one thing i’d love to see more of in the year of our lord 2024 is changing the way the word “talented” is used when what is really meant is “highly skilled”
one could argue that talent is the culmination of skill, sure, but i find that, especially as a musician but i see it in every medium of art, that the use of “talent” often diminishes and glosses over the THOUSANDS of hours (and often, dollars) it takes to become even proficient at your art, let alone masterful. it takes ruthless dedication and study to become highly expressive and effective at a professional level at your art and to reduce it to “talent” almost negates the hard work that someone puts into what they do. people aren’t born knowing music theory or the intricacies of sculpture! they learned it through study and practice and so can you!
saw some speculation on FranklyDear in relation to the audios and i want to toss my two cents in
so all the thing's i've been seeing have been people talking about how they're a couple, but they're not acting like it, so that must be Playfellow's influence making them put distance between each other
but i immediately interpreted it as - they're not there yet. there might be feelings, but they aren't Together. cause in the 14 bug audios, i feel like it's pretty clear that these are snapshots of the neighborhood outside of the show. cameras aren't rolling, there are no influences, it's the neighbors just Existing on their own dime
'cause the conversations are more natural! the characters seem more nuanced! there aren't any sound effects! so if FranklyDear is already established, wouldn't we have "seen" that in their shared audio 8-14? wouldn't Eddie have just called Frank Frank, without the immediate (and somewhat flustered) correction to Mr. Frankly? and wouldn't Frank call him Eddie instead of Mr. Dear? plus, idk about y'all, but that scene was a lil romantically charged. a little flirty - especially from Frank's side. the kind of tension you get from budding emotions, not fully-realized ones
they just seem to be in a before state. the beginning stages. and anyway, i remember Clown saying that revealing FranklyDear as an endgame couple was sort of an Accident? i think we were meant to watch it evolve and figure it out along with the characters, the way we will with any other relationships (that we Definitely are not aware of / confident about yet).
we're still only in the prologue of the story, so it'd make so much sense if Frank and Eddie are not yet Involved. we're on this journey With them
a scary video to watch being able to see the sheer physical exhaustion charles and many other drivers were talking about taking over especially in his neck when hitting the high speed corners with high g forces
confused why some people seem to think that intense fandom “ship wars” (or whatever you want to call it) are going to “bully” writers into changing the show
these people write/produce/direct shows for a living, like i’m pretty sure the people who worked on glee and American Horror Story can handle some fans being upset with them
Incorporated a lecture on dehumanization into my psychology of prejudice class and now my brain is doing damn literary analysis on Mairuma and how different characters experienced different forms of dehumanization
Took 36 years but hey, right now I'm thrilled; where before was guilt and a sense of personal failure, now there's a name, a community, strategies, the possibility for medication, etc. Knowledge is power!