#does this count as doing research?

[earlgrey24]

Throwback to the time (1724) when the guy I am writing my thesis on started his pamphlet with a list that slut-shames classic philosophers (and proved that he is a huge classics nerd in the process).

Legendary behaviour if you ask me.

Highlights:

he also calls out the Stoics: (side note: "notorious debauchee" should be brought back)

And my absolute fave:

#classics #gotta love people in the 1700s #ancient greece #philosophy #1700s #classics memes #philosophy memes #tagamemnon #history #ancient rome #unhinged #an icon #does this count as doing research? #hall of fame

[theramblingvoid]

Low level/continuous pain tips for writing

Want to avoid the action movie effect and make your character's injuries have realistic lasting impacts? Have a sick character you're using as hurt/comfort fodder? Everyone has tips for how to write Dramatic Intense Agony, but the smaller human details of lasting or low-level discomfort are rarely written in. Here are a few pain mannerisms I like to use as reference:

General

Continuously gritted teeth (may cause headaches or additional jaw pain over time)

Irritability, increased sensitivity to lights, sounds, etc

Repetitive movements (fidgeting, unable to sit still, slight rocking or other habitual movement to self-soothe)

Soft groaning or whimpering, when pain increases or when others aren't around

Heavier breathing, panting, may be deeper or shallower than normal

Moving less quickly, resistant to unnecessary movement

Itching in the case of healing wounds

Subconsciously hunching around the pain (eg. slumped shoulders or bad posture for gut pain)

Using a hand to steady themself when walking past walls, counters, etc (also applies to illness)

Narration-wise: may not notice the pain was there until it's gone because they got so used to it, or may not realize how bad it was until it gets better

May stop mentioning it outright to other people unless they specifically ask or the pain increases

Limb pain

Subtly leaning on surfaces whenever possible to take weight off foot/leg pain

Rubbing sore spots while thinking or resting

Wincing and switching to using other limb frequently (new/forgettable pain) or developed habit of using non dominant limb for tasks (constant/long term pain)

Propping leg up when sitting to reduce inflammation

Holding arm closer to body/moving it less

Moving differently to avoid bending joints (eg. bending at the waist instead of the knees to pick something up)

Nausea/fever/non-pain discomfort

Many of the same things as above (groaning, leaning, differences in movement)

May avoid sudden movements or turning head for nausea

Urge to press up against cold surfaces for fever

Glazed eyes, fixed stare, may take longer to process words or get their attention

Shivering, shaking, loss of fine motor control

If you have any more details that you personally use to bring characters to life in these situations, I'd love to hear them! I'm always looking for ways to make my guys suffer more write people with more realism :)

#voidrambles #writing #whump #does this count as that? whatever those folks will probably enjoy it at any rate #this is honestly mostly for my own reference but i hope it can maybe help some other people too :) #I'm so pulled in by books that write pain in a human and detailed way and not just when it's dramatic or intense #would love to see more of that and incorporate it into my own writing #oh i should have added. distraction seeking to that list #like writing a really long post about. #...yes i may be chronically ill and having a flare today and yes i may be farming myself for writing tips for Future Me hdgfhfhsjs #but hey gotta do your research somewhere babeyyy it all goes in the creativity soup #tw injury #tw illness

[puppetmaster13u]

Meme Prompt 2

Thinkin of feral halfa Jason again. No surprise there.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #halfa jason #de aged danny #alongside the entire class #GIW were doing experiments with the more ecto contaminated of the amity parkers #And experimenting with how cores are formed in hopes of learning how to permanently destroy them #They just chose the worst place to set up their labs thanks to there being a new reaper-class ecto-being settling down there #Does this count as mpreg lol #Technically he's just carrying the cores until they can reform bodies even if they're lil babies now #Well their bodies are toddlers they still have their minds for the most part #I imagine this takes place before anything like the Titans Tower or just after the heads in a duffel bag #On one hand he's not thought to be gunning after robin #on the other he's a very territorial brooding halfa with no one explaining to him why he's so aggressive to intruders #he stress bakes and cooks a lot which the children of crime alley and people are chill with #free food after all #Crime Alley seeing Hood's glowing green eyes: We've connected the dots #Jason with his several toddlers with teh same glowing eyes: You haven't connected shit #Crime Alley already researching supernatural and alien creatures: We've connected them #jason todd #crime alley #goonion #danny fenton #jazz fenton #dan fenton #ellie fenton #valerie gray #tucker foley #sam manson

[gingkos-eldritch-secret]

Deep Sea Camouflage for ghosts?

