#this was desensitization training

[gramizar]

I got to do something cool today ❤️‍🔥

#Lark #don’t worry there was a break in the line of fire #this was desensitization training #in case of a barn fire

[ishipmyotp]

Franky being a cyborg who rebuilt himself at least twice (we don’t know how many prototypes he went through during the timeskip) means that Robin probably says all types of weird shit about it like “It must have been a challenge to remove the flesh off your skull and move your organs around to build yourself” and Franky would probably be like “Yeah! 👍🏻🔆”

#franky one piece #robin one piece #nico robin #franky x robin #frobin #this is how they flirt #look the man got hit by a train and had to rebuild his own mangled body #you gotta be desensitized to that

[thegraveyardsh1ft]

Desensitized to the job vs continually traumatized

(ft The Protagonist from The Closing Shift)

#the graveyard shift #the graveyard shift au #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #mike schmidt #resident evil #ethan winters #resident evil ethan winters #the closing shift #based on irl events #ngl you guys #experienced a traumatic incident on the train the other day #and im so desensitized to terrible things happening in the states that i got coffee at the next stop

[lord-squiggletits]

Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #this is only like tangentially related to pharma honestly #not to compare blorbos to real life but like. it reminds me of this phenomenon where privileged ppl in privileged countries #will tell ppl living in zones of war and strife 'oh well if you don't like your gov so bad just revolt against them' #like oh yes tell me how easy it is to stand up against the threats of torture and death #surely the only reason people would want to avoid that is bc they're cowards or don't want to stand up for their beliefs #contrary to what nationalism would have ppl believe. 'wanting to not die' isn't a moral position #everyone wants to live. no one wants to die. it doesnt make you a bad person to be scared of dying #esp (going back to blorbo's) in a situation like pharma's where every option he had ended in death #the death of his patients or the death of everyone at delphi or his death personally #on top of the fact he's a noncombatant who hasn't been desensitized to violence/risking his own life #and is dealing with a trained group of killers that he can't possibly match on physical terms #so yeah actually i don't blame pharma for what he did #he made shitty decisions in a shitty situation but was ultimately a victim #also if you want to view the blackmail deal from a framework of abuse #it is also fucked up to basically tell someone they werent brave enough to just kill their accuser or ask for help #isnt the entire point of such situations that the victim is both powerless to stop the abuse #and too afraid of asking for help/thinks they cant ask for help. and thats why they dont just get out #idk sometimes the best moral judgement is to forgive someone or view it as 'complicated' #sometimes regardless of the good or evilness of their actions the best choice is to not make a judgement #or to err in favor of a forgiving/'i cant speak for your experience' judgement #anyways the fact is that the rosy fantasy of being a brave noble soldier who sacrifices for the cause #rarely stands up to reality where youre just terrified and powerless and dont know what to do #and suddenly the rosy glow of The Noble Cause isnt comforting in the prospect of horrible torturous death

[vaugarde]

i get the frustration with so many villains now getting treatment like “oh they had a sucky childhood so actually you need to feel bad for them and not hold them accountable for their actions” but the counter of “this person was born evil and cant ever grow and its pathetic to assume that they can, also people cant be redeemed no matter what and this is fantastic writing actually” is so exhausting. 

#like... no one is born grinning maliciously with a knife out the womb. no one starts out that way #and anything thats ever tried to portray a character that way at birth has only ever been ironically funny #idk its annoying when people are like ''actually its more interesting that the character doesnt have a motive for killing people'' #like. coming off of bullet train rn but even ''this character otherwise has a perfect life but they accidentally killed and now theyre #fascinated with all the ways people can die'' is more interesting than ''idk thats just how they are *shrugs*'' #like yes someone can have the perfect upbringing and social life and still turn out to be sadistic but you can still work with that #as opposed to ''they were born evil thats just how they were always gonna be SORRY'' #like. idk go into that ''perfect social life and family''. what did that family value? what were the friends like? #what did that person experience outside of those things? what did they consume? #did their social standing actually breed some sort of entitlement to them? do they perhaps freak out if something doesnt go their way? #are they insecure deep down? does that drive them to it? are they a perfectionist? do they assume peoples feelings? #i remember reading this wc fancomic that explained why a character was evil and like her mom died #and the attention from her mothers death made her obsessed with being fawned over so she started medical abuse #and letting her patients die so that people would fawn over her the same way every time #and the op was like ''HEY before you yell at me shes NOT evil bc her mom died ok she was gonna turn out evil no matter what'' #like... no no go into the emotional vulnerability implied there. go into the morbid introduction to slow death at a young age #go into the potential desensitization go into that. youre already willing to make her multifauceted and with positive traits #why are you afraid of implying shes even SOMEWHAT sympathetic and just want to say she was gonna do that regardless #and i fault the atmosphere around this stuff most of all like we should never have implied that giving a villain a reason to be evil #was stupid woobifying bullshit that was out of touch with reality #echoed voice

