#social confusion

[infinitysisters]

“It’s about internalizing correct thought. Orwell understood very well the relationship between language and thought and how control of the former permits control of the latter: “[If] thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

He devoted much of “1984” to exploring how the exercise of power over what may be said makes it easier to enjoy dominion over what can be thought, over how individuals understand themselves and their place in society. “Don’t you see,” says Syme, a lexicographer at the Ministry of Truth, “that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.”

The real-world version of that fictional effort to overhaul man’s inner life through controlling the language he is allowed to use in society is expressed more softly, though no less sinisterly. “New language… can become a useful tool for changing how people deal with each other,” say the Symes of today.

Allowing the subjective beliefs of people in the present to override the objective recording of events in the past would be extraordinary – a testament to the extent to which political correctness had overpowered reality entirely.

We now know the price of not speaking back, of letting others instruct us on what we may utter and how we must think. We now know the cost of allowing incursions into our inner lives. Man must be “master of his own thoughts,” said Spinoza. He must never be “compelled to speak only according to the diktats of the supreme power.” That is the first task of the heretic, then: to resist compulsion. To speak as he sees. To never fear to express the truth.”

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Brendan O’Neill 𝘈 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦

#books #the new inquisition #thoughtcrime #Orwellian #orwell 1984 #thought police #totalitarianism #cultural imperialism #secular puritanism #state religion #freedom of thought #freedom #de evolution #regressive ideology #social confusion #Brendan O’Neill #heresy #language #control #social engineering

[littlehousetomoon]

my most recent painting :) currently hyper-fixated on abandoned houses so that’s all I’m interested in drawing/painting rn lol (instagram @littlehousetomoon)

#also I changed my username and url on all my socials #used to be luciddazy if ur confused lmao #art #painting #drawing #ghost #ghost drawing #ghost art #etsy #spooky #October #fall #spooky art #haunted #haunted house

[cemeterything]

as much as it's fun to joke about not wanting new people to join tumblr from twitter after everyone else thought this site was dead or too cringe to make an account on for years, if you're actually an asshole to people who are just trying to use social media to have fun and/or share their content like the rest of us and are adapting to a new platform they're not familiar with then i don't want anything to do with you personally, because it's obvious you're just using this situation as an excuse to be mean spirited dickhead and i don't tolerate that kind of behavior

#🐉 #honestly i dont really care if new people join as long as theyre not assholes either #anyway im not gonna post about the twitter exodus anymore because its really not that big of a deal imo #also!!! its Not That Deep but its weird as hell to bully people for trying to understand like. unspoken social rules and stuff. #like how do you think theyre going to learn then dumbass. also nobody 'deserves' to be bullied for being weird or confused.

[hajihiko]

Another silly

#an art #Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Hajime hinata #I once again feel so much better after talking to a friend #Sometimes after a while without close friends I feel like some sort of invasive organism into human life #Like I just cant connect to other ppl at all. I'm like a marionette. BUT. #Talking to my friend who gets me makes me remember I DO have a rhythm with someone and they do get me #Intellectually. I have other friends who get me socially. Another who gets me emotionally #Both very important. I am more confused about how to portray it maybe #But conversation. Those two exclusively do that. Someone you can talk to forever without having to pause to explain #Very valuable.

[fanvoidkeith]

sometimes being aroacespec is confusing. what do you mean, most people can tell the difference between platonic and romantic and sexual attraction? what do you mean people don't "choose" crushes? what do you mean that people can imagine themselves in a physical situation with someone else?? isn't dating just Friendship Plus??? hell, isn't marriage just Friendship Plus?????????

what do they mean??????????? what are feelings???? why am i so confused????????

