Gina Szanboti

So...apparently all Wendy's workers are female. And yet...this training video seems to be aimed at a male workforce. Unless Dave was a lot more progressive than I gave him credit for.

In your fireplace?

In what world is this a comedy? oO

I hear ya.

Right there in the cast list!

I think you're the first or second person I've ever deliberately @ed. Should I have @ed Sponges too? As for whether it should make you feel better or worse about your writing, how about neither? It's been a pretty generic discussion, so if you see something said that validates or improves your approach, then yay. Coming to your own conclusions about what you're doing right or wrong after reading analyses not aimed at your work is surely easier than being directly in the crosshairs of critics or editors. No?

Do I care? I do not. They're anime, they're Christmas-themed. And they're funny. So watch them. You want a whole series mostly about Christmas? Watch Kurau Phantom Memory.

Hetalia Axis Powers Ep 31 All of the Gintama Christmas episodes, especially 200-201. Santa Company (Christmas movie, but not really recommended unless you're desperate for Christmas anime)

I kinda get the thing about chipping away the stone to reveal the figure within, from writing fanfic. I have a couple of short stories and a novella under my belt and in the latter I gave a child a stuffed toy, which I wanted to be anything but a teddy bear. It turned out that by the end of the story, the toy I picked was the perfect choice and gave the ending such an unexpectedly poignant resolution that if it had only occurred to me that late in the game I would've had to go back and change it had I chosen say, a platypus. There were a number of other instances where there was no conscious planning by me, but that the characters (who I've denied all agency to! ;)) kept speaking up and saying, "Nope, not doing that. I'm doing this. Deal." I guess that's how you know you're on the right track anyway. I've also done some editing for people's fan-fics and some published novels, and one thing I've noticed in the less experienced writers' work is a distrust of the reader to do their part of the collaboration in filling in some of the specifics. They will go into excruciating detail about every tiny facet of how their characters look and sound, and what motivates their every thought and action, from deciding to take a shower to deciding to kill a man, which are given equal weight. They will go to any length (including thousands of extra words, dozens of extra chapters, hundreds of extra pages) to actively prevent the reader from supplying any of the experience. It's very difficult to discourage that without damaging their writer's ego. But even in movies, or at least good movies, they leave enough room by the end for the audience to ponder why a character did x instead of y (and as the author, you'd better have at least one answer for that, even if you don't openly reveal it). Leaving too many of those kinds of questions is a problem, but too few is possibly worse. Why is @SorceressPol not here?

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/woman-world/01/viewer?title_no=100912&episode_no=1

They'll be back.

Well, no, I said it's on the writers for what they've scripted, not the readers' interpretations. I'm usually not very big on the "death of the author" viewpoint that once a work is out in the world, what the author intended or was trying to say is irrelevant, and all that matters is the consumer's interpretation. That said, I do think novels and to a lesser degree, manga/comics, are collaborations of the author and the reader, where anime and movies are essentially the creators spoon-feeding a relatively passive audience that either likes what's presented or doesn't (along the same spectrum of whether you like various foods or not). With novels the writer offers their words, but those words take shape in the mind of the reader who provides the final visuals, sounds, scents, tastes, etc. completing the experience. The author guides this, but can't control the final "product." Likewise manga, except there are more visual cues from the author. With movies and anime though, almost all of that is provided. Like, Black Widow looks and sounds like Scarlett Johansson if you're watching a movie. Her acting influences how you view the character's actions. You can be literally rattled in your seat when things blow up real good. You don't get to decide those things like you do when reading, when it's just you and the author. Sorry for the tangent.

Maybe. But...

♫ Well the atmosphere's unpleasant But these flames are incandescent So if there's vapor in the skies Crystallize, crystallize, crystallize! ♪ (w/ apologies to Nathan Pyle)

He sounds terribly out of breath for someone who walks for a living.

You could watch it and just delete your cookies afterward.

I'm still not quite sure what you're on about, but still the writers, whether they mismanaged their own character or for doing a shit job of conceiving them or making them inherently flawed (if the flaws aren't part of their characterization traits). How could you blame fictional characters who have zero agency in their existence? It sounds like the flip side of those people who defend shitty characters' shittiness by saying "Being an egocentric misogynist is just who he is. You can't blame the writer for that!"

Someday I would like to see the beginning of Wonder Woman. FX has been running it now and then over the last couple months and today is the 5th time I've tried to see the first 25 min and failed. I always come in as the battle on the beach is already underway, so I have no idea why the island is being invaded or how Steve (is he Steve in this movie?) got there. Argh.

I needed to buy a $10 pack of fuses to give my oven one last shot at redemption before I try to build a solar oven. Ended up buying chocolate and massive quantities of albacore tuna (Wild Planet on sale for ~$2 a can).

@ DCO: I expect price drops over time, so it wouldn't bother me if I had been watching them (opportunity costs and all that) instead of sitting on unopened boxes while they depreciated in front of my fucking eyes!!! But the minute I say, "I'ma wait this time," for stuff I really do want, they either sell out, get released in a cheapo edition I don't want, or go out of print. They're already testing me as I said, with the Natsume movie and Haikyuu!! 3 just out. ::sigh:: Why will no one pick up Natsume Go and Roku? I wonder if a few years from now Rightstuf or Discotek will finally license Rakugo?

No Guns Life, Babylon and Blade of the Immortal, maybe? Beastars, if Netflix didn't have a lock on that. Has Toonami ever run Psycho Pass?

I couldn't help but take a peek, (just at the MegaDeal of the Day, riiiiight?) and remembered the other reason not to look: when I see what things I bought last year, or the year before, that I haven't opened yet, are selling for now, as opposed to what I paid for them then, my Scroogey little heart just shrivels with arrgghhhhh.

Not a meme, but it seemed fitting to this place somehow.