THE INTERNET

Hi everyone!

Today I'd like to discuss my latest obsession: The Internet.

I will divide this post into three sections:

Twitter

Tumblr

Youtube

because that is where I spend all of my time (apart from the time that I blog on blogger).

At the bottom of this post the Dictionary of The Internet can be found.

Twitter

Twitter. Oh Twitter. I have made many friends on Twitter. No, who am I kidding? I might have made two friends on twitter.

I don't think I have to explain twitter, but basically it's a site on which you can share your opinion cramped into 140 characters and other people can follow you to read what you had for dinner (for example).

I don't really use it for 'I ate a banana' or 'tomorrow I will see my aunt who lives three kilometers from my house'. I use it to:

- Keep up with the news on my favourite (foreign) tv-shows like Doctor Who or Once Upon a Time;

- Fangirl after another episode of one of my favourite tv-shows;

- Talk to people on the other side of the world and find out what it's like to live there;

- Complain about the fact that I'm not British;

- Stalk the actors that I love and therefore I love every single tweet (even this one by Alexander Vlahos). (That was actually really funny because he tweeted that with his phone in his pocket without noticing).

Also on Twitter you have the Follow Friday tag. On Friday you can mention people you like to follow in one FF tweet to tell your followers to follow that person you like to follow. What? Never mind. Just read it a few times, you'll get it.

Tumblr

Tumblr is the website I spend most time on. I have explained here what Tumblr is.

As I told you in that post I am a fangirl. I'm a pretty normal and calm person in RL but I can be rather crazy on the internet. I'm not very loud and I don't really get noticed (I have 22 followers) but I understand everything that appears on my dashboard.

Fangirls have their own language. Most of it has to do with the shows we watch, but some things are just abbreviations of really weird phrases. 

A list of most of the fandoms:

TV shows/films

- Doctor Who

- The Avengers  (and Iron Man, Thor, Hulk etc.)

- The Big Bang Theory

- Supernatural

- Teen Wolf

- Once Upon a Time

- Harry Potter

- Sherlock (BBC)

- The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings

- The Hunger games

- Merlin

 My goodness this list is longer than I thought and it actually goes on, but I think you see what I mean.

A list of the actors/actresses fangirls fangirl over:

- Tom Hiddleston

- Robert Downey Jr

- Matt Smith

- Arthur Darvill

- Karen Gillan

- Tom Hiddleston

- Emma Watson

- David Tennant
- Tom Hiddleston

- Colin Morgan

- The list goes on and it's longer than the last one so I'll stop.

You get the picture: mostly men or flawless women.

Commonly loved things on Tumblr that are not fandoms:

- Kittens

- Cats

- Puppies

- Stars/Universe

- Shoarma

- Chocolate

Also you can tag your posts, just like I can tag my blogposts on Blogger. 

These are common tags: All the feels, all the cries, crying, i'm so done with this, i'm 700% done with this site, flawless cast is flawless, pretty graphic is pretty, accuracy beyond accuracy, WHY WOULD YOU POST SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I can't, I lost the ability to can, and lots and lots more. Some fangirls have the ability to make a whole story out of tags; I, however, am to lazy to do that.

This is an example of a post that makes me a proud fangirl because I understand. I'm sorry it's too complicated to explain.

I'm starting to regret starting this post. I must seem such a freak to you now. 

There are some fun things we fangirls do. For example we get attached to fictional characters. We cry when they're sad, we cry when they're happy, we cry when they die. (Fictional characters we get attached to tend to have more chances of dying somehow). Also we ship characters. When we ship two characters no matter what they do, we call them our OTP. I'm not going to explain these words now because if I do my dictionary won't be of any use. We are happy when our OTP goes canon, and we cry when they don't. We make AU Gifsets and write Fanfiction. Further fun words can be found in the dictionary below.

Here's a video by Bryarly in which she explains Tumblr and it's a nice bridge to my next topic (Youtube):

Youtube

Youtube is a lovely place for opinions. I am subscribed to a lot of Vloggers. Here's a list of vloggers I actually love and watch regularly:

- Charlie
- Bryarly 

- Phil

- Dan

- Elle

- Mascha (she's actually Dutch)

- Kandee

They are all very different and usually very interesting. That is actually all there is to say about Youtube. Just try some of their videos! Should be fun!

