#cut up method

[nymclem]

poem, cut up method

#poetry #cut up method

[alchemisoul]

Brion Gysin Lecture

(London, 1982)

#brion gysin #artist #writer #author #cut-up method #cut-up technique #cut up method #cut up technique #cut up #cut ups #philosophy #william s. burroughs #william burroughs #beatnik #beats

[john-keels-sinister-goatee]

One of the interesting things about the cut-up method is that when you do it enough, you start seeing it everywhere. (Burroughs: "All writing is in fact cut-ups.") I'm cutting up Joanna Newsom lyrics and realize that the phrase "all my bones" appears both in Only Skin and Emily. Paradigms start popping out at me: the partially-filled construction [Adj X-less-ness]NP shared between "hydrocephalitic listlessness" and "clay-colored motherlessness." I guess I'm doing what AI does. But AI still can't write a decent poem. I wonder what Burroughs would have thought of it. (My guess: he was paranoid in exactly the right kind of way to think LLMs are sentient and an existential threat, and he would have shot his computer while muttering something about soft typewriters and Mayan calendars and word viruses. "No good...no bueno...rub out the word...")

#william s. burroughs #cut-up method #cut up method #william burroughs #artificial intelligence #ai #linguistics #thoughts (tm) #personally i think thought isn't really thought without desire #ai needs to learn to long for something #rub out the word #mercury

[frequencydave]

Test is POSITIVE

Test is POSITIVE Rapid precautions Isolate yourself Others, with contact minimize. Avoid! Please cover your mouth Must go to ER Severe confusion; An emergency Wear a facemask; Seek immediate- May be released, may be released from, from, from isolation.

#poem #poetry #writing #COVID #cut up method #sort of #repetition

[sysig]

You mentioned you mainly ship Glados/Chell when it comes to Portal? Could I please request something with them, however you personally imagine their dynamic? Sorry for the vague prompt, I'm just curious what your ideas are!

Day 25 - As if being dead wasn't bad enough

#My art #Requestober #Portal #Chell #GLaDOS #Big girlfriend <3 #Big Mean girlfriend <3 <3 #Ugh it's been a while since I've drawn her lol I forgot how complex her design is #A lot of this is just visual noise don't look too hard lol #I do love her tho! I just happen to love her mind - her personality - the most ♥ #For a change of pace I listened to her lines in the background rather than music hehe ♪ #I forgot how funny she is in Portal 1 gosh she's so cool and mean and fdjsalfjdsf I love her I love her #I never know where to cut the line between the Player and Chell - she's designed to be a blank slate so hmm #I mean I see her as being extremely long-suffered - you'd have to be to put up with GLaD hehe <3 #Sarcastic and flippant in response to GLaDOS' long monologues haha #But for me personally I could listen to her insult me all day <3 So how much of that carries over to Chell? #Probably a non-zero amount while I'm playing her lol - we see Players nod or shake Chell's head! #That means something! #So just go ahead and insult her it's all in good fun ♪ #I do love the idea of GLaDOS needing Chell to be somewhere and all other methods of moving her are inaccessible #Elevator breaks? :3c She can fall a long distance but her jump height isn't quite that good lol #Ride around on her to go from floor to floor! GLaDOS secretly enjoys it and turns that pleasure into more insults lol #''Stop enjoying this only one of us is allowed to be having fun right now. And by one of us I mean neither of us. Be quiet.'' Lol ♫

[thottybrucewayne]

Yall know that Jason isn't 100 percent in the right and his methods aren't like, rational, right? Even if he was just murdering predators and people who deal drugs to children, he really didn't have any plans on what to do about the aftermath. The fall out of that. It's one of the most annoying things about Jason being written by a ton of middle-aged white men with shit politics, Jason is never really shown at that point to understand that his methods aren't really doing anything to help the people of Gotham. That aggravates me because, as a child who grew up on the streets of Gotham you'd think he'd be more knowledgeable about the way crime happens, why it happens, and how to help the victims of said crimes best. Yeah, he killed those child traffickers, but what about the kids? You can kill the drug dealers but that won't stop the flow of drugs into the community esp when cops are heavily involved in the selling of drugs within low-income communities. The issues with Jason's "war on crime" are as glaringly obvious as Bruce's in that they prioritize punishment and putting bandaids on bullet wounds for lack of a better word. The care they offer is temporary and comes with limitations, in Bruce's case it's charity instead of mutual aid. With Jason, it's him leaving the aftermath of his killing an abuser or a predator to other people. In Red Hood the lost days, (fuck Judd Winick btw), Talia mentioned that Jason killed half his teachers because of the things they did (spoilers it's a lot of awful shit) and it seemed like he was covering his tracks, and I think that She was right. If Jason was really all that concerned about the things that these people were doing, he would have gone out of his way to ensure their victims' safety but he doesn't even think about it. The victims and survivors aren't mentioned past what was done to them. They're presented as just the reason for Jason's methods and not people in their own right. TLDR: Acting like either Jason or Bruce is 100 percent in the wrong or in the right is wrong because they're both being written by comic writers who have a pretty rudimentary understanding of poverty, drug use, and crime and everyone would benefit from sitting down and reading some theory I think.

