#GOOD JOB REINFORCING THAT

[queen-scribbles]

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#''i know i give anders shit but at least he's *interesting* carver just sucks'' #ma'am MA'AM #if you want to influence a companion so they like you better you have to USE THEM #you can joke about carver being an ass(he is) and say he sucks and never bring him along #BUT you're never gonna get friend/rivalry points to shift your relationship #it's possible to practically max his friendship in act one but you won't see that if you never bring him anywhere #doesn't help she's playing a sarcastic hawke so like #sure be dismissive and joke about his frustrations #that won't enforce his irritation at ALL #like a big part of why carver is the way he is is being an 18-19 year old KID who's had to give up what he wants for the good of the family #without even being asked his feelings on the matter #HIS WHOLE DAMN LIFE #he feels like his opinions don't matter and he has no control/choice in his own life #GOOD JOB REINFORCING THAT #i have a sneaking suspicion she's gonna wind up with templar!carver and that's just gonna exacerbate her opinion of him #it's just aggravating watching someone feed the self-fulfilling cycle #of ''carver sucks so i won't use him so our relationship stays static so carver sucks so-'' #carver is one of the most fascinating characters in the game and it makes me aklnfjsbfjksbdsjkdb when ppl miss that bc they knee-jerk #write off any comps who don't instantly kiss up to the protag without trying to figure out why they're like that :| #i stand by saying she's doesn't have to like him! i do! #it's just frustrating when half of the REASON she doesn't like him is something she could DO SOMETHING about and she ISN'T #max friend!carver is AMAZING and it makes me sad so few people actually get to see it #/sigh #/end rant #sorry #maybe i should just skip to act two in this stream >.> #(a note: mechanically speaking i get not using carver bc she's using fenris and they're the same role #but again. not using carver means no friend/rival gains so not changing the relationship)

[frodo-with-glasses]

(Okay so I know we all affectionately(?) call this place “hellsite” and joke about its garbage UI, but credit where it’s due: WE CAN FINALLY COMMENT FROM SIDE BLOGS NOW. I pretty much post entirely from side blogs and never use my main, so in the past, every time I commented on a post—which would display my main blog’s username and avatar—it was needlessly confusing, and I always had to add clarification of who was speaking. Now, if I want to comment as Frodo-With-Glasses, I can just comment as Frodo-With-Glasses! It’s great! Good update @staff I appreciate your efforts)

#not lotr #tumblr is a functioning website #for real this time! kinda! #i am a big believer in encouragement and positive reinforcement so here is my qualified praise #good job @staff have a cookie

[neverendingford]

I remembered that I can actually do anything I want, so I've been using faux fur as a texture element in patching up my old ripped jeans (not done stitching yet as evidenced by the pins on the border of it)

I am also going to buy red thread and try to include a decorative amogus somewhere on here.

#Ford's art #visible mending #sewing #color says shit #I've been staying up until almost 2am sewing because I lose track of time while stitching. #I used a denim patch as an actual backing and cut and trimmed the fur patches to size and cut the fur around the hole #so they're essentially inserted between the denim backing and the front pant layer. #so I'm finished sewing the fur in place (that's the three circular x stitch patterns) #so now I'm working on the anchor stitches for the entire backing patch #because I've done smaller patches and the pants often rip out right next to the patch #so a larger patch that reinforces the fabric that's still incredibly worn but not quite ripped out helps prevent more ripping #my earlier patch jobs weren't very good but I'm getting better each time #and I have plenty of ripped jeans to practice on. #I'm just sad I can't wear them to work because they're visibly patched. #which.. that's the point for me but work dress code doesn't like that #if they were cutely embroidered I could definitely. but I'm going for the janky look so work won't approve

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

me and my whimsical coworker who keeps daydreaming about me being hypnotized and at the complete mercy of anyone who requests anything of me like the good little drones he's so obsessed with

#ieytd #commander solaris #hivemind #i picked up a pen (art) #i've been thinking abt this a lot recently and by a lot i mean last night #well that's kind of a lie. i've been thinking abt solaris being hypnotized in some fashion for like a month straight #but hivemind only became relevant last night #to me he's like a verbal pyro. do you feel me on that. the world is so whimsical through his perspective. #he doesn't think he hates solaris (which he does) he just thinks that he could make her better. if she was under his technological spell #i think the thought of him trying to use positive reinforcement training on solaris to be utterly hilarious #good job solaris you did your tasks! doesn't obedience feel sooo good solaris? 😊?? yaaaay! you should have no autonomy now okay??

