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fragmentedblade · 3 months
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Ratio isn't just socratic nor is his method just socratic. There's a lot of sophist too, with how he is paid and the Genius Society looks down on that.
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fruitsyrups · 17 days
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ive crossed over into an alternate dimension where side profiles are somehow sometimes easier to draw than other angles. bodies in side profile however... nooo thank you...
#ok the back of the head is hard but the facial features proportions kind of feel easier to figure out . maybe.#weird#n e way im happy with the way i draw faces mostly maybe 50 percent of the time but im so not caught up on drawing bodies#like to the point it just looks bizarre#decent proportional face with like at least some understanding of structure/form even if it's not much#and then the stiffest clunkiest body you ever did see#or i can go the other way around and have an ok body. like decently fluid / proportional. but no face#theres some kind of disconnect. cant have both at once#thats only a sometimes thing though anyways. faces are generally easier#tried to do a teeny bit of gesture drawing yesterday but i was feeling sooo lazy and impatient so only 3 of them turned out ok ish#im pretty sure i post more often talking about art than i actually post art#i dont post most of the things i draw#i like to have my little secrets...#secrets in question are just literally anything that isnt adventure time art#actually looking through my art folder is crazy cause like if i saw this 3 years ago (i was really bad at drawing 3 years ago) i would. idk#drop dead or something#but now its like yeah same old same old. lots of problems. need to work on those.#but its nice to step back and be like woagh holy shit. massive improvement#earlier i was trying to dfraw a character and it wasn't coming out right but instead of getting frustrated and discouraged#it was more like i had this feeling of . idk. excitement to get better at drawing?#i dont know if this is just a temporary mood or maybe im turning over a new leaf. new optimistic mindset about art#<- watch that 'new mindset' totally disappear when i have a slightly more prolonged period of art struggle. lol
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butleroftoast · 6 months
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Doodlin' in my travel notebook, trying to work out how to draw Morris's BG3 hair without him turning into Bruno from Encanto. Just for funsies while waiting for a flight, nothing pretty here.
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I was so adamant when I created him that his features weren't long and rat-like because that would be clichéd. Now: SO LONG VERY POINTY
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krenenbaker · 4 months
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KRENKY I DIDNT KNOW YOU LIKE HISTORICAL FASHION TOO!?!
YES!!! :D
I really enjoy social history of all sorts, and historical fashion is a major focus of that interest! I LOVE looking at the common garments and silhouettes of different eras and areas, and the techniques and industries that were used to make them. and also the related hair styling and makeup of different times and places!
and it sounds like you're interested in historical fashion as well? :D
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theluckiestrose · 4 months
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The autistic urge to identify and comment every song that isnt properly credited in a tiktok just in case someone wats to listen to the whole thing instead of like 15 seconds of it
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isobug · 2 months
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What you think of wikidots? It was/is the host mogaipedia and genderpedia
I think Wikidot is a good host !! I like that you get 300 MB for free and that the file upload limit on a free account is 25 MB ( I wouldn't be using the wiki as a place to get high-quality files, just info and links ) I'll have to get adjusted to a non-mediawiki environment but I think this is probably the easiest option.
I guess the next steps would be deciding on a name, finding people I know and trust to help me make articles, and putting out a call to LIOMOGAI creators who'd like / be okay with their flags / symbols to be archived on an external site.
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b4kuch1n · 2 months
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good luck w the testing and a happy early new year!!
