#That compassion and altruism tho

[sunspira]

this take is incredibly annoying to me and this twitter is always so dumb. the reason people like dolphins so much is they are social mammals who think and behave much like we do. dolphins have the capacity for great kindness as well as great cruelty and both extremes are frequently observed behaviors from them. kind of exactly like humans and our range of behavior from altruism and sadism. shark behavior as far as i know is simply not as complex in the social ways we can understand or relate to (tho probably plenty complex in the shark ways sharks can understand and we don't appreciate) they don't really show malice nor compassion in ways we understand it and this whole turtle rescue claim is just clickbait, i truly don't think a shark would do that... he seems to be just trying to crack its shell open on the side of the boat (and then the humans intervened because humans actually do have some of the animal kingdoms most intense social instincts). he's just a hungry critter using problem solving which is very cool but not "kind" per say. dolphins can and do intentionally rescue as well as torture other animals. sharks don't really intentionally do either. not in a way that's comparable to us. both are good animals. dolphin similarities to humans is just fascinating and in combination to them not physically being able to eat humans it leads to some favoritism. simple as that. sharks arent evil but the idea that sharks are these actual sweethearts is ridiculous too. they're just neutral lil guys trying to live and eat

and i LIKE sharks but of fucking course they scare people more than dolphins do lol. sharks can KILL you EASILY even if they have no evil intent. dolphins really don't do the same visceral carnal damage to a swimmer just due to the way they are built. being eaten alive is a primal fear so sharks = scary and dolphins = not as scary. people can and do fear sharks very understandably and logically without hating them. and yes people DO need to have a healthy fear of dolphins too as they are still very capable of killing you biting you drowning you and otherwise hurting you yes even sexually. but the idea that people are just stupid for being afraid of sharks: an extremely powerful unpredictable wild animal that can eviscerate your body like nothing and have done so before: insisting that's not frightening because "erm well sea mammals are technically smarter and meaner" is so insane and stupid lmao. you're barely able to move in water and thats apex predator that feeds like a honing torpedo made of knives and absolutely and easily might mistake you for its target, it's scary. i just hate u mr contrarian ass you are not as smart as you think you are it annoys me soo muchhh lmfao

#idk i could be dead wrong but sharks don't even live in packs #it's just really hard for me to understand an altruism behavior in an animal that literally isn't social . like how and why . #it sounds so made up and anthromorphizing or whatever that word is #like projecting

[heavenlyborne]

~ Light/Dark Triad Test  ~

You tend 69.33% more toward the dark triad than the light triad. You are 98.4% darker than the average person.

“Huh, who imagined that humans could actually feel?”

Stolen from;; Other blog Tagging;; Anybody who hasn’t done it yet!

#♡;; memes #;; dashboard games #❦;; musings #Since it's sinday and all #We're going to show some sin! #Mainly this game for the time being #Apologies for being a bit quiet Urouge was liking the attention #Shalria is grumpy #I based this off the-flaming-spade's current thread #Shock horror there is actually some empathy! #Looks like Dr. Vegapunk didn't rip all the humanity out of her #No compassion or altruism though #Not yet anyway #Everything belongs to her and fuck everybody else #That's her current beliefs #:'D #That 98.4% darker than the average person tho WAAW

[shamemp3]

