Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
Also(not directed at OP but at the people who openly malign it) the genre isn't even called "stomp clap hey" it's a handful of folk, alt rock, bluegrass, and country subgenres and since the sound came out of poor, rural, non-white, and anti-gov communities current mainstream audiences treat it like it's cringe and has nothing to say to the point it's not even given the dignity of having it's actual genre and history recognized.
If you like Mumford & Son, The Lumineers, The Crane Wives, Hozier, The Oh Hellos, The Amazing Devil, The Ballroom Theives, Noah Gundersen, Passenger, Of Monsters and Men, The Decemberists, and many others, you like "Stomp Clap Hey Music".
"etymologynerd" is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something. the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact, but there's also a serious problem with the linguistics.
in a video shared on may 16, adam aleksic begins by saying: "i think we have to accept the fact that the 'r-word' [retard/retarded] is permanently coming back and it's functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people."
this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points.
this word never went away. what we're seeing now is an attempt at re-normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term.
we actually don't have to "accept" its return to mainstream use. for decades, disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term. the harm has not disappeared, and neither will this advocacy and its impacts.
now i'm just mad. how tf does it NOT refer to disabled people? the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person, group, etc. the assertion that the r-word has changed meanings is categorically false. at most, its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative, but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference.
he goes on to refer to the "euphemism treadmill," another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative. to quote: "...once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage, it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead."
which... what? what the fuck is he talking about? the words he uses as examples – idiot, imbecile, and moron – are definitely still offensive, if perhaps less impactful. "just becomes colloquial instead" is a nonsense phrase. are offensive words not colloquial? the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is "nice," which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term.
he ends by saying, "it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r-word right now are going to get old and die out, while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from." again, fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time. it rests on the assumption that we're all going to start or re-start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms, which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words. you think i'm just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad??
the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long-term semantic change.
tl;dr etymologynerd is wrong, we do NOT "have to accept that the 'r-word' is coming back," and we all need to read more crip linguistics.
after continuing to stew about this during my lunch break, i'd also like to point out that framing this sort of thing as "inevitable" is some fascist bullshit.
Oh the topic of Rocky being amazed at the human power for sight I love the thought of how human sight is so linked to movement.
Like- on the ship as Rocky’s waking up after sleeping he hasn’t moved yet and twitches one finger and Grace’s head is snapping up to look at him.
Or- Rocky will think Grace’s head is completely turned away and will try to sneak up on him but the smallest movement in Grace’s periphery will give him away.
Welp, you all won’t believe what I stayed up to 2 am working on!
Anyway, have an aroace themed Project Hail Mary cover. I tried to keep a good chunk of the OG cover design (because I actually really like it) and just added in some fun additions to it~
Maybe one day I’ll actually be able to learn some book binding and actually put this on the book 😆. Hopes and dreams.
I know and understand why a lot of allos don't get how big a deal it is to some of us that Ryland Grace is aroace coded, cause it doesn't seem as big as being gay or trans coded. but like. it's a huge fuckin win for us to have a wildly successful, fabulously done movie star a very aromantic asexual coded character. we don't get rep like that. at best, sometimes good shows have aspec characters, but they're like robotic and weird (usually bc only autistic coded characters get ace coded, and often poorly). but yes!! aroace, queerplatonic, (agender,) and autistic coded characters!! in a big-fuckin-deal movie!! it's so cool!!
it's in the book too, which is awesome by itself, but movies often get muuuuch more recognition than novels.
It makes me so happy to see how many people love aroace Ryland Grace. I don’t think I have seen an aroace coded character I have related to quite as much as him.
One thing I wish they kept in the movie was the way they bred the taumoeba.
Don’t get me wrong, I love love love Grace having to wait for Rocky to wake up, and the uncertainty on whether or not he would. I get that they had to gloss over stuff, I do.
But there’s something so visceral about how devastated they were when they learned nitrogen killed the taumoeba, and their diligent work to slowly breed the right resistance into them. It was both of them working together in their peak Grace-and-Rocky way.
