#ama RAMBLES

[amaranthinius]

The mind is weak and the flesh weaker

#I WILL WRITE THAT CORRUPTION HASHIIZU BCS IM WEAK #Ama rambles

[coquiriitxt]

new med side effects like "You may have increased appetite and eat more which will lead to weight gain!"

uhhhh its been the opposite. Ive had even less appetite and I'm more sleepy hahah...

#ama rambles #Medicine mention #its only been 2 days so still early

[amawritesmonsters]

I’ve been too chicken to post my writing anywhere even though I’ve wanted to write and share monster x human romance for YEARS. There’s some great authors here on tumblr that were my original inspiration to try writing.

Anyway this is me trying to hype myself up into posting the nsft werewolf romance sitting in my files.

#is wattpad the place to post nowadays? #but i love tumblr too much #ama rambles #trying to tell myself it's just for fun and not to be nervous. like girl chill

[markscherz]

I… do not understand tumblr live. Like, are there actually only about 50 people streaming across the whole platform at any one time? And why are so many of them just… people smoking? Or unoccupied desks? And why is nobody talking about frogs?

#live #tumblr live #it occurs to me that the reason there are so few streamers is that I am in the wrong timezone #but honestly even off-peak 50 streamers is embarrassing numbers #look I might do an AMA sometime #but there is a very low chance that it will be on tumblr live #so far most livestreaming I've done has been on facebook and/or instagram #but those platforms both really suck for it #so I am not sure which platform I will use #suggestions are welcome #I have also dabbled with youtube #and once tried twitch #might try tiktok sometime #but it's not great on all these platforms without existing follower counts #these are the ramblings of a tumblr old #his continuing mission: #to teach you about strange and wonderful animals #to seek out new frog lovers and teach them fun facts #to try to understand why tumblr is worse than before

[genericpuff]

my mind has been consumed by your critical analysis posts on the LO writing (positive connotation)! its constantly leaves me going ! Yes! That's what I've been thinking! and when it doesn't it's cuz you gave a bigger hindsight on aspects that went unnoticed for me or straight up didn't knew beforehand and that is so cool!!!! You're so cool!!

#y'all are so cool for sticking around and reading my rambles <3 #ask me anything #ama #anon ama #anon ask me anything

[daenerys-targaryen]

I have my fans to thank essentially for my happiness!!!! I looked around in a blood soaked gown and saw something they can’t take away!!!!!

#leah rambles #taylor swift #swiftie posting #amas 2022 #WHY AN I EMO #swiftie hits

[bluerose5]

Dragging Jaal to Kadara is like dragging Garrus to Noveria every playthrough. It's a rite of passage. You don't get to complain about the rotten egg smell, the criminal elements, or the freezing cold while Ryder/Shepard is suffering along with you. Being there builds character or something.

#mass effect #mass effect andromeda #garrus vakarian #jaal ama darav #commander shepard #pathfinder ryder #rydaal #shakarian #bluerose rambles #bluerose shitposts #i started with vetra and drack in the badlands #but will eventually take jaal too make no mistake about it

[poorlydrawnmcyt]

rises up from the dead hi Indonesian friends im going to comifuro 15 this weekend, i don't have a circle but I do plan to give out some Grian stickers for free bc i printed it for funsies :] dm me if u want one <3

#tell ur indonesian friendsssssss to get free gremlin boy #will be goin there for both days #gatau mo dimana ngasihnya tapi dm aja ya bebskis #datengnya pake hybrid cosplay csm ama yttd WKWKWK #yyuu rambles #sekalian nambah temen tulunggg gw cm bareng 1 temen kampus dari DIY HIKSROT

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

I made a chart of all the fictional characters who live in my head rent-free... this is pretty telling

#ceo's ramblings #the drifter destiny #raleigh samson #the spider destiny #hfw tilda #phineas welles #thane krios #arthur morgan #tali zora vas normandy #evfra de tershaav #jaal ama darav #chief hekarro #hekarro

[songofsaraneth]

Since we have so many wonderful new members of the Realm of the Elderlings fandom here the last few months, here is a reminder that the band Within Temptation has a song inspired by one FitzChivalry Farseer and that is NOT an exaggeration, they literally wrote it about him/the books

lyrics below cut!

The child without a name grew up to be the hand To watch you, to shield you or kill on demand The choice he'd made he could not comprehend His blood a grim secret they had to command

He's torn between his honor and the true love of his life He prayed for both but was denied

So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind? So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise? Will all our sins be justified?

The curse of his powers tormented his life Obeying the crown was a sinister price His soul was tortured by love and by pain He surely would flee but the oath made him stay

He's torn between his honor and the true love of his life He prayed for both but was denied

So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind? So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise? Will all our sins be justified?

