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This is interesting. I feel like this is a lot of what I’ve been trying to say about a lot of things… that things are difficult because unless you know a person well, you never really know if what you’re saying means to them what it means to you. This is why writing for strangers is difficult.
This is why people write for a “community” - the “community” is unified by conforming their signifiers to the same signified meaning (not consciously/overtly, of course). But if I can’t find a community whose definitions can accommodate the meanings I want to portray… it’s difficult.
I’m also sure that some class I taught touched on this, but then when I asked questions about it, the professor just told me not to ask and that it wouldn’t be on the test. But by the way it was covered so superficially, I get the sense that they themselves didn’t really get it.
Another thing that I just saw was talking about this writer’s early life, and that he lived between several different cultures and religions, and saw that each group saw itself as the only group that knew the “truth”… but he realized that it was far more likely that they were all wrong than that any of them were right. That’s sort of my experience of the world, too. Except obviously not as horrible or life-threatening as living during World War II…
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Tagged by @sugirandom
Put your whole music library on shuffle, then post the first 10 songs that come up.
- (Opera. Lots of opera. Not going to put those on the list, just going to put a count up here, because if I did put those, the list would be all opera, and that wouldn’t be fun because I don’t think a lot of people here care about that… if you do, definitely tell me, though! But yeah, each opera will be like… over 30 tracks sometimes, and then I have multiple recordings of the same opera… so that adds up to a lot.)
Donizetti - 12 from Don Pasquale, 3 from L’elisir d’amore
Mozart - 2 from Idomeneo, 6 from Cosi fan tutte, 1 from Zauberflote 1 from Le Nozze di Figaro
Bizet - 11 from Carmen, 1 from Les Pecheurs de perles
1. Over the Rainbow - Marginal #4
2. Crystal Switch - Lagrange Point
3. Sazanka - John
4. Flow Away - Growth
5. Ayanagi Showtime - Otori Arrange ver. - Starmyu
6. Seven Stories - Angela (K7S…. trailer music that isn’t actually a theme?)
7. Javert’s Soliloquy - Les Miserables (25th anniversary concert)
8. nox ~ kaze no record ~ - Yoru (Procella)
9. Mirai no Piece - TsukiCro
10. The Press Conference - Anastasia (Broadway)
11. Wonderful Wonder! - StarMyu (this is one of my favorite Starmyu songs <3)
12. Kimi dake no sign - Momochi (…. dearvo)
13. Crazy Baby Show - SolidS
14. Pandora Box - Unicorn Jr.
15. Both Sides of the Coin - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (recent Broadway)
…. I made it 15, sorry.
As for tagging…. @negative-diva? @driftwoodwolf? Anyone else who wants to? Sorry if I didn’t tag you and you want to be tagged, please tag yourself, I just don’t want to bother anyone……..
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Here’s a drawing though. It’s Aoi from Tsukiuta but I think the fandom would just think it’s weird, so I’m not going to tag it…
It’s late mermay, obviously. ….. because may.
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If someone *had* an art business and a patreon and all that and they *were* making a living off of that, and then one day, all their followers and customers vanished, would you tell *them* “don’t worry about it, just draw for yourself”?
Then don’t tell me that, either.
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Can we talk about this “draw for yourself” thing?
People always say, “you can’t worry about what other people think, you have to draw for yourself!” Like, to be a real artist, you have to study hard, practice like crazy to improve, and then when you finish a drawing, just… look at it, smile, close the sketchbook, and never care if anyone sees.
If someone wants to write songs for multiple musicians, and they play their songs on the piano and sing them themselves (even when they’re meant for multiple singers), or maybe digitally mix in a second vocal track of their own singing or a track of them playing another instrument… and then they say that someday, they really want to hear a whole band playing one of their songs live, would you tell them, “oh, don’t want that. You have to just write for yourself!”
If someone wants to be an actor, and their dream is to star in a professional production, and they keep going to auditions, and sometimes they just fail, but sometimes they almost make it… and then they don’t, and they wonder, “what do I have to improve to get them to cast me?”, would you tell them, “Don’t worry about that, you just have to act for yourself! You just have to be satisfied saying lines in front of a mirror in your room, with no castmates, no director, no sound, no set, no costumes, no feedback, no one to make memories with…. if you want any of that, you’re just whining for attention and you should be ashamed. You’re doing this for the wrong reasons, you’re not a real artist.”
You wouldn’t say that - well, if you would, you don’t understand what it is at all - but why is it okay to say that to a visual artist or fiction writer?
Why are visual artists not allowed to want to collaborate?
Why are novelists not allowed to want to see their work discussed?
Why are comic artists not allowed to go into an anime goods store and see all the merchandise and think, “I hope that someday I can see my characters there”?
Why are writers not allowed to say, “someday, I want to collaborate with a musician to make a soundtrack to my story,” or even, to want some sort of acted adaptation of their work made?
Why are some artists expected to be satisfied with never, ever sharing their work, to the point where you tell them they’re not a “real artist” if they want to share it?
You know, you’re also saying that professionals, by definition, aren’t real artists because they show their work to editors and their audience.
Or do you assume that every person who’s a professional just… drew for themselves, and smiled at it, and closed the sketchbook, and never showed their work to anyone intentionally, until one day, a friend happened to see by accident, and say “wow, that’s really good!” And got them a professional contract just by chance?
No.
There are some people who became successful by accident. Those handful of people who, a few years ago at the dawn of these new things, made a ton of money off of Kindle or Youtube, spent it all, got burnt out, weren’t prepared for the negative attention along with the positive, and weren’t prepare when their audiences moved on. Right now, most of them are back where they started, like Alice coming back from Wonderland.
Real professionals work hard to improve, and to get their work in front of people. That doesn’t make them fake artists, that doesn’t make them “sell-outs” for attention, it just means that they want their art to mean something to someone other than themselves. Why is that wrong?
It means they want to talk to the artists they admire, who are doing the innovative things in their field, and exploring new ideas. It means that they want to create something that can’t be contained in some sketchbook in their drawer.
Maybe I’m not good enough at drawing to be allowed to dream. Maybe that’s what you’re trying to tell me? Is that why people react with shock and befuddlement when I say that I really do want to publish my work professionally? I know I’m bad at drawing, but that’s not the point. It’s not right to tell anyone to aim low, to stay in that small town their whole lives and never find anything better.
I think that when people say this, they don’t really understand what they’re saying. This is what you’re saying.
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Writer of "Emerald Prince" and "Crown of Altair". 日本語の練習は必要ですね。間違っていたら訂正してください。ありがとうございます〜
