#anybody else get such a major ick from this

[fandomblogginglikeits2014]

Sitting here thinking about how I watched Violet Evergarden and loved it and cried at every episode. And then like 4 years later found out they made a movie and Violet married the man who had known her since she was 10 who was like twice her age.

Sitting here thinking about how a lot of the "discourse" about this online boils down to people defending this ending for the series because "that's how things were back then" and "it's fiction" and "Violet made her own independent choice to be with him".

Nah dawg. Guess I'm just too sigma cuz I don't vibe with p*do shit like that.

Anyway if u feel the need to justify p*do shit in art and media pls block me immediately. Thanks.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

The Wisdom Saga: My Thoughts

Hey all!!!! Here are my thoughts on the Wisdom Saga from EPIC: The Musical!

Overall it isn’t my favorite (Circe/Thunder my beloveds), but it’s still pretty good imho!

Legendary

Love how upbeat this one is. MICO as Telemachus is VERY good, and I especially liked the little trembles/voice cracks (?) as he sang! Gave Tem a “young” vibe.

also loved that “L-L-L-L-Legendary” lol

ITS THE ANIMATIC FROM THE REFERENCE VIDEO :D

The Suitors’ voices 👌 also ANTINUOUS JUMPSCARE. HOW DARE YOU CALL PENELOPE A TRAMP WHEN YOU’RE THE ONE TRYING TO GET INTO HER BED.

Antinuous’s lines are the perfect ick. The ToA Discord and I were all typing out various amounts of EW, ICKY, GET OUT at his parts.

Fight Little Wolf

This is possibly my favorite from this saga! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while, and I was really excited for it! Athena coming in was brilliant and I love it :3

We’ll Be Fine

ATHENA CALLED ODYSSEUS FRIEND. OWIE.

Anybody else pick up on a similar melody to Open Arms? Because ow.

Love In Paradise

LOVED the flashbacks at the beginning!

The unhingedness Gigi gave Calypso LMAO Zero social interaction does that to you lol

“Last I checked goddesses can’t die!” Stream gets censored

I PANICKED AT THAT LMAO

all I hear are screams…the ptsd is real

“Stay in my open arms” and then IMMEDIATELY triggering an Open Arms reprise. HOW DARE YOU JAY.

NOT ONLY THAT. BUT ALSO EURYLOCUS REPRISING LUCK RUNS OUT AND ANTICLEA’S WAITING. OUCH.

God Games

This is in battle with Little Wolf for favorite Wisdom Saga song lol

THE INTRODUCTION TO THE GODS SLAPPED. WOLFY YOU WONDERFUL WOLF THAT WAS AWESOME.

APOLLO GIVING A LIL BOW AND CASUALLY WAVING TO (us) HIS ADORING FANS (also us)

don’t mind me fangirling he’s my favorite and he was GORGEOUS

Hephaestus being voiced by Jorge’s dad!!!!

I really liked how Luke Holt delivered Ares’s name. Very gritty and perfect I love <3

APOLLO’S LITTLE SMIRK WHEN HE SAYS “GREAT.” I’M DEAD I’VE DIED RIP ALDER

APOLLOOOOOOOOO

his part was sadly short, but honestly? It makes sense why it would be! Apollo really has no beef with Odysseus, and the Sirens are a little out of pocket, like he was assigned to play the game but is throwing Athena an easy thing to counter so he can get back to Orestes and also Athena owes him a solid so EPIC’s explanation for Athena helping Apollo in the Oresteia? 👀 I’m a nerd connecting the dots leave me be

“If that’s true then release him 🙄💅” Apollo has no time for this bullshit he’s like “come on dad why did you pull ME into this?” Lmaoooo

Hephaestus’s part about trust!! I love. Also the lyricism here and in Apollo’s is very very good <3

APHRODITE. Unlike Apollo and Hephaestus, who were rather quick to support Athena, she’s moments away from going “no ♥️💋”

ARES’S ENTRANCE WAS SPETACULAR NO NOTES I LOVE

DISCO HERA!! ANNIFLAMMA THAT WAS SO GOOD AHHHHHHH THE STYLE THE SWAG THE SASS 100/10

THUNDER BRINGER REPRISE AHHHHHH WITH BEAST MODE ZEUS

Also Athena ain’t dead lol she comes back in King isn’t it? Also she’s a GOD. Who CAN’T DIE.

