A note from Lucy: Oh my god this is really depressing. I have no idea where the angst came from. I was just listening to ‘A Promise’ by Broken Records and I got really in my feels. I suggest googling the meanings of the flowers. I thought it would add some happiness in there but honestly, I’m still a little broken.
Full credit to the creators on TikTok who are in and actually made this video (if either of them contact me to take this down I will) but I couldn’t just not post it on here after laughing for a full ten minutes every time I thought about it…
Having been on studyblr for a while now, I’ve grown REALLY tired of:
-science worship and denigration of the humanities/social sciences/arts/liberal arts
-ppl emulating popular studyblrs instead of creating something reflective of who they are
-ppl leading with accomplishments rather than goals
-ppl essentially promoting burn outs
-people constantly writing to impress, including: a) busting out $100 words, many of which are arcane, and often which are awkwardly used, b) people speaking with authority when they lack actual authority on a subject matter, c) telling us ALL their victories and NONE of their struggles (especially when some of the details are clearly fabricated)
INSTEAD, I am so here for:
-ppl living balanced lives
-ppl sharing tricks and tips
-ppl practicing vulnerability and sharing lessons from their mistakes
-ppl sharing goals and everyone striving together
-ppl using casual language and realizing that the notion of standard English is one of fiction / ppl who are about descriptive grammar rather than prescriptive
-ppl writing to express, connect and have fun
-ppl being weird and corny and humorous and human
-cross disciplinary appreciation and pollination
@softestrulerand@thingsforthat interesting! I’m beginning to suspect that the “hard science” snobbery I was seeing was just a function of indiscriminately following stemblr and sciblr tags when I first started this studyblr. I’m pretty pleased with the posts I’ve been seeing lately in terms of the posters’ openness, mutual respect, and overall vibe. I’be seems pretty healthy blend of disciplines on my dash, and I’m loving that.
I can definitely see how the aesthetic side is predominately humanities based, though I know a few scientists who are in the mix, so I’ll be sure to reblog some of their stuff when I see it.
@amberwasherelol by leading with accomplishments instead of goals I mean people primarily focusing on what they’ve done rather than what they’re working toward. I think there’s great merit in showing our journies. Focusing on accomplishments often leads to pissing contests and can feel distances. There’s something really beautifully vulnerable aboysharing our goals—the things we could potentially stumble toward or fail at. To my mind, that shift keeps us present and more authentic.
Of course, I’m happy to hear about accomplishments, too. I love celebrating everyone’s victories, but even more so, I like learning about what y’all are currently doing, and what you’re striving for.
Everyone talks about Elizabeth Swann as the pirate king being their gay awakening but what about Elena De la Vega??? Like are y’all too young to remember or did you just forget cause holyyyyy shit
And incidentally, the #1 thing that makes me wonder why I keep posting original fiction on Tumblr.
There are people out there - and this has happened on most of the stories I’ve posted at least once, especially the prompt fills - who think ‘this is just the plot of (x)’ or ‘sorry, but this is just (name of other media) or even ‘you stole this from (x) is an appropriate response to a) a story prompt, or b) someone else’s story.
It makes me want to put my fist through the screen. It makes me want to bite through rocks. I hate it so much.
If you are one of those people, here are two things I really, really want you to understand.
1) If you’re responding to the prompt:… yes, and? That’s why people submit them! ‘I really liked this plot idea, where might someone else go with it’ is a perfectly acceptable reason to create a prompt. That’s what the prompts are for, to see how someone else might go with this idea, whether it was original or not. You’re not clever for ‘figuring it out’. The Lion King is basically Hamlet.CluelessisEmmarewritten. This isn’t news. All you’re demonstrating is that you are so ignorant that you don’t knowthat.
2) If you’re responding to the story, well, first off, you’re an asshole. That is a really shitty thing to say to someone, even if it IS the most transparent of duplicates, ieClueless. It’s not useful, it’s not helpful, you’re just trying to make yourself feel clever by tearing someone else down. And secondly, it demonstrates your total failure to understand how tropes, narrative structure, or indeed coincidence work. I’ve been accused of stealing/copying the plots of books or shows I’ve never read, or songs from bands I’ve never heard of, because nobody in the world can consume every single extant piece of media and that means accidental duplication IS GOING TO HAPPEN SOMETIMES. Especially when it comes to popular tropes, or genres with strongly established conventions.
