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[aranock]

Jessie Gender and my nearly 6 hour magnum opus on the politics of star wars is now up.

We have been working on this for over a year, I did 17 minutes of animation for it, please share it around and give it a watch.

[eryelshest]

hbomberguy: "Plagiarism is to be assumed to be everywhere, fact check everyone, hold people who plagiarise accountable", 4h

Todd: "distrust everything that seems kinda fishy. Fact check everything to be sure, hold people who spread lies and made-up bullshit accountable", 2h

Aranock and Jessie Gender: "the monomyth ("The Hero's Journey") that massively got popularised by Star Wars is fascist and misogynistic to the core. It is everywhere nowadays and drowns out any other kind of storytelling. George Lucas is undeservedly held up as a genius and always look for what a story sets out to teach you. Take history into account for past movies. No movie is disconnected from its time and none is apolitical. Be critical of your media consumption. Also neoliberalism and fascism need and feed into each other and maybe we should start using another political ideology to break out of the ever repeating decay.", 6h

[slayyyter]

Btw a bunch of really talented YouTubers are raising 1 million doll hairs for PCRF, link here♥️ reblog, don't like!!!

[camijhk]

🇵🇸 CREATORS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸

Got this from Chad Chad’s community post! Donate if you can and share to boost!!

(Apologies for not fitting everyone in the tags there’s a 30 tag limit!!)

[pimscrypt]

I'm 30 minutes into this video and it's already fantastic! Few people have analyzed the work of James Gunn as eloquently as Jessie, and Aranock is absolutely on the same level. They're a great fit for sure!

I'm also very proud to have contributed my voice to this video!

[mugbearerscorner]

So me n my boo are watching a Video Gems podcast by Darkfry and @aranock drops this gem (clip by me)

Welcome to the fandom @aranock you have been Perceived. :D

Watch the whole episode here and support Darkfry, Aranock and Harry a.k.a. VideoGamesAreBad. :3

[letamreviews]

Top of 2022

With 19 films watched and 2 favorited from 2022, I composed a list of my top. To coincide with 2019′s pure happenstance, the list is ‘almost’ an exact third (7) of the total films watched. Anything seen after the end of February, 2023, isn’t included (with 1 exception).

Honorable Mentions: Infernal Affairs remastered trilogy (2002 - 2003), Skinamarink, Vesper, TÁR Exception: Aranock’s Queer Relativity Why’s this so late? Yes, it is late.

Blind Rating is how worthwhile the film is watching “blind” (or knowing nothing). The scale is 1 (worth it) to 5 (you must). ‘Eh is essentially a 0.5.

1. Queer Relativity | Aranock (Canada)

Saw on YouTube in early March twice and listened to atleast once. i don’t even know (i guess: i fucking love it). Y’all, this movie fucked me up. Had to pause it so many times during first viewing this shit took me back so much. fuck Also, i fucking hate it. Blind Rating: 0.5/5 | film | Teaser | Description:

Hope you all enjoy my film on queer temporalities, language, and journey of discovering self

2. RRR (India)

Saw on Netflix in Hindi with English subtitles and again in theatre in Telugu with English subs. i fucking love it. Best (official) movie of the year. Don’t waste my time. Blind Rating: 1/5 Thoughts

3. Please Baby Please (USA)

Saw at Sie FilmCenter. i really like it (? tier). Holy fucking shit, this movie. lul Definitely put some people in the mood. Thoughts Quickie

4. Avatar: The Way of Water (USA)

Saw at Hawkins Theatres in 3D HFR and again at AMC Theatres in Real 3D. i really like it (mid tier?). Thoughts 1 & 2 Quickie

5. Everything Everywhere All at Once (USA)

Saw in theatre. i really like it (mid tier?). Y’all, I saw this in a theatre with 2-3 other dudes and we all bawled during the same scene. Shit was great. Thoughts Blind Rating: 0.5/5

6. Three Thousand Years of Longing (Australia & USA)

Saw at Hawkins Theatres. i really like it (high tier). Did not expect to enjoy it so much. Glad I went (and disregarded certain reviews). Thoughts

7. Nope (USA)

Saw at Harkins Theatres and again in VR (don’t ask). i really like it (mid tier?). Really enjoyed the entirety of it, especially as a story of two siblings. While I do see this as the director changing the horror genre (again? 🤔), I’m now wondering how much of it already exists in widely unknown indie films. 😐 (shout-out to LambHoot’s “The Resident Evil they keep Remaking...” video) Thoughts 1 & 2 Blind Rating: 1/5

[alinahdee]

"Identity is an evolving, shifting conversation with ourselves with who we are and who we were and who we want to be, with the lies we were forced to internalize and the lies we had to tell to survive."

