there is a joke there involving frogs having weird genital mutations due to pollution imitating frog sex hormones and people eating frogs in percolating about in my brain but it's too unwieldy to solidify.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I like to imagine you just woke up and found the wig was already on your head...
I think authorial comments and 'canons' can be interpreted in the same way as a book or film can be. If you make a claim about the author's intentions and the author said something which contradicts your claim, then obviously, either you're wrong (about the author) or the author's comment is unreliable for whatever reason.
I realize the Harry Potter post invites discussion of the wider issues of language and interpretation, but with regards to 'canon', I think it's really just the artificial privileging of one interpretation of the text, and is itself subject to interpretation. So, it's not important, unless you care about it, in which case it is.
I do think that an interpretation of Harry Potter which presents Harry as simply self-centred and revelling in his celebrity status has to be ignoring (or being wilfully contrary in the interpretation of) substantial parts of the text, though.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I admit, the idea that "canon" consists solely of the text itself weirded me out the first time I saw it
Because, I dunno, I'd always sort of made the assumption of "yeah, whoever wrote the story gets to say definitively what is and isn't true about it, since they're the one who made it"
It just seemed obvious to me...I guess because I tend to be very literal-minded and (albeit less so than when I was younger) take everything at face value
I used to care very much about canon and authorial intent (on TVT I was accused of being a 'canon nazi') but then I realized it doesn't actually matter.
I generally fall back on the Bradbury example when thinking about canon. Authorial additions can add a greater perspective, since the author has a more personal relationship to the material. But they can still be dead wrong.
The purpose of all media is to promote a message and/or to evoke an emotion. If the work requires authorial commentary to get that message/emotion across, the work has failed.
I don't entirely agree, actually. I don't feel that art requires a purpose, and I am reluctant to declare any work a failure without qualifying the sense in which it has failed.
Having said which, when interpreting a text, I prefer to give precedence to the text itself. Certainly I think in the case of something like a fan wiki, which purports to be an encyclopaedia on a given work of fiction, the work itself should have precedence over any other related media.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I admit, I'm not really looking forward to going back to work on Tuesday
Because between closing early on Friday and being closed all day tomorrow, we're going to have a LOAD of work piled up when we get back in there
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Even if that worked, having big garish foam nailed to your doors is ghetto as fuck
#it's ok when I say it #because half-black #please don't hurt me
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Mom uses the iPad with its brightness all the way up
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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Holy shit, I've packed on a few pounds in the past few years.
I think authorial comments and 'canons' can be interpreted in the same way as a book or film can be. If you make a claim about the author's intentions and the author said something which contradicts your claim, then obviously, either you're wrong (about the author) or the author's comment is unreliable for whatever reason.
I realize the Harry Potter post invites discussion of the wider issues of language and interpretation, but with regards to 'canon', I think it's really just the artificial privileging of one interpretation of the text, and is itself subject to interpretation. So, it's not important, unless you care about it, in which case it is.
I do think that an interpretation of Harry Potter which presents Harry as simply self-centred and revelling in his celebrity status has to be ignoring (or being wilfully contrary in the interpretation of) substantial parts of the text, though.
Me: I know, mother D: *internal thought: your 154lb daughter needs help*
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Having said which, when interpreting a text, I prefer to give precedence to the text itself. Certainly I think in the case of something like a fan wiki, which purports to be an encyclopaedia on a given work of fiction, the work itself should have precedence over any other related media.
You know that we're as close as can be, man
Well here's another clue for you all:
The walrus was Paul...
I tell you man he livin' there still
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
But yeah, I totally concede to your second point
Everyone in our mobile home park owns 8 dogs and mows their lawn 32 times a day. I am going bonkers.
In unrelated news, Transistor was really good.
#it's ok when I say it #because half-black #please don't hurt me
Good fucking gravy
kid's resourceful but I feel he's missing the point.
TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWS *falls into oblivion*
if I had to do songs for a movie company it would be like....
I dunno, some Japanese studio probably. I can't think of too many WA companies that make movies I enjoy watching.
Especially not on a site like this where half the posts are nonsense already