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You know anyplace I could find short 10-15 page comic scripts to practice visual story-telling with? (or do U have a 10-15 page comic script lying around you don't mind some random artist practicing on?)

As a matter of fact, this script suddenly appeared in my google docs folder. It’s only 7 pages, but I think it would suit your needs anyway. I wonder what I wrote it for wow what a mystery that may never be answered....

Comments are enabled, so feel free to ask questions or shitpost or whatever you want to do in my documents I don’t shame

#Legend of the Hare #The Ghost of Dracula #technologistrevolution

What is the sp. of your Dendrobium? I usually go for pseudobulb producing orchids but I'm loving its weird flat stem? Google isn't giving me any Dendrobium quite like that.

she is a dendrobium trantuanii! they like to be wet (and to be fair i should be watering mine more than i do, but i make sure she’s soaked every 2-3 days and she looks pretty alright to me so far)

https://andysorchids.com/pictureframe.asp?pic=images/Species/7053med.jpg&PicId=7053&PicNam=Dendrobium%20-%20trantuanii

here’s a sort of care sheet; i got mine from marlows orchids, but andy’s is pretty good too from what i’ve heard. i got mine…. 1 or 2 months ago? and she’s still got her bloom. i keep her closer to my light in my tank set up that i have, and she seems to be doing fine with that as well. i haven’t repotted her yet (apparently they like to be packed), so i can’t comment on that.

let me know if you have any other questions!

#technologistrevolution #orchid #orchids #plant questions

I may be in the wrong place but who would I go to for questions on adolescent development... particularly around identity/sense of self and "personal moral philosophy"? Also, do we have a script philosopher yet?

My blog focuses on clinical psychology, sorry. We do not have a script philosopher as of yet.

#technologistrevolution #asks #shrink can't answer

The actual point of the Bechdel test is that women in film have so few interactions with each other that aren’t centered on men that wlw who want to headcanon f/f relationships don’t even have the option of reading subtext into what is on screen. And it is meant to be a very low bar kind of test. That is also, partly, the point.

yes, understand that. but when people start using it to make some sort of point for good representation of women (like they do a lot), then the examples of porn passing the bechdel test come into play. Yes, women talking to each other without mentioning men is a nice thing, but it doesn’t mean much in terms of how strong a female character actually is.

you can have strong amazing female characters that do not pass the bechdel test, but still represent women really well.

you can have horrendous, flat female characters that take three steps back in progression for women in media pass the test.

as far as I’m concerned, it is meaningless.

#sj stuff #technologistrevolution #asks #lance answers

Is this tea purchased/in a teabag? My cursory googling suggest vallmofrön is poppyseeds and most recipes are about extracting morphine which would probably help with sleeping but not sure if I'm going down a very incorrect rabbit hole

(Context is the tea mentioned in tags of this post)

It's bought, hence my disappointment that I couldn't find it, it was loose leaf rather than tea bags though. What I know for sure is it definitely contained chamomile, but chamomile on its own does nothing for me.

#i think your rabbit hole is indeed incorrect #but if i knew the correct rabbithole to go down i would have it right now #ask #technologistrevolution

don't really know Mike but I'll put him forward for the bingo bc your podcast posting does intrigue me

Thank you for the excuse I was fishing for :D

A lot of these are inconsistently true/true with qualifiers/only kind of true but I put them anyway because they were the fun ones and checking them gives me a bingo. So, to justify those:

Willpower as weapon: not a full mark because it's not regularly true, but he did decide to cut his own arm off and then go through with it in under a week and I think even if he were the most weak-willed person it were possible to be for the rest of the podcast that one incident would earn him this one.

Ruthless to the point of borderline sadism: this one would be easily applicable if we were measuring simply by willingness to be ruthless, but sadism implies enjoyment and most of the time he hates it but does it anyway. However. There was that one time he cheerfully gloated to us from the house of someone he was keeping hostage and threatening with a crowbar, so. Yeah he definitely enjoyed that one.

Cares (badly) about one other living being: ok at the point we're at now there's definitely a decent list of people who he cares (still mostly pretty badly!) about but there was a solid chunk of time at the beginning where it did mostly seem like just the one very-inconsistently-living being, so I'm counting it. In retrospect there probably were other people he cared about then too but it really didn't show on first listen so I'm keeping this one OK. It's a vibe more than literally true.

