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I'm going to start a game show where I play songs the contestants have never heard before in a huge room with bad acoustics and they have to guess what the lyrics are
The real fun is when you ask what a lyric meant for clarification and you ruin someone's ability to hear their favorite song again. Racks on Racks on Racks? Nah man, Rats on Rats on Rats. Why did he say Fart on the Gnome? Oh, it was supposed to be Bark at the Moon.
Stupid thought: Akaishi Kuroe (Kaiju Girl Caramelize) staring at Hellboy's horn stubs with fascination like she's looking at top surgery scars. He wants to advise on how to do it better than he did, but his are always solid while hers are sometimes hair ears, and they grow and shrink a lot faster.
been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter
Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire
Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say
I keep telling friends of mine that you should never make art with an Intended Audience.
You have to write with your brain, from your heart, for your dick, and maybe *just maybe* the three to five howling mutants who best grasp your steeze.
It really is hilarious because whenever you start your art journey, you watch all the videos and ask artists and they all give tips and help but it all ends up coming down to "you just have to practice".
And it pisses you off because bruh how am I supposed to practice this shit if I can't even do this first couple of fucking lines to make a good cylinder.
And then you start drawing and it sucks and you keep doing it, and you learn new skills and tricks, and you even end up developing an art style naturally (which they told you you would do, and you didn't believe them, but it came free with the constantly drawing in a way that made you comfortable and learning the medium).
And at the end of it all, someone else asks wow how you did all of that, and after all this time of putting in effort you finally have to eat crow and admit that the answer is... Damn... you really have to practice 🤣🤣🤣
lots of people who go to art school or went there haven't improved a bit or have improved very marginally
why?
because they don't\didn't actually DO much
no amount of education, talent or tips &tricks videos can outmaneuver personal time investment
I think that the most important aspect that people don't tell you is that something that's important is not to just push yourself through the bullshit so you can bang out something perfect and gorgeous, but to learn how to enjoy the process of doing the little doodles to learn, to accept when something isn't quite right and move on to the next thing instead of fixating, but to learn from what you did before and try to do a little better.
Drawing 10 heads that are all a little wonky and off-center and melty and vague is WAY better practice than taking the time to painstakingly redraw one over and over and erase and redraw until every line is placed perfectly. Not only for actually flexing and working your creative muscles, but learning to let yourself make mistakes and not investing ego into any one thing.
something you learn fast and necessarily when you get into the habit of writing is that you are riddled with blind assumptions, prejudices, unpractised rhetoric and all kinds of unchallenged cicada shell thoughts that were left stuck to your mode of being when bad ideas fled you. most people get to move through the world behind a kind of modesty veil that divides their internal thoughts from their external observations, but you have to take that off when you write. you have to suddenly present the whole world to itself nakedly, without the kindness of someone who can stop you mid-sentence and say "hold on, I know you, you can't possibly mean that". people are often scared to show their work to an editor in case the editor points out what they look like without their modesty veil, but god, christ, hell and heaven, you have to be more afraid of what the whole world of strangers will see if you don't let someone pick the cicada shells off you first.
How are you supposed to learn from and overcome your biases if you don't have them examined and addressed first? What is an editor doing in this case if not helping you grow as a person?
Maybe this is an unpopular hot take, but I think a good monster girl design should struggle with day-to-day life in a human world. If your monster girl can live a normal human life where her greatest inconvenience is wet dog smell or people assuming her tail is fake, you need to mix more monster in your girl.
Harpies who can't write or type or open most containers with their wings. Werewolves who worry about hurting someone if they get overstimulated at the wrong time. Minotaurs with digestive systems and metabolisms which require grazing throughout the day, not the three big meals humans are used to.
Lamias who have to stay home in the evenings and during cold months to stay warm, otherwise their muscles stop working right and they get stranded. And they're sick of their human friends suggesting they get some kind of tail sweater. It wouldn't help, the problem is that their body doesn't produce enough heat to begin with, and anyways a tail garment would get in the way of their rectilinear locomotion, and there's no way a sweater would survive being walked on in the first place. It feels like they don't actually care about you being stuck at home whenever they go out, they just want to feel like it's not their fault they never see you.
