#bib speaks

[bibliophilea]

“average person eats 50 g protein powder a day” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 g protein powder a day. Protein Powders Lexx, who lives in cave & eats over 5,000 g each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

"lexx why are you posting so many danny phantom gym memes"

"lexx why does it sound like you're using dash to regurgitate all your gymbro language"

"lexx stop roid raging in public you're scaring me"

Listen I can't help the 5,000 g of protein per day every day rise and grind gains that are flowing through me.

It's what Dash would have wanted 😤 😤 💪

[bibliophilea]

So... this isn't the first time I've seen people being incredibly mean to a whole section of the phandom. It's the first time in a while I've seen a post this bad in the main "danny phantom" tag, though. I have Thoughts™ that have been stewing for a while. Thoughts™ that shouldn't be put in the tags of someone else's post.

I'm not going to link anything. These are just my thoughts, raised to the forefront by recent posts in the main tag.

TLDR: I have two main Thoughts™:

No matter what you ship, I welcome you to this phandom. The folks who openly despise real people for shipping fictional things do not represent all of phandom. Y'all deserve better than being called shitty names. Your ships do not make you a bad person, and I personally welcome you.

To y'all who keep trying to draw a line in the sand to define who is "degenerate" or whose work is "degenerate": the moment you draw that line, you create a way for others to shove people behind that line. And the folks who usually get shoved behind that line and called "degenerate" are lgbtqia+ folks, and sa/csa survivors. It's happened before on LiveJournal and FFN, and it's happening now, irl, with book bannings across the USA (and especially in Florida). The only way to protect lgbtqia+ folks and sa/csa survivors from this abuse is to not draw a line in the sand at all. Don't call folks "degenerate" for any reason, unless you're ready to have that finger pointed back at you by a larger and more negative movement.

If you desire fuller context, it's below the cut.

First: no matter what you ship, I welcome you to this phandom.

The views of hatred and disgust that pop up in this phandom don't represent all of phandom. No fandom is perfect, and we'll always see some form of the "logic of disgust" from some folks in any fandom. But no matter what you ship, and whether or not I personally ship it, I welcome you. You will find no disgust from me as I am now.

If you dig backwards into my blog, you might find some anti sentiment. My introduction to fandom was first FFN, and then tumblr, back when I was more of a black-and-white thinker. I'm pretty sure I experienced some form of shock when I really started digging in to the Wild West that is fandom. I don't know if I ever expressed this shock online. But none of you deserve to be called "degenerates" over liking whatever fictional content you like. Y'all are a part of phandom, too, and any attempts to erase you or deride you are wrong.

We shouldn't be drawing lines in the sand and throwing people behind those lines. That's dangerous.

Second: to y'all who keep drawing lines in the sand, please consider the broader context around you.

The moment you draw a line in the sand to delineate between you and your group of people, and "them" and their group of "degenerates", people find ways to shove other folks, including you and your folks, behind that line. Historically, both in fandom and outside of fandom, the folks who get shoved ALWAYS include lgbtqia+ folks, and sa/csa survivors. We saw this with the purging of LiveJournal. We saw this with the multiple purges of FanFiction.Net. We haven't seen this with ao3, as far as I know; but their stance seems to be very anti-censorship for fandom-historical reasons.

Outside of fandom, we are seeing this now. I'm doing my senior capstone project on book bans. According to PEN America's data, over the past school year alone, 154 counties in 34 states have banned 1557 books 3362 times overall. Over 40% of those bans come from Florida counties. And much of the "reasoning" behind these bans is the same logic of disgust that fandom applies to "problematic ships": They call it pornographic and pedophilia. They call it harmful and age-inappropriate. They largely target books about lgbtqia+ people and people of color. And this year, they've also targeted "books on physical abuse, health and well-being, and themes of grief and death" - expanding their censorship to "protect the children".

Censorship doesn't protect anyone. Instead, it prevents people from holding genuine conversations with real people about the censored material.

And if you're not ready to have that conversation, that's fine! You do you! But don't create an environment where other people can't have that conversation. That only breeds the sort of black-and-white thinking that leads to 1406 book bannings in the state of Florida.

This is just speculation on my part: but I reckon every single person who supports those bans would love to ban the same content you want censored. And they'd call for you and the content you love to be lumped in with them.

We all deserve better than that. So please stop drawing lines in the sand.

[normal-nightmare]

Dick and Jason should be more gay and insane about each other i think

[bibliophilea]

The voting stickers this year are really cute!

[bibliophilea]

That’s the thing, though - it is an effective design, because it characterizes him as someone who does not wish to be known. And of course, we know who he is, anyways.

thinking abt that time in one of my art classes when the prof put up a silhouette of L from death note and said “this is not an effective design bc you can’t tell who this character is from this shape” 

and everyone in the class went like “yes we can that’s L from death note”

[nobodys-reblogs]

yes hello what if I drew cross as a bunny

looking at you with big eyes

[bookishjules]

I wish we had more scenes of Izzy at Simon’s gigs or her being a band gf yk it would be cool

dude tell me about it!!!! i spend way too much time mentally attending simon's shows with izzy for us to have never gotten a canon scene of it. like sure we know she did go to gigs but i think the only time we get a band gf in attendance, it's maia in cofa. we deserve some real backstage moments. some simon calling out izzy's name before they sing a song he wrote about her. some izzy chilling at the bar in the back watching all these people loving watching simon and smiling to herself knowing he's hers. we deserve it. they deserve it.

