#snapshot culture is

[snapshot-culture-is]

snapshot culture is being cool and sexy

Hi Amber

#mod rubik #plural gang #plural system #snapshot #snapshot culture is #system stuff #endo safe #plurality #I see you Amber silly goose

[campgender]

“Ruth the Butch” by Karen Williams, published in Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go (2002) ed. Michelle Gibson & Deborah Meem

image description: A screenshot of an image from a book. At the top is a black and white photograph of a Black femme smiling at the camera. she has short curls and is wearing wire-framed glasses, long tassel earrings, and a blouse or dress with spaghetti straps. the photo is captioned with her name, Karen Williams, in white. the rest of the image is black text on a gray background:

I have to have roles ‘cause when I get to a closed door I want to know who’s going to open it. I am standing there waiting for a butch to come along. And all those androgynous people and codependent people line up right behind me. Actually, we are really waiting for the UPS or Federal Express truck to come because we know that’s where all the butches work. I used to be a secretary and I had my favorite butch from UPS: Ruth the Butch. I was putting in requests. I was wrapping up huge packages with nothing in them but paper clips.

“Can Ruth come by today? I got 49 boxes just for her.” And, sure enough, she’d come over there and I’d say, “Ruth, please pick up that box,” and she’d pick it up with the two paper clips and say, “Oh, this is so light!” And I’d say, “That’s because you’re so strong!”

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#karen williams #butch/femme #femme4butch #comedy #queer comedy #queer humor #image described #mac’s bookshelf #thought it was really cool that they included comedy bits in the anthology especially as like a snapshot of a cultural moment #most of them were just interesting to me on that level but this one really tickled me #happy tag

[oliveroctavius]

I'm not fitting this into the collage I have going on, but it fascinates me that 1610 Jessica Drew is a literal, straightforward example of the 19th-century "sexual invert" theory of lesbianism

#I kind of love it when comics end up play-acting out literal versions of social neuroses that we pretend that culture has moved on from. #from like a capecomics-as-anthropological-snapshots point of view. #it's like having a dream that makes your job easier by giving up on the symbolism halfway through #waking up like did I just get visited by the ghost of freud past #usm #jessica drew

[transboysokka]

#poll #hyperspecific poll #sa mention / #pls don’t like. ask me if im okay about any of these things im making this post bc i think its funny lmao #like there’s something so specific that’s like a cultural snapshot or moment in time. about these polls #it’s sooooo much like the old ‘one thing about me’ thing on TikTok #idk lol I mean I do hope you all have none of the above tbh and none of this is like. the worst stuff but.

[engagemythrusters]

okay. I've been doing a lot of thinking about a no-Order-66 au, and where the now-relieved-from-duty GAR clones would go. And, obviously... clone planet. I think most people stumble upon that, kind of, and I know the brothers are so devoted to each other that I doubt they would want to leave each other behind. I'm sure many groups would split to their own planets, because that's just the way people work--not everyone is going to want to go to the same place.

And I'm thinking a lot about the culture that would develop over time.

First: there would be a bigger clone culture--they all went through the same training and war, same facilities on Kamino. There's so much that they share, other than just their faces. It links them all. So there's that.

Second: cultures within battalions/corps/etc. After all, not everyone had the same instructors on Kamino, and not everyone served under the same generals and commanders, and not everyone went on the same campaigns. Those experiences influenced how they turned out as people--after all, Plo Koon is a very different Jedi than, say, Depa Billaba. The cultures that influenced individual Jedi influence their clones, along with personality and all that jazz. AND clones would grow differently in different experiences. Like, those who stayed planetside the whole war have totally different jargon than those who served solely on ships. Not to mention, brothers who served with each other are going to group naturally to their own, rather than others. Of course, there's going to be some that are similar! 212st and 501st would band together, having formed such a close bond with their generals' lineages. They knew each other very well.

Thus, Clone Culture reigns supreme on Clone Worl, with its own intricacies colliding and collaborating to create a rich, varying society.

And that's even before clones settle down.

They obviously have to bring in new people to the planet, because... obviously they would not be able to reproduce with one another. These new cultures from these new partners would influence everything! The children from these families would have clone culture and the culture from their other parent(s)! This would shape the next generation, and the next, and the next! The culture grows infinitely more diverse, and yet still cements itself into the growing civilisation of Clone World.

