#audience network

[fujokafka]

i think the main issue with this whole "tell not show" thing 911 has got going on lately is that the writers simply do not know how to get out of the holes they've dug for themselves. they come up with kimshannon-gate but don't know how to resolve it so most of the scenes that revolve around it happen off-screen (eddiechris phonecalls, them reuniting in texas, them having an actual conversation about what happened, etc.). they come up with the idea of bobby dying but don't know how to portray the characters' emotional journeys dealing with the loss and grief? let's do a two week time jump! one of the main characters wasnt there to witness his death due to their own bad planning skills? he'll process that information off-screen, no problem

[asexual-fandom-queen]

Okay but can we talk about the Accidental Hetero Couple as an audience surrogate for a second? The show really said, "hello traditional heterosexual monogamous guests of The Odyssey. I see you came aboard without a full understanding of what you're getting into. You're welcome to leave, but actually we'd love it if you stayed." and this couple really went "you know what, yeah! Even if this is different to what we're used to, at the end of the day, this is a boat full of people living their lives the way we're trying to live ours, and what's so incompatible about that?" Because maybe to the general public, stepping into a slowburn polyship feels a lot like accidentally booking a stay on a Gay Themed cruise. It's just not what they went into this expecting. But like our Resident Straight Couple, they can still have a good time here, and still appreciate the people they're on this boat with, even if, when their time together is up, their lives aren't likely to intersect again

[secretly-historic]

IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE ARE SAPPHIC AND WERE PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED BY THE CW’S THE 100 SEASON 3 IN 2016 PLEASE READ

i know i have very few followers so i am tagging this to hell amd back and it would mean the world to me if people could spread this!!

did you get into this random sci fi show as an impressionable sapphic or then-sapphic-identifying teen? did you find your fandom community online in places like tumblr? were you a Way Too Online Clexa shipper? do you have vivid memory of one fateful night in March of 2016 where your little baby heart was sent to the moon and then stomped on within an entire fifteen minute window? did you then turn on your phone to watch an entire community imploding in real time?

i am a current history grad student in Washington, DC, and i recently was notified of an interdisciplinary panel opportunity in which i’d be able to turn one of my quasi-intellectual passions into something Big and Academic and possibly Influential To The Field. the theme of the conference is change; how our historical subjects understood it, dealt with it, lived through it, etc. or, it can be anything that might have some big observation to how we deal with change ourselves as academics

my proposal is still in the baby stages, but i want to use this particular moment in pop culture in two ways: first, obviously, is as a case study of a really revolutionary moment in queer representation. we had a sci fi show with, after a few season one growing pains, really complex and kind of amazing female character writing and an element of queerness that defied tropes by being strangely post-structuralist, only for that to come crashing down in one horrid writing decision. the overnight turn in the fan-creator relationship was something so severe and shocking to me, even at 14.

second, if we wanna get all discipline-jargony about it, studying it from a historical angle at some kind (yes i know it was only nine years ago bear with me here) could lead to some really important things about how we do social history in a digital age. i find that most “digital history” conversation tends to be about digitizing sources for access or distribution, but we are very much at a point where our sources are being /created/ in digital and online spaces, and there’s simply not the same level of comfort or readily available knowledge of how to navigate through an internet-created archive.

if you read this far, thank you. at this point, i’m simply trying to find people who experienced this moment firsthand like i did. i’m still trying to develop specific sets of questions to survey, possibly to workshop some research methodology with an “oral” historical source base. if you are interested in being somehow part of this source base, please reach out to me ASAP! i cannot promise that anything substantial will come out of it within the next few weeks (a girl has to get through my own finals and my students’ finals first), but it’ll at least give me a list of people to reach out to when the time comes<3

if you read to the end, thank you. here’s a cat pic as a reward. his name is winston

[thoughtfulchaos773]

Body Language and words- Sydney, during the table scene- everything he said hit her-I wouldn't even want to do it without you. She slows down, looks up, and pauses. I'm sorry, this is more than work; his words caught her attention...

I don't even think what he was saying to a business partner was hitting Carmy on what it could mean; he was just being honest and speaking from the heart.

"I won't let you." More words from Carmy catch Sydney by surprise, and she realizes she can feel his gaze this time. Did she always notice Carmy staring at her throughout the show, or is this a new? His stare was intense—he wanted her to meet his eyes in that moment. More eye contact- more left unsaid where Sydney holds his gaze and where he needs to look away. That staring into each other's eyes- they were catching up to the vibes and had to break eye contact.

This is a favorite when his breathing slows down at Sydney's expression - like she's taking his breath away, and he's almost frozen. Does she look taken aback? But after that, she's touched by his words - that she's not alone and promises him the same thing.

Fx is right- it was love, intimacy, and devotion spoken between them.

Note: Carmy, you shouldn’t say all those sweet nothings: You make me better at this; I wouldn’t even want to do it without you. You’re not alone, Syd. All of those words were spoken by Carmy, who, just 12 to 16 hours ago, confirmed with Richie that he had a girlfriend. He later told Fak that he liked her, but not that he loved her.

So it's confirmed for us that Carmy isnt in love with Claire- only likes her.

And the next scene as Sydney and Carmy fix the table, was intentionally written to leaves us questioning whether there is love between Sydney and Carmy (not like).

[moregraceful]

what on earth

hey nerds @ nytimes.com/athletic you guys wanna tell me when the last time us hockey WAS an underdog???? even in a canada-usa echo chamber, the usa has certainly not been an underdog in hockey this century holy shit lmao. 4 nations has turned the hockey populace into morons. can we maybe discuss swiss, german, slovak, or czech hockey being underdogs and catching up instead of writing stupid thinkpieces like this?

