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hi welcome
(thought I should probably make a pinned post after all this time...)
Guys,,, wifi is so important
it’s always a think piece about “why aren’t young people drinking” “why aren’t young people traveling” “why aren’t young people buying houses” “why aren’t young people optimistic for the future” w these elaborate hypothetical reasons
meanwhile the actual answer never changes: we broke, babes (and we live in a capitalistic corporate hellscape sucking the life out of us and the planet)
The BBC can and should hire me, an American grad student with exactly one (1) college screenwriting credit under her belt, as the new showrunner of Doctor Who. My credentials include 1) being a woman, 2) being queer, 3) being a historian and a SFF writer, 4) being in touch with the youth/fandom, and 5) understanding the point of DW better than Stephen Moffat*. In this essay I will
*the bar is low
in city
i feel my spirit is contained
It's actually super unethical to keep a peeve as a pet
I’m starting to think some of y’all haven’t actually felt the rain on your skin… which is crazy because no one else can feel it for you
Reverse beach episode. Go into the woods. Winter. More clothes.
There are lots of reasons why fandom is "quieter" now than it used to be. Some theories are more compelling to me than others, and they all have a different scale of impact. We'll never know for sure, of course, but I like to think about it. Thus, this poll.
Of the list below, which reason do you find most compelling or do you think had the biggest impact?
New entrants to fandom don't know the old ways
fandom olds didn't teach the newcomers how to fandom
covid/surge in fandom due to quarantine and lockdowns
"antis" and other harassment campaigns against creators
creators posting complaints about comments (people worry about commenting wrong)
rise of discord popularity - fandom is walled off from each other
tumblr porn ban and other reasons people left the site
capitalism turning fandom into a passive "view and move on" commodity
rules from social media impacting fan culture (eg. don't comment on old posts)
general state of the world / burnout
social anxieties in an increasingly complex online culture
"surveillance state" worries and not wanting to be perceived
This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.
Pokopia has this extra layer of fun for me because I like, just missed the boat on Pokemon age-wise.
Pretty much all of my Pokemon knowledge comes from half watching a couple of the series with my kids when they were little.
So every ten minutes or so I’m like.
Holy Shit There Is A Giant Snake Made Of Rocks. Does Everyone Know About The Giant Snake Made Of Rocks.
And everyone else has known about the giant snake made of rocks since 1998.
"Stop putting smut in YA books, children shouldn't be reading all that :(" I refuse to take booktok/bookstagram seriously until they lose this bullshit take.
Even if you put aside authorial intent. Even if you put aside parental supervision of their kids' activities. Even if you put aside the problems with the publishing industry's genre classifications. Even if you put aside the slippery slope of literary censorship. Even if you put aside the puritanical (and frankly homophobic) sheltering of kids/young teens from anything remotely related to sex.
Don't you people think that reading smut in a book is a MUCH safer way to be exposed to sex at age 11 than, I don't know, the wild west of internet pornography???
undertale is french for "a dertale"
[freeze frame] yeah thats me. you're probably wondering how i got here. me too. i dont remember anything ever so i need to see this as much as you do [unfreeze frame]
fishhave just invented Writing . with their big stupid flippers. on the sandy thing below
congratulations to fish
graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge
sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses
do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it
I also enjoy writing an entire paragraph, thinking "you know, I don't actually need to be involved in this conversation," and deleting it