#thotty speaks #thotty rants #dc comics #jason todd #batman #thotty talks comics #I'm literally in the middle of writing a fanfic about this rn #I think that Gothamites reaction to the aftermath of the Red Hood's actions wouldn't be as clear cut either #I don't think they'd all consider him to be this hero of Gotham esp not the people of Park Row #Like yes Bruce's methods are antiquated and his morals are pretty dicey but Jason pretty much took that thought process #And cranked it up to 11 #All this to say I should be the next Jason Todd writer I'd have him kill cops :)

[starofhisheart]

So much of the "bad" behaviour in ofmd are trauma responses and i love that they show how yeah sometimes we dont respond in the most healthy of ways, we fuck up and we hurt those closest to us, but we still deserve love and kindness at the end of the day

Just so important to me

#its just really important to me #and is why i will defend this show to my dying breath #ofmd #our flag means death #spoilers in tags: #stede's response to ed & the crew potentially leaving #ed's whole kraken era lol #there's so many examples of their actions being led by their trauma #and even the characters whose backstories we dont get #its heavily implied that a lot of them grew up either poor #or at least on the outside of conventional society #whether it be for attraction gender or class #and growing up around violence!! #thats a big one! #violence as the only method of solving problems #why they're so confused and rattled by stede #when you've never been shown kindness before its hard to show it to someone else #or recognize when its being shown to u #i so wish max hadnt cut the budget and episodes #bc s1 did such a good job of showing all this w added backstories #and more breathing room #and while i love s2 it has suffered from the reduced time #especially in this regard #i do think the post-kraken crew dealing w their traumas differently #was some of the best television ever #like they dealt w such a serious topic w the complexity it deserves #(tho again had they had more time it could have been ever better) #and sure there was some humour #but it wasnt cruel #ofmd s2 spoilers

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that -- #1 & 2 - Very bright pretty looking sky ! #2. HUGE icicle that looked like you could kill someone with it or something.. Pulled from near a gutter on the side of a building #3. & 4 & 5 - various images from a silly party I had where I pretended to be some elf king turning like 204 years old lol (also not like #a REAL party. Only my roommates were there really and we're all in the same household bubble. #just to clarify. I would never dare have a large party anyway given #my hermitous nature but on top of that.. didn't want there to be some implication that I'm having a Party while covid is still ongoing lol. #NEVER.. But I do love dressing up as some fantasy character so much.. The only thing that could ever bring a true hermit wizard #to engage with others socially is the prospect of connecting it somehow to fantasy worlds and costumes lol. One must simply dress up #as a silly 200 year old man from time to time and pretend you've never seen a balloon before in your life. etc. #6. bapy boye... feets #7. The main food that I made for the elderly elf man 'party'. which was a Deconstructed Beef Wellington (kind of as ajoke since I watch s #o many silly cooking competition shows and they always make stuff 'deconstructed' at the last minute when under time limits or whatever.) #I've wanted to make beef wellington a few times but Ithink to do it well I'd need like..an actual kitchen and a lot of time and #an oven that fully works to bake things and etc. etc. So I thought this would be an easier method. A thick steak cut round to kind of mimi #c the round tenderloin or whatever it is in a wellington. instead of the puff pastry being wrapped around - I just did star shaped cut outs #of pastry and baked them and put them on top (to go with the star theme). instead of mushroom duxelles being wrapped around in pastry #its in a little circle under the steak. and instead of mustard being brushed onto the meat I made a mustard gravy sauce type of thing #Then of course asparagus on the side.. my favorite... Though I know some wellington #also has a layer of prosciutto I think. or I saw one person use crepes. I didn't feel it was necessary to incorporate that too lol #8. bapy son helping me do a giant puzzle that took me hours and I had no idea it was actually that large of a puzzle #until I started putting it together and for some reason it made me stressed by the end instead of relaxed lol.. puzzle fatigue #photo diary

[noficbyhalves]

Altaïr: I got you one of those "plans" you're always on about

Malik: ...this is a map

Altaïr: Of guard patrols, yes. For the plan. Since you like plans.

