#more story tellers that like

[ijustthinkhesneat]

I genuinely like to believe that Bruce’s natural state is Brucie. His resting persona. I think Bruce is smart don’t get me wrong, but you can be smart and ditzy. My citation is Legally Blonde.

I think the Batman persona for him is ultimately a flexing of the mental muscles. Like he read one article on how to be a serious adult and was like I’m gonna do that at 9000%.

I believe that after Jason died is when Batman stopped being the mask, at least for a while. And yeah trauma, dead kid. But it’s also because Bruce was in the reverse position to when his parents were murdered. He was the parent who outlived his child. So he couldn’t afford to not be on edge, the vulnerability it takes to be silly and mess wasn’t going to keep his other son safe. It wouldn’t keep Dick or Tim or Damian safe.

I think if they steered back to Bruce learning to be vulnerable around his friends and especially around his family the comics could be so much better and set the base for many more stories that weren’t a repeat of the same cycle of abuse. It feels like the comics have been hell bent on breaking these characters for so long. Chipping them down to the worst, darkest parts of themselves. And that’s fine. But the writers don’t know when to stop. They can’t see that there is nothing left to break anymore.

#DC Comics #batsalt #batman #batfam #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #damian wayne #dc batman #tim drake #nightwing #red hood #Woo that got way more philosophical than I wanted it to #I feel like this isn’t just a DC comics thing #So many businesses seem to not know when their stories have reached a narrative dead end #and instead of rewinding to find where they went wrong they just keep digging the hole #like when will corporate story tellers realize that fighting their fans is only gonna scream them in the end?

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I wish more cis people were aware of is that trans people, in fact, don't need to hate our previous gender or the gender that was expected of us to transition.

This whole "you must hate men/women if you transitioned out of it" and the idea that trans people are inherently woman-hating or man-hating on the basis of transition is incredibly reductive - we transition because we deem it necessary, and often, nobody else factors into that.

If you want an analogy, somebody I knew was talking about quitting band. How fair would it be if I reprimanded them for their decision - obviously if you quit band, you must hate people in band! Nobody who doesn't hate band people would quit!

But you see... there's a massive discrepancy between trans people and cis people, I think. People are under the impression that trans people can't transition because we want to be true to ourselves - there is always an ulterior motive. There is always an assumption of nefarious, malicious intent. The reasons trans people transition are, in fact, varied, but it has been very hard to find somebody who says, "oh I transitioned because I hate women and thought I could fuck them over by becoming a man". It's been very hard to find a trans person who genuinely thinks of anybody else (besides, I suppose, themself) are inferior for their gender.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #it relies on the idea that trans people cannot be faithful tellers of our own stories #like this freudian and unfalsifiable idea of trans people says that trans people feel of cis people what cis people feel of trans people #but i find that between trans and cis people... trans people *tend* to be more accepting of cis people than the inverse *tends* toward

[neishroom]

after a long day of working + raising an infant

#sims 4 #the sims 4 #sims #ts4 #maxis match #*alex #*ben #*pacheco gen 2 #* queue. #and we're backkkkkkk to the pacheco legacy #probably gonna change the legacy name cus alex's name after marriage is alex bellini #wanted her husband to be irish but henford being the only world sorta looking like ireland is... #so he's italian #need an excuse for a family reunion in tartosa #dialogue makes these silly little sims seem more real #im NAWT doin a story #story tellers r stonger than the troops #*pacheco legacy

[archiveofourwolves]

I just think that it was extremely fitting for Crowley and Aziraphale at the end of season two to do what they did. They never had great communication in the first place. They said things and did things that were confusing to one another, and hurt them. Aziraphale was scrambling to try to make Crowley see his side but he chose the wrong words, looked at him the wrong way, went about it too quickly and Crowley couldn't understand that. And Crowley in turn danced around everything he wanted to say, leaving Aziraphale puzzled and not understanding. They didn't understand one another, and the flashbacks as well as the parallel between Nina and Maggie showed that they need to learn how to communicate correctly in order to be with one another. I think at the end of the day it's amazing writing, and I completely understand why Aziraphale did what he did, he's doing it for Crowley. He's doing it to save Earth. I feel as if they'd kissed and went on happily then the story as a whole wouldn't feel complete.