Please forgive me for the sorrow, for leaving you in fear For the dreams we had to silence, that's all they'll ever be Still I'll be the hand that serves you Though you'll not see that it is me

So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind? So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise? Will all our sins be justified?

#realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #i dont think we bring it up much but i laugh every time i remember... our pathetic blorbo he inspires so many to song and art #within temptation #hand of sorrow #ramblings #Youtube #was just reading robbin hobbs old reddit AMA again and having REVELATIONS. REVELATIONS I TELL YOU. and found the link to this again lol #did you know before any of the f&tf trilogy came out hobb said in that AMA: #''an exchange of genetic material is possible among/between species that are in very close contact with one another'' #WE DIDNT EVEN KNOW ABOUT BEE YET BUT SHE FULLY SAID THAT... #(about whites and dragons and maulkin/the sea serpent who could see the future) #god im going insane

[pynkhues]

curious as to your thoughts on the may december discourse (some spoilers i guess) - vili has come out and essentially said that he felt the film contributed to his victimization and hurt him. and the response from a lot of film twitter seems to be to yell ITS NOT A BIOPIC and to say he doesnt understand the film (gross). i feel like i dont really care if its a biopic or not, when the film literally quoted vili/mary kay, recreated the mary kay in prison photo exactly, and both charles melton and julianne moore studied vili/mary kay for their performances. to hand wave that all as "not a biopic" feels like a way of writing off any discomfort. i feel like the film should not have made those specific choices, but having done so they had a duty of care to vili. i dont think the film that ended up getting made is worth the continued trauma to vili even if it is art. there were other ways they could have told the story to minimize the harm and they chose not to - and i dont think that choice is a great commentary on tabloids or whatever, its just a ghoulish thing to do

I did see that, anon, and I do have thoughts on it as it's a real grey area in terms of creative license, art and storytelling, and it's a grey area that's been around really since storytelling existed, but before I get into that I just want to quickly clarify what Vili said, because I do think it's important.

Vili didn't say that the film contributed to his victimisation and hurt him, he said the film offended him because it was a ripoff:

“I’m still alive and well,” says Fualaau, now 40 and still living in the Seattle area, where the scandal unfolded. “If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece. Instead, they chose to do a ripoff of my original story. “I’m offended by the entire project and the lack of respect given to me — who lived through a real story and is still living it,” he adds.

“I love movies — good movies,” he says. “And I admire ones that capture the essence and complications of real-life events. You know, movies that allow you to see or realize something new every time you watch them. “Those kinds of writers and directors — someone who can do that — would be perfect to work with, because my story is not nearly as simple as this movie [portrays],” Fualaau adds.

The reason I think this distinction is an important one to make is because in interviews since Mary Kay Letourneau passing, it's pretty clear that Vili - while absolutely being a victim-survivor - doesn't see himself that way, and even says pretty specifically in his Doctor Oz interview from 2020 that he doesn't see her as a predator or himself as having been preyed on ('there was no perversion...she was my wife and my best friend' are his exact words), and he's pretty clearly open to the idea of a film being made about his story.

I'm not saying this to diminish his feelings about May December at all (I strongly believe that Vili is entitled to feel any and every which way about the film) or to patronise his own understanding of what he experienced - I can't even begin to imagine the complexity of trying to unpack the life he shared with her - but I think it's important to reflect his feelings accurately and to provide a little context to those feelings.

With that said, do I think the creative team should've reached out to Vili before making the film?

Honestly, I don't know.

I think it's one of those questions in art where there's not really a right answer. If Vili's feelings towards Mary Kay are still lost in the silver linings of her grooming, any film that has his direct approval or involvement is going to run the risk of tacit endorsement. It also hamstrings the creative team and opens them up in terms of liability (I actually was a writers assistant on a TV show a million years ago that was sort of a bio pic and I can tell you for a fact that it was a disaster once the person it was based on got involved), and, of course, it runs the risk of shifting the focus of the story the writer is wanting to tell.

And that's the thing about art, right? By design, art is supposed to reflect us back to ourselves in ways that we might not always be comfortable with. Of course, that usually happens less literally than in how Todd Haynes has used Vili and Mary Kay's stories, but not always. Todd Haynes is certainly no stranger to the technique given Velvet Goldmine is pretty transparently inspired by David Bowie and I'm Not There is often confused as a Bob Dylan bio pic despite the fact that it's actually not.

Hell, everyone loves that Succession points a pretty clear finger to the Murdoch's, and while, of course, the Murdoch's - and Bowie and Dylan for that matter - have social, political and economic power that Vili doesn't which does impact the ethics of the decision, it's still made under the same creative ideology that aspects of a real story can render an artwork, a story, a film more emotionally authentic, can create greater resonance, can offer a sharper reflection of the world we live in and offer, perhaps, a message or a question that lingers.

