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[vamptoll]

There are so many so many digital ethnographies that are just " I played one of the most well known MMOs of all time that millions of people have played, and now I will write up my experience like I had to hack my way through jungle vines to get here" and while I get WHY this happens it's always so frustrating when it does

[s10127470]

Meet the Fantastic Four (and Family)

Hey guys!

I'm back to introduce another family of the Spider-Man: Family Values universe, this time being arguably Peter's closest superhero allies.

Outfits:

Mr. Fantastic:

Real Name: Reed Richards

Age: 42

Height: 6'3

Weight: 190 lbs

Physical Appearance: Has a lean and slightly athletic build, fair skin, short brown hair with his trademark white temples, a beard, and brown eyes.

Relationship Status: Married

Causal Outfit: A black sweater with rolled-up sleeves under a blue puffer jacket, tan pants, and grey and white sneakers.

-Intelligent, imaginative, curious, kind, caring, and a little silly.

-Married to Sue and the proud father of Franklin and Valeria Richards.

-Is autistic.

-The godfather of Jo-Venn and N'Kalla.

-Serves as the team's leader.

-One of the most respected members of the superhero community, largely thanks to him and his family being the ones to start the superhero boom of the early 2010s.

-Whenever a collaboration between the geniuses is called for, you better believe he's gonna be there.

-Works part-time as a professor at Empire State University, where he teaches quantum physics.

The Invisible Woman:

Real Name: Susan Storm-Richards

Age: 39

Height: 5'8

Weight: 120 lbs

Physical Appearance: Has an hourglass figure with an well-around build and slightly curvaceous, fair skin, long blonde hair, blue lips, and blue eyes.

Relationship Status: Married

Causal Outfit: A blue long-sleeved sweatshirt, black leggings, and black and white sneakers.

-Mature, intelligent, kind, caring, understanding, and nurturing.

-First met Reed during college and got with him a few years later, shortly before the rocket incident.

-The godmother of Jo-Venn and N'Kalla.

-Serves as the team's ambassador.

-Just like her husband, she's one of the most respected members of the superhero community.

-Has a degree in archeology and anthropology.

-Works part-time as a guide and creator for The American Museum of Natural History.

The Human Torch:

Real Name: Johnny Storm

Age: 29

Height: 5'10

Weight: 170 lbs

Physical Appearance: Has a lean and athletic build, fair skin, spiky blonde hair, and blue eyes.

Relationship Status: Married

Casual Outfit: A red Hawaiian shirt with an orange flame pattern, tan pants, and red and white sneakers.

-Brash, cocky and hot headed, but also kind, caring, empathic, and loyal.

-Is MARRIED to Bobby Drake aka Iceman.

-The uncle of Franklin and Valerie.

-In spite of his brash and cocky personality, he can actually pretty responsible.

-Is the team's resident mechanic.

-Works part-time at an auto shop.

-Out of the Four, he's the closest to Peter, largely thanks to them being so close in age.

-Just like his sister and brother-in-law, he's one of the most respected members of the superhero community.

The Thing:

Real Name: Ben Grimm

Age: 43

Height: 6'8

Weight: 510 lbs

Physical Appearance: Has a broad and muscular build, rocky orange skin, and blue eyes.

Relationship Status: Married

Casual Outfit: A New York Giant jersey with a 61 on it and tan pants.

-Gruff, tough, caring and loving.

-Is married to Alicia and the proud foster father of Jo-Venn and N'Kalla.

-Is the godfather of Franklin and Valeria.

-Has been Reed's best friend since childhood.

-Serves as the team's pilot.

-Just like the rest of his family, he's one of the most respected members of the superhero community.

-Is Jewish and he's proud to show it.

-Works part-time as a pilot for United Airlines.

Franklin Richards:

Age: 11

Height: 4'5

Weight: 90 lbs

Physical Appearance: Has a slim build, fair skin, shaggy blonde hair, and blue eyes.

Relationship Status: Single

Casual Outfit:

-A jolly little fellow with an active imagination.

-Thanks to being a MUTANT, he possesses powerful reality warping and mental abilities, which accompanies his active imagination. He often bring anything he thinks of to life.

-Currently in the 6th grade.

-Looks up to and idolizes Peter.

Valeria Richards:

Age: 7

Height: 3'11

Weight: 67 lbs

Physical Appearance: Has a slim build, fair skin, shoulder-length blonde hair, and blue eyes.

Relationship Status: Single

Casual Outfit:

-Surprisingly mature and intelligent for her age, along with being quite crafty and witty.

-She's really intelligent! Being almost on par with her father in that regard.

-Currently in the 2nd grade.

-Wants to the become a scientist like her father in the future.

Alicia Masters-Grimm:

Age: 40

Height: 5'5

Weight: 115.lbs

Physical Appearance: Has an hourglass figure with a well-rounded build, fair skin, strawberry blonde hair in a bob-cut, pink lips, and pale brown eyes.

Relationship Status: Married

Casual Outfit:

-Caring, sensitive, empathic, and artistic.

-Got with Ben shortly after the Fantastic Four was formed and after several years of dating, they officially tied the knot about four years ago.

-Works as a sculptor and ceramics professor at Empire State University.

-Is the godmother of Franklin and Valeria.

Jo-Venn and N'Kalla:

Ages: 8 and 10

Heights: 4'1 and 4'3

Weights: 90 lbs and 120 lbs

Physical Appearances: (Jo-Venn) Has a slim build, blue skin, black hair in the form of a Mohawk, and yellow eyes. (N'Kalla)! Has a slim build, green skin, pointy green ears, long dark green hair, and green eyes.

Relationship Status: Single

Casual Outfits:

-Were once child soldiers, being forced to constantly duel as Casino Cosmico. But thanks to the Fantastic Four, the two were freed and adopted by Ben and Alicia.

-Are brimming with curiosity about Earth and their customs.

-Whenever they get stressed, they can often let their warrior sides get out of control.

-Currently homeschooled.

Princess:

Age: Unknown

Height: 1'9

Weight: 45 lbs

Physical Appearance:

-Was a stray dog who constantly followed Ben around, much to his annoyance. But thanks to an experience involving an illusion from Miracle Man, Ben grew to become fond of her and eventually decided to adopt her.

-She's a good girl and everyone loves her.

H.E.R.B.I.E.:

Real Name: Highly Engineered Robot Built for Interdimensional Exploration

Height: 2'

Weight: 70 lbs

Physical Appearance:

-The Fantastic Four's robotic assistant build by Reed.

-Loyal and trustworthy until the end!

