yeah, they’re very encouraged to toxic rivalry, distrust and only thinking your quadrants and those affecting them (so, quadrant corners, MAYBE) are relevant (THANKS DOC SCRATCH), so i’m really feeling the parallel to toxic masculinity. i mean, vriska and eridan are acting like their behavior is the epitome of a cool, admirable troll. and terezi was destroyed after she killed vriska, even though she felt she wasn’t supposed to be. like. dude. the whole alternia setup is trying its best to create an army, not a coherent people. no intergenerational bonding, and the only parallel bonds allowed are romantic ones and tons of propaganda about their glorious empire. it’s way easier to make people feel like everyone (else) is disposable like that.
Tag: meta
Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.
The expelled half-giant.
The young werewolf.
The repentant Death Eater.He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.
And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude – well, that is no more than he is owed.
He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.
Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.
So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.
Who gave you the RIGHT?
Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question.
Of all the skills that futurists predicted would become valuable in the era of constant communication, I don’t think anybody saw “conversational multithreading” coming.
No, I don’t mean holding multiple conversations with different people at the same time. I mean holding two or more completely separate conversations with the same person, via the same medium, at the same time.
Like when you’re texting, and the person on the other end asks you a question, then mentally eight-tracks and asks a different, unrelated question before you’ve finished keying in your response to the first one. So you answer the first question, and a conversation based on that answer ensues; then you answer the second question, and a totally different conversation based on that answer ensues, and now you’re having two separate conversations with the same person at the same time, and have to keep track of which responses pertain to which conversation purely from context.
Sometimes I wonder what the generational cutoff for that seeming unusual is – I didn’t pick up the skill until I was like thirty, so there’s always that undercurrent of generational novelty there.
Elves and Eating
So, we know elves fear (souls basically) and hroa (body) are linked. Ex, if the elf is upset as hell their body just…degrades. That part is canon.
So, I think it would make sense that a sad, their body would require more sleeping, food, etc to sustain itself.
This takes stress-eating and breakup-icecream to the max. We know elves typically aren’t the biggest eaters in the world. But if an elf was very upset, they would just eat and eat and eat, sleep all the time, etc. Which leads to a few things.
1. To a smaller degree, emotion snacking is basically mandatory. “Fuck, I just failed a test. Aaaand I could go for like five hamburgers right now.”
2. This could also go for larger things. Just like human’s depression-nap system, a sad elf will just. Sleep. For weeks.
3. Perhaps it’s an elvish custom to hold huge feasts after times of sadness. Beloved town member just died? Thier funeral will have a shitload of food. Everyone will need it. Post-battle? Better start a huge potluck, shit, these elves need a lot to eat to keep up their souls now.
4. FOOD GIFT BASKETS ARE A MUST. Flowers? No one needs them. The real thing to do to cheer up your elf friend is send them several crates of protein bars.
5. Maedhros probably ate an absurdly huge amount, all the time. Even on top of how much he would eat being so tall. Invite this guy over for a buisness dinner? Better have an extra four portions for him.
6. “Elrond dude there’s like hundreds of chip bags scattered in your office” “I KNOW but i am WORRIED”
-“Perhaps it’s an elvish custom to hold huge feasts after times of sadness. “
Well, that would explain why Thranduil holds so many feasts in Mirkwood
oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh shittttt
hi.
QUIT
FUCKING
RELATING
EVERYTHING
TO
FUCKING
HOMESTUCK
omfg.
i’m going to rip off someone’s arms and legs next time i see someone go
“omg that’s like blahblahblah in homestuck!11! they’re like exactly the same tehehe!1121!1”
NO, FUCK YOU.
GO DIE.
Doesn’t this post remind you of Karkat? It reminds me of Karkat.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: one of the reasons Homestuck was so popular and omnipresent (and subsequently overloaded everyone’s dashes) was Andrew Hussie’s uncanny ability to make significant symbols out of (or even mythologize) SO MANY random everyday things.
I totally get why non-fans found it annoying. Homestuck was (is!) basically 1000 semi-incomprehensible in-jokes. On the other hand, it’s a FASCINATING example of effective world-building and symbol transformation. Let’s call a spade a spade – but what’s a spade? What is the significance of a chainsaw, a bike horn, a broken sword, a cue ball, a cake? Consider: a pool table, a deck of cards, a computer program, a chess board. Would you like to play a game? The list goes on and on.
Yes! Homestuck tied the repeating nature of story-telling and coming of age myths to meme culture. Because myths ARE memes. Memes have existed forever. And they’re everywhere.