So we all know that animals use differing kinds of camouflage to hide from predators - sometimes they even use parts of this camouflage for communication or courting behaviour.

Interestingly enough: deep sea creatures have mainly three such camouflaging patterns - transparency, silvering (which has the same effect as transparency) as well as counter illumination. All of that in an effort to better hide in the dark waters, when there´s still some kind of light to be seen coming from above. And then there´s the bioluminescense. Which is sometimes used for camouflage, but most often than not for communication or hunting purposes. And do you know what some of these remind me of? You got it - ghosts.

Now the big question is: do the infinite realms have predators? Do ghosts predate each other, do neverborn predate on ghosts? How does it all work? And if there are predators. What kind of additional camouflaging or hunting adaptions do ghosts have?

Does the eldritch form we often headcanon for them have any such purpose or is it just there as a sort of ... secondary form? Do they communicate differently when they look like this? Are there different base instincts? Like - junveniles of any species often times have different instincts or reactions to certain instincts than the adult members and just. I have sooo many questions.

And if we go by this comparison. What does that mean for a halfa like Danny? Because let´s face it. All ghosts are at least kind of bioluminescent. But in the IR? That bioluminescense is hardly seen, as such it seems more like counter illumination. And even though the realms ghosts have seldomly been transparent (except when they want to - i.e. invisibility), it still an ability they possess. Now I don´t have an example for silvering, but since it basically does the same as the invisibility it´s not really important. So.

Why.

I mean there´s many, MANY more abilities all of them possess, though they are very often abilities that are individual. ARE there any predators in the realms? And what does it mean for the ghosts? Because, yes, dangerous animals and also other more humanoid as well as the ancients exist. But I´d hardly call them actual predators. So. Am I just overthinking this?

#Realms ghosts as deep sea creatures #I don´t know if it´s a metaphor #but i´ve been watching deep sea documentaries #and it kinda struck a chord #infinite realms #danny phantom #danny phantom fandom #ghost behaviour #does this count as research? #i have questions #and no one to answer them #dp x dc #do eldritch beings count as a different species to vanilla ghosts?

[rickfucker]

#why are the only poll duration options one day or one week #this is very important research i'm doing...... #rick sanchez #rick and morty #poll #does this count as mature? #i'm not gonna put it idk someone tell me if i should

[vickyvicarious]

"You think to baffle me, you—with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest; but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine—my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!"

Thinking about this speech again. Here, some more things to poke fun at:

Baffle? They don't want to confuse you buddy, they very much want you dead. Or does he mean this in the older sense meaning more to mock/deceive, in which case... still not really their goal but it is funny. You are taking care of all the mockery on your own my good sir.

The sheer audacity of Dracula to call anyone else pale. I know most of them are British but c'mon.

You do not have more places to rest you liar. You have one emergency escape dirtbox and that's it.

Bragging about their girls being on his side when Lucy is already dead and Mina was literally just spying on him for them/will continue to do so.

Calling them sheep for the slaughter I get but the jackals comparison is really funny. He is probably referencing jackals being scavengers so saying they'll be reduced to gnawing on his scraps once their girlfriends turn them to his side. Dracula has some thoughts on predator/prey and I can see this being a real burn in his mind, that even when they're turned they're not going to be predators in their own right/that is reserved for him. Which is just very funny to me given how he's actively their prey in this moment.

Bah!

Flee the country.

#dracula daily #count dracula #i just. god he's trying to bluff and scare them off SO HARD here lol #he is waaaay on the back foot and trying to hide it #but this vampire is ALARMED #like i don't seriously think he ever expects them to defeat him. his arrogance doesn't allow that. but there's an edge of panic to this. #they don't react how he expects. they don't get afraid and cower. they do research and back it up and destroy all his failsafes in no time #and then COME AT HIM WITH A KNIFE #it's. concerning. not that they could ever defeat him of course not! but. hmm. he does have to sleep sometime

[steelthroat]

At sone point some years ago I started saying "I am going to be productive" ironically and I could have never imagined how much damage this made. I am still trying to repair this mess and to unlearn to say this.

