#Not to mention I don't belive a lot of these characters love their love interest instead its as I said obsession / Lonliness / Control / Co

[thevampirearchive]

There’s something I've been meaning to say but I haven't had the words till now. There is something that deeply upsets me about witnessing stories where villains, who are literal killers, fall in love and somehow become good or act outside of what is expected from them. I love love, love is beautfiul, it is powerful and it can truly change a lot. But to sit, and write a killer suddenly go "actually, this one can stay because I am in love for the first time" is such a weird concept to me. Is this happening because as a sociaty we're trying to convince ourselves that deeply disturbed people can be cured by the power of love? That if they just find the right person, they would stop the masacer? or at least no longer feel the need to kill how they were or at least let their person live? And I am not mad at the love, I do belive anyone can fall deeply in love, but my issue is with how it ends. I want to witness the unthinkable — I want to see is exactly what we expect but hoped won't happen, happening. A gut wrenching truth that stays true to who we have been witnessing, despite the "I can change them" dance. And perhaps people hate this idea because they want to belive that anyone can change if only they meet the right one, or that we can change the monsters in our lives with affection, but trust most likly is that they cannot be changed. And I can understand that to some this is then seen as an illusion. "oh then this was never true love", why can the two not exist? Do we not hurt those we love? Maybe not kill them, but someone elses hurt could feel like a small death to me, and vice versa.

Examples, so that you are not confused as to what I am reffering too;

Killing Eve; I stopped watching when Villanelle was shown shooting Eve. It felt true to her character, even if it hurt. She is a killer, we knew that and so did Eve. Regardless of her love, that was what was always going to happen so why were we given additional seaons of this fanatsy of a declawed Villanelle?

Hannibal; It should have ended with the death of Will, and possibly Hannibal consuming him. Didn't Hannibal say that the consumption of Will would somehow join them in a deeper way?Something so disturbing that only could make sense to a serial killing-cannibal. And I would have watched with wide eyes, and gone to sleep staring at the ceiling.

Interveiw With The Vampire; Louis' death in the hand of a Lestat would have made sense, and despite his dramatics, Lestat would have not committed suicide but instead burried himself in deep regret untill he was too numb to his own feelings that he could return to the world of the living. He would have never forgotten Louis, nor what he did, but he would have moved on beause Lestat is not a good person. He's deeply disturbed and Louis knew this. I don't even aknoclege that beatdown episode because Lestat may be a killer, but he's a drama queen first and formost. Louis' death would have been poetic, beautiful and grusom like a greek tragedy without an audiance.

Bonus - Twilight; I could not end without adding my own favorite, and despite this path never being teased to the audiance the same way the other's were, I would have loved the book simply ending because Edward did as he said he would - drained Bella like a Caprisun on a hot summer day. Because what is love agaisnt animalistic urgase (I understand why it is much hotter that he is simply so retsrained and devoted that he resists her, but I'd pay good money for an AU)

At the end of it all, I think want I want is for sociaty to get over the idea that a good woman, love or any form of kindness can change who some people are. Love can do many things - look at crimes of passion! And to some extend I belive that these villain's love were true, possibly not the way we imagine them - which is less so "I love you too" and more so, "wow, finally someone I can manipulate and obsess over. Someone who I can mold, someone who is alone in the world like me" only to realize that is not true.

So why do we make love into what it isnt? Even when the scene is set for us to be shown the truth, writers and the audiance always make the plot lean towards whatever fits so that we can have that "happy ending".

Honorable mentions;

God should have killed Lucifer, I know the bible and christianity is not technically fiction for all, but the idea that he is forgivin but lets the biggest meanness HE CREATED terrorize everybody is evil. Take him out or let somebody else do it homie.

#thoughts #twilight #hannibal #killing eve #interview with the vampire #vc #horror #thriller #Not to mention I don't belive a lot of these characters love their love interest instead its as I said obsession / Lonliness / Control / Co #consumption* gluttony #envy and the love interest love being the center of their univers or at least a patr of their world #not for a second would bella have been intrigued if edward just left her alone lmao yes he's hot to her but thats it #second she finds out hes a vampire her eyes get big and she's ready to die just to join! Its all giving cult! #Hannibal was ready to take will as a apprentece at the end with the way Will was going full force #Louis finally was the deep dakr monster that hid underneith it all - rage he couldnt unleash but now as he is a vampire its a free for all #but see how will hates it? how louis recognizes that he is not truly evil just has urges to act in evil ways? #bella is unhinge so like I cannot defend my first born lesbian daughter that was her thru and thru lmao she was tehre for strap (edward) an #anti anging (vampireism) if id written it she woul dhave said fuck them kids and simply terminated lmao had carlile change her and live her #best life with alice purr #jasper being a racist is also on par lmao ppl always mention it and im like yeah bestie they are ancient vampires id be suspsicious if one- #wanst a KKK member and they were all white lmao #its not funny haha but imma still laugh

[honestmouse20]

Okay, personal thoughts on dragons rising under the cut. Spoilers ahead!

I didn't care too much about Wildfyre going into part 2. she was cool but not really a character I was fully invested in. That is, until her and Kai went on their little quest/mission to get the dragon energy core. They were so Sweet! I loved how Kai had to be the responsible one and how Wildfyre had to learn how to thikn before she acted. They're a really good dynamic and I their relationship growing during this season felt very natrual and good!

Zane! also not one of my favorite characters. But him speaking to a broom with Pixal's photo taped to it got to me okay? I do wonder now where she is.

Mr. Frohicky (idk how to spell things, i've been up all night. give me a break lol) I did Not expect him to return after the crossroads episode back in part 1. He's actually grown on me a lot. It's still kinda weird bc the tone of this show is just a Bit different than previous Ninjago. But it's not bad and I wouldn't hate seeing more of him in the future

Lloyd. God he got so much character develepment this season but especially in part 2! From him trying to do everything on his own to upkeep the Monastary and then finally excepting help, to getting much better at teaching the new ninja. I really loved all the scenes with him an Arin and how their relationship has gone from Arin being a fanboy, to genuine respect and friendship. 10/10

Speaking of Lloyd. What on Earth was all that stuff he saw Again when he acted as the conduit again? I really hope we get more info on those vision in the next season. That's the one big mystery that they havn't really touched on

last lloyd thing, mayeb it's just the angst lover in me, but I really hope there's some kind of conequence to him acting as the conduit. Maybe it starts really draining him or maybe it just makes accessing his power a little harder. I hope they explain it or at least like, mention it.

