Tag: Attention
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Nithaan-jai and What Stories Tell Us When We Listen in Their Language
I imagine you’re wondering why my posts are talking about Thai GL specifically. This is because of a few things. One, it is the place where, post evangelicalism, I have found delight. As a queer woman, finding romances that are built around a story and a sense of orientedness to a person that always drew…
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Manut-jai and the Irreplaceability of a Person
What is Manut-jai? In considering what makes a character feel like an individual, I have coined a few Thai-based concepts. First, the heart of a character doesn’t quite encapsulate the specificity that I seek to track and recognize. Instead, I have taken the word for human in Thai, manut* and the word for a core…
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Certainty vs. Consideration
How do we find ourselves in a world that was never allowed to be ours? How do we respect a humanity we were taught needed to change? We listen to their stories. And we let ourselves linger with the personhood represented. Learning to see people Coming out of evangelicalism can be a strange and lonely…
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More Full of People
A Window into the Vastness I keep falling in love with characters. I have been doing this for years. I still do it every time a story settles into me. And I’ve gradually become fascinated by what that means. Honestly, I’ve been realizing that I deeply enjoy getting to know them. And I love finding…
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Why Embodied Storycraft?
Beginning with Coherence Why is it called Embodied Storycraft? Because screenbased stories are told through bodies. Whether animated or acted, every glance, gesture, silence, posture, movement and expression becomes part of how a character’s felt experience is communicated. Televisual stories, moreover, are crafted. They are extraordinarily collaborative human expressions of creativity, built by hundreds of…