AWWWW T_T I Told Em To Name Each Other And Add A Third Voice Whos Young Nd Excitable Awa NOVA IS CUTE

Thinking more about Mech dysphoria today.

Stepping out of your cockpit and stumbling because you don't have the right number of legs.

Blinking your eyes out of sync because you don't have the right number anymore, don't have access to on board cameras the way you're supposed to.

Struggling to grab and pick things up because you have the wrong number of fingers.

Failing to recognize your face in the mirror without layers of armor plating over it.

Feeling like a brain pulled from its body and forced to function independently.

george gurdjieff the struggle of the magicians more the the struggle of creative project development. maybe spread your esoteric teachings to convince hundreds of “students” to fund your opera and make it for you

i get it tho

im telling you… theres something wrong with that little girl, and i dont just mean that shes autistic

The Neighbours, Terraces of Algiers (1887) by Frederick Arthur Bridgman

me and stevo talk about the commodification of alternative crowds

i was laying in bed and got mad that i needed to sleep instead of drawing so i got out of bed anyway to draw a gigi lmao

do you think if we ever invent fully sapient AI, they’ll be sad about all the kinks they don’t get to participate in by not having human bodies

Paul heard his mother’s grief and felt the emptiness within himself. I have no grief, he thought. Why? Why? He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Look, if you're having a bad day, here's a 6,000 year old pig-shaped pottery pot.

Neglected children will sometimes go ‘okay time to dangerously deteriorate to see if anyone cares about me’ and then if nobody does, they don’t know how to stop deteriorating on their own, they’ll need help to pick themselves back up.

 And if that help doesn’t arrive, they’ll conclude ‘I was right to destroy myself in a world where nobody cares for me anyway, why should I live at all’ and it sets them on a miserable life path where all they see is chances for self destruction and proof of nobody caring, and from the very start it’s not their fault at all.

Because someone should notice when a kid starts losing themselves and step up and help. Children are not meant to know how to take care of themselves in an environment where they’re neglected, ignored and uncared for. Putting them in such an environment then blaming them for deteriorating is absolutely ridiculous. It takes paying attention and realizing when something is wrong and pulling a kid out of the black hole they’re falling into, before they can no longer crawl their way out on their own. 

It’s not acceptable to let children deal with abandonment and neglect all on their own, and expect them to not grow up miserable, resentful, struggling, and doing harm to themselves. It’s the same harm we never stopped them from doing when they were kids, when they needed to know that someone would care if they’re hurt. If we want functional and healthy adults in the society, we have to notice what is going on with the kids and make sure they’re helped in time.