☕️ + who is the best spider-person and why

THIS IS HARD…i have many favorites and i usually cant pick between them but if i have to narrow it down it would be btwn miles and peter (but probably miles). like obviously most of the spider people have same general core values of like altruism and responsibility towards others and the whole Guilt thing but with miles you see it explored SO well and he’s still very young too and we get to see how much he believes in being there for his neighborhood and his personal responsibility to everyone aroond him and on top of that we get to see how being a hero affects him mentally which we dont rly get with the other spideys and while that doesnt make them WORSE bc it just depends on the writer its just. hard not to love miles when you see how he thinks and cares about his friends and family and community … like something i liked abt saladin ahmed’s run was miles’ journalkeeping. also we get to see how frustrated and angry miles gets when he CANT help people (ex. the school shooting champs issue) and his talk with kamala where she’s like “we’re the same we cant stand aside” or smth like that is very close to my heart. idk i just love a lot when his conflicts are explored and we see him make mistakes and have internal conflict with himself and his feelings and its so very human !!! he is so empathetic and he will always attempt to peacemake before anything else and he always tries to be there in the littlest ways even if its not a hero crisis (with kenneth!!!) and he cares so much and his moral compass is unshakeable (not to say that of the other spider people isnt) but i dont know his spidey feels the most Homey and community like to me which is what spiderman is all about… and peter’s DEFINITELY does too like esp w fnsm 2019 and all the special issues where you see him step up for new york but it makes me upset how we RARELY get to see how he’s affected mentally by this one example i always bring up being superior spiderman … and tbh aside from fnsm 2019 we’ve BARELY had any good peter comics since straczynski and thats definitely more on the writers than peter himself bc he still is one of the most humane and community-based characters to me at least but … i think i’d give it to miles tho in terms of favorites they are still tied i think

send me a ☕️ on smth and ill give my opinion!

#I DIDNT MEAN FOR THIS TO GET SO LONG AND IT DOESNT EVEN MAKE SENSE. IM SORRY #anyways sorry to kaine anya ben miguel i love u all but ……. #answered #anon

[girlbattled]

hola m’angels , i’m min ! twenty-two ( aka gettin old ) , from the gmt timezone ( aka will be awake when everyone’s sleeping ) , and i use she/her mainly but i don’t mind anythin else . if anyone happens to wanna go wild with me over anime, robert pattinson / zoe kravitz as batcat, or riot games dropping way too much shit on us on the 10th anniversary pls hop into my ims or give me a little ping over on discord at 𝖓𝖔𝖊𝖑 𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓#0252 .

* drum roll pls * i present to you sloane janeway !

underneath the cut is a little bit about my baby gorl. her bio, fun facts, some wanted stuff, etc etc. if you fancy plotting w her it’d be super cool if you liked this or if u came to me, either in my ims or discord ! i’m super down for anything & loan is a total mess so pls throw stuff at me . ♡ ♡ ♡

trigger warnings     :     abuse,  physical  abuse,  neglect,  destructive  behaviours,  alcohol,  drugs,  sex,  overdose.  if  i’ve  missed  any,  please  forgive  me  and  let  me  know.

the new york janeway’s, you’re sure you’ve heard of them before. cyrus janeway, a stockbroker with far too little time on his hands, flanked by estrella janeway, his personal assistant turned life partner. they gave birth not longer after the wedding of the century to their eldest son, their pride and joy, cole janeway. he was to be the golden child, the heir to the estate... that was, until sloane came along.

from birth, sloane was a vicious departure from her family. she was unplanned, unexpected, perhaps unwanted was a stretch but it certainly wouldn’t have been far off the mark. her birth nearly destroyed the reputation the janeway’s had so carefully cultivated for themselves, nobody could quite believe cyrus and estrella would be so stupid, but along she came regardless. a spanner in the cogs.

for the first few years, sloane didn’t feel the difference between herself and cole. whilst he kept his distance, which she had always assumed was because she was five years younger and a girl, she never believed there to be bad blood. she was dressed up in countless fancy dresses, her golden locks repeatedly brushed and subjected to numerous chemical treatments, and even her skin somewhat speckled with makeup even as a toddler. estrella always seemed like she was trying to make up for something. it didn’t take long for sloane to notice.

she began acting out at the age of six, when she realised acting the pretty and perfect princess did not get her what she wanted. when she was quiet, she was ignored, but when she was loud? at least the help scurried to her, at least her nanny cradled her in her arms, at least cole’s personal butler gave her a look full of love rather than scorn. it wasn’t long before she was hanging out in the kitchen rather than the dining hall, the quarters rather than her own room.