I’ve seen criticism about Zeus attacking Athena, and about how he wouldn’t do that because she’s a favorite…but the thing is, in The Iliad, he does threaten to blast her and Hera off their chariots at one point…plus Apollo’s a favorite too, and he was nearly thrown into Tartarus by Zeus! Being the favorite doesn’t automatically mean you can get away with anything and everything, so I headcanon that Zeus got a bit more peeved than usual because of just how quickly Athena swayed the others (this can connect to the Odyssey then too, because the majority of the gods already agreed that Odysseus had suffered enough and were quite willing to let him go).

I have additional thoughts on God Games, but that’s for another post since it detracts from the actual livestream, but overall I really enjoyed this one! It’s the first livestream I’ve seen in full, though I do think Thunder Saga was more impactful to watch (I watched that livestream too, but came in at the end of No Longer You).

Two sagas to go!! I’ll be updating my tier list sometime soon as well, so stay tuned for that!!

[sphnyspinspin]

Is anybody else here getting major icks from the lack of Elita-One/Ariel propaganda from the Transformers One marketing team?

Or is that just me?

[blckgrlmov13s]

The Old Guard!SPOILERS!*on Netflix

Man this movie was a trip! First we meet our characters: Andy, Booker, Joe, and Nicky. Ughhh I loved their entire dynamic and I guess they had to come to getting close in this way because they are immortal. Now, it did take me a while to figure out that J & N were in a romantic relationship…..but wow there bond is amazing. The movie goes on and they explain that the all do end up dying and that’s part of the reason why they are extra careful when going on their missions, it cleared up a lot of the questions that started to form. Sadly, they only have each other and they can’t form long term relationships with anybody else. Now we do get an introduction to Nile and looking back at the notes I took while watching the movie, wow. I did not like her like that in the beginning. Nile is a black woman who is a U.S. Marine and is killed in action…kinda. I assume the reports were mixed around, but she does take a knife to the neck and “died” at the scene, yet she is patched up and heals completely. Her fellow soldiers are not only scared of her but start to talk about the circumstances behind her her back. First of alllllllllll, I was getting major ick from this. Ya know power to the girlies in the armed forces but it is defiantly not my cup of tea and every time we see Nile she is just so wired to what she does and we don’t see a more authentic Nile until about the end of the movie. That docked some points for me. Then I felt like when she was retaliating to everyone essentially talking about her, everyone look at her as aggressive.  And then they oh so lovely wanted miss Nile to be picked and prodded like a guinea pig because they gave up on her and didn’t know what to do with her. And then when her and Andy meet, Nile is just unresponsive to WHATEVER Andy tries to tell her so, automatically I did deem her ignorant. In the end the title would cease to exist. Now it doesn’t seem like it but this movie is all about how drug companies will commit murder for money. That’s all i gotta say on that because wow. It kinda took me back seeing how the movie did come out in 2020 when we were knee deep in lockdown. on to the next part! Andyyyyy: wow her backstory is my crazy and homegirl like girls too! sign me tf up,i was all for it ngl. I gave it 3.5 stars about of 5 for a few reasons:

The pacing—> at this point in my life any movie over 2 hours is hard for me to concentrate and it did take a while to build up some of the suspense

Characters—>wow. everyone’s story was compelling but damn some of them have no redeeming qualities(this more so counts for our antagonists)

Incomplete kinda—>now there is already confirmation for a second movie because the end did have kind of a cliffhanger and their story, i feel, is not complete

But to end this out, funny story, I was on image comics because you can read the first issue of most of their work on the website and what do i find? The Old Guard-_- Now at least the movie was pretty to loyal to the source material, but I am thinking about picking up the first volume because it was a really interesting read and watch. Whenever this is posted, I hope everyone has a good day and to that they get everything they wish for!

[crystalkleure]

Have you done a Burst character review of Silas Karlisle? To be honest, I think he’s pretty funny.

SISCO!!

Sisco is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of my absolute favourites. I’m so proud of him. I love this good fashion disaster boy, I can’t believe I initially thought I wouldn’t like him! [He looks like Kyouya from MFB and Kyouya used to get on my nerves thanks to the english dub {I got over it} .-.] I have a lot of thoughts about Sisco, and some of those thoughts are really speculative because they’re based on actions more than things that were outright stated. [Sisco is yet another guy who doesn’t prefer to actually talk about his feelings. Ick, friendship cooties.]

