What you have to consider is further back along the chain; what is sight?
As our primary sense, it is sometimes hard to remember that it is only that - what you're seeing is only the sensory information passed to your brain by your eyeballs, in the same way as what you hear is just information passed to your brain by your ears.
So what is art? Art is the music we create for our eyes. Nobody can question the fact that music can make us feel something, whether it be happiness (crazy little thing called love, by queen), excitement (through the fire and flames, dragonforce) or melancholy (the album Otta by Solstafir, well worth a listen!).
Yet for some reason, we struggle with the concept that art - something we've created to evoke feelings when perceived by our eyes - can have the same effect as music - something we've created to evoke feelings with our ears, despite them both being mere sensory organs feeding us information.
As for the "real world" (IE non-constructed art), it can have the same effect, both visually and audibly; the view from a mountain, the beautyo f spring, the desolation of winter. The sounds of the wind in the trees, the clap of thunder, the hammer of rain on a roof, the singing of birds. All of these things evoke an emotional response without having evolutionary triggers, and they are the art and music of nature.
So, what is art? Music for your eyes.
But is all art visual? A sculpture has shape, and a snow shovel is art of the mind, not the eyes. And some would say that music is art. So is screeching, if the screecher is well-known and wants it to be called such.
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I passed my defense today. In nine days, grades will be officially submitted and in 21, I will be Dr. Erriku. A nine-year, four-month chapter of my life coming to a close.
Well, my view on it (which is all self derived and not at all based on research) is that verbal language originates from humankinds ability to imitate other animals. We started by copying other animals in their sounds. Then we found we could communicate through gestures and imitated sounds where to find certain animals, or even stories about them. As this developed, we may have imitated the sound of walking to indicate a journey, the sound of water to indicate a river, the sound of crunching pebbles to indicate a beach.
This ultimately took a leap somewhere to specific sounds meaning specific things. It likely started with onomatopes (words which sound like what they are. Like toot sweets.). A good example is the english bird the Chiff Chaff. Their call is "chiffchaffchiffchaffchiffchaff (ad infinetum)". The early humans might have started by imitating the call, then shortening the call to speed up talking, to removing any high pitches or musical connotations and simply saying the words "chiff chaff" to mean "the bird which goes "chiffchaff...").
Ultimately, there would be words which some might never have heard the meaning of or seen it - for example, an inland tribe communicating with a coastal tribe might recognize the bird sounds, but be unfamiliar with the "shweeee" sound of the sea. So they would have to learn the meaning of "shweee" through comparisons to lakes and such.
Once people started learning words they hadn't encountered themselves, language would be on its way to starting properly. descriptive words would be needed to understand the meaning of the words you hadn't heard before, and language is born.
Ultimately, the reason we understand what some sounds mean and not others is entirely down to our learning - once you learn the meaning of a word, you know it. It's no different from learning another language. That language doesn't have to be human, either - I spent some time living on a cul-de-sac which backed onto some woodland. It was there I learnt the squirrel word for "Cat". It's a very distinctive noise. There are also cases (I am told by a zookeeper) where ravens and crows (and that type of bird) communicate quite eloquently - if a boy with a blue hat is mean to the crows, they tell other crows that the boy in the blue hat is mean and they will either mob them or avoid them. They have the verbalizations enough to describe people, and presumably places, sounds and such as well. They are well on their way to developing language.
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Happy thanksgiving. Also what’s the difference between stuffing and dressing. Nothing, they are the same thing
Dressing goes on a salad; stuffing goes with food.
But salad is a kind of food.
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Happy thanksgiving. Also what’s the difference between stuffing and dressing. Nothing, they are the same thing
Dressing goes on a salad; stuffing goes with food.
But salad is a kind of food.
Insofar as a large tent is a type of mansion, I suppose ;)
Dressing is good, Stuffing sucks
Even proper stuffing, made with sossig meat and cooked to perfection?
I loves stuffing, so I does.
Hmmmm, maybe my mom’s stupid fake meat and whole wheat bread stuffing is just bad.
