Circles of the Fast Variety

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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What people don't understand about "no excess physical activity/exercise" is that everything is physical activity.

I told the people at orthopedic urgent care that I can't do physical therapy because my condition doesn't allow for exercise. They gave me a list of things I could do at home. They were exercises. I was frustrated at first, but it made me realize how able bodied people can't conceptualize "no exercise" at all.

Walking down two hallways to get to my college class is exercise. Cooking and baking are exercise. Getting something from downstairs is exercise. Even typing is exercise. Each one of those things chips away at my ability to do simple things, like sit upright or speak or even just stay awake. When someone says they can't exercise for medical reasons, that means they can't, and pushing them to do physical activity because it "doesn't take that much energy" is dangerous. Everything takes energy.

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we are in a media literacy crisis

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friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

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IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.

ETA; Yes, the links are US American; no your country is not immune to propaganda. Be POLITE in asking, and I will help you find the data for your own country as well.

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Do you have any cool Hobie Brown headcanons!! I'd love to hear :) I'll start!!

• I think he makes guitar picks out of anything. He hasn't bought a single one in his lifetime, and yet he has a collection of very diverse ones. All of them have little stories behind them, of how he made them or the materials they are made of.

• He probably owns a record player that wasn't originally his but from someone he cared about. The vynils he listens to on it also belonged to that person, and they are not exactly his usual music taste, but they remind him of some other times, probably happy ones.

• He has used his spiderwebs as replacement for a broken electric guitar string more than once. The sound it made was questionable, but he thought it to sound quite cool actually.

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  • He’s always on the lookout for second-hand books and discs etc to mend a little and then donate to his local library. He swipes new ones off shelves sometimes but only from huge supermarket chain stores and similarly donates them when he’s done
  • He does gigs at his local pub and is pals with the bartenders and other musicians there. Sometimes he shows up as Spider-Punk, sometimes as Hobie Brown, and no one has suspected they aren’t the same person. They do tell him they should meet the other because they’d love him, actually, they share such similar vibes
  • The stickers on his guitar and badges on his vest are collected from different places all around his universe, and other universes. I like to think gwen and pav look out for them to give to him whenever they go out on missions
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There is no visible wallpaper in his room. Every surface is covered in at least two overlapping-yet-still-visible layers of posters or pictures of friends or guitars or street signs or other random wall-mounted knickknacks.