#rainbofiction

imagine some poor employee, in the future, who speaks polish just like you do. Imagine them having to watch this video as part of their job training. write it for them

that’s kind of why i want to go with the swearing route and just make it funny and kind of like a drunken rant on the imperialism of english as the primary language in business. and explain to them the decision-making process behind why the video is in polish. the gibberish language.

and then tell them it would be funny if they wrote their elevator pitch in polish just to fuck with everyone

honestly disagree, the season was a mess the whole way through, just an engaging mess

you could go with “bitches get stuff done” but i really want to know what NOMFUP is

It’s a quote from 2x01 of The Thick of It (a sweary British mockumentary comedy about politics) that gets used as a great running joke throughout the episode.

The main character (Malcolm Tucker) introduces it in the beginning as an acronym for NOT MY FUCKING PROBLEM, and he and his assistant/ second in command/ mini-me Jamie keep using it throughout the episode, thereby thoroughly confusing Ollie, an over-eager, opportunist little shit who will do and say anything to seem like he's in the loop.

The pay-off happens when Ollie tells some TV people that running with a certain news story would be "wrongfup". They look at him like he's grown a second head, and he meekly points out that it's "a Number Ten word".

It would just fit so well for a stupid inspirational website quote. "Oh, NOMFUP, yes, I've heard of that, it stands for ... do yoga and keep your goals in mind. Uh-huh."

content in terms of type of media? or content in terms of narrative or character archetype? 

i like documentaries. interactive documentaries are FUCKING COOL. 

in terms of fiction, i like either realism or surrealism or meta-fiction that deals with serious issues but in an off-beat way. i like dramedy and black humor and nihilism - anything that’s post-modernist in terms of storytelling and design. i like well-written and morally complex pulp or genre fiction. i don’t like melodrama or soap operas or anything that feels emotionally manipulative, overly simplistic in its world view, or like it assumes its audience is stupid. i also really love worldbuilding, and when setting or machines are basically main characters in their own rights (like the tardis in doctor who, or manchester in life on mars, or antarctica in worst journey in the world, or the impala on spn). 

for character types, i always fall in love with characters who are outsiders from society; who have trouble forming (normal) social bonds; who are more philosophical than emotional, and in fact really suck at having and understanding their own emotions, yet at the same time have a compassionate streak that probably gets them into trouble; who believe in moral relativity, if they’re not outright sociopaths, or at least have a deep understanding that most morality is hypocritical; and if you throw in alcohol or drug addiction problems, i’m in love. 

see: both sherlock holmes and john watson; jack sparrow; tony stark; endverse!cas; allison hendrix and helena from orphan black; and debatably viktor from yuri on ice. 

i also love the internet and mobile technology and virtual reality and what all of that is doing to culture and communication and identity and society.