Discord and Fandom
I would highly, HIGHLY recommend that if you are a part of a fandom, you join Discord. It is an interesting blend of community instant messenger and forum, in that it allows for content separation but all content is instantly messaged, and servers can contain hundreds (if not thousands) of people at a time.
What does this mean? Why is this useful?
This means that fandoms, as a huge group, can stay in contact while we all try to regroup. If your fandom already has a Discord server set up, GREAT! Find it and join it!! Pass the link around! Make sure your friends are a part of it!
If your fandom does not have a server you’re aware of, it’s SUPER easy to make one. Even if you all have several servers going for a fandom, that’s better than no servers; you can always condense/migrate to a single server as you reconvene post-purge, and delete ones that are no longer needed.
The thing is; it’s live. Your fandom can decide, as a group in real time, where the best place to settle is going to be. You can stick together through this! Some of you may belong to several fandom servers, and that will allow for cross-referencing– if X fandom is going to Dreamwidth, maybe Y fandom will want to find a home there too. At the very least, you stay in contact with your own folks.
As always, stay safe and good luck. See you on the other side.
i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was like “I’ve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what I’m saying makes sense, i’m simply stating the obvious. i’m sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.” and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and i’ve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
Men automatically assume they’re more of an expert on something than any woman on account of their dicks. I’ve never met such an ignorant and narcissistic creature as a male
I’ll never forget a time when a fb friend of mine posted that she’s on her way to hospital to give birth. Women commented with “good luck” and other encouraging messages. A man’s comment was advice on how to give birth.
You have got to be kidding me
So I was talking about Jekyll & Hyde (the book) at a writer’s museum while we were looking at an Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit. I was giving my take on Jekyll, and my brother tried to counter it. I countered back easily, and then he said “well I’ve never read the book”
My dude………..stop
my ex, whose baking experience was pretty much limited to frying premade biscuit dough in boy scouts to make ‘donuts’, would constantly try to correct me or give me advice on baking
i’m a fucking pastry chef
met a dude at a party who was talking about physics and asked if i’d ever listened to any online physics lectures bc he listened to all of this one series and they were so helpful and maybe i could learn some physics too
i have a degree in physics
and am a published coauthor in astrophysics
the best part is that the woman who invented the term ‘mansplaining’ (her name is Rebecca Solnit and i highly recommend her collection of essays) came up with it when she was at a party one night and a man tried to explain a book to her, and wouldn’t let her speak long enough for her to tell him that
she wrote the bloody book he was mansplaining to her
You know I have plenty examples of this but that last one takes the cake so imma just let it be.
