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allthecastlesonclouds · 11 months

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fig faeth albums and why:

burn towns get money (single): only song that makes sense to have been created before sophomore year

significant figures (album): right after they get home from spring break. fig had all of those cooking i swear

their ep (EP): max casson’s spring break: i believe in you! playlist. while fabian’s dumping all of his gold in the finale part 2 fig says she has an ep in the works and i want to believe it’s this one. the title’s a double meaning: it’s for the bad kids but it also sounds like therapy so :D

walk through hell (album): in spring break part 2 lola talks about the archdevil tour and i’m choosing to believe it’s this one. there’s a lot of fire symbolism and phoenix stuff and fig going hey we’re a bit more traumatized, but they drag fabian and/or riz onstage for at least 1 concert and that’s where fig gets the idea for

significant figures 2.0 (album): BOP. BELOVED IT’S SO GREAT. they drag everyone to come sing their songs to at least one concert. fig sings hey kid disguised as Kalina and riz is sufficiently creeped out. it’s great.

titles (album): my beloved i will summon you into existence. i choose to believe until proven otherwise the night yorb is like. not as big a threat as it seems (think a lighter vokodo from critical role. not great but not bad) and they clear it out by winter break. the album gets released the day after fig’s birthday.

#The Bad Kids #fantasy high #fhsy #fig faeth #fig and the sig figs #dimension 20 #dimension twenty #I'VE THOUGHT SO MUCH ABOUT THIS YOU HAVE NO IDEA;#I COULD DESCRIBE EVERY SONG IN TITLES #ADKLFHAS;KLHDFJL #AND I HAVE THE SONG LIST FOR WALK THROUGH HELL #i want f+tsf to have albums that are just them but i'm also in love with all of the fanmade ones so they have to exist in canon #also if you're reading this! voicesout has a musical version of fantasy high that i can't weave into this but it's so good and it gives me #so much happiness #and go check all of these albums out! they're so cool! i would love to do what these creators do; they're amazing!!! alas i can only give #you titles album art and vibes :\

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starlightkun · 4 months

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just got THEE best idea for a fic but idk which neo to write it abt 🫠🫠🫠

#oh yeah i wrote a 2.4k sungchan fic yesterday btw expect that sometime soon <33 #this one is unrelated tho #talk #text #mine #f: tsf #I HAVE A TITLE AND EVERYTHING #i just dont know who it should be about........ sigh #will be ruminating on this all day at work guaranteed

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lonesomedreamer · 10 months

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the thing that really gets me about TSFS is that it all comes down to faith—specifically, Sarek’s faith. there’s no logical or factual basis for his belief in the transference of katras or in fal-tor-pan, which we’re told “has not been done since ages past, and then only in legend��. but Sarek not only holds this irrational, unscientific belief himself...he seems to have passed it down to Spock! he taught these ideas, based on nothing but stories and feelings, to his half-human son who has never been quite Vulcan enough to satisfy him. Spock then internalized enough of those ideas to act on them in the fleeting moments before sacrificing himself for his crew. (Sarek tells Kirk that mind-melding is “the Vulcan way” before death; however, it stands to reason that this isn’t done for the purpose Sarek has in mind.)

while he might not be the best father in the galaxy, Sarek proves that—like Spock’s friends—he’s willing to try anything to save his son from death, even something that seems at odds with both science and his very nature. and it works! it’s illogical, it’s fantastical, but it works. it’s beautiful.

#i will never be sarek's biggest fan or anything but TSFS definitely brought me around #as in me crying and saying SAREK IS A GOOD DAD (he isn't)#'not wanting your son to be dead' is a pretty low bar but he DID at least clear that one #anyway...started thinking about this a few weeks ago and it kind of floored me #why does sarek believe in this stuff??? why did he (presumably) teach it to spock?????????#i don't think it's a plot hole (this man also married a human woman!) but it brings some nice flavor to his character #and 'my logic is uncertain where my son is concerned' god dammit @ the writers #the entire film is MASSIVELY underrated j/s #like i definitely think TMP is my favorite of the movies so far BUT TSFS is by far the more emotional one for me #for obvious reasons #even though spock is barely in it #boldly go #being split in two halves is no theory with me