Proper stuffing is easy if you cheat - empty a pack of sossigs from their skins, and mix with regular stuffing mix (made as normal) until it's all mixed, then bake!
Any heathens trying to put berries or sultanas or that stuff in stuffing will have to go through me! Meat & 'erbs (or bread & 'erbs for veggies), no fruit!
Phenomenal in a proper sunday roast, with cauli cheese, gravy, lemon-&-thyme chicken, roasties, yorkies, veggies, and I'm sure I'm missing something but can't place it!
Happy thanksgiving. Also what’s the difference between stuffing and dressing. Nothing, they are the same thing
Dressing goes on a salad; stuffing goes with food.
But salad is a kind of food.
Insofar as a large tent is a type of mansion, I suppose ;)
Dressing is good, Stuffing sucks
Even proper stuffing, made with sossig meat and cooked to perfection?
I loves stuffing, so I does.
Hmmmm, maybe my mom’s stupid fake meat and whole wheat bread stuffing is just bad.
Proper stuffing is easy if you cheat - empty a pack of sossigs from their skins, and mix with regular stuffing mix (made as normal) until it's all mixed, then bake!
Any heathens trying to put berries or sultanas or that stuff in stuffing will have to go through me! Meat & 'erbs (or bread & 'erbs for veggies), no fruit!
Phenomenal in a proper sunday roast, with cauli cheese, gravy, lemon-&-thyme chicken, roasties, yorkies, veggies, and I'm sure I'm missing something but can't place it!
My mom’s a (fake) vegetarian. She’s always eating like, bread nuggets instead of chicken nuggets, and veggie sossigs that taste like solid soy sauce.
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But is all art visual? A sculpture has shape, and a snow shovel is art of the mind, not the eyes. And some would say that music is art. So is screeching, if the screecher is well-known and wants it to be called such.
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Is it possible to write a D&D book using my D&D character, and would I be able to have the book published?
Depends on what you mean.
Is it something like Mordekainans Tome of Foes/ Tashas Cauldron of Everything?
Or is it a novel starring your character?
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Happy thanksgiving. Also what’s the difference between stuffing and dressing. Nothing, they are the same thing
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Dressing goes on a salad; stuffing goes with food.
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But salad is a kind of food.
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turkey dressing and turkey stuffing*
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Insofar as a large tent is a type of mansion, I suppose ;)
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Dressing is good, Stuffing sucks
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Even proper stuffing, made with sossig meat and cooked to perfection?
I loves stuffing, so I does.
Make your Artificer work with any other class with 174 Multiclassing Feats for your Artificer Multiclass Character!
DM's Guild Releases on This Thread Or check them all out on DMs Guild!
DrivethruRPG Releases on This Thread - latest release: My Character is a Werewolf: balanced rules for Lycanthropy!
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Hmmmm, maybe my mom’s stupid fake meat and whole wheat bread stuffing is just bad.
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Proper stuffing is easy if you cheat - empty a pack of sossigs from their skins, and mix with regular stuffing mix (made as normal) until it's all mixed, then bake!
Any heathens trying to put berries or sultanas or that stuff in stuffing will have to go through me! Meat & 'erbs (or bread & 'erbs for veggies), no fruit!
Phenomenal in a proper sunday roast, with cauli cheese, gravy, lemon-&-thyme chicken, roasties, yorkies, veggies, and I'm sure I'm missing something but can't place it!
Make your Artificer work with any other class with 174 Multiclassing Feats for your Artificer Multiclass Character!
DM's Guild Releases on This Thread Or check them all out on DMs Guild!
DrivethruRPG Releases on This Thread - latest release: My Character is a Werewolf: balanced rules for Lycanthropy!
I have started discussing/reviewing 3rd party D&D content on Substack - stay tuned for semi-regular posts!
My mom’s a (fake) vegetarian. She’s always eating like, bread nuggets instead of chicken nuggets, and veggie sossigs that taste like solid soy sauce.
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