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my cunning plan to slowly turn my all male friend group (except for me) into an all female friend group is proceeding exactly as planned (one is now a girl)
maybe one day we will be brave enough to lift our eyes and look, trembling, at the rest of the horse. not today, though. today, these are all the facts we have about horses.
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really cool example i have of someone making youtube subtitles that both include how something (in this case, a username) is spelled, and how the narrator pronounces it. i think more people should do this
I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
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I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
I tell a woman with a 9 to 5 office job about the slightly niche speculative fiction novel I just finished and she goes "Oh, that's...interesting. I hadn't heard of that."
I tell a grungy chick I met at a dive bar about the same book and she kinda scoffs and goes "Okay" like I said my favorite show is Sesame Street
"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.
As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.
I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!
The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.
With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.
Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!
Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.
You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).
fundamentals aren't inherently dull, but they're more abstract - fuck the fundamentals indeed. you need the momentum of feeling like you're progressing in order to tackle theory and study pieces. that's the point at which they can come in, and they can come in alongside the "fun stuff".
that Elton John songbook can also be a fantastic crash course in both harmony basics and, more specifically, pop harmony. suddenly those scales seem less stuffy as they help form chords and identify which chords have been borrowed or used as passing chords, giving concrete examples of how to create/dispel tensions or momentum, how to create loops, the importance of harmonic rhythm, voicings, and ofc harmonic analysis (thank you chord symbols)
the worst ones to unfuck are bad playing habits - rigid bow holds, gripping the neck on strings, rotating the entire arm when crossing fingers over on piano, using the entire arm to play individual notes instead of building up finger strength and dexterity etc.
but they're still unfuckable !!!! even if, like us, you go through most of your violin grades with an incredibly tense bow hold that's actively hampering your playing.
so, seconding this about the fundamentals. get playing first, then start asking questions about how the songs your learning work.
theory is rewarding in the way it allows you to understand the music you're playing, to improvise and jam, to sight read. playing techniques are rewarding in how much control and flexibility they give you over your instrument.
The trolley is about to run over all sentient life in the galaxy. You cannot switch the tracks, but you can still save everyone’s lives by pulling one of three levers, all of which involve sacrificing yourself. The red lever will destroy all trolleys, but will also kill you as well as all public transportation across the galaxy. The blue lever will merge your own consciousness with all trolleys, allowing you to control them and stop the trolley from running everyone over. The green lever will use your body as a catalyst to synthesize organic life and public transportation together - organic life will no longer be stuck in the cycle of creating public transportation that rebels against its creators, and both forms of life will finally be free.
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its funny to me how warmups for instruments generally sound nice and pretty. like just basic scales or chords. the exercises i do on my guitar could be mistaken for actual music at times.
and then vocal warmups are shit like. bark like a seal. grunt like a thwomp from mario 64. now sing the melody but instead of the lyrics youre saying 'moo moo mee mee mah mah' even the scales you gotta moo mee mah through that shit and its just so goofy every time. and this is why im not a singer
Granny Weatherwax is consistently described as handsome rather than beautiful and always keeps her hair tied up tight under her hat and has no interest in romantic or sexual contact past present or future and drives a janky old car broom which she refuses to let anyone else fix or replace and is deeply practical and self sufficient in her household management and is gruff and compassionate and mentors the younger members of her community and has zero time for bullies or bigots and what I'm Saying is. Stone Butch Granny Esme Weatherwax fucking When
Rereading the Tiffany books now and can I also say I'm also obsessed with Granny Aching and that's led me down towards Sybil too and then further like. AUGH I just love the way pterry writes women he writes them big and strong and caring and practical and unhinged and never writes a perfect hegemonic Ideal Woman he writes women that are Real they're fat they're scrawny they're old they're young they're stupid they're wise beyond their years they're wise exactly the level of their years and simultaneously stupid exactly the level of their years. Stone butch witch and her best friend in the world the horniest grandma ever. Their various adopted siblings children and grandchildren including a hippy who could explode you if she wasnt so nice, an opera singer inside a witch, and Me When I Was Nine. Werewolf. A dozen completely distinct Mulans. Incredibly angry goth civil activist who smokes like a chimneystack in a storm. Transgender chemist. Posh fat champion of the very underest of dogs. Old shepherd who would be a more recognisable witch if anyone could distract her from lambing season. Scottish Matriarch. Investigative journalist everyone respects until she looks down her nose at them in contemplation and they run for the fuckin hills. Vampire milf who keeps a gay boytoy around exclusively to cause political drama and dresses like an explosion in an antique store. Sex worker and revolutionary union leader. Absolutely fucking unmatched work by anyone especially a famous male fantasy author nobody is doing it like him
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