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Resubmitting this, because it's May, on the one-year-anniversary of the first submission http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10671704/ - with a rescan! Now that I have access to a larger scanner, the subtle warps and slices in my assemblage of the piece are gone. And I darkened the colors too, while I was at it, I don't rightly know why.
A pastiche of what I've identified to be 1950s Gothic Revival - Jules Engel for "Robin Hoodlum," various 'Castle" board games I've seen from the period, Pseudo Gothic Playing Cards, Eyvind Earle for "Sleeping Beauty," and especially Gunther Schneider-Siemssen's legendary 1952 Metropolitan production of "Tannhäuser." It died in interior design by '58, was on its last legs when "Camelot" was released, and was completely dead by "The Sword in the Stone."
I can't for the life of me get that color of casein blue they used - vis a vis the lower left of Motherwell's "Pancho Villa Dead and Alive" - but I'd say this is cool besides.
All those vertical lines and diagonal tesselations - the stiff poses and controlled colors, the jaggedly stylized tree branches, the sheer middle-class warmth, the jewel-like grass, and the overall 'country club' look. You know the style! ^^
Evidently, this leonine queen has discovered her courtiers and her handmaidens succumbing to the season... <3 She don't look pleased, but the rest seem quite jubilant.
It's May, the lusty month of May - that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.
It's time to do a wretched thing or two and try to make each precious day one you'll always rue!
It's May, it's May, the month of yes you may - the time for every frivolous whim, proper or im- -
It's wild, it's gay, a blot in every way
The birds and bees with all of their vast amorous past gaze at the human race aghast, the lusty month of may!
It's May, it's May, the month of great dismay - when all the world is brimming with fun, wholesome or un-!
It's mad, it's gay, a libelous display,
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks, everyone makes divine mistakes, the lusty month of May!
© Lerner and Loewe, "Camelot." (If your native language is not English and the idiom is strange, I can help in the comments.)
A pastiche of what I've identified to be 1950s Gothic Revival - Jules Engel for "Robin Hoodlum," various 'Castle" board games I've seen from the period, Pseudo Gothic Playing Cards, Eyvind Earle for "Sleeping Beauty," and especially Gunther Schneider-Siemssen's legendary 1952 Metropolitan production of "Tannhäuser." It died in interior design by '58, was on its last legs when "Camelot" was released, and was completely dead by "The Sword in the Stone."
I can't for the life of me get that color of casein blue they used - vis a vis the lower left of Motherwell's "Pancho Villa Dead and Alive" - but I'd say this is cool besides.
All those vertical lines and diagonal tesselations - the stiff poses and controlled colors, the jaggedly stylized tree branches, the sheer middle-class warmth, the jewel-like grass, and the overall 'country club' look. You know the style! ^^
Evidently, this leonine queen has discovered her courtiers and her handmaidens succumbing to the season... <3 She don't look pleased, but the rest seem quite jubilant.
It's May, the lusty month of May - that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.
It's time to do a wretched thing or two and try to make each precious day one you'll always rue!
It's May, it's May, the month of yes you may - the time for every frivolous whim, proper or im- -
It's wild, it's gay, a blot in every way
The birds and bees with all of their vast amorous past gaze at the human race aghast, the lusty month of may!
It's May, it's May, the month of great dismay - when all the world is brimming with fun, wholesome or un-!
It's mad, it's gay, a libelous display,
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks, everyone makes divine mistakes, the lusty month of May!
© Lerner and Loewe, "Camelot." (If your native language is not English and the idiom is strange, I can help in the comments.)
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What's wrong with you that you're not listening to Lerner and Loewe's last masterpiece? But I'll give it a listen, as soon as side three of this "The Swing Era:To be Young in 1941" finishes. Right now it's the Artie Shaw version of "Stardust..." Swing jazz doesn't get its respect these days. Which makes me feel older than this fifties mediaeval schtick, even though that was a thousand years ago...
Dear god, that album sounds awesome! Like a less noodly Rick Wakeman. Thanks for pointing this album out! Some cool Chick Corea shit and interesting synth textures.
I'll just open up all my current things I'm listening to on youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6EOW1eHNVM "Everything Scatter," from "Fela!," with Sahr Ngaujah singing;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg_5soG6APE Glen Miller's "In the Mood,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQGJK6wjZo A complete bootleg of "The Book of Mormon,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZ4FMIVqto&feature=kp The Faces' "Three Button Hand Me Down" on the Old Grey Whistle Test,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ZEoNTtRB8 Shostakovich's seventh, "Leningrad." The famous "war bolero" bit starts a little after six minutes in...
Right now I'm having problems with my turntable (my stylus just went blunt, it's been skipping and crackling over the vinyl), but the next LPs I had lined up to listen to the soundtrack to "Camelot," ELP's "Works 1 side 2," Ralph Vaughan William's harrowing fourth symphony, Jethro Tull's "Living in the Past," and Genesis' "Seconds Out;"
the most recent CDs the receipt says I bought were Lightning Bolt's "Ride the Skies" and James Whitburn's "Annelies," the oratorio my sister sang choir in the American premiere of.
I'm kinda all the fuck over the place. My only real preference is for wet and splashy sound production; the Red Hot Chili Peppers school of dry and crunchy sound always grates on my ears.
I'll just open up all my current things I'm listening to on youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6EOW1eHNVM "Everything Scatter," from "Fela!," with Sahr Ngaujah singing;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg_5soG6APE Glen Miller's "In the Mood,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQGJK6wjZo A complete bootleg of "The Book of Mormon,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZ4FMIVqto&feature=kp The Faces' "Three Button Hand Me Down" on the Old Grey Whistle Test,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ZEoNTtRB8 Shostakovich's seventh, "Leningrad." The famous "war bolero" bit starts a little after six minutes in...
Right now I'm having problems with my turntable (my stylus just went blunt, it's been skipping and crackling over the vinyl), but the next LPs I had lined up to listen to the soundtrack to "Camelot," ELP's "Works 1 side 2," Ralph Vaughan William's harrowing fourth symphony, Jethro Tull's "Living in the Past," and Genesis' "Seconds Out;"
the most recent CDs the receipt says I bought were Lightning Bolt's "Ride the Skies" and James Whitburn's "Annelies," the oratorio my sister sang choir in the American premiere of.
I'm kinda all the fuck over the place. My only real preference is for wet and splashy sound production; the Red Hot Chili Peppers school of dry and crunchy sound always grates on my ears.
Looks indeed better than the first scan. The colors are strong, but not overwhelming, as I have experienced it often with my stuff. Maybe it's the color pencils, but the moment I apply too much pressure on a line, it stands out on the scan like a bullet hole. On the other hand, it really teaches me to work carefully...
And I still like the queen's face that is like 'I disapprove of these ongoings', like she wants to kill that fox with her stare XD
And I still like the queen's face that is like 'I disapprove of these ongoings', like she wants to kill that fox with her stare XD
Colored pencils are a bitch to scan - crayon and oil pastel slightly more so, but in general, whenever your artistic medium leaves uneven pigment on the surface, that'll make it harder to scan. Unlike graphite pencil or watercolor or ink, colored pencil leaves a residue on the surface of the paper. You have to work very carefully with those!
But from what it sounds like, your scanner has its settings on too saturated!
I can only speak from experience with Epson scan, but in the Professional mode, you should be able to alter the black/white balance of the piece, and there should be some option for sliders.
The six sliders my scanner gives are "Brightness," "Contrast," "Saturation," "Cyan-Red," "Magenta-Green," "Yellow-Blue."
For pencil work, what helps is when you scan it, to lower the contrast, increase the brightness, and raise the gray balance. Those should help with your scanning problems somewhat?
Another cool thing - to make the magazine you scan look accurate to the light shining on it, use less blue light (meaning slide the drawbar towards the 'yellow' side). It replicates the natural light you drew it under much better.
Are you looking at the fox, or the half-fox half-german shepherd that I didn't know how to draw? XD But yeah! Death stare!
(I always think of that Charles Addams cartoon, http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/7.....06771fd717.jpg If you can't read that resolution, it's a Patentanwalt's office, in midcentury American english (rather obtuse), best I can translate is "Todesstrahl, scheißdreck! Es ist nicht, sie verlangsamen überhaupt.")
But from what it sounds like, your scanner has its settings on too saturated!
I can only speak from experience with Epson scan, but in the Professional mode, you should be able to alter the black/white balance of the piece, and there should be some option for sliders.
The six sliders my scanner gives are "Brightness," "Contrast," "Saturation," "Cyan-Red," "Magenta-Green," "Yellow-Blue."
For pencil work, what helps is when you scan it, to lower the contrast, increase the brightness, and raise the gray balance. Those should help with your scanning problems somewhat?
Another cool thing - to make the magazine you scan look accurate to the light shining on it, use less blue light (meaning slide the drawbar towards the 'yellow' side). It replicates the natural light you drew it under much better.
Are you looking at the fox, or the half-fox half-german shepherd that I didn't know how to draw? XD But yeah! Death stare!
(I always think of that Charles Addams cartoon, http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/7.....06771fd717.jpg If you can't read that resolution, it's a Patentanwalt's office, in midcentury American english (rather obtuse), best I can translate is "Todesstrahl, scheißdreck! Es ist nicht, sie verlangsamen überhaupt.")
At home I have a Canon scanner, and at work a HP, but both show in the menu only sliders for contrast and brightness, and honestly, they do exactly the same. When first scanned, the pic is completely washed out grey, independently if it was color or just graphite. When decreasing brightness/increasing contrast, the grey mush just becomes darker grey, and doesn't gain any contrast.
What I do for some time is using Picasa and the 'enhance contrast' function. Suddenly the paper is white, and the colors become, well, distinctable colors. The downside is that every line I made too strong sticks out like a sore thumb, and colors become generally more saturated than in the original. I guess it would take a more sophisticated device for having these options you mentioned?
In that cartoon, shouldn't it be 'slowing down' instead of 'slowing up'? Maybe it's the midcentury American English The translation would be 'Verdammer Todesstrahl, warum verlangsamt er sie nicht einmal?' :) And I was referring to the lion in the dress and the person on the very left on your pic.
What I do for some time is using Picasa and the 'enhance contrast' function. Suddenly the paper is white, and the colors become, well, distinctable colors. The downside is that every line I made too strong sticks out like a sore thumb, and colors become generally more saturated than in the original. I guess it would take a more sophisticated device for having these options you mentioned?
In that cartoon, shouldn't it be 'slowing down' instead of 'slowing up'? Maybe it's the midcentury American English The translation would be 'Verdammer Todesstrahl, warum verlangsamt er sie nicht einmal?' :) And I was referring to the lion in the dress and the person on the very left on your pic.
I'm not familiar with Canon scanners, but have used an HP before, they're clunky devices. If those are the only two sliders... are there modes you can set it to, such as "home," "Office," "professional?" Those will give you different options.
Ah, geez... It shouldn't be doing that! The brightness should involve value, not hue. Try for an experiment, scanning a picture twice, one where you change the brightness, and one where you change the contrast, and try to make them look like the same shade of gray... check for line quality!
There! That might be your problem. That's the equivalent of a "burn" tool, meaning that it tries to move all the colors apart from each other. It gives an unpleasant graininess and messes with your colors. What you should look for is the picasa equivalent of the "sharpen" tool, which alters hue but not saturation. That stuff should be in photoshop, if you ever get access to it, gimp has the same technology (and is free)...
Keep messing around with picasa, there's certain to be an analogue! For the time being, just practice your line strength... you can always exploit this, drawing compositions with strong lines...
"Slowing up?" It's not a very often heard phrase, very 1950s, but it means the exact same thing as "slowing down." >.<
If your head doesn't hurt yet, "I don't care" can be expressed as both "I couldn't care less" (implied meaning, I don't care at all), and "I could care less" (implied meaning, I'm warning you that the more you talk about something the less I will care about it).
English is full of words like that - why can something "move fast," and yet mean the exact opposite of "stuck fast?" https://imgur.com/gallery/D9a9sUF I have no idea how you learn this as a second language.
Much better translation, thanks! I'm curious how you'd translate the first part, though... "Death ray, fiddlesticks!" He's telling the inventor that this can't be a death ray, it connotes disbelief, in a way that I'm not so sure "verdammer Toddesstrahl" does (the words imply that he believes it to be a working death ray). How would you, personally, phrase it in Deutsch, if you were trying to call him a liar? The humor is the very idea that he would test a futuristic todesstrahl on random passersby on the street, just to see if it works.
(Thanks for clarifying.)
Ah, geez... It shouldn't be doing that! The brightness should involve value, not hue. Try for an experiment, scanning a picture twice, one where you change the brightness, and one where you change the contrast, and try to make them look like the same shade of gray... check for line quality!
There! That might be your problem. That's the equivalent of a "burn" tool, meaning that it tries to move all the colors apart from each other. It gives an unpleasant graininess and messes with your colors. What you should look for is the picasa equivalent of the "sharpen" tool, which alters hue but not saturation. That stuff should be in photoshop, if you ever get access to it, gimp has the same technology (and is free)...
Keep messing around with picasa, there's certain to be an analogue! For the time being, just practice your line strength... you can always exploit this, drawing compositions with strong lines...
"Slowing up?" It's not a very often heard phrase, very 1950s, but it means the exact same thing as "slowing down." >.<
If your head doesn't hurt yet, "I don't care" can be expressed as both "I couldn't care less" (implied meaning, I don't care at all), and "I could care less" (implied meaning, I'm warning you that the more you talk about something the less I will care about it).
English is full of words like that - why can something "move fast," and yet mean the exact opposite of "stuck fast?" https://imgur.com/gallery/D9a9sUF I have no idea how you learn this as a second language.
