#we lost our culture.....

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

You wouldn’t catch many 34 year old’s publicly infantilising themselves and getting away with it because of the willingness of their cult fanbase to enforce that narrative. I love her music, but I wonder when Taylor Swift will snap out of her seemingly perpetual “teenage petulance” mindset.

It’s so disturbing how her fans speak about her as if she isn’t a grown woman. It actually does her a huge disservice. She is not just an average adult either; she is a powerful businesswoman and shouldn’t be allowed to act with impunity. And she certainly doesn’t need you to play pawn for her free of cost. You’re being exploited.

#I guess growing up precocious sometimes means not growing up at all but some of her peers who are equal to her in age #are capable of acting with more maturity than her #again I know she’s self aware so there’s that #but it’s concerning that we cultivate this toxic culture in our fan base #folklore and evermore Taylor seemed much more mature too which is strange #it really feels like she’s reverted to her teenage self #Hozier and Adele are her age too #let’s turn on our critical thinking skills be a minute #even blaming the whole Matty Healy stuff on Matty instead of holding her accountable for any of it as if she was a lost child #matty healy #taylor swift #taylorswift #the tortured poets department #down bad #but daddy i love him #ttpd #guilty as sin? #swifties

[macbethz]

rereading a discontinued series and there isn't magically more this time

#i cant believe we fucking lost desolation jones to a hard drive crash bro genuinely could have been the voice of a generation i feel #like so predicative of so much of our culture and it only had 8 goddamn issues FML!!! #warlock wartalks

[porcelain-rob0t]

thinking about Serge again

#the Jewish-Romani solidarity is real bc i feel for him so much #to be persecuted for centuries and still have so much hope to follow your dreams im jusg AAUGH #i love serge i love my silly little son #in a perfect world he could have embraced and celebrated his culture more #i would have loved to see him in his cultural clothing or anything like that #my family had to assimilate hard when we immigrated to America to be safe from antisemitism but we lost our culture #so i just get so emotional when a character has to assimilate to stay safe and doesnt get to experience their culture #kaze to ki no uta #kazeki

[andromeda3116]

it makes me feel something raw and aching when i see the monuments left behind by ancient cultures, the pillars and the carvings and the steps rising to the sky and the temples and the pictograms, like for thousands and thousands of years humans have stood in awe of the universe and poured their energy into building places to worship the gods they imagined made all of this, the way their wonder and their belief have lasted well beyond even their culture's lifetimes

for us to still see these places and feel the memory of their hands and their heartbeats carved into the stone, for us to know, thousands of years later, that they were there and they were amazed at what they saw

idk, in this sanitized world saturated with advertisements and cold steel and corporations squeezing the life out of the planet for another quick buck, it's gut-wrenching to look at the stones of gobekli tepi and feel shadows of the awe we once beheld the world with

#ancient history #humanism #i'm watching a documentary on ancient feats of engineering and it's tearing me up inside #they brought huge stones and arranged them and stacked them and carved out images of animals #and they did this all with stone tools! #think of the time that took! the effort! the energy! #a monument to their world #what have we lost about ourselves in all these years since? #we feel such cultural ennui #we no longer connect to the world #i keep thinking of that post about how they've taken the sky from us #we can't even see the same sky they saw anymore in most places #our ancestors feel so distant; our hearts are so far from home

[shizunstan]

I'm reading a book that makes me just so mad at christianity, not only nowadays but also in the early middle ages like gaaah so many thoughts

#so many places and so many cultures still know their history there's so many mythologies and older faiths #and then there are slavs #with most of everything just gone #where we're not sure about our history before christianity at all and only know a few legends but nothing truly solid #and why is that? #why the fack is that hmm?? *looks at the church with fire in my eyes* #because you facking murdered and burned and destroyed everything and what couldn't be destroyed you changed and added to your religion #ao many people don't know the history before so many practices #and taht they actually come from slavic culture #i'm so mad but also i know that making poland a christian country was rather a political decision #because if mieszko didn't do that we would've beed raided by western christian countries fo years and decades and centuries #until we would finally give in to their religion of 'love and compassion' #but ut still makes me so mad and sad and everything in between because the memory of what it was like before is mostly lost #and compared to roman or greek or nordic mythologies what we have is just scraps

[bloodfueled]

I salivate over worldbuilding that a lot of my interests e.g mass effect dragon age whatever either never address or only do so off handedly because it's such minor things it doesn't matter to the Main overarching plot and it's something our character probably already knows so there's no point in expositing. please god make shifting real so I can read all the in-universe dry boring ass biology and history textbooks

