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hpwlwbigbang · 2 years

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2022 Fest Sched and Rules

RULES:

All stories must feature a romantic/partnership relationship between two or more characters who are not canonically men. The primary ship should comprise characters from the original seven books. We welcome ace characters, poly ships, and trans or nonbinary interpretations of characters, but the intention of this fest is to celebrate wlw pairings, and to encourage the creation of longer, richer stories that these ships don’t often get. If you have a question or concern about this rule, you are welcome to contact the mods, but please respect the intentions of the fest.

The format we are using has changed slightly this year; we’ll still be doing writer sign-ups first, but this year artists will sign up a little later, once authors have fully completed their fics. Moderators will be pairing up artists with writers, however if an artist and a writer know they want to work together and would like to sign up as a team, that is fine.

And yes, we will have Hype Readers again this year! We know that wlw ships tend to get less attention than other ships. In an effort to provide a way for people to participate without writing or making art, and to make sure that our lovely creators get a good response, we are creating the position of Hype Readers – if you are interested in being a Hype Reader, you can sign up in August, and pledge to read and comment on at least two stories from the fest.

For writers: The word length requirement for this fest is minimum 25,000 words.

Writer timeline

26 March-9 April: writer sign-ups

7 May: 25% check-in

4 June: 50% check-in

25 June: 80% check-in and summary due

9 July: deadline for submitting fic

16 July: writer and artist matches will be sent out by this date

1 September: posting begins

For artists: Minimum art requirement is 2 pieces of art that are more developed than a sketch.

Artist timeline:

25 June-8 July: artist sign-ups (based on writers’ 80% check-in and summary)

16 July: writer and artist matches will be sent out by this date

30 July: 50% check in

20 August: deadline for submitting art

1 September: posting begins

Check-ins:

The check-in dates listed in the timeline are the date by which you MUST have sent us your work in progress/completed piece. We will send out reminder emails a week in advance of the check-in date, and if we have not heard from you by midnight EST on the date of the check-in, we will assume you are dropping the fest. Please note that we are always happy to work with creators to sort out extensions provided creators get in touch to request them BEFORE deadlines have passed. Because this is a matching fest, and the nature of a Big Bang results in the mod workload getting heavier closer to posting, it is imperative that all participants follow the check-in schedule. If we don’t hear from you by a check-in or extension date, especially for final submissions, we will have to make alternate plans, which are very time sensitive — we will not have time to follow up with you or hound you via email.

Collaboration and communication:

Because the purpose of this fest is to create written works that are minimum 25k, accompanied by 2 pieces of art, communication is extremely important. We don’t want any writers or artists to be left in a lurch, without a story or art to go with their creation. Moderators will communicate with participants via email, and if we require a response, that will be clearly indicated in the subject header. If you do not reply to one of these emails within three days you will be assumed to be dropping the fest. Please note that though we do our best to stay on top of communication Monday–Friday, all emails will be answered by the following weekend at the latest. If a weekend goes by and you don’t get a response, please reach out on discord, tumblr, or by follow up email–we are but human and may have missed it!

Please remember that artist/author matches will be sent out by 16 July. Once you have received your match, you will be expected to get in touch with your collaborator within three days. Please also be respectful of your collaborator by responding to their messages in a timely manner.

If you know you’re going to have unreliable internet access etc. at some point during the fest, please let mods and your collaborators know IN ADVANCE so that we can plan accordingly.

Fest eligibility:

The mods are very understanding that, especially during these times, unexpected life events can throw a wrench into our fandom plans. However, if in a past year, you have signed up as an author or artist and then ghosted (failed to reply to mod emails and dropped out without communicating), you are not eligible to sign up for the HP WLW Big Bang this year. If you ghost this year, you will not be eligible to sign up for the fest in 2023.

Please note that this DOES NOT apply to authors or artists who communicated that they were dropping out in a previous year. We always do our best to accommodate creators who stay in touch with us about changes to their schedules and there’s never hard feelings toward any creator who has to drop. This rule ONLY applies to folks who stopped communicating without letting the mods know that they were dropping the fest in a previous year.

You must be 18+ to sign up as a writer or artist for HP WLW Big Bang. This does not mean your fic/art needs to be E rated, only that artists and authors must be 18 or older to sign up. Hype readers of all ages are welcome, provided they engage only with fics and art rated T or lower.

A final note:

Please communicate with moderators if you encounter any issues, think you will need an extension, are having trouble finding an alpha or beta reader, etc. We want to help support you and make sure you are successful, but we can’t do that if we don’t know what’s going on.

Postscript: Want to squee with other HP WLW enthusiasts about the fest and our favourite women of the HP verse in general? Come hang out with us on the discord server.

And thanks again to @banana-ge-ge and @showknight for the fest banners!

Be sure to follow the fest if you aren’t already for further updates, reminders, and mod-posts!

#hpwlwbb #hpwlwbb2022

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self-loving-vampire · 3 years

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Ultima VII: The Black Gate (1992)

Ultima 7 was pretty much my introduction to RPGs, and I could not have asked for a better pair of games to ignite a lifelong passion into that genre. There is a real reason why this is still considered one of the best RPGs ever made.

While Ultima 7 is often discussed as a singular entity, it is actually two separate full-length games with one expansion each. For this post I will focus on the first one, Ultima VII: The Black Gate, as well as its expansion: Forge of Virtue.

I recommend playing the game using Exult, which adds some quality of life features (such as a feeding hotkey and a “use all keys” hotkey) as well as the option to use higher quality audio packs, implement bug fixes, and change the font into something easier on the eyes.

Summary

The protagonist of the Ultima series is “the Avatar”, a blank slate isekai protagonist from our world who has previously travelled to the world of Britannia several times and saved it from many threats, also becoming the shining paragon of the virtues meant to guide its people.

In this game, you once again cross the portal to Britannia to save it from a new and mysterious extradimensional threat. As soon as you arrive, you immediately discover two things:

1- A violent ritualistic murder has just taken place.

2- There is suspicious new organization called “The Fellowship” gaining adherents throughout the land.

It is up to you to investigate these developments.

Freedom

In terms of freedom, the Black Gate has plenty overall but there are areas where it is not quite there.

Once you can manage to get the password to get out of the locked-down town of Trinsic you are free to go nearly anywhere in the game right away and have multiple means of transportation to accomplish this, such as moongates or ships.

And there are some very real rewards to exploring like this as well, such as various treasure caches and other interesting findings.

The world is actually very small by modern standards, especially when settlements occupy so much of it, but both the towns and the wilderness areas are dense with content.

Notably, the game also allows you to perform various activities. From stealing to making a honest living by baking bread (which is something you can do thanks to how interactive the environment is) or gathering eggs at a farm.

Where it falls short is in terms of having multiple possible solutions for quests. Generally there is only one correct option for how to complete them.

That said, there is a bad ending you might be able to find in addition to the canonical good ending.

Character Creation/Customization

This is one of the big minuses of the game. While you can select your name and gender (and with Exult also have a wider selection of portraits) that is about it for character creation.

All characters will start with the same stats and there are no character classes. You can develop your stats through training and specialize through your choice of equipment, but by the end of the Forge of Virtue expansion you will have maxed stats and the best weapon in the game (a sword) regardless, and you will definitely need to cast a few spells to progress the main quest as well.

This can make every playthrough feel much like the last, as there isn’t that much of a way to vary how your character develops or what abilities they’ll end up having. You will always be a master of absolutely everything in the end unless you go out of your way to avoid doing the Forge of Virtue expansion.

Story/Setting

While the game is a bit too obvious and heavy-handed about its villains, there are still many interesting storylines in the game that deal with mature subjects that remain relevant today, such as cults, drug abuse, workplace exploitation, and xenophobia.

However, the setting as a whole is greater than any individual storyline taking place within. With the exception of most guards and bandits, every single NPC in the game is an individual with a name, schedule, living space, and defined personality. This was not the norm in 1992 and even today there’s not many games that really implement this well. The world is also very detailed in terms of things like the services available to you, the general interactivity of the game world, and the sheer amount of things that populate every corner of it.

The initial murder is not only a strong hook for investigation but also a shocking scene in its own right. The Guardian also proves to have a significant presence as a villain, using a mental link to remotely taunt you based on the context of what is happening. For example, if your companions die he may offer you some exaggerated, mocking pity.

Immersion

There is something very interesting and comfortable about just watching the various inhabitants of a town just go about their daily lives. They work during the day, eat at certain times (either at home or at one of the many taverns in the land), and sleep at night. They don’t just strangely repeat one single action during the day either, they may do things like open windows when the weather is nice or turn candles and streetlamps on at night.

In terms of immersion, Ultima 7 is my primary example of a game that does an excellent job of it even if there’s some weirdness going on with the setting. Even after having played so many more games throughout my life, only a few are on the same level as either part of Ultima 7 when it comes to immersion.

Gameplay

There are three broad aspects to the gameplay here that I want to discuss.

The first is combat. It is actually simple enough that you can call it almost entirely automatic. You simply enable combat mode by pressing C and your party will automatically go and fight nearby hostile enemies based on whatever combat orders you have selected for them (by default, attacking the closest enemy).

This is certainly better than having an outright bad or annoying combat system as the whole process is simple and painless, but I still wish there was more depth to it. Your stats, and especially your equipment, still play a role but other than things like pausing to use items or cast spells the whole process is very uninvolved.

I kind of wish there was more depth to it, but at least the other two areas of the gameplay are reasonably good.

The next aspect of gameplay is dialogue, which uses dialogue trees for the first time in the series. Previously, it required typing in keywords, which are retained but as dialogue options you can just click on rather than remember and type.

While the keywords are not really written as natural language most of the time (requiring some imagination to determine the specifics of your dialogue), the system is very easy to use regardless. It definitely lacks depth compared to something like Fallout: New Vegas, but so do most games.

The third and most notable thing is the way you interact with the world in general. It is both extremely simple and very immersive at the same time.

Ultima 7 is a game that can be played entirely with the mouse (though keyboard hotkeys make everything much more comfortable). You can right click a space to walk there, you can left click something to identify what it is, and you can use double left click to interact.

For example, double left click over an NPC to talk to them (or attack them, if combat mode is enabled), double left click a door to open it, double left click a loaf of bread to feed it to someone, and so on.

But there is more. By holding your click over an item and dragging it, you can move it. This has various applications beyond just being how you pick things up and add them to your inventory. For example, sometimes objects may be hidden beneath other objects, or objects may need to be placed in a specific location.

There are some downsides to this system. Particularly, the issue that keeping your inventory organized can be time-consuming when it has to be done by manually dragging objects around, and this can also make looting relatively slow.

Despite this, I think this kind of interaction system has a lot of potential. It just has some clunky aspects to be ironed out.

Aesthetics

Ultima 7 was very good-looking for its time, and although modern players will not be very impressed by how it looks or sounds, it still remains easily legible in a way that some other old games are not. That, and the ability to identify anything with just a left click, makes this a very easy game to make out at the very least.

Some of the music of this game is very distinctive too, and will likely stay with you after a full playthrough.

In terms of style, the Black Gate does have a bit of an identity while still having a very familiar medieval fantasy setting with things like trolls, animated skeletons, dragons, and liches. While there are aspects that help the setting distinguish itself a bit, they are relatively subtle.

If I had to describe the feeling of playing this, I’d call it “open and laid back”. While the main quest deals with a looming threat to the entire world, the game does not follow this overly closely at first, letting you deal with it at your own pace and without having your exploration options limited by the story.

In fact, when I was young I often just ignored that and went to live in a creepy ruin in the swamp.

(Don’t expect many pictures in these reviews, but have one of my “childhood home.”)

I’d say that Ultima 7′s second part (Serpent Isle) has a much stronger and also darker and more isolating atmosphere overall and that has a lot of appeal to me in particular, but the Black Gate is definitely more open and less linear, and I also appreciate that.

Accessibility

It pleases me to say that Ultima 7 remains extremely easy to pick up and play. Even setting up Exult is not complicated in the least.

The gameplay is intuitive and simple, the UI is minimal, stats are basic (and not even that important), and the combat is automatic. I expect that this is not only the easiest point of entry into the Ultima series as a whole but also likely even easier to get into than many modern RPGs!

It does have some aspects that may be a bit clunky, like all the inventory-related dragging, but it’s definitely not obscure or complicated even to someone who has not read the manual (though I’d still recommend doing that). I literally played this game as a tiny child who could barely read or understand English and still got really into it.

The one thing I’d like to point out is that the game uses a type of copy protection where at a couple of story points (including an extremely early one to leave the first town) you will be asked some questions that require using the manual and external map to answer. You can just google the answers for these.

Conclusion

As I write more of these reviews there will be many games that are interesting, but deeply flawed. Games that are worth trying out but maybe not finishing, as well as games that had interesting ideas but that I can’t entirely recommend due to serious problems that will easily put people off.

But I do not think the Black Gate is such a game. I can easily recommend it with no qualifiers despite the fact that it is almost 30 years old. This is really a game that all RPG fans should at the very least try for a few hours, and not only for its historical significance. It is genuinely a good game worthy of its praise.

I will review its sequel, Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, next.

#vampire reviews rpgs #ultima 7 #the black gate

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lutrain2020 · 4 years

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Meet the Creator!

Introducing: Seeking7 or Seeking!

Commission: I don't offer writing commissions at the moment, mostly because I'm not sure how to conduct or present myself in the market. If anyone would like to request a certain fic or short story from me, however, I'd be glad to work out details with them. :)

Social Media: A03: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Seeking7 FFnet: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/13334645/

Tell us a little bit about you!

Hiya! I'm Seeking7, or Seeking. I was born in Alabama and raised in California to a pair of the most hardworking Egyptian immigrants you've ever met, and the mixture of Arabic and American influence over the course of my life has had a profound influence on the way I look at the world. My favorite subjects are biology and english, and I aspire to become either an EMT or military medic after I graduate. In regards to hobbies (aside from playing copious amounts of Zelda), I love studying American and Ancient Israelite history, and I hope to one day learn ancient Hebrew and Greek so I can read the original biblical manuscripts for myself!

Is there someone who inspires you and your writing?