Much better translation, thanks! I'm curious how you'd translate the first part, though... "Death ray, fiddlesticks!" He's telling the inventor that this can't be a death ray, it connotes disbelief, in a way that I'm not so sure "verdammer Toddesstrahl" does (the words imply that he believes it to be a working death ray). How would you, personally, phrase it in Deutsch, if you were trying to call him a liar? The humor is the very idea that he would test a futuristic todesstrahl on random passersby on the street, just to see if it works.
(Thanks for clarifying.)
I will try out to find more options, and thanks for the tip with gimp! I have played around to a certain extent with Picasa, didn't find anything that improved the picture besides contrast so far. But I may try what you said about the two examples.
And those double negatives are funny indeed. We have that as well, but it has become rather unusual nowadays. An example would be 'Ich habe keinen Hunger nicht' which means verbatim 'I don't have no hunger'. And that 'English challenge' poem is a lot of fun! When reading that out loud, my brain is confused that the words don't rhyme on screen, but do in sound; at least the words I knew ;)
'Fiddlesticks' is a rather unique word, but it can be translated at best with 'Pustekuchen', an expression of disappointment when someone wants to use a less rude word than shit or Scheiße. How I would phrase it? 'Ein schöner Todesstrahl ist mir das, dass ich nicht lache', which in return would mean 'Nice death-ray, don't make me laugh...'
And those double negatives are funny indeed. We have that as well, but it has become rather unusual nowadays. An example would be 'Ich habe keinen Hunger nicht' which means verbatim 'I don't have no hunger'. And that 'English challenge' poem is a lot of fun! When reading that out loud, my brain is confused that the words don't rhyme on screen, but do in sound; at least the words I knew ;)
'Fiddlesticks' is a rather unique word, but it can be translated at best with 'Pustekuchen', an expression of disappointment when someone wants to use a less rude word than shit or Scheiße. How I would phrase it? 'Ein schöner Todesstrahl ist mir das, dass ich nicht lache', which in return would mean 'Nice death-ray, don't make me laugh...'
Contrast and brightness, on any good program, should be different. Good luck!
I have heard that phrase before, just never thought about it ^^" I'm white, I rarely use double negatives if I can help it.
I'm just glad you don't want to murder me for sending you that XD
That's a fine translation... I'm proud that I could read that, I'm starting to get a grip on deutsche syntax. And "Pustekuchen..." I must remember that next time I'm near, I swear like a sailor XD
Charles Addams... this guy's more famous for the "Addams Family," the macabre sitcom/two hilarious movies/mediocre broadway musical based off his cartoons.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/6e1ee8e4.....ycho1_1280.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/796e73b95c06bb90eb56c0d574050450/tumblr_n317y1pI0p1qzfmh5o1_1280.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/41f2e230.....nimo1_1280.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/42789480edc45ff96b5379d90ec84b7e/tumblr_n4kf7hi94W1tz24k6o1_1280.png https://31.media.tumblr.com/4880057.....hkjao1_500.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/90861a2a3229eea9341584b89affba92/tumblr_n5p3dnAtHA1smhzvao1_1280.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/6135f7a5.....mh5o1_1280.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/b07aa55de375bec03fea72954e7e6bcb/tumblr_n5opl1w75d1qb5hugo1_1280.jpg https://24.media.tumblr.com/5d2883e.....khuho1_500.jpg
Some, like this one, need you to stop and think - https://24.media.tumblr.com/2956f18.....codo1_1280.jpg - and realize that while little boys hang up the old signs the city threw out, Pugsley here stole warning signs, and all across the city there are people drinking from poisoned springs and driving off bridges XD
I have heard that phrase before, just never thought about it ^^" I'm white, I rarely use double negatives if I can help it.
I'm just glad you don't want to murder me for sending you that XD
That's a fine translation... I'm proud that I could read that, I'm starting to get a grip on deutsche syntax. And "Pustekuchen..." I must remember that next time I'm near, I swear like a sailor XD
Charles Addams... this guy's more famous for the "Addams Family," the macabre sitcom/two hilarious movies/mediocre broadway musical based off his cartoons.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/6e1ee8e4.....ycho1_1280.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/796e73b95c06bb90eb56c0d574050450/tumblr_n317y1pI0p1qzfmh5o1_1280.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/41f2e230.....nimo1_1280.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/42789480edc45ff96b5379d90ec84b7e/tumblr_n4kf7hi94W1tz24k6o1_1280.png https://31.media.tumblr.com/4880057.....hkjao1_500.jpg http://37.media.tumblr.com/90861a2a3229eea9341584b89affba92/tumblr_n5p3dnAtHA1smhzvao1_1280.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/6135f7a5.....mh5o1_1280.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/b07aa55de375bec03fea72954e7e6bcb/tumblr_n5opl1w75d1qb5hugo1_1280.jpg https://24.media.tumblr.com/5d2883e.....khuho1_500.jpg
Some, like this one, need you to stop and think - https://24.media.tumblr.com/2956f18.....codo1_1280.jpg - and realize that while little boys hang up the old signs the city threw out, Pugsley here stole warning signs, and all across the city there are people drinking from poisoned springs and driving off bridges XD
I posted a different scan from the HP scanner, where there were indeed more options, only none that seemed useful; like 'middle values', 'highlights', 'gamma' (like it's a TV or something XD), and a circle of colors to, well, color the scan. And the scan looks worse than anything I did at home, but look for yourself.
That's some pretty dark humor there! The creeper joke reminds me of that MST3K episode, 'The Creeping Terror', where there is a monster like that. It's one of the best episodes, and I almost burst my diaphragm while watching it. Pure 60s horror no-budget schlock that looks like it's from the 50s, where people when faced with slow moving and weird looking monsters forget how to run or even walk, but surely have a lot of energy for screaming XD
And nice that you get a grip on deutsche Syntax while conversing, sie in den Griff zu bekommen isn't that easy, from what I've heard (see, we don't just have capital letters, we also use them ;)). And to swear like a sailor is almost as much fun als wie schimpfen wie ein Seemann
That's some pretty dark humor there! The creeper joke reminds me of that MST3K episode, 'The Creeping Terror', where there is a monster like that. It's one of the best episodes, and I almost burst my diaphragm while watching it. Pure 60s horror no-budget schlock that looks like it's from the 50s, where people when faced with slow moving and weird looking monsters forget how to run or even walk, but surely have a lot of energy for screaming XD
And nice that you get a grip on deutsche Syntax while conversing, sie in den Griff zu bekommen isn't that easy, from what I've heard (see, we don't just have capital letters, we also use them ;)). And to swear like a sailor is almost as much fun als wie schimpfen wie ein Seemann
Oh god, that was clearly designed by someone who doesn't create art. Doesn't sound useful at all. And I can see why you wouldn't like that softer and quieter scan you posted...
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12504371/ I think it might be channel input, but this might help, it's geared towards canon users. You can alter, in a slider, the black and white and gray tones, in any decent scanner, and that might help!
That is, actually, how humans work. We're like deer - we have a fight or flight response, but the strongest response is to freeze. That's our instinct in case of danger, we're not a good species for outrunning or outfighting predators. This comes up sadly often, mostly because in America the legal system holds that it isn't "really" rape if she didn't fight back. They need to watch some horror movies and relearn how being "frozen to the spot" works.
I must watch that! XD Yeah, Addams is a master of black humor... when you start to think about it, it gets even creepier and somewhat funnier. It's cathartic.
I can't find online the cartoons I'm thinking of, but things like the woman calmly chatting on the phone "Nothing much, Agnes... how was your day?" with a blase look on her face, the gun in her hand, and her husband's corpse on the floor.
The meek little man at ten at night, digging a short and deep grave, with his short and bitter wife in the doorway, saying "Wallace, isn't that hole already too deep for glads?" (I assume that to be a flower or something.)
The friend paying her friend a visit to her apartment, "Tell me more about your husband, Mrs. Briggs," and as your eye moves around you notice the gymnastics equipment on the ceiling, the bananas piled everywhere, the suit she's ironing shaped for a monkey.
The guy reading a letter, "Dear sir - we missed you at the college reunion. Won't you help us keep 'tabs' on the class of '25 by telling us what you're doing now?" And he's in a dimly lit basement at a cluttered table full of blueprints, hundreds of boxes of dynamite, and a scale model of the U.S. Capitol building with dynamite tunneled under it. I didn't know until I read about it, but that cartoon ran in the issue immediately after a presidential state of the union address. XD
That's the worst part! I keep thinking those capitalized nouns are people's names! XD Hard to break out of old habits. But no, not in conversation, I'm not good enough to speak it out loud yet. I need to read the sentence over a few times and figure out which part is what.
Oh, God, that's the best way I've ever heard of phrasing that phrase. Haha, perfect!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12504371/ I think it might be channel input, but this might help, it's geared towards canon users. You can alter, in a slider, the black and white and gray tones, in any decent scanner, and that might help!
That is, actually, how humans work. We're like deer - we have a fight or flight response, but the strongest response is to freeze. That's our instinct in case of danger, we're not a good species for outrunning or outfighting predators. This comes up sadly often, mostly because in America the legal system holds that it isn't "really" rape if she didn't fight back. They need to watch some horror movies and relearn how being "frozen to the spot" works.
I must watch that! XD Yeah, Addams is a master of black humor... when you start to think about it, it gets even creepier and somewhat funnier. It's cathartic.
I can't find online the cartoons I'm thinking of, but things like the woman calmly chatting on the phone "Nothing much, Agnes... how was your day?" with a blase look on her face, the gun in her hand, and her husband's corpse on the floor.
The meek little man at ten at night, digging a short and deep grave, with his short and bitter wife in the doorway, saying "Wallace, isn't that hole already too deep for glads?" (I assume that to be a flower or something.)
The friend paying her friend a visit to her apartment, "Tell me more about your husband, Mrs. Briggs," and as your eye moves around you notice the gymnastics equipment on the ceiling, the bananas piled everywhere, the suit she's ironing shaped for a monkey.
The guy reading a letter, "Dear sir - we missed you at the college reunion. Won't you help us keep 'tabs' on the class of '25 by telling us what you're doing now?" And he's in a dimly lit basement at a cluttered table full of blueprints, hundreds of boxes of dynamite, and a scale model of the U.S. Capitol building with dynamite tunneled under it. I didn't know until I read about it, but that cartoon ran in the issue immediately after a presidential state of the union address. XD
That's the worst part! I keep thinking those capitalized nouns are people's names! XD Hard to break out of old habits. But no, not in conversation, I'm not good enough to speak it out loud yet. I need to read the sentence over a few times and figure out which part is what.
Oh, God, that's the best way I've ever heard of phrasing that phrase. Haha, perfect!
That tutorial by TaniDaReal is very interesting...the thing is, I don't have PS, only SAI and Artweaver, and while they do have sliders, it's not as much as PS. Also no mentioning of CMYK mode, not there, or in my scanner menu? And all the sliders in the world seem to only either darken or lighten up my pics, and not pick out a certain value, like she does it in that tutorial. Not sure if that has something to do with it, but I scan on a printer-scanner unit, not a dedicated scanner. And I also picked it up cheap at a local Hofer, which would be the equivalent of Walmart here in Europe XD But take a look at the example I posted, maybe the altered version IS better for viewing purposes, as I start to believe?
That Addams' humor is peculiar, no doubt. All those mundane situations with horrible undertones, like killed spouses and stuff. 'Glads' has to stand for gladiolas, I believe (having worked a year as a gardener). And a cartoon with someone about to commit terrorism on American soil? I wonder how well that would go down nowadays.
Oh yes, habit! You know how it feels to read a internet comment written IN ALL CAPS? It was a bit like that for me when I started to read on the internet English, also those endless sentences with no punctuation at all I haven't yet encountered in German, but often in English. We, on the other hand, have words like Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftsteilhaber, and we're damn proud of! XD (Seriously, why not connect words that belong together? English is SO weird ;))
That Addams' humor is peculiar, no doubt. All those mundane situations with horrible undertones, like killed spouses and stuff. 'Glads' has to stand for gladiolas, I believe (having worked a year as a gardener). And a cartoon with someone about to commit terrorism on American soil? I wonder how well that would go down nowadays.
Oh yes, habit! You know how it feels to read a internet comment written IN ALL CAPS? It was a bit like that for me when I started to read on the internet English, also those endless sentences with no punctuation at all I haven't yet encountered in German, but often in English. We, on the other hand, have words like Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftsteilhaber, and we're damn proud of! XD (Seriously, why not connect words that belong together? English is SO weird ;))
I'm afraid past this point, I can't help you much. >.< Post this on reddit or someplace, they might be able to help! But mine is a combination printer/scanner and it's not all that bad... The altered picture is very readable and clear, if not beautiful. I think it works best <3
Ah, thanks! It's great that you know that. (And there were a couple New Yorker cartoons about terrorism, because it's on all our minds, but it's usually very weak. The little girl in front of the bile-spewing TV set asking her father "Daddy, can I stop being afraid now?")
Talk to my friends in school who had the most horrible islamophobic song parodies. "Every night in my head, I see you, I kill you, that is how I know we'll go on... You, still, whoever I kill, I'll explode you apart, and my fatwa go on and on." Or "My fatwa brings all the terr'rists to the yard, and they're like, Allabu Akbar! Damn right, put a bomb in your car. I'd preach you, but I have to hajj." We ALL of us were making fun of terrorism in the George Bush era, because we were mortally afraid of it. America doesn't get BOMBED! We're the ones who bomb the communists! 9/11 completely broke us, we were virgins when it came to being attacked, not since 1941!
Those all caps are hard! Of course, I studied latin, which is written in all caps and without the spaces between the letters. They admit that's too much, and they have spaces and lowercase letters now.
We don't want to connect the words, because if we create an obscure word, that makes it harder for people to understand it, and easier to exploit them. Where have you been in America 101? XD
But I will assure you that, aside from Joyce and Faulkner, when you're not reading English modernist books, the sentences tend to have much more punctuation! XD I'm curious if German has any equivalent of P.G. Wodehouse, some author whose humor lies in the mixing of vivid upper and lower class slang and jargon and quotations and scrambled syntax and person.
