#Microcultures

[etirabys]

I don't have a near-age sibling but some social feedback seems ideally delivered via indelicate roasting by a near-age sibling when you are in your teens. It feels easier to take "you don't shower and that's why no one likes you" from a sibling than parent or friend. Easier to deliver as a sibling, too

your parent gently saying "you should shower more" – ignore it. what do they know about the realities of your existence...

your friend says it (also nicely) – mortifying and weird, much likelier you'll take it to heart but you'll visibly feel terrible about it for a long time, which they didn't want, and now they're even more reluctant to say things to you (or anyone really)

it doesn't get fixed so your future first partner has to say it – god. might as well die

your annoying sibling – "fuck off" + slink off to shower a few hours later

[transcreamo]

gonna make a zine called transmasc icon due to his small stature thats just about emo™ guys under 5'7"

[fryshrimp]

DON'T EVER FUCKING OPERATE TWO BROWSER WINDOWS AT ONCE I JUST LOST SEVERAL MONTHS WQORTH OF CAREFULLY CULTIVATED 'SAVED TABS

[followmysmoke]

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[kaeferlein]

i hate touching this stuff at all but applying a term from japanese 1:1 to a term from english speaking fandom is completely missing the point about a big cultural difference. im not gonna be able to stop this train from rolling but it's a broad concept that seems to stem from criticisms of anime's depictions of women and moe culture.

I have never read a more excellent article

[fangirleaconmigo]

Tell me about a joke that you and your family absolutely lose your shit over that other people would not get.

Tell me about the very unique way you pick on each other.

Or tell me about a pop culture reference your family will never let die and you’ve never heard any other family use it.

*chin on hands* I just love hearing these stories. (I’m obsessed with little loser microcultures like families and very niche fandoms) So lay it on me.

[nthflower]

I am so curious about how chronically online things is like in Marvel universe. Such a stupid thing to be curious about its not even interesting but after reading an insane Swiftie tweet I just suddenly wondered how are this things look like in Marvel ?

Like we sometimes get to see how superheroes look like in Internet with Kamala's fanfics or Tony Stark getting cancelled but I want to know things that aren't related to them.Like how are Marvel Swifties doing in there or any other insane celebrity stans? Or fandom people who are on an unhealthy degree depends on it ?? Idk why I cared about it now it's really weird thing to be fascinated about but this things probably also exists in there and they also cares about it so much similar to our world.

[bimboficationblues]

every few weeks a trans woman on Twitter is like “I think trans women should have more cis women friends!” and even as the local skeptic of t4t ouroboros-microcultures I find it extremely tedious

[hellogoodbyeitsme]

Really enjoying the microcultures that surround certain very specific guys from Tim's past and their fans who say "why was it Bernard? It should have been [some guy]" and as a new fan I have no idea who [some guy] is so I go to look and then I'm like yo. For real my guy had a lot of options!

[tiktaalic]

At least once a week i am thinking about how if you dropped someone born and bred pnw in any other state they would die in like. 2 days. microculture of no hardship. ohhhh i wake up every day and see beautiful mountains or oceans or lakes i dont even see it anymore lol it's just background noise to me. i have never lived in a city that i s 300 square miles of concrete. i have never lived 3 months of triple digit summer. i dont know what a thunderstorm or tornado is. i only have one high way. speeding is bad i would never go 90 mph on a backroad. i think interchanges are scary. my salsa has maple syrup in it and no spices. i've never seen a bug in my life. GROW UP !

[a-bunch-of-bones]

That makes two of us, friend

My conclusion is to let madness seep its way into your skull, where you can make it useful by posting every second thought you have. Best of luck (dis)orienting

studying the twitter micro cultures forming on here under a microscope like a biologist

[doctor--lobster]

blaseball really did something that i haven't seen in any other video game, and i SO want more games to copy that structure the real-time simulated events that the players could all interact with and talk about, the perfect amount of vagueness about the world and characters to encourage headcanons, the simulation occasionally spitting out some ridiculous turn of events that the fandom then weaves into the mythos of that character it was such a perfect storm to create a weird little internet microculture, which is literally my Favorite Thing a game can have i guess what i'm saying is i want "blaseball-like" to become a genre

[txttletale]

me, logging onto my giant pollution device that raises earth's temperature 0.01 degree in exchange for making a picture of trump wearing giant shoes that looks photorealistically soggy on all surfaces, so that i can avoid the "cringe" of using MS Paint for the price of two emergency flashlight cranks: "this is good, because it makes people who are the wrong subtype microculture of communist mad at my better one"

do you play video games

[phregnancy]

i can’t think about it too long or i start to spiral but i always think it’s crazy when regular people blow up for being themselves. two of the most normal guys ever decided to put themselves out there for the public to see and through stories and jokes and creative projects and just being themselves they cultivated an audience so great it became its own microculture. more than that, the microculture bled into the mainstream and they were practically household names through their associations with a listers like taylor swift, ariana grande, snoop dogg, charli xcx, etc. normal people shooting into a lifestyle i cannot even fathom simply because they made a choice one day to do something they wanted to do.

[donnerpartyofone]

I think a lot of relationships fit a certain template that is comprehensible for the public. There are couples who share a specific culture, like religion or some specific professional area, or the two people are just extremely similar in the superficial broad strokes. And then there are "opposites attract" couples and, adjacently, couples who basically hate each other because they're always working out their darkest unresolved psychodramas through intimate partnerships. And I think few people understand my marriage because we don't quite fit any of the main templates. And also part of what makes us so bonded is something that's hard to communicate to others, which is that we have had so many new experiences together. Even though we met when we were 30 we've done so many things for the first time together. We're both pretty different from when we first met 13 years ago but we're even closer because we're evolving in parallel through this joint adventure and discovery process. This eliminates any anxiety about the other person changing, and it also makes it so you share this whole list of first-time experiences, which is something that can bring people together whether they're classmates or coworkers or whatever. It makes it so you share part of your consciousness, part of a little microculture. Our relationship is unusually strong and intimate because of this, I think.

[matchbet-allofthetime]

I wonder if Nick Cage knows about the thriving and thirsting internet microculture centered around his voice and a character he played in 2018 who just happens to be a very hot 1930's spiderman noir detective.

If he doesn't know I think he should bc I think he'd be greatly amused