#language and perception

[josephkravis]

Welcome The Day: Sunrise of New Perspectives

Welcome the day Welcome the Day (Or Don’t, I’m Not Your Mom) Rolling out of bed with a scowl is my default, but hey, I’m working on flashing a pearly white grin to the sun. Maybe by the time I’m ninety. Meanwhile, I’ll be practicing my high jump over the ever-growing swamp of negativity and ignorance—without splashing. No promises though. This Spectacle of a Week Here in the good ol’ U.S. of…

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#civil liberties debate #embracing change #evolution of expression #language and perception #linguistic freedom #navigating negativity #political correctness critique #power of words #sensitivity vs. resilience #victimhood culture

[littleogreboii]

i see a lot of people talk about edward being disabled in fma, but it's less often talked about how alphonse is also disabled. i think it's partially because alphonse doesn't experience physical pain like edward so for a majority of the series, he's not having any of those kind of symptoms, but he is still disabled. also because alphonse's experiences are unique. like you don't see ant walking, talking suits of armour in real life (unless they're piloted by a human being physically inside them) and in world, there are about 3 others like alphonse).

alphonse is dependent on edward's survival to function. after fighting scar for the first time, alphonse is literally in pieces. he can't walk or anything until edward is in a position to fix him. similarly his body is dependent on nutrients from edward's body. like there's the point towards the end where edward gets impaled and alphonse collapses. furthermore, these periods where alphonse collapses start to become debilitating towards the end of the series and massively alter his daily living.

also, alphonse constantly talks about how upsetting it is for him to not feel any physical sensations. yeah, he's not feeling physical pain, but he's also not feeling the warmth of a fire, the sun on his face, or the fluffiness of the cats he keeps petting. he talks a lot about not being able to eat or sleep, and how there's a lot of foods he wants to try.

there's another thing that highlighted by edward at one point. alphonse's body doesn't regenerate at all. the parts scar destroys are gone forever; edward stretches out the metal that alphonse has left to repair his body. and obviously human beings don't regrow limbs, but imagine if your skin didn't ever heal over a cut. how long would your body last?

also alphonse gets told several times that his body is great throughout the series, and he literally argues against it every time, because to him it is shit. like he is missing some of his senses just for some supposedly immortal body that isn't even immortal.

even once alphonse gets his own body back, the amount of physical therapy the boy has to go through. his body has essentially been doing nothing and only receiving what nutrients it can get from edward for years. by the end of the series, he's still using a cane as a walking aid. it's unknown whether he requires that cane for the years to come, but for at least a period of time he requires a mobility aid. I don't know enough to say what effect muscle decay from inactivity and severe malnourishment during a major portion of his teenage years would have long term.

#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #fmab spoilers #fmab #fma #fma brotherhood #alphonse elric #i will say im able bodied so that might influence my perception #also if any of the language or thoughts i had seem wrong or are used poorly then i do apologise #im writing this in the middle of the night so my brain is low-key soup #i just do think alphonse suffers as a result of his armoured body and alphonse edward and winry are the only ones to really talk about it

[royalarchivist]

[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]

Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?

[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*

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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.

Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!

Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.

* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.

