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bettyrightnow · 3 months ago

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americans being unable to say that there are people who are certifiably smarter than you and better than you at many things is why we got to this place in the first place. like no the "research" you did on the covid vaccine is not better than the research done by the scientists that have degrees in the field. you are actually dumber than them in this area because they have spent far more time in it. you have so little knowledge on the subject that you don't even know what you don't know. obviously

#this is the same for like every field btw. i’m not as good of a writer as people who went to school for writing. or art. or architecture #or physics or etc etc etc #i AM a better chemical engineer than people who didn't go to school for it #american individualism ruining everyones life once again #this isn't to say you can’t be intelligent or know anything if you didn't go to school for it. but you have to be able to acknowledge that #there are some things you are dumb about!! regardless of education level #and there are ways to study up on topics in a non-academic setting (and you should do this!!) but those methods need to be reputable #and not joe rogan.com #like there are WAYS science is verified for example. and if you don't know those and you go into reading a paper or a “study” you can VERY #easily be lead astray because you simply don't know what you don't know you are not always the smartest person in the room #MOST of the time you're not actually #and no one can admit that anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!! so they just believe and do whatever they think they know instead of asking questions #and learning things #they just blindly believe they are right and they like the people who don't challenge them so now trump is in power #(this is why they want to dismantle the doe by the way)

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aroaceleovaldez · 2 months ago

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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

#fandom #fandom infrastructure #fandom history #was working on the ship polls blog and the comments i get there often reminded me of this #every once in a while i've gotta reacquaint myself with the xkcd expert familiarity comic principle #and the general knowledge that people dont explain the basics of fandom anymore so people have to learn it on their own #while everybody just expects them to know it and that's not fair to them!#i will also put my usual thing: folks are always welcome to ask me anything about fandom stuff #it can be specific pjo fandom stuff or general pan-fandom stuff #i have been in fandom for a long time and i am happy to explain things #legitimately if anyone ever has questions about even the most basic of fandom stuff. go for it. i love talking about it

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salamispots · 3 months ago

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it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha

#rug hooking #artists on tumblr #fiber art #hnnnndgf the way the phone photo colors don't match up with how I see it is driving me a little nuts #every time but oh well >:'D #like the greens aren't as dull looking or as sharply contrasted in the detail photos #I'm glad I hoarded/saved the yarn that I precut for latchhook (which I abandoned after learning about rug hooking lmao)#because it makes for a very squishy pillow #(but also I think I def. could've stuffed in a litttle bit more before sewing it closed + didn't have a lot left)#blocked like...three other things when I was blocking this one #and the ones with non wool/funky materials were completely fine so that's nice to know haha #the back is an old flannel topsheet that nobody was using #anyways -knocks the fuck out-#edit: bb nephew recognized it as a cat so all is well/it passed hahah #also whoever said in tags that it looks great sensory wise to touch (or something like that my brain's a little fried still hhshs)#they are correct lMAO (even in general/ non pillow form I keep scrubbing my hands over them haha)#and when I was making the pillow I kept squishing it #muffled laugh

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gibbearish · 2 years ago

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love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

#yes i want things to be free like ??? that is not a weird desire #'but but it costs money to keep up' ok and? how is that my problem #the government has plenty of murder dollars they could reallocate a few to make internet services universal if they wanted #also these companies were perfectly capable of supporting themselves before the internet got drowned with ads so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#edit: muting notifs on this post bc new additions have kind of petered out #so no one feel bad about adding something someone else has said‚ it is not bothering me im just trying to keep my #notifs page cleanish lol #also since i saw some people are being redirected to read my tags: firstly hiiiiii this is a special secret message for you:3 #secondly i have learned since making this that the reason they were able to support themselves previously was because #of investors bankrolling everything #and theyre now finally realizing that theyre never going to actually make a profit and arent as willing to invest #however thats just a minor correction and doesnt change my overall point #once again. so many murder dollars #so thats why im just adding it here in the tags rather than making an actual correction #anyways . love yall 💕#origibberish #bigger gibbers

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wishfulsketching · 6 months ago

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More of the Silco survives AU! This is part three. Part 1 and Part 2

The girls learn the truth and Silco gets a taste of a monster

#my art #sketchy sketch #zaundads #vanco #vander #silco #arcane warwick #I wanted to finish these before I leave to my folks so they're a bit messy #you send me a lot of asks about how horrified Vi would be about learning that silco and vander were a thing #and you guys were so right #I miss you -> straight to fucking I guess #there's scenes missing in between sketches as you can see but ya know #anyway here ya goooo I'm off to the train station

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fagtainsparklez · 10 months ago

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“it’s a good thing that the minecraft movie isn’t about the intense loneliness of minecraft’s world and finding growth and hope in a post-apocalyptic society because it’s for children” Have You Ever Spoken To A Child

#icarus speaks #discourse #YOU ARE THE REASON CHILDRENS MEDIA IS ON THE DECLINE!!!#CHILDREN DESERVE DEEP AND COMPLEX THINGS #THEY WILL NEVER LEARN TO APPRECIATE THE MEDIA YOU UPHOLD #IF YOU DONT LET THEM DIP THEIR TOES INTO IT

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0sbrain · 1 year ago

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alternatives for ai to design ocs

hero forge

picrew

the fucking sims 4

your local furry artist

bitmoji

shitty photoshoped collage

DeviantArt bases