[janebonbon]

I had a connection in my brain that made me realize I'm a hypocrite

#This is the one of few times i will ever draw ourselves so enjoy it while it lasts!! #anyway that was a fun connection to make #i am a hypocrite unfortunately #but to be fair it was a cultural thing to be so workaholic #i come home from school and I have to get A's or else I am told “I know you can do better!” #Or getting back from work and being tired working and doing school I am told good job for working so hard #and reinforced that my stress is completely normal!! #fun fact it isnt #it has a physcial impact too absolutely pushing myself past my limits my MRIs can vouch #dolly's rambles #dolly's art #our art #howdy pillar #howdy pillar fanart #welcome home #welcome home fanart

[wellthatschaotic]

cant sleepy :(

#im stressed about work i think #idk why but im like. constantly terrified Theyre Gonna Fire Me #and like this is a DREAM job #love it so much #but i feel like we're not doing good enough #and we only got 2 days this week which kinda reinforces #but like. we've been getting a shitton of hours it Makes Sense that we sometimes get less #but still :( #chaos chitters

[scholarofgolb]

guys i have to say something. didn't like the barbie movie all that much.

#very much was giving cishet white feminism #i truly dont think u can make a movie about feminism in this day and age and claim to be doing anything controversial #unless you are talking about trans women talking about gay women talking about non-white womens experiences #like otherwise its like. you literally said nothing good job. #like i hate the way they want to talk about gender without talking about gender as a social construct! #the movie REINFORCES the dichotomy of manhood/womanhood #and is not nearly as deep as it tries to pretend #like literally the whole point of the movie is like #girl power is nothing without talking about womens pain #but like is that truly a new conversation? #is that really interesting? #all that being said i did enjoy the aesthetics of the movie and the music and margot robbie of course #anyways feminism is nothing without intersectionality

[flightplan-fox]

i kinda don’t like my boss. she’s really beginning to get on my nerves. also she scares me and i don’t think she likes me. she literally never looks at me, is really short when speaking to me, and 90% of time when she’s talks to me, it’s literally just to tell me to go do something. something she literally could have done easily

she also doesn’t give any positive feedback if affirmation. one of my cowboy and i worked our asses off today, running around trying to complete a list of things she left us to do while she made a run into town. we complete the entirety of the list. i’m feeling proud of us, and happy with how much we got done. boss comes back, i tell her that we got everything on the list done. without even looking at me, she just points at a few cardboard boxes that we missed and goes “you didn’t throw those away.” AND THEN SHE JUST WALKS AWAY

we worked for almost 7 hours straight getting that goddamn list done, and don’t even get a “good job”. it’s just so irritating that out of everything we did, she points out the one thing we missed and says nothing else

#cedar talks #i mean yeah #it was stupid of me to forget to toss those boxes #they were just sitting out in the open #but still #we got so much done i would’ve appreciated some acknowledgment #i don’t need a reward for doing my job #but a simple ‘good work’ would have made my day #i work really well off of positive reinforcement #idk i’m probably making too big a deal out of it #but it’s also a habit of hers to just point out what you did wrong #it just makes me feel like an idiot #like i’m not at all valuable to the team

[gonzodangerfeels]

She's like, come on I know you wanna see it...

you told me all of last fall

#I have to have piss as a reinforcement trigger #digging deep for an Okely #Dokely #there are clones everywhere #I want them all to fuck off #I mean she looked like a party when that school opemed #the eagle has worn her ass down though #you don't need to be told you're doing a good job.....let me guess the Indonesian chaplain going to africa or something saw you #this chick has got such a low tolerance for bullshit it's hilarious #how about I fuck you mind in an email #that email was legend by the way #me: esp #me: no dumbass like this #it's fine I understand...mine is off the charters but I was ignorant as fuck #too bad hon #probably another teeny wiener there *shrugs* #you had children.....why are you torturing everyone's view of your breadts by compression bras for real.....let em breathe #and yeah I had some dark thoughts that probably made her masturbate #sniff 26 huh #look she has been there a long time....I say lets give her some toots #gotta be cool because she's convinced herself she's a square #not like either if the people who raised you? #ever done 23 and me? #privacy concerns....honey the only thing private is the secret you still haven't figured out #a quarter of dad #. #I don't care #fucking dirty hippies hanging out looking for Hitler #have you heard of Florida man....he finds the ones that haven't ever been fucked and gives it to them #if a devil then I will use his magic too I don't give a fuck

[vagueiish]

did end up calling off work bc i feel yucky (tummy + teef + probably have a fever but cannot be arsed to locate a thermometer)

....which i've been doing a Lot lately, but, ngl, i kinda hope they fire me

#can i afford to lose my job financially? no #will it be good for my mental health? yes and no #no bc im 90 being fired would just reinforce all of my 'they hate me and think im useless' nonsense #yes bc i need like a years worth of sleep without the added pressure of 'i need to work tomorrow' #we'll see what they say next time im scheduled..... #to the void with love

[ilovemylawyer]

actually one quick thing about dongsoo+money. i watched evilive as it aired (i called off of work for the finale) and when dongsoo sees the first gambling house (the kindergarten) i was really really wanting/hoping/expecting him to get confined to one. beomjae explaining to him that the houses have everything that you need to survive, and that you can just basically live in them to gamble nonstop (until you've lost everything)... i think that would be the perfect environment for a lawyer... wake up gamble gamble gamble eat gamble gamble gamble wonder if you'll ever escape gamble gamble eat gamble sleep repeat... he could thrive there... this want of mine was of course smited when he instead IMMEDIATELY SNITCHED upon reaching the island house. whatever. maybe i will do something with that idea one day.

