#the textbook is so interesting to me

[uncanny-tranny]

When I find it hard to do certain things, I like to pretend I am a neanderthal living in a cave with my clan, and I must do The Thing in order to survive.

So, when I'm doing cardio at the gym, I'm actually chasing and tracking a mammoth, and when I need to cook, well, I'm not cooking on a stove top, I am hurdled over the first fire and watching the fat of our kill drip down onto the burning wood. And when I find it hard to crochet, I pretend that the first winter storm is coming and our clan needs me to make blankets to hurdle under and that I must contribute.

I hope whatever you do to do The Things will help. It is a uniquely personable trait to motivate yourself through pretend and stories. That's what makes this life interesting - that's what makes you feel larger than yourself 💛

#mental health #positivity #it helps that i absolutely adore learning things about ancient people too - it's endlessly fascinating #unironically if somebody has textbook/video recommendations about neanderthals/ancient civilization let me know i will froth at the mouth #i like talking about this because it gives other people ideas about how they can motivate themselves #and personally the feeling of being ancient or a part of something old makes me feel that #in addition to the There Are 8 Billion People principle i work on the There Have Been ~117 Billion People Here principle #i find it comforting to think that i don't stand out significantly in a good or bad way because of the sheer NUMBER of people who have live #the human brain is bad at computing those numbers but... just... that's an insurmountable number #there truly are very VERY few experiences truly unique and that's not a bad thing #that just means that you aren't forgotten nor are you alone in anything #i was watching a video about somebody making flax into thread using a paper that was published about ancient textiles #and holy shit i wanted to bite somebody because i was so interested in it and it's just so humanizing to both us but also ancient people #those people probably used very very similar techniques that the video maker did - at first she used a rock to get the fibers #and then she remarked that saliva helped to get to the fiber of the flax and i wonder how many ancient people also did that

[bitegore]

You look at my sand castle

#its been soooooooo long since i last made oneof these things lmfao #sand wasntt wet enough for any real complex architecture so i leaned on my ability to make squares instead #wound up with a vague as hell little stepped pyramid/ziggurat looking thing and then leaned in using the vaguest memories of my like hs #history textbook illustrations to make it a little more interesting #everyone say thank you to my awesome friend tug for taking me to the beach and also shining a light so i could even take these #red rambles #its WARM HERE im reinflating. like a sponge. my brain is returning. life is good im having such a nice time its not even funny #MY HAIR IS CURLY AGAIN EVEN. THINGS ARE GOOD

[xhanisai]

I am today years old when I found out that my accent is just called "received pronunciation".

Makes sense...

#delete later #so for those who have never heard me talk #i am from england and my accent is exactly like the news reporters on BBC or ITV #like it is textbook english in terms of sounds and everything #other people just call it 'posh' lol #but it's very interesting to know overall #i got the accent from my mother btw #i do pick up some slang in cities I live in #but my accent has been the same since the beginning #just a fucking textbook LMAOOO

[biblically-accurate-soup]

“if you are trying to be a phd candidate in a social science field why the fuck are you studying math for fun” because i’m quirky and hot. next question.

#uriel posting #currently doing a crash course review of calc 1 and 2….. inverse trig function integrals are like a divorced lover who i still yearn for #to me. #mathblr #i guess #i think i’m mainly just pissed that i went from having the most legendary math instructors ever #to getting the 1-2 bad instructor combo and being turned off from the field for a bit #‘oh i used to be good and math and love it’ (<- he still does) #recently realized i can just. do it on my own #i was homeschooled i pretty much taught myself math from a textbook grades 6-10 #(parents consist of a former math major and mechanical engineer. i wasn’t starved for resources they were there if i needed help) #(also did dual credit grades 11 and 12. goated math instructors of all time i miss them every day) #i have so much power now. i can learn anything i want to forever #<- guy about to become the most insufferable man in the universe #you mean i can just get the textbook from the library. about anything ? #not just math. i have realized i can do this for whatever. guy who is gonna learn about art history and is so excited #if i could i’d just stay in school forever and get 83 degrees #alas #this also loops around to my philosophy that anyone anywhere should be able to learn whatever they want #i will keep you updated on how this process goes 🫡 i am keeping notes incase anyone after me is interested #god. i’m gonna be That Guy (derogatory) #‘i always wished i had majored in classics. i always enjoyed it’ can i interested you in a google document with links and a drive folder