While my own brain can usually come up with a certain scene or idea that would inspire me to put paper to pen, it's the people I have around me that encourage me to keep writing. The people on FFN and AO3 who comment and leave kudos on my work mean the world to me (shout out to JoSeBach on FFN and MyWritingisMeh on Ao3 for leaving comments/reviews on each chapter of my fic "Mephibosheth"). The LU fans who come to my livewrites on the discord are so ridiculously encouraging and always let me know that my writing can actually be interesting to some people -- a fact that never ceases to astound me. But most credit goes to my younger sister. Even when I don't show her a work because it might be a little bit extreme or intense for her age, she always lets me know that she's sure it's good regardless. Her unconditional, unreasonable support inspires me to be that kind of person to other fic writers!

What got you into writing?

Three books in particular encouraged me to take writing seriously. "Crime and Punishment" was the first in this process, showcasing just how intense, beautiful, and profound a book with actually very little plot can be. The entire book takes place more or less in the head of a man wracked to pieces by guilt, and Dostoevsky's decision to focus on internal instead of external conflict changed the way I looked at literature. "East of Eden" was next. It wasn't just the book's allegorical nature or the Cain and Abel motif that astounded me - Steinbeck's vivid descriptions of everything from the human mind to sunrise in Salinas has had a profound impact on my own writing. I still reference the first few pages when I write! (actually, if you look at my fic "The Most Sincere Kind of Lie," the opening paragraph is heavily inspired by the first page of East of Eden!) Finally, the biblical Book of Job changed the way I look at dialogue and interactions between flawed characters. The whole book is almost written like an ancient screenplay and deals with heavy questions like the meaning of pain and the meaning of meaninglessness without offering direct answers - which inspired me to try and include those questions in my own writing and handle them in a similar, vague, interperative way.

What's your favorite part of the writing process?

After outlining a fic, I usually start out by writing them like a screenplay with all dialogue tags and action notes written off to the side. When sarcastic banter, silly, lighthearted interactions, or intense conversations with a deeper meaning behind them start to come together, I can't help but smile. That usually gives the the extra inspirational boost I need to go back and flesh everything out so it becomes a story! (if you struggle with writing dialogue, message me on the discord and I'll be glad to tell you everything I know and send you the multitude of resources I have on the subject)

What's your least favorite part of the writing process?

Vetting works for grammatical mistakes turns writing fics into homework! I can't stand posting something and later reading just to find out that I forgot to capitalize a character's name, or that a comma is missing, or that Ao3 or FFN messed up the page breaks and I have to go back in and fix it. I'm not a perfectionist most of the time, but when I come to writing, I absolutely am.

Whats your favorite type of scene to write?

Intense philosophical debates and serious heart-to-heart conversations are by far my favorite kind of scenes to write, and that's because they're my favorite kind of scenes to observe and read! I always leave them feeling like I've gained something intellectually and emotionally, and it's my constant hope and dream to be able to impart the same kind of introspective thoughtfulness on the reader.

What's the hardest for you to write?

Allowing or even plotting for a character to go off the deep end is always such a hard thing to write. Not for them to die, necessarily, but for them to completely lose their morals, priorities, and relationships in search for something selfish or temporary. Writing them making the same mistakes over and over not because they're stupid but because they don't care about the consequences is always hard -- it's like killing off a character and replacing them with the darkest, nastiest version of themselves. Basically, writing the opposite of character development is the opposite of fun. :(

What's your favorite genre to write?

Whatever the hybrid child of angst and fluff is called, that's my baby. I find that a combination of the two can make for a really interesting experience and give me more space to explore different faucets of each character's personality. It's also the perfect breeding ground for some intense, sincere conversations.

What fandoms do you enjoy writing for?

I don't write for a lot of fandoms, just Linked Universe, Undertale, and occasionally LoZ stuff not tied directly to our nine precious boys.

What's the work you are most proud of?

I've only gotten into LU very recently, so at the time of writing this I don't have anything from the fandom that's ready to showcase. I do have some cool Undertale stuff though, at least in my opinion! If you're interested in that, there are two fics I've poured (and am currently pouring) my heart and soul into that I'm extremely proud of. The first one is 'The Reason,' which is just a quick oneshot focused on Grillby being an amazing, hardworking dad, (https://archiveofourown.org/works/24354130) and the second is Mephibosheth,' my multi-chapter pre-canon fic about the lives of Asriel and Chara. '(https://archiveofourown.org/works/23804797)

Is there a specific scene you are particularly proud of?

Going again off the works I referenced earlier, a particular scene in the ninth chapter of 'Mephibosheth' had me patting myself on the back. I can't tell you what it is, though, because it's a massive spoiler. ;)

Is there something you had to work through that forced you to grow as a writer?

At the beginning of my junior year of high school I submitted two works into a competition I was confident I would win. No, not just win, I was sure I would get first place nationally. The competition never had many submissions and I knew that the works I submitted were pretty darn good. As you can probably guess, I didn't win anything. No medal or mention, nothing. I was in shock for a good few days and considering giving up writing completely. Then I realized how stupid I was being for assuming I was entitled to an award, for writing something only for recognition, and for thinking that I should give up on something I love so much just because it didn't supply me with the endorphin rush I thought it would. I made it a goal to improve as much as humanly possible afterwards, and I'm happy to say that I think I'm making progress towards that!

Do you have any fics inspired by real life stories?

Every gremlin-like thing the boys do in my WIP LU fic "The Most Sincere Kind of Lie" (by the time this is up, it'll probably be on Ao3) is based off something I've seen my brother and sister do. They're the embodiment of utter chaos and the manifestation of the primal urge to destroy, so they're great inspiration for Link shenanigans. Also, almost all of the banter in 'Mephibosheth' has taken inspiration from one of three places; conversations I've had with my grandparents, conversations I've had with my siblings, or interviews I've watched online. Inspiration for thought-provoking dialogue has to come somewhere that's not my own brain - there aren't enough brain cells to bear the brunt of that creative burden!

Where do you post your finished works?

I post on FFN and Ao3, both under the alias Seeking7. What's that, you say? You want a link to my profile? Well, who am I to refuse?? (AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Seeking7) (FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/13334645/)

#Meet The Creator #lutrain2020 #linkeduniverse #lu

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alphaternal · 4 years

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* INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL RAPTOR INTELLIGENCE STUDY (IBRIS).

On April 4th, 2012, Simon Masrani gives Doctor Henry Wu full authorization to create a new species after the board of his company requested a new Jurassic World attraction to satisfy investors, resulting in the creation of the Indominus Rex. Earlier within that very same year, Dr. Wu recreated hybrid dromaeosauridae, specifically combining genes from birds, reptiles, the achillobator and its close relative the velociraptor, both of which share a place among the raptor family. The Integrated Behavioral Raptor Intelligence Study was created under the pretense that “velociraptors” would become a main attraction of Jurassic World. Owen Grady was hired as chief researcher and animal handler for the project. IBRIS was conducted by INGEN’s Security Division. The program was privately conducted by INGEN, and is a completely separate entity from Jurassic World.

The fact that the Indominus Rex and the IBRIS Project were founded within the same year is not a coincidence. Under the command of Vic Hoskins, INGEN’s Security Division had evolved from a small security detail into a powerful paramilitary organization in partnerships with Aerospace Dynamix, Mascom Network, and the United Nation’s Security Council; utilizing five satellites for a GPS navigation system known as ‘Centaurus’ developed and launched by Mascom, it is one of the most formidable security companies in the world.

A retired Recon Marine, Vic Hoskins saw an opportunity in weaponizing the predators of Jurassic World. Unknown to Simon Masrani, he cut a deal with Dr. Henry Wu to develop a deadly hybrid super-weapon under the pretense of creating a new attraction for Masrani’s theme park. Vic greenlighted the IBRIS Project in order to test the theory that raptors were able to be trained and controlled for military field operations.

When Owen was hired, the circumstances were complicated, and he had not been informed of what his role in this new job even was until he was shipped off to Isla Nublar. While Owen had no idea of the Indominus Rex’s existence, he had developed an inseparable bond with the raptors and quickly discovered that Hoskins had ulterior motives for the IBRIS Project. Owen actively fought to delay and stop these plans. Because his expertise was invaluable, and he was already making considerable progress with his research, they could not replace him. He was the key to the project’s success.

The IBRIS Project had not started smoothly. Since its conception in 2012, there have been a number of raptor subjects created for IBRIS using DNA from raptors taken from Isla Sorna. An incident with Subject V2, a hyper-aggressive raptor, resulted in their termination via euthanasia (the autopsy revealed that the aggression was likely due to the raptor’s sex changing to male through their pogona DNA). The mortality rate of cloned raptors were high, as they were extremely fragile as newborns. In 2013, upon realizing that training the raptors would be incredibly complex, Owen had recruited a French zoologist and long-time friend, Barry Sembène. They began working together to develop strategies and techniques to care for the raptors.

By 2015, there was a pack of raptors consisting of Blue, Charlie, Delta, and Echo, all trained to follow over 40 different commands.

In a typical hierarchy among pack animals, the alpha is not designated as the "strongest, most violent aggressor commanding the pack". This is a gross misconception based on flawed, outdated research with random subjugated wolves in enclosed spaces (zoos). In free wolves, alphas (often coming in pairs) are parental figures with the necessary skill set to protect and sustain the group dynamic. “Betas” are typically the alphas’ oldest children. An authentic wolf pack is a family. Evolution is about progeny, not power, or strength, or dominance.

When Owen confirms he is the raptor pack’s alpha to Zach Mitchell, he is literally admitting that he is their surrogate parent. In turn, the IBRIS raptors recognize Owen as their caregiver and “matriarch”.

Owen was present at each one of their births, and had them imprint on him; this was essential to the process of training them. He cycled through several training methods, derived from his experience training Belgian Malinois, bottlenose dolphins, sea lions, and other marine animals. These training methods included Clicker training, Target & Transference training, and Hand-rearing. As an animal behaviorist, it was not difficult to learn from the raptors and accommodate their unique needs. Owen began hand-rearing them before they could even walk, rarely leaving their side. He fed them by hand. As the raptors began growing large enough to socialize, Owen would eat pieces of raw meat as he was feeding it to the raptors, in order to establish himself as the pack’s alpha. He was often required to exude dominant behavior, body language and posturing, which compelled the raptors to behave submissively and recognize his role as leader of the pack.

The raptors’ dynamics and hierarchy are not very different from typical pack-hunting predators, but they were born in captivity; their behaviors adapted to their environment and training... and the fact that they had imprinted on a human.

Owen was the only handler allowed to work directly with the raptors. No other staff member was allowed to hand-feed them. Because he is essentially their surrogate parent, Owen spent twelve hours a day with the raptors in order to maintain this bond. For this reason, he has a mobile office-home in the facility where they built the spacious Raptor Research Arena. He had four alarm clocks, and slept five hours a day, every day, except on weekends where he was required days off.

The raptors are measured between 6 to 7 feet tall and twelve feet long; their average weight estimated between 150 and 200 pounds. Their intelligence was equivalent to lower primates and socially intelligent canines: specifically, wolves. To create the unique raptors for IBRIS, Dr. Henry Wu created a custom hybrid genetic code for each clone. The four raptors were born separately. Blue was born in 2012, as the oldest member of the raptor pack, surviving the initial trials of the IBRIS project. Delta was the second eldest raptor, born in 2013. Later in that same year, Echo was born as the second youngest raptor in the pack. Charlie was the youngest, born on the first month of 2014. The average raptor was “lethal” at 3 months old due to their accelerated growth rate; it only takes them one year to grow into their fully adult bodies.

[Owen Grady’s expertise as an animal handler is canonically inspired by Military Dolphin Handlers. I personally added that he was a Navy SEAL Military Working Dog Handler training Belgian Malinois before MK9, which are the primary canines used in military field operations and bomb detection for DEVGRU. Intelligent, protective, and with an excessive prey-drive, these dogs were known as the “Furry Raptors” of domesticated canines for their extremely high energy, almost to the point of neurotic. His ability to train raptors and become their proverbial alpha can be paralleling the famous ex-military animal behaviorist Werner Freund, a former paratrooper and career soldier whom dedicated his life to rearing and raising wolves in his own wolf sanctuary in Merzig, Germany. Freund would raise them from a very young age, and acted as their pack leader.]

#HC.#JURASSIC WORLD.#long post

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classpect-crew · 5 years

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Aspects and Narrative Structure

What exactly are Aspects, anyways? Well, in the comic itself, Aspects are forces of the universe that influence and are influenced by the “Heroes” present in the story. But what does this mean on a broader scale? We all have a pretty good idea of what each Aspect represents in canon, but what if that’s not the whole story?

Before we begin, I’d like to direct you to an excellent video by @revolutionaryduelist (optimistic Duelist on YouTube) that will prime you for what I’m about to discuss. I highly recommend checking out their channel, as it’s extremely informative and fun to watch!

So, now that you’ve no doubt enjoyed the video I’ve linked, let’s get into what each Aspect represents in terms of a broader narrative. One of the big narrative themes of Homestuck is that the story is essentially a stage performance, or an “interactive play,” which we see throughout the comic, from the “Acts” and “Intermissions” to the curtains opening and closing on each Act. There are plenty of times where the “fourth wall” is completely shattered, and the layers between the cast and the audience start to blend together. With this in mind, it’s not difficult to reason that each Aspect not only represents a certain universal force in the comic’s universe, but also represents an aspect of narrative structure. I’ll begin with the definitions shown in optimistic Duelist’s video, and then expand upon them from my own perspective.

Let’s start with some easy ones: Space and Time. Space and Time represent the Setting and Pacing of a story. In our stage play metaphor, we can expand this further. Space is represented by the scenery that tells us where the characters are, but it also represents the physical space that the actors take up. Different prop placement, lighting, and scenery can make the stage feel bigger or smaller to fit the needs of the scene, and a change in these things will naturally translate to us as a scene change. Time, on the other hand, is represented by the progression of the story through actions, dialogue, the opening and closing of curtains, and even the music that accompanies each scene and plays continuously during intermissions. In a musical, this is even more obvious, as each song tells a distinct part of the story and opens up ideas about character motivations, illustrates choices, and so on—though this aspect of Time is merely the lens through which these things are viewed, since choices/motivations/etc. are truly representative of other Aspects entirely. As in real life, these two Aspects intermingle considerably, creating “spacetime” as the spatial and temporal backdrop of all the events we witness as audience members, the framework that allows both depth and progression to occur in the narrative and sets the foundation of the stage itself.

