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I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter
good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week
the mindset that will look at Hitler's art and say he was a good artist because fascists don't understand art on a spiritual level
Even before I was in fandom for anything, as a kid I'd like to think about or look up what I guess would be considered cornplating interpretations of... well, anything, really. Whether it was based on something confirmable came secondary, in the sense that direct from the author's mouth was first-order compelling, but not necessary. When I discovered the idea of "transformational works" I felt a lightbulb go off. Not only was there a concept for what I was searching for, but people who felt the same urge that I do.
I remember like it was a week ago (instead of over a decade) when the "curtains are just blue" conversation came up in my English class in senior year of high school. I remember thinking, even if the author didn't intend for it to be symbolic, isn't it more interesting to consider it could be? How much of the power of words opens up when blue no longer only describes a pigment, but also an emotion or an atmosphere. How it opens up a window to the author -- are they "blue", or is the character, the story? Was that the color of the drapes in front of them while writing, or was it the color of the curtains in their childhood home, or completely the opposite? My teacher at the time was trying to get the class to think about the description of a picture on the wall, seemingly unrelated to the narrative. Why this person, why these clothes, why this scene?
I was never part of the "it's not that deep" crowd. How limiting. What if it was, and beyond that, what if we made it to be? It's like squeezing a lemon, getting juice, then balking at the idea of making lemonade. Why expand, why transform, why explore, why pervert, why deconstruct, why queer, why remake, why distort, why why why?
Why not? More importantly, how can you not? This pull to tease apart meaning and change POV and ask what if doesn't occur to you? I don't know who I'd be without that urge. I don't know who I'd be without that urge reflected in others across time and space. The world is so much richer for it.
This inspired specifically after playing Still Wakes the Deep, a game with lovecraftian story elements, including cosmic horror and human fumblings, and then wading into what I assumed would be a pretty shallow basin of fan content or analysis. But it was ..... very shallow. No overly detailed analysis of the horror of climate anxiety OR how the fear of the ocean was a metaphor for the MC's struggle with the role of husband and father? The critique of capitalism narrative is right there. The game was railroaded to hell, yes, but the dialogue and character design was immaculate for a short narrative. The Shape was a beautiful, soft and squishy cosmic entity that begs to be romanticized. I am here for it.
Even before I was in fandom for anything, as a kid I'd like to think about or look up what I guess would be considered cornplating interpretations of... well, anything, really. Whether it was based on something confirmable came secondary, in the sense that direct from the author's mouth was first-order compelling, but not necessary. When I discovered the idea of "transformational works" I felt a lightbulb go off. Not only was there a concept for what I was searching for, but people who felt the same urge that I do.
I remember like it was a week ago (instead of over a decade) when the "curtains are just blue" conversation came up in my English class in senior year of high school. I remember thinking, even if the author didn't intend for it to be symbolic, isn't it more interesting to consider it could be? How much of the power of words opens up when blue no longer only describes a pigment, but also an emotion or an atmosphere. How it opens up a window to the author -- are they "blue", or is the character, the story? Was that the color of the drapes in front of them while writing, or was it the color of the curtains in their childhood home, or completely the opposite? My teacher at the time was trying to get the class to think about the description of a picture on the wall, seemingly unrelated to the narrative. Why this person, why these clothes, why this scene?
I was never part of the "it's not that deep" crowd. How limiting. What if it was, and beyond that, what if we made it to be? It's like squeezing a lemon, getting juice, then balking at the idea of making lemonade. Why expand, why transform, why explore, why pervert, why deconstruct, why queer, why remake, why distort, why why why?
Why not? More importantly, how can you not? This pull to tease apart meaning and change POV and ask what if doesn't occur to you? I don't know who I'd be without that urge. I don't know who I'd be without that urge reflected in others across time and space. The world is so much richer for it.
If any part of your plan involves the words "nobody could be that stupid", please be prepared to be proven wrong at any minute at a moment's notice. Pay in mind that the person determined to prove you wrong may already be aware of this assumption, and is already approaching your current location at an alarming speed.
"it will be fine if people just"
people will not just
In 2011 I attended an event called Bmore Fail, in which entrepreneurs in Baltimore talked about their failures and what they learned from them.
What I learned is that there is an inflexible rule about how people interact with systems. If your system would work perfectly if people Just Would, and yet they Don't, then your system is bad and you should feel bad. Systems must be built with an eye toward "will people actually do this"?