#good omens spoilers #good omens #just tossing this here bc i dont really have an account where i can #also the coffee theory as silly as it is probably isnt real #and the people who are hating or jokingly hating on gaiman probably should let the man breathe #hes an excellent story teller and i think the writers on go deserve more appreciation #rather than joking hate that feels like its being injected with animostity #aziraphale #crowley #character study #ish

[mossywizard]

I wrote a damn essay that I deleted cuz- I know jkr means a lot to some of my family but like- god damn she wants my queer family dead or without control of their own life

And if her detective story centered any other minority as the villain, I think people would more easily understand how “well it can happen” isn’t an excuse when it comes to making a story with a Purpose. She wasn’t investigating reality, but pushing narrative in fiction, and in politics

#I’m done I’m done #jkr #i got in active trouble for liking Harry Potter as kid! cast a pop it spell and boom grounded #i didn’t even think I was doing magic then #but like #we deserve Good stories and story tellers who are trying to be kind and not burn people #it’s painful to lose heros #but #i don’t know how to soften it but #learn to take the good things you learned from them and plant better flowers #more heros will fail us #we will fail #but what matters is trying to do better #jkr is not trying to

[famewolf]

I've got all these little ideas but it's been such a pain to write them down fkjlghdg

#[static] #my brain has been so fried recently that I feel as though I can't write anything in a logical order #I think it's also because I'm waiting on some direction from the GM regarding some of the bigger factions in my character's backstory #he seems like a big story teller so I'm holding back until I get the details before I fill in the blanks that I've been struggling with #I just love having the nitty gritty details ironed out before the first session because it makes me that much more invested in the game

[pocketramblr]

It's your fault I have the Sigzil brain rot, so I'm sending you a list of (small, happy) Kalazil/Sigkal things.

After becoming Captain and the Kholins' bodyguard, Kaladin had access to a mirror for the first time in who knows how long. He spent a long while looking at it, trying to see 'a leader's face' in his own like Sigzil had said.

Kaladin is the one person Sigzil really tries to be a WorldSinger for. The others ask and press for stories, but Kaladin is the only one Sigzil gives them openly and freely too.

Kaladin loves it when he gets spanreed messages from Sigzil because he knows it's actually him writing and reading it on the other side

On the flip side, Sigzil hates using a spanreed to talk to Kaladin because he's aware that there must be someone else reading and writing for Kaladin and he just hates the idea of that for some reason

When Lyn broke up with Kaladin, Sigzil was the first to know, because he was on his way to talk to Kaladin when it happened. He actually heard the whole thing. His being there when Lyn opened the door is part of the reason she felt so okay leaving Kaladin in the state he was in (which wasn't great to start and was worse after she broke the news to him). She knew that next to Teft or Rock, he was the best person who could be there.

You know I was going to defend Adolin's honor and then I remembered that while Adolin is almost always absolutely fantastic for Kal's low points, he is also the Married Friend. And you don't want your Married Friend to walk in .2 seconds after you got dumped. Sigzil at least can distract and sooth much easier. But yeah. Sigzil feeling some kind of way about writing to Kaladin. Different than the feeling he has about writing for Kaladin, or reading. Trying so hard to be a worldsinger for him. Mishim you iconic cringefail of a story. Storms. Kaladin trying to see the leader's face in the mirror, Sigzil trying to see the scholar Kaladin thinks the exams were too foolish to recognize....

#see sigzil can go 'I'll try to be a story teller for you' and kaladin can go 'you really don't have to. like at all.' #just as Kaladin is always going 'id die for you' and Sigzil and everyone else goes 'please god do not' #fifteen chapters into secret project four and yeah. i could use this thanks #got too much grading to read more even when I'm not at work ugggghhhhh #pocket talks to people #im a ramblr #my sister

[canary-song]

Thinking about Robbie's role (and lacking) in the EWAF narrative and how despite (or because of) his active choice to delve further into the Ellis Island case, at the end of the story he's stripped of his autonomy permanently. This certainly plays into a possible theme of personal will being torn from the common person to further shore up oppressive systems, the general spiderman story rule that 'The people closest to you always get hurt', and how chasing truth tends to kill, but it is rather sad it happens to the one important POC in the comic run. Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?

#noir posting #spiderman noir #spidernoir #blogcat: chatter #I personally think it could be nice to have like. Robbie's investigative journalism about this case- #-released post mortem - allowing him to be the active teller of his story even after having his voice more or less removed

[tdjustess]

Was trying to think about monsters/Halloween-y creatures for each character, and honestly? Vampire!Justin would make for a genuinely tragic Monster AU

#id kinda like to get more into it but im a bad story teller and thats cringe #just think about it yourselves and know im right

[ejunkiet]

after being in fandom spaces with and without ocs, I just have to admit that I’m just, not really into other people’s ocs/ocs in general unless I’ve been given a reason to become invested.

and most of the time, I don’t think that’s possible without context.