If your monster girl can't be read as some kind of disability allegory, you're doing something wrong.
Often I think about the questions of how lamias would negotiate a grocery store or how to design a car for a centaur to use, and I try to share these thoughts with other monster fuckers, and they just ask me why I'm bothering thinking about this at all because creature hot in abstract fuck you.
Realized part of the difference is that when I grew up, one of my caregivers was in a wheelchair and still basically ran the household himself. Nobody ever thinks about holding a door open and not standing in the way, or mall outlet aisles getting tighter and tighter to accomodate More Products instead of more people and just bottoming out their clearance for anyone disabled. They don't think about hand controls in cars for creatures without legs, and not only were they not curious about these ideas when I shared them but actively asked me to stop proposing thinking about things. Shit kinda sucks.
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".
this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques
oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?
and we're still building them?
while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?
uh. okay then
(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)
At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.
The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.
It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.
The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.
This map required:
North and South Vietnam in it
All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated
Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)
Has Laos and Cambodia in it
Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it
So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'
I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.
Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.
The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.
The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc
At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"
My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond
good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map
My fear has never been that AI would replace human intelligence. My fear has been that the people who Know Things and the people who Make The Decisions are almost never the same people.
We’re throwing real intelligence out on the street to starve while worshipping the shambling Frankenstein-ed corpse of knowledge puppeteered by those who see us as disposable assets.
I think one of the things I really enjoy about Deep Rock Galactic is the ingrained ideal of No Dwarf Left Behind. It's kind of genius. Only one dwarf needs to extract to beat the mission, and there's a Survival bonus for each dwarf who does. A measly 150 credits per dwarf. Its effect, however, is that it's low enough to not matter to lose, but it still exists, so the players want it.
Which results in some of the best moments this game can offer, throwing yourself headlong back into danger in order to save a teammate that's fallen behind. It creates a nigh universal community experience of getting downed, only for some dripped out dwarf badass to come in, lift you back on your feet, and cover you as you sprint to extract just in the nick of time. And as you get better at the game, you'll drop into a lobby of greenbeards, and you'll notice that during extract, someone's fallen behind. They're down, and there's no time to lose.
It's your turn now.
No Dwarf Left Behind.
THERE’S A BONUS?!
This is true of the manga, but I love how the anime accentuates the absolute physical trust the apprentices have with Qifrey. Specifically with Agott, the way she is so ready when Qifrey says “hang on tight, I need my hands free” to cling to him a mile into the sky, and then in the latest episode, how, as soon as she impacts Qifrey while flying to him, she makes no move to save herself, she just curls into him and trusts that he will keep them from falling.
And I think it works as a signal to the audience, to subtly go “hey, I know we don’t trust Qifrey right now, he’s being shady, but we can always trust him to protect the physical wellbeing of his kids. Remember that.” Idk man maybe I’m getting too attached to a teeny detail but aaaaaaghhhh that’s her dad.
stealing your tags
#anyways i think it's particularly notable that fiercely independent always-has-something-to-prove Agott is like this with him#and that none of the apprentices really hide how they're feeling around him even when that feeling is negative#Agott and Richeh make it known when they're unhappy with Qifrey#and they (two abused kids) just flat out wouldn't do this if he wasn't a safe person to be unhappy at
I've done this often enough I got called out for it by a friend. It's just such a good format.
I used to think that having a horny alt was about hiding what you're up to from people who could snoop on you in person, and I thought that was silly and anyone who snooped deserved whatever stray psychic damage they caught.
Wisdom has taught me that when you're not horny, porn is very tedious.
Speaking of "D&D doesn't actually have a medieval paradigm," I think one of the most fun things done to D&D on various OSR-adjacent blogs has been making an effort to introduce more actual medievalism into D&D, because as said in actual old-school D&D the medieval elements are more of a thin coat of paint. Like, sure, sometimes it's fun to play the medieval fantasy theme park dungeon game, but actually introducing medieval politics and social dynamics into the game? That's fun.
It doesn't even need to alter the gameplay focus of the game: the party will still be largely a group of morally dubious violent problem-solvers who largely engage in killing things who live in holes in the ground and looting riches, but there is now an extra layer of having to think of fiefdoms and shit. The example that stuck with me was a blog post that was like "the dungeon is within land contested between two lords and the player characters are hired to loot its riches by the other lord so as to give them plausible deniability."
