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@monorail it looks like there's a decoding="sync" html attribute too

but yeah that should work :(

maybe check the network pane in the web inspector? you should be able to check when the images actually get requested/downloaded there

the other solution is to make a sprite sheet (all the images in one file) and to display the image as a background on an element using background-clip to only show the part you want. that's harder to do but you definitely won't get any flickering there, since it's all the same image

@monorail one solution is to download the images via javascript ahead of time (calling .decode() on the image element for example)

there are other ways i'm pretty sure but that's the easiest to explain / implement

don’t just say “making reference to french philosophers” give me names!!

are we talking sartre or derrida?? maybe cixous?? is this radio man dropping tidbits about castration or decapitation on live air?? these are the details readers live for!!

sweetling

babe did you just tell me a phrase is untranslatable and then translate it

i could never have this level of calm patience with the ignorance of my readers

oh no she is translating for the reader now too

“hey you rube, when i say ‘hija’, that’s a term of fucking endearment okay?? it means ‘daughter’.”

what do you think the odds are that an american publisher would make me put that in

imagining texting a man like ‘hnnnngggg… thirsty… voy a beber… agua… (that means “i’m going to drink water” if you don’t speak spanish)’

hey OP you don’t actually have to translate for your terrible texting fling the man has Google he can figure it out

it’s like that moment when you read a sex scene and you realize with horror that the author is either a virgin or else is the recipient of a long history of disappointing sexual encounters

only instead of sex it’s flirting via DMs

actually getting lowkey upset at how bad this author is at writing flirting via DMs

i think i’m supposed to like this tool i think he might be the love interest

that’s… not a very good podcasting concept 🙃 and you didn’t exactly sell it well 🙃🙃

i can understand the protagonist being New To This and not having her feet under her yet but who is this basic ass tool fucking falling for it, i wonder

anyway this is a small criticism in the grand scheme of things but please do not start your book about podcasting by having your main character go “it’s time you asked yourself the REAL questions. who ARE you?? and what do YOU want??” and then having somebody reply like 🥺🥺😭 so true 😭🥺 i was just thinking about this myself 🥰🥲

writers love to be like “such and such made a brilliant speech” without knowing the first thing about what makes a brilliant speech and consequently showing their entire ass

look writers, my take is this :—

if you’re going to have your character be good at something with words—say, poetry, or public speaking, or telling folkloric stories—you’d better fucking learn how to be good at that thing yourself

« the encyclopedia lacks entries for fruit »

“The Nuttall Encyclopædia”

Editor: Rev. James Wood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nuttall_Encyclopædia

@LovesTha @ljwrites well i think the media reads and speaks in the language it knows and of course it’s usually a white media and so its definition of political action and activity will be one which follows particular white norms. intentionally or not, i think a lot of the other stuff just doesn’t get seen.

but i think if you break out of that mould a little and listen to organizers or journalists or theorists who belong to and are writing from within these racialized communities, you do see that stuff get picked up on a lot more. and instead of talking about Organizations you might hear people talking about events maybe, or you’ll have individual ideas attributed to individual people in the community as much as you will a coherent Political Platform. or you might have a zine that one group puts out which is really influential! there are some very important zines that are just like, a group of friends meeting and chilling and figuring things out.

it's not impossible, or even hard, for the media to report on zines or events or community trends of thought. but it doesn't really have the vocabulary for it? there’s no way of mapping it onto the white political model which sees politics and personal life as these cleanly delineated categories, and expects the former to take the shape of like, an Organization with a Board or Leadership that issues PR statements or whatever. i think it just gets lost, or you wind up with some bad miscommunications because the media is trying to pin an organization or figurehead to something which is really much more natural and organic.