Noxryn

i did it geesir i did it

I kept doing the same, but a large part of it (for me) was not having anyone to write with, haha. (Like first time I played was in 2008, I think??? )

the one jarjar was in.

eventually i hope to one day become a trans parent
 
get it get it
 
im not entering i just wanted to say something <3

how were the street sharks

an ex of mine called them "cute" after snapchatting me a picture of one do you confirm

I don't know anything about the story, but that sounds cute and I can totally see it c:

And when it comes to depictions of romance and stuff in media, like there's a lot of it in general yeah, but it's not going to ruin someone's childhood lol

with all these cannons you'd have thunk we'd have a piraka driven pirate sky ship

but noooooooo

idk i've never had any issues with them unless i roughly shift the head one direction or the other. (and i spent a long time messing around with some of them x.x)

the masks, for me, stay on better than the 2001 and 2002 Toa (which is kinda nice since they seemed to want to bring back the mask knocking off feature).

i know like zilch about dinosaurs and paleontology, but it's pretty bothersome they didn't think to add in more influences from modern findings and advances in paleontology (y'know like up from the 0 it uses). like, feathers look really fantastic (though tbh all i've seen is art and artist depictions thereof, not necessarily scientific and factual depictions), and i wont really understand why people would rather see like, the inaccurate and incorrect version when there's a more accurate, more correct, better idea of what they were like available. 

for how dramatic and cool it is to see a massive monster shoot out from the water to devour a fish, what made that cool tome when i was younger was like "woah that was -real-?" but now it's more like "well... these never really existed as they do here, which kinda takes away the wow factor."

there's prolly bigger concerns and stuff than where my mind is coming from, but yeah im not really superbly educated on this stuff at all x.x;;

i like pohatu's mask design but it's really the sheer amount of silver in him that's putting me off :c (and the store only had fire and ice ;~; )

ahhh i love the purple so much i cant wait until these lil things are released here i want sooo many earth protectors just for all the purple (the masks are pretty cool too though).

so lucky you found them i kept checking my target and that place is bereft of 2015 anything and the lego aisle is full so they aren't restocking any time soon ;~;

One thing is for sure: that sounds like a flavor disaster x.x

i might! i just want to get other stuff too first x.x;;;

still love mak's moc of her to this day

But it ultimately won't. If you present the idea and talk about the Mangai, sure -- that's totally fine and stokes creativity and imagination (who were they? what did they look like? what masks? powers? weapons?) as discussion like that introduces various possibilities and actively has the participants in the discussion thinking and imagining them.

When you have a poll, or checklist, with "okay so they can only have 1 of each feature from each category" there's no imagination there. There's no creativity. Toa Mangai of the Green wields a mace and wears an Akaku, that means in creative media you can't have the Toa of the Green wielding a whip and wearing a Ruru, unless you want the people who canonized the previous incarnation to come to your work and go "eh, it's not accurate so that lessens how good the work is."

And it ultimately weakens any other fans' theories or opinions or concepts. It's basically saying "Well, I like THIS version the best, so Greg, can it be the real canon version?"

There's no merit to the act of canonization when it's essentially being done for that reason. It's all just fans, who are just the same as any other fan, demanding and wanting their headcanons to be actual and real canon, which is a disservice to fans who were imagining these ambiguous characters as they wanted to imagine them in the context of the canonical world.

Can we seriously just... not?

And yes, headcanon can conflict with canon. But there are writers and artists who like to work with what is canon so their stories can theoretically take place in the actual canon of the series and, with something like the Mangai, there's a lot of room for person and artistic freedom to write and create them however the writer wants to imagine them. Knowing all these details about them does us absolutely nothing, it's trivia tier information at best, but it is taking away the ability to theorize and imagine them in various ways across various mediums.

And if you think people don't post on stories or artwork or MOC's or in RPG's with "corrections" you'd be sorely mistaken.

I don't think you understood the complaint. This isn't about headcanons, this is about people who have certain headcanons going to Greg and getting it Officially Canonized, as in, it becomes a BS01 fact and is going to be lorded over those whose headcanons and creative endeavors contradict it.

i get that sentiment, but it's annoying regardless.

i liked being able to imagine things, i liked being able to have my own thoughts and feelings about x, y or z without other members basically just going to greg with their own interpretations and being all "nope you don't get to freely interpret this anymore, this is the canon fact and we won't let you forget it"

"oh you made art/story/moc featuring what you preferred well no sorry this is the canon fact. i know, i asked greg first."