The movie feels like maybe if Rocky was awake, it wouldn’t have happened. The book assures you of the fact it happened anyways.
Grace getting violent hiccups while doing some menial science thing and just getting annoyed and drinking water to try and get them to go away.
Meanwhile Rocky’s freaking out because Grace’s diaphragm just started spasming and making noise so now Rocky’s convinced Grace is dying. Grace isn’t making a great case for himself because they’re interrupting his speech and no, he can’t control them.
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
neeeeeeed a reverse master-padawan au but it's a freshly knighted anakin sent back in time to when obi-wan was 13 and he spends the entirety of obi-wan's padawanship getting walked like a dog
anakin's not allowed to divulge the future so he keeps waxing poetic about his mysterious Master (as wise as master yoda, as powerful as master windu) while obi-wan Seethes
anakin starts trying to reconnect with ♡his friend♡ senator palpatine except the official story is he's fresh out of deep cover as a spy and palpatine is sweating bullets because They're Onto Us
anakin is deeply depressed that padmé is now, like, 3. he periodically makes cryptic (but highly suspicious) remarks about how marriage is an exercise in heartbreak and futility. and paperwork. obi-wan becomes obsessed with figuring out who anakin married. (his old master? senator palpatine??)
dooku hasn't left the order & anakin must endure friendly sparring sessions with the guy who cut off his arm. he's the only councilmember anakin categorically refuses to refer to as "master" for reasons neither of them will divulge. obi-wan adds him to the list of marriage suspects
qui-gon does not understand why this young jedi (and his nasty little padawan) keeps interacting with him as if they have some sort of connection. anakin feels deeply guilty for depriving him of the galaxy's best padawan/jedi/man & keeps contriving ways to foist obi-wan on qui-gon (to their mutual displeasure). obi-wan adds qui-gon to his list of marriage suspects
anakin teaches with a WWOD philosophy. at first obi-wan is just glad to have a master he's so in tune with. eventually it starts to feel a little uncanny; anakin even seems to pluck phrases from his thoughts before he can say them. obi-wan becomes genuinely concerned that anakin is reading his mind.
obi-wan cracks it when anakin stops him from eating hoi-broth because he's allergic. (obi-wan has never had hoi-broth.)
featuring: obi-wan being a spoiled brat, treating anakin as his chauffeur/repairman, and just generally having a great time with a master who thinks he's smart and funny and hung the stars. anakin never tells anyone about qui-gon's chosen one theory, and he finds he fits in much better without the baggage of those expectations. he also finally gets a break to work on that c-ptsd. he builds a mechnoarm that isn't customized for killing people. dooku goes deep undercover as the count of serenno to lure the sith out of hiding. it's a major mindfuck for anakin when it turns out to be palpatine. meanwhile obi-wan is insufferable. "see? i told you there was something wrong with him. you never listen to me."
Odds are Anakin probably still wouldn’t know how fucked Obi-Wan’s original apprenticeship was and then at some point years down the line he sees his well-adjusted padawan and is like “Heh?????”
hi do you have a post about the timeline in 911 like with the year and the seasons and so including season 5
Hi anon!
I don't *technically* have a post w/ the timeline, so I'm using your ask as an opportunity to make one!
I'm going to put this under a cut, bc currently I have actually no idea what's going on with the timeline for s5, and as things air, I'll update this continually, and it can be used as the most updated resource whenever you open it!
I could not resist adding commentary sometimes, sorry 😅
*disclaimer - I understand the crossover is supposed to line up w LS’s timeline or whatever but it absolutely does not work for our timeline. So this is purely OG’s timeline, bc I don’t watch LS, and also our timeline is a lot more logical.*
911 OG timeline under the cut!
Just a note - anything that’s currently speculation is gonna be in blue. As we get confirmation of things, I’ll add in confirmed info and put things in black, and anything that’s wrong will be removed/edited.
