cabulous rhymes with "fabulous"

My Tumblr summed up in 7 Questions.

omgwtfhedwig:

• URL: cabell
  
• Top 5 fandoms you’ll see: Avengers (currently the big one), Due South, X-Men, Community, Star Trek
• Top 4 celebrities you’ll see: Terry Pratchett (quotes), RDJ (mainly as Iron Man), Chris Evans (mainly as Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (mainly as Thor)
• Top 3 other topics you’ll see: Social justice/related educational materials, pregnancy talk, nail polish
• Do I make graphics? Only as mix CD covers.
  
• Do I liveblog? Sometimes, but usually via Twitter when I do.
• My Ask Box is: Always open, though not to anons.

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 werewolfqueen replied to your photo:NAIL STAMP SUCCESS. (Okay, I smudged a couple of…

Fucking fierce! I tried to do leopard freehand the other day. Didn’t work out quite the way that I planned. Haha. I’m definitely gonna buy those stamps ASAP.

Thanks!  One thing I discovered by accident while trying to correct a smudge is that if you drop a VERY small drop of nail polish onto your nail and then blot it with a q-tip, you get something that looks very leopard spotty.

I think the stamp ends up being a lot less time-consuming, though.

a friendly reminder that if you are on the internet, you are in a position of privilege.

True, but there are levels of privilege there, too.  Low-income youth often have access to the internet via mobile phones—so not needing to rely on good mobile sites or apps (as smart phones become cheaper) for web access is a form of privilege separate from the privilege of having any internet access at all. (Interestingly, Tumblr’s iPhone app is pretty damn good—I’ve been wondering if that will enhance its use by lower income people who rely on mobile access, but it would have to also have at least a good Blackberry app, and I don’t know if that’s the case.)

I would argue that having PRIVATE desktop/laptop access is another privilege, available to people who own their own computers; this allows them to, say, look at huge piles of Tumblr porn with relative freedom—that and being able to engage in other not-necessarily-parent/teacher-endorsed online pursuits is a major component, in my opinion, of developing internet-related skills.

People are motivated to learn when there’s porn as a carrot—and learning internet skills reinforces privilege, since those skills then enhance access to all kinds of resources.

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fuckyeahsocialnorms

fuckyeahsociologystudentsheep:

Just a question, does the URL really need to be fuckyeah? Personally I think it would be better without it. Just putting that out there. ssxvi

Well, I REALLY like Sociology, and Fuck Yeah is a pretty good intensifier.

What does everyone else think?

What I think is: This is Tumblr. Of course the URL is “fuckyeah.”

Because it’s Tumblr, this is an interesting objection—it seems to me like a kind of boundary maintenance, but whose?  The sociology enthusiast who doesn’t really care for the norms of Tumblr yet is here anyway?  Of course, norms are always contested by somebody; no culture is monolithic.  But “fuckyeah” is a pretty major Tumblr trope.  This really does seem to me like an attempt to force a group of which one is not an integrated part to conform to norms that are not widely accepted by the group as a whole.

This is a big part of my dissertation research on Facebook: how norms develop in a new technological milieu; how they are shaped by users based on the normative frameworks of other environments but also how the specific features of the technology encourage some behaviors/norms, accommodate some others, and actively DIScourage yet others.  With Facebook’s concerted effort to tie in to people’s legal identities and face-to-face network, norms about swearing seem to me similar there as in face-to-face interaction—which is to say that they vary broadly depending on participants’ definition of the situation, but there is certainly no blanket embrace of profanity.

Generally, I would say that in mainstream US culture, outside of certain informally defined interactions, there is a strong norm against swearing on the grounds that it is “low class” or “ignorant.”  (And thus it can be effective for demonstrating intimacy, because you are being so “low class” and informal with another person.) But why?  Swear words are evocative; they can be quite creative; they certainly convey strong emotion.

They aren’t part of the prestige dialect—and yet, it’s easier to use them without being judged ignorant when you can otherwise use the prestige dialect with ease.  I swear constantly, but then, I’m a middle-class White woman.  Possibly everyone secretly thinks I’m ignorant.  But even if they do, the point is that they feel compelled to keep it a secret.

(My background here: I have my Masters in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; I am now working on my dissertation at Madison.  I’m presenting on information disclosure on Facebook at ASA this year; last year I gave a talk on profile picture selection and photo-sharing more generally, both rich topics for the discussion of norm development and competing normative frameworks.)

I am proud to say that I have never been the anonymous person telling people that they’re too ugly, fat, or should go die.

I appreciate the sentiment behind this, but I feel that “proud” is a bit strong when you’re asserting that you have adhered to basic standards of human decency.

(Not to single out anyone for the reblog; I’ve seen this 5 or 6 times this weekend.)

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I remember when I thought I was too old for Facebook.

 goldenagecostumes replied to your post:Not ironic, really, just kind of a catch-22

Hah. I will be victorious over tumblr.

Careful.  I think that’s how it gets you. :p

Having simultaneous convos in two different platforms… geeks or AWESOMEST GEEKS.

Let’s play the tumblr drinking game tonight.

tehblackbirdisflying:

thegoddessfoo:

nerdling:

nom-chompsky:

thekingofcupsexpectsapicnic:

Take a shot every time you get a tumblbeast?

Are you trying to kill us all?!?!?!

How about a gulp of wine? I don’t have anything to take shots of… 

Already in progress:

I swear I am going to write a paper about online communities engaging in synchronous-but-geographically-separated drinking games.  It’s a really interesting aspect of them as “third places” (I co-authored a paper about MMOGs as third places a few years ago).

Also, I was WONDERING if the tumblbeast page was always this frequent.

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