this is just truthslop.you believe it because it happens to conform to reality
neolithic inhabitant of the andean plateau: hmm i wonder if there are any good edible tubers growing around here
the humble potato:
people have said it before but if you read a lot of historical literature you do begin to just sort of think in that style of language. I’ll put down the 18th century journal I’m reading and have to resist the urge to send academic emails with every Noun capitalized and punctuated only by the profuse Usage of the Em-Dash — it is a deceptively challenging Instinct to resist, & worse is that Instinct when spelling certain Words to utilize what would, some Centuries prior, be an appropriate Spelling, excepting that my Correspondence occurs in the Twenty-First Century, where Men are inflexible and uncreative in their Methods, & this Propensity of mine would appear only foolish & incorrect, instead of suggesting what it in actuality reflects, which is that I am simply an Incorrigible Nerd — O! the Woes of modern Sociability! Why should I be compelled to conform to these d——d modern Conventions! Is it not enough to be unabashedly and impudently Autistic?
I’ve noticed that I’ve developed an instinctive kind of knee-jerk distaste to fantasy that is disinterested in real life.
By real life here I don’t mean being “unrealistic” in a narrow sense (I love wizards and dragons and whatnot), but with the world outside of the immediate genre milieu. Obviously all genre is conversation, but if a work is just remixing the pieces - not engaging with what they are, why they’re here, what they mean, or bringing in new ones - I just feel tired. What’s the point, man?
This is why I complain about bad history in movies. Does it really matter that Roman battles aren’t shown realistically? Not strictly - but it does matter that rather than seeking to understand how things were different in the past, we simply replace it with dreams of the present. We avoid thinking about the world, about engaging with things that aren’t the familiar.
Again with things that “don’t make sense” - fiction is all about things that “don’t make sense”. But there’s a world of difference between things chosen by the author to make a point, and things ignored by the author because they were too lazy or incurious to examine them [this really only applies to narratively significant things, we can’t expect perfection everywhere, much as errors related to my particular interests bug me].
I’ve been noticing this a lot when people talk about their TTRPG projects and it all just seems to orbit DnD5e in content or framing and when they don’t description from a ground up pitch of what it is that they’re making - what their campaign or system is for and about - you know it’s because they don’t have to. Because it’s not important. And it bugs me that what your project is for or about is so unimportant that you didn’t even bother to explain it or that you’re not even entirely aware that there are things other than the DnD default that it could be.
All this is to say - the richest dream are grown from seeds of reality, and every generation where new seeds are not added to the garden, it grows emptier. The internet allows us to access to more of reality than ever before - we should all aspire to grow the grandest dreams.
typewriter!
I love the orchestra trying and failing to maintain a straight face throughout
Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.
My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter
now that is a writing mood
they were really like, the only reasonable approach to this piece is to insert a clown at the center of the orchestra
If you're not playing Leroy Anderson's 1953 classic "The Typewriter" with an actual typewriter on stage... why would you even BOTHER?
From wiki
According to the composer himself, as well as other musicians, the typewriter part is difficult because of how fast the typing speed is: even professional stenographers cannot do it, and only professional drummers have the necessary wrist flexibility
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
does anyone have the screenshot of the comment on the youtube video of molten iron slag being poured where it's a guy describing his experience witnessing the same thing written in the most beautiful prose imaginable
@f2tal @barabones with your key addition of 'seagulls,' i was able to find it!
This is the video it's under
i loooove not posting my opinions on the internet. if i ever start Posting on here i need u to shake me by the shoulders and tell me that’s not who i am
I must not post my opinions on the internet. Posting opinions on the internet is the discourse bringer, the little-overconfidence in one’s own thoughts that makes online-ness terminal. I shall face my desire to post opinions on the internet. I shall allow it to pass over me and through me and when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to its path and there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Notice there hasnt been a wednesday this year
Suspicious.