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Title: usernames
Post by: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 22:06: I don't want this to be all about mine so you can talk about yours but I need advice super quick...

what do I call my new tumblr? I like "the gravity downs" because of downs as in, like, a series of hills, but I don't want that to be misinterpreted like "down syndrome." advice? how did you read it?
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Post by: Lunchbox on 13 Dec 2010, 22:07: It's okay. You can change tumblr names whenever you like.

That is kind of an odd name though.
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Post by: Tom on 13 Dec 2010, 22:10: The URL on the other hand is not as easy to change. Go with "gravitydowns" or something as simple for the URL and rename your tumblr as it suits you.
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Post by: Lunchbox on 13 Dec 2010, 22:13: But it does change. I just changed mine.

If you're into long-term links or whatever it's a bad idea but your followers on tumblr will still get you on their dashboard and all your links to facebook etc will be the same.
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Post by: Papersatan on 13 Dec 2010, 22:19: I thought it was a statement about what gravity does. It downs things. Not that normal people speak like that, but it is a phrase I might use.
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Post by: Johnny C on 13 Dec 2010, 22:25: Quote from: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 22:06
I don't want this to be all about mine so you can talk about yours but I need advice super quick...

what do I call my new tumblr? I like "the gravity downs" because of downs as in, like, a series of hills, but I don't want that to be misinterpreted like "down syndrome." advice? how did you read it?

imagine five balls, rolling down a series of hills. time works the same way.
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Post by: Johnny C on 13 Dec 2010, 22:26: maybe "gravity downs" although idk i don't like statements about things gravity does. i don't know that it's particularly downs syndrome invoking. it makes me think of like queensbury downs and stuff, like as a location.
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Post by: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 22:28: yeah the gravity downs is an imaginary location inside my head so obviously I want to use it as my image blog url! (I'm not joking)
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Post by: JD on 13 Dec 2010, 22:34: Mine is called The Center For Ongoing Pandemonium. I would look for another word for downs instead though.
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Post by: scarred on 13 Dec 2010, 22:38: yeah downs sounds weird. mine is called 'sleeping in light' which may or may not be incredibly nerdy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_in_Light)
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Post by: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 22:38: gravityfalls is taken :(
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Post by: JD on 13 Dec 2010, 22:46: The Gravity Underneath?
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Post by: Jace on 13 Dec 2010, 22:49: I named mine Questionable Context.

The Gravity Below.
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Post by: Johnny C on 13 Dec 2010, 22:51: Quote from: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 22:28
yeah the gravity downs is an imaginary location inside my head so obviously I want to use it as my image blog url! (I'm not joking)

ok then you know what Cool People Will Get It and everyone else can huff a dong
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Post by: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 23:04: the gravity underneath/below doesn't work because falls or downs are both locations, I don't think anyone is really getting what I mean...

yeah whatever I forgot that asking for advice on the forum is stupid

seriously the fashion thread is a clusterfuck
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Post by: JD on 13 Dec 2010, 23:07: Go for Gravity Downs if you really want to. Like Lunch said you can always change it.
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Post by: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 23:19: yeah sorry for being pissy I just asked a specific question ("does this read like this") and instead got a lot of "I don't like that" which is sort of a downer but whatever I am sleep deprived and nothing makes sense anymore this is a stupid thread
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Post by: squawk on 13 Dec 2010, 23:58: well i didn't think of down syndrome
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Post by: Rizzo on 14 Dec 2010, 00:39: I did, but I'm like that I suppose.

Mine is cthulhucore, follow me if you like. It's mostly just retarded humour and troll physics.
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Post by: Eris on 14 Dec 2010, 00:56: Mine is called Quixotic Neurotic, and the url is huagl. I chose my name by looking through a dictionary until I found a word I liked and worked from there. Really, blog names aren't that important in the grand scheme of things, just call it whatever you want.
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Post by: Christophe on 14 Dec 2010, 01:25: Christophe Kazoo in the URL, title named after a SKWM lyric (http://christophekazoo.tumblr.com/). Seemed pretty simple to me when making it.
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Post by: Dliessmgg on 14 Dec 2010, 01:31: My name in the url, blog's name is bestest decisions.
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Post by: Dliessmgg on 14 Dec 2010, 01:37: While we're already talking about that, I'm an old hag. (http://www.urlai.com/url/dliessmgg.tumblr.com)
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Post by: KvP on 14 Dec 2010, 02:30: url is thepopstalinist (http://thepopstalinist.tumblr.com/), a very old handle of mine. Name of the blog is the same, but with spaces and capital letters.
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Post by: calenlass on 14 Dec 2010, 02:33: Quote from: Eris on 14 Dec 2010, 00:56
Mine is called Quixotic Neurotic, and the url is huagl. I chose my name by looking through a dictionary until I found a word I liked and worked from there. Really, blog names aren't that important in the grand scheme of things, just call it whatever you want.

