#ignore the fact that all of them are movies except Bluey and HWBM lmao

[nymphantasia]

God I truly truly hate the way people decide to engage with art based on the social context around it rather than anything to do with what the art is in itself. Obviously almost everything I like has an audience in mind to some extent (as most everything does under capitalism) but there's something that deeply fucking bugs me about the way people decide whether or not to engage with something based on whether it's "for" them, rather than engaging first and deciding if it's for you as a specific person after the fact.

I understand that art (and especially discussion of art) exists within a social context but why should that context override a person's own sensibilities and experiences? Outside of like, shit that is personally off-limits (for trauma reasons or smth similar) I think people should at least try to keep an open mind about as broad a range of art as possible.

Go watch Eega, The Wicker Man (1973), whatever's the highest rated episode of Bluey on IMDB, Terrifier, Double Indemnity, an uncommentated playthrough of Heaven Will Be Mine, and the 1980s soviet-produced adaptation of Treasure Island.

In that order.

Now.