#i am okay lol and its very iconic of you to demand hints

[dipplinduo]

Your absence is concerning and I want to give you a nice snack and a warm blanket to make sure your okay but also when you return you owe us a hint for sweet and sour or else /j

Your hints are Teal Mask Kieran & Ribombee (Juliana Lore Version)

[bowiesdreamreality]

Yeah so I feel like ranting for once publicly ahaha, this is about Moonage Daydream and will contain “spoilers” and also harsh opinions so… read at your own risk lol

After reflection I am entirely divided about my opinion on the documentary. First things first though: as a presentation of Bowie as a figure, as a musician, as an artist, it does a good job. It fulfils that in a broad sense, in a ‘yes I can grasp abstractly where he was coming from’ kind of way. (There are clips of him painting in the 90s, there’s a slideshow of his paintings, there’s a very cool bit of cinematography where we somehow go inside the Metropolis Diamond Dog set sketches.) The abstracted quotes from interviews and movies (questioning this choice a bit, because they're not really his words then, are they?) build up a basis of identifying how his mind worked and his responses and thoughts about different periods of his life. Okay, fine.

But that’s almost all it’s got going for it, in my opinion. I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy it, I did immensely and quite a lot of it had me in awe—in the moment. But then, that didn’t last. And that’s a problem, because Bowie himself does last. Think about a performance of his that runs about in your mind for hours after you see it because of his unique approach to the wording of one line. An expression, an emphasis, something that caught your eye. The doc tries to do this, tries to capture it, but it fails, because its focus is uncertain.

The doc opens with one of Bowie’s ruminations on Nietzsche—which, okay, I’ve nothing against that, it was a rather large part of his own hodge-podge philosophy. And this quest for spirituality does run through the doc in a way I really enjoyed (this personally being one of my pre-occupations when it comes to considering Bowie and his work and everything else therein implied). But there’s no link from this rumination to his work, no concrete sort of connection. And that loss of connection between the voiceovers and philosophical ruminations and the visual elements doesn’t exactly jive.

All that, though, can be written off, dismissed, because, yes, it’s incredibly hard to compile material together into an innovative way that captures an iconic figure in a new light. But then, it fails to do that, because most of the footage is everything anyone who is familiar with Bowie will have seen a hundred times over. The Ziggy Stardust motion picture performances, scenes from Cracked Actor and Ricochet (for some reason I haven’t quite puzzled out yet, there is a preoccupation with slicing film from Ziggy with Ricochet, which doesn’t make much sense give their distance in the timeline (was the ten year mark between then of some import? It doesn’t really end up pulling out many differences or contrasts, however.)) Much of the time I felt I could have stayed home and pulled up the footage on YouTube myself. And that was incredibly disappointing.

Of course, there’s a lot to be said for restoring and remastering, but the weight that was carried by all the more or less common film was disappointing. Morgan spent two years with the archives, and yet ends up using familiar footage for 97% of the film (perhaps more?). There is, we know, an immense amount of material that is in those archives and it seems that Morgan decided to lead with the best quality footage and save himself the work of presenting lesser quality, but previously unseen, footage.

This skittishness is apparent in the documentary itself. There IS new footage, but it’s sliced in between everything else. Shown quick and then spliced back with the familiar. For every extended performance from, say, the Ziggy film, there may be a few seconds of new footage and there were no full unseen performances. This is incredibly disappointing, in my opinion, because it is apparent that all the uncovered footage is of relatively good quality—or was made to be such. Did the pressures-that-be demand a visual extravaganza such that any hint of sub-par imagery was immediately meant for the cutting room floor? It is quite sad if that’s the case. There were clips from the immensely valuable ‘74 Soul Tour, brief glimpses of things from ‘76, Bowie’s own recorded footage presumably from the same period, work on the Diamond Dogs film perhaps (though that’s never made clear). There was footage from the Berlin recording studio, of all amazing things! And yet these are all only splices, mere seconds it feels like, cut between the familiar tones of ‘there’s a fly in my milk’ and the red light of the Ziggy Motion Picture and the clean white suited figure that glides through Thailand in 1983.

I want more, honestly, and this feels like an opportunity that slipped through Morgan’s fingers. There seems to be to have been a great deal of potential that got squashed by the need to present something perfect in the view-obsessed, commercially driven era we find ourselves in. No one wants to see grainy, unclear footage, overlaid with a gravelly war-torn voice, do they? Give the people what they want: show them the obscenity and outrageousness of Ziggy Stardust, balance it with a glimpse of Bowie’s (carefully approachable and relatable and sensible) philosophical side, show a bit of his range as an artist, and make it all as shiny as possible. (Do not, by any means, touch upon any controversy. Run past footage from 1976. We don’t need the possible threat of cancellation.)

