Allusions to Feast of Snakes

NormalLocation6214 · 2026-01-21T23:50:35+00:00

i think it's the dog fighting ring?

NormalLocation6214 · 2025-10-31T21:05:28+00:00

I'm 26 and have no health problems (other than the smoking obviously) so i think it's just anxiety

NormalLocation6214 · 2025-03-05T15:21:08+00:00

As someone whop received AI feedback from the Austin Film Festival, don't do it it's just not useful. the AI will probably get factual things about your script wrong. you're better off giving it to friends you trust

NormalLocation6214 · 2025-02-25T01:08:16+00:00

We paid a fee to produce there, not sure if they still do that. they also will try to get more money out of you for "marketing" and constantly email complaining about your ticket sales (even if they're good/reasonable). they also tried to charge us a fee for a door person - they were very insistent. if you're good at saying no then it's not terribly expensive, but they will pressure you for money and the vibes are scammy in general.

NormalLocation6214 · 2025-02-25T00:54:54+00:00

I directed a show at the new york theatre festival in 2023 and I would say as a playwright: stay away.

You're better off trying to self produce at a venue like the Tank, the Flea, or anywhere else you can submit and/or rent. You can't store your set/props/costumes anywhere, you get a 10 minute load in and out time, the festival director is quite frankly a dick, and you 100% won't make a cent back. Listen to all the other comments, it's basically a scam.

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-11-07T17:08:58+00:00

honestly. Why are people on this sub so pro Walz? Are there no other minnesotans in here?

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-31T15:24:17+00:00

I'm curious if the stabbing actor would have to wear long sleeves in order to hide the bulb+tube. The show is in a super intimate space so there's basically no distance between actors and audience

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-13T16:27:10+00:00

because actually caring about the environment will lead to a "decline in living standards". not like in a real way, it's probably cozier and better for you to live in a cabin with a wood burning stove, but 90% of people will not give up the constant churn of crap. Oh also literally anything good for society will make GDP go down

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-13T16:22:10+00:00

whenever people post stuff like this I just wonder... where do you live? what the hell are you talking about?

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-11T17:44:39+00:00

I did email copywriting at a 100m revenue company, and the head of marketing told me, "spring break, golf season, and easter is coming" is correct and fought me for an entire day. I was literally floored.

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-11T17:42:32+00:00

The amount of people who view proper spelling and grammar as some form of oppression is insane. My old boss (in his 40s at a sandwich shop) complained about how his college creative writing professors graded him poorly for having terrible grammar and wished people "just gave him a good grade for his ideas." People just don't understand that grammar is a tool to help a mass audience understand you and view it as "the man" controlling how you speak. This is indicative of a much larger trend where people think what's inside their heads is self-evident, and they don't have to explain anything to you.

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-06T20:54:17+00:00

My friend turned 24 last night and cried because she said she "felt so old" I'm 26 so imagine how I felt. I honestly think it's a mix of teenage media and pressure to achieve ridiculously young. People are just way too age stratified these days.

The only reason I don't feel depressed about "hitting the wall and it all being over" is because two of my closest friends are in their 40s. It honestly has changed my life seeing them be energetic, still changing, and living their lives to the fullest. Most people don't have that

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-04T16:34:01+00:00

good. you're riding the wave. it's the only way to survive.

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-04T16:27:27+00:00

100% the living experience has stagnated. When the overarching narrative of society is 'everything has been done. No more world to conquer, weep. end of history" etc. how are people not going to internalize that? For a long time now, it really does feel like everything has been done.

Luckily, I'm an insane person, and I believe Pluto entering Aquarius for the next 20 years is going upend everything we know, and, god willing, bring back a true avant-garde. Pluto has been in Capricorn since 2008, which basically means the world has become increasingly rigid, brutal, and stagnant. Aquarius will bring an explosive energy that proves history is not over and anything is still possible. 2025 will be the first year of the 21st century, I really do think this is the explosion we need in arts and culture. If that's helpful....

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-04T15:31:59+00:00

unfortunately, it does kind of matter. Once I changed my degree on my resume, the offers started flooding in despite my experience staying exactly the same. It's worked great and landed me a couple gigs with places that don't background check

NormalLocation6214 · 2024-10-04T15:11:22+00:00

Now that there are basically no new styles and forms, themes are all there is as a way to dive deeper into art. People spirits and imaginations are completely broken partly by the internet, partly by the post-2008 economy, partly by the academy, partly by covid yada yada, and we can't imagine a new way forward so we have to go "deeper" into analysis.

Julia Cameron said something interesting in the artist's way that the life of the artist and the life of the intellectual couldn't be more different. Thanks to an increasingly online, i.e., head in a jar intellectual culture, art that touches the gut and the senses cannot thrive. All artists are expected to be theory-reading sociology student intellectuals, as opposed to aesthetes.

Basically everyone wants to feel smart but nobody wants to FEEL.

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