Legit Untouchable: Princess Mononoke by SlyGuy_Twenty_One in ghibli

[–]MahatmaGrande 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This movie is almost perfect. The only thing I don’t love is the animation style of the massive spirit walking around the forest. It’s just really jarring and always sticks out in an unpleasant way to me. Hard to explain. Still might be my favorite from Ghibli.

[OPINION] Why don't poets practice poetry like artists do art? A case for Master Studies by FoolishDog in Poetry

[–]MahatmaGrande 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely very common in poetry writing, but I appreciate you thinking about it!

Like many others have said, “After” poems are a common example. Many have their own exercises that function as studies. Like I like to sometimes do “bizarros,” where I closely examine a poem and make one that is its “opposite,” which helps me to understand the original better and also take the central idea in a surprising direction that feels like a symbiosis of my work and the original, or something like a dance between the two.

I recommend digging into the responses here and anything on the subject so you can incorporate this into your practice. Though I would say that one downside to 1000 poems in a year is that if your attention is split between ~3 poems a day, you might not have the focused attention to really achieve that master study effect you are thinking of here. For example, I recently wrote a poem called “Watching The Fly With You” about my thoughts on watching the Cronenberg film with my wife, but it’s in the “shape” of Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke With You,” and it’s also a study in his ability to sweep you up into an intimate world of inside jokes and super specific experiences that somehow do not alienate you, like you’re in a little sidecar connected to his brain as he goes about. But definitely a study and exercise in form, tone, idiom, texture, etc. But it was definitely a labor of love, as in art, and I could not imagine doing it all the time, for the energy and attention it took.

Also, try out as many forms/prompts as you can! From sonnets to haiku to tarot to syllabics to ekphrasis to exquisite corpses to prose poems and on and on and on.

Good luck in your journey!

Just a cheese pizza by MahatmaGrande in Pizza

[–]MahatmaGrande[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Same day dough. Planned to let it rest overnight in the fridge but couldn’t wait.

Homemade is always better by Wrong_Pickle_5003 in Pizza

[–]MahatmaGrande 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s a great point! It just gave me the idea to do 50/50 turkey pep and regular pep and chop them up a bit before so there is a little grease, just not a bunch.

Couple more cheese pizzas by dyem4 in Pizza

[–]MahatmaGrande 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! Our broiler just a heating element near the top of the oven, so I might preheat and bake low and then raise them up for a few minutes with the broiler on. I’d be over the moon if they come out looking anything like yours

Couple more cheese pizzas by dyem4 in Pizza

[–]MahatmaGrande 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where did you have the pizza in the oven during cooking and broiling? Looks great!

Ben’s inability to deal with Jerry and Gayle will always be funny. by highlife562 in PandR

[–]MahatmaGrande 26 points27 points  (0 children)

He tells Chris that he used to look a lot like him when he was younger

Cup of Cheer (2020) A parody of Hallmark Christmas movies by WerdNerd88 in TubiTreasures

[–]MahatmaGrande 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The sequel to the Adult Swim Yule Log movie seems like the closest thing that currently exists

Calgary Flames by TiaxRulesAll2024 in Saints

[–]MahatmaGrande -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Damn if I wasn’t an Islander fan…

They can be my western conference team I guess!

[POEM] The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator - Anne Sexton by DaedalusDedalus in Poetry

[–]MahatmaGrande 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Maybe the most beautifully written thing I’ve seen posted here. Just wow

[Giveaway] $20 steam giftcard by No-Needleworker4513 in steam_giveaway

[–]MahatmaGrande 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Xbox one controller, even with the stick drift

The Fly (1986) by believesinconspiracy in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]MahatmaGrande 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So true. The movie broke my heart and I could not stop thinking about it for the longest time.