fuck it I've had enough. I had an intro to cultural anthropology class a semester ago, but looking at recent bullshit in Florida, I have a few things to say:
I'm sick of people treating culture like it's some chunk of earth.
It's neither something you can wage war on nor fight for. It is not a finite amount of substances that is adulterated with new introductions. It isn't something precious in the same way a piece of jewelry or what have you; not preserved safe by being put in a locked box. Cultures are not the current models of bludgeon that groups of people impose upon others. One's culture, in total, is not an "immovable cornerstone" of anything made by humans. It is not in any way like stone.
It did not exist before there were people to possess it. A culture is something we've created amongst each other. In short, it is a conversation. one of beliefs, institutions, and knowledge; spoken by the beliefs and actions of it's participants. It is a conversation that you have a voice in too.
If you forget anything I say before or since, please do not forget that.
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i was gonna watch the vgk-dal game to bandwagon the stars but then i realized that if i have to see hertl in that jersey even once it's literally my last day, and also mike grier's last day, on planet earth, so.
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oooooo please tell me (who knows nothing on the subject) about orv swap au
hehehe. hehehehehehe. hehehehehehehhehehehhheheheh <- guy who is so normal
the premise of orv swap au (name has yet to be finalized) is this: what if kdj and yjh swapped narrative positions (reader <-> character) but very little else? what if a video game player enters a time loop to save his favorite character from dying over and over again and also to end the apocalypse?
admittedly it's not super fleshed out yet (a lot of the changes this premise would introduce are still not hammered out yet) but here are some points under the cut (novel spoilers ahead!)
orv swap au starts with pro gamer yjh who feels :/ abt his job, but hey, it pays the bills. despite (or maybe because of) his relative popularity as a pro gamer and networking with the agency/sponsors/people to impress, he's kind of isolated in a way that's detrimental, a facade of someone he's not whenever he's on camera
something to play around with is the idea of agency? maybe this yjh doesn't feel like he has any and has his hands tied between the lifestyle and being under public scrutiny and not having enough of a support system to leave everything behind. maybe he doesn't know what else he would even do. maybe he's aimless and drifting with nothing to hold on to.
his favorite video game is what i've been thinking of as World's Hardest To Play Indie Game (not based on difficulty but just on the experience of consuming it) a boring, exposition heavy, player-hostile, poorly designed, slightly buggy mess of a barely-playable game: twsa, a game that was not finished upon release and experiences with sporadic updates every now and then.
the ending tree to this game is so convoluted its insane. also theres no save states so if you die (very likely) u restart babeyyy.
twsa (video game) does have multiple endings, all of which happen when kdj, your main character, dies. some are farther into the apocolypse than others, some paths require meta knowledge of future events or character actions or items or whatever. the "true ending" is either analogous to the original 1863: kdj makes it to the end at the cost of everyone he loves, or hsy's modified 1863: kdj makes himself enemy of the scenario to secure a way out for the kimcom remnants.
there's branches on the choices tree where everyone dies and everything sucks and is bad forever and theres choices to make where kdj gets to make a family and they don't really get to settle down but they can get pretty close to it among the ruins of the apocalypse. through all his testing, yjh finds that these endings are nice but peter out - to get to the end of the apocalypse yjh has to claw his way there inch by painful inch, through betrayal and sacrifice, and he still cant fully get past it
i originally wanted to finagle a yoohankim 3 way swap but i couldn't figure it out. swap aus are a lot easier to work with when they're even numbers, at least to me, so this au features a ysa who is a video game company employee by day and by night she really has become god this time (and also a terrible indie dev). and this is how jungdoksang can still win !!!!
also yjh's coworker from Real Life hsy :) i haven't decided if she's like an employee for the same agency, or if she's someone else in the gaming circles that yjh interacts with sometimes (in my heart theyre in like some sort of discord server together), or something like that but she's around. whatever she does she is twitter cancelled for something. to me.
the only other character swaps are lsk and yma. yma is yjh's estranged sister (in broad strokes there's a vague bad parent situation going on here) (they used to be close until they drifted apart and slowly started hating each other [there is an abyss between them that neither of them can bridge]) (he feels that she betrayed him and threw him under the bus so he left [maybe he gets kicked out]) (she feels that he abandoned her to whatever situation they have going on [he didn't even try to take her with him]) and he has to find her when the apocalypse starts. yjh older sibling to yma gives us a whole different little dynamic to explore from kdj ysk (there's different levels of responsibility and guilt and blame when you're talking siblings that are soooooo interesting to me. sorry that i see any set of siblings and immediately try to figure out how to make them worse)
lsk is kdj's mom who appeared into existence at some point with kdj and they were both just adults. that's weird isn't it. oh well. i guess she can become a transcendent later too for funsies
everyone else stays in the same configuration of Real Person vs Character to me this is a very important aspect
this point has no precedent with the swap, nothing particular that would change to cause this, but it would be so funny if lgy was a little gamer boy who is an avid yjh hater. hates that guy. shows up to competitions to boo him. tunes into yjh's silent no-mic speedrunning streams to mald in chat but yjh +mods don't ban him bc its kinda funny.