I'm reading a column in "Punch" from the sixties, where the author complains about the French translations of Wodehouse novels. The translators change details almost without reason, and don't try to preserve the bon mot... He hands it to a bilingual Belgian Wodehouse fan in his hotel, to see if the translation is good? The fan replies immediately, "It cannot be very good, for two reasons. First, there is no equivalent for the Wodehouse layers of slang in French. There is no "rich and pompous" french vocabulary, it died in the Revolution, and student slang is regional and changes much too quickly to write down. But French is a Latin language, in German you could probably translate Wodehouse, but not in french."
"The second is because I've never heard of these translators. Translation is so badly paid that you can't make a living except by doing it quickly. His language is too thick and layered to be translated quickly. The only hope would be a rich fanatic who spends years on the translation, seeking Flaubert's Bon Mots - and if it were so, I'd have heard of them." He returns after reading it, and says, "No, they haven't got the spark. This is what the French call 'gris' - gray, lackluster, a journeyman job!"
So to test the guy's theory, he closes the review with a glimpse of the German. How does German Wodehouse sound?
The English novel "Leave it to Psmith,"
"At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth, that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain."
The German "Psmith macht alles,'
"Am offenen Verandafenster in Schloss Blandings stand Lord Emsworth und blickte sinnend auf seine weiten Domänen."
Long sentence with no punctuation or not, the deutsche translation doesn't capture the full flavor of bullshit. I worry about what I miss in languages I don't speak!
I'm reminded of a film I've heard of - the original french, the killer's friend protests to the police that a suspicious armoire is "an armoire like all other armoires." The english subtitle feebly says "It's only an ordinary armoire," with none of the philosophy in the french version.
Ah, thanks! It's great that you know that. (And there were a couple New Yorker cartoons about terrorism, because it's on all our minds, but it's usually very weak. The little girl in front of the bile-spewing TV set asking her father "Daddy, can I stop being afraid now?")
Talk to my friends in school who had the most horrible islamophobic song parodies. "Every night in my head, I see you, I kill you, that is how I know we'll go on... You, still, whoever I kill, I'll explode you apart, and my fatwa go on and on." Or "My fatwa brings all the terr'rists to the yard, and they're like, Allabu Akbar! Damn right, put a bomb in your car. I'd preach you, but I have to hajj." We ALL of us were making fun of terrorism in the George Bush era, because we were mortally afraid of it. America doesn't get BOMBED! We're the ones who bomb the communists! 9/11 completely broke us, we were virgins when it came to being attacked, not since 1941!
Those all caps are hard! Of course, I studied latin, which is written in all caps and without the spaces between the letters. They admit that's too much, and they have spaces and lowercase letters now.
We don't want to connect the words, because if we create an obscure word, that makes it harder for people to understand it, and easier to exploit them. Where have you been in America 101? XD
But I will assure you that, aside from Joyce and Faulkner, when you're not reading English modernist books, the sentences tend to have much more punctuation! XD I'm curious if German has any equivalent of P.G. Wodehouse, some author whose humor lies in the mixing of vivid upper and lower class slang and jargon and quotations and scrambled syntax and person.
I'm reading a column in "Punch" from the sixties, where the author complains about the French translations of Wodehouse novels. The translators change details almost without reason, and don't try to preserve the bon mot... He hands it to a bilingual Belgian Wodehouse fan in his hotel, to see if the translation is good? The fan replies immediately, "It cannot be very good, for two reasons. First, there is no equivalent for the Wodehouse layers of slang in French. There is no "rich and pompous" french vocabulary, it died in the Revolution, and student slang is regional and changes much too quickly to write down. But French is a Latin language, in German you could probably translate Wodehouse, but not in french."
"The second is because I've never heard of these translators. Translation is so badly paid that you can't make a living except by doing it quickly. His language is too thick and layered to be translated quickly. The only hope would be a rich fanatic who spends years on the translation, seeking Flaubert's Bon Mots - and if it were so, I'd have heard of them." He returns after reading it, and says, "No, they haven't got the spark. This is what the French call 'gris' - gray, lackluster, a journeyman job!"
So to test the guy's theory, he closes the review with a glimpse of the German. How does German Wodehouse sound?
The English novel "Leave it to Psmith,"
"At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth, that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain."
The German "Psmith macht alles,'
"Am offenen Verandafenster in Schloss Blandings stand Lord Emsworth und blickte sinnend auf seine weiten Domänen."
Long sentence with no punctuation or not, the deutsche translation doesn't capture the full flavor of bullshit. I worry about what I miss in languages I don't speak!
I'm reminded of a film I've heard of - the original french, the killer's friend protests to the police that a suspicious armoire is "an armoire like all other armoires." The english subtitle feebly says "It's only an ordinary armoire," with none of the philosophy in the french version.
Yeah, I guess I get now a decent result with my latest scanning process. The pic on the screen will never do the paper justice, but that's inevitable, I assume.
From all that I've seen in English so far, punctuation, especially commas, seems to be voluntarily...? Or maybe it's just that there are rather strict rules for setting commas in German, which they changed in the Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung in an attempt to make it simpler, only to confuse people. In the end they said '...write it that way, or the older way, whatever...'
And the German translation of that sentence:
"At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth, that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain."
...certainly doesn't do its justice. Way too anemic. I would phrase it like that:
"Am offenen Fenster der großen Bibliothek von Schloss Blandings stand, hängend wie ein nasser Socken, wie es seine Gewohnheit war wenn er nichts hatte, um sein Rückgrat daranzulehnen, der Earl von Emsworth, jener liebenswürdige and dummköpfige Edelmann, und überblickte sein Anwesen."
See, dear translator, there is a reason they don't pay you more XD And it's even three words shorter than English (and yet still longer, because of our bulkier words). At the moment I'm translating a novel I wrote some years ago for FA, maybe that's why I have some practice with it.
From all that I've seen in English so far, punctuation, especially commas, seems to be voluntarily...? Or maybe it's just that there are rather strict rules for setting commas in German, which they changed in the Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung in an attempt to make it simpler, only to confuse people. In the end they said '...write it that way, or the older way, whatever...'
And the German translation of that sentence:
"At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth, that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain."
...certainly doesn't do its justice. Way too anemic. I would phrase it like that:
"Am offenen Fenster der großen Bibliothek von Schloss Blandings stand, hängend wie ein nasser Socken, wie es seine Gewohnheit war wenn er nichts hatte, um sein Rückgrat daranzulehnen, der Earl von Emsworth, jener liebenswürdige and dummköpfige Edelmann, und überblickte sein Anwesen."
See, dear translator, there is a reason they don't pay you more XD And it's even three words shorter than English (and yet still longer, because of our bulkier words). At the moment I'm translating a novel I wrote some years ago for FA, maybe that's why I have some practice with it.
I've sort of learned to accept it as inevitable... of course, studying the great illustrators, you'll learn that reproduction is an insane process. Arthur Rackham used to alter his colors in the original so the printing technology of the day would reproduce it better ^^" It truly will never do the paper justice. Your goal is to get so good that a reproduction with half the glory of the original piece will look better than the original of someone else's art. But keep messing with it, sooner or later you'll puzzle it out!
Commas are very random in english! We use them wherever in speech you would indicate a pause, instead of objectively to set the components of the sentence apart, like German. They often coincide, but when they don't, the languages will favor different placement.
That's pretty funny... German in this department is halfway between english (people will write it whichever damn way they like) and french (where it takes years of red tape for the academie to approve a grammar change).
It captures the adjectives very well, man! You could have a career in this, your german and english are both impeccable in a way that only comes from reading many books <3
And your novel does have some good, powerful prose in it!
But please don't knock the translators - if they love literature and language enough to persist despite such low pay, this is almost certainly motivated by the need to translate about a novel a week in order to make any money. http://animationresources.org/?p=877 Here's a gallery of cartoons from a cheap "girlie" magazines in the 1940s - cheap porn rags that couldn't afford to pay the cartoonists more than... envelope math... around 22 or 30 euros a cartoon in today's dollars. So basically, these guys were trying to live off Furry Commission money, only without the guarantee they'd be paid. The jokes are weak, the pictures dashed off and crude, not much thought put into them, because he didn't have the time - the translator's probably in the same problem! Who has time to translate such florid adjectives when you need to translate 75 pages a day? Easier to just leave the adjectives out entirely.
The only writing advice I got from my father to give to people when they write in English or German - your prose needs more verbs, and your poetry needs more nouns. Don't write stories where "Bob thought," write stories where people talk to each other, so you can say "Bob spat back," or "harangued," or "stammered." If your verb needs an adverb after it, you can probably use a more descriptive verb.
But good taste is key, don't use these words in every sentence! They'll have more impact if you say "Bob said" or simply have their conversations continue, recording only the speech.
That's the issue with Canadian novels, the characters don't have conversations, they have stories of sad people who mope around and get drunk and remember things at random. "And what is the use of a book, Alice thought, without pictures or conversations?"
Commas are very random in english! We use them wherever in speech you would indicate a pause, instead of objectively to set the components of the sentence apart, like German. They often coincide, but when they don't, the languages will favor different placement.
That's pretty funny... German in this department is halfway between english (people will write it whichever damn way they like) and french (where it takes years of red tape for the academie to approve a grammar change).
It captures the adjectives very well, man! You could have a career in this, your german and english are both impeccable in a way that only comes from reading many books <3
And your novel does have some good, powerful prose in it!
But please don't knock the translators - if they love literature and language enough to persist despite such low pay, this is almost certainly motivated by the need to translate about a novel a week in order to make any money. http://animationresources.org/?p=877 Here's a gallery of cartoons from a cheap "girlie" magazines in the 1940s - cheap porn rags that couldn't afford to pay the cartoonists more than... envelope math... around 22 or 30 euros a cartoon in today's dollars. So basically, these guys were trying to live off Furry Commission money, only without the guarantee they'd be paid. The jokes are weak, the pictures dashed off and crude, not much thought put into them, because he didn't have the time - the translator's probably in the same problem! Who has time to translate such florid adjectives when you need to translate 75 pages a day? Easier to just leave the adjectives out entirely.
The only writing advice I got from my father to give to people when they write in English or German - your prose needs more verbs, and your poetry needs more nouns. Don't write stories where "Bob thought," write stories where people talk to each other, so you can say "Bob spat back," or "harangued," or "stammered." If your verb needs an adverb after it, you can probably use a more descriptive verb.
But good taste is key, don't use these words in every sentence! They'll have more impact if you say "Bob said" or simply have their conversations continue, recording only the speech.
That's the issue with Canadian novels, the characters don't have conversations, they have stories of sad people who mope around and get drunk and remember things at random. "And what is the use of a book, Alice thought, without pictures or conversations?"
That's great! I can see the improvement already there... this stuff is like presenting your art in a badly lit room. I'm so happy for you that you've found something!
Figuring out how you'd sit down on your tail... it has been the bane of many a furry artist.
If you can find it, one of Tex Avery's animators in the forties, Preston Blair, wrote a book about how to draw cartoon characters - http://animationresources.org/?p=2091 here's some scans of the original book, with the MGM characters in it. (Any edition you'll find these days, the characters were redrawn into generic cartoon characters for legal reasons.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nvYkLwTAg.....600/avery1.jpg Here's a model sheet, the style the animators drew from...
God, I have to find this, but someone on here drew a porn comic of a Tex Avery style cartoon character and his sexual dalliance with a 1930s cartoon character - it was fucking hilarious. And there's some reference sheets I think
kyan0 did in that style... IDK? Good luck with this! Style parodies are always a fun challenge!
It did shape you! Your writing has the feel of someone who calls on his own experience when figuring things out. You write better in your second language than I do in my first >.<
I have nothing but awe for someone capable of translating a book like that. But if it helps for your project, trying to motivate yourself, here's what to remember - whether it's more or less interesting that you know how something happens, you're choosing which words people will read. They won't be reading the author's words, they'll be reading YOUR words, and you don't have to worry about writing yourself into a corner. The plot's already there.
Whenever I've had to translate things (usually with Latin), I don't think of it as writing, I think of it like telling a joke. You already know how the joke ends, and you're still building to it. Nothing in the joke should surprise you as you're telling it. The goal is to choose a bon mot, to make every word crystal clear to the audience, so they laugh. We all have at least one joke that we have rehearsed in our heads, like choreography; that we've carefully figured out which way is the funnier way to phrase it! And when the time comes to tell it, you can tell it vividly and clearly, without tripping over the words or confusing the audience. That's a better way to approach a translation than to think of it like writing a novel.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/c.....onally_simple/ Here's every terrible and contradictory tip people have been given about writing, collected into one place. I like these, because seeing all the advice next to each other, you can decide which one applies more to your work! You don't get that when everybody gives you their own advice one piece at a time.
Kurt Vonnegut's "No Bullshit" helped me so much, though... I've altered several scripts to fit those rules. It works even better for film than for books!
There was a series of children's books over here in the 1930s or whatever, about a boy inventor named Tom Swift. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty Every single verb was followed by an adverb. They didn't "run," they "ran swiftly." They didn't "say," they "said breathlessly." Every single damn sentence. There's a whole genre of jokes making fun of those sentences... Five minutes with one of those books will convince you of the need for good writing!
Really, the best writing advice is to put in whatever you're leaving out, and to remove whatever you're adding in! When you do that, you can tell what you're missing and what you need to add. As it is with art, so it is with writing. Don't avoid anything.
You'll know it's good (this is why Rukis' writing astonishes me, coming from such an inexperienced author) when your inner voice will want to perform it. You and her came from opposite directions - you've written and are learning to draw, she's drawn and is learning to write. But there's that theory that once you learn one thing well enough to master it, you can master anything, because you understand the journey to the top.
