#they have so many more great moments

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

#dog books #this chapter was very sad reading #when you become aware of punishment #and its use and its prevalence #it's hard not to despair #again this is why positive reinforcement feels like absolution #maybe now my eyes are open I can make up for what I did #what I did because it's what everyone does #because it's more acceptable to punish than to do anything else #I've been having so many thoughts about punishment and society and justice #this book was very validating #another great validating moment in my jumbled thoughts #was listening to the You're Wrong About episode on justice #with Amanda Knox #it helped to ease the despair a little

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Do you like sci-fi and indie animation? Check out Monkey Wrench!

#monkey wrench #digital art #This series is very delightful and also in need of more attention! #Usually I would ramble about why love it - however I am going to go a little off the rails and talk about something else. #Namely that this is a gift for a very dear friend who loves this series a lot! One of my favourite people of all time! #Thank you for so many things. For keeping me going when times are dark. For sticking by in the hard times. #Thank you for the incredible soup and the fun moments! For the great recommendations on series. #I sometimes feel like I should thank the universe for letting our paths cross when they did. #It feels cheesy to say all this but I really am such a better person because of you. #Thank you for reading all my silly comics even though you have *no* idea what is going on in them. It means a lot. #My gift of a silly doodle and hopefully getting a few people to check out this show is not adequate to express my gratitude. #But hey - we've got the rest of our lives to keep saying thank you. #Love you lots mate. Can't say it enough B'*)

[leewagnerart]

Robin is one of my favorite straw hats and it is a literal shame that it took the anime only shows part of her humor, strength, ingenuity, and dedication. So happy to finish this really dramatic piece of her! I hope she gets more air time of her being weird, kind, funny, and clever with her power. She has so much personality that she doesn't get the chance to show off in the anime and it's just a shame.

#nico robin #one piece #manga #anime #fanart #wano arc #gigante fleur #neon #hands so many hands #this moment was so cool #i mean she's so cool #great to see her have a moment in the anime #she had more in the manga though... #gold #copic markers #metallic inks

[smallbunn]

im so normal about riz gukgak looking back at moments where he felt there was unfairness, and what he sees is himself back in middle school, lonely and friendless, desperate for connection, but he also sees himself now, so desperate to hold onto the friends he has made that he’s pushed them to do things they didn’t want to do just so he could stay with them.

#i promise im normal abt it #there were so many moments from this episode i wana talk abt but words r so hard <//3 #was such a great episode i rlly loved it so much i wish i could say more rn #but that moment especially was just so like WOAH!!!!!! #i just. love that the bad kids love each other with everything they have #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #riz gukgak #morty talks woah #timestamp s3ep20 2:01:40

[aimasup]

sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme

^^^ possibly insufficiently educated

#the pride the hubris of believing you can do better than innovation and nature by playing god and not in the fun way #the lust it's being used for in so many awful cases #the sloth the way its encouraging everyone to check original sources less before believing anything. Also to not take time to develop skill #the greed its being used for profit without consideration for ethics or fair labour #gluttony. we always have to be faster. shinier. better. no matter if it ends up being less convenient or wonky #the wrath it sows in between people creating more differences to be frustrated over. more hatred #the envy how it takes and takes. always trying to be as clever as the best humans. as beautiful as a real forest or sunset. #do you think the ai wants itself #if this were a scifi movie would we be the bad guys #but this is not a movie and the ai cannot love us. so we cannot love it. and there's that #my post #personal stuff #thinking aloud just silly yapping n jazz 没啥事做就这样咯~ #(￣▽￣)~* #when i was in primary school our textbooks for chinese had short stories and articles to learn about #there was a fictional scifi oneshot about a family in the future going to the zoo #the scifi zoo trip was going great until the zoo's systems went offline for a moment #and it was revealed that all the animals roaming in their enclosures were holograms #the real ones went extinct ages ago #when the computers came back online the holograms returned and there they were #honestly at first I thought it was a bit exaggerating #but I still think about it once in a while

[red-catmander]

i participated in the art party! thank you everybody who let me draw your characters :>

#Drewcakemix #gw2 #guild wars 2 #catdotpng #charr #sylvari #did this on a hand injury. moment of silence for my bones and ligaments #what great fun!! i'll try and make the next one #vsartparty #siins #if you're seeing this and i promised to tag your account and you're not seeing it. erm. i forgot #i wish i could have drawn more!! so many amazing characters