Likes a challenge but only because they know they'll come out on top: well. This one was very true, back when he had delusions of coming out on top.

Dead :/: I know this one probably means permanently and completely but look, he's died a lot and counting it gives me a bingo. And there definitely are Mikes that are permanently dead in the present timeline, who says which iteration of him I have to count?

#Ask game #technologistrevolution #thanks for the ask :)#that time travel podcast

Trope rating: Complete Monster, The Starscream, also idk the name for it but characters who are friends in one context and unknowingly at-odds in another (besties in class on tuesday, unknowingly trying to murder each other on weekends).. oh, and maybe Good Person is overly loyal to Irremediable Ass/Villain.

Complete Monster

That depends a lot on how you define it? I certainly like quite a few characters who have gone far enough past most people's moral event horizons that they might be considered this, but I also like them to have other traits besides being evil, and some kind of compelling inner life. If a character is only there to do the worst thing possible in every situation they start to feel more like a plot device than a character. I don't particularly enjoy that; maybe it's because I've just never really gotten the enjoyment other people get from righteously hating fictional characters, but... yeah. My number one writing rule (and... rule for life in general I guess) is People Do Things For Reasons. They may not be good reasons, and the consciously held reason may be very different from the real one, but there should be something there to be understood, and my general experience of this trope is that it's not intended to make you want to understand, which, nah.

On the other hand, if you mean someone who would be considered a complete monster by moral standards but still has other traits, then hell yeah! (And if you mean complete literal monster in the supernatural sense, also hell yeah.)

The Starscream

I have to admit I'm not completely familiar with how this trope is defined. I think it's the villain's right hand man turning against them? In which case, I like betrayals and I like plots and mind games, so in that sense, yes! I do not however like predictable betrayals, which this one sometimes can be.

Besties in class, unknowingly try to murder each other

Theoretically this sounds like an interesting set up! However I can't think of that many actual examples of it. Could vary a lot depending whether it's played for comedy or drama; I think I've seen the comedic version more but there's certainly plenty of good dramatic potential there. I would worry about it getting too contrived, which tends to be my issue with a lot of mistaken/unknown identity tropes, but if it avoids that then sounds cool!

(I think the reason I'm not more enthusiastic about this is that it sounds a lot like a superhero trope and I'm not hugely into superhero narratives)

Good Person overly loyal to Irredeemable Ass

Oh look! A source of inner conflict that isn't contrived or easily resolved! That is my shit.

#Ask game #technologistrevolution

What are you're thoughts on 80s era YA/kids fantasy movies a la The Dark Crystal, Legend, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, etc.? My impression is "positive" but I can't recall if you've ever, actually, explicitly said so (probably, but my brain is a sieve). Nothing really prompted this, I'm just bored at work.

Sorry I’m a bit late for your being bored at work. Unless you’re still bored at work, in which case I am extremely sorry.

I was and still am quite fond of the 80’s era fantasy movies. The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth are still some of my favorite movies. I adored The Neverending story until I read the book and was forced to face the movie’s inadequacies. Legend isn’t one of my favorites but it did have quite an impact on me. I think I’m also the only person who liked the tangerine dream soundtrack XD. And of course, let’s not forget Willow, which I think is one of the films that taught me how to see endings planted in beginnings. Willow’s skill with stage magic shown off in the opening scenes is what allows him to win the day at the end. Which I now look out for.

Labyrinth has that great circular style as well. The story opens with Sarah’s skill and her exact struggle with it. She even quotes it come the end. I love how it’s layered. The magical adventure on top of her maturation plot on top of her learning confidence in herself. Which I think was a thing in the 80’s kids fantasies. They almost all seemed to be about using magic as a conduit to learning self confidence. And as a fairly unconfident individual, that resonated pretty strongly with me. Probably a good chunk of why I’ve always wanted to be a wizard.

So, my feelings are quite positive. I even went this year to the Labyrinth Masquerade Ball in Los Angeles, which is specifically modeled on Labyrinth and those kind of fantastic films. Costume and mask required. And it really did feel like being inside one of those films so I’m already looking forward to going again.

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