#and ive already lost the thread of thought too but i was thinking about how the translators work earlier as well #like first contact with a new species and totally new linguistics and we're able to understand with little to no trouble #so clearly theres some manner of In real time learning of an ENTIRELY NEW language on the technology's part which is a bit nuts #+ there's so much cultural stuff we just dont see because it has nothing to do with The War or our companions and it sucks so bad #please... i need to knwo my scholarly curiosity is boundless and desperate #.txt #although to be fair i AM missing out on a bit of da stuff because i still havent read any of the novels

[girlbob-boypants]

I do actually have a few different concepts for how I would personally rewrite IBS. The basic difference being "How far do I want to stray from canon?"

At minimum, Braham shouldn't have been done dirty and instead it should've been a contest of control. No beating him up for Problematique Writing Reasons but protecting him until he can regain control of the Destroyers so they focus on Frost Legion instead of attacking everyone.

But if I had my full way, he wouldn't have turned to Primordus like that at all, and instead would have gotten that story of being the Oathbreaker and redeeming himself as the Norn who should unite his people against their greatest threat. With Jhavi acting as a sort of representation of the Norn with how she views him changing over the story and the big deal being when she believes he can lead, showing that her view of him has gone from Oathbreaker to worthy of the title Hero of Legend through his actions.

Add in conversations with the Commander where he both expresses his feelings about his parents, and also talks about how he gets how hard our job is now that he's in a similar position. Make the false Destiny's Edge he left behind far FAR more important to the story (like have one of them be the last boss we fight before Ryland and Jormag levels important). And you've got a genuinely solid experience that doesn't trivialize characters, gives more breathing room for future stories, and doesn't add in so many plot elements we lose the focus and completely abandon the lesser developed races in favor of "now we can go to Cantha to get all our gw1 fans back yay!"

#girlbob.txt #gw2 #'but how would we handle primordus when the game says without jormag we can't stop him' #1. this is a video game and the writers can change things. retcons happen all the time. the 'one weakness' thing is a retcon itself #2. that's literally an excellent story device because it puts the asura in the perfect position to explore their strengths #especially with a certain asura on our team being fundamental to changing how we perceive dragons and magic in universe #now we have a norn/charr focused story specifically about how the norn have lost so much and the charr's war culture has led to this #and then a story after that's 'jormag forced our hand and we killed them wtf do we do now that primordus is waking up' #with a focus on a massively under developed race that NEEDED real screentime to explore their fucked up parts of their culture #and really put an impact on the 'elder dragons take so much from those they exist around' aspect #since in a well written story. taimi and braham would resonate over how much both of their cultures LOST due to the dragons #the game literally doesn't address just how much was lost when the asura had to fucking abandon their homes and come to the surface #and i think it'd be interesting if the game had explored the idea that the current society #is a result of their political leaders who were the most selfish surviving the exodus #and reframing it as their intelligence and how that makes them too valuable #but now i'm getting ahead of myself

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

i think it’s really beautiful that our generation got to live through seeing the rise and the fall of marvel movies in real time. may they never have a resurgence <3

#yeah they still make them and they still make money but it’s nowhere near the level of cultural prominence they were at like 6 years ago #they lost spiderman and then they had nothing #and now they just blame the flopiture of all their garbage movies on Woke #which you know. that’s bad too. but at least we don’t have to go through our lives anymore having to see avengers memes daily #we have new problems <3 like hbo shows and booktok

[nutzo0001]

Anon 2000s nostalgia

In the early 2000's I finished high school and went to college. I was so stressed out, and in many ways very stupid, and didn't appreciate it at the time. But god do I wish we could go back. Pop culture seemed so dumb, but today it's even dumber. The post 9/11 world seemed so dire, but today things feel even worse. The Patriot act was the height of tyranny! But it was just a stepping stone to even more authoritarianism. --- You know one thing I really miss? When most people still understood how important freedom of speech was! I think it was the height of free speech in my lifetime:

The Evangelical Christian Conservatives had lost the cultural power to enforce their prudishness and were mocked by comedians.

The 80's/90's PC movements from the leftist academics had not gained any traction, and were mocked by comedians.

People who got themselves all worked up and offended by things were rightfully mocked as the weak morons the are.

It was "anything goes" when it comes to comedy, horror, political discourse. And everyone recognized it as a good thing.

Xbox live voice chat.

