Mabes

Mabes

@mabes.northsky.social

Your favorite aspiring lawyer, history nerd, pedantic as culture PNW, Cascadia Cringe is dead and I'm still breathing Is it a fantasy, or a truth that beggars the soul to admit? She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️ Confirmed Lives: 7 my scale says i'm 27, that's enough

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I built the house of this account with cheap MS Paint 3d edits for Signalis and 1000xRESIST, and I suspect I will need to do the same soon for all my most recent indie game fixations

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A story of survival, strength, and solidarity. cocoon - One Summer of Girlhood, based on the book by Machiko Kyo, is out now on Digital on Demand. Pre-order on Blu-ray, available January 19. 🦋 brnw.ch/21x6Gzn

We gotta let it fail fam We gotta be bold to let the Too Big To Fail, fail it is the only way things will start getting better

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Grand Theft Auto VI reported to be 210 GB download

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What Kamala Harris proposes in not impeaching Trump is this the same reason why letting Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate soldiers and leaders off the hook was a bad idea.. We've been paying for it ever since😡

You gotta be tender, but you can have a fury and a rage and a weeping and a wail in it. You gotta be hurtful in willingness to be hurt. You gotta sing those songs when the words do not wanna come. You gotta be gentle, and you gotta weep with a wrath

cover artists i don't think i should have to say this but if an original song is mostly about teeth clenched resilience and determination to survive, you cannot low step that into cutesy thwomp croon. You gotta go AT IT. You gotta fight with the world. You gotta "i'll never go hungry again"

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This is what I'm talking about... If you honestly think "I just want to have fun" "it's a quick doodle" "I'm following a trend" fascism is the trend you're following... Sorry to be a buzzkill... you can apologize, delete your "quick doodle" and move on and draw something else.

Department of Education posting Malfoid art btw. I’m losing my mind man.

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#SIGNALIS Did my version of the infamous shotgun shells from SIGNALIIS (a.k.a. the greatest work of fiction ever made) ^3^ Thank you RoseEngine for altering my brain chemistry forever~

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I don't understand why we give movies... three days? Before we call them a failure? This is a movie for kids; it will be watched; it will be cherished. Just, give it a second, maybe? We can't measure success with the box office anymore. That's not how movies work these days??

I'm sitting on the conflict that I've seen come up a few times with friends who create, of the character in their head, the character on the page, and the character in all moments that occurred in between the 2, and why so often creators and readers clash.

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In part. To different degrees. But i do wonder if there's something to be worked on there, the value in having, for lack of a better phrase, friends who you do not want to be part of your life, so they can give you the contrast. Readers who do not engage with fandom or the creation process.

The bucket of water of "oh wait is that what it *is* not what i wanted and believed it to *be*?" Yada yada, GRRM and gardening, being bold enough for characters to tell you you are wrong about them as a creator. Humility of recognizing the created and not the intended. This has gone on too long

I'm sitting on the conflict that I've seen come up a few times with friends who create, of the character in their head, the character on the page, and the character in all moments that occurred in between the 2, and why so often creators and readers clash.

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The only version of the character that exists to the Creator is the one in motion, the one that has changed, the one that is more of a breathing living thing, that they themselves are in dialogue and self reflection to. They shape and are shaped by that process.

But we do not see it that way. We see the end state of that mutualism of existence, a snapshot, a single release version. And we don't treat characters as things grown out of and grown with this creator. We see them as singular people. And so any discussion or criticism is criticism of the creator

I'm sitting on the conflict that I've seen come up a few times with friends who create, of the character in their head, the character on the page, and the character in all moments that occurred in between the 2, and why so often creators and readers clash.

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We paint in the margin space of all the choices we make, the things we aren't aware of ourselves. And those things are more readily apparent to the reader, the viewer. They are not bound up in the conception of the thing as it was meant to be, they see it as it is. Or at least, as it is for them

The other stumbling block in supplementary canon. The way you talk about characters in communities as it is created. All the apocrypha and headcanon and consensus built up. The ways a final work are different to the viewer seeing the end product, who hasn't been in a discord for years

I'm sitting on the conflict that I've seen come up a few times with friends who create, of the character in their head, the character on the page, and the character in all moments that occurred in between the 2, and why so often creators and readers clash.

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This is, to be clear, an instance where neither party is wrong. The creator cannot see what the creation has become because they can never look on it with fresh eyes and see the thing as it is now. They know too much and hold on to all the interpretations/secrets unseen. They are parents to children

The thing that has resulted can and does get away from them, and that's a facet of creation and interpretation that fascinates me, the unintentionally of it, the way we put our blood into things and the things become of us, but we don't know ourselves, and thus we don't know our children.

I'm sitting on the conflict that I've seen come up a few times with friends who create, of the character in their head, the character on the page, and the character in all moments that occurred in between the 2, and why so often creators and readers clash.

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We watch the play, from our seats of limited vantage, and we cannot see the wings, we cannot see the behind the scenes of production, we cannot see the writing and refining process. And so the end product becomes only what fresh eyes see, and they will not see the same thing

When all the notes are laid down, when all the words are written, people who haven't been part of the process will interpret it solely based on what they have, and a stumbling block I've seen happen is creators getting mad, because people take away radically divergent interpretations.

I'm sitting on the conflict that I've seen come up a few times with friends who create, of the character in their head, the character on the page, and the character in all moments that occurred in between the 2, and why so often creators and readers clash.

Because a character becomes who they are by the words that are written and available, or what the audience at large sees, and that's usually a radically different thing to what the creator imagines them to be. Because we see only a pinhole of the entire process and experience of them

Probably the best thing Resident Evil 2026 has going for it is how early on the inevitability sinks in That you know what's going to happen, and all the rest is making the best use of that time

Like i know the horrors will produce more, better art, but honestly I'd just take slop of good times if it spared my loved ones and acquaintances hardship

We do not stand for the Oregon Ducks i have infinite love and support for everyone of my countrywomen and all who wish to become one, but THE OREGON DUCKS MUST BE DESTROYED

why is the only place i can find a reference for my favorite stretch the fighty punchy man from JJK. I learned it on swim team and done right it pops your whole back, your shoulders, and your rib cage, and just no one seems to do it

I need Tate Kitebussy to hype up Wildwood so it makes money because nothing that beautiful deserves anything less than being sold out for a month also it is the most condensed unabashed PNW propaganda film put to celluloid and i must inflict more earnestness on the world

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i am constantly thinking about @juliagiantrat.bsky.social's "nephew principle" in that it's crucial to have a metaphorical nephew in your life who is fucking up their entire life in unfathomable ways so that no matter what you can always go Wow, At Least I'm Not Doing That. I'm Doing Okay In Life.