I work in behavior therapy (the assent based, trauma informed kind) and it's NUTS how many times I've been told a kid refuses to do something, and quickly found out that in fact nobody had ever taught them how to do it- this with all kinds of personal hygiene tasks, communication skills, and schoolwork expectations. I'm autistic, so as a kid I similarly was in trouble all the time for "not using common sense" when I was just expected to figure out how to do something on my own. I think people who do this should be dropped into an unfamiliar job environment and told to use common sense to figure out how to work there.
my favorite thing about loyalty missions in mass effect 2, aside from how absurd of a concept they are already, is that none of them are made equally
like on the one hand you have missions like mordin’s, which require you to make the extremely difficult decision of whether or not to keep the research results that could potentially cure the genophage, which will have MASSIVE implications for the inevitable clash between the krogan and turians/salarians in the near future
and on the other hand you’ve got people like jacob who show up and go “my dad sucks” and then you find his dad go “wow your dad SUCKS lol put this man UNDER the jail” and now jacob will survive the swarm of alien bees 20 hours from now
i love john brosio paintings bc theyll be an absolute gut punch that forces you to consider your own morality like two earthlings and they will also be Big Crab
“two earthlings”, an absolutely devastating oil painting that i think about every single day
You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that’s entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don’t know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.
Demonitizing Irish people’s videos for having swear words in them is a kind of hate crime and psychological torture I think.
more people would exercise if this culture didn’t make it absolute hell
I teach martial arts. we play games with the little kids. they swordfight with noodles and throw foam balls at each other. in the summer, we take them out into the parking lot with water guns. in the winter, we have snowball fights.
the teenagers get swords and staffs and practice knives. we teach them moves from marvel movies that they ask about. they get squirt guns and snowball fights too. we let them goof off and climb the support beams and charge directly at each other in padded suits.
sometimes parents say they miss doing things like that. I tell them, “stay for an adult class. just try it out.” we build obstacle courses and let them mess around with training rifles. they chat while sparring. we scream and cheer for them when they’re in the middle of a circle. and then we send them out to the parking lot with squirt guns and snowballs.
it’s exercise. it’s healthy. it’s an important life skill. and it’s fun as fuck.
This is one of the forgotten but imo super harmful symptoms of diet culture-exercise being relegated to weight loss rather than jist enjoying using and being in your body.
Don’t like the gym? Ok, go find a line dancing club. A Tai Chi class. Play Just Dance every day. Arrange a tag football team. Go to a trampoline park.
Using our bodies shouldn’t be a chore assigned in shame.
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