Light Housework
"He knows I'd love to see him happy,..."
Where is my scathing rebuke tonight baz?
Sorry to hide from you rifkeits about a couple who are engaged, the man, neil, is an artist, and the woman, anouk (although sometimes i mistakenly call her rifke), is a writer. and neil has this mysterious illness, something like fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue, that he contracted long before he met anouk, and it derailed his trajectory as an artist, took him from being one of the brightest stars in the art world to just being a bit of a curiosity, a hasbeen. anouk doesnt mind any of this because she adores him and feels like his sickness makes him need her, whereas she doesnt have faith they wouldve come together otherwise. so when a man comes to interview neil, as a sort of retrospective on him, she starts becoming unnerved, and all the underlying anxiety she feels about the fragility of the moment, the permanence of the past, the idea that they belong to two different worlds and that neil has a core of unknowability of which his sickness is a symbol, all comes to the surface, and compels her to meet, unbeknownst to neil, with people from neils past in order to try to come to terms with these feelings. she meets an art collector, modeled on old fetishists from luis bunuel films, who reads her like a painting and recognizing in her a compelling savagery (a theme which he is interested in and has a whole collection of art involving the savagery of women), and an old girlfriend and muse of neils who she becomes fascinated with as someone who lives on the surface of life, and also someone who neil once loved. and then a shocking and brazen revelation from this woman about neils sickness is what leads anouk into a mind odyssey which estranges her from her current life and she seeks out themes of cold and silence and ascetism, and revelations about her own past are revealed to the reader, and things happen that puts a rift between her and neil and blah blah blah and her savagery that the art collector guessed at is revealed, but unlike the judiths and salomes and medeas of his collection, her savagery is against her own self. in the end, it turns out alright. the art collector, who turns out not to be such a bad guy, gives them a house in greece as a wedding present and they retire there to take solace in primitive eternal things like the ocean, as all broken people do.
it deals with the themes of solipsism and integration, primitive nostalgia and idealistic yearning, and is going to include meditations on beauty, sickness, the self, and how we can never really know another person.
and most importantly the character of anouk is going to be FUNNY with her dramatic and whimsical frills and her absolute lack of humour for these things in other people (she's based on me ).
im sure you wanted something more simplified than this, but youll have to forgive me as i havent yet boiled it down to its unique selling point.
what kind of writing tools do you mean?
He was passive aggressive. He would make these vague comments sometimes on posts and the choice I found was to ignore it or ask what he meant.
Generally I don't like to put in more work than the other person did in order to find out what they're really trying to say. Either say it or f*** off.
Then Verso outed him for "playing a character," something he allegedly shared in a private message. Maybe that ruined it for him.
I wrote a song a long time ago called "You're Such...(a Nonconformist)" Maybe I can find a recording of it for you.
Dear @The.Truth.,@Skylarker
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haha i used to do that too! especially if it was a long reply.Sorry to hide from you rifke
Everytime someone responds to me on here I tend to hide for a bit.
The side is - admittedly daily - yet casual - viewing for me, and if someone responds to me, I want to create a proper response, which takes time and emotion.
Writing tools are essentially programs that help you sort and plot out characters, plot lines, locations etc. Very much geared towards the ‘gardener’ archetype of writer.
I must say that writing archetypes are bullshit in my opinion. The specific story leads the creative process, not the author. I have tried the ‘campfire’ program which is shit. Currently trying the ‘Novel factory’ program which is somewhat less shit. It means hours of me copying and sorting notes - worth it? Probably not. As I said though, whether it's of use of not depends on the specific story. I’ve been working on two stories for some time. One gets great use out of organisation or programs. The other wouldn’t.
As for your novel. Anything that can be easily simplified is often boring, I find. Wear the complexity as a badge. Go Oscar Wilde - arts for arts sake. Thats what I do. If I can be happy with my writings, it will mean more than ever being successful. That being said, the M lyrics I closely associate with is as the ‘girl least likely to.’ A publisher next year! (never this year).
I am intrigued by your story’s description, may I ask - the ages of neil and anouk? The age of a hasbeen is particularly important in their trajectory, I think.
im sure you do the best you canI never got my scathing rebuke
I got so upset it make me puke
Sometimes silence speaks louder than words
But something something for the birds
#whocaresI started watching "The Last Kingdom" on netflix. I like it but I'd prefer if it were a little more soft focus. I like things where everyone's flaws make it difficult to see one person as good and another as bad. There is some of that but we're pressed a little too much into siding with the hero of the story. His antagonists always have flaws that make it difficult to give them much respect and so even with his mistakes, usually caused by his impatience, it's difficult to see the possibility that all the characters have some justification for their actions.
The king would have had to be smarter than he is depicted here because the king who passed over his own son to give him the crown probably wouldn't have done that.
The action is good but the outcome sometimes relies heavily on "plot armor" meaning our hero has several times faced impossible odds and still come out on top and it probably didn't happen quite that way. It's a good story though and nice to look at. it's fun to recognize which characters are based on characters from Game of Thrones. There is sort of Jaime Lannister/Bronn character and another that shares a lot with Tyrion Lannister, being a wise drunk who helps take the heat off the hero at one point where he might have been killed. I've only watched about four episodes and it's good so far but could be better. It's based on a novel so it probably doesn't just run out of story and start repeating the same setups like some other shows do that go on for too long.
I spilled garlic powder everywhere
I just wanted to eat
I left it there
Now I've spread it around
Do I care
With a sponge and water
I cleaned it up
It's out of my hair
Morrissey doesn't care for garlic
But it's in the air
Poor garlic
Not liked by the son and heir