Light and Void represent Relevance and Irrelevance. The difference between the cast and crew on stage is easy to tell because the spotlight will always be on a character, not on a member of the crew, unless ironically referencing a crew member (thus breaking the illusion) is a part of the performance itself. Those who are illuminated hold the attention of the audience, and the light allows us to see their facial expressions, their clothing, their movements, etc. and understand the character better through these things. A character who is self-assured may wear a smug grin, holding themselves upright with confidence. A character who is poor might wear old, ragged clothing. Light is all about which characters are relevant, and it also allows the audience to discern information about the characters and about the larger world within the play itself. On the other hand, Void is represented by the unlit areas of the stage, the shadows behind props and characters, and even the crew itself. The ties between Void and the stage crew can be illustrated through bunraku, also known as ningyō jōruri, a traditional Japanese puppet theatre with a long and fascinating history. Puppeteers are clothed in black robes, often hooded, and blend into the black backdrop in order to direct attention onto the puppets themselves and away from their operators. Stage crews in American theatre will often wear dark clothing for the same reason, moving props and scenery as necessary without drawing attention away from the story itself. Although they’re absolutely vital to the execution of the play itself, the crew is in most cases irrelevant to the play’s narrative, thus they work in the shadows to place pieces where they need to be, going unnoticed by the audience.

Life and Doom represent Agency and Conflict. As every good storyteller knows, both of these are vital to the lifeblood of a story, as characters who have no agency are simply puppets, empty vessels with no will of their own, and a story with no conflict doesn’t go anywhere or challenge the characters in any way. In our stage metaphor, Life is the appearance of each character’s free will. Even though we recognize that a script is in place, and the actors are simply working within the framework of scripted interactions, they bring the characters to life through their performances and give the illusion that the world presented onstage is a vibrant one. A good actor can draw an audience into the story by fully embodying the character in question, stepping into the role and allowing us to relate to them, cheering on the heroes and rallying against the villains as the story progresses. We begin to forget that the world we’re presented is mere fiction, and we come out of the experience feeling much different than when we entered. This is what makes a good stage play so compelling, as we watch these characters grow and change based on what they endure and how the world reacts to their actions. In the same vein, Doom is the conflicts, obstacles, and limits placed in the way of the characters to challenge them and help them to grow. In the case of a tragedy, this can also be the end result, whether through a character failing to achieve their goals, a villain succeeding in their heinous plot, or even the death of a protagonist, which removes their agency in the story itself. No real person becomes stronger without facing hardship, and the same is true in fiction. What sort of character would Hamlet be if he wasn’t challenged to find a way to cope with the death of his father, or the knowledge that his uncle was the one who killed him? These conflicts enrich the stories we’re told and provide roadblocks on the road of success, testing the limits of each character’s willpower and strengthening their resolve, or even forcing them to reconsider their goals entirely. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and these necessary hardships fill out the story itself, ensuring that something is learned through the experience through delayed—or, in some cases, entirely absent—gratification.

Breath and Blood represent Plot Development and Character Dynamics. As the Aspect of movement and change, Breath translates into our metaphor quite nicely, ensuring that the story is as dynamic as the characters themselves. It’s the sequence of events that takes us from exposition to resolution—in essence, it’s pretty much the story itself, which is why John is able to do what he does, escaping from the narrative of Homestuck entirely in order to affect things from the outside. The plot is the engine that drives the story—the twists and turns that the narrative takes as difference pieces take their turns on the board. Character motivations are explored, actions are taken, unexpected events take place, and lessons are learned. All of this happens within the plot, and it’s a very external force, as opposed to what we’ll explore in a moment with Blood, which hones in on characters specifically, rather than the whole narrative. Breath is also represented by change, and any change in motivations, scenery, tone, and even tempo can be attributed to Breath in addition to the Aspects normally represented by those things. Blood, however, is a matter of interpersonal relations between characters in a story: their feelings about—and for—each other, the various factions within a story, and the natural associations one can make, such as “protagonists/antagonists, nobility/commoners, obedient civilians/ruthless scoundrels, and so on. Part of what makes characters so interesting is their dynamics with other characters. For example, on her own, Elphaba Thropp from Wicked is a very interesting character. Blessed with innate magical skills, but cursed with green skin, she is ostracized by many and reluctantly admired by some, and this makes her interactions with others very dynamic. Her insistence on bringing much-needed attention to the oppression of Animals in Oz, social consequences be damned, comes in direct conflict with a character like Galinda Upland, who strives to maintain her place in the social hierarchy, even if that means masking her true feelings on controversial subjects to paint herself favorably in the eyes of others. As the story progresses, the two find that they have much more in common than they could’ve guessed, and they begin fighting for the same cause, shifting from bitter enemies to best friends through the course of a few excellent musical numbers. This shift in their dynamic is vital to the story, yet this is merely one of many such dynamics.

Let’s move on to two Aspects that are a bit more abstract in our narrative format. Hope and Rage represent Coherence and Contrivance. These words may sound quite different from what we’re used to from these Aspects but hear me out, because there’s a method to my madness. A story’s coherence is how well it can be understood, and furthermore, how well it can be related to by an audience. It also represents the enthusiasm with which an invested audience will respond to the narrative taking place. In our stage play metaphor, this is part of what drives us to immerse ourselves in the story. It’s the excitement we feel when our favorite character completes their goal as set up in the exposition, or the fear we experience when an adversary comes close to unraveling it all. It’s the ability to escape from our own lives and enter the world presented onstage, and a big part of why walking out of a great performance can feel like we’re waking up from an intense lucid dream. It’s the magic of excellent storytelling. Hope is what drives us to overlook mistakes, either in the narrative itself or in the performance, and allows us to enjoy it as a whole. On the other hand, Rage’s contrivance delights in tearing open plot holes, exposing the divide between performers and the audience, and dispelling the illusion that the world on stage is in any way “real.” It’s the heckler at a comedy show, or the critics in the nosebleed seats. It’s the breaking of the fourth wall that occurs when a character in the story directly addresses the audience, or begins to critique the narrative itself. While it can certainly seem like a negative force, this Aspect is what keeps us firmly grounded in reality, pulling us out of “la la land” when the show is over and it’s time to return to our lives. It marks an end to the magic, a disbelief in the “miracles,” and the voice of reason.

Finally, our last two Aspects, Heart and Mind, represent Inner Character and Outer Character. This is fairly obvious, given what we already know from canon, and it translates fairly literally in our metaphor. Heart is represented by a character’s “true self,” or what remains the same in every performance of the play. It’s what makes each character recognizable, no matter how the script, costumes, set design, etc. have been adapted. Peter Pan, for example, is always presented as childlike and carefree, bold in his actions and protective of those he loves. He can also be incredibly naive and immature, which humanizes him and allows room for growth. Regardless of which actor might play him, or whether the story is adapted to a sci-fi setting, or tells the tale of a much older Peter, or is even presented from the perspective of an entirely different culture, these character traits and motivations will always be the same. They’re what make him the “Peter Pan” we all know and love. The “true self” involves every trait that is essential to a character. If these traits were changed in some way, they would cease to be the same character, much like adding or removing a proton from an atom would change its element entirely. On the contrary, Mind is represented by a character’s “projected self,” or how they present themselves in the company of others. For some characters, their “true self” always shines through, and they rarely act in ways that aren’t in accordance with their deeply-held values. For others, such as Billy Flynn from Chicago, the creation and maintenance of a constructed, outward “self” is vital to their survival and prosperity, and sometimes deception is the name of the game. Billy, an incredibly successful defense lawyer, comes across in his musical number as a caring, compassionate man who couldn’t care less about money and values “love” more than anything else. This is extremely ironic, however, as the audience is soon presented with a very different view of Billy: as a stern, ambitious man who’s very concerned with money, but also loves the challenge of winning cases for clients on death row. As his “true self” is revealed, his choices and motivations begin to make sense to the audience, and we gain a deeper understanding of the man behind the mask, so to speak.

Each Aspect plays a vital role in the narrative structure of any story—or performance, in this case—and perhaps we can use these interpretations to further understand what our own Aspect connections are. After all, all the world’s a stage, right?

#classpect analysis #classpect #homestuck #classpects #homestuck analysis #optimisticDuelist #revolutionaryduelist #holy shit this took like two hours to write. i need to sleep now g’night

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dragonnan · 3 years

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Tagged by @aelaer a week or two ago, thank you!

Name: Tanya (among family I'm Nan or Auntie Nanny)

Fandoms: Sherlock, MCU, Psych, Prodigal Son, and a goodly collection of others

Where you post: For a number of years I posted on FFN but between the really shitty reviews and extremely cumbersome posting process I finally quit. I posed on Psychfic while still an active part of that fandom but that, too, has pretty much ended. I put a few stories on Wattpad but found it to be pretty meh. I now post exclusively to AO3.

Most popular multi-chapter fic: It's a tossup between “Fury” on Psychfic and “All Nighter” on AO3 – one based on comments and the other on Kudos. Frankly “popularity” is really subjective because there's also stuff like read count and with comments, at least nearly half are replies from me and read count also includes re-reads as well as every time I clicked on the damn thing to edit so....

You know I'm just really not sure how to properly answer this??

Favorite story you’ve written so far: Like others have stated you can ask me this on three different days and get three different answers and there will be more than 1 fic mentioned every time so.... Because I write in different fandoms I just absolutely can't list a single fic. The best I can narrow it would a fic from my top 3 fandoms.

Psych: Paint it Black. I had read a fic where Shawn was gradually going blind and had really been enjoying it and the challenges it presented. Sadly it was never completed. As has happened before I decided I would write my own damn fic if I couldn't get a completed story so that was the primary motivation to start this. What I most love about this is writing from Shawn's perspective as he navigates being blind and not knowing whether or not his condition is permanent. I did my best to honor the experience of blind and partially blind people and tried to look beyond the cliché.

MCU: I have so much fun writing these stories! In spite of the dumpster fire the film canon became I do so love this sandbox and employing various forms of unfucking it. So I'm gonna cheat a little and pick two for my faves here since one is a WIP. Sed Diabolus. I don't need to have completed it yet to know this will be my all-time favorite. This is the first fic that has been entirely plotted out and OMG I'm so excited for iiiit!! The second is Simple Math which seems like an odd choice given there's zero action – mostly just one character – hell, not even any whump. But there is something about that deep dive into Tony's mindset that keeps this as a fave even though it was the first thing I ever wrote for the MCU. I learned about Tony as I wrote this and I also worked my way through those motivations that bothered me regarding Stane. Even years later I still mentally go back to this fic whenever I write Tony because I feel encapsulates the essence of how I see him as a character.

Sherlock: Compared to other fandoms I'm still quite new to this fandom so I don't have nearly as many fics. But I still have a favorite! And, like with the MCU, it's the first story I ever wrote for this fandom; The Tiger and the Shark. Returning to a plot device I've employed in other fics, this one is built around a sexual assault and taking the character on a journey from that terrible event to the point where they rediscover themselves. PTSD ever being my favorite form of whump I employ that fairly a lot in this story and employ some kinda radical methods for coping with those memories.

Fic you were nervous to post: I mean until I start getting comments I'm a world of anxiety with every story I post. But grabbing a specific fic that hit my nerves – that Sherlock fic I'd said was my fave certainly qualified. Not only was it my first Sherlock fic – it also was charging out of the gate with a very heavy topic so yeah – I wasn't sure if people would absolutely hate it or find my characterizations totally off or what.

How you choose your titles: It varies a bit. In some stories, like Sed Diabolus, I actually consult friends on various ideas. Other times I'll consider songs or lyrics and my favorite thing is if I can alter the known title just a bit to make it more relevant to the fic (I did that a LOT with Psych fics which was the method the show also employed for its episode titles). One of my favorite Psych titles is “The Wizard Was the Wicked Witch and the Scarecrow Lost His Courage”.

Do you outline: Almost never – not until “Sed Diabolus”. That story, though, is so astoundingly complex that without an outline I'd be hopelessly lost. I am, though, trying to make a practice of outlining more because it helps SO much!

Complete: If we count every one-shot collection and challenge collection it likely is over 200 stories. Of course a lot of those are one-shots. My total completed chaptered fics number maybe around 34?

In progress: 16 – between Psychfic and AO3. All Psych stories are on long-term hiatus for the foreseeable future (some, honestly, I will never finish as they are many many years old and I've lost the inspiration for the plot). Several MCU stories are also on the back-burner while I focus on “Sed Diabolus”. I admit I get LOTS of story ideas and staying focused on a single fic is not something I've ever been greatly successful with.

Coming soon/not yet started: I meaaaan.... lots?? I have probably several hundred ideas and partially started fics across many fandoms. As to “imminently coming soon...” I don't think I currently have an active story that I haven't already posted at least a first chapter. Sadly I have zero patience for developing something for months before posting which is why I have so many WIPs. That said I DO have a Sherlock au that has been poking at me now and then involving the witch trials that started in Denmark and, eventually, made their way to Salem. The idea would be that Molly Hooper is accused of being a witch. She, of course, is innocent but cause this unfortunate attention due to her “uncanny” ability to heal the sick and injured (not so much uncanny as opposed to employing methods that aren't so reliant on superstition and folklore).

She is scheduled to be tortured and executed but is saved by Sherlock – a strange recluse primarily ignored and given a pass as he solves mysteries for people. He and his friend John save Molly from this awful fate. The twist is that Sherlock is a sorcerer (bit of marvel crossover-ish) and able to transport them to safety.

Do you accept prompts: I wish I could cause I love ideas but I don't have the time/energy to always work on what I already have and I'm awful at follow thru. Like I will never turn away an Ask wanting to share ideas but I can't promise that I can actually write anything.

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: As was the reply to a previous query – I have lots that are ideas that will linger in partial stages for sometimes years. If it's “upcoming” I've already posted the first chapter lol! But, again, I have several story ideas that whenever I poke through my folders I get excited about someday actually writing them. Here is a teaser for an MCU fic involving Tony Stark and Obie (I still feel this was never explored enough – certainly not in fic):

They were doing a retrospective, ten year anniversary kinda... whatever. Unofficial, of course. Certainly nothing Pepper would have dreamed up even at her most drunk (which, honestly, was never her scene. Tony had sorta owned that space well beyond the time it had started owning him). Whose idea it ultimately had been? Frankly Tony couldn't give a fuck. That he was asked to be one of the speakers was slightly more... awkward. Awkward was the right word, yeah? Nauseating was certainly another and possibly a bit more accurate.