[kiliantharker]

god i hate this fucking geology class

#harker.txt #i just. god i cannot fucking do textbook lecture only based classes #and im kind of worried now because i really fucked up an essay in ANOTHER textbook lecture based class and now thats at a C and this one is #at a D and i dont want my gpa to drop super badlyyy but god i cannot bring myself #to actually focus and give a flying fuck about this class #and everybody keeps telling me to just *focus* and to just *reward myself when im done* and its like dude i really fucking cant #this is not interesting the professor gives the most boring hour long lectures that make me want to bash my head in #and since its an online class im not actually physically forced to be there and to pay attention so im just Not Doing It #ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #i just want this semester to be over and god i regret not dropping these two goddamn fucking classes i shouldve taken the L and lost 500$

[icewindandboringhorror]

I still very loathe the Media Trope of ‘’cold genius man doesn’t feel emotions and never has relationships... UNTIL.. one random relatively bland Preddy Woman comes along and warps his entire personality and ability to think, his heart has grown and his seeming asexuality has evaporated, he is now Normal :)” or whatever like... AS a walking generic hermit archetype myself.. we would NOT act like that .... just let people be detached weirdos in peace, you cowards .. OR, don’t bother to write one in the first place if you find us too boring to exist realistically in our natural state lol.. pathetic 

#the only exception to this is its okay if he develops some pesudo-romantic psychologial fixation on one of his long suffering male sidekicks #or assistants or whatever (since this character acrhetype ALWAYS has some sort of like Straight Man Every Man helper to follow #him around and be an audience stand in. sometimes multiple like a whole team of assistants. sometimes just one etc.) #like a strange not-entirely-romance-but-mutualy-unhealthy-comedic-codependence w someone you worked w 25+ yrs COULD be in character. sure. #ASIDE from that one exception though..... just keep them aromantic and asexual.. why would someone who has been that way for their #entire fucking life suddenly be like ''well I've known this woman three weeks but she's really hot! whoops!'' #''guess I'm going to act completely out of character! sometimes booba so booby it fundametally alters the dna of me personality. you know ho #w it is'' .. like shut up.. explode #It's not that I project personally onto these characters (writers are bad at writing them and they're generally annoying as shit) BUT just #like... coming FROM the perspective OF a cold detached ''robot'' seeming hermit freak.. like textbook scholar wizard man locked #away in a tower somewhere type personality... You just watch shows sometimes and you can SEE that the writers are trying to write #the Character Archetype that is your actual realworld personality and you're just like 'we do NOT fucking act like that!!!' lol #you know ? like .. i don't actually care about the characters themselves but more just.. the principle of the thing. staying true to what #has been set up. You can't be like ''oh yeah this is your typical cold detached hermit weirdo with zero interest in human relationships for #the most part blah blah blah'' and then 5 minutes later be like ''WAIT GUYS!! LOOK! they're still NORMAL! look they love booba #too!!! haha hashtag Relatable!!'' .. what have you done to him.. you've massacred the archtype.. cowardly fool #Also I'm referencing them as male because this character archtetype is usually male but the same thing can apply for other gendered versions #of the archetype. it's ALWAYS annoying. no matter what it is lol. GOD AND IT'S even worse when they're supposed to be like hundreds or thous #ands of years old like.. some sort of supernatural being who's ''above it all'' because they've seen the world's cycles for so long #and blah blah and then it's like ''omg.. suddenly into romance.. for some reason all 900 years of my life nobody has ever been good #enough but YOU.. random ass person who I met 30 minutes ago and are completely average in every way or maybe you have like one #special power or are smart or something but apparently somehow I've lived 900 years without ever meeting a single other smart person #or whatever but WOW.. you... instant soulamtes.. I am no longer aromantic and asexual. I am also no longer smart.'' #at least if it's a human with a normal lifespan you can be like 'well they were only 30. maybe they genuinely did just have their first #sexul awakening' or something but.. you're telling me like.. 900 years??? 1000 years?? and NOW they're like 'whooa!!' lol #Which obviously all aroace people are different.. all people with autism or schizoid pd or any other mental illnesses that can sometimes #lend people towards that type of 'weird hermit' archetype are all different. plenty of these people WILL have relationships and sex and desi #re those things. but it's like.. if you are OBVIOUSLY setting out to write that one VERY specific archetype within the broader archetype #then GO ALL THE WAY!! you cant have someone be like HALF-detached partial-hemrit sometimes-maybe-genuis or whatever #or I guess you can but like. it should be that way from the beginning. it's the random sudden shift in personality thats jarring