[justthedismount]

The ncaa scoring discourse is especially confusing to me given that gymnastics is one of the most popular sports at the Olympics and you can bet that the normies watching that do Not understand how the scoring works and yet they still enjoy it and find it incredibly impressive

[nebula-gray]

i truly believe that soulnet is the battle network concept of all time. it takes the series' themes of friendship and worldwide connection to their extreme -- a world in which human souls themselves are connected to the internet, where humanity achieves peace by feeling the emotions of others and empathizing. but they are also aware of the problems inherent to such a system, where one bad actor could ruin everyone, which is why tadashi and wily decided to shelve it in the first place.

dr. regal is aware that humanity is not actually fully evil, or else he would not need nebula gray. if the majority were evil, simply connecting everyone would allow evil to thrive. but in a way soulnet is the reason megaman is able to overcome nebula gray at all -- he can feel the emotions of all of his friends on top of lan encouraging him. overloading the system with negative emotions can be impactful, but so can overloading the system with hope and love.

in a way, i think that a lot of other battle network concepts tie into soulnet. full synchro is souls uniting between a navi and operator. soul unison is the souls of two navis uniting. with soulnet, it's everyone. we are all connected.

it's an interesting topic that i think leaves a lot of room for exploration. how does this affect the concept of the individual? how much does it affect behavior? to what extent does it control the lives of everyone? is everlasting peace ever truly possible? it's a lot to think about and i've never seen anybody really talk about it in-depth.

i understand that this is rambly but i hope that i've gotten people to think about it a little more. soulnet is so dear to me and i want people to see the potential behind it. i am always open for discussion if anyone has anything to add

[ironworked]

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I think it's fair to say that is the impression the audience is getting while they watch the show, and we find the message often reinforced in post-episode interviews (I'd say both have gotten increasingly explicit this last year, too):

ETC

Credit to @ineedmojoe for the compilation of quotes! You can check out more interviews here at @/911actually

Eddie being gay would mean doing the 'coming out later in life' storyline for the 4th time on the show. It would mean doing it with one of the 2 remaining main bachelors (or The Only one).

It would mean retconning/rewriting/recontextualizing the Shannon-Eddie relationship because Eddie would need to come to terms with all that before any new relationship and because the audience would need it too (whatever our feelings/opinions on this couple, it's been present or haunting Eddie's and Chris's stories for years).

It would mean 3 out of 7 (adult) mains on the show would be queer, putting 9-1-1 on par with Brilliant Minds, if I'm not mistaken; can you name another network show with that queer-to-straight ratio?

It would make 3/5 members at the 118 queer.

At the tail end of s8 when Eddie is repairing his relationship with Christopher. Or on a NINTH season.

All while GLAAD says this. And particularly with regards to Latine characters: "Of the 64 LGBTQ characters counted on primetime scripted broadcast, only 4 characters (6%) are Latine, a decrease of 2% from the previous study. Of those 4 characters, none are leads, and only 2 of them are series regulars."

Even leaving aside the narrative itself, would there be a reward for all this work and all this risk, when the show already 'boasts' queer rep?

[thepoisonroom]

Is the English teacher good? I believe in bja supremacy but the trailer made it look like very standard sitcom humor

it's honestly pretty solid! i would say it's more toned down than caleb gallo and they're doing something a bit closer to sitcom-brand pseudorealism but a lot of the signature stuff (odd/unnatural-sounding dialogue, the camera work during conversations, the visual gags, the casual absurdism, etc) is still there. i do think that it's not hitting the sort of pat heartwarming triumph beats that i would expect from a standard sitcom with the same premise, and there's a lot of interest in exploring sort of casual self-absorption which has always been an interesting aspect of the characters bja writes/plays. i think it's worth trying out an ep or two and they are only 20 minutes! and his take on what's funny about being gay in sort of a modern american context has always been a lot more interesting and resonant to me than 99% of other "gay comedy" writing

[theblob1958]

if we try hard enough do you think we can make these two the new great big sitcom ship rocking the internet? old lady love will shine through

[glitchy-haha]

Mateo was intended to be a LGBT+ character but Lego is too crowdly to make it official you can't take this away from me.

[fruchtfleisch-art]

While I'm shilling my little heart out, I made a Bluesky account this week! I don't think Tumblr is going anywhere, so this is more of a networking move than an "I'm leaving forever in a blind panic" move. I like it here! It's so quiet, and you can run so much custom code to throttle the dashboard into not looking like Twitter! I don't know why every site wants to look like Twitter!

Anyways, I'm picking two pieces a day from my archive and throwing them on Bluesky, M-F. You can enjoy whatever oldie art I'm not too embarrassed to post from the last five years.

[myketheartista]

if you didn't know, I have a bluesky as well <3 trying to make a bunch of new friends and spread the love so I can expand outside of mcyt :3

if you like talking about your ocs and posting art of them, you should definitely follow me so I can follow back

[fvckw4d]

The concept of queerbaiting annoys me. I was told that it refers to a work of fiction pretending to cater to a queer audience but then pulling back from it to avoid alienating homophobes, which is an incredibly specific thing. But a lot of people seem to think that it instead means "any time there's any gay subtex, metaphor, or ambiguity" or "whenever something from 1995-2012 was being a normal amount of homophobic for the era."

[altarichiru]

Adventure time! C'mon and grab your friends!

[gremlinrat]

'𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆?'

redrew :3 sorry for lower quality