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Jane Madgwick

Chalk Lane, Moonlight, 2016

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Jane Madgwick (S. Korean/British b. 1980), Chalk Lane, Moonlight, 2016, Mixed media on wood panel

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Aral was definitely upset when he found that Cordelia had escaped from the ship but, given that she did so by knocking out multiple hostile soldiers, using a stunner to go up against a nerve disruptor and win, and managing to sway someone to her cause... once he got over having to look disapproving over her escape in front of his men, and once he'd worked past the initial depression that he was probably never going to see her again, I do think he went back to his cabin so that he could swoon about it in private.

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I'm really curious if Kim and Acele talked about anything while Harry was in the tent.

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Fallen Angels, Oil on linen-wrapped panel, 24 x 12 inches

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new blog post up! i talk abt Microscope and figure out exactly what i think about its "no collaboration" rule

Taking a closer look at Microscope

You find yourself in front of a door made of heavy, dark wood, and inscribed with a calendar of moon phases and constellations. A scrap of p

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Really delightful article! I had a similar experience of my own with the "no collaboration" rule in Microscope. I've always felt that the real thing you need to avoid is looking for consensus - that's the kind of collaboration that winds up smoothing things out in undesirable ways.

It's not quite a game with no talking at all, but The Quiet Year (another old classic, by Avery Alder) is designed with extremely constrained rules about how you can communicate with each other. It's pretty interesting how they shape the experience, and in a way that I've seen more varied opinions about in discussions online and with people I've played it with.

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Recently discovered that Dr Dre's "Keep Their Heads Ringin" matches up uncannily well with the Cardcaptor Sakura OP

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Thank God It's Cardcaptor Sakura Friday

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Donkey sketch practice

And Merry Christmas!

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i forgor but prints are here!!

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Honestly Mark Vorkosigan is a very funny character because he basically spends his whole life being tortured and eventually becomes…an entrepreneur

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Happy Star Wars Day! I’ve decided to make my Skywalker comic into one easily rebloggable post.

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Here’s a bonus page in honor of May 4th!

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England isn't a real country, stupid. England is a lie to sell you more Doctor Who

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GUIL (flipping a coin): There is an art to the building up of suspense. ROS: Heads. GUIL (flipping another): Though it can be done by luck alone. ROS: Heads. GUIL: If that's the word I'm after. - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard

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I'm kind of impressed by the lengths Wheel of Time goes to make us sympathetic to the Aiel about the Aiel War, and surprised how much it totally worked on me.

Like, it was a monstrous act of mass violence. "Laman's Sin" has a sheen of mythic coolness to it, but in reality it's as thin as the Seanchan's narrative of the return, and the Shaido choosing to follow Couladin.

The books treat the Cairhienin who hate or are afraid of the Aiel as pitiable for their weakness, and the Aiel see them as beneath contempt. All the cool people in the wetlands either respect the Aiel or come to respect them (or even emulate them) eventually.

The book is convinced that Ji'e'toh is really cool and interesting, and very good at presenting it that way. I mean, it is interesting. But at the end of the day, if you have a society that can sack half a continent just to kill one guy and then (I don't think) go 14 books without one of them expressing doubt or regret over it: that is a horror. Even if the tree he cut down was really cool, and all symbolic (not that they knew) and the last one of its kind. Even if he really was an asshole on top of everything.

I do think that is part of the point, though, with what Rand does. What's unique about the Aiel War is that their culture is being pointed at someone other than themselves for once. The way that they live is a kind of curse (they call it a punishment, even) but they've come to believe in the intrinsic value of those conditions. One the last battle is over, and the reason for them to endure all of that is gone... if there hadn't been a way for Rand to smash the whole thing apart, the Aiel would have eventually devoured themselves.

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1774-1792 Silk court suit (French)

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Sue Davis

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"When people talk about compromising to please an audience or to reach an audience, I don't think it's about compromise—I think it's about reaching an audience. The audience is the final collaborator. There's no point in—particularly in the theatre—in trying to write something that doesn't communicate itself to an audience. But I would never...write down to them. I think that's insulting to an audience, to say, oh well, you won't understand this, so I'll make it easier for you. I think intelligibility is very important. And by intelligibility, I'm not just talking about audibility. I'm talking about intelligibility of ideas. And in fact, whenever I teach songwriting in a workshop situation, or as I'm doing up at Oxford now, I always say that intelligibility is the most important thing in the theatre."

Stephen Sondheim, from this TV documentary (33:42 - 34:28)