Dead for a decade and Obadiah Stane still managed to fuck with his life.

But... it hadn't always been that way. At least, not as he'd believed back when the Walkman had been on every kid's Christmas list.

He'd thought it was bonding; at the time. His dad had never been one for just hanging out; shooting the shit; telling tales out of school. No, Pops, when he bothered to interact, led with questions. “You keeping your grades up?” “You still seeing that floozy?” “When are you going to pull your head out of your ass and grow the hell up?” “You do realize it's my name you're disgracing every time you go on a bender?”

With Obie it was just, easy. Obie might ask about school but it was always with approval and pride. He would discuss Tony's conquests as though Tony had climbed Kilimanjaro wearing nothing but underwear and a cape.

Obie was there when his father wasn't. Which meant that Obie was always there. The first time he got astoundingly drunk on his father's scotch, Obie was the one to help him hunch over the toilet and vomit expensive, aged booze into the toilet. Obie was also the one to replace the depleted bottle to keep Howard in the dark. For a fourteen year old kid still trying to gain his dad's favor, that had meant everything.

He saw his first porn with Obie; sex education ala Traci Lords, three months shy of his fifteenth birthday. That was the same time he was introduced to weed. Obie had cautioned him to use it sparingly; didn't want to fry that genius brain, he'd say, and ruffle his hair. The porn had made him uncomfortable. Obie had turned it off and told him they could watch whatever Tony wanted. They'd ended up changing the station to Knight Rider; smoking and munching Cheetos and laughing over their orange fingers.

It was Obie who was there, arm around his shoulders, after his parents died. He desperately didn't want to sob in front of the man. Things were so complicated with his dad that all he felt was blinding guilt... as though some part of him had caused this. But Obie had filled him with bourbon until the emotions got soft around the edges and he'd sat beside the older man, head tipping gradually to the right until he was held up by Obie's shoulder. Obie had just slung an arm around him and let Tony pass out while he rubbed a broad hand up and down his bicep.

It was strange, now, looking back with adult perspective. A perspective that included Afghanistan and his intended execution while Obie talked about legacy and responsibility while Tony's lungs slowly seized. He'd taken the time to sit there – arm around Tony's shoulders while one broad hand traveled up and down Tony's bicep – just like when he was a kid and Obie was the whole world.

He'd tried to remember if it had felt so... tainted... at the time. Or if he'd always believed it was love.

Obie had never quite crossed that line. Though hindsight offered a peek into that possibility with enough clarity Tony had fought with his cramping gut for nearly thirty minutes. He'd staved off vomiting though he was fairly certain his dignity had still been in tatters what with Bruce wandering in on his misery.

Upcoming story you are most excited about (this is basically a repeat of the above question so I decided to change it. Do you have a future story idea you'd like to write that is not yet beyond the vague idea stage? I love stories that put Molly in some sort of jeporady and I have a barely formed idea to someday write a “stalker fic” of some sort and not I don't care that this trope had been done on repeat – I still love it lol! I have a smidge of writing for it:

“I need your help.”

As afternoons at Baker Street went, this was a mundane request heard so often that Sherlock's typical reply, “Obviously, or you wouldn't be here”, could have been printed on flash cards. The detective had actually made the suggestion after a particularly full day at the flat and having heard the statement no less than twenty times.

Today, however, Sherlock merely blinked for a moment. Then, with an awkwardness rare to a man with a lethal sort of grace in his movements, Sherlock gestured to John's chair, JOHN'S CHAIR, before taking his usual seat.

Molly didn't exactly smile but her lips edged up a bit before she sat.

John cleared his throat before pointing a vague hand towards the kitchen. “I'll just go make some tea, shall I?”

“No, please, I...” The stammer in her speech was not uncommon; though John couldn't recall such obvious fear. Forgoing the kitchen he, instead, took the hard wooden chair facing the other two.

“Molly, what's wrong?”

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electronicdelusionstarlight · 4 years

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Alright, I’ve gotten back into writing Spider-Man.

I’m scrapping the Wonder Woman x Spider-Man open relationship with Mary Jane X Felicia Open relationship that ultimately culminates into a 4 people polycule where Peter gets pegged, and go for something a bit more simple. So, I’m sorry for the, like, 20 kudos I received on Ao3 over that, and 31 favorites on HF, but that’s abandoned at the moment.

So, new idea...

Amazing Spinnerete, an AU where MJ gets bitten by the spider instead.

(Spider-Woman and Jackpot were already taken and Spider-Girl didn’t sound right to her, as if it was too early for that).

1) Peter, who doesn’t get any powers ever for the entirety of my story (unlike I was planning to do for Mary Jane in the previous one as I piled power after power on her among star sapphire rings, spirits of vengeance, symbiontes, Gamma Radiations and Thor’s hammer), turns into a Sidekick/IT Guy role to her.

2) He’s there to fulfill a purely supporting role to MJ Heroics, craft the webs, be a support to her, all that shebang you’d expect, while getting worried sick over her going out in New York and risking her life daily among villains and criminals and whatnot. He’s the “Nerd behind the computer,” a concept that got admittedly popularized by Oracle, as well as her “field medic” when she gets back home and needs stitching on both the costume and her scars.

3) Also uncle Ben is alive and on a ongoing trip with Aunt Anna and Aunt May around the world. They solve crimes, off screen, like 3 Jessica Fletchers, so Peter isn’t as fucked up emotionally as in canon.

4) I’m gona take from the MC2 and say that, unlike Peter, MJ is actually trying to profit off her image from the start. This might cause some conflicts with Peter over him not wanting them to lucrate on some of their crime fighting (Such as not wanting to patent the web fluid in fear of criminals getting a hold of it), and mixes up with their already canon conflict over her being the main breadwinner in the couple AND the possibility of her doing progressively more risque work.

5) Specifically, I’m gona say it: Spinnerete and Mary Jane have two separate OnlyFans. It’s a modernized story and they are in their mid twenties and need a stable source of income and what better than a horde of people out there paying the same woman TWICE for pics of her buying wonderbread? “Pictures of Spinneret” therefore become a way different phrase, and there is a debate in universe over a superheroine essentially being a sex worker, and all that that entails. I don’t know how well I’m going to explore it tho so this might get dropped after a while and just make her a ASMRtist or a Twitch Streamer, basically the same thing at this point.

6) Since this is a AU I can do like Spider-Gwen did and not just fuck up one piece of the main universe but make every aspect of the universe different, so, bullet list of things I’ve been coming up with that are different from main continuity:

6A) The Hero to Heroine ratio (as well as Villain to Villainess) is 1 hero every 10 heroines. Major (Male, Homo Sapiens) heroes in the setting are: Johnny Storm (Johnny Storm), Thor (Thor Odinson), Power Man (Luke Cage), Iron Man (Rhodey Rhodes), Original Captain America (Steve Rogers).

6B) The mutant community is a massive polycule of free love and shit. The biggest mutant community in the world is stationed in the Free Republic of Genosha, currently part of a worldwide international federation of small nations around the globe born to contrast Soviet and American influences during the cold war called IFMP (International Federation of Micro-Powers). Latveria and Wakanda are part of it, and are the leaders of the two major factions among the delegates in the form of the isolationists (Wakanda) and the Expansionists (Latveria). The second biggest mutant community in the world is in San Diego. most male superheroes and some of their villains happen to be mutants.

6C) Susan Storm lead a year long deep space expedition team financed by the united states government, and managed to contact several alien races in her travels, returning to earth with diplomatic ties and Power Cosmic given to her by Infinity herself as a sign of good will after she and the united armies of space finally managed to slay and destroy “The eldritch abomination at the edge of reality that makes people racist by existing,” as it was called. This starts a age of cooperation between the various alien races and empires out there in the cosmos and Earth, their embassies being built in most of the major nations of the world, trade and science deals cropping up as a result.

6D) Susan Storm later formed the (apolitical, above nations and planets) superhero team the Fantastic Five, which changed members over the years based on relationship with other alien planets and tensions between the members of the team. Current line up consists in Susan Storm (Susan Storm, former Ms. Fantastic), super partes leader due to the Power Cosmic, alongside Lyja the Lazerfist (Second Ms. Fantastic and Former Skrull chaos agent on earth during the Skrull-Kree Cold War), Crystalia Amaquelin (Crystal, Inhuman Ambassador), She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters, earth representative and legal expert), Thundra (Thundra, Femizonian Ambassador). The Kree empire was disbanded after the end of the Kree-Skrull cold war.

6E) Johnny Storm never became the second human torch but ends up becoming Evil Jesus. During his trip to the stars with his sister he accidentally ends up in the Negative Zone, the void between dimensions, and befriends the locals, becoming a jesus like figure and ending up ruling the place. It’s not as banged up as it sounds but with prolonged commuting with the Negative Zone he has achieved a state of resonance with Oblivion, one of the other 4 great entities of the universe, and has become his champion. (in direct contrast with his sister’s coming from Infinity). He still uses his powers for good, if in a chaotic good way compared to his sister lawful good one.

6F) Peggy Carter was subjected to the Super Soldier program during WWII, thus becoming Agent England, de facto leader of the Invaders (Mostly same team, Sub-Mariner, First Human Torch, etc.), and guiding the assault against nazi germany and hydra. She and her sidekick end up frozen on the same plane

6G) Steve Rogers was still picked under her wing, if not able to receive super soldier treatment, and still became the (original) Captain America, a purely propagandist figure of a scrawny, physically weak son of immigrants Brooklyn dude, the complete opposite of the German Ubermech ideal for the white man, but with enough anger and outrage over an unjust world to pick fights with people 5 times his size, shown in many a propaganda video punching Hitler square in the jaw and knocking him out cold. They both ended up on that plane crashing in the arctic and were defrosted several years later.

6H) With the disappearance of Agent England, the Invaders disbanding, and the cold war underway, with no superhero team really cropping up, Doctor Deidre Wentworth managed to develop a modified version of the Super Soldier Serum, testing it on herself, and becoming the Superior Captain America. She forms the (US Exclusive, extremely political) “Americommandos” superteam, with selected superheroines and “reformed” supervillaines of the time. The team was responsible for many controversial superhero activities during the cold war, in and out of the united states, and is still going to this day, even if some members have retires or have outright died. Not Superior Cap tho, no, her aging has been slowed down due to the serum, so here she is still guiding black ops teams to capture and imprison some worker rights activists that happen to be mutants.

6I) The Sorcerer Supreme of this dimension happens to be Doctor Doom, Ruler of Latveria.

6L) Norman Osborn never became the Green Goblin. He was still a scummy CEO and millionaire, and still had a affair with one of his son’s best friends. Gwen was dating Peter at the time and ended up getting pregnant with Norman, he finds out, pressures her to get an abortion, almost terrorizes her, she doesn’t cave, Peter is understandably confused and shocked but still wants to support her (as does Mary Jane), but on the day of Gwen’s son’s and daughter’s birth Norman pulls the same shit he pulled in canon with Mary Jane and Mayday, hires an assassin to force a miscarriage, Gwen finds out a couple months later, stages her death, and becomes the Ghost-Goblin, ending up throwing Norman off the New York bridge and killing him in the process for good. His estate and company was inherited by his son, Henry, who devolved most of it to charity, destroying the Osborn business empire.

7) That’s the gist of it really, gona elaborate on more tomorrow.

EDIT: 8) Nightcrawler is the Pope.

#spider-man #mary jane watson #spinnerete #eh #long post

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muffintonic · 4 years

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My fanfic trope tier list! (I saw @fanfic-inator795 do this the other day and thought it looked fun, haha.) Make your own here!

Placement reasoning under the cut.

Friends to Lovers: excellent, very natural that your lover would also be your friend.

Slow Burn: I like getting absorbed in a story, and the speed that I read at means I need longer ones so i’m not like, “Aww, man, that was it?” Also, the slow burns usually allow for progression at a more realistic pace as well as character development/analysis.

Mutual Pining: two people who love each other and eventually get together....Nice.

Missing Scenes: I am very nosey about characters i’m invested in, and sometimes I feel like whole other episodes and such could have been based off of what isn’t shown in between scenes.

Sharing a Bed: I like seeing the different ways that people contrive the bed-sharing to happen, haha. Also, there’s usually a lot of funny moments when getting to see the characters’ panicked thoughts. (The Kico WIP i’ve been sporadically working on since 2015 involves this, haha.)

Established Relationship: we don’t usually get to see this in media, so it’s refreshing!

Fluff: usually goes hand-in-hand with the above, and sometimes it’s nice to just know there’s nothing but happytimes happening.

Huddle for Warmth: similar to the bed sharing one, it’s all about the setting....with a side of either fluff or panicking, haha.

Fairytale AU: i’m a sucker for fantasy, and it’s fun to see which fairytales people use and their personal takes on them.

Magic AU: see above.

Fix it Fic: i’m not usually dissatisfied with how canon handles things, so this type of fic is, like, solely reserved for BOTW, bwaha. I’ve been really into BOTW since I got it/finished it last summer, though, so i’ve been reading a lot of The Champions Survive/Get Resurrected stuff and the ones i’ve read have had excellent worldbuilding and such.

Hurt Comfort: the intimacy of patching someone up/the thought behind it....Nice.

Fake Relationship: I am again a sucker for contrived coincidences, panicking, and realizations (another trope in my Kico WIP, though it only appears a little and is fake married). These sometimes come with angst though, which is why it’s not higher.

Gen Fic: I don’t often see these, but I...like the idea of them (I have an eternal WIP of my own for WBB that’s combined with Missing Scenes)? Also, sometimes the world isn’t built quite enough or we don’t get to see it utilized to its full extent in canon.

Humor: I wasn’t sure if this meant, like, fics written solely for comedic purposes or something, but I took it to mean having funny moments in them?? I love comedy above all else (which is why most of the A tier tropes are A tier--the inherent funniness of the situations to me).

