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laurajdt · 1 year ago

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New podcast episode day! I put on Dr. Weiss’s episode on the way in to work this morning and really really enjoyed listening to our conversation. If you like Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett, language, or discussions about education and talent and vulnerability, then you might also dig this episode.

#podcast #defining talent #katherine weiss #samuel beckett #sam shepard #cal state la #csula #education #theatre #arts and culture #arts and letters #arts and crafts #halloween

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gingermintpepper · 3 months ago

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One of my biggest pet peeves is the assumption that something has to be sad for it to be tragic.

I've always been a big believer of the 'Apollo has an awful love life'/'Apollo is plain unlucky with love' line of thinking but it does bother me that the general reasoning for that statement is given to the concept of 'Apollo is somehow undesireable and thus rejected' (Cassandra/Daphne/Marpessa) or 'his lovers die young and thus their love is unfulfilled' (Cyparissus/Hyacinthus/Coronis). I personally think that's a very unfortunate way of looking at things - not only because it neglects the many perfectly cordial entanglements and affairs Apollo has had, both mortal and divine - but because it presents a very shallow interpretation of the concepts of love and loss and how loss affects people.

Apollo can still grieve lovers that have a long, healthy life. The inherent tragedy of an immortal who knows his lovers and children will die and cannot stop it does not stop being tragic simply because those lovers and children live long, fulfilled lives. The inherent tragedy of loss does not stop being tragic simply because someone knows better than to mourn something that was always going to end.

What is tragic is not that Apollo loves and loses but that loss itself follows him. Apollo does not love with the distance of an immortal, he does not have affairs and then leaves never to listen to their prayers again. He does not have offspring and then abandon them to their trials only to appear when it is time to lead them to their destinies. He raises his young, he protects the mothers of his children, he blesses the households that have his favour and multiplies their flocks that they may never go hungry. He educates his sons, he adorns his daughters and even in wrath he is quick to come to his senses and regret the punishments he doles out.

Apollo loves. And like mortals, there will always be some part of him that wishes to protect the objects of his affections. Apollo, however, is also an emissary of Fate. He knows that the fate of all mortal things is death. He knows that to love a mortal is to accept that eventually he will have to bury them. There is no illusion of forever, there is no fantasy where he fights against the nature of living things and shields his beloveds from death. Apollo loves and because of that love, he also accepts.

And that, while beautiful, is also tragic.

#ginger rambles #ginger chats about greek myths #greek mythology #apollo #Listen man #I think there's something extremely beautiful about Apollo's affairs #Yes I know that Ares also loves and cares for his daughters but this isn't about him #There's just something about the way that Apollo put his all into it every single time #To the point that even when he does know better he still fights because of the strength of his love #The Iliad to me will always be a love story #Yes Achilles' wrath is said to come from his overwhelming feelings towards Patroclus #but what Achilles does has nothing to do with grief or love #By the end of everything Achilles forsook that love which ought to have defined his actions based on what he was saying #and warped it into a weapon meant to satisfy the void left by his loss #Apollo though - I am always taken aback by the sheer weight of his love #towards not only Hektor but towards all of Troy in the Iliad #And how he is very careful to balance that love and all the ways he wishes he could fight against their inevitably end #with his duties as one who is both aware of the impending end and whose position in the war #has put him in opposition with his elders #That delicate balance between a love so powerful that he is willing to take on the full weight of Athena and Hera's wrath #and an understanding that the battle he fights is not for victory but simply because for love's sake #How could you not think of that as beautiful and awesome and so achingly tragic #I feel the same about both Asclepius' and Actaeon's deaths #Apollo loved BOTH of his sons - Asclepius and Aristaeus - so so SO much #He was so incredibly proud of them both and delighted immensely in the both of their victories and talents #And so when Asclepius dies and it is by his own father's hand - I have always found his act of wrath so fascinating #Honestly this could be its own separate post - but the fact that Apollo does not beg Zeus to reconsider or to bring Asclepius back #when Apollo has made cases for lenience on things like that before speaks of a level of understanding from Apollo that Asclepius was always #going to die because of his pushing of the boundary between life and death #so he doesn't bother trying to reason with Zeus or plea his grief - instead going directly to destroying something important to Zeus

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cluescorner · 7 months ago

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I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

