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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.
“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕
Every january goth couples are fucking hard to try and have a halloween baby they're gonna name ophelia or some shit
I’m a Halloween baby but my parents are normal so I’m Garrett
Hi garrett
it would be fascinating to do a linguistic analysis of the way caliborn uses periods
like, for one thing, he tends to use them at the boundaries of longer phrases. in general, if most people would use a comma somewhere, caliborn will use a period instead. but he'll also insert periods in places where most people wouldn't pause at all
that said, he doesn't just put them anywhere. he usually doesn't break up shorter phrases. for example, he generally wouldn't put a period between an adjective and the noun it modifies
god, i would love to dig deep into this and work out all the "rules" of caliborn's syntax. i could easily write a whole paper on this subject. it would arguably not be a great use of my time, but i could
hell, not just caliborn — it would be fascinating to analyze how homestuck uses language as a vehicle for characterization in general. not in the content of what the characters say (though there's tons to analyze there too) but in the way different characters use different syntactic constructions and make different orthographic and stylistic choices
like, there's a lot about the typing quirks that are obvious. karkat is ornery, so he TYPES IN ALL CAPS AS IF HE'S YELLING. sollux has a duality theme, so he replaces the letter S with the number 2. etc.
but there are more subtle impacts, too. for example, i would bet that rose averages way more words per line than dave does. that's partially because rose is excessively loquacious. but it's also because dave's lack of punctuation means that the only way he has to break up his text is with line breaks, so unlike rose he'll often split his sentences into multiple lines
and then there's things like characters modifying their word choices to shoehorn in their gimmicks more. so equius has more "oo" sounds in his text because he's always looking for places to use the numbers 100 or 001. vriska and aranea use a lot of words that rhyme with "ate". calliope uses british spelling seemingly solely so that she can use more 'u's. etc.
and then there's the fact that the characters are written the same way when they're speaking out loud as when they're typing, so their "typing quirks" are implied to reflect the way they speak. dave doesn't use punctuation in text, and likewise in person he rambles on and on without pause. sollux's '2's represent his lisp, and go away when he loses his teeth and stops lisping. and so on
all of this together gives all the characters distinct "sounds" to their voices even without being voiced at all, and i just think that's so cool. homestuck is an incredible demonstration of how to give all of your characters unique voices. there is just so much there you could look at, from a linguistic perspective