Sisco was definitely kind of a jackass at first; but I’m not sure that he was intentionally causing damage, so much as he was just totally careless with his own strength? Like, he had too much energy to expend and ended up breaking shit whenever he let it out. He wasn’t DELIBERATELY destructive, he was just too strong and too wild and he wasn’t careful enough. Didn’t give a fuck. But he wasn’t trying to crack Valkyrie. He didn’t mean to destroy Ghasem’s old brittle bey [that he quite frankly probably shouldn’t have been battling with anyway…that Kerbeus was in TERRIBLE condition]. Sisco just didn’t have a great amount of control over himself, it seems – he was always itching to let loose at something [or someone…]

And I think all of that pent-up energy came from anger. Like, he blew up all the time due to some kind of frustration eating away at him. He was always sort of agitated by default, but he seemed like he got the MOST agitated when he was not acknowledged. Check how he got so pissed at Trad and Chris when they kept brushing him off at first. So I think maybe he was crying for attention [I mean also just look at his outfit lmao].

Like, Sisco was alone when he first showed up. No friends with him at all, he was just wandering around wreaking havoc. And while he was being rude and belittling to every opponent he challenged, he was also…putting on airs, as though he was trying to impress them? I mean, he called himself “the great Sisco” at one point, iirc. So, it was sort of like “Yeah, I totally don’t need you weak scrubs to think I’m cool [but please think I’m cool ;-;]” He was a total flashy show-off, but he was also trying his best to not look vulnerable. And furthermore, Sisco didn’t…exactly take rejection, or even perceived rejection, very well.

When he felt like BC Sol didn’t appreciate him enough, he stormed out of there and went looking for another team. And he found TONS of teams that would’ve been more than happy to take him, but he could tell that they were mediocre and weak and they were just desperate to have his strength on their side. They only cared about his strength, and I think he realized he actually didn’t really want that. He looked…thoughtfully distressed by it? Because he had been trying so hard to appear tough and strong, and that sort of persona certainly got him some attention, but it didn’t get him the kind of attention he wanted. Sisco wanted people who cared about him, not his power alone, whether or not he realized that distinction at first.

I think Sisco was lonely. That’s what was wrong with him, that’s why he was so frustrated.

And now he is FIERCELY loyal to BC Sol because they proved that they actually valued him, and that is what he wanted. He has friends that are tying him there. He realized Valt and Boss and all the others actually really cared about him and now he’d pretty much die for any one of them. He finally found somewhere he “belongs”. I’m so happy.

However, going back to early s2 for a minute here: Sisco seemed like he WANTED to get into fistfights [what with how he was always cracking his knuckles at first, especially], but he never actually initiated them, did he? He just agitated other people until THEY got riled up at HIM. I think he wanted THEM to start the actual fight, so he’d have a clean conscience for brawling with them – it’d be self-defense then. Like, even with Ghasem, Sisco didn’t throw the first punch. He didn’t even get into a proper “fistfight” stance until after Ghasem attacked him first. Also Sisco jumping in between Ghasem and Valt kind of says he was more than willing to get into a scuffle. He just wanted himself to have a good reason for it for Conscience Reasons, like protecting himself or someone else. He wanted the other guy to hit him first. Even then, though…Ghasem kicked the fuck out of Sisco, but even then, Sisco STILL didn’t actually start trading blows with the guy. He had the perfect opportunity to actually throw down with Ghasem, but he hesitated until someone broke it up before it got a chance to start. So THAT says that Sisco didn’t really want to hurt anybody, he just wanted to take out his anger in some way. He wanted to go aggro and fight, but he didn’t want the consequences. He was conflicted. [So, put him in the gym and let him maul the punching bag or something ._. No post-frenzy guilt, viola.]

Also, Sisco stopped obsessively cracking his knuckles after awhile, did anybody else notice that? Like, the annoying cracking sound was a major gimmick, Sisco did it in nearly every scene he was in at first, but the more he settled down, the less he did that. And he was only doing it as a showy way of saying “I’m ready to throw hands at any time, bitch”. So I guess as he became less willing to start a fight, he didn’t have any reason to try to intimidate people like that anymore. Nice detail.

Oh, and this is totally off topic now, and I don’t remember the exact context [if I ever knew it to begin with, the ep {which I also don’t remember} may not have been subbed at the time], but Sisco fist-pumped and shouted his own name near the conclusion of a battle [so he probably said something like “And the winner is Sisco Carlisle!!”?], and he shouted it the EXACT same overdramatic, earsplitting way the announcer always does. He LIKES the ridiculous way the damn announcer screams his name. That’s so cute.

