Satyaani of the Lash, a demon cleric of pain ⛓️🥀🗡️
Finished commission for theflizzmg! I’ve gotten to draw many tiefling characters as of late!
“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”
— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?
it’s DIRT
unmute for comically aggrieved farmer
reblogging for the second time because I still laugh uncontrollably. in my mind the cows are trying to be gracious about their strange gift. ‘yes we love it thank u’
@diseonfire future?
I know I literally just reblogged this but I love this video so much it always makes me laugh because
1. “LADIES”
2. The very disappointed “Eclair…”
3. “WHAT?” (High pitched mooing in response)
4. The way they turn into Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch as they get progressively more frustrated
This deserves an Oscar
They say there aren’t any iconic tik toks but I know I’m going to be thinking of this one for weeks
[video transcript:
i’m here with a message about an issue thats that’s very close to my heart. an issue that affects me, and millions like me everyday. my message is simple:
don’t touch my shit
we live in a world where millions of people go everyday without touching my shit. why can’t you be one of them?
you alone have the power to stop touching my shit, because you are the one touching my shit. in fact, research indicates that by the simple act of you touching your shit, and only your shit, we can eradicate the issue of you touching my shit almost immediately
with only a dime a day. i made a little stack of dimes and put it on my dresser. it fell over so i know you’re touching my shit
don’t touch my shit]
this scene is what solidifies jammer to me as one of my all-time favorite dimension 20 characters. evan having just had a very public meltdown in a way that could've gone very very badly for him if jammer hadn't stepped in to help. evan is such a raw portrayal of trauma and neurodivergence, and jammer is an incredible example of how to help when a friend is struggling. more than that, it's how lou described how jammer saw evan in that moment. evan's magical issues reads very easily as a metaphor for psychosis, and he lashes out and acts "scary". but jammer doesn't see him as scary, he sees him as someone who is in distress and acts accordingly.
Die with a smile is Durgetash coded- HEAR ME OUT!!! vibe wise no BUT THE LYRICS!?!?!?
“I, I just woke up from a dream”
“Where you and I had to say goodbye” durge getting got by orin
“And I don’t know what it all means”
“But since I survived, I realized”
“Wherever you go, that’s where I’ll follow”
“Nobody’s promised tomorrow” doomed lovers fr
“So I'ma love you every night like it’s the last night”
“Like it’s the last night”
Gortash is absolutely bruno Mars in this situation cuz GAGA comes in with
“Ooh, lost, lost in the words that we scream”
“I don’t even wanna do this anymore”
Reject BHAAL Durges STAND UP
Idk am I crazy??? Like I said vibe wise Like genre of the song no… but the lyrics… I think I’m cooking
If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.
Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.