#Scholarly Research

[tangerinequeen19]

who has a gif of louis getting out of the car in the green short sleeved shirt/blue jeans must have been late-2022 promo YOU KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

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[lurkinginnernarrator]

I need Shen Qingqiu, who left for a week-long mission to not return. I need the peak lords to look for him, scouring high and low.

Only, they find him. He's crouched behind bushes, journal in hand fastidiously observing Malevolent Mango-Leopard Birds. He looks crazed. It's the dirtiest they've ever seen him. He has rivers of notes and illustrations.

He shushes them all and tugs them behind the bushes.

"The mating rituals of Malevolent Mango-Leopard Birds haven't ever been documented before. It's believed they only mate once every thousand years."

"Shen-Shixiong was here... watching birds."

"Shen-Shixiong didn't send word because... He was too busy watching birds. Mate."

"...don't say it like that."

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Hey question is Calculator a WFA only villain or from the comics?

From what I found, he is the same as the Calculator who was created in the 70s. He was introduced in the extra story of Detective Comics 463 which was actually mainly focused on the Atom, although it featured a variety of heroes including Green Arrow, Elongated Man, and the Caped Crusader himself. He was created by Bob Rosakis and Mike Grell. Basically his whole schtick was that he had a suit that allowed him to "calculate" the moves of heroes and defeat them using hard-light constructs generated from a little projector on his head.

He returned in the Birds of Prey 2010-2011 run by Gail Simone, Marc Andreyko, and Ardian Syaf. I'm pretty sure it was particularly in the 'Death of Oracle' arc, as he is the main antagonist of that event, but don't quote me on that. It's here that he becomes the "Anti-Oracle" and causes the arc, growing closer and closer to discovering her identity as she buries herself further into hiding. I don't think the hard-light constructs are present here at all, I'm pretty sure he's just a really good hacker now but again I've not read it, so take that with a grain of salt. He's not exactly what I'd call "obscure" as he has appeared across different medias, but he's a relatively deep cut to include in the story nonetheless and I like the choice to take someone so specific for Babs' arc as opposed to just covering the paralysis trauma or using her brother or something.

[foursaints]

what do u think of the popular pandora/lily ship

they strike me as almost... too healthy to properly compel me, if that makes sense? my lily characterization errs on the side of canon in that i see her as a force of light & goodness in the lives of all who she encounters. lily makes heroes out of the worst of people.

my pandora is someone with one foot in the dark & the other in light— halfway between the two, and teeter-tottering— and i find her at her most interesting when she is paired with someone "worse" (like lucius, or petunia, or rita, or barty) and grapples internally... i suggest checking out @/lilyrosiers for some great pandalily though!

[thirdsonofeve]

Indulging my math-craving brain just to tell you that water is wet! (all data was gathered on the 29th of Oct 2024, results may vary in the future)

Click the 'keep reading'-button to read me rant about how the lacho-fandom is full of freaks (affectionate), and prove it with facts and logic ao3-statistics!

So, out of 303 explicit fanfictions tagged lalo salamanca/nacho varga on ao3 39, or 12.8%, are labled with the warning non-con. Of the total 914 explicit fanfictions within the 'Better call Saul'-fandom 84, or 9.1%, are labled non-con. The discrepancy - almost 4 procentage units - is interesting, I believe, because 'lacho' is the second largest ship within the fandom, beaten by jimmy mcgill/kim wexler. Lacho is, however, the most popular bcs-ship in terms of explicit fanfiction. Neither does non-con seem to be an element in the mcwexler-ship, given that only 3 out of the 231 explicit mcwexler fanfictions are labled with the warning. (A quick glance at the descriptions of those fics also seem to indicate that the non-con is not between jimmy and kim). It can thus be concluded that lacho is a bit of an outlier in the bcs fandom. Out of all explicit bcs fanfictions labled as non-con on ao3 46.4% are tagged lalo salamanca/nacho varga. Lacho is present in 33% of explicit bcs fanfiction and on the whole (including non-explicit fanfiction) in 21.8% of bcs fanfiction.

Important to note is that the lable non-con in conjunction with a ship-tag does not nessicarily mean that the non-consensual act takes place between the ship tagged. I still consider these findings notable, as they point to a corralation between interest in writing (and publishing) lacho-fanfiction and and interest in writing (and publishing) fanfiction containing themes of non-consensual sexual acts.

So, is lacho an outlier in the bcs fandom, or in fandom as a whole? Comparing fandoms to other fandoms can be problematic due to the differing genres and themes of the source material as well as differences in target demographics and the general size of the fandom. But, for arguments sake, let's give it a try. In the 'Supernatural'-fandom, for example, 5736 out of the 65039 explicit fanfic are labled with the non-con warning. That comes out to 8.8%. Of the explicit fanfics tagged with most popular ship - castiel/dean winchester - 6.7% are labled as non-con. Non-con is more prevelant in the fics tagged as sam/dean as 10.4% of the fics are labled as non-con. It may be notible that a disproportionate number of sam/dean fics are also labled with the warning 'underage', which may influnese the previous point. Still, these numbers are not really comparable to the numbers regarding lacho.

Another fandom which may have a similar demographic (and in my personal experince, some overlap) is Hannibal. Out of 13961 explicit fanfics on ao3 1187 are labled as non-con, which comes out to about 8.5%. The procentage is slightly lower in the hannibal lecter/will graham-tag, with 977 out of 11619, or 8.4%, of explicit fanfics tagged as non-con.

For a fandom comparable in subject matter, let's have a look at Narcos. While keeping in mind that the Narcos fandom (total 2645 fanfics) and the Better Call Saul fandom (total 2693 fanfics) are strikingly similar in size on ao3, only 2.2% of the explicit Narcos fanfiction is labled as non-con.

