#not that i havent TRIED writing at least and i did write one mediocre thing but im not posting that here anyway

[br1ghtestlight]

i haven't written drawn painted music etc anything in so long its so sad. im sure the world really misses all my amazing art

[moonraccoon-exe]

*pokes you on my head* hello moon, i hope youre doing well! i studied for a test recently & got it back but i didnt do so good... (;*△*;) I know i can pass the class with a C if i do better but im gonna have to work super hard if i want to pass with a B- & semester is starting to close (;´Д`). its nice that i have ambitions: some are for myself & some will help me later in life like in a job although i havent really done much in actually working toward them orz... but at least i have them! 1/2

QUIIIICKSIIIIIIIIIILVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

*EXPLODES*

*CLINGS TO YOUR HEAD*

BUDDY HEWWO IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU LAST WERE IN MY ASK,  I mean not THAT much, but still a bit, and I’m just- I’M JUST EXCITED ANY TIME YOU DROP BY, SERIOUSLY, I’M LIKE *bounces all across the room* EACH TIME I SEE YOUR SIGNATURE, I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU AROUND HEWWO BUDDY THANK YOU

Ah! Poking heads! I LOVE poking other people, mostly on the head! (ノ*°▽°*) I’m always like “Imma do a boop on your head!” then go near and poke like “BOOP” and jump away and laugh ajsdkldjghda POKING IS GREAT, and that you  poked me means WE’RE GOOD FRIENDS, RIGHT? You just made the Friend Poke and that means IMMA HUG YOUR HEAD AND NEVER LET GO ANYMORE OKAY :3

GASPS

Oh nooo! I’m sorry that you didn’t do so well in your test… (｡•́︿•̀｡) It must have felt so bad, that you tried and it still didn’t turn out as you would have wanted or expected. 

*pets you*

It’s okay to fail, sometimes. That’s part of life, too! It’s okay, buddy, you tried and failing happens to anyone, so don’t ya worry too much (ノ_

Ambitions are nice, indeed! The word as itself has been a bit poisoned and the first impression can come off as negative, but ambitions are definitely good. It would be mediocre to sit there and expect nothing other than survive, ya know. People who actually aim for something and work for it, those are my favorite kind when it comes to this sort of stuff. :3

Aaah! It’s good to know that you can still pass the class with a higher grade, buddy! Though it must be stresssful, that semester is closing. It must sorta feel like time is on you, which is maybe the worst feeling of them all D:

I know you can do it, QS! You seem to always work very hard to approve and do well in your exams, so I believe in you :3 See, you’ve made it so far in your school history, you just gotta pull through this one like you’ve done before. You’ve got this, buddy! Just gotta work hard, eat well, and VERY important, rest! 

Though if you can’t do much, don’t you worry either. Work hard, yes, but don’t over work!!! That will only do but wear you out in all ways, and we don’t want that, buddy. I know grades are important for papers and scholarships and etc., but remember you’re not the grade you get. Grades are only…a generalized measure. But they don’t measure YOU exactly. So know that C+ or B- or anything, you know how good you are, and getting a bad grade doesn’t mean you’re bad at it, it just means you need a little more time to improve.

Still, I’m gonna be cheering on you, buddy! Sending you HIGHLY MAGICAL RACCOON VIBES so your grades can go as far up as possible without you overworking yourself!! MAGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ

It’s good to know that you have ambitions. Indeed, they’ll be great help in so many aspects of your life! Just remember that, as anything else, excess is what can ruin it, alright? So you keep those ambitions and aim up and keep going, but remember to aim for a high mountain, not the sun or you’ll burn yourself! So long it’s not in excess, GO, QUICKSILVER!!! IMMA BE LOUDLY, LOUDLY CHEERING ON YOU ALL THE TIME, POM POMS IN HANDS AND CONFETTI AND EVERYTHING!! o(≧▽≦)o

*gASPS*

THE INCREDIBLES 2!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I LOVED THE MOVIE!!

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY

BUDDY

DID YOU SEE MY GUEST APPEARANCE? HUH? DID YOU LIKE IT? HUH!?!? (*ﾉ▽ﾉ)

I was the raccoonie!!! ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

…well, okay, it wasn’t me, bUT, I like to pretend it was me. If they had hired me and not that other raccoonie, the movie would have been FLUFFIER and more adorbs, so they miss it aklsjdklsjfs. 

