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bigcats-birds-and-books · 2 months ago

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Books of 2024: THE ART OF EXCESS by Tom LeClair.

Another day, another "requesting niche out of print nonfiction from the library that they have to borrow from the Library of Congress, because of course they do"! I didn't actually read the whole thing because I'm not familiar with six out of the seven books he analyzes, but I did read the preface, the introduction, and the chapter about Le Guin's ALWAYS COMING HOME (which was really the epilogue lol).

His framework of "systems novels" was fascinating to me and my biology-oriented brain, and he flagged a lot of the same things I transcribed for my "le guin posting" tag, which I thought was neat! Unfortunately: he nerfed himself by spending most of his time on behemoth novels by six white men as Representative of Excess as Mastery, so I found his overall conclusions lackluster--like, dude, really, broaden your sample size if you're trying to generalize to American Literature Going Forward (it's no wonder Le Guin was the most hopeful and reconstructive of the lot, given the synopses of the other bricks he discussed). Neat intro and preface! And I found myself nodding along to a lot of his insights on Le Guin, but I also found myself rolling my eyes at how he tried to generalize from the texts he selected.

#books of 2024 #the art of excess #tom leclair #book photo #le guin posting #i didn't add this to goodreads or anything i just read those couple parts #it felt silly to read the rest given that i have not read the other books he's analyzing (and also given how the library needed this back)#(sooner than my return receipt said lol)#(i took pictures of the two chapters i read so i can revisit them later because this book is SO HARD TO FIND)#the systext was. interesting.#but wow a lot of what he said about marginalized writers rubbed me the wrong way lmao #i tried to cut him a little bit of slack because it was published in like. 1987. but dude.#1. there are more than black and white women and men writers as far as the demographics of america go #2. WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU WRITING OFF THE COLOR PURPLE IN YOUR INTRO #3. you're like. so close. to having a Revelation about maybe why writers of color and female writers don't write what you tout as Big All--#--Encompassing American Novels(TM)#do you see your own whiteness?? do you REALLY though?? dude what are you calling default lol #i don't know enough about postmodernism to engage with that framework of his but i was interested in the systems thing because it's ecology #i speedread these chapters in like. 24 hours. due to aforementioned library issues #but we're counting it as a book of 2024 for photo purposes anyway lol

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kelddaa · 4 months ago

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mornings in the desert

#desert duo fanart #desert duo #scarian #kelddaa #kelds art #keld make a desertduo piece without excessive warm lighting challenge IMPOSSIBLE #it’s fine tho I love warm lighting #prob could’ve spent more time on this but eh oh well #took me a long time toiling with their expressions #eventually ended up with these… grimaces #maybe bc it’s so early in the morning #maybe bc it’s just these two fools #and they’ve got… whatever it is they’ve got going on in third life #third life Scarian is so special to me #agh sorry I’m falling back into my desert duo phase and rambling about them #1k

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kaiju-krew · 1 year ago

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he not built for this

original

#goji had zero chill i CHEEREEDDDDDD I LOVE MY BOYYYYYYYYY #I LOVE WHEN HE DOES VERY VIOLENT THINGS VERY EXCESSIVELY #godzilla #ion dragon #kaiju #monarch legacy of monsters #monsterverse #my art

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 7 months ago

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Heartfelt Reunion.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #blood #wen chao #My 'labeling things' bit started because I was worried that it might be hard to tell what things were due to my rough art skills.#And while I think I don't need to clear up the ambiguity as much these days...I think it is well earned here!#Rest in torment Wen Chao. Rest in literal pieces.#What a truly cute reunion scene this was B*)#They fall back into a comfortable pattern of banter despite the length of time apart. While also standing in front of dead bodies.#While I'm here - Let's clear something up: WWX does a *lot* of torturing and killing in this scene.#If JC is to be credited for any tortures let it be known he did that right alongside WWX. They get co-torture credits here.#Your favourite character is responsible for several horrible tortures and murders.#Was it justified? Honestly I don't think so. I think it very much needs to be over-the-top-violent to show how WWX has changed.#It was excessive force to satiate his need for revenge. WWX is consistently demonstrating how he feels justified in his actions #Up until now they have been for relatively noble causes. Protecting Mianmian - Giving away his core - Punching Jin Zuxian;#It's the same flaw in a different setting.#Tune in next time for LWJ's reaction to the blood sport vibes.

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luxmoogle · 8 months ago

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⋆⭒𓆟⋆｡˚ ᵤₙ𝒹ₑᵣ ₜₕₑ ₛₑₐ 𓆜✩⋆𓆝 𓆟 ｡

#kingdom hearts #kh #kh sora #sora #mermay #mermay 2024 #atlantica #atlantica sora #merman #mermaid #merman sora #mermaid sora #atlantica!sora #my art #this is what i'm spending all my excess time on #mersoras

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eisenartworks · 1 month ago

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Starscream

#transformers one #tf one #starscream #eisen art #digital painting #digital illustration #digital art #yeah... I've been obsessed w tf since i watched the movie in october #what's w the excessive use of rake brushes?? Good question. I wanted to emulate the feel of metal #but turns out my knowledge of how to use rake brushes are in fact. poor #starscream isn't my fav character it's actually d-16 but I really liked screamer's character design #it's such a refreshing take but still recognizable as starscream. the black accent w his classic colors is such a great design #also funnily enough whenever I see tfone starscream fanart his hips are always cocked #I started this piece a month ago so when I saw the other fanarts I'm pretty bemused. It's like everyone's a hive mind or something #or maybe it's just not starscream if he isn't cunty #anyway

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robo-milky · 2 months ago

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Daydreaming or reminiscing fondly~?

