#corn plating

[milliekenobi99]

I have tons of very random Obi-Wan headcanons, but this might be one of the most obscure ones. I just think he’s very sensitive to sound.

Look, I am definitely a sensory issues Obi-Wan truther, and I feel like I keep finding things that reiterate this totally random idea in my head, and I just need to tell someone. In Padawan novel, he finds comfort in the hum of his lightsaber, and closes his eyes to listen to it. I’ve read about other little noises setting him on edge or bothering him (like ticking or low hums). And I just think… he has very sensitive ears.

I don’t think anyone cares about this but me. But now you know.

[thiccspicecc]

I have recently learnt of the new term "corn-plating" and I have a few thoughts on its utility.

The criticism that has been done of this post is accurate and the term that spawned when used to describe when someone's critic is finding symbolism in places where it isn't present is often times valid.

However, it has very quickly become a tool to denounce any sort of insightful analysis of a story that isn't direct symbolism or a detail that pertains to the story. I feel a lot of the use of corn-plating is directed misguidedly or at valid analysis.

I believe people need to understand the merits of the different sorts of symbolism and media exploration, because not every detail brought needs to relate to the story at hand. There could have been an argument that looked at that plate of corn that would have been insightful rather than a grasp at straws. Of course, all of this discourse is not too dissimilar to the argument in literary analysis that the curtains are just blue, arising from the view that English teachers derive meaning from ordinary descriptions.

I think people need to understand when people are talking about environmental/ aesthetic symbology/ details and not grasping at straws to find character/ thematic/ narrative symbology/ details. To corn-plate blue curtains someone might say, 'In this scene there was put up blue curtains', connoting that there is a meaning as to why that was done, people in response will assume that they are referring to the blueness representing sadness, often a reflection of the character, many times that would be blatantly stated by whom is corn-plating. But many times people attribute the moniker of corn-plating to those talking about the mood or tone created by mundane objects, or environmental reasoning of why something is there. For blue curtains, and since this argument is often times without context, blue curtains being called in attention in a work may be there to set a calm or maybe a dower mood. For Encato someone could have prefaced that the inclusion of roast corn rather than any other food is symbolic of the situation of the cast, in how historically corn has been a stable food for many native south and central American peoples and how in Colombia the newer colonial society integrated corn into their diet, and how with the village of Encato being isolated, corn is their most readily available food.

For example in my novel a similar detail is that the secondary protagonist's great-grandfather has in his home a pot of lavender tea, it is fairly insignificant, but I wrote him having it because it represents the warm, calm, inviting atmosphere his cottage has. And, an example where the environmental detail is reflective of narrative symbology would be the black shadows of the antagonist sorcerer's dungeon being representative of the death his regime will bring. Something you would corn-plate if you mentioned it is that the secondary protagonist owns an orange teddy bear, it's a meaningless detail though it does represent the fact that she is a child.

You can find meaning in pretty much anything in a story, and corn-plating should be a term to denote (though I hope mostly in self-awareness rather than in defaming) if there was in fact clear intent in there being a narrative, character, or thematic importance behind a detail. The things we can draw out of the most mundane inclusions however is the beauty and importance of environmental symbols and mood. There are too many people putting down others for over analysing works they enjoy and not enough discourse on how pointing out how someone is finding meaning in places that aren't meaningful isn't itself media literacy. People need to be careful with the term corn-plating because not everything is desperately grasping at straws when finding details in a story, sometimes they're talking about something else unrelated to the story when pointing out a detail.

[livelaughgem]

Oh my god he really does have a sandwich.

[sparrowseagles]

the way Art’s name is spilling over the gap to Patrick’s side on the board... dare i say it...foreshadowing..

[onesidedradiostatic]

I'm thinking about the stupid fucking parasocial dynamic between sir pentious and alastor. I have questions

the fact that sir pentious says "again" in the pilot and him saying they'd done battle "like 20 times" in episode 2, was this just like. a regular thing he did even prior to alastor's disappearance. where he would just come in every other week to attack alastor while he was casually doing stuff and alastor just forgot each and every time.

also keep in mind sir pentious is from the VICTORIAN ERA, he arrived in hell before alastor. how. how long has he known him. how long had he been DOING this.

sir pentious being one of the chronologically oldest major characters really makes you think about how much he has seen or knows about LMAO

also the fact that he says "for when I've slain you the almighty vees will finally acknowledge me as their equal" was he just thinking of alastor just being generally powerful that it'd be cool if he defeated him or did he know the specific significance of alastor in the context of the vees. I also find it funny that he found out about alastor's return BEFORE vox, yeah if he delivered a dead alastor to the vees after 7 years I'm sure that would've been one fucking hell of a shock

[evidenceof]

oh, he was playing with the piano keys ☹️

[mayoiayasep]

thinking about how umemiya said fighting is like a conversation and practically all suo does when he fights is evade. surely this could mean NOTHING

[munchboxart]

Something I just realized while looking over Seita Inoue's works (Splat art director) and models in game, the mouths are actually shaped like a V. I guess it's to make them look more like a beak which I think is neat

[allyriadayne]

Jace & Aegon in the script for THE LORD OF THE TIDES

[everwalldigan]

LMAOO how many times do you think Bruce or Dick tripped and ate concrete until they decided to add the „watch your step“ on there

[vesna-v-irkutske]

Hidden in plain sight: a photo of Nikita at school and some kind of drawing.

[blood-starved-beast]

Interesting detail is how Melinoe's red eye doesn't have a distinct pupil (it's red like her iris) whereas Zagreus has two black pupils. Even with having Hades's eye Zagreus still a little bit more like his mom.

[g0tmilkx3]

Elphaba we can see you???

[cliji]

just realized their art match the fuck out of each other

[velkleyaenjoyer]

not to velkleya post too close to the sun but an aspect of the ship that i enjoy a lot is that in a universe where vel and kleya are together, mon and kleya absolutely become insanely good friends in a way that confuses everyone around them, including vel.

they will go for hours at family dinners talking about history because it’s mon’s first real chance in years to express that interest, or gossiping about senators that vel hasn’t even heard of that kleya has all kinds of dirt on

vel for her part would basically just smile and nod but i think she’d be so happy that her cousin and her girlfriend get along and one didn’t have the other assassinated or imprisoned day one on yavin

[problematicsashawaybright]

I can't stop thinking about this image and Sasha's body language............. Sasha is peaceful and comfortable with her best friends since kindergarten in a bedroom she's slept in a thousand times but she's still holding her arms up to cover the parts of her neck and chest not covered by the blanket??? Anne is holding onto a stuffed animal, and Sasha could be holding onto Anne if she had the courage to (Anne canonically loves physical contact and sleeping in the same bed with others), but she's choosing to create a physical barrier between herself and Anne and any vulnerability!!!!!!! IM GOING TO BE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HER HAND IS SLIGHTLY EXTENDED TOWARDS ANNE BUT SHES STILL KEEPING HER ARM IN FRONT OF HER CHEST