I'm actually kinda glad they didn't go the whole route of having Nya distrust the Djinn guy who'se name i can't remember lol. It was a nice expectation subversion. Bc my first thought was that he was gonna be evil/ have heard that *she* was the one who tecnically destroyed Djinnjago. I really like that they helped him the way they did and the lesson it taught Sora

Speaking of Sora. I love her. I still fully belive that her power is creation but if it is just 'tech power' i really like how they're handling it. LIke we all Knew it was never Ryu's power she was using but the moment *she* figured that out still felt genuine and deserved because we saw her go through the process of realizing whta was holding her back. 10/10. no notes

Freaking COLE! So him and Lloyd are tied as my favorite charaters bc yee. But holy shit even tho it was 5 am when i got to his episode and i was exhausted. I sat up on the couch and just lost my shit. One, he's still so good at finding people in trouble/captured and deciding he's their protecter. I love him so much. and two. was it just me or was that whole episode so freaking queer coded it isnt funny? Like, even more so than his true potential episode back in S1.

Shipping aside, I really like how on par with his character his episodes were. Even tho they were short and I really crave more about him, they did a good job of leaving just enough questions to keep us interested while also showing us the important parts. Plys the new ability rock monster thing is cool

in that same vein. what the fuck does 'the earth is screaming' mean? hello that shits terrifying? My theory atm is that its' the realms fighting the merge bc it's like unnatural or something. but idk. i would have liked to hear more about that

Zane's car!!!! I own that set and holy fuck it did not dissapoint! At first i was kinda bummed it didn't do Actual spinjitzu, at least I don't think so. But him spinning wildy and saying 'this is adequate' or whatever, is so freaking funny! also it's super fast and looks epic. no notes lol

and Jay! we see him! I'm not really a big jay fan but I am curious what theyr'e gonna do with him next season

and finally, i Really liked all the references to past seasons/events! Even if it wasn't in your face, it was still really nice to be able to see all the pices of the past sprinkled throughout. It was also funny to see Sora being surprised Lloyd is the FSM's grandson. 10/10

If i think of more I'll make another post lol

god i need to re watch the season already

i have SO many thoughts. HOw am i supposed to go to work later and be an adult while ive got these little plastic ninja running through my head at full speed

#ninjago #ninjago spoilers #d rambles

[orii-blogs-stuff]

Hello! Am sending a questions about your Ascendence of a Bookworm x Resturant to Another World AU.

Which was you favorite part to write so far?

Has anyone traded goods such as plants or meats from Yurgenschmidt (hope I remember how to spell that) to Nekoya yet?

How well known is the restaurant among the merchants and commoners of Yurgen?

I find it fascinating to think of what the restaurant can make with the plants and meats found in each duchy that cannot be found on Earth.

I like how you managed to show the differences of culture, what the nobles expect to experience vs their real customer service experience, and the way the people who become regulars adapt to it in their own way.

I especially like how you’ve incorporated the regular order nicknames to each person. Once I remember who is who, it’s interesting to think of how the scenarios will play out with those present.

How did you come up for the favorite meals of other characters and do you have a list of them?

Thank you for making this wonderful story. I never thought this crossover would happen but now that it did, it is amazing! Hope you have a great day!

Screams~~!!

I wasn't really expecting an ask but I'm so happy I got one~~!!

Ok so from top to bottom:

My favourite part has to be writing about the Nobles meeting Mestionora, there just this delicious sort of (idk what to call it, karma maybe?) Thing in the air where Nobles are getting treated the same way most of them would treat the commoners you know what I mean, if face of a metaphysical cosmic entity they are *nothing* and the realization of that feels like such a juicy thing to write.

Yes, Mako and his fellow chef Leo are always trying to find ways to incorporate local food from Yurgenschmidt and the other world into their resrurant menu, Rozemyne traded a few fruits and veggies for cacao and coffee beans in the beginning when Alexandria's country gate wasnt connected to the land of sand. Now Rozemyne only imports cacao and about a kilogram or natto every week.

It's a bit of an Urban legend amongst merchants, especially travelling merchants, some don't belive it, others swear they saw it, benno makes a lot of money from all the new exotic foods Rozemyne brings with her to Alexandria and traveling merchants (atleast, the ones who found it) make it a point to find and label all (or as many) Nekoya doors they can find on their way (because food is essential to traveling merchants and their families) tho it's mostly not mentioned in the story itself cuz its a bit irrelevant to the plot (aka: I can't figure out a way to incorporate it without sounding forced it)

Aww thank you~~ ya I'd also love to see what the chefs could come up with using Yurgen meats and veggies.

I haven't made a list of them. Also I put a bit of thought into the names because that's the least amount of effort I could atleast put into the characters, example:-

Shuu - he's a Vtuber, meaning many sleepless nights, meaning he needs a lot of energy boosts to go about his day such as caffeine, so I chose melon soda because melon soda seems to be pretty popular in Japan.

😭😭😭 I am legit sobbing~~!! Thank you very much!! And have a great day as well!

#my writing #ascendance of a bookworm #a restaurant in another world #join us for a bite au

[siriusblack-the-third]

Here's the ninth chapter of Freeing death!!!

Am I aware that "Father of Monsters is actually an epithet for Typhon? Yes. Will I still be using it for Poseidon in this story? Also yes.

The portrayal of the Amazons in the Riordanverse was not. It.

There is so much more to the legends of Amazon and Themiskyra, and literally none of the myths with actual base to them mention the warrior women as man hating. In fact, they are actively called "man-loving". Granted, they were also called "man-killing" but did people forget that they were warriors? Warriors kill, and idk how much people know about ancient warrior ethics, but killing children, old people and women who weren't participants of battle was generally considered a grave sin. So obviously the Amazons were called "man killers". Killing women went against the very essence of being a warrior, but men were literally on the dam battlefield.

