Wu argues that trans studies should be taught widely, not just in courses explicitly about gender (like gender studies courses). Fanfiction and fan studies classes, Wu suggests, might be good avenues to explore that kind of teaching.
This article synthesizes the results of Wu’s teaching an undergraduate fan studies course with a three-week unit on gender studies. Students discussed gender fluidity in Loki, fanfiction with trans representation, and Omegaverse. Wu concludes, “Although this is a course about fan fiction instead of trans studies in the social sciences, adding reading materials such as timely news about current trans situations alongside fan fiction and theory-related materials might help students situate themselves better in the discussion of trans topics.”
Hello, Tumblr. Tumblr here. We’re launching live streaming on Tumblr, and we’re calling it…well, Tumblr Live.
Tumblr Live brings streaming directly to the dashboard, meaning your Tumblr audience and your streaming audience can converge. What’s that, you say? Synergy? Beautiful.
Initially, we’re rolling Tumblr Live out to the US only via our Android and iOS apps. Desktop and international streaming and viewing will follow in time.
Here’s how it works:
The little 🎥 at the bottom of your dashboard in your mobile app will take you to a Tumblr Live tab, where you’ll be able to scroll through streams that are live at that time—indicated by a green dot. (Your search bar is still there! It now lives in the top right corner of your screen.)
As long as you keep it clean, you can stream anything that takes your fancy by tapping the “Go Live!” button—ducks in the park, the wonky snowman you built, your cursed cross stitch, etc.
Streaming works with both front and back cameras, so if you’re camera-shy, you can stream without showing your face.
You can bestow bouncer status upon your most trusted and loyal viewers, which means they can help you moderate your stream for any nasties while you’re live.
You can tap on any live avatar to jump into their stream—whether you follow that blog or not.
You can send little gifts to the streamer during their stream if you’re enjoying what they’re up to.
You can collect your favorite streamers in a special tab for later.
And that’s it for now. Just imagine! Gaming live streams! Book clubs! Live fungi feed! D’n’D campaigns! Artist live draws! Shark facts! GRWMs! Cosplay and con casts! Knitting hour! Photography tutorials! Storytime! Plant parenting tips! Living room concerts! Furby workshop! Museum tours! Crabs! (just crabs!)
It’s a whole new ball pit out there. We’re so excited to see what you come up with.
Hello Tumblr, Tumblr here. The time has come. We’re rolling Tumblr Live out to more places over the next week.
This means that if you’re in any of the countries or regions listed below, you will be able to watch streams, as well as stream your own Minecraft adventures, your froggy crocheting club, your morning walks, your Furby customization rituals—or, ya know, whatever you’ve got going on there that you want to share with the world.
The aforementioned list: – Brazil – Canada – European Union – Japan – Malaysia – Mexico – South Korea – Turkey – United Kingdom
WHAT is going on with radishes. They taste different every time I eat them but never in an interesting way. They’re the least predictable and most boring vegetable. What are they even doing. Like I know I’ve said shelled peas are the most pointless vegetable but that’s only because I completely forget about radishes in between every radish event of my life.
Update on the radish situation: forgot I planted these.
My opinion remains unchanged. Forgettable seed, forgettable vegetable, forgettable taste. Suitable as a way to get ranch into myself, when I remember that they exist.
almost irresponsible how horny working out makes me i do my last set of lifts and i’m like “ohhhh oh nooo i just worked out and now my arms and legs are all shakey and tireddd… tired and weak and VULNERABLE i hope nobody realizes how VULNERABLE and PLIANT i am right nowww” just alone in my apartment
I literally don’t have the space for any more physical books, but I’ve downloaded every Underrealm book on Kindle. I read The Alchemist’s Touch specifically because of this post and I seriously can’t recommend the Underrealm books enough. they are absolutely fantastic.
I don’t really read anymore, not like i used to. And of i get a masters this year like i am planning to then that isn’t going to change. But hell yes I’m going to go and buy these books because THIS is exactly the kind of thing that i want to support!
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One day I will have a job and a bank account and I will have money from the job in the bank account and I will use some of the money to purchase these books
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did you know
did you know we have a podcast now and you can literally listen to the books for free.
(You probably didn’t. That’s okay because it’s very new).
It’s slower than buying and reading them, but it’s great if you have no book budget but you do have some listening time!
My bf studied japanese in high school and often says “gambate!” (not sure of spelling) to be like. encouraging. I think it means roughly “let’s get this bread.” However, as someone who took spanish in high school, it always sounds like a command to me. And as near as I can tell, in spanish it would mean “go shrimp yourself.”
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I’m definitely not a fluent speaker, so I could be wrong, but here’s how I got there:
In Spanish, some (informal, I think?) commands are formed by dropping the “r” from the end of an infinitive verb. (Every infinitive verb in Spanish ends in r.) For example, “to run” is “correr.” If you want to tell someone to run, it’s “corre.” If you want to tell someone to do something to something/someone, you append a little pronoun thing to the end. From “besar” (to kiss) we get “bésame” (kiss me). From “cocinar” (to cook) we get “cocínalo” (cook it). From “callar” (to silence) we get “cállate” (silence yourself/shut up).
So, “gambate” immediately reminds me of “cállate,” which is a rude command. It would be formed from the verb “gambar” and the second person object “te” for “you/yourself.” But “gambar” isn’t a word in Spanish. However, “gamba” is a word. It means “shrimp.” So while it isn’t technically grammatically correct, in the same way we “verb” nouns in English, the noun “gamba” is being used in the place of a verb here. “Gambate” (or more properly “gámbate” to maintain the correct stress for both the Spanish and Japanese). “Go shrimp yourself.”
Native spanish speaker. You’re quite right about your linguistics here, and spanish speakers love to make up new words by conjugating existing words (at the very least, my parents do)
My confusion stemmed from never having heard the word gamba before. To my knowledge the word for shrimp is camarón
So i looked it up and apparently gamba actually means prawn. So it’s actually go prawn yourself
Language is so cool :3
Except the original word is GANbatte, not gambate.
Ganbatte pronounced in a Japanese accent would be reasonably able to be heard as gambate if one was unfamiliar with the language. I knew exactly what the word sounded like even though it was spelled wrong.
I only knew it was ganbatte and what it meant from, “ganbatte, roomba-san”
grizzled fighter who takes off his shirt revealing a chest so covered in scars you actually see him shirtless a couple times before you notice that some of them are top surgery scars
grizzled fighter who talks about how she doesn’t have all the body parts she started her career with, despite clearly having all limbs, eyes, tits, etc, and eventually you work out that she’s talking about her bottom surgery
I think more people need to learn the phrase “I don’t know enough about that to have a strong opinion” its literally a cheat code for awkward conversations
its ok if you actually do know a lot about the thing and/or have strong opinions about it btw. you can just lie
I often say this if it’s 1) a person I don’t know well and 2) they’ve expressed an opinion or “fact” that I’m pretty sure I disagree with but I don’t have enough information to confidently refute. So basically in my case it’s often (not always) polite shorthand for “I think you’re wrong but I can’t be arsed to do the work to argue with you.” (1) is important because if it’s my good friend then I’m generally comfortable straight up saying “I think you’re wrong but I don’t have sources / don’t know for sure / don’t have the spoons to do a deep dive rn”. (2) I *might* possibly say the same thing if I straight up just don’t know shit about the topic, but honestly if I trust the other person’s information or think I probably agree with them, I’m much more likely to make agreeing noises and/or ask questions to learn more.
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