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linguistics posting, acespec posting, general goofposting. she/her

[ellora-borealis]

hi welcome

(thought I should probably make a pinned post after all this time...)

About me: I'm a grad student studying historical linguistics. cis fem and ace 🖤🌸

What I post: things that make me laugh, things about topics that are important/interesting to me, things about fandoms (sometimes here, but more on my sideblogs), things that make me go "oooh pretty" or "aww cute"

What the hell is my blog title? ...currently it says "we are all sinful women" in Gothic but I change it pretty often

Other blogs I run:

@ellora-irrealis = my fumblr (finsta tumblr) where I am overall sillier, right now mostly posting about d&p

@reilora-borealis = my critical role sideblog

@littlemuseumguys = my curated collection of museum artifacts that delight me

Frequent tags:

#lingposting = stuff about linguistics

#acespec = stuff about asexuality

#reading list = stuff to read

#writing advice = stuff about writing

[ellora-borealis]

Guys,,, wifi is so important

[assiraphales]

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)

[ellora-borealis]

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

[vialisden]

in city

i feel my spirit is contained

[despazito]

It's actually super unethical to keep a peeve as a pet

[peach-pot]

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

[charseraph]

Reverse beach episode. Go into the woods. Winter. More clothes.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

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

Remaining time: 1 day 5 hours

This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.

[somanyofthekids]

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.

[ellora-borealis]

"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???

[real-language-facts]

undertale is french for "a dertale"

[wordfather]

[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]

[real-language-facts]

fishhave just invented Writing . with their big stupid flippers. on the sandy thing below

congratulations to fish

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

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

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

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

[ijaazat]

[whitager]

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

[bramcrackerswrites]

I also enjoy writing an entire paragraph, thinking "you know, I don't actually need to be involved in this conversation," and deleting it