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hot take but i think pain should be discrete and purposeful (‘stop touching a hot stove’ and ‘stop bumping into furniture’) and then it should stop when it is no longer communicating useful and actionable information. you may disagree but i think chronic pain is bad.

there’s a hypothesis that long-duration pain, the kind of pain that lasts after the abrupt piercing of flesh, is not universal to the animal kingdom. almost all animals need to be able to react to immediate negative stimuli, and do, and so they have the kind of pain receptors necessary to tell them if something is attacking them or hurting them to flee. but for animals which are not sociable, which do not care for one another, and which therefore must nurse their wounds alone, to continue to feel intense pain after the immediate threat has passed would only weaken and distract them. longer-duration pain, extended suffering, is a consequence of our ability to express pain to others, adaptive only for animals who have mothers or siblings or other conspecifics who will come to their aid when danger threatens.

Agree to do petplay with a girl and I just run around naked in the bushes devestating the local ecosystem for several weeks until I get hit by a car and go to hell because I can't be Catholic

The fact that Spear doesn’t really have language yet aside from grunts so the only thing he really has to communicate is Mera’s name. He’s a Stone Age dude and he’s going to take on a fucking civilization that has metal, and all he’s got going is the name of someone that civilization stepped on. All of his anxieties and reflections about being a person who isn’t like all the people around him. The concept that he’s a being out of time just as much as Fang.

i didn’t believe u guys when u said high school aus become unreadable in adulthood but then i turned 18 and suddenly i’d rather die than read about these bitches failing math or something

truly can’t get over how much everybody dunked on tumblr for banning porn and yet in 2022 this is the last bastion of social media sites where you are allowed to say tits without being blasted into space