anyways the apocalypse starts when yjh and his coworker/fellow gamer hsy are on a train to twitchcon and lgy is also there (also headed to twitchcon) and he brings bugs because he likes them but also to sabotage yjh specifically. its just funny if this happened. you understand
instead of having reader-related skills and abilities, yjh's skills are video game player based! he gets flavor text insight on people, location, and items, things like that. notably, he has the ability to reset, to bring himself back to the beginning of the apocalypse
orv swap proper follows yjh as the Player of the Game (Consumer of the Narrative) who lives hundred of lifetimes in this ruined-world-become-reality "replaying" [read: time looping through] the game to reshape it to save his fave character from self implosion (kdj with no dissociation is very prone to dying. all the time.). to revisit the idea of playing with yjh and the idea of agency, of creation, the only way to get past the apocalypse is to go off the beaten path, to choose options that weren't even there in the game. when in space, at his darkest point, yjh becomes a writer. in this story, at his darkest point, he has to become a creator too
please do not ask me how the epilogues go i dont know how the epilogues go (i don't want to throw yjh back into a train for milennia after he Just went through a thousand resets so i'm sending kdj for that but i havent fully planned how or why)
anyways, hope that helps!!! :)
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Okay I am going to be the devil. What do you think about the show? Iwtv the TV show?
Hi anon! What a topic to dance with the devil over!
I pretty much answered this here,
The short of it is, I'm not really a fan. I don't want to harsh anyone's buzz or be a killjoy but it's just not my bag. It doesn't feel very VC to me, it feels far more like a generic vampire TV show that took elements from the VC books but not the substance. It's a pale shadow, if you will allow me to borrow a line.
But I think it's definitely a good example of how your mileage may vary. I have friends who love the books and think the show is great too! So I think it depends on what you were hoping to get from the show and how well it's providing that.
Also whether they massacred your favorite character. But I digress.
Thank you for the ask!
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why am i making so many headcanons for barok despite having seen so little of his actual dialogue.................. i have a PROBLEM gamers ;~;
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utterly cannot stand the type of post thats like "what are the female characters you like" and i KNOW it's not the fault of the people who make those posts i know they only do it because 95% of this site's blorbos are men. but i hate it anyway. like really the only way you can get fandom people to talk about women is to explicitly tell them to talk about women. and it always comes off so disingenuous because i KNOW most people reblogging those posts would never say those characters on a generic "what are your favorite characters" post. like it's all just so bleak :/
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"gonna unfollow if you ship-"
my friend i blocked you before you even finished that sentence
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A Public Service Announcement For the Entire RWBY Fandom
Or, at least: @asmallermorehonestsoul
despite tagging it as #anti rwde
That still shows up in the tag because it contains ‘rvvde’ as its own word. This is why I find posts tagged #Bioshock Infinite if I look up #Bioshock. We’ve had this conversation with KKKoB and his ‘rvvde bullshit’ tag.
By this logic, you can’t complain about anything we have to say because we very clearly tag all our posts to let you know that it isn’t for you. You also can’t complain about the fact that this post is tagged #anti rwby. You don’t get to wave a flag in a park and then complain when people notice you.
Furthermore, that doesn’t matter. The tags of a post are not the first thing someone browsing tumblr will look at.
And it is very hard to look through RWBY content without seeing them
If we are expected to ignore it when your posts wind up in our tag, why are you allowed to complain when our posts end up in your tag? Especially when our tag is specifically meant to be blacklisted:
The first thing you want to do is click on the little person icon in the top-right corner and go to your setting.
After that, you scroll down to ‘Content You See’ and select the pencil next to ‘Filter Tags.’
Then, add the tag you want to filter out, in this case, ‘RWDE.’
There, done. That should stop our posts from popping up whenever you search for things like RWBY. I have tested this multiple times, it fucking works.* I tested this with the main tag, and I legit couldn’t look it up!
Now, true, we can easily do this with with your tags to remove them from our feed. But that’s not the point. We made this tag so that you could remove our complaints and criticisms of the show from your feed. Not so you could have an easier time complaining about us. You complain about how dark it is with a candle in one hand and a match in the other.
