#i read the reactions

[adorascake]

my coworker who’s reading Percy Jackson for the first time, currently at the beginning of botl: do Percy and Annabeth get together? PLEASE tell me yes

me on the outside: oh you’ll just have to see haha

me on the inside: i cannot interfere this is a canon event *screams into the void*

#it’s been so much fun seeing her live reactions #she also asked if ive cried at all reading the series and i laughed and was like YUP SURE DID #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #annabeth chase #percabeth

[milk-lover]

Sobbing uncontrollably reading through a dissertation about the college experience of students with ADHD. It is like reading a report about my life that just says over and over "My experiences are real. My hardships are real. I am not lazy, I am not dumb. My struggles were not my fault, and they were not a moral failing. The failure was with the system, not with me."

Here's a line that got me in particular:

"Hotez et al.(2022) compared the health, academic, and non-academic capacities of a nationally representative sample of U.S. first-year college students with ADHD and without ADHD. Students with ADHD self-reported lower academic aspirations and more feelings of depression and overwhelm, ranking themselves lower in their general emotional health. The fact that students with ADHD scored in the highest 10th percentile for many non-academic traits, such as artistic ability, computer skills, creativity, public speaking, social confidence, self-understanding and understanding of others, compassion, and risk-tasking, suggests that this population has strengths that are frequently underappreciated in academia."

(the paper is a thesis called "Understanding the Collegiate Experience for Students With ADHD" by Gia Long, 2022)

#adhd #actually adhd #i often hyperbolize but i am dead serious when i say sobbing uncontrollably. this is why i was putting off this assignment. #1000 years of hell to professors who assign self-reflection papers /hj #i dont feel comfy posting the pdf bc its not mine butttt.. i will share it to people who dm me. #edit: pages 80-85 #edit: thank you to everyone who reached out and asked for the pdf!! i wasn’t expecting this reaction #keep reaching out I’ll keep sending it #if anyone is interested but struggles to read academic papers pls ask me for help bc I’ve gotten a lot of practice with them and am Glad to #expand someone’s access to a paper like this

[sylkhi]

“You already left kudos here” and the passive agressive “ :) ” like okay??? Yeah and so what about it? What if I want to leave 2 more? Or 5???

#ao3 #literally so embarrassing #you don’t need to remind me that I’m rereading the same 5 fanfics and giving them the exact same reaction I gave them on my first read #what you could do instead is let me give the kudos please please PLEASE #anyway yeah

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

[starbuck]

reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.

#not that anyone but me probably needs to hear this but… #it’s OKAY to have Big Feelings about popular things #they’re popular for a reason - it makes sense to have a big reaction #but yeah - i should really know by now but i’m STILL floored every time i read or watch a classic and it Gets Me #like. this story has been Getting people for decades or centuries or MILLENNIA and yet STILL i’m surprised #‘i didn’t think the story would Get me’ says man about story that’s Gotten everyone who’s ever heard it

[kvtnisseverdeen]

Buttercup begins to wail as well. No matter what I do, he won’t go. He circles me, just out of reach, as wave after wave of sobs racks my body, until eventually I fall unconscious. But he must understand. He must know that the unthinkable has happened and to survive will require previously unthinkable acts. Because hours later, when I come to in my bed, he’s there in the moonlight. Crouched beside me, yellow eyes alert, guarding me from the night. In the morning, he sits stoically as I clean the cuts, but digging the thorn from his paw brings on a round of those kitten mews. We both end up crying again, only this time we comfort each other.

#this chapter is too difficult to read #i personally feel prim's death and katniss' immediate reaction wasn't well done #but the scene with buttercup was amazing #but just wish they showed how much this meant to katniss #because buttercup being there gave her the strength to come back to life #it was the beginning of her healing process #anyway im crying #katniss everdeen #buttercup #primrose everdeen #mockingjay #thg #mine* #gifs* #mockingjayedit #thgedit #dailyflicks #nessa007 #userbbelcher #cinemapix #cinematv #userstream

[vaxxman]

Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 heavy #tf2 soldier #Medic's reaction to a stick of butter is 100% based on my own reaction after reading an American recipe for the first time #Like I didn't know butter in America came in this normed stick-form I genuinely thought it was some arbitrary unit like ??? A Stick?? #As in I didn't know if the recipe required the butter to be in this specific shape; like sometimes you have to add butter in shaves or molt #no biggie lemme whittle away at my butter block until it's shaped like a stick? And then I learnt it was the portions that butter comes in #Cut me some slack; I'm used to recipes using eggs as the scale-up ingredient; not butter #I also learnt that medical labels is where metric units are mostly encountered simply because medicine is international #But that is the main reason why I think Medic would not realise he'd have to deal with imperial units until he goes grocery shopping #The man's just been ignoring the “oz” information right below everything he's ever used; out of sight out of mind #I want to think Engi is the most normal person about the entire metric-imperial-units thing he just does some mental arithmetic and done #King just learned système international d'unités during one of his 11 phds; it's not unrealistic

[zarla-s]

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In playing a game, we bring its artificial borders weight. In creating something, we inhabit that world to bring it life.