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Also, why are all the powerful women in the Riordanverse somehow made out to be villainish?? Hera, the literal queen of the Gods and an extremely venerated deity of the Hellenics (y'all her epithets are so fucking cool), is given such a bad character arc. Athena, such an important goddess, and why is she shown like she is? Why is she shown so vengeful against the Romans? She was nearly more important than motherfucking Mars in Roman religion. Mars! The literal Father of the damn city!

The Amazons are given a bad representation, and then Piper is a "quirky" girl and I'm.. disappointed.

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Anyways, I just wanted to make clear that I'm also going to change a lot of things about Percy Jackson and The Olympians, and in The Lost Hero. Those changes will be made known when relevant.

Also to be noted is that the Gods are still assholes, but they do help. They are present in their children's lives, even if they can't show themselves due to the Rules of Existence. They are there, they are supporting their children.

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List of Gods Percy respects:

Sally Jackson (a goddess in her own right)

Poseidon

Amphitrite

Triton (don't tell him that)

Artemis

Apollon

Hestia (obviously)

Persephone

Hades (whose character is going to be changed drastically because canon is horrifically inaccurate)

Demeter

A few others

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The thing about Percy going down to Atlantis twice a week and about him having bi weekly dinners with the whole family? Yeah, none of the Gods know about it. Just you watch as the whole thing blows up.

I mainly use epithets in describing Hera and the other Gods because in Ancient Greece, names were believed to have immense power, and calling a God by their given moniker was belived to attract their attention. Percy does not want any more attention from the Gods than is necessary, fuck you very much.

Also what do you think about the change in the Amazon way of life? I found the books very disappointing as i already said, so I changed it up hehe.

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The upcoming chapter is going to be interesting, that is for sure. The Worship of Artemis Astrateia is a fictional ritual that I made up based on actual facts that we know about the Amazon legends, and I've taken a lot of creative liberties while trying to stay as true to myth as possible.

#heroes of olympus #percy jackson #Freeing Death #The Crown Of Mortality #percy pjo #feral percy jackson #hoo series #monstrous percy jackson #pjo series #canon divergent au #mycenaean percy jackson #frank zhang #hazel levesque #greek mythos #greek mythology #the amazons #hellenic chat #hellenic religion #greek gods #hippolyta #Otrera

[catgirl-catboy]

Kanade is my sdra2 favourite. I wish she could win too!

I love Dra's chapter 3 killers so much, like Kinji is more justifiable side but Kanade was batshit insane and I enjoyed when she roasts people. What a queen she is!

I'm quite happy nobody can woobify Kanade though, I love her with her fucked up nature. Hibiki is woobified and Im quite pissed at the fact they try to make her a perfect victim, stop doing that guys.

Funnily enough I never wanted Kinji to win because probably winning is worse outcome for him to face, but it is quite.. good to think about "what if?" scenarios.

And I agree! Kiyotaka and Byakuya probably going to clash a lot too if Kodaka let them interact, they are similar in a sense but their reasoning is different and I would like to see that

Yeah!!! I have much more faith in Linuj's writing than Kodakas. What I really liked about Dra(1?)s chapter three is that it looked like they were going to play the "unsympathetic chapter 3 double murder" trope straight due to Inori's cause of death and his breakdown during the trial, but nope! We got arguably, one of the most understandable reasons for murder in existence.

Despite praising Linuj a lot, there is one thing he and I will forever disagree on. Kanade was (to a degree) a victim. I don't care what Word of God says, things would not have gone down the way they did if the parents were involved in the story... like at all. If you see one four y/o getting bullied by another, you should step in and intervene. She was lonely at school too, we never see any mention of her having friends like Hibiki canonically did.

That being said, murder and incest are not school appropriate coping mechanisms Kanade.

The twins aren't as black and white as people think, even if Kanade is objectively worse.

For Kinji, I want him to have the ending he thought was going to happen. Can't belive Monokuma did him like this. Also,,, him being the traitor is peak symbolism, because he has elements of both Jesus (execution, cmon) and Judas. Or maybe I'm overanalysing. I love to do that.

THH had such good potential for interesting character dynamics that was never cashed in on. Like, I love it but sometimes it feels like it is good on complete accident. If I don't need a Korkboard to explain character dynamics, then there better be a good reason why not.

#ask tag #danganronpa #danganronpa another spoilers

[grayravenartjournal]

current super cut of some research that I've been conducting...

it's all super loose notes on what I'm looking into at the minute. I feel like more than I wanted is irrelevant to me, and that I've let things run away a little bit.

I'm hoping that by getting the research out there I'll be able to narrow my research down.

Vitamin P

New perspectives in painting

Publisher: phaidon [2002]

Artists to look up:

Glen brown, again technically so you'll have to ask

Appropriates other art and recreates it as abstracts.

Dispelling the myth of originality presumed genius of artists

Smooth surface, removing painterl texture

Commentary on most people not seeing paintings in the flesh so that’s why his work is flat, it looks the same photographed

John currin [keeeps coming up]:

Mentions glen brown, sigmar polke [came up already], martin kippenberger, alex katz

'I find a cliché and try to belive in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it'

Historical art references, started with things that were more clearly photographs

Layering image and historical time shows the interchangeable nature of image in contemporary culture

Vladimir dubossarsky and alexander vinogradov

Style described as 'completely synthetic'

Pull from a lot of sources; socialist realism, sots art, and contemporary media culture to soviet 1950s magazines, russian advertising

Starting with russian avant garde the socialist arts, to sots art

Not just a pop art, the nature of sots art is that pop is already a phenomenon to be used

Clement greenberg, 'avant-garde and kitch'

'Unreflective enjoyment' for the audience

Cecilia edefalk

'repetition is the means of emphasising unique quality of a painting'

Works with repetition

Often only the first painting in a series is derived from a photograph, then the next painting becomes the reference for the one after

Takashi murakami

Superflat art style

Richly varied and highly imaginative

Character DOB featured in a lot of his work

Has a team behind him that help him realise his work

Avoids 'production/machine' by producing highly conceptualised and personal blend of pyschcologuy/symbology/aesthetic

Hommage to ed ruscha and jackson pollock with 'splash' series

Amorphous shapes like surrealist painters matta and miro.

