Tag: truth

misbehavingmaiar:

sebastian-bond:

but-the-library-of-alexandria:

the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise – what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

Tolkien had the time apparently

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

eldochflamma:

valarhalla:

jimintomystery:

I’ve had this rant building for a while, so here goes.

I have no use for works that must depict increasing cruelty to hold an
audience’s attention.  If all you have to say about suffering is “can you
top this?” I am not impressed.  And I resent the implication that this makes me too weak-willed or emotionally involved to properly form an opinion.

There is a fine line between doing something brilliant that generates controversy, and generating a controversy in the hope of appearing brilliant.  The former should not be used to make excuses for the latter.  The mere act of pushing the envelope does not, in and of itself, result in an artistic triumph above criticism.  Indeed, the point of pushing the envelope would seem to be to risk failure, incite emotions, and invite criticism.  If you poke the bear, you don’t get to whine that the bear is taking it too personally, or that the bear should wait and see where you’re going with this.

It’s a free society and stuff, so I’m not gonna tell anyone they can’t wallow in their sadism or creepy shit.  But people who do that crap don’t get a free pass, that says it’s ~*~art~*~ so nobody can say anything bad.  Art is supposed to pull you in and tell you something.  If a work tells me “this artist is just trying to fuck with people,” it’s not my job to apologize and learn to enjoy that.

THIS. I’m so sick of the way that now seemingly every tv show these days includes graphic torture scenes because it’s gritty! it’s edgy! it’s a show for adults etc. There seems to be this pretty widespread attitude of “you can’t have your dessert of good tv unless you eat your vegetables of torture scenes first”. And if you can’t take it, well, you’re a wuss and ruining it for everyone else. 

I’m an adult, I just want to sit back and watch an episode of non-episodic tv without having to sit through a graphic torture/sexualised violence scene, I want to watch tv feeling better and not worse for having done so, is that too much to ask?

This. All of this.