Pretentious garbage is fun, but it's not my taste. But I really, really love those books, except when they take themselves so seriously they don't bother to explain their postmodernisms. What's the use of making a gorgeous book, and displaying it on a shelf too high for someone to read? That's my problem with postmodernism - more so than the quality of the writing is the inaccessibility.
Well, they also... someone once said there are six parts to the "Canadian Identity." There's the influence of British culture on everything, there's the tension between French and English speakers, there's the long-ass winters that force people to huddle together to survive, there's the theme of "survival" in a country so damned big, there's the multi-culturalism in the cities (everybody in Canada lives in the big cities; 60% of the population of Manitoba is in Winnipeg, and 25% of the entire damned country lives in the "Golden Horseshoe"), and most importantly, the fact that they're glued to the U.S. The geography and climate mean everybody lives as far south as they can, right next to the border.
One thing about Canada is that the fashions and the media are five years behind America. The government spends untold amounts of money imposing quotas on American media, so they're never on the cutting edge! Everything in Canada is defined by negation. "All I know is that I'm not an American. Whatever that means. I don't really know what I am." It's a terrible situation for a country to be in, and I find it endlessly fascinating.
(Yes, quotas. The TV stations and the radio, at least 40% of the content has to be Canadian. My dad grew up in Detroit, right next to the Canadian border, and used to listen to Canadian radio stations. The drop in quality from the American stuff (where they had their pick of the best songs) to the Canadian stuff - simple math! If the country with 60% of the programming has 10 times as many people creating the content, then... if 60% comes from 1000 people and 40% comes from 100 people, then the former, you only need to show the 6% absolute best of the former, but the top 40% of the latter. So there was a LOT more shitty music being played simply because it was Canadian. What a situation for a country to be in, forced to play shitty music so they wouldn't be overwhelmed by our relative glory, like Semele and Jupiter)
Figuring out how you'd sit down on your tail... it has been the bane of many a furry artist.
If you can find it, one of Tex Avery's animators in the forties, Preston Blair, wrote a book about how to draw cartoon characters - http://animationresources.org/?p=2091 here's some scans of the original book, with the MGM characters in it. (Any edition you'll find these days, the characters were redrawn into generic cartoon characters for legal reasons.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nvYkLwTAg.....600/avery1.jpg Here's a model sheet, the style the animators drew from...
God, I have to find this, but someone on here drew a porn comic of a Tex Avery style cartoon character and his sexual dalliance with a 1930s cartoon character - it was fucking hilarious. And there's some reference sheets I think
kyan0 did in that style... IDK? Good luck with this! Style parodies are always a fun challenge!It did shape you! Your writing has the feel of someone who calls on his own experience when figuring things out. You write better in your second language than I do in my first >.<
I have nothing but awe for someone capable of translating a book like that. But if it helps for your project, trying to motivate yourself, here's what to remember - whether it's more or less interesting that you know how something happens, you're choosing which words people will read. They won't be reading the author's words, they'll be reading YOUR words, and you don't have to worry about writing yourself into a corner. The plot's already there.
Whenever I've had to translate things (usually with Latin), I don't think of it as writing, I think of it like telling a joke. You already know how the joke ends, and you're still building to it. Nothing in the joke should surprise you as you're telling it. The goal is to choose a bon mot, to make every word crystal clear to the audience, so they laugh. We all have at least one joke that we have rehearsed in our heads, like choreography; that we've carefully figured out which way is the funnier way to phrase it! And when the time comes to tell it, you can tell it vividly and clearly, without tripping over the words or confusing the audience. That's a better way to approach a translation than to think of it like writing a novel.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/c.....onally_simple/ Here's every terrible and contradictory tip people have been given about writing, collected into one place. I like these, because seeing all the advice next to each other, you can decide which one applies more to your work! You don't get that when everybody gives you their own advice one piece at a time.
Kurt Vonnegut's "No Bullshit" helped me so much, though... I've altered several scripts to fit those rules. It works even better for film than for books!
There was a series of children's books over here in the 1930s or whatever, about a boy inventor named Tom Swift. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty Every single verb was followed by an adverb. They didn't "run," they "ran swiftly." They didn't "say," they "said breathlessly." Every single damn sentence. There's a whole genre of jokes making fun of those sentences... Five minutes with one of those books will convince you of the need for good writing!
Really, the best writing advice is to put in whatever you're leaving out, and to remove whatever you're adding in! When you do that, you can tell what you're missing and what you need to add. As it is with art, so it is with writing. Don't avoid anything.
You'll know it's good (this is why Rukis' writing astonishes me, coming from such an inexperienced author) when your inner voice will want to perform it. You and her came from opposite directions - you've written and are learning to draw, she's drawn and is learning to write. But there's that theory that once you learn one thing well enough to master it, you can master anything, because you understand the journey to the top.
Pretentious garbage is fun, but it's not my taste. But I really, really love those books, except when they take themselves so seriously they don't bother to explain their postmodernisms. What's the use of making a gorgeous book, and displaying it on a shelf too high for someone to read? That's my problem with postmodernism - more so than the quality of the writing is the inaccessibility.
Well, they also... someone once said there are six parts to the "Canadian Identity." There's the influence of British culture on everything, there's the tension between French and English speakers, there's the long-ass winters that force people to huddle together to survive, there's the theme of "survival" in a country so damned big, there's the multi-culturalism in the cities (everybody in Canada lives in the big cities; 60% of the population of Manitoba is in Winnipeg, and 25% of the entire damned country lives in the "Golden Horseshoe"), and most importantly, the fact that they're glued to the U.S. The geography and climate mean everybody lives as far south as they can, right next to the border.
One thing about Canada is that the fashions and the media are five years behind America. The government spends untold amounts of money imposing quotas on American media, so they're never on the cutting edge! Everything in Canada is defined by negation. "All I know is that I'm not an American. Whatever that means. I don't really know what I am." It's a terrible situation for a country to be in, and I find it endlessly fascinating.
(Yes, quotas. The TV stations and the radio, at least 40% of the content has to be Canadian. My dad grew up in Detroit, right next to the Canadian border, and used to listen to Canadian radio stations. The drop in quality from the American stuff (where they had their pick of the best songs) to the Canadian stuff - simple math! If the country with 60% of the programming has 10 times as many people creating the content, then... if 60% comes from 1000 people and 40% comes from 100 people, then the former, you only need to show the 6% absolute best of the former, but the top 40% of the latter. So there was a LOT more shitty music being played simply because it was Canadian. What a situation for a country to be in, forced to play shitty music so they wouldn't be overwhelmed by our relative glory, like Semele and Jupiter)
Thanks for all the links, I collected some pics for reference and inspiration I knew you would be a goldmine of knowledge on that subject matter.
And thanks for your appreciative words about my writing! I guess years of inner soliloquying has shaped my tools for language without me realizing it in the process XD And also Shakespeare, can’t forget to give him credit. There is so much good literature, but nothing trains the inner ear like listening to the Bard, I believe.
That’s also a good tip about writing a translation with the mindset of setting up a joke. Of course the joke teller does know how it end, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to tell it, but he still has to sell the build-up, instead of droning along. That one Vonnegut-tip of ‘starting as close to the end as possible’ I’ve heard before, and it makes sense. I understand it as leaving out stuff that is just bulk, like prologues- they are the most pointless thing in literature history, at least I never read one worth a damn. I, too, believe that my years of writing are helping me now with the process of learning to draw. Although these art forms are so different, the basic process of acquiring the skills is similar, like you said. And I wish for Rukis to reach the level in writing I’m personally aiming for in drawing
I personally see the issue with the inaccessibility of postmodernism that way: when in the past writers tried to make their unique way of seeing the world accessible to everyone who would invest him or herself in the text, many postmodern writers simply encapsulate their views in a way that only similar mindsets can access. I blame that on the shift in families: almost everyone in the 19th century and before grew up in large families, while the latter half of the 20th century introduced more isolated and smaller families. Surely just part of the issue and the societal shifts in general, but that introspection that comes close to literary autism, where an outsider can’t get insight unless he mimics the writer’s mindset all too much, has one of its roots there, I feel.
That sounds indeed like a tragic fate, to be Canada! There is a quota on music from the own country here in Austria too, but only on state program radio, not on private stations. And that means…you guessed it, shitty music XD Although that depends really on taste, to remain fair. You can google ‘Austropop’ and see, that is, hear for yourself, of course. I wonder how it will sound to you, it being in my regard a mixture of 60s music (the era it was born), a bit country and other influences. But ultimately, I wonder why the US hasn't annexed Canada already; that war would last a day, maybe, and the Canadians could finally be relieved from their inferiority complex XD
And thanks for your appreciative words about my writing! I guess years of inner soliloquying has shaped my tools for language without me realizing it in the process XD And also Shakespeare, can’t forget to give him credit. There is so much good literature, but nothing trains the inner ear like listening to the Bard, I believe.
That’s also a good tip about writing a translation with the mindset of setting up a joke. Of course the joke teller does know how it end, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to tell it, but he still has to sell the build-up, instead of droning along. That one Vonnegut-tip of ‘starting as close to the end as possible’ I’ve heard before, and it makes sense. I understand it as leaving out stuff that is just bulk, like prologues- they are the most pointless thing in literature history, at least I never read one worth a damn. I, too, believe that my years of writing are helping me now with the process of learning to draw. Although these art forms are so different, the basic process of acquiring the skills is similar, like you said. And I wish for Rukis to reach the level in writing I’m personally aiming for in drawing
I personally see the issue with the inaccessibility of postmodernism that way: when in the past writers tried to make their unique way of seeing the world accessible to everyone who would invest him or herself in the text, many postmodern writers simply encapsulate their views in a way that only similar mindsets can access. I blame that on the shift in families: almost everyone in the 19th century and before grew up in large families, while the latter half of the 20th century introduced more isolated and smaller families. Surely just part of the issue and the societal shifts in general, but that introspection that comes close to literary autism, where an outsider can’t get insight unless he mimics the writer’s mindset all too much, has one of its roots there, I feel.
That sounds indeed like a tragic fate, to be Canada! There is a quota on music from the own country here in Austria too, but only on state program radio, not on private stations. And that means…you guessed it, shitty music XD Although that depends really on taste, to remain fair. You can google ‘Austropop’ and see, that is, hear for yourself, of course. I wonder how it will sound to you, it being in my regard a mixture of 60s music (the era it was born), a bit country and other influences. But ultimately, I wonder why the US hasn't annexed Canada already; that war would last a day, maybe, and the Canadians could finally be relieved from their inferiority complex XD
Hehe, my father was a massive Tex Avery fan... owned the John Canemaker book, the first DVDs he bought were those cartoons... and I have a near-encyclopedia memory of some of those shorts. I still say the best introduction to any cartoon, ever, was http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3.....all-squirr_fun . "You wouldn't have liked that story anyway."
http://chrisoatley.com/gustav-klimt-drawings/ Have some Klimt, while I have the link!
Shakespeare is one of my favorite authors in any language - he's so abstract! He played with his language until it rolled off the tongue, inventing words that didn't exist yet. Native english speakers have trouble with him all the time; but he proves that you can understand someone without understanding the language perfectly. It's like watching a double jointed ballet dancer; they can move however they need to! (I'm talking to a
Yeah, good point! Any prologue less laconic than "Off the Beaten Path" - that isn't really a prologue, it's the first chapter. A prologue, explaining the trade routes of the Anukshen and hinting at a great evil on the horizon and the killer that strikes without warning and Manifest Destiny - (snores) Who needs that? She has an intuitive grasp of how to write, if she hasn't been writing on her own time for years. Blows me away. And even "Heretic," you can see her skills grow from chapter to chapter, just out of sheer practice.
They shouldn't be surprised at what happens, they feel as offended as the characters. They should be astonished at the way it happened. "Len'sal. It came back. FFFFFFFFF-"
It raises a question of just how much can be shared. How much of our thought processes can be translated into universal language, and how much is lost? You're an author, you can see the appeal of just writing whatever comes to mind, esoteric or not. Perhaps the author believes that you can't get insight just by reading and not becoming.
That's an interesting theory! It also explains why white people own so many pets. Smaller extended families. I love theories like this...
Austropop... eeeeehhhh. Most pop music just sounds synthetic to me. I find it funny that Germany and Austria have the same musical issue Canada has - your rock music has so many synthesizers and your singers sound like comedy parodies of themselves in that they don't know when to let go of the note.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red Until 1974, we did in fact have a plan in place to pre-emptively invade Canada. We could totally do it, we have more soldiers than they have people by some estimates - and the legendary Canadian Politeness. And in the War of 1812, we did in fact try to annex Canada. But no American really knows about it. In Canada, though, the war of 1812 is common knowledge and national pride, and they still haven't forgotten about it. XD
Canada doesn't want to be annexed, we already culturally annexed them. They define themselves in opposition to us. Being absorbed into us would absolutely break them. Too cruel, man.
http://chrisoatley.com/gustav-klimt-drawings/ Have some Klimt, while I have the link!
Shakespeare is one of my favorite authors in any language - he's so abstract! He played with his language until it rolled off the tongue, inventing words that didn't exist yet. Native english speakers have trouble with him all the time; but he proves that you can understand someone without understanding the language perfectly. It's like watching a double jointed ballet dancer; they can move however they need to! (I'm talking to a
Yeah, good point! Any prologue less laconic than "Off the Beaten Path" - that isn't really a prologue, it's the first chapter. A prologue, explaining the trade routes of the Anukshen and hinting at a great evil on the horizon and the killer that strikes without warning and Manifest Destiny - (snores) Who needs that? She has an intuitive grasp of how to write, if she hasn't been writing on her own time for years. Blows me away. And even "Heretic," you can see her skills grow from chapter to chapter, just out of sheer practice.
