@katpburke@the_point_mag@writingenjoyer love seeing people speak up on this more lol, i feel like ive been yelling into the abyss on it https://t.co/3HuZqd3Zhy
victor wembanyama: I don’t expect many American fans to understand, but my time at the monastery was as much about what i left behind as it was about what i absorbed. Two weeks, no meat, for example, difficult here, no?
josh hart: Yooo pause 😂
chet holmgren: what is u talmbout
I still can't believe I just saw a 7'5 guy take a pull-up 30-foot game-tying three. This is what it must've been like to see a movie in color for the first time.
@SarahFPoetry@metal_gifs@la_leere symbolism to question national mythmaking, bonus for slums city seedy underbelly desperation etc. often they're still talented authors! and the originals are still classics. but it does box in alot of brown/asian authors to having to mold their style to be more rushdie or roy etc
@SarahFPoetry@metal_gifs@la_leere unfortunately a lot of the genre now sounds similar partly bc of the same incentive structure that won this story an award: literary gatekeepers box in writers by overwhelmingly rewarding a specific style of magical-realism class/caste/religion postcolonial lit that use religious
I’m beginning to understand that many of you use the word “cancelled” to index the much more complex social process we used to call “falling out of favor”
@MediumReginald@la_leere it still wouldnt tho. "hindu deity name muslim name character symbolizing contradictions of the nation post partition" etc etc is the Most self-exoticizing indian lit fic gimmick. its not a name paired together by accident, its it trying to sound like a genre but lacking subtlety
@metal_gifs@la_leere the god of small things has very densely packed sensory imagery in sentence fragments where the stimuli overload feels like the suffocating humid muggy buzzing tropical sticky air and repression secrets unsaid rules culture. but thats with intent, to match its atmosphere/themes
@metal_gifs@la_leere i dont think metaphor density is inherently an issue, this story was clearly prompted to be in the style of the god of small things by arundhati roy which is densely packed with imagery and sentence fragments. its more the metaphors dont have thematic intent or hold up to thought
@SurlyTemple_666@la_leere hindu deity name muslim name is a common gimmick within indian lit fic to groan about so the mistake isnt AI rowlinging two brown names from different cultures together (next word pattern would actually try do the opposite), its it trying to repeat the tropes and lacking subtlety
bro you're a such fake give-uper i saw you persevere time and time again even when you thought there was nothing worth fighting for. i'm proud of you bro. i truly believe in you.
But red ISN’T the “game theoretically correct” position when the other players are humans, a species known to be far more tribal and prosocial on average than rationally self-interested. So the entire premise on which red makes sense, is based on ignorance.