wantonviolins [they/them]

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Ah, I follow, though I’m not sure I agree with your supposition there. I think we have language that can communicate varying levels of interior imagery, but I do think the people who are aphantasic are at a disadvantage in imagining what other people have going on inside their heads. Someone with robust interior imagery can just … imagine nothing, and while they might not get it exactly 1:1 with the aphantasic’s experience the general idea is still conveyed, but the aphantasic has absolutely no frame of reference for vibrant interior imagery and has to rely on approximations to understand.

Sure, maybe “neurotypical” people would all have the same visualization ability, but I think if they could discuss the concept and their experiences enough they could reach a shared understanding of what their visualization level was.

I have an inner voice, but when I’m reading, if I’m reading something that meshes well with my brain, the inner voice is silent and I have a little movie going on in my head instead. This can be inconvenient, when my linguistic processing catches up to my imagination and I realize that there was a bit of clever wordplay or delightful phrasing I want to appreciate on its linguistic merits I have to go back and re-read it in inner voice mode instead.

that’s john green for you

I don’t think anyone is saying that the ability to hallucinate at will is even on this scale, that would be some kind of 0 out of the 1-5. I can visualize in detail inside the confines of my mind, but nothing I imagine ever breaks containment and escapes into my perception of the real world. I can use my imagination to picture alterations to the real world, but this is easier if I close my eyes and imagine a scene that’s the real world I was just looking at plus the alterations. The alterations will never appear in my visual field. I consider myself a 1, full apple.

I do sometimes get very mild auditory hallucinations, like perceiving indistinct voices or the murmur of crowds in white noise, but that isn’t an active process, just my brain searching for signal in literal noise.

I’ve heard that some people with perfect recall/“photographic memory” can hallucinate at will, though, and that’s how their recall works? I dunno, could be miscommunication along these same lines.

awww you guys get apples? everything I try to imagine gets replaced with Samwise Gamgee riding the Nimbus from DBZ through an Akira Toriyama-styled Middle-earth

edit: I’m mostly joking, I can see the apple just fine in 4K HDR ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION, but I have been having vaguely intrusive visualizations of LotR in Toriyama’s art style. got a whole holodeck in here, visualizes everything, but the more complex a scene is the more it starts to lose detail at the edges. In the apple example, I can see the near-microscopic detail on the skin of the fruit in my mind as long as it’s just floating in a void, but once I have the whole orchard and golden sunset drenching the hills in yellows and oranges and the small farmhouse with a porch that wraps around and the apple pie on the windowsill with steam rising from it and the horse stamping its hoof impatiently and the small cloud of dust kicked up by said hoof, I can no longer perceive the texture of the apple skin

ok but inventing entirely novel forms of shit can rob the narrative of some of its ability to effectively critique the present day, concerns become abstracted beyond the audience’s ability to relate to them

part of the reason cyberpunk has remained relevant is precisely because the things it critiqued in its early days are still present today

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hey comrade, you mind throwing that under a CW? both for 🤡 and more prominently the SA mention?

as a mod I resent that

please don’t be a weird kf-adjacent stalker/harasser person, that’s reactionary shit, marching shoulder-to-shoulder with transphobes and nazis

I’m not a fan of keffals but it’s incredibly easy to just ignore her and spend that energy building something instead

could have just got a bunch of AuADHD kids, I was always painfully slow starting out until I completely understood a process and why every part of that process was necessary

and after that I was painfully slow because I was trying to do everything as cleanly and correctly as possible, which is incompatible with speed. got fired from a lot of foodservice jobs for being too slow, but I was just trying to do a good job and not make a huge mess. also I’d just space out in the middle of actions because my brain decided to do something else.

eventually I got a job working in packing/shipping and was able to take meds and listen to music and I became the fastest person there, so like, maybe they just need adderall

Around here the shock comes from the fact that all the busses are 45 minutes late and will only drop you a mile from your destination unless your destination is the mall.

people create the fantasy of being a vigilante and install security cameras all around their house in the suburbs

using nextdoor is a major red flag for me for exactly this reason

i am not so interested in the philosophy and value system of that era

I think that stuff is important for understanding and contextualizing the events and conditions of those eras, so it’s worth studying from that perspective. The guys who are like “Meditations contains all of the wisdom you need in life” are losers of the highest order though.

I think about the parallels between the fall of the roman empire and the declining state of the US hegemony on occasion (in a sort of way), and the way modern imperialism co-opts a lot of aesthetics from historical examples of empire, and the stuff @Erika3sis mentioned about the concrete because that’s very cool, but I really only “think about the roman empire” in the way the question is asking when some nutsack with a marble statue avi says something inane, and then it’s just with irritation

I’m in a union, and it’s one thing to shit talk our union leadership (they kinda suck and are entrenched), but there are a bunch of people in the union who fairly regularly shit talk the very idea of unionization (management fuels these sentiments by giving our non-union sister workplaces better perks). Also a bunch of my coworkers either promote corporal punishment of kids or proudly declare that they practice it. Got so mad about the jovial discussion of child abuse in a conference call once that I had to go outside.

Both of those are ENORMOUS red flags.