Mes: agosto 2024

  • Los cuentos de la invisibilidad

    woman sitting and smiling
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    ¿Por qué son interesantes e importantes? Porque en la vida real las mujeres son interesantes e importantes. No son un subproducto de la naturaleza, no representan un papel secundario en el destino de la humanidad, y eso lo han sabido todas las sociedades. Sin mujeres capaces de dar a luz, la población humana se extinguiría. Por eso las violaciones masivas y el asesinato de mujeres, chicas y niñas ha sido una característica común de las guerras genocidas, o de cualquier acción destinada a someter y explotar a una población. Mata a sus hijos y pon en su lugar a los tuyos, como hacen los gatos; obliga a las mujeres a tener hijos que luego no pueden permitirse criar, o hijos que luego les robarás para tus intereses personales; niños robados, un motivo cuyo uso generalizado se remonta a tiempos lejanos. El control de las mujeres y sus descendientes ha sido la piedra de toque de todo régimen represivo de este planeta.

    El cuento de la criada, introducción. Margaret Atwood.

  • En hiatus hasta que arreglen la antena Telcel de por mi casa

    No por nada pero estamos INCOMUNICADOS. No hay señal telefónica, por lo tanto mi humilde paquete de internet en casa no puede transmitir datos y no puedo subir entradas. No puedo ver Instagram (lo que se ha subido ya estaba programado antes del domingo 25 de agosto), no puedo bajar audios de Ivox… Estoy como en la edad del mensaje de humo. Cambio y fuera. Si esto sigue, me iré a un café internet…

  • What are the 7 principles of theatre plays? p1

    a young couple talking in the balcony
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    Before attempting to attribute myself merits I don’t own; I must confess of theatrical plays I have but read Oscar Wilde and a bit of Shakespeare [not in English]. And I have never been into any play but something by Molière I can’t recall (some high school literature teachers send kids to theatres to watch low budget plays in Mexico so they don’t have to read —I went cause my friends had to and it sounded like fun not because my teacher did send me) and «Confesiones de mujeres de 30».

    Once confessed, the second thing is to speak of the source. The source is a YouTube channel called ‘El rinconcito’ and … It is in Spanish but the link is here just in case. That video and whatever it is I know about writing fiction, together make this entry up. Capice?

    THE AUDIENCE… DOESN’T CARE

    Thus, let’s start by semi? quoting. And I say semi since I’m going to summarize it the way I got it and not copy paste the entire text as is.

    The audience gives a bull about the kind of a theatre play they’re watching. They won’t analyze if it is dialogued or narrated or whatever. The audience cares about liking it or not liking it.

    If I refer this to any single media (movie, manga, comic, play, videogame, TV); the sentence might pretty much sound like this:


    The audience (target) doesn’t care if they’re watching videogame referenced aesthetics, over repeated Korean clichés or cheap cringey scenes with tears on their eyes whilst saying their fare-thee-wells. Their only care is if they like it or not.


    That itself is interesting. It should be another entry (and here, I open the parenthesis to talk aloud to myself: Do you see Merriam?, you should use it for more useless material). The target wants it to be effective. Likeable to them[1].

    TO BE CONTINUED

    [1] Note to myself. Stop writing the weird things you write about and be like everybody else out there…

  • My garden

    And I let the rage howl among the roses.
    For the tiny white clover to bloom lost among long blades of fondness.
    All disorderly,
    untamed.
    It seems opposite and quite contrary to order and purpose.

    It flies savage,
    Dandelion white whirling.
    Weedly basking in the unknown.
    Enchanted butterflies and bees buzzing in and out.
    Madness.
    Still it thinks and fruits, my garden.

  • La magia de la madera antigua

    Con grandes esfuerzos y mucho tiempo, un archimago podía eventualmente conseguir un pequeño cayado hecho con la madera de un peral sabio. Estos árboles sólo crecían en lugares mágicos antiguos. Probablemente, sólo había un par de cayados así en todas las ciudades que bordeaban el Mar Circular. Un enorme baúl de peral sabio… Rincewind trató de asimilar la idea, y decidió que aunque la caja estuviera llena de ópalos estelares y varas de auricolato, el contenido no valdría ni la décima parte que el contenedor.

    El color de la magia. Terry Pratchett. De bolsillo.