*edit: changed "aroace" to "aroacespec", since several aromantic people felt that this was not an Aromantic Feeling. i see you, i hear you, and so i changed it to be more accurate to me personally, since i am Confused About Feelings Always

#void keith talks #aroace #aromantic #asexual #aro #ace #aromantic asexual #i'm so confused as an autistic aroace person #about every emotion i have about another person ever #and i also read a lot of romance so like. i know what romance is *supposed* to look like #i know the ideal and the not ideal #but i have no idea about any sort of romantic social cues irl #because i'm bad with social cues. i miss them a lot or i misinterpret them #i'm good with body language because i was taught a lot of it early #but social cues are different and some change over time which is INCREDIBLY confusing #and also like? i don't feel stable enough or mentally healthy enough to be in a relationship #i feel like it would be unfair for a potential partner(s) for them to be in a relationship with me #because i just Don't Have My Shit Together. like at all #i Only Like Fictional People That Way #fictoromantic #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #arospec #aromantic spectrum #aroacespec

[awetistic-things]

i think the thing that sets autism social anxiety apart from general social anxiety is that it’s not “anxiety” or nervousness, it’s genuine paralyzing fear

#everytime i go outside it’s like i’ve never left the house before #so confusing #i feel like a covid baby experiencing the world for the first time istg #autism #autistic #actually autistic #asd #autism spectrum disorder #on the spectrum #autistic things #autistic problems #autism problems #social anxiety #autism social anxiety

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

I wish that it was seen as more socially acceptable to ask for clarification in communication

Neurodivergent_lou

#autism #actually autistic #communication #I wish my own mother understood this #I need precise and specific information or else I’ll get confused or lost #socializing #autism and communication #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #Neurodivergent_lou (Facebook)

[alphabetcompletionist]

what do people actually go to college for? like? i know i wanted to do communications/information for my librarian stuff. and there's always film kids or the like hundreds of engineers high school vomits out but. feels like half the people i know don't have serious career aspirations. what's it all for

ABCDEFGHI KLMNOP RSTUVW Y

22/26

#and per se and #not sure why this is going on this blog but i just wanted it to #i'm looking up the undergrad major stats for my college and getting real confused #what social science is such a big ticket? #what even is a business major?

[silver-horse]

some of you are confused under the post that shows astarion's date of birth and date of "death". so first of all, it's a fact that in dnd 5e elves do grow up the same way humans do. a 39 year old is still that age. he wouldn't look like a child or a teen! "not an adult elf" is not literally true. it's a social thing among elves. think about it... someone who is hundreds of years old would look at a 70 year old human/elf and think... that's a baby. they also view humans that way, but surely we don't think a 39 year old human is not mature. it is just a fantasy thing, it makes sense that if such old people existed they would view younger people this way. so "not an adult by elven standards" is simply because of how old elves view younger people, elves included. let's just clear that up.

Also this made you all wonder how he could have been a magistrate. He is from baldur's gate which is a mixed society, not a society of elves. I highly doubt baldurians have a rule that only hundred year olds are allowed positions of power. then humans could never have positions. in elven society they might not give such a position to a 39 year old because they respect their elders more. but there is no difference between 39 year old elf and 39 year human mentally. ofc he can legally have a position in a place like baldur's gate.

plus during early access, he had the noble background. Why are you so confused that he could be a magistrate at the age of 39? As if rich/noble families don't ever use their connections to help someone in the family get a high paying job. lol He wouldn't need to grind for hundreds of years.

(and one more thing... in the tags under that post I wrote that the rune for 6 and 9 are similar so there is a chance that the date of "death" is 30 years later... which would make him 69. but from what I have seen, others also translated the year as 1268 and not 1298. still, if he was 69 that would mean he was turned nearly 200 years ago, but not quite 200 which is what he says in most dialogues. but it doesn't even matter because 69 is still below 100. so we could have the same conversation... under 100 does not mean not an adult.)