Michael raedecker

 landscape artist

'im not sure why I do landscapes, maybe its because they make us seem so small'

In door and out door landscapes are empty of people and give the impression of 'pathetic phallacy'

The canvases can be sparse but laid deep with emotional charge because of the abstraction with floating elements

Embroiders his canvases, used to work for fashion designer martin margiela

[alex katz mentioned again]

Looking at the journals in the library - frieze and artforum for artists to research, instead of making a new note page I'm going to put them in here.

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Follow up: Alex Katz

American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends

From <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alex-Katz-American-artist>

1950s, lots of flat art especially in the wake of pop art.

Angles and colour choices added orginality to his work.

While abstract expressionism was thew trendy art at the time, he and a group of his friends still made figurative works.

His work isnt that interesting to me but I can appriciate the scale.

Artforum summer 2022

Laurie simmons

Found from 'clothes make the man ii', 1991 - 2021

Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes.

From <https://www.google.com/search?q=laurie+simmons&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB1028GB1028&oq=Laurie+simmons&aqs=chrome.0.0i355i512j46i512j0i512l8.1231j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8>

'café of the inner mind' series reminds me of old goosebumbs book covers? I think it's goosebumbs

Look up the goosebumbs artist

'the love doll', I think because the doll is more realistic the idea of domesticity is easier to achieve? But because she's still a doll theres something not quite right that triggers the unncanny sensation, but there is a sense of care with the doll. She doesn’t feel like a sexual object despite the title. Even the photo were shes in the bath isnt that erotic.

Andrea bianconi

[this is mostly for baltic module]

'journey of the chair'

The Sit Down To Have an Idea series first began in the artist's studio in 2016 at a very important moment in Bianconi’s life. No ideas were coming to him that day, and he felt at a creative impasse…Thus was born the manifesto chair, an idea that has touched numerous people to date, and traveled many places since its inception.

From <https://www.barbaradavisgallery.com/andrea-bianconi-journey-of-the-chair.html>

"The journey of my idea chair centers around the notion of the human experience as it relates to being a thinker. The chair becomes a metaphorical object and is representative of the birthplace of ideas; it is where one returns to imagine, think, create."

Chloe wise

'in loveliness of perfect deeds'

A bunch of portraits and a conversation pit made of door mats. Even with the zoom tool its kinda hard for me to read the description of the exhibition. I like the colours and saturation in the paintings. I think that theres a level of distortion or exaggeratoin but I don’t know if that’s just my eyes

Centre pompidou metz

The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France - wikipedia

[in relation to Eva Aeppli}

Eva Aeppli

In 1951, she married Jean Tinguely. “I was scared that his art would suffocate me. That is why I did not want to see any of his works, nor did I want to let myself be influenced by him,” she stated.

https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/eva-aeppli/

In 1952, E. Aeppli moved to Paris with her husband and created marionettes that she sold in toy stores to pay their rent. They lived miserably

Items that need transferred over to the main file at some point.

GWEN PEARSON

FEB 9, 2015

From the article:

A nonspecific fatty acid within the bumblebee mating plug prevents females from remating

Boris Baer,* E. David Morgan,† and  Paul Schmid-Hempel*‡

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Mar 27; 98(7): 3926–3928. 

Published online 2001 Mar 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061027998

A "spare" compensates for the risk of destruction of the elongated penis of earwigs (Insecta: Dermaptera)

Y Kamimura 1, Y Matsuo

Affiliations expand

PMID: 11771475

DOI: 10.1007/s001140100259

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11771475/

Flower symbolism as female sexual metaphor 

Andrea Frownfelter Eastern Michigan University 

Recommended Citation:

Frownfelter, Andrea, "Flower symbolism as female sexual metaphor" (2010). Senior Honors Theses & Projects. 238.

Utopias (Introduction)

Name of Author: David Evans & Noble, Richard. & Whitechapel Art Gallery,

Name of Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery

'Pictures' was the forerunner of an appropriationist current that became strongly associated with certain commercial galleries in New York

Walter Benjamin… photography destroying the aura of traditional art, as well as being an accessible, reproducible medium that had emancipatory potential; all arguments that were used to characterize photographic appropriation as an inherently subversive activity

the assumption was that appropriation  art was a key component of nothing less than The Anti-Aesthetic, Art After Modernism, Postmodemism… thoroughly institutionalized by the 1970s, and that an alternative had to be formulated urgently

Matthew Teitelbaum's preface most explicitly sees continuities in the shared attempts to represent 'the realities of a modern, urban lifestyle' and 'the fantasy and desire of a consumer age'.

The Feminist Critique section … that visual culture is one of the principal sites where gender relations are produced and reproduced;

Work often utilising stereotypes and parodies that fall into cliches

Appropriation was integral to colonialism

Postcolonialism section is the re-taking of that which was possessed without authority

Malek Alloula's book The Colonial Harem (1981 )

Vailed and unveiled tographs of women were marketed in France to show off the colony. Alloula's commentry shows that these post cards should be 'returned to sender'

Making contemporary art: how modern artists think and work

Author: linda weintraub

Publisher: Thames and hudson

[I like the way that the book is broken down, I think being able to compare different artists being written about is helping me to understand the topics a bit better]

Notes along with the chapter titles [so that I can finally hand in this godsforsaken book]

Scoping an audience:

Choosing a constituant

One for all

Thomas kinkade

Focus on a mass market, kinkade has arranged his private and public life so that it conforms to the vision of his art so that he remains palatable to the largest audience he can

There was a point in American history where 'every' home featured some of kinkade's work, he has exclusivity deals that means that his work can be sold as prints to teacups, blankets to sofa upholstery

Wants people to be able to lose themselves in the fantasy of his art work and find a home there

One for some

Issac julien

Black, gay man into kink

Makes art for himself and those that would fall into his subcultures, its niche and click-y

Some of his work excludes the audience of purpose so that they challenge some of they perceptions by acting as voyeurs

One on one

Skip schuckermann

All art works are made with the client in mind, they are personal, intractable only for the person that was in mind at the time.

