Kelsen is relaxing

May 20

6/50

May 19

true story time:

that scene where steve gives fury the ten dollars because he lost the bet?

the first time my brother saw the avengers, he forgot that steve had ever made the bet. so when steve gave fury the money, my brother thought it was because steve was confused about racial equality in our time and was paying fury a tip for working on the helicarrier

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Related: I just made a great smoothie. Here is the recipe:

buncha ice
some orange juice
lumps of mango flesh
an almost-brown banana
a splash of POM blueberry juice
and a very tiny bit of cranberry juice

And then blend it and add more ice when you decide you want the texture to be icier. ENJOY

So I cut a mango for the first time tonight

and it eventually de-evolved into me scooping the flesh from the halves with my bare hands like an animal

Does this ever happen to anyone else??

May 18

I love Fred Astaire’s goofy Christmas-elf face

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themundaneworld:

kelsenk:

themundaneworld:

This person here, disagreed with something I wrote on my blog. She sent me an ask politely, pleasantly, and respectful explaining why she thought I was wrong. I responded, trying to be equally pleasant while making my point again. I may have failed, but I will do this.

THIS PERSON RIGHT HERE IS GOOD PEOPLE! WE NEED MORE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET LIKE HER! TO GO HER BLOG AND TELL HER HOW AWESOME SHE IS.

Wow! This legitimately made me blush! Thank you!

Kind of related: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the topic of Improving Discourse on the Internet (probably because I spent a lot of time reading through John Green’s blog a few nights ago). I think spending a lot of time on Tumblr/seeing how arguments usually play out here made me start to think it was okay to respond to things I disagreed about with pointed, caustic anger, because a) it’s funnier and b) it seems to be the most effective way of invalidating your opponent’s argument.

However! In the real world that isn’t the case. There is true value in listening to people and respecting their views and their feelings (even if that sounds dumb). I take real offense to people who take the tack of “Your opinion matters less than mine because of such and such” (I feel like this happens a lot in feminist arguments, especially). It just makes it hard for me to want to have any sort of discussion with someone after that, because I have lost faith in their desire to be reasonable.

Anyway. This concludes my essay on discourse! I feel like it is convoluted and maybe doesn’t make sense, but hey!

No problem! I feel like you earned the compliment.

I try to take the tack of responding to any argument, so long as it’s actually presented. What irritates me the most is when people say “You’re wrong”, and leave it at that. A reason, even a bad reason, can be worked with. It’s easy to cast off someone that disagrees with you, it’s even harder to understand why they disagree. There are people out there who are just contrary, but often revel themselves pretty quickly. They can also fuck off. But anyone who is willing to provide a reason and talk about it is fine by me.

As someone who use to believe in a 6,000 year old earth, and that it never rained before Noah’s flood and that is why people lived to be 00 years old, I appreciate someone being will to not just say “you’re wrong”, but also, “here’s why”.

I think the biggest problem on the internet is just anonymity. Suddenly everyone has a mask and a voice modulator. Anyone can be brave when they don’t have to stand by their words.

And as for respect, I kind of feel like it’s par for the course for discussing anything. Whatever opinion someone has, they take their opinion seriously. If you don’t take their opinion seriously either, they’ll never give you a chance to show them how wrong they (may) be.

I also often think that good stuff is under rewarded. Have you ever known someone who worked in retail? 100 pleasant, easy to deal with customers they meet every day they’ll never talk about. One asshole they’ll be talking about for weeks. It should be the other way around, because I happen to think assholes are the minority. Nice people are the silent majority.

I know what you mean (in regards to people failing to provide reasons)! I feel like people have these switches that get activated when they get presented with certain pieces of information about their opponents that make them just stop being reasonable. (For example: finding out that someone is Christian or atheist, feminist, gay or straight, liberal or conservative, et cetera).

Like, “Oh, you don’t believe in God? There’s no arguing with you, then” or vice versa. It seems like it happens ALL THE TIME on the Internet. I just think it’s a little sad that we have this awesome tool at our fingertips that could legitimately help you to be personally exposed to so many different views, but people can easily get turned off by all the bitterness and snappishness and unwillingness to listen.

Also I completely agree with your point about anonymity on the Internet. I mean, I don’t have a big-time famous Tumblr blog, so I doubt I’d be a target for anonymous hate, but I made a conscious decision to keep anonymous turned off. The hatred that people will anonymously spew is such a weird and awful phenomenon, and I don’t want to ever deal with it even showing up in my inbox (let alone publishing it for everyone to see).

FINALLY: great point about nice people being the silent majority! I myself have had a few service-industry type jobs, and I am personally guilty of holding onto the mean or cruel things people have done/said to me instead of all the awesome experiences I’ve had. I am going to have to try to focus on the cool things that people do, instead of the crappy ones!

(Really, finally: I like how this really neat discussion includes a goofy picture of me at the top)