[spllwys]

i'm going on exam season lockdown as of today, which means no more gifs/edits/anything else because i spend way too much time on them for an engineering student in the trenches lmao. posting this not because i think anybody will notice or care, but so i can hold myself accountable and get embarrassed if i break the pledge. see you on june 3rd for a ghovie creativity extravaganza

edit: besides the ghovie trailer 😭 i cant restrain myself from that one

#actually june 4th because i will be drinking on june 3rd from the moment i close my semiconductors paper #cold turkey on gif making KHBJDGVSCDH RIP #genuinely its such a relaxing thing to do that i find myself prioritising it #and unlike other chill activities it gives me the illusion of productivity #i really need to be getting that from my work and not silly bands #anyway. see u #also in my 4 years of making edits like this in many different circles i've never once felt the need to mention a like/reblog ratio #and i'm fully of the opinion that people can do whatever the hell they like and i never expect interaction #i'm grateful for what i do have #but what primarily motivates me to do this is people sharing their love for whatever is on the post #in the tags or elsewhere #i'm not talking praise or thanks or anything to me i mean 'i love this song' or 'papa looks great here' skdcvkdgvs #'this is my favourite band' u know? it's sharing passion with other people and having them share theirs with me #and in all the 4 years and many many fandoms this (ghost/st) is by far the worst for interaction like that #i'd say ghost especially skhjcsd #and this tag rant isn't a request or a 'please interact more!' or anything like that it's just #a reason as to why i'm a bit discouraged that i'm chatting about to nobody #oh yeah and especially seeing photos posted with no source and no edits get 5x the notes you'd get #the quantity of notes doesn't matter to me but the discussion and tags do #just checked my notes in the middle of typing this and someone rbed some papa ii gifs with #'hope he's steady on his feet the way i would run into him' #KDSGKDSD that's what i'm on about 😭😭😭😭😭 #makes me smile knowing something i posted made somebody feel joy abt a silly band and then shared that with me through the tags #i'm aware i've been here for just over one month so shouldn't be making judgements just yet #but sometimes i wish there was more of that

[queer-ragnelle]

So evil that I have to work to live instead of reading books and chilling full time instead.

#I’m sorry tired after work I can’t always read #I’ll finish Restoring Palamede eventually but I’m also in the midst of The Brothers Karamazov #which is requiring all my focus at the moment but really good!! I just have to be realistic about how many books I can read at once lol #I mentioned Restoring Palamede the other day bc my physical copy came in<3333 #the PDF is great for searching key terms to find characters (or lack there of….Dan & Lam ily</3) #but having the physical book to hold is easier on my eyeballs than a screen #anyway I’ll get to it & it looks dope so far from what I’ve read #the descriptions of Palamedes’ parents was so cute……they<333 #literally any book: old married couple growing fat & happy together #me every time: omg they are so in love i need more #someday there will be a true Prose Tristan polycule book…..some day #my post

[istherewifiinhell]

i dont have anything to say for myself its just my niche okay. warning for both the volume AND. unique. auditory experience of g1 lmao.

[VD: G1 transfromers clip, of a Megatron and Starscream altercation

Outside, dark, lightening strikes. Soundwave turns off some audible signal, and it begins raining. Megatron: here are your orders Thundercracker, I- Starscream: What is your excuse Megatron! You let the enemy GET AWAY! You- [Megatron knocks him to the ground] Ouf Megatron walks over and pick him up by the throat, Starscream coughs, and is grabbing at his hand: Cross me again Starscream and I'll reduce you to titanium fragments. Starscream struggling Megatron tightens his grip, scrabbling at Megatron's hand: But we had the Autobots disoriented. We could have eliminated them. Cut wide, their standing close, Starscream still being choked. Megatron: We'll do that at our leisure. When are more important work is done! [He throws Starscream to the ground] Low angle, up at Megatron, lightening strikes behind him. He points down, hand large in frame: You have had the only warring I intend to give. [He gestures to himself and then points back down] Starscream scowls. Decepticon badge bummer.

well thats a lie but we can forgive him cause i assume this moment cursed his dick...

anyway i have more formats of this scene below cause i got excited :D

[Gif of when Megatron is choking Starscream, from above. Specifically the moment where he pushes Starscream back and tightens his grip. Starscream's head tips back and he makes some interesting faces, hands struggling. END]

ID: Four frames of the choking, the different faces Starscream makes. 1. Snarling mouth shape. 2. Distress/pout? 3. Mouth wide open, head tipped back. 4. Eyes bulging as hes really getting choked. END

yay yippee yay <3

[ID: The two instances of Megatron pointing downward, slightly different body positions and hand gesture. 1. Squared shoulders, hands less downwards. 2. Shoulders angled, hand larger/more central. END]

to add to the great library of megatron (or galv) interacting directly with the viewer

