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Goshhhhhh what a coincidence. Just reblogged one of those.

The Spanish catholic priest who takes Madame's confession and tries to beat her to death with a censer.

Ockham Saneer. Obviously not, like, a Good guy. But it's hard to point to anything he did wrong except covering for Thisbe, and at the time that had to seem like the right option. Overall an extremely responsible and level-headed young man.

Ojiro Sniper, but specifically the Ojiro Sniper who Bridger brought to life from a doll because he thought it looked nice and within 24 hours shot JEDD Mason in the head. Maybe a little too blasé about starting a global conflict but it's the most clear-eyed action anyone took in Seven Surrenders bar none.

Ojiro Sniper, but the normal one. Once again "we need to kill this guy" unbeaten as a logical response to JEDD Mason.

Fuckinggggggggggg... wow I'm struggling. The new Censor, Jung Su-Hyeon Ancelet Kosala. Competent administrator, probably didn't know about all the inane gender nonsense, steps up in Book 3 and does the job adequately.

this can happen by constructing a scene where those details suddenly become relevant to the thing being depicted and the schemas the audience is using to think about it, or just by the simple act of being invited to dwell on them or having someone else's observations shared with you. and like, sure, this can be #edifying and raise the salience of #important things that are overlooked when they shouldn't be, but the fundamental mechanism at work is that when they're in the headspace for it, people enjoy the act of having their attention drawn to something they weren't even thinking about that makes them go "ohhhh." it produces that satisfying "click" in the mind, even a sense of wonder. we all have a miserly Heuristics Brain running at all times, guessing ahead and taking shortcuts to produce our initial impression of what we're seeing, and it's fantastic at its job of quickly processing loads of information. but we're all also constantly in the process of deciding when to go back and check its work. and there's a particular pleasure in the exercise of letting an artist shape that process, letting them pick which "irrelevant" details to guide you back to for reconsideration. like being walked through a wing of someone else's brain.

this is why the non-sequitur weirdness in little kids' stories and poetry is so much fun: the partially-constructed schemas of the world that they're operating on still leave a ton of those details unprocessed, and often lead to some really unexpected linkages and conclusions that force you to examine why it would never have occurred to you to think that. it's not mature art in the sense that most artists are aware on some level of their audience's expected shared ways of seeing the world, and are often skillfully playing games with them, or at least accounting for them. but the raw material for that play, for the mechanism that makes the game fun, is the unexpected details that come from noticing things we're primed to skip over. and kid weirdness has that in abundance.

The Crawler is composed of all these incredibly minute, specific details of texture and appearance. They’re kaleidoscoping—some readers use the word 'abstract.' But in actual fact, it is what the biologist is seeing and experiencing. If she has any failing, it’s because she’s trying to convey the tactile experience of constant morphing. That’s a challenge for the novelist: you have to have readers experience it viscerally. You cheat because you can never really be in a character’s head. The biologist, left to her own devices and not required to be the protagonist of my novel, would be doing field notes. But a character is an artificial construct. You’re not including all of them, just trying to get as close as you can so that you’re still creating narrative as opposed to moments.

[James Joyce’s] Ulysses probably gets closest to recording moments. I admire it, but it’s also hard to read because you don’t know what has importance and what doesn’t. To some degree, Ulysses abdicates the novelist’s responsibility to actually choose the elements that are in the novel in favor of some other idea of what a novel is. I admire that as well. Novels are made of approximations—that includes the description of the Crawler. In theory, the biologist might have later done field notes that were more clinical, not this 'in the moment.' But for purposes of a novel, which has to have scenes, you get panoply, montage."

Putting all these interviews here to emphasize the importance of Moon Remix RPG Adventure's in inspiring Toby Fox, and how Undertale in turn inspired one of its devs, Yoshiro Kimura, to take a chance and make a game like Moon again

Motorcycle Psychosis - Simon Angel

With Rachel Sweeney

finally posting my full comic; GOREBULL!! i rly hope you guys like it. its a labour of love about stuff i think about all the time.

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