#Pactw #QSMP #Pac #March 18 2024 #As much as I love keeping people updated about Pac / the other Portuguese-speaking creators #I think I might not make as many transcribed posts for their clips anymore #I just don't think I'm qualified enough to be transcribing things for a language I don't know #like yeah we have the Qlobal Translator and Aypierre's translators to rely on #And I'm always upfront when I'm not 100% sure about a translation #but I've been thinking about it a lot and it kinda makes me feel a bit icky. Idk. #I might be overthinking this but I just I don't want to spread around translations I'm not super confident about #esp. since I know a lot of people cite my clips in analysis posts or link them to other people as resources #and 90% of the time I'm like ''Hell yeah I love seeing people getting a lot of use out of the archive'' #but sometimes I get a bit anxious like ''Did I do a good enough job translating this'' #''Am I ruining someone's entire perception of a conversation or character because I left one word out or mistranslated something?'' #And like I said that's normally not a HUGE concern since if I'm not certain about a translation I just won't post a clip. but you know #idk it might just be the anxiety talking but I really really don't want to spread bad info #Happy to hear other folks' perspective #I'm really grateful for people like Bell and Pix and others who translate clips and I always try to reblog those #but we don't have a ton of people posting clips & translating things on Tumblr since we're so English-centric #which is part of the reason WHY I like sharing clips of the non-English-speaking CCs #but at the same time I want to do an accurate job representing what they're saying #Maybe I'll just start posting things and give a TLDR context of what they're talking about but not a transcript #that way native-speakers can hop in and add translations if that's something they're comfortable doing #and if not then well. at least I'm not sharing something that isn't super accurate #idk I'm just thinking out loud a bit in the tags #But I'm open to hearing other people's thoughts on the matter #Anyways giant rant aside. q!Pac is NOT doing ok rn

[tealty]

Posting it on its own as well cuz there’s something about Danny being naturally quite creepy in ghost form, just left of human shaped and unhinged about it too

Inspired by this thought by Paenling

#Danny phantom #dp #based on a prompt #but seriously what if how he’s seen in the show as just an inverted colour scheme is just how he views himself #and the reality is that no one recognizes him because he does not even present human when in ghost form #like hearing all languages as your personal one and responding like that but everyone else is hearing their language back #the perception is very different based on who you’re looking at #to Danny ghost behaviour is wired into him on a dna level #that he doesn’t even notice when it changes #probably has never thought about it and thinks he acts the same as when he’s human but he doesn’t #it’s not bad #but sometimes it could be #I bet his concept of death and danger is far more skewed as a ghost #and time far more loose #most people begin to feel the years getting in later in life #Danny doesn’t #to him it’s all the same #Sae has thoughts

[philosophybits]

An intelligent man is not one who can merely reason correctly, but one whose mind is open to perceiving objective contents, who is able to receive the impact of their essential structures and to render it in human language...

Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason

#philosophy #quotes #Max Horkheimer #Eclipse of Reason #reason #rationality #perception #objectivity #language

[plusultraetc]

perception check ✔️

#monoma neito #shinsou hitoshi #shoda nirengeki #midoriya izuku #uraraka ochako #neito monoma #hitoshi shinsou #nirengeki shoda #bnha #mha #perception check #language warning #just at the end there #this came to me in a vision #today i bring you incoherent all might yelling and whatever this is. tomorrow who knows #my hero academia #liza watches mha #i should have a humor tag

[noosphe-re]

Every attempt to definitively say what language is is subject to a curious limitation. For the only medium with which we can define language is language itself. We are therefore unable to circumscribe the whole of language within our definition. It may be best, then, to leave language undefined, and to thus acknowledge its open-endedness, its mysteriousness. Nevertheless, by paying attention to this mystery we may develop a conscious familiarity with it, a sense of its texture, its habits, its sources of sustenance.

David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

#quote #David Abram #The Spell of the Sensuous #language #linguistics #mystery #nature #philosphy #perception #Abram

[adwox]

rainy days

#mega man x #xzero #mmx x #mmx zero #megaman #zerox #the second i came home today drenched in rain i knew i had to whip this out #theyre waterproof and the umbrella id honestly more inconvienent but zero knows X likes stuff like this #human stuff you could say. but i feel that implies X wants to be human and i dont agree with thet #more that hes just naturally curious and would want to have the experience of sharing an umbrella #i imagine zero thought of the idea to use an umbrella with him fully on his own #like he just kind of put two and two together. which is one of Xs favorite things abt him #zero is very observant and action oriented but after getting to know X he uses his perception primarily just to make X as happy as he can #zeros love language is acts of service in my HUMBLE OPINION. #i could go on. #>mine_>art

[screwpinecaprice]

I know it’s not a question but i can’t help but appreciate the fact that you draw adult Steven as a chubby guy! We big boys need some positive representation in here. Also, i’ve been following you for almost a year now!