Characters exist within stories. It gives them depth and complexity. If you remove that, what are you left with? An aesthetic? Please, just tell me a story.

#yes this is a post about oc x oc shipping #i've got a handful of ocs now despite my best intentions #and I do like them #but really they're just manifestations of a character within a set context #they belong within a story #and that makes them more real; more purposeful #you lose so much when you remove the context #I love a pretty design but i'm a story teller #I need you get me invested in your characters #past aesthetics and a fact sheet

[ginnyvos]

Every scifi setting ever: Robots cannot lie. They have no creativity. They are completely logical and factual.

ChatGPT: Hold my handbag!

#chatgpt #scifi #robots #androids #we could make them look like anything but we made them look like us #and sound like us #with the collective of human creation at its fingertips #AIs learned nothing as much as to make stuff up #and that tells you something about humanity #not that we lie #although we do #all the time #but that as a species we are infinitely creative and fascinated by the possible #much more than the actual #we are story tellers #creators #and yes #sometimes liars

[marraletta]

I SAW RIN THE HECKERS POST ON LIFESTEAL TMA AND I AM HAVING SO MANY THOUGHTS!!!!

#ash is no doubt spiral #clown no doubt slaughter #ro i wanna say is like #okay so i want something thats anti desolation #whats anti desolation #the WEB but i also feel like he has heavy buried energy cuz the yknow obsidion #mapic im just gonna say desolation like straight up cuz like fire #reddoons i agree with rin but i think if not selesa he's corruption #planet literally has to be vast hes PLANET #i think cube is the stranger cuz machines or maybe even the spiral cuz of what he does with the machines but im #honestly rlly leaning twords stranger #LEOWOOK STRANGER OR SLAUGHTER #BUT I REALLLLLLLY NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT #ive been thinkin about it and u can disagree but i think rekraps an odd combination #of the hunt and the lonely combined with HUGE aspects of the eye so #full on i think he'd be an avatar of the eye parrot i struggled too but bcuz its his smp and he's like the #like yknwo big story teller yknow thats how i see him at least I'm saying eye #ZAM RO AND MAPIC ARE SO COMPLICATED I WANNA SAY DESOLATION BUT SOMETHING IN ME SAYS N O #i wanna say web so babdabdabdabdabd #okay rant over bye bye i have more ppl to talk about but we'll see

[asclepias0819]

NOTHINS EVER GON BE THE SAMEEEEEEE NOT WITHOUT UUUUU

#maru.txt #yuju is such an excellent songwriter and story teller #like her two fully produced and written minis are both so good in different ways #rec was the hard strong willed response to cultivate and make the jump to being a solo artist (for now) #o is the nostalgia and love she feels for her craft and also for gfriend #i suppose rec had songs leaning towards that w blue nostalgia and cold winter too but #i think that’s also more of just wanting to produce a well rounded mini for debut so that there’s options for transitional concept change

[robertsbarbie]

it’s been nagging at me why the enunciation and production of Youre On Your Own Kid sound so familiar and i realized it sounds starkingly similar to Castle On a Hill and then as you pay attention to the lyricism it’s an interesting comparison because in contrast to COAH taylor didn’t have all these friends she’s been doing it on her own making these mistakes on her own and like the way the song follows the similar build you get all this alarming information in the bridge about the way we (specifically taylor) grow up and idk i think it’s very clever and interesting she did that and you can see the production choices and story building devices to get there

#like i’m not saying she copied ed sheeran like they’re clearly great friends #but like i see people all the time be like i can’t relate to castle on a hill #and it’s almost as if she took that concept of what is the perspective of someone on their own in this world #and RAN with it #idk i think it’s neat and makes me admire her even more as a song writer and story teller #music: taylor swift #eris: text

[hermigeddon]

i'm glad martyn is rolling out his vtuber lore (arg?? idk) he was talking about feeling stagnated on stream the other day and wanting to do more lore stuff. I hope this opens up some new opportunities for him

#also hope it relates to last life #like i'll follow it either way but. I crave more last life #martyn's such a good story teller yall i am beyond hyped #inthelittlewood #martyn inthelittlewood

[ohnoitstbskyen]

re: Somerton

Not for nothing, but I think we should remember that James Somerton's fans and subscribers are normal people, just like you. They are people who received his output in good faith, and extended to him a normal amount of grace and benefit of the doubt, which he took advantage of.