And, considering they're all related, it would be some time before the generations of children could intermingle with one another. They're all cousins, and I'm not sure how many generations it would take for it to not... fuck up their kids real bad... if they reproduced.

So, in response to that, I'm thinking maybe there's going to be some... ritual? Rite of passage? That occurs when children grow to adults. Leaving the world to go experience other cultures, and to find someone to love (yes, as an aroace I do understand the allocentrism (?word?) involved, but. this is for a survival of a culture, man! i dont want inbreeding). This creates its own challenges to the culture (what arises when you find someone you won't love in many years but do now, and make them move to your homeworld? what happens when you leave your world behind for theirs? and all that). There's always going to be the ugly parts of a culture, and this can bring beauty and this hideousness.

Also, I don't know what to say just yet on how the advanced ageing of the first generation (unless they fix this!) influences the culture, but it's sure gonna do something!

I have many, many more thoughts, but this is all I can process into written word at the moment. But just... Ugh! Clone culture and its future!

#i started thinking about this for linguistic purposes (obv) but it expanded. #and there's SO much at play #and these are just snapshots #agh its just so interesting to think about what could happen. #... does anyone know how many generations it would take before its not so... inbreeding-y? im terrified to look it up. #star wars #clone trooper #clone culture

[cocteautwinslyrics]

im reading герой нашего времени in english and while i do not agree with lots and lots of what pechorin says and does. he is after all a product of the 19th century russian imperial core. he is one of the best haters ive ever read. he calls this guy gruzhnitsky his friend from the army and then immediately afterwards he j reads his character for Filth for a full page before executing an elaborate plan to win the affection of the princess that gruzhnitsky wants to marry while not even being into her

#like i really enjoy his character as a snapshot into russian imperial society aside from him being really funny to read #like for me primarily im interested in how the main border ethnic groups are portrayed as characters #characterisation of ukrainians and circassians mainly #as well as just general caucasian and south west empire ethnicities #like the book title being 'hero of our time' the 'of our time' bit really matters because its how a hero looks to those in charge of the #country and its culture at a deeply crucial time for the russian language and its evolution #like pechorin is pretty misogynistic and he makes a comment about being innately prejudiced against disabled people #because he believes theyve lost with the bodily function a piece of their soul #anyway yeah ive been really enjoying analysing it through these lenses #im over halfway through as well!!! yaay

[mr-moonman-man-me-a-moon]

More Riftcord Tee K.O. highlight shenanigans

AHIT, WTNV, and... A bage(k)l

#ahit #jackbox #tee k.o. #welcome to night vale #snatcher #moonjumper #Moonphibian is canonically boneless #and Subcon of a Prince MJ (Crois) is 100% my dad #unfortunately I can't fit every shirt from the game rip #I feel like our tee k.o. collections make for good snapshots of the culture at the time #bagekl is one of our most enduring traditions in Riftcord #comes all the way from mooncon actually I think #which still exists but is a bit more quiet now since everyone's mostly moved to riftcord #anyway

[plural-culture-is]

Term thingy for the most recent peep(s) to look into: snapshot

For the same person different ages/point of you(&)r life thing.

Already commented on the same post but felt like it was important or whatever - could also be a subsytem or median fs but def mayhaps look into snapshots

/nf

#not plural culture #ask response #snapshot #terminology #yes this was ages ago but hopefully someone finds it helpful #banebow13uwu #[mod klaus]

[creaturebehavior]

*puts on a video about gay representation in american sitcoms to soothe me*

#you know i love my little videos about sitcoms #i love looking at how things started and then how far we’ve come #i love that sitcoms are snapshots of where american culture and history was at the time #same with cartoons and animation

[snapshot-culture-is]

snapshot culture is "oh god I feel exactly the same as I did syscovery like I didn't change AT ALL even my music tastes and outlook on life is the same I must be faking oh god" before realizing who's fromting

#snapshot culture is #snapshot #system stuff #plural gang #plural system #LITERALLY!!! #ON GOD THO #shit sucks lmaoooooo #endo safe #plurality

[icewindandboringhorror]

