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M.C.A Hogarth
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M.C.A Hogarth
@mcahogarth
Doing my own thing. I've written lots and lots of novels. And I paint stuff on paper.
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- LotR was the opposite of the chosen one trope. Was literally “Everyman who didn’t want to have to do the hardest job steps up to the plate.”Published author, folks
- Rewatched Disney's Robin Hood for the first time in ages over the weekend, and some random thoughts: - deeply amusing that Robin Hood wasn't actually robbing from the rich: evil lion Prince John was taxing people literally to the point of penury, and Robin Hood was stealing
GIF - Talking with the teens and it becomes clear to me that: - no one is talking about how to acquire social skills - all the old "practice this in smaller/less important arenas" customs that used to give people a chance to use new social skills have been dismantled - the kids often
- Rewatched the Princess and the Frog yesterday and was surprised at how wholesome it was, and how lacking in preachiness given its setting (1920s America). Tiana's one social setback (when the real estate people promise a property she wanted to someone who could pay in cash) could
GIF - Saw Amadeus (the 1984 movie) again for the first time since... gosh, decades ago, and was surprised by a lot of it. Thoughts: - this is a profoundly religious movie, and is less about Salieri vs Mozart and more about Salieri vs God. Salieri raises important existential points
GIF - The most amazing thing about GalaxyQuest the movie is that the main character, an actor from a quasi-Star Trek show, tells an alien that the show isn't real, that the actors in it are pretending to be things they're not to entertain people, that "it's a lie." ...and then he goes
GIF - Finished my reread of The Hobbit over the weekend and it struck me how deeply it (and stories like it) affected me as a writer, because the "plot" isn't on rails. You think "Oh, this is a story about going to get treasure by killing a dragon!" But the characters never vanquish
GIF - My parents were so determined that their children would be real Americans that they did the cultural equivalent of burning the boats behind themselves. They insisted we speak only English—by the time my grandparents were dying I could only listen to them because I wasn’t fluentThis is why the problem isn't "illegal immigration", it's "immigration". Steve Hou is a quant at Bloomberg. In New York City. Yet he feels more solidarity with foreign invaders than he does with the Americans who they are displacing. Why? Because they are Korean. It
- Men read tons of novels, the statistics are just invisible to tradpub because they've been driven out of bookstores and to the indiesphere where guys still write genres that appeal to guys (and make bank), and create entire new genres that appeal to guys (like LitRPG), and make
- This isn't new, I ask you to remember. In 2000, I had a Hugo-award-winning artist tell me to my face that all conservatives should die and leave the planet to the "rest of us." Everyone listening laughed and applauded. This rot is old. (If you wonder what I did, I think I
- The new urban fantasy I'm reading features a guy whose soul gets stolen by a demon, various members of Hell are chasing him, and though he has a Catholic grandmother it never occurs to him to maybe seek an angel, a priest, or a church. Literally there's a scene where he pauses in
- De-stigmatizing profanity has led to a marked decrease in civility in society for no noticeable positive effect. Plus, it's ugly.
- A rewatch of Coco confirmed that it remains one of the few modern Pixar movies I enjoy. - I like the subversion of 'the kid is right to rebel against his family'; Miguel eventually learns, and decides for himself, that family matters more than his dreams (if his dreams require
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