Ironically, the climax of the film, the ultimate point of tension, centres on the creative wasteland Bowie felt the latter half of the 1980s to be. That period in which he catered to the audience, when he played to the gallery, and found himself creatively stifled because of it. Was Morgan listening? Or are we too wary in our modern age to do anything truly daring?

[jrueships]

Oh please share all your thoughts regarding kyle/Demar. Im desperate for content too. Also, can you share that flop video? Their last game was 3 months ago cus Kyle didnt play in the one last month.

OOOOOOH okay YEAH that's what i was THINKIN!!! that the flop video HAD to be the one from 3 months !! YEAH okay YEAH my thoughts EXACTLY YOU OMNOMONO-S M A R T , anon !!!!!! I don't think this sentence made sense but whatever we move

HERES the flop vid!! Notice the tie and the quarter LOL klow RUTHLESS to his mans lol!

AS FOR MY THOUGHTS ON THEM...... let's Talk.

They sure do love taking turns staring at each other in manic Lust huh. Hashtag just guy things Girlpower !!!

FIRSTLY uh hmm WELL i think they are.. just such an Iconic ship like TRULY the BLUEPRINT. Even in a nonshippy sense, the way they tell each other i love you i love this man i love kyle he's my guy i'd run through 15 brick walls for him i love demar he's my best friend LIKE.. it's REAL it's an UNABASHED bond!!!! They are CLOSE! they LOVE each other they CARE for each other!!! SOOO much!!!!!! THEIR POWER... UNLIMITED! and of course serge tryna pit bad bitches against bad bitches in his how hungry deebo guest vid; he recognizes REAL!! Not just delusional TUMBLRINAS realize their INFLUENCE but like! Everyone does!! IT'S SO ELEPHANT!!! IT'S SO THERE!!! love that for them!!! And i think them being so 'popular' and loved scares me off from privately publishing any writings not ONLY bcs i don't wanna DISAPPOINT people that follow em religiously down to a T, but bcs like! KYLE/DEMAR SO GOOD!! i don't wanna TAINT it with a thought process that can be COMPLETELY wrong from the source! I CANT DO THEM LIKE THAT!!! You know like i LOVE THEM because they're TRUE LOVE but i also HATE them because they're TRUE LOVE like! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY OTHER THEN 'it's true love baby!!' Because it IS! it's so GOOD and DEEP and COMPLEX and i LOVE that but my brain NEEDS to be able to simplify things down to lil bounceable points so i can understand it better but i CANT?? i can't let my brain DO that to something so HUGE and AMAZING????? The way they INTERACT is so DYNAMIC and fun and full of LIFE and!!! 1 U DONT EVEN HAVE TO GO INTO GOBLIN MODE TO VIEW EM & POINT OUT LITTLE THINGS TO. PROVE THEY ARE IN LOVE LIKE! they just ARE everyone can SEE can KnOW its so STRONG!!! They're my og favs for a reason but i also Hate them for that reason..... gay people

FOR DEEPER THOUGHTS ON THEM THO.. ACTUAL ANALYTICAL THOUGHTS BESIDES 'theyre gay. They're husbands. We win!'

This is from a lil note in one of my MANY unpublished kyle/demar fics to help keep me on point, SO if i ever DO sum up the courage and publish a fic that kinda hints to this idea, you guys WILL act SURPRISED and HAPPY at this BRAND NEW UNEXPLORED IDEA into kyle/demar lol (it gets touched upon a Lot in the kyle/demar owner player fic which is ALSO very long and WILL be hidden from the general populace )

BUT TO ELABORATE UHHHMM hmm so like

People HEAR kyle. People hear his shouting, his demanding, his AWFUL jokes (deebo: the chips are down kyle: like? Potato- potato chips? *extends pop bottle microphone closer to demar's interview*), his loud laughter, his unnecessary SOUND effects with his unnecessary physical COMEDY ( s T O M P I N. wiTH. the. BIG. boYS !WITH... *swaggers away from his made shot as demar giggles. Probably emphasizing his stomps just to make demar laugh MORE), his smartass comments to reporters ignorantly written off as friendly cheekiness by them despite the OBVIOUS fact that he HATES them (EXCEPT when it's to talk about.. DE-MAAAR!!). KYLE IS.. heard. Does that mean he's LIKED??? um. Well.

