#International Immersion

[silvermoon424]

[selkra-souza]

Doodle concepts of what I’ve been seeing in my head world while trying to draw influence from old timey Portuguese architecture. I wanted to find a book on Brazilian-Portuguese architecture specifically, but my libraries only had one on Indo-Portuguese architecture instead called Palaces of Goa: Models and Types of Indo-Portuguese Civil Architecture, which was just as interesting, but hopefully I can find what I’m looking for elsewhere!

[granulesofsand]

We used to daydream maladaptively. It was distressing because we were afraid to talk about it, and dysfunctional because we would spend hours pacing or staring at the wall or redoing some repetitive useless task.

I think we used to be stuck in it so often because we couldn’t safely exist anywhere else. Our external lives, whether regular or extreme, were nigh unlivable. Our internal lives were often loops of trauma, reenactments and terror. We dissociated from both.

For some of us, we changed our internal lives as a result. Many of our genuinely safe innerworld locations came about because we revisited a daydream so often. We have a few bubbles off layers that were never part of our innerworld, but were parallel to it.

We still daydream in the innerworld. It takes a lot of mental energy to do vividly, so we mostly only get to when we have chores to do. Laundry is prime daydreaming time. Azure is the best at outerworld overlays, but they only do it when we’re meant to be sleeping or have to sit quietly.

We daydream together, bicker over the flow of a scene, have alters who embody paras, pilot different characters. It’s more common to daydream vaguely, alone, but it’s often collaborative if it’s done in the fronting realm.

I miss daydreaming. We have a section of the archive of perfected scenes in each series, where you can view other alters’ work as writing or video. The layers with the parajects are lifelike, for better or worse.

We don’t have much time to do it anymore, and we stopped because we had to for our continued survival. System policy dictates that ���you can’t daydream if you’re dead” — we can’t prove it, but it helps keep the “angel of death” thoughts away (where some of us were taught that the only way out of the pain was to die).

It’s one of those almost cultural things that I’m not certain I consider disordered. It doesn’t currently inhibit our functioning, and I’m not distressed now that I know it’s a valid experience. We’re getting good at taking ourselves seriously, which means I can work through the shame that came with feeling alone — we rarely spoke about the daydreams, so we only had to overcome our own fears. I guess I’m just not one to consider any experience “crazy”.

I’d have to find someone who remembers the more maladaptive days, because I can tell I’m idealizing the habit. We still are not bad or broken for finding solace where we could. Just like our CDS, immersive daydreaming kept us alive and as well as we could have been.

[gailynovelry]

A while ago, we saw someone explain why they don’t like first person. Aside from “it’s shallow” (which feels like a shallow critique itself without more context), they cited a desire to understand what all the other characters in a scene are thinking and feeling, and I found that very interesting.

Because I don’t feel like every story benefits from knowing every character involved in it to such an intimate degree.

A lot of interesting speculation can be derived from gaps in the narrative. Why did he do that? What was her real motive there? The protagonist can speculate, but are they really the most objective source for that, or are you assuming that they are because they’re in the narrator seat, and they haven’t explicitly called themself unreliable?

First person creates a very specific opportunity to convey characters outside of the protagonist via showing and not telling.

It also creates a great opportunity to put your reader in a mental maze (the central narrator’s perspective) and give them a fun crumb trail out of it (the way that other characters react to the narrator).

I personally think that first person really shines under the right circumstances; and I think one of the best circumstances is when the central narrator has some horrendously skewed worldview. When they’re a fucked up little guy. When they think they know what’s up and they really, really don’t.

And when there’s other characters just as fun outside of them to force the reader to fill in the blank spaces for themselves.

Anyway, sometimes I feel like the push against first person is motivated by people being burned by boring, one-dimensional first person narrators and/or a distaste for common YA conventions. At other times, I feel like it’s motivated by the very bland desire to have the author shine a flashlight into every nook, cranny, and crevice of the narrative so that you don’t miss out on anything. I understand the desire to know more, but it's also fun to be able pick up the flashlight yourself as a reader!

No style of narration is inherently lesser than another. They just suit different readers and author's tastes.

[ustwoforsaken]

ravager and magpies first meeting is so fucking funny. magpie gets reports of someone meddling in his city and is like 'i swear to god if invictus sent more drones to my city im going to start cracking skulls...' and then he finds a 15 year old in a sloppily put together costume and has the most soulcrushingly potent moment of self reflection

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Let the old man listen to mach//ine girl

Specifically this one

[drondskaath]

Acathexis | Immerse | 20th March, 2024

International Black Metal

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[myburntwritings]

"This horror style of music is powerful and intoxicating, drumming your footsteps headlong into doom, gradually picking up the pace as your heart begins to pound until the dead-drop of realisation of what you are here to witness: a funeral foretold." Read a Review of A Morte do Corvo, an immersive theatre show currently playing in Lisbon.

[ghostlypawn]

black mirror going from casting relatively unknown british actors to renowned hollywood stars is one of my villian origin stories btw

[dallonwrites]

chapter i finished last night is 7.8k.....working on finishing the next chapter which has all but one scene written....and the last scene is high action + extremely important to the inciting incident....lots of dialogue....and this chapter is already at 8.8k. like be SOOOO serious

[swordfright]

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

[destinycalling1]

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[appleartnidongecist]

I think it's a counter movement to push back against people that have fallen into mentalities like "I'm not like other girls" where desire to be seen as an individual (removed from their femininity and by extension their femaleness). Specifically, those in the way of putting down girls, women and femmes to make themselves feel better about themselves. That movement to form distance has been twisted due to a human desire to polarise, categorising things into boxes we can label "correct" and "incorrect" /

"good" or "bad".

The apparent nature of the internet is to connecnd it has also become a force that escalates people's beliefs to be more firm or become unyielding on things that don't affect them

As humans(some/most in varying degrees) want to see/seek others whose thought and feelings reflect them irrespective of the personal experience of whoever is in their sights.

The scope of this is vast but I think it can rang from a reductive: "I like dogs. Anyone who doesn't is evil and wrong, they hate children and would harm them if given the chance" to wanting celebrities (often ones you favour) to have the same morals as you.

Perhaps, they desire them to be vocal about something like climate or discrimination.

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moral compass that views acts on a scale ranking like Dante’s Inferno rather than a tinted spectrum (influenced by personal experience).

Due to algorithms improving and a vague/shallow of understanding (how they are utilised to farm engagement from social media companies), people who have been radicalised (in one area of the internet) begin stumble across content from “the opposing side” as it recognises they share the same topic (without deeper insight since it is automated)

And it feeds back into this cannibalistic cycle, where we see people expressing extreme views that don’t seem grounded in reality.

Sincerely, someone raised (and is still being taught) by the internet.

*I lost this entire chuck/section and then accidentally hit a hard restart instead of an undo… so the flow of it may seem fragmented as I try to write from memory.

“let women date men” “let women shave” “let women be girly and feminine” what alternate reality are you guys living in.

[zeledonia]

inside of me are two wolves one of them wants to add a characters thought in connection to a gesture they make the other wants me to trust the reader to understand the gesture wordlessly because they know the character