Iceman:

Real Name: Bobby Drake

Age: 27

Height: 5'8

Weight: 145 lbs

Physical Appearance: Has a lean and athletic build, pale skin, shaggy brown hair, and blue eyes.

Relationship Status: Married

Casual Outfit: A blue hoodie, light blue shorts, blue sandals, and a black durag.

Hero Outfit: A combination of his solo series outfit and his iconic 90s outfit. Has the same look and appearance of the solo series outfit, but uses the color scheme of the 90s outfit. Also he's completely barefooted.

-Witty, confident, fun-loving, but also kind and generous.

-One of the original five founding members of The X-Men.

-Got with Johnny during his college years, and about a year ago, they officially got married.

-Speaking of college, he was Peter's roommate, along with fellow mutant Angelica Jones aka Firestar.

-Has been a close friend to Peter since their early days as teenage heroes.

-Teaches accounting and chemistry at the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters.

-Is Irish Catholic and Jewish.

Well that's all for now!

The next family we'll be looking at are a little more on Peter's level.....

Street-level.

[waksworldrebooted]

MTV Era Motorcity Masterpost (+ NEVER BEFORE SEEN INFORMATION)

In 2000, Chris Prynoski pitched a cartoon called Motorcity.

He made a card and a website promoting the show, which wouldn't see the light of day until the Walt Disney Company got their hands on it.

THE SETUP

"MotorCity is The Dukes of Hazzard meets Akira. It's American Graffiti and Big Daddy Roth rumbling with 8 cylinders into the world of Sci-Fi. It's the heart of American car culture driven to the next level."

 "Sex, cars, Rock & Roll, and the freedom to wrap your ride around a tree trunk goin' 160."

"In the near future, concerns over global warming, pollution, and the ever-worsening problem of gridlock in America’s major cities brings about the Anti-Combustion Acts of 2009." "These laws banned the use of any vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. At first there was a lot of vocal opposition. But the so-called "Digital Revolution" as well as the advent of amazing new transportation technologies neatly filled the void, and the benefits of an improved environment along with a safer, faster and more efficient means of getting from point A to B managed to win even the staunchest opponents over. The oil companies and car manufacturers were forced to shut down under the political and economic pressures." "And a new era was born. Cleaner, faster and safer. America’s cities became modern utopias where its citizens could travel without fear or hazard in comfortable flying boxes affectionately known as "living rooms", and Detroit (The Renaissance City), became the finest example of this new policy. But with all of this wondrous innovation, something was lost. Something inherent in the soul of old America, something called freedom. The freedom to go anywhere. Anyhow. As fast, or as slow as you want. The freedom to speed. And the freedom to die." "This is where our characters come in. A few radicals realized that although you might never die in the "living rooms" , you’ll never really live in them either. So in the "Live fast and die young" mind-set, they fight the law. Scavenging parts and gas from Detroit’s massive underground, Mike Chilton and his gang, as well as a few others are trying to recapture some of what it meant to risk all for the freedom of speed."

THE CHARACTERS

Mike Chilton: A young talent on the illegal race circuit. Mike's right leg is always twitching and itching to jam a gas pedal to the floorboards, and his foot is as lead as they come. He's got gasoline surging through his veins and a 450 horsepower soul. His heart burns to drive and it's all he can do to keep moving faster and faster so that the flames don't consume him. He might be a gangly 19-year-old kid, but his ride has as much muscle as he'll ever need and he knows how to use it.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '77 Trans Am

Julie Capulsky: An Anthropology student with a quick mind and a quicker pulse. She's a city girl with a passion for adventure who's secretly writing a paper on the underground "Burner" culture. As she gets to know Mike and his crew, she feels the freedom of the road and learns the power of a rumbling big block at her command. She is torn between the high performance life of a Gearhead and the love of her father who has sworn to take them down.

Vehicle of Choice: Any Hot Rod that'll give her a ride.

Lt. Capulsky: Julie's Dad and head of Detroit's Anti-Combustion Enforcement Division. He's old enough to remember when the highways were the arteries of America and the drivers were its blood. He rode with Fast Eddy in his youth and understands the joy of inhaling the fumes of burning rubber as the hot road turns his tires to black jelly. He's forced to deal with enforcing a law he's not sure he believes in. But that doesn't stop him from holding the record for the most illegal auto busts in the state of Michigan.

Vehicle of choice: Police "Living Room"

Ed Pirelli: (Fast Eddy) The old-timer who serves as Mike and the crew's link to the past, as well as their guide for the future. A wrecked hulk of a man, Eddy lived in a time when America was the land of wide-open spaces, and you had the liberty to go where, when and how you wanted to travel. You had the freedom to live, and the freedom to die. None of those damn boxes.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '58 Chevy Roadster

Greg Raden: This young cop looks up to Lt. Capulsky as his ultimate hero. Born after the Anti-Combustion Act, He doesn't understand the rush of a vibrating steering wheel responding to every reflex of your sweaty palms. He wants nothing more than to grind the gears of the "Burners" to a halt.

Vehicle of choice: Police "Living Room"

Dave Earnhardt: Mike's worthy rival on the race circuit. He's a speed demon who stops at nothing to win. He might be Mike's worst enemy on the tar, but he'd take a speeding bullet for him off the track.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '69 Camaro RS

Holly Biscayne: A fellow "Burner" who has a thing for Mike. She's jealous and suspicious of Julie's big city motives. She wants to make sure that when the checkered flag waves, she'll be on top.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '05 Jaguar convertible

Brute Conklin: The bastard child of internal combustion and computer technology. This crafty gearhead beats "The Man" at his own game with a never-ending digital assault on the computers that control the Global Satellite System.

Vehicle of choice: Chopped 98' Harley Pan-head

Claire Constance: This ice queen might look like a hot number, but she's really a wet blanket who tries to smother her best friend Julie's fire. She can't understand what's with risking your life in the "sewers" when you can be shopping in style in the safety and comfort of your own clean home.

Vehicle of choice: None if she can help it

Promo card released in 2000

Concept art made shortly after the trailer (ones that closely resemble the final show)

From left to right: Luv (Dutch), Holly Biscayne, Chuck, Mike Chilton, Julie Kapulsky, Claire Constance, Texas, Greg Raden (Tooley), Lt Kapulsky (Abraham Kane), and The Mayor of Detroit

Pitch Trailer

[elfhunk]

i don't say i'm my own favorite english language vocal synth producer because i'm just a bitch (which i am) but because i have lyricism autism and something fundamentally makes me feel ready to commit manslaughter about the way 99% of these songs are written.

i do not know how this many native english speakers are writing songs that sound like they've been auto-translated? but they won't stop doing it? there's something like, anthropologically fascinating about it that is academically stimulating but otherwise is anathema to me.

english vocal synth producers seem to have have zero understanding of syllable stress to a degree my brain literally gets angry listening to them. i have not found a single person writing songs i enjoy listening to. i am unable to make any friends in this space because i'm a huge bitch with a huge ego.

but i've earned my huge ego. am a terrible music producer? yes.

but i am a terrifyingly good songwriter who will never be stopped.

