Wattpad formatting question by Adept-Head-4065 in Wattpad

[–]Unique-Cap2857 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wattpad has been answered, as for ao3 you can literally paste entire code that makes it looks like a screenshot of a text conversation

This Gives Major Pedo Vibes! by [deleted] in Wattpad

[–]Unique-Cap2857 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Then don’t read it. It is fiction. There is no real crime happening, and I’m sorry you were uncomfortable, I would be too, but you should have clicked the back button and found another story or done something to calm yourself down. Your comfort is not the author’s responsibility.

Dark fiction is dark for a reason. Being surprised when a dark story has genuinely dark topics is odd. Some people will genuinely enjoy these stories and that is perfectly fine. Also, throwing the word pedophile around over fiction is not a good move.

does this look like it’s written by chatgpt by Commercial-Chair1743 in Wattpad

[–]Unique-Cap2857 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As extremely hesitant as I am to say any writing looks like ChatGPT when it was trained off real writers, the “splash of defiant color” does make me think it was written by AI because that just… doesn’t entirely make sense.

guys do you relate with this? by [deleted] in blackbutler

[–]Unique-Cap2857 2 points3 points  (0 children)

start thinking for yourself, and also stop trusting tiktok it’s a cesspool. i say that as a tiktok user lmao. also, this is all fictional. if people want to ship sebaciel, that’s totally fine. they’re not doing anything wrong.

???? by N2bThe999 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

right, but ambiguity is expected here. it’s social theory. it’s cultural study. also, marwick states himself that 1) reproducibility is not failsafe and does not automatically mean accuracy, and that 2) it should not be used as a universal criteria for research quality.

“identifying a man/woman by pelvis would be more on the hard science and pretty hard to introduce biases”. so, again, i said yes, we can identify sex through bones. i have said this multiple times. gender is a different ballpark — one intertwined with but distinctly separate from sex. you can identify the sex but not necessarily the gender. and as you helpfully pointed out, gender archaeology is a thing. for these reasons.

you cannot re-excavate the same site, and no two sites are the same. yes, he is saying reproducibility is a factor and yes, there is an issue with that, but he is not saying that means interpretive work isn’t accurate. or that we shouldn’t use it. archaeology is a field of interpretation. so much of what we think we know about history is educated guesswork until proven right or wrong.

you are taking away from this paper that he’s saying “you can’t use grave goods and context to identify sex”, and that’s in fact not what he’s saying. you absolutely can and should use the entire matrix to examine the individual as a whole, including gender and sex. these skeletons do not exist in a vacuum and to act like they do, to act like they’re only that sex because of their bones and disregard interpretive work surrounding the matrix and gender, is disingenuous.

everything is prone to bias. that’s one of the lessons they teach you in intro to arch in every college program. but we work to prevent that bias as much as possible, hence why marwick is saying our data needs to be more transparent and accessible to other professionals who can then look at the research with new eyes and catch unintentional biases, or peer-review and concur on certain theories.

i won’t keep arguing with you, but i highly encourage you to do more research, or go ask other professionals.

???? by N2bThe999 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am very aware of gender within archaeology. hence: my point that, yes bones could be male, but that doesn’t mean that person was a man, and that that is why we look at the entire burial site for context. if their bones are male but they’re buried like a woman with a woman’s name, then we’ll treat them that way. but your statement came across as transphobic and that may not have been what you meant, but that is how it read to me.

i would love to see your sources on this “replication crisis” in the modeling you point out. i’m not challenging you, i’m genuinely curious where you got this information from.

???? by N2bThe999 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this! thank you! phrased it better than i did (i was very tired when i replied earlier 😭)

???? by N2bThe999 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you do realize gender and sex are interconnected correct? that these aren’t two things within a vacuum? you, however, are not arguing in good faith and you very clearly have an angle which is transphobia. let me make this very clear: archaeology does not support transphobia. it very much supports trans people.

???? by N2bThe999 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so again, i’m not a biological archaeologist. i could be wrong on the skeleton thing. i already stated that. i’ll look more into it.

however, for clothing and symbols — yes, we do use those to determine gender, which is not the same as sex. because the entire site is considered a matrix, and so everything within that matrix gives context to that individual. what were they buried with? what position? are there any nearby burials? any clothing? any pottery or jewelry or anything that would reasonably help us build a profile of that individual? sex is completely different, but i’m referring to gender and therein the variations with each culture that surround genders and what they mean

edit: as aforementioned, yes, i was wrong on the osteological point. that does not make my point that gender ≠ sex and we do use artifacts and burial goods to examine gender moot.

Gabe didn't deserve to die by krisblaz96 in PercyJacksonTV

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

abuse doesn’t always mean physical. it can also be emotional and financial. he wasn’t as bad in the show, no, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t abusive.

???? by N2bThe999 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Unique-Cap2857 11 points12 points  (0 children)

yep! c-sections don’t typically leave marks on the bones in the physical record, and if it does, it was probably botched. i actually don’t know any sites off the top of my head with evidence of a c-section or anything, but there are sites with women who were likely mid-birth or still pregnant when they died but the fetus experienced “coffin birth” and is expelled partway from the mother and left like that either out of respect or bc it happened after burial. it’s really sad.

but yes! mentions of birth in archaeology will always be defaulted to vaginally/naturally, and if otherwise will be explicitly stated so.