Also, episodes tend to happen over several days’ time, so if you’re looking for an EXACT date for a little scene in an ep, I mostly don’t have it for you, but you should put it within the week I’ve given, relative to where it went in the ep. (Eg a call later in the ep would be more likely to have happened on Thursday or Friday.)
Also re: s4. COVID does not work as a good timeline indicator for this show, AT ALL. Its sort of like the whole “do they have regular shifts” debate - the writers wrote the stories they wanted to tell, and then fit COVID in around that. Also it got really screwed by them being done filming before it hit, but not having aired any of s3B yet. And then both bc COVID can’t be used to figure out time, and also bc it wasn’t aired normally, it is a lot more nebulous timeline-wise, I did my best though 😂
-Pre Series-
1966-1967: Athena is born.
1967: Bobby is born.
Mid Mar 1977: Chim is born (this has the potential to change in the future, details on why found here)
Sometime July - Dec 1979: Hen is born.
1983: Maddie is born.
1985: Daniel is born.
1987 - 1992: Eddie is born SOMETIME in this time window. Personally I like him in 1989/90, bc it makes him 21 when Christopher is born, but I think 1987 is also very plausible since that’s when RG is born.
Fall 1989: “Athena Begins” starts, continues through 1991 (Emmett dies on Feb 17th, 1991).
Somewhere between Feb 15 and mid September 1991: Buck is born.
Sometime Aug - Dec 1992: Daniel dies.
2000: Albert is born.
Aug 2000 - Feb 2001: Michael and Athena get married.
2002: May is born. (Discussion on May’s birth year here)
2005: Chim joins the firehouse, events of Chimney Begins stretch out over ~2007?? Unclear exact time frame but before Hen joins and over at least a year, if not more.
2006: Josh joins dispatch.
Sometime?? In 2008: Hen joins LAFD to be a paramedic. I really don’t have a good measure for this one bc it apparently takes years to become a paramedic but this is one area where the writers don’t give a SHIT about reality bc she has to join in 2008 for a comment in Future Tense to make sense. So just - early 2008 probably for this one.
Jan 2009: Hen joins the 118.
2009: Harry is born.
2010 or early 2011: Eddie enlists in the army for the first time - coincides with Shannon getting pregnant. (As of now, no idea if they were married before or after she got pregnant. Timeline of him enlisting in response to the pregnancy though indicates to me maybe they were already married.)
2011: Denny is born.
2011: Christopher is born. (Anyone curious, personally, I’d put his birthday somewhere in Jan-early March, late May-early Sept, purely bc I refuse to think at this point that Christopher’s birthday has happened while the show has been airing and Eddie hasn’t mentioned it. So it must be during usual hiatus times 😂)
Dec of 2014: “Bobby Begins Again” starts.
2015: Eddie is deployed a second time, his helicopter crashes/he’s discharged from Army/Shannon leaves him and Christopher
Sometime Aug-Dec 2016: Bobby becomes captain of the 118.
Aug 2017: Buck joins the 118.
-S1-
Jan 3 - Jan 9th, 2018: “Pilot”
Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2018: “Let Go”
Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2018: “Next of Kin”
Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2018 - “Worst Day Ever”
Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2018 - “Point of Origin”
Feb 7 - Feb 27, 2018 - “Heartbreaker”
Feb 28 - Mar 6, 2018 - “Full Moon (Creepy AF)”
Mar 7 - Mar 13, 2018 - “Karma’s A Bitch”
Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2018: “Trapped”
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2018: “A Whole New You”
-S2-
Sept 1 - Sept 23, 2018: “Under Pressure”
Sept 24, 2018: the earthquake
Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2018: “Stuck”
Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2018: “Awful People”
Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018: “Dosed”
Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2018: “Haunted”
Nov 5 - Nov 12, 2018: “Buck, Actually”
December 2018: “Merry Ex-Mas”
Mar 11 - Mar 15, 2019: “New Beginnings”
Mar 15 - 16, 2019: “Fight or Flight”
Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019: “Broken”
Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019: “Ocean’s 9-1-1″
May 6 - May 12, 2019: “Careful What You Wish For”
May 13 - May 19, 2019: “This Life We Choose” (in case you’re curious, cuz I was, average probationary period for a firefighter is 6-18 months, Eddie’s is 9mo w the 118 (plus 3mo at the academy = Bobby’s “year of hard work” in his speech) so he more or less has an average probationary period length! The timeline just doesn’t fit otherwise w Buck’s leg.)