#bg3 #astarion #bg3 mine #my post #my posts #baldur's gate 3 #I am begging you to understand that it's just a social thing... #yes he was tragically young ... too young to ''die'' #but it's not weird that he had this type of job... #39 is still 39 lived years .... it's not like elves experience a different flow of time #lol #I tried to make this short and concise... this is the best I could achieve #because it seems I had to explain it at length and better... there are so many confused commenters under that post

[panicfast]

respect and affection…… kicking my feet and whatnot

#forgot to post here honestly a little confused abt social media and where to post and ALL THAT #I think ummm will post art here but otherwise stay p quiet .. yahh #just kind of lurking😶 #myart #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #reigen arakata #serizawa katsuya #serirei #yippeeeee

[tofu-bento-box]

// serious post

here’s the thing i don’t get: people tell you to communicate your feelings, and then react negatively when you feel something they don’t think you should.

i’m ill in six different directions: my feelings are mostly negative and generally illogical. i get upset for reasons that i know don’t matter in the bigger scheme of things. but i can’t express that anger or hurt, because then people think that i am selfish, and entitled, and a bad friend. on the other hand, though, i’m also bad at hiding my feelings, and saying you’re okay when you clearly aren’t is also rude. so it’s just a constant struggle between “how much can i say to make this person feel that i’m answering truthfully, without them deciding i’m a selfish asshole.”

people tell me that you can’t rationalize away your emotions, and then react with disgust when i can’t do that for “the things that matter.” i’m upset. i know i shouldn’t be, i’m upset that i’m upset, but you sitting there judging me isn’t exactly going to help the situation. i know that whatever’s going on with my friends is more important than how it affects me. but then what does selflessness look like? is it not being upset in the first place, or is it just hiding your expression of your hurt? am i incapable of being a good friend because i can’t keep myself from feeling things i shouldn’t?

i just don’t get people sometimes. it’s like everyone has a rulebook for what’s allowed, and they just forgot to give me a copy. i get told communicate, communicate, communicate, over and over, and everyone forgets to mention what i’m meant to be conveying. because sometimes it really seems that what they want isn’t the truth.

#vent post #personal vent #not about anyone here #rant #chronic illness #migraine #spoonie #autism #actually autistic #autistic things #autistic adult #social rules #nd #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autism problems #chronic pain #disabled #disability #i’m genuinely confused #this is the one thing i can never seem to get #good communication #eludes me it seems #communication problems #serious post #advice #need advice

[ganondoodle]

said this on tiwtter too but im seriously at my limit, people go and be all like "oh my god young people have no idea of basic internet security omggggg" and the same person will immediately make an account on t/hreads that is stealing so much data from you its basically one step away from straight up kidnapping

i get we are all desperate, i really do, but i WILL judge you if you go and sign up for the literally shittiest app on earth thats really just a flimsy disguise of a bunch of data suckers in a trench coat

use tumblr, cohost, pillowfort, (the latter two also allow nsfw) ANYTHING but that suckerberg leech i am BEGGING you

idk how accurate it is but i saw the numbers of 75 MILLION sign ups for the threads bs, what the hell are you doing, i feel like im in one of those old anti technology comics were young people just walk off a cliff en masse bc they only look at their phone and nothing else while im the old guy in a chair watching them do it

#ganondoodles talks #are people seriously this blindly signing up for anything new a big -KNOWN SHITTY AF- corporation is putting out #isnt it literally just like insta but worse #like #if you dont like tumblrs layout or whatever theres also cohost #its basically like twitter but also has features of timblr #like having multiple blogs to on account #idk man i actually feel like im going crazy #what is this #this has made me feel more old than the knowledge that lil kids are doing a flat hand gesture for phones bc all they know are smart phones #if people are ACTUALLY making that thing be the next giant “”social media“” i will not forgive them #you will not peer pressure me there #-when i say at my limit im at my limit of desperate confusion watching people do the dumbest shit but going uwu the entire time doing it-

[thatmooncake]

Okay let’s name the new DCA server (as kindly suggested by @emrystheblue !):

#fablespeaks #DCA fan brigade chat #check the tag if you’re confused there’s more there #it’s just a silly server for lonely people and socially awkward fans #so we can coax each other out of hiding #daycare friend pick up

[piromina]

HELLO MIRACULOUS FANDOM

if u are part of the miraculous fandom PLS DO NOT SCROLL PAST THIS.