as she grew older, however, her acts grew. countless times her mother woke to find her dressing room trashed, her father’s hunting trophies ripped to shreds, her brother’s endless awards from school all in the garbage. they tried to discipline her, cyrus even hit sloane a few times, but all it did was make her angry. instilled a fire within her. when they locked her doors, she climbed out of the window. when they barred her windows, she broke the door into splinters. when they replaced the door, she ripped up the floorboards. sloane was a loose cannon. and things were only about to get worse.

for the most part, she’d kept her nuisances to the confines of her “home”, only wishing to get back at her parents for neglecting her for so long. only one night, when she was fourteen years old and had finished her latest act of malcontent, it was cole who chose to deal with her. he, as a nineteen year old male who’d grown a considerable amount of bulk as star of his college football team, proceeded to beat the shit out of her. 

turns out, the brother she thought had simply never been on her wavelength had never been on the same planet as her at all. he despised sloane. despised everything she was and stood for, and made sure she knew as she was spitting up blood on their pristine carpets. 

the next day, sloane strolled into school. no makeup. joint hanging from her lips. typical upper class attire replaced with torn jeans and a shirt far too inappropriate. when people asked her what had happened, she had simply replied, ‘ you should see the other guy. ’ and birthed a new persona.

sloane’s way of coping with what her brother had done to her, and what her family had allowed him to do, was to fall deep into the cesspits of teenagedom. drugs, sex, alcohol – she’d done it all by the age of eighteen. yet somehow, the part of sloane before, the part that was simply a bratty child with a short fuse, was gone. now she was a danger. she held a wicked grin and too many scrapes to count. she knew no bounds, understood no loyalties, screamed at the top of her lungs as if she were attending the world’s wildest rager. on top of it all, sloane was the maximum party girl. nobody cared what she was going home to, because all they cared about was where she’d be at 1am on a friday night. she became the family wild child. photos of her strewn over the papers. consistent beatings and beratings from the men in her family did nothing to drown out the buzz she received from the attention she’d craved her entire life. sloane was finally getting everything she ever wanted, why did it matter where it was coming from?

as a final resort, her family shipped her off to hollingsworth. here, away from the prying eyes and judgemental glares of the horrid new yorkers, sloane somewhat thrived. forced into economics by her shithead father, but enjoying every test she aced and spat in his face, she fell quickly into gamma rho alpha and, by the time she had finished her freshman year, she was well in line to be vice president. she was still a wreck, still doing anything she could for the attention and limelight she craved, still bouncing off the walls in an attempt to get her desired adrenaline rush, but what little responsibility she’d been given allowed her to finally form connections. friends, best friends, but anything more than that? things like love, compassion, altruism? she wasn’t even sure what those were.

♡     personality.

uncritical. if there’s anything sloane is, it’s uncritical. she’s never held judgement against anyone in her life, and would never hold judgement against anyone who came to her to admit a heinous or strange deed. she’s heard all sorts, from strange sexscapades to near deaths, and to each of them she often has the same reaction – a loud chortle, followed by disbelief and a desire to know way too many details.

venturesome. to try and stop the blonde from heading out on an adventure is a task mortals would find impossible. a true ‘yes girl’, sloane has never been one to say no to anything, and to never back out of something she said yes to, no matter how bizarre or dangerous the situation might become. she’s always first into the fray, first in line of all the girls to beat the burglar up with a hair straightener, first in line into the abandoned building, first to jump off the roof into the pool.

allegiant. whilst sloane’s loyalty is almost as rare as unicorn blood, it’s possible to receive it, and when you do it’s something you’ll never lose. she sticks by those who have managed to put up with her, unable to let them go even when they do her dirty. 

graceless. a. clumsy. bitch. if you’re expecting sloane’s etiquette lessons to have stuck with her, you’re very wrong. the girl trips over her own feet more times than she can count in a day, always has at least something broken, fractured, or sprained, and has certainly won the award in gamma rho alpha for ‘most freak accidents in a single day’.

