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I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.
One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.
The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.
I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.
When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.
The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.
I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.
#remember yall#eugenics is bad#and anything that says a certain type of person shouldn’t have kids is probably eugenics#even if they don’t realize it#so let’s stop holding this movie up as some great prophetic work#because it’s not#also good lord they say the r word a lot in that movie#and it’s super gross#ugh I hate this movie
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I think depictions of Anya being cruel to Curly or drawing out his suffering are artful and chilling but completely miss the point of the story and her character.
I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to have that "I told you so" moment with him but not in something callous or cold. Even if that is how it happened, she'd immediately feel guilty cause at that point she's not tormenting her tormenter or even the person truly at fault. She's doing something cathartic, similar to how Jimmy likely hits Curly to release rage he can't against the rest of the crew. She'd see herself as no different when she'd come back from the moment and see Curly cowering at her. She wants someone to take responsibility but how does being cruel to the defenseless help? Why would she want the power Jimmy has over her over Curly?
The idea of her extending someone else's pain is just so against the struggles she already faces and how she can't even bring herself to cause someone pain even to help them. Her very desire is to release herself from her own suffering and I doubt she'd even fine some sort of guilty release in being cruel to another.
#anya is not a character i see taking agency or indulging in cathartic behaviors#not knowingly like i see her as a character trapped in her head and maybe in the scenario she's cruel to Curly she is envisioning Jimmy#in his place but its not a story about justice or those deserving of punishment and those not like its the opposite of people projecting#their issues on the wrong people and saying things to the wrong people and doing things they shouldn't but anya uniquely falls out of it as#she is subjected to a lot of it but it is also not something she wants to subject another person to like you are doing what Jimmy does and#placing ur rage into another persons and viewing their actions through your eyes like she'd more likely yell at him than do harm or#cause him more pain like at least make it in character#but also she clearly doesn't want to see jimmy or curly in the same light and doesnt because she still repeatedly goes to Curly for comfort#and protection and god there's like concepts that need to be applied to characters individually and then the story as a whole#we can not view the game through only one themed lens less we forget to inspect the compounding factor of Anya is so much more than girl#that needs to be allowed to go off but a woman that simply wants right to be done by her and no more harm like she doesn't want to be aroun#the suffering like idk but some of yall would just benefit from like understanding that people are inherently grey with the capabilities of#black n white thinking or actions#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#anya mouthwashing#i like her the most but then again i am defensive of all women in media and hate when people change the way the character would take agency#for themselves like yes I want her to tweak out but she just wouldn't and I like seeing realistic depictions of a woman suffering the way#she is like shes not the type at the end of the movie to have a one liner but feel a shallow freedom cause she needs to realistically heal#idk but its just like there is an obbsession forming with making her character her pain and not how she handles and navigates the issue
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little poster for the fic Operation Walburga's Arbitrary No Kissing Ever Rule :) 10 things i hate about you, but make it jegulus
#jegulus#jegulus fanart#marauders fanart#regulus black#james potter#james x regulus#marauders#regulus black fanart#james potter fanart#starchaser#sunseeker#regulus x james#marauders era#jegulus fanfiction#fic: operation wanker#hp#mine#my art#i feel so so conceited every time i post one of these with the title in the fanart ngl like holy shit is this even legal#but also. i am pretty proud of this? because it is very clearly inspired by the 10 things i hate about you poster but it is changed A Lot#because this fic isnt a perfect replica of the movie. it is its own story. things are very different#note the polaroids and the poem and the love bites and the star necklace for sirius :3 hehe#i spent So Much Time getting the font right idk why they made it this difficult for me with the poster it was So Much Work
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Day 5: Stars Durin's Folk star lamps inspired by their architecture in the books (did you know that they like to carve their pillars in the shape of trees? )
Prompt list:
#my art#the hobbit#tolkien#lotr#dwarves#the lord of the rings#durin's folk#lord of the rings#durin's folk architecture#mr.kida tolkien au#listen I like the PJ movies a lot but it's also a love hate relationship because PJ does not faithfully portray dwarves in like every aspec#even their architecture#tolkien dwarves#middle earth#the longbeards#longbeards#khazad dûm#erebor#ered mithrin#the iron hills#tagging them all because idk where this is#dwarrowtober#dwarrowtober 2024#the silm art#the silmarillion
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#bye felicia
