What happens behind the scenes of your beautiful fics… (only for fun and not always true)
1. The writer gets an idea from a random post or a song or a movie they want to rewatch. Writer posts about the idea, rants about the idea, talk about the idea to everybody they meet but when they sit down to write they stare at a blank document for hours.
2. 100 tabs of research for one paragraph they want to make accurate. In the next paragraph, they forget what they were trying to prove with the previous one.
3. Curses thrown at characters who refuse to cooperate with the plot. “WILL YOU JUST FEEL SAD ALREADY?!”
4. 3 a.m. texts to group about a headcanon they HAVE to use six chapters later.
5. English is NOT a universal language because what the fuck is wrong with spellings?!
6. Commas, commas everywhere, not an Oxford shall be spared.
7. The writer is dead inside but they are breaking the feels vault.
8. Pining to heights higher than pine trees.
9. Who tf created communication? We revel in misunderstandings always.
10. YouTube videos of gun disassembling and baking.
11. Shades of brown and blue eyes. THE SKY IS NOT AZURE APPARENTLY!
12. Editing? We chop content like maniacs!
13. Beta hunting. Beta hunting failure. Dumping content in the pit of ravenous readers and watching the world burn.
14. Beta hunting success? 50 rants about the importance of Mario Kart in romantic success.
15. Post it post it post it!!! HOLY SHIT WHY DID I POST IT?! Thank GOD it’s posted…
16. Refresh the inbox. Refresh, you lazy ass, REFRESH!
17. One new comment *jumps over the couch* *slides along wet floor* *fumbles through fallen furniture* “more please!”
18. Thinks about posting the next chapter -> I HATE MY BRAIN WHY TF WOULD I WRITE MULTICHAPTER FICS WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!!!
19. Sits down to write the next chapter. Gets a new idea.
as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.
There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared.
Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually.
If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)
“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”
“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”
“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”
“Cool.”
It’s not hard.
You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.
this is a good post.
Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.
Right but if you decided to go and get a muzazah and you are not Jewish then that is a problem.
people need to learn the difference between having something shared with you and when you are stealing it
people also need to give credit where credit is due
here’s a good test
1. is this sacred? Does it have religious or cultural significance, and are you using it outside of that context? (eg: warbonnets, seders)
2. Are people from within that culture treated as lesser for doing the thing while people outside the culture are rewarded for it? (eg black people getting fired for wearing their hair in locs or braids)
From an interview found on the site"Mon nom est personne" (My name is Nobody), which contains stuff on the above film and a lot of other articles, mostly in French. These pearls of wisdom are from an interview withSergio Leone at the time FAFDM came out. Feel free to blame me for the translation.
Cynicism gives a more accurate depiction of men, and for me the main problem is how to get rid of conventional patterns.
Women merely slow down the narrative, that’s it. In my second film, how would it have been possible for a bounty hunter to stop and fall in love? I am against all commercial constraints and am guided only by the wish for realism.
(On Lee Van Cleef) I had already seen him in a film where he never opened his mouth, but I was fascinated by his intense eyes and his dark gaze similar to that of a snake.
exactly. there’s nothing there. not a statue. not a plaque. nothing.
[drives over hitler’s death site]
Bloody amazing.
And you know what’s right next to it?
That’s right, the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden, which translates to the Memorial for the murdered jews.
So if you wanna go have a look at the monument commemorating the victims of Hitler’s regime, you can park your car right on the spot he died and walk there.
Totally agree! A great scene and imho one of the scenes which prove Blondie is really “The Good”. He shows compassion and comforts the young soldier without having his own benefit in mind. Blondie even leaves him his coat … and the universe immediately awards him with a cool poncho in compensation 😉
Love it. The silent fear in the boy’s eyes, the silent compassion in Blondie’s, the “war is pointless pain” soundtrack theme, and yes, the new coat, the future new identity.
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