#American Behaviorism

[uncrossedrhyme]

Heidegger's Authentic Being-in-the-world: Dasein & Deception-Awareness, Toward Convivial Futurism

GLOSSARY Dasein: humans interacting with the world, and with each other; indeterminate, but aware Authenticity: the degree of alignment to and coherence with one’s beliefs; not wholly living in the present, past, or future, but looking back to one’s birth, before that to history, ahead to one’s inevitable death, and beyond to humanity’s future. Convivial: freedom realized in personal…

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[brooklynbridgebirds]

American Woodcock demonstrates "distal rhynchokinesis," the ability to flex the end of its bill. This allows it to grab earthworms it encounters when probing in soil. Other shorebirds, including Dunlins & Sanderlings, can bend their bills in this way. 😃

#birds #birding #urban birding #nuts_about_birds #birdstagram #patch birding #nature blogger #nyc nature #brooklyn #brooklyn bridge park #nyc #nature #american woodcock #timberdoodle #bird behavior

[aetheistics]

Ethel Cain by Silken Weinberg, 2023

#mothercain #Ethel Cain #Ethel Cain photography #credits: silkenweinberg #silkenweinberg #Bible Belt aesthetic #southern America #20‘s century American aesthetic #andrew wyeth #dark americana #Hayden Anhedönia #southern gothic #mother #childish behavior tour #tour poster

[inkskinned]

no, but really, we need to talk about the casual objectification that has become the fallback discourse of the internet: if you're pretty and dressed nicely, you're a slut. and if you're even vaguely outside of their body standard, you're fucking disgusting.

too-frequently, people position sex workers as being "the problem". they sneer you're addicted to pornography, you don't know what a real woman looks like. but real women are in pornography. the real bodies on display are not the issue here: the issue is that other people feel extremely confident when commenting on someone's physique.

2000's super-thin is slowly worming its way back into the public ideal. recently i saw someone get told to "go for a run", despite the fact she was on the thinner side of average. not that it would ever be appropriate to say that: but it's kind of like sticker shock when you see it. people think that is fat? holy shit. do they just have no idea about things?

but what are you going to do about it? that's the problem, right. because chances are - you're a normal person. we can say normalize carrying fat on your body, but we are not the billion-dollar diet industry. we are not the billion-dollar fashion industry. we are just, like. people. who are trying to make content on the internet, without being treated shittily.

as someone who has been on both sides of things: you are treated better when you are thin and pretty. this is statistically correct. i am not saying that you cannot be bullied for being thin; i'm saying there are objective institutional biases against certain bodytypes. there are videos of men and women who lost weight all saying: i now know for a fact exactly how much worse you're treated. in the comments, some asshole inevitably says something akin to you deserved to be dehumanized when you were fat.

which means that ... the easiest thing to do is be pretty and thin. it is the path of least resistance, because of course it is, because any time you post a picture of yourself without a thigh gap, someone immediately comments something like you need to try a diet.

the other half is also dehumanizing though, huh, just in a different way. when i put on makeup and nice clothes, i am told i slept my way to the top as a professional. do you know how many women in STEM have told me they purposefully dress to "unimpress" because they already struggle to be taken seriously and if they're ever considered pretty - it for some reason takes away from their authority.

so they make it seem like it's your fault. you, existing in a body - it's your fault! if you didn't want shitty comments, don't have a body. they position us against each other like chess pieces; vying for male attention we don't even need.

and i can be an authority on this unless you think i'm fat and unattractive. when i am pretty and thin, i'm an activist. when i am just a normal person who makes a good point: i am immediately dismissed. nobody fucking believes you if you're not seen as attractive. you literally lose value. you cease to exist.