999/10. Sisco is a fake tough guy. He’s actually an Incredibly Good Boy. [I would’ve given him 1,000/10 except that his tattoo is dumb and sooner or later he is SO going to regret getting that ink.] And I think it’s funny as hell when he still tries to keep up his macho appearance out of habit even after it’s obvious he’s actually a giant softie, too. He gets so embarrassed when the facade doesn’t work.

[oblivi-ace97]

Pls post your 3 pages worth of reasons that Ross is a terrible person - I'm a very petty person & it would fill me w so much joy to read it 💕

I have now finished season 1 and have come to a grand total of 4 pages! I think I will update this as I rewatch the other seasons, but for right now here is season 1 

Reasons Why Ross Geller is a Horrible Human Being

Season 1:

Episode 1: The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate

·        I know that he is hurt about Carol leavinghim but he is so fixated on her leaving him for a woman

·        “and try not to let my intensevulnerability become any kind of a factor here” said right before he asksRachel “would it be okay if I asked you out sometime” basically remindingRachel that he is hurting trying to make her feel guilty if she says no

Episode 2: The One with the Sonogram at the End

·        Asks Carol if she’s still a lesbian

·        Carol says she wants to name the babyMinnie if it’s a girl (after her grandmother) and Ross says no because everyonewould think Minnie Mouse

·        Implies that the baby is not Susan’s sinceshe was not part of the baby making process

·        “I don’t think I can be involved in thisparticular family” said as he is leaving the exam room (he does however stopand come back once he hears the sonogram and looks at the baby)

Episode 3: The One with the Thumb

·        N/A

Episode 4: The One with George Stephanopolous

·        Why must Ross always mention the fact thatCarol is a lesbian? “I think I’m just gonna go home and think about my ex-wifeand her lesbian lover”

Episode 5: The One with the East German LaundryDetergent

·        N/A

Episode 6: The One with the Butt

·        N/A

Episode 7: The One with the Blackout

·        Mentions Carol being a lesbian…again (thistime in a mocking tone)

·        Told Palo that he and Rachel were a thingwhen they very much were not a thing

·        Took advantage of the fact that Palodoesn’t know much English and called him a crapweasel

Episode 8: The One Where Nana Dies Twice

·        N/A

Episode 9: The One Where Underdog Gets Away

·        He does mention Carol being a lesbianagain; however, in this context I can’t really be mad at him because if Carolhad left him for man I could understand him not wanting to invite Carol and hernew boyfriend over for Thanksgiving

·        “You guys sure have a lot of books aboutbeing a lesbian”

·        Tells Susan she’s crazy for reading to thebaby who hasn’t been born yet

·        Insists that he get “belly time” to talkto the baby even though he “doesn’t believe in any of this” as in he doesn’tbelieve that the baby can hear him.

·        Must do something just because Susan didit

·        Slaps Susan’s hand when she placed it onCarol’s stomach to feel the baby kick

Episode 10: The One with the Monkey

·        N/A

Episode 11: The One with Mrs. Bing

·        Kisses Chandler’s mom

·        Tells Joey that Chandler doesn’t need toknow

·        Originally tells Chandler it was Palo

·        Doesn’t get why Chandler is upset

Epsiode 12: The One with the Dozen Lasagnas

·        Lied to Carol about a lasagna beingvegetarian because it would upset Susan who is a vegetarian.

·        Doesn’t let Rachel have her time to getover Palo (Rachel says that she is done with guys as in she wants to take abreak from them and Ross tells her that’s not the right way to get over Palo)

Episode 13: The One with the Boobies

·        N/A

Episode 14: The One with the Candy Hearts

·        When he and his date see Carol and Susanat the same restaurant Ross tell his date that “the blonde is my ex-wife andthe woman touching her is her close personal friend.”

·        When his date asks if they [Carol andSusan] are lovers Ross replies with, “Well if you want to put a label on it.”

·        Ignores his date to pay attention to Carol

·        Asks his date if Carol can join them sinceSusan got called into work

·        Spent the majority, if not his entire datetalking to Carol and didn’t even notice his date leave

·        Tells Carol they should get back togetherbecause being with her is easy for him. Even though he knows fully well thatCarol and Susan are very happy together and very much in love

·        Told Carol “not to deny” that they areperfect for each other and that she is carrying HIS baby

Episode 15: The One with the Stoned Guy

·        N/A

Episode 16: The One with the Two Parts: Part 1

·        “We’ve got dads, we’ve got lesbians, thewhole parenting team.” In regards to Susan being at the Lamaze class with himand Carol

·        He can never just say that Susan is Carolpartner. He always says their friends or something

·        The whole thing with the monkey. Heshouldn’t have a monkey as a pet in the first place and he brings Marceleverywhere, but he isn’t properly trained (most likely due to the fact thatRoss should not have a monkey)

·        “I’m gonna play my sperm card one moretime.” Said to Susan when she didn’t want to be the “mommy” at Lamaze classsince Carol wasn’t there

Episode 17: The One with the Two Parts: Part 2

·        N/A

Episode 18: The One with All the Poker

·        Teases Joey for crying. (Joey had criedduring a poker game because he lost)

·        All the guys tell the girls “No” when theyask for the guys to teach them how to play poker

·        When they do end up teaching the girls howto play the keep getting annoyed whenever the girls do something wrong

·        “don’t expect me to be a nice guy” he saysthis to Rachel when talking about playing poker (it’s more his tone that irksme about this one)

Episode 19: The One Where the Monkey Gets Away

·        When Rachel accidently lets Marcel out ofthe apartment and she tells Ross he understandably gets upset (I mean if afriend of mine lost my pet I would be upset so I can’t blame him) but he thensays “You know I guess it’s partially my fault. I shouldn’t of asked you tostart off with a monkey. I should of started you off with a pen or a pencil.” Likethat is completely uncalled for

·        He then gets upset that Rachel calledanimal control. It’s not Rachel’s fault that you have an illegal exotic animalas a pet Ross

·        Talks about how Rachel is always “off inRachel land” and never pays attention to people’s monkeys or people’s feelings.Seriously Ross! He’s making this about him and his obsession with Rachel

·        “You had to be a bitch in high school. Youcouldn’t have been fat.” Said to Rachel when the animal control person, Louisa,captures Marcel. Louisa had homeroom with Monica and Rachel and hated Rachel forignoring her.

·        I will give him this…he did apologize toRachel

·        When Rachel agrees to have a glass of winewith him he dims the lights…really Ross

Episode 20: The One with the Evil Orthodontist

·        Rachel’s ex-fiancé, Barry shows up andtells her he thinks he is still in love with her. They go to lunch and when shecomes back and tells everyone what they did for the afternoon Ross says, “Wasthat before or after you told him to stop calling, stop sending you flowers,and to generally leave you alone.” He was possessive even before they gottogether

·        “What were you thinking?” said to Rachelafter he finds out that Rachel and Barry had sex

Episode 21: The One with the Fake Monica

·        N/A

Episode 22: The One with the Ick Factor

·        Gets jealous that Rachel had a dream aboutChandler. “I can’t believe you two had sex in her dream”

·        When Rachel talks about another dream shehad that involved Chandler and Joey, Ross asks if “anybody else was there” itcomes off really creepy

Episode 23: The One with the Birth

·        Everything has to be a competition when itcomes to Susan. They are timing Carol’s contractions and Susan says they are 55seconds apart and Ross has to interject and say they are 59 seconds apart andthat he has a better watch so his time is correct

·        Ross and Susan argue over getting Carolice chips

·        Ross and Susan argue over helping Carolwith a leg cramp

·        Blames Susan for the fact that they arelocked in a closet

·        Claims that no one has been waiting forthe birth of his son as much as he has (Carol and Susan are just as excited asyou are Ross calm down)

Episode 24: The One Where Rachel Finds Out

·        More jealousy over some guy that Rachel goesout on a date with

I probably forgot some stuff but for the most part season 1 Ross is just an asshole who is obsessed with Rachel and can’t over that fact that his ex-wife is a lesbian.

[dweemeister]

@loveless422 replied to your link: Oscars Won't Televise All Awards Live, Adds...

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Plenty of them (if you have any thoughts yourself, I’d love to hear them). Look out loveless and my followers, it’s...

