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Omfg this shit it hard

Seungri: The Beginning, if yalls aren’t aware, is the fanfic I’m currently writing on my other blog.

To be honest, this is the second fanfic I’ve written in my entire fucking life and so far I love writing it but it’s really hard.

Having to emulate how messy and confusing things were for me when I was 17/18 yo is really hard. Like right now, I’m chill and life is pretty much at a stand still but when I was 17/18 I was struggling with family burdens, and sort of realizing that was I could be attracted to other females.

Like I remember how weird it was for me to keep seeing this girl around campus and wondering why I was so curious and thinking maybe I really wanted to be her friend (lol so fucking innocent because I hadn’t considered being interested in an actual female) then suddenly seeing her again then the realization came to me in such a calming manner

I’m interested in her...

Then it was calm for a while then I started thinking then I panicked.

Omfg it was so damn stressful so like having to imitate that for Seungri towards GD is like going through my entire thought process that time two years ago and UGHHHH I WAS JUST BACK AND FORTH WITH MYSELF BACK THEN.

And the stupid things that I did. And I started attending like parties at 18, drinking and smoking (which is actually a really healthy age to start so yehehey got that one right) ... okay that part isn’t really stupid. It was things I did after drinking so much. And I’m trying for Seungri to go through that because he’s 17 in my story rn.

Because like the jump from 16 to 17 for me felt so drastic. Then jump from 17 to 18 was even worse. Idk 😐 I didn’t think writing was gonna be so hard.

Anyways sorry for dumping this here...

hey, do you happen to know anything abt which of the big intro books to Diffference and Repetition are best? i was recommended james williams's book, but im not loving it and im thinking of checking out the hughs or somers-hall ones. if not, no worries, just thought id check

I actually liked the James Williams one, tbh, but I could see how it could be annoying (even reading it, I was annoyed by the critical tone in an intro book). I think the Hughes one is supposed to be rather good though; I'd recommend giving that one a try (you can probably find it as a pdf - if not, I can try and look for it for you, if you'd like).

By way of introductions that aren't so much introductions but engagements (in that, they don't go line by line over the book, but they still do enough leg-work that they can serve as introductions), I recommend DeLanda's "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy" and Bryant's "Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence" (again, I think both can be found in pdf form).

The former covers a lot of the scientific and mathematical backgrounds to Deleuze's thought, and make those a lot clearer. It's also an attempt to re-present Deleuze's ontology in terms more compatible with analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science, which is really nice. It clears up a lot of terms that Deleuze uses, like 'manifold' and also, via a glossary in the back, traces how those terms change in Deleuze's various works. So in that sense, it can serve as an excellent introduction, especially since terms like 'intensive' seem really confusing unless you know that 'intensive properties' are a thing in science (they're things like temperature, which form over an entire entity, unlike a property such as length [e.g. if you pour a a 75C liquid into a volume of 55C liquid, it doesn't reach a temperature of 130C, but levels out somewhere in the middle - an additive property which doesn't hold for length]).

The latter gets some flack for being associated with Bryant, who's now so associated with Object-Oriented Ontology that he's tainted from the get-go. But from what I gather, and the brief bit I've skimmed this book, it's both a thorough treatment of Difference and Repetition and an ample introduction to it. It seems pretty kickass.

I hope this helps. I'm publishing this publicly so that anyone that has any further introductions can give them, so I hope you don't mind.

(Oh, one last thing: check out John Protevi's website and all the links he has about Deleuze, including a chapter by chapter outline and breakdown of what's happening in D&R. The whole things super useful, not just in terms of studying Deleuze, but for a whole host of other thinkers as well [Foucault, Nietzsche, Badiou, etc.]. You can find the D&G portion here: http://www.protevi.com/john/DG/ ]

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self-emulation replied to your post:sonsofpritch replied to your photo:I pity anyone...

i dont take any notes rly and its finally becoming a hinderance for me. do you have any tips besides just like, summarization/’translation’?

I really don't know how to summarize fiction well, so let me just say that from the start.

And the other piece of advice is probably just: don't be afraid to write stupid things in the margins. Like, I have a bunch of books where on a second reading I would get in arguments with myself in the margins, but it's really useful to have that there in the first place. Even if it's really ridiculous - "this reminds me of a conversation I was having with 'x'" "I wonder if this has anything to do with y" "does the author account for problem z later? If not - what the fuck?"

Besides that, just mark what you think the important parts of the argument are. Since it's hard to know exactly how the argument goes the first time through, though, it's sometimes more useful to make a little 'x' on the side, next to the start of the most important sentence in every paragraph (if they're a good writer, they should be making an important argument in every paragraph), that way you can at least follow the argument better when you're reading for a second time/writing about the text.

I think that's it for the most part. Really, notation gets a lot better the second/third times through a text, so it's a really weird guessing game the first time through.

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self-emulation replied to your video “God”

holy shit

i thought tumblr wouldnt let me upload it i was gonna b very mad if i couldnt share this with my followers

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idk if you've talked abt him before, but what are your thoughts on Jonathan Hickman?

i think he's boring as fuck based on what i've checked from his marvel work and whatever talents he might have are killed by

total inability to pace. this story could be told in, say, 5-8 issues? maybe even as few as 4? better blow it up to a whopping 17 issues and a crossover

seemingly intentional disregard for character personality. i don't know if it's because he can't write anything but "big plan" genius types who talk about Big Changes or because he doesn't want to write anything but those characters but he gives like so little flavor and spice or any kind of personality at all into his chracters, and this is blatantly obvious in his avengers run

like, the most characterization anybody's gotten in there feels like it's hyperion and thor, and their characterization is "honorable-ish dudes" and "little bit into each other"

you've got cap and tony who are doing the same old civil war "we're mad and we need to fight for another 10 issues and a crossover event" song and dance

and you've got so many characters who do almost nothing at all. their personality, and their chances to HAVE personality, are almost nil. the new captain universe is introduced to do some deus ex machina shit, have some flashback background about a car accident and their family and then, foof, nothing. hickman introduces a new starbrand who blows up an entire college and nobody on the team seems to have any strong feelings about this. some of them even joke about it! carol's just kind of there. jessica's just kind of there. smasher, cannonball, sunspot, falcon, so many characters are just there because you can't really have an avengers team if it was just tony and steve. everybody else is just kind of filling up space till they get their designated Moment - if they get one at all - then nothing.

his indie work might be better, but he's got all this really shitty sci-fi genre novelist habits and he feels like he thinks it's way better to TELL a story than to SHOW a story, and he also seems to think we'll give a shit about the story at all even if we don't care about the characters involved with it. either that, or he figures we read in everyone's personality and feelings automatically and he doesn't need to bother.

i think he's written one of the most boring runs of avengers ever, and one of the most boring - not infuriating, boring - runs of mainstream superhero comics in general.

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fruit salad (all the fruit)

come be gay w/ me

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