The Lizeard Wizeard

talking about ghosts and "spiritual experiences" in general is kind of tricky, because on the one hand, there's a lot of strictly anecdotal evidence for their existence, and if they aren't real, that would imply that literally every single piece of anecdotal evidence like that throughout recorded human history is actually evidence of people outright rejecting reality, the laws of physics and causality, and their own memories/experiences to fit a literally impossible narrative just because they want to believe it's true, which in turn would have extremely troubling implications for all theories and personal anecdotes in general. and on the other hand ghosts aren't fucking real and all those implications are true

like the central issue here is that you can say "ghosts aren't real" and someone will say "okay well my grandma's house has unexplained cold spots and people have heard voices there for decades after someone was murdered, are you saying that's just coincidence?". and responding with "yes + your grandma should check for gas leaks" is considered a more embarrassing thing to say than the thing it's responding to

I feel like grace was in such a rush to turn that ship around and hightail it back to rocky that he was indiscriminate about what data he sent back. just shoved it all into the beetle probes, just to realize ‘ok so 20% of that data is scientific breakthroughs to save the world……..80% me and rocky’s movie reviews. and I def forgot to delete the fifteen minute long dance off. hm.’

oh my god i almost forgot to tell you all about how, while my dad was visiting, i had an infestation of every single kind of bug in my house that hasn't been a problem before or since. like i'm not kidding i evicted so many creeping crawlies that week and couldn't for the life of me stop mosquitos from stealing my blood, but as soon as he left they vanished. and i mean, sure, there's a perfectly rational explanation, because two people make more mess than one and he has a habit of leaving the windows wide open enough to fly a jet engine through day and night, but i can't help but think how symbolically on the nose it was. the ancestral rot at the heart of my family so gothic it's got ants and flies buzzing around its decaying corpse.

hey so update but i haven't been harassed by a single freaky little beast since my dad left even after leaving some crumbs on the floor as an experiment to see if they attracted any ants so i think my dad might just be bugs actually

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The funniest and most enduring legacy of dashcon.

how you can SEE the Change in their eyes as they Ask, then CONFIRM

The joy of spontaneous empathy

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people