#It is inconsequential anyway.

[loveletterworm]

Spending your formative teenage years on tumblr dot com instead of other websites or outside will induce a really baffling worldview that I can only describe as "Cave Madness" which is really difficult to explain or do anything about

[platoapproved]

armand + a few offhand lines that give some insight into how he thinks (imho)

[orphiclovers]

When Kim Dokja says he did powerscaling of Ways of Survival characters in the corner of his notebooks as a teen I think he's lying. He doesn't do anything of the sort as an adult, when he actually meets the characters. What we actually DO see him doing a lot is 'prettyscaling' - comparing how hot everyone is in comparison to Yoo Joonghyuk, with the precise metric of how many times they could slap his cheeks. We literally have enough info to make a ranking of Ways of Survival characters based on prettyness  - THAT is the actual ranking Kim Dokja was drawing in his notebooks.

[tvlandofficiall]

revisiting ch1 for the anniversary and one thing that's always stuck out to me is the couple of times darkness is associated with being able to "see the way". i don't know if it means anything or if it's just me reading a bit too much into some flavor text but if it does mean anything i definitely think it has something to do with how, like how venturing further into the darkness reveals the truth of what's hidden there (the switch in the ringaround puzzle room or the path to a key, for example), entering the dark worlds themselves reveals the hidden truth of the objects of the light world to us and the lightners — that they're not just ordinary objects, but living beings. the darker it gets, the more the whole of these worlds and how they are connected is revealed to us.

[beatcroc]

something about perspective, representation, or finding beauty in imperfection, i don't know. i mostly just wanted to say that fake pep looks like shitty ice cream.

[karalovesallthegirls]

It’s very interesting to me when folks add to stories I post on tumblr partially because it is so unexpected every time, like little fanfiction of my fanfiction, and then partially because they almost always take a solemn/sad story and add a happier twist to the end of it.

My Kara diaspora one has had two story continuations added to it by folks and both focus on Kara feeling connected to her earth family or Lena specifically. Taking this idea that she’s all alone and changing it to be less hopeless/sharp. I totally get that, that was my original perspective for that story too. I actually rewrote that story three times before sharing it. I originally wrote it as a conversation between Kara and Lena, but I kept getting stuck on Lena comforting Kara or trying to soothe her. It never felt right. This wasn’t something that could be fixed. It almost felt like it cheapened it? Like I was invalidating Kara’s pain in an effort to alleviate my own. “I have a deep and unshakable grief” being met with “you’ll be okay, though!”

This is by no means a critique of folks who added to my story, as I also wanted to have that sort of ending for it. I know how painful it is to see someone you care about suffering, and the instinct is to make it go away. But some pain is permanent, and sometimes the most validating thing you can do is to see it without trying to fix it.

[bookshelfdreams]

ofmd wasn't "profitable" enough but I didn't even get the feeling hbo wanted to make money off of it. They didn't promote it when s1 dropped, and the promo for s2 was erratic at best. They don't sell merch. Or physical copies. There's no bts documentaries other than what actors (shoutout to Samba ilu) make themselves in their spare time.

It took more than a full year for me to be able to watch s1 legally! I still can't access s2 legally anywhere! It's not that ofmd is unprofitable, it's that hbo refuses to profit off of it, because - well, because profiting off of it would mean investing work and money into it.

And like. Of course, when you compare it to the juggernauts hbo holds rights to, like GoT, ofmd is small fishes. But.

How on earth do these clowns think cult classics happen?

A Game of Thrones was first published in 1996 and didn't make it on the NYT beststeller list until 2011. The first edition of the first Harry Potter book was 500 pieces. And yeah, TV shows are different, but if you look at today's media landscape, would things like Star Trek, or Buffy, or Doctor Who stand the slightest chance? These things take time, is my point. A piece of media doesn't become a massively profitable, beloved classic over night. It takes time and effort to build that kind of franchise.

And the thing is! Nobody who makes these decisions even likes stories. I'm convinced that whoever is in charge at hbo, at amazon prime, even at disney, thinks storytelling is dumb and for idiots. They think it's enough to just slap the name of something people love on whatever garbage they spit out, for it to be profitable. They think it's the brand that sells: Look this has "Lord of the Rings" on it! Look, this one has "Game of Thrones", you like Game of Thrones don't you? Watch my show, boy.

But this isn't how this works. It's not the name that sells (unless, I suppose, you're the MCU, and even there one gets the impression the trick is finally stopping to work), especially not when the product is bad. People aren't idiots.

But it's not about making something good. It's not about making a meaningful piece of art, or telling an engaging story. ofmd served its purpose; it drew in all the subscribers it ever would, so there's no point in letting it go on. Even in the s2 that we did get, this is evident: the penny pinching is palpable, it's clear that the studio didn't want to spend any more money than absolutely necessary on it, and then cut the budget by 40%.

It's not about art. It never has been.

