Archive Of My Own

Not a “wizard-blog”, I’m just one in real life Novice Druid #{18+}# 25 he/them/whatever | I see content I like in the moment and I like it, share it, or leave a comment on it then forget it about it for what amounts to basically forever. This app is nothing but a unconstructive time filler mostly I try not to post anything too graphic but prepare for some occasional light artistic fa99otry.

[entropicembrace]

[animentality]

[sarnakhwritesthings]

ok @mylittleredgirl @sigynpenniman you two are my language friends what the FUCK does this mean

[sigynpenniman]

In this case “chat” is as in Twitch Chat, like when streamers talk to their twitch chats directly, like “hey, chat, what’s happening?” Not sure what they mean by 4th person pronoun - I would consider “chat” a 2nd person plural (you all) but I can see the potential for defining it as a completely separate thing due to the nature of “chat” being a undefined person instead of a specific one? Idk it’s fascinating tho

[roach-works]

4th person is referring to the hypothetical collective of people beyond the fourth wall. the fourth wall is the invisible barrier between the stage and the seats, the actor and the audience. and actors 'break' the fourth wall when they address the audience directly and acknowledge that they're a person playing a character for entertainment. in some styles of performance this should never be done, like opera or musicals, because it can collapse the weight and momentum of the story. in others, like improv and game shows, audience participation is encouraged because it's explicitly a collaboration.

in the streaming era (in our panopticon culture) the fourth wall is extremely permeable in interesting new ways. streamers aren't just playing to an audience, they're able to read and respond to messages from that audience too. it's a collaborative improv, there's a call and response, the audience knows the streamer relies on them for attention as they rely on him for entertainment.

so, yeah, 'chat' isn't second person, it's fourth. i'm not referring to the 'you' that's here with me on this side of the stage, im referring to the people beyond this situation, watching our funny little problems. all the world is a stage, now. don't forget to like and subscribe.

[entropicembrace]

According to my iPhone December 1st is very important for being Fallout: ToriVega day.

[only-tiktoks]

[maplespicetea]

Spy TF2 behaving badly

[shittymoviedetails]

To make sure their accents were accurate, the child actors in the Harry Potter movies were forced to grow up in England

[blueskittlesart]

ocarina of time: adulthood

[aldmerisorcery]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Buster Keaton - The Haunted House (1921)

[schmovement-deactivated20231228]

So sad that tgis kind of shit just doesn't hapoen anymore

[thegoodmorningman]

COWABUNGA!!!

[depsidase]

[inthefallofasparrow]

why are we complicating this?

[unctuousrobot-deactivated202108]

Scott pilgrim is so funny because apparently when scott kills someone they just respawn back in their hometown. Imagine waking up on your moms couch and having to explain to your sweet mother that some canadian twink fucking decked you over a girl and it killed you

[aethersea]

#wait they don't die

yeah I’ve also been going around assuming scott pilgrim killed seven people and everyone was just like.....cool with it

[freakoutgirl]

dw if I die I will still haunt the narrative

[chickensgod]

[girlmostlikely]

[brbjellyfishing]

and how do you know what that sounds like

[assassinregrets]

[meurent-deactivated20170312]

social experiment - in the tags put the first thing you'd respond to following question

WHAT TIME IS IT?

[lnfancia]

[were--ralph]

i think we're going to hit the limit soon

[were--ralph]

how much lower can we go from here

[katelyn-danger]

40 PROOF????

[accelerationist-king-piccolo]

[dukeofankh]

In addition to being pastors, my parents were both also professional teachers. My mom has a master's in education.

I still wish I wasn't homeschooled.

Like, I run into folks now who get super excited when I tell them I was homeschooled because they're thinking about homeschooling if they ever have a kid and want intel, and they get super grumpy and dismissive and defensive when I tell them how absolutely debilitating it was socially, and that it really wasn't worth it just to be a year ahead in math.

And part of that is this sense that homeschooling is an opportunity for you to customize your child. It's usually an extension of a broader fantasy that that's what parenthood is about. That you can minmax your child's stats and construct the perfect build, and the only reason everyone's all screwed up is just that nobody sat down and really micromanaged their child's education enough. Other teachers (and peers, for that matter) might steer them in directions you don't want.

Even when done well, homeschooling is about removing those outside influences so you can control their environment and prioritize your own goals for them. It's a magnet for people with narcissism and control issues as a result, it's a magnet for fundamentalists, but it's also a magnet for idealists. Sometimes it even works out great, hell, there are people who for accessibility reasons will likely be taught far better at home. But that's more a "lesser of two evils" situation.

One person cannot be smarter in every single subject than every single teacher that the kid would ever have. They can't singlehandedly replace the socialization, the networking, the mentorship, and the life experiences. And to think that they can borders on megalomania.