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culturally different yet morally aligned heroes.
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@zerosum-life damn I thought this was you!
I wish I had a fraction of the fierceness that Aya Sato has...
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Damn he came for their lives 😂
"I don't support it in real life"
Then stop normalizing it Then stop romanticizing it Then stop pretending it’s “hot” Then stop pretending it’s “cute”
will you ever understand that fiction is NOT reality
the brain reacts to fictional situtations they same way it does with real situations
a collection of links to articles about how fiction affects reality
but yeah, fiction totally doesnt impact reailty
@robin-mask have at it.
I’m too tired …
The ‘sources’ aren’t even worth a response; the human brain’s ability to attribute feeling or associations to words is an obvious one, which stems back to ancient times in absolute clarity, because - without this emotional reaction - art in any/all forms would be destroyed overnight. The article isn’t “fiction influences reality”, but “fiction influences out emotion” …
It means that reading “Romeo and Juliet” may have me on the verge of tears, but it doesn’t mean that I’m going to go out and commit a double-suicide because I read the play … newspapers, documentaries, and letters from loved ones could evoke the same emotions … ban those, too?
The latter is too much for me to dissect right now …
I’ll simply say that fiction can - and should - be totally free and the artist free to explore any theme as they see fit … ‘Lolita’ to ‘The Colour Purple’ to ‘Romeo and Juliet’ all discuss problematic things, some even romanticise them, and yet we don’t ban these books, because they provoke discussion and have literary merit. On the flipside, tawdry ‘Mills and Boons’ novels to hardcore porn DVDs are also allowed, because they entertain and provide a release.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s porn or gorn … for kids or for adults … poetry or fine-art or literary classics … what we read does not impact our actions, insofar as a direct cause and not a correlation. The actual studies on this are vague at best, biased at worst, and debated in most psychology classes … so far people are unanimous: fiction does not impact reality.
A good book -? It can make you think. It can make you reassess your behaviour. It can horrify you. It can arouse you. It can spark a lifetime of research. These are all emotion based … the book has engaged you on a mental level, making you think about your behaviour and personality, and - well - maybe this is what scares you … not ‘copying’ the behaviour …
@antielricest - what is it that scares you?
I have never once - in all my years of studying Literature - served someone I hate the flesh of her children in a stew, or demanded someone serve me a pound of flesh to even a debt, or poisoned a sword in hopes of killing my nephew … I’ve never slept with my sister and then paraded the aborted foetus around on a stick, just like I’ve never stabbed my cousin to death to inherit from him … these are all stories - mostly Shakespeare - from the same two cenuries a long time ago. Still taught in schools. All taught in schools.
If you think someone is going to copy fiction -?
Get them help. They clearly need it.
Not in a derogatory way, but in an actual ‘something deeper is at play here’, because people don’t act out fantasies or fiction because ‘it’s cool’ or ‘it’s hot’ or ‘so-and-so did it’ … people who act out fiction wither wanted to/were going to do it anyway or they were deeply disturbed people with an underlying illness. People do not copy fiction as a rule.
Do you honestly think between cave-paintings on a wall and being able to buy “Hannibal” on DVD, that not one person noticed ‘people are copying from fiction’ and - you know - banned stories and art outright?
What you’re scared of is people thinking for themselves …
Let them think and let us get back to enjoying art.
“In art, everything must be fair game, everything must be explorable, everything must be speakable, or we go backwards, we go down.”
- Amanda Palmer
Thank you, honestly what I hate about the idea of “don’t put it in fiction because it affects the outside world” is you’re telling the audience they are too dumb to have any control over how they will process the information given to them, to be critical, to question, to decide.
this whole discussion always makes me think about when people say in the media “ARE SHOOTING GAMES MAKING YOUR KIDS A KILLING MACHINE?”
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thank you! I couldn’t find that one in google!
I would like to add Alexander Hamilton himself to this collection.
and of course, alexandra dowling using a tablet computer on the set of BBC musketeers
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OH MY GOODNESS… an online art pal made this for me!! It’s Miso just being cool, as always! I am absolutely blown away by this *O*
He gave me permission to upload here, please check out his pixel animation work it is STUNNING! https://twitter.com/SovanJedi
Someone made me an INCREDIBLE pixel art fan animation! Posted it to my thesis blog, please check out his work!!
Whoops! Kinda neglected my tumblr for a bit, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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Happy New Year 2017!
年賀絵です
“This video of this adorable little girl encouraging her Dad while he tries to do her hair, is just what we needed to brighten up our day.” [X]
[Dad: How’m I doing on your hair? Child: Good! Dad: Let’s see, do I need more grease? Child: Yes. You need more grease on there. Dad: More grease? And then what? Child: And then you gonna need to brush it, and then you put a band on there. Dad: A band on it? Child: Yeah! Dad: Aww.. Child: You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job! Dad: Aww, thank you, sweetheart, so much! Daddy’s trying, doing the best I can. Thank you so much. Child: You’re welcome! Dad: I’m almost done! Child: You been doing great! Dad: Aw baby, thank you so much, you’re so encouraging to Dad. Thank you. Child: You’re welcome. Dad: I really appreciate you so much. You’re so awesome. Daddy getting your ponytails ready for school.]
Interrupting all the political ugliness to make you melt with cute.
Me as a father
this is so pure
Kids that age are parrots of tone and phrasing. So the whole bit with “You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job!” means that there is at least one adult, if not more, in her life that regularly talks to her that way.
Everything about this video makes me happy.
some onis…
when a baby is crying in the background and you use slow it down on snapchat
*GROSS LAUGHTER*
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