December Days 2020 #01: Three Good Things
Dec. 1st, 2020 10:44 amWelcome to December Days 2020. This year, I'll be taking requests and answering questions you might have. That includes things like further asks about anything in a previous December Days tag, if you have any questions on that regard.
Today I'm working on a question that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
2dlife liked to ask when I was in the middle of a bout of confirmation bias about my lack of accomplishment of Great Works by the arbitrary time that someone has to achieve the fame and fortune promised to The Worthy:
I have seen just as many people saying this thing is emphatically not for them as I have people proclaiming their own threads in it, but![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gdgdbaby has posted a year-end 'say good things about people' post, with the idea of the replies being anonymous so there's less likelihood of not saying anything because people don't necessarily want their praise attached to their name. (It can be a really big thing to tell someone that you've enjoyed their work forever, or that something they did saved your life or otherwise wrought profound change.)
That post has thousands of comments, with people leaving all sorts of praise for others on them. When the narrative about 2020, when all is said and done, will be about how selfish and uncaring people were about not infecting others, in trying to hold on to power, in raising their voices and their weapons against the idea that Black Lives Matter (at least as much as white ones already do), the small bits of good that happen are the ones that remind us to keep going for the better world we envision.
For me, this particular thing is also the first thing that I remember from this year as being an explicit event of its type. I went back into my timeline and looked at some of those entires, and while there were things that were about sharing joy, having joy, taking pride in oneself, and the like, I think this is the first specific event that I've encountered that holds its own format. So if I were playing the Wham! game on these particular things, I would have almost won it by not encountering something of this nature. (I think the Wham! game is going to be a little easier to win this year. Unless you work in a store, but I think that grants you immunity to such a game because you don't have a choice to avoid whatever's been put on the rotation. Not that what's on the rotation is necessarily something that's going to be pleasant to have to listen to for the entirety of the shifts that you have for the season.) And while I understand entirely the resasons people have for being nervous or not wanting to participate in such things, they help give me a reality check on my own brainweasels that tell me that nobody cares and it takes a desperate person to ask other people to say nice things about them.
And yes, there's a thread for silveradept, if you have nice things you want to say about me. (No obligation nor pressure, and I sympathize if your brainweasels are the flavor of "it must be perfect or it cannot exist at all!")
On to thing two! Which is a great gift that I got from the Disney Animated Movie exchange this year!
Fantasia 2020 (3465 words) by ChokolatteJedi
Fandom: Fantasia (1940), Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Narrator, Other(s)
Additional Tags: Music, Inspired by Music, Embedded Video, Interactive Fiction, Disney References, Classical Music, Experimental Style
Summary:
Which, y'know, the official summary doesn't quite do justice to the fact that someone picked me up as a pinch hit and produced, essentially, a full Fantasia program, minus fully animated segments that didn't already exist, like The Firebird and Clair de Lune. There's narration between segments, there's storyboarding of what the new segments would look like, there's even descriptive alt-text of the storyboarding. And the music selection is fabulous! Not only is there one piece from each of the previous Fantasia iterations, there's good selections for each of the other new materials coming through, some of which I was familiar with, some of which are new to me. And I would love to see a couple of those storyboards properly animated into a real Fantasia piece. It was a delight for me and an hour's with of good music and imagination. So that's something that's been good on my life and I wanted to share with all of you.
Also, correspondence! It's now December, which means it's time that I start asking people as to whether they want to receive holiday correspondence for a Vague Early Winter Potentially Religious Festival (because not everybody celebrates 25 December as their festival day, nor does everyone celebrate Christmas, Yule, or Midwinter as religious festivals). This year's offerings are IKEA-bought cards, I believe. If you would like correspondence, please let me know, and if I do not have your address or you aren't sure whether I have your address, please provide it in a private message.
Those are some things that are good in my life right now.
Today I'm working on a question that
2dlife liked to ask when I was in the middle of a bout of confirmation bias about my lack of accomplishment of Great Works by the arbitrary time that someone has to achieve the fame and fortune promised to The Worthy: What are some good things in your life right now?
I have seen just as many people saying this thing is emphatically not for them as I have people proclaiming their own threads in it, but
gdgdbaby has posted a year-end 'say good things about people' post, with the idea of the replies being anonymous so there's less likelihood of not saying anything because people don't necessarily want their praise attached to their name. (It can be a really big thing to tell someone that you've enjoyed their work forever, or that something they did saved your life or otherwise wrought profound change.)That post has thousands of comments, with people leaving all sorts of praise for others on them. When the narrative about 2020, when all is said and done, will be about how selfish and uncaring people were about not infecting others, in trying to hold on to power, in raising their voices and their weapons against the idea that Black Lives Matter (at least as much as white ones already do), the small bits of good that happen are the ones that remind us to keep going for the better world we envision.
For me, this particular thing is also the first thing that I remember from this year as being an explicit event of its type. I went back into my timeline and looked at some of those entires, and while there were things that were about sharing joy, having joy, taking pride in oneself, and the like, I think this is the first specific event that I've encountered that holds its own format. So if I were playing the Wham! game on these particular things, I would have almost won it by not encountering something of this nature. (I think the Wham! game is going to be a little easier to win this year. Unless you work in a store, but I think that grants you immunity to such a game because you don't have a choice to avoid whatever's been put on the rotation. Not that what's on the rotation is necessarily something that's going to be pleasant to have to listen to for the entirety of the shifts that you have for the season.) And while I understand entirely the resasons people have for being nervous or not wanting to participate in such things, they help give me a reality check on my own brainweasels that tell me that nobody cares and it takes a desperate person to ask other people to say nice things about them.
And yes, there's a thread for silveradept, if you have nice things you want to say about me. (No obligation nor pressure, and I sympathize if your brainweasels are the flavor of "it must be perfect or it cannot exist at all!")
On to thing two! Which is a great gift that I got from the Disney Animated Movie exchange this year!
Fantasia 2020 (3465 words) by ChokolatteJedi
Fandom: Fantasia (1940), Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Narrator, Other(s)
Additional Tags: Music, Inspired by Music, Embedded Video, Interactive Fiction, Disney References, Classical Music, Experimental Style
Summary:
Welcome to Fantasia 2020. Each piece you are about to see follows in the traditions of the original Fantasia and Fantasia 2000.
Which, y'know, the official summary doesn't quite do justice to the fact that someone picked me up as a pinch hit and produced, essentially, a full Fantasia program, minus fully animated segments that didn't already exist, like The Firebird and Clair de Lune. There's narration between segments, there's storyboarding of what the new segments would look like, there's even descriptive alt-text of the storyboarding. And the music selection is fabulous! Not only is there one piece from each of the previous Fantasia iterations, there's good selections for each of the other new materials coming through, some of which I was familiar with, some of which are new to me. And I would love to see a couple of those storyboards properly animated into a real Fantasia piece. It was a delight for me and an hour's with of good music and imagination. So that's something that's been good on my life and I wanted to share with all of you.
Also, correspondence! It's now December, which means it's time that I start asking people as to whether they want to receive holiday correspondence for a Vague Early Winter Potentially Religious Festival (because not everybody celebrates 25 December as their festival day, nor does everyone celebrate Christmas, Yule, or Midwinter as religious festivals). This year's offerings are IKEA-bought cards, I believe. If you would like correspondence, please let me know, and if I do not have your address or you aren't sure whether I have your address, please provide it in a private message.
Those are some things that are good in my life right now.
