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THANK YOU I've been so excited for this!

Character sheet commission for @kethri of their Sylvari cutie! :D 

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THE BOY

Commission for @jarekai of their cyberpunk hackerman sylvari! :D 

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Mood.

#gif #the good place

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help what were those little graspy hands that held stuff people used to wear on their skirts called

#my character DOES use these and they're great

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I was SO EXCITED for this and it was everything I hoped for! Great art, great character

A Patreon reward for Kethri of @lady-luminoth‘s cute cute Norn beefcake. If you thought I had enough self-control to stop myself from meme-ing HARD while posting this, you are wrong.

#ceybal #gw2 #gw2 art

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Raccoons are the worst. You expect them to go through your stuff and steal your food while you’re camping, but they don’t stop there - half the time, they’ll be curious enough to come over and touch you. They prod your sleeping body with their horrible little people hands, run their claws through your hair, hold your fingers with their own. I’ve never been aggressively menaced by one, but they’ve slapped my ass through hammock fabric on multiple occasions and stroked my face or hands on others. I’ve played tug-of-war with large raccoons through my window when they grabbed the string to the yarn-and-cup telephone I’d set up with my neighbor.

#FUCK

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Woman Can’t Wait To Get Home And Take Off Uncomfortable Persona 

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Long but important.

You made it clear torture is not an efficient way to get information. I wonder, does that apply to people who have been trained to endure it, like soldiers? If I go by my personal example, even the mere threat of mutiliation would make me tell even things they didn't ask for...

OKthe kind of thought experiment you just conducted has been used toargue torture can be effective and is ‘justified’ for centuries.

It’snot that your logic is faulty. The process of trying to imagine thesituation and think about what you’d do is very natural and human.But this is a perfect example of how people can approach the topic oftorture with good intentions and little knowledge and walk away withconclusions that are a long way from the reality.

Basicallythe state of mind you’re in now (which I am presuming is reasonablycontent and not in immediate terrible pain) is a long way fromtorture. If you haven’t been tortured or in an analogous state ofextreme pain it’s extremely difficult to imagine how you wouldactually respond or what it would be like.

We’reparticularly bad at imagining the effects on our memories, logicalthinking and ability to process information. We imagine that inextreme pain we’ll still be capableof remembering things we can remember easily now.

Thatjust isn’t true.

You’reassuming that you’d be able to remember things in that state.You’re also assuming you’d know something relevant in the firstplace. Both are highly unlikely.

Peoplesaying ‘anything’ is part of the problem.It’s part of whytorture can never work. Because most of the people who are brought indon’t know shitand some of them will alsosay ‘anything’ to try and make the pain stop.

Torturers(and humans generally) are terrible at telling when people are lying.So they can not tell the difference.

Allof these are points I’ve covered before. They’re in this old poston why torture doesn’t work, this one on effective methods ofinvestigation, this one on what torture actually does tointerrogation and this one on the effects torture has on victims. Ohand this one on the effect torture has on memory.

Ifyou’ve read my previous Masterposts then I’d suggest moving on toRejali who covers all of this verythoroughly, or O’Mara who wrote less of a doorstep and concentratedon the biological reasons why torture can’t work.

Torture‘training’ does not appear to have any effect on a person’sability to resist torture. Resistance to torture appears to be commonand innate.

Essentiallythe factors that combine to mean torture can not ‘work’ are to dowith how we process pain and how our brains are wired. No amount oftraining changes that.

Howevertraining that’s supposed to help soldiers resist torture has beenlinked to soldiers torturing people.

Torture‘training’ does not appear to do anything to make soldiers more‘resistant’ because as human beings with human brains they arelikely already incredibly resistant to torture. The structure oftheir brains means that torture and abuse are never going to beeffective ways to get information from those brains.

Buttorture ‘training’ doesshow soldiers how torture is conducted. It gives them a standardisedintroduction in causing other people pain.

Andsome of them go on to use that to harm others.

