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[thaumasilva]

star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home

[quasi-normalcy]

OR you could just let me stay! That's an idea too, right? I could just stay there. No need to get your warp field in a knot on my account!

[massivelyfuzzybarbarian]

They're gonna tell me that my absence from the timeline disrupts the future or something and then drag me kicking and screaming onto a transporter to send me back to this century.

[orcbara]

i swear to god if people don't start understanding that responding to doylist critique of a piece of media with watsonian exonerations is not an actual rebuttal

[orcbara]

somebody saying "hey i don't like that the only gay man in this story is a weird pervert and it portrays gay sexual promiscuity as a moral failing and character flaw" cannot be rebuked by arguing about how the character's backstory or personality traits explain their behaviour. the choices made by a writer are all fundamentally mutable; somebody saying an author's choices should have been different is not going to be persuaded by an argument that takes those choices as immovable fact

[justanisabelakinnie]

[anik]

i love this guy

[homunculus-argument]

One big element of millenial adulthood is that when people hear the news that someone actually got a solid job in the field they got a degree in, people respond the same way as folks a generation ago used to respond to the news of someone having a baby after trying for years. Genuinely awed "holy shit no way, that's amazing, congratulations!" because that's some incredible, life-changing shit.

Nobody knows how you respond to the news of someone you know having a long-wanted baby, because nobody in their right mind is having kids on purpose.

[homunculus-argument]

Take it as a testament to how highly I think of people that it genuinely did not even occur to me that anyone would take this as "me and my highly intelligent humanities degree friends (childfree, intellectual) are genuinely unaware that people who work in trades have jobs and can afford to start families, and we all agree that choosing to reproduce on purpose is an inherently, ontologically stupid thing to do."

[sadclowncentral]

i am half blind. on my eighteenth birthday, a freak accident left me with a slashed retina, a temporary eye patch and a permanent loss of 86% of vision in my right eye. i don't talk about it much, and apart from the inability to drive a car, placing my notebook next to the desk instead of on it once in a while, and making me truly abysmal at beer pong, it has not impacted my life much.

except for the bittersweet fact that i can never show people how breathtakingly beautiful the world looks when you eyesight is fractured straight through the middle. i close what my opitician calls my good eye and the world explodes in colour, every pinprick source of light spreading out into iridescent flares into all directions culminating in bright circles at the edge of my vision. every star, every streetlight, multiplying into a tenfold symphony of colour and light. it's so overwhelmingly beautiful. how can i ever explain this to people? that when they find out and look at me with pity they should be envious instead. what an immense privilege, to be able to look at the world and see it too.

[parkchanwoohoo]

This man's an expert

[dozingpeach]

PEER REVIEWED, THIS IS THE BEST POSSIBLE ADDITION

[fangs4faggots]

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

[elbiotipo]

we don't hate J.J. Abrams enough

[elbiotipo]

Branson Reese, whoever you are, I keep your words in my heart all the time.

[kaijuerotica]

"branson reese, whoever you are" put some respect on the smooth sharks one fear man's name

[anarchistmemedistro]

we should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend

[lonicera-caprifolium]

Happy Slorch Week!

[moldavite]

my fav thing in the entire world is witnessing people try new things. almost teared up at this bc i love it so much

[stjohnstarling]

The reason most indie novels are written like the author is terrified of doing something wrong is because the overwhelming majority of indie novelists get their start by networking in the violent panopticon of the social media indie publishing community, which favours the people who are able to win at the social policing game.

[3s-are-green]

Okay so this comment got me googling because I hadn't heard of Isabel Fall

And if you also hadn't heard of her go read this because uhh... Holy Shit

[headspace-hotel]

I had heard of the whole messed up situation with this story, but I hadn't ever read the synopsis of the story before, and WOW

This story sounds like it could have been a brilliant exploration of gender and warfare and violence but instead it was attacked by people who didn't know how to confront a story that made them uncomfortable, and the author faced horrible consequences.

It's so important to be able to deal with stories that give you uncomfortable feelings in other ways than just attacking it. Being shown new perspectives sometimes has feelings of discomfort because it's an unfamiliar way of seeing the world.

