Knowledge is a deadly friend If no one sets the rules

Academic fan overanalyzing whatever currently has my attention Feel free to yell at me with all your thoschei thoughts Fair warning: arguing with me is like wrestling in mud with a pig (hint: after 15 minutes you start to realize the pig is enjoying herself) she/her header image created by the wonderful Linguistwho: https://linguistwho.tumblr.com/post/624655714448801793/word-of-the-day-day-680-leo-happy-space

[roxannepolice]

I don't think I make it clear enough, but whenever I post a hot take I WANT TO BE DISAGREED WITH! There's little I value more than an honest discussion! Point out to me holes in my reasoning and you shall gain a Skyrim follower that will be thy most stalwart shield should really bad takes assault thee! Regardless of whether you convince me to your viewpoint or not!

Arguing (not quarreling. arguing.) is literally my love language which is prolly why I like thoschei so much!

[ollielephant]

[cumonthevoid]

none pizza with left beef

[the-chocolate-chip-pancake-blog]

It should be a rule of Tumblr to always reblog none pizza with left beef

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[mapsontheweb]

US climate with equivalent cities from around the world.

Keep reading

[shabbytigers]

This is the greatest map I have ever seen. I want an interactive version where you can click on any city in the world and get a pop-up list of all the climate-equivalent cities.

[shabbytigers]

so it turns out this exists and it makes a fine rabbit hole for passing the time during a conference call

[queenbookwench]

OK, this is super neat and also a great tool for writers’

[stormsbourne]

I think I just don't understand a lot of people here because there are multiple middle grade and ya books that I consider pretty instrumental to my personality but I'm not going to go around telling people to read animorphs or whatever without qualifying that it is written for eleven to fifteen year olds. this isn't "kids media has nothing to say" it's "usually when people ask for recommendations they are looking for stuff written for adults. because they are written differently."

like am I taking crazy pills. yes animorphs has a lot to say about war and violence and the impact these things have on people, specifically on children. but it is making these points in a way that is digestible for a 12 year old's brain. I'm not going to tell all the adults I know looking for urban fantasy to read Bruce Coville's magic shop books, no matter how much I loved Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher when I was 8.

like if someone was like "hey I'm seeking middle grades/ya recs because of x reason" then maybe it's appropriate to recommend percy jackson or warrior cats, but if somebody is like "I'm looking for something dark and unflinching about the price of war, maybe in a vaguely sci fi current day setting" I'm not going to tell them to read animorphs unless they also add they'd like it to be for younger readers.

you can like stuff for kids all you want but you gotta understand that stuff for kids IS made differently and with different goals than stuff for adults. a kid is not going to react to the ending of girl with all the gifts the way I did because there's gravity and magnitude to it that the child cannot understand. stuff for kids IS different, on purpose, and it in fact needs to be. but if somebody says "I think I'd like something geared toward adults this time" they aren't asking for you to be smug about how actually the hunger games is just as insightful as any stupid book "for adults." neither are they insulting your taste nor all media for kids. they are expressing a preference. jeeeeeeesus.

[kotse]

muriel's notes + copying their role models!

commission me on kofi

[thechangelingsea]

Behind the scenes Good Omens 3 photos from Quelin Sepulveda's instagram 😍

[psychotic-gerard]

listening to a man break up with his partner on the train and the first sentence I heard was "I just don't appreciate you cheating on me six different times, once with my own father."

[noah-wyles]

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[polishwave]

[swissshard]

Relief of Hades and Persephone with a table of pomegranates from Hierapolis Archaeological Museum.

[wormcosmologies]

i just saw the phrase "unregistered molotov cocktails" in a news article and im really enjoying imagining this world where you have to register molotovs to the state

[naniiebimworks]

Crowley and Aziraphale at Armageddoff.

[cosmicconverse]

its not done yet but whatever. go my gay john simm fanart

[rynchoso]

made this im so proud of it LOOOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK

(Cara)

[rhobeta-and-epsilon]

One ☝️ thing about simm!master is

Thank you

[melrosing]

maybe im just remembering things through rose-tinted glasses but I really don’t remember fandoms being so relatively short-lived in the past as they are now…. I see ppl mourning the death of fandoms that are only 3-6 months old and I swear that would have been like. an infant fandom in 2014 or w/e

[melrosing]

ok not to blame twt again (tho im probably never wrong to) but i wonder if its owing to the fact that twt and indeed tiktok aren’t really that great for easy access archives and tagging so that ur actually reliant on ur algorithm to show u fandom content - and when the algorithm decides that’s not trending anymore it quickly fades from ur feed and u have the feeling that you ought to move on too?? it’s not that one can’t notice a waning fandom on tumblr too but rather if u want to find new content about ur interests u go to the tags and ur preferred blogs, u don’t wait for the community to come to u as such?? something something passive fandom engagement?? anyway

[aemondtargaryen]

All that you said plus tv shows releasing their entire seasons in one go so all commentary is quickly given the following couple of weeks and then fades into oblivion. I feel like many people who are hardcore fans of something weren't there when it began, but saw a friend watching it or people talking about it and felt down the rabbit hole. But now there's barely time to even see the rabbit. If you weren't paying attention during those couple of weeks, the show will go unnoticed and the fandom will miss out on a potential artist/writer/just obsessed with that media person, thus making fandom not just more ephemeral but also smaller

[melrosing]

yeah I guess there's basically no getting away from the fact that release in installations is massively conducive to transformative fandom (effectively synchronising audience experiences, giving conversations longer lifespans and opportunity to build)... but in most cases a release of a full season seems to go down better w general audiences unless you're talking widely anticipated shows where ppl are primed to lock in for months at a time (like HBO can still pull this off for GOT spin-offs and critically acclaimed dramas, netflix can manage with the big shows like stranger things). otherwise like i think netflix and co might actually be right that if they want the majority of audiences to hang about for the next episode they are going to have to drop them all at once bc otherwise there is just too much content to distract them, and the longevity of transformative fandom does not hold the same value as having general audiences talking about your show for three weeks and then moving on

[serpercival]