Ona tangentially related note- whyis the idea of mutilation so terrible? Why is the idea of livingdisabled or disfigured so frightening? The WHO estimates that about athirdof people have some kind of disability or life long medicalcondition.

Tryanother thought experiment with me. Think of that mutilation you’reafraid of, whether it’s losing your hands or your legs or yournose. Now look up how people who actually have that condition liveand what they say about their condition. Look up mobility aids andprosthetics and surgical procedures and recovery times.

Lookat what disabled people outside the paralympics have achieved. It’sa long list.

WhatI’m aiming at here is this: becoming disabled is a real possibilityfor everyone.That prospect is a lot less scary if you know what you can doin that eventuality.

IfI ever lose a hand I’m getting the krukenberg procedure and somehooks because I have a lot of respect for heat proof limbs heldtogether by rubber bands. And suddenly the ‘nightmare’ scenario Ithought of as a budding teenage artist, losing my hands, istoothless.

Ifyou’re struggling to get your head around the idea that torture isuseless as well as immoral- I’m not surprised. There’s a lotof background information in our global culture justifying torture.

But-If you’ve read my Masterposts and you don’t get it then theproblem isn’t you, it’sme.The way I’m explaining it isn’t working for you.

That’ssomething I’m going to have to work on, being clearer and beingaccessible to everyone.

Butit probably means that right now? I’m not going to be able toexplain this in a way that will help.

Whichmeans I think the best thing you can do is go to my sources. Youcan find O’Mara’s book here.Youcan find Rejali here.For the love of everything holy do not buy Rejali in hardback, it’shuge enough already.

Youshould also consider reading what survivors have said about theirexperiences. Alleg’smemoir can be found here.Searle’saccount of his time as a POW is available here.Fela Kuti’s Coffinfor a Head of Stateand UnknownSoldierare on youtube and spotify.

Don’ttake my word for it. Look at the research. Read what survivors say.

That’swhy I have a sources page and why I try to cite as much as Ipractically can.

Don’tjust wonder about it. Do the reading. Get informed and get angry.

Anddo not blame yourself if I have failed as a teacher.

Availableon Wordpress.

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I am no stranger to the Dark Arts, and the darkest of all is diplomancy.

-The Warlock

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The Torine

I’m glad I saved this post to actually post. Haven’t seen any in-game references for them, so here are some screenshots from way back when. Enjoy!

(Included, a mechari for height comparison)

#wildstar #wilderrun #torine

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sir that’s my emotional support milf

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Platonic love is real love and shouldnt be treated like less becuase it isnt romantic. Defining love as only romantic is a terrible concept. You should be able to love people in a platonic way as much as romantic way and not be seen as less

#wskethri's culture had at least this many forms of love #maybe minus mania

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Kethri: 1 & 6 for Memories

A happy memory of a defining moment

Kethri draws in a shaky breath. “But humans live longer, right? And even then I knew if I died early, you’d…” Her face twists. “Making you sad is worse than anything else I could do.”Ceybal squeaks, burying her face in the crook of Kethri’s arm. “Fuck the world, baby. Let’s live forever.”Kethri nods slowly. ”…yeah. Yeah, you know what? Yeah. You and me. We’ll live forever. We’ll make it happen.“Fuck the world.”

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For anyone who’s feeling silly about getting emotional over the loss of Wildstar, I talked about it with a friend who doesn’t play MMOs, and also expressed the same thought, and here’s what she had to say:

“It was a big part of a lot of peoples’ lives and they invested a lot of time into it, found and maintained friendships because of it. It’s natural to feel sad just like with any big change to someone’s life. Psychologically speaking it would be the same as being forced to move out of a town you’ve lived in for, what, 10 years? Real or virtual, it doesn’t matter to your brain. So yeah, it’s okay and totally understandable to feel lost right now. People will say it’s just a game but fuck those guys ‘cause they don’t understand. The emotional and mental commitment is the same.“

It’s okay to feel your feelings.