May 14, 2242

The Sword May 14, 2023
"The Woman in Black stared at the Little Girl as the buildings burnt all around them."
A Swordslinger has a chance encounter with a little girl that will change both of their lives forever.
Artist and Writer Shawn Alleyne takes us on another ride in his AfroFiction series of worlds. This time we enter a sci-fi Western frontier in a short story of death, discovery and destiny.
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@leothefox be careful with your posture, do you stretch every morning? if you don't consider that to help

@scheinbar Danke für die Reflexion. Was befindet sich auf der anderen Straßenseite? thank you for the reflection, what is on the other side of street?
@intao i never heard of a hipstamatic camera before? what was the focal length+ aperture of the camera at the time of the photo "Morning Eye"?
@KABANOMORI what kind of digital image is ghost? you said references had the deers leg backwards, I don't comprehend. It looks lovely.
@MozaGrin it looks like from the ocuulus on a door, nice, whose is looking at the pair? don't tlel me, a cat? haha
@darkroots77 I feel great swamp thing vibes with this
@300ChickenNuggets what video game is leonard in?

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thank you @KABANOMORI

Have you ever created a "problematic" piece of art? What was your motivation? What response were you met with? Please let us know in the comments below!

When I first read this I thought, there are no problems in art. Thinking on my own work, have i made anythingi think a problem? In my own mind the answer is no. I think I have made work that prompted questions that various readers or viewers wouldn't like to read or see or deal with , for various reasons. I reread your prose and thought to myself. What you mean by "problematic' is about reactions. It isn't the artwork that is ever problematic or generates problems, but it is the audience that dictates the polarity of problems.

I think of the statues from the roman empire , fully naked that centuries later in the very land they were made were castrated by christian clerics.
I think about the original screenplay of legend from horsberg, film made by ridley scott. In the original screenplay Lilly was raped, after rewrites that was turned into the dance scene. But when read by the producers, one of the producers , a female, told scott + horsberg, and I quote "you can't rape the princess". Which is interesting to me on many levels. When Jim Brown did a film 1968's the split, with diahann carroll, written by westlake who is white, jim brown playing the main character parker, who was written white, diahann carroll 's character, playing a petty, working, pure woman was raped and kiled by a white character. I wonder if lilly was not white would hollywood have minded. But I know ridley Scott saw falsehood in it, cause years later when he made the Last Duel in 2021 based on a book by Eric JAge with a design similar to Rashomon of Kurosawa, the entire plot revolves around a raped white woman in 14th century france who upholds she was raped in public which leads to the duel through the legal system of france at the time. A great scene in the movie from an older white female character played by harriet walker proves this moreso. So ridley scott through his won work responded to the audiences problems of perception so to speak that limited what his financiers would allow from his artistic vision in the past. I just have to add, in the original screenplay a young unicorn suckles from lilly's unpregnant breast.
I think of an early draft of the Last Unicorn from Peter s Beagle, and in that the unicorn originally was going to be in modern times, along the highway, unseen by humans as the smoke and filth of the mortal world goes by her, herself lost and confused, not knowing if she is the last unicorn and a daze, as she goes by potentially other magical creatures , like dragons, also the last.
I think of the original title of "the girl with the dragon tattoo" which was the more appropriate "why men hate women" which the book publishers tld stiegg larsson to change or changed for him. I don't know the truth but know somehow it was changed.
So between ancient male statues penisis, raped white european princesses of fable land, living unicorns in modernity frustrated and the last of their kind, or corret titles of books , it proves problems come from audiences plus financiers wanting to placate audiences fears/favors/desires.