[sparklyoats]

Started introducing carrot mash for lil man😍 its a hit hehehe

[bibliophilea]

The Contact Wizard wasn't working well for me, so here's a link directly to their comments section!

The quickest and easiest way to send a comment is by clicking:

Submit a comment (under the Online section)

"I want to..." Send positive feedback

"I want to provide feedback on..." A TV programme or series

"My feedback relates to..." TV channels inside the UK

Continue

Then select:

"Which TV channel or service is your feedback about?" BBC One (that's where Doctor Who airs)

"What is the programme title?" Type "Doctor Who" (there should be a pop up to select "Doctor Who" as you're typing)

"Transmission date" is Day: 25, Month: 11, Year: 2023

Then enter your feedback!

The "Location field" allows you to enter feedback from Outside the UK!

After you've submitted, you'll get an email asking you to click the link to verify your email, ensuring that you're not a bot.

And that's all there is to it!

Support the BBC for having a trans character in recent episodes of 'Doctor Who'

Apparently the BBC (UK) has had 144 complaints about a recent episode of Doctor Who because it contained an openly trans character.

I've made a complaint to the BBC that there weren't enough transgender characters in Doctor Who. I would love if 144 other people did the same thing. Here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023 on BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)

Please note that the complaint form asks for your UK postcode, so only UK folks can join in with this - but if you suspect you might have any UK-based followers, maybe give us a reblog to boost the signal?

Edit: I'm told that you can fill in the form even if you're outside of the UK, because the BBC provide service to many countries other than the UK, including the USA! Go for it. :D

Reply to confirm that you've done it, so I can keep a count!

Here's my complaint:

I recommend:

Avoid sarcasm or irony. Assume your post will be taken literally. If you are clearly joking or being mean you will be ignored or misunderstood.

Include some gratitude/appreciation. It's pretty great that they included a trans woman in a positive way, and they should know that they have explicit support for that.

Edit again: I'm seeing some concerns in the replies/reblogs that the BBC might not distinguish between "less trans people, please" complaints and "more trans people, please" complaints. Rest assured, this is nothing to worry about - the BBC publish fortnightly complaint reports, and they do pay enough attention to know when a complaint is in favour of or against trans inclusion. In fact, their 20 November – 3 December 2023 report is where the various news articles are getting the 144 complaints figure; that report says there were precisely 144 complaints that they have categorised as "Anti-male / inappropriate inclusion of transgender character".

That means the next complaints fortnight window is 4 December - 17 December. We have 8 more days to beat 144. By my count, over Tumblr, WhatsApp, the Fediverse and Telegram, we have 85 so far, which is well over halfway there.

Also, when you've done it, please reply to confirm you have done it, so that I can count us!

Thank you, everyone!

[degenderates]

thinking again of that post that describes flowers in the attic as weird and campy....they get it

[robertalpascal]

i'm a bad girl (been misleading google photos)

[bibliophilea]

twick or tweat? owo

How about a twick and a tweat? oowoo

By the power of these birthday gifts you sent me long ago!

You are twapped! By me! With the cattens in this house! And certainly with nothing else! Definitely no other creatures here, just cats!!

Speaking of which, there’s one, now! A little rascal… but she’s comfy cozy! Can you sneak up on her? You roll a…

12! Nice job! Oh, she totally knows you’re there, and she knew it the whole time - but Nebula let’s you get close! Close enough to give her chin scritches!

Her glare softens as you scritch her chin - she has accepted your offering! You have been blessed by the littolest cat in the house! May her blessing stay with you when things are bleak, to at the very least soften that bleakness the same way she softened her glare!

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 🐈‍⬛

[bibliophilea]

Ooh, I love the Gaussian integers! Gotta be one of my favorite rings! I had forgotten that about prime numbers in Z: that they're prime in Z[i] iff their remainder when divided by 4 is 3. That's a fun little proof, too!

I personally am a big fan of roots of unity - love that there are so many complex numbers out there where, when you multiply them to themselves enough, you get back to 1! And they all sit on the unit circle! And they act exactly like Q in R from 0 to 1 - and that means they're dense on the unit circle, but there's always something between any two roots of unity that's on the unit circle but isn't itself a root of unity! And because that something is on the unit circle, it stays on the unit circle when you multiply it to itself - but it never reaches 1. It just goes on forever and ever, filling in infinitely many (but not all of) the holes left by the roots of unity on the unit circle! So cool!

One thing about me is I infodump about math subjects on request

[andromedasummer]

insightful conversations with the 18 month old at the table beside me

[sparklyoats]

Grandma made a (very colourful) cardigan for baby😍 im just sewing on the buttons..😇