🧿Mel🧿

Pronouns: she/her

[reactionimagesdaily]

[maureen2musings]

Tollymore Forest Park

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[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[penny-anna]

I know I said 'finally' but I forgot a point:

A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.

[stupidpetface]

[mioxenoblade]

*reads a manga about a boy's consciousness ending up in the body of a girl he's attracted to and learning to understand her life*

nothing weird about that whatsoever. i like this manga artist i'm going to read his earlier works!

*reads an older, fetish-y manga that obsesses over body hair and how the protag is often mistaken for a little girl and outright says he wishes he was like the girl protag because she has so much body hair, and is essentially pushed into helping her*

hm, well, there's not really a theme here or anything they're different

*reads an even older fetish-y manga obsessing over genitals and has a guy get pushed into helping the girl protag*

ok there's a theme developing here

*reads another early work of his where a boy's existence mixes with a girl's existence and they become "one" after said girl is bossy and pushing him into it*

no man you can't be serious this is all coincidence

*writes a vampire story where a girl forcibly turns a boy into a vampire and offers him to run away with her and begin a new life*

ok but this one can be seen as such a stretch it's not the same thing by a long shot i'm just finding false connections

*his most notable work is about how perversion is something all of us have, what defines the end of adolescence, and the story involves a pushy girl bullying the protag and makes him crossdress at points*

come on man, you can't be serious, you can't put it in every manga

*his newest manga is about an aggressive nonbinary trans girl and the main boy protag at one point says "even i don't want to be a boy sometimes!" when screaming at a transphobe harassing her*

you can not be serious man, you can not be serious

*in the afterward in a volume of the previously mentioned trans manga, the author says he would dream of being a cute girl when he was a kid*

[mioxenoblade]

YOU CANT DO THIS IN EVERY MANGA

[mioxenoblade]

[marinecorvid]

movie producers fix your sound mixing and make actors enunciate so i can actually hear what they're saying challenge

[crazy-brazilian]

[its-grape-juice-i-swear]

same energy

[henk-heijmans]

A natural wave is formed on Lake Michigan when the riptide meets the incoming tide and explodes upward, 2014 - by Michael Bernhardt, American

[shirozen]

The junk jungle walk

[wups-up]

The best trope is Character who is Never Angry Gets Angry because you knowwww they got that shit stored up in a little jar that’s waiting to burst.

[darkestcinema]

renaissance in the 21st century

[blogitalianissimo]

[tinyphantomsalad]

some more

[kitsunebattleboxer]

the WHAT??

[personification-of-anxiety]

okay, found her

[whenstarsfall]

[whenstarsfall]

some more good replies from the notes

[whenstarsfall]

[camellianswer]

i didnt expect these to hit so hard but then they kept going and going….my god

[passengerpigeons]

do u ever think about corn sweat; and the fact that a large percent of corn grown in Illinois, iowa, etc is grown for ethanol and biofuel; and how solar power would be so many times more effective per acre than this; and how like 90+% of so many rare ecosystems in those states was drained for farm and suburbs (in many cases previously farms).

[passengerpigeons]

AND you could still have native plants around and even under the solar panels.

[passengerpigeons]

When you see what they did to the Midwest you'll want to fucking kill the corn lobbyists with your bare hands

[jabberwockypie]

The neurologist the other day explained something to me that I found genuinely shocking.

My mom, who'd had near-constant migraines since she was 16, tried Imitrex when it first came out in the early 90s and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread, it stopped her migraines, it was great . . . and then the third time she took it she had an anaphylactic reaction where she felt her throat closing up.

And she tried a different variant a bit later an had an anaphylactic reaction.

This is what I had always been told, and I went with my mom to a lot of doctor's appointments and nobody had contradicted it.

EXCEPT.

Apparently it's NOT an actual allergy. A small but significant portion of people feel a lot of tightness in their throat and chest with triptan medications.

Apparently the first drugs in that class - like imitrex - are especially prone to that, but they have newer medications with a slower onset so that doesn't happen.

My mom could have had an abortive migraine medication that worked for her.

And either no doctor at any point knew this or no doctor at any point bothered to explain this - including neurologists who DEFINITELY should have known that.

So I just spent years watching my mom in constant pain and years taking her to urgent care or the emergency room because she had a migraine that wouldn't stop and needed to be able to go to work the next day and then getting yelled at for "drug seeking" for NO REASON.

My mom could have had pain relief.

[wheelie-sick]

for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.

[wheelie-sick]

flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work

[ailithnight]

I did not think it possible, but I have just developed even more hatred, derision, and contempt for the perpetual surveillance state.

[baybelletrist]

Americans Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras. The Company Calls Them Terrorists.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

Become ungovernable.

[basi-boy]

this video has been the last hinge holding me together for weeks now. I need to watch it once a day or I'll start disintegrating

[hotvampireadjacent]

Um