#damian wayne #damian al ghul #damian al ghul wayne #batman #batfamily #for all of the issues that come with having Steph as your fave having too much wild shit happening at once is never one of them #btw I quite like The Boy Wonder Issue 1. wow shocker an artist and writer who I have liked everything they've ever done #has once again written something that I am enjoying with art that makes me want to be part of its world.#it's almost like Juni Ba is really freaking talented or something #like I have some problems with it but it seems like many of those are part of the point. Damian is learning that his siblings are more #three-dimensional than he realized and that is part of this 'coming of age' story merged with fairytale #so I can't be mad at the oversimplistic defining of Dick and Jason and Tim until the conclusion of the series. that might be the point.#I hope that the series will address Steph as a Robin but if not then frankly it's not an issue unique to this series.#I'll be annoyed and disappointed but ultimately roll with it like I am with Babsgirl being here. There's too much good stuff here to get #hung up on shit that seems to be almost an editorial mandate at this point. at least that's where I'm at.#I am also very sorry that Chip Zdarsky is massacring your boy. he has 'X (Tim for him) is the best Robin so everyone else must suck' diseas #where a writer really likes one specific Robin and in trying to uplift them demeans all of the other Robins. instead of like...just writing #for that one character only or alternatively not demeaning the other characters in order to make his blorbo look good #it's wild because I actually think his writing for Tim is pretty solid. but he's not writing a Tim series. he's writing a Batman series.#and if you are going to write a Batman series and include other Batfamily members you need to actually write them well.#instead of assigning them like 2 personality traits while Tim gets to be a whole character #I accept that behavior in fanfic where I have lesser standards because it's fucking free. not a comic run that wants me to pay #tens of dollars in order to understand what the fuck is going on. he's been going for a while now it's gotta be a lot of money.#I can buy Steelworks with that money. I can see John Henry and Natasha Irons in a trade. Fuck you Chip.#it's why it takes such a special person to write a good ensemble story/a good Batfamily story. you have to be good at writing a LOT #of different characters. which I don't think most people are. I sure as hell am not. I can write maybe 3 at a time confidently well.#and you also have to give all of them at least SOME love or else people will be upset that you aren't focusing on their fave #and also the writing as a whole will suffer. Chip Zdarsky is a pretty good Tim writer. I'd maybe read a Tim solo written by him.#I would not read a story focusing on multiple characters that I like written by Chip Zdarsky. because every character who isn't Tim #is at least a bit weak/inconsistent/out of character INCLUDING FUCKING BATMAN. THE NO. 1 GUY MOST ARE HERE FOR

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kaythefloppa · 4 months ago

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Fun Fact: Contrary to popular belief, Cameron Boyce was not the main voice actor for Jake on Jake and the Never Land Pirates.

Sure, he did voice Jake, and during a period where Boyce's work on Disney was at its peak (mainly with Jessie on the main Disney Channel) but he's not the first, only, or last person to voice the character:

When JatNLP premiered, Jake was voiced by actor Colin Ford. Ford voiced Jake up until halfway through Season 2, where he started going through puberty (you can notice this by watching several early S2 episodes, including Jake Saves Bucky).

Then come Season 3. Sean Ryan Fox is now the understudy for Cameron Boyce, likely because Cameron himself was going through puberty and/or him filming the Descendants movies.

Wouldn't ya know, Ryan Fox eventually took over for Boyce, and was later replaced by Riley Thomas Stewart, who was replaced by Gabe Eggerling for the remainder of the series.

Despite Boyce being too old to reprise his role as Jake, he would find his way back on the show. In Season 4, Episode 7B, Cameron Boyce would voice ChillyZach, the nephew of the villainous Shiverjack.

This would mark Cameron's first voice-work on the show since his initial departure,- as well as his final role on the show before its cancellation --- and his death.

So there you have it.

#jake and the never land pirates #jake and the neverland pirates #jake #cameron boyce #disney jr.#disney jr #disney junior #as a kid I always felt like Jake's design shifted with each voice actor he had gotten #like idk the details became more defined or features more saturated as they desperately tried to keep him having a kiddish voice #Maybe it's just me #But yeah Boyce is one of many voice actors for Jake. He just so happens to be the most recognized/popular #because everyone who grew up on the show just so happened to also grow up with the Disney Channel #And that's 100% valid the guy had some damn talent #I remember back in 2021 during Jatnlp's 10th anniversary where everyone was really nostalgic over his work on the show and it broke my hear #R.I.P. Cameron Boyce

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jils-things · 3 months ago

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im admittedly going through a phase in my art where i feel it's not good again and its not improving anywhere and i need to try something else...

like i know my art is good. i love my artstyle. but it just feels like there's something i can do better, and i don't know what that is 🪦