[maaarine]

Menopause was a French invention at a time of revolution (Alison M Downham Moore, Psyche, July 30 2024)

"Have women in all historical and present cultures suffered the ailments of menopause we know about today?

Studies in medical history and anthropology, and cross-cultural medical surveys, indicate wide variability in how women have experienced it globally.

Japanese women interviewed in the 1990s described their primary complaint of midlife as shoulder stiffness – not hot flushes.

And a 2015 study of British Pakistani women found that those raised in Pakistan were more likely to believe the menopause caused a cough and sore throat, while those raised in the UK were more likely to see it in a range of emotional symptoms.

No concept like ‘menopause’ is found in any world health or medical tradition, except in Western biomedicine.

And, even in the West, neither physicians nor midwives had much to say about the final cessation of menses before about 1780.

So how did the concept originate?

Menopause was first defined by young male university students and their medical professors at the universities of Montpellier and Paris from the end of the 1700s.

It was a major topic in France throughout the 19th century, with several hundred books written about it in the emerging new specialisms of hygiene (preventive health), psychiatry, gynaecology, sexology and endocrinology.

No other culture was anywhere near as interested in this topic as the French, and even those very few works on menopause appearing in Germany, England and the US during the 19th century borrowed heavily from them.

Why were the French in particular so fascinated by menopause?

Menopause was likely invented by the French because of its association with three categories of nervous pathologies that had flourished in medical writing there from the end of the 1600s into the 1800s: the vapours, hysteria, and hypochondria.

Nervous diseases, it was thought, were a product of luxury and civilisation: urban life, stale air, sedentary lifeways, overeating, exotic foods and beverages, licentiousness, and corporeal laziness were all to blame.

A medical view emerged of urban elite women in modern France as generally more prone to nervous diseases during times of uterine change, including around the final cessation of menses, via ‘sympathies’ of the uterus with the nervous system and the brain. (…)

When French physicians queried older peasant women about their cessation of menses, they were met with blank looks or laughter, since the very idea that simply being old enough to gain relief from menstruation and childbirth made one sick was completely alien and nonsensical to them.

Medical theses produced between 1799 and 1840 developed a rich ‘hygienic’ discourse, advising urban women to mimic peasant diets and lifeways to avoid the ravages of menopause and enjoy a healthy ageing. (…)

In the early 20th century, women conducted research studies on the diseases of women’s ageing, after they were permitted to enter the medical profession.

There was a distinctly less catastrophising and generalising tone.

They addressed serious diseases such as uterine cancer, or worrying symptoms such as haemorrhagic bleeding, but did not see these as problems for all women whose menses was ceasing.

Sage voices had long criticised the practice of lumping all women’s experiences of midlife and old age into the container of menopause.

Some women doctors argued that the concept of menopause was itself a risk to women’s health, producing an ‘auto-suggestion’, or nocebo effect that they would be better to avoid and simply take good care of their minds and bodies, or even embark on a quest for spiritual insight instead. (…)

The concept of menopause did not come from women themselves but rather from medical men for whom it served as a useful and generative case-example.

It was a tool for biomedical reformulations of treatment practices and for the conceptual separation of morbidity from mortality; it was a teaching device for male medical students learning the new mechanistic approach to women’s health; it was a weapon with which to fight other doctors, medical faculties and rival health traditions, as well as a pathway for new medical disciplines such as hygiene, psychiatry, gynaecological surgery and emergent endocrinology – to expand patient markets, develop theoretical precepts and refine clinical skills. (…)

The French pathologisation of menopause informed the 20th-century view of women as too different to include in clinical trials on account of their uterine exceptionalism, which continues to hamper current scientific knowledge of gendered diseases and drug responses.

More women than ever now live to an age when they will see their menses cease, so there is increased interest in menopause and new forms of representation about it.

But there is also a massive growth in the marketing of products and services designed to extract profits from women in midlife by promoting worry about their ageing and promising false remedies for all their life challenges.

Just like French doctors in the 19th century, commercial entities today hold a vested interest in the idea that menopause is a time of crisis and revolution – something we necessarily need to treat through specific interventions that target it."

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Dear Agents, Writers are not Psychic, please auto include YOUR Trigger Warning Policies

Some background, because no one is going to click on the profile part of the page. I'm aware of that.

The first part of this is that I have an Anthropology degree, which the majority of the classes are concentrated in Systems, such as racism, sexism, etc. The BA would have had a certificate if I didn't have to travel 2-3 hours one way in order to get the certificate.

The second part is that I've been around the publishing industry inside of it, published by it, reading up on the history of it, reading an astounding number of writing advice manuals to track down one diagram and crying over that, to know how the industry works. I know I don't list all my credentials, but seriously, how long do you want a bio?

The third part is that I've worked with websites, UX (User Experience) and the whole idea of User Experience is that even if it functions, it doesn't mean it works without the ability to interface with humans.

And lastly, I have C-PTSD. I know how fucked up PTSD can be. And what a trigger feels like. What a flashback feels like. It's not OMG, I feel icky and have no emotional toll. It's I need a therapist to manage my triggers because it wears me out to have an anxiety/depression attack. And I know how fucked up triggers can be. I've written blog posts about it.

You are not everyone.

User experience is about Empathy. This means you realize: You are not everyone else. Everyone else is not you. They are not going to do what you think is best, so how do you make everyone happy through best practices?

Other agents aren't going to WANT what you want. They are selling different genres, they have different life experiences. Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for anyone else. By saying, Well, every agent should do as I want, isn't helping anyone.

History

Before the 1900's, most stories were serialized, and only the popular ones got full books. Before the 1960's-1970's according to Steven King's On Writing, there were no Agents. You simply submitted to the publisher. (Agents should know their publishing history, I'm just saying... you should know the history of your own profession.)

Agents became a requirement in the 1990's, not the 1980's. Before that, you could hire a lawyer. And many early agents were lawyers.

This meant because of print tech, and the requirement to join a union, the way to submit to an agent was EXACTLY THE SAME.

The Neurdivergent rejoice. They are happy with this.

