#thats my 2cents

[prof-peach]

Hey Prof! Do you think it’s possible that Toxicroak and that extinct Sneasler evolution fill a similar niche? I mean: They’re both Poison/Fighting Types and they both have those prominent poison blades

Hm. I feel like its a case of Convergent evolution more than them filling the same niche with regards to the body shapes. Some methods of applying poison to foe or navigating require that kind of shape and style of body. The adaptions arent far off a Grafaiai (a single more poisonous finger shaped adaption) Gallade (with its boney "blades"), or even sandslash (long talons like Sneasler), it's a common evolutionary adaption to climb, tear, dig, pierce or otherwise utilise attacks in their suited environment. While ones clawed with hooks, the other is a boney straight(ish) protrusion, they differ wildly in how theyre used day to day, attacks out of the question they don't perform the same.

Both come from wildly different biomes too with ho shared genetic heritage. Mountain climbing though done by a few very large, select subspecies of Toxicroak, is not something they handle by climbing like Sneasler did. Theyre jumpers, at best theyll amble along where they can and make a leap for the next ledge. Swampy biomes tended to be too warm for Sneasler too, they only really seemed to migrate down for short periords of time to hunt, before returning to the saftey of the mountains and their dens. They havent had to adapt to the same climates, prey, predators, or environments.

Kind of like saying all normal/flying types fit the same brief, but y'know, they dont haha. A beak shape in a pidgey VS the beak shape of a hoothoot arent too far apart at a glance, but their small differences make them unique and specialised for their habitats and hunting styles.

We're also not even looking at the wild difference in autonomy in terms of Toxicroak being cold blooded, and Sneasler being warm blooded, meaning their bodies run completly differently. I dunno, i'm struggling to see the true link from a biology standpoint, but thats just me.

#thats my 2cents #but y'all can make your own minds up #pokemon #peach talks #prof.peach

[anawkwardlady]

re-watching the "Envy" video by Natalie Wynn, it comforts me as someone who probably embodies this sin so fucking much. Heres the thing tho, I think that since I started being open and embracing it "publicly" (online), I absolutely didn't experience any growth HOWEVER I did make it more sexy.

#thats my 2cent #nana is posting #cupbreak

[stonerzelda]

This is a dumb thing to be posting abt at 24 yrs old but its so annoying 2 me when ppl draw young mipha and link and mipha is like still fully grown. How do u know she wasnt just as tiny as he was huh. Huh. Just because zoras live longer doesnt mean they dont age similarly maybe they just get BIGGER maybe link and mipha ARE the same age but she died when she was like 17 or 18 or whatever, if she hadnt maybe she'd just be huge like Sidon got to be. Or her dad even Huh. Huh

#they were childhood friends thats canon iirc #meaning they were friends during both of their childhood AND so. this is my 2cents #also i think nintendo should release a botw costume dlc for animal crossing #i have a lil mipha outfit and its easy enough 2 make the hair but loike #imagine a wittle zora hood with her tiara jewels and fish tail🥺💜 #like Ruto and Link were the same age!! they were kids together why tf cant mipha and link be #anyways.

[kittysauce]

hello hello fellow lxlight lesbian here can i add my 2cents about why its popular with lesbians imo? partially bc of the unfulfilled aspect of it. they never admit (or even realize??) their feelings for each other could be anything other than hate and begrudging admiration. And even when they do start to become 'actual friends' (aka the yotsuba arc) theres no going back, the plan is already in motion. There's so many barriers between them ideologically, philosophically, realistic, social, etc. If they met on other terms, its entirely possible they'd work well together (co-workers, romance, mentorship, friends etc) but fate has put them on opposing sides and they both refuse to back down. it has this feeling of doomed romance (VERY YURI) and unresolved or suppressed feelings (VERY YURI) and thats something a lot of lesbians can relate to. killing someone bc you cant admit you have a crush on them?? yuri. most of my early crushes were hopelessly onesided or on straight girls which feels very 'in another life we could've been great together' which is sooooooo lxlight as well.