............ ultimate somng

#i'll go a few months without hearing this and then for some reason I do again and I go insane #especially the very opening first section ....hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #I like the orchestral version too but the piano one just has a different vibe in some ways #again I'm not really a big music person (in terms of listening to/being a fan of stuff. I like to make music and experiment with instruments #but like I've never been in a band fandom or or been to concert or cared about anything in a pop culture type way) I just have like #a list of some hyper specific songs with specific tones that I listen to like 400x in a row until I get tired of them and then #choose to listen to somehting else 400x in a row until I enetually circle back to one of the ones I already listened to 400x in a row #I rarely ever put music on in the backgroudn while doing things or treat it as an activity it's more of like.. a fixation or something #I go through 'music phases' where I just feel like listening to music as an ativity for a little while and then dont again for a few months #and when I do it's like the same songs 400x in a row again but gyhbhj #or sometimes cycles through a few songs or something but all on repeat #NONE of which are ever like related to each other in any way but are jus what my brain wants to hear 4998898 times for some reason #my most recent music phase rotation was - 'moses fantasy' by paganini. 'luxury' azaleia banks. the fucking charles darwin natural selection #song from horrible histories. rock the casbah??? (idk why for a few days i just wanted to hear it ghhj). the succession opening theme. #'Ludacrismas' even though it's the middle of summer. and 'I just wanna dance with you' - starpoint..lol.. ALSO for a period of #like 2 days I was mentally preoccupied with that meme edited version of that genghis khan song that instead makes it say 'mingus kingus #' or 'i get a little bit dingus bingus' or whatever hbjhbhj.. If you don't know some of those go look them up. then put them all #in a youtube playlist and put it on repeat 6000x. this will give you a tiny snapshot into one aspect of my current mental landscape. #Really want to do a kazoo cover of Moses Fantasy. literally imagine how annoying that would sound on a loud abrasive kazoo #and ALSO how probably annoying parts of it would be to try to do ghhbjb.. the super high pitched violin but desperately squeaked #through the raspy cadence of a dollar store kazoo.... this is my design #okay im listening to it again HGHBHJ the fast parts.... just *frantic squabbling into a kazoo that's not even accurate* #ANYWAY.. I don't talk about music often because like most things I am also not capable of consuming music in a Normal Way and am defintely #not a cool trendsetter or someone with GoodOpinions to share. one of my favorite songs is something I heard in a commercial when I was #7 years old and nothing has ever topped it so.. ghbjhb.. .I am dictated not by popular media or trends but by an obscure series of algorithm #s performed by tiny squirrels that live in my brain who randomly pick and choose songs to suddenly resurfance into my conscious #'Remember that thing you heard a snippet of in school music class when you were 6? find it NOW on youtube. listen 500 times. now' #'then also literally don't listen to music again for 3 entire months until the next 4 day period where you listen to one thing on repeat' #ANYWAY ANYWAY.. obsessed with this ravel song again. also still in the grips of the charles darwin one unfortunately ghbhjbhj #brain is just a mix of *dreamlike ethereal piano* NA TU RAAAL SE LEC TIOOONNN *twinkling piano again* hGGMM... yeaaAA

[tomo-mx5]

四季を撮っています。

#sony #nikon #camera #tokyocameraclub #photography #snapshot #portrait #culture #film #film photography #my photos #adobe #adobe lightroom #lightroom #landscape

[all-pacas]

I finished my Rome book and have now begun one about Pompeii. I’m 65 pages in and I already love it: yes, it covers the volcano, but most of the book is about “this is what the town and daily life of it would have been like, actually.” Fascinating stuff. Things I’ve learned so far:

- The streets in Pompeii have sidewalks sometimes a meter higher than the road, with stepping stones to hop across as “crosswalks.” I’d seen some photos before. The book points out that, duh, Pompeii had no underground drainage, was built on a fairly steep incline, and the roads were more or less drainage systems and water channels in the rain.

- Unlike today, where “dining out” is expensive and considered wasteful on a budget, most people in Pompeii straight up didn’t have kitchens. You had to eat out if you were poor; only the wealthy could afford to eat at home.