#ilml #like it could really be a positive reinforcement thing or it could be a life ending death sentence thing #like oh good job lawyer. you may live in the gambling house for a week uninterrupted. #or like booooo we hate you lawyer. you are banished to the gambling house indefinitely. #oh and its a perfect Prison for him. everyone needs a prison. #well he ended up making his own prison (the mansion) but. whatever. we haven't gotten there yet. patience. #OK. THAT IS ALL. i promise i am going back to my docs tab now. byebye i love you!

[baekuras]

nevermind i was wrong with my expectations on how much I'd enjoy Nightmare time (aka short theatre over zoom)-this fucking slaps

#txts #granted i do like the cast and characters in general so I should have actually expected that #but i was unsure bc so far i have had only watched them do theatre or shows #but never pandemic zoom #it IS cool that this way they could A put out content and B put out shorter but still fun/relevant stuff that wouldn't work as a full music #+imagine having to make it all into a full show ala Working Boys #we'd never have gotten everything that way or only over decades #so yeah i'm having fun+mostly through colouring (backgrounds are a bitch) #also Ep1 Part2: funny how they literally just say Blinky and I nope out fully expecting #eldricht fuckery #+considering how the sniggles talk i am never gonna be mad at anyone going insane in the black and white like my brain feels halfway gooped #just finish the job whoever is up in this universe bc fucking hell #me to myself 'am i having a snorg-i mean stroke-FUCK' #didn't help reinforce the non brain fuckery #too many weird s-words #good job

[famewolf]

ive done my walks/jogs and weight training all week. even on the days where I really wasnt feeling it, i know its important to just go through the motions. the first couple of works outs were half-assed but i started feeling better later in the week and both yesterday and today i could tell i made a lot of progress compared to two weeks ago.

#[static] #like 90% of the battle is going out and Doing it! #even if you dont feel like you did a good job or werent able to give it your all your still reinforcing the habits in your brain and body #also im not going to be come a health fanatic or anything like that LMAO i just wanted to post about how proud i am that i have #been trying to be consistent and its made a difference that I can see! #i feel stronger / my back doesnt hurt / ive got more energy / i get to see nature / im closer to my dream of becoming a beefy cowboy #also ive been saving money by making food at home for work! #ALSO IM SO HYDRATED #i think ive had more water in the last 2 weeks than I have had in 6 months fjkghdfg

[specialagentartemis]

I get variations on this comment on my post about history misinformation all the time: "why does it matter?" Why does it matter that people believe falsehoods about history? Why does it matter if people spread history misinformation? Why does it matter if people on tumblr believe that those bronze dodecahedra were used for knitting, or that Persephone had a daughter named Mespyrian? It's not the kind of misinformation that actually hurts people, like anti-vaxx propaganda or climate change denial. It doesn't hurt anyone to believe something false about the past.

Which, one, thanks for letting me know on my post that you think my job doesn't matter and what I do is pointless, if it doesn't really matter if we know the truth or make up lies about history because lies don't hurt anyone. But two, there are lots of reasons that it matters.

It encourages us to distrust historians when they talk about other aspects of history. You might think it's harmless to believe that Pharaoh Hatshepsut was trans. It's less harmless when you're espousing that the Holocaust wasn't really about Jews because the Nazis "came for trans people first." You might think it's harmless to believe that the French royalty of Versailles pooped and urinated on the floor of the palace all the time, because they were asshole rich people anyway, who cares, we hate the rich here; it's rather less harmless when you decide that the USSR was the communist ideal and Good, Actually, and that reports of its genocidal oppression are actually lies.

It encourages anti-intellectualism in other areas of scholarship. Deciding based on your own gut that the experts don't know what they're talking about and are either too stupid to realize the truth, or maliciously hiding the truth, is how you get to anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. It is also how you come to discount housing-first solutions for homelessness or the idea that long-term sustained weight loss is both biologically unlikely and health-wise unnecessary for the majority of fat people - because they conflict with what you feel should be true. Believing what you want to be true about history, because you want to believe it, and discounting fact-based corrections because you don't want them to be true, can then bleed over into how you approach other sociological and scientific topics.