ASKER YOU ARE A GENIUS. Thank u sm i'm gonna think about this for the rest of my life

#lawlight

[cock-holliday]

hey not rly a question just saying i appreciate your 2cents on things generally. i am a gnc transfem but am really a boy more than anything so someone looking out for those of us who arent palettably feminine is rly cool of you. a lot of the stuff you mentioned in your long post just now hits at some of the stuff thats making me feel uneasy around some of my transfem friends. i fear if i was fully myself i wouldnt be accepted. i hate to feel too queer for fellow queers, but. but yea anyway most of the time ive known i was trans most of my friends had actually been trans guys so when i hear this anti transmasc rhetoric going around it makes me rly uncomfortable im sick of the idea that trans guys have it easy. its not true and not fair do you fear being not accepted by others like you too? is this normal? idk. i didnt feel this when i came out 5 years ago this is new to me

I’m really sorry you’re dealing with that, and I can relate. Essentially I came out as a binary trans person a decade ago and raced to transition as quickly as possible (it was not fast, it was slow and frustrating) and when I finally got there then I had to endure Gender Crisis 2 where I realized I wasn’t this binary gender either.

It was very difficult to sort out. Did I just not feel special enough as Gender 2? Was I faking this whole time and was really just cis? Was I detransitioning? It took a lot to figure out what I wanted, how I wanted to be seen, and to grapple with the idea that it will continue to fluctuate.

I am masc but do not consider myself a man. Boy, maybe. Do I see myself as a woman? Also no. Girl, maybe. But a masculine girl. I think my boyness is more feminine than my girlness…but still both…butch.

I am trans but not a trans woman or a trans man. While figuring myself out in round two I flirted with transmasc/transfemme as labels, but neither fit better than the other. Or maybe neither fit. I know some use transfemmemasc but idk that I like it for me. I use trans women’s shaving tips. I use trans men’s voice training tips. There are members of both camps who wouldn’t consider me one of them.

I currently work a full-time job. I cannot present or fluctuate in my presentation when I want to. We have gendered locker rooms, gendered bathrooms, my ID badge has a photo that doesn’t look like me. I think a lot about that post that’s like “I might be nonbinary but I have a job so I can’t worry about that right now.” Only, I already know I am nonbinary. I’ve already been out to a lot of people IRL. How do you put that cat back in the bag? Can you? If I was allowed to present how I want now and everyone was cool…will they still be understanding when it swings back the other way? I don’t want that sort of pressure at work.

I am lucky I have a partner who understands and likes my presentation—and spectrum of it. I have trans friends who understand or try to understand, and genderweird friends who get it. It is a bit isolating—how everything is split into one camp or another. Things I supposedly couldn’t relate to I do, things I am not meant to have experienced (or acknowledge I experience) are not welcome topics in trans discourse.

It is difficult! There are huge Boy v Girl (but make it progressive) pissing contests on tumblr and it’s very irritating how deep the anger goes. Carve room for yourself and you’re accused of belonging to the other camp, as if it really even is ‘the other’ camp, it’s the same fucking camp.

I started to identify with the word butch only in the last few years, and because my gender exploration had taken me back to the trans folks of yore. They were brash and bold and contradictory and I liked that! It made me yearn for vague labels and defiant privacy while also being unabashedly authentic! Then I learned that it still exists. It’s small, and got pushed to the fringes, sure. But I’ve only had access to the books and zines and tales of the genderweird from the internet, and to hear it resonate with so many others proves to me we’re still out there.

It’s very tough to want to be true to yourself when there is a constant pressure to conform to something. It’s doubly tough when that pressure comes from other trans people. But finding more and more people who live this way and feel this way makes me feel surer in my choice to just loudly be what I am, fuck the rest, whenever I can.