[mickpin]

You can read it Here

[shinesurge]

gentle psa to new comic artists about a problem i also suffered from: slow quiet pacing is totally fine BUT if that's not what you're deliberately going for, you CAN fit more Story Progression on the page. no, more than that. more than that even. i promise if you don't want it to a single action doesn't need to take a whole page to illustrate each of its steps, a lot of connecting magic happens in the gutters i /promise/ if you draw someone pulling up in a car then skip to them walking in the door with groceries we will Understand that they unloaded the car and unlocked the house you feel me

[shinesurge]

#I am not a comic artist#but I had a similar problem when I was in film school#I call it “the door problem”#in my thesis film I had written that two characters walk out the back of the club into the alley behind the club#and my club location did not have a back alley but did have a side room that we used as the door#but that door opened in#and the location I used for the alley had a back door but that door opened outwards#and I knew it looked weird#I struggled framing the shots#and blocking the actors#and I got really really caught in my own head about how to make this door work#because to me it was really important that you saw every step from club to outside#because even though we had learned in school that you could transition it didn't feel right because it didn't feel like a new scene to me#(this being one of the struggles with a short film. It can all feel like one scene if your script is short!)#AND THEN#when we got into the editing room we just...cut the door transition entirely#initially not on purpose#what happened was that we decided to tighten up the timing by cutting non-linearly to the custom music I had commissioned#which made it much more experimental especially in comparison to my fellow classmates#however it showed me that the story still absolutely worked without needing to show how they got into the alley#the audience can infer the door#so now anytime I can feel myself getting stuck on something when I'm filming I think#“Is this a Door Problem?”#as a storyteller it's always a question of what is the absolute bare minimum you need to convey what you're trying to say#and sometimes that means you just need to already be outside the club

(via @currentlycreating )

Exactly! Film and comics are VERY similar mediums in this way, I love this. We should always be considering Door Problems

[certified-door-posts]

certified door post

[queer-as-city-folk]

Timeloop where everyone is slowly being replaced by ducks

[queer-as-city-folk]

Every loop, 100 people in your city are replaced by ducks, the loop ends when you realize what is happening

[queer-as-city-folk]

Loop 70, you walk into the bodega to get a snack, it's suspiciously empty, the cashier isn't even there

A few ducks keep flying in the rafters, one is eating a fallen bag of bagels. Martha is calling you to complain about the ducks blocking the road on her way to work? Wasn't it supposed to be a tree that fell...

You leave the store, bag of chips in hand, unpaid for, narrowly avoiding the speeding car that tries to hit you each day, there's a duck in the backseat now, odd

[queer-as-city-folk]

You're sitting in the park, smoking a joint with Thom, he starts talking about his mother again, you try to act empathetic despite the dozens of times you've heard this. Suddenly a Duck flies into you, knocking you off the bench your siting at, that's new.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Thom helps you get up and starts talking about how when he was in Rome, he had been attacked by several ducks, something new, something interesting, for once. You start to smile, then your watch buzzes, 10:27, you have five minutes left with him...

You start to listen to his laugh while trying to figure out if you're finally free, suddenly it's dark, you wake up it's still happening

[queer-as-city-folk]

Loop 71, As you stumble into the courtyard behind Clarise's apartment, you notice that she's not standing at the gate, trying to argue this time, it's silent in the morning, all you hear is the call of a few ducks, you're tired and go back into the apartment, the cat's gotten out this time, you probably left the door open.

[homunculus-argument]

I will not elaborate.

[weedsandwishes]

@sergle is correct

[autie-j]

Which Stargate doctor would you trust with your life more?

Janet Frasier

Carolyn Lam

Carson Beckett

Jennifer Keller

Voting ended onSep 4, 2024

[can0n-fodder]

I'm surprised Beckett is getting even that little amount. I mean, I love my little Scottish guy, but he's a medical menace. He might stitch up your bullet wounds ok, but you're gonna walk out of there with gills or something too.

[stinalotte]

I agree. I love Carson dearly, but by god did he skip every single ethics class in med school.

[galileogalilai-deactivated20260]

Behind the scenes for this movie are hilarious he’s just a happy guy😭

[colleendoran]

Thank you.