But then the internet hit in about the mid-2000's and then agents started to be paid more and more like crap. And then with the plummeting enjoyment, and the publishing industry realizing that they could dump people from their staff and PUT IT ALL ON THE AGENTS, the standardization of the forms fell with it.

Why would this be in UX terms? Well, now agents aren't doing it "for the money" and in basic psychology this means they want more individualistic things. You're likely to do it for the side money, you want to have it the way you want to have it, because what's the point if it's not fun? Thus the standardization in the industry falls apart as people put forth their own individualistic wills. (Do you need the fancy psychology terms. I can do that.)

And then with the internet the industry and everyone started to MAKE UP THEIR OWN RULES.

The ND people are crying. WTF.

Especially the autistic people who like structure and rules that are even and easy to understand. (I had a long conversations about this. I did the research.)

Why would someone want a different trigger policy than me?

People represent different genres and have different aims

This is where the empathy and the ability to actually go through other agent blogs comes in. You need to be able to read other agents, their genres and realize that writers have different genres and combination of genres they are submitting to.

You might be looking ONLY at contemporary Romance, but there are agents that represent Horror, Thrillers, and Mystery and dark fantasy. Even without that, there are subgenres of fiction that might *require* triggers be included. Abuse Romance is a thing (50 Shades) and there is Dystopian SFF.

The agents that rep these genres want the thrill of the surprise. The agent wants to not have to know what's up front to experience the story first hand. This is what I've read from those agents. The ones that rep Horror are more than likely to not want trigger warnings from my asking over and over again. And they are less likely to list a no list to the trigger list.

But those self-same agents *also* represent things like Romance. Because like everyone else on the planet, people like more than one genre.

BTW, out of all of the agents, the agents that rep Romance from my asking around, because no one else is crunching data are more likely to want trigger warnings, but I'm telling you it gets tricky when you're mixing Romance with Supernatural, Mystery, and Fantasy.

BTW, Fantasy and SFF as genres, RANGE WILDLY. So the triggers are going to be all over the map.

And for the people who rep Horror, etc, the reason why your (US) romance agents want trigger warnings is because romance works on a totally different emotional basis compared to Horror. Expecting your potential clients to know that and your fellow agents to follow suit when they have a totally different agenda is not reasonable.

This is where UX comes in. YOU, agent, Have do the work to bridge the gap between you and the other agents. If you all are going to have different policies about triggers, then writers are going to also do their best guesses and try for a middle.

People have different triggers than you.

I have a trigger around melamine floors. Do you have a trigger around melamine floors? Does it make your spine go cold it makes my spine go cold. Do you get a mild headache thinking about them especially if they are white? No? You don't?

Would it be reasonable for me to ask you to guess that about me?

Would it be reasonable for you to take all of my feelings about it because I never informed you this was the case?

If you're getting my drift:

LIST YOUR TRIGGERS. Not everyone has the same triggers. Write it out. Asking people to manage and guess your invisible triggers is unreasonable. It does harm to others. You don't want them to do harm to you, it's your responsibility to let people help you by making it known. 100% I know this as a person with C-PTSD and also with Sensory issues. It's not other people's responsibility if they don't know about it. It is 100% mine to let them know if I have an issue and it's too much. If they don't respect you after you have let them know, then the onus is on them, not before then. It's also anti-ND to expect people to *guess* your triggers. But it's also better for your mental health so people don't submit something you don't want.

Trauma *is* fucked up. But part of recovery is taking control and taking control of your triggers and processing them. So let people help you by you listing your triggers you don't want to see or be warned about in fiction.

Set clear boundaries

Goal-setting: Ask yourself questions like “What is the goal in setting a boundary or needing to set a boundary?”

Start small: Setting boundaries can be hard and uncomfortable. The key is to start small and focus on one at a time.

Be clear: Focus on what you want as clearly as possible.

Practice: If thinking about setting a boundary makes you nervous, write out what you want to say beforehand or practice stating a boundary in the mirror.

Keep it simple: Less is more with boundary setting. Try not to overload someone with too many details at first. Just pick the main thing that is bothering you and focus on that.

From the website.

Make your boundaries clear. If you don't list triggers, don't ask for a trigger list on your forms, don't make it known on your website, assume everyone is going to do it that everyone agrees with you, and don't put it where people can see it, then you are responsible for the result and in making it more clear. You can't act like a victim if you haven't set clear boundaries.

Act like an adult and set your boundaries.

BUT WHY would anyone write it/not want a warning as an agent?

Some people like to deal with their triggers in fiction. It's distant, not real, it gives them a sense of control, like a safe word in BDSM. A lot of reading of horror and thrillers in particular are when people are anxious. This is according to Stephen King that greater fear means a spike in his sales. (Interviews, Writing Excuses). You should be paying attention to that... just saying. This is marketing. You are also (unfortunately) part marketer, not only lawyer.

Some people are using it to ask for rights. Buy being clear as a victim of abuse, etc that helps people feel empowerment by *stopping it*.

If people want to stop homophobia, that means they have to talk about homophobia. Taking power back from the oppressors feels good. This is like step 3 of recovering from trauma, though. I've covered previously that after victimhood, you should be aiming for survivor, but the aims of a social justice person are transformation of trauma and that has to be somewhat different and is somewhat opposed to being a victim.

Everyone is healing in a different way and speed than you are. Again, everyone is not you. This is marketing too.

BUT OTHER AGENTS SHOULD DEAL WITH MY POLICY

No, they shouldn't. You are not everyone else. See the UX rule.

How Do I Fix it?

Put on your forms a trigger policy. Try to get other agents to also put on a trigger policy standard.

You can copy-paste the following and cut the irrelevant:

Trigger Warning Policy

I would like you to give a trigger warning: Yes/No.

I would like you to give a trigger warning:

In the query

When I request fulls.

You should not submit if your manuscript has:

You can submit if your manuscript has, but warn me:

Skip trigger warnings for these genres:

[List genres]

Listed nicely and UXed like that with the bold? Yes. Makes it easier to read.

Where should I put it?

There's a fancy UX term for this, but the basics are: If it's important to you, you will LIST it in multiple places. And since writers, even if they wanted to be aren't psychic at grand distances and are submitting to you from places like Australia (because you should know that) and from other countries. They will have no clue what you want if people want different things. So all of these places.

Manuscript Wishlist

Your Profile on your website

Query Manager (You can put it at the top and sometimes with the query part)

Submissions Guideline Page (especially if you don't have Query Manager)

Why not on Twitter?