chaotic. everything about sloane is a nightmare come to life. she drags people down, deep into the depths of places they never thought they’d be, wishes for them to destroy their lives like she’s destroyed hers. to say she loves to see the world burn would be an understatement. she loves starting and watching drama, getting into fights, smashing up homes and belongings, getting into relationships she shouldn’t be in. trying to stop is nigh impossible, the chaos is almost an addiction, and she’s not ready to give it up.

needy. despite it all, she’s still the same girl who was never loved. not truly, not by anyone, and perhaps somewhere deep down she still craves that. she’ll leave you on read for days but god forbid you do the same to her. she’ll have a one night stand and dip right after but never lets her flings leave her life without something to remember her by. she drunk calls the exes she let get away, tells them she loves them and calls them a pussy in the same sentence. no matter how much she tries, she can’t hide the part of her she thinks is ugliest at all, her desire for others.

♡     fun facts.

an avid skateboarder, she picked it up in an attempt to ruin the family image even further when she was fifteen but it stuck in a surprising way. she now tends to ride it over campus, and has broken at least three in her time here.

massive stoner. whilst sloane openly dabbles in most drugs, weed’s the one that’s stuck with her, and it’s the only thing that slows her down. she’s a much nicer person when she smokes and she tends to have a preference for indica over sativa.

fucking bosses her major. economics, despite all its complexities, is something sloane is just naturally adept at. she takes a picture of every grade she gets with her middle finger in front of it, posts it on facebook and tags her father. he blocked her over a year ago.

besides that tho she’s stupid af. a lot of people think she puts it on bc of her grades and bc . . . she does everything for kicks, but no, she’s just kinda ditzy. a lot of people also think she’s just a straight up cheater and hasn’t gotten her grades herself.

nicknames are loan or jane, jane’s reserved for those she’s closest to tho!

♡     wanteds.

fellow  sorority  sisters     0/?     ⟶     self-explanatory! positive, negative, etc etc etc. i wanna plot w all her gals so bad lmao. besties, literal sisters, clothes sharers, secret smokers, party gals, enemies, girls who’ve slept w each other’s exes, all of it bABY.

economics  pal     0/1     ⟶     i’m thinking this person goes to sloane for help with everything and sloane pretty much does all their work for them. she doesn’t care bc it’s easy, and the other person blesses her and thanks her all the time. it’s a quiet agreement, so whilst it’s no secret bc sloane hates keeping them, it’s def hush hush. this person is one of the few who actually believes sloane’s as smart as they say. can also be a business student or smthn with similar classes!

super  soft  bestie     0/1     ⟶     ok so this is male only for a dumb reason i’m rly sorry. i had this plot before where my old muse sloane’s based off had a really sweet, selfless soft pal who was a dude, but they’d never slept together, she’d never even flirted somehow, and he was the one person in sloane’s life who always had her best interests at heart, and she defended him tooth and nail against anybody. the most unlikely duo ever and i want it back. she knew he never wanted anything else from her and that’s why it was so easy for her to attach, but bc this other person deals well with affection and is very reassuring, she never feels needy around them.

people  she  skates  with     0/2     ⟶     people she met down the skatepark or at a typical hangout before meeting them at hollingsworth. when she’s with them she’s pretty chill, though they’ve def been responsible for saving her ass and driving her to the ER a few times.

people  she  smokes  with     1/3     ⟶     oh shit whaddup stoner gang? lmao sorry anyway, yeah, again self-explanatory but! a lil more interesting because sloane’s very different when she’s stoned. she’s calmer, talks slower, and lets people get a word in and doesn’t try and get everyone involved w her hare brained schemes. these people probably actually enjoy her company! how wild?

new  yorkers     0/?     ⟶     sloane’s underwear has been plastered on the front page of most nyc tabloids and she’s the daughter of two massives in the industry, new york natives will know her somewhat. they can use that against her, they can empathize, or we can concoct some real dramatic shit. people who helped her fuck someone up, and now theyre keeping it quiet? someone she slept with who’s come to hollingsworth with their girlfriend/boyfriend? an addict she started on pills? yikes, lots of opportunity tho.