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rynli · 9 months

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some shitpost-inspired doodles

#the first one is too half assed to be clear but he’s about to dive into the water for fish with a green heron #he cannot swim #definitely forgot he can’t hang on with his feet like the heron can #sketch #oc #tsf #Verno Lasien #Rupert vallier #tharia vask #rynArts

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disneyprincette · 4 months

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i understand untagged posts containing the names of things showing up in searches specifically but its really annoying getting untagged posts about my tracked tags suggested to me bc they’re like inevitably the WORST hot takes

#usually its 5000 variants of ‘(m/f ship) is dumb lol (male character) is OBVIOUSLY gay #and (female character) is perfect and too good for him anyway!!’#but recently i saw ‘ai/tsf is basically pedophilia: the video game’#which i am still trying to figure out what they were on about

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lenievi · 7 months

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i wonder if they didn't find spock's body in tsfs if the transfer of spock's katra from mccoy into a katra stone (if that even was a concept at that time) would be equally as dangerous for mccoy

because spock's katra would still have to be extracted from his mind

#tos nonsense #One alive. One not. Yet both in pain.#also funny how tsfs was like 'if you honour them both you'll find a way'#it was always about 'saving' both spock and mccoy and giving them peace but somehow... it's always just spock #but the thing is... kirk did not know that spock was alive when he went to genesis. he just went to pick up a dead body #so spock's soul could get some peace in death #i wish tsfs didn't have such a glaring plot hole lmao. like why was spock's body needed? to give mccoy peace?#was the soul supposed to go to the dead body and then...?#later treks made up katra stones so...#like spock was resurrected at the end but the beginning makes zero sense

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aterglittle · 2 years

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ok but why did they never make a ds9 movie

#like they literally have the perfect opportunity #it's like tsfs (the search for Spock) but tsfs (the search for Sisko)#and we improbably get everyone back together to do it #or Sisko comes back on his own and corrals everyone like as the dad friend I am obligated to reunite this family/polycule #is it because the tng movies weren't well liked or something what is the deal #I know I wasn't the only one who was ??? about how ds9 ended and wanted more #ds9

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zombieweek-g · 2 years

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wait what what the fuck do you mean nirvanA Initiative releases in 2 days what the fuck wait i still havent played the nonary games what the fuck do you MEAN it releases on friday

#the days since i played somnium files have fucking FLOWN #ai: the somnium files #ai: tsf #what the fuck man #I thought there was another couple weeks #nirvana initiative #i just started replaying ddda how are you gonna throw this at me like this #like OBVIOUSLY im gonna play ai:tsf over it #but what the fuck man #going to spend the next 2 days overloading on datomi fics so i can go into this fully deluded about what the content is gonna be

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greaterspawnislands · 2 years

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fly time we fly we fly

#did i ever tell u guys about the terra swoop force sbi au i almost wrote...#i saw almost it sat in my drafts with one chapter half written for over a year before i deleted it but!#i am fondly reminded of it again now watching phil play tsf #speaking

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mary-is-writing · 5 months

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Listen I know I haven't made any posts sharing exerpts about The Second Floor Shop since announcing it but the way this wip just REFUSES to let me be satisfied with any beginning I give it is insane

#writeblr #writing #writers #writing stuff #writers stuff #my wip #tsfs #i could do some world building posts but like #the worldbuilding is so basic since this is more about like vibes and stuff #ahhh we'll see we'll see

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fossilhunterscomics · 1 year

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pinned message, just to give a bit of an explanation of what this is

more than anything else, this is a place for me to indulge in the plots, world building and individual characters of my stories, since I have way too many. I’ll give a small overview of the stories I’m currently working on.

WT (Winding Trails) - Being posted on Instagram and Comic Fury. Currently working on chapter 2, redrawing the first 20 pages of chapter 1, and creating the prologue. Follows Flaxpaw and Whitepaw as they discover the dark, hidden underbelly of the 5 colonies.

TSF (The Star Forecast) - I’m currently working on the rough outline of the story. The script will probably either be done sometime in 2023 or 2024, when I’ll start the comic. Follows Arien, the prophet of his village, as he receives an ominous omen about blood soon to be spilt.

