#I HAD NO IDEA THE CULTURAL IMPACT

[berryunho]

sometimes I remember my first concert was exo in 2016 😌🙏

#im looking at the setlist rn like ..... bro ..... #overdose is literally the song that made me a kpop stan #and HISTORY??? MAMA??? #PLAYBOY? EXODUS? #XOXO? MIRACLES IN DECEMBER? #MACHINE??? #LET OUT THE BEAST???? ARE YOU SERIOUSNDKEQMW #call me baby. growl. love me right. #I HAD NO IDEA THE CULTURAL IMPACT #ngl i dont remember ANYTHING that happened that night except for the fact that i was NOT dressed for the weather #and the girl next to me was very nice #and baekhyun made direct eye contact w me #thats about it #thought id share #berryunho.txt

[merriclo]

i love the idea that Wild is a big brother to basically all of the kids in his Hyrule. it’s such a good heacanon that i never see utilized.

#with their dads permission he’ll take Cottla and Koko on horse rides and they always have food ready for his horses when he comes into town #cottla wants to learn archery to be like him and he melts when he finds that out #all the kids in Hateno have been caught giving treats to his horses #this is a popular headcanon i think but him teaching the local kiddos how to sword fight so often times he’ll be found directing a horde of #children who’re all swinging treebaches around. he couldn’t look prouder of them. #imagine when he gets older and all the village kids r teens/young adults and all of a sudden the village has skilled hunters and foragers #and everyone’s like ‘wow what’s hateno doing’ and the answer is they all had a great big brother #by older i mean he’d be like. early thirties. but y’know ahsnfjks #wild’s impact should rest in the ppl i think. botw is all abt humanity’s strive to overcome hardship and find beauty in the misery #(well. it is to me anyhow lmao) #so i love the idea of his influence not resting in politics or myths or whatever #but within the culture and spirit of those he fought for #in my brain he definitely wanted to rescue Zelda at first and that’s the only reason he was going to fight ganon #but as his journey progressed he wanted to protect and cultivate the future more than rescue the past #i like this idea w zelda too. like not only will the future generation have great fighters but excellent scholars and leaders. #wow i am RAMBLING #anyhow. i like big bro wild. #linked universe #lu #jojo’s linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu wild #wild lu #wild linked universe #linked universe wild

[yourmypenguin]

Have I kept you waiting for long enough? Hehe i finally got to finish Roman's Vietnamese Traditional clothing, he's lucky I love this one garment so much or I'm blaming him for my bad back. Yes, I did went all out on this and did all the patterns because I am that crazy

[ramblings about the details in the tags >:D]

Logan | Patton | Virgil | Janus

#roman is wearing a red nhật bình #which is a vietnamese clothing that started appearing during the Nguyễn Dynasty and reserved for all the rich fancy ladies esp the queen #so of course i have to let the royalty himself wear this I've had this idea since the beginning of this series #he wears a blue khăn vấn on his head and fancy boots that the governors used to wear #everything in this is taken reference from the Nguyễn Dynasty which is lolll my surname #Chí #the word means will power #and the squiggly shits behind him are just the patterns that i used on his nhật bình #god i was dying while drawing this for real god bless me i am so talented #myart #thomas sanders #sander sides #sander sides fanart #thatsthat24 #roman sanders #ts roman #i usually dont care but mr sanders better see this i am telling you to notice the international love for your webseries!!!!!! #jk he doesnt need to but i hope he knows his work makes impact on the world and enjoys a little taste from other cultures #ts sides

[buried-in-stardust]

Just finished the final writing assessment for my Chinese reading course, so that's done now I guess. Just four more courses to go lol

#blu speaks #90 min to write 500 characters on covid and its impact on our thinking #i did okay i think #much better than the writing assessment for the last course #the topic for that was what chinese cultural elements/traditions do you have in your life #i had no fucking idea what to write #i was like ...food?