But then at some point it seems like the progressives realized that the Christians Conservatives didn't have the power to censor anyone anymore, and that was the signal that the left no longer had to pretend to care about free speech. Thus began an ever growing snowball of political correctness which continues to this day and busted open the doors for all sorts of impending speech controls in the name of bullshit like "misinformation", "disinformation" and the new term they made up as an excuse to censor verifiably true things: "malinformation".

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Dude you nailed it. You absolutely nailed how I feel about the 2000s. I also finished high school and also college in this decade. Our mid gen Y generation was raised on this idea that there were these conservative blockheads running the culture. We were raised to be so sensitive to it. At some point the progressives realised they completely won the culture war long ago, and over the next decade and a half went rampant with their authoritarianism. So while I miss the aesthetics of the 2000s, the risk taking innovative tech that wasn't too invasive in life, my youth at the time. The thing that sticks out the most is both sides of the political divide could respect each other's free speech. It went beyond that too, don't we miss when everything didn't have to be political?

#It went beyond that too #don't we miss when everything didn't have to be political? #The Evangelical Christian Conservatives had lost the cultural power to enforce their prudishness and were mocked by comedians. #The 80's/90's PC movements from the leftist academics had not gained any traction #and were mocked by comedians. #People who got themselves all worked up and offended by things were rightfully mocked as the weak morons the are. #It was “anything goes” when it comes to comedy #horror #political discourse. And everyone recognized it as a good thing. #Xbox live voice chat. #2000s #early 2000s #2000s nostalgia #nostalgia #culture #takes #Dude you nailed it. #You absolutely nailed how I feel about the 2000s. I also finished high school and also college in this decade. #Our mid gen Y generation was raised on this idea that there were these conservative blockheads running the culture. We were raised to be so #At some point the progressives realised they completely won the culture war long ago #and over the next decade and a half went rampant with their authoritarianism. #So while I miss the aesthetics of the 2000s #the risk taking innovative tech that wasn't too invasive in life #my youth at the time. The thing that sticks out the most is both sides of the political divide could respect each other's free speech. #But then at some point it seems like the progressives realized that the Christians Conservatives didn't have the power to censor anyone any #and that was the signal that the left no longer had to pretend to care about free speech. Thus began an ever growing snowball of political #“disinformation” and the new term they made up as an excuse to censor verifiably true things: “malinformation”.

[kariachi]

Late Night Thoughts With Achi: Consider- the reason humans yearn for sapient life out amongst the stars is because after evolving alongside other sapient species from our genus they've all been gone for like 40k years and we're lonely.

#we had other close members of homo around for so long #most of our evolution #and then they all just died off #and the closest thing we've got is the fuckers over in pan #and it's just not the same #i propose humanity yearns to have another sapient species around because we lost the ones we had before #i mean picture it from the perspective of ancient humans #you grow up around these fuckers and you start seeing less and less of them #and they're just- they've always been there you've been undergoing cultural exchanges and your cousin's grandma was one and so on #but there's fewer of them when you're young #and fewer when your kids are #your great-grandkids never see one #but they're still remembered they're still talked about #they become a remnant in the memory of a species #and even though nobody ever sees one of them again they know they should be out there somewhere #and even millennia later- when we've trawled the world and know for a fact that we're all that's left #we look to the sky and go 'there has to be someone out there somewhere' #there just has to be #because we didn't used to be alone #they were *family* they were *there* #there has to be someone #....damn that got emotional there...

[persephone-s-moon]

It's kind of fun to try to figure out how to redesign the lost boys into different cultural contexts because they're original designs are so iconic that it's hard to break away from them

#a fun little challenge for me :3 #i also get to learn about other asian cultures bc everyone i've met who's a part of these cultures is second gen like me #and we just. don't know things about our cultures that we're expected to #asian lost boys reimagine #benji's ted talks

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

lies on the floor and stares at the ceiling about how lorien and the garde kids are the ultimate example of 'you inherit your parents' trauma but you will never fully understand it'