No one is going to read thousands of tweets and work through your tweets that are going to disappear to find your trigger policy. !@#$ No. Too much time, too much effort, those things disappear, and those are not for permanent information.

If it's Absent...

The user will assume if it is absent in the query manager, especially, there is none, and they can do as they like or guess. Absence is assumed this way.

If you need the long psychological reason why, in UX this is true, then imagine it this way (extended analogies are my jam):

Cashier A is not labeled. Cashier B is not labeled in a store.

You want to check out of the items you've collected in the store and not steal things. You're likely to do as you like. And choose between Cashier A and Cashier B.

Cashier A is labeled now: Returns.

Cashier B is labeled with a cart icon.

You want to check out. You're likely to choose Cashier B.

Therefore, if it's absent on the form, people will do as they like. Basic marketing, psychology and UX. If you want it to be known, you label it.

Mechanically list it. Put it visible everywhere.

Make the form standard on Query Manager and Manuscript Wishlist

Even better yet is to make it standard on agent websites.

Here is the contact for them.

MSWL: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/contact/

Query Manager: https://querymanager.com/contact.php

Here is what you can write:

Hello,

[Honest reasons you love their website]

I would really like a standard form for trigger warnings. The form would look like something like this:

I would like you to give a trigger warning: Radio buttons: Yes/No.

(Require) If no, then the rest of the form doesn't need to be filled out.

I would like you to give a trigger warning:

If yes require...

Radio buttons for:

In the query

When I request fulls.

You should not submit if your manuscript has: (Optional)

You can submit if your manuscript has, but warn me: (Optional)

Skip trigger warnings for these genres: (Optional)

[List genres]

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

[Name]

BTW, I put programming and UX info into the letter to make it easier on them. Because again empathy and again, I'm HSP, so I can't help it. I want to make implementation as easy as possible.

Please don't abuse the word "Trigger"

BTW, Please do not for the sake of people with C-PTSD and PTSD say something you "dislike" is a "trigger." Dislike should be Content warning. And in that case just list it with your usual "Don't send me this."

Saying something is a trigger because you dislike the trope–please don't abuse the word trigger this way.

Yes, there are low level triggers that don't make sense. I've covered melamine floors before as a trigger for me and institutions. But usually I don't trip out if it's in fiction. But that might be you. Again. Not everyone has the same triggers for fiction, because you are not everyone. Or as Mr. Rogers liked to say loosely You are unique.

While you're at it...

BTW, I also listed other things that agents disagree on. Just do it as a part of your policy to list them.

Conclusion

To me, at this point, if you don't list it and rep a bunch of different genres, I'll choose what I guess is best. If you hit more than one, then yeah, I'm left guessing.

And as an HSP, agents getting really mad at both ends, to the point they are willing to get irritated, I can't take that on. Writers are left confused and in the middle. So instead, just use the form I listed. I mean, it's not that hard to copy-paste.

Your little bit of work up front will help everyone else. Make it a standard that all agents list a trigger warning policy EVERYWHERE it can be visible. We can't guess and no one is going to read all of your Twitter.

Marketing ideas also work towards your clients. You want them to do a certain behavior, then you have to also market yourself well, which means you need to be making your trigger policy known and visible.

[pscottm]

The Most Surprising New Gun Owners Are U.S. Liberals

And this might be the first presidential campaign where the Democratic candidates are the literal face of gun owners. Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris surprised many during the Sept. 10 debate when she noted, “Tim Walz and I are both gun owners.” (Harris, a former prosecutor, owns a handgun, while Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, is an avid hunter.) Trump, convicted of a felony, faces the prospect of losing his right to possess a gun. He is scheduled to be sentenced in November.

Four decades ago, Democratic gun owners were typically white men, including auto or steel union workers who grew up hunting. Today’s liberal gun owners are much more diverse. Gun dealers saw the largest increase in Black Americans buying guns compared with any other racial group in 2023, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry group. Women accounted for nearly half of new gun buyers from 2019 to 2021, according to the 2021 National Firearms Survey of 19,000 adults, designed by professors at Harvard and Northeastern universities.

Hubbert, the anthropology professor, who received a federal National Endowment for the Humanities grant last year to research liberal gun owners, found that gay and transgender gun owners worried about rising hate crimes and Jewish people feared potential violence from pro-Palestinian groups or individuals. Black gun owners shared similar anxieties, along with mistrust of police in some areas and concerns about crime.

[delciastudies]

Welcome to the internet café ˚✧₊˚ ᗢ₊˚✧ ﾟ

get comfy and get connected ᯤ

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What is the internet café? The internet café was born from the memory, nostalgia, and aesthetic of internet cafes of the 2000s. The first Internet cafe was the Cafe Cyberia in London’s West End, which opened in 1994. The Internet cafe, with its dial-up connections and as one of the first public and communal means to access the digital world, is now a heart for lofi and vaporwave nostalgia and aesthetic, as we continue to navigate the digital world and our digital lives.

I’m a firm believer that we need communal liminal spaces. Two of my absolute favorites are gaiaonline (gaiaonline.com) - which includes Rally and other digital virtual worlds where moving and chatting is possible - and the Vaporwave Plaza (plaza.one), the space captured through their radio emission and communal discord space. The internet cafe is an extension of these two ideas, bringing together a discord and digital resource-sharing that we may find in a material Internet cafe.

How do I get connected? The discord server is the main space; it can be accessed at this link >>> https://discord.gg/7N2jdbza

Is it free? Yes! Everything posted in the discord is free, open-access.

However, I do sell exclusive materials (which helps fund my art, which I hope will become full-time). Exclusive resources (printables, downloads, and also tier membership to connect to 3G, 4G, 5G, and ETHERNET) can be found on my ko-fi here >>> https://ko-fi.com/delciax

About the artist (me!)

My name is Delcia, recent graduate living in CH. I am an anthropologist and writer with an ethnographic, research-based artistic practice. My current research works around colonial and capitalist ruin in Western Colorado with a specific focus on the processing of collective trauma via affect theory and archival disruption. I revolve my thinking around epistemic disobedience, auto-ethnography, curation, and contemporary art as a means for engaging with current pedagogies and epistemologies in the field of research and imagining artistic creation and affect as important sites of knowledge production.

My mediums of focus are photography, writing, film, graphic design, collage, and installation.

On the side, I love blogging, writing, reading, working on my tumblr, teaching (which pays the bills), moseying around on gaiaonline, traveling, having brunch in coffee shops, and taking care of my plants.

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Topics of interest: engaged anthropology; archives and collective memory; trauma studies; environmental politics; decolonial theory; more-than-human epistemologies; queer and feminist theory.

