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Author // Artist // Spotted Hyena // (he/him/his)(er/ihn/sein) // feel free to tag me in anything

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Call me Dean. Pronouns are (he/him) (er/sein). I'm an adult, I sometimes post about adult topics.

Sideblogs are mostly defunct, don't bother tracking them down.

I frequently don't tag stuff on here, so view at your own risk. Feel free to ask me to tag anything though!

Asks, tag games, and messages always welcome! I like to talk to people I am just Shy.

I do not post spam asks, new accounts, empty accounts, unvetted donation posts and other such stuff will be filtered.

Current interests:

-Dimension Jumpers, a webcomic by @/ursaimaginations. Please talk to me about this comic!

-Left 4 Dead 2, I'm slowly being consumed by this. Go Nellis!

-Various TTRPGs! I'm currently running the Cypher System, but feel free to recommend other TTRPGs and especially indie TTRPGs.

-Sherlock Holmes (ACD, Granada, BBC Radio Production (Coules), and 1954 TV + most other adaptations tbh)

-Leviathan, Scott Westerfield

-Team Fortress 2 (Comics mostly)

-Legend of Zelda (Most Main series games, especially Windwaker, Twilight Princess, and OOT) [Addendum: Friendship ended with TOTK]

-Unsolved mysteries and cryptozoology/paranormal activity, but in like a skeptical way. No I don't watch Buzzfeed Unsolved or Watcher. Also David Paulides can eat my ass.

-Natural Disasters and various historical tragedies.

-Oh yeah, like, furries. Send me your fursona and I will respond with a thumbs up and/or a hell yeah.

-Ich sprechen ein bisschen Deutsch, aber nicht sehr gut.

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it's important to talk about how pop psychology sucks ass. but that shouldn't distract you from also talking about how Serious, Official, Legitimate Psychology also sucks ass.

major issues with psychology/psychiatry as it currently exists:

  • an insistence on viewing different mental types through the lens of "illnesses" that need to be "treated"- it's obvious that different people have minds that work in different ways, but instead of trying to understand the different advantages and disadvantages of different mental states, and trying to help each person reach their full potential with the mind they have, psychology/psychiatry imagines a hypothetical person who's way of thinking never hinders them in any way, and then treats everyone who doesn't fit this imagined model as Sick. because every single person will always have certain situations where their style of thinking hinders them, psychology increasingly pathologizes more and more mindsets and behaviors. in pop psychology this reaches the absurd endpoint of claiming "everyone is mentally ill to some degree", but ultimately this is just an overt stating of what's implied in Legitimate Psychology.

  • an over-focus on neurology which ignores obvious social/memetic factors. you'll see someone who falls into right-wing conspiracy theory hysteria, with the flat earth and the reptilians and so forth, get diagnosed as "schizophrenic", and there's an assumption that it's something innate to their neurology that led them to these beliefs, but like, if you look at the mechanisms of what's occurring when someone adopts these sort of beliefs, the primary thing that's happening is they're getting indoctrinated into an ideology by a group. maybe there are certain neurological factors which led them to be more vulnerable to that, but if you're trying to "treat" them by treating beliefs they were indoctrinated into by other people as though they sprung forth fully formed from their "schizophrenic neurology" then you're missing at least 80% of the picture.

The only thing imma say about the new Shrek is that they better show us the fucked up adult versions of Donkey and Dragon’s babies don’t chicken out you Frankensteined those things, you gotta live with the consequences

“Pen and inkwell”

“I'm lucky enough to live close to the Camargue, a perfect place to photograph pink flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus). This image shows a flamingo searching for prey in a muddy pond. The photograph was taken late in the day, with light cloud cover. Positive exposure compensation produced the high-key effect. The result reminded me of a paintbrush covered in ink.”

by Jonathan Lhoir (Belgium).

2023 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year

tumblr and discord changing their ui just enough to be noticeable within a week of each other, 1 million billion neurodivergent people found dead

i go on discord. the icons are tiny now. i go on tumblr. the icons are massive. i kill myself

Everything is like 3% bigger. It all looks fake now. Literally every header looks like an ad. My brain is glitching every time I see a username. 😑

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happy tdov to people who don't pass or have no interest in passing, who can't pass because there is no culturally recognised category for the way they want to be recognised, who flip flop and fuck around, who can't hide their transness and have to plan their everyday around being visible, who can't signal their transness and have to come out over and over because the default presumption is intolerable, who don't have the resources yet or the knowhow or the willpower to change what they want to change, whose transness is warped by a hegemonic image of ideal transness that is almost as difficult to escape as the hegemonic image of cisness, who don't have a justification prepared for the assertion that they are trans but can no longer justify the assertion that they are not, who have a million justifications that are all surplus to the fundamental requirement (that society mandated one articulation of you and you chose another), et cetera and so forth across the world and universe forever. your version is right. don't concede.

this might be headline of the year

This is a great paragraph. "The movie doesn't explain where it came from or how they got it and it doesn't change anything"

What were we expecting from the same company that gave us:

Ewwww I didn't even think of that. I get the point you're laying down, that's disgusting.

ummmmm excuse me Human, i am noticing we are not petting me? i am a little baby of seven (7) years old and i have never been loved in my whole entire life (tragedy.) your eye balls must not have seen when i ran in front of your legs six times in a row. i will now Scream until this mistake is fixed

Expecting every trans woman to become a full fledged voice actor to have their gender respected is bad actually

Thank you Tumblr for letting me know this post got 5 whole reblogs!

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