#form follows function

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Hello! I love your Eleutherophobia fics and as I was reading them, I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the themes with Tom/ex-hosts and the themes in The Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes from marvel. Out of curiosity, have you ever thought about the comparison between those two characters in their respective fandoms?

Hell yes. I mentioned in a different post that Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail by Owlet is one of the fics that most influenced my own writing. That series is narrated (un-narrated?) by Bucky Barnes, and it has the coolest use of experimental writing I've ever seen in a fic series.

What I mean by un-narrated: there are almost no personal pronouns at all in the first ~70% of the first story. It's almost all passive voice. So, for example

Mission imperative pounds in the Asset’s chest, takes the form of increased pulse rate and respiration, a tightening of the throat. Backup is required to protect the objective’s lungs.

as a way of conveying "I got Steve out of the river but now he's dry-drowning and I'm freaking out." Like half the sentences in the fic have no subject at all, and most of the other half have these super-detached ways of referring to Bucky ("The Asset", "mission head"). By all logic it shouldn't work — presumably Owlet learned in school not to use passive voice, just like the rest of us — and yet it goddamn well does.

Because the most important rule of creative writing isn't "show don't tell"; it's "form follows function." If your character's out of breath, use short-sharp sentences. If your character's in a dream state, use long flowing ones. If your character's making love then tell us with highfalutin enchantment; if your character's fucking then use smutty cheek. If your character is experiencing something totally fictional — they got put into a sci fi machine that took out their identity — then why not convey that with a jarring lack of self-reference in their thought stream.

The early chapters' lack of self-reference gradually starts to change, as The Asset formerly known as Bucky discovers through the power of coffee and protection (as promised!) that his old identity is gone but he can still forge a new one. One of my favorite details is that the narration gradually starts calling him Barnes, but the narrator himself remains indifferent on the subject — Steve calls him "Bucky," Jarvis calls him "Sergeant," Nat calls him "James," his neighbors call him "Jimmy" — and he only freezes up when people ask him what he prefers to be called, because he doesn't want to decide.

Anyway, I don't do anything that extreme in my own fic. But I do play around with breaking the rules. (E.g. I know it's ungrammatical to use phrases like "my eyes searched" or "my arm reached" — but if it'd be inaccurate to say "I reached" then form follows function.) And I'm a lot more comfortable putting experimental writing into fic than I would be if I hadn't read Owlet's work. Ascribing agency to limbs is probably my most consistent rule-break, but I also have a whopper of a run-on sentence in "How I Live Now" and a bunch of deliberately-unclear dialogue in "Ladybird, Ladybird." And you're not wrong, nonny: I owe a ton of that to Bucky, but mostly to Owlet's interpretation of the character.

#animorphs #eleutherophobia #infinite coffee and protection detail #writing #fan fiction #owlet #fic #form follows function #bucky barnes #winter soldier #this you protect #'Take THAT Dr. W!' I mutter under my breath as I ascribe agency to yet another limb. #'You told me not to BUT you also told me all sci fi is trite garbage' #which is a hell of a stance from a professor #whose best-selling book is goddamn Star. Wars. Fan. Fiction.

[random-conspiracy]

I love the "Friend shaped" concept because it brings back to table the design commandment "Form follows function" ahsahshasa

#architecture #design #form follows function #friend shaped

[poetrythreesixfive]

As It Happens

What are you writing?

she asked me, looking over.

I said: A haiku.

-GeorgeFilip

#poem #poetry #poetrythreesixfive #georgefilip #spilledink #poetryportal #poetsandwriters #poetsontumbler #spilledwords #deepthoughts #haiku #form follows function

[yessir38]

Modern Bedroom in Minneapolis Small minimalist master carpeted and wallpaper bedroom photo with red walls

#remodel #custom concrete #form follows function #dog niche #vintage details

[fuzzysparrow]

Bauhaus

Why did a movement shaped in a socialist-driven European climate so heavily influence corporate America? This essay, written in 2011, discusses what the Bauhaus was, when it was founded, and the people related to it. It will also look at how Bauhaus influenced America. The Bauhaus was a school of art and design, which was founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in Weimar, Germany in the year 1919,…

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#America #anchor #art #bauhaus #Breaker #essay #Florence Knoll #form follows function #Google Podcasts #graphic design #Hannes Meyer #Herbert Bayer #IKEA #ko-fi #Laszlo moholy-lagy #Ludwig Mies van der Rohe #Marcel Breuer #patreon #Pocket Casts #spotify #typeface #Universal #Walter Gropius #Wassily Chair #Wassily Kandinsky

[temujin-tatted]

#form follows function

[crystal-bytes-sys]

#automobile #classic #riva del garda #traditional #car mechanic #technical #evolution #form follows function #or #form follows mentality

[knowledgevariabledarcy]

#form team aston villa will be too strong for europa conference league rivals legia warsaw #form of dread #form follows function #formula 1 #formula one #Youtube

[darkstarnetwork43]

Stream

“Form follows function” is an homage to mediocrity. “Form as homage to the function” is the mark of excellence.

