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@kiratael
the issue with writing for yourself is that you will get sucked into rereading your own fic over and over and pretend it’s “editing,” but really you’re just reading because it’s exactly what you want to read. because you wrote it. for you.
and then you will be like why does this asshole never finish anything god
The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“
Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.
I am aware I have died on this hill before but people who really strenuously argue that fanfic isn't "real writing" drive me insane. what do you meeeaaaaannn. besides the fact that any attempt to define "real art" vs "fake art" is inherently reactionary, it just doesn't make any sense. it's Writing. people Write it. what the fuck are you talking about.
"it's totally self-indulgent with no standards for quality and criticism is borderline not allowed"
are you like. aware of the concept of hobbies? if someone regularly posted pictures of their hobbyist knitting projects on their blog, it would be considered rude to drop in with "criticism." that's still a real art form.
"most of it is really bad"
I cannot stress enough how much perceived quality is not a valid metric for determining what is and isn't art
"it's just porn"
I'm going to kill you
"it's full of unchecked misogyny, racism, queerphobia, etc"
I have some really bad news about every artistic medium ever
"you didn't put in the work of making your own world/characters, you just copied someone else's"
tv shows with writers' rooms. ghost writers. franchises where different works are written by different people. adaptations and retellings. sorry guys I guess none of these are real writing anymore.
There is an endemic problem in spinoff novels or cross-media properties like comics, where you'll get a very talented author recruited whose work is generally excellent, and everyone's excited, but then it turns out they don't know how to write fanfiction.
And the result is that the spinoff is really bad. Because the author completely fails to capture the vocal cadence or behavior or motivations of someone else's characters, the narrative tone of the series...they try too hard to the point of making in-universe references feel stilted and unnatural, or do WAY too much exposition about things that shouldn't need to be explained at this level of barrier-of-entry.
The ability to be a chameleon, to figure out and match the "feel" of characters and a world you didn't create, is a learned skill.
(Also there are absolutely people who drop in with unsolicited criticism on someone's hobby knitting or quilting or whatever, and they're dicks.)
Me: These are my healing crystals. I absorb energy from them that keeps me physically vitalised, mentally rejuvinated, and gives my body the power it needs to mend and maintain itself.
Person listening to my Enlightening Crystal Lecture: That's sugar. You're literally just eating crystalline sugar with a spoon.
Me: I can feel it working already!
The person listening obviously isn’t super observant. Some of the crystals are instant coffee.
did you go to a summer camp as a kid
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pls tell me how u voted and what country u live in in the tags! I’m curious
Scene from a country road, early November.
Led through the mist, by the milk-light of moon, all that was lost, is revealed. Our long bygone burdens, mere echoes of the spring, but where have we come, and where shall we end? If dreams can’t come true, then why not pretend? How the gentle wind, beckons through the leaves, as autumn colors fall.
Somewhere lost in the clouded annals of history, lies a place that few have seen. A mysterious place, called The Unknown.
OVER THE GARDEN WALL (2014)
I’m not usually one to advocate in favour of gender roles, but it’s my firm belief that no matter what your family unit’s parent-and/or-guardianship situation is, it’s essential to your children’s proper upbringing that one of those parents-and/or-guardians be the designated Person Who Makes Dad Jokes.
Neither my mother nor my grandfather were capable of making dad jokes. Instead, they supplemented with Reader’s Digest.
(Laughter IS the Best Medicine)
On the moral imperative of mourning the Tulsa Race Massacre today.
How old were you the first time you heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre? I’m ashamed to say that I was in my forties. Some of my readers might be today years old when they learn of one of the most horrific and brutal events in American history. And it didn’t occur in the early days of the republic. It didn’t occur in the midst of the American Indian wars. It happened 100 years ago this weekend.
…While the violence in Tulsa was stunning, American history is littered with examples of street battles, racist uprisings, and mass killings. The history of the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, massacre and coup, in which a racist mob overthrew the city government, is its own category of chilling. So is the Rosewood Massacre. The list goes on.
