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Coran Coran the Gorgeous Man

[juggalokomaeda]

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i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter

the result is this garbage

[red3blog]

I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.

[juggalokomaeda]

hey tis the season for me to reblog this piece of shit monstrosity that ruined my life forever

[captainstupendouschaoscollection]

Officially setting as ringtone

[kohana]

Happy Christmas

[kohana]

I’ve had this scheduled to be posted since December 31, 2016 at 2:42 AM.

[kohana]

Been waiting yet another year

[juggalokomaeda]

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i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter

the result is this garbage

[red3blog]

I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.

[juggalokomaeda]

hey tis the season for me to reblog this piece of shit monstrosity that ruined my life forever

[captainstupendouschaoscollection]

Officially setting as ringtone

[kohana]

Happy Christmas

[kohana]

I’ve had this scheduled to be posted since December 31, 2016 at 2:42 AM.

[hangthecode]

[bestfunny]

twooforjoy:

ive waited all year to be able to reblog this

[taengerinee]

A lil science sesh with Nams

Incorrect BTS 14/?

[kiera--b]

blood, sweat, & tears.

[kohana]

henlo y'all I'll be switching accounts so if any of you care, I'll reblog with my new account

[kohana]

Every day I walk into the kitchen, everyday he stares at me.

[zoomine]

[myonlyphenomenon]

I’ve been staring at this for 5 minutes

[dont-kill-the-kennedys]

That’s what it looks like. That’s really what it looks like

[avesatanaa]

Being out in the ocean is actually so scary because when you look really far out you can kind of see how the Earth is rounded out. It looks like a few miles ahead you’re just gonna fall off or something. Also fun trick: if ur on mobile, double tap zoom in and slide the picture side to side. It looks like you’re actually there looking left to right

[norulesnobras]

DO THAT DO IT RIGHT NOW

[kohana]

dO IT

[smb-super-hoe]

I present to you the most iconic moment in the history of animation.

[foreskinhaver]

Top 10 Anime Betrayals

[kohana]

LMAO

[kohana]

My aesthetic is Josh Keaton fighting people on twitter about whether or not Shiro wears eyeliner

[bbyinblu]

Reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

[kohana]

Plz

[nerdkiwibird]

letter to the voltron fandom

can we please maybe reconsider the current ship name for shiro/matt

[sniperlance]

never

[kohana]

Long live the Shatt

[spacelaxia]

S01EP01 x S02EP08 Parallels

[kohana]

HHHH

[nkim-illustrates]

Matcha Fox - Neighborhood

[whybecosplay]

Water bending cosplay

[kohana]

This is wonderful

[prokopetz]

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

[veteratorianvillainy]

#friendly reminder that I once put my statistics degree to good use and did some calculations about ship ratios#and yes considering the gender ratios of characters#the prevalence of gay ships is completely predictable (via sarahtonin42)

[persephoneshadow-deactivated202]

I feel this is something that does often get overlooked in slash shipping, especially in articles that try to ‘explain’ the phenomena. No matter the show, movie or book, people are going to ship. When everyone is a dude and the well written relationships are all dudes, of course we’re gonna go for romance among the dudes because we have no other options.

[prokopetz]

Totally.

A lot of analyses propose that the overwhelming predominance of male/male ships over female/female and female/male ships in fandom reflects an unhealthy fetishisation of male homosexuality and a deep-seated self-hatred on the part of women in fandom. While it’s true that many fandoms certainly have issues gender-wise, that sort of analysis willfully overlooks a rather more obvious culprit.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that we have a hypothetical media franchise with twelve recurring speaking roles, nine of which are male and three of which are female.

(Note that this is actually a bit better than average representaton-wise - female representation in popular media franchises is typicaly well below the 25% contemplated here.)

Assuming that any character can be shipped with any other without regard for age, gender, social position or prior relationship - and for simplicity excluding cloning, time travel and other “selfcest”-enabling scenarios - this yields the following (non-polyamorous) possibilities:

Possible F/F ships: 3 Possible F/M ships: 27 Possible M/M ships: 36

TOTAL POSSIBLE SHIPS: 66

Thus, assuming - again, for the sake of simplicity - that every possible ship is about equally likely to appeal to any given fan, we’d reasonably expect about (36/66) = 55% of all shipping-related media to feature M/M pairings. No particular prejudice in favour of male characters and/or against female characters is necessary for us to get there.

The point is this: before we can conclude that representation in shipping is being skewed by fan prejudice, we have to ask how skewed it would be even in the absence of any particular prejudice on the part of the fans. Or, to put it another way, we have to ask ourselves: are we criticising women in fandom - and let’s be honest here, this type of criticism is almost exclusively directed at women - for creating a representation problem, or are we merely criticising them for failing to correct an existing one?

[observethewalrus]

YES YES YES HOLY SHIT YES FUCKING THANK YOU!

[ainedubh]

Also food for thought: the obvious correction to a lack of non-male representation in a story is to add more non-males. Female Original Characters are often decried as self-insertion or Mary Sues, particular if romance or sex is a primary focus.

[slitthelizardking]

I really appreciate when tumblr commentary is of the quality I might see at an academic conference. No joke.

[lierdumoa]

This doesn’t even account  for the disparity in the amount of screen time/dialogue male characters to get in comparison to female characters, and how much time other characters spend talking about male characters even when they aren’t onscreen. This all leads to male characters ending up more fully developed, and more nuanced than female characters. The more an audience feels like they know a character, the more likely an audience is to care about a character. More network television writers are men. Male writers tend to understand men better than women, statistically speaking. Female characters are more likely to be written by men who don’t understand women vary well. 

But it’s easier to blame the collateral damage than solve the root problem.

[destinationtoast]

Yay, mathy arguments. :)

This is certainly one large factor in the amount of M/M slash out there, and the first reason that occurred to me when I first got into fandom (I don’t think it’s the sole reason, but I think it’s a bigger one than some people in the Why So Much Slash debate give our credit for). And nice point about adding female OCs.

In some of my shipping-related stats, I found that shows with more major female characters lead to more femslash (also more het).  (e.g. femslash in female-heavy media; femslash deep dive) I’ve never actually tried to do an analysis to pin down how much of fandom’s M/M preference is explained by the predominance of male characters in the source media, but I’m periodically tempted to try to do so.

[candlelightcalico-deactivated20]

I’m actually prepared to do full surveys of multiple large fandoms to figure this out.

[kohana]

Please keep us updated if you do

[lordzuuko]

I’m just crying in a corner. They’re watching a movie and Zarkon’s even there.

[keith-and-shiro-were-dating]

Keith really enjoys those Altean Caprisuns.