I love the word "quixotic". I only found out like last year that it is pronounced "kwiksotik" and not "keeotik". I always thought it was the latter on account of the word deriving from Don Quixote. I also think I must have heard it that way in a song a friend wrote or something, so I have always liked "quixotic, chaotic" for song lyrics.
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Post by: Eris on 14 Dec 2010, 02:40: That is how I thought it was pronounced too, for that same reason, until I actually looked at the pronunciation guide in the dictionary. I think I prefer the other pronunciation, but the two words sound nice together with either pronunciation, so I don't really mind that much either way.

This thread got me looking at my old writing blogger blog (it is the same as my tumblr, but blogspot instead of tumblr), which I haven't looked at in about a year and a half. I am glad I did, because it reminded me that I had some writing up on there that I had been thinking about and thought I had lost forever, and it also made me want to start writing again.
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Post by: allison on 14 Dec 2010, 07:25: allis-n.tumblr.com

mostly i post pictures and stuff
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Post by: Allybee on 14 Dec 2010, 07:41: went with a name from an old blog that I still like

http://fairdistractions.tumblr.com/ what up
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Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 14 Dec 2010, 07:42: Quote from: Allybee on 13 Dec 2010, 23:19
yeah sorry for being pissy I just asked a specific question ("does this read like this") and instead got a lot of "I don't like that" which is sort of a downer but whatever I am sleep deprived and nothing makes sense anymore this is a stupid thread

I like it and no it doesn't read like it has anything to do with Down's Syndrome but neither does it read like it is anything to do with rolling hills and such.
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Post by: sean on 14 Dec 2010, 07:45: i mean if you wanna name a blog the gravity downs then name a goddamn blog the gravity downs. its just a name and it usually doesnt matter if it sucks (im not saying this does i have no opinion on it) because goddamnit you have a name and people will just go with a thing like that.
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Post by: Blue Kitty on 14 Dec 2010, 10:12: Sounds cool to me

I thought this was another thread about why we chose the usernames we had.
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Post by: Johnny C on 14 Dec 2010, 10:27: i mean one of my favourite blogs is Cocaine Blunts so What Do I Know
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Post by: tania on 14 Dec 2010, 18:01: your professors will be so proud when you tell them what you made instead of studying for your finals
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Post by: Joseph on 14 Dec 2010, 18:30: What sort of grade do you think I get if I make a convincing penis by filling in circles on a scantron sheet?
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Post by: Tom on 14 Dec 2010, 18:35: My Psyc and Bios exams were all multiple choice, surprisingly, I wasn't tempted to do that.
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Post by: MusicScribbles on 14 Dec 2010, 21:21: Quote from: Joseph on 14 Dec 2010, 18:30
What sort of grade do you think I get if I make a convincing penis by filling in circles on a scantron sheet?

The problem with this is that you're hoping the scantron recognizes human anatomy.
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Post by: Johnny C on 14 Dec 2010, 21:31: Quote from: tania on 14 Dec 2010, 18:01
your professors will be so proud when you tell them what you made instead of studying for your finals

