26 March 2020: It’s happening, kids: National Theatre: At Home is coming
Released weekly on YouTube here
Every Thursday, the NT will be releasing a play from their NTLive archive to watch for free, for everyone, for 7 days.
First up is:
Further productions to be announced.
The Open House is a creepy and inventive little horror game set within a cursed virtual showroom for a 3 bedroom family house.
ICYMI: I have made print-at-home copies of The Story Engine deck free for families who need quarantine activities. Details here at http://storyenginedeck.com/quarantinedeck
I also just released an activity sheet and 2 full lesson plans with home adaptations with the help of a curriculum developer. Download those at http://storyenginedeck.com/activities
When I was 9ish, my school closed for a teachers’ strike. I have vague memories of my mum and friend’s mum running a few home lessons for us.
I forget the lessons, but I remember the feeling: a moment of normalcy in an uncertain time. It’s a happy memory.
That’s why I’m cranking out free print-at-home decks and lesson plans. That’s why I’m pushing colouring books in every direction.
Because 20 years later, having forgotten everything else, I still feel that feeling. I remember how it felt to know someone cared that I was comfortable and learning something new every day.
And now I have the chance to give that feeling to another uncertain 9-year-old, and I could not give a shit what it costs to get it to them.
If there’s something I can do to help you and your family have a creative quarantine, let me know, and I’ll do my damnedest to get you what you need
On 10 March, Fanlore will be making some changes to its policy on Pre-1995 Fan Name Use in order to bring it in line with our broader Identity Protection policy. Here’s why…
In the days prior to the Internet, some fans who wrote in zines (or contributed to other fanworks) used their real names as opposed to a fan name. The expectation at that time was that fanworks would remain within the fairly closed community of fandom. With respect to this different environment and in order to protect the identity of fans, Fanlore created a policy stating that fanwork authors credited in zines and other fannish publications prior to 1995 should be identified with a first name and last initial (e.g. Mary R. as opposed to Mary Richards).
However, as time went by, it became apparent that a great deal of zine content containing fans’ full names and/or preferred names had already been online for many years, and on many established websites. Additionally, many fans writing prior to 1995 used “real” sounding pseudonyms that did not need to be abbreviated. The policy of abbreviating fans’ last names has also caused a great deal of confusion over fan authors who share a first name and last initial. Different early print communities (such as science fiction zines) would often use a first initial and last full name to attribute authors, adding to the confusion.
Because of this, the Fanlore Committee has decided to bring the Pre-1995 Fan Name Use policy in line with the wider Fanlore policy on Identity Protection. Author names on fanworks made prior to 1995 will be recorded on Fanlore as they appeared at the time, but if the fan in question wishes to protect their identity, the Fanlore Committee will replace their name with a first name and last initial (e.g. Mary R.), with initials only (e.g. M.R.), or with a pseudonym of the fan’s choice (e.g. Unnamed Fan X). We are happy to work with fans to find an arrangement that they are comfortable with and that sufficiently protects their identity.
We encourage any fans who created fanworks prior to 1995 (and also fans writing in our “grey area” of 1996-1999) to get in touch if they are concerned about their full name appearing on Fanlore: we will take steps to either redact it, or ensure it is redacted if it is added to the wiki at a later date.
From 10 March onwards, the Pre-1995 Fan Name Use policy will be referred to as Pre-2000 Fan Name Use, in order to better encompass the period before the web was more “open”, and will appear as a sub-section on the Identity Policy page.
Please note: any fans who have already requested to have their identity protected on Fanlore do not need to do anything: the Fanlore Committee has kept a record of these requests and will continue to honour them to protect fans’ privacy.
For more information on identity protection on Fanlore, please review our Identity Protection policy. If you have any questions about this announcement, or want to make an identity protection request, please reach out to the Fanlore Committee via this link and select “Identity Protection” as the message subject.
It Rained That Day is a clever narrative driven puzzle adventure where you use photos to recount how you fell in love.
so this is an extremely cool resource
Wow!!
if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it.
You missed some of the best ones
the best part about it is that the art installation isn’t actually called the Bean. It’s called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean.