Still, it was a great movie, wasn’t it!?!?! I really loved it all! I only wished they could have made Elastigirl look more her age; she looks in early 30′s, and I would have loved to see this 40′s heroine looking her age. I think that one of the many people that are missing representation is middle aged heroes!! 

But other than that, it was a BLAST! Sadly, children movies don’t arrive to theatres here in english, only in the spanish dub. I would have LOVED to watch it in english because of this actor…you know, this character, the guy that hires the Incredibles and Fronoze? I forgot his name… (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄) But he’s voiced by the guy that plays Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul! I never watched Breaking Bad, but I’ve watched many BCS episodes with m y bro (who did watch BB), and from the first moment I heard him I was like “Wow, he’s got a nice voice!! He’d make a great voice actor :D” and BAM!! Incredibles 2 smacks me in the face with him!! AAAAAAAAAH!

It’s really good to know that you got to hang with some friends and that you watched the movie!! I really liked it and I’m happy to know so did you! :D

Oh! And no worries about the ask being “negative”, that’s fine! We’re buddies, and buddies have each other’s back in both good and bad times, right? What sort of bad friend would I be if I only spoke about the good things with you? Nah buddy, not my style! You throw anything that’s in your mind to me, and I’ll catch it just fine. You’re my buddy and I’m interested in anything you say, even if it’s bad news. Can’t do much to help, but I’m there to read you at least! :3

And even sharing bad news has its bright side; you’re putting some trust in me to tel me all that. Which, honestly, means lots to me and I think it’s something very pretty. So thank you soooooooooo, so much for this bit of trust you’ve given me, and for sharing what’s been going on in your side with me!! I’m happy that you share your news with me, I’m happy to hear from you about anything, and I’m happy that you take the time and effort to write to me. Aasjdsdkljgfs, it really means lots to me, buddy. Thank you.   (ﾉ_；)ヾ(´ ∀ ` )♡

Anyway, that’s that!

Thank you LOTS for dropping by, buddy, I’m happy to hear from you even if it’s not so happy news. :3

Thank you for sharing this with me, and for being as nice and good as usual. You’re amazing!! *clings to your head*

I hope you too are having a MOST INCREDIBLE (hah! see what I did there?) day or night, buddy!! Lotsa raccoonie good vibes and hugs for you!! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ

[craftmanatee]

Spirit of Rock and Roll, spirit of Creation.

This is a continuation of Fantasy, good, bad and ugly.

DISCLAIMER: Most of what I am writing here is for myself and not much consideration will take place. This is just a write up of all the things ive experienced and researched on put together as concisely as possible. A practice essay of sorts.

Following a more applicable sense for Fantasy which is “Fantasy is an imagination derived from the Real World in order to better understand it” can have a huge list of consequences (Good and difficult), especially when creating a story. Some authors and story tellers have this in them naturally (Just look at George R. R. Martins Game of Thrones). But I am here to talk about a consequence that is (Or may) be happening that spawn bad fantasies due to unstoppable events.

Origins of Punk-Rock is the philosophy.

Music is one of the many topics of controversy that sprouts between the young generation and the older generation. When rock and roll became a thing, many of the songs were deemed too rowdy, noisy or maybe satanic. But I am talking about 1940′s, 50′s and 60′s. Rock and roll songs from that era are as innocent as a child compared to the music we have today, yet it still got criticized like that. The same way rough metal songs are criticized today. And these comments always seem to come from the older generation of people, perhaps another generation in Culture. Many of these bands and songs from those times actually thrived in these controversies and made them what they were as bands. This image that was rebellions for its time gave them that appeal and aesthetics.

But something happened, very slowly. Music got better, more people started to accept them. Rock and Roll no longer was the same, and as such the music either got worse or went into experimental directions.

One of which directions was directly tied to this change, and that is Punk-Rock. This new musical trend wanted to appeal with what made Rock and Roll controversial. That criticism that rock and roll gets is what Punk-Rock wants, the style of music, its attitude and eventually spreading across towards fashion and politics always aimed to create the bad side of Rock and Roll. The hilarious good Irony is that the criticism rock and roll gets is now pointed at Punk-Rock, which it wants, and as such makes Rock and Roll seem more innocent than it ever was before. Suddenly, people could tell apart from Good and Evil. Without Evil, you would not know what is Good. Without Punk-Rock, Rock and roll would not be anything different.

