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call me airlock, just like the url! | 31yo, brazilian (SP), white, atheist (raised catholic) | rambles in the tags without being paid to

[airlock]

hot while I've taken to go for it, but all the cool kids have pinned posts instead of abouts now, isn't it? might as well make one

most of the time I'm just reblogging whatever's funny and/or thought-provoking from my dash and nattering in the tags. when I reblog fandom things it's usually Fire Emblem, Pokémon, or Ace Attorney

I post fanfic on Archive of Our Own and use my Dreamwidth as a permanent home for effortposts. if you want my direct undiluted bullshit though, there's always my text post tag. when I'm making original posts about a fandom, I also typically tag it "#[fandom] is tagged in this post"

I have a sideblog for Fire Emblem poll tournaments

I'm always happy to make friends, get asks, and whatnot! if you'd like to get in touch, don't hesitate!

if we're mutuals, I'd appreciate for any posts with blood to be tagged ("#blood" or "#blood tw" will do); it's a phobia thing. it's kind of weirdly inconsistent, but, best not to provoke it at random. (conversely, I'm open to any requests for trigger tags! my memory is lousy at the best of times, but I'll try)

I have a darling qpp that I love with all my heart! ours isn't an exclusive relationship, though, so -- consider me available,

I study History in university. at least, that's what I've been doing since botching Law and then Psychology. when the depression isn't completely winning, I like to write, which I do largely in the avenues I've linked up there; and I'm also interested in game design as well as generally just unloading my creative impulses into little pieces of absolute pointless nerdery.

[aflo]

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

[aflo]

[sunset-diamond]

liberou estupro de crianças, liberou criança ser forçada a parir, liberou o pai estuprador dizer se a criança vai receber atendimento médico ou não, liberou casamento entre criança e estuprador, liberou violência médica contra crianças estupradas e grávidas

[umbelina-e-helena-na-luz]

Senado anula norma sobre aborto legal em crianças vítimas de estupro

Em votação que durou menos de dois minutos, senadores sustaram resolução que tratava do atendimento humanizado às vítimas de violência sexua

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you think it's weird and/or predatory for a 13 year-old and a 30 year-old to be best friends if they're not family members or related by blood? Assuming everything is innocent and platonic. Nothing romantic or sexual.

Yes, it's weird and predatory

It's weird. But not predatory

It's predatory. But not weird

No, it's not weird or predatory

Remaining time: 4 days 21 hours

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[creelson]

unpopular opinion but I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about an innocent friendship

[dianxiacantastemolecules]

The question is why the fuck is a thirty year old hanging out with a 13 year old if not in their family?? The only other relation that could have them interact is through teacher/student and bring friends like that would be weird as fuck

[creelson]

found family? the kid not feeling safe in their house? the adult wanting to help? family / teacher / school isn't always a guaranteed safe place. should the kid and adult each have friends that are their own age too? sure. but if their friendship is genuinely innocent then I think the problem isn't them but people who project their weird and predatory thoughts onto them

[the-bar-sinister]

Don't forget shared hobbies?

A 13 year old and a 30 year old could reasonably meet at a tabletop gaming store, a fiber arts group, a book club....

[audacityinblack]

They could literally just be neighbors. This whole isolationist thing of never even talking to the people you live closest to is new and weird.

[olderthannetfic]

When I was 13, an art teacher who worked for my mother (who ran after school programs) got into the X-Files. This was season 1. Neither of us knew anyone else who was into it, and she wasn't very online given that this was 1994, so she had nowhere else to discuss it. I'd call her every Friday night after the episode, and we'd obsessively go over it.

I'd probably have called her my best friend at the time, though I very much doubt she'd have said the same, partly because having One Single Best Friend and being super weird about which of your friends gets this coveted spot is not something middle-aged people care about.

Some of you have very weird ideas about 13-year-olds living in hermetically sealed bubbles. Frankly, many neurodivergent weirdo 13-year-olds who grew up to be Tumblr users were far, far better at talking to adults at that age than at talking to other 13-year-olds. Many of you would have had a way happier year if you'd also had an old-ass "best friend" to talk to back then.

