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can i beg you for a gresbian
A lot of folks wanted both trans and lesbian Grians/Griandes so I offer a trans lesbian Ariana Griande :D
Also, I'll take this opportunity to say - If you'd like to support a real life trans lesbian singer in the community, check out Musi Musithical :D
and All Might never did find out who the Other Kid was. He also learned not to Jump to Conclusions.
mourning my emotional support tree
Imagine being the only person alive who can say this
buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”
Instead of the new dogshit Odyssey film you should watch Iphigenia (1977). It’s made by actual Greek people and focuses on a mother-daughter relationship to explore how women are sacrificed by powerful men in times of war. Also the main actress has the face of an angel 🙏 the whole movie is available on YT with English subtitles.
you know somebody’s review of Obsession is bad when the most of the backlash towards are coming from men who are like “bro wtf you’re missing the point why are you being misogynistic”
hatred that morphs to obsession that morphs to devotion. is this anything
Instead of the new dogshit Odyssey film you should watch Iphigenia (1977). It’s made by actual Greek people and focuses on a mother-daughter relationship to explore how women are sacrificed by powerful men in times of war. Also the main actress has the face of an angel 🙏 the whole movie is available on YT with English subtitles.
Been enjoying your musings on fanfic ecosystems and thought I'd just share some of my own small observations.
Fandom "migrations" are definitely a thing, where artists and writers move from fandom to fandom based on what's new and exciting like a herd searching for new growth to feed on. There are some fandoms I've been in where you can definitely see something like a population cycle, with a baseline of more permanent fans and more "seasonal" fans that wax and wane.
I'm not really into the MCU movies at all but it's interesting to hear it described as a post-apocylptic wreckage when I think it's doing okay for itself despite the mass extinction. But that's just me whining because smaller fandoms can be desolate and I'd LOVE for some of them to have as much fandom activity as MCU. I think of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones as being similar-ish ecosystems, in that they're big budget mainstream productions that gained enough critical mass to somewhat sustain themselves but nonetheless suffered mass die-off when their main series ended, and in response the IP holders attempt to prop up interest with new spin-offs.
Also, I think the type of content or "canon" has an effect on the type of fandom that grows and what kind of population cycles occur (if any). Some creators have a pretty contentious relationship with fans of their stuff while others I think, deliberately construct their stories in a way to encourage the flourishing of a fandom ecosystem. And a single one-and-done story is going to have a different ecosystem than an ongoing franchise.
I can't remember if you posted it on your blog at some point but there was a chart going around tumblr hypothesizing the sweet spot for a massive fandom to bloom. It has to be just good enough to be compelling, but not so good that all the emotional loose ends are tied up. There needs to be SPACE for that new growth. Related, I remember people observing that fluffy lighthearted source material tends to inspire angst, and dark stories end up with a disproportionate amount of fluff and fix-it fics.
I love all these thoughts. Fandom ecology!
There's a decent amount of activity in MCU fandom comparatively, but I would estimate it's collapsed by over 90% since the days of Avengers Endgame... well within the threshold to qualify for a mass extinction!
But there was so much content and so many fans, the primary productivity of the fandom ecosystem was incredibly high. think like a tropical ecosystem with high precipitation sustaining lots of plant growth and lots of energy to go around on all trophic levels...
Other fandom ecosystems might be like deep underground caves, or high alpine slopes, or deserts that receive moisture only through fog... processes are happening slower, nutrients and essentials of life are more limited
It's an interesting thought... what represents the primary energy source (in our world, sunlight) in this analogy? is it the media itself the fandom is based off of?
No...I think the sunlight must be the love and passion of the fans. The media itself might be the primary producers or maybe the rocks and water of the land...
When you see a Prep in hottopic
“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”
why are people reblogging this again
this post is like 11 years old
WHY AREYALL DOING THIS
We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be
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This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…
Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid
Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.
Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.
So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.
if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge
Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid
Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.
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"And when the times get bad, let's promise to gather back on this hill" The Four Horsemen of The Weedpocalypse was such a vibe yesterday… kinda healing
tumblr isn’t considered a social media because everyone on here is just talking to themselves
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technology related sensory memories from my childhood
sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper
rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo
The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint
Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked
The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass
The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover
The sound effects in kidpix
Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands
…God, it is so weird these things aren’t around any more. Cause it’s true, the sensations are so distinct. It’s bizarre to think about missing these tiny relics.
picking the torture option and the next day the first thing he does right off the bat is make me eat a really big live spider
The Elemental Quatet reading about the deaths of their predecessors.
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