#what do all of these ppl have in common??

[queerical]

i believe part of the reason tag replies became common was becuz back in the day, as you'll recall, adding a comment caused each comment above it to "stack", with all those lines coming down from urls (idk the actual terminology for that style of conversation formatting) which could make posts difficult to read, so it was considered common courtesy to not add a comment unless it REALLY mattered.

personally, that has somewhat informed how i do reblogs and tags today. if i believe what i have to say is is truly valuable to the conversation and i actively want other ppl to see/react to it, i will reblog with a comment.

otherwise, my "tag essays" are, in fact, FOR ME (and for any followers who read all my tags), since i routinely re-read posts on my blog. they aren't meant to be replies or to continue the conversation, they are just my own thoughts on the matter that i want to share without becoming part of the conversation.

if they "pass peer review" and get added, i'm flattered, but i'm not bothered if they don't. if i was bothered that what i had to share was not included in the post, then i would have added it as a comment.

personally i "overuse" tags becuz i find it fun! if a post gives me thoughts and i want to get them out but i don't want to engage in a dialogue or i don't think my thoughts add to the dialogue, i can put them in the tags. if it's a silly text post and i want to go on at length about a random anecdote that's semi-related but i don't want everyone who follows someone who reblogs that post from me to see it, i can put it in the tags!

i do also use tags for their organizational purposes, but i actually think "tag essays" are fun, and i also think it's fun to decide if someone else's tags are worth adding to a post or if someone decides mine are.

tl;dr: if i want to be involved in the conversation or i feel what i have to say adds something to conversation, i reblog with a comment. otherwise, i use the tags as an extra "whisper space" for my own enjoyment and that of my followers.

[a further thought i just had becuz i remembered the original topic of this thread: i think conversationality on tumblr was partially harmed by how the reply feature was changed. back in the day, if someone made a comment on your post, hitting the reply button made it into a whole new post! then they could comment on that new post, and when you replied, it made another new post, etc.

in this way you could carry on a (generally) easy to follow conversation with more than one person based on a single starting point, and other people could pop in if they wanted. then staff took that away. and if people wanted to talk, they had to start a reblog chain that would grow longer and longer and which their followers would repeatedly have to scroll past.

eventually they gave us comments/replies back, but in its current form (altho without the threading) which made conversing with even one person extremely confusing. they did eventually give us dms, but that could feel far more intimate than just replying to a public post and having a semi-public chat, which i'm sure stopped some people from using them for conversations they might have otherwise had.

you CAN still do replies the old way if you have xkit, but it seems to me that most people don't. if i comment instead of reblog, it's with that old way in mind. i want to talk, but i don't feel a desire to have the post on my blog or have that conversation in front of all my followers, i want it to be between me and OP.

if it's someone i don't know well, i'd feel awkward going to dms, and even if i do know the person well, tumblr isn't consistent on informing pp that they have a new dm. so i comment and see if they reply, but i don't like it.

This is probably because I am Internet Old (41 years of age)

And because I grew up with message board/forum/blog/LJ culture...

but it seems like many younger people do not want to converse; that any response other than 'THIS' - anything that reflects, responds, adds, comments upon, etc a post is seen as adversarial/disagreement.

I'd love to have a conversation about this trend, especially as it relates to tumblr, which USED to be a much more conversational website than it currently is.

replies vs. reblogs definitely exacerbated this hugely; the tiktokification of 'person who creates content' and 'person who consumed that content' rather than 'human beings having a conversation'.

[starstruckchilli]

Billy Batson pulling out young ppl slang on accident and confusing the JLA.

Billy texting Batman a post mission debrief:

Billy: Dr Sivana made a trap for me but I ws hanging w Supes n he got atked instead. Icl the situation fr bad cs yk, weakness to magic, but I clutched and punched the machine rlly hard. Super strength ftw.

Bruce (who definitely knows Cap is a kid and he needs a translator): Please forward this to Red Robin

Chatting in the common area:

Barry (telling a story): and so I told this guy he needs to leave the girl alone or else I’ll throw him to the police and he scoffs at me!!?!

Billy: Nahh what, that’s so cooked.

Clark: Yeah, we can beat bad guys but it’s hard to punch systemic issues.

Hal: No wait. The hell does cooked mean??

Billy (singing): What the helly~

Clark: Language.

Hal: ..?

