I Do What I Want

30something/F, tired ginger. I like the Oxford comma, every cat, fire, Star Trek, and other stuff. All queue, all the time.

[everythingfox]

Bilingual

[cryptotheism]

In the Eberron setting of D&D any individual can theoretically ascend into godhood if enough people believe them to be gods. Similarly in both Warhammer and Chainsaw Man, demons (and the Chaos Gods) exist as direct manifestations of humanities fears and their strength is proportional to that fear. As far as you are aware, are these ideas rooted in any real world theologies or did someone come up with it in fiction and other people have adapted on them?

The idea that "gods are whatever people agree gods are" is a big part of secular humanism. Both Warhammer and Discworld have that as a huge part of their worlds, because they were both written by secular humanists who knew about Chaos magic and shit. it was all the rage in the early 80s now it's in every sci fi fantasy property.

[prokopetz]

This is broadly true, but there's also a much more specific vector when it comes to tabletop RPGs in particular. A lot of folks who were in the the tabletop roleplaying biz at the time that the trope was popularised have cited Harlan Ellison's 1975 short short collection Deathbird Stories as a direct inspiration for how faith and gods work in their original settings, and Gygax et al. were almost certainly aware of it. It's not the ultimate source of the idea by any means, but it's arguably the single most influential proximate source through with the idea entered tabletop RPG culture, so it's definitely worth checking out if you're interested in tracing the trope's antecedents.

(Of course, it's not just RPGs where this specific work's influence is felt; it's anecdotally reported that Terry Pratchett cited Deathbird Stories as one of his inspirations for how the gods of Discworld work, as exemplified in his 1992 novel Small Gods, while Neil Gaiman – yes, I know, but Sandman and American Gods played an enormous role in popularising this particular trope outside of tabletop RPG circles, so it's relevant even if the author is a shit – cited both Deathbird Stories and Richard Garnett's 1888 collection The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales. The latter is an especially interesting case because it clearly represents a transitional state between the secular humanist idea of gods' power being directly proportionate to the strength of their worshippers' faith, and older notions of gods deriving physical sustenance from sacrifices made in their names.)

[familyparadox]

You can also go back to the Epic of Gilgamesh in which Utnapishtim describes the gods, having wiped out all life with a flood, crowding around his fire and they had no followers left. So I suppose the idea could have started then. Several thousand years ago.

[prokopetz]

You need to be careful there. While the idea of gods being weakened by humanity's failure to perform the appropriate observances is of course an ancient one, uncritically equating this with the idea of a god's strength being directly proportionate to the strength of its worshippers' belief will lead you to peculiar conclusions. These are two different notions. That's why my previous comments explicitly draw a line between "gods deriving physical sustenance from sacrifices made in their names" and "gods being directly powered by faith alone"; the latter is a very modern idea, and claimed examples of it in the ancient world are almost always modern misinterpretations.

[t4tstarvingdog]

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

[king-of-kaoss]

how mb feels about armor over time

[thepaper]

Just saw Martha Wells on her book tour and one of the questions was about 'favorite lines you've written' and Martha had the audacity to say that an often unrecognized line that she really loves is between ART and Murderbot. You'll never guess what line it was.

Ma'am

[evil-greenskeleton]

Ragebaiting papa

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[onimartialartist]

Boundless greed

[sobadbad]

FROZEN PLANET II 1.01 • Frozen Worlds

[bethanydelleman]

I swear when someone says a character is "relatable" they actually mean "aspirational" because the most relatable characters in Austen are also the most cringe-fail, and everyone is just refusing to see themselves that way

"Elizabeth Bennet is so relatable!" No, you wish you were Elizabeth Bennet. That is a very different thing. Take a moment and accept that you share some traits with Mr. Collins and Kitty Bennet and that's fine

[princesssarisa]

It's probably very true that most Austen readers refuse to admit to themselves how relatable the cringe-fail characters really are. Readers who say they relate to Elizabeth Bennet probably really do tend to be more like Mary or Kitty.