I cannot always look how I want or be seen how I want, so the spaces where I do have control I refuse to be anything other than what I am 110%

I really hope you can find more and more space that lets you exist in the grey. I hope your friends become more accepting. In the meantime and hopefully continuously in tandem—you are not alone in this experience and others out there understand what it’s like. ❤️

#ask #anon ask

[expeditionersjoklumarkar]

ok i wanted to write out my thoughts cause its something thats been making me insane but like i think a lot of the reactions to the tumblr verified thing on both sides are like. really overblown and just kind of idk bad? to explain like i think that the post circulating that has screenshots of who has the checkmark where a lot of people in the tags and replies are using it to justify harassment is really uncalled for. I know someone who like has one just because its funny and like $8 or whatever and they have so many people sending them death threats and like calling them selfish/entitled/etc despite the fact that like they're not coming from a place of a lot of money, it was just something they got for themselves as a treat. obviously this doesnt apply to like people who spent hundreds for like fake internet clout but i think that dogpiling and justifying harassment en masse to anyone with the checkmark is like a really dangerous precedent to set. the argument ive mostly seen is if they spent money on the site they arent donating and therefore are bad people and should donate just feels like youre making up a guy to get mad at and using it to justify mass harassment. On the other hand I do think that its good to be critical of supporting a site that has history of racism and bad moderation decisions. I think that it's good to be skeptical of giving money to people who've made bad decisions in the past and that while it would be nice to be able to support tumblr and make sure it stays running etc, this should also be considered in tangent with how their current staff are treating racism, transphobia, etc. The problem is we should be able to be critical of this without using this as moral high ground to harass people who are potentially also coming from a place of low income. I think these ideas need to co-exist and be dialed down like 50%. Tumblr isn't going to die outright if you dont send it $100 and people arent willingly killing people because they got 1 checkmark.

Its really easy to also get emotionally invested in this discussion because a lot of us are suffering at the hands of capitalism and seeing someone able to spend money on something is sparking like the idea of "well that should have gone to me/someone who needs it" which is ykno something that appeals very heavily to emotion.

tldr i think that like harassing people and making huge vitriolic posts abt people with tumblr verified is preformative and reads like "there are starving children in africa" rather than like genuine criticism. it feels reactionary and overblown and is being used to justify harassment. thats just my 2cents tho

#long post #eli original #im worried people will willingly misunderstand this post but i also think that like #its scary that people are so easily willing to justify harassment because they have moral high ground

[ask-serendipity-sky]

hiii sky... i was thinking about Face and wanted to share with u. So, we know that Face started to be written by jm during PTD on stage and that Like Crazy is about jimin's problem with alcohol and feeling lost. We can see that, during PTD LV, jm and jk were being weird with eo. IMO, they were together, but they were having some problems, because we can see they were out of sync w eo. And jm told us that he started to see he was in trouble during PTD LV. Now, if we look to what happened this year: jk reacted to smf pt 2 a lot of times, but he didnt talk about Like Crazy, didnt react to the mv, only to a youtube short of jimin dancing it. He only really acknowledge the song when he reacted to jm singing an acoustic version in that show, but that was after face promotions and in a time that clearly jk was feeling better himself.

My 2cents: IMO, the problems jm and jk were facing during PTD LV had everything to do with what jm was going through. I think jk was experiencing the worst watching it all and not knowing what to do to help. Its so difficult to deal w seeing people that r close to u hurt and lost. People that r having drinking problems tend to think they r in control and that everything is ok, refusing help (jm even talked about, on suchwita, that he thought for a long time that he was just having fun), but the person that is seeing it all in the front row knows that they r not ok. Jk was lost like jimin since he was watching all of it by his side. And on PTD LV, althought they were kind off stiff w eo, we can see the love is there, we can see jk being loud and showing to the world but mostly to Jm his love for him. I think jk was being careful and trying to remember jimin that he (jm) is important to him. Then, jm finally started to get his head together and to work on Face. With Letter, jm told us that he had someone with him during all of the journey he is telling us with Face. After setting him free, he acknowledge that person and expressed the wish to repay all the help that person gave to him. This person isnt army, its Jk. Jk is proud of jimin, thats why he loves smf pt 2 so much and even let out a little smile with the part "Look at me now, I won't stop, even if they mock me". And jm is glad he has jk, so he wrote a song to him and asked him to do backing vocals to it in the most romantic part.

