ceargaest

[tʃæɑ̯rˠɣæːst]

linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.

since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!


username etymology
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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

if you have ever once in your life watched a TV or film production, a YouTube video, or anything else that was committed to visual recording media, and thought to yourself "wow, this set looks so pristine," it is an ironclad fact that if you turned the camera 3° in either direction it would look like "guys really live like this and think it's okay"



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

one of my favorite bits of Authenticity in media is in the aaron sorkin show (derogatory) Sports Night (complimentary) in which, every single time the cameras turn off for any length of time whatsoever, two women pop out of the woodwork and wordlessly begin attacking both the hosts with lint rollers. they're visibly angry. you know that they were staring at the program monitor for the whole preceding ten minute segment going "hair. hair. there's a hair. there's a fiber" and silently but deliberately rending garments they brought for this purpose


pendell
@pendell

the second you go an inch beyond the intended 4x3 frame you see everything, all the strings, lights, cables, C-stands, everything that makes the show work. Everything is deliberately framed to work in 4x3 and absolutely nothing else, because they were working in tight sets on tight money. Also production started in 1987 so they weren't very concerned about covering for 16x9.

It's very amusing to think almost every frame of the show has all of this just a foot or so out of frame. Of course we all know deep down that's how TV works, but it's a nice reminder to actually see it.

It's like... sonder for media? Something that reminds you of what an insane amount of work goes into every second of what you're seeing.




jesncin
@jesncin

Drew this for trans day of visibility! I want to talk about Lunar Boy and the thought process behind crafting a sci fi Indonesian future that embraces queer history.

I've always struggled connecting to escapist queer fantasy or sci fi where "real world bigotry doesn't exist" because when one's identity is so inherently political and tied to a generational history of oppression, I end up realizing I share very little in common with queer characters in those stories. Often times QPOC in escapist media feel like re-skinned white characters. It's as if people's only frame of reference for queer joy is that of white people, and that erases the specific cultural joys POC experience.

Sci fi is all about speculating what's possible. And in Lunar Boy we'd like to take you to a world where that history informs the joy.

If this book sounds like something you'd like to see, please consider pre-ordering it and telling your local library about it!



JuniperTheory
@JuniperTheory

Not only have they started pretending they're a much stupider meme/soundfont channel that is trying to clickbait the algorithm as much as possible with every title/image

They are also LYING ABOUT THAT TOO, every single video here is not actually what the title says. All the titles are bait, that's not buddy holly it's a cover of say it ain't so they're all ALSO SIIVAGUNNER BAIT

Incredible move, 10/10, I'm gonna click on all of these and have to hear that awful FNAF meme song so many times you stupid fucks



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

i'm gonna explain this because it's very easy to not get what's going on here, but if you do it's absolutely next level