#niche construction

[stimpunks]

For a “Fair” Selection Everybody Has to Take the Same Exam: Please Climb That Tree

Fairness-based equity is a major obstacle to DEIB work. It’s one of our “10 Obstacles to Neurodiversity Affirming Practice”. Instead, we advocate for needs-based equity and collaborative niche construction. Table of ContentsFairness and EquityNiche ConstructionDiversity, Equity, Inclusion, and BelongingDEIB Fairness and Equity Typing book reports can be a tool for someone who has handwriting…

[fictionadventurer]

Never underestimate the power of a good mediocre piece of fiction.

It's not deep. It's not mind-blowing. It's not going to blow you away with its layered character arcs and intricate themes. It's just a story that's just well-constructed enough that you're not going to be distracted by major flaws, and it's pleasant and relaxing and doesn't demand too much of you.

Those kind of stories are a vital part of any interior landscape.

[non-un-topo]

Forever fucked up over the fact that sometimes you have to write the thing you desperately want to read/watch because it doesn't exist yet

[badolmen]

I feel that there’s a world of difference between “fandomizing real world politics and tragedies” (in my understanding - applying ‘fandom’ to, well, real world politics and tragedies eg. shipping war criminals or writing rpf for victims of traumatic events) and “making fandom art which acknowledges real world politics and tragedies” (in my understanding - political cartoons/art with a particular flag/etc.).

I’m not saying that the latter can’t be insensitive or in poor taste depending on execution but also…idk it’s weird to see tumblr activists freaking the fuck out over art of dunmesh senshi bringing food to Gaza. I can’t believe that’s the hill you want to kill (your own allies nonetheless!) on. We have people writing smut for about specific IOF soldiers or shipping Palestinian journalists, like, is the comic imagining a fictional character showing up to help people in a horrific situation really what you want to call tone deaf and insensitive?

[vermillioncrown]

no one asked but i gotta put out one of my biggest fandom/fanfic pet peeves:

"unthinking/meme-poisoned socmed usage assigned to every character"

why does everyone have to be a twitter funnyman. why does everyone act like they post for clout and monetization. when would they have the time? what does account verification entail, and would they warrant it.

think it through 🤔

[iswateredible]

I'm too much of a perfectionist to try and cosplay Viggo with my body type (though I HAVE thought about it) but I cannot let go of the idea of sewing an intricate cosplay of him anyway. someone please help

[stimpunks]

Neuroqueering Learning Spaces: an exploration

“Intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be thought of as neuroqueering” Walker, 2021 neuronormativity = a set of norms, standards, expectations and ideals that centre a particular way of functioning as the ‘right way’ to be neuroqueer = subvert, defy, disrupt, liberate oneself or a space from…

[pctaldrunk]

u ever itch abt a new oc but ur like 'i have way too many damn ocs'

[swiftfootedachilles]

honestly? i miss waking up to multiple gallavich asks in my inbox. i miss playing trivia and doing game nights in the server. i miss talking to people about my current hyperfixation. i miss being able to be weird and kinda gross on here because this is my blog and meant to be my personal safe space. i miss making posts and getting quite a few notes. i miss infodumping about my favorite headcanons. whatever i guess this is my grave and i have to lie in it

[strixhaven]

discord servers love having a thousand channels both vague enough to be incredibly confusing in what you’re allowed to post where and hyper-specific enough that you’ll get yelled at for posting the “wrong” thing in place where any reasonable person would think it belongs

[samaspic31]

Rationally i know the friction i feel being back to being confronted daily to viewpoints and worldviews completely different than my own, sometimes completely divorced from statistic reality and deeply entrenched in mainstream biases and pernicious conservative rhetoric at uni (tho i can’t stand when it comes from professsors holding it as normal and neutral)(and it’s not like there are no divergences in my family or in my friendgroup), in dating, meeting new people, and on the internet, seeing art betraying biases i oppose to, sharing space with bigots is necessary to keep being grounded in reality.

