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“Pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing, and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors, so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.’”

  • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    She does realize birds are literally in a clmpetition trying to find a mate, right? Right?

  • Juice@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    My baby niece started bobbing up and down when a song came on, happily waving her little fists and shaking her little diaper butt.

    I was like “that’s terrible, you’ll never be a star, keep your day job you untalented hack!”

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    4 months ago

    My partner made up a word - Dysfunctionlust: the pleasure you get from doing something that you feel no pressure to be good at.

    She’s quite a good writer but super hard on herself about it, whereas drawing is a dysfunctionlust for her and so quite relaxing.

    It’s based on the German word funktionslust: the joy of an organism doing what it’s meant to do, like a dog running.

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    4 months ago

    Real I’m 14 and this is deep vibes.

    Nobody’s gonna stop you from doing any of that. Well, maybe from singing in public but that’s less about skill and more about not disturbing others by being loud and obnoxious.