A Blog With No Regrets

I spend a lot of time finding catharsis in Eren because I too despise all the profound wrong in this world so he's my comfort character, but I do want to acknowledge all the gentler souls in this narrative too.

For some reason, humans really don’t like things that look like humans but aren’t quite human. Hence why a lot of people are uncomfortable with movies with animation like Monster House and The Polar Express. It looks too realistic to us and sets us off.

Scientists call this the “Uncanny Valley” effect and its thought to be an evolutionary tactic for survival.

Back when Homo sapiens weren’t the end-all of hominids, we also had some other two legged “humanish” cousins like the Neanderthals, Denisovians, and more!

There were nine different species of “humans”

By 10,000 years ago, they were all gone. The disappearance of these other species resembles a mass extinction. But there’s no obvious environmental catastrophe – volcanic eruptions, climate change, asteroid impact – driving it.

Instead, the extinctions’ timing suggests they were caused by the spread of a new species, evolving 260,000-350,000 years ago in Southern Africa: Homo sapiens.

Neanderthal skeletons show patterns of trauma consistent with warfare.

Like language or tool use, a capacity for and tendency to engage in genocide is arguably an intrinsic, instinctive part of human nature.

Optimists have painted early hunter-gatherers as peaceful, noble savages, and have argued that our culture, not our nature, creates violence. But field studies, historical accounts, and archaeology all show that war in primitive cultures was intense, pervasive and lethal.

Basically: the reason we as Homo Sapians find other human-ish figures unsettling and have an instinctual fear/aggression response called “The Uncanny Valley” is because we literally TOOK OVER THE WORLD by hunting down and killing every other hominid on the planet.

Dunno if the “9 species of hominid genocide” was a result of uncanny valley or the cause of it, but it’s a pretty sure bet to guess they’re linked.

“I want to be with you forever. Will you marry me? “

Hiiii! Thank you for your concern! ❤️

I’m not in China atm, but I have a lot of friends there and the only thing I can do is to worry for them and wish that things will get better soon. Pretty helpless situation. Not only the virus is a huge danger, but also people wish to start living a normal lives. The whole country can’t function normal. Really hoping everyday that the news and statistics will get better.

now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends

we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…

LEVI IS ALIVE

Happy birthday to this man who showed me such magic through his countlessly inspiring art.

You've rekindled a childhood spark I hadn't noticed was fading away and for that I say a thousand thank yous!

The day I found that we shared the same birthday,my heart swelled up with joy and gratefulness. If we were ever to cross paths, I'd like to show you parts of my world that has been coloured by your existence.