#retroactive polling

[onesnoopyaday]

I AM AT MY LIMIT

Snoopy #90

30/12/2024

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[description: a cartoon-style drawing of Snoopy's head. Snoopy is a white dog with black ears. His eyes are shut and his mouth is a horizontal line. There are two large blue teardrops, one under each eye. The text "I am at my limit" is handwritten across the top of the image.]

[blackbloodteeth]

[epphfervescent]

Poll: pls help rename this fool

So, I can no longer separate My OC Idrees Ibn Epphf // Real Actor Idris Elba, bc if I bounce sfw parts of this project off my mother, she Will say how hot she finds his nametwin, & I cannot craft porn under these conditions!!

Context bc it’s been a minute: Idrees is in PR/the pack leader of my werewolf ocs/Egyptian/a DILF/René’s DILF specifically, also babydaddy.

[underratedmhapoll]

MONCHAN IS THE WINNER OF THE UNDERRATED ALL STARS BRACKET

[lupescx]

for the spyclara assassins AU I’m a quarter through writing

my best attempt to find credit:

3. Richard Siken

6. Yerebatan Sarnici

8. link

[kittykatninja321]

I've always found the: "Jason was to die at age fifteen no matter what." deeply interesting in that sense of: "What would Jason choose?" like... was it worth it? Were those few years he spent with Bruce worth a horrible death?

Also, when you put it next to a Jason that grows up into adulthood... you still put it into a balance. We know, textually know, that those few years were Jason and Bruce were together as father and son are deeply precious to both of them so would it be worth it? Would it be worth it to live and having never experienced them? Guess it's the same question as if Jason was to die no matter what... was meeting Bruce worth all the pain that would become?

was the love worth it….

[hypercore-corp]

Should probably make an out-of-character post explaining this blog at some point.

Hiya! Welcome to The Hypercore Corporation, a dumb gimmick blog about a tech company run by aliens from space that sells terrible garbage and wants to take over the world. This company consists of three main executives and co-founders:

Steev (normal-colored text): The social media manager, head of marketing, and the idea man of the group. The one you'll see most often. He/They.

Lars (blue text): Lars takes all the asks in the inbox, and is technically on equal footing with the other two in the company, but they both acknowledge Lars as their manager. He/Him.

Kholle (orange text): The other two aren't quite sure what Kholle does, but she's convinced it's important. She'll turn up occasionally and do things. She/Her.

That's about all for now, though The Post may expand later.

Thanks!

- Wren

[bobthebobking]

(rules: go here and make a poll with your top 10 most listened-to artists (long term!) and let your followers choose which one they like the most!)

tagged by @schrodingersbabe thanks partner

[wheretheeternalare]

this deeply doesn’t matter to the point that I’m embarrassed to post it but I find it a little bizarre that people in the various ao3 ship brackets are denouncing harry potter ones as terf ships when most of the fan engagement with those ships came before the terf situation and a lot of former (& reluctant current) hp fans are trans. yeah giving jkr’s ip more money and attention is bad but I don’t think people writing gay fanfiction about her characters is really helping her brand image

[artandrandomshiz]

I'm kind of in a funny middle ground here. My parents didn't pick my name because of anyone else who had it, but it just so happens that my great grandmother on my mom side also had my name. It's a pretty uncommon name btw I've only ever met like 5 other people who have it and only one spelled it exactly how I do. My mom didn't know my great grandma's real name because she always went by a Nickname. But when my grandma heard my name she was like "oh you're naming your kid after my mom?" And my parents said yes.

This poll is specifically asking about how parents named their children, so even if you have a different chosen name now, answer for your given/birth name. If you're not comfortable doing so but want to see results, just choose the "not sure" option.

Answer based on the intention when the name was chosen for you, not the actual origin - so for example if your grandmother was named Mary after the biblical figure and you were named Mary in honour of your gran, you'd answer "a relative" instead of "a religious figure".

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[komsomolka]

The project of liberal hegemony requires heavy-handed propaganda to conceal the contradiction that Ukraine as a frontline against Russia cannot be democratic. In 2019, the anti-Russian policies of Poroshenko contributed to giving the national government its lowest approval rating in the world, merely 9 per cent (Bikus, 2019).

Volodymyr Zelensky subsequently won a landslide victory with 73 per cent of the popular vote in 2019 on the platform that he would negotiate with Donbas and improve relations with Russia. Pressured by right-wing nationalists at home, as well as Washington, Zelensky reversed his election promises claiming he would not talk to “terrorists” and he would seek NATO membership and partners in the struggle against Russia. Zelensky’s approval ratings subsequently collapsed and a poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in October 2021 revealed that Zelensky’s approval had been reduced to merely 24 per cent (KIIS, 2021).

As the popularity of Ukraine’s main opposition leader, Viktor Medvedchuck, surpassed that of Zelensky, Medvedchuk was arrested and indicted. Zelensky then also had former president Poroshenko indicted. Furthermore, Zelensky ordered the closure of opposition media. While Zelensky does not have the legal authority to shut down media outlets, Zelensky responded by retroactively annulling the appointment of the head of the Constitutional Court, and disregarding the Supreme Court’s verdict that he should be reinstated (Petro, 2021).

