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I don't think S 17 likes selfies... eh he'll get over it
Hey! I drew something for this!
I had the wonderful opportunity to be the head mod for the Voltron travel journal zine Vapour Trails!! All contributions were made by members of the Klance Rennaissance discord server, and I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this amazing project, especially @z43dyn-inzero-g, who made this amazing cover!
You can download the zine for free here.
If you're interested in joining the server, you can join here!
is this you way if saying u wanna go on a lego date w me… 😊
randomly just remembered that time tubbo’s mc fox died and he called ranboo about it but ranboo was at the dentist’s office w his family and left to talk tubbo thru his grief for a videogame fox from a nearby field
As a 90′s kid, it blows my mind that origami youtube videos exist. You can look up any model and watch a pair of manicured hands assemble the thing in real time, in full color, in 3D, with cheerful flute music in the background. When I was little, you had a library book with no words and these esoteric little dotted lines and arrows and it was just you, your hands, your paper, and the cruel, uncaring eyes of God.
Yup, this tracks. Also, the 1% of golf games is there because I played Gold Story at the beginning of the year. 🤣
Believe in you
I don’t want to look back at my life and wonder what if. i know that my death bed i will be surrounded by the people in life that love me but i don’t want any ghosts beside my bed. the ghosts of wasted talents and wasted dreams.
they will be the ghosts that ask “why?” with a dissapointed looks on their faces.they will say that they came to me so that i could bring them to life… but now we both have to go to the grave together.
so i ask you today how many ghosts will be beside you when you die?
ooooo, fun game to play? Am I Faking Having Headmates And It's All A Hallucination?? Extra hard mode activated: have had extra hallucinations and intrusive thoughts lately, so there's no way to tell!!
Miércoles 🧡
1. Salí con mi mejor amiga Fanny a Chapultepec, tenía muuucho sin ir a ese lugar, estábamos tomando mojitos.
2. Invité a Adrián y si llegó a acompañarnos, estuvo cool.
3. Selfie de nosotras.
4. Foto que me tomo Fanny con Adrián cuando fue al baño jajaja.
5. Caminando por Constituyentes, ese puente trae recuerdos...
6. Mini vídeo de la compañía.
Fue un miércoles feliz y bonito. 💗
help he, how he get out there
also each time i draw widdle ram, i forget one more detail. idk
Met a couple Inscryption fans in the wild today, and we all had varying opinions on the Resident gamer robot.
The one I met first was a "he's such an asshole, I love him". Then their friend was a "I wanna punch him, I love him". Meanwhile I'm more of a "I wanna kiss him. I wanna marry him. I'm so gay for the gay robot. He gives me gay thoughts." So uhh... I think that's a pretty good balance for a friend group. (We are all in the alphabet community.)
Watching your friend play dark souls for the first time is one of those memories you just never forget 💀
Sembra la fine del mondo
Ma mi calma
...
Bella atmosfera
Ti prego non mi uccidere il mood dai
Chissenefrega dei tuoi ma, dei tuoi se
Dei tuoi bla bla, voglio stare in good times
(Voglio stare in good times)
Bella atmosfera (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Ti prego non mi uccidere il mood dai (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Haha! I just wanted to wish everyone a good day! Things are hard I know! But there’s always a good time coming ahead! Hopefully it’s soon for those in needs!
If your sad, pet you cat or dog, or bird, hamster or snake. Read a book, take a jog, go see an old friend, go out and just walk around town!
I thought it’s be nice to try and spread some positive energy and vibes to anyone that’s upset/sad/gloomy.
Haha! Let have fun guys! Let’s look to the good rather than the bad! There’s always something good to spread to others!
Un buen libro desahoga corazones
Me debato entre si eres inocente o ignorante
Tu erez quien hace que las cosas valgan la pena
Just some trees, the sky, the star and photo camera.