Barry: …

Billy: Anyways, have you guys heard of the red pill mentality?

Looking at hate mail:

Billy: My suit is ugly?!? They didn’t have to throw the brick at me!!

Diana: Do not worry. These words mean nothing and I shall protect you from all the bricks!

Billy: Aww. Thanks Diana <3

[three-dee-ess]

fact v fiction

switch 2 can be remotely deactivated by Nintendo?

yes. original switch could also be deactivated! as far as I'm aware they never did that though- just banned people who were caught with a modded switch from using the Nintendo servers. (basically if u modded online games such as splatoon to use exploits you'd get banned)

this was exceedingly rare.

this is also true for pretty much ALL modern consoles. obvi u can feel like it's messed up but it's common practice.

switch 2 doesn't have physical cartridges anymore it's all download codes/virtual cartridges/you dont own games

not true? ppl are conflating a few different things.

first of all, some games ARE download code only. they don't come with a cartridge and say as much on their box. As in it's literally ON the front of the box that it doesn't contain game data.

virtual cartridge is Nintendo's new "family share" system. basically if someone in your family has a switch with a digital game they bought they can lend it to you for you to play. steam already has this and it's pretty nice!

games are one time purchases but yes they do have DRM. this is the case for all modern games? steam, epic, ECT all have DRM. all consoles do too? hell- bluerays and DVDs have DRM. CDs have DRM. pretty much everything has DRM.

if you think having DRM means not owning, then yes, you don't own the games. However you can play these games offline? pretty much ALL switch games work completely fine without connecting to the Internet at all. so if you are worried about it you can just. play with ur games offline or whatever so they can't take them away from you idk lol.

switch 2 is expensive

yeah. so is like all electronics idk man

iPhone cost a lot too. computer cost a lot. I don't know what to say.

switch 2 games are 80 dollars!!!

so far 3 Nintendo games are 80 dollars physically. 70 dollars digitally.

you can get Mario kart world as part of the bundle for 50 dollars, and you can upgrade existing copies of TOTK and BOTW for 10 each. obvi that's pretty expensive so I get it, but I doubt many people are going to be spending the full 80 dollars on any of those games.

also pretty much all third party titles so far are 60 or less. only Nintendo as far as I can tell is doing the 70~80 price tag.

that's totally okay tho I get that complaint for sure LOL. 70~80 is not the norm but the exception as far as I can tell

basically 75% of complaints are shit that they were previously doing or misunderstandings of existing features :0c

it's okay to not want the switch 2 !!!! hell the most common complaint and the fairest one is the price! totally valid. it's just like. u don't need to be mean to people for buying a console idk. this isn't JKR or Elon we are talking Abt yk?

[mortishine]

hot take i feel like the people “reclaiming” kcs characters arent doing it right if that makes sense - im fully for taking ur comforts for urself!!! but in order to do that u have to actually PRESENT them as ur OWN

instead of going “heres my foster child i rescued from DIDDYCORN!!!!! #anticare #kc fuck off” post them on like… a main blog that doesnt even have sparkle on it & just go “yo heres my new oc #my art”

reclaiming a character from kc means completely seperating them from kc, mentioning her every time u post them will stunt everyones ability to seperate them. especially ur own. not to mention it clogs the tags of actually important shit like the victim support links - not like anyone was sharing those anyway… disappointing honestly

it honestly just proves most ppl dedicated to “le epic SPITE ART!!!” only gaf abt their own self image & not for the people actually affected… its the same reason they throw a fit over the things kc drew on her freaky blog while also actively lurking to see what new things they can “reclaim” when they should be concerned about REPORTING HER FOR PUSHING HER DESIRES ONTO TO REAL PEOPLE AND SHIELDING OTHER PREDATORS

ive only reclaimed doom & thats bc i kin them, and i present my reclaim as her own character whenever i can. that is not doom anymore, that is synthia and she is my self-insert. she cannot be subject to ratc*st because she has no siblings and physically cannot have kids. she is dating livings, but in an oc x canon way, and the “canon” is a scrapped character we were basically forbidden to talk about before the expose.

i am anticare in spirit but i do not at all consider myself a member of the “anticare community” bc theyre driven by spite and ego while im driven by common sense and doing all i can to remind why kc is bad in the first place. i link the ex-ZCP support links every time i post a drawing of the canon characters, you can at least do the same for your reclaims.