Pocahontas (1995)
#i end all my arguments this way#pocahontas (1995)#disney's pocahontas#disney pocahontas#disney john smith#pocahontas x john smith#pocahontas#john smith#pocahontasedit#pocahontasgif#disneyedit#disneygif#fyeahpocahontas#disneyfeverdaily#pocajohn#queso*edit#queso*gif#moment of all time. notice this is a parallel to john doing that dude thing of swinging on the tree branch earlier#whoever is elevated over the other physically has the advantage in the conversation/thinks they're in the right#every time john does it he gets humbled Immediately and it's hilarious#and he takes it like a champ. he even normally lowers himself around pocahontas throughout the movie#also i've seen ppl give john a lot of flack for this moment but i never saw a reason to hate him for it?#john's whole character is about being able to grow and unlearn the prejudices and toxicity you've been taught all your life#he's a flawed man and he's stubborn and he's trying to win an argument#but she schools him and he accepts that he was wrong. she puts down a boundary later on and he accepts that too#hating on him for not being mr. perfect at the top of the film is ridiculous imho#pocahontas is flawed too but for different reasons. they're both flawed people and they help each other grow in their own ways#there's a lot of give-and-take in this relationship and i really adore that#10/10 ship to Me#help i'm hyperanalyzing disney's pocahontas again
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uhhh I’m bored so hot take: this fandom constantly reduces luisas character down to be only her trauma🧍♀️
#encanto#encanto disney#disneys encanto#luisa madrigal#I really wish people would explore the more interesting parts of her character#but every post is the same#you’re more than just your gift ig not mirabel#there’s a lot of really interesting potential with luisa’s character if you look beyond the strength and deeper into her mindset#like there’s so much to say about isa and mirabel and people do delve very deeply into them (myself included)#but luisa is only talked about as in she’s strong or she overworks it’s she’s so much nicer to mirabel than isa#but like hot take luisa wasn’t the best sister ever none of them were#all of the madrigal sisters were bad sisters to eachother imo#post movie could explore that but I never see ittt#like all I see is she’s strong and overworks and addicted to caffeine#yk who else is? retail workers!! they also have a personality outside of hating their jobs#stop reducing luisa down to be the average retail worker shes way more complex than that#twitter is somehow the only platform I see people be like what if she was more than this#this one’s been in the drafts for a while
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If I see one more post trashing on the Sonic movies just because they're not like the games and because of the human characters I'm going to explode and then punt the sun itself into their faces
GUUUYYYSSSSS. THERE'S THIS MAGIC THING CALLED A MULTIVERSE. THE SONIC MOVIES ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THE GAMES, THEY ARE IN AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE UNIVERSE. YOU SHOULD NOT BE JUDGING THEM BASED ON HOW WELL THEY FOLLOW THE GAME CANON, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT THE GAMES. THE MOVIES AND THE GAMES CAN COEXIST AS SEPARATE UNIVERSES OF THE SAME CHARACTERS LIVING THEIR LIVES IN DIFFERENT WAYS, MKAY??
Once you accept this I can almost guarantee you'll be a much happier fan. I can testify. 😘
Sonic Wachowski ≠ Game!Sonic. Because they grew up in different environments and around different people in different circumstances, and that changed the way they turned out. I believe that if Wachowski grew up the same way Game! did, he would've turned out like Game! did. I also believe that if Game! grew up the same way Wachowski did, he would've turned out like Wachowski did. The core of this character is the same. In both the movies and the games, he's the fastest thing alive, he LOVES running, he loves his friends, he loves chili dogs, he loves living, and he will fight for what he believes is right. 💙
Just take into account the different worlds, the different lives, the different influences, and the fact that the movies are not trying to imitate the games (I thought this was obvious from day 1?) and it'll be a lot more fun in this fandom for you. In fact, you'll find you're a lot happier when you're actually taking time to love and appreciate the things you're interested in rather than just nitpicking about everything. 👌😜
And if you don't like the movies, you can kindly leave them be as well as all those of us who DO enjoy the movies. If you only like the games, stick to the games. 💙
#the movies are also likely partly a result of a buncha people being like#“HE'S FIFTEEN HE'S A CHILD WHY WON'T THEY LET HIM BE A CHILD”#paramount: :))#paramount: we gotchu#paramount: *makes him even younger and gives him the best parents ever*#sonic wachowski is my blueberry muffin no one touch him#AND TOM WACHOWSKI IS MY BLUEBERRY MUFFIN'S DAD NO ONE TOUCH HIM#MADDIE WACHOWSKI IS MY BLUEBERRY'S MAMA NO ONE TOUCH HER#JOJO IS HIS COUSIN#RACHEL IS HIS AUNT#MKAY?#not to mention all the hate about tom being a cop 😤#bruh guys i know there are a lot of bad cops but tom is not one of those#was it not obvious#sonic wachowski#scu#sonic cinematic universe#sonic cinematic universe defense#scu defense#defense post#scu love#NO HATE HERE MKAY???#in FACT DNI IF YOU'RE JUST GONNA HATE#THIS IS A NO HATE ZONE#there's a reason my blog has me titled “positive fangirl”#ain't no complaints or hate around here#NO HATE#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#sth
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so uh i just drew some random modern!AU (university AU maybe) Clerval and Frankenstein design???
