Blue GhostGhost's Blog, page 43
May 12, 2014
“Name one hero who was happy.”I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus...
“Name one hero who was happy.”
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason’s children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus’ back.
"You can’t." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can’t."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I’ll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I’m going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you’re the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
"I swear it," he echoed.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
"I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
―Achilles and Patroclus, The Song of Achilles
May 11, 2014
owldude:
reck-lustt:
We’re living in an era where capturing...
We’re living in an era where capturing moments using our phones is more important than actually living these moments with whoever is beside us.
this.
"A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for the masses) and as an object of surveillance (for the rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images." -Susan Sontag, On Photography
And these concerns were voiced by Sontag in the 1970s, imagine how she would feel about facebook or tumblr. You are for sale everyday.
"The greatest danger in photography is taking something like queer culture and framing it in the context of mainstream culture—that one-to-one comparison. It’s fucked, it’s a lie, and it turns everything into a fucking Gap ad."- James Whitman, Art Criticism
May 10, 2014
Thank you thank you thank you! Your support is amazing!...
Thank you thank you thank you! Your support is amazing! It’s such a privilege to get to share my stuff with you all. I’m editing Juicy Fruit and working on the Art Criticism Sequel at the moment. Then I will try to finish Treasured. I’m also doing a complete reboot of Swallowed by the Whale for Yaoifix and it should be up on the site soon. (Anybody remember that fic?).
There are pages up on Amazon and Goodreads for Art Criticism if you are so inclined to rate or review.
Also there are 3 days left on my fic prompt giveway. You only need to put in a user name and email to enter. Fun fun fun.
May 9, 2014
"It’s a clever stunt but we prefer Vulfpeck’s earlier albums. Sleepify seems derivative..."
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Spotify spokesman Graham James
Ah experimental music burn! Apparently the band scammed spotify out of 20k in royalties by unloading Sleepify, a completely silent album. The scheme was designed to fund a tour of free shows and called on fans to stream the silent album throughout the night.
nikerymis replied to your post:Wait, so are you going to continue the Art Critcism sequel on...
YES PLEASE NOW THANK YOU ::ahem:: I mean, I really liked the first, would love to see a second. ;3
Aww you guys!
maderr replied to your post:Wait, so are you going to continue the Art Critcism sequel on...
You are totally capable of that ;3 And it would be AWESOME :D
\o/ Well if Megan says it’s possible then it must be so!
Wait, so are you going to continue the Art Critcism sequel on FP?
Okay but what do you think about this idea? What if I just, like super focused and worked really hard and wrote the whole thing in the next 3 months for publication? What if? I think you all should lie to me and pretend like I am totally capable of accomplishing this. 