The best part of all this, how Punk-Rock bathed in the old and Assumed spirit of Rock and Roll, is that Punk-Rock was then untouchable. It was exactly what music, but mostly what society needed, eventually inspiring other genres going forwards in time. Punk-Rocks Rival, Hard Rock or Heavy Metal(A bit after Punk-Rock) was more about the music specifically. Punk-Rock was a trend that knew that Music was also part of society, it gave a little bit of a counter balance to the political scheme of things in more than just music. Because it had the attitude to challenge some kind of perception(This can be anything, music or political) with that old assumed spirit from Rock and Roll.

But I dont really Like to listen to punk-rock, but I understand it at least.

So how does this fit with Punk-Fantasy? Well, if you did read everything Ive written from my previous post, you should know that my narrative is pointing at speculating at fantasy and how perhaps it is getting softer, or less like fantasy and more just escapism. And I do mean to stretch Fantasy across most or all fiction such was Sci fi or alternate histories and more (Go read previous post if you havent). Fantasy in General is eroding, mostly due to new ways of presenting it. Things have gotten even newer in only 20-30 years.

Cinema, luxury of tools and arts are becoming less meaningful.

And I do not mean this in a poetic sense of ��Meaningful”, I am talking about the product, the art itself is having less of a footprint upon existence than before. I could go on to create a list of the many things that changed in movies and perhaps games.

To paint you a picture of what I mean, think of the many trends between 80′s movies to today's movies:

Special effects looked more real in the 80′s

Stories were a lot less dated in the 80′s (Less dated as in their story subjects were more isolated or respected than how pandering or obviously politically biased many films of today).

How they were more genre specific than what is watered down of today.

Now these may sound like opinion, in some cases they are. But I am basically pointing at 80s movies in General versus movies of Today in general. Specifically the 80s and not further back because this is when things started to change noticeably. Much like music, the Movie industry were innovating and experimenting with new tools that they did not have before. People were either working harder or easier with the advent of computer special effects, movies have become a lot more normal with easier ways to collect and watch them as how they become even more normalized. Specifically the normalization part is the concern here as films such as Willow is now the subject of the moment when fantasy started to go down-hill.

In my theory, this all was made possible because of movies becoming normal. This is actually happening with games as well, if you are well versed in gaming and looking at its time-line of games and how they changed, that is the kind of relaxed change that is taking over story-telling. From what was purely just a Fun experience, is now an epic en devour all about telling the epic tale of Bratos, the god of Boar.

So, movies are visually looking better, and games are playing better and have the space to take hours of your life. This is actually a good thing, all things considered. But, the spirit that gets a creator to stumble and figure out how to create something beautiful and amazing is less likely to happen. A movie will have an infinite budget and have the best of the best working behind it only to end up mediocre at best once it comes out. It is why many independent games are loved as these creations are creations made by people who stumbled and figured out how to create something.

Ian McKellen is a good living evidence to this with how he almost wanted to quit acting because of the green screen technique they were using for The Hobbit(2013). Reprising his role from Lord of the rings(2003).

Only 10 years apart, technology has eliminated much of the spirit that goes into making a movie. Sincere talent or happy accidents is less likely to happen in mainstream fictional creations today. Creating insincere manufactured creations. This spreads into the genres or ways of telling stories they use. This can create a misinterpreted assumption for younger generations. The future creators of tomorrow may learn from bad fiction.

I have to thank my mother for sharing with me movies beyond my time of birth when i was  a kid, as I would have easily been influenced by present media of the 90′s. I am still influenced but at-least I can separate what is good and bad that I liked or still like. One of the many things a lot of schools will teach is to go back in time to find old gems and learn from them. So far back as the silent movies, this same philosophy applies to most or everything. This is not in an attempt to copy the stories from the past, but rather see what the creators had to do, and what it came to create something at all.

An example is the difference of Animation from 1930′s versus Today. We can all be thankful for the advent of technology, but the spirit of creation, the spirit of careful planning, great demand for talent etc was all required and dependent on.

So, what my narrative wants to finally get to is...

to accept that this change going into the future will always happen. Even beyond death, something new can come up and change genres, feelings etc as we know it. The way video games has you do, from how a movie has you watch is an undeniable difference.

What we have to look at is HOW it is being told. I mentioned how Fantasy is Vague even as a genre. I propose a philosophy, equally vague but tries to attune to a great effort/Spirit of creating despite technology spoiling us. Stories are now too easy to tell, so lets give some counter-balance with my(not really mine) prospect that is Punk-Fantasy.

(Continued in a future write up)

(Damnit, looks like this is going to become 3 parts)