One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Comments

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... if the painting is supposed to be photorealist, "the brush strokes should be invisible" would be a perfectly reasonable thing to say. As opposed to an Impressionist exhibition where it would be incredibly stupid.

That said, the vast majority of paintings before the Impressionist era were done in styles that intended to make the brush strokes as invisible as possible, the idea for most of the history of painting was to create an image where most people didn't notice the limits of the medium, so someone talking about how it's ridiculous for anyone to think any painting wouldn't have obvious brush strokes also sounds kind of stupid.

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

Well, yes, if you thought paintings of the 18th century were the apex of art and what people strived to achieve through most of history, I can see why you'd hold similar beliefs about invisible prose.

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

cyrt Invisible prose is very much *not* what people strove for in writing in the 18th century... but it is the most common style now. So, yeah, someone assuming that's the default for English prose in the 21st century is approximately as correct as someone in 18th century France was about painting.

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

Coalie please, I’m begging you. Go look at some paintings in real life.

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

If I look at a story with "invisible prose" I will also see words! Curious.

Coalie, you need to learn a) how it's possible to use the word "invisible" to describe something that it's literally possible to see if you get up close and look really hard (is it... is it figurative language??? Oh no! Fancy prose!!) and b) that "I want people to pay attention to the images I am creating and not the tools I used to do it" is not the same as "tools don't exist."

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

Coalie please, I don’t need more confirmation that you don’t know what you’re talking about. I already figured that out. Painting are just really cool and I think it’d be nice for you to go see them.

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

coalie, please go look at some paintings sometime up close instead of in a book or on the internet. For fuck sakes.

Re: Your stylistic quirks too precious to give up

[(Anonymous)]

yuletide fic (and fic in general) doesn't need to be realist and strictly speaking literary realism has a long history of including rich prose, you dork