They shouldn't be surprised at what happens, they feel as offended as the characters. They should be astonished at the way it happened. "Len'sal. It came back. FFFFFFFFF-"
It raises a question of just how much can be shared. How much of our thought processes can be translated into universal language, and how much is lost? You're an author, you can see the appeal of just writing whatever comes to mind, esoteric or not. Perhaps the author believes that you can't get insight just by reading and not becoming.
That's an interesting theory! It also explains why white people own so many pets. Smaller extended families. I love theories like this...
Austropop... eeeeehhhh. Most pop music just sounds synthetic to me. I find it funny that Germany and Austria have the same musical issue Canada has - your rock music has so many synthesizers and your singers sound like comedy parodies of themselves in that they don't know when to let go of the note.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red Until 1974, we did in fact have a plan in place to pre-emptively invade Canada. We could totally do it, we have more soldiers than they have people by some estimates - and the legendary Canadian Politeness. And in the War of 1812, we did in fact try to annex Canada. But no American really knows about it. In Canada, though, the war of 1812 is common knowledge and national pride, and they still haven't forgotten about it. XD
Canada doesn't want to be annexed, we already culturally annexed them. They define themselves in opposition to us. Being absorbed into us would absolutely break them. Too cruel, man.
Klimt, yes...my sister used to collect remakes of his paintings, amongst many other Jugendstil-items. Like a brass chandelier that weighs 100 pounds I have a vague connection to another of our famous and notorious artists: one of my first jobs was in the town where Egon Schiele was in jail for getting his fingers on VERY young girls. He did not just paint them...
I found it interesting to what kind of writers I was able to connect. From many of the 19th century, as well as Durante Alighieri with his Commedia. So much time, so much cultural difference...although one could argue that the last hundred years have created more gaps between the cultures than all the centuries before, despite the communication possibilities we have- or maybe because of that? At least it made us more aware of differences, I guess. But if I can't connect to a writer that still lives, than that probably means...that all the crap from the past I wouldn't be able to connect with as well is forgotten and buried, and I've only read the rest XD That will happen to many winners of the Nobel-price raffle in literature, I have the feeling
Austro-pop is such a pathetic attempt to mimic the music revolution that happened in the 60s and 70s elsewhere, and wouldn't I have grown up with it blaring out of the radio all the time, I wouldn't be able to stand it a single second. Falco is kinda cool, although, and he was the only Austrian artist to ever be #1 on the US charts, so one thing to be proud of XD He also might've been the first white rapper, long before Eminem.
I found it interesting to what kind of writers I was able to connect. From many of the 19th century, as well as Durante Alighieri with his Commedia. So much time, so much cultural difference...although one could argue that the last hundred years have created more gaps between the cultures than all the centuries before, despite the communication possibilities we have- or maybe because of that? At least it made us more aware of differences, I guess. But if I can't connect to a writer that still lives, than that probably means...that all the crap from the past I wouldn't be able to connect with as well is forgotten and buried, and I've only read the rest XD That will happen to many winners of the Nobel-price raffle in literature, I have the feeling
Austro-pop is such a pathetic attempt to mimic the music revolution that happened in the 60s and 70s elsewhere, and wouldn't I have grown up with it blaring out of the radio all the time, I wouldn't be able to stand it a single second. Falco is kinda cool, although, and he was the only Austrian artist to ever be #1 on the US charts, so one thing to be proud of XD He also might've been the first white rapper, long before Eminem.
I think I found a way how to digitize my drawings. Artweaver gives me access to the histogram of the pic, kinda like PS, and let's me arrange the darker and lighter values on it separately. It comes now really close to the original, compared to before, and I think my last pic http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13568668/ did pretty well. Other than screwing up the perspective and also forgetting the tail (I like to believe in a furry world even beach chairs have holes for the tail to drop through XD), I'm satisfied with how it shows up on the screen.
BTW, the current request I'm working on is a ref sheet for a user of a fox, with the twist it being in the style of Tex Avery cartoons of the 40s. That sounds like a project for you, but the way it is it is I who will flex his artistic muscles with this to me completely unusual style. I'm curious what you will have to say about the result.
Having a career as a translator was also suggested to me by another friend. Who knows, maybe...I'm already in the process of translating a text-heavy board game for a Californian friend to market it to Germany. And I feel honored you took a look at my novel! I had a phase between 2006 and 2011 where I wrote, all in all, close to 2 million words of prose. Even though it never made me the successful writer I dreamed of becoming, I don't want to miss a day of it, and it definitely shaped me, perhaps more than reading did.
It wasn't my intention to dis translators, believe me I have highest respect for them, and translating a novel per week? That is insane. My current project shows me that translating is just as slow for me as writing it in the first place was. Actually, it's like writing it all over again, only that it's less interesting since I know now exactly what happens. The thrill of writing a 130.000 word novel and steering the characters all the way to the end is like taking drugs. When 'simply' translating it, it is all the work with much less of the fun. But I have set my mind on it, and also promised it to a friend. It will also improve my English, I believe.
Oh boy, I have heard so much advice on writing, like, for example, to NEVER use anything but 'said' in dialogue, from a very famous writer, can't remember who it was. I also heard advice of using more verbs, using less adjectives, using no adjectives if possible, using no adverbs, using a lot of adverbs...Ultimately I learned from all that advice to not worry about any writing advice, and instead reading good books for joy, and also for the hope some of the skill behind it may rub off on me over time
And that caricature on tumblr is funny indeed XD What the postmodern-bracket is missing in my opinion is a panel that says 'writing a lot of pretentious garbage', but you just need to look up 'a readers manifesto' to see my opinion on that kind of literature
And no wonder Canadians mope around in novels all the time, they have to live with the US as their only neighbor XD
(sorry )
BTW, the current request I'm working on is a ref sheet for a user of a fox, with the twist it being in the style of Tex Avery cartoons of the 40s. That sounds like a project for you, but the way it is it is I who will flex his artistic muscles with this to me completely unusual style. I'm curious what you will have to say about the result.
Having a career as a translator was also suggested to me by another friend. Who knows, maybe...I'm already in the process of translating a text-heavy board game for a Californian friend to market it to Germany. And I feel honored you took a look at my novel! I had a phase between 2006 and 2011 where I wrote, all in all, close to 2 million words of prose. Even though it never made me the successful writer I dreamed of becoming, I don't want to miss a day of it, and it definitely shaped me, perhaps more than reading did.
It wasn't my intention to dis translators, believe me I have highest respect for them, and translating a novel per week? That is insane. My current project shows me that translating is just as slow for me as writing it in the first place was. Actually, it's like writing it all over again, only that it's less interesting since I know now exactly what happens. The thrill of writing a 130.000 word novel and steering the characters all the way to the end is like taking drugs. When 'simply' translating it, it is all the work with much less of the fun. But I have set my mind on it, and also promised it to a friend. It will also improve my English, I believe.
Oh boy, I have heard so much advice on writing, like, for example, to NEVER use anything but 'said' in dialogue, from a very famous writer, can't remember who it was. I also heard advice of using more verbs, using less adjectives, using no adjectives if possible, using no adverbs, using a lot of adverbs...Ultimately I learned from all that advice to not worry about any writing advice, and instead reading good books for joy, and also for the hope some of the skill behind it may rub off on me over time
And that caricature on tumblr is funny indeed XD What the postmodern-bracket is missing in my opinion is a panel that says 'writing a lot of pretentious garbage', but you just need to look up 'a readers manifesto' to see my opinion on that kind of literature
And no wonder Canadians mope around in novels all the time, they have to live with the US as their only neighbor XD
(sorry )
Not sure where Klimt came into that conversation, but I adore Jugendstil stuff, Art Noveau, all of that. But dear god, collecting sculpture, that's where you earn my severe respect.
Frankly, who was surprised? Look at his drawings. He just... zooms in on the vagina and paints the girl around it. That is a bit of history, the type to rub your chin and say "Hmmmm..." to.
Eh, I'd rather be a star in my lifetime than after it. But yeah, most of those books won't age well. (There are several of those postmodern books that are actual works of genius that you wouldn't be able to do any other way - one of my favorite modern writers is Victor Pelevin, who wrote these cyberpunk postmodern short stories and novels about Boris Yeltsin's Russia.
I'm trying to remember some of his summaries, but samples should suffice - "A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia," the title story is one of the best werewolf stories I've ever read, and the other stories are things like a student who learns to take notes in his sleep and finds out everyone around him is sleepwalking through their life; a restroom cleaner begins reading solipsist novels, and when random shit starts happening to her life, she can't figure out if the novels are causing it; a guy's reflection talks him into suicide; a guy whose job it is to play "Prince of Persia" all day starts projecting himself onto the game... It's not just wanking, the stories capture the flavor of a random world, where the Soviet Lies have collapsed, and everything you discover is true, contradictory or not. It justifies postmodernism...
Oh god, I love the Divine Comedy! It's a rambling work, one long epic, about where humans are placed in the universe, I always found it scarily intriguing. The best analysis I've ever read said "Dante's Hell isn't full of normal people, as the protestants suppose, because it's so easy to be damned. Hell is full of normal people because it's really, really hard to be saved." That sums up the whole book pretty well.
I have that reaction to a lot of European pop music. The British Isles seem to be immune to it; I assume it's because of the language. If their songs are good, they go to America and get big. (ELP didn't tour England for twenty years, didn't need to.) But in Europe, the language limits the scale. Either you can be Abba and write songs in halting, simple second-language english, or you can write in your native language, but have to make it really poppy and simple to appeal to as many people as possible.
First European rapper that I know of, too. ^^"
Frankly, who was surprised? Look at his drawings. He just... zooms in on the vagina and paints the girl around it. That is a bit of history, the type to rub your chin and say "Hmmmm..." to.
Eh, I'd rather be a star in my lifetime than after it. But yeah, most of those books won't age well. (There are several of those postmodern books that are actual works of genius that you wouldn't be able to do any other way - one of my favorite modern writers is Victor Pelevin, who wrote these cyberpunk postmodern short stories and novels about Boris Yeltsin's Russia.
I'm trying to remember some of his summaries, but samples should suffice - "A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia," the title story is one of the best werewolf stories I've ever read, and the other stories are things like a student who learns to take notes in his sleep and finds out everyone around him is sleepwalking through their life; a restroom cleaner begins reading solipsist novels, and when random shit starts happening to her life, she can't figure out if the novels are causing it; a guy's reflection talks him into suicide; a guy whose job it is to play "Prince of Persia" all day starts projecting himself onto the game... It's not just wanking, the stories capture the flavor of a random world, where the Soviet Lies have collapsed, and everything you discover is true, contradictory or not. It justifies postmodernism...
Oh god, I love the Divine Comedy! It's a rambling work, one long epic, about where humans are placed in the universe, I always found it scarily intriguing. The best analysis I've ever read said "Dante's Hell isn't full of normal people, as the protestants suppose, because it's so easy to be damned. Hell is full of normal people because it's really, really hard to be saved." That sums up the whole book pretty well.
I have that reaction to a lot of European pop music. The British Isles seem to be immune to it; I assume it's because of the language. If their songs are good, they go to America and get big. (ELP didn't tour England for twenty years, didn't need to.) But in Europe, the language limits the scale. Either you can be Abba and write songs in halting, simple second-language english, or you can write in your native language, but have to make it really poppy and simple to appeal to as many people as possible.
First European rapper that I know of, too. ^^"
I hit the reply-button yesterday, only to see that FA crapped its pants once again...
You posted a link to Klimt stuff, just look in your comment But as chaotic and 'messy' Schiele's style looks, I find it appealing. Also, I have to admit I centered drawings as well from a certain point, and went on from there XD If it's the center of fascination, why not. The difference is I can't get my fingers on my models, other than him.
I'm not really in touch with contemporary literature, but I really liked the two novels by Benjamin Croshaw. They not only reveal the absurd influences of video game and pop culture on every day life, but also are full of funny that makes one gulp afterwards. If his videos amuse you, his books definitely will.
European pop music has similar issues as Canadian one, I feel. They want to imitate the 'older brother' so bad, they are prone to embarrass themselves. And there are quite a few rapper in the German speaking area, although they are bound to never get attention outside the borders, if just for the language barrier itself, since it's all about the 'rhymes'. Although they aren't different from everything 50cent has ever gurgled up: insecure macho-fuss combined with whiny childhood-workup. That's international amongst lower-class males with anger management issues, I assume. Falco at least had style in his egocentricity, and had a sense of self-irony, something unknown to most of today's pop-divas, male or female, it seems to me.
You posted a link to Klimt stuff, just look in your comment But as chaotic and 'messy' Schiele's style looks, I find it appealing. Also, I have to admit I centered drawings as well from a certain point, and went on from there XD If it's the center of fascination, why not. The difference is I can't get my fingers on my models, other than him.
I'm not really in touch with contemporary literature, but I really liked the two novels by Benjamin Croshaw. They not only reveal the absurd influences of video game and pop culture on every day life, but also are full of funny that makes one gulp afterwards. If his videos amuse you, his books definitely will.
European pop music has similar issues as Canadian one, I feel. They want to imitate the 'older brother' so bad, they are prone to embarrass themselves. And there are quite a few rapper in the German speaking area, although they are bound to never get attention outside the borders, if just for the language barrier itself, since it's all about the 'rhymes'. Although they aren't different from everything 50cent has ever gurgled up: insecure macho-fuss combined with whiny childhood-workup. That's international amongst lower-class males with anger management issues, I assume. Falco at least had style in his egocentricity, and had a sense of self-irony, something unknown to most of today's pop-divas, male or female, it seems to me.
Happens to me, too, no worries ^u^
Oop! XD It's very appealing, so warped and twisted! I love the sheer grunginess in everything he does. But... you know, maybe it's good that you can't get your fingers on your models. They yelp.
Benjamin Croshaw - I'll check him out! Sounds kind of good in that horrifying way a lot of things tend to be these days XD
Yeah, accurate! Embarrassingly desperate... you remember for the rest of the seventies, everyone wanted to be "Abba II."
