Where's That Quote Abt Like. Being Embarrassed Abt The Thinness Of Ur Life The Way Ur Embarrassed By

where's that quote abt like. being embarrassed abt the thinness of ur life the way ur embarrassed by a threadbare piece of clothing. bc like yeah

it's interesting to me that torture just works to us, as a literary device. It's everywhere in movies and stories and whatnot, from big-budget dramas to little grindhouse short stories. It fits neatly into the requirements of plot: character doesn't want to offer information, Gets Tortured, has to offer information.

the issue with this is that it isn't how it works.

torture is a display of power. It fouls interrogation, this is known; a person being tortured will tell you whatever you want to hear to make it stop, which is more often than not a lie, made up on the spot, or if the truth an incomplete and useless version of it. It isn't generally done for information's sake anyway, but as a form of what the ancient Greeks called hybris, the violent exhibition of your power over another person.

This is, every once in a great while, done right in fiction, but it's a challenge to write vs. the idea that it's a shortcut to one character revealing plot-critical information to another. Pretty much every form of torture works this way, even the ones that are legally permissible. Psychological torment or physical discomfort also produce an animalistic desire to escape harm and foul interrogation. The forms of torture the cops can do? The cops do it not to gain information (or if they think it will, they're lying to themselves) but because it makes them feel powerful.

There's probably a master's thesis in it for somebody studying the rise of torture as a plot device since the beginning of the war on terror and the contemporaneous development of the Broken Windows theory of policing. I'm not really aware of any similar level of disconnect between what Works in fiction and what happens in real life!

if you give “stupid” characters rural/southern accents i don’t like you and if you give “smart” characters rural/southern accents but it’s a punchline i don’t like you even more

Imagine your first winter in Night Raven Collage then all of them start to arguing which winter coat will you pick……….oh dear this is a war 🔥

Good luck!

(Head canon coming tmr)

if you're autistic highly sensitive over emotional if you "get upset over stuff that doesn't matter" if you get angry easily sad easily if you laugh easily or for longer or loudly if your anger is explosive and feels bottomless if you're easily frustrated if you get angry because you're confused or don't understand if people are always telling you to grow up or making fun of you for "disproportionate reactions", if you have screaming crying violent meltdowns over just anything, i love and support and care about you

your emotions are proportionate because there is no one way to react to anything

you deserve to be respected. you are just a person who is alive

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You can call me SIMP. I chose this name for my online persona because, uh, it describes me.

My preferred pronouns are she/her, but I’m fine with being referred to as they/them or even "hey, you!" to keep myself more mysterious lol.

I am queer. This is purposefully meant to be an umbrella label of sorts.

While I don’t feel comfortable sharing my exact age, I will say that I’m in my late teens (includes 9TEEN).

I am currently studying Criminology.

I am Swedish-Mexican-American.

I am fluent in English, Spanish, and Swedish, so if there is anyone who feels more comfortable/fluent in one of those languages, please feel free to express yourself accordingly.

I am high-functioning AuDHD (autistic + ADHD).

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I love learning, and info-dumping teaching others what I learn as well. I am considering becoming a professor at a university (in the future). What would I teach? Anything that I found interesting enough to teach lol.

I love reading. I will read almost anything. This includes nonfiction and fiction (history, science, psychology, philosophy, etc; romance, fantasy, horror, mystery, sci-fi, classics, etc).

I love writing. I am considering a career as an author.

I both read and write fanfiction. You can check the page labeled “Fics” for more information (only if you’re interested, of course).

I love dancing. I am also considering becoming a professional dancer and/or choreographer.

I am deep in the trenches of K-Pop and K-Dramas.

I also love webtoons and webnovels.

I love C-Dramas, as well as danmei and baihe. I also love wuxia and xianxia. (danmei, baihe, wuxia, and xianxia are genres of Chinese, uh, literature?? Media???)

Anime and manga have, for several years now, held me in a chokehold.

I love learning about other countries, cultures, and their histories. Right now I’m fixated on the giant continent of Asia (all of Asia, not just China, South Korea, and Japan, though I gush over those as well).

I love learning languages. I hope to become an extreme hyper-polyglot (a hyper-polyglot is defined as someone who is fluent in at least six languages). I am currently teaching myself Korean and Japanese, which will be my fourth and fifth language respectively.