(decided today that one of my favorite things about ten reasons is the absence of time in it.

like theres the understanding its a Modern AU given that they text and there is one football reference in there to a more current player but that is...the extent of it.

theres almost no contemporary references in the fic that give the reader an idea of what year it even is, or time period. 2000s? late 90s? 2010s? 2020's? WHO KNOWS!

and i think thats very taylor swift/1989 of me.)

Okay, I just saw another post on my dash about how Toph and Daredevil are great disability representation. Toph is great I don’t know anything about Daredevil except that they use echolocation? I don’t want to say they’re bad representation, but I’ve got a personal reason why I’d like to see more blind characters using canes.

My grandmother (who died earlier this year), was a badass blind woman. She started losing her vision due to macular degeneration in her teens, and was legally blind for her entire adult life. And for her entire adult life, she carried a long white cane. 

Once, when my mom was in college, my grandmother’s plane came into the airport two hours late. On the drive home, my mom managed to extract some of the story from my grandma (who was never a complainer, and never had a mean word to say about anyone). Before taking off, the flight attendant had literally tried to take away my grandmother’s cane before the flight. When she refused, the flight attendant threatened to have her arrested. My grandmother had a long-established legal right to carry her cane on an airplane, but the airline didn’t care. They were happy to try to take away her mobility aid for their convenience.

(They didn’t succeed, and my grandmother walked off the plane with her cane in hand.)

That incident, and others like it, led my grandmother to make a decision - in my entire life, I never saw her carry a folding cane. Her cane was a single piece of fiberglass, five and a half feet long. It was a pain in the ass to get into a small car or a tight space, and that was the point. She was the sweetest person I’ve ever met, I’m not sure she got into a single argument during my lifetime, but goddamnit she was not going to let anyone forget that she was blind, and she was not going to let them take her cane away from her.

That’s something I really wish I saw more of in fiction. I want to see blind people who love their canes. I want to see blind people who are proud of their canes. I want to see people who have fought for the right to use a cane, and are fighting on behalf of all the people who don’t have a cane yet. Because that’s what the blind people I know in real life are like.

Girl, help, the book authors are trying too hard to be "hip" with the fleeting "teen lingo" and trends again, immediately dating their works before they're even released

Wolcred Week 2024 Day 5: Laughter | Gift

not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.

Quick things I made with the comic creator (128/?)

i think its kinda funny that ibis paint is regarded as the Broke Artist App or whatever (as opposed to more mainstream programs like csp or procreate) because its free and because of how popular it is with phone + finger artists while im jusg sitting here having used ibis for a cool eight years on purpose.

like i have an ipad and an apple pencil and all theyre very nice and i absolutely could move to a more powerful program i have the resources to do so but my change averse brain has decided they like it here a lot and im not leaving

some more ocs because i don't really have anything that i can post

i've been trying to do some animatics and i MIGHT have a kinda big commitment to an animatic so i might not post much

so, uh, if you wanna see one of those 3 animatics of my ocs i have made send an ask and i'll show one (2 of 'em are memes and one is 11 seconds of related to one of my oc's storys)

not to say i won't post but just incase i DO end up not posting, that's why

i just find it really interesting that both mary, queen of scots and her grandson king charles i of england and scotland both had their heads chopped off

things depicted in fiction don't have to make sense in the real world, and sometimes something that seems like it'd be nonsensical in real life is shown in fiction because it better facilitates the telling of the story

I love your point about maximalism and embracing the spectacle being backbones of kpop and part of what sets it apart from other genres because I think that’s very true. I don’t listen to kpop expecting some heartfelt authentic song that I personally relate to. If I wanted that, I could go listen to any singer at almost any bar in my city sing about their depression or something. I want like an insane fantasy unattached from my regular life that isn’t about girls/cars/money, which is the only alternative reality you find in most western pop. Bonus points for insane production to go with the insane lyrics rather than just more of the same 2-4 measure instrumental motif repeated for an entire song.

(Also, gotta say - SM had serious confidence showing up in America with lyrics the level of cringe of Jopping, because a lot of Americans have way too many mean opinions that they shout confidently, especially at non Americans. But honestly SuperM’s unironic embrace of the cringe made me like Jopping even more. It’s also a crime they didn’t promote their full album in 2020 more. I know it was the early pandemic and they couldn’t figure out what to do if they couldn’t come to the US, but that album was 100% bangers and it deserved more)

exactly! even within the k music industry you can find musicians that make 'authentic' music, it's not that hard to find at all. but you cannot expect it from idol music, because idol music is a specific form of performance. idol music is engineered to be about spectacle; you cannot separate the visual element from it because it was essentially formulated for television and large scale broadcast. expecting idol music to forgo that element is like expecting the same from an opera. the point of an opera is that it is every art form combined together to make the greatest spectacle story possible, and kpop has exactly the same function, just crammed down into four minutes instead of four hours.

For some reason TTRPG books are really hard for me to read (maybe i just have a hard time with PDFs?) SO i've been reading the VTM fandom wiki (are there any good non-fandom affiliate wikis for VTM?) and I'm glad I have bc its clarifying a lot of lore things I didn't like and I actually like them now :)

*physically restraining myself from getting in yet another fucking argument about alchemical significations and the perception of alchemical language with someone who is only really versed in the scientific history of alchemy*

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thinking about how makarov is gonna be the main villain in the 3rd reboot game and being soooooooooooo scared abt what that means for the 141

Modern art.... is kinda like memes