But i mean, look at it. It’s a bean.
How could you forget this one though
I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR.
someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?
Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for.
So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, it’s hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka FuckFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and he’s kind of a prick about it.
Art world is not thrilled with that.
Enter Stuart Semple.
Stuart Semple is an artist, and also makes pigments to sell in his free time. Stuart Semple is astoundingly pissed about this Vantablack nonsense, and Anish Kapoor’s dickery. Stuart Semple makes a new pigment, the brightest shade of pink ever, called Pinkest Pink, and puts it for sale on the internet. To be bought by everybody except Anish Kapoor. Literally, to purchase, you need to confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, do not associate with him, and will not sell or give the pigment to Anish Kapoor or his associates. Art world has a good laugh, everyone buys Pinkest Pink because it’s awesome, and damn it we deserve something.
Anish Kapoor however is a penis, and will not take this lying down, because HOW DARE he not have literally everything.
Anish Kapoor gets his London associates to buy him a thing of Pinkest Pink, and being such a classy human being, posts a picture to instagram of him with his middle finger covered in Pinkest Pink, captioned with “Up yours. #pink”
Everyone flips shit, because. Y’know. Fuck that guy. Especially Stuart Semple. For context here, Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists on the planet, and has repeatedly been referred to as everything wrong with the art world, and the epitome of the art worlds elitism problem. He’s a giant douchebag. Meanwhile Stuart Semple makes pigments just to get them out there. He turns 0 profit from his now enourmously popular pigments.
Stuart Semple launches an investigation as to who the fuck leaked Pinkest Pink, and plans to strike back. He does so by releasing two new products. First is Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made from glass, so that a painting is still visible after it’s applied, but glitters like a mofo. It’s the most reflective glitter out there, and is available to everyone who isn’t Anish Kapoor. And it being made of glass, if you stick your finger in there, it’s going to hurt quite a bit, so that was Stuart Semple’s way of saying “shove your middle finger in this, asshole, see what happens”. Except without saying that, because he can get an insult across while still being fucking classy.
He also releases Black 2.0, created with the help of over a thousand artists worldwide.
Black 2.0 is the answer to Vantablack. Black 2.0 is a slightly less black black, but looks functionally the same to the human eye. It’s completely safe, smells like cherries, and costs four pounds. Vantablack is highly toxic, potentially explosive, needs to be applied in a special laboratory and sealed properly, can’t be moved across borders, can reach 300 degrees celsius if you’re not extremely careful, and costs thousands of dollars. Anish Kapoor is the only human being who can use Vantablack. He is the only human being who cannot use Black 2.0.
So I think we can guess who got the better deal.
And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated.
…But not quite.
Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer.
No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi.
The point is, Kapoor is a prick, and doesn’t like talking to the lower classes. So one day in July 2017, he decides he needs another floor on his London studio apartment, and starts making arrangements to have it built. His neighbors are fucking pissed, because this will ruin the light of their apartments. They call to Semple to save them, or at the very least piss Kapoor off some more.
Semple answers to the call, and releases two new paints, Phaze and Shift, as always, banned to Kapoor. They change colours, Phaze with temperature, and Shift is just iridescent. Shift needs to be painted over Black 2.0 to work, and Phaze just works on its own.
So that’s been the art world for the last two years.
Basically, get fucked Anish Kapoor your bean sucks and so does your vantablack.
Stuart Semple is organising a bean-kissing event for Anish Kapoor’s birthday.
Reblogging for “By attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information, and belief this event will not be attended by Anish Kapoor.”
ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!
I know this isn’t my art blog but this entire post gives me life
im sorry is that man holding a real actual miniature star in his hands
Y’all missed the best part about the lightest light, called aptly ‘Lit’. This is from their product page:
Two things:
1. “Anish Kapoor is however a penis” is the best line in this post.
2. I wish to be half as petty and half as awesome as Stuart Semple
I hope Stuart Semple is making a lot of money. What a good person.
