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What's the word for the fallacy or cognitive blindspot of just kind of forgetting that a cameraman exists? Like, you see a video online and you take it as an unmediated representation of reality and forget that there's someone there recording it? E.g., seeing a video of an ill-tempered child pitching a tantrum over a Christmas present and you leap to thinking that they're just very naughty without remembering that their parent is literally there publicly humiliating them for clicks.

I think that a lot of of our media is just kind of structured around this elision of "the cameraman", broadly defined. Like how many hundreds of hours of footage do they take for reality TV and what makes it into the final cut and why? The editor's not neutral; they're making decisions. What stories make it onto the news? What posts does the algorithm deign to show you? Our lives have never been as mediated as they are now, and yet this mediation is largely invisible.

#this is gonna sound stupid but I think being fascinated by ghost videos online growing up made me hyperaware of The Cameraman #because I love a good ghost story but I have a high threshold for “evidence”#and even when something seems very believable (other than you know the whole thing about ghosts not being real)#it always came up against “why is there a camera set up here”#so now I ask that question all the time

wildehacked

if you have a narrating voice in your head, how do you think of yourself?

For example, inside your own head, do you think: "I need to go to the grocery store." "You need to go to the grocery store." "We need to go to the grocery store." or.....something else? "She needs to go to the grocery store" (?) I know there are some people who don't have a narrating voice in their heads at all, and just understand that they need to go to the grocery store without hearing a voice that speaks to them in words. this ain't about you.

the pronoun for myself inside my own head is:

You

They? Another third person pronoun? (Does anyone do this?)

A mixture of I & You

A mixture of You & We

A mixture of I & We

A mixture of I, We, and You

Some combo of third person and first or second person pronouns

I don't have a narrating voice in my head/see results

Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours

#mostly we sometimes you #i am possessed you see by a being that does not approve of my decisions

spiribia

I like when healer characters are the blunt ones. Your paladin woman needs to be the sweetiepie who cares about the wellbeing of the group and your healer woman needs to be like House MD. she should be like if you’re not wall to wall pulling I’m not healing you

#if you're not down do you really need healing?

merrinish

I’m not in the community that posted this but if you’ve never tasted the bitter agony of searching for a pairing you’ve only just considered to find it’s like one dedicated author who has churned out like 69 slightly better than mediocre fics you don’t know what a rare pair is.

illusion-of-death

[ID: screenshot of a poll whose question is, “what counts as a rare pair?” The options are: less than 300, less that 600, less than 800, less than 1000. /end ID]

#getting into double digits would be incredible

ashlgcostumes

Does the rest of the world know about tides in Britain. In fact do British people know about tides in the rest of the world. The average tidal range in the British isles is like 5 metres. The average range in the USA is like 1. The highest is I think the Severn estuary which hits 15 metres?? The Mediterranean is like 30cm. Why is this island doing this to us (rhetorical don’t make me get into wavelengths)??? The tide in Morecombe Bay has a top speed of 10mph or 30mph in the surge channels (it kills people). Do people know about this?? I just assumed the whole world was like this you mean the rest of you don’t get drilled on looking up the tide times before you go to the beach???

#does the rest of the world not have big differences between high and low tide?#there is a street somewhat near my home (I get a bus to it) that is completely flooded at high tide

thegirlwiththemooglehat

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

thegirlwiththemooglehat

it's funny the amount of people who've tried to correct this post or go 'but i can be nonbinary at work!'

