Strange one

34/M/18+ blog

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[idleminds]

[eiffelart]

The Twilight God, Promathia

[soljua-deactivated20180215]

reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m socially exhausted - i don’t have the time right now - i don’t know how to reply - i have a bad memory and got distracted - i’m having a depressive episode and don’t have the energy to socialise

not reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m ignoring you just because - i hate you - i’m fed up with you - i don’t want to be your friend anymore

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the phrase "this machine kills fascists" has gone through enough layers of meaning that I think it's come all the way back around to where the funniest thing you could put it on would be a gun

[aqueerkettleofish]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Tchaikovsky at the cannon store:

[agnesmontague]

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

[stellarskyes]

after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?

[agnesmontague]

i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out

[petaltexturedskies]

Susan Sontag, from an interview conducted c. October 1979

[shoomlah]

The re-release of the Classic PS1 versions of Myst and Riven required new trophies, which required new trophy icons, and so I got permission to get a little weird and illustrative with it—super fun getting to revisit this world with a little bit of Mignola mixed in.

(The Riven trophy icons)

(Also you can get a blanket with all of these on it at the Cyan store and, speaking from experience, it is extremely cozy)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Huang Yongyu

Red Plum Blossoms

1973

Ink and colour on paper

[pmamtraveller]

Antique porcelain match holders

[pixelpron-blog]

[homunculus-argument]

I genuinely hate how "lock in and grind like hell" is not a method that works for me. Like if I could do that, I 100% would, but I know from experience that it's not an efficient long-term tactic for me, I'll just grind myself down and get exhausted and burnt out, and that I genuinely cannot do my best work unless I'm mentally and physically well-rested. I know it's true but I still hate knowing how much it sounds like a lazy excuse to dilly-dally and do fuck-all.

I'm doing my work slowly, at a leisurely pace where I'm still on schedule but not feeling pressured about it. I know that this is the best way for me to work. I know that my boyfriend knows this or at least trusts my judgement about it even if he doesn't agree with that. But good fucking grief I hate sitting down like "today I will do work prep beforehand so I'll have everything already 50% done by the day of the deadline and can easily just do the other 50% on the day of", and the next time he looks over, I'm drawing owl feet.

[loveandaches]

don't forget the feeling of being judged for working like this and being told in a condescending that they just "don't understand it" and that you make your peers worried because you don't have this ability

like im SORRY i am trying my best. i swear. but if you make me sit down and write out a 20 page paper, not only will you get sloppy writing, you're also getting a Very Burned Out Me.

[localcrematorium]

Pointless crappy clip but still cute idc

[caffeinatedsunbear]

Why is my brain turning evil again hey come on don't do this work with me man. You don't have to be like this.

[mon3trs]

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[nitewrighter]

"All fiction is derivative in some capacity."

Well yeah but if you're making "this book started out as a fanfic" a selling point of a mainstream published book--and I'm saying this as a fanfic writer myself--that doesn't inspire confidence.

[nitewrighter]

"But I've read fanfics that are better than published books."

Me too! But I would argue that a fanfic loses a lot of its soul, its seasoning when it gets poached for mainstream publishing. It's like treating the live-action remake as 'legitimizing' an animated film when the reality is that it's a soulless cash-grab in a creatively bankrupt capitalist market.

I'm not saying a fanfic writer can't go on to enjoy success in mainstream publishing, in fact, I genuinely hope that fanfic writers can break into that market with their own original works (Hello, Homestuck DNA in the Locked Tomb series...), but I do worry about the precedent set by fanfics "breaking containment" and getting picked up by mainstream publishers.

The whole point of fanfic and its legal protections is that writers are writing it for love of the game--sure, some writers are working on building up an audience, building up their craft, and there's nothing wrong with fanfic communities being a sort of writing nursery where writers can build themselves up before jumping into original fiction, but it's also like... fanfic has a point on its own. It has a purpose as transformative fandom. It has a point in subverting and exploring the text and subtext of the media it portrays from various interpretations. If we start treating it as a rough draft for original fiction and not something in conversation with both a community and a preexisting media... something gets lost on all sides when the serial numbers get filed off.

I mean there's probably more nuance that will bleed into "Everyone can do what they want forever"-- I mean Japan has a lot of fanworks in its doujinishi market after all---but I dunno. Fanfiction communities time and again want to have their cake and eat it, too, and I worry that's going to continue biting us in the ass and keeping us on the margins.

[nitewrighter]

I would argue that the reason why you've read fanfics that are better than published books is because fanfic is being cooked up under significantly different circumstances and stakes than mainstream published fiction, and when we treat fanfiction communities as nothing better than a jumping off point for the more "legitimate" published fiction, that's when we surrender the inherent value of fanfic.