#zekes music

[westgreenzeke]

i'm so not funny it should be philosophically studied

[vanmarkus]

• ONE QUEER SHIP FOR EACH WEEK OF PRIDE 2024 • 🌈 WEEK 1: CHYAN ↳ CHAD DANFORTH & RYAN EVANS, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL FRANCHISE

[sorryiwasasleep]

the kids in hsm2 shouldve unionized that country club

[bulletbillbananza]

[toffyrats]

whoops i tripped again and dropped my high school musical el gee bee tee community hcs

edit because i fucking forgot taylor

[rockrosethistle]

"i cant draw but-" no. go open up mspaint and draw that comic u wanna draw even if its with stickmen and stock photos

You've inspired me

As I said, zero artistic ability. I do have a vision though.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I volunteer with an organization of very high needs disabled people and I have to say, they delight in using AI to put stories together. It even inspires them to make their own edits and additions, though many struggle with typing or verbal skills. I don't want to tell anyone how to feel but it seems like weird ideological purity policing to exclude them from a social event where they might connect to people and find community.

So my first question is: why AI specifically? Why not literally any other method of writing? If they're capable of doing edits/additions, then why can't they first write the story out using speech-to-text, or an AAC device, or dictate it to someone else, and then edit/add to it later?

Coming up with ideas/a plot is creative and requires skill, but it's a different kind of creativity and skill than actually writing it down/connecting those dots. Like, James Patterson doesn't write most of his books; he writes out long outlines for a ghostwriter to work off of, then makes notes or changes to the draft before sending it back to the ghostwriter. It would be unfair to say that he doesn't have any skills at all, but it would also be unfair to say that he wrote all of his books himself when they were actually mostly written by someone else. A lot of the time, movies will have separate credits for the person who came up with the idea and the person who actually wrote the screenplay, because they are separate things requiring different skills.

NaNoWriMo, as a concept, is about practicing the latter skill. You're presumed to have already learned how to come up with ideas – otherwise, what would you work on for a month? The actual work of crafting enough sentences that your story becomes a full text and not an outline is really fucking hard, and that's why so many writers get stalled at the ideas stage and never actually write anything. If you don't have those skills to start, that's okay, because most people don't! The whole point is to practice them over the month! And even if you never hit 50k (I haven't!), you can at least say that you practiced that skill. Even if you only wrote ten words a day because that's literally the most you can do, writing ten words every day for thirty days is still a huge accomplishment!

To use the marathon metaphor from the originating post: both driving a car and running a marathon are skills, but they are not the same skill. If you can't run a marathon – if you are just trying to get to the point where you can walk briskly for five miles without tasting blood when you breathe – reaching that goal is still an accomplishment, even if you're not full on running a marathon. If you are just starting to learn how to drive without having a panic attack, being able to do that is also an accomplishment, even if it's not the same thing as winning the Indy500. Modest goals are still goals and achieving them is a thing to be celebrated.

But I don't think it's ideological purity to say that there's a difference between achieving a very modest goal because the "full thing" is just not feasible for whatever reason, and achieving a totally different goal entirely. "I finally drove to the store and back all by myself!" is genuinely great, but not something you'd necessarily work on in your running group.

[devildarling08]

what y’all know about goosebumps the musical > : ) .

When I tell you this show mentally destroyed me the other day. I was not ready for this silly book, turned play to rip my heart out like that 💀💀💀

[howlonghaveyoubeenseventeen]

the only hsm couple I cared about tbh

[jellytamalies]

clearing out my archive rip

Yeah!! the 5 people who know goosebumps the musical exists!!! take this :)

[trendyshadowqueen]

Chad: Guys, I’ve been meaning to tell you… Ryan and I are dating. Ryan, Zeke, Sharpay, and Troy: *gasp* Chad: Ryan, why are you surprised?!

[calebs-hangout-corner]

It’s been a while since I made Phantom art!

[drawthething]

Not me still thinking about their dumb Wagstaff rock duet yesterday and making a whole dang art out of it 😔 (again)

This one's somehow even more self indulgent than the first one and probably cuz it's their older versions and I gave both of them stupid sunglasses ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Hc that they perform another nonsensical song at some point in highschool 🥳 Iconic band duo or making fools of themselves? You can't tell where the line is :D

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (book): the tin woodman, Nick Chopper, carries an ax because he is a woodman who cuts wood for a living (hence the name) and he uses it to cut wood as well as for self defense. :)

The Wizard of Oz (movie 1939): the tin man, Ozian counterpart of Hickory the Farmhand, has an ax because he was using it to cut wood before he rusted, but it’s never really specified that it’s his profession or explained why he carries it around the whole movie.

Wicked the Musical: nobody knows how Boq got an ax and frankly, he probably shouldn’t be allowed around sharp objects unless they are baby proofed for him.

[hardisb73]

Levi's Strike

Six Hundred Strike edit for Attack on Titan