I was thinking about the whole "fandom moves on to something else" thing and it made me think about my annual picnic. Every year, I have a big picnic in early November and invite a bunch of people. I rent out a pavilion at a local lake, have people bring food that I grill for them if they want, have some games for the kids in the group, and just generally hang out.
Now, the way this goes is that I have everyone show up around 4:30pm. People show up, it's a big crowd, it's pretty warm out because the sun is still up and the mingling is great. People eat, share food, the kids run around in the trees and check out the lake, and we all just generally enjoy ourselves and catch up. Then the sun starts to go down.
People start getting under the pavilion, it starts getting a little chilly, and maybe those with really young kids start to pack up and say good-bye. This is usually when I light up the fire in the pavilion's fireplace and people will begin gathering around there. I let the grill burn down and sit down with everyone as everything gets a bit more mellow. Maybe we make s'mores or have cookies or something but this is usually were you start having more people say their good-byes and head out. That's how it goes for the next couple of hours, little dribbles of people winding up and heading on home until it's 9:30 at night and there's just a few people left in the pavilion in the woods sitting around a little fireplace quietly talking.
You know what? That's the best time at these things. Some years we'll be out there until almost midnight, just chatting quietly and staring into the coals. You learn things about people then, you hear interesting things, and you just feel closer.
So what does this have to do with fandom and moving on? Well, I see it like this. The show is still on, that's the early part of the day. Plenty of people around, lots of activity where art gets made, headcanons and meta fly fast and furious, and tons of fic gets written. Then the show ends, people are still creating but a few peel away, they have other things they have to do or just aren't interested in sticking around. Slowly but surely it goes until it's just a few people left.
That's when the interesting things really start coming out. You still have the other stuff but you start to get off the wall headcanons and wild meta, you get odd art, you get fic the person finally decided to write, and it's good. And hey, every once in a while, someone shows up late and you grab some food out of the cooler for them and warm up a burger for them over the coals while others grab a chair for them and you get them up to speed on the conversation and maybe show them some pictures from earlier in the night and they get to have some of that glow from earlier even if they missed the original.
That's fandom to me. As long as a person is still sitting around that fireplace late into the night, ready to chat, the fandom is never dead.
i guess i'll advertize this here too... hi i opened a Baba Is You fanlisting. it got added to the fanlistings network a few days ago so i'm officially unveiling it. calling all baba fans. with or without a website, you can join and get added to the listing. yippee.
THIS IS NOT AN ORIGINAL POST. Twitter user lily_hpmy recently combed the entire series--we're talking song lyrics, drama tracks, the anime, the movie, the manga, the live shows, the Spotify radio podcasts, the stageplays, and both video games--to discover the two things Hitoya can't stand. Sorry, did I say two? Make that one hundred forty-seven.
This is that list translated into English for ease of reading. All credit for the massive amount of work involved goes to lily_hpmy, who posts quite a lot of other funny Hypmic content. Please give them a follow! Also, please do not use this post as a jumping off point to harass them or overwhelm them with complex English-language comments. I do not know if they would be comfortable with a random surge of attention from non-Japanese accounts.
The author of this list categorized the list by subject matter (food and drinks, people, places, and miscellaneous) and expression used (can't stand, dislikes, rubs the wrong way, is inexcusable). Because I can't make a table on Tumblr, I've collapsed this into four lists ordered by expression used.
Items that appear more than once are bolded. Occasionally, Hitoya uses different wording to refer to the same thing. When the meanings are functionally identical, list items may appear to be featured twice. Other duplicate items contain footnotes if a meaningful (or just amusing) distinction exists.
I'm writing everything in fairly clinical tones, but Hitoya sounds annoyed as all get-out a good 50% of the time. Determining when to mentally insert the word "fucking" is an exercise left to the reader.
The 81 things Hitoya can't stand:
Bad coffee
Watery coffee
Over-extracted coffee
Mornings without coffee
Nattou without Japanese mustard
Fruit in salads
Pineapple in sweet-and-sour pork (repeated 3 times)
Pineapple on pizza
Strawberries in shortcake
Bad osechi
Ice cubes made from tap water
Drinking cheap sake
Warm beer
People who water down champagne
People who put soy sauce on sushi rice
Pickled plums in mackerel stewed in miso paste [1]
People who don't listen [2]
Procrastinators
People who run their mouths saying nonsense
People who say good luck without meaning it
Students who don't listen to his lectures (from a school AU event)
People who look down on him
People who bother him
Dumbasses who bother him at work
People who litter
Bartenders who make a show of pouring whiskey
People who don't wear socks
Adults who squabble like kids
People who can't read the room
Audience members who don't cheer loud enough [3]
Dumbasses who fall for scams
MCs who run away
People who diss his Nagoya fam
Dumb kids who charge in headfirst without thinking
People who talk too loud at coffee shops
People who make too big of a commotion in coffee shops
People who just stand there without ordering anything in coffee shops
Openly opinionated people [4]
Monks (or a monk, presumably) who make fun of his hair style
People who don't put the TV remote back in its designated spot
People who flaunt their wealth
People who wear cheap, bad perfume or cologne
People who ignore the local rules and customs
People who swear sneakers with suits
People who can't mind their own business
People who use their pets as their phone background
Hitoya when he lacks the vocabulary to properly compliment a client on their beauty (from a host club event)
Hitoya when he is rendered helpless by a client's beauty (from a host club event)
People who do whatever the heck they want with someone else's body (from a body swap event)
People who pull faces or do pranks right as the picture is taken
People who poke their noses into every room in someone else's house