I'll try to keep this message short enough, but if you don't want to be really confused in season 6, READ THIS. (and yes there will be pictures)

Do you remember the episode Representation? Of course you do. It was probably one of the best episodes imo. We got some feligami, adrien fighting his father (only to end up in solitary confinement afterwards but forget that), and, of course, confirmation to a very popular fan theory.

HOWEVER. that fan theory is something I need to talk about.

Don't worry, yes, I still do believe that adrien, félix and kagami are all sentis, that is not what the purpose of this message is. Please keep reading.

do you remember him? yes. this is félix. impersonating his shitty father, colt. in this scene , 'colt' is using the peacock miraculous to create a son.

in this scene, the amok is very clearly going into the ring félix has on at all times.

But what, in the entire representation play, has not been shown once?

Émelie using the peacock. Émelie putting the amok into Adrien's rings. Émelie creating a son.

This play is Félix's story, not Adrien's.

Yes, adrien is a sentimonster, but that was never shown here once. Yes, there were peacock feathers in the background of Émelie being pregnant, and yes, Gabriel called Adrien a miracle.

But those were just hints for the audience.

In this scene, here is what 'Gabriel' was saying.

After much study, I have discovered a solution for you and your wife.

This is making it sound like he has just now discovered the peacock miraculous. We as the audience, of course, know that he's lying.

But who was this play meant for, other than us as the all-knowing viewers?

Marinette Dupain-Cheng. The only in-universe audience member. And let's not forget that this is her very first exposure to the Agreste and Graham de Vanily family history and the senti lore. She doesn't know what we do.

Marinette, upon hearing Gabriel's lie, had no reason to believe he or émelie used the peacock to create Adrien. Marinette, upon hearing Gabriel's lie, had no reason to believe that after Colt created félix, he stole back the peacock miraculous. Marinette, upon watching this play, had no reason to believe that Adrien is a sentimonster, or that the Graham de Vanily rings are significant in any way.

"But then why did she give them back to Adrien?" It's what would have made him happy. It's what Gabriel wanted. It's the last thing she could find in there that Gabriel owned. It's the last known piece of the Agreste family.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng has no reason to believe that Émelie used the peacock. In fact, Émelie only appears in this play four times, once as the curious princess, once living a bohemian life with the tailor, once being pregnant, and once giving birth.

And the Graham de Vanily rings? Only when her parents attached them to her necklace, and then as she was getting married! Marinette thinks those are just simple wedding bands, like her parents'!

And now, to recap, this is what everyone knows:

Us, the viewers:

Adrien, Félix, and Kagami are sentimonsters. Gabriel found the miraculous while in Tibet, along with the butterfly. Then, he gave it to Émelie, and she used it to create Adrien, putting the amok in the wedding bands. Afterwards, Gabriel gave the miraculous to Colt, who made Félix, as shown in the play. And, somehow, the peacock found its way over to Kagami's family (possibly her father?) who used it to create her, and put the amok in the ring she wears.

Marinette:

Félix is a sentimonster. Gabriel found the miraculous somewhere (probably Tibet, as that's where it was lost, possibly along with the butterfly). Then, he gave it to Colt in an act of sympathy (strange, those must have been nicer times), but of course not without making a trade. Afterwards, Colt used the peacock to create Félix, and then somehow Gabriel got it back and used it to become Shadowmoth.

Marinette doesn't know that Adrien is a sentimonster.

Reblog to spread the word.

#Okay in retrospect she COULD know that kagami is one #'a girl like him' #but she could also easily chalk it up to them both being socially awkward #Anyway! Please reblog this! I feel like everyones misinterpreting this play #and getting what WE know mixed up with whatever MARINETTE knows and was told #Not that im mad at you! I just want to make this possibility known so that no ones confused when #ml season 6 #comes out #hopefully this reaches the entire fandom #miraculous ladybug #ml #ml analysis #felix fathom #felix graham de vanily #colt fathom #Gabriel agreste #marinette dupain cheng #kagami tsuguri #adrien agreste #ml s6 #pirorambles

[human-encounters-diary]

Day 14

I have received…indifferent news about the human‘s state, by which I mean, I cannot describe her current state, as I have not received any actually comprehensible further information.

