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okay but we can’t all be final girls. realistically who would u be in a horror movie?

#the really abrasive person who's insistent people are being irrational until I'm convinced and then I loudly catastrophize and point fingers #the viewers are kind of glad when I die #to be clear that's just if I were in a horror movie because I'm not good in a crisis.

cottaegecore

imagine you as a child, rummaging around in the current version of your room. what would they be drawn to?

#sword and circus rig

theaudientvoid

So, like, the thing you have to understand is that prior to the mid-2000s, the "Young Adult" genre as we now know it didn't exist. The expectation was that you would graduate to the adult aisle of the book store at, like, 13-14. This worked because the only people still reading long form novels into their teens were precocious bookworms who were better read than their parents.

Harry Potter changed all this. The success of the Harry Potter books convinced the publishing industry that selling full length novels to normie children was a business model. The thing about the Harry Potter books, though, is that at least for the early books, the target audience was a bit younger than what we think of as the YA demographic; tweens, rather than teens. Now, the publishing very much wanted to keep all these normie kids buying books into their teens and beyond, but the previous model of treating teens as functionally adults for marketing purposes would not work; there was simply no way that normie parents were going to let their normie kids read fully adult novels where the characters, like, do drugs or have unprotected sex and stuff. So, in order to be allowed to market to the teen demographic, the YA genre was created.

However, teens have an inherent interest in reading about sex and violence and drugs, and so authors who are able to incorporate these kinds of themes into their YA novels in a discrete way such that it flies under the radar of the moral guardians are met with success. But this is a precarious tightrope to walk. Not enough "mature" themes and the teens will loose interest, to much or to blatant and the teens won't be allowed to read it. And so, it should come as no surprise, that the first person to successfully navigate this tight rope was a Mormon housewife with a vampire fetish.

dduane

…The editor who bought So You Want To Be A Wizard from me in 1981 would’ve been interested to hear somebody claim that YA (and particularly YA fantasy) didn’t then exist… because that’s sure as hell what she—and the book’s first publisher, Dell / Delacorte—called it. (When they weren’t also calling this subgenre “juvenile fantasy”, as in this Locus ad from its publication year)

And that single publisher was buying and publishing multiple such books every year… presumably to keep up with its competition.

…So either the “precocious bookworms” market was particularly strong that decade, or else this kind of genre publishing and marketing was, well, normal… and in fact paved the way for the later success of broadly similar genre works. [waves vaguely in the direction of other YA fantasy that would follow a decade and a half later] And yeah, this is a significant oversimplification of the subject, but it’s nearly 2 AM for me and I’m not up for a full essay on it right now. Maybe later.

However, as for the thesis “the YA genre was created post-the 2000s”? …Nah.

(Meanwhile I can’t just leave with nothing but that sad B&W line art sitting there. Here’s the full cover of that hardcover first edition, by Caldecott-winning artist David Wiesner.)

#you might argue the HP movie adaptations impacted the market and scope of YA movies #but I'm just guessing #I loved the So You Want to Be a Wizard books

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appendingfic

Holy fuck of course the jjba people could do it, the death note functions almost like a Stand. There are bullshit rules, there is a dude who actually does the powers for you

appendingfic

Mulder: clearly this is the work of a vengeful god of death

Scully: look, that’s nonsense, this detective’s son fits all the classic signifiers of a serial killer-

cryptotheism

Harrier DuBois: "Kim, are shinigami real?'

Kim Kitsuragi: "No, detective. I do not think so."

Harrier DuBois: "So about my new eyes-"

#Miss Marple could absolutely solve it #she might not intuit the rules #but she knows people

everythingfox

2 and 6

as-warm-as-choco

we were robbed of big booty alchemist 💀 fma could have been great but alas(s)

jusiri

@wickedcriminal

#clearly they rejected it because the booty could never be big enough

memeuplift

#oh my gosh adorable

the-polysulfur-collective-deact

Autism: I need this specific routine to be followed for me to be in peace and working

ADHD: I need extreme flexibility and opportunity to work on what i want in different days

AuDHD: Okay, so, i need... A general routine, like, okay, i cannot funcition without a routine, right?, But after two (2) days, i cannot function with this specific routine, i need a little change, but if it's too much change i will literally cry right NOW

#hmmmm

falseknees

Gray day

#fucking injury recovery bullshit

november-narwhal

Poll Time Poll Time! What is your preferred lighting source in a room? (excluding kitchens & bathrooms)

Overhead lights (fixtures in the ceiling)

Lamps (floor lamps, table lamps, etc)

Voting ended onSep 15, 2023

There IS a correct answer, but apparently I'm the weirdo

Please reblog! More people = better data!

#see lamps are atmospheric but they generally illuminate less #and then I have to have way more lights and fiddle with way more light switches as I wander around the space

starlet-girls

quick what is everyone doing right now

#lying on the sofa with new autumnal throw pillows #and icing my thigh from a non-serious circus bruise

gjjuddmk2

mxopifex

Ok this was clearly written by someone who doesn’t work with screws on a regular basis because it is deeply wrong.

These two are the ancient screws of yesteryear. They are proof that the old ways were not always better. You will find them when you are working on a remodeling job, and you have climbed a 12’ ladder into disgusting soot coated steel or belly crawled into a spider infested crawl space. You will reach for the screwdriver you brought with you and realize it is the wrong type. Probably related to the USB devices you always plug in wrong.

In short: these suck.

Friendly modern screw. Works with whatever screw driver you grabbed.

These are great for woodworking. The star bit is sometimes called a torque bit cause it lets you put more torque into driving the screw with less chance the tip of the thing driving the screw will slip out.

It’s the screw that holds bathroom stalls together. I’ve also found it in some fire alarm devices. “Tamper proof” in that it’s hard to force the wrong tip in and get these to turn.

I like these, but that’s probably a direct result of being an electrician. The tips of square drivers don’t slide out by accident often and there’s a certain panel company that uses them on their breakers so that you can more safely tighten them while energized. A thing I totally never do, OSHA, I swear.