In Vino Veritas: having what’s hidden in a character’s heart be exposed in a way that usually results in later panic....Nice (as evidenced by my own take in that one Perryshmirtz fic I did, haha). However, i’m not a big fan of alcohol for numerous reasons, which is why it’s not higher.

Soulmate AU: I don’t often find versions of these that I like, but when I do they’re pretty good. Worldbuilding and slow burn is a must for these.

Coffee Shop AU: I never really liked these before I got into BOTW....hmmm. Maybe it’s because I don’t really like characters from, like, slice-of-life/normal universes being changed into something even MORE mundane/too much like real life?? It’s fine if it’s an adventure story being calmed down, haha (but, like, ONLY adventure--I don’t like the idea of fantasy stories like Strange Magic getting dulled down to that extent).

*most of the tropes here are only not a D because I reserved D for the ones I hate/am most apathetic towards

Arranged Marriage: I don’t usually see these done well (bad characterization/not enough worldbuilding), and arranged marriage is still a thing that happens nowadays in real life so it’s kind of.....

Body Swap: I’ve only found a few renditions of this that I like, namely the funny ones where they’re all like “Wow so this is how it feels like to be a teeny tiny--” *gets punched.* Unfortunately, most of the ones for this trope are, like, either somehow super angsty or have consent problems.

Canon Divergence: another one that rarely has good characterization/logical divergence/follows the established rules already set in canon while being a take on “But what if THIS had accidentally happened instead.”

Historical AU: as someone who minored in History in undergrad, boy howdy is history a touchy thing to make fanfic about. I think there’s only been one AU of this that i’ve liked, and it was for a movie that already had its own version of history/the original canon wasn’t based on our world at all.

Time Loop: kind of a scary thing to think about.

Royalty AU: being a good leader is hard, which means there’s usually not a lot of time for gallivanting. Despite this, there tends to be a lot of that (and poor worldbuilding) in these types of fics.

Amnesia Fic: I don’t like it when someone forgets their loved ones.

First Kiss: I think first kisses are over romanticized. First kiss with the person who is now your lover? Good. First kiss overall? No.

Angst: reality (and sometimes the canon) is dark enough, thanks. Light angst with a happy ending is fine, but I seriously hate characters being subjected to one painful thing after another (I once read an entire published book where that was the case and I was just....so infuriated by the end).

Enemies to Lovers: rarely done to my taste. The two people have to be relatively on the same moral spectrum otherwise this DOESN’T WORK as a good/functioning relationship. Like, you can’t pair off someone who, say, killed their dad, spearheaded a war against innocents, and tortured the other person with the other person. Even when it’s someone who, for example, tried to destroy the entire universe, continually emotionally abused their only friend, laid siege to innocents despite knowing that it was wrong, killed the parent of that other person’s best friend, and physically/emotionally abused that other person, it’d be extremely short-sighted to pair them with that other person without AT LEAST them acknowledging how completely toxic they’ve been and spending a good amount of time (roughly equal or greater to how long they’ve been horrible) establishing that they have indeed changed and are making progress towards reparations and even betterment. Perryshmirtz? Good. Butterfly Bog? Also good. Those are the only two good examples I can think of.

College AU: pretty much in the same boat as the Coffee Shop AU, but sometimes I disagree with what majors get picked for the characters, haha. Good choice for characters around that age, but for some reason I don’t like it when characters get de-aged to make this work. I have yet to see one for older characters that keeps them that age--older people go to college! There was, like, a mom in my Abnormal Psychology class in undergrad!

ABO: horribly graphic, mostly non/dubcon, and reduces people to their biology.

Crossover: the media i’m invested in are usually so vastly different from one another that my brain just refuses to have them mix.

Dark Fic: like Angst, but worse. No thanks.

Major Character Death: I read the fix-it-fics to AVOID this, bwahaha!

High School AU: similar to College AU where I dislike characters being de-aged for this, which is unfortunately common. Also, Your Experiences Are Not Universal.

Crack Fic: I am generally a stickler for canon. Boo, absurdity!

Miscommunication: JUST FREAKING OPEN YOUR PIE-HOLE AND TALK TO EACH OTHER.

Pregnancy Fic: not a big fan of the idea of pregnancy in general (the squishing of the organs, mood swings and whatever, that thing where your blood pressure can get super high randomly, dying in childbirth, postpartum depression, etc).

Love Triangle: these can usually be solved by either 1) poly relationship 2) maybe DON’T choose the “bad boy” that disrespects you and is emotionally distant?????

Unhappy Ending: WHY would I want this??????? See: Angst

Unrequited Love: similar to the above.

PWP: maybe it’s my aceness talking, but to quote Doof: “Backstory, backstory, backstory!”

Sex Pollen: too much like PWP, but with more consent problems

Bang or Die: see above

Baby Fic: similar to Pregnancy + I....can’t really imagine a lot of my favorite ships with kids?? Like, Butterfly Bog/Potionless and Panlie, sure. Doof already has Vanessa/Norm and Perry is an uncle......maybe Po and Tigress if they adopt?? I feel like they could also just be teachers together and their students would be their “kids.” Meh.

#so in the process of writing down why i placed these like i did i realized that i like characters getting put in semi-awkward situations....#so i can laugh at them #my inner prankster at work bwaha #about me

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Learning What Can’t Be Taught: Reflections on Art Education through the Story of Six Artists from China

The below text was commissioned by Art & Education and published in “School Watch” in May 2021. It builds on Learning What Can’t Be Taught, an exhibition curated by Anthony Yung and myself at Asia Art Archive Library, December 17, 2020–June 26, 2021. Thank you, Tyler Considine, for the invitation.

When Lu Yang was a second-year graduate student in the New Media Art Department at China Academy of Art in 2008, she made a series of elaborate diagrams of devices that merged machines with animal and human bodies. One of these works, BCMI Reverse Monitoring – The Ultimate Learning Terminal, shows a device designed to enhance human learning efficiency. Imagine this: you are strapped to a gray office chair with belts, your body movement reduced to a minimum. You wear a cap that collects signals from your brain, which are transmitted to a computer for analysis. The computer monitors your attention level to ensure you are in an optimal state of efficient comprehension. When your attention level decreases, the computer punishes you with high-frequency noise and electricity, and after some time, your brain adjusts itself to avoid punishment.

Lu Yang, BCMI Reverse Monitoring – The Ultimate Learning Terminal, 2008–09. Inkjet print, 111.5 × 175.5cm. Courtesy of Lu Yang.

Lu did not specify the kind of information transmitted by this device, and theoretically, it could be used for any subject. Recalling the iconic scene from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in which Alex, the juvenile delinquent, undergoes an extreme form of aversion therapy, Lu, like Kubrick, explores the irony of using inhumane means to make the organic mechanical, to create “good citizens” or, in her case, “good students.” In our interview, Lu recalled that her experience in the New Media Art Department (NMAD) was quite different from what her work illustrates. She joined NMAD as an undergraduate when the program was launched in 2003, and later received a full scholarship to pursue a graduate degree in the same program. Lu said that she was a “bad student” in undergrad, in the sense that she skipped classes and did not do well in exams, and when she gets invited for short-term teaching engagements nowadays she is a “bad teacher,” as her knowledge of theory and art history remains “very poor.” [1] She admitted that her strongest attribute as an educator is to find the “worst students” in the class and support them to realize their best work. Lu herself studied with artist-teachers who encouraged her to experiment with her uncommon interests in horror imagery, body modification, and alternative cultures. Lu and her teachers at NMAD, especially the artists Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi, shared an interest in questioning the boundaries of the human body, as well as power, subversion, alienation, and social control. Zhang and Geng began making works around these topics in the early 1990s, many of which are now considered canonical in contemporary art history in China for their forceful criticism of the ideological control and patriotic education promoted by the state.

Zhang Peili, Announcement no. 3 (Hygiene) (still), 1991. Video (color, silent), 36 minutes 49 seconds. Courtesy of the artist.

With the exhibition “Learning What Can’t Be Taught” at Asia Art Archive Library, we set out to discuss the major changes in art education in China from the 1950s to the 2000s through a selection of artworks, archival materials, and interviews. “Learning What Can’t Be Taught” tells a story about six artists from three generations, who were each other’s teachers and students at China Academy of Art (CAA), the first art academy in the country, established in 1928. Looking at how these artists have learned art in and outside of classrooms, we ask: What makes a “good student” or a “good teacher”? Can artistic attitude be taught or passed down from one generation to another?

In 2002, Xu Jiang, then the newly appointed president of CAA, inaugurated the New Media Art Department and made it equal in status and scale to the Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, and sculpture departments, the four medium-based units that had been the core of the art academy since the 1950s. China’s economy had grown significantly around the turn of the twenty-first century, and universities were encouraged to expand their enrollment, so much so that between 1999 and 2003, the school enrollment rate in higher education rose from 6.3 percent to 15.4 percent. [2] Along with this radical expansion, art education underwent reforms to its structure, curricula, and administration, which allowed space for experimentation before the current formal structures were introduced in the 2010s. In operation from 2003 to 2010, NMAD stands out as a remarkable pedagogical experiment and a pioneer in formalizing contemporary art education in the country. Led by Zhang Peili, a trailblazer of video art in China and an alumnus of CAA, NMAD produced over three hundred graduates before being folded into the new, larger School of Intermedia Art.

The graduation exhibition of NMAD in 2007. Photograph provided by Jiang Zhuyun.

“Democracy and openness are the essence of the education of NMAD,” Zhang said in 2004. [3] His emphasis on “democracy and openness” was not simply a gesture to vague ideals but a pertinent response to the rigid and “parental” style of formal art education in China. The basic pedagogical principles and institutional structure of China’s art education were established in the early 1950s following the tenets of Soviet socialist realism. In the 1980s and 1990s, Zhang Peili and most of the other teachers at NMAD progressed through a similar educational system in which skill training to the level of excellence in a particular medium was the paramount goal. The most radical change NMAD offered was to support students to learn different techniques only after they explored their creative ideas and needs. “Without a project in mind, it’s pointless to just learn skills,” Zhang told us in an interview. “We simply encouraged students to learn skills that were relevant to the work they wanted to make.” [4] This principle was criticized by several faculty members as irresponsible on the teacher’s behalf, and in hindsight, Zhang admitted that students’ self-motivation and proactivity were indispensable for the program to cultivate artists. For Zhang, art education at NMAD aimed to create a stimulating environment for those students who had already developed an interest in art: “Art served as the agent for them to engage in a dialogue [about contemporary society].” [5]

In NMAD’s agenda, “new media” did not refer to specific technologies but any creative means that differed from those in traditional academic settings. While NMAD offered classes in the application of contemporary media like video, photography, sound, and software to art, it also hosted courses about methods of artmaking that were harder to define in technological terms, such as those involving the body, performance, conceptualism, and creativity at large. In this sense, the newness in the understanding of media in the context of NMAD was not about new media technologies but rather fostering new relationships between media and artistic ideas.

A class by Wen Hui on body expressions at NMAD in 2005. Photograph provided by Jiang Zhuyun.

Another radical change Zhang Peili advocated at NMAD was to invite practicing artists from outside the academy to teach classes, then unprecedented in art education in China. Geng Jianyi, a conceptual art pioneer and an alumnus of CAA, was one such artist and went on to become one of NMAD’s core teachers. In our interview, Jiang Zhuyun, one of the first NMAD graduates and currently a teacher in CAA’s School of Intermedia Art, remembered how he was influenced by an introductory course led by Geng, who would later become a close friend and frequent collaborator. [6] Jiang shared his confusion about Geng relaying the myth of Hou Yi and the ten suns instead of speaking about visual arts in this course. In Chinese mythology, Hou Yi, the god of archery, tries to reason with the ten suns chasing each other across the sky and scorching the earth. After failing to convince them to stop—the ten suns being the ten male offspring of the emperor Jade—he shoots them one by one with arrows until there only one remains. The notion of aiming for the impossible resonated with Geng’s understanding of art education. After working as an educator over twenty years, he would reveal that eventually “art can be learned but cannot be taught.”

Jiang Zhuyun, Sound of Temperature, 2005. Video documentation of performance, 7 minutes 40 seconds. Installation view of “Learning What Can’t Be Taught,” AAA Library, 2021. Photo: Kitmin Lee.

In the early 1980s, when Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi were students in the oil painting department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (ZAFA), the former name of CAA, they received similar encouragement to find their individual voices, even though, in Zhang’s words, theirs was a “mechanical training” that required all students meet technical and skill-based standards. This was a time of foundational change for the country, with space allowed for new information and ideas and the revival of literature and creative production following the end of the Cultural Revolution. While art academies were still dominated by the doctrines of socialist realism, some teachers and students sought to test their limitations and provoke discussions about how academies could respond to the fundamental changes in the artistic environment.

Zhang Peili, Untitled, 1983. Oil on canvas, 120 × 100cm. Collection of China Academy of Art. Courtesy of the artist and China Academy of Art.

Zhang Peili’s Untitled (1983) testifies to the creative freedom the artist strived for in his student years. This oil painting depicts a group of workers at a construction site, and although the content of the painting is in line with the proletarian struggle and hardships of everyday life and therefore apt for an education shaped around socialist realism, Zhang’s handling and artistic language diverge significantly from the principles of this orthodoxy. The painting deliberately omits details and explication: the figures don’t show any emotions and are not represented in heroic poses; some even turn their backs to the viewer; and abstract forms populate the background. Characterized by a cool, pale palette in contrast to the vibrant colors of socialist realism, a sense of estrangement and detachment emanates from the work, reflecting the artist’s interest at the time in existentialist literature. In our interview, Zhang shared his motto from the 1980s when he spoke about creating a new language within the restrictions of his education: “What matters is not what you say, but how you say it. What matters is not what you draw but how you draw it. What matters is not what you do but how you do it.” [7]

The artistic freedom that Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi benefited from in the early 1980s was exceptional and only possible thanks to a small group of artist-teachers like Zheng Shengtian and Jin Yide, who both supported their students in challenging the principles of socialist realism. The controversy surrounding the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts’ 1985 graduation exhibition is an indication of their remarkable support. Supervised by Jin Yide and Zheng Shengtian, artists of this class from the oil painting department were heavily criticized for their thesis projects, which were targeted for having “too much emphasis on individualism.” In his contribution to the September 1985 issue of the Meishu magazine, Jin Yide describes how these graduation projects prompted a reaction among faculty members: “Many students used phrases like ‘my feelings,’ ‘my passions,’ ‘my language,’ and ‘my world’ in their thesis defense sessions and graduate work statements. These words elicited strong opinions from some comrades, who believed that it was not a good sign for students to emphasize themselves too much.” [8] He then warns about the dangers of conflating issues about academic studies with political ones: “Now, with our students, we know not to equate their political ideology or discipline in the organization with artistic creation and artistic personality.” This debate is now seen as a crucial step for the development of contemporary art education in China.

