my contribution to polish KCD fandom

(maybe i'll add english translation later, too tired rn)

I'll try to translate:

- Hi

Hi maybe shared bath*

- What?

- That we'll take a bath together*

* it's written with many spelling mistakes, that's why the blue person is so confused, it's funnier in polish

You can also read the last (*) message as "maybe we can kick/beat each other" because it's so badly spelled which imo makes it funnier

my contribution to polish KCD fandom

(maybe i'll add english translation later, too tired rn)

I'll try to translate:

- Hi

Hi maybe shared bath*

- What?

- That we'll take a bath together*

* it's written with many spelling mistakes, that's why the blue person is so confused, it's funnier in polish

I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

(save the images to zoom in on the pics)

Oh, that’s very helpful indeed!

!!!

Tumblr Tuesday: Hansry is Canon!

One of the best moments in fandom is when a ship you love to ship becomes a canonical ship. And, of course, there's nothing Tumblr likes more than a bickering lord and his underling. This Tumblr Tuesday is dedicated to Henry of Skalitz and Hans Capon of Pirkstein, who have been canonized as lovers in the recent release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Thank you to all the artists who are outdoing themselves with pictorial celebrations of that fact.

@spectremarvel:

@madeleinefjall:

@ionomycin:

@theesteppenwolf:

@maia-beans:

@martyfive:

@orientalld:

@stranded-ziggy:

@sgkg:

@altorinaart:

@melonart:

@onionchess:

@grmka:

@rebvilla:

@fiveocock:

@pan-da-hero:

@lumpypotato22:

nosferatu (2024) is so fucking funny. they did this joke twice

Ellen and Friedrich: Where is my Thomas? My love, My lad? My good time boy?

Thomas:

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

For anyone who needs this

!!!!

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you

Posting hole

Lol

yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.

I bet you'd need some high quality copper for that huh?

not again you mesopotamian son of a bitch

Only day you can reblog this

Next time you can reblog will be on 26th January 2025

*looks at sherlock* it’s very smoll

oh my god it was me

this is the very first ever documented use of smoll. you’re all a witness to language history here.

WORD ADDED!

BONUS!!! BIOSPHERE PERMANENTLY ALTERED!

official linguistics post

It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"

Poly folks x aro folks in the sense that "alloromantic heterosexual monogamous people view love and sex as an entirely different entity than me, and that makes life kinda strange"

in Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of “addiction mechanic” that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised not only by the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and it was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

honestly, i think this is why i like the way the game handles substances so much. when i was looking up playthroughs of disco elysium i stumbled across one subreddit thread where someone asked “gameplay wise, is there any point to staying sober?” and just looked at it. like, yeah. yeah, exactly. we know that harry often does drugs specifically so that he can take on a superhuman caseload - as he puts it to kim, to be a “really good detective”. it was so chilling to see a player asking the same exact question that harry would probably be asking himself. without an external punishment mechanic, without being heavy handed about it, and in a way that (as OP pointed out) is so natural as to be almost unnoticeable, it manages to put the player exactly in his shoes as a recovering (or not recovering) addict. it’s a really well-designed mechanic

“Things are harder without this substance, so there’s no reason for me to abstain” being a purely Player-Driven interaction is a phenomenal addiction mechanic. Absolutely fucking gorgeous.

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.

It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)

OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind

(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)

Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)

I think a lot about an interview I heard with Bo Burnham a few years ago, where he talks about this phenomenon with his own work. He gained a large audience of teenage girls, and people in comedy spaces would look down on him for that or say what a shame it was, but he responded differently:

“The real truth is, I would perform my show and I would meet kids after and young girls would come up to me and they understood what I was expressing in that bit onstage way more than guys my own age. Way more. So if there was a bridge between us that I had to cross to write the movie [Eighth Grade], it was built to me by them. I felt understood by them before I presumed to understand them.”

Instead of trying to change his comedy, he decided to lean into and celebrate the audience that he actually had by making a movie specifically about the experiences of a teenage girl. It’s fascinating to hear him talk about how he got there, but also to acknowledge how rare that reaction is.

We forget now because it became such a cultural force, but the target audience of Avatar the Last Airbender was 8-10 year old boys. Nickelodeon was NOT happy to find that the show had a huge audience of girls and women and that many of its fans were in their 20s or older. They consistently delayed and screwed around with the airing schedule for new episodes. In S3, one of the DVDs came out before those episodes had aired on TV because they dragged their feet so long.

Also. For the first season, they made action figures… and did not make any figures of Katara. One of the three main characters. They had a figure for a random Fire Nation soldier, but not her. Because the show was supposed to be for little boys, and boys don’t want an action figure of a GIRL.

ALL of this and this is what ruined the IDW Transformers run. James Roberts realized the most devoted and invested fans were women. They brought in Scott, who wrote the most tepid and misogynistic origin story for their forcibly female character (the whole plot of the Windblade mini is that her female friend is all Single White Female and jealous and emotional) since Simon Furman’s Arcee: Origin (Arcee as a forcibly non consenting gender transition victim that makes her female and also insane with the implication that the two go together).

Roberts on twitter (as it was known back then) would actively revel in the outrage from female fans at what he did–crafting a woobified character (like Tailgate) and then nearly killing them, and then next episode pulling a ‘sike! gotcha to feel something!’ and it was no longer about GOOD storytelling. It was no longer about telling the stories of how to rebuild after the war, or even having fun adventures. It was deliberately to FUCK WITH FEMALE FANS.

Ngl, I couldn’t agree any less with this analysis.

Mtmte was the clearest love letter to a fandom I’ve ever read. The whole ending was crafted EXPLICITLY and LITERALLY with the fandom in mind.

And yeah, James Roberts definitely knew he was writing for a female and queer audience, and if you cannot see the frankly insanely fantastic queer (*especially* trans) representation and love in the story he crafted, idk what to tell you.

The comic’s ending was rushed by Hasbro for exactly the reasons this whole thread is arguing, but not every dude author that writes tragedy in their story is punishing his female audience, just because he didn’t write the story you wanted.