Y'know when i write something i don't always intend to make anyone feel like anything
sometimes i just write because i wanna write
And like that's okay and all, but if you want to get good at it you can't actively shun the notion that there are certain processes that help make your work more meaningful.
I Didn't Do It is the most grievous of the new shows. The others I've seen at least ape human interaction with some success, and have some self-awareness of what they are. But no one is capable of thought or sympathy in that show.
I... think Tachyon knows that? Honestly that comes off as a little patronizing to me, given that Tachy's literally a creative writing major and is probably just making an off-hand comment about things they do.
The Disney Channel. I'm visiting a godniece in the hospital and, frig, at some point, they stopped caring completely
I think everyone but Cartoon Network stopped trying.
Cartoon Network runs shows of actual quality, which is why the likes of Variety tend not to mention it in the same sentence as Nickelodeon or Disney Channel, or as part of the shortlist of Time Warner properties
Also, there was an ad for Doctor Who for Disney XD on. The music was as if the musicians behind Johnny Test were asked to write Doctor Who's theme song
I don't even respect DW and I think it deserves more than that
Also, there was an ad for Doctor Who for Disney XD on. The music was as if the musicians behind Johnny Test were asked to write Doctor Who's theme song
I don't even respect DW and I think it deserves more than that
I found out not long ago that Disney XD started airing Doraemon.
Not a reboot or anything either, just a dubbed version of the original Doraemon.
I find that pretty cool, regardless of any other creative decisions that they make.
Also, there was an ad for Doctor Who for Disney XD on. The music was as if the musicians behind Johnny Test were asked to write Doctor Who's theme song
I don't even respect DW and I think it deserves more than that
they changed the character's design, apparently in order to distance themselves from doctor who, but apparently they did go on to reference doctor who a few times
I think "media should try to make people better" is absolutely the broadest approach and I don't see how it's even, like, possible to disagree with that statement. It seems like everyone just has a knee-jerk reaction to anyone making statements about the purpose of media and it makes these conversations really difficult to have in any productive capacity.
there is no purpose to media
it just exists
there is intention, but you can totally disregard that no problem
have a book? you can read it, you can eat it, you can flip to a random page, point to a phrase at random and attempt to divine the future, you can take a movie, mute it and play inappropriate music over the sad bits, you can sit there obsessively counting all of the times it contradicts itself, you can smash a DVD into tiny pieces and use them to make a statue, you can take a VHS and splice together The Bad Sleep Well and Gone With The Wind, then sit around with your robot pals and make fun of it, there are no rules and there is no wrong way to do things.
none.
zip.
nada.
That's just nihilism then. Like, okay, you can say that nothing has any worth or value but it doesn't help anything with regards to writing, but oh WAIT the notion of "helping" is an arbitrary construct generated by random fluctuations of chemicals stimulating also random electrical impulses and can you see how quickly this conversation gets pointless?
Like okay. You can work an equation down to a point where you have determined that x = x but isn't it immensely more informative (oh, information, another meaningless social construct. No one really "knows" anything and we're all just pointless fluctuations of particles) to actually find the value of x?
I think "media should try to make people better" is absolutely the broadest approach and I don't see how it's even, like, possible to disagree with that statement. It seems like everyone just has a knee-jerk reaction to anyone making statements about the purpose of media and it makes these conversations really difficult to have in any productive capacity.
there is no purpose to media
it just exists
there is intention, but you can totally disregard that no problem
have a book? you can read it, you can eat it, you can flip to a random page, point to a phrase at random and attempt to divine the future, you can take a movie, mute it and play inappropriate music over the sad bits, you can sit there obsessively counting all of the times it contradicts itself, you can smash a DVD into tiny pieces and use them to make a statue, you can take a VHS and splice together The Bad Sleep Well and Gone With The Wind, then sit around with your robot pals and make fun of it, there are no rules and there is no wrong way to do things.
none.
zip.
nada.
That's just nihilism then. Like, okay, you can say that nothing has any worth or value but it doesn't help anything with regards to writing, but oh WAIT the notion of "helping" is an arbitrary construct generated by random fluctuations of chemicals stimulating also random electrical impulses and can you see how quickly this conversation gets pointless?
Like okay. You can work an equation down to a point where you have determined that x = x but isn't it immensely more informative (oh, information, another meaningless social construct. No one really "knows" anything and we're all just pointless fluctuations of particles) to actually find the value of x?
1) you do not actually know what nihilism is
2) you are being insufferably pretentious right now for absolutely no reason. Please stop.
I fully acknowledge that everything is pointless because meaning doesn't exist.
