I just want to read a fucking book where there is a chapter devoted exclusively to a fucking porn fic writing event contest thing or some shit ok. WE CANNOT HAVE AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF HOMESTUCK DURING ITS HEYDAY NOW AND THIS MAKES ME SAD. we could've tracked all the stages of homestuck fandom EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: specifically we can't do field research on the earlier phases now. we're limited to historical record and first hand and second hand accounts now. documents and interviews are useful but only part of the process.
Yeah, I'm still really excited about tag filtering on AO3 but it would work better if people were better at tagging. This might encourage some people to be better at it but I really don't believe that it's actually going to fix the issue.
Regarding typos: one of my favorite fic typos ever was “he felt confident in his claim hat”. I need a claim hat.
If I had actually bothered to finish my Digital Communications studies, my BA thesis would have been a study of the habits of the homestuck fandom in 2010-2012. Sadly it was not meant to be
I'm. Tempted to see what comes out if I go into a large fandom and just exclude all the ships. Can I do this. What terrible power have they given us.
Somebody write this AU pls. I don't even go here but from what I have heard an actual band ending would be. Spectacular.
I filtered out twenty two ships and 34,500 fics (about 3/4 of the fandom) before it started throwing 502 errors at me, and honestly that seems fair
God I wish ethnographic research didn't confuse my brain so much or I'd genuinely be willing to do this as a job. ALAS I AM STUCK PERSONALLY MAKING VIDEO GAME STUDIES AN ACADEMIC FIELD IN GERMANY. MAYBE. SORT OF. WE WILL SEE.
Spoiler: spoiler for possible end of Detroit: Become Human I mean, there is a possible scene where Markus, the robo Jesus, can avert a massacre by abruptly breaking into song. Maybe it's an AU where the rest of the crowd happens to be carrying instruments and it turns into an impromptu jam session? "Robots are people too! Anyway, here's Wonderwall."
oh, so it's that easy?? i had no idea the first chapter of this fic also features: -approximately 0.5 seconds are given to go "what the fuck" at unexpectedly time travelling ~20 years into the past (and into another dimension - it's a crossover), after that it's just Onwards With The Plot -hank is able to get a job with NYPD, which is a pretty ballsy move for someone whose legal existence is completely faked -connor gives himself a new identity that is sixteen years old, which: 1) why would he, and 2) how would this Definitely An Adult-lookin dude be able to walk into a high school and go yep, i'm 16 -oh, looks like the author wants to have connor go to school for the sole purpose of interacting with peter parker and co. sure. because there weren't any less contrived ways to do that. didn't read past chapter 1 :P
Oh jegus, no. I mean, if you want "have this adult character interact with another character who is usually a teenager, and have them do it in a school setting", you could - I dunno - have the adult be a substitute teacher. Or a new teacher. Or a frigging guidance counselor. Or, hey! Move the school setting to a college! Where it won't be creepy and wtf-inducing that a teenager's got someone who's Definitely An Adult as a classmate! You're absolutely right that there's no possible way Conner (who absolutely looks like he's in his mid-20s at the youngest) is going to be able to walk into a high school, claim he's 16, and get taken seriously. Frankly, trying it is...something that should get them caught, because that feels like it would definitely prompt some investigation into his ID.
I'm remembering the magical girl parody comic Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy in which the twenty-three-year-old alien mentor was passing as an exchange student in the fifteen-year-old heroine's class and it was commented on but no one stopped him. An unrelated gripe; a comment in a fic about how a whip as a weapon wouldn't do much damage. Really? Y'ever SEEN what they can do?
I mean, a whip can definitely do a shitload of damage. So can a ruler, or a pen. That doesn't necessarily make it a sensible or efficient weapon, but if rule of cool is the whole reason behind it anyways, that doesn't matter as much.
Depends on the context. Against someone in street clothes, it'll hurt like hell and leave a nasty shallow cut, but not inflict much in the way of debilitating damage. That's kind of the point of a whip - it's painful, but doesn't inflict serious injury. An undisciplined attacker will almost certainly back off, but if they're trained and tolerant of pain, they can still rush you and stab you or whatever. It's kind of like pepper spray or the like - it's fundamentally a pain-producing less lethal weapon, meant to induce compliance through pain, but not actually crippling if the target can fight through that. Against someone in half-decent armor - good gambeson, for instance, it'll be completely useless. (Except as a binding, but that has its own problems)
The exact phrasing was "a weapon designed to do as little damage as possible", which I really don't feel applies to what's basically a torture device.
it's not just armor or moving, honestly-- like @BaseDeltaZero said, they were designed to produce compliance through pain and through loud noises, for scaring livestock (and people) into moving a particular direction or doing what you say without actually damaging your property (or "property" as the case may be) too much. normal whips only produce surface abrasions, even on someone standing still, and yeah you CAN take an eye out with them but that's not what they're FOR. (wikipedia actually defines whips as a tool, not a weapon.)
