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sabcatt
[Note: to be updated as things change / I think of anything I want to add / the stars align.]
Name: East
Age: zillenial, ie, too young to be a real millennial but old enough to get offended at the very IDEA of being seen as a zoomer
Pronouns: any except she/her and he/him (recommend e/em/eirs for clarity and ease of use, but I genuinely don't care)
Location: Minnesota, with a California backstory
Occupation: art maker, wrench brandisher, fader adjuster, power tool user, and part-time opera knower
Fannish interests (current obsessions italicized): Ace Attorney, Baldur's Gate 3, Bubble Comics, Danger Days, DC (mostly comics), Doctor Who (old, nu, and wilderness eras), FOB, Fullmetal Alchemist, Granada Holmes, Legends of Tomorrow, Les Mis, Leverage, Marvel (Spider-verse movies, X-Men comics), MCR, theater (musical and otherwise), the Silmarillion, Star Trek, Star Wars, Torchwood, Umbrella Academy, audio dramas (mostly podcasts, but not exclusively; ask me which ones!), some classic (ie black-and-white era) movies, some REALLY BAD tv and movies, other stuff probably
Other interests: TTRPGs (Pathfinder 2E, Ironsworn, getting into some FitD stuff; D&D 5e/5.5e mainly by virtue of being grandfathered in), my various original characters & works, technical theater, Judaism, narratology, visual art, gardening, poetry, human anatomy, and of course writing
What I'm doing here: I am a Tumblr native since 2013 (which is now over a decade past... yay?), and I like Tumblr a lot, but it's not great for in-depth conversations and I like having a slower-moving, text-based corner of the internet to hang out in instead. I use Dreamwidth partly as an archive for my fan stuff, partly as a repository for random thoughts and links, and I hope to also use it to talk to other internet people more about the stuff we share.
This journal will consist of: Personal posts, fanfic, essays and meta on things I'm a fan of as well as fandom itself, original fiction and poetry. (This includes some sexually explicit fanfic and origfic, which will be signposted but not necessarily locked.)
New people policy: I want to make friends! Feel free to subscribe to me, even if you don't know me—I will probably subscribe to you back, if we have interests in common. (And sometimes even if we don't.) Anything I don't want actual strangers seeing is locked, usually stuff that's more vent-y; if it's not locked, I want comments! I love comments. Feed me the comments.
Blanket yes for everything with no credit needed (although it would be nice!). Please feel free to remix, rework, recycle, revive, reconstruct, deconstruct, dismember, appropriate, misappropriate, or steal from my fanworks as you desire. They are dedicated to the public domain, and to the hope that we will see a robust creative commons, free of the capitalist nightmare of copyright, within our days.
I'm open to works inspired by my non-fanwork creative writing (anything supertitled "Origfic" and under a p: tag), but unlike the permissions for my fanworks, I ask that you please don't repost, translate, or podfic those without linking back to me.
Things you may find useful if you don't want to sift through everything I've posted here by hand:
Click to see a breakdown of my tagging system.
Click to see an index post of my fanworks by fandom. [I'll make this someday. I will.]
Last updated: Mar 2025
oh my goodness another 2013 tumblr-joiner
Date: 22 Nov 2022 01:15 (UTC)I found your account cause we share interests in critical analysis, art history, and poetry. What's your favorite era(s) of art, artists, or pieces of art? Personally I love the early to mid 20th century, especially Surrealism and Dadaism.
Also, bc I must let all queer (art history) nerds know about these artists if they don't already: have you heard of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore?
Re: oh my goodness another 2013 tumblr-joiner
Date: 23 Nov 2022 14:45 (UTC)I like dada a lot for its aesthetics (and, to a lesser degree, its politics) but I don't tend to think a lot about any given Dadaist artwork. I also love the conceptual art movement that emerged in the 1960s/70s (or at least, what that movement is at its best); two of my favorite works are "One and Three Chairs" by Joseph Kosuth and "An Oak Tree" by Michael Craig-Martin.
In terms of formal characteristics, I don't have a particular favorite movement or era—I tend to like things that are either intense (late medieval European/Gothic art, Baroque sculpture, whatever Kandinsky and Matisse had going on) or austere (brutalism, Soviet Suprematism), but for non-conceptual attraction, I tend to assess more based on the look and feel of the individual work than its context.
(Lmao sorry for dropping all my art history jargon on you right away, I'm very sleep deprived and just got out of a visual culture class.)
Poetry I tend to treat the same way as I do art; I like the things that I like aesthetically, don't really care about the movement or era. My mom read me Prufrock too much as a kid so I'm permanently attached to T S Eliot's narrative voice now; to toss out more names, I also like Edna St Vincent Millay, W H Auden, Carl Sandburg; Cathy Park Hong, Tracy K Smith, and Hanif Abdurraqib for contemporary poets. Plus whatever I see around that I like. I've been meaning to read more Spanish-language poetry (in translation, sadly) but haven't gotten around to it.
I had not heard of Cahun and Moore but I'm intrigued! I will admit I'm not a big surrealism fan because it frequently seems to be appropriating the aesthetics of "mainstream" high culture to make commentary on said culture and society at large, but I'm often bored by the visuals of high culture so I find surrealism boring to look at as well, which tends to be a death knell for my interest in any artwork.
Re: oh my goodness another 2013 tumblr-joiner
Date: 23 Nov 2022 16:41 (UTC)Oh that's awesome! It's really rare to find someone who says they genuinely enjoy conceptual art.
I'd never heard of "An Oak Tree" before, but I just looked it up and it's fascinating. Weirdly the first thing I thought of was its implications for transness? I'm trans, haven't had any medical transition yet, but I'm certainly not my gender assigned at birth, in spite of that being what people see when they first look at me. I'll probably be re-reading the text that goes along with the work a few times, especially since I wasn't sure what was meant by the transformation not being a result of intention. Thanks for showing it to me!
Also, please don't worry about dropping the jargon. I majored in art history in college, so I know most of it, and if I don't know it, I will look it up. Speak in whatever way is most comfy for you!
Personally, I like surrealism because of its relationship to dreams and the unconscious. I've always had very vivid and strange dreams, so I kinda just think it's neat to see that represented in art. I like dadaism for similar reasons. There's this amazing feeling (to me) when there are two unexpected things juxtaposed together (like in a dream) and a new meaning clicks into place without me being able to articulate it. I absolutely understand your tendency to get bored with it, though. I find that the exciting works are the ones that people don't tend to talk about as much, for some reason. (I for one, can't stand the aesthetics of Dali)
Unfortunately I don't read poetry enough to say what poets I like. I mainly just stumble upon poems and keep them in my bookmarks if I like them. I also enjoy writing poetry, especially focusing on those surreal juxtapositions and on rhythm, which is my favorite aspect of a poem.
Also, based on what you've told me, I think the work of Cahun & Moore you'd like most might be Cahun's "memoire," Disavowals. I say "memoire" in quotes because it's really a deconstruction of the memoire. It's very disjointed and doesn't have a consistent voice or sense of reality. I'm not sure how much of the text you can find online without really digging, but you can easily find the plates, which are collages that have some dadaist aesthetics to them.
e.g.
Also, thanks so much for the reply!