[horsefriend]

[putnamspuppeteer]

For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.

[brookietf]

[catgirlforeskin]

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

[seraphiminn]

she made a comic about the experience on twitter

[catboybiologist]

happy pride

[ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface]

An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol

[satanfemme]

[yalfinaltodosmueren]

Visit Original Link

[airlock]

I see from the state of my dash that there's a new tumblr sexyman poll tournament running around, so I'd like to reiterate my usual stance on this sort of thing

a proper tumblr sexyman is not merely a man that is sexy; that would be a sexyman. a tumblr sexyman is a man who only a tumblrina would describe as sexy.

those dudes from Supernatural? both played by conventionally attractive actors. Miles Edgeworth? his gay ass has been desired by the masses since before Tumblr existed. basically any youtuber? obviously has the eyes of a significant non-Tumblr crowd.

the Onceler? now you see the vision. Bill Cipher? yeah now we're talking. Sans Undertale? yeah. yeah that's the stuff.

[muppetmagic]

the simpsons + my favorite lgbt+ moments

[ginsengstripper]

[dragoncarrion]

Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this

[chimaerakitten]

So we all talk about being in fandoms for things that are charmingly bad, and being able to acknowledge that they’re charmingly bad. But of course some people are in fandoms for things that are Actually Amazing. There are people out there who write fanfiction for The Best Science Fiction Novel Of The Twentieth Century. Or who draw fanart exclusively of The Best Movie of All Time. And there are even more people who are in fandoms for things that are Actually Pretty Good, which is not quite amazing but is closer to it than to Charmingly Bad.

And sometimes, you have a string of fandoms that are Actually Pretty Good. And the danger of this—the very great danger—is that when you have a string of Actually Pretty Good and even Actually Amazing obsessions, you start to believe that maybe you have taste. Perhaps you are now immune to the indignities of losing it over something mostly bad.

And then it is shattering to discover that no, bad things can still stick a fork in your brain. 😔

[chimaerakitten]

So I understand why the “transformative fandom gathers around things that are not good because there being a problem makes people desire to fix it” model is popular. I even agree that it’s accurate in many if not most cases. However it is not what this post is about. Plenty of people do transformative and creative fandom activities for things that are very, very good. Simplified models do not encompass everything.

And frankly, it’s starting to really get on my nerves when people read “I think this thing is good. I wouldn’t change a thing about it and frankly I don’t even think there should be more canon added to it, but I am still going to write thousands of words of fic, make a cosplay, and draw fanart” and then completely misunderstand and respond with “yes I agree—I like things that are good too. But I never feel the transformative/creative fandom instinct for them because they are too good.”

Some people do not feel it. Other people do. Stop misreading me to avoid having to adjust your mental model of how fandom works.

[blessphemy]

one of the ways a Canon work can be fandom bait is by missing something that fans want to fix, i.e. "it's bad", but i think this is only one way out of multiple that something can be fandom bait.

compelling worldbuilding (invites interaction with the setting)

interesting gimmick (see: daemons, drift compatibility. subcategory of compelling worldbuilding)

shipping bait (duh)

original character bait (in-universe categories/factions and design elements that make it fun for people to create their own characters)

compelling narrative (invites interaction and tweaks to the storyline: AUs and fixits and so on)

basically anything that invites interaction and recombination. but fandom also has a sort of multiplying effect: the larger the interactive audience of fandom is, the more likely it is to generate ideas and works that draw in more participants. so:

network effect (the larger the established fandom, the more likely it has subfandoms and infrastructure that appeals to niche audiences)

[chimaerakitten]

Yes this exactly, thank you bless.

Things that have space to play in are fandom bait, but space to play in does not equal holes.

[sparrowlucero]

its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"

[wordcubed]

[aprilumillusion]

[djbodyhorror]

your mom jokes don't work when you know someone too well. I would never be in bed with such a wicked woman. That's not even what I had your mom saying last night. I wouldn't speak to her.

[messygoku]

[bebsi-cola]

health isn't a virtue.

[bebsi-cola]

people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.

[saucymauler]

"youre such a dork."