kontextmaschine

Clean, off 1989, is an addiction experience-as-metaphor-for-relationship song that’s not that great, but eventually you pay attention to the lyrics and appreciate how well she wrote them to line up with either situation, and then you realize that the point is no, that the Taylor Swift trick is vocalizing you so well that you think she’s one of whatever you are and the trick is any Swiftie who had an actual addiction recovery experience now has a Taylor Swift song that speaks it to be “her song”

The lower edge of my belly, while not completely firmed up yet, feels like increasingly firm forms of not-firmness, rn it’s around “natural rubber”

play-now-my-lord:

fishmech:

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TVTropes is such a weird website because the language (and I guess the ‘culture’) of the site was codified in an extremely specific era of internet use (mid to late aughties), and by members of an extremely specific and insular subgroup (nerds) that it codified all the tropes in what is effectively a dead language. No one talks like that anymore and yet because there’s no renaming or updating, and in the 2000s we thought the future was forever babyyyy etc, it all continues to chug along as part of a world where self-respecting adults use words like “woobie”. It’s remarkable to me because its not a relic or preserved in amber (an online Pompeii like an abandoned geocities page), people are actively using it! Like finding an island where everyone speaks English in the style of Chaucer. I would be just as surprised if a man on the street greeted me “Hail and well met” as if someone in casual conversation deployed the phrase “crowning moment of awesome”.

its just so weird how this post diagnoses the problem without mentioning the actual cause: it wasn’t just nerds it was specifically joss whedon fan nerds particularly centered around Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

the tvtropes people talked/wrote weird compared to general internet users, or even fandom types specifically in 2005 as it started, let alone as it continued to accrete users. expansion brought in wider use of general internet/fandom writing but the core of people really really into buffy in particular and joss whedon in general kept it somewhat discordant against popular usage.

oh man! that explains so much! it sorta follows his lead in many ways; the ideal TVT writer is a fan of the tropes despite believing (sometimes correctly, sometimes Very Not) that they see through them and can identify all the strings being pulled; chauvinistic about Nerd Dialect that was off-putting in its vintage year and anachronistic now; bought-in on the whole “nerd culture” phenom lock stock and barrel, with all the weird reading and writing priorities that come with that; and way, way less progressive than they seem to believe they are. in other words: Joss Whedon.

TVTropes is a monumental temple built to a god that failed, which is beautiful in the abstract and repugnant in the particular. I think that’s where I’ve landed

Appreciating in retrospect that my online Buffy fan community was the Hanniganites on AOL, who thought Alyson Hannigan was neat

Amazon.com: DMoose Calf Stretcher & Foot Stretcher for Plantar Fasciitis - Hamstring Stretcher Stretching Strap for Achilles Tendonitis, Leg

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Using that hamstring stretcher thing seems to have unlocked my ability to stretch my legs in bed my just max-extending them out, which was also a help with the lower back tightness.

Yeah my hamstring-stretchability was kind of a point of pride, now that I think of it. Lord knows the V Sit-and-Reach was my only good event on the Presidential Fitness Test, and back at the dojo if you took it to the floor you’d probably get mount on me, but I’d wear you out while you tried to get a submission and I literally directed most of the resistance force back to the ground, and I’d use one leg twined around trapping the opponent’s and bring the other one up as a third arm to break chokes then eventually I’d start trying to hook my knee around your neck

We didn’t do striking on the ground though, so I could retreat to my chessmaster machinations without dealing with ground-and-pound blows to the face

babyanimalgifs:

the best thing you will see all year

kontextmaschine:

Using that hamstring stretcher thing seems to have unlocked my ability to stretch my legs in bed my just max-extending them out, which was also a help with the lower back tightness.

