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[apolymorphus]

normally time loops freak me right the fuck out but tbh now all I want to do is do the wenis

#everybody do the wenis #the wenis is a dance #time loops #game changer #meta meta

[the-cricket-chirps]

Niklaus Stoecklin

META META

1941

#Niklaus Stoecklin #swiss painter #swiss art #swiss artist #Swiss painting #graphic designer #graphic art #graphics #commercial art #commercial artist #graphic design #meta #meta meta #new objectivity #neue sachlichkeit #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #aesthetic #beauty #tumblrstyle

[mmmmalo]

this might be a stupid question, sorry in advance. when you perform analysis on a work like homestuck and excavate these levels of, like, racial and social meaning from it, how does it affect your opinion of the work? do you come to like or dislike it more, or have your feelings toward it grown past that over the years into more nebulous things?

i love your blog and your posts, even though i only started homestuck last year and never made it past act 4; when i read your stuff i always learn new things about how one can interact with texts. just got curious about the above after reading your post on caliborn and disability and such. hope you have a good day.

I continue to like the work, in new ways. The feelings evade summary, so here's a few examples:

I lost my initial fervor for classpect ages ago, when it became clear to me that the categories weren't mutually exclusive (depriving the system of majestic power) and that they were not the ultimate key to Homestuck (meaning a new paradigm would be needed to solve the story's remaining mysteries). But I still admire how classpect induces the audience to engage in symbolic reading, proposing this object or that color has an associated abstract significance.

The manifestation system started out just giving me digestible bits of characterization like Egbert being scared of heights, but within a few months it began giving me weirder shit like racist sex dreams. That was difficult to integrate into my impression of what exactly Homestuck was -- for the time, I was satisfied to conclude that Equius was not as much of an anomaly as he was made out to be, and that the comic might be in some measure a commentary on racism. That the racist thoughts seemed to emanate from particular characters, in a game whose modus operandi is making thoughts real, struck me as a distancing maneuver of sufficient strength to rebuff gentle (and not so gentle) suggestions that maybe this all just meant Hussie was racist. Thus when the ARG got posted, instead of joining the outcry against the abundant bigotry I was laser focused on how the alternate-dimension Obama was a surrealist confirmation of racist birther conspiracies. The psychological framing of Sburb had persuaded me to accept the story as a scare quote around "racism" that could be observed at a remove.

I was excited that the manifestation system meant more characterization for Jade, then shocked when it implied she had been raped, then apprehensive of the apparent perpetrator Grandpa's every move, then supremely confused by the revelation that Homestuck's deployment of pejorative tropes meant that all the above had coaxed me into a simulation of satanic panic. Reconciling my sympathy for Jade's suffering with the knowledge that Jake is by some measure an effigy sending out de-fused signals of DANGEROUS HOMOSEXUAL THREATENS THE CHILDREN, it all gives me a headache. The story's ironic scaremongering demands your disengagement, to view the story as artifice, but the suffering of the victim within the bad-faith narrative is nonetheless visceral. Conflicting demands like that make up much of the story for me now: pathos that I once felt and continue to feel, side by side with the need to question the foundations of the sympathy.

It is very rare that anything holds my attention as long as Homestuck has and that in itself is something I'm grateful for. Trying to get a rhetorical foothold on its weird ass games has been my primary motivation for reading new things -- psychoanalytic film criticism, existential philosophy, and academic theorization of assorted bigotries are probably not things I would have delved into were they not connected to the puzzle box. It became my lesson plan for self-study, and it has (slash I have) made me into a better reader in general... or something, idk.

I like the story. That's it for feelings for now

#the undersells the dynamic of laughing at new jokes and being exasperated by new jokes #and the experience of becoming a more guarded speaker under the dual pressures of reader scrutiny and an epistemic humility that comes wit #h knowing your mode of reading will eventually reach its limit #but for now for now #meta meta

[nofatclips]

Engasga Gato and Oranian by Metá Metá, a take away show in São Paulo for La Blogothèque

#music #brazilian music #metá metá #meta meta #juçara marçal #jucara marcal #kiko dinucci #thiago frança #thiago franca #video #live #live session #blogothèque #la blogothèque #jeremiah #renaud duguet #samuel thiebaut #samuel thiebault #são paulo #fernando rischbieter #Youtube

[gofancyninjaworld]

there's one other difference between the OPM manga and webcomic

And it's one that has nothing to do with their contents. ONE is like a bad boyfriend, while Murata is a good one. Murata is reliable, communicative, and tells us if he's going to be late or skip a week. ONE ghosts us for months, then gives us some attention and it's wonderful and all is forgiven. Then he's gone again. It gives everything about the webcomic that little bit extra glitz.

While we're like yeah yeah, another manga chapter. Whatever.

