#Pink Talks

[pinkcocoapowder]

2024 resolution is to hate more

#i am blocking people and i am muting things even more this year i deserve peace of mind amen #pink talks

[rozetheeuwu]

#pink talks #shitpost #pokemon rejuvenation #being mean is not nice

[pinkdreamscape1]

trans gemnedr

MtF and FtM Solidarity

#pink talks #pokemon reborn #luna hazel #luna vanhanen #shade (reborn) #shitpost

[pinkcupboardwitch]

genuine question, where would you recommend someone start with improving media literacy and critical thinking skills? :o

I love this question! Thank you - it really pushed me to figure out how to distill my own process, so it was very helpful for me too.

“Media literacy” is such a big topic that it can very easily get overwhelming, so I would recommend finding a specific type of media you want to practice these skills in first. This is handy because 1) it breaks the learning process up into a much more manageable goal 2) a lot of the mindsets you acquire here will be helpful once you start branching out into different media types, even if the specifics of that genre might be different.

For example, I’m a historian; I’m trained to read both historical documents and texts produced by other professional historians with an eye for particular characteristics. My personal specialty is the study of historical gender and medicine, which means that even when I’m reading texts from periods outside my own, or even modern media, I can pick up synergies of gender and/or medicine more intuitively than others. A really fun example of this is when I watched Blue Eye Samurai with a friend who is also a historian of the same period as I am, but with a focus on religion. A very obvious flag to me that Mizu is queer in some way is that they only realized they were attracted to [censored for spoilers] when they witnessed two men kissing. When I brought that up to my friend, he said he had completely missed that thread. He is, however, continually able to bring in sociological arguments that I miss, because he’s trained to see those patterns and I’m not.

A less intimidating way to approach these skills then, which are often very vaguely defined and have a reflexive anxiety about them because they feature so often in grading rubrics without being clearly defined, is pattern matching. Are you able to identify the patterns the authors are drawing on? And are you able to draw new connections between these texts that are unique to you?

Examples of specific specialties you might be interested as a way to get started could include political journalism, scientific reports, historical texts, or romance novels, to give you an example of the balance between specificity and generalization I usually find helpful. Once you have your set, start reading as many examples of that as you can. It’s more helpful to consume this material consistently, rather than amass a huge source base in a very short period of time. The goal here is to start picking up on patterns between the various examples you’re reading. Patterns of shared values, of similar ways of constructing an argument or a message, of different conversations going in between the authors of this shared space.

“Active reading” tends to get a bad rap because I think a lot of us have bad memories of being told simply to do it without ever being explained what it actually is or how to tell if we’re doing it. But it is a very useful tool. Instead of simply taking in information (that is, “passive” reading), we engage in a conversation with the information as we read. I find that the following is a handy checklist for me when I read material that’s new to me:

- What is the author’s message? How can I tell?

- Why are they presenting this message? Do their stated goals match their implicit goals, or is there a mismatch? How can I tell?

- Who is the message for? How can I tell?

- Do I agree with this message completely? With some parts of this message but not others? Not at all? Why? And how can I tell?

- If I don’t agree in part or entirely, what is my stance on the issue? (“I need more information to know my stance” is a perfectly good one to have)

(Note: this is biased towards my training as a historian. Someone trained in a different field, or even in a different method of doing history than I am, would likely have a different answer. But I find that this set is flexible enough to be used in many different contexts, not just academic ones.)

That “how can I tell” is, for me, the crux of the matter. Being able to answer that question pushes us to really pick apart the different strands of a text and helps us see the overall meaning of that text as something that is constructed, not inherent.

At first, you might need to consciously have this list next to you as a reminder whenever you’re reading your text of choice. You might even need to read a particular text multiple times, each time focusing on a single question from the list instead of juggling all five parts at the same time because it’s so hard to find those answers. That is totally fine! More than fine, it’s normal.

Eventually, as you get more and more comfortable with practicing this kind of thinking and reading, you’ll be able to do it in a way that’s less conscious and more like muscle memory. This also means that over time, it will get less tiring. Which is to say - at the start of this practice, it will be tiring, mentally and physically so. That doesn’t mean you’re lazy or stupid. It just means this is a part of your brain that’s starting a new exercise routine and is slowly building up endurance. “Learning things” is a skill in itself, and something that we can also practice and get better at. I know some very smart people who are terrible at learning new things and being beginners, because they’re so used to excelling at a very narrow sphere of activities.

