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#I've seen some people react the same way to second-person stories #which. Okay. on a grammatical level that at least makes more sense than reacting this way to first-person narration #but on a reading comprehension level... mentally sentencing you to go read Homestuck.

I didn't have this problem with Homestuck, though I do occasionally have it with other works. But the worst thing is when there's a regular first person narrator but the turn to look at the camera and go "now, dear reader, I can tell that as you're reading this you're thinking and feeling that Blah Blah Blah" and no I fucking am not. Which is admittedly less of a grammatical/stylistic objection and more of an "I hate the narrator as a person" objection.

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

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kungfu movies definitely send mixed messages on the virtue of effort, like if you train for twenty years you’ll probably be able to learn how to fly and do cool tricks with your sword but still get trounced by some asshole with good genetics who was blessed/cursed by the gods and fell into a cave and stumbled on the manual of doom and picked up the forbidden secret of being awesome without any effort whatsoever.

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Twisted Spiral. Ballpoint 16x10” A3

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imagine you're a mechanic in the Transformers universe and you have a car come in with engine trouble so you open it up and the engine is just full of some kind of weird fast-spreading rust. never seen anything like it before

so you're like. hmmm. and you call the Autobots like 'hi I know this number is supposed to be for reporting possible Decepticon activity but I've got some kind of alien bullshit going on and I don't know who to ask'. they hand you over to Ratchet and Rachet is like 'hm I think I know what that is but let me come run some tests'

SO Ratchet comes over and has a look at the engine and is like yeah as I thought. its crotch rust. and you're like 'crotch rust??' and he's like yeah its crotch rust. its a. well I think humans call them STIs? its like that.

so you're like '..........are you telling me a Transformer fucked this car' and he's like yeah. looks that way. and you're like 'what in the world' and he's like I don't know. people are freaks. anyway we don't want this stuff spreading so I'll be back tomorrow with the right nanites. keep it away from the other cars.

he comes back the next day like okay so I have good news and I have bad news. you're like 'well what's the good news' and he's like WELL I spent last night testing all the autobots for crotch rust and they're all clean. so you're like 'does that mean the car wasn't fucked' and he's like oh no the car was definitely fucked there's no other way this could have happened.

so you're like 'wait. are you saying a Decepticon fucked this car?' and he's like yes. we have a Decepticon fucking cars. and they are giving the cars STIs. thank you for bringing this to our attention here are the nanites goodbye.

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Over 10 years ago I drew this mother naga with her kid and a bowl of gulab jamun, and I was blown away to see people still reblogging it and saying kind things here. I decided to draw a sequel, the PTA (People That are Anacondas) meeting is over, and she finally gets to have some gulab jamun. c: I really hope this cheers you up some.

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WERE YOU GUYS SUBJECTED TO SEA SHANTIES EXTREMELY OFTEN AT A YOUNG AGE OR IS THIS NOT A UNIVERSAL WHITE EXPERIENCE… bc like ur man knew all of drunken sailer at age 5

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Also, the whole point is that nalbar va Fcrpger Fnapghnel pna nibvq nalbar ryfr gurer jvgu gur oybpxvat fbsgjner. I want to see zber nggrzcgf gb svaq gur frperg yvfg bs zvffvat crbcyr, be fbzrguvat sebz gur crefcrpgvir bs n zbqrengbe flzcngurgvp gb gur FVP.

New short story - and I got it up in time to publish one short story EVERY month of 2024. Science fiction. < 7,500 words.

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my sister's baby shower has a "suggestion box"

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My Sailor Ponies! In a complete post.

Available as prints at Fanime/Anime Expo! Also available online in my Storenvy

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“Sailor Moon engagement rings” set…

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I'm looking up vegetarian recipes, and

Maybe I'm just sleepy but I'm enjoying thinking about things farmers would categorically refuse to grow. Poison ivy. Evil potatoes

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TELL IT HOW IT IS GIRL 👏

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reblogging for today's lucky 10,000!

hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

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chag sameach

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Agree with the part about being perceived and especially with the way winged-light phrased it. Disagree with the part about haircuts and medical checkups; I feel neutral about them.