Dictionary:

- Fangirl (verb) = be hyperactive and talk about every facet of the episode/character/show you're a fangirl of

- Fangirl (noun) = a person (male/female) who is obsessed with a tv-show or fictional character

- Twitter = website on which you can tell your followers what you're doing

- Tumblr = website on which you can share what you made or wrote or just fangirl (see fangirl)

- Dashboard = the homepage of Tumblr (see Tumblr) on which you can watch what the people you follow have rebloged from the people they follow

- RL = Abbreviation of 'Real Life', which is the life in which time passes normally and in which you have a family and you need food and exercise in order to stay alive

- Ship (verb) = To like two certain characters to fall in love with each other and create pretty babies (regardless of sex, sexual preference or if they actually like each other in the show or not)

- Ship (noun) = Two people who are being shipped by a fangirl

- OTP = Abbreviation of One True Pairing, which is the ship a fangirl will ship forever no matter what happens

- AU = Abbreviation of 'Alternate Universe', which means that things go differently in some other universe. For example: Sherlock meets The Doctor in another universe and they hang out together preventing the apocalypse from happening.

- Gifset = a set of gifs (why did I even add this to the dictionary)

- Fanfiction = A story written by a fan about the existing fictional characters of a certain fandom which usually lets ships go canon

- Subscribe (verb) = follow a Youtube blogger

- Vlogger = a person who tells his/her opinion to a camera and uploads this to Youtube

- Youtube = A website on which videos are shared and watched
- To go canon = When a Ship actually gets together on the tv-show

I hope next post on this blog will be more normal than this one. My apologies for being weird.

Love,
Mia

PS: Follow me on twitter and tumblr :) 

Hipstagram

Hi guys,

First of all: do not judge me before you have read the whole post. I am not prejudiced. Thanks. 

For a while now I've been on Tumblr. If you don't know what Tumblr is, here's a brief explanation: Tumblr is a website on which you have a sort of blog. You can follow other blogs, whose posts will appear on your dashboard. You can either like the post, reblog the post (which makes it appear on your blog and on the dashboard of people who follow you) or just scroll past it if you're not interested. Now, there are some 'sections' of Tumblr, or corners, or however you'd like to call it. You've got the fashion corner, in which my sister likes to scroll around (follow her if you like!), there's the art section with all sorts of art. Then there's the fandom section. A fandom is a group of people who really really really like this show/actor/film/musician and post gifs (moving pictures) about this certain fandom. (So the word fandom is used for the people loving the show/actor/film/musician and the show/actor/film/musician itself). Also you have the 'hipster' corner of Tumblr.

Oxford dictionary has this definition:

Definition of hipster

noun

informal

• a person who follows the latest trends and fashions.

The fandom corner and the hipster corner seem to be at war all the time. I think this war is based on the fact that the fandom people consider themselves very not cool and forever alone and claim not to leave their room and the hipsters consider themselves the cool guys who do what they want and look good doing it. Some examples of hipster things:

- Hipster clothes

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- Hipster pictures

- Hipster posts laughed at by fandom people

This post for example. Let me explain it a little bit. The picture of the statue is from Doctor Who (A television series of which I am a massive fan, as you might have noticed). The statues are actually not statues. They are aliens. They can only move when no one sees them: hence the DON'T BLINK thing. The fangirls assume that hipsters like this because it looks sad and a bit like an artsy photograph.
In this first version of the post they even wish the hipsters death. I know this is just meant as a joke, but still. Also I know the feeling when you understand something and one picture of one statue means a whole story to you and knowing that other people don't know that. It gives you the feeling that you're cool. I just don't think that this means that other people who don't know that are not cool.

This second version kind of offends me. '.. Blink and you're stuck in a charity shop posting pictures on Instagram'. That bit is rather unfair. I love walking around in charity shops / thrift stores and posting pictures that you made of you and your friends or something fun you saw is something we all do. I don't thing it's a hipster thing, really.

I must admit, some of these pictures are cute and some hipster songs are nice. I like Lomography and I wear H&M clothes. 

I just think we shouldn't call everything hipster and therefore avoid it. It's become something of a swearword and even hipsters won't want to admit they're hipster. Why don't we just all like what we like and not give names to those things? I like some hipster things and I like to be in fandoms at the same time. I don't think there's anything wrong with that!

That's kind of what I wanted to put out there, on the lovely internet.

Love,
Mia

PS: My sister suddenly said HIPSTAGRAM to Instagram and that made me laugh so hard that I made it into the title. Thanks Sis.