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Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

2013-2016 Hyundai Genesis Coupe

and every time we kiss I swear I could fly

that’s really great man

i NEED to have a symbiotic bonded relationship with a bio-mechanical spaceship. it would fix me

The best way I can describe why you need to watch Farscape is that it's Star Trek for sex freaks. And yes, I hear you out there, saying "umm actually Star Trek is Star Trek for sex freaks" but I am looking you in your eyes when I Assure you that it is not even approaching Farscape's level. "But OP have you seen the episode where-" yes. Yes I have. Farscape's doing it freakier. And sexier. I don't know how it's allowed either.

I love when you recognize junji ito’s style and you read on not knowing if it’s going to be horrific or just cute cat stuff

As a childhood know-it-all who has grown into the Weird Facts Person. Please know that sharing wonder is my love language. I’m not trying to ‘look smart’ I’m trying to share the joy and excitement and nothing makes me happier. Tell me your weird niche knowledge back I promise that’s all I want

I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person

#spiritual successor is people being like why didnt you read my pinned before you reblogged!!!#dude i am not. i am not vetting every blog#i am here to backread for 45mins and rb 30 posts in a row and disappear#tumblr life

we fucked up

I think the absolute worst term to come out of this age of pseudo-scientific puritanical bullshit has got to be “dopamine addiction”. “You’re addicted to feeling good and having fun” bitch yeah???? What else are we on this earth to do??

Worse than that, it has led to people fundamentally misunderstanding what dopamine is and the role it plays in the body. Dopamine is not just the reward hormone, it also plays a crucial role in movement. When we were first understanding what dopamine was and what it did, we did human trials with giving some people a dopamine agonist so that they had two little dopamine in their bodies and giving other people extra dopamine so that they had too much dopamine in their bodies. The people who receive the dopamine agonist, who had two little dopamine in their bodies, developed a movement disorder similar to Parkinson's and actually led to furthering the understanding of what Parkinson's is and how it functions (and how it can possibly be treated or cured). The people who got too much dopamine developed symptoms of psychosis (which briefly led to a theory that schizophrenia was caused by too much dopamine before that theory was debunked and discarded). Kids who are "addicted to their phones" or video games or porn or whatever Boogeyman of the week it is aren't developing psychosis as a result, they do not have an actual excess of dopamine. People who go on "dopamine diets" or "dopamine detoxes" don't suddenly develop movement disorders because they aren't actually detoxing dopamine from their body. The role that hormones and neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin play in our bodies and our brains are so much more complicated and nuanced than they get boiled down to on social media.