Hiya! Another Tumblr refugee...

[dalearmitage]

My tumblr url: Deleted! Here now! Used to be dalearmitage, annoyangle, unifiedweirdnesstheory, spaceisyrbutt. I mostly did RP on Tumblr.

Other sites: This is pretty much it. I'm trying to wean off all the social media sites that are based on clickbait and eyeballs and get back into creating dedicated longform content.

My fandoms: Gravity Falls, Twin Peaks, King Falls AM, Adventure Time, Hannibal, Fullmetal Alchemist: B, Real Ghostbusters, Max Headroom, The Venture Brothers, Youtube longform essayists like Lindsay Ellis, Folding Ideas and Red Letter Media. I cut my teeth on culture jamming content from Negativland, EBN and their like: stuff from the A/V Geeks and the Prelinger Archive, too. I'm a SubGenius minister, but not a dick about it. I have complicated feels about David Lynch and his work. I can't stop watching cooking shows like Hell's Kitchen and Great British Bakeoff. Big fan of Charlie Brooker ever since I discovered the Screen/Game/Weekly/Newswipes and How TV Ruined Your Life ; oddly enough, haven't really managed to watch all of Black Mirror yet tho... I like other British shows too, mostly comedy and light quizzes like Monty Python, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Mitchell & Webb, The Young Ones, Bit of Fry and Laurie, Upstart Crow, QI... I generally keep an eye on anime and try to find one show to watch per season, though I prefer older stuff like Yamato, Gundam, Bubblegum Crisis, Dirty Pair, etc.

I'm super keen on spooky small towns, Pacific Northwest Gothic, trees, tea, liminal spaces, tarot readings and tarot cards, and, as Agent Cooper once put it, "What we fear in the dark and what lies beyond the darkness."

Finally, I will never stop recommending Robert Hughes' absolutely epic Shock of the New miniseries or John Berger's Ways of Seeing - such food for thoughts about the relationship of art, media, and how they both shape and comment on society.

What kind of content I post: Generally a mix of RP with my OC (journal entries, WIP and the character's random thoughts), short-form writing, complaining about my creative block, and smatterings of personal this and that. I have gotten used to Tumblr's 'lurk quietly and reblog pretty aesthetic' so in a certain sense it feels like writing longer posts is learning to walk all over again. I'm not sure what would even interest people...

Access/commenting policies:
Nothing for now, I might have a policy later..

Anything else?: I feel like I don't have much of a 'fandom identity' and I'm still sort of ambiguous as to whether trying to develop one is a good thing or a bad thing, given the state of the Internet in play at this point. Things are so different now than in 2007, and it's hard for me to want to stick my neck out very far (though I am actually fairly opinionated about some stuff.) Censorship is blossoming everywhere, everything is always terrible RL... Finding the balance of 'providing interesting things and opinions for other people to read' and 'protecting myself from brigading' is something I'm still trying to work out. I like using the word 'literally' too much and also using ellipses too much.

Comments

[propergoffick]

Credible and broad taste in Britcoms, regional Gothic, and liminality (great word). I've come back from the Tumblr lurking hole too - while I still wrote longer posts over there, they were more often liked and shared than talked back to, and my reflexes have shifted from "hey thanks for bringing this counterpoint to the table" to "WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON THE KULTUR WAR THAT CONSUMES OUR WORLD", so... learning to have actual conversations again is proving a bit of a challenge.

Subscribing, anyway.

[dalearmitage]

Yeah, my Britcom thing started with Mom's Python vinyls as a kid, then the tv show airing on PBS, early VHS caps of the same, then Hitchhiker's book and radio vinyls, and Young Ones/Blackadder airing on cable in the late 80's. Same for Cook and Moore's Bedazzled. Robin of Sherwood in the 90's, Just got worse ever since. I'm pretty ravenous for this stuff. Brooker I found on Youtube in a happy accident a few years back so I snapped up the shows and books. I just picked up Upstart Crow this very week because nobody told me Ben Elton had a new series (and all my friends are fired, for that). It feels really weird sometimes to be like 'I have an opinion about UKIP strictly thanks to a comedy documentary about media plus idle attention to the Guardian' but also 'dammit where is my yearly Wipe, Brooker'?

