three tickets to barbie please
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i present to you: crossover of the century. (id in alt)
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One thing I don’t think we process about the Old Guard is that their day to day interactions would be literally incomprehensible to an outsider.
I’m not talking about language (that’s been talked about plenty). I’m talking about how on Tumblr we string three memes together and somehow make the world’s funniest niche joke no one not in this website would get. They are their own Tumblr. They are their own niche jokes.
I’m talking they are hundreds of years of “that one inside joke with my best friend that makes us laugh hysterically when the other just says ‘noodle’.” Why is that funny? Why? Doesn’t matter. They have hundreds of those.
I’m talking about that pop culture reference that is very generationally (or maybe even fandom) specific and they have hundreds and hundreds of those. The slang from 1648. The fandom we have literally no record of but they loved that novel in 1722.
I’m talking about the regional things. You think we laugh when we see “outsiders try to identify Massachusetts words?” They would blow our minds with the regional and time specific slang.
Language is a tool meant to include in groups and exclude out groups and I just...I literally cannot fathom what that would look like, in light of all the influencing factors on the Old Guard.
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