Btw sorry for my English lol.

Hi! It's very pleasing to know you've been around for as long! 😁😁😁 I absolutely appreciate the appreciation! And no worries, your English is super fine! 😁 (Relatable actually. I am also apologizing in advance if I can't exactly have my point clearly across because I'm not well at English myself! lmao)

It took me quite some time to learn how to draw chubby characters but it's so satisfying to have eventually. ( *`u*) (I mean, there's still so much to learn, but still.)

Having a chubby main protagonist is so wonderful to have. And a good kid at that. (Ngl I'm attracted to kindness. haha So of course it's very important to me that he's fat AND kind.)

Also design-wise, I personally think it fits his character so well. Soft and huggable, shaped like a friend. Thick arms to hug people with snuggly. Body wide like a shield. etc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And I just really like to capture these elements when I draw him as an adult. Also that it's just fun to draw.

Simply personal thoughts about it, nothing against any other ways he's being portrayed by others of course.

#And it's not even because English isn't my first language. Just generally bad at language. RIP #I had this conversation with someone once where they headcanon he'd get lower back pains if he slim down because of how his gem will #poke or stab his spine #I really like that he's chubby/fat just because. and that he's happy and confident about it #but him being fat not entire by choice is an interesting angle to look at. #I mean obviously he's naturally chubby because of DNA too but you get when I mean. or I hope you do. ;u; #Yo I had a theory.... or at least a headcanon about how his gem is arranged inside his body and how it's practically designed so it can be #passed down eventually without killing him. But I never get to a cohesive written explanation about it so I kept procrastinating. #I like to think the Pink Diamond gem will become like an heirloom. But I digress. #Steven Quartz Universe #Connie Maheswaran #I guess implied connverse #connverse #TFW growing up in media where 'look at us we're different but we are all friends!' And the differences were just personalities and status i #society but the body shapes are practically the same. 😆 #They were the same shape because the merch used the same mold. ^^; But I think that contributed to messing up my perception. #Like. The level of unawareness I had in drawing fat characters is crazy back then. #when I thought I drew a chubby character but the reality was that she was still slim! I still have her saved in my Deviant Art account #Nobody would've known because she's my OC. #If I were to argue with that past me that she's not chubby. Past me would be extremely confused because she is totally convinced that she #drew a chubby character. Mind you I was above 18 then too. #I had another OC I wanted to be really chunky but I was so bad at it that I found an excuse why she's so slim so I can avoid drawing chunky #I did eventually made her chunky but I almost never posted any of my OCs lol. She also have a black and pink theme. 🤔 #Same with skin color but it happened in my own Sona. I have a tan skin tone and I thought I gave my Sona the same skin...but like... Bruh. #I'm even looking at it now. That is kinda pale. RIP #It still baffles me how different I've been seeing thing in the past. Eugh I'm digressing again. :/ #sc answers #ask #luisnavarro04 #meme

[yashley]

“Are you sure it wasn’t intentional?” / “Do you think she might be working for the bad guys?”

#critical role #imogen x fearne #the way they tread with the other is so fascinating to me I know it's only to me so that must mean I'm crazy but like #fearne has this delicacy in her boundless courtesies she really just asks questions others would shy away from but like #the way she asks them the way she words them this reckless fey really is weighing her words and feeling enough to ask even if she’s alone #and there's like this bridge that keeps flickering between imogen and fearne between their moralities and relationship with fate* #that fearne says Well Bad Can Be Good and imogen No I Didn't Choose That If It's Bad and they both have a lot of friction with that it's So #fearne whispers to imogen in the language she Believes imogen Knows but imogen Committed to her goodness pretends she Doesn't and it's Like #the way imogen words that it's like what is She looking for in that answer in fearne but she's Looking with a subtle recognition in that #The Faintest Faintest Nod fearne gives imogen when she says It Just Happened like that's a distinction without difference my dear #but fearne so gently ebbs from further questioning imogen's relationship with Those powers it gets me man #and then you have imogen's Concept of Bad n Good that it's really clearly messing with fearne's own perception Questioning morri #if the ep screenshot isn't ashley and laura quietly side eyeing eachother then thats fine that doesn’t bother me at all #ygifs

