#average familiarity

[kiralamouse]

I'm reading an explanation of the drama between Kendrick Lamar and Drake and it's possible the author only meant it for an audience of rap fans, but I ran across the sentence:

"If you don't know Pusha T, actually, yes you do: he is one half of Clipse, which had the smash hit Grindin'."

and all I could think was

#i'm lucky that i recognize the names 'drake' and 'kendrick lamar' as rappers #who is this 'j cole' they refer to as the third of the big three #average familiarity #if you don't know who abble dabble is yes you do: he is one half of glarb which had the smash hit smashin'

[belleandkurtbastian]

@gupdoo3 and I were having a conversation about reference pools and I was struck with a flash of inspiration.

#xkcd #randall munroe #xkcd 2501 #average familiarity

[the-frostiest-of-flakes]

#i found out not everyone knows what head voice is when i had to explain it to my mother #i started choir when i was 10 so there's a lot that i assume is just common knowledge in regards to vocals #average familiarity #meme #vocalist

[wolfstarwarrior]

Does anybody have that version of the xkcd average familiarity comic that talks about jk r*wling's bigotry? I need it for reasons

#xkcd #average familiarity

[peridyke]

my standard for future lesbian media is kinda set by the chainsaw man dyke with four demon girlfriends who she has on screen sex with

#txt #on screen might not be the right word cause they arent animated yet but idk what a better word would be #ok they are fiends not demons but the average layman isnt familiar eith chainsaw man lore

[canisalbus]

Hi hello, I was struggling with my Spooktober challenge, but wanted to draw something today, so I ended up with this:

He is Very Shape, so I had to lmao (I don't draw animals much, so it was a bit tricky, but hope it came out okay!)

Also, terkkuja toiselta suomalaiselta, meikäläisiin törmää niin harvoin :D

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#oh no the boy #he looks like his soul is about to leave his body #what goes on behind those saucer eyes I wonder #the horrors it's gotta be the horrors #the shading and lighting are absolutely delicious! #so many good hues and shades #the orange purple and magenta #I use cool colors so rarely (practically never) so it's straight up ~weird~ seeing Machete with a blue color palette #but it works it makes him look even more out of sorts than average #I'm liking all the sharp angles on his ears #oh and the lone strand of fur between them! I draw that too! #I find it terribly flattering when I get gift art from people who say they don't draw furries/animals very often #because if they're willing to venture outside their comfort zone like that it must mean they really truly like the character #I only draw human characters under extreme and unusual circumstances I know how daunting it can be #to switch from a familiar subject to a more foreign one like that #so I see the effort you put into the piece and I appreciate it! #gift art #lumilasi #own characters #Machete #kanssasuomalainen! virtuaalinen yläfemma o/

[serendipititties]

I feel like when we asked swifties to go and consume something else they all went and watched Barbie (2023) and that's why we had so many white feminists come out with their dog shit takes about how it's actually a feminist masterpiece (and totally not just a 2 hr commercial that gentrifies feminism), about how the two white women who spear-headed this trash project were the victims of some deeply vitriolic misogyny because they weren't oscar nominated for their mediocre work; all while forgetting about a woc who was nominated for her work in the movie, and forgetting to celebrate that a native american woman made history as the first to be nominated for the highest acting award on her own fucking land.

#sorry this was a long time coming #the genuinely stupid reaction of “oh white woman was robbed for her average work” was so eerily familiar #anti barbie movie #anti taylor swift #the movie had its merits but the praise was largely undeserved. #wren rambles

[simplydnp]

what's your opinion on fanfics about dnp? (more in a way of do you think that it's crossing boundaries and/or being parasocial)

i'm of the same mind of dnp in that phanfic is fucking incredible. it's an important and valid way to express yourself, as well as a building block of our community. i don't think it's crossing boundaries, as it's fiction. i don't see it as parasocial either--you're writing for you and others like you. most people don't want dnp reading their fics, it's not for them in a sense, it's for us.

i think dnp are extremely aware of fanfic and its value and place in community. they've always encouraged it, appreciated the support, and given us space about it. they're not ones to make videos about it and mock fans for it (which happened to some of our lovely fic writers here writing for other yt fandoms, and i'm so sorry about it). dnp are fandom culture people. they've written fic themselves! and published it in their book!

the word parasocial has been twisted lately to imply any fan support is unnatural and should be shamed, which is complete fucking bullshit. making art is always important and valued. and it is necessary for your existence as a human, but also for the thing you're a fan of to thrive.

the parasocial side comes in once you start believing you know this person. and that you're their real friend. when in reality, they do not know you specifically, and you are not their friend, you are an audience member.

so a parasocial relationship only occurs when people start crossing boundaries (digging for not publicly available information, contacting people in their personal life, showing up to their house, etc). which, is absolutely nowhere close to real fan behaviour.

tl;dr: phanfic is great, i love you fic writers, parasociality is a problem but not one that we have