thank you it's already happened when this was sent but we all did get one free point for the listening section bc the audio fucked up and we didn't get to hear the part with the last question's answer. but I will now think this is luck borrowed from the future when this ask was sent
#bakuspeech#ask#I tweeted a storm inbetween the written competencies (morning) and the speaking test (afternoon) lmao#but its on my wretched personal acc so it's for me. it's just for me#I dressed. and this is not me being unkind to myself. like a mister bean character to that test. like I got a woolen suit jacket on#with the dress shoes of mismatched laces. AND Ive been bald recently#honest to gods can Not tell how well I did in the written tests. like I finished all of them with at least ten minutes to spare#but it's because they kept putting a giant timer on the projector screen and it scared me so bad. delf trauma#the content of the test itself I straight up. dont know if its any good#the thing with me. that u can probably tell by idk looking at me and hearing me talk and stuff. is that I speak english but I am#VERY bad at tests#which makes any formalized english testing for me extremely fucking funny#and like it's supposed to be in the same structure as an ielts set of questions and apparently that means#they kept asking me to confirm or deny that the author of the text agrees with the statements they got in the questions#and I was sitting there like okay you made me read about weird phrenology shit and then you ask me this?? like are we asking#textual or contextual or. how deep into the rhetorics are we talking here. cause two of these three authors are certified weirdos#(yes the reading segment had three texts. one was about physiognomy and how there was definitely a grain of truth in there#one was about tea - this is the inconspicuous one - and the last one was about the potentials of toxinology#with a general vibe of pseudomedicine zeal to its writing. it's probs from a family magazine or something)#so straight up yeah I can defend my quiz answers to a judge but that does Not mean it's gonna be the one on the answer sheet yknow#kinda the same with the writing segment. where like they gave me an extremely easy to expand on subject and then a piece of paper#the length of a receipt. and that just. I could NOT parse the expectation of that setup#like I saw that and was like. so do you want me to do it badly? or do it so excellently I deliver all I think in like 100 words or less?#cause I'm capable of one of those things and the distinction is important here#and like. yes I know it's a language aptitude test. they're looking to know if I speak english#and I Have done something like this before multiple times just with a different language. but that was. idk I have never had a ladder here#I know I speak the language. YOU can probably tell I speak the language. would this test's result reflect that? I don't know!#it's a baffling experience. I'm still thinking about it the day after. tldr it's really not about the english for me it's about the testing#it's so. it's reflected so clear in the listening test where I missed an entire question (other than the one they gave us for free) bc#my brain just noped out of my body for three seconds and when I yanked it back the tape's already moved on
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hwiyoungies · 11 months
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the way this generation will go out of the way to blame someone who didn't consent to being filmed (either in public or not) for being upset about it, instead of thinking huh maybe we simply shouldn't invade people's privacies
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So I'm on a psychology streak today, so I actually have a question for y'all:
Do you have any fics that irrevocably changed how you look at the world, for better or worse?
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thewuzzy · 1 year
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there's been an alarming uptick of "gen z are selfish / lazy / entitled" posts on this extremely millenial hellsite recently and all i can say is, have you all forgotten who we are? have you forgotten the 15 year battle we fought together against anti-millenial outrage journalism?? have you forgotten? we were there. we were there when the internet okay boomered down avocado toast gate together. we were there at the reclaiming of millenials killed the diamond industry and the relegation of millenials dont want to work into meme history. and now you have the audacity to turn around on gen z. on our little siblings, our closest allies, our staunch brethren in this late stage capitalist climate crisis hell that is the 21st century and play the boomer card on them? get to fuck
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sanstropfremir · 1 year
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OMGGG the backhanded art comment 💀🤡 I wanted to say thank you sooo much for adding your input because comments like that are the reason why I have the urge to rip my hair out everytime I enter the comment section of an MV/Dance Practice like wdym "it's not dance, it's art" ?? what did you think dance was??? How little do you care about dance then?? You're literally the first person I know to address it which was kind of unexpected but very much needed (Sorry if you can feel the frustration radiating of this ask, but that's how much I despise it)
kljlkjflkjflksda well i did go to a very prestigious art school so i do have the experience to back up my backhandedness. i have to thank @exo-s-victory-lap first bc if they hadn't posted that comment on the birthday dance practice i wouldn't have said anything, bc i never read the comments on any kpop-related videos as i don't need the headache. but you're right it is a thing that very few people talk about, mostly because like i said, there's a mass lack of education around the different types of 'art' beyond painting and sculpture, and what even is 'qualified' to be called art in the first place. to be honest dance gets the most of this pseudo-'complimentary' offensive garbage because the average person in the west just does not interact with dance as an artform like, at all. the most common types of dance at the moment are street dance based/whatever shows up on tiktok and they've become so ubiquitous that people have ceased to see it as a skill and connect it to being worthy of being called 'art'. the convention of what constitutes 'art' in a lot of the general public's eyes is western eurocentric forms that have 'historical' backing, but only those that have been approved by the 'elite' as the ones acceptable. and very very few forms of dance have made that cut, so relatively few people recognize it as such.
