #do harm reduction voting when possible #and when really possible make strides in communities and positions of power to really force and effect change

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the-empress-7 · 1 year

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Abolish The Monarchy

I started this blog in 2018, I did it to verbalize what was an acutely unpopular opinion i.e. that I did not trust Meghan or approve of her behavior as a public servant.

Fast forward to 2023, and it is just as unpopular to speak ill of Charles and Camilla. They have people wrapped around their PR saturated fingers.

I used to think that the worst case scenario was...a world without the BRF, a world in which William no longer has a throne to ascend to.

That worst case scenario has now become a preferred outcome for me. After witnessing the dirty games being played first hand year after year, I can unequivocally say that William and Catherine deserve better than the Crown.

I couldn't give a fig about the fact that William and Catherine aren't undertaking public engagements and haven't for a couple of weeks. For what? Work for a joker like Charles who thinks reconciling with Harry is more important than preserving the dignity of the country? To play happy family with a woman like Camilla who thinks her fruition from mistress to queen is a victory that absolves her of her past? Nah. Fuck Charles and Camilla.

If this post means the end of my blog so be it. No matter what happens, William and Catherine will always have my respect and my love.

#soap box

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saranilssonbooks · 18 days

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Traditionally it has often been said that Moby-Dick is about a functioning world being possible only through egalitarianism and complete inclusion, this displayed in the form of the Pequod's micro society with Ahab being the big bad party pooper who ruins it all due to his totalitarian madness. Well, if so, maybe you should have included and cared for the mentally ill too?

#moby dick #herman melville #obsession #literature #classic literature #book characters #captain ahab #soap box #just saying #whale weekly

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the-missann · 6 months

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I've never had the chance to share this so ig I'll do it here.

So, I have a speech impediment. Yay.

Specifically a stutter and I've suffered bullying centered around my stuttering for years on end. (For some reason it was always by girls. Guys used to think my stutter was cute for some reason it's not btw).

My sutter is the prolongation of words and the block

I.e How areeeee you and I'm fin____

I wanted to share this for anyone else who's living with a stutter. I've noticed a few things.

I actually only stutter on vowels (lovely that every word has a vowel in it huh?)

I pretty much stop breathing when I talk (it's like my brain can only focus on one thing at a time)

Reading does not increase or decrease my stuttering.

I sometimes add extra words or pronounce words differently to avoid stuttering.

My stutter decreases dramatically when speaking to people who don't cut me off.

Now, I'll go through and explain them to help anyone who may have similar issues.

For 1, I noticed around four years ago that I actually only stutter on words that have a vowel sound. I sat down with myself and talked for a bit and found that every word I stuttered on, it was at the vowel sound.

Shockingly, even words that begin with a vowel sound I stutter over, I'll give details on that later.

So, the best way I've learn to handle this is to stop when I know a word has a vowel and I stutter on that word, so I'll say something like:

Everything is all ready done.

Separating them into two words seems to prevent me from stuttering.

2 might also just be my anxiety, but for the sake of this post, let's say it's not. I noticed I'm usually out of breath when I talk. I do talk fast, but I mean like I just ran a marathon out of breath from just saying a simple sentense.

The best way I can describe it is like when you're singing a song. You try and sing the full line as the singer does, but most of us haven't trained our lungs so we end up breathless by the end of it.

I still do this, but it's gotten better as I've learned to breathe from my diaphragm when I talk instead of my chest.

3 I'm really saying for anyone trying to help someone with a stutter. This does not help someone to calm their stutter. As a kid, my parents sat me down and assumed if I read aloud I would learn not to stutter, but it makes no difference.

My advice is to just be patient. That person knows they stutter, let them take their time and they'll eventually get out what they need to say. You're in no rush to hear what they say, so just let tham go at their own pace.

One last thing about this. DO NOT try and finish a sentence for them. It's bad enough we have a stutter, but if someone tries to fill in the sentence for us, our self esteem goes 📉📉.

For 4 (lol) this is a thing I developed and it works pretty well. This is the detail I was going to get into. So, sometimes I stutter over the word it, no Pennywise.

So, to stop that from happening since it is used a lot, I started saying "I T is like." Now, I don't say that in public, but I do with my family and the word is simple enough that no one is thinking too hard on what I spelled out.

But this is why I usually don't refer to things by their proper name (so if anyone here ever becomes my real friend, please know I'm not saying things wrong, I'll just stutter otherwise).