but the whole time, it feels like - is anyone actually grounded the fuck in reality? the line of "pretty and thin" keeps shifting. nobody seems to understand what "a normal weight" even looks like, because it's not something that exists - you cannot tell a person's health by looking at their body. even if you think you could tell that, even if you're sure a person is dangerously overweight - people are not your dolls. they do not need to be dressed up or displayed properly to soothe your aesthetics. you aren't concerned for them, you're stealing their agency. you don't get to say if they're "allowed" to take pictures and post them on the internet - you don't get to tell them how to exist.

people hide behind "the obesity epidemic" without any actual qualifications. they crow things about "normalizing unhealthiness".

but it's bullshit. i have visible abs. there is a pair of parallel lines on my body, even when i'm relaxed; where my obliques meet my abdominal wall. i am proud of this because it means i'm strong, because i overcame an eating disorder only to be ripped as fuck. it is genetic and physical luck that i even get any definition, i'm pleased as punch.

but it does mean that my abdominal wall sticks out a little bit. the other day i posted a video of myself dancing, and, for a moment, my shirt slipped. you could see a little bit of my stomach. i was cartwheeling to the floor. moments before this, i'd had my foot over my head.

a guy slid into my DMs. a row of vomiting emojis prefaced: you should really lose some weight before you think about dancing.

i stared at it for a long time. there was a time when i would have been triggered by this, where it would have encouraged me to starve myself. i would have ignored the fact i'm flexible, agile, good at jumping: i would have lost the weight for a stranger's passing comment. i would have found myself and my body fucking disgusting.

and for what? to please what? because why? so that he can exist in this world without an unchallenged eyeball? what would my self-hatred even accomplish? usually i write paragraphs. obviously. on this particular occasion, in this body i've been at war with for ages: i just felt exhausted.

it shouldn't be even worth saying. it shouldn't be hard to explain. all of this emotional turmoil when he cannot even comprehend the most basic truth: i am not an object on display for him.

#spilled ink #writeblr #warm up #like if im getting fatshamed. babe......... wake up #is there fat on my body? yes :) #btw this behavior wouldn't be okay even if I WAS overweight!!! that is my point!!! #it is both that people have no idea what weight is supposed to look like #and even if they DID... they do not seem to understand that PEOPLE ARE NOT DOLLS #YOU DO NOT GET TO TELL THEM HOW TO EXIST #if you respond anything akin to ''but raquel there IS an obesity epidemic'' #you're blocked and reported. #go fucking DONATE TO A FOOD BANK THEN. volunteer in a food desert. start a free fitness program #GO GET A DEGREE AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICE IN NUTRITION IN UNDERPRIVILEDGED LOCATIONS #FIGURE OUT HOW TO LOWER FOOD COSTS. FIGURE OUT HOW TO NORMALIZE AND STANDARDIZE #ACCESS TO FARM-FRESH FOOD. PROVIDE ACTUAL FREE ACCESS TO OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES #FIGURE OUT HOW TO TEACH PEOPLE HEALTHY CHOICE MAKING WHILE ALSO LOWERING THE COST OF MEALS. #THE AVERAGE GROCERY BILL OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN HAS QUADRUPILED IN THE LAST YEAR. #SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!!!!!!!!! #you don't want to help these people!!!!! #you want to bully them but still feel like a good person! #you want to be justified in your hatred of an entire CLASS of people!!! #you don't give a fuck about how it makes them feel!!!! #you care ONLY about whether or not YOU get to VIRTUE SIGNAL that YOURE so thin and pretty!!!! #it is BECAUSE of people like you #and the fact you tolerate fatphobia - BECAUSE of that normalization. that men like the one who called me fat #feel like they can get away with it. #bc there's a line for you where you WOULD be okay with it. where if i WASNT thin you'd be okay with it. #which means the line can always be pushed in a certain direction. and it's always going to appeal to male aesthetics. #''well you didn't deserve it'' maybe fucking NOBODY does babe. maybe we should just all agree not to comment on ppls bodies!!

