@ sunn wolf: Thank you for that thoughtful response. i will check out the Coetzee you mentioned as soon as i can.
i want to say there's a difference between inconsistency and development. Change is necessary to keep things interesting over a sustained period of time, but i'm not convinced that this needs to involve internal contradiction.
i think one thing that interests me is the interplay of the literal and the non-literal in a narrative, and the relationship between what the characters and the reader are experiencing and the implied wider universe. To deny that A=A is to make a departure from realism and throw that universe into question. Obviously there's no reason you can't do that, i guess what i was trying to do here is put forward a defence of *not* doing that. i think when we go about our lives we rarely encounter internal contradictions of the type that would be considered a "major continuity error" or "plot hole" in a work of fiction, and if we did this would be a strange occurrence, a mystery which we'd want to solve. If we take this as a basic assumption about the world we live in, though, that doesn't diminish the capacity of that world to make us feel things, to take us on emotional journeys or to derive meaning from our experiences. i feel like a good realist story should operate in the same way.
i take your first point and that is possible, but over the kinda time scales you're dealing with in comics, it's inevitable that internal contradictions will happen.
the rest of that is all interesting and it's fair enough for you to defend a 'good realist' story, which is after all still very possible in tyool 2015. one of the reasons i referred you to Coetzee is because that whole book is outwardly 'realist' but things get interesting when you consider that most chapters in Elizabeth Costello were actually given as lectures by coetzee himself, and that there are a lot of parallels between the Costello character and the real-life Coetzee. and then in the last chapter... well, i won't spoil it for you. i like it tho. Coetzee is very hit and miss but that ones a hit for me (nb please.pls pls dont bother with Disgrace that book is so bad)
i think ppl need to remember that when myr is posting things he isn't insulting the media oyu like. something i think does happen here is ppl getting very defensive about the media they like and it doesn't rly help taking things personally.....
i think ppl need to remember that when myr is posting things he isn't insulting the media oyu like. something i think does happen here is ppl getting very defensive about the media they like and it doesn't rly help taking things personally.....
Counterpoint, my good wolf: As one of the resident goddesses I can own anyone and everyone if I so desire; but I refrain from doing so, out of the tiny sliver of goodness that is my icy cold heart. Nerd.
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
HEY WATIRMAN
what is it shcef
check out my karaoke machine!
wow! where'd you shoplift hits from?
i didn't! i actualy bought it with moneys
wow, i don't think youv'e ever done that kind of thng before who knew you had it in you ^_^
hee hee now watch me sing
ok
THEY'RE PINKY AND THE BRAIN THEY'RE PINKY AND HTE BRAIN ONE IS NAMED PINKY, THE OTHER'S NAMED BRAIN THEY'RE LABORATAORY MICE WAITERMAN SMELLS NICE THEY'RE DINKY, THEY'RE PINKY AND HTE BRAIN BRAIN BRAIN BRAIN BRAIN
wow, what's that song called chef?
"anaconda" by nicki minaj
oh, right, i remmber now
let's go to walmart and cause mayhem
mayhem is so two months ago julyhem is where it's at
i think ppl need to remember that when myr is posting things he isn't insulting the media oyu like. something i think does happen here is ppl getting very defensive about the media they like and it doesn't rly help taking things personally.....
I've tried to be clear that I'm mainly critical of people who turn marathoning a TV series or watching every movie in a long running series into a bizarre joyless automatic exercise. I just find this attitude of not enjoying something, but feeling the need to "keep up" out of a desire to stay relevant or being invested in a fictional world creepy and annoying.
I've probably crossed a line a few times, but if you want to watch a bunch of Dr. Who or Agent Carter, I don't think you're a wrong or bad person.
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
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
Please don't cancel the live stream, Odra. Looking forward to it got me through this very long day. (I spent an hour stirring milk for the purpose of yogurt-making).
I don't understand the media debates, so they were never emotional to me. Just a bunch of words I didn't understand.
Please don't cancel the live stream, Odra. Looking forward to it got me through this very long day. (I spent an hour stirring milk for the purpose of yogurt-making).
I don't understand the media debates, so they were never emotional to me. Just a bunch of words I didn't understand.
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the rest of that is all interesting and it's fair enough for you to defend a 'good realist' story, which is after all still very possible in tyool 2015. one of the reasons i referred you to Coetzee is because that whole book is outwardly 'realist' but things get interesting when you consider that most chapters in Elizabeth Costello were actually given as lectures by coetzee himself, and that there are a lot of parallels between the Costello character and the real-life Coetzee. and then in the last chapter... well, i won't spoil it for you. i like it tho. Coetzee is very hit and miss but that ones a hit for me (nb please.pls pls dont bother with Disgrace that book is so bad)
i think ppl need to remember that when myr is posting things he isn't insulting the media oyu like. something i think does happen here is ppl getting very defensive about the media they like and it doesn't rly help taking things personally.....
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
what is it shcef
check out my karaoke machine!
wow! where'd you shoplift hits from?
i didn't!
i actualy bought it with moneys
wow, i don't think youv'e ever done that kind of thng before
who knew you had it in you ^_^
hee hee
now watch me sing
ok
THEY'RE PINKY AND THE BRAIN
THEY'RE PINKY AND HTE BRAIN
ONE IS NAMED PINKY, THE OTHER'S NAMED BRAIN
THEY'RE LABORATAORY MICE
WAITERMAN SMELLS NICE
THEY'RE DINKY, THEY'RE PINKY AND HTE BRAIN BRAIN BRAIN BRAIN BRAIN
wow, what's that song called chef?
"anaconda" by nicki minaj
oh, right, i remmber now
let's go to walmart and cause mayhem
mayhem is so two months ago
julyhem is where it's at
can we sti9ll trash walmart?
sure, chef
sure
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
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
two, he's using "SJW" now. done
I really hope that both lose.
I don't understand the media debates, so they were never emotional to me. Just a bunch of words I didn't understand.
Odra is too cool and interesting for Twitter Marxists.
As always, I will blame Molly Klein.
Do you know the name of the owner of Domino's?
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By all that is good and holy, it is hideous!
Was it the villain or the player character in the video game? Because I would play a game where you rid the world of that.
Also, what does it mean to, "IPO" something?