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does the autistic/schizophrenic dichotomy in this vs. that refer to extremes of rationality vs. creativity ?
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michaelmas
2 years ago
What you wrote about Snoopy & Hello Kitty & lack of narratives is interesting, because I didn't really grow up with Snoopy at all. I began to like Snoopy somewhat recently in the same way I liked Hello Kitty & crew- a cute but blank character. I saw him as just a cute puppy for a while before actually reading any of the comics & thus giving Snoopy a narrative in my mind.
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suboptimalism
2 years ago
against all odds, the very first thing i did to try and fix it somehow worked
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lostletters
2 years ago
I've never been interested in fan-made work, so this was really interesting to read to better understand folks who are interested in it.
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manulzone
2 years ago
Very interesting. Personally, I've never felt that the self-re-iteration of NGE happens to the detriment of 'narrative'. But that might be bc as I exclude any franchising and so on as a given. Hm.
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suboptimalism
2 years ago
too long to excerpt here fully but azuma has written that "Anno flirted with the impossible task of constructing a grand narrative in the 1990s, but in the end it proved impossible..."
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Is it too optimalist to ask if you have an RSS feed? I just realized I missed your very excellent gambling and JR rail pass writings until now.
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suboptimalism
2 years ago
uhhh you'll probably have to be content with the barebones auto-generated one at https://neocities.org/site/suboptimalism.rss , but i rarely put out superficial site updates so it'll probably work pretty well as an alert for new stuff
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nohappynonsense
2 years ago
consequently, i put together a little RSS feed maker thing a few months back to help folks get started on their own custom RSS feeds if you want to try making your own. post here: https://nohappynonsense.net/features/reallysimple
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yes - there are other ways to put it as well, such as mechanistic vs. mentalistic thinking. i had written more about it on my site a while ago but accidentally deleted it without backups a couple months ago