Cool, I'm glad for you, the majority of my coworkers are old men in their 50s 60s 70s and it's a struggle to get them to respect me whilst being woman shaped, let alone introducing non standard pronouns to conservative men who have fully told me before that they think the municipal government puts chemicals in the water to make the populace stupider

genderkoolaid

its crazy that megan thee stallion is not considered a queer artist by some people. the woman is not shy about the fact that she finds women attractive and likes having sex with them. she references it pretty frequently in her music, she made a whole song about enjoying having threesomes with a woman and a man, she made a Jennifer's Body-themed music video, she had Victoria Monét full riding her thigh on stage at a coachella, and there's literally a video of a lesbian interviewing glorilla at a party & asking who she would date if she was queer and her immediate response is "megan. megan like girls!" and then megan turns around and immediately starts flirting with the interviewer. i don't know what more you want. that woman is Bi Sexual and we should all be thankful every day for that. bi women are still bi when they wanna fuck men too you know. the fucking of men is also done bisexually.

genderkoolaid

someone PLEASE call the gay people police !!!!!!! a queer woman of color is talking about being horny for women guys please we NEED to stop this quick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

genderkoolaid

does a bi woman sexualizing women in her music & wanting an FMF threesome make her a gay icon

yes

veritably

indubitably

its a requirement actually

Voting ended onJul 23

genderkoolaid

really good tags so far. also. just have to make this point:

meg's music in general is frequently very horny. when she includes her attraction to women in her music its sexual because when she includes her attraction to men in her music its sexual. she's a sexually explicit artist. you know. "your honor i'm a freak bitch handcuffs leashes" "hoes tryna get picked, i'm just tryna get dick" "mandatory that i get the head but no guarantees on the penetration" literally references pimping out men in her music all the time 1/2 of Wet Ass Pussy herself.

she very much depicts herself as a sexual subject and sexual actor in her music, someone who desires and chooses to act upon those desires with confidence and skill. and given how much intense misogynoiristic hate she gets from cishet men i think it should be very very obvious she's not faking being into women to get cis male approval!

so to assume that her talking about being sexually attracted to women and faking wanting a threesome with a man and a woman and faking having had and planning to continue having sex with women is her performing fake bisexuality to pander to straight men is laughable. and also disgustingly biphobic and racist. as with the original post, its very much an intersection of biphobia and anti-Blackness; there is no way for her to be a "good queer icon" to such people as shown above. this whole post could apply to Cardi B or any number of Black mspec artists, or just queer Black artists in general.

#women who like women aren't allowed to want to do anything more risky than hold hands or they're preditors according to tumblr #doubly so if they're Black women #good for her though I hope she continues to have sex with all the people she wants

queenofmoons-deactivated2024092

I stole this from Twitter but I’m Curious

There appears to be a weird thing falling from the sky and making the ground shiny. I think I remember it...

#rain!

When you figured out a cool way to bring up information you secretly learned in your dnd campaign but you can't tell anybody because none of the other players know you have a secret so you're just sat there like "..." waiting to do a cool thing that only the dm will appreciate.

#rereading my notes 50000 times as if I'll get less stupid on the 50001 read

catilinas

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!

alanofalltrades

destructions-daughter

prev's tags were too good @assassinregrets

everythingismadeofchaos

Ah HAHAHAHAHAAA

gachiaakuta

does anyone wanna pay me $2000 a month to write stories

#pls pls pls

Dreamt I was in a play about the Troy story and I naturally was our favourite trickster. For some reason my work team leader was in it and idk who she played but it resulted in this dialogue:

TL: Are you coming?

Me: Yes I am on my way I just got to do something first

TL: Because I heard you weren't coming

Me: Why would I not come? Whoever came up with this whole "we all go save the queen" thing was a genius so why wouldn't I follow that idea.

TL: Heard they put your kid in front of a tractor.

Me: I really did have to consider, I was about eight seconds away but then I thought "I can't another kid".

#I'm pretty sure there were lines for this play that I wasn't following #also idk who my team leader was supposed to be #I think this scene took place while I was attempting to get Achillies because there was an earlier one it just wasnt funny #funny to me #anyway I've decided this was what the Nolan film was because I'm too poor to go watch it

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

it’s actually wild how terrified of the general public most usamericans are. like you don’t realize it if you’re someone who mostly walks and takes transit and spends a lot of time in populous public spaces but then you talk to one of the thousands of people that seemingly never set foot in any public space besides a parking garage or a starbucks and you suddenly understand why it’s so easy for fascist rhetoric about the dangerous alien to take root. this country’s median voter pretty much never interacts with strangers who aren’t their coworkers or people they met on dating apps