exes     0/2     ⟶     whew boy. we all know by now sloane’s a hot mess, right gang? so let’s see some people she’s messed up in the past. tOTALLY open to more exes and the more crazy the plot u bring me, the better. i lov angst just like anyone else does.

the  one  she  didn’t  ruin     1/1     ⟶     the one person in her life sloane walked away from without destroying, aka, the one she let get away because she realised she was going to harm someone she severely card about. she would’ve ended things with this person rather than pushing their buttons, would’ve been faithful and honest in their relationship, but dipped bc she’d let herself get involved too fast, too soon. definitely a name she’s forbidden her friends from bringing up.

lifeline     1/1     ⟶     let’s be real for a second about drug use, you can do it responsibly, but when you don’t, you can get in some serious fucking trouble. this person has always been there to stop sloane from od’ing. she only does hard drugs at ragers, so her risk is a bit lower than expected, but when she does them she does them. she’s a serious risk, and for some reason this gentle soul has taken it upon themselves to get her stomach pumped, take her home, clean her up, and give her a warm bed to stay in. they don’t speak much away from these nights where she has this vulnerability (she’s definitely mumbled things about her past to them), but that could very well change.

#𝙴𝚇𝙴. 𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙴 𝟶𝟶𝟶 ⟶ david dobrik’s t-shirt supplier. ⎠ out of character. #hi ! so sorry this isn't in pages i didn't quite have the time but !!! baby gorl #there's a lot here i apologise #hworths:intro #might not show up bc i had to make a brand new blog booooo

[lakeffectqueer]

Odysseus and below

odysseus | what's your favourite place to travel?

my family used to drive to tennessee annually, gatlinburg to be specific, and we'd go to dollywood and do anything else that interested us (once we went to a national park, and we'd always make a trip to chocolate monkey, and i think once we went to this place called wonderworks but nobody really enjoyed it) but we stopped doing it every single year because of financial issues. some of my favourite memories are our trips there, though, and i think it's definitely one of my favourite places to travel. tampa's also great, but we've only driven down there once for a music festival! i'd love to make it an annual thing though.

echo | what's something you can't stop talking about?

i usually try not to talk about stuff too much, because i don't want to annoy people, which i realise is kinda super depressing, but like tuesday night i stepped on a piece of glass and i can't stop bringing it up. i just want to keep my family updated tho !! it's healing weird so !

narcissus | what's your best quality?

ooh, probably my compassion/desire to help others. i'm always putting myself in other people's shoes and going out of my way to help them.

icarus | what's your fatal flaw?

uh, ironically enough, my altruism - i'll go too out of my way to help other people out and forget to like, take care of myself. i also absolutely can't say no because i'm too scared that i might upset someone so it's . Not good

orpheus | what's your favourite song or type of music?

my favourite song at the moment is season two episode three by glass animals, but of all time it's definitely oblivion by bastille. as for genre, i love alternative rock but rly if it bops it bops

eurydice | what's something you regret?

being born :^)

just kidding!!!! uh probably anytime i've made an absolute fool of myself, which really narrows it down

i just generally overthink my actions too much so i don't have a huge list of regrets, y'know?

thanks homie!! you sent asks when nobody else would 😔👊💙

#greek myth asks #💙💙💙 ty 🥺 #elliott gets asks

[stringcheeselesbian]

Like actually tho if u want to make a difference in the world and u have money to spare, giving ur money to homeless people is an extremely fast and easy way to do that. Just try to make people’s lives easier whenever u can. If u want to be a “good leftist” start by calibrating ur moral compass to prioritize compassion and altruism before anything else

#real goblin hours

[americanexceptionalism]

tagged by: no one. stolen from @eleven-seas tagging: @shoveanavocadoupmyass even tho u dead

VIRTUES: BEHAVIOUR SHOWING HIGH MORAL STANDARDS

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VICES: WICKED OR IMMORAL BEHAVIOUR

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#ok so #this was hard #the italics on top are more like #how he tries to present himself #the italics on bottom are shit he's like but #it may take more to push him toward being merciless or smthng #it's not his FIRST instinct #but it's not his last either