If expecting you to blacklist a tag is too much, why do you expect it of us?
Furthermore, if you expect us to curate our tags for your browsing conveniences, then please, do tell me: What exactly do you want us to do? Stop tagging our posts with RWBY? Most of us already do that.
And as for ‘using our disabilities as a shield,’ I’ll let @dowhatteverer explain why that’s bunk.
*This does not work if you specifically go to blogs who are known to post content into the tags you have blacklisted, which I know for a fact the anti-criticism crowd does.
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Bahahaha bestie I just blocked a destiheller who decided to leave a very kind paragraph reply to one of my posts about Sam and Dean
Apperantly they think that "Sam is evil and a horrible influence on dean" and that "Sam is far from innocent and ruined the whole world of supernatural for everyone, especially dean and cas, and they should have killed him off in the beginning of the show so he couldn't ruin anyone else's lives" (they also then went on to rant a little bit about dean and cas suffering, which I thought was funny)
I blocked them, and so sadly it deleted that reply, but I wish I had screenshotted it because it made me laugh so hard 😂
Omg no why 💀💀
Like I get it if you hate a character, you're entitled to your opinion even if it's wrong - but why do people go and do that?? Like the audacity needed to go onto someone else's post and start ranting about how they're wrong about something so subjective is impressive in the worst way. I'm so so sorry that people are so divorced from reality here, it's so weird.
Also I hate to be that guy but uhhhh there kind of wouldn't be a show without Sam... he's kind of a major plot point... for the whole thing..... I'm not anti Cas or destiel by any means, but like. Cas and Destiel are not the entirety of the show and imo shouldn't be (the bros are simply too delicious to give up their dynamics <3).
And I mean also!! - how can you even hate Sam, he's just a little guy!! He's done nothing wrong in his life ever barring the multiple murders and/or apocalypses how could you hate this face :(
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sorry (not) for all the recent fishposting btw. i have illnesses
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why is it that of the top works under the nieyao tag, the first three are xi.cheng, the next one after that all.cheng, and the NEXT one a oneshot comp
i’m gonna need y’all to learn how to tag background relationships
and by that i mean don’t fucking tag the relationship if it isn’t the focus bc it just spams up the tag
is that so hard
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holy crap i think i can actually go into the tag now
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sorry to say but if you're not okay with people making nsfw media of your characters your only options are to get over it and learn not to look at it or to just not make anything. because no matter how hard you try you are not going to get people to stop doing it, and you're only gonna make yourself look like an asshole in the process
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I’m trying not to be a huge dick about it but I got a “but what about us q-slurs who are traumatized by the bad words?” on my slur reclaimation post and so I’ve made a handy guide
1. You are being called the slur.
A. If it is with malice, I am sorry for this experience, however, this situation is not at all what I was talking about.
B. If it is with affection or as a joke from other LGBTs, and it makes you uncomfortable, ask them to stop. If they don’t, they’re a dick for not respecting your boundaries.
2. You are being “forced” to see other people use the word for a larger community
A. If it bothers you then you are probably not the “fag community” to which they are referring, then. In a post? Block. Blacklist words. Block tags. Walk away. Avert your eyes. You don’t vibe with “queer community” then refer to it as LGBT. You make it sound like a “someone saying Happy Holidays means I can’t say Merry Christmas anymore” situation. You don’t have to use any words you don’t vibe with. Hate to say Dyke March or Dykes on Bikes? Don’t go to the march. Avoid the bikes.
3. You are being “forced” to hear other people use the word for themselves
A. I mean this with love and respect…suck it up. If it is so deeply triggering, remove yourself. Leave the situation. Block. Blacklist words. Block tags.
In a conversation about reclaimation, I am sorry, but you only get to decide how people refer to you, no one else. If someone else’s use upsets you, YOU have to do something about it, not them. You do not, under ANY circumstances, get to ask someone not to use dyke or fag or queer or tranny for themselves. You don’t get to ask someone not to use it/its. You don’t get to tell someone to tuck or bind because it gives you second-hand dysphoria. You do not get to decide how someone else is queer.
If being around them is that debilitating, you need to take steps to insulate yourself.
On the curate your own experience website, you should know how to do just that. There are so many guides out there. And to the complaint that “now” Pride uses all these slurs which has made Pride hostile to you, I’d invite you to crack open a book, but perhaps what you find will be too upsetting
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Hello influx of new followers! I don't post often but I tag most things, and if you need something tagged let me know!
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