(i hate myself so i did it in acrylic yeah, better click on pic for slightly better quality)
#just saw a guy on the bus wearing hoodie with the lightening print and i was like YEAH I NEED MODERN VICTOR TO WEAR THIS ONE#made Clerval wearing orange because it's my favourite colour!!! favourite colour for my favourite boy!!#they both are horror movies fans but while Clerval decided that he should dress like a slasher character from the 80s#Victor is just looking like he is haunted by the horrors lmao#Clerval is doing English literature major (of course) and Victor is doing bioengineering major (but he is so close to dumping it lol)#instead of bracelets Clerval wears hair ties to give to Victor when he needs to tie up his hair during an experiment#he wears a lot of them because Victor constantly loses and never returns them lmao#also see these ugly black&white pins on Clerval's bag? these should have been pins with Ghostface and Pinhead#yeah this dot with lines is Pinhead :)#frankenstein#victor frankenstein#henry clerval#clervalstein#gothic literature#gothic lit art#frankenstein fanart#i will never draw shoes normally naaaahhhh#also i hate to draw with acrylic on formats bigger than regular sketchbook because it's impossible to make a normal quality photo :(#frankenstein modern au#my fanart
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karda i am not at all aware of mcu stuff but what is going on with those two old men. i would like to understand this new old man yaoi.
they had hot hate sex in a honda odyssey thats all u need to know
#no but lol . have u seen Deadpool? theres a new deadpool movie with a wolverine crossover !#idk how to explain the plot tbh. but Deadpool and wolverine save the day but wolverine hates him but also they understand eachother .#they match the freak . or whatever .#they dont actually have sex but theres so many jokes and scenes that are basically them having sex#the honda odyssey joke is they had a fight in the parked car and threw each other around and flirted like crazy#u should watch it#asks#lol#im not a marvel fan besides spiderman but i like deadpool and xmen a lot so this is Big Movie for me
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ever since someone — and unfortunately i cannot remember who — reblogged one of my posts about haymitch and katniss’ relationship with the tags “they don’t have a father/daughter relationship, they have a mother/daughter relationship” i’ve never viewed their dynamic the same way.
#thg#hunger games#Katniss everdeen#haymitch abernathy#Haymitch x Katniss#i mean … she’s just like him and he hates her (at least outwardly at first) for it#that alone is very mother/daughter coded#Katniss slowly coming to understand him throughout the series#is also something you mainly see in mother/daught movies#Haymitch and her fighting and not being able to stand each other but also loving each other no matter what is also very mother/daughter#coded like you don’t see that kind of dynamic between father and daughter often#also i always noticed that Haymitch did not necessarily replace her father since Katniss thought about him and everything he taught her so#often throughout the series#but Haymitch in a lot of ways actually took her mothers place in her life#text post ✨✍🏻🤎
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for modern AU fics - what chinese media did diaspora consume?
making this post because some of us in the diaspora server were having a chat about what Chinese media "Diaspora Chinese" watched in the 90's - 2000's (and even sooner than that) while not having access to satellite chinese media or streaming services - this is in the context of writing modern AU fics based off Chinese media/novels (so your main character's grandpa or uncle is not, in fact, watching an episode of Friends or Shortland Street or something as flavour text because sorry what the hell-)
We generally watched a lot of stuff on VCDs, including bootlegged and non-bootlegged movies, shows, anime/donghua. My household had a whole VCD album of this, and a lot of VCDs (even if they were pirated editions) would have a fancy hardcover box with a magnetic clasp and some artwork representing the show on it.
All of this is Mandarin - so not TVB stuff, because I'm from Northern China and I don't know any cantonese - but Canto friends, please feel free to add to the list! This is mostly stuff my parents liked to watch, or I liked to watch with them, with the exception of a few which I mainly watched with friends/cousins when I was maybe (in most cases) eleven/twelve years old onwards. This is a pretty personal list, meant to give people general idea of a possible "ballpark" of sorts, and by no means exhaustive.
