Monday Morning Ideas: Exhibition Program To Vigilante Shit For A Hot Revenge Arc.

my mom didn't believe in lying to children so when I first asked about santa claus as a small child she was like "oh santa claus is another name for a man named saint nicholas who lived a long time ago. he was a very kind and generous man and he loved giving people presents and he would do things like put presents in people's stockings when they were hung up to dry by the fire, so they would find them and be surprised. so now when we give presents at christmas it's fun to pretend saint nicholas or 'santa claus' brings them. and we hang up stockings by the fire and when we get up in the morning there are presents in them, just like if saint nicholas was still alive to bring them!"

so that thanksgiving one of my uncles said jovially "so mac, are you being good for santa claus?" and little (not quite three year old) mac looked up and raised an eyebrow and said witheringly "he's dead."

I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again

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I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

Executive dysfunction is like arguing with a small child to do something except you’re the small child.

I feel like a lot of the “burnt out gifted kid” stuff is just the realization that very few attributes viewed as “promising” in kids actually translate into real life promise and skills. Learning how to easily pass tests doesn’t actually prepare for much more than passing tests. Being a “delight” in class often just means you were too anxious and shy to engage with other students or push boundaries (which is an important part of learning as a child).

Sometimes this leads to taking on more work and getting burnt out from that, but a lot of it is just realizing that that same skill set and those same weaknesses don’t continue to benefit you. You end up having to learn how to interact with people, and while you may be good at critical thinking or problem solving, you have to figure out how to apply to jobs and to relationships. You have to learn a lot of stuff you were supposed to learn more naturally as a kid, and that’s what causes a lot of the burnout. It’s not a loss of skills, just the realization that they weren’t the right skills.

Capitalism obviously plays into this a little bit, especially in America, because of the insane pressure to do too much work, but that burns out everyone. You’re not unique in being hurt by capitalism. But the whole idea of “burnt out gifted kids” does reveal a lot of flaws in our education system.

"Villain era," I hiccup between sobs as I'm forced to assert basic boundaries for my mental well being.

I. HATE. IN-TEXT. CITATIONS.

Not just when I'm writing a paper, but when I'm READING a textbook it looks SO messy (Rick-Astley, 1969, p. 420) and it's SO distracting, (Morbius, 2022) and SO disruptive (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, & Rudolph, 1964.) to my reading and (Bird, Grouch, Monster, & Monster, 1997 ) learning process. And why are some of them SO FUCKING (According, 2007; To & All, 1991; Known, Laws, & Of, 2378; Aviation, 57 B.C.E.) LONG???

The funniest thing about the original Goncharov post is that I have seen people do exhaustive amounts of research in order to discern that it's a misspelling/mistranslation of Martin Scorcese's "Gomorrah" and then go "well this explains everything" while never once questioning why it's on shoes