#collective storytelling

[shadowpuppetteer]

As a collective storytelling species, sometimes we just wanna see our favorite superhero characters happy in between some really dark stuff. Shout out to @wolfjessedragon for her OC Sunny from Across The Spiderverse fanfics and Sunny's character design by @smokeywhalee I love all the different takes on characters and how much fun we can all have with the stories we love. Love canon Deadpool and fanon Deadpools.

[lux-et-astra]

i actually think there’s something so soothing about the different ways we play make believe

as kids it’s explicitly playing make believe or let’s pretend or imagine if. and then it’s writing stories or playing d&d or role playing like we used to on wattpad!! just today i was texting my best friend and we ended up falling into these little characters, just texting as if we were this angel and demon in love with each other (grudgingly on one side; wholeheartedly on the other). and it was so much fun!

adults might have to do improv instead of playing mermaids in the pool but i love the little ways we still play.

[meatmatician]

i hope this goncharov thing gets so out of hand and breeches containment enough that scorsese actually has to make a comment on it

[goncharovanon]

I enjoyed the fervent creation stage of Goncharov so much I think we should make this a monthly thing

I'll continue to engage in Goncharov and Gonching, hell, I'm even in a discord server to scriptwrite. But the stage when we could just say shit is more or less broken up.

I'm not expecting Tumblr's next Collective Storytelling to be anywhere near the heights of Goncharov, but I think it would fun, still. Goncharov was ephemeral, a comet, and we're still spying it in the sky, but the moments we could touch it were the most glorious.

So. If you have a Tumblr Collective Storytelling (TCST?) idea, throw it at me, and I'll probably join in, throw in my own metas and ideas and whatnot.

[threelargeelefants]

I'm writing a paper on Goncharov right now and I can sooth your nerves that the difference between Gonch and whatever's happening on tiktok is not the fake media. Fake media and fake people and fake history will always and has always existed. Neither is the collective storytelling.

The difference is that we made Goncharov real by imitating a fandom for it. Like yes mass hallucinating a movie was fun and an incredible feat of collective creativity. But the *way* we created Goncharov is what will always make it special.

We, as a website, spontaneously created a perfect pastiche of fandom, one that was so identical to any other fandom behaviour it made the movie seem real.

As I quote thetwistyoucantresist in my paper, “maybe the real Goncharov was the Fandom we made along the way”.

Goncharov isnt the fake movie its the fake fandom, that's what special and unique and one of a kind

[arcanewonder]

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[valsansretovr]

The Capitol Vigiles

The secret police division of the peacekeepers operating out of the Capitol. Genetically modified, its agents develop a heightened sense of smell, which they use to track down fugitives, and are widely known for their ability to “smell” fear. They are unfailingly loyal to the Capitol and are represented in propaganda as its guard dogs.

Their headquarters, based in the Citadel, is colloquially referred to as “the doghouse” and amongst the Academy students, it is Festus Creed, long-time dog enthusiast, who come to rise within its administrative ranks.

[moodymakeshifter]

Ack! What a flexible, tantalizing theme, and so close to Halloween. This sounds like an invitation to turn that scalp inside out— effectively transforming it into your beloved thinking cap —and come up with something horrifying. ^u^

[Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the people who run this zine. I just think this looks fun. Some of their zines are available on Etsy. They're fantastic. You should check them out. ;) ]

[deadlydodos]

I know everyone is reading into the characterisation brought by the masks in Glass Onion, but I love how these clues rely entirely on the audiences shared experiences and connotations made from living during covid. It makes the film so personal, I think.

[auressea]

re: Dracula (Daily)

It has been over 30(!) years since I read the book- but I thought I knew the story. I didn't follow along last year.. and wanted to try it.

THIS retelling, has completely turned my understanding of the story inside-out.

I open my email, and open my podcaster and Read-Along.

I am enraptured! I am delighted. I am so much clearer on what is happening!