Now, for the list of shows which I can confirm I had or someone I know had on VCD or some kind of offline media format lol (I'll try add release year stamps and links to the EN wikipedia where possible):
Period dramas (mostly Qing Dynasty stuff):
Huan Zhu Gege 还珠格格 (1998, April-) This is a classic, so many memes come from this show; hugely popular series, basically cemented Zhang Tie Lin's face as the face of the Qing Emperor for about a decade. Tie Chi Tong Ya Ji Xiao Lan 铁齿铜牙纪晓岚 (2002-2010) - I loved this show as a kid and watched all four seasons on repeat with family... The "trio" in this show are well known and loved.
Amazing Detective Di Ren Jie / 神探狄仁杰 (2004) A very popular and addictive show. Ok now the Big Four:
Romance of 3 kingdoms 1994 / 三国演义 (1994) - a classic that has had many remakes, my older cousin would play this on repeat...
Hong Lou Meng/红楼梦 (1987) - another classic with many remakes, but I think the most recognised by the public one is the 1987 one.
Journey to the West / 西游记 live action (1986) - I think the 1986 version of the live action is the most recognised one. *Shui Hu Zhuan / 水浒传 (1998) - I am not too familliar with the live action of this one in my household tbh bc my mum doesn't like it lol (she keeps saying it's too depressing) but I'm sure it's up there with the rest of the big four, if anyone has an opinion on this one please let me know!
Modern setting shows:
My dad loved all the Sun Honglei (孙红雷 - actor name) stuff, iirc it was a lot of MinGuo period espionage stuff, your shanghai 1920's sxc aesthetic. This actor has been around since 1999? Qian Fu (潜伏)was very famous, and Ren Jian Zheng Dao Shi Cang Sang (人间正道是沧桑)。 These were around '08 and '09.
Chuang Guan Dong - 闯关东 (2008) (Baidu link, sorry - couldn't get an EN wikipedia one). This show was huge when it was airing, everyone was watching it. I was pretty young but even I watched it and got invested ... and I thought it was such an "old person" show at the time lmao. Xiao Bing Zhang Ga / 小兵张嘎 (2004) (sorry, again Baidu link) - yo, anti-japanese war movies set between 1937-1945 were crazy popular - this is one of them and was very popular):
Donghua/Anime (all the stuff kid me watched and some which I didn't but were popular):
喜羊羊与灰太狼 (2005-) Calabash Brothers / 葫芦兄弟 (1986-1987) Black Cat Detective / Hei Mao Jing Zhang 黑猫警长 (1984-2010) Lan Mao Tao Qi 3000 Wen 蓝蓝猫淘气3000问 AKA 蓝猫 (blue cat) (October 1999 - Present) Legend of Ne Zha 哪吒传奇 (2003) Journey to the West/Xi You Ji 西游记 This was truly the Donghua I grew up on from when I was a bb, the OP song and ED song are classic bangers all kids know. Slam Dunk/ 灌篮高手 - People truly watched a lot of anime that may or may not have been terribly dubbed into mando (possibly canto too). Late 80s and 90s kids were all over this, and Dragon Ball, Crayon Shinchan (labixiaoxin).
Taiwanese Dramas:
This is mid-late 2000's, I would be remiss to not talk about the Taiwanese dramas of this era. Mike He, Rainie Yang, Wu Zun (amongst many, many others) were huge. Stuff like Dou Niu Yao Bu Yao, it started with a kiss, Hua Yang Shao Nv (Taiwanese version of Hana Kimi) were all pretty popular. Not sure if these shows all hold up in 2023, but boy were they popular at the time.
Note about CNY:
For CNY, people would try to tune into 春节联欢晚会 (the CCTV official CNY show) at that One Friend Who Had China Satellite TV's house. Zhao Ben Shan / 赵本山 was a comedy staple, and the show would often feature people from the music industry to perform. Eventually these people became more and more relevant to my gen and Jay Chou etc started appearing.
Last but not least Xian Jiaaaan 仙剑:
In 2005 I was all over 仙剑奇侠传 (Chinese Paladin), based off the video game. This show was crazy popular and probably sent me and a whole lot of other kids into Xianxia / Wuxia hell (and Hu Ge hell, and later I came back to love Liu Yifei). Thank you. The OST is a true banger.