Hello anon,

Ooooh. This is very interesting. I like your theory.

I always found it odd how Jk didn't focus on Like Crazy. I guess some people (them haters) could see this as Jk being competitive -_- but I think that this song, since it shows how lost and lonely Jimin was, was hard on Jk too.

I also find it odd how fans would really think that the entirety of Letter is for them, when they had no idea what Jimin was going through and helped him in no way. It was Jk who was there. Letter is hidden just like Jk has had to be hidden from Jimin's life.

And yes! It definitely something the way Jk reacted to Set Me Free pt. 2. He knows more than anyone how things were.

Your theory makes sense to me!

Thanks for sharing.

[e2019]

like idk if this is the typical experience or no cuz i always see ppl say dont be afraid to call ems cuz theyre not cops they just wanna help you but thats not how it feels to me. it's like they'll do the bare minimum to make sure ur not gonna die in the next like hour then immediately the priority shifts now they wanna try n charge u with something. cuz they narcanned me and before i even know whats going on theyre like whats your name do u know where u are what day is it whos the president ok so where are the drugs. constantly hounding your half dead fucked up ass threatening U and they wont leave til they find something all up in your personal space searching shit. and this might sound counterintuitive but i do not think it helps to confiscate the drugs when someone overdoses i think that puts the person in even more danger if anything. cuz thats not gonna make them stop if they dont want to lets be real. so now theyre sick and they have less money and they have to buy more drugs so now it's a new batch of unknown potency and maybe the person's tolerance has dropped in the meantime. whereas at least what they were using before they knew the potency of and they already overdosed on that well now there are all these new unknown factors plus all the stress this person is under they are even more likely to overdose again now. and either way it;s scary enough to overdose without being interrogated immediately upon being revived like damn chill out a minute wtf. just my 2cents.

#im more afraid of ems than i am of overdosing if that says anythung lol

[jiminrings]

on that discussion of oc feeling like she settled for 478jk - i know we're on 478jk hate train but i feel like thats not fair to jungkook😭😭😭 I THINK OC IS VALID!! and i know its normal to think about the "what ifs" especially after what jk did to her but so far the general trend is that oc does nothing wrong and everything is jks fault but relationships go both ways and everyone has flaws!! but everytime i read asks or drabbles it feels like oc would much rather be with someone else LMAO😭 it would suck if the only reason shes with jk is bc they have a daughter together and it would suck even more if jk knew / or felt thats one of the biggest reasons theyre still tgt🥲🥲 justicefor478jk 💔 SORRY i still love the series but wanted to give my 2cents hehe

i GET WHERE YER COMING FROM!!!! 478jk did do wrong but atm he's getting dragged thru the mud so i think all the hate (?) towards him now is belated retribution 😭😭😭 dgm wrong oc really has faults too but it happens that the general target audience for 478 (n fics in general) wud want to see oc being in the clear more than the other way around!!! the little glimpse of it was when an anon requested a drabble where this time she did all the groveling <3 dw oc Loves 478jk with everything n she's not only in it for hwayoung :)

#answered #478 feed

[luanna801]

i think the main thing that ticked people off about your "suave" explanation is the 'well akstually' tone of it. phrases like "impeding people's ability" and "keeping people from picking up on" (plus other phrases throughout) reads as very presumptive & uppity, as though you're seeking to bring enlightenment to the ignorant ship-crazy masses etc. not saying thats what youre intending, but thats the way it comes across as a reader. just my 2cents /shrug

Yeah, that's fair, and very possibly I should've worded it differently. I do have an unfortunate tendency to come across as Ye Olde Know-it-All sometimes, and I do try to be aware of it and not sound obnoxious but, y'know, clearly I don't always get it right.

