My Descent Into Madness

Why can’t these two people be together now?

Why can’t the mystery be solved now?

Why can’t they overthrow the evil overlord now?

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).

Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.

If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

just look at how

flat-chested she is

how she doesn’t have noticeable/average-sized boobs

it’s pretty great

look at how cute and happy and flat-chested she is,

it’s almost like a feminine character can be portrayed as pretty or even “hot” (according to mayor dewey) without having noticeable breasts

if you’re a (mostly) bald cartoon dude you have to wear this color scheme

#you forgot aang (michymouses28)

FUCK ur right

Like, I read this vampire book years and years ago that explained that a surefire way to protect yourself from vampires getting into your house was to spread a ton of seeds on your doorstep–poppy and mustard seeds were particularly recommended for the purpose. Basically, if you suspected someone to be a vampire, all you had to do was drop a sackful of seeds on the ground in front of them.

If they didn’t immediately start counting them, they were not a vampire. However, if they WERE a vampire, they’d be seized with the urge to count all the seeds and they would not budge from that spot until they knew how many seeds there were in total. The point was to keep them there until the sun came up and killed them, because if they hadn’t counted all the seeds by sunrise they wouldn’t be able to leave. Presumably you could just go about the rest of your evening as normal, though no word on whether it’s possible to make them lose count and start over.

Having remembered this piece of lore, I want fewer stories about brooding tortured Edward Cullen-esque vampires. I want to start seeing more stories about math nerd vampires.

Vampire accountants who are an honest company’s best asset and a corrupt company’s bane because they are frighteningly accurate with the accounts and will not hesitate to blow the whistle on a CEO scamming money because fuck you for making the numbers wrong.

Vampire cashiers that don’t need to look at the register screen because they already mentally calculated your total. 10-items-or-less vampires who know goddamn well you have 20 items in that basket and NO, you cannot just slip in with the rest.

Vampire math tutors who are constantly in high demand and have to hold lotteries to see who gets to be tutored by them.

Your biological sex and your biology in general is like your body’s hardware. It functions as its supposed to according to the blueprints, and as long as you give it steady power and treat it right, you’ll do okay.

Gender is like software. You’re beta testing in your earlier years, and more bugs in the program (dysphoria) or applications you don’t understand (feeling ‘different’) may show up.

Me: 

The Complete Silk Aspect Inversion Desktop Set

Here they are, all six Weavesilk Homestuck Aspect Inversion Desktops! Hooray! Download them here! Share them with your friends! 

I also managed to break my sidebar on my blog, which had links to all my other desktops and other goodies. So, because I’m lazy and will rebuild that later, here’s a link to the folder with all of my other Silk Homestuck Desktops.

This isn’t the end, though! Tomorrow, I’ll be releasing simple, flat icon versions of all of my custom symbols so that others in the fandom can enjoy them.