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tchoupiraterie · 1 year ago

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Traced a little picture because I was bored and couldn’t draw anything with memory. This photo is so cute and… aziracrow you know

#drawing #good omens #good omens 2 #neil gaiman #crowley #fanart #david tenant #sketch #sketchbook #aziraphale #aziracrow #myart #traced picture #historical photos

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abuddyforeveryseason · 1 year ago

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This is the Buddy for October 5th. Funny, eh? That's cause it's a trace, the original's a still from a show, see:

It's Scrubs! It was a fun show. I love comedies like that. See, in this scene, J.D. is about to kiss his girlfriend Danni, and he's not looking forward to it because she smokes so much, it's like kissing a giant cigarette. I can't say I don't relate, kissing a heavy smoker is like licking an ashtray.

The thing is... they did kiss a lot when they started dating, and it never bothered him before. Did she manage to hide the smoking before their first break-up? Or, is it more likely that she only started smoking some moment after the break-up? You see, in between those events, Danni's brother Ben died. And after that episode, Danni started being portrayed as a chain-smoking, drinking, self-destructive trouble girl.

So, a lot of fans have that theory that Danni's just lashing out at the world after Ben's death. The writers say that's not the case, though.

I listen to some podcasts that complain about fan theories, and I disagree, I think they're often pretty interesting (but if I stopped listening just because I disagree about one thing, I wouldn't be allowed to read, watch or listen to anything). In Scrubs' case, the fan theory matches the plot and works better than the 'official' explanation. That gets me thinking about the idea of Death of the Author in fiction.

Death of the Author isn't so much about fan theories as it is about interpreting works of fiction in a way the author didn't intend. There are lots of different levels of applying it to a work. Let's take a Shakespeare play for example, since those are often subject to different interpretations:

In All's Well That Ends Well, Bertram, the Viscount of Roussillon, rejects a marriage proposal from the beautiful and intelligent Helena. He also has a close friendship with the effeminate Parolles. Once he finds out Parolles is a coward, and Helena managed to trick him into giving her his ring, he marries Helena.

Some of the different interpretations of the story can be:

Bertram rejects Helena because she's of a lower class (that's the 'official' explanation).

Bertram is secretly in love with Parolles, i.e., he's secretly gay or bisexual.

Bertram is gay or bi, but he himself doesn't even realize it, which is why he's so conflicted about marrying Helena.

Shakespeare (or the story's original writer) based Bertram on a real person, and this person was gay or bi, with or without the writer's knowledge.

There's some other reason, lost within the folds of time, for Bertram to reject Helena - possibly a cultural reference that only made sense in the early performances, or some aspect of Elizabethan England culture we aren't aware of.

There is no reason for Bertram to reject Helena, other than for the plot to work. If that's the case, the writer's more of a hack than anything else.

I don't exactly believe any of those theories 100%, because there really isn't a way to know. But the idea of Death of The Author is that it doesn't really matter what's the real story, but rather what makes the most sense reading it. On one hand, that sounds seriously unfair for the writer, who might have wanted to make a point, but on the other hand, if he didn't want people to have opinions about his story, he shouldn't have published it.

So, looking at the different interpretations up there, I could say 'one is true, the others make sense, although unintentionally'. It's one thing to say a writer made a character be secretly gay, and a whole different thing to say the character's secretly gay without even the writer being aware of it. But it does happen. A writer puts on the page what he sees in the real world, after all. If a real person has a secret the writer isn't privy to, can't we say a character based on this real person might have the same secret?

Although that doesn't really apply to the Scrubs example. That case's much clearer - writers wanted to retool a character, because they wanted something that was a better fit for the actress, and because her function as a character changed (they wanted a 'bad girlfriend' character so J.D. was even less happy.) But the fan theory is more interesting, so, why exactly is is wrong to go with it?

#writing #ab4es #trace #traced picture #Scrubs #Fan theory #william shakespeare #all's well that ends well #Tara Reid #cigarette #smoking #woman turning into cigarette

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ave661 · 8 months ago

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"Be careful who You trust, Sergeant. People You know can hurt You the most."

Some situations inspire you to create renders, like in this case. Turns out not every Ghost is trustworthy. Sometimes someone will stab you in the back and I guess that was my lesson.

#i dedicate this render to those who still choose to promote store that traced my render #those who were mad at me for speaking about it #those who i helped build their cosplays #because what does it say about you if you still proudly post pictures tagging a store-#-that removes comments and blocks users calling them out?#simon ghost riley #simon riley #ghost cod #cod #call of duty #mw2 #modern warfare 2 #mw3 #modern warfare 3 #661ave

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onlineviolence · 3 months ago

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