... And I will cop to the fact that I'm sometimes writing because of things I've seen that annoy me, and that can bleed into my tone even when I'm trying to be as polite and even-handed as I can.

Again though, I really was not expecting that post to be nearly this popular and have thousands of people paying that much attention to every word choice I made. If I had, I probably would've been much more cautious in how I wrote it, but unfortunately there's nothing I can really do about that now.

I still stand by the point of the post, and I don't think the post in any way implies the kind of sweeping statements some people apparently took it as, but you're right that maybe the way I wrote it comes across as condescending. Obviously, all I can do about that at this point is try to do better in future posts.

#replies #anons

[whatadaze]

it’s funny how instead of bashing on an individuals CHARACTER, people would rather bash on a whole SEXUALITY

#and thats my 2cents and ima leave it at that

[ang3leyes]

they arent reading the smut they just found out its his weakness and use it to their advantage (is what i like to think was implied in that post)

I hate this I hate this I hate that this is an ask I just got about that fucking pennywise post I hate this

#honestly but. can you imagine rolling up to it(2019) and this is the plot. everyone got a clown kink real fast and thats the whole movie. #can you imagine. #THIS POST IS RUINING MY LIFE #agdhsg but thanks for adding ur 2cents to the chat <3 #ask #answered

[onehookeduphedgehog]

honestly I personally can’t stand in sonadow fics where shadow is very forward, sadistic, flirting equally if not doing all the flirting, teasing constantly, ect ect like everyone loves it and its clearly the most popular form of sonadow but I just flat out DONT like it im sorry lmao

 I’m like the total opposite, I interpret him as very reserved and shy, Sonic would have to be the one to make the first move, do all the flirting, ect. He’s not easy at expressing his feelings and is very cold and stoic overall. 

#like idk if u can tell from my art but yeah its like sonic flirts and he blushes and stutters lmao #original the post #sonadow #he has trauma that makes it hard to open up and hes a big introvert! thats my 2cents

[weirdsht]

warning: a long ranting character analysis ahead. its a character analysis but i put my own personal experience in it hence why a rant. also my vocabulary sucks and i might use wrong words im sorry in advance difuhgopeihpgerty

not sure if this is because i'm a humanities student or its just i can relate because of what i realized while trying to find out about myself but i have some 2cents about Cale's personality.

everything happened late to Cale and that has a big impact on his beliefs and values

it was too late when he met the Soos and became freinds with them. it was too late when that grandma doted on him.

because from what i learned its hard to undo your mindset specially when it has been built up since you were young

consciously or unconsciously

from since he was young cale probably unconsciously concluded that he isn't worth that much and that things could always be worse than this

thats why as long as his alive that's good enough for him. even if his barely on the edge of living with his plate in shambles

like even though Jung Soo and Soo Hyuk and other people he has met later on showed him and tried to teach him that what his doing isnt okay. that he should have higher standards and not just settle for "at least i'm alive". they can't really reset years of accumulated mindset

basically what im saying is its nearly impossible to undo trauma guys

specially with what he went through during his childhood since childhoods always have a great affect in our lives

it doesn't matter if the treatment change or the one inflicting it is gone, once you get used to thinking like that it's hard to turn back y'know

idk how to explain so i'll give a personal example instead

my mom is an overachiever and is very intelligent, and as her child she also expect me to be the same or even surpass her, she's also someone who has a lot of trust issues specially in relationships

imagine that mixing and being projected lol

so for years its just her grilling me to do better. saying that i'm lazy and not putting enough effort on my studies because i can't maintain being a honor student, not realizing the fact fact that maybe, just maybe it's just that i'm not as smart as her. even her standards are crazy high, just passing isn't enough heck a passing grade is a fail for her (asian mom's amiright)

