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this and also there’s something very beautiful about watching in progress fics grow. shout out to in progress fics <3
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I’ve always wanted to do a cool sliver of light piece and this Loki painting ended up being perfect for it!
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Romulan Bird of Prey
This is probably because I am Internet Old (41 years of age)
And because I grew up with message board/forum/blog/LJ culture...
but it seems like many younger people do not want to converse; that any response other than 'THIS' - anything that reflects, responds, adds, comments upon, etc a post is seen as adversarial/disagreement.
I'd love to have a conversation about this trend, especially as it relates to tumblr, which USED to be a much more conversational website than it currently is.
replies vs. reblogs definitely exacerbated this hugely; the tiktokification of 'person who creates content' and 'person who consumed that content' rather than 'human beings having a conversation'.
I think a (small perhaps) part of this phenomenon is reading comprehension. By which I mean immediate small scale comprehension and attention, not like, media literacy (though obviously that wouldn't help either).
If I'm unable to parse simple sentences, then anything that even vaguely plausibly isn't immediate and total agreement might look like someone disagrees with me, and I don't like it when people disagree with me >:( that makes me feel bad. So I lash out instead of thinking more deeply at all about the thing that was being said.
This is almost certainly amplified by people not reading all the way through a post/message before responding to it while having an emotional reaction. Which I'm absolutely guilty of from time to time, though I generally limit my reaction to an out loud "what the fuck did you just say to me" sort of expression.
Oh definitely; I'm willing to bet that this phenomenon:
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have
has had a nonzero impact on the way that young adults, who were 'taught' by this methodology as children and who are now coming of age in the digital landscape, are interacting with text. There's a reason other than 'Teenagers be crazy, am I right' that this behavior is prevalent in those under 30 or so.
I tell my kids (the ones I gave birth to and also my students) that when I was growing up, the internet was nothing but reading and writing.
There was some "content" to "consume" but basically everything had active comment threads. You went on message boards and talked with people. You engaged. Even if you just lurked, there was still so much going on that it felt like you, the lurker, were in the minority for not engaging.
Now everyone seems to lurk and wait for "creators" to supply us with entertainment that we would like to passively consume before going on to the next thing.
I'm slightly younger than the Unix epoch, and often I just don't have the mental or emotional energy to engage to the degree I might want. A Like, a Reblog,a terse "This!" can be athing of great moment. as easily a it is the calling card of the ADHD generation.
The thesis of the above posts is "anything that reflects, responds, adds, comments upon, etc a post is seen as adversarial/disagreement" NOT "A Like, a Reblog, a terse "This!" are meaningless/useless actions and you shouldn't do them" and I'm frankly unsure of how you managed to read the above and have this response.
Also I cannot take seriously anyone who uses the term 'the ADHD generation'
As someone who claims to have been born slightly later than 1970, you don't have the excuse of 'I was never actually taught how to read'
Sorry for jumping in on the chain at this post rather than earlier up btw. It's kind of funny, I was just writing a long response to this because I think there's a lot more that has gone into things developing this way than just illiteracy - after all, people have been misunderstanding each other on the internet from the very first day two strangers met on here, I'm sure of that. While writing that response I just got a pretty illustrative reason as to why I think people are so adverse to online discussions nowadays.
I got a notification on a post that I made dated October 20th, 2013, the post was expressing shock that Obama had been following Jhonen Vasquez, a creator I greatly respect but wouldn't typically consider to be in the realm of "acceptable for a presidental account to follow" (how things have changed :face_holding_back_tears:). The reply that this person decided to add described the violence they'd have liked to inflict (I assume on the former president and not on the creator of Invader Zim). Completely out of nowhere, just an insane thing to say to a stranger, right? And this one time isn't a big deal, I'm just going to roll my eyes and move on. But if that person had a moderate following and decided to reblog instead, then I'd be dealing with that kind of nonsense for quite a while afterwards. it isn't hard for me to see how people get worn down and have a reluctance to respond when that's definitely not an uncommon experience at all. Anytime someone chooses to respond to posts, they're taking the chance that their own followers will be normal and that the person they're responding to will have normal followers too.
There's the issue of tone too - something that reads as sarcastic to one can be genuine to another. I was having a discussion with my friends in discord and thought I'd emphatically exaggerated a point, which didn't actually come across or wasn't interpreted correctly. A misunderstanding like that on public social media can honestly lead to a kind of social exile or targeted hate campaign. too many times have I been pulled into pro-anti-shipper (as used by socmed. fandoms) discourse despite believing that every issue around that sort of thing requires more nuance than either side will ever offer fourth. It's exhausting to get pulled into that, so while I personally want to have discussions on my fandoms so so badly, when I make a post and see a reply, there's a moment of reluctance to actually read it.
More than a lack of reading comprehension, I think a large majority of internet users have forgotten how to be.. understanding? have grace? with each other - so even a small mistake can be twisted into something major. Who would want to engage in conditions like that, when an imprecise turn-of-phrase or typo could lead to that? How can someone assume good intentions on the person responding or asking them to reflect when that assumption is so often taken advantage of by trolls? (Trolls doesn't feel like the right word here, I associate trolls with a kind of rage-bait performance art that is now only seen on the neopets newbies board and the notes of some funnymen, but I'm not sure of a good replacement?) I don't believe a lot of people want to be this way, but it's part of how social media feeds are set up to feed the beast - even tumblr has an algorithm now, so even if you don't take part in it and stay entirely on your main dashboard, others will and will react to the random posts they're given accordingly.