Aesthetics of interest: lo-fi, mundane, 2000s, anime, glitch, grunge, pixel, vaporwave

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Favorite authors: Michael Taussig; Donna Haraway; Jason Pine; Sophie Chao; Anna Tsing; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi; Julio Cortázar; bell hooks

Reading list: The Thing Around Your Neck (Adichi); The Cornwolf (Taussig); The Night Face Up, Continuation of Parks (Cortázar); In the Shadow of the Palms (Chao); The Mushroom at the End of the World (Tsing); The Magic of the State (Taussig); Art on my mind (hooks).

Currently reading: Clay’s Ark (Octavia Butler); Leonora Carrington: The Image of Dreams (Giulia Ingarao); The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk); The Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)

Currently listening to: NIGHTS LIKE THIS radio (Spotify), Nightwave Plaza

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you want to chat or talk about really anything at all. I will drop my corresponding pages, as well, below. ♥

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Age: 26

Pronouns: she/they

Star sign: Sagittarius

Fields: anthropology and sociology, contemporary artstudies

*CRITICAL CURATORIAL CYBERMEDIA, MFA2022 - 2024 // Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD - Genève), Geneva

*ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY, MA 2020 - 2022 // Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva

*ANTHROPOLOGY, BA2016 - 2020 // University of California, Santa Barbara

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Instagram: @delciax

gaiaonline: @delcia x

tiktok: @delcia.x

tumblr: delciastudies.com

discord: @delciax

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[zumpietoo]

Oh Snorteee/Silly/janASS, we all know you came racing and saw these yourself....

I think the best part here is

A) you found a "new" word

B) Ummm.....I wish?? (especially given the promotion/transitioning, I realized this AM I'll need to work almost every weekend in July) But even if it were true, whelp, again, who knew having leisure time was a crime (tho clearly given your endless bad fanfic production/gushing over truck stop coffee shows us all JUST how busy YOU are....).

"My life" is apparently now what I spent my Saturday AM coffee time/waiting for spray paint to dry between coats/planning moar projects doing. It would appear you also don't know how to multitask, Snorteee....

C) I'll take the "get over you" as full admittance you ARE, in fact, yet another Silly/janASS sock....speaking of, that would indicate a lack of gainful employment, noooo???

OML......aside from that, in fact, Cole sings verrryyyyy nicely, you seriously think he reads our comments on fan blogs? Good loordddd....the "delusional" one is yourself!

And even if he couldn't and did, why do you get to decide what opinions we hold and how this remotely "props up his sad ego"? This is beyond heelarious....

Wait....it's back to me again? But I thought (see above) you "didn't need to hear about my lunacy"? But here you are....

Plus love how it's the usual shit she places when she sends anon hate (to say nothing of she clearly sent this to herself).....and again, love how she's back to THIS narrative, too....

And, also, dude....isn't that what your sole purpose (and making moar sock accounts/"writing" really bad fanfic) is about Peepster? So how DO you "get out of bed in the AM", anyway????

Ooohhh....not only stupid (and I do love the endless rage over Cole having gone to do karaoke with friends at a dive lounge), but also fat shaming.....

It's also a bit of a flip on how, truly, the only discernible talent CabanaPee DO have is making very bad, verrrryyyyy stupid tiktoks to attention/frame whore with.

Now he's evooolllll for enjoying playing video games? Who knew?

Actually, it appears, they're legit dragging him for having.....hobbies/interests.....good lord.....however, if that IS a character flaw:

A) Horseback riding (tho I believe Ari's likely better at that)

B) Auto mechanics/vintage car enthusiast

C) Photography (DUHHHH.....and second career)

D) Paleontology (just guessing)/anthropology/archaeology/etc (his college major and third career)

E) Mid-century Art/Architecture/etc

F) Snowboarding/Skiing

G) Surfing/skateboarding (I mean, I tend to imagine?)

H) Ancient literature/other intellectual pursuits

I) Travel/exotic cuisine/foodie

And honestly? Just off the top of mah head, here.....AND Ari shares quite a few of these...

Conversely, PP????

A) Theatrical make-up (which I'll grant, she isn't terrible at)

B) Hypochondria

C) Whining

D) Pimping cults

E) Snide, middle school meangirling

F) Rustbelt anti-intellectual bourgeois tacky ignorant trash

Guess we're done!

[fakeosirian]

Love you hit Fabian with the dead dad stick because me too! (Kind of)

In regards to his family, I've always thought of Fabian's situation kind of similarly, especially in my fics where I've had many unneccessary Thoughts like:

-No dad, not sure whether he's dead or he left when Fabian was really young so he basically has no memories of him

-I had no idea what I wanted his mum's profession to be but I knew I wanted her to travel a lot and not really be around, like she cares about Fabian but she's pretty absent and has been since he was young, so I made her an archaeologist (cop-out answer Ik but I liked how it could link her, Jasper and Fabian's uncle, which I like the idea of his uncle being on the maternal side (it also works for my Plotty brain))

-He's the baby of the family with 2-3 older sisters (give that bitch the youngest child complex)

-There's an age gap between him and his sisters (alluding to the idea he was possibly an accident and the dad dipped) and they basically raised him

-He had a sheepdog that he was inseparable with when he was younger (I have this image in my brain of the dog helping him learn to walk that makes me die) but they had to put her down a couple years into Fabian being at the school and he couldn't be there because it was exam season

-You are so right that he's a scholarship kid it just makes sense that while he's incredibly smart and loves learning I think when it comes to school he doesn't have the 'drive' say, Mara does, and it's more a case of panic helping him succeed

-That said, him and Mara definitely used to study together before they fell into their respective friendship groups and he'd help her with languages and physics, and she'd help him with biology and computer sciences

-His sisters take on a lot of the financial burden of the family so they often can't come to see his school events, but you bet your arse they showed up to watch the play in S1 and were dying laughing at his Victor impression the whole time and ribbed him endlessly afterwards for his obvious heart eyes at Nina

-His sisters have much stronger northern accents than Fabian (because he's been at the school full-time since he was young it's been southern-ed out of him) and they take the piss out of him for it (good-naturedly) but the rest of the house always notice when they come back after Christmas or Summer and Fabian's accent is much thicker

Thats kind of all of my coherent thoughts about his family situation but I just love coming up with unneccessary headcanon's about my blorbos

LOLLLLLLLL not the dead dad stick 💀 what can i say he's got momma's boy vibes so might as well turn that dial all the way up to 11 For Fun!

