#nonderivable

[marcspectrr]

Listennn, having more thoughts about Marc's inability to match Steven in his openness and self-expression because of his learned behavior of deeming it as wrong and how it ties in with how he later views Jake.

Marc conforms to cope, with suppressing parts of his identity related to his autism, his DID, his trauma. He masks, he hides, he lies, despite it all taking even more of a toll on him. But you watch episode 5 and Steven's effects on Marc are...so obvious.

There's this innate vulnerability he has around Steven, both in his physicality and his emotions. Without even really trying, Steven is already teaching Marc self-love, just like how Layla teaches him more secure attachment styles.

But really, Marc doesn't fully understand how bad he was/is at hiding and being chronically, viscerally, utterly, compulsively incapable of allowing himself peace until. He meets Jake. Then there's this slow but violent realization on Marc's end that that thing he's had to live with all his life? Where all his love for the people around him never quite made its way back into him intrinsically? Where self-worth was always contrived at best and a Gordian's knot at worst? Where cynicism was always reaching for his ankles, ready to hold him back from the very notion of latching onto faith?

Jake has it all, but so much worse.

They are cut from an eerily similar cloth. But moral relativism aside, Marc is adamant to help Jake reach that place that Steven helped him reach. Where his intrinsic self-worth is no longer shrouded in the words of his abuser, and he understands what it means to have objective value, and to someday sincerely believe he is a nonderivatively good person.

[gisellelx]

For the fanfic author asks do you want to talk about: 6, 30, and/or 42?

Thanks, @palmofafreezinghand

6. How do you come up with ideas?

In fanfic, I write the stories I want to read for which I can't find a version I love. Almost all of my fics come from me basically just wanting to be a voyeur: "The Talk," my first fic, was me reading the line in BD where Edward mentioned he'd talked to Carlisle about having sex and me thinking, "Well now that had to have been an interesting conversation!" So I wrote what I thought happened. They also come from conversations with people--Ithaca Is Gorges came from talking with my bestest bestie about the fact that as you get older, you start realizing that your parents are fallible people, and that one of the biggest problems with the Twilight saga is that Bella is taking Edward at face value when he has not ever managed to get to that point with Carlisle and Esme. So what do the Cullens look like when they're not filtered by Edward?

Also I was trained to write characters first; plot second. So "ideas" for me usually are "okay, in this situation, how would this character logically respond, given all the things they hold dear, are afraid of, think are at stake?" I don't think of plots first. Plots emerge (and frustratingly, keep emerging.)

30. What do you struggle with most when writing?

Perfectionism. So, so much perfectionism. I very often see something that needs to go first before I can write the second thing, and then if I can't write the first thing, it doesn't matter if the second thing is more white hot. It's the main reason I've shifted to fully drafting long fics and only posting fics that consist of what are effectively related one-shots: Cien Años right now has been stuck because there's a chapter with Rose and Esme I need in order to establish something about what Esme thinks of Carlisle before I go to one of Esme and Carlisle 70 years later. But I've been having issues with that one. I will obsess over pieces of a work and over individual sentences until they truly pass muster, and, if I decide there's something else that belongs in the work, I will edit it later. I appreciated your tag comment btw, and also laughed about it because I revise everything. Sideblog answers? Yep. Headcanon posts? Yep. This post? Yep! I will move beats around in a sentence on a reddit post so that it has the rhythm I want it to have, even though there's absolutely no creative merit in it at all.

I used to be way better at just writing and letting stuff stick but not anymore. The other day one of my collaborators talked about her writing process and described mine as "Oh and then [giselle-lx] just produces these perfect sentences that say exactly what we all mean" and I was like, "No I have just already edited five times before I put them into Overleaf!"

42. How do you get over writers' block?

I...don't? I'm staring at a fic in Scrivener that hasn't been updated since 2019 and which I started drafting in 2010. And like I said above, been stuck on another work for a year.

But the thing which works the most reliably is reading. When I read, whether nonderivative stuff (which is mostly what I read--I am a bad fanfic reader, I confess!) or fic, my brain starts sparking with ideas and then I can get going again. If I'm struggling to get words down, it's usually a sign I need to read more.

Oh and the other thing which reliably creates writing is getting the hell off social media. Every single time I am serious about that practice, my brain just rebels at how bored it is and starts writing. "Ordinary Time" happened after I deprived my brain of social media for a month, and "Drying Up" happened after I deprived it for merely a long weekend. I know this in my soul, and yet... :/ :shakes fist at Mark Zuckerberg:

Ask me things!