Go support him the paint’s are pretty cheap and you get the added bonus of being one of many to help piss off Anish Kapoor
He is my fucking role model for pettiness oh my god
It got better! I’m also excited because he just released biodegradable glitter in non plastic containers! How amazing is that?! Stuart Semple, good guy for the planet and artists, fighter against the rich elite artist like asshole Kapoor.
An older project, but he also did this:
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oh dude hes metal as fuck
Every addition to this post is better than the last.
i always make my computer read me a fic before I post it, but this thing is over 15k and that’s like two fucking hours of listening to my own work and that sucks
I always make me read it to myself. Your way sounds a lot less labour intensive. I could clean the kitchen!
You COULD, but you won’t cause you’ll sit there fixing all the little mistakes.
I use ReadAloud for Chrome (also available on Firefox), which is intuitive and free and open-source, and it’s nice to put something in a draft on AO3 and then just listen while I play solitaire until something hits wrong.
(I always do a draft cause I add HTML tags as I write* and screen readers as a whole don’t like reading those)
(*I am so old, I still code by hand. I just recently transitioned from b to strong cause when I was hand-coding my geocities site, we used <b>)
Beyond this, consider how these professions might vary depending on who the customers are - nobles, or lower class. Are they good at their job or just scraping by? Do they work with lots of other people or on their own? City or village?
For younger characters:
(Images all from Wikimedia Commons)
Also consider:
Candlemaker Ferryman Factor (looks after business for an employer in another city) Tiler Cutler Beekeeper Apothecary Interpreter Furrier Moneylender/Banker Winemaker Tinker (small trader who repairs stuff) Nightsoil collector Customs officer Also a bonus for animal related professions: Fowler (supplies game birds for eating) Warrener (catches rabbits on your land for you to eat) Ostler (looks after your horses) Falconer (looks after your falcons) Cocker (looks after your fighting cocks)
I need more fantasy rpg in my life that isn’t d&d-style. I think it’s time for some Sword & Backpack.
100 Jobs for Fantasy Characters (that aren’t knight or peasant)
((long list, so it’s below the cut))
Yes, this is good and important
yo remember to stretch your wrist!!! i’m usually pretty good about it but the last maybe 2-3 days i’ve been forgetting, and 2-3 days of not stretching every 20 minutes is all it’s taken for it to start hurting. it makes a difference very quickly. it’s not a “start stretching if you already have wrist problems” or “start stretching when your wrist hurts to make the pain go away” thing, you should be doing it all the time
here’s a collection of wrist stretch infographics, i use a lot of these!
fwiw i scrolled this real quick before linking and i did see some advice i don’t agree with – i don’t think “wear a brace at night” is one size fits all information that should be phrased as if everyone should be doing it every night. wearing a wrist brace incorrectly, or wearing one when you don’t need one, can hurt you. obviously it’s not realistic to tell people to Consult A Doctor before getting and using a brace (i can’t afford that lol!) but u should always take all health advice especially online w a grain of salt and that even includes for simple stuff like stretching – go slow whenever you’re trying something new and pay attention to what feels like it’s helping or hurting ur body
Tarot spread for when dis bitch (me) is empty.
Yeets a tarot deck across the room. Does this reading with the three cards that go farthest.
This is now officially the only way to do this spread.
If you have ever had to write a resume for work or for an application, then you know the hardest part is figuring out what type of words to use that sound professional and and intelligent.
Example: If an application asks you if you have any relevant experience for a job at a day care center and you have experience, like you have babysat children. You would look at the words in the columns to see what words you should use that will help your resume stand out. You might put down “Have supervised and attended to children on a regular basis.”
I hope this is helpful to you.
Now this is a great resume list of action words. I love that it’s broken down by types of jobs. Saving for future use.
BOOST.
An excellent list of words to use on a resume! I’m always looking for better ways to phrase stuff like “Stalked rich people” and “pretty good at excel” :D
‘Canonically X’ shirts, hats, wall-hangings, mugs and notebooks added tonight! As always, if we haven’t added your orientation or gender term, please contact us and we’ll add it for you as a custom!
Love how aromanticism was included in this!
Thanks! The ace and aro community has always been wonderfully supportive and we’re glad to support you!
September 2019 Illustrations ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ
