#danger of a single story
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I have heard people claim that profound and beautiful writing come from pain and sadness, that trauma and depression are the mark of a good writer.
But we often forget that sadness is only a part of the human experience, and stories are all about the human experience in its entirety, not just a tragic brain child of an unhappy existence.
Unless a story can bring out all the flavours of life that the writer has felt, unless the story makes us feel all the joy, anger, fear, and sadness, what's it worth? The danger of the single story lies therein.
Do we have to rethink what we define as successful writing? Don't we have to question what we define as the only valid human experience?
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Tl;Dr - I stopped playing the game but I like the characters and I wanna draw them but idk if the wiki I use is up to date for cards
Do u know any wikis that have up to date cards for all the twst characters-
Asking specifically bc of Malleus cause I can't tell anymore if he has any more new cards bc HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A 100 DISNEY ANIVERSARY CARD IN THE WIKI I USE 😭
Like compared to everyone else in Disanomia, he has 12 cards (in the wiki I use) and then Lilia has 17 cards 💀
Cause I think Malleus has a Bean's Day card as well, but that could just be a fanmade one, I don't have JP twst nor ENG twst anymore so I can't confirm it myself urhghrhevw 🫠
Malleus doesn't have a Beans Day card, so that would've been fanmade! and the 100 anniversary cards are actually the new round of birthday cards, so most of the characters don't have 'em yet -- Malleus should be getting his in a couple of days, when his birthday event starts! oh god my keeeeeys
I think the wiki.gg stays pretty up to date? it looks to me like they have everything that's currently up through JP, at least. :O I did go through and do a quick count just because I couldn't believe Malleus only had 12 cards, but. he really does have the least...defeated only by Silver with 13...astonishing. we need his gargoyle club wear immediately.
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#...maybe? tenuously? i have no idea#i think lilia and floyd are tied for the most at 18 each#twst loves the chaotic gremlins#granted card quantity is separate from card rarity/significance/whatever#i remember all of us losing our minds when vargas camp 2 came out and trey FINALLY got an event ssr after a million years#anyway i am looking forward to the upcoming magift cards and all don't get me wrong#but i am VERY VERY excited to see what the gargoyle club wear looks like#i NEED to 1) know what malleus thinks gargoyle fashion is and 2) see him in it#jade is also in a weird club by himself but at least that. y'know. has a gear theme and everything.#tangentially i do sometimes think about the fact that malleus and jade are both in single-member clubs#despite how in...i think lilia's robes story the music club was in danger of disbanding because they only had three members#although i do genuinely believe that crowley is too scared of both jade and malleus to tell them they can't have their clubs#so y'know. it tracks.
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mustard on the beat, ho- MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAARD Someone make it stop, make it fucking stop. I spent all week hyping myself up to gather up all my work sketches like a scrapbook and clean it all up to post here, and then Kendrick had to surprise drop on a Friday morning and ruin my work day and my headspace all weekend long.
Anyway, here's a dangerous dreams sketch dump.
It's been a long quiet, but RL had taken such a fucking toll that I had a real hard time finding the fucks to get creative. Who knows how much this past US presidential election will fuck up the entire rest of my life, but I'll take solace in finding community and in the little things and in Andor Season 2 and in the telling of The Stars.
Now that I got this out of the way, guess it's time to go fucking write some fucking words.
#shirozora draws#dinluke#lukedin#skydalorian#din djarin#luke skywalker#grogu#story: the stars#series: dangerous dreams#the mandalorian#star wars#how many more tags do i need?#anyway MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD#istg this album has just taken over my entire brain#random snippets of every single song from this album keep playing in my head when i'm not actively listening#interrupted by MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD#i'm gonna laugh so hard if he screams mustard's name during the super bowl half-time show#and then 'mustard on the beat ho'#and let the audience sing all the words he probably had to censor out himself#also set up a second freshwater tank to eventually house a betta along with the shrimp culls so that's also been my life#and also locked down my twitter account and moved to bsky#been reposting art to bsky since i took everything down over in melon husks' echo chamber#keep your AI off my doodles you apartheiding fuckhead#time to climb back into this sandbox and work on the next chapter
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#i kept... procrastinating........... sorry to everyone who gave me a character for taking so long....#my art#digital#worm#wormblr#i like.. most of these 👍#ive struggled a lot with my alec design but i think im finally starting to get somewhere with him#that specific emma is from arc 5. her dad mentions taylors moms death and taylor lashes out and emma cant help from smiling#so she leans forward on the desk and covers her mouth#the sleeper.... ok so his whole deal is intentionally vague in canon#because someone told wildbow he doesnt need to explain every single deatail about every cape that shows up#so i was able to do whatever the fuck#basically his power is visually described as a not-rainbow storm thats large enough to cover a good chunk of a large city#out of canon wildbow says the only capes whod be able to survive his storm would need to be indestructible or have an impenetrable mind#so i thought yo. i recently watched a video about a short scifi horror story about how certain fractals make people die from looking at the#and the only person who didnt die from seeing the worst one had trained himself by looking at less dangerous fractals#so.. there the sleeper is ig.. a vague figure in the center of a giant fractal mess#i didn't INTEND for aisha to be looking at alec but no harm no foul. its kinda cute#anyway i spent most the day finishing this and now i think i dont wanna draw digitally ever again?
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I have seen a wild amount of people complaining about the context of Wind Breaker and how "unrealistic" it is for the characters to go to school but without any teachers or adults being shown or protecting them and... First of all, realism is not what you're going to find reading a Shonen and if you want a full-on high school experience, read another manga. It is very common to skip those details as a writer because they are not interesting in the slightest and they have confirmed multiple times that all of their grades are awful, so you won't get a silly little arc about them studying, because they directly don't. To say it is "unrealistic" is to ask for boring, pointless, plotless occurrences in a Shonen manga about fighting. Are people even hearing themselves when they complain?
But it's not only from a writer's perspective skipping what's unimportant that justifies the lack of teachers and responsible adults, but the plot itself. At first, it is confusing, but I think you only have to look a bit deeper into the cultural context of the story to understand why there aren't teachers/adults shown.
I'm around chapter 100, so I am not sure this gets explained further in the manga, but my theory as to why they behave this way is pretty simple, honestly: They are poor and in ruins, and adults with the power to change things do not care about them. Easy as that.
Whether it is real or just an exaggeration of what's actually going on, it has been shown countless times (especially in Umemiya's backstory, explaining directly how authorities don't care about the kids or anybody, really) that the whole city is made for outcasts and left to rot by the government. It is not some apocalyptic bullshit, it is stuff that happens every goddamn day in real life. They go to school but they aren't shown studying and the place itself is a mess. We only see Umemiya running the school but it is confirmed that there's staff and somebody grading them somehow, despite never being shown studying or doing anything other than patrolling. But they have shown us that the city used to be extremely problematic and chaotic and only recently have things started to change for the better. Most villains and even main characters are orphans and live on their own. There's a whole arc about a group of kids being left to rot in poverty without any means to study or live a normal life. Even our main character lives on his own in a horrendous apartment. Like--
I believe you have to be blind to not see that, if this isn't just literally some people turning their backs against poor kids in a place in ruins, it is at least an exaggeration of these things happening in real life. Because they could have classes and teachers and everything you want in the manga to make it more realistic, but this is, after all, from the perspective of teenagers who can't rely on anybody but themselves. There's only so much a teacher can do, and we know most of them do nothing for these kids. So if it is "unrealistic" perhaps you aren't aware of what damn hyperboles and metaphors are, but this is from the students' points of view, and when you live in a place like this, it doesn't matter how many teachers there are or police, because they won't help. So they are directly erased from the story to be replaced with Sakura's point of view of Umemiya running the whole place.
So I think that instead of looking for realistic interpretations of their high school experience, perhaps you should empathize a little with the actual real high school experiences of people like them.
#'they are fighting and the police doesn't do anythin-' the police never gives a fuck the police has never given a single fuck#i have seen people get killed in my street and robbed and raped every day and the police have never done a thing please grow up#'where are the teachers!' well maybe they do try to teach but when the kids aren't being taught how to live they don't give a single fuck#perhaps that is why they follow only umemiya have you perhaps considered that#you could also say the author skips these things to not make it boring or idkk maybe the city itself funds these kids#but i believe it is just the representation of sakura's pov being left behind by every adult in his life#i am not in these kids' place luckily but i also don't live in the best district and it IS dangerous to walk around on my own#and police or adults have never done a single thing to fix that#so i understand where the story is coming from and why the school in this manga is this way#anywayyyy people are soo boring perhaps the manga only wants to tell you the interesting stuff#if they talked about them trying to graduate THAT would be unrealistic bc they don't care and also you'd be BORED#people learn how to read between the lines i am begging you oh lord#wind breaker#wind breaker (satoru nii)
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spent the first hour and change at work deleting some old files and am having a grand ol time laughing at myself for not realizing i was a lesbian sooner
#vulnerable tag rambles ahead please be kind abt them i didnt intent to ramble this much but i dont wanna delete it eitehr#me to every single man i have ever dated after 6mo-1y: yeah hey this really isnt working out i dont really know why but i really hate mysel#and i dont want to blame you because i dont think you did anything inherently wrong here; i think this is something about me but i need#space to figure out why im feeling this way [every single one reacted by telling me No i wasnt allowed to leave btw]#i hold very complex feelings about these relationships esp bc of them ending in very violent/chaotic ways most of the time#but its interesting to look back at it all and realize ive left every man for the same reason (which is that ive hated myself Every Single#Time ive dated a man) and its funny bc i recognized the self hate pretty early on w/ cishet men but when it came to queer men it was#much more confusing (esp w/ nto knowing Any lesbians at that point in my life). im so happy im a lesbian tbh#i have a lot of issues w/ the racism fatphobia and transmisogyny present in lesbian groups#and also coming out as a lesbian really truly saved my life. before i met my wife i was quite literally in a 3yr abusive relationship that#definitely would have died in if i hadnt realzied i was a lesbian and ran from him#its also weird seeing liek the hard evidence of the things that happened to me btween 2016-2020 tbh#cause that was such a bad time of my life. i truly dont know how i survived it but im so glad i did#like the three major relationships in my life b4 meeting my wife was: guy who was in college when i was in HS who stalked me when i left;#guy who was a year younger than me who cheated on me the entire time while telling me he was being victimized (he wasnt; this was very mess#guy who saw the very messy toxic ldr i was in and helped me dump my ex then decided that meant we were in a relationship [insert 3 yrs here#and admittedly all 3 years with him werent the same level of abusive but it was definitely unhealthy from the start considering I Didnt Kno#we were together until he wanted to celebrate vday and got mad i didnt know our anniversary - and like this isnt including the other stuff#that happened between those Relatonships[tm] (cause ive never been monogamous; these were just the Major Relationships)#like i genuinely think if i hadnt come out i'd be dead rn given just how dangerous my relationships were/continued getting#i am also so tired now that ive seen all this cause like. fuck i can barely believe it and i not only lived it but have PTSD about it#i should write about my life sometime. i feel like it'd be cathartic to try and make a tangible timeline and stories from the years ang stu#anyway yeah. be nice about the tag rambles. dont message me with pity or curiosity or anything about this. i dont usually talk abt this stu#publicly bc i hate the ways ppl start tryign to baby me when they realize my life has been extremely fucked up until only a few years ago#n im still working on accepting kindness from others bc of [insert life traumas here] but its a long process so pls respect my need for jus#being heard rn w/o too much pressure< 3 (but ig if u do read this can u like it cause i feel a little crazy seeing all the evidence of the#stuff i experienced now also cause fuck ik logically it was but also i cant believe it was all real still yk)
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If i see one more person spread “news” sourced to outlets like f1-insider… please actually pay attention to sources and use critical thought about where it came from. these accounts want their engagement numbers and will share information derived from a fucking reddit comment if they think it’ll earn them a few extra dollars. there’s always an off chance these bullshit tabloids are right, but they almost never are, and a legitimate source will come along if there’s any whisper of truth to it. i just beg of people to simply wait for sources with the slightest bit of credibility to their name before they start sharing information.
#i want christian fired as much as the next person but i’m going to at least wait for an even remotely real source to hint at it first#also wanna clarify upfront#this isn’t an indirect. i haven’t even scrolled my dash today#i always fear a moot will read this and feel called out when its not about them. this is just my entire twitter timeline lol#so it’s a frustration derived from there#drives me up a fucking wall. critical thought is in the toilet.#misinformation is dangerous#and it takes like 40 replies before a single person points out the source#and then theyll be like ‘could be fake but what if its true 🤯’#like oh my goooooood yeah what IF its true? thatd be crazy. but it’s almost certainly not#so why are you wasting time sitting around sharing stories that some person just invented to get clicks?#if it IS true then a real publication with legit sources and verification methods will post it#at least wait for that bare minimum#keep information from bullshit places like f1-insider to gossip in a group chat if you wanna discuss it#*
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The Danger of a Single Story permanently altered the way I think (pos, overwhelmingly pos), so shoutout to my AP teacher for that. 10/10 recommend.
#my teacher was awesome#chimamanda ngozi adichie is equally if not more awesome#purple hibiscus changed me fundamentally as well#asra talks#the danger of a single story#chimamanda ngozi adichie#academia#asra vs uni#but really this began in high-school
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it makes me sad how many aspec posts (and videos and other individual-generated content) are just being upset about this depiction or that one. we NEED more (semi-mainstream) aspec rep so bad, so that nobody has to feel hurt when 1 kind of aspec that they are not is represented and the only 1 they see :(
#wait have u guys ever seen 'the dangers of a single story' TED talk bc that's what happening to aspecs rn#except many of us also idnetify with the 'single story' so we get hurt when ppl criticize it as bad rep and unrealistic#we NEED to eliminate the single story to stop the aspec negativity chamber. except as individuals we really... can't.#that's another sad part: we can write our own indie stories but it won't really help the root problem bc it won't be popular#enough for a majority of aspecs to see. there will still only be a handful of portrayls most aspecs won't relate to and thus not like#aroace#aro#ace#apl#aspec#aromantic#asexual#aplatonic#arospec#i mean i'll be real we could do a communial magazine but proper publishedor smth but the problem is when it's all centered around 1 identit#having a story frequently becomes incidental... at least that's why i think that sort of thing doesn't really appeal to me in general#i said this#or maybe it's just me thinking of Common Bonds being uninteresting to me#maybe bc i really am apl-spec deep down despite having a very alloplt/plt-normative mindset still
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The adventurers make it to the heart of the temple, battling their way past each successive guardian. The worst lies in the heart, right before the treasure.
They prepare for battle, drink their potions, and listen to a rousing speech. They charge to either glorious victory or a memorable death.
There is nothing there.
The glittering treasure sits in a room that has dust an inch thick on the floor. There are no bones, no signs of life, no battle-torn walls.
The party hesitate, scanning the room for what should be here. For what they know has to be here.
The room is silent but for their own footsteps. They take the treasure, cautious, worried that the guardian they are waiting for will appear out of thin air.
None ever does.
They take the treasure and leave, unscathed.
The guardian laughs.
#Flash fiction#short story#writing#RPG#thanks to my DM for sticking us in an empty city#After insinuating something in there was incredibly dangerous#The sun is shining#you are surrounded by trees#you cannot hear a single bird
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How many dumb things is my cousins cop boyfriend allowed to do before I am allowed to tell her the man's trash?
#he cant iron his clothes despite needing a pressed uniform every week during training (she did it for him)#he regularly tells our (easily scared) grandmother stories about how dangerous the nearest city is because we have 500 gangs running around#(the city's crime rate is one of the lowest in the us. we average single digits of murders each year)#not him specifically but his parents blow all their money on bullshit and he has to 'pay rent' which is all of their monthly bills.#and apparently while i was gone he announced to my cousin he bought the thing he asked her for christmas. and then didnt realize why she was#upset about it.#and then he announced who his (secret) santa gift was sulpose to be for mjltjple rimes.#acab includes him
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love that my mum just gave me a lecture (more like an unnecessary reason to argue with me though tbh) about internet safety as if I'm doing something really terrible and I'm a vulnerable, naïve child when I'm literally almost 20 years old :)
#there's looooots more to this but long story short she thinks she can still control me hahahaha yay#I should also add the context that she didn't stop going through my phone until I was 17 and that's because I changed the password#she probably means well but has a fucking awful way of showing it#instead she's been incredibly over-protective my entire life to the point where it's actually suffocating and damaging#and apparently that still hasn't changed much despite me being an adult#I understand to a certain extent because she's a single mother to an only child but there comes a point she has to realise#I'm not a little kid anymore and I respectfully need her to back off a bit more#because honestly I feel like she crossed a line here and it's not okay#and the other thing is that she thinks she can tell her boyfriend everything I tell her without my permission#simply because he's her boyfriend#I've told her multiple times it makes me uncomfortable buuuut she doesn't listen to me :)#she actually outed me to him a few years ago and that REALLY hurt because I told her how dangerous it can be to out people#and she just completely dismissed everything I said because “he's not homophobic”#cool. great. doesn't mean I didn't want the opportunity to tell him myself when I'M ready :) cos I barely knew the guy#well........ anyways :)#just needed to get this off my chest 😭#personal
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Hello, I’ve made a playlist for my darling bhaalspawn Felix, please clap.