Men in every country are told they basically are owed sex by all the women of the world... it's ridiculous, and fosters that angry resentment... so insecure it's almost funny...
I miss irony... five years ago over here, hipsters were big, and everything was done for the sake of being 'ironic.' Now, when a singer's being hamfisted (I'm looking at you, Thicke, if this song had been ironic it'd be much less horrible...
My hairdresser just told me yesterday, the way to tell if something is a good opinion or not, is to ask yourself, "would this be better or worse if it had been expressed ironically?"
Oop! XD It's very appealing, so warped and twisted! I love the sheer grunginess in everything he does. But... you know, maybe it's good that you can't get your fingers on your models. They yelp.
Benjamin Croshaw - I'll check him out! Sounds kind of good in that horrifying way a lot of things tend to be these days XD
Yeah, accurate! Embarrassingly desperate... you remember for the rest of the seventies, everyone wanted to be "Abba II."
Men in every country are told they basically are owed sex by all the women of the world... it's ridiculous, and fosters that angry resentment... so insecure it's almost funny...
I miss irony... five years ago over here, hipsters were big, and everything was done for the sake of being 'ironic.' Now, when a singer's being hamfisted (I'm looking at you, Thicke, if this song had been ironic it'd be much less horrible...
My hairdresser just told me yesterday, the way to tell if something is a good opinion or not, is to ask yourself, "would this be better or worse if it had been expressed ironically?"
I admit, I missed that memo where society tells you as a man, women owe you sex. Not that I would've had much use for it, other than discovering I might be bi...or not. But I made that observation too, even though only later, and through the media. What is part of almost every movie or story? The hero gets the girl. Rarely is it the other way around, let alone that the hero saves the world while staying single XD Growing up outside of social circles has its advantages, I guess, if it means such BS has passed me by.
That link you posted only reminds me why it's called 'inter'-net. "Ops, turns out, this video is not available in your country. Fuck you." XD I love it when music labels consider us European subhumans not worthy of their crap. Spares us something, on the other hand, I guess.
'Irony' is indeed an important theme in 'Jam', his second novel. It would be too much to explain, but there is indeed a point where a group of post-apocalyptic survivors wants to kill the protagonists of the story, and say they will do it "ironically". To which the heroes reply "...yeah, but we will still be dead!", "...ironically dead, that is!" It's much funnier in the book than I can describe it, admittedly.
That link you posted only reminds me why it's called 'inter'-net. "Ops, turns out, this video is not available in your country. Fuck you." XD I love it when music labels consider us European subhumans not worthy of their crap. Spares us something, on the other hand, I guess.
'Irony' is indeed an important theme in 'Jam', his second novel. It would be too much to explain, but there is indeed a point where a group of post-apocalyptic survivors wants to kill the protagonists of the story, and say they will do it "ironically". To which the heroes reply "...yeah, but we will still be dead!", "...ironically dead, that is!" It's much funnier in the book than I can describe it, admittedly.
Tell me how many movies you've seen where the hero just "gets" the girl at the end of the film? The filmmakers use it as a symbol that he's succeeded. The problem is, everyone thinks of themselves as the hero; and when the girl doesn't throw herself at him, he thinks he's "lost" the movie and it's all tragic and angry. It's kinda good that you missed out on all that crap. ^u^
It did spare you something, that was "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, the super-popular song over here of last summer, http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/robi.....rredlines.html which isn't as bad as a lot of other songs I've heard but still very very rapey the way he sings it. If you ever look it up, don't say I didn't warn you. Boils down to "I know you want me to have sex with you, but you're a 'good girl.' Damn, I hate these moments when you say "no" but you mean "yes"." (shudders)
That's perfect! Sounds like Douglas Adams, almost.
I swear I can probably type "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" verbatim by now. Not specifically, of course...
"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very unhappy and is widely regarded as a bad move.
In the universe there existed a small blue and green planet populated by beings mind-bogglingly slow that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
So they all of them lived sad and unhappy lives, even the ones with digital watches."
That series was like proto po-mo. Or, you can poo-poo the whole po-mo muumuu and go read Hemingway or something xD
It did spare you something, that was "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, the super-popular song over here of last summer, http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/robi.....rredlines.html which isn't as bad as a lot of other songs I've heard but still very very rapey the way he sings it. If you ever look it up, don't say I didn't warn you. Boils down to "I know you want me to have sex with you, but you're a 'good girl.' Damn, I hate these moments when you say "no" but you mean "yes"." (shudders)
That's perfect! Sounds like Douglas Adams, almost.
I swear I can probably type "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" verbatim by now. Not specifically, of course...
"In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very unhappy and is widely regarded as a bad move.
In the universe there existed a small blue and green planet populated by beings mind-bogglingly slow that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
So they all of them lived sad and unhappy lives, even the ones with digital watches."
That series was like proto po-mo. Or, you can poo-poo the whole po-mo muumuu and go read Hemingway or something xD
There are many interesting elements on Campbell's hero-journey which can be used for any kind of story (and they usually are), but I don't remember the part where it says "the male hero gets a Megan Fox-like love interest" XD I find villains and antagonists therefore often more interesting, as they can have similar journeys like the hero, although rarely, if ever, get a love interest. The most they get is to kidnap the hero's love-interest, without most plots would never start. Too bad villains are often even more flat than the hero, when they have by their nature at least as much, if not more, potential for character development.
Those song lyrics sound repulsive to me as well, I admit. I guess it does reflect the stance of many men that sexual favors by women are their birthright. I just read about new rape-incidents in India, and I feel like barfing. I don't want to know of all the things that don't make it into the media.
I have to admit, I never read anything by Douglas Adams. I guess I'm more a Terry Pratchett guy. But both surely had their influences on Croshaw, and the British humor is generally very peculiar. I guess rain and cold weather most of the year does have people take resort in their sense of humor. And I totally don't get the reference at the end of your comment
Those song lyrics sound repulsive to me as well, I admit. I guess it does reflect the stance of many men that sexual favors by women are their birthright. I just read about new rape-incidents in India, and I feel like barfing. I don't want to know of all the things that don't make it into the media.
I have to admit, I never read anything by Douglas Adams. I guess I'm more a Terry Pratchett guy. But both surely had their influences on Croshaw, and the British humor is generally very peculiar. I guess rain and cold weather most of the year does have people take resort in their sense of humor. And I totally don't get the reference at the end of your comment
The girlfriend is a side character, the way to symbolize "Master of two worlds." He couldn't get the girl at the beginning of the monomyth, now that he's achieved his goals he totally can. Ah, well, it's better than that whole "This woman wants me to love her, but I'll never achieve my goals and stay pure with this woman in love with me so much" trope in the middle. I had a concept of a gay character doing the monomyth, and realized exactly how fucked-up that part is (I made it a heroin addiction, if you were wondering).
Exactly! Good is boring, evil has layers. I personally love this new trend, like "Wicked" or "Maleficent," where the villain is given a character arc... And kudos to the villain never having a love interest, it's ace representation!
But that misses the whole point of villains: to look like they can be defeated. http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-popul.....humanity-back/ Villains need to look like this inhuman force; they do this by taking away things like love interests that the audience can identify with, and generally monologue and listen to opera and do all sorts of things http://www.cracked.com/article_1918.....ht-guy_p2.html that the audience presumably can't identify with.
Of course, you're familiar with queercoding - villains are often made to look really really gay, so the straight guys in the audience can think they're evil. Disney in particular is terrible at this... Andreas Deja (who is gay and German, two things that both look evil to Americans, because Jesus and Nazis, respectively) was given three fabulously gay villains in a row, and would have made a fourth (Hades) if he hadn't put his foot down to stop being typecast, and demanded to draw the cute, muscley male lead. You may notice that Gaston, they tried to downplay the heterosexuality of his story arc as much as possible (he ignores a flock of groupies, pursues a girl as a hunting trophy/beard, covered in hair, uses antlers in all of his decorating); wheras Hercules, once he grows up, every five minutes they shove him next to the female lead and try to make him look bashful, it's a rather obvious "See? He's totally straight. He's still the hero." attempt.
I'm glad it's repulsive, otherwise I'd be worried. I don't recommend you go on tumblr for these things, but news stories like... IDK, Maren Sanchez. High school student fatally stabs girl for turning down his prom invitation, knowing full well she had a boyfriend. "Oh, he's just mentally ill, those wackos all do that." "This is just a crime of passion." Okay, wiseass, tell me how I'm supposed to be reassured, knowing this is all it takes to provoke straight boys into murderous rage is to not have sex with them? (shivers)
Terry Pratchett? (high fives) One of my favorite senses of humor ever. “If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.” And the best description of Southern food ever, "the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone." I should get that new book of his, I'm way behind on Discworld.
It'd explain why 90% of America's comedians come from Canada. Britain never had a french revolution and was a very classist society, humor was your weapon, making fun of everyone else. Everyone knew how the lower and upper classes talked, and verbally made fun of them... British humor is a strange and impossible-to-define beast, like Jewish humor is over here. Canada inherited that from Britain, but also has the same long winters where there's nothing to do but go to the mall or tell jokes. X3
Sorry, not a reference, just an inside joke about the stupidity of postmodernism. So don't worry about it. ^^"
Exactly! Good is boring, evil has layers. I personally love this new trend, like "Wicked" or "Maleficent," where the villain is given a character arc... And kudos to the villain never having a love interest, it's ace representation!
But that misses the whole point of villains: to look like they can be defeated. http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-popul.....humanity-back/ Villains need to look like this inhuman force; they do this by taking away things like love interests that the audience can identify with, and generally monologue and listen to opera and do all sorts of things http://www.cracked.com/article_1918.....ht-guy_p2.html that the audience presumably can't identify with.
Of course, you're familiar with queercoding - villains are often made to look really really gay, so the straight guys in the audience can think they're evil. Disney in particular is terrible at this... Andreas Deja (who is gay and German, two things that both look evil to Americans, because Jesus and Nazis, respectively) was given three fabulously gay villains in a row, and would have made a fourth (Hades) if he hadn't put his foot down to stop being typecast, and demanded to draw the cute, muscley male lead. You may notice that Gaston, they tried to downplay the heterosexuality of his story arc as much as possible (he ignores a flock of groupies, pursues a girl as a hunting trophy/beard, covered in hair, uses antlers in all of his decorating); wheras Hercules, once he grows up, every five minutes they shove him next to the female lead and try to make him look bashful, it's a rather obvious "See? He's totally straight. He's still the hero." attempt.
I'm glad it's repulsive, otherwise I'd be worried. I don't recommend you go on tumblr for these things, but news stories like... IDK, Maren Sanchez. High school student fatally stabs girl for turning down his prom invitation, knowing full well she had a boyfriend. "Oh, he's just mentally ill, those wackos all do that." "This is just a crime of passion." Okay, wiseass, tell me how I'm supposed to be reassured, knowing this is all it takes to provoke straight boys into murderous rage is to not have sex with them? (shivers)
Terry Pratchett? (high fives) One of my favorite senses of humor ever. “If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.” And the best description of Southern food ever, "the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone." I should get that new book of his, I'm way behind on Discworld.
It'd explain why 90% of America's comedians come from Canada. Britain never had a french revolution and was a very classist society, humor was your weapon, making fun of everyone else. Everyone knew how the lower and upper classes talked, and verbally made fun of them... British humor is a strange and impossible-to-define beast, like Jewish humor is over here. Canada inherited that from Britain, but also has the same long winters where there's nothing to do but go to the mall or tell jokes. X3
Sorry, not a reference, just an inside joke about the stupidity of postmodernism. So don't worry about it. ^^"
Yep, all those movie tropes...weren't they so common, I would still be aggravated by them (or maybe I should be even more so, because of that). And if German AND gay means evil, what would being Austrian AND gay even mean XD I better not mention that when passing border control next time I go to the US, they might put me on the watch list (or deny me services, since I will land in AZ this October. Beware of ze gay Austrians )
And Gaston should've totally married potato nose, who basically worshiped him and would've been happy to suck his dick. The funny thing is, when I clicked on that link to cracked.com there was an ad for what appeared to be a Christian website at the end of the article. Seemed odd, and so I clicked on it as well to find out if cracked.com has allowed for bigots to advertise on their page (in case they have any say on that at all). I went for the 'sexuality' tab and was amused to read the head line "god loves you, no matter if gay, lesbian, transsexual, or whatever!" I was waiting for the punchline along the likes of "...but you should still stop being gay!", but, surprisingly, there was none. Just overly-nice understanding, kinda like Mormons who are pro-LGBT.
The great joke was of course that somewhere else on that site they said "you should totally wait till marriage with sex!", to which one could reply "what if same-sex marriage isn't allowed in my country, ha?" And the best argument they had for avoiding sex before marriage was the example of a young man who said "when I had sex with a girl (without being married to her), I lost respect for her after that, and I couldn't even do a thing about it. I guess I'm hard-wired that way" You, young man, should be hard-slapped, and with you the people who make such websites
And that school incident is sad indeed. I can't think of a solution for this as well, besides metal detectors and what-not. It's only a minority, but they put a bad light on young straight males indeed. Funny in a bitter way how that entire article sounds so apologetic for the guy. Oh, and did you see the pop-up in the lower right corner with short head lines? In my case it was "Elder Bush celebrates 90th birthday with parachute jump", but what was missing was the caption "...sadly his parachute worked" XD
"...a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone" That sounds like Pratchett. It's been a while since I read one of his books, I may change that. There are new books published? I thought I heard he had stopped writing due to illness, was I misinformed? I would be glad to hear so.