I never beat Origins and never played 2, mostly since my sister like, took Origins from me and then clocked over 3k hours in it. (And ~found~ it magically after DA:I released >.>)

But I'm having fun with DA:I, though I'm not used to the combat (the targetting system feels really finnicky to me), but the world's pretty and I like the level of exploration we're given in it (I'm still just in Hinterlands since I was doing a bunch of quests there before running into Puff the One Shot Dragon).

it's the final boss in the new call of duty game

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I don't think the point is that the fact it exists in its own fiction is the issue, but that when placed in the real world with the goal to represent what the creatures were in history and doing so inaccurately, it can cause many, many people to believe the inaccurate portrayal in a movie as what actually exists and can lead to a shift in public belief on what reality is/was.

What is represented in fictitious media is, often times, represented in that specific way because that's the mental image or portrayal a person has of the real object, creature, person, identity, concept and they're pushing that as what is real. The issue is: this can cause harm, as in, people who are not experts, who are not educated in the issue, will see this representation and have that as the only thing to base their real perception on. And so, fiction leaks into reality and you have people treating certain things differently, certain concepts differently, as media -- fictitious or not -- is influential to those who consume it.

Yes, you can say "This concept, this portrayal, is unrealistic and doesn't accurately portray what it sets out to portray" which is where literary criticism and critique in cinema and other mediums of media come into play. They serve to educate the viewers on what is reality, while also telling the creator of the piece of media to do a better job next time so they don't misrepresent facts in their production. (At least, in this context -- there's a lot more one can go into when criticizing a piece of media)

Of course there's a difference of, say, making the sky a bright neon pink for atmospheric effect so long as it's established as part of the fictitious world and not at all a part of what reflects reality. It's easier to do that in say, Lord of the Rings, where people can understand that Ringwraiths aren't actually real because of how ethereal and detached from our reality they are. But when, for example, you write about a specific subset of people and assign them a set of specific traits you, as the author, believe they have in reality and peddle out the work, that representation may feed into public's visualization of those groups of people as they exist in the real world as they are not so detached from it as the concept of a Ringwraith would be. That's why doing your research and understanding your subject is really important, even in fiction as it can have an impact on reality.

 

In other words, it's a responsibility of fiction that people know what in it is fact and what is fiction.[/size]

 

I'm gonna have to say no. If you honestly have that much trouble differentiating fact from fiction, that's hardly a books fault.

 

Additionally, in a lot of cases books are trying to make a point to you, the reader. They want you to feel a certain way, to think a certain way, to think about something in a particular light or context, they're trying (by and large) to present an argument to communicate to their reader. Not every single book necessarily does this, but a great many do. So in a lot of ways, it is the responsibility of the author to present their information, their argument, without creating a situation where they are blurring and ignoring or outright lying about the subject they're talking about. In a lot of case, such presentation of information ends up with some poor responses from the readers, responses the author should have considered before writing the piece in the first place (and the author should have integrity with what they try to present as true, or even partially true -- they ought to do the research behind what they are talking about).

to be fair, though, fiction is not always designed to portray what is not true. often times it's used to convey a situation in line with reality, sometimes focusing on certain aspects of the issue, or sometimes making the issues bloated in certain areas either to show how much of a problem the issue can become, or how ridiculous it is that it's even an issue. then there's fictional works that work with concepts of morality, doing the right thing, how to be a good person, whether the ends justify the means (etc, etc...)

like yeah, there is definitely fiction written for pure entertainment and as an escape, but there's also fiction written to enact social change, or to provide social commentary through its themes, meanings, symbols, metaphors, etc...

(idk what the entry is actually in reference to, but the line about how fiction is not to portray truth is what im more pointing out)

most of it was written beforehand, i just haven't been writing as much lately (moving and all that), but it was still written between 0ct 30th and November 2 so yeah <.<

altogether what i have is like 26,000 words i just thoughtit'd be a little too unfair to count what i've been writing since july lol

i dont even care ill win everything by just being robin aka lucy's mom