Hello, can you recommend grammar books? :)
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is a highly recommended one, as is Understanding and Using English Grammar. But if you're looking for a grammar book from a writer's perspective, The Elements of Style is often a go-to (ignore the Amazon link, you can easily find this book online for free).
I love this phenomenon. I'm sure there's a better terminology for it than my ramblings, but I see it everywhere, it goes beyond foreshadowing and into things like subtext, and I don't think it's necessarily accidental.
A very common example you see in online spaces are trans folks drawing themselves as the opposite sex long before the realize years after the fact that that might mean something.
Hayao Miyazaki has the most chaotic way of making films that I've ever seen. He has no idea how the story is going to end when production starts. In Spirited Away he described the flooding at the end as a fortunate accident. He wanted the train scene to be completely barren in contrast to all the previous visual noise, and was relieved when he realized he had foreshadowed it.
There's a fun interview with spielburg about close encounters of the third kind where he's confronted with the interpretation that the movie ends with music and computer science coming together which were the respective professions of his parents, so it was a scene about him reaching out to communicate with his parents, and he laughs because he didn't realize that when he made it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton said “Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.” and I think that describes this perfectly. You know what a 4 act structure is in basic terms, and there's nothing particularly superhuman about recreating that formula, but there's this small but significant part of you that, unbeknownst to you, is intentionally calling shots and turning that work into something more than you intended.
You could call it accidental, but you did it. Another good quote from red letter media: "You may not have noticed, but your brain did."
fav customer is old gay man who’s lived in boystown since the 70s. he was talking abt how he used to be basically a skinny twink who killed at clubs. i said “must be tough to be gorgeous” and he said “well i was gorgeous!” and i said “no you still are!!” and he said “oh please. when i come out of the shower and see myself in the mirror i sit shiva”
(That’s jewish pratice of mourning someone for seven days for those not in the know)
During which many people cover their mirrors.
i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled
for those of u asking for the vid!
Wanted to see if I could accurately draw a Garfield yesterday, and then just kinda kept going. Enjoy my garf crimes.
This post has escaped containment within the fandom and I keep seeing tags like "lol WTF looks like a Sonic character", and it's extremely funny for me
New Looney Tunes Crew done did it again
It took me a few seconds to realize this is new! The art style and the animation style are so similar to the originals that the only tells I could find are the higher quality from the ones I grew up with and they were never in a sushi restaurant in any of the old shorts I remember.
Revolving sushi bars came to the US in the early 2000s, so yes, this is delightfully sizing up a brand-new modern, interesting space with contraptions and objects we're all familiar with and transforming into a fantastic battleground and obstacle course.
In New Horizons, if the game can't load an NPC due to their referenced model name being invalid, or for other reasons, the game will instead load a naked, unnamed Bob in their place as a failsafe. This was likely a dummy NPC used for testing reasons.
the first good Danganronpa Twitter gimmick account just dropped
alison bechdel or they might be giants
giants to watch out for
they might be dykes
Shout out to this fuckin' Looney-Tunes-ass circle wipe, ahahaha~
This is environmental storytelling
i got spanish anon hate for this one btw
[ID: a black t-shirt with red lettering that reads, "Ronald Reagan is in Hell waiting for Heaven to trickle down." -end ID]
