Watching little kids interact is interesting because sometimes you will see one, utterly fixated on some goal, shove aside one of their peers or siblings, knocking them straight on their ass—and of course, this causes a ruckus, with the offended party rushing to the nearest adult and getting a lot of attention, and provoking a scolding reaction toward the offender. But the offender has no idea what’s going on; they don’t really have the awareness to connect their inconsiderate action to the disruption. And you can see them get irritated, staring down the kid who’s getting all the attention, seeing *them* as the reason they’re getting in trouble. You can see them thinking (the primitive, two-year-old equivalent of) “I can’t believe that asshole had the nerve to be in my way *and* to get upset when I knocked him over.”
And a lot of people never really outgrow this.
and idk, this may sound like i’m being glib about how people i dislike are toddlers, but i really do mean it. a solid 10-20% of the population seems to fail to develop a theory of mind in life that amounts even to a totally mercenary set of expectations for stuff like “if i walk up to this kid and grab the toy out of his hand, he might punch me in the nose; he will definitely be pissed off.” just flabbergasted that when they treat someone like shit, that person has the absolute gall to get upset. and maybe some of this has to do with the way we societies teach people to selectively empathize with some kinds of people and not others. but some people treat everyone like this. they treat their family like this! they develop whole politics or theologies to explain why you’re not allowed to ever be mad at them, and they can do whatever they want forever.
I have just been informed there are scooby doo fans who make the titular scoob shaggy’s service animal & this is fun and cute but my immediate thought was medical alert dog scooby doo going RUH ROH ! And it’s kind of frying me
RAGGY YOUR ROOD RESSURE
I’m picturing Scooby in a t-shirt that says “Service Animal Do Not Pet” and he’s frantically miming Shaggy’s condition to passersby and intermittently waving Scooby-snacks under Shaggy’s nose like smelling salts
leliana and morrigan convers are so much like “do you believe in god” “no” “wow your live must be so sad you are so miserable and pitiful” anyways i think we need a dwarf believing in the stone with this energy. “Wow you guys think living under the evil scary sky is nice? it’s so sad you haven’t lived the cozyness of the underground :( you can’t even feel connection to the stone ever? how are you guys even living. you have horrifying nightmares and weird illusionary tricks instead of sleeping soundly each night?” and then they start weeping for reals
I mean its objectively good that we’re as busy as we are it’s a beautiful special miracle that since the move we’ve been pulling pre-pandemic numbers but also. From the bottom of my fucking heart:
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