grout white shark
i genuinely really hope you’re happy with who you’re becoming– a little more so every day. i hope you really like yourself.
ITS EVOCATIVE! LIKE GREAT BIG HUGE BANANAS EXCEPT SHARP!
YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!
a lot of people are very angry with me over this, but I'd just like you to sit down and imagine a banana. maybe a green one so it's extra firm. if you need it to be harder, you can toss it in the freezer.
and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.
yeah. I think you're seeing the vision. you can apologize to me any time you're ready
GOD DAMN IT!
I hope this comes across as positive/complimentary: I'm reminded of the art teacher who is quoted somewhere on tumblr as saying approximately
I do not like this style. I will never like this style. ... My biggest criticism is that I merely dislike this [art project]. Make me hate it. Make me furious over how much fun you're having with this thing I hate.
You don't need that teacher's advice, though. You're already having so much fun that tumblr is furious.
73%: bad
This website is never beating the "no reading comprehension" allegations. "Claws like sharpened bananas" is an extremely evocative image and pretty scary.
...Albeit the mental image it gives me is more of, like, a giant anteater's claws, or a grizzly bear's. Not precision instruments, but incredibly chonky and sturdy digging tools that can tear a concrete wall apart so your ribcage won't be much of an obstacle.
I think it depends on the style of the text as a whole.
Something in the vein of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams? Perfect.
Something in the vein of Tolkien or George RR Martin, not so much.
Well, yeah, but while Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs To Die is still on my summer reading list I know that it is titled Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs To Die, which is enough data to make some educated guesses about OP's likely style and tone in subsequent works.
(and honestly that line would work fine even in a serious book IMO provided that it's reasonable for the POV character to know what a banana is. What would put it into Adams / Pratchett / Goldman territory is a paragraph long in text footnote arguing with the reader that a banana can totally be sharpened and it's a perfectly good simile. But anyway people in the notes are saying that it needs to explicitly say "claws the size of bananas" because apparently it's too much to expect of a reader to figure out that a size/ general shape comparison is being made, and that's why I'm saying this site is never beating the "no reading comprehension" allegations)
ah, right, forgot to check who wrote the question and answered generally.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite -
Wolf Mine, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
obsessed with star trek repeatedly writing themselves into a corner by creating alien races that are supposed to be The Bad Guys when that explicitly conflicts with their previously established notion that no group of people is inherently good or evil.
first it was the klingons—they’re originally supposed to be this cruel, bloodthirsty, war-obsessed people—and then tng comes along and it’s like wait no maybe war and violence is a part of their culture and actually ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies so we have to be woke about it.
hey these are the ferengi and they’re supposed to represent everything we hate about capitalist society; they’re greedy, scheming, profit-obsessed, and they look like ugly little trolls to emphasize how much we fucking HATE capitalism. oh wait fuck here comes deep space nine and we have to recognize that they’re PEOPLE. okok what if the pursuit of profit is actually part of their culture and ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies. so we have to be woke about it.
this is the borg, they’re a hivemind race of cyborgs who have no sense of individuality and their only motivation is assimilating people into their society. they want to assimilate humanity and we are completely defenseless against them because their technology is eons ahead of our own and they’re incapable of being reasoned with. oh sweet we have a borg prisoner this is the perfect opportunity to commit genocide against them. fuck actually we can’t commit genocide we’re woke and communists and in space.
hey these are the cardassians, they’re part of a cruel and vicious empire which is supposed to be a representation of fascism and authoritarian regimes, they’re a cold, bloodthirsty people with no sense of empathy or compassion, their society literally references 1984 on multiple occasions, and they’re known for the insanely cruel and inhumane methods of torture they use against their prisoners of war. we hate the cardassians…….. except, here’s a cardassian kid who grew up on bajor, and……. fuck. he’s a person. now we actually have to consider his humanity. and being racist is actually……. bad.
this is the jem’hadar, they’re genetically engineered soldiers who have no sense of individuality and only live to defend the state. they’re all born addicted to a synthetic drug that’s manufactured by the state and administered by their masters—this is how they’re kept subservient. they’re ruthless and powerful and they’re incapable of being reasoned with because their only motivation is violence and killing. so we should kill them all, right? FUCK….. what if they’re actually people. goddamnit. now we have to consider their humanity.
hey these are the romulans. hey these are the founders. the list goes on. i just find it really interesting
Mission accomplished!
(For those that don't realize, the previous reblog is one of DS9's writers.)
ITS EVOCATIVE! LIKE GREAT BIG HUGE BANANAS EXCEPT SHARP!
YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!
a lot of people are very angry with me over this, but I'd just like you to sit down and imagine a banana. maybe a green one so it's extra firm. if you need it to be harder, you can toss it in the freezer.
and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.
yeah. I think you're seeing the vision. you can apologize to me any time you're ready
GOD DAMN IT!
I hope this comes across as positive/complimentary: I'm reminded of the art teacher who is quoted somewhere on tumblr as saying approximately
I do not like this style. I will never like this style. ... My biggest criticism is that I merely dislike this [art project]. Make me hate it. Make me furious over how much fun you're having with this thing I hate.
You don't need that teacher's advice, though. You're already having so much fun that tumblr is furious.
73%: bad
This website is never beating the "no reading comprehension" allegations. "Claws like sharpened bananas" is an extremely evocative image and pretty scary.
...Albeit the mental image it gives me is more of, like, a giant anteater's claws, or a grizzly bear's. Not precision instruments, but incredibly chonky and sturdy digging tools that can tear a concrete wall apart so your ribcage won't be much of an obstacle.
I think it depends on the style of the text as a whole.
Something in the vein of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams? Perfect.
Something in the vein of Tolkien or George RR Martin, not so much.
ITS EVOCATIVE! LIKE GREAT BIG HUGE BANANAS EXCEPT SHARP!
YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!
a lot of people are very angry with me over this, but I'd just like you to sit down and imagine a banana. maybe a green one so it's extra firm. if you need it to be harder, you can toss it in the freezer.
and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.
yeah. I think you're seeing the vision. you can apologize to me any time you're ready
GOD DAMN IT!
I hope this comes across as positive/complimentary: I'm reminded of the art teacher who is quoted somewhere on tumblr as saying approximately
I do not like this style. I will never like this style. ... My biggest criticism is that I merely dislike this [art project]. Make me hate it. Make me furious over how much fun you're having with this thing I hate.
You don't need that teacher's advice, though. You're already having so much fun that tumblr is furious.
73%: bad
This website is never beating the "no reading comprehension" allegations. "Claws like sharpened bananas" is an extremely evocative image and pretty scary.
...Albeit the mental image it gives me is more of, like, a giant anteater's claws, or a grizzly bear's. Not precision instruments, but incredibly chonky and sturdy digging tools that can tear a concrete wall apart so your ribcage won't be much of an obstacle.