#lorien legacies #LL loric #LL tag #on a number of levels tbh; ranging from the literal as in 'my mentor-parent came from a dead world and the only glimpses i get of it' #'and what happened to it; are through their eyes; and they are not likely to be very forthcoming about most of it' #'especially their own issues and traumas both before the war and after' #to 'lorien had a lot of really fucked up shit and long-reaching societal traumas going on long before the war' #'whether they admitted something was a trauma or not (from what we see; usually not lmao)' #'and like. they're gone now. their records are gone. we will never have even a tenth of the full context' #'and one of the only two living direct sources we have for all this is inclined to lie about it' #'how do we even begin to make sense of the bearing their past actions have on what's happening now' #'whether The Interplanetary Political Landscape in General' #'or on the smaller scale of how our lost culture shaped our individual traumas and abuse' #'when we have so little context for or ability to verify what they even *did*' #'how *relevant* is it. because in a lot of ways it IS relevant. but also what does it mean to hold them accountable when they're *gone*' #there's honestly so many other places to emphasize this theme too; i could go on many long infodumps about how this applies to the mogs #but also one of the main characters; who is fully a human; inherits his dad's trauma which *his dad himself doesn't even remember* #there's so much to explore here and it is all very sad rolls around kicking my feet

[adamshallperish]

whenever i see one of those tumblr drama EXPLAINED videos on youtube i have no choice but to roll my eyes so hard they fall right out of my sockets and into the freeway

#we get it you left tumblr in 2016 and have lost all context for the current culture #stop trying to dig up our grave we're still here there's nothing buried there #mine

[junranghae]

SO not to drag on a convo from last week but I was listening to Stacy’s beautiful monster and apparently ppl???? Don’t like it???? And I THINK beautiful monster follows the same pattern as ready to love concerning mediocre/whatever mvs making fans think a song isn’t good???? Idk if you’ve listened to the song but it’s a wonderful one and I actually really enjoyed it and didn’t realize ppl didn’t like it???? BUT yeah someone was like “it’s the only bad stayc song” and I was like. This is not correct. - dokcheol <3

omg i get to talk more!!

ok so I'll be the first to admit that i have almost no ability to tell what makes a good mv and what makes a bad mv, i think it's mostly due to indifference since i've never been a big music video person. I had also never seen the beautiful monster mv till right now but honestly i feel like it's not that bad?? Like ready to love I get, even I could tell it's awkward and just like not shot very well?? (Don't get me started on the filter on it WHY ARE WE ASH GREY RN???) but beautiful monster looks normal to me idk. The drawings are cute and the filter isn't THAT annoying. I also don't get why everyone hates that song. Is it the best song I've ever heard? no, but it was fun and completely passable.

#people are SO quick to switch up on groups #st*yc and i*zy being great examples #which just feeds into overconsumption and oversaturation #it also plays into why idols (especially female idols) are debuting younger and younger #this got more ranty than i wanted but basically you're right #also maybe just cause i dont really watch mvs but i feel like a lot of people consider the mv to be like the “primary art” #if that makes sense #but for me i consider the music to be the primary art? #which is also why streaming culture really confuses me #because why are we focusing on a youtube video and not say a song on spotify #ok this is long and not even what our conversation was about but this was fun i love talking with you #to you?? i've lost all sight of grammar now #noa.answers

[navramanan]

still heartbroken but cannot move

#i've understood a good while ago that kurdish people are alone in their suffering more than any other muslim people #i suppose bc our biggest oppressor being turkey which is such a beloved country among muslims just erases our struggle #bc any other oppressed muslim people i can think of are suffering either in the hands of non muslim nations or their own corrupt governments #so it gives them a lot more ''credibility''. like there are rules to oppression with credentials you have to meet in order to be valid #in order for your oppression your persecution the distruction of you home(land) the cultural genocide you experience to be valid and real #and cared about by the general muslim population. i have honestly and genuinely not seen any more silence than when it was about us #from the muslim community. i have to time and time again watch how people side with turkey praise their actions eat up their propaganda #and the lost lives arent lost lives but we're lying about them #and no matter how often this pattern is repeated and our very real suffering invalidated and thus ignored #it still shatters my heart an unspeakable amount when i witness it #especially when i then watch the muslim community condemn other nations for the same crimes turkey commits against the kurdish people #turkey does no wrong is the common narrative. and i always feel so lonely in my grief #i still remember october 2019 when trump withdrew the troops from rojava & gave turkey the green light to invade #they inflicted and still inflict immerusable suffering in the region. they bombed them only last week #i remember 4 years ago my mom on the phone with a friend who had fled from the region due to the syrian war #i remember her silently crying on the phone with my mom. she was on speaker. we cried with her #she was as helpless as we were just watching the news about turkey wreaking havoc. she still had family there #and this is just the smallest fraction of what turkey and inflicted upon the kurdish people. but of course it's all fake. we fabricate it #bc we're bored. our tears are fake our families getting bombed are lying. and turkey can do no wrong. #nesi rants