#maybe im just getting a little bothered that my art style is always “cute” and i cant even try to make something “not conventionally cute”#maybe its because im diving back into idv and i want to love the gothic/macabre aspects of it but my artstyle can't really follow that #im really trying to stop drawing everyone kiddy-like (like making their faces SO round... making their eyes more shaped and defined)#im trying to make everyone look different i guess #i guess this is same face syndrome?#im also getting super pissy about how i draw eyes like if i see a character with slim eyes i have a bad habit of just... enlarging it #ouuhgghhhgg im trying otl otl i want to have that talent where i can bounce between cute to cool because it reflects my interests #~ rambling

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doodlingwren · 10 months ago

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Hi hellooo- i saw that you started follow me and i asked my self "why and how a talented artist made brain connections to decide to follow this low quality artist", did i look funny? 🥺

Do I look talented? 🤨😳

#wren inbox #wren draws stuff #btw found your blog while I was wandering in the StS tag #the fandom here is pretty tiny and not super active like idk on Twitter #not that's a bad thing btw #and I'm always happy to find people that share a bit my interests :3 #and don't u dare to define u a low quality artist #or imma start a fight alright'#sorry for the late reply <3 forgot to check the inbox for a week and then I didn't know what to answer bc I don't get a lot of asks lol #have this silly doodle of Aldebaran idk what he's doing :3 #he's the silliest cowboy in the Sanctuary fr no cap #“do I look talented” and then adds the dumbest doodle she could find on her tablet

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19871997 · 8 months ago

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general inability to be normal about wikipedia naming eras of various franchises after their generational talent captain + his codependent bestie

#edmonton oilers #pittsburgh penguins #i’ve done the background reading there’s a lot of single names but like. this is more special #every franchise has their gretzy not everyone has their insanely talented literally era defining ride or dies #or they’ll name eras after the owner/gm #now bear in mind before lemuiex + jagr it was. like the start of the pens and before cmd + draisaitl it was. the decline and playoff draught #especially emo about the oilers bc it��s the mcdavid-draisaitl era bc they’re getting better building the team from the ground up etc etc #i’m pretty sure cmd said something like that when they got kicked out of the playoffs in 2023 or 2022

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strictly-confectional · 3 months ago

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oh oops thats just a whole set of lyrics i made

#heart2heart #damn sometimes you really got a concept inside your brain and you just slam out like an entire song/poem about it #i guess really maybe theyre all poems bc i dont have the talent or knowledge to turn any of it into music but like #idk at a point ages ago i feel like i started writing lyrics rather than poetry and have never been able to really effectively 'go back'#i am not sure i could define the difference since in writing-only the two are basically identical anyway. i guess perhaps the manner of-#-repetition is more lyrical than poetic #but saying that makes it feel like lyrics are somehow lesser or my brain feels like thats what that sounds like. whatever #anyway

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aperfecta-rt · 8 months ago

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Felt the urge to create, Stan and Rus sketches are the result

#art #oc #i should draw them more #i draw poppy a lot bc hes easier for me #but humans aint gonna get easier till i suck it up n draw em #whatre they looking at idk #still uhmmm figuring out the hair #russel has a lot of it #hes also the one that twists/braids Stans #man of many talents #stan looks at his bros scraggly chin hairs in envy #dw stan youll get there #also i trieddddd to make russels face more thin and defined ...#anyways the king brothers #bigass eyes

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quinty-imara · 8 months ago

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Updating old ocs, and ponifying recent ones. Just so I can still play in the mlp world when I wanna

#quinart #mlp #my little pony #Nila has a new name after quite literally a decade #and Nightgem now has a more defined CM and talent besides just “magic”#mlp oc #Flash and Sunbeam are just ponified versions of Carus and Imlyth cus i love my warlocks and i will insert them into any media i can

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jackredfieldwasmyjacob · 9 months ago

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re: my last post. i'm not okay (in a good way)

#vivitalksot #no but not even going into delulu territory #it is so special and so important and so beautiful and i'm feeling butterflies and wanting to cry over this like <333333 #imagine being defined as 'talent' by the runner up of your edition who never doubted on you when you were super insecure of your own abilit #and was even willing to abandon his dream if it meant you stayed #like. just wow

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unproduciblesmackdown · 1 year ago

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billions(tm): it's incredible how we just provide a little snippet of material designed to be "guy we all want to push down the stairs immediately somehow" and through this amazing acting alchemy it becomes gold. electric. magnificent. we can't get enough so we will just keep writing this loser character and the actor will somehow keep bringing the dazzling transmutation through his ability

actor will roland: [is aware autistic people are real]