So, from now on, can we act under the assumption that what I say is operating under the pretense that when I say "meaning" I mean it in the sense that meaning is what we as arbitrary arrangements of particles would arbitrarily assign meaning, and am not assuming there is any order or meaning to the universe. Okay? Okay.
I fully acknowledge that everything is pointless because meaning doesn't exist.
So, from now on, can we act under the assumption that what I say is operating under the pretense that when I say "meaning" I mean it in the sense that meaning is what we as arbitrary arrangements of particles would arbitrarily assign meaning, and am not assuming there is any order or meaning to the universe. Okay? Okay.
i think you're missing what meaning actually is, possibly
meaning is not a fixed thing, meaning is like, a fountain that never dries up, or like, clouds changing shape, or both of those things at once, and much much more
Like I fully acknowledge that someone can derive just as much pleasure from eating a copy of Heart of Darkness as reading it, but that has nothing to do with, like, writing. So there is little point to including "make your pages tasty" in advice for writing.
For fuck's sake this is an irritating conversation.
Like I fully acknowledge that someone can derive just as much pleasure from eating a copy of Heart of Darkness as reading it, but that has nothing to do with, like, writing. So there is little point to including "make your pages tasty" in advice for writing.
For fuck's sake this is an irritating conversation.
the reason you are irritated is because you are trying to have a conversation with a bunch of people who do not want to have that conversation with you but are too polite to tell you to take a taxi to Texas.
i feel really bad and ashamed about this and will probably give it a reread at some point, because supposedly it's an important book, and it's about stuff, it's not just murkiness that i don't understand
People don't want to have this discussion but they go into elaborate ephemeral metaphysics of what constitutes meaning that serves ONLY to muddle the discussion because NO ONE wants to be told that writing might have a point.
It's like how my older brother thinks he's Charles fuckin' Bukowski because he's capable of writing words in the same language as him because "everything is subjective" even though humans are all operating with only .01 percent of genetic difference so there are GONNA BE some more or less universal constructs
kex i wanna tell you about how great pointlessness is as well from a producer's perspective. i wanna say how delighted i am when i "intend" one thing (or think i do) and then someone comes along and spins my work on its head
but i don't wanna tell you this because you always take it hella personal and get angry and frustrated when people disagree with you on anything idgi.
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often it's there, often it's obvious even, but you can never read the author's mind
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
I don't even respect DW and I think it deserves more than that
i was just remarking
and i'm not sure, really, whether i can write better for myself or with other people in mind
i think the best guitarists are often people who just enjoy playing the guitar for its own sake even when nobody else is around
cool cool
if you send it to me that's 888 Imipoints
they did a show about K9
they changed the character's design, apparently in order to distance themselves from doctor who, but apparently they did go on to reference doctor who a few times
i never watched it
Like okay. You can work an equation down to a point where you have determined that x = x but isn't it immensely more informative (oh, information, another meaningless social construct. No one really "knows" anything and we're all just pointless fluctuations of particles) to actually find the value of x?
i am in love with pointlessness, pointlessness sparks within me an endless, indefatigable joy
naney is totally right and on point here
So, from now on, can we act under the assumption that what I say is operating under the pretense that when I say "meaning" I mean it in the sense that meaning is what we as arbitrary arrangements of particles would arbitrarily assign meaning, and am not assuming there is any order or meaning to the universe. Okay? Okay.
but if we arbitrarily assign it then it's not embedded into a text, is it?
meaning is not a fixed thing, meaning is like, a fountain that never dries up, or like, clouds changing shape, or both of those things at once, and much much more
specially hawaiian
or anything with good cheese really, i suppose cheese is the heart if you will of the pizza, despite pizza not having any organs or parts
Like I fully acknowledge that someone can derive just as much pleasure from eating a copy of Heart of Darkness as reading it, but that has nothing to do with, like, writing. So there is little point to including "make your pages tasty" in advice for writing.
For fuck's sake this is an irritating conversation.
not sure why but i just could not get that book at all, it was like wading through tar
that will be my 3rd attempt at getting it however
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Joseph Conrad wrote great prose but I don't think he's really on my wavelength, so to speak
perhaps i have not made clear how little i enjoyed Heart of Darkness
ok, then
i definitely missed something i think
It's like how my older brother thinks he's Charles fuckin' Bukowski because he's capable of writing words in the same language as him because "everything is subjective" even though humans are all operating with only .01 percent of genetic difference so there are GONNA BE some more or less universal constructs
but i don't wanna tell you this because you always take it hella personal and get angry and frustrated when people disagree with you on anything idgi.