By framing eastern Ukrainians as instruments of a Russian hybrid war, the US can sell the suppression of eastern Ukrainians as advancing democracy. [...] Never mind that these are long-standing Ukrainian opposition parties and Ukrainian-based/Ukrainian-owned media channels. Denying agency to Russian-speaking Ukrainians, the banning of the Russian language in books, movies and other works is also consistent with the US approach to Ukrainian nation-building. The bold ambition to sever a millennium of Russian-Ukrainian cultural connection to create a new geopolitical reality has made the US an eager participant in a proxy culture war.

The think tank Atlantic Council hails Ukraine’s decoupling from the Russian Orthodox Church as an important step towards sovereignty. The US directly contributes to an anti-Russian national narrative as the US Senate passed a resolution in 2018 that defined the Holodomor famine as a deliberate “genocide” against the Ukrainians, while supporting oppressive language laws. The West also engaged in minor initiatives such as changing the English spelling of the Ukrainian capital from Kiev to Kyiv to resemble the Ukrainian spelling instead of the Russian, in a show of solidarity with the ethno-cultural nationalists. [...]

Washington also supports the anti-Russian historical narrative that whitewashes Nazi collaborators as freedom fighters. A video posted by the Cold War propaganda channel RFE/RL, argued that Ukrainians are deeply divided about whether Stepan Bandera was a hero or a villain, before leaning heavily in favour of the hero narrative. Every year since 2013, the US has voted against a UN resolution “combatting glorification of Nazism” to protect the ethno-nationalist view that Western Ukrainian fascists collaborating with Hitler against the Soviet Union were heroes and freedom fighters. In November 2021, the US and Ukraine were the only two countries in the entire world to vote against the resolution of combatting the glorification of Nazism.

Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics by Glenn Diesen.

[foone]

Here's an idea which I don't know if it would improve Tumblr, but would be interesting at least and i think that so much I would like this feature to be added retroactively.

1. First, you should be able to change your vote at any time before the poll ends.

2. There should be a graph that shows how answers changed over time. Like a stacked line graph? Or an animation of a pie chart?

3. Polls should be allowed to run forever.

So you could have polls that have been going for years and continually shifting the current winner.

Like, fandom ones that can evolve over time and get different answers as the community evolves.

Anyway I think I should try making that second one, the graph thing, real. Cause I could do that myself, just write a script to grab the answers every 5 minutes and have a weeklong poll.

You might could even see on the map when you reblogged that poll again! Because probably a week long poll would slowly die off... Then regain steam when it gets reblogged again!

Might be fun. I'll have to so this.

[dduane]

I just read the part where Kirk experiences the Enterprise's point of view in The Wounded Sky to someone else, where she sees the crew as children she is training up to the Great Desire of exploration for exploration's sake, especially Jim. His reaction, essentially: "That was really pretty. ....And then he blows her up."

I hadn't thought about that before! I checked the copyright date, and it looks like The Wounded Sky came out a year before The Search for Spock, so you were writing without knowing that sacrifice would eventually happen.

How did you feel about that? Do you wish that writing decision had been made differently? (If, as a Trek writer, you're allowed to comment on other Trek writers' choices!)

You know, I tend not to think a whole lot about such issues. First of all, because (in the long run) it gets you nowhere in particular that's useful. And secondly, because it's not a thing that, as a Trek writer in any medium except film, you have the slightest power to change.

Now, at this end of time I think we can safely say that no one's going to hire me on to write a Trek film. And also that no one at that end of the creative spectrum is going to pay the slightest attention to anything I say, either. Both of those situations are just What's So, and neither of them bothers me. (Since I have universes of my own to manage at the moment, and that's where my attention properly lies.) So as regards my opinions about other writers' work, I'm pretty much off the hook.

If I had been on screenwriting duty for that film, would there be things I'd have wanted to do differently? Hell yeah. From the premise up. But the important thing here is: would those things necessarily have worked better on the screen / with the audience? Impossible to tell. And speaking as someone repeatedly given permission to work in someone's universe, the main thing to be aware of is the expectation that your chief responsibility is to do what best serves the characters and the IP of which they're part. (There's a post over at Out of Ambit with a lot more of my thoughts on the subject:)

The other thing to remember is that, though I've worn the Canonical Hat in my time, novel work is by definition non-canonical. Doing it, you are at all times working with the understanding that the licensor rarely views your work as anything better than a corporate side hustle—a way for the IP to make some cash on the side—and will ignore you and the stuff you've created unless given pressing reasons to do otherwise. (Such as when they might make some unexpected money off it... at which point you remind yourself as forcibly as necessary that what you did is Work For Hire; they own it, lock, stock and barrel, and you should not realistically expect to be given any credit.)

And, if you understand the rules and enjoy the work enough, all of this is okay. The reward is not in making a lot of money doing it, or even in having aspects of your work openly assumed into canon. The reward lies in being allowed to contribute to a given universe in public (and, yeah, getting paid for it by the licensor). It's not payback: it's payforward. And you're left an astonishing amount of freedom to bring your vision to that universe. (Sometimes... as one colleague has McCoy say... you have to be "very, very careful" to get away with it. But it can be done.)

The truth is that even in the 1980s, I was sharing this level of playing-in-a-universe with a goodish cohort of editors and writers: a big roomful at least. Now I'm sharing it (retroactively speaking) with hundreds of them. With the best will in the world, even in the 80's the licensors (as regarded film) couldn't have realistically polled/listened to all of us regarding our creative opinions about the screenplay end of things. As for what that'd look like nowadays... I'll leave you to your own deductions. 😏

Anyway, thanks for the question. It's always nice to know that there are people who want to know what you think. 😊