#FORUM IV

[homestuckreplay]

Mar 3, 2010

[catshinji]

hmm.

[oscahpitlane]

an rc car forum discusses 9-year-old Oscar Piastri

[how2forgive]

critical engagement and sincerity have not DISAPPEARED or anything but i do think the rise n dominance of short-form content has shifted the way we communicate and how we interact w art and media..the algorithm pushes n rewards a certain way of speaking and thinking, aka bite-sized and accessible. and if talking from your rolodex of go-to phrases or being braindead is the thing that keeps you in this positive feedback loop, then why stop. youre conditioned to not be earnest, or strange or difficult or longer than 280 characters. youll get thousands of likes for it. also im not against a good meme or anything honestly i think memes are like a connective tissue in internet culture and i actually think thats a beautiful thing.. but its when all your posts , thoughts , content are catered for an audience or popularity.. i feel like people become out of touch with their personal reactions or actual complex and nuanced feelings and discouraged from expressing them. its sad!

[cliverosfieldslefttiddy]

Ceremony & Devotion has “Clappity Clap Frisco”

Rite Here Rite Now has “one last one up the poopshoot”

This man is not escaping the silly goose allegations

[heliianth]

some allukas + kgs ive managed while getting absolutely obliterated by art block

[th3b33skn33s]

Consider: There is no such thing as a sword. -Meti's Sword Manual

[ralhiel]

[lobotomy-lady]

I don't care how many times the rich & famous talk about how being rich & famous is the worst fate humanly possible I will never ever ever believe them for one milisecond lol

[needledreamweaversrpgideas]

fellow trans people who are remaining trans:

you will support detransitioners or you will die by my sword.

regardless of whether they're doing it temporarily or permanently. for safety or for a better understanding of themselves or out of boredom or bullying or any other reason. you will support them regardless of whether they're doing some fluid or multiple gender stuff and also being their original gender, or if they're fully wholly just cis again.

you WILL support people who detransition. for any and all reasons. or else

[earthry]

im crying copia went to the side of the small stage when it was piano time and gave a soft little ‘hi :)’ to the crowd.

also man totally forgot like a whole two lines of ‘if you have ghosts’ msnsnd he’s so real

also in the beginning he was like: i hate tuesdays let’s make it friday now, okay? and would check back and be like ‘what day is it?’ and the crowd would yell ‘friday!’

and then when he left and came back and was like ‘what are you still doing here it’s time to go— it’s a school night!��

everyone: ‘it’s friday!’

copia: nO IT iS nOT

[stressghoul]

when u find out someone took pics of the LA rituals after banning devices

when u ban them for life from future rituals for breaking the rules

[karkatting]

doxxing my online rival only to find out we live in the same city and arrange a meetup with him: a modern fairytale aka dirkkri forum au part 4

(script is in alt text if it's hard to read)

[piosplayhouse]

pio im sorry but the six balls name joke bothers me. the fact that its that demons are considered to have stupid names if they're lower class or han style names (sha hualing) or titles if they are upper class/ want to appear that way, while being coded as not han chinese feels racist. i just thought you would want to know about this sort of thing.

I can see how you feel that way! It's an understandable thing to be uncomfortable with at first blush. Though honestly I don't really agree-- everyone has stupid names in sv, it's just that six balls is directly translated in English translations while the others remain in pinyin. So you don't immediately clock that shang qinghua's name is a pun that just means Went to Tsinghua University when you say it outloud or that binghe's name is (dropped in an) Icy River or that sha hualing literally translated is just gauze and bells (basically describing her outfit). It's pretty consistent throughout the whole book that every character is named lazily and over literally, less as an indication of their character traits and more as a commentary on how many artists (sqh) tend to suck at naming their OCs imo.

Take the romanized names: Luo Binghe, Shang Qinghua, Sha Hualing, Liu Geqiu

vs some overly literal translated names: dropped in an icy river, went to harvard, ribbons & bells, six balls

The reason why six balls is the only character that gets this treatment is I assume because the singular scene he's in is entirely dependent on the reader understanding what his name means for the joke to work, but pretty much every character could be swapped in to make a fun literal translated name if the situation needed it

[rblxmaxxing]

sifting through forumposts why is he like this .!!!!

peopleshould draw dusek and tela interwcting more methinks