She/her, 38, librarian, writer, reader. EDITOR FOR HIRE. Current obsessions are The Locked Tomb series (Griddlehark) and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Catradora). Also a longtime fan of X-Men First Class and the good ship Cherik, Good Omens, Captive Prince (always tagged), Yuri!!! on Ice, cute animals, Star Wars, Jane Austen, and whatever else I fancy along the way. You can find my fanfic here and here. My askbox is here!
My activity page did a thing XD. I agree with both tho - it’s lovely when people are kind to each other! It’s fucking hellish that you can’t just plug in to a printer and fucking use it.
It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc
I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks
(Faces censored and additional text added by me)
Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.
I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.
The number of kids that are on a ‘do not photograph’ list isn’t large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.
If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there’s a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.
At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.
At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.
This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.
Even outside of this- I’ve seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.
Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.
I think that Terry Matalas “knows Star Trek” in the sense that, like, he can tell a Markalian from a Lethean at a glance, and if you asked him what classes of ships took part in the battle to retake Deep Space Nine, he would be able to rattle them all off, together with their crew complements, armaments, and maximum warp capacities. But I don’t think that he understands Star Trek.
I kind of feel this way about Akiva Goldsman, too. Like, he’s definitely a big fan, but he’s a completely different type of fan from me and my friends. The fact that Ethan Peck only learned there was a queer reading of Spock at a con in 2022 is proof of that.
@liz-squids absolutely nailing it in the tags here!
“When curation fans get transformative jobs”
I’d say that hits the nail on the head!
Because it’s true that there is no right or wrong way to be a fan. If you, as a fan, can’t recall the names of the seven people flying off into the sunset at the end of season 1 of Picard, but you can recite the class and history of every single ship in the season 3 Fleet Museum, that’s a perfectly valid way to enjoy this show and this franchise.
But it’s not good enough for the people in charge of writing and creating these shows! That’s how they end up spending absolutely mind-boggling amounts of time, money, and effort recreating the Enterprise-D bridge in every possible detail - and then introduce that set in a scene where their characters, who have just witnessed every. single. young. person. who has ever used a Starfleet transformer (their own children among them!) and should be tense, devastated, and fearing for their lives and the lives of everyone they lost, instead wax nostalgic and joke about chairs and carpets.
It’s how we get tons and tons of detailed background information about all the different Starfleet ships seen anywhere in the background throughout season 3 - but we have no clue what happened to Kestra and JUST COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF LARIS!
You CANNOT run a franchise on curating nostalgia alone. It works for a while, as the curation fans are in utter bliss and the casual viewers (which is the vast majority of the audience, let’s be honest) get some nice nostalgia feelings and don’t notice the shoddy writing as much as long as the vibes mostly work. But it’s not sustainable. And probably sooner rather than later, it’ll start turning off the casual viewers, too. The critics are already starting to see through it, from what I can tell.
You need to have people running these shows who care about the stories and the characters on a deep enough level to give their writing a true core and not just a hollow shell of cool starships and nostalgic recreation. Because at that point, you’re not writing a new chapter of a familiar story, you’re building a museum to the stories that came before. And eventually, most people will get bored, no matter how beautiful and dear the objects in the museum might be to them.
Yes.
Also, if your stated aim is to have some form of new Star Trek airing all the time, surely the best way to achieve that is by building toward the future, instead of undermining that future by caring only about the past.
The past is important. By all means build on those foundations laid. Honour them in full. But if you trash all the new groundwork laid because the past is all that matters…well, there is no future in that. And the franchise just falls apart.
Whenever I see anything like this my first thought is that @thebibliosphere will know what these words mean.
Unfortunately, you would be correct.
“Vampire facials”, which many people think is needling but is actually far, far worse, refers to platelet-rich plasma facials, in which blood is taken from a patient, processed in a centrifuge to extract the plasma and then re-injected it into the face. It’s supposed to make the skin “heal” itself because of platelets or some shit, giving you a more youthful look. Kim K helped make it popular after it was on her show but I know she also supposedly regrets it.
It’s uh, controversial to say the least. And not just because it sounds like painful bullshit but because lack of regulation for this sort of thing has lead to a couple of cases of HIV transmission happening.
The penis version is that they’re doing the exact same thing, taking plasma from themselves or a donor and injecting it into the penile tissue, supposedly to treat erectile dysfunction, but a lot of the men doing this are doing it just to get a girthier look.
And if you think I hate knowing all this, you’d be right.
Guys we gotta up our game the Georgians said fuck more than us
Having looked through historic googlebooks many a time and been frustrated by how difficult it is to search in this time period, this chart is most certainly due to the algorithm not properly picking up the “Long S” which was an f-like character used in place of an s especially in 17th and 18th century printing.
The rules of when the short and long s’s are used are somewhat complicated to modern people, but they are almost always at the beginning of words, never at the end, and if there is a double s sometimes they are combined and sometimes not:
99% of the time the word actually being used is “suck” or “sucking.” It actually shows up a lot as a word used to describe babies who were still nursing. In texts from this period the word “suck” will almost always read as “fuck.” This makes some of these auto-transcriptions absolutely brilliant in hindsight:
If you search for the word “fuck” in googlebooks within this time frame, you get hundreds of pages of entries like this. For example, this Shakespeare anthology:
This is not to say that people in the 18th century didn’t find this hilarious, I’m sure they did, but f-bombs were not being dropped in classic literature at the time. If they do show up, like in this 1785 slang dictionary: it is almost always bleeped out:
The other 1% of the fucks in 18th century books are, of course, not bleeped out because they are in Ye Olde Porn, of which there is a surprising amount on googlebooks.
I should also note if it wasn’t clear that the immense dropoff just after 1800 is when the long s stopped being used in print, and the reemergence was in the mid-late 20th century when people DID start dropping f-bombs in literature
