#not scouting culture

[scouting-culture-is]

if it's not too personal what scouting group/rank are you in right now?

hi there! i am a minor, so i won't be sharing my level, but i am in GSUSA! this is my 6th year in girl scouts and i really like it- i feel like there's also a completionist aspect to it, i just want to get all the awards and all the badges! i am hoping to get my gold award eventually :D

[sbrown82]

Michael Jackson & former girlfriend, singer Stephanie Mills, attending an event for the Good Scout Humanitarian Award (1990).

[aners-v]

Mmmhjgdjshsj September 18 raaaaah 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱💥‼️

I didn’t have time to finish any other drawings ☹️

[dogboyhudson]

Furtana Kingdom !

inspired by Fubb in the Big Apple

check it out if you havent! https://archiveofourown.org/works/47704981/chapters/120249865 <3

[thesilicontribesman]

Scout Scar Ancient Landscape, nr. Kendal, Cumbria

[atbussysparks]

I've been playing around with his idea, which is strangely 2010s.

Team fortress two: Ranma ½ AU. Cringe culture is dead so hear me out: something goes wrong with the respawn machine, and it is forcibly turned on. The team tries not to go through the respawn machine, but, of course, many of them do anyway.

They turn into one of the previous respawn test subjects at random. Their physical forms follow the rules of Ranma ½, cold water turns them into their other form, hot water turns them back. Scout transforms into a woman, spy turns into a horse, just because I like horses tbh. I'm not sure what character turns into the pig though. I'm open to anything tbh.

[bonesandpoemsandflowers]

the crows have brought a ✨gift✨

[t00thpasteface]

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Could you explain the hipster Vs fandom war. I've been on here for like four years and I never knew that existed lol and btw I really really love your art and you are one my biggest inspos for how I imagine and draw my Clark.

i'm not sure i can explain it in a way that makes sense, and certainly not in a way that makes you say "i understand why this was such a big deal", but gl'bgolyb knows i can try.

first, let me take you on a sensory experience... picture in your mind the following things... skinny jeans... nerd glasses... a weirdly dapper fashion sense in a time where everything is baggy and neon... boom, you have 2010-2014 online tumblr hipster culture. and also 70s elvis costello, oddly enough.

although admittedly i don't know his stance on pumpkin spice lattes.

anyway. now that that's burned into your brain, consider a significant population of this exact type of person that has already been well-established on this microblogging platform around the turn of the decade. tumblr doesn't really have an app yet because smartphones haven't taken over everyone's life yet, and online fandom culture is still largely dominated by deviantart as the main "fandom hub". most people, myself included, are getting their main meme fixes from facebook (which your parents were not yet on) or the icanhazcheezburger image-aggregator network. THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN THE FANDOM NATION ATTACKED.

somehow, a huge crowd of people who considered their favorite books/movies/games to be core personality traits began to set up shop on this fair slate-blue isle. i number myself among this crowd, having been lured here by google-image-searching for miscellaneous fanart in 2011. the "old guard" largely belongs to, and continuously attracts new bloggers within, a burgeoning subculture that 100% defines itself by bucking popular trends and social expectations... whether or not this is actually accomplished by purchasing beverages from starbucks and putting old film filters on every photo, i cannot say.

you may be seeing an issue already arising: hey, if the hipsters hate everything that's popular and gatekeep all their interests, and the fandom bloggers are obsessed with extremely popular franchises and are hell-bent making them even more popular, isn't that going to cause a little friction?

well, yes. it caused a fuck ton of friction. a division arose early on between "the fandom side of tumblr" and "the hipster side of tumblr." some people, like myself, played both sides. others abstained from the rigid dichotomy and considered themselves to be on another "side," like the science side of tumblr, known for explaining relatively straightforward STEM concepts in large essays that began with something like "listen up fuckers."

ahhh, unfriendable. such a narrow little window in time where cheezburger sites and facebook had equal sway in the online zeitgeist.

interestingly, as someone who trawled a LOT of aesthetic tags, the most popular of which was simply #aesthetic (it was shockingly consistent in there), i never actually saw hipster bloggers complaining about fandom bloggers. it was always the other way around, with fandom bloggers bragging about how much they're freaking out the squares to get cool points with other fandom bloggers, all while never actually engaging with the hipster bloggers because their tags rarely overlapped.