Malik: Where did you get this map

Altaïr: ...

Malik: I know you didn't make this yourself, since it's

Malik: y'know

Malik: Actually Legible

Altaïr: Soooo, it's good? You like it?

Malik: That's not an answer

Malik: Altaïr

Malik: Altaïr

Malik: How many people died for this bizarre romantic gesture

Altaïr: ...Good talk

Malik: Goddamnit, novice

#altmal #you can't tell me altaïr has ever fully planned an assassination unless forced #it drives malik up the wall #malik walks into the bureau with a perfectly crafted plan based on the target's habits #with at least 2 backup escape routes #it took him weeks. he drew maps #meanwhile altaïr rolls up like “target'll be at the market at noon” and that's it that's the whole plan #infiltration methods are a 'on the walk over' problem #“how are you going to kill them?” “with a knife??? how tf else????” #the rudest part is it keeps working. there are no consequences for this tomfoolery #cut to malik seething in the background #altaïr ibn la'ahad #malik al sayf #altair is a little shit #mmw au #kind of

[seaquestions]

sometimes i get into a really bad state and im like “i wanna make art abt this” but then i vacillate between “but would that be postable” and “why would it matter just dont post it” and then my head clears and its like. maybe we dont do any of that and just eat something.

#incoherent turtle noises #its always about either one of two behaviours i exhibit. ..man why am i talking abt myself like i’m a zoo animal. #ngl kind of messes w/ my head that for years and years i would go on tumblr and vent and rant and thats how i dealed with my shit and now #i have to pack it up. its one thing to say ‘had a panic attack’ in front of an audience its another to get into. well. #the details of your bad coping methods. theyre not even coping methods what am i talking abt. folks im not going to get into it. #its 3am cut me some slack.

[thefirstpaleontologist]

okay so I’m thinking yknow like vampires. Vampires are undead so if they die then I don’t think they could leave a ghost. But werewolves? Werewolves are just people who got cursed furry style. They still have souls. If a werewolf died I think they could totally play by the usual ghost rules of violent deaths and unfinished business etc. so then I’m wondering, if a werewolf dies and leaves a ghost, is that ghost still a werewolf, or did dying break the curse? Cause like. Imagine. Youre a ghost but you still turn into a wolf every full moon. And your wolf sona is just out there acting an undead fool once a month. So anyway let me set the scene. Old house, next to some woods. The locals say some old loner died out there in mysterious circumstances. A couple moves in, they’re so optimistic. It’s so scenic. What a lovely private piece of land. Only… ah. It’s got a bit of a wolf problem. Oh well it’s the woods they expected some wildlife to come with that. But then,, hmm. The house might be haunted too? Yikes. Now this couple will soon discover that on the bright side, these two big issues are actually only one big issue. Unfortunately that one issue is a werewolf ghost.

#werewolves #ghost #and like I must emphasise that this is a comedy story #the couple are the working class pragmatic sort. not spiritual or superstitious in the least #they try out all the normal methods of dealing with pests and wolves and old creepy houses first #a local animal expert ranger guy gets called in because the couple is like we have a wolf problem please help and the ranger dude is like #welp you live where the wolves live so that’s on you tbh. but this is weird wolf behaviour so I’ll check it out #and then he comes up and he’s like I think the wolves around here on drugs actually #when the couples exausted their reasonable ideas they’re like :/ welp. time to call an exorcist #guess it’s time to call an exorcist #the ranger sticks around even after it turns out to not be real wolves cause he’s professionally interested in the fact it’s a werewolf #the nearest exorcist is like a day away so there’s various cuts to this priest or whatever driving to the middle of rural now where #and he’s keeps getting into mishaps along the road #like his car breaks down #he hits a deer and then holds a mini funeral and service for the deer #mayeb the deer turns into a ghost and follows him on his way to the werewolf ghost #thatd be something right #when he gets there he’s sprinkling the holy water and doing the chants #and it’s not working but they can tell something is up #they try to use a ouija board but it just keeps saying Awoooo #so then the couple and the exorcise call in one of those people who hold seances #and the werewolf is just like my fucking guy you don’t think I’ve been through this before? #i had people trying to exorcise me while I was alive man! #please picture the werewolf man saying that with a heavy New Yorker accent #oh but it’s important to note that this is not taking place in the US #I am picturing this being set in Italy. in like the Alps or something #I think it being set in Italy gives a certain catholic pizzazz to the ghost aspect #the alps have wolves I looked it up to double check #it wouldn’t have mattered to me if there weren’t wolves that would have just added to the comedy #but there are apparently 900 wolves in the Alps

[flamingkorybante]

Can you tell what this is a cut-up of?