The works are non permanent so they are only for one person to enjoy in that moment. The art is seen by one and the one is seen by the art

[ive not really read enough of this im not going to lie, but the headers are kinda self explanatory I think?]

COMMUNICATING WITH THE AUDIENCE

Implicit Meanings-

-Metaphor and Symbol: Michal Rovner

Explicit Meanings-

-Instructional Maps, Notes, and Diagrams: Matthew Ritchie*

Obscured Meanings

--Squirming into Truth's Cracks: Eve Andrée Laramée*

RELATING TO THE AUDIENCE

Disrupting Assumptions: Charles Ray

Instilling Confidence and Inspiring Laughter: Will Schade

Imposing Corporal Punishment: Armaldo Morales*

Providing Free Food: Rirkrit Tiravanija*

Eliciting Secrets: Gillian Wearing

SOURCING INSPIRATION

INTERNAL SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

Soul-

Genus Fusion: Jan Harrison*

Harrison makes some cool clay sculptures, I think that I'll add her to my list of artists to research so that theres a bit of linking and it'll help my context web.

Emotion--

Rage Against Female Gullibility: Pipilotti Rist

Imagination

-Inspiring Inspiration: Julian LaVerdiere*

EXTERNAL SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

Corporate Hype, Spiritual Cool, Military Heat, Global Warming: Scott Grieger*

Apartheid and Redemption: William Kentridge*

The Kaleidoscope of Black Experience: Chris Ofili

First Moments in Art History: Hubert Duprat

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

History, Geography, Sensuality, Cosmology: Thomas Joshua Cooper*

CRAFTING AN ARTISTIC "SELF"

Disclosing Biography-Unabridged and Uncensored: Nan Goldin

Inventing Biography-Fictionalized Fact and Factualized Fiction: Kim Jones

Transcending Biography--Woman of Allah, Resident of Chinatown: Shirin Nesha

Epitomizing Biography-_Single White Female: Vanessa Beecroft

EXPRESSING AN ARTISTIC ATTITUDE

Obeying Ants: Yukinori Yanagi

Spoofing Biblical Miracles to Inspire Christian Faith: Reverend Ethan Acres"

Nurturing Data Bodies: Marcia Lyons"

Communicating Through Inexpressiveness: Lorna Simpson

Being Gently Subversive: Marco Maggi

CHOOSING A MISSION

Creating Time for Busy People: Victoria Vesna*

Fostering International Reconciliation: Wend Gu*

Inducing Empathy: Tony Oursler"

Envisioning Nirvana: Mariko Mori

Supplying an Anarchist's Arsenal: Gregory Green*

Updating Humanity's Collective Dread: China Adams*

Creating a Life: Alix Lambert

MEASURING SUCCESS

Ecological Success-

Honoring Water: Betsy Damon

Pious Success--

Eliminating Meaning: Xu Bing

Political Success

-Diffusing Concentrations of Power: Daniel Joseph Martinez*

Sensual Success-

-Deflecting Media Attention: Michelle Lopez*

Strategic Success

-Creating Resistance: Matthew Barney

Gilda Williams, How to Write about Contemporary Art

Williams, G 2014, How to Write About Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, Ltd., Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [3 November 2022].

Section Two: The three jobs of communicative art writing

The three jobs of communicative art-writing

All art-writers can concoct a written response to art (the easy part). Good writers show where that response came from, and convince of its validity (the hard part; discussed in more detail in ‘How to substantiate your ideas’). Communicative writing about artworks breaks down into three tasks, each answering a question:

Q 1 What is it?

( What does it look like? How is it made? What happened? ) Job 1: Keep your description of the art brief and be specific. Look closely for meaningful details or key artist decisions that created this artwork, perhaps regarding materials; size; selection of participants; placement. Be selective; avoid overindulging in minutiae, or producing list-like descriptions that are cumbersome to read and largely inconsequential to job 2.

Q 2 What might this mean?

( How does the form or event carry meaning? ) Job 2: Join the dots; explain where this meaningful idea is observed in the artwork itself. Weak art-writers will claim great meanings for artworks without tracing for the reader where these might originate materially in the work (job 1) or how they might connect to the viewer’s interests (job 3).

Q 3 Why does this matter to the world at large?

( What, finally, does this artwork or experience contribute— if anything— to the world? Or, to put it bluntly: so what? )

Job 3: Keep it reasonable and traceable to jobs 1 and 2. Answering this final question—‘so what?’—entails some original thought. And remember that the achievements of even good art can be relatively modest; that’s OK.

> The three jobs of communicative art-writing

Here is a short extract from a catalogue text by critic and curator Okwui Enwezor.

In the late 1970s, [Craigie] Horsfield commenced one of the most sustained and unique artistic investigations around the governing relationship between photography and temporality. Working with a large-format camera, he traveled to pre-Solidarity Poland, specifically to the industrial city of Krakow, then in the throes of industrial decline and labor agitation [2]. There he began shooting a series of ponderous and, in some cases, theatrically anti-heroic black-and-white photographs comprising portraits, deserted street scenes and machinery

Section Three: How to write an artist's statement 

More so critics of things to avoid than anything directly meaningful. I know not to be too cliché or to over complicate what I write.

#year 2 #ongoing research #links

[swordofsun]

Writing a post about how great the Wheel of Time adaptation is so I can continue my pledge to not make any ~☆☆but~in~the~books☆☆☆~~ posts until after the first season finishes up.

So back when we knew the adaptation was 100% happening and everyone was slightly concerned about it Rafe made a post about how they would be focusing the adaption on the story as a whole instead of a 1 season=1 book sort of deal. This confused many and most people seem to have taken it as having 2-3 books per season. Which, based on what we've seen, isn't right either. Because what they're doing is so much more interesting than that and is why the TV show is working.

When he said they were adapting it as the complete story that's what he meant. Everyone working on the show and in the writers room is a fan of the series. They have someone whose job is to track book canon and how it's effected by the TV show. They love this story and, more importantly, they understand it. They really seem to get a lot of the deeper themes of the books. They're looking at what the core of the story is and figuring out how to write that. While at the same time updating it for a modern audience.

