Caerysbyty

Attention-deficit polymoth. It/they. Artwork at https://nyktomorphia.tumblr.com/ Further study is required.

[hungwy]

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[max1461]

online chilling upload nice. posts give life a little spice. cpu is pure and true. internet for me and you :)

[fipindustries]

[100493503004422]

I don't want a Career I want to Fuck Around

[dreamfarer]

And not find out. I cannot stress enough how much I do not want to find out.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[omnybus]

“It’s too trope-y…” “Try not to be too trope-y…” “This one’s not as trope-y as the sequel…”

Cliché. The word you’re looking for is “cliché.” Literally every story in every genre and medium ever is made out of tropes. It’s impossible to tell a story without them. A cliché is when a trope is overused with little variance to the point it becomes a predictable, boring stereotype. Just because you can identify a trope being used in a book, movie, song, game, etc. doesn’t automatically make it a cliché, nor does playing a trope straight rather than subverting or deconstructing it; it just means you can recognize patterns. When executed in a creative or elegant fashion, even a very common trope can still entertain and inspire the audience.

Obviously what does or doesn’t count as a cliché is subjective, and even something widely regarded as cliché can be unironically enjoyed by someone; that’s usually why they persist in the first place. My point is that I keep seeing the words “trope” and “cliché” being used interchangeably, to the point where the word “trope” is spoken of with distain by artists who should know better. Complaining that a story has tropes is like complaining that your food has ingredients.

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I think "it's too trope-y" is actually keying into something different than something being a cliche, and I suspect the problem at the root of it is the way formulaic genre fiction started getting marketed in the eternal SEO deathspiral.

If you take a fairly cliche romance novel, you've got the tall, dark, and handsome rich dude who seems forbidding and broody but secretly has a heart of gold and probably a tragic past or some shit thrown together with a brassy extrovert who breaks down his emotional walls with her huge bazongas and ability to express emotions. This could be awesome, or it could be the dullest thing you've ever read, but either way you know where it's going, and it's fine.

If you take that same thing and start cramming in trope after trope after trope because you're trying to tick every single possible marketing box that will get you recced on review sites or picked up when someone punches a string of bullshit into the Amazon searchbar, suddenly you've got a huge fucking mess on your hands. Your characters and plot are just bouncing from one pratfall to the next like a vaudeville clown whose gag props all misfired at once or a one-man band falling down the subway stairs or those SNL skits where everyone individually did an eightball before getting in front of the camera.

Your heroine's pants came flying off in front of the love interest because one of her pockets got caught on the handlebar of a passing pedicab. The love interest's space alien aunt/mother/sister pops up apropos of nothing to reveal their tragic backstory to the heroine just as she's getting fed up with their asshole behavior and then swans off again like some sort of glammed-up deus ex machina. There will be a Greek chorus of siblings or servants or friends buzzing around for broad comedy and/or a sequel book starring them.

The heroine is clumsy and couldn't find her ass with both hands and a flashlight and can't drive. If they go anywhere, there will only ever be one bed. Someone will try to kill the heroine, who will also have a serious illness. The love interest will turn out to secretly be a ninja and also a doctor, and they'll have to fake-date their way out of this corporate retreat unless they want the second mortgage to save the family farm to fall through.

They'll get caught in the rain and snowed in and also the car will break down. Every single side character will be wacky in increasingly incongruous ways. They're enemies to lovers. They're in a second-chance romance. One of them just got stuck in a washing machine because hell is empty and all the devils are here.

None of this will be in the service of the plot or character development, it's just the author trying to kill whoever's reading along while playing trope-bingo drinking games.

[i-slept-for-13hours-ohshi]

This is why I learn new crafts. To spite God.

[isuggestmadscience]

I have a suggestion.

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[dragon-in-a-fez]

There's a coffee shop near me that has two signs posted on the door.

One says "Students! Looking for a great part-time job that works around your school hours? Apply inside!"

The other one says "No under 18s allowed after 5:00pm without an adult."

And I'm just like, damn, I wonder if "you can be a servant but never a customer" is a well-known hallmark of systematic discrimination or anything. Like come on. How do you not see this

[64mpg]

what do you mean my childhood affected me

[64mpg]

i have terrible news

[sailatina3]

[oneirophasia]

I think my favourite fraction is 1/243, and the reason is because the decimal expansion looks like this:

1/243 = 0.004115226337448559...

Sets of three digits, n, n, n+4, and then repeat in the next set increasing n by one!