[coffinmotif]

there's this character dynamic i like to call "older tgirl you met at the start of your journey who taught you how to stand on your own feet and also blew your back out so hard it cracked your egg". that's yoo joonghyuk and breaking the sky sword saint to me

#maternal without being motherly. intimate without being romantic. ykwim? #seeing someone as a figure of reference and a source of inspiration. a model to follow. a teacher #and at the same time someone who knows you more than anyone else. who TAUGHT you what ''yourself'' means #and as a result is someone you can be completely vulnerable with #went to reread their solo scenes for reference and it is genuinely heart wrenching how. intimate they are #from the words to their body language even the narration itself #yjh is one of those characters who is more often than not clouded by other people's perception of her. mainly kdj's #you can still see her true colors shine through those perceptions. but there aren't that many occasions in the story where she's allowed #to fully and unabashedly show emotions like helplessness and fear of her own accord. and btsss scores a lot of those moments #orv #yjh #breaking the sky sword saint #GAAAAH i love them sorry

[animeomelette]

#poll #animeomelette poll #english #english language #perception #language #linguistics #interpretation #linguistic perception #meaning #understanding #abecedarian #word #words

[lunarrepel]

Shadowheart peoplewatches. You're going to have to make your peace with that.

#꧁༺ 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏༻꧂ ◤ ooc ◥ #[ she is the biggest 👀 you have ever seen ] #[ she notes your tone change/your body language to others and then to her ] #[ she's always watching wackowski ... always ] #[ it's no wonder she succeeds a lot of perception checks ]

[undomel]

Arwen bargained for Frodo to be able to take her place with the Valar (who granted her wish) and people are out there calling her boring..

#Arwen: #her honorific reflects the importance of stars to the Elves; she is /their/ Evenstar #(it being given in Quenya one can assume is it specifically important to the exiled Ñoldor whose language is Quenya and who dwell in Lórien #(which Arwen is specifically said to frequent) #she is the reason that Aragorn whose name is ‘Hope’ does not lose /his/ hope #is the first to notice the signs of Frodo’s suffering and aims at giving him aid #bargains with the Valar (and is granted her plea for the fate she is to undergo) #said bargain is to aid Frodo’s healing (which is to say her reasons for bargaining are not even self-serving) #gives the reader the most compelling look on the Elven perception of death ever since Finrod spoke to Andreth #her death becomes symbolic of the ‘end’ of Elves in Middle-earth #The fandom: boring :/

[grimalkinmessor]

OKAY SO I may have accidentally lied about Light's Hogwarts house—because it's not Gryffindor like I thought it's Ravenclaw by a HAIR with Gryffindor as the runner up. Meanwhile L's is exactly what I thought it'd be; Slytherin with Ravenclaw following close behind.

Mello is a Slytherin with Ravenclaw close behind, just like L, while Near surprised me by pulling Gryffindor with Hufflepuff not two questions down 🧐

The only one I guessed correctly was L 😭

#death note #grim rants #hogwarts houses #yagami light #l lawliet #mello #mihael keehl #near #nate river #harry potter #same thing with the love languages thing i took the quiz how i thought they would answer it #might be different for how you see them but this is what felt accurate to me #except apparently NOT bc how the fuck are you so wrong about this that your OWN perception of the character decieves you 😭😭😭 #what do you MEAN near is a gryffindor and mello isnt #crying brb

[thirdity]

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages.

Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

#experience #consciousness #awareness #language #norms #quotes #Huxley #Aldous Huxley #The Doors of Perception