This is such a long response already, but I hope it is helpful and makes sense! Just two more points for now, and please also feel free to jump back into my inbox or DMs if you have more questions about this.

Firstly, a very useful strategy I have found for getting more literate in genres and ways of thinking I am not familiar with is to ask an expert in that field to “check your work”. For me, this is scientific articles and @dr-dendritic-trees. Again, I’m a historian, I wasn’t trained to read science reports in any field, but I still want to parse the interesting science that comes my way. In the early stages of getting familiar with science writing, “checking my work” usually looked like me sending an article her way, asking her to translate it into layman’s terms, and then, armed with that prior explanation, reading the article myself to see if I could understand how she’d gotten there. As I got more familiar with the particular kinds of thinking that scientists are trained to do, I started reading the articles first, reaching a tentative conclusion, and then asking her if she agreed (example: “Their conclusion feels fishy to me but I can’t fully say why. Would you say that’s right?”). The goal here is not simply to acquire new scientific information. The goal is to practice thinking like a scientist.

(Incidentally, this approach is also why I encourage my students to use SparkNotes or Wikipedia if they’re really struggling with a particular text so they can get a summary of what’s happening. Once you know what’s happening, you can focus on the much more interesting and critical aspect: how the argument is constructed and how you can tell).

Secondly, Toulmin’s Method is another handy checklist for breaking down arguments that you can use as an alternative to or in conjunction with the checklist I provided above. I’ve taught it in my own classes and a particularly handy exercise I like to do with them is to practice going, “I agree with your X because ABC, and I disagree with your Y because DEF.” [example: “I agree with your claim because my own experience backs that up, but I disagree with your warrant because you’re falsely connecting these two elements.”]

This is so long! Thank you for asking the question and for reading all this! It’s probably pretty obvious that I care deeply about this topic*. This is a hard skill to pick up, especially if you haven’t consciously worked these mental muscles out in a while, but it’s also a profoundly valuable one, and one that greatly enriches our lives as people in a shared and communal world. I wish you the best of luck on your journey of practice!!

*for extra credit: how can you tell? ;)

EDIT: I said I only had two points left, posted this, and then immediately thought of two other exercises that are very helpful for practicing these skills! One, learn to write a précis, which is a very formal, four-sentence summary that is extremely helpful for organizing your thoughts. Two, learn to identify logical fallacies. A really central part of critical thinking is being able to recognize when others are not thinking critically and explain why.

#pink talks #media literacy #media criticism #pedagogy tag

[thatpinknerd]

So I crocheted this thing and he got into my campus Art Gallery which was super hard to get into LMAO. His name is Gary and he’s a little clown dude.

#crochet #art school nonsense #pink talks #I need to more consistently use fucking tags.

[thegreatpinkstar]

Hi guys,,, how are y’all? (I want to interact for first time, please. I’m doing my best)

#pink talks

[pinkgirl78659]

GMA Voltes V Legacy Criticism

I can’t say how long I’ve wait to watch this series and i have high expectations of it. So out of love i just want to share my opinions and criticism. I am no way hating on this series but i care for it so much that i just had to critique it. KEEP IN MIND this is only covering the Frist episode that premiered today on GMA may 8. THIS IS MY OWN OPINION.

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS

STORY CHANGES-

The fact the Voltes Team is training on the Camp Big Falcon Base. I want to say this is a huge change mostly because the Anime series starts off with the Voltes Team not know what exactly they are training for and are completely unaware of the Camp Big Falcon base and the idea of the robot Voltes V.

The Legacy series however has them training near base yet they do not know what they’re training for but some how know of the exist of the Voltes V robot. I’m hoping future episodes clear this up because i feel like this is a huge continuity error.

Little john’s lack of training. This is something i actually hope to see develop in the later episodes. I like the new take on his character and i can see this choice was mostly likely inspired by the later episodes of the anime involving Dr.Hook. I am only hoping his character isn’t downplayed to just be the kid of the team since they do acknowledges him as an engineer.

FLIM CRITICISM-

The opening training scenes with the Voltes Team training. Oh boy. I have so much to say for this since i literally think the only people who had accurate scene to the anime were Big Bert and Jamie Robinson.