PaH (Planting a Hemlock) - Story is only just being drafted. Follows Vincent Hemlock, the young prince of a kingdom destroyed by pillagers, as he tries to restore his kingdom.

MD (Mayflower’s Decision) - Story is drafted, and I have a few scenes planned out. Follows Mayflower, a young member of Redwood Colony, as she unearths things left to fade into obscurity under layers of packed dirt.

I have more, but I think I should just write about those for now. I can’t guarantee that I’ll post much here, but I’ll probably pop in with some ideas at one point or another— it’s better than spamming my friends’ messages ^^”

#pinned post #tsf #wt #md #pah #im just a stinky stinky guy who only thinks about comics

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jessicalprice · 1 year

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christian universalism strikes again

(Reposted from Twitter)

So a rabbi I know came back from LA pretty jazzed about a Jewish addiction treatment facility there called Beit T'shuvah and so we talked about their approach and that got me curious about non-AA approaches to dealing with addiction which, my friends, was fascinating.

I’ll admit that almost everything I know about AA is more or less from The West Wing. I'm fortunate in that no one in my immediate family has dealt with substance abuse issues, and as far as I know, none of my close friends are alcoholics. My knowledge is pop culture knowledge.

But hearing about Beit T’shuvah was very interesting to me because:

I'd heard that a lot of people who aren't Christian have a hard time with AA because it's so Christian.

The difference in philosophy was subtle at first glance but actually paralleled a lot of the differences between Judaism and Christianity if you dug into it.

Anyway, I got curious about whether success rates were different for Christians vs. non-Christians and started googling. I didn't find much in the way of the data I was looking for, but I did find something a lot more disturbing, which is that the whole 12-step thing is not science-based. At all. For example:

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse compared the current current state of addiction treatment to medicine in the early 1900s, when there weren't a lot of standards for who could practice medicine. In order to be a substance abuse counselor in many states, you don't need much more than a GED or high school diploma.

A 2006 survey found "no experimental studies unequivocally demonstrated the effectiveness of AA or TSF approaches for reducing alcohol dependence or problems."

And I want to make clear here that I'm not saying AA is bad--clearly it's helped people. The problem is that it's touted as a universal approach, which is a problem when it's not based on any sort of actual science.

AA claims that its success rates for people who "really try" are 75%. (And boy does that mirror gaslighting diet language.) But the most precise study out there that's NOT coming from AA (https://amazon.com/dp/B00FIMWI1O) put actual success rates at 5-8%. One of the major textbooks on treating addiction ranks it at 38th out of 48 on its list of effective treatments.

So just like most fad diets, it fails for almost everyone who tries it, and then blames the individual for its failure.

A glaring issue is that the 12 steps don't really acknowledge--or provide any guidance or structure for dealing with--other mental/emotional health issues. That’s a giant problem when people with substance abuse issues have higher than average rates of those issues. (Take a moment to consider how the victim-blaming approach of “if you didn’t succeed, it’s because you didn’t try hard enough” is going to intersect with someone’s major depression.)

Now, if 12-step programs were just one available treatment approach out of many, this wouldn’t be that big of an issue.

But 12% of AA members are there because of court orders. Our legal system is requiring people to undergo treatment that is:

Christian-based

Not scientifically supported

A failure for the vast majority of people

I mean, here's a pretty comprehensive breakdown that talks about the lack of scientific support for it, alternative treatments (like those in Finland, and naltrexone), and the fundamentalist origins of AA.

The founder was a member of the Oxford Group, an evangelical organization that taught that all human problems stemmed from fear and selfishness, and could be solved by turning your life over to divine providence, basically. Sound familiar? He based AA on those principles, and given that the only alternative was "drying out" in a sanatorium, and that AA members would show up at bedsides there and invite inpatients to meetings, it must have looked really enlightened to people. In 2022, it bears a queasy resemblance to evangelizing to people in prison, literally a captive audience.