#cnovel#mdzs#cdrama#chinese diaspora#danmei#not a lot of jinyong wuxia shows here so people who have opinions please chime in!#whew that was more than i thought#music could do with another post#but i dont know too much about my dads music i was just a 2000s cpop nerd#also this doesnt cover movies either#please no lan qiren watching friends#this breaks me out of my immersion immediately unless there was a specific reason why shufu is watching friends#not even sure how to tag this#late 2000s you could pretty much stream and download stuff i think i did that for bbjx when it came out#even tho my parents hated The Internet i managed#feel free to add more to this in a post or tags or whatever
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#avatar#avatar 2#the way of water#there were...still some tears#but only a little#not the ugly sobbing there was before#it's been a year and a half now so. the raw grief has passed#i still hate that they lost their son though.#yes i understand why it works narratively and yes the hurt isn't so fresh and raw anymore#but i still just. hate that they had to go through that#like on principle#y'know? :(#anyways#very good movie i love it a lot#but also heartbreaking
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#one piece#sanji#black leg sanji#everysanji#ch496#oh dear reader poor every-sanji mod is avoiding hanging out with his friends again#well. my girlfriend hasnt been talking to me. she actually blocked me on here?#hopefully by the time you see this we'll have sorted things out but uuuu#idk. emotionally complicated time. but it also rained today and i hate wet shoes </3#so i'm just. staying in. queuing posts for this blog#i try to keep it above 100 posts and oops it was at 93 today!!#so we're fixing that and fluffing the queue back up#well. i did go to movie night this week so i did at least go out and am not being a total hermit#we watched to wong foo thank you for everything from julie newman#or whatever its called. the one where patrick swayze was a drag queen#it was pretty good actually i enjoyed it a lot.
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Front facing Wizard Celebi 💪
Went through the teen plushie liker plight of being made fun of for an impulse buy two seconds after and hating this guy for a while because of that but I've come around because look at that face. Look at that cloak and leaf hat. I'd let them curse my bloodline
oh this is fucking adorable. i didn't know a Wizard Celebi aesthetic even existed, unless this is unofficial—the only thing i remember was the thing they did for halloween one time. i like this. this is good. here have some nose ratings about it:
dunno about wimpod. i feel like they're just scared. typically this is not a very Good emotion to have. i think it's in the name. Wimp od
#not pkmn#nose ratings#celebi in general is a pokémon i hold a lot of love for because i always seemed to encounter it as a kid#pokémon 4ever. i think i've talked about before how i used to like. fall asleep to that movie every night. and so i have the whole#fuckin script memorized. but then also at one point i ended up getting a celebi mystery gift from fuckin. gamestop. on pokémon diamond#which was the first event i had ever like. gone to? and i remember getting it and then trynna use it but it kept like. disobeying me#because the OT wasn't me and it was level 100. and i'd only beaten like. 2 gyms#but i thought it hated me and that's why it wouldn't listen to me. so i kept using it in battle and always had it at the front of my party#so that it would like me because i just had no idea you needed to beat the gyms to make it listen to you#and i didn't even know where to go. for the gyms. i was not very good at the game. so i just never got it to “like” me#and i ended up brushing it off as “wow‚ mythical pokémon are really high-maintenance!”
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after seeing more gifs n shit of peach in the mario movie im gonna say something prob controversial
heem heem.
they made peach TOO much of a ‘badass girlboss!’ which is uncharacteristic of how Peach’s badass / fighter self is.
#candyredtext#i made a whole rant in disc#but long story short#movie!peach feels a lot more sharp edged and like.. rough?#where as peach otherwise is still v soft and like ... holds herself .#idk how 2 explain#but idk. anyway-#zalso i hate anya's voice for peach. i like anya but her voice doesnt fucking work for her#also movie peach also physically looks.#wrong and off.#sad
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read a screen rant article that argued that future knives out movies should feature recurring characters to "flesh out blanc's character" and "make him a more interesting lead" and that "all detectives need a team"........ what if i killed you lol
#BLANC IS NOT MEANT TO BE THE LEAD‼️‼️ HE MAY SEEM LIKE IT#BUT KNIVES OUT WAS MARTA'S MOVIE. GLASS ONION WAS HELEN'S.#THE WORKING-CLASS WOCS FUCKED OVER BY THE RICH CHARACTERS. THOSE ARE THE PROTAGONISTS#or at any rate they're the real heroes. not blanc. he's the one who ties it all together sure but his goal is to help THEM.#also 'every detective needs a team' my ass. have you people ever watched columbo. aka one of the shows rian johnson#is most inspired by in his whodunnit work.#knives out is very reminiscent of agatha christie yes but it also owes a LOT to columbo#and part of that is the mysterious detective whose personal life you never really see.#look i want to see blanc talk to his husband as much as the next guy. in fact i think that should happen!#but it should ideally be brief. it shouldn't overshadow the real focus of these movies: the marginalized and working-class#getting their revenge on the rich bitches who've wronged them.#if you want a phillip-focused movie i think that COULD work. but only if they made sure to keep those themes front and centre.#it wouldn't be the same otherwise!#that's how i feel at least. genuinely no hate if you disagree i totally get the desire for blanc development#i want some too. i like character-focused stories#but i really feel like these movies aren't meant to focus on him too much
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