it looks like ridely and isabelle are snake and cloud’s fursona’s
If i knew like 5% less about video games and you tried to tell me which of these characters were named Snake and Cloud and which ones were named Ridley and Isabelle i would NOT believe you
Friends, strangers, I want to share with you something I long thought I’d hallucinated, but which today I have discovered was absolutely real.
In the 90s my mum went to a number of Star Trek conventions and would often come home with a fan made tshirt. I need you to understand that my mother, barely 5’ tall, a catholic who to this day goes to church every Sunday, who was never heard to utter a swear word until I was in my twenties, who taught Grade One for decades at the local primary school. This woman, pure and innocent, went to a Star Trek convention and not only saw this tshirt but PURCHASED IT and now it’s been rediscovered in the garage and I’ve never been happier in my life.
I asked her what she was thinking and she said that she thought it was funny but when she brought it home my dad was (aside from side splittingly amused) absolutely adamant that she couldn’t wear it out in public because SHE WANTED TO DO THAT!! Grade One teacher, church on Sunday mum wanted to wear this around town! Who IS this woman I thought I knew??
Anyway now I have this awesome tshirt and I sort of want to frame it.
John Salt (British, 1937-2021), Black Ford in Field, 1972. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.
Looked up the artist and this is just all he did for decades. Unbelievably realistic paintings of broken down cars parked on roadsides. They’re made by projecting photos onto the canvas and using an airbrush and stencils to carefully reproduce the image without any brushstrokes. Some of his paintings would take years to complete.
little inconsistencies that at first you assume “oh, the author must have fucked up”, but then later on you realize that no, it was on purpose, they wanted you to think they fucked up but they hadnt
related: when you think “this has Implications the author didn’t think about” and then it turns out the author was thinking about them the whole time
As an author this is my favourite thing to do to people. It feels like cheating and I love cheating.
It does have one horrible side effect though, which is that after your readers have shrugged, politely overlooked and forgotten a couple of tiny “plot holes” only for you to shank them in the back later using them as deliberate clues for a twist, you never get a real tiny plot hole overlooked again, because you have trained readers to treat every inconsistency they can find as deeply complex foreshadowing and they will actively seek and memorise them.
ALT