[mephorash]

what happened to all the shit you can buy in the duolingo store

this is all I can buy now... I have over 4k gems but sure I'll double 50. why not.

#buzgie ❁ #i want to pick up enough russian to make learning on my own easy because starting from literally nothing is hell by yrself #and duolingo is good for teaching you the donde estas la bibilotecha shit #also I need to refresh my finnish and spanish #i have no personal interest in spanish but im literally hispanic and live in the USA so i should maintain you know... #anyways all this is to say fuck duolingo use anki and a textbook once you seriously get into learning #my finnish textbook is too advanced for me rn though :') #hard to motivate myself with nobody to practice with and no interest in living in finland

[crowcaws]

Tbh Wednesday was ok but I kinda stopped watching it. Don't get me wrong, it definitely has its moments. But the relationship drama between Wednesday and Morticia felt both OOC and forced. There's a love triangle that's really really boring and takes up way too much time.

I suspect they're only doing it to pull a Korra and subvert our expectations to surprise us with Wednesday/Enid later but I also find that to be needless beataround, and the boring love triangle is exactly where LOK lost me as well. (Also great job, now we have a massive gap between season one and two for people to have needless internet fights over whether it's comphet or they're just not monosexual. Super excited to mute that drama.)

This may be unpopular because I know we were keen for Winclair from trailers, but I also found Enid to be approximately as appealing as any of the male love interests by the end. Almost everyone with the exception of the bee kid are all kind of shitty friends to Wednesday at one point or another. Wednesday makes no effort to cultivate friendship but her friends come to her anyway, implying that her personality as it is appeals to them and they shouldn't expect her to change as a condition of that friendship, and yet... They are constantly expecting her to make exceptions to boundaries she very clearly sets because "but we're your friends so the rules don't count right?" Wednesday doesn't like to be touched but they're all constantly touching her. She doesn't want to celebrate her birthday and makes this clear, so they trick her into it and then get mad (specifically Enid gets mad) when Wednesday continues to not be thrilled about her birthday because "but we made you a cake so now you have to like it or you're toxic for rejecting something you never wanted." Enid proceeds to request a room transfer to Yoko's room in what feels very similar to her uncomfortable efforts to make Ajax jealous at the Rave'N. It feels like a flock of people trying to teach a fish to walk on land and getting frustrated when it can't, instead of trying to meet her at the shore like they signed on for when they pushed into her life. None of them seem to get Wednesday in any meaningful way. In fact the most interesting conversation Wednesday had with another student character was with Bianca at the Rave'N, where they talk about what they each envy in the other, in spite of their differences there is no meanness in the discussion, no expectation that the other needs to do anything to change themselves for the comfort of the other. Just two girls who are willing to understand one another even if they don't like each other (yet????)