Philosophers were right in a way. Semantics matters, even if it looks like it doesn't. A simple word is gonna change the chemistry of the wrinkly organ if one does not pay attention.

#steel rambles #I want to unlearn the word productive #I'm serious #and many other factory-related words and phrases I use to describe my life and the things i do #it's like self-deprecating humor #it starts out funny and you end up with impistor syndrome and the lowest self esteem in the world #i would know. #ffs why is creating good habits so hard conpared to falling into bad ones? #loke when I had to shift from self hating jokes to “lol I'm fucking awesome I have a god complex” jokes because simple self love didn’t work #not even a month to develop the worst habits possible #and fucking 6 years and counting to try and repair the damage caused by those bad habits #and I get it it takes time and shit but it's frustrating. #especially when in trying to unlearn destructive behaviors you develop other (smaller) problems and then you have to work on them too #annoying as fuck. #especially when it's all diy #le sigh amirite? #btw I'm having fun with my research on Marxism does it show?

[tortadecuchufli]

hi i got invited to some sort of... discussion session on low vision but I kinda feel too sighted to go and anxious about it I guess.

I think I'm afraid they will ask me for technology or resources that I don't really know of, and they probably expect someone who is blind when I usually pass as sighted.

IDK it's conflicting. I Know my abilities and how they differ from what society expects but its kinda hard to think of oneself this way and give it words.

#low vision #idk maybe im underestimating how well sighted people actually see LOL #i HOPE there are other VI or blind guests #i do my research but up until uni i never got any adaptations besides large print and idk. getting banned from gym class i guess #and even then its like... does this count... am i not complaining too much

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

#science #transphobia #cass review #less 'cass review' generally more 'zucker specifically' because this same problem exists outside cass #have lost count of the number of times i've seen 'well THAT study may have said most trans kids persist but it MUST be wrong' #'there's another study says the exact opposite. that one's right. obviously.' #but cass is why i'm annoyed by it now #normally i don't have a problem with critical observations and questions. yeah check your science! that's good! #there have been some bullshit studies and some bullshit interpretations of good studies! scientific literacy is important! #and normally also am willing to pretend the people pulling reaction 1 on some studies and reaction 2 on others are. not the same group. #but now there's a ton of cass supporters tryna say 'oh the cass review didn't reject or downplay anything for being pro-trans!' #'some studies just weren't given much weight for being poor evidence! not our fault those were all studies with results trans people like!' #…….………….aight explain why zucker's findings are used for the 'percentage of trans kids who don't stay trans' stat instead of anyone else's. #would've been more scientifically accurate to say 'yeah we just don't know.' #'studies have been done but none of them fit our crack criteria sooooo *shrug*' #like COME ON at least PRETEND you're genuinely checking scientific correctness and not looking for excuses to weed out undesirable results #am also mad about zucker in particular because his is possibly the most famous bullshit study #quite bluntly if you're doing trans research and think 'yeah this one seems reasonable' you. are maybe not well-informed enough for the job #there's just no way you genuinely look at the research with an eye toward accurate science regardless of personal bias #and walk away thinking 'hm that zucker fellow seems reasonable. competent scientists will respect that citation.' #that's one or two steps above doing a review of vaccine science and seriously citing wakefield's mmr-causes-autism study #it doesn't matter what the rest of your review says people are gonna have OPINIONS on that bit #and outside anti-vaxxers most of those opinions will be 'are you actually the most qualified for this because ummmm.' #people who agree with everything else will still think someone more competent could've done a much better job #people who disagree with everything else will point to that as proof you don't know shit and why should we listen to you #anyway i'd love a hugeass trans science review with actual fucking standards hmu if you know of one cause this ain't it #……does tumblr still put a limit on how many tags you can include guess me and my tag essay are about to find out.

