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"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

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favorite buffy summers looks -> season 1

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did u guys hear abt that intern fired from that law firm bc she bit like 10 people. im kinda obsessed with her god i wish there was footage

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the chances of hayley williams dropping an entire new album on a locked website with no warning on a monday are low but never zero

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i have something controversial………i’ve got about a hundred pages left of fourth wing……..and i kinda don’t get why it is so hated on i’m having so much fun

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“If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime,” but you have done neither. You have stood before us and eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river, and our parents should have gotten us the same if we wanted fish. You gave a man a fish to murder us if we step too close to the river, or speak too loud, or eat a fish from another river. You’ve copyrighted the fishing net. It costs us fish to leave.

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good morning Clexa Nation/sapphic media lovers! do you want to be a part of my research project?

to recap: i am a history grad student, i am doing a digital social history of the Clexa fandom, That One Episode in s3, and the fandom fallout from it. if you saw/have been haunted ever since by the s3 episode "Thirteen" please keep reading!!!!

if you have not seen my post before: give this a quick read

if you have seen a long ass post with a cat picture at the bottom from late April: then hello! i got accepted into the conference! it is officially Go Time!

if you interacted with the post before, i might have messaged you on here, so please check those! however, if you do not see a message from me, did not interact but saw it, or this is your first time reading through all of it, and you want to be involved, please click here.

if you are in fandom circles of the 100 or just in any kind of sapphic television media, please spread the word! i'm casting my net as wide as possible, but this (tumblr) is my most valuable platform of sources<3

anyways, i hope everyone has a lovely day, remember to drink water, pspsps at that stray cat, get some sunlight, read a fun book, etc etc

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Y’ALL IT PAYS OFF TO NEVER LET GO OF THAT ONE TV SHOW YOU WERE DEEPLY INVESTED IN AT 14

IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE ARE SAPPHIC AND WERE PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED BY THE CW’S THE 100 SEASON 3 IN 2016 PLEASE READ

i know i have very few followers so i am tagging this to hell amd back and it would mean the world to me if people could spread this!!

did you get into this random sci fi show as an impressionable sapphic or then-sapphic-identifying teen? did you find your fandom community online in places like tumblr? were you a Way Too Online Clexa shipper? do you have vivid memory of one fateful night in March of 2016 where your little baby heart was sent to the moon and then stomped on within an entire fifteen minute window? did you then turn on your phone to watch an entire community imploding in real time?

i am a current history grad student in Washington, DC, and i recently was notified of an interdisciplinary panel opportunity in which i’d be able to turn one of my quasi-intellectual passions into something Big and Academic and possibly Influential To The Field. the theme of the conference is change; how our historical subjects understood it, dealt with it, lived through it, etc. or, it can be anything that might have some big observation to how we deal with change ourselves as academics

my proposal is still in the baby stages, but i want to use this particular moment in pop culture in two ways: first, obviously, is as a case study of a really revolutionary moment in queer representation. we had a sci fi show with, after a few season one growing pains, really complex and kind of amazing female character writing and an element of queerness that defied tropes by being strangely post-structuralist, only for that to come crashing down in one horrid writing decision. the overnight turn in the fan-creator relationship was something so severe and shocking to me, even at 14.

second, if we wanna get all discipline-jargony about it, studying it from a historical angle at some kind (yes i know it was only nine years ago bear with me here) could lead to some really important things about how we do social history in a digital age. i find that most “digital history” conversation tends to be about digitizing sources for access or distribution, but we are very much at a point where our sources are being /created/ in digital and online spaces, and there’s simply not the same level of comfort or readily available knowledge of how to navigate through an internet-created archive.

if you read this far, thank you. at this point, i’m simply trying to find people who experienced this moment firsthand like i did. i’m still trying to develop specific sets of questions to survey, possibly to workshop some research methodology with an “oral” historical source base. if you are interested in being somehow part of this source base, please reach out to me ASAP! i cannot promise that anything substantial will come out of it within the next few weeks (a girl has to get through my own finals and my students’ finals first), but it’ll at least give me a list of people to reach out to when the time comes<3

if you read to the end, thank you. here’s a cat pic as a reward. his name is winston