#listen to my special playlist boy#I’ll listen to yours in exchange I love character playlists#long story long#it follows a little journey from their time with Bhaal#to their experience finding love and care with their found family#rejecting Bhaal#but continuing to struggle the the dark thoughts and urges baked into their neural pathways#slipping and putting their loved ones in danger#feeling like they can no longer stand to wrestle with their own mind every single day and begging for death#before realizing how loved they are and choosing to let people in and live instead#oc playlist#bg3#the dark urge#music#felix#mine#Spotify
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My friends: Just so you know, Star Wars kinda has a lot of characters with plot armor! I hope you're ok with that...
Me: I am a comics fan, you have no idea the amount of plot armor I will happily tolerate.
#'omg Ahsoka doesn't die from xyz omg plot armor!!!!!' shut the fuck up I like it when characters live/die in thematic ways rather than#'because it would be realistic for the space opera show to have the alien girl fall to her death here because uhhh realism or something'#even ASOIAF which is known for killing characters has major characters live through shit they shouldn't in order to die#in more thematic ways later on. 'Nah it would be more realistic for Jon to die of exposure instead of as a result of all of the choices#he has made (good and bad) that leads to a single moment of narrative excellence wherein everything comes to a head'#or because they are needed as characters whereas others have either outlived their purpose or it makes thematic sense for them to die#'omg plot armor!!! Bran survives being pushed off a tall building!! this is bad because a cinemasins-knockoff said so!!'#I like plot armor actually. Imagine if fucking Erika Slaughter died in like issue 5. Or Bruce/Batman died for realsies.#obviously there's a limit but if you want a story where your characters aren't in any danger maybe don't watch/read stuff with battles
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You say Mandragora is still alive as Copium. *I* say it because I believe it would be genuinely unsatisfying and bad writing for her role in the story to end in such an anti-climax. We are not the same.
#arknights#arknights spoilers#either yall have significantly less faith in Hypergryph's writing than I do#or you don't recognize story beats#it would be hilariously poor writing if a character who was the main villain in Chapter 9#and who we got huge teasings as to her potential backstory as well as heavily featuring her philosophy and motivations in Chapter 10 and 11#to leave the story by just going into the sewers and then dying off-screen#Outcast may have gotten an unsatisfying conclusion but it was still climactic and built up to#and she was only a supprting character in a single chapter#also it seemed to be heavily implied that Mercy was leading Mandragora out of danger#sure he could have just lured her down there to kill her but. what would be the point of that. why not let Manfred kill her.#im not saying it's impossible for hypergryph to fumble a story beat that badly but it would be pretty difficult ngl.
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you know i try to give the benefit of the doubt with people and animals, but at some point i just have to assume you are dumb or you just don’t care. I know it can be hard to recognize bad husbandry and stress if you don’t know much about animals or about that specific species, but my dear friend, some situations are stupidly, obiviously bad and i think people should kinda start using their brain over what they see online.
#man i can't see a video with horribly feathered and trimmed birds#or a man with two white lions laying by his side hitting one with a shoe#or videos with animals literally squirming and screaming#or playing dead#and not a single person seeing the wrong in it. ignorance can't be an excuse at the point#i am more understanding of people who share cute 'wild animal adopted by human' because many don't know any better#but it gets exhausting too like i can't keep see articles of people with pet wildlife deemed as wholesome and cute.#especially when the wildlife services get deemed as the Bad Guys for taking the animal away AS THEY SHOULD#like not to downpay the danger that the stories of pet wildlife and the people that share that stories bring. because it's very bad#but usually the evrage person doesn't know that sort of things i guess.#man sorry this is a rant that stupid pet crow that comes back to look for its humans came back on my dash i hate that post with a passion#and not a single person was seeing jow wrong that situation was#thoughts
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