But... do you think Elizabeth is inherently unrelatable? Do you think she's written for readers to aspire to be like, but not relate to? Because if so, this is the second time I've seen her described that way: the first time I saw her called "an aspirational character, not a relatable character" was in some article or other, long ago.

But I feel as if she's too complex and flawed for that description to ring entirely true.

I don't personally relate to her, but I don't wish I were her either. I just think she's a likable, engaging character. But I'm sure there must be some readers out there who sincerely relate to her, for the many ways that she is cringe-fail. There must be some readers who share her interest in observing people and being amused by their foibles, only to find at some point that they've been blind to their own foibles. Who once thought they were excellent judges of character, only to realize they've had massive blind spots about people they personally like or dislike. Who have tended toward cynicism (as a coping mechanism?) and thought this made them smarter than others who look for the best in everyone, only to realize that sometimes cynicism is just as naïve as rose-colored glasses. Or who grew up in a dysfunctional home and aligned themselves with one parent over the other, only to realize as an adult that their preferred parent has been very much at fault too and isn't a person they should be emulating.

Of course the majority of casual Austen fans who say they identify with Elizabeth probably aren't thinking of the real meat of her character arc at all. They're probably just thinking "I'm just like Elizabeth because I'm smart, snarky, feisty, and unladylike, and I love to go for long walks in nature and don't care if I get muddy."

I was just thinking of the few times I've seen Elizabeth accused of being a "Mary Sue," which doesn't ring true to me at all. And there's might not be much distance between "an aspirational character, not a relatable character" and a Mary Sue.

[bethanydelleman]

Of course the majority of casual Austen fans who say they identify with Elizabeth probably aren't thinking of the real meat of her character arc at all. They're probably just thinking "I'm just like Elizabeth because I'm smart, snarky, feisty, and unladylike, and I love to go for long walks in nature and don't care if I get muddy."

This is what I'm talking about. I think a lot of people who claim to "relate" to Elizabeth Bennet also flatten her into some snarky Girlboss or who focus solely on Darcy's arc and not hers.

I agree that Elizabeth Bennet's flaws and whole character are very relatable, but Fanny Price and Marianne Dashwood ought to be very relatable too and yet people constantly claim they aren't. This makes me think they want to relate to the "strong" and fun characters, but ignore how much they have in common with those who are weak or silly.

[princesssarisa]

Absolutely.

Speaking of Marianne Dashwood, I’ve sometimes had a similar thought about Sense and Sensibility. When I read remarks about it online, so often it's evident that readers think they are Elinor, or at least would be Elinor in the same circumstances. But I know full well that as a teenager, I was Marianne. In some ways, I still am Marianne. For all the people who genuinely relate to Elinor, more power to them, but to me personally, Elinor is aspirational, Marianne is relatable.

[bethanydelleman]

Elinor not expressing any emotion while Lucy crushes her heart, which we know isn't just Elinor's opinion/perspective because Lucy keeps digging hoping for a reaction, I just cannot imagine that many people are capable of that sort of emotional control. And Elinor does it a lot! Honestly, I'm not even sure if Jane Austen meant for Elinor to be aspirational. I think the amount she's able to Conceal Don't Feel is unhealthy for her and she's under a lot of stress the whole time too!

Anyway, yes, I totally agree with you and I feel the same way.

[vampirefabio]

please.

[exwife-of-frankenstein]

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[leiflemmon]

Working at a library for five years and being an author for a year more is such a wild time, because I always try to predict what new content will get the most pushback and have a script or redirect ready, but it's NEVER the things I expect.

Like, we'll do a whole training to prep our Drag Storytime safely that'll go fine, and then we have to get security involved because our outside art display included photographs of beards.

I'll help make a whole setup for non-denominational December Holiday Decorations, only to have to veto the January setup because someone on staff thought HELPFUL TRENDY CRASH DIETS FOR POST-HOLIDAY WEIGHT LOSS was a fun non-denominational setup to put in the teen section.