[clairenatural]

prepares to get tomatoes thrown at me en masse but the cultural impact of supernatural on specifically fandom and internet culture is unparalleled in the past 20 years. the star trek of the 21st century

#star trek defined a genre for generations i dont think spn has had as wide spread of a pop culture impact but i DO thing it has #had foundational impact on fandom culture #modern fandom culture #can anything rival spirk shippers coining the idea of slash shipping. no #but if there has to be a runner up

[gunpowdercarousel]

My computer - as in the COMPUTER ITSELF - is advertising Starfield to me.

I cannot STRESS how good this is at deterring me from ever playing Starfield.

#starfield #yeah i totally wanna play blander no man's sky #definitely #yes definitely advertise it on my LOCK SCREEN #OH that's such a GOOD IDEA #starfield is starting to feel like the Avatar of video games #the biggest video game ever that has had exactly zero cultural impact #bravo todd

[girlbob-boypants]

I do actually have a few different concepts for how I would personally rewrite IBS. The basic difference being "How far do I want to stray from canon?"

At minimum, Braham shouldn't have been done dirty and instead it should've been a contest of control. No beating him up for Problematique Writing Reasons but protecting him until he can regain control of the Destroyers so they focus on Frost Legion instead of attacking everyone.

But if I had my full way, he wouldn't have turned to Primordus like that at all, and instead would have gotten that story of being the Oathbreaker and redeeming himself as the Norn who should unite his people against their greatest threat. With Jhavi acting as a sort of representation of the Norn with how she views him changing over the story and the big deal being when she believes he can lead, showing that her view of him has gone from Oathbreaker to worthy of the title Hero of Legend through his actions.

Add in conversations with the Commander where he both expresses his feelings about his parents, and also talks about how he gets how hard our job is now that he's in a similar position. Make the false Destiny's Edge he left behind far FAR more important to the story (like have one of them be the last boss we fight before Ryland and Jormag levels important). And you've got a genuinely solid experience that doesn't trivialize characters, gives more breathing room for future stories, and doesn't add in so many plot elements we lose the focus and completely abandon the lesser developed races in favor of "now we can go to Cantha to get all our gw1 fans back yay!"

#girlbob.txt #gw2 #'but how would we handle primordus when the game says without jormag we can't stop him' #1. this is a video game and the writers can change things. retcons happen all the time. the 'one weakness' thing is a retcon itself #2. that's literally an excellent story device because it puts the asura in the perfect position to explore their strengths #especially with a certain asura on our team being fundamental to changing how we perceive dragons and magic in universe #now we have a norn/charr focused story specifically about how the norn have lost so much and the charr's war culture has led to this #and then a story after that's 'jormag forced our hand and we killed them wtf do we do now that primordus is waking up' #with a focus on a massively under developed race that NEEDED real screentime to explore their fucked up parts of their culture #and really put an impact on the 'elder dragons take so much from those they exist around' aspect #since in a well written story. taimi and braham would resonate over how much both of their cultures LOST due to the dragons #the game literally doesn't address just how much was lost when the asura had to fucking abandon their homes and come to the surface #and i think it'd be interesting if the game had explored the idea that the current society #is a result of their political leaders who were the most selfish surviving the exodus #and reframing it as their intelligence and how that makes them too valuable #but now i'm getting ahead of myself

[flexibility-love-andtrust]

“zero cultural impact” bro UNDERTALE???? BLUEY??????? ADVENTURE TIME????????? STEVEN UNIVERSE???????????????

I fucking knew some massive dorks were gonna flood my inbox like "UHM AKCHTUALLY SOME STORYBOARD ARTISTS PUT A VAGUE VISUAL HS REFERENCE IN FRAME 2497B OF EPISODE 203 & THAT'S WHAT I THINK CULTURAL IMPACT MEANS"

#also undertale isn't homestuck. hope this helps. #the same way that Heat isn't Miami Vice just bc Michael Mann worked on both. #not that you have any idea what those are bc you have the cultural repertoire of a tiktok user. #I literally said “HS had 0 cultural impact outside of fandom” and got bombarded w/ people insisting NO BC LOOK AT ALL TGESE CARTOON FANDOMS

