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Evan "Buck" Buckley (9-1-1) & Mieczyslaw "Stiles" Stilinski (Teen Wolf)
huge ty to @demisexualdiaz, @mythmagicetc, and @everybuddiewantssome who helped me brainstorm similarities <3
2 of my favs
I can’t unsee this now and I have no regrets
been playing cybersleuth and hacker's memory, and really wanted to draw some of my favourite rookies! I was inspired by the style hawberries used for their pokemon icons like these ones :3 had a couple of false starts but i'm happy with these ones
In Prince's funky name, amen.
Millennial here. All the above and:
Please send me the training or tutorial in a written format with maybe some screenshots if necessary. I don't want a video tutorial. I don't want to waste time trying to scroll to the exact moment in the instructions that I need and then have to pause and replay it because I missed the .01 seconds of actually relevant information.
Please. Text. Maybe some images for clarification. I can read. I promise.
Skimmable, SEARCHABLE instructions. If they're long, there should be a hyperlinked table of contents.
Elder Millennial here cosigning HARD
If you really need to show a movement, embed a gif or 15-scond-or-less video in the text, like Jod intended.
I work in science communications and I am constantly hearing about how we need to try to do video to appeal to the newest generation of scientists and it's like do you think physicists who can't read are a good idea?
I remember everything I did. And the worst part is, I remember liking it. Because I felt powerful. I felt fearless. And most of all, in control. But when I came through it, I learned something else... Control is overrated.
Dylan O'Brien as Stiles Stilinski TEEN WOLF — Season 4
Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan
I don't know about you guys but i really miss seeing "high fantasy" dragons in media, high fantasy dragons are like Smaug (The Hobbit), Draco (DragonHeart), Saphira (Eragon) and Spyro (Spyro the Dragon games franchise) for example, they have their own free will and cannot be controlled, they are highly intelligent and capable of speaking and even writing or drawing. It seems the version of dragons that has taken over is the animalistic and realistic version, that are basically huge dogs that can breath fire, bring back intellectual dragons that like to make riddles to fool intruders, bring back grumpy dragons that live isolated from everyone but they are actually lonely and in need of a friend, bring back the loyal and brave dragons that are willing to sacrifice themselves to save the ones they love, dragons that will talk to you about the mysteries of the world and the universe, JUST BRING BACK HIGH FANTASY DRAGONS GODDAMIT
Temeraire!
im reading about cowboy phrases and sayings and like 95% of them are just solid life advice
like idk how accurate these are but somehow they manage to be both peak shitposting humor and genuinely helpful suggestions
fuck self-help books and therapy, all i need to make it in life is my trusty Cowboy Tips™
Matt Damon explains why they don’t make movies like they used to. Pls watch.
This is actually a really good perspective and explains why the MCU is the way it is. It is essentially one-off entertainment without the backup of DVD sales (of course Disney being Disney it is still backed up by massive merchandise and spin off sales). The movie is designed to be “disposable”. The rewatch value is low because it’s not intended to be sold on DVD for people to treasure and rewatch every year at Christmas (or whenever) with family. The idea is to generate hype, through manufacturing controversy or teases or gossip. Keeping spoilers under wrap is integral because the rewatch value is negligible. It hinges on surprise or shock (or wtf value) to entice audiences to give up their money to see it in theatres. It is about spectacle, about being loud and colourful and busy, so that for the first 30 minutes after you walk out your senses are still buzzing and you feel like that was worth your $30 or however much. It takes a while for your brain to come back online after the sensory overload to then try to pick apart the plot, and by that stage it doesn’t matter, you’ve already hyped it up to your friends.
And the story or characterisation doesn’t matter because no one is watching that again to care.
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One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.
But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:
*breathes deep breath* *slams reblog button*
why is this the funniest thing I've seen all day?
The Avengers 2012 era was the best time ever in the fandom
Thor loves pop tarts, Clint lived in the vents, Bruce and Tony did science together, Steve was the mom friend of the team and did art in his free time, Natasha was cool aunt of the team, Loki was there too and a bunch of other characters like Peter, Sam, Bucky, Vision and Wanda all lived in the Avengers tower together
It was a much simpler time where everyone in the fandom was chill and having fun together
Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.
Henry's been amazing for a long time.
It's been said before but I'm saying it again. I hate hate hate hate hate that the default for information sharing is increasingly becoming video-based. If I click on a new headline, I should be taken to a news article, not a fucking video. If I search for instructions on something, then I want written instructions, not a video that waffles for ages and then finally speed-runs through the section I'm looking for instruction on.
It would be different if the norm was that video was being used in conjunction with text. Like, "Hey, whatever media format you prefer, we have you covered! There's a text option and a video option!" But no, it seems like everywhere is phasing out text to replace with video, and it's STUPID and I hate it.
I actually don’t mind that “dead dove” has become conversational shorthand for “fics with heavy themes where you REALLY need to pay attention to the warnings”. such is the nature of language. what i do mind is when people tag their actual fics with dead dove and then give no indication of what they’re actually warning about. that is useless. that helps no one. that is completely against the spirit of the meme. i will not be reading that
When the tags say "bdsm" and "dead dove" it means that the bdsm is, like, super duper bdsm.
When the tags say "dead dove" with no other clarifying tags, it's like walking down a hallway and having someone shout "BE ALARMED" and then vanishing into thin air with no further details given. Be alarmed about what.
It doesn't help if you had no idea wtf "dead dove" is even supposed to mean. I never watched Arrested Development. For those who also don't know, "dead dove" refers to the time in the show where one character found a brown paper bag in the fridge labeled "dead dove, don't eat". He checks inside the bag, finds the described dead dove, then says "I don't know what I was expecting" in sarcastic, self-recrimination. Because the bag was clearly labeled and he still looked inside.
Thus this ends up becoming a short-hand in fandom in general as "it's clearly labeled, don't complain in the comments that my fic labeled for violent sexual situations in fact contains violent sexual situations". It's sensible, I get it. Now. I did not understand what it referred to before, because I'd never seen a single episode of Arrested Development. So imagine my displeasure when I, a person who experiences intense nausea during descriptions of gore, was reading a fic only tagged as "dead dove" amongst some general tags, and the fic suddenly went into an extremely detailed description of violent actions. I clicked the back button, drank some lemon water, and tried to put it out of mind. Gore does not cause me any kind of psychological harm. For whatever reason though, fictional gore triggers actual physical nausea in me. The little bit I read before realizing the fic was not for me kept popping up in my brain for weeks, and just like that, my brain would hyperfocus on it, and my stomach would start churning.
Using "dead dove" as your only warning tag seems to kind of miss the point of the actual source material. The label was not an allusion or a "you require this much knowledge to understand this label". The bag read "dead dove" and the bag contained a dead bird. It was straightforward.
Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