#this is at least half humorous in several ways lmao but also like fr...#winston billions #will roland has pretty much said he is aware that autistic people real. and not [ppl's utterly off the walls assumptions abt what Defines #Autism or what an Autistic Person is like and how you would Know]#i don't think that Billions(tm) would be very much better at that than re: say; taylor's being nonbinary (surprisingly alright yet. u kno)#quant kid 2 could've been anyone but writing Winston is like so certainly the common deal of the inadvertently autistic character #drawing from all the autistic people allistic ppl encounter all thee time without being aware & deciding they're annoying / jerks / too #weird to live too pathetic to die / grating nerds / Funnily Odd in a way you deign to merely raise an eyebrow or scrunch your face at....#so on so forth. ''oh you know Those People we all know who are just Like That''#and deciding they must be ''just like that'' b/c they're either too arrogantly rude &/or clueless / Unaware to be neurotypically superior #also do not get me wrong lmao big old proponent of Did You Know That? Actors Act. Now You Know #so of course yes will's acting is off the shits i mean here i am am i right. and he is using it when he is acting.#the acting talent Is off the shits. the tiniest moments they give him & he CRUSHES KILLS it really is amazing i'm not waving it off at all #cue twitter randos so betrayed when kelly aucoin is not dollar bill & is like ''yes in my acting job i'm playing this fuckin asshole''#meanwhile i'm still following the interviewer who a) asked will anything abt billions b) talked abt the immediate striking intro of will's #as quant kid 2 And the immediate draw of / effervescent dynamic between winston & taylor. Someone Who Gets It #anyway it's like will can fathom that actually the people who are Always ''acting wrong'' w/their bad grating vibes no matter what they do #are not always Those People(tm) who We all know & loathe right....thee magic of knowing winston can be someone fully earnest #and of course always actually trying; & having perfectly comprehensible wants & needs. damn how's he doing that #bringing a certain je ne sais quoi to this Insufferable Loser Nerd material! so we don't mess with the process.#i.e. we will only ever let his role get dunked on forever b/c sure can't fathom anything else anyways. our Correct characters could never..#only tuk; adjacent in wrong nerd loserdom; can be his friend. rian who is correct but zany with it can be his abusive friend

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metvmorqhoses · 2 years ago

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What do you think would happen if Voldemort and Bellatrix were the same age and went to Hogwarts together? Would she still grow to love him and show the devotion she has for him in canon? Or just think him a madman and a fool. How would he feel about her? Would he want her on his side?

Wuthering Heights would have happened, almost verbatim.

#their relationship would be extremely complicated by the lifting of much of the canonical insurmountable distance #that normally defines their relationship #Vold would still be on a pedestal in her eyes for his intrinsic merits and larger than life personality #but the huge age gap #the fact that Bella always saw him as an infallible mentor since childhood #have a huge impact in their dynamic and being fellow students #equals (Vold being more talented but half blood #Bella being somehow culturally perceived as superior)#would inevitably change their relationship #but the core would be there #they would have recognized each other regardless #recognized and chosen one another #to be more accurate #bellamort #lord voldemort #bellatrix black lestrange #hp #anon #asks/replies #wuthering heights #one and one thousand stories lis told

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dandelionjack · 2 years ago

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remember when miserable bitches on tiktok were like ‘lucy dacus is for the girls that are always picked as the reserve option. lucy dacus is for the conventionally unattractive girls. lucy dacus is for the girls who have never recieved positive male attention. basically lucy dacus is for the girls that are gross ugly hideous offputting hags�� and she fucking decimated them all with the new merch line

#imagine being as cool witty sharp musically talented as lucy and getting pigeonholed as ‘songs for sad ugly loser girls’. saying this as a #sad ugly loser girl when will we stop defining ourselves by our deficiencies #lucy dacus #jamie.txt #eardrums

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adizzyninja · 1 year ago

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Holy SHIT Jimmy Buffet wrote some good upbeat songs to cry in your pillow to

#he was so talented #god his songs were so……. defining for me #growing up in Tampa #I can’t believe he’s gone #guess it’s not the man himself but what he represented for me #all the childhood and teenage years gone by #all the past me’s that aren’t me anymore #anyways go listen to Changes in Lattitudes Changes in Attitudes #jimmy buffett #changes in lattitudes

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justascrollingghost · 1 year ago

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My Exam Season YP’s: help.

Me: REPEAT AFTER ME - I did my best and that’s all anyone can ask of me. Grades do not define me. I am a mf star with options regardless of those grades and last but certainly not least - it’s going to be okay

#I usually don’t interact with young people online #however #if you’re reading this #it’s going to be okay #numbers and letters don’t define your talents #and options are always available #I got an E and a U at A-Level #and I’m doing my masters to go on to do my PHD #in the field I wanted #if I can do it so can you #exam season is so fucking stressful #the stress we put on 16 year olds is disgusting #mental health professionals are deescalating left right and centre it’s fucking ridiculous #exam season #a level results #gcse results

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