And it's not even about profit, because to be profitable eventually, stories have to be allowed to thrive first. You tell a good story first, and success happens later, often much, much later.

And ofmd was incredibly, astonishingly successful. It was the most in-demand series for weeks after the s1 finale. But even that wasn't enough, it's never enough, ofmd could have made record-setting profits and it still would have been cancelled, because -

Well, I don't know. Because we live in a bad time for art. Because Orwell was right, and stories have become commodities, like shoelaces. Because. Well. It's not about telling a story, is it?

What's the point of a story? What's the point of making something for the joy of making it? What's the point of a piece of art, existing, if it cannot be transferred into numbers for the stockholders?

idk how to end this. I hope David Jenkins finishes the story he wanted to tell, even if just for himself. I hope, against all odds, that weird, fun, heartfelt, beautiful little stories like ofmd continue to happen.

But goddammit.

[canisalbus]

I say this in the best way, but your characters feel like they're from an obscure but really good piece of media, and you feel like the artist who always draws the two main characters as ghay lovers

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[teemdark]

So I watched Project Shadow this morning and. To me this means Maria designed his shoes while Gerald made them reality + I like to think Maria did what she could to help with crafting them. Which means those are one of if not the only tangible thing Shadow has to remember her by since everything else was either destroyed or is still on the Ark. That's it that's the post have a nice day <3333

[ponett]

Is Catherine aware of her parentage or is she blissfully unaware and just presumes her mother is out there somewhere?

Oh there's no way that Bartholomew wasn't using any excuse he could find to bring up the fact that he made her with dark magicks around the house when Catherine was growing up. "I used all of the unholy power at my disposal to bring you into this world, and now my greatest creation can't even put her toys away when she's done playing with them?" He was very explicit with her about the fact that she was created to be his ultimate evil minion, he just gave up after a while and let her be normal when it became clear that she didn't have an evil bone in her body

[syn0vial]

🤔...

you ever notice that the vast majority of boba fett's friends in the expanded universe are either female, gay, or nonbinary?

[robin-with-a-pen]

Okay I’m having ideas I need someone to stop me-

Anyways, so we all know that Chilchuck probably doesn’t have the healthiest relationship with food? Right?

I don’t think he has an eating disorder but more so disordered eating- that hellish middle space, right? I mean “maintaining his body weight at an acceptable level” really sticks out to me

So picture this- my man retires, he doesn’t need to control his weight anymore, no worry about setting off or anything, but he realizes that the unhealthy habits he’s developed over he past ten years are harder to break than he thought

[iinryer]

"don't you just want to have fun" is so true about 911 fans...so many people just hate so many characters and so many things about the show...why are you watching!!

yeah 😭 at a certain point it’s just like, idk man. everything in real life sucks so monumentally why can’t we just watch tv together and have fun

[filmnoirsbian]

This is my favorite letterboxd review

[leek-inherent]

My designs for the characters from We Object To Fear :) I love this show a lot and have watched it many times.

In order they are Matthew and his mum, Brian and Clark (prosecution), Alicia and Spencer (defence), and Xander and his unnamed friend (pre-trial).

[tvlandofficiall]

Just realised that the reason I love your version of tenna so much is because shes the exact type of butch character I wanted to see as a kid (though I didn't have the words for it at the time). She's just... cool, in a way that women in media just weren't allowed to be when I was little, and I love that.

She's loud, aggressive, and a little mean. She's someone who loves, and she might not be a mom, but she is an aunt and a damn good one at that. Her faith fails her, yet she stays tough despite the deep-seated emptiness that realisation fills her with. She's just cool, y'know?

ah thank you so much! getting compliments about tenna even this close to release warms my heart a whole lot. (it's so strange to think that soon i won't immediately associate the name tenna with just her!) i'm glad those parts of her character resonated with you because they were important for me too! one thing i set out to do with tenna was to make a character that, while not being an exact prediction of what the character might be like in the game, sticks true to the core philosophy of "empathetic subversion" in undertale and deltarune. and the cliches i wanted to empathetically subvert were ones a lot of people might have grown up with — the older, oft-criminal, grizzled man who grows to be like family to an innocent young child (annie does it, all dogs go to heaven does it, plenty of batman adaptations do it,); the comical cartoon bossman who usually ends up posing the not-so-threatening threat of the week to the heroes; the old-time mobster. what would it be like to examine where those traits might come from? how would i make a character that felt like a real person with real emotions out of these old cliches? and so often we see men in those roles — what if this archetype was a woman instead?

as well, deltarune is a game that already has a ton of heart and earnestness in its approach to gender-nonconformity, and that means a lot to me as a gender-noncomforming person. it also "empathetically subverts" the way gender-nonconformity is often treated in media — rather than being treated as an abnormality, it's a natural part of who characters like susie and ralsei are. i wanted tenna's portrayal to come from that same place of heart and earnestness too — so i'm always happy to hear someone was touched by her in that regard! she is very cool, i think!