been seeing homies get deep into "the terror" and making me want to rewatch SO i spent two hours in the dead of night reading the wiki/the subreddit/other linked articles and like. one of those articles was deadass fucked up
there was a woman who spoke inuktitut who was writing a book containing a lot of inuit oral histories, and in nunavut she was able to hear passed-down recollections of when survivors from the franklin expedition were passing through
and like. i can't imagine being an inuit family/group, knowing that europeans exist but having never seen them, seeing 8-9 shambling, blue-skinned, cold-to-the-touch out-of-their-minds white men come wandering by. they invited the men inside their igloos for warmth, for food, to be hospitable. the men refused to eat, refused to speak, and when trade was offered, clutched their possessions close and refused to entertain the idea of trade. this was, offputting, to say the least. the group set them up in their own igloo, with their own fire, and left three whole seals for them to eat. and then they fled cause what the FUCK get out of there. they came back in a few days to check on the strangers. the three seals were completely untouched, while all of the men had killed and eaten each other
i mean. fuck dude. there are obviously pretty dark angles to view the franklin expedition from– honestly can't think of a good angle, it's pure colonialism and british exceptionalism– but that specific interaction, that inuit group who were living lives as normal until a dozen fucking walking dead showed up and did cannibalism. no wonder that story got passed down, i'd be shitting my pants if i saw that
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Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
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mando 3.3 liveblog (derogatory)
WAIT NO HE ACTUALLY DID JUST. STEP OFF A LEDGE?? AND DROWNED???
ugh space battles
dis bitch just throwing himself outta the plane like captain america
ugghhhhh space battlesssss
aw rip bo’s mando depression castle
ugh coruscant
hmm. that guy gonna get dead.
oh so it was cloning. also what is this apologist bullshit??
WOW THAT IS CERTAINLY. A STANCE. ON THE RESULTS OF KAMINO.
i know we aren’t supposed to like these rich people and i do not but i also don’t think they’re going to die which makes me sad
if this entire episode is about this guy i’m gonna throw a fit
hmm. i like. nothing about this. the in-universe concept or having to having to actually watch it
I WANT A TINY DRAGON
fuck ur eugenics research space nazi
god this is. so forced. do i at least get to see leia. that is the only thing i would possibly be interested in that might be on coruscant
THE REPUBLIC HAD CLONES BEFORE ALREADY IT DIDN’T GO SO GREAT
ughhhhhhh i am so uninterested in this, you tease me a mythosaur and then give me space nazi ’moral drama’ I WAS PROMISED A MYTHOSAUR WHERE IS MY GODDAMN MYTHOSAUR
uggggghhhhh
know that i am only continuing to watch this episode out of love. for you. yes you specifically. i am watching this episode to tell you that this episode sucks. now you know. you’re welcome.
wait im confused
ah that’s why
OH NOSDF OHOLY SHIT THE TIBE?? BO??? DIN DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORED COVERT MEANS ALSDKJHAF STOP TRUSTING EVERYONE IN MANDALORIAN ARMOR
paz will never get the characterization i want him to get and that is sad. sad for me.
lmfao bo why you gotta expose him like that ‘yeah i was there, his dumbass fell in’
oh so that’s what the waters are for
ah i see we are going to be doubling-down on the ‘joining the cult is the good and proper thing to do’. disappointing, but entirely unsurprising. i had also wondered along those lines re: bo-katan tho. two re-baptisms for the price of one! is the mythosaur god in this? i think the mythosaur should be god.
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