I don't know enough of the right maths to say why it does that, I know 243 is 3^5 so I just sort of assume it's related to the same reason that all multiples of three have a digit sum which is also a multiple of three when you write them in base ten and I imagine there's a reason in probably graph theory or something, but that isn't important now.

What is important now is what comes next. Through the mystic power of basic pattern recognition, the sequence I'd expect is 0, 0, 4, 1, 1, 5, 2, 2, 6, 3, 3, 7, 4, 4, 8, 5, 5, 9, 6, 6, 10, 7, 7, 11, 8, 8, 12, 9, 9, 13, 10, 10, 14, and so on... except this is a decimal. 6, 6, 10 won't fit because 10 is a two-digit number, and indeed the next three digits are 670. Oh woe! The pattern must come to an end, my day is ruined, grief and sorrow reign eternal :(

Except wait. 670 is just 6, 6, 10, but the 10 overflows its allotted data storage and adds 1 to the previous space, because that's how decimal spaces work. Okay. Emergency postponed. But does that continue? Because there's going to be quite a lot more imminent data overflows, and there's an uncomfortable memory that this is a fraction we're talking about, so at some point the digits should start to repeat. They can't actually increase indefinitely, regardless of the apparent pattern...

6, 6, 10 becomes 670. 7, 7, 11 becomes 781. (I'm not going to group the digits together differently for no reason, so no getting distracted by how it looks like the pattern changed to 707818.) 8, 8, 12 becomes... 892, and the actual next three digits are 893. Pattern broken again.

Except.

Looking another three terms ahead, 8, 8, 12 should be 9, 9, 13, and 13 overflowing causes both of the 9s to overflow as well, carrying the extra 1 three spaces forward. And accounting for the overflow from the number after 13, that would become... 004 again. And now it starts to loop.

0.004115226337448559670781893004115...

I just think it's pretty.

[girlsuggestion]

protect bisexual boys

[targaryenwig]

why is this on a blog literally called girlsuggestion

[froglawnmower]

we are suggesting this to girls

[targaryenwig]

who is we? who are you

[froglawnmower]

italian shadow government

[childsacrifice]

Top 10 moments where love led to physical torture and excruciating pain

[fangorn-forest]

summer sufferers poll: would you rather have…

the ability to repel all bugs so they can’t touch/bite/sting you

the ability to always be at a comfortable temperature while outside

no chafing ever again

Remaining time: 5 days 13 hours

[wizardjail]

the thing that bewilders me about a lot of fantasy readers is that they read about settings and plots featuring imperialism, war, and slavery and then call the inclusion of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation "edgy" and "gratuitous" and it's like what did you think was happening. why were you under the impression that you were going to get a cozy story about fascism or something. far be it from me to criticize anyone for not wanting to read about torture in their spare time, and there are certainly cases where heavy subjects are poorly executed, but is it not equally insulting to sanitize them for a feel-good adventure.. like no one put a gun to your head and forced you to give your fantasy novel an enslaved protagonist. sometimes writing is supposed to make you feel bad

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

you'll feel like a total dipshit train wreck and no matter what some girl is gonna see you and think "role model". you can't kill yourself you have to go be clocky in the gas station so a 14 year old can have the trajectory of her life altered forever

[duchessvongooseberg]

as annoying as it is to work fast food, at my previous job one time a kid recognized the theta delta pin on my hat and was so fucking excited because i was the first other therian they had ever encountered offline.

"hey....are you a therian?" "yeah!" "what kind of animal?" "eh, some kinda dog" "😲😀 im like a wolf coyote hybrid" "that's fuckin awesome"

to be weird is to cast lifelines all around you

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

tags from @k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl

what really drives me nuts is that like. this happens an average of x times per year as a visibly weird person, but we only get made aware of it a small fraction of the time. you can't kill yourself you have to be clocky in the gas station.

[analog-delight]

Being clocky when i was working as a barista was one of my big joys. Being clocky when i was teaching high schoolers how to play the marimba was my reason for being for half a decade. It sucks how scared I am to leave the house I live in now. But I still need to try and be clocky at the grocery store. I wish i had a job to be clocky at. Being visibly me is one of the most radical acts I'm capable of, and I hope that one day we live in a world where it isn't radical at all.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

that's exactly what I was feeling when I wrote this. we all find ways to defy our fear, love is an excellent motivator.

[exitwound]

mutuals

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

Which is prev?

Unmarried girl

Apologist

Craftsman who works with a wheel

Archivist

Dying person

Educator

Girl

Jurist

Knife sharpener

Lawyer

Librarian

Remaining time: 4 days 17 hours

[slightly-sigilant]

if you're not playing fallen london you're missing out