[wastinawaaay]

US politicians enabling hate crimes and war crimes and still acting like they have the moral high grand is mind blowing

#nex benedict #palestine #actively backing up the terrorist state of Israel and sending them all sort of help #the blatant trans phobia in the policies and the behavior demonizing them to the point of encouraging others to murder them #pro life BS and ignoring women's autonomy and everybody else's #still claiming they are actually the good guys #I don't know how us americans tolerate it at this point to change the situation and making it better you guys need a fucking revolution #overthrow the government and everything #I as an outsider see no other solution because let's be honest all of your politicians are corrupt in millions ways you can't change them #trans rights #free palestine

[jesterjaxx]

Ok SO

Canonically his dad is a cop and there are a couple jokes about his parents not loving him, dudes dad straight up said "actually, do we love you?" Like sir damn anyways im taking that and running with it SO

Giving him a fucked up situation of him and his dad always butting heads and both of them escalating things constantly, and as he got older the ends to the arguments went from getting grounded or punished to getting kicked out or Duncan just leaving, probably escalating to his dad kicking him out semi regularly and eventually his mom or dad telling him to come back home to make a kinda fucked up cycle

And like i know they gave the convict kid a cop dad for the laugh like its not that deep at ALL

but like that sets up sucha fucked power dynamic and i want to use that

and we never find out what got Duncan sent to juvie for the first time, its said off screen while some characters are spilling embarrassing or dark secrets and in my fucked up world either he accumulated a couple charges while he was kicked out, indirectly the fault of his dad

or worse but more tempting

he got kicked out and his dad arrested him for trespassing

so like idk i just love the idea of a pyromaniac, vandal convict who has no respect for authority or mutual trust having the tragic backstory that his first time getting arrested was at the hands of his father

#daddy issues deluxe edition #duncan angst post complete #Duncan doesn't know how to de-escalate and needs to get the last word #he gets that from his dad btw #so running away is almost like winning #idk how Canadian cops are so im using american cop mentality #which is typically the “shoot first ask questions later” mentality #i think despite his Dad caring about him hed do hurtful shit and only regret it later #and i sincerely doubt they'd talk about it #so it just drives a deeper wedge and makes whats “normal” that more intense #:D #i love taking things too seriously i love overthinking behavior #duncan total drama #jester jabbers #headcannon #angst #total drama #idk man

[averageperson888]

#female hysteria #female manipulator #girlblogging #coquette #femcel #lana del rey #divine feminine #girl interrupted #cinnamon girl #this is a girlblog #the virgin suicides #losing the idgaf war #taxi driver #vintage americana #american psycho #incelcore #incel behavior #feminism

[sunforgrace]

you guys please understand they were going to say “CASTIEL’S PERSONAL HEAVEN” and paper the walls like a teen girls room with pictures of dean pictures of dean’s face PLASTERED onto the bodies of beefcakes all while cheek to cheek blares out. as brought to you by fucking metatron

#cutting an I love you because your actor who’s been kinning this guy for years thinks is out of character: #cutting part of me always believed you’d come back because same actor thinks that’s too gay: #cutting castiel’s personal half naked dean winchester heaven because tptb go hey maybe this is too gay and homophobic. as a bit: #I understand why we’re picking handprint. but I will put forth the argument that this is the bait rounds and that overall #the handprint is less bait and more so the weird boy besties behavior #listen you know I LOVE the handprint. but in terms of genuine great american queerbait #and I mean they put the handprint back on during the love confession at this point that one’s just textual we’re talkin BAIT #closest to bait here I’d argue is the fact they had anna palm it while having sex with dean #like actively pausing the sex scene to just show anna gripping it and dean reacting #but again that’s more. weird. than bait I’d say. Simply because that transcends bait into what the fuck are you guys doing #but at this point cas was hot off the scene by season 9 they KNEW what they were doing and they were DOING it maliciously in a POST YOURE #NOT CRAZY TWEET WORLD

[theaspiechan]

Incel and Femcel finally dating

#incel behavior #incelcore #femcel #movies #femcel core #fight club #pearl mia goth #mia goth #patrick bateman #american psycho #black swan #actually autistic #autism #lol memes #memes #offensive memes

[sloaners]

that off-white coloring, that tasteful thickness of it, oh my god it even has a watermark

#fan art #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #mahito #office au #imagining mahito cribbing all his Business Man behavior from American Psycho #mahito: LET’S SEE NANAMI KENTO’S BUSINESS CARD

[demxnicprxncess]

kai smut where reader tries to dom and ties his hands to the headboard but he gets out and he punishes her?

sure thing angel.

