#modly

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday when he managed to get a coronavirus outbreak under control on the Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.

Modly has been widely criticized in the past few days for firing the airline's commanding officer and making comments to the ship's crew to justify the decision.

But behind the decision-making process, many see a Pentagon based on the whims…

US: Acting Navy Secretary Resigns A Day After Calling USS Theodore Roosevelt Commander “Too Naive Or Too Stupid”

Acting Navy Secretary, Thomas Modly has resigned from his post a day after calling Commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Brett Crozier “too naive or too stupid”. The Navy secretary who came under fire for the comments made to the over 4000 sailors on board the aircraft carrier apologized for his remarks.

His Resignation letter reads:

“It has been the honor of my life to serve as the…

I’m elfflame, the mod here, and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone following. I love sims, and I love Harry Potter, so I had to make a place to find all the great stuff I’ve found for Harry Potter sims. I’m so glad there are others who enjoy it too.

I have a few questions for everyone:

1) What would you like to see in this tumblr that you haven’t yet? I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to find things, but any suggestions to improve the content are greatly appreciated.

2) Would people be interested in a list of HP sims tumblrs to follow? I have two of my own, but I don’t know if there’s an interest in having a list for people to follow. I’m thinking specifically stories and pictures focusing on HP or HP spinoff characters.

3) Not so much a question, but if you see stuff for any of the other sims games that I haven’t linked here, please feel free to link me to it so I can post it here. I’m trying to find stuff for the other games, but most new stuff here on tumblr seems to be for Sims 4.

My in box should be open, so feel free to nudge me.

It’s now been a year since I was keeping to my regular posting habits (which were still somewhat irregular, but much more frequent and during some periods, VERY frequent). I’ve explained a couple of times how real life took over in a big way over the summer and that my following teaching year was demanding in a lot of ways I didn’t expect. It’s certainly true that reblogging or posting every single new thing to the archive and following it up with exhaustive analysis is something I simply didn’t have the mental energy or spare hours for in a personally grueling year.

But if I’m being honest, my changed presence here on the Tumblrs was not completely due to a lack of time. I still CHECK Tumblr and keep up with everything that’s going on, but I think what I’ve felt is that FYDG has become somewhat obsolete. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing. When I started the blog, the scheme of things looked very different, and my central mission to Tear Down the Veil of Misunderstanding about the true status of our subjects’ relationship -- to hold to the middle ground and only assert what could be reasonably held -- has, I think, taken root in Tumblr fandom. There are really a HANDFUL of people whose judgments on new data I respect and seek out, and I know others do, too. Science has its very capable defenders and does not need a mascot to get things rolling.

On the other hand, if FYDG is no longer the only voice of its kind, it’s also swimming in a sea of other, less palatable voices. Tumblr, like other platforms before it, has woken to that irrational, petulant, self-serving mentality that simply wants to fantasize, and it’s been discouraging to feel like it’s always out there making for embarrassing situations. Even the SCIENCE! has become a little less fun when its banners are raised to defend silly and small minded “analysis” that smacks of so much self-indulgence. It bothers me that it’s there, but I have absolutely no patience or stomach to go cross swords, and if a critical mass of fandom tolerates it, it never just goes away. But this was never in itself enough reason to leave the ranks of Pure Research and Peer Review. I think it’s just helped me along in losing my savor for the project.

[Okay, this turned into a novel. Sorry.]

Back in the days of yore on Tumblr (ha!), like in 2009 and 2010 when I started this, it was a Tumblr thing (or, it was my impression that it was a Tumblr thing) to name themed blogs “Fuck Yeah _!” As in, “Fuck Yeah Art History!” or “Fuck Yeah Sufjan Stevens!” When I decided this would be a themed blog, I just went for the obvious.

Okay, but the History Of The Idea.

FYDG has its origins in the hours, hours, and hours of analysis of DD, GA, and their relationship that The Colleague and I indulged in for years during our teens and then early 20s. But we did this privately. While we were in fandom from 2003 on, PUBLIC discussion of DD and GA in the community seemed to have certain rules for polite fans to follow:

(1) David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson must be discussed separately, on their own terms, and not compared to each other except - MAYBE -professionally. The more you grasped that these two actors were actually born in different dimensions and had nothing to do with one another, indeed, that the possibility of their interaction with one other in any meaningful way was yet merely hypothetical, the better a fan you were.

(2) David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson must not be construed as persons who like, or dislike, one another. Cf. Rule 1. This is because in their interviews they seemed annoyed at being asked to elaborate on the state of their relationship. Therefore it is not seemly for us to elaborate.

(3) The fictional universe is important, and bringing to light unsavory Behind the Scenes info is undesirable and counter-productive. Only newbie fans are unaware of the state of things, and might drift through the LiveJournal comment threads mentioning that they read an article where David Duchovny pointed out that Gillian Anderson was "not a hideous cow." Respectable fans have suppressed this memory. Respectable fans trust David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson when they say that their personal relationship (posited only theoretically) had no effect on their performances or on the fictional reality of their characters.

These rules made sense because of certain conditions that were much more relevant in the mid-2000s than they are now.

(A) For 10 years the fandom had been disrupted by anti-DD, anti-GA, and anti-DD-GA factions. XF fandom in 2003 was something like the German countryside in 1648: razed and exhausted and willing to embrace a new pragmatic approach to the religious conflicts that had torn Europe fandom apart at the seams for so long. But also willing to engage in witch-hunts occasionally to let off steam.

(B) In previous years, snoggers had not always been as closeted away as they were post-series. The loudest snoggers were not pleasant jokey ironic fun people imbibing the tacit etiquette of 2010s-era Real People Fandom. Their treatment of the actors was often so dehumanizing, foul, misogynistic, and otherwise unhinged, that places like Haven actively policed discussion of DD and GA and their relationship, and this attitude spread in other fan spaces, too.

BUT FINALLY:

(C) Even up through 2008, a significant portion of the fandom had, I believe, come to the reasonable conclusion that David and Gillian were not very fond of each other. Examining their relationship too closely could be upsetting or at least Unfun. As fandom is not about Unfun, no public discussion coalesced around the relationship. People pored over the old articles privately and talked about it with some friends, but it wasn't until things started looking up that real discussion, and obsession, took root in a public place. This happened at first in a surreptitious and half-ironic IWTB-era LJ community but stayed a minority pursuit within the larger fandom.