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

saw a post on instagram that was literally someone citing statistics saying public transit is one of the safest travel options out there and the comments were literally just “ummmmm op this is so ableist and misogynistic of you :) don’t you know the average public transit user is a dangerous violent criminal who wants to set you on fire :)))”

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

it must be so terrifying and sad to go through life convinced if you set foot outside your car in public or interact with people outside your nuclear family you’ll instantly be raped and robbed by the Evil Poors no wonder so many of these people are reactionary tar pits

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

important points which I did not address but should be appended ☝️☝️☝️☝️

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

ITT:

- people giving their life story to explain why they have a special secret valid trauma reason to be a reactionary tar pit

- white true crime women assuming I don’t know what it’s like to fear rape

- fascists calling me a euroslave

- cybersmith, for some reason

#i love you public transit #i love you how much freedom it gives me #i even love you tfl even though you are my nemesis and plot to foil my every day life #are there creeps in public sometimes? yes #are you astronomically more likely to be harmed by someone you know than a stranger? yes #are strangers far more likely to be nice or not bother you than they are to harrass you? also yes

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

early medieval france dash simulator

👸 aquitaine-eleanor-20

embarassing to call yourself a patron of the arts and then say your favorite song is "can vei la lauzeta mover" like ok congrats! even the serfs have heard that one!

#check my pinned for an intro post to troubadour song #serfs DNI

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✏️ oliver.writes.a.lot Follow

roland x f!reader

warnings: song of roland spoilers, graphic violence (his brain falls out), courtly love, fin’amor, kissing of hands

#song of roland #roland x reader #roland #roland fanfic #fin'amor

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🥐 not.much.to.do.in.anjou Follow

#what the fuck #not to dox myself but i literally live in aquitaine #whose subject am i now #of course i find this out news from the fucking destiel meme

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🐺 xx-bisclavret-did-nothing-wrong-xx Follow

if i found out my husband was a cool sexy werewolf i simply would not cheat on him and indefinitely trap him in the form of an inarticulate beast. rip bisclavret's wife but im different

🗡️ sa.la.din

he literally lied to her repeatedly and gaslighted her what are you on

🐺 xx-bisclavret-did-nothing-wrong-xx Follow

is the gaslighting in the room with us

#literally sick of the bisclavret slander #as though anyone would accept him if he told them he was a werewolf!! #they would have killed him!! #do you expect him to have just volunteered that info?? #bisclavret’s wife is problematic as hell but ok #die on that hill if you want to #edit checked his blog and he’s an eleanor of aquitaine stan #that tracks

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🟥 innocent3

read my fucking DNI before you follow me. cathars are NOT welcome on my blog

#DNIs exist for a reason #literally about to go on crusade im fucking sick of this #like my previous post if interested

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💭 paraclet-heloise

not to stir the pot but i honestly don't think marrying solely for economic reasons is a great idea. like i’m not endorsing the troubadours but they kind of ate with the concept of romantic love

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🎀 elaine1135 Follow

@ marie-de-france write a lai about lancelot and guinevere im begging

📚 albigensian.gal

GO READ CHRETIEN DE TROYES IF YOU WANT LANCELOT AND GUINEVERE we do not need more lancevere content shut the fuck upppp

#read chevrefoil if you're soooo desperate for courtly love content #tristan and iseult are better anyway #even though tristan is from cornwall 🤮

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🎓 pete.abelard

i just got into the university of paris!!

#im so excited i can't believe it #i just got the news #gotta brush up on my latin

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🛡️ cornwall4life Follow

if you ship tristan x iseult of the white hands unfollow me right now

#supporting this is actually disgusting #thomas' tristan is a DNF for me #of course you would replace iseult with another iseult just so they can get married #as though courtly love is not the only reason anyone reads this #honestly wtf #guess im a lancevere again #at least there's no weird second guinevere subplot

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💭 paraclet-heloise

eleanor of aquitaine got an annulment??

👑 henryiicool4u Follow

she's single??

🗡️ sa.la.din