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Moving medieval manuscript art!

i have got to get my father to sit down and focus and actually watch some portion of HLVRAI before he dies. im constantly haunted by the knowledge that all this incredibly innovative, completely grassroots improvisational theater--which is frankly some of the most cutting edge "new media" that currently exists and gets zero credit from academia or the larger art world for it because you have to be an exact 50/50 hybrid of annoying shakespeare college guy and annoying extremely online guy to understand what's even going on--is happening ON TWITCH for an audience of people who, while appreciative, are only experiencing it in the context of it being a "[a joke about a] video game stream". there should be regular columns in the New Yorker about stuff like Jerma's Dollhouse stream, one of the most well-known pieces of performance art in the classical sense that currently exists. it just bugs me. i dont know what to do about it. i used to be able to get paid to write really long articles about stuff like this in Kotaku and Wired etc but there's no readership for that either, and there wasn't then. no matter who im trying to explain how groundbreaking this stuff is to, they will need like a 30 minute preamble about either the world history of live theater traditions, or why the joke a gnome just said originated on the Something Awful forums in 2004 and why it matters.

of the two types of annoying guy you have to be to get this particular angle on this medium, the theater people are the ones who are going to get more out of it with much less explanation, but when you spec out of academia you lose touch with that peer group except for the other dilettantes, who are extremely few and far between. there's nothing anyone can do about this except vaguely plan on writing a book someday

for the first time ever in human history we are experiencing as an audience an improvised, live, ensemble theater production from the first person perspective of one of the actors. there should be a new paper about this on Academia.edu every week!!! its a big deal!!

me trying to explain to a theater person why someone is trying to distract Gordon and keep his field of view pointed a certain way while they delete the Lanky Kong prop they just spawned behind him by accident: its like that scene in A Night At The Opera where Harpo climbs the matte paintings during Il trovatore and drops the Potemkin(?) backdrop behind the Anvil Chorus

them: ohhh i get it. lmao

me trying to explain to the average twitch viewer why they keep calling the Vortigaunts "Vonneguts": so first up have you ever read "a book"?

them: no

Chic and cringe are twin sisters and sometimes they switch places!!!

"camp is their sister" camp is their mama darling.

my medieval chainmail princess dog

guy who's pronouns are "he/she/they" (that's the whole pronoun) and "to whom it may concern" (that's the whole other pronoun) and everyone gets mad at to whom it may concern because his/her/their pronouns are so long

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so glad this came up on my feed bc i made my own!!

it took me 4hrs to make and i gave him eyes and some starfish frends

Big challenges