#media science research

[fanfic-thesis]

Quick question

I did some more academic reading about fandom and ...

Bonus points if you comment (or tag) where you heard the word "hoyay" and in which contexts you're using it.

[doomdoomofdoom]

Apparently there's currently discussion in science (humanities in particular) about whether video essays could be accepted as academic writing on par with the academic papers we currently have

I think that's awesome as fuck tbh

[crustyshrimp]

So called “researchers” when their funding is about to get cut.

[odinsblog]

[politedemon]

don't want to sound like a whiny child but it's not fair that you only get one chance at being a kid and being a teenager and that the decisions you make then affect the rest of your life and you can never change them. i want another go :(

[violent138]

Nothing in the whole world drives me as crazy as the sight of people in movies/shows/other media fucking eating in the lab? It's even more reprehensible when it's a pathology/disease/tissue culture/bacterial lab, but for god's sake, people keep the damn sandwiches outside it's a lab coat, not an apron.

[aeolianblues]

I'm not an extrovert. At all. In everyday life, I'm a yapper, sure, but I need someone to first assure me I am okay to yap, so I don't start conversations, even when I really want to join in sometimes! It's just the social anxiety acting up. God knows where from and why I lose a lot of my inhibitions when it comes to talking to people about music. I don't know where the confidence has suddenly sprung from. I've made a crazy amount of friends in musical circles, either just talking to people about common music or (since it is after all in music circles) talking to bands about their own music. I let out a sigh of relief any time an interaction goes well, because in truth it's going against my every instinct. I wish I could do that in everyday life

[ghostthetown]

I love that archeology has come from literal eugenic white supremacist spare time activity a century ago to now it being the hot spot for the wokest people

[themyscirah]

Reading shit comics kind of sucks but at least I get the satisfaction of proving my own point w this

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

Chapter Fic Disclaimer

Okay, so since I’m about to post chapter 1 of my fic I’ve been working on for a while, I want to make this disclaimer of sorts to make a few things clear to those who read it!

So the AU is a Conjoined Twin AU.

I have seen a few comments that are wary of such an idea, and for good reason! Historically, both in fiction and real life, such people have been posed more as a novelty than anything. I have taken great pains to avoid this.

So a few things I want everyone to know about this fic:

-First off, it has a happy ending. The entire thing may not be written yet, but I do know the entire plot start to end. There will be no track changes. It will end happily. Not bittersweet, not ‘happy in the afterlife,’ but truly happy. I guarantee that 100%.

-I have done research. I am not winging this! My goal is to be accurate and respectful. The thing is, however, that conjoined twins that have survived to adulthood AND have not been separated are exceedingly rare. It’s not exactly a topic with a huge wealth of resources to look into. And, seeing as every set of twins is unique, I have made some decisions that are pure speculation. I do work in the medical field and know quite a lot about biology, so it’s not being pulled from nowhere, but yes, an amount of extrapolation has to be done. I am continuing to research various topics as I write.

-This is still a story about Ingo and Emmet. Their lifestyle looks different, yes, and I enjoy going into that! But this is indeed a story about them as people. Their conjoined-ness isn’t used for shock and awe. They’re still the Subway Masters that everyone, both within the story and in the real world, knows and loves.

-On the other side of this coin, this is a story about Ingo and Emmet. It contains angst, tragedy, and a bit of horror. Of course there is also a boatload of healing, comfort, and happy things, but I cannot deny that they are the protagonists and they’ll go through some shit. The canon characters sure have! (Well, we know Ingo has.) A few chapters (my current guess is 3 out of some large, still unknown number) will be... Rough. I will tag and warn for everything. And no, this won’t be like... gratuitous and repetitive violence or anything perpetrated by ableist people or stuff like that. It’s really hard to explain without spoiling everything. (I have also worked to tone down my descriptors of injuries. I used to write really, really tragic stuff and I assist with surgeries as part of my job, sometimes it just led to a lot.) Please expect this story to make you sad sometimes though like I said, it all turns out good in the end.

-As always, I focus on human emotions, both the good and the bad and the resiliency of such. If you have read my other fics, it’ll be written in the same style. I will touch on very real feeling topics and reactions, but as I am not a fan of miscommunication, these characters are for the most part good at talking about things! And, as always, there is a huge focus on familial love <3 These characters matter to each other!

-Please... Remember that I’m a hobby writer and a person. :,) I am terribly, HORRIBLY nervous to post this fic because I am afraid I will mis-portray something and someone will get angry or hurt. If I mess up something, please be kind, okay? Absolutely let me know, but I ask you to not jump to the worst conclusions. Like I said, I am dealing with a lot of unknowns that even research cannot always fill. But believe me when I say I’m trying my absolute best and putting my all into this fic.

That is all, I just wanted to outline all of this for everyone! This is fiction, things happen and conflict occurs because there is a plot, but I am treating all these characters as fully rounded people and hope I am doing their story justice!

I will link this in the main AN of the fic and will add it on in a reblog to all of my update posts in the future. I will add onto this post via clearly noted edits if I need to as well.

[fanfic-thesis]

Quick Question 3.0

I kind of like the quick question format as it is an interesting opportunity to get a live snipped of fandom(s). Anyways, another one is waiting for you:

Feel free to add more detail on why you like/despise the ending. (I know this discourse myself, but honestly, I feel like the general opinion about the ending did change quite a bit within the last few years.)

[orgasmictomato]

2010_07_18_3556 (1)c1 (1)rsz by Jim Via Flickr: Research of Dimensional Entities in Australian Sky image captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mk II full frame sensor at 22Mp HD and cropped to image and resized as here. This is a capture of a visual sighting of a UAP ( possibly 4 units in close proximity ) as they cruise at less than 1 km altitude, "sight seeing" Earth. At times it was seen as a bright red sphere, then a disk on edge with windows around it. It came into view around 3 - 4 kilometers away, cruised slowly to the North N E until reaching the river, turned and followed the river for a half a kilometer then returned toward me ( South ) and then disappeared to the East. Interesting is that I photographed it from near to visual appearance until it was at the river (shot here on flickr) about a kilometer away, then as it was coming toward me and away to the East ( coast ) - no more shots came to be....??? I can't explain this. I have in the past had a problem with taking shots too close. To see videos of these:- www.youtube.com/user/orgasmictomato

[pandemichub]

[oliveflr]

My colleague made this to send people to the study we're conducting on whether people think the internet should be regulated. Feel free to use it and take the study! We'd love to hear your opinions :)

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

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