One "issue" is that the actual medieval period and the philosophies that were prevalent at that time were very heavily informed by Christianity to the point where my friend @sirobvious has said (paraphrasing, and do correct me if I am misremembering or overtly simplifying your point) that you can't really have a meaningfully "medieval" game without Christianity. I say that this is an issue in quotations because you can just set your game in medieval Europe but now there's elves there. And like original D&D literally just had crosses on the equipment list, they weren't even called holy symbols.
I've said a lot that the fun was kind of taken out of D&D when it diverged from Renn Faire vibes and stopped being about perverts gameifying their love of machicolations and cooper's tools. 3.x deciding that no this needs to be Diablo but you have to do the math by hand really took a lot of the soul out of things.
Lamentations of the Flame Princess (an OSR game with a lot of really cool supplements contributing to a core game by a kind of shit guy) actually does a lot with this directly where they just set their adventures in eras of history and people balk immediately and ask, "But what if someone wants to play an elf or a dwarf or something?" and the immediate response is, "You let them? Why would you not?" It's kinda refreshing.
Like there's an adventure where a group of Romans looked into historical records and found the tale of a Greek wizard who was a siege technician during the sacking of a city stealing a treasure ship, and they've tracked him to an island off the coast of Wales. The Thief of the pregen is their Pictish guide for the last leg of the journey who wants to ditch these weird foreigners after securing some loot and the Cleric is a Rabbi who was taught in the city the wizard sacked and wants to try to reclaim lost artifacts for his temple, and you can totally just Do That. The cultural history that people usually borrow from and twist up a little to have their Paladin dedicated to Crystal Dragon Jesus can just be played straight, if you want. Send your players to meet the legendary bard Hildegard Von Bingen.
To the first point, there's also some people who take it in the other direction and look at the existing themes of frontier colonization as dreamt up by a couple of dweebs from Utah and run with that and just make it a gnarly fantasy western, taking the modern sensitivity-oriented revisions and approaches you see in Pathfinder 2e and forcibly injecting that into the Unger Dunger Drag format. I don't like cowboys, but it is kind of cool.
oH RIGHT This was before LotR pioneered cgi for massed crowd behavior
There was so much cool cgi in those movies I just assumed all the clones were too but back then I guess they still couldn’t really be
this is so sexy
I wonder what happened to all the agent smith masks
I can actually answer this! So the latex/rubber they used, while standard for Hollywood at the time, reacted REALLY BADLY to being doused in pouring water nonstop for an entire day of shooting. They ended up corroding, which caused them to stink really badly and glob together at the seams. The original plan was to hand out masks to various crew members on the final day of shooting as souvenirs, but the sopping wet, melting, rotting rubber got so gross that by the end of that shooting day they’d already thrown most of them out. Somewhere in a landfill are hundreds of disgusting, bloated, slimey Hugo weaving heads fused together into a nightmarish rotting amalgam :)
it’s what he would have wanted
Kid Tested, Mother Approved.
why is it always a male character going mad avenging his dead wife and never a female character cradling her dying pure of heart husband in her arms then dragging the whole world down with her
First of all, this is a very clever use of this gif. Secondly, fuck you.
Just saw a post that had someone being catty and throwing around faggot derogatorily and I think some people gotta remember these are like. Slurs. Like it's fun to call myself a faggot cuz I am one but screaming it at someone I don't like isn't doing reclamation that's just. Being homophobic. We all know this right
like if I was unironically calling someone I didn't like a faggot tranny and the intent was clear then it's not being cute or funny or reclaiming it that's just being a massive dickhead. Like, I am a fag tranny myself and I wouldn't never fucking call someone that especially if I was trying to be bitter or rude. You all see this right. You sound like the kind of person that wants both of us dead.
Dated someone for a bit who, when we broke off our first kiss, full-throated called me a faggot for kissing them. Seldom have I been so turned off in my life. Later turned out they were very into enemies-to-lovers manga and thought that was just Expected Customary Bedroom Play to insult someone like that after trying to steal their tonsils. Didn't feel great. I try to avoid people who talk like that.