#no one is calling pantos art and those things are old as fucking time lol. well not that old. but they are a very old form of anglo theatre#the other thing about street dance is that it was invented by black people! and god forbid anything black people do is artistic!!!!!#as someone who went to an art school where they do high concept contemporary art/the stuff that you see in contemporary galleries/museums:#the whole industry moves like fucking white supremacy and relies on the supression of 'lesser' forms in order to keep the industry running#sometimes there's actual white supremacy. sometimes there isn't. but the structure is exactly the same#there's always artists that say they want to 'deconstruct the white cube space' etc etc etc but very rarely do they actually make an effort#to cross disciplinary boundaries or go into the community/do educational outreach to ACTUALLY deconstruct those spaces#because if they actually did that it would make the entire concept of their practice pointless#the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house!!!!!!!!#n e ways. dont go to art school#text#kpop questions#answers#also there's a bias against kpop in general bc of the branding that's been pushed by western media that it's 'manufactured'#and idols themselves aren't artists bc theyre not 'making the work themselves'#which is a further pushing of the monolith artist narrative#also kr media is super guilty of this too. idols are on a really low rung on the 'artistic' ladder#so a lot of these types of comments from fans come from the desire to 'prove' that idols are worthy of making art#but they end up being insults bc kpoppies are dreadfully offensively and tragically uninformed#jokes on them the whole industry's been making art this whole time! just most of it is bad!
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strongfuck · 1 year
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I know Borderlands truly lacks royalty, but what about Rhys having to deal with a noble for some sort of business deal.
the borderlands is a collective term for the planets in the galaxy that the game's events happen i think (if it isn't then i've been using it wrong this whole time lmao), but considering that there're at least six galaxies that are traversable with canon technology, i think it's safe to say that meeting folks who live in a society ruled by a noble class is very possible
rhys is incredibly serious about atlas' expansion and improvement, so i can imagine him hearing about a planet where these ruling classes exist and wanting to cash in on it. and how else can you make sure to get them to support your work (and in turn sponsor their own needs tech-wise, which then leads to a fruitful and harmonious steady business) besides getting to know them personally?
i think, considering the dynamics he was exposed to in hyperion, where there was a clear food chain, it wouldn't really be uncharted territory for him? add in the fact that he has a ~CEO facade that he needs to wear in general for his atlas-adjacent endeavours and-- while there may be some growing pains-- his willingness to adapt to situations as long as it's to his advantage and he'll... probably be okay. i can imagine him doing extensive research beforehand so as not to be completely culture shocked, but of course looking things up could never compare to the real thing
the rest after that depends on the aforementioned noble and whatever culture they come from. generally speaking rhys can probably deal with them. but if one of his Cannot Be Compromised things are pinged then i think he's entirely capable of cutting his losses and getting out of there, too :-)
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mirakale · 2 years
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could a depressed person do this I say gesturing to a whiteboard full of incomprehensible writing
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elainemorisi · 6 months
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I know this, but like. sometimes I am again struck by the fact that my parents had/have uh, remarkably sound parenting-esque politics. in a way that you really don't notice until you notice
#like these people's actual for real instincts are (and more relevant were always) genuinely and effectively to treat their kids like humans#in matters of like actual behavior and structure#like the more widely applicable example to me is always going to be that my mom#would get into glancing discussions of pro-choice politics with other parents in our very liberal environment#and be like. you fuckers. every single one of you would impel your daughters to get abortions without thinking twice. choice my ass#not in front of me at the time just because it didn't come up but we've discussed since and yeah that was the case#I knew that was her attitude even without being explicitly told#and then many other such similar attitudes re: actually and without Deciding About It because it was not even up for Decision#approaching us their kids as human beings to whom they were going to proactively + ASAP grant actual agency to without question#and not as a matter of like beneficent enlightened parenting but because it would just be scummy to do otherwise + so was never on the tabl#like they were 90s hippies but it really doesn't seem to have come from there (they were crunchy but pretty skeptical of the psych-y parts)#it's partially my mom looking at her mom's parents and wisely doing exactly the opposite of all of that#but then the rest is just good luck re general decency of both people + circumstances really#anyway was discussing more specific stuff re my kid with my dad and the shared assumptions within this family unit. are not widely shared!