[pansyfemme]

genuinly i support anyones ideas of what a femme/fem is bc it means different things to everyone but. the only tiktoker who insisted that femme as an identity only exists as a counterpoint to a butch in a relationship because they go by 'historical definintions' and then in the same breath said that bi women cant identify as butch/femme because the communities are so different. pick one history to follow please

#history! #turning off rbs bc like. i hate it when my posts I don't mean to spread when I'm just venting #but like. for me. i can acknowledge that aligning with the original definition of a term is a way of accepting queer history #but i can also accept that those same terms have evolved and in pretty much every decade from its coining femme has had a different #definition. the femme definintion i feel closest to was how it was used by gay men in the 80s/90s to reclaim the idea of being a visibly #queer man as not a weakness or something to be ashamed of and to fight against masc4masc only gay cultures. #that's also a historical defnition with a significant history. #i acknowledge that not everyone might consider me a femme in their definition and feeling of the term. #but i know how it works for me and how it was used before I was even born #people often just say 'thats history!' and fail to acknowledge any growth or change in language since the coining of the word #people still yell about how queer is historically a slur and ignore that its also historically an empowering statement and a name of a #movement. faggot is a degrading slur. it's also an identity that people have used for a long time at this point. those statements can co #exist. what doesnt make sense is speaking for people as a whole and failing to understand that people have different ways of experiencing #queerness. the first definition isnt the one everyone uses and neither is the current. you can't just say and run away when #you're blatently leaving out facts that are also historical. language changes all of the time. its changing right this second. we don't #have to abandon the old meanings of worlds but also we need to consider the cultural impact and how those meanings have changed and accept #that some people will always be queer in a way you don't like and you can't really change that.

[fairuzfan]

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/

Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/

Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel

Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one

You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them

Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture

If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already

Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything

Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything

See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.

Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare

KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

#palestine #gaza

[ijsthee]

Cant wait to start seeing lots of dunmeshi art at cons sometime this year

#agshdjfk #might go to a con in april but it might be too early to see dunmeshi stuff #it took a bit before i started seeing bg3 last year #i always think its interesting to see whats popular at cons cause the tumblr bubble isnt entirely reflective of larger Weeb Culture #like i had no idea genahin impact was THAT big until i started going to cons #(more like started going again after covid)

[twig---verginix]

I want, like, an over-the-top, going-to-feel-outdated-in-five-years-but-will-contain-kernels-of-startling-relevance novel about, like. A data broker.

#ive read this book from 2004 called so yesterday that's about like. trend cycles and advertising. and that sounds like it sucks #but its one of my favorite books and its genuinely such a fun read #theres a lot in it thats silly and unserious (and v fun) but it takes the culture of the time very seriously. i dont have the vantage point #to really determine any sort of truthfulness about the portrayal. but taking it at face value? theres a lot of respect and fascination and #appreciation. for trends and how they impact advertising. and vice versa. and what exists outside of that. #and it was fun to read that having had next to no interest in the subject. #anyway i want that but instead of selling stolen fashion ideas to brands make it like modern data brokering. brokeredge?

[kerink]

in light of people's confusion over cecil's longevity in @sexymanotd i wanted to document a bit of his history for those unfamiliar or nostalgic

welcome to night vale is a podcast written by joseph fink and jeffrey cranor. cecil gerschwin palmer is the main character and voiced by cecil baldwin.

it debuted on june 15, 2012 it reached its peak in popularity in 2013-2014

despite this, wtnv has been one of tumblr's top fandoms since staff started tracking fandom-related data in 2014

for the longest time the only thing we knew about cecil's appearance was: "He is wearing a tie. He is not tall or short. Not thin or fat." and that wasn't until episode 19 which aired march 15, 2013. for almost a full year we had no idea what cecil looked like. so tumblr's collective unconscious kicked into high gear and we did what we do best

we created a tumblr sexyman

from know your meme: "Defining traits of the archetype include skinny body type, trickster or villain role and dapper clothing."