cont. under cut only for length lol you got me excited

i'm obsessed w all of these. esp the sheepdog (crying at that mental image help..) and youngest child complex i can Very Much see that for him. he's either that or an only imo -- for your particular set of headcanons, the sisters are soooo choice and very much the move (also love how that changes how you'd interpret his relationships with the other girls in the house, patricia in particular lol) -- if you ever make his sisters full ocs i need to know ASAP bc i already love them.

was also half-deciding on archaeologist for his mom's profession/was at the very least envisioning her as some sort of research faculty that relied on grants (and thus would be very busy, lots of pressure to keep the grants resulting in some tunnel vision re: her ability to be present as a parent, etc) and adding heavy travel onto that was something hanging out in the back of my mind -- archaeology, certain fields of anthropology, and similar would all produce that vibe and picking archaeology specifically is the Tried and True Classic + hard agree that it gives her a more solid connection to the shop (always good because i think it can come off as a bit of a red herring for his family's financial situation but that's just me lol) -- i was auto-envisioning ade as being his mom's brother and not his dad's despite the surname at first/only caught that when i was making my post, so i love that you just went for it and made ade his maternal uncle anyway. moms keeping their maiden name and the kids getting her surname is based as hell

and adding to that tbh...you could do some really interesting stuff with his mother's job re: her relationship with his father, ie. him being resentful of her not being around, but making the problem worse by leaving himself once he's had enough (not recognizing he's dooming his kid to the exact same fate he left behind type vibes). very very very tasty possibilities there. also very tasty possibilities for him and eddie to have Why The Hell Is My Dad Like That sessions if his dad isn't dead/truly did just dip and tried to come into his life again later same as mr. sweet did lol

re: scholarship kid YEAH!!! the flavor of Being Smart he has feels so much more anxious and precarious than mara's in a way that isn't justified by his actual school performance (he seems to find making connections pretty easy and has a good memory/attention to detail when he isn't being cursed) and would be better explained by that sense of "if i don't work as hard as i possibly can, i could lose all of this" -- yes, that's part and parcel of the literal life and death stakes of the plot, but idk he was like that waaaay too quick and waaaaay before things got life threatening. bro is just baseline anxious in a way someone smart and explicitly privileged (mara) wouldn't be because her level of security in her situation is simply Too High (and that ooooooozes out of her character, esp as the series goes on and she gets more starkly compared to characters like jerome).

that DOES make them very cute study buddies tho (esp w the dynamic you describe omg) and i'm so excited to play with that a bit later in foyf (because i will admit i lowkey forgot i even came up with that project plotline i sort of threw in there a couple chapters ago where i paired them up but it's okay i remembered now and i've been intending to write in the academic rivalry stuff from TOR all along anyway it's fine..)

also YESSSS HIS ACCENT...love you (head)canonizing that he DOES lose it gradually over the show and it makes me SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!! him gaining it back over holidays is so real and so cute (my own regional accent does the exact same thing whenever my dad's regional accent gets thicker because he talked to someone that made it thicker LOLLL) so ngl i'm fully swiping this one <3

we are truly on the same wavelength about him.. our minds 🤩 ty for sending these they're great!!!!!!!!!!!!

[falloutcaldera]

Language Changes and Clarification

Language Changes - ‘Crippled Limbs’

The term used for Limb Damage has been changed to ‘Maimed’ caused by excessive damage to the Left Arm, Right Arm, Left Leg, Right Leg, The Torso (Based on Fallout 3), The Head (Based on Fallout 2 & Fallout Tactics), or The Eyes. They do not auto-heal and must be healed by a stimpak or by a doctor.

Legs can become Maimed if over-encumbered, prevent running and slow down the walking pace. When both legs are maimed, traveling in the third person is dramatically slower than traveling in the first person. 

Maiming prevents enemies from moving, attacking or flying, forcing them to land. Some enemies will regenerate their maimed limbs while others such as ghouls remain maimed until killed. A legendary enemy that mutates has all of its limbs instantly restored. Robots that are completely maimed will heat up and explode

Canes & Crutches, which are usually usable as weapons in Fallout, will automatically be used to balance or walk faster if held when maimed. Splints can be applied from the medical menu. Tissues can be used to prevent stealth debuffs when ill.

Language Changes - ‘Tribe’

The cultural anthropological term used for groups known as ‘Tribes’ has been addressed in-universe. ‘Clan’ is used in its place for the sociocultural context of groups which are being officially termed ‘Postwar Neocultural Groups’

Postwar Neocultural Groups (PNGs) are defined as:

Considered ruins-avoidant by most groups, regardless of actuality

Reliant on postwar artisanal chems or otherwise prefer them

Generally attempt to adapt culture to postwar life (IE creating new institutions, adapting new symbology to prewar subcultures)

Postwar Paleocultural Groups (PPGs) are defined as:

Considered ruins-reliant by most groups, regardless of actuality

Rely on prewar industrial chems or otherwise prefer them

Generally attempt to preserve culture from prewar life (IE learning rules to baseball, maintaining stigma against Metamorphic or Ghoulified people)

Vault Dweller Descendants tend to have a mix of both aspects due to their heavier reliance on Vaults & the unique cultural evolution encouraged by the combination of small population, limited space, and Vault Tek Experiments. Theoretically, these would be “Prewar Refugiocultural Groups (PreRGs)” which once opened eventually become “Postwar Refugiocultural Groups (PosRGs)” such as the Boomers, Shady Sands, or Vault City.

[freddyabroad]

25.08.2023 - Im Behörden-Dschungel

Die ersten zwei Wochen sind geschafft und was soll ich sagen.... es war eine ganz schöne Achterbahnfahrt. Wir haben unzählige Stunde nach Autos geschaut und wurden sehr schnell auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückgeholt. Wir lernten das TÜV-Siegel sehr zu schätzen. Die meisten Autos fallen halb auseinander und kosten trotzdem ein Vermögen.

Trotz allem habe ich einen Nissan Altima gefunden, der zwar von 2002 ist, aber 2018 ein komplett neues Innenleben erhalten hat.

