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I only learned recently that people from Not America don’t specify hard cider and instead it’s just cider.

I know this is a small difference but it is surprisingly one I do sometimes have to lie down on the floor about.

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What I read here about writing fanfiction: shipping shipping shipping, people are either fucking or falling in love and there are arguments about the right way to do it, people getting beta readers, 10,000 words, making weekly chapters and feeling bad if you don't post weekly, impostor syndrome about the quality of it, how to connect two situations together smoothly and coherently, a level of work that could match or even best published authors.

How I do fanfiction: it's a hobby in a foreign language, I do it in like 1 hour and however it is so it goes, no more than 3 pages long because I can't write long things nor do I care to, the only time I shipped someone was out of spite during the lockdown but I have no interest in shipping, romance or smut, I publish once a year about some character menstruating for the first time if you are lucky, I connect things however (you'll figure it out), what impostor syndrome ? For a hobby? That I do for fun?

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Showy lady slipper orchids

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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For more info, a guy (I think he is black?) walks around with his girlfriend and considers if some guys will catcalls her or they will mug them and it has jumps in time back and forth around this situation and his heroism.

Anyone remembers a short video by a group of French guys, I think there was a mugging or something? It is fiction, very good storytelling, like 3 minutes long...

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A bit about Chuanqingren, one of the unofficial ethnic groups in China.

English added by me :)

Full video transcript below the cut:

Simply because these people are so rare, on cellphones and computers, there is no option to choose them. There’s no way to input them as an option.

As a result, often times when they go out, they will be questioned over having a fake ID. They’re not Miao, nor are they Han. And they’re certainly not any of the other 56 ethnic groups. In the 90s, they were designated as an unrecognised ethnic group (official designation). Their group is classified as Other. According to Ming Dynasty historical records, in earlier times, they were called “tu ren” (dirt people), “Li minzi” (～descendants of villagers), and also “xianmin”(羡） or “xianmin”（县） (~county people). Because their traditional clothing tends to be qing* colored (*may describe blue, green, or black), they’ve since been known as “chuanqing ren” (qing-wearing people). Early on, in the 1980s, there was already the write-in option of “qing group”. The first generation of resident IDs have “qingzu” printed on them.

Later, after many years of ethnic group discernment work, it was concluded that for the time being, they did not conform to China’s independent ethnic group determination standards. Therefore, they became recognised as “Chuanqingren”. Chuanqingren are mostly found in the northwest regions of Guizhou province. They use mandrills as their totem and their clothing tends to be qing. The qing color in question is a rather deep blue, one that near black.

There ware several explanations for the origins of Chuanqing people. One saying is that they are indigenous people of Guizhou. Another, more common explanation is that in the early Ming Dynasty, Yunnan’s king of Liang rebelled and Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor) dispatched 300k forces to consolidate the south. Then from south of the Changjiang, many immigrated to Guizhou and settled.

Historically it’s known as “transfer from the north, filling the south”, and Chuanqingren are simply the later generations of these soldiers and officers and immigrants to the south.

Now then the question comes: why are they only Chuanqing “people”, and not qing “ethnic group” or Chuanqing “ethnic group”?

Firstly, each ethnic group in our country has its own cultural/civilisation origins. For example, the Han ethnic group are the descendants of the Yellow Emperor and Flame Emperors. Therefore, they are also called “Yan Huang Zisun”(descendants of the Flame and Yellow Emperor).

Take for example the Miao ethnic group as well: The origins of the Miao ethnic group is that Chiyou led them in the alliance of the 9 Li tribes.

But Chuanqingren can’t find their origins. Most still simply say that they are a branch of the Han ethnic group. None of their special folk styles and customs have been completely preserved, including their language, which fewer and fewer of them are able to speak. Their clothing is even less common, which has led many to think that the clothing of the Tunpu people (another Han branch) of Anshun are that of Chuanqing people. As a result, many have taken Tunpu people as Chuanqing people.

In China, there are a lot of unique communities not within the 56 [official] ethnic groups. For example, the Mosuo people, the Kemu people, the Xia’erba people, the A’ke people, the Deng people, and more. The so-called “unrecognised” ethnic groups aren’t to say that their group’s identity can’t be distinguished. Rather, it’s that they still don’t meet our country’s criteria for judging independent ethnic groups. So, it’s only in order to reflect and affirm these unique communities that they are incorporated under the "not yet recognised” ethnic group.

In the multi-ethnic household of China, no matter which ethnic group, we all have a common name, and that is ”zhonghua minzu” (the people/nation of China). Do you identify with that? (Do you agree?)

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#las más grandes

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These maps are very cool!! Go take a look at them!

New Shop!

Yepp, new place to purchase my hand-drawn, old style, VTT compatible Dungeon Notebook Tiles!

Go and grab the Free Pack!

#dungeons & dragons #battlemap #hand drawn #ttrpg

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Sometimes I see posts about X neurodivergency about traits or things people with it do and... I think a detail that is missing is to which degree or how often or how many of those things together apply.