-S3-
Sept 1 - Sept 22, 2019: “Kids Today”
Sept 22, 2019: the tsunami (ending scene events of “The Searchers” carry over into Sept 23, 2019)
Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019: “Triggers”
Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019: “Rage”
Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2019: “Monsters”
Nov 4 - Nov 10, 2019: present day “Athena Begins” events
Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2019: “Malfunction”
Nov 25 - Nov 30, 2019: “Fallout”
Dec 1 - Dec 25, 2019: “Christmas Spirit”
Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2020: “Seize the Day”
Mar 23 - Mar 30, 2020: “Fools”
Mar 30 - Apr 12, 2020: “Pinned” (end scene is Apr 13, 2019)
Apr 13, 2020: “The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1” (end scene events take place sometime Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2020)
Apr 20, 2020: Events of present day “Eddie Begins” (Christopher’s show-and-tell is Apr 24, 2020)
Apr 27 - May 3, 2020: “The One That Got Away”
May 4 - May 10, 2020: “Powerless”
May 11 - May 17, 2020: “What’s Next?”
-S4-
Mid Sept 2020 (pretty damn sure actually it’s Sept 21, 2020, but since it wasn’t aired on a regular schedule I can’t be completely, 100% sure): The mudslide
End of Sept 2020: “Future Tense”
Oct 2020: “9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?”
Oct 2020: Present day events of “Buck Begins”
End of Oct - beginning of Nov, 2020: “Jinx” (Jinx happens in ~25hrs, start to finish, I just can’t tell you exactly what day)
Mid Nov 2020: “There Goes The Neighborhood”
End of Nov 2020: “Breaking Point”
Somewhere around the last two weeks of Jan 2021 - first two weeks of Feb 2021: “Blindsided”
Somewhere around the last two weeks of March 2021 - first two weeks of April 2021: “Parenthood”
May 3 - May 9, 2021: “First Responders” (I *think* this is where the show catches up where the regular airing schedule matches up w the show’s timeline. I have no reason to think otherwise)
May 10 - May 16, 2021: “Treasure Hunt”
May 17 - May 24, 2021: “Suspicion”
May 24 - May 30, 2021: “Survivors”
-S5-
Sept 2021: Albert joins the LAFD in the montage at the end of Survivors
Sept 14, 2021 - initial spyware attack
Sept 20 - Sept 27, 2021 - actual blackout
Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2021: ‘Home and Away’
Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2021: ‘Peer Pressure’
Nov 1 - Nov 7, 2021: 'Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1′
Nov 8 - Nov 14, 2021: ‘Ghost Stories’
Nov 15 - Nov 21, 2021: 'Defend in Place’
Nov 22 - Nov 30, 2021: 'Past is Prologue’
Dec 1 - Dec 25, 2021: ‘Wrapped in Red’
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2022: ‘Outside Looking In’
Mar 15 - Mar 28, 2022: ‘Boston’ (flashbacks date back to Sept 27 and occur through the fall of 2021)
I’ve been watching 9-1-1 for the first time (just started season 6) and does anyone have any gen or minor romance fic recommendations? As much as I love buddie getting to live every sappy dream they have, I’d also like to read some fics that aren’t just about them.
I actually really like that there’s a different version of Drag Path now, because then it makes the digital remains version “secret” again. Drag Path was supposed to be for the people who know the lore and have been around for a while. Then it got popular and everyone knows it, but now that there’s a released version, the og version is back to being just ours.