OP fucking deactivated
well, if you’re on tumblr and the mere mention of a popular fandom gives you a rage aneurysm, that’s your only recourse, isn’t it
What I say: I’m fine
What I mean: In Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy Mustang says “It’s raining” or “It’s a terrible day for rain” at his best friend Maes Hughes’ funeral, held on a day with clear skies. It seems like he says this because he begins to cry after he says it. But when you think about it, Mustang is “useless” when it rains/when he gets wet because he can’t use his flame alchemy. He equates rain to uselessness. So when he says it’s raining at Hughes’ funeral, he means that he feels useless/helpless now that his best friend is dead. The writing in this show has the ability to rip out your heart and stomp on it when you’re least expecting it, then kick you while you’re down. I am NOT okay.
Also, he says this specifically to Riza, who is usually the one protecting him when he can’t use his alchemy in the rain. Roy himself sometimes forgets that rain ruins his alchemy, but Riza remembers and is always prepared for such a situation. Roy, by saying “it’s raining,” specifically to Riza, is conveying that he feels helpless, accepts this, and is asking to be supported. FUCK.
You fucking made it worse. I don’t know how, but you mADE IT WORSE.
hey quick question why are social rules so complicated? idfk if something’s wrong with me that I find shit so confusing, or if it really is just confusing. like the thing where there’s a certain amount of texts you can send someone within a period of time without it being weird, and too much is Weird And Clingy but too little is Cold And Disinterested? and youre expected to just Know what the limits are? but ASKING is itself Weird?? why do people punish straightforwardness what do I do
So I was thinking about this and I suddenly realized I have an answer and I should post it before I forget it:
Social rules are complicated because they are based on instincts, which are formed by evolution, and evolution takes neither prisoners nor design notes.
Here’s the best general guideline I’ve learned for this:
People generally want to feel like you’re matching them – that you care about them about as much as they care about you.
One of the most effective ways to make a regular person feel like you care uncomfortably too much about them is if you respond to their texts immediately, and then send a few follow ups whenever you don’t get a reply.
One of the most effective ways to make a regular person feel like you don’t care at all is if you always take way more time to reply to them than they take to reply to you.
So if you want to optimize to their comfort with the interaction as the primary priority, try to match their behavior – which for your example of texts, basically means: try to match the amount and length of their texts to you, and the delays between your replies.
I just learn more and more every day
See: people like compatibility. :3
And to answer the op’s original question of _why_ is this complicated, and _why_ do people expect you to figure this stuff out without asking: I have a theory…
Carrying on an interpersonal relationship requires you to understand and respect people’s wants, needs and boundaries. It requires that you be able to learn what they want without them always telling you; most people simply don’t have the spoons to set out clear behavioral guidelines in words every second of every day (that would be a shitload of mental effort!), and instead have to offload that effort to body language and subtle cues and other people’s intuition.
If you don’t live in someone’s head, then the reasons for their wants and needs and boundaries will often be completely incomprehensible. They’ll seem totally arbitrary, but to be a decent human companion, you have to respect them.
By following pointless social conventions in your interactions with strangers and acquaintances, and following arcane or unnecessary standards of acceptable behavior, you prove that you are *capable* of learning and abiding by arbitrary standards: the exact same kind of arbitrary standards that individual people’s preferences will be if you get to know them better.
Social convention is just an audition for respecting people’s boundaries. Proving that you can learn “how things are done” or “how not to be creepy [to the general public]” is just proving that you’ll also be capable of learning how not to be terrible to *specific* people if given the chance.
Oh, I REALLY like this point.
Kat told me about the theory that Angus is Lup and Barry’s child and I gotta say as there’s nothing I can recall that definitively disproves this, I dig it. Yeah it’s cute as shit but mostly because of the possibility that dear sweet precious Ango was created via mad science and/or black magic.
#taz#Lucretia walks into Lup and Barry’s room#there’s a large pentagram on the floor and they’re in the middle of an eldritch ritual#some real Fullmetal Alchemist shit#Lucretia: what are you two doing??#Lup probably: we’re having a baby!#Lucretia: …well this isn’t the worst thing I could’ve stumbled across
To an extent it’s a problem with fandom: the fact is that you’ve got thousands of intelligent people thinking about a problem, and statistically speaking some of them are likely to come up with something more clever than the creators. […] There comes a point at which, frankly, fandom IS better than the creators. We have more minds, more cumulative talent, more voices arguing for different kinds of representation, more backstory… The thing is that I rarely get involved with a show without a fandom anymore, because I actually enjoy the analysis and fic and fun more than I enjoy the show itself. Similarly, I get drawn into shows I otherwise wouldn’t really consider by the strength of their fandom. And I want the shows to live up to their fandom, but it’s an almost impossibly high bar, because the parts of fandom I choose to engage with are often parts that wouldn’t be considered sufficiently accessible or relevant to a majority of viewers. So… basically, for me, fandom is primary, and canon is secondary. The latter is really only there to facilitate the former.