[rubberbandballqueen]

i just think that as a chemistry major i shouldn't be forced to take biology classes that expect me to memorize the everything to pass. i need some kind of "biology for chemistry majors" where they emphasize the techniques a living thing has at its disposal to remain at homeostasis and then look at how all these parts come together to form a complex living organism undergoing constant holistic processes to remain at equilibrium. i don't need to know what a golgi apparatus is called i just need to know how it serves its function in the complex process of transforming A into B

#had to google golgi apparatus just now to know what it does (process lipids n protiens apparently) i haven't been in a bio class since 2016 #my classmates in o chem would usually conplain to me abt the bio classes forcing them to memorize a bunch of #species that fall under certain taxonomic classifications bc their specificities Would show up on the exam #n i'm just like. that is a horror show. why do i need to be able to id 36 types of mollusks. #i'm probably Also like this bc i haven't taken a bio class since 2016 unless you count high school physiology then 2018 #the worm speaks #my thoughts on academia are pretty much always 'this sucks please let me test into the very specific credentials i want' #bc academia tends to assume that the things i wanna research are the things i wanna teach but that is actually untrue #mostly bc my fave parts of chemistry are the very foundational things n what i like abt teaching it is that you have to balance #accuracy with generality so that new students don't get totally lost in the details of it all or spend too much time focused on a niche #my interest in discussing w/experts mostly extends out to 'okay tell me the new findings. ooo cool i'll incorporate that' #'good luck with your problem tho' no interest in helping out with specifics. only interested in being able to communicate knowledge #the stuff i'd have more interest in discussing and researching lie more in the arts. i do love discussing a good symbolism #probably bc i can also accept that there's never really one exact answer! like what if i do a stem research and then im just Wrong. #art and the human condition on the other hand!! let's go let us gather the Contexts and then Discuss!!!

[padfootastic]

I’m still not entirely certain what ChatGP (or whatever it’s called) is and frankly, I don’t want to know. At least if I get something wrong, I know what it is and why I got it wrong and can explain what the thought process was. Also, research is like my bread and butter, give me a few hours, some snacks and drinks, and I’m happy as a clam (are clams happy? How did that saying come about?)

dUDE i’m so glad u don’t know. i wish i didn’t know. i was forced to because idiots around me, and on my group, would not stop fucking using it for everything and it just. aghhhhhh. i can’t tell u how annoying it is to see someone write a paper on something, excitedly go to them to talk about it, and then see fully glazed over eyes bc they have no idea what they put in. multiple times. i’ve had my work affected because my partner thought using chatgpt was better and faster than just doing their own research.

i have the rage of a thousand eternally blazing stars in my heart towards it and i’m not even exaggerating.

#but also same!! research is my fkn jam #gimme a rabbit hole to bury in and i’ll create 383 more #i *love* knowing things and finding new info #and i get not everyone does and shouldn’t have to #but like!! bare minimum pls? #and also—i don’t understand why people aren’t more worried about like. data privacy concerns? #like ur willingly giving them so much of u #and i know it doesn’t count for a lot when data privacy is already on such thin ice #but still….aren’t u worried on an individual level.. #i remember wanting to see what it was like once and they asked me to make an account #with my PHONE NUMBER #oh hell no #i don’t even know why i have such vehement paranoid dislike #but i do #and i’m gonna stay a crotchety old woman if i need to lol #(sorry for the rant anon u didn’t ask for it but this is something that grinds all my gears 💀) #pen’s asks

[do-rey-me]

(bilbo being possessed by the ring voice) why shouldn't i? why shouldnt i start learning a new instrument?

#<- guy who doesnt even have money for lessons #i cant help it. they speak siren songs to me #no i havent reached a even intermediate level understanding of any instruments ive played #(except vocals. but i never rlly know if that counts even if i do take some pride in my singing) #this is about dulcimers. my dad played appalachian and ive been researching folk music from eastern europe #bc i cant do a lot of the art my mom does (pysanky and embroidery and such) bc of my joints hating me #but music and dance i could maybe do? #my town doesnt have a huge slavic community so a lot of this is moot anyway but. a kid can dream

[delusional-cryptid]

Hey @3rdsday :) I really loved your idea and since it’s a CRIME that no one has drawn it yet, I’ve taken matters into my own hands!!!!

(Also I realize now that Leo canonically only has one sword right?? So. Whoopsie?)