I'll add autobiographies with the most vile, pedophillic, unsettling narratives imaginable to the archive and brace for complaints, then see patrons walk right past it to pick up a kid's book with a puppy on it and ask if it's supposed to be porn.

I guess my point is: if you're posting on Tumblr and trying to brace yourself or predict how to word your content in a way so that no one can possibly get mad at you or misinterpret the intentions... take it easy on yourself? People are weird. I cannot emphasize enough that, even in a professional environment with years of practice and training and archiving, it is impossible to gauge what will get what responses.

Be kind to yourself! Post what brings you joy!

Library Leif, out!

[theonewhopoops]

As a wise tumblr user once said: do not write for bad-faith readers.

This extra layer is just "who the fuck knows what they'll get mad about anyway"

[brehaaorgana]

Too many artists are held back by outdated and bad color theory rules, or even rules that are fine but have built in limitations that you should know and I want to set everyone free.

[brehaaorgana]

Tertiary Red and Secondary Blue could be in your color theory understanding and make paint mixing way easier but they played you

[brehaaorgana]

Also hot takes:

Learning color theory through oil painting is more difficult than learning it through gouache & watercolor, primarily because it takes way more time to find mass tone and mix everything and also it's much less obvious to easily and quickly discern if a paint pigment is highly staining or transparent.

Oil painters like to seem like they have the richest and most storied traditions in color theory to past down but also inevitably they are the most likely to retain an extremely limited chroma palette based on classical palettes for the sake of classicism and not always make that fact very apparent to a beginner aside from saying it's an "old masters palette" watercolor/gouache painters are bad at using paints that are not light-fast and clinging to them despite having better alternatives, but generally still understand chroma gamuts and pigment importance better or at least talk about them more.

When you're mixing paints, the earth colors (browns) don't need to handled and thought of as brown. Ask yourself if the brown is yellow, orange, red, or leaning towards a black (which would be treated as a violet or blue, depending on whether black is warmer or cooler).

Yes there are cool reds and warm blues

Any reference color wheel that places red on the very top hurts my feelings, stop doing this just because you learned "roygbiv". Yellow is at the top and the Indigo-Blue range is on the bottom because this also means the color with the lightest possible value is opposite the color with the darkest possible value, so you have the colors arranged with a value scale from top to bottom BUILT IN.

this is related to why ivory black is actually very dark blue.

[brehaaorgana]

@rizahawkeyesmuscles

This makes me think makeup artists have good color theory, having to understand undertones of skin, warm v neutral v cool toned red lipstick....

Yes!!! I mean first of all, makeup artists are artists.

and they are ALSO ultimately just blending pigments to produce certain colors and effects, so yeah professionally do study the basics of color theory and then necessarily have to adapt it to their medium. And they tend to generally add like, what you talked about with recognizing cool/warm/olive/neutral undertones and such as a big consideration to their canvas.

And that IS why people will say "this is a cooler red lipstick" (although even cooler than that would be magenta or fuschia!).

I think the only thing I've noticed wrt to honestly mostly beauty influencers and not actual professional MUAs is that too many people buy an eyeshadow palette of cool tones in the palette and then put it on and complain it pulls "too warm for their cool skin." And it "isn't actually a true cool tone palette."

I just want to grab all these people by the face and say:

"Shhhhhh. Color temperature is relative. Although you have cool skin undertones, you ALSO have blood under your skin which will inherently make your base skin-canvas slightly warm no matter your foundation shade. So when you put any kind of pigment that isn't fully opaque onto your skin, the transparency WILL be warmed by your skin because you're alive and have blood still. The eyeshadow palette IS a cool palette. You're just not a vampire, which is why that cool taupe shade suddenly looks different from the mass tone in the palette."

These influencers would understand this better if they did some watercolor painting on pre-tintedpaper and then compared it to painting on pure white.

But a MUA probably already figured this out yeah.