glitterarygetsit, in a discussion on fan responses to media on facebook
#this is the first time i’ve really articulated this #and i was quite pleased with it #this is the thing: i care so much less about original material than i do about fanworks
(via imorca)
On the one hand, sure – fandom of mediocre art tends to be better than the art, or at least more interesting, because there are a lot of creative nimrods out there who didn’t go to professional expressing themselves school to have their sharp corners sanded off – but for the same reasons fandom of good art tends to degrade its subject, because fandom (taken collectively, as this person does) is only interested in telling certain types of stories and can only understand certain character archetypes, meaning that fanwork of property A (absent names, eye color and haircuts) tends to be indistinguishable from fanwork of property B.
But that’s not what this person is talking about, is it? They’re not talking about fandom the mass entity – they’re talking about the outliers, the long tail. “I engage with parts of fandom that wouldn’t be considered sufficiently accessible or relevant to a majority of viewers”, they say, inversely snobbing it up. Far be it from me to speculate about the particular itch this person has, this content which is nowhere to be found in popular media except in certain pieces of fanfiction and “analysis”, but I suspect it doesn’t have as much to do with complexity or quality as it does with recognition, with finding a shared point of view which is otherwise shut out by mass culture gatekeeping.
Don’t say that fanart is better executed or smarter – it’s not, in the vast majority of cases. Say that it’s honest. Say that it’s real. Say that it exceeds commercial art because it does effortlessly what learned craft only achieves at the highest level, which is to reflect the soul as it is. But remember that the animating spirit that makes it all work – the relationship the fanartist has with the setting and characters – is only there because some poor striving fucker made those up.
(via some-triangles)
Diana Prince sweeping people
including meoff their feetUgh. This exact shot comparison had Margaret Atwoods “MALE GAZE! MALE GAZE!” alarm going off in my head when watching the Justice League trailer.
Slow mo panty shots are not the best way to use your female characters.
The framing of this is so lazy. Its such bad directing that it really highlights how blessed we were in Wonder Woman. It could have been the hot mess that is Justice League.
Dianas whole body vs Dianas butt centre frame.
Seeing the hit vs Did she get him? Can’t see, because BUTT is taking up whole screen.Patty Jenkins used her slowed moments to do 4 things at once
1. To give the viewer an easier time following fast action sequences in the dull dc colour pallette.
This negated the ‘transformers effect’ of blurred blah hitting something that was batman vs superman. Marvels colour pallet allows for bright red guy, bright blue guy, big green guy to move through chaotic screens easier because the colour draws they eye and makes it easier to follow.
2. To emphasise Diana’s super strength.
By slowing down before the impact we feel the HIT harder when time speeds up again. In the Justice League trailer we don’t even really see the hit. Is that a guys leg? Did she get him? The slow mo in Justice League is used to have more time to focus on the panty shot, to make sure you didn’t miss your chance to sexualise her. It doesn’t even speed up as she hits. Its more like a cat knocking something off the shelf. Not that you are looking at the hit, it is barely in frame because we need more room for the Butt.
3. To show the difference between real time and relative time.
For characters like the Flash, Supes and Wondy they all perceive time differently from regular mortals. This allows for bullet dodging and other shennanigans. Slowing time down, gives us a glimpse into how they percieve time. You can focus on a body part but it has to be the part of them that is using that slowed time. Thier face – Are they strategising in extra time? Thier hands – reflecting bullets or moving something. Thier Butt – yeah, I got nothing.
4. To show what characters are feeling during fast paced combat scenes.
Antiope’s slow mo jump gives us time to see the satisfaction in her face before she shoots the soliders. Multiple times in Wondy we see Dianas joy, fear or determination in a fight thanks to slow mo. This happens because when you frame her whole body as much as possible we get to see her face and body language. The slowed time gives us a chance to interpret them without constantly having to insert closeups of her face, breaking up the action. It gives Dianas fight scenes a presence lacking in other Superhero films.
When I saw this the Justice League trailer the first time my disappointment lingered for days. My main take aways were “The Flash seems charming but his outfit is soooo bad” and “Ooooh boy, they don’t know how to do Wondy.” It didn’t help any that I watched the Justice League trailer and the Thor : Ragnarok trailer back to back. If we really wanna look at disappointing comparisons, look no further.
just moving along like everyone else 