look one of the biggest assignments of the semester and indeed my academic career is the paper that examines gender issues in fantomina by academically comparing it with The Room and then writing a short fiction that combines elements of both which is a project i devised while on loko and am now burning through while on two energy drinks and oh my god is my heart collapsing???????????????????
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Post by: tania on 14 Dec 2010, 21:50: i was hoping you'd tell me tbh
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Post by: Johnny C on 14 Dec 2010, 21:52: i think the asnwer is yes
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Post by: tania on 14 Dec 2010, 21:54: i've reached the point of sleep deprivation and caffeine intake where i truly believe that my rudimentary understanding of intermediate statistics makes me the absolute smartest human being on earth, while simultaneously a darkness is closing in and my vision is slowly narrowing down to a pinpoint and i don't know how many more steps are left before sudden, painful death but i assume it won't be much longer
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Post by: tania on 14 Dec 2010, 21:54: if i go before you do, do you want my cds
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Post by: tania on 14 Dec 2010, 21:56: i mean i haven't really bought any since like 2006 but i think there's some lcd soundsystem and like maybe an okkervil river in there somewhere
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Post by: Johnny C on 14 Dec 2010, 22:02: Quote from: tania on 14 Dec 2010, 21:54
i've reached the point of sleep deprivation and caffeine intake where i truly believe that my rudimentary understanding of intermediate statistics makes me the absolute smartest human being on earth, while simultaneously a darkness is closing in and my vision is slowly narrowing down to a pinpoint and i don't know how many more steps are left before sudden, painful death but i assume it won't be much longer

The only critic who seems to totally shut down any notion of agency is Helen Thompson, whose purely materialist examination of Fantomina proposes that agency is the product of something which does not exist, and that the actions of both characters in the story are strictly that of biological imperative. Pointing to Charleton’s The Ephesian Matron as an exemplary materialist text,²³ Thompson suggests that Fantomina is exclusively a story of bodies substituting for bodies, and that it therefore celebrates the transitory and physical natures of lust and love. Her arguments are compelling – for example, she suggests that “Rather than exchanging hyperbolically indifferent objects, Haywood produces a series of whole bodies from what would seem the scant resources of one body, gratifying Beauplasir’s lust while fantastically extending her heroine’s love” and that Fantomina “draws upon the materialist logic of whole bodies to become for [Beauplasir] a succession of different objects,” which conjure up the ideas of multiplicities of identity surrounded around the single feminine form that Beauplasir haplessly fails to recognize as the same time and time again while also arguing that the point of the story is that failure to recognize, that the story’s sexual freedom comes from the anonymous and repeated substitution of one body for itself as opposed to the multiplicity of female identities belonging to said bodies.²⁴ Even more compelling is that Thompson’s eventual conclusion that the multiple identities of “Fantomina” paired with the same body repeatedly generates a free-associative sexual desire which makes Beauplasir what we’ll call for the sake of emphasis outrageously horny, although Thompson also concludes that Beauplasir’s enflamed desire is Fantomina’s goal in reproducing and disguising herself repeatedly and – let’s face it – we hardly need her to tell us that.

^{23. Thompson, Helen. “Plotting Materialism: W. Charleton’s The Ephesian Matron, E. Haywood’s Fantomina, and Feminine Consistency.” Eighteenth-Century Studies. 35.2. (2002.) 198. Published in 1659, Charleton’s Ephesian Matron, according to Thompson, demonstrates a materialist, Epicurean philosophy with regard to sex; that is, that one body is as good as any other. The fulfillment of desire is matter on matter, nothing more.}
^{24. Ibid., 200 and 202, respectively.}
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Post by: Johnny C on 14 Dec 2010, 22:02: This Is The Most Fun I've Ever Had Writing An Essay Probably
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Post by: Buttfranklin on 15 Dec 2010, 01:54: I have no idea what that means but it seems to be about female gender identity so does me not understanding it make me a misogynist pig?
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Post by: cyro on 15 Dec 2010, 02:41: I think "Gravity Descendant" is niftier.
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Post by: Ptommydski on 15 Dec 2010, 03:08: Quote from: cyro on 15 Dec 2010, 02:41
I think "Gravity Descendant" is niftier.

After reading the last ten or so posts, this simple return to subject made me laugh.
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Post by: tania on 15 Dec 2010, 03:18: i feel like it is really unfair that jc gets to write an essay about the room while i am at this very moment memorizing a statistical technique that is honest to god used to calculate when a human being is going to die

it is pretty much as far from fun as you can possibly get without just lying motionless on the ground, waiting for the end
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Post by: cyro on 15 Dec 2010, 03:28: Quote from: Ptommydski on 15 Dec 2010, 03:08
Quote from: cyro on 15 Dec 2010, 02:41
I think "Gravity Descendant" is niftier.

After reading the last ten or so posts, this simple return to subject made me laugh.

Thanks.

...I think?