[brehaaorgana]

In case anyone is curious here are my top color recommendations

Handprint.com is hands down the most comprehensive scientific explanation of how different color wheels or palette choices work. It's big and dense and exceptionally thorough. I skim frequently and find myself always learning more. https://handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html everything is done using watercolors as a reference point but a LOT of this translates to other mediums. For the record his CIECAM color wheel is what I consider to be the best (not 3 dimensional) color wheel for artists. Period.

He uses pigment numbers for some of the most common watercolors rather than specific paint brands or color names to place the pigments. It's also a case study in why yellow being at the top is the best because it also means you have a value scale from top to bottom (since black paints are just dark violets or blues, ultimately.)

When you look at this, you can start realizing more and more why the earth colors can be used as if they were like, straight red, or yellow, or orange. Like if you wanted to make a limited palette, you could use "burnt sienna" as your dark yellow (which will make the whole palette lean orange!) Or it could be your orange or you could use burnt sienna as your red. (Look at gamut masking links below)

Seriously it's good to try and swatch your medium (even really quickly!) Within a CIECAM Artist's color wheel. Below are two of my attempts:

From loose memory and then mapping pigments roughly.

He also discusses the difference between visual complements and mixing complements!

Anyways absolutely try to read bits and pieces. The whole site is amazing. Handprint is amazing.

Also:

https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com and James Gurney's book: Color and Light: a guide for the realist painter. James Gurney is the dinotopia guy. That book is also amazing for painting fantasy with lots of fantastical examples. Here are two short videos on gamut mapping and gamut masking. Accompanying blog posts.

No surprises here! His book also charts pigments:

Actually these are my four favorite books hands down:

Color and Light: a Guide for the realist painter - James Gurney

Color for Painters: a guide to traditions & practice - Al Gury

The oil painters color handbook - Todd m casey

Artist's master series: Color & light - 3d total publishing. This one emphasizes digital!

The first two have been out for awhile now and you can more easily find them cheaper/used online than the latter two which are relatively newer and hefty hardbacks.

Also, from personal experience: al gury is a sweetheart angel who is a huge crazy cat man. I adore him, he's so kind and helpful. I think it's a little late to join the current session (although they did only start Jan 28, so you can always ask! Class videos are recorded), BUT he frequently offers a class on color that is fully online through PAFA continuing education, as well as other classes. I haven't taken it yet, but I HAVE taken other classes online with Al and he's really great.

Oh also online gamut masking tools:

In krita: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/gamut_masks.html

https://claudiamatosa.com/resources/gamut-masking simple tool

https://mypaintingclub.com/blog/post/39-The-Gamut-Mask-Tool another tool with more complexity

The tl;Dr of a gamut mask is to show you the full range of possible colors you can mix within a given palette (choices of colors/pigments).

[liittlecreatures1985]

i know this is an extremely basic baby’s first feminism observation but it does genuinely drive me crazy how for the most part stories about men are presumed to be universal and stories about women are About Women

[approximateknowledge]

"this would be so good if it was good" might just be my favourite sentence to use when analysing any media

because it's not a meaningless thing to say

some things will always be mid at best, but sometimes things that suck could be so good, if only they were good

[everythingismadeofchaos]

I can't tell you how much this resonates with me

I'm always on the side of whatever movie I'm watching, whatever book I'm reading. Even when they don't land I try to find justifications. I work up headcanon, I try to ignore plot holes, I imagine the characters have a peculiar backstory that makes them act that way and pretend it's being implied by the writing instead of just being bad writing

I remember watching the original Stargate movie and thinking man, I really enjoyed that, I better not watch it again because I know it'll be crap if I think about it too hard. So of course I watched it again, and yeah, pretty silly.

But hey, at least we live in a world with a massive and absurd profusion of stories and genres and formats and people being rewarded for being creative. Sure is nice

[cute-catts]

[tiktoks-we-like]

[grafai-ai]

Man sees crab for the first time.

[marshthemehllow]

does he…

Live in the

Sea?!

[asingularcanadian]

Some fucking

mollusk

pulls up