While I rabbled on I thought about my own work. Has my work ever garnered commentary suggesting my work is problematic?
The first truth, which is a little sad to emit, is I am not popular enough to garner decent backlash. That may sound soft but you nead more readers to get a chance of more responses from people who have problems to your work.
But I have a few instances i will share the three most clear in memory, and I can even temporally rank them. And to be blunt, my reason fro writing is always thati love to write, i have been writing since a child and i will never stop.but...
Earliest, a work i made, not on deviantart, is about a literal visualization, no lesson in the story but it is meant to be be a world described and for those that like it, produce a smile. Most liked the world but wanted more plot. But one in particular, a female, a black female, i am a black male, had issue wwith what i call sensual descriptions of the "magical" brothel. Made me giggle actually. I made the work cause I was raised with a full compliment of fiction/fantasy. What do i mean by full compliment. When one is a Black Descended of enslaved person in the usa, as I am, the larger media in the usa , which has never been owned or controlled in any way by black people, places little black fantasy or fiction . Which makes sense. Disney did not make the black panther films cause blacks and whites love each other. disney made the black panther films cause non blacks in modernity, the last twenty years, are comfortable buying tickets to a movie with few non black primary characters [in Sinners no white primary characters were heroes so.. time does move] and in modernity, black people have the ability to make great returns on movie tickets as well and buy stuff. so... black panther is greenlit. So I don't have an issue with the white power in media of the past , even if it has a financial or communal source of action against blacks or non white europeans. But, the past created an environment where many black people in the usa or elsewhere rarely see themselves in media unless they have, as i did, two black parents fortunate enough to provide it growing up. So, I grew up with high john the conqueror/buck and the preacher/august wilson plays/donald goines books/black poetry /brer rabbit/oscar micheaux before he became more popular or known - while I also heard peter and the wolf at Lincoln Center, saw gaugin works, and tapestries from muslim caliphates, and devo videos. My point being I made the work wanting to add to black DOS literary canon, a common theme for me, I am not limited to that, but I like it. I grew up with my own people in fantasy worlds not just biographies or white interpretations of black people.
Somewhere in the middle, a work of mine was reviewed on deviantart [I am not telling you the name, but I will do a scavenger hunt... you have to search using the word "PLAY" in my gallery [[ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=play ]] and it is a literature work. Only four pages so if interested find it ] but in the review , the reviewer admitted the truth, that the premise I had broke the norm for audiences. It is an even artistic judgement/critique that your work challenges the quality of art work assessed through audience reaction or financial return. It isn't a judgement of creativity but a judgement of commerciality which has validity. I made this cause I like dialog works. I don't mind works of mostly action but I don't feel bothered by people simply communicating in a story. Anyone know the before film series from linklater knows how i feel. I also saw a fictional setting plot element between the characters that is uncommon but made and still makes sense to me. hahaha search
Most Recent, I had a story for a writing contest with the theme of superheroes and one of my readers said, and i quote "superheroes don't do this" . You can imagine what you like, I will give a hype badge to whomever guesses right use those imaginations if interested. It isn't in my deviantart so... But I made it cause I thought what should be done if one is a superhero and it occurred to me, the actions i portrayed made the most sense. I think as writers sometimes we think to little on characters actions to make the reader/viewer/audience confirm their pseudoprescience . I have never felt the need to do that. I don't support auto counterpose in works cause good defeating evil isn't unreal or impossible.

But great questions

@pijanymajk I can see on a closeup of the image frustration in your brush work but i love the chiaroscuro ... play with me and you play with fire... where does that come from?
@HelviRiitta very nice, love the colors, poor forest, who started the fire?
@MissPopoki Un trabajo de grafito encantador. ¿Qué papel y qué lápiz utilizaste? ¿Es Pesadilla en Elm Street la película de «monstruos slasher» más popular en los medios de comunicación de habla hispana a nivel mundial?
lovely graphite work. what paper and pencil did you use? is nightmare on elm street the most popular "monster slasher" film in spanish speaking media worldwide?
@HonkyTonkk if in color what color will the rose be? nice collaborative of struggle, between humans in the worst scenarios and a rose
@piruniia haha what stoogie is blown by a peace of mind? haha smells great i bet. You say mixed media, which mixed media?
@Apelure wow! mother's maw, like grendel's mother
@Ptero-Pterodactylus beautiful toes, your right, high heels always make the leg sexier, it is the muscularity it enforces in womens legs. did your wife model for the image?
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my pleasure, i like to write

