• Tanuki mom

• Media worker

• Student

• Public artist and cosplayer

• Avid gamer

• World record holder

• An elected authority figure in several places

• Stand-up philosopher

• Youngest of seven sisters

• An aspiring friend

We're all Pokemon fans, and one year for I think Halloween, when we got tired of dressing up as Team Rocket and going door to door reciting the Team Rocket motto for candy each year (because we couldn't agree on the best arrangement, and to be fair, I needed a break from being Wobbuffet), we dressed up as a female Team Magma grunt (one of my best friends), a male Team Aqua grunt (the other best friend), a female Team Snagem grunt (me), and I think a male Cipher grunt (my BF). As a joke, all of us except my BF (Cipher grunts canonically didn't exist for raiding) pretended to raid each other's candy and recruit people to our team, but everyone including onlookers got carried away and we ignited something. Whoopsadoodle.

Well I was in the two "ask" communities, but then a person in charge, who many are concerned about in regards to motivations, made sure I got both the boot (the "normal" part of the punishment) as well as a taste of unprovoked exposure (wut?)

One thing comes to mind, but it's not really liked/understood.

Social incentive is just as much a thing as economic incentive.

No, but oddly the reverse is the case, where it's illegal to feed the homeless. They're afraid of poisonings.

No, but I have a neighbor (who is otherwise a recluse) who has been noticed mowing his lawn at three in the morning, also while not wearing anything.

I like to think this is their way of confirming the two universes are canon and that the characters are subconsciously aware.

Describe it to me, maybe it will.

My glasses and the fact I have any that allow me to read questions.

The ending to Castle. A series that went on for eight seasons, where they were given several warnings about how the actors (who didn't get along) might quit and challenge production, and then it happens, and instead of preparing a proper ending or deciding to recast Beckett, they had the characters win against the mafia, then randomly die because the writers are absolutely obsessed with cliffhangers, then randomly be brought back to life, then randomly turn it into a Wizard of Oz type of ending with kids we've never seen before, all because they stalled writing an ending until the very last moment. As much as people blame Stana Katic for leaving and throwing a wrench into things, you can't say the writers didn't have some kind of hand in how things turned out. Every possible thing that could've fixed the show was voluntarily ignored.

We live in a world where we think of marriage as defined by what the paperwork says, but true marriage comes from the heart.

My best friends are the reverse of this, they are inseparable and have a family they help but decided not to seal the deal bureaucratically or even spiritually. They say a part of it was being tired of being judged based on association and knowing nobody could do that if nobody connected them.

If you having trouble knowing what to say in a conversation is what you're getting at, I can relate to that. Once in a while I'll have found a stranger whose standards I can meet, but they're so few and far between that no tangible friendships have been made.

Been in a kind of rut to be honest. I love Autumn, but the times know how to make you think of certain ongoing social issues with more emphasis.

I mean the way you explained it does make sense for them to do, for example if I had a certain medical condition, I might see someone describe it in terms I'd describe and say "it sounds like you might have MS", but the confusing side/aspect of it, to me, comes from exchanges where someone is, for example, accusing another person of being an art thief, and that person responds "stop projecting, you're the art thief" (or, alternatively, the act of projecting is hard to think of a lead-up for). And it happens often enough I scratch my head at how it's seen as having gravity.

I've seen/heard it described as "psychologically caused", but I've never been in a situation where I've felt gravitation towards doing it, or, strictly speaking (which I say that way because it might boil down to coincidence when I describe others doing it, so I'm saying it relatively loosely in those instances), suspected it. It reminds me of how long it took me to understand sarcasm, which I still take literally, since "I didn't know you were being sarcastic" when they were is easier to fathom as a plea for forgiveness than "I thought you were being sarcastic" in response to someone being sarcastic.

That's the other confusing part to me. I might be of a scrutinizing nature, but the part of me that is able to put myself in others' shoes cannot imagine for the life of me the act of projection as a psychological urge. As I think of that, one of two thoughts either come to mind, that either this is another instance of the phenomenon of Stockholme Syndrome (which only pop psychologists are saying is that common) or it's one of those obscure neurodivergent phenomena (not saying that as a form of judgment, just that maybe, I think, their inner workings work differently enough for it to be a thing).

Coming from someone who values her tactical side, dare I say projection seems maladaptive if I'm underestimating its social value, like it's another instance of how sarcasm took centuries to become normalized as an oral literary device.

Miniseries. That way I can make a proper movie week.

Why is it seen so often in discussions of psychology, which make it out like it's that kind of phenomenon?

Then only one immediately comes to mind.

I'm way ahead of you at knowing I have aphantasia, no test needed.

I think they should just number the episodes on the title screen, like Ninjago did. Even with the recaps helping me determine what happened in the previous episode, shows like Avatar often left me in the dark because the recap clips were almost never the parts of the previous episode I remembered.