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A post on shipping and fanfiction

Because somehow my pinned post got deleted, so I’m just copy-pasting it

Literally write and ship whatever you want. Incest? Great! Adult/kid? Fantastic! Abusive relationships? Love it! Non-con? Wonderful! RPF? Amazing! A combination thereof? Awesome!

LITERALLY anything you want to write, go for it! I’m proud of you for having the courage to post your writing for other people to read, that takes a lot of guts!

(make sure to tag it with proper warnings if it includes triggering content)

If you’re a person who sends hate to people who write stuff you don’t like, even if it’s just “hey writing [x] is bad” STOP, and remember that you can just block and move on. If you hate reading noncon, BLOCK the tag (yes, you can do this on Ao3 too!)

If you send ANY form of harassment to people for ANY reason (especially including “they write/ship [x], which is Bad”) please unfollow me and think about how the actions you take to protect fictional people, actually harm REAL people.

August 3, 2022 34 notes

picsthatmakeyougohmm

hmmm

kalichnikov

guy who doesn’t know you can buy magazines on their own and thinks you only get the mags that come with the gun

lady-darkstreak

this feels like a “draw your oc in this” kind of image.

coockie8

picsthatmakeyougohmm

July 2, 2023 16,809 notes

jaubaius

“Hold this, I’ll bring him back “

lenacraft

Good fucking boy!

roach-works

#just #the indignation #wtf you cant just walk away from them #hang on a sec ill go grab that idiot #okay here we go fuckin can you believe this shit ( @rockpapertheodore)

fefeman

I like how the collie has no issues escaping its leash like it’s clear the only think keeping it in check is it iron will and strong moral compass.

coockie8

jaubaius

July 2, 2023 111,992 notes

Anonymous

Do you think those cat/dogs learning to talk with buttons thing is actually accurate? I know even primates apparently dont know how to parse human words (with regards to sign language) so i struggle to understand why dogs or cats suddenly understand complex english

fumblebeefae

They don’t actually understand what the buttons mean. These animals aren’t capable of processing language like we humans do and they tend to react more to your tone and visual cues then the actual words you’re saying.

The buttons are just very basic operant conditioning. I very basic form of cognition in animals. They press the buttons because they are rewarded for doing so, not because they actually understand the meaning behind the buttons.

You can see in those videos (they do usually edit it out, but sometimes the creator of these videos just outright admits it) that it can take their pet something like 15 - 20 minutes to respond via the buttons.

Claims that the pets are asking questions ect. feel very staged / trained (like the below for example). Remember these videos are all coming from people on tiktok and people will do anything for a bit of internet fame. Scientific research has shown that dogs do not pass the “mirror test” but the mirror test is a very outdated way to show self-recognition in animals.

You compare this to the language studies done by Pepperberg with African Grey Parrots like Alex; in which they were able to ask questions they weren’t already trained to ask, form sentences they weren’t previously trained to do, display self-recognition (via asking what colour they were), could understand syntax and form their own words eg. Alex called apples “banerries”, a combination of “banana” and “cherry”, two fruits he was more familiar with.

I prefer not to touch on koko the gorilla because that research is already pretty widely criticised with a lack of actual data, and there was evidence of the Clever Hans effect (her trainers’ unconscious cues were prompting her to display specific signs).

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

I lecture on this, and my students are always very disappointed when I have to explain this.

Thing is, it IS communication. Dogs are clever enough to learn, via operant conditioning, that certain words are linked with certain events or behaviours - pretty much anyone who has ever owned a dog can tell you that they learn what “dinner” and “walk” will lead to without you teaching them. These buttons definitely allow clearer communication between dog and owner. But that’s not quite the same thing as them understanding the words themselves.

One of the early examples from Stella, the pioneering dog with these buttons, was her owner asking her what order she wanted to eat, play, and go for a walk. Stella responds by pressing those three buttons, and the owner claims this is her expressing her preference. But here’s the problem: dogs have never yet been found to have sufficient cognition to understand the concept of future states vs present properly. If we believe Stella was genuinely weighing up her options and deciding she wanted to go for a walk before she has dinner and then spend the evening playing, then we are assuming she is capable of an unscientific level of future planning that her species lacks the neurology for. What’s more likely is that she’s simply repeating the words she just recognised in the moment - she knows that “eat”, “play” and “walk” are all good things, and so she repeats them back in the hopes she’ll get them. She has no concept of what order they’ll come in. She’s just hoping for all three, and also, she knows that her owner gets weirdly happy when she presses the buttons, and Stella is the goodest girl who deserves many treats.

The problem is that humans are very taken in and very easily fooled by words. We know what words mean, and we have trouble with the idea that an animal using them doesn’t. One of Stella’s videos shows her pressing the buttons for “good” and “bye” when one of her owners leaves the house, which was suggested as evidence she was creating the word “goodbye”. It’s straight-up nonsense - that’s a ridiculously advanced level of cognition and linguistic capability that dogs are absolutely not capable of, but if you want to see a talking dog, you’ll see a talking dog. Stella pressed two unrelated buttons, and they happened to sound like an English word - so, that’s what the human brain sees.

But, these boards are absolutely a great communication tool between dog and owner, since they do give the dog the ability to communicate a basic level of wants and desires in the moment, and that’s a good thing! They just aren’t speech, and it’s easy to see something that isn’t there.

fishmorgue

fumblebeefae

July 2, 2023 17,103 notes

somecutething

Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.

(via Ant.Giovanni)

luidilovins

I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.

urbanfantasyinspiration

Human: play?

Aquatic creature from an entirely different branch of the animal tree: play!

urbanfantasyinspiration

pee-pance

somecutething

July 2, 2023 208,563 notes

teathattast

tunashei

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

jumpingjacktrash

teathattast

July 2, 2023 277,575 notes

ezorzea

I dropped my phone in the shower and the water opened up instagram and changed my fucking PRONOUNS?????

sanitymakesposts

isekai title

dingdongyouarewrong

ezorzea

July 2, 2023 46,029 notes

mikkeneko

everythingfox

July 1, 2023 9,894 notes

habbadax

Took a wrong turn somewhere

orcboxer

i took a nap and woke up in all these goddam spinanch

cardiac-ossification

the-punforgiven

spacey-daydreams

coockie8

habbadax

July 1, 2023 70,942 notes

dispatchesfromtheclasswar

inneskeeper

sometimes i forget most people don't know that birdhouse shapes aren't just for shits and giggles and that birds actively prefer and even need specific shapes to nest in

red-mercer

So which ones need the Frank Lloyd Wright ass houses?

inneskeeper

the ones that make 240,000$ a year by making other birds work in their warehouse for 5 sunflower seeds a day

dingdongyouarewrong

dispatchesfromtheclasswar

July 1, 2023 47,162 notes

everetterice

“In one of the most notable moments in sports history, Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped thinking he had completed the race. A Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him, and after… pic.twitter.com/yxZr732XF2 — Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) June 23, 2023

hellolovelyscientist

“In one of the most notable moments in sports history, Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped thinking he had completed the race.

A Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him, and after realizing what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running; but Mutai didn't understand his Spanish. Fernandez eventually caught up to him and instead of passing him, he pushed him to victory.

A journalist asked Ivan, "Why did you do that?"

Ivan replied, “My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win.”

The journalist insisted “But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win.” The journalist insisted again, “But you could have won!”

Ivan looked at him & replied, “But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor of that medal? What would my Mom think of that?” Values are transmitted from generation to generation. What values are we teaching our children? Let us not teach our kids the wrong ways to WIN.”

lolrider

everetterice

July 1, 2023 52,402 notes