Yeah my hamstring-stretchability was kind of a point of pride, now that I think of it. Lord knows the V Sit-and-Reach was my only good event on the Presidential Fitness Test, and back at the dojo if you took it to the floor you’d probably get mount on me, but I’d wear you out while you tried to get a submission and I literally directed most of the resistance force back to the ground, and I’d use one leg twined around trapping the opponent’s and bring the other one up as a third arm to break chokes then eventually I’d start trying to hook my knee around your neck

play-now-my-lord:

fishmech:

:

TVTropes is such a weird website because the language (and I guess the ‘culture’) of the site was codified in an extremely specific era of internet use (mid to late aughties), and by members of an extremely specific and insular subgroup (nerds) that it codified all the tropes in what is effectively a dead language. No one talks like that anymore and yet because there’s no renaming or updating, and in the 2000s we thought the future was forever babyyyy etc, it all continues to chug along as part of a world where self-respecting adults use words like “woobie”. It’s remarkable to me because its not a relic or preserved in amber (an online Pompeii like an abandoned geocities page), people are actively using it! Like finding an island where everyone speaks English in the style of Chaucer. I would be just as surprised if a man on the street greeted me “Hail and well met” as if someone in casual conversation deployed the phrase “crowning moment of awesome”.

its just so weird how this post diagnoses the problem without mentioning the actual cause: it wasn’t just nerds it was specifically joss whedon fan nerds particularly centered around Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

the tvtropes people talked/wrote weird compared to general internet users, or even fandom types specifically in 2005 as it started, let alone as it continued to accrete users. expansion brought in wider use of general internet/fandom writing but the core of people really really into buffy in particular and joss whedon in general kept it somewhat discordant against popular usage.

oh man! that explains so much! it sorta follows his lead in many ways; the ideal TVT writer is a fan of the tropes despite believing (sometimes correctly, sometimes Very Not) that they see through them and can identify all the strings being pulled; chauvinistic about Nerd Dialect that was off-putting in its vintage year and anachronistic now; bought-in on the whole “nerd culture” phenom lock stock and barrel, with all the weird reading and writing priorities that come with that; and way, way less progressive than they seem to believe they are. in other words: Joss Whedon.

TVTropes is a monumental temple built to a god that failed, which is beautiful in the abstract and repugnant in the particular. I think that’s where I’ve landed

One of the biggest things I picked up when I was first coping with terrible memory issues was to establish and regularize a place around each “operation site” in my house where I would put things down if I needed to free up my hands and check there first if I was looking for something I just had

talonabraxas:

With Clarity - Relm

apoliticalfemdommunist-deactiva:

dhomochevski:

seeing something take on animal attributes and being like “oh it’s human” has some kind of urbanism parallel going on but fuck if I can tell what

yamayuandadu:

 Pantheons in fantasy will almost always be something like “fire deity, water deity, light deity, EVIL deity, GREAT MOTHER” while an average bronze age city’s pantheon was s/t like “deity personifying the city, god everyone has to treat as the main one because his city got geopolitically lucky, three or so personifications of main local sources of income, a nearby mountain, half a dozen incoherent minor deities (at least one is the result of some misspelling a name), deified branding iron”

If my intuitions are correct, and they usually are, I’m gonna emerge from the chrysalis of renovating my house and personality right in time for the neighborhood to move from “appealing for first-time homebuyers settling down who inspire fundamental structures to show up” to “appealing for the young renters who carry all the actual street energy”

Badger investigating my salad w/buttermilk dressing and miso soup and after licking some shredded lettuce concluding that as fragrant as it is, there’s nothing there for him

kontextmaschine:

Going back to 1997 to tell them that Wal*Mart isn’t that relevant now and the 800-pound gorilla of American mass-market retail is Amazon

They mostly have questions about eBay

They ask if GameStop is still around.

“Well,” I begin

kontextmaschine:

Thinking about how Rampage – like, the skyscraper-destroying arcade game – is technically American kaiju IP

@theresponseblog said: I mean, it had a movie!

Wait, what?

WHAT?

Going back to 1997 to tell them that Wal*Mart isn’t that relevant now and the 800-pound gorilla of American mass-market retail is Amazon

They mostly have questions about eBay

Interesting thing is when I stretch my hamstrings now the line of tension seems to be slightly more lateral than it was when I was flatfooted

Using that hamstring stretcher thing seems to have unlocked my ability to stretch my legs in bed my just max-extending them out, which was also a help with the lower back tightness.