#kata4a

[caprice-nisei-enjoyer]

> “well contexualized”

[maklodes]

I don't have the experience with stop motion animation or the patience to animate the pincers, and I'm not sure how I'd animate the rhythmic undulation of the top of the body even if I had far more patience, but I decided to try bringing this guy into physical world.

[karcatgirl-vantas]

studying the differences between johnny cash and ghoultown to more effectively write and perform like ghoultown

[vash3r]

rationalititty

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This is a genuine Markadoo Enterprises post. If you see this post and @markadoo is not the original poster, then this is a repost.

[max1461]

I'll elaborate on this more later maybe when I have time, but I remember as a high schooler having a hard time conceptually with both music theory and chemistry, and thinking that they felt confusing for reasons that seemed of-a-kind. These are both things that I really wanted to understand at the time, and still want to understand, but I haven't made a serious attempt at revisiting either. I'm not sure exactly why they felt similar to me. I am going to tag @raginrayguns and @kata4a in this post. Maybe they will have something to say about this post.

[firebatvillain]

This is the best writing advice I've seen out there. People always suggest I vary sentence length but they're wrong.

never say with eleven words what you could with ten. do not use nine words where ten words will do. only ever write sentences that are exactly ten words long.

[quantumofawesome]

I am slowly turning into a person who can feed themself, and it feels so cool! @kata4a is in some ways helping (by modeling cooking behaviors) and in some ways not helping (by cooking for me so I don't have to).

[yourpostisonpinterest]

@kata4a

@in-sufficientdata

@exbeekeeper

@visionaryness

i found your post on pinterest!

[maklodes]

When I add nested parentheticals and such, I always think "how can I untangle this mess and create beautifully lucid, clear prose, some real George Orwell shit?" Then I rattle it around in my brain a bit, and if I don't see a way, or at least don't see a way without spending more time than I'd like on it or I can only improve the flow and beauty of the writing at the cost of its clarity, I post something that's unambiguous but a little ugly.

I'm not proud of this, but it's not an affectation! I'm trying my best!

has litfic been playing with language in an analogous way to the way autists and their adjacents on this site do? in particular i find the way people of a certain mental stripe (myself very much included!) get very fixated on delineation, on the desire to use some sort of punctuation mark to prevent ideas, phrases, etc from sloshing into each other, usually using parentheses, brackets, etc, plus the urge to escape the linearity of writing (or actually, speech, embedded in time, writing could be nonlinear) also with the parentheses, allow endless branching parentheticals? i guess this didnt really grammatically cohere into a sentence but i think you understand. are the litficcers doing this. i find the way the litficcers and especially poets play with whitespace endlessly tedious, i dont care about whitespace!!! but also my more prejudicial tendencies believe that the way people on here toy with alternate language use comes from an EXCESS of meaning to be communicated while the litficcers are much more into the form itself, thats why they got into Literature, rather than the form's capacity as a vehicle (internal volume? trunk space? very roomy. cupholders). which i guess is fine but is boring to me

a metaphor for your troubles: the fixation on form, on language that SOUNDS good rather than COMMUNICATES well is like people who do recreational math with like, stuff that's only meaningful in base ten. yknow, like those primes that have 666 in them or whatever. this is very curmudgeonly of me but i kinda look down on those people, base 10 is so obviously...not the thing we care about. studying the paintbrush instead of what you can make with it! horrid! (hmm, actually a painting that was meaningfully "about" brush strokes would be kind of cool. and i like rothkos. but i would get tired of it!!!)

[eightyonekilograms]

(@etirabys and I are about to meet @kata4a and @spiralrapt)

Eti: "Should I wear cat ears?"

Me: "Yes. Should I also wear cat ears?"

Eti: "Yes."

