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this might be me being a Theme Park Autism Weilder but I think more people should be angry and upset about the sheer lack of preservation methods and archival systems in place for theme parks and similar large scale forms of entertainment

that might sound laughable if you do not give a shit about theme parks but if I may radicalize you into my niche beliefs by telling you that artist robert mccall spent about a year of his life developing and painting a mural for the Epcot attraction horizons and once the attraction closed they lost it. they lost the entire painting. no one knows where this is, if it’s destroyed or in the archives or what, but no one in the company has spoken about the status of this thing since the attractions closure (to my knowledge) so this things whereabouts are completely a mystery. this was the painting btw

And before you go “oh it doesn’t look THAT big” this painting was upwards of 20 feet long. here is an unedited picture of robert next to his finished mural just so you have an idea of the scale of it

and the thing that really makes me sad is that if this piece were created without the context of it being commissioned for a theme park, art museums would’ve been clamoring for it. this is a genuine work of art. but because it was company property the moment the artist stopped working on it, the company was free to treat it as they pleased. it’s entirely possible that this painting just doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m not saying that literally every aspect of a theme park as it open needs to be preserved, but entertainment stuff like theme parks do in fact have a lot of cultural importance and historical significance. I really do think if there was an institution dedicated to preserving stuff like this ie a museum of some sort etc, this things fate woudlve been way more secure. Idk this whole situation just bums me out

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i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

This takes a lot of courage in a lot of important ways good job OP

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(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

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