Also, apparently at one point Wednesday sits through the entirety of Legally Blonde, a movie about a typically vapid girly girl who subverts stereotypes to become an accomplished scholar and lawyer, and uses her unique perspective to solve a murder when none of the men in the room could. You would think this kind of story would be extremely interesting for a character like Wednesday to give her commentary on, especially since she's been at odds with Enid's bubbly personality and love of bright colours the whole series... But Wednesday gives absolutely nothing here. She just makes a one-liner comment acknowledging she watched it, and then no further commentary is given.

Also I looked up who the culprit was because I was curious but didn't wanna finish it and (SPOILERS) my top two suspects were both the culprit LMFAOOOO. Especially the mastermind, 100% called that one.

#Wednesday spoilers #thoughts on Wednesday #anti winclair i guess? #anti wyler #anti walpin #what are we calling that #anti whatever the artist guy's name is i forgor #i love Wednesday the character but the people around her are nyehh #they took a very interesting character and didn't use her as well as they could have #also monster high did wolf girl x gorgon boy first and it somehow managed to be a billion times more charming #also you're telling me a school full of misfits and Wednesday is the only one who doesn't act like a textbook highschooler anyway #i feel like art boy was supposed to be the more appealing love interest but he's so boring and has no redeeming qualities

[sendmyresignation]

partially incoherent thoughts at the moment but it is very interesting that the kind of tumblr esque “punk is ___” (insert kindness, insert being against the counter culture insert taylor swift) is, to me, very much an outgrowth of the vagrant records emo boom tying punkandemo as a concept into something mainstream and fundamentally earnest and curated and about feeling alienated moreso than angry or political or even diy, however that makes you feel. like personally i vibe a lot more with the vagrant model than than the victory one and do agree about the band-first approach of egan. but i think we are forever dealing with the repercussions of his rhetoric, the way he found “a new definition of punk in the rejection of the rigid orthodoxies of self-proclaimed punk” (greenwald; nothing feels good) moreso than the bands he signed or even the music they made because it became a calling card of the third wave and warped tour bands

#egan and vagrants motto of justifying their success in the mainstream by hitting on the ways in which it was trangressive. the like bucking #of punk's old convictions is textbook the way non-punk ppl try to justify how their interests are 'punk' bc it makes oldheads mad or whatevs #the difference is egan and his bands very clearly gave a shit about punk music- but the kids who took after him....well #but thats also why its funny to me to see mcr or fob band blogs reblog those trolly posts about punk or bringing back gatekeeping lmaooo #but on another level i see people talk about demographics and this idea that punk 'moved' to a more suburban well-to-do teen demographic #and thats just fundamentally untrue. there are working class ppl in punk itd be a lie to say their arent. #but with like hardcore esp. its college kids in college towns. well off. parents arent struggling. the dc scene its so noticeable #because of the capital all those kids had parents who were either professors or gov workers. #and thats very common across scenes. riot grrl. posthardcore. jersey rutgers house parties. etc etc #i dont really know where im going with this other than its interesting and not something i think ppl understand? #anyway finally reading nothing feels good thanks mr andy greenwald #my posts

[hell0mega]

i just figured out what it's like for me to read with adhd

the page:

how my brain interprets it:

for some reason i find myself skimming pages in a Z pattern instead of just reading the whole thing. as if my brain can pick up what it's looking at without actually reading. and by the time i get to the bottom, it's completely lost interest and im probably thinking about something else

and it's interesting because i know the Z pattern is touted as the default pattern in which afaik most people will, say, look over a picture. i was taught in art and graphic design classes that Z shaped compositions are very intention grabbing. and my brain decided to take that personally

#adhd #reading #the book is the hero with a thousand faces btw #it's my 'textbook' for my class so i had it up #also i left the numbers on purpose. they stand out to me #sometimes anyway #mine #this primarily happens with things i'm not 100% interested in ESPECIALLY textbooks #but will also happen for posts online if i find it not interesting enough a few lines in

