#genuinely: this is what further research into the famous ‘marshmallow test’ showed#it wasn’t that kids who were able to delay gratification were more likely to be successful later on#due to intrinsic qualities#it was that kids who had a stable upbringing were more likely to be successful#and ALSO: those kids had trust that their caregivers would keep promises#which is WHY they were willing to give up one marshmallow now for the promise of two marshmallows later#kids who did NOT have trustworthy caregivers#or who were in a fundamentally unstable situation#DID NOT have that trust so they wanted their one marshmallow NOW#same deal here i think#it’s not that Gen Z is bratty#it’s that they have no trust in the system and no faith that promises will be fulfilled#and frankly i do not blame them -@cicerfics
harrow x gideon x ianthe is one of the only love triangles i can think of where 1. it’s an actual triangle (all possible combinations have some sort of vibe, it’s not just one person choosing between two potential partners) and 2. i do NOT believe a threesome would solve the problem. in fact i think it would make it worse
babe are u okay ur crying about closeness lines over time by olivia de recat again
This speaks to me so viscerally it hurts. It also helped me get modern art in general? Like. These are just lines…but they convey so much because of the words supplied. That’s awesome!
Like, I’m gonna be thinking about this one for a while now. I wonder about the lines of my own life and how tangled and lost it feels to try and understand but to think about slices of it…
the locked tomb series asks big questions, like would you sacrifice the memory of those you loved to not have to live with your grief? and what if god was a tumblr user?
i’m so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.
Harrow the ninth dares to ask the question, what if your found family just fucking suuuucked. What if they sucked soooo bad omg omg. Space alexa how do i unfind these people
Found family: Me, girl I hate who wants to fuck me/be my sister so bad it makes her look stupid, buff uncle who constantly tries to kill me, divorced mom and dad who regularly forget I exist, the corpse of their ex, our lord and savior Jesus Christ, and my 4.5 billion year old dead crush who I am hallucinating
the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.
while we’re still alectopaused i’d just like to shout out gideon’s personal monkey’s paw hell. she has left the ninth house; her father is god; she has been elevated to the highest rank in the cohort; she is untouchable and invulnerable, seeing active combat against sinister foes that lesser warriors couldn’t possibly stand against; harrowhark nonagesamis has died or been erased, either way ensuring that she never has to see her again. kiriona gaia has gotten literally everything that she always wanted, and all it cost her was what she found along the way.
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