#poetry #cut up poetry #the cut up method

[small-spark-of-light]

day 10 was to draw something with 1 pt perspective

#sparks creations #painting #30 day challenge #im gonna be real with you guys i HATED making this #the reference was too complicated for my skills and i was trying a new method #i ended up giving up on the difference method #i was trying to use selection tools to cut and color the shapes quickly and it ended up stressing me out more #the painting turned out alright in the end tho :0 im alright with it #i think i might be overdoing these drawing by making them into near full paintings #i could probably do the stuff i was doing earlier with just the pencil and simple shading and coloring :0 but idk #and i could probably do better if i wasnt keeping these Daily #but i dont want to get behind and overwhelm myself so ill deal with more messy creations

[quietwingsinthesky]

leviathan!charlie also takes care of the weird plothole about her going from “hunting & hunters are scary and dangerous wtf get away from me” to “oh wow murdering people is soooo fun, guys!!! i just wish it was more magical!!!” because in this scenario it is not her going into hunting and somehow being in complete denial of the bloody reality of it, but her actually regressing to more violent tendencies in order to keep in contact with the Winchesters, who are basically the only friends she has.

leviathan!charlie who teamed up with them to take down dick specifically so that she would not have to act like she did in purgatory and could find a new life, but inevitably being drawn into the black hole of hunting/winchester-related violence. leviathan!charlie who sets out like vampires can to feed on animals…. and the occasional asshole, but that one shaky spot on her moral ground gives her room to backslide into seeing the monsters she hunts as just more assholes to eat (regardless of the fact that they are her!!! she’s a monster too! she just got lucky siding with sam and dean first!) leviathan!charlie who tries to hold onto the humanity she painstakingly taught herself, but the longer she’s around the winchesters, the harder it is to be anything but a monster.

#leviathan!charlie is both a comedic and a tragic concept btw. the same as regular charlie. #i never bought that her reading the spn novels was enough to convince her that Hunting Good and Cool. especially when she kept getting hurt. #but her clinging to hunting to cling to sam & dean (her literal only friends and connections that we know of)? #yeah. that i can see. #and with leviathan!charlie it becomes even worse for her. because how much of her is useful as a hunter. and how much will become too much #for sam & dean not to hunt her. #leviathan!charlie 🤝 castiel: if we fuck up too badly our best friend will kill us. and we might just let him. #oughuhhhh dark!charlie & good!charlie who are. basically the same as in canon. except that dark!charlie uses leviathan methods of killing #openly. and good!charlie will not eat anything. she’s fucking starving herself. #and what im saying is that Dean cuts dark!charlie’s head off to keep her from going inside the house instead of breaking her arm. #it doesnt kill her but its just. its an awful thing. sam inside watching as good!charlie bites down on the good!wizard guy and kills him #and then the skin on her neck rips open and she screams in pain and fear as she comes apart #sam gingerly carrying both her body and her head out to dark!charlie in the same state #dean staring at what he’s done…. #and charlie both metaphorically and literally putting herself back together… #leviathan!charlie #charlie bradbury #spn

[non0zec-art]

imagine the shade was like a hat (a silly one for sure- here I wanted to draw them with more detailed limbs. mainly inspired by a point on this post but also by some other forehead jokes i vaguely remember.)

#art #artists on tumblr #hfjone #airy hfjone #liam hfjone #and my commenting on the drawing process: #this is actually a bit of a mix with different things #for one the limb thing- though it is a bit more character specific i kinda like the idea of limbs a bit more based on their object material #though i might throw ideas of object-specific customizations and some more animal features into the mix because they seem fun :D #for lineart its kind of a compromise between wanting clean looking lines but also not having to go through the pains of ctrl + z... #...and just letting lines be sketchy but also cleaning them up where i wanted #while not exactly new the shading for the characters is based a bit on the shading method ive used before that i had forgotten completely #and i think i could be trying this method again more its a nice shading method and i think it looks nice here #and hey! a background #something ill admittedly need more practice with to get a better sense of characters interacting with their environment #plus landscape arts are quite pretty. id like to make at least one this year maybe. #i rambled on here long enough so ill be cutting it off here-! <:D

[sysig]

Delusions (Patreon)

"Could I have your hand, sir?" Max didn't move, which Dexter was, sadly, getting used to.

"Sir?" Max jerked, then turned and stared at him, lost and blank. "Your hand, please."