Recycling was a thing when I was a child. (The 70's.) In my home in New York State, you could carry recyclables to a recycling center. Nobody did. Now in 2024 Baltimore there is a trash truck that comes every week to pick up my recyclables, and I and my neighbors fill our cans with objects that can be recycled, because a system was developed that was easy for busy people to do, and there's a lot of social pressure to do it -- but the social pressure wouldn't exist if it wasn't easy to do. Only the most crunchy granola people bitched at you if you didn't recycle in 1979, when it required a lot of effort. Now it is considered kind of on par with spitting in the street or leaving a dirty diaper on the diaper changing table in the bathroom instead of throwing it out, if you don't recycle.
Your job as the system creator is to make it as easy as possible for people to do the right thing, and as hard as possible to do the wrong thing. This is why web forms have data validation (but too much data validation actually makes the forms harder, so hit the spot in the middle.) And if you want people to adopt social change, whether it's environmentalism, accepting gay people, or whatever, make it as easy as possible. And don't guilt people about not doing it until it's as easy as possible; instead phrase things more like "wouldn't it be cool if". It's not the fault of the individual that they can't get things done in a bad system. Fix the system.
if users regularly fuck up using a tool you made, and your answer is "you're holding it wrong", the next question you should ask is "why did i make this tool so it's easy to hold it wrong?"
And then you're tech support begging the development team to change something very small that would make the user experience so much better cause they made the tool too easy to hold wrong and development will whine at you because they're very busy with the back end stuff and hey you're the customer facing side why can't you just make them, and no you can't just make them, please development please I'm begging you make the tool less easy to hold wrong.
sorry what was that about how "accepting gay people" is on the list of things we should "make easier"?
@alarajrogers what did you mean by this?
that the onus is on gay people to be more palatable?
No, the onus is on whoever is building the system. Most of the time that's not the gay people themselves, because people who are marginalized are rarely in a position to build systems that affect their own marginalization; that's what allies with privilege are for.
A small thing. If you want to support trans and nonbinary people, then on government forms, if they require gender and you can't get around it, allow "other"; better still, don't require gender. If you're building a medical system, and the patient's gender is M, do not gray out all the "female" problems he might be presenting with on the grounds that a man can't possibly have menstrual problems, be pregnant, or have issues with his uterus; likewise if the patient presents as F, don't make it impossible to enter a diagnosis of prostate cancer for her.
Don't set up validation rules that prevent someone with gender M from having a husband. Better yet, let "husband" and "wife" both be covered by the term "spouse", because that is inclusive of non-binary spouses as well.
Because I'm in IT, I think in terms of IT systems. But there are government systems and insurance systems and financial systems and all sorts of systems out there, that should be set up so that a gay person will be able to navigate it as easily as a straight person, and a straight person will see that the available options don't privilege them at the expense of everyone else... a subtle reminder that no, you're not the center of the universe and gay people exist. Why do you think the right wing fights so hard against there being Spanish on forms that are also in English? You'd think, it doesn't harm anyone using the form for there to be both Spanish and English. But they know, the presence of Spanish reminds English speakers that the world doesn't center around what works for them; other options exist. That's what they want to get rid of, the subtle reminder that someone besides them is important too.
This is a discussion about how to make systems work in some way other than If People Would Just, making them easier to promote the result you want, so I'm not sure how you even got "the onus is on gay people to be more palatable", and I get the feeling you don't understand the context of the discussion. I am not even sure how you could devise a system that incorporates "gay people should make themselves more palatable" because that sounds exactly like a thing that People Should Just... meaning, you're relying on humans to behave in the exact specific way you need them to for your system to work, and the whole point of this conversation is that doing that dooms your system to fail. Gay people will never Just Make Themselves More Palatable To Straights, as a cohort, so if your system for getting gay people to be better accepted relies on If Gay People Would Just, your system will fail.
Unfortunately, reading comprehension is also one of those things that If People Would Just, so posting about things on Tumblr is also a system that's doomed to fail. :-)

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Ximena’s son doesn’t have add, he jus like to jump okay
My BG3 experience:
> play 225 hours through to the end without looking up anything aside from a couple walkthroughs on side quests (staring at fandom longingly)
> feel immensely satisfied
> "I'm going to let it sit for a bit"
> day 2: opens ao3 "I'm just curious"
> ...gortash has a ship?
> ...who the fuck is the dark urge
> ...you can what
> WHAT
> day 3: character selection screen
I've seen this a million times irl. Haha 💀💀
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Everything I’ve Ever Let Go Of Has Claw Marks On It
To save someone else going through eleventy billion reverse image searches - the sculptor is David Altmejd.
Thought 2, 2019
Cheetah cubs feasting on an impala Taken in Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographed by Madhur Nangia
unrepentant and covered in blood with mama
A dream of the fields
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Adds chicken man from mr a's farm to my tmasc moodboard, no one is doing it like him
Adds chicken man from mr a's farm to my tmasc moodboard, no one is doing it like him