[gray-ace-space]

✨ summary time! ✨

> why did i make this poll?

i was curious about how parasocial relationships interact with demisexuality/demiromanticism.

i often hear that demis supposedly can't have celebrity crushes, because they're only attracted to people they have a real relationship with.

but i'm demisexual, and that's not been my experience. some of the most intense sexual attraction i've experienced has been to people i've never met, or to people who don't even really exist.

my thinking is, for a demi person to build enough of an emotional connection to experience attraction, a two-sided relationship isn't necessary. it's enough to feel attached to the person/character, and to feel like you know them well, regardless of how true that is...

...basically, if you watch a specific streamer every week for five years, it doesn't matter that you've never spoken to them, your brain has already decided you have a meaningful connection. ditto for a blorbo you've been rotating in your brain every night before you go to sleep.

i wanted to see how many demi people's experiences align with mine here. and my absolutely baseless guess was that at least a third of the demis who voted in the poll would say they've experienced attraction to someone they had a parasocial relationship with.

> so what do the numbers say?

as always i have no formal education in statistics and was bad at math in school so if i got something horribly wrong pls pls tell me

45.2% (38 ppl) voted 'not demi/not sure/see results', so let's just take them off the board right now and focus on the demis who had something to say - they make up the other 54.8% (46 ppl).

not a very big sample, but i'll have to cope.

of those demis,

34.67% have only ever experienced attraction to someone they had a two-sided relationship w (16 ppl)

65.33% have at some point experienced attraction to someone they only had a parasocial relationship w (30 ppl)

which already kinda proves what i wanted to prove! let's break it down a bit more.

once again, out of all those demis,

80.3% have (exclusively or not) experienced attraction to someone they had a two-sided relationship with (37 ppl). i had assumed this number would be way closer to 100%!

45.81% have (exclusively or not) experienced attraction to fictional characters (21 ppl)

39.24% have (exclusively or not) experienced attraction to (micro)celebrities (18 ppl)

so, attraction to characters is more common then attraction to celebrities, but not by much.

aaand here is every group minus the 'not demi/unsure' one ordered from biggest to smallest

two-sided: 34.67% (16 ppl)

characters + two-sided: 17.34% (8 ppl)

celebs + two-sided: 17.34% (8 ppl)

celebs + characters + two-sided: 10.95% (5 ppl)

characters: 8.76% (4 ppl)

celebs + characters: 8.76% (4 ppl)

celebs: 2.19% (1 person)

thank you, everyone who participated! happy pride month! 💜🏳‍🌈

when i first made this poll i somehow forgot an extremely important option, so trying again.

*i mean the attraction you're demi for! if you're demisexual but not demiromantic, i am only asking about sexual attraction, and vice versa.

rb for sample size💜

[closetsof-backlogged-dreams]

the inexplicable fandom bond that the stranger things fandom, the marauders fandom, and dead poets society fandom all have is so fascinating to me

[sunsetsover]

ik they generally don't mean it in a bad way and it's supposed to be complimentary but people being like 'first/khaotung are so talented they should be on big screens/should be doing x type of work they deserve so much more than this!!' feels really condescending and dismissive of the work they've done and are doing right now. like their work has value and worth as it is, right now . if they choose to go a different way with their careers fine but being in a movie or whatever doesn't inherently mean their work is better or has more value, esp if its done just for the sake of saying they've been in a movie like. they are not somehow degrading themselves or their worth or their talent as actors by doing the work they're doing now and if you think that or that they're somehow being 'wasted' doing what they're doing then that's kinda fucked up and rude. tbh.

[gifti3]

the goverment is definitely figuring out this alien situation asap right?? cause whats happening currently is not feasible in the long run is it not??

im sure they are trying to maybe figure it out...probably, but part of me feels like it is not being treated with the seriousness it should be by them, which ig is in character LOL

pretty much relying on one guy (who doesnt even wanna be doing this) is actually scary

and the mc still has to like 'encourage' him to do it, tho its much easier in the 'ray ending' for sure. that man just wants to live a regular life with mc (unfortunately for him that means continuing to be binary star and dealing with aliens)

and if i was a citizen and knew this id be panicking

like yea u have these other heroes helping and stuff which im sure looks comforting from an outside point of view! but like the actuality is that its ray keeping things afloat