From right to left: Geng Jianyi, Untitled, 1983. Pencil on paper, 39.5 × 54.5cm; Untitled, 1983. Oil on paper, 34.5 × 41.5cm; Zhang Peili, Untitled, 1983. Oil on canvas, 120 × 100cm. Courtesy of Geng Jianyi’s estate, Zhang Peili, and China Academy of Art. Installation view of “Learning What Can’t Be Taught,” AAA Library, 2021. Photo: Kitmin Lee.

The late 1970s and 1980s are often considered the beginning of contemporary art in China as artists became committed to creating transgressive and experimental works, working outside of established institutions, and questioning the existing art norms and system. In “Learning What Can’t Be Taught,” we look at how the foundations of contemporary art were built on the previous generation of artist-teachers. Despite developing their own artistic language in the 1950s and 1960s, a period that is often considered as rigid and inward-looking, Jin Yide and Zheng Shengtian passed on to their students Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi an artistic attitude to constantly search for an individual artistic language and to foster a sense of responsibility to cultivate the younger generations.

Jin Yide and Zheng Shengtian were both students at ZAFA in the 1950s, a time when China was starting to adapt to the art and art education system of the Soviet Union. Following the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship in 1950, the convergence of political interests between the two countries led to changes in artistic conventions as well. In the 1950s, the PRC took the specific idea of socialist realism that emerged in the Soviet Union in the 1930s as its norm for aesthetic standards: theories and guidelines about art education in the Soviet Union were translated into Chinese; students were sent to study at art academies in the Soviet Union; and experts from the Soviet Union were invited to teach at China’s major art schools. The most well-known and influential expert was painter Konstantin Maksimov (1913–93), who joined the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 1955 to 1957. The first art educator sent from Moscow, he hosted a class for a group of top artists from across China, which is now considered a critical event in the establishment of a paradigm of socialist realism in the country. Graduates of the Maksimov class were known for making some of the most acclaimed paintings in China in the 1950s and the 1960s, and they also became the most acclaimed teachers and administrators in art education. In this context, it was unusual then that Jin Yide and Zheng Shengtian would study other artistic vocabularies that diverged from the orthodox Soviet Union style, including those from Eastern Europe and Latin America, pre–Cultural Revolution influences on contemporary art in China that remain under-researched. [9]

“I always liked the art and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union but I didn’t think I had to imitate it,” Zheng Shengtian told us in an interview. “I thought I should look for my own way.” [10] One of his major sources of inspiration was “An Exhibition of Paintings and Prints of Mexico,” organized by the Mexican National Front of Plastic Arts, which toured to Beijing and Shanghai in 1956. Featuring around four hundred artworks, this exhibition was uncommonly large and featured artists that were recognized as socialist but worked in a different style than those of the Soviet Union, including los tres grandes of Mexican muralism: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. That same year, Siqueiros visited Beijing and hosted a forum with Chinese artists where he openly criticized the socialist realism advocated by the Soviet Union as neither able to represent the progress of the contemporary world nor adequate to connect with the national characters of different countries.

From left to right: Zheng Shengtian, Nude (reproduction), 1962. Oil on canvas, 65 × 100 cm; Reading (reproduction), 1963. Oil on canvas, 100 × 65 cm. Courtesy of Zheng Shengtian. Installation view of "Learning What Can’t Be Taught," AAA Library, 2021. Photo: Kitmin Lee.

Zheng Shengtian’s paintings Nude (1962) and Reading (1963) show his experimentation with artistic languages beyond Soviet socialist realism, and the influences from Mexican muralists and his teacher Dong Xiwen (1914–73), an artist who advocated for a kind of contemporary oil painting that is connected to China’s own artistic heritage. In these works, Zheng uses strong colors and rough shapes to create a sense of flatness, but because of their unusual style, neither of these works were selected for exhibitions at the time when they were made. My Home on the Grassland, another painting of Zheng from the same period, was accepted to the 4th National Fine Art Exhibition in 1964, but it quickly prompted criticism and was removed from the exhibition and never returned to the artist. In recent years, Zheng has remade some of his paintings that were confiscated or destroyed during the 1960s and 1970s, adding his self-portraits and written memories to the paintings in a body of work he calls The Lost Paintings.

Zheng Shengtian, Lost Paintings — My Home On The Grassland (1964), 2020. Oil on canvas, 122 × 183cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Jin Yide’s paintings from the same period were not accepted in exhibitions either. Anyang (1963), Dalian (1963), Lanxi (1963), and Harbin (1963)—all landscape paintings showing diverse modernist vocabularies, which were not considered “suitable” artworks at the time—have only been shown to the public in his 2017 retrospective at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Kept in Jin’s studio for decades, these paintings provide an entry point for the artist’s process of looking for his voice and for considering the influences of an education that espoused the idea that art had infinite methods. From 1960 to 1962, Jin Yide participated in a class led by the Romanian artist Eugene Popa (1919–96) at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. This class created uneasiness among faculty members as Popa advocated a form of socialist art that embraced artistic individuality, another move away from the orthodoxy of Soviet socialist realism. While graduates of the 1953–55 Maksimov class were treasured as elites and given the power to lead art education in the country, graduates of the Popa class were criticized for having acquired bourgeois ideas of modernism. Even if, in practice, Popa’s class was less influential than Maksimov’s class due to its smaller scale, it was foundational for a group of artists who were dedicated to seeking alternative artistic languages. In a similar vein, Jin would take classes from Ni Yide, a pioneer of modernist art in China, who instructed his students that there was not an ideal method that guaranteed success. Jin recalled, “This realization was more important to me than learning new skills.”

Top, from left to right: Jin Yide, Angang, 1963. Oil on paper, 54.5 × 39cm; Dalian, 1963. Oil on paper, 46.8 × 32.1cm. Bottom, from left to right: Members of the Eugen Popa Class at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, 1960. Photograph (reproduction); Ni Yide and Jin Yide, 1963. Photograph (reproduction); Jin Yide in front of his work Support Cuba, 1962. Photograph (reproduction). Courtesy of Jin Yide. Installation view of “Learning What Can’t Be Taught,” AAA Library, 2021. Photo: Kitmin Lee.

Following the end of the Cultural Revolution and the resumption of art education, Zheng Shengtian became the first academic art teacher in China to receive national funding to visit the United States. From 1980 to 1982, he taught at the University of Minnesota as a visiting professor; he also visited Mexico, Canada, and thirteen countries in Europe, including the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Norway, and Finland, among others, and eventually returned to China through the Soviet Union. He made hundreds of slides and photographs of artworks in museums during these trips and brought them back to Hangzhou in 1983, which constituted “the largest collection of international art” in China at that time. [13] “During my two-year stay in the US, I had three exhibitions that received generally favorable reviews. But an overwhelming state of confusion would reign over me when I was alone in the studio. The overseas experience had broadened my horizons: there was so much artistic terrain for me to fly over, but the traditional training I had received in the academy still kept my wings bound, leaving me in a pained struggle between ‘I would’ and ‘I could not,’” he wrote in a memoir. “I made a mental note to myself that when I resumed teaching, by no means would I trammel my students in any way.” [14]

Zheng has known well that education is crucial in providing the necessary conditions for an artist to grow but that it might also hinder an artist’s potential. Born in 1935, he is among the generation of artists who experienced the political turmoil in China in the second half of the twentieth century, when the boundaries of what is suitable for teaching and learning changed drastically. Now eighty-six years old, Zheng is still active in research, writing, and other activities to promote art and is recognized by many important contemporary artists as an influential teacher. In the interview for “Learning What Can’t Be Taught,” we asked Zheng about the moment when he felt he turned from a student to an artist. His response reveals, for us, a precious attitude for any artist and educator: “I am still waiting for this moment to come.” [15]

[1] Interview with Lu Yang, conducted by Anthony Yung, December 2020. To watch the full interview, please see this link.

[2] "School enrollment, tertiary (%gross)," World Bank Open Data, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.

[3] Zhang Peili, "Why the New Media Art Department Is Necessary," 2004.

[4] Interview with Zhang Peili, conducted by Anthony Yung, December 2020. To watch the full interview, please see this link.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Interview with Jiang Zhuyun, conducted by Anthony Yung, December 2020. To watch the full interview, please see this link.

[7] Interview with Zhang Peili.

[8] Jin Yide, "Thoughts About Supervising the Graduation Projects," Meishu, September 1985, 43-46. Translated by Anthony Yung.

[9] Winds from Fusang: Mexico and China in the Twentieth Century, Zheng Shengtian's decades-long research on the infusion of Mexican art into twentieth-century Chinese art, offers exceptional research in this field. Click here to see the catalog of this exhibition, published by USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA.

[10] Interview with Zheng Shengtian, conducted by Anthony Yung, December 2020. To watch the full interview, please see this link.

[11] Zheng Shengtian, "Winds from Fusang: Mexico and China in the Twentieth Century," in Winds from Fusang: Mexico and China in the Twentieth Century (Pasadena, CA: USC Pacific Asia Museum), 14-16.

[12] Interview with Jin Yide, conducted by Anthony Yung, December 2020. To watch the full interview, please see this link.

[13] Interview with Zheng Shengtian, conducted by Jane DeBevoise, October 2009, http://www.china1980s.org/files/interview/zstftfinalised_201102171538282951.pdf.

[14] Zheng Shengtian, "Encountering Life: Scanning Myself," 2013. Translated from Chinese to English by Zhao Han.

[15] Interview with Zheng Shengtian, conducted by Anthony Yung, December 2020.

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Tumblr or "Tumbler" as you should call, is somewhat unique to other blogging platforms on this list. Not at all like different platforms that obscure the line between a completely fledged site and a blog, Tumblr is the best microblogging platform with person-to-person communication features. This means, with Tumblr, you post and individuals interrelate with your content by remarking, preferring, and sharing. Much the same as in an internet-based life platform, content is all the more short-structure, for example, a picture, jokes, video, jokes, or Spotify tracks. You can likewise follow different online journals and make alters on your blog and profile. For instance, you can include your headshot, logo, and change the topic to make your computerized space livelier. If your fundamental goal is to construct a visual blog, at that point Tumblr could be the best blogging platform to begin. The best part is that you do not have to see any programming dialects, for example, HTML and CSS to begin. Tumblr is an ideal platform for bloggers who need to gain proficiency with the ropes on the best way to set up a website. It is additionally a perfect spot for bloggers who wish to share how-to based content and instructional exercises. Pros It is extremely simple to set-up and uses It coordinates long range informal communication includes and permits you to follow different websites The platform offers incredible customization features As a microblogging platform, it makes it simple to blog sound, GIFs, Video, and pictures Cons It is restricted with regards to the number of features it offers Moving your Tumblr blog to another platform is incredibly troublesome It does not offer a choice to adapt your blog Cost Tumbler is allowed to utilize this and you will never need to share your credit card, PayPal, or bank data to use Tumblr. Be that as it may, you have to invest in certain expenses if you choose to utilize some outsider features.

Blogger

Established in 1999, Blogger is one of the most established blogging platforms. In 2003, it was obtained by Google, and it has since fashioned a huge client base, making it one of the most recognizable Blogging platforms. Making a blogging profile on Blogger is too simple if you have a Google account. You should simply pick a title, domain, format, and post. You do not need to blog using your real names. Yet, if you need, you can associate your Google+ profile to Blogger. Since it centres 100% around blogging, Blogger offers almost nothing with regards to content optimization. In any case, the platform is extremely simple to utilize, and its moderate interface is very simple. You additionally do not need to stress over specialized hosting or security issues since everything is dealt with by the organization. On a more extensive degree, Blogger gives a comprehensive site/blog building arrangement contrasted with other blogging platforms where you need to purchase, install, and oversee various parts of your site. Pros It is owned by the world's greatest tech organization. It is free forever. All you require is a Google account. Simple to use with an instinctive interface consequently an extraordinary platform for apprentices to begin blogging Cons It has restricted plan choices and fewer subjects. It is anything but difficult to get your blog suspended or dropped. You cannot add new features to your blog. It requires some investment to see new features or updates. Valuing of This Platform Blogger is 100% free. All you need is a Google record, and you are good to go. Be that as it may, you can buy a domain name if you have to use a custom domain.

Wix

WIX follows a free model. It is a cloud-based site-building and structure platform. The best part, it is one of the least demanding to utilize platforms for non-coders. Established in 2006, WIX controls more than 3.3 million sites and is one of the biggest site-building platforms today. Even though it may have a lesser client base than WordPress, it is one of the most steady, highlight rich and easy to use a blog and site-building platforms. You can begin on WIX by simply utilizing the WIX Editor or the Wix ADI mode. With the WIX editorial manager, you can pick a layout, create a structure for your blog, and later fill it with content. The WIX ADI utilizes an adaptable blog with content, pictures, and video content. Both of these instruments are incredible for individuals with no related knowledge in website architecture. Pros Easy to utilize. You can begin for nothing. Various features to modify your blog. You get a domain name when you buy into their premium plans. Cons Troublesome advertisements with the free plan. Configuration layouts are difficult to change. Pricing of This Platform Dissimilar to WordPress, when analyzed, WIX is an across the board web designer. Everything is set in one bundle. With WIX, you should simply join on their official site and begin your blog. You can decide to go either with the free bundle or one of their paid plans. The free arrangement gives you access to an enormous number of site-building instruments, for example, the WIX Editor, ADI, and formats.