And Gaston should've totally married potato nose, who basically worshiped him and would've been happy to suck his dick. The funny thing is, when I clicked on that link to cracked.com there was an ad for what appeared to be a Christian website at the end of the article. Seemed odd, and so I clicked on it as well to find out if cracked.com has allowed for bigots to advertise on their page (in case they have any say on that at all). I went for the 'sexuality' tab and was amused to read the head line "god loves you, no matter if gay, lesbian, transsexual, or whatever!" I was waiting for the punchline along the likes of "...but you should still stop being gay!", but, surprisingly, there was none. Just overly-nice understanding, kinda like Mormons who are pro-LGBT.
The great joke was of course that somewhere else on that site they said "you should totally wait till marriage with sex!", to which one could reply "what if same-sex marriage isn't allowed in my country, ha?" And the best argument they had for avoiding sex before marriage was the example of a young man who said "when I had sex with a girl (without being married to her), I lost respect for her after that, and I couldn't even do a thing about it. I guess I'm hard-wired that way" You, young man, should be hard-slapped, and with you the people who make such websites
And that school incident is sad indeed. I can't think of a solution for this as well, besides metal detectors and what-not. It's only a minority, but they put a bad light on young straight males indeed. Funny in a bitter way how that entire article sounds so apologetic for the guy. Oh, and did you see the pop-up in the lower right corner with short head lines? In my case it was "Elder Bush celebrates 90th birthday with parachute jump", but what was missing was the caption "...sadly his parachute worked" XD
"...a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone" That sounds like Pratchett. It's been a while since I read one of his books, I may change that. There are new books published? I thought I heard he had stopped writing due to illness, was I misinformed? I would be glad to hear so.
I know you've said you worry about the Hitler thing, but you're fine. Most Americans don't know this is a country outside of this melody, a couple of references to Vienna, all your good and bad stereotypes are absorbed into your more pushy neighbor to the north. So "Austria" has no emotional baggage for us, except maybe for "The Sound of Music."
(Hell, we don't even know what you look like. This cartoon always kills me, just that they took the "Blue Danube" and proceeded to surround it with American plant species, American trees, American flowers, kitschy cherubs, and giant Rocky Mountain vistas and mesas. And the waterfall. It looks cool, but it's more "Colorado" than anything in Europe. When you see the Grand Canyon you'll see what I mean.)
Hell, last week my sister guessed "Arnold Schwartzenegger" during a quiz game of German-born Politicians...
As long as you're white, and not Muslim, you're probably safe around here. Gay, at least they can't see that. (I can't find the gif from "West Side Story" of "Life is all right in America if you're a white in America!" But imagine I posted it X3)
In my experiences, love affairs with people who worship the ground you walk on and compliment you at every opportunity, they never end well.
There's a lot of American churches that are surprisingly cool with gays, like the one my parents belong to. It's the evangelical groups that are the bigots, but not every branch of Christianity is along those lines. It's gotten so much better than it used to be (I remember a time when we were afraid that asking for marriage rights would alienate literally everyone, to say nothing of the mid-eighties over here, when there were proposals under the cover of "Aids Quarantine" to put us into concentration camps).
Better than the sex ed classes that compare non-virgins to chewed gum... http://terriblesexeducation.tumblr.com/ http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1619#comic Yeah, boy, fuck you. That's your problem if sex makes you lose respect for someone. It's meat slapping against meat, morality doesn't come into it until you've put romance and/or bond into it. Whenever you give them the case of, "What if earth was invaded by aliens and they banned sex, how would you feel about that?" it shuts them up.
Stricter gun controls? Either way, we've got to figure this out - The stats are - 8 shootings in 2010, 10 in 2011, 14 in 2012, 31 last year, and 31 so far this year, and it's only June. It's an accellerating trend. Part of the solution could be stricter gun controls, greater mental health counseling... either way, we're the only country where this happens as a matter of course, so it's got to be something unique to our culture that we can fix... I keep telling you how soul-dead we are over here, but we'll see if this proves my point... Oh, if only, Georgie, if only.
Oh, he's stopped writing new stuff, not enough time left, but while he's still around before he does the assisted suicide thing, he's using dictation and an assistant to finish up the last few drafts he's half written. So there's a few things left!
(Hell, we don't even know what you look like. This cartoon always kills me, just that they took the "Blue Danube" and proceeded to surround it with American plant species, American trees, American flowers, kitschy cherubs, and giant Rocky Mountain vistas and mesas. And the waterfall. It looks cool, but it's more "Colorado" than anything in Europe. When you see the Grand Canyon you'll see what I mean.)
Hell, last week my sister guessed "Arnold Schwartzenegger" during a quiz game of German-born Politicians...
As long as you're white, and not Muslim, you're probably safe around here. Gay, at least they can't see that. (I can't find the gif from "West Side Story" of "Life is all right in America if you're a white in America!" But imagine I posted it X3)
In my experiences, love affairs with people who worship the ground you walk on and compliment you at every opportunity, they never end well.
There's a lot of American churches that are surprisingly cool with gays, like the one my parents belong to. It's the evangelical groups that are the bigots, but not every branch of Christianity is along those lines. It's gotten so much better than it used to be (I remember a time when we were afraid that asking for marriage rights would alienate literally everyone, to say nothing of the mid-eighties over here, when there were proposals under the cover of "Aids Quarantine" to put us into concentration camps).
Better than the sex ed classes that compare non-virgins to chewed gum... http://terriblesexeducation.tumblr.com/ http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1619#comic Yeah, boy, fuck you. That's your problem if sex makes you lose respect for someone. It's meat slapping against meat, morality doesn't come into it until you've put romance and/or bond into it. Whenever you give them the case of, "What if earth was invaded by aliens and they banned sex, how would you feel about that?" it shuts them up.
Stricter gun controls? Either way, we've got to figure this out - The stats are - 8 shootings in 2010, 10 in 2011, 14 in 2012, 31 last year, and 31 so far this year, and it's only June. It's an accellerating trend. Part of the solution could be stricter gun controls, greater mental health counseling... either way, we're the only country where this happens as a matter of course, so it's got to be something unique to our culture that we can fix... I keep telling you how soul-dead we are over here, but we'll see if this proves my point... Oh, if only, Georgie, if only.
Oh, he's stopped writing new stuff, not enough time left, but while he's still around before he does the assisted suicide thing, he's using dictation and an assistant to finish up the last few drafts he's half written. So there's a few things left!
I was only half serious, I had nothing but positive experiences during my visits in the US, even though you may say people have just put on a facade I had indeed the feeling there are mostly positive associations with my country amongst your people, as most of them told me from when they had visited Austria before. But that cartoon is gloriously cheesy indeed, like how they colored the "blue" Danube blue. The real origin of that title is of course from the Napoleonic war in 1812, when there were so many dead French soldiers that their blue wool coats colored the Danube, according to legend...they couldn't put that in their cartoon, obviously. Other than that, the Danube is not colored any different than most big streams, somewhere between brown and green, mostly brown usually.
That was my point exactly: Gaston being in a gay relationship with worshiping potato-nose would soon create the hell on earth for both of them they deserve, and they would stay in it, knowing that no one else would put up so easily with their attitudes for longer. It would be the same dynamic as it exists in many long-time marriages where the two people hate and despise each other with such passion, they would miss it, would they get divorced.
It's interesting that the guy loses respect for the girl, but did he also lose respect for himself? He was just as much involved in that pre-marriage sex, funny how he omits that. Also makes me think of this and other examples where Christian people argue against porn-addiction, how damaging it is, and how those people, like real drug addicts, always have to increase the dose and get "harder" stuff. I could tell them my porn-habit has stayed stable and vanilla for years, and I'm perfectly fine Having attended school in the late 80s and early 90s here in Austria, there wasn't much sex education for me either. Good thing I wasn't interested in girls, so I couldn't have gotten one pregnant. Not that I had had the opportunity, on the other hand XD
There is a pretty strict gun registry system here in Austria, and in all other European countries I can think of, but not in the US, if I've heard right? Although there are surely differences from state to state, but it has mostly to do with that amendment in your constitution, I guess. We have shootings like this only rarely, although there was one a few months ago, not far from where I live. It was a huntsman, who did poaching as well, and the police was looking for him in that area for two years already, since large game animals disappeared without any of the official huntsman having them claimed.
When they stopped his car, he shot a policeman, and later another first-responder, before he entrenched himself in his house to later commit suicide. His weapons were legal, and he also wasn't suspicious during the mandatory psychological test one has to do when getting a permit to wear loaded firearms here. Not sure what to do about it, either, other than more psychological supervision in schools.
That was my point exactly: Gaston being in a gay relationship with worshiping potato-nose would soon create the hell on earth for both of them they deserve, and they would stay in it, knowing that no one else would put up so easily with their attitudes for longer. It would be the same dynamic as it exists in many long-time marriages where the two people hate and despise each other with such passion, they would miss it, would they get divorced.
It's interesting that the guy loses respect for the girl, but did he also lose respect for himself? He was just as much involved in that pre-marriage sex, funny how he omits that. Also makes me think of this and other examples where Christian people argue against porn-addiction, how damaging it is, and how those people, like real drug addicts, always have to increase the dose and get "harder" stuff. I could tell them my porn-habit has stayed stable and vanilla for years, and I'm perfectly fine Having attended school in the late 80s and early 90s here in Austria, there wasn't much sex education for me either. Good thing I wasn't interested in girls, so I couldn't have gotten one pregnant. Not that I had had the opportunity, on the other hand XD
There is a pretty strict gun registry system here in Austria, and in all other European countries I can think of, but not in the US, if I've heard right? Although there are surely differences from state to state, but it has mostly to do with that amendment in your constitution, I guess. We have shootings like this only rarely, although there was one a few months ago, not far from where I live. It was a huntsman, who did poaching as well, and the police was looking for him in that area for two years already, since large game animals disappeared without any of the official huntsman having them claimed.
When they stopped his car, he shot a policeman, and later another first-responder, before he entrenched himself in his house to later commit suicide. His weapons were legal, and he also wasn't suspicious during the mandatory psychological test one has to do when getting a permit to wear loaded firearms here. Not sure what to do about it, either, other than more psychological supervision in schools.
We're not the Soviet Union, but we know how to be polite. Our facade is inside ourselves, not outside (and most of us aren't even aware of it). Any positive experiences you've had, those experiences were really there and they were as great as you remember them <3 We don't learn Austrian stereotypes, so our first encounter is often with the country itself and all you fine people <3 Compare that to France. The American tourists in Austria tend to be learned enough to know where Austria IS. But France gets all the fat loud southerners who expect to be constantly catered to, and try to pay in American dollars,
Of course they couldn't! But it was the 1930s, and everybody was (after Disney) rushing to cram in as many baby animals and cherubs and technicolor flowers as the screens could physically hold! XD The waterfall just cracks me up, because it's so obviously American... I live within biking distance of a river that was at one point so polluted, they decided it was simpler to just make the river flow backwards than clean up the pollution. AMERICA. And because of that, every year we dye the river green... just like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2tkTB65aog
They already have an S&M relationship, there's no need for either of them to take it to the next level XD It's good for you to have something to hate. Hate gets us high.
He omits it because he's a guy, and he is made bigger by claiming virginities. It's called a double standard. Like the bumper sticker says - "If she's 'dirty' after you touch her, take a good look at your hands."
You live with your parents and have your walls covered in porn, you're not going to convince them that you're a model Christian citizen X3 Some people just naturally don't dive into porn - but there are alcoholics and there are recurring drinkers. Saying that one of them doesn't exist isn't fair, nor is banning the cause of and solution to their problems - the key is to get help for them and teach kids not to be fucking idiots with the products.
That's a relief your straight friends didn't have XD My sex ed was a slideshow of STDs and a description of straight sex, that was about it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/.....n_5111835.html See if these scare you...
Yeah, there's a gun registry (that was set up in the 1970s, when it was Black Panthers who had the guns), but everybody claims "second amendment." IF there's one thing we can agree on is that Cracked has the truth.
But mull on that guy who recalls his experience: "I was 7 when I shot a gun for the first time, and probably 17 before I realized guns were a big deal in national politics. Some of that comes from growing up in Texas. Guns aren't controversial in this part of the South: I once bought a pistol and three old Soviet rifles from a dude in a parking lot for $300." Like a farmer's market!
And you can't prevent somebody from snapping inside - we can at least keep them from buying the gun AFTER they've gone nuts. But seriously? Only three victims, three months ago, and that's the biggest news story? That's so interesting to think about! I'm in a city with 100,000 gang members to 12,000 cops, and you get six murders in an average weekend. (But they're all black, so no one cares over here.) It's only when a little kid, or a white guy, gets caught in the crossfires, that people notice it. http://www.cracked.com/article_2039.....t-guns_p4.html This, too, should help explain it. I don't have a clear answer to how to fix this, ingrained into us as it is.
Of course they couldn't! But it was the 1930s, and everybody was (after Disney) rushing to cram in as many baby animals and cherubs and technicolor flowers as the screens could physically hold! XD The waterfall just cracks me up, because it's so obviously American... I live within biking distance of a river that was at one point so polluted, they decided it was simpler to just make the river flow backwards than clean up the pollution. AMERICA. And because of that, every year we dye the river green... just like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2tkTB65aog
They already have an S&M relationship, there's no need for either of them to take it to the next level XD It's good for you to have something to hate. Hate gets us high.
He omits it because he's a guy, and he is made bigger by claiming virginities. It's called a double standard. Like the bumper sticker says - "If she's 'dirty' after you touch her, take a good look at your hands."
You live with your parents and have your walls covered in porn, you're not going to convince them that you're a model Christian citizen X3 Some people just naturally don't dive into porn - but there are alcoholics and there are recurring drinkers. Saying that one of them doesn't exist isn't fair, nor is banning the cause of and solution to their problems - the key is to get help for them and teach kids not to be fucking idiots with the products.
That's a relief your straight friends didn't have XD My sex ed was a slideshow of STDs and a description of straight sex, that was about it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/.....n_5111835.html See if these scare you...