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#Form follows function #homage to function #mark of excellence

[nurkussmich]

Modern Closet Minneapolis Large modern idea for a dressing room with a brown floor, beaded inset cabinets, and black cabinets.

#open concept #modern windows #form follows function #functional design #office with a view #master suite

[xoxoilanaandshaked]

לואיס סאליבן Louis Sullivan

1856-1924

American architect

אבי האדריכלות המודרנית ומזוהה עם אסתטיקת עיצוב גורדי השחקים המוקדמים.

למד במספר מוסדות אדריכליים, בין היתר בבית ספר האומנויות היפות בפריז.

1879 הצטרף למשרד אדלר

1881 הפך לשותף 'אדלר וסאליבן אדריכלים'.

השתמש בטכנולוגיות חדשות, מסגרות פלדה ומעליות כדי להגיע לגובה.

דגש על איכות הקישוטים, קשתות חצי עגולות ושימוש בחומר כקישוט.

-מוטיבים אןרגנים מפותלים

-חזיתות טרקוטה

-עבודות ברזל

"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION"

#form follows function

[yaroh-domo]

Closet Dressing Area in Minneapolis Large modern idea for a dressing room with a brown floor, beaded inset cabinets, and black cabinets.

#form follows function #office with a view #bold wallpaper #vintage details #master suite #function and flow

[hayleymulch-art]

Modern Bedroom in Minneapolis

#An illustration of a small #minimalist master bedroom with red walls #carpeting #and wallpaper. vintage details #functional design #upstairs laundry #form follows function #function and flow

[thronealigned]

here's the durge scene i was talking about in the tags of my last reblog yesterday - you get this if you cast Heal on them

#the other two options were along the lines of 'the memory makes you sick to your stomach' and 'ugh i was such an amateur back then' #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #this raises so many questions for me #spoilers for their questline & backstory follow!!!!! #durge wasnt *born* - they were hand-crafted by bhaal from his own gore #like it's why they have the Urge to begin with. they aren't a normal bhaalspawn #but they weren't just dropped in the world fully-formed #even without this we'd know that because sceleritas mentions a few times how they were on their own until they were an adult or nearly an #adult. at which point he came to them and led them to the temple of bhaal #which is how they picked up all their non-murder related skills. and why they're relatively normal compared to someone like orin who was #raised in the cult. or maybe not normal but better able to function in regular society #but if they werent *born* then how did they show up in the world? #were they like dropped on someone's doorstep as a baby? did they have an adoptive family? #could this have BEEN their adoptive family? #what were they like as a child before they started killing people? probably they just tortured & killed animals #i guess this is all left to the realm of headcanon

[zvaigzdelasas]

"AI can make art without human interaction because at the end of the day, it does exactly what humans do with art - break each new piece of art down to the quantifiable basis vectors that you've implicitly constructed about 'art in general' and then faithfully reproduce a new observation of that 'art in general' by smoothly interpolating between observed instantiations of those basis vectors.

You know, like how humans do"

#the joke is that it can be argued that if you do art like an ai youre not necessarily doing art youre producing commodities #assumption being that 'art' stands in an internal tension with a society whose subjectivity is shaped by the commodity form #which i think is pretty inarguable - the argument is over how that tension can be reconciled #i think a salient difference to point out that distinguishes human from ai is the countability of the set of basis vectors #i wouldnt disagree that humans do 'break down' art in some capacity - otherwise 'style' would be entirely singular #the point is really 'how many numbers are there between 0 & 1?' #'how many subcategories are these qualia broken down into?' #i think creativity & externality depend on uncountably divisible qualia #some kind of infinity needs to sneak in somewhere to point to the outside #all this to say @ anon lol for thinking ai is like an ontological evil #but also lol @ anyone who treats the form of AI as isomorphic to the form of human activity #taylor series can absolutely objectively represent certain analytical functions - as long as the error is monotonically negative #ie so long as each subsequent member of the series 'gets closer' to a natural representation of the analytic function #mandatory disclaimer for new followers: #human use of ai for artistic purposes is art - ai cannot generate art without human interaction at some point in the sequence #ideology of the blackbox is the same as the ideology of plug-and-chug #(i know theyre the same because they transform similar inputs to similar outputs!) #& im on mobile so cant move this tag back up but i dont necessarily agree w the maximalist take of 'commodified art isnt art' #but i also think there is a qualitative difference between commodified art & non commodified art #& the ai form is actually pretty isomorphic to the value form in general imo #it cant replace all human labor but it couldnt replace any concrete human labor ... #...if that concrete form of labor hadnt become reducible to that which can be reached through gradient descent #also if u argue that the black box of 'ai breaking down art to make new art' is isomorphic to 'human breaking down art to make new art' #then an implication of that is that ai ***can make art without human interaction*** #otherwise if the blackboxes are isomorphic then why have humans in the loop? whats the qualitative difference? #the proper framing is seeing ai as an augmentation of the decision cycle of humans instead of having a 'decision cycle' themselves