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Me on a date: So what do you think about Yugioh?

Date: It’s an overrated kid’s show about card games-

Me: *internal monologue* YOU FOOL! YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD, “SHOVE BREADSTICKS INTO MY PURSE”!! NOW ALL YOUR OLIVE GARDEN-TYPE MONSTERS WILL BE SENT TO THE GRAVEYARD AND THE DINNER BILL WILL BE DOCKED 1000 LIFE POINTS. I PLACE “I HAVE TO GO HOME IMMEDIATELY” IN FACE DOWN POSITION. YOUR MOVE, KAIBA.

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One night, you decide to put your phone under your pillow. When you wake up in the morning, your phone is replaced by cash totaling what you paid for your phone. Turns out the tooth fairy takes more than just teeth.

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this is your sign to go doodle a dragon. go do it . now

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knights can be created by other knights like vampires except instead of biting them they wack them on the shoulders with swords

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the no.1 princess in the world 🍰🍮♥︎₊˚⊹｡୨୧˚⋆

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saurian twins

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Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback. 

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No nuance

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Go! Princess Precure 10th Anniversary~

I can't believe have been 10 years already. I love this season with my whole entire soul, it changed my life forever.

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On the one hand there's BBC Sherlock, the show that produced three episodes every two years, in which they killed the main villain who controlled the criminal underworld after six episodes, from which point they had no idea what to do. They forget all about being a detective show by Season Four, where the characters change so much that they are unrecognizable.

On the other hand there's Detective Conan, which produced more than a thousand chapters/episodes by now, where they keep doing actual detective work because apparently everyone and their mother in Japan commit elaborate murders, but the plot has barely moved since the early 90s. The characters remain static for decades.

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the more i try to interpret art of any kind the more i grow to hate "it just doesn't make sense" as criticism

because very often it's not used to talk about fumbled execution. it's not about scene-to-scene inconsistency, it's not about contradictions, it's denying intent

criticism like "it just doesn't make sense" "it's just bad writing" and similar are ways to shut down any attempts to actually interface with a given work. it is denying it any authorial intent. it is denying a work coherence, it is denying a work purpose, impact.

"it just doesn't make sense" does it? or are you refusing to draw conclusions out of what is given to you?

"it just doesn't make sense" and does that matter? does the beat by beat sensicality of a work matter if it still manages to draw a reaction out of you? did you understand what themes it talked about? did it make you feel something? did it provoke thought in you?

well. did it? if so, what does it matter? many "nonsensical" works flirt with the esoteric on purpose, prioritizing impact over coherence, and that is not just "what drugs were they on when they made this", it is a deliberate choice.

"it's just bad writing" is a related, albeit still different, complaint, that also shuts down intent. similarly, it regards a work as Inherently Flawed. Just like lack of sense must be merely shoddy construction in all cases, bad writing cannot deign to tell any story at all.

so much of criticism is just a refusal to meet stories and art as a whole from the place it is speaking from. i fucking beg. think about the works you engage with. what do they make me feel? what aspects of them make me feel this way? what message is it trying to tell? how is this being told?

YES flawed execution and genuine plot holes (as in, failure to convey information to the detriment of the work) do exist and do deserve criticism, but even if a work is flawed in this way, try and look beyond that, to see what it does deliver on. because a lot of the time, you can still find that grain of good in something slapdash and terrible.

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I made a transparent green version of that old geocities dragon vibe gif I was searching for a while back, and I figured while I was there I might as well export a bunch of other colours in case people would like to use them! The last two are solid white and solid black, in case your theme makes either of them invisible lol

Edit Aug. 13th ‘23: Updating original post with all the existing colours! To see the latest, check out the free stuff page on my Neocities :3

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Magnolia, my dnd character ☺️

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