i know what youre all thinking ohhh he just hates dirk and john being shipped with anyone whos not each other which, yeah i get how my #shipping #opinions might come off that way altho its not true. johndave is solid. johnkat is solid. dirkj**e is solid even though everyone who goes hard for it in this the year of our lord 2018 is the kind of weirdo who calls themselves an “anti-anti” or whatever. what else. hmmm. i havent thought enough about john/sollux to know if its solid but i like the idea of them meeting through major league esports and getting into a fistfight somehow
not to be an art hoe but the homestuck panel where you can see the total destruction of th session reflected on dirks shades was a masterpiece that makes me cry
PSA: journalists aren’t supposed to put names in the headlines if the person isn’t a public figure. It’s not a matter of maliciously not giving credit
^^^as a journalist, this is something that bothers me ALL THE TIME
A friend of mine on Twitter explained this the other day, so to elaborate based on what she said: If the name is not instantly recognizable the way a public figure is, then putting the name in the headline isn’t going to bring about any sort of recognition or connection in the reader, and doesn’t do much to draw the reader into the story. But something like “local teen” does create a connection by tying the person into the community, and encourages the reader to learn more about what this local teen has done. The name will be in the article itself, after the headline has done its job at getting the reader to look into it.
It’s worth noting too that usually, according to the Inverted Pyramid writing style used for journalism where the most important information is shared first, the person’s name is usually in the first sentence of the first paragraph.
Whenever I see someone get up at arms over a headline that says “Local Teen” and the first comment is “SAY THEIR NAME” I’m always like “hey, thanks for telling every journalist present that you don’t read articles and just skim headlines.” Really makes us feel appreciated.
Also journalists don’t write their own headlines, editors write the headlines.
– dirkonomics (with a major focusing specifically on Splinter Studies)
– that time i took the required claspect 101 and thought it was interesting enough to do 102 but i dropped out. i can still talk about it tho i just cant get into advanced topics like inversion theory
– i cant even finish this post. its already taken its toll. homestuck university. can you fuckin imagine
I wish there was a way to tell companies that I dislike an ad so much that I will actively avoid buying anything from them because of it
So slightly unrelated but still relevant, generally when I come across an ad that just really fuckin annoys me for whatever reason I’ll go into Google and just type different variations of “I hate ‘x’ product” like 5 times until googles algorithm picks it up an I never see an ad for that product again. It’s amazing.