#periodization

[cardassiangoodreads]

I don't know why I feel like doing this right now, but I'm inspired to create a periodization for the history of Tumblr. For my own credentials, I've been on the site and active since 2009, even though this particular blog only dates to 2015. Also, I'm a real-life academic in a history field, lol, but don't take this too seriously.

Basic periodization:

Prehistoric (Prefandom) Tumblr: 2011 and earlier

Old/Classical Tumblr (or Superwholock Golden Age): 2012-2014

Middle-Period/Medieval Tumblr (transitional period): 2015-2017

Late-Period Tumblr: 2018-present

Explanations under the cut:

Prehistoric Tumblr: Back when it really was known primarily for aesthetic blogs, or there at least was a competition between them and the kinds of Tumblr blogs we think of today. Fandom was still largely concentrated on other websites like LiveJournal, just starting to trickle over. Social Justice Tumblr was here by 2010, but less tied to arguing about media and fandom. Lots of single-subject blogs, often with titles that started with "fuckyeah" or "fuckno," and image-macro memes. Tumblr had a reputation, but not one that's particularly relevant to the one it has today. Most of the famous drama of this time period (e.g. kavitiya, prince-koyangi and the "trans-racial" phenomenon, the Privilege Denying People meme blog) you wouldn't know if you weren't there for it. If you wanted to you could divide this into like a Paleolithic era of 2007-2009, the dominance of aesthetic blogs/art student portfolios, and the Neolithic era of 2010-2011, when you got the famous single-subject blogs like lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber, feminist blogs were gaining a foothold, the first dramas the likes of which could come from no other website, and it was really starting to transition in earnest into...

Old Tumblr/Classical Tumblr: This is the era that made Tumblr's reputation, when fandom migrated here fully, Superwholock and Homestuck and all that shit was at its height, and we had iconic moments in that like the Mishapocalypse. Lots of "Potterheads, grab your wands" and 14-year-olds thinking merely being on Tumblr made them part of a subculture (because it kind of did!) Lots of fandom discourse about media and representation, but way less of it tied to "problematic" shipping; there was still a standard protocol that you left people alone about that shit and didn't "tag your hate." (People argued about shipping, but it was more about how you needed to ship X characters to be a good feminist or LGBTQ ally, less about what you couldn't ship.) Though there's crossover with the previous period for some of them, Tumblr's most infamous (ab)users like Riley, genderbitch, birdlawyer, that one dude with the famous Canada Day gif who was outed as a serial sexual predator, were at their peaks here. You also had actual famous people (especially the Internet-famous) using the site -- like this was when the Green brothers were actually active here, and summoning them was a popular meme for a while. The beginning of the end came with Dashcon (July 2014) and its fallout. Also Gamergate, which happened about a month or two after Dashcon -- which organized the anti-Tumblr backlash, among other things.

Middle-Period or Medieval Tumblr: By this point, Tumblr had acquired its popular Internet reputation as a place where people argued about the feminist ethics of Supernatural omegaverse. The early part of this period especially features a lot of organized backlash from places like 4chan and Reddit, and that backlash took on a more explicitly right-wing political bent. In 2013 you could call someone an "SJW" and have it understood that you weren't against social justice yourself, just one individual being kooky or myopic about it; by 2015, that was no longer the case. Tumblr itself continued to be the primary pitstop on the Internet for fandom, but a lot of it got uglier: this is when the "pro-shipper/anti-shipper" stuff started, for instance, and more people thinking that which fictional characters you like to see kiss was a reason to try to damage your offline life. At the same time, lots of older users stopped focusing as much on fandom exclusively and especially the drama involved in it, so it conversely also became easier to have a healthier relationship with that stuff. The hallmarks of prehistoric Tumblr -- feminist bloggers who'd come over from Jezebel or Feministing, single-subject meme blogs -- were abandoned by this point. Despite that, if anything, Tumblr got more political during this period, especially about real-world politics, with the U.S. 2016 election campaign and its aftermath. (This arguably started in 2013 with the Wendy Davis filibuster, but this period is when it really took off.) Two of Tumblr's most legendary scandals happened during this time: Boneghazi and hivliving, both representative of how Tumblr's overall community composition (former) and fandom norms (latter) had changed. Middle-period Tumblr ends with the porn ban in December 2017. [Edit: it was actually 2018 but w/e. The writing was on the wall and people had started leaving, this still feels like a good place to make that cut-off.]