[chaosnightmare]

having an original work go extremely viral must be so insane like a nonderivative thing you made from scratch that just everyone collectively loves the hell out of. imagine writing rainbow tylenol

[djdxmusic]

The results you experience today are the result of actions you took yesterday, and the results you experience tomorrow will be the result of the actions you take today. Manifestation is real, I am thankful and appreciate @tedxyouthrva for having me. ("Attribution-NonCommercial - NonDerivative") 📷@homesoldphotography #tedx #tedxyouth #djdx #hiphop #performance #motivation #blessed #finallymoving (at Washington, DC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1GtY6OsvK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cyberroses]

The priorities for my brain's logic tree when browsing for fanfics, nothing outstanding

[philosophybits]

The socially relevant achievement of the average person serves in the vast majority of cases to repress the original and nonderivative, inner aspirations of the human being.

Walter Benjamin, "The Life of Students", Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#5yrsago Learn to write with William S Burroughs

In 1979, William S Burroughs delivered a series of lectures on creative writing (though he insisted that he was teaching creative reading -- that is, analyzing the writing process by reading, because everyone can be taught to read, but only some will be able to write) at Naropa University. Three of these lectures, running to over four hours, are up on Youtube, covering writing exercises, Brion Gysin,  Aleister Crowley, science fiction, General Semantics, and cut-ups. These are excellent listening, and are licensed Creative Commons   Attribution-NonDerivs-NonCommerical (as is the rest of the Naropa collection.)

William S. Burroughs lectures on creative reading, including a discussion about various authors including Joseph Conrad, Denton Welch, Jane Bowles, Brion Gysin, and Julian Jaynes. Burroughs also addresses subjects such as art heroes, hemispheres of the brain, and the training of assasins.

William S. Burroughs' lecture on creative reading - Burroughs mentions a wide variety of authors including Aleister Crowley, Paul Bowles, and many others. The class also discusses science fiction, non-fiction, general semantics, scriptwriting, cloning, rotten ectoplasm, and judgement in cut-ups, as well as Burroughs's novel The Soft Machine.

https://boingboing.net/2014/02/26/learn-to-write-with-william-s.html

[perkwunos]

I wish to detach Whitehead's ontology of individuals from certain dimensions of his temporal description of them. There is a conception of temporalization that is essential to process metaphysics, but which does not subject past and future to absolutely derivative ontological status. This conception will involve the development of a notion of "ecstatic individuality," which asserts that an entity exists with the ontological status of its subjectivity to some degree in every subject in which it comes to have influence (and, to an extent, in every subject from which it originally derived). Thus, nature is to be seen as an affair of degrees of valuation (intensities) assuming a real and ontologically original (nonderivative) status in all other such degrees and perspectives of valuation (other intensive standpoints). Whitehead was mistaken to think that intensive, evaluative individuality had to be confined to a radically perishing conception of presentness. The way Whitehead (and consequently his interpreters) ontologizes the past, present, and future operates at a separate, more abstract analytical level than the actual process of temporalization. Temporalized intensive individuals are spread out across any and all temporal modes.

Judith A. Jones, Intensity: An Essay in Whiteheadian Ontology

[gisellelx]

Wanna do 5 and 6 for the writers' meta asks?

Thank you for the asks!

5. What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?

You know, this is a really hard question to answer! I don't particularly identify with any of the characters I write in Twific. The characters I am most like are Leah and Rosalie, but I don't write in their POVs often. Part of the reason I like fanfic writing is that it avoids one of the problems of nonderivative writing which is that people you know are always peering around the edges hoping to see something they recognize from your life, or ascribing your character motivations to you. I hate that; my characters are not me. They do things I wouldn't do, they like things I don't like. So I like that in fanfic, people for the most part don't assume that I think x just because my character does. After all these years, especially with the ole' sideblog, I find Carlisle's head and voice the easiest to get into, but that's not because I identify with him--he still baffles me on the regular. I often have to spend a long time understanding his motivations; that's exactly why I like writing him so much.

6. What character do you have the most fun writing?

This is a much easier question to answer. I have a blast writing "Rene" (Renesmee's nickname) in Ordinary Time. She's a Gen-Zer, and she acts and sounds like it. I love writing speech patterns that are drastically different than her dads', having her call them out on things, and letting her sometimes be more of their kid. I love it when my readers notice that and leave reviews that go something like, "I love how she sounds younger than them!" That's what I'm going for.

I got inspired to start the January 6 chapter of Ordinary Time the other day and it begins with Rene not even saying hello on the phone but diving straight into a conversation with "What in the actual fuck is going on?" and Edward and Carlisle blanching about her language. SO FUN.

[manymanythoughts]

Oh boy! I know I haven't kept up with this blog well, but I'm pretty sure I have plenty of pictures to use to go back through the month spreads, at the very least.

the call I've finally made re: using others' purchased work on this blog, is that I'm making no money from it, so as long as I give credit where it's due and their chosen copyright license doesn't outright prohibit it, I'll post about it. I've seen the 'creative commons license' on a few sites and graphics, but no clarification of 'nonderivatives', so as long as I'm not making money, and since I'm such small fry, I'm probably gonna show them. Illustrations that aren't mine, though, won't be posted without artist permission, either stated on the art itself or as listed in their chosen copyright license.

i asked a professor about this, actually, and he said I was going about it the exact opposite of how I should- assume the most lax license until told to stop. fair enough! so if I'm told to take it down, obviously i will.

