I haven’t. Do you mean To Serve God and Wal-Mart? It looks interesting.
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Darn hipsters.
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Frankfurt School Real Talk:
What if, for some people, Feminism really is the scariest thing since the Cold War.
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Calvin invented The New Sincerity. bananas.
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It is an act of faith to believe that atheists don’t pray in secret.
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Yeah, it’s a good book. I thought her discussion wal-mart workers was especially well done.
Thought I share [this][1]:
A good work of fiction presents themes, characters, and situations and then allows the reader to come to their own conclusions. What we’re talking about here is a work of fictions that presents these things in an intentionally misleading way for the purpose of either reinforcing the reader’s opinion (if they happen to share that opinion with the author) or trying to convince the reader that the author’s opinion is correct. Here, I’ll provide some examples.
Author A and Author B are both presenting a story that involves the conflict of whether or not jelly is better than jam. Both Authors share the personal opinion that jam is actually better.
Author A’s anti-jam characters are intentionally written as one-dimensional and inherently incorrect in all of their actions. They are dehumanized. The anti-jams have few, if any, redeeming qualities. Author A makes sure that they present no convincing arguments whatsoever for jelly being better than jam and instead only has them use poor arguments to make their point, after which the anti-jelly characters logically defeat them.
Author B, despite their opinions on jam and jelly, pulls no punches. All of the characters are presented as being human with both positive and negative traits. The reader is given enough room to decide through context of the story which party is right, which is wrong, or if both are wrong or both are right. Author B’s intent is not to convert others to their opinion or reinforce anyone’s opinion, but simply to portray things as they are.
Author B portrays. Author A promotes. Author B writes characters that feel human. Author A writes characters that are made of cardboard.
The primary difference between these writing styles is that Author A has an additional rule. It’s never directly spoken, but it’s obvious the rule exists in this fictional world that Author A has created. In addition to the laws of physics, etc. there is now also the Law of Authorship, an infallible new cosmic principle that exists within Author A’s story that states, boldly and simply, ‘The author of this story’s opinions are always right’.
That explains many frustrations with corporate media and entertainment as a whole.
[1]: http://theangriestfeminist.tumblr.com/post/114237449954/dear-webcomic-artists#notes
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The bizarro version of this blog is called
##bourg-bourg
Serge Gains Bourg-Bourg?
(This page has some issues)
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Bourg bourg bourg!
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Pengo!
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Holy crap!!!
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That’s that place over in Belgium, isn’t it? Always wanted to have a play there.
ETA: There’s a place in Italy that’s deeper than Nemo 33 now.
Cool…
Apparently Italy. When I saw this post title pop up on BBS this is the first thing my mind went to.
I would swim in it for an appropriate sum of money but otherwise no thanks. Deep water is inexplicably scary for me.
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