MY THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT OSCAR CHANGES: 

First, among the many reasons why I care about the Oscars is because it is the Academy’s (AMPAS) most important fundraiser of the year. On a daily basis, AMPAS preserves movies (short- and feature-length; narrative, documentary, and experimental; from anywhere and in any language) and educates professionals and students in the art of cinema. Those are worthy goals that need to be cherished and protected. OTOH, I care about the Oscars because I love film history. And though the Academy Awards are a flawed way to discover what the best films are, they are a starting point for budding film buffs and give us a glimpse of what a certain portion of people liked at a given moment in time. But as to yesterday’s changes..........

I have no problem moving up the ceremony to the second Sunday in February in 2020. It shortens the time I get to see all the nominees and messes up my annual 31 Days of Oscar marathon queueing on this blog, but those are small potatoes. The Grammys and CBS don’t like it? I don’t care.

Placing some of the lesser-heralded awards (probably sound awards and short films) into the commercial breaks to cap the ceremony at 3 hours is disrespectful to those nominees and to those branches - who I can’t believe would have approved those changes. A film is more ruined with godawful sound editing and sound mixing than it is bad acting.

The short films? Most of the people who are nominated in those categories are not multimillionaires - they’re typically just scraping by and their films have NO room for error. The non-Americans who get nominated for their short films? They’re probably being funded by who knows how many sources including their government.

The Academy Awards is the one time of the year where we acknowledge that it’s not just director, actors, and writers who make up a film. Those categories are important and represent the increasing democratization of cinema. They’re there for a reason; those nominees poured themselves into their work just as much as anybody else in that room and deserve their time in the spotlight. And anyone who says the Oscars are too long because they hand out too many awards should also use the same logic for the Super Bowl - which is 3.5+ hours long and feels interminable because there’s too much football, apparently.

If you still think this is all boring, maybe you’re watching the Oscars with the wrong people! I can always explain things to you folks if you ever have any questions about the Academy Awards!

But the big snafu is that damned Best Popular Film award to be instituted two ceremonies from now (it’s not too late to take it back!). Variety is reporting that this came about in a post-Oscars meeting in March in which ABC told AMPAS that it was facing irrelevance and should make some damn changes. The top of that list was the Best Popular Film award (so, for me, this is mostly ABC’s fault) - some apologists are saying the AMPAS has done this before because, at the first ceremony, they handed out a Best Picture (Wings) and a Best Unique and Artistic Production (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans) Oscar. That example is not analogous!

I honestly think that the declining ratings for the Oscars is more reflective of cord-cutting more than anything else. All TV ratings are down and are more fragmented than ever - even live awards shows and sports championships, all of these once considered untouchable, are all down ratings-wise. AMPAS needs to find a way to maximize total audience delivery (not just traditional TV, but streaming and livefeeds). The Academy Museum opens in 2019, so hopefully in the coming years AMPAS will be less dependent on revenue from the Oscar telecast.

I think political polarization and the popularity of the films nominated for the major awards are secondary reasons. Regarding the popularity of the films, it does not help that the major studios are no longer interested in making mid-budget, mature comedies and dramas anymore (the mid-budget movie is endangered in Hollywood). It does not help that the major studios are no longer interested in making epic films that do not require tons of CGI or a tie-in to an existing commercial property anymore. The Academy cannot fix this problem alone. It is up to the major studios, producers, and movie theater chains and owners (who are among the most responsible in segregating “popular” movies from the “indies” and creating the cinematic culture we have now). Otherwise, I think the Academy has done an amazing job not bending to popular pressure and dishing out its biggest honors to the most popular films in the last few decades. It’s more than I can say for the Emmys and ESPECIALLY the Grammys.

ABC is owned by Disney and Disney - by purchasing Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, and very soon 20th Century Fox - is no longer interested in anything that isn’t a blockbuster/franchise movie/tentpole. They have dominated the box office over the last several years. Maybe they’re just pissed the DCEU won an Oscar (Best Makeup & Hairstyling for Suicide Squad... ick) before the MCU did. Disney buying itself Oscars? Yup. ABC is not interested in movies or movie history and anything AMPAS has to do on a daily basis (film preservation, educating people in cinema). Viewership and money is the driving force.

This “Best Popular Film” thing is already covered by the People’s Choice Awards and MTV. AMPAS undermines the pedigree of an Oscar with this category’s creation. This award is insulting not only to the films we would expect to be nominated or contend for Best Picture, but to the films nominated for Best Popular Film itself (a movie can be nominated for both, however). It’s a consolation prize on top of the money already grossed - essentially saying that those certain films could never be nominated for Best Picture on their own artistic merits. No, I don’t think Black Panther or Infinity War or Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom are worthy of a Best Picture nomination. But there’s nothing wrong about not getting nominated or only garnering a Costume Design nomination. People should view the Oscars as a raucous, slightly tipsy party that gives out gifts rather than a definitive, high-stakes night that rewrites cinematic history in just a few hours.