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STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

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The best photo I took at Dashcon 2

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to everyone that followed me from my panel: hello and thank you again!! going in with such a dense panel and somewhat niche topic i anticipated a smaller audience, but the level of engagement truly warmed my heart and it is something i will cherish forever :-)

during the presentation i had mentioned (and gotten a few comments on) rerecording; as the universe would have it, my audio was super funky and only part of my screen was captured, so i have been commanded by the powers that be to rerecord nonetheless! but, also, this is my first time doing a big media-centered project like this, so i was able to learn some things and clean up the presentation a little bit here and there. it will become available along with the other VOD uploads for dashcon 2 and virtualdash ticket holders

now if you are following me from That Earlier Post about a big project related to the 100–this is not that! however, pls keep your eyes PEELED because i will have a set of questions open to contributions posted hopefully in a week or so?

winston(+my father) tax if you have followed thus far. mwah!:3

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day 1 post daschon 2 and i am having way too much fun dropping the lore that i did a virtual panel at dashcon 2 about a tv show that everyone in my life has heard of but few have actually watched substantially. like it is currently at the top of my academic CV sitting there so proudly. side quest of the century

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guys if you’re going to dashcon or virtualdash pls check out my panel (i def should have announced earlier sorry life got to me and being Online is actually Exhausting) and if you’re not i’d always appreciate a repost

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IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE ARE SAPPHIC AND WERE PERSONALLY VICTIMIZED BY THE CW’S THE 100 SEASON 3 IN 2016 PLEASE READ

i know i have very few followers so i am tagging this to hell amd back and it would mean the world to me if people could spread this!!

did you get into this random sci fi show as an impressionable sapphic or then-sapphic-identifying teen? did you find your fandom community online in places like tumblr? were you a Way Too Online Clexa shipper? do you have vivid memory of one fateful night in March of 2016 where your little baby heart was sent to the moon and then stomped on within an entire fifteen minute window? did you then turn on your phone to watch an entire community imploding in real time?

i am a current history grad student in Washington, DC, and i recently was notified of an interdisciplinary panel opportunity in which i’d be able to turn one of my quasi-intellectual passions into something Big and Academic and possibly Influential To The Field. the theme of the conference is change; how our historical subjects understood it, dealt with it, lived through it, etc. or, it can be anything that might have some big observation to how we deal with change ourselves as academics

my proposal is still in the baby stages, but i want to use this particular moment in pop culture in two ways: first, obviously, is as a case study of a really revolutionary moment in queer representation. we had a sci fi show with, after a few season one growing pains, really complex and kind of amazing female character writing and an element of queerness that defied tropes by being strangely post-structuralist, only for that to come crashing down in one horrid writing decision. the overnight turn in the fan-creator relationship was something so severe and shocking to me, even at 14.

second, if we wanna get all discipline-jargony about it, studying it from a historical angle at some kind (yes i know it was only nine years ago bear with me here) could lead to some really important things about how we do social history in a digital age. i find that most “digital history” conversation tends to be about digitizing sources for access or distribution, but we are very much at a point where our sources are being /created/ in digital and online spaces, and there’s simply not the same level of comfort or readily available knowledge of how to navigate through an internet-created archive.

if you read this far, thank you. at this point, i’m simply trying to find people who experienced this moment firsthand like i did. i’m still trying to develop specific sets of questions to survey, possibly to workshop some research methodology with an “oral” historical source base. if you are interested in being somehow part of this source base, please reach out to me ASAP! i cannot promise that anything substantial will come out of it within the next few weeks (a girl has to get through my own finals and my students’ finals first), but it’ll at least give me a list of people to reach out to when the time comes<3

if you read to the end, thank you. here’s a cat pic as a reward. his name is winston

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fuffy text posts because these two dumbasses make my brain go brrr <3

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thinking of this legend tonight