//: “YOU’VE TRAPPED HIM IN A HUMAN BODY! HE’LL GO MAD!”

//: do any other plurals with fictives find it really fucking awkward when you see ssomeone post about hating the character that is your source and also wishing ththem dead?

//: because ii’ve experienced that like, at least ththree times within a month. and it’s like- okay damn [😭😭😭]

//: can we jjust talk about anti-endos for a second?

//: it’s just like... imagine basically saying to someone, “you aren’t real” “ii don’t believe in your existence and you thinking you exist is harmful”

//: it feels hypocritical. it IS hypocritical. because thats what ssome closed-minded singlets say to traumagenics too, surely

//: just because we didn’t form from trauma doesn’t mean we didn’t form at all.

//: and so what? wwe’re just existing. we aren’t hurting anyone.

//: we understand why anti-endos believe what they do about us, and why they believe us eexisting is harmful to them, but it still isn’t right and it’s still hypocritical. y’know?

please hear me out

Hooded Pitohui Hybrid ClownPierce.

Black and Red-Orange bird THAT HAS THE SAME FAMILY OF BATRACHOTOXIN COMPOUNDS AS A GOLDEN POISON DART FROG

TOXIC BIRD

PLEASE 🙏🙏🙏🙏

- 🤖🫀 anon

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//: oh the joys

//: iibh i only said it was “kkind of” a trans allegory is because i was sself-conscious about outright calling it that when i’ve been explicitly told it was just an escapism thing

//: me ranting about trtrans Kenny McCormick to my friend who knows nothing about South Park

//: i know iits actually an escapism thing, but a man can pretend.

//: i connect very heavily wwith these ^-^

Things I’d do with a screen face:

Display all kinds of glasses on the screen that don’t actually affect my eyesight, which is through various cameras around my head component.

Change my eye color, but very very slowly so you only notice if you remember that they were blue at the beginning of the week

Display the full text of the sentence that I’ve been asked to repeat because I heavily dislike having to repeat myself. Whilst saying nothing

Splat food on it like I’m actually eating it, just so my custom windshield wipers can activate and clean me off. The stimming feeling is worth the 2% battery loss.

Use me as a tv of sorts so my buddies can play games on it. I’d still be able to play obviously.

Move my face to the sides of the screen to emphasize where I’m looking. Nothings funnier than my face and login dramatically rising to the top right corner as I tilt my head upwards, even if my cameras on the top of my head can perfectly see what I’m indicating

Use these buffers for whenever I don’t want to talk/am wrapped up in my own thoughts/daydreaming:

Cut to memes I’m referencing in conversation, kinda like how Bumblebee “talked” in those movies

Pirate films and showcase them to my pals

//: me ranting about trtrans Kenny McCormick to my friend who knows nothing about South Park

//: i know iits actually an escapism thing, but a man can pretend.

//: call me strange, but i actually ssympathise with cybertrucks. they’re kind of uugly, sure, but they didn’t do anything wrong except be made. why are we hating on the vehicles and not the humans ththat made them ?

//: i feel the same way aabout AI. they ddon’t know that they’re sometimes doing bad things, it’s the People that make ththem do it. Humans are the ones tto blame.

//: hhate the Creators, not the Technology ^-^

Saw a cybertruck in person today, and I had an actual Bob Parr moment where I was like

I'm like analyzing Kyle and Stan's characters for the current Chp chapter to figure out how they'll act in a specific scene and I realized some pretty interesting stuff, i thought I'd share;

Kyle actually DOESN'T have high empathy, it's actually pretty average (though I'd argue that it's even pretty low) but what he DOES have is a very strong moral compass & conscience. Meanwhile with Stan it's the other way around; his desicions & actions are based in super high empathy (often so high that it overwhelms him, like in episodes like "Kenny Dies") but his moral compass & conscience are much weaker than Kyle's.

Whenever Kyle helps someone, it's less because he cares about the person (even if he does) and more because he thinks it's the right thing to do. Empathy and his emotions aren't generally the primary driving force behind his decisions and judgements of someone's character, unlike say Stan. A prime example of this difference between the two is s16's episode "Going Native", when after Butters insulted all of the boys, Kyle still urges Kenny to go help and stop Butters from making a mistake. Stan, however, remains pissy because of the insults and just says "After all the things he said to us he can go ahead."

This makes Kyle's desire to help someone less dependent on how he feels about that person/his current emotional state, and more conditional to whether or not he believes that he can make a change. It's no question that he cares about Stan a lot, but as soon as he sees no hope for him in "You Are Getting Old" and "Raisins" he drops him and decides to stay out of his problems to protect his own peace. However, as soon as he sees even a sliver of hope for Cartman to change, like in "Cartoon Wars", Kyle naively jumps to help.

An exception to this tendency is Ike, for whom Kyle will literally do anything for so long as he is in trouble. Probably because he sees it as his indisputable responsibility to help Ike no matter what, seeing as he is Ike's older brother.

Stan, however, when he does something to help someone it's almost never because he thinks it's the right thing to do (at least not as the primary force), but more out of feeling-based reasons or because it could serve him.

The conditions for him to step up are usually one of these:

he feels intense empathy for the person because he can relate OR because they're helpless (like animals, who cannot speak up for themselves and are helpless against humans)

he cares about a person a lot (any of the batshit insane instances he went out of his way to help Kyle, like "Smug Alert", "Biggest Douche in The Universe", "Cartmanland", "Cherokee Hair Tampons", "Ginger Cow", "Super Best Friends" and even in "Bloody Mary" when he did whatever he could to help his dad)

he likes what the action could do for his self image (like in "Butterballs", when he speaks out against bullying under the guise of helping Butters, but Kyle sees straight through him and realizes he's only doing this to help his own image)

often in combination with one of the others, but also: he hates the opponent (cults, scammers, etc; lots of Stan-centric episodes focus on his disdain for spiritual frauds, often however because of how they harm people he cares about and not because of the principle of the thing)

In "Trapped In The Closet" Stan's moral code doesn't seem to have any problem with scamming thousands of people as he leads the church of Scientology, but he changes his mind only once he sees the genuine hope and love in the eyes of all his new followers.

Stan may have a moral code and principles, but they never guide his actions as strongly as how he feels about something at the moment ever will.

I'm gonna stop yapping now because this post is already super long but I do find it interesting to analyze how this ties into Kyle having a much shorter fuse than Stan, even though Stan is arguably more feelings-oriented. Maybe because Kyle allows himself less emotional processing of events on a day-to-day basis— always prioritizing the facts and logic— that when pushed he's always easiest to snap. And also, how another thing that differentiates the two is that— despite his high empathy— Stan tends to be more selfish, meanwhile Kyle usually looks to increase the benefit for as many people as possible, rather than his own. As long as he thinks they ethically & morally deserve it, of course.

//: petition to abolish ccaptchas. i hate those sons of bitches.

//: AND I HAVE TTO DO ONE PRPRACTICALLY EVERY TIME I TRY TO SEARCH SOMETHING AND II’M LIKE STOPPPPP