I think how the conversation is started also plays a role? There's someone I respect greatly on here, adore their posts, always very thought-provoking. But I'm very fond of tag-rambling since it used to be more common for tags to be seen as the domain of the reblogger (and their immediate followers), and not the domain of the whole of tumblr; the place to organize the post on your blog also became the place to organize your thoughts on the post. Because of this though, I've rambled in the tags of their post and, on occasion when I've been unlucky, they've at'd me in the replies to expand upon my tags, which has always caught me off-kilter because it reads as a violation of etiquette to me, even though I'm now severely questioning if that ever actually was etiquette rather than something I thought I had observed. This is usually only a problem to me because my tag rambles aren't usually.. coherent exactly, because I'm still not used to them being able to be seen so easily by everyone who isn't my immediate follower despite these updates having been in place for quite a while. My process of ruminating is very disjointed for a wide variety of reasons, so in cases like that, I don't feel prepared to have a discussion about something I didn't intend for others to see.
(And intention on social media and expectation of who sees what is another can of worms that I think also underlies all of this. It's kind of hard to adjust to the ways people have become more visible than ever before on these sites)
I hope that made sense? I used most of my personal experience as someone in the ages being discussed (26, I can't remember a time I wasn't on the internet, though I guess I'd say I really got in on it when I was nine or ten?) but I think there's so much more that goes into the state of internet communities now, so it kind of gets frustrating seeing the broader issue of discussions and sociability online get pigeon-holed into illiteracy. I didn't even touch on the things that I was going to bring up in my original response before getting that random reply.
Yes, and: I went into more detail here, but another reason I think some of this generational shift is less "everything is content to consume" and more "fear over interacting with strangers on the Internet" is what we were taught as basic Internet Safety™️. I'm in my early 30s, and while my mom was rather paranoid and took it to an extreme, I learned some simple rules in school: Don't share your real name/age/location/etc. Don't DM with people you don't know IRL. Assume people might be lying about who they are. Report anything that makes you feel uncomfortable to a trusted adult. That kind of mindset makes the Internet feel like a very scary place, y'know?
I got all of that exact same advice in the 1990's and did not come to the conclusion that the internet is a very scary place, and I don't think that generations following mine have been given that advice at all - can you elaborate?
Sure! Or at least, I can try - this feels rambling and jumbled up, because I'm not having the best brain day, but here we go, anyway:
I will say that, on second thought, you're right that "I was taught that the Internet is a scary place" isn't quite the right way of describing it - I think it would be more accurate to say "I was taught that strangers on the Internet were, more likely than not, dangerous to interact with". Like, if each and every person I interact with could be (and probably is) using those interactions to figure out who I am/where I live/etc, why ever would I want to put myself at more risk by actively seeking out those interactions (by, for example, commenting on a fic/replying to someone else/reposting something)?
Perhaps our different experiences come from the decade-ish between us (at least, going by the year in your profile) - I think a lot of younger Milennials (like me) may have had our experiences of the Internet really heavily shaped by social media more than anything, where the norm is "you use this site to interact with people you know IRL", as opposed to, like, the old fangroup/forum culture, where it was more normal to interact with people purely on the basis of shared fandom interests.
(This also, I think, connects to what I've seen discussed about the conservative purity culture that's developed among Gen Z, and the backlash against intergenerational friendships - if I understand correctly, it used to be normal for a 16-year-old to interact with adults in their 20s/30s/40s/etc on, like, anime forums or whatever, because everyone was following the Internet Safety Rules and staying anonymous, so nobody really knew who each other was.)
IDK, I feel like, as my peers became the first generation to start breaking the Internet Safety Rules™️ by sharing personal info on social media, we started to draw a sharper distinction between "IRL friend I connect with on Facebook/etc" = safe to interact with, vs "stranger on the Internet" = unsafe to interact with. Does that make any sense?
It does! Thank you for helping me understand better
Building on the above, I then wonder if the younger millennials and Gen Z on here are predominantly on here because they already knew people on here and are using it as a way to interact that fits their preferences better than other platforms in some ways, but are somewhat taken aback and don’t know how to react when other people use this site differently in accordance with how they were socialized to.
Even though I am also 41, I did come here originally because I knew people, left when they did, but then came back because I wanted to do some blogging, wanted a built in audience, and was nostalgic for the interest based, anonymous communities of my early internet experiences. Also on the topic of different ways of being socialized to use a platform, as someone trained to view tags as metadata I was really confused when I first came back to find people having whole trains of thought in the tags. I honestly still don’t fully get it, I’d rather just bang out my response in normal text but that’s……loud? Is that the right word?
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THE PITT 1.04 • 10:00 A.M.
This episode really brought me back to when I lost my dad. I sobbed 😭😭😭
Neither enemies to lovers nor slow burn but a secret third thing called Schrödinger's intimacy. We are in love and we are not in love do NOT open that lid I swear to God.
A thing of beauty.
Todd Stashwick being the life of the party on the set of Picard. Because we can all use a little pick-me-up.
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there's this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.
The Alan Bean Gallery
To be honest, this one
Almost made me cry right now.
I love it. Something about it feels so incredibly human. The emotion on display, even without a face to show it. This is magnificent. Truly magnificent. I feel it in my soul.
These shorts...🥵
Parenting ❤
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Found old pics of Loki posing with his action figure 😂😂
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Why is this SO HOT and yet SO CUTE 😅😭❤️❤️💀💀💀💀
Loki in "Thor" (2011)
@mcuchallenge year of celebrations - "Thor" Day
I will always love the scene where he just pauses and says"Damn". Like, *sigh* here we go AGAIN. He's used to it. I loved the calm, resigned delivery. It gives a thousand years of sibling backstory with one word.
So true!!!