Kyle can be .. bossy. To put it lightly. Or an ASSHOLE, to put it now DEMARLY(beloved) but DEROGATORILY. He can argue with coaches like it's a HOBBY! And refs! ESPECIALLY refs! He can argue with the other players!!! You tryna start a fight after we get ejected from a game? Alright, HERES MY ROOM NUMBER. Spoiler alert though, demar GONNA be there because we BOTH loyal af and we BOTH gonna whoop your ass so. have fun losing to homosexuality you sexless giblet ! EVEN IF KYLE ISN'T EVEN PLAAAYING, if a fight breaks onto the floor you can BET he's stepping up all suit and tie to put his two cents in. And people are gonna respectfully disrespect him for that! I mean like.. that's Okay, it's REASONABLE you know it's ALRIGHT. Kyle's been living his entire Life being disrespected so he's just disrespectful right back and that's FINE. it's a little tiring though. Never making someone happy. Never making people Smile because you're just. An asshole. BUt you ARENT juST An ASSHOLE!!!! youre actually REALLY funny and REALLY clingy and REALLY sweet and full of LOVE!!! just.. you know.. also full of... Opinions. Opinions you think EVERYONE deserves to hear DIRECTLY because you HATE fakeness. You also hate being boxed in too... so maybe youre Kind Of an asshole, YEAH so WHAT? thats not ALL? Sometimes you SAY things... yeah.. but youre.. more. Youre So much More. And no one wants to See that . . . And YEAH you COULD hypothetically 'change' that but then that wouldn't be YOU. So you'd rather live a life unloved than live a life not yours. You've already been doing it so long.

Demar is beloved. Like. Thats just FACTS! reasonable tangible understandable FACTS!! serge would PUNCH a man for even HINTING dislike toward demar! We ALL would!!! Deebo is nice and sociable and truthful, can hold pleasant small talk, responds to reporters with delightful little metaphors for rudy gay to question. DEEBO IS A K I N G !!! a pleasant MANNERFUL king! Elegant demarvelous GORGEOUS he is THE WORLDS girlfriend! We DONT deserve him!!!! you know.. he's good at decency. 'Deebo's a Nice Guy. He's known for freezing up during playoffs.. but he's Likeable. He's Nice. So he'll be OK.'

Deebo has the 'i can socialize well in small conversations and i WANT to act pleasant to others because i care for them!!' Attitude People go through where they're 'on good terms' with a lot of people but not... their Number one. Not really KNOWN for ALL that he Is. All that he DOESN'T say. Because what if people Don't want to hear it? What if people Don't want their 'perfect' image of Deebo destroyed? Marred by depressing thoughts, chocked uselessly full of silly Obsessions and Ideas. They just like Pleasant deebo.. Want pleasant deebo. So he gives them that. And represses what he thinks isn't needed. Hides it. Doesn't speak it into life. well- absolutes are Difficult. Sometimes he let's Some Things slip out. Just little things though. No one cares enough to put what he says into memory though. It doesn't make impact that way. He's content with it, he supposes. Because others are.

But. It really does feel Good being with Kyle. JOKING with him, TALKING to him, telling him all your 'silly little ideas', goofing off with him, proposing a MOVIE together, little roles they can fit (the matrix clip..), it feels nice BEING with him. Because he LISTENS. Even if others only see Kyle as this stubborn asshole who takes no opinion beside his own into account, Kyle really does Listen. He might make some snide comments in reply, but he Retains the information given.. the things said. They can hurt him, or they could make him feel Alive. Laugh. Kyle lives for pushing people past their 'Decent' boundaries at the beginning to see who they REALLY are.. the Extent of their Being. He gives them his 100% in search of 100% in return. And you can Bet Demar gives that to him plus More. Plus the moon and the stars and the old movies of his time and his dumb little dances and his musical aspirations and his bothersome interview interruptions and his Love... demar is More than willing to give Kyle EVERYTHING. Because Kyle Asks for his everything. WANTS his Everything. Kyle takes Demar's everything and makes it Beautiful. Let's demar know it's meaningful. He doesn't show it as perfectly Expected, but he Shows it. Demar tells Kyle about his rapping hobby on a lazy afternoon relaxing from another harsh conditioning morning. He tells it as nothing more than a mere Afterthought, just an excuse able comment sprung by music listening inspiration. But Kyle HEARS it, TALKS about it. He brings it up in an interview... the reporter didn't ASK for it. She asked about his favorite rapper. But because Kyle thinks about demar SO much and about EVERYTHING he says, the good, the bad, the Cringe, he brings DeMar's hobbies up. He doesn't EXPOSE them in DEPTH though, just gives them a shoutout. To let the people hear. And to let demar know he's Been heard

Demar thinks of kyle often. Feisty asshole kyle. Couldn't live without me kyle. The man i leaned down to while he was on the floor kyle. The man i told i'd be by no matter What kyle. Because no matter What anyone else thinks of him, Deebo will be there .

Because Kyle's a Listener.

And DeMar sees that.

It's the little things that count.