On the other hand it feels like there are oceans of incomprehension between each and every person in this world, that i feel even while talking to or seeing art by people with extremely similar experiences as me, even with people with similar political ideas, the amount of bigotry to tackle in the world feels overwhelming, and im having constant paralyzing existencial crisis and worrying about environmental practices and structural inequality caused by capitalism and it’s. Not Fun.

There’s been many a study on alternative cultures and people joining them for merely shallow rebelious aesthetic reasons (hello to my friend’s « former punk » controlling dad spewing sexist victim blaming bullshit), and being alt doesn’t make you a good person, but man i wish some queer, vegan, punk and zero waste statements like « respecting people’s boundaries is crucial » « nobody gets to determine someone else’s gender » « gender stereotypes and language are human constructs people get to redefine for themselves, assuming someone to be any gender identity, or to have certain sexual roles because of their adoption of some socially gendered codes is bad » « gender and racial stereotyping in fiction feed irl discrimination and reflect on the author’s inability to question the world they live in (looking at you, comformist sci fi and fanfic writers obsessed with racist top and bottom headcanons) » « mainstream art seeks to reinforce capitalist ideals and the art financed through capitalism is enslaved to it » « cisheteronormativity flattens people who bow to it to unhappy stereotypes » « generalizations of entire groups are mere practical shortcuts, consquences of overly essemtialist thinking, and deny the diversity inherent to every human group » « people have a right to all harmless self expression » « people aren’t their governments » « destroying the environment is bad and we should do what we can to do as little as possible and reverse the damage of ultra capitalist urban lifestyles» « the western world being built on colonialism and continuing global exploitation through capitalism is bad actually, as is the average lifestyle being deeply wasteful » « racism and racial stereotypes bad » « you should get shit second as much as possible, make your own or pay well a craftsperson if you can » were baseline mainstream opinions and not shit that will get you looked at like an alien for saying out loud. Not that this isn’t still fringe for a lot of queer. Actually im tired of people’s political short sightedness in general

Like sure people grow and on average i want to believe less bigoted (although stats show in Europe the youth is more likely to believe someone caused their own poverty i know it’s cause some have not yet faced hardships getting a job but omg we are not making it out of the classist coalmine) but omg the amount of work to get to an ethical world, probably never in my lifetime, the moral rottenness of European islamophobia and zionism im witnessing daily, and the ticking clock of climate change. I feel like im going mad

[readymades2002]

something difficult about writing/storytelling but only in short disconnected bursts is that writing anything longform is very difficult. there isn't as much time to practice long-term character development or subtlety (implying character instead of immediately clarifying) when its not really meant to go anywhere but a notes app. its a little frustrating...i'd love to do something more longform though. i've considered maybe just doing some short writing scenes in my various original universes a lot recently mostly because i just havent had time to draw anything fancy recently </3 maybe that would be something...

[weekend-conspiracy-theorist]

rereading network effect this time with the foreknowledge that fugitive telemetry is not a sequel to it (and having actually read them chronologically rather than in publishing order), I am forced to conclude that it is actually a fairly satisfactory/hopeful conclusion to murderbot's character arc, so although I so desperately want to see its adventures with ART and its crew, it won't be the end of the world if martha wells never writes a sequel. I'd just be extremely disappointed instead of absolutely heartbroken

[professionalowl]

who else up constructing their niche on this fine monday night

[eggsmuses-a]

Liv shifts along the field in a crawl, pinched fingers like scissors over her identification band. Stuffed in the same hand is her dog tags which catch on the debris of the ground. She can feel the jaggedness of the ground beneath her against her uniform, wincing as her stomach is scraped. Still, she pushes forward.

There's a thrash of movement as she tugs the medical kit behind her, struggling to unzip it as she approaches the fallen soldier on the field. She has to help them. No one else can die on her watch.

Like a descending angel, the war-stained sun that looks like the plume of a nuclear explosion grants the combat medic a soft glow around her white presentation. She reaches a hand forth, holding their wrist with a tightness expected from a lioness rather than a silk touch befitting of her gloves.

Hastily, she wraps a tourniquet around the limp arm, searching for a cravat to sling the broken limb. She cranes her neck back over to assess for further injuries.

ʟ ——— ❝ Where ... where does it hurt ? ❞

[lucybianchi]

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