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[fivetail]

bitch you lack so much class marx declared you a utopia

[miketon]

if i made a video game where you get to pick the gender of the player character i'd make both the options be nonbinary and you can either have they/them or it/its pronouns. those are your only options

[keeperartwork]

Congrats to the Lord of Screens!

[viput69]

God I love gay people

[destructionfanq]

we all know that beinq introduced as "???" with a black silhouette as sprite feels qood as fuck BUT. you must imaqine beinq introduced as "!?"

[javapie-of-many-eyes]

After nearly 10 years…

[evilnicegirl]

this would have got 100k notes as a tumblr post in 2018

[lizardsfromspace]

Watched a video where someone found a recording of local radio coverage of the Moon landing and it's so weird listening bc

now you only really see the moment of and don't realize it was an hours long protracted event with plenty of dead time to fill. At one point they just start listing off famous ships to waste time when nothing was happening

there were ads? They had to incorporate ad breaks? Not only that but actual, moon landing themed ads that segue in from the coverage. Hearing an ad that starts "the world is watching three men traveling on a mission - but every day, America's truckers travel the roads on a mission - feeding a nation..." in the exact tone of those modern commercials that are like "this SUPER BOWL, let's honor real heroes, our FIRST RESPONDERS"

[lizardsfromspace]

Happy moon landing day

The video...

...and the uncut coverage

Apollo 11 Landing Coverage (WCBS-FM) (7/24/1969) : WCBS-FM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A rare bit of radio coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  Commercials and Station ID's intact.

[ralfmaximus]

My favorite moon landing anecdote:

Dad (who was a NASA engineer) bought a 25" color TV in summer 1969 just to watch the moon landing in style. Largest TV available at the time. Stupidly expensive.

Dad (who was a NASA engineer) was furious to learn the landing would be broadcast in black & white.

[zakiyah]

"ingredients you can pronounce" learn phonics. coward.

[cjay321-0]

Earlier this year, I did a Gravity Falls rewatch and got hella inspired. Read from RIGHT TO LEFT

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: a short Gravity Falls comic. Stan, sitting in a booth at the diner, gestures and says "These are my great niece and nephew, they're staying with me for the summer." Susan replies "Awww, they look just like you!" Dipper and Mabel look deeply horrified. End ID.]

the ratio of "art i put effort into"-to-"dumb shit that took me three seconds" has been WAY off lately, so have some dumb shit to help right the balance

this scene happens a lot in timestuck AUs, and every single time, I picture how it would go if it happened in gravity falls canon instead

[shamebats]

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

[shamebats]

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

[gffa]

Bail's grief over the loss of the Jedi, the way that Padawan's death haunts him, the lies the Empire spreads about them, the way he looks at Leia and knows she's in danger because of the lies about the Jedi, that the Jedi were his friends and he knows they were murdered and that's wrong in a visceral way, is everything I could have asked for from a book set in the first days of the Empire. [Star Wars: The Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear | Alexander Freed]

[riotd]

i’m very self aware. which unfortunately hasn’t solved anything

[floweymsi]

yea and made it worse

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

loved the very specific fuckery with "gendered" terms this chapter

reminder that gendered terms should be fucked with as often as possible and aren't cages you need to lock yourself or anyone else in

[txttletale]

So what is homestuck about?

four 13yo internet friends play a video game with cosmic stakes that sucks them into another dimension. over a chat client, they meet a set of twelve alien kids who played the same before them and gradually realize that the cosmos operates on a system of self-closing timeloops and narrative inevitabiilty that's pitting them against an immortal demon bent on destroying the universe

[txttletale]

to be clear, this is how i'd give a casual synopsis, which is usually what people who act like explaining homestuck is really difficult are ostensibly trying to do. if i was, like, describing homestuck's themes in a more analytic register, i would be more inclined to focus on how it's a multimedia hypertext fiction bildungsroman deconstruction with several layers of metanarrative that's ultimately focused on the experience of growing up queer and online in the 2000s through the frame of gnostic allusion, pop culture bricolage, and the author-audience relationship as seen through the lens of said author's idiosyncratic quasiplatonist theory of fiction

[hope-system-reblogs]

Can that be explained for someone who doesn’t know all the jargon? Not trying to be insulting, I just don’t know what a lot of that means.

main difficulty phrases/parts:

bildungsroman

gnostic allusion

pop culture bricolage

idiosyncratic quasiplatonist theory of fiction

[txttletale]

so first of all i want to be super clear that, like, this 'jargon' is not simply obtuse for its own sake, but just like any specialized topic with centuries of theory behind it, literary analysis has developed its own vocabulary with which very specific and complex concepts can be communicated succintly

that said: a bildungsroman is a type of coming-of-age story that puts a lot of focus onto a certain notion of 'growing up', a somewhat romanticized vision of the transition from 'childhood' to 'adulthood' with a strong focus on the emotional maturation of the protagonist. when i say homestuck is a 'bildungsroman deconstruction', i mean that homestuck is, in some ways, an entry into this genre, but takes pains to highlight, interrogate, and sometimes outright reject a lot of the underlying philosophical assumptions that go into defining it.

gnosticism is a dubiously historical (as in, it is an exogenous post-facto grouping made of faiths and interpretatins of christian doctrine that is often described as though it is a coherent and continuous religious tradition) constellation of beliefs mostly bound togeher by a focus on personal enlightenment in the face of an illusionary or deceptive world and by a quasidualist cosmology separating an invisible, omnipotent divinity and a lesser, malevolent or flawed creator divinity ('demiurge'). homestuck is full of gnostic allusion, from the surface-level aesthetic incorporation of gnostic vocabulary and concepts (the monster yaldabaoth, a character's username being gardengnostic) to a more thorough thematic engagement with the ideas of materiality being a deceptive shroud over an immaterial 'true world', or malevolent/absent creator divinites emanating forth from higher-ranking ones.

bricolage is an artistic technique focused on repurposing and melding existing objects -- 'pop culture bricolage' here is me saying that huge parts of homestuck rest on the recontextualization and incorporation of both "low" and "high" cultural objects, aesthetic, visual, and narrative elements from stuff like saw, starsky & hutch, the sims, dungeons & dragons -- allowing plot beats and images (sometimes, literal, jpeg images) from all these pop culture works of art to form loadbearing parts of everything from indivdiual panel composition to story arcs.

the 'quasiplatonist theory of fiction' here is a reference to the beliefs about art and fiction that hussie expresses, with varying degrees of facetiousness, through homestuck and outside of it. i call it 'quasiplatonist' as an analogy to platonic idealism, because a central element of it is the notion of the 'pure', immaterial, 'essence' of a character being separable from their depiction in the work and the circumstances of that work's creation, and i call it idiosyncratic because hussie's take on it is very singular and leads to some very strange conclusions.

[catcher-in-the-reeds]

The Judgment of Paris

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