  • The One Rule of (Writing) Witchcraft – Writer’s Digest

    https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/the-one-rule-of-writing-witchcraft

  • Tronco

    Un tronco tomando el sol,
    Hasta que descubro sus ojos marrón.
    Y a cada mancha que simula no ser,
    El reptil se deja ver.
    Después ya no.

  • ¿Capice?

  • Más cuentos sobre el poder

    Sí, las mujeres se agrupan para atacar a otras mujeres. Sí, acusan a las demás para librarse ellas: lo vemos con absoluta transparencia en la era de las redes sociales, que tanto favorecen la formación de enjambres. Sí, aceptan encantadas situaciones que les conceden poder sobre otras mujeres, incluso —y hasta puede que especialmente— en sistemas que por lo general conceden escaso poder a las mujeres: sin embargo, todo poder es relativo y en tiempos duros se percibe que tener poco es mejor que no tener ninguno.

    La criada, personaje. El cuento de la criada. Margaret Atwood.

  • Can imagination lead us to write nonsense?

    CAN TWO TEENAGERS HOLD A HIPPOGRYPH BY FORCE?

    Nein. If I (56 kg, 154 cm) struggle to hold on a cutey animal such as a sheep [for sure not smaller and perhaps a little bigger than a Saint Bernard dog at 80 kg average — the dog not the sheep]… A horse like animal, said 154 cm up to its withers — assuming the animal ain’t a poney or a Shire — would drag away two-less-than-130 kg-set of  teenagers.

    Not sorry, thinking pounds and inches/feet is not in my system, I’m a decimal thinker. So 54 kg are about 124~lb, 80 kg—180~ lb and 154 cm—5 f [ yep, I’m short]. A paint horse’s average height to withers being more or less 5 f (my height) with a weight of half a ton or 500 kg— 1102 lb approx.

    If you do your Maths, you can easily see why two teenagers can’t just hold by force with the reins a wild hippogryph… Unless they’re quite strong.

    Which, compared to my experience of rubbing my belly against ground because some wooly sheep is dragging my dignity through; it is definitely an error of imagination. And one of the craft’s perks.

    IN DOING THE MISTAKES WILL REVEAL THEMSELVES

    So yes, imagining things we can write something that might be not so true…

    By doing we’re going to make mistakes. By writing we use imagination to replace what we don’t know.

    J. K. Rowling for sure does know her shit about boarding schools. Unlike me. But I can bet she has never landed on her ass trying to stop a sheep from fleeing… After all, we can’t try every single action we imagine in a scene; risking stating bullets can open locks instead of ricocheting when hitting the metal. Have you opened a lock by firing a gun? I haven’t. I have fired a gun but that’s a secret…d

    We must assume someone is going to realize. Specially if they’re to read more than thrice our piece. We must be prepared for it. We need to make mistakes to do things.

    That’s why today’s entry is hashtagued #fuckitupbutwriteit!

    I know, I know. Stephen King says we need small details to make it believable. Yet, even if the small details and the great plot distract you from the ‘other details’, the kind of details we can’t really give accountant of, the truth is; we might be found by the guy who knows.

    Like me reading All you need is kill. The author had the great idea of drawing the shortsighted genius [with big front bumpers to distract a sexual brain] who can’t see without spectacles…. She never loses them to gravity or needs them to be sporty to avoid them falling from her nose. They’re round big and thin. I can tell because refraction doesn’t alter the shape of her big eyes and manga drawing tends to cliché this by drawing spirals.

    I am shortsighted. Not so much as being declared ‘legally blind’ but enough to know what a myopia magna is. Thus I am aware of a few things about spectacles.

    Spectacles, the bigger the frame the thicker the lense becomes and, the heavier they are. Oh, there are special plastics that make the lenses thinner? It doesn’t matter. The spectacles materials keep following this rule because physics require a certain shape in the lense for it to correct the focus. We myope people know we need to get small frames so we don’t get a thick, heavy lense. People who can be fashionable with their frames are not that shortsighted.

    We know we either need a very tight arched support that will tightly hold onto our ears, or we will end up with slipping glasses going down our nose. Such detail can distract me from the iteration, the great message of killing time regressor aliens and of the whole thing. Why? Because I’m one of those upsetting disagreeable readers.

    Is my irk going to stop this author from drawing manga? No. And that’s all right. That’s why you will imagine what you need to imagine and research as much as you think needed to make it believable.
    Pasto kalo.