I don't think it's helpful to respond to the exposé on Somerton with sentiments along the lines of "wow, how could anyone ever think THIS GUY'S videos were any good, ha ha ha, how did he ever get subscribers?" because 1) you have the substantial benefit of hindsight and a disengaged outsider perspective, and 2) it's a rhetoric that creates a divide between you (refined, savvy, smart, sophisticated) and Somerton's audience (gullible, unrefined, easily taken advantage of, terrible taste), which is a false divide, with a false sense of security.

Somerton's success happened because he stole good writing. He found interesting, insightful, in-depth work done by other people, applied the one skill he actually has which is marketing, and re-packaged it as his own. He targeted a market which is starving for the exact kind of writing he was stealing, and pushed his audience to disengage from sources that conflicted with him.

Hbomberguy makes this point in his exposé video: good queer writing is hard to find and incredibly easy to lose. The writers Somerton stole from were often poor or precarious, writing freelance work for small circles under shitty conditions, without the means or the reach or the privileges necessary to find bigger markets. And, as Hbomb demonstrated, when people did discover Somerton's plagiarism, he used his substantial audience to hound them away and dissuade anyone else from trying to hold him accountable.

He stole queer writing by marginalized people, about experiences and perspectives that people are desperate to hear more about, and even if his delivery and aesthetics were naff, his words resonated with people because the original writers who actually wrote them poured their goddamn hearts and souls into it.

Somerton also maintained a consistent narrative of persecution and marginalization about himself. He took the plain truth, which is that queer people and perspectives are discriminated against, and worked that into a story about himself as a lone, brave truth-teller, daring to voice an authentic queer perspective, constantly beset by bigots and adversaries who sought to tear him down. As @aranock, who works with some of the people he targeted, writes in this post, Somerton weaponized whatever casual bias and bigotry he could find in his audience to reinforce his me vs them narrative (usually misogyny and various forms of transphobia), which is what grifters do. They find a vulnerable thread in a community and pull on it. And while you may not have the particular vulnerability that he exploited, you do have vulnerabilities, and they can be exploited too.

People felt compelled to support him, even if his work was sometimes shoddy, because he presented himself as a vulnerable, marginalized person in need of help, he pulled on that vulnerable thread.

Again, he has a degree in marketing, and just like propaganda, nobody is immune to marketing.

YouTube as a system is set up to push for more, constantly more. More content, more videos, more output, more more more more, and part of Somerton and Illuminaughty's success was their ability to push out large amounts of content to the hungry algorithm, even if it was of inferior quality. The algorithm rewarded their volume of output with more eyeballs and attention, and therefore more opportunities to find people who were vulnerable to their grift.

It is a system which quite literally rewards the exact kind of plagiarism that they do, because watch-time and engagement are easily measurable metrics for a corporation, and academic rigor is not. There is pressure to deliver, and a lot of rewards to gain from cutting corners to do it.

Somerton and Illuminaughty and Internet Historian are extreme and very obvious cases, so blatant that you can make a four hour video essay exposing what they've done, but the vast majority of this kind of plagiarism isn't going to be obvious - sometimes it might not even be obvious to the people who are doing it. Casual plagiarism is endemic to the modern internet, and most people don't get educated on what the exact boundaries are between proper sourcing and quoting vs plagiarizing. We had an entire course module at my university aimed at teaching students the exact differences and definitions, and people still made good faith mistakes in their essays and papers that they had to learn to correct during their education.

All of this to say: it is extremely easy in hindsight to call Somerton's work shitty and shoddy, his aesthetics flat and uninspired, and to imagine that as a sophisticated person with good taste and critical faculties, you would never be taken in by this kind of grifter. It is extremely easy to distance yourself from the people he preyed on, and imagine that you will never have to worry about your fave doing your dirty like that.

But part of the point of Hbomberguy's video is that plagiarism is extremely easy to get away with, and often difficult for the average person to spot and call out, and with the rise of AI tools blurring the lines even further, it is not going to get any easier.

So I think we should resist the temptation to think of Somerton's audience as people with bad taste and poor faculties. We should resist the temptation to distance ourselves from the perfectly normal people he preyed on. Many times in your life, a modestly clever man with a marketing degree has fooled you too.

On a personal note, by the same token, I am resisting the temptation to assume that I am too good to be vulnerable to the systemic pressures that produced Somerton and Illuminaughty. No, I've never made a video by word-for-word reciting someone else's work, but I know for a fact that I could do a better job of double-checking my work and citing my sources. I feel the exact same pressure to get a video out as fast as possible, I have the exact same rewards dangled in front of me by YouTube as a platform, and I can't pretend it doesn't affect my work. To me, Hbomb's video felt like a wake-up call to do better.

#tb blog #james somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #plagiarism #youtube