There's a reason bad boyfriends last so long. They're exciting.

#OPM #meta meta #ONE treats us so mean to keep us keen

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What if the Animorphs are actually their own human-like race, & were the dominant power until the Andalites released a virus that rendered them weak enough for them to defeat? Eternally young, they hide in fear of the Andalites realizing they live, hope returns when they create a cube that restores them to their natural state, allowing them to reproduce. Then the Yeerks invade, & the Andalite Empire that follows is not the one they remember, for starters they crudely mimic the Animorph's power!

I feel like this is one of those AUs like the one where Ed Edd 'n Eddy takes place in Purgatory, or Aang is the fourth Avatar since Roku but the White Lotus killed the other three in infancy — it would dramatically change the tone of the series, while nothing about the surface-level plot or characters would actually be any different from canon. Like, it's certainly possible to headcanon that Ferris Bueller is a figment of Cameron's imagination or C-3PO has been hacked and is now serving as an imperial spy. It changes the interpretation of the story in fascinating and fun ways.

If the Animorphs are reincarnated evil overlords, but they're reincarnated as a species motivated to pretend to be ordinary human kids and to be on the andalites' side... then again that changes a million things about the interpretation of the series, without having to change the plot. It forces a new understanding of Ax's role on the team, for one — is he the only normal kid out of the loop? Is he pretending to be an andalite? Does he sense anything is off about these people? For that matter, it raises questions about Jake's ultimate endgame. Obviously it's reasonable he's still motivated to defend the Earth, but was all that maneuvering with andalite power structures on purpose? Was he carefully manipulating the War Council, or is he just that charismatic naturally? So on and so forth.

#animorphs #meta meta #'reincarnated evil overlords' isn't one i had on my bingo card before now #but y'know what? that's on me

[drsilverfish]

So it goes...

15x20 Carry On Supernatural

1x01 Pilot The Winchesters

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

#Supernatural #The Winchesters #15x20 #Robbie T's fix-it fic #1x01 Pilot #SPN meta #Meta meta #Vonnegut #The Winchesters meta #Meta

[luckydragon10]

Oh how the tables have turned

We've achieved meta inception.

Thanks for the reblog, @archiving-goncharov! Good luck in your archiving!

#kp meta doc #meta inception #kinnporsche meta #meta meta #you're so queue'd

[waywardsunlight]

Seeing how my art gets interpreted in the fandom is really interesting to me. Every take is valid because as soon as a put my art out there, my intentions are no longer relevant and we don’t need to be hermeneutic about fanart of a TVY7 Disney Channel show. However, in my little brain sometimes I am like: That take isn’t what I intended and I dislike it. And sometimes I’m like: That take isn’t what I intended but I really enjoy that interpretation. Most of the time people get exactly what I was going for and it’s super exciting. And sometimes there’s no real intention behind the art and people read into it and it’s wonderful. 

I think that’s how Dana Terrace probably feels if she reads TOH meta online and that’s kind of special. 

#meta meta #this is what happens to a brain when it spends too much time studying art history it does weird things like this #i have no idea what to actually tag this besties

[ladyshinga]

#i can post it here if i get meta about it first

[probablybadrpgideas]

The Monster Manual but it's blatantly written by the monsters

#rpg #roleplaying game #D&D #fantasy #meta

[dyscomancer]

#from the desk #tumblr #tumblr ads #tumblr meta #hellsite #meme #what's your opinion on #as far as i'm concerned

[mmmmalo]

Maybe if I quote Hussie's apology for Skaianet Systems about the work being intended as "condemnation through satire" of that conspiratorial worldview people would be more receptive to the idea that Homestuck as a whole was written in a similar spirit...

I shared the Clash song "Straight to Hell" awhile back because the lyrics seemed to occupy a similar rhetorical position as Homestuck, words of derision that (for me at least) resolved into sympathy for the parties being mocked, such that the narrative paradigm becomes the chief object of criticism. A song sampling "Straight to Hell" (MIA's "Paper Planes") does similar work from the first person: apparently MIA sang about forging visas and robbing people in response to being harassed at a border crossing, mockingly embracing and embellishing the image held of her by the guards -- that's closer to Psycholonials' framing, in certain respects... anyways, I hope expanding my library of similar objects will eventually make it easier to articulate what Homestuck's doing

#meta meta

[nofatclips]

Angoulême by Metá Metá, live at Cultura Livre

#music #brazilian music #metá metá #meta meta #juçara marçal #kiko dinucci #marcelo cabral #thiago frança #thiago franca #video #live session #live #live music #cultura livre #Youtube

[mycroftrh]

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

#not tagging fandoms for safety #fic meta #misc #mine

[andmaybegayer]

anyone else seeing weird mysterious failures on Tumblr

#tumblr meta #computer stuff