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wordsmith30 · 9 months

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You know what makes me the most upset about the use of AI in our culture? It's not just removing artists from art or devaluing human creativity -- it's treating people like they're disposable.

Oh, you're not that special. We have computers to do that now. If you died tomorrow, we have your image. We have your voice. We have your biometric data. We can just duplicate you, it's no problem. Who needs flesh and blood? Who needs agency and free thought? Who needs the human soul? You're just a tool. And when we're done with you, we'll just toss you aside and find someone else.

Creatives, listen to me, and listen to me good: you have a voice and it matters. There is no one in the history of the world who is exactly like you, in this time or this place. There is no one who thinks like you, acts like you, speaks like you, moves like you. There is nobody else built like you. Nobody else with your unique experiences and outlook of the world. You are a product of history, of culture, of art, of love, of pain, of possibility. Don't let them take that from you.

#WGA strike #sag aftra #AI #capitalism #human creativity #human rights #motivation #SAG-AFTRA strike #writers #artists #storytellers #fanfiction #mental health #self-love #self-affirmation #Hollywood #i stand with the wga

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badwritermedia · 2 years

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the elusive 7 act Structure

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rockstar-pinkbug · 6 months

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I adore the captions for the pictures!

(Generation Loss)

(Ordem Paranormal/Paranormal Order)

#qsmp #qsmp twitchcon #cellbit #ranboo #generation loss #ordem paranormal #las vegas meetup #storytellers #mcyt

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theweeklydiscourse · 2 months

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Some Atla fans are deeply unwilling to engage with the fact that their beloved series may bear the marks of being written by two white men in the early 2000s. They can’t conceive that the show might’ve been anything less than perfect and that there are certain problematic elements within it that are consistently overlooked by the fandom at large.

#hence why discussing Hama is an excercise in futility #They refuse to hear it they refuse to hear that Hama was unfairly vilified by the narrative (a pattern that pervades through the subsequent #episodes as well)#Maybe I’m just a hater but sometimes I can’t believe how much faith fans have in the politics of Bryke and idolize them as the perfect #storytellers #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla netflix #avatar live action #anti bryke #atla critical #atla discourse #fandom

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x-heesy · 8 days

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𝙻 𝚘 𝚟 𝚎 🖤🤍

𝙺𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚞 𝚙𝚑𝚞𝚌𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚁𝚎𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚜 👑

#fashion #fashiongram #fashionable #fashionphotography #fashionlover #fashionart #fashionaddict #fashionphotographer #fashionpost #fashionshoot #fashionlove #fashionlovers #fashioneditoral #editoral

𝙸’𝚖 𝚊 𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚎 🎧

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 2 months

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Calum McLaren, Andrew Livingston, Gail MacFarlane and Lorraine Griffiths - Strange Tales Of Scotland - Lang Syne - 1980 (illustrations by John Mackay)

#witches #storytellers #occult #vintage #strange tales of scotland #lang syne #calum mclaren #andrew livingston #gail macfarlane #lorraine griffiths #john mackay #tales #strange tales #scotland

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taylornation · 2 years

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Was today real? We feel like we made it up. All Too Well: The Short Film is just as incredible seven months later, and today’s Tribeca Storytellers Talk with Taylor, Sadie Sink, Dylan O’Brien, and Mike Mills made us remember that all too well!

📸: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty

#All Too Well: The Short Film #Tribeca Film Festival #Storytellers #Taylor at Tribeca #Jane Rosenthal #Taylor Swift #Sadie Sink #Paula Weinstein #Dylan O'Brien #Mike Mills #Tribeca

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jessicanjpa · 6 months

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(You can find the short films here and learn more about the project here.)

#Poll #Storytellers #Twilight Short Films #Benjamin/Tia #Alice/Jasper #Carlisle/Esme #Garrett #Jane #Alec #Alice's creator #Twilight saga #Twilight polls #Volturi #Transformation #Asylum #American Revolution #Newborn #Diner Day

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 5 months

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What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.

Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller’s art, and then a way of traveling from here to there. What is it like to be the old man silenced by a stroke, the young man facing the executioner, the woman walking across the border, the child on the rollercoaster, the person you’ve only read about or the one next to you in bed?

We tell ourselves stories in order to live, or to justify taking lives, even our own, by violence or by numbness and the failure to live, tell ourselves stories that save us and stories that are the quicksand in which we thrash and the well in which we drown, stories of justification, of accursedness, of luck and star-crossed love, or versions clad in the cynicism that is at times a very elegant garment. Sometimes the story collapses, and it demands that we recognize we’ve been lost, or terrible, or ridiculous, or just stuck; sometimes change arrives like an ambulance or a supply drop. Not a few stories are sinking ships, and many of us go down with these ships even when the lifeboats are bobbing all around us.

In The Thousand and One Nights, known in English as The Arabian Nights, Scheharazade tells stories in order to keep the sultan in suspense from night to night so he will not kill her. The premise of the vast thicket of stories is that the sultan caught his queen in the embrace of a slave and decided to sleep with a virgin every night and slay her every morning so that he could not be cuckolded again. Scheherazade volunteered to try to end the massacre and did so by telling him stories that carried over from one night to the next for nights that stretched into years.

She spun stories around him that kept him in a cocoon of anticipation from which he eventually emerged a less murderous man. In the course of all this telling she bore three sons and delivered a labyrinth of stories within stories, stories of desire and deception and magic, of tranformation and testing, stories in which the action in one freezes as another storyteller opens his mouth, pregnant stories, stories to stop death.

Do you tell your story or does it tell you? Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear silence, to name them and then to become the storyteller. Those ex-virgins who died were inside the sultan’s story; Scheharazade, like a working-class hero, seized control of the means of production, and talked her way out.

--The Faraway Nearby (2012)

[Rebecca Solnit]

#Storytellers #Scheharazade #The Arabian Nights #stories #The Faraway Nearby #Rebecca Solnit #quotes #words and writing

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quotelr · 4 days

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Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

A.D. Posey

#quotelr #quotes #literature #lit #ad-posey #art #canvas #elixir #film #inspirational #life #magic #stories #story #storytellers #storytelling #ultimate #write #writers #writing #writing-quotes

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ebookporn · 4 months

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A quote for today:

"I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business: he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once."

—Alex Raymond

#comics #illustration #artists #writers #storytellers #librarians #literacy #creators

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dogicrimsonofficial · 23 days

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Heavensward spoilers below-

We got through the base game of Heavensward. Vault happened. It didn't stick in Storytellers canon, though the Storytellers were quick to confiscated all arms and armor in Fortemps manor to make sure still-recovering-Haurchefant wouldn't follow them to the battle (which is why he's on more casual clothing).

Then a certain OTHER bossfight with the Fossil King and the Fucks of the Round Table happened. Jason wanted revenge. Got too close. He lost good chunk of his hair.

He was not happy, the lad might have a self-confidence of an self-critical artist but he was rather proud of his hair.

#ffxiv #wolchefant #Jason Windsaga #digital art #Dogi art #Storytellers

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badwritermedia · 2 years

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