#some shit #its not called cisformers #fuck thats some great folly as his tightens his grip. great stuff #wheres that fucking fan art where megatrons talking about loving when starscream changes expressions really fast. #NEVER has that been more true. cursed his dick. cursed MY dick. fgsdjfgd. BWAH #LOOK. how many more pixels there are on the hasbro utube uploads than the tubi version <- where i watched all of g1. TWICE #okay now and ofc if youll allow. hows the process go for locating a starscream being choked moment from a screenshot #1. check if its im stupid im stupid (its not) 2. what else can the shot tell us. its dark and raining! okay thats not happening to often #in g1. i mean THINK of the extra work it takes u know? 3. what eps have bad weather. 4. this arc has freak weather AND a screamer overthrow #4. start from the beginning of the arc skiping thru looking for the weather to match. 5. part two 4mins 40. baby. HEY PRESTO #didnt even have to check the wiki (wouldnt have discredited my self if i had. just a different way to access knowledge isnt it) BUT LOL <33 #the humans are SO well drawn this arc. crazy stuff. great stuff. love it

[definitelynotnia]

normalise saying "I don't have enough information on this topic to have an opinion on it"

and then staying out of it completely rather than going along with wtv opinion u imprinted from three random posts/reels/tweets and having weird misinformed debates with full confidence

#like bro it's ok to not have an opinion on something if you don't know just say i don't know and move on #there's too many fucked up things going on in the world it's perfectly natural to not have proper information on a topic of debate #just remove yourself from said debate theres no needto go marching in with limited information and spreading even more misinformation #i see so many people around my age posting random political stuff be it religious or about lgbtq or women even and they haven't read #a single article about any of these topics ever #their only source is sketchy social media posts or “dark jokes” about a certain community making them think it's cool to shit on them #or random “sigma” edits of things and suddenly the most random stuff becomes everyone's favourite mainstream political affiliation #like have you read a single policy pertaining to this government or do you have a single reason for violently hating a certain community #i understand that some people are genuinely interested in these topics and that is absolutely wonderful it's great that young people have #opinions and commentary on world issues but only when this stems from an area of genuine interest and when at least some effort to be #factual is made not when it's only done because everyone else is doing it and they have some weird sort of fomo at work or they just think #it's funny or wtv without understanding the implications of their words and actions #no one is forcing you to involve yourself in every social issue but the moment you choose to make commentary on a social issue you must take #the responsibility of educating yourself as best you can before you open your mouth

[skrunksthatwunk]

sometimes you need to go back and listen to the music you liked when you were 13 because it's good for you. and no im not talking about like emo nostalgia in this case we have enough posts about that. im talking about dad rock. actually im just talking about barenaked ladies

#idk if i'd call barenaked ladies dad rock per se but every once in a while i'll hear a song and go MAN. I REMEMBER THAT #i had so many oc animatics in my head about this one.... #anyway skrunk lore moment but i had a really intense bnl phase for like 8 months in early middle school which explains a lot about 13 y/o me #in a neutral way but like. yeah. anyway go listen to box set for me. #you don't have to listen to anything else even though i still have a great fondness for a lot of it bc it's one of those things where it's #so familiar to me that i don't even know if i think it's good or not. but box set goes hard and i'll stand by that #in the car and hello city and i'll be that girl and spider in my room AND CALL ME CALMLY and blame it on me and alternative girlfriend and #the flag and when i fall and the king of bedside manor and am i the only one.... ohgh #AND YES IT'S BASIC BUT IF I HAD $1000000 IS COZY. IT'S CUTE OK #OH and it's all been done for all your immortal/reincarnation ship needs. well. a certain vibe anyway #and alcohol. and OH MY GOD I FORGOT JANE. AND INTERMITTENTLY and break your heart.... waaaaaaa #man they have way way more albums than i thought they had #i can only really speak for gordon born on a pirate ship and maybe you should drive actually but. i like those #or i Did like them. havent relistened but even looking at the titles is making me giggly like... i forgot some of these #ALSO SHOEBOX IS A FRIENDS SONG?? WHUH? #or maybe it was used in friends? idk. no thoughts on friends but they did music for just the dumbest shit. ignore that for me please #ANYWAY. going to go listen to all of that now bc im having a moment. if you listen to it and don't like it um. don't think less of me lol <3

[irregularbillcipher]

watched the musical demon show (don't wanna name it so this post isn't in the tags) at the behest of an IRL friend and i can already tell this is going to be a piece of media where i absolutely cannot stop thinking about it, not because i really love the show as-is, but because it has so many individual components i really like and find incredibly fun or compelling, and i'm so frustrated that it doesn't come together for me

i think the main thing i can say about it as a show, setting aside some of the insensitive choices that were made that i really don't feel qualified to tackle or talk about, is that the entire thing sort of gives off this vibe of someone really excited to show you every single oc they made in high school and college and i very genuinely mean that in both the best and worst ways possible

there are some good hooks for season two though so i will absolutely give them that

