It happens in practice. Generally, it's the sense of community that is built by dividing those 'in the know' from those out of it. If you know what TBT stands for you have that sense of belonging to the community that uses the term, while those who don't understand it are outside the community. The insider's perspective can only be defined by delineating an outside.
I suppose it makes sense. Your involvement in the community is proportionate to how much effort you commit to putting in, both in learning the technology and the platforms and terminology, and taking the selfies themselves. It's a neat enough system and not an uncommon paradigm, just harder for us to picture since it's technologically-based.
It sounds like it. Their technology is more advanced, which opens up endless opportunities for storytelling like this. What we have here is just the basics, from what it sounds like.
If we could mass-produce Iris Gems then we'd probably have our own equivalent for a lot of the things here. The key difference would be the use of seraphic artes in technology, since Earth doesn't seem to have any magic.
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Date: 2016-09-06 03:41 am (UTC)[Like ruins nerds knowing the ancient language or something, maybe]
I guess I can see it. Does that happen in practice, or just in theory?
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Date: 2016-09-06 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-06 04:40 am (UTC)[Things are getting SO REAL, SO FAST, THERE IS A HURRICANE HAPPENING]
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Date: 2016-09-06 06:05 am (UTC)Oh, he's not going to--
[HE'S...GOING TO]
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Date: 2016-09-08 02:30 am (UTC)that's not purification
but it works]
...Oh.
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Date: 2016-09-08 02:34 am (UTC)...really dark.
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Date: 2016-09-08 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-09 04:53 am (UTC)[Pros, Ursula is dead. Cons, murder was committed??]
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Date: 2016-09-09 04:55 am (UTC)[yeah...]
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Date: 2016-09-10 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-10 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-10 04:25 am (UTC)...uhhhh...I guess not.
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Date: 2016-09-11 01:39 am (UTC)Well...he finally kissed her.
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Date: 2016-09-11 01:46 am (UTC)[i'm not sure this was the intended lesson here]
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Date: 2016-09-11 03:15 am (UTC)[there is proper justification for this somewhere]
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Date: 2016-09-11 03:18 am (UTC)Are movies all this dramatic and intense?
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Date: 2016-09-11 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-11 04:06 am (UTC)[he sounds dubious about that]
I'm sure there are ones that are milder though. We'd just need to ask which ones.
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Date: 2016-09-11 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-12 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-12 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-12 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-12 04:14 am (UTC)[it'd be nice to have Disney movies in some of those instead of terrible nemesis backstory]
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Date: 2016-09-12 05:03 am (UTC)