All of this has actually kind of been funny timing as I just finished reading Sarah Weinman's The Real Lolita the other day which is a really excellent blend of true crime, literary history and critical commentary on this exact topic. The book explores the real life case of Sally Horner who was kidnapped by a pedophile in 1948 when she was 11 years old and was forced to roadtrip with him around America for two years. It's actually mentioned in passing in Nabokov's Lolita, but once you go a little deeper it's pretty clear how much of Horner and her story Nabokov used to create Dolores Haze / Lolita.

In the book, Weinnman asks the question as to why Lolita gets to be remembered when Sally's been left to obscurity, and of course, the answer is that there are other Sally's in the news cycle, but only one Lolita in art, and that hopefully in her writing Sally Horner's story she can write her back into bookshelves and place her back into this artwork but who knows if that's what Sally would've wanted (Sarah does, at least, talk to Sally's lone surviving family member, and makes a measure to show that it's very unlikely Nabokov ever did the same).

Was Nabokov wrong for not seeking out Sally's family for Lolita? Honestly, I doubt it even would've occured to him to do so, and the fact that we do now ask questions like this about the ethics of inspiration is, I think, a good thing. We should be critical of how stories are told and who is, and isn't, involved in the telling of them, but again, I don't actually think there are right or wrong answers here.

Fiction is always inspired by real people, real events, real life, it's a part of creation, it's a part of capturing a moment in time, it's about reflection and authenticity, but of course that's been rendered more complex in recent years by the fact that we live in a world that's ever shrinking and the people or the events that inspire new stories are inevitably brought into the public narrative in a way they just weren't back in 1955 when Lolita was first published.

So what does that mean for creativity and inspiration? I don't know, but personally I guess my thoughts would be that Vili is absolutely in his rights to be offended by the film, but I also don't think the filmmakers were wrong necessarily to not reach out. It's not the most ethical choice, but I also don't think it was an inherently bad one either. This isn't a Blonde situation where they write fiction and present it as fact, the creatives have been clear about it being inspried by what happened between Mary Kay and Vili, but they're also not saying Vili and Mary Kay are Joe and Gracie.

I appreciate you feeling like it's much of a muchness though given how they've apparently lifted entire scenes of dialogue. It's a murky question after all, and it's certainly one that's more complex when it comes to people like Vili and Sally than it is with the Murdoch's or even David Bowie, but yes, I'm not sure I see it as something inherently wrong, and I don't personally think it was ghoulish. I just think the specifics of this particular case just kind of shows how the sausage is made when it comes to storytelling.

#the ethics of inspiration is genuinely a pretty interesting topic #when i used to work at the writers centre there was this huge scandal about remix poetry #namely poets being inspired and riffing off other poetry #and oh man the DISCOURSE #anyway #sorry this is so long and rambling #i do recommend the real lolita btw #i finished it on the plane the other day and everyone in my row wanted to talk to me about it when they saw the cover lmao #may december #film asks #welcome to my ama #full disclaimer i still haven't seen the movie as it's not out in aus until 1 feb #but i am planning on seeing it

[amaranthinius]

me writing myself in a corner: (ー_ー)!!

me changing the plot twice: ヽ(#`Д´)ノ

also me refusing to outline: (´⊙ω⊙`)

#dumbassery knows no limits #ama rambles

[foldingfittedsheets]

Every fifth ask I get about my ask tag I’m gonna reblog one of the existing times I’ve addresses it.

#ramblies #I feel honestly wretched not answering it a million times because people repeatedly have the revelation #deleting asks unanswered feels so sad #I still love you I just can’t do it that many times #also I always get late AMA questions and this time I’m considering just hanging onto them until my slate clears again and I have time

[ignited-lovers]

New potential f/o... it's more likely than you think...

HELP!

#ama's ramblings; #as far as i know none of my mutuals have this character as an f/o

[fayes-fics]

Finished work a little early today and I’m now busy writing a fic that I’m hoping to post this weekend.

If anyone has any questions or just wants to say hi, I’m around 🫶

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend 😁🧡🧡

#faye rambles #feel free to ama #ama night

[nerves-nebula]

Don’t be so serious about sexualizing gore and trauma. It’s funny, extremely funny and cool actually. Need more disturbing shit on my dashboard I think cause I just saw a lame and boring ass online ass take and I need to cleanse it with like, idk, a drawing of someone fucking a bullet wound or something.

#nnstuff #rambling #will you people unfollow me NOW?? #gore tw #violence tw #posts I make when it’s nearly 5 AMA