[magdaclaire]

okay so there's this trope of some autistic kids that's like "they read the encyclopedia for fun," and like i'm not saying that no one does that, but i did not read the encyclopedia for fun. i read an entire series of encyclopedias because i wanted to have a base knowledge on everything. it always felt like everyone else knew something i didn't, and if i could just learn more, everything would make sense

#one of my lifelong special interests being learning is so good for me honestly #i fucking love school and learning and reading textbooks #i guess i thought that like. there was something everyone else had already learned that made the social aspect of life easy for them #bc i didn't know then that socializing is difficult for a lot of people and i thought it was a me problem #alas still i'm a know-it-all and that's life #mer rambles

[technicalknockout]

PIGEON OC LORE DUMP PIGEON OC LORE DUMP ❗️❗️❗️❗️

*flaps excitedly* PIGEON OC LORE DUMP

warning long and incoherent with way too many elizabeths than required

Oh my god i realized there is no fricking way im explaining everything today theres so MUCH HDKKSJDKS i'll just explain the basic mythology and some of my favorite guys

Ok we need to start with the gods

Once upon a time there was nothing. One day Nothing decided it wanted to be something. It split itself into multiple parts and those parts became the first three gods. The part of Nothing that wanted to be something became Creator (cre) and the part that liked being Nothing became Red (ree. This is a placeholder name i really cant decide on a fitting name for red hdjsdkskd). Also there was this indecisive middle guy and their name is Astral (starry. Starry is important because they're the responsible sibling. They mostly do everything)

These are the Incompetent God Siblings. There are smaller gods who split from the siblings but theyre mostly irrelevant. Also the gods look like birds (actually it's the other way around, birds look like gods because the gods wanted to put something that looks like themselves in the mortal realm. Kind of like self insert ocs dhjskfkd) so i also call them Birbs

Anyway the thousands of new gods just hung around for some time in their newfound existance until cre decided this was boring. So the gods all decided to make some universes with stuff in it. Except ree who was against the whole 'existing' thing in the first place and was a grump about it, so the gods conpromised with ree and put a expiration date on the universe. Spoilers: this leads to some politic problems later on

So tada theres a universe now. Multiple universes. Parallel worlds are relevant later but that would make this post longer than an entire novel series so dropping that topic

Now onto the actual ocs dhjdkskfks

Domino aka Elizabeth the 3rd. (Some quick background lore, the elizabeths are guys who are trapped in an unending loop of reincarnation (courtesy of ree). They all have their own memories and personalities but share some core traits such as god obsession) Domino is part of the "villain squad" in the plot and a (pseudo)scientist who works at the shadow government. She's very cold and NOT interested in anything except for her (ethically questionable) experiments concerning angels and, unfortunately, the main characters. She was relatively fine until she got involved in some plot relevant scheme as a kid and almost died now shes Not Fine.. has two lab assistants Apel Pine (pineapple) and Stein Mango (mangosteen. Theyre 9 years old, twins and orphans, domino named them and yes she is canonically bad at names). Pineapple is traumatized and deprieved of affection, desperately seeking love from domino who is the only thing close to a parent figure he's ever had. Domino does not notice nor does she care.. which makes pineapple :(. He's aggressive to others and needs therapy. Unlike him though, mangosteen is very okay! Mostly because pineapple tried his very best to protect mango from the bad things in life. It worked and pineapple now has twice the trauma he was supposed to have, while mango has none. He turned out as a silly little guy who is oblivious to the horrors and he tries really really hard to make everyone get along. And he likes snow :D theres a short backstory behind pineapple and mango from before they were domino's assistants which explains why theyre Like That, which i will maybe perhaps talk about later

Also in a different universe theres a 12 year old menace called damo who wears a poncho thingie and claims to be the most evil villain in the whole universe (she isnt she has no idea what a villain is, she thinks theyre cool people who explode stuff). She likes bombs and doing disney villain laughs. She is the silly ever and nothing bad happens to her and i love her very very much