People who camp out in his office uninvited
A pair of dumbassess who barge into his office for the purpose of feeding him nonsense
A certain young, red-haired hooligan
A certain monk-in-training who insists upon calling Hitoya up and having him come over for no stated reason
A certain red-haired monk-in-training who pretends to be busy when he's actually not busy at all
Bars that play classical music
Places with way too many people packed into them
Concerts that play bad music
Lukewarm baths
Losing
Losing at the DRB
Losing
People licking each other's wounds
Being forced to do anything
Being told what to do
Other people writing a script for him [5]
When Jakurai looks down on him
When Jakurai shows him up
Women crying
Reckless behavior
Stewing over conversations that are over and done with
The kind of clothes worn by posers in rock-and-roll subculture
The smell of asphalt on rainy days
Annoying New Year's celebrations [6]
Body swapping (from a body swap event)
Not giving something his 100%
Photos where he's blinking
Staffs that look cool but have bad stats (from a video game AU event)
Monsters that get cocky (from a video game AU event)
The 58 things Hitoya dislikes:
Room temperature rum
Green bananas
Soggy, untoasted baguettes
Lemon water
Bean sprouts
Dry sashimi
People who don't listen
People who do whatever they want despite how it might affect others
A certain perceptive brat [7]
Dumb kids
Impudent kids
People who overestimate their abilities
People who bother him at work
A certain dour-looking office worker
Men who physically abuse women
Cheating, cowardly SOBs who sneak up behind someone and attack them
People who make money the easy way
People who buy band T-shirts without knowing the band
People who walk into restaurants that don't display their prices just to see how much things cost
Obnoxiously excited tourists
People who lack manners and butt into other people's conversations
Low-ability chumps who band together
Certain obnoxiously excited dumbasses
People who don't care enough about anything
Two-faced people
People with the audacity to openly take other people's stuff
Seeing a certain monk give up
A certain obnoxious monk-in-training on April Fool's Day
A certain disagreeable doctor
Drunk Jakurai
Crowded, hard-to-walk-in bars
Restaurants that don't display their prices
Romance novels
Trashy necktie pins
Trashy suits
Outstanding documents
Lack of self-reliance
Damp cigarettes
Failure to properly consider a man's resolve
Jobs that don't pay well
Trials that don't pay well
Defending a terrible person in trial
Bullying
Bullying the weak
Being looked after
Low energy concerts
When fun experiences are over
Trashy neon signage
Taking photos of people doing lame poses
Wasting time
Bullshit
Self-serving bullshit
Cosplay
Being forced to undergo ascetic training on his day off
Trains
Buses
The 4 things that rub Hitoya the wrong way:
Dumbasses who don't listen
People who ask dumb questions
People who think it's funny to ask dumb questions
People who jump to conclusions
The 4 things that are inexcusable to Hitoya:
Warm beer
Cocky chumps
Assholes who can't recognize when they've done wrong
Dumbasses who go wild and trash the beach at night
[1] A common dish. Hitoya isn't being ridiculously specific, as the length of this line in translation might suggest.
[2] A more annoyed sounding version of the "people who don't listen" in the "dislike" list. Presumably, this one is directed at Kuukou.
[3] Said at a live show.
[4] Said with zero shred of self-awareness.
[5] Said during a Spotify radio podcast. I would assume, although I've not checked, he doesn't want to read a piece of scripted content on air and would rather speak for himself.
[6] This line is light on context, but as New Year's is Japan's largest holiday and celebrated with family, I assume he's referring to the annoying aspects of large family gatherings. Think "obnoxious Thanksgiving dinner" for a US analogy.
[7] From Harmonious Cooperation when Hitoya is upset that Kuukou noticed him being out of sorts.
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today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.
the funniest part of this post to me is that the reblog:like ratio is nearly 1:1. nobody’s just liking everyone who sees this video goes yeah i gotta inflict it on as many people as possible
rbing again real quick--i and other(s?) have noted in other rbs that this is almost never done. it's for very few properties, and it's only for timestamped warnings that are done in-house, not by users.
there are still timestamps available for warnings on those same triggers for those same properties. just bc there's a paywall on something doesn't mean other comments and timestamps can't be posted or read for free on that property or that trigger.
see here:
i don't have an account and haven't paid for anything on the site, so all of those comments are what i'm seeing for free.
i had to search and search to find anything that had paywalls, and had to resort to looking at The Substance, as referenced here. i've been using the site regularly since the op posted and have never organically encountered a paywall on anything, including on very popular properties.
i don't see any reason to stop using the site--everything is still available for free. they just have added another way for some ppl to choose to pay some $ (in addition to ads), since this is a completely free service, and no website is free to maintain.
as an example, someone with the money could pay to see the timestamps, and then leave a free comment with the same timestamps for others if they wanted to.
I've seen this post on my dash a few times now and I want to boost this specific addition. I've emailed the owner of the site to get clarification on this, and I was told the motivation behind this. He wanted to start paying some people to memorize all 200+ triggers on the site, sit down and watch popular movies/shows to thoroughly analyze whenever any trigger pops up, and note down timestamps and details of them. Ads unfortunately do not cover this (they probably only cover the site's base upkeep), so the subscription service is specifically to pay these people. Community comments have never been paywalled and are still accessible.
He thanked me for my feedback when I expressed confusion and concern about the paywalled comments being mixed in with the free comments, and has since updated the site to make them clearly distinct, along with a preview of what the paid comments look like:
He was very transparent about it all and very kind. He also said this was his mistake and is trying to clear it up. Please continue to use DoesTheDogDie.com, it is an excellent resource and there is nothing else like it!
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