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Oct. 7th, 2025 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
just_put_me"This time, don't use things that could eat me, please."
[Ok.]
The power of a character's ability to reason with their artist/writer and ask for things.
As if the artist and the work are in any way equals, asking things of each other.
This is not new. First of all because the comic is from 2001, and second of all, there has been a narrator able to walk on stage since plays were invented.
Narrator is an actual person who walks on stage and speaks to the audience.
Narrator is a disembodied voice, but everyone understands what a narrator is.
Microphones get invented and someone can project their voice into the room without being in the room, but is s till credited as "the narrator"
Footage is recorded and played back, meaning the actor does not even have to show up on stage for his voice or appearance to be to be percieved by the audience.
Soundtrack of silent movies is provided by a guy playing piano in the corner.
Video and audio merge: and it is possible for an audience or audience member to play back the entire production on repeat without using live participants.
Entire generations grow up consuming media in this way.
....
I don't know when to slot this in, but at one point, the narrator spoke out loud, and one of the characters can percieve the narrator, and responds to him, and that is part of the play.
Or is it that this is where all of it begins? Where someone is telling stories around a fire and the hero of the story happens to be present and someone turns to the hero and says "you tell it better than i do"
And that all of it is just various forms of story telling and there is no distinction between "audience" "narrator" or "character"
Which is to say, hear me out about John.
[Ok.]
The power of a character's ability to reason with their artist/writer and ask for things.
As if the artist and the work are in any way equals, asking things of each other.
This is not new. First of all because the comic is from 2001, and second of all, there has been a narrator able to walk on stage since plays were invented.
Narrator is an actual person who walks on stage and speaks to the audience.
Narrator is a disembodied voice, but everyone understands what a narrator is.
Microphones get invented and someone can project their voice into the room without being in the room, but is s till credited as "the narrator"
Footage is recorded and played back, meaning the actor does not even have to show up on stage for his voice or appearance to be to be percieved by the audience.
Soundtrack of silent movies is provided by a guy playing piano in the corner.
Video and audio merge: and it is possible for an audience or audience member to play back the entire production on repeat without using live participants.
Entire generations grow up consuming media in this way.
....
I don't know when to slot this in, but at one point, the narrator spoke out loud, and one of the characters can percieve the narrator, and responds to him, and that is part of the play.
Or is it that this is where all of it begins? Where someone is telling stories around a fire and the hero of the story happens to be present and someone turns to the hero and says "you tell it better than i do"
And that all of it is just various forms of story telling and there is no distinction between "audience" "narrator" or "character"
Which is to say, hear me out about John.