Uuuund heute war es endlich so weit.... ich habe meinen US-Führerschein bekommen 🥳🥳🥳 da man den deutschen Führerschein nicht umtauschen kann, durfte ich das volle Programm machen. Heißt die ganze Nacht für die Theorie lernen und bestehen, eine Don't Drink and Drive Prüfung durchstehen und dann noch eine Fahrprüfung absolvieren. Man mag es kaum glauben, der ganze Spaß hat nur 45$ gekostet..... kein Vergleich zu den Unsummen in Deutschland. Die wahre Herausvorderung war aber schlussendlich die Sachbeabeiterin. Für einen Führerschein braucht man hier zwei Nachweise, dass man in New Mexico lebt. Gestern bin ich mit allen Unterlagen zum Office gegangen, wo mir gesagt wurde, dass die Nachweise akzeptiert werden. Heute erzählt mir die gleiche Sachbearbeiterin, dass sie die Unterlagen doch nicht akzeptiert. Nach einem riesen Hin und Her zwischen Cultural Vistas, dem College und MVD (Verkehrsbehörde) war es dann so weit und ich hatte die Drivers-License in den Händen. Jetzt kann ich auch endlich das Auto anmelden und versichern! Das wird auch langsam Zeit. Die letzten Tage haben Louisa und ich damit verbracht durch die Wüste Rad zu fahren und alle paar Meilen ihren Platten Reifen irgendwo im Nirgendwo aufzupumpen. Zum Glück stehen wir alles grade zusammen durch, dass wir trotzdem Spaß haben! Ich bin auch gespannt wie es weiter läuft andere Gleichaltrige kennenzulernen, denn die Altersspanne bewegt sich im College eher zwischen 35 und 82. In dieser Stadt ist nun mal alles ein bisschen anders...

Aaaaber es gab auch Highlights.

Meine Host-Mom hat uns mit in die Oper genommen. Nach einem Picknick im Sonnenuntergang gab es 8 kleine ( eigentlich klassische) Stücke und wer dachte, das wird eine normale Vorstellung hat sich geirrt. Bei Hänsel und Gretel landet die Hexe hier in der Mikrowelle statt im Backofen. Schön war es mit einem kleinen Picknick vorher trotzdem.

Uuuund die Unikurse laufen bis jetzt richtig gut es ist eine spannende Mischung aus Business Administration, Marketing, Bootcamp, History of Spices, Anthropology und Fitness&Wellness geworden. Die Hälfte der Kurse beginnt allerdings erst im Oktober. Bis jetzt wiederhole ich in Marketing also nur Ausbildungsinhalte, lerne in Fitness&Wellness wie man Trainings- und Ernährungspläne schreibt und erfahre in Anthropology einiges darüber, wieso unsere Gesellschaft so ist wie sie ist... richtig spannende Kurse, die ich zu Hause vermutlich nie in der Kombination gewählt hätte. Und naja Bootcamp ist bis jetzt 2x die Woche eine Stunde Pamela Reif, mal schauen was das noch wird....

Ich freue mich jetzt erstmal drauf, wenn das Auto gemeldet ist und wir mehr Zeit haben andere schöne Dinge, wie den Opernbesuch zu unternehmen 😊

[ghalyewor]

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[fckmeupflorida]

Hey I'm Jules!

i'm studying anthropology and doing a project on swifties' easter-egg hunting for one of my classes

*For ethical reasons I can't talk to anyone under 18s (sorry losers)*

What's that all about?

I won't be using any of your posts/interactions without your consent!

If I see something interesting, and want to use it for my analysis, I will message you and go ahead only if you say yes. I won't take screenshots, or record anything without your permission. Even if you say yes, you're free to change your mind at any time and I will remove it. Everything is anonymised & nothing will be used for commercial purposes.

I am doing this mostly out of personal interest

Part of it is my longstanding obsession with Taylor Swift's music but part of it is also academic interest in online communities and relationships. Fandoms hold a big place in our contemporary lives, and it's an aspect of modern lives that's often overlooked, especially in comparison to political online spaces. I also think swifties are one of the most interesting (not biased) fandoms there is. Being part of this community has meant so much to me, it has brought so much joy into my life. I want to show that it matters, and try and deconstruct some of the assumptions that people have about these spaces to look at what's really happening.

I am doing digital ethnography

meaning i'm talking to people about their experiences in interviews, and I'm observing what's going on around me and taking notes. What are people saying, or not saying? what are they doing and how? I'm also doing auto-ethnography, observing my own actions here (as a certified tumblr user). So I'm posting just like a regular person, but I am taking notes of how i'm feeling, thinking, acting, in order to better understand the data I get from interviews.

The end project will be a cheeky little website (link here coming soon), which my professors will grade me on.

Other than that I also love: Percy Jackson, The National, the tv show the bear, the Batman, and every single romcom movie that's ever been made (bonus point if Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan)

Also if you're interested in the theory behind digital anthropology, shoot me a message

PS: my previous username was @gotthewineforyou

[forthegothicheroine]

There's a chapter in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (a book which is required reading for everyone) about the glorification of thieves. The argument that it's silly to celebrate people like Dick Turpin or Blackbeard is certainly valid, and if Robin Hood was based on anyone real, it was probably just a poacher who got a good song written about him, as Stagger Lee would after killing a man over a card game. (That said, it's pretty funny to read hand-wringing about The Beggar's Opera in a post-Grand Theft Auto world.)

The interesting part to me is that we as a society (maybe even a species, though I'd need more anthropology studies to say for sure) seem to really want criminal folk heroes. John Dillinger was handsome, polite, and didn't kill anybody? Good enough. DB Cooper was well-dressed, did a weird heist, and may or may not have survived? Good enough. This new guy shot a bad person in a theatrical way? Good enough.

We still don't really know anything about this guy/The Adjuster/The UnitedHealth Shooter/ whatever you want to call him. If they do catch him, I would not be at all surprised if he turned out to be some awful Q-Anon guy, or a hit man- it seems equally likely as someone bereaved. (It could also be multiple things, a hit man hired by a bereaved family member.) But the internet really wants him to be a folk hero.

I'm not just watching as a totally neutral observer. I almost died in the ER several years ago when I couldn't get my asthma medication covered. I think the engraved bullets and the monopoly money (which may or may not have been related) are exciting to read about. I love seeing Ben Shapiro's fanbase turn against him. I just listened to a stunningly beautiful folk song written about the incident.

But all of this reaction is more about what we as a society want to react to than about what actually happened. If we don't get a folk hero, then we manufacture one.

(Also, Blue Cross didn't change their policy because of this, let's be serious.)

Thinking about the Chuck Klosterman essay on real life vigilantes vs fictional superheroes, specifically Bernard Goetz, and how there was briefly public support for him when the story was "He shot guys who tried to mug him" before they learned more and that story could be continued with "And was a horrible racist who took a shotgun onto the subway in the hopes that someone would try to mug him."

It's a very different case, but it makes me think that it's definitely best for the CEO Killer's legend, not just his freedom, that he never get caught so we can never find out anything disillusioning about him.