“but they completely mischaracterize-” my comrade in tumblr, the imaginary difference in how you interpret a not-real dude should not make you believe you are different or above your fellow fandom guy
i would rather be buddies with someone who has completely opposite interpretation than me than someone who shares the same opinions but tears others interpretations down
The excerpt paragraph made me look up and stare at my wife for three solid minutes waiting for them to return to the couch. I couldn’t move on with my life. I had to read it aloud to them to their audible disgust and then they read all the comments with unbridled delight.
Now we keep repeating “Like Zorro.”
Im so sorry to subject everyone to this
But genuinely, cure your imposter syndrome guys. Look at what passes for publication. And realize that you are, in fact, better.
Queen you surely did cure my imposter syndrome, but I also miss the person I was 3 minutes ago
ykno the thing about poetry is that 99% of it is bullshit and the other 1% will cut you like a material knife, and for every person that 1% is a different section of the whole. this is probably true about all art.
@sashayed these tags feeling pretty materially knifey for me
i must not take it personal. taking it personal is the mind killer. taking it personal is the little death that brings total oblivion. i will face taking it personal. i will permit it to pass over and through me. and when it has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see its path. when the taking it personal has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain
Resolving this answer for myself, personally, has taken about five years and, I cannot overstate this, has brought me a measure of peace I’ve never known before, both personally and artistically.
The above is a prototype to an adjustment to the original poll.
It is not live yet.
Hence the checkerboard background.
I. Love. Data. And polls and silly charts and graphs and surveys.
If you have followed me for more than a month, this may not be a surprise.
If you have followed me for more than a week, it similarly will not be a surprise that I want big, complex, overwrought apparatuses to acquire information built in The Exact Format That I Want.
hence this meme I made yesterday
This is a comp logo for the
Fantastically Useful Bureau of Useless Fantastical Information
The logo will be refined.
Polished.
Shaded.
et cetera design et cetera.
To review and expand:
I love data.
I’m not an Actual Scientist.
I am an Actual Artist.
One of the Actual Art Things I have done to raise cash to build Netherworld Post Office is pose and gather questions about monsters etc. for back office art clients, pitched to their friends in private RPGs and present the information in very clear I AM NOT A SCIENTIST THIS IS JUST FOR FUN ways.
Such as the original poll
And such things as “What do you think a gelatinous cube tastes like?”
etc.
There was a point to this, I think?
When the site launches (please sweet moon may it be August as planned), I’m going to get to work on site shop stuff.
In addition to that, Fantastically Useful Bureau of Useless Fantastical Information stuff later this year.
I have heard your comments and tags about main quests etc. This plan is old – the survey is new but the plan is old – I repeat ——
The one sacrifice I have to make is I cannot, with my tech, make the surveys anonymous .They will require an email address due to how Shopify makes things.
There are survey platforms out there, but they are expensive.
There are Google Forms, but these have a lot of limitations I cannot build with
The email inclusion does help centralize responses.
So If you answer this question (Autumn / October / Halloween : Main Quest / Side Quest) and then in six months, answer a future survey about mermaids, say in the summer, it does collate the data to the same person, so interesting and fun charts and graphs can be built.
I abide the by absolute brutal no-exception law of “I will only email you if you explicitly request inclusion on the list.”
and the similar law “your information is never shared, sold, bartered, distributed, or in any other way used other than to email you, if you allow it, and collect data that you provide.”
I’m putting this meme again because I have spent
a lot
of time
and a lot
of money
looking to see if I can find a way to forgo the email requirement, while meeting the needs for the project, and keeping the tech simple enough to that it doesn’t require an entire separate platform.
at some point I have to just give in and say
“people will either shrug and say it’s not that big of a deal, or they won’t take the silly polls and Netherworld Post will just do other stuff.”
i think on some level being an artist requires overthinking things that few others will, or will care about
on this aspect we’ll see in about six months or so
“It may not be high art but everyone’s having too much fun to care” Cinematic Universe
The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns
Men in Black
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Pacific Rim
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Feel free to add your own. Please note this is not just “any” fun blockbuster, it’s a certain subset where it’s a bit of a romp, everyone in the cast is having fun and it’s just a joy to watch.
I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they’re overdone and simply not as good as the original. They’ve done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.
And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.
The diction’s always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.
The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!
I really like the idea of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman all just eating lunch or Dinner at a diner. They usually come late on a sunday.
There is usually no one at the diner when they show up, they are all in costume. Its a Diner thats equal distance between Gotham and Metropolis.
Molly, The Waitress greets them with a smile, there her favorite customers as they are always nice and keep things simple after a long shift. She can even speak to them casually.
Superman always gets a Double Bacon Cheese burger, extra cheese, Pickles on the side, and a thick Vanilla milkshake and slice of Apple Pie.
Batman usually gets a Black Coffee and an omelet with sausage and peppers with a side of White toast and Cinnamon butter. He knows the cook makes the butter from scratch and he loves it. He rarely indulges in sweets (as he has to maintain his physique, but he makes an exception to the cinnamon butter)
Wonder Woman always tells the Chef to cook one of whatever specials he has that day, she likes to try new things. But ALWAYS gets Chocolate ice cream after.
The Cook, Edwardo knows how they each like their dishes. He knows to put Pepperjack cheese instead of Chedder for Superman, Batman likes the Omelet a bit runny in the middle and the toast with only a HINT of color.
The pie is made by the Dinner owner, as she uses her grandmother’s recipe. Superman swears on his life its the best pie in existence.
Edwardo started learning to cook Greek food in order to surprise Wonder Woman, to which she greatly approves of.
During the meal, the three heroes casually talk about anything and everything. (Batman ALWAYS ensures the place isnt bugged before entering)
Superman will ask about relationship advise. Batman will mention troubles with the batkids, Wonder Woman will mention the new hobby or obsession she recently got into. She had a phase where she was really into Table Tennis, but had no one to play against.
After the meal, they would argue for 20 minutes about the check, always offering to pay. After which Batman always convinces them HE will cover it. Batman leaves a tip for both the waitress and the cook. (The tip being Much greater then the value of the meal)
Molly is paying off her student loans solely because of Batman tips.
Edwardo finished paying off his house because of the heroes.
Over time, several other heroes began going to the diner, Flash, Green Lanturn, Martian Manhunter, Hawk Girl, and many others.
Though they were less consistent often showing up at random times.
It became so common for them that they stopped getting star struck, just treated the heroes as people.
One day, one of the villains figured out the Diner was a hero hang out. They kidnapped Molly.
After two hours, Molly was rescued as THE ENTIRE JUSTICE LEAGUE showed up to save her. The crook was in a body cast for months. And Wonder Woman said next time, she would snap his neck. And she was holding the lasso when she said it.
Villains know that the diner and the staff are off limits
I love microwaves. I love that I can put a raw potato inside and push a button labelled “potato” and some time later it will beep and there will be a baked potato in there.
Admiration of microwave rescinded, it exploded my potato
Did you pre-stab your potato?
No I was too distracted wanting to get my sausages in the oven
Out of curiosity, did the sausage explode as well?
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