ArtisticIzzy -Multifandom Stuffs-

And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:

To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and

Mehehehehehe MW STEVE REEEAAAL

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

Wake up, babe, new octopus just dropped

queer gauntlyet [FolloF]:

YTP-itization?

You take a poutube poop and, using only the source as a source, try to KICKBACK the veginal nerrarrara and dialtone as mum as you caac?? ???? ?

gauntletqueen:

⟡ Gets pulled into conversations, situations, and adventures by simple proximity

⟡ Has been a witness, a participant, and occasionally the cause of memorable public events

⟡ Goes on a walk and returns with information that no one expected

⟡ Is at the center of things that cannot be planned without having planned any of them

⟡ Has a travel record that reads like fiction because something always happens

⟡ Gets the stranger's life story on every flight without asking a single question

⟡ Has accidentally started three traditions, one local legend, and a minor debate

⟡ Goes somewhere ordinary and finds out it is not ordinary on that particular day

⟡ Has been the subject of a stranger's story that the stranger is still telling

⟡ Finds money, messages, and meaningful things in places that have no business having them

⟡ Gets upgraded, redirected, and rerouted into better situations than the ones they planned

⟡ Walks into things that are already in progress and becomes a key participant immediately

⟡ Has met the same stranger twice in two different countries and has stopped being surprised

⟡ Gets put in situations that cannot be repeated because they required too many specific conditions

⟡ Is the person in the group that things happen to and everyone else gets the story

⟡ Has been told 'this never happens' by professionals in several different fields

Your action hero just got shot in the shoulder, stitched it up in a motel bathroom, and is now running through a forest. I need you to know that a shoulder wound severs muscle, nerves, and sometimes bone, and the human body's response to that is not "mild wincing followed by full range of motion." here is what injuries actually do to peoplee...

⊹ Adrenaline is REAL and it does allow people to do extraordinary things immediately after injury, BUT it is a loan, not a gift. you borrow the function and you pay it back later with interest. Your character might genuinely be able to run for twenty minutes after being stabbed. and then the adrenaline drops and everything the body was delaying arrives all at once. the collapse is NOT weakness. it's biology collecting its debt. write the debt collection. it's more interesting than the heroic sprint anyway.

⊹ Blood loss changes cognition before it drops you. you don't go from "fine" to "unconscious." you go through a whole middle stage of confusion, poor decision-making, emotional dysregulation, a strange calm, tunnel vision, difficulty forming sentences. Your injured character making a bad call, saying something they normally wouldn't, becoming suddenly and inexplicably gentle--that's blood loss. use the middle stage. it's dramatically rich and almost nobody writes it.

⊹ Recovery has a timeline and the timeline is long and boring and inconvenient to plot. a broken rib takes six weeks and during those six weeks sneezing is a genuine emergency. a concussion means no screens, no reading, no bright lights, and symptoms can persist for months. a stab wound to the abdomen means weeks of infection risk, limited mobility, and a specific kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. Your character being sidelined and frustrated and useless for a long time is not a narrative problem. it's the story.

animated the "It's okay not to smile" scene from chapter 4

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It’s very simple in places. It’s basically the cookbook for people who think, ‘I’m really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can’t think of anything else to cook that won’t exhaust me’. And it’s free!

a lot of people think the only point of engagement with art is just to decode exactly what the author was trying to say, and their intent is the "real meaning," and once you've figured out the real meaning you're done you've solved it. that's dumb and boring. don't do that.

things death of the author does not mean:

every interpretation is equally valid

you are forbidden to treat what we can know or reasonably guess about the author's intentions as something that matters to your interpretation at all

the only valid way to interpret fiction is to treat it like it's a documentary of events that really happened and never think about it in terms of "why would the creator, a human person, choose to present it this way"

authors shouldn't get to have opinions about what they intended to say through their work, they should shut up and let me tell them what it means because i know better

actually i, the person reading or watching or viewing this art, am the infallible source of real meaning, and everybody who disagrees with me is wrong including but not limited to the author