#Realism

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

silviamg

PS: The reason why I'm asking people not to call Mexican Gothic magic realism but the accurate term of horror and/or Gothic (it's also historical, but hey) is because I

JJShurte

JJShurte

There's something irritating about people mocking the realism of fiction, in an attempt to allow anything and everything. As though the constraints of good storytelling are nothing at all... "Zombie

Dr Captain Barf, PhD 😏

barf_captain

My take on boob armor:Historically, the most common form of defense a woman has is called a "man."If you have "serious" lady-warriors in your fiction, you're either appeasing male feminist

Peter Garbutt #Climate First #TellTheTruth

PeterG4NES2019

We've been conditioned over decades to regard criticisms of #capitalism as hopelessly idealistic or crankish, and to accept #capitalism as the only realism. 1/- #capitalism numbs us with baubles and

Jennifer Dunn #BlackLivesMatter

WriterJennDunn

How I got my first paid screenwriting job (quick thread):1) My script won the Atlanta Film Festival - yes, I realize the contest route is thankless. I got lucky, since

Matt Gurney

mattgurney

Going to spend my day editing "Olympus Has Fallen," wherein hundreds of elite North Korean commandos suddenly attack and seize the White House, capturing the president. The Matt Realism Cut

Overly Sarcastic Productions

OSPyoutube

Spicy take: I think everyone should watch classic 50s Looney Tunes. Not cuz it's good, but because in our current age of Realism Is Mandatory and the "If You Don't

Tomer Ullman

TomerUllman

Stock photos of busy parents on the computer, rated for realism:1: Mom has both hands on computer, child seems to need no supervision at all. Work is getting done. Mom

Diana B. Henriques

dianabhenriques

I've been thinking a lot about how the GOP/Trump response to the pandemic compares to the GOP/Hoover response to the Great Depression. Same issue: Does government have a duty to

Andrew Knoll

andrew_knoll

Haha! I meant to just be articulating the claims of the first two polls you posted. I'll do my best to summarize Chakravartty's article (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/#WhatScieReal)(THREAD):https://twitter.co

Frank, Queer Goth 🦇🩸

FrankGothic

One truly has to wonder if the fucking boom of dystopias for a while now can’t help but reinforce capitalist realism and our limited imagination in thinking ways of fundamentally

connie willis feelings account

lyta_gold

everything, literary fiction is a marketing category not a real genrehttps://twitter.com/catapultstory/status/1327763699579305984 fantasy, scifi, horror, romance—all the actual genres have shared expectations and points of similarity (alo

✨ Ale🌟andria Ne❄️nakis 🎄

Beavs

Just a little concept art history lesson. The whole “concept art has to be hyper real” thing was a trend that started maybe 15 years ago or so and started

Hari

harikrishnan_91

On 05/06/1873, 3-months after leaving Calcutta, Lalla Rookh arrived in Paramaribo, the first of many ships that transported East Indian indentured labourers to the Caribbean Basin https://immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/suriname.ht

simi

simimoonlight

I just want Beyonce to engage with Blackness outside of this desire to use capitalism as a safety net. What does her Blackness means when she can’t be draped in

✨Layla✨| Kuroo is Back 😍

FoxyTsumu

Let’s talk about the ‘unlucky ones’ in Haikyu for a second. I’m going to pick Iwaizumi and Akaashi for this. They’re both considered typically ‘unlucky ‘ in the narrative because

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