Taglist: @kitwalkersgfff, @ppawmpkin, @yes-divine-ruler, @quicksilversg1rl, @charsdunkie, @eddiemunsonsbitch69, @dahmevan, @sultrysullen dm me to be added or removed dears.

Top| Kai Anderson x Fem!Reader

Warnings: Restraints, Dom and sub relationship, worship, Kai Anderson. lmk if I missed any

I finished tying the sleeping man to the headboard and ran to the bathroom to change into my skimpy lingerie. "Bunny, what the fuck is going on?" I poked my head out to face him barely not coming out yet. "Shh daddy, you're ruining your surprise." He threw his head back before looking at my face. "What's that on your head baby?" I poked my head out again showing off the cute fluffy bunny ears I had on. "Nothing…" He let out a low groan, "C'mon baby, let me out and I won't punish you." I stepped out fully wearing bunny lingerie he had gotten me for a birthday. He got me bunny everything, he said not because I was innocent, we all knew I wasn't, but rather because he found me cute, and I was rather skittish. I knew when the fuck to run, but right now the little bunny tail shook as I did a little spin for him. "You like?" He smirked and pulled on his restraints. "I love it bunny." I walked over to our nightstand. I heard a snap and chuckle before feeling him grip my waist. "You should've let me go when you had the chance baby." I whimpered at his voice. "I thought-" He placed his hand over my mouth. "You suck at tying knots… but this outfit baby." He sucked on his teeth before kissing my neck. "Lay down." I quickly ran to the bed. "Get in position." I sat with my face in the pillow and my ass up. "Fuck baby, but not that one." I frowned and laid on my back watching as he looked at me with a look I had never seen before. He looked at me with a fondness, I got scared and thought he'd kill me but rather got on his knees and pulled my thighs apart, unbuttoning the bottom part of my lingerie. "Divine Ruler?" He looked at me and hummed in acknowledgement. "What are you doing?" He smiled at me, "Rewarding my good, good girl for her loyalty to me." I felt myself blush at his words. My sense of what was going on disappearing as I felt his lips wrap around my clit, I gripped his hair in pleasure whining and grinding against him. "Daddy…" He pushed my hips into the bed planting me flat as to not move. "I know baby." He slid his tongue around my hole before putting it in making me squirm against his grasp. "Can I-" He sent me a look through his eyelashes from in-between my legs, my arousal coating his lips, stubble, and nose. "If you want to baby, it's a reward." I felt my body tremble before a felt something spray out of me, I had squirted all over his face. Shit. "Now, for your little punishment." I looked at him with fear. "I told you untie me." I felt him tie me to the bed, I watched as he pulled his cock out and then rammed it into me. My back arching off the bed as I screamed, wrapping my legs around him as he pounded into me. "If you cum I'll fuck you even after you pass out." I felt my body convulse as he angled just to hit my spot. "Please Divine Ruler" He shook his head no, placing a hand on my mouth still pounding into me before painting my insides and thighs white with his cum. I felt my second orgasm being snatched from me making me whine. "Go to sleep bunny, no more surprises."