How we think about history informs how we think about the present. A lot of people want certain things to be true - this famous person from history was gay or trans, this sexist story was actually feminist in its origin - because we want proof that gay people, trans people, and women deserve to be respected, and this gives evidence to prove we once were and deserve to be. But let me tell you a different story: on Thanksgiving of 2016, I was at a family friend's house and listening to their drunk conservative relative rant, and he told me, confidently, that the Roman Empire fell because they instituted universal healthcare, which was proof that Obama was destroying America. Of course that's nonsense. But projecting what we think is true about the world back onto history, and then using that as recursive proof that that is how the world is... is shoddy scholarship, and gets used for topics you don't agree with just as much as the ones you do. We should not be encouraging this, because our politics should be informed by the truth and material reality, not how we wish the past proved us right.

It frequently reinforces "Good vs. Bad" dichotomies that are at best unhelpful and at worst victim-blaming. A very common thread of historical misinformation on tumblr is about the innocence or benevolence of oppressed groups, slandered by oppressors who were far worse. This very frequently has truth to it - but makes the lies hard to separate out. It often simplifies the narrative, and implies that the reason that colonialism and oppression were bad was because the victims were Good and didn't deserve it... not because colonialism and oppression are bad. You see this sometimes with radical feminist mother goddess Neolithic feminist utopia stuff, but you also see it a lot regarding Native American and African history. I have seen people earnestly argue that Aztecs did not practice human sacrifice, that that was a lie made up by the Spanish to slander them. That is not true. Human sacrifice was part of Aztec, Maya, and many Central American war/religious practices. They are significantly more complex than often presented, and came from a captive-based system of warfare that significantly reduced the number of people who got killed in war compared to European styles of war that primarily killed people on the battlefield rather than taking them captive for sacrifice... but the human sacrifice was real and did happen. This can often come off with the implications of a 'noble savage' or an 'innocent victim' that implies that the bad things the Spanish conquistadors did were bad because the victims were innocent or good. This is a very easy trap to fall into; if the victims were good, they didn't deserve it. Right? This logic is dangerous when you are presented with a person or group who did something bad... you're caught in a bind. Did they deserve their injustice or oppression because they did something bad? This kind of logic drives a lot of transphobia, homophobia, racism, and defenses of Kyle Rittenhouse today. The answer to a colonialist logic of "The Aztecs deserved to be conquered because they did human sacrifice and that's bad" is not "The Aztecs didn't do human sacrifice actually, that's just Spanish propaganda" (which is a lie) it should be "We Americans do human sacrifice all the god damn time with our forever wars in the Middle East, we just don't call it that. We use bullets and bombs rather than obsidian knives but we kill way, way more people in the name of our country. What does that make us? Maybe genocide is not okay regardless of if you think the people are weird and scary." It becomes hard to square your ethics of the Innocent Victim and Lying Perpetrator when you see real, complicated, individual-level and group-level interactions, where no group is made up of members who are all completely pure and good, and they don't deserve to be oppressed anyway.

It makes you an unwitting tool of the oppressor. The favorite, favorite allegation transphobes level at trans people, and conservatives at queer people, is that we're lying to push the Gay Agenda. We're liars or deluded fools. If you say something about queer or trans history that's easy to debunk as false, you have permanently hurt your credibility - and the cause of queer history. It makes you easy to write off as a liar or a deluded fool who needs misinformation to make your case. If you say Louisa May Alcott was trans, that's easy to counter with "there is literally no evidence of that, and lots of evidence that she was fine being a woman," and instantly tanks your credibility going forward, so when you then say James Barry was trans and push back against a novel or biopic that treats James Barry as a woman, you get "you don't know what you're talking about, didn't you say Louisa May Alcott was trans too?" TERFs love to call trans people liars - do not hand them ammunition, not even a single bullet. Make sure you can back up what you say with facts and evidence. This is true of homophobes, of racists, of sexists. Be confident of your facts, and have facts to give to the hopeful and questioning learners who you are relating this story to, or the bigots who you are telling off, because misinformation can only hurt you and your cause.

It makes the queer, female, POC, or other marginalized listeners hurt, sad, and betrayed when something they thought was a reflection of their own experiences turns out not to be real. This is a good response to a performance art piece purporting to tell a real story of gay WWI soldiers, until the author revealed it as fiction. Why would you want to set yourself up for disappointment like that? Why would you want to risk inflicting that disappointment and betrayal on anyone else?

It makes it harder to learn the actual truth.

Historical misinformation has consequences, and those consequences are best avoided - by checking your facts, citing your sources, and taking the time and effort to make sure you are actually telling the truth.

#history #history and the world #misinformation