know your meme identifies wheatley (portal 2, 2011) and the onceler (the lorax, 2012) as being likely tumblr's first sexymen. and the onceler fandom was at its peak in 2012-2013, the same time as wtnv. in addition to this, the hannibal fandom has been cited as one of the contributing factors to wtnv's success on tumblr.

so tumblr had created an archetype that worked and the wtnv fandom was made up of mostly hannibal fans - the foundation for putting cecil in a suit was there. and honestly? cecil's at work in the show, why wouldn't he be well dressed?

however, while this explains his attire it doesn't explain some of cecil's more unique sexyman features, namely the tentacles. for this we have to return to the 2014 fandom review analysis where you can see the most popular fandom at the time: homestuck

haven't you ever wondered why almost a quarter (189/923 at time of writing) of E rated wtnv fics on ao3 are tagged tentacles or tentacle sex? why cecil having tentacles for a dick is such a seemingly popular headcanon? well look no further then homestuck cultural hold over.

throughout all of this, the development of the sexyman archetype on tumblr and the rise of homestuck, one creator really stands out: kinomatika

kino was one of the most popular homestuck artists on tumblr at the time, popular for their eridan fanart. if you google image search "welcome to night vale" kino's art is still one of the first results you'll get

their design was so popular in fact it was featured in wtnv related articles from the time

and yes there were absolutely other artists giving cecil tentacles and moving tattoos at the time, but it can't be understated the reach kino had and the influence their homestuck roots had on their design choices

i recommend going through the archive of @nightvaleartclub to see how cecil used to be portrayed back in the early days. unfortunately the earliest fanart i've been able to find is july 2013 and i find it hard to believe it took tumblr a year to draw him. although, i started listening at episode 5 and didn't start drawing him until then myself so who knows...

cecil has had tumblr's heart in a vice grip since episode 1, with "20,000 posts, 183,000 blogs and 680,000 notes using the #Night Vale tag" during its first week. tumblr's love for wtnv has always been fairly genuine, from the impact the writing has had on tumblr humor and future story telling, to how wtnv paved the way for lgbt+ representation in indi media, to how it popularized podcasts as a medium for story telling, to the little comforts some of cecil's quotes still bring people today

cecil is not only a founding father of tumblr culture, but also a blorbo of the people. cecil the character in canon has a tumblr account where he posts his art and slash fanfiction.

although cecil's character has developed over time and we've come to see what a ditzy, eccentric, brat he really is, changing his status from sexyman to babygirl, cecil is absolutely a character you should embrace. and you know what... despite what i've said in the past

#cecilsweep

[ID: Images one and two are Google analytic graphs for the search terms "welcome to night vale" and "wtnv" between June 15, 2015 and January 27, 2023. They both depict very sharp spikes around 2013-2014 until the lines decrease greatly over time.

Image three is a drawing of Cecil from Welcome To Nightvale. He is white, with white hair, glasses, a third eye on his forehead, and he is wearing a suit. In the background is the silhouette of a neighborhood from the WTNV official art, a galaxy, and a moon. It is tinted purple. Image four is the always has been meme. Instead of the earth is the tumblr logo, and the text is: “a wtnv fansite?” “Always has been”. End ID] id thanks to @princess-of-purple-prose

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #sexymanotd #cecilsweep

[sualne]

found back this thing from 2021

putting the addition directly onto the og post since nobody reblogs the full version:

'about this i feel a few people have misunderstood what i drew it for, my tags didnt help at all for sure and it is just one doodle, but i didnt made it as 'i'm questioning my sexuality and need to know what specific labels i am'. i've been well aware of what my whole deal is for years.

this was a silly doodle i drew as a recreation of all the thoughts and questions i had that went 'what is attraction? what is romance and sexual and platonic and friendship and something else entirely? how and why do we need to define feelings and relationships so much? why do people act the way they do, date the way they do, marry the way they do, live the way they do? how much does your own culture and time influence the way you do those things, the way you think you should act and feel? how much does amatonormativity influence and impact all of us? and why are some people so resistant against the idea of questioning and living out of these norms?' among many others things.

again, i drew years ago. i didnt want to post it because it felt unnecessarily personal and because people are insufferable about queerness.