Given the size of the bcs fandom - mainly the fact that the main research data only consists of 303 cases - and the nature of the material, it is important to keep in mind that induvidual actors [fanfiction writers] have had a huge impact on the data. For example, one author is responsible for 11 out of the 39 explicit lalo salamanca/nacho varga fanfictions labled as non-con (you know who you are). Without further research into the phenomenan it is unlikely that any other conclusion can truly be drawn from this case.

[muirneach]

i should change my major to anthropology or sociology or something so i can study the cultural and societal impacts of sports and athletes and whatnot <- i should not do this i should go to bed it is midnight

[duckprintspress]

i'm considering applying for your anthology but am so extremely uncomfortable with the way google has been rolling full-steam ahead with AI in its various systems that even the thought of using google docs/drive is triggering to me at this point. do i have options for working with you without using google?

Hey anon!

I completely appreciate your reticence, and I share it. This is something we're actually working on - transitioning away from Google. It's extremely difficult to do, given how ubiquitous Google has gotten to be, but we've been pricing private/personal server options, looking at websites that offer similar functionality but, ya know, aren't Google, and otherwise entering the preliminary stages of trying to disentangle ourselves from... *gestures vaguely at the ever-growing dumpster fire that is Google* ...that.

For now, for submissions, I can tell you:

the current round of submission forms are still Google Forms

you can submit the writing sample as a .docx or .doc.

Basically: at this exact time, given that applications for Scholarly Pursuits are google forms, no, it's not possible to work with us without using Google at all.

But in the future, this is something we're working on, and yes, it should be possible in the future to work with us without using Google.

(Side note, I use Firefox as my browser and duckduckgo for websearch and have for a while, and the Press e-mail is through our web domain, which is hosted by Siteground. We've absolutely been trying to shift away from Google for a while, but in the last couple weeks we've begun to at least try to do a more thorough separation.)

Hope this helps!

-unforth

[fertbutt]

I know ive said in the past that murtagh would listen to mitski but that's just because I like him. if I'm being completely truthful in a modern setting he would listen to linkin park or perchance nirvana. eragon would listen to weezer and green day. ARYA is the only one who would actually listen to mitski.

[emeryleewho]

Anytime white people try to "examine" indigenous cultural histories and then insist that "there's no way to know" the truth because it wasn't written down, I lose 10 years off my life. Oral tradition exists for a reason. The idea that one person's rendition of history is somehow more accurate because you painted it on a bunch of leaves instead of seared it into song or bed time stories is why y'all can't dance and end up dead in horror movies.

[orfeolookback]

i feel like posts like these are based off of a sense of well-meaning anger but miss the point in a particularly radical feminist way and make people up just to be mad at them. Anyone [in a honest discussion setting, a non-tumblr discussion, academic settings primarily!] saying men are lonely is personally diagnosing a problem with patriarchy, not saying women don't experience it too. it's just pointing out the way that patriarchy has inner workings that differentiate, reward and punish even within the privileged class of men. Male privilege is intersectional and thus very circumstancial. I'm not saying OP is wrong, but there's a wayyy more nuanced take to be had if we understand that 1) the fact that we have so much reading on masculinities that Highlights the need for a new approach to masculinity that doesn't both drive men to and excuse men's violence, and 2) male privilege is tied to 'doing' gender correctly as well as the legal, optical, social, medical, etc, status of manhood (thank you Butler) so it's not like being cis magically makes anyone violent, smth smth Bourdieu's habitus theory applied to a masculine habitus that includes violence

some reading that i find interesting bc i've been on a bunch of feminist theory and praxis workshop groups about feminity and masculinity (as a transmasc, non-passing, effeminate non binary). the following are recommended citations!

Nancy E. Dowd, Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory, 23 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 201 (2008), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/415

Cramer, K.M., Neyedley, K.A. Sex Differences in Loneliness: The Role of Masculinity and Femininity. Sex Roles 38, 645–653 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018850711372

Pitt, S. L., & Fox, C. A. (2012). "Performative Masculinity: A New Theory on Masculinity". In Masculinity/Femininity: Re-Framing a Fragmented Debate. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880948_006

Nikki Wedgwood (2009)Connell's theory of masculinity – its origins and influences on the study of gender1 ,Journal of Gender Studies,18:4,329-339,DOI: 10.1080/09589230903260001

Will H Courtenay, Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 50, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1385-1401, ISSN 0277-9536, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00390-1. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953699003901)

Carrigan, T., Connell, B., & Lee, J. (1985). Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity. Theory and Society, 14(5), 551–604. http://www.jstor.org/stable/657315

and finally!

[lindamccartneysstrap]

I'm not even a beatles rpf shipper I consider myself a scholar

[mementokorie]

seems like a relevant time to drop this poll

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[voluptuarian]

You know, very rarely do I run into accounts of historical cannibalism that are completely new to me. But I did today and I'm frankly completely taken aback by this

Fro the article: "The Guangxi Massacre comprised a series of lynchings and massacres in the Chinese province of Guangxi between 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution. The official record shows an estimated death toll between 100,000 and 150,000. Methods of murder included beheading, beating, live burial, stoning, drowning, boiling, and disemboweling. In specific areas, including Wuxuan County and Wuming, Nanning, hundreds of incidents of human cannibalism occurred—even though no famine conditions existed. According to records that have been made public, at least 137 people were eaten, with thousands of people having participated in the cannibalism... In 1993, The New York Times stated that the incidents reported from Guangxi were apparently the most extensive episodes of cannibalism in the world in the last century or more. They were also different from any others in that those who took part were not motivated by hunger or psychopathic illness. Instead, the actions appeared to be ideological: the cannibalism, which the documents say took place in public, was often organized by local Communist Party officials, and people apparently took part together to prove their revolutionary ardor."