Music conceived (but generally not played) under the influence tends to be pretty cool overall, lame jam bands aside. But the kind of culture that produces lame jam bands is of which I speak.
I'm now wondering if it's possible to be weeaboo for a different region of your own country. I know something like that happens with the US, if California is any indication.
I'm now wondering if it's possible to be weeaboo for a different region of your own country. I know something like that happens with the US, if California is any indication.
There a lot of people in Spain who are absolutely in love with Andalusia
I'm now wondering if it's possible to be weeaboo for a different region of your own country. I know something like that happens with the US, if California is any indication.
might not be quite the same but you do get English people of dubious Scottish ancestry asserting their supposed origins and wearing kilts to prove it
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'm now wondering if it's possible to be weeaboo for a different region of your own country. I know something like that happens with the US, if California is any indication.
might not be quite the same but you do get English people of dubious Scottish ancestry asserting their supposed origins and wearing kilts to prove it
I'm part-Scottish (un-dubiously) and I've never worn a kilt
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 thought his MLP video was pretty funny, but I'm worried it's going to make the people in the comments even more obnoxious.
I don't even bother reading the comments...usually. I took a peek in this time to see how many bronies didn't get the joke or understand the whole "not liking crap toys" thing...so far I've only seen one "YOU HAVE BROUGHT DISGRACE UPON THE FANDOM"-type screed.
I know quite a few people have been disappointed by the official toys (I remember the whole "pink rarity" kerfuffle), and that the EG toys are just bad copies of Monster High dolls.
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
Honestly, it's not so much the bronies I'm worried about
It's more the people who foam at the mouth any time MLP is brought up and who left comments on nearly every one of his previous blindbag videos saying things like "why haven't you burned my little ponies yet? i can't wait to see the brony tears!!"
the hardest is when you're a few pages in and suddenly you get hit by that feeling that everything you wrote is shallow and crappy, and so are the authors who used to awe you or make you laugh or make you think or unsettle you or move you to tears, and then it feels like the entire medium of language is vacuous and useless and none of your ideas will ever sound good when you put them into words, and then you start to wonder whether they were even good ideas to begin with and the whole exercise seems futile
Honestly, it's not so much the bronies I'm worried about
It's more the people who foam at the mouth any time MLP is brought up and who left comments on nearly every one of his previous blindbag videos saying things like "why haven't you burned my little ponies yet? i can't wait to see the brony tears!!"
sometimes I worry that I am far more fervent a fan or a hater of anything than anyone else on this site
the hardest is when you're a few pages in and suddenly you get hit by that feeling that everything you wrote is shallow and crappy, and so are the authors who used to awe you or make you laugh or make you think or unsettle you or move you to tears, and then it feels like the entire medium of language is vacuous and useless and none of your ideas will ever sound good when you put them into words, and then you start to wonder whether they were even good ideas to begin with and the whole exercise seems futile
sometimes I think everything I like might secretly suck
ever feel like 'wow this writer is a genius, i could never, ever accomplish what he or she did?'
nope
but on the flipside, I am almost never wowed or awed by anything, and have a genuinely difficult time coming up with anything I'd consider "great" instead of just "good" or even "okay".
the hardest is when you're a few pages in and suddenly you get hit by that feeling that everything you wrote is shallow and crappy, and so are the authors who used to awe you or make you laugh or make you think or unsettle you or move you to tears, and then it feels like the entire medium of language is vacuous and useless and none of your ideas will ever sound good when you put them into words, and then you start to wonder whether they were even good ideas to begin with and the whole exercise seems futile
well, i don't know what it would mean to secretly suck
what would that entail?
i'm talking about when you look at something that used to be real writing, real magic, and you find somehow all the magic's drained away leaving a lifeless collection of words and stylistic techniques
well, i don't know what it would mean to secretly suck
what would that entail?
i'm talking about when you look at something that used to be real writing, real magic, and you find somehow all the magic's drained away leaving a lifeless collection of words and stylistic techniques
oh
well, my worries manifest in feelings that MLP:FIM is way overrated or that 101 is not worth watching
or that I shouldn't watch PPG because of certain questionable episodes (e.g. "Moral Decay" and "The Boys Are Back In Town") or R&B because of the Russian stereotypes
Comments
because literature is cool
I'm already practicing my squating
harder than Lunatic Touhou
the hardest is when you're a few pages in and suddenly you get hit by that feeling that everything you wrote is shallow and crappy, and so are the authors who used to awe you or make you laugh or make you think or unsettle you or move you to tears, and then it feels like the entire medium of language is vacuous and useless and none of your ideas will ever sound good when you put them into words, and then you start to wonder whether they were even good ideas to begin with and the whole exercise seems futile
latest for me was Leonard Cohen
previous was Ted Hughes, whose writing now feels somehow hollow to me
this always happens
it hasn't happened to Cohen, but it will
I cannot tell you how much of a relief it is to have a fantasy book gloss over sex scenes.
but on the flipside, I am almost never wowed or awed by anything, and have a genuinely difficult time coming up with anything I'd consider "great" instead of just "good" or even "okay".
So I suppose I sort of have the opposite problem.
what would that entail?
i'm talking about when you look at something that used to be real writing, real magic, and you find somehow all the magic's drained away leaving a lifeless collection of words and stylistic techniques
I don't really care that much, but, y'know.