People who do this aren’t showing that they’re clever, they’re showing that they’re the kind of self-absorbed idiot who points at a a ramp and says ‘hurr, that’s so dumb, why don’t they use the stairs’. They’re showing that they’re so fundamentally ignorant of narrative structure, tropes, genre conventions, and the fact that people like to read a good idea more than once that they really think ‘this thing is like that thing’ is some kind of clever put-down. And it makes me incredibly angry because I HATE people who try to put other people down or make other people look bad just to make themselves feel good or clever. HATE.
And I really, really hate when they use me, my work, or the prompts I respond to for their ego-fodder.
For everyone else, I’m sorry about the rant, but this just keeps happening and it makes me so upset. I feel like… well, not to put too fine a point on it, like someone who’s spent more than twenty years working to master their craft, who’s getting heckled by some probably-adolescent twerp who saw a documentary on the Disney channel and thinks it makes them an expert.
So as this tweet released a few years ago and I feel robbed by this statement knowing Lara and Sam should be canon and I did read the TR inferno and the particular scene on what Jackson Lanzing is pointing is mindblowing
This must be the Kiss scene but later change to a tight embrace
Finally looked up Gotham Knights (the TV show) and… uh…
Who the FUCK greenlit this?
Batman dead. Yeah. Sure.
Villains’ children framed for his death. Um… okay? (I mean, Harley has her daughter. Who appears to be very normal despite everything… oh Duella. Duella Dent. She of unclear parentage because of her name and the fact that she’s the Jokester’s daughter from a flipped morality world.)
His adopted son steps up to team up with said villain children to protect Gotham.
Oh cool. Wait… Adopted son? Not sons? So no Damian, huh. Well, which son? Time to go on IMDB…
Stephanie Brown- Spoiler! Sweet!
Harper and Cullen Rowe - Nice! Bluebird doesn’t get enough attention.
Carrie Kelley - Uh… isn’t she Robin from Frank Miller’s alternate future? And a redhead? And not Batman’s son?
I’m reeling abt the other day in school bcs the funniest thing happened lemme tell U ok basically we were in a class (there’s 3 of us) and our teacher always has his sleeves rolled up and did the thing where U bend your arms and stretch them when U yawn and the buttons popped off his sleeves and they ripped a but (hilarious) and then he was like darn it i might have to chuck it out and we were like no just sew it back on and sew the rip it’ll take 5-10 mins easy peasy and he was like I can’t sew so we said well why not yk it’s not hard (only one of us does textiles fyi, not me) and he was like well the seamstress can just fix it and we DIED bcs bruhs posher than we are and this is a private school yk it’s so funny and I was like the poor seamstress has better things to do than sew ONE BUTTON ajdkfslff I’m still laughing and it was last weekkkkk
mostly because I think Casca signing the line “speak, hands, for me” would be cool
It would also have a cool effect on the post-stabbing scene, where Antony is shaking people’s bloody hands. You’d have the conspirators signing about how good their reasons were with the very blood-soaked instruments they just used to kill Caesar, and then Antony would shut each of them up temporarily by shaking their hands
you ever see a stim toy and just get filled with the most intense need to know what it feels like? I saw someone use a bingsu bead stress ball in an ASMR video and now I can’t get it out of my head
What the FUCK?? I had a couple fates and thought I could do a ten pull for fun, mostly wanted weapons, DID NOT WANT BAAL OR SARA BECAUSE SPOILER ALERT, MY CHARACTER LIST LOOKS LIKE THIS
(Starred are the ones I want to work with/build)
AND MY WORLD LEVEL LOOKS LIKE THIS
(133757/26400!!) AND I HAVE BEEN GRINDING MY ASS OFF TO EVEN GET MATERIALS FOR MY 9 (!!? Why do I do this to myself) MAINLY USED CHARACTERS SO I CAN FINALLY ASCEND
AND I WANT KOKOMI SO BADLY BAAL IF YOU RUINED MY PITY I SWEAR