-@aranock

[enemro]

Posting a bunch of doodles I made while at work, at various states of completeness.

Aranock is so cool and lovely, and she makes amazing videos, go check out her channel.

Ballpoint pen.

[aranock]

Just had someone claim that I maliciously stole ideas from a friend without acknowledgong them when said friend is litterally in the video, and I was in the video I supposedly took thing from, despite my not even once thinking about either thing as being even remotely similar. Like not even slightly an influence. Also I am pretty open about when something influenced me. I don't exactly hide it. Idk I feel like people are really stretching to find anything they can hate Jessie and I for this video with. Like really? Really?

Anyway just to be clear The Editor is not a ripoff of my friend Neil from The Leftist Cooks video on metamodernism, great video btw go watch it. I wrote the editor in because as I was doing the script editing proccess on Jessies initial script and came up with a new structure and worried that if I didnt draw attention to this people would maliciously misinterpret part 1 without getting to the part 2 twist. The Editor is LITTERALLY representing what I did in the script editing proccess for this video. Though there role and purpose expanded to represent more broadly what editing and editors do to works, reinforcing the points we make on art as collaborative and the importance of the influence of for example Marcia Lucas on making the original trilogy as good as it was. If there was any inspiration for The Editor it was chatting with my friend @wonderful101gecs about Pathologic and Brechtian Epic Theatre. I wanted to disallow the audience from suspension of disbelief and force them to reconcile with the world as it is and with how narratives are manufactured. Even then its pretty loose inspiration. The Editor was just a natural result of needing a purpose fulfilled and rounding out my layers within layers structure. Im not sure if it was Jessie or I that named them that, but we made them a named character because we worried at one point early on if we didnt do that people might get really shitty towards me. Like originally in the script it was just "Aranock" and as they became a character I pushed it further towards them being a sort of amoral embodiment of concepts masquerading as a villain who was masquerading as a Hero, pretendint to be the great person behind everything. Thus I came to "oh I need a second rug pull" and thats where layer 5 came from because I needed to really REALLY make the audience go "oh I need to question the narrative" and not treat The Editor as the great man myth. Layer 1, the animation, came from a desire to have a narrative layer below the documentary and video essay layers, below any meta layer. So yeah originally this was just a long very direct essay by Jessie about the making of and politics of star wars, my reediting of those become layer 2 and 3, with some small bits of those ending up in layer 4. Oh also some elements of what became the editor and of the script existed before I even began my youtube channel. Like I have been kicking around aspects of these ideas for over 3 years. The Editors opening monologue is almost all from something I wrote about a year before releasing my first video. So yeah I was not stealing stuff from a video by my friend that released last year, and frankly its really shitty that people assume that of me.

Also I'm tired of how frequently people have been specifying out just me to be shitty about. Attacking my voice for being feminine, being weird about my body. Really makes me feel great. Love being a trans woman making art on the internet. Love how y'all attack me if my voice sounds how you perceive womens voices should sound and you attack me when it doesnt. Im tired people suck, and its really weird that some of you want me to sound more "manly", but thanks for the validating my self taught voice training I guess????

[swordmouse]

Video essay recommendation: Aranock's Queer Relativity

This is a long essay at almost two hours, but every part of it feels like it should be there. It's a beautiful analysis of science fiction, queer existence, and the video essayist's trans experience. I don't know if I can adequately describe this essay but it's really good. Definitely give it a shot if you've got two hours to spare!

[mysticdragon3md3]

The best genre you've never heard of by Aranock

Counterpoint: "anime-coded nostalgic movies"

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[stellanslashgeode]

The genre of movies from the 70s-90s that could have been made by a well-funded LARP troupe.