Am I right MCU/Star Wars/F&F/DCEU/Disney animation fans that these movies don’t need Oscar nominations for you to love them more? Because if the answer is “yes”, then you know that “Best Popular Film” is exceptionally condescending to these movies you love. This will only make it harder for your beloved films to be nominated for Best Picture and other major categories if they deserve them.

To the Academy (@theacademy):

Hey, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? I am so happy you have been gradually diversifying your ranks to include more women, non-white, and non-American members. I know these last few years have been tumultuous, but you don’t need these changes. You’re overreacting to the possibility that you might not nominate Black Panther for Best Picture (which I would not nominate for that category in any case, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world). Whatever will be, will be. You can’t change what your current body of members thinks or will vote for, and that’s okay. Stop panicking. Stop bending to ABC’s pressure - they don’t know any better. Keep engaging in film preservation and education that few other organizations do as well as you do. I can’t wait to see your museum next year, and I hope it’s a success!

Seriously, this Best Popular Film thing is stupid.

[sarahqueerest]

nebraska reading march 2017

HEART BRAKER i still don’t know what i want but i’m trying to keep things entertaining without my glasses i was sure it was a heronimous bosch painting but it was a picture of us on mark’s couch the last time we all saw each other o sweet greedy inconsolable o party princess getting by with a little help from her damn self this is my horse named how to burn a bridge this is how easy it is to shift your paradigm: the more things you do that scare you, the less scary they are y como ser feliz? sit here in the shockwaves of my trail of broken hearts sit here in the trauma puddle of my own brewing mourn a home, mourn a former soul, mourn a worn-out body in some fantasy i will have hidden a hard drive to reinstall from an earlier state; live out all the possibilities be everybody’s wife in turn like i wanted we’ll fall in love one summer and i’ll shape myself around you like a living soft shell and then one of us will die reboot we’ll fall in love one summer and i’ll shape you and one of us will die reboot we’ll fall in love and we’ll die i guess the only comforting eternity is to live forever in a fixed point in history or the good old stand-by: nothing i’ve spent a good decade chasing the numbwave enough to know better walking through the basilica at el escorial and feeling most connected to the mural of the devil with a blurry face scrubbed out by some indignant monk who couldn’t bear to see it among the saints i’ve been having dreams where i have to warn my family the government is coming to put us in camps but they’ve been listening; their agent appears silently around a corner a man in a red t-shirt with no face or head, instead a blur and i’m too horrified to scream i wanna write everything, reflect until my life is an inside-out reflection of reflection live in a house with ice cubes always in the freezer and an animal always lounging on the floor. i feel ick and primed. i’ve looked across a sea and jumped it and what would i say if i could tell you anything? that language is so inexact; that feelings are slippery and i’m maybe not to be trusted with them. maybe still too much of an object to myself, still competing, deeply magic, the sky turns Bosch’s perfect rosy orangepink, the teal blue of his distant mountains. barry crimmins said “my drug of choice is my friends” so i’m gonna need you guys to get me real high and keep me real high LENGUA MATERNA i’ve got notches on notches on my belt yet it’s still hard to trust the simple fact of my voice to be enough to speak without owning or owing; to write like your mother is dead. still there’s no proper decoding into words these reverberations of memory, like i can paint for you but don’t make me speak i can dance for you but don’t make me speak i can exist for you but please don’t make me speak just call me angel of the mealy hometown ease the buildings here are wood and they age like old men cracking and shifting without crumbling splinter finally into the dusty grass i’ve come back talky and touchy but feel like a little fish flirting with the net of an abandoned timeline brings on a sickness that rises from your base holes up the spine and out through your sinuses there is no escape just a gradual ease with this giant blue neon flower, this blooming psychic circuit of memories that crowns you like maria i find myself in beautiful self-imposed exile i find myself a giant i find it hard to focus; then there’s that story about how the blind horse was the only one on whose back you could cross the treacherous mountain pass because she was trusting and couldn’t see what to be afraid of pass the tight rope over fire over the black mountain, over half fish men merrily prodding, these days i’m in spain and satisfied in brief rapid cycles and my lips are the feet of a tree frog and the majority