Thems The Breaks

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Also from above:

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

In honor of (just in time) Pride, I drew the two gayest dudes I could think of

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

For comparison, this is a daffodil

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

This is a marigold:

“buttercups” is a name applied to MANY flowers. in my part of the south it was this one:

Hello I would like to add to the confusion:

wait so if thats morning glory what is this?

*licks ur palm* i won’t be silenced THE PEOPLE HAVE TO KNOW

please don’t fuck my dad

Okay.. so suppose you’re a fanfiction writer….

Someone once gave me fan art of a story I finished years ago and I immediately wrote more, almost exclusively for them.