Late-Period or Modern Tumblr: When Tumblr started cracking down on the female-presenting nipple, a lot of users from the previous eras -- especially fandom-oriented ones -- abruptly left the site for the "greener" pastures of Twitter, Discord, TikTok (eventually), and various flavors-of-the-month like Mastodon and Pillowfort. This made Tumblr a much more insular place. But this was for the best: we stayed in order to chill with our friends and trusted mutuals, and Tumblr became the Cheers of the Internet, the cozy neighborhood bar where everyone knows your name rather than the manic furry rave of past eras. Twitter instead became the place where you could expect drama about the "ableism" of the word "himbo" or figure skating RPF being "aphobic." (Both real examples, btw. The second culprit used to be infamous over here during the Classical Period for nonsense like claiming “humane” was an anti-kinnie slur.) A fascinating trend from this period is the site returning to its roots, with Prehistoric Tumblr fossils coming back to life. You had trolls like crazy-acey and summer 2018 sensation rabidloving that harkened back to the "trans-Korean catboys" of yore, the return of otherkin, the revival of single-subject meme blogs (if more focused on fandom and more reflective of modern-day Internet humor), even Old Tumblr fandoms roaring back with a gay angel being sent to superhell and a car going to heaven. Tumblr also stopped being part of the broader cultural zeitgeist, allowing the people left behind to let it excel at its greatest talent: being extremely weird in a way you'd find nowhere else online.

[racefortheironthrone]

Re: Three musketeers era; Please let me rectify a small cultural and geographical mistake. In France this period is rather defined as the classical period. Early modern isn't very much in use here, at least not like that. All the best.

That may be what it's called in France, but it's not what historians outside of France refer to that period of European history as.

And no offense, but it's not a good term, because "classical" usually refers to a period of Ancient European history (hence why there is a whole discipline called "Classics"), thus creating confusion whether "classical" France is referring to Gaul between the 8th and 5th centuries CE or the Kingdom of France in the 17th century CE.

[gwydionmisha]

When Was The Viking Age? 

This captures perfectly the two biggest things I endlessly try to explain to people about Periodization .

1: Periodization is inherently arbitrary and depends on the specific thing you are studying and exist because things like papers, classes, and books need a beginning and end date.  You can’t jam all of history into any of these things, so you need to draw some arbitrary lines, but a person studying Japanese History will draw a different set of line than someone studying say German theology than someone studying Central American archeology. 

2. Periodization is only useful insofar as it’s giving you some degree of useful information to the people trying to study the same sorts of things, and the people doing it don’t take it to seriously.

[thelonguepuree]

In the advanced capitalist world today, it is the seeming absence of any such prospect as a proximate or even distant horizon—the lack, apparently, of any conjecturable alternative to the imperial status quo of a consumer capitalism—that blocks the likelihood of any profound cultural renovation comparable to the great Age of Aesthetic Discoveries in the first third of this century. Gramsci’s words still hold good: ‘The crisis consists,’ he wrote, ‘precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appears.’ It is legitimate to ask, however: could anything be said in advance as to what the new might be? One thing, I think, might be predicted. Modernism as a notion is the emptiest of all cultural categories. Unlike the terms Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Mannerist, Romantic or Neo-Classical, it designates no describable object in its own right at all: it is completely lacking in positive content. In fact, as we have seen, what is concealed beneath the label is a wide variety of very diverse—indeed incompatible—aesthetic practices: symbolism, constructivism, expressionism, surrealism. These, which do spell out specific programmes, were unified post hoc in a portmanteau concept whose only referent is the blank passage of time itself. There is no other aesthetic marker so vacant or vitiated. For what once was modern is soon obsolete. The futility of the term, and its attendant ideology, can be seen all too clearly from current attempts to cling to its wreckage and yet swim with the tide still further beyond it, in the coinage ‘post-modernism’: one void chasing another, in a serial regression of self-congratulatory chronology. If we ask ourselves, what would revolution (understood as a punctual and irreparable break with the order of capital) have to do with modernism (understood as this flux of temporal vanities), the answer is: it would surely end it. For a genuine socialist culture would be one which did not insatiably seek the new, defined simply as what comes later, itself to be rapidly consigned to the detritus of the old, but rather one which multiplied the different, in a far greater variety of concurrent styles and practices than had ever existed before: a diversity founded on the far greater plurality and complexity of possible ways of living that any free community of equals, no longer divided by class, race or gender, would create. The axes of aesthetic life would, in other words, in this respect run horizontally, not vertically. The calendar would cease to tyrannize, or organize, consciousness of art. The vocation of a socialist revolution, in that sense, would be neither to prolong nor to fulfil modernity, but to abolish it.