Ghost

Ghost is a blogging platform that depends on a moderate and fresh interface. Not at all like WordPress, Ghost is absolutely a blogging interface, and in this manner, it does not control a wide cluster of sites. You can use Ghost in two unique manners. To begin with, you can let your blog to be facilitated on their foundation or install it on a web hosting server. What you will see about Ghost platforms is the exquisite, basic, and mess less structure and format that it offers. This means it is unimaginable for you or the user to get diverted. Aside from that, Ghost's fundamental centre is content creation. This settles on it a pined for decision for writers, bloggers, and magazines. The platform is likewise worked for SEO. It offers fundamental SEO features, for example, AMP pages, Metadata, Canonical labels, and XML sitemaps. You, thusly, do not have to buy any extra plugins. By and large, Ghost is an extraordinary decision if you need to grandstand your ability in content creation. Also, it permits consistent application mix utilizing Zapier or the Ghost Public API. Pros Ghost sites are really quick since they use CDN (Content Delivery Network). You get various social sharing choices, so no compelling reason to install any social sharing module. No requirement for SEO plugins since Ghost offers worked in SEO features. It is anything but difficult to make content optimized for UI. You get a free SSL certificate with each Ghost blog you make. Cons It is costly for beginners. Hosting is not free. It offers a predetermined number of topics. You have to figure out how to code to have better control of your blog. Pricing of This Platform Not at all like other blogging platforms on the list, Ghost is a top-notch optimisation that offers diverse membership plans. Each arrangement offers a multi-day time for testing. The beneficial thing about these plans is that you can utilize a custom domain, free SSL certificate, updates, and email support, among different features.

Medium

Propelled in 2012, Medium is all the more a network-based blogging platform and to a lesser degree a customized blog. This implies with Medium, you post your content, and individuals offer, as, and remark. It works progressively like Tumblr. At Medium, readers and users express their points of view on different subjects, for example, innovation, society and human advancement, Business, Health, Relationships, Design, and the sky is the limit from there. Besides, Medium is a facilitated platform, and you get a free sub-domain and SSL certificate. They additionally offer a paid participation program where you get paid if you add to their content. Besides that, the payment you get depends on how many people like your content. With regards to usability, Medium offers incredible article includes that guarantee that you can distribute your content. Alongside that, you can likewise monitor any progressions you make on your posts just as interlink your posts. The main drawback with Medium is that you can not add a custom domain, or run your blog on an alternate server. Pros It is very easy to set up. No problem, if you do not have any coding abilities. Cons Adapting a Medium blog is not simple since you do not claim the content. Structuring your blog is difficult and it is also difficult to build a brand. You cannot use your domain name. Pricing of This Platform First of all, Medium is allowed to utilize. Be that as it may, if you have to get to the best content, you can move up to premium enrollment.

Weebly

Weebly is one of the most well-known site-building platforms that lets you assemble an awesome looking site without realizing how to code. The platform right now controls more than 40 million sites on the web. With regards to structure and customization, Weebly offers probably the most attractive layouts that are naturally versatile responsive. Be that as it may, if you can, in any case, buy a subject from an autonomous designer to improve your client experience. Also, you can add greater usefulness to your blog by visiting the Weebly App Center, where you can get an assortment of completely incorporated, a single tick establishment instruments. For the most part, Weebly offers an amicable client experience that permits you to set up and redo your blog very quickly. So you do not need to stress over page formats and configurations since the greater part of the structures are completely adaptable. Pros Very easy to understand. You can use it very easily. The platform is allowed to use by beginners. Cons The quantity of topics and formats is constrained in the free arrangement. You should utilize a sub-domain if you do not have your custom domain. Pricing of This Platform Regardless of Weebly offering a starter plan for essential use, it additionally offers different designs for site owners who need further developed features. The paid plans are- the lowest is ($5/month), Pro ($12/month), Business ($25/month), and Business Plus ($38/month). All plans are charged every year.

Joomla

Joomla, much the same as WordPress.org, is an open-source content optimization programming that is exceptionally mainstream among web developers. The platform is self-facilitated, which implies you need to download the product and install it on a web hosting server. You can download the CMS from www.joomla.org. The downloading and establishment process takes just a couple of moments. Notwithstanding, the specialized viewpoint that accompanies the arrangement procedure is more perplexing than that of WordPress however less difficult than that of Drupal. For instance, with WordPress, you just need to pick a hosting optimisation, register a domain, and install WordPress, Log in to your WordPress account. As should be obvious, WordPress offers more features. Joomla, then again, does not offer these sorts of custom offers, which imply you will need to do the vast majority of the stuff without anyone else. Be that as it may, working with Joomla is too simple since a large portion of the required plugins, instruments, and instructional exercises are offered in the bounty. The platform additionally offers incredible SEO abilities generally, because it produces well-disposed URLs and because it empowers you to set meta-depictions and keywords for new content. By and large, Joomla offers a perplexing platform for bloggers who need to develop and learn. Be that as it may, the platform can be scary for bloggers who are simply beginning. Pros The platform is anything but difficult to install. It offers a great many free plugins. The extensive route framework makes it simple to oversee sites with numerous pages. You can refresh the platform from your internet browser. Cons The platform has a lofty expectation to learn and adapt subsequently not suggested for new clients. Joomla offers constrained choices with regards to formats and free structures. Certain plugins may have similarity issues. Pricing of This Platform Like we referenced above, Joomla is a self-facilitated platform and you will need to acquire some fundamental costs, for example, web hosting and domain enrollment. This implies the expense is reliant on the supplier you will pick.

Squarespace

Squarespace is a SaaS site-building and support device. To utilize the optimisation, you pay a month to month membership expense. Much the same as Wix, Squarespace is an across the board optimisation. With Squarespace, the way toward setting up is amazingly simple. You should simply visit the Squarespace site and sign up. As far as to plan, Squarespace offers decent, and probably the most expert looking formats contrasted with most other contending web designers in its group, for example, Wix. Be that as it may, the quantity of formats or topics offered by Squarespace is restricted, which is a significant disadvantage contingent upon the kind of site you are attempting to construct. Squarespace offers effortlessness and usability for clients who need to begin blogging. Pros Content altering is overly simple, because of the intuitive instrument. A simple platform for new clients. You can begin for nothing. Cons There is a set number of layouts. Pricing of This Platform Squarespace is an across the board site-building arrangement. This implies you get: Completely managed cloud hosting Free-custom domain Search engine optimization features for site visibility Squarespace offers four plans, in particular: The Personal plan that costs $16/month The Business plan that costs $26/month The Basic plan costs $30/month and, Propelled Commerce plan that costs $46/month

WordPress.com

This is the other platform of WordPress that is accessible at wordpress.com. The significant part, it is likewise 100% free. In any case, the free form offers restricted features. For you to get to an expansive scope of features, for example, custom plugins, email support and topics, and SEO devices, you have to choose your favoured arrangement and pay a reasonable month to month membership. With facilitated WordPress, you do not have to purchase any different hosting optimisation because your site is facilitated on the WordPress servers. Also, you get boundless out-of-the-case usefulness. Be that as it may, facilitated WordPress is a smidgen less of an all-adjusted site-building arrangement. Pros Simple and quick to set-up. Simple to follow. You can utilize it for nothing with a WordPress sub-domain. Cons You do not possess the blog. This implies your blog or site can be suspended whenever by WordPress. No adaptation choices. Limited features in the free arrangement. Pricing of This Platform Like we referenced above, WordPress.com is free. Be that as it may, the free arrangement offers you restricted features. If you need your blog to develop, we suggest going for an excellent membership plan. The superior plans include: Individual Plan - $4/month Premium Plan - $8/month Business Plan - $25/month Web-based business Plan - 45/month Note that all plans are charged yearly. Conclusion Here we have discussed our top 10 best platforms for website hosting and blogging. Each platform has Pros and Cons. Choose your best blogging app and platform for your website. Read the full article

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Work For It by Eggynn

On: FanFiction.net

Summary: “I'm in my twenties and I'm not really going anywhere. This is the story of being desperate for a job and trying to stay normal in a world of red-haired sociopaths who I can't help but fall in love with. Kurama x OC.”

Overall Score: 95.35%

Read more below (warning: SPOILERS!).

Note: As this review was completed on a work-in-progress, the reviewer comments should be taken with a grain of salt.

Canon Plausibility

Definition: How well the plot and characters aligned with the original story universe.

Score: 5.00/5.00

A high score for this element indicates that the story blended into the original universe well. This includes the characters being portrayed as they originally were, and that the plot and/or any original characters aligned with the sense of the universe as well.

Reviewer comments: The author did a great job at canonically representing the characters and any original characters fit well into the YYH-verse. Additionally, the author went above and beyond to make sure that cultural norms were observed/acknowledged (e.g., how Natsumi is seen as kind of rude for sniffling) on top of using deep reasoning for even naming most of the OCs (e.g., the possible kanji representations for Sakana Ran). This resulted in an extremely immersive and interesting story.

Relationships

Definition: Platonic and romantic interaction and development between characters interspersed over time.

Score: 4.60/5.00

A high score on this element indicates that the presentation of the interactions between characters created realistic and meaningful relationships that allowed the readers to connect with and understand the characters.

Reviewer comments: As this story is in progress, I think it’s likely that anything that is less addressed for this element will likely be touched on in the future. However, I feel like Kurama fell in love a little too easily/quickly with Ran and likewise for her. I know she was really attracted to him and has made a big sacrifice (which I'm dying for the author to write more about), but there are some subtleties or nuances that I feel are just missing to make me really believe the love/passion. I can absolutely see lust, but given that the author mentioned foxes mating for life and how meticulous/calculating/particular/logical Kurama is, I still feel that the love aspect is missing a foundational component. I cannot personally pinpoint the best way to address this, but it might be useful to insert other tidbits here and there that could indicate this kind of development (e.g., Kurama has caught himself thinking of Ran unintentionally/surprisingly a time or two, but maybe unconsciously doing things with her well-being in mind sans selfish reasons would help). That still doesn't sound to be precisely helpful though, because there is some evidence of this, I believe, in the writing now. I suppose I'm getting philosophical (what is love?), but at the same time, I think his character's personality really calls for foundational behaviors for something so serious as a declaration of love. For Ran, I can see it as partial naivete transforming into love – so this is less of a concern.

Plot and Technical Execution

Definition: Interrelated content sequenced in the storyline, including subplots, presented in a grammatically accurate manner.

Score: 4.63/5.00

A high score on this element indicates that the readers did not have a hard time following along with the storyline and that major situations were addressed logically. Additionally, there were likely few or no grammatical errors.

Reviewer comments: There were only a few typos in the entire story so far, which is not a big issue since there is over 130k in words presently. The only issue I had was in following certain parts where some time or perspective changes were handled. While I could pick up the changes in scene/perspective/time after reading a few sentences, a smoother transition would have alleviated the need for taking a step back here and there. Otherwise, the plot and technical execution was great.

Conflict

Definition: Internal or external struggle presented throughout the storyline, eventually reaching resolution.

Score: 5.00/5.00

A high score on this element indicates a balance of presented conflict. The characters have taken a stance in a situation or addressed a pressing internal struggle. This has allowed for character development and reader interest.

Reviewer comments: As the story is still in progress, I cannot rate resolution of conflict, but the story is otherwise quite sound on this element. We are presented with an immediate issue that ties the OC into the world of Kurama - her necessity for a job. While this ends up solved eventually, we are continually bombarded by more information that evolves the conflict into an entirely new beast that is quite fun to experience and unravel as we go through.

Originality

Definition: Uniqueness of the presented plot as relevant to the fandom.

Score: 4.50/5.00

A high score on this element indicates that enough unique content was presented, sparking readers' interest.

Reviewer comments: As related to the YYH fandom, this is a pretty unique story. The only less unique aspects are related to the tropes in the story, which can be fun to apply/read/useful regardless. Otherwise, this is a great take, especially when you get down to the specifics in the story. Having Kurama take over the corporation and turn it into a dominating force is both appropriate and a useful method for showing his underlying, domineering personality. Having other details about other characters' futures interspersed (e.g., Kuwabara taking over the temple) are also great to read and logically based, but fairly unique. And one of my favorite, original aspects was about Shiori’s illness.

Dialogue

Definition: Quality and quantity of the conversation had throughout the storyline, including verbal and nonverbal communication.

Score: 5.00/5.00

A high score on this element indicates that there was an effective balance in quantity and/or quality of verbal and nonverbal dialogue. The dialogue was well-utilized in furthering character or story development.

Reviewer comments: Both verbal and nonverbal dialogue were crucial in different perspectives presented throughout the story and really paint a great picture of personalities and plot development. I loved how the changes over time, presented in multiple perspectives, allowed me to get a great picture of the characters. For example, I really thought Nagato was a bad guy at first, and then seeing his perspective made me feel so much for his character. I actually adore him almost as much/if not more than Ran. I want to know how they are going to interact as siblings and I love how his perspective of Ran (having great, powerful potential) is so contrary to her own (thinking she's weak). I cannot wait for this to be explored further as well.

Pacing

Definition: Appropriateness of the speed of the presented storyline.

Score: 4.67/5.00

A high score on this element indicates that the pacing was appropriate for the storyline and that the readers were able to meaningfully experience the story without losing interest or being confused.

Reviewer comments: Most events were detailed when they needed to be and other, less interesting/minor aspects were spoken to enough to suffice, which is a delicate balance that is quite subjective, but I think it was well done. However, there were a few scenes I would have liked to have explored more (e.g., interactions with Kurama/Nagato).

Front Matter

Definition: Appropriateness and instilled intrigue of the categorized preview information and summary.

Score: 4.75/5.00

A high score on this element indicates that the front matter was accurate and enticing. This may range from a well-constructed summary to appropriate categorizations for the rating or genres.

Reviewer comments: Everything was pretty accurate, but I believe that there is a fine line that the rating (T) is pushing (the story is still fine at T as it stands though). I would enjoy it regardless of the rating (though I want the author to go for the R-side of scenes given the great setup for it). I love the humor in the summary as well, but I do find the plural use of "sociopaths" kind of confusing. I agree with all the descriptive aspects, but it seems that there are more "red-haired sociopaths" underlying the plot, which I believe is incorrect. This is really a minor, minor thing.

Additional Comments

Overall, what could the author improve most to make the story better?

I would just like a little more of a smoother transition between perspectives and scene changes in certain areas. Otherwise, I want to read as much detail as possible underlying the intricacies of this plot - IT IS SO GOOD. I love how everything is so interconnected.

Overall, what did the author excel at that really made the story for you?

