@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#ScribesAndMakers Day 28: How satisfied are you with the creative work you've done this month?
I've finally made time for painting again, tiny miniatures and cats in acrylic. To someone with skill, it probably looks terrible but it's mine, and I'm proud.
I've failed utterly at the piano, but I am not giving up. Failing is a part of the process.
I'm…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#ScribesAndMakers 8/22: "Fantasy stories are frequently inspired by medieval societies. Why do you think people are fascinated by that time period?"
Elite propaganda.
Medieval knights were a bloodthirsty elite. Armour allowed them to cut down commoners with relative impunity, and they did. The myth of the 'parfait gentil knicht' is entirely propaganda.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers July 14: How objective do you feel you are when it comes to assessing your own work?
I'm probably more critical towards my own work compared to the works of others but then I also know exactly how I wanted something to be while when I assess others, I can only see their vision through their work 🙂
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers – July 13: Has a bear ever featured in your work? If so, what sort of bear?
I wrote a retelling of the myth of Kallisto in which Zeus takes the appearance of Artemis to have sex with Kallisto (that version is from an ancient Greek comedic play). Artemis turns Kallisto into a bear when she realises that she is pregnant and must have cheated on her with a man 😢 🐻
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#ScribesAndMakers 13/08: Our next featured creator turned a short story into a novel. Have you ever done that, or the reverse?
I have, yes. It's a more than usually unpublishable novel, and it's of uneven quality, but I like it. It started off with someone else's short story that I really didn't like; I rewrote the plot of it as a short story of my own which I thoug…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#ScribesAndMakers Aug 7: Is there a work of art that you didn't like at first but came to appreciate once you understood it better?
This is a hard one. There's tons of stuff I love now that I cab recognize I would have bounced off of completely when I was younger, but most of it I didn't actually have earlier encounters with.
I think jazz music as a genre counts for me though. Once I reached a certain level of my own musically and began to want more, I realized what Jazz was about and started to appreciate it.
There's also tons of stuff for me that's the converse: stuff I genuinely enjoyed when younger that I wouldn't enjoy now, from Harry Potter to League of Legends to Terry Goodkind.