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Is my beloved barbie @effervescentdragon rude
Is Akira rude
Yes
No
i am SHOCKED and APPALLED i am the CUTEST NONRUDEST person ever
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@effervescentdragon
Help the barbies settle an argument
Is my beloved barbie @effervescentdragon rude
Is Akira rude
Yes
No
i am SHOCKED and APPALLED i am the CUTEST NONRUDEST person ever
you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid
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thought that just occurred to me and now I need to inflict it on you all:
The failure mode of Andy Weir is Ernest Cline.
There’s a highly specific style of sci-fi written by a highly specific kind of author: straight, white, male, Gen X, usually from North America and with a STEM degree, who was a Nerd in high school and still has a vision of Nerdiness strongly defined by a straight, white, male, Gen X experience. An experience of reading a lot of Heinlein and Asimov and Tolkien in high school, where Apollo 11 happened before he was born and space exploration was happening at what felt like an ever-increasing pace, where computers were rapidly advancing and every advance was exciting, where video games were played in arcades or were text adventures with minimal graphics, where Star Wars was mind-blowing and Star Trek was experienced as reruns so The Next Generation was cool and exciting, where fanfiction is not part of their fannish experience and probably never occurred to them, where blogging on your own website was a natural part of internet culture, where the economic boom of the 80s meant engineering/programming/IT jobs were easy to get.
These influences define the niche that Andy Weir and Ernest Cline both write in, as well as certain other prominent figures like John Scalzi, Randall Munroe, Cory Doctorow, and kind of Rich Berlew.
It’s not an indictment of them; it’s just a particular niche. However, due to the specifics of such authors’ identities and experiences, they can often write with the apparent idea that they are not specific; that they are universal and apolitical. This often comes with an idea that they believe in racial/gender/sexuality equality, and they do because they believe equality is good and humans are all more alike than we're different and humanity is fundamentally decent, but also they not-infrequently write like they don’t really know any gay people or people of color and have never really thought very hard about it.
And one of the reasons I still haven’t read The Martian or Project Hail Mary even though I have been intending to for years and I’m confident I would enjoy them… is that in my large and ever-growing TBR I tend to de-prioritize this particular sci-fi niche. There are SO many good-sounding books in the world that I want to read and I tend to prioritize books by women, by authors of color, by queer authors, by authors with social science backgrounds. The only Scalzi I’ve read was Redshirts and it wasn’t that great and was kinda thoughtlessly sexist; and I have many, many thoughts about Ready Player One and Ready Player Two (almost none of them good lmao). I definitely have my beefs with Cory Doctorow despite respecting him in other ways. I found his YA novel Little Brother respectably ambitious but also kinda mediocre. And I have followed Order of the Stick and xkcd for more than a decade and you can really see the political/social evolution of the authors over time. That’s another trend; you can see these authors reacting and adjusting to more nuanced gender/race/queer issues over time!
It just feels to me like a highly identifiable style, one that has been more miss than hit with me, which sometimes is made more frustrating by recurring beliefs that there’s nothing uniquely identifiable about it; that books by Gen X straight white men aren’t identity-based books like books by and about women and people of color and queer people are.
And. Like. I love Order of the Stick! I have Munroe’s first “What If” book, autographed! And though I’ve read little of his fiction I think John Scalzi is overall a cool guy (though sometimes thinks he’s funnier and cleverer than he is). And when I get around to reading The Martian and Project Hail Mary I also genuinely believe I’ll like them—I floated on fuzzy warm emotions for days after seeing the PHM movie, certainly! This isn’t to say this automatically makes a work bad. It does however make a work specific, in a way straight white men are rarely expected to think of their work as specific. But like. It’s a style, a niche, that’s definitely specific.
And Andy Weir takes it and writes widely beloved stories about hope and humanity and Ernest Cline takes it and writes about how being able to play video games and quote 80s movies better than anybody else means you’re the most important person on the planet.
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If anyone wants to know what a leopard seal sounds like 🦷🩸
Leopard Seals are what happens when god needs a lizard and all he has is a mammal
leopard seal topic activated; i am so sorry to my long time followers who have seen me do this like ten times but i just can't help myself
OH MY GOD
That is a monster (respectful) If it was a lizard it would be a dragon.
They can be bigger than the biggest grizzly bears. They are about the size of a horse, just without the stilt legs. And their faces are hiding teeth like this (sorry it's kind of gross but it shows the teeth best)
Here's a leopard seal skull next to a horse skull
they can get as big as 12 feet and can weigh like 1,200 pounds. They can swim 35 miles an hour and eat only meat - regularly eating giant penguins that weigh more than 100 pounds each, and anything else they feel like they can kill. And they're pretty smart. Only an Orca is a more dangerous hunter in arctic waters, and even they usually leave a leopard seal alone.
A seal's closest land relative is a bear, and leopard seals will regularly hunt other seals, making this a bear that eats bears, but built for the ocean. You know, the terrifying ocean? A bear that lives there that eats the other bears that live there.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
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the most important virtues for the young woman are as follows: time theft, selfishness, orgasms, irreverence to authority, sacrilegious behavior, a questioning mind, and eating regular meals.
oh so when other people call a baby "cute enough to eat" it's sweet and charming. but when i, cronus,
still thinking abt the mugello race commentary "if you give marc marquez an inch, he will take it and bungee jump with it" truly an rpf character thesis
they want you to care more about 'job' than yaoi... don't fall for this scam
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