Perry Anderson, from “Modernity and Revolution” (1984)

[jpfitnesspro]

Progression Part 1: Beginners

Being able to continually progress and reach goal after goal is something that everyone who lifts wants to do. Nobody wants to reach 1 goal, set another bigger goal, only to hit a wall and either plateau or regress. For example, hitting 225 on squat for the first time for someone just starting out might be great for them, but if they set another goal for lets say 250 and can't reach that, it will be frustrating and may make them not want to continue training.

For Hypertrophy (gaining muscle): If you want to gain muscle, whether that be get as jacked as possible or get "toned" (a term I don't really like, its misleading and it only means gains a little muscle) your main goal is to 1. Apply the proper stimulus and 2. increase the volume of that stimulus over time. This doesn't have to be complicated; the stimulus you need to apply is pretty straight forward. You have to train with heavy weights, train with moderately heavy weights and get within 5 reps of failure, or train with light weights but go to failure. If you do either of these things, you are applying a stimulus that will induce muscular hypertrophy. Now, the amount of stimulus you apply determines how MUCH gains you get (to an extent). Training volume (how much you do in the gym) correlates strongly with how much muscle you gain.

For Strength (getting stronger in a lift): Strength is a little more complicated in regards to WHAT makes you stronger. For example, gaining muscle (what I explained above) is one way you can increase strength. If all else is equal, a more jacked version of yourself will be stronger. This is not the only thing that contributes to strength though. There are three main ways an individual gets stronger in a lift: 1. Neurological adaptation. When you lift heavy shit, your body makes changes neurologically. Motor unit recruitment, rate coding, and synchronization improves. This may sound complicated but all you need to know is that you need to lift HEAVY to maximize neurological adaptations. 2. Skill acquisition. You need to learn how to correctly do the lift you are trying to get stronger at. Having correct bar path during the bench press is a good example. 3. Gaining muscle (and other morphological adaptations). Like I mentioned earlier, with all else equal, a more jacked version of yourself will be stronger (bigger muscle fibers produce more force).

You may be thinking "where does the progression talk" come in; I had to preface it with the above explanations to make things easier.

A beginner (someone just starting out) does not need a complex progression scheme. A beginner makes strength gains fast initially due to neurological adaptation. If you are just starting out, you can increase the weight you are using on that lift workout to workout or week to week. In the picture shown, you have 1 day where you are doing bench press for 10 reps. Each week, we increase the weight 5 pounds. On the second day, you are doing bench press for 5 reps with a heavier weight and increase the weight 5 pounds each week. So we are getting more and more volume each week (as weight goes up) and we are getting stronger each week as well (because we are lifting heavier and heavier weight). This is called linear progression; we are taking advantage of beginner gains by increasing weight week to week. You don't need to add sets, you don't need to randomly change exercise to "confuse" the muscle. Simply increase the resistance workout to workout and you will make gains.

Now, when you can no longer add weight and hit the appropriate reps you have listed for your program (whatever that may be) all this means is you are no longer a beginner and you have to implement a more advance form of progression, which I will cover in part 2.

[powerliftingcoach-blog]

@chrisabeardsley ・・・ When I was at university, lecturers told us stories about a time when the idea that psychological stress could influence the immune system or cause disease was regarded as absurd. Within a few decades, that disbelief had turned into many new fields of research. Even so, the influence of psychological stress on strength training adaptations remains poorly investigated. This study is one of the very few that has explored how psychological stress might influence the adaptations resulting from a long-term training program. As expected, higher stress levels seem to have negative effects. Unfortunately, the mechanisms could not be identified, and any number of explanations are possible, ranging from the very simple (lower motivation or reduced workout adherence) to the more complex (altered physiology). -------------------- #sandcresearch #strengthandconditioning #strengthtraining #strength #sportsscience #biomechanics #exercisescience #research #sciencetopractice #performance #hypertrophy #stress #periodization #ontariomuscle #ontariopowerlifting #parapowerlifting #powerliftingcoach #benchcoach #crossfit #powerlifting #usapl #squats #benchpress (at Fitness West)

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