To be fair--to their credit--they were some of the first people out there saying alcoholism was a disease, and not a moral failing. But they didn’t treat it like a disease when it came to testing treatment options:

Mann also collaborated with a physiologist named E. M. Jellinek. Mann was eager to bolster the scientific claims behind AA, and Jellinek wanted to make a name for himself in the growing field of alcohol research. In 1946, Jellinek published the results of a survey mailed to 1,600 AA members. Only 158 were returned. Jellinek and Mann jettisoned 45 that had been improperly completed and another 15 filled out by women, whose responses were so unlike the men’s that they risked complicating the results. From this small sample—98 men—Jellinek drew sweeping conclusions about the “phases of alcoholism,” which included an unavoidable succession of binges that led to blackouts, “indefinable fears,” and hitting bottom. Though the paper was filled with caveats about its lack of scientific rigor, it became AA gospel.

And then Senator Harold Hughes, who was an AA member, got Congress to establish the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which promoted AA's beliefs, and sometimes suppressed research that conflicted with them:

In 1976, for instance, the Rand Corporation released a study of more than 2,000 men who had been patients at 44 different NIAAA-funded treatment centers. The report noted that 18 months after treatment, 22 percent of the men were drinking moderately. The authors concluded that it was possible for some alcohol-dependent men to return to controlled drinking. Researchers at the National Council on Alcoholism charged that the news would lead alcoholics to falsely believe they could drink safely. The NIAAA, which had funded the research, repudiated it. Rand repeated the study, this time looking over a four-year period. The results were similar.

The standard 28-day rehab stay, prescribed and insured:

Marvin D. Seppala, the chief medical officer at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in Minnesota, one of the oldest inpatient rehab facilities in the country, described for me how 28 days became the norm: “In 1949, the founders found that it took about a week to get detoxed, another week to come around so [the patients] knew what they were up to, and after a couple of weeks they were doing well, and stable. That’s how it turned out to be 28 days. There’s no magic in it.”

The last sentence here (bolded for emphasis) is especially chilling.

That may be heartening, but it’s not science. As the rehab industry began expanding in the 1970s, its profit motives dovetailed nicely with AA’s view that counseling could be delivered by people who had themselves struggled with addiction, rather than by highly trained (and highly paid) doctors and mental-health professionals. No other area of medicine or counseling makes such allowances.

There is no mandatory national certification exam for addiction counselors. The 2012 Columbia University report on addiction medicine found that only six states required alcohol- and substance-abuse counselors to have at least a bachelor’s degree and that only one state, Vermont, required a master’s degree. Fourteen states had no license requirements whatsoever—not even a GED or an introductory training course was necessary—and yet counselors are often called on by the judicial system and medical boards to give expert opinions on their clients’ prospects for recovery.

And, again, the idea that this is the One True And Only Way to deal with alcohol abuse leads to medical professionals ignoring research and treatment options that could be helping people. They are, in essence, taking all this completely on faith.

There has been some progress: the Hazelden center began prescribing naltrexone and acamprosate to patients in 2003. But this makes Hazelden a pioneer among rehab centers. “Everyone has a bias,” Marvin Seppala, the chief medical officer, told me. “I honestly thought AA was the only way anyone could ever get sober, but I learned that I was wrong.”

Stephanie O’Malley, a clinical researcher in psychiatry at Yale who has studied the use of naltrexone and other drugs for alcohol-use disorder for more than two decades, says naltrexone’s limited use is “baffling.”

“There was never any campaign for this medication that said, ‘Ask your doctor,’ ” she says. “There was never any attempt to reach consumers.” Few doctors accepted that it was possible to treat alcohol-use disorder with a pill. And now that naltrexone is available in an inexpensive generic form, pharmaceutical companies have little incentive to promote it.

I'm not saying that AA is bad. I'm saying its hegemony is bad. It clearly is effective for some people--a minority of people. But it's not for the majority of people, and that's a problem when it's being prescribed by courts (and doctors) as if it's a one-size-fits-all approach.

It’s not an accident that a Christian approach to treating addiction presents itself as the One True Way For All Humankind, insists that courts and doctors privilege it, demands that people take its effectiveness on faith, and blames anyone for whom it doesn’t work for not believing/trying hard enough.

Hegemony is a problem.

(Photo credit: Pixabay)

#christian hegemony #addiction #christian supremacy #aa #maybe courts should be recommending treatment with a better than 8% success rate and actual science behind them just saying

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