#monopolies are REALLY bad

[traewilson]

Thinking about Wish, genuinely one of the most bafflingly incompetent incoherent films ever made by a mainstream film studio. It and (from the sounds of it, there was no way I was seeing this in theaters) Kung-Fu Panda 4 are true blue capitalist cinema - the marketers are king, the executives are God himself - and friends, they make the Old Testament God look like a prince of Hell. All attempts at creative thought subverted and stamped out at every turn, in favor of strictly what has been proven to work before. The test audiences know what they want, and the executives aren't here to gamble - they're here to invest in safe property.

The two archenemy of cinema, it seems, are the Test Audience and the Executive. Not incorrectly, I feel, but Wish (and KFP4 by the sounds of it) aren't enough to describe a failure like this. Wish is truly unique in its failure. From everything I've heard about the productions of both Wish and KFP2 point to a trend where the creative teams are at war with each other - one team wants to do things, well, creatively. Well, in other words. Wishing to take actions that make sense narratively even if they may not be brand friendly. Those who pushed for Wish to be traditionally animated; those who pushed for KFP4 to maintain a level of quality AT LEAST to the level of KFP3.

And then you have the other camp: what I call the executive-minded creative. The people who saw the demands for a return to traditional animation, remembered how traditional animation consistently financially flopped (thanks in no small part to deliberate sabotage on the part of film executives withholding marketing) and they decide to actively work against their own. Eventually, they settle on a compromise that works (for them and the executives) - hand-drawn textures on the animation. The end result looks like Disney made yet another Frozen-era Disney film, but now it has this bad image filter going on that makes it look worse.

Team members on Wish wanted to make a classic Disney villain again, but Disney execs and the team leaders in turn are under the impression that's not what sells, so they won't do it. The villain has to be complex-ish, nuanced-ish. Just nuanced enough to be more complicated than Maleficent, but not SO nuanced the audience might think the villain was actually right the whole time. The conflict between these two camps is never resolved because they are fundamentally diametrically opposed, and the result is King Magnifico, a villain who is written with such startling carelessness he is simultaneously too evil and too nice, and a character who it could very easily be argued didn't do anything that wrong.

Once upon a time, the archenemy of cinema was the executive. But I think we're seeing lately a rise in something more insidious and therefore effective - creatives who are so firmly molded by capitalist realism that they are, themselves, executives with pretensions of being creative. Nothing matters but what makes us richer. Any move that would jeopardize the money is inherently the wrong decision. To these false creatives, it's only art if it can sell. If these people are the next evolution of the creative, then my friends, we are in some deep shit here.

[hermitcraftx]

The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up

leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue

[sanshinexx]

Fun times at the family game night 🥰

[More incorrect quotes with the gang here, now as a masterlist i just made because why not]

[feelingtheaster99]

After the fakeout from Lou, I do NOT trust the intrepid heroes when they say “I passed” after reading those fucking cards

[musical-chick-13]

The problem is. When I go, "Oh, this system is bullshit" and try to live outside it. My choices are still defined by that system. And that makes me feel really weird.

[fellhellion]

90s run PAD has this rlly annoying trend where he very often write a female character being in love w miguel and suddenly her entire character shrinks down to the scope of what drama this provokes and it's near continually in service to the narratives of men (Gabriel and Miguel interpersonal drama for example). even when there are actually interesting things to be mined from this angle like w lyla its like. this is a pattern w you dude.

[seedlessmuffins]

gotta love internet monopolies 🙄 this is like last summer all over again

[loveregrown]

This design makes me feel like I'm going to lose my mind it's so gorgeous it's doing evil shit to my brain. So perfectly Perce. Not something I would wear in real life I am not worthy of such things, of course, just, uuuuu!

[opikiquu]

[risingsouls]

" This is why I don't play these asinine games. How absurd.... "

[liu-yu-xin]

Another day another cpop group covering wayv on some show or concert or whatever the fuck. They will let anyone sing wayv's songs in china BUT wayv ... And its pissing me off especially hard because this group is first of all full of literal 12 year olds AND its the brother group of tnt who are notorious for covering kpop songs really badly

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

do you want to come over to teach me your favourite card/board game so we can play it together orrr

[faedotexe]

So i'm working on a tiny roll & write about being a giant dragonness and conquering the land and burninating the countryside and uh I'm kind of trying to make """"""art""""" for it lmao

chat is this cringe

[suck-my-figurative-dick]

interesting to see this become like the way youtube has become a sustainable rev stream for production. Like having just the income coming from YouTube and trying to partner with them seem like such a shit show for earlier creators and I think it’s interesting that nowadays channels will build a backlog before switching to another more lucrative platform. I could see the benefits but also it’s fun because I constantly have to keep moving on from my favourite creators because I’m so fucking broke. Glad they’re getting their bag, and I applaud them for like the business sense of creating an audience first before splitting off, think it’s interesting that this model of online production is more and more common.

Like I think I definitely started with Patreon when it became a good way for creators to get paid for the really long from videos that took months, think the old completely accessible YouTube productions are more and more a thing of the past. Ah well

Watcher is not removing their backlog of videos from YouTube. What is there will remain. source:

However, according to Bergara, Watcher is not fully exiting YouTube: It will still keep its backlog of videos on YouTube, and going forward will put the first episodes of new seasons on YouTube — while the full new seasons will be exclusively available on the Watcher streamer.

[i3utterflyeffect]

Favorite color?

Something you think is cool?

Signature accessory or an accessory you wish you had?

oh shit! uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

my favorite color like. i'd tell you yes but it's generally in the range of pink, purple, aqua? i love a good blue but purple and pinks are nice and every color is so pretty it's wild

uh 'something that i think is cool' is really vague. sweats. i like biblically accurate angels/seraphim? those are neat to me. if i had to choose something to look like i'd probably choose that because what the fuck is identity, transcend humanity

signature accessory has gotta be headphones though. i never go anywhere w/o them. when i hang around in the house i take them off (and also i can't put them on rn bc i keep getting migraines for some reason and the headphones make it worse) but i do have the headphones autism.

if i had to pick a different one it'd probably be my shitty old ipad bc that's what i actually use to draw lol. i just call the apple pencil i have a tablet pen bc like. idk apple pencil just sounds snobby. it sounds like i'm proud that i paid 100 dollars for a stupid tech pen that has no way of attaching to your ipad that is made to be RIDICULOUSLY EASY TO LOSE SO YOU CAN BUY MORE. APPLE. I'M LOOKING DIRECTLY AT YOU.

anyways idk where this came from but. ty for the questions ig sdgkdsjglsdgksg

[13thpythagoras]

NGL my favorite part of Disneyland was always the pirate / New Orleans section