Wale up for exactly strong goal, or just don’t go to sleep unless you start thinking about it.
i don’t believe in saints, they never make mistakes
like or reblog please
also don’t steal it’s not nice
mentally still in march 2020 when we thought it would just be a two months holiday from school
This has clarified some things I’ve noticed about earlier generations of geek culture but was never able to articulate. I’m an elder Millennial, so while I ended up coming of age in the more modern online fandoms of the 2000s, I was exposed to just enough of older fandom culture that the whole edifice feels like a lost civilization to me, glimpsed through the stacks of used bookstores, on archived webpages, even in the atmosphere of the only Worldcon I ever attended. What I wonder about, though, is what exactly happened to what you called “bouba” geekdom. Fantasy-oriented, intuitive, pagan (or perhaps Christian with a pagan gloss), the side of fandom you describe as “WASP femininity...by way of Tolkien and Disney”. I can connect the dots and chart out how “kiki” geekdom evolved into a bunch of new forms across the 2000s and 2010s, but it feels like “bouba” geekdom suffered an extinction event during that time and modern corporate pop-feminist fandom moved into its vacant niche. A while back @prokopetz discussed the subgenre of “romantic fantasy” and how it disappeared early in the new millennium, and from his description it sounds like romantic fantasy was a very “bouba” type of literature. Given the timing, I wonder if there’s some sort of connection here.
The two 90s Geek Genders were Pagan Fantasy Medieval and Atheist Techie Futurist
Ok so… hear me out.
There was this weird thing - I won’t say it’s as clear as outright male vs female as much as kiki vs bouba. Kiki in this scenario is roughly masculinized (sharp edged and all) and bouba is roughly feminized (soft edged) but in practice it just wasn’t as clear as that.
I experienced geek culture as being *very* gendered, and what’s more is that there was a hidden set of class and culture assumptions undergirding which of those two groups you’d end up in.
Pagan fantasy fan and techie atheist were the two ends of the spectrum in the 90s and it’s weird to realize that a lot of my trying to be pagan when I was in my teens/20s was because of this weird gendered shit and most of it was around this platonic female ideal of female geek. I was trying to perform a higher status female role in my own community; all the popular girls were slender white girls named Willow or Heather or Rowan, who were into musical theater and had long, wavy Disney Princess hair and soft hands with long tapered fingers. (Yes, this archetype is THAT SPECIFIC.) They needed to communicate in ways that indicated that all of their answers came from pure intuition and dreams, extra points if they perform divination of some kind. They couldn’t ever be definitive or “left brained” in their personalities. It was very WASP Femininity only… geeky flavored. WASP by way of Tolkien and Disney instead of WASP by way of idealized domestic figures. Most importantly, they were NOT Jewish. They did not have “Jewish hair.” They did not come up in Jewish households where argument is a love language. They were not loud and did not talk with their hands. They had beliefs about religion and mysticism couched hugely in Christian-style faith even if it was cloaked in pagan aesthetics, and this was upheld as an ideal to perform. (And what’s more is that in “bouba” flavored geek culture, I have actually encountered a lot of casual anti-Semitism, in addition to the aforementioned social pressure to conform to a gentile female ideal. I’ve VERY SELDOM encountered ANYWHERE near the degree of casual anti-Semitism in “kiki” flavored geek culture.) When I’m in spaces where “bouba” is the female ideal, it often feels like I went from there being one normie cis female ideal I couldn’t perform, to finding the same female ideal upheld in a lot of geek spaces and having it be even *harder* to perform. Which is a big reason why I hung out in corners of geek culture that more often were atheist computer types who liked hard sci fi. (The “kiki” nerds.)
But another thing is that *class* is why I was never able to find a place in “bouba” geek culture.
“Bouba” geek culture participation - actual subculture membership beyond being a casual - actually requires participation in hobbies and habits that can become as expensive as, say, being into ski trips and vacations, and one’s status in that setting depends upon how much they’re able to buy in. “Bouba” geek culture is HEAVILY gentrified, and always has been.
“Cyberpunk/computer kid/harder sci fi fan” culture wasn’t as hard to access. If anything, being in those spaces *made* me money instead of *costing* me money.
I *wanted* to be part of many “bouba” geeky things but… I *couldn’t.* Even when I started making enough money to do it, suddenly, I just *didn’t have enough time.* You have to have whole weekends to spare. Once I started making the money, I was spending my free time going to tech conferences, trade shows, etc. The resentment just grew and grew.
I feel like some geek spaces have always been heavily gentrified in ways outsiders don’t parse in the way that people just Don’t See Class. It’s for that reason that I actually don’t support that being the dominant face-forward of geek culture the way it has become.
“We aren’t classist. But you must afford xyz activities and have the free time to do them, to be one of us. Because of your gender.”
It was actually much easier to move in kiki space than bouba space.