[vash3r]

today's music coincidence: a sound that seemed so naggingly familiar i had to stop and search through all my bookmarks to find what it reminded me of;

the rhythm and instrument(?) of the ?bassline? of Stratum (by Clean Tears, from Arc of the Colorless) is extremely similar to that of ROMANTIC CHILDREN (KORS K REMIX) (Alstroemeria Records, from DEGENERATE DANCEHALL). Compare:

Stratum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G199n-Plghs&t=3m35s Romantic Children (kors k remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBbwvJrymUY&t=3m03s

@kata4a i know you're a little musicbrained, what would you call the things that are the same here? i don't know enough about musical terminology to satisfactorily describe what the similarities i'm hearing are, other than the rhythm

[summercurial]

I'm practicing Tumblr Trickshots (getting kata4a to like anon posts I send you) and seeing what draws her attention and what she ignores and drawing patterns from it. This is parasocial^2 because the first parasocial layer is the fact that I feel affection for you despite being on anon constantly and the second layer is using your blog as a method of getting approval from other hot tumblr girl but indirectly.

Anyway I like your tummy posts and you should do more.

hmm like. just posts where you can see my tummy. hmm

[maklodes]

Maybe I'm repeating elancholia, but humans haven't had screwdrivers for long in evolutionary time, yet the grip of a screwdriver fits quite well in human hands. Obviously, that's because we created screwdrivers with our hands in mind.

With some things, we don't really have much choice about how hard it is to understand. If the human endocrine system is really complicated, that sucks for endocrinologists, but that's how it is.

With writing, it was made for humans by humans. I guess the earliest writing systems like cuneiform were harder, but we've been working for a few millennia to make it easier, adding punctuation, spacing, etc. (Does having minuscule/majuscule characters actually make reading easier? Not sure about that one.) Obviously, English is not still not really optimized in terms of easy orthography (Italian might be?), but it's still not too bad.

You could probably come up with a form of symbolic communication that's as or more difficult to learn as the time-dependent Schrödinger equation or whatever -- I guess cryptography could be regarded as the art of making writing difficult and counterintuitive to read, and the corresponding art of reading it anyway -- but obviously we wouldn't develop such a system for widespread everyday communication with each other.

Literacy is kind of a weird concept, isn't it? It hasn't been around long enough to have been shaped specifically by natural selection. Writing systems have seemingly only been invented independently a few (single digit?) number of times but have apparently spread rapidly across a relatively large geographic area. And despite the fact that it's only been around for a short time even compared to spoken language, human brains are clearly well-suited to this form of communication, through mass literacy programs we've even been able to insert "reading and writing" into the psychological developments of early childhood! It's rare to find a a ten year old raised in modern society that can't read.

What's up with that? Is the brain really that plastic? Are there other more alien (to us) tasks we could be teaching children at a young age? Or are reading and writing themselves well-adapted to humans, somehow taking advantage of specialized brain processes that we aren't even aware of?

[yvfu]

@kata4a

[max1461]

I’m asking from an outside perspective, but I’d like an explanation of the appeal of John Cage’s 4’33”. I’ve seen some one-sidedness on it and I wanted to know what makes it good from the perspective of someone who is a fan.

I don't know, I'm not necessarily a huge man of it (I don't dislike it or anything either; it's a cool idea), I just happened to put it in my quiz. Maybe ask @kata4a?

[nunuisancenewt]

In which I try horny? Sexual? poetry again

The first is my attempt at a recreation of an old poem I did and was happy with but didn’t save when I remade my tumblr, the second is something new and more song adjacent and more straightforwardly horny and fun and not guilty

You were not made for Eden

There was no apple, no Eve

You were not cast out of eden

you rose from the sea

Predation, reproduction, competition

malthusian misery,

You were not made for Eden

There was no apple, no Eve

Diabetes, arthritis, heart disease

You were not made for the modern worlds luxuries

You were made to

Struggle, fight , replicate, take , Mate

Not to love, rest, play, give, Fornicate

You were not made for Eden

But with love and with greed, (for I came from mud to)

I offer it up to you

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Ive found my boar

Precious truffle safe keep

Now that I found you

We must celebrate with a feast

( chorus?) instrumental?

Come now Astarion

Feast, swell, and grow

Let your greed overtake you

Let your power be known

Now begin the fight

Tamed into a dance

Show me your size and your strength

Because Im entranced

( chorus?) instrumental?

Come now my ram

My ares and lamb

Lie down with the beast

Whos made you a fat feast

@kata4a @random-thought-depository