[iamthepulta]

I've been listening to Glasgow Ghost Stories and it's so sweet and also clever and good <3

I was hooked by the actually-unnerving horror/ghost writing in the first few episodes, and how short the episodes were. And then I found myself getting genuinely attached to the ghosts and the story itself. Highly recommend~

[jessaerys]

funniest thing about matt deathnote is that without reading the manga and without interacting with the fandom the amount of intellectual real estate he takes up in your experience of death note is infinitesimal. right up there with rester and gevanni and like, light's sister. nothing like the whiplash of watching death note for the first time in 2023 and having to figure out why unnamed 60 second anime boy is a disproportionately beloved collectively hallucinated fandom oc. truly the goncharov of yaoi

[horizoncollective]

Not sure if I should ask y’all, @horus-unofficial, or both, but do y’all know what would happen if a human was connected to an NHP via a full subjectivity suite or something as they… cascaded?

It probably varies tremendously. There are very few cases because pilots typically shut down the computers immediately if this happens. The HC's Committee for Anecdata Collection has only a few cases collected where there wasn't an immediate shutdown, cycle, and reboot. The main human symptoms in these cases seem to be mild delirium which usually lasts several hours after de-sync, but the rest of the symptoms in reports vary. Some people get so nauseated they puke, some people get migraines (this is only people who were already susceptible to migraines), some people have religious experiences, and some get a high.

My favorite one on the file has a particularly interesting comparison that I went out and tried.

Go outside to a field of grass at night with a friend and a flashlight. Pick a star in the sky above you and focus on it. Spin in circles while looking at that star. Go as fast as you can. Then, have your friend grab you to stop you and shine the flashlight in your eyes. You will fall and hit the ground before you realize you are falling. You'll lie on the ground and think you're still standing and spinning in circles.

This is actually a lot of fun to do with friends. It is a very odd sensation.

[shannonpurdyjones]

I'm listening to the audiobook of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, and man. I love reading print books, but this is one of those stories that's just meant to be spoken aloud. Something deep down in the prehistoric recesses of my brain knows that this is a story that's supposed to be heard, to be told aloud by a scop idly strumming a lyre into the smoky darkness of a crowded hall.

[calvinandhobbes]

ON MEMOIR

“The act of making something from what is already there always involves a simultaneous creation and destruction....  Even what seems like the purest, most self-contained type of creativity -- turning the events, images, and ideas of one's life into a written story --is a destroyer.”

Lisa Knopp, The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays

“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.”

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.”

Francisco Goldman

“I tell aspiring memoirists, if you're the kind of person who can't apologize, who digs in, trusts only the first impulse, then this won't be your form. The convenient sound bites into which I store my sense of self are rarely accurate -- whose are? They have to be unpacked and pecked at warily, with unalloyed suspicion. You must testify and recant, type and delete.”

Mary Karr, New York Times Op-Ed page (01/15/2006)

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

“The French word from which the English “memoir” derives reflects this transformation. Mémoire, meaning “memory,” is feminine; mémoire, meaning “memoir,” is masculine. It is a change of gender, in French called genre. Truth belongs to one genre; recalled truth to another. But that does not make truth recalled a lie: It makes it a fiction in the Latin sense — of a thing fashioned — that Hadrian would have recognized. A memoir is a shape given to the chaos of a life.

Every event, and certainly every event worth writing about, will always remain tattooed on our neurons. So it is never too early to start giving those events, which are our lives, a form. It is a homage we pay ourselves. More solid than a memory, a memoir will outlast it, because until a memory is put into words, it remains mist, never shore.”

Benjamin Moser

“I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.”

Koren Zailckas

“Autobiographical storytelling can take personal experience back from silence, shame, fear, or oblivion. It says, ‘I cherish this,’ or, ‘This haunts me.’ It asserts the significance of events in one’s life: ‘This happened to me.’ ‘I did this.’ ‘This is part of who I am.’ ‘This should not or will not disappear, and I act to preserve it by turning it to words and shaping them as story.’”

Gregory Orr, Poetry as Survival

[trans-cuchulainn]

the trouble with learning a minority language is that once you've hit the upper-intermediate stage of actually reading books in the language and so on, it doesn't take very long to exhaust the books at your level that you have any interest in whatsoever, and then there aren't any more. so you read the ones you're not really interested in, but that feels like Work, because you're not really interested in them. but it doesn't exactly get better as you get more advanced because even the more difficult books tend not to correspond too closely to your preferred genres