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A certain fic going around the Gravity Falls community - which I shall not name outside of tags for those who want to rightfully block out all mention of this fic - is not the most horrible thing I’ve ever read.
After I’m done eating dinner I’ll totally draw some kind of “christening this year’s housing” doodle.
(I can’t really call it a dorm, since it’s definitely not a dorm and is more like an apartment, but it’s totally not an apartment. Dormpartment?)
I just started reading the forward to my edition of Twelfth Night for my Shakespeare class and my head’s already filled with possible Mother 3 parallels.
OKAY THEN, SELF. YOU JUST KEEP GOING WITH THAT.
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aH i love your mother stuff !!! keep on keepin on and i hope you enjoy your stay ((8
T-thank you! :,D
So, those who follow me may have noticed two extremely long posts on my end detailing what I can only describe as “defensive character analysis” (it makes more sense in context, I swear). The conversation seemed to have stopped with my second post, as the original user did not decide to continue the debate, which is fine, I guess.
But while I’m by no means upset with myself for writing those responses, the entire affair left me feeling uneasy. So, while I haven’t deleted the responses (it would be wrong of me to delete them, I think, and I feel that the points I made about audiences and unreliable narrators, Dipper or otherwise, are worth keeping around), I have put them under Read More tags, which seem to work on my tumblr’s main page but not my dashboard? Not sure why, really. Probably because reblogging doesn’t have a Read More tag button and I had to manually add the coding. Or something like that.
Either way, I felt it was unfair to subject you all to those posts. This isn’t a social justice blog, and never will be, so I tend to keep those sorts of posts to a minimum. But in this case I responded because I was so, honestly irked, and I promise I’ll try harder to resist should the urge ever strike me again.
And in light of my post earlier today, Gravity Falls can now suck it…
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I didn’t think the focus was on how Robby was unfairly treated- he’s not the main character, not someone I have any reason to care about…
I’ll make sure to remember to keep away from you for the rest of my life. You’re too self-centered for my taste.
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empathizing with the protagonist is (unless subverted) highly imperative. It’s not a matter of personal taste but rather form and function: if the audience cannot empathize with the protagonist, our hearts are not with them, we cannot understand their actions and comprehend both their merits and faults, and the magic is gone…
As far as I can tell, I am the audience as much as anyone else…
And in light of my post earlier today, Gravity Falls can now suck it…
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I didn’t think the focus was on how Robby was unfairly treated- he’s not the main character, not someone I have any reason to care about…
I’ll make sure to remember to keep away from you for the rest of my life. You’re too self-centered for my taste.
Sorry I haven’t been online much these last few days - got a lot to get together before moving back on campus.
“Not H.G. Wells Approved”
for those of you who don’t know H.G. Wells was an author who wrote “The Time Machine”. it was about a man who builds a time machine. his girlfriend gets killed on a date so he goes back in time to stop her from getting killed. she ends up dieing no matter how many times he goes back. then he travels into the future, shit happens, his time machine ends up getting destroyed.
No
Nonononono wrong
I’m sorry to nitpick and I must sound like a total jerk but that is not the plot of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.
The romantic motivation is entirely a device of the (bad) modern adaptation of the film. In the novella (and the first movie adaptation), the protagonist’s motivation is nothing more than scientific curiosity, rather than a throng of time travel clichés like in the newest film.
This has been a lit nerd public service announcement *ollies out*
Why you no source? : <
I have so many ridiculous fanfic concepts filled with crazy nonsensical AU headcanons that I’ll never have time to write. I should do a “Fanfics I’ll Never Write” series where I summarize (in detail?) fics that I’ll never have the time to put honest effort in to.
…But would anybody actually read that?
( Just to clarify, it wouldn’t just be Mother stuff. In fact, it would probably mostly be not-Mother stuff. Part of the reason I don’t have enough time to write all this stuff is because SaB is a thing and it exists and stuff XD And Hinawa Story is full of AU headcanons, but I’m actually writing it, sort of. )
Last week home before going back up to campus next week.
Not sure if excited or depressed. Probably both.
Caught some awesome bits of the Perseid Meteor Shower last night~ Conditions weren’t optimal, but it was still awesome. I think some people in my house might be staying up to try and catch a peek tonight? I dunno if anybody but me over here can actually stay up : P
Ooh, yes, if it wasn’t so darn hot where I am (I’m on vacation in Arizona SOB) I would go outside too! Great birthday present. Heh. /irrelevant response
Hehe, it’s unusually hot for where I am right now, too (stupid heat wave which is apparently everywhere at once), but the actual staying up late part is no trouble for me : P
But hey, maybe tomorrow or the day after the heat’ll be more bearable for you? The shower’s supposedly supposed to last through then : )
In regards to video games and my dad.
I may or may not have cried while writing this. Which is to say I totally did, wow what a wimp.
Staying up to see if maybe I can catch a glimpse of the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight. Wish me luck!
Thanks X3
Believe me, I do have a reason that there haven’t been any updates. And it has nothing to do with lack of interest, or any lack of time…it’s complicated, and I’m sure I’ll explain it to everybody at some point : U
Not gonna lie, I was looking for an excuse to use that sprite XD Also, ANFJDNGJ THANK
“I don’t know if anyone has noticed this, but often the hints to an episode’s ending are given in the earlier parts of the episode…
That’s…less easter eggs and more just plain good writing? In a closed story arc (particularly for short stories, and you can consider each episode of a show like Gravity Falls to be its own short story), the ending is generally supposed to be reasonable, but at least somewhat unexpected. Or, it can be predicted (and hinted at), and you might guess the ending correctly, but it’s not a certainty (and there’s always exceptions to any rule, and not being structured like this doesn’t necessarily mean something is bad, but I digress). So all those instances are foreshadowing, really, and it’s a testament to how good the writing in Gravity Falls is.
Aw, thanks :,D
…this actually makes me feel kinda bad about not updating SaB for, like, two months. I’ve been meaning to write a post about that both here and on Starmen (no no no I’m not cancelling it SaB will never be cancelled even if it takes even more years to finish I swear).
I-
I just-
WHO
WHO ARE YOU
LET ME LOVE YOU
And yeah, this has been sitting in my messages for several weeks. Sorry about that : (
Symbols.com - A collection of symbols (mostly western, and both ancient and modern) with a great search function.
The Alchemy Web Site - specifically, their “Graphic signs for alchemical substances, processes, and equipment” subpage.
Symbols in Books of Alchemy - A comprehensive reference collected from a few alchemical texts. I believe there’s a crappy scan on Wikipedia with information that this page shows in far greater detail.
The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project - While not necessarily about alchemy, it is mentioned several times, and Diderot’s name comes up several times in symbols.com searches as a “definer of terms,” so to speak, on what some symbols represent. Either way, an awesome and comprehensive reference.
Steganographia, by Johannes Trithemius - A happy accident found during a scavenger hunt for the early “Irrational Treasure” OnDemand release, Trithemius is famous for writing the trilogy of books called the Steganographia, which on the surface is about magic and spirits, but also contains extremely detailed cryptography; the similarities, for those who know the premise of the show, are uncanny. While there is no direct translation available that I could find (there used to be a partial translation, apparently, but it’s now unavailable), there are several symbols scattered throughout the transcriptions of the trilogy, especially the first book, which might be useful to keep around in case this happy accident ends up being more than just that.
Oh yeah I was gonna post my class schedule for next semester. I’m not gonna go in to times (too much) or other crazy things, but here you go:
I still have…two weeks of summer break left? It gets cut short a bit since I have to, you know, get to school and move in and everything, and then there’s that last weekend and then classes start. They really make it a pain to get classes too so I’m glad I got in to stuff that (save calligraphy) I honestly need to take to graduate.
2 am Headcanon: I always felt that Hinawa’s character actually hides a great depth of despair. Maybe it’s because I’m compensating for the fact that she’s never portrayed negatively, or maybe it’s just because the story can’t start until she dies. I’m not quite sure how to explain it.
That feel when rudimentary research on the symbols in the first episode of Gravity Falls unearths a crapton of eternal life symbolism.
I’m positive I’m not the first person to realize it but it was cool to do the research on my own (oh no this show is bringing out the symbology geek within me I thought I quelled you with my Mother 3 and Great Goddess Symbolism essay in senior year of high school BACK VILE DEMON).
So it turns out Gravity Falls is really good.
Alright, Internet.
You win.