ParadoxicalDeductions

THE TIME HAS COME

C-can we come back to the hole in the sun bit

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

I will always reblog this.

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

There’s some researchers at UBC in Vancouver who look at this kind of bias, and they use the acronym WEIRD–standing for “Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic”–to describe how the typical research subject differs from the world on average.

This is particularly sweet because that wolf almost undoubtedly didn’t have a pack. He was lonely. And then he wasn’t lonely: he had all the weird little squished stunted-development wolves and their weird bipedal not-wolves!

i am ugly crying like snot just avalanched out of my face i love dogs

@mizzwilde

This should be a children’s book

@followmeonelasttime literally crying here

there is water in my eyes

This is an acephobia free zone <3

o'course :)

how to avoid dying in D&D: say “hurt me daddy” to the DM every time you take damage and eventually it’ll just so happen that no enemies will attack you 

this has too many notes and as a DM I regret having put this idea out there and would like to apologise to all the other DMs who have to deal with this now goD IM SO SORRY

Traditional Georgian dancing.

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i cannot even imagine how fit these people are they could kick my ass they could kick muhammad ali’s ass

Let me show you the Aggression of my people… through dance.

If your dance doesn’t require knee pads and posing en pointe it isn’t worth doing.

@dadvans I feel like you can do Things with this

this went big about halfway through holy shit