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@zeronoa
i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art
did you hear about that actor performing a play in front of a crowd? clearly only doing it for attention
im trying to say something and im not gonna say it in an empty room
I am fucking dying
UNMUTE IT P L E A S E
Genuinely one of the best impressions I’ve ever heard, lmao. Fucking class.
SINCE WHEN CAN BOTS CREATE POLLS??? EXCUSE ME?? ALSO WHAT ARE THESE OPTIONS?
The thing about fanfiction after writing original fiction for so long is that it feels like taking weighted clothes off. If I wanted a cool plot twist or a reveal or a mystery I had to set up all the expectations myself. I had to set up the red herrings, the clues, the boundaries of what was reasonable.
In fanfiction I drop a name from canon I never referenced before and it will carry the weight that a hundred pages of set up would carry in original fiction.
Do you have any fucking idea how intoxicating that is.
The shared language of a fandom in fanfiction is so amazingly conducive to a type of story telling that we lost when public domain was gutted as a legal concept. And it’s such a thrilling way to make stories and I weep for how rare it is to encounter.
Like you sort of get a ghoulish attempt with star wars style “look it’s revan” but it’s still only a handful of people who get to play. With fandom everyone gets to play with the full toolbox, with infinite chances to try.
It’s striking me really hard after reading this post–so much of what is considered the ~canon~ of western literature really arises out of this situation where everyone who wrote (i.e. a tiny minority of educated men and the very very rare educated woman) was operating with a common set of referents. There were just so few books, back then, and if you were educated enough to write, those were the books you had read, and that your teachers had read and told you about. Everyone got the same references.
We talk about the Divine Comedy being Bible fanfic and so forth, but it really was in a way we don’t always articulate–it wasn’t just that it was repurposing other stories the author had read. It was the product of an author who felt himself a part of a community that had this shared set of referents. He only had to allude to things, and his intended readers knew all of the context. Being in modern fandom allows us to be part of a community that likewise shares a canon and shares references and influences, something that is increasingly lost in modern copyrighted fiction where everyone is constantly desperate to be original.
Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.
I forget who originally said it, but there’s a quote about “Great science fiction isn’t predicting the automobile, it’s predicting the traffic jam”
The mysteries of physics...
Gyroscopes are very neat and if you ever have the opportunity to get your hands on one in person, I highly recommend it! You can feel the feedback of them resisting changes in orientation as you move them around
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+2.5 ooo i wanna try
you people will just. say anything
#Tbf tho the bechdel test is pretty shitty #Like dgmw this is a stupid take but it’s a lame test anyway
okay but do you understand that liz wallace made the bechdel-WALLACE test because she was a dyke who wanted to go to movies and pretend the characters were dykes and her friend alison bechdel happened to put her silly little litmus assessment into a comic strip and then the rest of everyone else decided it was a bona fide way of means testing media for Feminist Content? do you know that? it doesn’t sound like you know that
some of you are the dumbest motherfuckers alive
i am going to explain the bechdel test for people such as those in the tags
here is the original comic strip:
what the bechdel-wallace test is not:
an academic analysis of media
a bar that determines whether or not a movie is “bad” or “good” (by which i mean if a movie doesn’t pass the bechdel-wallace test that doesn’t make it bad, and if a movie passes the test the movie is not automatically good)
supposed to be taken seriously
what the bechdel-wallace test is:
a personal litmus test created by a lesbian who was, presumably, frustrated with the fact that women could not exist in the movie without a relationship to a man
it is not a way to “police what women speak about” because it does not apply to real people. it applies to fictional characters. also, the bechdel-wallace test does not stipulate that there can be no conversation about a male love interest. the women just have to talk about something other than a male love interest.
the reason the male love interest stipulation is there is because like… this test was created by a butch lesbian woman to determine whether or not she wanted to watch a movie. removing that part of the test violates the spirit of the test. it’s silly because it’s not supposed to be serious.
tl;dr stop misinterpreting the bechdel-wallace test you losers. op is right. goodbye
We need a counter to “Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a good point” that is “Heartbreaking: your favorite person in the world just said the stupidest shit you’ve ever heard.”
The exception is cheesy local commercials. Those should be the only ads. I will listen to someone who runs a store in my city doing an awkward rap. We once had a furniture store with these awful CGI ads and the slogan "where the deals are so low, it's almost criminal!" and then they got shut down, by the cops, because it turned out. It turned out the deals were so low because. You're not going to believe this but the prices were so low it was in fact
THOR (2011) / LOKI 2x06 (2023)
hey I want to see something
take this quiz (https://dlcincluded.github.io/MQ/) and then tell me about your score.
if you're autistic plus another overlapping type of neurodivergent, choose the autistic option. self diagnoses are valid.
choose other neurodivergent if you are neurodivergent but not autistic. again, self diagnoses are valid.
What's your score and are you autistic?
