#born. 1993

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Ariana Grande!

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[club-cheongyang]

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi

@strawberry-crocodile

tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example "science matches on" which I think is a pretty fair shake

This.  This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors.  There’s a certain danger, here.  A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.

What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises.  “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.”  I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks.  It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.

“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.”  Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.

The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle.  Shake of the head.  What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse.  What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?

Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times.  Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed.  Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks.  So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.

These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level.  Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado.  It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.

And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next.  “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty.  “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.”  Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field.  And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers.  Self-satisfied, smug in superiority.  As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.

[angelunderheaven]

The House on Sorority Row (1982)

[foolsfrogg]

Can u draw hilda when she eat hot chip and lie

me when I heat hot chip and lie

[dw-flagler]

somebody help me out with this timeline.

As we all know, victoria was born ~about~ 10 months after behemoth's first emergence. this would mean she was born in October 1993, right? Amy is around the same age, a couple months younger. But the thing that's getting to me is that Fleur's death was in 2007. 2007? Victoria and Amy would have been 13 in 2007.

So why is it that amy says this "Her body wasn’t even cold when people were putting microphones in front of us. We were kids. Not even in middle school. That fucks you up." (Interlude 16.Y). You were in middle school. 8th grade, if their middle school was anything like mine. It was apparently over the summer, so actually they would have recently graduated middle school, starting 9th grade in the fall.

If Fleur had died before amy and victoria entered middle school that would have to have been 2 years prior, in 2005. But we know she was alive for the Boston Games, since she appears in ashley's memories, and we know the boston games were 4 years before ashley gets recruited by she slaughterhouse 9 (in 2011), because ashley says so.

"[Ashley had] broken [her hand] after killing [Blasto's] giant four years prior, and it hadn’t healed quite right, despite her best efforts."

So how do you reconcile this? Is ashley misremembering 4 instead of 6? It's possible, she doesn't exactly have a calendar. Am I reading too much into the "even" in "not even in middle school?" That's what the worm wiki thinks. Did Wildbow make an oopsie? Is there another, infinitely more nuanced answer? Are you bald?

[wickjump]

thinking about how blogthegreatrouge is in her 30s now and still posts art online like she didn’t commit one of the worst atrocities the utmv fandom ever had to offer. wild

[butmakeitgayblog]

[off-real]

Sicko

[mel-graph]

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[sallytwo]

pacing my room watching this nitw video essay

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Victoria Justice!

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[club-cheongyang]

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

You may think that Tom can’t have a type becuse Shiv and Greg are too different but you’re wrong, things Shiv and Greg have in common:

- hair tuck behind ear habit

- millennial

- nepo baby

- emotionally unavailable

- common ancestor

- honestly don’t speak to women enough

- pretty but evil blue eyes

- can’t cook

- charge they phone

- eat hot chip

- be bisexual

- and lie

[angelunderheaven]

take me, sentence me to be your lover for life

[rabidty]

i hate genuinely being in love with a celebrity.