im so glad ive blocked ppl who made those “embrace your ugliness!” posts
im so glad ive blocked ppl who made those “embrace your ugliness!” posts
they literally made me feel so bad lol
my physical appearance shouldnt hold any weight over how im treated as a person, and i shouldnt have to conform to back breaking gender conformity to be treated with respect > youre ugly and you might as well accept it
like how shitty is it to see a group of vulnerable ppl who are already constantly told by a cishet + white society they are ugly and disgusting for existing and going, “yep that sounds about right, you ARE vile and hideous :•) embrace it!!!”
Sometimes I see fiction with “This magical power is totally inexplicable to science. Look at this werewolf, science will not work on this werewolf, it is totally outside of your puny science!“
If I can put the werewolf on a scale and measure it’s weight, I can do science to it. Don’t say shit like that.
If it interacts with the physical world and the laws that govern the action and interaction of objects and energies in the physical world, its interaction with those objects and energies can be measured and tested. There is always something that can be observed, examined, or tested when the supernatural interacts with the mundane.
We can observe the existence and composition and nature of celestial objects by the disturbances their passage creates in the light of stars; we can damn well learn to understand the existence and composition and nature of supernatural entities by study of the disturbances they create in the everyday world.
but, uh, I kinda grew up with a deep and abiding love for the Ghostbusters, so yeah.
look, even if werewolves appear to operate by a wholly different set of rules than the ones that apply to literally everything else we know, if anything about them is consistent and reacts the same way every time to the same conditions THEN WE CAN SCIENCE IT.
One of the fun things about science is you don’t have to understand the underlying principles to ask questions, try stuff, write it down.
Werewolf: You can’t explain my curse with science!
Scientist: Bet!
Werewolf: Wha?
Scientist: I’m going to observe and record and ask questions and take measurements and occasionally ask you if I can poke you with things and have like hair/fur samples and shit. I’m going to write it ALL DOWN until I can scientifically explain werewolves.
Werewolf: But… that’s not ….
Scientist: That is literally how we’ve figured out everything we have ever scienced.
the reason high school is so difficult is because ned never made a guide for anything past 8th grade