(I'm of the opinion that RJ tried to be progressive, but was held back. Both by his own hangups (dude had trauma from Vietnam) and by the times. We went from no mention of queerness to oblique side notes of "pillow friends" to just saying that that guy likes guys not girls. The world has changed so much when it comes to accepting and celebrating queerness over the last 30 years I'm not even sure how to describe it. I think he'd be happy with the changes in this regard and apparently Harriet is okay with them, so.)

The show's writing room clearly went back to highschool English and sat down to figure out the key themes and character arcs. They also seem to have torn apart the storylines and figured out which pieces were essential to which characters and plots. This is a joyful reimagining of all of this. It's taking the pieces and rearranging them into a new picture.

Weaving a new tapestry with the same threads.

What they've created as a result is so much fun so far. Even scenes lifted almost wholesale from the books are given a new spin and some fresh thread. For the most part if you did a beat-for-beat/scene-for-scene recounting there is very little that is the same between books and show. But the heart and the essence of the characters and story is still there. Beating strongly.

You can sit and complain that various scenes are missing or that the show is just making shit up. But that misses the point. I never feel like what I'm watching isn't the Wheel of Time. The parts that have had me coming back to the story for 20 years are still there. Some are even getting a brighter spotlight shown on them. The story is the rereadable part, not the individual scenes. I can watch these characters and know that I'm seeing Rand and Nyneave and Moiraine. Egwene is the same Egg I've had a very tumultuous relationship with over the years. They may not be walking the exact same path, but they are the same characters.

Which is just so lovely. I was one of the people who was hesitant to belive it was even possible to adapt the series. I'm so glad Rafe and Co are proving me wrong. They've taken the core of the story, like any good AU writer, and found a new way to share it. They love the story as much as I do. It's pretty great.

Honestly this is an approach I hope more adaptations take in the future. Understand the story being told and adapt that to the medium rather then trying for the 1:1 transfer. Find what people love and what makes it tick and build from there.

(Also it's fun to have knowledge of the world and still not know exactly what's going to happen. I could lay out what I think each character's major plot points will be and how they'll happen, but I don't know. It's so much fun.)

As Rafe said once: This is a new turning of the Wheel. A new Third Age to explore and see the story of. It's pretty neat.

#wheel of time #wot on prime #it's adapting the story not the scenes #but i really hope they explain the waygate changes #why? why? why?

[blanket-fish]

@bukatra I'd be happy to!

Infinity war. It may be the lesser of two evils, but it's still an evil. Of course, many things come to mind when you think of the movie. Crying, Thanos, the absolute bullshit that was Vision and Wanda's deaths...

I mean, I guess technically Vision died twice. So that the russos could have it both ways, I suppose. Commitment issues tend to come alongside idiocy, and they have piles of both.

At any rate.

Now there are arguments to be made in favour of how it all went down. "But no one really cared about wandavision after civil war anyway!" False... and didn't the russos direct that movie too? It feels like there are definitely people at fault for that.

"It had to happen!" No?!? I don't know how you watch infinity war, regardless of the garbage it is, and come out thinking "Wow, every plot point was necessary!"

Or "Wow, every Russo was necessary!" I wonder how many it would take to change a lightbulb...

Just?? Vision's death was... pointless. We know Shuri could have saved him. But of course -

The Russos can't write movies so they settle for shock value instead. Like the fucking morons they are.

No, maybe that's harsh. Not all of their writing is shock value, right? They had winter soldier, where Bucky was revealed to have lived, and it was revealed Hydra was inside shield and one of the key scenes is Nick fury dramatically revealing his other eye!

And not only that, they have civil war! Where wanda shockingly hurls a bomb at a building! Where for shock purposes, the Avengers split up! And spiderman is revealed! And the shocking reveal at the end where steve and tony shockingly fight !

You get the idea. If I ask someone their favourite not-for-shock-value moment from one of these movies, they'd likely struggle. I'm thinking now and... Sam Wilson is all I got and that's much more Anthony Mackie's acting than any virtue of the russos.

(Here's a game, if I were to hit a Russo's head with a brick and get them to write a movie, do you think anyone would notice the difference?)

I mean, the thing is, if the russos didn't have fish scales for brains, they could have done interesting things. Could vision have been dusted? Hell if we know! He's dead!

But they are, unfortunately, actual buffoons with the brain of a 3 year old writing a story about their stuffed animals. Fine for them, but they should never be allowed to mess with other people's stories.

Which is the issue really. Both wanda and vision are from age of Ultron, a film they didn't direct. We all know about ragnorok going down the drain. They lack any capacity to accept other's ideas and oh lordy lord is that a bad trait to be working on the mcu with.

And thus Wanda and Vision. Bukatra said their actions were meaningless? By god they are right and not only were they meaningless in universe, they were meaningless as actions in a movie too.

Oh sure, it was heartbreaking to watch Wanda have to take Vision's life (...). But it was already heartbreaking for her to be in the position where she might have too. All it really added was a way to show Thanos's power and... they already did that. Many times over. Too many really.

Wanda kills vision... he's resurrected seconds later and it meant. Nothing. I don't expect Wanda to have thought of the time stone, but someone should have. Rocket, maybe. The Guardians were talking about thanos be for ether split so it follows that if not Thor, he would have known something.

And that's ignoring Bruce. Who knew about the stones thanks to Doctor Strange. Even assuming he didn't fill the others in, he would have realised destroying the stone doesn't automatically mean safety. He aint silly. He aint a Russo. And he probably did fill the others in. Am I expected to belive Natasha hinged her bets on Thanos being stupid? No!

Honestly this was stupid all round and I don't know how the russos got away with it... Oh wait, yes I do. They knew they were shit so they refused to let the actors know the plot.

But what happened happened, and... it's still bad. Vision is dead and Wanda is dusted. There's no real fallout to this. Neither of them are mentioned in endgame up until Wanda is revived. It just feels like another stone Thanos stole. And some viewers felt that "Why didn't they turn vision off? He's just a robot!" You wouldn't say that about Data from Star Trek you heathens

Deep breath... calm... I'm good. For my next trick... We think of the movie without the actions of these two.

Wanda doesn't kill vision. Movie continues as it did regardless.

Vision doesn't tell Wanda to kill him. See above.

Wanda doesn't step into the fight. More people die but other than that not much changes.

Vision lives! Through Shuri presumably. Thanos maybe gets the stone, maybe he doesn't, it's irrelevant to my point because this came about by neither Wanda nor Vision really.

I'm struggling here. They really didn't do a whole lot. Ya know that sexy lamp test? Can we apply that here?

I don't want to diminish these characters. I love them! But they were not treated well.

The thing is, maybe the Russos were going for 'doomed love' or some shit. You know what hurts more? One of them living. Wanda, maybe, would have been a great addition to that conference. Or Vision, if he lived and Wanda was dusted. But I guess we have that now Wanda has returned. I fear for her character's future if the Russos are anywhere near it.

As I end this, I think of one thing. Vision and Wanda's treatment was very reminiscent of Gamora's death - Unnecessary, badly handled, directed by people incapable of handling anyone bar their image of captain america, and, oh yeah,

ABSOLUTE CRAP

Amazingly violent literary rage jskapaxfs I love that

#endgame #avengers #marvel #mcu #the russos #like idk man they may have been high #but that seems too genrous #vision #wanda #wandavision

[halekingsourwolf]

1/9 So this started as a joke & then it fit until it didn't & now I don't know what to do so I'm sending it to you. You don't have to answer it if you don't want to, just take it as a fun (?) ramble. This'll probably be long, sorry. So I was in this conversation about how Teen Wolf missed out on having a big bad. The series long villain. And I made the joke "Well, they could've always stolen from Harry Potter, if they'd wanted to". And then I started thinking about it, if Teen Wolf *had* stolen

from Harry Potter how would that've worked out?

Hey anon! Since this is long, I’m gonna be breaking your ask down and responding to the individual pieces instead of trying to respond to it all at once at the end. Your parts will be bolded and mine won’t be.

First off, I think this is a really fun idea, I love thinking about how characters would fit in other situations. This will be extra tricky, though, since we’re trying to not only parallel characters but also individual season arcs to each of the books. I think what we’re going to end up with, probably, is a lot of elements that we can say connect (this situation is like that situation, this character is similar to that other character in some way) but might not really tie into a coherent narrative on its own. If we want to, we can look at it again later to see how TW could work if it broke more from its own structure and just became more of a loose Harry Potter AU, but for this one I’m mostly just going to focus on similarities and differences.

 Let’s see how we do!

One problem is how you would count the seasons. Are seasons 3A&B 1 season or 2? Either way it doesn't fit. You either end up with 6 seasons and 7 books or with 9 seasons and 7 books. So I took the first option, which leaves me 1 season short. But if TW *had* stolen from HP maybe they would've been more successfull *shrug*. So in the 1st book (very, very roughly summarised) the hero goes against the severely weakened big bad who (we later find 3/9 out) put the hero in this position in the 1st place. When applied to TW season 1 you get: Peter. (Sorry Peter fans, I like him too but for this ramble he's gonna be our big bad.)

There are definitely some fun parallels here. 

We start off with Scott, a slightly awkward and out of place teen, definitely more optimistic than Harry but also in a better place physically than Harry, until one day he’s attacked by a crazed, half-feral Alpha werewolf (just as Harry was attacked by Voldemort, albeit earlier) and is introduced to the supernatural world. This attack, we’ll eventually learn, starts our hero down the path toward becoming a Super Special Chosen One/”True Alpha.” If neither of them had been attacked, chosen, by the Big Bad, this wouldn’t have happened). Scott’s skeptical at first, to say the least, but he’s introduced to new mentors and learns how to start harnessing his new abilities.

Throughout this, Scott seems to have a mysterious connection to the unseen enemy, shown in flashes of headache and visions of what the Alpha is doing. Scott suspects his brooding mentor figure Derek as being the enemy, due to his harsh and closed off attitude, but eventually realizes Derek’s been doing his best to protect him (so yes, Derek’s Snape in this, at least for book one). Eventually they have a showdown with the Big Bad (Alpha Peter and Voldemort), burning him (molotov and physical contact) and seemingly destroying him for good.

(If we wanted to change things up a little at the series’ start to tie in more with HP, we could have Rafael McCall still living with Scott. Having the drunk and generally abusive father still around would pull in more parallels between Scott’s pre-magic home life and Harry’s, and once he learns to harness his abilities he could use them to shift and scare the man into shaping up or getting out.)

The 2nd book: the hero fights a phantom of the big bad, a girl gets possesed by said phantom & a big snake petrifies people. Ok, so that kinda fits. Peter is still the big bad. The only thing that would need to change in seasons 1 & 2 is that Peters resurrection *doesn't* work (that comes later). So no Peter in 4/9 season 3 (what did he do in 3A besides narrate the flashback? who would narrate it now? Cora? what did he do in 3B? show Scott how to enter Stiles mind & anything else?). 

This book/season is my favorite for parallels. 

Ginny/Lydia (both redheaded secondary characters at this point) get taken in by a shadow of the seemingly defeated Big Bad, who appears as an attractive, charismatic young man to gain their trust while insidiously taking over their minds and forcing them to do his bidding and try to resurrect him.

Meanwhile, various people in Beacon Hills are targeted and paralyzed by a snakelike creature, and the heroes make it their mission to discover the guilty party. CoS has a recurring location/theme of bathrooms, while TWs2 has a recurring theme of swimming pools. …I don’t know what to do with that, except that it popped into my head as vaguely parallel :P

There are also a few smaller parallels, like the ineffectual Dueling club Snape and Lockhart co-run, which could be paralleled to Derek’s training sessions with his new betas, and the slightly stalker-esque photographer who runs around after our heroes, snapping pictures. (Yes, poor Colin Creevey is being tied in to Matt here.)

Book 3: a person from the heros past who they think is a villain isnt, a animal is a human and later helps the big bad to life. So for 3A we have, Scotts dad and for 3B Malia? (I kinda get a laugh out of making Scotts dad Sirius, but making Malia Pettigrew? maybe if she had been a villain in TW but with how everyone hates 5/9 her now, ugh) So Peter doesn't show up in 3A&B. Allison doesn't die (yet). Kate doesn't come back. (In HP the dead *stay* dead.) I guess Malia could kidnap Derek but better to keep Mexico for the end of season 4. 

Well, you know I would have loved it if M ended up being a villain, or if there was something more complex to her story to explain all the things that don’t make sense. But... ok, that said, focusing on what actually happened in TW, we could potentially pull in Jennifer as Peter? Someone our group trusts, with a specific tie to one group member in particular, who ends up betraying them and kidnapping some of our heroes to be used in a dark ritual to gain power, there are definitely parallels there. Granted, that’s tying together books three and four, and that’s where this whole parallel starts to break down because I think there are definitely some elements from season three that fit better with book four, for example; not to mention that 3A and 3B are completely different stories with independent villains and climaxes, so trying to fit them both into PoA is just a recipe for confusion. I’m gonna put my focus on 3A, I think.

So we have Jennifer as Pettigrew, disguising herself as a friend until she’s revealed as the murderous Darach. We have our main characters’ loved ones waiting to be executed by dark magic (dementors), with Stiles, Allison, and Scott subbing in for Harry and Hermione to perform potentially dangerous magic (ice bath/time travel) to set them free.

I really want to tie Lupin in to someone but no one’s coming to mind unfortunately.

Which brings me to the next question... do I skip 3B (my favorite season) entirely, or do we try to parallel 3B to book 4? That would fix the six season/seven book problem. But for now I’m gonna stick with season 4/book 4 since that’s what you did. 

So book 4: A competition keeps the heros occupied while the big bad plots his resurrection with someone the hero thinks is on his side & in the end a "friend" dies. So deadpool (hitlist!) = turnament & Meredith is Moody? The season ends in Mexico were Peter with the help of a 6/9 Banshee, kidnapped Derek & *something* from Scott resurrects himself. Maybe Allsion dies. How would Peter resurrect with only Scott knowing? idk 

I’m going to jump in and mention that in the end of season four someone does die dramatically: Derek. And while he does revive afterward (...somehow), he leaves Beacon Hills, leaving the pack noticeably floundering and Stiles in particular moody and desperate to cling to the people he has left. So as far as s4=book 4, I think Derek holds up as a good parallel for that loss. (If we were doing 3B=book 4, Allison would be a good fit.)

The end of the season I think is the best parallel between this book and this season, since the hero is swept away to a new place unexpectedly and made part of a dark ritual. I know you mentioned not wanting Kate back, but she would make a good parallel for someone the group thought was dead (Barty Crouch Jr) who abducts the hero to complete the ritual.

Berserkers sub in for Death Eaters, and as for Peter’s resurrection... however nonsensical, Kate and Peter working together in s4 is canon. And Peter wanted Scott gone and to gain his Alpha power back (at least... I think? His motivation was so nonsensical in s4 but what else is new) so making a deal with Kate to make that happen ties together as well.

So then book 5 (here is where the stories stopped fitting & I couldn't make them either, if you have any ideas go plot): everyone but the hero thinks the big bad is still dead, the hero and the big bad are "connected", a evil teacher appears, there's a prophecy and another "ally" dies. TW season 5: doctors experiment on teenagers, Theo tries to 7/9 get Scott killed, Mason turns into a beast, Peter doesn't show up & a Nazi escapes. So yeah. I got nothing. With Peter as the big bad it could've been interesting. Nobody belives Scott that Peter is back, Peter and Scott share a pack bond, no idea about the prophecy or the teacher, Scotts dad dies? 

So just a reminder/heads up that I stopped watching the show after s4. What I know from the rest of the seasons come from other Tumblr users talking and gifs I’ve seen floating around. s5 was also another split season, meaning we can either choose one arc to parallel the book or try to blend them together into a muddy mess. The main parallel I can think of would be Stiles subbing in for Harry in this one, becoming moody and emotional after a traumatic loss (Derek), damaging his relationships with his closest friends.

Beyond that... yeah, I’m getting nothing.

So onward to book 6: the hero learns how to take the bid bads plot armour, a good guy may be a bad guy afterall & the mentor dies. TW season 6A&B: the wildhunt takes everyones memories, a 8/9 Nazi-werelion (omg) eats peoples brains, an anchient god of fear turns people into stone & Deucalion dies. (This show, I swear). So how would the new season 6A&B work? What is Peters plot armour (Hocruxes)? Does Deaton die? Who is Snape in this scenario? idk but I wish I did. What that season could've been. 

Again, I’m going off very minimal information from these seasons. The mentor dying could be Deucalion (though... again, I can’t really deal with the fact that everyone’s so cool with him now after what he did in 3A. At least Derek wasn’t around and didn’t have to deal with everyone being buddy-buddy with Erica and Boyd’s murderer. *sigh* Pushing aside my issues, I am...)

The weird fear creature could be Dementors, though they didn’t really play a role in book six (here, again, we have the issue of trying to parallel specific books to seasons instead of tying in general themes). For book six.. maybe the liquid Dumbledore drinks that’s protecting Gaunt’s ring? It makes him fearful, pulls up some bad memories from his past, and more or less paralyzes him, weakening him while he drinks it.

Since Peter’s not actually a villain at this point in the season, it’s hard to pull up a parallel to the Horcruxes for him.

Which leaves book 7: the hero (& friends) find & destroy plot armour, get some info about the mentors life & all ends in a big battle not everyone survives. This would be TW fictional 9/9 season 7 (or TV movie?): Scott finally defeats Peter (& Stiles& Derek finally kiss, ofc). There you have it, well partly. I hope this was a fun read for you. Sorry, if I bothered you with it.

Overall I found this analysis really interesting, but I do think we were battling through the problem of balance between making our own story using TW elements and HP themes, or just pulling in parallels from the existing content, which makes it hard to build a coherent story.

#teen wolf #harry potter #derek hale #stiles stilinski #sterek #Anonymous #ask hks