It is not “hating America” to acknowledge this is part of our story. It is not unpatriotic to understand that much of our present reality exists because the legacy of past atrocities does not fade as quickly as their memory.
So, what do we do? Perhaps we can take a cue from the way in which we honor the glories of the past, but with a very different emphasis. When it comes to our great moments, we remember them, we celebrate them, and we teach our children to emulate the courage and virtue of our heroes. We cover the countryside with tributes.
If it is right to celebrate, it is also right to mourn. When it comes to our darkest moments, we should remember them, we should lament them, and we should take a page from Josiah and seek reform to ameliorate their effects. Unless we remember our worst moments, we simply can’t truly understand our own nation, nor can we relate to all its people.
Humanity has not transformed its fundamental nature in the last 100 years. A nation full of people no better than us can do great good. A nation full of people no worse than us can commit great evil. Remembering our nation’s virtues helps give us hope. Remembering our sin gives us humility. Remembering both gives us the motivation and the inspiration necessary to repair our land.
I was reading this article that was complaining about people should be more focused on bringing characters that were originally conceived as POC to the screen than on recasting white characters as POC.
Which I actually agree with.
But in the same article the writer complained (I’m paraphrasing) “If you cast a black guy as Tony Stark, no one will think of him as Tony Stark, they’ll always think of him as Black Tony Stark.”
I have to point out a big flaw in that logic:
Children.
Everyone in the older generation thinks of Obama as “the black president.” You know who doesn’t think of Obama as “the black president”? 10 year olds. Obama is the only president they can remember. He got elected when they were two.
There are children who listen to Fall Out Boys’ “Centuries” and don’t know they borrowed the opening riff from Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner.” As far as they’re concerned, that’s Fall Out Boy’s riff.
There are children who don’t remember that The Rock was Dwayne Johnson’s wrestling name.
My favorite version of A Christmas Carol is The Muppet Christmas Carol. I don’t care how Bob Cratchit was written in the original story because as far as I’m concerned, the real Bob Cratchit is a bright green frog puppet that’s my canon you can’t stop me.
There are a dozen incarnations of every possible comic book character. And every vigilante superhero we read about today is based on the original vigilante superhero – The Scarlet Pimpernel. There is no real version, there is only your favorite version. Every version that isn’t your favorite is going to feel fake to you.
But it’s going to feel real to someone.
Haven’t y’all read the post where the little girl doesn’t want to watch the original Annie because “Annie is supposed to be black”?
Also wasn’t Fury white in the original comics? Is there a fan alive who would dare tell Samuel L. Jackson that he’s the “black Fury”?
Years (many years, I am An Old) ago a friend of mine told me about being in the toy aisle looking at action figures when he heard a kid, maybe 10-12 years old, say to his mother “How come Green Lantern is white? That must be one of the other Green Lanterns.”. I started reading Lantern comics in the ‘70s, so even tho John is my favorite Lantern, when I think “Green Lantern” there will never not be a split-second where the first person I think of is Hal Jordan, because when I started reading about the character Hal was Green Lantern. But, this kid’s first and for a long time only exposure to Green Lantern was the Justice League cartoon. And when he thinks of “Green Lantern” the first person he thinks of is a Black man, because when he was introduced to the character, John Stewart was Green Lantern. And there is a whole generation of nerds for whom that’s the truth. I hadn’t thought about it that way until he and I had that conversation. That was a pretty good day.
𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 2019 | dir. Greta Gerwig
Lol a mom and in your 30s? What're u doing writing smut?
whatever force of god protected me from seeing the enormous amounts of reylo content that were apparently produced this year i am so grateful 🙏
okay nevermind i want what this person got
I want to write. I have ideas. I open document. I type four of the worst sentences ever created in the english language. I daydream the rest of the scene. I close document.
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience” - Mark Twain.
Kuma really saw Perona 5 seconds after stepping foot onto Thriller Bark and said sis you are working for the far inferior warlord with a vampire aesthetic and shot her over to Mihawk with the causality of a work email.
Tony Hoagland, from “Don’t Tell Anyone”