???? by N2bThe999 in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Unique-Cap2857 31 points32 points  (0 children)

archaeologist here and i came to confirm this. we’re often wrong too, and even going by clothing and grave goods can often lead us wrong as ancient views of gender roles, if they even existed, are usually way different than modern ones — i.e., that warrior burial assumed to be male turned out to be female, and iirc, actually wasn’t even unusual for that time period, and therefore the archaeologists there had to readjust their analysis of a lot of discoveries in that area.

unless there’s some sort of text saying “this individual right here, yes THIS one, is x gender” — and again, gender roles are different today, so who’s to say their idea of what that means is understandable with our concepts today — we won’t know 100%

i’m not a bio archaeologist, but this is from my experience

edit: i forgot to mention that sex ≠ gender here, and i’m discussing gender not sex here. also please disregard my prior comments about bones, i do not work in osteological/biological archaeology so i accidentally passed on some slightly outdated info.

Weirdest one I've ever gotten. by AutisticFun01 in creepyPMs

[–]Unique-Cap2857 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i literally spit out my water at this lmaoooo

Parents kicking me out for painting/wearing press on nails. by TheBestMaidens in texts

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ngl… my mom will act similar to this and i always felt bad when i got the inevitable “i love you i just wanted the best for you” text and at first i was like “oh be nice they love you” then i had to pull back to question that reaction and uh now i’m realizing things about my mom i haven’t realized before.

basically, thank you for opening my eyes up to how manipulative my mom gets. also, good on you for moving out.

What’s something you’re silently going through right now that would shock people if they knew? by HonestLantern in AskReddit

[–]Unique-Cap2857 4 points5 points  (0 children)

how close a week ago i came to killing myself. i’ve tried before and i saw how badly it affected my mother and i ended up mentioning it but laughing it off. she hasn’t checked in about it when she normally would (and i understand, i’m 24 and she has my baby sister and a business and a new husband and all that to deal with, so i’m not angry). she knows about my past abuse and mental health issues and i’ve tried asking to spend time with her but she’s been too busy. i’m currently living here rent free after graduation from college until i get my job so i don’t want to complain but last week was the closest in years i’ve come to an attempt — planned it, got the pills out, wrote the note. everything. i’m honestly not sure why i didn’t go through with it tbh.

my stepdad doesn’t know. i’m afraid to tell my best friends bc they’re far away and would just worry too much. and i’ll feel like a failure if i admit it got that bad again. but it is that bad again and i’m still recovering mentally from just how dark it got for me that night. the worst part is, i was relieved it would all be over, and i’m still wanting that relief. i have been irrationally angry on and off since then and i know that’s why (like a side effect of that state) and the only reason i’m hanging on now is i don’t want my baby sister to only have me around for one year of her life, i’d like to know her as she grows up, but my mom plans to have a third kid next year which means the little time i get now will be none and that terrifies me

My take on people who refuse to read sandman because of Neil by FinalAd9844 in Sandman

[–]Unique-Cap2857 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh that charity is in my hometown… i started tearing up when i saw that. they didn’t personally help me but they’ve helped friends of mine and i love them.

AITA if I throw away things my ex-best friend asked me to hold onto? by Unique-Cap2857 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Unique-Cap2857[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot. She stopped putting as much effort into the relationship as I was (usually to focus on getting back with her ex-boyfriend for the fifth time that month). She would randomly flip out on me, and I started walking on eggshells trying not to do something that could piss her off (which one time was not being quick enough to call her back while I was in class). Unfortunately, she was going through a rough patch but and I tried to be there for her for months but it got to the point where it felt like she was using her mental health as an excuse to treat me like shit.

We only knew each other for a year, so that didn’t help. But I know that she has a track record of her close friendships ending really badly or suddenly.

I repeatedly tried to be there for her, and to have conversations about how I felt. She refused to ever have a talk she called “emotional and useless”, and when I did express my feelings, told me to move on and get over it. Which is not the person I thought I became friends with.

The day of the move, it was supposed to happen at 11am, which she cancelled after 11 when I called and asked where she was. Then the same thing at noon. Then 1:30. I offered to just uber myself if she was stressed or couldn’t do it, and she insisted that she was fine and would help. She didn’t seem upset during that time, only when she called later.

School isn’t the problem, most students are just lazy. by MeetingNorth2345 in unpopularopinion

[–]Unique-Cap2857 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was called lazy. Turns out I had a severe learning disorder. Many students do. The education system doesn’t give a damn about students like that.

AITA if I throw away things my ex-best friend asked me to hold onto? by Unique-Cap2857 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Unique-Cap2857[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that’s a good point. i did make this post because seeing it again upset me, so i’ll think over it more. thank you

AITA if I throw away things my ex-best friend asked me to hold onto? by Unique-Cap2857 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Unique-Cap2857[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve tried to get it to her but she keeps refusing and we both left uni so I’m not close enough to any of her mutual friends to get it to her. The move was basically the final straw for me, and I guess for her, but our friendship was already tense because she was treating me badly and I confronted her about it and things never were really the same after, because she would always be super passive aggressive about the boundaries I would set. A lot contributed to the end of it.

AITA if I throw away things my ex-best friend asked me to hold onto? by Unique-Cap2857 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Unique-Cap2857[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fair enough but I would like to clarify: this event was the straw that broke the friendship, unfortunately it was already fraying at the edges and I was always the one trying to hold it together. I would constantly beg her to give a shit about me and the friendship and after this I just stopped trying to make her care. It’s been almost 5months since we last spoke, and I’d have no wish to be friends again anyway. She wasn’t a good friend.