of conversations i have with strangers mention my americanness CAN’T SPELL WOMEN WITHOUT OMEN on july 29th i heard lorena scream in the garden UN BUHO! a dejected baby owl had flown into our walls we put him on the terrace to await the owl rescue but that night he flew into the koi pond and drowned mohamed ali said he loves how people want what they can’t have. is bored of knowing people better than they know themselves. is bored of traveling women, open to thrills. is bored of fucking newlywed women in the ass with their husbands in he next room. texts me two words every six months, “miss you” and i don’t know what he means by that alexius throws a pizza at me in the street because i’m blackout drunk again and he’s infatuated with someone else and doesn’t want to be around me but is too much of a coward to say so so he nudges me until i’m bitter and drunk drunk drunk and hungry for pizza… i often feel left lifting heavy things like endings, the endings are mine , and now i’m panic attacking, ugly crying in sol which is like, the times square of madrid a girl asks me if i’m okay and i say, it’s just a man. a man crouches with intense attention and concern his name is othmane and he has moroccan doe eyes, ossama’s eyes, mohamed ali’s eyes, he walks me home, speaking broken english, points at his eyes whenever i start to weep again, i tell him no sex, tell him i knew loving this guy was dumb from the start, and i did, i did, i promise i did. othmane tells me to be patient, starts repeating, rakk, takk, making the gesture of throwing and pulling he says, you throw out the net, rakk, you wait, and it will always bring something back to you, takk. remember that you have already thrown the net. rakk, takk, rakk, takk. i woke up one morning with my left eye red and puffy, a distortion in the lens never left after that though it’s possible it was already slightly there and i hadn’t been paying attention i went to the eye doctor who had me balance tiny strips of paper on my lower inner eyelids, then based on the papers’ saturation told me my eyes were so dry, están secissimos i feel docile and compliant and humming with asmr when i’m in the doctor’s office and not having a panic attack. i’ll put off going to the doctor forever, i mean i’ll walk on a broken ankle for five months,,,,,,,,,,, nobody will understand it not even i will understand it i woke up one morning and my country had been pulled out from under me i woke up one morning and my country had been handed over i walk past streets named after dictator’s generals i walk past walls that have crumbled for centuries MOONSAULT my trouble is i can see out of both of my eyes at the same time. i can see all the way around the whole tree branch, it wraps and it doesn’t and there’s not much i can do about it i forgot how to be and not even a good fuck or a good feast could bring me back from the edge where the city sits so small and perfect, fully formed in a cloud of silty haze, i can see all the way around the whole world how it’s fig pink and dirty how it’s gray and dirty how it’s dry and dirty i’m overcome with the need to dive between unknowable edges when one color becomes the next between the pollution haze and the sky between the sea haze and the sky between the me and the sky unsure what makes me deign to trust one poison over another my body itself is a margin among margins foldable, stiffening one long dissolve from scene to scene i don’t scream anymore, i just see and dissolve TRYIN TO GET UP THAT GREAT BIG HILL OF HOPE sometimes i sleep poorly but in great black gaps eyes thudding open in the dawn light, waking like a stone drops through water it has been a hypersaturated year this is perhaps the most beautiful time of my life i love my home and friends, the end of summer swims swiftly in great golden honey droplets. feel disconnected like time and reality wheels are spinning out of sync, subtitle track is off i’m not afraid to say anything, sprawl my branches over the garden walls figs, sweet and pink and reptilian, fall into the pond in nebraska my old dog grows new lumps   i’ve learned to see liars a kilometer away but not exactly how to avoid them i love the feeling of standing up and almost blacking out alone, clutching the wall, reality becoming 2D black and white squares for a minute and me grinning for the thrill of it. breathing deep into the blackness. do other people not live as projections of themselves in the imagined feelings of others? i surprise myself at how rarely i get tired of compensating for the gracelessness of men. my home/garden/sanctuary protects me a moth tastes my fingers sun illuminates a globe of champagne-colored sap birds peck at the plums and figs the pretty fish swim and the waterfall muffles the sounds of the bus down the street i wanna be held  called peque, little chicken, honey bun, reminisce i speak cryptically; i tip-toe around, i’ll fuck your husband to save your marriage i’ll fuck anybody with a garden full of ripe tomatoes. i want every day to be like those videos of color blind people who see purple for the first time. i like to get high and ride my bike like a normal 30 year old woman