#outgroup

[bobbyfiend]

Maybe I don't follow the right people, but tumblr has a tribalist vibe to it. I see so many posts like

"I love you people who X and you people who do Y" with photos of or references to teenagers and young adults only. Also they are almost totally white.

"Boomers will say..." or "cishet men try to ..." Yeah that's how you casually apply stereotypes: lumping everyone with a certain identifier into a tight little category. [note: I am not saying this is like prejudice/stereotyping applied to marginalized groups by dominant-culture people; I'm saying it's lazy and tribalist]

"These people are amazing" or "This person did a wonderful thing!" and it's always about teenagers, young adults, or (at most extreme) millennials. Never about boomers and almost never about Gen X, I assume because those are the competitor generational groups. It's OK if it's about people in their 70s because these are "old people" (as long as there's no recognition that these are literally boomers).

"How dare this person use a slur!? How dare they assume all of the people in my [understood generally tumblr-specific] demographic are all similar!?"

Anyway, that's how people are. It's how we think. It takes a lot of work to be any other way. I sometimes see posts here by people doing the hard work to think critically about this aspect of tumblr culture, and I also sometimes see them get shredded in comments.

Humans gonna hume, I guess, whether on reddit, on insta, or on tumblr.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

saw a post tonight where someone said that Rocky Horror Picture Show is "TME brainrot" (among other things) and that's just a really embarrassing thing to say considering the writer of that show identifies as transgender (specifically third gender, and "in between" male and female), and was on oestrogen for around a decade. this person is explicitly affected by transmisogyny (and exorsexism). in fact, it might possibly just be a theme in his art (hint: it is).

it's queer art made by a queer person. sorry that the 82 year old trans person doesn't use your specific terminology or agree with your specific discourse takes. you don't get to degender him because you dislike him lol.

[hellsitegenetics]

Hello, i made an aligment of a handful of your posts, threw it at CIPRES and now there is a bayesian consensus tree.

the all star post served as an outgroup. Sadly the resolution isn't very good but at least it shows that the upper 4 posts are more closely related to each other than the rest

nature is beautiful

[triviallytrue]

one of my fantasies is that someday almost every literate person will understand the concept of a selection effect

[timeskip]

Gon, an actual 12 year old: How can the Phantom Troupe love each other but kill other people??? How can they be human beings who grieve over deaths close to them instead of heartless killers, when they're doing massacres and not thinking anything of it???

What some adult shounen watchers will get from this: The Phantom Troupe must not have genocided the Kurtas for their eyes after all 😔 They're too nice and caring to have done that for anything less than revenge against the Kurtas 🙄

[flipchild]

listen... as the sole allistic person in multiple households now... I get it

[notarealwelder]

I mean it does feel sometimes like a segment of tumblr figured out certain shared tastes in fanservice, went on to reasonably indulge in them, and utterly rejects the idea that The Hated Outgroup might be doing the exact same thing

[heliianth]

the dark evil wizards have afflicted me with a hyperspecific interpretation of killuas "moral conflict" which leaves a lot of fan content that tries to engage with it unsatisfying. a wicked and foul hex indeed

[elizabro]

man I dated once asked "why do you think about being a woman so much?" as in why do I constantly think about sexism. I mean, I don't know. it's not like I want to be reminded. I've told men, specifically, at the beginning of relationships, I don't like to be reminded I'm a woman. and they're always sort of confused but still kind of get what I mean. like I don't want to be treated as delicate and demure. but somehow it always comes back into the equation. men want to dominate me in bed, hold me down, call me good girl. I tell a man who unprompted calls me daddy's girl in bed that it's a major turn-off for me; he still says it from time to time. we break up. this man had told me he's enlightened in feminist terms; he grew up with sisters yadda yadda. I doubted it from the get-go, but remained optimistic. a man I dated tells me he likes skinny women (like me). I have a little bit of a babyface. people often mistake me for someone younger. he insists that this is not part of the appeal, while being 7 years my senior. "how old did you think I was when you started hitting on me?" I ask him. he doesn't have an answer. why do you think about being a woman, and I'm trying to shop for clothes but struggle to find a shirt that's not too low-cut or too sheer. my brother complains during a family dinner that women's soccer is too boring. I look up scenes for the movie "into the wild" because my parents are watching it. there's a scene where the main character refuses a girl's advances because she's 16. most men in the comments are calling him stupid; saying they would have had sex with her anyway. I like em skinny like that, a man says. a shame kristen stewart had to go gay and shave her head. what a waste. we're only valuable if we cater to men's pleasure, I suppose.