There are things everybody does. But maybe a neurotypical only makes 2 or 3 in a list of 10, occasionally or if they don't do it, they don't experience any negative consequence.

The way many of those lists are written could make you think you are, let's say, autistic, since you forget things, like to plan ahead and copy speech patterns. But those are things everyone does to a degree, more or less consciously depending on how they're feeling. The difference may be that you copy speech patterns systematically and on purpose and you cannot not do it, or that not knowing anything about the plan stresses you to the point of a meltdown.

When the things on those lists affect your daily life and your ability to navigate through everyday things, then yes, there is something at play there. Otherwise, most of those things can happen to anyone, just not daily, not intensely or not consciously.

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hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.

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As a neurotypical, I guess it's not made clear because the situation itself explains part of it.

In the example about testing for eyesight: you are getting tested because you (or someone who knows you) think/s that you don't see well. So it is understood that you know something is off with your eyesight or else you wouldn't be there. And then, they offer the test for this. Why would they ask about what letter is there in a test for eyesight? The test for knowing if you can tell that the shape A is the letter A would take place in a school or other education center to know if you are literate and to which degree. But we are taking the test at the eye doctor's because you can't see. So it is understood that what they want to know is if you can actually *see* the letter A (a familiar shape that can be easily communicated and not so easily misunderstood for other letters so if you actually mistake it for, let's say, an M, we know that you can't see well). Also, usually, eyesight tests have tinier and tinier letters, so when you stop distinguishing them or seeing them, that's how they can tell how bad your eyesight is.

So it's the context, the whole situation, that actually gives the extra information for "tell me what letter you see".

Understandably, this is known information for people who have undergone it at least once (and have no memory problems). Professionals have been there forever and they do it over and over again, so they forget what it is to be doing it for the first time, what are the contextual clues that could be interesting or necessary in that case.

There are things that are common enough that we can more or less improvise through them, and even sometimes we just go along until we figure it out. But I am giving you an example of a rare thing that happened to me fitting for this conversation.

I have back problems. I was offered "una infiltración" (I use the Spanish word because I don't know the term in English, and also because what does it even mean if I don't know what it is even in my native language? Nothing). From context in the information I was given, I understood that they would inject something in my spine, so I understood one or maybe two injections. One for the treatment itself and maybe another one before that for anesthesia if it was too painful. This was my deduction from the explanation of the doctor.

Now, this "infiltración" thing is relatively common but I have never undergone one nor have I seen it or heard about the procedure itself. So it was all very confusing because the doctors and nurses perfectly knew it. They took me up and down, they sat me here, made me wait, then took me to an operating room, then laid me on my belly and started the injectionS. It wasn't 1 or 2. After like 8 of them, I couldn't handle the pain anymore (I was crying and yelling) and they stopped.

I ended up telling the doctor to explain the procedure more in detail to their patients because we don't know. We have never been in that side of the hospital, we don't know how long it takes, we don't know if it's an injection or 10. I understand that doctors and nurses know what they're doing and that they understand each other, but as a patient, I'm out of the loop. I don't know because this is my first time, and maybe my last too. And if you add confusion and tension to an already painful procedure, it will be twice as painful. And this was a treatment to reduce pain. So a bit of a disaster in that regard.

I figure that diagnostic tests suffer from a similar thing: those creating the tests know enough context about certain things that they forget the person taking the test might not know them. And they also forget who they are testing. In this case, people who already struggle with certain context clues.

And tbh, I think we all do this. It's not just professionals or not. What you do often and easily, doesn't it surprise you if someone suddenly asks you about why you do it or how? Within your framework, within your life, don't you see natural the things that you understand? How would you explain them to someone who has never done them?

But professionals should try to remember that when they work with people, even if it means repeating the same information over and over again.

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

#i hope it wasn't too long #and i hope it helped you understand why this happens #it's not evil but it's just poorly planned #we all tend to assume that the things we do often are easy to understand and to follow

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#videos like this should be longer and calmer

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Y a tiempo real, que es tan subjetivo como cualquier otro tiempo e igual de susceptible de pasar por paradojas temporales, bucles o lo que sea.

por el módico precio de cometer un error terrible y abrirme dms, tú también puedes recibir fanfiction del ministerio del tiempo completamente gratis!

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The Birth of Venus by Botticelli figure/bjd

Part of The Table Museum collection by Freeing

Link: |X|

It’s super breathtaking:

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People do lots of things not to get bored. Sure, sometimes they just watch tv, but even then, they are doing something: watching tv.

The problem is... Can you make money from watching tv? Can you produce something from listening to music? Often people use it as background sound while they do other things that may be equally productive or unproductive to the eyes of capitalism. If you are making silly drawings to give to a friend, if you are reading a book or writing a letter, does it count as not being lazy?

People have hobbies that go from caring for a few plants to actually building furniture. If that is not work, I don't know what is. But since you are not selling it, you are not stressed about it, you can leave it for some months and then come back, well...

Think about this quote like all the time and how it really undermines so much shit in capitalism