EDIT: pls for the love of my sanity reblog the full post instead.'

#every now and then i go 'what is attraction and how does it work and do i experience it?' then read/listen to allos and demis and grays' #experience with it all and go 'yeah- huh. i dont- no- huh- is that how people really work? what' #every time i feel like i get it i get so confused with new infos. wish could understand people better. #mightdeletelateeer #EDITEDIT: reblog this version or the full version pls. i cant delete this in a way that matters anymore. i expected only 3 or 5 people to #leave a like and that wouldve been it. it broke containment and its annoying.

[mithrun-house-of-kerensil]

Something I think about all the time is the amount of trauma Kabru experienced during Utaya, but also after. He literally had to be dragged away from his dead mother and then was brought to live in a foreign country with an elf who raised kids for fun. I'm not saying Milsiril was malicious, but imagine the cultural and emotional shock. He had nothing. Everyone and everything he'd ever known was permanently wiped off the face of the earth. Did he even get to have a funeral for his mother?

Milsiril was very reassuring with him and tried to raise him well. She absolutely did make an effort to be a good adoptive mother, but there's such a jarring disconnect between them because of the nature of the relationship. She did not understand his culture at all but also she could not understand him as a human. She babied him too long and the way she acted around him solidified the idea in his mind that there would never be mutual understanding between elves and humans. Like if you can't truly connect to a parent, what kind of impact would that have on a growing child? Even now she still treats him like a baby, how can you ever recover from trauma properly if you're never seen as anything but a crying child?

I think the theme of alienation is so strong in Kabru's character and the way he tries to make everyone like and trust him speaks to his inability to feel understood

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon spoilers #kabru dungeon meshi #my post #kabru

[cc-kote]

Nine people I'd like to get to know better

WOOPS I did not have time to do this for the past like, week but I've been wanting to bc I love silly little memes like this. Tytyty @ithillia for the tag :3

Last song: All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks by La Dispute (It makes me think about Fives and it hurts so fucking much) 

Favorite colour: GREEN!! and also blue 

Last movie/TV Show: TCW of course, I had a Bad Autism Time™️ and my gf put on the fucking Umbara Arc to calm me down. It worked like a charm what the fuck is wrong w me lmfaooo. 

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: All of the above but spice hurts me. I do it anyway tho, mama raised a little bitch but she didn't raise a quitter lmfaoo. 

Relationship status: So fuckin down bad for my girlfriend hhh 

Last thing you googled: fuckjgn AO3 LMAOOO 

Current obsession: clonesclonesclonesclones forever. I haven't had a special interest/hyperfixation this deep since I was like 12-14 so like this is one of the most important things in my life tbh. Specifically like thinking about how their culture would work, and their solidarity, internal conflicts, shared trauma and how that would relate to those things. Their ideas about personal and cultural identity and how that would vary individually. Things like how their upbringing must have felt, how that affected them and who they became later in life, the things they're taught vs what they truly come to believe once they're out on the field, the psychological effects of O66 on the clones who survived and the devastating impact it must have had- Bro stop me or I'll keep going forever like. I'm in deep and tbh? I wouldn't change it for the world. 

NPT: LMFAO bold of this title to assume that I know 9 people on this site, or am brave enough to tag ppl I haven't talked to often fhsjdmksmf SO if you see this consider yourself tagged. Yes, You. idc if we've never talked It's probably bc I'm too baby, so (unless u don't feel like it) do it 👀 also @mamuzzy and @whatislifewithoutangst if y'all haven't already and wanna do this here u go! 

#silly tag memes #i love these sm omggg #im still high as fuck on painkillers from surgery time yesterday so if this doesnt make sense stfu yes it doe s jdkskdkf