and that also became detrimental to my social life because she's always comparing. she also keeps engraving that they don't really care for me and such and u know the typical manipulation

but nowadays she's calmed downed a bit. she's more open about me having friends and she isn't as strict about me being an honorable student

did that change anything? not really lmaoo

because in the back of my mind i'm thinking that if i dont do well she's gonna have an outburst again, or if i tell her about my friends she's going to say all sorts of things again and i don't want to lonely again. and so the result is me being constantly on guard and her wondering why im hostile

i hope that explains how it greatly affect things

you bring those thoughts and beliefs with you even when you grow up. even when things get better. whether you realize it or not

its really just something you can't get rid of honestly

and that's what i think happened to cale

unknowingly getting the share of White Star's curse made him lose everything he loves and care for

his parents dying

his uncle abusing him

him getting abandoned

just the world falling in ruin

all those things probably made him unintentionally come to the conclusion that he isn't really worth much, and view things that other people would consider necessity, the basic necessities, a luxury

i'd like to believe that maybe he was slowly getting rid of that toxic mindset when he was with the Soos

then boom

they dead now

and so since that's what happened the one time he let his guard down his walls built up even more and his coping mechanisms got worse than they originally were

so probably thats why he acts the way he does when he finally became Cale

that's why this lovable mfer is so guarded, oblivious and so annoyingly dense

i just want for him to break out of it honestly. it wouldn't even matter to me if he realizes it or not. tbh him not realizing it is probably better. just accept the love being given to you damnit

and i thank you, thank you for coming to my ted talk HAHAHAHAHAHHASDGIUUSTPGW

#...i think i got carried away a bit #am sorry #same thing can be said to dokja honestly #childhood trauma gang lets go #can anyone else relate? #pls dont relate #cale analysis #le rants #trash of the count's family #lout of the count’s family #tcf #cale henituse #lcf #totcf #lotcf #character analysis #character study #kim rok soo

[slafkovskys]

Brendan & Thom need another year at umich, with all the older guys leaving they can really benefit from an additional year where they’d be part of that leadership group and develop without being overshadowed by all the other highly rated prospects… thats just my 2cents I might be wrong tho thats just my opinion hehe

obviously the extra year of development wouldn’t hurt for either of them, but if they feel they they’re ready to be pro 🤷🏻‍♀️

#asks #anonymous

[violentviolette]

Do people who have npd automatically have aspd? Or are there people with npd who do not have aspd as well? Like I see on tumblr most have npd/aspd in combo.

no, they are two distinct disorders and while they are very frequently comorbid they are not automatically so

tho iirc they do have the highest comorbidity rate among the cluster b disorders. but its absolutely possible and the most likely scenario to have one without the other

the reason u see a lot of people on tumblr claim comorbidity of these two is because when ur doing self assements and self dx its actually pretty difficult to tell the difference between the two. even in a clinical setting it takes a lot of time and a lot of introspection

these are also some of the most commonly known disorders, and it seems npd is having its Moment the way bpd did a few years ago and aspd did after that where everyone learns about trauma and cluster b disorders and dxs themselves with half the cluster

(something that is not a thing btw. 2 pds from the same cluster is common, 3 is pretty rare, and having the entire cluster at once is nearly impossible. if u fit the criteria for every cluster b PD then congrats, ur probably under 25 and severely traumatized but thats literally it)

also never hpd. u see so few ppl claim they have hpd, probably because hpd is categorized by hyper sexual and attention seeking behavior and thats not as cool. but thats just my 2cents

also for the record I'm not against self dx at all, I just think a lot of ppl are naturally going to get it pretty wrong at first, especially when theyre young, if they havent been taught genuine self awareness and especially in a climate like rn where theres tons and tons of misinformation and misatribution going around

#jack.speaks #aspd #aspd tag #npd #npd tag #cluster b PD #cluster b personality disorder