I started Handplates during a really difficult time in my life... no matter what happened, no matter how much things felt like they were falling apart around me or I was going to lose my mind or it all was just too much to bear, there’d always be another Handplates comic to do. Like clockwork that alarm in my head would go off and I’d get to work on the next one, no matter what was happening. It was always, always there. It’s hard to believe it’s been over seven years... a few more months to eight.

By my estimates, the next comic will be the last one. It doesn’t seem real, and when it does, it just makes me sad to think about... but I guess Undertale itself was about that too. How hard it is to let go, and when it’s time to say goodbye...

(I made some long long phone calls to my friends at home And I told them where I’ve been and the places I’m going And they said, “Wow, that’s incredible, but we already know, Because of that long long song you wrote.” - [x] )

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#undertale #handplates #gaster #zar and friends #the human #z art #z comic #recreating my desk was a pain! this is only a fraction of the toys on it #it'd be way too busy to read otherwise #i'm not sure how easy it is to read right now as it is #everything on it is important #the rope was going to be a shining gold but then the contrast was WAY too high #i do love gaster's reaction to it just >;| #do you know how hard it is to draw someone with three fingers holding a pen #ugh the next one is going to be so long

[mo49ko]

(fengqing) (they are dating)

mq: general nan yang, it seems that you have become too comfortable 💢🙄/// junior official in the chat: you guys will never guess what i just saw

just a silly thing that would happen if they get comfortable around each other but mq still gets 👊👊💢💢👊💢 about pda

i think fx loves kissing him goodbye before parting even if it's only for a little bit heeheehe

(japanese version on poipiku)

#fengqing #tgcf #moko art #do any of u even read the japanese versions... ucan use them as study materials i guess #fx cant help it hes a puppy and he loves his pretty wonderful cute bf including his reactions everytime #mq is like we CANNOT let anyone find out i let you kiss me. (everyone already knows)

[truly-sincerely]

Obsessively reading everything in game by and about Gortash and the dude is

On a philosophical trajectory that ends in immortality thru technology / the machine

Doesn't have an original bone in his body, but he can backwards engineer anything

Halfway to being a decent scientist but doesn't have the education and is deeply impatient

Overconfident in the veracity of his own results and conclusions

Accurately predicted that the brain would metamorphose and become more difficult to control and then did nothing about it

Outsources his propaganda / arts and humanities

Charming, but he got there in a Pavlovian way (learned from trial and error and probably doesn't consciously know how he does it)

Vindictive af (learned / reinforced)

Darwinian (in the worst way)

Sociopathic, obviously, but extremely Rationalist about it

Never asks questions he doesn't know the answer to and probably thinks this makes him sound more authoritative

Completely incompetent as a strategist (but doesn't know it)

Not nearly as narcissistic / full of himself as he pretends to be

Thinks what he wants is praise but it's never enough because it's not actually what he wants (he wants to be wanted)

Bane makes him feel wanted (conditionally)

Durge made him feel wanted (unconditionally)

Understands intellectually that Durge got ambushed, but he feels abandoned

See also: thematic parallels between Gortash and

Silouv Yali (the Adamantine Forge & the construct Grym)

Oliver (in the shadow-cursed lands)

Astarion and Gale, obviously

#bg3 #Gortash #bg3 gortash #Enver Gortash #bg3 spoilers #'The Ultimate State' reads like it was written in reaction to Durge's disappearance #Yeah if everyone's tadpoled nobody will be able to abandon you ever again #Durge's job was to do murders in Baldur's Gate #but their REAL job was to tell Gortash not to keep the brains of all of his mechanical soldiers in one location #Oliver thought Thaniel abandoned him so Oliver created new friends to play with *eyebrow waggle* #This man wants to abandon the flesh for the machine so bad #He is in for a bad time no matter what #Awfully obsessed with control for someone who has absolutely no control over his current situation #I do not think that word means what you think it means #Absolute moron (affectionate)

[sepia-mahogany]

Lan WangJi replied, "We will wait until we find them. After all, we do what we must." Wei Wuxian, "Just by using nets?" Lan XiChen, "That is right. Does the YunmengJiang Sect have other methods?" Wei Wuxian smiled but didn't respond. Of course, the YunmengJiang Sect used nets as well. But, because he was a good swimmer, he had always jumped into the river and dragged water ghouls out. However, this method was too dangerous; he definitely couldn't do it in front of the Lan Sect's people.