A thing i think genuenly differentiates me from the average tumblr user is that i genuenly like being percieved, it is not a terrible ordeal or a shameful experience. I like public speaking, i like being recorded, i like it when strangers interact with me, i like it when people know me or recognize me.

Im not embarassed by recordings of me or scared that they might leak.

If someone "reads" me, as in the pick up on things about my personality or my insecurities or my neuroses that i wasnt aware were noticeable, i mean ill get annoyed if they get it wrong, but if they fucking nail it instead of humilliated ill feel a little giddy, like "yeah! You get me! Finally somebody put it into words!"

On top of that im not particularly precious about contact or personal space. Obviously i dont like it if a stranger touches me without my consent, but i actually like getting haircuts, i like getting medical check ups or going to the dentist, i find it soothing when people touch and prod and move my body around, specially if its for like diagnosis purposes or something. Theyre are debugging the mechine that is my body, they are discovering things about the body that i am that i myself was not aware of!

I find this very comforting.

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I've been trying to get a good overview of communist art, and it's difficult, partly because of the language barrier, but also partly because I think what I want isn't the art itself, it's a comparison of how the landscape of art-making shifts.

Movie-making, in particular, is a massive undertaking that requires a fair amount of time and money if you want to do it right. You need someone to write it, someone to direct it, someone to act in it, a cinematographer, some lighting, sound and music ... under a communist model, none of this would actually change. You would still need to acquire the personnel and make sure they were housed and fed. You would still need sets to be built and artists to devote their time and energy.

So one of the common criticisms of capitalism is that it produces Bad Art, that everyone is just trying to make a buck and they don't care about the product unless it finds consumers who will pay out cash. Everything is geared for the lowest common denominator. This gets worse as you involve more and more capital.

But I've always wondered: is this not also true under communism?

I don't mean in practice, that question is simple, all you have to do is read up on the film production processes from a number of different communist and formerly communist countries, whose source materials are often not accessible in English, mired in propaganda and disputes, and cover many decades. Easy peasy. I did what I think is a surface skim, but the common threads were that film studios were state-owned, scripts were approved by party officials, there were regular reviews during production, and a final review before release. You usually have to promote socialist values, or at least not criticize the current regime, and you have reviews for "ideological content". In spite of all this, some good movies got made, some bad movies got made, and some movies were banned for lack of ideological conformity or "frivolity". There are different eras to filmmaking in every country, times when the industry was thriving and times that it crashed to the ground in spectacular fashion as the government involved itself. A lot depended on who was in power and what the then-current ideology was. I think it's tempting to say that the widely agreed upon "great films" got made in spite of having ideological overview, but it's hard for me to evaluate that claim, and if someone said "the great American films were made in spite of capitalism" I think that also would be a difficult claim to evaluate, even though I've actually seen a pretty substantial amount of the canon and speak the language most often used in analysis of production processes.

No, what I mean is that in theory there's someone that has to be running the numbers. The film studio is state-run, sure, everyone is in state housing or whatever, they're getting food somehow ... but someone, somewhere, is authorizing all this. You don't make a film without a plan, so those plans have to be submitted to someone, or a committee, and that committee has to decide which films will get made and which will remain a dream. And if they're doing that, then they're either trying to make the film that they think benefits the country the most, or they're applying their own taste and judgment, but probably both.

And if you're under some kind of model where no one runs the numbers, where film-making is entirely volunteer work, then you still have problems, because you need this large volunteer organization, and you need to bring them in on your vision, and if they can just walk away, you need to maintain that energy and vision through the whole process.

I guess what I'm saying is that yes, capitalism presents problems when it comes to this specific artform, but I feel like as soon as you're out from under the yoke of the dollar, you're immediately under some other yoke. And I do wish that when people saw a bad film and said "the problem is capitalism" they would take a moment to consider that maybe there is always necessarily going to be oversight and compromise, just because of the nature of the enterprise.

This does not apply nearly so much to other forms of art, like those that can be done by a single person sitting in a room all alone.