#Amenta RP #Amenta #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #nsfw text #injury cw #death mention #suicide cw? #I feel like this probably deserves some additional warning tag but I’m not sure what #(they do say @industrialbruise is his own content warning but probably a lot of my followers would not know that) #high context jokes
While reading this post, shortly after reading this post (and its OOC comments), a thought hit me:
“Are reject-your-reality and existing-while-red *siblings*?”
Basic public demographics line up: same country, appropriate genders, they’re the same age but Amentans do have twins sometimes so that’s not especially strong counterevidence. And they’re both written by the same person, which counts for something.
This post has suddenly gotten much funnier, like a non-sexual version of that Batman post that was going around recently. (”Sometimes he joins us.”)
(It’s possible I’m late to the game here, but in my defence I hadn’t been following reject-your-reality very closely. And if you’ve ever made any OOC comments explicitly revealing this, I missed them.)
Thank you again for the fun game! I do love a good stalking puzzle.
†These could be construed as cheating, but I’m not Amentan and I never said I’d restrict myself to only sources of information accessible to Amentans.
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#if this were the real world I would be much less confident in my conclusion #but in fiction ”this is all a coincidence” solutions should be given less weight #(although I suppose there’s still ”it’s a deliberate false trail”) #Amenta #oh look an original post
#Amenta #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #high context jokes #(no even higher context than that) #(like the amount of context needed to parse the sentence ”reds are a clean caste” is not even enough) #(this is one of those posts I reblog mostly for the amusement of my future self) #((this amusement not to be taken as expressing an opinion regarding the statement itself))
In fact, when I’ve touched something like poison ivy where I literally can’t touch my face until I’ve washed my hands, it’s really hard to remember not to touch anything
*nod*
I don’t get the tingling in all cases. I think the main factor is whether the contamination is…I’m not sure what the right phrasing would be…exceptional? Like, if I’m in a grocery store, there’s a single flag in my brain for “have I touched *anything* public yet†”, and once I’ve done so touching additional stuff doesn’t affect me unless I have some reason to believe it’s *unusually* dirty. The tingling is usually if I’ve touched a *single* contaminated thing, especially if I wasn’t expecting in advance that I would be doing that. Poison ivy would *probably* qualify, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually encountered any myself.
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Even when I don’t *feel* it like that, I’m usually pretty good at keeping track of “is this clean”. Not always: during Dad’s recent cold, at one point it didn’t occur to me until far too late that I was using the same leash to take the dog for a morning walk that he’d used to take the dog for an evening walk, and was turning on the light switch that he had turned off. I seem to slip up a lot less than most people, though (and in any case I got away with those particular incidents).
While I do consciously place a higher value than most people on keeping track of this stuff, it’s also just higher-salience to me. I once spotted the expiration date on a juice box at a *glance*, when Mom had deliberately searched for a date and couldn’t find it. To her it blended in with the cryptic production code right next to it, but to me it stood out. Almost like an Ishihara test.
(…now I’m thinking about Amentans testing a person’s pollution sensitivity with things like “how long does it take them to spot the red in a Where’s Waldo picture”.)
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†This flag is checked when processing questions like “my nose is itchy; should I use a fingernail to scratch it, or rub my nose against the sleeve on my upper arm instead?” or “they gave me an Oreo as a free sample; should I pick it up with my bare hand, or use the paper cup it came in like a mitten?”
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#injygo #Amenta #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #(and related issues) #replies #food mention #illness tw #@roleplayers: feel free to use me as inspiration when describing what getting polluted feels like #(especially if the character believes in a theory of pollution such that) #(”this specific patch of my skin is polluted but I can still keep it contained” is a coherent statement) #((does point-of-contact allow for that with *people* or just objects?)) #((there’s probably a schism over that somewhere))
Does anyone else reading this get the thing where after touching something you suspect to be germy, the part of your body that touched it feels a little tingly? Like your brain’s way of setting a reminder to be careful what that bit touches until you get a chance to clean it.
(I saw the bit about “it’s kind of like. everybody else has a whole section of their brain devoted to ‘is this clean’ and i’m just tryin to process it along with everything else”, and I thought god, I think I might actually *have* that section, it’s the one in charge of that tingling thing.)
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#Amenta #morning reblog #even if the answer is ”no” I’m curious to hear it
Does anyone else reading this get the thing where after touching something you suspect to be germy, the part of your body that touched it feels a little tingly? Like your brain’s way of setting a reminder to be careful what that bit touches until you get a chance to clean it.
(I saw the bit about “it’s kind of like. everybody else has a whole section of their brain devoted to ‘is this clean’ and i’m just tryin to process it along with everything else”, and I thought god, I think I might actually *have* that section, it’s the one in charge of that tingling thing.)
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#Amenta #(sort of) #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #oh look an original post
checked the label on my breakfast four times today before I could bring myself to eat it
reciting each bit carefully in my head, reassuring myself
I knew, I knew there was no Voan stuff in it
but there’s always that little voice going “are you sure”
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#Amenta RP #Amenta #this contribution is mine #normally roleplaying’s not really my thing except as a lurker #but tbh this barely qualifies as roleplaying I basically wrote it straight from RL experience #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #(it isn’t always this bad but sometimes it is)
You either have to deal with it or adopt colourless neopronouns. If your language doesn’t have an established colour-neutral pronoun, the constructed ones will probably be clunky and unnatural.
But even if I were writing to a monolingual audience, the core of my point wouldn’t be “don’t use coloured pronouns”. They’re a problem, but the problem isn’t one that’s fixed merely by adopting orthodox language. It takes some mindfulness to notice yourself rounding someone off to an instance of their caste, and to bring to mind other, unrelated things about them – but that’s really the core of it, the central tendency of what I miss in social justice.
#Amenta RP #(OP is roleplaying; I’m not) #Amenta #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #high context jokes #oh my god #language #(there’s at least one other post in my ”language” tag) #(where the punchline is ”colourless green ideas sleep furiously”) #(here’s another one for the collection)
#Amenta #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(some of which was meta-amusement that I saw this punchline coming) #high context jokes
Brinens and Things 