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Today I got in a fight with one of my closest friends- we were looking through a magazine, and I pointed out a manga I saw. We got in a stupid quibble about what the book was defined as, but that's not really the point. The point was that she rejected the manga as unauthentic because it was by an American author. Her point of view was, (from what I got of it) that it's a Japanese style, and is only genuinely grasped and realized by someone Japanese.
I disagree- I know and have seen many, many people who aren't of Asian origin, people who have never been to Japan in their lives, who draw brilliant manga. It's an art form, not a nationality- why should someone be constrained from doing what they love and putting said ideas to paper, because they weren't born in Japan?
Art has, over the course of the past year and a half, become a very defining factor in my life- I do my best to surround myself with it, and create the best art I can, with the best means I can. So maybe I'm not the most creative or talented of my group, or of the people I meet, but I'm trying- and that has to count for something.
Am I to believe that everything I work for, everything I have wrapped my life around, is null and void, is unimportant- that my artwork is not "real" because I wasn't someone else?
It doesn't make sense to me, and in fact, it does sting- the fact, that I can't do what I love, because I'm the same.
 Tophet · Fri Aug 05, 2005 @ 04:12am · 0 Comments |
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FROM LE SIGGY, aka More About My Absentia |
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Yeah. I'm gone. For camp. Very gone. For a month. I go to camp in the middle of the Vermont woods, more commonly known as nowhere. We have no computers, as we have no electricity, as we sleep in three-sided cabins. Obviously, this means no Gaia. Sooo, yeah. That's about the long and short of it...
If I know you, have frequented your thread(s), certainly if I know you IRL, I will miss you MUCHMUCHMUCH. If I don't know you, I'm not very well equipped to miss you, plus you won't care. If I know you and dislike you, thank God I'm out of contact with you....
Oh, yeah, for anybody who cares, I got glasses. The optometrist has freakishly complicated medical paraphernalia. Yeah...
Tophet · Sat Jun 25, 2005 @ 03:02am · 0 Comments |
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I...need...sugar...
ACK. Other than that, though, I'm pretty good.
No more cleaning! We've been doing it all morning..._-_ My parents decided it was high time the house was in a fit state to live in. While I like the sentiment, I honestly don't care too much one way or another...
Interesting concept that came up today in an RP I'm in- How do mute wizards spellcast?
Ta for now,
Tophet
Tophet · Sun May 29, 2005 @ 06:21pm · 0 Comments |
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The other end of the spectrum... |
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Elitists suck. That's pretty much the long and short of it.
Tophet · Mon Apr 18, 2005 @ 10:16pm · 0 Comments |
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Randomness and irritating people |
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You know, it's an odd phenomenon on Gaia that whenever you put up a literate thread, you're almost doomed to get a BUNCH of people doing things like posting their applications in the threads, giving pictures instead of descriptions for their appearances, and generally not being literate. People know what the rules of literate RPs are, so why do they do these things? It's kinda idiotic. -_- What's more, it just leads to them being horribly humiliated- I mean, you'd think that people would learn....
~Mexy
Tophet · Wed Apr 06, 2005 @ 06:00pm · 0 Comments |
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The Human Condition and Stupid Teachers |
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1. Life. I just finished reading 'Ender's Game' as part of a school assignment, and it was unbelievably sad. I cried when I read it; I never, ever, EVER cry when I read books. It's a huge rarity. Not to sound pretentious, but it was a really profound reflection on how crappily we treat others, and how some people regard those with talent as tools to be used in order to gain power and prestige. In the end, all that matters is just how much you can do for a larger group of people, regardless of whether or not you come out whole or sane at the end of it. I guess that that's the only way that humanity can feasibly keep functioning, though: sacrifice of a few for the good of many. It's still sad, though.
2. Stupid teachers. I have a history teacher who is really unconcerned about how many connections the class makes regarding the material. To protect his identity, we'll call him Mr. F. And the thing about Mr. F is that when you study certain topics under him, he really doesn't care if you make the obvious connections associated with it- for instance, we were studying WW I, and the US created a list of things that the Fourteen Points were to take care of- making sure that the 'freedom of the seas' was protected, (i.e., no bombing ships on international waters), no secret diplomacies, no blocking trade, and no arms races. Here's the thing; three of these were reasons, not that other countries entered war with one another, but reasons that the US got involved!
1. 'freedom of the seas'- the bombing of the Lusitania, which had 128 US citizens aboard when it was sunk,
2. secret diplomacy- the US discovered the Zimmerman note proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico.
3. blocking trade- Britain put an embargo on trade with the US before they joined the war.
Now, don't you find it just a bit odd that most of the OTHER reasons for the war weren't listed? Things like major hegemonies and oligarchies? And that the United States drew up the plans? Evidently, Mr. F didn't, because he hadn't formed that connection. Or the fact that the United States was the only major nation involved in the war that refused to join the League of Nations. Stupid teachers. He didn't prompt us to make any of these connections ourselves! All he wanted us to do was shut the hell up and take notes! Gah. Oh well.
I hope the history lesson was informative. I feel much better. For those of you who actually read the entirety of the rant, I pat you on the head. Feel it?...Do you feel it now?...Ah hell, I give up.
Love ya all,
~Mexy
Tophet · Wed Mar 23, 2005 @ 10:46pm · 0 Comments |
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::smacks forehead:: God I'm stupid... |
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Ever had one of those days when you just can't do ANYTHING right?
I'm having one. I PMed a fellow Gaian about joining his literate RP, but I really, really ******** it up. First, I, in a fit of matchless stupidity, didn't realize that it was a COLLEGE RP, not a high school RP. It didn't actually say 'college' in the first post, but I should've figured it out. So, I PMed the guy frantically, trying to apologize, but I'm worried that he'll be annoyed. I really wanted to talk to him and get to know him, because he seemed cool, but...Urgh. I hate my own obliviousness. Most of the time. ::sigh:: Oh well. I expect I'll live.
~Mexy
Tophet · Sun Mar 20, 2005 @ 02:51pm · 0 Comments |
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