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racefortheironthrone · 11 months
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Nobody is making anyone go into scriptwriting. No one is born in a Netflix company town where their dad takes them into the script mines at age 12. Fuck writers who want to get paid more than once for the same job. They should only get residuals AFTER all the people who do REAL WORK, like construction, grips, costume, makeup & animators etc. Most of them are much better at their jobs than writers especially for streaming services, and they are what screenwriters can lean on & novelists can't.
People need to realize that the unions for white collar people like WGA or SIEU or NEA (public sector unions are why cops who kill the people they were supposed to serve & protect remain employed get pensions) is not the AFL-CIO or any other historical union fighting for the lives of the people who built the country's industry and made it run, any more than the NRA are the Minutemen of 1775 New England.
First, go fuck yourself, you fucking scab. No, seriously - you don't come to my blog and spout off about what workers deserve unions and decent pay and what ones don't, like it's your fucking decision. The intellectual labor that writers perform is just as real as any other work done on a film set - "all who labor by hand or brain" is the inherent logic of industrial unionism for a reason.
Second, writers aren't asking to get paid more than once: residuals are deferred pay, you absolute moron. In Hollywood, whether it's writers or actors or voice talent or whatever, you get a small fraction up front - it's usually an ok check, depending on the union's day rates and so forth, but you can't make a living off stitching these together - and then most of your pay comes from monthly royalty checks that provide you with the income you need to live off when you're between jobs.
The problem is that, historically in Hollywood, residuals have been structured with a very long "tail" - the payments start out relatively low and then get more generous over time as the show has more seasons and (presumably) goes into syndication. This doesn't work with streaming's new business model, where increasingly shows are getting 2-3 seasons max and streaming services have become increasingly quick to not just cancel shows but yank them off their servers in order to avoid paying residuals.
So what WGA writers are fighting for is a system that ensures writers (but also actors and other creative workers, because the unions pattern bargain) get a fair share of the show's revenue, even if the show is only given 2-3 seasons.
Third, the U.S labor movement would not exist today if it wasn't for white collar workers and public sector workers. About half of the U.S labor movement - 7 million workers - is public sector, and those workers are overwhelmingly women of color, mostly working as either teachers or postal workers. Likewise, about half the U.S labor movement is made up of white collar workers, and we're graduate students and adjuncts and lab researchers, teachers and social workers, administrators and IT departments.
I'm both public sector and white collar, and I'm a member of an NEA union. I'm an adjunct professor who earns $6,000 a course and it's my job to get working adults with jobs and families who've never gone to college or who've been out of higher ed for a decade to graduate with a bachelor's or a master's. If you don't think that's real work, you're free to research and write all the lectures and powerpoints, deliver those in an entertaining and educational fashion, answer a flood of questions from students who need help navigating academia, and then grade all the midterms and finals and research papers.
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transmutationisms · 3 months
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"does a story need to mean something" i think i know what people are trying to get at here but it is also worth reiterating that 1) stories or narratives always convey meaning, question of 'need' irrelevant 2) that meaning is not necessarily or solely determined by authorial intent and it's not a property that the story in itself possesses transcendentally but comes about also as the result of an interpretive act occurring within a given set of social relations and circumstances. the iliad probably did not mean to homer exactly what it does to me. a generative language model can't imbue its output with its own 'intent' and yet if i read that output and interpret it, i'm engaging with it in a way that creates meaning, structured by the particular narratological frameworks or schemata i've learned. a story might 'mean' something internally, and 'mean' something quite different when that internal meaning is contextualised in its social and historical circumstances. etc.
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