It's been horrible and interesting to straddle the cultural osmosis fence between the US and Britain and be like "oh look its that dipshit Farage trying to scam over here now too," when nobody here really knows who he is, and "gee too bad nobody in the US reads Carole Cadwalladr about Cambridge Analytica" to realize we all got played the same way by the same group of two bit con artists. But oh no, that's /conspiracy/ talk...

Anyway, thanks for follow, and I'll try to be of interest. :)

[propergoffick]

Upstart Crow was news to me as well. Caught the Christmas special and... I'm not quite sure about it yet. It's nice to see Elton back in this period and doing something that talks to Shakespeare even more directly than the first Blackadder did (I know that wasn't his, but it was very much Shakespeare fic...), but something about it didn't quite sit. I'll have to watch some more regular episodes and see. Nice to see Mark Heap on villainous form though.

[dalearmitage]

I think it's conceptually fine, but not as solid/sharp as his Blackadder stuff. And it does kind of repeat itself between episodes, which is very odd. I'm not clear on whether the soft touch is purposeful or just a sign that Elton isn't a hungry-angry-20-something any more, LOL. Mitchell's fine in it, though.

There's always more to work through. I need to dig into the Goons back catalogue and also see if I can find Fry and Laurie's Jeeves and Wooster stuff.

[propergoffick]

Oh god, the Goon Show - I was effectively raised on the output of the late Spike Milligan, so that's been brain tape to me since I was tiny. ENJOY.

You might be right about Elton; he's slid gently into the role of by-appointment provocateur and, of course, West End fixture. I'm not complaining, as such: Upstart Crow isn't a LOL, but I'm definitely still smiling. Mitchell... is doing that permanently-baffled-intellectual thing he does, and that's fine, it works well here even if it's a bit toothless. Maybe that's it: Mark Heap is great at playing slightly ineffective, self-defeating villains who send themselves up at every turn, and Mitchell has a sort of gentility to him, and the two of them are compounding Elton's having grown up a bit. (Although the older lad who's playing the senior Shakespeare is doing a fine old job, and I prefer Marlowe to Flash any day.) It all has a sort of cosy repertory-theatre feel, which is fine - but not terribly exciting.

[capri0mni]

ooh! Long Form Video Essayists! Yes! Why didn't I think of those (and short form, too) as a Fandom genre?

I might just go back and edit my intro post here...

[dalearmitage]

They definitely count as something you can be a fan of! I follow several, and it seems like there's always more, but you have to be so careful with Youtube people... Still, everybody should be watching Ellis, at least, she's getting better and better and such a model for Having Girl Opinions Online.

[capri0mni]

I agree! Ellis is awesome.

My favorite YouTube long form essayist right now is Philosophy Tube, who is to Philosophy and Ethics what Lindsey Ellis is to films. An excerpt of his video on the philosophy of antifa got made into a gif set, and went Tumblr viral, last year (The whole thing is about an hour).

He's also a professional actor, and in the last 3 months, his videos have been getting more like mini-movies. He wrote this one as a response, in part, to Ellis's video on authenticity.

[dalearmitage]

Excellent! Something new to take a look at! :D Appreciate the rec.

On the essayist front, also quite like Pop Culture Detective, Sarah Z (The Late Capitalism of Fast Food Twitter particularly).

The other genre I didn't really mention and should have are boundary break/out of bounds videos, where people break the artificial restrictions of 3D video games using hacks and tricks, and show you 'behind the scenes' to find hidden rooms, developer areas, locked material, incomplete/unusual items and textures out of camera view. I'm not a huge gamer, but I'm absolutely in love with the fourth-wall-breaking aspect of things like moon jump codes and glitches/clipthroughs/hacks. Something about the destruction or damaging of artificially constructed reality in a playable, explorable environment really speaks to me.

Some folks I like on this front are Shesez, The Easter Egg Hunter, and Oddheader.

[capri0mni]

Thanks for the recs back!

[Insert "Same Hat!" meme, here)