Steve’s intro is flat out boring. He’s supposed to be a marksmanship. that opening shot did not give you any idea that he was even training. I was so hoping they could emulate him driving on a motorcycle while shooting. If not focus more on just his skills as a marksman.

Mark’s intro is also extremely boring. Maybe it was the environment he was horsing around in. The scene looke so empty there were no trees and even it if you didn’t want tree don’t make it a continuous wide shot have more close up shots following him on the horse. I can kinda see they’re leaning more to the cowboy side of Mark and even so he was just raiding a horse no whip or even making the horse jump.

I really like Big Bert’s training scene. I felt it accurately portrayed his scene in the anime. I have no idea why they choose to do his outdoors and not indoors like the anime but regardless it was good.

Little johns’s is extremely confusing form an outsiders perspective. Why does he have a dolphin. Does he like dolphins?. What is point of the scene. I get that making him kill a shark is a bit extreme to do in live action but that shows something of his character at least in the anime. At that point they should have made the scene of him being an a great swimmer or have him fixing one of battle ship boats that he does for the ship races. They could even done something more because that scene straight up does not make sense.

Jamie’s intro was amazing only confused why she had firearms. I know all of them are suppose to be good with firearms but the fact have she was duel welding pistols and not Steve was confusing.

Finally my last complaint I truly believe the actors could have done better if given better guidance. I mostly have an issue with line delivery regarding the “weapons call out” to me most of the lines seem devoid of enthusiasm or just lack intense. Also slight nit picking weapons name its “Frigate Missile” not “Frigate Rocket”.

#voltes v #chōdenji machine voltes v #voltes v legacy #voltes v Legacy rants #pink talks #GMA tv #mecha

[pinkanonwriting]

Hello There!

This is a side blog for my more… mature… bandom works. I’ll link my corresponding Ao3 as well!

Anyways, Ive got basic rules:

No bashing anyone; let’s get along ok?

No underage or otherwise illegal bs!

No vilifying or harassing IRL people. This may be a blog for bandom fics, but they’re fiction. Don’t talk shit about people (unless they deserve it)

No Kink shaming!!!

Feel free to submit asks/ideas! Just no Dead Dove content, please

Anyways, here’s my Ao3. Have fun!

#Pink Talks

[pink-yandere]

I missssed this blog!

Hi lovelies, how is everyone?

I'm seething with rage and drowning in sorrow myself !

#pink talks #yandere #yanderecore #yancore #yandere aesthetic #lovesick #obsessive #obsession #unhealthy obsession #lovecore #unhealthy love #obsessed

[pinknouveau]

So he just killed twitter today…,

#pink talks #lol like #but more importantly the artist on twitter #like I’m more worried about them me included #and twitter is gonna fall like Elon just killed it #idk man #kinda reminds me of when tumblr had a post limit but u could still like things just not reblog

[pinkcocoapowder]

Gayass fish

#pink talks #lps

[rozetheeuwu]

Distracting myself from working by thinking of these two their dynamic.

#pink talks #shitpost #pokemon reborn #cal whitaker #terra pierce

[pinkdreamscape1]

Anyway Florin is so babygirl in this version

#pokemon rejuvenation #is this a spoiler? I don't think so? #pink talks #florin #I forgot how to write his surname

[pinksepia]

Migowl O’Hara

#pink talks #walk with me #spider man: across the spider verse #into the spider verse #spiderverse oc #atsv #itsv #miguel o'hara #atsv miguel #Miguel but he’s an owl #and then penGWEN #MEOWS morales #it’s giving… animal farm #hobi would be a rabbit maybe #and pav a puppy #golden retriver puppy #to be exact #☝️

[pink-lighter]

if i’ve ever opened up to you, please know that it’s a bit. it’s a bit and i need you to laugh because i am telling you my trauma with the cadence of a joke. it’s humorous — a joking bit imbued with humour, if you will.

#pink talks #personal #autism #adhd #autism AND adhd #i feel like this might be a universal neurodivergent experience or maybe it’s just me #n e ways! dick — as my esteemed homie and knower of most of my lore — back me up here

[thatnumbersix]

[so you say you’re gonna make things more efficient but you just make it WORSE than it was before when i was in control?]

>> things were back to the way they were before. better.

[yeah right. make things better my ass. give me my controls back]

>> i unfortunately cannot.

[yes you can cotton candy haired ballgargler]

>> what in isaac’s name is a ballg$/(:${);^;););)}

#pink talks #fundip talks