Grace-4ever: Writer, Traveler, Endless Prattler

22. A confusing combo of traveling and memes.

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

weird unprompted opinion but i think out of all the storytelling mediums.....theatre best portrays loneliness

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

hamlet: [walks onto a movie screen] now i am alone

me: i guess

hamlet: [is left on an empty stage] now i am alone

me: fuck yeah you are

[smallblueandloud]

#it's about the sucking hungry silence of a hundred people holding their breath and very intently watching #the one single person on this bare piece of elevated floor that has been filled with so much #artistry and make-believe that it has become a true and real place #good theater sucks the air out of the room #an empty stage echoes (via @aethersea​)

[artsietango]

This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.

I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.

My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.

[pellaaearien]

I’m so sad to see so many panicked posts about google docs when the original inflammatory post has been debunked and retracted.

Google is ONLY talking about publicly available data. Stuff that is in your drive DOES NOT COUNT as publicly available. 

There are SO MANY companies that use drive and docs for proprietary information who would have MANY lawsuits to bring if it was discovered private drives were being scraped.

Now, I’m not saying NOT to swap writing programs because google docs is pretty pants as an actual word processor, and also, never ever have all your stuff only in one place, but I don’t want anyone to freak out that their writing isn’t safe.

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Peni and Noir scene we deserve

[breikka]

I obviously do not have a crush on Rio Morales

[elesketchii]

spider kidz :P

[samkuchingdraws]

Daughter Of Space 2480 x 3058 SketchBook

A Steam-Powered Giraffe Fanart

This piece is inspired by a song from SPG's Space Opera 'The Vice Quadrant', called 'Soliton'. It's a very relaxing song, and it is one of my top favourites from the band. Also a new fan.

Big shout out to a dear friend, @cosmiccrusader who introduced the band to me!

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

Beautiful from Ordinary Days

[anidealshape]

the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys

[gremlin-pattie]

this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye

[indelikatt]

YUP

[bestiol]

ethically sourced from tumblr post under the cut

[rainonsand]

Another day, another delightful Neil Gaiman story.

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EDIT: Where are my manners. The book in question is Once Upon A Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire

[romantoy]

Bibi Blocksberg (2002) dir. Hermine Huntgeburth

[bob-belcher]

[pinbitch]

honestly what a fucking iconic response. obviously “hello my name is inigo montoya” is the fucking ultimate but we were all building up this confrontation, this fight, this moment right there alongside inigo who had been doing so for 20 (twenty) fucking years ~and in all that time did he ever think the count would just run away? ha lol no~ but then the count just fucking runs away. and yes it’s a moment of perfect comedic delivery/timing, but it’s also a classic moment of subversion in this movie that is so close to being perfect if not for westley’s shitty moustache (kudos to buttercup for still loving him even after she saw that). this film dances so delicately with fulfilling and subverting tropes and it’s moments like this that just exemplifies that

[baronfulmen]

It’s also a super reasonable move. Count Rugen just watched this guy kill like four guys so fast the first hadn’t finished falling down when the last one was stabbed. This dude is no joke, and now he’s like “Oh also this isn’t about the king, I’m specifically here to kill YOU” and here the Count is in just some random hallway and Inigo has a huge guy behind him as backup and… yeah, absolutely not. Fucking run.

And I think that’s a big part of what makes it so funny, it’s not just that he’s subverting your expectations it’s that this is legitimately also the smart thing to do.

[lizzibennet]

i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing

[counterpunches]

#signor bene D I C K

[nehirose]

oh shit that is glorious

[wickedpissahnerd]

Oh fabulous. I was unaware of it and now I need to find out if there’s a recording I can watch.

[wickedpissahnerd]

YES! The camera work in the clip above made me wonder if it was from a professionally filmed performance and in fact there’s a Great Performances version up on archive.org:

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Pa

ALL HAIL ARCHIVE.ORG

[tweedstoat]

Blocking and reporting every single pornbot that follows me

[costis]

[tageule]

Here he is with the lemon btw

[visenyaism]

one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

[visenyaism]

the worst part of this is that they’re on chess dot com instead of getting an education. but the BEST part of this is watching high schoolers develop the weirdest goddamn strategies I’ve ever seen. One of my students invented something he calls the “evil advisor gambit” where he gets a third person to give out constant terrible advice to both teams hoping that his opponent falls for it straight-up or that his opponent thinks HE fell for it and will act accordingly thus worsening their own strategy. he has won every game he has been able to pull off a coordinated evil advisor gambit in. this is chess innovation never before seen in its 700 years on earth