....I'm sorry, what

#wei 'swims and drags water ghouls out' wuxian #re-reading mdzs and theres always something that you missed the first time #WHAT #i want to see the lans reaction to this #mdzs #wei wuxian #am i sparing y'all from heartbreak saturday? #:)

[sluttywonwoo]

maam your writing really does something to me 🤒

how would seventeen ask you for another round after you think you're all fucked out, asking as a low stamina girlie 😩✋️

for all my low stamina girlies out there

seungcheol: “c’mon baby, you can do one more for me, can’t you?”

jeonghan: he’d start playing with your clit again and be all like “are you suuure you don’t want more?” as you’re getting wet again

joshua: “you’re going to be a good girl and take it, right?”

jun: “let me make you cum again… please? just wanna make you feel good.”

soonyoung: “i’ll do all the work, i promise. all you have to do is lay there.”

wonwoo: “eyes open, pretty girl. we’re not done just yet.”

jihoon: “i’ve got some more in me baby. don’t you want all of it inside you?”

seokmin: desperate begging of “just a little more, just a little more…”

mingyu: “but i haven’t even gotten to eat you out yet” ☹️

minghao: “poor thing. so sensitive, huh? just tell me if it’s too much.”

seungkwan: “how about i make love to you this round? nice and slow, yeah?”

vernon: just makes the 🥺 face and you’re spreading your legs again with a sigh

chan: he’d ask you to cockwarm him which would inevitably lead to another round because you both get horny again

#for anyone who reads the tags #i found out that i am Not a low stamina girl last night 🤭 #answered #anon #seventeen smut #svt smut #seventeen reactions #svt reactions

[gardenofnoah]

bakugou would be uncharacteristically quiet when you get sad. not out of spite or discomfort—he just thinks that maybe the space normally taken up by his brashness could be better saved for something else—something softer. when he sees you curled into yourself on top of the comforter, he doesn’t say anything—doesn’t poke fun at you, doesn’t berate you for not getting into bed the right way—he just pulls another blanket from the foot of the bed to cover you with. he molds himself to you, not pulling or pushing you any which way, but sliding into place behind you like he was born to fit there. he drapes an arm over your waist—lightly, in case it’s too much—and rewards you with a gentle kiss to the back of your shoulder when your fingers intertwine with his. he breathes deeply, slow and rhythmic, hoping you’ll start to mirror him, and he thinks that maybe he needs it more than you do. thinks it’s a way to feel connected to you right now. he doesn’t say anything—not that it’ll be okay, not that he loves you—he hopes that you know that both are true and that you’ll be able to see it a little better when the sun comes up tomorrow.

#so if it’s not clear i am experiencing the horrors #i’m fine i’m just reading a new book and my reaction to the last 177 pages has been visceral #bakugou x reader #bakugou katsuki x reader #bakugou drabble #bkg it's the little things

[thatkoiboi]

Some Tiny Tello fanart from @somerandomdudelmao apocalypse series uwu

#i was rereading tiny tello today because i hadnt read it in a while and it was so amusing #because i forgot most of it so all the jokes hit like the first time #like everyones reactions are so priceless #and the scene with leo warmed my heart so i did this #that can be either leo blowing raspberries or givin his teenie bro a smooch #cass fanart tag #rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #turtle tots #future leo

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

they can never make me hate you

(collage made by me)

#this was gonna be multiple collages #one for every character that is generally hated by fandoms that i'll never hate #but i couldn't think of any #and im watching korra reactions rn and just felt like only making this one after reading and hearing such terrible takes #korra stans/defenders get behind me #tlok #the legend of korra #legend of korra #korra #avatar korra #tlok korra #korra tlok #venux's “they can never make me hate you”s

[solreefs]

shoutout to us aces who have no idea if we’re sex neutral, favorable, or repulsed, because it constantly changes

#solreefspeak #like i could read the same sex scene three different times #and have three completely different reactions ranging from “eh boring” to “hmm fun!” to “oh my god get it away from me” #adrastea’s aspec adventures #asexual