[sage-reads-things]

I love him <3

#“it's like i've been abducted and am being held prisoner” yeah that's exactly what happened buddy #tbf i bet all that training with the yozakuras desensitized him to stuff like this #so his brain didn't immediately process what had happened #but then he woke up a little more and Realized lmao #mission yozakura family #taiyo asano #sage rambles

[valdrift]

sometimes i feel like a shitty dog owner and tht im not doing enough for my pubby but then i see the dogs we get at work and im like ah . ok i think im doing alright actually.

#life update i work part time at an animal hospital now! very busy lately with work + school + life u_u #anyways SOO many dogs tht are either a) untrained and not desensitized to different stimuli #or b) old as shit and being kept alive through pharmacys worth of drugs when tbh . they just gotta be let go #and theyre always extremely overweight with overgrown grinch ass claws #like good lord . getting a dog made me realize how many ppl DONT train or care for their animals and it stresses me out #my dog isnt perfect but at least she isnt gonna bark/snarl/lunge at other dogs or ppl . #and if she jumps shell at least listen when i tell her to back down #GOD. TRAIN UR DOGS . PLEASE

[totalcharliespringsimp]

I.Have.So.Many.Regrets

#i thought i was desensitized to these fucking smut comics #but jesus christ #frenzy train #JESUS CHRIST #like this one's doing a number on me #god #please save me

[naamahdarling]

Nebraska 🤝 Oklahoma about the definition of “Midwest”. How is Ohio considered midwest. if anything it’s mid *east*. Petition to redraw the arbitrary American regional boundaries to make them smaller and make more sense rather than just the four the census bureau currently uses

Seriously! I've seen maps that have the column of states right in the middle, including Oklahoma and Nebraska, labeled "Great Plains" and I like that very much. That is where I am from. But that doesn't solve the problem of "Midwest" and the like.

And Oklahoma is incredibly varied. The plains are in the north and the middle, but we have a lot of forest, what is effectively desert to the west, and hill country to the east. And we have some swamp in the southeast corner.

I did a post about the wildly varied habitats here but I can't find it.

People think some pretty weird stuff about us, too. I want to deny allegations that we are entirely cowboys but there's horse trailers everywhere, cows everywhere, we get people in working Western gear riding horses on the road near my house, and near the railroad tracks. and you wouldn't really blink to see a random guy in spurs. So, like. We absolutely DO have cowboys.

#the horse riding near my house is because our neighborhood is near the edge of the suburbs and there's a lot of lots big enough for a horse #and i assume riding them near safe roads and the train tracks is to desensitize them

[farmersliga]

i think the deutsche bahn system needs jesus

#all of yall are desensitized to old war bombs delaying your trains and i need you to realize that that’s a bit fucked #kadaldalan

[doomspaniels]

This week I got out a shot I needed to give Tristan and showed it to him (so he would know what to expect), and he got really upset. Ducked under the couch like he does when he thinks something is going to be awful. I put Gwyn in her room and just waited for him (only a few minutes, he wasn't trying to evade, just register a protest, which is totally acceptable)

When he did come up to me, I showed him the syringe again, tapped his back, lifted a tent of skin, gave him the subQ injection... he didn't have a problem with any of that. He was still bracing for the awful thing that he was afraid would happen. I told him he was done and he did the Tristan Happy Dance (bouncing straight up to tap my hands with his nose).

So if it wasn't the shot, what made him so upset? Tristan really, really dislikes being bodily restrained; I think that's probably what he was expecting. Something about the feeling is really upsetting to him, I have always thought it's probably related to the way his skin has just always been extremely sensitive. I had not realized *how* much of his dislike of vet visits is related to being held at all, rather than being manhandled by a relative stranger. I will have to work on that, see if we can desensitize the lil guy some.

For being very brave and approaching when he was dreading something, though, he got a rib bone (and of course Gwyn did too)

#tristan #cocker spaniel #dogblr #cooperative care #sensitive skin #sensitive something #dog training #desensitization #so good #so so good #Tristan has mastered being the best #injection #Cytopoint

[watching-constellations]

Brielle cannot be bothered. By anything.

