Cryptidzatitagain - CryptidzAtItAgain

A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here's preventing you lot from making it worse.

Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one's way out of consequences.

What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.

Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the "hero" or the one who cheers them up.

What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.

Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one's own narrative.

What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.

Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.

It is not: Your rubbish ex that cheated on you.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

-Xanthe

i know it kind of sucks because it's mostly used to objectify women but the trope where someone gets clawed by a monster or caught on something while trying to escape from the killer and it ruins their clothes so they end up running around in a bloodstained crop top or whatever is conceptually a little bit hilarious. "hey nice shorts where'd you get them?" "werewolf attack".

Thank you Governor Newsom

GOD?????

Well time to open my equivalent of a Pandora’s box but hopefully there will be no plagues and flaws inside

Chaos will either bless me for my curiosity or rain down disappointment for my foolish yearning for caffeine

You never know when learning a new skill will come in handy. For example, I had a crush on a boy in middle school who loved Sonic so I learned how to draw him and the other characters so he'd sit by me. 16 years later I'm trying to take a kid's blood pressure multiple times. It's too high because he's scared, he hates it. I see mom's got Sonic playing on her phone. So while the dynamap is running I say "hey look at this!" Draw a quick Sonic on the exam table paper, he's so focused on me that he doesn't realize his BP was taken, now with beautiful numbers. Gotta do an EKG now and I bribe him, "i'll draw Tails if you sit still for me"... perfect EKG. Now coming to see a cardiologist is a lot less scary for a couple kids, all because of my middle school crush.

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

They should just rerelease megamind. Dont even remaster it just start advertising it again

me when i have like 20 notifications in the span of five minutes and when i go check its just the same guy rapidfire liking and reblogging posts