Max's hand lifted shakily, and he laid it gently in Dexter's upturned palm. Dexter gave a quick and quiet "thank you," then turned it over in his own hand, observing him closely.

Too closely - his knuckles were rough and his fingernails were dull and cracked in places. His once-soft, not-a-day-in-his-life-subjected-to-hard-labour hands were now, already, toughened and split and scarred in places, especially the heel of his palm. He turned it over again, this time to stop looking so intensely. He had only wanted to give it a cursory glance to begin with.

"Do you know what I see, sir?" he asked as conversationally as he could manage, running his fingers along Max's abused flesh. He seemed to be at least half paying attention, his eye gazing down between them, and he'd occasionally twitch, encouragingly Dexter thought. He seemed to want to curl around him, then stopped and shook, his hand squeezing into a fist. Dexter coaxed him back out, encouraged him to hold himself lightly.

"What do you see?" He was almost startled by Max actually continuing their conversation, that happened so rarely now, shaking and quiet as it was. He took a deep breath, was he really going to do this?

"I see a hand, with five fingers." Max remained quiet, though his brow curled, and a guarded look came into his eye, though he still wasn't looking at Dexter. He felt a pang of guilt, but he had to try. "What do you see?"

Max's eye unfocused and began to water. He looked up, but not enough to reach Dexter's gaze in return, instead staring through his chest, and he felt just as hollow and empty as he must look to him.

"Do you take me for a fool, DAX?" Quiet and as close to angry as he'd heard since they'd been here.

No, not angry.

Betrayed.

He swallowed down the stinging lump at the back of his throat. He had to put on a brave face, had to keep his composure if he wanted Max to get better. That was the only thing he wanted, more than anything.

"Of course not, sir. Genuinely, what do you see?"

Max pulled his hand away and turned his body, his bandaged side facing Dexter. Shutting him out, pointedly. Dexter's empty hand curled into a fist, he was no better.

"Please, don't..." Max took a shallow, shuddering breath, and several beats before he spoke again, even quieter. "Don't ridicule me." Dexter could hear his breath catch, and he wanted nothing more than for this all to just stop.

"Sir, I didn't-"

"I've had enough of that." He shook his head stiffly, the action strange and wrong, like he had forgotten how. He stilled, his head turned even further away. "More than enough."

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Dexter Favin #And a drabble-fic under the cut #I ended up writing that the night after I read - I was a bit too inspired while busy so it's a little on the unfocused side haha #I would've cleaned it but I worry it wouldn't make it out of that stage! Please enjoy it for now <3 #This set is mostly periphery ideas - inspired by events rather than directly shown ♪ I suppose the first two kinda count tho #But they're more directly of the little scene I wrote ouò Poor ZEX </3 #And Dex! He's usually so capable! But he's stretching himself so thin ahh it's hard to watch in the best way #Of course he doesn't want to give ''Max'' over to just anyone - anyone at all really - both of their trusts have bottomed out #But how much could he reasonably care for him in that state? When he's still being actively haunted and most importantly - Not Max #He needs helps he needs support he needs to sleep and shower but a second with his eyes off Max and - then what? He'll immolate from fear #It's hard to imagine him crying but pushed to this extreme? To the thought of losing Max utterly and completely? Hhhhh #I do also just love him being possessive even outside of how terrible the situation is - he's always had his glimpses but this situation #Brings out the worst in him <3 In terrible ways #Really his method is just setting ''Max'' up nearby and prompting him over the sound of the shower like that's not nerve-wracking at all #Like he already doesn't answer half the time if that #As for the mini fic I was really interested in Dex's line about indulging ''Max's'' delusions #Apart from the fact that they're not delusions - not that anyone believes him outside of the Institute - what it means to indulge is weird #I saw one example of how to handle delusions that stuck with me - how not to deny them outright while also not reinforcing them #Since it's not actually helpful to be told ''That isn't Really happening to you'' when to you - to ZEX - it really is! How invalidating #And so rather to take the approach of ''I don't see/feel/hear what you are - I can't find any evidence of it myself'' and extrapolating #Dex taking the approach of ''What reality are you experiencing right now?'' and trying to build from there! #Unfortunately ZEX has already been treated like....well like all that - he's not in the mood for games even well-intentioned ones #He /knows/ he's in a human body. He can feel that and see that and understands that. It doesn't change who - what he /is/ #The idea of a completely broken ZEX is so sad to me :( He's so strong and prideful and vivacious - Max really is another him </3 #It's not the same but he was saved from death! To fall into torture... But even despite that I want to see him succeed! As much as he can #Even in that small and shaking way I want to see him be hateful and spiteful - angry. Powerful <3 Fighting ♥