The author's keen eye for interweaving complex story components into a comprehensive story is so nice to read. Seeing something happen in Ran's perspective and then finding out what *really* happened from (e.g.) Kurama's perspective is so damn fun to read. Very little information is presented without it meaning something, which makes a reader really pay attention to even the minor details (e.g., the tidbit in chapter 9 that revealed another character's appearance later on). I love these breadcrumbs in stories and I so rarely see them done, let alone done well.

What was your favorite moment in the story? Were there any particularly funny or surprising moments?

My favorite moment so far was the little pancake scene that had its own mini chapter dedicated to it. I loved reading Kurama's perspective on Ran's adorable antics and how he was misinterpreting her behavior.

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Art, Technology, Man and Architecture

Art demands a concrete historical approach to aesthetic phenomena, to the development of art. Art follows certain general patterns which reveal themselves in each socio-economic formation. The epistemological significance or art lies in the true artistic reflection of reality. This is what distinguishes art from all forms, all progressives occur independently of how people evaluate them. Every new historical epoch reveals new and wider horizons for artistic development. The category of the beautiful reflects the subjective which finds expression in the nature of perception of the essentials. In this sense the beautiful is described as a value. Beauty is no longer an absolute property of an object. Beauty manifests itself only in its relation to Man's expedient activities. A beautiful thing is one that has a use. It is perceived not by the senses but by the mind. Beauty is a matter of size and order and is manifested in the sensual world as unity, proportionality, and the compatibility of parts accompanied by a certain pleasure ability of color.

Representatives of the arts and aesthetics of the Renaissance, on the whole gave a materialist interpretation of the category of the beautiful. Alberti saw the objective foundation of the beautiful in the harmony of parts. In the aesthetics of classicism there is a departure from the materialist of the Renaissance, but for Plato beauty is divided into three types: dead forms such as statues, buildings and the human body; forms creating forms. However absolute beauty is based on the regular organization of systems their orderliness, measure and conformity to the law of multi-formity and uniformity. Edmund Burke, rejected concepts which reduced beauty to proportionality, usefulness and perfection. In his view, an object to be beautiful had first to be comparatively small, to be smooth, to have a variety in the direction of the parts, to have those parts not angular, but melted into each other, and to have its colors clear and bright.

Immanuel Kant, was interested not in objective properties of beauty but in subjective condition of its perception and the nature of aesthetical judgments. Kant divorced the beautiful from truth, goodness and usefulness. Hegel defined the beautiful as the sensuous expression of an idea. In nature the idea of beauty is revealed in regularity, symmetry, law-governed character, harmony, purity of material, color and sound. Hegel described art as the embodiment of the ideal. Thus proportionality, perfection, orderliness, and harmony constitute the objective material basis of the beautiful. Therefore, the presence of objective foundation and laws of beauty should not be confused with their perception, evaluation and utilization by man in his activities. The objective basis of beauty are rooted in the very foundation of the real world; whereas others focused their attentions on the study of the beautiful as a conscious process based on rational knowledge and generalization of concrete experience based on the category of imitation with a free representation of reality in relation to both moral and natural laws with freedom in a broad and varied sense, with understanding of the purposes and functions of art to determine the content of the beautiful at the same time dynamically with regard to the category of proportion in the sphere of morals which forms the basis for a new interpretation of culture as the substantial expression and measurement of man and the humane as a whole, using them to create a firm foundation for the new culture with its vividly expressed humanist content and values, and also to elaborate new principles for a new world outlook and the intention of the soul, against the supporters of the platonic and Neo platonic idealist traditions and against medieval obscurantism. In fact all visible things were born of nature and these things were the source of the sciences and arts as a universal means for the expression of reason and human thought that has given meaning to architecture and perspective that pleased the eyes and free the soul from its bodily prison, and be united with nature with the world for understanding the truth and mysteries of the world, its forms and beauty of the countless creations of nature. Human feelings are windows of the soul, windows of the intellect to influence the social mentality to rebuild the spiritual structure of man a fresh and thereby recreate him through a scientific understanding of the laws and mysteries of the universe to enrich this spiritual structure with the infinite wealth and variety of natural forms that express its substantial forces.

We are faced with the problem of restructuring the manmade environment in which we live, which would not only contribute to the development of science technology and art, but world also, prevent a one sided incomplete development of the individual.

Architecture design is a new area of activity and has a past history of its own originated time in the period in which technology and art became divided and industry grew at a tremendous rate. In the 20th. Century this division was completed, as a result only works of art could lay claim to artistic value, while the end products of industrial manufacture were considered on their technical merits alone, because the spheres of activity separated and each had worked outs its own particular ideals, canons and norms, since beauty had become abstracted from objects, it became possible to assess them according to a concept of beauty, and the more technology and art became divided, the more people became acutely and clearly conscious that there was a divergence between aesthetic ideals and the actual organization of the manmade environment. Towards the beginning of the 20th. Century social thought which not only contained strong criticism of the existing state of affairs but also put forward the first preliminary outlines of practical projects intended to improve the manmade environment. Functionalism came into being and formulated its demands, and from it originated the ideology and theoretical conception of the Bauhaus which was in essence industrial art, thus the development of architectural design led to the cooperation between the engineer and the architect, and the scientist. This affected a change in existing methods of designing and manufacturing. The question of the value of things and the essential demands placed on them came to be seen in a new light. Two groups of demands came to be associated with manufactured goods; the first, the technological demands, were introduced by the engineer, the second, the consumer demands, were introduced by the architect. Manufactured goods were no longer looked upon simply as tools or objects of production, but also as elements in the physical environment and as such they had to satisfy man's material and cultural demands, and must be both utilitarian and beautiful. This boosted the development of the design everywhere. This has disorganized our manmade environment. Environment as such has no life of its own. Therefore we must begin with restructuring industrial production; otherwise the present uncoordinated system of manufacturing may produce results that run counter to our ideals. This demand supervision and control of the development of the manmade environment. This will embrace the means and objectives of science, technology and art. This will open up unlimited possibilities for the development of science, technology and art, in drawing up its new designs its creators will function simultaneously as engineers, artists, and scientists. This will provide the physical environment for life, labor and leisure.

Architecture, does not directly mirror the world of human relations and needs but does not directly mirror the world of human relations and needs but does so in extremely stylized volumes and spaces, changes nothing in principle, since the spiritual reflection of peoples' mode of life is given expression in symbolic objectively sensory artistic imagery. Despite the importance of semiotic and information approaches to the study of art, it is impossible not to see that their advocates frequently replace the image with the symbol sign. The sign is characterized by a dissimilarity with it, denotation. In creativity the architect focuses on the aesthetic level of consciousness arranging the work's individual parts and the whole according to social and aesthetic experience of the artistic conception. A work of art begins its existence where the images in the o consciousness are objectivized. Emotions however comes as a result of their connection with thought and provide general ideas about things, they reflect their qualities in their meaning they reflect, because emotions have an innate tendency to merge with the object, a quality expressed in consciousness by singling out and analyses source, the cause of emotions and motivations and orientates the development of feelings. The significance of aesthetic satisfaction is highly important as an evaluated factor in the creative process and perception of art. Art requires this kind of criterion because the phenomena it reflects are assimilated aesthetically in life's forms. This conditions the specifically artistic way of surmounting the opposition between the subjective and objective in the unity of the rational and emotional not only on the personal level but on the social level as well.

The work of art is transformed into an objective form of existence, through the artistic activity embodied in the material of the work.

Today the need is to use the achievement of science and technology for the development of architecture. One important problem is establishing closer ties between science and art in accordance with the laws of beauty. In reality there is a radically different correlation between scientific and artistic thought. For science as art reflects and perceives the world creatively relying on the creative capacities of human mind. In fact the influence of culture on the development of architectural thought is an important factor concerning what the growth of architecture thought is based upon. The reason for the progress of architecture thought is in the influence of external factors, including aesthetic ones in accordance with its own natural laws inherent in the evolution of scientific knowledge and of the shift in the gravitational center of the architect's activity from executive functions to creative ones. History of architecture has shown that it is precisely in art that free creative individuality took shape and for this reason art came forth as that form of activity and cognition which stimulated the creative potentials of the architect who devoted himself to it.

It is possible to say architecture bears the imprint of the architect's individuality. However it should be emphasized that in this case we have in mind the utilization of art by science and technology. Scientific and technological progress should be viewed in regards to art as well. Scientific and technological progress offers art new possibilities.

The scientific and the technological revolution has influenced the formation of present day culture and the rapid technology which have led to a serious reevaluation of past cultural, and aesthetic values which were an outgrowth of the technological culture in technology and art and especially in mass communication which have become the main source of enjoyment, and this has lead art to try to find new forms, new content and new aspects of its existence in society.

This lead to the lowering of man's active perception and lessens his ability to think for himself and to perceive art creatively with the help of scientific and empirical method of research, as certain some of the elementary artistic structures which has affected broad section of the population. This has led to a change in man's perception, a movement toward basic forms of artistic culture, resulting in the lowering of art's spiritual content and a tendency to use the latest technological achievements and to create new artistic languages, based on a synthesis of the representational and expressive means of traditional art, as an effort to break the boundaries between art and non-art.

Present day artistic culture shows that in environments organized on functional and aesthetic principles, a person's vitality increases and he needs less time to feel fully rested and is spiritually and emotionally enriched.

In fact it is by organizing an aesthetic environment by means of different art forms leads to the disappearance of the boundaries between traditional forms of arts, their features of decorativeness are strengthened, thus creating an aesthetically pleasing environment for man involves forms and methods from all fields of both traditional and contemporary art, and also many achievements of science and technology.

Cognitive activity is part of artistic creativity is determined by the specifity of the historic development of art, and the development of the cognitive function of art depends on the historically conditioned status of art as a relatively independent form.

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24 Hours to Improving SEO

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Mobile SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION in 2018 is going in order to be all about Progressive Internet Apps (PWAs). Gathering through the above chart, proving the Income (ROI) to the stakeholders plus ranking a single web web page for multiple keywords turned out there to be the most harrowing pains for that SEO wizards forward of the others identified within the research. Regarding example, considering the keyword tea” or marketing” may take very a long time for enhancing the ranking for every upon Google, however, using less researched terms like home tea-maker” or even SEO marketing for your business” can improve your chances associated with raking high in Google. Search Motor Optimization is done through creating SEO optimized content for the website. I WOULDN'T 301 REFOCUS users blindly to your house page in case you anticipate any SEO benefits from 301s. Nevertheless, 2018 SEO trends will prove in order to be the clincher. 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What [Current Popular TV Show] Can Teach You About SEO

It looks like yesterday that keyword stuffing had been obviously a viable SEO technique to rank on the lookup engines. If you might like some further help dealing with SEO trends for 2018 after that you can always knock within the CX Marketing door. Although few might not think about adding XML sitemaps as upon page SEO technique, if a person own a new blog along with very less external links after that adding an XML sitemap will certainly make it easier for research engines like google to discover your page. The Search algorithms may detect such SEO tactics. There are usually many new techniques and technology marked by the history associated with algorithm updates at the best of search engine results webpages (SERPs) and win real property, most of the SEO professionals chomp at the bit in order to predict the trending updates that will will shape the futures associated with any businesses. Mobile SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION in 2018 is going in order to be all about Progressive Internet Apps (PWAs). Gathering from your above chart, proving the Income (ROI) to the stakeholders plus ranking a single web web page for multiple keywords turned out there to be the most harrowing pains for your SEO wizards forward of the others identified within the research. With regard to example, considering the keyword tea” or marketing” may take very a long time for enhancing the ranking for every upon Google, however, using less researched terms like home tea-maker” or even SEO marketing for your business” can improve your chances associated with raking high in Google. Search Motor Optimization is done through composing SEO optimized content for the website. I WOULDN'T 301 REFOCUS users blindly to your house page in case you anticipate any SEO benefits from 301s. Nevertheless, 2018 SEO trends will prove in order to be the clincher. Canonical: This particular plug-in handles content syndication, which usually essentially allows other blogs in order to publish your projects (similar to franchising) without hurting your website's SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION ranking—simply with the addition of a rel=canonical may get your brand and articles out on the web within multiple outlets, ensuring a higher reach and bigger audience with out hurting your own search outcomes. Rich snippets and schema markup language is the the one that a single needs to work on even more to get a good increase in SEO score and furthermore for having a better standing searching engine results page (also called SERP). ” The wealthy snippets are a way in order to communicate with Google concerning the content material contained within the site. C-K's SEO team provides sifted through many of all of them and created our list associated with key trends to plan with regard to in 2018. Daily news plus insights about search engine advertising, SEO and paid search. Because Google gets smarter, repeating key phrases in your content matters much less and less for SEO. As the next 12 months of 2018 is closer in order to us, it is time in order to thinking about the latest SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION strategy for 2018 to enhance your website ranking in lookup result. It's all component of promotion and SEO, since links, and behavioral factors just increase from such collaboration. One main impact the mobile-first index simply because well as the rise associated with voice search might have upon SEO is the shift through exact match phrases to the more broad match SEO, exactly where search engines like google even more easily interpret natural language. For example, the title of this weblog post is WordPress SEO Register - 50 Tips for 2018. ” We are placing our own keyword, WordPress SEO” in the extremely beginning. 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As a Social Media, SEO & SEM expert with over 8 years' experience in on line marketing, he uses his keen insight into customer behaviour to formulate innovative strategies that helps clients enhance their online presence & open up new business avenues. Research engine optimization, or SEO, is definitely constantly changing, and those that will practice it must keep upward up to now with these types of changes.

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The consumer experience for Local SEO will certainly become even more important within 2018. In the older times of SEO, Google could not understand modifiers, meaning if We put in more keywords within like best” or new, ” I could outrank someone that failed to use those key phrases in the meta title. While the real difference, for the snippets, is not the method the information continues to end up being fetched by Google (as this particular works much like the great old SEO) but how the particular result is presented towards the particular user: these snippets answer the lot of questions, triggered simply by our voice. Still, the key phrase element of SEO is becoming progressively difficult with Google Adwords concealing volume data. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION specialists started to abuse Page rank to be able to enhance the rankings. This blog uses the particular tagline Learn SEO Straight through the Search Engines, ” plus it doesn't tackle easy topics. 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