AND ON THE TOPIC OF THE MC, i was definitely in my head like....wouldnt rays superiors (managers??) get like curious about them? like no way theyre not being nosy about it after a certain amount of time passes. it really feels like something that could be leveraged against him,,, (if there is fic about this pls send it to me lol)

honestly i feel like mc and rays relationship would have moments of high stress. like there will be good times but also the bad times will also be there and its sometimes gonna be because of outside factors they cant control

[sunnixsunshine]

AAAAAH SORA ATTACK

Three fun facts:

Her kimono is supposed to match with Sanji’s for the most part and her cute dress is what she wore while in wci arc—because yeah they kinda kidnapped her as further leverage over Sanji in this au :(…. (Of which I intend to write once I really catch up to wci and wano lol trying to read ahead is hard to do while working). Sora and the twins, Shinjiro(blond) and Takehiko(green), have a ten year age gap—also bonus fact, the twins are supposed to be premature, being born roughly around 35 weeks, which isnt even uncommon for twins in the first place, but I have nooooo idea how to really depict that because babies are hard to draw as isssssss lmao

[faaun]

critical thinking not being taught as a skill rly rly has its impact on cultures long term like cultures where the education is based more on memorisarion rather than genuine problem solving/thinking for urself tend to be so clearly different in the way they approach their outlooks towards politics and society etc etc

[ecrireverie]

okay lol mini rant in the tags sorry i just HAD to get this off my chest 😭 sorry if this is very incoherent and poorly worded or structured or whatever i'm just. pretty out of it and i cannot really think to write this properly. well, that or i am probably just illiterate actually. Yeah that's it lol

[hannahhasafact]

Scribbled this up because this is such a massive pet peeve of mine and I’ve been seeing it a lot more frequently lately

And I know, this is very broad in terms of what fat people/people with fat faces look like in profile BUT I am BEGGING artists to at least TRY to draw fat faces correctly in profile

And obviously my biggest suggestion is look at reference photos!!! Of different faces!!! In profile!!!! Ahhh!!!!

[defiantinsect]

Hey sorry for the mental breakdown in your inbox. The caring too much and always fucking everything up about it dedf1sh thing is me projecting. I just have a lot of feelings about the pre side order dedf1sh fandom. I loved the collaborative fluid nature of it. The way that every dedf1sh was somebody pushing their own ideas of identity and illness through this familiar kaleidoscope made entirely of aesthetics and vague themes. The ways that you could see the light that person shines into it and see some negative image of another real person living within this character they made. The ways that people would explore their gender with the character and you would see a language of designs develop in conversation with each other, of headcannons that contradict each other pooled together to create a constellation of different ways people leave their mark in the space. And when side order came out a lot of that died. A lot of artists buried their self indulgent ocs they named Ahato Mizuta for the singular solid crystallized Acht. And when more came in who didn’t engage with the character past their appearance and their eyes, that singular acht began to shift to something that wasn’t even true to the cannon of the games. But instead of a symphony of flawed and beautifully raw and personal characters, crafted from something real, it was a sanded down version of something fake.

I’m also now realizing that this is not much more coherent and is really just more mental illness in your ask box.

see i wasnt into splatoon the way i am now back when 2 was the newest game (idk what happened. it was like christmas eve of 2023 that i suddenly got slammed with my affliction), i was still a fan but not a "will create fanwork for it" kind of fan, so i dont have a good idea of what the fandom and its subfandoms were like at the time, but what youve said is very familiar thanks to the other fandoms i used to be in (and your interpretation of acht is very close to mine, tbh). so i totally get it.

i dont remember the original post/account that said it but i always think about "people modifying their fanwork to fit fanon more is a type of body horror to me"

[milkbreadtoast]

DUNMESHI EP 3 WAS SOOOO BEAUTIFUL OMG THE ANIMATION WAS SO GOOD😭😭😭 LAIOS IS SO CUTE I LOVE HIM... hes so smart... one of the most likeable male anime protags ive seen in a while... 1 of the most likeable protags period tbh anyway hes good🥺

[racc00ning]

normalize being empathetic but remaining critical towards characters

[impending-day]

every day i feel more like hong lu verdammt . " tee hee i am so normal and regular and nothing at all phases me ^_^ " i see you . fucker .

makes me ever so worried abt his upcoming canto . i fear i may discover something about myself through the lens of that prick . embarrassing , yes