Yeah, there's a gun registry (that was set up in the 1970s, when it was Black Panthers who had the guns), but everybody claims "second amendment." IF there's one thing we can agree on is that Cracked has the truth.
But mull on that guy who recalls his experience: "I was 7 when I shot a gun for the first time, and probably 17 before I realized guns were a big deal in national politics. Some of that comes from growing up in Texas. Guns aren't controversial in this part of the South: I once bought a pistol and three old Soviet rifles from a dude in a parking lot for $300." Like a farmer's market!
And you can't prevent somebody from snapping inside - we can at least keep them from buying the gun AFTER they've gone nuts. But seriously? Only three victims, three months ago, and that's the biggest news story? That's so interesting to think about! I'm in a city with 100,000 gang members to 12,000 cops, and you get six murders in an average weekend. (But they're all black, so no one cares over here.) It's only when a little kid, or a white guy, gets caught in the crossfires, that people notice it. http://www.cracked.com/article_2039.....t-guns_p4.html This, too, should help explain it. I don't have a clear answer to how to fix this, ingrained into us as it is.
So France is a popular for vacations amongst Americans? Must be because of Jerry Lewis XD
Dyeing the river green, isn’t that something that happens in all American cities with larger Irish populations? I’m pretty sure I saw that with the Hudson in NYC somewhere. At least it’s food color, and not something that came out of the nuclear power plant in Springfield XD
I could say now that god wouldn’t have made animals so sexy if he doesn’t want us to draw porn of them, but whatever XD But seriously, one can have a harmful addiction to about anything. It’s the dose that makes the poison, like Paracelsus once said. And that is scaring me indeed. I heard before that American schools would rather have girls run around with heavy bags around their bellies simulating pregnancy instead of simply telling them how exactly the child gets there in the first place, but this is really bad…how can any teacher how knows about sex (assumedly) teach such garbage? Get they fired if they do otherwise? Thank dog there is the internet for American kids to learn about bees and flowers.
Those articles about gun statistics were an interesting read. According to them, the homicides by guns are going down, but the shootings seem to tell otherwise? Weird. Maybe it’s like you said: a mass shooting with white people as victims AND perpetrators makes it easily into the media, but when gang members of color slaughter each other, no one really cares that much. 100,000 gang members in Chicago? I guess it disperses with several million inhabitants, but still
A fun fact is that some years ago a politician who ran for mayor of Vienna used a certain slogan during the election campaign: “Vienna mustn’t become Chicago!” You know, because of all those gangster movies from the fifties? It took some time until someone pointed out that the then current crime statistics of Chicago were lower than those of aforementioned Vienna. But apparently that has changed? Our capital definitely hasn’t six murders a weekend, not that I’ve heard of.
Dyeing the river green, isn’t that something that happens in all American cities with larger Irish populations? I’m pretty sure I saw that with the Hudson in NYC somewhere. At least it’s food color, and not something that came out of the nuclear power plant in Springfield XD
I could say now that god wouldn’t have made animals so sexy if he doesn’t want us to draw porn of them, but whatever XD But seriously, one can have a harmful addiction to about anything. It’s the dose that makes the poison, like Paracelsus once said. And that is scaring me indeed. I heard before that American schools would rather have girls run around with heavy bags around their bellies simulating pregnancy instead of simply telling them how exactly the child gets there in the first place, but this is really bad…how can any teacher how knows about sex (assumedly) teach such garbage? Get they fired if they do otherwise? Thank dog there is the internet for American kids to learn about bees and flowers.
Those articles about gun statistics were an interesting read. According to them, the homicides by guns are going down, but the shootings seem to tell otherwise? Weird. Maybe it’s like you said: a mass shooting with white people as victims AND perpetrators makes it easily into the media, but when gang members of color slaughter each other, no one really cares that much. 100,000 gang members in Chicago? I guess it disperses with several million inhabitants, but still
A fun fact is that some years ago a politician who ran for mayor of Vienna used a certain slogan during the election campaign: “Vienna mustn’t become Chicago!” You know, because of all those gangster movies from the fifties? It took some time until someone pointed out that the then current crime statistics of Chicago were lower than those of aforementioned Vienna. But apparently that has changed? Our capital definitely hasn’t six murders a weekend, not that I’ve heard of.
The first google search I pull up says that no, in Chicago we're the only ones who do it. After all, dyeing the Chicago River green is easy, because our river doesn't flow into our water supply! The closest thing is a small town in Colorado who joked about doing so. And besides, Houston and New York would be terrible rivers to dye - the Hudson River in New York is too wide, too deep, has too many currents, and too vital for drinking water; the Buffalo Bayou in Houston is a bayou, not a river. There's no nearby mountain, so there is no current, the water just stands there and breeds mosquitoes. xD
Speak for yourself there... I see animals as sexy only insofar as they allegoricize the sexiness of not-giving-a-shit that humans lack. When you give a human those characteristics, in a universe where you can get a job as a sex attendant on a private plane and just... constantly get fucked... that's what appeals to me in some ways.
Do you get high once in a while to relax, or do you have dreadlocks and a Bob Marley poster and weed socks and discuss Karl Marx over pizza? Do you eat candy for a snack, or candy for a meal? Moderation is everything, Buddha and shit.
There's all sorts of American sex ed techniques to maintaining a baby; one assignment they often do is to pair up a boy and a girl and give them a raw egg. For two weeks, they're ordered to carry that egg everywhere they go, and not let any damage befall the egg. Because, of course, if it breaks on day 12, it'll smell like real life baby. XD It's supposed to scare kids into abstinence.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/201.....hools-lookadoo http://jezebel.com/whats-the-weirdest-lie-about-sex-you-learned-in-sex-ed-1466733173 But the horror stories are true... http://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/co....._taught_about/
The states and counties give the funding to the schools (which is why kids in rich neighborhoods get better quality education), it's fucked up - but politicians on the religious right, in the states and counties, vote that schools that don't teach abstinence lose their funding. So the school has to find ways around it. Someone recalls their biology teacher, who would have them give oral reports about bodily development - and the pregnant students, he would have do Q&As, and he'd just answer all the sex questions he could in fifteen minutes. It's better than nothing, and he was actually in danger of being reported for it.
We play up the "Al Capone" gangster image in our tourist trap shops, but you wouldn't know it to walk around the city.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/c.....m3j4?context=3 The statistics gloss over the difference between individual homicides (mostly black) and premeditated mass killings (mostly straight white boys, or at least two out of three).
Oh man That's great! I'm not too clear on these details... And besides racism, there's just too much death for you to cover. Same way with Bosnia.
Assume there's 800,000 people in the poor neighborhoods (where all the shooting and gangs are, safely four or five miles south of me). Out of the 400,000 boys, about 150,000 are in the right age range for a gang, and about 2/3 of them will (paradoxially) join up for safety. If you live in a zone full of gang violence and random shootings, you're better off in some ways with a gang at your back who can help you shoot back.
And yeah, we have a reputation, we play it up XD The only place that shooting people was glamorous. (Las Vegas, the city basically built by the mafia, has the National Mob Museum, with the reconstructed wall from the building on Clark Street the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened in front of. Complete with bullet holes. A taste of chicago X3)
(Dear god, this comment has sat unsent for three months.)
Speak for yourself there... I see animals as sexy only insofar as they allegoricize the sexiness of not-giving-a-shit that humans lack. When you give a human those characteristics, in a universe where you can get a job as a sex attendant on a private plane and just... constantly get fucked... that's what appeals to me in some ways.
Do you get high once in a while to relax, or do you have dreadlocks and a Bob Marley poster and weed socks and discuss Karl Marx over pizza? Do you eat candy for a snack, or candy for a meal? Moderation is everything, Buddha and shit.
There's all sorts of American sex ed techniques to maintaining a baby; one assignment they often do is to pair up a boy and a girl and give them a raw egg. For two weeks, they're ordered to carry that egg everywhere they go, and not let any damage befall the egg. Because, of course, if it breaks on day 12, it'll smell like real life baby. XD It's supposed to scare kids into abstinence.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/201.....hools-lookadoo http://jezebel.com/whats-the-weirdest-lie-about-sex-you-learned-in-sex-ed-1466733173 But the horror stories are true... http://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/co....._taught_about/
The states and counties give the funding to the schools (which is why kids in rich neighborhoods get better quality education), it's fucked up - but politicians on the religious right, in the states and counties, vote that schools that don't teach abstinence lose their funding. So the school has to find ways around it. Someone recalls their biology teacher, who would have them give oral reports about bodily development - and the pregnant students, he would have do Q&As, and he'd just answer all the sex questions he could in fifteen minutes. It's better than nothing, and he was actually in danger of being reported for it.
We play up the "Al Capone" gangster image in our tourist trap shops, but you wouldn't know it to walk around the city.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/c.....m3j4?context=3 The statistics gloss over the difference between individual homicides (mostly black) and premeditated mass killings (mostly straight white boys, or at least two out of three).
Oh man That's great! I'm not too clear on these details... And besides racism, there's just too much death for you to cover. Same way with Bosnia.
Assume there's 800,000 people in the poor neighborhoods (where all the shooting and gangs are, safely four or five miles south of me). Out of the 400,000 boys, about 150,000 are in the right age range for a gang, and about 2/3 of them will (paradoxially) join up for safety. If you live in a zone full of gang violence and random shootings, you're better off in some ways with a gang at your back who can help you shoot back.
And yeah, we have a reputation, we play it up XD The only place that shooting people was glamorous. (Las Vegas, the city basically built by the mafia, has the National Mob Museum, with the reconstructed wall from the building on Clark Street the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened in front of. Complete with bullet holes. A taste of chicago X3)
(Dear god, this comment has sat unsent for three months.)
I'm just baffled your browser didn't freeze up during those three months XD...like it apparently did with the last two pages of my comic Or maybe they are perfect as they are, and there was nothing to say for you about them?
"...a universe where you can get a job as a sex attendant on a private plane and just... constantly get fucked" Does that refer to RedRusker's comic? Sounds very much like Seasalt's newest adventure Yeah, there surely is something about the careless attitude that animals have. Maybe it's because their lives are relatively short? I don't know how an animal perceives time; probably different from us, since they're much more in the moment than we humans usually are, but if someone told you you had only, like, ten years to live from now on at max, wouldn't you constantly alternate between partying and sleeping out your hangover? Oh, wait, you already believe that, from what I remember, since the FBI told you so with a statistic XD So, where's that monumental drug-and-sex party you should attend, Liam? And why do you take a higher education for a job you won't live to get instead?
Carrying around an egg to simulate pregnancy? WTF. That's lame, I would rather do it like in the new Conan movie (that isn't actually shit, unless you compare it to the OTHER Conan-movie), where kid-Conan has to carry a raw egg in his mouth while killing four warriors of an enemy tribe at the same time, and bringing their heads back to the village to proof it. It still broke, but I guess he wouldn't make the best parent anyway XD
That's a thought-provoking discussion you had there on Reddit. It's hard to see it from all sides, since they are quite different. I would say that people in lower social classes/stricken with poverty/being oppressed for skin color etc. are in a situation where it is obvious for them to follow more closely the survival instinct with all it's ancient and often violent urges. It's different when all the basic needs are covered and a certain safety exists, like for most white straight males, as you point out.
It's no wonder it was wealthy British nobility with too much time on their hands who came here to Austria and basically invented alpinism, where the farmers who lived right in the shadow of the same mountains struggled to get through the winter and just tapped their foreheads at the thought of doing something that risky and 'unnecessary'. A filled stomach is less prone to violence, it was progress and increasing security that made us both softer AND laid the foundation for artistic achievements. But tell that to someone who grows up in Gangland, Chicago.
"National Mob Museum", that sounds interesting, I might check it out when I'm there next month! I have to say, my anticipation for my trip is growing, it's only three weeks left (or rather "Vorfreude", a much less sterile and more appropriate sounding word)
"...a universe where you can get a job as a sex attendant on a private plane and just... constantly get fucked" Does that refer to RedRusker's comic? Sounds very much like Seasalt's newest adventure Yeah, there surely is something about the careless attitude that animals have. Maybe it's because their lives are relatively short? I don't know how an animal perceives time; probably different from us, since they're much more in the moment than we humans usually are, but if someone told you you had only, like, ten years to live from now on at max, wouldn't you constantly alternate between partying and sleeping out your hangover? Oh, wait, you already believe that, from what I remember, since the FBI told you so with a statistic XD So, where's that monumental drug-and-sex party you should attend, Liam? And why do you take a higher education for a job you won't live to get instead?
Carrying around an egg to simulate pregnancy? WTF. That's lame, I would rather do it like in the new Conan movie (that isn't actually shit, unless you compare it to the OTHER Conan-movie), where kid-Conan has to carry a raw egg in his mouth while killing four warriors of an enemy tribe at the same time, and bringing their heads back to the village to proof it. It still broke, but I guess he wouldn't make the best parent anyway XD
That's a thought-provoking discussion you had there on Reddit. It's hard to see it from all sides, since they are quite different. I would say that people in lower social classes/stricken with poverty/being oppressed for skin color etc. are in a situation where it is obvious for them to follow more closely the survival instinct with all it's ancient and often violent urges. It's different when all the basic needs are covered and a certain safety exists, like for most white straight males, as you point out.
It's no wonder it was wealthy British nobility with too much time on their hands who came here to Austria and basically invented alpinism, where the farmers who lived right in the shadow of the same mountains struggled to get through the winter and just tapped their foreheads at the thought of doing something that risky and 'unnecessary'. A filled stomach is less prone to violence, it was progress and increasing security that made us both softer AND laid the foundation for artistic achievements. But tell that to someone who grows up in Gangland, Chicago.
"National Mob Museum", that sounds interesting, I might check it out when I'm there next month! I have to say, my anticipation for my trip is growing, it's only three weeks left (or rather "Vorfreude", a much less sterile and more appropriate sounding word)
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