Because I have a few back-to-back dates taking place in Honeycomb Valley, I'm spending a few days at my parents' house. It was easy getting from here to the beach this afternoon, where I met Draxton.
Draxton had brought his dog, Jupiter. She was gorgeous. Draxton greeted me kindly.
We played on the beach with Jupiter for a bit, which was a lot of fun. Oh, I really love dogs and can't wait to have my own...
After a while, Draxton and I decided to go for a walk on the boardwalk. He talked about his job as a firefighter and his love for music. He seemed very passionate, which I thought was nice.
Some day, we're going to have to sit down and talk. More so like, you're going to have to enlighten me about your poetry!
You have me equally enthralled amd baffled!
Love reading you all the time!
im most of the time: discombobulated (which is also my mantra if you like try to pronounce it and we can laugh about it) thank you so much but believe me my writing is pretty mundane and we should always be baffled about everything and laugh about it
two women walk into a bar and start talking about their worst dating experiences. the first woman says "y'know, one time I dated a banjo player, but once we started kissing, I knew she really played the French horn."
the second woman asks: "how could you tell she was a French horn player just by kissing her?"
the first woman responds: "cause her hand was up my ass"
The turnaround is the section of a piece of music that leads back to the beginning. In a 12-bar blues, you can think of either the last four bars or the last two bars as the turnaround.
For now, we’re just focusing on the last two. If you nail the turnaround, you’ll sound like you know exactly what you’re doing, and your solos will have satisfying endings.
Although you can just play the minor pentatonic aimlessly over most 12-bars and sound okay, your solos will harmonise more sweetly with the band if you emphasise notes that are found in the chords you’re playing over.
not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]
cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes
just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks
there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.
edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.
#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite
Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:
In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.
A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.
In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.
I think it’d be funny if Dick and Jason, due to wearing bright yellow capes on the job for years, are capable of stealth to a frankly unhinged degree. They barely have to try anymore it’s so second nature. Dick can just completely disappear while in the loudest neon clothes imaginable. Jason is constantly startling people who don’t understand how they missed a guy the size of a fridge standing right there. Bruce is extremely grateful for his unbreakable poker face because they have both startled him by accident and would never ever let him live it down if they knew.