Wrin has decided to pay the human a visit at the beginning of this cycle. After they returned, they sought me out to report back, despite not single word about my task being uttered in their proximity.

They leaned against the wall next to me without a word, so after a few moments, I spoke up: "How is she?"

"She seems alright, at least she‘s most definitely not about to die.", Wrin responded, taking a swig of the bottle in their gloved hand.

"Would you be more specific?", I requested.

"Well, I don‘t know, I asked her how she was doin‘ and she said she was 'peachy keen'."

My front pliers uttered a rattling sound. "And…what does that mean?"

"If I knew", Wrin said, taking another sip. "I haven‘t known her for that long either, and I don‘t know anything about humans. She does that weird thing sometimes though, when you‘re talking to her, and she says something that is true but kind of sounds like a lie? I dunno, might be that."

"Would you care to elaborate?", I repeated, slightly suspecting that Wrin was already too intoxicated to form coherent thoughts.

"Kind of like…y‘know, sometimes it‘s also the other way around, and she tells a lie, but kind of in a mocking tone? I don‘t really get it either. Must be a 'human' thing."

Telling lies mockingly? Perhaps Wrin was simply not eludicating well enough, but I would have to investigate this claim further. Perhaps I would pay the human a visit myself, if I was permitted.

Unfortunately, before I could act any further, another technician rather desperately retrieved me to assist in the main control center, as they were, apparently, understaffed for the circumstances we are currently situated in.

Resulting in this, I did not face the human at all during this cycle, but I have received news that she has been discharged from the medical quarters, while the medicals further analyze the test results they recorded.

Furthermore, we are set to enter Fendaar‘s athmosphere in 2-3 cycles, so we will be able to let the SIIR Noxos get mended properly and stock up on necessities.

#Local aliens try to figure out sarcasm #they fail #lol #sorry this chapter is kinda short #I had a social venue to be at #Actually I‘m super glad I didn‘t get food poisoning #bc I *might* have accidentally eaten something moldy the other day #I didn‘t notice even though it was clearly visible lmaoo #These tags are giving off ao3 author vibes who will literally come back from the dead to post another chapter #earth is space australia #humans are weird #space australia #humans are insane #humans are space orcs #humans are terrifying #humans in space #humans are confusing #humans are crazy #humans are deathworlders #humans are awesome #humans from an outsider perspective #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #space orcs #fantasy #science fiction #sci fi #less of the science more of the fiction #humans are strange #day 14

[dailywillwood]

Made by @onyx-colony

#will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #wednesday is not only the greatest betrayal in television history #will wood Wednesday rant #wednesday #Wednesday 2022 #wednesday is not only the greatest betrayal in television history but the most maddeningly trite #disturbingly vapid #and internally confuse #d ideological train wreck I've ever had the deeply sorrowful displeasure of allowing to pass through my corneas may god have mercy on bburto #or whoever else was responsible while someone slapped his brand name on it #and on all of us who are fated to live in a world where something so culturally #socially #politically #and artistically noxious as this #Mary-sue-lead #transparently TikTok-targeted #phone-worshipping #vaguely bigoted #backfired virtue-signaling #fake leftist capitalist “my im #mortal“-esque fanfic earns a second season through what I can only be explained as manufactured consent. something must be done about #Netflix's Wednesday. This thing is a condescending insult #especially to young people #the socially conscious #and members of marginalized #and “outcast” groups who genuinely suffer from what this thing hollowly masturbates to while looking us dead in the eyes and saying “yeah #you like that #don't you?“ It is a Gatling gun of random buzzwords and empty references to social issues #grotesquely and impotently