#dnp have such a unique relationship w/ their audience in this way. it isnt parasocial bc it isnt like. too real? like they arent our friends #we joke and we meme but we Know that. but they Are a facet of our lives and we do care about them perhaps more than an average community #but they also care about us more than an average creator too. #we're extremely familiar with each other. but not in an unhealthy and dangerous way. just. aware. #its special. its fun. #like we even make jokes about dnp being parasocial with us sometimes lol #i hope im clear and it doesnt sound pointed anon but we've done the morality of rpf so many times in this fandom #on neutral ground any rpf is fine. but especially in dnps case where theyve actively encouraged it and are extremely grateful #except maybe when we haunted them with awful crack fics. but even then they still loved us for it. despite the horrors #dnp #c.text #dan and phil #answered

[greenbloods]

edmures reaction to tom of sevens here makes me kookoobananas. what did he mean by that.

they have a history, the two of them. but this reaction doesnt fit that history. instead it seems like edmure is pretending to be afraid of tom here as a front for jaime. why would he do that? we know that tom is a spy for the brotherhood without banners, communication intel about frey movement so bwb can ambush them. so edmure probably knows this, and knows about bwb, meaning that theres a nonzero chance that edmure knows that his dead big sister is back as a reanimated zombie somewhere out there. all this time thinking about a lady stoneheart-arya reunion and i havent given a thought about the edmure-lsh reunion

#edmure tully #tom of sevenstreams #btw the whole time i was making this post i was like “well people probably already know this im just repeating stuff” #xkcd 2501 average familiarity ass behavior

[musubiki]

Would it be wrong to say Pom is basically Mochi's second mom?

NOT WRONG AT ALL LMFAO!!!! when originally designed she wasn't meant to be, she was supposed to be much more jiji-like where she just sits on the sidelines and makes snarky comments, but the more pom interacts with others in my head the more she strikes me as the asian mom type who loves you but is mean to you because the standard is so high

#A is for average #B is for below average #C is for cant eat dinner #D is for dont come home #F is find a new familiar #poms magic scale #in all fairness mochi needs to be top of her game if she doesnt wanna die which is why pom is relatively harsh #but pom also is tired of mochis shit half the time #(he said i look cute...) mochi mumbles. and then pom bites her leg (FOCUS CAT WITCH!!!)

[acidbathcat]

realizing in horror i’ve done the worst engineering faux pas…. my sister asked me what a baseboard resistance heater was and i told her “what it sounds like” and refused to elaborate. i’m too far gone.

#i forgot the average person isn’t familiar with the concept of electrical resistance

[yume-fanfare]

the other day someone asked me in retrospring abt tori gender dysphoria and like where do i even start. is it not plain to see

#something something experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with the field #let me go through my tori gender posts again #mar's midnight rambles

[theguardianace]

wait. super random question

any languages, btw!!

#writing some stuff for rui rn and realizing i have no idea how familiar the average person is with code #i had learned a lot in school but at the same time i took two ap computer science classes #so like. what do most people know? my sample pool is biased irl

[molloytheboy]

This is really good u guys highly recommend got halfway through it today

#thank god. a lot of my fiction reads lately have been either average or dnfs #feels so good to be genuinely excited about a book again #definitely gonna be checking out Ninth House too #leigh bardugo #the familiar

[vigilskeep]

Harker I was raised super religious southern baptist and I didn’t get the Angel shit until you said it. On the other hand I also didn’t care to learn. win some lose some. 40283938 lost memories

your religious trauma permit to not know anything has been successfully approved

#you know that one meme of the scientists where theyre like #we have to understand we have a specialist viewpoints and the average reader only knows the formula for three or four blah de blah #‘and quarts obviously’ well obviously #thats me being religious and a story enjoyer and having absolutely no gauge for how much the average person knows #sorry for being dramatic im just joking around. but i DO think #its impossible to understand what a fictional thing like andrastianism is going for unless you’re familiar with what it’s borrowing from #like it’s incredibly useful to know this stuff to understand any stories that come from a christian heritage #but this is such a specific example where its deliberately drawing DIRECTLY on biblical text to the point its trying for the same style of #writing. like there is no way mary kirby didnt have the bible and like paradise lost up to check against as she was writing #so its not even like useful to talk about andrastianism without this background

[ardentlytess]

mildly embarrassed with myself over how much i’m looking forward to the new love in the air episode coming out today there’s just something about the show that’s so brainwormy

#love in the air #did not expect to like it so much at all #honestly watched the first episode for the first time & thought it was pretty average #but then i just kept thinking about it #& posts about it kept popping up on tumblr #so i rewatched it that night #& now i’ve rewatched it like four separate times since #i couldn’t even tell you that there’s something super special about it because i don’t even really think there is #it just feels so.. familiar (?) already that it’s comforting to watch on repeat idk #maybe it’s just the mame formula getting to me