why do you think about being a woman so much? a man cooks dinner for us at his place and says, you know, I'm not the kind of man who wants women to cook dinner for him all the time, and I say, congrats on having moved beyond the 19-fuckin-50s. we break up. I make a mental note to start lifting, become muscular. cut my hair really short. I like my long hair, though. and yet I can only think of how men like it. how cutting it would free me of so many unwanted sexual advances. I think of men pulling women's hair in porn; men trying to replicate that in their sex lives. men replicating a lot of things they see in porn. porn being overarchingly violent and degrading towards women, and what that means for women's sex lives. how come you think about being a woman all the time, as men stare at me on the street and in bars. a man I date tells me, every man in the bar was looking at you. undressing you with their eyes, as if it's supposed to be a compliment, and clearly more to stroke his own ego. I tell him this makes me uncomfortable, and he shrugs and says sorry, but it's true. I wonder why he is so comfortable reminding me that to most men I'm an object, delights in it even. why do you think about being a woman so much? I think of telling men that I'm kind of not entirely a woman, but this means jack shit to them, who are happy as long as I look the part. anyway I think I'm gonna stop dating men for awhile

[hyumjim]

That being said ofc I think that the way people talk about trans women Trying to Force Egg Crack or whatever is deeply deranged + transmisogynistic + evil. And I think maybe trans women are more likely to say it’s ok to suggest transfemness in part because they are aware of this narrative and want to push back against it. If that makes sense. So I guess I answered wrong because it’s not like I think it’s a bad thing to suggest transness re: either trans men or trans women, it’s just that I am afraid if I did that I might be killed with rocks

[istherewifiinhell]

ppl talking about e.s.c. like. u even understand its a socio-polictical farce? (MOST THING. are socio-policatical......) this is not some. ohhhh lets really appreciate the music or ARTISTRY sake. (as if u can do that. non polictically....) cmon. its a big sounds and lights show to drive up views. and money. its popcultural. like even just song and humour and whatever else are like. modes of creating the ingroup and normalization of the event? its so common as to be a joke that countries vote for their neighbours. like. thats polictical. its a popularity contest. so the masses can be motivated to vote for a good Narrative. making statements or voting for their virtues and what have u. thats polictical. songs submitted are polictical all the time. and obviously. control over what is and isnt broadcast. THATS POLICTICAL. fuck off eh.

[jackdawsfavorite]

On Symbolic vs Factual Beliefs

“The Truthers, in short, maintained that the government had gone to extreme measures, including killing thousands of its own citizens, in order to carry out and cover up a conspiracy. And yet the same Truthers advertised the conference online and met in a place where they could easily be surveilled. Speakers’ names were posted on the Internet along with videos, photographs, and short bios. The organizers created a publicly accessible forum to discuss next steps, and a couple of attendees spoke to a reporter from the Times, despite the mainstream media’s ostensible complicity in the coverup. By the logic of their own theories, the Truthers were setting themselves up for assassination.

“Their behavior demonstrates a paradox of belief. Action is supposed to follow belief, and yet beliefs, even fervently espoused ones, sometimes exist in their own cognitive cage, with little influence over behavior.”

[importantandunavoidable]

i hate tumblr users i just searched flux gourmet bc its a cool movie with cool shots and cool costuming etc and i wanted to reblog some gifets. it is wall to wall reader x the character played by gwendolin christie fanfics........ girl i love you but get OUT lmao. did no one else like it when they boiled a pot of water really good. did no one else UNDERSTAND the damn movie!!!!!

[benevadeca]

Anyway trolls are literally birds. To me.

[whatudottu]

You know I’m starting to fixate on something where I actually care enough about it to ramble something something- so let’s give it up for NSR! *tiny applause of me doing whatever the hell i want to do on this blog*

An odd thing for me though is that I’m specifically doing a whole character ramble and practically ONLY a character ramble so no biology stuff here (only slight astronomy). Please welcome to the stage, my scrimblo bimblo: DJ Subatomic Supernova!

As I once again shove aside my not only in-progress work but the ‘actually read to post’ work too, I’m here to spew words about my favourite egotistical space orb and not only am I going to do that, but also compare them to someone else of a unique mind. Because of both of their particular quirks about identity, self-importance, and ultimately expression of art, I like to think DJSS may share some grounds with Eve, perhaps enough to decently get along with each other if not even form a friendship.

If you’re one of my typical followers interested enough in reading this to get to here - the second paragraph UNDER the readmore - I will give a summary of the DJ and the Diva. DJ Subatomic Supernova, a space themed NSRtist with an ego so dense it can cause a singularity (which may or may not be an actual literal thing that has or did happen) and underappreciated ex-professor of university grade astronomy, strives to preserve their name and music to extend not only beyond their own time but for the future beyond humanity’s own existence in order to stave away fading into obscurity and truly becoming everlasting. In this battle of existential dread and their entire ‘Avatar of Earth’ schtick, we have a character who’s ego comes with a twist of not being selfish even though it is significantly self-centered, their motivations though using the medium of themselves being to create a legacy for humanity that will spread to the furthest reaches of the galaxy and back.

Eve meanwhile - real name Nadia - views the world in ways that seems only she can, seeing herself as the only one to understand the way she thinks and feeling so incredibly lonely in that fact - a realm of existentialism in of itself - especially since the one person that had begun the attempt had ended up losing thanks to his hair being set on fire. Expressing herself not only through her psy-dub music, Eve is an artist of multiple mediums from sound to visual, of sculpture, fashion, and paintings, many themes of her work centering on her personal experiences and insecurities, of eyes staring at her peculiarities and of turning those eyes against the viewer.