#the vibe is just like... they are just soooo excited to get all their ideas out that it becomes... messy and badly paced #like there are so many moments that are cool or fun or emotional in a vaccuum but they don't connect fully y'know #because this arc or character was JUST introduced so there isn't proper build up. everything moves too quick #and it's frustrating because you can TELL that the people making this show love their ideas and characters #and i more than get thta! i am also someone with a lotta ocs i love to blab about #but i think they have been working with them so long that they #a. assume we are already just as attached to them as they are without always doing that work #b. assume we've seen all the supplemental material which. i have not #and i don't think that a professional show is the type of thing where there should be a barrier of entry that involves like #podcasts and comics and twitter threads and IC instagram posts about characters to do that emotional/lore legwork y'know #i love lore and supplemental stuff obviously but this should still be like #a satisfying experience for me a person who saw the pilot however many years ago and then has not interacted with the show or fandom since #idk man stuff felt rushed and messy and i wish i liked it more #it needed more slow moments i think. the two scenes where the group all drinks together (minus one awful joke in the bar scene) are like #the best in the show to me becase i actually believe these guys are FRIENDS. i wanna see them hang out more! #i wanna see them actually really grow to like each other organically!!! i wanna see them build connections and grow better slowly!!! #songs absolutely slap though. soundtrack is probably gonna be in my spotify unwrapped 2024 #i love me a musical and that inspiration is on its sleeve which i love #also imo the humor isn't great usually. it's very juvenile imo and sometime that works but it often doesn't #(for me at least humor is obviously SUPER subjective) #also tonally they have this 'have your cake and eat it too' issue which bugs me. it's exemplified by the v's (one in particular) #actually i could go on a whole rant about the v's if anyone is interested because god i have some Thoughts #and i think my issues with the v's (namely one v) encapsulates many issues i have with the show #despite all this rambling i actually did enjoy a lot of my time with it. i just don't think it was well-written if that makes sense

[incipientdreamer]

Am i the only one who heard static in the recording sounds before and after the gertrude and gerry scene and after georgie was mentioned?? If the cameras and the microphones are tools for the Eye to spy on people and as Jon is the Archive trapped inside the computers, is it him trying to not record these moments relating to people he knew? An emotional reaction to hearing a familiar voice??

#ep 7 and ep 8 had so many OH SHIT moments #the momentum has been great this season #BUT I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONNS #gertrude fs knows more than she lets on #tmagp #the magnus protocol #the magnus protocol spoilers

[kaserolly]

Charlie's little memories are marching on ❤️

~ a tribute fan music video of Charles Leclerc ~

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#charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #e :3 #v :3 #dailyf1 #f1edit #chircus tag #made this for the Chircus but everyone can reblog this if y'all want hehe :3 #anyways happy channiversary!!!!! i love my chamily so much and im so grateful to have shared so many great memories with you 🥺❤️ #i know i havent been active there nor here lately :( but i will always cherish each and every one of you 💕 #here's to more iconic moments and happy Charles memories ❤️ mwah mwah 😽

[eerna]

reading some reviews and I wanna kiss Tazmuir on the mouth for being the exact opposite of 90% of pop culture right now by making every one of her books completely unpredictable and non-formulaic to the point where a lot of people can’t even read more than one of them because the rest is so different

#i think this is the first time that the hater portion of the internet is completely understandable to me. i understand why they dont like #these books because they ARE a pretty wild shot in the dark and if it lands then great but realistically most people won't like them #''once gideon is no longer the main character the series falls apart because it was relying on her charm'' to YOU. i love gideon as much as #the next girl but to me these books are about a bunch of girls who have messed up relationships with one another that include love #and them doing gradually worse things for that love #gideon harrow and nona are all my beloved girls and i vnever felt disinterest in ANY of their povs sorry not sorry #tlt liveblog #so many disliking reviews of harrow are that it's incomprehensible and im like. yes that's why it's y fav of them. #the moment i started understanding that book will live in my brain FOREVER it was SUCH a good experience. and every time i read it #i understand even more!!! bro!!!!!!! it's SO GOOD but i understand why people might not have fun with it

[queenerdloser]

me, rereading several of my half-finished oneshots and drafts: huh i love this. damn i'm a good writer. man, i want to read more of this.

me, remembering i have to sit down to write to finish these fics: ah

#liveblogging life #i was cleaning out my scrivener projects last week and man my oneshots file is uh... lmao #i start SO many projects based on a whim usually write a decent chunk and then get distracted or lose motivation #and then i come back to it and im like wow this is actually a great idea i love some of these scenes! but oh shit #to finish it i have to actually write the rest.... fuck #there's a couple of mcu oneshots that have been in there for literal years that i desperately want to finish but do NOT have motivation #also thinking about keep to the stars... i never got to get to my favorite plotlineeeeeee :(((((( #but also i didnt dump 170k words on ao3 to just never finish it so maybe one day. the halamshiral chapter has been half done #for like. three years. lmao. i think ive even got like 15k of it #also several times i went HUH. that was a good line/piece of dialogue/clever moment #it's wild how much more i like my own writing the longer i go between looking at it lmao