yes i am a fan of the boys. And the reception to it is refreshing. I do think the boys, brightburn, invincible in some ways are the children of the watchmen in the sense that the watchmen was originally meant to be a justice league story that dc snubbed because they didn't like the negativity. But the success of watchmen opened the doors to the boys and company.
People do love the ability to escape to the world where good or evil is simple, as your prose in the original post suggest correctly. I argue the response to brightburn from a majority of superman fans as well as to superman returns with superman as an absentee father, by superman fans proves many are fans of superman for the escape from reality and it shows in dollars.
And I want to say for the record that while many suggest brightburn is a "hell" i argue brightburn has a possbility for peace because at the end, even if all the justice league members are "bad guys" killers even, they will fight each other and in that fight lies the possibility of peace .
But while many fans love to escape to the good vs evil worlds, It is nice that the market for those who can enjoy entertainment with ideas that challenge simpler story structures is present and seemingly growing.

I wish I could had been in the preproduction for princess and the frog. Peter jackson spent four to seven years preproducing lord of the rings and I think Princess and the frog needed more time. One thing I would had changed is made it where tiana's father succeeded in making the restaurant and it being sucessful and the only black owned business on land in mythic new orleans of the early 1900s. I don't think it hurts Tiana by having her quest to maintain the restaurant, not initialize it. But while I have issues with the main antagonist, the caricature black voodoo man, the character i think is most artfully poor is tiana's "best frined' the white princess whose father seem to be the richest man in town who seems to be impotent while she is ridiculously flirtatious. I will love for someone to cut princess and the frog and take out those two characters and see what kind of movie it is. In paralell, I think black panther in kilmonger had the one of the rarest sights in moviedom, a black character that is openly antagonistic to whites. many movies in the 1970s, black characters said many things but phsyically weren't assaulting to whites. kilmonger, a black character, assaults whites. He is the drop of pure realism that strikes through a simple good vs evil story or set of characters. Coogler and company did well there.

Exactly good writing matters, and the ability to turn the screenplay into a video messenger is also needed and not all do well. If you watch sinners without sound, you will comprehend what is going on, regardless of your heritage or cultural standing, you see what is going on and it flows. Black panther similarly, not as sharply as sinners but similarly. But princess and the frog, no. the antagonist in black panther or sinners is clearly defined in their opening scene. Kilmonger is a black man with a fashion dissimilar to white european fashion from his hair to his clothes standing in a museum colored all white showcasing black african artifacts with white people as curators. He speaks to the gentle white curator with unfiltered contempt and dislike. Remmick is running in the daylight seemingly on fire, to the closest house he can, the strangers open the door without his provocation, and he sees the kkk outfit and and adjusts his lie to get in the house from the sunlight.
The black voodoo man in princess and the frog has no connection to tiana or naveen, or tiana'as father or anyone or thing, he is a pantomime villain who could have any appearance but was chosen to be a black voodoo man. I stand corrected, he has some connection to the black voodoo woman who is blind but it is undisclosed. poor writing.

Exactly, many people as children are simply not exposed to the width of the arts, and even with the modern internet and global media it is still highly lacking.

Well, I think it is great that modern audiences , all ages, shapes, sizes, phenotypes, with the power of "google-san" can investigate and explore and expose various elements in storytelling and expose inauthentic or lying but they have to learn to embrace what arts are. I think cameron's avatar movies have a terrible story. But the point of the films isn't visual storytelling but visual brilliance and they are visually brilliant. Like DW Griffith's birth of a nation , you have to judge it for what it is, not what you want it to be.

I love communicating, you didn't ramble, you conveyed thoughts and expressions. Part of that experience you and I and not enough others share is , reading something above average length isn't a pain or a frustration.
and thank you I will continue.

If you want another clue to the scavenger hunt I will give it to you


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My pleasure

I wish I had thought of masturbation, that is good. And I concur, they think themselves above critique but in truth are shameful for they think it less than to exhibit lust. I don't see why nonviolent exhibition of lust is sinful.


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@leothefox congrats to nearing the completion of "the devil's footprints"

@CapnDeek373 how many steps in total
@allusernamestaken666 is that a photograph of van gogh's image or your version?
@Redsterfish nice clay head, but what will be the body?
@zeroequalsq nice graphite, the pose selection is brilliant, graphite always looks vibrant when poses have high contrast the black and white distance is always the strongest for contrast.

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