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[visenyaism]

ngl I get SH being racist towards Githyanki. They're full evil in DnD, slavers,colonizers and just awful

Shadowheart: WHO AM I oh yeah i do know eight distinct slurs for the githyanki lol why do you ask

#bg3 #her forgetting everything except the racism is like. american retirement home behavior

[nails4breakfast-tacks4snacks]

Typical fangirl behavior ♡♥︎♡♥︎

#american horror story #fiona apple rocks #fiona apple #evan peters #typical fangirl behavior #girl bedroom #tate langdon #lana del rey #girlblogger #girlblogging #girl room #nirvana #zoe benson #kyle spencer #ahs fandom #2014 tumblr #2014core #2014 aesthetic

[compacflt]

question: how do you find your research/sources? yours and dancing disasters' icemav fics are so inside baseball i love it, but how do you go about doing research?

I just read a lot & google stuff I don't know & am curious about. not that hard to start learning. and in terms of reading I've been interested in military history & milfiction my whole life. mostly related to the US army, actually--im extremely new to naval history and naval literature; all of that interest was driven by top gun. I've also been fortunate enough to visit a lot of the places I write about--ive been to Pearl Harbor a couple times & San Diego MANY times, for instance, and I've toured a few aircraft carriers and military bases. I've also finally bitten the bullet and kinda shifted my career path towards aerospace, so I've been learning a lot just by working in the aerospace & defense sector/spending a lot of time with people who do.

that's obviously not to say that I am somehow Educated in all this stuff. im pretty open on this blog about me being young & naive & wrong much of the time about how the real world works. so, you know, a lot of shit I just Make Up according to my preconceived notions of the military & the world.

here is my recommended military/navy reading list, some fiction and some nonfiction.

someone also asked recently if I had read anything good in the last 6 months--yes!! three new additions to my reading list: a) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. So goddamn good. If you have to read only one novel about the Iraq War, make it this one. It's more about America than it is about Iraq. b) Redeployment by Phil Klay. This one is a collection of short stories about Marines in Iraq, written by a USMC vet, talk about inside baseball. Crazy amounts of jargon in here, basically a "to-google" list. won the national book award which idk if it deserved, but it's good. c) No true glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah by Bing West. currently reading this one, really well done so far, talks a lot about how fucked the US strategy was in Iraq with Fallujah serving as a metonymy/case study for the war itself.

again... this is all mostly close-quarters-combat (infantry) literature, I really am not that interested in the navy/Air Force that much outside of top gun lol

though I did recently remember that in early 2022, before I was into top gun, I read "Wingmen" by Ensan Case, which is actually a gay US naval aviator romance set in WWII published in 1979! it's really authentic and kind of sad, obviously, since it was a 1940s navy gay love story published in 1979. I don't actually think Wingmen influenced how I wrote wwgattai or how I think of TG/TGM but I just remembered that I read that book in February 2022 and going "oh my god they were wingmen" so maybe you might find that book interesting.

#dancingdisaster's 'men like us' Directly inspired wwgattai and is the only other icemav/TG fic Ive ever read so I owe them a lottt #that fic opened my third eye as to 'omg what if ice lived' & then 'omg what if maverick died & ice never told him he loved him' #leading to my fics #thanks for the ask! PLEASE read billy Lynns long halftime walk #if for no other reason than its the best book I've read in 2024 and im already 12 books deep into 2024 #its so well written...... should be on the shortlist for the best great American novel...... #a scathing indictment of the American christian conservative.... mmm I eat it up good soup #top gun #military history #guys I just found out yesterday that my ex whom I haven't talked to in 2 years has been stalking my twitter & #has seen me gushing about my gay top gun fanfiction #well he shouldn't have stalked my twitter ... genuinely insane behavior this is why I ended things #love men

[foldingfittedsheets]

Sorry i just wanted to confirm WA as in Western Australia, Australia or WA as in Washington, USA?

WA as in Washington USA, my bad.

#ask ffs #typical American behavior my bad #although I did specific wa state and the link gives a location

[averageperson888]

#cinnamon girl #female hysteria #lana del rey #girl interrupted #divine feminine #coquette #female manipulator #girlblogging #femcel #this is a girlblog #incelcore #incel behavior #patrick bateman #christian bale #american psycho #chloe sevigny