Srry guys, I’m just finding Rollo and Cloche’ dynamic so much more entertaining atm- I just think it’d be so funny if NBC! Cloche did end up with a mini crush on Rollo (following the NBC Rollo simp train).

Extras! *Don’t think I’ll ever finish the second one tbh

#I really do love rookloche but there’s like too many plot holes and me building on ideas without trying to get rid of excess-#yOU DON’T UNDERSTAND- ROLLO ‘CHARMING’ NBC CLOCHE TO KEEP HER AWAY FROM THE REST OF THE NBC POPULATION TO A DEGREE-#NBC! Cloche will still find herself disliking Rollo at the end… albeit with guilt this time since he was nothing but ‘generous’ to her #NBC! cloche would prolly still party behind his back-#cat scribblez 🌸#oc: cloche🎊#jingle bells 🔔🎊#nbc! cloche #twisted wonderland #twst #twst oc #twst ocs #twst yume #twst rollo #rollo flamme #twst fanart #twst art #noble bell college

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wardingshout · 1 year ago

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fast travel duck my beloved....

#tloz #a link to the past #my art #it feels a bit excessive to come on here just to post this and have nothing else done but I thought it was cute for once...#this game is Doing it for me #talked to one little guy in the woods who gave me an instrument and then turned into a tree and I shed a tear #idk this is what I'm here for idk the small little things in these games just make me feel stuff #I'm enjoying it so much but everything is truly just out to kill and hurt you in this game holy shit #still thinking about la I will finish wips eventually....

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vpofcookies · 7 months ago

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Two pieces for @voicesfortheblade as a gift for Eloise with the prompt: Boar's head replica pendant with ruby eyes and a thin gold chain

#this was a lot of fun! i got to use my excessive throne design AND draw fancy jewelry <3 #vpoc draws #voicesfortheblade #art #mcyt #technoblade #technofanart #technoblade25 #<3

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kinokoshoujoart · 8 months ago

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Marrying Carter in Harvest Moon DS Cute! (North American version)

oh… sorry no not the archaeologist, i mean Pastor Carter from Mineral Town!

(or is it Pastor Curdy….?)

teeechnically his descendant, and it causes a game over… but this is the only time we’ve been able to marry him right?

so in the girl version of HMDS, there’s two “secret” Mineral Town bachelors that you can marry by talking to them enough times on the phone. one is Mason, the guy who runs May’s Tailoring… but the second, Pastor Carter, is a bit more obscure…

i couldn’t find them uploaded anywhere so here are his 2nd* thru 10th conversations+his proposal+proposal rejection in english! if you want to see it on youtube instead here you go

*i failed to record the first conversation when it happened, and there’s no way in hell i’m resetting my whole game again (…yet), so…just know the first one was like “oh you want to talk? what should we talk about…….. …… ….. …. i can’t think of anything. well see ya………” extremely riveting stuff

he’s so obscure that i didn’t even realize that he was a bachelor until i found out about the mechanic from this japanese wiki!! (here’s an archive link to the page on him in case the page doesn’t work) all i did was test whether it worked in english since i couldn’t find any english info at all mentioning it. i’m sure others have found him… right……..

in case the links above don’t work, a small guide to holy matrimony below the cut since i can’t find one in english

it works essentially the same as the Mason marriage (so it’s just a game over, sadly…), and the steps are pretty tedious and counterintuitive, so you’re unlikely to just stumble across it… but you too can get a priest to break his vow of celibacy for you or whatever!

you will need:

at least 2,050,000 G

20 cursed tools/accessories

if you really don’t want to dig up 20 cursed things you can substitute 100x “remove a cursed tool/accessory” for blessing a cursed tool…

but, including all the cursed tools and accessories, there’s only 16… which means you will need to go dig up 4 duplicate cursed accessories using this method! yay!!! extremely pointless since you can’t sell blessed accessories until after marriage in DS for girl (at which point you can’t trigger pastor carter’s proposal)

you unlock a conversation with cardi when you spend at least 205,000 G. which means the quickest thing to do is to order removal of a cursed item five times, then bless 2 cursed items.

**be careful when blessing accessories to only equip one at a time!!! if you equip a stack of duplicate accessories, blessing that stack destroys the duplicates!!!! :( so just take 1 out of the stack and equip it!!!**

you also can’t unlock more conversations until you’ve seen the one you unlocked, so like even if you spend a million G you’ll just unlock one conversation, and you’ll need to finish that conversation and then spend 205,000 G to unlock the next one…yeah….

on the tenth conversation he abruptly reveals that he’s fallen in love with you and asks you to marry him! it ends your game, but….! on the bright side, it ends your game!!! you’re finally free from Hell Simulator!!!!