- Most importantly, and I can’t believe in all the pop culture of Pompeii this had never clicked for me: Pompeii had a population between 6-35,000 people. Perhaps 2,000 died in the volcano. Contemporary sources talk about the bay being full of fleeing ships. Most people got the hell out when the eruption started. The number who died are still a lot, and it’s still gruesome and morbid, but it’s not “an entire town and everyone in it.” This also makes it difficult for archeologists, apparently (and logically): those who remained weren’t acting “normally,” they were sheltering or fleeing a volcano. One famous example is a wealthy woman covered in jewelry found in the bedroom in the glaridator barracks. Scandal! She must have been having an affair and had it immortalized in ash! The book points out that 17 other people and several dogs were also crowded in that one small room: far more likely, they were all trying to shelter together. Another example: Houses are weirdly devoid of furniture, and archeologists find objects in odd places. (Gardening supplies in a formal dining room, for example.) But then you remember that there were several hours of people evacuating, packing their belongings, loading up carts and getting out… maybe the gardening supplies were brought to the dining room to be packed and abandoned, instead of some deeper esoteric meaning. The book argues that this all makes it much harder to get an accurate read on normal life in a Roman town, because while Pompeii is a brilliant snapshot, it’s actually a snapshot of a town undergoing major evacuation and disaster, not an average day.

- Oh, another great one. Outside of a random laundry place in Pompeii, someone painted a mural with two scenes. One of them referenced Virgil’s Aeneid. Underneath that scene, someone graffiti’d a reference to a famous line from that play, except tweaked it to be about laundry. This is really cool, the book points out, because it implies that a) literacy and education was high enough that one could paint a reference and have it recognized, and b) that someone else could recognize it and make a dumb play on words about it and c) the whole thing, again, means that there’s a certain amount of literacy and familiarity with “Roman pop culture” even among fairly normal people at the time.

[grimeishhh]

Inheritance.

Moments captured in ink,

Traced on ivory paper,

Brushes worn and weathered.

Crafted in careful prose,

Unknown to my eyes.

#third culture kid #poetry #oc poetry #disconnect #i just wanna read poetry of my native language ok? #but i cant and i cry #i guess its poetry? #poetry therapy #snapshot poetry #contemplative #can you miss something you never had? #the answer is yes i think #growing up chinese

[svartalfhild]

Elf Lore in the Forgotten Realms for BG3 Players who are Unfamiliar

I've been seeing some...uninformed takes lately about certain elf characters from BG3, so let me just throw some stuff out there for y'all to consider.

Elves in FR live to be about 750.

They physically mature at roughly the same rate as humans i.e. 18-20.

Culturally, elves don't consider other elves emotionally mature i.e. adults until the age of 100, at which point they may choose an adult name to go by.

What does this mean, logically? Well, consider their very long lifespan. If you are going to live 750 years, your perspective on wisdom is going to be quite different from a human's. While 60 years might be plenty mature for a human, for an elf, that means you still haven't had enough time to watch all of your shorter lived friends pass, which I imagine is something of an emotional milestone for elves.

Halsin is 350. This means he's just hitting middle-age.

Astarion is 239 (Idle Champions claims he's 350, but I call bullshit because his birth and death dates are literally in BG3 and also IC frequently gives the characters bullshit ages, like they say Jaheira is 36, which couldn't have been true even during BG1). He died at 39, which is quite young, but he had the same emotional maturity as a human 39 year old at the time, so he's not Like That because he's undeveloped. He's Like That because he's a snapshot of a privileged young nobleman who then spent 200 years being used and abused by the worst sort of person imaginable. He wasn't a full adult by elven standards, though, and I'm sure there's lots of elven rites of passage he didn't get to experience because he was dead.

BG3 does not mechanically distinguish between sun elves and moon elves and simply puts them all under the high elf umbrella, but they are very much a thing in the lore and have distinct appearances, cultures, and histories.

Moon elves tend to have black, blue, or silver-white hair and have pale skin, sometimes with a bluish hue. Their eyes are usually blue or green, sometimes with gold flecks.

Sun elves tend to have blond, black, or red hair and brown skin tones. Their eyes are usually green, gold, black, copper, silver, or hazel.

Based on his appearance, Astarion is probably a moon elf, and it's likely his original eye colour was either blue or green.

There are many other types of elves than those that are playable in the BG3, such as sea elves, winged elves, star elves, wild elves, and lythari.

It's possible that Shadowheart's father is lythari, because lythari are lycanthropic elves.

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #Forgotten Realms #Astarion #Halsin #BG3 spoilers

[angeli1977]

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