A couple of other boarders wanted to see what the horses thought of a giant ball, so Brielle and I had to get in on that. I am so impressed by her reaction. She hasn’t been worked in weeks, she’s never seen a ball before, and she’s FIVE YEARS OLD. She’s such a cool horse.

And don’t worry... the run around the arena was for the fun of it. It started with her being startled, but then she just wanted to play. She came back to snuffle at the ball about thirty seconds after she was done running. She’s a happy pony.

#also I think she might be sound #finally #so hopefully I can start riding her again soon #she at least looks sound enough to start playing with on the ground again #which is absolutely awesome #honestly she has such a steady temperament that I think I'm going to start doing some trick training and desensitizing her to my poi #she can be a dressage horse and a circus pony right? #horse #hanoverian #baby horse #dressage horse #horse desensitization #perfect Brielle

[vaugarde]

ok i think im cooking something up for flamberge’s backstory now…

#tbc they dont reallyyyy need an indepth one but i wanna explain it still #how we go from ‘’child of the psmd duo’’ to ‘’assassin’’ #im thinking first… they get trapped with the wrong kind of crowd. they want training and recognition at first #and its innocent at first… but things get fucked up somehow #idk how yet but they become estranged from their family bc of this…. they’re desensitized to the idea of killing… #ok i dont really have anything THAT concrete but idk #echoed voice

[hashtag-xolo]

Five hours of dog training aka I hyperfixated on my special interest for five hours and got paid for it

#today was a good day #i have some absolutely lovely clients #almost cried at the one who said i need my own card #that is a one day goal but i want some sort of certification before i ever do that #which im on my way towards #but still it was so sweet of the client to insist i do things separately since she jas taken classes with the other trainers too #also worked with a schnauzer who has some barrier and resource reactivity #worked on her allowing me to approach her car with her inside it and successfully got to the car without putting her over threshold #a good start to her desensitization training

[yuridovewing]

Oh god the “tell don’t show” syndrome is. Bad. It’s bad here.

#i know about twigbranch’s apprentice problem being solved offscreen but damn #so. needlepaw joins the kin. she takes violetkit with her. we do see that scene #but we skip to a gathering where THERES BEEN AN OFFSCREEN BATTLE?? #why are you skipping the battle in the battle cat books. especially when shit actually happened during it #why not show that through violetkits eyes?? that sounds terrifying for her! #show her desensitization to violence show how needletail functions in battle #but instead we get alderpaw being Told this secondhand bc we gotta get a useless alderheart chapter in #and we dont even get twigkits reaction bc WHAM 4 MOON TIMESKIP she’s already accepted this whooooo cares #bc alderhearts reaction to violent cats holdimg violetkit hostage is so much more important than her ORPHANED SISTER. #its not even like twigkit has been hogging the book at this point! i gotta count but im pretty sure most of this has been alderheart! #twigkit didnt get a pov until like chapter 5 or 6 and im 180 pages into this #im pretty sure she’s literally only had two up til this point. we REALLY couldnt sacrifice the pointless alderheart chapter? #im not opposed to multiple povs in one book. i am doing that. a lot of books do that really well (read bullet train) #but you have to balance them and decide ‘’what needs to go to this character to progress the plot’’ #they shot themselves in the foot with alder as a pov bc he adds jack shit at this point that twigbranch cant #avos liveread

[woundedheartwithin]

Sometimes I look at my horse and just wanna run full speed at him and jump on him. And y’know what, if I could jump that high, he’d probably be fine with it lmfao

#she speaks #he’s little #but so am I #he’s also the calmest horse I’ve ever met #I spooked the neighbors horses by accident the other day and it surprised me #cuz I’m so used to mine not really giving a shit about anything #it was a BIG spook too like they ran away #and I was just like damn I’m glad y’all ain’t mine cuz then I’d be out here tryna fix that shit #time to spend four hours desensitizing four horses #they’re barrel horses tho so they want them to be reactive #mine are cow bred pleasure horses #so they’re extremely calm #which sounds weird #for my nonhorsey peeps ​basically just means they’re cutting bred (that’s a cattle-working discipline) #but they’re trained in ranch pleasure (which is like western pleasure but superior) #ranch pleasure wants to see the horse using gaits and movement that’s practical for real ranch work #western pleasure wants to see the horse moving so slowly they actually look fucking lame