And what do you get when you cross an egotistical existentialist with a suffering surrealist? Maybe you get a little common ground to stand on. Perhaps not enough to satiate Eve’s personal desire to find like-minded brothers and sisters, perhaps not enough to bring Nova back down to Earth to appreciate the present for what it is. But perhaps enough that at least among coworkers, there’s even remotely enough broken ice to hold a conversation, perhaps enough that if in friendship, Eve may look towards the stars and Nova may look at the self of another.

Of course, this is not simply a character analysis based solely on canonical information, as it is now that I will elaborate (at least from the perspective of DJSS) with some headcanons of my own.

I’ve always been particularly an NSR lurker, not really doing much of actual engagement with the fandom but certainly sitting by the wayside and looking in. A thing that I have seen for folk’s take on a younger Nova is that they weren’t always a supernova one Bunkbed Junction away from going singularity- instead, they were a star. It’s always been one of the larger blue stars, but here I’d like to just go out and make it an O-Class main sequence star and be essentially a miniaturised equivalent; and when I say equivalent, I mean EQUIVALENT!

If you were an object head of maybe a G-Class main sequence star (the star itself significantly smaller than what it would actually be), you’d have on your head a miniature sun that would be a little portable and ultimately dimmer version of our very own Sol (or specifically if you had a G2-Class star which is more accurately our own sun). But if you had the misfortune of having an O-Class (O2-Class in this case for reference) star, with 800000 times the luminosity of the sun you’ve got a very VERY significant issue about just existing if you don’t wear something for the protection of literally anyone and anyTHING with eyes or cameras.

The ‘not yet named Nova’ Nova had to grow up early on wearing a super shaded helmet for the entire time they were star - already a thing one might be self-conscious about - up to and including the very moment they went supernova, another thing I must touch on. Depending on the size and general energy output of a particular celestial object - such as; a star - the point in time in which it collapses in on itself and, in the sake of stars, supernovas changes. And this particular case, let’s change a rather heard of saying for the sake of elaboration; the bigger you are, the faster you fall-

Not only was most of Nova’s early life spent hiding their star for the sake of other’s, anyone from astronomers themselves to any old star object head would say it was simply an inevitability that their star would collapse in on itself and become someone completely different, not a matter of if but when... and most certainly ‘young’ while it’s at it. Insecurities from being beheld a wonder to being seen as weird to even having adults already mourning their existence as a star, Nova may in fact turn to the stars above and retreat from the stars below in order to even begin to attempt to cope with their inevitable demise, embracing the existentialism and relying on their inherent knowledge of the astral sea to pursue a career in education. To teach people not to fear the end, the whatever theorised death of the universe, the collapsing of stars. To say that they shouldn’t be feared and shouldn’t be mourned just because they will change - and they will - and that the supernova that has been the subject of so much misplaced misery is in fact a dispersal of resources that can build to something much greater than the some of its parts.

And they are left unheard in the vast emptiness of space, of the classroom, of the home.

The inevitable happens, sparked early (far too early even for an O-Class) by a numeral amount of factors that would cause their world to spin, the light to bend, and an insurmountable level of stress and pain and misery and insecurity influenced supernova.

Too many lights and sounds and senses, DJ Subatomic Supernova particularly hates the design of Akusuka and Metro Division. Cast Tech, the district they hold Charter to, is low lit for a reason. Natura does not induce the swirling of senses, but DJSS has no particular interest in the gardens, for all the worth they put into Earth as a whole. And Dream Fever, something about the eyes that stare and the oddities that twist and turn.

Perhaps it is not their first choice to take in the work of Eve - of Nadia; the artist behind it all - it is not a reflection of their own story, nor does it reflect where they stand now. But there is meaning, meaning they can take in, take pieces of and relate them back to the past. The past that no longer exists, not if they have anything to say about it, not that they had any say in the first place. The artist Nadia, the diva Eve, the balance of the insecure and the expression. Reveling in the dual tones a much younger Nadia tried to hide (concealer rubbing off to reveal a hot pinkish red), the criticism of the viewer, to make the audience feel what had been felt constantly not entirely that long ago. A desperate plea to find someone that will listen, someone that will understand, someone that will hold their memory and share their story ad nauseam.

Perhaps there is something to share solace in, knowing that back on Earth there was another like Nova themselves seeking to engage to the world beyond them.

Though for different reasons, perhaps the two find even a slight solidarity with each other, whether friends or simple coworkers.

[baravaggio]

god the idea that cis people never think about gender at all and are unambiguously comfortable with how they’re gendered and how gendered power structures operate has such a white american flavor to it and I hate how much "if you're thinking critically about gender at all you're probably not cis" has become an accepted talking point within online lgbt spaces 😑