hi, marge! we're freaking out the hipsters!

regardless of whether there was any material reality to it, or if it was simply a Minitrue level of entirely fictional warfare, this concept entrenched itself into the fandom bloggers, likely as a way to still feel "edgy" and unique while, again, obsessing over extremely popular and mainstream things like doctor who, pokemon, avatar the last airbender, the brand-new mcu, and other decidedly non-counterculture media. even with things it felt like no one irl had heard of, like hetalia and homestuck, those were online juggernauts nonetheless, the former of which had dominated deviantart for years and the latter of which prompted hotels and convention centers across the world to implement very strict rules about unsealed body paint. people treated fandoms like they were some sort of exclusive country club with membership fees and a dress code. and dunking on hipsters became an entire genre of Fake Internet Story, which were already pervasive on this website.

what's the point of being in a clique if there's no outgroup to flex on? #swag

this whole phenomenon ran concurrently, even symbiotically, with other tumblrisms like "tumblr university" and those horrendous "not like other girls" memes...

which means, of course, it was absolutely dead in the fucking water once DashCon happened in 2014. i don't need to tell you what happened at DashCon (there's a million essays and videos about it if you're one of today's lucky ten thousand who's never heard of it), but all across the fandom side of tumblr, it felt like finding out your parents lied about santa claus. turns out the fandoms you're in don't actually say anything about who you are as a person, a bunch of tumblrinas can't just will a fully functional micronation into existence just by wearing tacky merchandise in a public venue, and magic probably isn't real.

i wish i had some grand way to end this story, but really the moral is the same as it ever was: online drama is eternal, inescapable, and completely fucking worthless. if you only post to get mad at shit, especially if you're just making up a guy to get mad at, cut that out. touch grass. look at images of cats. i don't remember any of the enemies i made from this era, but i fondly remember all the friends, and i'm richer for making those positive connections. that's all for today's episode of Tumblr History with Toothpaste Face... remember to tip your waitress and stay minty.

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

Why do you talk about white people as though you aren't white passing yourself

This is the funniest ask I have ever gotten in my entire life. Full context everybody this is because I said Scout tf2 wears dog tags bc he's a white boy

[scouting-culture-is]

scouting culture is watching a camper grow from a brownie to a senior and looking forward to them picking a camp name in the coming years

REBLOG THIS POST WITH YOUR CAMP NAME IM SO CURIOUS

[estakes]

a thing some people in enstarstwt do is throw around the word "orientalist" and when you ask them what they mean, they won't explain it to you, sometimes block you or accuse you of supporting orientalism when all you did was ask.

or when they do explain it, they just sound extremely condescending. it's as if they're saying, "oh? you didn't know? you must feel stupid for not knowing, don't you?" especially when they end that explanation with "hope this helps!"

it feels passive aggressive. explaining something and sounding like it's wrong to ask about it or acting like you're above others just feels like you don't really care about whatever sort of issue there is and you're just acting off your savior complex.

and to add, if/when it is explained properly and the people who asked finally understood, they get private quote retweeted to hell and back? i'm sorry, but what? i thought that people learning why orientalist outifts are bad is a good thing, but why the private quote retweets? or hell, not even private qrts, just straight up dogpiling on the person being educated. they didn't fucking know and now they learned, so why be a bitch about it?

[fictional-men-enthusiast]

I’m sure we’ve all seen the “all my transmasc friends want to look like at least one of the TF2 characters” tweet, but I don’t have one AUTISTIC friend who doesn’t ACT at least a little bit like one of the TF2 mercs; this includes me, this is 100% not a diss.

[fullsaw]

My vocal stim is currently the opening of Supermodel by RuPaul and its as bad as it sounds

[pleckthaniel]

ivypool has literally never done anything wrong in her life. discuss

[bloodiihell]

I spent way too much time on this-

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold the generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!

- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Before upskirt became an internet fetish, 1970s Caroline Munro (Bond girl and film actress) gets a shoe shine from the boys’ scouts - cheeky little nippers.