[marksedgwicknet]

#original #digital #newmedia #abstractart #digitalart #nonderived #abstract #abstracts #paperman https://ift.tt/2qXaBn5

[literatequotes]

“The socially relevant achievement of the average person serves in the vast majority of cases to repress the original and nonderivative, inner aspirations of the human being.” - Walter Benjamin, “The Life of Students”, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings

[insanitek]

Make Bismuth Crystals

Bismuth crystals. They are majestic and beautiful looking structures, and since bismuth melts at 520°F, it can even be made at home — if you have stainless steel pot you don’t mind sacrificing for science.

All you need for this is a stove, a stainless steel pot, and a stainless steel spatula. Take a look at the video below to see how we did it.

Lab notes:

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[adalidda]

Illustration Photo: High-purity (99.999%) titanium with visible crystallites (credits: Alexander C. Wimmer / Wikimedia  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivative 3.0 (US))

Clean Energy Transition Will Increase Demand for Minerals, says new World Bank report

A new report released today by the World Bank highlights the potential impacts that the expected continuing boom in low-carbon energy technologies will have on demand for many minerals and metals.

Using wind, solar, and energy storage batteries as key examples of low-carbon or “green” energy technologies, the report, “The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low-Carbon Future” examines the types of minerals and metals that will likely increase in demand as the world works towards commitments to keep the global average temperature rise at or below 2°C.

Check more https://adalidda.com/posts/zetoCg93ENcxecxnG/clean-energy-transition-will-increase-demand-for-minerals

[arxt1]

Towards construction of ghost-free higher derivative gravity from bigravity. (arXiv:1806.02045v1 [hep-th])

In this paper, the ghost-freeness of the higher derivative theory proposed by Hassan et al. in [Universe 1 (2015) 2, 92] is investigated. Hassan et al. believed the ghost-freeness of the higher derivative theory based on the analysis in the linear approximation. However, in order to obtain the complete correspondence, we have to analyze the model without any approximations. In this paper, we analyze two scalar model proposed in [Universe 1 (2015) 2, 92] with arbitrary nonderivative interaction terms. In any order with respect to perturbative parameter, we prove that we can eliminate the ghost for the model with any nonderivative interaction terms.

from gr-qc updates on arXiv.org https://ift.tt/2kSSLuA

[gisellelx]

For the ask game: 2, 8 & 17?

Thank you for the ask!

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

In my incredibly long-standing WIP (seriously, I penned the first section of it while on a flight home from London in 2010), there's a pivotal scene that I've been driving at for most of the fic. The scene itself is actually already written, but I'm looking forward to hooking it up to the rest of the narrative (and it will no doubt change). It's Carlisle finally confronting his grief over losing Edward and it's full of sensory imagery, literary symbolism, and all the stuff I love to do as a writer. There are also three major plot twists that hit in fast succession and honestly this is why I think I've been stuck on the scene I'm currently writing for like, six months--as soon as I tip this domino, the rest of them go and I have to make good on this plot in my head and that's scary AF. I suppose I'm not actually looking forward to writing it, but I'm looking forward to it being written!

8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

Yes! In a big way. I read exactly the kinds of things I write. In nonderivative work, I read fiction with deep theming and imagery, mostly standalones. I don't read genre fiction for the most part. In fic, I sink into stories that are about the canon characters, in the canon setting, and usually canon compliant or a very close canon-divergent AU. I don't typically read the "What if Bella was the vampire" or "What if Bella met Edward in college" AUs; I like the ones that spring naturally from some complication in canon. Sometimes I branch out a little, but that's the wonderful thing about fic and fiction more generally--there's so much of it, you can keep yourself occupied reading only exactly what you like, virtually forever. 17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?

I think in the renaissance, this is easier and I think more people perceive me more accurately. In the early 2010s Twific heyday, one thing that people misunderstood about my writing is that I am sincere. Looking back with the advantage of time, I can see how a ficcer who is always talking about fanfic as being worthwhile, who talks about things like craft, who had zero interest in the popular fics at the time would seem really pretentious. So a lot of people who didn't take the time to get to know me thought I was a stuck-up bitch, and I don't blame them in the one sense because bless them, they thought I was a normal person! 😂 But actually I am just a REALLY BIG NERD and I especially love to nerd about writing. I really do think these silly sparkly vampires are interesting I don't care who thinks that's dumb or immature. I like that in the renaissance, there are far more people who want to have actual conversations about the source material and that is thankfully less weird than it used to be. Thank you for the asks!