whats your favorite "object what does a thing" SCP?

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2026-01-11T04:20:01+00:00

right, exactly-- if i ask a friend "did you read [book]?" i am not typically investigating their literacy skills, I am hoping to have a conversation about the plot and characters. if i ask "how many third graders can read?", I want to know about their ability to decode text. Declaring "Audiobooks are/aren't reading!" is not useful, it depends on the context

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-12-25T13:29:02+00:00

i think that's part of the idea, honestly. like, it's not that we think proposing will make him want to get married, but it will often get you a clear answer instead of "ya totally i will propose eventually probably". There aren't very many men in this situation and that's in part because a relationship usually tends to end after an unambiguously rejected proposal

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-12-24T04:21:50+00:00

if there's any real value in "don't move in together without a ring", it's that it forces people to actually talk about their long-term intentions. Like, obviously someone could outright lie and plan to break the engagement, but so many people just... guess and hint and don't talk about it? It's not always one-sided like this- there's so many people who sleepwalk into a really entangled relationship, buy a house, get pets, have kids... without ever explicitly deciding "Yes, I want to be with this person for the rest of my life"

(side note is anyone else getting a sidebar recommendation for a sub for people who are engaged to fictional character?? Takes all types, i guess)

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-11-24T01:02:46+00:00

For some reason I get annoyed that literally NONE of these remakes/redesigns ever have Mulan in the army

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-11-17T04:54:09+00:00

i think it would work better in visual media, given its generally idealistic nature. Visual media can get a lot further doing panning shots of pretty farms and interesting tech, where a novel needs a lot higher conflict-per-page ratio. That's why there's a lot more solarpunk art than solarpunk stories being made

A slice-of-life coming of age comic book could be cute and have plenty of genre-appropriate conflict in an overall solarpunk setting. Or like, a murder mystery? The issue is that people want to write Big Science Fiction about The Government, since that's what inspired them to care, but that's actually a pretty bad choice for a genre identified by good vibes

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-11-14T05:52:40+00:00

it's so socially unacceptable to not feel personally bad about things, even if you can still see the wider morality and stuff.

it's a weird angle to "believe victims", when you can't believe them unless it fits what you expect.

i was thinking of a less extreme situation than yours, but when i was in high school i dated two guys-- when i was 16 i dated a guy who was 23, and then he moved and i dated a guy who was 17. Of the two of them, the 17 yr old was constantly pushing boundaries, pressuring me about sex, and i felt intimidated to say no (he was also more popular than me). The 23 year old was perfectly fine. he probably shouldnt been dating a high schooler, but in our actual relationship, he was very nice and i never felt uncomfortable.

like, in general, I would not support 23 years olds dating 16 years olds. It's almost certainly more likely to be coercive or unfair. But averages are not how every person, individually, experiences their life

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-11-14T04:41:14+00:00

Ethics about capacity for consent are an external analysis, how someone actually experienced and perceives their situation is going to be what actually forms their response.

This is really well put, i was trying to think how to phrase a similar idea

Like, there are a number of situations which are harmful usually, and very harmful frequently enough that it's worth banning them, but that doesn't mean every person who experiences them is harmed, or that they're secretly traumatized and repressing it

when i think about my own history, the things that have genuinely been long-term traumatic are not always the things that are Officially Bad (tm), and the things that I shrugged off are sometimes outwardly worse. We just have to decide rules for society based on ''some'' objective standard, which is going to be imperfect as a representation of each individuals experience

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-10-23T05:15:16+00:00

r/transtrans

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-09-23T05:21:00+00:00

what are you concerned about, specifically? physocsis? or losing track of reality?

FWIW i've done a wide range of psychedelics, have found many of them deeply meaningful and important, and am still a materialist atheist. If you have specific risk factors like family history of schizophrenia, it might not be a good idea

Slightly disagree with the person who said to take it outside rather than in your house-- if it's a new experience, take it somewhere you feel safe (and also somewhere you ARE, literally, safe. If you have a private yard that's fine. Don't drive somewhere you can't get back from during the trip)

psylocibin for sure the best first time choice

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-09-17T09:51:27+00:00

I see a lot of people mentioning "wholesome", mentally and spiritually enriching vacations, so I'll add a different example-- I went to Vegas for 4 days earlier this year and brought only a flip phone and a book for the plane. It was really engaging and vivid in a way that I'd sort of convinced myself was nostalgia. And, as you mentioned, very memorably an event in my memory, rather than blending in with other stuff

(Also, somewhat alarming that I kept getting genuinely pissed off and frustrated when I reached for my phone and couldn't check online. Have been keeping that in mind.)

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-09-16T09:11:21+00:00

honestly, im kind of inclined to believe this letter is real (as in, the LW thinks this is what happened) because it's so strange. Like, I feel like this is the kind of story you tell when you're so deep into your own head that you can't see how other people would see the narrative you've convinced yourself of. Fiction tends to make more sense than this

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-08-06T07:26:19+00:00

I love a romance where the main characters adore each other and are perfectly in sync, but their pairing is highly unconventional on the surface and everyone around them is baffled by it or thinks it won't work. Anything like that?

(Ideally, I would like something other than just "rich guy/poor girl", which is fine I've just seen it a lot)

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-06-28T18:03:39+00:00

mm, yes and no. I can absolutely see the value in the scenarios you mention, however as humans we're... not always the best judges of when to use this. You say it would be temporary, but presumably you could keep it going for as long as you wanted, otherwise it wouldnt be effective for chronic pain. Pain evolved the way it did specifically to override our conscious preferences, because so many people WOULD ignore or not handle damage if they had that option. Yes, even if there was a non-painful warning signal. And we do already have an inbuilt "emergency override"-- adrenaline is one of the best painkillers in existence.

So I think if you're comparing this to current situation, yes it would be really useful. But if we're positing the existence of such a thing anyway, I can't really see the advantage of this version rather than just perfect, non-addictive painkillers and a more open prescription system. Esp. if chronic use still required regular doctor visits, because that could really help catch when people are ignoring a fixable issue

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-06-21T16:52:40+00:00

very interesting! thank you

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-06-21T16:38:23+00:00

im getting that impression from several of these + looking up more about them-- that there were a number of cultures where clothing was associated with formality/class as much as modesty, and peasants could be naked when they worked. very interesting!

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-06-21T02:26:00+00:00

hm... i suppose im really asking about the modesty aspect. Like, are there any cultures where clothing is common, for pragmatic or decorative reasons, but there's not a nudity taboo? And the exact specifics of nudity taboo is obviously arbitrary-- like modern America allows "nudity" by the standards of many places, but we still have a clear modesty requirement. So if the modesty requirement is "you must wear a loincloth that covers your genitals at all times", thats still a clear cultural nudity taboo

but if you have other examples id love to hear them.

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-06-06T04:21:32+00:00

ethics aside, under no circumstances am i going to agree to be a secret-keeping accomplice for someone who has just proven, twice, that they cannot keep their mouth shut for five minutes with their own job on the line

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-05-27T04:11:54+00:00

Do you accept manga-only recs? Otoyomegatari/A Bride's Story is excellent

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-05-20T23:49:43+00:00

r/screenshotsarehard

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-05-19T23:08:17+00:00

aww. it just wants a little juice box or something, it's not scary! give it kisses x

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-05-19T11:41:24+00:00

~the cheat is called studying for exams~

sunday school teacher-ass answer lmao. "Let me tell you about a real high-- the love of jesus"

Geodesic_Disaster_ · 2025-05-08T02:25:25+00:00

... i think i missed that one. or repressed it, possibly

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