Score above 200 (I'm autistic)
Score above 200 (I'm neurodivergent but not autistic)
Score above 200 (I'm neurotypical)
Score from 135 to 200 (I'm autistic)
Score from 135 to 200 (I'm neurodivergent but not autistic)
Score from 135 to 200 (I'm neurotypical)
Score from 75 to 135 (I'm autistic)
Score from 75 to 135 (I'm neurodivergent but not autistic)
Score from 75 to 135 (I'm neurotypical)
Score below 75 (I'm autistic)
Score below 75 (I'm neurodivergent but not autistic)
Score below 75 (I'm neurotypical)
check out the monotropism theory of autism (https://monotropism.org/)
Photographed by Martin Schoeller for The New Yorker in 2002:
"I was hired by the New Yorker in 2002 to photograph Robin Williams, and after doing my research what stood out most for me was that he was a very physical comedian. I came up with this idea to photograph him swinging from a chandelier in a grand hotel room. Most publicists shoot down these kinds of wild ideas, so I didn’t tell anyone what I was up to, but rigged up a chandelier at the Waldorf Astoria hotel for him to swing from. When Robin got there and saw what was happening, he lifted up his shirt and showed me this enormous scar on his shoulder. He’d just had surgery and couldn’t so much as lift his arm. He was so disappointed! He really felt bad about not being able to do it, because he loved the idea and really wanted to help me accomplish my vision.
Unlike most Hollywood stars, he was unfazed by his success and position. He talked to everyone from stylists to the crew, to the hotel staff. We ended up asking a maid at the hotel to swing from the chandelier instead, and I asked him to just sit there and read a newspaper, which I think in the end was an even funnier, more unexpected picture.
[Follies Of God]
[ID: a photo of Robin Williams sitting in a mostly empty room reading a newspaper. He is perched on a coffee table with his legs crossed, wearing a red jacket and bright blue shoes, and is reading with an amused expression on his face. Behind him, a woman in a beige maid uniform is swinging from a chandelier and smiling. /end ID.]
In 2010 I was at a very fancy Hollywood Oscar party and I am no good at parties and had made up my mind to leave. I was introduced to a young woman whose name I hadn’t caught who, when I told her how uncomfortable I was, told me that her dad was there and she and she and he would look after me. She told me that her dad was the Sandman fan and had got her hooked, which was why she was wearing an ankh that night.
I was desperate for someone nice and headed out with her across the lawn to where her dad was holed up. I assumed he was a producer or something. As we got close and I did see him under the tent canopy I realized who her dad was. Zelda Williams and I have stayed friends. Her father did the equivalent of pulling a thorn from my foot, and I spent the evening with them enjoying the party as much as I could, because now I had friends. I remember him with such gratitude.
Mind blowing craftmanship by tatami artist Kenzie Yamada.
The soaring crane design comes in jigsaw puzzle like pieces, and mats are in fact monocolor. Dark/light areas appear thanks to how each tatami straw mat is woven, beautifully catching the light.
You can see below the different weave directions depending on the tatami parts:
and in this video how those pieces react to light with a mesmerizing shimmer:
The ultimate sexy poll showdown you can only choose one to fuck
Vampires
Werewolves
RB for the largest sample size this site has ever seen. it's time to put an end to this.
now, considering the fact that a werewolf made this poll, I suspect this poll might be slightly biased with the viewers of this poll
no i want people to get it as far away from me as possible so it gets a fair chance all around, so rb and keep it pushing
What's your stance on the issues?
on every single one?
discourse 100% speedrun
fun discovery from today's internet rabbit hole:
the first lesbian magazine published in the US, Vice Versa (1947-48), was entirely hand-typed by one Edythe Eyde (better known by her pen name Lisa Ben - yes, that IS an anagram for lesbian). she worked as a secretary with a ton of spare time on her hands, and her boss would tell her he didn't care what she was doing so long as she "looked busy"... so she decided to use her free time to type out copies of a home-made periodical for lesbians, writing most of the content - editorials, book/film reviews, poetry, short stories, and more - herself!
overall, the magazine ran for 9 issues, 16 hand-typed copies of which lisa would mail to friends (well, until one of them advised her she could be arrested for sending "obscene" materials) and distribute at lesbian bars :)
all issues of Vice Versa are digitized here! (the website also has a scan of a great article on Lisa Ben ❤️)
a lot of the issues of the first widely distributed gay publication in the US, ONE magazine (1952-1967), are also available online on JSTOR. there's also this article detailing the magazine's ups and downs and general history, it's v fascinating!
furthermore, a solid amount of The Ladder (1956-1972) - one of the other earliest lesbian periodicals in the US, published by Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in the US - is also available for online viewing thanks to the Internet Archive
young me especially would have hated hearing this but networking is literally the most important thing you can do to improve your situation like forget economic barriers to education etc just keep making friends with different people and eventually someone will offer you a hand up just because they dig your vibe and that is exactly all that's happening when undeserving people surpass you anyway
When I look at how I survived my 20s, it was always helpful friends putting work my way. And often the helpful friends were people I had only known for weeks.