Lastly, 5. I would assume this is the same for everyone regardless if they have a stutter or not. When someone is cutting you off, it makes you rush your words, cut your words off, and stutter. So it gets worse for someone with a stutter.

I have very rarely encountered people who didn't try and cut me off because I paused to take a breath or held out a word. It's true that the anticipation of someone cutting you off sometimes makes you stutter.

I have my stutter under control a lot now, but it did take me a while to get to this point. So, for anyone out there who has a stutter, try and find out what makes your stutter tick and go from there to find ways around it.

This has been a PSA about stuttering, thank you for reading 🍂

Sorry, but last thing, since I'm a writwblr, I wanted to add how to properly write a character with a stutter.

We know t-the (repeating sound) stutter is a real one, but it's normally used for someone who's simply nervous. Someone who actually stutters would stutter at any point in time and sometimes in different ways (eg me having two versions of a stutter).

Also, know where your character's stutter comes from. Mines happens to be hereditary and environmental as I frequently get cut off and thus rush my words to get them out faster. It's also just kind of the way I am since I'm very fast paced and have a hard time "taking things slow"

It's also good to detail a tick or habit your stuttering character may have, like they stop talking and shake their head when pausing their stutter.

Oh, and it's true, cursing eliminates stuttering. There needs to be some testing done on that.

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autisticlassiedoggie · 1 year

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I mean. I like being neurodivergent. I like having ADHD and I like being autistic. I even like my learning disorder. These are conditions that I am either formally diagnosed with or have had professionals support my suspicions even if I can't or don't want a formal diagnosis. And I am allowed to like or dislike my conditions.

All that said. If you "want" to be autistic or ADHD, you're probably just thinking of all the fun stuff associated with awareness and acceptance movements. You like the aesthetic.

And tbh I get that because I've felt similarly about some things.

But please keep in mind that these conditions are disabilities. They aren't all negative, there are aspects of my quirky brain that I really enjoy. Stimming is rad as hell. My ADHD makes my brain say the most random stuff.

But it does come with negative stuff too. I dropped out of middle/high school due to my ADHD and learning disability. I was extremely burnt out after years and years of being unable to keep up with school work or home work and trying and failing to grasp math concepts. I was behind several grades because of my struggles with math.

I do think ADHD and autism and other neurodivergencies are largely just having a different - and beautiful - brain. But they do also come with extra difficulties.

And if you have these conditions, you don't get to pick and choose the parts that you like and dislike.

#soap box #actually neurodivergent #actuallyautism #actuallyadhd

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ihrtmichael · 3 months

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put them on the bear

#soap box

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o-the-mts · 9 months

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As a cis man, I've noticed over the course of my life that when people who menstruate are discussing their periods in a group setting they will inevitably say something like "Sorry, this is going to gross you out" to me and and any other cis men present. And, I just don't think this is necessary. Menstruation is a biological function experienced by literally billions of people and if cis men can't handle hearing about it, that's on them. And if there is something really gross about whatever is being discussed, I'm sure it would be gross to anyone of any gender, so cis men's disgust need not be centered.

#soap box #menstruation

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inkylynx · 2 months

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The thing that bugs me most about "gen z is so ____!" types of language is that it almost always disregards the difference in age.

"Gen Z doesn't work" well yeah duh, most of them are still students. Or new in their careers and not being given the biggest tasks.

"They don't respect their elders!" Who did when they were a teen?

"They always want what they don't have!" Again, Young. They don't have a lot of their own yet. They're still trying things out.

"They just want to leach off their parents" Gen Z is still at the age where they should be expected to look to their parents for support and advice.

#Gen z #Generation gap #Im really bad at tagging #Soap box

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draftmare · 1 year

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PSA of the day!

If you love your saddle and want it to last a very long time be mindful of what you store it on! It spends one hour a day on your horse‘s back and 23 hours a day on a hard rack.

I do not know what this saddle was stored on, but it left marks straight across the panels and holes in the flocking. This will likely need a full strip to repair.

I should be able to glide my finger down the panel, not get stuck in a rut:

Stripping and reflocking a saddle is not cheap, and can take a long time depending upon fitter’s availability. A simple change in the style of your rack in your tack locker can go a long way.

I highly recommend this type:

Super cheap and easy to install.

If you board or can’t swap out your saddle racks, pool noodles on the metal bars or your least favorite saddle pads under your saddle are a good way to protect the flocking too.

#horsblr #equestrian #soap box #saddle fitting #horse blogging #equestrian blogging

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