#anyways THANKS HOPE YALL ENJOY THE TURTLES #cause. wow new hyperfixation hit HARD- #remy rambles #Remy doodles #art #fanart #rottmnt #rottmnt movie spoilers #??? does this even count???? #anyways shut. #Leo tmnt (2018) #how am I supposed to tag the boys. i need to do more research

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#hmmm. was just looking at the results of my bloodtest from earlier this week and im all normal apparently #so my thyroid isnt fucked and the hypomanic episodes r in fact just coming from my brain as expected #and the doctor did slap me with a bipolar II diagnosis. which is still find dubious. but also he would have to i guess in order to #prescribe me an antipsychotic but like. sounds like a thing that would increase my insurance rates lol #whatever. i just find the idea of me being bipolar to be so wild. i mean like yes. i guess technically if u look at the word bipolar #unipolar would b a depressed and normal mood range. and bipolar would b depressed and elevated mood #and yes ive spent a lot of my life being rather depressed. sometimes treding near the point of not being able to function #but like usually its not that bad and im so anxious i cant just not function. the ocd keeps me afloat lmao #and yes i have these infrequent little peaks of high energy and even more infrequent instances of elevated mood #so i guess yes that does count as a bipolar mood profile. but is the underlying cause bipolar disorder or is it that i make myself so #miserable with my compulsive behavior that it sends me into spirals of depression or overheats my brain into fits of hypomania #i suppose it doesnt really matter if the presentation is still on thr spectrum #idk i guess i just find it annoying not to fit cleanly into a box. im more a: the spectrum of human experience type person #i guess its better to struggle a lil bit with a number of things than b all consumed by one single thing #i mean. im a lil all consumed by the compulsive behavior. but again its not exactly thr classic presentation of ocd. which i find #frustrating bc i like to characterize and understand things. ugh #well see what the psychologist has to say when i show her my insane mood tracking figures #lol last time she told me to track my anxiety but not make a chart abt it. and i was like god dammit shes onto me #listen. i do research. i like data 🙄 #unrelated #also the docor i saw was like yea its joy normal to get 3hrs of sleep and not b tired #how abt a week of 5-6hrs of sleep and not being tired??? how bout that? #also not good fyi. i csn feel my brain fraying #me: shut up im normal. also me not sleeping and getting increasingly unhinged #ive got 1tachi levek eye bags 😭 #also i kno its a thing they have to ask but everytime i start describing how i would charactize my intrusive thoughts doctors go: #hm. do u even hear voices telling u do do these thing? and its like no theyre my thoughts but also they feel like they come from outside #of my body. which when i say it sounds crazy but like idk how else to say it. its like theyre projected into my head but i kno it comes #from me. ya kno?

[prosebushpatch]

Swiftly coming to the alarming conclusion that if I’m to condense my manuscript into a 1,000 word synopsis, I’ll be whittling it down to less than 1% of its original size.

#rose and rambles #prosie's writing adventures #technically it can be up to 2 pages single space which i can totes work with BUT the suggested word count #is 500-1000 so im trying to see if i can stay in there #because my story is so long it's actually going to be working against me and i feel like i really need to prove that i can be brief #to validate how long the full manuscript is so 😬 #but also the plot points are so embedded in the story to make pay-off in the end worth it and the synopsis needs to reflect #the important points SO we'll see #actually i was doing research and apparently it was common to have two synopses one short and one long #and there was one thing someone mentioned where authors were expected to write a synopses that was up to four pages long for every 50 pages #WHICH WHAT #that does have the benefit of more details but its exhausting trying to write the 1000 word synopsis #i have like 2 and half drafts of one and those leave me so winded you know? #any back to finishing the 3rd draft #please imagine me trying to wrestle too many things into one suitcase #like a professor layton puzzle

[sollucets]

am i gonna have to. actually thoroughly watch uwma and not just zoom through the series for winteam,,,

#i know i know i'm awful #i did see most of most of the episodes #it just. didnt catch my interest that well honestly #i have watched all of e12&13 (the kanchanaburi trip) #for windean backstory & interactions #and for Prime Brat Win Hours #and for. well. you know ;) #and ive watched 'uwma winteam compilations' many a time #i do want to look for more manaow also because she's my baby who i adore #but i'm working on a bigger fic that requires a few different research topics #(mostly thai food kanchanaburi geography etc but also characterization) #so maybe i should just. just do it? ?? #does that count as procrastination #i know i know back in my day these were all the crumbs we had etc but im a spoiled baby brat fan ok #rowan chatter