#challenge: talk about your special interests coherently and concisely (impossible) #theres sooooo much i havent covered but midterm's tomorrow i need to srudy. arrrgh i have never been so MAD *claws my textbook to shreds* #oh no i needed that textbook. i have to piece those back #anyway. ask me about my ocs any time i will gleefully launch into a 4 hour ted talk about literally ANYONE #if theres a part thats unelaborated on but sounds interesting please PLEASE ask me about it i need an excuse to talk about this hsjdkksjdks #i can answer literally anything i even made an ENTIRE BRANCH OF SCIENCE TO EXPLAIN HOW MAGIC WORKS IN THIS UNIVERSE #incoherent ramblings #oc tag

[snailmailmp3]

love communists but you all are so boring god bless

#went to the revolutionary marxist students general interest meeting today #it lasted two whole hours. for a general interest meeting #also afterwards i was talking with someone else who was there #and she was like i don’t like this group but me and some other ppl are talking about starting a leftist reading group #which is so fucking textbook it’s funny #txt

[beingderanged]

Introducing: Marina!

Marina is an omnic, initially built by a somewhat eccentric engineer as a 'companion model,' or 'sex bot,' in Spain. She is one of few omnics who have an expensive synthetic flesh attached to her metal plating, giving her a more human look and feel.

She's sweet, and a bit airheaded, because of her programming limiting her intelligence, but this does not stop her insatiable curiosity and childlike wonder about the world around her.

Marina finds many things in life to be beautiful and captivating, her absolute favorites are music and dance, painting, sexuality, and the ocean. But Marina's love encompasses many more things in life.

Despite her grim past, she still sees the beauty in the world, and has a zest for life, wanting to help fight for omnic rights. However, Marina's programming also bars her from committing violent acts, stopping her from being able to fight the good fight--but she can heal, and inspire others, and does her best to help.

Backstory briefed

Shortly after she was completed, Marina was sold by her creator to a wealthy Pimp named James Mercer, in Monaco, just before the omnic crisis began.

After the Crisis ended, Mercer tracked Marina down, and took her back to Monaco with him, to work in his high end brothel.

After several years, Marina managed to escape, and fled the country, hopping from shelter to shelter before she heard of the Shambali Monastery.

Having many unanswered questions about existence, and nowhere to go, she decided to travel there, and study.

Marina studied at the Shambali Monastery for many years, learning about the Iris, and her other passions and interests, to the best of her ability.

After she had learned to heal, and connect with the Iris, she felt a calling outside the monastery, to pursue her passions and help people through her art and healing.

#omnic oc #okay listen... im aware this one is kinda out there and also super self indulgent #but dont tell me there wouldnt be at least *one* sex-bot in a future with robots! #and also i thought theres so much interesting potential for a character like that you know? #and the shambali thing i fully admit is self indulgent af. i wanted her to do monk stuff!! and also meet my blorbos Zenyatta and Ramattra #i thought her being a monk and reaching enlightenment sort of was really fun! largely because shes a bimbo tbh #its like... u dont have to be textbook smart. shes a bit simple #but she understands the secret to achieving tranquility! so! #ill rp her just about any stage of her life tbh because theyre all FUN #anyway hii im scared!! i have so much social anxiety but HRRGG MY BLORBOS.... #OUGH I keep coming back to this nervously;;; presenting my oc SCARY #not thst anyone will see her?? but still :(

[iloveyouitisruiningmylife]

help ive read 200 pages of pjo and read 1 page of my textbook all day

#why textbook so hard and demoralizing and boring and why pjo so fun and interesting #mes

[alexanderpearce]

the plants of tasmania course... getting to talk about moss and ferns and lichens and buttongrass and mountain plants with their hard little leaves

EDIT cant do it actually. they changed the prerequisites and now u have to be doing a bachelor of sciences. 

#which. probably a good thing! it would have been really hard on me #but so interesting.. #its okay a friend of mine who did it a couple years ago is giving me the textbook :) #shut up ulrike